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FRANKFURT 2019 HIGHLIGHTS CONTENTS
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MEMOIR & © Zed Nelson © Zed BIOGRAPHY 19 Beneath the Trees Between Two Evils Impossible Causes of Eden Eva Dolan Julie Mayhew Tim Binding PAGE 2 PAGE 2 SMART THINKING PAGE 1 & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 21
SCIENCE 22
SIGMA 23
TRAVEL & NATURE WRITING 29
Propaganda Machine Sixty Harvests Left The Heart and Other ILLUSTRATED 32 The Hidden Story of Philip Lymbery Monsters Cambridge Analytica PAGE 7 Rose Andersen and the Digital Influence COOKERY 34 PAGE 19 Industry Emma L. Briant GREEN TREE 49 PAGE 6 SPORTS 54
NATURAL HISTORY 64
NAUTICAL AND OUTDOORS 76
Death By Life Kitchen Yoga: A Manual Shakespeare The Art and Science of for Life Snakebites, Stabbings Taste and Flavour Naomi Annand and Broken Hearts Ryan Riley PAGE 54 Kathryn Harkup PAGE 37 PAGE 25 FICTION
Beneath the Trees She’d never thought of a motorway before, its strange effect, never appreciated the magnetic pull of it, how it emptied you out then filled you up of Eden with a sort of nothing. You could be anyone on a motorway, whatever you wanted. Tim Binding Alice is just twenty when she becomes involved with Louis, a brooding, older man who has spent his life building some of the first motorways to stretch across the landscapes of England. With a child on the way, the couple set off on the road together, determined to carve out a life for themselves off the beaten track. 368pp 234 x 153mm But as their son grows older, he begins to question his parents’ philosophy and the sacrifices they make in order to live on their own Hardback terms. Caught between the draw of the past and a dream of new £16.99 community, their fates are transformed by chance encounters, patterns August 2020 unfolding like lines across a map. Material available: Manuscript Told in searing, lyrical prose, Beneath the Trees of Eden is a powerful due February 2020 rumination on the possibility for salvation, the people and places we find © Zed Nelson ourselves tethered to, and the things that get left behind. Tim Binding is the author of In the Kingdom of Air, A Perfect Execution, Island Madness, On Ilkley Moor, Anthem, Man Overboard, The Champion and the children’s book Sylvie and the Songman. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.
There’s No Such Thing Convenience Store Woman meets Not Working in this strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman’s search for meaning in as an Easy Job the modern workplace Kikuko Tsumura A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a tall office building and is tasked with examining footage March 2021 (TPB) of a middle-aged novelist who is being surveilled 24/7, in order to 300pp detect the ‘contraband’ that has been planted in his house. But watching 198 x 129mm someone for hours can be so inconvenient – when can you go to the bathroom, and how can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? Paperback And, more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation? £8.99 As she moves from job to job, announcing adverts on buses for shops March 2021 that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker Material available: Manuscript wrappers that create thousands of devoted followers, it becomes due September 2020 increasingly apparent that she’s not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful… Kikuko Tsumura was born in Osaka, Japan in 1978. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize. There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job is her first novel to be translated into English. Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction. Works she has translated have appeared in Words Without Borders, Granta and The White Review, and she was the winner of the JLPP International Japanese Translation Competition in 2012, and the recipient of the 2016 Kyoko Selden International Translation Prize.
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Between Two Evils The twisty, topical new crime novel from critically acclaimed author Eva Dolan. Eva Dolan ‘EVERYONE should read her’ Mark Billingham As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life – or his professional one? Dr Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still 384pp recovering from a major scandal a few years before. Was he the whistle- blower – or an instigator? 234 x 153mm Hardback As Detective Sergeant Ferreira and Detective Inspector Zigic begin to painstakingly reconstruct Dr Ainsworth’s last days, they uncover yet more £12.99 secrets and more suspects. But this isn’t the only case that’s demanding February 2020 their attention – a violent criminal has been released on a technicality Material available: 1st pass available and the police force know he will strike again: the only question is who will be his first victim…
ALSO AVAILABLE Eva Dolan was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for unpublished authors when only a teenager. The four novels in her Zigic and Ferreira series have been published to widespread critical acclaim: Tell No Tales and After You Die were shortlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award and After You Die was also longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Dolan’s first standalone thriller, This Is How It Ends, was longlisted for the 2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. She lives in Cambridge.
This Is How It Ends Eva Dolan £7.99 Rights sold: Turkish (Kultur Yayinlari Is-Turk)
Impossible Causes The Crucible meets The Craft in this brilliantly dark thriller about isolated communities, rumours and suspicion. Julie Mayhew The arrival of three strangers on Lark, a remote island with a population of 300, is the cause of much speculation. The first, a young teacher – the only male teacher on the island – the other two, a mother and her teenage daughter. What have they come to escape? And what will they find waiting for them in Lark? In Julie Mayhew’s mesmerising and compelling thriller, an isolated and deeply religious island with a history of paganism is riven when a man is 432pp found dead in a stone circle. As rumours spread and tensions rise, three 234 x 153mm Lark teenage girls and the new arrival from the mainland find themselves Hardback accused of witchcraft – and murder. £12.99 Julie Mayhew is an actress turned writer. She is an award-winning October 2019 novelist, an award-nominated radio dramatist and has written short stories and stage plays to critical acclaim. As a participant in the BFI Rights sold: Czech (Dobrovsky); Network x BAFTA Crew scheme, she also writes and directs films. Italian (Garzanti)
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Rest and be Thankful A darkly shimmering novel of a nurse on the edge of burnout, by ‘an immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one’s Emma Glass faith in the power of literature’ (George Saunders) Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely frangible bodies, carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive. 288pp Laura may be burned out. Her hands have been raw from washing as 216 x 135mm long as she can remember. When she sleeps, she dreams of water; when Hardback she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn’t love her any more. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, £12.99 always just beyond her reach. March 2020 Dark yet luminous, sensual yet chilling, ringing with strange music and Material available: Manuscript laced with dread, Rest and Be Thankful is an unforgettable novel that Rights sold: Danish (Jensen & confirms Emma Glass as a visionary new voice. Dalgaard); Italian (Il Saggiatore) Emma Glass was born in Wales in 1987 and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children’s nurse. Her debut novel Peach was published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. ALSO AVAILABLE Her second novel Rest and Be Thankful will be published by Bloomsbury in 2020. @Emmas_Window
Peach Rights Sold: Turkish (Borges Yayinevi), German (Editions Nautilus), French (Flammarion), Italian (Il Saggiatore Srl), Danish (Jensen & Dalgaard), Swedish (Modernista), Spanish (Sexto Piso), Armenian (Guitank Publishing)
A Run in the Park A funny, tender and moving book about love, loss and running, to be serialised on BBC Radio 4 in ten parts, by the winner of the Kerry David Park Group Irish Novel of the Year Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. Cathy thinks about the secret she has been unable to share. Running takes Maurice past his daughter’s house, the place he is not allowed to enter. 112pp Over the nine weeks unexpected friendships are forged, challenges 198 x 129mm faced and by the time of their final run together all will grasp a new Hardback commitment to life itself. £10.00 David Park has written nine novels and two collections of short stories. October 2019 His latest novel, Travelling in a Strange Land won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. His other books include The Light of Amsterdam, which Material Available: Manuscript was shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Prize and The Poets’ Wives, which was selected as Belfast’s Choice for One City One Book 2014. He has won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award four times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland. He has completed the Couch to 5k programme.
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Bottle Grove A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up – from a bestselling, award-winning novelist. Daniel Handler This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett–she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels–the bride is emphatic about changing her name, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. 240pp Set in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding, Bottle Grove is a sexy, 5 ½ x 8 ¼ skewering dark comedy about two unions–one forged of love and the Hardback other of greed–and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms. Add one £18.99 ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and you get a delightful and strange November 2019 spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it–and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco’s tech community and... everyone else. Daniel Handler is the author of the novels All the Dirty Parts, We Are Pirates, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and Why We Broke Up. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for many books for children, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco.
The Man That In the second instalment of Lynne Truss’s joyfully quirky crime series, our trio of detectives must investigate the murder of a Got Away hapless romantic; an aristocratic con man on the prowl; and a dodgy Brighton nightspot... Lynne Truss It is summer in Brighton and the Brighton Belles are on hand to answer any holidaymaker’s queries, no matter how big or small. The quickest way to the station, how many pebbles are on the beach and what exactly has happened to that young man lying in the deckchair with blood dripping from him? 304pp Constable Twitten has a hunch that the fiendish murder may be 234 x 153 mm connected to a notorious Brighton nightspot and the family that run it, Hardback but Inspector Steine is – as ever – distracted by other issues, not least having his own waxwork model made and an unexpected arrival, while £12.99 Sergeant Brunswick is just delighted to have spied an opportunity to July 2019 finally be allowed to go undercover… Material available: Final pass Our incomparable team of detectives are back for another outing in the available new instalment of Lynne Truss’s joyfully quirky crime series. Lynne Truss is a columnist, writer and broadcaster whose book on punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves was an international bestseller. She has written extensively for radio, and is the author of six previous novels, as well as a non-fiction account (Get Her Off the Pitch!) of her four years as a novice sportswriter for The Times. On radio, she is currently engaged in writing a continuing sequence of short stories for Radio 4 entitled Life at Absolute Zero. Her columns have appeared in the Listener, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph and Saga. She lives in Sussex and London with two dogs.
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HIGHLIGHTS AND PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED
A Shot In The Dark Music from Big Pink The Road to Grantchester Travelling in a A Constable Twitten Mystery 1 John Niven James Runcie Strange Land Lynne Truss £12.99 £14.99 WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR £12.99 Rights sold: German (Penguin Verlag) David Park £12.99 Rights sold: Danish (Jensen & Dalgaard); French (La Table Ronde); Greek (Dardanos); Italian (Bollati); Spanish (Planeta Mexico); Turkish (Kultur)
Land of the Living Clay The Blessed Girl The Bricks that Built the Georgina Harding Melissa Harrison Angela Makholwa Houses £16.99 £8.99 £14.99 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Rights sold:Turkish (Kultur) Kate Tempest
£8.99 Rights sold:Danish (Korridor); Dutch (Meulenhoff); French (Payot and Rivages); German (Rowohlt); Italian (Piemme); Portuguese Brazilian (Leya); Spanish (Sexto Piso); Swedish (Brombergs)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susana Clarke £10.99 Rights Sold: Slovak (Slovart), Turkish (Alfa Yayinlari), Russian (Azbooka-Atticus), Portuguese (Casa da Palavra), Czech (Dobrovsky), Macedonian (Izdavacki Centar Tri), Spanish (Salamandra)
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Propaganda Machine An explosive look at Cambridge Analytica, the weaponization of our everyday online activities, and the grave threat to democracy posed The Hidden Story of by an industry that is still largely unaccountable for its crimes. Cambridge Analytica The internet was meant to facilitate communication and strengthen and the Digital Influence democracy worldwide. However, as propaganda scholar Dr. Emma L. Briant reveals, powerful actors harnessed the growth of social media, Industry turning the dream of a free internet into a manipulative mass-surveillance Emma L. Briant nightmare. War on Terror–era legislation enabled a global influence industry to weaponize our digital world for the advancement of profit, power, and political influence. 384pp 234 x 153mm In 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its unethical parent company SCL Group catapulted to international notoriety with far-reaching Hardback consequences. Their purchase of millions of Facebook users’ data around £20.00 the world triggered the second scandal of Facebook’s complicity in June 2020 monetizing personal data. Yet the story of Cambridge Analytica and SCL Material available: Proposal Group remains poorly understood. With early access to interviews—many conducted before the scandal—and exclusively obtained documents, Dr. Briant offers a groundbreaking investigation of both companies and how extensive data harvesting, black ops methods, psychographic techniques, voter suppression and fear-driven messaging were deployed everywhere from the Caribbean to the Middle East, to Africa and Eastern Europe, and to the U.S. and United Kingdom. The actions of SCL and Cambridge Analytica affected millions globally, transforming public understanding of political and social life; still our governments fail to regulate this industry, threatening democracy itself. Propaganda Machine offers unprecedented insight into an age of digital surveillant propaganda, making an impassioned plea for policy-makers to protect democracy before it’s too late. Dr. Emma L. Briant is the author of multiple books on political communication and an expert on propaganda in domestic and international politics. She spent 11 years researching SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica—this formed the basis for important evidence submitted to the UK Parliament and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. www.emma-briant.co.uk
Secondhand From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions. Travels in the New Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced Global Garage Sale with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Adam Minter Sometimes across the country—or even halfway across the world—to people and places who find value in what we leave behind. 304pp 6 1/8 x 9 ¼ In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: Hardback thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea £30.00 markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. February 2020 Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle—and profit from—our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing Material available: Final files question: In a world that craves shiny and new, is there room for it all? Rights available: World All Languages (excluding Chinese, Secondhand offers hopeful answers and hard truths. A history of the stuff Korean, Taiwanese, Japanese and we’ve used and a contemplation of why we keep buying more, it also Indonesian) reveals the marketing practices, design failures, and racial prejudices that push used items into landfills instead of new homes. Secondhand shows us that it doesn’t have to be this way, and what really needs to change to build a sustainable future free of excess stuff. “Minter’s travels through the afterlife of stuff are revelatory, terrifying, but, ultimately, hopeful. ‘Secondhand’ helps us to see a world of possibility in the objects we discard.” – Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize- winning author of The Sixth Extinction Adam Minter is the author of Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He lives in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. 6 NON-FICTION
Sixty Harvests Left A compelling and urgent investigation into the industrial agriculture crisis, asking how we can rethink global food production to save our Philip Lymbery soil – and our future. A chilling statistic from the United Nations warns that the world’s soils could be gone within a lifetime. Factory farming, far from being a ‘necessary evil’, poses a threat to humanity as big as climate change. Sixty Harvests Left takes us behind closed doors and into the world of industrial agriculture to uncover a crisis in global food production. It lifts the lid on the agricultural nightmare that threatens our future – from the 224pp rise of the mega-farm to the disappearance of natural landscapes – and 234 x 153mm reveals the pioneers who are battling to bring landscapes back to life. Solutions-focused and deeply researched, this book is a rallying call to Hardback action that makes a pressing case for a radical reassessment of the way £20.00 we source and think about food. April 2021 Concluding a trilogy of works that examine our relationship with food, Material available: Proposal wildlife and agriculture, Sixty Harvest Left is an essential survival guide to the twenty-first century from an award-winning author, campaigner and one of the most influential figures in the food industry. It asks the vital questions of our time: what can we do to unpick decades of harm and move towards a sustainable future? And when will it be too late? Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal ALSO AVAILABLE welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming. @philip_ciwf
Dead Zone Farmageddon £10.99 £10.99 Rights sold: Italian Rights sold: Czech (Carpe Momentum), Polish (Nutrimenti srl), (Illumatio Lukasz), Finnish (Into Kustannus Oy), Chinese Simplified (The Japanese (Nikkei BP), Italian (Nutrimenti srl), Commercial Press) Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Sanhui Culture)
Junk Shop Classical A gloriously readable excavation of classical music, delving into the weird and wonderful borderlands of a genre brimming with Phil Hebblethwaite forgotten tales. For renowned music journalist Phil Hebblethwaite, classical music had always been an alien world, impossible to crack open. When a musical epiphany in his thirties triggered an unexpected wave of intrigue, he found himself cycling across London to track down £1 records in charity shops, re-evaluating everything he thought he knew about the genre. 384pp Gone were the assumptions of elitism and inaccessibility. What emerged was a series of incredible stories. 234 x 153mm Hardback In 2017, Hebblethwaite began a monthly column in The Quietus devoted to telling these stories, one record at a time. Now, he brings together £20.00 his discoveries to widen the classical canon for the twenty-first century September 2021 listener, illuminating the fascinating figures that history, as it so often Material available: Proposal does, has written out of the books. Rights sold: Italian (Rizzoli) Junk Shop Classical dusts off old records to reveal a remarkable collection of stories that will inspire a new generation of listeners and classical music devotees alike. Rummaging through the genre’s rich history, it gathers forgotten gems from its borderlands: the weirdos, outcasts, scandals, hoaxes, pioneers and era-defining events. Phil Hebblethwaite is an award-winning music journalist. He is the co- founder of The Stool Pigeon newspaper, former Acting Features editor for NME, and has written for the Guardian, Vice and the Quietus. Since 2015 Phil has worked as editor and senior writer of online articles for BBC Music and BBC Proms, and in 2019 became the commissioner of a series of podcasts for BBC Sounds.
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The Trick A brilliantly funny and utterly compelling trip through the world of super-wealth, seen through the eyes of someone who is terrible with Why Some People Can money Make Money and Other Money is the best thing in the world. As a race, it’s our masterpiece. But there’s People Can’t also a downside. We’ve known this all along. It’s killing us. William Leith The impulse to make money is in all of us. It’s a demonic force. But why are some people terrible at making money while others get crazy rich? Are we missing a trick? This is the thought that set William Leith off on an utterly compelling adventure into the bizarre, seductive world of extreme 234 x 153mm wealth. Hardback For years, Leith travelled far and wide interviewing the rich and the super- £20.00 rich. He spent time with the real-life Wolf of Wall Street who, not content with his hundreds of millions, devised a fraud so he could make hundreds March 2020 of millions more. He visited a Baroque mansion, the ‘nicest house in Material available: First pass the world’, where a Russian half-billionaire lives alone with his butler. available He hung out on the estate of Felix Dennis, the remorseful tycoon who commissioned an avenue of statues to represent the story of his life. A fascinating and entertaining exploration into the psyche of the super- wealthy, The Trick is a deep dive into our collective obsession with money; that beautiful, elusive thing that makes the world go round – and is leading to our downfall. William Leith has, at different times, worked as a columnist and feature writer at the Independent on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday and the Observer. He has written about a wide range of subjects, from food to celebrity, cosmetic surgery, fashion and film. He has written about kings in Africa, political tension in Palestine, nightlife in Bangkok, Hollywood film directors, diet gurus and the death of James Dean. He is the author of two previous books, The Hungry Years and Bits of Me Are Falling Apart.
Dark, Salt, Clear A lyrical, evocative and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain, Life in a Cornish from a brilliant new writer. Fishing Village There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore- rich place her mother is from and where she spent her summer holidays. Lamorna Ash Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she travels to Newlyn, a fishing village near Land’s End. This Cornwall is messier and harder, offering more life and humour than she could have imagined. 272pp 234 x 153mm Immersing herself in the rhythms of this community sustained and defined by the sea for centuries, Ash finds herself on a week-long trawler Hardback trip. Out on the water, miles from the coast, she learns how fishing £16.99 requires you to confront who you are and what it is that holds you to May 2020 the land. But on her way she finds that this proud and compassionate Material available: manuscript community is under threat, living in the ever-lengthening shadow cast by available globalization. An evocative journey of personal discovery and an insight into the past, present and future of the UK’s fishing industry, Dark, Salt, Clear confirms Lamorna Ash as a strikingly original new voice. Lamorna Ash is an education worker at the charity IntoUniversity and is a freelance writer for the Times Literary Supplement and TANK magazine. She has a degree in English from Oxford and a masters in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UCL. She has herself written numerous plays that have toured Edinburgh, Oxford and London. She can gut most kinds of fish, quite slowly. Dark, Salt, Clear is her first book.
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Can We Talk From the expert who understands both sides of the world’s most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-day Guide for the About Israel? Perplexed–a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian issue. A Guide for the Curious, Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of the Israeli conflict, and of why so Confused, and Conflicted many people feel so strongly about it without actually understanding it very well at all. It is an attempt to understand a century-long struggle Daniel Sokatch between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And it’s an attempt to explain why Israel (and the Israeli- 256pp Palestinian conflict) drives so many otherwise sane people completely crazy–why it seems like Israel is the answer to “what is wrong with the B&W images throughout world” for half the people in it, and “what is right with the world” for the 5 ½ x 8 ¼ other half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many Hardback intelligent, educated and sophisticated people express such strongly and $26.00 passionately held convictions, and about which they actually know so little? March 2020 Material available: Manuscript Easy-to-read yet fiercely penetrating and original, Can We Talk About Israel? is a digestible yet thoughtful and surprisingly comprehensive look at Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Christopher Noxon’s engaging illustrations assist in explaining the history and basic contours of the most complicated conflict in the world. Daniel J. Sokatch is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Israel Fund (NIF), the leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis (not just Jews). Daniel has an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and a BA from Brandeis University. He is married with two daughters and lives in San Francisco. Christopher Noxon (illustrator) is a journalist whose illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Los Angeles Magazine, Salon, and his book, Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City.
Outrage is the A candid exploration of the state of outrage in our culture and how it debases our civil discourse from presenter, DJ and rising star of radio New Black Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles. Why Everyone is Shouting We’re living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our and No One is Talking resolute predecessors, we’ve checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slavery? Abolished. Apartheid? Not anymore buddy. Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles Women’s suffrage? Nailed it. But what do you do when you keep winning your battles? Well, you pick new ones, of course. Ours is a society where many get by on provocation, the tactless but effective tool of pedalling outrage – and we all too quickly take the bait. If 272pp outrage has become abundant, activism has definitely become subdued. Are we so exhausted from our hashtags that we simply don’t have the 198 x 129mm energy to be outraged in the real world? Or are we simply pretending to Hardback be bothered? £14.99 There is still much to be outraged by in our final frontier – the gender pay January 2020 gap, racial bias, gun control – but in order to enact change, we must learn to channel our responses. Passionate, funny and unrelentingly wise, this is the essential guide to living through the age of outrage. Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles is the host of the BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show and the co-presenter of BBC One’s Sounds Like Friday Night. She is the first solo female to host 1Xtra Breakfast. Under her rap alias Amplify Dot, she made British music history as the first female MC to sign a major label album deal. She lives in London.
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The Creative State From one of the most exciting young entrepreneurs in Britain today, a bold, impassioned and innovative call for a new kind of society: Rohan Silva one where innovation is sparked by the government. As a policy adviser for innovation and entrepreneurship to Prime Minister David Cameron, Rohan Silva was often asked the question: ‘Why is there no British Google?’ Though the story of Google’s founders starting their business out of a Silicon Valley garage is familiar, few people understand the active role 384pp the American government played in the company’s creation. Right and 234 x 153mm left-wing governments in Britain have come to see state intervention in the economy as the cause of problems, not the key to growth. But on Hardback close inspection, government action is at the heart of the world’s most £20.00 innovative and prosperous nations, from Singapore to Denmark, Estonia March 2021 to Israel – and the foundation for the Googles of the future. Material available: Manuscript The Creative State illustrates that generous, long-term and intelligently due September 2020 targeted government support can build political and civic environments where creative businesses can thrive. More importantly, it can help tackle one of the key challenges of our times: ensuring people benefit, rather than lose out, from the twin forces of technology and globalisation. Drawing on wide research and entrepreneurial expertise, Rohan Silva shows that the future lies not in laissez-faire economics but in a bold, radical and exciting alternative: the creative state. Rohan Silva is the co-founder of Second Home, a social enterprise that supports creativity, entrepreneurship and job creation in cities around the world. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser to David Cameron, where he created the hugely successful Tech City initiative that helped build the world’s fastest growing technology cluster in East London. A Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a World Economic Forum ‘Young Global Leader’, he has a weekly column in the Evening Standard and also writes for the Sunday Times and other publications
One Road, As China’s commands more global influence, this is an expert exploration of China’s bold plans to remake the world economy Many Dreams Through its “One Belt, One Road” initiative, China is investing in major China’s Bold Plan to infrastructure worldwide. It is a policy that demands close examination Remake the Global on account of its scale (70 countries, one thousand projects and a $2 trillion budget), ambition and worldwide ramifications. In short, is China Economy about to change the world? Daniel Drache, A T Written by leading economists, One Road, Many Dreams is the first general Kingsmith, & Duan Qi book to explore what China’s global investment means for world power politics and public policy. It answers the simple but complex questions, the “what”, “why”, “how” and “who” of China’s attempt to remake the 288pp global economy. 234 x 153mm Daniel Drache is a scholar in international political economy and Hardback globalization studies. In 2017 he gave TedTalk on China’s “One Belt, £25.00 One Road” initiative. A.T.Kingsmith is a doctoral candidate in the July 2019 Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. Duan Qi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University, China.
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This Land is Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Their Land Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. The Wampanoag Indians, In March 1621, when Plymouth’s survival was hanging in the balance, the Plymouth Colony, and Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth’s governor, John Carver, declared their people’s friendship for each other the Troubled History of and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English Thanksgiving gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First David J. Silverman Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip’s War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would 528pp come to an end. 6 1/8 x 9 ¼ 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds Hardback profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody £13.00 dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, April 2020 Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war—tracing the Material available: Final files Wampanoags’ ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving. David J. Silverman is a professor at George Washington University, where he specializes in Native American, Colonial American, and American racial history. He is the author of Thundersticks, Red Brethren, Ninigret, and Faith and Boundaries. His essays have won major awards from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the New York Academy of History. He lives in Philadelphia.
The Power For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right’s rise to political power. Worshippers For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement Inside the Dangerous Rise preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and of Religious Nationalism same-sex marriage. But in her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: America’s Religious Right has evolved Katherine Stewart into a Christian nationalist movement. It seeks to gain political power and to impose its vision on all of society. It isn’t fighting a culture war, it is waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy. 320pp Stewart shows that the real power of the movement lies in a dense 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations, Hardback embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances with likeminded, anti-democratic religious nationalists around the world, $28.00 including Russia. She follows the money behind the movement and March 2020 traces much of it to a group of super-wealthy, ultraconservative donors Material available: Final manuscript and family foundations. The Christian nationalist movement is far more organized and better funded than most people realize. It seeks to control all aspects of government and society. Its successes have been stunning, and its influence now extends to every aspect of American life, from the White House to state capitols, from our schools to our hospitals. The Power Worshippers is a brilliantly reported book of warning and a wake-up call. Stewart’s probing examination demands that Christian nationalism be taken seriously as a significant threat to the American republic and our democratic freedoms. Katherine Stewart is one of the leading authorities on the political aspects of the Religious Right. The author of The Good News Club (Public Affairs, 2012), she contributes to the New York Times, the American Prospect, the Washington Post, the Nation, the Guardian, the Advocate, Slate, and the Atlantic. In 2014, she was named Person of the Year by the national civil liberties group Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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The Next Great A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting Migration its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. Sonia Shah The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet’s migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing 384pp tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardback But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be $28.00 quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to June 2020 environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Material available: Manuscript Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, catapulting us into the highest reaches of the Himalayan mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, creating and disseminating the biological, cultural, and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis--it is the solution. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today’s anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope. Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Anarchy In his most ambitious book to date, bestselling historian William Dalrymple tells the timely and cautionary tale of the rise of the The Relentless Rise of the East India Company and one of the most supreme acts of corporate East India Company violence in world history. In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal William Dalrymple emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through 544pp means of a ruthless private army. 234 x 153mm The East India Company’s founding charter authorised it to ‘wage war’ Hardback and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this £30.00 new government marked the moment that the East India Company September 2019 ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power Material available: Final files in the guise of a multinational business. In less than four decades it had Rights sold: Chinese Simplified trained up a security force of around 200,000 men – twice the size of (Social Sciences Academic Press); the British army – and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering French (Les editions Noir sur Blanc); first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Italian (Adelphi) Company’s reach stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction 2019 The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its shareholders. William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power. William Dalrymple wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was just twenty-two. Since then, he has had many more books published and won numerous awards for his writing. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.
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América An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. The Epic Story of Spanish At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United North America, 1493-1898 States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus’s great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Robert Goodwin Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next three hundred years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies 544pp went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died, 6 1/8 x 9 ¼ few triumphed. Some were cruel, some were curious, some were kind. Hardback Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through £25.00 baptism and Christian teaching. June 2019 Theirs was a frontier world which Spain struggled to control in the face Material available: Final files of Indian resistance and competition from France, Britain, and finally the United States. In the 1800s, Spain lost it all. Rights sold: Chinese Simplified (Changsha Senxin Culture Goodwin tells this history through the lives of the people who made Dissemination) Spanish (Atico de it happen and the literature and art with which they celebrated their Los Libros) successes and mourned their failures. He weaves an epic tapestry from these intimate biographies of explorers and conquerors, like Columbus and Coronado, but also lesser known characters, like the powerful Gálvez family who gave invaluable and largely forgotten support to the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War; the great Pueblo leader Popay; and Esteban, the first documented African American. Like characters in a great play or a novel, Goodwin’s protagonists walk the stage of history with heroism and brio and much tragedy. Dr. Robert Goodwin is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. His two trade books, Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South and Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 were published to critical acclaim. He appears on Spanish radio and TV and writes for Spanish newspapers. He lives between London and Seville, where he regularly conducts archival research.
