4th estate & william collins catalogue january-june 2016

4TH ESTATECATALOGUE 2016

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4TH ESTATE + WILLIAM COLLINS

CATALOGUEJANUARY–JUNE 2016

4TH ESTATE

BOOKS FOR THE INDEPENDENT READER


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A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning

Publication Date 14.01.2016

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Meet Veblen. She’s an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her namesake, the economist Thorstein Veblen. She’s also a fi rm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand everything she says . . .

Elizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie

A riotously funny and A riotously funny and A riotously

deeply insightful funny and deeply insightful funny and

adventure through deeply insightful adventure through deeply insightful

capitalism, the adventure through capitalism, the adventure through

medical industry, capitalism, the medical industry, capitalism, the

family, love, war medical industry, family, love, war medical industry,

and wedding-family, love, war and wedding-family, love, war

planning and wedding-planning and wedding-


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An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our tastes and eating habits from a much-loved food writer

First Bite by Bee Wilson

Drawing on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists and nutritionists, Wilson reveals that our food habits are shaped by many factors: family, culture, memory, gender, hunger and love. From people who can only eat foods of a certain colour to an amnesiac who can eat meal after meal without getting full, First Bite also shows us how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives.

Bee Wilson is an award-winning food writer, historian and author. She lives in Cambridge.

An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our tastes and eating habits from a much-loved food writer


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Death in Devon by Ian SansomJoin our heroes on another adventure into the dark heart of 1930s England as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of … Death in Devon.

‘Superbly entertaining’ The Times

Ian Sansom is an author, journalist and broadcaster. The Norfok Mystery was published in 2013.


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Swallow This by Joanna Blythman


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A revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat.

‘Outstanding … Food for thought’ Observer

‘Riveting’ Telegraph

Joanna Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food journalist and the author of Shopped and The Food We Eat.

Join our heroes on another adventure into the dark heart of 1930s England as they follow up a with a bad case of … Devon.

‘Superbly entertaining’ Times

Ian Sansom is an author, journalist and broadcaster. The Norfok Mystery published in 2013.

A revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat.

‘Outstanding … Food for thought’ Observer

‘Riveting’

Joanna Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food journalist and the author of Shopped and Shopped and ShoppedEat.



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A fi ercely compelling debut about a sixteen-year-old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to a life-or-death struggle

Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser

As the fi rst fl akes of a blizzard fall, sixteen-year-old Percy sets off to fi nd her troubled mother, Carletta. Fearing Carletta is strung out on meth and won’t survive the storm, Percy heads for Shelton Potter’s cabin. There, instead of her mother, she fi nds a crying baby girl left all alone upstairs – and determines to bring her to safety.

Travis Mulhauser is from Petoskey, Michigan. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

A fi ercely compelling debut about a sixteen-year-old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to a life-or-death struggle


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From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality

The Man Without a Shadowby Joyce Carol Oates

In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets amnesiac Elihu Hoopes. Handsome and personable, he can follow the rules of a tennis game and recite lines from the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr, but most of his memory remains in fragments, shattered by a vicious infection that has clouded anything that happened more than seventy seconds previously . . .

Joyce Carol Oates’s recent books include Carthage, The Sacrifi ce and The Lost Landscape. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality


Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny


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‘Gives women’s interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way’ Lena Dunham

‘A tour de force about love, deception, friendship, and fl irtation’ Elle ‘Woody Allen meets Candace Bushnell. Fascinatingly sleazy, always funny’ Daily Mail

Barbara the Slut by Lauren Holmes


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‘Astonishing. The last time we had a debut this big was Junot Díaz with Drown’ Philipp Meyer

‘Fresh, darkly funny, sassy and savvy’ Tatler

‘Darkly sparkling stories … Holmes is one to watch’ Stylist

‘Beautifully brazen’ Elle

the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way’ Lena Dunham

‘A tour de force about love, deception, friendship, and fl irtation’

‘Woody Allen meets Candace Bushnell. Fascinatingly sleazy, always funny’

had a debut this big was Junot Díaz with

‘Fresh, darkly funny, sassy and savvy’ Tatler

‘Darkly sparkling stories … Holmes is one to watch’

‘Beautifully brazen’

4th Shorts


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4th Shorts

Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock


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An incredible debut novel: a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.

‘A work of brutal, hilarious poetry’ Rachel Cusk

‘Refreshing, radical, exuberant’ Guardian

Originally from Yorkshire, Stevan Alcock now lives in London. He is working on his second novel.

Black Run by Antonio Manzini


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Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps.

‘An Italian detective to rival Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano’ GQ

‘Diamond-hard crime writing’ Financial Times

Manzini is the author of two mysteries featuring Rocco Schiavone. Adam’s Rib will be published in 2016.

a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.

‘A work of brutal, hilarious poetry’ Rachel Cusk

‘Refreshing, radical, exuberant’

Originally from Yorkshire, Stevan Alcock now lives in London. He is working on his second novel.

sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps.

‘An Italian detective to rival Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano’

‘Diamond-hard crime writing’ Financial Times

Manzini is the author of two mysteries featuring Rocco Schiavone. published in 2016.


Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson


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A coming-of-age novel showing the promise and perils of youthful exuberance, while painting an indelible portrait of contemporary America.

‘The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you’ll read this year’ Washington Post

Johnson is a professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Welcome to Braggsville is longlisted for the National Book Award 2015 and the Andrew Carnegie Award.

Mainlander by Will Smith


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The thrilling debut from the comedy writer and stand-up star – a novel about not belonging.

‘John le Carré meets Middlemarch’ Independent

‘The Wicker Man meets Fargo. Which isn’t a bad thing’ Guardian

A writer on Veep and The Thick of It, Smith spent his formative years in Jersey, and now lives in London.

A coming-of-age novel showing the promise and perils of youthful exuberance, while painting an indelible portrait of contemporary America.

‘The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you’ll read this year’ Washington Post

Johnson is a professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Welcome to Braggsville longlisted for the National Book Award 2015 and the

The thrilling debut from the comedy writer and stand-up star – a novel about not belonging.

‘John le Carré meets Middlemarch

‘The Wicker ManWhich isn’t a bad thing’

A writer on of It, Smith spent his formative years in Jersey, and now lives in London.

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A campaigning handbook, a thrilling work of popular science, and a call to arms for doctors, researchers and patients from Britain’s fi nest writer on the science behind medicine

Statins are the single most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the developed world, taken by over 100 million people. We know that statins do some good – but little else. This can be fi xed, with a few simple changes that weld big data onto the heart and art of medicine. Ben Goldacre gives patients the tools they need to make their own decisions.

