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November 2018£12.99

B formatHardback

304ppISBN 978 1 78125 640 4

Rights sold: Grove Atlantic, USASample chapter available

Gaston Dorren is the author of the bestselling Lingo and contributes regularly to Onze Taal, the popular linguistics magazine. He speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German and Spanish, and reads French, Afrikaans, Frisian, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Luxembourgish and Esperanto. For this book, he also learnt Thai.

LanguageNEW TITLE

BabelAround the World in 20 LanguagesGaston Dorren

A quirky language-lovers’ tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world – what puts them a cut above the other 6000?

• Following the success of his first book, Lingo, about Europe’s languages, Gaston turns his attention to the twenty languages spoken by half the world

• Gaston Dorren is a polyglot extraordinaire – he’s Dutch, but has mastered fifteen other languages

• The perfect gift for language lovers – anyone who enjoyed Lingo, or reads the likes of David Crystal or Stephen Pinker

• Covering: Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Swahili, Malay, Japanese, Tamil, Turkish, Persian, Vietnamese and more

If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel you could chat to more than half the world’s population. And you could talk to another quarter of the world who speak them as second languages.

As he did in Lingo, Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these global tongues, tracing their origins and tracking their sometimes bloody rise to greatness. He listens to their sounds and deciphers their array of scripts, presents the gems and gaps in their vocabularies and charts their inventive coinages and surprising loans. He explains the oddities of their grammars, which order their speakers’ worldview but often appear bafflingly complex to outsiders.

Learn • Why Russian has no word for blue;• How Turkish stopped borrowing words;• Why Arabic is possibly the hardest language to learn;• The future of Chinese script;• The Latin alphabet’s gory past;• The difficulties of having four forms for ‘I’ as in Vietnamese.

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September 2018£20.00Royal OctavoHardback368ppISBN 978 1 78125 792 0

Rights sold: St Martin’s Press, USAProofs available

Oliver Bullough is the author of two non-fiction books about Russian history and politics: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great.

Current AffairsNEW TITLE

MoneylandWhy Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It BackOliver Bullough

Travels in the secret country that owns our world

• Pieces several of the biggest news stories of the past years, from the Panama and Paradise Papers to Ukraine, Trump, and runaway inequality, into a single coherent diagnosis

• Punchy, sardonic takedowns of the world’s most villainous rogues gallery

• Deep original reporting on four continents

From the ruins of Kiev to the Bond-villain lairs of Knightsbridge and Central Park, something has gone wrong with the system of the world. Join investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into the universe of the superrich, where kleptocrats rub shoulders with terror financiers, captains of industry and western heads of state.

Learn how the institutions of the United States and Europe have become money-laundering operations. Discover the true cost of being open for business, no matter the customer. Meet the dictators. Meet their awful children. And find out how activists around the world are fighting back.

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B formatHardback

160ppISBN 978 1 78816 028 5

All rights availableProofs available

Ken Thompson is a plant biologist with a keen interest in the science of gardening. He writes and lectures extensively and has written four gardening books, including Compost and No Nettles Required, as well as books on biodiversity (Do We Need Pandas?) and invasive species (Where Do Camels Belong?).

NatureNEW TITLE

Darwin’s Most Wonderful PlantsDarwin’s Botany TodayKen Thompson

A rediscovery of Darwin the revolutionary botanist

• Darwin books are legion – but there is very little on the botany that consumed so much of his time and thought

• Ken Thompson writes highly accessible science: he is both an academic plant biologist and a gardening columnist (for the Telegraph)

• Beautifully illustrated with contemporary drawings, this makes a perfect gift for gardeners who share Darwin’s fascination with the actions of ‘the most wonderful plants’

Most of us think of Darwin’s theory of evolution as being drawn from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin spent most of his time experimenting with and observing plants at his house in Kent. He was particularly interested in carnivorous and climbing plants, and in pollination and the evolution of flowers.

Darwin was a revolutionary botanist whose observations and theories are only now being confirmed by high-tech modern research. Like Darwin, Ken Thompson is fascinated and amazed by the powers of plants – particularly their triffid-like aspects of movement, hunting and ‘plant intelligence’. This is a much-needed book that re-establishes Darwin as a pioneering botanist, whose close observations of plants were crucial to his theories of evolution.

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November 2018£8.99B formatTrade Paperback256ppISBN 978 1 78816 136 7

All rights available

GiftSeriously CuriousThe Facts and Figures that Turn our World Upside DownTom Standage

Following 2016’s hit Go Figure, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist

• Follow-up to Go Figure , which sold over 20,000 copies, and sold in fifteen languages

• Like the New Scientist series ‘Why Don’t Penguin’s Feet Freeze?’, but with a broader range of subjects – for curious minds of any age

• Drawn from the Economist website’s most popular column – which attracts readers from around the world

Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn’t know you didn’t know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for explanations.