The Musical Human The Musical Human is the first Big History of Music, presenting the long view of Man’s relationship with music over three distinct timelines: the Michael Spitzer human life-span, world history, and evolution. While there are many different kinds of music in the world – and there may not be one single musical language – there is something irreducibly human about all the music of the earth. At the heart of The Musical Human is the simple 656pp Darwinian notion that human and animal communication are continuous 234 x 153mm with each other: human music is a species memory, an umbilical cord Hardback back to Mother Nature. This, then, is a history that goes deeper. There are many books on the history of music that describe successive styles £30.00 and the works of famous composers. Others set out to describe the January 2021 anthropology of music, and the variety of musical cultures. And there Material available: Proposal have been several recently that speculate on the evolutionary origins of music, as well as music science books that look at how the human brain Rights sold: Chinese Simplified responds to music. In this deftly woven narrative spanning cultures, time (Shanghai Dook); Dutch (Unieboek); and space, celebrated musicologist Michael Spitzer embraces all of these German (Munchner); Spanish themes in one comprehensive work. Beautiful, sensitive, deeply learned (Planeta) but vivacious, The Musical Human is essential reading for anyone who has ever reflected on why music is such a significant and fundamental part of our lives. Michael Spitzer is Professor of Music and Head of School at the University of Liverpool. He leads the Department’s work on Classical music. A music theorist and musicologist, he is an authority on Beethoven, with interests in aesthetics and critical theory, metaphor, and music and emotion. He was President of the Society for Music Analysis, and also chairs the Editorial Board of the journal Music Analysis. He has written articles for The Conversation, and appeared in the BBC documentary How Music Makes Us Feel with Alan Yentob. His other books include A History of Emotion in Western Music (OUP) and Metaphor and Musical Thought (University of Chicago Press).
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Creation Creation: A History of Art from the Beginning is a history of art for the twenty-first century. It tells the extraordinary story of how people all over A History of Art from the the globe, from prehistory to the present day, have created images in order to understand the world they inhabit. With clarity and concision, Beginning it explores the remarkable endurance of this creative impulse, and Jon-Paul Stonard by tracing the diversity of artistic forms through the ages, it offers a comprehensive and exhilarating introduction to world art.
352pp Distinguished critic and curator John-Paul Stonard has assembled a dazzling array of paintings, sculptures and artefacts to tell a story of 234 x 153mm vitality and renewal. Each chapter allows intimate access to key works Hardback of art and the conversations surrounding them, from the earliest cave £30.00 paintings of the Palaeolithic Era to the conceptual art of today. But it also May 2021 expands the horizons of E.H. Gombrich’s seminal work, The Story of Art (1950), by adopting a truly global perspective. John-Paul Stonard not Material available: Proposal only explores the achievements of Western European art, but surveys Rights sold: Chinese Simplified them in relation to the interconnected traditions of world art, from the (Shanghai Dook) masterpieces of Shang Dynasty China and of Africa, to those of the Mughal Empire and Edo Period Japan. This captivating work takes a searching look at the evolving legacies of the past and casts a cold eye on our own unstable vantage point. John-Paul Stonard is a writer, art historian and member of the consultative committee of the Burlington Magazine, where he worked as an editor from 2005 to 2010. He completed a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2005, and has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary art. His publications include Germany Divided: Baselitz and his Generation and Fault Lines: Art in Germany 1945-55. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Burlington Magazine and Apollo.
The Tulip A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic. (Anniversary Edition) Anna Pavord’s now classic, internationally bestselling sensation, The Anna Pavord Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part 480pp in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes 246 x 189mm to the worldwide phenomenon it is today. No other flower carries so much baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, Hardback mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious £40.00 persecution. November 2019 Why did the tulip dominate so many lives through so many centuries in Material available: Final files so many countries? Anna Pavord, a self-confessed tulipomaniac, spent six available years looking for answers, roaming through eastern Turkey and Central Rights sold: Chinese Simplified Asia to tell how a humble wild flower made its way along the Silk Road (Shanghai Translation Publishing and eventually took the whole of Western Europe by storm. House (Part of Shanghai Century Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this irresistible Publishing Co. Ltd.) volume has become a bible, a unique source book, a universal gift and a joy to all who possess it. This beautifully redesigned edition features a new Preface by the author, a revised listing of the best varieties of this incomparable flower to choose for your garden and a reorganised listing of tulip species to reflect the latest thinking by taxonomists. Anna Pavord’s books include The Naming of Names, The Curious Gardener and, her most recent work, Landskipping. Her column in the Independent appeared in it from its launch in 1986 to the last print edition in 2016. She writes and presents programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for ten years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, the last five as Chairman. For the last thirty years she has lived in Dorset.
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The Apology From the author of The Vagina Monologues, one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, comes Eve Ensler a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement. Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. The Apology, written by Eve from her father’s point of view in the words she longed to hear, attempts to transform the abuse she suffered with unflinching truthfulness, compassion and an 128pp expansive vision for the future. 5 1/2 x 8 ¼ Eve Ensler is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, Hardback performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The £16.99 Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is the author of the May 2019 NYT bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature, the highly praised Material available: Finished books In the Body of the World, and many more. She is the founder of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against Rights sold: Arabic (Al-Karma); Bulgarian (Prozorets); Chinese women and girls, and One Billion Rising, the largest global mass Complex (PsyGarden); French (Denoel); Italian (Il Saggiatore); action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. Polish (Swiat Ksiazki); Portuguese Brazilian (Pensamento); Spanish She is a co-founder of the City of Joy, a revolutionary center (Planeta); Swedish (Ordfront) for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege. She is one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and the Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” She lives in New York.
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‘One of the most shatteringly brilliant books I have read. As soon as I finished it, I read it again, and again, and again’ Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday Times ‘A masterpiece. Truly one of the most courageous and original works of our time’ Naomi Klein ‘One of the most original and profound books of the decade’ Johann Hari
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Blood Gun Money From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, Blood Gun Money is the story of the black-market arms trade across the US-Mexican Ioan Grillo border and the violence it fuels in Mexico, the United States, and around the world. Blood Gun Money takes us into the shady world of gangster capitalism that stretches to all corners of the earth, but starts at gun shows in the United States. Through legal arms purchases along the US-Mexican border, gun runners have access to thousands of weapons, which they drive across the border into Mexico by the carload. This trade provides most of the guns used by criminals and terrorists, both within the United 336pp States and abroad. Ioan Grillo follows how this network provides weapons 234 x 153 mm to narco cartels that have drowned Mexico in blood, gangbangers who Hardback litter corpses on the streets of American inner cities, and terrorists who £25.00 unleash massacres from Texas to Norway to Syria. Blood Gun Money is a necessary portrait of the illegal arms trade around the world and a call February 2021 to consider how people and governments can reduce the murders this Material available: Manuscript system enables. Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for internationalmedia including Time magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the ALSO AVAILABLE Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of, El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Orwell Prize, and Gangster Warlords. A native of Britain, Grillo lives in Mexico City.
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The Cost of Loyalty A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. Tim Bakken military—from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America’s identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military’s insular culture elevates loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of 320pp dollars wasted. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Bakken makes the case that the culture at West Point influences whether Hardback America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic $28.00 curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce February 2020 officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any Material available: Manuscript dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major U.S. wars, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how military culture produces one failure after another. The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and necessary book, helps us understand why America loses wars. Tim Bakken is the first civilian promoted to professor of law in West Point’s history. He became a federal whistleblower after reporting corruption at West Point and, after the Army retaliated against him, became one of the few federal employees to win a retaliation case against the U.S. military. A former homicide prosecutor in Brooklyn, Bakken received law degrees from Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin and is still teaching at West Point. He lives in New York.
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The Heart and A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis—an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. Other Monsters In November 2013, Rose Andersen’s younger sister Sarah died of an Rose Andersen overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s home in Redding, CA, a town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. Her body wasn’t found for four days. In trying to imagine a way into Sarah’s life and her choices, Rose revisits their childhood, what it was like to come of age in a broken home blanketed by their stepfather’s rage. As the dysfunction comes into focus, so does a broader picture of the opioid crisis and the drug rehabilitation 208pp industry in small towns across America. And when Rose learns from the 5 1/2 x 8 ¼ coroner that Sarah’s cause of death was a methamphetamine “hot shot,” Hardback the story takes an investigative turn. July 2020 As Andersen sifts through the wreckage of their grieving family and the Material available: Manuscript trial of Sarah’s suspected murderer, we come to recognize the contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic shattering which can turn to anger, the pursuit of ever an ever-elusive verdict that will allow release, and the intensely personal rites of imagination and art needed to actually move on. Reminiscent of Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body, Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder, and Lacy M. Johnson’s The Other Side, Andersen’s debut is an original and affecting journey into and out of loss. Rose Andersen is a graduate of the CalArts MFA program in Creative Writing. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
The Lives of Lucian The story of an epic life, and the story of century told through one of its most important artists, The Life of Lucian Freud is a landmark not Freud: Youth simply in the story of its subject but in the art of biography itself. William Feaver Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver – about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freud’s own words. In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud’s early childhood: Sigmund Freud’s grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in 704pp Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into 234 x 153mm successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, Hardback his time in the Navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and £35.00 Greece, and his return to Soho – consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret – September 2019 Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age. Material available: Final files An account of a century told through one of its most important artists, Rights sold: Polish (Albatros) The Lives of Lucian Freud is a landmark in the story its subject and in the art of biography itself. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction 2019 William Feaver is a painter, curator and author, and was the art critic for the Observer for 23 years. He is on the Academic Board of the Royal Drawing School where he also currently tutors. As well as extensive work as a broadcaster he has produced films with Jake Auerbach including Lucian Freud Portraits and The Last Art Film. His book Pitmen Painters (about the Ashington Group in Northumberland) was adapted for the stage by Lee Hall and has been performed throughout the world since 2007. He curated Lucian Freud’s 2002 retrospective at Tate Britain, the Museo Correr and in Barcelona and Los Angeles, and the 2012 exhibition of Freud’s drawings in London and New York. He also curated the John Constable exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2002 with Freud. He has sat, weekly, for Frank Auerbach since 2003. He lives in London.
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Sylvia Pankhurst A definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, lifelong political rebel and human-rights champion. Rachel Holmes Sylvia Pankhurst’s early years as one of the three key leaders of the suffragette movement developed into a lifetime’s feminist work for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to welfare and education, and freedom of sexual expression. Starting out as an Edwardian suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst became a modern radical feminist. Seen as ‘wild’, even by the standards of her suffragette family, she lived a political life that included trade unionism, Irish republicanism, Pan-Africanism, pacifism and fighting racism in Europe, the Indian 528pp subcontinent, the USA and colonial Africa – where she was dubbed the 234 x 153mm first white Rastafarian. And she wrote about it all, prolifically. She spent Hardback her life in dialogue, dispute, collision and resolution with Churchill, Trotsky, Lenin, Kenyatta, Selassie, Rama Rau and Keir Hardie, among £25.00 others. September 2020 Sylvia was the suffragette who converted her experiences of torture, Material available: Manuscript imprisonment and multiple forms of external physical violence into a lifelong quest to champion human rights. In this enthralling biography, Rachel Holmes interweaves Sylvia’s rebellious political life with her private life to show how her astonishing career, long overlooked by historians, continues to resonate today. Rachel Holmes is the author of Eleanor Marx: A Life, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co-commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: Twenty-First Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire.
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Women Rowing North The New York Times bestseller--a guide to wisdom, authenticity and bliss for women as they age. Navigating Life’s Currents Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny and and Flourishing As We Age loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their Mary Pipher struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face. ‘If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly and manage our emotions skillfully,’ Pipher writes, ‘we will experience a joyous time of our lives. 272pp If we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps and guides, the journey can be transcendent.’ 6 1/8 x 9 ¼ Hardback Mary Pipher is a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effects of our culture on mental health, which has £20.00 earned her the title of “cultural therapist” for her generation. April 2019 She is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Rights sold: Arabic (Arab Scientific Publishers); Chinese Simplified Another Country. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. (CITIC Press); Czech (Grada); Dutch (Het Spectrum); Korean (E*Public); Portuguese Brazilian (Record); Russian (Piter Press)
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Lead Yourself First Book of Beautiful Questions Inspiring Leadership Through The Powerful Questions That Will Solitude Help You Decide, Create, Connect, Raymond M. Kethledge, and Lead Michael S. Erwinm Warren Berger £20.00 £18.99 Rights sold: Chinese Simplified (Beijing Rights sold: Chinese Simplified (Cheers Media); Mediatime); Vietnamese (Van Lang Culture Chinese Complex (Heliopolis Culture); Korean JSC) (Book 21); Spanish (Planeta)
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Sophie’s Planet In a series of letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, the world’s leading climatologist shows how it is still possible A Search for Truth About to ensure that young people inherit a clean world. Our Remarkable Home Dr. James Hansen the single most credible scientific voice Planet and Its Future worldwide on the issue of global warming. In his celebrated first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, he presented the full James Hansen truth about climate change, a truth born out in the years since as climate disasters continue to ravage our world. The urgency is apparent; the response so far, inadequate. But Hansen remains an optimist. In a series of moving and insightful letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, he speaks about the fight to preserve life on the planet, a fight that for her generation will be as personal as it is political—as much about policy actions as about the right of the monarch, Sophie’s 256pp favorite butterfly, to live and thrive on this earth. 6 1/8 x 9 ¼ Sophie’s Planet turns toward solutions, asking: How can we Hardback connect the dots from climate observations to necessary £20.00 policies? What can be done to preserve our planet for the July 2020 young people who will follow us? And how can we make the climate story clear to these young people, to prepare them Material available: for what will be one of their generation’s central struggles: the fight for environmental justice? Hansen’s conversations with Sophie offer a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of a life spent at the highest levels of ALSO AVAILABLE environmental research and policy--including the realms where dark motives prevail—as well as a moving clarion call for the future of the climate change fight.
Storms of My Grandchildren Dr. James Hansen is best known for bringing global warming James Hansen to the world’s attention in the 1980s, when he first testified before Congress. An adjunct professor in the Department of £10.99 Rights sold: Japanese (Nikkei BP), Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, Portuguese (Editora Senac), Italian he directed the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (Aulbiente), Chinese Simplified (Post His background in space and earth sciences allows a broad Six Telecommunications), Malaysian perspective on the status and prospects of our home planet. He (PTS Publications) is the author of Storms of My Grandchildren.
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The Universal Beasts The Great Disruption The Fate of the Survival of the Sense Jeffrey Moussaieff Paul Gilding Species Beautiful Seth S. Horowitz Masson £14.99 Fred Guterl David Rothenberg Rights sold: Portuguese (Apicuri), £14.99 £10.99 £12.99 £9.99 Dutch (Mauritsgroen) Rights sold: Japanese Rights sold: Czech (Baronet), Rights sold: Japanese (Kawade Rights sold: Korean (Kungree (Kashiwashobo), Hungarian Italian (Sondo) Shobo Shinsha) Press Co.) (HGV)
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Unfit for Purpose Forged by natural selection and honed by evolution, humans are perfectly adapted machines … for a world that Adam Hart no longer exists. Stress, obesity, declining mental health, addiction, back pain, bowel diseases and violence; a stark checklist of present-day problems, and every one of them is a legacy of our evolutionary past. In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Professor Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created. In each chapter, Adam explores how many biological adaptations that evolved to help us survive and thrive in a very different world are now working 288pp against us. In today’s society, one of the biggest killers is stress. 216 x 135mm What started out as a life-saving ‘fight or flight’ response in Hardback the face of bear attack might now cause headaches, loss of sex drive, depression and heart problems as we panic about £16.99 missing deadlines or making sense of our work-life balance. May 2020 And deep evolutionary relationships with microbes built up Material available: Manuscript through an outdoor life have rapidly derailed leading to all kinds of gut and other auto-immune problems. Throughout the book, Adam meets the scientists unravelling early human and primate evolution, the archaeologists exploring the very early stages of human society, and the clinicians and sociologists studying ‘modern day’ diseases and conditions. In a world of our making, we find ourselves unfit for purpose. But all is not lost – by unpicking the evolutionary causes underpinning many of our current woes, Adam finds and tests an array of evolutionarily-informed treatments, from the straightforward to the downright weird. Adam Hart is an entomologist and Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucester. He is a regular broadcaster for both Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, including documentaries such as Inside the Killing Jar, Big Game Theory, Raising Allosaurus, and On the Trail of the American Honeybee. He has also presented Science in Action for the BBC World Service. On television, Adam has co-presented several documentary series, most notably BBC4’s Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony, BBC2’s Life on Planet Ant and BBC2’s Hive Alive. He regularly appears on The One Show. Adam is the author of more than eighty scientific research papers. His previous popular science book was The Life of Poo (2015, Octopus Books).
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Kindred The complex and fascinating story of the Neanderthals – it showcases the culture, ecology and biology of these people, areas of Neanderthal Life, Love, research that have seen astonishing recent advances. Death and Art Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 150 years ago, from the losers of the human family Rebecca Wragg Sykes tree to A-list hominins. Spanning scientific curiosity and popular cultural fascination means that there is a wealth of coverage in the media and beyond – but do we get the whole story? The reality of 21st century 288pp Neanderthals is complex and fascinating, yet remains virtually unknown and inaccessible outside the scientific literature. 216 x 135mm Hardback In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the rag-clad brute in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Bw illustrations throughout and a Neanderthal you don’t know, who lived across vast and diverse tracts of 8pp colour section Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive £16.99 climate change. This book will shed new light on where they lived, what February 2020 they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that is being uncovered, up to and including the very recent discovery of verifiably Material available: Manuscript due Neanderthal cave art. end of August Based on the author’s first-hand experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research and theory, this book lays out the full picture we now have of the Neanderthals for the first time, from amazing new discoveries changing our view of them forever to the more enduring mysteries of how they lived and died, and their relationship with modern humans. Rebecca Wragg Sykes has been fascinated by the vanished worlds of the Pleistocene ice ages since childhood, and followed this interest through a career researching the most enigmatic of characters, the Neanderthals. She has also earned a reputation for exceptional public engagement, and frequently writes for the popular media, including the Scientific American and Guardian science blogs.
Life Changing In this post-natural history guide, Helen Pilcher invites us to meet key species that have been sculpted by humanity. How Humans are For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth has been shaped by Altering Life on Earth natural forces. Evolution happens slowly, with species crafted by natural selection across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, Helen Pilcher along came a bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call ‘Homo sapiens’, and with that the Earth’s natural history came to an abrupt end. We are now living through the post-natural phase, where the fate of all living things is irrevocably intertwined with our own. We domesticated 288pp animals to suit our needs, and altered their DNA. As our knowledge grew 216 x 135mm we found new ways to tailor the DNA of animals more precisely; we’ve now cloned police dogs and created a little glow-in-the-dark fish – the Hardback world’s first genetically modified pet. £16.99 Through climate change, humans have now affected even the most February 2020 remote environments and their inhabitants, and studies suggest that Material available: Manuscript through our actions we are forcing some animals to evolve at breakneck speed to survive. Whilst some are thriving, others are on the brink of extinction, and for others the only option is life in captivity. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, Helen Pilcher considers the many ways that we’ve shaped the DNA of the animal kingdom and in so doing, altered the fate of life on earth. She invites us to meet key species that have been sculpted by humanity, as well as the researchers and conservationists who create, manage and tend to these post-natural creations. Helen Pilcher is a science writer and comedian, with a PhD in stem cell biology and years of stand-up comedy under her belt. Helen has worked as a freelance writer for the last 12 years, and she has written for the Guardian, New Scientist, BBC online, BBC Wildlife and Nature, for which she was formerly a reporter.
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Superheavy Takes an in-depth look at how elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us, with a particular focus on the Making and Breaking new ‘superheavy’ elements discovered very recently. the Periodic Table Creating an element is no easy feat. It’s the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle Kit Chapman somehow fuse together, then catching it in less than a thousandth of a second – after which it’s gone forever. Welcome to the world of the superheavy elements: a realm where scientists use giant machines and spend years trying to make a single atom of mysterious artefacts that have never existed on Earth. From the first elements past uranium and their role in the atomic bomb 304pp to the latest discoveries stretching our chemical world, Superheavy will 216 x 135mm reveal the hidden stories lurking at the edges of the periodic table. Hardback Why did the US Air Force fly planes into mushroom clouds? Who won £16.99 the transfermium wars? How did an earthquake help give Japan its first element? And what happened when Superman almost spilled nuclear June 2019 secrets? Material available: Final files In a globe-trotting adventure that stretches from the United States to Rights sold: Japanese (Hakuyosha Publishing Co.), Russia, Sweden to Australia, Superheavy is your guide to the amazing Chinese Simplified (Posts & Telecommunications Press) science filling in the missing pieces of the periodic table. By the end you’ll not only marvel at how nuclear science has changed our lives – you’ll wonder where it’s going to take us in the future. Kit Chapman is an award-winning science journalist and broadcaster. Initially qualifying as a pharmacist, Chapman began his career on medical journal The Practitioner before moving to Chemist+Druggist, the UK’s leading magazine for pharmacists. After stints as campaign website manager for the British Medical Association and clinical editor for The Pharmaceutical Journal, Chapman was appointed comment editor for Chemistry World. Chapman also writes for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, and has appeared as an expert for the BBC and Sky News.
Death By An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters. Shakespeare Shakespeare found 74 different ways to kill off his characters, and Snakebites, Stabbings audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did over 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. and Broken Hearts But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the science Kathryn Harkup to back them up? In the Bard’s day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances of seeing a dead or dying body on the way home from the theatre was a fairly likely scenario. He didn’t have to invent gruesome or novel ways to kill off his 288pp characters when everyday experience provided plenty of inspiration. 216 x 135mm It was also a time of huge scientific advance. The human body, its Hardback construction and how it was affected by disease came under scrutiny, £16.99 and Shakespeare himself hinted at these new scientific discoveries and March 2020 medical advances in his writing, such as circulation of the blood and treatments for syphilis. Material available: Manuscript Kathryn Harkup, best-selling author of A is for Arsenic and expert on the ALSO AVAILABLE more gruesome side of science, turns her expertise to Shakespeare and the varied and creative methods he used to kill off his characters. Is death Making the A is for Arsenic by snakebite really as serene as Shakespeare makes out? How can Juliet Monster Kathryn Harkup appear dead for 72 hours only to revive in perfect health? Can you really Kathryn Harkup £9.99 kill someone by pouring poison in their ear? Readers will find out exactly £10.99 Rights sold: French (Editions how all the iconic death scenes that have thrilled audiences for centuries Rights sold: Chinese JC Lattes), Portuguese would play out in real life. Simplified (Lijiang (Editora Darkside), Spanish Publishing House), (Editorial Libsa), Romanian Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a doctorate Korean (Thinking (Editura RAO), Japanese and went on to further research before realising that talking, writing and Power) (Iwanami Shoten), Chinese demonstrating science appealed more than hours slaving over a hot Simplified (Lijiang Publishing fume-hood. Kathryn’s first book was the international best-seller A is for House), Korean (Thinking Power) Arsenic, which was shortlisted for both the International Macavity Award and the BMA Book Award. 25 SIGMA
Sway Uncovers the science behind our ‘unintentional’ biases using real world stories underpinned by scientific theories and research. The Science of Experiments have shown that our brains categorize people by race in less Unconscious Bias than one-tenth of a second, about 50 milliseconds before determining sex. This means that we are labelling people by race and associating Pragya Agarwal certain characteristics to them without even hearing them speak or getting to know them. This subtle cognitive process starts in the amygdala, the area of the brain associated with strong emotions. Does this mean that unconscious biases are hardwired into our brains 288pp as an evolutionary response, or do they emerge from assimilating 216 x 135mm information that we see around us? In Sway, author Pragya Agarwal uncovers the science behind our ‘unintentional’ biases. Using real world Hardback stories underpinned by scientific theories and research, this book unravels £16.99 the way our unconscious biases are affecting the way we communicate, April 2020 make decisions and perceive the world. A wide range of implicit biases Material available: Manuscript are covered, including age-ism, sexism and aversive racism, and by using research and theories from a wide range of disciplines, including social science, psychology, biology and neuroscience, readers learn how these biases manifest and whether there is anything we can do about them. At a time when race politics, the gender pay gap and diversity and inclusivity in the workplace are dominating our conversations, understanding how unconscious bias functions within all of us is more important than ever. This book encourages readers to think, understand and evaluate their own biases in a scientific and non-judgmental way. Dr Pragya Agarwal was a senior academic in top UK and US universities for more than 15 years after completing a PhD at the University of Nottingham. She now works as a freelance writer and entrepreneur. Pragya writes regularly about bias, diversity and inclusivity for various media outlets, including Forbes, the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, and many others.
Bad News How can we all be smarter consumers of news? There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning paper. Why We Fall for Fake News A time when the only way to see what was happening around the world and Alternative Facts was to catch the latest newsreel at the movie theatre. Rob Brotherton Times have changed. Now we’re inundated. Pundits pontificate on news networks 24 hours a day. We carry the news with us, getting instant alerts about events around the globe. And yet despite this unprecedented abundance of information, it seems increasingly difficult to know what’s true and what’s not. 288pp In Bad News, Rob Brotherton delves into the psychology of news, 216 x 135mm reviewing how psychological research can help navigate this post-truth Hardback world. Which buzzwords describe psychological reality, and which are £16.99 empty sound bites? How much of this news is unprecedented, and how much is business as usual? Are we doomed to fall for fake news, or is fake June 2020 news ... fake news? Material available: Manuscript Much psychological research attempts to answer the fundamental questions lurking behind fake news. How do we form our beliefs, and why ALSO AVAILABLE do we end up believing things that are wrong? How much information can we possibly process, and what is the internet doing to our attention Suspicious Minds spans? This brilliant book presents psychological research pertaining Rob Brotherton to one of the great concerns of the age: how can we all be smarter consumers of news? £9.99 Rights sold: Russian (Alpina OOO), Rob Brotherton is an academic psychologist and science writer who Italian (Bollati), Chinese Complex likes to walk on the weird side of psychology. His first book, Suspicious (Cite Publishing Ltd), Chinese Simplified (Grand China Publishing Minds, was published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2015 and was shortlisted House), Turkish (Kirmizi Tazi for a British Psychological Society Book Award. Rob completed a PhD on Yayincilik) conspiracy theories at Goldsmiths before moving to teach at Columbia University in New York.
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The Contact Paradox Addresses the important and difficult questions raised by humanity’s search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Challenging our In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Assumptions in the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves Search for Extraterrestrial designed to alert extraterrestrial civilisations to our existence. Intelligence Of course, we don’t know if such civilisations really exist. For the past six decades a small cadre of researchers have Keith Cooper been on a quest to find out, as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far, SETI has found no evidence of extraterrestrial life, but with more than a hundred billion stars in our Galaxy alone to search, the odds of quick success are stacked against us. The silence from the stars is prompting some researchers, inspired by the Arecibo transmission, to transmit more 288pp messages into space, in an effort to provoke a response from any civilisations out there that might otherwise be staying 216 x 135mm quiet. However, the act of transmitting raises troubling Hardback questions about the process of contact. We look for qualities £16.99 such as altruism and intelligence in extraterrestrial life, but what do these mean to humankind? Can civilisations survive in October 2019 the Universe long enough for us to detect them, and what can Material available: Final files biblio their existence, or lack thereof, reveal to us about our future prospects? Can we learn something about our own history when we explore what happens when two civilisations come into contact? Finally, do the answers tell us that it is safe to transmit, even though we know nothing about extraterrestrial life, or as Stephen Hawking argued, are we placing humanity in jeopardy by doing so? In The Contact Paradox, author Keith Cooper looks at how far SETI has come since its modest beginnings, and where it is going, by speaking to the leading names in the field and beyond. SETI forces us to confront our nature in a way that we seldom have before – where did we come from, where are we going, and who are we in the cosmic context of things? This book considers the assumptions that we make in our search for extraterrestrial life, and explores how those assumptions can teach us about ourselves. Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor. Since 2006 Keith has been the Editor of Astronomy Now, and he is also the Editor of Astrobiology Magazine. In addition he has written on numerous space- and physics-related topics, from exploding stars to quantum computers, for Centauri Dreams, New Scientist, Physics World, physicsworld.com and Sky and Telescope. He holds a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Manchester.
