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MICHAEL JOSEPH FICTION
The Hollow Sea Annie Kirby
A mesmerising literary debut about grief and recovery, from an award-winning new talent.
Scottie has spent years trying to become a mother. But she has begun to realise that the life she has dreamt of may never be hers. So she's made the heart-breaking decision to leave everything behind, fleeing to the remote North Atlantic archipelago of St Hia.
Lashed by storms and far from the mainland, the islands are dangerous. Ferocious tides known at the Hollow Sea drag travellers to their deaths - and local legend warns that St Hia was once the home of a monster.
Her name was Thordis and - so the story goes - she had been adored. But when she was unable to provide her husband with a child, he sought one elsewhere, and Thordis was driven to a terrible act...
The islanders who remain warn newcomers against examining the past. But Scottie finds herself drawn to the mystery of what happened to the woman whose story became legend.
Could St Hia's troubled history hold the key to Scottie's future? ______
Annie Kirby lives on the south coast of England where she works part-time as a university researcher. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in American Studies. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and broadcast on national radio and she is a winner of the Asham Award for short fiction. Annie was one of nine writers selected for Penguin’s 2018 WriteNow programme.
21 July 2022 | Clio Cornish for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
PENGUIN GENERAL FICTION
Cecily Annie Garthwaite
A visceral, beautifully rendered, revisionist debut novel about the “last woman standing” of the Wars of the Roses.
“If a woman takes up arms, she must be sure to win.”
Cecily Neville marries a traitor's son when she is sixteen. It's a risk, but one she is willing to take. For though Richard Duke of York's name brings great danger, it also brings a claim to the throne. And as a woman who watched Joan of Arc burn without flinching, Cecily is not afraid.
Politics and children soon become her life's work. Politics in order to survive. Children to marry off, and to teach to serve their King.
But also, should the opportunity arise, to take his place...
Told through the eyes of its greatest unseen protagonist, this astonishing debut plunges you into the blood and exhilaration of the first days of the Wars of the Roses, a world where a woman might move the wheels of fortune, if she dares. ______
Annie Garthwaite grew up in a working class community in the north-east of England. A school-girl interest in medieval history became a lifelong obsession with Cecily Neville, so, at age fifty-five, she enrolled on the Warwick Writing MA programme. Three years later, this extraordinary novel is the result. During a thirty-year international business career, she frequently found herself the only woman at the table, which gave her valuable insights into how a woman like Cecily might have operated. She lives with her partner near the Yorkist stronghold of Ludlow.
29 July 2021 | Katy Loftus for Viking | 416 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
TRANSWORLD FICTION
The Mad Women's Ball Victoria Mas
For fans of Perfume, The Vanishing Act and The Doll Factory, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women – one deemed mad, the other sane - who find their salvation at The Mad Women’s Ball.
The Salpetriere asylum, Paris, 1885. Dr Charcot holds all of Paris in thrall with his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad, hysterics, and been cast out from society. But the truth is much more complicated – these women are often simply inconvenient', unwanted wives, those who have lost something precious, or wayward daughters. For Parisian society, the highlight of the year is The Mad Women’s Ball, when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpetriere dressed up in their finery for one night only. For the women themselves it is a rare moment of hope.
Genevieve is a senior nurse – after the childhood death of her sister Blandine, she shunned religion and has placed her faith in Dr Charcot and science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugenie, the 19 year old daughter of a bourgeois family who have locked her away in the asylum. Because Eugenie has a secret - she sees spirits. Inspired by the scandalous, banned work that all of Paris is talking about – The Book of Spirits – Genevieve is determined to escape from the asylum (and the bonds of her gender) and seek out those who will believe in her. And for that she will need Genevieve's help...
“Assured of hitting the bestseller lists.' – The Parisian . “Essential reading.” – Cosmopolitan . “A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de Coeur against the condition of women in this world.” – Marie France ______
Victoria Mas is 32. The Mad Women's Ball, her first novel, has won several prizes in France and has been translated into 19 territories. She has worked in film in the United States, where she lived for eight years. She is the daughter of the singer Jeanne Mas.
17 June 2021 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 256 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
TRANSWORLD FICTION
The Flames Sophie Haydock
For fans of THE PARIS WIFE, THE FAMILIARS, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING and MRS HEMINGWAY, a stunning novel about the lives of four remarkable women, the muses who inspired the artist Egon Schiele.
The Flames is the previously untold story of four real women, the ‘muses’ who inspired the charismatic but controversial artist, Egon Schiele.
The four women are Adele, the spirited but slightly outrageous and untamed daughter of a good family, who, along with her quieter and more conventional sister, Edith, is scandalised when the notorious artist moves into an apartment opposite their home; Gertrude, Egon Schiele’s fiery sister who is also a victim of their tempestuous childhood; Vally, a poor but strong-willed model discovered by Gustav Klimt. With Egon Schiele poised on the brink of international success and the threat of war drawing closer, each woman attempts to write her own future until an act of betrayal changes everything. ______
Sophie Haydock is a journalist and editor (Sunday Times, Guardian, Tatler, BBC Three). She also works as a digital editor for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and is associate director of the Word Factory short story organisation. She has written about Egon Schiele for the Royal Academy Magazine and Sotheby’s. The Flames won the 2018 Impress Prize for New Writers. In the same year, the opening sections of the novel were longlisted for the Retreat West First Chapter and shortlisted for the PENfro Book Festival’s First Chapter Competition. Her Instagram account @egonschieleswomen has an audience of 92,000 followers.
03 February 2022 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 384 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
TRANSWORLD FICTION
Yip Paddy Crewe
A brilliantly original voice-driven literary debut about defying expectations, set in the Georgia Gold Rush.
It is 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, when Yip Tolroy - mute, medical anomaly & social outcast - is born. His father has disappeared in mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother: a powerful, troubled, independent woman who owns and runs a general store. She struggles to manage his needs, leaving Yip to find the means of asserting himself in an unforgiving, hostile environment. With the help of a retired doctor, he begins to transform his life by learning to read and write, his portal into the community a piece of slate and a supply of chalk.
And then at the age of 15, Yip's life is altered irrevocably. In the space of a few days he witnesses the discovery of gold, meets his faithful friend and comrade Dud Carter, and commits a grievous crime. Thrust unwittingly into a world of violence and sin, Yip and Dud are forced to leave town and embark on an odyssey that will introduce them to the wonder and horror of the American frontier until the revelation of a secret means they must return to Heron's Creek and the fate that awaits them. ______
Paddy Crewe was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London. Yip is his first novel.
05 May 2022 | Suzanne Bridson for Doubleday | 384 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
CORNERSTONE FICTION
The Coffin Club Louise Morrish
A multigenerational story about family, war and espionage.
Lying awake one night, Betty Shepherd – who is about to celebrate her 100th birthday – is surprised by a figure in her room, a man who she assumes to be a ghost and who reminds her of her long-ago past when she was a Special Operations Executive in World War Two.
Meanwhile Betty’s carer, Tali, is thinking about her future which is feeling increasingly precarious. Where will she live once Betty has passed away? How will she survive on her meagre savings? And most importantly how does her new friend, Jo, feel about her? Is theirs a conventional friendship – or could it, as Tali hopes, lead to much more?
As Betty sifts through letters she has kept from the war, memories come flooding back. She recalls her arduous training in Scotland in 1940 to become an agent, her terrifying flight and parachute drop into Nazi-occupied France, the perilous undercover mission she was asked to undertake on behalf of the Free French, and her relationship with her fellow agent, Gilbert, with whom she is fast falling in love, and who may have secrets of his own…
Alternating between between Betty’s past and Tali’s present, The Coffin Club is a gripping first novel by the 2019 winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition in which lies, dark secrets, passion and a heart-breaking betrayal all come together in a devastating conclusion. ______
Louise Morrish began writing historical fiction whilst working as a secondary school Librarian. She is obsessed with discovering the secret histories of forgotten women, and bringing their stories to light. When she’s not writing, she can often be found running along the trails in rural Hampshire, and occasionally wild swimming. The Coffin Club is her debut novel.
20 January 2022 | Selina Walker for Century | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL FICTION
A Knife to Cut Through Water Eimear Ryan
A beautiful coming of age story in the shadow of a complex love affair.
Beth never met her grandfather, Benjamin Crowe. The most gifted and celebrated poet of his generation, and the ultimate tortured artist, unanswered questions surrounding his tragic death have followed her since childhood. Now her reclusive, but formidable, grandmother is slowing down, discovering the truth about his final days and their much-gossiped about marriage has become urgent.
Beth was hoping that university would be a fresh start after a tumultuous few years of her own, but some of the new people she meets there - her roommate, Sadie, and a handsome young academic obsessed with Benjamin - could bring her closer to knowing her own family than her mother ever has. As she is drawn deeper into the scandalous history of her grandparents, their lives entangling with her own, the legacy of a great man threatens to cast too long a shadow - and swallow her up whole. ______
Eimear Ryan is a writer, editor and camogie player. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, and the anthologies The Long Gaze Back (New Island) and Town & Country (Faber). She is a co-founder and co-editor at Banshee Press, an independent publisher that publishes the literary journal, Banshee, as well as a select list of books. From Co. Tipperary, Eimear now lives and works in Cork city.
17 June 2021 | Brendan Barrington for Sandy Cove | 288 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
TRANSWORLD FICTION
The Dictator's Muse Nigel Farndale
Set in the run-up to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and featuring the enigmatic figure of the film-maker Leni Riefenstahl – “Hitler's muse” - a story about love, secrets and betrayal from the author of the Richard & Judy book club selection and Costa shortlisted novel, The Blasphemer.
We all invent ourselves one way or another...'
Set against the backdrop of the Berlin Olympics and the political turmoil of 1930s London, Leni and The Englishman is a novel about misdirected love, buried guilt, and how the truths and lies of the past reveal themselves.
Kim Newlands is an English athlete “sponsored” by the Blackshirts and devoted to his mercurial, socialite girlfriend Connie. Alun Pryce is a Welsh communist with an unshakable belief that the end justifies the means. Their fates become entwined after an accident befalls Connie — and both men make decisions they will come to regret.
Leni Riefenstahl, the pioneering, sexually-liberated, star film director of the Third Reich, is, as her critics say, “as pretty as a swastika”. She is also having to make some hard choices but is able to limit the damage they do to her reputation by shaping events in the way she wants them shaped. But while some scenes from her life have ended up on the cutting room floor, that doesn’t mean they are lost forever.
Seventy years later, German film historian Sigrun Meier discovers a missing filmclip that will lead her to a long-buried secret that involves not only Leni, but also Alun and Kim. And perhaps Leni always knew that, one day, this would happen. That someone would come along and complete the final “director’s cut” of her life. ______
Nigel Farndale is the author of The Blasphemer, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Novel Award. His previous books include Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Biography Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was born and raised in the Yorkshire Dales and now lives on the Hampshire-Sussex border with his wife and their three sons.
20 May 2021 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 480 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
VINTAGE FICTION
Life Sentences Billy O’Callaghan
A sweeping historical epic about one Irish family’s fight for survival – the most ambitious novel yet from the Costa-shortlisted writer, for fans of Colm Toibin and Sebastian Barry.
“The unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger and redemption, from the Irish writer who 'grips from the opening page.” – Bernard Maclaverty
Life Sentences is the sweeping and immersive story of one ordinary family in Ireland, and their extraordinary journey over three generations and more than a century of famine, war, violence and love.
At sixteen Nancy leaves her small island for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she feels irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair that soon throws her into a fight for her life. In 1920, Nancy's son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell, he struggles to piece together where he has come from, and who he wants to be. And in the early 1980s, Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house, moments away from her childhood home; remembering the night when she and her family stole back something that was rightfully theirs, she imagines what lies in store for those who will survive her.
A taut domestic drama of epic emotional scope, and a moving portrait of life in Ireland throughout modern history, this novel goes on making the heart lurch long after the final page. Set in the village where Billy O'Callaghan's family has lived for generations, it is partly based on stories told by his parents and grandparents. His writing is imbued with truth and lived experience - creating a novel so rich in life and empathy it is impossible to let go of his characters.
“A welcome voice to the pantheon of new Irish writing.” – Edna O’Brien “Billy O'Callaghan belongs now in the recognised front rank, along with Bernard MacLaverty, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor and Colm Tóibín.” –Tablet “His prose is a feast after a famine... Invariably delightful.” – Irish Times ______
Billy O’Callaghan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby, which has been translated into eight languages and was shortlisted for the Encore Award 2020. The title story in his short-story collection The Boatman and Other Stories was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award. He lives in Douglas, a village on the edge of Cork City.
21 January 2021 | Robin Robertson for Jonathan Cape | 288 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
TRANSWORLD FICTION
Lonely Castle in the Mirror Mizuki Tsujimura
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN with a fantasy twist: a sympathetic, insightful look at the causes of teen angst and depression in modern-day Japan, this novel was a #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award.
Winner of the Japan Booksellers Award voted for by the booksellers across Japan
Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face their family and friends, until the moment they discover a portal into another world that offers temporary escape from their stressful lives. Passing through a glowing mirror, they gather in a magnifcent castle which becomes their playground and refuge during school hours. The students are tasked with locating a key, hidden somewhere in the castle, that will allow whoever finds it to be granted one wish. At this moment, the castle will vanish, along with all memories they may have of their adventure. If they fail to leave the castle by 5 pm every afternoon, they will be eaten by the keeper of the castle, an easily provoked and shrill creature named the Wolf Queen.
Delving into their emotional lives with sympathy and a generous warmth, LONELY CASTLE shows the unexpected rewards of reaching out to others. Exploring vivid human stories with a twisty and puzzle-like plot, this heart-warming novel is full of joy and hope for anyone touched by sadness and vulnerability.
READERS LOVE LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR: ‘Ms. Tsujimura often deals with important themes, but what I like is you're left with an upbeat feeling after you finish.’.
‘I got gooseflesh I don't know how many times as I read this’
‘Rare is the novel that is this sad, surprising, moving, and heart-warming. Shows how important it is when people reach out and help each other.’ ______
Mizuki Tsujimura is the winner of the Japan Booksellers' Award and the Naoki prize, two highly influential awards in Japan. Her novel LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR sold one million copies in Japan. She has writtten several mystery novels and is at work on a new novel. She lives in Japan.
22 April 2021 | Jane Lawson for Doubleday | 400 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
VINTAGE FICTION
An Experiment in Leisure Anna Glendenning
A sharp and witty debut novel of millennial disillusionment and the perils of crossing the class divide, from Leeds native Anna Glendenning.
Stuck in her mouldy north London flat, but fleeing back home to Leeds from time to time, Grace is spinning her wheels; she’s disenchanted, lost and confused in the face of never-ending crises of identity, sexuality, class and geography. Leaving her family and all that she knows to start a new life in the city is more painful than she’d anticipated, and she can’t seem to get a handle on anything, to stop the drift.
An Experiment in Leisure is an exciting debut novel that explores, with wit and piercing insight, some of the most vital issues pulsing through Britain today: the ugly reality of working life and “getting by”, the inescapable gravitational pull of London and the emotional costs of social mobility. Glendenning’s is a bold and unforgettable voice, perfectly capturing her narrator’s fractured experience. A nuanced and original novel, it’s bursting with moments of poignancy and a tender portrait of youth. ______
Anna Glendenning was born and raised in Leeds. She has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture from Queen Mary, University of London, and currently works as a researcher and writer at Kew Gardens. She was formerly an editor with And Other Stories, where books under her wing made this year’s Man Booker International and Goldsmiths shortlists. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. She is twenty-eight and lives in South East London.
03 June 2021 | Poppy Hampson for Chatto & Windus | 304 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
CORNERSTONE FICTION
King of Rabbits Karla Neblett
A stunning debut about the magic and confusion of childhood. A beautiful, painful, at times funny novel about how a little boy perceives the world, and how his environment leads him on a path to manhood he doesn’t want to follow.
Kai lives in a mixed-race family on a rural council estate in Somerset where he and his three older sisters have three different dads, and his mum is being led into crack addiction by his petty-thief father. He idolises his dad, adores his friend Saffie and the school rabbit Flopsy, and is full of ambition to be the fastest runner in Middledown Primary – like Linford Christie. He and Saffie build a secret world of friendship in the school garden. But Kai’s natural optimism, imagination and energy run up against adult behaviour he doesn’t understand: his parents’ on-and-off romance, his dad’s increasing addiction and the limitations of poverty. Despite the people who try to look out for him, notably his loving Nanny Sheila and his big sister Leah, Kai’s life drifts towards a tragedy from which it is hard for him to recover. The refuge he seeks in his love of nature, and the wild rabbits who have made their burrows in the woods, may not be refuge enough.
Drawing on her own upbringing but turning lived experience into compelling narrative, Karla Neblett has created a vivid language that is both crafted and raw to tell a story of class, race and how our society fails working class young men. ______
Karla Neblett has worked in schools helping children struggling with learning and behaviour issues, as well as working with children who misuse alcohol and other substances, and supporting children who are carers in their family. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, where she won the Janklow & Nesbit Prize. She lives in Somerset.
25 March 2021 | Jason Arthur for William Heinemann | 256 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
VINTAGE FICTION
Easy Reading Cristina Morales
An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales.
An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning and groundbreaking Spanish writer Cristina Morales Easy Reading tells the lives of four cousins, all disabled women in their 30s and 40s, living together in a subsidised flat in Barcelona. Together, the women fight to keep their independence and stop the state from intervening in their lives.
Funny and furious, Easy Reading is a critique of both the institutions set up to care for disabled people and the language that categorises and marginalises those with disabilities in society. The novel won the prestigious Herralde Prize in 2018 and Spain's National Book Award in 2019, and has propelled Cristina Morales to the limelight. ______
Cristina Morales is the author of three novels and one short story collection. She studied Law at the University of Granada and now lives in Barcelona. She was awarded two of Spain's most prestigious literary prizes for her novel Easy Reading.
08 July 2021 | Ana Fletcher for Jonathan Cape | 416 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
VINTAGE FICTION
Shine/Variance Stephen T. Walsh
A brilliant debut story collection from a new Irish writer.
A brilliant debut story collection from a new Irish writer.
Shine/Variance is concerned with the pitfalls of ordinary life – meeting sales targets, drunkenly constructing children’s toys, navigating domestic longings. Characters teeter on the brink of stability. The writing is sharp, witty and tender. Some stories are stylistically playful and others seem more straightforward but they all share a clarity of language and purpose.
In the title story we are privy to a world-weary father’s inner monologue as he balances taking his son Christmas tree shopping with trying to hit his end of year financial target; it is laugh out loud funny, hugely touching and very shrewd. Its themes – family, responsibility, the grind of daily life, the schism that exists between our expectations and reality – are echoed throughout the collection in different voices and different forms, but always with humour and intelligence.
We meet a boy living alone with his mother, whose insightful observations about the adults around him run parallel to his longing for a football loving father figure. A woman on holiday with her husband and teenage children finds unexpected rebellion and power in a long, boozy lunch. When a group of strangers are thrown into disaster together, preconception and self- absorption are stripped away to reveal the strength of human connection. The ten stories are each surprising and unique but all unmistakably of the same cloth and pulling together to create a singular, powerful piece of work. ______
Stephen Walsh lives in Dublin and works in IT. He only started writing seriously in 2018. Since then his stories have been shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize, RSL V.S. Pritchett Short Story Award and the RTE Francis MacManus Story Competition, and been published in The Stinging Fly.
01 July 2021 | Charlotte Humphery for Chatto & Windus | 256 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
CORNERSTONE FICTION
Subject 21 Amy Warren
Extinct species of animals & humans have been revived in the Museum of Evolution. We've brought them back, but at what cost?
What happens when the future recaptures the past?
In a post-apocalyptic world the human race has evolved beyond us through genetic engineering - and we've been left behind to make amends for the damage inflicted on the earth.
The reversal of the extinction of long lost animals is key to our reparations and all of these are housed in the Museum of Evolution - along with another species of human that hasn't existed for 30,000 years.
Elise belongs to the lowest order of humans, the Sapiens. She lives in an ostracised community of ecological houses, built to blend with an idyllic landscape. Deciding to widen her stagnating life in the manufacturing base, she takes a chance opportunity to become a Companion to a previously extinct species of human. Taught only what the leaders want her to know, she has to decide what is true and what has been constructed solely to exert control.
But Elise has secrets of her own that threaten to be exposed now that she is away from the safety of her home. And while living in the museum, Elise realises that little separates her from the other exhibits... ______
AE Warren lives in the UK. A not-so-covert nerd with mildly obsessive tendencies, she has happily wiled away an inordinate amount of time reading and watching sci-fi/ fantasy. She is interested in the 'what ifs'. The Museum of Second Chances is her first novel.
01 April 2021 | Sam Bradbuy for Del Rey | 304 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
MICHAEL JOSEPH FICTION
The Affair Hilary Boyd
A new thought-provoking, emotional novel about marriage and family from the bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park and The Anniversary.
“As canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life – and better at jokes.” – Daily Mail
“Smart, with true-to-life characters whose dilemmas will tear at your heartstrings.” – Sunday Mirror
Helen and her husband Devan have led a charmed life since they married in their 20s. 40 years on and they are the couple their whole village envies.
Until one summer in Lake Como, when Helen meets someone else. She tries to resist at first, but Jared gets under her skin and soon she's breaking the marriage vows to which she had always held true. At least her indiscretion happened far from home and ended when the summer did.
But less than two weeks after she comes home, Helen discovers Jared has moved into her village. Her charmed life becomes a nightmare as Jared worms his way in until Helen wonders if more than her marriage is in danger... ______
Hilary Boyd was a nurse, marriage counsellor and ran a small cancer charity before becoming an author. She has written eight books, including Thursdays in the Park, her debut novel which sold over half a million copies and was an international bestseller. The film rights have been acquired by Charles Dance, who will be directing and starring.
19 August 2021 | Maxine Hitchcock for Penguin | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
TRANSWORLD FICTION
The Mix Up Holly McCulloch
Laugh-out-loud and moving, a feel-good love story perfect for reading by the pool or on a rainy afternoon from an exciting new voice in women's fiction.
Paige might bake cakes for a living but that doesn't mean she wants to get married. She's not dreaming about her own wedding cake. Far from it. Which is great because her ex-boyfriend has just walked into her bakery with his fiancée...
Needing a distraction, she goes to a party in search of a little no-strings-attached fun. And her friend knows just the guy - the guy in the black top.
Except there are two men wearing black tops.
Having been abandoned by her friend, she makes her best guess but picks the wrong one. This guy wants to be more than just a bit of fun.
Noah was meant to be her perfect distraction, but he's quickly becoming her favourite mistake. ______
Holly McCulloch lives in Oxfordshire and bakes beautiful (and delicious) cakes for a living. Just Friends is her debut novel.
01 August08 July 2021 | Molly Crawford for Corgi | 368 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
CORNERSTONE FICTION
The Broken Hearts Honeymoon A feel-good tale that will transport you to the cherry blossoms of Tokyo Lucy Dickens
EAT, PRAY, LOVE for the Instagram generation.
The perfect armchair escape for fans of Jo Thomas, Jenny Colgan and Phillipa Ashley.
When disaster strikes, adventure calls...
Charlotte had a plan. The perfect country wedding, followed by a month-long honeymoon in Japan - but when her fiancé starts having second thoughts, she knows there's no choice but to call off the wedding.