Ben Goldacre is a doctor, journalist, broadcaster, academic and the author of the bestsellers Bad Science, Bad Pharma and I Think You’ll fi nd It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That. He lives in London.

A campaigning handbook, a thrilling work of popular science, and a call to arms for doctors, researchers and patients from Britain’s fi nest writer on the science behind medicine

Do Statins Work?The Battle for Perfect Evidence-Based Medicine by Ben Goldacre



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Of all the birds of the British Isles, the raptor reigns supreme, sparking the imagination like no other. In a magnifi cent hymn to these beautiful animals, James Macdonald Lockhart explores all fi fteen breeding birds of prey on these shores – from the hen harrier swimming over the land in the dregs of a May gale on Orkney, to the ghostly sparrowhawk displaying in the fi elds around his home in Warwickshire. This is a book that will change how we think of our own skies.

A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald

Raptor A Journey Through Birdsby James Macdonald Lockhart


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The co-founder of OK Cupid explores what our digital footprints can tell us about human relationships.

‘If you want to understand how data is aff ecting the present and what it portends for the future, buy it now’ Huffi ngton Post

Rudder now serves as chief data analyst and author of the popular blog OkTrends. He lives in Brooklyn.

explores what our digital footprints can tell us about human relationships.

‘If you want to understand how data is aff ecting the present and what it portends for the future, buy it now’

Rudder now serves as chief data analyst and author of the popular blog OkTrends. He lives in Brooklyn.

‘Not only a highly personal, witty love letter to 80s movies, but also an intellectually vigorous, well-researched take on the changing times of the fi lm industry’ Guardian

Hadley Freeman writes for the Guardian and US Vogue. She is the author of Be Awesome and lives in London.

Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

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Claire is a single mum in Norwich working in one of England’s last remaining shoe factories. Her life hasn’t worked out quite as she hoped. Arun is an elderly Indian man who still makes chappals by hand. A recovering alcoholic, he is settling into old age. A novel about dying industries, families and ordinary life, The Living reveals the often overlooked beauty in our everyday vocabulary and everyday life.

Saraswati Park won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and the Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Her second novel was Another Country. Anjali Joseph lives in India.

The Livingby Anjali Joseph

A tender, lyrical novel from the author of the prize-winning Saraswati Park, which off ers profound insights into everyday life, capturing its simultaneous tedium and beauty

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Join Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, as he sets off to Westmorland to continue his history of England. Morley’s daughter Miriam continues to cause chaos and his assistant Stephen Sefton continues to slide deeper into depression and despair. In this new instalment of the ‘County Guides’, there are wild gypsies and star-crossed lovers, archaeological digs, the Appleby fair and a mysterious train crash …

Ian Sansom is an author, journalist and broadcaster. The Norfolk Mystery was published in 2013, and Death in Devon in 2014.

Welcome to Westmorland, Lake-land, the home of English literature: a country of tourists, outsiders and wanderers. The third instalment of the much-loved ‘County Guides’

Welcome to Westmorland, Lake-land, the home of English literature: a home of English literature: a home of English

country of tourists, outsiders and country of tourists, outsiders and country of tourists,

wanderers. The third instalment of the much-loved ‘County Guides’

Westmorland Aloneby Ian Sansom


Ten Tales of Persuasionby Philip HensherBackdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency – from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India, where a Soho hedonist starts to envisage the crump and soar of munitions. Each story, regardless of location, reveals a great writer at the peak of his powers.

Philip Hensher is a much-respected journalist and author of The Northern Clemency, The Mulberry Empire and The Emperor Waltz. He lives in London.

Ten daring stories from ‘a writer who seems capable of anything’ (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher


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Green Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett


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A breathtakingly original, darkly comic, surprisingly contemporary and deeply surreal tale.

‘Page after page of unforgettable, resonant and sometimes moving prose…One of the most refreshing novelists writing today’ Guardian

Corbett is the author of This Is the Way, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. He lives in Dublin.


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Three wickedly funny sisters. One family’s extraordinary legacy. A single suicide note that spans a century ... A magnifi cent, unforgettable masterpiece.

‘Had me devouring the pages … Tragic, touching and – against all odds – strangely uplifting’ Stylist

Mitchell is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

One family’s extraordinary legacy. A single suicide note that spans a century ... A magnifi cent, unforgettable masterpiece.

‘Had me devouring the pages … Tragic, touching and – against all odds – strangely uplifting’

Mitchell is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs

darkly comic, surprisingly contemporary and deeply surreal tale.

‘Page after page of unforgettable, resonant and sometimes moving prose…One of the most refreshing novelists writing today’ Guardian

Corbett is the author of Is the WayNovel of the Year. He lives in

A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell

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In 2001, 148 handwritten diaries were discovered inside a yellow skip, fl apping in the breeze, looking somehow alive. Revealing the unfulfi lled inner world of someone, born in the late 1930s, whose dreams of becoming an artist were replaced by a more humdrum – and familiar to most – existence. The result is this totally absorbing, unusual, funny and poignant book

Stuart: A Life Backwards won the Guardian First Book Award and was turned into a BBC fi lm. Alexander Masters lives in Sussex.

A Life Discarded 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters

The author of Stuart: A Life Backwards takes biography to new heights in this unforgettable, unique and deeply thought-provoking book

The author of Stuart: A Life Backwardsbiography to new heights in this unforgettable, unique and deeply thought-provoking book


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All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead

On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed irrevocably. Tony, her partner, was drowned while saving their son from a riptide. All at Sea looks at class, race, privilege and prejudice through the prism of Decca’s life and Tony’s death. It stares into the dark chasm of our worst nightmare – an accidental tragedy – and somehow fi nds the light on the other side.

Decca Aitkenhead is an award-winning journalist for the Guardian newspaper. She lives in Kent with her two sons.

A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, profound memoir of love and loss from one of our most popular journalists

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The Porcelain Thief by Huan Hsu


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A witty, wise and truthful beauty handbook for real women on what works in real life, from Sali Hughes, beloved journalist and broadcaster.

‘Sali decodes beauty for any woman with smart, simple and practical advice’ Bobbi Brown

‘If it’s on my face, it’s because Sali recommended it’ Caitlin Moran

Part memoir, part journey, part archeological expedition, The Porcelain Thief off ers remarkable insight into Hsu’s intriguing family and China’s tumultuous past.

‘An engrossing way into contemporary China’ Literary Review

Huan Hsu currently lives in Amsterdam, where he works as a freelance writer and editor for academic and cultural institutions.

Part memoir, part journey, part archeological expedition, The Porcelain Thief remarkable insight into Hsu’s intriguing family and China’s tumultuous past.