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Turned On The Science of Sin Genuine Fakes Clearing the Air Science, Sex and Robots Why We Do The Things We Know How Phony Things Teach Us The Beginning and the End of Kate Devlin We Shouldn’t About Real Stuff Air Pollution £16.99 Jack Lewis Lydia Pyne Tim Smedley Rights sold: German (WBG), Japanese £16.99 £16.99 £16.99 (Shinchosha), Polish (Publicat S.A.) Rights sold: Portuguese (Saida de Rights sold: Polish (Grupa Wydawnicza Emergencia), Simplified Chinese Foksal sp. z o.o.), Korean (Yeamoon Archive (Chongqing University Press), Chinese Co. Ltd) Complex (Faces Publications)
Borrowed Time The Vinyl Frontier The Edge of Memory Seeds of Science The Science of How and Why The Story of the Voyager Golden Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition Why We Got It So Wrong On We Age Record and the Post-Glacial World GMOs Sue Armstrong Jonathan Scott Patrick Nunn Mark Lynas £16.99 £16.99 £16.99 £16.99 Rights sold: Russian (Azbooka-Atticus Rights sold: Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Publishing Group LLC), Chinese Simplified Scientific and Technological Education), (Beijing Paper Jump Cultural Development Korean (Kungree Press), Turkish (The Kitap Company Ltd), Greek Modern (Crete Yayinlari) University Press), Vietnamese (Tre Publishing House)
Nodding Off Outnumbered The Planet Factory Eye of the Shoal The Science of Sleep from From Facebook and Google to Exoplanets and the Search for a A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, Cradle to Grave Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Second Earth the Ocean and Everything Alice Gregory Algorithms That Control Our Lives Elizabeth Tasker Helen Scales David Sumpter £16.99 £16.99 £16.99 Rights sold: Polish (Grupa Wydawnicza £16.99 Rights sold: Polish (Prosynski Media), Rights sold: German (Folio Verlag), Dutch Foksal sp. z o.o.), Chinese Simplified Rights sold: Korean (Bookhouse), Japanese Russian (Alpina), Chinese Simplified (Nijgh and van Ditmar), Russian (Alpina), (Ginkgo (Beijing ) Book Co Ltd), Chinese (Kobunsha), Polish (Copernicus), Chinese (Chongqing University Press) Chinese Simplified (Thinkingdom Media), Complex (Owl Publishing House) Complex (Owl Publishing House), Japanese (Tsukiji Shokan) Portuguese Brazilian (Record), Swedish (Volante), Chinese Simplified (Grand China Publishing House)
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Dark Skies Taking inspiration from the landscape around her, Tiffany Francis explores our relationship with the night sky. A Journey into the Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Wild Night author Tiffany Francis travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about nocturnal landscapes and humanity’s connection to the night sky. Tiffany Francis Over the course of a year, Tiffany travels through different nightscapes across the UK and beyond. She experiences 24-hour daylight while swimming in the Gulf of Finland and visits Norway to witness the Northern Lights and speak to people who live in darkness for three months each year. She hikes through the haunted yew forests of Kingley Vale, embarks on a nocturnal sail down the River Dart, feeds foxes on 272pp a south London estate, and listens to nightjars churring on a Sussex 216 x 135mm heathland. Hardback As she travels, Tiffany delves into the history of the ancient rituals and £16.99 seasonal festivals that for thousands of years humans have linked with September 2019 the light and dark halves of our year. How has our relationship with darkness and the night sky changed over time? How have we used stars Material available: Final files and other cosmic phenomena to tell stories about our lives and the land around us? In this beautifully written nature narrative, Tiffany Francis explores nocturnal landscapes and investigates how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art and literature. Tiffany Francis is a writer, artist and environmentalist from the South Downs in Hampshire. With a mixed background in the arts, rural heritage and conservation, her work is fuelled by a love for the natural world and a passion for protecting it. She writes and illustrates for national publications and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. Her first book Food You Can Forage was published in March 2018.
The Deer Camp A beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy piece of land in an all-Dutch Dean Kuipers region of Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting, fishing, and working, but not at much else that makes a real father or husband. Conflicted and angry– with a long and complicated relationship to a church with roots in the conflict that drove his family out of the Netherlands in the 1840s–he destroyed his relationship with his wife, Nancy, and alienated his three sons–journalist Dean, woodsman Brett, and fisherman Joe. He distrusted people and clung to rural America as a place to hide from his fraught immigrant family history. 304pp After Nancy divorced Bruce, he purchased a 100-acre hunting property 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 as a way to reconnect with his sons. The land was the perfect bait, but none of them knew how to be together as a family. Conflicts arose over Hardback whether the land–an old farm that had been degraded and reduced to a $28.00 few stands of pine and blowing sand–should be left alone or be actively May 2019 restored. After a decade-long impasse, Bruce acquiesced, and his sons proceeded with their restoration plan. What happened next was a miracle of nature. Dean Kuipers weaves a beautiful and surprising story about the restorative power of land and of his own family, which so desperately needed healing. Heartwarming and profound, The Deer Camp is the perfect story of fathers, sons, and the beauty and magic of the natural world. Dean Kuipers has been a journalist for over 30 years, writing about environmental politics, ecology and the arts. A former editor at the Los Angeles Times, his work has appeared in Outside, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, The Atlantic, Playboy and many other publications. He is the author of Burning Rainbow Farm and Operation Bite Back, I Am A Bullet (with fine artist Doug Aitken), and a new garden book with his wife, Lauri Kranz, A Garden Can Be Anywhere. They live in Los Angeles.
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Wanderland A warm, whimsical and offbeat look at Britain’s wild places, seen through the eyes of a woman seeking the magic of nature. Jini Reddy After years of secretly daydreaming about it, Jini Reddy, a journalist based in London but with global roots, finally dares to break free of convention and decides to take her ‘soul for a stroll’. She delves into the ‘wanderlands’ of Britain, in search of the magical in nature. Having kept her fascination with wildness under wraps for many years, she sets off with nothing but her inner compass to guide her, a compass that sends her ricocheting around the country. 304pp Whether she is gazing upon ancient yews, hiking in the footsteps of the 216 x 135mm hidden folk, stumbling upon ephemeral land art, immersing herself in a Hardback silent soundscape, walking labyrinths, tasting revered waters, or meeting £16.99 earth wisdom-keepers, Jini experiences Britain as a pilgrim, always exploring fresh territory: wild spaces that intrigue with their mythical April 2020 or mystical overtones, or bewitch with their unearthly beauty. She also Material available: Manuscript meets those who commune with the wild, through poetry or magic, these being her guides to experiencing the natural world in gentler, more enchanting ways. Plotting a path through Britain’s natural realm with candour, curiosity, trust and a touch of grit, in Jini’s book the heart leads, all things are possible and the wild comes in from the cold as she searches for the spirit of the magic of nature. Jini Reddy is a journalist and travel writer. Born in London to parents of Indian descent and raised in Quebec, she studied Geography at McGill University in Montreal before a masters in English Literature at Avignon University in France. She then moved to London and worked in publishing for Penguin, where for four years she wrote copy for back jackets before leaving to travel through India. Inspired by three months spent with Mother Teresa and her sisters in Calcutta, she wrote her first travel piece, which was published in The Times. Jini has spent more than a decade writing on adventure travel, more immersive journeys and eco-travel, visiting more than 70 countries. Her byline has appeared in national newspapers, magazines and online media, and she also writes features on nature-related experiences, lifestyle, wellness and personal development, sustainable business and community ventures.
Conan Doyle’s This book reveals the captivating travels and adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Wide World Arthur Conan Doyle was not simply the creator of the world’s greatest Sherlock Holmes detective; he was also an intrepid traveler and extraordinary travel writer. and Beyond His descriptions of his journeys and adventures--which took him to the Arctic and the Alps, throughout Africa, Australia and North America, and Andrew Lycett across every ocean in between--are full of insight, humor and exceptional evocations of place. Until now, these captivating travelogues have never been gathered together. In this ground-breaking book, Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle’s celebrated biographer, collects and annotates the best of 256pp his writings from around the world, which illuminate not just the places 216 x 135mm he visited, but the man himself. Hardback Andrew Lycett is a writer and broadcaster who has written acclaimed 2 x 8pp plate sections biographies of Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle. As a journalist, Lycett has contributed regularly to The £18.99 Times, Sunday Times and many other newspapers and magazines. He is February 2020 a Fellow of both the Royal Literary Society and the Royal Geographical Material available: Manuscript Society.
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Around the World in Sardinia Tangier Venice 80 Trains Island of Myth and Magic From the Romans to The Rolling A Literary Guide for A 45,000-Mile Adventure Edward Burman Stones Travellers Monisha Rajesh £20 Richard Hamilton Marie-José Gransard £20 £20 £12.99
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Chatsworth, Arcadia, Diving into the extraordinary art and design collection at Chatsworth House Now Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now is a lavish coffee-table book, written John-Paul Stonard by art historian John-Paul Stonard. Within the covers is a vibrant selection of art and design from Chatsworth House, beautifully photographed by Victoria Hely-Hutchinson. The reader might be presented with an intimate painting on a bathroom wall by Lucien Freud; a reclining goddess from the Sculpture Gallery (as featured in the Pride & Prejudice film with Keira Knightly, when she is seen secretly lusting over a Roman statue’s shapely thigh); ceramics by Edmund De Waal; brightly coloured conceptual pieces by Michael Craig-Martin; a Rembrandt painting; a bejewelled Fabergé snuffbox... they will experience, 416pp in other words, 400 years of ducal spending and collecting – which is still ongoing. 305 x 195mm Hardback Chatsworth is one of the greatest and most famous houses in the world, and it draws a vast number of visitors each year. £30.00 People come to explore the Capability Brown gardens, to be March 2021 wowed by the 400 gold-leafed windows, and to be immersed in Material available: Manuscript due the huge private collection of art, furniture and sculpture. Part November 2019 gallery, part museum, this extraordinary place is also home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. The Devonshire family history is a colourful narrative of Britain’s past and in this book, the stories come whispering out of the artworks – seductive, impressive, intimate. Welcome to Arcadia. John-Paul Stonard is a writer and art historian. He was a curator of the acclaimed exhibition Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation at Tate Britain, as well as curating an exhibition on melancholy at Somerset House. His writing on art can be found in the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and other major publications. He lives in London.
1784 —— Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, and her daughter, Lady Georgiana, Later Countess of Carlisle, Sir Joshua Reynolds. Lady Georgiana, known as ‘Little G’, c.1787 —— A Mantel Clock, no. 189., Benjamin Vulliamy Sr. Benjamin Vulliamy was born in the summer of 1783 to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her husband the fifth was the son of a Swiss clockmaker who settled in London. Such were the talents he inherited from Duke, after nine years of marriage. Georgiana dandles her first child on her lap, playing a game of his father that in 1773 he became clockmaker to the King, George III. He was best-known for his surprise with her, the infant’s arms and legs swinging joyfully in the air. Georgiana wears a black mantel clocks with their distinctive combination of Derby Porcelain and gilt metal, the timepiece set dress lined with white silk, and her daughter’s white linen gown is tied with a black sash, showing in a sculptural vignette. A porcelain angel reaches up to the clock dial, set in a half-column, holding that Georgiana was in mourning for her father, John 1st Earl of Spencer, who had died just a few a skirret (an ancient type of plumb line), while a set square, a mallet, chisel and books are scattered months after his granddaughter’s birth. The great swag of red material, antique urn and Italianate on marble steps at the column’s base, and a scroll with the motto ‘Fugit irreparabile tempus’, a view give a grandness to the scene, given a twist by the joyful pose of mother and daughter, line from Virgil: ‘irrecoverable time flies away’. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, bought the delighting in their new life together. clock from Vulliamy (probably) in November 1787. 1 2
2015 —— Fragments, Michael Craig-Martin. The contemporary British artist Michael Craig-Martin makes deceptively simple-looking images from ordinary objects, the sort of thing we encounter every day: an energy-saving lightbulb, a watch face, the lid of a plastic coffee cup. They may seem banal, but in Craig-Martin’s hands become monumental images that become together a snapshot of a moment in time. Craig-Martin uses colour in a striking manner, based on the simple The knotted serpent was the emblem of Elizabeth (Bess of) Hardwick’s second observation, as he puts it that ‘anything can be any colour’: the point is not naturalism, but rather husband, William Cavendish. It appears on the the exterior of the house they built together, emotional impact, particularly when the intensity and saturation of the colour are turned right up. Elizabethan Chatsworth, and on the ‘Marian Hangings’, designed by Elizabeth, now at Oxburgh Colour and design come together in Fragments to transform the objects that surround us (but which Hall in Norfolk. Now it appears everywhere around Chatsworth — here on a notepad, and as the in years to come will seem outmoded, historic, quaint even) into romantic images of the present. brass handle to an inkstand on an ornate desk in the library, a serpentine pretzel like the ‘infinity’ Fragments are among the many works by Craig-Martin collected by the twelfth Duke and Duchess sign in mathematics. — when asked who is their favourite contemporary artist, they are likely to say his name in unison. 3 4
c. 1906—— Girl’s Head, (study for The Strolling Players), Henry Tonks. Tonks’s early career as a surgeon put him in good stead when it came to drawing and painting the human figure, although he was also one of the first British artists to paint in a style influenced by 1823-5 —— Reclining lion, awake, after Antonio Canova, Francesco Benaglia French artists such as Renoir and Monet. A contemporary wrote of paintings such as The Strolling and Rinaldo Rinaldi. The Italian sculptor Antonio Canova completed his marble tomb for Carlo Players, showing a group of actors practicising a scene in the living room of a boarding house, that della Torre di Rezzonico, Pope Clement XIII, in St Peter’s, Rome, in 1792. The Sixth Duke of Tonks’s principal subject was ‘the interpretation of young womanhood’: ‘Though his figures are Devonshire admired the tomb when he visited Rome, particularly the two lions at its base, one awake set about with shimmering stuffs, rich harmonies and all-saturating lights, yet it is their humanity and vigilant, the other sleeping, as if they were guarding in shifts. He commissioned copies of and the implication of their complexities and mysteries that make them beautiful’. (C.H. Collins the lions from the two lesser-known sculptors Francesco Benaglia and Rinaldo Rinaldi, although Baker, Studio, February 1909) The small study of a girl’s head is from the same model used for noted in his Handbook, in deference to his most beloved artist, that the copies give only a faint the right hand figure in The Strolling Players, although Tonks has adjusted her pose for the final impression of the ‘astonishing nature and effect of Canova’s’. painting. Her identity remains a mystery. 9 10
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Jikoni Stunningly delicious yet simple recipes from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, inspired by Ravinder Bhogal’s mixed Proudly Inauthentic heritage and the kitchens she grew up in Recipes from an Immigrant Jikoni means ‘home kitchen’ in Swahili, and it’s a word that Kitchen perfectly captures chef Ravinder Bhogal’s heavenly recipes that combine ingredients from her family kitchens around the Ravinder Bhogal world. Her innovative way with creative flavour combinations will shine a new light on simple ingredients, inspiring you to try her Lamb Wellington with feta, pine nuts and sumac; Mushroom 288pp ragout with sweet potato gnocchi; and Banana cake with 246 x 189mm peanut brittle and miso butterscotch. Hardback As well as being accompanied by gorgeous food photography, £26.00 these recipes are brought to life by Ravinder’s beautiful writing. Her evocative stories of the kitchens of her childhood illustrate May 2020 the relationship between food, memory and identity, making Material available: Manuscript her sophisticated and honest recipes simply impossible to and sample layouts resist. Born in Kenya to Indian parents, Ravinder Bhogal grew up in London. As an award-winning food writer and chef, her cooking is inspired by her mixed heritage and all-embracing approach to different food cultures. She opened her first restaurant, Jikoni, in London in 2016 and it received a rapturous reception from critics. The restaurant has also earned a loyal and glittering clientele. Jikoni is Ravinder’s second cookbook, following her award-winning debut Cook in Boots, which published in 2009. Ravinder lives in London.
Kazuri – Small and beautiful snacks and nibbles
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finely mandolined garlic For the dressing oil to shallow fry 1 garlic clove 400g Brussel sprouts, trimmed 2 small red chillies, finely and halved chopped 100g vacuum packed chestnuts, 2 tbsp fish sauce halved 30g palm sugar butter and vegetable oil to fry 1 tbsp tamarind concentrate
To serve crispy shallots white toasted sesame seeds bonito
Charred Brussel Sprouts, Chestnuts, Hot and Sour Dressing, Bonito
SERVES 6 If you haven’t figured out a go-to recipe to make you fall in love with Brussel sprouts, can I recommend this one? When I put it on the menu at Jikoni, I was 2 tablespoons grated ginger 2 tbsp groundnut, rapeseed or 3 unripe mangoes,expecting it to be met with ambivalence – but in fact it has become one of the 5 garlic cloves other flavourless oil julienned on a mandolinmost requested small plates we have ever had. The combination of charred 2 lemongrass stalks, finely sliced a few drops sesame oil 100g mixed cherry tomatoes a bunch of coriander, 1 lime, juice only 1 small red onion, sprouts, fish sauce, tamarind and bonito is like umami on IMAX - you’ll never roughly chopped 1 tbsp rice vinegar very finely slicedmake them any other way again! 50g light brown sugar or 1 small shallot or ½ red 1 handful Thai basil palm sugar onion, finely chopped 1 handful coriander leaves 250ml light soy sauce 1 handful mintFry leaves, the sliced torn garlic till golden and drain on kitchen paper. 6 poussins, spatch-cocked For the green mango and 75g peanuts,Blanche roughly crushed the Brussels and then shock with ice. Heat oil and butter in a pan over peanut salad a high heat. Add sprouts and chestnuts and cook until they begin to get For the dressing 2 red birds eye chillies, ½ red chilli, finely chopped finely chopped some colour. 1 garlic clove, grated 1 garlic clove To make the dressing, pound garlic with a mortar and pestle along with chillies 1 tsp grated ginger 2 tbsp soft brown sugar and then add tamarind, fish sauce and sugar. Stir to dissolve. Drizzle 1 tbsp honey 2 tbsp fish sauce over sprouts, and serve with crispy shallots, garlic chips, toasted sesame 2 tbsp fish sauce 2 tbsp lime juice 2 tbsp light soy sauce 2 tbsp rice vinegar seeds and bonito.
36 5 JIKONI Lemongrass Poussin with Chilli Dressing, Mango and Peanut Salad
This wildly flavourful roast poussin is inspired by the fragrant and punchy flavours of Thailand. If the weather permits, throw it on the barbecue and cook it in the seductive plumes of its smoke.
To make the marinade, put the ginger, garlic, lemongrass, coriander and sugar in a food processor and blitz till you have a paste. Mix in soy sauce and then pour over the poussin, making sure you get it under the skin and leave to marinade for a minimum of 2 hours or overnight. Preheat the oven to 200 C/Gas Mark 6. Strain the marinade and transfer to a saucepan. Bring it to the boil, then simmer and reduce for around 10 minutes until you have a lovely glaze. Pan fry the poussin. Brush over the glaze, transfer to the oven and roast for 30 –45 minutes. Glaze again half way through cooking time. Meanwhile make the dressing by shaking together all the ingredients in a jar. For the green mango salad, pound the chilli, garlic and sugar with a mortar and pestle to a smooth paste. Pour in the fish sauce, lime juice, vinegar and 2 tablespoons of warm water, then taste and adjust flavour as necessary until you have that classic Thai balance of hot, sweet, salty and sour. Transfer to a large bowl and pound the julienned mango in a mortar and pestle to tenderise, then add to the dressing. Crush the tomatoes with a mortar and pestle, add to the mango with the sliced red onion then, just before serving, add the herbs, toss to combine and scatter with the peanuts.
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Coconut & Sambal Vibrant and authentic recipes from the bountiful islands of Indonesia. Recipes from my From the lush rainforests, tropical seas and abundant rice fields Indonesian Kitchen of Indonesia comes one of the most diverse cuisines in the world. Weaving flavours of lemongrass, chilli, tamarind and Lara Lee coconut, Indonesian food is fragrant, colourful and bold. In Coconut & Sambal Australian-born chef Lara Lee has traced her family’s Indonesian roots to share more than 80 authentic, mouth-watering recipes that have been passed down through the generations. You’ll be able to recreate dishes such as Nasi 304pp goreng, Beef rendang, Chilli prawn satay and Pandan cake. 246 x 189mm There are also recipes for a variety of sambals: fragrant, spicy relishes – ranging from mild to fiery – that are undoubtedly the Hardback heart and soul of every meal. £26.00 The recipes in Coconut & Sambal use easily accessible May 2020 ingredients and simple techniques, and are interwoven with Material available: Manuscript and beguiling tales of life on the islands and vibrant food and travel sample layouts photography, shining a light on the little-known cuisine of Indonesia. Lara Lee is an Indonesian and Australian chef and food writer. She trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine and now teaches cookery classes at Jeremy Pang’s School of Wok, runs an event catering business called Kiwi and Roo and holds supper clubs and pop up restaurants in her local neighbourhood in East London. Coconut & Sambal is her first cookbook. @laraleeeats
FISH & SEAFOOD
PRAWN AND CHICKEN FRIED NOODLES MIE GORENG UDANG
Eating seafood in Indonesia is a spectacular affair, often matched by the shimmering white sand at twilight and the mesmerising crashing of the waves. As the sun sets on the Indonesian coast, a large golden disc disappearing into Mie goreng translates to ‘fried noodles’ and there the horizon, the eateries that dot the shoreline are typically awash with diners are as many variations of the dish as there are tucking into an array of platters laden with the freshest offerings of the sea. islands in Indonesia. What they share in common Pour boiling hot water over the egg noodles in a Fish such as snapper, grouper or mahi mahi and seafood such as prawns, squid are the chewy egg noodles which are coated in large bowl for 2 minutes and loosen with a fork (or and lobsters are grilled in wire baskets and turned over charcoal embers, then a delicious sweet and salty sauce, stirred with follow your packet instructions). Strain and toss basted with bold, flavoured spice pastes, butter and kecap manis. These smoky together with a little oil and set aside. and succulent delights are typically served with sambal, a refreshing side of vegetables, meat, tofu or seafood. cucumber, lettuce and tomato, and a healthy serving of rice. Enjoyed by both young and old alike, this Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in a deep, heavy based The fish is always caught fresh in the morning before being gutted and comforting Indonesian meal will satisfy even the saucepan or cast iron casserole dish on a high cleaned and sent to the restaurant’s door. At the pasar ikan (fish market) my fussiest of little eaters and is a great dish to cook heat. When the oil is shimmering, add the chicken open toe sandals make for poor footwear over the slippery blood and guts for the whole family. It’s a dish that can be made breast pieces. Fry the chicken until it begins stained tiles and cement floors that span several large hallways. These marketswith whatever is lurking in your fridge or pantry, to brown and you can no longer see any raw are everywhere along the coasts of Indonesia, an aquatic economy in the so feel free to swap out the prawns and chicken pinkness, then add the sliced garlic for 1 minute, world’s largest maritime country with over 17,000 islands in its charge. for tofu and include any greens that need using stirring continually. Push the chicken to one side Fish and seafood are abundant here, far more affordable than sourcing up. Serve with kerupuk or prawn crackers for extra of the pan and add 2 teaspoons of oil. Add the red meat, so you will find them prepared and served in endless ways. Across crunch during dinner. beaten eggs to the oil and allow to set for 1 minute Indonesia you will find variations of fish satay, minced fish that is combined before scrambling and stirring together. Add the with spices and wrapped around the stems of lemongrass then grilled over smoke and fire, a healthy and light meal that is as beautiful as it is satisfying. prawns and mangetout for another 2 minutes, Origin Popular all over Indonesia adding a little more oil if the pan is looking dry. Chilli heat Mild Stir the ingredients in the pan continually so they Sambal suggestion Sambal terasi do not burn. Serves 4 Add the noodles and combine with the rest of the ingredients and finally add the soy, kecap manis, fish sauce and ketchup to the pan and stir to 240g fresh egg noodles (known as Hokkien) combine, warming everything through. or rice noodles Transfer to four plates and serve immediately with BALINESE STICKY GLAZEDCoconut oil BBQ PORK RIBSa sprinkle of spring onions and a side of kerupuk 2 chicken breasts cut into bite-sized pieces or prawn crackers, if using. IGA BABI BALI 3 garlic cloves, peeled and finely sliced 225g raw King prawns, peeled and deveined 200g mangetout 3 tbsp light soy sauce 2 tbsp kecap manis Barbecued pork ribs is one of the most popular with enough excess foil to wrap the ribs. Lay the 2 tbsp fish sauce dishes in Bali; a smoky, juicy and tender meat ribs onto the foil and pour over half the marinade. 2 tbsp ketchup feast that is grilled over charcoal and glazed in Wrap the ribs with the foil and roast in the oven 2 chicken eggs, whisked sweet and sticky kecap manis. You would be for 2 hours. Spring onions, sliced on the diagonal to serve hard pressed not to be drawn to Bali’s barbecue While the ribs are roasting, pour the remaining Kerupuk crackers (p.285) or prawn crackers, restaurants, with their grills strategically placed at marinade into a small saucepan on the hob and to serve (optional) the entrance to fill the pavements with the smoke bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer the and aroma of the marinade. sauce until it has thickened, roughly 5–10 minutes. This version is slow-cooked and caramelised Remove from the heat and set aside.121 Fish & Seafood 122 Fish & Seafood under the grill to produce an irresistibly sticky To check if the ribs are done, test an end rib – rack of ribs which I love to serve with sweet potato the meat should be falling off the bone. Return wedges or a side of greens and rice. to the oven if it is not yet tender enough and test again after 15 minutes. Once the ribs have finished roasting, remove from the oven and turn Origin Bali the grill to high. Open the foil and baste some Chilli heat Moderate of the reduced marinade onto the ribs with a Serves 4–6 brush, reserving the rest of the marinade as a dipping sauce. Place the ribs under the grill for 5-7 minutes uncovered until the ribs darken 2 x 700g pork spare ribs in colour and the marinade caramelises. Serve For the marinade immediately, with the remaining marinade in a 8 long red chillies, roughly chopped dipping bowl. 12 garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped 12cm ginger (about 60g), peeled and roughly Variation: Vegan butternut ribs chopped 2 small banana shallots or 4 Thai shallots, peeled You will only need to make half of the marinade and roughly chopped for this version. Pre-heat the oven to 200°C 120ml rice vinegar or white wine vinegar fan. Peel 2 butternut squashes and cut in half 140ml kecap manis lengthways. Scoop out the seeds and cut the 100g palm sugar or brown sugar squash into rib-like wedges that are 2cm thick, 2 tsp flaky sea salt slicing them widthways. Spread the slices onto a baking tray and season with salt and pepper. Halve 2 whole garlic blubs, Preheat your oven to 150°C fan. Blend all the and scatter on the tray. Roast for 30 minutes, marinade ingredients with 120ml water in a food turning the slices halfway through cooking. processor until smooth. Remove from the oven and turn the grill to high. Line a roasting tin with four long layers of foil Spoon a little of the marinade on top of each slice and grill for up to 5 minutes. Serve immediately.
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Summer Kitchens Delicious recipes from the idyllic ‘summer kitchens’ of Ukraine Inside Ukraine’s hidden Olia Hercules, author of the award-winning Mamushka and places of cooking and Kaukasis cookbooks, owes some of her fondest memories to sanctuary the ‘summer kitchens’ of her parents, grandparents, neighbours and friends in Ukraine. These tiny buildings are separate from Olia Hercules the main house, and always built near a fruit plot or veg patch so families can enjoy the home-grown produce as it ripens and preserve the surplus in preparation for winter. The number of summer kitchens is dwindling these days, but the traditions of pickling and eating seasonally are more 320pp relevant and exciting than ever. Summer Kitchens contains 246 x 189mm recipes such as Borsch with duck and smoked pears, Burnt Hardback aubergine butter and tomato toast, Pickled cabbage leaves with beetroot and Rhubarb buns. £26.00 June 2020 With gorgeous food and travel photography from across Ukraine, mingled with stories of living and eating in these Material available: Manuscript and magical buildings, this book will transport you to idyllic sample layouts summer kitchens past and present. Olia Hercules was born in Ukraine and lived in Cyprus before moving to the UK to study English, Italian and Russian. After working for a time as a reporter for Screen International, her interest in food led her to retrain as a chef. She soon began to attract critical acclaim for her writing and cooking and Summer Kitchens is her third cookbook, following Mamushka and Kaukasis. Olia lives in London.
Fermentatsiya
When the fermentation craze picked up speed here in the West, just before I started writing my first cookbook Mamushka, I could not believe it. Mostly, I could not believe my ignorance. You see, nobody has ever told us that fermenting food was good for you. We just did it, anything we could get our hands on – drop it into brine, sometimes regulate the brine with a spritz of vinegar and toasted sunflower oil to stabilise it, and away it goes into the cellar.
Hundreds of three litre jars sitting in your cellar all winter, until the first fresh cucumber of May. In fact if anything my mum would warn me against eating too many of the pickled gherkins as they contained salt, and salt was the enemy in the 1980s. So it was to my surprise and amusement and eventually absolute delight that our winter-time vegetative staples were healthy and were also becoming extremely fashionable. Wellness gurus and chefs from top restaurants in the world suddenly couldn’t get enough of the ferments. I may not have known about the health benefits, but I always knew how delicious these pickles were (hence my mum stopping me from eating the tenth gherkin). And as the worldwide craze continued so has my own fascination with my childhood foods, and eventually summer kitchens – the places where everything was preserved for winter. By everything I mean insane gluts of fruits and vegetables – I am talking whole wood barrel-fermented watermelons and apples fermented with hay (sounds fancy, but it isn’t – just a way of life). But let me tell you a story. A scene this summer (2018), in my aunt’s village called Lyubymivka, near Kakhovka. We are having a standard feast of a family lunch outside, and I hear my cousin’s teenage daughter indignantly delivers news to her mum and telling us the story at the same time.
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133 Nettle, sorrel & Towards the end of April, and during May, before anything else grew strong at people’s kitchen gardens, the fields and forests wild garlic soup would be filled with young nettles and wild sorrel. Foraging wasn’t
SERVES 4 so uncommon, and we are revisiting these ancient practices now both in Ukraine and the UK. This soup, which some call green borsch, can also be made with chicken stock and served with chopped boiled eggs, which I do sometimes, but often I just add a spoonful of crème fraîche to my bowl and eat it with a chunk of crusty bread. You don’t have to sauté the vegetables for the stock – but if you do, you will draw more sugar out of them and the soup will be perfectly balanced – sour, sweet and slightly hot from wild garlic and black pepper.
