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The Scandi Sense Diet Lose weight and keep it off with the life-changing handful method Suzy Wengel

Hailed as ‘the simplest diet in the world’, the revolutionary handful method from Denmark will help you lose weight without calorie counting, exercise or faddish ingredients.

Lose weight and keep it off with the grassroots diet sensation that has taken Scandinavia by storm, the revolutionary handful method that is hailed as ‘the Suzy Wengel simplest diet in the world’. is a nutritional advisor, lecturer, The Scandi Sense Diet is the intuitive way of eating scientific researcher that helps you to cut calories without counting them, and director of the and adapts to your life rather than dictating it. Based biotech company RiboTask. Suzy on the principle of four handfuls of food per meal – developed Sense to proteins, carbohydrates and two of vegetables, plus overcome her own weight gain, and it a spoonful of fat – and you decide the ingredients. No enabled her to lose calorie-counting, no hard-to-source ingredients and 88lbs in 9 months in no exercise – unless you want to. 2011 – and keep it off. She has since The Scandi Sense Diet is not just about looking good – helped hundreds of although it does work wonders on the physique. It clients to achieve takes a scientific approach that ensures good health their own goals by following the diet. across the board, including regulating blood sugar She has written The and cholesterol. Scandi Sense Diet so that you can see the Suzy Wengel’s 9-day plan is irresistibly simple, and benefits for yourself has proven results that can be seen in the book’s case at home. Suzy lives studies. Put an end to yo-yo dieting in Denmark with her husband Jesper T HE OR IGI NA L and enjoy three satisfying and their five children. BOOK HAS SOLD meals each day, easily SUZY WENGEL MORE THAN 135,000 planned with your LOST 88 POUNDS COPIES IN DENMARK own two hands. (6.3 STONE) USING AND HAS BEEN T HE SCA N DI TRANSLATED INTO SENSE DIET 9 LANGUAGES

Specification March 2018 Mitchell Beazley £16.99 flexiback 9781784725006 256 pages 240 x 170mm 40,000 words 144 photographs and 6 illustrations Rights available: World English language

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Glow15 A science-based plan to lose weight, rejuvenate your skin & invigorate your life Naomi Whittel

An exciting new approach for a blueberry smoothie. Specification skincare, wellness & aging based It can be that simple to see May 2018 on the science of autophagy. dramatic results in just 15 days – Aster fast weight loss and glowing, £8.99 PB In addition to natural wear and radiant skin. You don’t count 9781912023639 tear that our bodies experience, calories. You don’t give up entire 304 pages environmental toxins accumulate food groups. And you don’t obsess 198 x 126 mm in our cells, accelerating the signs about the gym. You do, however, 75,000 words Rights not available of aging. Autophagy is the cellular get Naomi Whittel’s advice for process that removes these toxins sleep, travel, stress reduction and repairs the damage left behind. and productivity, as well as On Glow15, you start each day delicious and nutritious recipes with an autophagy-activating for eating the Glow15 way - ketogenic tea and a light, full-fat everything that this 42-year NAOMI HAS BEEN breakfast, followed by intermittent -old CEO and mother of FEATURED ON DR fasting and protein cycling. You eat four young children does OZ AND G OOD foods that activate autophagy – to look and feel amazing. MORNING AMERICA, like dairy, red wine, grains and AND IN T HE N E W YORK TIMES, VOGUE AND MORE The G Plan Diet: Illustrated edition The revolutionary diet for gut-healthy weight loss Amanda Hamilton & Hannah Ebelthite

The revolutionary diet that helps you want to increase your energy Specification you lose weight by improving gut and vitality at the same time? May 2018 health - as seen on ITV’s Save The latest research in nutrition Aster Money: Good Health. suggests that if you want to lose £12.99 PB weight for good, you need a healthy 9781912023752 ‘The beauty of the G Plan is that gut with a diversity of good 160 pages it’s about abundance...You’ll be bacteria. Beginning with a 235 x 190 mm 40,000 words surprised how quickly positive digestive ‘rest’ and including the 80 colour affects appear!’ 10 best gut healthy foods, the 21 photographs Top Sante day plan will help you say goodbye Rights available: World to bloating and discomfort, lose ‘G Plan the diet that really works’ even stubborn weight and look Irish Sunday Independent forward to increased energy, clear skin and improved mood. Over 40 Losing weight never felt so good. recipes are included that are quick Do you want to lose weight and easy to prepare, and success easily and healthily? Do you want stories are featured throughout. to improve your gut health? Do The G Plan Diet is weight loss+.

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T HE SU N DAY TI M E S The Midlife Kitchen BESTSELLER, NOW I N Health-boosting recipes for midlife & beyond PAPERBACK Mimi Spencer & Sam Rice

Future-proof your life through ingredients in the most delicious Specification your forties, fifties and beyond combinations to give yourself the February 2018 with these delicious, fuss-free best possible odds for a healthy Mitchell Beazley recipes that restore, rejuvenate future. Mimi Spencer and Sam £16.99 PB and revive. Rice have created more than 150 9781784724771 recipes to restore, rejuvenate and 304 pages Are you at a point in your life revive. With these recipes, you can 246 x 189mm where health is becoming more future-proof your life through your 50,000 words 150 colour of a priority? Midlife is a glorious forties, fifties and well beyond. illustrations opportunity to wrestle back control Each recipe features their Rights sold: Ger, of your eating in the interests of colour-coded star anise system, Nor, Fra, Spa, Hol health, happiness and a long life. which highlights the specific Busy lives require simple, sustaining health benefits of the dish. ‘NO FADS. recipes that incorporate health- NO GIMMICKS. giving ingredients without too JUST DELICIOUS, much fanfare or fuss. HEALTH- This is what The Midlife Kitchen BOOSTING FOOD’ is all about: eating gorgeous – DAILY MAIL

Beauty Food 85 recipes for health & beauty from within Maria Ahlgren

Nourish your hair and skin with Maria Ahlgren is a Swedish Specification recipes to bring out the very best health and beauty editor, who June 2018 in you, inside and out. has previously written for Mitchell Beazley publications such as Elle. She £14.99 HB Enjoy healthy recipes for worked as a beauty, health and 9781784724832 breakfast, filling main meals, fashion journalist in Tokyo for 160 pages juices, smoothies and even several years, where she first 240 x 170mm 35,000 words delicious desserts and decadent became aware of the concept of 85 photographs cocktails – all carefully chosen to beauty food. Rights available: bring you the perfect blend of World English language natural superfoods that boost beauty from the inside. Beauty Food also includes a Beautypedia, telling you which ingredients contain just the right oils, minerals, vitamins and acids to help with common beauty ailments.

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Simple Spice 120 easy Indian recipes with just 10 spices Cyrus Todiwala

Innovative Indian food made astonishing range of dishes that Specification easy – just 10 spices are used will spice up any mealtime, such as March 2018 throughout the book. Prawn & Crab Masala Omelette, Mitchell Beazley Venison Kebabs, Garlic & Red £15.00 PB Cyrus Todiwala is known for Chilli Chicken, Hot Smoked 9781784724818 combining flavours, spices and Salmon Tikka and Saffron & 240 pages ingredients in ways no other Cardamom Crème Brûlée. 246 x 189mm Indian chef has ever done before. 56,000 words 75 photographs He loves mixing Western dishes OBE, DL, runs Cyrus Todiwala Rights available: with Indian flavourings to create three successful restaurants in World recipes that make innovative and London, has written a number of delicious use of spices. cookery books and in 2013 Offering an entirely fresh look at co-presented The Incredible Spice spices, Cyrus takes just 10 of his Men on BBC TV. He also makes favourites and bases 120 recipes frequent appearances on BBC around them. Using his special Saturday Kitchen and in other spice box and a selection of fresh media. ingredients, he conjures up an

Distilled From absinthe & brandy to gin & whisky, the world’s finest artisan spirits unearthed, explained & enjoyed Joel Harrison & Neil Ridley

A guide to exploring the Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley Specification burgeoning world of craft spirits. explain what you need to know to May 2018 appreciate a spirit – its ingredients, Mitchell Beazley Today’s world of spirits is its classic forms, the choices a £12.99 PB experiencing an explosive increase distiller makes in creating it – and 9781784724467 in craft distillers and pioneers offer their picks to ‘Drink Before 224 pages of new distillates. It’s about men You Expire’ – the world’s best 210 x 149mm 50,000 words and women tearing up rule books examples of their type, from gin 100 colour and creating new spirits with and rum to shochu and tequila. photographs extraordinary personality and There are plenty of suggestions for Rights sold: Ger, Kor, Chi, Swe, Spa, passion. how to drink too, with innovative Cze, Slo This book uncovers the best and classic cocktails and their spirits the world has to offer. These insider tips on getting the best out are not necessarily the best-known of your spirits. examples on the planet – though if they are good, they have a place FORTNUM & here – but the best crafted and MASON FOOD & most interesting. Spirit by spirit DR I N K AWA R DS DRINK BOOK OF WWW.OCTOPUSBOOKS.CO.UK THE YEAR 2015 5 » SPRING ADDITIONS

GIN SALES IN Gin Cocktails / Prosecco Cocktails THE UK HAVE DOUBLED IN VALUE Classic & contemporary cocktails OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS.

Two delightfully presented something bubly, or sweet, or Specification cocktail recipe collections dangerously dry, in one, or, both June 2018 featuring all things Gin and of these charming gift books. Hamlyn all things Prosecco. Including a brief introduction on £10.00 HB cocktails and a handy section of Gin Cocktails: 9780753733103 There’s nothing quite like a chilled tips and techniques on how to craft Prosecco Cocktails: glass of prosecco on a hot day. the perfect drink, recipes are then 9780753733097 Or on a cold day. But then there’s split into the following chapters: 128 pages nothing like a gin and tonic either. • Light & Floral 210 x 149 mm 10,000 words Or a Prosecco Royale. Or a • Vibrant & Zesty 20-30 colour Negroni. Or a Dry Martini. Here • Intense & Sultry photographs & you’ll find two collections of • Sharers and Punches illustrations Rights available: easy-to-follow classic and • Classics World contemporary cocktail recipes that celebrate Prosecco, or gin, but PROSECCO undoubtedly all things ‘cocktail’. OU TSOL D Whatever your (or your friend’s, CH A MPAGN E BY or your second cousin’s) preferred TEN TO ONE AT tipple, you’ll be sure to find THE END OF 2017! Speeches that Made History Over 100 of the most influential speeches ever made

A collection of speeches, better, at other times with the most Specification anecdotes and quotes from some devastating results. June 2018 of history’s poignant moments, From Newton’s equation for Cassell and the people who made them. the Universal Law of Gravity, to £15.00 Flexiback Barack Obama’s Presidential 9780753732939 For many thousands of years, acceptance speech, all have 192 pages people have used oratory to chronicled our history... 210 x 170 mm influence others, but what exactly 45,000 words Rights available makes a good speech? Is it the World choice of words, the feelings they express or the lasting effect that F E AT U R I NG: the speech has had on the course PLATO, OLIVER of history? CROMWELL, GEORGE W. Covering broad topics such as BUSH, ANDY WARHOL, ancient history, love, science and VIRGIL, KARL MARX, philosophy, these speeches have ROSA PARKS, ALBERT all inspired people to act or think EINSTEIN, AND MANY differently – sometimes for the MORE!

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On the Edge of Infinity Uncovering the Visible World's Scientific Beauty Stefan Klein

Germany’s best-selling science author takes everyday objects and events and weaves them into the sublime fabric of the universe in this highly accessible and beautifully written smart-thinking book.

• How a rose blossom can demonstrate that nothing and nobody exists on their own. • How a hurricane can reveal the world’s unpredictability. Stefan Klein • How the exploits of burglars in New York and London can studied physics and analytical demonstrate how everything can be in two places at once. philosophy in • How a DIY accident can prompt debate on whether the Munich, Grenoble void can exist. and Freiburg, and conducted research • How a greying beard might demonstrate the in the field of irreversibility of time. theoretical biophysics. He turned to writing This book transforms a simple everyday thing such because he ‘wanted as a rose blossom, or a day of stormy weather, into a key to inspire people with a reality that is to understanding the most complex ideas and theories in more exciting than 21st century physics. Through clever use of analogy, Klein any crime novel’. His renders the complexities and intricacies of physics book The Science of Happiness (2002) accessible to a reader with no previous knowledge of the topped all the subject. In doing so, he demonstrates that scientific progress German bestseller lists. His most is as much, if not more, about the unanswered questions, recent bestseller, the dark corners, as it is about what we have discovered; Träume: Eine Reise our knowledge constitutes merely ‘an island in an ocean in unsere innere Wirklichkeit, of ignorance’. received the A thought-provoking and original way in to the most prestigious intriguing scientific theories and ideas, designed to be Deutsche Lesepreis 2016. accessible to anyone who has ever been curious about the »twitter workings of our universe. @StefanKKlein

Photo by Andreas Labes W R I T T E N BY ST EFA N K L EI N, BEST-SELLING AND Specification AWARD-WINNING June 2018 SCIENCE AUTHOR Cassell IN HIS NATIVE £12.99 HB GERMANY 9781788400602 240 pages 190 x 115 mm 40,000 words 5 images Rights available: UK & Commonwealth, excluding Canada

WWW.OCTOPUSBOOKS.CO.UK 7 » SPRING ADDITIONS VICTORIA H A R R ISON WA S NOMINATED AS THE BEST INTERIOR DESIGN CRAFT BLOGGER IN Happy by Design BOTH 2015 AND 2016 How to create a home that boosts your health & happiness BY AMARA Victoria Harrison

A collection of simple, practical Home Programme to help Specification ideas for homes large and small. everyone transform their living June 2018 spaces and put wellbeing at the Aster Happy by Design teaches us how heart of their homes. With fun £12.99 HB we can actively improve our health and easy ideas for each room in 9781912023561 and wellbeing through the way we the home, the programme is easy 160 pages design our living spaces. From the to follow and packed with tips and 200 x 165 mm paint colour that’s been named the inspiration to help everyone live 33,000 words 165 colour happiest, to the science of getting the happiest life possible. photographs a good night’s sleep, Happy by & illustrations Rights available: Design offers bite-sized and Victoria Harrison is the UK World affordable design ideas that are Editor of Houzz and an interiors accessible to all, from a young columnist for the Metro renter in an urban apartment to newspaper. She has worked as a busy family in their own home. a writer and stylist on leading By quizzing experts from NASA interior design titles such as Ideal scientists to colour gurus, Victoria Home, House Beautiful, The Harrison has devised a Happy English Home and Real Homes.

The Power of Yes Positive and practical advice to help you live life to the full Abbie Headon

How one magical word • ‘Yes Labs’ offer can-do, concrete Specification can change your life. ideas that brings ‘yes’ into every June 2018 part of your life. Ilex Press Unleash the power of “yes” and • Learn how to ‘Tune Out the £9.99 PB discover all the amazing things Critics’ – internal and external. 9781781576007 it can do for you. • Find inspirational stories of yes. 160 pages So often we are afraid of failure, • ‘Yes But’ shows us how to make 210 x 149 mm of disappointment, of being our yeses work for us. 13.300 words vulnerable, that we settle for “no”. Rights available The practical tips and inspirational Abbie Headon is the author advice within these pages will help of Poetry First Aid Kit and you embrace positivity and find a Literary First Aid Kit. She BR I M MI NG new sense of freedom in each area lives in Southsea, UK, WITH PRACTICAL of your life, from your career, to where she can often be seen ADVICE TO INSPIRE your relationships, to your dreams strolling by the seaside with A CA N-DO and ambitions. a book (or two!) in her hand. ATTITUDE.

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T I MED TO CELEBRATE THE ULTIMATE EVENT When Harry Met Meghan OF 2018 – THE ROYAL A Royal Wedding Dress-Up Doll Book W EDDI NG IN MAY Dan Evans

The ultimate Royal Wedding proposal, accessorised with a Specification souvenir book to celebrate THE Union-Jack apron and a roast March 2018 media event of 2018. chicken. Ilex Press • Join the prince at his imaginary £7.99 PB When Britain’s most lovable prince Las Vegas Bachelor Party complete 9781781576397 32 pages met America’s most beautiful with speedos, cocktails and an 208 x 280mm legal-drama actress, a fairytale inflatable unicorn. 850 words came to life. • Help America’s finest Hollywood 80 illustrations Re-enact this captivating love export into her incognito anti- Rights available story in the comfort of your own paparazzi outfit (hat, sunglasses, home with these handy royal paper handbag as shield). dolls. • Say “yes” to the dress as Meghan Dan Evans lives in North London tries on stylish wedding gowns. and has been drawing since he • Enjoy a royal Christmas as the could hold a pencil. He mostly couple kick back in an elf suit and draws robots, wrestlers and a reindeer onesie. football players.This is his • Relive that intimate marriage first royal commission. PU BL ISHED TO COINCIDE WITH ORLA KIELY: A LIFE IN PATTERN, AN EXHIBITION AT THE FASHION AND A Life in Pattern TEXTILE MUSEUM, LONDON, 25 MAY– And how it can make you happy without you even noticing 23 SEPTEMBER Orla Kiely 2018

A beautifully illustrated This is a celebration of Orla’s Specification exploration of Orla Kiely’s entire body of work – of colour, May 2018 design evolution, published to of print and of a handbag loved Conran coincide with a major exhibition by women all over the world. £25.00 PB 9781840917802 Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern at Foreword written by Leith 304 pages The Fashion and Textile Museum. Clark, founder of The Violet Book 280 x 216mm and previously Lula magazine. c.5,000 words Orla Kiely has opened her archives 320 photographs to explore a life dedicated to print. Orla Kiely is the visionary and and illustrations Rights available: From her earliest and most iconic founder of a global brand. An World pattern, Stem, to the evolution of expert on print and colour, she has her print design encompassing the created a world that is renowned for worlds of fashion, homewares and its individual voice and unique beyond, Orla shares the full range perspective on both fashion and of patterns and designs that she homeware. Her work is presented has produced since establishing at London Fashion Week, and her brand in 1995. extends into luggage, stationery, gardening and homeware.

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Bullet Grid Journals

Organize your life with the bullet journalling phenomenon. Specification June 2018 Most of us need lists, and different forms of trackers and calendars to Ilex Press keep on top things. A bullet journal brings together all these sources into £10.00 HB a single personalized system. 9781781576168 144 pages How does it work? 210 x 149mm You simply use bullet points and short notes to list appointment details, 1450 words Rights available: tasks and important information. Word

How will it change my life? If you’re sick of piles of half-used notebooks, lists on the pinboard, sticky notes on your computer and electronic diaries, this unique journal will bring together everything in one place for a happier, calmer life.

What do I need? You only need a pen or pencil to get started. Use colours, stickers, stamps Specification and washi tape to personalize your pages. June 2018 Ilex Press £10.00 HB Includes: 9781781575987 • Full instructions on how to bullet journal 144 pages • Dot-gridded, numbered pages for journaling 210 x 149mm • A handy pocket to store receipts, tickets and business cards 1450 words • Elastic closure Rights available: Word

GROWING TREND - ALMOST 1.2 MILLION #BULLETJOURNAL I NSTAGR A M POSTS Specification June 2018 Ilex Press £10.00 HB T HR EE 9781781576151 JOURNALS TO 144 pages CHOOSE FROM 210 x 149mm WITH STYLISH 1450 words PAT T ER N ED Rights available: Word PACKAGING

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Cute Kawaii Doodles Sarah Alberto

Learn how to draw 100 super- create a whole host of charming Specification cute doodles. characters. June 2018 Ilex Press Bursting with ideas for illustrators Sarah Alberto is the artist £9.99 PB and those who have never sketched behind the YouTube channel 9781781576335 before, this inspirational book will ‘Doodles by Sarah’. A big geek at 240 pages teach you how to draw more than heart, she started making videos 165 x 134mm 100 adorable doodles and in 2015 as a creative outlet. 3,000 words 600 images super-cute characters in just a few Rights available : easy steps. Starting with a simple World English shape such as a circle or a square, language Sarah Alberto – aka Doodles by SARAH ALBERTO Sarah – shows you how to OV ER 300K transform these into a quirky SUBSCRIBERS ON HER plant, a cute doughnut, a YOU T U BE CH A N N EL , characterful face, a dainty cloud, DOODLES BY SARAH AND and much, much more. 32.5K FOL LOW ER S Annotated with quick tips and ON INSTAGRAM @ tricks to explain the process, the SARAZOREL. visual steps will show you how to

What Would Unicorn Do? Magical Rules for a Happy Life Sarah Ford, illustrated by Anita Mangan

A little book of invaluable hopscotch over all of life’s trials to Specification Unicorn life lessons. a place where the grass definitely June 2018 grows greener. Spruce Unicorn took the world by storm £5.99 Flexiback with his sweet nature, sunny Sarah Ford is a writer and 9781846015663 outlook and positive attitude in the publisher with a love of cocktails, 96 pages best-selling feel-good book Be a coffee and animals... mythical or 147 x 105mm 1,000 words Unicorn. Now he is back with this otherwise. She lives in the Cotswolds, Over 40 unicorn little book of life lessons. but works in London, travelling illustrations Looking for some guidance on back and forth on a unicorn. Rights available: World how to live a happy, sparkling life? Or just wondering which path to Anita Mangan is a graphic trot along? Look no further than designer and illustrator living, Unicorn, the best (and probably working and breathing in London. only) four-legged, one-horned She has made a career out of being BE A happiness guru. silly and has recently developed UNICORN HAS With enlightenment on every cloven hoofs. SOL D OV ER page, let Unicorn teach you how to 92, 000 COPIES WORLDWIDE WWW.OCTOPUSBOOKS.CO.UK 11 » FoOD & Drink

The Ritz London The cookbook John Williams, MBE

Recipes from the legendary London hotel.

