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Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 ‘A story of love, loss and loyalty. We all loved this brilliant book.’ Prof. Kate Williams, Chair of Judges, Women’s Prize 2019 on An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

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‘Strange, violent and wickedly funny.’ Guardian on Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

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There’s something for everyone in our new crop of literary fiction titles. We’re delighted to bring you two novels that have wowed this year’s Booker judges. Diane Cook’s longlisted debut novel, The New Wilderness, is a prescient, passionate story about parental love pushed to the brink, soon to be a Warner Bros. TV series, while Samanta Schweblin’s chilling take on the dark side of our online world, Little Eyes, was longlisted for the Booker International prize.

Family ties take centre stage in the propulsive, freewheeling prose of Mauro Javier Cárdenas’ Aphasia, while in The Wild Laughter we have a taut exploration of patriarchy and betrayal from Irish rising star Caoilinn Hughes. And in Peace Adzo Medie’s hilarious comedy-of-manners set in Ghana, His Only Wife, you will find a sharply realisedCrazy Rich Asians for West Africa – an emotional rollercoaster of family conflict and female empowerment.

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost is a stunning new addition to our translated fiction list, while award-winning Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s English-language debut, The Mountains Sing, is a sweeping, lyrical story of human resilience in the most challenging circumstances. There’s never been a better time to dive into the pages of an immersive novel, and Oneworld’s fiction is the perfect place to start.

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Aphasia Voices of the Lost Mauro Javier Cárdenas Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2019 Hoda Barakat Translated from the Arabic by Prof. Marilyn Booth

Nostalgia and regret collide in this propulsive A powerful tale of war and longing second novel from a daring new literary talent In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six Antonio’s sister is on the run. After threatening to strangers are compelled to share their darkest shoot her neighbours and claiming that Antonio, secrets. Taking pen to paper, each character Obama and the Pentagon are conspiring against attempts to put in writing what they can’t bring her, she’s disappeared. Antonio, however, is doing themselves to say to the person they love – his best to think of anything but his sister or, mother, father, brother, lost love. Their words for that matter, any of his problems, for fear of form a chain of dark confessions, none of which destabilising his precarious middle-class existence. reaches the intended recipient.

Turning his back on his present-day woes, Antonio Profound, troubling and deeply human, Voices of submerges himself in the past, writing about his the Lost tells the moving story of characters living mother’s troubled life in Colombia; his ex-wife’s on the periphery, battling with displacement, idyllic childhood in Europe; the past relationships devastating poverty and the demons within that still haunt him... themselves. From one of today’s most talented Arabic writers, Voices of the Lost is an urgent story of lives intimately woven together in a society This boldly original, luminous novel sparkles with Fiction, Translated Fiction Fiction that is tearing itself apart. January 2021 life as it captures the irresistible pull of the past, February 2021 £14.99 and the immensity of the present moment. It £12.99 192pp 208pp cements Cárdenas’ place as one of today’s most ‘Voices of the Lost…stands out for its condensed Short Royal Hardback economy of language, narrative structure, and Trade Paperback with Flaps ISBN: 9780861540099 innovative, daring literary voices. ISBN: 9781786077226 eISBN: 9780861540105 capacity to convey the inner workings of human eISBN: 9781786077233 Territories: UK/BC ex Can ‘Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s Aphasia batters at beings.’ Charafdine Majdouline, Chair of Judges, Territories: UK/BC ex Can the limits of guilt, of masculinity, of love and International Prize for Arabic Fiction promiscuity.’ Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark

‘Original, richly felt, deftly written.’ Kirkus

Mauro Javier Cárdenas was born and brought up in Guayaquil, Ecuador and studied Economics at Stanford University. He is the author of The Hoda Barakat was born in Beirut and moved to Paris with her family Revolutionaries Try Again (2016). He was awarded the 2016 Joseph in 1989. She has published five novels, which have received numerous Henry Jackson Prize and in 2017 was included in the Hay Festival prestigious prize nominations. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Man anthology Bogotá39 (Oneworld), a selection of the best young Latin Booker International Prize (at the time awarded in recognition of an © Victoria Smith American novelists working today. author’s body of work).

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Little Eyes The Edge Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, 2020 Jamie Collinson Samanta Schweblin Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell How do you stay high, when endless gratification has lost its sheen? A visionary novel about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted ‘Collinson’s gimlet eye is keen and unrelenting. The Edgeis master of the spine-tingling tale a scathing portrait of the music industry, and a love letter to Los Angeles... Modern and mordant.’ They’ve infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Janelle Brown, author of Watch Me Disappear Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, bedrooms in Indiana. They’re not pets, they’re not robots: they’re ‘Insightful and true, The Edge is the real deal.’ real people. But how can a person living in Berlin Alan Parks, author of Bloody January walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without you knowing? Especially when these Fiction | February 2021 | B Format Paperback | £8.99/US $15.95/CAN $21.95 | 352pp people are completely anonymous, unknown, ISBN: 9781786078407 | eISBN: 9781786076915 | Territories: World untraceable.

The characters in Samanta Schweblin’s wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here Fiction, Translated Fiction beauty of connection between far-flung souls – but Frances Macken February 2021 they also expose the ugly truth of our increasingly £8.99 linked society. Schweblin has created a dark and 256pp A captivating, dark portrayal of youth, friendship, and the B Format Paperback complex world that is both familiar but also ISBN: 9781786078612 strangely unsettling, because it’s our present and fine line that separates admiration from envy eISBN: 9781786077936 we’re living it – we just don’t know it yet. Territories: UK/BC ex Can ‘A debut bursting with heart.’ Irish Independent ‘Ingenious.’ Guardian ‘Looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but ‘Masterfully uneasy reading.’ Daily Telegraph it’s cleverer, darker, more unreliable.’ Daily Mail

‘A slim volume as expansive and ambitious ‘A fresh, clever look at the intricacies and jealousies of female as an epic.’ New York Times friendship. This debut reads like a modern, mysterious version of Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls.’ Irish Examiner Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. Fiction | March 2021 | B Format Paperback | £8.99/US $16.95/CAN $22.95 | 288pp © Alejandra López Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin. ISBN: 9781786078605 | eISBN: 9781786077677 | Territories: World

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His Only Wife The New Wilderness Peace Adzo Medie Longlisted for the Booker Prize, 2020 Diane Cook

‘A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa.’ Kirkus A passionate, tender and terrifying story of a mother’s fight to protect her daughter Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly Even Afi doesn’t believe her future holds much wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the pollution excitement. Until one day she is offered a life- of the overpopulated metropolis they call home. changing opportunity – a proposal of marriage Bea knows that there is only one alternative: from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man The Wilderness State. Mankind has never been she barely knows. She agrees, but soon realizes allowed to venture into this vast expanse of that Elikem is not quite the catch he seemed… untamed land. Until now. As she balances the often conflicting roles of wife, daughter, niece and sister-in-law, Afi starts to Bea and Agnes agree to take part in a radical question whether she has made the right choice. experiment. They must slowly learn how to live in the unpredictable, often dangerous Wilderness, Bursting with warmth and humour, His Only Wife leaving no trace on their surroundings in their is an unforgettable debut about the search for quest to survive. But as Agnes embraces this new independence, and the rules that might be broken existence, Bea realises that saving her daughter’s life might mean losing her in ways she hadn’t Fiction along the way. Fiction April 2021/TPB: January 2021 foreseen. June 2021 HB: £14.99/TPB: £12.99 ‘A hilarious, page-turning, sharply realized portrait £8.99 416pp 288pp of modern womanhood in the most infuriating of Extraordinary and urgent, The New Wilderness Royal Hardback is at once a blazing lament of our contempt B Format Paperback Export Trade Paperback circumstances. A gem of a debut.’ ISBN: 9780861540013 for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of ISBN: HB: 9780861540693 Wayétu Moore, author of She Would Be King eISBN: 9781786078223 TPB: 9780861540723 motherhood. Territories: UK/BC ex Can eISBN: 9780861540709 ‘Afi’s charm makes her an empowering example of Territories: UK/BC ex Can, ‘Brutal and beautiful in equal measure.’ ex South Africa modern womanhood… Its message bold and its viewpoint appealing, His Only Wife is an inspiring Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven novel.’ Foreword Reviews ‘Wonderfully imagined and written.’ Booker Judges