STOCK Chop the onions, carrots, celeriac (or fennel), celery and leeks into 2 tbsp rapeseed or olive oil similarly sized chunks – I’d say 1cm would do it. Pour the oil into your favourite soup-making pot, I use a cast-iron stew pot. Once 150g onion, peeled (1 onion) the oil is hot and sizzling, add the stock vegetables apart from the 2 carrots, scrubbed garlic, and sauté them over a high-medium heat, stirring from time 200g celeriac, peeled or outer to time for about 5 minutes. They should become caramelised in fennel layer (2 large fennels) parts, but not scorched. Finally add the garlic and cook it, stirring 120g of celery (3 sticks) from time to time until fragrant and also starting to get a little 134 FERMENTATSIYA 1 leek, white part only colour.
3 big garlic cloves, peeled Cover the vegetables with 3L cold water and add the bay leaf. 3L water Season it lightly with salt and bring to the boil. Lower the heat and 1 bay leaf simmer for about 40 minutes with the lid half on. If you don’t enjoy soft vegetables, you can now strain the stock out into a bowl, then Salt either puree the veg for another use or compost them.
BROTH I tend to leave the vegetables in, finding the soft texture rather comforting. Add the whole potatoes to the broth and cook for ten 100g sorrel, sliced minutes or until they are soft. Finally add the sorrel, nettles and 75g young nettle tips wild garlic and switch off the heat. Taste the soup and check for 50g wild garlic, sliced (flowers seasoning, add more salt if needed. kept for garnish) Put a potato or two into each serving bowl and crush it with your 6 baby potatoes spoon. Pour over the broth and sprinkle some wild garlic flowers 3 spring onions, finely and spring onions and herbs. If you want to be traditional, you chopped can also serve it with some boiled chopped egg or simply add a A handful of chopped dill dollop of something thick and milky, like crème fraîche and a good A handful of chopped parsley grinding of pepper on top. Crème fraîche or smetana, to serve A good grinding of black pepper
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Life Kitchen Groundbreaking recipes designed to rekindle the joy of taste and flavour for people living with cancer Recipes to revive the joy ‘Life Kitchen is proving truly life-changing’ The One Show of taste & flavour ‘I’m a huge fan of Ryan Riley and Life Kitchen’ Nigella Lawson Ryan Riley Ryan created his Life Kitchen cookery school in memory of his mother, whose cancer treatment dulled her taste buds and took away her enjoyment of food. It became his mission to discover whether there was a way to bring that pleasure back. Working with Professor Barry Smith (founder of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at UCL), he picks out ingredients, textures and techniques that reignite that spark of enjoyment 224pp in eating. He does this with brilliantly clever combinations of 246 x 189mm ingredients, often using the fifth taste, umami, to heighten and Hardback amplify the flavours in his dishes – all of which he teaches at his cookery classes, which have been hosted throughout the UK by £20.00 River Cottage and Duck & Waffle, among others. With 70 vibrant March 2020 and easy recipes, including Carbonara with peas and mint, Material available: Final files Whole roasted feta with olive and green chilli, Parmesan cod with salt and vinegar cucumber, Roasted harissa salmon with fennel salad and Miso white chocolate with frozen berries, he offers bright and exciting dishes for everyday living. These will be delicious for everyone to eat – after all, a meal surrounded by friends and family is an essential part of fully enjoying life. With beautiful recipe photography by Clare Winfield and illustrations by Lara Harwood, this inspiring cookbook aims to give back the joyful sensation of taste and flavour to everyone living with cancer treatment, and their families. Ryan Riley is the founder of Life Kitchen, which immediately gained support from the public, press and celebrities nationally, and he has gone on to run his signature cookery classes for people living with cancer across the country – including Snacks Little Bites collaborations at River Cottage, Daylesford and the Jamie Oliver Cookery School. He is also an established food writer and stylist who has worked for print publications such as Sainsbury’s
I so often hear people in our classes talk about how treatment has quashed their appetite. On top of their altered sense of taste, Magazine, Waitrose Food and BBC Good Food. In 2019, Ryan a lot of people seem to be left wondering what to eat when finally a pang of hunger or a need for something (especially something tasty) hits. opened the Life Kitchen Cookery School in his home town of That’s where snacks and little bites come in. In this chapter, you’ll find delicious morsels that give a much-needed flavour hit, but in small portions that you can either eat immediately or pop Sunderland. Ryan lives in London with his partner. in the fridge or cupboard to come back to when you feel like it. I’ve borrowed flavours from around the world to give plenty of variety. The falafels on page 76, for example, are modelled on an Egyptian snack and have plenty of palate-stimulating ingredients: mint engages the trigeminal nerve (which connects @lifekitchen / @ryanrileyy your nose, mouth and eyes and is crucial to our sensory experience of food) and boosts your sense of smell; lemon and lime add brightness to the other ingredients, as well as sought- after umami. Together, the ingredients rally around to increase saliva production, making the falafels (literally) mouthwatering. This approach – a synergy and chemistry of flavours intended to tempt and excite – is replicated in all the dishes in the chapter, with myriad umami-rich and otherwise flavour-packed ingredients at play.
Carbonara with peas & mint
1 large onion, very roughly Bring a pan of water to the boil, chopped add the salt and cook the 2 garlic cloves tagliatelle according to the 1 red or green chilli packet instructions. Two minutes before the end of the vegetable or rapeseed oil Pineapple tacos with prawns, chilli & lime cooking time, take two ladlefuls 200g smoked bacon lardons of the starchy pasta cooking 100g Parmesan, grated water and it add to the 4 eggs Parmesan and egg mixture, 2 tsp salt, for the pasta stirring to combine. This is a recipe we’ve been water, plus extra to season In the final minutes of the pasta teaching at Life Kitchen since 400g dried tagliatelle cooking time, add the frozen 100g cooked prawns our very first class. Pancetta, My all-time favourite recipe a large handful frozen peas peas to the water. When the Parmesan and peas bring that from the Life Kitchen classes, 1 red or green chilli, chopped pasta is cooked, drain it with the pineapple tacos is the one that sought-after umami hit, while a small handful of mint 1 lime, zest and juice, plus leaves, torn peas and tip it back into the pan. gets the most emotional extra wedges for squeezing mint leaves and chillies wake up reactions from our guests. Once, (optional) the senses. And, of course, freshly ground black pepper Tip the Parmesan and egg mixture over the pasta and stir a wonderful man called Mike – 1 spring onion, sliced into tagliatelle offers the comfort that who is 75 years old and hadn’t rough matchsticks a lovely bowl of pasta always Pulse the onion, garlic and chilli continuously – the sauce will tasted anything in a very long does. If you don’t eat meat, crab in a food processor until finely take 2–3 minutes to cook 1 pineapple, peeled and chopped. time as a result of his treatment sliced into wafer-thin circles (another provider of umami) is a through in the hot pasta, just worthy substitute. keep stirring and you’ll see it – found this recipe a complete a small handful of coriander, Heat a glug of oil in a frying pan become glossy and coat the revelation. So many others have leaves picked Serves 2–4 over a medium–low heat. Add said the same thing. Pineapple the blitzed mixture to the pan, pasta. Transfer the pasta to a tacos are a novel idea, but once In a bowl, mix the cooked along with the lardons and a serving dish and scatter over you’ve made them, you won’t prawns with the chilli, lime juice sprinkle of salt to season, and the mint leaves. Serve look back. and zest and spring onion. cover with a tightly fitting lid. immediately. Sweat the mixture on a low heat Makes about 20 tacos Fold each pineapple round in for 20–30 minutes, removing half to form a taco shell. Fill the lid to stir occasionally, until each shell with an equal amount the onions have melted into a of the prawn mixture, sprinkle golden paste. over a few coriander leaves, and squeeze over some extra lime, if Meanwhile, beat together the you like. Serve immediately. grated Parmesan and the eggs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Taste & flavour fact Fresh pineapple148 contains Friends &Family the enzyme bromelain that breaks down proteins into amino acids and tenderises meat. In Life Kitchen classes, the most significant feature of fresh pineapples is the power they have for many people to eliminate the metallic taste that they encounter when taking medicines or undergoing a course of chemotherapy.
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Rebel Recipes Vegan food has never tasted so good! Let Niki Webster of Rebel Recipes inspire you with her delicious plant-based Maximum flavour, food. minimum fuss Get ready for vegan food like you’ve never tasted before! You won’t find any limp lettuce or boring old-school vegan dishes Niki Webster here. Instead, within these delectable pages, Niki Webster gathers some of her favourite recipes for her rebellious debut book. Expect to find all kinds of awesomeness, such as: 288pp · mouth-watering spicy Indian crepes 246 x 189mm · baked aubergine with cashew cheese and pesto Hardback · sweet potato, cauliflower and peanut stew £26.00 December 2019 · and chocolate cherry espresso pots Material available: final files It’s deliciously indulgent plant-based food like you’ve never Rights sold: Dutch (Gottmer) experienced. Rebel Recipes is unashamedly about taste; it’s all about pleasure, vibrancy and flavour – food for the soul that happens to be good for you (and the planet) too. Vegan food has never tasted so good. Every one of Niki’s delicious recipes is brought to life with photography from Kris Kirkham. Niki Webster is an award-winning blogger and food consultant for a range of household brands. Niki is no stranger to developing recipes, food styling, photography and content strategy, and her customers include Holland & Barrett, Wholefoods and Waitrose among others. She has also developed menus and recipes for restaurants and cookbooks alike, including having worked with BOSH!. Niki is a certified Holistic Health Coach, and Plantlab Level 1 Raw Chef who regularly coaches, gives workshops, and appears on panels.
I created this dish when I wanted something super comforting, easy She has appeared in the Independent, Grazia, Women’s Health, and delicious. It’s pretty much made from store cupboard ingredients and vegetables I usually have in the house – tomatoes, peppers, garlic and onions – and it’s great after a long day at work as it’s a breeze to put Red, Vegan Life and Vegan Food and Living. Niki lives near together. Here I’ve used three types of white beans, tomatoes and a big dollop of coconut yoghurt swirled in to make it beautifully creamy. I love it with chunks of fresh sourdough. Birmingham, UK, with her husband, but spends as much time as she can travelling to the places that inspire her most. Rebel White bean, coconut and roast pepper stew Recipes is her debut book.
Serves 4 Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C Fan/Gas Mark 4. @rebelrecipes 2 red peppers, stalk removed, Firstly, add the peppers and cherry tomatoes to a large deseeded and diced baking tray and toss them in 1 tablespoon of the olive oil 250g cherry tomatoes and a pinch of salt. Bake for 30 minutes or until soft and 3 tablespoons olive oil browning a little. Set aside. 2 onions, finely chopped 4 garlic cloves, sliced Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil to a large 5 large ripe tomatoes, chopped pan and add in the onions. Fry over a medium-low heat 400g can of cannellini beans, for 8–10 minutes, until soft and slightly browning. Add rinsed and drained in the garlic and cook for a further minute. 400g can of butter beans, rinsed and drained Next, add the chopped tomatoes, turn the heat down 400g can of haricot beans, to low, cover the pan with a lid and cook for about 10 rinsed and drained minutes, or until softened. Now add in the roast peppers 2 tablespoons fresh thyme (setting aside the roast tomatoes), the beans, the thyme leaves, plus extra if desired and 250ml of water. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes. 2 tablespoons coconut yoghurt a pinch of dried chilli flakes Season with salt and pepper, and add more fresh During my first visit to India, many years ago, I fell in love with the sea salt flakes and freshly thyme if you like. Swirl through the yoghurt and sprinkle savoury and sweet lassi. Lassis were always refreshing no matter how ground black pepper with chilli flakes. Top the stew with the reserved roast hot the day was. I wanted to take that inspiration and make the drink tomatoes. my own. This recipe blends coconut yoghurt with mango and lots of subtle spices and is absolutely gorgeous. I would also recommend trying the variation below for the most delicious breakfast.
Coconut and This smooth and creamy chocolate ganache tart is a firm favourite on my blog. Chocolate lovers, this one is for you. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I think this mango lassi is the best chocolate dessert I’ve ever made: the crispy nutty base combined with the rich and intense chocolatey ganache filling is just heavenly. 116 REBELICIOUS MAINS Comfort Food I’ve given a few flavour options and suggested toppings. Choose as you wish! Serves 2 Firstly, toast the coconut flakes and seeds for the topping in a small frying pan until lightly golden brown. For the lassi Set aside. 125ml coconut yoghurt The best 125ml coconut milk or plant- Add the lassi ingredients to a high-speed blender based milk of choice or food processor and blitz until very creamy. Divide chocolate ganache tart ½ medium ripe mango between two glasses, top with the toasted coconut 1 large ripe frozen banana flakes and seeds, the cacao nibs and mango, and ½ teaspoon ground turmeric eat immediately. ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom Makes 1 x 23cm tart Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C Fan/Gas Mark 6. ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract 100g best-quality vegan Spread the walnuts on a baking tray and toast in the oven for 5–6 minutes, a thumb-sized piece of ginger, variation chocolate until a shade darker. Remove and allow to cool. finely grated 250ml coconut cream 1 tablespoon maple syrup Put 6 tablespoons oats in a bowl and stir through 2 tablespoons coconut oil Next, break up the chocolate and add to a large bowl. the lassi. Divide between two jars, close the lid and 2 tablespoons maple syrup For the topping refrigerate overnight. You may want to loosen the ½ teaspoon vanilla extract Heat the coconut cream, coconut oil, maple syrup and vanilla in a saucepan, 2 tablespoons coconut flakes mixture by adding some more plant-based milk. Top 1 tablespoon raw cacao stirring constantly, until just before boiling point. 1 tablespoon sesame or with a few chunks of mango to serve if you like. sunflower seeds Flavour options Pour the mixture over the chocolate and leave for a few minutes to allow cacao nibs 1 tablespoon orange the chocolate to melt. Fold in the cacao and one of the flavour options (or ½ ripe mango, peeled blossom extract another of your choice), and stir gently so that everything is combined. and destoned 1 tablespoon espresso powder Pop in the fridge while you make the base. 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 teaspoon mint extract To make the base, blitz the toasted walnuts in your food processor until you get a crumb-like consistency. Add in the dates, cacao, buckwheat and For the base salt, and blend again until everything combines. The mixture should stick 150g walnuts together between your fingers. Add the mixture to a 23cm tart tin and, using 10 medjool dates, pitted your hands, press down firmly to form an even base and sides. 2 tablespoons raw cacao 2 tablespoons buckwheat Remove the ganache from the fridge and pour onto the base. Transfer groats back to your fridge and allow to set for at least 2–3 hours. Serve with any a pinch of sea salt flakes or a combination of the suggestions given here.
To serve (choose from 28 RISE UP TO RULE-BREAKING BREAKFASTS Quick and Easy any of the below) raspberry compote (page 38) variations berries of choice vegan ice cream Try the below flavour combos for some perfect pairings: whipped coconut cream Chocolate orange blossom tart served with orange (page 227) slices and coconut cream. Chocolate mint tart served with fresh mint leaves and vegan ice cream.
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Dishoom An eccentric and charming cookbook from Dishoom, with over 100 recipes from the much-loved restaurants. From Bombay with Love At long last, Dishoom share the secrets to their much sought- Shamil Thakrar, Kavi after Bombay comfort food: the Bacon Naan Roll, Black Daal, Okra Fries, Jackfruit Biryani, Chicken Ruby and Lamb Raan, Thakrar, Naved Nasir along with Masala Chai, coolers and cocktails. As you learn to cook the Dishoom menu, you will also be taken on a day-long tour of south Bombay, peppered with much eating and drinking. You’ll discover the simple joy of early chai and omelette at Kyani and Co., of dawdling in Horniman Circle on a lazy morning, of eating your fill on Mohammed Ali Road, of strolling on the sands at Chowpatty at sunset or taking the air at Nariman Point at night. 400pp This beautiful cookery book and its equally beautiful 265 x 180mm photography will transport you to Dishoom’s most treasured Hardback corners of Bombay. Read it, and you will find yourself replete £26.00 with recipes and stories to share with all who come to your table. September 2019 Material available: Final files Dishoom serves a much-loved menu of Bombay comfort food and award-winning drinks in beautiful restaurants that each have a unique story. The first Dishoom opened in Covent Garden in 2010, and there are now five restaurants in London, one in Edinburgh, and one in Manchester. Dishoom breaks down barriers by bringing people together over food and drink: in its restaurants, at its events, and through charity (donating a meal for every meal, with 6.2 million meals donated so far). Shamil and Kavi Thakrar are co-founders of Dishoom and Naved Nasir is Executive Chef. Shamil and Kavi grew up in London, but have spent many years becoming deeply acquainted with Bombay’s flavours and quirks and falling
BREAKFAST AT KYANI & CO. in love with the city. Naved worked in various renowned FOLLOWED BY A STROLL AROUND restaurants in Bombay before moving to London to open DHOBI TALAO Dishoom. This is their first cookbook.
TO HELP YOU ACCLIMATISE gently to the pace “Bombayites (Mumbaikers, and heat, the noise and dust, you must rise early. Bombay is at its most beautiful in the morning. if you must) have been The air shimmers. Birds circle endlessly in the enjoying pau dipped in sky. The pavements, sometimes freshly rinsed by rain, have yet to become crowded with dusty feet. chai in Kyani since it It is the time when the city feels most at peace. opened in 1904.” Resist the temptation to ignore your alarm. Yawn, stretch deliciously as you look out of the window, do a few Surya Namaskars (in India, the the day’s relaxed activity. Don’t hold back. Ask sun should surely be saluted) and walk out into for extra chai and extra pau if need be. Savour the the street as the city starts to wake. Start in the eggs, then dunk the buttery pau freely into your neighbourhood of Dhobi Talao. chai. Enjoy the warm indulgence with a smile and Your early morning wander should, without without shame. too much doubt, begin at the utterly charming Look up and you might notice eccentric Irani café, Kyani & Co., which is most certainly Christmas decorations (left up long into the year) our favourite place for breakfast in Bombay. It is hanging peaceably alongside old family portraits, a refuge from the street, a place to idle a while Zoroastrian symbols and a sketch by the late, great before a day’s activity. Bombay artist M. F. Husain. Before he exiled Navigate the short flight of steps from the himself from India after painting his controversial pavement into the café (use the dangling knotted nudes, he was a frequent visitor here for chai and rope if you need to steady yourself), and seat bun maska. All are welcome at the good-natured yourself at one of the tables. Your chair will be Kyani & Co. a slightly rickety but elegant bentwood chair from Bombayites (Mumbaikers, if you must) have Czechoslovakia which, like many of its kind, been enjoying pau dipped in chai in Kyani since 4 probably journeyed to Bombay before India’s it opened in 1904. Sitting here, you can almost independence. The scent of freshly baked bread imagine the café as it might have been in the 2 rests in the air, stirred gently by the ceiling fans. early twentieth century. No doubt the streets were
If you’re early, it will be calm and quiet and you a little quieter back then, but in truth, it 1really can enjoy your chai and the newspaper in peace. hasn’t changed that much. Kyani is the sort of Gradually the café will be filled with office- place of refuge that, once located, might help you goers, relieved to be out of the absurdly crowded to feel comfortable in a city. Farokh-bhai, “Kyaniwhose is the sort of place Bombay local train, and students from the nearby family has owned the café since 1959, is a kind St. Xavier’s. They slurp chai from their saucers and reassuring presence at the owner’s desk.of He’s refuge that, once located, and eat before their day’s exertions. Plates of the third generation of the Shokriye familymight to roll help you to feel omelette, akuri and bun maska will appear in up Kyani’s shutters each dawn. comfortable in a city.” enthusiastic bursts from the kitchen, conveyed by Wipe any ketchup from your lips and scoop the 5 6 generally amiable, but slightly impatient waiters. last crumbs from your plate. Say your goodbyes 3 to Farokh-bhai (perhaps doing his accounts at the A breakfast of akuri or omelet-pau and a cup his way through the newspaper). If you are still 1 A cup of sweet, milky Irani chai and some bun a few hundred feet from where you now stand). owner’s desk, perhaps seated at a table making of sweet, milky Irani chai will nourish you well for feeling peckish, or plan to feel peckish later, then 2 The charming interiors of Kyani & Co. These students were surely also happy patrons of ask him for some of his delicious mawa cake to 3 Paintings and pictures on the balcony of Kyani & Co. Kyani & Co. In taking a modern, global style and take with you. For a certain type of Bombayite, 4 Faded sign of the now-closed Bastani café flavouring it with local motifs, Indian architects 26 5 A dangling rope at the entrance to Kyani & Co. 26 27 milky sweet mawa cake from an Irani café is as helps patrons enter challenged the aesthetics of their colonial rulers. evocative of memory as Proust’s madeleine. 6 The owner of Kyani & Co., Farokh-bhai, at his desk The style became so popular in Bombay that the HOUSE BLACK DAAL Now be sure to wander across the road, where 7 Metro Cinema, opened in 1938 city is second only to Miami in its quantity of Art you can see a reminder that most of the Irani cafés Deco buildings. This creamy black daal – our version of a daal makhani – is perhaps Dishoom’s of Bombay have gone for good: the faded shutters consider using the subway to cross the road, even If you’re not in a hurry (and why should you signature dish. It hasn’t changed in all the years we’ve been cooking it and it’s still of Bastani, another legendary café, permanently though it may take several attempts to find the be?), call in to the People’s Free Reading Room and sadly shut. Both cafés once did a steady trade right exit.) Metro Cinema is a local landmark. and Library. Walk through the elegant entrance, the first thing Naved checks on entering any of our kitchens, where each batch is in their Irani biscuits and confectionery. Charm Built in 1938, it is a good example of Bombay’s and leaf through a newspaper at one of the lovingly cooked over 24 hours. This simplified version requires 4–5 hours of your is so often lost in the headlong rush to modernity. very own form of Art Deco. After a few days in designated wooden stands. Browse the collection attention, but your efforts will be richly rewarded and you’ll make it time and again. We’re just grateful that the modernity that has Bombay, you’ll become familiar with it. Art Deco of books covering all aspects of Bombay history, Cooking daal isn’t necessarily about exact timings but it is about knowing what to overwhelmed so much of the city has not managed first made the journey to India from the West in the and admire the marble busts of local worthies look for at each stage. It is vital to cook the daal grains completely at step 2, and to overwhelm it completely. early 1930s and this most cosmopolitan of cities (stony-faced or smiling). It is a pleasantly hushed to be vigilant during step 5. It takes quite a long time for the “sauce” to thicken You’ll need to walk off your breakfast, so take was quick to catch on. The first batch of Deco and sleepy place. buildings in Bombay, which lined the western side and become creamy – you must watch the pan closely to ensure it doesn’t stick a stroll now around Dhobi Talao. Despite the Outside the Reading Room, turn left, pass of the Oval Maidan, effectively faced off the grand and you must stir the pot frequently. area’s name, the local dhobis (washermen) have the statue of Khan Bahadur Kavasji Petigara (the long since moved elsewhere, and the talao (lake) Gothic revival structures on the eastern side. They first Indian officer to head the Bombay Criminal has been filled in and built upon, and built upon, flaunt their colourful façades in front of the stern and Investigation Department, and the man whom SERVES 8–10 1. Put the daal into a large bowl, cover with water and and built upon. This is a familiar story in Bombay. stony Gothic structures, and enjoy the sea breeze Mahatma Gandhi insisted on being arrested by) whisk for 10 seconds. Let the daal settle, then pour out People are many, land is scarce. while blocking the older structures’ sea view. and continue your stroll along the street to your ˜ the water. Repeat 3 or 4 times, until the water is clear. This morning’s walk begins at Metro Cinema, These Deco buildings were created by the left. You’ll note the presence of numerous Goan 300g whole (black) urad daal which overlooks an enjoyably chaotic junction first generation of Indian architects, graduates restaurants on the side streets. This neighbourhood 2. Tip the daal into a large saucepan and pour in at least 12g garlic paste (page 353) where five major roads converge. (For your safety, from the Sir J. J. School of Art (which is only is home to many Goan folk. Indeed, Jer Mahal, 4 litres cold water. Bring to the boil and cook steadily the delightfully ramshackle and crumbling estate 7 10g ginger paste (page 353) for 2–3 hours. Skim off any impurities that rise to the 70g tomato purée surface, and add more boiling water as required to keep 8g fine sea salt the grains well covered. The daal grains need to become 28 BREAKFAST 29 ⅔ tsp deggi mirch chilli powder completely soft, with the skins coming away from the white grain. When pressed, the white part should be ⅓ tsp garam masala (page 356) creamy, rather than crumbly. When cooked, turn off the 90g unsalted butter heat and allow the pan to sit for 15 minutes. 90ml double cream 3. In a bowl, mix the garlic and ginger pastes, tomato TO SERVE purée, salt, chilli powder and garam masala to a paste. Chapatis (page 368) 4. Carefully pour off the daal cooking water then pour on enough freshly boiled water to cover the daal by 3–4cm. Bring to the boil over a medium-high heat and add the aromatic paste and butter. Cook rapidly for 30 minutes, stirring regularly to prevent the mixture from sticking. 5. Lower the heat and simmer for 1–1½ hours, stirring very regularly to prevent it from sticking and adding a little boiling water if the liquid level gets near the level of the grains. Eventually, it will become thick and creamy. The creaminess must come from the grains disintegrating into the liquid and enriching it, not from the water being allowed to evaporate leaving only the grains behind. 6. Add the cream and cook for a further 15 minutes. Serve with chapatis or other Indian breads.
Note: When reheating any leftover daal (well, one can but hope!), you may need to add a little more liquid; use cream or cream and water, rather than water alone.
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Baked to Perfection Baked to Perfection heralds the end of dry, tasteless, gluten-free baking. Armed with a Chemistry degree and a weakness for cake, Katarina Delicious gluten-free Cermelj set out to rewrite the recipe book and create gluten-free recipes recipes, with a pinch of that don’t just work, but work perfectly. science Katarina has devised and rigorously tested more than 80 recipes that are so delicious they will astound your friends and family, including Triple Katarina Cermelj chocolate brownies, Spicy gingerbread cake, Cinnamon rolls, Glazed baked donuts and Chocolate and coffee éclairs. The easy-to-follow recipes are accompanied by simple explanations of the science at work, so you 304pp can become a more skilful gluten-free baker with the freedom to adapt 246 x 189mm the recipes to your tastes. Hardback With a beautiful, clear design and the most sumptuous and mouth- £22.00 watering food photography, Baked to Perfection is set to become the March 2021 gluten-free bible for every home baker. Material available: Manuscript due Katarina Cermelj has a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Oxford. After January 2020 cutting out gluten and dairy from her diet, she used her scientific background to experiment with gluten- and dairy-free baking, and in 2016 set up her hugely popular baking blog The Loopy Whisk, sharing her mouth-watering allergy-friendly recipes. Baked to Perfection is her first cookbook.
Gelupo Gelato Ice cream, semifreddo and granita from Gelupo. Gelato has a special place in the hearts of Italians of all ages – it surprises, A palette of ice creams, in delights, comforts and nurtures. Scoops of these creamy, nutty or fruity 70 lickable recipes desserts break down barriers and bring people together for shared moments of childlike joy in gelaterias across Italy, and it was this that Jacob Kenedy inspired Gelupo in London, ‘the best gelateria this side of the Alps’.
192pp Perhaps the most delightful thing about gelato is how easily it can be created at home, needing little more than milk and sugar. Gelupo Gelato 190 x 160mm presents a rainbow spectrum of gelati: from Yoghurt & Lemongrass, Lime Hardback Sherbet, Peach and Blood Orange to Marron Glace, Bacio, Chocolate & £12.99 Whisky and Espresso. There are also recipes for profiteroles, cones and brioche buns to serve your ice cream in and the only chocolate sauce May 2021 you’ll ever need, as well as a guide to pairing flavours. Material available: Manuscript due November 2019 With a simply beautiful design and charming illustrations, this is the perfect book for every ice cream lover (which, let’s face it, is everyone). Jacob Kenedy was born in London in 1980 and continues to live there today. When he graduated from St John’s, Cambridge, he was already a chef at Moro in London, and he continued to flit between the kitchens there and those at Boulevard in San Francisco, until taking a year out to travel round Italy. There he ate a great deal, and learned to make gelato at Gelatauro. He opened Bocca di Lupo in a hidden backstreet in Soho’s underbelly in 2008, and it has since been twice named London’s best restaurant. In 2010 he opened Gelupo, a gelateria and delicatessen in the same street. He is the author of Bocca and the co-author of The Geometry of Pasta.
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A Table for Friends Delicious Italian-inspired recipes and simple menu ideas for every mealtime spent with friends and family Skye McAlpine Following the success of her debut cookery book A Table in Venice, Skye McAlpine shares more than 100 of her favourite Italian-inspired recipes to serve her friends and family at last-minute weeknight get togethers, large celebratory gatherings, and every occasion in between. Every dish in A Table for Friends is categorised as a Star, a Side or a 320pp Sweet to help you intuitively plan an impressive menu, and the book 266 x 195mm is ingeniously organised into Throw Together, On The Hob and In The Hardback Oven so you can really plan your time. Along with Skye’s tips and tricks to hosting an elegant gathering are some of her favourite tried-and-tested £26.00 menus. For a make-ahead supper try the Syrian frittata, Fried broccoli July 2020 with black olives, A really good tomato salad and Pistachio butter cake Material available: Final files with marzipan icing available November 2019 With Skye’s guidance – accompanied by gorgeous photography from her homes in London and Venice – you’ll be effortlessly serving feasts that look beautiful and taste simply delicious.
