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VINTAGE2020 PENGUIN RIGHTS DEPARTMENT Vintage | Michael Joseph | Transworld

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CRIME & SUSPENSE

FICTION

HISTORY & CULTURE

SCIENCE & MEDICAL MEMOIR

TRUE CRIME

SOCIETY

HUMOUR

NATURE & ENVIROMENT

LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

SPORT

POETRY

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

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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 lists, whether they’re up-and- coming or established in the genre, including M.J. Arlidge, Tim Weaver, 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.

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CRIME & SUSPENSE

The Playdate Andrea Mara

An innocent invitation becomes every parent's worst nightmare in this twisty domestic thriller

Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his playdate.

But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother at the school. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.

As the residents of the small suburb get drawn into the drama, whispers start to circulate. And when an unlikely suspect comes to light, everyone starts asking themselves: can you really trust another parent with your own child?

Andrea Mara lives in Dublin, , with her husband and three young children. Her crime novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards and have been bestsellers. Her third novel, The Sleeper Lies, was an Irish Times Top Ten bestseller. Andrea also runs multi-award-winning parent and lifestyle blog, OfficeMum.ie.

08 July 2021 | Natasha Barsby for Bantam Press | 368 pp

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The Shadow Friend Alex North

An outstanding new thriller from Alex North, author of The Whisper Man - gripping, moving and brilliantly creepy

25 years ago, troubled teenager Charlie Crabtree committed a shocking murder. Plenty of people still remember what happened: Charlie's crime attracted a dark infamy.

Paul Adams can remember the case too - Charlie and his victim were his friends. Paul left town as soon as he could, and he's never returned. But then his mother, old and senile, takes a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it's time to come home.

It's not long before things start going wrong. Paul hears another copycat has struck. His mother is insistent that there's something in the house. Someone is following him, which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day 25 years ago. It wasn't just the murder. It was the fact that afterwards, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again...

Alex North studied Philosophy at Leeds University, and prior to becoming a writer he worked there in their department. He is the author of The Whisper Man which published in 2019 and has been sold in 30 territories.

09 July 2020 | Joel Richardson for Michael Joseph | 368 pp Rights Sold: Dutch (Ambo Anthos), French (Editions Du Seuil), German (), Greek (Harlenic), Hungarian (Gabo Kiado), Italian (Mondadori), Lithuanian (Sofoklis), Polish (Muza Sa), Portuguese (2020 Editora), Serbian (Laguna), Slovak (Albatros), US (Celadon Books)

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One by One Ruth Ware

The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, which finds a group of colleagues trapped by snow in their hotel in the French Alps, with deadly consequences

A luxury mountaintop chalet. The opportunity of a lifetime. Until guests start to disappear...

Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold.

The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder to get what they want?

Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway and The Turn of the Key have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times. Her books have been optioned for TV and film and she is published in more than 40 languages.

12 November 2020 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 384 pp Rights Sold: Dutch (Luitingh-Sijthoff), Estonian (OU Helios Kirjastus), Finnish (Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava), German (Dtv), Polish (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie), Romanian (Editura Trei), Russian (AST), Spanish (Ediciones Salamandra)

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Lie Beside Me Gytha Lodge

You wake up next to a man who's not your husband - and he isn't breathing...

Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory is fuzzy and she suspects she's done something bad.

She rolls over towards her husband, Niall. The man who, until recently, made her feel loved.

But it's not Niall who's lying beside her. In fact, she's never seen this man before. And he's not breathing...

As Louise desperately struggles to piece her memories back together, it's clear to Detective Jonah Sheens and his team that she is their prime suspect - though they soon find out she's not the only one with something to hide.

Did she do it? And, if not, can they catch the real killer before they strike again?

Gytha Lodge is a writer and multi-award-winning playwright who lives in Cambridge. After studying creative writing at UEA, she was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and the Arts' Council England fiction awards. Her first novel, She Lies in Wait was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into 12 langagues.

18 February 2021 | Joel Richardson for Michael Joseph | 384 pp Rights Sold: US (Random House)

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Tall Bones Anna Bailey

Tall Bones marks the debut of an explosive new talent. A novel about secrets within secrets in a town where there is nowhere to hide

When 17-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again.

Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi's family, there are questions to be asked - of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father - both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him.

Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark - the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones...

Anna Bailey grew up in Gloucestershire but then moved to Colorado. Tall Bones is based on her own personal experience of an intensely suffocating and destructive community, where religious devotion manifested as rage and violence. In 2018, she returned to the UK where she enrolled in the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course.

08 April 2021 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 352 pp Rights sold: Canadian (), Czech (Grada Publishing), French (Sonatine), Italian (Feltrinelli), Swedish (Modernista), US (Simon & Schuster)

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The Guest Book C. L. Pattison

The bestselling author of The Housemate returns with her new haunting psychological thriller The Guest Book

Welcome to The Anchorage, for a honeymoon you’ll never forget...

Charles and Grace wanted a quiet staycation honeymoon, but when their train terminates early due to a storm up ahead, they wonder if they made the wrong decision. Forced to take shelter in the nearest seaside town, Saltwater, they discover their fellow passengers have filled all the recommended B&Bs to the brim. There is only one guesthouse left. Unlike the rest of Saltwater, The Anchorage is entirely deserted.

That night, with the storm howling relentlessly, Grace is woken by a child crying. She is haunted by the sound, but Charles convinces her it was only her imagination. However the next day she finds a warning scrawled in the guest book: Leave now. Do not trust them.

As the days go by the storm continues to rage on, cutting phone lines, disconnecting wifi and disrupting transport links. Grace is desperate to leave, pleading with Charles who remains unaffected by the eerie stillness of the house. Is it just Grace's imagination or do the owners, and Charles, have something to hide?

‘Thank you for staying at The Anchorage. We hope you’ll be back soon...’

C. L. Pattison spent 20 years as an entertainment journalist, before embarking on a career in the police force. She lives on the south coast of England.

18 February 2021 | Jade Chandler for Vintage | 336 pp

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Hunt Leona Deakin

Sometimes the only way to catch a killer is to become their prey. In this highly anticipated new thriller, Dr Bloom finds herself in more danger than ever before

In Bristol, a young woman jumps into an icy reservoir. In Leeds, a girl cuts ties with her family and disappears. The only thing that links them is a shared obsession with a mysterious woman called Paula.

For Dr Bloom, the stories told by their families are disturbingly familiar. She has seen this all before. She is sure that this charismatic, charming woman is the leader of a cult.

She begins investigating the Artemis community but is met with walls of secrecy. Which leaves only one option. She must become one of them.

Leona Deakin started her career as a psychologist with the West Police. She is now an occupational psychologist as well as a writer, and lives with her family in Leeds. She is translated into 12 languages.

06 May 2021 | Lizzy Goudsmit, Natasha Barsby for Transworld Digital | 384 pp

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A Kiss After Dying Ashok Banker

A young woman plots bloodthirsty revenge in this stylish international thriller, packed with twists and turns

Charming and handsome, Ricky Manfredi is living an idyllic playboy life when, out of the blue, he bumps into a shy, pretty girl named Hannah.

That's not her real name.

Ricky has always had his pick of women. But when chance brings them together a second time, he finds himself irresistibly drawn in.

Which is exactly how she planned it.

It's not long before, to the surprise of them both, Ricky and Hannah are falling for each other. But Hannah knows that can't be allowed to happen.

Because the first murder is only the beginning...

This is a stylish international thriller, for fans of Samantha Downing’s My Lovely Wife, or Killing Eve.

Ashok Banker is an author, journalist and screenwriter. He was born in , and now lives in Los Angeles.

23 June 2022 | Joel Richardson for Michael Joseph | 384 pp

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The Waiter Ajay Chowdhury

From the winner of the Harvill Secker Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Award, Ajay Chowdhury, comes a unique debut crime novel, The Waiter

Kamil Rahman, detective turned London’s Brick Lane waiter, has a new case on his hands...

Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the day he caters a birthday party for his boss’s friend on Millionaire's Row, his simple new life becomes rather complicated. The event is a success, the food is delicious, but later that evening the host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool.

Suspicion falls on Rakesh's new wife, Neha, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family, with the help of his boss's daughter Anjoli. Kamil and Anjoli prove a capable team – but as the investigation progresses, Kamil struggles to keep memories of the case that destroyed his career in Kolkata at bay… and his past will soon catch up with him in some rather unexpected ways.

Full of wit and wisdom, The Waiter is sure to set your taste-buds tingling and will help you brush up on your detective skills too.

Ajay Chowdhury is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director who lived the first third of his life in before moving to London, where he cooks experimental meals for his wife and daughters. His first children’s book, Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and The Waiter is his debut crime thriller.

27 May 2021 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 384 pp

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Don't Let Him In Howard Linskey

He's always been there. Now he's looking for you

There have always been deaths in the small town of Eriston over the years - more than can easily be explained. People dying in their houses, behind locked doors.

Sean Cole thought he'd spotted a pattern. Thought he was on the trail of a killer. Now he's dead too.

