The English Patient Michael Ondaatje

DECEMBER 2018 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

Sales points • Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize, and winner of the 2018 Golden Man Booker, a special one-off award to crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize, selected by five judges and then voted for by the public • An international bestseller, The English Patient has been translated into 38 languages • Adapted into a film by Anthony Minghella, starring Kristen Scott-Thomas and Ralph Fiennes, which won nine Academy Awards

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Magnificent' Sunday Times

'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday

The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes detailing a tragic love affair.

About the Author Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a non-fiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize and the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize, and was adapted into a multi-award-winning Oscar movie; and Anil's Ghost won the

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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2018 A God in Every Stone Kamila Shamsie

By the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

Sales points • Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize • By the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

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About the Author Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Kartography (also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London. @kamilashamsie

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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 Broken Verses Kamila Shamsie

By the acclaimed author of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

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Description By the acclaimed author of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Fourteen years ago Aasmaani's mother Samina, a blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again. Aasmaani refuses to believe she is dead and still dreams of her glorious return. Now grown up and living in Karachi, Aasmaani receives what could be the longed-for proof that her mother is still alive. As she comes closer to the truth she is also irresistibly drawn to Ed, her ally and sparring partner, and the only person who can understand the profound hurt and the profound love that drives her.

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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2018 Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 In the City by the Sea Kamila Shamsie

Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Sales points • Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize • By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

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By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason... Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime, this eloquent, charming and quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and beautifully illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.

About the Author Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Kartography (also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Price: AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. Three of her novels have ISBN: 9781526607836 received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Format: Paperback - B format was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London. Dimensions: 198x130mm Extent: 352 pages @kamilashamsie Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2018 Salt and Saffron Kamila Shamsie

By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 Kartography Kamila Shamsie

Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Sales points • Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize • By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Description Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another's sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. As the years go by they let a barrier of silence build between them until, finally, they are brought together during a dry summer of strikes and ethnic violence and their relationship is poised between strained friendship and fated love.

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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 Paradise Rot Jenny Hval

A lyrical and uncompromising debut novel from a highly acclaimed musician and artist, who has achieved renown for the sharpness of her work, and its sexual and political imagery.

Sales points • Author is a critically acclaimed musician and artist • For readers of Maggie Nelson, Angela Carter and Jeannette Winterson

Description Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo's sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval, presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

About the Author Norwegian musician and writer Jenny Hval has honed an intellectual and uncompromising view on politics and sexuality in her prose and in her records, which include 'Blood Bitch', Apocalypse, Girl' and 'Innocence is Kinky'. Paradise Rot is the first of her books to appear in English.

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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman

Considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse, Walt Whitman (1819 92) was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in its time, his sprawling collection Leaves of Grass is regarded as his magnum opus.

Sales points • Part of the newly launched Great Poets' Alma Classics series • Perfect edition for students • Includes an extensive section on Whitman's life and works, notes and indexes

Description First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time Nature without check with original energy . Famously written in free verse and brimming with sensuous imagery and an unbridled love of nature and life in all its forms, and containing celebrated poems such as the ebullient Song of Myself' described by Jay Parini as the greatest American poem ever written and the elegiac When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', Leaves of Grass is not only the finest achievement of a highly unique poet, but a founding text for American literature and modern poetry. Considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse, Walt Whitman (1819 92) was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in its time, his sprawling collection Leaves of Grass is regarded as his magnum opus.

About the Author Considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse, Walt Whitman (1819 92) was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in its time, his sprawling collection Leaves of Grass is regarded as his magnum opus.

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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2018 Pantagruel and Gargantua Francois Rabelais

These bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.

Sales points • Part of Alma Classics' Evergreen series, Gargantua and Pantagruel is one the masterpieces of French Literature • Translated by critically-acclaimed translator Andrew Brown • Contains a wealth of material which will make this edition ideal for students

Description With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life. But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.

About the Author The monk and French Renaissance polymath Francois Rabelais (c.1494 1553), best known for his novels Pantagruel and Gargantua, is considered one of the greatest writers of early-modern European literature.

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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2018 Complete Poems John Keats

From Endymion and Hyperion to The Eve of St Agnes', La Belle Dame sans Merci' and the Odes, this collection, which presents Keats's oeuvre in chronological order, displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his philosophical and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken nature of his verse.

Sales points • Part of the newly launched Great Poets' Alma Classics series • Perfect edition for students • Includes an extensive section on Keats's life and works, notes and indexes

Description Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed rebel Angel , endures for many as a personification of the Romantic age. While contemporary critics mocked him as a Cockney poet and an uneducated lower-class apothecary who aspired to poetry, subsequent generations began to see and appreciate both the rich and impassioned sensuousness and the love of beauty and liberty that pervade his work. From Endymion and Hyperion to The Eve of St Agnes', La Belle Dame sans Merci' and the Odes, this collection, which presents Keats's oeuvre in chronological order, displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his philosophical and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken nature of his verse.

About the Author Though little known in his own lifetime, John Keats's (1795 1821) hope that he might be considered among the English Price: AU $16.99 NZ $18.99 poets after his death has come to pass, and he is now considered one of the foremost poets of English literature. Keats ISBN: 9781847497567 died of consumption in Rome, with financial worries and the loss of many of those he loved most having plagued his short Format: Paperback life. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 520 pages Bic1: Poetry by individual poets Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics DECEMBER 2018 Tobermory and Other Stories Saki

From some of his earliest successes, such as Gabriel-Ernest', The Bag' and the Clovis stories, about a young man with an impish sense of humour, to later tales such as The Boar-Pig', which is as bizarre as it is hilarious, and The Toys of Peace', which he was never able to see in print, this selection contains a wealth of well-known tales with vastly different themes from reincarnation to psychological warfare and bearing every trademark token of wit with which Saki has enthralled generations of eager readers.

Sales points • Unique collection of Saki's finest pieces • Contains extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information

Description Tobermory' the title story of this collection is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner- party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight in the process undermining the common perceptions of grandiose and genteel high society. From some of his earliest successes, such as Gabriel-Ernest', The Bag' and the Clovis stories, about a young man with an impish sense of humour, to later tales such as The Boar-Pig', which is as bizarre as it is hilarious, and The Toys of Peace', which he was never able to see in print, this selection contains a wealth of well-known tales with vastly different themes from reincarnation to psychological warfare and bearing every trademark token of wit with which Saki has enthralled generations of eager readers.

About the Author Hector Hugh Munro (1870 1916) was a British author best known by his pen name Saki. Although he wrote two novels and several political sketches most notably The Westminster Alice, a parody authorized by Carroll's publishers it is his large output of satirical short stories for which he is remembered, and is still considered one of the masters of the genre.

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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2018 The Triumph of Vice and Other Stories W.S. Gilbert

The stories feature many of the powerful motifs so associated with his work fairies, elixirs, magic and a wide variety of characters from burglars to barristers and shopkeepers to gentlemen. This volume is shot through with the observational wit which drove Gilbert and Sullivan's works to fame, and constitutes a hugely enjoyable companion for fans of the pair's theatrical oeuvre. Carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society

Sales points • Unique collection of Gilbert's best short stories • Carefully curated by the Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society • Some of the stories in the collection have never been published since their first appearance

Description Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as let the punishment fit the crime have entered the English lexicon but his short stories also deserve to be rediscovered by the modern reader. This collection, carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the best of these sharp, clever, comical tales many of which are published here for the first time since their first appearance in ephemeral magazines enriched with the author's own illustrations. The stories feature many of the powerful motifs so associated with his work fairies, elixirs, magic and a wide variety of characters from burglars to barristers and shopkeepers to gentlemen. This volume is shot through with the observational wit which drove Gilbert and Sullivan's works to fame, and constitutes a hugely enjoyable companion for fans of the pair's theatrical oeuvre.

About the Author W.S. Gilbert (1836 1911) was an English poet, playwright, librettist and illustrator best known for the comic operas he produced in collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan including theatre perennials such as The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore. Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781847497543 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics DECEMBER 2018 The Voyeur Alain Robbe-Grillet

This brilliantly executed novel, which showcases all the techniques that have secured Robbe-Grillet's place in the canon of Western literature, leaves behind a disturbing sense of unrest.

Sales points • Unique edition of what's been considered on of the best example of Postmodern Mystery • Written by one the leading authors in twentieth-century French literature • Part of Alma Classics Alain Robbe-Grillet collection

Description When Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly tense recapitulation of his movements on the day of the event, tiny details slowly and inexorably accumulate. Through the warped screen of his distorted mind, the remembered images pile up until the reader is caught in his web of desperation. And yet in the end reality has lost all meaning, as the distinction between the narrator's recollections and the underlying facts are more and more blurred. This brilliantly executed novel, which showcases all the techniques that have secured Robbe-Grillet's place in the canon of Western literature, leaves behind a disturbing sense of unrest.

About the Author Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922 2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the nouveau roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.

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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2018 The New Silk Roads Peter Frankopan

Everything you need to know about the present and future of the world from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan

Sales points • The highly anticipated follow-up to the international bestseller The Silk Roads everything you need to know about the state of the world today from a prestigious Professor of Global History • A standalone edition, beautifully packaged and perfect for till-side buys, in the vein of recent bestsellers Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard (122,335 TCM since November 2017) and The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (14,500 TCM since April 2018) • Since publication in 2015, The Silk Roads has sold over 400,000 copies in the UK and nearly one million copies worldwide. It appeared in the Sunday Times bestseller list for 31 weeks and language rights to date have been sold in 25 countries. This book will appeal to established readers of Peter Frankopan, as well as those interested in global current affairs.

Description 'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.'

When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically.

Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the Western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads since 2015, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established. With brilliant insight, Peter Frankopan takes a fresh look at the network of relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the Silk Roads Price: AU $27.99 NZ $24.99 today, assessing the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of power all too often absent from ISBN: 9781526608062 headlines in the West. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 197x131mm Extent: 304 pages This important and ultimately hopeful book asks us to re-read who we are and where we are in the world, illuminating the Bic1: General & world history themes on which all our lives and livelihood depend. Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University where is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director the Centre for Byzantine Research. He was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, and was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World was published in 2015. Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 The New Silk Roads 10 Copy Pack

Contains 10 copies of The New Silk Roads, plus free reading copy.

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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 Climate Justice Mary Robinson

An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward

Sales points • Mary Robinson is the former president of Ireland and the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She runs the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Change and spoke at the Paris Climate Agreement ratification • A hopeful, inspiring and above all human account of the global fight against climate change, Climate Justice is an authoritative, agenda-setting piece of non-fiction which will appeal to fans of Naomi Klein, George Monbiot and Rebecca Solnit • In the aftermath of the Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the USA from the Paris Climate Agreement, Mary Robinson's book could not be more timely or urgent

Description An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward

Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change. ISBN: 9781408888469 Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of Format: Hard Cover our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Environmental policy & protocols About the Author Bic2: Mary Robinson is President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice. She served in two capacities as the Illustrations: United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Climate Change. She is the former President of Ireland and United Previous Titles: Author now living: Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and is now a member of The Elders and the Club of Madrid. In 2009, she was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt Ken Krimstein

A graphic biography of one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt

Sales points • Will appeal to politicos, academics, students and readers of Logicomix, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Maus and Persepolis • The question of how we live in troubled times is on everyone's mind. Prompted by the current political climate, Hannah Arendt's book The Origins of Totalitarianism has again climbed bestseller lists • Features stunning artwork by a New Yorker cartoonist

Description A graphic biography of one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century.

'Incredible' Deborah Levy A hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is perhaps best known for her landmark book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt led an extraordinary life. Having endured Nazi persecution firsthand, she fled across Europe, coming to live in a world inhabited by such luminaries as Marc Chagall, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. She ultimately sacrificed her unique genius for philosophy and her love of a much-compromised man the philosopher and Nazi- sympathiser Martin Heidegger for what she called love of the world'. Strikingly illustrated, this compassionate and timely biography illuminates the life of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed yet irrefutably courageous woman whose experiences and writings shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.

About the Author Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in the New Yorker, Punch, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He is the author of Kvetch as Kvetch Can, and teaches at De Paul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in

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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2018 The Life and Times of a Very British Man Kamal Ahmed

A poignant, challenging and witty memoir by one of Britain's most senior journalists about the history of and resistance to immigration in the UK

Sales points • For readers of Philippe Sands' East West Street (over 50,000 TCM), Nikesh Shukla's The Good Immigrant (30,000 TCM), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists (75,000 TCM) and Reni Eddo Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (over 5,000 TCM) • Ahmed has a strong online presence with over 76k Twitter followers • Timed to release with the fiftieth anniversary of Enoch Powell's notorious Rivers of Blood' speech, at a time when immigration has again become a contentious talking point

Description A poignant, challenging and witty memoir by one of Britain's most senior journalists about the history of and resistance to immigration in the UK

In April 1968, Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered a speech that was to frame the debate about immigration in the UK for the next fifty years. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to allow the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents,' he said. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.'

Kamal Ahmed was six months' old at the time of Powell's speech. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised in 1970s London with a Raleigh racing bike, rainbow-coloured jumpers, Adidas Gazelle trainers and cords. Yet the anti-immigrant sentiment behind Powell's infamous Rivers of Blood' speech reverberated throughout his childhood. He grew up in a society that not infrequently told him, a Londoner born and bred, British down to his Marks and Spencer underwear, to go home'.

Fifty years after it was first delivered, Powell's speech is not only of historical significance, but has disquieting resonance. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Ahmed illustrates that Britain's reaction to the influx of immigrants from the new' EU countries is an all too familiar story, ISBN: 9781408889152 marked by passion, fear and social cost. Part memoir, part disquisition on a piece of oratory that has clanged discord Format: Paperback - C format through the decades, Me Immigrant is Ahmed's account of feeling like an outsider in the country he was born in. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Autobiography: literary About the Author Bic2: Kamal Ahmed is Economics Editor of the BBC and one of Britain's most respected journalists. He joined the BBC in April Illustrations: 2014 as Business Editor after a twenty-year career in newspapers. He has worked for the Guardian (Media Editor), the Previous Titles: Author now living: Observer (Political Editor and then Head of News) and the Sunday and Daily Telegraph (Executive Business Editor). He started his career in local newspapers in Scotland and subsequently worked for Scotland on Sunday (Chief Reporter). He has also served as Group Director of Communications for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He lives in London. Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 More Dashing Patrick Leigh Fermor

The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sales points • Dashing for the Post sold over 10,000 copies at eE30.00 • Features letters written over the course of Leigh Fermor's lifetime, from the ages of 23 to 95 • Contains 155 letters to almost sixty correspondents, more than half of whom went unrepresented in Dashing for the Post

Description The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a zest for life and adventure characteristic of the man known to all as Paddy'. Paddy's exuberant letters contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson, while also relating adventures with the humble: a pick-nick' with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the Resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds. Paddy was at ease in any company unfailingly charming, boyish, gentle and fun.

Patrick Leigh Fermor has long been recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his time. Nowhere is his restless curiosity and delight in language more dazzlingly displayed than in his letters, skilfully edited in this collection by Adam Sisman.

About the Author Adam Sisman is an award-winning writer, author of Boswell's Presumptuous Task, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and biographer of John Le Carre, A. J. P. Taylor and ISBN: 9781408893661 Hugh Trevor-Roper. He selected and edited Dashing for the Post, an earlier volume of the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Format: Hard Cover and (with Richard Davenport-Hines) One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Dimensions: 0x0mm University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Bristol. Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Diaries, letters & journals Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 The Language of Buildings Matthew Rice

A beautifully packaged, idiosyncratic introduction to British building styles, by the acclaimed illustrator and architectural enthusiast Matthew Rice

Sales points • Repackaged in a larger format making for a classic, enduring gift for any interested in British buildings. • Updated with a new chapter by Matthew. • Includes full-colour illustrations that are filled with personality, wit and charm, making this guide book extremely accessible. • Matthew Rice has a high profile through his illustrative work at his wife Emma Bridgewater's pottery factory. • The universal appeal of Schott's Original Miscellany mixed with the warm nostalgia of David Dimbleby's How We Built Britain and Simon Jenkins.

Description The Language of Buildings covers the grammar and vocabulary of British buildings, explaining the evolution of styles from Norman castles to Norman Foster. Its aim is to enable the reader to recognise, understand and date any British building. As Matthew Rice says, Once you can speak any language, conversation can begin, but without it communications can only be brief and brutish. The same is the case with Architecture: an inability to describe the component parts of a building leaves one tongue-tied and unable to begin to discuss what is or is not exciting, dull or peculiar about it.' The Language of Buildings will explain the language of architecture. With it in your hand, bag or car, buildings will break down beguilingly into their component parts, ready for inspection and discussion. There will be no more references to that curly bit on top of the thing with the square protrusions. Ungainly and inept descriptions will be a thing of the past and, fluent in the world of volutes, hood moulds, lobed architraves and bucrania, you will be able to leave a cathedral or country house with as much to talk about as a film or play. The Language of Buildings starts with an explanation of the basic Grammar' of buildings: elevation, plan, roof, gable and eave. This will enable the reader to better make use of what is to follow. It will also cover the Orders of Architecture - Doric, Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite - so that the vital basics of Classicism are covered. Following this is the Price: AU $37.99 NZ $39.99 Vocabulary'. This will be a chronological reference section covering, period by period, the windows, doors and doorcases, ISBN: 9781408893784 columns, chimneys, arches, balustrades and pediments that make up the built environment. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 253x182mm Extent: 240 pages About the Author Bic1: Architecture Matthew Rice is a writer and illustrator who thought he knew lots about British architecture until he started to write and Bic2: illustrate this book. His message to readers is, if you want to understand a building, sit in front of it and draw it. You might Illustrations: also have seen his work in Country Life, on his own calendar or on much of his wife Emma Bridgewater's pottery. He lives Previous Titles: Author now living: in Oxford and Norfolk.

Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 Turned On Kate Devlin

An exploration of humans, sexuality, interaction and technology through the lens of the sex robot.

Sales points • The author is one of the world's leading authorities in this research area and has an existing international profile. • It is a popular and timely topic, having received wide-ranging media coverage. • Covers a diverse range of topics artificial intelligence, psychology, history, philosophy, literature, film, law and ethics providing a broad text for a wide audience.

Description The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. From the ancient Greeks to twenty-first century movies, robots in human form have captured our imagination, our hopes and our fears. But beyond the fantasies there are real and fundamental questions about our relationship with technology as it moves into the realm of robotics. Should we form intimate relationships with machines' Should robots be provided with a sexuality' How will it affect our everyday lives' Can we use them for therapy' Do they breach our laws on obscenity' Could they ever feel love' Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. It is deeply embedded in our society. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently. What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems' What, ultimately, does it means to be human in a future of machines' Sex robots are here, and here to stay, and more are coming. This book explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us, and the society in which we live. It explores the social changes arising from emerging technologies, and our relationships with the machines that may someday care for us and about us. Chapter by chapter, this book will build on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology. The scene is set with the history of the artificial sexual companion, then goes on to explore the modern' robot and the twentieth century sci-fi that promised us our own robot slaves. This is followed by an explanation of artificial intelligence and the urge to create sentient machines. It delves into our own psychology: how does desire affect our own behaviour, and can we become attached to an inanimate object' This then leads to a discussion of the good (robots

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 making society a better place) and the bad (the potential for all to go wrong). ISBN: 9781472950864 Format: Paperback - Demy format About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Kate Devlin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Having begun her Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Robotics career as an archaeologist before moving into computer science, Devlin's research is in the fields of Human Computer Bic2: Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), investigating how people interact with and react to technology, to Illustrations: understand how emerging and future technologies will affect us and the society in which we live. Previous Titles: Author now living: Two years ago, Kate began to explore the particular ways in which sex, gender and sexuality might be incorporated into cognitive systems such as sexual companion robots; having assembled a research team of leading academics to work on this topic, she has become a driving force in the field of artificial sexuality. In short, Kate has become the face of sex robots. She has written articles on the subject for New Scientist and the Guardian, appeared on BBC Radios 1 5, and made a number of TV appearances, along with TEDx talks and numerous other tech and philosophy events, receivingSigma DECEMBER 2018 Turned On 8 Copy Pack (+ Free Reading Copy)

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Sigma DECEMBER 2018 Patient H69 Vanessa Potter

Imagine a lit sparkler; light dancing all around, distorting the shape, glints and flashes shimmering, emitting a thousand tiny particles of hot blue metal. That was how my dustbin cheekily called out to me to get my attention as I tried to walk past

Sales points • An optic odyssey one woman who lost but then miraculously regained her sight, and uncovered the magical science of seeing in the process. • Supported by the science community, Patient H69 investigates the inner working of her own brain to better understand and in turn explain, the bizarre visual phenomenon she experiences as her sight is reborn. • An extraordinary and unique account of the power of our brain, and how one patient used meditation and found the courage and humour to overcome a truly horrific event.

Description Imagine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly both blind and completely paralysed. This is what happened to Patient H69. Her condition is unique. It has no name.

Over the course of the next six months, Patient H69 slowly recovered her eyesight. Opening her eyes onto a watery, two- dimensional landscape, Patient H69 saw an unrecognisably monochromatic world. As colour reappeared, she encountered a range of bizarre phenomena, from synaesthesia to discussions with inanimate objects all part of her brain's response to suddenly losing two sense. And in the process, she became a one-woman experimental subject, as a multidisciplinary team of neurobiologists, psychologists, immunologists and developmental biologists tried to work out what had happened to her, and what incredible things could be learnt from her miraculous recovery. This mesmerising account tells the story of Patient H69 in her own words, based on the detailed audio-diaries she kept during her time of blindness and over the course of the two years of scientific research that was to follow. It provides a unique story of terror and torment in the beginning, moving on to scientific discovery, some pretty weird neurobiology, the brilliance of the NHS and a woman battling against all odds to make the best of a unique situation, turning herself into a Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 science sleuth to uncover the mechanics of her own brain, and learning meditation and self-hypnosis tools to endure the ISBN: 9781472936127 ordeal. Format: Paperback - B format Embraced and supported by neuroscientists along the way, Patient H69 learned about some of the hidden, innermost Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages functions of the brain and our complex visual system, while her own case study offered scientists an important, and Bic1: Popular science previously inaccessible window into the process of early visual development, as her own optic nerves self-repaired and Bic2: her brain went into overdrive. Illustrations: Previous Titles: This is a gripping human story, made all the more real by the unique response of one patient and the science she Author now living: uncovers.

About the Author Patient H69 is the pen-name of Vanessa Potter, who before her illness was an award-winning film producer. Her latest Sigma DECEMBER 2018 You Can Achieve More Shiv Khera

CREATE AN ACTION PLAN TODAY TO OPTIMIZE YOUR POTENTIAL

Sales points • Create a road map for a journey to achieve moreFind balance for lasting health, wealth, and happinessMind the mind and learn the art of self-disciplineThink clearly to make better decisionsWork your ideas and be proactiveMake positive choices and avoid pitfalls.Inculcate essential values for successDevelop a winning attitudeBe successful by living with design, not by default

Description If You Want To Stand OutThen You Need To Do Something OutstandingA person with a positive attitude cannot be stopped and a person with a negativeattitude cannot be helped. Both success and failure have a limited lifespan. Successis neither a miracle nor a mystery. It does not depend upon special skills, formaleducation or superior intelligence. It is the natural outcome of consistently applyingcertain principles on an ongoing basis. The ultimate goal is to sustain success andeliminate failure.Acquiring facts is knowledge, understanding facts is comprehension, and the properapplication of facts is wisdom. The principles in this book can help you to:1. Live by design, not by default2. Gain confidence and optimize your potential3. Become proactive and develop a winning attitude4. Balance your health, wealth and relationships5. Overcome day-to-day problems and make better decisions6. Make positive choices and avoid pitfallsThe secret to a meaningful life is in your hands. Through inspiring ideasand basic values, this book will help empower you to Achieve More andbecome unstoppable.