‘An engrossing way into contemporary China’ Review

Huan Hsu currently lives in Amsterdam, where he works as a freelance writer and editor for academic and

A witty, wise and truthful beauty handbook for real women on what works in real life, from Sali Hughes, beloved journalist and broadcaster.

‘Sali decodes beauty for any woman with smart, simple and practical advice’ Bobbi Brown

‘If it’s on my face, it’s because Sali recommended it’ Caitlin Moran

Pretty Honest by Sali Hughes

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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It Allby Jonas JonassonHitman Anders is fresh out of prison and determined not to go back. He meets a female Protestant vicar and a receptionist from a 1-star hotel and together they cook up a very unusual business idea – but then when Anders unexpectedly fi nds God, the vicar and the receptionist have to fi nd a new plan, and quick ...

Jonas Jonasson is the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden.

From the internationally bestselling Jonas Jonasson, a madcap, feel-good adventure about belief, the media – and the fact that it’s never too late to start again

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about belief, the good adventure about belief, the good adventure

media – and the fact that it’s never too late to start again



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Graham wants an orderly life but is married to the impulsive, gregarious Audra, who speaks a foreign language, full of references to people he couldn’t possibly know, and descriptions using colors like persimmon and xanthe. Jane is engaged to Duncan, a promiscuous locksmith. Duncan thinks he’ll be a fine husband for five years. Jane likes five-year plans (she’s always felt she’d make a good communist) but is this what she wants in a marriage?

Katherine Heiny is the author of Single, Carefree, Mellow, a fantastically received short-story collection. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and children.

Standard Deviationby Katherine Heiny

Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, this sensational debut will appeal to fans of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby, Nora Ephron and Lorrie Moore

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I Will Find You by Joanna Connors

When Joanna Connors was thirty years old, she was held at knife-point and raped. Twenty-one years later, she embarked on a journey to fi nd out who her attacker was, where he came from and what his life was like. I Will Find You is a brave, timely consideration of race, class, education and how life shapes who we become.

Joanna Connors lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and works as a writer and reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The powerful, unfl inching and deeply humane story of a journalist’s quest to uncover the life of the man who raped her 21 years ago

I Will Find You

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deeply humane unfl inching and deeply humane unfl inching and

story of a deeply humane story of a deeply humane

journalist’s quest story of a journalist’s quest story of a

to uncover the life journalist’s quest to uncover the life journalist’s quest

of the man who raped her 21 years ago

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Out of Time by Miranda SawyerMiranda Sawyer’s mid-life crisis began, when she was 44, as a sort of queasiness. She felt too as though she was missing something. Mourning the loss of something – a person? a place? – that was once there, but had gone. Perhaps she should have upped and left her family for a Portuguese waiter. Instead she sat down and wrote about it.

Miranda Sawyer is a hugely respected journalist. She writes for the Observer, GQ, Vogue and the Guardian.

A very modern look at the mid-life crisis – delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour

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What We Cannot Knowby Marcus du Sautoy

Are there limits to what we can discover about our physical universe? Are there ideas so complex that they are beyond the conception of our fi nite human brains? Are there true statements that can never be proved true? Exploring the limits of human knowledge, Marcus du Sautoy asks us to rein in our unbridled enthusiasm for the power of science.

Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins. He is one of the UK’s leading scientists, a journalist and broadcaster. He lives in London.

Britain’s most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know

Britain’s most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what edge of knowledge to show us what edge of knowledge

we cannot know



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We are taught that the world is a top-down place. As compelling as it is controversial, this is a book that will change the way we think about the world and the way it works.

‘What a superb writer he is’ Richard Dawkins

Ridley’s books have been translated into 30 languages. He writes regularly for The Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Left of the Bang by Claire Lowdon


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Daringly, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the ‘lost generation’ of young Londoners today.

‘A Vanity Fair of our times’ Stylist

The Assistant Editor of Arete, Lowdon has written for the TLS, New Statesman, Observer and The Sunday Times.

Daringly, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the ‘lost generation’ of young Londoners today.

‘A Vanity FairStylist

The Assistant Editor of Arete, Lowdon has written for the Statesman, Observer The Sunday Times.

We are taught that the world is a top-down place. As compelling as it is controversial, this is a book that will change the way we think about the world and the way it works.

‘What a superb writer he is’ Richard Dawkins

Ridley’s books have been translated into 30 languages. He writes regularly for

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They All Love Jack Busting the Ripperby Bruce RobinsonBruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history’s most notorious serial killers to remain at large. Much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend and an enthralling hunt for the killer, this is a polemic, forensic investigation, panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson’s inimitably vivid and scabrous prose.

‘The breadth of research is staggering; the accumulation of evidence remorseless’ Telegraph

Bruce Robinson’s screenplays include Withnail and I and The Killing Fields. He is the author of several books including The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman.

The British use a euphemism for corruption, it’s called tradition

The British use a euphemism for corruption, it’s euphemism for corruption, it’s euphemism for

called traditioncorruption, it’s called traditioncorruption, it’s

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Foxloweby Eleanor Wasserberg

Foxlowe is a crumbling old house on the moors, a wild and magical place where Green lives with the rest of the Family. For Green, Foxlowe is everything. But as Green’s little sister, Blue, grows up, she shows more and more interest in the Outside, and then she starts to talk about becoming a Leaver . . .

Eleanor Wasserberg is a graduate of the Creative Writing programme at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Norwich.

A chilling, compulsive debut about group mentality, superstition and betrayal – and a utopian commune gone badly wrong

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The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister


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A delightfully escapist modern fable set in an imaginary European country.

‘A dream of a book’ Grazia

‘Funny, wise and charming’ Daily Mail

Seni Glaister is a co-founder of The Book People. This is her fi rst novel.

Children of the Master by Andrew Marr


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fable set in an imaginary European country.

‘A dream of a book’ Grazia

‘Funny, wise and charming’ Daily Mail

Seni Glaister is a co-founder of The Book People. This is her fi rst novel.

One doomed Prime Minister.Two would-be successors.But who’s pulling the strings?

An uncannily prescient novel about shenanigans within the Labour Party and its explosive election for a new leader.

Andrew Marr is Britain’s most respected political commentator and broadcaster.

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Mislaid by Nell Zink


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‘Mislaid catapults Zink straight into the company of not only Franzen, but also Donna Tartt and Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and John Irving. Zink takes her big-name predecessors in her stride and goes that bit weirder’ Daily Telegraph

Longlisted for the National Book Award.