When his daughter Rebecca returns to the town, she realises that her father might have been onto something.

But can she find the murderer before he finds her? Because if she can't, her father's shabby old Victorian house is no place to hide.

H. A. Linskey is originally from Ferryhill in County Durham, but now lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and daughter. Under Howard Linskey, he is the author of a series of crime novels set in the North-East, featuring detective Ian Bradshaw and journalists Tom Carney and Helen Norton.

15 April 2021 | Joel Richardson for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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In Harm’s Way Anthony Mosawi

A pacy thriller with a supernatural twist

Sara Eden is not like the others.

All her life, she’s been running – from the men who’ve hunted her, and from the memories that haunt her.

But the time for running is over. To right the wrongs of her past, she must act.

Sara’s abilities defy all logic and reason. With her help, MI5 have an asset unlike any other. But to keep her safe, they must keep her hidden. In the wrong hands, their greatest advantage could be an enemy’s greatest weapon…

Sara is determined to save as many innocent lives as possible. But as her past, present and future collide, she faces an impossible choice. Save herself? Or risk everything to protect the future as we know it…

Anthony Mosawi moved from London to California to join Paramount Pictures as an executive. He was on the Paramount lot for eight years before launching his own film financing company. He is married with a son and splits his time between LA and London. Trust No One is his first novel.

27 May 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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Two Wrongs Rebecca Reid

She made a mistake - now's her chance to make it right. The explosive new thriller from the acclaimed author of Perfect Liars and Truth Hurts

When Chloe goes to university and meets wild, carefree Zadie, she is utterly seduced by her and her lifestyle. It doesn’t take long for Chloe to ditch her studies in favour of all-night parties at huge houses off campus.

But when something goes badly wrong one night and Zadie disappears in the aftermath, Chloe knows she should have done more to help her friend. It’s something she’ll always regret.

15 years later, Chloe finally gets the chance to make it right. But in order to do so, she’ll have to put everything at stake.

How far would you go to correct the mistakes of your past?

Rebecca Reid is the digital editor of Grazia magazine. She is a columnist for the Telegraph Women’s section, and has written for Marie Claire, , the Saturday Telegraph, , amongst others. She is a regular contributor to Sky and Good Morning Britain. She graduated from Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing MA in 2015, and has published two novels.

21 January 2021 | Natasha Barsby for Corgi | 384 pp

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The Shadows of Men Abir Mukherjee

Wyndham and Banerjee are back in a stunning new instalment in this award- winning, Raj-era series

Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the is on the brink of an all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath?

Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this ‘unmissable’ () series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?

Abir Mukherjee grew up in the west of Scotland. At the age of 15, his best friend made him read Gorky Park and he’s been a fan of crime fiction ever since. The child of immigrants from India, A Rising Man, his debut novel, was inspired by a desire to learn more about a crucial period in Anglo-Indian history that seems to have been almost forgotten. A Rising Man won the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition and became the first in a series starring Captain Sam Wyndham and ‘Surrender-not’ Banerjee. It went on to win the CWA Historical Dagger and was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. Abir lives in London with his wife and two sons.

08 July 2021 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 374 pp Rights Sold: US (Pegasus Books)

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Murder Most Festive A Christmas Mystery Ada Moncrieff

Downton Abbey meets Poirot in this Christmas murder mystery, perfect for fans of the British Library crime classics

Christmas 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered together for another legendary Christmas at the family seat in Sussex. The champagne flows, the family silver sparkles and upstairs the bedrooms are made up ready for their occupants. But one bed will lie empty that night...

Come Christmas morning David Campbell-Scott is found lying in the snow, crimson staining the white around him. A hunting rifle is lying beside him and there’s only one set of footprints but something doesn’t seem right to amateur sleuth Hugh Gaveston. Campbell-Scott had just returned from the East with untold wealth – why would he kill himself? Hugh sets out to investigate...

Ada Moncrieff was born in London and has lived in Madrid and . She studied English at Cambridge University, and has worked in theatre, publishing and as a teacher. A Christmas Murder is her first novel.

05 November 2020 | Alex Russell for Vintage | 336 pp

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The Flames Sophie Haydock

For fans of The Paris Wife, The Familiars, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Mrs Hemingway, a stunning novel about the lives of four remarkable women, the muses who inspired the artist Egon Schiele

The Flames is the previously untold story of four real women, the ‘muses’ who inspired the charismatic but controversial artist, Egon Schiele.

The four women are Adele, the spirited but slightly outrageous and untamed daughter of a good family, who, along with her quieter and more conventional sister, Edith, is scandalised when the notorious artist moves into an apartment opposite their home; Gertrude, Egon Schiele’s fiery sister who is also a victim of their tempestuous childhood; Vally, a poor but strong-willed model discovered by Gustav Klimt. With Egon Schiele poised on the brink of international success and the threat of war drawing closer, each woman attempts to write her own future until an act of betrayal changes everything.

Sophie Haydock is a journalist and editor. She also works as a digital editor for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and is associate director of the Word Factory short story organisation. She has written about Egon Schiele for the Royal Academy Magazine and Sotheby’s. The Flames won the 2018 Impress Prize for New Writers. In the same year, the opening sections of the novel were longlisted for the Retreat West First Chapter and shortlisted for the PENfro Book Festival’s First Chapter Competition.

03 February 2022 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 384 pp Rights Sold: Czech (Grada), Italian (Adriano Salani), Polish (Wydawnictwo Albatros), Serbian (Vulkan)

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Dangerous Women Hope Adams

Inspired by a true story, Dangerous Women is a devastating and thought-provoking tale about female anger, subservience and ultimately, strength

London, 1841. 200 Englishwomen file aboard the RAJAH, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world.

They're daughters, sisters, mothers - and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of their number is a secret killer, fleeing justice.

When a woman is mortally wounded, the hunt is on for the culprit. But who would attack one of their own, and why?

Based on a true story, Dangerous Women is a sweeping tale of confinement, loss, love and, above all, hope in the unlikeliest of places.

Hope Adams was born in Jerusalem and spent her early childhood in many different countries, such as Nigeria and British North Borneo. She went to Roedean School in Brighton, and from there to St Hilda's College, Oxford.

04 March 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights sold: Germany (Droemer Knaur), US (Berkley)

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The Hollow Sea Annie Kirby

A mesmerising literary debut about grief and recovery, from an award-winning new talent

Scottie has spent years trying to become a mother. But she has begun to realise that the life she has dreamt of may never be hers. So she’s made the -breaking decision to leave everything behind, fleeing to the remote North Atlantic archipelago of St Hia.

Lashed by storms and far from the mainland, the islands are dangerous. Ferocious tides known as the Hollow Sea drag travellers to their deaths – and local legend warns that St Hia was once the home of a monster.

Her name was Thordis and – so the story goes – she had been adored. But when she was unable to provide her husband with a child, he sought one elsewhere, and Thordis was driven to a terrible act…

The islanders who remain warn newcomers against examining the past. But Scottie finds herself drawn to the mystery of what happened to the woman whose story became legend.

Could St Hia’s troubled history hold the key to Scottie’s future?

Annie Kirby lives on the south coast of England where she works part-time as a university researcher. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in American Studies. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and broadcast on national radio and she is a winner of the Asham Award for short fiction. Annie was one of nine writers selected for Penguin’s 2018 WriteNow programme.

21 July 2022 | Clio Cornish for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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The Metal Heart Caroline Lea

A sweeping novel about two sisters and the prisoners-of-war whose lives will entwine with theirs, inspired by a true story

Orkney, 1942. On a remote island, a prisoner-of- war camp is being constructed. The arrival of 500 Italian soldiers from the heat of the North African desert to the freezing cold of an Orkney winter divides a community already living under the terror of war.

Orphaned sisters Dorothy and Constance are amongst the first to volunteer to nurse the men. Dot is immediately drawn to Caesar, a young man fighting on the wrong side of the war, broken by the destruction around him.

The soldiers spend their days relentlessly building a secret barricade between the islands. By night, however, the men begin to construct an extraordinary reminder of their native land - an exquisite chapel. Among the prisoners, bricklayers, carpenters, electricians and artists come together to turn shipwrecked debris and worthless rubble into a work of art. The creation of something beautiful in the midst of war captivates the islanders.

For a moment, the line between ally and enemy is blurred.

But as the war progresses and tensions between the islanders and outsiders grow, the sisters' loyalty is tested. Each must weigh duty against desire. One fateful evening, their choice will be made with devastating consequences.

Caroline Lea grew up in Jersey and gained a First in English Literature and Creative Writing from Warwick University, where she now teaches writing. Her fiction and poetry have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her first novel The Glass Woman was sold in five territories

29 April 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 464 pp Rights Sold: US (HarperCollins)

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The Dictator’s Muse Nigel Farndale

Set in the run-up to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and featuring the enigmatic figure of the film-maker Leni Riefenstahl - 'Hitler's muse' - a story about love, secrets and betrayal

‘We all invent ourselves one way or another...'