Diane Cook is a novelist and short story writer. Her collection, Man V. Peace Adzo Medie is a Ghanaian writer and Senior Lecturer in Gender Nature (Oneworld, 2015), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book and International Politics at the University of Bristol. She holds a PhD Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. Her stories have appeared in in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh Harper’s, Tin House and Granta. The New Wilderness is her debut novel. © Sylvernus Darku, © Sylvernus Darku, BlackStudios Image Team and a BA in Geography from the University of Ghana. She lives in Brooklyn. Just © Jorge

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The Wild Laughter The Mountains Sing Caoilinn Hughes Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

An exhilarating, anarchic look at contemporary An enveloping, multi-generational story, set Ireland, from one of the country’s most exciting against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War, literary voices perfect for fans of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing It’s 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation Hà Nội, 1972. Hương and her grandmother, in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black are ầ ệ waking up to a very different Ireland – one that Tr n Di u Lan, cling to one another in their widens the chasm between them and brings their improvised shelter as American bombs fall. Her beloved father to his knees. Facing a devastating parents have already left to fight in a war that is tearing not just her country but her family apart. choice that risks their livelihood, if not their lives, ầ ệ their biggest danger comes when there is nothing For Tr n Di u Lan, forced to flee the family to lose. farm with her six children decades earlier as the Communist government rose to power in the A sharp snapshot of a family and a nation North, this experience is horribly familiar. Seen suddenly unmoored, this epic-in-miniature through the eyes of these two unforgettable explores cowardice and sacrifice, faith rewarded women, The Mountains Sing captures their and abandoned, the stories we tell ourselves and defiance and determination, hope and unexpected joy. Fiction the ones we resist. Hilarious, poignant and utterly Fiction May 2021 fresh, The Wild Laughter cements Caoilinn Hughes’ ễ June 2021 July 2021 (US) position as one of Ireland’s most audacious, Celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguy n’s richly £8.99 352pp £8.99/US $16.00/CAN $22.00 nuanced and insightful young writers. lyrical debut weaves between the lives of 208pp grandmother and granddaughter to tell the story B Format Paperback B Format Paperback ISBN: 9780861540136 of a people pushed to breaking point, and a family ISBN: 9781786078599 ‘Powerful...darkly adventurous... An Irish Cain and eISBN: 9781786079237 eISBN: 9781786077820 Abel.’ Guardian who refuse to give in. Territories: UK/BC ex Can, Territories: World English ex Vietnam ‘An exhilarating and moving story of an Ireland in ‘Both vast in scope and intimate in its telling.’ disarray.’ Irish Times Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer ‘A book of wicked intelligence and tender heart.’ Max Porter, author of Lanny ‘A luminous tale.’ O, the Oprah Magazine

Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp (Oneworld, 2018), Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai was born in Việt Nam. She is the author of which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was shortlisted for the Hearst eight books of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese. Her Big Book Awards. Her work has appeared in Granta, Tin House and writing has won numerous awards and been translated and published elsewhere. She has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington. She in more than ten countries. She currently divides her time between lives in the Netherlands. Indonesia and Việt Nam. Anh © V ũ Th ị Vân

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We Know It When We See It What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think Richard Masland

NON-FICTION More than meets the eye – the science of how we see and the secrets it reveals about how the brain works The Covid-19 pandemic irrevocably altered the way we see the world. But the injustices it laid bare were centuries Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science’s great in the making. At Oneworld, our books delve deep into the big mysteries. questions of the moment. Vision is involved in nearly a third of everything a brain does and explaining how it works reveals Can we come to terms with our past? In a piercing memoir, more than just how we see. It also tells us how the The Colour of God, Ayesha S. Chaudhry forges her own path as brain processes information – how it perceives, a Muslim woman, refusing to accept the fundamentalism of her learns and remembers.

family or the racism of Western society. In Loot, Barnaby Phillips In We Know It When We See It, pioneering tells the story of how Britain took the Benin Bronzes and razed neuroscientist Richard Masland covers everything an ancient empire to the ground. from what happens when light hits your retina, to the increasingly sophisticated nerve nets that Popular Science turn that light into knowledge, to what a computer January 2021 How can we know the truth when the powerful lie? Jane algorithm must be able to do before it can truly be £16.99 called ‘intelligent’. It is a profound yet accessible 320pp Rogoyska reveals how the USSR concertedly lied about the Demy Hardback investigation into how our bodies make sense of Katyń massacre for decades – and how the Allies turned a blind ISBN: 9781786078162 the world. eISBN: 9781786078179 eye. As the Berlin Wall fell, 100,000 Stasi spies were determined Territories: UK/BC ex Can to erase their past – Ralph Hope tracks down those ‘grey men’.

In a stirring plea for ecological sanity, Prix Renaudot winner Sylvain Tesson traces the footfalls of the elusive snow leopard.

Richard Masland was the David Glendenning Cogan Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. He made groundbreaking contributions to the study of neural networks and to the reversal of blindness. He died peacefully of cancer in December 2019. Olivella© Anna

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Ending Hunger America in Retreat The Quest to Feed the World without Destroying It The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19 Anthony Warner Michael Pembroke

Is worldwide famine just around the corner? And In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the do I really have to go vegan? United States was unrivalled. Its leading role in founding the United Nations and creating the Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. rules-based international order demonstrated Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. true leadership. But it almost immediately began Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing breaking those rules. Seventy-five years later, US with almonds, or quinoa, or a hundred other foods. influence is diminished. The world has now entered But is it really incumbent on us as individuals to a post-American era, argues Michael Pembroke, resolve this looming global catastrophe? defined by a flourishing Asia and the ascendancy of China, as much as by the decline of the United From plastic packaging to soil depletion to States. flatulent cows, we are bombarded with information about the perils of our food system. Drawing This book is a short history of that decline; how on years of experience within the food industry, high standards and treasured principles were Anthony Warner invites us to reconsider what we ignored; how idealism was replaced by hubris and think we know. In Ending Hunger, he uncovers moral compromise; and how adherence to the rule the parallels between eating locally and 1930s of law became selective. It is also a look into the fascism, promotes the potential for good in genetic future – a future dominated by greater Asia and by Food & Society modification and dispels the assumption that Current Affairs/History January 2021 China in particular. February 2021 £16.99 UK/$27.00 US population growth is at the heart of our planetary £20 352pp woes. Praise for Korea – Where the American Century 336pp Short Royal Hardback Royal Octavo ISBN: 9781786079268 Began: ISBN: 9781786079879 eISBN: 9781786079275 eISBN: 9781786079886 Territories: World English ‘Perceptive and compelling, often heart-rending, Territories: World English ex ANZ sometimes downright terrifying …’ Noam Chomsky

‘… beautifully written … the phrase “as gripping as a thriller” really applies: once I’d started reading I could not stop, literally so.’ A. C. Grayling

Anthony Warner is a professional chef and author of The Angry Chef, Michael Pembroke was educated at the Universities of Sydney and a Guardian Best Food Book of the Year. He was asked on Moral Maze Cambridge and was a Director’s Visitor in 2017 at the Institute for if he would eat his dog, and regularly appears on Radio 4. He lives in Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. He is a former New South Wales Lincolnshire, blogs at angry-chef.com. You can follow him Supreme Court judge (2010–20) and is the author of Korea: Where © ImageNorth 2016 © ImageNorth @One_Angry_Chef. the American Century Began (2018).

