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CONTENTS

Fiction

Memoir

Nature & Environment

Art & Culture

History

Politics & Society

Science

Lifestyle, Health & Self Development

Business & Personal Development

Food & Drink

Sport

Cover illustration: credit to Alicia Fernandes

FICTION

CORNERSTONE FICTION

Duckling Eve Ainsworth

What if your neighbour asked you to watch her seven-year-old daughter for an afternoon, and then she never returned?

Lucy's life is small, but safe. Every day she goes to work, checks in on her unstable, alcoholic father, then spends her evenings watching old Columbo reruns, isolating herself away from the rest of the community on her South London estate.

Her routine is all that she can handle, given what happened in her past.

So when her new neighbour Cassie asks Lucy if she could look after her seven-year-old daughter Rubi, she is reluctant to agree.

Then when the hours pass, and then days, and Rubi's Mum doesn't come back, Lucy's worst- case-scenario is now her reality. Lucy is not only responsible for herself anymore. She is responsible for a scared little girl who needs her help.

Something has happened to Cassie, and Lucy must find her before it's too late.

With shades of Eleanor Oliphant and About a Boy, Duckling is a moving and heart-warming story about loneliness, friendship and finding love in unexpected places.

Watch the author pitch her book here. ______

Eva Ainsworth is an award-winning and Carnegie nominated children’s author, for both middle grade and teen readers. She has vast experience working as a public speaker and creative workshop coordinator for schools, libraries and other events both nationally and internationally. Born and raised in Crawley, West Sussex, Eve is one of seven children. She is fiercely proud of her working class roots and her large, loud family. Eve still lives in Crawley with her husband, two young children and crazy dog. Duckling is her first novel for adults.

26 May 2022 | Sonny Marr for Arrow | 400 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

MICHAEL JOSEPH FICTION

Baby It's Cold Outside Emily Bell

Ten years ago Norah and Andrew promised to meet on Christmas Eve if they're still single. Now the time has come, but will Andrew be waiting there for her?

After another year of heartbreak, Norah's excited about Christmas until her mother says she's going out of town.

To make up for it, she gifts Norah her air miles. But Norah doesn't want to spend Christmas alone.

Then she remembers Andrew, who she fell for ten years earlier. Fate pulled them apart, but not before they made a promise: If they're both single on Christmas Eve 2019, they'll meet under the clock on Grafton Street, Dublin.

So Norah decides to go to Dublin. And, hopefully, to Andrew. But will he be there? Or will she be lonely (again) this Christmas?

Watch the editor pitch her book here. ______

Emily Bell grew up in Dublin and moved to London after university. She has had various jobs including tour guide, bookseller and pub singer, and now writes full time. She lives in north London with her husband and daughter.

14 October 2021 | Rebecca Hilsdon for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

MICHAEL JOSEPH FICTION

The Confession Hilary Boyd

She thought she found the man of her dreams. Then came the confession . . .

Sara Tempest has been alone since her husband died and daughters left home. So when she meets the charming Bernard she believes the years of heartache and loneliness are finally behind her.

She quickly moves into his beautiful home on the wind battered cliffs of Hastings. But, after a while, she begins to wonder if Bernard is all he seems.

He's barely in touch with his children and with stifling reminders of his wife everywhere Sara looks, the walls begin to close in.

Then comes Bernard's confession and Sara's newfound happiness starts to crumble around her . . . ______

Hilary Boyd was a nurse, marriage counsellor and ran a small cancer charity before becoming an author. She has written eight books, including Thursdays in the Park, her debut novel which sold over half a million copies and was an international bestseller.

14 April 2022 | Rebecca Hilsdon for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

VINTAGE FICTION

Deadly Cure Mahi Cheshire

This is an exhilarating debut thriller set in a hospital, following the ferocious race between two women to find a breakthrough cure.

The Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm...

Dr Rea Darsena is devastated when she loses out on her dream research job to her med-school rival, Dr Julia Stone.

At first she's prepared to bow out gracefully. But when it comes to light that Julia got the job using Rea's own cutting edge research on a possible vaccine for cancer, Rea can't let it go. As Julia's work goes from strength to strength Rea watches obsessively. Until finally, just after a breakthrough that will change the course of medical history, Julia is found dead.

Now Rea has the dream job she's always wanted.

A job she would - almost - have killed for. But as she steps into Julia's shoes she begins to uncover disturbing evidence that stalked Julia's final days - anonymous phone calls, unidentifiable patient records - and a hospital basement that doesn't officially exist. As suspicion starts to fall on Rea as the prime suspect in the murder case, she begins to question everything - not just in the case, but in the hospital too.

With so much at stake, who makes the decisions here - who gets to live and who has to die? Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and Grey's Anatomy, Deadly Cure is a thrilling fast-paced story with a compelling hook - is there a toxic flip-side to the the human urge to 'cure'?

Watch the author pitch her book here. ______

Mahi Cheshire was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She works as a doctor, has a degree in Psychology and teaches at Kings College Medical School. She loves travelling, kundalini yoga and boxing, all of which provide inspiration for her writing.

6 January 2022 | Jade Chandler for Vintage | 384 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

VINTAGE FICTION

The Cook Ajay Chowdhury

The Cook is the second instalment in Ajay Chowdhury's distinctive and page-turning Kamil Rahman crime series.

A woman is found dead in her flat, and a series of murders in London's East End soon follows...

Kamil and Anjoli continue to work together in a curry house in London's Brick Lane. Kamil has graduated from waiter to cook, while Anjoli manages the restaurant with her usual flair. But soon they are embroiled in a string of mysterious murders - Anjoli suspects that someone is killing homeless people around their restaurant.

The police are indifferent but Kamil and Anjoli are determined - they notice the same bottle of gin lying next to each dead body as well as a noted increase in the number of street casualties. But there are no obvious signs of poisoning or violence.

Is it just a coincidence, or is a serial killer at work?

As they move between life and death in a nursing college hospital, the ups and downs of running a restaurant, and the streets of the East End where many sleep rough, Kamil and Anjoli slowly begin to put together a series of seemingly unconnected incidents, with lashings of Indian cooking and the bustle of Brick Lane providing a lively backdrop to this thought- provoking read...

Praise for The Waiter:

“A hugely entertaining first novel, taking us from Kolkata to Brick Lane.” Ann Cleeves “A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish... a refreshing and welcome addition to the world of detective fiction. One of my favourite reads of the year.” Abir Mukherjee ______

Ajay Chowdhury is the winner of the inaugural Harvill Secker and Bloody Scotland competition. He is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director who lived the first third of his life in India and then moved to London, where he cooks experimental meals for his wife and daughters.

9 June 2022 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 384 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

TRANSWORLD FICTION

Yip Paddy Crewe

A brilliantly original voice-driven debut about defying expectations, set in the Georgia Gold Rush.

It is 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, when Yip Tolroy - mute, medical anomaly and social outcast - is born. His father has disappeared in mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother: a powerful, troubled, independent woman who owns and runs a general store. She struggles to manage his needs, leaving Yip to find the means of asserting himself in an unforgiving, hostile environment. With the help of a retired doctor, he begins to transform his life by learning to read and write, his portal into the community a piece of slate and a supply of chalk.

And then at the age of 15, Yip's life is altered irrevocably. In the space of a few days he witnesses the discovery of gold, meets his faithful friend and comrade Dud Carter, and commits a grievous crime. Thrust unwittingly into a world of violence and sin, Yip and Dud are forced to leave town and embark on an odyssey that will introduce them to the wonder and horror of the American frontier until the revelation of a secret means they must return to Heron's Creek and the fate that awaits them. ______

Paddy Crewe was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London. Yip is his first novel.

5 May 2022 | Suzanne Bridson for Doubleday | 384 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

CORNERSTONE FICTION

The Holiday Bookshop Lucy Dickens

The perfect holiday read! Inspired by a true story, The Holiday Bookshop is a book about a woman who takes a job as a bookseller at a resort in the Maldives.

Ever since they were little, Marianne and Jenny were a double act; the free spirit and the sensible one. Marianne dreamed up the plans and Jenny made them happen. Opening their bookshop and café in their hometown was Marianne’s idea, but ensuring the business survived? That was all down to Jenny. The bookshop and café are thriving, and Jenny hasn’t taken a break since they started.

But Marianne has just dropped a bombshell; she’s taking off for a couple of months to the USA, eloping with her most recent boyfriend, Drew, for a Vegas wedding and an extended honeymoon. As usual, Marianne has just assumed that sensible Jenny will happily hold down the fort.

Well, not this time.

Jenny, fed up with being the sensible one, does something very un-Jenny-like and accepts a temporary bookseller role at a luxury resort in the Maldives. She agrees to let Evan (Marianne’s handsome, kind and single older brother) run the bookshop while she is away. Throughout the weeks, Jenny learns to throw the rule book out of the bookshop window, and find her own sandy feet.

With love, fun and summer sunshine aplenty, spanning two time zones – from the open, airy, tropical Maldives to the stifling heat of anything-goes Las Vegas – The Holiday Bookshop promises to get readers vacay-ready within pages.

Watch the author pitch her book here. ______

Lucy Dickens is the pseudonym for Lisa Dickenson. Lisa lives by the Devon seaside with her husband and one incredibly boisterous Bernese Mountain dog. She spends her days writing the kind of hilarious women’s fiction that sets the world to rights.

7 July 2022 | Sonny Marr for Arrow | 400 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

TRANSWORLD FICTION

The Herd Emily Edwards

A STANDOUT BOOK CLUB NOVEL. Unputdownable and thought-provoking, The Herd probes the fine line between individual choice and collective responsibility. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Liane Moriarty and The Slap.

You should never judge how someone chooses to raise their child.

Lauren and Bryony are polar opposites but their unexpected friendship has always worked. They're the best of friends, and godmothers to each other's daughters - because they trust that the safety of their children is both of their top priority.

But what if their choice could harm your own child?

Little do they know that they differ over one very important issue. And when Bryony, afraid of being judged, tells what is supposed to be a harmless white lie before a child's birthday party, the consequences are more catastrophic than either of them could ever have imagined . . . ______

After studying at Edinburgh University, Emily Edwards worked for a think tank in New York before returning to London where she worked as a support worker for vulnerable women at a large charity. She now lives in Lewes, East Sussex with her endlessly patient husband and her two endlessly energetic young sons.

The inspiration for The Herd came when she was eight months pregnant with her first son, and her husband and their vaccine-hesitant doula had an impassioned “debate” about vaccination in their garden. As she sat there with her hands over her huge stomach listening to them both, Emily realized this was an issue which impacts us all and that it would make a brilliant topic for a novel.

24 February 2022 | Frankie Gray for Bantam Press | 400 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

TRANSWORLD FICTION

The Fine Art of Invisible Detection Robert Goddard

An unlikely heroine. An even more unlikely detective. And a cold case that's resurfacing with deadly consequences.

Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to keep her head down.

As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomplicated, filled with coffee runs, diary management and paperwork.

That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case which turns out to be dangerous enough to get him killed. A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London.

Following the only lead she has, Wada quickly realises that being a detective isn't as easy as the television makes out. And that there's a reason why secrets stay buried for a long time. Because people want them to stay secret. And they're prepared to do very bad things to keep them that way...

“In the smartest of prose and with a stunningly fast-moving plot, Goddard brings us the heroine we've been waiting for.” Lesley Kara ______

The first novel by Robert Goddard, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then, his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. He has won awards in the UK, the US and across Europe and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. In 2019, he won the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest accolade, the Diamond Dagger, for a lifetime achievement in Crime Writing.

18 March 2021 | Bill Scott-Kerr for Bantam Press | 384 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

CORNERSTONE FICTION

A Fatal Crossing Tom Hindle

A smart, twisting, golden age style crime novel set on a transatlantic cruise liner.

November 1924.

When an elderly passenger is found dead at the foot of a flight of stairs on the Endeavour, officer Timothy Birch is ready to declare it a tragic accident. However, he is tasked with escorting James Temple, an obnoxious young Scotland Yard inspector, in a precautionary examination of the body. The investigation soon takes a sinister turn when they are led to the theft of a priceless painting, the very existence of which is a closely guarded secret from all but its owner - and the dead man.

With just days remaining until the Endeavour docks in New York and the culprit walks free, Birch joins Temple in a desperate search for the stolen painting and the truth of the old man's death. There are lies and secrets at every turn though, and it seems that even Temple has just as much to hide as he does to uncover.

Packed with brilliant characters, fiendish suspects, a twisting mystery and a flawless finish, A Fatal Crossing is perfect for fans of Eight Detectives and The Thursday Murder Club.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

Tom Hindle is originally from Yorkshire and now lives in Oxfordshire, where he works for a digital PR agency. A Fatal Crossing is Tom’s debut novel and was inspired by masters of the crime genre from Agatha Christie to Anthony Horowitz.

17 February 2022 | Emily Griffin for Century | 400 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

MICHAEL JOSEPH FICTION

The Great Stork Derby Caroline Lea

When Charles Millar dies childless in 1926, he bequeaths his fortune to the woman able to bear the most children over the next ten years. What follows is one of the most controversial contests in history . . . The Great Stork Derby.

Lily di Marco is young, pregnant and married to a man prone to violence. When her husband dies in a suspicious accident in a small town on the Canadian border, she flees to the safety of Toronto and she and her young son disappear into a faceless crowd.

Then she crosses paths with Mae Thebault, a glamorous young woman who has escaped a past of poverty and abuse herself. Mae promises to take Lily in, offering her friendship and a home. They quickly grow close. But is there more to Mae than meets the eye?

As Lily settles into her new life, the great depression hits and an entire country is plunged into poverty. Mae is forced to let Lily go. Both women struggle to feed their families and find work.

Soon rumours swirl of a great fortune to be won. Mae and Lily are quickly pitted against one another, as with the birth of each new child both women move closer to winning the competition.

Ten years to have as many children as possible and time is running out.