ALSO AVAILABLE Skye McAlpine spends the majority of her time in Venice, where she writes, photographs and teaches cookery workshops. She is the author of A Table in Venice, which was hugely-well received and she contributes regularly to publications from around the world, including Food52, The Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Saturday Telegraph, Vanity Fair, Condé A Table in Venice Nast Traveler and Corriere della Sera. Skye was shortlisted for the Jane Grigson Trust Award for new food writers in 2018. Recipes from my home Skye McAlpine £26.00 Rights sold: Dutch (Luitingh-Sijthof), German (Sudwest), French (Ulmer)
The Vegan Table A unique compilation of 100 recipes, contributed by 25 of the country’s most inspiring plant-based kitchens 100 mouth-watering This brand new book is a sumptuous collection of 100 vegan recipes plant-based recipes gathered from 25 of the UK’s leading, edgiest and occasionally most surprising vegan, vegetarian, vegan-friendly and vegetable forward restaurants, cafe’s, pop-ups and wandering kitchens. Restaurants include Stem and Glory (Cambridge), Terre a Terre (Brighton), Greens (Manchester), Deserted Cactus (Peckham, London) and Young 288pp Vegans (Camden, London). Each eatery offers their top 5 dishes for you to 246 x 189mm recreate at home, all beautifully photographed and easy to follow. Hardback In chapters covering snacks and small plates, main dishes and delectable £26.00 desserts, The Vegan Table offers a varied selection of mouth-watering recipes for you to share with loved ones at your own table. December 2021 Material available: manuscript due This collection is compiled and edited by the Bloomsbury Absolute January 2020 team, who have scoured the country high and low for the best kitchens, chefs and writers to include. With years of experience in both publishing and eating across the UK, the team are expertly placed to bring these delicious vegan recipes alive and deliver them to your own table.
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India: The World Launching a new series, this mouth-watering book celebrates the national and regional vegetarian cuisine of India. Vegetarian A traditionally vegetarian country, there is much to explore in Indian Roopa Gulati cuisine, with subtle regional differences often becoming apparent. The mouth-watering recipes within these pages include chard pakoras; twice-cooked cauliflower, saffron and almond masala; paneer and apricot koftas; and traditional channa dal, all of which are photographed by the legendary David Loftus. As well as the 70 delicious recipes, Roopa also introduces readers to 176pp the key techniques and ingredients in Indian cooking, such as the all- Format: other important spice blends that will help you create a true Indian vegetarian feast at home. Hardback £20.00 Roopa Gulati is all about making the most of Indian spices in your own kitchen. Brought up in Cumbria, she crossed continents and worked as April 2020 a chef in New Delhi’s kitchens, where she cooked in huge hotels, street Material available: manuscript bazaars, palace kitchens, TV studios and on stoves across India. Now based in London, Roopa continues to create recipes, write about food and share her skills with fans of regional Indian cooking.
Japan: The World One of the launch titles for the new World Vegetarian series, Reiko Hashimoto celebrates the incredible vegetarian cuisine of Japan. Vegetarian Vegetarianism has long been a feature of the Japanese diet, and in this Reiko Hashimoto book Reiko walks us through the history of vegetarianism in the country, as well as providing tips on the key ingredients – such as miso, tofu and seaweed – that are most used in Japanese vegetarian cooking to help you create a mouth-watering Japanese vegetarian feast at home.. Alongside this, Reiko offers 70 delectable recipes including traditional sushi and noodle dishes, such as gyoza dumplings, fried tofu yakitori, 176pp nigiri zushi, tempura, tofu katsu curry and aubergine and padron Format: other pepper with somen noodles. All recipes are accompanied by stunning photography from Lauren Mclean. Hardback £20.00 For the past 17 years Reiko Hashimoto has been sharing the pleasures of Japanese cooking with beginners and professional chefs, teaching in her April 2020 London home school and various UK locations. She is the author of Hashi Material available: manuscript and Cook Japan. This is her third book. @hashicooking
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42 COOKERY Tom Kerridge Tom Kerridge worked as a chef in restaurants across Britain before setting out on his own in 2005 when he opened The Hand & Flowers with his wife Beth. It went on to become the first (and only) pub in the world to acquire two Michelin stars. In 2014 he opened a second pub in Marlow, The Coach, which was followed by The Butcher’s Tap. Most recently, he and his core team launched Kerridge’s Bar & Grill, housed in Corinthia London. He has appeared on the Great British Menu, MasterChef and is the host of Bake Off: Crème de la Crème. His previous books include the bestselling Proper Pub Food, Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes, Tom’s Table, Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet, Lose Weight for Good and Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start. @ChefTomKerridge / tomkerridge.com
Lose Weight & Get Fit A brand new cookbook from Tom Kerridge, bestselling author of Lose Weight for Good and Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start – coming this December! Tom Kerridge As a Michelin-starred chef with personal experience of dieting, Tom Kerridge knows that cooking good food is the first step on the road to both weight-loss and better 304pp performance. In Lose Weight & Get Fit he shows how you can eat well, shed the pounds 246 x 189mm and kick-start a more active lifestyle. Hardback This book is for everyone who knows they want to lose weight and do some more £22.00 exercise, but also needs the motivation to get started. With chef’s techniques for the best December 2019 lower-calorie cooking, plus tips for stepping up to fitness targets, Tom will give you the inspiration you need to lose weight AND get fit. Material available: Final files
The Hand & Flowers The long-awaited cookbook from The Hand & Flowers, the only two Michelin-starred pub in the world. Cookbook Tom Kerridge opened The Hand & Flowers in Buckinghamshire, serving up bold, Tom Kerridge unpretentious food in a welcoming and relaxed environment. Using simple ingredients prepared with the utmost care, Tom creates dishes that are sophisticated yet familiar, 288pp perfectly matching the warm and comfortable atmosphere of this Georgian pub. 263 x 205mm The Hand & Flowers Cookbook presents 70 of the most stunning recipes from the restaurant, Hardback including: Chicken liver parfait with bitter orange chutney; Potted artichoke with cured pork £40.00 truffle, trompette and rye cracker; Spiced monkfish with charred cauliflower, spiced nuts and peanut crumble; Onion tarte tatin with onion soubise marmalade and vin jaune; Blackberry September 2020 crumble soufflé with bramble leaf ice cream and blackberry sauce; and Milk toffee tart with Material available: Manuscript due roasted grapefruit sorbet. January 2020 With a luxurious and classic package and specially-commissioned photography by Cristian Barnett, The Hand & Flowers Cookbook is a rich celebration of one of the most spectacular pubs in the world.
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Dopamine Diet Lose Weight for Good Tom Kerridge Tom Kerridge £20.00 £22.00 Rights sold: Slovenian (Mladinska Rights sold: Dutch (Veltman Knjiga Zalozba), Italian (Newton Uitgevers bv) Compton Editori s.r.l.), Polish (Wydawnictwo Zwierciadlo Sp. z o.o.)
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73 Ways to Eat Better 73 Ways to Eat Better gives you the tools to improve your eating habits and lifestyle, with top tips from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Simple switches for a and 80 of his most delicious and healthy recipes healthier happier life We all know that we need to eat more vegetables, cut down on sugar and do more exercise, but sometimes it can be hard to know where to start on Hugh Fearnley- the journey to being healthier. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, author of the Whittingstall bestselling River Cottage Veg Every Day and River Cottage Much More Veg, knows a thing or two about changing your eating habits for the better. 272pp 73 Ways to Eat Better combines fastidious research into the obesity crisis 246 x 175mm in Britain with easy-to-follow tips, tricks and switches based on the Hardback latest scientific thinking to improve our health and wellbeing. You can £22.00 tailor the advice to suit you and your lifestyle – after all, we’re becoming more aware that there is no ‘single-fix diet’. And to make the journey to a May 2020 healthier self just that little bit easier, Hugh has devised more than 80 of Material available: Manuscript due the most delicious recipes. There are wholesome breakfasts to start your November 2019 day right, low-carb lunch boxes to avoid the temptation of a takeaway sandwich, super-food snacks to curb that mid-afternoon hunger, and sumptuous desserts for when you deserve a little treat. ALSO AVAILABLE Opening this book is just the first of 73 ways to eat better. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. River Cottage His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while Much More Veg his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the 175 vegan recipes for simple, fresh and Glenfiddich Trophy and the André Simon Food Book of the Year. Hugh’s flavourful meals additional broadcasting, like the hugely influential Fish Fight, has earned Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall him a BAFTA as well as awards from Radio 4, the Observer and the Guild of £26.00 Food Writers. Hugh lives in Devon with his family. Rights sold: German (AT Verlag), Italian (Gribaudo), Danish (Strandberg Publishing), Dutch (Uitgeverij J H Gottmer)
Fermentation In Fermentation, the eighteenth River Cottage Handbook, Rachel de Thample shows you how to harness the power of fermentation in River Cottage Handbook your cooking. No.18 With more than 80 recipes, she explains how to make your own sauerkraut and sourdough, kimchee and kombucha as well as giving you Rachel de Thample a thorough understanding of how the fermenting process works. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and plenty of helpful photographs, this book will bring the art of fermentation to your kitchen. 256pp Rachel de Thample has worked in the kitchens of Marco Pierre White, 198 x 129mm Heston Blumenthal and Peter Gordon. She is the author of More Veg, Less Hardback Meat, FIVE, Tonics & Teas and Gifts from the Modern Larder. She’s served £16.99 as Commissioning Editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated and Head of Food for the pioneering organic box scheme Abel & Cole. Rachel currently September 2020 runs preserving and fermentation courses at River Cottage in Devon and Material available: Manuscript writes for The Simple Things magazine. She lives in Crystal Palace, London, where she has helped set up numerous local food initiatives, including the award-winning Crystal Palace Food Market.
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The Pie Room A true celebration of Calum Franklin’s genius with pies, this stunning new book showcases the sweet and savoury delights on offer at this fabulous Calum Franklin London eatery. The Pie Room is a one-stop destination dedicated to one of Britain’s most iconic, and much loved, dishes – the pie. The Pie Room itself is a treasure trove of delicacies and all of its secrets have been revealed among the pages of this glorious book. Calum opens the book with his dough recipes, followed by a look at the 288pp tools and techniques required to master the perfect pie, before getting to 246 x 189mm the main event. Recipes features delights such as cheesy dauphinoise pie, Hardback curried cauliflower pie, salmon en croute and Holborn pork pie. There are also showstopping pies guaranteed to wow a crowd, such as the ultimate £26.00 beef wellington or honey and five-spiced glazed pie. And that’s all before September 2020 we get to the sweet chapter! Material available: manuscript due Each and every perfectly crafted pie will be photographed by award- September 2019 winning photographer John Carey, bringing the restaurant and Calum’s creations to life in glorious technicolour. Drawing on a wealth of culinary experience, Calum Franklin has worked at a variety of renowned restaurants including The Ivy, Aurora at the Andaz Hotel and Indigo at One Aldwych Hotel, and was Senior Sous Chef at Roast in Borough Market, prior to heading up the kitchen at Holborn Dining Room.
Ekstedt Celebrating the traditions and essence of Nordic food and open fire-cooking, Niklas explores the seasons with essays and mouth- The Nordic art of watering recipes. analogue cooking ‘With equal parts of birch wood and passion, we keep the flames alive. We cook all our ingredients over an open fire. Charcoal and smoke are our most Niklas Ekstedt powerful tools. No electric griddle, no gas stove – only natural heat, soot, ash, smoke and fire. We have chosen these ways to prepare our food as a tribute to the ancient way of cooking. At Ekstedt it is the flames that are superior. Our menu is based on ingredients from the sea, forests, meadows and fields.’ 304pp Format: other After stints at el Bulli and The Fat Duck, Niklas Ekstedt went back to his Scandinavian roots and founded the Michelin-starred Ekstedt in Hardback Stockholm, bringing innovative Nordic cooking to the world. The award- £30.00 winning restaurant uses only Scandinavian wood in their magnificent fire September 2020 pit or their wood-fired oven, giving the food a truly unique character. Material available: manuscript Niklas is often travelling around the world, whether it’s hosting a long table banquet at Wilderness Festival, or presenting on Swedish prime- time television. He has also appeared on Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef, and has published a number of cookbooks both in the UK and Sweden. He lives in Stockholm with his wife and two children. @niklasekstedt
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Eat Like a Local Eat Like a Local Eat Like a Local Eat Like a Local SHANGHAI BARCELONA SAN FRANCISCO LISBON
Food-focused travel guides for the world’s most exciting cities. 144pp These books are food tours in your pocket, featuring more than 100 of the best restaurants, cafes, bars 178 x 111mm and markets recommended by teams of in-the-know Shanghainese, Barcelonians, San Franciscans and Lisboetas. You’ll also find insights into the cities’ idiosyncratic food culture, and a handful of iconic Paperback recipes to cook in the holiday kitchen or once you’ve returned home. It’s the inside knowledge that Colour photography throughout allows you to Drink, Shop, Cook and Eat Like a Local. £9.99 June 2019 World rights available C San Francisco has been a hard-driving place from its
OFFEE beginning. It started with miners hustling for knowledge about the newest strike. Then it was World War II factory workers pulling long shifts to build aircraft. These days it I
is techies coding through the night in search of the next big km disruption. But however the stakes may change, coffee still fuels the Bay’s productivity. I
Of course, the second most important question you can ask 12 a caffeine addict, after ‘Would you like a coffee?’ is ‘How S 65 do you take it?’ Luckily for you, you can get a cup the way 70 98 101 26 S SI you like it anywhere in town. If you’re a third-wave coffee S connoisseur, you could spend weeks testing out the brews 22 M from the Bay’s roasters, from nationally-renowned Blue 126 21 Bottle to smaller companies such as Bicycle, Highwire and 38 95 Red Bay. Bags of beans from cafés such as these also make an S 67 I excellent drinkable souvenir of the city. 18 75 S I 71
M S For those who find the vocabulary and ritual of third-wave 105 I M 76 coffee overwhelming, or just want to put sugar in their cup 10 91 56 without feeling guilty, the Bay has you covered. Dutchman 57 61 Zuni Café Alfred Peet opened a coffee bar on Walnut Street in 1966, Recommended by Celia Sack, Omar Mamoon and Brian Stewart S serving high-quality dark roasted coffee, a rarity in in the 117 S “A must-eat place during a stay in San Francisco. The atmosphere is like a Paris 1658 Market St, 94102 6 109 121 4 bistro: fun, hip, delicious… and great people watching. Try all the oysters they zunicafe.com US at the time. One of his employees, Seattle native Jerry 19 115 130 28 73 have and, of course, their famous roast chicken with bread salad”—CS 30 +1 415 552 2522 Baldwin, went on to open Starbucks in 1971. You can find 51 102 128 68 34 “Go for a long late lunch and order oysters and rosé while you wait for your Tuesday–Saturday 11.30am–5.30pm, Sunday 11am–4.30pm, dozens of Peet’s locations in the area, all of which will serve 33 43 83 85 1 93 SI I M 119 Sightglass 87 29 legendary chicken to be prepared to order in a wood-fired kitchen. Slow down Tuesday–Thursday 6pm–11pm, Friday and Saturday 6pm–12am 84 122 you a simple, delicious cup of joe. I 2 and take it all in. It’s the perfect pause from everyday life”—OM Brunch Sunday 11am–2.30pm, closed Monday Recommended by Omar Mamoon 50 25 79 24 I I “Chez Panisse alumna Judy Rodgers took the helm here in the late 1980s, $$$$ “If I’m being honest, most third-wave coffee places taste pretty good. I also SI I I S IS I 14 13 106 S 3 127 S I bringing the cuisine toward homey California-style cuisine. The cafe continues make a pretty good cup at home, so if I’m going out for a coffee it’s to sit down I S 63 86 I 53 69 66 112 111 59 S to thrive today; don’t miss the signature roasted chicken and bread salad and and chill for a bit. I’d therefore suggest Sightglass coffee in the Mission: it’s I M 80 36 37 IS I 116 I take home a copy of The Zuni Café Cookbook”—BS the vibiest coffee shop I’ve ever visited, super-well designed and the music the 11 77 S I M 7 92 47 96 staff spins on the record player is usually pretty perfect”—OM 52 60 M 61 MISSI 45 68 EAT | CALIFORNIA CUISINE EAT | CALIFORNIA CUISINE 69 110 3014 20th St, 94110 107 125 97 32 62 I sightglasscoffee.com 39 16 42 S 46 15 124MISSI 20 54 129 8 113 +1 415 641 1043 90 9 114 IS I 17 23 72 Open daily 7am–7pm 15 48 5 74 103 133 99 S S 94108 55 134 $$$$ 31 100 27 49 89 44 64 120 40 35 DRINK | COFFEE 93 S I 131 S S IS I 88 58 78 104 82 41 S 81 132 118 I S
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Dadding It! Bestselling parenting author Rob Kemp delivers the ultimate guide to navigating your child’s life milestones and offers advice on how Landmark Moments in fathers can best play a lasting, impactful or at least vaguely useful Your Life as a Father… and role in it. How to Survive Them Kids don’t come with an instruction manual. (Not that most men would read one if they did). Rob Kemp Instead they’re shaped by life-forming milestones and learn-as-they-go mistakes which you, as modern, responsible fathers, must be there to help them deal with from their birth until you’ve drawn your last breath. 224pp This book will give you a heads up on all the defining moments you are 198 x 129mm guaranteed to experience as a parent. It’ll warn you when your life is Hardback going to take a change of course, how your child is going to influence the £12.99 choices you make and give you some practical, knowing, sanity-saving methods of dealing with them. April 2020 Material available: Manuscript Each moment is headlined with a common scenario that dads have encountered down through generations – but will still come as a shock to you for the first time. And for every milestone moment, landmark action or parenting task to perform, there’s sound advice and strategic solutions to help you cope and even discover the purported ‘joys’ of parenthood… Rob Kemp is a UK-based writer specialising in fatherhood, masculinity and health & fitness, and the bestselling author of The Expectant Dad’s Survival Guide and The New Dad’s Survival Guide. His latest book, The Good Guys: 50 Heroes Who Changed The World With Kindness is the bestselling boys book on Amazon. He wrote them after his own experiences as a new dad. He regularly contributes fatherhood-focused features to a variety of publications and websites including the Telegraph, Boots Parenting, Amazon Parents, the Guardian, DaddiLife (as @expectantdad), The DadClub, and Little London.
Conceivable Comprehensive and accessible, Conceivable is the ultimate IVF companion, providing essential guidance for anyone going through Everything you need to the process – or supporting someone who is. know about IVF By 2020, the IVF industry is predicted to be worth $21bn (£15.5bn). And by the year 2100, it’s forecast that 3% of the world’s population will exist Jheni Osman because of IVF – either as IVF babies themselves, or their descendants. Science journalist Jheni Osman explains the treatments, facts and research that underpin the industry, while exploring the first-hand 288pp experiences of couples trying to conceive, and her own personal IVF story. 234 x 153mm The book will reveal the science behind how IVF and other treatments like ICSI work, the diverse reasons why people struggle to conceive, and Paperback what can be done to improve the chances of conception via IVF. It will £14.99 also discuss how to handle the emotional rollercoaster, the real costs September 2020 involved in undergoing treatment, and the extras and scams to look out Material available: Manuscript due for – what’s worth investing in, and what’s not. November 2019 Featuring interviews with industry professionals from consultants to counsellors, and cutting through the jargon and information overload, here is everything you need to know about the ever-growing and evolving world of IVF. Jheni Osman is a science journalist for publications including New Scientist. She is the former editor of BBC Focus, and the author of The World’s Great Wonders (Lonely Planet, 2014) and 100 Ideas that Changed the World (BBC Books, 2011). She has a one-year-old daughter, born via IVF.
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Sleep Recovery A unique marriage of yoga, psychological insight and neuroscience, Sleep Recovery will give you the tools to work with your body and The five step yoga solution change your sleep – and your life – for the better. to restore your rest Insomnia is reaching epidemic proportions: more than half of us will suffer from a sleep problem during our lifetimes. In this practical, Lisa Sanfilippo compassionate guide, renowned yoga teacher and sleep specialist Lisa Sanfilippo shows how to sweep out sleep saboteurs and rest wreckers, putting in place sustainable strategies that will boost your energy during the day and help you access a good night’s rest. A unique marriage of yoga, psychological insight and neuroscience, Sleep Recovery will give you 224pp the tools to work with your body and change your sleep – and your life – for the better. 234 x 153mm Trade Paperback Lisa Sanfilippo is a qualified yoga teacher and psychotherapist. She holds a BSc in Sociology from Brown University, and an MSc from the £12.99 London School of Economics. She has worked as a yoga therapist and January 2020 teacher for 15 years, and trains yoga therapists. Her counselling and Material available: Manuscript psychotherapy practice in north London includes work within the NHS. She has written for Marie Claire and Balance Magazine, and her yoga classes have been featured in the Evening Standard, the Daily Express and Prima Magazine.
The Sustainable(ish) Easy, do-able, down to earth ideas and suggestions for everyone to help save the planet. Living Guide If you want to save the planet, but your to-do list is already pretty long Everything you need and remembering your re-usable coffee cup feels like a Herculean task, to know to make small then this is the book for you. Covering every aspect of our lives from the stuff we buy and the food we eat, to how we travel, work, and celebrate. changes that make a big This book provides stacks of practical, down to earth ideas to slot into difference your daily life, alongside a gentle kick up the butt to put your newfound knowledge into action. Jen Gale Practical tips include unsubscribing from all the tempting emails that drop into your inbox with details of the newest clothing range or the 304pp latest sale, and keeping a mug next to your kettle to work out how much 234 x 153mm water you actually need to boil each time, as overfilling kettles costs Trade Paperback British households £68 million on energy bills each year. £12.99 Find out how to fit ‘sustainable living’ into your life, in a way that works January 2020 for you. Change your impact without radically changing your life and figure out the small steps you can make that will add up to make a big Material available: Manuscript difference (halo not included). Jen Gale is an ordinary, knackered mum of two whose life changed when she dragged and cajoled the family into a year buying nothing new. That year changed not only what she buys, but also how she sees her place in the world. Jen recognized the power that we all have as individuals to make a difference, simply through getting informed about the impact of our daily choices, and figuring out easy swaps and changes. The family are still (just about) talking to her and they live in Wiltshire where Jen writes and podcasts about all things sustainable(ish).
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The Ten Steps of How we think about ageing can have a significant impact on our health and wellbeing in later life. This book explodes some myths Positive Ageing about ageing and reveals ten personal development tools to bolster emotional and psychological resilience in later life. A handbook for personal change in later life Ageing gets a bad press, but is it really as negative as much of the media make out? And is there anything we can do to make our later years Guy Robertson happier and healthier? In this handbook, Guy Robertson assembles the case for the defense and explodes some myths along the way. Getting older is not all bad! Indeed 192pp the reality is much more positive than many of us could imagine. We can 216 x 135mm make a difference to our ageing process – just as we have to learn to grow up, so we have to learn to grow old. Paperback £14.99 Find here ten steps that anyone can take to improve the likelihood of living a happy and satisfying life in old age. This book offers a route map March 2020 we can all follow to find a way through the changes we face as we age, Material available: Manuscript and a toolkit of exercises to help us follow our chosen path and fulfil our potential. Concentrating on the psychological and emotional aspects of ageing, these clear practical exercises will empower the reader to engage in a programme of personal change. Ageing is inevitable – but getting ‘old’ is optional! Guy Robertson has worked in numerous roles within the field of ageing for over a quarter of a century and is a passionate proponent of the need to develop more positive approaches to ageing. He is on the Board of the Campaign to End Loneliness and is also a bereavement counsellor. He is married, has two grown up children and divides his time between Bristol and Cornwall. @positiveageing1
Stay Young With Yoga Move better, get stronger and feel great - no matter what your age. Keeping active, moving well, and stretching regularly are all important Use the power of yoga to in living a long, healthy and happy life. In Stay Young with Yoga, yoga stay youthful, fit and pain- teacher Nicola Jane Hobbs shows you how to stay flexible, energised and free at any age pain-free in your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond. Nicola Jane Hobbs Whether you want to move better, get stronger, ease aches and pains, or simply feel fitter and healthier, Nicola guides you through over 70 simple poses and 20 easy-to-practise sequences, with variations and 192pp modifications so you can choose poses and sequences that suit you. 235 x 210mm With routines designed to fit in with your lifestyle, including morning Paperback sequences, desk stretches, de-stress routines, sequences to practice £16.99 after gardening, housework, and in front of the TV, as well as routines for February 2020 pain-free movement, workouts for strength and fitness, and routines to support your other hobbies like golf, tennis, and dancing, Stay Young with Material available: Manuscript Yoga will give you the tools to get stronger, fitter and healthier whatever your age. Nicola Jane Hobbs is a yoga teacher and lifestyle coach who helps people live with less fear and more freedom. Nicola has a Master’s degree in psychology and is the author of Yoga Gym and Fear-Free Food, both published by Bloomsbury. www.NicolaJaneHobbs.com
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When We’re 64 The essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life. You’re likely to live longer than you think. Today’s 50-year-olds could have Your Guide to a Great an astounding 36 or more years of life. What’s your dream for your later Later Life years? Louise Ansari When We’re 64 is a friendly, practical guide to preparing for what could be the best years of your life - from the essentials on work and how to fund retirement, to volunteering, where to live and what kind of housing you’ll need. It covers how to stay healthy – and still live a full life if you get a health condition – and reveals how your attitude to ageing could actually increase your lifespan. There are sections on relationships with family and friends, as well as caring for older relatives and how to tackle loneliness. 208pp 216 x 135mm Packed with expert advice and new evidence and tips on how to age well, this route map will help you plan and prepare for the future. Trade Paperback £12.99 Louise Ansari is Director of Communications at the Centre for Ageing Better – an organisation dedicated to helping everyone enjoy a good September 2019 later life. She loves gardening, travel, music and cooking. Louise is in her Material available: Final files 50s and plans to enjoy every year to come!
Life. Death. Whatever. Life. Death. Whatever. is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives. Lessons about life and If we acknowledge and accept our mortality, can we live a better living from working with life? If we embrace the end of life in the same way as we embrace the death and dying beginning, can we transform our lives? Anna Lyons and End-of-life doula Anna Lyons and funeral director Louise Winter have joined forces to share a collection of the heartbreaking, surprising and Louise Winter uplifting stories of the ordinary and extraordinary lives they encounter every single day. 256pp From working with the living, the dying, the dead and the grieving, Anna 198 x 129mm and Louise share the lessons they’ve learnt about life, death, love and Hardback loss. £14.99 This is a book about life and living, as much as it’s a book about death and April 2020 dying. It’s a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the Material available: Manuscript exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It’s as simple and as complicated as that. Anna Lyons is an end-of-life doula and Louise Winter is a progressive funeral director. Together they’re the team behind Life. Death. Whatever. Their joint mission is to redesign the dialogue around death and dying, to open it up and to find new approaches to this important subject. They believe that death is a normal part of life and dying is part of living. Acknowledging and accepting that one day we will die is fundamental to living a full life.
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The Age of Ageing A radical, unexpected and fresh-thinking take on our ageing population as a boon and not a burden Better? The Age of Ageing Better? takes a radically different view of what A Manifesto For Our Future our ageing society means. Dr Anna Dixon turns the misleading and depressing narrative of burden and massive extra cost of Dr Anna Dixon people living longer on its head and provides a refreshingly optimistic view of how everyone could enjoy a better later life. This book shines a spotlight on how as a society we’re failing to respond to ageing – and what needs to change to ensure later lives become better for everyone. Examining key areas of society that need to change, including health, financial security, where and how people live, and social connections, Anna 224pp Dixon presents a strongly optimistic picture of how thinking 234 x 153mm differently could change the way we value later life in every Trade Paperback sense. £14.99 Dr Anna Dixon is the Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing June 2020 Better, an independent charitable foundation that brings about change for people in later life today and for future generations. Material available: Manuscript Anna joined Ageing Better from the Department of Health where she was Director of Strategy and Chief Analyst. She began her career with the European Observatory on Health Care Systems. In 2003-2004 she worked as a policy analyst in the Department of Health Strategy Unit. Anna was previously HIGHLIGHTS AND Lecturer in European Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2005-6 she was awarded a PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy by the Commonwealth Fund of New York. She has a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Yoga: A Manual Yoga: A Manual for Life shows you how to use the ancient practice of yoga to live better in the modern world for Life Be calmer, happier and more creative. Naomi Annand In Yoga: A Manual for Life Naomi Annand shows you how to use the ancient practice of yoga to live better in the modern world. Utilising simple, breath-led movement, this beautiful practice companion teaches you how to wake up feeling energised, calm an anxious mind, sleep better, feel inspired.
224pp Ideal for total beginners to more experienced yogis, this manual includes everything you’ll need to live a more balanced, 235 x 210mm grounded life, from five-minute lifehacks to longer sequences Hardback with specific goals in mind. Always accessible, Yoga: A Manual £20 for Life has at its centre the principle of authentic self-care. October 2019 Naomi Annand was a dancer in the Royal Ballet Company until her career was curtailed by injury. She then discovered the therapeutic power of yoga and has been teaching ever since. In 2012, Naomi set up her own studio in east London, Yoga on the Lane.