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The Good State Weirdest Maths On the Principles of Democracy At the Frontiers of Reason A. C. Grayling David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee As democracy shows signs of decay, how do we not only arrest its decline but build something better – a state which The startlingly young genius and his professor is democratic in the fullest sense? delve into the rich and strange world of mathematics The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. Maths is everywhere, in everything. It’s found What is the remedy? at the finest margins of modern sport. It’s in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, every bird. It is our key to secret messages, lost principled and written constitution, and sets out the languages and perhaps even the shape of the reforms necessary to ensure the intentions of such a universe itself. constitution could not be subverted or ignored. ‘The brilliant combination of an accomplished Current Affairs/Politics | February 2021 | B Format Paperback | £9.99 UK/$16.95 US | 256pp ISBN: 9781786079329 | eISBN: 9781786077196 | Territories: World science writer and a young mathematical prodigy.’ Bobby Seagull, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers and co-presenter of Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Guide to Britain. The Fabulists How Myth-Makers Rule in an Age of Crisis Popular Mathematics/Popular Science February 2021 Michael Peel £9.99/$17.95 256pp B Format Paperback We are not entering a new era of fake news – we are finally ISBN: 9781786078056 facing up to the world we live in. eISBN: 9781786078063 Territories: World ‘Excellent investigative journalism exposing global corruption…devastating.’ Irish Times David Darling is a science writer, astronomer and tutor. He is the author of nearly fifty books, including the bestselling ‘Quite astonishingly on point... A riveting book.’ Equations of Eternity. He lives in Dundee, Scotland. James O’Brien Agnijo Banerjee is one of the world’s most outstanding young ‘Authoritative and wryly perceptive.’ mathematicians. Aged thirteen he attained the highest possible James Crabtree, author of The Billionaire Raj score on Mensa’s IQ test and in 2018 he became the first person from the UK in 24 years to obtain a perfect score in the Current Affairs | February 2021 | B Format Paperback | £10.99 | 368pp International Mathematical Olympiad. He was born in India ISBN: 9781786078254 | eISBN: 9781786076601 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can and grew up in Scotland. © Alun Richardson

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Becoming Kim Jong Un Into the Abyss Understanding North Korea’s Young Dictator A Neuropsychiatrist’s Notes on Troubled Minds Jung H. Pak Anthony David

The first book from a former intelligence Is mental illness a disease of the brain community insider or a disease of the mind?

The mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim ‘Rarely have I read a book whose title is so true. Reading it Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged was like standing on the edge of a great chasm and seeing dictator of a nuclear rogue state. He now possesses how easily an unforeseen mishap could send any one of us weaponry capable of threatening America and its tumbling in.’ New York Times allies, and his actions have already significantly changed global politics. It’s believed that Kim Jong ‘A deeply moving book.’ BBC Science Un is in his thirties, only a few years into what will likely be decades of leadership. He is in the news ‘Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate.’ almost every day, and yet we still know almost Henry Marsh nothing about him or how he became the supreme leader of the hermit kingdom. Psychiatry | February 2021 | B Format Paperback | £9.99 UK/$16.95 US | 224pp ISBN: 9781786079312 | eISBN: 9781786077066 | Territories: World Former CIA analyst and North Korea expert Jung H. Pak reveals the explosive story of Kim Jong Il’s third son: the spoilt and impetuous child, Life Finds a Way North Korea/Current Affairs the mediocre student, the ruthless murderer, the February 2021 What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity £20 shrewd grand strategist. 336pp Andreas Wagner Royal Hardback ‘Jung H. Pak's brilliant analysis strips away ISBN: 9781786077165 Kim's cult, bluster, and caricature.’ How new insights into evolution help us solve eISBN: 9781786077172 problems in life, art, business and science Territories: UK/BC ex Can D. B. John, author of Star of the North ‘Wagner has again cut through to the heart of a vital question.’ Matt Ridley

‘This is a wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed as Wagner reveals the sources of human and natural creativity.’ Alice Roberts

Jung H. Pak was a senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and America’s Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Korea. She is now Senior Fellow and SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at the Popular Science | March 2021 | B Format Paperback | £10.99 | 320pp © Paul Morigi © Paul Brookings Institution, a prominent think tank in Washington DC. ISBN: 9781786077738 | eISBN: 9781786076168 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can

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Why You Won't Get Rich The Colour of God How Capitalism Broke its Contract with Hard Work Ayesha S. Chaudhry Robert Verkaik

How did so many of us end up on the breadline in What does wholeness look like in a world bent on modern day Britain? fracturing us from within?

In 2018, UN representatives spent two weeks At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her in a single country investigating child poverty, face veil to begin her studies in New York City. concluding that it was ‘not just a disgrace, but a Braiding together Western, South Asian and social calamity and an economic disaster’. That Qur’anic storytelling styles, the author illuminates country was the United Kingdom. what it means to exist in a world that demands something different from each of her identities. Who are the new faces of poverty? The same people we applaud as heroes: policemen, nurses With lyrical prose and scholarly precision, she and firefighters. While a select few have gotten weaves her personal experiences with incisive unthinkably rich in the past ten years, crushing social commentary to uncover the meaning of levels of personal debt, high rents, low wages and faith and belonging, love and betrayal, family and a punitive welfare system have brought countless womanhood. In so doing, she offers us a vision of others to the brink of financial collapse. freedom that isn’t measured in fabric.

Politics/Economics It doesn’t take a lot to end up on the breadline in Memoir/Islam March 2021 Britain. And once you’re there, it’s nearly impossible March 2021 £16.99 UK/$25.95 US to get out of it. These are the unseen victims of a £16.99 UK/$25 US 320pp broken economy. 304pp Short Royal Hardback B Format Hardback ISBN: 9781786078070 ISBN: 9781786079251 eISBN: 9781786078087 eISBN: 9781786079763 Territories: World Territories: World

Robert Verkaik is a journalist and author of Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain. He writes for the Guardian, Independent, the i, Observer, Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times. His reporting was Ayesha S. Chaudhry is Professor of Gender and Islamic Studies at longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010 and he was a runner-up in the the University of British Columbia. In 2018, she was named a Pierre specialist journalist category at the 2013 National Press Awards. He Elliott Trudeau Fellow and a Member of the Royal Society of Canada. lives in Surrey. She is the author of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition.

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Loot The Mysterious Correspondent Britain and the Benin Bronzes New Stories Marcel Proust Barnaby Phillips Translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell

A forgotten chapter of British and African history Newly discovered writing from the twentieth – the defeat of an ancient kingdom and the story of century’s master storyteller some of Africa’s greatest works of art Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group remained unseen – the writer never spoke of them. of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The Why did he choose not to publish them along men had been travelling to the ancient Kingdom of with the others? One possible answer is that he Benin, in what is now Nigeria, when they were slain was developing his themes in preparation for his by warriors. As retribution, the British set Benin masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time; another is that aflame, exiled the king and annexed the territory. the stories were too audacious – too near to life – They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest for the censorious society of the time. works of art. In these stories, published here for the first time, This is the story of the ‘Benin Bronzes’, their we find an intimate picture of a young author full creation, and the contest for their future. When first of darkness and melancholy, longing to reveal his exhibited in London they caused a sensation. But true self to the world. seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the History/British Empire words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives ‘To think that this treasure might have remained Classic Fiction/French March 2021 behind bars’. In a time of fevered debate about the hidden in the shadows of the archives…’ March 2021 £18.99/$27.95 £16.99 UK/$21.99 US legacies of empire, what does the future hold for the Le Figaro Littéraire 380pp Bronzes? 176pp Royal Hardback B Format Paperback with Flaps ISBN: 9781786079350 ‘A hundred years after his Prix Goncourt, the ISBN: 9781786079244 TPB: 9781786079527 author returns, stronger than ever!’ Le Point eISBN: 9780861540150 eISBN: 9781786079367 Territories: World English Territories: World

Barnaby Phillips spent over twenty years as a journalist, reporting for Marcel Proust (1871–1922) is considered one of the most influential the BBC from Mozambique, Angola, Nigeria and South Africa before novelists of the twentieth century. The stories that make up The joining Al Jazeera English. He is the author of Another Man’s War: The Mysterious Correspondent were written when the author was still in his Story of a Burma Boy in Britain’s Forgotten African Army, also published twenties, before his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, came to be seen © Nicole Itano © Nicole by Oneworld. He grew up in Kenya and now lives in London. as one of the pre-eminent works of French literature.