Set against the backdrop of the Berlin Olympics and the political turmoil of 1930s London, The Dictator’s Muse is a novel about misdirected love, buried guilt, and how the truths and lies of the past reveal themselves.

Kim Newlands is an English athlete ‘sponsored’ by the Blackshirts and devoted to his mercurial, socialite girlfriend Connie. Alun Pryce is a Welsh communist with an unshakable belief that the end justifies the means. Their fates become entwined after an accident befalls Connie, and both men make decisions they will come to regret.

Leni Riefenstahl, the pioneering, sexually-liberated, star film director of the Third Reich, is also having to make some hard choices but is able to limit the damage they do to her reputation by shaping events in the way she wants them shaped. But while some scenes from her life have ended up on the cutting room floor, that doesn’t mean they are lost forever.

70 years later, German film historian Sigrun Meier discovers a missing filmclip that will lead her to a long-buried secret involving not only Leni, but also Alun and Kim. And perhaps Leni always knew that one day this would happen. That someone would come along and complete the final ‘director’s cut’ of her life.

Nigel Farndale is the author of The Blasphemer, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Novel Award. His previous books include Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Biography Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

20 May 2021 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 480 pp

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Island Reich (working title) Jack Grimwood

A rich, atmospheric World War Two thriller from award-winning author of Moskva and Nightfall Berlin

An unlikely spy. July 1940. Ex-soldier, Billy O'Hagan had seen enough of the battlefield. Deftly avoiding Britain’s latest war, O'Hagan gets by as a con artist and thief. But when a job goes wrong, O'Hagan finds himself in the hands of the authorities with two options: hang for his crimes, or serve his country once more.

A reluctant king. After an attempt on his life, the recently abdicated Edward VIII seeks refuge in Spain. Believing the hit to have been ordered by British intelligence, Edward and his new wife, Wallace Simpson, welcome the hospitality of his country's enemies.

The fate of a nation in their hands. Dropped on an occupied channel island without backup, O'Hagan must assume the identity of a local aristocrat and known Nazi sympathiser. With an invasion of England imminent, O'Hagan must overcome the islanders' hostility and German suspicion to gain enough intel to stop Hitler's grand plan: to put Edward VIII back on the throne.

'A powerful new voice in thriller writing' - Sarah Pinborough

Jack Grimwood, a.k.a Jon Courtenay Grimwood, was born in . He writes for national newspapers including The Times and the Telegraph. His books have been translated into five languages.

27 May 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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The Affair Hilary Boyd

A new, thought-provoking, emotional novel about marriage and family from the bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park and The Anniversary

‘As canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life – and better at jokes’ –

‘Smart, with true-to-life characters whose dilemmas will tear at your heartstrings’ – Sunday Mirror

Helen and her husband Devan have led a charmed life since they married in their 20s. 40 years on and they are the couple their whole village envies.

Until one summer in Lake Como, when Helen meets someone else. She tries to resist at first, but Jared gets under her skin and soon she's breaking the marriage vows to which she had always held true. At least her indiscretion happened far from home and ended when the summer did.

But less than two weeks after she comes home, Helen discovers Jared has moved into her village. Her charmed life becomes a nightmare as Jared worms his way in until Helen wonders if more than her marriage is in danger...

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. The film rights for Thursdays in the Park have been acquired by Charles Dance, who will be directing and starring.

19 August 2021 | Maxine Hitchcock for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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Dog Days Ericka Waller

An uplifting novel about turning points, new starts, and the love of dogs for fans of Eleanor Oliphant, When God was a Rabbit and A Man Called Ove

George is a curmudgeon in his late 70s and has just lost his wife. She has left him notes around the home and a miniature dachshund puppy called Poppy. But George doesn’t want a dog, he wants to fight everyone who is trying to help him.

Dan has OCD but has channelled his energy into his career as a therapist. Afraid to acknowledge his true feelings, his most meaningful relationship so far is with his dog Fitz. That is, until Atticus walks into his surgery and his life.

Lizzie is living in a women’s refuge with her son Lenny. Her body is covered in scars and she has shut herself off from the world. She distrusts dogs, but when she starts having to walk the refuge’s dog Maud, her life begins to change.

Dog Days is a charming novel about human beings overcoming difficult circumstances, our will to live and love, what goes wrong when we suffer in silence, and the way dogs provide a bridge for human beings to communicate better with each other.

Ericka Waller abandoned a career in marketing to pursue her dream of writing for a living after her best friend passed away from a sudden aneurysm. It taught her life is not fair, nor guaranteed. She spent years working as a blogger and columnist, but when she lost two more friends to the Shoreham Disaster and to suicide, Ericka turned to fiction and joined a Faber Academy course. As she worked through her own grief, Ericka became fascinated by the myriad ways through which we process tragedy and from that fascination, Dog Days was born.

11 March 2021 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 368 pp Rights Sold: Italian (Mauri Spagnol), US (St Martin’s)

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The Mix-Up Holly McCulloch

Laugh-out-loud and moving, a feel-good love story perfect for reading by the pool or on a rainy afternoon from an exciting new voice in women's fiction

Paige might bake cakes for a living but that doesn't mean she wants to get married. She's not dreaming about her own wedding cake. Far from it. Which is great because her ex-boyfriend has just walked into her bakery with his fiancée...

Needing a distraction, she goes to a party in search of a little no-strings- attached fun. And her friend knows just the guy - the guy in the black top. Except there are two men wearing black tops.

Having been abandoned by her friend, she makes her best guess but picks the wrong one. This guy wants to be more than just a bit of fun.

Noah was meant to be her perfect distraction, but he's quickly becoming her favourite mistake.

Holly McCulloch lives in Oxfordshire and bakes beautiful (and delicious) cakes for a living. Just Friends was her debut novel.

08 July 2021 | Molly Crawford for Transworld Digital | 368 pp

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The White Devil Paul Hoffman

Assassinations, government plots and a centuries-old crime - a thrilling return to the bestselling world of The Left Hand of God series

Welcome those of you from the Old World.

Welcome to the New.

Mankind's most reluctant hero - Thomas Cale - is back.

Cale is through running from his enemies. He's survived the Sanctuary attempts to kill him. He's survived being betrayed by his greatest love. He's survived heaven, hell and everything in between.

But then he stumbles into the kind of world events that not even a mercenary as wily as Cale can escape. Because, as the poets say, where Thomas Cale goes a funeral surely follows.

Paul Hoffman is the author of three previous novels set in this world, The Left Hand of God (2010), The Last Four Things (2011) and The Beating of His Wings (2013). He is also the author of The Golden Age of Censorship (2007), a black comedy based on his experiences as a film censor and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (2000), which predicted the collapse of the world financial system. His books have been translated into 24 languages.

21 January 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 448 pp

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The Arcadia Project (working title) Kate McNaughton

A novel about how normal, well-intentioned people come to commit acts of evil – and how they justify these acts to themselves

Three bright young executives from France, Germany and England meet in Paris. Guillaume, Jack and Christa have an opportunity that makes their friends green with envy – a job with a top consultancy firm to work on their new environmental project: Arcadia. They quickly become an inseparable trio, bound by ambition and intense friendship, and whilst they may not admit it, a little in love with each other. But soon the bond between them begins to fracture, and the three friends come to betray each other in ways that cannot be undone.

Kate McNaughton was born and raised in Paris. She read English at Cambridge and filmmaking at the European Film College in Denmark. She works as a documentary filmmaker and translator, speaks four languages and lives in Berlin.

04 November 2021 | Suzanne Bridson for Doubleday | 304 pp

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An Experiment in Leisure Anna Glendenning

A sharp and witty debut novel of millennial disillusionment and the perils of crossing the class divide

Stuck in her mouldy north London flat, but fleeing back home to Leeds from time to time, Grace is spinning her wheels; she’s disenchanted, lost and confused in the face of never-ending crises of identity, sexuality, class and geography. Leaving her family and all that she knows to start a new life in the city is more painful than she’d anticipated, and she can’t seem to get a handle on anything, to stop the drift.

An Experiment in Leisure is an exciting debut novel that explores, with wit and piercing insight, some of the most vital issues pulsing through Britain today: the ugly reality of working life and ‘getting by’, the inescapable gravitational pull of London and the emotional costs of social mobility. Glendenning’s is a bold and unforgettable voice, perfectly capturing her narrator’s fractured experience. A nuanced and original novel, it’s bursting with moments of poignancy and a tender portrait of youth.

Anna Glendenning was born and raised in Leeds. She has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture from Queen Mary, University of London, and currently works as a researcher and writer at Kew Gardens. She was formerly an editor with And Other Stories, where books under her wing made this year’s Man Booker International and Goldsmiths shortlists. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. She is 28 and lives in South East London.