About the Author Shiv Khera is the founder of Qualified Learning Systems Inc. USA. He is an educator, a business consultant, a successful entrepreneur and a much sought-after speaker. Shiv inspires and encourages people, making them realize their true potential, and has taken his dynamic personal messages to far ends of the globe. Tens of thousands have benefited from his energetic workshops in over 17 countries; millions have heard him as a keynote speaker; and he has appeared on numerous radio and television shows. His 30 years of research and experience has helped people on the path of

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 personal growth and fulfilment.Shiv Khera is the author of international bestseller You Can Win which has sold 3.7 million ISBN: 9789386950529 copies in twenty-one languages globally. This is his fifth book. He has been recognized by the Round Table Foundation Format: Paperback and honored by Rotary International and Lions International. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 296 pages Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Business DECEMBER 2018 Democracy Hacked Martin Moore

Motivated actors are exploiting the openness of our democracy to undermine us and we have to stop them before they destroy our system of government

Sales points • LEAD TITLE • First book dedicated to election hacking and what we can do about it • Author is a key figure in this area: he founded the Media Standards Trust, helped run Orwell Prize, created journalisted.com and is now a key advisor in UK and US • News pieces on election hacking and influencing are a huge and ongoing story

Description Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, elite populists, and freextremists are exploiting our digital information infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our democratic system to distort and undermine our politics and elections. It is a war waged through information and it is personal and it is perpetual. Our current digital information ecosystem is inherently unstable and prone to wild volatility. There is a vacuum in the middle of the system that is open to influence by those with the motivation, the money or the expertise. Played successfully it can lead to unprecedented swings of public opinion. This book shows how hackers are gaming democracy, why they can do it, and what we need to do to save democracy for the digital age. This is a story about active measures', election hacking, psy-ops, intelligence services, mercenaries, hard-right nutjobs, plutocrats, the collapse of local news, Silicon Valley, Trump, trolling, surveillance and you.

About the Author Dr Martin Moore is director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King's College London. He was previously founding director of the Media Standards Trust (2006 2015) where he directed the Election Unspun project and wrote extensively on the news media and public policy.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781786075925 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Democracy Hacked 8 Copy Pack (+ Free Reading Copy)

Comprises 8 copies of Democracy Hacked, plus a free reading copy

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Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Heart Sandeep Jauhar

A doctor's inspiring obsession with the heart

Sales points • Belongs beside Stephen Westaby's Fragile Lives on readers' bookshelves: Westaby gives us a heart surgeon's story, Jauhar gives us the heart's alongside his own • Heart disease is still the no. 1 killer in the developed world and incidents are only increasing: Jauhar speaks to contemporary medical concerns • His first two books were bestsellers in the US and received rave reviews: this is his first book to be published in the UK

Description The heart is at the centre of every life. It is the first major organ to develop and, three billion beats later, it is the last to stop working. The object of fascination for countless scientists and artists across the centuries, the heart is as much a metaphorical as a physiological matter it can even suffer such distress due to emotional trauma that it physically changes shape. Tracing the evolution of humanity's medical knowledge from Ancient Greece to modern times, delving into religion and spirituality, exploring art and poetry, Dr Sandeep Jauhar tells the story of the heart as it has never been told before. Enriched by his own experiences as a doctor, it is a tale at once personal and universal, encompassing science's wonders and failures, and addressing the immense challenges faced by health professionals today as the tide of heart failures continues to rise throughout the developed world. Heart is a major and moving contribution to the history and science of the organ inside each of us that both initiates and claims our lives.

About the Author Sandeep Jauhar is director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is the New York Times bestselling author of two medical memoirs and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He lives on Long Island with his wife and their son and daughter.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781786074720 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Heart 8 Copy Pack (+ Free Reading Copy)

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Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Breakfast with Einstein Chad Orzel

Without quantum physics, your breakfast and so many other things we take for granted wouldn't be possible - international bestselling author and physicist Chad Orzel shows us why

Sales points • LEAD TITLE • From the author of Oneworld's bestselling non-fiction title, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, which sold over 45k copies (UK Nielsen) • Unlike most pop-physics books, which focus on giant events and distant phenomena such as the Big Bang and black holes, Breakfast With Einstein exposes the exotic' physics behind the everyday including digital photos and the photoelectric effect, and online commerce and quantum cryptography • Orzel's original, fun take on this perennially fascinating subject is engaging for a wide audience, from pop science regulars to curious newcomers

Description Just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives, strange phenomena lurk. Exciting physics doesn't only show up in the Big Bang, or a black hole, or in the guts of giant particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider it's all around us. Beginning at sunrise, Chad Orzel embarks upon a fascinating tour of the exotic science that underlies each moment of our every day. Did you know your alarm clock held secrets about quantum mechanics' And that the GPS on your phone has a built-in correction for the effects of relativity' In Breakfast with Einstein, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, everything is possible and the day's end will find us dazzled.

About the Author Chad Orzel is an associate professor at the department of physics and astronomy at Union College. He has written for Forbes, Daily Mail and Physics World, and has spoken at numerous TED talks. His previous books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Niskayuna, New York.

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Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Underbug Lisa Margonelli

A Bug's Life -

Sales points • Lively, globe-trotting pop science: Margonelli dares us to dive into the mounds of the mighty termites, lords of the underworld • For scientists and non-scientists: Underbug sheds new light on the incredible behaviour of termites: making fuel, remodelling landscapes and showing us the way to new gold mines • A new understanding of nature: the first book of its kind to provide an insight into the crucial role termites play in ecological engineering

Description Termites. The mere mention of the word repels us. The sight of them induces panic we flee or we kill them. Stay a little while, however, and you'll be shocked by just how much we owe them. Not only are these lords of the underworld essential to maintaining our environment's natural order without them our rivers and oceans would turn toxic but they just might be the saviours of our planet. Lisa Margonelli follows the scientists who are looking to termites for inspiration as they tackle the greatest threats facing humankind, from global warming to cancer. With surprises at every turn, this unexpected journey of discovery reveals much about the workings of our world, the ethical and moral considerations surrounding future technologies, and gives us reason to hope for tomorrow.

About the Author Lisa Margonelli's first book, Oil on the Brain, was a national bestseller that was named one of the 25 Notable Books of 2007 by the American Library Association. She has written for numerous publications, including Time, National Geographic, Wired, Salon, Discover and San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 A Field Guide to the English Clergy Fergus Butler-Gallie

The Archbishop of York's behaviour was 'never that expected of a cleric, rarely that expected of a pirate' -

Sales points • Fifty species described with illustrations' • Celebrating British eccentricity in a beautifully packaged Xmas gift edition with ribbon

Description Judge not, lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church for hundreds of years, and has fostered a certain tolerance of eccentricity among its members. The Reverend Robert Hawker invented the Harvest Festival, but he also excommunicated a cat for mousing on Sundays. Bishop Lancelot Fleming would commandeer Navy helicopters when he was late for service. The Reverend John Allington - 'Mad Jack', to his friends - wore a leopard skin instead of a surplice, and insisted on being carried around in a coffin. A Field Guide to the English Clergy celebrates the cream of the crop: the drinkers (and publicans), the inventors, the lion tamers, the suicidal missionaries, and even one piratical Archbishop. But despite their sometimes bizarre behaviour, many in the clergy saw the church as their true calling. After all, who cares if you're wearing red high heels when there are souls to be saved'

About the Author The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Cambridge. He also once accidentally appeared on Only Connect. This is his first book.

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Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Patriot or Traitor Anna Beer

A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh

Sales points • Visionary or charlatan' Toy boy or Renaissance man' Sexual predator or devoted family figure' Patriot or traitor' Ralegh biographer Anna Beer sheds light on the contested final days of one of the most famous figures from English history • A fitting tribute to England's most charismatic and controversial figure will appeal to anyone with an interest in this thrilling period of Tudor and Stuart history • Anna Beer has been called both a Sir Walter Ralegh groupie' (on Woman's Hour) and his fiercest critic (in The Guardian). She proudly claims to be both.

Description Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness. How could a man once the Queen's favourite find himself consigned to the Tower by her successor' Should his legacy be fame or infamy' Who was the real Sir Walter Ralegh'

About the Author Anna Beer is a cultural historian, and the author of biographies of Milton, Sir Walter Ralegh and Lady Bess Ralegh. Her most recent book is Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music, also published by Oneworld. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and lives in Oxford, England.

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Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Gene Machine Venki Ramakrishnan

The Double Helix for our age: the thrilling story of how scientists unlocked the secrets of our gene-reading machine, opening a new window onto how life works

Sales points • SUPERLEAD TITLE • A major non-fiction title by one of our most distinguished and important scientists, Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society Professor Sir Venki Ramakrishnan • Essential reading for anyone interested in the science of how life works and how our genes are actually decoded and used • Reveals how scientists really do science: Ramakrishnan takes us behind the scenes of Nobel Prize-winning science experiments in the race to solve the big problem of molecular biology

Description Everyone knows the term DNA. It is the essence of our being. It determines who we are and what we pass on to our children. Mention the ribosome, on the other hand, and you will usually be met with blank faces, even from scientists. And yet without the ribosome, nothing lives. For if DNA is data then it can't go anywhere, or do anything, without a machine to process it. Unlocking the secrets of this gene-reading molecule was once among the most fundamental problems in molecular biology - Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to determine the structure of the ribosome and so resolve an ancient mystery at the heart of life itself. Illuminating, persuasive and compelling, Gene Machine not only reveals a great discovery but offers a fascinating insight into what it is like to work at the cutting edge of modern science amid the attending competition, politics and larger-than-life personalities.

About the Author Venki Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist. He won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomal structure and was knighted in 2012. In 2015, he was elected as President of the Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 Royal Society. He lives in Cambridge, England. ISBN: 9781786074362 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Can Democracy Work? James Miller

We all claim to love democracy but is it a simple force for good or something much more volatile'

Sales points • Professor James Miller is a critically acclaimed intellectual historian, with A. C. Grayling among his fans • This book challenges the idea that democracy is under threat from Trump and others rather it forces us to look at whether democracy itself is the issue

Description Democracy is invoked to support the vast majority of the world's governments. We have been talking about it for thousands of years, and attempting to put it into practice for hundreds, believing in it as the logical culmination of human affairs. But if both North Korea and the United States consider themselves democratic and, indeed, both liberals and conservatives, capitalists and communists, bureaucrats and populists isn't the idea meaningless' This is the biography of one of the world's most powerful ideas, a belief in the value of the collective, a battle between abstract rights and passionate convictions. In the end, only its citizens can decide on its fate.

About the Author James Miller is professor of politics and liberal studies, and faculty director of the MA in creative publishing and critical journalism at the New School for Social Research. He lives in New York.

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Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 The Royal Art of Poison Eleanor Herman

Replete with royal conspiracies as venomous as the toxins they used to obtain power, beauty and revenge

Sales points • Hugely entertaining work of popular history tracing the use of poison as a political and cosmetic tool from the royal courts of Europe in the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today • Written by a historian and the New York Times bestselling author of Sex With Kings as well as several other works of non-fiction • Brimming with scandalous stories of assassination from the banquet table to the royal underpants to the legendary poison factories of Venice

Description The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, the royal families of Western Europe have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family's spoons, tried on their underpants and tested their chamber pots. Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with mercury and lead. Men rubbed faeces on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don't see what lies beneath the royal robes and the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on private parts; and worms nesting in the intestines. In The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman tells the true story of Europe's glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever-present excrement, festering natural illness and, sometimes, murder.

About the Author ELEANOR HERMAN is known as the Sherlock Holmes of history and is the author of several works of popular history including Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queens. She has hosted Lost Worlds for The History Channel and The

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 Madness of Henry VIII for the National Geographic Channel. Herman, who happily dresses in Renaissance gowns any ISBN: 9780715653128 chance she gets, lives with her husband, dog and her four very dignified cats. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: British & Irish history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Duckworth DECEMBER 2018 Jane Welsh Carlyle Kathy Chamberlain

The first biography of this highly accomplished writer of the nineteenth century

Sales points • The only major biography of this under-examined literary figure admired by Virginia Woolf • A new addition to the growing genre of biographies of extraordinary women • Uses previously undiscovered letters and diary entries by Jane Welsh Carlyle • Hardback widely and positively reviewed

Description Hailed by Virginia Woolf and many others as one of the all-time great letter writers, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Thomas Carlyle, is not as well-known today as she should be. In this compelling new biography for the general reader, Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband's shadow, revealing her to be a remarkable woman and writer in her own right. Caught between her own literary aspirations and Victorian society's oppression of women, Jane Welsh Carlyle hoped to move beyond domestic life and become a respected published writer. As she and her husband moved in exclusive London literary circles, mingling with noted authors, poets, and European revolutionaries, Carlyle created and reported to her correspondents on her rich, rewarding life in her Chelsea home until her husband's infatuation with a wealthy, imposing aristocratic society hostess threw her life into chaos.

About the Author KATHY CHAMBERLAIN has lectured on Jane Welsh Carlyle's life at the CUNY Graduate Center and at conferences in the US and UK, and has published numerous essays about Jane Welsh Carlyle and Virginia Woolf, writing reviews for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9780715652688 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Duckworth DECEMBER 2018 One Kiss Or Two? Andy Scott

The essential, practical and highly entertaining guide to first impressions

Sales points • Interviews with primatologist Jane Goodall and etiquette expert William Hanson explain our human instinct at the core of greetings • Includes unique ways of saying hello across cultures: cheek sniffing, foot kissing, face slapping, etc. • Essential reading for decoding Donald Trump's handshaking etiquette • For readers of Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Henry Hitchings's Sorry! The English and their Manners and Joe Moran's Queuing for Beginners

Description Every encounter begins with a greeting. Be it a quick Hello!' or the somewhat longer and gracious Sula manchwanta galunga omugobe!' shaking hands or shaking, well, rather more private parts of our anatomy, we have been doing it many times daily for thousands of years. It should be the most straightforward thing in the world, but this apparently simple act is fraught with complications, leading to awkward misunderstandings and occasionally even outright violence. In the illuminating and entertaining One Kiss or Two' Andy Scott goes down the rabbit hole to take a closer look at what greetings are all about. In looking at how they have developed, he discovers a kaleidoscopic world of etiquette, body- language, evolution, neuroscience, anthropology and history. Through in-depth research and his personal experiences, and with the help of experts, Scott takes us on a captivating journey through a subject far richer than we might have expected.

About the Author ANDY SCOTT has greeted people in more than 60 countries. After gaining a PhD in History from Cambridge and holding visiting fellowships at Yale, he joined the Cabinet Office in 2009, where he worked on a range of domestic and international projects. He has since then served as a diplomat in Libya and Sudan and been a consultant to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and is now a Conflict and Stabilisation Adviser in the UK Government's

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 Stabilisation Unit. He lives in London, but still calls a small village in Suffolk home. ISBN: 9780715653197 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Social interaction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Duckworth DECEMBER 2018 Squadron John Broich

The true account of the British Royal Navy's campaign to put an end to the African slave trade once and for all

Sales points • The first comprehensive telling of this pivotal moment in British anti-slavery history • Based on first-hand accounts of the naval officers themselves, reflecting extensive and painstaking research by a veteran scholar • For readers of John Keay's The Honourable Company and David Scott's Leviathan

Description Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained down the east coast of Africa through the mid-1800s. The Royal Navy's response was to dispatch a squadron to patrol Africa's coast. Following what began as a simple policing action, this is the story of the four Royal Naval officers who witnessed how rampant the slave trade remained and made it their personal mission to end it. When the disruption of the trade ships started to step on the toes of the wealthy merchant class, the campaign was cancelled. However, in the end a coalition of naval officers and abolitionists forced the British government's hand into eradicating the slave trade entirely.

About the Author JOHN BROICH is a historian who specialises in the British Empire and the award-winning author of London: Water and the Making of the Modern City. He graduated from Stanford and Oxford and has written on race issues in the Empire, the Royal Navy and the Second World War for publications including Time, Guardian, The Conversation and History News.

Price: AU $27.99 NZ $29.99 ISBN: 9780715653463 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Naval forces & warfare Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Duckworth DECEMBER 2018 Against Creativity Oli Mould

Everything you have been told about creativity is wrong.

Sales points • Why the contemporary doctrine of creativity and innovation is so dangerous, and what we can do about it. • A powerful take down of the 'Creative Class' of Richard Florida; 'Creative Cities' and the Silicon Valley mantra of innovation. • For readers of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism and William Davies The Happiness Industry.

Description From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is be creative'. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society; celebrated as agile, progressive and liberating. It is the spring of the knowledge economy and shapes the cities we inhabit. It even defines our politics. What could possibly be wrong with this' In this brilliant, counter intuitive blast Oli Mould demands that we rethink the story we are being sold. Behind the novelty, he shows that creativity is a barely hidden form of neoliberal appropriation. It is a regime that prioritizes individual success over collective flourishing. It refuses to recognise anything - job, place, person - that is not profitable. And it impacts on everything around us: the places where we work, the way we are managed, how we spend our leisure time. Is there an alternative' Mould offers a radical redefinition of creativity, one embedded in the idea of collective flourishing, outside the tyranny of profit. Bold, passionate and refreshing, Against Creativity, is a timely correction to the doctrine of our times.

About the Author Oli Mould is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work focuses on issues of urban activism, social theory and creative resistance. He is the author of Urban Subversion and the Creative City (Routledge, 2015) and blogs at taCity.co.uk.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781786636485 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Anything But Mexican Rodolfo F. Acuna

New updated edition

Sales points • Newly updated edition of this classic study of Chicano Los Angeles.

Description Mexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this completely revised and updated edition of a classic political and social history, one of the foremost scholars of the Latino experience situates the US's largest immigrant community in a time of anti-immigrant fervor. Originally published in 1996, this edition analyses the rise and rule of LA's first-ever Mexican American mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as the harsh pressures facing Chicanos in an increasingly unequal and gentrifying city.

About the Author Rodolfo F. Acuna is the founding chair of the Chicana/o Studies department at California State University at Northridge - the largest Chicana/o Studies Department in the United States. He has authored twenty-two books, including three children's books, and Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience; Corridors of Migration: Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600 -1933; and Occupied America: A History of Chicanos.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9781786633798 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Hispanic & Latino studies Bic2: Hispanic & Latino studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Academic DECEMBER 2018 Latinx Ed Morales

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

Sales points • The author is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and media commentator who has written popular books and has wide media contacts. • Latin political impact is frontpage news, and the book includes analysis of Latin role in Trump's campaign and presidency. • For readers of Cornel West's best-selling Race Matters.

Description Latinx (pronounced La-teen-ex) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, 17 percent of the country. This is the fastest-growing sector of American society, containing the most immigrants. It is the poorest ethnic group in the country, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. And yet, Latin barely figure in America's racial conversation the US census does not even have a category for Latino. In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latin political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje, translatable as mixedness or hybridity , and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America's infamously black/white racial regime. This searching and long-overdue exploration of a crucial development in American life updates Cornel West's bestselling Race Matters with a Latin inflection.

About the Author Ed Morales is an author, journalist, filmmaker, and poet who teaches at Columbia University. He is the author of The Latin Beat and Living in Spanglish. He has written for the Village Voice, Nation, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other publications and is a regular commentator on NPR. His film Whose Barrio' premiered at the New York Latino International Film Festival. He lives in New York City.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9781784783198 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Hispanic & Latino studies Bic2: Hispanic & Latino studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Facism and Dictatorship Nicos Poulantzas

A compelling analysis of fascism, replete with insights into the authoritarian movements and states of our time.

Sales points • Timely reissue of this classic book, as the world becomes more anxious about the rise of authoritarian populist movements. • Some say that the rise of Trump means that we need to see how his trajectory matched those of earlier fascist movements. • New introduction from leading scholar (to be confirmed).

Description The resurgence of the far right across Europe and the emergence of the alt-right in the US have put the question of fascism urgently back on the agenda. For those trying to understand these forms of politics, there is no better place to start than Fascism and Dictatorship, the unrivalled Marxist study of German and Italian fascism. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and what it becomes as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares the distinct class components of the counterrevolutionary blocs mobilised by fascism in Germany and Italy; analyses the changing relations between the petty bourgeoisie and big capital in the evolution of fascism; discusses the structures of the fascist state itself, as an emergency regime for the defence of capital; and provides a sustained and documented criticism of official Comintern attitudes and policies towards fascism in the fateful years after the Versailles settlement. Fascism and Dictatorship represents a challenging synthesis of factual evidence and conceptual analysis, a standard bearer of what Marxist political theory should be.

About the Author Nicos Poulantzas was born in Athens in 1936 and died in Paris in 1979. His other published works include Political Power and Social Classes, Classes in Contemporary Capitalism, The Crisis of Dictatorships and State, Power, Socialism.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9781786635815 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Academic DECEMBER 2018 So They Call You Pisher! Michael Rosen

The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner

Sales points • The wonderful memoir from national treasure, children's poet, broadcaster, and activist. • Well-reviewed on hardback publication.

Description If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen' So they call you pisher!' In this humorous and moving memoir, Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. Born in the North London suburbs, his parents, Harold and Connie, both teachers, first met as teenage Communists in the 1930s Jewish East End. The family home was filled with stories of relatives in London, the United States and France and of those who had disappeared in Europe. Unlike the children around them, Rosen and his brother Brian grew up dreaming of a socialist revolution. Party meetings were held in the front room, summers were for communist camping holidays, till it all changed after a trip to East Germany, when in 1957 his parents decided to leave 'the Party.' Michael followed his own journey of radical self- discovery: running away to march against the bomb at Aldermaston, writing and performing in experimental political theatre and getting arrested during the 1968 movements.

About the Author Michael Rosen is the author of over 140 books of poetry, stories and politics. He was the Children's Laureate between 2007 2009 and is currently the Professor of Children's Literature at Goldsmiths University. He has won numerous international awards for his work in literature. He presents Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4.

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 ISBN: 9781786633996 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Life Lessons Melissa Benn

A bold proposal for new thinking on education: the formation of a National Education Service

Sales points • Sets out a proposal for a progressive National Education Service - a central policy of the Corbyn leadership. • Proposes radical plans for lifetime education policies for the 21st century economy. • High profile author with a strong reputation as a thinker on the future of education. • Reviews across the national press, extract in the Guardian. • Profile of author in national press, broadcast media.

Description It is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one of the most clear sighted and vocal campaigners for improving our schools. She shows here how we need to rethink education for life. As more and more of us live and work longer than ever before, a National Education Service should, like the NHS, be the framework that ensures a life-long entitlement for all, from early years provision to apprenticeships, universities and adult education. Like the NHS, it should be free at the point of delivery. The purpose of learning is not solely to pass exams but to prepare for living in the world; citizens of the future will need to develop their imaginations as well as their intellects, to be at ease with both knowledge and uncertainty. Life Lessons sets out a radical agenda for how we make education for all, and make it relevant to the demands of 21st century. This requires a deep-rooted, long-term vision of the role of learning in our society, one that is ready to take on the challenges of a new century and be part of a wider shift towards greater equality.

About the Author Melissa Benn is a journalist, novelist and campaigner. She has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, Public Finance, Cosmopolitan and the London Review of Books, among many others. Her writing on education includes School Wars: the Battle for Britain's Education and A Comprehensive Future: Quality and Equality for All Our Children, written with Fiona Millar. In spring 2012 she won the Fred and Anne Jarvis award in recognition of her outstanding individual

Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 contribution for a fairer education system. She is also the author of What Shall we Tell Our Daughters' and the novel One ISBN: 9781788732208 of Us. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Educational strategies & policy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 On Populist Reason Ernesto Laclau

The book that has inspired the contemporary discussion of left populism

Sales points • A reissued classic text with a newly urgent relevance as populist leaders sweep the globe. • Ernesto Laclau is the definitive theorist of populism. • Profile of Laclau in the national press.

Description In this highly prescient work - which has had a big impact on figures such as Pablo Oglesias of Podemos in Spain - Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Here he focuses on the construction of popular identities and how 'the people' emerge as a collective actor. Skillfully combining theoretical analysis with a myriad of empirical references from numerous historical and geographical contexts he offers a critical reading of the existing literature on populism, demonstrating its dependency on the theorists of 'mass psychology' such as Taine and Freud. He demonstrates the relation of populism to democracy and to the logic of representation, and differentiates his approach from the work of Zizek, Hardt and Negri, and Ranciere. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the question of political identities in a world marked by figures such as Trump, Farage, Le Pen as well as Sanders, Iglesias and Melenchon.

About the Author Ernesto Laclau was Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and Distinguished Professor for Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University. He was the author of, amongst other works, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Chantal Mouffe), New Reflections of the Revolution of Our Time, The Populist Reason, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (with Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek), and Emancipation(s).