To what lengths will Lily go to protect her growing family?

And what choice will Mae make, when the only way to escape ruin is to destroy the woman she secretly loves?

Watch the editor and author in conversation about this new novel here. ______

Caroline Lea is the author of The Glass Woman, a gothic thriller set during the Icelandic witch trials, that was shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award and The Metal Heart which will be published in Spring 2021.

17 March 2022 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

TRANSWORLD FICTION

Drift Caryl Lewis

The hauntingly atmospheric English language debut from acclaimed Welsh author Caryl Lewis: a surprising and powerful love story about a young Welsh woman and a Syrian refugee.

Nefyn has always been a mystery, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove. She wanders the beaches, collecting flotsam and wrestling with the impossible lure of the sea, but choosing to 'feel too much' over the numbness the little white pills bring her.

A few miles up the coast is a military base, rigorously guarded by armed soldiers and drones. Here Hamza, a refugee with a dark past, lies incarcerated, the only kindness he knows administered by the old doctor who visits him more regularly than he should.

When one day Hamza is transported from the base, a violent storm hits, hurling the prison van over the cliff edge. Miraculously, he washes up on Nefyn's beach, and she takes him into her care. But the authorities are suspicious, and soon a man hunt begins...

This is a love story with a difference, rooted in a time and place that is it once familiar and strange, current and timeless, and enrichened with magic and mystery. It is about lost identity, the trauma of war and the enduring power of kindness.

Watch the editor and author in conversation about this book here. ______

Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children’s writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco (2004) is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, is on the Welsh curriculum, and the film adaptation – with a screenplay by Lewis herself – went on to win six Welsh BAFTAS and the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2010 Celtic Media Festival. Lewis’s other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. Lewis is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth.

21 April 2022 | Alice Youell for Doubleday | 176 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

TRANSWORLD FICTION

A Parliament of Monsters Stuart MacBride

The stunning new crime novel from number one Sunday Times bestselling author Stuart MacBride, his first with new publishers Transworld. Investigations into a cold case uncover a network of corruption that goes right to the top…

Eighteen years ago, eleven-year-old Cameron Strachan murdered a homeless man on the streets of Oldcastle. Now Cameron has served his sentence and been released back into the community. But he's never named his accomplice, never talked about why the two of them committed such a terrible crime all those years ago.

Detective Sergeant Lucy McVey is sure there's more to this particular cold case, and the more she digs, the more suspicious things seem: it looks like Cameron's accomplice isn't the only killer out there who's never had to answer for their crimes. As Lucy's investigation leads her towards a number of respectable, upstanding members of the community, she knows she'll have to tread carefully. Because these people hold all the power, and Lucy has seen enough evidence to know that going up against them will get you dead and disappeared… ______

Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. He's also published standalones, novellas, and short stories, as well as a children's picture book.

Stuart lives in the northeast of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Grendel, Gherkin, Onion, and Beetroot, some hens, horses, and a vast collection of assorted weeds.

27 January 2022 | Frankie Gray for Bantam Press | 384 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

VINTAGE FICTION

Murder Takes The Stage Ada Moncrieff

Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery.

Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery.

December 1935. Director Monty Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on its tour of regional theatres. With tensions amongst the cast running high, the company reach their final stop - London's Theatre Royale.

Catastrophe, however, strikes on opening night: Scrooge dies on stage, the result (it is presumed) of a heart attack. But the show must go on. Until, that is, a leading theatre critic - and old rival of Monty's - is killed backstage. Are those associated with the production being picked off one by one? Budding journalist Daphne King takes up the case... ______

Ada Moncrieff was born in London and has lived in Madrid and Paris. She studied English at Cambridge University, and has worked in theatre, publishing and as a teacher. Her first novel, Murder Most Festive, was published by Vintage in 2020.

4 November 2021 | Alex Russell for Vintage | 304 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

CORNERSTONE FICTION

Operation Moonlight Louise Morrish

A multigenerational story about family, war and espionage.

Europe, 1944: Elisabeth Shepherd, a young SOE agent is parachuted behind enemy lines into northern France to work with the Resistance.

In the present day Elisabeth is approaching her 100th birthday, and is looked after by Tali, who becomes very interested in Elisabeth’s past when she finds an army pistol in an old suitcase, suicide pills hidden in a lipstick container, and photographs which hint at long ago romance. What secrets can Elisabeth still be hiding?

As Betty sifts through letters she has kept from the war, memories come flooding back. She recalls her arduous training in Scotland in 1940 to become an agent, her terrifying flight and parachute drop into Nazi-occupied France, the perilous undercover mission she was asked to undertake on behalf of the Free French, and her relationship with her fellow agent, Gilbert, with whom she is fast falling in love, and who may have secrets of his own.

Alternating between between past and present, Operation Moonlight is a beguiling and feel- good first novel with a modern and unexpected love story at its heart. ______

Louise Morrish is a librarian whose debut novel won the 2019 Penguin Random House First Novel Competition in partnership with the Daily Mail. She finds inspiration for her stories in the real-life adventures of women in the past, whom history has forgotten. She lives in Hampshire with her family.

26 May 2022 | Selina Walker for Century | 400 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

VINTAGE FICTION

Story of a Life Konstantin Paustovsky

A new remarkable new translation of one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics.

In 1947, Russia's most admired and famous author, Konstantin Paustovsky, started out on his masterwork - Story of a Life; a grand, sprawling memoir of a life lived on the fast-unfurling frontiers of Russian history. Originally published in six volumes, it would cement Paustovsky's reputation as the voice of Russia around the world, and see him nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Newly translated by Guggenheim fellow Douglas Smith, Vintage Classics are proud to reintroduce the first three volumes of Paustovsky's epic for a whole new generation. Taking its reader from Paustovsky's Ukrainian childhood and youth, struggling with a family on the verge of collapse and first flourishes of creative ambition, to his experiences as a paramedic on Russia's frontlines, and then as a journalist aspiring to cover the country's many revolutions, Story of a Life not only offers the portrait of an artistic life like no other, but opens a window into the turmoil of one of modern history's most chaotic moments. ______

Konstantin Paustovsky was born in Moscow in 1893, but spent his childhood in Ukraine. After graduating from Moscow University he worked as a journalist until he began to write the novels, collections of short stories and critical essays, which would earn him his place as the most admired and respected figure among his contemporary writers.

Douglas Smith is the author of Rasputin: Faith, Power and the Twlight of The Romanovs (2016) and Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy (2012).

6 January 2022 | Nick Skidmore for Vintage Classics | 656 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

MICHAEL JOSEPH FICTION

The Insider Matthew Richardson

A thrilling novel of espionage and murder in the dark heart of Westminster, from the UK's most exciting new spy writer.

A mole has infiltrated the highest levels of British security.

A Russian defector is found brutally murdered in a London hotel.

His trail leads back to the four most powerful figures in Whitehall.

A world-changing secret is about to be revealed.

Four suspects. One codename.

PHOENIX.

Praise for My Name is Nobody:

“I dare you to find a first novel as self-assured, impeccably researched, and beautifully rendered ... Richardson paints a portrait of espionage that calls to mind early le Carré - a world where the earth is ever-shifting underfoot, and where paranoia is a spy's best ally.” Gregg Hurwitz, No.1 bestselling author of Orphan X

“Matthew Richardson's debut hits with a steely-eyed assurance that keeps you turning the pages. This is compelling stuff, intense and sharply authentic." James Swallow, No.1 bestselling author of Nomad ______

Matthew Richardson studied English at Durham University and Merton College, Oxford. After a brief spell as a freelance journalist, he began working as a researcher and speechwriter in Westminster, and has also written speeches for senior figures in the private sector. His debut novel My Name is Nobody was published in 2017. The Insider is his second novel.

25 November 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 320 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

TRANSWORLD FICTION

Berlin Bea Setton

A fresh, wry, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons. For fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Exciting Times.

Daphne, 25, rents a flat in fashionable Kreuzberg, attends language lessons, joins a running group and OkCupid, acquires an inept stalker. And that's just for starters. Our enjoyably unreliable narrator invites us to inhabit her unusual yet deeply relatable inner world, as well as that of the quintessential modern metropolis.

It's not all plain sailing, and a series of mysterious and violent transgressions set in motion a kind of unravelling: who is Daphne, and what or who is she running from? Even if she finds the answers, will she face up to them? ______

Bea Setton was born in France and spent her early years in the Parisian suburbs before moving to the USA to study philosophy. Upon graduating, she relocated to Berlin, enrolled in a language school, lived in umpteen different flats, and experienced the events that were to inspire her first novel.

She currently divides her time between Berlin and Cambridge, where she is studying for a Masters in philosophical theology and working on plans for her second book.

14 July 2022 | Alice Youell for Doubleday | 208 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

GENERAL FICTION

The Odyssey Lara Williams

Wickedly funny and slyly poignant, a very modern satire on cruise ships, crappy jobs and capitalism from the prize-winning author of Supper Club.

Ingrid is a gift shop girl. Before that she was an IT technician, and before that a croupier, and before that a nursery nurse. She has worked on an enormous, luxury cruise liner for the past five years and in that time she has done more jobs than she can remember - which is just the way she likes it. She isn't good at any of the jobs but she's good at pretending. And she doesn't want to remember anything. Ingrid abandoned her normal life on land for a reason and the endless plastic corridors of the cruise ship are the perfect place to forget it.

Until the day that she is selected for the ship's prestigious “personal mentorship scheme” - a mysterious initiative run by its captain and self-anointed lifestyle guru, Keith - and slowly but surely things start to go wrong...

Part The Circle, part Convenience Store Woman and part My Year of Rest and Relaxation, The Odyssey is a merciless takedown of modern capitalism and our anxious, ill-fated quests for something to believe in. And as its title suggests, it's a voyage that will eventually lead its weary heroine all the way home. Though she'd do almost anything to avoid getting there...

Watch the editor pitch this book here. ______

Lara Williams is the author of the short story collection Treats, which was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Edinburgh First Book Award and the Saboteur Awards and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her debut novel Supper Club has been translated into five languages, won the Guardian “Not the Booker” Prize and was listed as a Book of the Year 2019 by TIME, Vogue and other publications. Lara Williams lives in Manchester and is a contributor to the Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement, Vice, Dazed and others.

7 April 2022 | Hermione Thompson for Hamish Hamilton | 272 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

MEMOIR

TRANSWORLD MEMOIR

In the Wars A story of conflict, survival and saving lives Dr Waheed Arian

For readers of War Doctor and Educated, a doctor's story of grit and resilience, from the war-torn streets of Kabul to saving lives around the world.

Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian's earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living sometimes ten to a room without basic sanitation or access to education. After he contracted tuberculosis, his first-hand experience of the power of medicine inspired Waheed to dedicate his life to healing others.

But how does a boy with nothing hope to become a doctor? Waheed largely taught himself, from textbooks bought from street-sellers, and learned English from the BBC World Service. Smuggled to the UK at fifteen with just $100 in his pocket, he was advised to set his sights on becoming a taxi driver. But he had bigger ambitions. He studied all hours and was accepted to read medicine at Cambridge University, and went on to become a doctor in the NHS.

In 2015 he founded Arian Teleheal, a pioneering global charity that connects doctors in war zones and low-resource countries with their counterparts in the US, UK, Europe and Australia. Together, learning from each other, they save and change lives - the lives of millions of people just like Waheed.

‘A thrilling and absorbing read from first to last. What a life and what an inspiration.’ Stephen Fry ______

Waheed Arian is an NHS Accident & Emergency doctor. His pioneering charity, Arian Teleheal, works directly with clinicians on the ground, and provides governments and global organizations with a blueprint for delivering innovative healthcare and education. Dr Arian has been recognized as a UNESCO Global Hope Hero, a UN Global Goals Goalkeeper, an NHS Innovation Mentor, and was appointed to the WHO Roster of Digital Health Experts in 2019. In the UK, he has been awarded the Rotary International Peace Award and the prime minister's Points of Light Award. He is a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences and events.

17 June 2021 | Andrea Henry for Bantam Press | 320 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

GENERAL MEMOIR

Open-Hearted Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go Ann Ingle

A refreshingly frank, engaging and uplifting memoir of resilience, hope and love.

“Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, ‘She had a fall, poor thing’. Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love ...”

At 20, Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding she discovered that he hadn't even told her his real name.

Sixty-odd years later Ann looks back on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays considers what she has learned from the life that followed - bringing eight children into the world, their father's years of mental illness and tragic death at 40, being a cash-strapped single mother in 1980s Dublin, coming into her own in her middle years - going to college, working and writing, and continuing to evolve and learn into her ninth decade, even as she accepts the realities of being 'old'.

Candid about everything that matters - love, sex, heartbreak, money, class, religion, mental health, rearing children (and letting them go), reading and writing, ageing - Open-Hearted is a compelling story about living life in a spirit of curiosity and delight and with a willingness to look for good in others. ______

Originally from London, Ann Ingle has lived in Dublin since the 1960s and is a mother of eight. In 2018, she co-wrote Driven, the memoir of motorsport legend Rosemary Smith, which was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.

23 September 2021 | Patricia Deevy for Sandycove | 288 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

MICHAEL JOSEPH MEMOIR

Mala's Cat Mala Kacenberg

A moving Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat and their survival against the odds.

Alone in a forest with only a cat for company, this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the Holocaust.

Twelve-year-old Mala Szorer has no choice but to give up her childhood. In return she stands a chance of survival and so, she decides to walk tall, towards freedom, towards life.

Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest, gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German invasion begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends reduced to starvation. She takes matters into her own hands, and bravely removes her yellow star, risking sneaking out to the surrounding villages to barter for food.

It is on her way back that she sees her loved ones rounded up for deportation, and receives a smuggled letter from her sister warning her to stay away. With only her cat, Malach, and the strength of the stories taught by her family, she walks away from everything she holds dear. Malach becomes her family, her only respite from painful loneliness, a guide and reminder to stay hopeful even when faced with unfathomable darkness. With her guardian angel by her side, Mala finds a way to navigate the dangerous forests, outwit German soldiers and hostile villagers, and survive, against all odds.