03 June 2021 | Poppy Hampson for Chatto & Windus | 304 pp

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Life Sentences Billy O'Callaghan

A sweeping historical epic about one family’s fight for survival – the most ambitious novel yet from the Irish writer who ‘grips from the opening page’ - Bernard MacLaverty

Life Sentences is the story of an ordinary family, and their extraordinary resilience through more than a century of poverty and war. In 1920 we meet Jer, an ex-soldier for whom grief, war trauma, too many drinks and a bitter grudge conspire to land him in a prison cell. In the 1870s we follow Jer’s mother Nancy through her teenage love affair with Jer’s father Michael Egan, and her plight when she discovers she is pregnant, only for Egan to let her down. A century later, Jer’s daughter Nellie has her own experience of becoming pregnant out of wedlock, and is determined to claim back what’s right for her family.

Set in the quiet south-coastal Irish village where Billy O’Callaghan’s family has lived for generations, Life Sentences is based in part on his own ancestral history, and he has poured everything into it. His writing sparkles with liveliness and radiates empathy, making it impossible to let go of his characters.

Billy O’Callaghan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby, which has been translated into ten languages. His story The Boatman was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award. He lives in Douglas, a village on the edge of Cork City.

21 January 2021 | Robin Robertson, Daisy Watt for Jonathan Cape | 288 pp

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Latitude The True Story of the Adventure that Shaped the World Nicholas Crane

The epic true story of the first ever international scientific expedition to accurately discover the shape of the earth

By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth.

A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major expedition by data gatherers and qualified observers to interior Peru, to discover the shape and magnitude of the earth. Until humanity discovered this it would be impossible to produce accurate maps and sea charts, without which thousands of lives would be lost, and exact locations of , roads and rivers would never be known. This fascinating and dramatic story weaves scientific rigour, egos, funding crises and betrayal with sea voyages, jungles and volcanoes.

Nicholas Crane was born in Hastings, but grew up on the rugged coast of Norfolk. He is an award-winning writer, journalist, geographer and explorer who has presented BAFTA winning, BBC TV series Coast, Great British Journeys, Map Man and Town. His previous books include, Great British Journeys, Clear Waters Rising, Two Degrees West and Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet and writes for , the Guardian and the Sunday Times. Nicholas has travelled extensively in Tibet, China, Afghanistan, Africa, and he identified and visited for the first time the geographical Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the globe most distant from the open sea, in the Gobi Desert.

27 May 2021 | Daniel Bunyard for Michael Joseph | 192 pp

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Urban Jungle Ben Wilson

An eye-opening and urgent exploration of nature and the city - past, present and future. This is a thrilling re-examination of the way we live by a brilliant historian and thinker

For millennia, cities have seemed to represent our separation from the natural world and our victory over it. They are a kind of battleground, where humans have used technologies to reengineer the environment. In the early 21st century, we have reached a turning point: we have now urbanised our planet, but natural forces - be they rising waters, storms, droughts or pandemics - look set to determine the fate of our cities in the future.

In fact, nature has always been at the heart of the city, and our post-industrial cities are much wilder places than we might imagine, with booming animal and plant populations. People around the world are realising that cities are not dead, artificial zones, but complex and diverse habitats, and a place that is healthy for animals and plants is healthier for humans as well. Where cities once built walls and towers to defend against attack; now they have to become greener to protect themselves from external threats.

Rewilding the city is not a distant utopian dream: nature is already reclaiming the city. In a time of climate crisis, the city is both problem and solution. The extent to which cities strike a balance with nature will determine the fate of our cities. Our future, and that of the planet, will be made in the city.

Ben Wilson is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including What Price Liberty?, for which he received the Somerset Maugham Award; the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Deep; and his most recent title, Metropolis, which sold in 28 languages. He has worked in television, broadcast on the radio in several countries, and writes regularly for publications such as The Times, Daily Telegraph and Prospect. 06 October 2022 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 320 pp

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The Age of The Strongman Gideon Rachman

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

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, Riyadh and Manila. This trend began well before Britain’s EU referendum or Donald Trump’s presidency and will continue regardless of the outcomes of Brexit or the 2020 presidential election. There is no going back to the world that existed before 2016.

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, 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 in our local nightmares and offers a bold new paradigm for understanding our world; while 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 . In 2016 he won the for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards. He is the author of Easternisation. 12 May 2022 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 288 pp

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The SS Officer's Armchair In Search of a Hidden Life Daniel Lee

An historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian’s hunt for answers as he delves into the life of an ordinary Nazi officer

It began with an armchair and the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer’s Armchair is the story of what happened next, as Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and family secrets, to uncover the life of one Dr Robert Griesinger from Stuttgart. Who was he? What had his life been – and how had it ended?

Lee reveals the strange life of a man whose ambition propelled him to become part of the Nazi machinery. He discovers Griesinger’s unexpected ancestral roots, untold stories of SS life and family fragmentation. As Lee delves deeper, his responsibility as an active participant in Nazi crimes becomes clearer.

To understand the inner workings of the Third Reich, we need to know not just its leaders, but the ordinary Nazis who made up its ranks. Revealing how Griesinger’s choices reverberate into present-day Germany, and among descendants of perpetrators, Lee raises potent questions about blame, manipulation and responsibility. The SS Officer’s Armchair is at once an unique addition to our understanding of Nazi Germany and a chilling reminder of how such regimes are made not by monsters, but by ordinary people.

Daniel Lee is a historian of the Second World War and a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. He is a lecturer in modern history at Queen Mary, University of London, and the author of Pétain’s Jewish Children.

01 October 2020 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 320 pp Rights sold: Czech (Albatros Media), Dutch (Unieboek), French (Liana Levi), German (DTV), Hebrew (Modan), Italian (Nottetempo)

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Making Mengele Guy Walters

A new biography of the notorious personality produced by the Third Reich, that of Josef Mengele. A man who has by far the darkest and most enduring resonance, he continues to fascinate us today, 75 years after the war, and over 40 years since

But why does the intrigue around Mengele continue to this day?

This is a seemingly straightforward question that this biography seeks to answer. In order to do so, Making Mengele will examine how a well-heeled, handsome, charming, kind, and intelligent young doctor became, for a comparatively brief time, capable of committing the most sadistic and evil acts imaginable. As the photographs and testimonies re-documented here will show, Mengele was a man of many and huge contradictions, to the extent that he simply cannot only be characterised as a 'monster'. Such an approach is too dismissive, too easy.

Unsurprisingly, Mengele certainly did not see himself as a monster. We therefore need to understand why, even until the end of his life, Mengele regarded himself as a deeply moral human being - indeed a man who benefited humanity - and bridled at the notion that he was the 'Angel of Death'. This book will also examine the image of Mengele, and what he became in the public imagination both when he was in hiding and even after his death. There undoubtedly remains a sharp disconnect between the man who Mengele really was, and the almost supernatural and darkly angelic figure he became in the eyes of the world.

The question is - how did this happen? And specifically, why did it happen with Mengele?

Guy Walters is the author of two history books on the Second World War, Hunting Evil and Berlin Games. He is also the author of four thrillers set in the same period. A former Times journalist, he writes widely on historical topics for the national press. 21 January 2022 | Bill Scott-Kerr for Bantam Press | 480 pp

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Shackleton Ranulph Fiennes

An authoritative biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton from polar adventurer Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ernest Shackleton is perhaps the most famous polar explorer in history. Of all the names that inhabited the golden age of polar exploration, it's Shackleton's that has endured in the century since he first made his name.

In Shackleton, Sir Ranulph Fiennes brings his own unique insights to bear on Shackleton's life and legend.

Unlike his great rival Scott, with whom he first visited the Antarctic, Shackleton was not a member of the British establishment. As an outsider he understood the importance of courting public support. But it was as a leader of men that the Irish born Merchant Navy officer established his towering reputation.

Unlike Amundsen, Shackleton was not first to the South Pole, nor did he achieve his ambition to be first to cross the Antarctic continent, but in falling short, he achieved greatness, mounting perhaps the most famous rescue mission in history - crossing the southern ocean in a small boat, traversing South Georgia's fearsome Beardmore glacier - he achieved immortality.

But critics have since wondered whether what he set out to do was even possible. In Shackleton, Fiennes considers the great man's life and achievements in light of his own extraordinary experience in this gripping new biography. Separating myth from reality and getting under the skin of Shackleton's story, Fiennes' new account is both reappraisal and valediction.

Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth's circumpolar surface. He is the bestselling author of titles such as Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, and the biography Captain Scott.

16 September 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 448 pp

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The Bookseller of Florence Ross King

A gripping story of rivalry, new technology and the finest illuminated manuscripts known to history, all set against a backdrop of Renaissance Florence

In the mid-1400s, Vespasiano da Bisticci's bookshop in Florence was said to contain all the wisdom of the world. Vespasiano and his team of scribes and illuminators produced exquisite manuscripts for popes and princes across Europe, rediscovering and disseminating some of the most significant texts from classical antiquity. At his shop, the most formidable minds of the city would gather to debate these old ideas of revolutionary power.

But in 1476 a new technology arrived in Florence. The convent of San Jacopo di Ripoli, a community of Dominican nuns on the other side of the city, acquired a printing press from a bankrupt German printer. Before long, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that triggered an explosion of ideas in politics, philosophy and religion.