The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink


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‘A talent that is as rare and strange as a kestrel on Oxford Street . . . A slim, strange masterpiece, and one of those alluring, elliptical, exceptional novels that I will want to keep rereading for the rest of my life’ The Sunday Times

Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

into the company of not only Franzen, but also Donna Tartt and Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and John Irving. Zink takes her big-name predecessors in her stride and goes that bit weirder’ Telegraph

Longlisted for the National Book Award.

‘A talent that is as rare and strange as a kestrel on Oxford Street . . . A slim, strange masterpiece, and one of those alluring, elliptical, exceptional novels that I will want to keep rereading for the rest of my life’ The Sunday Times

Longlisted for the Book Award.

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In 2013, the Bolshoi Ballet’s artistic director was attacked with battery acid. Everyone has a stake in the settling of the crime. The tale is thickly layered, Russia itself being a kind of theatre where the truth is illusive. Morrison cuts to the core of the crime and the foundations of the buildings – the Bolshoi and the Kremlin – where it was scripted.

Simon Morrison is a professor of music at Princeton University. He specializes in 20th-century music, particularly Russian and Soviet music.

The story of the Bolshoi, showcasing the glamour, beauty, prestige and cruelty of life in the spotlight – and of Russia itself

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Bolshoi Confidential Secrets of the Russian Ballet – From the Rule of the Tsars to the Age of Putin by Simon Morrison



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From the author of The Perfect Storm and War comes a book about what happens when veterans return to the greatest battleground of all: home

Homeby Sebastian JungerWhy do men miss war? Why did Londoners miss the Blitz? What can we learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home? Junger examines our natural inclination to live a solider’s life – in packs, reliant on each other. As affluence rises in a society, so do suicide rates, depression and PTSD. Studying returning veterans shows how we might reverse this trend.

Sebastian Junger is a bestselling author and contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He lives in New York.

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What are a gluten-free diet’s long-term effects? Why does gluten affect different parts of people’s bodies? Can you really lose weight on a gluten-free diet? A distinguished medical specialist and an expert on the gluten-free diet offer reliable science to answer these questions and guidance in navigating your way to a healthier and symptom-free life.

Peter Green is director of the Celiac Disease Foundation, a professor of clinical medicine and attending physician at Columbia University. Rory Jones is a science writer and award-winning film producer who has spent the past decade researching and writing about celiac disease.

Gluten Exposed The Science Behind the Hype and How to Navigate a Healthy, Symptom-free Life by Dr Peter Green and Rory Jones

Should you give up gluten? The first book to burst the bubble and address what is really going on in our bodies and brains

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Jende and Neni Jonga have come from Cameroon to the United States to fi nd a better life. When Jende lands a job working for a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, they can at last gain a foothold in America. However, as the Great Recession hits home, the troubling secrets and lethal cracks within the world of power and privilege are soon exposed.

Imbolo Mbue was born in Cameroon. She lives in New York. This is her fi rst novel.

Behold the Dreamersby Imbolo Mbue

For fans of Americanah and Bonfi re of the Vanities comes a debut novel about marriage, class, race and the trapdoors in the American Dream

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The Great Soul of Siberia In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger by Sooyong Park


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Renowned tiger researcher Sooyong Park tracks three generations of Siberian tigers living in remote south-eastern Russia. He sets up underground bunkers to observe the tigers, living thrillingly close to these beautiful but dangerous predators. Over the two years of his harrowing stakeout, Park’s poignant and poetic observations of the tigers draw a fi ercely compassionate portrait of these elusive, endangered creatures.

An award-winning documentary fi lmmaker, Sooyong Park has devoted over twenty years to studying and fi lming Siberian tigers. He lives in Seoul, Korea.

The gripping account of one man’s determination to discover, fi lm and understand one of the rarest and most formidable big cats in the world

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Stressed, Unstressed Classic Poems for Mindful Reading Chosen by Jonathan Bate, Paula Byrne, Sophie Ratcliffe and Dr Andrew Schuman


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Again and again over the centuries great poets return to love and death and memory – remembrance of childhood joy, of happy days and beautiful places, of loved ones we have lost, or feeling at peace and at one with the natural world. Stressed, Unstressed harvests an array of poems that will speak to you when you are processing your worries. This anthology offers everyone a guide to mindfulness and bibliotherapy.

Jonathan Bate is a well-known literary scholar. Paula Byrne is a bestselling author and Chief Executive of The Bibliotherapy Foundation. They live in Oxford. Sophie Ratcliffe teaches poetry. Andrew Schuman is a GP.

A little book filled with one of the oldest of all remedies for stress – poetry

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Who Gets What – And Why? by Alvin E. Roth

‘A brilliantly original thinker’ Tim Harford

For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, this groundbreaking book uncovers how matchmaking shapes lives, and how markets exist everywhere.

Alvin E. Roth is one of the world’s leading experts in market design. He was co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics.


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Trigger Warning by Mick Hume


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‘This is an important book, and couldn’t be more timely’ Salman Rushdie

Is the fear of being off ensive killing free speech? In this blistering polemic, Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West by a creeping culture of conformism.

Mick Hume has written for The Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent and the Sun.

and couldn’t be more timely’ Salman Rushdie

Is the fear of being off ensive killing free speech? In this blistering polemic, Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West by a creeping culture of conformism.

Mick Hume has written for The Times, the Independent

Tim Harford

For fans of and Thinking, Fast and Slowthis groundbreaking book uncovers how matchmaking shapes lives, and how markets exist everywhere.

Alvin E. Roth is one of the world’s leading experts in market design. He was co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics.

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Catullus’ BedspreadThe Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poetby Daisy Dunn


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This book offers a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history. It is told through the life of Catullus, one of Rome’s greatest writers, and records a life beset with the wit, lust, love, loss and political conflict that characterised the end of the Roman Republic.

Dr Daisy Dunn read Classics at Oxford, followed by an MA in Art History at the Courtauld and a PhD in Classics at UCL. She writes for the Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Standpoint, Evening Standard, History Today and Apollo. She is based in London.

A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man’s wife and made it known to the world through his verse

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The Last Days of the Spanish Republicby Paul Preston

Focussing on three individuals – Dr Juan Negrin, the victim of what might be called a conspiracy of fools; Julian Besteiro, the naïf; and the cynical, arrogant, selfish Segismundo Casado – Paul Preston tells the shocking story of a humanitarian disaster and the worst possible end to the tragedy that was the war in Spain.

The leading historian on Spain, Paul Preston CBE is Príncipe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish History at LSE. Among his many works are Franco, The Spanish Civil War and The Spanish Holocaust.

The story of a preventable tragedy that cost tens of thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War

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From the author of the acclaimed Mr China comes another rollicking adventure story – part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio – that off ers valuable lessons to help Westerners succeed in China.