Watch the editor pitch the book here. ______

Mala Kacenberg (nee Szorer) was born in Tarnogrod, Poland in 1927. As World War II broke out, Mala found herself having to fend for herself at the tender age of 12, eventually escaping the ghetto and surviving in the forest, witnessing the horrors unfold in front of her. Surviving by her wits, courage and the help of a guardian angel (her cat Malach), she was the sole survivor of her family.

Mala immigrated to London with other Jewish refugees after the war, where she raised a large beautiful family, living long enough to be blessed with many grandchildren.

20 January 2022 | Ariel Pakier for Michael Joseph | 288 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

EBURY MEMOIR

The Last Days Leaving God’s Kingdom Ali Millar

A lyrical and powerful memoir of leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, from an exciting new literary talent.

It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the end is close, and Satan is like a roaring lion, seeking to devour us.

Ali Millar is waiting for Armageddon. Born into the Jehovah's Witnesses in a town in the Scottish Borders, her childhood revolves around regular meetings in the Kingdom Hall, where she is haunted by vivid images of the Second Coming, her mind populated by the bodies that will litter the earth upon Jehovah's return.

In this frightening, cloistered world Ali grows older. As she does, she starts to question the ways of the Witnesses, and their control over the most intimate aspects of her life. As she marries and has children within the religion, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into its dark undertow, her mind tormented by one question: is it possible to escape the life you are born into?

A tale of love and darkness, of faith and absolution, The Last Days is an unforgettable memoir of one woman's courageous journey to freedom.

Watch the author pitch her book here. ______

Ali Millar was born and raised in the Scottish Borders, and now lives in England with her husband and four children. She has an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Edinburgh Napier University, and has worked as a cultural producer for Summerhall in Edinburgh, for whom she has interviewed dozens of writers including Marina Warner, Rachel Cusk, Emma Jane Unsworth, and Etgar Keret. She has also chaired events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

14 July 2022 | Robyn Drury for Ebury Press | 320 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

MICHAEL JOSEPH MEMOIR

Train Lord Oliver Mol

From a blazing new voice, an achingly witty, lyrical and heartbreaking memoir about a 10-month migraine, a recovery in Australia, and a job on the railway when there were no other options.

The first day of train school our teacher asked us what we would do if we were on the train, and we had to go to the toilet, and we’d already had our break. For a while, no one spoke. I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t want to talk about the migraine or how I’d failed as a writer. I didn’t want to talk about pain. So I said my name was Oliver and that I loved to cook.

What happens when a writer can no longer write? What happens when pain is so intense that you question who you are and whether you can bare it any longer?

Oliver Mol was a successful, clever, healthy twenty-five-year old. Then one day the migraine started. For ten months, the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading, using computers, looking at phones or anything with a screen. Slowly he became a writer who no longer wrote, and a person who could no longer could communicate with the modern world. In literature, and life, Oliver began to disappear.

This is Oliver’s story of his frightening descent into living with perpetual pain. His doctors can’t figure out how to fix him. Oliver suffers a breakdown. One evening, high on pain killers, he Googles the only thing he can think of: “full-time job, no experience, Sydney”. An ad for a train guard appears. For two years Oliver will watch others live their lives, observing the minutia and intimacy of strangers brought together briefly and connected by the steady march of time.

Exquisitely written and bravely told, Train Lord is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your sense of self is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. ______

Oliver Mol is the author of the critically acclaimed Lion Attack!. He was the inaugural winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers as well as the recipient of an Australian Council Grant. In 2020, the stage show of Train Lord proved a runaway success during the Sydney Fringe Season. Oliver grew up dividing his time between Texas and Brisbane and now lives in Sydney.

31 March 2022 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 272 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

EBURY NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

The Green Planet Simon Barnes

Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes.

Plants live secret, unseen lives – hidden in their magical world and on their timescale. From the richest jungles to the harshest deserts, from the snowiest alpine forest to the remotest steaming swamp, Green Planet travels from one great habitat to the next, showing us that plants are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as the animals on our planet.

You will discover agents of death, who ruthlessly engulf their host plant, but also those that form deep and complex relationships with other species, such as the desert cacti who use nectar-loving bats to pollinate. Although plants are undoubtedly the stars of the show, a fascinating new light will be shed on the animals that interact with them.

Using the latest technologies and showcasing over two decades of new discoveries, Green Planet reveals the strange and wonderful life of plants like never before – a life full of remarkable behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes. ______

Born in Bristol in 1951, Simon Barnes went on to become the multi-award winning Chief Sports Writer for The Times until July 2014. He is the author of over 20 books, including three on wildlife and three novels. His bestselling How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher has been serialised in The Times and read on Radio 4. Simon lives in Suffolk with his family.

6 January 2022 | Joanna Stenlake for BBC Books | 320 pp | Format (mm): 246 x 175 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

EBURY NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

Flight My journey with swans Sacha Dench

A memoir of award-winning conservationist Sacha Dench's perilous expedition with Bewick's swans, tracking their migratory patterns, blending her adventure with tales of the cultural history of the birds and science of their study.

Meet the woman who flies with swans.

Each year the enigmatic Bewick’s swan undertakes a perilous migration, flying across the biting arctic tundra to winter in the milder climes of England. For centuries this dangerous journey has remained a mystery to humans. But what really happens on their flight - and what does it tell us about these extraordinary birds, their secret lives and our changing planet? To find out, one woman undertook the journey of a lifetime.

Joining the swans in their migration, Sacha Dench takes flight in a groundbreaking expedition to trace the precarious story of an iconic species, battling the forces of fierce weather and climate change and learning more about the human footprint on the natural world. Can she beat the elements, and complete her extraordinary flight?

A thrilling account of one woman’s mission to better understand our world, Flight takes us into the minds and habits of an iconic species. It’s a tale told by the person who understands them best: the woman who flies with swans.

Watch the editor pitch her book here. ______

Sacha Dench is a pioneering conservationist, record-breaking adventurer and inspirational speaker. A scientist and passionate storyteller, her groundbreaking expedition ‘Flight of the Swans’ saw her flying by paramotor from Arctic Russia across 11 countries to the UK in pursuit of the Bewick’s swan. After 20 years of decline the numbers are now on the rise. In 2020 Sacha was made UN Ambassador for Migratory Species. She is recipient of numerous conservation awards, including the Green Swan award and the Britannia Trophy, and holds the record for the First Channel Crossing by Paramotor by a woman.

3 April 2022 | Robyn Drury for Ebury Press | 320 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

EBURY NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

Wanderings of a Young Naturalist Walking Through Myth, Nature and Time Dara McAnulty

A natural and mythological history of humankind's relationship with our land, by multi award-winning Dara McAnulty.

Delving into Irish and Norse mythology, history, philosophy and literature, Wanderings of a Young Naturalist will journey to ancient landscapes, following traces left in stone, land and memory. Each site, imbued with its own myth, legend and magic, will unearth a unique story of how our connections to our natural world have changed, adapted or strained over time - weathering farming, worship, natural and human disasters.

Charged with Dara's intense personal reflections, roaming to sacred spaces and wild expanses, Wanderings of a Young Naturalist will explore who we once were and where we are travelling to next: and what impact our evolving relationships with nature will have on our climate, our wildlife, and our future.

“One of the most talented and passionate writers of our era.” Steve Silberman “An extraordinary voice and vision.” Robert MacFarlane “Extraordinary.” The Times “One of our best young writers in any genre.” Irish Independent ______

Dara McAnulty is a 16-year-old autistic naturalist, conservationist and activist from Northern Ireland. After writing his online blog “Naturalist Dara” for over three years and writing articles for many UK Wildlife NGOs, he published his debut book, Diary of a Young Naturalist which won the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, and was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize - the youngest ever author to do so. Dara has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Ulster, Springwatch, Countryfile, Homeground, BBC Bitesize, Observer, The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Positive News and The Big Issue.

Dara is a passionate and fervent campaigner for the natural world and dedicated fundraiser, volunteer and wildlife recorder. He is the youngest ever winner of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Medal for services to conservation and nature. He is also the recipient of 10 Downing Street's 'Points of Light' and the winner of The Daily Mirror Young Animal Hero award. He lives with his family and Rosie the rescue-greyhound at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in County Down.

21 July 2022 | Hana Teraie-Wood for Ebury Press | 224 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

EBURY NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

A Line Above the Sky On Mountains and Motherhood Helen Mort

A future classic of climbing, memoir and nature writing, for readers of H is for Hawk and The Outrun.

Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death.

As a child, Helen Mort was drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing, the tension between human and rockface, and the climber’s need to be hyperaware of the sensory world – to feel the texture of rock under their fingers, how their crampons bite into the ice, the subtle shifts in weather. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining this most elemental of disciplines, and the way that we view women who put themselves in danger.

Written by one of Britain’s most talented young writers, A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to create what will surely become a classic of the genre; it asks why humans are compelled to climb and poses other, deeper questions about self, motherhood and freedom. It is a love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether that’s in the risk of climbing a granite wall solo, without ropes, or the intensity of bringing a child into the world.

Watch the author pitch her book here. ______

Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985, and grew up in nearby Chesterfield. Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. Her first collection, Division Street (2013), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Poetry Award, and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2014, she was named as a “Next Generation Poet”, the prestigious accolade announced only once every ten years, recognising the 20 most exciting new poets from the UK and Ireland. No Map Could Show Them (2016), her second collection, about women and mountaineering, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Helen has been the Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence and the Derbyshire Poet Laureate and was named one of the RSL’s “40 under 40 Fellows” in 2018. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield.

24 March 2022 | Robyn Drury for Ebury Press | 256 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

ART & CULTURE

GENERAL ART & CULTURE

See What You're Missing 50 Ways of Noticing the World Will Gompertz

A new take on how to appreciate art, but also how art can help us appreciate life.

Artists are expert lookers: they have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life- affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case.

In his inimitable engaging style, the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of fifty artists - from contemporary stars to old masters, the well- known to the lesser-so, and from around the world - to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.

In See What You're Missing we learn, for example, how Hasegawa Tohaku can help us to see beauty, how David Hockney helps us to see colour, and how Frida Kahlo can help us see pain. In doing so we come to know the exhilarating feeling of being truly alive.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

As the BBC's Arts Editor, Will Gompertz has interviewed and observed many of the world's leading artists, actors, writers, musicians, directors and designers. Creativity magazine in New York ranked him as one of the 50 most original thinkers in the world. He is the author of the internationally bestselling What Are You Looking At? and Think Like an Artist, both translated into more than 20 languages.

3 March 2022 | Connor Brown for Viking | 352 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

VINTAGE ART & CULTURE

Muse Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces Ruth Millington

Artists have always been moved to create portraits of their muses; we instantly recognise many of their faces from the world's most iconic artworks. But, just who was Picasso's “Weeping Woman”?

Far from posing silently, muses have brought emotional support, intellectual energy, career- changing creativity and practical help to artists. However, the perception of the muse is that of a passive model, usually young, attractive and female, at the mercy of an influential and older male artist. Could this impression be incorrect and unfair? Is this trope a romanticised myth? Have people embraced, even sought, the status of muse? Most importantly, where would artists be without them?

This book will tell the true stories of thirty incredible muses who have inspired art history's masterpieces. From Leonardo da Vinci's studio to the covers of Vogue, Muse will uncover their true role in some of art history's most well-known masterpieces. By delving into the real- life relationships that models have held with the artists who immortalised them, it will expose the influential and active part they have played.

From job centre supervisors to homeless men in Harlem, Muse will reveal the unexpected and overlooked models of art history. Through the stories of their remarkable lives this book will deconstruct reductive stereotypes of the muse, and reframe it as an empowered agent of art history.

Watch the editor and author in convseration about this book here. ______

Ruth Millington is an art historian, writer and critic. After studying art history during an MA at the University of Oxford, Ruth Millington spent five years working for museums and galleries across the UK, including the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. She is an art expert on radio and TV, including BBC Breakfast, ITV News, and Radio 4's Today programme. Ruth has had writing featured across national newspapers, including the Telegraph, the i, Daily Mail and Express.

Ruth manages an award-winning art blog. She uses the platform to write, in particular, about women artists and gender in art history.

24 February 2022 | Mireille Harper for Square Peg | 272 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

PRESS ART & CULTURE

Venice A Sketchbook Guide Matthew Rice

A guide to the wonders of Venice, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbook.

Matthew Rice is a longtime observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. For years, Venice has been a source of deep creative inspiration for him; and now, in Venice: A Sketchbook Guide, he captures the highlights of this most beguiling of Italian cities.

Unsurprisingly, given his abiding passion for architecture, Matthew provides a wealth of information about the “stones” of Venice, including an illustrated guide to the main building styles of the city - Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Modern - and exemplars of its balconies, bridges and campaniles. Further sections explore the city's sestieri - its six residential quarters - as well as its history, paintings, festivals, wildlife and, not least, its cicchetti and aperitivi.

Following the same landscape format as Matthew's real-life sketchbooks, Venice: A Sketchbook Guide will combine enchanting watercolour illustrations with an informed, personal and witty text, and promises to delight all visitors to Venice, armchair or actual. ______

Matthew Rice is the author of Rice's Architectural Primer, which has been warmly embraced by architectural students and enthusiasts alike. A celebrated illustrator, he is perhaps best known for his longstanding collaboration with the potter Emma Bridgewater. He lives and works in a medieval gatehouse near Oxford.

7 April 2022 | Richard Atkinson for Particular Books | 224 pp | Format (mm): 132 x 210 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

HISTORY

VINTAGE HISTORY

The Martyr and the Red Kimono A Rebel Monk’s Sacrifice and a New Generation of Hope in Japan Naoko Abe

The story of a Polish monk's remarkable sacrifice at Auschwitz and the lasting inspiration he offered two Japanese children of the Second World War.