In The Bookseller of Florence Ross King uncovers the story of a local battle that would have far-reaching consequences. The wave of radical thinking unleashed by printed books would alter the course of history, fuelling the Renaissance and the Reformation, and paving the way for the Enlightenment.

This is the first book for the general reader about Vespasiano and the nuns and their Ripoli Press, so while this book occupies perennially popular territory, it will also cover new ground for a wide audience.

Ross King is the author of the highly praised Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Brunelleschi's Dome, a celebrated account of how the Renaissance architect Brunelleschi constructed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.

01 April 2021 | Becky Hardie, Greg Clowes for Chatto & Windus | 352 pp Rights Sold: Canadian (Doubleday Canada), Chinese Simplified (Penguin China), Czech (Nakladatelstvi), Dutch (Bezige Bij BV), Italian (Garzanti), Japanese (Tokyo Sogen Sha)

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A Coup in Turkey Jeremy Seal

Jeremy Seal explores the startling parallels between the state of affairs in modern day Turkey under President Edogan and that of Turkey in the 1960s under Prime Minister Menderes with an investigation into the dramatic coup as well as the trials and executions which followed

This is the story of the first of modern Turkey’s coups, which took place in 1960 and has proved the template, and often the inspiration, for the coups which have punctuated the national story ever since, including the failed one of July 2016. These defining events continue to fuel the ongoing feud which rages in a society riven between west and east, secularism and Islamic traditionalism, democracy and populist autocracy.

A dramatic account of the events leading up to the coup of 1980 as well as the trials and executions which followed. The book includes reports from first- hand witnesses encountered in Istanbul, Ankara and elsewhere in Turkey, and unfolds against the backdrop of the author’s investigations which took place in the months leading up to the attempted coup of 2016. It is a narrative rich in contemporary context, but also a powerful story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution and ideological division.

It also highlights the importance of the personality cult in Turkey, with the ideals of founder and liberator Ataturk pitted against Prime Minister Adnan Menderes – since his execution in 1961 a martyr in the eyes of many Turks and the man on whom the current autocrat, President Erdogan, likes to model himself. This book explores the predicament in which Turkey finds itself today – torn between the western and secular ambitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the rural majority.

Jeremy Seal is a travel writer, teacher and broadcaster with a life-long fascination for Turkey. His first book, A Fez of the Heart, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His most recent book is Meander: East to West Down a Turkish River.

04 February 2021 | Poppy Hampson for Chatto & Windus | 288 pp

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Greek Myths Charlotte Higgins

A major new retelling of the Greek myths for a new generation, written by an author steeped in classical literature and history

Charlotte Higgins’ spellbinding new collection will include all the most famous Greek myths, as well as many less well known but equally intriguing ones. Here are stories of the creation, of Heracles and Theseus and Perseus, the Trojan war and its origins and aftermaths, tales of Thebes and Argos and Athens. There are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, gender- shifting characters, resourceful witches, and the origins of birds and animals.

Taking her cue from Ovid, Charlotte Higgins has an intriguing structural device to thread her stories together. Inspired by the many moments in Greek myths in which women are seen to weave stories on to textiles (such as Helen of Troy in Homer, and Arachne and Minerva in Ovid), the tales will be told as if they are scenes in the act of being woven on to textiles by women. And, while not operating as an explicitly feminist retelling, this will add a new dimension to her myths, bringing women narrators and characters into the foreground.

Above all, Charlotte Higgins’ Greek Myths will be an original work of literature and scholarship by an exceptionally talented writer. It will be a book to be enjoyed as a work of art, a source to be consulted, a present to be given, and an object to keep and treasure.

Charlotte Higgins' previous books include the acclaimed Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, which was shortlisted for awards including the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for non-fiction. She is chief culture writer of the Guardian, a past winner of the Classical Association prize, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She lives in London.

09 September 2021 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 352 pp

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Art Monsters On Beauty and Excess Lauren Elkin

Part cultural history, part art criticism, part feminist manifesto, part memoir: an explosive exploration of the lives of creative women and the necessity of transgression

What is an art monster? It’s writing Three Guineas. Lee Miller photographing an amputated breast on a dinner plate flanked by a fork and knife. Claude Cahun’s doubling, alienating self-portraits. It’s everything in women’s art that refuses to behave, to be contained, to stay silent. It’s a line being crossed.

In the old days the ‘art monsters’ were men attended to by ‘the angel in the house’ – Nabokov’s wife Vera would lick his stamps and fold his umbrella so that he could concentrate solely on artistic concerns. But what happens when the ‘angel in the house’ is also an ‘art monster’ herself – how do these women occupy both roles, fearlessly?

Art Monsters looks at women in the culture at large, and how so often, women are found wanting for either failing to live up to impossible expectations, or for exceeding them so radically that they become ‘too much’ for the culture.

Elkin identifies and celebrates creative and transgressive women in art, writing, music and fashion, those who are seen as ‘too much’. She shows how this ‘out- of-placeness’ can create its own power and more space for the creative women who follow. The book’s hybrid register will strike a nerve with feminist readers searching for impassioned, brainy, essayistic non-fiction.

Lauren Elkin’s essays have appeared in many publications, including , Guardian, Financial Times, amongst many others and she is a contributing editor at The White Review. She now lives between Paris and Liverpool, where she is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Liverpool.

06 January 2022 | Clara Farmer for Chatto & Windus | 336 pp Rights Sold: Chinese Complex (Locus), Chinese Simplified (ThinKingdom), German (Verlagsgruppe Random House), Korean (Science Books), Slovak (Inaque), US (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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The Secret Body How Science Reveals Our Hidden Nature Daniel M Davis

One of our most lauded scientist-writers shows how astonishing breakthroughs in medical science are changing previously immutable aspects of humanity

This book takes us to the frontier of medical research and reveals recent advances that are changing our understanding of how the body works, how we combat and prevent disease and how we understand what it means to be human.

We see how super-resolution nano-scopes are revealing hitherto hidden operations within our cells and opening up new ways of manipulating the immune system. The Secret Body reveals how human embryos can now be preserved alive long enough to see how genetic abnormalities can be corrected during the early stages of foetal development; how light is being used to excite pathways in the brain allowing us to understand and manipulate thoughts and feelings; how our rapidly increasing understanding of the microbiome is radically changing every aspect of human biology.

These and many more astonishing discoveries are related as gripping dramas of discovery by an award-winning scientist at the very forefront of this adventure.

Daniel M. Davis is Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester. His research, using super-resolution microscopy to study immune cell biology, was listed in Discover magazine as one of the top 100 breakthroughs of the year. His previous book The Beautiful Cure was published in 17 territories. He is also the author of over 120 academic papers, which have been collectively cited over 10,000 times, including articles in Nature, Science and Scientific American.

05 August 2021 | Will Hammond for Bodley Head | 288 pp Rights Sold: US (Princeton University Press)

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Supercharge Your Brain The New Science of Maximising Your Brain Health, from Sleep to Nutrition, Exercise to Social Life James Goodwin

The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing

The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience.

Yet most of us know precious little about how our brains actually work, or what we can do to optimise their performance. While cognitive decline is the biggest long-term health worry for many of us, practical knowledge of how to look after our brain is thin on the ground.

Combining the latest scientific research with insightful storytelling and practical advice, Supercharge Your Brain reveals everything you need to know about how your brain functions, and what you can do to keep it in peak condition. In this ground-breaking new book, leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies like exercise, diet, social life and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and shows how to keep your brain youthful and stay sharp across your life.

James Goodwin is Special Advisor to the Global Council on Brain Health. He holds a Chair at Exeter University Medical School and is a Professor of Physiology at Loughborough University. Goodwin was previously Chief Scientist at Age UK, Britain’s foremost non-profit, dedicated to improving the lives of older people and delivering the benefits of research into ageing. He is also a regular media commentator, appearing on Today, the Jeremy Vine Show, BBC TV News, local radio, ITV and Sky News.

18 March 2021 | Henry Vines for Bantam Press | 262 pp

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Leaving Time The Seven Ages of Death Dr 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

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 Leaving Time, 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 been sold into 14 languages.

02 September 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights Sold: Chinese Simplified (Yilin Press), Korean (Gimm-Young)

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You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here Benji Waterhouse

A witty, candid, poignant memoir by a major new writing talent, with urgent things to say about the crisis in mental healthcare

What's the difference between a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a psychic? What shouldn't you say to a psychopath? What happens when you discover no magic treatments for unhappiness exist? Is there any hope for the future? (Yes)

This is a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of life as a junior psychiatrist. Humane, humorous, candid and myth-busting (spoiler: there are no padded walls), Benji Waterhouse reveals the sometimes terrifying, sometimes absurd reality of life on both sides of the doctor's desk. This is his story of becoming a psychiatrist, of temporarily leaving the profession disillusioned, burnt out and compassion fatigued, and of finally rediscovering his empathy to return to help fight the pandemic afflicting the nation's lungs and minds.