Tim Clissold was educated at Cambridge University and lived and worked in China for more than 20 years.

From one of Time’s ‘Top 100 most important people’, the story of a charity which now feeds a million children a day all over the world.

‘One simple decision, and thousands of starving children have been fed. That’s what Magnus did’ Gerard Butler

Mary’s Meals is a charity giving children one daily meal in their place of education.


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The Shed That Fed a Million Childrenby Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

From one of most important people’, the story of a charity which now feeds a million children a day all over the world.

‘One simple decision, and thousands of starving children have been fed. That’s what Magnus did’ Gerard Butler

Mary’s Meals is a charity giving children one daily meal in their place of education.

From the author of the acclaimed another rollicking adventure story – part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio – that off ers valuable lessons to help Westerners succeed in China.

Tim Clissold was educated at Cambridge University and lived and worked in China for more than 20 years.

Chinese Rules by Tim Clissold


In this gripping real-life psychological and sexual thriller, twenty-year-old Mélodie discovers in just 48 hours how ISIS emotionally entices ordinary people online and traps them into joining their gruesome jihad.

A young female journalist, Anna Erelle is still under threat today and cannot reveal her true identity.


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The compelling account of the evolution of a terrorist organization, and the fullest attempt yet to answer the question of what our next move – as a country, as a government, as the world – should be.

Jessica Stern serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.J. M. Berger is the critically acclaimed author of Jihad Joe.

In this gripping real-life psychological and sexual thriller, twenty-year-old Mélodie discovers in just 48 hours how ISIS emotionally entices ordinary people online and traps them into joining their gruesome jihad.

A young female journalist, Anna Erelle is still under threat today and cannot reveal her true identity.

ISIS by Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger

ISIS Bride by Anna Erelle

The compelling account of the evolution of a terrorist organization, and the fullest attempt yet to answer the question of what our next move – as a country, as a government, as the world – should be.

Jessica Stern serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.J. M. Berger is the critically acclaimed author of

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Rob Bell and his wife Kristen present a new way to understand relationships.

Rob Bell is the bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About God.

Rob and Kristen Bell have been married for twenty years and live in Los Angeles.

What do you do with the rest of your life after you’ve achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, explorers and athletes of the twentieth century.

Chris Wright has won several journalism awards around the world. He lives in London.


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What do you do with the rest of your life after you’ve achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, explorers and athletes of the twentieth century.

Chris Wright has won several journalism awards

Kristen present a new way to understand relationships.

Rob Bell is the bestselling author of About When We Talk About God

Rob and Kristen Bell have been married for twenty years and live in Los Angeles.

No More Worlds to Conquer by Chris Wright

The ZimZum of Love by Rob and Kristen Bell

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Professor Brian Cox will reveal some of the most extraordinary phenomena and events on Earth. He will reveal why Earth is the most colourful world we know, exploring the white light of the sun as it travels through the darkness of space until it hits Earth’s atmosphere where it begins a new journey, splitting into a rainbow of colours.

Professor Brian Cox OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. He lives in London.

Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series Forces of Nature. He is an honorary lecturer in Life Sciences at the University of Manchester and lives in London.

The author of Wonders of Life and Human Universe is back with his new BBC TV series and tie-in book, Forces of Nature


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Forces of Natureby Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

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Explorers staggering through Africa’s interior, eccentrics living out their dreams on the African savannah, decadent émigrés, railway labourers, Indian settler communities, African intellectuals and rebels, the private lives of the fi rst African leaders of independent nations, Cold War intrigues, even Che Guevara – you will fi nd them all here, united by a deep love for Shakespeare. From Zanzibar, through Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan, the book takes us on an unforgettable journey that reveals a hidden history of both Shakespeare and this region of Africa – a celebration of beauty out of place.

Brought up in Kenya, Edward Wilson-Lee teaches Shakespeare at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Shakespeare in Swahililand Adventures with the Ever-Living Poetby Edward Wilson-Lee

Published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in April 2016, a breathtaking exploration into Shakespeare as a global poet

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Grand Adventuresby Alastair Humphreys

Whether you’ve always dreamed of cycling to the Sahara, walking across Australia or rafting the Amazon, the longest journeys all begin with a single step. Al looks at the scary obstacles that are stopping us and shows us that there are ways around them, if we choose to take the plunge. Saving your pennies, overcoming inertia, getting out the front door – tiny steps, grand adventures.

Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer, author and blogger. When he is not trekking up a mountain, jumping into a lake or cycling around the world, he can be found writing in his garden shed in Kent.

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From the legends of indigenous peoples in the Arctic to the science of the aurorae and the implications this has for the vital relationship between the Earth and the Sun, Melanie Windridge combines a lucid and fascinating exposition of the science behind the lights with an elegant travelogue as she pursues the aurorae in their different forms across the globe.

Dr Melanie Windridge has a PhD in Plasma Physics from Imperial College London. She works as a consultant for science and technology start-up companies and in education.

Seeing the Lightby Dr Melanie Windridge

The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. Their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts and imagination of people across the globe

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‘Unforgettable’ Daily Telegraph

‘I have not lately read a fi ner book than this … a masterpiece’ New Statesman

‘Full of intelligence, compassion, curiosity and brilliant writing’ Spectator

Raghu Karnad is an award-winning writer who lives between Bangalore and New Delhi.


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‘Unlikely to be surpassed; gracious and humane’ Evening Standard

‘A spellbinding synthesis of analysis and highly personal reportage’ Independent

‘Brave and exceptional … if you had to recommend one book on Afghanistan then this should be it’ Daily Telegraph

Christina Lamb is a multi-award-winning Sunday Times journalist and bestselling co-author of I Am Malala.

‘Unlikely to be surpassed; gracious and humane’ Standard

‘A spellbinding synthesis of analysis and highly personal reportage’

‘Brave and exceptional … if you had to recommend one book on Afghanistan then this should be it’ Daily Telegraph

Christina Lamb is a multi-award-winning Sunday Times

‘Unforgettable’

‘I have not lately read a fi ner book than this … a masterpiece’ New Statesman

‘Full of intelligence, compassion, curiosity and brilliant writing’

Raghu Karnad is an award-winning writer who lives between Bangalore and New Delhi.

Farewell Kabul by Christina Lamb

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‘Compelling … Hart-Davis has captured a profoundly moving and pivotal moment’ Sunday Telegraph

Combining both hardship and humanity, Our Land at War examines the profound changes war brought to Britain’s countryside – and casts new light on Britain during the war.

Duff Hart-Davis has written and edited over fi fty books. He lives in the Cotswolds.