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781788731317 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 276 pages Bic1: Political ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 American Homo Jeffrey Escoffier

American Homo is a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural, and economic struggles of gays and lesbians

Sales points • Part of the Radical Thinkers series

Description American Homo offers a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural and economic struggles of lesbian, gay and bisexual people to reveal how sexual minorities have challenged and changed American society. These provocative essays by long-time activist, writer, and theorist Jeffrey Escoffier tracks the lesbian and gay movements across the contested terrain of American political life. Starting from an urban subculture created by stigmatized and invisible men and women, LGBT movements have had to negotiate the historical tension between the homoeroticism that courses through American culture and virulent outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success whether it's civil rights, marriage, or cultural recognition also enables new disciplinary and normalizing forms of domination, and why only the active exercise of democratic rights and participation in radical coalitions allows LGBT people to sustain both the benefits of community and the freedom of sexual perversity.

About the Author Jeffrey Escoffier is a Research Associate at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the former director of public health media at the New York City Department of Health. He was the Executive Editor of Socialist Review (Berkeley) and one of the founders of OUT/LOOK: National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly. He is also the author of a short biography of John Maynard Keynes and of Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore and the editor of Sexual Revolution, a collection of the most important American writing on sex published during the 1960 and 70s. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis, Rutgers University, the New School for Social Research and Columbia University.

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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Come Together Aubrey Walter

On the origins of European queer politics

Sales points • Part of the Radical Thinkers series

Description Come Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices it gave rise to across the United Kingdom. Before marriage equality or military service, Come Together reminds us of paths forged but not taken by queer politics in its earliest stages.

About the Author Aubrey Walter was a founder of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Men's Press, which published in London from 1979 until 2006.

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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Homosexuality Gay Left Collective

This is a socialist journal edited by gay men

Sales points • Part of the Radical Thinkers series

Description After the leading organizations of radical sexual politics the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group imploded or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a research group to make sense of the changing terrain of sexuality and politics writ large. Its goal was to formulate a rigorous Marxist analysis of sexual oppression, while linking together the struggle against homophobia with a wider array of struggles, all under the banner of socialism. This anthology combines the very best of their work, exploring masculinity and workplace organizing, counterculture and disco, the survivals of victorian morality and the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

About the Author Gay Left was a collective of gay men and a journal of the same name which they published every six months in London between the years 1975 and 1980. It was formed after the evaporation of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Gay Marxist Group with the goal of contributing towards a Marxist analysis of homosexual oppression and encouraging an understanding of the links between the struggle against sexual oppression and the struggle for socialism.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9781788732406 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 223 pages Bic1: Gay & Lesbian studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Pink Triangles Pam Mitchell

To link socialism and lesbianism is to link the unpopular with the taboo

Sales points • Part of the Radical Thinkers series.

Description Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across this spectacularly wide ranging collection, each essay shares two fundamental premises. First, that the oppression of gays and lesbians is not an isolated case, and therefore their struggle is necessarily part of a larger movement for social liberation. And second, that the experience of gays and lesbians uphold the basic tenants of a foundational marxism, and that they are uniquely placed to contribute to a revitalization of marxist theory.

About the Author Pam Mitchell is a writer and activist.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9781788732345 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 187 pages Bic1: Gay & Lesbian studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 The Age of Violence Alain Bertho

Exploring the fury of the young in a world or crisis that seems to offer no alternatives

Sales points • Where does populism lead us - to the left or to the right'

Description 'Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration'. Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn't it also apply to our own time' Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the radicalization of' Islam' What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe' For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states' legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures', even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world. This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities. Today's youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization, the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces. When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair. The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury. The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism, able to inspire a collective hope in the future.

About the Author Alain Bertho is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of Paris 8. He works particularly on urban mobilisations and riots across the world. His previous books include L'Etat de guerre (La Dispute, 2003), Nous-autres, nous-mA mes. Ethnographie politique du present (Le Croquant, 2007) and Le Temps des emeutes (Bayard, 2009).

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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney

An exemplary work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis

Sales points • The classic work of black economic history. • Part of a major program of re-launching the work of this major scholar.

Description How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature of geography, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent, a practice that continues up into the present. Meticulously researched, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains an unshakably relevant study of the so-called great divergence between Africa and Europe, just as it remains a prescient resource for grasping the the multiplication of global inequality today. In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking foreword to the book, exploring its lasting contributions to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism.

About the Author Walter Rodney was an internationally renowned historian of colonialism and a leader of Black Power and Pan-African movements across the diaspora, most notably the Guyanese Working People's Alliance. His life and work brought together struggles for independence on the African continent with the strivings of the black working classes of North America and the Caribbean basin. On June the 13th, 1980, Rodney was assassinated, most likely by the then-president of Guyana. He was 38 years old.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 ISBN: 9781788731188 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Economic theory & philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Germany's Hidden Crisis Oliver Nachtwey

An excellent study of how neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany.

Sales points • Exploring the social democratic crisis in Germany after the momentous election.

Description One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon.

Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the old West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their VWs to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university. Not so in today's Federal Republic, however, where the gears of the so-called elevator society have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in post-war German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result, concluding that although the country has managed to muddle through the Eurocrisis largely unscathed thus far, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system's stability in the years to come. Nachtwey's book was recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's 2016 Hans-Matthufer-Preis for Economic Writing.

About the Author Oliver Nachtwey is Associate Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel, and a fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. His research interests include labour and industrial sociology, political sociology, the comparative study of capitalism, and social movements.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 ISBN: 9781786636348 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Hogwarts: A Movie Scrapbook Warner Bros

Packed with interactive inserts and featuring dazzling behind-the-scenes art from the Harry Potter films, Hogwarts: A Movie Scrapbook offers a one-of-a-kind tour of the iconic wizarding school

Sales points • A brand new book devoted to the much loved magical school, featuring stills, art and insights from the Harry Potter films • Packed with inserts and extras showcasing the art of the films, this has masses of appeal to fans • The Harry Potter films are part of a worldwide cultural phenomenon that continues to expand the second film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, The Crimes of Grindelwald, will be released in November 2018 • Created by longstanding Warner Bros. publishing partner Insight Editions, which has been responsible for bestselling Wizarding World and Harry Potter tie-in titles over many years

Description Every year, students clamber aboard the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 3/4 and make their way back to Hogwarts for the start of another school year. In the atmospheric castle and its vast grounds, they learn how to brew potions and cast spells, how to tend magical creatures and defend themselves from dark magic. This magical scrapbook takes young readers behind the scenes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, covering everything from how students arrive at the school and are sorted into their houses to the many magical subjects they study while there. Detailed profiles of each class feature information about the professors, classrooms, and key lessons seen in the films and are heavily illustrated with dazzling concept art, behind-the-scenes photographs, and fascinating reflections from the actors and filmmakers, giving readers a spellbinding tour of Hogwarts life. Destined to be a must-have collectible for fans of Harry Potter, Hogwarts: A Movie Scrapbook also comes packed with interactive inserts.

About the Author Jody Revenson has written extensively about the Harry Potter films, with her most recent books being J.K. Rowling's Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Wizarding World: Movie Magic: Volume One and Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault. In her first foray into the wizarding ISBN: 9781526605412 world, she contributed to the New York Times bestsellers Harry Potter: Film Wizardry and Harry Potter: Page to Screen. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Potter DECEMBER 2018 Throne of Glass Box set Sarah J. Maas

Discover the worldwide phenomenon of the Throne of Glass series in this complete hardcover box set! Featuring all 8 books, complete with an exclusive poster.

Sales points • A beautiful box set of the New York Times bestselling series from our biggest author, Sarah J. Maas: This gorgeous box set includes all eight books in the wildly successful Throne of Glass series! The Throne of Glass series has built with each book and earned many awards accolades: with the bestselling Tower of Dawn, the series hit #2 on the New York Times series bestseller list and stayed on the list for six weeks.Phenomenal growth with Sarah: Sarah's A Court of Thorns and Roses series debuted as a New York Times #1 bestseller with the publication of A Court of Frost and Starlight, the latest book. A Court of Wings and Ruin, the previous book, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list - and stayed there for seven weeks. With Tower of Dawn the Throne of Glass series hit the list at #2 and stayed on the list for thirteen weeks. Sarah's books have been published in 36 languages with more than seven million copies sold.Publishing Moment for the Throne of Glass series: This epic eight-volume series concludes with Kingdom of Ash, the eagerly anticipated, explosive finale that publishes this fall, along with the Throne of Glass Collector's Edition and the paperback edition of Tower of Dawn.

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About the Author SARAH J. MAAS is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series, as well as the Court of Thorns and Roses series. Her books are published in over thirty-six languages. A New York native, Sarah lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and dog.

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BLM Children's USA DECEMBER 2018 The Deep 1 Ripley Blue

A never-seen-on-screen series of original exciting adventure books featuring Ant, Fontaine, Kaiko and William, the stars of CBBC's number one programme The Deep, for 7+ readers. Watch the action, read the adventure!

Sales points • Season 1 of The Deep averaged at least 31% more viewers per episode than other big shows, such as, Ninjago and Adventure Time. It aired in over 130 territories globally, partners include CBBC, Netflix and Universal Kids, and all top broadcasters are diving back in for season 2,while season 3 will air in the UK and Australia in 2018. • The Deep won 2017's Best New Series from Kidscreen, among many other awards. There is going to be an exciting 4D event in over 150 theme parks, zoos and aquariums around the world. There is also an immersive The Deep experience planned for over 20 Sea Life Centres in the UK and Germany and a plan to roll out toys and merchandise for the show. • The Deep has a broad appeal the engaging world, relatable characters and strong storylines make it perfect for the whole family to enjoy together. This is The Incredibles underwater! • Illustrated with exciting black-and-white illustrations throughout to bring the visual world of The Deep to life.

Description A never-seen-on-screen series of original exciting adventure books featuring Ant, Fontaine, Kaiko and William, the stars of CBBC's number one programme The Deep, for 7+ readers. Watch the action, read the adventure!

The sea is deep and full of secrets ... Something is seriously wrong in the South China Sea. Journeying along the celestial equator, the Nektons a family of daring underwater explorers are dispatched on an urgent mission to investigate. Magma is erupting from the ocean floor and sending poisonous gases into the water, endangering the lives of the sea creatures that live there. But the Nektons get more than they bargained for when they discover that an ancient and secret creature has been disturbed in the depths of the Dragon Hole the largest Blue Hole in the world! Will they make it out alive' And more importantly, will they find an all-important clue to lead them to the lost city of Lemuria' Price: AU $9.99 NZ $11.99 Perfect for fans of Beast Quest, Sea Quest and Ninjago ISBN: 9781408898741 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Finn Black is an avid storyteller who grew up weaving exciting tales of the natural world and the explorers who travel it. Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) An ocean-lover and keen surfer, Finn is thrilled to write stories featuring the amazing characters from The Deep, learning Bic2: more about our planet and the creatures that dwell beneath the waves. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 The Deep 2 Ripley Blue

The sea is deep and full of secrets ... Boats are going missing off the coast of Australia. Is this a natural occurrence or is something more fiendish going on' The Nektons answer the call to find out, journeying further along the celestial equator to the Arafura Sea. Introducing a brand new enemy with a frightening agenda, the second book in the series will see the Nektons using their unquenchable thirst for discovery and all their bravery to foil a dangerous plot. Will they be able to solve the mystery of the missing boats and escape unscathed' Perfect for fans of Beast Quest, Sea Quest and Ninjago Price: AU $9.99 NZ $11.99 ISBN: 9781408898758 About the Author Format: Paperback Finn Black is an avid storyteller who grew up weaving exciting tales of the natural world and the explorers who travel it. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages An ocean-lover and keen surfer, Finn is thrilled to write stories featuring the amazing characters from The Deep, learning Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) more about our planet and the creatures that dwell beneath the waves. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 The Deep 12 copy pack Ripley Blue

X6 copies of each book 1 2 plus surprise point of sale item.

Sales points • Full page ad in Kzone magazine.Print and online giveaways with DVDs in children s and parenting press. One of the most popular childr s TV shows on ABC Me. The animated V series has been renewed for third season.

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About the Author Finn Black is an avid storyteller who grew up weaving exciting tales of the natural world and the explorers who travel it. An ocean-lover and keen surfer, Finn is thrilled to write stories featuring the amazing characters from The Deep, learning more about our planet and the creatures that dwell beneath the waves.

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Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 The Deep Sticker Activity Book Ripley Blue

Dive into the wonderful world of The Deep with this brilliantly fun activity and sticker book perfect for fans of the hit TV series!

Sales points • The Deep season 1 averaged at least 31% more viewers per episode than other big shows like Adventure Time and Ninjago - excluding downloaded episodes which would add 40-50k per episode. It aired in over 130 territories globally, partners include CBBC, Netflix and Universal Kids, and all top broadcasters are diving back in for season 2, while season 3 will air in the UK and Australia in 2018. • The Deep won 2017's Best New Series from Kidscreen, among many other awards. There is going to be an exciting 4D event in over 150 theme parks, zoos and aquariums around the world. There is also an immersive The Deep experience planned for over 20 Sea Life Centres in the UK and Germany and a plan to roll out toys and merchandise for the show. • The Deep has a broad appeal - the engaging world, relatable characters and strong storylines make it perfect for the whole family to enjoy together.

Description Jump into the amazing world of The Deep in this activity and sticker book that is filled with mystery, adventure and all of the wonders the deep sea has to offer. Join the Nekton family as they uncover the secrets of the lost city of Lemuria, discover magnificent sea creatures, all while trying to avoid clashes with a troublesome band of pirates lead by the fierce Captain Hammerhead.

Bursting with fun activities and lots of stickers fans of the hugely popular TV series are sure to be entertained and enthralled by this fantastic sticker and activity book!

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Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781408898871 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 40 pages Bic1: Advice on parenting Bic2: Advice on parenting Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Children Non Fiction DECEMBER 2018 The Deep Official Handbook Ripley Blue

Dive in and explore the depths of the captivating world of The Deep with the Official Handbook the perfect companion to the hit TV series and a must-have for all fans!

Description Explore the Nektons' world as you've never seen it before with The Deep Official Handbook. It's packed with all the fun, mystery and adventure of the hugely popular TV series and will tell you everything you've ever wanted to know about The Deep.

In-depth profiles will allow you to get up close and personal with your favourite characters. Take a tour of the Nektons' submarine, the mighty Arronax, along with other vehicles that have appeared in the show. Take a plunge and learn about the amazing creatures of The Deep, such as what they like to eat and where you can find them!

Go behind the scenes and discover the fascinating back stories and true tales that have inspired episodes. And unravel the secrets and mysteries of Lemuria. You might even bump into some treasure-hungry pirates along the way! Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 ISBN: 9781408898857 The Deep Official Handbook is the perfect companion to the spectacular series and a must-have for all fans of The Deep! Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages About the Author Bic1: Picture books Bic2: Picture books Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Children Non Fiction DECEMBER 2018 Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level Jackson Pearce

Ellie the Engineer is back with another charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade story filled with creativ, STEM-powered fun!

Sales points • Girls and STEM subjects: This character meets today's need for books that feature girls interested in STEM subjects. Ellie Bell shows that girls don't have to only be 'girly' or a tomboy--they can be both!--and their creative ideas are important. • Second book in a young middle grade series from house author: Perfect for new middle grade readers, Ellie's voice and perspective is laugh-out-loud funny and endearing. • Sweet spot in the market: Picture books like Rosie Revere, Engineer and The Most Magnificent Thing about girl engineers and inventors have been extremely successful, and Ellie is a great new role model for middle grade readers. • Author with a platform and promotion plans: Jackson Pearce is a smart self-promoter and is well-connected. She has lots of ideas and plans for expanding the world and reach for her young girl engineer. • Illustrated with black-and-white art: Each chapter features Ellie's sketches and design plans to further inspire young builders and makers.

Description Ellie the Engineer is back in another charming, hilarious, illustrated story filled with creative, STEM-powered fun! 'Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!' School Library Connection on Ellie, Engineer

After Ellie's first elevator build goes terribly wrong, her parents decide her 'punishment' is to assist an elderly neighbor, Mrs. Curran, around the house. Ellie and her friends Kit and Toby are really only supposed to help with little things, but Ellie can't turn down the opportunity to use her engineering skills here and there where she sees a need--because that's what engineers do! It's no fun, though, when Mrs. Curran always gives Toby the credit for all the ingenious projects, and Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 acts like Kit and Ellie were just helping him. . . . Can Ellie come up with another great build to elevate Mrs. Curran's ideas ISBN: 9781547601097 about this girl engineer' Format: Paperback With Ellie's designs and sketches throughout, and her fun guide to simple machines in the back, the continuation of this Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages delightful series will leave young readers laughing and inspired to create. Bic1: Primary & middle schools Bic2: About the Author Illustrations: Jackson Pearce lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of a series of teen retold fairy-tales, including Sisters Red, Previous Titles: Author now living: Sweetly, Fathomless, and Cold Spell, as well as two stand-alones, As You Wish and Purity. As J. Nelle Patrick, she is the author of Tsarina. In addition to The Doublecross and The Inside Job, her middle grade novels include Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures, co-written with Maggie Stiefvater. www.jacksonpearce.com BLM Children's USA DECEMBER 2018 Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level Jackson, Pearce

Ellie the Engineer is back in another charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade story filled with creative, STEM-powered fun!

Description Ellie's parents suggest that Ellie and her friends help out Mrs. Curran, an elderly neighbor who could use a hand around the house. Ellie is really only supposed to help with little things, like leaf raking and under-couch-cleaning, but she can't turn down the opportunity to use her engineering prowess here and there. It's no fun, though, when Mrs. Curran always gives Toby the credit for all things engineering, and acts like Kit and Ellie were just helping him out . . . With Ellie's designs and sketches throughout, this continuation of Jackson Pearce's delightful series will leave young readers laughing and inspired to create.

About the Author Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Jackson Pearce lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of a series of teen retold fairy-tales, including Sisters Red, ISBN: 9781681195216 Sweetly, Fathomless, and Cold Spell, as well as two stand-alones, As You Wish and Purity. As J. Nelle Patrick, she is the Format: Hard Cover author of Tsarina. In addition to The Doublecross and The Inside Job, her middle grade novels include Pip Bartlett's Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Guide to Magical Creatures, co-written with Maggie Stiefvater. Bic1: Coding theory & cryptology www.jacksonpearce.com Bic2: Coding theory & cryptology @JacksonPearce (Twitter and Instagram) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Children's USA DECEMBER 2018 Ellie Engineer Jackson Pearce

Sales points • Girls and STEM subjects: This new character meets today's need for books that feature girls interested in STEM subjects. Ellie Bell proves that girls don't have to only be 'girly' or a tomboy--they can be both!--and their creative ideas are important. • New young middle grade series from house author: Perfect for new middle grade readers, Jackson has captured this young, laugh-out-loud, endearing voice perfectly. • Sweet spot in the market: Picture books like Rosie Revere, Engineer and The Most Magnificent Thing about girl engineers and inventors have been extremely successful, and Ellie is a great new role model for middle grade readers. • Author with a platform and promotion plans: Jackson Pearce is a smart self-promoter and is well-connected. She has lots of ideas and plans for expanding the world and reach for her young girl engineer. • Start to a new series: Jackson captures this age group perfectly with Ellie's smart and funny voice, and we have a second Ellie Bell book scheduled for Fall 2018. • Illustrated with black-and-white art: We'll feature Ellie's sketches, plans, and illustrations of the charming cast.

Description A charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade about a girl who is an engineer--perfect creative, STEM-powered fun for girls who have interests in how things work.

'Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!' --School Library Connection Ellie is an engineer. With a tool belt strapped over her favorite skirt (who says you can't wear a dress and have two kinds of screwdrivers handy, just in case'), she invents and builds amazing creations in her backyard workshop. Together with her best friend Kit, Ellie can make anything. As Kit's birthday nears, Ellie doesn't know what gift to make until the girls overhear Kit's mom talking about her present-- the dog Kit always wanted! Ellie plans to make an amazing doghouse, but her plans grow so elaborate that she has to Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781681199481 enlist help from the neighbor boys and crafty girls, even though the two groups don't get along. Will Ellie be able to pull off Format: her biggest project yet, all while keeping a secret from Kit' Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Illustrated with Ellie's sketches and plans, and including a fun how-to guide to tools, this is a STEM- and friendship- Bic2: powered story full of fun! Illustrations: Previous Titles: About the Author Author now living: Jackson Pearce lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of a series of teen retold fairy-tales, including Sisters Red, Sweetly, Fathomless, and Cold Spell, as well as two stand-alones, As You Wish and Purity. As J. Nelle Patrick, she is the author of Tsarina. In addition to The Doublecross and The Inside Job, her middle grade novels include Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures, co-written with Maggie Stiefvater. Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 Treasure of the Golden Skull Chris, Priestley

Return to the weird and wonderful world of Maudlin Towers for a second adventure. This hugely funny, deliciously creepy and action-packed series is perfect for 8+ readers who like their mysteries with a twist. Fans of Lemony Snicket and Chris Riddell will love Maudlin Towers.

Sales points • Nobody does twisted mystery like Chris Priestley, and now a younger readership can fall in love with his irresistible brand of gothic creepiness in this laugh-out-loud funny adventure series • Fully illustrated by the author throughout in a striking, funny and super-commercial package • Following on swiftly from publication of Curse of the Werewolf Boy in October 2017, and with Book 3 due for early 2019, this is a major new series with plenty of growth planned • Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Chris Riddell, as well as readers who are looking for a fresh, funny twist on detective and mystery adventures. This is Chris Priestley at his most commercial

Description Return to the weird and wonderful world of Maudlin Towers for a second adventure brilliantly written and illustrated throughout by Chris Priestley in this striking and funny package.

Mildew and Sponge don't think much of Maudlin Towers, the blackened, gloom-laden, gargoyle-infested monstrosity that is their school. But when they are told the school might close, our heroes realise that being apart and somewhere else could be even worse! But what starts out as a secret hunt for buried treasure quickly becomes weirder than Mildew and Sponge could ever have imagined. Who is that new boy who can get people to do whatever he wants just by looking them intently in the eye' (A hypnotist!) Why does that strange teacher have tattoos and a beard' (He's really a pirate also looking for the treasure!) Could their heartbroken English teacher hold the key to this riddle of riddles' (Just maybe -) Most importantly, can Mildew and Sponge save the day and the school once more' This hugely funny, deliciously creepy and action-packed series is perfect for 8+ readers who like their mysteries with a Price: AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 twist. Fans of Lemony Snicket and Chris Riddell will love Maudlin Towers. ISBN: 9781408873106 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Chris Priestley worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years before becoming a writer. His books have been Bic1: nominated for many awards, including the Edgar Awards, the UKLA Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. The Bic2: award-winning and critically acclaimed Tales of Terror series for Bloomsbury features chilling stories rooted in the Illustrations: tradition of M.R. James, Saki and Edgar Allan Poe and is available in many languages. Mister Creecher is a novel Previous Titles: Author now living: inspired by, and linked to, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and The Last of the Spirits tells a story that weaves in and out of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Chris lives in Cambridge with his wife and son. Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 More Than a Princess E.D Baker

From beloved house author E. D. Baker comes a new middle-grade series about a princess who s more than what she seem—and the kingdom whose fate rests in her hands.

Sales points • The first in a brand-new series from beloved middle grade author E. D. Baker, whose books have sold over 1 million copies!New magical character with a body-positive twist: This new world from E. D. Baker stars a brand-new protagonist who learns to be proud of not only her unusual magical gifts, but also her beauty as a larger-than-average princess.

Description Aislin of Eliasind is more than just a princess -- she's half-fairy and half-pedrasi, with magical gifts from each side of her heritage! One day, as Aislin is venturing through the woods, she is alarmed to hear a band of humans coming through. How did they get past the guarded magical passageway that leads to her hidden kingdom? Mistaken for a human herself, Aislin is captured, and soon realizes she's in even bigger trouble--she's being used as a pawn to help the king of this nearby kingdom, Morrain, find a secret passageway to the warring land of Scarmander, so he can capture his enemies by surprise. Aislin must find a way to break free, while also minding the beautiful human princess and ladies-in-waiting she now shares a castle with, who are all too ready to point out her differences. Thankfully, Aislin's inner strength goes beyond her magical qualities. And with a few loyal friends by her side, she's ready to stand up for herself and her kingdom once and for all. A classic and original fairy-tale that celebrates beauty and goodness in all its shapes and sizes, More than a Princess will resonate with readers who love magic, suspense, girl power, and adventure.

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Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 Wallace and Grace Take the Case Heather Alexander

Another exciting addition to the Read & Bloom line! This charming mystery series will be the perfect pathway to popular chapter books like Cam Jansen or Fancy Nancy, Super Sleuth.