We meet the lorry driver with bipolar disorder who after being furloughed believes he's discovered the cure for coronavirus. The teenager with psychosis triggered by her period. The patient with OCD who survived after taking an overdose of 99 paracetamol tablets. The man with schizophrenia who thinks his loving mother is a witch. The patient with Jerusalem Syndrome who after visiting the Holy Land believes he's Jesus. And the depressed psychiatrist who hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.

'Most of these characters are my patients. Some of them are my family. And one of them is me.'

Dr Benji Waterhouse is a frontline NHS doctor specialising in psychiatry with a decade's worth of experience, and an award-winning stand-up comedian. He has written for The Guardian and The Independent, and featured in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) podcast, and featured in a list of 'Inspiring Psychiatrists' by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

03 February 2022 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 288 pp

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SCIENCE & MEDICAL MEMOIR

34 Patients Tom Templeton

A profoundly moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS

Hospitals and surgeries are a pulsating, variegated hive of pain, lunacy, death, sorrow, redemption and recovery, and when a stone crashes into the waters of a life, many of the ripples wash onto its shores.

34 Patients tells some of the remarkable stories former journalist Tom Templeton encountered while training and working as a doctor. Whether sufferers of life-threatening illness, extreme violence, sexual obsession, bad luck or Munchausen's syndrome, he met each patient at a vulnerable moment in time, catching a privileged glimpse of a life. Together, these accounts combine to create a profound portrait of what Tom describes as life on the borderlands - a place we all occupy at some point, a space suspended between everyday life and death.

The stories are told in chronological order, starting with a not-yet-born baby whose mother seems likely to reject her, culminating in the account of a 103- year old woman who is now beyond the reach of medical science. Along the way there are patients from childhood, youth, middle and old age: the Downs syndrome child who rescued his parents' marriage and is now critically unwell; the man who has been stabbed in the brain with shocking consequences; a woman who doesn't realise she is nine months pregnant and going into labour; the elderly man whose life has been obliterated by love for the two sisters who live only in his mind. From rough sleeper to aristocrat no one is spared life on the borderlands between sickness and health. 34 Patients is a remarkable book that touches us all.

Tom Templeton worked as a journalist at before returning to medicine to retrain as a doctor. Since then he has worked across eight different medical specialties, including paediatrics, geriatrics, psychiatry amongst others, and has worked in eight hospitals across the UK. He now works as a GP.

04 February 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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TRUE CRIME

On the Trail of the Serpent Richard Neville and Julie Clarke

Soon to be the subject of a major Netflix drama, this is the only full-length study of the life of Charles Sobhraj

Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world’s greatest con men whose life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up with a fluid sense of identity. He was imprisoned in France and stripped of his multiple nationalities.

Floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s hippie route, leaving a trail of dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake.

First published in 1979, but updated here to include new material, On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj’s life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke.

Richard Neville was an Australian writer and commentator who first came to prominence as the editor of the counterculture magazine OZ.

Julie Clarke trained as a journalist on the Sydney Telegraph before joining ABC television. She later became a New York correspondent for Australian Consolidated Press and worked as a TV producer.

07 January 2021 | Nick Skidmore for Vintage | 368 pp

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SOCIETY

We Can Do Better Than This 40 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights Amelia Abraham

Campaigners, writers and on how we can make our world safer for LGBTQ+ people

We talk about LGBTQ+ equality, but what does it actually mean? And how do we get there?

In this powerful and thought-provoking essay collection, 40 people – from actors, pop stars and athletes to scientists, writers and activists – set out to answer these vital questions.

We Can Do Better Than This meets the famous drag queen who wants to eradicate the stigma around dating trans people, the gay Bangladeshi activist calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality after his best friends were murdered in a hate crime and the Russian lesbian sex blogger skirting around the law to educate young people.

Featuring deeply moving personal stories and provocative new arguments, this is a book about how we can make our world better, and why LGBTQ+ equality should matter to everyone.

Amelia Abraham is a journalist and author. She has worked as a commissioning editor at VICE and Refinery 29, and is currently Features Editor at Dazed. She writes for the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Sunday Times, New Statesman, ES Magazine, i-D Magazine and Vogue. Her main interest is LGBTQ+ culture and politics, and her debut was Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture.

‘This book will resonate with a new generation of queer people and all those who seek to be their allies – a brilliant book’ - Owen Jones

‘A voice that is profound, vulnerable and hilarious in turn’ - Naomi Wolf

03 June 2021 | Alex Russell for Vintage | 384 pp

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HUMOUR

Juche - How to Live Well the North Korean Way Oli Grant

If The Little Red Book met The Little Book of Hygge ... this hilarious book brilliantly satirises national lifestyle trends, taking the guiding principal of North Korean communism as its subject

Imagine a world where men and women are treated as equals, where the elderly are respected not neglected, where children can realise their dreams. Imagine a kind and fair society where people are free from worry and woe. Imagine a life, harmonious and balanced, where people are united by their love for their leader. Imagine that leader, wise and mighty, so devoted to his people that he is prepared to keep watch on every single one of them.

Welcome to North Korea.

Juche is the guiding principle of North Korean communism: the art of self- sufficiency. How to Live Well the North Korean Way will explain how you can: solve the stresses of your commute (sleep in the office); lose weight fast (rationing and daily military parades); embrace mindfulness (through manual labour) and cure urban loneliness (three families living in one room).

'Conceived for the people, by the people, Juche states that only through back- breaking work, soul-nourishing study and boundless courage can progress be achieved.'

Oli Grant was born in 1993. After graduating from The University of Bristol with a degree in English Literature and Drama, he got a job in publishing, which he is yet to be fired from. He hopes to be married with children one day.

29 October 2020 | Michelle Signore for Bantam Press | 144 pp

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NATURE & ENVIROMENT

The Wild Silence Raynor Winn

The second instalment to the hugely successful Costa prize shortlisted title, The Salt Path, and the continued, powerful true story of the couple who lost everything

Following the hugely successful Sunday Times bestseller, Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize nominee and Costa shortlister, The Salt Path, comes a new book from the hugely talented Raynor Winn.

In The Wild Silence, Raynor tells us about taking on a chronically over-farmed piece of land that was given to her and Moth by a reader who was moved by their story in The Salt Path. This book is about readjusting to life after homelessness, but also about recovering trust and self- belief after a traumatic event - feelings that can translate to many episodes in the life of any of us. Through Raynor's exceptional writing she will explore the hope she has of revitalising and of re-wilding this land - and also themes of lifelong love, nature and what it means to find a home.

Since travelling the South West Coastal Path, Raynor Winn has become a regular long-distance walker and writes about nature, homelessness and wild camping. She lives in Cornwall. Her first book, The Salt Path, has sold over 300,000 copies across all formats in the UK and was translated into 14 languages.

03 September 2020 | Fenella Bates for Michael Joseph | 288 pp Rights Sold: Dutch (Uitgeverij Balans), Poland (Marginesy), Russia (Exmo), US (Penguin)

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NATURE & ENVIROMENT

The Swan Stephen Moss

The latest in Stephen Moss’s successful mini-series of giftable bird books, fully illustrated with beautiful swan imagery from history

Revered in myth and symbolic of power, beauty and grace, the swan is one of the world’s best- loved birds.

Through Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, bestselling nature writer Stephen Moss traces the lifecycle of the swan. From its arrival in Europe in Spring to its extraordinary winter migration to warmer climes. He also weaves in the swan’s place in popular culture and literature across the centuries from old symbolism (love, fidelity and purity) to modern myths (the ‘mute’ swan).

Stephen Moss is a naturalist, author and broadcaster. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. His books include The Wren, The Robin, Mrs Moreau’s Warbler and Wonderland. He is the President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Originally from London, he now lives with his wife and children on the Somerset Levels.

28 October 2021 | Mireille for Square Peg | 208 pp

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NATURE & ENVIROMENT

12 Birds to Save Your Life Nature’s Lessons on Happiness Charlie Corbett

A profound exploration of grief, life and of being human, told through the lens of 12 songbirds

This book is about coping with being human. It's about how unexpected events smash and bash their way into our lives without permission. And how a love of the natural world - and particularly of songbirds - will help to raise you from these periodic depths.

Drawing on his own experience of struggling with grief, depression and suicidal thoughts, Charlie Corbett writes beautifully about how his simple decision to attempt to reconnect with the natural world was a huge comfort to him.

When Charlie first started to learn about songbirds - from solitary skylarks to squabbling sparrows - he realised that these characterful creatures have much to teach us about life, happiness and acceptance.

Charlie Corbett has worked as an editor, journalist and most recently set up his own communications consultancy, Bullfinch Media. Despite having pursued a 20-year career in financial journalism, he remains, in his heart, a country boy. He comes from a family of livestock and arable farmers and spent his childhood divided between farms on the rolling downs of Hampshire and on the Isle of Mull.

10 June 2021 | Charlotte Hardman for Michael Joseph | 208 pp

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LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

How to Master Your Monkey Mind Overcome anxiety, increase confidence and regain control of your life Don Macpherson

Don Macpherson, one of Britain's top mind coaches, gives you the tools you need to tune your brain and regain control of your life

Are you a worrier? Do everyday challenges weigh you down? Do you wish you could tackle the bigger issues with more confidence and clarity? Do you struggle to stay on top of challenges both at work and socially?