The Ritz London: The cookbook features over 100 delicious recipes, such as Roast scallops bergamot & avocado, Saddle of lamb Belle Époque and Grand Marnier soufflé, and is divided into the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. The recipes reflect the glorious opulence and John Williams celebratory ambience of The Ritz; with seasonal has overseen The Ritz restaurant since dishes of fish, shellfish, meat, poultry and game, plus 2004. He is a humble spectacular desserts along with dishes for breakfast, man who, as a teenage tea time – and cocktail hour. There are recipes that are chef, came from England’s north-east simple and others for the more ambitious cook, plus to London, propelled helpful tips to guide you at home. by an ambition to cook for ‘very special people’. That dream has long been realised: John’s food is relished by royalty and savoured by presidents and prime ministers. His career includes 17 years in the kitchens of Claridge’s. John has received numerous honours during his Praise for The Ritz London time at The Ritz, including a Michelin star (in 2016), an ‘The dining room has long attracted old- MBE and a Chevalier THE RITZ A LONDON world grandees and now enjoys a new stream de l’Ordre du Merite INSTITUTION Agricol (the first R E STAU R A N T WA S of gastronauts eager to try Williams’ “Menu British chef to receive HAILED BY THE SINCE 1906 Surprise” for the first time ... Extraordinary such an honour). SUNDAY TIMES A S ON E standards.’ – British GQ »twitter OF THE TOP 100 @theritzlondon @jwilliamschef R E STAU R A N TS I N THE UK IN 2017 ‘[John Williams’] distinctive classical British dishes match their beautiful surrounding.’ – Telegraph Specification September 2018 Mitchell Beazley ‘John’s remarkable career is an example to £30.00 HB anyone who wants to become the very best in 9781784724962 the culinary world.’ – Andrew Oxley, Head 240 pages of Hotel & Hospitality Services at The AA 300 x 215 mm 60,000 words More than 100 colour photographs & illustrations Rights available: World

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Leon Happy One-pot Cooking Rebecca Seal & John Vincent

Award-winning restaurant Leon brings you more Rebecca Seal than 100 easy recipes that can be made using only writes for the Financial Times, one pot. Evening Standard, the Observer, the Leon, the home of naturally fast food, has created a Guardian, Red and The Sunday Times. collection of more than 100 fuss-free, full-of-flavour Her cookbooks recipes for main course dishes that you can create with include Istanbul: Recipes from the only one cooking pot, pan or baking tray. heart of Turkey, Whether you are looking for a simple mid-week Lisbon: Recipes supper, a quick weekend lunch or something posh from the heart of Portugal and Leon: (but easy) to serve to friends, this book has the answer. Happy Soups with From one-pan pastas to warming tagines, fragrant John Vincent. She is tray-baked fish and veg to Asian-inspired stir-fries, one of the food and drink experts on Leon Happy One-pot Cooking is all about the food and Channel 4’s Sunday not the washing up. Brunch. Includes recipes that are Naturally Fast, Fresh & John Vincent Easy, Cosy & Warm, Posh, Low & Slow and Simple is co-founder of Leon, which now Suppers. has more than 45 restaurants. He wrote Leon Naturally Fast L EON H A PPY Food with Henry Dimbleby, Leon S A L A DS Family & HAS SOLD MORE Friends with Kay Plunkett-Hogge, THAN 60,000 Leon Happy Salads COPIES and Leon Fast & Free with Jane Baxter and Leon Happy Soups with ‘LEON IS THE Rebecca Seal. F U T U R E’ – GILES COREN, »twitter THE TIMES @leonrestaurants

Previously from Leon

Specification October 2018 Conran £15.99 HB 9781840917727 224 pages 200 x 200mm 35,000 words c. 100 photographs Rights sold: Hol

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Cook Slow 90 simple, chilled-out, stress-free recipes for slow cookers & conventional ovens Dean Edwards

Cook Slow features 90 delicious slow cooker recipes, all with conventional oven options, which will make you fall back in love with food again.

‘There is a time and a place for all types of cooking, but it was the process of slow cooking that really got my Dean Edwards creative juices flowing and reinvigorated my passion After coming second in BBC’s for food. Since the day I started to cook, it wasn’t just the Masterchef Goes end result that I loved, it was the process. The chopping, Large in 2006, stirring, simmering and tasting along the way, makes Dean Edwards sought to change his the experience...I believe that cooking food slowly is the life radically by ideal method for transforming basic ingredients into leaving his career as a digger driver to something very special.’ - Dean Edwards pursue his love of cooking and food. Dean’s fresh approach allows you to fit the enjoyment Dean’s likeable persona and of planning, preparing and creating a meal into a busy family-friendly life. Enjoy family favourites such as Three cheese mac cooking style made with chorizo crumb, Sticky cherry cola baby-back ribs him a firm favourite on ITV’s Lorraine, and Slow cooker vegetable lasagne or try something but he originally new with Breakfast shakshuka, Pork belly bahn mi or made his ITV debut on This Morning in Smoky ox cheek chilli nachos. September 2009, where he featured in a weekly cookery DE A N ’S slot, creating L IK E A BL E A PER F ECT dishes for the ITV audience. PER SONA A N D INTRODUCTION FAMILY-FRIENDLY FOR THOSE NEW TO »twitter COOKING STYLE HAVE SLOW COOKING AND @deanedwardschef MADE HIM A FIRM FOR SLOW COOKER »instagram FAVOURITE ON ITV’S OW N ER S LOOK I NG @deanedwardschef LORRAINE FOR A NEW TWIST

Specification September 2018 Hamlyn £14.99 PB 9781784724306 224 pages 235 x 190 mm 45,000 words 70 colour photographs & illustrations Rights available: World

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The Higgidy Cookbook 100 recipes for pies and more Camilla Stephens

Delicious, satisfying recipes from award-winning brand Higgidy.

Higgidy is known for its scrumptious pies and tarts. In this updated edition of their debut cookbook, co-founder and chief pie maker Camilla Stephens ventures beyond pastry with new recipes for healthy and delicious frittatas and more. Also included of Camilla course are mouth-watering Higgidy classics such as Stephens trained at Leiths Chicken Pot Pie, the Best Quiche Lorraine and Salted School of Food & Pecan Fudge Pie. Wine. She worked From chapters on Simple Suppers and Quirky for several years as a food writer Quiches to Party Pies and Sweet Treats, all your and editor before cooking needs are covered, so you can enjoy a Simple becoming head Fish Pie for an after-work supper, Lemony Asparagus of development for Starbucks, & Ricotta Tart for a summer picnic, Little Hot Dog expanding their Rolls and Mini Chorizo and Chilli Tartlets for a party food range. She co-founded Higgidy and a Chocolate Snowflake Tart as a wintry treat. in 2003, following With Camilla’s expert guidance on foolproof pastry her philosophy of techniques added in, this is a wonderful source of nourishing home cooking and shared heartwarming recipes for family and friends. mealtimes. In Camilla’s own words: ‘Food brings colour to our lives – HIGGIDY’S it nourishes, comforts and THE RETAIL SALES sustains. But above ORIGINAL HAVE ALMOST all, it brings people together’. EDITION OF THIS DOUBLED OVER THE BOOK SOLD MORE LAST 4 YEARS FROM »twitter THAN 17K £18M TO @higgidy COPIES VIA £32M TCM

Specification October 2018 Mitchell Beazley £20.00 HB 9781784724931 224 pages 235 x 190mm 40,000 words 150 photographs and illustrations Rights available: World

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Eat Shop Save Recipes & mealplanners to help you EAT healthier, SHOP smarter and SAVE serious money at the same time Dale Pinnock

Eat Shop Save your way to happiness, weight loss, quality family time and more money.

Television tie-in Eat Shop Save contains over 80 recipes to restore sanity to the challenges of family cooking. Focusing on the time-poor in particular, these Dale Pinnock delicious meals will put a smile on the fussiest of eaters is the bestselling author of The and entice families with chapters such as: Simple Medicinal Chef: Eat After Work Suppers, Favourites with a Facelift and your Way to Better Something Sweet (but good for you). Health, the Guild of Food Writers Food is just the beginning. Using smart shopping award-winning The and meal planning as a basis, you’ll find tips to get Medicinal Chef: Healthy Every Day, organised, save money and free up precious time. The Power of Three, and a ground- • Weekly meal planners in each chapter help you breaking series of books to target save money specific ailments - • Make your own quicker, healthier ‘takeaways’ diabetes, Hide vegetables for fussy eaters depression, heart • disease and • Become a smart shopper digestion. Dale's • Upcycle leftover ingredients books have been translated in to 13 • Give classic dishes a facelift languages and have sold 300k copies around the world.

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DALE’S BOOKS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED IN TO 13 LANGUAGES AND HAVE SOLD 300K COPIES AROUND THE WORLD

SER IE S ON E TOOK T HE Specification NATION BY STORM, July 2018 GATHRING 3 MILLION Mitchell Beazley V IEW ER S A N D £14.99 PB A 15.5% SHARE 9781784725341 208 pages 246 x 189 mm 40,000 words More than 80 colour photographs Rights available: World

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Louise Parker: The Ultimate 6-Week Programme Six weeks to red carpet-ready

Live like an A-Lister and pamper yourself thin Louise Parker with this guided weight loss plan from the Sunday has spent 20 years learning, Time bestselling author. researching, testing and improving The With over 70 delicious recipes, positive coaching tips, Louise Parker Method. Her clients practical exercise routines and meal planners, Louise include CEOs and Parker’s Ultimate 6-Week Programme will kickstart celebrities too A-list to name, as well as your healthy lifestyle. Whether you’re getting married, figures from high training for something, planning a beach holiday or society and royal simply want to make a positive change, Louise will family members from around the help you achieve stellar results. Most importantly, world. To date, over she'll mentor you through every step – training you to 11,000 people in change your habits for the long-term and protect the more than 28 countries have results for life. completed a Louise Every day you’ll be inspired by Louise’s 4-pillar Parker programme. Many are willing to programme: Eat Beautifully, Live Well, Think pay thousands of Successfully and Work Out Intelligently. You’ll be pounds for the guided through a specific programme to help trigger unique plan. Louise now runs the Louise weight loss, keep it up and, most importantly, Parker company maintain the results. Daily goals are clearly laid out on with her husband the page ensuring you get the correct balance and Paul, who left his job 4 years ago to help making life as easy as possible. keep up with the As the weeks go on Louise will also provide tips on ever-increasing demand for The how to prepare mentally, get organised, plan Louise Parker efficiently and de-stress – as well as giving you A-List Method. They live

beauty and style tips. She’ll encourage you to keep an in London with ‘LOUISE IS their 3 daughters. inspiration scrapbook and a progress journal. THE ONLY ONE You’ll drop dress sizes and get fit without looking OU T T HER E »twitter haggard or feeling sluggish on your big day. The most @figuremagician I TRUST’ – EMMA important thing is that you enjoy it! instagram THOMPSON » @figuremagician

OV ER Praise for The Louise Parker Method 120K COPIES Previously f rom Louise Parker SOLD ‘Louise Parker, AKA the figure magician, has worked her magic on actors, athletes, pop stars, politicians and princesses and believes absolutely anyone can Specification have a sensational body.’ – Glamour December 2018 Mitchell Beazley £20.00 HB ‘Louise Parker is one of the very few weight-loss 9781784725372 experts worth the title. A genius method, 224 pages an unbelievable client list and years of experience.’ 235 x 190 mm – Good Housekeeping 40,000 words More than 100 colour photographs & illustrations ‘Quite simply the most intelligent weight-loss Rights available: programme out there.’ – Independent World

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The Art & Science of Foodpairing 10,000 flavour matches that will transform the way you eat Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse & Johan Langenbick

Foodpairing is a method for identifying which The foods go well together, based on groundbreaking Foodpairing Company scientific research that combines neurogastronomy is a creative (how the brain perceives flavour) with the analysis food-tech agency of aroma profiles derived from the chemical that works with chefs, bartenders, components of food. cookery schools, pastry chefs, This exciting new book explains why the food product developers and other culinary combinations we know and love work so well together creatives to provide (strawberries + chocolate, for example) and opens up a new possible food whole new world of delicious pairings (strawberries + combinations based on the intrinsic parmesan, say) that will transform the way we eat. properties of With ten times more pairings than any other book on different foods. The team analyses foods flavour, plus the science behind flavours explained, under laboratory Foodpairing will become the go-to reference for conditions to flavour and an instant classic for anyone interested in identify which flavour components how to eat well. they have in common, and operates one of the ‘We build tools to create culinary happiness’ world’s largest – Foodpairing.com ingredient and flavour databases. ‘There is a world of exciting flavour Peter Coucquyt is a combinations out there and when they work chef and co-founder it’s incredibly exciting.’ of Foodpairing™. Bernard Lahousse MOR E – Heston Blumenthal is a bio-engineer F L AVOU R and co-founder of Foodpairing™. M ATCHE S FOODPA IR I NG Johan Langenbick T H AT A N Y IS ONE OF THE is an entrepreneur OT HER WOR L D’S L A RGE ST and co-founder of Foodpairing™. BOOK F L AVOU R DATABASES »twitter @foodpairing »instagram @foodpairing

Specification November 2018 Mitchell Beazley £30.00 HB 9781784722906 384 pages 246 x 189 mm 90,000 words More than 100 colour photographs & illustrations Rights available: World

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GIZZI HAS BEEN NAMED ONE OF THE LONDON E V E N I NG Gizzi’s Season’s Eatings STANDARD’S 1000 MOST Feasts & Celebrations from Halloween to Happy New Year INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE SIX TIMES Gizzi Erskine

Recipes & inspiration for the piercer in Camden, Gizzi Erskine Specification ultimate holiday celebration. decided to pursue her life-long dream September 2018 of being a chef, training at the Mitchell Beazley No one loves a get-together more prestigious Leith’s School of Food and £14.99 PB than Gizzi, so in her latest book Wine. She graduated the top of her 9781784724948 she shows you how to create delicious, year and went on to win a placement 240 pages crowd-pleasing fare for every at BBC Good Food magazine, 246 x 189 mm 56,500 words occasion. Christmas dinner with all establishing herself as an award- More than 250 the trimmings, a New Year’s winning food writer and stylist. A colour photographs brunch or a frightful feast for career in TV started with the popular & illustrations Rights available : Halloween: whatever the occasion, C4 primetime show, Cook Yourself World you will find something special to Thin, and she has since appeared on share with the ones you love. Recipes dozens of shows from Iron Chef to Sky include Boxing Day turkey mole 1’s Ones to Watch and Jamie Oliver’s enchiladas, Bonfire night sausage Food Tube network. Her previous casserole, Thanksgiving clambake books include the bestselling Gizzi’s and Dense chocolate Christmas cake. Healthy Appetite. After 7 years as a professional body

A Soup a Day 365 delicious soups for every day of the year

The ultimate collection of Chestnut Soup with Truffle Oil Specification soups for every day of the year. and Mediterranean Garlic Soup. September 2018 Be it a hot summer’s day or a Hamlyn We are all being encouraged wintry afternoon, you will discover £8.99 PB to eat more vegetables, current a soup to fit any occasion. 9780600635406 guidelines say 5 pieces of fruit 224 pages and vegetables a day, but 210 x 149 mm 50,000 words nutritionists would rather it was More than 80 colour nearer 7, yet the reality is that T HE J U ICE photographs many people don’t even eat 2 Rights available: CL E A NSE H A S World pieces! Soup is an easy way to up TAKEN ON A NEW our consumption of vegetables SPIN, WITH SOUPS without it feeling worthy. BEING A HEALTHY Featuring 365 recipes with A N D HE A RT IER easy-to-follow instructions, DETOX OPTION A Soup a Day is packed with delicious soups for each day of the year, including Chillied Gazpacho,

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The Healthiest Ingredients An Aster series The Matcha Cookbook

The health benefits and uses of popularity with health foodies and Specification matcha, with delicious recipes, wellness seekers, with over 2.7 August 2018 both culinary and beauty. million posts on Instagram. Aster Research shows that matcha can £10.00 HB From a simple matcha latte, to ice reduce the risk of cancer, improve 9781912023554 cream, infused salt, smoothie heart health, aid recovery from 128 pages 210 x 149 mm bowls, tea loaves and homemade exercise and help prevent ageing; 12,000 words beauty recipes, this book explores the traditional matcha tea alone Over 50 colour the history, health benefits and 50 contains the nutritional equivalent photographs delicious recipes using this super of 10 cups of regular green tea, Rights available: World healthy ingredient. As an with 137 times more antioxidants, ingredient, matcha is growing in acting as the body’s defence agents.

The Cacao Cookbook The health benefits and uses of Research shows that raw cacao Specification cacao, with delicious recipes, contains anti-inflammatory and October 2018 both culinary and beauty. heart protective antioxidants Aster which can help reduce the risk of £10.00 HB Cacao was once considered by strokes, prevent premature ageing, 9781912023769 ancient Mayan and Aztec balance hormones, improve 128 pages civilisations as a food of the gods. digestion and combat fatigue. 210 x 149 mm 12,000 words In modern day it is undeniably From the sweet to the savoury, Over 50 colour one of the nature’s healthiest The Cacao Cookbook is packed photographs ingredients; this Amazonian with nutritious cacao recipes Rights available: superfood is full of potent including breakfast smoothies, World antioxidants (40 times more raw brownies, snack bars, steak, than blueberries), vitimins and ice cream and homemade beauty minerals. products.

The Seaweed Cookbook The health benefits and good for vegans as this vitamin is Specification uses of seaweed, with usually found in animal sources. December 2018 delicious recipes, both It also contains iodine, which helps Aster culinary and beauty. promote a healthy metabolism. £10.00 HB A little seaweed goes a long way 9781912023790 While seaweed remains a core and so it is perfect as a seasoning. 128 pages culinary ingredient in Asia, It can be used to flavour both sweet 210 x 149 mm 12,000 words these traditions are enjoying and savoury, from broths, salads Over 50 colour a resurgence across the world, and stews to scones, shortbread, photographs from California to Cornwall, chocolate and granola. And Rights available: Norway, Sweden and Denmark. because it is so good for our skin, World Seaweed is one of nature’s there will also be homemade healthiest foods. Rich in beauty recipes. vitamin B12, it is particularly

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F ROM T HE The Art of the Party AUTHOR OF THE MUCH-LOV ED Drinks & Nibbles for Easy Entertaining MAKE MINE A Kay Plunkett-Hogge MARTINI

Fuss-free food and drink recipes suitable for relaxed entertaining.

Kay Plunkett-Hogge demonstrates that entertaining need not be stressful with more than 90 deliciously simple recipes for cocktails and finger food that can easily be scaled up and made in advance. Kay draws Kay Plunkett- on her own party-planning experience to help you be Hogge is a well-respected the perfect host, with handy tips on everything from food and drink guest list to painless clean-up. writer with a wide Features favourite recipes from three of Kay’s culinary repertoire and an in-depth previous books, including the award-winning Make knowledge of the Mine A Martini, as well as new creations such as Mini drinks industry. Cornbreads with Bacon, Chilli and Cheese, Smoked Kay’s acclaimed cocktail book, Make Mackerel Paté and Scandinavian Glögg. Mine a Martini, was chosen by the Financial Times as one of the best food ‘Kay can cook – but she can shake a damn fine and drink books of the year. Kay has cocktail too.’ – Heston Blumenthal written for FT Weekend, the Daily ‘Kay Plunkett-Hogge is a great cook, and the Telegraph and Olive and currently writes best – and funniest – drinking partner a girl a regular column for could want. Always fun, always feisty – she is delicious. She lives in London with her a tonic.’ – Diana Henry husband, two cats and a dog.

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Specification July 2018 Mitchell Beazley £12.99 HB 9781784724634 176 pages 200 x 200mm 26,000 words More than 100 photographs and illustrations Rights available: World

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F ROM T HE Eat Korean FOU N DER OF STREET FOOD Our home cooking & street food COMPA N Y Da-Hae West BUSAN BBQ

Discover the delights of modern ultimate Korean Fried Chicken, Specification Korean cuisine. this book is packed with inventive, July 2018 delicious recipes that will open Mitchell Beazley There’s a great buzz around your eyes to how great modern £15.00 PB Korean food right now, and it’s no Korean food is. 9781784724795 surprise given the robust, addictive 240 pages flavours of the cuisine. With more Da-Hae West was born in Busan, 246 x 189mm than 100 recipes, this book offers South Korea, but raised 50,000 words More than 120 a great introduction, making in England from the age of three. colour photographs Korean cooking easy for any cook. Her mother continued to cook Rights sold: Fra, Hol From Korean store-cupboard Korean food in England, often essentials and classics such as using ingenious substitutions, kimchi, japchae (stir-fried Royal so Da-Hae enjoyed Korean noodles), bibimbap (Korean mixed breakfasts, lunches and dinners rice) and mandu (dumplings), every day. With her husband, through to modern Korean recipes Gareth West, she started the street including the irresistible Bulgogi food company Busan BBQ in 2013. Burger, sticky spare ribs and the

T HE HUNGRY The Hungry Student Vegan Cookbook ST U DE N T SER IE S HAS SOLD OVER More than 150 delicious and nutritious vegan recipes 50K COPIES IN THE UK

The ultimate guide to cooking the most out of a tiny student Specification delicious and nutritious vegan budget, creating gourmet feasts July 2018 food while at university, with out of what you can find in your Spruce over 150 recipes to try out. storecupboard, and advice on £8.99 Flexiback what kind of equipment you might 9781846015496 With all the essays and exams, not need to take to uni (read: steal 224 pages to mention the enormous pressure from the kitchen at home). 210x149 45,000 words of having to go out partying four Whether you’re a committed Over 100 colour nights on the trot, staying healthy vegan looking to branch out with photographs and well-fed has never been more some new recipe ideas, or you’re Rights available: World important, and The Hungry just getting started on the road to Student Vegan Cookbook will veganism and want to learn the make sure you eat all the essential ropes of vegan cooking, this is the nutrients to get you through from perfect book to add to your freshers’ week to graduation, all student bookshelf. while following a vegan diet. Alongside the recipes are helpful hints and tips for getting

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Jim Beam Bourbon Cookbook Over 70 recipes & cocktails to make with bourbon Jim Beam

All over the world, bourbon is more popular than ever before – now it’s time to bring it into the kitchen…

The Jim Beam Bourbon Cookbook contains more than 70 delicious, easy-to-make recipes using the world’s no.1 bourbon to bring a whiskey-flavoured Jim Beam twist to your favourite meals and drinks. is the no.1 bourbon in the world. It Enjoy Bourbon Baby Back Ribs and the ultimate is an American Kentucky Quarter Pounder Burger, or try Bourbon institution, first Chocolate Truffles and a creamy New York distilled over 200 years ago Cheesecake – all infused with the classic taste of Jim and passed down Beam® bourbon. With recipes to feed a crowd, for the through seven generations of the barbecue or for everyday eating, there’s a Jim Beam same family. Today, recipe for every occasion. Jim Beam is known Also featuring a chapter looking at the 200-year and respected across the world. history of Jim Beam – from the distilling process to the story of how Jacob Beam sold his first barrel of »twitter whiskey in 1795 – this is the perfect book for the @JimBeam bourbon fan.