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REVOLVED TRIANGLE POSE
Parivrtta Trikonasana
From Pyramid Pose stance, upright, place your left hand on your sacrum (the triangular collection of bones at the base of your spine) and extend your right arm forwards as you inhale. As you exhale, pivot from your pelvis into a forward bend, reaching through the spine to feel a connection from your back foot all the way to the tips of your fingers. Place your right hand on your left shin, a block or to the ground outside your foot. Establish your stability, keeping your legs active and your spine long, then turn your belly towards the front leg, reaching your top arm upwards. Keep your gaze calm. Your eyes can stay looking down, or follow the shape of the twist to gaze up at your top hand. Rooting into your back heel helps to create stability. From this base, feel the energy travelling up your legs through your spine. On an inhale breath, create length through your spine and torso and as you exhale, deepen the twist as the navel gently REVOLVED EXTENDED hugs back to help deepen the inner squeeze and tone in SIDE ANGLE POSE your centre. Parivrtta Utthita Parsvokonasana Practice note If your neck feels strained, look at the ground rather than up at your hand. You won’t be missing out; looking down is a lovely variation on the pose, as it’s softly introspective and From Warrior One, inhale and create space in your waist. As reminds you of the pose’s grounding energy. What’s more, you exhale, bend forwards and place your left elbow and the it’s a nice antidote to always looking outwards – physically outside of your upper left arm on the outside of your right and metaphorically. thigh. Bring your hands together palm to palm and revolve your chest upwards. Stay here, or if you want to go deeper, begin to slide your left hand down to the ground or a block. Reach your right arm up and over your head towards the front of the room with your palm facing down. Feel the reach from your back heel all the way to your front fingertips.
Practice note If moving into the twist from Warrior One is proving difficult, Remember, filling the shape try coming on to the ball of your back foot with a straight with breath is more important leg, or lowering your knee for balance. than striking a pose that cannot be fully sensed into.
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Yoga_a_manual1.indd 44-45 25/06/2019 11:10 We live in a culture that constantly bombards And that’s because it’s the product of authentically listening to your body, your mind and your heart. A kind us with contrary messages. On the one hand we of deep enquiry into where you are in the there and then. Because we’re not always the same and there’s no reason are forever being sneakily encouraged to believe we should be. All of us exist in cycles – from the moment- to-moment cycle of our breath to the grand cycle of life and that we are falling short and that happiness plenty more in between. Women’s needs change throughout the menstrual cycle just as our needs change as we enter could be achieved if only we were to eat better, middle age, and everyone’s needs change throughout the cycle of the day. Throughout the year, too, you’ll find yourself look sharper, work harder. Yet on the other drawn to different ways of practising depending on the season. In the summer, I find myself instinctively choosing longer hand we’re always being told that we deserve buoyant sequences. And then in the winter, when the days are shorter and we’re naturally stiffer, almost without thinking to be limitlessly indulged. That we’re worth it. about it I find myself doing shorter grounding sequences. The truth of the matter, though, is that you won’t know That we should spoil ourselves. what it is you truly want unless you really listen. It’s only then that you are able to tune in to what you need. And it is exactly the nature of this enquiry – radical attention, total openness and non-judgement – that means it isn’t simply a diagnostic tool, but also a form of future-proofing, a way of making sure
Yoga and self-care and Yoga that you do your best not to get run-down in the first place. And this is the true purpose of self-care and the thing that elevates it from mere individualism into a collective good. Looking after yourself – harnessing the genuinely calming power of your breath, taking steps to sleep right, avoiding burnout, finding balance – lightens the load on the healthcare system and just generally adds to the gaiety of the nation. Self-care isn’t selfish; it’s essential to society’s well-being.
So it’s little surprise that so many of us get trapped into a cycle of self-flagellation and self-indulgence. Faddy diets followed by binges. Ridiculous overwork followed by expensive spa breaks. And too often, yoga, at least superficially, can find itself slipping into either camp: either in the form of a punishing hot aerobics-like class or, at the other extreme, simply another form of ‘me time’, like a popcorn movie or a pedicure (both of which I love, by the way!). But the point of the practice is its capacity to break you out of the denial/indulgence cycle by rebalancing your relationship with yourself. And this is done through authentic self-care, which is genuinely and profoundly, maybe even life-changingly, nourishing.
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Postnatal Pilates A postnatal recovery programme aimed at all mothers, not just those who’ve recently given birth, offering a Pilates programme based on A Recovery and Strength up-to-date research focusing on pelvic floor and abdominal healing. Guide for Life This is a straight-talking, woman-to-woman postnatal recovery guide with a difference. Based around Pilates fundamentals and a progressive Anya Hayes Pilates programme tailored for postnatal recovery, this book will enable women to establish good posture and breathing habits for life as well as rebuilding strength after birth. 208pp Pelvic floor dysfunction is a real issue, affecting 75% of women in their 234 x 156mm lifetime. We have a culture of suffering in silence, and currently many women simply accept postnatal issues such as pelvic floor weakness and Paperback abdominal separation, which can be a cause of pain, embarrassment £16.99 and mental health problems. Postnatal Pilates is a guide to taking control March 2020 of postnatal recovery, empowering women with robust information Material available: Final files and techniques to take their recovery into their own hands, as well as available October 2019 providing essential signposts on when to seek professional guidance. Posture tips are easily incorporated into day-to-day life (breastfeeding, pushing the buggy, at your desk, picking up your toddler) and the book also features bite-sized health, fitness and wellbeing advice throughout, along with tips for dealing with the physical and mental stresses of early motherhood. Exercise routines are broken down into 10/20/30-minute sessions so that women can realistically aim to commit to them around life with a baby. Anya Hayes is a Body Control Pilates instructor who has been working with pregnancy and postnatal clients for 10 years, with advanced pregnancy and postnatal training, including Pilates for caesarean recovery, diastasis repair and extensive pelvic floor further education. She is currently working with a team of postnatal experts on a campaign to tackle the postpartum care referral pathway system, trying to bring awareness to the area and ultimately ensure that all women receive the care that they deserve after birth. She is a health and wellbeing writer specialising in parenting and maternal mental health, and author of Pilates for Pregnancy (Bloomsbury).
The Runner’s Expert The ultimate stretching guide, designed to help runners of all abilities run further, avoid injuries and achieve better times. Guide to Stretching Stretching is an incredibly important aspect of running and yet it is Prevent Injury, Build frequently overlooked or poorly executed. This book details and explains Strength and Enhance all the stretches that can ease pain, build strength and enhance running performance. Performance Written by the globally respected physiotherapist Paul Hobrough, who Paul Hobrough works with Olympic and World Champion athletes, The Runner’s Expert Guide to Stretching will help runners to understand their bodies, identify 224pp weaknesses and develop a natural defence against injury. 230 x 189mm With easy-to-understand explanations of anatomy and physiology, and Paperback a comprehensive directory of running stretches, runners of any age or £18.99 ability will find an ideal range of stretches, clearly organised by body part, as well as a detailed strength and conditioning programme. With more January 2020 than 2 million of us running at least once a week in the UK alone, this is Material available: Manuscript the go-to guide for every runner. Paul Hobrough is a chartered physiotherapist, sports scientist and Clinical Director of Physio&Therapy UK. A Team GB athlete for 16 years, Paul writes for Runner’s World magazine and is recognised as a leading authority on injury prevention. His physiotherapy practice is based in Harley Street, London, and Northumberland, England. He is the lead physiotherapist for the Virgin London Marathon and Lucozade Sport, and works with numerous Olympic and World Champion athletes.
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Matt Roberts’ The revolutionary fitness plan for men. Are you ready to feel younger, fitter and stronger? Younger, Fitter, Matt Roberts’ Younger, Fitter, Stronger is a ground-breaking fitness manual Stronger designed for mid-life men. Follow this targeted, testosterone-boosting 8-week fitness plan to lose your gut, tone your body and feel 10 years The Revolutionary 8-week younger. Fitness Plan for Men Drawing on more than 20 years of personal training experience with Matt Roberts thousands of clients, Matt Roberts brings you a powerful combination of cutting-edge science and transformative workouts. The benefits and 208pp results speak for themselves: boosted energy, improved muscle mass, a 246 x 189mm revitalised sex drive, more restful sleep – even better-looking skin and hair. You’ll look and feel as good – or better – than you did in your 20s. Paperback £16.99 The day-by-day 8-week plan is based on ground-breaking recent studies that have discovered the anti-ageing benefits of boosting testosterone April 2019 and human growth hormone (HGH) levels through the targeted use of Rights sold: German (Paul Pietsch exercise and diet. Raising levels of these hormones is key to maintaining Verlag) health and fitness in mid-life, and it can be achieved. Matt Roberts is the UK’s most respected personal trainer. His client list has included Naomi Campbell, Amanda Holden, Tom Ford and many others. He is the health and fitness expert for national media including The Times, BBC Radio 2, the Daily Mail and Sky News. Now 45, Matt has a personal interest in the health of the mid-life age group and has devised a plan that has been rigorously tested, including on himself, to help men look and feel better as they age.
The Lost Art of One man’s mission to rediscover the lost art of running. Running ‘Mother Nature gave us some amazing gifts as runners – if we rediscover them and use them, we can transform our dynamic and everyday movement.’ Shane Benzie with Shane Benzie Tim Major The Lost Art of Running is an opportunity to join running technique analyst coach and movement guru Shane Benzie on his incredible journey of discovery across six continents as he trains with and analyses the running style of some of the most naturally gifted athletes on the planet. Part narrative, part practical, this adventure will take you to the foothills of Ethiopia and the ‘town of runners’; to the training grounds of world record holding marathon runners in Kenya; racing across the brutal cold of the Arctic Circle and the mountains of Europe; through the expansive 224pp sweltering sands of the Sahara and the hostility of a winter traverse of the 234 x 153mm Pennine Way, to witness first-hand the incredible natural movement of runners in these environments. Paperback £12.99 Along the way, you will learn how to incorporate natural movement techniques into your own running and hear from some of the top athletes July 2020 that Shane has coached over the years. Whether experienced or just Material available: Manuscript tackling your first few miles, this ground-breaking book will help you discover the lost art of running. Shane Benzie is a running technique coach and movement specialist. He has travelled extensively to work with, live with and study a wide range of athletes in different – sometimes extreme – environments. Shane is at the forefront of sport movement research. He has collaborated with an impressive list of successful athletes including the Team GB 24 Hour running team, the GB Olympic diving team, marathon world record holders such as Wilson Kipsang, and elite ultra-marathon runners such as Mohammad Ahansal, Nicky Spinks, Mimi Anderson, Elisabet Barnes, Damian Hall, Tom Evans, and Pavel Paloncy. Tim Major is a music industry executive, writer and photographer. He has written and provided photographs for magazines such as Men’s Running, Trail, Trail Running, Country Walking, Adventure Travel, Lakeland Walker and Ultra Magazine as well as for the Project Ultra blog, which he co-founded.
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The Perfect Run The ‘perfect’ run, when you are in full flow and feeling totally unstoppable, can be elusive, but this practical expert guide, written A Guide to Cultivating a by celebrated Runner’s World writer Mackenzie Havey, will ensure you find it time and time again and in the process transform your Near-Effortless Running running performances. State At some point in every runner’s career they experience the ‘perfect’ run. Mackenzie L. Havey If you’re one of the lucky few, it happens on a regular basis. Everything seems to just click. Your worries about the day and physical aches and pains melt away. Your body and mind are in complete sync and the run feels effortless. It is this elusive experience that motivates us to continue 192pp running as we chase that feeling again and again. Research shows that 198 x 129mm not only do runners enjoy running more when they enter that higher- Paperback level state known as ‘flow’, they also perform better. £10.99 Even so, the path to achieving the perfect run remains mysterious. It April 2020 often materializes in the unlikeliest of circumstances – in adverse weather Material available: Manuscript or on a day when everything else seems to be going wrong. Conversely, when we try hard to create the right conditions for that perfect run, it oftentimes doesn’t come about. So how might you experience more perfection in your running routine? It turns out, you don’t need to submit to the luck of the draw. Indeed, an intentional approach to your running practice can help lay the groundwork for getting into that ‘perfect run’ headspace run after run. This book will provide a guide on how to cultivate the ‘perfect run’. It will chronicle what the latest research on optimal experiences shows and will offer stories from various notable professional and elite runners throughout, along with go-to exercises in each chapter. Mackenzie Lobby Havey is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer and editor contributing to a wide variety of endurance and outdoor sports and fitness publications. She mainly covers running-related topics, with a special focus on translating the latest exercise psychology and physiology research to offer easy-to-understand mental and physical training advice. Her work has appeared in Runner’s World, Running Times, TheAtlantic. com, Women’s Running, ESPN.com, Trail Runner, SELF, Triathlete, Triathlete Europe, OutsideOnline, and Active.com among others. She is the author of Mindful Running.
Outrunning An exploration of the transformative power of running – and how it can be the key to unlocking resilience we never knew we had. the Demons After bestselling author Phil Hewitt was viciously mugged, stabbed and Lives Transformed left for dead in 2016, he found himself suffering the acute symptoms through Running of post-traumatic stress disorder. Unable to make sense of the horrific experience that had happened to him, Phil found that dedicating himself Phil Hewitt to running was slowly but surely helping him heal. Outrunning the Demons is an enriching and celebratory exploration of the transformative power of running – and how it can be the key to unlocking resilience we never knew we had. Told through 34 deeply affecting real-life stories and covering such 272pp diverse themes as trauma, bereavement, addiction, depression and anxiety, this compelling book is an exposition of just why running can so 234 x 153mm often be the answer to everything when we find ourselves in extremis. Trade Paperback Phil Hewitt is, regrettably, well qualified to write this book, as he was £12.99 viciously mugged in 2016 and effectively left for dead. Suffering the acute January 2019 symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, Phil found that dedicating himself to running was the only route ahead. Phil is the author of ten books including Keep On Running: The Highs and Lows of a Marathon Addict, and In The Running: Tales of Extraordinary Runners from Around the World. @marathon_addict
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What You Think You Written by a world-respected football historian, this unique gift title reveals the global game’s greatest myths and untruths. Know About Football Passionate football fans love to discuss the history, the statistics and the is Wrong folklore of the beautiful game. But how much of it stands up to scrutiny? The Global Game’s What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong peels back the fiction to Greatest Myths and uncover what lies behind popular football legends. It may not be popular to reveal that England did not win the World Cup fairly in 1966 (but not Untruths in the way you think!). You may find it hard to believe that players singing Kevin Moore their national anthem does matter. Or that Premier League players are not overpaid. Prepare to be intrigued and surprised – your view of the game 256pp will never be the same again. 180 x 120mm Written by Kevin Moore, the founding director of the world’s leading Hardback football museum, this ground breaking book debunks 50 of the greatest myths surrounding football. £12.99 October 2019 Dr Kevin Moore was the founding director of the National Football Museum, which he led for over twenty years. He is an internationally recognised researcher and writer on football history. He holds a key role at the International Football Institute and is on the editorial board of the world’s leading academic journal for football, Soccer and Society. He is Special Advisor to the Linzi Football Museum in Zibo, China and the Fanattic Sports Museum in Kolkata, India.
Training Secrets of Training Secrets of the World’s Greatest Footballers is a behind-the- scenes look at what it takes to perform at the highest level. the World’s Greatest ‘Incredibly well-researched and loaded with modern-day, high-tech football Footballers insights’ – Tony Strudwick, Head of Performance, Wales national football How Science is team Transforming the Modern Professional football is more demanding than ever. Top internationals reach speeds of 36km/hr, run 12km each match and play up to 60 games Game each season. Sports scientists are now key figures at every top club, James Witts applying cutting-edge techniques to boost fitness, accelerate recovery and forge lean, mean, winning machines. 240pp This illuminating book uncovers the training and fuelling secrets of 230 x 189mm today’s greatest footballers, drawing on access to the world’s best clubs, including Barcelona, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Paperback Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and many more. Why does Cristiano £16.99 Ronaldo have his own cryotherapy chamber? Why does Paul Pogba June 2019 wear custom-made compression socks? Why does Sergio Agüero altitude-train when returning from injury? From virtual-reality units to the omnipresence of GPS vests, taking in brain-training, innovative gear and performance nutrition along the way, you’ll discover what it takes to reach the top of the game – and how to apply this knowledge to your own training. James Witts has a background in sports science, and is a writer for a number of magazines, including New Scientist, FourFourTwo, Cyclist, 220 Triathlon, Runner’s World, Men’s Health and GQ. He is the author of the bestselling The Science of the Tour de France, also published by Bloomsbury.
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International Football International Football Kits charts the evolving football strip design of the world’s leading national football teams, from 1966 to the present Kits (True Colours) day. The Illustrated Guide SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 John Devlin Guaranteed to bring back memories of your favourite team’s kits and help 240pp you discover new ones, this groundbreaking book features strips that made it to the greatest stage in football – the FIFA World Cup – as well as 210 x 210mm rare designs that were never worn. Hardback John Devlin, the authority on football kits, analyses and evaluates the Full colour illustrations throughout home, away and third kit designs of the top football-playing nations, £20 detailing when the strip was worn, who wore it and the important May 2018 matches in which it featured. This carefully curated collection features more than 1,300 never- before-published artworks, and describes the changing styles, varied manufacturers and remarkable controversies of international football fashion over the last 50 years. John Devlin is a celebrated designer and illustrator. One of the world’s leading experts on football kit design, he regularly appears on both radio and television. For decades he has been documenting the changing kit fashions of the world’s major teams, and is the author of the bestselling True Colours: Football Kits from 1980 to the Present Day. @TrueColoursKits
The Cycling Mind The Cycling Mind gives you the essential tools to ride – and live life – at your personal best. The Psychological Skills for The top of the podium is reserved for those athletes who train their Peak Performance on the bodies and minds to perform at their very best. One of the most Bike - and in Life important yet overlooked areas to master is an athlete’s psychological skills. Ruth Anderson The Cycling Mind is an expert guide to developing the elite mindset needed for peak performance – both on and off the bike. Written by leading sports psychologist Ruth Anderson, who has worked with 256pp globally renowned Olympic and World champion cyclists, this book 234 x 153mm will teach you everything about the psychology strategies used in elite competition. You’ll discover the techniques top athletes use to excel: from Paperback race preparation to harnessing performance anxiety, and from how to 30 line art illustrations recover from a win (as well as a loss!), to how to build an effective support £14.99 team. June 2019 Foreword by Joanna Rowsell Shand, double Olympic gold medallist and world champion cyclist. Dr Ruth Anderson is a highly experienced sport psychologist who specializes in working with elite sports people. Currently Head of Performance Psychology for the Australian Cycling team, she also oversaw psychology services for the Great Britain Cycling Team during their record-breaking 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Ruth Anderson is the Director of MiND HQ, which provides psychology services to individuals and teams, giving them the knowledge and skills required to achieve optimal performance on and off the sporting field. Ruth has completed her PhD investigating the optimal psychological state for peak performance. @MiND_HQ
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Magic Spanner Prepare to be entertained as legendary Eurosport cycling commentator Carlton Kirby shares his tales from the road, taking you The World of Cycling behind the scenes of the world’s greatest cycle races. According to Carlton Kirby With a candid authority that comes from over 25 years commentating on the world’s biggest cycling races, legendary Eurosport commentator Carlton Kirby Carlton Kirby isn’t afraid to tell it like it really is. Witty, outrageous and often outspoken, Magic Spanner is an insider’s view of life on cycling’s Grand Tours, including the Tour de France, Giro D’Italia, Vuelta a España and the classics, all delivered in the inimitable style for which Carlton has become globally famous. Peppered with hilarious anecdotes of life on the road with Tour legend 240pp Sean Kelly, Carlton gives us an expert, behind-the-scenes view – one that 234 x 153mm the average fan rarely gets to see or hear about. As well as sharing his various bugbears (including crazy spectators in mankinis to the more Trade Paperback serious issues of rider safety), Carlton also lifts the lid on team strategies, £12.99 and delves into some of cycling’s more questionable ethics. June 2019 Delivering a mix of expert opinion and trademark wit, Carlton covers the funny, the serious and the more bizarre moments on the professional cycling caravan. Carlton Kirby has worked in broadcasting for over 30 years, over which time he has accumulated legions of loyal fans who are drawn to his unique and, at times, excitable style. @carltonkirby
Move Free up the body with dynamic stretching – improve flexibility, reduce back strain, stand taller, and boost your brain. Free your Body Through An inspirational and inclusive guide to ‘freeing up’ the body through Stretching Movement dynamic movement, focusing on the ‘feel-good’ benefits of stretching. Lexie Williamson Move explores dynamic stretching, or slow flowing movement. This is the most effective way to increase joint range of motion (the ‘Move it or Lose it’ principle) thereby allowing us to move comfortably and freely, as we were born to do. Uniquely designed to explore just six key move sequences, each containing the main planes of motion: flexion, extension, 176 pp side bending and rotation, the sequences can be used either as five- 234 x 156 mm minute stand-alone routines, or together to form a longer sequence. Paperback Lexie Williamson is a British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Sports Science® August 2020 instructor and the author of The Stretching Bible, Yoga for Runners and Yoga for Cyclists (Bloomsbury). Lexie has contributed articles to Cycling £12.99 Weekly, Runner’s World, Women’s Fitness, Trail Running, Outdoor Fitness and Material available: Manuscript the Guardian. She works with a range of sportspeople including cyclists, runners, rugby players and golfers.
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Vegetarian Meals in The ultimate vegetarian guide to eating well for optimum fitness. 30 Minutes Grounded in scientific evidence, Vegetarian Meals in 30 Minutes More than 100 delicious is part nutrition guide and part cookbook with over 100 recipes recipes for fitness to show you how to eat well and improve your performance through simple and delicious vegetarian cooking. Anita Bean Bestselling author Anita Bean demystifies sports nutrition, debunks the myths surrounding a vegetarian diet and covers 224pp popular topics such as what to eat before and after exercise, 235 x 208mm how much protein you need and which supplements actually work. Paperback £16.99 Vegetarian Meals in 30 Minutes will help you gain the confidence to create quick, tasty and nourishing meals that will support December 2019 your training goals. Inc thumbnails: The Vegetarian Athlete Cookbook / The Runner’s Anita Bean is an award-winning registered nutritionist, Cookbook internationally published author, health writer and former athlete. She specialises in sport and exercise nutrition and is Material available: Final files passionate about helping people improve their health and performance. Anita was the nutritional consultant for Tom Kerridge’s latest book Lose Weight & Get Fit and is the author of The Runner’s Cookbook, The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, and The Vegetarian Athlete’s Cookbook, among other titles.
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The Wildlife Pond This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right Book outside your back door. Create Your Own Pond Ponds are vital oases for nature. They are nursery grounds, feeding Paradise for Wildlife stops and bathing spots. They are genetic superhighways and vibrant ecosystems each brimming with life, interactions and potential. And they Jules Howard are for everyone. In The Wildlife Pond Book, Jules Howard offers a fresh perspective on 160pp ponds and encourages gardeners to reach for a garden spade and do 246 x 189mm something positive to benefit our shared neighbourhood nature. Paperback As well as offering practical tips and advice on designing, planting up and 300 colour photos, including maintaining your pond, Jules encourages readers to explore the wildlife step-by-step sequences, and colour that colonises it with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned illustrations pond-dipping net. £16.99 With a foreword by award-winning wildlife-gardening author, Kate September 2019 Bradbury, this helpful new guide includes a section outlining the hundreds of organisms that may turn up in your pond and is packed with creative ideas that have been tried and tested by author Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years. So, no matter how big your outdoor space is, The Wildlife Pond Book is the guide you need to create your very own haven for nature. Jules Howard is a UK-based wildlife expert, author, science-writer and presenter. He writes about zoology and wildlife conservation and is a regular contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine, BBC Science Focus magazine and the Guardian. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world, partly by tapping into the wonder of ponds.
Guide to Garden Fully updated and expanded edition of a beautifully illustrated field guide to the full range of wildlife that can be found in the British Wildlife garden. 2nd edition ‘The definitive go-to wildlife guide for all 16 million British gardens’ Mike Dilger Richard Lewington Even the smallest garden can be an important haven for wildlife, and this authoritative guide enables everyone to explore this wealth on their 224pp back doorstep. It covers all the main animal groups – including pond 216 x 135mm life – likely to be found in a garden in Great Britain and Ireland. Detailed descriptions and information on life history, behaviour and occurrence Paperback are provided for more than 500 species, as well as practical information 950 colour artworks, line drawings on creating a pond for wildlife, making nestboxes and feeding birds. and photos Richard Lewington, acknowledged as one of the finest natural history £12.99 artists in Europe, has teamed up with his brother Ian, one of our most September 2019 respected bird artists, to provide nearly 1,000 superbly detailed colour artworks to complement the text. Presented in an accessible, easy-to-use Material available: Final files format, this fully updated and expanded edition covers everything from Rights sold: Dutch (Kosmos) blue tits to bumblebees and hedgehogs to hawkmoths. Richard Lewington is widely considered one of Europe’s finest wildlife illustrators. He studied graphic design at the Berkshire College of Art and, since leaving in 1971, has specialised in natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings of insects and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, including The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland, Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland and Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for several countries. In 1999 he was awarded Butterfly Conservation’s Marsh Award for the promotion of Lepidoptera conservation, and in 2010 the Zoological Society of London’s Stamford Raffles Award for contribution to zoology.
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RSPB Garden Birds A lavish celebration of 47 of the most frequent and familiar birds found in gardens around the British Isles. Marianne Taylor From urban rooftops to open meadows, the incredible diversity of gardens in the British Isles can provide refuge and feeding opportunities for a vast array of birds. Even the smallest gardens can attract some birdlife and watching garden birds is a great joy for all nature lovers, 224pp brightening each day and providing an immediate connection with the wider and wilder world beyond the fence. 280 x 215mm Hardback Nature is facing challenges throughout the world, including right here in the UK, and the changing fortunes of our garden birds are strong 200 colour photos indicators of the overall health of our wildlife. With information on how £25 to encourage birds to visit our gardens and boost their survival and November 2019 breeding success, and how to identify them, this book describes the small steps we can all take to help these birds survive the hardships of Material available: Final files winter and bright forth a healthy new generation that we can recognise, appreciate and enjoy for decades to come. RSPB Garden Birds is a lavish celebration of 47 of our most frequent and familiar garden birds, and the final chapter looks at some of the less regular – but equally welcome – visitors. Detailed biographies outline each species’ life history, distribution, behaviour and breeding habits, and an extensive introduction provides guidance on the general practicalities of garden birdwatching and managing a wildlife garden. Featuring more than 200 spectacular photographs revealing every detail of our garden birds’ appearance and behaviour, this book will appeal to anyone who has discovered their love of wildlife through watching the birds in their garden. Marianne Taylor is a freelance writer, illustrator and photographer. A passion for all wildlife, but especially birds, has always been a driving force in Marianne’s life. Her appreciation for the joy of garden birdwatching grew even more in 2009 when she took up wildlife photography. Marianne has written more than 25 books for adults and children on a range of natural history subjects.
Concise Guide to Second edition of an indispensable, practical identification guide for all active moth enthusiasts. the Moths of Great This concise guide is a companion to the main Field Guide to the Britain and Ireland Moths of Great Britain and Ireland by the same expert authors, but is in a condensed form with artwork opposite the species descriptions Second edition and lay-flat binding for ease of use in the field. It includes brief but Martin Townsend and comprehensive field descriptions of all the macro-moths in Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, and this second edition Paul Waring has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest advances in taxonomy. Featuring more than 1,700 superbly detailed colour artworks 176pp and covering nearly 900 species, this portable guide is an essential 216 x 135mm addition to every moth-lover’s field kit. Wiro Martin Townsend started specialising in Lepidoptera at the age of ten. 1,700 colour illustrations He graduated with a BSc in Zoology from the University of Aberdeen in £18.99 1985, and since then has worked in ecological research and conservation. He is now an independent consultant, carrying out site surveys for November 2019 conservation bodies and other landowners. Material available: Final files Paul Waring was born in the New Forest. A schoolboy interest in caterpillars led to Honours Zoology at the University of Oxford and a PhD on the impact of woodland management in Bernwood Forest. Since 1987, he has worked full time on moth conservation in Britain, both within government conservation agencies and as a freelancer, as well as mothing throughout the world. Richard Lewington studied graphic design at the Berkshire College of Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, including The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland, Guide to Garden Wildlife and Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Moult and Ageing of A brand-new, completely revised second edition of Jenni and Winkler’s classic guide. European Passerines The moult strategies of birds exert an important influence on their Second Edition behaviour and energetics, and also provide the basis of valuable tools for study. A proper understanding of how feathers are replaced and the Lukas Jenni & precise differences in the appearance of the various feather generations Raffael Winkler can allow ringers, scientists and keen birdwatchers to age individual birds, and to distinguish between first-year and adult birds. Understanding the moult strategy of a species also provides insights into its general and 304pp migration ecology, and allows detailed studies of many aspects of its 310 x 230mm population dynamics. Hardback Lukas Jenni and Raffael Winkler have studied moult across a wide range Packed with hundreds of photos of bird species for decades, and in this book bring their observations and figures together to produce a valuable reference for both professional ornithologists and bird ringers. This second edition has been completely £95 updated and revised, with 16 new species accounts added, bringing the February 2020 total covered to 74. Material available: Final files Large in format, packed with high-quality photography and lavish in production specifications, this second edition of Moult and Ageing in European Passerines is both a major reference for ornithologists, zoologists, bird ringers and dedicated birdwatchers, and a work of great scholarship and beauty. Lukas Jenni was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1955 and became interested in birds as a boy. While studying biology at Basel University he became a volunteer at the Swiss Ornithological Institute and a ringer at the Col de Bretolet ringing station, where his interest in moult and ageing began while working with Raffael Winkler. He became a lecturer at the University of Zurich in 1997 and a professor in 2013, and was appointed scientific director of the Swiss Ornithological Institute in 2000. Raffael Winkler was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1949. Interested in birds since his early childhood, a stay at the Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat in the Camargue convinced him to study zoology. In 1980 he was elected curator of the bird collection at the Natural History Museum, Basel, where he edited The Avifauna of Switzerland and carried on the Museum’s own tradition in moult research. He retired in 2012 and now works as a voluntary ornithologist at the Basel Museum.