Sales points • Mystery driven early chapter book perfect for fans of Nate the Great: This early chapter book series features an owl- detective agency, pairing two creators new to chapter books in the Read & Bloom line. • Continuing the Read & Bloom line: Aimed at readers who are ready to move beyond leveled readers, but not ready for longer chapter books, these early chapter books serve an under-represented area of the market. Each book is 80- pages with full-color illustration, formatted to help independent readers on their way to a lifetime love of reading, and we've received great endorsements from teachers and professors. This season continues the line with two new series: The Adventures of Caveboy and Wallace & Grace Take the Case. • Seasoned author and well-connected illustrator: Heather Alexander has worked in publishing for years and launched her first chapter book line under her own name with Scholastic in 2015. Laura Zarrin is well-connected on social media to other well-known illustrators. They are both ready to promote! • Charming mysteries with gentle cliffhangers: Wallace and Grace are the perfect introduction to mystery storytelling, as they seek out clues and keep readers guessing. • Simultaneous publication of first two books: We're publishing the the Read & Bloom line with the first two books of each series hitting the shelves at the same time for increased presence.

Description The Read & Bloom line offers high interest, character driven stories for newly independent readers that feature full-color illustrations throughout and will transition kids from leveled readers to a lifetime of reading. In this charming series, perfect for newly independent readers, kids will be treated to simple whodunit mysteries as an utterly delightful owl duo put their heads together. In their first adventure, Wallace and Grace meet a rabbit who is sure he saw a ghost! But the clues lead them in a different direction. Something is spooking the garden . . . can Wallace and Grace solve this case' Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781619639898 About the Author Format: Paperback Heather Alexander is the author the early-chapter book series, The Amazing Stardust Friends, and the middle-grade Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages novel, Picture Perfect #1: Bending Over Backwards. The former editorial director of Parachute Press, Heather has edited Bic1: Secondary schools over 100 children's fiction series, including the best-selling Goosebumps and the early-chapter mystery series, The New Bic2: Secondary schools Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley. Heather lives in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with her husband and two daughters. Illustrations: www.heatheralexanderbooks.com Previous Titles: Author now living: Laura Zarrin spent her childhood in the St. Louis area exploring creeks, woods, and attic closets, with plenty of tree climbing and digging for artifacts in the backyard all in preparation for her future career as an archeologist. She never became one because she realized she's much happier drawing. Laura lives in Silicon Valley in California with her very Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 Wallace and Grace and the Cupcake Caper Heather Alexander, illustrated by Laura Zarrin

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Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781681190112 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Picture books Bic2: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Children's USA DECEMBER 2018 The Kindness Club: Designed by Lucy Courtney Sheinmael

It's cool to be kind.Perfect for fans of Meg Cabot or Sarah Mlynowski, this second book in a fun series shows that kindness never goes out of style!

Sales points • Kindness will resonate with kids, teachers, and parents: In an effort to put a positive spin on 'anti-bullying' messages, many schools have adopted kindness campaigns and projects to encourage kids to think before they act.Inspired by real life events: Courtney's school visits inspired the idea for The Kindness Club, after she saw posters and signs in schools about being kind. We can encourage readers to start their own Kindness Clubs!Fresh, fun series with great message that has appeal for commercial and institutional markets: The Kindness Club is a kid-friendly series perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski or Meg Cabot, featuring lovable characters who will inspire readers to think kind.

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About the Author Courtney Sheinmel is a recovering attorney, chocolate lover, mac and cheese expert, and the author of over a dozen highly celebrated novels for kids and young adults, including Edgewater, Sincerely, and the Stella Batts series. She mentors teen writers at Writopia Lab, a nonprofit in New York City, and she received a National Scholastic Outstanding Educator Award. Courtney wants to hear your kindness stories! Write to her at [email protected].

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781681198996 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 Watership Down Richard Adams

A beautiful new hardback gift edition of the beloved Richard Adams classic Watership Down a Christmas gift in waiting

Sales points • Publishing end 2018 ahead of a new 4-part TV series by the BBC and Netflix, showing Christmas Day and Boxing Day 2018 and featuring the voices of stars including John Boyega, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Colman and James McAvoy • A perfect gift for Christmas with head and tail bands, ribbon and gold foil • Winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and one of Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime to build a roadmap of a literary life'

Description A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams' spellbinding classic Watership Down is one of the best-loved novels of all time, and resonates just as vividly today as it did nearly half a century ago. With a new four-part BBC adaptation planned for Christmas 2018, in collaboration with Netflix and voiced by stars including John Boyega, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Colman and James McAvoy, this beautiful new heritage edition will be treasured by children for years to come. Design features of this classic edition will include gold foil, head and tail bands and a beautiful gold ribbon, making this the ideal gift for Christmas and beyond.

About the Author Richard Adams (1920-2016) studied history at Worcester College, Oxford before and after the Second World War. He was the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling and award-winning Watership Down, his first book (the illustrated edition of which was published by Oneworld Modern Classics, 2014). Two of his books, Watership Down and Shardik, were listed in the Sunday Times top 100 bestselling books of the last forty years.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781786070272 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 496 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Mince Spies

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Bloomsbury Child DECEMBER 2018 One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 9-11 Andrew Brodie

One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 9-11 contains 160 photocopiable tests to check children's understanding of key aspects of the National Curriculum for maths. These tests are quick and easy to administer and are ideal for improving pupils' essential maths skills, both at home and in the classroom.

Sales points • All tests are photocopiable so can be used both in the classroom and at home. • A clear structured programme for improving mental maths, linked to the National Curriculum. • Motivating and exciting for pupils as they monitor their own performance. • Effective mental maths practice that only takes one minute.

Description One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 9-11 contains 160 photocopiable tests to check children's understanding of key aspects of the National Curriculum for maths. These tests are quick and easy to administer, making them perfect for children to complete at the start of a maths lessons. Each sheet is split into four columns which, when photocopied, can be cut to provide strips of questions to give to pupils. As the children progress through the book, the difficulty of the tests increases so that the children stay motivated through their own performance. Extremely valuable in helping to spot particular mathematical difficulties an individual pupil may have, specific skills such as adding, subtracting, halving, multiplying and dividing are addressed. These tests are ideal for improving pupils' essential maths skills and for use at home and in the classroom.

About the Author Andrew Brodie was a head teacher for twelve years after many successful years in the primary classroom. He began writing his bestselling educational books in 1992 and since then has established himself as a name that teachers have come to trust.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 ISBN: 9781472958969 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Wildlife (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Andrew Brodie DECEMBER 2018 One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 7-9 Andrew Brodie

One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 7-9 contains 160 photocopiable tests to check children's understanding of key aspects of the National Curriculum for maths. These tests are quick and easy to administer and are ideal for improving pupil's essential maths skills, both at home and in the classroom.

Description One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 7-9 contains 160 photocopiable tests to check children's understanding of key aspects of the National Curriculum for maths. These tests are quick and easy to administer, making them perfect for children to complete at the start of a maths lessons. Each sheet is split into four columns which, when photocopied, can be cut to provide strips of questions to give to pupils. As the children progress through the book, the difficulty of the tests increases so that the children stay motivated through their own performance. Extremely valuable in helping to spot particular mathematical difficulties an individual pupil may have, specific skills such as adding, subtracting, halving, multiplying and dividing are addressed. These tests are ideal for improving pupils' essential maths skills and for use at home and in the classroom.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 ISBN: 9781472958938 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Animal stories (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Andrew Brodie DECEMBER 2018 One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 5-7 Andrew Brodie

One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 5-7 contains 160 photocopiable tests to check children's understanding of key aspects of the National Curriculum for maths. These tests are quick and easy to administer and are ideal for improving pupils' essential maths skills, both at home and in the classroom.

Description One Minute Mental Maths for Ages 5-7 contains 160 photocopiable tests to check children's understanding of key aspects of the National Curriculum for maths. These tests are quick and easy to administer, making them perfect for children to complete at the start of a maths lesson. Each sheet is split into four columns which, when photocopied, can be cut to provide strips of questions to give to pupils. As the children progress through the book, the difficulty of the tests increases so that the children stay motivated through their own performance. Extremely valuable in helping to spot particular mathematical difficulties an individual pupil may have, specific skills such as adding, subtracting, halving, multiplying and dividing are addressed. These tests are ideal for improving pupils' essential maths skills and for use at home and in the classroom.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 ISBN: 9781472958907 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Early learning: numbers & counting Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Andrew Brodie DECEMBER 2018 Understanding Children's Behaviour Penny Tassoni

Through a combination of practice, theory and reflection, leading Early Years education consultant Penny Tassoni explores children's behaviour from a child-centred point of view. In doing so, she shows how, over time, children learn to be with others and the strategies that adults can use to positively support this development.

Sales points • Includes an A-Z problem solving section about dealing with unwanted behaviours for analysis and to guide practice. Written by a leading Early Years education consultant, author and trainer.

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About the Author Penny Tassoni is an education consultant, author and trainer who specialises in the whole spectrum of learning and play. Penny began her career as an Early Years teacher before training nursery nurses. She has also worked for a large daycare chain as their education and training manager. Penny has written forty books, many of which are core textbooks in the UK for training nursery nurses and Early Years teachers. In February 2013, she was asked to take on the role of President of the Professional Association of Early Years and Childcare an organisation with over 35,000 members in the UK. Penny is a well-known speaker and trainer. She regularly visits and supports nurseries and pre-schools which allows her to maintain regular contact with babies and young children. She also works regularly in Turkey and has supported nurseries in China, Dubai and Hong Kong

Price: AU $37.00 NZ $39.00 ISBN: 9781472952677 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Cooking & food (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Cooking & food (Children's / Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Featherstone Education DECEMBER 2018 How to be an Outstanding Nursery Leader Alison Lee

How to be an Outstanding Nursery Leader explores common everyday situations and important aspects of management, to help a nursery leader get the best from their team and earn an outstanding grade from Ofsted.

Sales points • An accurate, up-to-date guide with helpful advice and useful tips on how to manage and lead a team and Early Years provision. • Allison Lee has a wealth of knowledge and experience in how to make a setting run smoothly and what pitfalls to avoid. • A useful tool to support those completing the CACHE Level 4 Certificate for the Early Years Advanced Practitioner.

Description Nursery leaders play a crucial role in the overall smooth running of their nursery, as they are ultimately in charge of the recruitment of staff, child protection and development, and health and safety. They are responsible for writing and implementing policies and procedures that require current, up-to-date knowledge and for ensuring that legislation is being followed at all times. Most importantly, nursery leaders are key to achieving an 'outstanding' grade from Ofsted in all areas of nursery life. How to be an Outstanding Nursery Leader covers common everyday situations, such as staffing and potential problems, and is a useful tool for anyone enrolled on the CACHE Level 4 Certificate for the Early Years Advanced Practitioner. Allison Lee uses her wealth of experience to explore important aspects of management, including effective staff meetings, appraisals and supervisions, to help a nursery leader get the best from their team and earn that all-important 'outstanding' grade from Ofsted.

About the Author Allison Lee has been working in the childcare industry for almost 25 years and has a wealth of experience in nursery management. She owns and runs a small chain of nurseries, and her business has been rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted. Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 ISBN: 9781472952578 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 214x138mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Education DECEMBER 2018 Getting the Little Blighters to Behave Claire Potter. Oliver Bonamy

A practical book full of tips, techniques and example situations to support and encourage good behaviour in children.

Sales points • A set of clear, simple rules to help children behave better and to make day-to-day life with them much easier. • Perfect for parents and carers of children of any age up to 10 years. • Presents expertise and knowledge in a punchy, practical, accessible and empowering way. • Potential for follow-up books for tweens and teens.

Description Does your child keep pressing the button on the bus even though you've told them to stop' Do you have the same battle getting your child's coat and shoes on, day in and day out' Are you tired of constantly repeating yourself' Claire Potter is back with another book packed full of tips, techniques and example scenarios to encourage good behaviour in children. Getting the Little Blighters to Behave includes 30 practical and accessible strategies to help your child behave better and feel happier, as well as ideas on how to improve your relationship with them. Based on expertise and solid research, this little book is a punchy, enjoyable and empowering read that is perfect for parents and carers of children up to the age of ten.

About the Author Claire Potter is a freelance educational writer and mother to two wildly different creatures: a big, robust, outdoorsy challenge-seeking boy (who left to his own devices would probably attempt to scale a ten-storey building with a piece of elastic and an old nail) and a much younger, calm, creative, home-loving girl (who could create an entire pink fluffy world with a pot of nail vanish and some bird feathers). Pulled in both directions, Claire loves to scour her brain, her home and the outside world for ideas that lead to mini-adventures and (good) mischief to get up to with and occasionally without! her children. She blogs at www.thequirkyparent.blogspot.co.uk.

Price: AU $12.99 NZ $14.99 ISBN: 9781472946744 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Children's / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals Bic2: Children's / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Featherstone Education DECEMBER 2018 Let's Perform! Cath Howe

From 'They're Digging up my School Today' to 'The Giant African Land Snail's Rap', this book is full of brilliant , photocopiable scripts and poems to get children aged 7 to 11 confidently rhyming, moving and imagining. Let's Perform! offers fresh, fun material from Cath Howe, an experienced drama practitioner, for literacy lessons, drama classes, assemblies, after school and drama clubs.

Sales points • Builds confidence in speaking and listening and can be used as a stimulus for music and movement. • Inspires children's creativity and encourages creative writing, public speaking and drama. • Fun, accessible and photocopiable pieces to perform, as well as handy tips and helpful ideas. • Additional creative activities for the book are available online.

Description From 'They're Digging up my School Today' to 'The Giant African Land Snail's Rap', this book is full of brilliant, photocopiable scripts and poems to get children aged 7 to 11 confidently rhyming, moving and imagining. Let's Perform! offers fresh, fun material from Cath Howe, an experienced drama practitioner, for literacy lessons, drama classes, assemblies, after school and drama clubs. A child's lack of engagement in speaking and listening tasks can reveal wider issues of self-esteem. Cath has included everyday dilemmas as well as surreal scenarios, ranging from funny and ridiculous to serious and emotional, to inspire all children. Perfect for encouraging creative writing and public speaking, each monologue, duologue or performance poem is accompanied by easy-to-follow performance tips and activities that can also be used in cross-curricular subjects. Additional creative activities for the book are also available online. This vibrant collection is a must-have text to set every child's imagination whirring.

About the Author Cath Howe is an author and teacher with a real passion for writing and creativity. She has been working at Fern Hill for eight years as a Writer in Residence', running workshops on everything to do with writing and performing. She now Price: AU $37.00 NZ $39.00 visits other schools as an author and workshop leader, while also developing her Writer in Residence' role at Kingston ISBN: 9781472957252 University, UK. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Education DECEMBER 2018 Ten Traits of Resilience James Hilton

In this thought-provoking book, James Hilton explores ten traits of resilience and demonstrates to school leaders how they can embed these traits into their school to create a climate of resilience among staff and pupils.

Sales points • Enables school leaders to develop an understanding of ten characteristics of resilience. • Includes practical strategies, tips and reflective questions to help school leaders bolster resilience in their own practice and across their school. • Author is a trainer and speaker specialising in school leadership, stress and resilience, who has given keynote speeches on these subjects, including at NAHT conferences. • Includes a foreword by happiness expert Andy Cope (author and creator of The Art of Being Brilliant), as well as an exclusive quote from Sir Ken Robinson, international education speaker and author.

Description In an increasingly complex and ever-changing education landscape, school leadership is a rewarding but multifaceted profession. In order to survive in the job long term, school leaders need to understand how they can lead with positivity and purpose, all the while avoiding stress, coping with adversity, and taking better care of themselves physically and mentally. With teacher wellbeing and retention a growing concern, it is essential school leaders pass on this confidence and optimism to their staff members too. In this thought-provoking book, James Hilton explores ten traits of resilience and demonstrates to school leaders how they can embed these traits into their own practice and into their school to create a climate of resilience in every classroom. Ten Traits of Resilience is packed with practical advice, tips and reflective questions to help school leaders evaluate and improve their current practice, and threaded throughout are also perspectives from a number of education experts, including Ross Morrison McGill, Patrick Ottley-O'Connor, Viv Grant and Kim Johnson. With a foreword by happiness expert, Dr Andy Cope, this book is ideal for all school leaders and aspiring school leaders looking to promote and maintain a culture of resilience in their schools, in order to improve their own mental health and Price: AU $37.00 NZ $39.00 wellbeing, and that of their staff and pupils too. ISBN: 9781472951502 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages James Hilton is a former headteacher, currently working as a conference speaker and author specialising in leadership, Bic1: Humour & jokes (Children's / Teenage) stress management and positive psychology. He applies his experience of leadership to inspire a wide range of clients Bic2: Humour & jokes (Children's / Teenage) including school leaders, NHS staff, local government and business employees. James provides fresh insights into the Illustrations: Previous Titles: challenges of leadership in the intense environment that is the modern workplace. He is the author of Leading from the Author now living: Edge.

BLM Education DECEMBER 2018 Finding Pax Kaci Cronkhite

When Kaci Cronkhite bought Pax, a 1930s Danish yacht, she wasn't expecting the voyage they would take together - a journey into Pax's past, from the United States back to interwar Europe. This is a love story about a woman and a boat, and about following questions wherever they lead.

Sales points • Timeless portrayal of a woman boatowner. A strong female protagonist and an unusual object that is the focus of her love - a boat. • Rave reviews garnered for Kaci's self published edition point to a wider and ongoing market for the book. She will travel to boat shows, book fairs, do speaking tours, talk at libraries, boat schools, maritime festivals, write articles etc to promote the new edition.

Description The boat appeared when I didn't expect or, frankly, need her. My bucket list was empty. Life was full -But sailing towards me was a boat that would stir the waters, waking decades of loss, revealing history untold, and restoring a legacy that was lost in the wind. For her and for me, I had to wade into that water. I had to go, to search, to find.' This is a love story about a woman and a boat. Having fallen hopelessly in love with a 1930s Danish spidsgatter, a beautifully constructed 25 ft wooden double-ender, Kaci embarks on an international search to unravel the mystery of the boat's past, and discovers the many lives Pax touched since she first hit the water in 1936. Kaci Cronkhite's seven year search for Pax's history is an elegant little gem, taking the reader aboard not only for sublime, wind-filled sails but also to eavesdrop the conversations and relationships that are built as she learns more about Pax's past, whilst hugely enjoying her present. Finding Pax is a story of discovery and reconnection like no other. The writing is poetic, spare, and full of wisdom: In sailing, in weather, in life and death, answers are not endings and questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward.' Kaci originally published the story of her and Pax in a limited number of bespoke editions, but they proved so popular, reaching readers she never expected to reach, and provoking unexpected questions from those who wanted to find out Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 more, that she revised and expanded the book for this new international edition. ISBN: 9781472958600 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 233x156mm Extent: 256 pages Kaci Cronkhite is a writer whose work radiates a passion for adventures combining wind, travel, history, and legacy. Her Bic1: Boating stories have appeared in the anthology Steady as She Goes, and in magazines and newspapers in America, Australia, Bic2: Canada, South Africa, and the Caribbean. She has written dozens of blogs and sailing articles: www.Kacicronkhite.com. Illustrations: Previous Titles: She has sailed around the world from 1995 2001, and then ranthe Wooden Boat Show in Port Townsend, Washington for Author now living: a decade. Finding Pax is the prequel to When a Cowgirl Goes to Sea.

Adlard Coles Nautica DECEMBER 2018 Lighthouses of Europe Thomas Ebelt

A delightful collection of stunning photographs capturing the lighthouses of Europe's diverse coastlines in all their magnificent variety, accompanied by fascinating background text.

Sales points • Lighthouses hold a perennial appeal for many people - seafarers, historians, coastal walkers and holidaymakers. • Includes 70 lighthouses from all around Europe and the islands of the Mediterranean. • Magnificent photography, capturing the dramatic architecture and settings of the lighthouses featured.

Description Europe has over 40,000 miles of coastline, stretching from the icy black waters of the Baltic to the deceptively serene Mediterranean. With many of Europe's countries bordering a sea, the need for lighthouses has spanned much of the continent for centuries. Lighthouses hold a perennial fascination for many of us - an indicator of danger, a beacon of the sea, laced with history and romance and a magnet for coastal walkers and visitors. Photographer Thomas Ebelt was charged with capturing beautiful imagery of the most stunning lighthouses for a lavish calendar, but on his journeys along Europe's coasts he found enough outstanding structures and dramatic landscapes to fill a calendar every year for a decade or more. This book is a collection of his finest photographs, from Poland and Estonia, via Iceland, around Scotland and England, and towards Malta and Sicily. Each lighthouse is accompanied by illuminating text about their history and construction. Specifications boxes provide information on position, identification features, height of the tower, height of the light, range and year of construction.

About the Author Thomas Ebelt is a customs officer for the port of Hamburg, patrolling aboard a customs vessel. As a sideline, he works as freelance photographer focusing on maritime subjects, nature, architecture, travel and underwater photography. He has exhibited his work around Europe, has published illustrated books as well as calendars, and regularly contributes to prestigious journals and newspapers. Price: AU $36.99 NZ $38.99 He has a lifelong passion for lighthouses, and has spent 13 years and covered 160,000 km photographing them, inspired ISBN: 9781472957610 by his enthusiasm for architecture and different building periods, and because lighthouses enliven the surrounding Format: Hard Cover landscape. Whenever I see a lighthouse I think of the sounds of the sea, the salty taste of the air, the light leading the Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages way and the distance from everyday life. They tell stories about bygone times and stand up to the wind and weather. And Bic1: Photography & photographs unlike animals, they don't run off when I photograph them -' Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica DECEMBER 2018 Reeds Vol 4: Naval Architecture for Marine Engineers Richard Pemberton, E A Stokoe

Fully revised and updated edition of this classic textbook for marine engineers covering all areas of naval architecture

Sales points • Unlike many other naval architecture textbooks, Reeds Vol 4 is aimed specifically at the MCA examinations and so, with the aid of the worked examples within the book, is an essential resource for anyone taking the MCA exams • Includes up-to-date diagrams and illustrations, including new 3D diagrams, to aid trainees' understanding • Updated for the first time since 1991 • Contains a brand new section on Computer Software for Naval Architecture

Description This textbook covers the theoretical, fundamental aspects of naval architecture for students preparing for the Class 2 and Class 1 Marine Engineer Officer exams. It introduces the basic foundation themes within naval architecture, (hydrostatics, stability, resistance and powering), using worked examples to show how solutions should be presented for an exam. The topics are ordered in a manner of a typical taught module, to aid the use of the book by lecturers as a compliment to a course. Importantly, this updated edition contains updated text and figures in line with modern practice, including an update of many of the figures to three-dimensional diagrams, and a new section on computer software for naval architecture. The book also includes sample examination questions with worked examples answers to aid students in their learning.

About the Author Dr Richard Pemberton CEng MRINA is Lecturer in Mechanical & Marine Design at Plymouth University.

After completing his Ph.D. on System Identification in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in 2003, Richard joined GBR Challenge America's Cup yacht racing team as a design analyst. Since then he was worked as a designer or technical consultant to sailors and yacht racing teams in many of the major competitions within the sport, such as: The America's Price: AU $75.00 NZ $80.00 Cup, Volvo Ocean Race, Vendee Globe race,Olympics and the World Speed Sailing Record. ISBN: 9781472947826 Format: Paperback - C format Before joining Plymouth University, Richard worked as a consultant Naval Architect both in a self-employed capacity and Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages at the University of Southampton's Wolfson Unit for Marine Technology and Industrial Aerodynamics. Bic1: Ship design & naval architecture E A Stokoe was formerly Principal Lecturer in Naval Architecture at South Shields Marine and Technical College Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica DECEMBER 2018 The Potter's Book of Glaze Recipes Emmanuel Cooper

This guide provides a short introduction to glazes with basic instructions on making your own, followed by a comprehensive collection of glaze recipes, covering a wide range of temperatures and variations. The book should be of use to any potter or ceramicist.

Sales points • A wonderful introduction to Glazes.

Description The Potter's Book of Glaze Recipes is a must for potters and ceramicists of all abilities who are interested in creating their own glazes. Emmanuel Cooper's classic guide to making glazes is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition. Cooper provides potters with an introductory section on glaze materials, colouring, mixing and the application of glazes, as well as information on health and safety issues. This essential guide also features over 400 recipes ranging from opaque, matte and transparent glazes to crystalline and black iron glazes, organised according to their firing temperature ranges.