Charlotte isn't sure she knows how to be single, but she is going to try, starting with taking that trip of a lifetime - alone.
Will she find herself in the hills of Mount Fuji, or in the karaoke bars of Tokyo?
And will she be ready for romance by the time the cherry blossom flowers?
A feel-good story of reclaiming your life, set among the cherry blossom of Japan. The Broken Hearts Honeymoon is Eat, Pray, Love for the Instagram generation.
“Funny, inspirational and so evocative.” – Cathy Bramley . “The ultimate armchair adventure - I absolutely loved it!” – Heidi Swain . “Will leave you feeling inspired.” – Cressida McLaughlin ______
Lucy Dickens is the pseudonym for Lisa Dickenson. Lisa lives by the Devon seaside with her husband and one incredibly boisterous Bernese Mountain dog. She spends her days writing the kind of hilarious women’s fiction that sets the world to rights.
01 April 2021 | Sonny Marr for Arrow | 384 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
TRANSWORLD CRIME & THRILLER
The Playdate Andrea Mara
An innocent invitation becomes every parent's worst nightmare in this twisty domestic thriller from the Irish bestselling author, Andrea Mara.
Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his playdate. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother at the school. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.
As the residents of the small Dublin suburb get drawn into the drama, whispers start to circulate. And when an unlikely suspect comes to light, everyone starts asking themselves: can you really trust another parent with your own child? ______
Andrea Mara lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband and three young children. Her crime novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards and have been ebook bestsellers. Her third novel, The Sleeper Lies, was an Irish Times Top Ten bestseller. Andrea also runs multi- award-winning parent and lifestyle blog, OfficeMum.ie. Her new thriller, The Playdate, will be published in summer 2021.
8 July 2021 | Natasha Barsby for Bantam Press | 368 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
VINTAGE CRIME & THRILLER
The Guest Book C. L. Pattison
The bestselling author of THE HOUSEMATE, C. L. Pattison returns with her new haunting psychological thriller THE GUEST BOOK.
WELCOME TO THE ANCHORAGE, FOR A HONEYMOON YOU'LL NEVER FORGET . . .
Charles and Grace wanted a quiet staycation honeymoon, but when their train terminates early due to a storm up ahead, they wonder if they made the wrong decision. Forced to take shelter in the nearest seaside town, Saltwater, they discover that there is only one guesthouse left. Unlike the rest of Saltwater, The Anchorage is entirely deserted.
That night, with the storm howling relentlessly, Grace is woken by a child crying. She is haunted by the sound, until Charles convinces her it was only her imagination. But the next day, she finds a warning scrawled in the guest book: Leave now. Do not trust them.
As the storm rages on, phone lines are down, transport links cut off. Grace is desperate to leave, but Charles remains unaffected by the eerie stillness of the house. Is it just Grace's imagination or do the owners, and Charles, have something to hide?
THANK YOU FOR STAYING AT THE ANCHORAGE. WE HOPE YOU'LL BE BACK SOON...
Perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce, Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware. ______
C. L. Pattison spent twenty years as an entertainment journalist, before embarking on a career in the police force. She lives on the south coast of England.
04 February 2021 | Jade Chandler for Vintage | 336 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
PENGUIN GENERAL CRIME & THRILLER
The Lies We Tell Jane Corry
You did what any mother would do . . . and now someone else's son is dead.
Sarah always thought of herself and her husband, Tom, as good people. But that was before their son Freddy came home saying he'd done something terrible. Begging them not to tell the police.
Soon Sarah and Tom must find out just how far they'll push themselves, and their marriage, to protect their only child...
As the lies build up and Sarah is presented with the perfect opportunity to get Freddy off the hook, she is faced with a terrible decision: will she save him, but in the process, damn herself? ______
Jane Corry is a former magazine journalist who spent three years working as the writer-in- residence of a high security prison for men. This often hair-raising experience helped inspire her Sunday Times-bestselling psychological thrillers, My Husband's Wife, Blood Sisters, The Dead Ex and I Looked Away, which have been published in more than 35 countries. Jane was a tutor in creative writing at Oxford University and is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and My Weekly magazine.
24 June 2021 | Katy Loftus for Penguin | 512 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
VINTAGE CRIME & THRILLER
Who Killed Oscar Lomas? Jo Jakeman
A mystery novel for fans of the classic whodunit, with a modern twist.
When the body of Beth Lomas' husband, Oscar, is found at the bottom of a remote cliff in the Peak District called Cloud Drop, all signs - including the 'Sorry' note he left behind, point clearly to suicide. Plans for the funeral begin, but Beth cannot accept that her husband took his own life and sets out to discover what really happened.
As Beth investigates she soon discovers that Oscar had kept many secrets from her; secrets that involve a whole cast of characters from their small town and beyond. Her husband had enemies - that's for sure. But who killed Oscar?
Packed with a wonderful cast of characters, this clever, entertaining mystery is perfect for fans of the classic whodunit, with a modern twist. ______
Jo Jakeman was the winner of the Friday Night Live 2016 competition at the York Festival of Writing. Born in Cyprus, she worked for many years in the City of London before moving to Derbyshire with her husband and twin boys. Sticks and Stones is her debut thriller. Find out more at www.jojakeman.com.
13 January 2022 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 256 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
CORNERSTONE CRIME & THRILLER
I Know What I Saw S K Sharp
A thrilling twist on the classic memory thriller.
She remembers everything. She understands nothing.
Only a handful of people in the world have a truly perfect memory. Nicola is one of them. With her condition proving to be more of a curse than a blessing, she has spent years trying to live a quiet life.
But a body has been found, a discovery that threatens to tear the community apart.
Nicola remembers the night with perfect clarity, but she never discovered the truth of what happened.
Now she must use her ability to solve the murder from decades ago
And save the man she loved from being wrongly convicted of the crime. ______
S.K. Sharp is the pseudonym for Stephen Deas. Stephen is the author of over twenty works of sci-fi and fantasy. He lives in the South East of England with his wife and two children.
28 January 2021 | Sonny Marr for Arrow | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL CRIME & THRILLER
The Perfect Life Nuala Ellwood
The new gripping thriller you won’t be able to put down from the bestselling author of DAY OF THE ACCIDENT.
Would you kill for... THE PERFECT LIFE?
Have you ever wanted to be someone else?
Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has to do is throw on some nicer clothes, adopt a new accent and she can escape.
That's how it started: looking round houses she couldn't possibly afford. Harmless fun really. Until it wasn't.
Because a man who lived in one of those houses is dead.
And everyone thinks Vanessa killed him... ______
Nuala Ellwood is the author of three bestselling novels: My Sister's Bones for which she was selected as one of the Observer's “New Faces of Fiction 2017”, Day of the Accident and The House on the Lake. Nuala teaches Creative Writing at York St John University, and lives in the city with her young son.
18 February 2021 | Katy Loftus for Penguin | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
TRANSWORLD CRIME & THRILLER
The Arcadia Project (working title) Kate McNaughton
A novel about how normal, well-intentioned people come to commit acts of evil - and how they justify these acts to themselves - from the acclaimed author of How I Lose You.
Guillaume, Jack and Christa have an opportunity that makes their business-school classmates green with envy - a place on the most prestigious graduate training programme going, with a year each in Berlin, Paris and London. They quickly become an inseparable trio, convinced of their own superiority over their business drone peers, and whilst they may not admit it, a little in love with each other. But when they take on an ambitious history project as part of their course, they are forced to dig into hidden parts of their families' pasts, and their involvement with dark chapters of their three countries' histories. Soon the bond between them begins to fracture, and the three friends come to betray each other in ways that cannot be undone. ______
Kate McNaughton was born and raised in Paris. She read English at Cambridge and filmmaking at the European Film College in Denmark. She works as a documentary filmmaker and translator, speaks four languages and lives in Berlin. How I Lost You was her debut novel.
09 September 2021 | Suzanne Bridson for Doubleday | 304 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
TRANSWORLD CRIME & THRILLER
The Gathering Storm (working tite) Sam Lloyd
The news doesn’t strike cleanly, like a guillotine’s blade. There’s no quick severing. Nothing so merciful. This news is a slovenly traveller, dragging its feet, gradually revealing its horrors. And it announces itself first with violence – the urgent hammering of fists on Lucy Locke’s front door.
High on the clifftops above the Devon coast, Lucy has everything she could wish for. A beautiful home, a devoted husband and two beloved children.
Then one morning, there is a frantic knock at the door. Their family boat has been found, abandoned far out at sea. Lucy desperately tries to get hold of her husband to let him know but as the seconds tick by, it slowly dawns on her – what if he was the one who took the boat? And if so, where is he now?
As a once-in-a-generation storm builds, Lucy races to find out what has happened and why. Can she save her family and the life she loves?
Beautifully written, evocative and dramatic, the new thriller from Sam Lloyd is a story about a family pushed to its limits, set against the backdrop of the most unforgiving of landscapes. You will read it with your heart in your mouth, you will cry and you will be blindsided by the twists. ______
Sam Lloyd grew up in Hampshire, making up stories and building secret hideaways in his local woods. These days he lives in Surrey with his wife, three young sons and a dog that likes to howl. His debut thriller, The Memory Wood, was published to huge critical acclaim in 2020. His second thriller will be published in 2021.
05 August 2021 | Frankie Gray for Bantam Press | 400 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
CORNERSTONE CRIME & THRILLER
The Fifth Girl Georgia Fancett
A twisty detective thriller with a cult angle set in the historic city of Bath.
When DC Rawls decided to take some time off work for his mental health, he thought he would need just a few days.
However, it’s been months since the terrible night and Rawls still hasn’t returned to the Somerset Police Dept. He can’t seem to shake the feeling that he might never be the same again.
But when a schoolgirl disappears and the police link her case to the disappearances of three other girls in the city of Bath, it sends the media into a frenzy that places Rawls and his team at the heart of the storm.
Rawls isn’t sure that he’s ready to work on a case that hits so close to home, but he knows he can’t have any more blood on his hands. He has to find out the truth before it’s too late.
Who is behind these abductions?
And which girl will be taken next? ______
Georgia Fancett’s debut novel The Fifth Girl won the Penguin Random House First Novel Competition in partnership with the Daily Mail. She lives and writes from her home in Bath in North East Somerset with her husband, children and dogs.
22 July 2021 | Becky Miller for Arrow | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
TRANSWORLD CRIME & SUSPENSE
Hunt Leona Deakin
Sometimes the only way to catch a killer is to become their prey. In Leona Deakin’s highly anticipated new thriller, Dr Bloom finds herself in more danger than ever before.
Sometimes the only way to catch a killer is to become their prey.
In Bristol, a young woman jumps into an icy reservoir. In Leeds, a girl cuts ties with her family and disappears. The only thing that links them is a shared obsession with a mysterious woman called Paula.
For Dr Bloom, the stories told by their families are disturbingly familiar. She has seen this all before. She is sure that this charismatic, charming woman is the leader of a cult.
She begins investigating the Artemis community but is met with walls of secrecy. Which leaves only one option.
She must become one of them. ______
Leona Deakin started her career as a psychologist with the West Yorkshire Police. She is now an occupational psychologist and lives with her family in Leeds.
06 May 2021 | Natasha Barsby for Black Swan | 384 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
MICHAEL JOSEPH CRIME & THRILLER
A Kiss After Dying Ashok Banker
Utterly compulsive, totally original and with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist, this is a thriller like no other.
Charming and handsome, Ricky Manfredi is living an idyllic playboy life when, out of the blue, he literally bumps into a shy pretty girl named Hannah.
That's not her real name.
Ricky has always had his pick of women. But when chance brings them together a second time, he finds himself irresistibly drawn in.
Which is exactly how she planned it.
It's not long before, to the surprise of them both, Ricky and Hannah are falling for each other. But Hannah knows that can't be allowed to happen.
Because the first murder is only the beginning...
This is a stylish international thriller, for fans of Samantha Downing’s My Lovely Wife, or Killing Eve. ______
Ashok Banker is an internationally bestselling author, currently living in Los Angeles. A Kiss After Dying is his debut international thriller.
14 April 2022 | Joel Richardson for Michael Joseph | 384 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
MICHAEL JOSEPH CRIME & THRILLER
Island Reich Jack Grimwood
A rich, atmospheric WWII thriller from award- winning author of Moskva and Nightfall Berlin.
An unlikely spy
July 1940. Ex-Tommy, Billy O'Hagan had seen enough of the battlefield. Deftly avoiding his majesty's latest war, O'Hagan gets by as a con artist and thief. But when a job goes wrong, O'Hagan finds himself in the hands of the authorities with two options: hang for his crimes, or serve his country once more.
A reluctant king
After an attempt on his life, the recently abdicated Edward VIII seeks refuge in Spain. Believing the hit ordered by British intelligence, Edward and his new wife welcome the hospitality of his country's enemies.
The fate of a nation in their hands
Dropped on an occupied channel island without backup, O'Hagan must assume the identity of an local aristocrat and known Nazi sympathizer. With an invasion of England imminent, O'Hagan must overcome the islanders' hostility and German suspicion to gain enough intel to stop Hitler's grand plan: to put Edward VIII back on the throne. ______
Jack Grimwood was born in Malta and christened in the upturned bell of a ship. He grew up in the Far East, Britain and Scandinavia. Apart from novels, he writes for national newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Independent and Guardian. Jon is two-time winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel, first with Felaheen, and then End of the World Blues. His literary novel, The Last Banquet, published under the name Jonathan Grimwood, was shortlisted for Le Prix Montesquieu 2015. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. He is married to the journalist and novelist Sam Baker. He has written two previous novels, Moskva and Nightfall Berlin.
27 May 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby MICHAEL JOSEPH CRIME & THRILLER
The White Devil Paul Hoffman
Assassinations, government plots and a centuries-old crime - a thrilling return to the bestselling The Left Hand of God series.
Welcome those of you from the Old World. Welcome to the New.
Mankind's most reluctant hero - Thomas Cale - is back.
Cale is through running from his enemies. He's survived the Sanctuary attempts to kill him. He's survived being betrayed by his greatest love. He's survived heaven, hell and everything in between.
But then he stumbles into the kind of world events that not even a mercenary as wily as Cale can escape. Because, as the poets say, where Thomas Cale goes a funeral surely follows. ______
Paul Hoffman is the author of three previous novels, Paul Hoffman is the author of three previous novels, The Left Hand of God (2010), The Last Four Things (2011) and The Beating of His Wings (2013).
21 January 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 448 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby MICHAEL JOSPEH CRIME & THRILLER
In Harm’s Way Anthony Mosawi
A pacy thriller with a supernatural twist.
Sara Eden is not like other agents.
All her life, she's been running - from the men who've hunted her, and from the memories that haunt her.
But the time for running is over. To right the wrongs of her past, she must act.
Sara's abilities defy all logic and reason. With her help, MI5 have an asset unlike any other. But to keep her safe, they must keep her hidden. In the wrong hands, their greatest advantage could be an enemy's greatest weapon...
Sara is determined to save as many innocent lives as possible. But as her past, present and future collide, she faces an impossible choice. Save herself? Or risk everything to protect the future as we know it... ______
Anthony Mosawi moved from London to California to join Paramount Pictures as an executive. He was on the Paramount lot for eight years before launching his own film financing company. He is married with a son and splits his time between LA and London. Trust No One was his first novel.
10 June 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
VINTAGE CRIME & THRILLER
The Waiter Ajay Chowdhury
From the winner of the Harvill Secker Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Award, Ajay Chowdhury, comes a unique debut crime novel, The Waiter. Kamil Rahman, Kolkata detective turned Brick Lane waiter, has a new case on his hands . . .
Full of wit and wisdom, The Waiter is sure to set your taste-buds tingling and will help you brush up on your detective skills too. Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that might just change his life ... for better or for worse
Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the day he caters a birthday party for his boss’s friend on Millionaire's Row, his simple new life becomes rather complicated. The event is a success, the food is delicious, but later that evening the host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool.
Suspicion falls on Rakesh's new wife, Neha, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family, with the help of his boss's daughter Anjoli. Kamil and Anjoli prove a capable team – but as the investigation progresses, Kamil struggles to keep memories of the case that destroyed his career in Kolkata at bay. . . and his past will soon catch up with him in some rather unexpected ways. ______
Ajay Chowdhury is the winner of the inaugural Harvill Secker and Bloody Scotland competition. He is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director who lived the first third of his life in India and then moved to London, where he cooks experimental meals for his wife and daughters. His first children’s book, Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and The Waiter is his debut crime thriller.
01 May 2021 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 384 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
VINTAGE CRIME & THRILLER
Murder Most Festive A Christmas Mystery Ada Moncrieff
Downton Abbey meets Poirot in this Christmas murder mystery, perfect for fans of Gladys Mitchell and the British Library crime classics.
It's Christmas at Westbury Manor and amateur detective Hugh Gaveston must unravel a fiendish mystery...
Christmas Eve, 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered for another legendary celebration at their beautiful country house. The champagne flows, the silverware sparkles and upstairs the rooms are ready for their occupants.
But one bed will lie empty that night. On Christmas morning, David Campbell-Scott is found dead in the snow. There's a pistol beside him and only one set of footprints.
Yet something doesn't seem right to amateur sleuth Hugh Gaveston. Campbell-Scott had just returned from overseas with untold wealth - why would he kill himself? Hugh sets out to investigate...
Wonderfully atmospheric, with charming wit and brilliant plotting, Murder Most Festive is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M.C. Beaton and James Runcie's Grantchester series. ______
Ada Moncrieff was born in London and has lived in Madrid and Paris. She studied English at Cambridge University, and has worked in theatre, publishing and as a teacher. Murder Most Festive is her first novel.
05 November 2020 | Alex Russell for Vintage | 304 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
EBURY TRUE CRIME
The Missing Cryptoqueen Jamie Bartlett
The inside story of the biggest business scam of the 21st century, and the hunt for the woman who got away with it.
175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the inside story of the world’s biggest crypto con and the woman who got away with it.
In 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans, Dr Ruja Ignatova promised her followers a financial revolution. The future, she said, belonged to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. And the Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptoqueen vowed that she had invented the Bitcoin Killer. OneCoin would not only earn its investors untold fortunes, it would change the world.
By March 2017 more than $4 billion had been invested in OneCoin in dozens of countries, from the USA to Pakistan, Hong Kong to Yemen, and the UK to Brazil. But by October 2017, Ruja Ignatova had disappeared, and it slowly became clear that her revolutionary cryptocurrency was not all it seemed.
In The Missing Cryptoqueen, Jamie Bartlett tells the unbelievable story of the rise, disappearance and fall of Dr Ruja Ignatova, setting out on a globe-crossing investigation into the criminal underworlds, corrupt governments and the super-rich. Along the way, he reveals a very modern tale of intrigue, techno-hype and herd madness that allowed OneCoin to become a million person pyramid scheme – where, at the top, investors were making millions and, at the bottom, people were putting their livelihoods at risk. It’s the inside story of the smartest and biggest scam of the 21st Century – and the genius behind it, who is still on the run. ______
Jamie Bartlett is the bestselling author of The Dark Net, Radicals, and The People Vs Tech, which was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and won the 2019 Transmission Prize. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos and regularly writes on technology and society for the Spectator, the Sunday Times and elsewhere. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley. His TedTalk about dark net drugs markets has been watched nearly six million times. In 2019 his critically acclaimed BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen reached number one on the iTunes charts, and has been downloaded millions of times.
01 July 2021 | Andrew Goodfellow for Ebury Press | 256 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
VINTAGE TRUE CRIME
The Dublin Railway Murder Thomas Morris
An astonishing real-life locked-room murder mystery set in Victorian Dublin, packed with gripping, perplexing twists. This meticulously researched true-crime tale reads like a quintessential Victorian thriller and is perfect for fans of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
One morning in November 1856 George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus in Dublin, was found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. His head had been almost severed; a knife lay nearby, but strangely the office door was locked, apparently from the inside. This was a deed of almost unheard-of brutality for the peaceful Irish capital: while violent crime was commonplace in Victorian London, the courts of Dublin had not convicted a single murderer in more than thirty years.
From the first day of the police investigation it was apparent that this was no ordinary case. Detectives struggled to understand how the killer could have entered and then escaped from a locked room, and why thousands of pounds in gold and silver had been left untouched at the scene of the crime. Three of Scotland Yard’s most celebrated sleuths were summoned to assist the enquiry, but all returned to London baffled. It was left to Superintendent Augustus Guy, the head of Ireland's first detective force, to unravel the mystery.
Five suspects were arrested and released, with every step of the salacious case followed by the press, clamouring for answers. Under intense public scrutiny, Superintendent Guy found himself blocked at almost every turn. But then a local woman came forward, claiming to know the murderer…. ______
Thomas Morris worked for the BBC for seventeen years making programmes for Radio 4 and Radio 3. For five years he was the producer of In Our Time, and previously worked on Front Row, Open Book and The Film Programme. His freelance journalism has appeared in publications including The Times, The Lancet and The Cricketer. In 2015 he was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction. He lives in London.
11 November 2021 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
VINTAGE TRUE CRIME
On the Trail of the Serpent The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj Richard Neville and Julie Clarke
The subject of an upcoming major BBC TV drama, this is the only full-length study of Charles Sobrhaj - one of the world's greatest con men, and notorious serial killers.
The story of Charles Sobhraj’s life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up with a fluid sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities. Driven to floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s hippie route, leaving a trail of dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake.
First published in 1979, but updated here to include new material, On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj’s life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke. Blurring the boundaries between true crime and novelisation, this remains the definitive book about Sobhraj – a riveting tale of sex, drugs, adventure and murder. ______
Richard Neville was an Australian writer and commentator who first came to prominence as the editor of the counterculture magazine OZ. Having travelled the ‘pot trail’ throughout the 1960s and 70s, Neville was commissioned by Random House to write the story of con man and serial killer, Charles Sobhraj. The result, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj was a global bestseller. His books include Play Power, Hippie, Hippie, Shake, Out of My Mind and Amerika Pyscho. Neville died in 2016.
Julie Clarke trained as a journalist on the Sydney Telegraph before joining ABC television. She later became a New York correspondent for Australian Consolidated Press and worked as a TV producer. She was commissioned to write The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj along with her partner Richard Neville, an endeavour that took the pair all over the world for three years.
07 January 2021 | Nick Skidmore for Vintage | 368 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
CORNERSTONE AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Autobiography Malorie Blackman
The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.
Malorie Blackman OBE is one of Britain's best-loved and most widely-read writers. For over thirty years, her books have helped to shape British culture, and inspired generations of young readers and writers. The Noughts and Crosses series, started in 2000, sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and identity in the UK, and the books are already undisputed classics of twenty-first century children's literature.
Malorie is also a writer whose own life has been shaped by books. From her childhood in south London, the daughter of parents who moved to Britain from Barbados as part of the Windrush Generation, she experienced a childhood that was both wonderful and marred by the everyday racism and bigotry of the era. She was told she could not apply to study her first love, Literature, at university, in spite of her academic potential, but found a way to books and to a life in writing against a number of obstacles.