Naoko Abe takes an extraordinary Second World War story and shows its unexpected reverberations in post-war Japan.

Tomei Ozaki survived the atomic bomb at Nagasaki, and Masatoshi Asari grew up next door to a POW camp at the other end of the country to Nagasaki, in Hokkaido. Shaped by the experiences of their youth, both men have dedicated their lives to non-violence and an honest remembering of Japanese history, Ozaki as a Catholic kataribe (story-teller and historian) and Asari as a peace activist and gardener. Asari and Ozaki have never met but their personal philosophies are tightly bound to the life and beliefs of a man who lived a generation earlier: Father Kolbe, a Polish Catholic monk who was murdered by the Nazis.

Father Kolbe is remembered for taking another man's place in a punishment cell at Auschwitz; he was in the camp as a radical publisher of anti-Nazi materials. Whilst Kolbe went on to be sanctified by Pope John Paul II as “the patron saint of our difficult century”, it is not widely known that he spent time as a missionary in Japan, ministering to the descendants of the hidden Christians, the Kakure Kirishitan, founding “The Garden of the Immaculate” monastery outside Nagasaki and influencing generations to come with his message of non-violence. Today, at Kolbe's former monastery in Poland, there is a statue of Mary wearing a red kimono, a gift of thanks from the Japanese.

The Martyr and the Red Kimono is both a Second World War story and an unconventional history of modern Japan, seen through the prism of three remarkable men. ______

Naoko Abe is a Japanese journalist and non-fiction writer. Since moving to London in 2001, she has worked as a freelance writer and has published five books in Japanese. Her biography of Collingwood Ingram in Japanese won the prestigious Nihon Essayist Club Award in 2016.

9 March 2023 | Clara Farmer for Chatto & Windus | 352 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

GENERAL HISTORY

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages Anthony Bale

A vivid and captivating tour of the global medieval world, from Europe to the Antipodes.

The tourist guidebook, the travel guide, and the world map were all developments of the later Middle Ages. This is the period in western Europe when travel - usually for pilgrimage, diplomacy, trade, or war - became widespread. Using authentic sources of medieval travel writing and new translations of contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages invites the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with marvels and prodigies, miraculous wonders and long- lost landmarks.

Structured as a journey from western Europe to the Far East and the Antipodes, taking in everything from silk routes to walking tours of Istanbul and Jerusalem, from tours of the court of the Khan in present-day Beijing to the marvels of medieval Ethiopia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages will blur the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader an encyclopaedia of wondrous stories and peoples, but also a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world. Like a real travel guide, it will also offer tips on useful phrases, where to stay and eat, and how to avoid bandits, disease and other dangers of the road. ______

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He has edited and translated several medieval texts, and new translations and editions of The Book of Marvels & Travels by John Mandeville, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Medieval English Travel, a sourcebook, all with Oxford University Press. His new study of Margery Kempe will appear from Reaktion Books this year. He is currently President of the New Chaucer Society.

4 May 2023 | Tom Killingbeck for Viking | 336 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

PRESS HISTORY

Wages For Housework Emily Callaci

The untold story of a radical chapter in recent feminist history.

Women are working for free. They do more than three-quarters of all the world's unpaid care work, contributing over 8 trillion pounds to the global economy each year. Dishes don't clean themselves, dinner is not magically made, children must be cared for. But why is this work not worth compensation?

Wages for Housework is the fascinating international story of Selma James, Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Wilmette Brown and their movement's battle to transform the relationship between capitalism and the labour of women. Drawing on the programme's roots in 1970s America, Italy, and the UK, and with unparalleled access to its key figures, historian Emily Callaci explores the revolutionary potential of paying women for their work in the home, and how such an idea continues to influence today's struggle for class, race and gender equality. ______

Emily Callaci is a historian of modern Africa and of gender, sexuality and reproductive politics. She is currently an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin.

2 February 2023 | Casiana Ionita for Allen Lane | 304 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

VINTAGE HISTORY

Loyalty House England's House on Fire: Basing, 1643-45 Jessie Childs

A dramatic, character-driven, entirely original account of a defining episode in the English Civil War by an acclaimed historian.

Between 1643 and 1645 Basing House in Hampshire was besieged three times. To the parliamentary roundheads, it symbolised everything that was wrong with England: the largest private residence in the country, a bastion of royalism, popery and excess. The Marquess of Winchester refused all terms of surrender. When he discovered his brother plotting to betray the house, he forced him to hang his accomplices. When the garrison divided along religious lines, he expelled all the Protestants.

As royalist strongholds crumbled around them, the Winchesters - and Basing - stood firm. Inigo Jones designed fortifications, gamekeepers became snipers and the women hurled bricks at the besiegers and cast shot from roof-stripped lead. 'Loyalty House', as it was known, became the king's principle garrison in the south-west. But the drum of the New Model Army beat ever louder and in October 1645, Lieutenant General Cromwell rolled in the heavy guns. The storming of Basing House was one of the most notorious episodes of the English Civil War, a war that may have claimed more lives, as a percentage of the population, than the first world war.

Loyalty House tells the story of the siege of Basing House, not only the skirmishes but also the experiences of those caught in the crossfire. What was it like to be under siege, lying in bed with shells crashing through the window? What was it like to conduct one, lying on frosty fields, receiving news of sick children from desperate wives? What was the impact on the wider community, whose families and livelihoods were often devastated by the violence?

Ultimately, the story of Basing House is the story of England in the 1640s: a tale of brother against brother, women on the frontline, radicalism, iconoclasm and fanaticism; it is a tale of destruction and creativity, courage and cowardice, a house on fire and the end of an era: the very epitome of the English Civil War. ______

Jessie Childs read history at Brasenose College, Oxford. Her first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Her second book God’s Traitors was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Prize, and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, 2015.

2 June 2022 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 352 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

PRESS HISTORY

Fall of the House of Osman Ryan Gingeras

A new, groundbreaking history of the fall of the Ottoman empire, published to coincide with its centenary.

In the autumn of 1918, revolution spread across Europe. One by one, grand imperial houses collapsed, allowing new republics to take their place. The fall of the Ottoman Empire is usually understood in this light. Turkey's eventual establishment in 1922 often appears as another example of this inevitable movement towards modern nation-states in the wake of the First World War.

In this groundbreaking new study, Ryan Gingeras rewrites the story of the Ottoman Empire's last years. The armistice, he demonstrates, did not mean the end the Ottoman sultanate. Rather it marked the beginning of a four-year period of conflict and negotiation over the empire's uncertain future. Through its death throes, the Ottoman collapse left millions dead and displaced and cast doubt upon the future of European empires in the colonial world.

Gingeras sheds new light on this dark era and places it within the broader history of the post- Versailles world. Drawing on original research, Fall of the House of Osman tells the story of how the Ottoman Empire's final years shaped the postwar politics of Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Arabs and Kurds. As a struggle that challenged the imperial aspirations of Britain, France and the United States, the conflict over the Ottoman lands helped to inspire wider anti- colonial movements from Ireland to India. Fall of the House of Osman is an illuminating account of four violent, divisive and unpredictable years which laid the foundations of the modern world order. ______

Ryan Gingeras is a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, California. His previous books include Eternal Dawn: Turkey in the Age of Atatürk and Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, which was shortlisted for the Rothschild Book Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.

27 October 2022 | Simon Winder for Alen Lane | 304 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

PRESS HISTORY

For a Better World A History of Protests and Countercultures in Postwar Europe Joachim C. Häberlen

An alternative history of protest movements in post-war Europe.

In the ruins of the Second World War, Europeans across the continent set out to build a better world. They challenged authorities, questioned political, social and cultural regimes, and fought for greater democratic participation. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in two era-defining years, 1968 and 1989, when mass protest movements swept Europe and rewrote its history.

Here, Joachim Häberlen explores the decades of protest and upheaval, hope and change, which linked these two seminal years. For A Better World is a history of collective struggle which takes us on a journey across both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Warsaw and Berlin to Milan and Barcelona via small villages in Lithuania. Everywhere protesters gathered in the streets to rail against nuclear weapons; to protect the environment; to criticise neo-imperialism and racism; to seek liveable cities; and to challenge gender and sexual norms. These demands continue to be heard today.

At the same time, protests moved beyond traditional demonstrations: activists reshaped their world in youth clubs, in communes, squats, consciousness-raising groups and in their own bedrooms. They protested in the way they dressed, the music they listened to, and the night clubs they went to, reshaping ideas of the self. Some of their efforts failed, yet protest, Häberlen shows, is a never-ending process of experimentation, a constant course of trial and error. It is, above all, an invitation to imagine something different, to have the courage to try to build a better world and live a better life.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

Joachim C. Häberlen is Assistant Professor of Modern Continental European History at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on protest movements and the history of emotions. His books include The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left: West Germany, 1968-1984 and, as editor, The Politics of Authenticity: Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain 1968-1989.

6 October 2022 | Thomas Penn for Allen Lane | 400 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

PRESS HISTORY

Nothing Ever Just Disappears A New History of Queer Culture Through its Spaces Diarmuid Hester

A radical new history of seven queer lives and the places that made them.

Nothing Ever Just Disappears plots a radical new history of queer identity from the late 1800s to the present, by following seven artists and writers whose lives and work are inextricable from a sense of place, including E.M. Forster, Josephine Baker, Claude Cahun, James Baldwin, and Derek Jarman. Interweaving their stories with the author's own experiences as a queer person, the book argues for the centrality of place in the formation of identity, culture, and politics, while showing all that is lost when queer spaces are forgotten.

Through the prism of Diarmuid's own experiences as a queer Irish immigrant, we meet famous as well as lesser known characters whose lives and work demonstrate the centrality of community and place to the production of culture, and how where we live affects how we love. Arguing eloquently for the centrality of place in our lives, and especially in the formation of queer identity, Diarmuid travels from San Francisco to New York, Paris to London, and Cambridge to Jersey, bringing to life the bars these extraordinary artists drank in, the studios they worked and lived in, the cities that fostered or proscribed their sexuality. With amazing dexterity and intelligence - and humour, too - Hester ranges across the key moments in the history of queer rights: from Oscar Wilde's trial for indecency to the reception of J.A. Symonds' theories of Greek love (the Victorian scholar credited with first introducing 'homosexual' into the English language) through to the sexual freedom of interwar Paris, the liberation of the Sixties, the AIDS crisis and up to the internet age, threading together these disparate people and ideas through the lens of his own life and experiences. ______

Dr Diarmuid Hester is a writer and academic based at the University of Cambridge. He is a radical cultural historian and an authority on sexually dissident literature, art, film, and performance. Diarmuid is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at the University of Cambridge, and a research associate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His writing has appeared in The Irish Times, gorse, n+1, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (University of Iowa Press, 2020).

2 February 2023 | Maria Bedford for Allen Lane | 464 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

PRESS HISTORY

Sunset Empire Rahmane Idrissa

The epic history of one of Africa’s great precolonial empires.

For just over a century, the Songhay Empire was the western terminus of a great axis of commerce and culture joining China and India with the Mediterranean. Its territories stretched the breadth of West Africa, its rulers controlled the supply of gold to Europe and the Middle East, and, in Timbuktu, one of the foremost intellectual centres of the age. In 1592, it became the first state south of the Sahara to fall victim to a colonial expedition – not from Europe but Saadian Morocco, whose sultan hoped to emulate the Spanish conquest of the New World. Its demise signalled the decline of one axis of power in favour of another, one dominated by the empires traversing the Atlantic.

Sunset Empire reveals this history in full for the first time. It follows in the steps of the king who built one of the largest states in African history, it charts the coup which claimed the throne for Islam and it traces the struggles for succession and global developments which ultimately led to the empire’s downfall. Drawing on masses of untapped archival material, Rahmane Idrissa retrieves the voices and personalities of the primary actors, making this not only a rare portrait of African civilization before the dismal centuries of European intervention, but also a singularly engaging one. Here, in all its drama, is the epic history of the Songhay. ______

Rahmane Idrissa is a historian and political scientist based at Leiden University’s African Studies Centre. His previous books include The Politics of Islam in the Sahel and A Historical Dictionary of Niger, where he is a national, the descendent of followers of the last Songhay Emperor. Alongside many articles published in academic journals, he has had stints writing for the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the Guardian.

5 October 2023 | Ben Sinyor for Allen Lane | 432 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

PRESS HISTORY

Resistance The Underground War in Europe, 1939- 1945 Halik Kochanski

A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe.

Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark - were within tight limits allowed to run themselves. Others - such as France - were constrained not only by military occupation but by open collaboration. In a historical moment when Nazi victory seemed permanent and irreversible, the question “why resist?” was therefore augmented by “who was the enemy?”.

Resistance is an extraordinarily powerful, humane and haunting account of how and why all across Nazi-occupied Europe some people decided to resist the Third Reich. This could range from open partisan warfare in the occupied Soviet Union to dangerous acts of defiance in the Netherlands or Norway. Some of these resistance movements were entirely home-grown, others supported by the Allies.

Like no other book, Resistance shows the reader just how difficult such actions were. How could small bands of individuals undertake tasks which could lead not just to their own deaths but those of their families and their entire communities?

Filled with powerful and often little-known stories, Halik Kochanski's major new book is a fascinating examination of the convoluted challenges faced by those prepared to resist the Germans, ordinary people who carried out exceptional acts of defiance and resistance. ______

Halik Kochanski is the author of a widely-praised history of Poland in the Second World War, The Eagle Unbowed. She has taught at both King's College London and University College London and is also the author of Sir Garnet Wolseley: Victorian Hero.

3 March 2022 | Simon Winder for Allen Lane | 976 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

EBURY HISTORY

The Invention of the West Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Prize-winning Classical historian - of half- Chinese, half-Irish ancestry - on how “the West” became the idea that dominated history, told through the stories of nine fascinating lives, for fans of Niall Ferguson, Peter Frankopan and Edward Said.

