6mm Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 ‘A story of love, loss and loyalty. We all loved this brilliant book.’ Prof. Kate Williams, Chair of Judges, Women’s Prize 2019 on An American Marriage by Tayari Jones ONEWORLD CATALOGUE ONEWORLD CATALOGUE ‘An extraordinary book.’ Michael Wood, Chair of the Man Booker Prize judges, on A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James ‘A novel for our times.’ Amanda Foreman, Chair of the Man Booker Prize 2020 JULY–DECEMBER judges, on The Sellout by Paul Beatty ‘Terrifying and brilliant... Dangerously addictive.’ Guardian on Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin ‘Strange, violent and wickedly funny.’ Guardian on Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi Autumn 2020_Catalogue Cover.indd 1 COVER 24/02/2020 10:12 NON-FICTION It’s almost a cliché to say our planet faces existential threats and politics grows more bitterly polarised. Oneworld is proud to be introducing a range of experts who can analyse – brilliantly – the crises we face. In Solved, Andrew Wear gives much-needed hope that our problems have tried-and-tested solutions. As inequality widens across the globe and populism surges, Yanis Varoufakis, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Arthur and David Brooks debate the fundamental question of our time: Is Capitalism Broken? Beyond passionate political discussion, we’re publishing books that enlighten and connect. In an astounding memoir, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, mother of Britain’s (and perhaps the world’s) most musical family, celebrates familial bonds and the scales of human creativity. From remote observatories, in company with the occasional marauding bear, Emily Levesque aims for the stars and turns her telescope on the lives of fellow astronomers. Back to the Classics, Emma Southon takes us on a crime scene investigation of ancient Rome, and Philip Womack will help you teach Greek Myths to your dog. Finally, the greatest unsolved mystery of the French Resistance and its involvement with British intelligence is brought to life by the careful detective work of Patrick Marnham. Our list embraces the power of books to inform and delight, and maybe even bridge some of the divides between us. 1 ONEWORLD | NEW ONEWORLD | NEW JULY JULY Is Capitalism Broken? Voices of a Massacre Yanis Varoufakis, Arthur Brooks, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 David Brooks Edited by Nasser Mohajer, Foreword by Angela Davis The Munk Debate on Capitalism Eyewitness accounts reveal how the Iranian state secretly executed thousands of political prisoners There is a growing belief that the capitalist system in the summer of 1988 no longer works. Inequality is rampant. The environment is being destroyed for profits. In some In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed Western nations, life expectancy is even falling. to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Political power is wielded by wealthy elites and Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders big business, not the people. But for proponents of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political of capitalism, it is the engine of progress, not just prisoners around the country were secretly brought making all of us materially better off, but helping before a tribunal panel that would later become to address everything from women’s rights to known as ‘the death commission’. They were not political freedoms. told what was happening and did not know that one ‘wrong’ answer concerning their faith or We seem to stand at a crossroads: do we need to fix political affiliation would send them straight to the system as a matter of urgency, or would it be the gallows. better to hold our nerve? Popular Economics Through eyewitness accounts of survivors, research July 2020 by scholars and memories of children and spouses History £7.99 of the deceased, Voices of a Massacre reconstructs July 2020 144pp the events of that bloody summer. Over thirty US: August 2020 A Format Paperback years later, the Iranian government has still not £30/$40 ISBN: 9781786079176 480pp eISBN: 9781786079183 acknowledged that these killings took place. Royal Hardback Territories: UK/BC ISBN: 9781786077776 eISBN: 9781786077783 Territories: World ex Iran Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the author of several international bestselling books, including Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, and Adults in the Room. Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, bestselling author and a Washington Post columnist. His latest book is Love Your Enemies. Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She writes a weekly column for the Washington Post. Nasser Mohajer is a writer and researcher of contemporary Iranian history. He has lived and worked in France since 1983, frequently collaborating with other Iranians David Brooks is a New York Times columnist and author of the bestselling The Road to in exile. He has edited and published books and articles about the experiences of the Character and The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. Iranian diaspora and the prisons of the Islamic Republic. 