JI M BE A M IS THE NO.1 BOURBON IN THE WORLD, SOLD IN MORE THAN 120 UK SALES COUNTRIES OF BOURBON TOPPED £1BN LAST YEAR

Specification September 2018 Mitchell Beazley £15.00 HB 9781784723309 192 pages 200 x 200mm 27,000 words 75 photographs Rights available: World

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Ciderology Everything you’ll ever need to know about cider Gabe Cook

Everything you ever needed to know about cider, from the history of the drink and the traditions surrounding it, to recommended regional varieties and the best terroirs, from the leading UK expert on cider, Gabe Cook.

What is Ciderology? • Ciderology is understanding the way cider-making Gabe Cook has evolved over the centuries, and also which craft is a renowned cider expert who has cider presses are now making the most interesting dedicated himself to ciders to look for at the pub. spreading the love of It’s about learning how terroir and climate affect cider far and wide, • in the UK and the quality of cider, and also what dishes you can abroad. He has incorporate your favourite beverage into when cooking. worked both for some of the biggest • It’s about wassailing, community and tradition, and cider-makers also about the innovative and exciting new presses around, including springing up around the world. Westons and Heineken, and also In Ciderology, Gabe Cook, aka ‘The Ciderologist’, for award-winning shares his passion for all things cider, with an essential indie New Zealand history of the drink and production processes, and craft cider producer, Peckhams. Gabe a round-the-world tour of the most important and now acts as the exciting cider presses in operation. Inside, you’ll find Communications Officer of the delicious recipes incorporating cider, tasting notes National for varieties that you can try yourself, and plenty Association of Cider of anecdotes and stories. Makers, and runs the blog and cider A real treat for the inveterate cider-lover and consultancy, The cider newbie alike, Ciderology has all you’ll ever need Ciderologist. He to know about this increasingly popular drink. regularly appears on C4’s Sunday Brunch, he has CR A F T presented a bottle of CIDER IS cider to the Queen, and in 2017 he was FOL LOW I NG W HER E the Head Judge at CRAFT BEER AND GIN the World Cider REVOLUTION HAVE GONE Awards. Ciderology will be his first book. BEFORE, WITH 13% OF UK ADULTS DRINKING CIDER AT LEAST Specification ONCE A MONTH. September 2018 Spruce £14.99 HB 9781846015656 224 pages 210 x 149 40,000 words 180 images Rights available: World

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The Craft Beer Dictionary An A–Z of craft beer, from hop to glass Richard Croasdale

An A–Z compendium of everything you need to know about craft beer, from history, ingredients and brewing methods to the latest scientific techniques and tasting notes.

Get to grips with the craft beer revolution with this stylish and in-depth guide to the many complex terms and techniques, equipment and varieties that go into Richard creating the perfect beer. Hundreds of entries cover Croasdale is an award- every aspect of the craft beer world, from ingredients, winning journalist, brewing and storing through to tasting notes for the editor-in-chief of many different styles of beer available today. Ferment craft beer magazine, and an Written by award-winning beer expert Richard all-round lover of Croasdale and with stunning illustrations throughout, anything cold and The Craft Beer Dictionary is an essential guide for the hoppy. A member of the Guild of Beer craft beer drinker. Writers, Richard has travelled the world in search of the best beers and brewers, experiencing the diversity of approaches and cultures that make craft beer so exciting. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and can usually be found evangelising in the city’s many excellent beer and whisky bars. GLOBA L CRAFT BEER »twitter SALES ARE @croasdalio PREDICTED TO RISE 20% IN THE COMING YEARS

FOL LOW ING THE TATTOO Specification DICTIONARY, THE August 2018 COFFEE DICTIONARY Mitchell Beazley AND THE GI N £15.00 HB DICTIONARY – MOR E 9781784723880 256 pages THAN 27,000 210 x 149mm COPIES SOLD 35,000 words c. 100 illustrations Rights available : World

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Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2019 Hugh Johnson

The brand new edition of the unrivalled and bestselling Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book.

Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine – in shops, restaurants or on the internet. Now in its 42nd year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide. Hugh Johnson provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. He Hugh Johnson reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to is the world’s pre-eminent writer cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson’s on wine. First Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, published in 1977, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will his Pocket Wine Book sells hundreds of bring out the best in both. This new edition also contains a thousands of copies special supplement on Organic, Natural and Biodynamic Wines. a year. His winning formula of insight, critical appraisal of the world of wine, plus valuable recommendations MOR E and news has been T H A N often-imitated but never bettered. 12 MILLION During the past four COPIE S decades he has SOLD written landmark books on the subject, including his classic The World Atlas of Wine, co-authored with Jancis Robinson, his Wine Companion, first published in 2003, The Story of Wine and Hugh Johnson on Wine. In his spare time he writes about gardening from his home in London.

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‘A THOROUGH Specification GUIDE TO JUST September 2018 A BOU T Mitchell Beazley £12.99 HB EV ERY T HI NG 9781784724825 WORTH DRINKING’ 336 pages – THE TIMES 190 x 89mm 150,000 words 10 photographs Rights sold: Ger

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The Bourbon Bible Eric Zandona

Featuring bourbon biographies, cocktail recipes Eric Zandona and flavour profiles, The Bourbon Bible is the Based in San Francisco, Eric essential guide to this stylish spirit. Zandona is Director of Spirits Bourbon is booming, and this guide will teach you Information at the American Distilling all you need to know about this most fashionable Institute, and a of spirits. Eric Zandona – spirits specialist at the writer for Distiller Magazine. He also American Distilling Institute – explores 140 of the runs the website finest bourbons in the world, from big-name classics EZdrinking.com to tiny craft distilleries, with flavour profiles and and is an author/ editor for the ADI’s recommendations for the best way to drink each one. publishing arm, Also featuring recipes for 20 classic bourbon White Mule Press. cocktails, as well as chapters on the history of bourbon, how the drink is made and the key things you need to »twitter @EZdrinking understand when buying a bottle, The Bourbon Bible is the ultimate guide to the ultimate drink.

BR I TONS DR I N K MOR E THAN 1 MILLION LITRES OF BOURBON EACH UK SALES OF MONTH BOURBON TOPPED £1BN LAST YEAR, MAKING IT AS POPU L A R AS GIN

Specification August 2018 Mitchell Beazley £15.00 HB 9781784724573 224 pages 210 x 149mm 35,000 words c. 200 images Rights available: World

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Whiskey America THE AMERICAN W HISK E Y The Essential Guide to the U.S. Distilling Revolution INDUSTRY SAW 7.8% GROW T H Dominic Roskrow IN 2016

The low-down on the explosion of new whiskies Dominic and distillers in the US, including key whiskies, Roskrow is the former tasting notes, profiles of the best distillers and editor of Whisky what to drink where. Magazine, The Spirits Business and Whiskeria. What can we expect from the best whiskey producers He has written in America today? Whiskey America showcases some eight books on of the most exciting new styles of whiskey and why whisky including The World’s Best they are so special. Whiskies and 1001 With fascinating interviews with some of the Whiskies You Must Taste Before You Die, leading characters in the recent distilling revolution, and has contributed this absorbing book relates the stories of how to several more, successful lawyers, doctors and city slickers made including every edition of The the life-changing decision to turn their backs on Whisky Yearbook. conventional careers to pursue the ‘good life’ of He has had work making spirits in the most far-flung outreaches of published in newspapers and America. And thank goodness they did, because this magazines across new generation of distillers not only customized the world. He has been made a conventional whiskey styles but also invented new Kentucky Colonel ones never seen before. Whiskey America investigates and a Keeper of how best to enjoy the new whiskies – in cocktails, with The Quaich for his contributions to food, mixed or straight – and looks forward to where bourbon and Scotch these exciting American spirits are going next. whisky respectively, and he was named the 2015 Fortnum & Mason Drinks W R I T T E N Writer of the Year. BY THE 2015 A S FORTNUM & MASON OF 2016, »twitter DRINKS WRITER THERE ARE MORE @WhiskyTasting OF THE YEAR THAN 1,000 CRAFT DISTILLERIES IN THE UNITED STATES

Specification October 2018 Mitchell Beazley £25.00 HB 9781784724351 288 pages 242 x 199mm 60,000 words 500 photographs Rights available: World

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Shaken Drinking with James Bond and Ian Fleming, the official cocktail book Ian Fleming

Explore Bond creator Ian Fleming’s writings on Ian Fleming the pleasures of drinking and sample 50 delicious was born in London in 1908. His first cocktail recipes inspired by his work – developed novel, Casino Royale, by award-winning bar Swift. was published in 1953 and was an instant success. Just as fast cars, exotic locations and opulent casinos Fleming went on to are synonymous with the world of Ian Fleming’s write thirteen other Bond books. The James Bond, so too are cocktails. From the very first series has sold more Bond novel, Casino Royale, in which Bond christens than 100 million The Vesper, to the immortal lines, ‘shaken and not copies and been translated into more stirred’, which first appeared in print inDiamonds than 20 languages. Are Forever, cocktails are at the glamorous heart of He died in 1964. every Bond story. Whether it’s the favoured Martini, Swift which is served in almost every book, or a refreshing In 2016 Edmund Weil (who is related Negroni or Daiquiri, strong, carefully crafted drinks to Ian Fleming) are a consistent feature of the Bond novels, and they and his wife Rosie have become a symbol of the James Bond lifestyle, to Stimpson teamed up with bar industry which many fans aspire. legends Bobby In this authorized James Bond cocktail book you Hiddleston and Mia Johansson to open will discover extracts from Ian Fleming’s writing, the well-respected with cocktail recipes to match. There are 10 classic Bar Swift in Soho. drinks from the pages of the novels, plus 40 brand-new ones inspired by the people, places »twitter @barswift and plots of the original stories, created by the mixologists at one of London's favourite bars, Swift.

R ECIPE S BY SWIFT, WHICH WAS VOTED ‘BEST NEW BAR’ AT

THE TI M E OU T T HE OF F ICI A L LONDON BAR COCKTAIL BOOK AWARDS 2017

Specification September 2018 Mitchell Beazley £15.00 HB 9781784724641 224 pages 210 x 149mm 40,000 words 55 photographs and 15 illustrations Rights available : World

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The Cocktail Bible An A–Z of two hundred classic and contemporary cocktail recipes, with anecdotes for the curious and techniques for the adventurous

The perfect go-to guide for • Edited by an expert bartender Specification anyone in search of creating the and consultant of the cocktail July 2018 traditional or newly-fashioned industry, with an extensive Cassell cocktail. introduction featuring topics such £10.00 Flexiback as correct glassware and 9780753733066 From the rich flavour of an ABC garnishing, you’ll be delighted with 256 pages Cocktail, through to the recipes – and so much more – as you 192 x 128 mm complicated but delicious mix of a sip your way through this stylish 50,000 words Rights available: Zombie, each cocktail is introduced cocktail alphabet. World with notes on its contents, origin or even the best season to drink it in. Muddled amongst the entries are CASED IN A miscellany pieces on spirits, cocktail BOT T L E- GR EE N -making tips and world-famous LEATHERETTE COVER, bartenders, celebrating the history WITH A GOLD-FOILED and craftmanship of the trade. TITLE, THIS IS A STYLISH ADDITION FIT FOR EV ERY BOOKSHELF. The Little Cocktail Box

A fabulous cocktail collection, recipes to try. Each book also Specification beautifully packaged. contains essential bartending tips October 2018 and fascinating anecdotes about Spruce The perfect gift for cocktail lovers the cocktails and how they got £10.00 and would-be mixologists is this their names. Boxset of four paperback books set of four mini paperback books 9781846015748 – Little Book of Gin Cocktails, 384 pages Little Book of Tequila Cocktails, 147 x 105mm Little Book of Rum Cocktails and 20,000 words Little Book of Vodka Cocktails 150 colour photographs – beautifully packaged together Rights available: in a slipcase. World From favourites like the T HE Moscow Mule, Cosmopolitan and PER F ECT Margarita to exotic concoctions, GIFT FOR THE such as the fruity Caribbean PA RT Y Cruise and Kahlua-based South SEASON. of the Border, there are 200

30 WWW.OCTOPUSBOOKS.CO.UK ‘YOU F oOD & Drink « COU L D NOT WRITE A MORE SOPHISTICATED BOOK OR PACK MORE DETAIL The Spirits Collection ONTO EACH PAGE... IT IS Dave Broom ROCKET SCIENCE IMPRESSIVE.’ – THE HU F FI NGTON POST

Three accessible guides by Award-winning spirits author Specification award-winning spirits writer Dave Broom has done all the October 2018 Dave Broom, brought together research for you. In these three Mitchell Beazley in an attractive box set manuals – on gin, rum and whisky £30.00 HB at a great price. respectively – he includes for each 9781784724597 spirit more than 100 outstanding 672 pages 210 x 149mm + The range of fantastic spirits examples for you to try. And he has slipcase available around the world has also tested each spirit many ways – 150,000 words never been better. You can enjoy with tonic, coconut water, cola and 450 photographs a Mediterranean-style gin from so on – and scored the results. Rights available: Spain, a rhum agricole from Delicious classic and contemporary World Martinique and a malt whisky cocktail recipes round things off. T HE SE from Japan. But how do you navigate BOOK S H AV E through the wealth of options? And Dave Broom is an award-winning SOLD MORE how do you know the best mixers to author specialising in spirits. He THAN 150,000 drink with each, or the most has been writing about drinks for COPIE S delicious cocktails to make? more than 25 years and has won WORLDWIDE multiple awards for his work. IN 2012, BOTH ECC PARIS AND ECC LONDON WERE FEATURED IN THE LIST OF TOP 10 Experimental Cocktail Club BARS IN EUROPE AT London. Paris. New York. Ibiza THE COCKTAILS & SPIRITS AWARDS Romée de Goriainoff, Olivier Bon, Pierre-Charles Cros & Xavier Padovani

Over 85 recipes for Peychauds bitters) and Tete de Specification extraordinary cocktails from Mule (or ‘Kind of Stubborn’, a salty August 2018 the award-winning, cocktail containing Don Fulano Mitchell Beazley internationally renowned Blanco, orange juice, tomato juice, £12.99 HB Experimental Cocktail Club. agave syrup and topped with ginger 9781784724023 beer) – as well as their take on 192 pages Treat your taste buds to this classic cocktails such as Negroni, 209 x 161 mm 20,000 words collection of very special cocktail Margarita, Moscow Mule and More than 150 recipes that take inspiration from Stawberry Daiquiri. colour photographs classic American and French & illustrations Rights sold: Fra cocktails - served with the unmistakeable Experimental Cocktail Club flair and style. Recipes include Stockholm E X PER I ME N TA L Syndrome (Ketel 1 vodka infused COCKTAIL CLUB HAS with cumin & dill, Linie aquavit, VENUES IN LONDON, lemon juice, simple syrup, pink PARIS AND IBIZA Himalayan salt and SERVING 350,000 CUSTOMER S PER YEAR WWW.OCTOPUSBOOKS.CO.UK 31 » FoOD & Drink

The Life of Tea A Journey to the World’s Finest Teas Michael Freeman and Timothy d’Offay

Documentary photographer Michael Freeman and tea expert Timothy d’Offay explore the terroir, taste and culture of the world’s favourite drink.

This journey to the world’s finest teas, captured in extraordinary photography, brings alive the aroma, taste and texture of this drink in all its many nuances, and will give connoisseurs and casual readers alike Michael a much deeper understanding of how great tea is Freeman is a professional created. photographer and Includes sections on botany, cultivation, processing bestselling author. methods and the impact tea has had, and continues to Working for clients that include all have, on culture. The Life of Tea also follows Michael the world’s major and Timothy’s travels in China, Japan, India and Sri magazines, Lanka, featuring the producers of some of the world’s Freeman has established himself finest teas and the characteristics that make these as one of the world’s teas so sought after. leading reportage photographers has This book is the ultimate guide for tea enthusiasts, been consolidated. following the journey from plantation to pot. His books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide.

Timothy d’Offay Over 20 years ago while living in Kyoto, Timothy ST U N N I NG d’Offay became fascinated by tea I M AGE S culture. Using BY BESTSELLING Japan as a base, he started to explore PHOTOGRAPHER the tea traditions of AND AUTHOR other countries and MICH A EL began importing tea in the late 1990s. In FREEMAN 2000 he co-founded East Teas with Alex Fraser. Timothy is the owner and founder of Postcard Teas. Specification August 2018 Mitchell Beazley £30.00 HB 9781784723927 256 pages 292 x 229mm 30,000 words 150 photographs Rights available: World

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DETAILED The World Atlas of Coffee M A PS LOCAT E KEY GROWING From beans to brewing – coffees explored, explained and enjoyed AREAS AND CHART CRUCI A L T R E N DS James Hoffman WORLDWIDE

This ultimate guide to coffee contains comprehensive details on the beans and brews of more than 35 countries.

Coffee has never been better, or more interesting, than it is today. Coffee producers have access to more varieties and techniques than ever before and we, as consumers, can share in that expertise to make sure James the coffee we drink is the best we can find. Where Hoffmann is the managing coffee comes from, how it was harvested, the roasting director of Square process and the water used to make the brew are just Mile Coffee a few of the factors that influence the taste of what we Roasters, a multi-award- drink. Champion barista and coffee roaster James winning coffee Hoffmann examines these key factors, looking at roasting company varieties of coffee, the influence ofterroir , how it is based in East London. He is also harvested and processed, the roasting methods used, the World Barista through to the way in which the beans are brewed. Champion 2007, having won the UK Country by country – from Bolivia to Zambia – he Barista competition then identifies key characteristics and the methods in both 2006 and that determine the quality of that country’s output. 2007. He writes a popular blog, www. Along the way we learn about everything from the jimseven.com, development of the espresso machine, to why strength about coffee and the guides on supermarket coffee are really not good news. coffee business. This is the first book to chart the coffee production of »twitter T HE FIR ST more than 35 countries, encompassing knowledge @squaremile EDITION OF T HE never previously published outside the coffee industry. WORLD ATLAS OF For everyone who wants to understand more about COFFEE H A S SOL D coffee and its wonderful nuances and possibilities, MOR E T H A N this is the book to have. 150,000 COPIES

Specification October 2018 Mitchell Beazley £20.00 HB 9781784724290 272 pages 252 x 193mm 50,000 words c.200 colour images and maps Rights available: World

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SIST ER & CO H AV E Skin Food OVER 15,000 I NSTAGR A M Skin & hair care recipes from nature FOLLOWERS Sophie Thompson

70 natural skincare recipes for face, hair and body.

When it comes to our skin, nature knows how to soothe, smooth, hydrate, refresh, tone and feed us. It probably won’t come as any surprise that rose is not only soothing to the skin, but in traditional Chinese medicine it is soothing to our whole being. Seaweeds are packed with antioxidants that are good both to eat Sophie and to turn back the clock with our skin. Manuka Thompson Sophie, the founder honey gives hair softness while coffee is an incredible of Sister & Co, gave exfoliator (it really wakes up your skin). up her career as a Sister & Co teaches that you don’t need to spend a lawyer after travelling to India fortune on expensive beauty products to feed your and being given raw skin. All you need is a few ingredients that are coconut oil there to available in your local supermarket and the alchemy clear up her skin. On returning home she can begin! Skin Food features 70 nourishing recipes couldn’t find the which show you how to make luxurious skincare same grade of coconut oil so products from scratch, so you can fill those beautiful decided to source it glass pots sitting in your bathroom with incredible herself, launching scrubs, butters and salts. Make your own home into a her first product in 2014. Now the range spa, ease away the stress of the day, and bring yourself features incredible back to nature one scoop at a time. sounding products including almond milk bath soak with Recipes include: black cardamom and • Oatmeal, Honey & Chamomile Tea Facial Polish raw coconut lip tonic with lemon myrtle • Grape & Almond Detox Face Mask and wild mint. • Potato & Green Tea Revitalizing Eye Mask »twitter • Brown Sugar & Vanilla Lip Scrub @SisterandCo • Olive Oil, Lemon & Sea Salt Foot Scrub »instagram • Milk & Honey End-of-day Foot Soak @ sisterandcoskinfood

‘CONSU MER S A R E EMBRACING HEALTHY, HOLISTIC LIVING, AND OUR RESEARCH SHOWS Specification THAT THESE LIFESTYLE September 2018 CHANGES ARE DRIVING Aster THE FACIAL SKINCARE £12.99 PB AND ANTI-AGING 9781912023479 MARKET’ – MINTEL 144 pages SISTER & CO. ARE 235 x 190 mm STOCKED IN OLIVER 25,000 words BONAS, SPACE NK, 50 colour ANTHROPOLOGIE photographs AND SEVERAL OTHER Rights sold: Ger DEPARTMENT STORES /INDEPENDENTS 34 WWW.OCTOPUSBOOKS.CO.UK WELLNESS «

Dept. Store for the Mind Dept. Store for the Mind is the exciting new creative venture by Sophie Howarth, co-founder of the School of Life. Each book offers stories and ideas about creating daily habits that are kind to the mind, whether through our connection with nature, our creativity or everyday tasks, or simply knowing and feeling more accepting of ourselves.