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‘Magnifi cent ... by far the most enjoyable account of the battle’ Dominic Sandbrook

A breathtaking portrait of Britain as it fought Waterloo, the single most celebrated day in its modern history – from pauper to painter, poet to prince and soldier to civilian.

David Crane’s Empires of the Dead was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in north-west Scotland.

‘Magnifi cent ... by far the most enjoyable account of the battle’ Dominic Sandbrook

A breathtaking portrait of Britain as it fought Waterloo, the single most celebrated day in its modern history – from pauper to painter, poet to prince and soldier to civilian.

David Crane’s Dead was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in north-west Scotland.

‘Compelling … Hart-Davis has captured a profoundly moving and pivotal moment’ Telegraph

Combining both hardship and humanity, Our Land at War examines the profound changes war brought to Britain’s countryside – and casts new light on Britain during the war.

Duff Hart-Davis has written and edited over fi fty books. He lives in the Cotswolds.

Went the Day Well? by David Crane

Our Land at War by Duff Hart-Davis

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The harrowing story of his wife’s sudden death in a car accident and how Dante’s Divine Comedy helped Joseph Luzzi endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.

Joseph Luzzi holds a doctorate from Yale and teaches at Bard College. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Times Literary Supplement.


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A social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world’s most beloved dogs.

Praise for Ben Fogle:‘Funny, entertaining and really rather inspiring, too’ Daily Mail

Ben Fogle is a presenter, writer and adventurer. His passion for animals and wildlife has taken him all over the world.

A social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world’s most beloved dogs.

Praise for Ben Fogle:‘Funny, entertaining and really rather inspiring, too’

Ben Fogle is a presenter, writer and adventurer. His passion for animals and wildlife has taken him all over the world.

The harrowing story of his wife’s sudden death in a car accident and how Dante’s Comedy helped Joseph Luzzi Comedy helped Joseph Luzzi Comedyendure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.

Joseph Luzzi holds a doctorate from Yale and teaches at Bard College. His writing has appeared in TheTimes and TheSupplement.

Labrador by Ben Fogle

In a Dark Wood by Joseph Luzzi

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The Well Gardened Mindby Sue Stuart-Smith

At this point in the 21st century, with rates of depression, anxiety and mental disorders ever on the rise and medication becoming normalised, this pioneering science book is the fi rst to take an in-depth look at the connections between gardening and mental health. Combining neuroscience and psychoanalysis with deep research and compelling real-life stories, Sue Stuart-Smith shows how many of the physical and mental processes involved in gardening are ones that are recognised as facilitating neural and emotional change.

A prominent psychiatric psychotherapist, Sue is married to garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith, with whom she has created the Barn Garden in Hertfordshire.

From a psychotherapist, a book that explains the interaction of mind and nature, and how the act of gardening off ers nurture, renewal and regeneration to our brains


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When in 2014 former FBI agent Robert K. Wittman fi nally discovered the lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi High Priest, it opened a window into the mind of the ‘philosopher’ of the Nazi party, a man instrumental in providing justifi cations for Hitler and his nation’s actions. With the fi rst ever access to the diary’s observations, conversations and Nazi plans, it provides fascinating new details of Hitler’s rise to power and governance of the Reich.

Robert K. Wittman served as the FBI’s top investigator in cases involving art theft for 20 years. David Kinney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Dylanologists.

The extraordinary discovery of a ground-breaking document, and an examination of rumour, obsession and evil

Devil’s Diary Hitler’s High Priest and the Hunt for the Lost Papers of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney

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How can we achieve everything we want, either in a day or in a lifetime? Algorithms to Live By identifies the fundamental mathematical structure of these challenges and studies them within the context of computer science. This investigation sheds new light on how the mind works, and reveals what we can learn about ourselves from the shared problems faced by computers and humans alike. Brian Christian is the bestselling author of The Most Human Human, which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Tom Griffiths is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Algorithms to Live Byby Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Discover the simple, precise algorithms that computers use to solve complex ‘human’ problems, and what they tell us about the nature and origin of the mind


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Acclaimed science writer Frank Ryan leads us through the most exciting scientifi c discoveries of the last 50 years, revealing how this science has unlocked the cure for some genetic diseases and developed the use of DNA in forensic science.

Dr Frank Ryan is a consultant physician based in Sheffi eld.

‘Makes an important case colourfully, convincingly and at times courageously as he confronts some of those involved in the pillaging’ Observer

Tom Burgis is investigations correspondent at the Financial Times. In 2013 he won the prestigious Jerwood Award. He lives in London.


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colourfully, convincingly and at times courageously as he confronts some of those involved in the pillaging’ Observer

Tom Burgis is investigations correspondent at the Financial Timeswon the prestigious Jerwood Award. He lives in London.

Acclaimed science writer Frank Ryan leads us through the most exciting scientifi c discoveries of the last 50 years, revealing how this science has unlocked the cure for some genetic diseases and developed the use of DNA in forensic science.

Dr Frank Ryan is a consultant physician based in Sheffi eld.

The Mysterious World of the Human Genome by Frank Ryan

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When the Jungs married in 1903, Emma was the richest heiress in Switzerland, Carl the son of a penniless pastor. Their marriage included a famous ménage à trois, as well as other flirtations – all within the context of the scandalous new movement of psychoanalysis. Mind Games charts how Emma struggled to come to terms with Carl’s brilliant, complex character, finally emerging triumphant as an analyst in her own right.

Catrine Clay was a BBC producer for 20 years. She is the author of King Kaiser Tsar and Trautman’s Journey, which won the Best Sports Biography of the Year. She lives in London.

Mind Games Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis by Catrine Clay

An eye-opening account of Emma and Carl’s highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud and the early years of Psychoanalysis, based on revealing family sources


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Kathleen Kennedy’s marriage to the most eligible bachelor in England became first an intrigue and soon a scandal for the great families of the United States and the United Kingdom. Through whirlwind romance and subsequent tragedy, Kick proved herself to be far more than simply the second sister of Jack, Bobby and Ted: a feisty and unique product of two countries, she became a force of personality the Kennedys rarely mentioned, and led an astonishing life buried from public history.

Paula Byrne is the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Perdita, Mad World and The Real Jane Austen. She is married to the academic and author Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford.

The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and largely forgotten – Kennedy sister who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history

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Kick The True Story of JFK’s Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne



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An intimate account of a year-long reading of Homer’s Odyssey – with its eternal themes of travel, adventure and transformed identities – that acclaimed writer Daniel Mendelsohn undertook with his ailing father, in the classroom and around the Mediterranean in Odysseus’ footsteps. How the poem effects recognitions between them, and the questions it raises once his father begins to die, become the stuff of a profound and moving adventure.