Photographic Guide A stunning photographic showcase of the birds of Cuba. to the Birds of Cuba Cuba is now one of the most popular birding destinations in the world. Its rich avifauna includes 25 endemic species, and the island is also home Arturo Kirkconnell, Patricial to a range of regional scarcities and is an important stopping point for Bradley & Yves-Jacques migrants as they cross the Caribbean. Rey-Millet Containing hundreds of stunning photographs by Yves-Jacques Rey- Millet, A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Cuba, the latest addition to Helm’s Photographic Guides series, provides full photographic coverage 352pp of every species on the Cuban list. Concise text for each species includes 202 x 130mm identification, similar species, voice, habitats and behaviour, status and Paperback distribution, along with a map. 600 photos This guide is an essential companion for any birder or naturalist visiting £25 this beautiful and bird-rich island. October 2020 Arturo Kirkconnell is curator of birds in Havana; Patricia Bradley is the Material available: Manuscript author of several books on the birds of the Cayman Islands; and Yves- Jacques Rey-Millet is a photographer who specialises in the birds of the Caribbean.
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Field Guide to The most comprehensive guide to the world’s carnivores available. Carnivores of the Ranging from the largest terrestrial carnivore, the Polar Bear, to the tiny Least Weasel that can squeeze through a wedding ring, the true World carnivores include some of the world’s most charismatic, admired, feared Second edition and spectacular creatures. This new edition of Luke Hunter’s comprehensive guide profiles all of Luke Hunter & Priscilla the world’s terrestrial carnivore species. Thoroughly updated throughout Barrett and covering recently described species, a detailed account describes each species’ key identification characteristics, distribution and habitat, 256pp behaviour, feeding ecology, social patterns, life history statistics, 240 x 170mm conservation and the latest on classification. The new edition also includes accurate distribution maps for each species. Paperback 93 illustrated plates Colour plates by top wildlife artist Priscilla Barrett depict each species, with subspecies, colour variations and behavioural vignettes for many. £25 There are also detailed line drawings of more than 230 skulls and 110 November 2018 footprints. Rights sold: USA (Princeton Luke Hunter is President of Panthera, the world’s leading organisation University Press) dedicated to the conservation of wild cats. Before that, he headed the Great Cats Programme of the Wildlife Conservation Society, and held positions in universities in Australia and South Africa. He has contributed to more than 100 scientific papers and popular articles. Priscilla Barrett has painted mammals for field guides to numerous regions including southern Africa, Latin America, Britain and Europe, and New Zealand. She is a long-standing member of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
Handbook of From the blue whale to the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, this handbook is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date Whales, Dolphins reference to each of the world’s 90 species of cetaceans. and Porpoises With more than 1,000 meticulous and specially commissioned Mark Carwardine illustrations – complete with flukes, blows and dive sequences – it includes detailed annotations pointing out significant field marks, as well as extensive distribution and migration maps. Many of the world’s most 528pp respected whale biologists have collaborated on the text, helping to 234 x 152mm provide the ultimate guide to the identification, distribution, behaviour, Hardback life history and conservation of every species and subspecies of whale, dolphin and porpoise. Full colour photographs and more than 1,000 species illustrations This is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in these truly £35 spectacular animals. November 2019 Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, writer, radio and TV presenter, wildlife Material available: Final files photographer, wildlife tour operator and an active and outspoken conservationist, with a special interest in cetaceans. His TV series Rights sold: USA (Princeton include BBC’s Last Chance to See with Stephen Fry, and for many years he University Press) presented the weekly half-hour programme Nature on BBC Radio 4. Mark has been writing a monthly column in BBC Wildlife magazine since 2004, is Contributing Editor of Wanderlust magazine, and has written more than 50 books on wildlife and conservation, including many about whales. He has been studying, observing and photographing whales, dolphins and porpoises around the world for more than 30 years.
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The Dangerous The definitive reference guide to all of Africa’s venomous snakes, written by a team of internationally acclaimed herpetologists. Snakes of Africa Africa is a true hotspot for snake diversity, with several hundred species. Stephen Spawls & Unfortunately, a scared snake or one that is trodden on may bite, and Bill Branch some species have venom that can prove fatal. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa is an indispensable guide to these reptiles. It covers all 137 dangerous snake species in Africa, along with another 70 species that are easily confused with them. All are described, with each account looking in detail at their identification, habitat and distribution, 256pp behaviour and venom, as well as how to treat bites and a selection of photographs, accompanied by an accurate range map. Introductory 216 x 135mm sections cover the major snake groups, their venom characteristics, how Paperback to avoid snakebites and first-aid advice. 550 colour photos This comprehensive book is an essential tool for all naturalists, £30 conservationists, educators, field workers and medical personnel March 2020 throughout Africa. Material available: Manuscript Stephen Spawls went to Kenya when he was four, and caught his first chameleon at the age of six. African herpetology is his major interest, and he has spent 39 years on the continent. His publications include Kenya: A Natural History and Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bill Branch was one of Africa’s most well known herpetologists. Based in South Africa for over 40 years, Bill published more than 600 works on African herpetofauna, including the only comprehensive guide to the entire reptile fauna of southern Africa. Bill sadly died shortly before the publication of this book.
African Raptors The most comprehensive guide to African raptors ever published. William S. Clark & Due to its large land mass and impressive variety of habitats, Africa has the most diverse range of raptors of any continent – with almost a third of Rob Davies the world’s species occurring in the region. These diurnal birds of prey are well known for their hooked bill and powerful talons, as well as their keen vision that enables them to accurately detect their prey during flight. 336pp This authoritative guide, part of the Helm Identification series, features 240 x 170mm all 106 species found in Africa, with particular emphasis on their field identification. Encompassing falcons, eagles, ospreys, kites, vultures and Hardback more, African Raptors discusses the identification of both perched and 52 colour plates and more than 300 flying birds, bringing together the very latest research with accurate colour photographs distribution maps, more than 300 colour photographs and 52 superb £50 plates that illustrate a broad range of ages and racial plumage differences. August 2018 This book is the ultimate reference on these remarkable birds, and will be Material available: Final files indispensable for all birders and ornithologists with an interest in birds of prey. William S. Clark is an acknowledged authority on raptors and has traveled to study raptors worldwide. He has published multiple papers on many raptor subjects, and is the author of four field guides covering raptors of Europe, North America, Mexico and Central America. Rob Davies has lived for much of his life in southern Africa and has long had a special interest in raptors. A biologist by training and with a PhD under his belt, he is also an accomplished artist.
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Nightjars of the World The definitive guide to the world’s nightjars. Nigel Cleere Nightjars – a beautiful and charismatic group, popular with birders around the world. Some species have developed spectacular tails and wing adornments, but the majority are fairly uniform in appearance, making their identification a stern test. This new book in the Helm Identification Guides series focuses on these birds along with the frogmouths, potoos, owlet-nightjars and Oilbird, 416pp bringing the world of the nightjar out of the dark and into the spotlight. 240 x 170mm Detailed text by the world’s leading expert, Nigel Cleere, is accompanied Hardback by around 400 photos, covering as much subspecific, sexual and age- 36 plates, c. 400 photos related variation as possible, with detailed maps, and 36 plates depicting £60 feather-by-feather detail of every species. April 2021 A worthy successor to Cleere’s 2000 book Nightjars: A Guide to Nightjars Material available: Manuscript and related birds in the same series, this new edition will remain the due October 2020 definitive work on these remarkable birds for decades to come. Based at the Natural History Museum at Tring, Hertfordshire, Nigel Cleere is the world’s leading expert on nightjar identification.
Birds of East Africa The definitive field guide dealing with the birds of this spectacular region. Second Edition This spectacular new edition of the bestselling Helm Field Guide of Terry Stevenson & all time covers all resident, migrant and vagrant species found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Over 1,300 species are John Fanshawe illustrated with full details of all the plumages and major races likely to be encountered. Concise text describes the identification, status, range, habits and voice, with fully updated range maps for each species. 640pp 216 x 140mm This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve Paperback and study the avifauna of the region – East Africa shelters a remarkable 287 colour plates diversity of birds, many seriously endangered with small and vulnerable £35 ranges. April 2020 Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe are two names synonymous with Material available: Manuscript East African ornithology. Their first book together, the first edition of this title, was published in 2002 and became an instant field-guide classic. Rights sold: USA (Princeton University Press) Terry Stevenson has lived in Kenya since 1977. He is one of Africa’s foremost bird tour guides, leading tours throughout Africa, India and Eastern Europe. Privately he has travelled extensively, birding in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Antarctica. Together with John Fanshawe and Andy Roberts, Terry holds the World Big Day record for the number of birds seen in 24 hours – 330 species on 30 November 1986 – a record that still stands today! He is also a member of the East African Rarities Committee. John Fanshawe is an author and environmentalist. He has worked on bird and biodiversity conservation in East Africa since 1981, primarily for the global partnership, BirdLife International. After research on the birds of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest in coastal Kenya, he worked on conservation and development projects there, and went on to coordinate BirdLife’s global policy and advocacy programmes. With a particular interest in the role of the arts in the environment movement, he co-founded the group New Networks for Nature in 2009, and curates a programme of arts and science collaborations for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
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Larks of the World This authoritative handbook looks in detail at the remarkable and diverse larks of the world. Paul Donald & Per Alström The larks – a diverse group of mainly grassland birds – form a truly cosmopolitan bird family, one that includes a number of species that, for reasons of rarity, beauty or song, feature in most birders’ dreams – the critically endangered Sidamo Lark in it’s tiny patch of remaining habitat, the heart-stopping song of the Skylark, the rarely glimpsed Dupont’s Lark, or the striking contrast of Black Lark against the snow of the winter steppe. Written by two of the world’s leading ornithologists, Paul Donald and Per Alström, this landmark volume in the Helm 608pp Identification Guides series provides the definitive record of the 240 x 170mm taxonomy, biology, ecology and conservation status of all 98 Hardback species of larks, with detailed distribution maps to accompany the text. A worthy companion to Pipits and Wagtails (also co- Full colour photographs and authored by Per Alström), Larks of the World includes a series of illustrations throughout outstanding plates by the brilliant artist Faansie Peacock, and £60 hundreds of photographs covering the full range of racial and November 2020 age-related plumage variety. Material available: Manuscript This book is the ultimate reference work on these remarkable due December 2019 and beautiful birds, and an indispensable addition to the libraries of researchers and birders for many years to come. Paul Donald is Senior Scientist at BirdLife International, and before this was for a long time Principal Scientist at the RSPB. He fell in love with larks while doing his doctoral research at Oxford University on the ecology of Skylarks, and has since worked on all of the world’s rarest larks, including the critically endangered Liben Lark and Raso Lark. He is author of the Poyser monograph on the Skylark and lead author of Facing Extinction, a book about the world’s rarest birds. Per Alström is Professor of Ornithology at Uppsala University’s Department of Ecology and Genetics and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. A keen birder since his childhood in south-west Sweden, Per started travelling abroad at an early age, and he has spent many years in the field. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, was the senior author of two highly acclaimed books, and co-author of chapters in two volumes of Handbook of the Birds of the World (2004, 2006).
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Wilderness Chef A gorgeous and inspiring wild cookery book that goes back to basics, and beyond, from the master of bushcraft. The Ultimate Guide to We all know how to cook an egg. In this book, Ray Mears will Cooking Outdoors show readers how to cook an egg, on a stick, over a fire, how to light that fire, and then how to make the egg taste amazing. Ray Mears This is a practical and inspiring book drawing on the love of the outdoors, cooking in the open air and creating delicious food from scratch. Infused throughout with Ray’s experience and enthusiasm, the book begins with setting up your outdoor kitchen, assessing 320pp your ingredients, then focusing on key techniques: lighting your fire, cooking in ashes and leaves, steaming on an open fire, Other and smoking. Flexiback Once the practical elements have been covered, the main bulk Colour photography throughout of the book is ‘the menu’, featuring fabulous and enjoyable £20 recipes, including: May 2020 - easy ideas that children and grownups can try out (campfire Material available: Manuscript fondue; baked apples) - gourmet meals (venison pave brochette, anyone?) - recipes learned from bushmen and native peoples around the world (sami bread, jungle curry, Kalahari bushman ostrich egg) The recipes and advice are beautifully described, illustrated with anecdotes from thousands of meals cooked outdoors all around the world, and accompanied by Ray’s own photography. Over the past two decades, the name Ray Mears has become recognised throughout the world as an authority on the subjects of bushcraft and survival. He has also become a household name through his writing and his various television series, including Tracks, World of Survival, Trips Money Can’t Buy with Ewan McGregor, The Real Heroes of Telemark and many more. These programmes have reached out and touched the hearts of everyone, from small children to grandparents. They
Pineapple Upside-down Cake are enjoyed by many because of Ray’s down to earth approach,
On a cold day a pineapple upside down cake is wonderful fare. The basic cake mix is really easy to make and bake, and produces a delicious light sponge. Made in the evening, this is always well received on a canoe his obvious love for his subject and the empathy and respect he trip, particularly when you have been paddling into a headwind all morning.
Ingredients Method shows for indigenous peoples and their cultures. Ray has spent
3⁄5 cup (150g) 1 Grease the inside of the cooking 7 Spoon this batter over the pineapple butter, softened, pan well with butter. The pan should rings and spread evenly. his life learning these skills and is truly a master of the subject plus extra for measure about 20cm in diameter. 8 Place the pan into a steamer or greasing 2 Mix 2 tbsp of the butter with 4 tbsp double boiler rig (see page xx) and cook 1 cup (200g) sugar of the sugar, then sprinkle the mixture for 45 minutes. 1 small can he calls Wilderness Bushcraft. pineapple rings, across the base of the pan. This can be 9 Check if the mixture is cooked drained (reserve heated and cooked until golden and by piercing the centre with a skewer. the syrup) caramelised, although I do not usually 10 It will be drawn out dry when the 2 cups (250g) plain bother with this. cake is cooked. flour 3 Place the pineapple rings on top of 11 Remove from the heat, rest for a few 2 tsp baking the sugar and butter. minutes and then turn out on to a plate. powder 4 Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, 12 Serve hot with custard or cream, if 3 7 3 tbsp milk powder pinch of salt and remaining sugar and butter. Add you like. It’s also good cold. 2 eggs or the eggs if using powdered. equivalent 5 Using your hands, mix this mixture powdered egg well until smooth, then add the eggs water if using fresh, or the right quantity of custard (see page water if using powdered egg (check xx) or cream, to packet instructions). serve (optional) 6 Add the syrup from the pineapple rings and mix thoroughly with a spoon. No Need Bread Loosen the mixture by adding water as necessary until you have a thick batter Jim Lahey, founder of the Sullivan Street Bakery in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York came consistency. up with this brilliant recipe. I call it ‘No Need Bread’ because for all practical purposes, there is no need for any other recipe in a field kitchen. I like to make the dough late in the afternoon and to leave it to rise overnight in a protected place, such as a storage box or tent vestibule. In cold weather, the bowl can be insulated from the cold ground by placing it on two pieces of firewood and wrapping it in a spare coat. This bread is a firm favourite in a fixed camp.
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Makes 1 loaf 1 Mix the dry ingredients well, then 6 Take the dough, turn it over and Gurkha Curry add the water and quickly mix through. place it in the oven. 8 10 3 cups (375g) strong white 2 Cover the mixing bowl and leave 7 Place the oven with embers As with all cooking, this recipe is best when the freshest ingredients are used. However, do not bread flour, plus overnight, ideally for 12 hours. surrounding it and bake the bread for Boiling Boiling hesitate to make it with dried spices and tinned tomato. However you make it, it’s a wonderful aromatic extra for dusting 3 Pour out the dough on to a lightly 30 minutes. 258 spicy dish that is a welcome dish outdoors. 259 ½ tsp fast-action floured surface, flatten down the dough 8 Lift the lid for 2 minutes and inspect dried yeast slightly, then fold in the left and right the bread. Replace the lid and put 1 tsp salt ½ sides, then the top and bottom sides. embers on top to finish the cooking and Ingredients Method 1⅓ cups (330ml) WildernessChef_Contents,Curry,Lamb.indd 30-31 31/07/2019 11:03 4 Flour a clean dish towel or large to brown the crust – roughly 10 minutes. water Serves 4 1 Cut the chicken or meat into bite- 7 Cover the pan and simmer for bandana, then place the dough on it, By all means, lift the lid to check on the sized pieces. Peel and chop the onion, 10–15 minutes, then taste and season folded side down. Flour the top of the cooking during this time. about 500g loaf and fold over the cloth. Remove the bread from the oven skinless boneless peel and crush the ginger and peel the curry. You may need to add a little 9 chicken thighs and grate the ginger. Finely chop sugar if using canned tomatoes. 5 Leave in a warm place while you and leave it to cool slightly before you or any other the chilli, if using. 8 Turn off the heat and let the curry prepare a camp oven and heat it until attempt to slice it. available meat 2 Gently heat the oil in a cast-iron rest for 5 minutes. Check the chicken it is very hot. I find placing the inverted 1 medium onion pan with the cinnamon stick, cloves or meat is cooked through before mixing bowl over the wrapped loaf gives 2 garlic cloves and cardamom. serving with Plain White Rice. sufficient protection from the elements. 2.5cm (1in) piece of 3 When a nice aroma rises from fresh root ginger 1 fresh green chilli, the spices, add the chicken or meat. finely chopped, Cook until the meat is well browned. or 1/4 tsp chilli 4 Add the chopped onion and cook Wholemeal loaf powder for about 15 minutes, until soft and For a wholemeal version, use the ingredients below and increase 4 tbsp vegetable oil golden. cinnamon stick the cooking time by 5–10 minutes. 1⁄2 5 Add the garlic, ginger, turmeric, 4 cloves garam masala and chopped chilli or 4 cardamom pods Ingredients chilli powder. Stir all the time to 1⁄2 tsp ground 2 cups (250g) rye or wholemeal bread flour turmeric prevent any burning. 1 cup (125g) strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting 1 tbsp garam 6 Now add the chopped tomato, ½ tsp fast-action dried yeast masala (more if sugar if using, and tomato puree. 1½ tsp salt you like it spicy) If you feel you need to, add a splash 1½ cups (375ml) water 4 tomatoes, of water. chopped, or 1 can of chopped In Cast Iron In Cast Iron tomatoes 2 tbsp tomato 280 281 puree pinch of sugar, if using canned WildernessChef_Contents,Curry,Lamb.indd 34-35 31/07/2019 11:03 tomatoes variation salt and ground black pepper, For a vegetarian version, simply swap the meat for vegetables, such as to taste aubergine, potato, courgette, peppers or whatever you have to hand, peeled Plain White Rice or seeded if necessary and chopped into bite-sized pieces. (see page xx), to serve
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Take the Slow Road: The ultimate guide to the very best scenic and fun routes for camper vans and motorhomes around the valleys, mountains Ireland and coastlines of beautiful Ireland. Inspirational Journeys Forget hurrying. Forget putting your foot down and racing Round Ireland by Camper through sweeping bends. Forget the understeer (whatever that is). Forget the blur of a life lived too fast. This is a look at Van and Motorhome taking life slowly. It’s about taking the time to enjoy journeys and places for their own sake. It’s about stopping and putting Martin Dorey the kettle on. Stopping to take a picture. Stopping to enjoy stopping. 352pp How are you going to do it? In a camper van or a motorhome, Other of course. Paperback In this book we define the best driving routes around Ireland Beautiful colour photography and for camper vans and motorhomes. We show you the coolest handy maps throughout places to stay, what to see, what to do and explain why it’s £20 special. We meander around Ireland on the most breathtaking May 2020 roads, chugging up mountain passes and pootling along the coast. We show you stuff that’s fun; often free. We include the Material available: Manuscript best drives for different kinds of drivers; for surfers, wildlife watchers, climbers and walkers. We include the steepest, the bendiest, those with the most interesting bridges or views or obstacles, ferries and tidal causeways. And you don’t even have to own a camper van or motorhome – we’ll tell you the many places you can rent one to take you on the journey. All of this is interspersed with beautiful photos, handy maps and quirky travel writing from the king of camper vans and motorhomes, Martin Dorey. So if all you want to do is flick through it on a cold day and plan your next outing, you’ll be transported (albeit slowly) to pastures, beaches, mountains and highways that make you want to turn the key and go, go, go! Martin Dorey is a writer, surfer and serial camper van owner. In 2011 he presented the BBC2 television programme ‘One Man and his Camper Van’. He is the author of The Camper Van Cookbook (2010), The Camper Van Coast (2012), The Camper Van Bible (2016), Take the Slow Road: Scotland (2018), Take the Slow Road: England and Wales and No. More. Plastic, and he writes regular features for Coast magazine, Camping magazine, Motorhome Motorcaravan magazine, and the Huffington Post. @campervanliving; www.martindorey.com
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Wild Camping A revolutionary guide to the world of wild camping and foraging, showing how anyone can camp, sleep and wake in the UK’s most 2nd edition secluded and beautiful places, with a foreword by Ed Stafford. From getting back to nature with a tent, some matches and a few litres of Exploring and Sleeping in bottled water, to enjoying a pub dinner and camping out in the garden the Wilds of the UK and afterwards, this book shows how to get stuck into wild camping in all its Ireland forms. Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly… What’s not to like? Stephen Neale There’s an idea that wild camping is illegal in Britain, but it isn’t – you just need to know the rules and where to go. This guide will open up this 256pp amazing experience for all, covering: Other - what is wild camping and why bother? Paperback - different types (bivvying, tenting, hammocking, on the water) - what the law says (Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Ireland, Full colour photography and maps EU, waterways) throughout - how many of the largest landowners in the UK are actively £16.99 encouraging wild camping April 2020 - getting started (vital equipment, where to go, when to go, safety) Material available: Manuscript - drinking water and foraging for food The majority of the book features the best places to go in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, along with stories, tips, helpful maps and inspiring photos. The new edition includes a Foreword by Ed Stafford, as well as a completely new chapter introducing the exciting new English Coastal Path, opening 2020 after years of campaigning. This fully updated guide will give readers the knowledge and the inspiration to escape the noise, clutter and stress of day to day life and go wild. Stephen Neale is a journalist and writer, and author of Camping by the Waterside and The England Coast Path. He is also the author of several books about Essex (where he lives), and spends most of his time outdoors navigating rivers, setting up camp in the wilderness, and writing about how amazing our country is on his popular website wildessex.com
Around the Coast in Starting at Blackpool, the most iconic of Britain’s coastal towns, this book takes a clockwise journey around the coast of Britain, calling in at 80 80 Days different beautiful, quirky and interesting locations and delivering a must- have guide to each place. Your Guide to Britain’s Best Coastal Towns, Beaches, Around the Coast in 80 Days is an indispensable guide to the very best of Britain’s diverse coastline. Whether you have just an afternoon, a whole Cliffs and Headlands day, a free weekend, or a whole week to explore our wonderful country, this book will guide you to the 80 most interesting, fun and picturesque Peter Naldrett seaside spots our coast has to offer. Starting at Blackpool, that most iconic of coastal towns, the book travels clockwise up to Scotland, down the 256pp east coast, across the southern shores, up through Wales and back to the Other northwest of England. Paperback Each chapter will include information on: Filled with beautiful colour - Need to Know (the essential history of the place and key features) photography - Where to Eat (at least two options) - Where to Stay (with three different options) £16.99 - If You Only Do One Thing… (the best thing to do at the place if you April 2020 have half a day) Material available: Manuscript - For Those With Extra Time… (things to do if you have one or two days) - Near Here… (other places nearby that are worth a visit) Accompanied by beautiful photography and handy maps, the book will delight families, couples and solo explorers of all ages and with all budgets. We all know there’s so much more to explore and enjoy in our beautiful country – this book will help you do just that. Peter Naldrett is a travel writer who has written several guides to the Peak District, Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, as well as textbooks and resources for Oxford University Press. He has also written for the Telegraph, and writes regularly for publications such as Cumbria, The Countryman and Derbyshire Life. He is the author of Days Out Underground, also published by Bloomsbury.
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Coastal Scotland The most comprehensive survey of the Scottish coastline ever compiled, exploring every stretch of the shores of Scotland and her major islands via Celebrating the History, their history, architecture, wildlife, culture and more. Heritage and Wildlife of With several thousand miles of coastline and nearly 800 islands, Scotland Scotland’s Shores has the most diverse coast of the United Kingdom. From the wild waters around Cape Wrath to the serene beaches of the Silver Sands of Morar, Stuart Fisher via one of the world’s largest whirlpools at Corryvreckan, this new book journeys around the varied shorelines of Scotland to complete the most comprehensive survey ever taken. 208pp 297 x 210mm Stuart Fisher, bestselling author of the similarly comprehensive Canals of Britain, visits all the places of interest along the entire coastline of Paperback Scotland: from rugged countryside edging the Highlands to modern Full colour photos and maps cities, via firths and sea lochs, exploring history and heritage, striking throughout architecture and dramatic engineering, wildlife, wonderful flora and £25 fauna, art and literature. May 2020 His journey takes him from industrial hubs to small villages and fishing Material available: Manuscript communities, providing a keen insight into what makes each stretch of Scotland’s shoreline unique and special. Evocative and often dramatic colour photographs help capture the great variety of the coast, and maps, book covers, stamps and local artefacts help convey the character of each area. This comprehensive and absorbing survey is a treasure trove of interest and knowledge for walkers, cyclists, boaters, holidaymakers and indeed anyone with an interest in coastal Scotland. Stuart Fisher is the author of the bestselling Canals of Britain (now in its 3rd edition). He has made it his life’s work to research Britain’s waterways, both inland and coastal, and has a reputation second to none for the depth and range of his research and knowledge.
The Complete Day A practical hands-on manual that covers the Day Skipper syllabus in a step-by-step learning system designed to get you straight on the Skipper water. Skippering with The Complete Day Skipper is a totally practical hands-on manual that Confidence Right From covers the RYA Day Skipper syllabus in a way that reflects a skipper’s growing experience at sea, beginning with yacht handling under the Start power, moving on to boat husbandry and sailing skills, and from there to the realistic use of modern electronic navigation systems. Eminently Tom Cunliffe readable and very down to earth, this fully revised sixth edition has become required reading for all skippers in their early years as well as 208pp more experienced sailors who choose not to venture far afield. As one of Other Britain’s best-known instructors and writers on seamanship, Tom Cunliffe Hardback provides just the right blend of advice, instruction, inspiration and Colour diagrams and photography encouragement. throughout Tom Cunliffe may be a household name as a sailor, a TV presenter and £25 a Yachtmaster Instructor Examiner, but he remains a family sailor by February 2020 choice. Self-taught as a teenager in ‘engineless’ 25-footers, he has built a life around cruising with his wife and daughter to the faraway places Material available: Manuscript of which dreams are made. Years of teaching offshore at the National Sailing Centre have given him a remarkable knack of explaining how skippering can be low-stress and safe, while never forgetting that, above all, it has to be fun. Cruising remains Tom Cunliffe’s passion. He currently owns a classic 44-foot cutter, and has sailed his yachts with friends and family from the Caribbean to Russia and from Brazil to the Arctic. When not sailing or working, he grows roses and rides a large motorcycle. His website is www.tomcunliffe.com
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Reeds Skipper’s The bestselling aide-memoire of everything a boater needs to know at sea. Handbook: For Sail The Reed’s Skipper’s Handbook has been a bestseller since first publication. and Power The previous edition sold over 60,000 copies, and it is easy to see why: a handy pocket size, it is an aide-memoire of everything a boater needs 7th edition to know at sea. Packed with a wide range of information in a concise Malcolm Pearson form it is frequently recommended by Yachtmaster Instructors as a quick reference guide and as a revision aid for anyone taking their Day Skipper Revised by Andy Du Port or Yachtmaster certificates. This 7th edition has been thoroughly revised, with updated text and illustrations throughout. 208pp 160 x 100mm ‘A terrific little volume’ Motorboat & Yachting Paperback ‘A brilliant guide for beginners and an excellent refresher for more £8.99 advanced skippers... a top rate book’ Waterstones April 2020 ‘Everything you would need to know when going to sea in a yacht or Material available: Manuscript small boat...a humdinger of a little book’ Nautical Magazine Reeds Skipper’s Handbook is a must for anyone going to sea in any size Rights sold: USA (McGraw Hill), Dutch (De Alk & Heijnen), German of boat – be they novice or old hand. Tens of thousands of skippers and (Pietsch Verlag), Hungarian (Pecsi Direkt), Spanish (Ediciones Tutor) crew have found it invaluable as a memory jogger and refresher whether at sea or on land.
