HarperCollinsPublishers LONDON BOOK FAIR 2020 TRANSLATION RIGHTS NON-FICTION Contents 3 • History & Reference 15 • Society & Current Affairs 23 • Art & Literature 29 • Music 33 • Life stories & Personal Narratives 43 • Nature & Environment 53 • Tech & Science 58 • Sports & Adventure 62 • Health & Wellbeing 79 • Gift & Humour 91 • Food & Drink 106 • Religion & Spirituality 109 • Children’s Reference & Parenting 116 • True Life 124 • Contacts History & Reference THE YOUNG ALEXANDER Alex Rowson In this brilliant biography, Alex Rowson offers an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great’s early years – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, but whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Imprint: William Collins Alexander the Great conquered land from Macedonia to Egypt to India, Editor: Arabella Pike known now both for his accomplishments and his precocity – he Publication: 13 May 2021 Format: Hardback achieved it all before dying abruptly at the age of thirty-two. But while Extent: 336pp much is known of his later years, almost nothing had survived of his first two decades – until now. Genre: Biography and autobiography Since the astonishing discovery of the tomb of Macedon – that of Alexander’s father – in 1977, archaeologists have been scouring what is Themes: True stories, political and military now northern Greece to uncover extraordinary details of life in ancient Macedonia. The author: Rowson is a writer and award-winning TV In this book, Alex Rowson tells this story, drawing from new knowledge to producer who has worked on some of the most portray the tempestuous relationship between Alexander’s parents, Philip successful history and and the Molossian princess Olympias, his education by Aristotle, and the archaeology programmes of strict military training which would serve him so well in later years. recent times, including Richard III: The King in the In a rare explosion of fresh understanding of the ancient world, Rowson Car Park (C4), Time Team (C4) and Digging for Britain offers a new story about a figure we all thought we knew. (BBC 4). 4 • LBF 2020 PUBLISHERS • HARPERCOLLINS THE ROAD TO GEOMETRY How Euclid’s Elements Built the World Benjamin Wardhaugh From mathematician and mathematics historian Benjamin Wardhaugh, a fascinating biography of Euclid, and a history of how his geometry shaped our culture and the world as we know it today. Imprint: William Collins Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. One Editor: Arabella Pike of the most read, most imitated and most challenged books of our Publication: 20 Aug 2020 history, it shaped the path of art, philosophy, architecture, and even Format: Hardback fashion – as well as setting maths off on its course, and making modern Extent: 336pp science possible. Ben Wardhaugh traces the legacy of this book, and Genre: Biography, History that of geometry, across every continent and the two thousand years of its influence so far, telling stories that range from Ptolemy to Newton, and The author: Wardhaugh is a Hobbes to Lewis Carroll. Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His Written by a mathematician, this history is one of culture: how Euclid and research focuses on the his geometry have been at the heart of sculpture, philosophy, music, history of numeracy and printing, and all matters of design – not just in Ancient Greece, but across mathematics, and the ways medieval Byzantium and Islam, early modern China, Renaissance Italy, maths influences cultures. He the age of European empires, and our world today. has taught in both the Mathematical Institute and the History Faculty. He is the This is a history of Euclid told not just as the legacy of maths, but as the author of several previous culture of our past two millennia. educational books. Rights sold to: HC Germany (German) BY THE SAME AUTHOR ‘Wardhaugh tells an almost incredible 5 • story of a boy working down the put hewing coal who went on to become a great mathematician and national LBF 2020 celebrity. He brings both the coal industry and Georgian London to life with style and wit.’ Matt Ridley PUBLISHERS • Rights sold to: HARPERCOLLINS HarperCollins (German) LOVE IN THE BLITZ The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War Eileen Alexander The rescue of an extraordinary talent from obscurity – one of the finest letter writers of the 20th century, Eileen Alexander. Her letters should be considered amongst the greatest war writing, as cinematic as Atonement or Suite Française. Imprint: William Collins The letters of Eileen Alexander are one of the great literary discoveries of Editor: Arabella Pike the 21st century, rescued from oblivion by an impulse eBay purchase. Publication: 30 April 2020 Format: Hardback Extent: 496pp In Summer 1939, Eileen Alexander, was a bright young graduate leaving Cambridge with a First. She was tentatively in love and war was brewing. She would spend the next years of her life in London, writing the most Genre: Document intimate, brilliant love