Does Western civilization really stretch back from modernity through the Enlightenment to the classical glories of Greece and Rome? We learn this story of Western history at school and take it for granted, but is it true?

In this bold, story-driven retelling of global history, prize-winning historian Naoise Mac Sweeny debunks the myths and origin stories that underpin the history we thought we knew. Told through nine fascinating figures who each played a role in the creation of the Western idea -- from Herodotus, a mixed-race refugee, to Mary Fisher, the Yorkshire housemaid who charmed an Ottoman sultan, and from Gladstone, with his private passion for epic poetry, to the medieval Arab scholar Al-Kindi - the subjects are a mind-expanding blend of unsung heroes and familiar faces viewed afresh. Each life tells us something unexpected about the age in which it was lived and offers us a piece of the puzzle of how the modern idea of the West developed - and why we've misunderstood it for too long.

As a new world order emerges from the shocks of pandemics and populism, to chart a future for the West we must properly understand its past. ______

Naoise Mac Sweeney is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna having previously held posts at both Harvard and Cambridge University, and has won numerous academic awards for her work on classical antiquity and origin myths. Her previous book was shortlisted for major awards, and she has written comment pieces for The Times, appeared on Thinking Aloud on Radio 3 and was a reporter on BBC4's Digging for Britain TV series with Alice Roberts.

4 August 2022 | Jamie Joseph for WH Allen | 368 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

CORNERSTONE HISTORY

Harry Michael Palin

Michael Palin recreates the life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry.

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. He dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence. He studied every available official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters. He even travelled in his footsteps, from Harry's childhood home in Herefordshire to India and New Zealand and from there to the slaughtering grounds of Gallipoli and the Western Front.

Now he has brought years of painstakingly research together to create an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir this is Michael Palin at his very finest.

Watch the author pitch his new book here. ______

Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil. His books include accounts of his journeys, novels (Hemingway’s Chair and The Truth) and several volumes of diaries. From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013, and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours list. He lives in London.

22 September 2022 | Nigel Wilcockson for Hutchinson | 320 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

VINTAGE HISTORY

Bold Ventures Charlotte Van den Broeck, translated into English by David McKay

An original and beguiling work of non-fiction following thirteen stories of human endeavour and failure from a spellbinding new talent.

“What a sensible, intelligent and beautiful book.” Stefan Hertmans, author of War and Turpentine

In thirteen chapters, prize-winning Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were ill-fated for their architects - architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so. They range across time and space from a church in seventeenth-century France to a theatre that collapsed whilst a play was being performed in 1920s New York, through to an irrevocably sinking swimming pool in the author's hometown of Turnhout.

With Van den Broeck as our guide, we travel across the globe to each of these architects' final, valedictory buildings, each of them now unwitting repositories of stories and rumours amassed by the communities around them. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to stories from her own life and popular culture, patterns and insights gradually come into focus, as Van den Broeck asks: what is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator?

Threaded through each story, and in prose of great subtlety and empathy, Van den Broeck meditates on the question of suicide - what Albert Camus called the 'one truly serious philosophical problem' - in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking new ground in literary non-fiction, as well as providing solace and consolation to everyone who has ever risked their hand at a creative act. ______

Charlotte Van den Broeck (born in Belgium in 1991) studied English and German Literature and holds a Masters in Drama (Verbal Arts) at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp. She has published two collections of poetry. Her debut collection Chameleon (2015) was awarded the Herman de Coninck debut Prize for poetry. For her second collection Nachtroer (2017) she received the triannual Paul Snoek Prize for the best collection of poetry in Dutch. Her poetry has been translated into German, French, Spanish, Afrikaans, Serbian and English. In 2019 she published her prose debut Waagstukken, an essayistic quest to uncover the stories of thirteen tragic architects, who committed suicide because of a fatal flaw in their designs. The book appeared on the Dutch bestseller lists, was shortlisted for the Boekenbon Literature Prize and awarded the Confituur Boekhandels Prize 2020. Charlotte Van den Broeck writes on a freelance base for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and teaches Literary Analysis and Essayistics at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp.

5 May 2022 | Greg Clowes for Chatto & Windus | 272 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

PRESS HISTORY

The End of Enlightenment Richard Whatmore

A landmark study of the Enlightenment from a world-renowned historian.

The Enlightenment is typically seen as a time of progress and rationality, as a great leap forward in our capacity to control nature, generate wealth and direct our own destinies. The underlying assumption is that unparalleled optimism was the dominant register of Enlightenment thought; that for the writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century – for Jean- Jacques Rousseau, for David Hume, for Immanuel Kant – there was confidence in a radiant future.

In The End of Enlightenment, historian Richard Whatmore debunks this triumphant story. In order to truly understand the Enlightenment, he shows, we must go beyond the assumptions of Marxist and Liberal thought and return to the perspective of those who lived through its rise and fall. In doing so, he argues, we will see an age that believed itself to be in a near-perpetual crisis, on the cusp of political ruin, at the edge of bankruptcy or civil war, or moments away from being eaten up by a rival state. The fanatic violence that enlightenment thinkers had sought to contain exploded into war, terror and revolution, show trials and guillotines. Profit-oriented global trading companies and dedicated advocates of order and liberty battled to take control of radically altered circumstances, demonising each another as fanatic and extremist exponents of chaos.

Lucid and illuminating, The End of Enlightenment is a defining new exploration of one of the most important moments in human history.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute of Intellectual History.

24 February 2022 | Casiana Ionita for Allen Lane | 320 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

POLITICS & SOCIETY

GENERAL POLITICS & SOCIETY

Why Politics Fails Ben Ansell

Award-winning Oxford professor explains the five traps of politics, and how understanding them can fix our broken world.

Everybody wants breathable air, a healthy population, civil and consensual politics. We want a peaceful world, a stable economy. We've always wanted these things. The fundamental point of politics is to deliver them. And yet clearly our political systems are failing. Why is it so hard to get - and keep - the world that we want? The answer is that politics produces a number of traps: democracy, equality, solidarity, security and prosperity.

We want democracy but if everybody's voice was given equal weight, we would never make a decision. We want equality but we are reluctant to give away our own wealth. We want solidarity but we are much better at receiving than offering it. We want security but not if it constrains our freedom. And we want to end the climate crisis but we also want a prosperous economy. In every case we want a collective goal but are undermined by our individual actions. Our aims are altruistic, our actions governed by self-interest. But there is hope.

Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using his own award-winning research - on how democracy is more likely to thrive under high inequality, for example - Oxford professor Ben Ansell explains why the world is as it is and how we can make it better. Understanding the traps helps us escape or avoid them altogether, in ways small to large, ultimately showing how we can all thrive in an imperfect world.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

Ben Ansell is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Following a PhD at Harvard he taught at the University of Minnesota for several years, becoming a full Professor at Oxford in 2013 at the age of thirty-five. He was made Fellow of the British Academy in 2018. His work has been widely covered in the media, including in the World Bank’s World Development Report, The New York Times, The Economist, The Times and on BBC Radio 4’s “Start the Week”. He is the Principal Investigator of the multi-million-pound ERC project “The Politics of Wealth Inequality”, co-editor of the most cited journal in comparative politics, and has written three award-winning academic books. This is his first book for a trade audience.

2 March 2023 | Connor Brown for Viking | 320 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

TRANSWORLD POLITICS & SOCIETY

Freedom How we lose it, and how we get it back Nathan Law

What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are?

In this short manifesto, Nathan Law explores the meaning of freedom, and shows how easily freedoms can be eroded or dismantled. Freedom is all the more precious for its fragility – it is not a given, and each generation must fight to protect it, whether in emerging democracies or in the Western world where freedom is too often taken for granted.

Nathan Law uses his own experience as a political activist in Hong Kong to explore not just how important freedom is for human beings to thrive in principle, but how it works in reality across the world. What does it mean to be able to speak freely, and what happens when the concept falls down? How can the law both protect and abolish our freedoms? And why should we place such importance on free and fair elections?

With the nature of democratic freedom being hotly debated across the world and sometimes feeling under threat, this is a timely manifesto about freedom and why we should fight for it.

Watch the editor pitch this book here. ______

In 2016, Nathan Law became Hong Kong's youngest ever elected lawmaker at the age of just 23. A year later, he was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for his part in the Umbrella Movement. He has since been nominated for a Nobel Peace Price for his pro-democracy advocacy and he was named among the Observer's Faces of 2020, as well as TIME magazine's People of the Year 2020. He has a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Yale University.

4 November 2021 | Alex Christofi for Bantam Press | 208 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

VINTAGE POLITICS & SOCIETY

The Age of The Strongman Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman explores the spread of leadership cults, polarised politics and urban- rural divisions in order to understand the rise of “strongmen” and a new global nationalism.

In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and the climate of liberal antipathy.

We are in a new era: the age of the strongman. Authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Over the last decade, self-styled “strongmen” have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Delhi, Tokyo, Brasilia, Budapest, Rome, Ankara, Cairo, Riyadh and Manila. He argues that his trend began well before the EU referendum or Donald Trump’s presidency and will continue.

When and where did this change take place? How long will this period last? And how likely is it to lead the world into war, economic collapse or unchecked environmental disaster? This is a story in three acts: the rise of the strongmen; the liberal fightback; and the probable consequences of the strongman era.

From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Xi and Modi, to the opposition of Merkel, Macron and Corbyn, Arden, Soros and Sanders, Rachman pays full attention to the strongman phenomenon in countries that are too often eclipsed, uncovers a complex interaction between rising Asian powers and a declining West, where very different reasons explain growing nationalisms.

The Age of the Strongman finds the common themes and offers a bold new paradigm for understanding our world; whilst others have tried to understand these situations individually, Gideon Rachman’s will be the first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to world leaders and key actors in this drama. ______

Gideon Rachman is the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. In 2016 he won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards. Previously he worked for The Economist for fifteen years, serving as a foreign correspondent in Washington, Bangkok and Brussels.

24 February 2022 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 288 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

SCIENCE

EBURY SCIENCE

The Hidden Universe Adventures in Biodiversity Alexandre Antonelli

Everything you need to know about biodiversity - what it is, how it works, and why it's the single most important tool to battle climate change - from the Director Science at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.

We don't know what we've got until it's gone...

This brief, lucid book by the Director of Science at Royal Botanical Gardens takes you on an unforgettable tour of the natural world, showing how biodiversity - the rich variety of life in the world and in our own backyards - provides both the source and the salvation of our existence. Combining inspirational stories and the latest scientific research, Alex Antonelli reveals the wonders of biodiversity at a genetic, species and ecosystem level - what it is, how it works, and why it's the most important tool in our battle against climate change.

A deeper understanding of biodiversity has never been more important, as the slow violence of habitat loss has put the fate of almost one-fifth of all species on Earth at risk of extinction in the coming decades. These building blocks of life form a network that underpins almost every aspect of our lives, providing invaluable sources of food, medicine, fibre, clothing, building material and more. With simplicity and clarity, The Hidden Universe shows you not only what's at stake, but what can be done (and is already being done) to protect and restore biodiversity around the world. It marks the arrival of a bold new voice in popular science.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

Alexandre Antonelli is Director of Science of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he leads the work of over 350 scientists. A botanist by training, he was made Full Professor of Biodiversity at University of Gothenburg in Sweden aged 36, and founded the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre and served as Cisneros Visiting Scholar at Harvard University before joining Kew. He remains an active researcher at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Oxford in the UK. This is his first book.

3 March 2022 | Albert De Petrillo for Ebury Press | 288 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

EBURY SCIENCE

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter Patrick Ayree

A fascinating exploration of how the animal world has inspired human progress via new inventions and solutions that impact our daily lives.

Did you know that mosquitoes' mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who'd have thought that the humble mussel could inspire so many useful things, from plywood production to a 'glue' that cements the crowns on teeth and saves unborn babies in the womb? How about the fact that studying the tiny kingfisher solved engineering problems with Japan's ultra-high- speed bullet train, or that the humpback whale's flipper helped design the most efficient blades for wind power turbines? For many years, humans have been using the natural world as inspiration for everything from fashion to architecture, and medicine to transport, and it may come as a surprise to learn how many inventions have been motivated by animal design and behaviour.

Dive into the depths with us as author Patrick Aryee reveals even more astonishing stories about animals' exceptional powers and the unique contributions they've made to the quality of our everyday lives. Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations accompany his revelations and bring the natural world to life.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

As a biologist and self-confessed thrill seeker, Patrick Ayree has always had a fascination with how things work. Since 2012, Patrick has been a documentary filmmaker and wildlife TV presenter across a number of programmes for major broadcasters, including the BBC and Sky. His ambition is to inspire and surprise us, his audience, as he takes us on a journey around the globe from the very comfort of our homes. Through his stories and animal encounters many of us have witnessed the raw power of fearsome predators like big cats, uncovered reality-defying super senses of night-time hunters, and plunged the deep blue to swim alongside the mysterious creatures that call our oceans home. As the presenter of the hugely successful podcast, 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter, Patrick now brings his words as a compelling orator, to the written form, in this his first book.

2 September 2021 | Joanna Stenlake for BBC Books | 384 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett GENERAL SCIENCE

The Microbiome How Human Ecology Shapes Our Health, Changes Our Minds, and Determines Our Future James Kinross

A groundbreaking tour through the past, present and future of human ecology, from a world expert on the microbiome.

The microbiome comprises the vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live within us. It influences every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel, and it is the missing link in modern medicine.

The Microbiome is a definitive account of the re-discovery of human ecology. It begins at the birth of man and it explains how the gut microbiome has evolved with us, shaped our biology and defined the success of our species. It explains what we know and importantly, what we don't. Just as we have discovered this delicate and complex new organ within us it is being irrevocably destroyed through the globalisation of our diets, lifestyles and the destruction of our environment.