About the Author Emmanuel Cooper was a leading British potter, prolific author and longtime editor of Ceramic Review.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9781912217816 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Ceramic arts, pottery, glass Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Herbert Press DECEMBER 2018 The Art of Botanical Drawing Agathe Ravet-Haevermans

A beautiful and practical guide to drawing and painting flowers, plants and vegetables.

Sales points • A clear guide to the world of botanical drawing • A charming looking book • Highly and beautifully illustrated

Description This charmingly illustrated book is an ideal guide to the art of botanical drawing and painting. Agathe Ravet-Haevermans instructs the reader on how to recognise and draw a wide variety of flowers and leaves and covers the textures and structural elements of a range of different plants including succulents, vegetables, trees and grasses. Practical as well as beautiful, this book should be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of everyone interested in botanical art.

About the Author Agathe Ravet-Haevermans is a scientific illustrator and naturalist at the Museum of Natural History in Paris where she also teaches botanical drawing to adults.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 ISBN: 9781912217861 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 104 pages Bic1: Botanical art Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Herbert Press DECEMBER 2018 Extraordinary Sketchbooks Jane Stobart

Extraordinary Sketchbooks takes the reader through different themes and functions for sketchbooks, including drawing to collect visual research, course work, developing concepts and suggestions for making simple and quick visuals into exciting images.

Sales points • Written by a well-known author and authority in the field • • Includes galleries of work from a range of artists • • An essential resource for a wide readership

Description Sketchbooks are an essential part of the creative process for artists of all disciplines, ranging from textiles and jewellery to interior design, printmaking and ceramics. The sketchbook is a complete record of the creative process which, it can even be argued, is more important that the finished object at the end of this process. This book is a vital resource for artists of all levels including students, makers and collectors, as it not only gives practical advice about building your own sketchbooks but also provides examples of different artists' working methods. Extraordinary Sketchbooks takes the reader through different themes and functions for sketchbooks, including drawing to collect visual research, course work, developing concepts and suggestions for making simple and quick visuals into exciting images. An inspiring gallery of examples from a range of artists including recent graduates, practising artists and lecturers and working professionals form a variety of art and design industries. A fantastic resource for artists everywhere.

About the Author Jane Stobart is a well-known printmaker. She teaches at West Dean College in Chichester and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 Painter-Printmakers. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections in Germany, ISBN: 9781912217847 USA and UK. Drawing and sketchbook research are integral to her work as a practicing artist. Jane is the author of two Format: Paperback successful titles Printmaking for Beginners and Drawing Matters. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Other graphic art forms Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Herbert Press DECEMBER 2018 La boheme Giacomo Puccini

Puccini's La boheme is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time.

Sales points • Contains articles from leading musicologists • Contains a literal translation the perfect accompaniment to all productions of the opera

Description Puccini's La boheme is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto over the course of three and a half years and gives a synopsis, outlining the main themes of La boheme. Edward Greenfield presents an essay on the musical structure and consistency of the opera, whose very accessibility tends to obscure the musical genius behind the score'. Finally, Joanna Richardson surveys the Bohemians in Paris portrayed by Henry Murger, whose stories formed the basis for Puccini's work. This edition has over twenty photographs, a detailed thematic analysis and the original libretto with a facing literal translation by William Weaver. It also has an up-to-date bibliography, discography, DVD and website details. The guide is essential reading for anyone interested in the background to this opera, its themes and composition.

About the Author Giacomo Puccini (1858 1924) was born in Lucca into a family of musicians and composers. His operas, which include Tosca, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the international repertory.

Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9780714548562 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Musical scores, lyrics & libretti Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Alma Classics DECEMBER 2018 Field Guide to Carnivores of the World Luke Hunter

The most comprehensive guide to the world's carnivores available.

Sales points • Profiles all of the world's carnivores, from big cats, mongooses and cusimanses, through civets, wolves and foxes, to bears, otters, badgers and weasels. • Features 86 full-colour plates with more than 300 individual illustrations depicting every carnivore species, many colour variants and sub-species. • Describes each species in a detailed account that includes key identification characteristics, habitat, behaviour, diet, social patterns, conservation and the latest on classification. • Includes some 340 illustrations of skulls and footprints and more than 40 showing behaviour.

Description Ranging from the largest terrestrial carnivore, the Polar Bear, to the tiny Least Weasel that can squeeze through a wedding ring, the true carnivores include some of the world's most charismatic, admired, feared and spectacular creatures. This new edition of Luke Hunter's comprehensive guide profiles all of the world's terrestrial carnivore species. Thoroughly updated throughout and covering recently described species, a detailed account describes each species' key identification characteristics, distribution and habitat, behaviour, feeding ecology, social patterns, life history statistics, conservation and the latest on classification. The new edition also includes accurate distribution maps for each species. Colour plates by top wildlife artist Priscilla Barrett depict each species, with subspecies, colour variations and behavioural vignettes for many. There are also detailed line drawings of more than 230 skulls and 110 footprints.

About the Author Luke Hunter is President of Panthera, the world's leading organisation 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.

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 Priscilla Barrett has painted mammals for field guides to numerous regions including southern Africa, Latin America, ISBN: 9781472950796 Britain and Europe, and New Zealand. She is a long-standing member of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Wildlife: mammals Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 RSPB Seabirds Marianne Taylor

A lavish celebration of seabirds with outstanding depth of coverage and stunning photography, illustrating all aspects of seabird life and behaviour

Sales points • A beautifully designed, large-format, glossy coffee-table book dedicated to an extremely popular group of bird species. • Includes all seabirds species found around the British Isles and on northern European coastlines (of France, Belgium, Germany and Scandinavia). • UK edition is endorsed by and published with the full support of the RSPB.

Description Seabirds are the living links between land, air and sea. They enjoy a freedom that even humans, with all our technological assistance, can barely imagine. Many species travel mind-boggling distances across the length and breadth of our planet before returning to land to breed in large, deafening and confusingly crowded colonies. Yet within this commotion each mated pair forms a bond of extreme closeness and tenderness that survives separation each winter and may persist for decades. The long and geologically varied coastline of the British Isles provides homes for internationally important numbers of breeding seabirds. Visiting their colonies is always unforgettable, whether they are cliff-faces packed with Guillemots, islands white-capped by clustered Gannets on their nests, flat beaches crowded with screaming Arctic Terns or seaside rooftops overlaid with a second townscape of nesting gulls. The changing fortunes of these seabird cities reveal to us the health of the vast, unseen but incredibly rich marine world that surrounds us. RSPB Seabirds showcases some of our most exciting and enigmatic bird species as vital and living components of one of our greatest natural assets: our coastline. The author presents detailed biographies of all the seabird species that breed in and around the British Isles, and also looks at the many species that breed elsewhere but which, regularly or occasionally, visit British waters. Every page of this sumptuous book features beautiful photographs of wild seabirds engaged in their daily work of hunting, travelling, protecting themselves and their territories, courting and raising a family.

Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781472964502 Marianne Taylor is a freelance writer, illustrator, photographer and editor. Marianne grew up in the seaside town of Format: Hard Cover Hastings in Sussex, and from an early age she could be found watching and scribbling notes about the behaviour of the Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Herring Gulls nesting outside her sister's bedroom window. A passion for all wildlife, but especially birds and most Bic1: Wildlife: general interest especially seabirds, has been a driving force in her life ever since. Marianne worked in publishing for seven years before Bic2: taking the plunge as a freelancer in 2007. Since then she has written 19 books for adults and children on a range of Illustrations: natural history subjects. Previous Titles: Author now living: Renowned cameraman David Tipling has worked as a freelance wildlife photographer since 1992. David travels extensively photographing some of the world's most iconic wildlife and one of his specialities is the birds of our seas and oceans. His many awards include the prestigious Nature Photographer of the Year. David's work has featured in BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 RSPB Spotlight: Puffins Euan Dunn

Puffins is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable expert.

Sales points • A concise yet indepth guide to one of the UK's favourite animals the Puffin. • One of the first titles in a collectible series. • Accessible design for adults and children, family-friendly. • Spotlight titles will be RSPB-branded.

Description Enduringly popular, Puffins are perhaps our most iconic species of bird, and are the most immediately identifiable of seabirds with their decorative bills and clown-like gait. Yet when they take to the air they wheel and turn with great agility and underwater these stocky little birds use short specially adapted wings to propel themselves through the water in pursuit of small fish. Surprisingly little was known about Puffin ecology until recently thanks to their preferred breeding habitat being underground on remote islands or hard-to-reach coastlines. Now Euan Dunn discloses all we have learnt about them as a result of technological advances, and provides a revealing account of their life cycle, behaviour and breeding, what they eat, how they interact in their busy colonies, and where they migrate to in winter. Euan also exposes the mounting threats Puffins face and offers advice on the best places to see them. Each Spotlight title is carefully designed to introduce readers to the lives and behaviour of our favourite birds and mammals.

About the Author Euan Dunn is Head of Marine Policy at the RSPB. He studied seabirds at the Universities of Durham and Oxford and has worked on many seabird islands including the UK's biggest puffin colony, the remote Atlantic citadel of St Kilda. Euan has written many papers and articles and was the natural history editor of The Countryman magazine for 13 years. He wrote Price: AU $19.99 NZ $22.99 The Colourful World of Birds and co-authored the lauded nine-volume The Birds of the Western Palearctic, and has also ISBN: 9781472965202 illustrated books on whales, dolphins and robins. In 2007, Euan was awarded an MBE for contributions to marine Format: Paperback conservation. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Birds (ornithology) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 Soho in the Eighties Christopher Howse

A fascinating glimpse into 1980s Soho by leading journalist and writer Christopher Howse

Sales points • Howse is Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph with a strong following and guaranteed reviews • Soho in the Fifties became a cult book, as will this. • An essential piece of cultural and social history

Description In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. Here is its sequel. That decade saw the brilliant flowering of a daily tragic comedy enacted in pubs like the Coach and Horses or The French and in drinking clubs like the Colony Room. These were places of constant conversation fueled by alcohol. The cast was more numerous and improbable than any soap opera. Some widely known- Francis Bacon, Jeffrey Bernard, Tom Baker and John Hurt. Just as important were the regular actors: The Village Postmistress, the Red Baron, Granny Smith. The bite came from underlying tragedy: lost spouses, lost jobs, pennilessness, homelessness and death. Christopher Howse spent more time with Jeffrey Bernard than Boswell did with Johnson. Soho seemed to him like home. That Soho has now gone: the actors have died and the talk dried up. While it lasted, time in those smoky rooms always seemed to be half past ten, not long to closing time. As the author relates, he never laughed so much as he did in Soho in the Eighties.

About the Author Christopher Howse is Deputy Editor of The Daily Telegraph, its leader writer and obituarist. He has published many books including the official history of The Daily Telegraph, The Train in Spain and many anthologies.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $45.00 ISBN: 9781472914804 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Continuum DECEMBER 2018 The Abolition of Britain Peter Hitchens

A powerful polemic on the decline of modern day Britain.

Sales points • This book will prove controversial and gain plenty media interest.

Description Hitchens identifies everything that he feels has gone wrong with Britain since the Second World War and makes the case for the many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock back'. Writing with brilliance and flair, Hitchens targets the pernicious effects of TV culture, the corruption and decay of English language, the loss of deference and the syrupy confessional mood brought on by the death of Princess Diana. This new paperback edition includes a brand new introduction taking the story up to the present day. This is a cri de coeur from an honest, intelligent and patriotic Englishman desperately worried about the corruption of this country and the likely effects of its lurch into the clutches of a European.' The Spectator

About the Author Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 ISBN: 9781472959928 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Nationalism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Continuum DECEMBER 2018 B-25 Mitchell Units of the CBI Edward M. Young

The operations of the B-25 Mitchell, the only American medium bomber to operate in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre of World War 2.

Sales points • The B-25 was the most famous American bombing twin' of World War 2 yet there is very little currently in print on it. • The B-25 is well modelled in all scales, including a 1/32nd kit recently released by HK of Hong Kong (which has been a strong seller). • This volume complements COM 87 B-24 Liberator Units of the CBI (2011) and is a companion volume to COM 32 B -25 Mitchell Units of the MTO (2002).

Description Flying from and between bases in China and India, the B-25s bombed every type of Japanese target during World War 2 in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre, ultimately dropping more ordinance than their larger four-engined B-24 Liberator brethren. Mitchell bombers took on the task of disrupting the flow of Japanese supplies to the frontlines at medium ranges, bombing Japanese supply centres, railway depots and bridges. It was in this last capacity that the B-25 established a unique role as a bridge-buster'. This provided significant support for the British Fourteenth Army as they advanced into Burma. Fully illustrated with detailed cutaway artwork, this book tells the important, yet forgotten story of B-25 operations in the CBI Theatre and the important role that this aircraft played on the road to victory.

About the Author Edward M. Young is a retired financial executive with degrees in Political Science from Harvard University and the University of Washington. During his career he held assignments in New York, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He has written a number of books and numerous articles on aviation and military history. He is the author of eight Osprey books and lives in Seattle, Washington. Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He ISBN: 9781472820365 has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000, and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in Format: Paperback these volumes. He has specialised in aircraft of the Vietnam War period. He lives in New Hampshire, USA. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 USN Fleet Destroyer vs IJN Fleet Submarine Mark Stille

Employing archive photographs and full-colour artwork, this study reassesses the role and record of Japan's formidable submarine fleet in the months after Pearl Harbor.

Sales points • This engaging book challenges the premise that Japan's submarine force failed to fulfill its potential during World War II. In this period IJN submarines sank two carriers and a light cruiser, while direct IJN submarine losses to USN destroyers were minimal. • Ties in well with recent titles in the Duels and New Vanguard series such as DUE 48 USN Destroyer vs IJN Destroyer (2012), NVG 162 US Destroyers 1934 45 (2010) and NVG 135 Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941 45 (2007). • Written by an experienced and popular author on the Osprey list who specializes in Pacific War navies.

Description Leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese naval strategists believed that a decisive fleet engagement would be fought against the United States Navy. Outnumbered by the USN, the Imperial Japanese Navy planned to use its large, ocean- going submarines to chip away at its opponent before the grand battle. In order to accomplish this, the IJN's submarine force was tasked to perform extended reconnaissance of the USN's battle fleet, even in port, and then shadow and attack it. For their part, the USN was fully aware of the potential threat posed by Japanese submarines, and destroyer crews were trained and equipped with modern anti-submarine weapons and tactics to screen the battle fleet. Challenging the assumption that Japanese submarines were ineffective during the Pacific War, this fully illustrated study examines their encounters with the US Navy, and the successes and failures of American destroyers in protecting their capital ships.

About the Author Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) has worked in the intelligence community for 35 years including Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 tours on the faculty of the Naval War College, on the Joint Staff and on US Navy ships. He is currently a senior analyst ISBN: 9781472820631 working in the Washington DC area. He is the author of numerous Osprey titles, focusing on naval history in the Pacific. Format: Paperback Paul Wright has painted ships of all kinds for most of his career, specializing in steel and steam warships from the late Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages 19th century to the present day. Paul's art has illustrated the works of Patrick O'Brian, Dudley Pope and C.S. Forester Bic1: Military history amongst others, and hangs in many corporate and private collections all over the world. A Member of the Royal Society of Bic2: Marine Artists, Paul lives and works in Surrey, UK. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Pacific Thunder Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

A thorough and compelling investigation of the Central Pacific campaign in World War II that saw the US Navy progress from the edge of disaster to the brink of victory, from Guadalcanal to the recapture of the Philippines.

Sales points • This study features some of the most famous naval battles of World War II from Guadalcanal through to Leyte Gulf as it charts the US Navy's rise to dominance. • The battles featuring in this book have appeared in films and TV shows such as The Pacific (2010), Midway (1976) and The Thin Red Line (1964 & 1998). • Written by best-selling author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver who has written a number of acclaimed books on the Pacific War including Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Odyssey of Carrier Air Group 15 (2014).

Description On 27 October 1942, four Long Lance torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: Enterprise, that had been badly damaged in the battle of Santa Cruz; USS Saratoga (CV-3) which lay in dry dock, victim of a Japanese submarine torpedo; and the USS Ranger (CV-4), which was in mid-Atlantic on her way to support Operation Torch. For the American naval aviators licking their wounds in the aftermath of this defeat, it would be difficult to imagine that within 24 months of this event, Zuikaku, the last survivor of the carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor, would lie at the bottom of the sea. Alongside it lay the other surviving Japanese carriers, sacrificed as lures in a failed attempt to block the American invasion of the Philippines, leaving the United States to reign supreme on the world's largest ocean. This is the fascinating account of the Central Pacific campaign, one of the most stunning comebacks in naval history as in 14 months the US Navy went from the jaws of defeat to the brink of victory in the Pacific.

About the Author Price: AU $18.99 NZ $19.99 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best- ISBN: 9781472821881 selling The Frozen Chosen, a history of the 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, published by Format: Paperback - B format Osprey Publishing in 2016. He is also a regular contributor to Flight Journal magazine and the author of Aces of the 78th Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Fighter Group and F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat Aces of VF-2, as well as Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Bic1: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Air Group 15 and The Bridgebusters: The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Group. During his 30 years as a screenwriter Bic2: in Hollywood, he wrote the cult classic The Terror Within and worked as a supervising producer on a number of TV and Illustrations: cable series. He served in the US Navy in Vietnam. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 South American Battleships 1908-59 Mark Lardas

A fascinating history of a little-known arms race, and the huge dreadnought battleships that Brazil, Argentina and Chile armed themselves with in the years before World War I.

Sales points • Dreadnought battleships are an exciting and popular subject, and have a great sales track record for the New Vanguard series. • The South American dreadnoughts included some groundbreaking designs, and there is very little in print on them. • South American Dreadnoughts won our website's book vote in January 2016.

Description In 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil decided to order three of the latest, greatest category of warship available the dreadnought battleship. One Brazilian dreadnought by itself could defeat the combined gunnery of every other warship of all the other South American nations. Brazil's decision triggered its neighbour Argentina to order its own brace of dreadnoughts, which in turn forced Chile (which had fought boundary disputes with Argentina) to order some. In the process, the South American dreadnought mania drove the three participants nearly into insolvency, led to the bankruptcy of a major shipyard, and triggered a chain of events which led Turkey to declare war on Great Britain. It also produced several groundbreaking dreadnought designs and one of the world's first aircraft carriers.

Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781472825100 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Tsushima 1905 Mark Lardas

A highly illustrated study of the naval campaign of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 05, focusing on the decisive battle of Tsushima.

Sales points • The Battle of Tsushima is the key point of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 05, presaging World War I which would follow a decade later. • This is a subject that has proved successful in other series, such as NVG 232 The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War (2016), and is a battle that has been often requested on the Osprey website. • The Battle of Tsushima was a battle of firsts and lasts. It was the first major fleet action between steel warships and the last battle to see the surrender of an enemy battle line at sea.

Description Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Britain, France and Russia divided the globe in the nineteenth century, but Japan was catching up. Its army and navy were retrained by Western powers and equipped with the latest weapons and ships. Japan wanted to further emulate its European mentors and establish a protectorate over Korea, yet Japanese efforts were blocked by Imperial Russia who had their own designs on the peninsula. The Russo-Japanese War started with a surprise Japanese naval attack against an anchored enemy fleet still believing itself at peace. It ended with the Battle of Tsushima, the most decisive surface naval battle of the 20th century. This gripping study describes this pivotal battle, and shows how the Japanese victory over Russia led to the development of the dreadnought battleship, and gave rise to an almost mythical belief in Japanese naval invincibility.

About the Author Mark Lardas holds a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but spent his early career at the Johnson Space Center doing Space Shuttle structural analysis and space navigation. An amateur historian and a long-time ship modeler, Mark Lardas is currently working in League City, Texas. He has written extensively about modeling as well as Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 naval, maritime and military history. ISBN: 9781472826831 Peter Dennis was inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn, leading him to study Illustration at Format: Paperback Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK. Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Wings of the Rising Sun Mark Chambers

A fascinating insight into how the Allies learned about the capabilities and limitations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force and Japanese Army Air Force through flight testing and evaluation of enemy equipment.

Sales points • Japanese aircraft technology remains an area of keen interest among World War II enthusiasts and hobbyists. • This volume offers previously unpublished information regarding the flight testing and evaluation of Japanese aircraft during World War II, including some rare, never-before-published photos. • Mark Chambers has considerable experience in writing historical aviation books for numerous publishers including Arcadia Publishing, Specialty Press, The History Press UK, High-Tide Publications, and The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). • He offers a new perspective to Osprey readers, coupled with access to previously untapped historical resources.

Description In the Pacific War's early years, Japanese air power was dominant. The only way for the Allies to defeat their enemy was to know it. This made the task of maintaining productive intelligence gathering efforts on Japan imperative. Establishing Technical Air Intelligence Units in the Pacific Theatre and the Technical Air Intelligence Center in Washington DC, the Allies were able to begin to reveal the secrets of Japanese air power through extensive flight testing and evaluation of captured enemy aircraft and equipment. These provided an illuminating perspective on Japanese aircraft and aerial weapon design philosophy and manufacturing practice. Fully illustrated throughout with a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, Mark Chambers explores Allied efforts to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese air power during the war years, and how this intelligence helped them achieve victory in the Pacific.

About the Author Mark Chambers is an avid World War II aviation enthusiast and aviation history author. He has studied World War II military aviation extensively, with a keen focus on the air war in the Pacific. He is the author of Images of Aviation Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 Flight Research at NASA Langley Research Center (2007), Images of Aviation Naval Air Station Patuxent River (2014), ISBN: 9781472823731 Building the Supermarine Spitfire Speed in the Skies (2016), Engineering Test Pilot The Exceptional Career of John Format: Hard Cover P. Jack Reeder (2007) and From Research to Relevance Significant Achievements in Aeronautical Research at Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages NASA Langley, 1917 2002 (2002). He works as a government contractor technical editor for the NASA Langley Bic1: Military history Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Run to the Sound of the Guns Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar

The US Army Rangers have been at the tip of the spear during America's War on Terror in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the very personal experience of an Army Ranger during America's longest war.

Sales points • This is the inside story of an elite special operations soldier on the front lines of today's wars. Few books detail the odyssey of war of a special operations soldier as he rises from private to senior non-commissioned officer. • It will provide never-before-published first-hand accounts of special operations missions, including several famous ones, from the perspective of a US Army Ranger with 13 combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq from 2002 to 2013. • Run to the Sound of the Guns will complement war books and films such as The Hurt Locker (2008), Lone Survivor (2013) and American Sniper (2014) by showing us a more complete picture of the story.

Description From frozen mountaintops to dusty city streets and everything in between, Run to the Sound of the Guns is a compelling and deeply personal account of a husband and father who nearly lost his life 'leading the way' in America's secretive global wars. Nicholas Moore served as part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the Global War on Terrorism. He served for over a decade with the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. In Iraq, Nicholas participated in the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, hunted Iraq's Most Wanted and experienced brutal street combat, including 160 night-time missions over one 90-day deployment in the insurgent stronghold of Mosul. While serving in Afghanistan, he was also part of the search and rescue operation for Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell (author of Lone Survivor), and was on the ground again when a Chinook helicopter was shot down resulting in the death of 38 men and one military working dog. It was the single greatest loss of special operations personnel to date.

About the Author Nicholas Moore was born in 1981 in Newton, Kansas. Nicholas and his twin brother Neil enlisted during the summer of Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 1998. They attended airborne school and the Ranger Indoctrination Program before being assigned to the 2nd Ranger ISBN: 9781472827067 Battalion. Nicholas deployed 13 times to Afghanistan and Iraq. His awards include the Purple Heart, two Bronze Stars Format: Hard Cover and the Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device. Nicholas was featured in Peter Berg's Live to Tell documentary Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages series for the History Channel regarding the Marcus Luttrell rescue. Bic1: Special & elite forces Mir Bahmanyar served in the 2nd Ranger Battalion. He was on the Board of Directors of the 75th Ranger Regiment Bic2: Association and created SuaSponte.com A History of American Rangers. Mir has authored nine non-fiction books and co- Illustrations: wrote and produced the award-winning motion picture Soldier of God. He lives in Toronto, Canada. Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 The Sterling Submachine Gun Matthew Moss

This fully illustrated study explores the colourful history of the Sterling, the accurate and reliable submachine gun that equipped British and other forces in a host of conflicts across the globe during the Cold War era.

Sales points • The Sterling submachine gun has seen widespread combat, from its debut to today's war zones, used by military and law-enforcement personnel from more than 50 countries. • The weapon is familiar to many as the blaster that armed Stormtroopers in the Stars Wars films. • Sterlings are fixtures in a number of museums, including IWM London, the Royal Armouries, and the National Army Museum.