Pet Therapy

How fur, scales & feathers can What healthy habits can we learn Specification make life worth living. from our fluffy, scaly and, let’s face it, October 2018 stinky, friends? Aster Discover the joys of unconditional Chapters include: £12.99 HB 9781912023660 and how the best lessons can come • Miaow Miaow Begins with a C 160 pages from a pet. • Fishing: Confessions of a Secret 210 x 149 Ever since Marley & Me stole the Meditator 30,000 words people’s hearts, animal related • Janice is a Horse 50 colour books have consistently populated • Rabbit, Rabbit...Gone illustrations Rights available: bestseller lists. Pet Therapy is filled World with stories of humans and animals being together. A wordless listener, something to care for, a way to get outside and yet much more. SCIENTIFIC ST U DIE S H AV E ‘ T HI N K OF PROVEN THAT PETS DEPT. STORE FOR CAN BOLSTER OUR THE MIND AS PHYSICAL AND A TREASURE TROVE ME N TA L FOR THE MIND’ – HEALTH HU F FI NGTON POST As You Are

How self-acceptance might tempt you towards playing to your Specification be the greatest change that you personal strengths every day. October 2018 make Aster Chapters include: £12.99 HB As You Are is shameless celebration • As You Are 9781912023677 of our uniqueness. Finding and • Character Strengths 160 pages fixing our inner problems often • Thinking Tricks 210 x 149 isn’t inviting. There is another way • Laughter Lines 30,000 words 50 colour to be a happier lighter being. Flip • Fuel illustrations the focus on to finding out what • My Way Rights available: energises you, makes you tick and • It’s Me World puts you in that place where you • As They Are feel “I was born to here”. Hear stories and discover habits that

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T HE BOOK IS BASED ON GROUNDBREAKING Write Yourself Happy RESEARCH IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY – THE The art of positive journalling SCIE NCE OF Megan C Hayes PhD HAPPINESS

The research confirms it: and life-affirming emotions. Specification writing heals. This practical, journal-style August 2018 workbook demonstrates how to Gaia Psychologists tell us that writing put eight of the most commonly £12.99 PB with flaps helps us cope with and recover from experienced positive emotions – 9781856753821 depression, anxiety, job loss and joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, 224 pages even heartbreak. Exciting new hope, pride, awe and love – to work, 210 x 149 mm research shows that we can flourish helping us not simply to feel better, 35,000 words 80 colour further by actively choosing to write but to live better. illustrations about positive emotions. Based on groundbreaking Rights available: Journalling is a hot trend – for research in positive psychology, and World personal expression, creativity, backed up by extensive scientific self-actualisation and goal- studies, the book includes practical setting. Megan C Hayes shows us exercises and case studies to inspire how, using positive journalling, readers to shift their focus, use we can journal more consciously, different words, see the world in a writing in a way that engages and subtly different way – and discover promotes our most supportive how things go right when we write.

Stop Staring at Screens A Digital Detox for the Whole Family Tanya Goodin

Specification Screens aren’t going anywhere, • Identify key triggers September 2018 Address common issues so begin your family digital • Ilex Press detox today for a happier home. • Learn what works best for you £9.99 PB and your family. 9781781575765 Technology was designed to make 144 pages our lives easier, and yet it’s one of Tanya Goodin is an award- 210 x 149 mm the biggest drivers of family rifts winning digital entrepreneur, 21,000 words and stress. Making healthy and a digital detox specialist and 60 images Rights available: realistic decisions about when and founder of Time To Log Off. She World where you really need technology is also the author of OFF. Your can be tricky but is essential for Digital Detox for a Better Life. restoring harmony in your home. Stop Staring at Screens has the T ECH NOLOGY answers you need to manage this. IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CAUSES • Find sanity-saving solutions OF STRESS IN and practical tips THE HOME •Follow diagnostic quizzes

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Adaptogens Find calm, balance & wellbeing using nature’s power herbs Paula Grainger

Find out how to use adaptogenic mushrooms, Liquorice, Rosemary Specification herbs and ingredients to and Rhodiola – have been September 2018 regulate and balance the body’s scientifically proven to lower Gaia response to stress. levels of the stress hormone £10.00 PB with cortisol and prevent adrenal flaps 9781856753852 Increasing numbers of people are imbalances that can lead to 160 pages suffering from stress, anxiety and adrenal fatigue and ‘burn-out’. 174 x 131 mm fatigue caused by lack of sleep, Delve into the history and 25,000 words digital overload and our 24/7 science of these miraculous plants 30 illustrations lifestyle. In Adaptogens, Medical and learn how to maximize Rights available: Herbalist Paula Grainger provides wellness using the most easy-to- World an answer to this modern-day source adaptogens, incorporating affliction by introducing us to them into your life via 25 delicious the group of powerful herbal smoothies, energy bites SALES ingredients known as adaptogens. and desserts, invigorating OF T HE Adaptogens – such as teas, tonics and lattes, A DA P TOGE N Ashwagandha, Maca, Korean and wonderful ASHWAGANDHA GREW ginseng, Turmeric, Reishi beauty elixirs. BY MORE THAN 57% IN 2016 TO ARRIVE AT A TOTAL MARKET VALUE OF $9.5 The Little Book of Sleep MILLION The art of natural sleep Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan

A fully illustrated guide to including yoga, ayurveda and Specification achieving deep, natural, clean body-awareness techniques, and September 2018 sleep from leading sleep expert, introducing us to her 10 Steps to Gaia Dr Nerina Ramlakhan. Great Sleep, Dr Nerina guides the £6.99 Flexiback reader on their personal journey 9781856753838 The Little Book of Sleep is a back to sleep. 96 pages beautifully colour-illustrated 147 x 105 mm 10,000 words guide to achieving deep, natural, • Dr Nerina Ramlakhan is a 40 colour clean sleep. Dr Nerina Ramlakhan physiologist, sleep and stress illustrations explains why a good night’s sleep management expert who helps Rights available: World is essential in today’s demanding, everyone from stressed-out mums technology-driven world, to Premiership footballers and

introduces us to the science of MPs improve the quality of their 6 MILLION sleep, and teaches us that the sleep and energy levels. Nerina’s PEOPLE IN secret of good sleep is to get out of work has been featured in The BRITAIN (10% OF our head and back into our body. Times, the Independent, the T HE POPU L AT ION) By using a unique combination Sunday Express, the Guardian, SUFFER FROM of Eastern and Western practices, New Scientist and many more. INSOMNIA

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BR I TONS A R E NOW SPE N DI NG A STAGGERING Secret Yoga Club £790 MILLION How to use yoga, meditation & food to nourish your body & soul A YEAR ON YOGA CLASSES Gabrielle Hales

An introduction and immersion into the origins and the modern-day practice of yoga.

Yoga is an intimate, alchemical process in which you discover your own physical and emotional landscape. Yoga is how you sing yourself back to life. It’s in the moments that you witness the sublime wisdom of the body. Gabrielle In Secret Yoga Club Gabrielle Hales introduces Hales It took a stint at a you the yoga practices and rituals that she has found corporate global PR useful and inspiration over the years of hosting diverse agency to realise that events and retreats. Chapters include: no, office life was not for Gabrielle Hales. • Origins of yoga One ticket to India • Movement and the body later, she found Breath herself teaching yoga • and eager to share all • Meditation the amazing things • Yoga practices she’d learnt upon her return. Beginning • Rituals and recipes for the yoga soul with classes in her own living room, the Delve into world of Secret Yoga Club, learn word spread and the Secret Yoga Club about the origins of yoga and discover freedom and events became so boundaries within yourself and your body through popular that she movement, breath and meditation. sought out more exciting venues, bringing an extra element by working with up-and-coming Praise for Secret Yoga Club chefs to expand them into yoga supper clubs. Now? ‘This globe-trotting group promotes a Gabrielle’s pushing mindfulness practice that continues Secret Yoga Club to the next level, aiming off the mat and into the sonic realm’ to inspire people to – Vogue USA experience practices that improve ‘Secret Yoga Club is a big deal, happiness and just don’t tell anyone’ well-being. »instagram – Huffington Post @secretyogaclub ‘A wonderful experience’ Specification – Financial Times October 2018 Aster ‘The Yoga Guru’ £20.00 HB – Vogue UK CLIENTS 9781912023653 I NCLU DE F R EE 224 ages PEOPLE, NIKE, PUKKA 246 x 189 mm TEA, STYLIST, ROYAL 40,000 words ACADEMY OF ARTS, ACE 100 colour photographs HOTEL AND SOHO Rights available: FARMHOUSE World

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Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life Katherine Ormerod

Do you ever obsess about your body? Do you Katherine sometimes lie awake at night, spinning about the Ormerod has worked as a state of your career? Does it seem like everyone is journalist for over a living a life that’s better than yours? Well, it’s time decade, starting her to stop scrolling your life away. career at Sunday Times Style and ending at Glamour Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life tackles head where she was on the bona fide pressure cooker of social comparison Fashion Features Editor at Large. and unreachable levels of perfection that social media Katherine set up her has created in our modern world. Because, let’s face it, own fashion social media consultancy social media is not only redefining what it means to be in 2014. A social a human in the 21st century, but it is also changing media influencer what it means to be YOU. in her own right, she has nearly In her first book, Katherine Ormerod argues that 40k Instagram we’re all sitting on a dangerous, ticking time-bomb followers, and is that will explode if we don’t begin to take action. She a regular panellist on shows including uncovers how our social media addictions have broken Good Morning our political systems, re-wired our behavioural Britain, Sky News, Women’s Hour and patterns, destroyed our confidence and shattered our ABC News Radio. attention spans. She also discloses the truth of the In January 2017, constructed realities behind the uploads —and she launched workworkwork.co, explains why we all have to stop coveting our an anti- neighbour’s posts. perfectionism In the book, she covers several key areas of modern platform. womanhood– identity, body image, relationships, »instagram career and finances, motherhood, health and sexuality @katherine_ – and looks at exactly how social media has impacted, ormerod penetrated and destroyed each. Ultimately, Why Social Media is Ruining your Life will provide you with the knowledge, tools and K AT HER I N E H A S weaponry to combat the most consuming, addictive ALMOST 40,000 digital force of our age. FOLLOWERS ON INSTAGRAM AND LAST YEAR LAUNCHED HER OWN WEBSITE, WORKWORKWORK.CO, AN ANTI-PERFECTIONISM Specification PLATFORM. September 2018 Cassell £12.99 HB 9781788400626 160 pages B-format (198 x 126 mm) 100,000 words Rights available; World

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Thinking on My Feet The small joy of putting one foot in front of the other Kate Humble

The life-changing magic of the simple Kate Humble act of walking. started her television career as a researcher, later ‘I’ve discovered that going for a daily walk has become presenting as essential to me feeling good for the rest of the day as programmes such as Top Gear, that first cup of tea. But I would argue that all I am Tomorrow’s World, doing is responding to a natural need we all have. Animal Park, Springwatch and Humans have always been migrants, the Autumnwatch. physiological urge to be nomadic is deep-rooted in Most recently Kate all of us and perhaps because of that our brains are has presented the BBC’s Back to the stimulated by walking. I solve all sorts of problems, Land, Curious formulate ideas, work things out to that gentle rhythm Creatures and of self-propelled movement.’ – Extreme Wives. Kate Humble When she’s not travelling the world Thinking on My Feet is an inspiring journal of filming, she enjoys waking in the Kate’s walking year. As Kate charts her feelings and countryside near impressions throughout, capturing the perspectives her home in Wales. that only a journey on foot allows, you’ll be inspired to »twitter introduce more time for this activity into your own life. @katehumble Also featured are Kate’s walks with others who have »instagram discovered the magical, soothing effect of putting one @kmhumble foot in front of the other – the artist who walks to find inspiration for his next painting; the man who takes people battling with addiction to climb mountains; the woman who walked every footpath in Wales (3,700 miles) when she discovered she had cancer. This book will inspire you to change your perspective by applying walking to your daily endeavours. THERE IS MASSIVE NEW FOCUS ON WALKING FOLLOWING THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW GOVERNMENT STUDY THAT SHOWS 41% OF ADULTS WALK LESS THAN 10 MINUTES KATE HUMBLE BRISKLY PER MONTH Specification HAS LARGE MEDIA PROFILE WITH 93.3K October 2018 Aster FOL LOW ER S ON £20.00 HB TWITTER AND 6,140 9781912023646 FOL LOW ER S ON 304 pages FACEBOOK 234 x 153 mm 80,000 words Rights available: World

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My Pregnancy Journal

A beautifully packaged, Each chapter offers guidance Specification interactive journal to help plan on what to expect, notes on your August 2018 and record your pregnancy. baby’s development during each Spruce trimester, and reminders on what £14.00 HB plus wiro Celebrate the ups and downs of your you need to be planning, thinking 9781846015649 pregnancy with this interactive about and preparing for. 94 pages journal, which invites you to record 238 x 190mm 2,000 words in detail this most Alison Mackonochie is the author 100 illustrations extraordinary period of your life. of Emma’s Diary, the Royal Rights available: With annotated prompts for you to College of General Practitioners’ World fill in for each week of your award-wining pregnancy guide, as pregnancy, storage wallets and well as The Practical Encyclopedia sealable envelopes for keeping of Pregnancy & Babycare, Your precious mementos, and photo Baby’s First Year, and New Guide spaces for you to capture the to Babycare. Alison is also an changing shape of your body, this editor for several parenting journal will be a life-long keepsake magazines and a member of the of all your special memories. Medical Journalists’ Association and the Guild of Health Writers.

The Longevity Bible T HE WOR L D’S BESTSELLING The definitive guide to a long, healthy and happy life MBS SERIES Susannah Marriott

A fully illustrated guide to living the findings of top medical experts Specification a longer life from the bestselling and researchers can teach us about August 2018 MBS series. maintaining optimal health as we Godsfield Press move through our lives £14.99 PB The desire for a long, healthy and • The important role that sleep, 9781841814759 happy life is a universal one, yet moderation, diet, a sense of 400 pages society has a deep fear of ageing. purpose, connection, love and 167x 140 mm 60,000 words The Longevity Bible offers an curiosity have in helping us to live 250 colour all-encompassing, holistic look at well and live happily photographs how the body ages – and what we • That a longer life blessed with Rights available: World can all do to age better. health and happiness is within reach!

Discover: Susannah Marriott is a freelance • How the ageing process works – writer who specialises in issues of and what you can do to enjoy a better parenting, complementary health quality of life as you grow older and folklore. She is an established • What history, biology, Eastern author with 19 illustrated books to philosophy, Western science and her name.

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The Witchcraft Handbook Unleash Your Magical Powers to Create the Life You Want Midia Star

A collection of over 50 charms, boost your love life, banish ill Specification spells, brews and potions to chance and secure your future. September 2018 empower and engage the Isn’t it time you unleashed the Ilex Press modern witch. power of magic? £12.99 HB 9781781576229 Embrace your inner witch. Midia Star is a journalist and 144 pages 210 x 149 mm This handbook features tried freelance writer. She has studied 25,000 words and tested spells designed and practised witchcraft, 70 images especially for the modern witch. paganism and tarot since she Rights available Packed with charms, potions and was 12-years-old. Her philosophy witchy wisdom, use this magical is to live a magical life. lifestyle guide to enhance every aspect of your life. INSTAGRAM TAGS From the effects of the moon to HAVE RISEN FROM the use of candles to enhance 2MILLION TO spells, this is a basic step-by-step 4.5MILLION guide to magic that can protect IN ONE YEAR your home, fulfill your dreams, (FROM OCTOBER 2016 TO TODAY). The Moon 365 reflections

A collection of proverbs, ancient From former President John F. Specification and modern wisdom, facts, Kennedy’s goal of sending a man August 2018 meditations and poems to to the Moon to ‘measure the best Spruce celebrate the Moon. of our energies and skills’, to £10.00 PB playwright and poet William 9780753733110 For many thousands of years, Shakespeare’s personification 256 pages the night-time illumination and of the Moon, that ‘she changes 167 x 140mm 20,000 words natural satellite of our world – the constantly’, each reading will Colour-illustrated Moon – has pervaded cultures by charm, enlighten or cause your throughout fascinating philosophers, rousing own notions of this ‘Luna’. Rights available: World poets and prompting scientists , all to declare their musings. In this enchanting selection of 365 quotes from art, literature, history and science, you will be able to read the reflections and conclusions of such people of whom the Moon has inspired.

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#Squad Goals The Friendship Book Ella Kasperowicz

Gift book about friendship from a hugely talented illustrator.

Everybody has their own squad, a group of friends who you can rely on. The sassy one, the brainiac, the hot mess, the dizzy one, the party animal, the compulsive messager, the surrogate mom. #Squad Goals celebrates all the facets of friendship, with Ella burning issues for you to debate such as: ‘Which Kasperowicz received her cocktail would you be?’ and ‘Who is the most likely illustration licence to live to 100 or spend a night in jail?’. from Falmouth Illustrated throughout by talented artist Ella University in 2017 and loves playing Kasperowicz, this book will make perfect gift for with pens, words birthdays, hen nights and graduation. and ideas. She is also one third of ‘Spud’ collaborative, Chapters include: a trio in a long • Meet the squad – friend archetypes, the friend most distance illustrationship likely to... making work • In squad we trust – what holds friendships together, together about group chat... food and travel. • Squad adventures – bachelorette party, hobbies, vacations, city breaks, party time... • Inspirational squads – Mean Girls, Power Rangers, Harry Potter...

Specification September 2018 Ilex Press £8.99 HB 9781781576359 96 pages 147 x 105mm 3,000 words 100 images Rights available: World

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F ROM T HE CREATORS OF R HS BOTA N Y FOR RHS The Secrets of Great Botanists GARDENERS, W HICH HAS SOLD MORE THAN Botanical icons and what they teach us about gardening 30,000 COPIES Matthew Biggs

An informative and beautifully gardeners of all levels, and is Specification presented guide to 35 botanists, a stunning addition to every October 2018 plant collectors and gardening gardener’s bookshelf, containing Mitchell Beazley pioneers of past and present. botanical watercolours, beautiful £15.99 HB photographs and commissioned 9781784724979 Through the work of great illustrations. 224 pages botanists, we have built our 230 x 170mm 60,000 words understanding of plants and how Matthew Biggs trained at The 150 colour to care for them. RHS The Secrets Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has photographs and of Great Botanists profiles 35 of presented numerous television illustrations Rights available: these remarkable individuals, programmes, notably Channel World English exploring their discoveries and 4’s Garden Club, and is a regular Language (excluding US, legacy, and revealing the lessons panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Canada and ANZ) that can be drawn from their work. Gardeners’ Question Time. He has As relevant today as it was written several books, including thousands of years ago, this guide the recent RHS Lessons from I NCLU DE S will provide botanical inspiration Great Gardeners (also BOTA N ICA L and practical guidance for Mitchell Beazley). IL LUST R AT IONS FROM THE RHS LIBRARY RHS Can Anything Stop Slugs? A Gardener’s Collection of Pesky Problems and Surprising Solutions Guy Barter

A horticultural expert provides all of your garden problems. This is Specification informative, entertaining not a dull reference book full of lists October 2018 answers to the questions asked –it is an easy-to-read and amusing Mitchell Beazley by every gardener. look at how we battle with nature in £14.99 HB our gardens, showing you how to 9781784724788 RHS Can Anything Stop Slugs either come out top or to surrender 224 pages assists with all of the most common with dignity. 210 x 140mm 50,000 words problems encountered in a garden – 200 photographs as well as some slightly more Guy Barter is the Chief and illustrations unusual ones. The RHS’s Chief Horticultural Advisor of the Royal Rights available: World English Horticultural Advisor, Guy Barter, Horticultural Society and runs the Language provides expert advice, responding RHS Members’ Advisory Service, (excluding US, Canada and ANZ) to the questions posed by thousands which provides answers to an of gardeners every year. enormous range of questions and As the cause of a problem is not supplies evidence-based advice always apparent, the main symptom for thousands of gardeners. is used as the starting point in each He is author of RHS How T HE R HS section, enabling you to troubleshoot Do Worms Work. HAS 485,000 MEMBERS

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Shelfie Clutter-clearing ideas for stylish shelf art Martha Roberts

Award-winning journalist, colour blogger and shelfie fanatic Martha Roberts shows you how to source, sort and arrange your belongings into stylish shelfies for home and workspace.