Reeds 9-Language This pocket illustrated boating dictionary in nine languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Portuguese and Handbook Greek – core European sailing destinations) covers all the topics and terms boaters will need to refer to when abroad The pocket dictionary for all sailors Being able to communicate with the local people is very important FULLY – whether it is to ask for a berth, a spare part or where the nearest REEDS ILLUSTRATED chandlery or supermarket is. So, with this book, even if your -LANGUAGE pronunciation is a bit out, you should still be able to make yourself 9 understood, quickly and efficiently, which makes this dictionary a vital HANDBOOK part of your cruising kit. THE POCKET DICTIONARY FOR ALL SAILORS The pocket dictionary is centred around clear, colour, annotated French 160pp Danish diagrams, such as parts of the rig and engine, in each nautical subject Dutch 160 x 100mm area, and makes it very easy and convenient to translate between nine German Spanish Paperback languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Italian Portuguese and Greek). The diagrams can easily be used to show Portuguese £9.99 Greek someone what is meant (or what is broken!) without having to worry January 2022 about the language barrier. It covers general terms, such as ‘port’ and REEDS Material available: Manuscript ‘starboard’, as well as technical words relating to engine and rigging repair and maintenance. Other topics include navigation, weather, seamanship, requesting help, medical emergencies, safety equipment, numbers and time. PARTS OF THE BOAT – YACHTS FR DK NL Parts of the boat – yachts 1 Poupe 1 Agterstavn 1 Achtersteven 2 Habitacle 2 Cockpit 2 Kuip Pièces du bateau – yachts 3 Côté bâbord 3 Bagbord 3 Bakboord Whether you’re a keen offshore sailor, motorboater or even an armchair Bådens dele – lystbåde 4 Gui 4 Bom 4 Giek 5 Toit de cabine 5 Kabinetag 5 Kajuitdak
THE BOAT THE Onderdelen van het schip – jachten 6 Mât 6 Mast 6 Mast Bootsteile – Yachten 7 Pont 7 Dæk 7 Dek 8 Etrave 8 Forstavn 8 Voorsteven boating enthusiast, Reeds 9-Language Handbook is a handy reference Partes del barco – yates 9 Coque 9 Skrog 9 Romp Parti della barca – imbarcazioni da diporto 10 Côté tribord 10 Styrbord 10 Stuurboord Partes do barco – iates 11 Quille 11 Køl 11 Kiel 12 Sentine 12 Kiming 12 Kimmen tool that will help expand both your ability to communicate and your Μέρη του πλοιου – σκάφη αναψυχήσ 13 Gouvernail 13 Ror 13 Roer 14 Barre d’arcasse 14 Spejlbjælke 14 Spiegel horizons. GB DE ES IT 1 Heck 1 Popa 1 Poppa n5 Coachroof 2 Cockpit 2 Bañera 2 Pozzetto 3 Backbord 3 Costado de babor 3 Lato sinistro 4 Baum 4 Botavara 4 Boma 5 Kajütendach 5 Tambucho 5 Tuga n1 Stern n2 Cockpit n6 Mast 6 Mast 6 Palo 6 Albero 7 Deck 7 Cubierta 7 Ponte
8 Bug 8 Proa 8 Prua HYDRAULIC STEERING n3 Port side n7 Deck 9 Rumpf 9 Casco 9 Scafo 10 Steuerbord 10 Costado de estribor 10 Lato destro FR DK NL 1 Compas quart de cercle 1 Kvadrant 1 Kwadrant n8 Bow 11 Kiel 11 Quilla Hydraulic11 Chiglia steering n4 Boom 12 Bilge 12 Pantoques 12 Sentine 2 Barre à roue 2 Rat 2 Stuurwiel 13 Ruder 13 Timón Direction13 Timonehydraulique 3 Habitacle 3 Kompashus 3 Pedestal 14 Heckspiegel 14 Espejo de popa Hydraulisk14 Specchio styring di poppa 4 Arbre de gouvernail 4 Roraksel 4 Roerkoning 5 Réservoir à huile 5 Oliebeholder 5 Olietank Hydrauliekbesturing 6 Bélier hydraulique 6 Hydraulikcylinder 6 Hydraulische cilinder PT GR Hydrauliksteuerung 7 Flexible hydraulique 7 Hydraulikrør 7 Hydrauliekleiding 8 Gouvernail 8 Ror 8 Roer 1 Popa 1 Πρύμνη Gobierno hidráulico 2 Cockpit ou poço 2 Kόκπιτ/πιλοτήριο 9 Huile hydraulique 9 Hydraulikolie 9 Hydrauliekolie 3 Bombordo 3 Aριστερή πλευρά Timoneria idraulica 10 Plein 10 Fuld 10 Vol 4 Retranca 4 Mάτσα Direcção hidráulica 11 Vide 11 Tom 11 Leeg 12 Fuite 12 Lækage 12 Lek 5 Cabine (exterior) 5 Σπιράγιο/υπερκατασκευή Υδραυλική πλοήγηση 6 Mastro 6 Kατάρτι/ιστός/άλμπουρο n2 Wheel 7 Convés 7 Kατάστρωμα/κουβέρτα n9 Hull 8 Proa 8 Πλώρη GB n3 Binnacle 9 Casco 9 Kύτος/γάστρα/ύφαλα DE ES IT n10 Starboard side 10 Estibordo 10 Δεξιά πλευρά 11 Quilha 11 Kαρίνα 1 Quadrant 1 Cuadrante 1 Quadrante 12 Fundo do barco 12 Υδροσυλλέκτες n1 Quadrant 2 Rad 2 Rueda 2 Ruota 13 Leme 13 Πηδάλιο 3 Kompasshäuschen 3 Bitácora 3 Chiesuola n14 Transom n13 Rudder n12 Bilges n11 Keel 14 Painel de popa 14 Áβακας REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE πρύμνης/παπαδιά/καθρέπτης 4 Ruderwelle 4 Eje del timón 4 Asse del timone 12 13 5 Ölbehälter 5 Depósito de aceite 5 Serbatoio olio 6 Hydraulikzylinder 6 Émbolo hidráulico 6 Martinetto idraulico 7 Hydraulikleitung 7 Tubo hidráulico 7 Tubo idraulico 8 Ruder 8 Timón 8 Timone 9 Hydrauliköl 9 Aceite hidráulico 9 Olio idraulico 10 Voll 10 Lleno 10 Pieno 11 Leer 11 Vacío 11 Vuoto 12 Leck 12 Fuga 12 Perdita
PT GR 1 Quadrante 1 Τεταρτημόριο 2 Roda 2 Τιμόνι 3 Bitácula 3 Θήκη πυξίδας και λάμπα n5 Oil reservoir 4 Eixo do leme πλοίου n4 Rudder shaft 5 Reservatório de óleo 4 Άξονας πηδαλίου n7 Hydraulic pipe 6 Cilindro hidráulico 5 Ρεζερβουάρ λαδιού 7 Tubo hidráulico 6 Υδραυλικό έμβολο n6 Hydraulic ram Additional words 8 Leme 7 Υδραυλικός σωλήνας 9 Óleo hidráulico 8 Πηδάλιο n 9 Hydraulic oil 10 Cheio 9 Υδραυλικό λάδι n8 Rudder n10 Full 11 Vazio 10 Γεμάτος 12 Fuga 11 Άδειος n11 Empty 12 Διαρροή n12 Leak 116 117
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Go Sailing The ultimate beginner’s guide to sailing - no matter where you are or how old you are, anyone can get involved in sailing. It’s a lot easier Simon Jollands than you think, and this book shows you how to get afloat and what you need to do once you’re aboard. Sailing is fun for everyone. No matter where you are or how old you are, anyone can get involved. There are only two things you need to get afloat – a kitbag full of enthusiasm, and this book. In this ultimate beginner’s guide, yachtsman and writer Simon Jollands 128pp takes the helm to show newcomers of any age that sailing is easier than people sometimes think. He quickly covers how to get afloat before 216 x 135mm exploring what you can do when you are on board: Paperback - Learn how to steer the boat Full colour photography and - Understand how sails work, and how to hoist them illustrations throughout - Find out how to use an anchor – and how to get free again! £12.99 - Learn how to tie useful knots April 2020 - Know what to do if there’s a man overboard - Discover the curious intricacies of how toilets work on a boat… Material available: Manuscript All the simple stuff is covered too, from what clothes to wear to getting on board safely. With a glossary of boating terms, and clear colour diagrams and photos throughout, this book makes everything easy to understand, so even somebody who has never stepped foot on a boat before can quickly learn the ropes. Simon Jollands is a former TV producer. A lifelong sailing enthusiast, he has filmed many major sailing events as well as writing and directing several sea safety films for the RNLI. He is the co-founder of app developer The Other Hat, which specialises in producing nautical reference apps. He is also the author of Safe Skipper and Reeds Lights, Shapes and Buoyage Handbook, both published by Adlard Coles.
The Boatyard Book The Boatyard Book is a practical, comprehensive reference manual that provides sensible, accessible advice for boat owners on planning and A Practical Guide to Yacht carrying out annual maintenance, repairs, upgrades and refits of sailing Maintenance, Repair and yachts and motorboats, up to 20 metres in length. Refitting Beginning with all the information owners will need to care for their boat, including how to budget and plan tasks to be done through the year, The Simon Jollands Boatyard Book goes on to help them choose the best boatyard for their needs, then provides essential how-to reference material and ideas for a 224pp comprehensive range of projects large and small to be carried out ashore. 246 x 189mm There’s advice and tips from highly respected boatyard owners and Flexiback managers, as well as numerous case studies of repairs done by owners of boats ranging from 6 to 20 metres in length, all fully illustrated with step- Colour photography and diagrams by-step photos and illustrations. Topics covered include: throughout £25 – laying up – hull and deck care September 2021 – masts and rigging Material available: Manuscript due – sail care September 2020 – engines – electrics – maintenance of plumbing and gas systems – more complex projects, including re-wiring a boat, overhauling an engine, how to treat osmosis and how to go about a complete refit. This is a book to be kept at the yard, or on the boat, and used time and time again by those who are either happy to keep things ticking along with the minimum of effort or by those who want to get stuck into bigger projects. Simon Jollands is a former TV producer. A lifelong sailing enthusiast, he has filmed many major sailing events as well as writing and directing several sea safety films for the RNLI. He is the co-founder of app developer The Other Hat, which specialises in producing nautical reference apps. He is also the author of Safe Skipper and Reeds Lights, Shapes and Buoyage Handbook, both published by Adlard Coles. 81 NAUTICAL AND OUTDOORS
Sail Trim and Rig A practical, comprehensive reference guide to setting up, trimming and looking after sails and setting up, tuning and looking after rigs, Tuning Handbook for novice and experienced sailors How to get the best Authored by Rob Kemp, MD of Kemp Sails and renowned expert in sail performance from your trim and rig tuning, this is a practical, comprehensive reference guide to sail trimming and rig tuning, for novice and experienced sailors. sails There is a real art to trimming sails. Knowing when you need to make Simon Jollands and adjustments to a sail and the exact adjustments required are fundamental Rob Kemp sailing skills that take time to perfect. For all but the most expert sailors these are difficult yet essential skills to master. Sail Trim and Rig Tuning Handbook will help us work at and refine these elusive skills, spelling out 128pp clearly in no-nonsense language what needs to be done, in clear question and answer format, supported by explanatory diagrams and photos. 234 x 163mm Paperback This essential manual will cover and include: £14.99 – useful theory on how sails work April 2022 – how to use sail controls to change the shape of a sail – how sails are designed and made, plus how to look after them Material available: manuscript due – how to understand the basic principles behind rig design April 2021 – step-by-step advice on rig tuning, again with clear illustrations and explanations MASTHEAD RIGS SET-UP GUIDE – sound and practical advice on rig care, including listing the checks
The best sails in the world will not work well if the rig is set up badly. A correctly trimmed rig is important for safety, as well as performance. owners need to carry out GETTING STARTED to virtually any boat with a stayed mast, and To do its job properly, the mast must be though we are going to concentrate on the straight and upright athwartships. The right most popular type of masthead rig found on – invaluable advice on replacing sails and standing rigging amount of rake and pre-bend are important smaller boats - with a single set of spreaders too, to balance the helm and ensure efficient and either fore-and-aft lowers or a babystay sail shape. Finally, adequate rig tension – we will also touch on the subtleties of the keeps the mast where it ought to be as the double-spreader rig. wind builds. It also reduces the damaging ‘snatch-loading’ in a seaway that is a principal THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF RAKE cause of rig failure. These principles apply Rake is often associated with racing yachts. Sail Trim and Rig Tuning Handbook will help all sailors – both cruisers In fact most boats perform best to windward with a few degrees of aft rake, though it is true that racing sailors generally prefer a little about 40 per cent of the way back from the SHEET TENSION GENOA TRIMMING more than their cruising counterparts. As a luff, though the exact position depends on Sheet tension does more than simply pull the and racers – make the most of their time on the water: getting the best rule of thumb, start with about 2º, measured the conditions. In any event it should never sail in when you are going upwind. It affects Whether your headsail or mainsail is bigger, it is generally better to start the be more than 50 per cent though it may have the sail’s fullness (more tension makes it trimming cycle from the bow and work aft, since the headsail’s shape has a directWith the mast straight athwartships, the maststretched needs back more on older sails. flatter) and draft position (less tension moves the right amount of pre-bend, so that it bends very bearing on the wind flow across the mainsail. Before going into detail on how Apart from moving the draft forward, the draft forward). slightly backwards. This helps to balance the helm performance from their rig and sails, and ensuring they last as long as to achieve the perfect shape, let’s look at the four principal tools you have at and make an efficient sail shape. halyard tension also flattens the sail. If you Setting up the rig is also important in your disposal: sheet tension, sheet leadA mast position, backstay tension and halyard have tensioned the halyard for stronger helping you achieve best results from your 5 needs to tension. On some boats, only the firstbe is straight, ever adjusted, but the others also have a winds, don’t forget to slacken it before furling sails. Essentially, the mast needs to be major part to play. So, what do they allupright do? the sail away. central and straight athwartships, with the and central possible. right amount of pre-bend (fore and aft curve) athwartships SHEET LEAD POSITION and rake recommended by the builder or BACKSTAY TENSION helps you sail more upright, reduces unfair The sheet lead position is primarily designer. Enough rig tension is crucial too The backstay controls forestay tension which, strains on the rigging terminals and ensures responsible for controlling the sail’s twist - the – the leeward cap shroud should never be in turn, largely determines how full the sail is. smoother operation of the roller reefing gear. relative tension of leech and foot. Some boats waving around in the breeze. The world’s Ideally, your backstay should have an adjuster have tackles led back to the cockpit so you best sails will not do their job efficiently if the RIG TUNING (not just a bottlescrew, which is difficult to HALYARD TENSION can move the genoa cars along the tracks rig is not set up properly. Pre-bend Rob Kemp is the Managing Director of Kemp Sails. He has been a adjust under way). If it doesn’t, you must make Halyard tension moves the draft (the deepest without going up on deck, but usually you sure that your backstay is tight enough to point of the sail) forward and aft. On a sail with have to slide them forward and back by lifting stop the headstay from sagging too much in camber stripes it is easy to judge the draft the plunger. With most roller genoas, it is best Rig tuning is an essential but often overlooked aspect of boat ownership. Not only will your sails be fresh conditions. Sufficient tension not only position by lying on the foredeck and looking to adjust the lead position whenever you wind unable to work efficiently if the mast is leaning over sideways and bending the wrong way, but insuf- improves speed and pointing ability, but or unwind more than a roll or two. sailmaker all his working life and founded the successful family run up the sail. Broadly speaking, it should be ficient rig tension places unfair stresses on the mast, terminals and standing rigging. Many cruising
sailors are frightened of winding their bottlescrews down as tightly as they should, believing that As with all types of rig, the masthead rig must have slack shrouds are kinder to the boat. Consequently, they run a far greater risk of rig failure. a straight, upright mast standing precisely over Rake Fortunately, the principles of tuning are simple. Once you have applied them to your boat, you the centreline of the boat. Adjustments are made by easing or tightening the cap shrouds, using the company, Kemp Sails, in 1985. www.kempsails.com will have better setting sails with all the associated benefits - more speed, better balance, improved halyard test. Slack halyard pointing ability, less heel and significantly, a safe, long-lasting rig. draft 50% aft
Tensioning the backstay reduces RIG TUNING 3 fore sag
Tight halyard draft 35% aft Simon Jollands is a former TV producer. A lifelong sailing enthusiast, he has filmed many major sailing events as well as writing and directing several sea safety films for the RNLI. He is the co-founder of app developer
Sheet lead position determines The car is moved well back, The sheet lead position is for- the relative position of the leech pulling the foot tight. The leech ward, allowing the foot to sag, Tightening the backstay increases forestay tension, A slack genoa halyard results in a fuller sail with the and the foot. Here there is even is open and there is twist in the which makes the sail fuller. This which reduces the fullness of the sail. So, increasing draft further back, which will help performance in tension in the foot and the leech. top of the sail, de-powering is ok in light airs but when the The Other Hat, which specialises in producing nautical reference apps. forestay tension helps to improve speed and pointing light airs. Tightening the halyard will move the draft The sail is well set and will create the sail. breeze increases less power will ability in strong winds. forward, better for stronger winds. maximum drive. be needed. 6 SAIL TRIM AND RIG TUNING HANDBOOK SAIL TRIMMING 7 He is also the author of Safe Skipper and Reeds Lights, Shapes and Buoyage Handbook, both published by Adlard Coles.
This indispensable visual guide takes the stress out of wng, with step-by-step photographic instructions helping sailors with tricky mooring and berthing situations in a yacht or motorboat Stress-Free Mooring is a quick-access, very visual on-board practical guide to how to approach tricky mooring and berthing situations in a yacht or motorboat. Duncan Wells, author of the highly successful Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Motorboating, provides instant guidance to helmsmen seeking advice on how best to get on and off pontoons, jetties and harbour walls in all directions of wind and tide, as well as anchoring and picking up mooring buoys. With step-by-step photos, explanatory diagrams and concise text, Stress-Free Mooring helmsmen can have at their fingertips the answers they need to all manner of tricky mooring problems. Highlighted boxes For Sail and Power throughout provide helpful advice, and QR codes give access to video demonstrations. The techniques are applicable anywhere in the world, on Duncan Wells any type and size of boat. Key features include: – Step-by-step photographs 96pp – Clear diagrams 138 x 216mm – Top Tip boxes Paperback – QR codes giving access to explanatory videos £12.99 Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor and sailing-school principal. He has May 2020 written for many leading boating magazines in the UK and the US. The Material available: manuscript author of the bestselling Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Motorboating, he lives in the UK, in Buckinghamshire. 82 NAUTICAL AND OUTDOORS
Practical Skipper An innovative new way to learn, organise and remember essential sailing knowledge. Essential notes and Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper are the most popular courses sailors checklists for day and will sign up for, as they take you from novice to competent skipper, able coastal skippers to confidently sail a yacht around the coast. Day Skipper is the sailors’ equivalent of the driving test, and is offered by the majority of the 2,500 Bill Johnson RYA training centres worldwide. This is the notebook you’ll wish you’d written up as you attended the course, and had to hand when revising for the exam or refreshing your knowledge later. 224pp Each chapter encapsulates the briefing the instructor gives, whether 234 x 156mm that’s on the water or in the classroom. What you’re going to do, and how Paperback you’re going to do it. This will be followed with tips on doing the exercise £14.99 – what can happen and how to cope with various situations – and realistic examples of things like passage planning. Diagrams are used in the same August 2022 way that the instructor would use white-board sketches to explain things. Material available: Manuscript due The checklists at the end of each chapter are in the same vein: just as August 2021 the instructor summarises the important actions to remember at the end of the briefing or exercises, this is a useful boiled down ‘to do’ or ‘to remember’ list for future reference. Covers: crew safety; preparation for sea and casting off; motoring, mooring and berthing; pilotage; passage planning and passage making; rules of the road; sails; anchoring; and emergencies. Bill Johnson is a yachting instructor, teaching sailors from absolute beginners up to those studying for their Ocean Yachtmaster. He is the author of Manoeuvring, Reeds Crew Handbook and Reeds Ocean Handbook, all published by Adlard Coles.
Seamanship 2.0 An essential new guide to core traditional seamanship skills. The basic knowledge to sort yourself out when encountering problems Everything you need to at sea is largely forgotten. How to find your way when the GPS plotter has know to get yourself out a blackout, how to get yourself off when grounded, how to save the life of trouble at sea of someone in your crew when the ambulance or SAR helicopter is hours away… Too many rely on technology to navigate and run their boats, Mike Westin and this beautifully illustrated handbook will be a literal backup when the tech fails, as well as a bible of core knowledge – seamanship – that all skippers should know anyway, whether they’re in the middle of an 160pp emergency or not. 234 x 156mm Covering all the basics, with handy fact boxes to highlight especially Paperback important information, the authors have lent a modern, real-world £14.99 approach to the subject matter, and the wonderful illustrations bring it March 2021 to life. This is a practical onboard reference rather than something for the classroom. Material available: Manuscript due March 2020 This comprehensive handbook is to essential skills for all skippers: it’ll help get you out of trouble and avoid getting into it in the first place, and it’s easy to pick up and refresh yourself with (possibly forgotten) knowledge. Mike Westin is a Swedish yachting journalist, and has been a lifeboat cox’n for ten years. He has edited two Swedish boating magazines and is also the author of Upgrading Your Boat’s Interior, Replacing Your Boat’s Engine, Replacing Your Boat’s Electrical System, all published by Adlard Coles.
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Powerboat Design The definitive book on powerboat design and performance - a unique wealth of material from the internationally renowned expert and Performance in powerboating, featuring contributions from leading powerboat designers on everything from hull design to propulsion. Expert insight into developments past and Set to become the bible for powerboat owners and operators for years to come, this long overdue analysis and review of modern powerboat future design and operation explores how powerboats have developed, why, and how design impacts on control and performance. Dag Pike Every aspect of the powerboat’s design is considered individually and 224pp as part of the whole. Different hull designs, including multihull and Other foiling craft, are assessed for their benefits and drawbacks. Engine types (whether petrol, diesel, electric or hybrid) and their influence Hardback on performance are examined and the nature and impact of different Diagrams and photos throughout propulsion systems and driving controls is also discussed. £35 All factors that influence operation are featured, from how to optimise October 2019 performance in varied sea conditions, matching speed to sea state, as well as tackling various common and uncommon scenarios (from driving into an inlet to coping with tidal races and harbour manoeuvring) as well as issues relating to crew safety. Dag Pike is the world-renowned guru on powerboats. For this book he has attracted contributions from many of the top international powerboat designers, providing a wealth of expert knowledge and specialist insights about modern powerboats. The sum of their knowhow makes this book a gem of acquired knowledge, and as such will be essential for all powerboat owners, operators and designers, whether in the leisure, commercial or military sector, and it will help ensure all prospective owners get the right boat for their requirements. Dag Pike is the undisputed international expert in modern powerboats. He is regularly invited to speak at conventions, be an expert witness at hearings, comment on new developments, provide articles based on his experience, analyse cruising performance and is much sought after for racing strategy. He is the author of numerous books for Adlard Coles, including 50 Ways to Improve Your Powerboat Driving, The Complete RIB Manual and Cruising Under Power.
Ocean Sailing This is the reassuring voice of the ocean sailing community. Your big adventure starts here. This authoritative reference brings together Offshore Cruising practical advice from the world’s experts on ocean sailing, drawing on wisdom from members of the Royal Cruising Club, the Cruising Experience with Real-life Club of America and Ocean Cruising Club. Practical Advice For many sailors, an ocean passage is the big dream. But many will worry Paul Heiney that they don’t have the right experience, that their boat isn’t strong enough, or that it will be prohibitively expensive and difficult. Ocean 288pp Sailing will prepare you for an ocean passage by painting a picture of 246 x 171mm what ocean sailing is really like, through the experiences of others who have gone before. Topics covered range from safety to boat kit and Hardback preparations, budgeting to staying in touch with home, equipment Diagrams and photographs breakdowns to health and weather. throughout Members of three great cruising clubs – the Royal Cruising Club, Ocean £35 Cruising Club, and the Cruising Club of America – share their vast wealth September 2019 of experience, and by focusing on the practicalities of ocean sailing, allay Material available: Final files the anxieties and doubts of prospective ocean cruisers to ensure a deeply satisfying ocean voyage. Paul Heiney is a well-known writer and broadcaster whose ocean sailing started with a voyage to the Azores which led to his participation in the OSTAR, the singlehanded transatlantic race, in a particularly gruelling year. More recently, he has completed a cruise from the UK to Cape Horn and back – a round trip of 18,000 miles of which he sailed 11,000 miles alone. His account of this trip was published in his much-acclaimed book One Wild Song (Adlard Coles). He is a member of the Ocean Cruising Club and currently Commodore of the Royal Cruising Club. 84 NAUTICAL AND OUTDOORS
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The Camper Van Bible The Girl Outdoors A History of Sailing in 100 Sir John Franklin’s Erebus Live, Eat, Sleep (Repeat) The Wild Girl’s Guide to Objects and Terror Expedition Martin Dorey Adventure, Travel and Wellbeing Barry Pickthall Lost and Found £20 Sian Anna Lewis £20 Gillian Hutchinson Rights sold: German (Paul Pietsch), French £14.99 Rights sold: Italian (Nutrimenti), French £18.99 (Editions Quest-France) (Editions Zeraq), Polish (Wydawnicto
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South Trim, The Cartographer’s Superdocious! Pacific Exploration The Race to the Pole Cat Racing Insights and Revelations Voyages of Discovery from Pieter van der Merwe The ship’s cat who helped from Legendary Olympic Sailor Captain Cook’s Endeavour to the £18.99 Flinders map Australia Rodney Pattisson Beagle Matthew Flinders, Gillian Rodney Pattisson and Barry Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der
Dooley and Philippa Sandall Pickthall Merwe and Glyn Williams £12.99 £20 £18.99 Rights sold: Chinese Simplified (Beijing Qianqiu Zhiye Publishing)
Picturing the Pacific Cutty Sark The Impractical Boat The Complete Yacht Joseph Banks and the shipboard The Last of the Tea Clippers Owner Security Handbook artists of Cook and Flinders (150th anniversary edition) Tales and Trials from Years of For skippers and crew James Taylor Eric Kentley Floundering Afloat Fritze von Berswordt £25 £20 Dave Selby £30 Rights sold: US (Naval Institute Press) £9.99
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Yachtmaster Exercises for Stress-Free Sailing Stress-Free Navigation First Aid at Sea Sail and Power Single and Short-handed Electronic and Traditional Douglas Justins and Colin Questions and Answers for the Techniques Duncan Wells Berry RYA Yachtmaster® Certificates of Duncan Wells £17.99 £12.99 Competence £16.99 Rights sold: German (Delius) Rights sold: Polish (Alma Press), Spain (Ediciones Omega), Alison Noice Rights sold: Dutch (Gottmer), German (Delius), Swedish (Nautiska), Polish (Alma £25 Press), Spanish (Editorial Juventud)
The Boat Cookbook The Boat Drinks Book The Sailing Bible The Boat Maintenance Real Food for Hungry Sailors A Different Tipple in Every Port The Complete Guide for Bible Fiona Sims Fiona Sims All Sailors from Novice to Refit, Improve and Repair with £18.99 £16.99 Experienced Skipper 2nd edition the Experts Rights sold: Danish (Turbine), Dutch Rights sold: Dutch (De Alk & Heijnen) £25 £35 (Heijnen) Rights sold: French (Editions Glenat), Rights sold: Norwegian (Cappelen Damm),
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The Dinghy Bible The Boat Electrics Bible The Knot Bible The Boat Improvement The complete guide for novices A Practical Guide to Repairs, The Complete Guide to Knots Bible and experts Installations and Maintenance and Their Uses Practical Projects to Customise Rupert Holmes on Yachts and Motorboats £19.99 and Upgrade your Boat Rights sold: German (Delius Klasing), Polish £20 £30 £35 Rights sold: German (Delius Klasing) Rights sold: German (Delius Klasing), (Alma Press), Swedish (Lind & Co), Spanish Swedish (Nautiska Forlaget), Dutch (Paidotribo) (Heijnen)
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The Boat Repair Bible Reading the Clouds World Cruising World Voyage Planner £35 How You Can Forecast the Destinations Planning a Voyage from Rights sold: Polish (Alma Press), German Weather Anywhere in the World to (Delius Klasing), Italian (Nutrimenti) An Inspirational Guide to All Oliver Perkins Sailing Destinations Anywhere in the World £9.99 Jimmy Cornell & Doina Cornell Jimmy Cornell and Ivan Cornell Rights sold: Polish (Alma Press) £45 £45
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