With more than 25 years' successful mind coaching under his belt, Don Macpherson will show you his ten simple tools to turn down the volume on the negative chatter in your head and take back control of your life. His techniques have turned around the performances of countless elite sports stars from the worlds of motorsport and rugby union.

Here, for the first time, Macpherson shares the secrets of how he helps people to find their confidence, be more assertive and change their lives for the better.

Don Macpherson is a British mind coach who combines mind management techniques and hypnosis with an in-depth knowledge of modern neuroscience. His most high-profile work has been coaching dozens of world-class sports professionals, including F1 racing drivers, Premiership fooballers, international rugby players and Wimbledon tennis champions. Over 30 years Don has also helped countless other people with a diverse range of issues such as anxiety, stress, lack of confidence and relationship problems. Don takes challenging mind-management concepts, and makes them easy to understand and to put into practice.

28 January 2021 | Michelle Signore for Bantam Press | 288 pp

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LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Sober Girl Society Handbook Millie Gooch

Part memoir, part survival guide, this empowering self-help book is The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober for the Gen Z generation

Have you ever woken up feeling anxious after a night of drinking? Do you cringe with embarrassment when reminded of your wild antics at girls' night? Are blackouts increasingly becoming a problem?

Whichever way you look at it, it's hard to avoid how alcohol really makes some of us feel: terrible. Whether you're simply sober-curious or determined to make a more permanent change, this book shows not only why you should but also how you can, in a way that will change your life forever.

Offering tips and advice on how to stay sober in a world that revolves around drinking, this handbook will empower you to transform your relationship with alcohol so you can lead your most fulfilling life.

It's time to join the Sober Girl Society!

Millie Gooch is the founder of the Sober Girl Society and is one of the voices leading the sobriety movement in the UK. As a journalist, she has written for a range of publications, and her campaigning work has been featured everywhere from ELLE and Stylist to the BBC and .

14 January 2021 | Helena Gonda for Bantam Press | 256 pp

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LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

A Little Happier Derren Brown

An essential handbook providing practical and accessible guidance for living life more contentedly

Happiness is impossible to define and illusory. How then are we to lead happier lives?

In A Little Happier Derren Brown condenses the lessons of his international bestseller Happy into 17 beautifully-wrought, wise and profoundly reassuring mini-chapters, each one challenging us to think differently so as to overcome anxiety in a difficult world.

None of this is real when each of us tells stories about our lives in too tidy narratives that are seldom true and rarely helpful. We should be wary of goal setting: long-term goals fixate us on a future that may not happen and we may not wish for when we get there. Life is hard, messy and complex; our friends will probably let us down; most of what has got us here is blind luck and a series of false starts. But if we can learn to separate what we can control - our thoughts and actions - from all else beyond our control, we can find a surer footing with which to greet the world.

Since redefining the genre of magic for intelligent, modern audiences, Derren Brown has become synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation and his TV shows have become must-see events. 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, amongst many others things. On top of this he tours every year with a sell-out stage show and has recently finished a run on Broadway, NYC. His previous books are: Tricks of the Mind, Confessions of a Conjuror, Happy and a book of his caricatures, Portraits.

15 October 2020 | Susanna Wadeson for Bantam Press | 128 pp

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LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Book of Secrets Derren Brown

The bestselling author of Happy and Tricks of the Mind turns his back on the Stoics who informed his last book, in a new wonderfully wise and entertaining exploration of how we best live and grow

In this book Derren Brown continues his pursuit of what brings meaning to life and how best to muddle through it with reference to some of the world's great philosophers.

Beginning with the ideas of and the notion that whatever we might try to hide and bury in our past will always come back to bite us, he has to wonder if the Greeks were right – unless we tend to all aspects of our lives and who we are, the snubbed secreted aspects of ourselves will wreak revenge. Rather than avoid disturbance perhaps it is essential for a healthy life. Perhaps we need to accept and experience complexity. Is anxiety in fact a pointer for growth? Is a good place only good because it sits between the twin pulls of wild happiness and distress? And what is the secret that lies in this good place?

Since redefining the genre of magic for intelligent, modern audiences, Derren Brown has become synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation and his TV shows have become must-see events. 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, amongst many others things. On top of this he tours every year with a sell-out stage show and has recently finished a run on Broadway, NYC. His previous books are: Tricks of the Mind, Confessions of a Conjuror, Happy and a book of his caricatures, Portraits.

09 September 2021 | Susanna Wadeson for Bantam Press | 384 pp

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LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Book About Getting Older (for people who don’t want to talk about it) Lucy Pollock

This is the definitive book for anyone who is getting older or loves someone who is

We might all be living to unprecedented ages, but most of us don't really know how to be that old, how to get the most out of later life, or how to live among and care for people when they are super-old.

We are bombarded with instructions about exercise, sleep, diet, vitamins and supplements: drink more wine, or less wine, or only ever black tea - but which advice should we follow? How do we face taboos like falling out of love with someone who has dementia, or wishing someone we truly love would simply die? At what point does 'fiercely independent' become badly behaved?

What are the medicines a specialist wouldn't give to their own mother? What operations that sound hair-raising might actually be worth having? What do you do if a doctor isn't listening? How can we be happy at 90?

As a geriatrician with 20 years of experience, Lucy Johnson specialises in the care of those who are frail and elderly. In this book she shares the lessons she has learned from patients, families and colleagues on illness, recovery, life, death and joy.

Ageing isn't easy, and we each will be faced with difficult decisions for ourselves or on behalf of those we love. This book presents those decisions and explains how to talk about them, teaching us how to die with dignity, and live better for longer.

Lucy Johnson trained in medicine at Cambridge and at Bart's Hospital, and worked as a junior doctor in East London before moving to Somerset, where she is a consultant specialising in the care of those who are frail and elderly.

07 January 2021 | Louise Moore for Michael Joseph | 320 pp Rights Sold: Germany (Dumont Buchverlag)

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

Terry Pratchett - The Official Biography Rob Wilkins

The official biography of one of the world's best-loved and bestselling storytellers - Sir Terry Pratchett - by the person who was, for over 25 years, his assistant, business manager, close friend and confidante: Rob Wilkins

The first and only authorised biography of Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the international bestselling Discworld series, drawing on the memories of those closest to him, and on his own unpublished thoughts on his childhood.

Rob Wilkins was for many years Terry's personal assistant and business manager, travelling with him around the world and acting as amanuensis during the writing of the Discworld novels.

30 September 2021 | Suzanne Bridson for Doubleday | 352 pp

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

A Walk from the Wild Edge Jake Tyler

The moving and uplifting account of one man's journey, walking 3000 miles to combat his depression

After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his life from the clutches of depression. With only his running gear and a backpack, he stepped out of his house in Brighton and began a 3000-mile journey around the UK.

In documenting every step of his journey, Jake shares the ways in which his mission was enhanced by the kindness of strangers who took him in for the night, or let him talk when the darkness engulfed him.

This is both the story of Jake's journey around the country and his journey to better understand himself, ultimately finding peace and acceptance with his mental health.

Jake Tyler is a mental health advocate, adventurer, runner, walker and depression sufferer. Jake's BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey show, Open Up with Jake Tyler launched in September with guest Matt Haig. He has also recently launched a podcast titled People are F***ing Awesome! and his Ted talk has had over 2.2 million views. Black Dog Walks is his first book.

18 March 2021 | Charlotte Hardman for Michael Joseph | 304 pp

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day My Autobiography Captain Tom Moore

The extraordinary and heartwarming autobiography of Captain Tom Moore, the man who captured the nation's heart in lockdown

At the height of the pandemic, 99 year old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore began walking laps of his garden to raise £1000 for the NHS. By the time of his 100th birthday, he'd reached £32 million and captured the hearts of the nation.

In his official autobiography, which he announced alongside the creation of the Captain Tom Foundation, he tells us not only of his long life, serving in Burma in the war and racing motorbikes, but also how an old soldier with a can-do, never-give-up attitude inspired a nation to believe anything is possible by reminding us it is never too late.

Captain Tom Moore was born in Yorkshire in 1920. With the outbreak of World War Two he enlisted in the and served throughout the war. He holds two Guinness World Records, for the largest sum ever raised by an individual charity walk, and for being the oldest person ever to have a number one hit single. He lives with his family in . He set up the Captain Tom Foundation to help people help other people. Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day is his first book.

17 September 2020 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

Winkle The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot Paul Beaver

The thrilling life of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - aviator, record-breaker, and Britain's greatest pilot

Eric 'Winkle' Brown was Britain's greatest pilot. His extraordinary flying career saw him fight in the Battle of Britain, narrowly escape death on a torpedoed aircraft carrier, achieve a litany of new records and firsts as a test pilot, and fly more kinds of aircraft than any other pilot in history.

With a life as remarkable as his flying, Brown faced imprisonment in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, and after the Allied victory his fluent German saw him interviewing senior Nazi officials and participating in the liberation of Belsen - an experience that haunted him for the rest of his life.