Description Designed by a motorcycle racer turned small-arms engineer, George Patchett, the submachine gun that eventually became known as the Sterling was developed during World War II. Some suggest it first saw action during Operation Infatuate with No. 4 Commando, before becoming fully adopted by the British Army in 1953 as the Sterling Machine Carbine (L2A1). It was centre stage for many of Britain's post-colonial conflicts from Malaya to Kenya and from Yemen to Northern Ireland. The silenced L34A1 Sterling-Patchett entered service in 1966 and first saw action deep in the jungles of Vietnam in the hands of the elite special forces of Australia, New Zealand and the United States during prisoner snatches and reconnaissance patrols. Employing first-hand accounts and painstaking technical analysis, this engaging account features carefully selected archive photography and specially commissioned colour artwork depicting the submachine gun that armed British and other forces for nearly 60 years.

About the Author Matthew Moss runs the website Historical Firearms and has contributed to a number of print and online publications including magazines such as History of War and Classic Arms & Militaria. This is his first book. He lives in Lancashire, Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 UK. ISBN: 9781472828088 Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical Format: Paperback reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, the Ancient Greeks, Roman battle Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages tactics, several 19th-century American subjects, the modern Chinese Army, and a number of books in the Fortress series. Bic1: Military history His work features in exhibitions and publications throughout the world. Bic2: Born in Malaya in 1949, Alan Gilliland spent 18 years as the graphics editor of the Daily Telegraph, winning 19 awards in Illustrations: that time. He now writes, illustrates and publishes fiction (www.ravensquill.com), as well as illustrating for a variety of Previous Titles: Author now living: publishers (alangillilandillustration.blogspot.com).

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Heroes of Telemark David Greentree

Fought by tough Norwegian skiers and survivalists, this book describes the famous World War II Commando raids that sabotaged a German nuclear facility in the freezing depths of Norway, ensuring Nazi Germany could not produce an atomic bomb.

Sales points • One of the greatest and most important raids of the war - which the German commander in Norway von Falkenshorst called the finest coup I have seen in this war'. • With the Norwegians fighting not only against the occupying Germans but also the extreme conditions of winter in the Norwegian wilderness, this is both a story of military achievement and survival against the odds. • This raid was made famous by the classic war film The Heroes of Telemark (1965) and more recently by the Ray Mears documentary The Real Heroes of Telemark (2003). • The Osprey members on the website and enthusiasts on social media have been clamouring for the return of the RAID series.

Description In May 1941, the Norwegian Section of SOE received a dossier warning of the dangers of a hydroelectric fertiliser plant in Norway. Vemork produced heavy water, an essential part of making plutonium for nuclear weapons. When the Germans overran Norway the entire stock had been smuggled out of the country, but the plant was intact and soon producing heavy water again, destined for the German nuclear programme. Despite the difficulties of getting to and operating in such a remote, hostile area, SOE decided it had to destroy the plant. Six ski-borne commandos had the task of slipping past 300 heavily armed guards and passing through a ravine the Germans thought impassable. Fully illustrated with stunning new commissioned artwork, this is the thrilling story of the daring Norwegian-led SOE raid that prevented Hitler from building an atomic bomb.

About the Author Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 David Greentree graduated in History at York before taking an MA in War Studies from King's College London and ISBN: 9781472827678 qualifying as a lecturer in Further Education. In 1995 he accepted a commission in the Royal Air Force and has served in Format: Paperback a variety of locations, including Afghanistan and Oman. He has written several books for Osprey, focusing on British Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages military history and World War II. He lives in Southsea, UK. Bic1: Military history Mark Stacey was born in Manchester in 1964 and has been a freelance illustrator since 1987. He has a lifelong interest in Bic2: all periods of history, particularly military history, and has specialized in this area throughout his career. He now lives and Illustrations: Previous Titles: works in Cornwall, UK. Author now living: Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied Illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Mutina 43 BC Nic Fields

In the aftermath of Julius Caesar's assassination, Octavian and the forces of the late Republic battled Mark Antony in the battles of Forum Gallorum and Mutina in 43 BC.

Sales points • In the confused environment following the assassination of Caesar, the struggle for power in Rome broke out into a Civil war of which Mutina was the most important battle. • This book features some of the best known and most colourful characters of the Late Republic and early Imperial period, including Mark Antony and Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus). • Roman history has been perennially popular across the Osprey list, with recent titles in the Campaign series (CAM 303 Lake Trasimnee 217 BC and CAM 299 Zama 202 BC) and Weapon series (WPN 55 The Pilum and WPN 51 The Gladius) being particularly well received.

Description In the aftermath of the murder of Gaius Julius Caesar, his self-declared successor Mark Antony struggled to hold together his legacy. Following an abortive coup attempt by Caesar's adopted son Octavian, two of Antony's legions declared for him, leading to a renewed outbreak of civil war. Antony moved into northern Italy and invaded the city of Mutina, which was held by Decimus Brutus. There they were quickly sandwiched between the city walls on one side and the newly arrived Senate-backed forces of Octavian on the other. These two heirs of Caesar then fought to claim their former mentor's legacy. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork and maps, this is the full story of the battles which would see Octavian move from being a young, inexperienced aristocrat to the dominating figure of Augustus.

About the Author Dr Nic Fields started his career as a biochemist before joining the Royal Marines. Having left the military, he went back to university and completed a BA and PhD in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle. He was Assistant Director at the British School at Athens, Greece, and then a lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Nic is now a Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 freelance author and researcher based in south-west France. ISBN: 9781472831200 Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Format: Paperback Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and model maker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK. Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank James Kinnear, Stephen Sewell

A highly illustrated study of the T-54 Main Batle Tank and variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years fo the Cold War

Sales points • Written using primary source material appearing in English for the first time, detailing many unheard of variants. • The book will contain 130 contemporary and modern photographs, making it the ideal reference guide for modellers and wargamers. • This is a good time for fans of Soviet and Russian armour as not only is more and more information becoming available, for the first time new model kits of these tank are also reaching the market in injection moulded styrene.

Description Probably one of the most iconic symbols of Soviet military power during the early years of the Cold War was the silhouette of the T-54 tank prowling down streets of foreign capitals under Soviet sway or roaring across fields in massive exercises. Its sleek and unmistakable shape was a warning to any nation that wanted to stand against the Soviet empire. But when the truth was known and while it was a technological marvel of its day and a breakthrough in armoured vehicle design it was essentially the perfect tank to fight the Great Patriotic War (World War II) and not as advanced as it seemed from its appearances. Fitted with monolithic homogenous armor, it was vulnerable to both the developing high explosive anti-tank warheads on newly developed anti-tank guided missiles as well as the other major development used by the NATO armies, armor piercing discarding sabot projectiles made of hard, dense core materials. When their tanks began to clash with the Western armoured vehicles in proxy wars in Southeast Asia and the Middle East they were found to be on the losing end of many of the battles. The tank was due to the work of a number of brilliant Soviet designers such as F. F. Petrov who created its lightweight and powerful 100mm gun and I.Ya. Trashutin, the designer of the V-2 series of diesel engines; however, the concept of the vehicle was from the mind of one man: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Morozov. One of the three principle designers of the legendary T-34 tank, Morozov was motivated by the fact that that tank was actually the brainchild of Mikhail Koshkin and wanted to put his own stamp on the Soviet tank industry with a unique creation. While he achieved this with the T-54 Price: AU $49.99 NZ $52.99 series of tanks, it was not enough; later he would go on to create the even more revolutionary T-64 series tanks. The T-54 ISBN: 9781472833303 series was produced in both the USSR and abroad with major runs of T-54 tanks coming from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Format: Hard Cover and the Peoples Republic of China, as well as the later T-55 redesign of the vehicle from Nizhniy Tagil and follow-on Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 232 pages Chinese designs. This book will only address the Soviet-built tanks and their derivatives such as the ZSU-57, SU-122-54, Bic1: Military history BTS retrievers and MTU bridge launchers. Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Stephen L. Cookie Sewell was born in New York State and is a retired US Army Chief Warrant Officer and Department of the Army intelligence analyst. He was trained in Vietnamese and Russian languages and has been an active Russian linguist since 1974. He was also an enthusiastic scale modeller since the age of 5 and has built numerous models of armoured vehicles, specializing in Russian, Soviet and American tanks and armoured vehicles. He was the Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Roman Heavy Cavalry (1) Raffaele D'Amato, Negin Evgenevich

The history of the armoured heavy cavalry that was absorbed into Roman service from the steppe peoples they defeated in the 2nd Century AD, and that came to provide half Rome's cavalry during the Late Empire.

Sales points • Raffaele D'Amato's books on the Ancient World for Osprey have sold well, and Roman warfare is a popular topic for wargamers and re-enactors. • Contains full-colour reconstructions and illustrations of heavily armoured cavalry in the Roman age. These have been well-sourced using the latest research. • Explains how the defeated enemies that were recruited into Roman service came to dominate the battlefield on Rome's eastern frontiers.

Description From the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century BC, Roman generals hired Oriental heavy armoured cavalry to serve in their military alongside the legions. These troops, both from the northern steppes and the Persian frontiers, continued an ancient tradition of using heavy armour and long lances, and fought in a compact formation for maximum shock effect. They were quite distinct from conventional Roman light cavalry, and they served across the Empire, including in Britain. They became ever more important during the 3rd century wars against Parthia, both to counter their cavalry and to form a mobile strategic reserve. Displaying these impressive and imposing cavalry units using vivid specially commissioned artwork, this first book in a two part series on Roman Heavy Cavalry examines their use over the Imperial period up to the fall of Western Empire in the 5th century A.D.

About the Author Dr Raffaele D'Amato is an experienced Turin-based researcher of the ancient and medieval military worlds. After achieving his first PhD in Romano-Byzantine Law, and having collaborated with the University of Athens, he gained a second doctorate in Roman military archaeology. He currently works in Istanbul at the Fatih University as visiting Price: AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Professor for the TUBITAK (Turkish Government Research Institution) on a project linked to the arms and armour of ISBN: 9781472830043 Rome and Byzantium. Format: Paperback Andrey Negin was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and graduated from Nizhny Novgorod State University, which was Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages named after N.I. Lobachevsky (Russian Federation). There, he was candidate of historical sciences (PhD), and a member Bic1: Military history of the department of history of the Ancient World and Classical Languages. His current area of study is ancient Roman Bic2: armour, specifically researching Roman parade and ceremonial armour. All of these themes are reflected in his Illustrations: publications on the pages of Russian and foreign archaeological publications, including the monographs: 'The Roman Previous Titles: Author now living: legions in battle' (co-author A.V. Mahlayuk) and 'Roman ceremonial and tournament armament'.

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 Bolt Action: Campaign: Battle of France Warlord Games

A book of scenarios and special rules for the Battle of France, sure to appeal to all fans of Bolt Action who want a new challenge.

Sales points • A Campaign Book for Bolt Action, adding new rules, scenarios and troop types to the game, for wargamers who want to focus on the Battle of France. • The definitive guide to the Battle of France for Bolt Action players. • Bolt Action has proven extremely popular, and this title continues the range beyond the basic Army Books and the broad-stroke Theatre Books.

Description The Battle of France saw German forces sweep across the Low Countries and France, crushing Allied resistance in just six weeks. From Fall Gelb and the British withdrawal from Dunkirk to the decisive Fall Rot, this new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to take command of the bitter fighting for France, and to refight key battles in an effort to alter their historical outcomes. New, linked scenarios, rules, troop types and Theatre Selectors provide plenty of options for novice and veteran players alike.

About the Author Warlord Games is one of the world's leading producers of wargaming miniatures, as well as the publisher of the successful Black Powder and Hail Caesar rule sets. Their Bolt Action range of 28mm World War II miniatures is the most extensive on the market and continues to grow and develop. Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied Illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9781472828804 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey Games DECEMBER 2018 Peter Pan Goes Wrong Henry Lewis, Henry Shields and Jonathan Sayer

Following on from the success of The Play that Goes Wrong, award-winning theatre creators Theatre Mischief present Peter Pan Goes Wrong, a farcical twist of J.M. Barrie's classic tale.

Sales points • This farcical adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic will delight audiences everywhere and, with its large cast, is an ideal performance piece for any theatre company • Following the major success of The Play That Goes Wrong, this hilarious take on J.M. Barrie's classic is bound to delight audiences everywhere

Description Tonight Neverland is fleshed out with plenty of plant life, certainly bettering 2011's production of Jack and the Bean- Cactus. So, with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan! The inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J. M. Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan, their most audacious production to date. Flying' Pyrotechnics' Sharp hooks' What ensues is two acts of hysterical disaster. You'll laugh, they'll cry. Something so wrong has never been so right. From the mischievous minds of the West End and Edinburgh hit The Play That Goes Wrong comes this highly original, chaos-filled re-telling of J.M. Barrie's much-loved classic. Peter Pan Goes Wrong received its world premiere at the Pleasance Theatre, London, on 10 December 2013 and transferred to the West End on 4 December 2015. This edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer.

About the Author Mischief Theatre is a comedy theatre company based in London, first formed in 2008 by a group of graduates and students of The London Academy of Music & Art. Since first forming the company has created and presented a number of productions across the UK and in Europe. The company is led by Artistic Director Henry Lewis and Company Director Jonathan Sayer.

Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781474291651 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 197x129mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Methuen Drama DECEMBER 2018 The White Devil John Webster, edited by Benedict S. Robinson

A major new edition of Webster's dark and morally complex tragedy.

Sales points • A major new edition of a key Revenge Tragedy • Comprehensive introduction gives a critical and performance history of the play • Gives a wealth of contextual information invaluable to students and teachers

Description Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt political world, the play explores the relations of the powerful to the disempowered; the opportunities and constraints of women trying to survive in a male-dominated society; the complex distribution of social hierarchy by birth, wealth, gender, race; and the way the skills licensed by the theatre itself including disguise and both the performance and interpretation of character become crucial survival skills, in a world of hidden motives and concealed intentions. Now comprehensively re-edited, with an introduction that addresses issues of performance, cultural and historical context, and interpretation, exploring the dark energy that has impelled audiences and scholars to return to this play again and again across four centuries.

Arden Early Modern Drama editions offer the best in contemporary scholarship, providing a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary and guiding the reader to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the play.

This edition provides: A clear and authoritative text Detailed on-page commentary notes A comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts A bibliography of references and further reading

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ARDEN EARLY MODERN DRAMA ISBN: 9781904271741 General Editors: Suzanne Gossett, John Jowett and Gordon McMullan Format: Paperback Visit the Arden website at www.ardenshakespeare.com Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 344 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts About the Author Bic2: Benedict S. Robinson is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, USA Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Arden Shakespeare DECEMBER 2018 Photographing Tutankhamun Christina Riggs

Undertakes the first critical analysis of the photographic archive formed during the ten-year clearance of the tomb, to explore the interface between photography and archaeology at a pivotal time for both.

Sales points • A topic with vast and timely popular appeal: 2022 is the centenary of the tomb's discovery • Appeals to a range of academic disciplines, including archaeology, Egyptology, visual anthropology, photography, history and historiography • By the author of the Unwrapping Ancient Egypt and the Oxford VSI on Ancient Egyptian Art

Description They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a solid gold coffin still draped with flowers cut more than 3,300 years ago. Yet until now, no study has explored the ways in which photography helped mythologize the tomb of Tutankhamun, nor the role photography played in shaping archaeological methods and interpretations, both in and beyond the field. This book undertakes the first critical analysis of the photographic archive formed during the ten-year clearance of the tomb, and in doing so explores the interface between photography and archaeology at a pivotal time for both. Photographing Tutankhamun foregrounds photography as a material, technical, and social process in early 20th-century archaeology, in order to question how the photograph made and remade ancient Egypt' in the waning age of colonial order.

About the Author Christina Riggs is a historian of archaeology, photography, and ancient Egyptian art. She is professor of the history of art and archaeology at the University of East Anglia and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Her books include Unwrapping Ancient Egypt (Bloomsbury 2014) and Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2014). Price: AU $43.99 NZ $48.99 ISBN: 9781350038516 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Photographs: collections Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2018 Creative Ecologies Helene Frichot

Combining architecture and philosophy to examine how contemporary architecture is theorized and practiced at its limits

Sales points • The focus is on an area of growing interest within architecture: Other ways of doing architecture ', or radical, creative practices which challenge conventional assumptions about how architecture is producedThe book will appeal in particular to those engaged in the growing tendency towards 'design-based research' architecture programmes at Masters and Doctoral levels in which design practice is used to explore theoretical positionsTackles the productive yet difficult connection between contemporary philosophy and contemporary architectural practiceThe author is as well- known among philosophers (for her work on Deleuze) as she is among architectsConnects a number of key theories: the Anthropocene, affect theory, new materialism, and contemporary feminism

Description Architect and philosopher Helene Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects to iconic buildings and big-name architects she instead explores the background of architectural practice, to introduce the creative ecologies in which architecture exists only in relation to other objects and ideas. Consisting of a series of philosophical encounters with architectural practice that are neither neatly located in one domain nor the other, this book is concerned with other ways of doing architecture '. It examines architecture at the limits where it is muddied by alternative disciplinary influences whether art practice, philosophy or literature. Frichot meets a range of creative characters who work at the peripheries, and who challenge the central assumptions of the discipline, showing that there is no core of architecture ' there is rather architecture as a multiplicity of diverse concerns in engagement with local environments and worlds.From an author well- known in the disciplines of architecture and philosophy for her scholarship on Deleuze, this is a radical, accessible, and highly-original approach to design research, deftly engaging with an array of current topics from the Anthropocene to affect theory, new materialism contemporary feminism.

Price: AU $47.99 NZ $52.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781350042087 Helene Frichot is Associate Professor and Docent in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH School of Architecture, Format: Paperback Stockholm, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Architecture Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts DECEMBER 2018 Designing for Society Nynke Tromp and Paul Hekkert

Hands-on support for designers specialising in pro-social behaviour.

Sales points • First textbook to focus on social design • Author team combines university teaching and professional design expertise • Wide range of international examples and case studies

Description Our globalised world is encountering problems on an unprecedented scale. Many of the issues we face as societies extend beyond the borders of our nations. Phenomena such as terrorism, climate change, immigration, cybercrime and poverty can no longer be understood without considering the complex socio-technical systems that support our way of living. It is widely acknowledged that to contend with any of the pressing issues of our time, we have to substantially adapt our lifestyles. To adequately counteract the problems of our time, we need interventions that help us actually adopt the behaviours that lead us toward a more sustainable and ethically just future.

In Designing for Society, Paul Hekkert and Nynke Tromp provide a hands-on tool for design professionals and students who wish to use design to counteract social issues. Viewing the artefact as a unique means of facilitating behavioural change to realise social impact, this book goes beyond the current trend of applying design thinking to enhancing public services, and beyond the idea of the designer as a facilitator of localised social change.

About the Author Nynke Tromp is a design researcher at the department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and is a member of the social design consultancy, KVD Reframing, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Prof. Paul Hekkert is professor of form theory, and head of the Industrial Design department at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands where he also chairs the design aesthetics group.

Price: AU $43.99 NZ $48.99 ISBN: 9781472567987 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Product design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts DECEMBER 2018 The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) Matthew Wright

The first study to bring together the latest research into the lost works of ancient Greek tragedy; volume 1 discusses lesser known playwrights whereas this volume 2 looks at Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

Sales points • The eagerly awaited second volume in this two-part study of lost Greek tragedy • The first book to offer a comprehensive guide to the lost tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, written by a specialist in the study of fragmentary drama • Includes a guide to further reading, a list of all known works by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, a glossary and a chronology

Description The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating.

In this, the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre, Matthew Wright offers an authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three best-known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.)

What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence' How can we develop strategies or methodologies for reading' lost plays' Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view' Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors or of Greek tragedy as a whole if a different selection of plays had survived' This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time. Price: AU $39.99 NZ $43.99 ISBN: 9781474276474 About the Author Format: Paperback Matthew Wright is Professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on Greek tragedy and Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages comedy, including The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Bic1: Comedian as Critic (Bloomsbury, 2012). Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy Edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens

Examines classical receptions in science fiction and fantasy through the notion of displacement,' covering a wide range of modern works, media, and genres.

Sales points • The first collection of essays dedicated to the concept of displacement' in classical receptions in science fiction and fantasy • Final chapter by Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times bestselling author and winner of literary prizes including the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror, and the James Tiptree Jr. Award • Science fiction and fantasy are considered across literature, film, TV, comics and videogames • A thematic focus on displacement' deepens theoretical sophistication of reception studies • Includes fantasy writers such as Philip Pullman, Gene Wolfe and Diana Wynne Jones and science-fiction writers such as Jack McDevitt and Dan Simmons • TV and film such as Continuum, Dr Who, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away and The Rocky Horror Picture Show • Games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer

Description In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, displacing' them from their original settings in time and space, in points of origins and genre and encouraging readers to consider similar displacements' in the modern world. Modern examples from a wide range of media and genres including Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and the novels of Helen Oyeyemi, the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, and the role-playing games Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer 40K are brought alongside episodes from ancient myth, important moments from history, and more.

All together, these multifaceted studies add to our understanding of how science fiction and fantasy form important areas of classical reception, not only transmitting but also transmuting images of antiquity. The volume concludes with an inspiring personal reflection from the New York Times-bestselling author of speculative fiction, Catherynne M. Valente, Price: AU $43.99 NZ $48.99 offering her perspective on the limitless potential of the classical world to resonate with experience today. ISBN: 9781350074880 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Brett M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Puget Sound, USA. Bic1: Literature: history & criticism Bic2: Benjamin Eldon Stevens is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Trinity University, USA. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Reimagining Childhood Studies Edited by Spyros Spyrou, Rachel Rosen and Daniel Thomas Cook

Reimagines the study of children and their childhoods from contemporary global and interdisciplinary perspectives, inciting debate and providing a forum for dialogue.

Sales points • Reimagines the study of children and their childhoods from contemporary global and interdisciplinary perspectives • Rethinks the conceptual and empirical content and boundaries of childhood studies • Brings together the critical theoretical thinking of a number of scholars who are at the forefront of reimagining childhood studies as a field which is crucial at this point in its theoretical and methodological development

Description Reimagining Childhood Studies incites, and provides a forum for, dialogue and debate about the direction and impetus for critical and global approaches to social-cultural studies of children and their childhoods. Set against the backdrop of a quarter century of research and theorising arising out of the new social studies of childhood, each of the 13 original contributions strives to extend the conceptual reach and relevance of the work being undertaken in the dynamic and expanding field of childhood studies in the 21st century. Internationally renowned contributors engage with contemporary scholarship from both the global north and south to address questions of power, inequity, reflexivity, subjectivities and representation from poststructuralist, posthumanist, postcolonial, feminist, queer studies and political economy perspectives. In so doing, the book provides a deconstructive and reconstructive dialogue, offering a renewed agenda for future scholarship. The book also moves the insights of childhood studies beyond the boundaries of this field, helping to mainstream insights about children's everyday lives from this burgeoning area of study and avoid the dangers of marginalizing both children and scholarship about childhood. This carefully curated collection extends beyond critiques of specified research arenas, traditions, concepts or approaches to serve as a bridge in the transformation of childhood studies at this important juncture in its history.

About the Author Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus, Cyprus. He is also the Price: AU $53.99 NZ $59.99 founder of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. ISBN: 9781350019218 Format: Paperback Rachel Rosen is Associate Professor in Childhood at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Sociology & anthropology Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor and founding faculty of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University Camden, USA. He is Bic2: co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Regionalism and Modern Europe Edited by Xose M. Nunez Seixas and Eric Storm

A far-reaching exploration of political and cultural regionalism in Europe as it developed over the long 20th century.

Sales points • With the referenda in Scotland and Catalonia and the conflict in Ukraine, this is a timely and original historical survey of regionalism right across Europe • Utilizes the expert contributions of top scholars from the USA, the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Bulgaria • Covers the key historiography, regionalism under fascism, communism and democracy and important themes like language, tourism, folklore and the impact of tourism • There are 20 images, 10 maps, a detailed bibliography and valuable reading lists at the end of each chapter

Description Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present.

A wide range of internationally renowned scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe are brought together here in one volume to examine the historical roots of the current regional movements, and to explain why some of them - Scotland, Catalonia and Flanders, among others evolve into nationalist movements and even strive for independence, while others Brittany, Bavaria do not. They look at how regional identities - through regional folklore, language, crafts, dishes, beverages and tourist attractions - were constructed during the 20th century and explore the relationship between national and subnational identities, as well as regional and local identities. The book also includes 7 images, 7 maps and useful end-of-chapter further reading lists.