• What can a president actually do?

• Why do cities sink into the ground?

• Why is Australia seemingly invulnerable to recessions?

• Why do people in couples do more housework than singletons?

The brilliant minds of the Economist explore these questions, and many more, revealing a whole new world.

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Reference

August 2018£10.99

190x90Hardback

256ppISBN 978 1 78816 114 5


Pocket World in Figures 2019The Economist

The new edition of this annual international bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2019

• More than 200,000 copies sold each year

• Discover the world through stats on industry, economics, geography, culture and more

• Charts and tables bring data to life, and a quiz tests how well you know your world

For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensible handbook on the state of the world, covering demographics, industry, politics, geography, culture and more.

Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that Ukraine is the most equal country on earth, that Tajikistan has the world’s highest divorce rate or that Monaco, uniquely, has more telephone landlines than people?

The new edition includes data from over 180 countries, presented in a series of rankings and country profiles. Updated, revised and expanded each year to include new rankings and features, it also includes detailed statistical profiles of more than 65 of the world’s major economies, the euro area and the world itself.

And, once again, the 2019 edition will include charts and graphs, and will invite readers to test their knowledge with its world rankings quiz.

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August 2018£6.99165x115Trade Paperback112ppISBN 978 1 78816 056 8

All rights availableSample chapter available

Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert B. Cialdini are renowned practitioners of the science of persuasion. Together, they are the authors of the Royal Society Prize-listed international bestseller Yes! and The small BIG.

Self-HelpBusinessNEW TITLE

The Little Book of YesHow to win friends, boost your confidence and persuade othersNoah Goldstein, Steve Martin and Robert Cialdini

The pocket-sized companion to the international bestseller, bringing persuasive science into all areas of your life

• Yes! has sold over 100,000 copies – this book is the perfect compliment and extends the original’s reach into more personal areas

• Like The Decision Book or Sunday Times Bestselling Little Black Book, this is a small, beautiful package that will appeal to the millennial market and is great for pick-up and till-point purchases

• How to Win Friends and Influence People for the Twitter age – short, humane and effective nuggets of advice on engaging and persuading people

This pocket-sized volume will become your go-to for ensuring that the world says ‘yes’ to you and your requests more. It contains twenty-one short chapters, each outlining an effective persuasion strategy proven to increase the chances that someone will agree to your request. The timeless principles and practical lessons can be used to tackle everyday challenges, from repairing a soured relationship to negotiating a higher fee for your work; from convincing a friend to take action, to building your social network.

Full of wisdom from the leaders in influence, this little book is essential reading for any freelancer, manager, entrepreneur, parent or person who wants more from their world.

Sold in 27 languages

100,000 copies sold

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September 2018£14.99

Demy OctavoHardback

208ppISBN 978 1 78816 046 9


Iain Sinclair was born in South Wales and lives, walks and writes in East London. His books include Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Prize), Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, American Smoke and The Last London.

Medicine/ArchitectureLiving With BuildingsHealth and architectureIain Sinclair

A ground-breaking exploration of how architecture affects our health from a world-renowned writer

• Exciting work on a universal topic from one of Britain’s bestselling writers on cities and place

• The author has travelled extensively for this project, including to Marseilles, London, the Outer Hebrides and Sweden

• Accompanies a major Wellcome Collection exhibition on the same subject, with significant marketing and publicity campaigns

Buildings shape our lives and our health. They affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate us, make us unwell or put us in danger, but they can also heal. We, in turn, make our buildings an extension of ourselves: our hopes, fears and vanities. The structures we choose to inhabit absorb our histories and leave traces for future generations to read.

In Living With Buildings Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of journeys – through London, Marseilles, the Outer Hebrides and Sweden – to explore the conflicted relationship between sickness and structure. He investigates the connection between art, architecture, social planning and health, and takes his writing to new and exciting places.

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October 2018£12.99B formatHardback224ppISBN 978 1 78816 095 7

All rights availableSample chapters available

EssaysNEW TITLE

Body of EssaysGreat writers get under the skinNaomi Alderman, AL Kennedy, Philip Kerr, Thomas Lynch and others

Leading authors tackle different body-parts in this collection accompanying a BBC radio series

• Arresting and personal new writing from Naomi Alderman, AL Kennedy, Philip Kerr, Ned Beauman, Thomas Lynch and others

• Accompanies the broadcast of the third series of BBC Radio 3’s popular A Body of Essays

• An enlightening gift for anybody who has a body

Our organs are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. And yet they all have stories to tell.