Daniel Mendelsohn writes frequently for the New Yorker and is a columnist for the New York Times. His books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. He teaches at Bard College.

An Odyssey A Father, A Son and An Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn

From the award-winning and bestselling author of The Lost, a deeply resonant memoir about a father, a son and the lessons of a literary classic

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Wagnerby Simon CallowDuring a wildly unpredictable 69-year life, Richard Wagner became the hero of his era and the official protagonist of the newly unified Germany. The architect of the four-day, fifteen-hour epic, he was the self-proclaimed Musician of the Future. In a bold retelling of Wagner’s life, bestselling author and acclaimed actor Simon Callow gets inside the head of this most complex of figures.

Simon Callow is an actor, director and author of several books including Being an Actor and Charles Dickens.

Based on his critically acclaimed one-man show, Simon Callow presents an entertaining short biography of Wagner


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Lost for a century, a vast collection of stunning images were discovered, abandoned, in a farm house. Photographs of British soldiers involved on the Western Front feature proud units, friendships, and bonds formed between the soldiers and civilians. Beautifully reproduced, this is a unique collection and a magnifi cent memorial.

Ross Coulthart is an investigative journalist for Australian news and current aff airs programme 60 Minutes. He is also the bestselling author of three books, including Lost Diggers. He lives in Australia.

The Lost Tommies by Ross Coulthart

Never-before-seen images of Western Front Tommies and their amazing stories are rediscovered in a beautiful collection that is part thriller, part family history and part national archive

Never-before-seen images of Western Front Tommies and their amazing stories are rediscovered in a beautiful collection that is part thriller, part family history and part national archive


A chance discovery of ancestor Angus Macmillan led Cal Flyn on a journey to Australia to discover more. As the famed ‘founder’ of Gippsland, south-east of Melbourne, she finds statues and campuses, parks and streets named for him. She also discovers Macmillan had been responsible for some of the worst massacres of the Aboriginal people in the 19th century. The ‘founder’ of Gippsland was in fact its butcher. This deceptively simple narrative expands into a book that reflects on inherited guilt, the importance of truth and reconciliation to heal deep scars in societies as well as the potential of unchecked casual racism to develop into genocide.

Cal Flyn is a freelance journalist from the Highlands of Scotland. Previously she has been a reporter for both the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph.


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Thicker Than Water by Cal Flyn

Part memoir, part journey into the dark side of Australia’s past told through the experience of Flyn’s fêted pioneering ancestor

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My Dear Ones One Family and the Final Solution by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

Widowed suddenly in 1937 when her husband, a well-known rabbi, dies of a stroke, Regina Freimann strives to keep in touch with her family as the Nazi’s racially determined policies make themselves felt in the personal story of Regina and her family, as they, simultaneously, weigh their dilemmas and hopes, caught up within a vortex of forces over which they have no control.

Jonathan Wittenberg is one of the most important figures in British Jewry and head of one of the largest synagogues in Europe.

A deeply immersive memoir about a family fleeing from Nazi persecution, as revealed in the handwritten correspondence they kept up throughout the war

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Re-evaluating the core question of diplomacy – who do we represent? – Fletcher discusses smart power, soft power and the new interventionism. With real-world examples of how diplomacy is having a significant impact on people’s lives, and why it will continue to do so, this is the refreshed case for diplomacy in the 21st century.

Tom Fletcher was the British Ambassador to Lebanon until July 2015. He has been Foreign Policy Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, and Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Gordon Brown. He was awarded a CMG in 2011.

The Naked Diplomat Power and Statecraft in the Digital Century by Tom Fletcher

Tom Fletcher presents the case for paring diplomacy back to its essential elements. Stripped of the paraphernalia, what is it really about, and why does it still matter?

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‘Where Seldon excels is in his understanding of political relationships. Seldon and Snowdon are adept at convincing friends and colleagues to talk candidly’ The Times

Anthony Seldon is one of Britain’s pre-eminent political biographers and contemporary historians and the author of Blair and Brown at 10.Peter Snowdon duty edits BBC Radio 4’s fl agship Today programme.


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‘As gripping as any spy thriller ... the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times

‘Hastings is on form. He has set out to provide thought and discussion and, with his familiar robustness, shotgun at side, he has succeeded’ The Times

Max Hastings is a journalist and the author of numerous books, including Catastrophe and the bestselling and acclaimed All Hell Let Loose. He lives in West Berkshire.

... the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Times

‘Hastings is on form. He has set out to provide thought and discussion and, with his familiar robustness, shotgun at side, he has succeeded’

Max Hastings is a journalist and the author of numerous books, including Catastrophebestselling and acclaimed Hell Let LooseBerkshire.

in his understanding of political relationships. Seldon and Snowdon are adept at convincing friends and colleagues to talk candidly’ The Times

Anthony Seldon is one of Britain’s pre-eminent political biographers and contemporary historians and the author of Blair and Blair and BlairPeter Snowdon duty edits BBC Radio 4’s fl agship programme.

The Secret War by Max Hastings

Cameron at 10 by Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon

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‘The most riveting TED talk ever’ Oprah Winfrey

‘Hyeonseo Lee brought the human consequences of global inaction on North Korea to the world’s doorstep’ Samantha Power, US representative to the UN

Hyeonseo Lee grew up in North Korea but escaped to China in 1997. She is now settled in Seoul, South Korea.

‘[A] fascinating study of the intertwined lives of microbes and humans’ Newsweek

How our microbes infl uence our weight, immune system, mental health, obesity, autism, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer and even our choice of partner.

Alanna Collen is a well-travelled zoologist and an accidental collector of tropical diseases. She lives in Bedfordshire.


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intertwined lives of microbes and humans’

How our microbes infl uence our weight, immune system, mental health, obesity, autism, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer and even our choice of partner.

Alanna Collen is a well-travelled zoologist and an accidental collector of tropical diseases. She lives in Bedfordshire.

‘The most riveting TED talk ever’ Oprah Winfrey

‘Hyeonseo Lee brought the human consequences of global inaction on North Korea to the world’s doorstep’ Samantha Power, US representative to the UN

Hyeonseo Lee grew up in North Korea but escaped to China in 1997. She is now settled in Seoul, South Korea.

The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

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Following a childhood spent in opulent castles, Robert de La Rochefoucauld trained in England with the Special Operations Executive. He returned to France highly skilled in the dark arts of resistance and, whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, acquitted his tasks with the icy calm of an aristocrat. Funny, brave and wily, his thrilling life combines a nobleman’s bearing with the heart of a true fighter.

