PEGASUS BOOKS SPRING 2022 Supercharge Your Brain James, Ph.D. Goodwin BOOK DESCRIPTION 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. Whilst 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. In this ground-breaking new book, leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies concerning exercise, diet, social life, and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and shows how you can keep your brain youthful and stay sharp across your life. Combining the latest scientific research with insightful storytelling and practical advice, HARDCOVER Supercharge Your Brain reveals everything you need to know about how your brain functions, and what you can do to keep it in On Sale: 01/04/22 peak condition. Pegasus Books 9781643138671 AUTHOR BIO Science First Print: 15,000 Professor James Goodwin PhD is a director of the Brain Health 6 x 9, 384 pages Network (www.brain.health) and a special advisor to the Global Carton quantity: 12 Council on Brain Health. He holds a Honorary Chair at the $28.95 (US) / (CAN) University of Exeter Medical School and is a Visiting Professor in Physiology at the University of Loughborough. He is also a Fellow AUTHOR HOMETOWN of the Academy of Social Sciences. He lives in Devon, England. Professor James Goodwin lives in Devon, England. 1 River Kings A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road Catrine, PhD Jarman BOOK DESCRIPTION Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this HARDCOVER unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, On Sale: 01/04/22 all the way to Britain. Pegasus Books 9781643138695 Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use History First Print: 15,000 to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, 6 x 9, 352 pages often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global Carton quantity: 12 medieval world as we know it. $27.95 (US) / $36.95 (CAN) AUTHOR BIO AUTHOR HOMETOWN Catrine Jarman, PhD, is a bioarchaeologist and field Catrine Jarman lives in Britain archaeologist specializing in the Viking Age and Viking women. She uses forensic techniques like isotope analysis, carbon dating, and DNA analysis on human remains to untangle the experiences of past people from broader historical narratives. Dr Jarman has contributed to numerous television documentaries as both an on-screen expert and historical consultant, including programs for the BBC, History Chanel, Discovery, among others. She lives in Britain. 2 Athens City of Wisdom Bruce Clark BOOK DESCRIPTION A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and symbolically potent panoramas of any of the world's cities: the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon – the temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, that crowns the Acropolis – dominate a city whose name is synonymous for many with civilization itself. It is hard not to feel the hand of history in such a place. The birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy and theatre, Athens' importance cannot be understated. Few cities have enjoyed a history so rich in artistic creativity and the making of ideas; or one so curiously patterned by alternating cycles of turbulence and quietness. From the legal reforms of the lawmaker Solon in the sixth HARDCOVER century BCE to the travails of early twenty-first century Athens, as it struggles with the legacy of the economic crises of the 2000s, On Sale: 01/04/22 Clark brings the city's history to life, evoking its cultural richness Pegasus Books and political resonance in this epic, kaleidoscopic history. 9781643138756 History AUTHOR BIO First Print: 15,000 6 x 9, 352 pages Bruce Clark writes on European Affairs and Religion for The Carton quantity: 12 Economist. He has been diplomatic correspondent of the $27.95 (US) / $36.95 (CAN) Financial Times, Moscow correspondent for The Times, and Athens correspondent for Reuters. This is his first book to be AUTHOR HOMETOWN published in America. Bruce lives in Britain. Bruce Clark lives in Britain. OTHER FORMATS eBook: 9781643138763, $18.99 3 Shackleton Ranulph Fiennes BOOK DESCRIPTION An enthralling new biography of Ernest Shackleton by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. Shackleton is a captivating new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances. Written by polar adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes who followed in Shackleton's footsteps, he brings his own unique insights to bear on these infamous expeditions. Shackleton is both re-appraisal and a valediction, separating Shackleton from the myth he has become. AUTHOR BIO HARDCOVER Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have traveled around the Earth’s circumpolar surface—and his Arctic and On Sale: 01/04/22 Antarctic expeditions give him a unique perspective on the life of Pegasus Books 9781643138794 Shackleton. His record-breaking expeditions include travel by Biography & Autobiography riverboat, hovercraft, man-haul sledge, skidoo, Land Rover, and First Print: 9,000 skis. When not on one of his adventures, he lives in Britain. 6 x 9, 452 pages Carton quantity: 12 $29.95 (US) / (CAN) AUTHOR HOMETOWN Ranulph Fiennes lives in Britain Agincourt Agincourt 9781681773223 9781605989150 $16.95/ Can. $26.95/ Can. 4 Luckenbooth Jenni Fagan BOOK DESCRIPTION A bold, haunting, and startlingly unique novel about the secrets we leave behind and the places that hold them long after we are gone, a “quintessential novel of Edinburgh at its darkest.” (Irvine Welsh) There are stories tucked away on every floor of 10 Luckenbooth Close. 1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancée. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents—a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors as an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the HARDCOVER true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard. On Sale: 01/04/22 Luckenbooth is a bold, haunting, and dazzlingly unique novel Pegasus Books about the stories and secrets we leave behind—and the places 9781643138879 that hold them long after we are gone. Fiction First Print: 10,000 6 x 9, 352 pages AUTHOR BIO Carton quantity: 12 Jenni Fagan is an award-winning novelist, poet, screenwriter, $26 (US) / $35 (CAN) and playwright. She is the author of two prior novels, The Panopticon and The Sunlight Pilgrims, as well as a collection of AUTHOR HOMETOWN Jenni Fagan lives in Edinburgh poetry, The Dead Queen of Bohemia. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists OTHER FORMATS list. She lives in Edinburgh eBook: 9781643138886, $16.99 5 Aquanaut The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue Rick Stanton BOOK DESCRIPTION The enthralling inside story of the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand—told by the leader of the daring underwater rescue mission.