This book is an account of that journey, from a childhood surrounded by words, to the 83 rejection letters she received in response to sending out her first project, to the children's laureateship. It explores the books that have made her who she is, and the background to some the most beloved and powerful children's stories of today. It is an illuminating, inspiring and empowering account of the power of words to change lives, and the extraordinary life story of one of the world's greatest writers. ______
Malorie Blackman has written over seventy books for children and young adults, including the Noughts & Crosses series, Thief and a science-fiction thriller, Chasing the Stars. Many of her books have also been adapted for stage and television, including a BAFTA-award-winning BBC production of Pig-Heart Boy and a Pilot Theatre stage adaptation by Sabrina Mahfouz of Noughts & Crosses. There is also a major BBC production of Noughts & Crosses, with Roc Nation (Jay- Z’s entertainment company) curating the soundtrack as executive music producer. In 2005 Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books. In 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature, and between 2013 and 2015 she was the Children’s Laureate. Most recently Malorie wrote for the Doctor Who series on BBC One, and the fifth novel in her Noughts & Crosses series, Crossfire, was published by Penguin Random House Children’s in summer 2019.
05 May 2022 | Lemara Lindsay-Prince for Merky Books | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
TRANSWORLD AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
It's a Long Way From Deptford The Dire Straits Story John Illsley
The first - and only - inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history, as told by bassist, founder member and mainstay, John Illsley.
Some bands go huge - only a few stay huge.
One of the most successful music acts of all time, Dire Straits have filled stadia around the world. Their album sales number the hundreds of millions and their music is still played in every continent today. Their songs were either the complete soundtrack or the background music for an entire generation. There was, quite simply, no bigger band on the planet throughout the eighties.
The facts give a sense of the scale of their success, but they don't tell the story. In this powerful and entertaining memoir, bass guitarist, founder member and mainstay, John Illsley, gives the inside track on the most successful rock band of their time. From playing gigs in the spit-and- sawdust pubs of south London, to hanging out with Bob Dylan in LA, John tells his story - and the story of the band - with searching honesty, soulful reflection and great humour. John's is the first - and only- inside account of this global music phenomenon. ______
John Illsley is an English musician who rose to fame as the bass guitarist of the critically acclaimed band Dire Straits. With Dire Straits, John has been the recipient of multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards, and a Heritage Award. As one of the founder members (with Mark Knopfler, his brother David and drummer Pick Withers) John played a major role in the development of the Dire Straits sound. When Dire Straits finished touring in 1993, John became involved in the art world. Having carved a reputation for himself as a painter, John had solo exhibitions in London, New York, Sydney and across Europe. He also co-founded the children's charity Life Education in 1987 which was recently integrated into Coram, one of the oldest UK charities. John also owns a pub, the East End Arms in the New Forest.
04 November 2021 | Michelle Signore for Bantam Press | 320 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
MICHAEL JOSEPH AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day My Autobiography Captain Tom Moore
The extraordinary, heartwarming autobiography of Captain Tom Moore, the man who captured the nation's heart in lockdown.
At the height of the pandemic, ninety-nine-year-old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore began walking laps of his garden to raise £1000 for the NHS. By the time of his 100th birthday, he'd reached £32 million and captured the hearts of the nation. In his official autobiography, announced alongside the creation of the Captain Tom Foundation, he tells us not only of his long life, serving in Burma in the war and racing motorbikes, but also how an old soldier with a can-do, never-give-up attitude inspired a nation to believe anything is possible by reminding us it is never too late. ______
Captain Tom Moore was born in Yorkshire in 1920. With the outbreak of World War Two he enlisted in the British Army and served throughout the war. He holds two Guinness World Records, for the largest sum ever raised by an individual charity walk, and for being the oldest person ever to have a number one hit single. He lives with his family in Bedfordshire. He set up the Captain Tom Foundation to help people help other people. Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day is his first book. @captaintommoore
17 September 2020 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
VINTAGE AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here Benji Waterhouse
A witty, candid, poignant memoir by a major new writing talent, with urgent things to say about the crisis in mental healthcare.
What’s the difference between a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a psychic? . What shouldn’t you say to a psychopath? . Why would anyone in their right mind choose to spend their 9-5 around human distress? . What happens when you discover no magic treatments for unhappiness exist? . Is there any hope for the future? (Yes.)
This is a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of life as a junior psychiatrist. Humane, humorous, candid and myth-busting (spoiler: there are no padded walls), Benji Waterstones reveals the sometimes terrifying, sometimes absurd reality of life on both sides of the doctor’s desk. This is Benji’s story of becoming a psychiatrist. Of temporarily leaving the profession disillusioned, burnt-out and compassion-fatigued. And of finally rediscovering his empathy to return to help fight the pandemic afflicting the nation’s lungs and minds.
We meet the lorry driver with bipolar disorder who after being furloughed believes he’s discovered the cure for coronavirus. The teenager with psychosis triggered by her period. The patient with OCD who survived after taking an overdose of 99 paracetamols (they bought 100 but dropped one on the floor and it got germs on). The man with schizophrenia who thinks his loving mother is a witch. The patient with Jerusalem Syndrome who after visiting the Holy Land believes he’s Jesus. And the depressed psychiatrist who hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.
“Most of these characters are my patients. Some of them are my family. And one of them is me.” ______
Dr Benji Waterhouse is a frontline NHS doctor specialising in psychiatry with a decade’s worth of experience, and an award-winning stand-up comedian. His has done three sell-out Edinburgh Festival shows – Shrink, A–Z of Madness and The Ayahuasca Diaries – and will be performing his debut hour-long Edinburgh Fringe show in August 2021. He has written for The Guardian and The Independent, and featured in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) podcast, and featured in a list of “Inspiring Psychiatrists” by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
03 February 2022 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 288 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
MICHAEL JOSEPH AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Leaving Time The Seven Ages of Death Dr Richard Shepherd
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.
This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life...
How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine bodies of every age. From old to young, and from murder, to accident, to natural illness, each body has taught him something: about human development, about life's risks, about its owner's life story, about homicide and even about himself.
In Leaving Time, Shepherd helps readers to recognise death as part of an immense, natural life cycle which is common to all living things - an ending as much a part of us as our beginning. ______
Richard Shepherd was born in west London but grew up in Watford. At the local grammar school he was introduced to a medical textbook smuggled into the classroom by a friend which opened his eyes to the world of crime and murder, setting him on a lifelong quest to understand death in its many forms. He trained as a doctor at St George's Hospital medical school at Hyde Park Corner, qualifying in 1977 and then completed his postgraduate training as a forensic pathologist in 1987. He immediately joined what was then the elite forensic department at Guy's Hospital.
He has been involved nationally and internationally in the forensic investigation of thousands of deaths from unnatural causes, from headline-making murders to mass natural disasters, and many sudden and unexplained deaths that his investigations showed were from natural causes or due to accidents. His skills and expertise still remain in demand around the world.
02 September 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
MICHAEL JOSEPH AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
34 Patients Tom Templeton
A profoundly moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS.
We ask so much of our doctors. . To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. . To tell a man he might be dead tomorrow. To help a man who doesn't want to live. . To look into a parent's panicked eyes as their tiny daughter fights for every breath. . To watch a 103-year-old woman slip away from a life well-lived.
34 Patients is a breathtaking, uplifting and phenomenal memoir from a doctor who dares to look closer at his crowded waiting room, valuing each soul and story he encounters and the lessons they can teach us about life, death, and the strange spaces in between. Meeting each patient in their most vulnerable moments, Dr Tom Templeton weaves a profound and moving portrait of humanity, from pain and grief, to love and hope - asking us to treat all with compassion.
The stories are told in chronological order, from the youngest patient to the oldest, starting with a not-yet-born baby whose mother seems likely to reject her, culminating in the account of a 103-year old woman who is now beyond the reach of medical science. Along the way there are patients from childhood, youth, middle and old age: the Downs syndrome child who rescued his parents' marriage and is now critically unwell; the man who has been stabbed in the brain with shocking consequences; a woman who doesn't realize she is nine months pregnant and going into labour; the elderly man whose life has been obliterated by love for the two sisters who live only in his mind.
From rough sleeper to aristocrat no one is spared life on the borderlands between sickness and health. 34 Patients is a remarkable book that touches us all. ______
Tom Templeton worked as a journalist at the Observer. Age 29 he retrained as a doctor. Since then he has worked across eight different medical specialties (paediatrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, orthopaedics, A&E, intensive care, general medicine, general practice) and in eight different hospitals across the UK.
He now works as a GP.
04 February 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
MICHAEL JOSEPH AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
A Walk from the Wild Edge Jake Tyler
The moving and uplifting account of one man's journey, walking 3000 miles around the UK to combat his depression.
After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his life from the clutches of depression. With only his running gear and a backpack, he stepped out of his house in Brighton and began a 3000-mile journey around the UK.
In documenting every step of his journey, Jake shares the ways in which his mission was enhanced by the kindness of strangers who took him in for the night, or let him talk when the darkness engulfed him.
This is both the story of Jake's journey around the country and his journey to better understand himself, ultimately finding peace and acceptance with his mental health. ______
Jake Tyler is a mental health advocate, adventurer, runner, walker and depression sufferer. Jake's BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey show, Open Up with Jake Tyler launched in September with guest Matt Haig. He has also recently launched a podcast titled People are F***ing Awesome!
A Walk from the Wild Edge is his first book.
15 April 2021 | Charlotte Hardman for Michael Joseph | 304 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
CORNERSTONE AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Sea Bean Sally Huband
A windswept, beautiful and deeply generous book about how one woman found herself on the beaches of Shetland and in the curious pieces that wash up on its shore. A brave exploration of landscape, pain and how hope can be found in the palm of your hand.
The story of a woman who combs the Shetland beaches to find her place.
In 2011 Sally Huband moved with her family to Shetland during the first of the autumn storms that would pound the islands all winter long. Two years later, Sally's second child was born on the islands, but during that pregnancy, the base of Sally's spine was damaged, triggering the onset of a debilitating arthritis. As Sally's relationship with her body changed unalterably, she took to wandering the many strandlines of the archipelago to see what the sea had washed up. This obsession with beachcombing became the relief from her pain and a summons to understand the islands in all their fragility and glory.
For on these shores, Sally was not alone. Shetland's unique position between the North Atlantic and the North Sea transforms these beaches into depositories for seaborne objects from far and wide. Here are tiny treasures that can be found if we look for them, and - from tightly coiled birch bark from Canada, messages in bottles from Norway - to very occasionally, a sea bean - Sally found the world in her hands.
Sea Bean is a woman's story of being found, a deeply honest memoir from a researcher who sees the poetry in an otter's footprint or a fulmar's stomach contents, the potency in the myths of motherhood and the connectivity of landscape, body and self in our wild and modern world. ______
Sally Huband won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2017 and as part of that award her work has been mentored by Sara Maitland. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including BBC Wildlife Magazine, The Island Review, Earth Lies, Zoomorphic and Archipelago. Sally also has an essay in the forthcoming anthology of Scottish nature writing, Antlers of Water (Canongate, 2020) edited by Kathleen Jamie. This is her debut non-fiction work.
31 March 2022 | Charlotte Cray for Windmill Books | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
EBURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Just Call Me Red My Life on the Land Hannah Jackson
Get lost in a wonderful slice of life from shepherdess Hannah Jackson, who provides us with tales from the farm and lessons to live by for fans of the Yorkshire Shepherdess and Adam Henson.
Lessons to live by, without getting up with the lark.
Hannah Jackson (aka The Red Shepherdess) grew up in the Wirral, and hadn’t set foot on a farm until she was 20- years-old. But she’d always loved animals and on a visit to the Lake District, she saw a lamb being born and had a light bulb moment – a burning desire to succeed as a farmer – and never looked back.
In Just Call Me Red, Hannah gives us a unique insight into farm life and the values it has taught her that we can use in our everyday lives to change ourselves and our world for the better – from connection, communication and community, to leadership, patience and resilience. Hannah will show us how becoming a lambing and farming contractor in a male-dominated and traditional world taught her grit and determination; how training her loyal sheepdog Fraser taught her to trust; and how sometimes failure can teach us more about ourselves than success. Hannah’s journey also teaches us how we should find what sets our hearts on fire and throw everything into it.
Hannah’s simple and universal wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement will inspire you to achieve your goals, follow your dreams and focus on what’s really important in life. ______
Hannah Jackson is a lambing and farming contractor, also known as The Red Shepherdess to her online community. She owns a smallholding in Cumbria consisting of 120 sheep, which she manages with the help of her loyal sheepdog Fraser. When she’s not on a farm, Hannah is a spokesperson for agriculture (Young Farmer of the Year 2018 Finalist and National Sheep Association’s Next Generation Ambassador); a keen CrossFit fan (which, alongside her farming, stood her in good stead when she appeared on SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2019); and helps with her dad’s company, Natural Leaders, to inspire managers from some of the country’s top companies and industries using sheepdogs and herding techniques to demonstrate leadership skills.
11 March 2021 | Michelle Warner for Ebury Press | 320 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
VINTAGE AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
A Crack in the Wall In a New Translation by Shaun Whiteside Horst Krüger
The major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mould of Alone in Berlin and Stoner – the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany, first published in 1966 but out of print for many decades.
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Krüger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people – by now habituated to blame the crimes of the Third Reich on Hitler – were confronted with the horrific details of the Holocaust executed by ‘ordinary men’ still living in their midst.
The trial sent Krüger back to his childhood in the 1930s, in an attempt to understand “how it really was, that incomprehensible time”. He had grown up in a Berlin suburb, among a community of decent, lower-middle-class homeowners. This was not the world of torch-lit processions and endless ranks of marching SA men. Here, people lived ordinary, non-political lives, believed in God, obeyed the law and respected “good Jews”, but were gradually seduced and intoxicated by the promises of Nazism.
This world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble when tragedy struck. Krüger’s older sister decided to take her own life, leaving the parents struggling to come to terms with the inexplicable. The author’s teenage rebellion – his desire to escape the stifling conformity of family life, his search for meaning and purpose – made him join an anti-Nazi resistance group. He narrowly escaped imprisonment only to be sent to war as Hitler embarked on the conquest of Europe. Step by step, a family that had fallen under the spell of Nazism was being destroyed by it.
Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, A Crack in the Wall is a moving coming-of- age story which provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. Yet the book’s themes also chime with our own times – how the promise of an ‘era of greatness’ by a populist leader intoxicates an entire nation, how thin is the veneer of civilisation and, perhaps most important, what makes one person a collaborator and another a resister. ______
Horst Krüger (1919–99) was a German journalist, novelist and travel writer. Published in 1966, A Crack in the Wall was critically acclaimed as an exemplary portrait of youth in Nazi Germany.
03 June 2021 | Jorg Hensgen for Bodley Head | 256 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
EBURY HEALTH & WELLBEING
Living While Black Guilaine Kinouani
How to resist racism without exhausting yourself - a must-have guide to the psychology of anti-blackness and how to recover from racial trauma.
Based on the popular anti-racist 'Race Reflections' blog, radical psychologist Guilaine Kinouani writes the first book to look at racism - and, in particular, anti-Blackness - as a wellbeing issue.
Offering rare insights into the psychology of race, the science of trauma and the politics of self-care, this book gives voice to the diverse experiences of Black people around the world, and how you can: - handle professional microaggressions; - set boundaries and protect your time; - protect your children from racism; - navigate the dating world.
Living While Black will empower you to adopt new habits tailored to your individual needs and help you to thrive not just survive, and find hope - and even joy - in the face of adversity. ______
Guilaine Kinouani is a radical/critical psychologist, feminist, therapist, equality consultant and award-nominated writer and researcher. She works as a Senior Psychologist and an Adjunct Professor of Cross-Cultural Psychology at Syracuse University. She has recently been nominated for an Honorary Doctorate by the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust in recognition of her public scholarship and contribution to the psychoanalysis of race.
04 February 2021 | Marianne Tatepo for Ebury Press | 240 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
PENGUIN GENERAL HEALTH & WELLBEING
The Well Voice A 10-Step Programme to Identify and Heal Past Trauma Emmy Brunner
A 10-step programme for identifying, accepting and moving on from unresolved trauma.
Trying to overcome unresolved trauma lurking in your past? Frustrated by the unresolved issues that are holding you back in life?
Trained psychotherapist, Emmy Brunner, has the 10- step programme you need to identify, accept and move on from the unresolved trauma that is preventing you from being the happiest version of yourself.
Based on the clinical advice Emmy provides in her own practice and accompanied by case studies from The Recover Clinic, this book will guide you through a simple process that will allow you to uncover past traumas that are negatively impacting your mental health.
Whether you're struggling with depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, or low self-esteem, Emmy Brunner is here to help guide you through the process of recovery. ______
Emmy Brunner is a psychotherapist and founder of The Recover Clinic, Europe's leading outpatient service, treating sufferers of trauma, depression, body dysmorphia, anxiety and eating disorders. She also developed The Brunner Project, a social media enterprise that funds treatment and opportunities for support to women throughout the UK.
Emmy has written for the Metro, Refinery29, The Telegraph and Healthista. She has 35.6k followers on Instagram, is a mental health speaker, and she contributed to the BBC 3 documentary “Clean Eating's Dirty Secrets”.
21 May 2021 | Emily Robertson for Penguin Life | 304 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL HEALTH & WELLBEING
Morning, Noon and Night The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Change Your Life Russell Foster
A guide to using the science of the body clock to create the optimum personal routine, and sleep better, work better and feel better.
In recent years, there have been an explosion of exciting discoveries in the science of the 24-hour biological cycles that dominate our lives. Surprisingly, most books on the subject discuss the body clock and sleep separately. But new research tells us that such a disconnected approach tells only part of the story. You cannot properly understand sleep without understanding the body clock.
In Morning, Noon and Night Professor Russell Foster, a world leading expert on circadian neuroscience, takes us on a fascinating journey both through the day - from waking, to the morning, to noon, to dusk to night - and through our lifetimes. He shows us how our natural rhythms become disrupted by modern life, and the effects this wreaks on us, from our mood to our decision-making skills to our relationships. At a time of great change to our daily schedules, he shows us how to achieve the optimum natural routine, and the many health benefits this brings.
In this holistic but accessible book, the first written on the subject by an expert of this stature, Professor Foster explains everything from the best time of day to eat to when to exercise, from how sleep disorders are formed to the way our natural cycles change throughout our lives. In the 21st Century we have declared war upon the night, and without really appreciating what we have done, we have thrown away an essential part of our biology. But with science, we can get back into the rhythm, and live healthier, sharper lives. ______
Russell Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow at Brasenose College. Russell is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of Biology. He helped establish and was the first chair of the Public Engagement Committee at the Royal Society and Chaired the Cheltenham Science Festival for six years. He is currently a Trustee of the Science Museum Group. He contributes to radio, television and writes newspaper articles. His advice is sought from both business and government. Russell has co-written four popular science books - this is his first as sole author.
06 January 2022 | Tom Killingbeck for Viking | 336 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
EBURY HEALTH & WELLBEING
Food Isn’t Medicine Why Everything You’ve Been Told is Just a Load of Nutribollocks Dr Joshua Wolrich
The first NHS doctor to take a public stand against diet culture and empower you to do the same.
Losing weight is not your life's purpose.
With over 300K followers on Instagram, Dr Joshua Wolrich is setting the record straight when it comes to using food as medicine, helping fight weight stigma and encouraging his followers to have a healthy, happy relationship with their bodies and food.
Food Isn't Medicine will wade through the nutribollocks and demystify the common (and some not so common) diet myths that many of us believe, liberating us from our destructive relationships with food and our bodies.
Topics will include:
o The alkaline diet and the myth that you can change the pH of your body with food o Skinny tea and diet shakes won't aid weight loss but they could give you a stomach upset o Gluten and why it doesn't deserve the bad rep o The Game Changers documentary and the myth that veganism is the healthiest way of eating
Knowledge is power and Dr Joshua Wolrich has made it his mission to share his expertise and empower you to escape the diet trap. ______
Dr. Joshua Wolrich BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCS, is a full-time NHS surgeon in the United Kingdom with a passion for helping people improve their relationship with food. One of the few men in the industry addressing weight stigma and diet culture, you can find him on Instagram regularly combating spurious nutrition information (nutribollocks) and fad diets, while reminding us that there’s so much more to health than our weight. His podcast, “Cut Through Nutrition,” is a must listen for an in-depth look at the appropriate use of nutrition in medicine.
15 April 2021 | Emma Owen for Vermilion | 288 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
CORNERSTONE HEALTH & WELLBEING
Five Minute Therapy Sarah Crosby
An illustrated guide to the self by the creator of the popular Instagram page @themindgeek and trained psychotherapist, Sarah Crosby.
Five Minute Therapy is an illustrated guide that provides practical tools and powerful insight to discover our true selves, as well as to cope with common mental health challenges such as stress, anxiety and lack of confidence. Serving as a pocket therapist, the book invites readers to learn – and unlearn – their true selves, covering concepts such as Attachment, Boundaries, Authenticity, Triggers and much more.
With quick exercises, inspirational encouragement and a light - but never dumbed-down - visual presentation, this book is perfect for fans of The Anxiety Solution (Chloe Brotheridge) and Good Vibes, Good Life (Vex King). ______
Sarah Jane Crosby (@themindgeek) is a psychotherapist based in Dublin, Ireland. Sarah originally graduated from University College Dublin with a BA Hons in Archaeology and Geography before retraining as a humanistic integrative therapist, procuring both a HDip and MA from DBS. During her training, Sarah began creating and posting mental health content to Instagram as @TheMindGeek. Much to her surprise, the page rapidly gained an audience and now has over 370k minds following along. The aim of her content is to make mental health information accessible and interesting, while occasionally delivering hard truths in soft colours.
31 December 2020 | Zennor Compton for Century | 240 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN GENERAL HEALTH & WELLBEING
Lift Your Vibe Eat, Breathe and Flow to Sleep Better, Find Peace and Live Your Best Life Richie Norton
The ultimate lifestyle guide for finding calm, slowing down and reconnecting with yourself.
In a world of endless emails, calendars creaking at the seams and a constant stream of the next big thing to watch and discuss, it can see impossible to find time for yourself. Richie Norton knows this world too well and has created transformative, simple-to-follow daily rituals that fit into even the busiest schedule.
Guided by his expertise in breathwork, yoga, nutrition and meditation, Richie will help you unlock and develop your full physical and mental potential. Whether it's a one-minute triangle breath exercise, a five-minute wake-up flow, or a delicious 30-minute recipe, this guide contains accessible practices that anyone can build into their day to create new, healthier habits.
Richie's advice is guaranteed to help you achieve a fitter body, lower stress levels, a clearer headspace, increased energy and a better quality of sleep. His simple, daily practices, from journaling to spending time with friends or in nature, will strengthen your body and mind and help you discover a much-needed sense of calm.
There's never been a better time to start taking care of your mind and body, so let Richie guide you into your healthiest and happiest life. ______
Richie Norton (@richienorton_) is an ex-professional rugby player turned wellness guru. When an injury ended his sports career, he discovered the transformative power of yoga and breathwork. Richie is now a human performance coach and a yoga and breathwork practitioner. He has spent the past 10 years working alongside sports teams, entrepreneurs and personal clients to help them maximise every aspect of their physical and mental health.
His specialism is yoga, but he also works holistically with clients and runs workshops on breathing, nutrition, mindfulness and fitness. He is friends with Fearne Cotton and was part of her Happy Place Festival in September. He joined Gary Barlow on tour to deliver pre-show yoga and has appeared on Joe Wicks' Body Coach TV. Richie is the ambassador for the Headstrong Campaign for AXA healthcare, the primary trainer on the popular FIIT app and has been on the Ben Coomber podcast, in Balance Magazine and Metro.