In this urgent, timely investigation into a new frontier of science and healthcare, James Kinross tells the story of the race to map the microbiome, mine it and protect it before it is too late.

Watch the author pitch his book here.

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James Kinross is a Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery and a Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College London. His clinical interest is in the treatment of colorectal cancer. He was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer and was awarded a Royal College of Surgeons of England training fellowship during his PhD on the gut microbiome. He is a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.

26 May 2022 | Tom Killingbeck for Penguin Life | 336 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans MICHAEL JOSEPH SCIENCE

The Seven Ages of Death A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life Richard Shepherd

Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.

This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life...

How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine bodies of every age. From old to young, and from murder, to accident, to natural illness, each body has taught him something: about human development, about life's risks, about its owner's life story, about homicide and even about himself.

In The Seven Ages of Death, Shepherd helps readers to recognise death as part of an immense, natural life cycle which is common to all living things - an ending as much a part of us as our beginning. ______

Richard Shepherd trained as a doctor at St George's Hospital medical school at Hyde Park Corner, qualifying in 1977 and then completed his postgraduate training as a forensic pathologist in 1987. He immediately joined what was then the elite forensic department at Guy's Hospital. He has been involved nationally and internationally in the forensic investigation of thousands of deaths from unnatural causes, from headline-making murders to mass natural disasters, and many sudden and unexplained deaths that his investigations showed were from natural causes or due to accidents. His skills and expertise still remain in demand around the world . His first book, Unnatural Causes, has sold in 19 languages.

2 September 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

CORNERSTONE LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

Not Without a Fight: Ten Steps to Becoming Your Own Champion Ramla Ali

An inspirational book of life lessons by British Somali Boxer and model, Ramla Ali.

Ten fights from Mogadishu to London: Ramla Ali's lessons on what it takes to become your own champion

In her first book Not Without a Fight Ramla shares ten key “fights” - bouts she has endured both inside of the ring and out, from escaping conflict with her family to being bullied at school to winning her first professional fight - all of which have shaped the remarkable trajectory of her life and career.

Each chapter explores the valuable lessons she gained from them and the key moment which empowered her to fight on. Every fight will encourage the reader to reflect on their own lives, instilling their own ruthless refusal to quit, and guiding them towards ultimately becoming their own champion. ______

Ramla Ali is a Somali-born, London raised professional boxer, model and activist. She took up the sport of boxing aged 12, training and competing in secret from her family for over ten years. Ramla rose to early prominence as the two-time winner of the national amateur championships in England and winning the Great British Championships. With over sixty-five amateur fights under her felt, Ramla made history by becoming the first boxer to have won an international gold medal whilst representing the country of Somalia. Ramla is a Nike Global Athlete and brand ambassador for Pantene, Coach and Cartier. She is a proud ambassador of UNICEF, Coach's “Dream It Real” foundation and Choose Love.

23 September 2021 | Tom Avery for Merky Books | 400 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

TRANSWORLD LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

A Book of Secrets Derren Brown

Drawing on personal experience, this is a profound and practical guide to embracing friction for a fuller and more rewarding life.

Perhaps being happy is not the answer after all.

In this thoughtful and brilliant new book, the internationally bestselling author of Happy considers the value of friction in our lives. In chapters revealing his own moments of anger and prejudice, anxiety and shyness, loneliness and loss, Derren Brown examines the means to a more rewarding life, be it saving yourself from small talk or navigating middle age.

Referencing the ideas of some of the world's great philosophers, he has to wonder if the Greeks were right - unless we tend to all aspects of our lives - our whole flawed natures - the snubbed secreted aspects of ourselves will wreak revenge. Perhaps we need to accept and experience complexity, and allow uncertainty? Is anxiety in fact a pointer for growth? Rather than being true to ourselves, might we instead prioritize better interaction with other people? Considering these questions leads him to surprising sources of consolation and compassion. ______

Derren Brown began his UK television career in December 2000 with a series of specials called Mind Control. Since redefining the genre of magic for intelligent, modern audiences, he has become synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation. His TV shows have become must-see events. Amongst a varied and notorious career, Derren has played Russian roulette on live television, convinced middle-managers to commit an armed robbery in the street, led the nation in a séance, stuck viewers to their sofas, successfully predicted the National Lottery, motivated a shy man to land a packed passenger plane at 30,000 feet, exposed psychic and faith-healing charlatans, and hypnotised a man to assassinate Stephen Fry. On top of this he tours the UK every year with a sell-out stage show and has recently finished a run on Broadway, NYC.

He has published five books: Tricks of the Mind, Confessions of a Conjuror, Happy, A Little Happier and a book of his caricatures, Portraits.

2 September 2021 | Susanna Wadeson for Bantam Press | 384 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

VINTAGE LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

Empowered Turning Lemons into Lemonade Vee Kativhu

Learn how to live an empowered life with YouTube visionary, education activist and founder of Empowered by Vee.

Vee Kativhu has overcome much adversity and through personal experience, she has triumphed - she now helps underprivileged and underrepresented people from all over the world recognise their own talent and achieve their goals. From graduating from Oxford and becoming a Harvard grad, to building an online community of over 200,000, Vee has become an icon and inspiration to young people in need of a boost of confidence, motivation and practical life advice.

Drawing from her inspirational journey, Vee will teach you how to set life goals and career aspirations - and actually achieve them - stay motivated in the face of rejection, learn from your mistakes, take chances and cultivate feelings of self-love. This book will inspire readers to live a more fulfilled, motivated and empowered life. ______

Vee Kativhu is a YouTube visionary, education activist and founder of the initiative, Empowered by Vee. She uses her platform to share tips and advice to help underprivileged and underrepresented people from across the world recognise their own talent and potential. Sharing her experiences at Oxford and Harvard, Vee has become a symbol of hope for many young Black women as she shares what it is like to enter non-Black spaces and excel in them.

An Oxford graduate of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Vee is now studying International Education Policy at Harvard with the hope of becoming a policy advisor for girls' education in Zimbabwe. Vee has been named a Rare Rising Star, Future Leader, Diversity Champion and LinkedIn Changemaker. She has also been a BBC Teach presenter, TEDx speaker and a University, Empowerment and Academia Content Creator for YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn, achieving many other accolades in the process.

2 December 2021 | Mireille Harper for Square Peg | 304 pp | Format (mm): 180 x 130 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

VINTAGE LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

Unattached Essays On Celebrating Single Womanhood Angelica Malin

An anthology of essays by diverse female voices exploring and celebrating single womanhood in the modern age, curated by Angelica Malin.

Have you ever worried about going on holiday alone? Felt queasy at the thought of Valentine's Day without a date? Thought to yourself, "I want what she has?" Then this book is the tonic you need. Each chapter of Unattached will explore the nuances of being single today; with personal essays from a multitude of game- changing voices, reflecting both the unique challenges of being single (hello, going to a wedding alone), and the glorious benefits of singlehood in a light-hearted way (goodbye, joint bank account).

The single positivity movement is here, and this book will turbo-charge the revolution. We need more female single role models now more than ever - sharing their stories, inspiration and warmth. Unattached shines a light on brilliant women stepping into their power, shrugging off the shackles of traditional labels, owning being alone, and reveals the true depth of female potential when we choose to go against what society expects of us and revel in our own strength. ______

An award-winning entrepreneur, podcast and event host based in London, Angelica Malin is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of About Time magazine, one of the UK's leading lifestyle magazines and also runs #SheStartedItLIVE, a festival of female empowerment. Angelica is the author of She Made It: The Toolkit for Female Founders in the Digital Age.

3 February 2022 | Mireille Harper for Square Peg | 384 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

EBURY LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

The Body Be relentless. Get powerful. Change your mindset. Change your life. Simeon Panda

For fans of Ross Edgley and James Smith, this is the ultimate motivational and practical guide to transforming yourself from weak to peak physique from social media star and one of the most influential fitness professionals in the world, Simeon Panda.

Be relentless, get powerful

Once a skinny teenager, Simeon Panda has completely transformed his body and outlook and is now one of the world's most influential fitness professionals.

No fads, no extreme diets, no gimics. Simeon's body method is 100% doable for everyone - and you'll get all the tools you need to up your game when it comes to fitness, physique, food and focus.

It's a one-stop shop for changing your body, mindset and lifestyle, whether you want 6-pack abs, a bodybuilder physique, a disciplined fitness regime or simply to burn off a little fat. Including goal-setting tools, motivational mantras, personal stories, 12 exclusive workout programmes, a healthy and simple nutritional plan with recipes and a 14-day quick reset challenge, The Body uncovers all of Simeon's most-wished-for advice. ______

Simeon Panda is a fitness influencer with 7.5 million folllowers on Instagram (@simeonpanda). Simeon has competed in various bodybuilding contests, has years of experience as a PT, has his own clothing line, SP Aesthetics, and sells training programs online; he also has his own YouTube channel which he uses to share his workouts and chronicle his life as an influential member of the bodybuilding community. He's known not only for his exceptional fitness but also his positivity, inclusiveness and motivational methods.

6 January 2022 | Emma Smith for Ebury Spotlight | 304 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

EBURY LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

The Instant Mood Fix 50 coping solutions for anxiety, panic and stress Dr Olivia Remes

A quick guide to unscr*wing your mind with powerfully simple advice based on science.

How do you cope with stress, anxiety, procrastination, or moments of crisis? Do you wait for the “perfect” solution, avoid the situation, or blame yourself? If so, it's time to break the cycle: when panic strikes, grab this book instead.

Cambridge University mental health researcher Dr Olivia Remes has spent the last decade learning how to maintain good mental health. In this short, no- nonsense book, she shares practical tips based on her cutting-edge research to help you fight the patterns and moods that hold you back. Whether you're feeling: stressed, out of control, stuck, unmotivated, indecisive, overwhelmed, helpless, lonely, rejected, or disappointed, Dr Olivia has a solution to help you relieve the pressure.

Pocket-sized and distilling only the essential information, The Instant Mood Fix teaches you long-term coping strategies for every area of your life. This empowering book will show you how to find inner peace and build resilience.

Watch the author pitch her book here. ______

Dr Olivia Remes is a mental health researcher at the University of Cambridge and a public speaker. She has researched mental health issues such as anxiety, loneliness and coping. She is a regular speaker on BBC Cambridge and has appeared on Woman's Hour and NPR. Her work has been featured in publications across the world. Her TedTalks about anxiety, coping and loneliness have garnered nearly 3 million views. This is her first book.

13 May 2021 | Marianne Tatepo for Ebury Press | 144 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

MICHAEL JOSEPH LIFESTYLE, HEALTH & SELF DEVELOPMENT

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Dr Julie Smith

A simple, positive, practical toolkit for better mental health, from clinical psychologist and TikTok star Dr Julie Smith.

Drawing on her years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr Julie Smith's first book is filled with secrets from the therapy room, sharing practical knowledge and simple but powerful techniques to maintain good mental health.

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? features bite-size chapters offering immediate insight and guidance on mental resilience, coping strategies and being kind to ourselves. Written in Dr Julie's characteristic warm and straight-talking style, complex issues are broken down and explained simply.

When we understand how our minds work, we can teach ourselves to grow and thrive. This book gives readers all the tools they need to flourish in life. ______

Dr Julie Smith is a clinical psychologist with over a decade of professional experience. She has 2.1 million TikTok followers and 371k Instagram followers (@drjuliesmith). She has appeared regularly in print and broadcast media.

6 January 2022 | Ione Walder for Michael Joseph | 256 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

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Decision Time How to make the choices your life depends on Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland

Two world-renowned experts bring a new approach to decision-making so you'll never question your choices again.

Seize life's opportunities: think less, do more!

When faced with a life-changing decision do you find that all too often your choice is hasty and you come to regret it? Or perhaps you avoid making choices at all costs from fear that you'll make the wrong one?

Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland have spent their careers studying some of the hardest choices that people have to make in some of the most high-pressured environments. Decision Time takes the decision-making techniques used in war rooms and war zones to create a step-by-step guide for decision-making in everyday life.

This is a book for anyone who wants to improve the way they handle life's big choices and how to better deal with the fear and uncertainty that goes along with them. Whether that's deciding to take a new job, start a new career later in life, end a relationship, move across the world or declaring your undying love for your best friend. ______

Laurence Alison the author of Rapport, professor of psychology at the University of Liverpool and head of the Centre for Critical Incident Decision Making. He has an international reputation and is widely published in relation to his work on decision-making in high-stake environments, interviewing and interrogation, as well as prioritisation and detection of sex offenders.

Neil Shortland is Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell and is a world expert on military decision making. He's worked with The Ministry of Defence (MoD), the United States Department for Defence and National Institute for Justice. He has also served as an international expert on security and expert witness on Supreme Court cases involving decision making.

7 October 2021 | Emma Owen for Vermilion | 272 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

MICHAEL JOSEPH BUSINESS & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Uncertainty Principle Arie Kruglanski

The need for closure has shaped history, it determines your future and understanding it can transform your life.

How much do we reply upon certainty? And, how does the way we deal with uncertainty impact our future and our lives?

Uncertainty is one of the defining issues of our time. Certainty has a habit of slipping away, further into our futures and we now have to deal with the uncertainties of our present, every day. The stability we once had is disappearing, and fast. Vast changes in society are shifting our realities: an earth-shaking global pandemic, changing attitudes and approaches to employment, with an increase in freelance and temporary work undermines people's ability to plan for the future. And, there is an ever decreasing sense of trust in what was once hallowed: the government, the media, education, religion, medicine. Instead, we use the internet which provides us with a wave of conflicting advice.

When we can no longer make sense of the world together, insecurity takes over. We develop anxiety and confusion about our purpose, and in searching for certainty find it in autocratic leaders and populism. Democracy begins to fade as our uncertainty grows.