A decorating trend and social media phenomenon, 'the shelfie' originally emerged in response to the clutter-clearing movement. What started as a label for Martha beautiful bookshelves is now applied to artfully stylish Roberts Martha Roberts is arrangements of collectables, flowers, photos, crafting an award-winning ephemera, perfume bottles – and of course books. journalist who has And shelfies don’t just appear on shelves, but also on written for YOU magazine, the Daily desks, worktops and fireplaces. Mail, the Guardian, De-cluttering, and then curating our favourite Glamour and possessions stylishly, is a great way to bring Sunday Express. She is a columnist personality into the home and workspace. In the first at Psychologies book on the shelfie, Martha Roberts shows you how magazine where she has written about to source, sort and arrange your belongings for every evidence-based room in the house. Photography by Nick Pope, who ways of achieving took the photographs for At Home with Plants, also happiness and now writes about colour published by Mitchell Beazley. and how it makes us think and act. ‘While most of us are just beginning to get to Her blog T HE ON LY thecolourfile.com was shortlisted for BOOK ON THE grips with the selfie, the ‘shelfie’ movement #SHEL FIE the Amara Interior POPU L A R has been gaining digital ground. The self- Blog Awards 2017 IS ONE OF PHENOMENON obsessed are becoming the ‘shelf-obsessed.’ in the Best Colour I NSTAGR A M’S Inspiration Category FASTEST GROWING – Talib Choudry, the Telegraph (sponsored by Farrow & Ball). She HASHTAGS WITH AN takes on private INCREASE OF A QUARTER commissions for bespoke shelf art. OF A MILLION IN THE PAST »twitter 6MONTHS @ martharoberts01 »instagram @ the_colour_file

Specification July 2018 Mitchell Beazley £12.99 HB 9781784725273 144 pages 200 x 165mm 20,000 words c.120 photographs, 1 artwork Rights available: World

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The Fashion Chronicles The style stories of history’s best dressed Amber Butchart

The true story of style, told through history’s fashion pioneers.

From BBC Radio 4 and BBC4 television presenter Amber Butchart, The Fashion Chronicles is an exploration of the most fascinating style stories throughout history. The history of fashion is a story of style and power, Amber grace and propaganda. From Eve and her fig leaf, via Butchart is a fashion historian Joan of Arc, Louis XIV and Lord Byron, right up to and BBC television the modern figures of Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, and radio presenter. Malcolm X and Beyoncé, Butchart examines the She is an associate lecturer at London best-dressed people the world has ever seen, telling College of Fashion, the story of their individual style and unlocking the a former research secrets behind it. fellow at the University of Some have influenced the fashion of today, while the Arts London, some have used their clothing to change the world. and hosts a series of regular talks at But all have a sartorial story to tell, and The Fashion the V&A Museum. Chronicles is here to tell it. Amber’s work has led to her being featured on numerous radio and television F ROM T HE programmes on the PR E SE N T ER BBC, Sky Arts and OF BBC4 TV Channel 4, as well A as in a huge number HISTOR ICA L R EGU L A R of publications, FASHION SERIES including Vogue, SPEAKER ON A STITCH Grazia, Glamour, WOMAN’S HOUR, the Guardian and IN TIME AMBER IS VERY The Times. She is the author of three MUCH THE BBC ‘S previous books, The GO-TO FASHION Fashion of Film,

HISTORIAN Nautical Chic and Amber Jane Butchart’s Fashion Miscellany. »twitter @AmberButchart

Specification September 2018 Mitchell Beazley £20.00 HB 9781784723811 288 pages 210 x 149mm 40,000 words 100 photographs Rights available: World

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VOGUE IS A N INTERNATIONALLY Vogue: The Shoe PRESTIGIOUS, LUXURY BRAND WITH Harriet Quick, with foreword by Alexandra Shulman A CIRCULATION OF MORE THAN 211,000 IN THE UK

The third book in the sumptuous Vogue portfolio series, now available at the more pocket-friendly price of £30.

A glorious celebration of the shoe as an object of obsession, status and desire. In Vogue: The Shoe, Harriet Quick has curated more than 300 fabulous images from a century of British Harriet Quick Vogue, featuring remarkable styles that range from is an award-winning journalist, editor the humble clog to exquisite hand-embroidered haute and author. She is a couture stilettoes via fetishistic cuissardes and Contributing Editor outrageous statement heels. to British Vogue and former Editor of Contains some of the best fashion photography Frank magazine available, including shots from Vogue’s peerless (1998–2000). Harriet has worked archive of fashion images by the likes of Hoyningen- in the fashion and Huene, Irving Penn, Corinne Day, Norman design arena for 20 Parkinson, Arthur Elgort and Nick Knight. years. She won the prestigious Vogue Reissued with a luxurious real cloth cover, this is Writing Talent essential reading for fashionistas everywhere. Award and the Guardian/Jackie Moore Award and ‘Take it from Cinderella: fairy tales are all now contributes to a wealth of global about shoes in the end. Vogue, the source of titles. Harriet is many a fashion fairy tale, unites 100 years’ the author of Previously from Vogue Catwalking: and Conran Octopus worth of exquisite footwear in a new book, A History of the Vogue: The Shoe, featuring more than 300 Fashion Model (Hamlyn 1996) images by Irving Penn, Nick Knight, Corinne and Richard Prince (Sadie Coles Gallery Day and many others. Because beautiful 2003). Photo credit: shoes are every outfit’s happy ending.’ Andrew Woffinden – The Telegraph »twitter @Fashioncanary

Specification September 2018 Conran £30.00 HB 9781840917758 304 pages 253 x 201mm 22,000 words 300 photographs Rights sold: Ger

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Forgotten Women: The Artists Zing Tsjeng

An alternative guide to art history through the lives of extraordinarily forward-thinking and talented female artists that history forgot.

The Forgotten Women series will uncover the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been

dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and Zing Tsjeng changed the course of our futures. is the UK editor of VICE.com's The Artists brings together the stories of female-oriented extraordinary woman artists who made huge yet channel BROADLY. unacknowledged contributions in the history of art The channel focuses on women's issues • Camille Claudel, the extraordinarily talented and interests and sculptor who was always unfairly overshadowed by has been hailed as ‘the slickest feminist her lover, Rodin platform around’. • Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who has Zing has also been claimed as the true originator of Marcel become a spokesperson for Duchamp's Fountain millennial women, • Ana Mendieta, the Cuban refugee who approached debating at violence against women through her performance art Telegraph Women events, twice before her own untimely death appearing on Late • Marlow Moss, the ground-breaking Constructivist Night Woman's Hour and writing for artist whose ‘double line’ paintings preceded and Dazed, the influenced those of Piet Mondrian Guardian and • Timarete, the ancient Greek painter who was BROADLY. lauded both by Pliny the Elder and Boccaccio »twitter Draft cover This is art history as you’ve never seen it before – an @MissZing alternative guide that demonstrates the broad range of artistic movements that always included, and were ‘ TO SAY actually often pioneered by, female artists who have THIS SERIES IS since been erased from the art history canon. “EMPOWERING” DOESN’T DO IT JUSTICE. BUY A COPY FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS, SISTERS, MUMS... JUST MAKE SURE YOU BUY A COPY FOR Specification YOUR SONS, BROTHERS, September 2018 DADS... TOO’ Cassell INDY100 £15.00 HB 9781788400176 224 pages 210 x 149mm 50,000 words Over 100 colour illustrations Rights available: World

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Forgotten Women: The Writers Zing Tsjeng

A call-to-arms which squarely places pioneering, innovative female writers back into our libraries.

The Forgotten Women series will uncover the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. Zing Tsjeng The Writers celebrates unsung genius female writers is the UK editor of VICE.com's from throughout history and across the world. female-oriented • The Girl Stunt Reporters, who went undercover to channel BROADLY. write exposés on the ills of 1890s America The channel focuses on women's issues • Aemilia Lanyer, the contemporary of Shakespeare and interests and whose polemical re-writing of Paradise Lost is regarded has been hailed as ‘the slickest feminist as one of the earliest feminist works of literature platform around’. • Sarojini Naidu, the freedom fighter and 'Nightingale Zing has also of India' whose poetry echoed her political desire for become a spokesperson for Indian independence millennial women, • Murasaki Shikibu, the 10th century Japanese writer debating at who was the world’s first ever novelist Telegraph Women events, twice • Marie de Gournay, the sixteenth-century French appearing on Late editor and writer without whom Montaigne might not Night Woman's Hour and writing for have completed his masterwork Essais Dazed, the Including writers from across a wide spectrum of Guardian and disciplines including poets, journalists, novelists, BROADLY. essayists and diarists, this is an alternative gynocentric »twitter Draft cover history of literature that will surprise, empower, and @MissZing leave you binge-reading your way through these rebellious women’s works.

Specification September 2018 Cassell £15.00 HB 9781788400183 224 pages 210 x 149mm 50,000 words Over 100 colour illustrations Rights available: World

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The Unexpected Joy of Being Single Life as a singleton is better than you think Catherine Gray

Single in your late twenties, or hold the phone, Catherine in your thirties or beyond? Oh hi! You’re in the Gray is an award- right place. winning writer and editor. She has Over a third of us are now single. With the single camp worked on staff for magazines such as growing at ten times the rate of the actual population, Cosmopolitan, it is now the norm to be single well into our thirties – GLAMOUR and the average marriage age for women is 35 and 37 for The Sun’s Fabulous supplement and men. But nobody seems to have told society, romcom- written as a makers, songwriters, marriage-hungry mothers, freelancer for publications like ‘tick-tock’ uncles, our mates, or us that. Stylist, Marie Cue: single anxiety. Love addiction. Spending hours Claire, YOU, scrolling through dating apps. Being inconsolable Women’s Health, Grazia, The when he / she doesn’t text. Humming ‘Here Comes the Guardian, Bride’ when they do. Shortlist, BBC Catherine Gray went through all of this. And then Earth, Emerald Street, Heat and some. She took a whole year off dating to get her The Daily Mail. love-hooked head straight. »twitter How do we chill our boots about our single status? @cathgraywrites Detach from ‘all the good ones are gone!’ panic? And »instagram de-programme from urgent, red, heart-shaped @cathgraywrites T HE FOL LOW societal pressure to find your ‘other half*’? We know UP TO T HE intellectually that single is far preferable to panic- SUNDAY TIMES settling, yet we forget that almost constantly. Why? BESTSELLER Psychologists and neuroscientists tell us? Let’s start the reverse-brainwash and locate our happily-single sanity, for good. Are you in?

Previously from Catherine Gray... *Spoiler: you’re already a whole person.

Praise for The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

‘Truthful, modern and real’ – Stylist ‘Brave, witty and brilliantly written’ – Marie Claire ‘Not remotely preachy’ Specification – The Times December 2017 Aster ‘Jaunty, shrewd and convincing’ £8.99 PB – Sunday Telegraph 9781912023813 272 pages ‘Admirably honest, light, bubbly and 198 x 126mm remarkably rarely annoying.’ 85,000 words Rights available: – Alice O’Keeffe, Guardian UK, Commonwealth & USA

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She Did It Anyway A Midult Manifesto for Imperfect Women Annabel Rivkin & Emilie McMeekan

The first book from the creators of the popular blog Annabel and Telegraph column, the Midult: ‘A place where Rivkin we can connect, unlock some joy, deal with the and Emilie McMeekan worry and unlock the shame that mid-life can are co-founders bring… a wry look at real life, real wisdom and real of The Midult; a generation- information framed in fun.’ defining tribe for grown-up women. Feel that middle-age is a label that doesn’t fit? With a combined journalistic Welcome to Midulthood, a generation-defining tribe experience of where we are not our mothers. ‘Midulthood is a mood. over 30 years A movement. A place where Midult women matter. they are currently columnists for the Where anxiety becomes if not fun then funny. Can’t Saturday Telegraph face having sex with your husband? Worried you’re Magazine and going to lose your house? Deranged about fertility? Annabel also writes a column for the Feel like you’re employed by your life? Come on in… Evening Standard. the water’s lovely.’ They are leading the charge on a She Did It Anyway offers a wry, funny guide for re-branding of what women of 35– 55 who don’t feel middle-aged, with it means to be a chapters covering topics such as Dating (It’s Not Me, grown-up woman.

It’s You), Sex (What Could Possibly Go Wrong?), Joy »twitter (I am Flawsome), Work (Know Your Worth, then Add @AnnabelRivkin VAT), Friendship (Wishbone, Backbone, Funnybone) @emiliemcmeekan and Self-image (Does This Straitjacket Make Me Look Fat?). Topics are explored through essays, listicles (‘Thoughts We Have at 6am, 8 Little Life THE MIDULT’S Enhancers (we are not going to do)) and quotes (‘I just TELEGRAPH COLUMN want to lie in a pile of warm laundry and eat bread’ HAS A READERSHIP OF and ‘The best cure for a hangover is being under the 1.5 MILLION age of 25’). After reading this book, Midults will no longer feel like civilization’s ignored middle child, but happier, stronger and better prepared. Remember: Life is tough. So are you.

'THE BEST CURE Specification FOR A HANGOVER September 2018 IS BEING UNDER 9781788400671 THE AGE OF 25' £16.99 HB 256 pages 234 x 153mm 80,000 words 15 illustrations Rights available: English language for UK, Commonwealth and Europe

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A M Y W INEHOUSE’S CON TA I NS ALBUM BACK TO BLACK Back to Amy MORE THAN 50 TOPPED CHARTS IN 15 PREVIOUSLY COUNTRIES, AND WON An intimate portrait of the real Amy Winehouse U NSEE N A GRAMMY FOR PHOTOGRAPHS BEST ALBUM Charles Moriarty OF AMY

Breathtaking photographs mischief and style, giving an early Specification of Amy Winehouse on the glimpse of a star in the making. October 2018 cusp of fame, including many With a foreword by Asif Kapadia, Cassell never-before-seen images. Academy Award-winning director £20.00 HB of the documentary Amy, and 9781788400596 Rare, open and honest, this containing contributions from 224 pages collection of around 150 photographs people close to Amy during her 246 x 189mm by Charles Moriarty shows Amy career, this book is a celebration 20,000 words 150 photographs Winehouse as you’ve never seen of the enduring spirit of a truly Rights available: her before, alongside text from special artist. World those who knew her well, including her mother, manager and music Originally from Dublin, Charles collaborators. Moriarty is a London-based Consisting of two shoots spread photographer. He has worked with across London and New York in Amy Winehouse, Damon Albarn, the lead-up to the release of her Vice magazine, the Tate, Diesel debut album Frank, these beautiful and many more. images capture a sense of fun,

T HIS SER IE S HAS SOLD MORE Michael Jackson: All the Songs THAN 100,000 COPIES IN THE US The story behind every song, every video, every dance move ALONE Richard Lecocq and Francois Allard

The complete, definitive study of Written by two Michael Jackson Specification Michael Jackson’s artistic legacy. experts – the creators of the MJ October 2018 Data Bank and MJ Stranger Cassell This is the only book that tells the websites and editor-in-chief of £45.00 HB story behind every single song that Michael Jackson magazine, 9781788400572 the King of Pop ever released – Invincible – this is the definitive 592 pages from his formative years with the book for Michael Jackson fans. 270 x 210mm Jackson Five to his incredible and 300,000 words c.500 photographs much-loved output as a solo artist. Rights available: Over 200 songs, videos and MICH A EL World English Language revolutionary dance moves are JACK SON H A S analysed, uncovering the SOLD 750 MILLION 2019 fascinating stories around their A L BU MS WILL MARK creation and allowing fans the WORLDWIDE chance to truly understand the THE 10TH artistry behind them. ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

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ED SHEERAN Ed Sheeran: Memories We Made WILL UNDERTAKE A WORLD TOUR IN Unseen photographs of my time with Ed 2018, PLAYING 68 DATES IN 14 Christie Goodwin COUNTRIES

An incredible collection of photographs of Ed Sheeran, from early, pre-fame gigs to sell-out arena tours – including never-before-seen images.

This unique collection of intimate photographs charts Ed Sheeran’s meteoric rise from struggling musician to global megastar. Taken by Ed’s long-time photographer Christie Christie Goodwin and with a foreword and additional captions Goodwin is a photographer by Ed’s father, John Sheeran, Ed Sheeran: Memories with a career than We Made contains many unseen images along with spans over thirty personal anecdotes from Christie of time spent years. Today, she is a highly sought-after together with her friend – taking us on a journey from photographer of the early days of an unknown Ed gigging in London to top musicians, and tiny crowds, to backstage on a sell-out US tour and has worked with artists including performing his songs to a rapt audience of thousands. Ed Sheeran, Relaxed, open and honest, this collection of Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, photographs is a chance to truly see the man behind Katy Perry and the music – a rare look at the personal face of a many more. world-famous artist. »twitter @ChristieGoodwin

ED SHEERAN’S MOST RECENT CON TA I NS ALBUM WENT TO NEVER- NO.1 I N BEFORE-SEEN 14 COUNTRIES PHOTOGRAPHY OF ED SHEERAN – INCLUDING RARE EARLY SHOTS

Specification September 2018 Cassell £18.99 HB 9781788400664 224 pages 235 x 190mm 20,000 words 150 photographs Rights available: World

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Uncovered Revolutionary Magazine Covers by the Mavericks Who Made Them Ian Birch

Discover the inside story behind the creative process and the disruptive consequences of ground-breaking magazine covers.

They made you look. They made you think. They made you care. Uncovered is an oral history of the stories behind the most innovative and controversial magazine covers of all time, as told by the people who Ian Birch created them. is former Editorial Director of Hearst Featuring interviews with industry legends such UK and Emap. He as David Bailey and Nick Logan as well as the editors, began his magazine designers, photographers and art directors of Vogue, career in the late 1970s and has Rolling Stone, The Face, NME, Time Out, i-D, The New run magazines York Times Magazine, Vice, Esquire, Playboy and including Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar many more, this is a unique social document covering and Company, and some of the most memorable media images ever seen. helped to launch Author Ian Birch has worked in magazines in both Red, Closer, Grazia and Heat. the UK and USA since the 1970s, and has used a career’s worth of contacts to create this once-in-a- lifetime collection of the creative powerhouses of the magazine industry.

COLLECTS V I N TAGE TOGETHER IMAGES MAGAZINE COVERS OF THE MOST ARE PERENNIALLY ICONIC MAGAZINE POPU L A R A N D COVERS COLLECTIONS SUCH AS POSTCARDS FROM VOGUE HAVE STRONG SALES RECORDS

Specification October 2018 Cassell £30.00 HB 9781844039043 256 pages 253 x 201mm 40,000 words More than 100 full colour images Rights available: World

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Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering A collection of photography by Kevin Cummins Kevin Cummins

A photographic portrait of Morrissey at his peak, with many previously unpublished images.

This is Morrissey as you’ve never seen him before. Featuring many previously unpublished photographs, Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering is a portrait of Morrissey at his creative peak. Journey through hundreds of Kevin Cummins’ renowned, era-defining Kevin images, taken over a ten-year period in the 1980s Cummins Chief photographer and 1990s when Morrissey was creating some of his at the NME for best-loved work. Frantic on-stage images sit alongside more than ten years, formal portraits and off the cuff, behind the scenes Manchester-born Kevin Cummins photographs to create a complete picture of Morrissey’s has an international world. reputation as one of Covering locations all over the globe and the world’s leading photographers and accompanied by recollections from the author on his is famed for his photography, his time with Morrissey and the artistic iconic portraits of musicians including process of collaborating with him, this intimate, Joy Division, David creative and surprising collection is a document of an Bowie, Nick Cave, artist at the height of his powers. Mick Jagger, Patti Smith and Oasis Also featuring portraits of die-hard fans with tattoos Kevin captured inspired by Morrissey, this is the perfect portrait of a some of the best- unique musician and the devotion he inspires. known images in modern music history – his work has decorated bedroom walls KEVIN the world over. CU M MI NS H A S F E AT U R E S TAKEN SOME OF THE MANY NEVER- »twitter MOST ICONIC, BELOVED @KCMANC BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS IMAGES OF MORRISSEY THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER

Specification September 2018 Cassell £30.00 HB 9781788400237 256 pages 263 x 194mm 20,000 words More than 150 photographs Rights available: World

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The Almanac A Seasonal Guide to 2019 Lia Leendertz

The next edition of award-winning gardener and food writer Lia Leendertz's brilliant and timely reinvention of the almanac.

The Almanac revives the tradition of the rural almanac for a new audience. Its aim is to give you the tools and inspiration you need to celebrate, mark and appreciate each month of the year in your own Lia Leendertz particular way. writes a weekly column for the Like a traditional almanac, it provides practical Telegraph, a information that gives access to the outdoors and the monthly column for seasons, perfect for expeditions, meteor-spotting The Garden magazine and a nights, beach holidays and every day. There are also long-running series essays on each month’s unique nature, folklore and on growing and eating seasonally for stories, seasonal recipes and ID charts relevant to the Simple Things month. Have go at identifying trees by their bare buds magazine. She also in January; enjoy a broad bean, pea shoot & pecorino contributes frequently to the salad in June; discover the story of gourmet garlics Guardian and and how to plant them in October. Gardens Illustrated. You will find yourself referring to the almanac all She is the author of several gardening year long, revisiting it again and again, and looking books and the forward to the next edition as the year draws to a close. cookbook Petal, Leaf, Seed: Cooking with the garden’s treasures. Praise for The Almanac 2018: »twitter @lialeendertz ‘The perfect companion to the seasons’ »instagram – India Knight @lia_leendertz ‘A richly layered book of events, celebrations and »website everyday information that together create a beautiful, www.lialeedertz. fascinating resource . . . In the single month I’ve had com T HE my hands on it, the book has quietly “worked”.’ ALMANAC 2018 – Telegraph IS AN AMAZON ‘Beautifully written, this pocket-sized guide is a labour NUMBER ONE of love and will remind you to appreciate little BESTSELLER moments throughout the year.’ Specification – Gardens Illustrated October 2018 Mitchell Beazley AS FEATURED ‘Elegant . . . an ideal stocking filler.’ – English Garden £10.00 HB ON CERYS 9781784725150 M AT THEWS' ‘It's a very happy book, and it's got a gorgeous cover’ 272 pages BBC RADIO 6 – Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 178 x 111 mm MUSIC SHOW 40,000 words 120 illustrations Rights available: UK & Commonwealth

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Best of Today 60 years of broadcasting conversations, contradictions and controversies to the nation With forewords by Mishal Husain and Nick Robinson

Best of Today will mark the 60-year anniversary of broadcasting the most popular radio programme to the nation.