24 June 2021 | Emily Robertson for Penguin Life | 272 pp Rights contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN GENERAL HEALTH & WELLBEING
You Can Change Your Life Colin Dunsmuir
A therapeutic programme to help readers accept their flaws and find a more fulfilling way of living.
Colin Dunsmuir dispels the myth that yoga is just about movements, poses and wearing expensive leggings. Instead he explores how ancient yoga philosophy and teachings can easily be applied to and benefit all areas of our modern lives.
Whether you'd like to boost your mental and physical wellbeing, general health, or gain a supportive framework to help you to overcome difficult situations that you're facing in life, this book can help.
The book will take deep, spiritual yogic learnings and adapt them for a modern life and audience. Colin will provide you with accessible, easy-to-follow tips on: o Breathing o Meditation o Movement o Diet o Connection with others With a foreward by Cara Delevigne, each chapter will be inspired by a yoga sutra, contain a case study, a brief exploration of the yogic philosophy behind the story, and provide practical exercises for you to try at home. ______
Colin Dunsmuir is a leading voice in the global yoga community, with 25 years of study behind him. He is an experienced course tutor, who was certified as a Yoga Teacher Trainer and Yoga Therapist directly by T.K.V. Desikachar in 2009.
Colin specialises in teaching Viniyoga. He works 1-2-1 with high profile clients, is the director of the London Yoga Festival, and sits on the Professional Specific Board for Yoga Therapy with the Complimentary Natural Health Care Council (CNHC). He is a committee member of The British Council of Yoga Therapy, and is currently in the process of setting up The Professional Association of Yoga Therapy, to ensure ongoing high standards of Yoga and Yoga Therapy in the UK.
He is currently working with the NHS to bring yoga into traditional medical treatment. He is passionate about working alongside medical doctors, osteopaths, physiotherapists, and psychotherapists while using Yoga Therapy as a complementary discipline.
10 March 2022 | Emily Robertson for Penguin Life | 256 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
CORNERSTONE HEALTH & WELLBEING
The Furious Method Transform Your Body, Mind & Goals Tyson Fury
The Furious Method is full of Tyson Fury's inspirational advice on how we can all improve our physical and mental health, and create a champion mind-set.
PICK YOURSELF UP OFF THE CANVAS. . TRANSFORM YOUR BODY AND MIND. . MAKE YOUR COMEBACK.
From weighing twenty-eight stone and fighting a deep depression, to his amazing return to heavyweight champion of the world, Tyson opens up and share his inspiring advice and tips on diet, exercise regime, and his incredible journey back to a healthier body and mind.
Frank, accessible and inspiring, The Furious Method is a feel-good and motivating tonic, full of inspirational advice for readers on how we can all improve our physical and mental health. And how we can all create a champion mind-set.
Whatever your starting point or past set-backs, Tyson will show you how you can make your own comeback and start living your life to the fullest – fighting fit, mentally restored, and stronger than ever. ______
Tyson Fury is the undefeated lineal heavyweight champion of the world. Born and raised in Manchester, Fury weighed just 1lb at birth after being born three months premature. His father John named him after Mike Tyson.
From Irish traveller heritage, the “Gypsy King” is undefeated in 28 professional fights, winning 27 with 19 knockouts, and drawing once. His most famous victory came in 2015, when he stunned longtime champion Wladimir Klitschko to win the WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight titles. He was forced to vacate the belts because of issues with drugs, alcohol and mental health, and did not fight again for more than two years. Most thought he was done with boxing forever. Until an amazing comeback fight with Deontay Wilder in December 2018. It was an instant classic, ending in a split decision tie.
Outside of the ring, Tyson Fury is a mental health ambassador. He donated his million dollar purse from the Deontay Wilder fight to the homeless.
12 November 2020 | Ben Brusey for Century | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
MICHAEL JOSEPH HEALTH & WELLBEING
The Book About Getting Older (for people who don’t want to talk about it) Lucy Pollock
We are all living for longer, but how do we or those we love do it well?
We are all apprentice old people - more and more of us are living to a very great age. But how do we give those we love, and eventually ourselves, a chance to be older as happily and healthily as we possibly can?
Dr Lucy's book looks at answers, to questions big and small, and helps us understand that long life is something to be celebrated and embraced. Most situations, she tells us, are solvable.
o Is it normal to find you're falling out of love with your partner, who is disappearing into dementia? o When does 'fiercely independent' turn into 'badly behaved'? o How do you navigate the near impossible discussions around resuscitation, intensity of treatments, power of attorney? o How do you get doctors to listen? o Should your mother be taking seven different medicines? o Should Dad be driving, and if not, who can stop him? o What does a good care home look like?
This practical book, full of warmth, humour, philosophy, joy and real-life stories, is by a doctor who has worked her entire career as a geriatrician, caring for people who have complicated problems and who need answers to the delicate questions that arise as we get older. ______
Lucy Pollock trained in medicine at Cambridge and at Bart's Hospital, and worked as a junior doctor in east London before moving to Somerset, where since 2001 she has been a consultant specializing in the care of those who are frail and elderly.
07 January 2021 | Louise Moore for Michael Joseph | 320 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
EBURY HEALTH & WELLBEING
When It Is Darkest Why People Die By Suicide and What We Can Do To Help Professor Rory O'Connor
The first evidence-based mass market self- help book on understanding and preventing suicide.
When you are faced with the unthinkable, this is the book you can turn to.
Suicide is baffling and devastating in equal measures, and it can affect any one of us: one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Yet despite the scale of the devastation, for family members and friends, suicide is still poorly understood.
Drawing on decades of work in the field of suicide prevention and research, and having been bereaved by suicide twice, Professor O’Connor is here to help. This book will untangle the complex reasons behind suicide and dispel any unhelpful myths. For those trying to help someone vulnerable, it will provide indispensable advice on communication, stressing the importance of listening to fears and anxieties without judgment. And for those who are struggling to get through the tragedy of suicide, it will help you find strength in the darkest of places. ______
Rory O’Connor is a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Glasgow. He is the world leader on suicide research and prevention and has been working in this area for 25 years. He has published extensively in the field of suicide and self-harm and has contributed to five BBC documentaries on suicide and has a Twitter account @suicideresearch.
06 May 2021 | Sam Jackson for Vermilion | 256 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
TRANSWORLD HEALTH & WELLBEING
The Book of Secrets Derren Brown
The bestselling author of HAPPY and TRICKS OF THE MIND turns his back on the Stoics who informed his last book, in a new wonderfully wise and entertaining exploration of how we best live and grow.
Perhaps being happy is not the answer after all.
Turning his back on the Stoics whose ideas informed his last book, the ever-thoughtful Derren Brown continues his pursuit of what brings meaning to life and how best to muddle through it with reference to some of the world's great philosophers. Beginning with the ideas of Carl Jung and the notion that whatever we might try to hide and bury in our past will always come back to bite us, he has to wonder if the Greeks were right – unless we tend to all aspects of our lives and who we are, the snubbed secreted aspects of ourselves will wreak revenge. Rather than avoid disturbance perhaps it is essential for a healthy life. Perhaps we need to accept and experience complexity. Is anxiety in fact a pointer for growth? Is a good place only good because it sits between the twin pulls of wild happiness and distress? And what is the secret that lies in this good place? ______
Derren Brown began his UK television career in December 2000 with a series of specials called Mind Control. Since redefining the genre of magic for intelligent, modern audiences, he has become synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation. His TV shows have become must- see events. Amongst a varied and notorious career, Derren has played Russian Roulette on live television, convinced middle-managers to commit an armed robbery in the street, led the nation in a séance, stuck viewers to their sofas, successfully predicted the National Lottery, motivated a shy man to land a packed passenger plane at 30,000 feet, exposed psychic and faith-healing charlatans, and hypnotised a man to assassinate Stephen Fry. On top of this he tours the UK every year with a sell-out stage show and has recently finished a run on Broadway, NYC.
He has published four books: Tricks of the Mind, Confessions of a Conjuror, Happy and a book of his caricatures, Portraits.
09 September 2021 | Susanna Wadeson for Bantam Press | 384 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
TRANSWORLD HEALTH & WELLBEING
The Sober Girl Society Handbook Millie Gooch
Part memoir, part survival guide, this empowering self-help book is The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober for the Gen Z generation.
Have you ever woken up feeling anxious after a night of drinking? . Do you cringe with embarrassment when reminded of your wild antics at girls' night? . Are blackouts increasingly becoming a problem?
Whichever way you look at it, it's hard to avoid how alcohol really makes some of us feel: terrible. Whether you're simply sober-curious or determined to make a more permanent change, this book shows not only why you should but also how you can, in a way that will change your life forever.
Offering tips and advice on how to stay sober in a world that revolves around drinking, this handbook will empower you to transform your relationship with alcohol so you can lead your most fulfilling life.
It's time to join the Sober Girl Society! ______
Millie Gooch is the founder of the Sober Girl Society and is one of the voices leading the sobriety movement in the UK. As a journalist, she has written for a range of publications, and her campaigning work has been featured everywhere from ELLE and Stylist to the BBC and Evening Standard.
14 January 2021 | Helena Gonda for Bantam Press | 256 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
EBURY HEALTH & WELLBEING
How to Live When You Could Be Dead Deborah James
Drawing on the extraordinary and empowering perspective of Deborah James, this book will help readers flip their thinking and find the positive in any given life situation.
“I’m alive when I should be dead. In another movie, I missed the sliding door and departed this wondrous life long ago. Like so many others, I’ve had to learn to live not knowing if I have tomorrow, because, statistically, I don’t. At the age of 35, I was blindsided by incurable bowel cancer – I was given less than an 8% chance of surviving five years. Four years later, my only option is to live in the now and to value one day at a time.”
So how do you flip your mind from a negative spiral into realistic hope? How do you stop focusing on the why and realise that why not me is just as valid a pathway? How we learn to respond to any given situation empowers us or destroys us. We have the ability in our mind to dictate the outcome – bad or good - and with the right skills and approach, we can be the master of it.
How to Live When You Should Be Dead will show you how. It will awaken you to question your life as if you didn’t have tomorrow and live it in the way you want to today. It will show you how to build a growth mindset and through this invite you to think about what you could do if you believed you could change and do anything you want.
Yes, really, we can turn shit into gold. ______
Deborah James was a deputy head teacher leading national research teams into growth mindsets in schools. Then, in 2016, at the age of 35, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and her life with her young children and husband was thrown upside down. She’s had 4 major operations including bowel and lung resections and multiple rounds of chemo – and is still undergoing treatment at the Royal Marsden. Rather than disappear into a cancer cave she started a blog, “bowel babe” to debunk the myth that young women don't get bowel cancer and writes a weekly column for the Sun online, Things Cancer Made Me Say. She campaigns alongside major UK cancer charities, writes and presents the popular podcast “You, Me & the Big C” for BBC’s Radio 5 Live, and has a built up a strong following on Instagram @bowelbabe.
25 February 2021 | Sam Jackson for Vermilion | 224 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
EBURY HEALTH & WELLBEING
The Life-Changing Power of Intuition Tune into Yourself, Transform Your Life Emma Lucy Knowles
Spiritual self-help for modern life. The first guide to the healing power of intuition from the bestselling author of The Power of Crystal Healing.
Tune into yourself and transform your life – your healing journey of self-discovery starts HERE!
When there is so much going on in our modern lives how do we filter out what feels right from what feels wrong? How do we become more in tune with who we really are and what we really need?
With this ultimate spiritual life-coach – full of practical advice, exercises and meditations – learn how to develop your intuition and deepen your connection to your authentic self. Create positive change in all areas of your life, from improving your relationships and healing your stresses and anxieties, to nailing that big work presentation, achieving your fitness goals or breaking bad habits.
Discover that the secret to changing your life is already inside you. ______
Emma Lucy Knowles is an intuitive hands on healer, clairvoyant and meditation teacher. She has worked with crystals and energy for over 15 years, helping people and souls from all over the world heal their pain, find joy and achieve success. She’s also the go-to crystal expert for lifestyle magazines, and has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Harpers Bazar, Women’s Health and Elle. Her 2018 book The Power of Crystal Healing was sold in eight markets. Follow @your_emmalucy on Instagram.
14 January 2021 | Celia Palazzo for Pop Press | 320 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
CORNERSTONE HEALTH & WELLBEING
You Were Wild Once How to Harness the Wild Witch Within Vivianne Crowley
A powerful and inspiring memoir about discovering inner wildness through witchcraft.
This is a personal exploration of magic as it is practised around the world. It’s a book about traditions, stories, archetypes and communities that are steeped in history and often shrouded in secrecy.
Throughout history, communities, civilisations and individuals have known that there is something beyond the material – magic, if you like – and these powers can be harnessed to find true freedom: wildness. We all have a wild witch within; this book will inspire you to find her.
This is a not self-help book, nor is it a book of spells; You Were Wild Once is the story of a life lived magically and an evocative, intricate account of a hidden world that is ready waiting to be discovered, if only you know where to look... ______
Vivianne Crowley Ph.D. is a writer and psychologist who lectures in Psychology of Religion at the University of London. She is a renowned authority on Wicca and lectures all over the world.
04 March 2021 | Zennor Compton for Century | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
EBURY HEALTH & WELLBEING
The Healing Power of Flowers Discover the Secret Language of the Flowers You Love Claire Bowen with photography by Eva Nemeth
A modern flower dictionary that explores the hidden and powerful sentiments and symbolism of the most popular flowers
Live life in full bloom.
This beautiful book features your favourite flowers grouped by their purpose – for love, for joy, for luck, for calm, to console, and to celebrate. Discover their traditional meanings, holistic benefits, and when flowers are in season so that they can be sourced locally with a minimal carbon footprint.
By creating thoughtful personal bouquets or choosing a flower for its meaning, its natural energy, or holistic property, you can bring the benefits of the natural world back into your home, your workplace, and into the lives of loved ones.
Find out why you should give Foxgloves to celebrate a new job, Lilacs for joy, or Chrysanthemums for luck, and become fluent in the secret language of flowers. ______
Claire Bowen (@honesysuckly_and_hilda) began her floral journey creating arrangements for weddings, funerals and selling from stalls. Claire now runs seasonal floristry classes and 1:1 workshops from her studio in Oxfordshire, Honeysuckle and Hilda, and as a guest florist at Daylesford farm. Claire has collaborated with People Tree, Miller Harris, Berry Bros and Rudd, and The Country Brocante. She is a founding ambassador of The Sustainable Floristry Network and gives talks on environmental awareness within the industry. Find her on instagram @honeysuckle_and_hilda
Éva Németh (@eva_nemeth) is an internationally published garden and storytelling photographer based in Oxfordshire. Through her lens, she loves to capture the little details that make all the difference. Her photography is regularly featured in national best-selling publications such as House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated, Country Living and The English Garden Magazine. She also photographs floral-styling classes with some of the UK’s leading florists as well as running her own one-to-one photography classes. Find her on instagram @eva_nemeth
04 March 2021 | Lizzy Gray for Ebury Press | 192 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY HEALTH & WELLBEING
Turning Earth A Maker's Book Tallie and Lewis Maughan
Turn earth into something beautiful.
The definitive studio manual and treatise on making from Turning Earth, the pioneering open-access makerspace at the forefront of the new ceramics movement. At once a beautiful and inspirational sourcebook, technical manual and maker's manifesto, Turning Earth: A Maker’s Book is an authoritative and authentic modern potter’s bible. Essential reading for all aspiring and experienced ceramicists and lovers of the craft.
Discover eveything you need to make your own ceramics in this single volume pottery masterclass: o Part 1 – Clay. A journey through the history of the medium, influential styles, places, periods and makers. It also covers the fascinating physical properties of the material. o Part 2 – In the Studio. Discover detailed step-by-step instructions on key processes. Turning Earth technicians and members explain everything from how to mix a glaze to how to fire a kiln in a simple and readable way. Also features a useful troubleshooting guide. o Part 3 – Make Craft Work. A much-needed guide to building a small-scale business in a digital age. ______
Turning Earth was the first open-access ceramics makerspace to open in the UK, founded by sister-brother team Tallie and Lewis Maughan. They launched their pioneering studio model in Hoxton, East London in 2013 with a second site in Lee Valley, London in 2017. Visit: e2.turningearth.uk
Tallie Maughan, Turning Earth’s Creative Director, opened Turning Earth in 2013 after using similar open-access ceramics studios while touring the US as a theatre manager. She is inspired by the ceramics culture across America, where there is huge engagement and where value is placed on the work of hobby makers. Her vision is to make ceramics an accessible craft that anyone can practice, whatever their reason for doing so.
After a career in health services Lewis, Turning Earth’s Managing Director Lewis Maughan, joined in 2014 and now oversees the technical processes. He is as likely to be found on his knees mending a kiln as he is to be giving a lecture to explain the principles of electricity to aspiring potters who haven’t ‘done science’ since secondary school.
10 March 2022 | Lizzy Gray for Ebury Press | 320 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY PARENTING & WOMANHOOD
The Perimenopause Solution How to Be Prepared and Not Scared for the Menopause Emma Bardwell and Dr Shahzadi Harper
The first major UK book to focus on the perimenopause and offer a solution to millions, written by two experts in women's health.
You are not going mad - it's your hormones!
The perimenopause (the time leading up to the menopause) is often misunderstood. For some women, it lasts a few months; for others it consumes the best part of a decade. This transitional period can be a time of emotional turmoil, shifting priorities and physical changes: from hot flushes, insomnia, low mood and anxiety, to itchy skin, thinning hair, weight gain and loss of libido . . . to name just a few! Millions of women in their thirties and forties go through this without even realising they are perimenopausal. It's time they take back control.
In The Perimenopause Solution, Dr Shahzadi Harper, a medical doctor specialising in women's health and Emma Bardwell, a registered nutritionist, provide a blueprint to help women find a new balance in this important phase of their lives, so they can be prepared, not scared. Akin to getting two expert consultations in one, this holistic and accessible guide combines practical, no-nonsense information on the physical and mental changes to expect, with powerful advice on managing symptoms and easy recipes , as what you eat during the perimenopause can dramatically affect your experience of it.
Expert-led and forward-thinking in its approach, The Perimenopause Solution will not just help you survive the journey towards the menopause - it will let you thrive. ______
Dr Shahzadi Harper has over 25 years' experience as a GP and has now dedicated herself to women's hormonal well-being at her own practice on Harley Street in London, The Harper Clinic. Dr Harper believes in managing the symptoms of the perimenopause from an early stage and is committed to optimising women's health and empowering them to make informed choices. She is a member of the British Menopause Society, the European Andropause and Menopause society and the International Menopause Society.
Emma Bardwell is a registered nutritionist (BA, NTDip) and health writer who runs nutrition clinics alongside Dr Harper. In a world of conflicting nutrition messages and sensationalist headlines, she believes in a no-nonsense, evidence-based approach. She has also delivered talks on nutrition to businesses including Sweaty Betty, Accenture, Positive Pause, and Transition Zone.
02 September 2021 | Sam Jackson for Vermilion | 256 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
EBURY PARENTING & WOMANHOOD
The Mama’s Book Emma Bunton
From the first day at home to baby's first birthday, Emma and her favourite experts are here to help keep new parents sane, supported - and entertained. For fans of Giovanna Fletcher's Happy Mum, Happy Baby and Holly Willoughby's Truly Happy Baby.
'Mamas, I love you. You've got this.' Emma x
My stories and expert wisdom to see modern mums through their first year.
Emma Bunton, Baby Spice, was a nervous new mum. She found baby books overwhelming and the strict routines demoralising. She launched Kit and Kin after years of research into what goes into traditional babycare products, after her early struggles with chronic eczema. With her first book she offer a similarly simple, practical, inclusive modern guide to the nerve-wracking first year.
In this beautiful book, Emma shares her mum memories and tips - the highs and lows, tears and laughs - from that incredible, terrifying first year of being a parent. It's all here - Caesarean and v-birth recovery, breastfeeding stress, worrying rashes and marks (including chronic eczema - the reason she launched Kit and Kin), a tongue-tied baby, burping and reflux, first weaning attempts, sleeping routines, crying that won't stop, desperately trying to read the signs, leaving the house for the first time and the anxiety and reality of going back to work (after 4 months Emma was back on stage as Baby Spice and struggled).
Emma also turns to her favourite experts - trusted, experienced doctors and midwives. She finds out all the things she wished she'd known, attempting the big three challenges of feeding, crying, sleeping.
There are no parenting rules here, just trusted advise to help you find what works for you. Lots of new baby guides are overwhelming and can leave you feeling like you're failing. Emma and the experts are here to remind you that you're doing brilliantly.
Turn to this book for comfort, support and entertainment. And remember to look after yourself. ______
Baby Spice Emma Bunton (@emmaleebunton) is a long-standing presenter on Heart London and can be found on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, celebrating parenthood, with her sons Beau and Tate and partner Jade. Her multi-award-winning baby range, Kit and Kin, launched in 2017.
03 June 2021 | Laura Higginson for Ebury Press | 256 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY PARENTING & WOMANHOOD
Veg-Led Weaning Creating Little Foodies Who Love Their Kale As Much As Their Cake Charlotte Stirling-Reed
The first veg-led weaning book by an expert nutritionist who worked with Joe Wicks on Wean In 15.
Help your baby love vegetables – and save the planet!
Expert nutritionist and mum of two Charlotte Stirling- Reed introduces a savoury-first approach to weaning which makes sure that not all of baby’s first tastes are sweet. Helping children become familiar with veggies as part of their diet from the very beginning is the perfect way to develop healthy and planet-friendly eating habits, and to tackle fussy eating before it even begins.
This beautiful, full-colour comprehensive guide is packed full of evidence-based advice and simple, tasty recipes showing how even bitter and savoury vegetables can be included among baby’s very first foods. It also features a step-by-step guide to baby’s first 30 days of weaning, when many parents are most anxious, simplifying the whole process with clear recommendations and advice.
For parents who want the best for their baby while also caring for the planet, Veg-Led Weaning is the key to raising little foodies who love their kale as much as their cake! ______
Charlotte Stirling-Reed (@sr_nutrition) has undergraduate and postgraduate nutrition degrees, is the nutritionist for Joe Wicks’ book Wean in 15, and works with leading brands such as Quaker and Whole Earth. She has a strong and engaged platform with over 180k followers.
29 April 2021 | Sam Jackson for Vermilion | 192 pp Rights contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY SMART THINKING & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Man Who Confused His Boss for His Mother The Truth About Why You Do What You Do At Work Naomi Shragai
Therapy for our working lives, showing how we can thrive at work by leaving our past at home - or, The Book You Wish Your Boss Had Read (and your colleagues will be glad you did too)
You probably don't realise this, but every working day you replay and re-enact conflicts, dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether it's confusing an authority figure with a parent; avoiding conflict because of past squabbles with siblings; or suffering from imposter syndrome because of the way your family responded to success, when it comes to work we are all trapped in our own upbringings and the patterns of behaviour we learned while growing up. Many of us spend eighteen formative years or more living with family and building our personality; but most of us also spend fifty years - or 90,000 hours - in the workplace. With the pull of the familial so strong, we unconsciously re-enact our personal past in our professional present - even when it holds us back.