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Something Deeply Hidden Notre-Dame Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime The Soul of France Sean Carroll Agnès Poirier

A great genius of modern physics explains why quantum The story of the creation, history and near theory makes perfect sense destruction of Notre-Dame in the fire of April 2019 – and the controversy behind the plans for ‘Carroll takes us by the hand and with a benign smile and a reconstruction chatty style, leads us to a place where…at every instant an almost infinite number of copies of you are splitting off to The profound emotion felt around the world upon live alternative lives… a wild conceptual ride.’ seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly ‘Like all great writers, Carroll has the remarkable ability crystallise what our civilisation is about? What of putting the reader utterly at ease with his lucid and makes ‘Our Lady of Paris’ the soul of a nation and addictive prose.’ Jim Al-Khalili a symbol of human achievement? What is it that Popular Science/Physics | March 2021 | B Format Paperback | £10.99 | 368pp speaks so directly to us today? ISBN: 9781786078360 | eISBN: 9781786076342 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can The conflict over Notre-Dame’s reconstruction promises to be fierce. Nothing short of a cultural war is already brewing between the wise and the daring, the sincere and the opportunist, historians I Think, Therefore I Draw and militants, the devout and secularists. It is here History/France Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons that Poirier reveals the deep malaise – gilet jaunes April 2021 and all – at the heart of the France. £8.99 Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart 256pp B Format Paperback ‘Vivid and engrossing.’ Observer ISBN: 9781786079916 You don’t need a dusty tome to encounter great ideas eISBN: 9781786078001 ‘Terrific élan and a wry eye for eccentric details.’ Territories: World In this joyous introduction to the major debates The Times in Western philosophy, we see how cartoons can shed light and humour on life’s Big Questions. Topics such as gender, ‘Notre-Dame is both the soul of France, and the morality and the meaning of life are examined here with beating heart of Paris. I haven’t been there in a a razor wit and eye. long time. This book left me aching to return.’ Catholic Herald This is philosophy as you’ve never seen it before. Agnès Poirier is a writer, commentator and broadcaster. Her most ‘I very much enjoyed it. Funny, succinct…just like a good recent book is the acclaimed Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth cartoon.’ Matthew Dooley, award-winning cartoonist of Paris, 1940-50, which is currently being translated into half-a-dozen Philosophy/Humour | March 2021 | B Format Paperback | £9.99 | 320pp languages. She lives in Paris and visits London regularly. ISBN: 9781786075635 | eISBN: 9781786074478 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can, Aus, NZ @AgnesCPoirier © Hannah Starkey

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How Minds Change Becoming Wild Make People Listen Without Losing Your Voice How Animals Learn to be Animals David McRaney Carl Safina

There are as many reasons for not buying this book Perhaps we are not so different after all as there are for buying it ‘Carl Safina combines his passion for the natural world with absorbing, sometimes breathtaking prose, transporting How does an entire nation go from obsessive witch us into the intimate, nuanced worlds of some of the hunts to sewing witch costumes for their children? planet’s most charismatic beings.’ How did Australia go from being a nation of gun Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows lovers to campaigning around the world for stricter gun control? How are climate scientists tackling ‘Dr. Safina is a terrific writer, majestic and puckish in equal the conspiracy theorists after years of stubborn measure.’ New York Times denial? ‘A font of research, his wonder contagious.’ Elle Contrary to what most people think, we are all willing to trade our beliefs for better ones under Popular Science/Natural World | April 2021 | B Format Paperback | £10.99 | 384pp the right conditions. We are used to thinking ISBN: 9781786079633 | eISBN: 9781786077257 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can of progress as a long arc, taking place over generations. But if you know how, change can be accelerated more rapidly than ever thought Some Assembly Required Smart Thinking/Psychology possible. Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA April 2020 £18.99 UK / $36.35 AUS Neil Shubin 352pp Short Royal Hardback ISBN: 9781786071644 Nothing begins when you thought it did… eISBN: 9781786071637 Territories: UK/BC ex Can ‘Through tales of remarkable creatures, and some even more remarkable people who study them, Neil Shubin unravels the mystery at the heart of evolution – how nature invents.’ Sean B. Carroll, author of The Serengeti Rules and Brave Genius

‘Neil Shubin is one of the most accomplished writers on evolution and the history of life.’ David McRaney is a journalist, author and podcaster. His blog Richard Fortey, author of Life, The Earth and Fossils exploring how we delude ourselves, youarenotsosmart.com, laid the groundwork for his first book, You Are Not So Smart, which became an international bestseller and was translated into fourteen languages. He Popular Science/Evolution | April 2021 | B Format Paperback | £10.99 | 288pp lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. @davidmcraney davidmcraney.com ISBN: 9781786079428 | eISBN: 9781786078025 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can

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Surviving Katyń Jacinda Ardern Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth Leading with Empathy Jane Rogoyska Supriya Vani and Carl A. Harte

The extraordinary true story of one of the greatest The first biography of New Zealand’s mysteries of the Second World War charismatic premier to explore her inspirational leadership – based on interviews with her and The Katyń Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners those around her of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 Jacinda Ardern was swept to office in 2017 on by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph a wave of popular adulation. In less than three Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime months, she rose from deputy leader of the succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyń opposition to New Zealand’s highest office. Her was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by victory seemed heroic. Few in politics would have Western governments fearful of upsetting a believed it possible; fewer still would have guessed powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. at her resolve and compassionate leadership, Surviving Katyń explores the decades-long search which, in the wake of the horrific Christchurch for answers, focusing on the experience of those mosque shootings of March 2019, brought her individuals most directly involved in events – the international acclaim. few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators – whose quest for Since then, her decisive handling of the Covid-19 History/Second World War the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, pandemic has seen her worldwide standing rise to Biography/Politics April 2021 and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal the point where she is now acclaimed as a model April/May 2021 £20/$30 cost. leader. £20 352pp 288–320pp Royal Hardback Royal Octavo ISBN: 9781786078926 Vani and Harte carefully explore the influences ISBN: 9780861540303 eISBN: 9781786078933 – personal, family, social, political and emotional – eISBN: 9780861540310 Territories: World English that have shaped Jacinda Ardern and made her a Territories: World English ex ANZ & India leader with a ‘different way of doing things’.

‘Battling Injustice will educate people about gender equality and inspire women to rise up to their potential. It will inspire parents not to clip the wings of their daughters.’ Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin Yousafzai Jane Rogoyska is the acclaimed author of Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa and Kozlowski. She works across a range of creative mediums, Supriya Vani is the author of Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace writing and presenting Still Here: A Polish Odyssey for BBC Radio 4. Laureates. A noted peace activist and human rights campaigner, she is a Her short films have won awards at San Diego Film Festival and the board member of the Hague Justice Portal and Caravan for Peace. © Hal Howe Huesca film festival. Carl A. Harte is an editor and author.

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Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies The Grey Men A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness Pursuing the Stasi into the Present Leo Hollis Ralph Hope

The tragic story of madness, forced marriages and What do you do with a hundred thousand spies? a forgotten heiress By 1990, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East Until recently, the Grosvenor family – the Dukes German state security service folded. For forty of Westminster – habitually topped the Sunday years, they had amassed more than a billion pages Times Rich List, well ahead of the Queen. But in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. where did their money come from? Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers Inheritance charts the forgotten life of Mary with access to highly personal information, found Grosvenor, born in London during the Great themselves unemployed. This is the story of what Plague of 1665, and the land that she inherited as they did next. a baby. This estate would determine the course of her tragic life. Hollis restores this history of child Former FBI Agent Ralph Hope uses insider brides, mad heiresses, religious controversy and knowledge and access to Stasi records to track shady dealing. The drama culminated in a court and expose ex-officers working everywhere from case that determined not just the state of Mary’s the Russian energy sector to the police and legacy, but the future of London itself. Today, even the government department tasked with Mary’s inheritance is some of the most valuable prosecuting Stasi crimes. East Germany/History History real estate in the world. May 2021 May 2021 £18.99/$27.95 The Grey Men comes as an urgent warning from £18.99 UK/$27.95 US 336pp the past at a time when governments worldwide 320pp Royal Hardback Short Royal Hardback ISBN: 9781786079954 are building an unprecedented network of ISBN: 9781786078278 eISBN: 9781786079961 surveillance over their citizens. eISBN: 9781786078285 Territories: World English Territories: World

Leo Hollis is the author of two acclaimed history books: The Phoenix: Ralph Hope was an FBI agent for over twenty-five years. He served The Men Who Made Modern London, and Stones of London, as well as the for nearly a decade as an FBI representative in the Middle East, Asia, international bestseller Cities are Good For You. He has written for the Europe and Africa. He was later selected as liaison representative for New Statesman, Guardian and Financial Times. He is the senior editor at the US Department of Justice to United Nations Peacekeeping forces Verso Books. battling Islamic extremists in Mali.

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The Art of Patience Social Warming Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet On the dangerous and polarising effects of social media Sylvain Tesson Charles Arthur Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

Winner of France’s Prix Renaudot, 2019 How do algorithms enable genocide?