This compendium will celebrate the programme’s Today is BBC world-class journalism which has scrutinized the Radio 4’s long-running early headlines, held those in power to account and morning news and enlightened their audience with stories that have current affairs shaped and changed our society. programme. Today has been voted the The book will be broken down into thematic most influential chapters, covering the 60 most pivotal events news programme in Britain in setting broadcast on the programme over the last 60 years: the political agenda, • Rebellion, Revolution & Protest and in February • Political Landscape 2017 recorded its highest ever • War and Conflict audience figures, • Social Change reaching 7.45 The Arts and Culture million weekly • listeners (up from • The Natural World, Climate and Space 7.1m last quarter • Science, Technology and Engineering and 7.03m last year). In an era of fake With forewords by presenters Mishal Husain and news, echo Nick Robinson on the task of presenting Radio 4’s chambers and flagship radio show, and an introduction from the significant shifts in global politics, the editor of the programme, Sarah Sands, on the art of role of Radio 4’s programming the show, this book offers behind-the- Today programme scenes insight into the show that millions of people as the most trusted guide to the world wake up to every morning. and news around us Today is much more than a radio programme, it’s a is more important than ever. perennial British staple and this book will chronicle the absorbing story of an extraordinary and ever- »twitter @BBCr4today popular institution.

WITH FOREWORDS BY MISHAL HUSAIN AND NICK ROBINSON AND Specification AN INTRODUCTION October 2018 BY SARAH SANDS Cassell £25 HB 9781788400374 320 pages 234 x 153 mm 120,000 words With a colour insert Rights available: World

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How To Ride A Bike From starting out to peak performance Sir Chris Hoy

Go from good to great with advice from Britain’s greatest Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy.

An invaluable manual for cyclists of all ages, experience and ability, which will help them achieve peak performance. Full of practical advice, this book includes information on: • Strength conditioning to improve your performance Sir Chris Hoy • Targeted training plans to focus on strengthening MBE is Great Britain’s weaker areas most successful • Bike care Olympic athlete of • Riding different terrains and environments all time, with six gold medals and one • Road cycling skills and safety silver. Chris was The book will also help you discover your ‘key voted 2008 BBC performance limiters’, which fall into four groups: Sports Personality of the Year, and • Stamina – how far you can ride without tiring he was also awarded • Hard steady state riding – how hard you can ride a Knighthood in the 2009 New Year over 20 minutes Honours list. Chris • Capacity – how hard you can ride over 5 minutes retired from • Speed – how fast you can sprint competitive cycling in 2013 and his This book acts as a training toolbox with which you achievements can structure bespoke sessions to improve these four throughout his facets of performance. There’s also advice on diet, career make him Team GB’s most weight loss and the psychology of cycling, and plenty successful of stories and anecdotes from Sir Chris Hoy’s Olympic Olympian, the first Briton since 1908 to track career. win three gold Full of helpful and inspiring advice for those getting medals in a single SIR CHRIS HOY IS on a bike for the first time in a while, along with plenty Olympic Games, and one of the most TEAM GB’S MOST of tips and tricks for seasoned cyclists looking to take successful Olympic SUCCESSFUL OLYMPIAN, it up a notch, this is a book for beginners and pros alike. cyclists of all time. WITH A RECORD LIST OF ACHIEVEMENTS, INCLUDING SIX GOLD MEDALS AND 11 WORLD CH A MPIONSHIPS.

Specification September 2018 Hamlyn £18.99 PB 9780600635215 224 pages 246 x 189mm 50,000 words 200 images Rights available ; World

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En Cyclo Pedia Everything you need to know about cycling, from the essential to the obscure Johan Tell

An A-Z guide to the language of cycling.

In En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell – award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive – uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture. Beautifully illustrated and arranged alphabetically with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France Johan Tell stages to illegal ‘Alley Cat’ races, as well as cult heroes is a freelance writer and former editor of and must-know cycling slang, Tell’s book provides an the travel magazine insight into this complex world that only a cycling Vagabond. He has junkie can. written several award-winning From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan books and has to scouring the streets of New York for the origins of also helped other adventurous the fixie, via the bicycle cafés of Barcelona and the travellers to tell cobblestones of Flanders, En Cyclo Pedia is a complete their stories. Tell is A to Z guide to the unique, indescribable character of a lecturer, mainly in the environmental global bike culture – a road map of the idiosyncrasies field, and, above all, of cycling. a cycling enthusiast.

SI NCE 2001, A THE NUMBER OF BE AU T IF U L CYCLISTS IN NEW YORK PACK AGE , HAS TRIPLED, AND HAS PERFECT FOR AN DOU BL ED I N UPMARKET, STYLE- LONDON CONSCIOUS AUDIENCE

Specification September 2018 Mitchell Beazley £15.00 PB 9781784724955 224 pages 240 x 170mm 69,000 words c.60 illustrations Rights available: World English Language

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The Science of Supercars The Technology that Powers the Greatest Cars in the World Martin Roach, Neil Waterman and John Morrison

Explore the technology that drives Martin Roach the supercar, with contributions from is a best-selling author who has the biggest names in the industry. written a number of books on supercars, This is the definitive story of the science behind the including The Supercar Book for cars of our dreams, featuring inside information from Boys and Bugatti the major players of the supercar world – including Veyron: Quest for Perfection. He has design legend Adrian Newey, McLaren F1 creator worked with F1 Gordon Murray, supercar mavericks Horacio Pagani legends Nigel and Christian Mansell and David Coulthard. von Koenigsegg, as well as contributions from manufacturers such as Lamborghini, Porsche, Neil Bugatti and McLaren. Waterman has spent 35 years What powers the greatest cars in the world? How working in the did we get from the crude mechanics of yesteryear to highest levels of the high-tech, computer aided designs we see today? motorsport, and was a senior Which cars broke the mould? member of the Red Featuring bespoke technical drawings from F1 Bull Racing team championship-winning engineer Neil Waterman, that dominated Formula 1 and won The Science of Supercars traces the evolution of the four consecutive supercar through the technology that drives it. World Driver’s and Constructor’s Enlightening and informative, it is an essential read Championships. for petrolheads and design fanatics alike. John Morrison is a former racing driver with more F E AT U R I NG than 50 years’ experience of E XCLUSI V E INTRODUCTION racing, including CONTRIBUTIONS BY F1 DRIVER winning the Daytona 24 and FROM THE GREATEST DAV ID competing in Le NAMES IN CAR COULTHARD Mans 24-Hour race. DESIGN HISTORY

Specification September 2018 Mitchell Beazley £20.00 HB 9781784723637 224 pages 246 x 189mm 40,000 words c.175 photographs and illustrations Rights available : World

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The Official Guidebook to the Rules of Golf The R&A

The only complete and official The Rules will be reduced from 34 Specification guide to the updated Rules to 24 and some of the changes will November 2018 of golf, from the R&A. create ripples throughout the world Hamlyn of sport. They include: £20 HB Following seven years of • Reduction of ‘ball moved’ 9780600635703 consultations, the governing penalties. 592 pages bodies of the Rules of golf are • Relaxed putting green rules. 165 x 220mm about to implement the most • Relaxed bunker rules. 70,000 words 50 illustrations comprehensive Rules changes seen A bigger reliance on a player’s • Rights available : in the game for 37 years. ‘reasonable judgment’. English language In a bid to make the Rules more • Reduced search times. accessible and straightforward The • The abandonment of the ‘furthest R&A and USGA have reworded from the hole plays first’ etiquette in every Rule and made alterations favour of ‘ready golf’. that will affect the way every golfer • Relaxed procedure for dropping in the world plays the game – some the ball. 60 million people. This is the book that every serious golfer will need.

You Are The Ref 500 sporting conundrums to solve Paul Trevillion & Keith Hackett

A new compendium of the cult out what you’d do in these Specification classic Guardian cartoon. perplexing, unpredictable and October 2018 often downright confounding Cassell Challenge your knowledge of the footballing conundrums. £10.00 PB beautiful game with 300 new Paul Trevillion is a world-famous 9781788400756 refereeing dilemmas from the sports artist who is best known for 176 pages legendary team behind the his Roy of the Rovers and You are 142 x 194mm 15,000 words Guardian’s You are the Ref strip. the Ref cartoon strips. His work 300 illustrations From mid-game bust-ups, and has appeared in almost every Rights available : unexpected intrusions onto the national newspaper in Britain and World pitch, to bitter disputes about he has met and drawn most of penalties, Keith Hackett’s tricky sport’s biggest names. scenarios will give even the keenest Keith Hackett is one of the most wannabe referee a run for their trusted referees in footballing money, while Paul Trevillion’s history, and is counted as one of unmistakeable artwork illustrates the top 100 referees of all time by every situation. Stop shouting at the International Federation of the ref on the TV and start working Football History and Statistics.

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DEN OF GEEK HAS OVER 7 MILLION VIEWERS TV Geek WOR L DW IDE A LONG WITH 87.7K The Den of Geek guide to the greatest series FOL LOW ER S ON TWITTER Simon Brew, with Ryan Lambie and Louisa Mellor

A comprehensive compendium • The Walking Dead, and the Specification of cult website Den of Geek’s power of fandom. October 2018 most popular articles combined • Top 10 genuinely terrifying Cassell with new material to create the episodes of TV shows. £15.99 PB ultimate alternative TV guide. • Spotting the references in 9781788400732 Marvel TV shows. 240 pages Get sucked in to the world of 217 x 165mm 70,000 words box-sets, bingewatching and Den of Geek is the leading 200 illustrations addictive TV trivia with this alternative culture website with Rights available : comprehensive guide to the small over 7 million viewers across the World screen. Includes articles on: globe. Fans worldwide use the site • Oz, and the HBO revolution. to learn the latest gossip from the • How the live action Star Wars sets of the biggest shows in TV show fell apart. production and to enjoy Den’s MOVIE GEEK • The fascinating hidden details of quirky insight into the history SOL D H A S Game of Thrones. of TV & film.Simon Brew is SOL D A L MOST • Prescience, sci fi, and reflecting the founder and editor of Den 15,000 reality in Black Mirror. of Geek. COPIES

Border Control Entrance Exam Are you British enough for post-Brexit Britain? Michael Powell

Pit your wits against the true the test, with challenges such as: Specification arbiters of Britishness – the • Find Basingstoke and other key October 2018 border control agency... cultural centres on a map Hamlyn • Spot the breaches of £10.00 HB When it comes to being British, it’s supermarket etiquette 9780600635734 less about whether you can name • Get through a family Christmas 128 pages all of Henry VIII’s wives, and more dinner without mentioning Brexit 180 x 120mm 25,000 words about how long you can spend in a • Rate the celebrities in order of 100 illustrations packed lift without making eye National Treasuredom Rights available : contact. Who cares if you can tell • Decode the frankly baffling World the difference between an idiosyncrasies of cricket hereditary peer and a life peer • Allocate an MP’s expenses to – what you really need to know is different leisure pursuits how long you can dunk a digestive • Tie the perfect Windsor Knot in your tea before one half of it falls • Work out if a pint at the airport is in. With the Border Control still acceptable before a 7am flight Entrance Exam, put your • Identify the correct shade of a knowledge of the British psyche to cup of a tea on a colour wheel

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GQ How to Win at Life The expert guide to excelling at everything you do Charlie Burton

A foolproof guide to being the very best at whatever life throws at you.

From the magazine synonymous with looking sharp and living smart comes the definitive handbook of skills for the modern man. Based on interviews with the world’s foremost authorities, and wisdom from Charlie GQ’s editors, step-by-step guides show you how to win Burton is a journalist at fashion, sport, food and drink, work, romance, based in London. travel and the unexpected… As Senior Commissioning Editor of GQ he You will learn how to: writes everything • Neutralize a crisis using Alastair Campbell’s rules from celebrity Mix a dirty martini like the world’s best bartender profiles to political • opinion. In 2015, • Execute a bicycle ‘track stand’ like Chris Froome he started the • Pack a suit for travel without it creasing magazine’s monthly how-to column, • Get quality sleep on a night flight ‘Bring Your “A” • Perform mind-blowing magic like Dynamo Game’, which • Dance without looking like your dad inspired this book. Photo credit: Simon • Survive a kidnapping like Andy McNab Webb … and much more GQ For 30 years, GQ has been the premier magazine for men. T HE FIR ST The winner of 66 major awards, it GUIDE TO LIFE brings the very best FROM ICONIC of men’s lifestyle and fashion to millions MEN’S MAGAZINE, 2018 M A R K S around the world GQ GQ’S 30TH each month. ANNIVERSARY »twitter @CharlieBurton @BritishGQ

Specification September 2018 Mitchell Beazley £14.99 HB 9781784724580 224 pages 210 x 149mm 25,000 words c. 300 illustrations Rights available: World

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Tech Classics The ultimate compendium of retro computers & consoles Peter Leigh

YouTube’s most successful purveyor of computer and gaming nostalgia brings those stories to print.

This book celebrates the most exciting period in the history of technology - the arrival of the home computer and home gaming console. For a time, an Peter Leigh exciting and ever-changing array of different With well over companies fought for supremacy, leaving a lasting 100,000 followers legacy of great gameplay and surreal design that we’ll on YouTube as ‘The Nostaligia Nerd’, never experience again. Peter Leigh is well Not just old computers, this book features known to his loyal fans for his in-depth screenshots of historic games that will bring nostalgic videos about the joy to the heart of anyone who grew up in the 80s or software, hardware, early 90s, alongside stunning studio photography of games, toys, programs and the computers that imprinted themselves on a magazines of the generation’s minds and some insights into the stories 70s, 80s and 90s. He behind them. has no shame admitting his addition to retro tech (indeed it PET ER L EIGH would be hard to hide). HAS OVER 100,000 »twitter FOL LOW ER S ON @nostalnerd YOUTUBE AS ‘THE NOSTALGIA A N ER D’ HIGH- QUALITY PRODUCT FOR THE PROV E N A N D GROWING GEEK- NOSTALGIA MARKET

Specification November 2018 Ilex Press £15.00 HB 9781781575703 224 pages 210 x 149mm 32,000 words 400 images Rights available: World

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Do Robots Make Love? From AI to Immortality – Understanding Transhumanism in 12 Questions Laurent Alexandre & Jean-Michel Besnier

Through 12 thought-provoking questions, a philosopher and a scientist explore the real-world ramifications of transhumanism – the tech movement that seeks to improve the human condition through science. Laurent Alexandre is a • Should we enhance the human condition with French urological technology? surgeon, author, entrepreneur and • Does anyone really want to live for a thousand years? expert on • Could AI end up destroying mankind? transhumanism who has written for the Huffington Post Discover the incredible potential of mankind’s near and Le Monde. future as a doctor and a philosopher debate the big questions surrounding the incredible potential of Jean-Michel Besnier is an transhumanism. This movement – that seeks to emeritus professor improve the human condition through science – has of Philosophy at the fast become one of the most controversial the scientific Sorbonne in Paris specialising in the community have ever faced. As scientists in California impact of science make great strides in using advanced technology to and technology on enhance human intellect and physiology, the ethical human society. and moral questions surrounding its possibilities have »twitter @dr_l_alexandre never been more pressing. Should we change the way we reproduce? Could we enhance the human body with technology to the point where we are all technically cyborgs? Is it possible to make love to a robot? Doctor and entrepreneur Laurent Alexandre and tech-philosopher Jean Michel Besnier go head to head on the big questions in an entertaining and thought- provoking debate on the fundamental principles of transhumanism.

Specification July 2018 Cassell £10.00 HB 9781788400701 144 pages B-format (198 x 126mm) 25,000 words Rights available: World English language

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A L L T ECH The Smart Smart Home Handbook H A S BEE N TRIED AND Control Your Home With Your Voice TESTED BY THE Adam Juniper AUTHOR

Learn how to improve your This book also addresses the Specification day-to-day life with smart digital security concerns which November 2018 technology. retailers prefer to minimise, and Ilex Press shows you the best ways to ensure £14.99 PB The Smart Smart Home Handbook that you get all the advantages of 9781781575802 is a book designed to save its readers smart home tech, with no risk from 160 pages time and money, while still opening hackers. 235 x 190mm the possibilities of smart tech. 25,000 words 300 images Read about experiences of has had a Adam Juniper Rights available: families who have installed tech longstanding interest in consumer World you might be considering. technology, having written his first Learn about exciting gadget review for a magazine possibilities you may not have before he was old enough to drive. thought of, such as lighting that He’s written and edited dozens of matches the TV screen to create a books, especially on photography, movie effect and find out how to drones and now the arrival of the create programs and sequences to smart digital assistant. make this happen.

The Complete Guide to VR Create, Play, Share and Capture JONAT H A N T USTA I N Jonathan Tustain FOU N DED EUROPE’S LARGEST VR DEVELOPER, Enter the 360-degree world of even exploring the world MEETUP VR and get to grips with this using the technology. exciting new technology, with this complete guide. Jonathan Tustain has been fascinated with virtual reality all his The Complete Guide to VR will life and has worked in the industry help you get to grips with this since 2012. Founding Europe’s exciting new technology from first largest VR developer, Meetup, he is principles, so you know what’s out well known in VR circles, writing Specification there, and what you want. for roadtovr.com, founding mobile July 2018 Discover all there is to know VR company Proteus (Freefly Ilex Press about home VR systems, whether VR), acts as a consultant for £16.99 PB they’re computer-based or even companies wishing to enter the 9781781575390 work using your mobile phone. VR space and speaks at VR events. 160 pages This book will introduce you to a 255 x 235mm whole spectrum of VR 40,000 words 300 images possibilities including VR games, Rights available : creating your own VR films and World

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Primate Change How the world we made is remaking us Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Primate Change offers up a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed, how the way we live now is altering us inside and out, and what we can do to turn back the clock.

If you think you’re you, think again. In the last two hundred years, humans have made Vybarr such a tremendous impact on the world that our Cregan-Reid is an author and geological epoch is about to be declared the academic. He is 'Anthropocene', or the Age of Man. But while we have Reader in English & been busy changing the shape of the world, the ways Environmental Humanities in the of living that we have been fashioning have, as if under School of English at the cover of darkness, been changing our bodies and the University of altering the expression of our DNA, too. Kent. His most recent book is Your DNA evolved expecting a different Footnotes: How environment from the one we have made in the last Running Makes us Human, which two hundred years. reviewers called Your body expected to be tasked with different ‘delightful’, work, your teeth and jaws expected different food. ‘impassioned and energetic’, and ‘a Your feet expected to be used and your glutes blazing were never meant to be downgraded to a portable achievement’. He carry cushion. has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Your hands expected variety, your eyes expected the Independent, to see distance and daylight and when they didn’t find the Big Issue, the Telegraph, the Mail it, they tried to adapt, and they all changed. and the Washington This is the road from climate change to primate change. Post, and he has appeared on Radio 4 and Sky News.

»twitter @vybarr PR I M AT E CHANGE HAS BEEN SEL ECT ED FOR A 3-PART SERIES ON BBC WORLD Specification SERVICE September 2018 Cassell £16.99 HB 9781788400220 320 pages 234 x 153mm 110,000 words Approx. 20 illustrations and diagrams Rights available: World

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The Physics Behind Discover the physics of everyday events Russ Swan

Peer into the matrix with The have thought of before such as Specification Physics Behind... and uncover sunburn, wifi and a bag of sugar. September 2018 the extraordinary science Packed with beautiful and Cassell behind everyday life. characterful artwork, The Physics £14.99 PB Behind… is perfect for anyone who 9781844039746 From the Cloud to static, and from has ever been curious about the 192 pages waterproof clothing to driverless science of life. 235 x 190mm cars, there’s a whole world of Explores the physics behind: 50,000 words 180 colour fascinating science underlying • Touchscreen technology illustrations our everyday objects, actions • Weather Rights available: and interactions. • Electric guitars World Discover more about the science • Facial recognition that makes your world go round, • Spider silk including everyday technology, objects in the home, amazing Russ Swan is a freelance physics in nature, incredible journalist and editor, specialising engineering and the science in writing about science, behind things you would never engineering and technology.