If we are aware of our need for certainty, and understand why we behave instinctively in the way that we do, we can better understand how to deal with stress and pressure. We can start to make decisions that aren't informed by anxiety. We can shed light not only on historical trends but understand how we change those trends forever, for a better future.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park recognised as a worldwide leading expert and authority on human motivation. Famed for his studies in the areas of human judgement and decision making, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, and the psychology of human goals, his work has been published in over 400 academic articles and books. He has also published opinion pieces in the Guardian, Huffington Post, National Interest, Conversation and The Washington Post.

20 January 2022 | Daniel Bunyard for Michael Joseph | 320 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

GENERAL BUSINESS & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Wisdom The New Science of Better Decisions and a Fulfilled Life Howard Nusbaum

What wisdom is, why we should want to be wiser, and how people and institutions can become wiser more easily than is thought.

What is wisdom? How can individuals and institutions become wiser? And why should we want that? Being smart means being good at solving difficult problems. Being clever means being creative in coming up with solutions. But neither intelligence nor cleverness involve morality. There can be smart and clever psychopaths, criminals and politicians. In our divided and tempestuous times, we need something better than that. We need wisdom.

Wisdom has moral grounding, takes the long view and seeks different perspectives – it has profound benefits for societies and individuals. While many think it is necessary to be gray and bearded or to have lived a difficult life to make wise decisions, in this sage and thought- provoking book, world-leading wisdom expert Professor Howard Nusbaum draws on the latest research in psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and economics to show that counter to what many believe, wisdom is a skill that can be learned more easily than thought.

With fascinating examples (on why even atheists are often against the idea of selling their souls, for example) and useful tips (e.g. how thinking about a problem in the third person leads to wiser decisions), Wisdom changes the way we think about decision making, giving success a more prosocial definition, and showing why we could all do with being a little wiser. Our future may depend on it.

Watch the author pitch his book here. ______

Howard Nusbaum is the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom, which supports scientific research on wisdom and works closely with those working in medicine, business, engineering and the law. Nusbaum has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, is editor of various prestigious journals, has edited five academic books on topics ranging from perception to wise reasoning, and his research has featured in The New York Times, Telegraph and New Yorker, among others. This is his first book for a general reader.

16 February 2023 | Connor Brown for Viking | 352 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

GENERAL BUSINESS & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Energise The Productivity Secret to a More Productive, Happier, Healthier You Simon Alexander Ong

How to manage your energy to supercharge your productivity, performance and happiness.

Your energy is the fuel that makes everything in your life possible. So how can you reach your full potential if you're always tired, stressed and struggling through your to-do list running from one task to the next?

In Energise, life coach Simon Ong introduces you to the art and science of energy management. Revealing how your physical, mental and relational energy affect your ability to think creatively and make progress towards your goals. Ong will teach you how to renew, recharge and nurture yourself so that you feel refreshed and alive rather than drained at the end of your day. Energise will teach you how to make the most out of every single moment and achieve more than you ever thought possible. ______

Simon Alexander Ong is a personal development entrepreneur, coach and public speaker. His work has seen him invited onto Sky News, BBC Radio London and LBC Radio to be interviewed, while in 2018, Barclays UK featured him in a nationwide campaign asking him questions on how families could embrace better lifestyle habits. His insights have seen him featured in Huffington Post, Forbes, Virgin and the Guardian. Simon regularly speaks at organisations and keynotes public events and conferences, including The Peter Jones Foundation, The World Business & Executive Coach Summit 2020 and the LSE. Simon is of Chinese origin and is based in London.

10 March 2022 | Lydia Yadi for Penguin Business | 224 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

EBURY BUSINESS & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Art of Strategic Thinking The seven secrets to smarter decisions in an ambiguous world Michael Watkins

The ultimate guide to strategic thinking by Michael Watkins, internationally bestselling author and leading expert on strategy.

How did John F. Kennedy put a man on the moon in just under ten years? What can chess teach us about actionable insights? And why should you shake up a business at a time of great success? All of these questions have their answer in strategic thinking. But what is strategic thinking exactly? Are we born with it, or can we nurture it?

As a distinct and important capability in leaders, strategic thinking is a remarkably poorly defined, little understood concept, confined to management courses and board meetings. But in The Art of Strategic Thinking, leading expert Michael Watkins shows how anyone can benefit from it, as long as they have the tools to nurture it.

Exploring the seven specific mental disciplines that together constitute strategic thinking, each chapter shows how they can create value, and offers prescriptions on how to develop the strategic thinking mindset ourselves. Academically grounded but jargon-free, with real-world examples from all sectors and ages, The Art of Strategic Thinking assesses our innate ability to think strategically, and helps us to cultivate it, leading to better decisions that get proven results.

Watch the editor pitch this book here. ______

Michael D. Watkins is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at IMD, and co- founder of Genesis Advisers. He has spent the last two decades working with leaders as they transition to new roles, build their teams and transform their organizations.

He is author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, which The Economist recognized as "the on-boarding bible." With more than 1,000,000 copies sold in English, and translations in 24 languages, it has become the classic reference for leaders in transition and a standard resource of leading change.

24 February 2022 | Lucy Oates for Virgin Books | 272 pp Rights Contact: Sarah Scarlett

GENERAL BUSINESS & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Great Crashes Linda Yueh

Lessons from the meltdowns of the past to prevent them in the future.

Why did past financial crashes occur?

What lessons can we learn from them?

Where will the next one come from?

Having explored the Wall Street Crash to set the scene, in this accessible and authoritative book Linda Yueh analyses cataclysmic events including the currency crisis in Latin America in the 1980s, the collapse of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, the Asian financial crisis and stagnation in Japan, and - of course - the global financial crisis of 2007-08. And just as knowledge from 1929 helped respond to this most recent crisis, Yueh ends by pulling together vital lessons that we can learn for thinking about where the next crash might come from and how we can mitigate its effects.

The Great Crashes is a combination of Yueh's expert knowledge, her clear and compelling storytelling, and urgent lessons for today. It is essential reading. ______

Linda Yueh is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is also Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS and was Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. The former Economics Editor at Bloomberg TV, she also hosted Talking Business with Linda Yueh as Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News. She writes for The Times, The New York Times, and the Financial Times and has advised the World Economic Forum in Davos and the World Bank. She has written and edited academic books, including a textbook on macroeconomics. Her first trade book, What Would the Great Economists Do?, was published in 2018 and has sold 47,000 copies in the UK and been translated into 8 languages.

11 August 2022 | Daniel Crewe for Penguin Business | 368 pp Rights Contact: Amelia Evans

FOOD & DRINK

MICHAEL JOESPH FOOD & DRINK

Soup. Broth. Bread. Rachel Allen

The book every soup and bread lover has been waiting for, from leading chef and bestselling cookery author, Rachel Allen.

Whether as a starter or main dish, a quick fix or a leisurely indulgence, to nourish a cold or heal a broken heart, there is a soup for every occasion. With Rachel's guidance you can learn the classics and then expand your horizons, with delicious, heart-warming recipes you'll turn to time and time again.

Soup. Broth. Bread. also features recipes for homemade breads, garnishes and stocks, and a wealth of tips on equipment, batch-cooking, freezing and presentation.

Just as every cook needs good soup in their repertoire, this book will be a must-have source of inspiration for every kitchen shelf. ______

Rachel Allen (@rachelallencooks) is a bestselling cookery writer, teacher and TV chef based in Ireland. Her 14 cookbooks have sold over a million copies worldwide, and she has written for BBC Good Food, the Sunday Independent and the Irish Mail on Sunday. Rachel currently hosts RTE's The Restaurant with Marco Pierre White, and her TV shows with the BBC and RTE have been broadcast in over 30 different countries.

21 October 2021 | Ione Walder for Michael Joseph | 224 pp | Format (mm): 240 x 171 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

EBURY FOOD & DRINK

Sunshine and Spice Delicious Recipes that everyone will love from my Turkish-Cypriot Kitchen Meliz Berg

Simple, vibrant meals to bring sunny flavours to the kitchen every day.

Instagram influencer Meliz Berg shares dishes from her Turkish-Cypriot heritage and her go-to recipes for a busy family kitchen. Find inspiration in nine chapters of vibrant, delicious, nourishing cooking: Kahvalti (breakfast), Meze & Salata (sharing dishes and salads), Pratik Yemekler (quick cooking), Ocak & Kizartma (traditional stove-top dishes), Firin (from the oven), Yahni (easy one-pots and slow-cooking), Kebab & Kofte (barbecue dishes and sides), Ekmek & Hamur Isi (bread and baking) and Kek ve Tatlilar (crowd-pleasing cakes and puddings).

The book will include fan favourites from her Instagram page, as well as exclusive new recipes such as one-tray Cypriot breakfast, stuffed vine leaves, filo meat pies, flat olive crispbreads and ricotta-filed pastries. ______

Meliz Berg is a self-taught cook, recipe developer and food content creator. Inspired by her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, and experience of growing up in a household that combined both traditional Cypriot and London living, she created the blog and instagram page Meliz Cooks.

Meliz Cooks is loved for its easy-to-follow recipes, addictive combinations of flavours and spices, and for highlighting the melting-pot of beautiful cuisines evident in Cyprus. Her recipes have featured in Co-op Food and Asda Good Living Magazine, as well as in Good Homes and the Guardian.

11 November 2021 | Ione Walker for Michael Joseph | 272 pp | Format (mm): 212 x 153 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

MICHAEL JOSEPH FOOD & DRINK

The Alcorithm Rob Buckhaven

Whether you love wine, beer, spirits or cocktails, this book will help you navigate the world of drinks flavours to find the tipple that's perfect for you.

Did you know that if you like tropical fruit then sauvignon blanc is the white wine for you? Or that if you enjoy a gewurztraminer, the chances are you'll love a lychee gimlet?

Renowned drinks critic and columnist Rob Buckhaven has created an algorithm like no other, The Alcorithm, which guides readers via their tastes in flavours to drinks they'll love. From wine and sherry through to amaretto and sake, the book's impressive coverage leaves no part of the drinks universe unexplored. ______

Rob Buckhaven (@robbuckhaven) is a drinks expert with 14 years' experience in the wine and spirits industry. He is a drinks columnist for The Metro, a brand ambassador for Rathfinny Estate and in 2018 he was nominated for the position of IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year. Rob also holds a MBA in Wine Marketing and Management from the prestigious INSEEC Business School in Bordeaux.

11 November 2021 | Ione Walker for Michael Joseph | 272 pp | Format (mm): 212 x 153 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

MICHAEL JOSEPH FOOD & DRINK

The Whole Vegetable Sophie Gordon

Over 150 delicious, nourishing and easy plant- based recipes to help you become more sustainable and to show you that you can make a difference.

What can we do to save our planet? In The Whole Vegetable Sophie Gordon shows us: cook sustainably, reduce food waste and eat nourishing, delicious food all at the same time. By making small differences to the way we buy, store and cook our food, we can take a step in the right direction.

There has never been a better time to eat more vegetables and whether you're vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian, The Whole Vegetable is your recipe book and guide for the future. From enchilada tacos and spelt pizza to cacao pancakes and iced sunshine lattes, this wonderful book is packed full of practical advice and beautiful recipes to enjoy. ______

Sophie Gordon (@soph_gordon) is a plant-based chef and recipe developer, caterer, and entrepeneur. She runs the South East London Supper Club, creating vegan dishes for a variety of attendees, and also holds regular plant-based retreats across the globe, collaborating with Soho House, Lululemon, Free People, Foodism, Vita Coco and many more. Her platform is focused on plant-based and sustainable eating, environmental protection, and wellness.

6 January 2022 | Ione Walder for Michael Joseph | 304 pp | Format (mm): 230 x 189 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

EBURY FOOD & DRINK

Ammu Food to nourish your soul, from a life of cooking Asma Khan

A heart-warming cookbook of comforting aromatic Indian flavours, from Darjeeling Express's Asma Khan.

Food from home, cooked with heart. This book is a collection of recipes from Asma’s childhood, her Indian family kitchen. A celebration of where she comes from, of home-cooking, and the inextricable link between food and love. It is a chance for her to honour her ammu, and to share with you the recipes that made her and root her to home. This book is a joyful celebration of memories of food, and its power to heal, restore and comfort.

Asma includes her ammu's (mother’s) comfort food from her childhood, the recipes with which she taught Asma to cook, celebratory food (for births, deaths and weddings and all those special occasions in between), slow-cooked recipes passed through the generations of her family and, finally, her own recipes, now that Asma herself is an ammu - all quick and easy, mixing the ingredients she has at hand with her favourite spices to offer more immediate comfort. ______

Asma Khan (@asmakhanlondon) is owner of Darjeeling Express, London, and one of the UK's most prominent female chefs. She moved from India to Cambridge in 1991 with her husband. She comes from a royal background - Rajput on her father's side and Bengali on her mother's. After training as a lawyer, Asma registered for a food business, which began life as a supper club then became a critically acclaimed pop-up in London in 2015.

Asma was the first British chef to appear on Netflix's Chef's Table. An unstoppable force for social change in the food industry and beyond, Asma has been revolutionising the London restaurant scene since 2017 with her world-renowned Indian food, all-female team, and her commitment to training immigrant women.

3 March 2022 | Laura Higginson for Ebury Press | 256 pp | Format (mm): 246 x 189 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

PRESS FOOD & DRINK

Fizz The Science of Fermentation and the Art of Living Foods James Read

A playful and accessible guide to fermenting at home.

From the fiery funk of kimchi to the velvet tang of kefir (via kombucha and kvass), Read demonstrates how the microbial process works and then shares his recipes for recreating these delights in your own kitchen without specialist equipment. Alongside his recipes, Read investigates the extraordinary cultural and historic backgrounds of fermented foods, exploring how the microbes that bring them to life have developed alongside our culinary evolution.