In 2018, veteran traveller and writer Sylvain Tesson Nobody meant for this to happen. headed up to the high plateaux of Tibet with leading wildlife photographer Vincent Munier Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. and two companions. There, at 5,000 metres and in temperatures as low as -25°C, the team set up their Twitter didn’t want to be used to harass women. hides on exposed mountainsides, and occasionally in the luxury of an icy cave, to await the appearance YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. of the most elusive of the big cats. But with billions of users, every time these The tautly written narrative is simultaneously platforms tweak their algorithms to generate a dazzling account of an exacting journey, an more ‘engagement’, they bring unrest to apprenticeship in the art of patience, an almost previously settled communities and erode our religious evocation of the creature itself, an relationships. After all, anger keeps you engaged. acceptance of the ruthlessness of the natural world and a plea for ecological sanity. It has been hard to address climate change precisely because it has been happening slowly Politics/Technology Natural History/Travel Praise for Consolations of the Forest: May 2021 and in plain sight. In the same way, we urgently June 2021 £14.99 need to address this social crisis before it’s £16.99 UK/$25.99 US 160pp ‘I thought I’d rip through this book. But it’s not irreversible. 304pp Short Royal Hardback something you want to read fast. Tesson, who I Short Royal Hardback ISBN: 9781786079978 ISBN: 9781786079992 came to like more and more, is trying to rearrange eISBN: 9780861540006 eISBN: 9781786079985 Territories: UK/BC ex Can his relationship with time.’ Territories: World English William Leith, Spectator

‘He comes across as the brainiest, daftest, sternest, funniest, most companionable hermit you’ll ever meet.’ Blake Morrison, Guardian

Sylvain Tesson is one France’s leading travel and nature writers, whose Charles Arthur is a journalist, author and speaker, writing on science books have won him hundreds and thousands of readers in France and a and technology for over thirty years. He was technology editor of the number of its top prizes, including the 2009 Goncourt short story prize Guardian from 2005–2014, and is now carrying out research into social and the 2009 Prix Medicis Essay Prize. His highly regarded Consolations division at Cambridge University. He is the author of two specialist Francesca Mantovani Francesca Gallimard © Editions of the Forest was published in English in 2014. business books, Digital Wars and Cyber Wars.

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The Invention of Infinite Growth How Do You Fight a Horse-Size Duck? How Economists Forgot about the Natural World and other perplexing puzzles from the toughest interviews in the world Christopher Jones William Poundstone

Mainstream economics has lost touch In 2017 Tesla received half a million job with reality applications

As early as 1974, the great Robert Solow made the How do top companies choose which people outlandish claim that ‘the world can, in effect, get to hire? It’s through interviews asking uniquely along without natural resources.’ The important demanding questions testing imagination, thing was growth. Growth would fix everything. persistence, and creativity. Meanwhile, scientists were busy confirming the direct link between increasing economic activity How Do You Fight a Horse-Size Duck? will and ecological upheaval. explore the new world of interviewing at A-list employers. It will reveal how new developments It didn't have be this way. Over the past century, in psychographics have changed the interviewing economists have created a number of powerful process. It will reveal sixty devious and difficult ways to examine and predict the world, and they interview questions used to vet candidates – and did not always consider the environment outside show you what the perfect answer looks like. their scope of inquiry. Not only a must-read for interview preparation, Through the long battle to put a number on our the book is full of fiendish riddles and puzzles to challenge any mind. Economics/Climate Change world, Jones examines the series of choices made Business/Puzzles June 2021 by the dismal science over the last two centuries, June 2021 £20 and lights the path for the new economic ideas we £16.99 320pp will need as we step into the Anthropocene. 320pp Short Royal Hardback Short Royal Hardback ISBN: 9780861540044 ISBN: 9780861540075 eISBN: 9780861540051 eISBN: 9780861540082 Territories: UK/BC ex Can Territories: UK/BC ex Can

Christopher Jones is a historian of energy, economics, and the environment based at Arizona State University and is a fellow of the American Council of Learned William Poundstone is the author of many books including How to Societies. He is the author of Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard Predict Everything, How to Predict the Unpredictable and the best-selling University Press, 2014). Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? He lives in Los Angeles. © Russel Taylor

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The Last Stargazers The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers Emily Levesque

What does an astronomer actually do? ‘The Last Stargazers is perfect for anyone who has ever wondered what it’s like to actually be an astronomer.’ Chris Lintott, BBC Sky at Night POINT BLANK ‘Give this book to every young person (especially the girls!) that you know who likes math and science.’ We offer you a feast of delights. Tim Glister’s pitch-perfect Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell debut, Red Corona, recreates the dawn of Cold War global ‘Her insider’s tale of stars and the astronomers who surveillance from the perspective of MI5, and two stylishly study them bursts with color and energy.’ witty historical mysteries from Maryla Szymiczkowa reimagine Edward Dolnick, author of The Clockwork Universe Popular Science/Astronomy | June 2021 | B Format Paperback | £10.99 | 320pp Krakow. Saima Mir’s The Khan is a gritty UK debut optioned ISBN: 9780861540068 | eISBN: 9781786078247 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can by the BBC, in which Jia Khan has to prove herself in a deadly man’s world, while Scottish genius Helen Sedgwick has two Priests de la Résistance! spine-tingling Burrowhead murder mysteries. In a lighter vein, The Loose Canons who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century there’s another ‘pet detective’ Susie Mahl outing from artist Ali Fergus Butler-Gallie Carter, sleuthing by Essex Witch Museum’s Rosie Strange and Sam Stone from Syd Moore, and Fiona Erskine’s Yorkshire Who says you can't fight fascism in a cassock? chemical engineer heroine Jaq Silver kicks ass as usual. ‘A gripping story of bravery, derring-do and cunning in the face of fascism.’ Tablet For those who enjoy the very dark, there’s a scary small girl in Korean Mi-ae Seo’s The Only Child, while deaf reporter Tuva ‘The reverend is a good writer with a light touch, and a natural storyteller.’ New Statesman Moodyson is tested to the edge of reason deep in a Swedish moose forest in Black River from bestselling Will Dean. Enjoy! ‘A fascinating and entirely benign book, imbued with a surprisingly muscular Christianity and full of stories you may not know but which need to be heard.’ Spectator Books of the Year

History/Second World War | June 2021 | B Format Paperback | £9.99/$16.95 | 256pp ISBN: 9781786078308 | eISBN: 9781786076731 | Territories: World

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Red Corona Mrs Mohr Goes Missing Tim Glister Maryla Szymiczkowa Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

It’s 1961 and the white heat of the Space Race is The brilliant opener to a new Agatha Christie-style making the Cold War even colder mystery series set in turn-of-the-century Poland ‘An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.’ Operative Richard Knox has been hung out to Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the dry by someone at MI5. He’s a man with secrets, Nobel Prize in Literature and not just because he’s a secret service officer. Meanwhile, in a closed city outside Leningrad, ‘Fun and sparky... Beguiling.’ Daily Mail brilliant physicist Irina Valera discovers the secret to sending messages through space. But following ‘Charming and moreish…this is a tale that conjures up the an accident Valera must flee. delightful books of Dorothy L. Sayers and is the perfect diversion for annoying commutes.’ Stylist With Britain’s latest surveillance breakthrough stolen and its top spy trapped in a mysterious Crime/Mystery | January 2021 | B Format Paperback | £9.99 | 320pp coma, Knox must find a new ally – Abey Bennett, ISBN: 9781786077073 | eISBN: 9781786075444| Territories: UK/BC ex Can one of the CIA’s few diverse recruits. But she’s not the one seeking to overturn Knox’s bachelor London life… Karolina, or The Torn Curtain Crime/Thriller Maryla Szymiczkowa January 2021 As the age of global surveillance dawns, three £14.99 powers will battle for dominance, and three Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 288pp people will fight to survive. Short Royal Hardback ISBN: 9781786077790 The thrilling sequel to the critically-acclaimed eISBN: 9781786077394 ‘Relentless and sleek – a pitch-perfect debut.’ Mrs Mohr Goes Missing Territories: UK/BC ex Can A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window Praise for Mrs Mohr Goes Missing: ‘A thoroughly engaging spy thriller that had me gripped.’ ‘Strong-minded Zofia is an appealing character and the S.J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep sprightly narrative and vivid evocation of turn-of-the- century Poland make for an enjoyable tale.’ Guardian

‘Fuses high comedy with an evocative portrayal of the period. And the author’s pseudonym conceals the identities of two well-known Polish writers…ably Tim Glister is a Creative Director working in advertising. He’s worked translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.’ Sunday Express for a range of famous and infamous brands, including eighteen months at the controversial political communications agency Cambridge Crime/Mystery | February 2021 | B Format Paperback | £9.99 | 336pp © Mark Rusher© Mark Analytica. He lives in London, and Red Corona is his first novel. ISBN: 9781786079299 | eISBN: 9781786079282 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can