This is a crucial text for anyone keen to know more about the history of the topical and at times controversial subject of Price: AU $53.99 NZ $59.99 regionalism in modern Europe. ISBN: 9781474275194 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Xose M. N nez Seixas is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He Bic1: European history has published widely on the comparative history of nationalist movements and national and regional identities. He has co- Bic2: edited, along with Javier Moreno, Metaphors of Spain: Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Illustrations: Century (2017). Previous Titles: Author now living: Eric Storm is Senior Lecturer in European History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1939 (2010). He is also the co-editor, along with Joost Augusteijn, of Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Separatism (2012). BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel Stephen Ross

Charts the story of how the post-war British novel has responded to changing youth cultures, from the Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to the heroin chic of Trainspotting.

Sales points • A vivid and readable chronicle of how post-1945 British fiction reflected changing British youth cultures, from the Angry Young Men to heroin chic • Novels covered include Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Doyle's The Commitments and Welsh's Trainspotting • Brings together cultural history and literary close reading to introduce students and readers to the contexts of these widely studied novels

Description From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of Cool Britannia, the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers.

In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores:

e The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners e The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning e Skinheads and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange e Irony and authenticity in the 1980s from Amis to Kureishi e Heroin chic, disaffection and Trainspotting

Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on Price: AU $47.99 NZ $52.99 British writing today. ISBN: 9781350067851 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Stephen Ross is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Past-President of the Modernist Studies Bic1: Literary studies: from c 1900 - Association (2015/16), General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Online and co-editor (with Derek Bic2: Ryan) of The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (Bloomsbury, 2018). Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Critical Creative Writing Edited by Janelle Adsit

Brings together 30 essential works of craft-criticism for students and teachers of creative writing.

Sales points • The first anthology of critical works on the key debates in creative writing • Includes writers and critics such as Zadie Smith, Leslie Marmon Silko, Claudia Rankine, Toni Morrison and Jonathan Franzen • Includes sample questions, writing prompts and a has a companion website

Description Bringing together 25 essential works of creative writing criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the key debates in creative writing today, from the ethics of appropriation to the politics of literary evaluation. Critical Creative Writing covers such topics as:

e Craft & Politics e Language & Community e Identity & Authorship e Representation & Counternarrative e Appropriation & Intertextuality e Evaluation & Genre The book anthologizes critical essays written by international literary writers. Each essay is contextualized with an introduction as well as sample questions, writing prompts and suggested readings. The book also has a companion website (www.criticalcreativewriting.org) offering supplemental materials such as lesson plans and course materials.

Includes writings by: Ayana Mathis, Leslie Marmon Silko, Craig Santos Perez, Natasha Saje, Porochista Khakpour, Taiye Selasi, Michael Nardone, Conchitina Cruz, Benjamin Paloff, Dorothy Wang, and many more.

Price: AU $56.99 NZ $62.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781350023321 Janelle Adsit is Assistant Professor of English at Humboldt State University, USA. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Creative writing & creative writing guides Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Modern Records, Maverick Methods Samantha Bennett

Examines a critical period in music recording and production technologies from the late 1970s through the 2000s.

Sales points • Features brand-new insights on music recording and production technologies and processes during a classic yet understudied era in popular music history • Includes exclusive interview material with world-renowned producers and engineers • Offers a new analytical methodology for the study of popular music recordings

Description From the Fairlight CMI through MIDI to the digital audio workstations at the turn of the millennium, Modern Records, Maverick Methods examines a critical period in commercial popular music record production: the transformative digital age from the late 1970s until 2000. Drawing on a discography of more than 300 recordings across pop, rock, hip hop, dance and alternative musics from artists such as the Beastie Boys, Madonna, U2 and Fatboy Slim, and extensive and exclusive ethnographic work with many world-renowned recordists, Modern Records presents a fresh and insightful new perspective on one of the most significant eras in commercial music record production. The book traces the development of significant music technologies through the 1980s and 1990s, revealing how changing attitudes and innovative techniques of recording personnel reimagined recording processes and, finally, exemplifies the impact of these technologies and techniques via six comprehensive tech-processual analyses. This meticulously researched and timely book reveals the complexity of recordists' responses to a technological landscape in flux.

About the Author Samantha Bennett is Associate Professor of Music at the Australian National University. She is the author of Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (2018), part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, and co-editor of Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound (2018) and Popular Music, Stars and Stardom (2018). Her journal articles are published Price: AU $48.99 NZ $53.99 in Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, The Journal of Popular Music Studies and IASPM@journal. ISBN: 9781501344091 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US DECEMBER 2018 Humming Suk-Jun Kim

From a gentle and soothing voice that is personal and intimate to hums that are mystical, impersonal and maddening, this book provides an anthropology of the concept of humming through the discipline of sound studies.

Sales points • The first book in sound studies, and potentially in any other cognate fields, to explore humming as a sonic concept • Interdisciplinary approach showcases how humming as a sonic concept can bring cross-cultural and trans-historical conceptions and practices from diverse sources into discussion • Introduces Humming Project, a multi-year, ongoing public sound art project the author has been conducting since 2009 that will promote students to combine theoretical research and artistic practice in sound studies

Description Humming is a ubiquitous and mundane act many of us perform. The fact that we often hum to ourselves, to family members, or to close friends suggests that humming is a personal, intimate act. It can also be a powerful way in which people open up to others and share collective memories. In religious settings such as Tibetan chanting, humming offers a mesmerising sonic experience. Then there are hums that resound regardless of human activity, such as the hums of impersonal objects and man-made or natural phenomena. The first sound studies book to explores the topic of humming, Humming offers a unique examination of the polarising categories of hums, from hums that are performed only to oneself, that are exercised in religious practice, that claim healing, and that resonate with our bodies, to hums that can drive people to madness, that emanate from cities and towns, and that resound in the universe. By acknowledging the quirkiness of hums within the established discourse in sound studies, Humming takes a truly interdisciplinary view on this familiar yet less-trodden sonic concept in sound studies.

About the Author Suk-Jun Kim is Lecturer in Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art and Programme Director of MMus in Sonic Arts at the Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 University of Aberdeen, UK. ISBN: 9781501324611 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Theory of music & musicology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US DECEMBER 2018 The Sea David Farrell Krell

A creative philosophical exploration on one of the most beguiling of natural phenomenon by a leading American philosopher

Sales points • The author, David Farrell Krell, is one of the most respected living continental philosophers in the USA • Explorations of particular objects and/or phenomena has become incredibly popular within philosophy and theory more generally • The sea is the subject of a wealth of great works of art, philosophy, mythology, literature and poetry

Description Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately began. Yet the sea is also dark and mysterious and often spells catastrophe and death. The sea is a set of contradictions: kind, cruel, indifferent. She is a blind will that will have her way'. In exploring this most capricious of phenomena, David Farell Krell engages the work of an array of thinkers and writers including, but not limited to, Homer, Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, many Greek gods, Hulderlin, Melville, Woolf, Whitman, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schelling, Ferenczi, Rank and Freud. The Sea explores the significance in Western civilization of the catastrophic and generative power of the sea and explores what humankind's complex relationship with a certain phenomenon reveals about the human condition, human consciousness, temporality, striving, anxiety, happiness and mortality.

About the Author David Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, and Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Brown University, Providence, USA. He is the translator of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche and was the editor of Heidegger's Basic Writings (1977).

Price: AU $43.99 NZ $48.99 ISBN: 9781350080539 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: History of Western philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Debt and Guilt Elettra Stimilli, translated by Stefania Porcelli

The first English Translation of Eletra Stimilli's 'Debito e Colpa', a timely and lively exploration of the relationship between economic debt and guilt focusing on the stultifying effects of the Western 'austerity agenda'.

Sales points • The issue of debt and how it impacts our everyday lives is incredibly timely • Elettra Stimilli is an up and coming Italian philosopher whose first book has been translated into English by SUNY Press. She is frequently cited alongside the big Italian names like Roberto Esposito. • A timely addition to Bloomsbury's growing collection of translations by Italian philosophers, a blossoming are in contemporary critical thought.

Description The issue of debt and how it effects are lives is becoming more and more urgent. The 'Austerity' model has been the prevalent European economic policies of recent years led by the 'German model'. Elletra Stimilli draws upon contemporary philosophy, psychology and theology to argue that austerity is built on the idea that we somehow deserve to be published and need to experience guilt in order to take full account of our economic sins. Following thinkers such as Max Weber, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, Debt and Guilt provides a startling examination of the relationship between contemporary politics and economics and how we structure our inner lives. The first English translation of Debito e Colpa, this book will provoke new ways of thinking about how we experience both debt and guilt in contemporary society.

About the Author Elettra Stimilli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Jacob Taubes (2004) and The Debt of the Living (2017) and the editor of Italian Critical Thought (2018). Stefania Porcelli is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, CUNY, USA

Price: AU $38.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9781350063433 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Social & political philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Skepticism Edited by Diego Machuca and Baron Reed

The first in-depth survey of the entire history of skepticism, covering ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern and contemporary periods.

Sales points • Provides the first comprehensive, historical and systematic resource on skepticism • Features expert commentary by leading philosophers, indicating future directions of study • Explores key thinkers and themes, offering an unparalleled historical comprehension of a core philosophical subject

Description Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind. By exploring each of the distinct traditions and providing expert insights, this extensive reference work: - Covers major thinkers such as Sextus Empiricus, Cicero, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein. - Acknowledges the influence of ancient skeptical traditions on later philosophy and explains why it is still a fertile topic of inquiry among today's philosophers and historians of philosophy. - Analyzes various forms of skepticism including Pyrrhonian, Academic, religious, moral, and neo-Pyrrhonian. - Addresses issues in contemporary epistemology and indicates new directions of study. Skepticism, a driving force in the history of philosophy, remains at the center of debates in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an essential point of reference for any student, researcher, or practitioner of philosophy, presenting a systematic and historical survey of this core philosophical topic.

About the Author Diego Machuca is Associate Researcher in Philosophy at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientaficas y Tecnicas, Argentina. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism and Series Editor of Brill Price: AU $66.99 NZ $73.99 Studies in Skepticism. ISBN: 9781350097131 Baron Reed is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 768 pages Bic1: History: theory & methods Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity John Peter Kenney

An introduction to the early appeal of Christianity and monotheism via the life and thought of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

Sales points • Uses Augustine to explain the central ideas that brought Christianity into the vanguard of religious thought in late antiquity • A compelling account of the rapid shift of ancient culture to monotheism and Christianity, a momentous shift that defined the subsequent nature of Western religion and thought • Leading Augustinian scholar explains the basic tenets of Augustine's spiritual and philosophical development

Description Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine's importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West. Why did the ancients come to adopt monotheism and Christianity' On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity introduces possible answers to that question by looking closely at the development of the thought of Augustine of Hippo, whose complex spiritual trajectory included Gnosticism, academic skepticism, pagan Platonism, and orthodox Christianity. What was so compelling about Christianity and how did Augustine become convinced that his soul could enter into communion with a transcendent God' The apparently sudden shift of ancient culture to monotheism and Christianity was momentous, defining the subsequent nature of Western religion and thought. John Peter Kenney shows us that Augustine offers an unusually clear vantage point to understand the essential ideas that drove that transition.

About the Author John Peter Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Michael's College, USA. He was previously Professor of Price: AU $41.99 NZ $46.99 Religion and Humanities at Reed College and then Dean of the College at Saint Michael's. He is the author of Mystical ISBN: 9781501313981 Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (1991), The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions Format: Paperback (2005) and Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine (2013). Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 The Religious Studies Skills Book Eugene V. Gallagher and Joanne Maguire

A student's guide to the academic study of religion in higher education, providing guidance and advice on honing the key skills required for the field.

Sales points • Written by two highly experienced and award-winning university teachers • Fills the gap for a religious-studies specific skills-based introduction • Uses primary sources from a variety of world traditions as examples • Uses actual assignments from religion courses to guide students through the kind of work they are expected to do

Description Studying religion in college or university' This book shows you how to perform well on your course tests and examinations, write successful papers, and participate meaningfully in class discussions. You'll learn new skills and also enhance existing ones, which you can put into practice with in-text exercises and assignments.

Written by two award-winning instructors, this book identifies the close reading of texts, material culture, and religious actions as the fundamental skill for the study of religion at undergraduate level. It shows how critical analytical thinking about religious actions and ideas is founded on careful, patient, yet creative reading of religious stories, rituals, objects, and spaces.

The book leads you through the description, analysis, and interpretation of examples from multiple historical periods, cultures, and religious traditions, including primary source material such as Matthew 6:9-13 (the Lord's Prayer), the gohonzon scroll of the Japanese new religion Soka Gakkai, and the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj). It provides you with typical assignments you will encounter in your studies, showing you how you might approach tasks such as reflective, interpretive or summary essays. Further resources, found on the book's website, include bibliographies, and links to useful podcasts.

Price: AU $34.99 NZ $38.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781350033740 Eugene V. Gallagher is Rosemary Park Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at Connecticut College, USA. He has Format: Paperback also written multiple essays about teaching. He is currently Associate Editor of Teaching Theology and Religion. He is a Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Academy of Religion. Bic1: Religion & science Joanne Maguire Robinson is Professor of Religious Studies and Department Chair at the University of North Carolina, Bic2: Charlotte, USA. She is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Academy of Religion. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Encountering the Sacred Edited by Rebecca Todd Peters and Grace Y. Kao

A powerful collection of essays that prompts new conversations about traditional theological categories.

Sales points • Contributions made by leading feminist/womanist scholars • Theological reflection on the ordinary experiences of women • Focuses on highlighting women's experiences that offer feminist theological reflection

Description Many women of faith are interested in having deep conversations with their friends and families about issues they face in their personal lives. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of feminist and theologically progressive materials for these women to turn to for counsel or advice. Simultaneously, there are a growing number of theologically trained biblical scholars, theologians, and ministers who are experiencing similar life challenges, but who are generally discouraged from writing about these experiences in ways that would be accessible to the general public. This book bridges the chasm between Christian laywomen and feminist theologians. For the last fifty years, feminist theologians have sought to reimagine Christian theology in ways that speak to the realities and complexities of women's lives. They have also sought to use women's experience as the starting point for theological reflection in the same way that men's lives have shaped the history of Christian theology for the past 2000 years. In this book, feminist Christian scholars of theology and religion use the tools of their trade to examine powerful personal life experiences and to search for new and empowering ways of understanding the power of the sacred as they have experienced it.

About the Author Rebecca Todd Peters is Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University, USA. Grace Y. Kao is Professor of Ethics at Claremont School of Theology and Co-Director of her school's Center for Sexuality, Gender, and Religion, USA.

Price: AU $38.99 NZ $42.99 ISBN: 9780567683007 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Religion: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

T&T Clark DECEMBER 2018 Space, Time and Resurrection Thomas F. Torrance

In this classic of modern theology T.F. Torrance demonstrates the life affirming and cataclysmic significance of the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ by focusing on the redemptive, life from death, operation of the Historical and Eschatological Jesus.

Sales points • A ground-breaking work of Thomas F. Torrance • An excellent description on how modern physics and geometry provide a more realistic framework not only for understanding space and time but also for understanding Christ's resurrection as an event that transcends notions of space and time

Description In this sequel to Space, Time and Incarnation, Thomas F. Torrance sets out the biblical approach to the Resurrection in terms of the intrinsic significance of the resurrected one, Jesus; and demonstrates that the Resurrection is entirely consistent with who Jesus was and what he did. The Resurrection is thus taken realistically, and treated as of the same nature, in the integration of physical and spiritual existence, as the death of Christ. All this is elucidated in the context of modern scientific thought, in such a way as to show that far from being frightened by modern science into a compromise of the New Testament's message of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in body, it actually allows us to take its full measure. This classic volume from one of the premier English speaking theologian of the 20th century remains an important contribution to the field of systematic theology. For this Cornerstones edition, the preface is written by Paul D. Molnar.

About the Author The Very Revd Thomas F. Torrance was Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Paul D. Molnar is Professor of Systematic Theology at St John's University, NY, USA.

Price: AU $47.99 NZ $52.99 ISBN: 9780567682178 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 212 pages Bic1: Theology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

T&T Clark DECEMBER 2018 The Life and Times of a Very British Man Kamal Ahmed

A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race

Sales points • For readers of Afua Hirsch's Brit(ish), Akala's Natives, David Olusoga's Black and British, Philippe Sands' East West Street and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists • Ahmed has a strong online presence with nearly 85K Twitter followers. As Economics Editor of the BBC he occupies one of the most senior positions in the British establishment • Timed to release with the fiftieth anniversary of Enoch Powell's notorious Rivers of Blood' speech, at a time when immigration has again become a contentious talking point

Description A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race

Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very British' in every way except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised in 1970s London at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road. The Life and Times of a Very British Man makes the case for a new conversation about race in Britain through personal stories, political analysis and passionate belief in the ultimate good of this country white, black and brown. Kamal recounts the extraordinary circumstances that led to his father, a proud Sudanese scientist, marrying his mother, a grammar-school educated woman from Yorkshire and the first white person he had ever met. It was a time when wearing a miniskirt was an act of social rebellion, when niggers' and coloureds' still formed part of the national lexicon and when Enoch Powell's infamous Rivers of Blood' speech cast a shadow over the childhood of a schoolboy in Ealing. Witty and humane, this is a modern state-of-the-nation from a man who adopted the name Neil growing up (it was better than 'camel') and went on to occupy one of the most elite positions in the British establishment. It is also a call to recognise that this very British mix is the foundation for Britain as we know it from Linford Christie taking Olympic gold to Price: AU $39.99 NZ $37.99 the era-defining music of Soul II Soul and a study of why, when we consider the often fractious debate about our identity, ISBN: 9781408889183 there are still great grounds for optimism. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages About the Author Bic1: Cookery / food & drink etc Kamal Ahmed is Economics Editor of the BBC and one of Britain's most respected journalists. He joined the BBC in April Bic2: 2014 as Business Editor after a twenty-year career in newspapers. He has worked for the Guardian, the Observer and the Illustrations: Sunday and Daily Telegraph. He started his career in local newspapers in Scotland and subsequently worked for Previous Titles: Author now living: Scotland on Sunday. He has also served as Group Director of Communications for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and is a board member of the Media Trust. He lives in London. @bbckamal

Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 The New Silk Roads Peter Frankopan

Everything you need to know about the present and future of the world from Sunday Times bestselling author Peter Frankopan

Sales points • The highly anticipated follow-up to the international bestseller The Silk Roads everything you need to know about the state of the world today from a prestigious Professor of Global History • A slender standalone edition, beautifully packaged and perfect for till-side buys, in the vein of recent bestsellers Women and Power: A Manifestoby Mary Beard (122,335 TCM since November 2017) and The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (14,500 TCM since April 2018) • Since publication in 2015, The Silk Roads has sold over 400,000 copies in the UK and nearly one million copies worldwide. This book will appeal to established readers of Peter Frankopan, as well as the general reader and those interested in global current affairs. • The Silk Roads was A Book of the Week for The Times; a Book of the Year pick in the Observer, Guardian, Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement; the History Book of the Year for the Daily Telegraph; and a Non-Fiction Book of the Year for Daunt Books • The astonishing success of the The Silk Roads is a testament to just how many people are interested in learning more about the world

Description Everything you need to know about the present and future of the world from Sunday Times bestselling author Peter Frankopan

All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.'

When The Silk Roads was published in 2015 it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically. ISBN: 9781526607423 Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Format: Hard Cover Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In an age of Brexit and Trump, Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the Western world stand in sharp contrast to what has been Bic1: History happening along the Silk Roads since 2015, where the story has been about deepening ties and trying to work together. Bic2: With brilliant insight, Peter Frankopan takes a fresh look at the network of relationships that are being formed along the Illustrations: length and breadth of the Silk Roads today, assessing the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of Previous Titles: Author now living: power all too often absent from headlines in the west. This important and ultimately hopeful book asks us to re-read who we are and where we are in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihood depend.

Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2018 The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt Ken Krimstein

For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist s page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century.

Sales points • Hannah Arendt is again on the forefront: The spike in sales and attention for Arendt's On the Origins of Totalitarianism (and Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny) speaks to the growing interest in the political theory to which Arendt devoted her life.Well-connected author: A regular cartoonist for the New Yorker and McSweeney s, Krimstein has published his cartoons widely and has fans from David Remnick and Roz Chast to Arendt scholars.#1 NYT Bestselling in-house sales track: THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT is publishing on the heels of Bloomsbur s success with two other non-fiction graphic books: LOGICOMIX (over 88K sold) and CA T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? (more than 187K sold) both of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers.

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About the Author Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in the New Yorker, Punch, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He has written for New York Observer s 'New Yorker's Diary' and has published pieces on websites including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. He is the author of Kvetch as Kvetch Can, and teaches at De Paul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781635571882 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 228x173mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Biography: literary Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2018 Turned On Kate Devlin

An exploration of humans, sexuality, interaction and technology through the lens of the sex robot.

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 making society a better place) and the bad (the potential for all to go wrong). ISBN: 9781472950895 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Kate Devlin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Having begun her Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Robotics career as an archaeologist before moving into computer science, Devlin's research is in the fields of Human Computer Bic2: Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), investigating how people interact with and react to technology, to Illustrations: understand how emerging and future technologies will affect us and the society in which we live. Previous Titles: Author now living: Two years ago, Kate began to explore the particular ways in which sex, gender and sexuality might be incorporated into cognitive systems such as sexual companion robots; having assembled a research team of leading academics to work on this topic, she has become a driving force in the field of artificial sexuality. In short, Kate has become the face of sex robots. She has written articles on the subject for New Scientist and the Guardian, appeared on BBC Radios 1 5, and made a number of TV appearances, along with TEDx talks and numerous other tech and philosophy events, receivingSigma DECEMBER 2018 Democracy Hacked Martin Moore

Motivated actors are exploiting the openness of our democracy to undermine us and we have to stop them before they destroy our system of government

Price: AU $36.99 NZ $38.99 ISBN: 9781786074089 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 Heart Sandeep Jauhar

A doctor's inspiring obsession with the heart

Price: AU $36.99 NZ $38.99 ISBN: 9781786072955 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld DECEMBER 2018 The Great Stain Noel Rae

Expertly assembles the most consequential accounts from the era of the American slave trade

Sales points • Personal stories from a dark chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade • An unflinchingly honest account of the atrocities inflicted by slavery • Deeply researched by an Oxford University honours graduate in historian • Contains contemporary lessons for understanding the impact of slavery as the UK government's taskforce addresses this ongoing issue through the Modern Slavery Act

Description The Great Stain tells the story of American slavery from its origins in Africa to its abolition with the end of the Civil War. In this essential' (Kirkus) new work, Noel Rae integrates first-hand accounts into a narrative history that brings the reader face-to-face with slavery's everyday reality, expertly weaving together narratives that span hundreds of years. From the travel journals of sixteenth-century Spanish settlers who offered religious instruction and protection' in exchange for farm labor, to the diaries of poetess Phillis Wheatley and Reverend Cotton Mather, to Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted's book about traveling through the cotton states,' Rae provides a comprehensive accounting of parties from throughout the antebellum history of the nation. Most significant are the texts from and interviews with former slaves themselves, ranging from the famous Solomon Northup to the virtually unknown Mary Reynolds, sold away from her mother and subsequently bought back because after losing her daughter the family's wet nurse began to waste away from grief. Surpassing a dispassionate listing of atrocities, Rae places the reader within the era. Drawing on thousands of original sources, The Great Stain tells of repression and resistance in a society based on the exploitation of the cheapest labor and fallacies of racial superiority. Meticulously researched, this is a work of history that is profoundly relevant to our world today.

About the Author NOEL RAE is an historian who received an honours degree in history from Oxford University. His books include People's

Price: AU $59.99 NZ $64.99 War: Original Voices of the American Revolution and Witnessing America: the Library of Congress Book of Firsthand ISBN: 9780715653487 Accounts of Life in America, which was #1 on the Washington Post's political bestseller list. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 592 pages Bic1: Slavery & abolition of slavery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Duckworth DECEMBER 2018 Against Creativity Oli Mould

Everything you have been told about creativity is wrong.