Through intimate stories, fascinating insights and provocative questions that tackle the issues that cause us most problems - from imposter syndrome and fear of conflict to perfectionism and anxiety - business psychotherapist Naomi Shragai will transform how you think about yourself and your working life. Based on thirty years of expertise and practice, Shragai will show you that what is holding you back is within your gift to change - and the first step is to realise how you, like the rest of the people you work with, habitually confuse your professional present with your personal past. ______
Naomi Shragai graduated from the University of Southern California and completed her training as a systemic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. She has more than 30 years’ experience as a psychotherapist and family therapist in private practice, as well as working in the NHS and private hospitals. She now specialises in helping businesses and individuals resolve psychological obstacles that cause work-related problems.
In a previous career, she was a stand-up comic, working on the London comedy circuit as well as making radio and television appearances. She lives in north-west London. This is her first book.
15 July 2021 | Drummond Moir for WH Allen | 288 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
EBURY SMART THINKING & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Tell Me the Truth About Love Susanna Abse
The Examined Life meets Three Women; stories of real couples on the couch from one of Britain’s most experienced relationship therapists.
Love is what gives life meaning, but relationships also present us with the greatest emotional challenges of our lives.
Tell Me the Truth About Love takes us on a journey into one of the most fascinating realms there is: other people’s relationships.
Drawing on over 30 years of working closely with people who have encountered hurdles in their love lives, psychoanalytic therapist and chair of the British Psychoanalytic council Susanna Abse shares poignant, alarming and unforgettable stories that explore how we love, and how we live with those we love.
Abse takes us through six of the challenges most often encountered in the course of a relationship: infidelity, ambition, marriage, children, loneliness, fragility.
We meet couples who have embedded affairs into their relationship yet are in denial about its repercussions; partners who suffer oedipal complexes with the arrival of their first child; and others who are in love, but struggle with the question of what price to pay for their ambition – and how far work can take over from their personal lives.
Whether its knowing when to call time on a relationship versus when to persevere, or how to navigate our changing roles within a single relationship over the course of our lives, Tell Me the Truth About Love explores inspiring true stories that shed light on the human heart – and the strange ways it tries to both embrace life’s greatest mystery, and protect itself from pain. ______
Susanna Abse is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has worked in private practice with couples, individuals and parents since 1991. She is the current chair of The British Psychoanalytic Council and was CEO of the charity Tavistock Relationships from 2006 until 2016. She has published widely on couple therapy, parenting, and family policy and how these areas need to be at the heart of progressive welfare provision, a subject on which she lectures and teaches. She is also Co-Editor of The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis for Routledge Books. Between 2016-18, she was a member of the University of Birmingham mental health policy commission, “Investing in a Resilient Generation”.
13 January 2022 | Drummond Moir for Ebury Press | 288 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
CORNERSTONE SMART THINKING & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Socrates in Sneakers How to Ask Better Questions Elke Wiss
Learn how to sharpen your thinking, bridge difficult divides, and deepen your relationships with Elke Wiss's internationally bestselling guide to asking better questions.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
It can feel good to be the one with all the answers.
When we don't know something it can feel embarrassing, and we may worry that asking questions will only make us look like we don't know what we're doing. We form opinions without knowing all the facts, take things at face value or slip into snap judgements. All our lives we've been praised for knowing the answer - and yet, we're rarely taught how to ask good questions.
You don't need all the answers. You need the right questions.
In this thoughtful and accessible journey into the world of practical philosophy, international bestselling author Elke Wiss will not only show you how you can develop your own conversational skills, but also explains why we often find asking questions so challenging in the first place. By learning how to ask the questions that really matter, you can start unlocking more meaningful conversations, begin to bridge difficult divides, and build deeper connections with family, friends, or people we're only just getting to know. ______
Elke Wiss is the international bestselling author of practical philosophy that can help transform your everyday life with simple everyday changes. Wiss also writes and directs performances, short stories, monologues and narrative philosophical poetry, writes articles, produces podcasts, and is an active trainer, facilitator and practical philosopher. She leads workshops in practical philosophy and the art of asking questions, teaching Socratic dialogue within organizations and offering individual philosophic consultations.
04 February 2021 | Jess Balance for Century | 272 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Why Economics Can Save the World Erik Anger
Economics has the power to make the world a happier, better and more wealthy place for our children.
Economics is too often dismissed as a discipline and criticised for failing to predict our future (an impossible aspiration for any field). But, economics is proper science – yes, just like physics! It helps explain and predict otherwise puzzling phenomena. It upholds the promise of making the world a happier, better, and more just place for us and our children.
Why Economics Can Save the World will explore how economists use their way of thinking to help improve the lives of people and the society in which they live. Economic thinking is used to promote happiness, reduce inequality, fix housing, improve parenting, end poverty, bring in cash for public services, allocate human organs for donation and more. ______
Erik Angerer is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Public Policy at Stockholm University with PhDs in both Economics and the Philosophy of Science. He has two PhDs - one in Economics and one in History and Philosophy of Science - both from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of two books as well as multiple journal articles on behavioural and experimental economics, the economics of happiness and the history of philosophy.
05 May 2022 | Martina O'Sullivan for Penguin Business | 224 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Understanding Diversity and Inclusion for Straight White Men How you can create a better workplace for everyone Suki Sandhu and Felicity Hassan
An accessible, practical guide to help managers and leaders create a workplace where anyone can be themselves.
It is widely accepted that having a diverse workforce is a competitive advantage in business – diverse organisations make better decisions, are more innovative and dramatically outperform their competitors. But while 97% of large companies have some form of diversity policy when it comes to recruitment the broader goal of creating a truly diverse and inclusive culture is often missed. The reason for this failure? The small group central to making it a success – straight white men in leadership positions.
Diversity and Inclusion for Straight, White Men is an accessible, practical guide to help managers and leaders create a workplace where anyone can be themselves regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, class or disability. It will enable a culture of honest conversations and help break down the fear of saying the wrong thing that is needlessly holding back progress. This book will be about openness, willingness to engage and an acknowledgement that people make mistakes but that it’s ok as long as you are willing to learn. ______
Suki Sandhu OBE is an expert in talent, diversity and inclusion. He is the founder and leader of Audeliss, a global executive search firm levelling the playing field for women, ethnic minorities and LGBT+ at the most senior level in business, and Involve, helping businesses drive cultural change and create inclusive workplaces. Suki is a Stonewall Ambassador, Patron for The Albert Kennedy Trust, and Board Director of OutRight Action International and received an OBE for Services to Diversity in Business in 2019.
Felicity Hassan is US Managing Director of Audeliss and Involve. Felicity has built a successful career in executive search. She started her career in London and moved to New York in 2008 working for Bloomberg and Audible before joining Audeliss. She is passionate about leading two business entities dedicated to driving change by providing uncompromising solutions to both source and retain diverse talent. She joined Audeliss Inc as the US Managing Director in 2018 and launched INvolve in the US in 2019 working with member clients to develop a more robust inclusion platform for clients. 02 September 2021 | Martina O'Sullivan for Penguin Business | 224 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mental Health in the Workplace James Routledge
Build a practical positive mental health strategy in the workplace.
One in five people will be experiencing mental health problems right now. Stress, anxiety and depression account for half of all working days lost. So why are we still not talking about mental health at work?
Promoting positive mental health is fast becoming a priority for companies across industries yet many are failing to implement a strategy that works. Penguin Business Expert James Routledge has been working with leaders, managers and people in all positions who want to positively change their organisation's approach to mental health. In this book, he reveals how to; reduce stigma and create a positive workplace, focus on early intervention and prevention, improve productivity, engage and retain staff and create a culture of openness from the top down.
Filled with practical tips, 'conversation starters' and proven strategies for a more conscious and sustainable workplace, and illustrated with case studies from some of the organisations leading the way around the globe, Mental Health in the Workplace will help any organisation build a positive mental health framework that works. ______
James Routledge is the Founder and CEO of Sanctus, a purpose-driven organisation with a mission to transform perceptions around mental health and put the world's first mental health gym on the high street. He founded Sanctus after his own experiences with poor mental health, which he documented on his viral Medium blog. Since then, James has built a strong social media network which works to break down stigma around the topic of mental health and, through Sanctus, has coached over 10,000 employees directly on how to improve their mental wellbeing. His work has been featured in The Times, the Guardian, and on BBC TV and radio and he is a regular public speaker around the world.
07 October 2021 | Celia Buzuk for Penguin Business | 112 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
The Business Survival Kit Bianca Miller-Cole and Byron Cole
Your guide to dealing with the emotional ups and downs on the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship.
Starting a business isn't easy. In fact, it can be terrifying, exhausting and demoralising. And, when it finally takes off, the rest of your life falls apart. How can you cope with the inevitable stresses and strains along the way?
In The Business Survival Kit, serial entrepreneurs Byron Cole and Bianca Miller-Cole prepare you for the ride of your life. With straight-talking advice and insights from leading experts it will help you answer the fundamental question of whether you can handle being an entrepreneur in the first place and then help you navigate the inevitable ups and many downs that go hand in hand with that decision.
Learn how to: o Cope with Stress, anxiety and uncertainty o Build your confidence and tackle Impostor syndrome o Maintain a healthy work/life balance o Build strong networks o Nurture your personal relationships o And stay motivated (even in the midst of failure) ______
Bianca Miller-Cole is an award-winning entrepreneur. She started the personal brand company, The Be Group, in 2012 and works with clients including HSBC, AMEX, Google and King's College London. She was a finalist on The Apprentice in 2014 where she initiated her hosiery company, which went on to be the first to offer an inclusive range of colours on the high street. Bianca is a “top 10 powerful leader” on LinkedIn and uses her experience to assist budding entrepreneurs through her platform and podcast, Self-Made. She is a global keynote speaker.
Byron Cole is an entrepreneur, public speaker, investor, philanthropist and mentor to entrepreneurs and business students. He has been involved in 12 business start-ups as a director, investor or shareholder and is currently a consultant to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). He co-authored Self-Made with his wife, Bianca Miller-Cole and is a co- host on their podcast of the same name.
16 September 2021 | Martina O'Sullivan for Penguin Business | 208 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
CORNERSTONE BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Risk and Reward Matt Watkinson and Csaba Konkoly
A revolutionary method for embracing chance and unpredictability in order to maximise success and create a durable, adaptable business.
Since it became a discipline, business management has clung to a mechanistic mindset — a business is presumed to be like a machine, so analysing and optimising every individual facet of the enterprise is the path to greater success. And yet, this domain-level, mechanistic thinking has serious limitations. The best pricing guru in the world won’t help if the product is a dud. A marketing genius won’t fix poor cost control. At best your improvements will be minor and linear.
As Konkoly and Watkinson show, there is only one viable solution: to move from a mechanistic mindset to a probabilistic one. Instead of seeking solely to tame chance in our decision-making, we should seek to exploit it too. Instead of seeing random events as wrinkles to be smoothed, we should see them as opportunities to be explored.
A probabilistic mindset can supercharge our specialist, domain-level skills, add nuance to our systems thinking and dramatically improve our chances of success. But how exactly do we develop this mindset? What pragmatic steps must we take? How should our behaviour tomorrow be different from today? This book will be your guide. ______
Matt Watkinson is an internationally renowned author, speaker and business consultant. He has been cited and interviewed by the world's leading research firms, and invited to address industry leaders worldwide. His first book, The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences won the CMI’s Management Book of the Year Award in 2014.
Born and raised in Communist Hungary, Csaba Konkol launched his first business as a teenager, importing cars from Italy when the Berlin Wall collapsed. While studying Economics at university he taught himself to trade stocks. He spent the next seventeen years building and running hedge funds around the world, culminating in a $2.5bn global macro fund, before shifting his focus to tech startup investments and entrepreneurship. Of his 24 early-stage investments to date, five have become unicorns —valued at over $1bn.
07 April 2022 | Nigel Wilcockson for Random House Business | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Brandsplaining Why Marketing is (Still) Sexist and How to Fix It Jane Cunningham and Philippa Roberts
If you thought misogynist marketing ended with #MeToo, think again.
Sexism is still rife in the advertising world where brands too-often rely on dated stereotypes or femvertising. Brandsplaining reveals how an industry - largely dominated by men - has systematically misrepresented half of the population. Bringing together an impressive range of case studies and stories in a timely book, co- founders of the research consultancy PrettyLittleHead, Jane Cunningham and Philippa Roberts, propose a powerful solution: a Bechdel test for creatives and brands. ______
Jane Cunningham is the co-founder of PrettyLittleHead, a research-based consultancy with a particular specialism in understanding women. Prior to this, Jane was a board planner at DDP, Head of Planning at Ogilvy London and managing Director of Tribal DDB. Jane is an expert in gender-bias within advertising and has been interviewed by Martha Kearney on Radio 4, Jane Garvey on Women's Hour and Rosie Boycott and Dawn Porter on the subject of marketing to women.
Philippa Roberts is the co-founder of PrettyLittleHead, a research-based consultancy with a particular specialism in understanding women. Prior to this, Philippa was Client Services Director at both DDB London and at Ogilvy London. Philippa is an expert in gender-bias within advertising and has been interviewed by David Frost on the differences between men and women and has appeared on Radio 5 live and Radio 4 discussing the subject of marketing to women.
18 February 2021 | Martina O'Sullivan for Penguin Business | 224 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Hold Successful Meetings Caterina Kostoula
Your definitive guide to holding highly productive and efficient meetings.
We all spend too much time in meetings, where very little is achieved and even less is followed up on afterwards.
In Hold Successful Meetings, Penguin Business Expert Caterina Kostoula will introduce you to everything you need to know to; decide when a meeting can and can't be avoided, what kind of meeting to hold, encourage effective decision-making during the meeting and efficient follow up afterwards.
Including case studies from companies that are innovating in this space, Kostoula will reveal useful advice and practical tips to make sure your meetings - whether physical or virtual - hit the mark every time. ______
Caterina Kostoula is an executive coach at INSEAD and founder of The Leaderpath, a leadership coaching consultancy. She has worked as a Global Business Leader at Google where she was also a 5-star rated internal coach. She has coached leaders from Google, Amazon, Vodafone, Workable, AT Kearney, as well as a number of entrepreneurs. She was the executive coach of Google Campus' 2018 Residence program for startups. She also coaches for INSEAD and Hult Ashridge Business School. She has lived in more than seven countries across America, Europe and Asia and is currently based in London.
15 April 2021 | Celia Buzuk for Penguin Business | 112 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL CURRENT AFFAIRS
Preventable The Politics of Pandemics and How to Stop the Next One Devi Sridhar
A dazzling and urgent book on the politics of global health from a world-leading expert.
The COVID-19 pandemic was not inevitable. We could have stopped it, and we still can stop the next one.
Preventable is a study of global health crises and why we so often get our response to them wrong. Combining science, politics, ethics and economics, it is a dazzling dissection of the global structures that determine our fate, and the deep-seated economic and social inequalities at their heart. Highlighting lessons learned from past and present, Sridhar sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come. It is an urgent book that will challenge, outrage and inspire. ______
Devi Sridhar is Professor and chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this she taught at All Souls College at the University of Oxford, where she received her MPhil and DPhil on a Rhodes Scholarship. She has served as a policy advisor for the Scottish, UK and German government, WHO, UNICEF and UNESCO, and in 2017 she co- wrote the academic book Governing Global Health with Chelsea Clinton. Devi also writes regularly for The Guardian.
04 August 2022 | Assallah Tahir for Viking | 336 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
CORNERSTONE CURRENT AFFAIRS
Huawei Inside the World’s Most Controversial Company Karishma Vaswani
The inside story of how Huawei become one of the world’s biggest and most controversial companies.
Who runs Huawei? . Why are they so controversial? . And how are they changing the world?
In May 2019, Donald Trump declared a national emergency over attacks on US computer networks by 'foreign adversaries'. The president didn't name a culprit, but everyone knew who he had in mind: Huawei.
In recent years, the Chinese tech giant has become the bête noire of governments around the world - an indispensable provider of tech infrastructure, but also supposedly a close ally of the Chinese state. Critics say Huawei's super-fast 5G internet could be an illicit tool of the government; the company says these claims are unfounded.
Now, BBC reporter Karishma Vaswani cuts through both sides' hyperbole to tell the full, unadulterated story of the world's most controversial company. Drawing on access to the company's founder Ren Zhengfei and his inner circle, she describes how Huawei developed from humble origins to become one of the world's most valuable organisations. She travels the world - from Vietnam to Germany to Britain - to reveal how Huawei is influencing technology and politics on the ground. And she confronts its leadership with the most controversial question of all: is Huawei really just another successful company, or is it secretly working closely with the Chinese government?
The result is a business story that reads like a thriller, as well as a crucial exploration of how China is transforming the global economy. It's a revolution that no company or consumer can afford to ignore. ______
Karishma Vaswani is the BBC's Asia business correspondent. An expert on Chinese businesses including Huawei, Tencent and TikTok, she was the first western television journalist to interview the company's founder, Ren Zhengfei, in the wake of the recent cybersecurity scandal. Based in Singapore, Karishma frequently travels across Asia to report on the global economy.
26 August 2021 | Rowan Borchers for Random House Business | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
VINTAGE CURRENT AFFAIRS
The Age of The Strongman Gideon Rachman
Gideon Rachman explores the spread of leadership cults, polarised politics and urban- rural divisions in order to understand the rise of 'strongmen' and a new global nationalism.
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and the climate of liberal antipathy.
We are in a new era: the age of the strongman. Authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Over the last decade, self-styled “strongmen” have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Delhi, Tokyo, Brasilia, Budapest, Rome, Ankara, Cairo, Riyadh and Manila. This trend began well before the EU referendum or Donald Trump’s presidency and will continue regardless of the outcomes of impeachment or Brexit. There is no going back to the world that existed before 2016.
When and where did this change take place? How long will this period last? And how likely is it to lead the world into war, economic collapse or unchecked environmental disaster? This is a story in three acts: the rise of the strongmen; the liberal fightback; and the probable consequences of the strongman era.
From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Xi and Modi, to the opposition of Merkel, Macron and Corbyn, Arden, Soros and Sanders, Rachman pays full attention to the strongman phenomenon in countries that are too often eclipsed, uncovers a complex interaction between rising Asian powers and a declining West, where very different reasons explain growing nationalisms.
The Age of the Strongman finds the common themes in our local nightmares and offers a bold new paradigm for understanding our world; whilst others have tried to understand these situations individually, Gideon Rachman’s will be the first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to world leaders and key actors in this drama. ______
Gideon Rachman is the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. In 2016 he won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards. Previously he worked for The Economist for fifteen years, serving as a foreign correspondent in Washington, Bangkok and Brussels.
12 May 2022 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 288 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
PENGUIN PRESS CURRENT AFFAIRS
The Truth Is Not Enough How to stop Fascism in a post-viral world Paul Mason
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right.
The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it.
In The Truth is Not Enough, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right, as someone who has been reporting from the frontline for decades. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political theories and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a symptom of capitalist failure, and it has haunted us throughout the twentieth century.
History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it, and time is running out. From the ashes of COVID-19, we have an opportunity to create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in? And what are we going to do about it? ______
Paul Mason is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and film-maker. Previously economics editor of Channel 4 News, his books include Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being; Post Capitalism; Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions; and Rare Earth: A Novel.
27 May 2021 | Thomas Penn for Allen Lane | 256 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
EBURY CURRENT AFFAIRS
Border Wars The conflicts of tomorrow Klaus Dodds
An thrilling insight into international border geopolitics by one of the UK’s leading experts, doing for the future of borders what Prisoners of Geography did for their past.
Can Donald Trump really build that wall? . What does Brexit mean for Ireland’s border? . And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president of the Moon?
In Border Wars, Professor Klaus Dodds takes us on a journey into the geopolitical conflict of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of the world's best- known, most dangerous and most unexpected border conflicts from the Gaza Strip to the space race.
Along the way, we'll discover just what border truly mean in the modern world: how are they built; what do they mean for citizens and governments; how do they help understand our political past and, most importantly, our diplomatic future? ______
Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is one of the UK’s leading authorities on geopolitics and has written a number of books for a variety of popular and academic audiences including for OUP’s A Very Short Introduction series. Since 2006, he has written a monthly geopolitics column for Geographical Magazine; he gives frequent talks on border issues, is an expert in the geopolitics of international terrorism, and is often invited to join panels at events and in the media (including on BBC TV and radio) on the subject of border issues.
He is also recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded to “outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising”.
04 February 2021 | Robyn Drury for Ebury Press | 320 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
PENGUIN GENERAL HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Downfall The Eight Forces that End Civilisations, and What They Mean For Our Future Luke Kemp
An ambitious new history of civilisation, told through its greatest downfalls.
In Downfall, Luke Kemp explores humankind's deep past to help us understand the fundamental forces at play in the downfall of societies, and to discern lessons for our uncertain future. Conducting a wide-ranging historical autopsy using the “Rise and Fall Database”, a unique research asset which provides an estimate of over 400 societal lifespans over the past five millennia, from Susa II in 3,800 BCE to the modern-day United Kingdom, he reveals the fascinating commonalities in the ways these civilisations met their demise.
Defining what he sees as the eight key forces that end civilisations, Kemp demonstrates through gripping historical narratives how forces such as climate change, disease and inequality have conspired to cause the downfall of human societies throughout our history, and how with the knowledge of these 'civilisational boundaries' we can make our globalised world more sustainable. Downfall will not only be an eye-opening tour of some of humanity's most precarious moments, but also a hopeful and constructive look to our collective future. ______
Luke Kemp is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. He has a background in human geography, international relations and economics, all of which he tutored or lectured in at the Australian National University (ANU). His research has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, the BBC and the New Yorker.
06 January 2022 | Tom Killingbeck for Viking | 448 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
The Structure of Intellectual Revolutions Dmitri Levitin
This dazzling history of intellectual life in Europe between the Black Death and French Revolution provides a new answer to these questions.
How does intellectual change happen?
How do societies come to make profound leaps of the mind that to an outsider might seem to be inexplicable or even inconceivable?
A series of remarkable studies, populated with scholars and intellectuals of many kinds, of a number of disciplines – from mathematics to medicine, history to orientalism, theology and ethnography – reveal a wave of advances and offer fresh perspectives on some of most consequential developments of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and more. Each study illustrates a different facet of the larger intellectual revolution of which they were part, showing how this great transformation occurred and why, developing a model of intellectual change quite different to the one which has dominated the last half-century. A stunning portrait of one of the most intellectually productive epochs in history by an award-winning historian of ideas, The Structure of Intellectual Revolutions also changes our understanding of the pursuit of knowledge ______
Dmitri Levitin is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He has published extensively on various aspects of pre-modern intellectual history, including the history of philosophy, science, medicine, theology, scholarship, orientalism, and political thought. His Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. In 2016 he was awarded the Leszek Kołakowski Prize for the world’s leading early career historian of ideas. His writing appears regularly in the Literary Review, Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.
01 September 2022 | Ben Sinyor for Allen Lane | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
MICHAEL JOSEPH HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Latitude The True Story of the Adventure that Shaped the World Nick Crane
The epic true story of the first ever international scientific expedition to accurately discover the shape of the earth.
By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth.
A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major expedition by data gatherers and qualified observers to interior Peru, to discover the shape and magnitude of the earth. Until humanity discovered this it would be impossible to produce accurate maps and sea charts, without which thousands of lives would be lost, and exact locations of cities, roads and rivers would never be known. This fascinating and dramatic story weaves scientific rigour, egos, funding crises and betrayal with sea voyages, jungles and volcanoes. ______
Nicholas Crane was born in Hastings, but grew up on the rugged coast of Norfolk. He is an award-winning writer, journalist, geographer and explorer who has presented BAFTA winning, BBC TV series Coast, Great British Journeys, Map Man and Town. His previous books include, Great British Journeys, Clear Waters Rising, Two Degrees West and Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet and writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Sunday Times. Nicholas has travelled extensively in Tibet, China, Afghanistan, Africa, and he identified and visited for the first time the geographical Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the globe most distant from the open sea, in the Gobi Desert. He now lives in London with his wife and children.