Meet Your Bacteria Introducing the hidden communities that live in your gut & other organs Nicola Temple & Catherine Whitlock, with a foreword by Glenn Gibson

Your body is home to trillions promoting the good and inhibiting Specification of microorganisms: living the bad bacteria August 2018 things too small to see without • Examines the latest thinking on Cassell a microscope. good and bad dirt, and the links £14.99 PB between bacteria and disease 9781844039739 Meet Your Bacteria introduces you 192 pages to all of your tiny tenants, and Catherine Whitlock is a science 235 x 190mm 40,000 words reveals the fascinating inner writer with a BSc in Biological 150 images workings of your body, and the Sciences and a PhD in Rights available: importance of these usually helpful Immunology. Nicola Temple World (but sometimes harmful) microbes. worked as a conservation biologist Highly accessible, this book: before becoming a full-time • Explores the different bacteria science writer. Glenn Gibson is that live on and in various parts of Professor of Food Microbiology at your body (not just in the gut) the University of Reading and • Explains what they do, and why researches gut microbiology. some are ‘good’ and some ‘bad’. • Offers practical advice for

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Best. Brains. Ever History’s 64 greatest geeks, and how they shaped our world Chas Newkey-Burden

Best. Geeky. Gift. Ever. Chas Newkey-Burden is the Specification author of a number of books November 2018 This book celebrates 64 geeks who including Great Email Disasters Ilex Press have played a significant part in and a series of official titles for £12.99 HB tech history, and, by extension, Arsenal FC, such as The Arsenal 9781781575727 revolutionised the world. From Yearbook and successive editions 144 pages greats like Archimeses and of The Official Arsenal Annual. 210 x 149mm Galileo, through Ada Lovelace, 25,000 words 64 illustrations Tesla and Turing, to more recent Rights available: geniuses like Steve Wozniak. World TAPS INTO A Each is presented not only with a HUGE M A R K ET thorough bio and examples of their FOR ALL THINGS achievements that affect our lives NERDY AND “UNCOOL” today, but is rendered in the coolest FOL LOW I NG T HE way known to geek-culture: SUCCESS OF T HE BIG custom-drawn pixel art. BANG THEORY

U N E A RT H T HE CR E AT I V E PROCESSES AND Great Minds Don’t Think Alike DAILY RITUALS OF CELEBRITIES Discover the method and madness of 56 creative geniuses THROUGHOUT Emily Gosling HISTORY

Uncover the method and techniques from inspired, and Specification madness behind the greatest inspiring, minds - among them, September 2018 minds in history. architects, musicians, playwrights, Ilex Press painters and philosophers - enjoy £12.99 PB Great Minds Don’t Think Alike an illustrated compendium of 9781781575376 surveys some of the most brilliant ingenious insights to kickstart 128 pages minds of the past and present. your own creative process. 210 x 149mm 25,000 words Discover the methods and rituals 56 infographics they used to forge a constructive, Emily Gosling is a freelance editor Rights available: creative pathway, from the and writer based in London. She World downright peculiar to the has contributed to Vice, reassuringly pedestrian. Huffington Post, AnOther Learn the importance of daily magazine and was previously routines with Sylvia Plath, deputy editor at It’s Nice That. embrace randomness with David Bowie and transcend tragedy with Frida Kahlo. With 56 tried and tested creative

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Cracking Neuroscience You, this book and the mapping of the mind Jon Turney

Know your own mind with to give everyone the chance to Specification Cracking Neuroscience, and get understand their own brain. September 2018 a crash-course in the latest Includes sections on: Cassell scientific knowledge of the • The anatomy of the brain £14.99 HB workings of the brain. • Neurons, synapses and axons – 9781844039524 the building blocks of the brain 320 pages For so long, the brain was the great • Differences in male and female 167 x 140mm unknown of human biology; an development 55,000 words 300 illustrations evolved complex of cells, chemicals Rights sold: Fra and electricity, which eluded even Jon Turney is a science writer, the understanding of its own grey editor and reviewer with over 30 matter. Now, in this comprehensive years’ experience. He has lectured guide, the most complicated in universities across the UK, concepts from across the field of including UCL and Imperial, and neuroscience – such as memory, created as well as taught several addiction and mind mapping – are science communication courses. broken down into easily He is the author of numerous understandable bite-sized pieces, science books and lives in Bristol.

Cracking the Elements You, this book and 350 years of scientific discovery Rebecca Mileham

Get back to basics with Cracking • Atomic physics Specification the Elements, and learn all about • Patterns and trends within the September 2018 the building blocks of life as we periodic table Cassell know it. • Stories of the scientists who £14.99 HB often risked life and limb in their 9781844039517 Spanning the discovery of the very pursuit of new elements 320 pages first elements all the way up to the • The naming of new elements 167 x 140mm 55,000 words naming of the most recent 300 illustrations elements in 2016, this book makes Rebecca Mileham is a writer who Rights sold: Chi every daunting scientific concept specialises in science and understandable and memorable, technology. She has helped write and provides you with the tools to the text for exhibitions across the understand everything you need to UK, including several at the know about the fundamental Science Museum and the Natural materials that make up our world. History Museum and is a regular Includes sections on: contributor to Engineering and • Mendeleev and the creation of Technology Magazine. the periodic table

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The Secret Life of the Human Body Uncover the hidden workings of your body John Clancy

Get to know just how intricate astonishing secrets of the human Specification and fascinating your body really body, from the 15 ‘other senses’ we August 2018 is with The Secret Life of the have beyond the known five, to the Cassell Human Body. reason we have eyes capable of £12.99 PB seeing the Andromeda galaxy 2.5 9781844039784 Most of us take our body for granted million light years away. 192 pages and are never aware of its amazing 246 x 189mm 55,000 words capabilities. This book looks at how John Clancy has over 35 years 200 artworks and the seven octillion atoms that make working with the human body as a photographs up the human body are grouped into Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Rights available: organs, tissues, nerves, fibres, fluids Medicine and Health Sciences at the World and more in such a way that the University of East Anglia. He has entire system runs smoothly without written seven books, several us ever knowing about it. It explains chapters and over 60 articles on the the hidden world of hormones and human body in health and illness. enzymes, the battleground of your immune system, the senses and much more. It also reveals the

The Secret Life of Language Discover the origins of global communication Simon Pulleyn

Discover the fascinating history difficulties of decipherment and Specification of human language around the the challenge of inventing from August 2018 world, and learn about all the scratch languages such as Cassell hidden processes underlying Dothraki. £12.99 PB your everyday communication. Combining expert analysis with 9781788400244 accessible narrative and fun 192 pages This book looks at how language illustrations, The Secret Life of 246 x 189mm 55,000 words has evolved around the globe from Language makes even the complex 200 artworks and ancestral proto-languages to our topics of philology, morphology photographs recognisable modern tongues. It and phonology easy to understand. Rights available: World demonstrates how language has been shaped by social and cultural Simon Pulleyn read Latin and influences, and even explains how Ancient Greek at Oxford, where he our anatomy affects the later taught Classics for almost a articulation, and therefore decade. In 2017 he completed a large evolution, of words. Discover the book on Homer’s Odyssey for Oxford surprising stories behind the University Press. origin of the written word, the

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What Would de Beauvoir Do? How the greatest feminists would solve your everyday problems Freya Rose & Tabi Jackson Gee

Explore the theories and theorists of all time, What Would Specification concepts of the greatest feminists de Beauvoir Do? tackles all the September 2018 of all time, and get an answer to important issues in your life Cassell all of your everyday problems. through a feminist lens. £12.99 PB From bell hooks to Betty 9781788400305 Have you ever wondered what Friedan, Hélène Cixous to Sara 192 pages Andrea Dworkin would have to say Ahmed, let the most influential 210 x 149mm about your Brazilian wax? Or what feminists in history answer all 54,000 words 90 illustrations Mary Wollstonecraft would think your everyday questions, and in Rights available: about the ‘fairytale’ weddings doing so shed light on even the World you’re constantly being invited to? most complex feminist theories. Ever thought about what advice Naomi Wolf would give you on Freya Rose is an author, editor your Tinder profile? and counsellor living in Suffolk. Using 40 everyday questions Tabi Jackson Gee is a freelance and problems as springboards for writer who writes regularly for exploring the theories and the Telegraph and The Sunday concepts of the greatest feminist Times Style.

What Would Churchill Do? How the greatest leaders would solve your everyday problems Paul Donnelley

Have you ever wondered what Bismarck can help you assert Specification career advice Napoleon would yourself more at work. September 2018 give you? Or if Catherine de’ With quirky illustrations and Cassell Medici could help you decide intriguing and original takes on £12.99 PB what to have for dinner? the biggest (and smallest) everyday 9781788400299 questions, What Would Churchill 192 pages Using 40 everyday questions and Do? will help you understand what 210 x 149mm 54,000 words problems as springboards for made the greatest leaders great 90 illustrations exploring the lives and and entertain you with fascinating Rights available: methodology of the great leaders of historical and biographical detail. World history, What Would Churchill Do? will surprise and enlighten Paul Donnelley is a writer and you in equal measure. It includes journalist based in the UK. He is financial advice from Lorenzo de’ the author of more than 26 books, Medici and Eleanor of Aquitaine’s along with numerous articles for tips on raising children; Louis XIV the Telegraph, the Mail, The Times can advise you on home and OK, among others. improvements and Otto von

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Politics Hacks 100 clever ways to help you understand and remember the most important theories Julian Flanders

A brand new way to understand 3/ The hack, which is a one-liner Specification and remember 100 of the most designed to stick in your memory October 2018 important concepts in the and give you an instant grasp of Cassell history of political thought. the concept. £14.99 PB Whether you quickly want to get 9781788400404 Understanding the history and to grips with neo-Marxism, 208 pages significance of today’s political understand the principles of 225 x 177mm climate can be confusing and expansionist nationalism, or know 35,000 words 100 images daunting. Politics Hacks is here to the history of the Wahhabi Rights available: give you quick definitions and movement, this book is the perfect World background on 100 key political way to speedy enlightenment. theories from the last 1,000 years Each idea is broken down into Julian Flanders has spent a lifetime three stages: involved with books: reading, proof 1/ The helicopter view, which gives reading, editing and writing them. you an introduction to the idea. His specialist areas include history, 2/ The shortcut, which gives you philosophy and politics. This is his the core elements of the theory. fourth book.

Philosophy Hacks 100 clever ways to help you understand and remember the most important theories Robert Arp & Martin Cohen

100 clever hacks to make even the positivism. The perfect introduction Specification most complex philosophical to philosophy, this is a great new way October 2018 theories easy to understand. to learn about the most important Cassell philosophical ideas and concepts in £14.99 PB Each idea is broken down into three a way that makes them easy to recall 9781788400398 stages: even months after reading the book. 208 pages 1/ The helicopter view, which gives 225 x 177mm 35,000 words you an introduction to the idea. Robert Arp is a philosopher and 100 images 2/ The shortcut, which gives you the author of numerous books on the Rights available: core elements of the theory. subject. He is also the editor of World 3/ The hack, which is a one-liner 1001 Ideas that Changed the Way designed to stick in your memory We Think. and give you an instant grasp of Martin Cohen is an established the concept. author specializing in popular books From Kant’s categorical imperative on philosophy and politics, and also to Derrida’s deconstruction, there the editor of The Philosopher, the are 100 concepts explained, ranging long-standing philosophical journal from empiricism through to logical founded in 1923.

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The Dark Powers of Tolkien David Day

An in-depth and illustrated guide to the terrible and awesome lives of Tolkien’s dark powers.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit hold some of the greatest tales of good versus evil ever told. His remarkable fictional world, Middle-earth, has staged war and rebellion, celebration and loss, causing its men, women and fantastical creatures to strive for the Author bio triumph of good, and for others – whether by inheritance Canadian born David Day has or by choice – to propel forward the power of the forces of published more darkness and evil. than twenty books From Sauron’s transformation into the Dark Lord, in over twenty languages in the to a Barrow-wight’s hypnotic powers over its “prey”, fields of poetry, each have their place in Middle-earth’s vast history, ecology, natural history, fantasy, created against a backdrop of Tolkien’s fascination mythology and a with and influence from other mythological and number of ancient sources. award-winning children’s books. In his latest book of this series, best-selling author and His fascination with Tolkien expert David Day examines the complexities complex surrounding Tolkien’s portrayal of good and evil, mythologies led him to the works of analysing the influences, history and meaning behind J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-earth’s darker forces, from the creation of the selling over 65,000 books in the UK world of Arda until the end of the War of the Ring. alone.

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Specification A M A ZON ST U DIOS November 2018 HAVE ANNOUNCED Cassell THEY ARE MAKING £10.00 Flexiback 9780753733073 A BRAND NEW 256 pages MULTI-SERIES 192 x 128 mm LORD OF THE RINGS 40,000 words SHOW FOR TV 100+ illustrations and map designs Rights available: World

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Explore Assassin’s Creed Each page contains unique Specification through infographics. infographics and illustrations to September 2018 take you on a visual journey. Ilex Press There is something for everyone £12.99 HB in Assassin’s Creed: thrilling • Which Assassin has achieved the 9781781576304 adventures, epic moments in highest Leap of Faith? 96 pages history, philosophies, science • Do you know the complete 210 x 149mm fiction, and, of course, hand-to- Desmond Miles genealogy? 15,500 words 400 images hand combat. It’s no wonder the What are the main models of • Rights available: franchise is so popular across the secret blades? World globe and includes games, books, • Do you know everything there comics, a film starring Michael is to know about the fragments Fassbender and a range of of Eden? merchandise. Assassin’s Creed Graphics gives Learn all of this and more as you you the keys to understanding the unlock the secrets of Assassin’s many features of this vast universe. Creed with this beautiful book.

Classic Stories of World War I

A compilation of popular fiction Somerset Maugham’s The Traitor, Specification and non-fiction excerpts his experience as a member of the October 2018 detailing the heroic and British Intelligence during World Cassell harrowing experiences of the War One is alluded to and explored. £10.00 Flexiback First World War. From the home front to the 9780753733080 western front, in the trenches and 256 pages Published to mark the 100th behind enemy lines, on land or at 192 x 128 mm anniversary of the end of The Great sea, this collection of --- is a unique 130,000 words Rights available: War, Classic Stories of World War I insight into the “war to end war.” World brings together the works of world- class authors who lived through

experiences through riveting accountsthe conflict and and moving then shared narratives. their In Ernest Hemingway’s, In Another Country, readers get a glimpse of the story of a group of soldiers in Milan, of which the protagonist seeks aid in hospital for a debilitating war wound, and in

WWW.OCTOPUSBOOKS.CO.UK 75 »POPULAR CULTURE & REFERENCE SINCE TAKING ON THE GILES BRAND, HAMLYN HAS SOLD ALMOST 250,000 Giles: The Collection 2019 COPIES THROUGH THE Carl Giles TCM IN THE UK ALONE.

The latest offering from the Treating perennial occupations Specification Giles cartoon archive. such as Christmas parties, royal September 2018 weddings and petrol prices with Hamlyn Fans of Giles will be thrilled to the same rigour as space travel, £8.99 PB receive the latest annual treat from nuclear anxieties and perpetual 9780600634751 the archives of the celebrated debates about the EU, Giles 160 pages cartoonist, whose work won him investigates the weighty and the 210 x 280mm huge admiration and accolades whimsical in equal measure. 1,000 words 150 black and white including being voted the best Brilliantly witty and full of illustrations cartoonist of the 20th century. irreverent fun, this compilation Rights available: World English The 2019 collection takes a wry is the ideal addition to your Language look at how Giles observed the Giles collection. most seismic and superficial events of his time. From January to Carl Giles was born in London in December throughout the years, 1916. Best known for his Daily the common threads of life then Express 'family', his cartoons had and now are scrupulously enormous popular appeal and in interrogated under his pen. 1959 he was awarded an OBE.

OV ER Top 10 of Everything 2019 TWO MILLION Paul Terry SERIES SALES WORLDWIDE

Fully updated for 2019, the Top includes lists, charts and tables Specification 10 series is back with hundreds to break down the details of each September 2018 more fascinating lists, facts amazing fact. Hamlyn and stats. Packed full of photographs, £14.99 HB charts, graphs and incredible 9780600635482 Ever wondered in which country information, this is the perfect 304 pages you would find the tallest roller- book for anyone with a curious 235 x 190mm 75,000 words coaster in the world? Or wanted to mind and an insatiable appetite Approx. 500 know the terrifying size of the for facts, stats and trivia. photographs biggest shark known to man? Ever Rights available: World wondered which astronaut has Paul Terry is a non-fiction author spent the most time in space in who has worked with leading kids’ total? This is the book for you. brands including LEGO®, Disney, Top 10 of Everything 2019 is The Simpsons, Futurama, and divided into genres including Star Wars. He co-authored the Animal Kingdom, Sport, Forces of official LOST Encyclopedia and Nature, Video Games and Fringe: September’s Notebook for Mechanical Creations , and Bad Robot.

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A BRAND NEW Be a Sloth TITLE IN THE & sleep, eat, sleep, repeat BESTSELLING BE A... SERIES Sarah Ford, with illustrations by Anita Mangan

The ultimate guide to living life importantly, he is kind to himself. Specification in the slow lane. A fun little gift book full of cute, June 2018 hilarious and inspirational Spruce Follow Sloth on the path to a chilled sloth mantras. £5.99 Flexiback out life, from understanding the 9781846015786 96 pages importance of ‘me time’, to truly Sarah Ford is a writer and 147 x 105mm mastering the art of the afternoon publisher with a love of cocktails, 1,000 words nap, with expert advice from the coffee and animals... mythical or Over 40 sloth animal that practically invented the otherwise. She lives in the illustrations ‘slow movement’. Cotswolds, but works in London, Rights available: World Sloth saves his energy for the travelling back and forth on things he really wants to do. He a unicorn. takes joy in the little things and Anita Mangan is a graphic never worries about the big things designer and illustrator living, – he knows that everything gets working and breathing in London. done sooner or later and you might She has made a career out of being as well enjoy the ride. He is kind to silly and has recently developed his environment, but just as cloven hoofs.

101 Things to Do with a Retired Man To get him out from under your feet Gabrielle Mander, illustrated by Sophie Joyce

Your well-earned break from the (and yours) with sometimes silly, Specification daily slog will suddenly look sometimes useful, but always August 2018 much brighter once you’ve interesting things to do, which do Spruce figured out 101 Things to Do not include lying on the sofa, £7.99 PB With a Retired Man. watching daytime television, 9781846015564 tidying the garden to within an 128 pages Sunny days and heady nights await inch of its life or stacking and 210 x 149 30,000 words you in retirement, not just for two restacking the dishwasher in the 50 illustrations weeks each year, but forever! You most efficient fashion, as Rights available: have been looking forward to this apparently only a man can. World and have an endless list of things to do, but only once you have sorted out your other half and got him out Gabrielle Mander is the author of from under your feet. more than twelve internationally 101 Things to do with a Retired published titles reflecting the Man is designed to inspire and popular cultural zeitgeist of our tease your retiree into having the times. She is based in the UK. time of his life and to fill his days

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Today Programme Puzzle Book Can YOU crack Today’s puzzles? BBC Radio 4's Today Programme

Put your deciphering skills and mental agility to the test with 250 cryptic, numerical and linguistic brainteasers from Britain’s best-loved radio programme, as set by the world’s ultimate puzzle masters. Today is BBC Radio 4’s long-running early • Which is the only letter of the alphabet not to appear morning news and in the name of any US state? current affairs programme. Today has been voted the Can YOU solve the Puzzle for Today? most influential news programme in Britain in setting Tackle the conundrums that have been frustrating the political agenda, and confounding the nation on Radio 4’s Today and in February programme. The Today Programme Puzzle Book 2017 recorded its highest ever challenges you with over 250 tricky brainteasers audience figures, designed by the greatest puzzles masters around reaching 7.45 the world. million weekly listeners (from 7.1m The book includes: Celebrity Riddles, Christmas last quarter and Crackers, Common Sense Conundrums, Flags, 7.03m last year). In an era of fake news, Capitals & Nations Puzzles and Fiendish Numerical echo chambers and Problems. Challenge your grey matter and hone significant shifts in your reasoning and logic skills with the brainteasers global politics, the role of Radio 4’s that manage to get the nation’s synapses firing Today programme every morning. as the most trusted With a foreword from Sarah Sands, the editor of guide to the world and news around us the Today programme, and introductions from the is more important BBC’s science editor. than ever. Featuring Puzzles from Mensa, University of »twitter Cambridge, UK Mathematics Trust, Japanese puzzle @BBCr4today masters & many more.