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The Khan When the Dead Come Calling Saima Mir The Burrowhead Mysteries Helen Sedgwick

A searing, gritty debut crime novel following In the first of the Burrowhead Mysteries, an atmospheric a resourceful heroine who must make her way in murder investigation unearths the brutal history of a village a man’s world where no one is innocent

Jia Khan, a successful London barrister, has built ‘Unputdownable. It’s an incredible book! READ IT.’ a life far removed from her patriarch father, who Lemn Sissay, author of My Name is Why controls the Northern streets she grew up in by a system of Jirga rule and organised crime. But when ‘Creepy, atmospheric and spine-tingling, When Akbar Khan is murdered, Jia finds herself plunged the Dead Come Calling is the kind of mystery so back into his world of alternative righteousness. As deviously plotted it left me reeling. Brilliant.’ life in her Pakistani community shines a spotlight Chris Whitaker, author of Tall Oaks on the failings of the British judicial system, everything she has come to believe is called into Crime/Mystery | March 2021 | B Format Paperback | £8.99 | 384pp question. Increasingly entangled in the fabric of ISBN: 9781786079374 | eISBN: 9781786075703 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can the community, can Jia defy patriarchal structures and steer the Jirga into a new era? And will justice always come at a cost? A Trick of the Light Crime/Thriller March 2021 A Highland Mystery featuring Susie Mahl £14.99 Ali Carter 336pp Short Royal Hardback ISBN: 9781786079091 Pet portraitist Susie Mahl has to use all her artistic know- eISBN: 9781786079107 how to get to the bottom of a fiendish Scottish mystery Territories: UK/BC ex Can Praise for Ali Carter:

‘This is a well-paced, exciting read. More please!’ Alexander McCall Smith

‘A rare talent.’ Amanda Prowse, author of Perfect Daughter

‘Carter has created a character Agatha Christie Saima Mir has written for The Times, Guardian and Independent. would be proud of.’ Crime Review Her essay for It’s Not About The Burqa appeared in Guardian Weekend and received over 250,000 hits online in two days. Saima grew up in Crime/Mystery | April 2021 | B Format Paperback | £8.99/US$15.95/CAN$21.95 | 400pp © Anna Crossley © Anna Bradford and lives in London. ISBN: 9781786077684 | eISBN: 9781786077691 | Territories: World

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Where the Missing Gather Black River The Burrowhead Mysteries A Tuva Moodyson Mystery Helen Sedgwick Will Dean

Please God, don’t let this be about Burrowhead... The electrifying return of relentless reporter Tuva Moodyson, from the bestselling author of An old woman finally reports witnessing an Dark Pines and Red Snow unearthly murder, while an archaeological dig exposes the village’s brutal past. Could the An Observer Thriller of the Month wickedness swirling in the harsh sea air be excised at last? FEAR Tuva’s been living clean in southern Sweden for But before DI Georgie Strachan can lift the veil of four months when she receives horrifying news. evil, a black horse is slaughtered on an altar in the Her best friend Tammy Yamnim is missing. woods and human remains begin to surface.

SECRETS As Georgie tries to connect ritualistic crimes from Racing back to Gavrik at the height of the past to the present, it’s as though no one wants Midsommar, Tuva fears for Tammy’s life. Who has to see, or tell, or hear, the truth. The darkness is taken her, and why? And who is sabotaging the pressing in around her and soon the question small-town search efforts? becomes: where do the missing souls of the village Crime/Thriller gather? LIES Crime/Mystery May 2021 May 2021 £12.99 Surrounded by dark pine forest, the sinister ‘Helen Sedgwick is one of Scotland’s finest £8.99 384pp residents of Snake River are suspicious of outsiders. 384pp Demy Trade Paperback contemporary storytellers.’ Unfortunately, they also hold all the answers. On B Format Paperback ISBN: 9781786079770 Claire Askew, author of All the Hidden Truths the shortest night of the year, Tuva must fight to ISBN: 9781786078414 eISBN: 9781786079787 eISBN: 9781786077127 Territories: UK/BC ex Can save her friend. But who will be there to save Tuva? ‘Sedgwick’s writing is minutely observational, Territories: UK/BC ex Can clever and warm.’ Scotsman ‘A peerless exercise in suspense.’ Financial Times

‘His best yet... Black River is eerie, unnerving and buckets of fun’. Observer

Helen Sedgwick is the author of The Comet Seekers, selected as a best Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands. His debut novel, Dark Pines, book of 2016 by the Herald, and The Growing Season, shortlisted for the was selected for Zoe Ball’s Book Club and shortlisted for the Guardian Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year in 2018. She has an MLitt in Not the Booker prize. His follow-up, Red Snow, was longlisted for the Creative Writing from Glasgow University and now lives in the Scottish

© Michael Gallacher© Michael Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. He lives in Sweden. Highlands.

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The Chemical Reaction Strange Tricks Fiona Erskine An Essex Witch Museum Mystery Syd Moore

As Jaq Silver is pulled further into a murky underworld of Rosie Strange is back in the latest of this deceit and corruption, things take an explosive turn… fabulously creepy series ‘No one else writes with the knowledge or brio of Erskine.’ Literary Review Secretly Rosie Strange has always thought herself a little bit more interesting than most people ‘The fast pace makes it hard to put down.’ – the legacy her family has bequeathed her is The Chemical Engineer definitely so. But then life takes a peculiar turn when the Strange legacy turns out not just to ‘Never a dull moment, this is a whip-smart, action packed, be the Essex Witch Museum, but perhaps some intriguing read that has the reader rooting for Jaq, otherworldly gifts that Rosie finds difficult to a thoroughly modern and engaging warrior.’ Mystery People fathom. Meanwhile Sam Stone, Rosie’s curator, is oddly distracted as breadcrumb clues about what

Crime/Thriller | May 2021 | B Format Paperback | £8.99 | 432pp happened to his missing younger brother and other ISBN: 9781786079305 | eISBN: 9781786077349 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can abducted boys from the past are poised to lead him and Rosie deep into a dark wood where there lurks something far scarier than Hansel and Gretel’s The Only Child witch… Crime/Mystery Mi-ae Seo Praise for Syd Moore: June 2021 Translated from the Korean by Yewon Jung £8.99/US $14.99/CAN $19.99 384pp ‘I gleefully submitted to a tale of witchcraft, B Format Paperback Before I was born, I knew I hated my mother... feminism, mysterious strangers, historical atrocities, ISBN: 9781786075482 plucky heroines and ghastly apparitions – and eISBN: 9781786075499 Territories: World ‘Fans of Mindhunter and Silence of the Lambs will love this came away more proud than ever to be an Essex dark, cognitive duel between psychologist and serial killer.’ girl.’ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent Jonathan Trigell, author of Boy A ‘Dennis Wheatley meets Caitlin Moran.’ Starburst ‘An eerie, electrifying read.’ Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box

‘Seo stealthily spins an ever-tightening narrative web setting up a doubly shocking climax. It’s a measure of Seo’s Syd Moore lives in Essex, where the Rosie Strange novels are set. She skill that she manages to find flashes of humanity in a is the author of the mystery novels The Drowning Pool and Witch Hunt, ruthless murderer.’ Publishers Weekly and the Essex Witch Museum Mysteries: Strange Magic, Strange Sight, Psychological Suspense/Thriller | June 2021 | B Format Paperback | £8.99 | 304pp Strange Fascination, Strange Tombs and short story collection The Twelve ISBN: 9781786078773 | eISBN: 9781786078568 | Territories: UK/BC ex Can Strange Days of Christmas. Rusher© Mark

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Monstrous Devices Damien Love ROCK THE BOAT