27 May 2021 | Daniel Bunyard for Michael Joseph | 320 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
MICHAEL JOSEPH HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Shackleton Ranulph Fiennes
An authoritative biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton from polar adventurer Ranulph Fiennes.
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice.
The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives.
Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history.
Shackleton is an engaging new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances. Written by polar adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes who followed in Shackleton's footsteps, he brings his own unique insights to bear on these infamous expeditions. Shackleton is both re-appraisal and a valediction, separating the man from the myth he has become. ______
Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth's circumpolar surface (more people have been on the Moon!). His record-breaking expeditions include travel by riverboat, hovercraft, man-haul sledge, skidoo, Land Rover and skis. He is also the bestselling author of titles such as Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, and the biography Captain Scott.
16 September 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 448 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
VINTAGE HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
A Coup in Turkey A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land Jeremy Seal
Travel writer Jeremy Seal recounts the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in Turkey's history, in a gripping, evocative portait of a nation.
“A wonderful writer” – Robert Macfarlane
In the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in the country’s history – the 'original' coup of 1960, that deposed the traditionalist Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The story of the charismatic but doomed Menderes – to his adoring supporters the country’s founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor – goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the western and secular ambitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the small-town majority. A Coup in Turkey is a thrilling account of the events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance and ideological division.
Seal travels through President Erdogan’s Turkey, tracking down eye-witness accounts from survivors of the Menderes era in the transcontinental city of Istanbul and the new capital at Ankara. And the compelling parallels between past and present become strikingly – then shockingly – clear. He expertly guides us through this extraordinary story, with a deep sympathy and love for the people and places he writes about, and illuminates this troubled nation. By focussing on one key event – one which many Turks regard with shame - this evocative, gripping portrait of Turkey recentres our understanding of the past and makes sense of one of our most bewildering yet intriguing neighbours. ______
Jeremy Seal is a travel writer, teacher, broadcaster and tour guide with a life-long fascination forTurkey. His first book, A Fez of the Heart, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is also the author of The Snakebite Survivors' Club, The Wreck at Sharpnose Point, and Santa: A Life, which was Radio 4's Book of the Week. His most recent book is Meander: East to West Down a Turkish River. He has written for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Condé Nast Traveller, the Weekend Australian and the New York Times, among others. He also organises and leads cultural tours to Turkey (www.somewherewonderful.com). He lives in Bath.
04 February 2021 | Poppy Hampson for Chatto & Windus | 288 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
PENGUIN PRESS HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
The Penguin History of Modern Spain Nigel Townson
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English.
“Spain is different,” proclaimed the Franco regime in the forties, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world and its scholars have agreed. From the end of its ‘glorious empire’ in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasised the country’s peculiarity. Generations of historians and readers have been transfixed by its implosion into civil war in the 1930s, seduced by the heroic struggle of the republicans, horrified by the barbarity of the dictatorship which followed. Franco’s Spain was seen as a grotesque anomaly in the midst of prosperous and permissive post-war Western Europe. But, as Nigel Townson shows in this richly-layered and exciting new history, beyond the familiar portrait of backward peasants, romantic guerrillas and reactionary Catholics and fascists, there lies a radically different history of Spain: of a dynamic and modernising society that fits firmly into the narrative of modern Europe.
Drawing on over forty years of post-Franco scholarship, The Penguin History of Modern Spain transforms our knowledge of Spain and its politics, society, economics and culture. It interweaves cutting-edge Spanish-led research – never before published in English – and testimonies of artisans, lawyers, soldiers, housewives, factory workers, peasants, for an original and surprising portrait, which allows us, at last, to glimpse the country behind the veil of official propaganda and the romantic myths which still endure today. ______
Nigel Townson teaches history at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is the author, co-author or editor of numerous works, both in English and Spanish, on modern Spain, which include The Crisis of Democracy in Spain, Spain Transformed: The Late Franco Dictatorship 1959-75, Social Movements and the Spanish Transition, and Is Spain Different? He specializes in the twentieth century and has also edited the work of the exiled Spanish writer Arturo Barea.
30 September 2021 | Chloe Currens for Allen Lane | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
VINTAGE HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Stars and Spies Chris Andrew and Julius Green
An original history about spying and showbiz from Shakespeare to the Cold War to present day stardom.
A hugely entertaining and original history of the interplay between spying and showbiz, featuring Marlowe and Shakespeare, but focusing mostly on the twentieth century, the golden era of the Cold War and up to the present day.
Throughout history, the crossover between thespians and secret agents has waxed and waned, often producing some of the most extraordinary undercover agents, and at others leading to disastrous and dangerous failures. The fact that one relies on publicity and the other on secrecy might at first appear to dictate against a successful symbiosis; however, as both involve advanced abilities in creative thinking, improvisation, disguise and role-play, they inevitably attract some remarkably similar personalities.
In this unique history of the interplay between the two worlds, we travel back to Elizabethan England and the works of playwright-come-spy Christopher Marlowe and to the Restoration era to encounter the first female playwright and first female spy Aphra Behn. We visit civil war America and turn of the century Paris to reveal a whole undercurrent of female spy roles as seducers and as efficient and vital agents, as well as inventing a string of exotic myths. As the story moves through the twentieth century we find that showbiz provides essential cover for people to gather information, hiding in plain sight, and that it becomes ever more mainstream in popular culture, both in the James Bond adventures and recently in long- running TV series such as The Americans. Stars and Spies is a unique examination of the historic links between espionage and show business. ______
Chris Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, in-house historian for MI5, and former Visiting Professor of National Security at Harvard University. With Oleg Gordievsky, he published KGB – The Inside Story, and is also the author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized Official History of MI5.
Julius Green received an MA in history from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then went on to become one of the UK’s most prolific theatre producers. He has served on the Board of Management of the Society of London Theatre and the Board of Directors of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. He is the author of two books, How to Produce a West End Show and Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre. 14 October 2021 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 352 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
PENGUIN GENERAL HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber The Extraordinary Life and Times of Rose Dugdale Sean O'Driscoll
The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA.
She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.
In 1958, she was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debutante.
At St Anne’s College Oxford, she trained as an academic economist and had a love affair with a female professor (who was herself on the rebound from Iris Murdoch).
At thirty, having earned her doctorate, she sold the Lloyds shares she’d inherited an opened an office in Tottenham, where she commenced giving her fortune away to the poor.
In 1972, the deadliest year of the Northern Irish Troubles, she travelled to Ireland and joined the IRA.
Sean O’Driscoll’s Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber tells the astonishing story of Rose Dugdale, who went on to become a committed terrorist, participating in a major art heist and a bombing raid on a police station; who kept a pregnancy secret for nine months in prison and gave birth there; and who ended up at the heart of the IRA’s bomb-making operation during its deadly final spasms in the 1990s. ______
Sean O’Driscoll is an experienced newspaper journalist, and author of The Accidental Spy, about a truck driver from New York who ended up being recruited by MI5 and the FBI to infiltrate the Real IRA.
02 September 2021 | Brendan Barrington for Sandy Cove | 288 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
TRANSWORLD HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Making Mengele Guy Walters
A new biography of the notorious personality produced by the Third Reich, that of Josef Mengele. A man who has by far the darkest and most enduring resonance, he continues to fascinate us today, seventy-five years after the war, and over forty years since he drowned.
Why does the intrigue around Mengele continue to this day?
This is a seemingly straightforward question that this biography seeks to answer. In order to do so, Making Mengele will examine how a well-heeled, handsome, charming, kind, and intelligent young doctor became, for a comparatively brief time, capable of committing the most sadistic and evil acts imaginable. As the photographs and testimonies re-documented here will show, Mengele was a man of many and huge contradictions, to the extent that he simply cannot only be characterised as a 'monster'.
Such an approach is too dismissive, too easy.
Unsurprisingly, Mengele certainly did not see himself as a monster. We therefore need to understand why, even until the end of his life, Mengele regarded himself as a deeply moral human being - indeed a man who benefited humanity - and bridled at the notion that he was the 'Angel of Death'. This book will also examine the image of Mengele, and what he became in the public imagination both when he was in hiding and even after his death. There undoubtedly remains a sharp disconnect between the man who Mengele really was, and the almost supernatural and darkly angelic figure he became in the eyes of the world.
The question is - how did this happen? And specifically, why did it happen with Mengele? ______
Guy Walters is the author of two history books on the Second World War, Hunting Evil and Berlin Games. He is also the author of four thrillers set in the same period: The Leader, The Traitor, The Occupation and The Colditz Legacy. A former Times journalist he writes widely on historical topics for the national press. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife, the author Annabel Venning, and their two children.
21 January 2022 | Bill Scott-Kerr for Bantam Press | 480 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
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Operation Jubilee Patrick Bishop
A grand tale of heroic failure, grippingly told by the bestselling author of Bomber Boys.
On the moonless night of 18 August 1942 a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. Minesweepers, destroyers and motor gunboats lead a phalanx of landing craft crammed with soldiers, a mixed force of 6,000 men - British, Canadians, Americans, French, Poles and Czechs. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least twenty-four hours, showing the Soviets the Allies were serious about a second front and to get experience ahead of a full-scale invasion.
But confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers dead, wounded or captured. Of a thousand British commandos, a quarter of them were lost. Operation Jubilee - the Royal Air Force's biggest battle since 1940 - has drama from start to finish, human folly and tragedy in spades and a fast, tight narrative with heroes at every level. The raid was both a disaster and a milestone in the narrative of the war - it had powerful lessons and far-reaching consequences that paved the way to D-Day.
Using first-hand testimony and recently declassified source material from archives across several countries, bestselling author Patrick Bishop's account of this gallant endeavour shows the big picture and has telling detail; it is packed with new insights and revelations, establishing definitively Operation Jubilee's place in history. ______
Patrick Bishop spent twenty-five years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the world. He is the author of two hugely acclaimed books about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys. His other books include Wings, a history of the RAF; and Air Force Blue, which celebrated 100 years of the RAF and was a Sunday Times bestseller.
30 September 2021 | Daniel Crewe for Viking | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
The Holocaust Dan Stone
A nuanced and perceptive new history by the Director of the Holocaust Research Institute.
The defining event of twentieth-century Europe – the extermination of millions of Jews – has been commemorated, institutionalised and embedded in our collective consciousness. But in this nuanced and perceptive new history, Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute, contends that the true dimension of the horror wrought by the Nazis is inadvertently brushed aside in our current culture of commemoration. This is due in part to practical or conceptual challenges, such as the continent-wide scale of the crime and the multiplicity of sources in many languages; and in part to an unwillingness to confront the reality that the Holocaust could not have happened without the assistance of numerous non-Nazi states and agents.
Structured around four themes – trauma, collaboration, genocidal fantasy and post-war consequences – The Holocaust demonstrates the genocidal logic of much European thinking in the wake of WWI, explores how the Holocaust’s effects unfolded even after the liberation of the camps in 1945, and stresses the ways in which Europeans continue, even now, to draw on a reservoir of fascist vocabulary and imagery in times of crisis. It is a deeply researched and indispensable examination of a trauma that still reverberates today. ______
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author or editor of numerous articles and books, including: Histories of the Holocaust; The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath; Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction; Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust: Challenging Histories; and Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust and World War II.
27 January 2022 | Laura Stickney for Pelican | 256 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
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The Armchair General Can You Defeat the Nazis? John Buckley
Re-Write WWII History – Choose Your Own Adventure Meets Risk.
Re-write the course of WWII with this revolutionary new approach to history. Take the chair of Winston Churchill and other leaders. Make the decisions that will change the war - and the world.
What might have happened if Poland was never invaded? . Or if Hiroshima never happened? . Or if the great evacutation at Dunkirk was scrapped? . Would the war have turned out differently?
The Armchair General airdrops you the reader into the key historical moments and turning points of WWII - from the outbreak of war to D-Day - and thrusts you into the role of decision-maker.
Taking the chair of Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery, General Eisenhower and other leaders and soldiers from the Allied Forces, you will be primed with the contemporaneous intelligence that real leaders would have been presented with during the war - including maps and secret dossiers. Once you have examined the evidence, you the reader will then have to make key decisions that have the power to affect the war - and the fate of history. How far should you parachute behind enemy lines? Should you fight on or try to make peace? Will you send more troops in or hold them back? Do you wait or do you act? Each decision will take you to an alternate chapter in the book, and to either the truth, or to an alternate but highly plausible new reality.
Written by John Buckley, professor of Military History and expert on strategy and war gaming, this book revisits the past in forensic and fascinating detail so that you can learn how every small action (or inaction) can create a whole different history. Will your decisions follow the same course as WWII? Or will you create a new future? ______
John Buckley is Professor of Military History in the Department of History, Politics and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is the author of a number of books on twentieth century military history including Air Power in the Age of Total War; British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944; and Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation.
27 May 2021 | Ben Brusey for Century | 304 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
The Global Merchants The World of the Sassoons Joseph Sassoon
The first full history of the Sassoons, one the nineteenth century’s preeminent commercial families and ‘the Rothschilds of the East’.
The Sassoons were one of the great commercial dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were as bankers. In his rich and nuanced portrait of the family, Joseph Sassoon uncovers the secrets behind their phenomenal success: how a handful of Jewish refugees from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut trading cotton and opium in exile in India, the role of their vast network of agents, informants and politicians in extending their reach beyond their new home, bridging East and West.
Through the lives these ambitious figures built for themselves in Bombay, London and Shanghai, the reader is drawn into a captivating world of politics, business, society and empire – for their meteoric rise was facilitated by their ties to the British imperial project, and its waning coincided with their own. Utilising for the first time the family archives, which were largely written in an obscure Judeo-Arabic script indecipherable to previous historians, The Global Merchants is at once an intimate history of a single family across three generations and an extraordinary panorama, revealing their place in the world-historical developments of the 150 years of their prominence: from the American Civil War to the establishment of the British Raj, the Opium Wars to the Japanese occupation of China, and the true beginning of globalization in all its dimensions. ______
Joseph Sassoon is Al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Trustee of the Bodleian Library. His previous books include the prize-winning Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘th Party, The Iraqi Refugees and The Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics.
04 November 2021 | Ben Sinyor for Allen Lane | 544 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
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Fall of the House of Osman Ryan Gingeras
A new, groundbreaking history of the fall of the Ottoman empire, published to coincide with its centenary.
In the autumn of 1918, revolution spread across Europe. One by one, grand imperial houses collapsed, allowing new republics to take their place. The fall of the Ottoman Empire is usually understood in this light. Turkey's eventual establishment in 1922 often appears as another example of this inevitable movement towards modern nation-states in the wake of the First World War.
In this groundbreaking new study, Ryan Gingeras rewrites the story of the Ottoman Empire's last years. The armistice, he demonstrates, did not mean the end the Ottoman sultanate. Rather it marked the beginning of a four-year period of conflict and negotiation over the empire's uncertain future. Through its death throes, the Ottoman collapse left millions dead and displaced and cast doubt upon the future of European empires in the colonial world.
Gingeras sheds new light on this dark era and places it within the broader history of the post- Versailles world. Drawing on original research, Fall of the House of Osman tells the story of how the Ottoman Empire's final years shaped the postwar politics of Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Arabs and Kurds. As a struggle that challenged the imperial aspirations of Britain, France and the United States, the conflict over the Ottoman lands helped to inspire wider anti-colonial movements from Ireland to India. Fall of the House of Osman is an illuminating account of four violent, divisive and unpredictable years which laid the foundations of the modern world order. ______
Ryan Gingeras is a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, California. His previous books include Eternal Dawn: Turkey in the Age of Atatürk and Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, which was shortlisted for the Rothschild Book Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the British- Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.
27 October 2022 | Simon Winder for Allen Lane | 304 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
EBURY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Blood, Fire and Gold The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici Estelle Paranque
A thrilling joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Tracy Borman.
In sixteenth-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici.
One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic women. But nothing has been said of their complicated relationship: thirty years of friendship, competition and conflict that changed the face of Europe.
This is a story of two remarkable visionaries: a story of blood, fire and gold. It is also a tale of ceaseless calculation, of love and rivalry, of war and wisdom - and of female power in a male world. Shining new light on their legendary kingdoms, Blood, Fire and Gold provides a new way of looking at two of history's most powerful women, and how they shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course of history. Drawing on their letters, diaries and brand new research, Estelle Paranque writes an entirely new chapter in the well-worn story of the sixteenth century. ______
Dr Estelle Paranque is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities and earned a PhD in Early Modern European History from University College London in 2016. She was previously a Lecturer in the History Department of King's College London. She has participated in award-winning international historical documentaries, including Secrets d'Histoire (France 2/ France 3), and has appeared on BBC radio and TV, including Radio 4 Great Lives, and frequently appears on history podcasts including Viral History and Dan Snow's History Hit podcast.
21 July 2022 | Robyn Drury for Ebury Press | 320 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
PENGUIN PRESS HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
The Ruin of All Witches Death and Desire in an Age of Enchantment Malcolm Gaskill
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders.
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple with two small children: Hugh Parsons the prickly brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall.
The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation, where dreams of love and liberty, of a 'city upon a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, rage and violence. Drawing on unique, previously unexploited source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly reanimates a strange yet not too distant past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments.
Through the gripping micro-history of a family tragedy, we glimpse a entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation. We see, in short, the birth of the modern world. ______
Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He is one of Britain's leading experts in the history of witchcraft, whose previous works include the highly acclaimed Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-century English Tragedy and Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans.
07 October 2021 | Thomas Penn for Allen Lane | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom Selena Wisnom
A vivid, evocative history of life in Mesopotamia.
There was an ancient Mesopotamian ruler, Ashurbanipal, who tried to gather all of the world's wisdom under a single roof. After his death, invaders came and burned his library to the ground. Yet its secrets survived, carved on clay tablets which lay silent for two thousand years, until a team of Victorian archaeologists began to excavate an unpromising mound of earth in northern Iraq, and discovered one of the greatest collections of knowledge ever seen.
The Library of Ancient Wisdom is the incredible story of the world hidden beneath that hill. In some ways, it is a strange and distant land, where the gods spoke in dreams, ancestors could send illnesses and sheep entrails were the ultimate arbiter of disputes. But in others, it is a surprisingly familiar society whose inventions continue to shape our own world today, from the wheel to the constellations and the divisions of hours into sixty minutes.
Selena Wisnom is our expert, lively guide as we dive into the stories of a wide range of characters, from the king and his powerful grandmother to astrologers, exorcists, diviners, priests, scholars, eunuchs and lamenters. The tablets document their everyday lives in extraordinary detail, laying bare their desires, fears, anxieties and hopes. In doing so, they allow an ancient, long silent civilization to speak with its own voice, and take us to the heart of what it means to be human. ______
Selena Wisnom is Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. A specialist in the interpretation of Mesopotamian cultural sources, Selena's previous works include Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry. She has also written three plays set in ancient Assyria; the most recent, Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria was staged at the London's Crypt Gallery in 2019.
05 May 2022 | Thomas Penn for Allen Lane | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
VINTAGE HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Greek Myths Charlotte Higgins
A major new retelling of the Greek myths for a new generation, written by an author steeped in classical literature and history.
Charlotte Higgins’ spellbinding new collection will include all the most famous Greek myths, as well as many less well- known but equally intriguing ones. Here are stories of the creation, of Heracles and Theseus and Perseus, the Trojan war and its origins and aftermaths, tales of Thebes and Argos and Athens. There are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, gender-shifting characters, resourceful witches, and the origins of birds and animals.
Taking her cue from Ovid, Charlotte Higgins has an intriguing structural device to thread her stories together. Inspired by the many moments in Greek myths in which women are seen to weave stories on to textiles (such as Helen of Troy in Homer, and Arachne and Minerva in Ovid), the tales will be told as if they are scenes in the act of being woven on to textiles by women. And, while not operating as an explicitly feminist retelling, this will add a new dimension to her myths, bringing women narrators and characters into the foreground.
Above all, Charlotte Higgins’ Greek Myths will be an original work of literature and scholarship by an exceptionally talented writer. It will be book to be enjoyed as a work of art, a source to be consulted, a present to be given, and an object to keep and treasure. ______
Charlotte Higgins's previous books include the acclaimed Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, which was shortlisted for awards including the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for non-fiction. She is chief culture writer of the Guardian, a past winner of the Classical Association prize, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She lives in London.
09 September 2021 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 352 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
PENGUIN PRESS ART & ARCHITECHTURE
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now Seven Scenes from the Life of a House The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, with John-Paul Stonard
A strikingly modern portrait of Chatsworth, the grandest of English country houses.
No house embodies the spirit of one dynasty better than Chatsworth. Set in an unspoilt Derbyshire valley, surrounded by wild moorland, and home to the Cavendish family for more than four hundred years, this treasure house is filled with works of art and objects that have all, in their time, represented the very best of the new - from Nicolas Poussin's Et in Arcadia Ego and Antonio Canova's Endymion to seminal modern works by Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Michael Craig-Martin, among many others.
Today, since the recent completion of a decade-long programme of renovations, the exterior of the house is gleaming, its stone façade newly cleaned and its window frames freshly gilded. Inside, through the brilliant juxtaposition of old and new, its rooms crackle with creative energy. Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now tells the story of this extraordinary house through seven 'scenes' in its life which provide the book's narrative structure; running alongside is Victoria Hely-Hutchinson's stunning photographic portrait of the house and its collections at this most optimistic point in its history.
As Chatsworth's forward-looking current occupant, the twelfth Duke of Devonshire, likes to point out: “Everything was new once.” Leafing through this exquisite volume will be as close as possible to holding a piece of the house itself in your hands. ______
John-Paul Stonard studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was curator of the acclaimed exhibition “Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation” at Tate Britain in 2014, and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Burlington Magazine and Apollo. He lives and works in London.
04 March 2021 | Richard Atkinson for Particular Books | 428 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN GENERAL ART & ARCHITECHTURE
The Modern House 5 Rules for Living Well Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill
A stylish, beautifully written exploration of five guiding principles that will help you to live well in your home.
Over the last fifteen years, Matt Gibberd has defined the design aesthetic of a generation with the estate agency The Modern Home, which he co-founded with his friend Albert Hill.
As the agency grew, Matt noticed that despite the enormous diversity of the Modern House’s clients, the same principles emerged time and time again. Five timeless rules for living capable of transforming any home into a happier and more successful one: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Curation.
Navigating the reader through each rule, via case studies and photography from their archive showcasing the best of modern design, Matt will demonstrate to home-hunter and homeowner alike how each rule can be applied in ways both large and small but ultimately transformative. Revolutionary in its simplicity, and bursting with elegance, humour and joy, The Modern House: 5 Rules for Living Well is full of lessons that are so vital they feel near- spiritual. ______
Matt Gibberd began his career as a writer on design and architecture, working for five years as a Senior Editor at The World of Interiors, before co-founding The Modern House (@themodernhouse), a pioneering design-led estate agency based in London.
Albert Hill graduated from the University of Bristol with a BA in Art History, and was the Design Editor at Wallpaper under founding editor Tyler Brûlé. He has written for The Guardian, The Times and The Independent, contributed to a number of books, and commented on architecture and property on television and radio.