letters of the Second World War. Themes: WWII, mid-20th century London cultural and Eileen’s letters to her love, Gershon Ellenbogen, are dazzling displays of political scene, love, Judaism intelligence and devotion. She is by turn generous, angry, scurrilous, and very, very funny. Over the years we learn her idiosyncrasies, her ability to For: Fans of Suite Française find a quotation from Elizabethan literature for every eventuality, her first by Irène Némirovsky or The Mitfords’ Letters edited by attempts at finding a job, and her experience of the Blitz. Letters are Charlotte Mosley, but also populated by the wartime cabinet ministers Eileen knew, the financiers, fiction in the vein of Heather art collectors, soldiers, philanthropists, and major figures of the Zionist Morris’ The Tattooist of movement. This edited volume travels through years of painful Auschwitz, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet and Ian uncertainty as a brilliant young woman waits for her beloved to return McEwan’s Atonement. from war. The author: Born in 1917 and Written over the course of the conflict, Eileen’s letters provide a vivid and raised in the London village personal glimpse of this historic era. Yet throughout the turmoil and of Hampstead, Eileen Alexander was a young bloodshed, one thing remains constant: her beloved Gershon, who Girton College, Cambridge remains a source of strength and support, even after he, too, joins the graduate when the Second fighting. Though his letters have been lost to time, the bolstering force of World War erupted across his love for Eileen is illuminated in her responses to him. Europe. During the War, she worked for the Air Ministry as 6 • an administrative assistant Equal parts heartrending and heart-warming, Love in the Blitz is a timeless while also meticulously romance and a deeply personal story. documenting her life and the war in letters to her LBF 2020 college sweetheart, Gershon Ellenbogen. The two would later go on to marry in March 1944. She is survived by two grandchildren. PUBLISHERS • Rights sold to: HCUS (US English) HARPERCOLLINS THE BOY WHO DREW AUSCHWITZ Thomas Geve (with Charlie Inglefield) Thomas Geve was a Birkenau, Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and Buchenwald survivor at just fifteen years old. The Boy who Drew Auschwitz is a profoundly moving true story of survival and hope, featuring powerful drawings of his experiences. Imprint: Harper NonFiction Spending twenty-two months imprisoned at these camps during WW2, Editor: Ed Faulkner Thomas was subject to, and forced to observe first-hand, events of the Publication: 21 Jan 2021 Format: Hardback most horrific nature, including the disappearance and eventual murder Extent: 384pp w/ col. of his mother. pictures On his eventual release he captured daily life in the death camps in 79 Genre: Biography heart-wrenching drawings. Infamous scenarios that are synonymous with this dark period of history were covered in brutal but simplistic detail: the Themes: WWII, Shoah ultimate humiliation of being processed into a number and the sheer The authors: Thomas Geve terror of a selection to the gas chambers were drawn with heart- was born in 1929 and grew breaking accuracy. up in Beuthen and Berlin. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1934 Thomas and Despite the unspeakable events he experienced, Thomas has decided to his family felt the force of tell his story for a new audience and continues to raise awareness about Nazi persecution; eventually the horrors of the Holocaust. he and his mother were arrested and taken to There have been many personal accounts of the Holocaust and each Birkenau and Auschwitz in June 1943. On his release, he one is special. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz presents a unique living found his father in London, testimony in words and drawings through the eyes of a child. It is an where he completed his inspiring true story of one boy’s quest for hope, survival and change. studies. Upon receiving his engineering degree, Thomas moved to Israel in July 1950. Thomas was married in 1963, has three children and now lives peacefully in Herzliya. Charlie Inglefield is a 7 • published writer based in Zug, Switzerland. Charlie began his career in London working in the financial LBF 2020 sector before moving to Australia where he held senior positions in business intelligence and healthcare PUBLISHERS • before moving to Switzerland in 2011 with his family. He is a graduate of Solent University. Rights available: WAL HARPERCOLLINS excluding Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese and Dutch. AN ATLAS OF EXTINCT COUNTRIES Gideon Defoe An Atlas of Extinct Countries meets David Nicholl’s Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. Imprint: Fourth Estate Countries die. Sometimes it’s murder, sometimes it’s by accident, and Editor: Helen Garnons- sometimes it’s because they were so ludicrous they didn’t deserve to Williams Publication: 3rd Sep 2020 exist in the first place.