The cinematic page turner named Times Children’s Welcome to a bumper season of spectacular debuts and eagerly Book of the Week and LoveReading4Kids Book of anticipated sequels. Embrace the colder months with Talking to the Month Alaska, a funny, thought-provoking debut about invisible disabilities, When twelve-year-old Alex receives an old tin selected for the Bookbuzz school reading programme. In March we robot in the post, the note from his grandfather mark 10 years since the start of the Syrian civil war with The Cat Man simply reads: ‘This one is special’. But as strange events start occurring around him, it doesn’t take of Aleppo, a beautifully illustrated true story about the impact of one Alex long to suspect that the small toy is more man’s kindness (loved by Downing Street’s Larry the cat!) Altruism than special; it might also be deadly. also runs strong in Nat Amoore’s hilarious debut, Secrets of a Schoolyard Just as things are getting out of hand, Alex’s Millionaire, after two friends find a stash of cash in the garden and grandfather arrives, whisking him away from devise ways to spend it. And ageless adventurers looking for thrills can his otherwise humdrum life and into a world of lose themselves in the German wilderness on Walpurgis night strange, macabre magic. From Paris to Prague, they flee across snowy Europe in a quest to unravel in Damien Love’s The Shadow Arts, the sensational sequel to the riddle of the little robot, and outwit relentless Monstrous Devices. assassins of the human and mechanical kind. How Middle Grade does Alex’s grandfather know them? And can Alex January 2021 safely harness the robot’s power, or will it fall into £6.99 Readers of Angie Thomas and Tomi Adeyemi will love the 352pp the wrong, wicked hands? B Format Paperback breathtaking YA thriller, Firekeeper’s Daughter, about a Native ISBN: 9781786078742 American teen uncovering dark secrets within her community. Author ‘I enjoyed everything about Damien Love’s debut.’ eISBN: 9781786077530 Anthony Horowitz Territories: UK/BC ex Can Angeline Boulley completed her debut with the help of the We Need Diverse Books mentorship programme. ‘An unforgettable, immersive reading experience.’ Guardian Younger readers can dive into the third book of our Playdate ‘Hugely original, exciting debut novel.’ Adventures series, The Magic Ocean Slide, where Katy, Cassie and Zia The Times are on a mission to save their new underwater friends. And finally, as we all emerge into a post-Covid world, there’s no better way to Damien Love was born in Scotland and lives in Glasgow, where, even celebrate the joy of browsing books than with The Magical Bookshop! as you read these words, it is raining. He has worked as a journalist for many years, writing on film, music and TV for a variety of publications. Monstrous Devices is his first novel. Times Herald © Colin Mearns,

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Talking to Alaska The Cat Man of Aleppo Anna Woltz Irene Latham & Karim Shamsi-Basha Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu

Sometimes rivals just need a helping paw... Out of the ravages of war came hope. How an act of kindness inspired millions worldwide. It only takes one day at their new school for Parker and Sven to become mortal enemies. When war came to Syria, many fled the Parker’s had a terrible summer and just wants to once-beautiful city of Aleppo and were forced be invisible, while Sven is desperate to make an to become refugees in far-flung places. But impression and be known as anything other than Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel decided to stay and ‘that boy with epilepsy’. work as an ambulance driver, helping the civilians that couldn’t leave. He quickly realised that it When Parker discovers her beloved dog Alaska – wasn’t just people who needed care, but also the who she had to give away last year – now belongs hundreds of cats abandoned on the streets. to Sven, she’s determined to steal her back. Of Using the little money he earned, he began course, that’s easier said than done... feeding and looking after them. But there were too many for Alaa to care for on his own, so he ‘Themes of friendship, loneliness, damage asked the world for help. Soon, his call Picture book 8+ March 2021 and privacy are woven into a tense story with was answered. £12.99 characters that jump off the page... this will be an 40pp unmissable debut in the UK.’ Alaa’s brave and heartening story is brought to Illustrated Hardback Middle Grade Jill Coleman, Director of Children’s Books, triumphant life on these pages, which include ISBN: 9781786077509 February 2021 eISBN: 9781786077516 £6.99 BookTrust a note from Alaa himself. Territories: UK/BC ex Can 192pp B Format Paperback ‘Talking to Alaska’s strong characters and ‘Latham and Shamsi-Basha pick out the ISBN: 9781786075833 eISBN: 9781786075840 intriguing plot are powerful hooks into this glimmers of light that make up Alaa’s story, and Territories: World English heartfelt story.’ Florentyna Martin, Waterstones Shimizu portrays their beauty.’ Children’s Book Buyer Publishers Weekly, starred review US: Available in Hardback March 2021 ‘A beautifully told and illustrated story that offers US $16.99/CAN $ 22.99 a unique perspective on both war and humanity.’ ISBN: 9781786078803 eISBN: 9781786079688 Kirkus, starred review

Irene Latham has written several children’s books, including Can I Touch Anna Woltz is an internationally bestselling children’s author based in Your Hair? (Oneworld 2019, co-written with Charles Waters). the Netherlands. She has written 24 books for young readers, which Karim Shamsi-Basha immigrated to the United States in 1984 from have been translated into nineteen languages and won numerous prizes. Damascus. He blogs as ‘Arab in Alabama’ for Huffington Post. His Talking to Alaska won one of the most prestigious literary prizes for journalism and photography have appeared in publications including © Carli Hermès Dutch children’s books, the Zilveren Griffel. People and Time. Hughs © MadiLynn

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Firekeeper's Daughter The Magic Ocean Slide Angeline Boulley The Playdate Adventures, Book 3 Emma Beswetherick Illustrated by Anna Woodbine

A thrilling coming-of-age story about a young The third book in an inspiring series for girls who Native American woman love adventures It’s the hottest day of the year, and Katy, Cassie Eighteen-year-old Daunis’s mixed heritage has and Zia want nothing more than to cool off in always made her feel like an outsider both in her the ocean for their next playdate. hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When she witnesses the shocking murder of her But the girls soon find themselves on a super- best friend, she reluctantly agrees to be part of a slippery adventure. While they enjoy their new covert FBI operation into a series of drug-related underwater skills, they notice all the sea creatures deaths, but secretly pursues her own investigation are running away from something. In their most using her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe daring playdate yet, the girls and Thunder the cat traditional medicine to track down the criminals. must use all their brainpower to help them. However, the deceptions – and deaths – keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close ‘Guaranteed free of unicorns and princesses, it’s to home. fun, empowering fiction for 5-8 year olds.’ David Nicholls, author of One Day Now Daunis must decide what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman), and Age 5-8 Young Adult ‘Every young girl should read this series!’ March 2021 how far she’ll go to protect her community, even if April 2021 Amanda Holden £12.99 it tears apart the only world she’s ever known. £5.99 320pp 112pp Demy Hardback B Format Paperback ISBN: 9781786079046 ‘What do you get when you combine Tommy ISBN: 9781786078988 eISBN: 9781786079053 Orange, Angie Thomas, and Tomi Adeyemi? eISBN: 9781786078995 Territories: UK/BC ex Can This genre-bending new YA thriller.’ Territories: World Entertainment Weekly US: Available in Hardback May 2021 US $15.99/CAN $21.99 ISBN: 9781786079589 eISBN: 9781786079671

Angeline Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Emma Beswetherick is the mother of young children and wanted to Chippewa Indians based in Michigan. She is the director of the Office write exciting, inspirational and enabling adventure stories to share of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education and gained with her daughter. Emma is a publisher with Little, Brown and lives attention for this debut novel thanks to the non-profit organisation We in London with her family and two ragdoll cats, one of whom was the © Amber Boulley© Amber Need Diverse Books who mentored her in 2019. inspiration for Thunder. © Heather Neilson

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Aurora Burning The Shadow Arts The Aurora Cycle Damien Love Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Our heroes are back. Kind of. The thrilling sequel to Monstrous Devices – Alex and his grandfather hold the fate of history itself First, the bad news: An ancient evil – you know, in their hands! your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal – is about to be unleashed. A few months ago, Alex’s world changed… forever. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save NOT the day. FINAL They’ve just got to take care of a few small Now, just when it seems life is almost getting COVER distractions first... back to normal, Alex’s grandfather crashes into Like the cadre of illegit GIA who’ll stop at the picture with grave news: their friend Harry nothing to get their hands on Auri. has fallen into the clutches of a familiar foe and Or Kal’s long-lost sister, who’s not exactly happy to needs Alex’s help to rescue him. see her baby brother, and has a Syldrathi army at her back. This time, the duo’s desperate dash across Europe leads from Paris deep into Germany’s With half the known galaxy on their tails, Squad foreboding Black Forest, as they chase down 312 has never felt so wanted. the mystery Harry had been investigating when Young Adult Shocking revelations, bank heists and mysterious he disappeared. A series of art thefts has made Age 9+ April 2021 gifts will determine the fate of the Aurora Legion’s headlines across the continent, but the thieves April 2021 £8.99 most unforgettable heroes. are after more than priceless paintings. In the £12.99 512pp wrong hands, these stolen artefacts could unlock 416pp B-Format Paperback And maybe the rest of the galaxy as well. Short Demy Hardback ISBN: 9781786078827 an ancient secret bigger than anything Alex ever ISBN: 9781786079381 eISBN: 9781786077752 Praise for Aurora Rising: dreamed of. If they can’t solve the riddle in time, eISBN: 9781786079398 Territories: UK/BC ex Can, ANZ innocent lives – and even history itself – could be Territories: UK/BC ex Can Can, ex ANZ ‘Aurora Rising is to sci-fi what Stranger Things is to at stake. the cinema of the eighties – a fusion of everything you love about the genre that adds up into ‘One of the most acclaimed, exciting new something completely fresh.’ children’s series in years... A hugely appealing Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of adventure for all ages.’ the Orange Tree The Herald