28 October 2021 | Tom Killingbeck for Penguin Life | 336 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
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The World According to Colour James Fox
A beguiling cultural history of colour, by one of the rising stars of art history.
The subject of this book is mankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imagination. It takes seven primary colours - black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple and green - and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances or properties so rudimentary as to be common to all societies.
The book traces these meanings to show how they changed and multiplied, the role that they have played in our culture and history, and how understanding them allows us to see many of the milestones in the history of art - from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein - in a new way. It proceeds by stories, which cumulatively tell another, larger one: a history of the world from the black nothing which preceded existence to the birth of our red- blooded species; the gilded gods who animated the world in antiquity to the blue horizons which framed the Age of Discovery; the pristine aspirations of Enlightenment, the technicolour innovation which fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the colour which most embodies the environmental crisis which now faces us. ______
James Fox is an art historian and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. His many acclaimed BBC television documentaries include programmes on the history of Cornish art, the British Renaissance and the culture and politics of Vienna in 1908, Paris in 1928 and New York in 1951. His major new series will coincide with publication.
02 September 2021 | Ben Sinyor for Allen Lane | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS CULTURAL STUDIES
Just Men Ivan Jablonka
An urgent exploration of masculinity and the patriarchy from one of France's preeminent thinkers.
What does it mean to be a good man? . To be a good father, or a good partner? . A good brother, or a good friend?
In this urgent, clear-sighted analysis, award-winning social historian Ivan Jablonka offers a re-examination of the patriarchy and its roots, while providing a new way of thinking about masculinity and the behaviour of men. Situating his argument in the historical circumstances of the patriarchy's dominance, and ranging widely across cultures, Jablonka contends that in order to build a more equal and respectful society, we must first form new masculinities that define themselves by the rights of women. ______
Ivan Jablonka is a French historian. His work focuses on the Holocaust, gender violence, masculinity and new forms of historiography. In 2016, he received the prestigious Prix Médicis. He is currently professor of Contemporary History at Université Paris XIII.
27 August 2021 | Casiana Ionita for Allen Lane | 448 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
VINTAGE CULTURAL STUDIES
Rough Rachel Thompson
How the normalisation of violent sex is hurting women and what we can do about it.
Rough sex. A bad hookup. It’s not rape but… a sex game gone wrong. Rape-adjacent. These are the euphemisms we use to describe the “grey area” of sex — experiences which are non-criminal, but nonetheless feel violating, traumatic, degrading, or dangerous.
Most women have a rough sex story. A sexual experience that turned nasty, where something happened that felt degrading, where their sexual partner did something they didn’t want, or expect. Often these everyday experiences don’t make the news, and in many cases, women don’t talk about them. They happen in the privacy of bedrooms, but their effects are long-lasting and life-threatening, and our silence on the matter is perpetuating the problem.
From verbal abuse to unwanted choking, strangling, spitting, facial ejaculation, unsolicited infliction of pain and non-consensual condom removal (stealthing), reporter Rachel Thompson lays bare how misogyny rears its ugly head in the bedsheets, the harm it causes, and what we can do about it.
This is a handbook for anyone who has ever experienced something during sex that has made them feel uncomfortable, frightened, powerless or small. ______
Rachel Thompson is the Senior Culture Reporter at Mashable, where she writes about sex, relationships, and gender. An expert in reporting on sex and gendered violence, Rachel has written for the Daily Telegraph, ELLE, The Sunday Times, HuffPost and more.
Rachel is also the host of Mashable’s History Becomes Her where she interviews women making history right now about their (s)heroes, from Caroline Criado Perez and Gina Martin to MP Jess Phillips and Lisa Taddeo.
02 September 2021 | Mireille Harper for Square Peg | 352 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
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We Can Do Better Than This 40 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights
Extraordinary campaigners, writers and celebrities on how we can make our world safer for LGBTQ+ people.
We talk about LGBTQ+ equality. But what does it actually mean? And how do we get there?
In this powerful and thought-provoking essay collection, 40 people – from actors, pop stars and athletes to scientists, writers and activists – set out to answer these vital questions.
We Can Do Better Than This meets the famous drag queen who wants to eradicate the stigma around dating trans people, a gay Bangladeshi activist calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality after his best friends were murdered in a hate crime, the Russian lesbian sex blogger skirting around the law to educate young people, a well-known trans author and journalist who wants to reimagine trans media representation, and the supermodel calling for the end of intersex surgeries on children.
Featuring deeply moving personal stories and provocative new arguments, this is a book about how we can make our world better, and why LGBTQ+ equality should matter to everyone. ______
Amelia Abraham (edited by) is a journalist and author from London. She has worked as a commissioning editor at VICE and Refinery29, and is currently Features Editor at Dazed. She writes for the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Sunday Times, New Statesman, ES Magazine, i-D Magazine and Vogue. She is currently working on a script for television.
Her main interest is LGBTQ+ culture and politics, and her first book, Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture was released with Picador in May 2019. Taking the reader on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey, Amelia explores the mainstreaming of queer culture across the West, from the first same-sex marriage in Britain, the world’s biggest drag convention in LA, Pride parades across Europe, a transgender model agency, and Turkey’s underground LGBTQ+ scene, to a genderless, polyamorous commune in Stockholm.
Owen Jones said: “this book will resonate with a new generation of queer people and all those who seek to be their allies – a brilliant book.”
Naomi Wolf wrote: “A voice that is profound, vulnerable and hilarious in turn.”
03 March 2021 | Alex Russell for Vintage | 384 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
CORNERSTONE CULTURAL STUDIES
Centre Stage Lessons from the National Theatre on Owning the Room Jeannette Nelson
How the world’s best actors communicate with gravitas – and how you can, too.
“The theatre stars' voice guru.” – Daily Mail
Acting is all about charisma. Whether you're an A-list star or an extra, when you're on stage you need to perform in a way that makes your audience listen.
It's a skill we can all learn from. Every time you speak up in a meeting, recount an anecdote, or tell a joke, it's essential to communicate with gravitas.
Jeannette Nelson knows a thing or two about gravitas. As Head of Voice at the National Theatre, she has spent three decades working with the world's leading actors - from Al Pacino to Benedict Cumberbatch to Juliette Binoche - teaching them to speak clearly and move confidently.
Now, Nelson pulls back the curtain on the tricks that professional performers use to own the room. Starting with clear speech and good posture, before moving on to the art of rhetoric and overcoming stage fright, she outlines a holistic three-stage method to communicating with authority, authenticity and eloquence. Throughout, she peppers the book with stories of how world-renowned actors learnt to make themselves heard - and how you can, too.
The result is a fascinating and eminently practical guide to the art of performance. If all the world's a stage, then this book will turn you into its lead actor. ______
As Head of Voice at the National Theatre, Jeannette Nelson is responsible for ensuring that every actor at Britain's leading theatre is speaking clearly and performing confidently. In a career spanning stage, film and TV, she has worked with many of the world's leading actors - including the likes of Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Keeley Hawes, Orlando Bloom, Benedict Cumberbatch and Juliette Binoche. She has worked at the NT since 1992, and has also been a voice coach at Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Sydney Theatre Company. Nelson's The Voice Exercise Book (2015) has become the go-to guide for actors looking for exercises to help improve their voice.
03 March 2022 | Rowan Borchers for Random House Business | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS CULTURAL STUDIES
Osebol Marit Kapla
Luminous, illuminating, almost meditative - lose yourself in the lives and stories of a quiet woodland village in Sweden.
WINNER OF THE 2019 AUGUST PRIZE
Near the river Klarälven, snug in the dense forest landscape of northern Värmland, lies the Swedish village of Osebol. It is a quiet, welcoming place, one where history feels more present than elsewhere and the bustle of city life is replaced by the sound of the wind in the trees.
In the last half-century, the automation of the lumber industry and the steady drip of relocations to the cities for work have seen Osebol's adult population dwindle to only 40- odd residents. The shops have closed; the bridge across the river is shut to traffic. But still, life goes on. Those who have inherited their farms for generations live alongside recent arrivals from near and far. People age; children grow up. Heirlooms are passed from hand to hand, and memories from mouth to mouth.
In this extraordinary book, Marit Kapla, herself a daughter of Osebol, has gathered the voices of the villagers themselves, interviewing almost all of those remaining between the ages of 18 and 92. They alone speak. Their words are arranged to gemlike effect, with only a handful of lines on each page, and through them their griefs, joys and moments of humour paint a textured and deeply personal picture of lives lived against the backdrop of nearly a century of Swedish and global history.
To read Osebol is to lose oneself in its gentle rhythms of simple language and white space, and to emerge feeling like one has really grown to know the inhabitants of this close-knit community, nestled among the trees in a changing world. It is a book quite unlike any other. ______
Marit Kapla grew up in Osebol in the 1970s. She has since served as a Creative Director for the Gothenburg Film Festival, and now works as one of two editors at the Swedish cultural magazine Ord & Bild. For Osebol, her first book, she was awarded Sweden's prestigious August Prize in 2019.
06 January 2021 | Donald Futers for Penguin | 800 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN GENERAL SOCIETY & NATURE
Children of the Anthropocene Bella Lack
A critical book chronicling the lives of young people on the frontlines of the environmental crisis around the world.
We watch fearfully as species slip into oblivion at our hands. We often forget that humans, too, are bound up with the fate of the natural world.
Across the planet the futures of many young people hang in the balance as they face the realities of the environmental crisis. Bella's book will celebrate the work they are doing to save both the planet and the lives of the young people most directly impacted by the crisis.
The book will contain a vast breadth of diverse stories, from a young Alaskan activist, Quannah, who sees her ancestral way of life melting away at speed with the glaciers, to a young person from the Terraba tribe in Costa Rica who switches from predator to protector of the biodiversity in their community.
This book will tell the stories of an endangered species often overlooked: the children of the Anthropocene. ______
Bella Lack is a 17-year-old conservationist and environmental activist. She is an ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, STAE, RSPCA and the Jane Goodall Institute. Bella spoke at the Chris Packham's People's Walk for Wildlife, the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in 2018 and she delivered a TEDx talk in Brighton in 2019.
Bella creates short films and uses social media to educate and inspire as many people as possible to protect the natural world. Since August 2019, she has been working on a feature- length documentary with primatologist Jane Goodall called 'ANIMAL'.
She has been interviewed on Sky, ITV and Channel 4, CGTN in China and has also made a short documentary for BBC Three. She has shared the stage with the likes of Steve Backshall and Chris Packham and helped to create The People's Manifesto for Wildlife.
30 June 2022 | Emily Robertson for Penguin Life | 272 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS SOCIETY & NATURE
Artists' Responses to the Climate Emergency Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries
A collection of responses by leading artists of our time, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, to the question: how can we respond to the climate emergency?
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation. The respondents are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to work together to tackle the most urgent crisis of our time.
Featuring Ed Ruscha's memorial plaques to trees that didn't make it, Judy Chicago's urge to make a mark and express a feeling, Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe's activism flowchart, James Bridle's instructions to help plants along with their global velocity, Vivienne Westwood's plea for lockdown not to be lost, Olafur Eliasson's poetic wisdom to 'look up, look down', Marina Abramovik's performance art for the climate, and Rose Wylie's recipe for cooking for the environment, alongside many more. ______
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. He is the author of Ways of Curating and, with Ai Weiwei, of Ai Weiwei Speaks. Ways of Curating was sold into 11 territories; Chinese Complex (Agora), Chinese Simplified (Cheers), Korean (Art Book Press), German (C H Beck), Portuguese in Brazil (Cobogo), Italian (Agostini), Japanese (Kawade Shobo), (French (Manuella), Latvian (Neputns), Russian (Ad Marginem) and US (Farra Straus & Giroux).rough
06 May 2021 | Maria Bedford for Penguin | 176 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS SOCIETY & NATURE
The Blue Commons Guy & Andrew Standing
An exposé of the plunder of the world's oceans, and the devastating environmental and economic impact this is having across the globe.
The blue commons are our oceans: they feed us all, link our continents, provide a natural economy on coasts around the world and are a crucial part of our ecosystem. But in recent years the oceans have been plundered. They are currently undergoing an existential crisis that demands a global response. Why have our oceans been so overlooked in the conversation about the climate catastrophe?
This book exposes the corrosion of the blue commons through six trends - encroachment or destruction, enclosure, social forgetting, commodification, privatisation and colonisation. The commoners - mainly small-scale fisheries and coastal communities - have fought back, with some inspiring and positive results. It provides a road-map for reviving the concept of the blue commons, as belonging to us all, protected from plunder by businesses and nations seeking profit at the expense of everyone. ______
Guy Standing co-founded the Basic Income Earth Network and now serves as its honorary co-President. He has held professorships at the University of Bath and at SOAS, was programme director at the International Labour Organisation and has advised the UN, World Bank and governments around the world on labour and social policy. He is the author of the bestselling The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011), Basic Income: And How We Can Make it Happen (2017) and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
04 February 2022 | Maria Bedford for Pelican | 432 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
VINTAGE SOCIETY & NATURE
Urban Jungle Nature and the City from the Stone Age to the Climate Emergency Ben Wilson
An eye-opening and urgent exploration of nature and the city - past, present and future. This is a thrilling re-examination of the way we live by a brilliant historian and thinker.
For millennia, cities have seemed to represent our separation from the natural world and our victory over it. They are a kind of battleground, where humans have used technologies to reengineer the environment. In the early 21st century, we have reached a turning point: we have now urbanised our planet, but natural forces - be they rising waters, storms, droughts or pandemics - look set to determine the fate of our cities in the future.
In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals, nature has always been at the heart of the city, and our post- industrial cities are much wilder places that we might imagine, with booming animal and plant populations. The project of rewilding the city has already begun. People around the world are realising that cities are not dead, artificial zones, but complex and diverse habitats, and a place that is healthy for animals and plants is healthier for humans as well. Where cities once built walls and towers to defend against attack; now they have to become greener to protect themselves from external threats.
Rewilding the city is not a distant utopian dream: nature is already reclaiming the city. In a time of climate crisis, the city is both problem and solution. The extent to which cities strike a balance with nature will determine the fate of our cities. We stand at a crossroads. Our future - and that of the planet - will be made in the city. ______
Ben Wilson is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including What Price Liberty?, for which he received the Somerset Maugham Award; the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Deep; and, most recently, Heyday: The Dawn of the Global Age. Born in London in 1980, he has worked in television, broadcast on the radio in several countries, and writes regularly for publications such as The Times, Daily Telegraph and Prospect. He lives in Suffolk, UK.
06 October 2022 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 320 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
EBURY SOCIETY & NATURE
We Are Nature How to Reconnect With the Outdoors Ray Mears
Master of the outdoors Ray Mears takes us into the living world, in the back garden and across continents, and shows us how to tune our senses, enhance our experience of nature, and understand our place within it.
When we learn about animals, we learn about ourselves.
Ray Mears's life's work has been spent travelling the globe, communing with nature, observing animal behaviour and learning primitive life skills.
In We Are Nature, he gathers all that lived experience and practical knowledge for the first time into a compelling narrative, telling us stories of the forest, the Arctic, the deserts and the oceans, and their inhabitants. He brings us face to face with the creatures we share our planet with, and shows us how we can learn from them, from the stealth of the leopard to the stillness of the crocodile, and even the remarkable camouflage skills of the octopus.
With Ray as your guide, you will discard the claustrophobic blinkers of modern life, and a new, rich and unseen world will open up around you. ______
TV presenter, instructor and bestselling author Ray Mears has become recognised throughout the world as an authority on the subject of bushcraft and survival. TV series including Ray Mears' Bushcraft, Ray Mears' World of Survival, Extreme Survival and Ray Mears goes Walkabout have made him a household name over the past two decades, but he has spent his life learning these skills, and founded Woodlore, The School of Wilderness Bushcraft, over 35 years ago. This is his fourteenth book. He lives in Sussex with his wife and stepson.
04 February 2021 | Lorna Russell for Ebury Press | 320 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
MICHAEL JOSEPH SOCIETY & NATURE
12 Birds to Save Your Life Nature’s Lessons on Happiness Charlie Corbett
A profound exploration of grief, life and of being human, told through the lens of twelve songbirds.
This book is about coping with being human. It's about how unexpected events smash and bash their way into our lives without permission. And how a love of the natural world - and particularly of songbirds - will help to raise you from these periodic depths.
Drawing on his own experience of struggling with grief, depression and suicidal thoughts, Charlie Corbett writes beautifully about how his simple decision to attempt to reconnect with the natural world was a huge comfort to him. When Charlie first started to learn about songbirds - from solitary skylarks to squabbling sparrows - he realised that these characterful creatures have much to teach us about life, happiness and acceptance. ______
Charlie Corbett has worked as an editor, journalist and most recently set up his own communications consultancy, Bullfinch Media. Despite having pursued a 20-year career in financial journalism, he remains, in his heart, a country boy. He comes from a family of livestock and arable farmers and spent his childhood divided between farms on the rolling downs of Hampshire and on the Isle of Mull.
10 June 2021 | Charlotte Hardman for Michael Joseph | 208 pp Rights contact: Jane Kirby
PENGUIN GENERAL SOCIETY & NATURE
Birds and Us A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation Tim Birkhead
A sweeping and lyrical exploration of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, celebrating how birds have captured our imaginations over the centuries, and inspired our culture, our science and our history.
In Birds and Us award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises deified and mummified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian ornithologists' taxonomical obsessions to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.
Birkhead weaves in stories from his own life as a scientist, including his decades-long study of guillemots on the Welsh island of Skomer and far-flung expeditions to Neolithic caves and the Peruvian coast. His ambitious book is the culmination of a lifetime's research and will show how birds shaped us, and how we shaped them. ______
Tim Birkhead is an academic and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His professional interests span ornithology, evolution and reproductive biology, as well as the history of science, and science communication and undergraduate teaching. He is known for his work on both on the mating systems of birds and the history of ornithology.
01 September 2022 | Tom Killingbeck for Viking | 400 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS SOCIETY & NATURE
Nests Susan Ogilvy
A unique celebration of the architectural ingenuity of birds, by an acclaimed illustrator.
Susan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest - a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it inside and placed it on a newspaper; over the next few hours, as the water drained out of it, the sodden lump blossomed into a mossy jewel. She was amazed, and dropped everything to make a painting of the nest at exact life size.
This was the start of an obsession; Susan has since painted more than fifty bird nests from life, each time marvelling at its ingenious construction. Every species of bird has its own vernacular, but sources its materials - most commonly twigs, roots, grasses, reeds, leaves, moss, lichen, hair, feathers and cobwebs, less usually mattress stuffing and string - according to local availability. Susan would, of course, never disturb nesting birds; instead she relies upon serendipity, which is why all her nests have either been abandoned after fulfilling their purpose, or displaced by strong winds.
Although Nests showcases the specimens Susan has found near her homes in Somerset and on the Isle of Arran, its subject matter is by no means only British, since these same birds can be found all over Europe, Scandinavia and as far afield as Russia, Turkey and North Africa. This wondrous book is all the more special for its rarity. Few modern books exist specifically on the subject of bird nests; among the author's reference works, the most recent was published in 1932. Exquisitely designed and packaged, Nests will be an essential addition to the libraries of all nature lovers. ______
The work of Susan Ogilvy has been shown at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, and the Kew Garden Gallery, London, amongst other places; it is included in several public and private collections, including Dr Shirley Sherwood's world-renowned collection of contemporary botanical paintings. She was awarded an RHS Gold Medal in 1997, and lives in rural Somerset.
07 October 2021 | Richard Atkinson for Particular Books | 128 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN GENERAL SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Jungle How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us Dr Patrick Roberts
A new and ambitious history of the world that reveals the deep-rooted and symbiotic relationship between humankind and rainforest.
For many of us, jungles feel far removed from our everyday lives. But across the world they influence temperature, create rainfall, produce oxygen and provide materials for essential products, such that the future of humankind is intertwined with their disappearing wildlife and impending destruction - and as Dr Patrick Roberts shows in this startlingly revisionist history of the world, this symbiotic relationship with our tropical forests is anything but a modern development.
Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests from their arrival millions of years ago to their role in the evolution of the world's atmosphere, the dinosaurs, the first mammals and, finally, our own species and our ancestors. Highlighting provocative new evidence garnered from cutting-edge research, Dr Roberts shows, for example, that our view of humans as 'savannah specialists' is wildly wrong, and that the 'Anthropocene' began not with the Industrial Revolution, but as early as 6,000 years ago in the tropics. Urgent, clear- sighted and original, Jungle shows how we are all connected to the destruction of our tropical forests, and explains what needs to be done to save them. It challenges the way we think about the world - and ourselves. ______
Dr Patrick Roberts is Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany. He has worked in jungles across the world and has received numerous prestigious awards, including a European Research Council Starter Grant (€1.5 Million). He has written or co-authored 36 peer-reviewed journal articles and his work has featured on the BBC, Channel 4 and in The Times, among others. Author of the academic book Tropical Forest Prehistory, History and Modernity, this is his first for a trade audience.
01 July 2021 | Connor Brown for Viking | 320 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
PENGUIN PRESS SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Ice Rivers Jemma Wadham
The story of glaciers, wilderness and people, at a moment when this relationship is about to change forever.
The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying; meanwhile, in Antarctica, thinning glaciers are releasing meltwater to sensitive marine foodwebs, and may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored for millions of years in the deep beneath the ice. The potential consequences for humanity are almost unfathomable.
As one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has proved that glaciers, previously thought to be freezing, sterile environments, in fact teem with microbial life - a discovery which demonstrates them to be active processors of carbon and nutrients, just like our forests and oceans, influencing crucial systems and services upon which people depend, from lucrative fisheries to fertile croplands. A riveting tale of icy landscapes on the point of irreversible change, and filled with stories of encounters with polar bears and survival in the wilds under the midnight sun, Ice Rivers is a memoir like no other - a passionate love letter, no less, to the glaciers that have been one woman's lifelong obsession. ______
Jemma Wadham is Professor of Glaciology at the University of Bristol and also holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Tromsø, Norway. She has led more than twenty- five expeditions to glaciers around the world, including to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya, and has won several prestigious national awards for her research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Award. She is best known as a pioneer in the field of understanding glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. Ice Rivers is the first book she has written for a general readership.
06 May 2021 | Richard Atkinson for Allen Lane | 272 pp Rights contact: Amelia Evans
EBURY SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
The Hidden Universe Adventures in Biodiversity Alexandre Antonelli
Everything you need to know about biodiversity - what it is, how it works, and why it's the single most important tool to battle climate change - from the Director of Science at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
We don't know what we've got until it's gone...
This brief, lucid book by the Director of Science at Royal Botanical Gardens takes you on an unforgettable tour of the natural world, showing how biodiversity - the rich variety of life in the world and in our own backyards - provides both the source and the salvation of our existence. Combining inspiration stories and the latest scientific research, Alex Antonelli reveals the wonders of biodiversity at a genetic, species and ecosystem level - what it is, how it works, and why it's the most important tool in our battle against climate change.