TODAY IS R A DIO 4’S MOST POPULAR PROGRAMME AND REACHES MORE THAN Specification SEVEN MILLION September 2018 L IST E N ER S Cassell A WEEK. £12.99 PB 9781788400589 288 pages 234 x 153mm

50,000 words ANSWER: Q ANSWER: Rights available: World

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Daily Mail Big Book of Quick Crosswords Daily Mail All New Cryptic Crosswords

£6.99 PB DAILY MAIL BIG DAILY MAIL BIG £5.99 PB DAILY MAIL ALL DAILY MAIL ALL 464 pages BOOK OF QUICK BOOK OF QUICK 240 pages NEW CRYPTIC NEW CRYPTIC 198 x 126 mm CROSSWORDS 5 CROSSWORDS 8 198 x 126 mm CROSSWORDS 1 CROSSWORDS 7 200 puzzles 978 0 60062 950 4 978 0 60063 493 5 100 puzzles 978 0 60062 609 1 978 060062 949 8

DAILY MAIL BIG DAILY MAIL BIG DAILY MAIL ALL DAILY MAIL ALL BOOK OF QUICK BOOK OF QUICK NEW CRYPTIC NEW CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 6 CROSSWORDS 9 CROSSWORDS 2 CROSSWORDS 8 978 0 60062 952 8 978 0 60063 569 7 978 0 60062 657 2 978 0 60063 270 2

DAILY MAIL BIG DAILY MAIL ALL DAILY MAIL ALL BOOK OF QUICK NEW CRYPTIC NEW CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 7 CROSSWORDS 6 CROSSWORDS 9 978 0 60063 265 8 978 0 60062 948 1 978 0 60063 496 6

DAILY MAIL ALL NEW CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 10 978 0 60063 565 9

Daily Mail Big Book of Cryptic Crosswords Daily Mail All New Giant Crosswords

£6.99 PB DAILY MAIL BIG DAILY MAIL BIG £9.99 PB DAILY MAIL ALL 464 pages BOOK OF CRYPTIC BOOK OF CRYPTIC 256 pages NEW GIANT 198 x 126 mm CROSSWORDS 5 CROSSWORDS 6 235 x 190 mm CROSSWORDS 1 978 0 60063 269 6 200 puzzles 978 0 60062 951 1 978 0 60063 264 1 100 puzzles

DAILY MAIL BIG BOOK OF CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 7 978 0 60063 494 2

DAILY MAIL BIG BOOK OF CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 8 978 0 60063 567 3

Daily Mail All New Quick Crosswords Daily Mail Pitcherwits

£5.99 PB DAILY MAIL ALL DAILY MAIL ALL DAILY MAIL ALL £8.99 PB DAILY MAIL 240 pages NEW QUICK NEW QUICK NEW QUICK 240 pages PITCHERWITS 1 198 x 126 mm CROSSWORDS 1 CROSSWORDS 2 CROSSWORDS 9 198 x 126 mm 978 0 60063 421 8 200 puzzles 978 0 60062 610 7 978 0 60062 653 4 978 0 60063 495 9 200 puzzles DAILY MAIL DAILY MAIL ALL DAILY MAIL ALL PITCHERWITS 2 NEW QUICK NEW QUICK 978 0 60063 490 4 CROSSWORDS 7 CROSSWORDS 10 978 0 60062 947 4 978 0 60063 566 6 DAILY MAIL PITCHERWITS 3 DAILY MAIL ALL 978 0 60063 491 1 NEW QUICK CROSSWORDS 8 DAILY MAIL 978 0 60063 263 4 PITCHERWITS 4 978 0 60063 564 2

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Daily Mail Big Puzzle Collection The Telegraph All New Codewords

£6.99 PB DAILY MAIL £5.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH 464 pages BIG PUZZLE 240 pages ALL NEW ALL NEW 198 x 126 mm COLLECTION 198 x 126 mm CODEWORDS 1 CODEWORDS 5 200 puzzles 978 0 60062 953 5 100 puzzles 978 0 60062 493 6 978 0 60063 015 9

THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH ALL NEW ALL NEW CODEWORDS 2 CODEWORDS 6 978 0 60062 606 0 978 0 60063 116 3

THE TELEGRAPH ALL NEW CODEWORDS 4 978 0 60062 936 8

Mail on Sunday The Telegraph General Knowledge Crosswords Book of Super Sudoku Puzzles £5.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH 240 pages GENERAL KNOWLEDGE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE £5.99 PB MAIL ON SUNDAY 198 x 126 mm CROSSWORDS 1 CROSSWORDS 4 240 pages BOOK OF SUPER 60 puzzles 978 0 60062 497 4 978 0 60063 529 1 198 x 126 mm SUDOKU PUZZLES 3 150 puzzles 978 0 60062 465 3 THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ULTIMATE GENERAL MAIL ON SUNDAY CROSSWORDS 2 KNOWLEDGE 1 BOOK OF SUPER 978 0 60062 604 6 978 0 60062 689 3 SUDOKU PUZZLES 6 978 0 60062 611 4 THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ULTIMATE GENERAL MAIL ON SUNDAY CROSSWORDS 3 KNOWLEDGE 2 BOOK OF SUPER 978 0 60062 942 9 978 0 60063 112 5 SUDOKU PUZZLES 7 978 0 60063 266 5

Daily Mail Big Book of Sudoku The Telegraph All New Sudoku Puzzles

£7.99 PB DAILY MAIL £5.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH 464 pages BIG BOOK 240 pages ALL NEW SUDOKU ALL NEW SUDOKU ALL NEW SUDOKU 198 x 126 mm OF SUDOKU 1 1 198 x 126 mm PUZZLES 1 PUZZLES 4 PUZZLES 6 Over 400 978 0 60063 568 0 200 puzzles 978 0 60062 944 3 978 0 60063 020 3 978 0 60063 114 9 puzzles THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH ALL NEW SUDOKU ALL NEW SUDOKU ALL NEW SUDOKU PUZZLES 3 PUZZLES 5 PUZZLES 7 978 0 60063 019 7 978 0 60063 113 2 978 0 60063 444 7

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The Telegraph Killer Sudoku The Telegraph Big Book of Cryptic Crosswords

£5.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH £7.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH 240 pages KILLER SUDOKU 1 KILLER SUDOKU 2 464 pages BIG BOOK BIG BOOK 198 x 126 mm 978 0 60062 649 7 978 0 60063 313 6 198 x 126 mm OF CRYPTIC OF CRYPTIC 200 puzzles Over 200 CROSSWORDS 1 CROSSWORDS 2 puzzles 978 0 60063 519 2 978 0 60063 556 7

THE TELEGRAPH BIG BOOK OF CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 3 978 0 60063 552 9

The Telegraph Quick Crosswords The Telegraph Big Book of Quick Crosswords

£6.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH £7.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH 240 pages QUICK QUICK 464 pages BIG BOOK BIG BOOK 198 x 126 mm CROSSWORDS 1 CROSSWORDS 2 198 x 126 mm OF QUICK OF QUICK 150 puzzles 978 0 60063 525 3 978 0 60063 526 0 Over 300 CROSSWORDS 1 CROSSWORDS 2 puzzles 978 0 60063 522 2 978 0 60063 558 1 THE TELEGRAPH QUICK THE TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS 3 BIG BOOK 978 0 60063 559 8 OF QUICK CROSSWORDS 3 THE TELEGRAPH 978 0 60063 554 3 QUICK CROSSWORDS 4 978 0 60063 555 0

The Telegraph Cryptic Crosswords The Telegraph Big Book of Sudoku

£6.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH THE TELEGRAPH £7.99 PB THE TELEGRAPH 240 pages CRYPTIC CRYPTIC 464 pages BIG BOOK OF 198 x 126 mm CROSSWORDS 1 CROSSWORDS 2 198 x 126 mm SUDOKU 1 100 puzzles 978 0 60063 523 9 978 0 60063 524 6 Over 300 978 0 60063 560 4 puzzles THE TELEGRAPH CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 3 978 0 60063 552 9

THE TELEGRAPH CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS 4

978 0 60063 553 6

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A brand new look for the 1001 series In 2018, the 1001 series will undergo a rebrand, with new covers on all titles, and fully updated editions of seven titles in the series.

Fully updated for 2018

Specification October 2018 Cassell £20 PB 960 pages 210 x 160mm Rights available: UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Movies 9781788400794 Albums 9781788400800 Beers 9781788400824 Days 9781788400831 Wines 9781788400855 Books 9781788400862 Guitars 9781788400879

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SER IE S H A S SOL D OV ER 10 MILLION COPIE S Other titles in the series: WORLDWIDE

Ideas 9781788400886 Songs 9781788400893 Whiskie 9781788400909 Photographs 9781788400947 Paintings 9781788400916 Quotations 9781788400923 Walks 9781788400954 Road Trips 9781788400930

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The Anatomy Sketchbook

Unveil the extraordinary anatomical study alongside helpful Specification architecture of the human directions from celebrated artists, May 2018 anatomy through centuries scientists and art historians. Ilex Press of artistic wisdom. Whether drawing hands with £12.99 PB Rossetti, a skull with Cézanne or 9781781575055 Understand the body’s framework, a torso with Giacometti, you will 128 pages grace and utility, and each vital come to understand each element 246 x 189mm element in this cunningly guided of the body and how they form 4,700 words 20 illustrations sketchbook. a whole. Rights available Anatomical mastery was critical Gain the technique and to Michelangelo and Leonardo da confidence you need to produce Vinci’s success. They understood accomplished results. that to draw a figure you must first learn its underlying architecture. Touching on structural drawing, the skeleton, musculature and modelling, this sketchbook A UNIQUE PACKAGE includes 20 pioneering examples of THAT GIVES THE READER A FRESH UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOOLS, MATERIALS AND SKILLS NECESSARY TO MASTER THIS The Still-Life Sketchbook MOST CRITICAL SUBJECT

Gain the understanding and fantastically detailed works of the Specification skills necessary to produce sixteenth-century Dutch masters, July 2018 accomplished still-life drawings. through to the cubist and surreal Ilex Press compositions of Picasso and £12.99 PB Master proportion, tone, texture O’Keeffe. 9781781575345 and form with this inspirational It also has plenty of space for the 128 pages sketchbook. artist to practise and Swiss 246 x 189 mm 4,400 words Line, shape, space, depth and binding so that the book can be 20 illustrations composition are most simply laid flat for comfortable work. Rights available understood through the study and practice of still-life drawing. You can enjoy the freedom of arranging objects exactly as desired, testing perception and pushing the boundaries of reality. Take inspiration from the words and drawings of 20 leading still-life artists, including the

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My Art Teacher, Mr Matisse Fun, creative activities inspired by the master of colour Liana Jegers

Pick up a pen and begin an artistic voyage of discovery like no other.

Henri Matisse is considered one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century with a unique vision that continues to inspire artists to this day. Guided by Matisse’s innovative methods and wise words, this colourful book sets you a variety of tasks to complete Liana Jesgers on the page, and describes several techniques for you is a writer and illustrator based in to attempt any way you please. Chicago. She has My Art Teacher, Mr Matisse is the first in a written various delightful new series of master-led activity books pieces for small publications and where you will also discover the wisdom and expertise contributes a of Mr Picasso. column to The Smudge, a small monthly newspaper which she co-founded and edits. In addition to her personal practice, she regularly illustrates for various THIS BOOK magazines, books MAKES MATISSE’S and websites. TECHNIQUES ACCESSIBLE TO ARTISTS OF ALL ABILITIES AND AGES

Specification September 2018 Ilex Press £12.99 PB 9781781575482 128 pages 280 x 210mm 6000 words 130 images Rights available: World

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Drawing Titles from Jake Spicer You Will be Able to Draw Faces by the End of this Book Jake Spicer

Pick up a pencil and discover the joy of drawing the people you love.

This book is for anybody who wants to become confident in drawing faces – whether you are a complete novice or a more experienced artist. From basic facial structures to finer details, the book teaches you the fundamentals of portraiture, and also Jake Spicer allows you space to practise on the page. is an artist and drawing tutor based in Brighton, Learn how to: England. He is head Understand anatomy and form tutor at the • independent • Use light and shade drawing school • Sketch in profile and front on Draw, a co-director of the Drawing • Draw details such as hair and wrinkles Circus and regularly • Capture likeness and expression runs portrait and figure drawing courses for the The book lays flat to allow you to draw comfortably Camden Arts and has an elastic band to keep your drawings safe. It Centre and the is also small and compact enough to fit inside your bag National Portrait Gallery. and each exercise has an estimated completion time, »twitter so it doesn’t matter where you are, you’ll always be able @BrightonDrawing to find time and inspiration to practise. »instagram jakespicerart.co.uk

N EW F ROM BR I TA I N ’S BE ST-LOV ED Previously in this series: ART TEACHER

Specification July 2018 Ilex Press £14.99 PB 9781781575260 160 pages 246 x 189mm 10,000 words 200 images Rights sold: Ita

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You Will be Able to Draw by the End of this Book: Coloured Pencils Jake Spicer

Discover the endless safe. The clear instructions enable Specification possibilities of coloured pencils you to build your skills and develop October 2018 in this interactive book. an understanding of composition, Ilex Press colour and tone. £14.99 PB You Will be able to Draw by the 9781781575475 End of this Book: Coloured Pencils 160 pages is a combined tutorial and 246 x 189mm sketchbook that teaches you how 10,000 words 200 images to draw in colour, and allows you A F T ER T HE Rights available: the space to practise on the page COLOU R I NG World through guided exercises in BOOK CRAZE, MANY »twitter mark-making and drawing. PEOPLE NOW OWN @BrightonDrawing COLOU R ED The book lays flat to allow you to »instagram draw comfortably and has an PENCILS jakespicerart.co.uk elastic band to keep your artwork

Draw People in 15 Minutes The super-fast drawing technique anyone can learn Jake Spicer

Full of tutorials developed from • Materials and set-up Specification real life-drawing lessons. • Mark-making August 2018 • Spatial relationships Ilex Press Best-selling author and art tutor • How clothes hang on a body £9.99 PB Jake Spicer here gives you all • Guerilla sketching in public 9781781576250 the skills you need to sketch a places such as cafes, trains and 128 pages convincing figure in just 15 minutes. buses. 255 x 177mm 20,500 words Draw People in 15 Minutes is a 300 images syllabus of carefully crafted This book will be especially Rights sold: Nor, Fra tutorials where every aspect of the useful for those unable to find the »twitter figure drawing process is time to make it to a regular life @BrightonDrawing examined including: drawing class as it can be used »instagram anywhere and at any time. jakespicerart.co.uk • How to put together a basic sketch of a person • Developing your drawings and taking them further

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Disney Frozen Crochet 12 projects featuring characters from Disney’s Frozen Kati Galusz

Bring the wonder of Disney’s smash hit Frozen Kati Gálusz home with Disney Frozen Crochet. combined her love of amigurumi and her need for This too-cute kit includes a full-color book with creativity with her instructions and step-by-step photos showing how three main interests: animals, to stitch 12 adorable crochet characters from the great books, and movie, plus enough materials to make Elsa and Anna. movies. She is the author of Marvel Whether you want a crochet Kristoff or a stuffed Sven, Universe Crochet. this kit will help you create characters that will melt your heart!

Projects include:

1. Elsa 2. Anna 3. Kristoff F ROZE N IS 4. Sven THE HIGHEST 5. Olaf GROSSING ANIMATED FILM And many more! OF T HE CE N T U RY

FROZEN 2 IS SCHEDULED TO HIT CI N E M A S IN 2019

Specification September 2018 Ilex Press £19.99 9781781576342 76 pages 254 x 233 x 65mm Word Count 15,000 130 images

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Star Wars Felties Make 10 amazing Star Wars characters with felt Aimee Ray

This Star Wars Felt kit comes with everything Aimee Ray you need to create your favourite Star Wars has been an artist all her life, she loves characters. all types of art and crafts and is always The kit includes an illustrated instruction book trying something new. She lives in with easy-to-follow steps for 10 projects (as well as Northwest techniques for basic embroidery stitches), die-cut Arkansas with her husband and two templates and all the materials you need to make children. adorable felt versions of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa, Han Solo, Wicket the Ewok, Yoda, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Boba Fett.

Inside you’ll find: • 48-page instruction book • Die-cut templates for 10 projects • 11 sheets of felt • Embroidery needle • 9 colours of embroidery floss • Stuffing FOL LOW I NG THE SUCCESS OF STAR WARS CROCHET & STAR WARS EVEN MORE CROCHET

Specification September 2018 Ilex Press £19.99 9781781576328 48 pages 254 x 233 x 65mm Word Count 4,000 50 images

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HATTIE IS ONE OF THE LEADING Say It With Paper PRACTITIONERS IN THE WORLD Fun papercraft projects to cut, fold and create Hattie Newman

Discover paper’s true potential Projects include: Specification with this book full of exciting • Animal masks August 2018 ideas. • 3-D pig Ilex Press • Lanterns £12.99 PB Unlock a new realm of possiblities • Geometric mobile 9781781575314 with paper and discover new paper • Paper food 128 pages arts, such as pop ups, papercuts • Pop-up greetings cards 253 x 201mm and 3-D shapes. Learn how paper • Paper theatre 16600 words 200 images can be used to communicate ideas, Rights available: how it can be photographed and lit And many more! World to great effect and even how it can be animated. Develop skills in Hattie Newman has earned an construction, tessellation, model international reputation for her making and scene creating, while inimitable creations in the field of also working with scale and set design and papercraft. Her moving parts. Paper has never creations can be found in various been more fun and intriguing. advertisements, animations, physical spaces and books.

Spot-the-Difference Architecture 40 Brain-Bending Photographic Puzzles

Visit your favourite buildings of the Taj Mahal and be wowed Specification from around the world and by many more architectural August 2018 discover something new with 40 treasures. Ilex Press spot-the-difference puzzles. £9.99 PB 9781781575451 Enjoy stunning shots of the world’s 96 pages 5200 words favourite buildings in this 248 x 248mm phenomenal spot-the-difference 124 images photographic collection. Each of Rights available: the 40 challenging puzzles will A NOVEL AND World boost your observation skills while EXCITING WAY TO the fun, fact-filled captions will LEARN ABOUT take you on your own architectural ARCHITECTURE guided tour. FROM AROUND Travel the globe, from Venice THE WORLD to Beijing, from London to New York. Marvel at the magnitude

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Desk Wars Make secret weapons from stationery with 30 models to build yourself John Austin

Build a secret aegent arsenal out of office stationery.

What better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? From a mini-catapult in a breath-mint tin to milk-jug cap blow-dart wristwatches, learn how to achieve clandestine ends practically and inexpensively with John Austin 30 different spy weapons and surveillance tools to worked as a senior toy designer in the build yourself. Boy’s Research and Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make Development construction simple, while easy-to-follow safety tips Department at Hasbro Toys and help ensure you avoid injuries. has worked on Projects include a paper throwing star, a toothpaste popular brands like; Transformers, Star periscope, a bowler hat launcher and a pen blowgun. Wars, Iron Man, Spiderman, Jurassic Park, Tonka and GI. Skilled in 3D computer modelling, and illustration, he brings many of these talents to the creation of his book BOOK 2 IN THE projects. He has also MINI WEAPONS personally pitched projects to Warner SERIES WHICH HAS Brothers and SOLD OVER 200,000 Cartoon Network. COPIES IN THE UNITED STATES

Specification September 2018 Ilex Press £9.99 PB 9781781576328 240 pages 216 x 135mm 20,000 words 200 black and white images Rights available: World

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Trace the history of art through them, these colours grant us access Specification 48 paintings and four colours, to fascinating stories, both of August 2018 woven together to form a individual works of art and the Ilex Press fascinating tale. world in which they were created. £10.00 PB 9781781575628 Divine blue Ben Street is an art historian, 128 pages Sensual red lecturer and writer based in 174x131mm Deathly green London. He lectures for many 12,000 words 48 images Glistening gold museums and institutions and Rights available: runs his own art trips abroad. World These four colours tell the history of art in a way that few other details can. From the pigments that hold them - sometimes wildly expensive, like Ultramarine, or dangerously toxic, like Emerald Green - to the varied and changing meanings applied to

DR ALEXANDRA LOSKE COMPLETED HER PHD ON COLOUR THEORY IN HISTORIC Palette INTERIORS, MAKING The Exploration of Colour from Newton to Pantone HER AN EXPERT IN T HIS FIEL D Dr Alexandra Loske

Discover the fascinating stories an authoritative treatment Specification of how colour was recorded, relevant to anyone working in the September 2018 explored and understood arts, or those trying to recreate Ilex Press throughout history. original colour schemes in their £25.00 PB homes, products or design. 9781781575123 With an extraordinary collection 240 pages of original colour material that Alexandra Loske 280 x 230mm 57,600 words includes charts, wheels, artists’ is an art historian, curator and 200 images palettes, swatches and schemes, editor with a particular interest in Rights available: this is the brilliant story of the late eighteenth and early World exploration of colour from 1600 to nineteenth century European art the present day. and architecture. She was born The featured artworks represent and grew up in Germany, came to centuries of significant scientific England in 1997 and has been discoveries and artistic working at the University exploration. Opening with the of Sussex since 1999. work of Newton, this stunning display of shades, tints and tones is

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Moon Art, Science, Culture Alexandra Loske and Robert Massey

The ultimate visual history of the moon Alexandra Loske PhD is an art historian This beautiful visual history of the moon explores and editor, and humanity’s endless fascination with its closest cosmic curator of MOON, a neighbour. 2019 exhibition at Brighton Pavilion. From humankind’s first lunar recordings through to present-day myths and new exploration efforts, this Robert original and diverting account intertwines artistic, Massey PhD is an astronomer religious and political interpretations with critical and Deputy scientific study and observation. Executive Director Trace the history of the moon and its many faces in at the Royal Astronomical this extensively illustrated and illuminating volume. Society.

R EL E A SED TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEIL ARMSTRONG’S ‘ONE SMALL STEP’

Specification October 2018 Ilex Press £20.00 HB 9781781575710 240 pages 235 x 190mm 30,000 words 120 images Rights available : World

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F E AT U R E S I N T ERV IEWS WITH Why You Like This Photo NUMEROUS GREAT The science of perception, and how PHOTOGRAPHERS we understand photographs Brian Dilg

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Covering all of the essentials, how to get great portraits, perfect Specification this book is all you need to landscapes and take outstanding October 2019 master photography. artistic compositions; important Ilex Press information whatever camera you £14.99 PB Created by expert professional choose. 9781781576236 photographer Michael Freeman, 352 pages this convenient book is divided Michael Freeman was born in 167 x 140mm 70,000 words into the four essential areas for England in 1945, took a Masters in Images (TBC) photographers to understand; the Geography at Brasenose College, Rights available: exposure, light & lighting, Oxford University, and then World composition and editing. It’s quick worked in advertising in London and easy to refer to in the field, by for six years. In 1971 he made the the computer life-changing decision to travel up In a handy take-anywhere the Amazon with two secondhand format, this book packs in a lot of cameras, and when Time-Life value for anyone interested in used many of the pictures he came photography, and without back with, he embarked on a skimping on quality. You’ll find full-time photographic career.

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