Paul Kix is a senior editor at ESPN Magazine, and has written for numerous publications from the Boston Globe to the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker.

The Noble Assassinby Paul Kix

The true and enthralling adventures of the French aristocrat who was trained by Churchill’s SOE to become a famed wartime spy and anti-Nazi saboteur

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Based on explosive new evidence, a provocative portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful, and secretive, colossus in Washington.

David Talbot is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and Season of the Witch.

‘An outstanding piece of writing, full of wonderfully sharp judgments’ Mail on Sunday

An intimate portrait of Stephen and Natasha Spender’s extraordinary lives, written by their son Matthew.

Matthew Spender is a sculptor and author. He lives with his wife, artist Maro Gorky, on a farm near Siena.


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writing, full of wonderfully sharp judgments’ Sunday

An intimate portrait of Stephen and Natasha Spender’s extraordinary lives, written by their son Matthew.

Matthew Spender is a sculptor and author. He lives with his wife, artist Maro Gorky, on a farm near Siena.

Based on explosive new evidence, a provocative portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful, and secretive, colossus in Washington.

David Talbot is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years Season of the Witch

The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot

A House In St John’s Wood by Matthew Spender

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The Black DoorSecret Intelligence and 10 Downing Streetby Richard Aldrich and Rory CormacThe Black Door explores the secret corridors of Whitehall, chronicling the relationships between intelligence agencies and prime ministers. From Churchill’s code-breakers informing the Soviets to Eden’s attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, from Wilson’s paranoia about an MI5-led coup to Thatcher’s covert wars in Central America, Aldrich and Cormac cast new light on the way governments rely on intelligence – now as never before.

Richard Aldrich is a regular commentator on war and espionage. He is the author of several books, including the acclaimed GCHQ. Rory Cormac is one of the country’s best-qualified intelligence researchers and an expert in covert action.

Investigating the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council

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Coverage includes China (south of the line used to defi ne the Palearctic), Hainan (treated separately from SE China), Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and the Coco Islands. Covers the birds’ key identifi cation features with information on habitat, songs and calls. Beautiful artwork depicts their breeding plumage, and non-breeding plumage when it diff ers signifi cantly.

Wildlife artist Norman Arlott has illustrated nearly 100 books and his artwork regularly appears in magazines. He has led ornithology tours to East Africa and lives in Norfolk.

Collins Field Guide Birds of South-East Asia by Norman Arlott

This easy-to-use guide to the birds of South-East Asia is the essential travel companion for experienced birdwatchers and novice birders alike

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In a much-anticipated volume on one of Britain’s most fascinating group of birds, Richard Sale draws on a wealth of experience and research, providing a comprehensive natural history of the four British breeding falcons. The book takes each of the four breeding species in turn, exploring its form, habitat, breeding biology and status, along with a chapter on the hunting techniques of each species.

Praise for the New Naturalist series:‘Taken either individually or as a whole, they are one of the proudest achievements of modern publishing’ The Sunday Times

Richard Sale is a writer and photographer. He has written many books, including, with Eugene Potapov, The Gyrfalcon.


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Collins New Naturalist Library Falcons by Richard Sale

Falcons have been a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike

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Collins Complete British Butterflies and Moths by Paul Sterry and Andrew CleaveEvery species that occurs regularly in Britain and Ireland is included, along with a section dealing with the ‘rarest of the rare’ – extinct species or very rare immigrants. The main section of the book covers our larger moths; every species that occurs regularly in Britain and Ireland is mentioned.

Paul Sterry, author and photographer of numerous books, has travelled extensively around the country taking photographs for this guide. Trained as a zoologist, Paul has been a wildlife photographer for over 20 years and regularly undertakes research expeditions.

Featuring all flowering plants, including trees, grasses and ferns, this fully revised and updated field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published.

David Streeter is Reader in Ecology in the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sussex and a member of the editorial board of the prestigious Collins New Naturalist series. He has served on the council of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and as chairman of its Conservation Committee and he is president of the Sussex Wildlife Trust.

Collins Wild Flower Guide [Second Edition] by David Streeter, Illustrated by Christina Hart-Davies, Audrey Hardcastle, Felicity Cole and Lizzie Harper

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The ideal pocket guide for travelling naturalists and butterfl y enthusiasts alike and an essential addition to every nature lover’s bookshelves.

Tom Tolman developed an interest in botany and natural history in the 1970s and has since developed a passion for butterfl ies. Richard Lewington is one of the world’s leading natural history illustrators, specialising in insects and other invertebrates. He lives in Oxfordshire.

Collins British Butterfl y Guide by Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington

Experience the joy of discovering the natural world around you with this beautiful pocket guide to British butterfl ies, an inspiration and treat designed to enthral all nature lovers



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Walking Through Spring by Graham HoylandThe joy of the natural world will be seen, smelled and experienced as the season arrives. The journey also engages with England’s rural characters: farmers, tractor drivers, pub landlords and narrow-boat owners. Away from the streams of gleaming cars and motorways, can springtime help us reconnect with the old England of The Wildwood and Pan?

Graham Hoyland’s Last Hours on Everest explored his discovery of George Mallory’s fate in a similarly discursive way. He was previously ex-Radio 4 producer of history and exploration programmes.

Graham Hoyland creates a new English trail, walking with the spring from the south coast in March up to the border with Scotland which he reaches on the longest day: the 21st of June

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In 2014 the Somerset Levels suff ered from the worst fl ooding in over 20 years; Taming the Flood reveals how harnessing nature, rather than attempting to repress it, is the only answer.

Jeremy Purseglove has worked as an environmentalist in the water industry for over a decade. He lives in Cambridge.


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Ingram takes us high into the rafters of Britain’s most forbidding, unfl inching and unchanging wild places through all the seasons of the year – from the fi rst blush of spring to the deepest, darkest bite of the mountain winter.

Simon Ingram is the editor of Trail, the UK’s bestselling hillwalking magazine. He lives in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Ingram takes us high into the rafters of Britain’s most forbidding, unfl inching and unchanging wild places through all the seasons of the year – from the fi rst blush of spring to the deepest, darkest bite of the mountain winter.

Simon Ingram is the editor of Trail, the UK’s bestselling hillwalking magazine. He lives in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

In 2014 the Somerset Levels suff ered from the worst fl ooding in over 20 years; Taming the Flood harnessing nature, rather than attempting to repress it, is the only answer.

Jeremy Purseglove has worked as an environmentalist in the water industry for over a decade. He lives in Cambridge.

Between the Sunset and the Sea by Simon Ingram

Taming the Flood by Jeremy Purseglove

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