2 3 POINTONEWORLD BLANK | NEW| NEW ONEWORLD | NEW OCTOBERJULY JULY Solved Weirdest Maths How other countries cracked the world’s biggest problems At the Frontiers of Reason (and we can too) David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee Andrew Wear The future we want is already here – it’s just not The startlingly young genius and his professor evenly distributed delve into the rich and strange world of mathematics Denmark is set to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. Iceland has topped the gender Maths is everywhere, in everything. It’s found equality rankings for a decade and counting. at the finest margins of modern sport. It’s in the South Korea’s average life expectancy will soon electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of reach ninety. How have these places achieved such every bird. It is our key to secret messages, lost remarkable outcomes? And how can we apply languages and perhaps even the shape of the those lessons to our own communities? universe itself. If other countries can do it, so can we. By bringing together for the first time tried and tested solutions ‘The brilliant combination of an accomplished to society’s most pressing problems, from violence science writer and a young mathematical prodigy.’ to inequality, Andrew Wear shows that the world Bobby Seagull, author of The Life-Changing we want is already within reach. Magic of Numbers and co-presenter of Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Guide to Britain. Solved is a much-needed dose of optimism in an Society & Social Sciences; Popular Mathematics; Popular Science Popular Economics atmosphere of doom and gloom. Informative, July 2020 July 2020 accessible and revelatory, it is a celebration of the US: August 2020 US: August 2020 power of human ingenuity to make the future £9.99/$17.95 £16.99/$21.99 256pp Export TPB: £12.99 brighter for everyone. B Format Paperback 336pp ISBN:9781786078056 Short Royal Hardback eISBN: 9781786078063 Export Trade Paperback Territories: World ISBN: 9781786079015 David Darling is a science writer, astronomer and tutor. TPB: 9781786079497 He is the author of nearly fifty books, including the bestselling eISBN: 9781786079008 Territories: World ex ANZ Equations of Eternity. He lives in Dundee, Scotland. Agnijo Banerjee is one of the world’s most outstanding young mathematicians. Aged thirteen he attained the highest possible score on Mensa’s IQ test and in 2018 he became the first Andrew Wear has degrees in politics, law, economics and public policy, person from the UK in 24 years to obtain a perfect score in the and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School. A fellow of the International Mathematical Olympiad. He was born in India, Institute of Public Administration Australia, his work appears in peer- but grew up in Scotland. © Paul Hermes © Paul reviewed journals as well as in the Guardian, The Mandarin and others. © Alan Richardson weirdmaths.com 4 5 ONEWORLD | NEW ONEWORLD | NEW AUGUST AUGUST The Last Stargazers America and Iran The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers The Long and Winding Road, from 1720 to the Present Emily Levesque John Ghazvinian What does an astronomer actually do? An epic history revealing how the US and Iran We all look to the stars, but what separates a went from allies to adversaries over the course of professional stargazer from the rest of us? three hundred years To be an astronomer is to journey to some of the In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and most inaccessible corners of the globe, braving John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian mountain passes, sub-zero temperatures, and Empire, while Iranians regarded America as hostile flora and fauna. Not to mention the an ideal their own government might emulate. pressure of handling equipment worth tens Beginning there, how did they become the enemies of millions. It is a life of unique delights and they are today? absurdities, and one that may be coming to a close. Since Galileo, astronomy has been a fount of In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian human creativity and discovery, but soon it will be traces the complex story of relations between the robots gazing at the sky. these two powers. Drawing on years of research conducted in both countries – including access In The Last Stargazers, Emily Levesque celebrates to Iranian government archives rarely available an era of ingenuity and curiosity, and asks us to to Western scholars – he leads us through the Popular Science; Astronomy four seasons of US–Iranian relations: the spring think twice before we cast aside that sense of History August 2020 wonder. of mutual fascination; the summer of early August 2020 £18.99 interactions; the autumn of close, strategic ties; £30 320pp and the long, dark winter of hate.