A rival to Chuck Yeager and hero to astronaut Neil Armstrong, by the time of his death in 2016 Winkle Brown had become a legend in his own lifetime and a national treasure. Drawing on Brown's own papers and fascinating new research, Paul Beaver uncovers surprising new truths and incredible achievements in the definitive account of a pilot and man who was revered around the world.

Paul Beaver is an aviation historian, broadcaster and writer who specialises in the 1930s and 1940s. He has written more than 40 books on naval and aviation history, and was a freelance war correspondent for Sky News, and a studio expert for BBC News and CNN International. He owns his own vintage aeroplane company.

20 January 2022 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

This Is Me Mrs Hinch

An extraordinarily candid memoir from the million plus selling phenomenon

Mrs Hinch, the cleaning sensation and domestic guru who makes household chores fun, has had a whirlwind of a journey. So much has happened to her in the last couple of life-changing years. She has amassed an incredible 3.7 million followers on Instagram and sold over 1 million books with three number one books to her name.

Her life in the spotlight has often felt like a fairy tale but it hasn't always been easy, and in her much-awaited memoir, she talks about the highs and the lows of her incredible fame as well as her biggest fears and darkest challenges.

This is Sophie - the wife, the mother and the person behind Mrs Hinch.

This is her story.

Sophie Hinchliffe - better known as Mrs Hinch - is an Instagram sensation renowned for her cleaning tips and hacks, and has sparked a love of cleaning - AKA Hinching - in millions.

She began posting her cleaning routines on her hugely popular Instagram account, which now boasts 3.5 million followers and counting. A debut author when Hinch Yourself Happy published in April 2019, she ended the year as author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling Non-fiction Hardback of the Year. Her books have now sold over one million copies combined. She lives in Essex with her husband Jamie, son Ronnie and their cocker spaniel, Henry.

01 October 2020 | Fenella Bates for Michael Joseph | 336 pp

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SPORT

The Greatest Games Jamie Carragher

Inspired by his hit podcast, Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher explores the games that have shaped his love of football – as a player, as a pundit and as a fan

Sharing his views on the greatest matches he has played in or enjoyed as a fan, Jamie Carragher takes readers into the dressing room, on to the tour bus and out on to the pitch as he relives the defining moments of his playing career and the games that have shaped the sport during his lifetime.

'I want to look back at those special games that, as a kid, made me fall in love with the game; tell some of the untold stories about the big games I was lucky enough to play in and reflect on the great matches that, since retiring, I've been privileged to witness as a pundit and a fan.'

Told with the same wit, humour, intelligence and passion behind his hit podcast and his punditry, The Greatest Games sees Jamie speak to teammates, rivals, managers and legends of the game. With their help, Jamie shines a fresh light on a selection of the beautiful game's greatest matches: title deciders, cup finals, against all odds comebacks, underdog tales, old school classics, tactical masterclasses and end to end thrillers.

Jamie Carragher was born in1978 and after making his way through Liverpool's youth ranks, made his debut for the first team aged 18. He played over 700 games for Liverpool, the second most of any player in the club's history, winning the Champions League as well as ten other major trophies. He also made 38 appearances for England. Since retirement, Jamie has gone on to become one of the country’s top football pundits and analysts. He was voted 'Pundit of the Year' by the Football Supporters Association in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and was part of the team that won the RTS Award for Best Sports Programme for Monday Night Football. He is the host of the number one podcast, The Greatest Games.

12 November 2020 | Henry Vines for Bantam Press | 368 pp

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SPORT

Running The World My World-Record Breaking Adventure to Run a Marathon in Every Country on Earth Nick Butter

An inspiring story of adventure and endurance, following one man's world record breaking attempt to run a marathon in every country in the world

On January 6th 2018, Nick Butter tied his laces and stepped out on to an icy pavement in Toronto, where he took the first steps of an epic journey that would see him run 196 marathons in every one of the world's 196 countries. Spending almost two years on the road and relying on the kindness of strangers to keep him moving, Nick's odyssey allowed him to travel slowly, on foot, immersing himself in the diverse cultures and customs of his host nations.

Running through capital cities and deserts, around islands and through spectacular landscapes, Nick dodges bullets in Guinea-Bissau, crosses battlefields in Syria, survives a wild dog attack in Tunisia and runs around an erupting volcano in Guatemala. Along the way, he is often joined by local supporters and fellow runners, curious children and bemused passers-by. Telling their stories alongside his own, Nick captures the unique spirit of each place he visits and forges a new relationship with the world around him.

Running the World captures Nick’s journey as he sets three world records and covers over 5,000 miles. As he recounts his adventures, he shares his unique perspective on our glorious planet, celebrates the diversity of human experience, and reflects on the overwhelming power of running.

Nick Butter is an endurance runner, adventurer and motivational speaker. He lives in Bristol.

12 November 2020 | Henry Vines for Bantam Press | 304 pp

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POETRY

BALLAD OF A HAPPY IMMIGRANT Leo Boix

A brilliant and topical debut poetry collection from an important new voice

Leonardo Boix’s poetry explores issues of gender, identity, myth and politics, inspired by his experience growing up in Buenos Aires as a queer person, and as a young Latinx immigrant to the UK.

There has never been a major Latinx voice in British poetry before. Leonardo writes with imagination, sensuality and an ability to imbue the folklore of his homeland with a mythic but completely alive quality.

06 May 2021 | Greg Clowes for Chatto & Windus | 80 pp

A BLOOD CONDITION Kayo Chingonyi

Highly poignant and rich with dazzling language and exquisite imagery, A Blood Condition is stunningly crafted in Chingonyi's authoritative, distinctive poetic voice

The poems touch on racial identity, religion and grief, music, youth and the power of names. The sequence about Nyaminyami, god of the Zambezi river, and its discussions of slavery and colonialism, man vs nature, is gut-punchingly powerful.

'Whether recalling his parents' deaths or celebrating the art of the mixtape, Chingonyi's poise is astonishing' Daily Telegraph

22 April 2021 | Charlotte Humphery for Chatto & Windus | 80 pp

ANTIEMETIC FOR HOMESICKNESS Romalyn Ante

The poems in Romalyn Ante's luminous debut build a bridge between two worlds: journeying from the country 'na nagluwal sa 'yo' - that gave birth to you - to a new life in the

Steeped in the richness of Filipino folklore, and studded with Tagalog, these poems speak of the ache of assimilation and the complexities of belonging, telling the stories of generations of migrants who find exile through employment - through the voices of the mothers who leave and the children who are left behind.

23 July 2020 | Charlotte Humphery for Chatto & Windus | 96 pp

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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

SPOON-FED Tim Spector

One of the world’s leading scientists of food and nutrition reveals why so much of the current advice about food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate, misleading and often downright wrong

27 August 2020 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 288 pp Chinese Simplified (New Star Press), Dutch (Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds), Italian (Bollati Boringhieri Editore), Japanese (Hakuyo-sha), Korean (Sigma Press Inc), Romanian (Lifestyle Publishing), Russian Federation (Mann, Ivanov & Ferber), Turkish (The Kitap Yayinlari)

THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE Gavanndra Hodge

A beautifully written, poignant, fearless account of grief, memory, trauma and the love between two sisters

The Consequences of Love is a story of loss and recovery, trauma and memory. Ultimately it is a joyous and compelling account of the strength of the love between two sisters and how nothing is ever truly lost if we are brave enough to return to where we began.

14 May 2020 | Fenella Bates for Michael Joseph | 320 pp

A LOVER'S DISCOURSE Xiaolu Guo

A story of desire, love and language – and the meaning of home – told through conversations between two lovers

Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate and tender novel asks universal questions: what is the meaning of home when we’ve been uprooted? How can a man and woman be together? And how best to find solid ground in a world of uncertainty?

13 August 2020 | Poppy Hampson for Chatto & Windus | 288 pp German (Verlagsgruppe Random House)

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ARKHANGEL James Brabazon

The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline journalist James Brabazon

James Brabazon is an award-winning front-line journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled in over 70 countries, investigating, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments.

20 August 2020 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights Sold: US ( US)

STRANGE FLOWERS Donal Ryan

The extraordinary story of a family devastated by a sudden disappearance and transformed by a miraculous return from the award-winning author loved by David Nicholls, Kamila Shamsie and Sebastian Barry

Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.

20 August 2020 | Fiona Murphy for Doubleday | 240 pp Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House), Danish (Jensen & Dalgaard), Hebrew (Lesa Press), US ()

HOUSE WITH NO DOORS Jeff Noon

At first glance, Leonard Graves’ death was unremarkable. Sleeping pills, a bottle of vodka, a note saying goodbye. But when Detective Henry Hobbes discovers a grave in the basement, he realises there is something far more sinister at work...

Jeff Noon trained in the visual arts and drama and was active on the post-punk music scene before becoming a playwright, and then a novelist.

14 January 2021 | Bill Scott-Kerr for Doubleday | 384 pp

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