Amie Kaufman is the award-winning co-author of the Starbound series. Jay Kristoff is the award-winning author of the Nevernight Chronicles Damien Love was born in Scotland and lives in Glasgow, where, even and the Lotus War series. They are co-authors of the bestselling as you read these words, it is raining. He has worked as a journalist for © Christopher Tovo Illuminae Files trilogy and live in Melbourne, Australia. many years, writing on film, music and TV for a variety of publications. Times Herald © Colin Mearns,

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Secrets of a Schoolyard Millionaire Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday Nat Amoore Natalie C. Anderson

The hilarious story of one bag of cash, two best A haunting tale of loss and redemption for fans friends and a whole lot of trouble of A Long Way Gone and What is the What

Finding a million dollars in your garden – every I tell myself I’ve chosen to live, but the water knows kid’s dream, right? That’s what me and my best the truth. friend Toby thought too. Three years after his older brother is recruited Bouncy castles at school. Lollipops for our adoring by the Somali militia group Al Shabaab, Abdi fans. Wearing sunglasses indoors (‘cos that’s what and his family are kidnapped by Americans. In all the millionaires do). exchange for their freedom, he reluctantly agrees to go undercover to rescue his brother and help There’s a lot you can get with a million dollars . . . foil deadly attacks. including a whole lot of trouble. After months in their ranks, Abdi finally escapes. ‘Nat Amoore’s debut novel posits an enticing Haunted and alone on the streets of Kenya, prospect: what would you do if you found a million he steals what he can to get by. But an arrest dollars in your backyard?’ for petty theft sets in motion a chain of events Middle Grade Guardian that force him to confront the past he’s been so Young Adult May 2021 desperately trying to forget. June 2021 £6.99 ‘I love this book because I could perfectly relate to £7.99 288pp ‘Anderson...breathes ferocious life into a story 464pp B-Format Paperback most of the wacky things Tess did.’ B-Format Paperback ISBN: 9780861540396 Kayla Ludeman, age 11 that needs to be told.’ ISBN: 9781786079121 eISBN: 9780861540402 Booklist, starred review eISBN: 9781786079138 Territories: World English ex ANZ ‘A lively but thoughtful middle-grade fiction Territories: UK/BC ex Can that kids aged 8–12 will race through with great ‘A riveting account… Greed, guilt and US: Available in Hardback pleasure.’ redemption are layered in a sober yet tender July 2021 Books + Publishing narrative showing the lengths one will go to for US $17.99/CAN $24.99 loved ones.’ Kirkus ISBN: 9780861540419 eISBN: 9780861540426

Nat Amoore wrote and directed award-winning short film Elemenopee Natalie C. Anderson is an American writer and international and currently has a kids’ TV series in development. Nat was a recipient development professional living in Geneva. She has spent the last of the CBCA Maurice Saxby Creative Development Program for 2018. decade working with NGOs and the United Nations on refugee She has a kidlit podcast One More Page, which was nominated for the relief and development. Her debut novel, City of Saints & Thieves was ‘Best Newcomer’ category at the Australian Podcast Awards, 2018. published by Oneworld in 2017.

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The Magical Bookshop Katja Frixe Illustrated by Florentine Prechtel Translated from the German by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

It’s a new chapter in Clara’s life and Mrs Owl has just the book! ONEWORLD ACADEMIC Mrs Owl had a knack for finding the perfect book for every customer, before they even realised what it was they were looking for. We specialise in deep dives into history, the Middle East, What do you do when your best friend moves philosophy and religion, offering serious scholarship that is both away? Clara takes comfort in her favourite place: valuable to academia and accessible to the general reader. Mrs Owl’s bookshop. Surrounded by books that spring to life, a rhyming cat and mounds of cinnamon buns, Clara never feels alone. This season, new entries in our Makers of the Muslim World series introduce the third successor to the Prophet Muhammad, But someone is determined to close the bookshop a story with insights into the origins of the Sunni–Shi‘i split in down. Now it’s up to Clara and her new friends to save it. Islam, and one of the most important figures in the early history of Islamic Egypt. Edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb of Harvard ‘A lovely mixture of friends and family and more Middle Grade and Sabine Schmidtke of Princeton, this series of short than a touch of magic.’ Kirkus June 2021 biographies is devoted to the men and women who made the £6.99 176pp ‘A delightful story of best friends, new friends, and Muslim world what it is today. B Format Paperback a magical bookshop. It has all the elements of a ISBN: 9781786075666 eISBN: 9781786075673 perfect story.’ Erin H., Librarian Territories: World English Meanwhile our newest series, Radical Histories of the Middle East, is augmented by a monumental study of the Iranian US: Available in Hardback ʾ June 2021 People’s Fada i Guerrillas, a Marxist revolutionary organisation US $16.99/CAN $22.99 that sought to bring down the Shah in the 1960s and ’70s. ISBN: 9781786078667 eISBN: 9781786079640

Katja Frixe was born in 1979 in Wolfenbüttel and studied education in Braunschweig. She spent several years working as a reader for various children’s and YA publishers before becoming a freelance author and translator in 2013. Today she lives with her husband and twin daughters © Judy Hohmann near Braunschweig.

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Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist Revolutionaries ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan Formation and Evolution of the Fadaʾis, 1964–1976 Legend or Liability? Ali Rahnema Heather N. Keaney

A groundbreaking study of the Iranian People’s The life and legacy of the controversial caliph ʾ Fada i Guerrillas and their impact on the 1979 ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan (d. 656) was an early convert to Islam revolution and the third successor to the Prophet Muhammad. As caliph, he consolidated the text of the Qur’an and On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries expanded the Arab empire, but his controversial reign attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village ended in revolt and was followed by civil war. of Siyahkal in Iran’s Gilan Province. Barely two months later, the Iranian People’s Fadaʾi Guerrillas Heather N. Keaney is Associate Professor of History at officially announced their existence and began a Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. long, drawn-out urban guerrilla war against the Shah’s regime.

In Call to Arms, Ali Rahnema provides an ʾ History/Islam | February 2021/US: March 2021 | Demy Hardback | £25/$30 | 176pp exhaustive history of the Fada is, beginning by ISBN: 9781786076977 | eISBN: 9781786076984 | Territories: World asking why so many of Iran’s best and brightest chose revolutionary Marxism in the face of authoritarian rule. He traces how radicalised Ahmad ibn Tulun university students from different ideological History/Iran ʾ Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868–884 January 2021 backgrounds morphed into the Marxist Fada is in US: February 2021 1971, and sheds light on their theory, practice and Matthew S. Gordon £35/$45 evolution. While the Fadaʾis failed to directly bring 528pp about the fall of the Shah, Rahnema shows they Royal Hardback Introduces one of the most important figures in the early ISBN: 9781786079855 had a lasting impact on society and they ultimately history of Islamic Egypt eISBN: 9781786079862 saw their objective achieved. Territories: World Ahmad ibn Tulun (835–884) governed Egypt on behalf ‘Rahnema…writes with a fluency and charm rare of the Abbasid dynasty for sixteen years, taking strides to in academic books, sweeping the reader along with unify what was a fractious land and leaving a lasting mark his enthusiasm and energy.’ on its history and politics. But was he the hero of Egyptian Times Higher Education Supplement ‘national’ independence that some hail him to be?

Matthew S. Gordon is Professor of History at Miami University. Ali Rahnema is Professor of Economics at the American University of Paris. He is the author of An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari‘ati, Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran and Superstition as Ideology in History/Islam | May 2021/US: June 2021 | Demy Hardback | £25/$30 | 176pp ISBN: 9781851688098 | eISBN: 9781786079947 | Territories: World Iranian Politics.

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