About the Author Oli Mould is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work focuses on issues of urban

Price: AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 activism, social theory and creative resistance. He is the author of Urban Subversion and the Creative City (Routledge, ISBN: 9781786636492 2015) and blogs at taCity.co.uk. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Germany's Hidden Crisis Oliver Nachtwey

An excellent study of how neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany.

Sales points • Exploring the social democratic crisis in Germany after the momentous election.

Description One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon.

Price: AU $110.00 NZ $120.00 ISBN: 9781786637147 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Trade DECEMBER 2018 Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland Paul Waring, Martin Townsend

Third edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the larger moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

Sales points • With over 20,000 copies sold of previous editions, this is one of the most popular guides to the larger moths of Britain and Ireland. • New edition thoroughly revised in line with the recently published Checklist to Lepidoptera, bringing it into line with taxonomical thinking in the rest of Europe. • Distribution maps have been added, showing at a glance the occurrence of each species within the British Isles. • Features superb artworks by Richard Lewington, one of Europe's finest wildlife illustrators. • Contribution made to Butterfly Conservation for each copy of the book sold.

Description This latest edition of the Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland has been fully revised, updated and restructured, bringing it in line with the latest thinking in taxonomy. Moths are illustrated in their natural resting postures, and there are also paintings of different forms, underwings and other details to help with identification. New descriptions and illustrations have been included for species that have been newly recorded in Britain and Ireland since the last edition of the guide was published. The text descriptions of all other species covering field characters and similar species, flight season, life cycle, larval foodplants, and habitat have been revised and updated where necessary, and particular attention has been paid to updating the distribution information, which is now supported by maps. The revised general introduction explains how the methods of identifying and recording moths have evolved over recent years with the advent of new technologies and as a result of data analysis.

About the Author 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 Price: AU $69.99 NZ $74.99 moth conservation in Britain, both within government conservation agencies and as a freelancer, as well as mothing ISBN: 9781472964519 throughout the world. Format: Paperback - Demy format Martin Townsend started specialising in Lepidoptera at the age of ten. He graduated with a BSc in Zoology from the Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 464 pages University of Aberdeen in 1985, and since then has worked in ecological research and conservation. He is now an Bic1: Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders independent consultant, carrying out site surveys for conservation bodies and other landowners. Bic2: Richard Lewington studied graphic design at the Berkshire College of Art, and since leaving in 1971 has specialised in Illustrations: natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art. Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 Field Guide to the Micro-Moths of Great Britain and Ireland Phil Sterling, Mark Parsons

This is the most comprehensive field guide to micro-moths ever published

Sales points • Written by a team of moth experts from across the British Isles under the editorship of Phil Sterling • More than 1,100 superbly detailed artworks by Richard Lewington, Europe's leading insect artist, providing the most complete collection of images of adult British micro-moths • Species descriptions include field characters, similar species, flight season, habitat, larval foodplants, status and distribution • General introduction to identifying, studying and finding micro-moths, including field techniques • Series of innovative keys to families and genera • Comprehensive checklist incorporating the latest thinking on taxonomy • Introduction to dissection techniques

Description One of the most eagerly anticipated insect guides for years - This is the most comprehensive field guide to micro-moths ever published in a single volume, and, for the first time, makes this fascinating and important group of insects accessible to the general naturalist. The guide covers 1,033 species, with more than 1,500 superbly detailed artworks and photographs. It also includes 900 specially commissioned maps. Written by a team of moth experts under the editorship of Phil Sterling, it provides coverage of all the micro-moth families found in Great Britain and Ireland, including the Channel Islands. Species descriptions include field characters, similar species, flight season, habitat, larval foodplants, status and distribution. The general introduction covers identifying, studying and finding micro-moths, including field techniques, and there is also a series of innovative keys to families and genera, as well as a comprehensive checklist incorporating the latest thinking on taxonomy.

About the Author Phil Sterling began his interest in moths before starting school, and developed his passion for micro-moths as a teenager.

Price: AU $39.99 NZ $42.99 He holds the degree of MA (Oxon) in Zoology and his DPhil (Oxon) was on the ecology and biological control of the ISBN: 9781472964526 Brown-tail Moth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and a member of the British Entomological and Format: Paperback Natural History Society and British Ecological Society. He has worked in nature conservation research and practice for 30 Dimensions: 0x0mm years and is currently the lead ecological advisor for Dorset County Council. He has written and contributed to many Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Insects (entomology) publications, mainly on British micro-moths. Bic2: Mark Parsons was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, and started recording moths in the long hot summer of 1976. He has a Illustrations: BSc in Biology, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and is a member of the British Entomological and Natural Previous Titles: Author now living: History Society and the Societas Europae Lepidopterologica. He has worked as an entomologist for the Nature Conservancy Council and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, as well as a lepidopterist at the Natural History Museum, London. Currently based in Dorset, he has worked for Butterfly Conservation since 1999 overseeing their moth conservation efforts. He has produced many notes and articles in entomological journals, and authored or co-authored many papers and other publications on Lepidoptera and Lepidoptera conservation. BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife Peter Holden, Geoffrey Abbott

This updated edition of a hugely popular RSPB handbook provides a comprehensive, single source of information on the plants and animals that live alongside us.

Sales points • The updated edition includes almost 400 garden species, each illustrated a new colour photograph to make identification easy. • A helpful introductory section offers suggestions on how to be a greener gardener, how to deal with garden predators, how to involve children in gardening and how to plant for the seasons. • A 'DIY in the Garden' section includes practical advice and clear diagrams illustrating how to make a pond or bog garden, and how to build bird tables, a bug hotel, and nest, bat or hedgehog boxes. • A friendly, informative resource suited to all gardeners and perfect for RSPB members who have taken the RSPB's Homes for Nature campaign to heart.

Description This friendly handbook is full of practical advice on attracting wildlife to your garden, and encouraging creatures to stick around, as well as expert tips on green gardening, seasonal planting and garden predators. Colour photographs illustrate hundreds of mammals, birds, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, flowers, trees, shrubs and fungi, while the comprehensive text explains everything you need to cultivate a haven for nature. The new edition includes additional species as well as fully updated text describing the diverse wildlife that can be found in British gardens. Finally, a DIY chapter is packed with projects for your garden, from building bat boxes to digging your own pond.

About the Author Peter Holden is the author of the bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds. He held senior positions at the RSPB for over 30 years and is the author of several books. Geoffrey Abbott formerly worked for the RSPB. He now lectures part- time for the Field Studies Council. He is responsible for the book's plants and insects sections. Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 ISBN: 9781472964618 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Wildlife: general interest Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 Field Guide to the Ladybirds of Great Britain and Ireland Helen Roy, Peter Brown

A beautifully illustrated guide to all the ladybirds of the British Isles

Sales points • Covers all species in Britain: conspicuous and inconspicuous, as well as larvae and pupae of conspicuous species • Illustrated by Richard Lewington, one of Europe's leading natural history artists • A valuable aid for the UK Ladybird Survey (which is led by the authors) • Includes more than 130 superbly detailed colour artworks, 102 colour photographs and 47 distribution maps, an illustrated at-a-glance guide, and helpful pointers for differentiating similar-looking species • Useful introduction provides an overview of ladybird ecology, tips on studying and recording, and suggested sites for finding ladybirds

Description 'A ground-breaking identification guide ... the perfect marriage of artistic excellence, deep knowledge and, dare I say it, of scientists' genuine affection.' BRETT WESTWOOD This brand new illustrated field guide covers all 47 species of ladybird occurring in the British Isles in a handy and easy- to-use format. Twenty-seven species are colourful and conspicuous and easily recognised as ladybirds; the remaining species are more challenging, but the clear illustrations and up-to-date text in this guide will help to break down the identification barriers. A useful introduction provides an overview of ladybird ecology, tips on studying and recording, and suggested sites for finding ladybirds. The main part of the book comprises detailed species texts, covering field characters, food, habitats, suggested survey methods, ranges, conservation statuses and distribution trends. An illustrated at-a-glance identification guide and helpful pointers for differentiating similar-looking species are also included. With 102 colour photographs and 47 distribution maps, combined with Richard Lewington's peerless artwork, this is the definitive guide to one of our most cherished and charismatic insect groups.

About the Author

Price: AU $69.99 NZ $74.99 Professor Helen Roy combined research with teaching for 10 years before taking up a research position with the ISBN: 9781472935687 Biological Records Centre, where she works extensively with national zoological schemes and societies. Her research Format: Paperback - Demy format focuses on the effects of environmental change on insect populations and communities, and she is particularly interested Dimensions: 0x0mm in the dynamics of invasive species and their effects on native biodiversity. Ladybird ecology has much public appeal, and Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders Helen has taken every opportunity to communicate her research to a wide audience; this has included natural history Bic2: talks, school visits, 'bioblitz', popular science articles, podcasts and interviews with the media. Illustrations: Dr Peter Brown is an ecologist and senior lecturer in zoology at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, where he has Previous Titles: Author now living: worked since 2010 following the completion of his PhD. His research focuses on three main areas: ladybirds, non-native species and citizen science. Peter has been studying ladybirds since 2005 and jointly leads the UK Ladybird Survey with Helen. This is a long-running project that has generated over 200,000 records of 47 UK ladybird species, contributed by members of the public. Richard Lewington is regarded as being one of Europe's finest wildlife illustrators. He studiedBLM graphic Natural design at theHistory DECEMBER 2018 Field Guide to the Ladybirds of Britain and Ireland Helen Roy and Peter Brown

A beautifully illustrated guide to all the ladybirds of Britain and Ireland

Sales points • Covers all species in Britain: conspicuous and inconspicuous, as well as larvae of conspicuous species • Illustrated by Richard Lewington, one of Europe's leading natural history artists • A valuable aid for the UK Ladybird Survey (which is led by the authors)

Description This brand new illustrated field guide covers all 47 species of ladybird occurring in Britain and Ireland in a handy and easy-to-use format. Twenty-six species are colourful and conspicuous and easily recognised as ladybirds; the remaining species are more challenging, but the clear illustrations and up-to-date text in this guide will help to break down the identification barriers. Each species account includes a description of field characters, similar species, life-cycle, food source, habitat and distribution. The guide also coves natural enemies and community interactions, as well as potential new arrivals. Combined with Richard Lewington's peerless artwork, this is a book to treasure.

About the Author Professor Helen Roy combined research with teaching for 10 years before taking up a research position with the Biological Records Centre, where she works extensively with national zoological schemes and societies. Her research focuses on the effects of environmental change on insect populations and communities, and she is particularly interested in the dynamics of invasive species and their effects on native biodiversity. Ladybird ecology has much public appeal, and Helen has taken every opportunity to communicate her research to a wide audience; this has included natural history talks, school visits, 'bioblitz', popular science articles, podcasts and interviews with the media. Dr Peter Brown is an ecologist and senior lecturer in zoology at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, where he has worked since 2010 following the completion of his PhD. His research focuses on three main areas: ladybirds, non-native species and citizen science. Peter has been studying ladybirds since 2005 and jointly leads the UK Ladybird Survey with Helen. This is a long-running project that has generated over 200,000 records of 47 UK ladybird species, contributed by

Price: AU $89.99 NZ $94.99 members of the public. ISBN: 9781472935670 Richard Lewington is regarded as being one of Europe's finest wildlife illustrators. He studied graphic design at the Format: Hard Cover Berkshire College of Art and, since leaving in 1971, has specialised in natural-history illustration. His meticulous paintings Dimensions: 0x0mm of insects and other wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, including The Butterflies of Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders Britain and Ireland, Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, Guide to Garden Wildlife and Field Guide to the Bic2: Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for several countries. In 1999 he Illustrations: was awarded Butterfly Conservation's Marsh Award for the promotion of Lepidoptera conservation, and in 2010 the Previous Titles: Author now living: Zoological Society of London's Stamford Raffles Award for contribution to zoology.

BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 A History of St. John's, Brighton Simon Smith

A beautifully illustrated potted history of St.John's College, Brighton.

Sales points • The perfect gift for anyone who has attended the College, or knows someone who has, or for family historians looking to find out more about where their ancestors were taught. • A great book for those interested in Brighton's history. • This book forms a valuable new addition to the educational establishments that have joined forces with Shire's Custom Publishing branch, such as Thetford Grammar School, Magdalen College School and Never to Return: Brighton College's Fallen 1914-18.

Description Over its 143-year history, St. John's has been a remarkable and enduring part of Brighton's educational landscape.This book charts the way in which Sister Jane Borradaile, its tireless and resourceful foundress, raised money to build a home for the care of less-fortunate children in Victorian England. They were predominantly victims of deprivation in the East End, who went to St. John's to convalesce. Also taken in were orphan girls who were trained for domestic service. The home adapted itself to the needs of a different world in 1957 by becoming a residential school for children with special needs. It has since extended its site and its age range to become a nationally acknowledged centre for those aged five to 25 with autism and other related conditions. The story of St. John's is interspersed with many contemporary photographs and with personal accounts from young people who went there to convalesce in the middle of the last century. Feature articles help to place it in the context of the wider world. The book makes clear that the level of care extended to young people has remained constant throughout the 100 years since the death of Sister Jane.

About the Author Simon Smith has lived in Brighton for 40 years and is currently Chairman of the Kemp Town Society. Educated at Dauntsey's School, King's College, London, and Worcester College, Oxford, he taught English at Brighton College for many years and was latterly Second Master. Since then he has undertaken educational consultancy work, helping to set

Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 up Free Schools, in particular London Academy of Excellence in Newham, the first Sixth Form Free School, where he is a ISBN: 9781784423476 governor. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Educational: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey DECEMBER 2018 RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds Stuart Housden and Peter Holden

This definitive handbook of Scottish birds covers the 252 most common Scottish species in detailed text, complemented by 1000 illustrations and fully updated distributed maps for each.

Sales points • A compact and inexpensive reference covering every Scottish bird species • Second edition now includes Gaelic names for every species and every distribution map has been updated • 16,000 copies of the 1st edition sold (as of June 2015) • Co-written by Stuart Housden OBE, the Director of RSPB Scotland, and Peter Holden MBE, the author of our bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds • Over 1000 superb full-colour illustrations illustrating all major plumages • RSPB-branded • Practical format and a fully integrated design for easy reference in the field

Description The RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds is the ideal reference for keen birdwatchers and visitors to Scotland alike, and this fully updated second edition is richer and more comprehensive than ever. Over 250 species are covered in detail with each account including information on identification, voice, habits, habitat, food, breeding, ecology, seasonal movements, population and conservation. More than 1,000 superb colour illustrations by some of the world's leading bird artists are integrated into the text for easy reference. This second edition features newly added Gaelic names, updated distribution maps, and also incorporates the latest information on the conservation status of each species. - Concise text offers a 'biography' of each species in simple, non-technical language - Practical, easy-to-use format - Updated distribution maps show resident species, summer and winter visitors, and passage migrants

About the Author Peter Holden worked for the RSPB for more than 30 years and is the author of several books including the bestselling Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 RSPB Handbook of British Birds and the RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife. Stuart Housden is the Director of RSPB ISBN: 9781472965189 Scotland. Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Natural History DECEMBER 2018 The White Devil John Webster, edited by Benedict S. Robinson

A major new edition of Webster's dark and morally complex tragedy.

Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 ARDEN EARLY MODERN DRAMA ISBN: 9781408130032 General Editors: Suzanne Gossett, John Jowett and Gordon McMullan Format: Hard Cover Visit the Arden website at www.ardenshakespeare.com Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 344 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts About the Author Bic2: Benedict S. Robinson is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, USA Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Arden Shakespeare DECEMBER 2018 Photographing Tutankhamun Christina Riggs

About the Author Christina Riggs is a historian of archaeology, photography, and ancient Egyptian art. She is professor of the history of art and archaeology at the University of East Anglia and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Her books include Unwrapping Ancient Egypt (Bloomsbury 2014) and Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2014). Price: AU $170.00 NZ $187.00 ISBN: 9781350038523 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Photographs: collections Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2018 Creative Ecologies Helene Frichot

Combining architecture and philosophy to examine how contemporary architecture is theorized and practiced at its limits

Sales points • The focus is on an area of growing interest within architecture: Other ways of doing architecture', or radical, creative practices which challenge conventional assumptions about how architecture is produced • The book will appeal in particular to those engaged in the growing tendency towards 'design-based research' architecture programmes at Masters and Doctoral levels in which design practice is used to explore theoretical positions • Tackles the productive yet difficult connection between contemporary philosophy and contemporary architectural practice • The author is as well-known among philosophers (for her work on Deleuze) as she is among architects • Connects a number of key theories: the Anthropocene, affect theory, new materialism, and contemporary feminism

Description Architect and philosopher Helene Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects to iconic buildings and big-name architects she instead explores the background of architectural practice, to introduce the creative ecologies in which architecture exists only in relation to other objects and ideas. Consisting of a series of philosophical encounters with architectural practice that are neither neatly located in one domain nor the other, this book is concerned with other ways of doing architecture'. It examines architecture at the limits where it is muddied by alternative disciplinary influences whether art practice, philosophy or literature. Frichot meets a range of creative characters who work at the peripheries, and who challenge the central assumptions of the discipline, showing that there is no core of architecture' there is rather architecture as a multiplicity of diverse concerns in engagement with local environments and worlds. From an author well-known in the disciplines of architecture and philosophy for her scholarship on Deleuze, this is a Price: AU $180.00 NZ $198.00 radical, accessible, and highly-original approach to design research, deftly engaging with an array of current topics from ISBN: 9781350036567 the Anthropocene to affect theory, new materialism contemporary feminism. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages About the Author Bic1: Architecture Helene Frichot is Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm Sweden. Her Bic2: research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy, while her first discipline is architecture, Illustrations: she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004). Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts DECEMBER 2018 Designing for Society Nynke Tromp and Paul Hekkert

Hands-on support for designers specialising in pro-social behaviour.

Sales points • First textbook to focus on social design • Author team combines university teaching and professional design expertise • Wide range of international examples and case studies

Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 ISBN: 9781472568687 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Product design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Visual Arts DECEMBER 2018 The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2) Matthew Wright

What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence' How can we develop strategies or methodologies for reading' lost plays' Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view' Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors or of Greek tragedy as a whole if a different selection of plays had survived' This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time. Price: AU $130.00 NZ $143.00 ISBN: 9781474276467 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Matthew Wright is Professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on Greek tragedy and Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages comedy, including The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Bic1: Comedian as Critic (Bloomsbury, 2012). Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy Edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens

Examines classical receptions in science fiction and fantasy through the notion of displacement,' covering a wide range of modern works, media, and genres.

All together, these multifaceted studies add to our understanding of how science fiction and fantasy form important areas of classical reception, not only transmitting but also transmuting images of antiquity. The volume concludes with an inspiring personal reflection from the New York Times-bestselling author of speculative fiction, Catherynne M. Valente, Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 offering her perspective on the limitless potential of the classical world to resonate with experience today. ISBN: 9781350068940 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Brett M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Puget Sound, USA. Bic1: Literature: history & criticism Bic2: Benjamin Eldon Stevens is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Trinity University, USA. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Reimagining Childhood Studies Edited by Spyros Spyrou, Rachel Rosen and Daniel Thomas Cook

Reimagines the study of children and their childhoods from contemporary global and interdisciplinary perspectives, inciting debate and providing a forum for dialogue.

About the Author Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus, Cyprus. He is also the Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 founder of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. ISBN: 9781350019225 Format: Hard Cover Rachel Rosen is Associate Professor in Childhood at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Sociology & anthropology Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor and founding faculty of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University Camden, USA. He is Bic2: co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Regionalism and Modern Europe Edited by Xose M. Nunez Seixas and Eric Storm

A far-reaching exploration of political and cultural regionalism in Europe as it developed over the long 20th century.

This is a crucial text for anyone keen to know more about the history of the topical and at times controversial subject of Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 regionalism in modern Europe. ISBN: 9781474275200 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Xose M. N nez Seixas is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He Bic1: European history has published widely on the comparative history of nationalist movements and national and regional identities. He has co- Bic2: edited, along with Javier Moreno, Metaphors of Spain: Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Illustrations: Century (2017). Previous Titles: Author now living: Eric Storm is Senior Lecturer in European History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1939 (2010). He is also the co-editor, along with Joost Augusteijn, of Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Separatism (2012). BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel Stephen Ross

Charts the story of how the post-war British novel has responded to changing youth cultures, from the Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to the heroin chic of Trainspotting.

In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores:

Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 British writing today. ISBN: 9781350067868 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Stephen Ross is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Past-President of the Modernist Studies Bic1: Literary studies: from c 1900 - Association (2015/16), General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Online and co-editor (with Derek Bic2: Ryan) of The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (Bloomsbury, 2018). Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Critical Creative Writing Edited by Janelle Adsit

Brings together 30 essential works of craft-criticism for students and teachers of creative writing.

Price: AU $160.00 NZ $176.00 About the Author ISBN: 9781350023338 Janelle Adsit is Assistant Professor of English at Humboldt State University, USA. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Creative writing & creative writing guides Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Modern Records, Maverick Methods Samantha Bennett

Examines a critical period in music recording and production technologies from the late 1970s through the 2000s.

About the Author Samantha Bennett is Associate Professor of Music at the Australian National University. She is the author of Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (2018), part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, and co-editor of Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound (2018) and Popular Music, Stars and Stardom (2018). Her journal articles are published Price: AU $195.00 NZ $215.00 in Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, The Journal of Popular Music Studies and IASPM@journal. ISBN: 9781501344107 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US DECEMBER 2018 Humming Suk-Jun Kim

About the Author Suk-Jun Kim is Lecturer in Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art and Programme Director of MMus in Sonic Arts at the Price: AU $89.99 NZ $98.99 University of Aberdeen, UK. ISBN: 9781501324604 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Theory of music & musicology Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Acad US DECEMBER 2018 The Sea David Farrell Krell

A creative philosophical exploration on one of the most beguiling of natural phenomenon by a leading American philosopher

Price: AU $140.00 NZ $154.00 ISBN: 9781350076716 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: History of Western philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Debt and Guilt Elettra Stimilli, translated by Stefania Porcelli

Price: AU $120.00 NZ $132.00 ISBN: 9781350063426 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Social & political philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present Edited by Diego Machuca and Baron Reed

The first in-depth survey of the entire history of skepticism, covering ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern and contemporary periods.

Description Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind. By exploring each of the distinct traditions and providing expert insights, this extensive reference work: - covers major thinkers such as Sextus Empiricus, Cicero, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein. - acknowledges the influence of ancient skeptical traditions on later philosophy and explains why it is still a fertile topic of inquiry among today's philosophers and historians of philosophy. - analyzes various forms of skepticism including Pyrrhonian, Academic, religious, moral, and neo-Pyrrhonian. - addresses issues in contemporary epistemology and indicates new directions of study. Skepticism, a driving force in the history of philosophy, remains at the center of debates in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an essential point of reference for any student, researcher, or practitioner of philosophy, presenting a systematic and historical survey of this core philosophical topic.

About the Author Diego Machuca is Associate Researcher in Philosophy at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientaficas y Tecnicas, Argentina. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism and Series Editor of Brill Price: AU $280.00 NZ $308.00 Studies in Skepticism. ISBN: 9781472507716 Baron Reed is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 560 pages Bic1: History: theory & methods Bic2: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity John Peter Kenney

An introduction to the early appeal of Christianity and monotheism via the life and thought of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

About the Author John Peter Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Michael's College, USA. He was previously Professor of Price: AU $130.00 NZ $143.00 Religion and Humanities at Reed College and then Dean of the College at Saint Michael's. He is the author of Mystical ISBN: 9781501313998 Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (1991), The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions Format: Hard Cover (2005) and Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine (2013). Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 The Religious Studies Skills Book Eugene V. Gallagher and Joanne Maguire

A student's guide to the academic study of religion in higher education, providing guidance and advice on honing the key skills required for the field.

Price: AU $100.00 NZ $110.00 About the Author ISBN: 9781350033733 Eugene V. Gallagher is Rosemary Park Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at Connecticut College, USA. He has Format: Hard Cover also written multiple essays about teaching. He is currently Associate Editor of Teaching Theology and Religion. He is a Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Academy of Religion. Bic1: Religion & science Joanne Maguire Robinson is Professor of Religious Studies and Department Chair at the University of North Carolina, Bic2: Charlotte, USA. She is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Academy of Religion. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Academic UK DECEMBER 2018 Encountering the Sacred Edited by Rebecca Todd Peters and Grace Y. Kao

A powerful collection of essays that prompts new conversations about traditional theological categories.

Price: AU $120.00 NZ $132.00 ISBN: 9780567683014 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Religion: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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