ALLENDE AMIS ATWOOD AUSTEN BARNES BARRY BINET BOLAÑO BORGES BULGAKOV BURNSIDE BYATT CALVINO CARROLL CARTER CARVER CHANG CHATWIN COETZEE CONRAD DARWIN De BERNIÈRES DE WAAL DIAMOND DI LAMPEDUSA DICKENS DOSTOEVSKY DOYLE ECO ENRIGHT FAULKNER FAULKS FIELDING FITZGERALD FOULDS FOWLES GIBBONS GRASS GREENE GROSSMAN HADDON HELLER HIGHSMITH HOUELLEBECQ HUXLEY ISHERWOOD JACOBSON JOHNSON JONES JOYCE KAFKA KENNEDY KNAUSGAARD KUSHNER LEE LENNON MAK MARÍAS MATTHIESSEN MAXWELL McCARTHY McEWAN MISHIMA MORRISON MUNRO MURAKAMI MURDOCH NADAS NÉMIROVSKY NIFFENEGGER OGAWA ONDAATJE OZ PASTERNAK PENROSE PEREC PETTERSON POLITKOVSKAYA PROUST PYNCHON REMARQUE RIVAS ROTH RUSHDIE SARAMAGO SCHAMA SEBALD SHUTE SNYDER SOLZHENITSYN STEVENSON STYRON TAN TANIZAKI Thiong’o THIRLWELL TVINTAGEHORPE BOOKS THU CATALOGUEBRON TOLSTOY TREMAIN TJANUARY–JUNEYLER VARGAS 2020 VONNEGUT WARHOL WELSH WESLEY WHEELER WIGGINS WILLIAMS WINTERSON WOLFE WOOLFWYLD YATES ZOLA ALLENDE AMIS ATWOOD AUSTEN BARNES BARRY BINET BOLAÑO BORGES BULGAKOV BURNSIDE BYATT CALVINO CARROLL CARTER CARVER CHANG CHATWIN COETZEE CONRAD DARWIN De BERNIÈRES DE WAAL DIAMOND DI LAMPEDUSA DICKENS DOSTOEVSKY DOYLE ECO ENRIGHT FAULKNER FAULKS FIELDING FITZGERALD FOULDS FOWLES GIBBONS GRASS GREENE GROSSMAN HADDON HELLER HIGHSMITH HOUELLEBECQ HUXLEY ISHERWOOD JACOBSON JOHNSON JONES JOYCE KAFKA KENNEDY KNAUSGAARD KUSHNER LEE LENNON MAK MARÍAS MATTHIESSEN MAXWELL McCARTHY McEWAN MISHIMA MORRISON MUNRO MURAKAMI MURDOCH NADAS NÉMIROVSKY NIFFENEGGER OGAWA ONDAATJE OZ PASTERNAK PENROSE PEREC PETTERSON POLITKOVSKAYA PROUST PYNCHON REMARQUE RIVAS ROTH RUSHDIE SARAMAGO SCHAMA SEBALD SHUTE SNYDER SOLZHENITSYN STEVENSON STYRON TAN TANIZAKI Thiong’o THIRLWELL TBODLEYHORPE HEAD THUBRON TOLSTOY TREMAIN TJANUARY–JUNEYLER VARGAS 2020 VONNEGUT WARHOL WELSH WESLEY WHEELER WIGGINS WILLIAMS WINTERSON WOLFE WOOLF WYLD YATES ZOLA Chelsea Manning 2020 Memoir Chelsea Manning In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. In March 2011, the United States Army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in military prison, charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military documents. The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison. In her as yet untitled memoir, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. She reveals her challenging childhood, her struggles as an adolescent, what led her to join the military, and the fierce pride she took in her work. We also learn the details of how and why she made the decision to send classified military documents to WikiLeaks. This powerful, observant memoir will stand as one of the definitive testaments of the digital age. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist, whistleblower, politician and former United States Army soldier. Her Twitter account is @xychelsea. March 2020 9781847925619 £16.99 : Hardback 224 pages Magdalena A Story of Colombia Wade Davis An enthralling journey down Colombia's great Río Magdalena braiding an ancient past and culture into the wondrous story of a people and country finding healing and rebirth after decades of conflict and war, cocaine cartels and drug lords such as Pablo Escobar. At once an absorbing, intrepid narrative and an inspiring, powerful story of hope and redemption, it is a hymn to a mythic place: the Magdalena, the artery of Colombia. The great river has driven the nation's life, its stories, its history and trade, its shamanistic traditions, and is at the heart of its literature and music. Yet, as the country suffered through decades of violence in the 20th century, the great river suffered too, becoming the graveyard of the nation, an environmental catastrophe and a human dumping ground for all sides of the conflict. In 2015, Wade returned to the secretive place he had explored as a young ethnobotanist, to lead the first of several expeditions along the giant river; we discover with him the violent, sorrow-filled past and a new present as Colombia embarks on what had previously seemed to the world an impossible change: a life-affirming healing, spiritually and politically, alongside its Indigenous peoples; heart-warming portraits of unforgettable people; the beauty of forests, the power of the river. This is the magnificent, definitive story of Colombia itself, from the conquistadors to the corruption of the 20th century to the new years of long-hoped for peace and stability. Wade Davis is a multi award-winning writer, anthropologist, explorer and acclaimed photographer, his work has taken him from the May 2020 Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. He is the 9781847926104 best-selling author of more than a dozen books, including The Serpent £25.00 : Hardback and the Rainbow, One River, and Into the Silence, which was awarded the 400 pages Samuel Johnson Prize, and