Featuring over fifty recipes and packed to the brim with essential how-to information, Fizz will help you create, understand and appreciate fermentation’s bubbling magic. ______

James Read (@kimkongkimchi) is the founder of Kim Kong Kimchi, a company that has made tens of thousands of jars of kimchi distributed through hundreds of stores across Europe. Kim Kong Kimchi has given James the opportunity to build his own walk-in remotely monitored fermentarium, write an array of fizz-related spreadsheets and address audiences from London's Chinatown to Copenhagen on the wonders of fermented foods. He adores research, reading peer-reviewed papers on microbiota, hunting out ingredient origin myths and running A/B tests on fermenting pineapple cores.

3 March 2022 | Richard Atkinson for Particular Books | 256 pp | Format (mm): 198 x 153 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

EBURY FOOD & DRINK

Bake with Jack Amazing bread & simple meals to make the most of every slice Jack Sturgess

Making bread is simple and fun. Discover how with Sunday Brunch bread expert and Bake with Jack YouTube star (over 160k subscribers), Jack Sturgess.

Jack is a professional-chef-turned-breadmaker on a mission to give everyone the knowledge they need to make amazing bread at home - every single time.

With so many methods available, it is hard to get to grips with the, actually, simple principles to good bread making. Use these recipes to find your bread-baking confidence, have fun making your own loaves and rolls, follow the principles and get creative, adapting and inventing your own bread to enjoy every day.

Learn and master a classic sandwich loaf, bloomer, rolls, ciabatta, focaccia, fruit bread and sweet buns, brioche and bagels, sourdough, croissants and pizza dough. Then follow Jack's recipes to use up every last crumb - make epic sandwiches, delicious meals and the crunchiest croutons!! ______

Jack Sturgess (@bakewithjack) is a professional chef turned bread maker, demonstrator and educator on a mission to give everyone the knowledge they need to make amazing bread at home for life - without stress. He hates complicated, fussy recipes and loves to bake bread with his kids. He is the Channel 4 Sunday Brunch bread expert, teaching the UK nation bread making skills.

3 March 2022 | Laura Higginson for Ebury Press | 256 pp | Format (mm): 246 x 189 Rights Contact: Anjali Nathani

SPORT

VINTAGE SPORT

A Whole New Ball Game Saving Football from Itself Mark Gregory

Three lions on the shirt, grassroots underfunded.... A revealing and shocking analysis of the state of the English game.

The Premier League is the most commercially successful football league in history, the self-proclaimed “best league in the world”. But success has come at a cost, unbalancing the English game to a profound and damaging degree.

The signs are everywhere: it is estimated that 61 of the country's 92 professional clubs are loss-making; payments to agents each year regularly total more than the combined income of all 44 clubs in Leagues 1 and 2; supporters face higher prices every season, while travelling the length and breadth of the country at ever more inconvenient times to accommodate TV schedules; young English players find their route to the top blocked; and the socially beneficial community activities that clubs undertake are underfunded. Racist incidents are on the rise, grassroots facilities are in a dreadful state and failed World Cup bids have severely weakened England's standing in the global game. The Covid-19 crisis has exacerbated things across the board.

There is an alternative. In this revealing and eye-opening analysis, leading economist Mark Gregory reveals the breadth and depth of the problems facing the national game.

Watch the editor pitch this book here. ______

Mark Gregory is EY’s Chief economist in the UK. In a career spanning over 3 decades he has advised Governments and businesses in over 40 countries on economic policy issues. For the last 5 years, he has led EY’s sports economics practice which has advised the Premier League, international Cycling Union and Rugby World Cup on the economic issues affecting their sport. He is a lifelong Stoke City supporter.

2 September 2021 | Joe Pickering for Yellow Jersey | 320 pp Rights Contact: Jane Kirby

CORNERSTONE Cornerstone publishes books that connect with people. We love discovering new voices, unearthing stories and taking them to new audiences.

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CENTURY

Century publishes a list of bestselling fiction across a diverse range of genres from true crime to fantasy as well as one of the most well regarded list of commercial non-fiction.

HUTCHINSON

One of the UK’s oldest imprints, Hutchinson has always championed books that engage with the way we are living and thinking, as well as celebrating the brilliant storytelling of their established bestsellers.

#MERKY BOOKS

#Merky Books was launched in 2018 and is dedicated to publishing the best in non-fiction, fiction and poetry from a new generation of voices. The imprint, which is curated by Stormzy, also runs an open submission competing to find new works across a range of genres.

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Young Arrow is the home of the children’s and young adult books written by some of Cornerstone’s biggest authors . The non-fiction specialists of Penguin Random House, from memoir to self-help; from cookery to sport; from business to humour – Ebury covers almost every area of non-fiction.

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BBC Books is the publisher of choice for titles relating to BBC programmes and personalities, combining the editorial quality and integrity of the BBC with the award winning sales of Penguin Random House.

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Ebury Enterprises is the brand publishing arm of Ebury Press. Experts at working in partnership with both established and emerging brands, including food and drink, museums, institutions and world famous shops. VERMILION

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RIDER

From Edith Eger to Shirin Ebadi, the Dalai Lama to Deepak Chopra, Rider authors offer an unparalleled range of new ideas. Its list is renowned for providing an enlightening, thought-provoking take on modern life.

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Launched in 1979 as a rock music publisher linked to Virgin Records. It’s now a home for books with energy and attitude. With a varied list ranging from humour and biography to business and sport.

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WH Allen publishes engaging, provocative books that start conversations. Home to some of the biggest thinkers of the past three centuries, this bespoke yet ambitious list ranges across technology, politics, history and current affairs.

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Pop Press is the home of Ebury’s gift publishing, offering fun, beautiful and affordable books for everyone and all occasions. Our list includes humour, lifestyle, food and drink and wellbeing books to inspire, entertain, and capture the zeitgeist and the imagination of the young or young at heart. PENGUIN GENERAL

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Founded in 1931, Hamish Hamilton is one of Britain’s most distinguished literary lists. Publishing no more than 20 new titles a year, both fiction and non- fiction, and all points in between, Hamish Hamilton’s authors include Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Zadie Smith, W.G. Sebald, Ali Smith and Mohsin Hamid.

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Viking publishes fiction and non-fiction: books that combine brilliant writing with popular appeal, books that make headlines and books that will win prizes. It publishes current affairs, history, biography, memoir, economics, science, narrative non-fiction, music, art and sport with authors including John le Carré, Nick Hornby, Colm Tóibín, Michelle Obama, William Trevor and Nina Stibbe.

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Penguin Business is Penguin’s leading business imprint, publishing cutting-edge ideas in leadership, management, entrepreneurship, finance, innovation, professional skills, and narrative business. It publishes books that are packed full of practical advice to help you change the way you work and do business. Our bestselling, internationally renowned authors include Simon Sinek, Eric Ries, Seth Godin, John Doer, Oliver Shah and Don Tapscott.

PENGUIN LIFE

Launched in 2016, Penguin Life publishes health and lifestyle books by experts who share a passion for living well. From psychology and inspirational thinking, to fitness and parenting, they publish books to help you be the best you can be. Its authors include Ruby Wax, Dr Rangan Chatterjee and Meik Wiking.

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Covering the full spectrum of genres and markets, Sandycove is the leading Irish-based publishing imprint. Publishing no more than 20 new titles a year, we select, edit and promote each book with the love and care of a small press. Our list of bestsellers, prize-winners and new discoveries is unmatched, backed up by the immense resources of Penguin Random House Penguin Press comprises the flagship non-fiction imprint Allen Lane, the innovative Particular Books, the newly revitalised Pelican imprint and the world of Penguin Classics.

ALLEN LANE

In 1967 Penguin’s founder started a hardback imprint under his own name, Allen Lane. Allen Lane is now the leading publisher in the UK of bestselling serious non-fiction, setting the agenda in subjects including history, science, politics, economics, philosophy, psychology, language and current affairs. Its books are renowned for their quality and their originality of thought.

PARTICULAR BOOKS

By and for the particularly passionate, Particular Books began publishing in 2009. Some of its authors are award-winners, some are bestsellers; all – artists, illustrators, map-makers, photographers, poets, scientists – express their consuming interests in distinctive ways that delight readers across the globe.

PELICAN

The Pelican imprint, originally founded in 1936 by Allen Lane, was relaunched in May 2014. It publishes accessible and intelligent books of lasting value about essential topics, from economics to evolution. As authoritative, democratic and approachable guides to intellectual subjects, written by leading experts and expert communicators, its introductions are the first books to turn to on any given topic.

PENGUIN CLASSICS

Penguin Classics represents the greatest repository of our shared cultural imagination and a treasure trove for readers. The series includes nearly 3,000 of the greatest and most significant works written, spanning two-and-a-half millennia and representing every corner of the globe. The Modern Classics list - continually expanded with contemporary authors – is considered timeless. Michael Joseph specialises in women’s fiction, crime, thrillers, cookery, memoirs and lifestyle books. Many of its authors are now, or soon will be, household names in the UK and around the world.

GENERAL FICTION

Michael Joseph specialises in women’s fiction, publishing established brands like Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes, Liane Moriarty, Conn Iggulden and Fredrik Backman as well as signing and launching debut novelists. Other authors include Dawn French, Sylvia Day, Giovanna Fletcher, Stephen Fry and Lesley Pearse.

CRIME FICTION

Michael Joseph publishes crime fiction by authors at home on the bestseller lists, whether they’re up-and- coming or established in the genre, including M.J. Arlidge, Tim Weaver, Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.

NON-FICTION MEMOIR

Either the secrets behind the success of the already famous, or a story that no-one has heard before, the authors writing memoirs include Sue Perkins, Tom Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Clarkson, Michael McIntyre, and Steven Gerrard.

COOKERY

Whether it is the country’s bestselling cookery writer – Jamie Oliver – or a debut from the brightest and freshest young chefs, Michael Joseph’s list covers everything from gourmet baking to healthy eating, to catering for events or how to eat well on a budget. As well as Jamie Oliver, authors include Rachel Khoo, Nadiya Hussain and Chrissy Teigen.

NON-FICTION LIFESTYLE

Health and wellbeing is a core specialist area for Michael Joseph, and from exercise and style advice to mindfulness and well-being, its range of publishing is extensive. Key authors include Lucy Mecklenburg, Chloe Brotheridge and Tanya Burr. ‘A commercial publishing house with heft.’ We are first and foremost lovers of great stories. It is this collective passion that drives all our publishing – fiction and non-fiction. We publish fewer books annually than any other division within Penguin Random House, but have a greater number of titles on the bestsellers lists - year in, year out - than anyone else, with 566 titles in the Sunday Times top ten charts in the last 10 years, 134 of them reaching No.1.

Doubleday Where the greatest stories begin. Our literary and ideas-led imprint, Doubleday is home to prize-winners Kate Atkinson, Bill Bryson, Hallie Rubenhold (Baillie Gifford), Sue Black (Saltire), Sarah Jane-Blakemore (Royal Society Science Prize), John Boyne, Paula Hawkins, Anna Hope, Rachel Joyce, Terry Pratchett, Donal Ryan, Diane Setterfield, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Markus Zusak.

Bantam Press Transworld’s commercial hardback list Bantam Press publishes many of the biggest brand-names in fiction - including Belinda Bauer, Dan Brown, Lee Child, Jilly Cooper, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth, Ruth Jones, Sophie Kinsella, Shari Lapena, Andy McNab and Simon Mayo - and ‘expert voices for a mainstream audience’ in non-fiction - including Jason Fox, Bear Grylls, Stephen Hawking, James Holland, Alan Johnson, Robert Iger and Paul McKenna.

Corgi The paperback imprint for Bantam Press titles.

Black Swan The paperback imprint for Doubleday titles.

World class writing. Beautiful design. Ideas that matter.

We publish some of the world’s most thought-provoking, unforgettable, beautifully designed books – from contemporary trail blazers to our red-spine Vintage Classics. We’re not just publishers – we’re passionate book lovers, dedicated to creating beautiful books for people who love to read.

The Bodley Head

Founded in 1887, the Bodley Head publishes influential, compelling non-fiction that explores the ideas, the people, the human obsessions that shape our world. Its authors are united by their originality, by their expertise and by their gifts as communicators.

Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape has been the home of some of the finest writing in the world for nearly a century. With more Booker Prize wins and shortlistings than any other publisher, Cape is renowned for its prizewinning fiction, non-fiction, poetry and graphic novels.

Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus can trace its origins back to 1855, continuing a long tradition of publishing outstanding literary fiction and contemporary international writers as well as the best literary biography, memoir, history, cultural commentary and poetry.

Harvill Secker

Founded in 1910, Harvill Secker is the dynamic, international imprint at Vintage, with books ranging from prizewinning literary fiction and non-fiction to bestselling crime and thrillers.

Hogarth

In 1917 Virginia and Leonard Woolf started The Hogarth Press from their Richmond home – Hogarth House – armed only with a hand press and a determination to publish the newest, most inspiring writing. Hogarth continues to be a home for a fresh generation of literary talent: an adventurous fiction imprint with an accent on the pleasures of storytelling and a broad awareness of the world.

Square Peg

Square Peg publishes 10 to 12 standout, contemporary non-fiction books each year. Across a range of genres including trend-led narrative, humour and entertaining reference.

Yellow Jersey

Launched in 1998, Yellow Jersey Press has become synonymous with quality sports writing, covering all sports from the perspective of player, professional observer and passionate fan. Sport is about more than simple entertainment; it represents a determination to challenge and compete. It binds individuals with a common goal, and often reflects our experiences in the wider world. Yellow Jersey understands this as much as its readers.

Vintage Classics

Vintage Classics is home to writers from across the centuries and around the world. With striking red spines and stylish design, world-renowned writing and lost classics alike are championed by leading cultural figures, making Vintage Classics a list that’s open to the world.

Vintage Paperbacks

Vintage Paperbacks does things differently. It takes the literary gifts handed to it by its hardback colleagues and reimagines them – from cover and copy to the marketing and publicity campaign – for a paperback market. This makes it unique in UK publishing.