A deeper understanding of biodiversity has never been more important, as the slow violence of habitat loss has put the fate of almost one-fifth of all species on Earth at risk of extinction in the coming decades. These building blocks of life form a network that underpins almost every aspect of our lives, providing invaluable sources of food, medicine, fibre, clothing, building material and more. With simplicity and clarity, The Hidden Universe shows you not only what's at stake, but what can be done (and is already being done) to protect and restore biodiversity around the world. It marks the arrival of a bold new voice in popular science. ______
Alexandre Antonelli is Director of Science of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he leads the work of over 350 scientists. A botanist by training, he was made Full Professor of Biodiversity at University of Gothenburg in Sweden aged 36, and founded the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre and served as Cisneros Visiting Scholar at Harvard University before joining Kew. He remains an active researcher at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Oxford in the UK. This is his first book.
01 March 2022 | Albert De Petrillo for Ebury Press | 288 pp Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
EBURY SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Life in Colour How Animals See the World Martin Stevens
A landmark exploration of how colour works in the natural world – colour as disguise, as seduction, and as an expression of power – to accompany a new BBC/Netflix series with David Attenborough.
“The natural world is awash with colour, but we are only seeing half the story. If we could see things as animals do, our world would become unimaginably brighter. Now, thanks to new science and technology, we can at last open our eyes.” – Sir David Attenborough
In nature, colour is more than a source of beauty; it’s a form of vital communication. Depending on the situation, colour says different things - it can be an expression of power or seduction, warning or deceit - and it can even, occasionally, save your life. Accompanying a major new BBC series with David Attenborough, Life in Colour explores the fascinating story of how colour works in the natural world. From the ‘trichromatic’ vision of Silver Leaf Langurs, which allows them to see orange and red against forest foliage – the colours not only of ripe fruit, but of their young – to African Mandrills who use their colouration to do battle, Dr Martin Stevens reveals a complex system of messaging visible only to those who know the code.
Based on the latest scientific research in the field, and illustrated with stunning photography throughout, Life in Colour reveals a world previously unknown to us. ______
Martin Stevens is Associate Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, UK. His research and teaching focuses on animal behaviour and their sensory systems and ecology. Most of his work aims to understand the evolution and function of animal coloration, including camouflage, mimicry, and warning signals, from the perspective of animal vision. He has published over 80 scientific manuscripts, two textbooks, and a general audience book on deception in nature.
Martin's research is frequently covered in the international media. He has taken part in a wide range of TV, radio and magazine productions, and given public lectures around the world.
08 April 2021 | Nell Warner for BBC Books | 320 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Green Planet Simon Barnes
Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants, by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes.
Plants live secret, unseen lives – hidden in their magical world and on their timescale. From the richest jungles to the harshest deserts, from the snowiest alpine forest to the remotest steaming swamp, Green Planet travels from one great habitat to the next, showing us that plants are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as the animals on our planet. You will discover agents of death, who ruthlessly engulf their host plant, but also those that form deep and complex relationships with other species, such as the desert cacti who use nectar-loving bats to pollinate. Although plants are undoubtedly the stars of the show, a fascinating new light will be shed on the animals that interact with them.
Using the latest technologies and showcasing over two decades of new discoveries, Green Planet reveals the strange and wonderful life of plants like never before – a life full of remarkable behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes. ______
Born in Bristol in 1951, Simon Barnes went on to become the multi-award winning Chief Sports Writer for The Times until July 2014. He is the author of over 20 books, including three on wildlife and three novels. His bestselling How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher has been serialised in The Times and read on Radio 4. Simon lives in Suffolk with his family.
26 August 2021 | Nell Warner for BBC Books | 320 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN PRESS SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Small Gases, Big Effect This Is Climate Change David Nelles and Christian Serrer
Climate change for people in a hurry - a succinct, easy-to-read, expert- approved guide to the most important issue of our time.
When students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to find a book that explained the nuts and bolts of climate change in a way that was comprehensive, concise and enjoyable to read, they decided to write it themselves.
With meticulous research corroborated by over 100 scientists, Small Gases, Big Effect summarises all the latest findings on the causes and effects of climate change. Combining clear, thoughtful writing with illuminating graphics, it is a little book that presents complex scientific evidence in a way that everyone will find easy to understand. ______
David Nelles and Christian Serrer are students at the University of Friedrichshafen, Germany. With Small Gases, Big Effect, they hope to explain in as comprehensible a way as possible the causes and consequences of climate change, and to inspire even more people around the world to prioritise environmental and climate protection.
28 January 2021 | Chloe Currens for Particular Books | 128 pp Rights contact: Anjali Nathani
VINTAGE SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
99 Green Maps to Save the Planet Katapult Magazine
A shocking but informative, eye-catching and witty book of maps that illustrate the perilous state of our planet.
How much of the earth's surface has been concreted over? How much of our energy still comes from burning coal? How many trees would we have to plant to make our planet carbon- neutral? How much space do we need to satisfy all our energy needs through wind and solar power?
Presenting a vast amount of scientific research and data in easily accessible, visual form, 99 Green Maps to Save the Planet presents us with instant snapshots of the Anthropocene. At one glance, we can see the precarious state of our planet - but also realise how easy it would be to improve it.
The maps collected in this book are not only shocking but informative, eye-catching and witty. Did you know that just 67 companies worldwide are responsible for 67 per cent of global greenhouse emissions? Or that keeping a horse has the same carbon footprint as a 23,500- kilometre road trip from Manchuria to South Africa? Did you know how many countries produce fewer co2 emissions in total than is produced globally from downloading porn from the internet?
Frightening, enlightening and inspiring, 99 Green Maps to Save the Planet doesn't provide practical tips on how to save our planet: it presents just the facts. And the facts speak for themselves. Once we know them, what excuse do we have for failing to act? ______
Katapult magazine is a popular-science magazine founded in Germany in 2015. Using only infographics and maps it aims to make accessible to a broad readership the latest findings in the social sciences.
04 February 2021 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 208 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN PRESS SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Antarctic Atlas New Maps and Graphics That Tell the Story of A Continent Peter Fretwell
A leading cartographer from the British Antarctic Survey maps the continent in ways never seen before, revealing a landscape as alien as it is vital to our very existence.
One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart. From a leading cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey, this new collection of maps and data reveals Antarctica as we have never seen it before.
This is not just a book of traditional maps. It measures everything from the thickness of ice beneath our feet to the direction of ice flows. It maps volcanic lakes, mountain ranges the size of the Alps and gorges longer than the Grand Canyon, all hidden beneath the ice. It shows us how air bubbles trapped in ice tell us what the earth's atmosphere was like 750,000 years ago, proving the effects of greenhouse gases. Colonies of emperor penguins abound around the coastline, and the journeys of individual seals around the continent and down to the sea bed in search of food have been intricately tracked and mapped. Twenty-nine nations have research stations in Antarctica and their unique architecture is laid out here, along with the challenges of surviving in Antarctica'sunforgiving environment.
Antarctica is also the frontier of our fight against climate change. If its ice melts, it will swamp almost every coastal city in the world. Antarctic Atlas illustrates the harsh beauty and magic of this mysterious continent, and shows how, far from being abstract, it has direct relevance to us all. ______
Peter Fretwell is an award-winning cartographer and leading scientist at the British Antarctic Survey. He pioneered the use of satellite imagery to find and monitor polar wildlife, a project that has led to him discovering almost half of the world's emperor penguin colonies. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has completed four field seasons in Antarctica. He lives near Cambridge with his wife and family.
05 November 2020 | Maria Bedford for Particular Books | 208 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN PRESS SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Apollo Remastered Andy Saunders
The definitive book about the Apollo missions: extraordinary, newly restored images from the NASA archives.
At the bottom of a freezer in Houston sits the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. Almost every single image of the Moon landings that any of us have ever seen has been a poor-quality copy of these frozen originals. Over the last few years image restorer Andy Saunders has been working hard. Taking newly available digital scans and applying pain-staking care and cutting-edge enhancement techniques he has created the highest quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Never-before-seen spacewalks and crystal-clear portraits of astronauts in their modules, along with startling new visions of the Earth and the Moon, provide an astounding new insight into one of humankind's greatest endeavours. This is the definitive record of all Apollo missions and a mesmerizing, high definition journey into the unknown. ______
Andy Saunders is one of the world's foremost experts of NASA digital restoration. His work has been exhibited at museums, and appeared in BBC News, Daily Telegraph, Smithsonian's Air and Space Magazine, Ars Technica, The Sun, as well as in NASA's own archives.
30 September 2022 | Casiana Ionita for Particular Books | 336 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
MICHAEL JOSEPH FOOD & DRINK
The Whole Vegetable Sophie Gordon
Over 120 delicious, seasonal, low-waste recipes for a happier planet.
How can we cook more sustainably? In The Whole Vegetable, plant-based chef Sophie Gordon shows us: eat seasonally, eliminate food waste and enjoy beautiful, vibrant, nourishing meals.
Over half of household waste is usually from food, but small differences to the way we shop and cook can dramatically reduce this. Dividing the year into six sections (roughly led by the seasons), in each chapter Sophie celebrates five ‘hero’ vegetables and fruits, and offers multiple ways to use these while they’re at their peak, including all the bits you might normally discard, such as stalks or peelings, to ensure you get the best from your produce with absolutely minimal waste.
From vegetable-top pestos, herby grain salads, salty roasted leaves and rich garlicky root veg mashes, to vibrant vegan tacos, curried dahls, wholegrain pancakes and spiced roasted fruits, as well as countless takes on pasta sauces, hummus, salsas, dips, tapenades, and compotes, these recipes are packed with colour, flavour, texture and international influences from all over the world.
Throughout the book, ‘waste tips’ show how to make use of every scrap, with advice for storing, freezing, repurposing or reinventing. Meanwhile, an abundance of ideas for swaps and substitutions lets you adapt each recipe to your taste or location, thereby helping you save the planet and your pennies by using all your veg to its fullest potential ______
Sophie Gordon (@soph_gordon) is a plant-based chef and recipe developer, caterer, and entrepeneur. She runs the South East London Supper Club, creating vegan dishes for a variety of attendees, and also holds regular plant-based retreats across the globe, collaborating with Soho House, Lulu Lemon, Free People, Foodism, Vita Coco and many more. Her platform is focused on plant-based and sustainable eating, enviornmental protection, and wellness.
20 January 2022 | Ione Walder for Michael Joseph | 304 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
VINTAGE FOOD & DRINK
The Sweet Roasting Tin Rukmini Iyer
Seventy-five delicious one-tin baking recipes, from the bestselling author of the Roasting Tin series.
The Sweet Roasting Tin offers an appetising assortment of sweet treats, with these easy to achieve baking recipes. From loaf and muffin tins, to cakes, cookies and brownies, these bakes have got you covered for breakfast, elevensies and beyond.
Whether you’re looking to make easy-make bakes or magnificent masterpieces, The Sweet Roasting Tin is a must-have in your kitchen. ______
Rukmini Iyer (@missminifer) is the trusted, bestselling author of The Roasting Tin series, which has sold half a million copies to date (The Roasting Tin; The Green Roasting Tin; The Quick Roasting Tin; The Roasting Tin Around The World and now The Green Barbecue). In 2019, Rukmini was the bestselling Food and Drink author without a dedicated series in the UK market. She originally trained as a lawyer but left the industry to retrain as a chef and food stylist. Her aim is to transform Britain's midweek meals one roasting tin dinner at a time from omnivores to vegans, flexitarians to families or households of one or two. https://www.instagram.com/missminifer/
Rukmini Iyer and The Roasting Tin Series…
‘Minimum fuss and maximum flavour.’ – The Sunday Express
02 September 2021 | Mireille Harper for Square Peg | 320 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY FOOD & DRINK
Little Book of Vegan Bakes Holly-Jade
80 simple and delicious vegan bakes, cakes and desserts for any occasion, from Instagram star- baker Holly-Jade.
Discover how to bake show-stopping, mouth-watering, heart-warming, incredibly delicious vegan cakes and bakes at home with Holly-Jade.
Recipes range from the very simple (No Bake Chocolate Tart, Biscoff Cupcakes and Peanut Butter Brownies) to the more ambitious (Tiramisu Doughnuts, Cherry Bakewell Cheesecake and Mocha Cinnamon Rolls) making this a book for anyone and any ability. Including essential step-by-step guides to icing and decorating, Holly gives you all the ingredients to take your vegan baking to the next level. ______
Holly-Jade (@thelittleblogofvegan) is the creator of three-time award winning vegan baking blog 'The Little Blog of Vegan'. Her work is regularly featured in magazines and online in places such as Huffington Post, Sainsbury's online and BBC Good Food Magazine.
24 June 2021 | Lizzy Gray for Ebury Press | 224 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN GENERAL FOOD & DRINK
An A-Z of Pasta Stories, Shapes, Sauces, Recipes Rachel Roddy
The definitive guide to pasta, by the award- winning food writer and Guardian columnist Rachel Roddy.
This is the story of pasta. In it, Guardian columnist and award-winning food writer and Rome dweller Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy's favourite food in a practical, easy-to-use and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes.
Along with the recipes are short essays that weave together the history, culture and the everyday life of pasta shapes from the tip to the toe of Italy. There is pasta made with water, and pasta with egg; shapes made by hand and those rolled by machine; the long and the short; the rolled and the stretched; the twisted and the stuffed; the fresh and the dried. The A-Z of Pasta tells you how to match pasta shapes with sauces, and how to serve them. The recipes range from the familiar - pesto, ragù and carbonara - to the unfamiliar (but thrilling). This is the definitive guide to pasta from one of the best food writers of our time. ______
Rachel Roddy (@rachelaliceroddy) moved to Rome in 2005 where she began writing, mostly about food, on her blog Racheleats. Her first book, Five Quarters, was published in 2015 and won both the André Simon Food Book Award and the Guild of Food Writers First Book Award. Her second book, Two Kitchens, was published in 2017. She has written for the Financial Times, the Telegraph, Conde Nast Travel, Vanity Fair, Delicious Magazine and has an award-winning weekly column in the Guardian called A Kitchen in Rome. She lives in Rome with her Sicilian partner and son Luca.
08 July 2021 | Juliet Annan for Fig Tree | 304 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY FOOD & DRINK
Spicebox 100 Curry House Favourites Made Vegan Grace Regan
All your takeaway favourites – delicious, easy and completely plant-powered.
Make all the food you love, packed with vibrant colourful ingredients and authentic flavour. Find every one of your favourite curry dishes here including Aloo Gobi, Chana Masala, Cauli Tikka Masala, Jackfruit Jalfrezi, Onion Bhaji and Chana Chaat, BUT with one twist - they are all vegan.
Perfect for a quick midweek supper, or a weekend banquet with friends, curry night just got easier, cheaper and even more delicious. ______
Grace Regan (@eatspicebox) is a cook and owner of Spicebox, which started life as a street food stall before finding new life as a critically acclaimed curry house in Walthamstow. Her writing has been published in The Guardian and Huffington Post and she was longlisted for the BBC Food Rising Star Award.
Grace believes Indian food is the perfect gateway to vegan cuisine and her biggest food influence is her great aunt Dolly who is South Indian. Grace grew up eating her food and cooked her first curry aged 12.
08 April 2021 | Lizzy Gray for Ebury Press | 224 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY COOKERY
The Noodle Cookbook 100 healthy and delicious noddle recipes for happy eating Damien Lee of Mr Lee’s Noodles
Quick Asian-inspired noodle dishes from popular noodle brand Mr Lee's Noodles.
Tasty noodle bowls, real quick.
From Shanghai 'Yum Cha' Noodles, Mr Lee's Cracking Katsu and Bamboo Buckwheat Noodles to Tonkotsu Pork Noodles and Cantonese Wanton Soup, The Noodle Cookbook has a recipe for every craving, including vegetarian, vegan and gluten free friendly options. Get to know your noodles with an essential store-cupboard section, notes on health- boosting 'hero ingredients' and healthy swap ins for your favourite Asian condiments.
With tasty dishes from Vietnam to China, The Noodle Cookbook will spice up your meals and satisfy those instant noodle cravings.
No worries, eat happy! ______
Founder and CEO of Mr Lee's Noodles Damien Lee (@mrleespurefoods) is an entrepreneur and single father of two boys. He was born in Melbourne, Australia and moved to the the UK in 1993. When diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, he knew he had to start eating better but still craved his favourite snack - instant noodles.
So, Damien launched Mr Lees Noodles (@mrleespurefoods), bringing healthy and sustainable pot noodles without the 'nasties' to the public. Damien runs Mr Lees Noodles from his home in Bournemouth, after moving there from London in 2013.
04 March 2021 | Camilla Ackley for Ebury Press | 192 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
PENGUIN GENERAL FOOD & DRINK
The Plant-Based Power Plan Increase Strength, Boost Energy, Perform at Your Best TJ Waterfall
The first authoritative, evidence-based book on how a vegan diet improves performance - and how to do it yourself.
The scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that a plant-based diet is one of the most effective ways to improve both long-term health and to see immediate results in terms of energy, recovery and performance. But what can you do to ensure your diet boosts your performance in your sport or training?
In The Plant-Based Power Plan, registered elite sports nutritionist TJ Waterfall uses the cutting-edge research he applies with his clients - ranging from Premiership rugby players, competitive weightlifters and professional boxers, to Premier League footballers and ultra-distance triathletes - to bust the myths and explain the numerous benefits of a well-planned plant-based diet and how to use it to take your health and performance to the next level.
With simple but comprehensive practical guidance - from maximising muscle protein synthesis and improving your recovery, to tweaking nutrition timing and getting enough energy to fuel highly active training schedules - TJ gives you everything you need to bring your A-game. He also shows you just how simple it is to incorporate the most important nutrients into your diet with a selection of 30 easy and delicious recipes. ______
TJ Waterfall (@tj_waterfall) is a sports nutritionist specialising in plant-based nutrition. He is a registered nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition and has an MSc in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition from University College London, where he has worked in nutrition research. He writes for Men's Fitness, Cycling Weekly and Outdoor Fitness, among others, and speaks regularly at vegan festivals about the science-backed health benefits of plant-based diets.
07 January 2021 | Connor Brown for Penguin Life | 272 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
MICHAEL JOSEPH FOOD & DRINK
The Meal Prep King Plan Save Time. Lose Weight. Eat the Meals You Love Meal Prep King
Prep yourself back to health with quick and easy meal-prep recipes for sustainable weight loss.
Shift the weight you've always wanted to, free up your weeknights and save yourself a fortune, with easy batch-cooked recipes that don't compromise on flavour.
This is your step-by-step guide to achievable weight-loss and a hassle-free kitchen. Inside you'll find 80 recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks, plus a 21-day meal plan, calorie guidance, and loads of useful advice about how to store, freeze and reheat your meals to see you through the week ahead.
John and Charlotte's incredible weight-loss success story will inspire you to follow in their meal-prepping footsteps. It's a simple and adaptable way to cut down on calories while still eating the food you love, with favourites like piri-piri chicken, Chinese-style pork, Korean beef noodles, breakfast yoghurt jars, burrito bowls, Thai curry and much, much more. Healthy, satisfying food has never been more simple or rewarding. ______
John Clark (@themealprepking) and Charlotte Deniz, based in Bolton and Blackpool, have lost an incredible combined weight of 15-stone. They are now showing others how to achieve permanent weight-loss in an easy, affordable, healthy way.
31 December 2020 | Ione Walder for Michael Joseph | 224 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
MICHAEL JOSEPH FOOD & DRINK
The Alcorithm Rob Buckhaven
The first ever drinks book to shine a light on flavour, this is the ultimate guide to discovering your favourite aperitifs.
Did you know that if you like pornstar martinis then you'll love vodka, and if you love both of those then you'll love gewürztraminer, the aromatic and spicy white wine from the Alsace? It is also true that if you like to drink, then you'll love reading this book.
As a person who enjoys indulging in an afternoon aperitif, you'll like reading the drinks menu. You'll explore the options, and they're tempting but somehow, you'll always order your usual IPA, the tried and tested fluorescent orange Aperol Spritz, or maybe even the reliable gin and tonic. But the adventure stops there, because why waste time and money on a drink you might not like. It's just easier to stick to what you know - until now . . .
Renowned drinks critic and the Metro drinks columnist, Rob Bukhaven, has created an algorithm like no other - The Alcorithm - that guides readers via their tastes in flavours to drinks they'll love. ______
Rob Buckhaven (@robbuckhaven) is a drinks expert, with 14 years' experience in the wine and spirits industry. He is Drinks Columnist for the Metro, Brand Ambassador for English Winery, Rathfinny Estate, and IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year Nominee.
He has also appeared as a Wine Expert on The Market Kitchen and Something for the Weekend. He holds a MBA in Wine Marketing and Management from the prestigious INSEEC Business School in Bordeaux.
11 November 2021 | Ione Walder for Michael Joseph | 272 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
EBURY FOOD & DRINK
Everything You Need to Know About Whisky (But Are Too Afraid to Ask) Nick Morgan and The Whisky Exchange
Understand the what, how, who and when of whisky and its fascinating history.
Whisky experts Nick Morgan and The Whisky Exchange open the lid on the whisky industry, revealing what makes one of the world's simplest spirits just so popular. Everything You Need to Know About Whisky will answer all of your burning questions; from what makes the perfect scotch and how to drink it like a pro, to an exploration of distilleries around the world and their fascinating (often scandalous) histories.
This indispensable guide is filled with insider tips on finding your new favourite bottle and brewing up the very best whisky based cocktails - essential reading for all whisky fans, novices and experts alike. ______
Nick Morgan (@nicholasjmorgan) was Head of Whisky Outreach at Diageo, tasked with reinvigorating heritage blends. He is the winner of an Outstanding Achievement in Scotch Whisky Award. His work has earned him a place on the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trustee board, further supporting excellence in British Craftsmanship. Nicholas was made the forty- eighth inductee into the Whisky Hall of Fame in March 2018. He lives in London.
The Whisky Exchange (@whiskyexchange) is a family business founded by Sukhinder and Rajbir Singh in 1999, and has since grown to be the internet's number-one specialist retailer of whisky and other spirits. They have won a string of industry awards, including Independent Spirits Retailer of the Year and Whisky Magazine's Online Retailer of the Year.
05 August 2021 | Camilla Ackley for Ebury Press | 256 pp Right contact: Anjali Nathani
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Ebury Press | 30 July 2020 | 384 pp | Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
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Penguin Life | 11 February 2021 | 272 pp | Rights contact: Amelia Evans
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Particular Books | 3 September 2020 | 368 pp | Rights contact: Amelia Evans
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Doubleday | 14 January 2021 | 384 pp | Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
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Transworld Digital | 20 August 2020 | 400 pp | Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett
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Michael Joseph | 23 July 2020 | 192 pp | Rights contact: Anjali Nathani TERRA INCOGNITA 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years Dr Ian Goldin and Dr Robert Muggah
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1620s, Lancashire. Away from the village lies a small hamlet, abandoned since the Plague, where only one family dwell amongst its ruins. Young Sarah Haworth and her family are outcasts by day and the recipients of visitors by night. They are cunning folk, the villagers will always need them, quick with a healing balm or more, should your needs require. They can keep secrets too, because no one would believe them anyway.
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Particular Books | 3 September 2020 | 112 pp | Rights contact: Anjali Nathani
GAMISH A graphic history of gaming Edward Ross
Golden Axe. The Sims. Half Life. Mega Drive. SNES.
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Particular Books | 5 November 2020 | 208 pp | Rights contact: Anjali Nathani
MAKING A PSYCHOPATH My journey into 7 dangerous minds Dr Mark Freestone
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Ebury Press | 15 October 2020 | 304 pp | Rights contact: Sarah Scarlett