currently holds the post of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. The Beauty and the Terror An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance Catherine Fletcher The Italian Renaissance shaped western culture and identity – but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We revere Leonardo for his art but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David but see nothing of the thousands who were massacred at the republic's downfall. In focusing on the Medici in Florence and the Borgias in Rome, we miss the vital importance of the Genoese and Neapolitans, the courts of Urbino and Mantua. Rarely do we hear of the women writers, Jewish merchants, the mercenaries, engineers, prostitutes, farmers and citizens who lived the Renaissance every day. In fact, many of the most celebrated artists and thinkers that have come to define the Renaissance – Leonardo and Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, Machiavelli and Castiglioni – emerged not during the celebrated ‘rebirth’ of the fifteenth century but amidst the death and destruction of the sixteenth century. For decades, a series of savage wars dominated Italy’s political, economic and daily life, generating fortunes and new technologies, but also ravaging populations with famine, disease and slaughter. In this same short time, the birth of Protestantism, Spain’s colonisation of the Americas and the rise of the Ottoman Empire all posed grave threats to Italian power, while sparking debates about the ethics of government and enslavement, religious belief and sexual morality. In The Beauty and the Terror, Catherine Fletcher provides an March 2020 enrapturing narrative history that brings all of this and more into 9781847925091 view. Brimming with life, it takes us closer than ever before to the £25.00 lived reality of this astonishing era and its meaning for today. UK C/Wealth + Can, EU : Hardback 496 pages Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. She is the author of two previous books, The Black Prince of Florence, ‘a spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard Books of the Year), and The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story. Catherine is Associate Professor in History and Heritage at Swansea University and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. Hitler: Volume II Downfall 1939-45 Volker Ullrich In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated their authority over the German people, and in a series of foreign-policy coups, the Führer had restored Germany to the status of a major Continental power. He now embarked on realising his lifelong ambition: to provide the German people with the living space and the resources they needed to flourish and exterminate those who were standing in the way – the Bolsheviks and the Jews. Yet despite the initial German triumphs – the quick defeat of Poland, the successful Blitzkrieg in the west – the war set in motion Hitler’s downfall. With the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the entry of the United States into the war later that year, Nazi Germany’s fortunes began to turn: it soon became clear that the war could not be won. As in the earlier volume, Volker Ullrich offers fascinating insight into the personality of the Führer, without which we fail to understand the course of the war and the development of the Holocaust. As Germany’s supreme military commander, he decided on strategy and planned operations with his generals, involving himself in even the smallest minutiae. And here the key traits – and flaws – of his personality quickly came to the fore. Hitler was a gambler who put everything on one card; deeply insecure, he was easily shaken by the slightest setback and quick to blame his subordinates for his own catastrophic mistakes; and when he realised that the war was lost, he embarked on the annihilation of Germany itself in punishment of the German people who had failed to hand him victory. February 2020 In September 1939, Hitler declared that he would wear a simple 9781847922878 military tunic until the war was won – or otherwise, he would not be £30.00 : Hardback there to witness the end. On 30 April 1945, as Soviet troops closed in 912 pages on his bunker in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide; seven days later, Germany surrendered. Hitler’s murderous ambitions had not just destroyed Germany: they had cost the lives of tens of millions of people throughout Europe. Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose previous books include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, The Nervous Superpower 1871—1918. From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the editor of the ‘Political Book’ review section of the influential weekly newspaper, Die Zeit.