And who better to tell them than fifteen of the world’s finest writers? Working with medical experts, each writer has chosen a different organ: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines and our obsession with food and digestion; AL Kennedy gets inside the nose and our sense of smell; Philip Kerr traces the development of brain surgery; and Ned Beauman argues that the appendix might not be as useless as we think.

Moving, comical and endlessly fascinating, this book is an unforgettable voyage through the mysterious landscape of our anatomy.

Featuring writing from:• NAOMI ALDERMAN on the intestines• AL KENNEDY on the nose• NED BEAUMAN on the appendix• WILLIAM FIENNES on the bowel• PHILIP KERR on the brain• MARK RAVENHILL on the gall bladder• ANNIE FREUD on the kidney• DALJIT NAGRA on the lungs• CHRISTINA PATTERSON on skin• CHIBUNDO ONUZO on the thyroid• THOMAS LYNCH on the womb• PATRICK MCGUINNESS on the ear• KAYO CHINGONYI on blood• ABI CURTIS on the eyes• IMTIAZ DHARKER on the liver

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November 2018£9.99

B formatHardback

192ppISBN 978 1 78125 908 5

Rights sold: Little Brown, USASample chapter available

Tiffany Watt Smith is the author of The Book of Human Emotions. She is a research fellow at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions, and was also a 2014 BBC New Generation Thinker. She lives in London.

Social History/Gift NEW TITLE

SchadenfreudeThe joy of another’s misfortuneTiffany Watt Smith

A hilarious quest to understand life’s ultimate guilty pleasure

• A smart and fun gift from the author of the popular The Book of Human Emotions (over 30,000 copies sold; sold in six languages)

• Brilliant and funny writing on a feeling that crosses cultures

• Will appeal to readers of On Bullshit and On the Pleasure of Hating

Schadenfreude – enjoying the failures of others – is an all-too-familiar feeling. It has perplexed philosophers and psychologists for centuries but, what with polarised politics and Twitter trolls, we’re now said to be living in the ‘Age of Schadenfreude’. But why can it be so much fun to witness another’s distress?

Historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting outrageous confessions on the way, she argues that Schadenfreude can reveal profound truths about our relationships and our sense of ourselves. Frank, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about this much-maligned emotion.

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January 2019£16.99Demy OctavoHardback320ppISBN 978 1 78125 832 3

All rights availableProposal available

Linda Geddes is a science journalist who specialises in biology, medicine and technology. She has worked for New Scientist magazine, and has received numerous awards for her journalism. She is also the author of Bumpology: The Myth-Busting Pregnancy Book for Curious Parents-To-Be.

Social HistoryNEW TITLE

Our Solar BodiesLinda Geddes

The full story of our relationship with the sun

• We’ve all experienced jet-lag – but what about the other ways we are affected by our circadian rhythms? A universal question with fascinating answers

• This book contains a vast amount of original primary research, along with examples taken from around the world

• Linda Geddes is an award-winning science journalist who travels often and is active on social media

From Stonehenge to the Pyramids of Egypt, our ancestors constructed vast monuments across the world to keep track of the sun. For most of mankind’s history, the sun has dictated our daily patterns of eating, sleeping and activity. It has shaped our culture and belief systems. It has even shaped human biology.

Bursting with original and cutting-edge research, this book tells the full story of our long and complex relationship with the sun, from the emergence of life on earth, through to the modern day, and explores what it means to lose our connection with it. It also invites us to rethink the significance of the sun in our lives and to better exploit our relationship to improve our health, sleep and productivity and happiness.

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Demy OctavoHardback

256ppISBN 978 1 78816 050 6

All rights available (Hungarian rights via Pfd Ltd)

Manuscript available

Norman Stone is one of Britain’s greatest historians. He was until recently professor of European history at Bilkent University, having been professor of modern history at Oxford. His works include The Eastern Front, 1914–1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize), Europe Transformed and The Atlantic and Its Enemies.

HistoryHungaryA Short HistoryNorman Stone

A short history of Hungary for academics and travellers alike

• Norman Stone is an internationally celebrated and well-known academic

• The author has fluent Hungarian

• A new and fascinating history

Hungary has a fascinating and complicated history. Norman Stone, pre-eminent historian of central Europe, traces its story from the present day to its roots in the nationalist movements of the nineteenth century, the revolutions of 1848 and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

When Hungary was born in 1918, it was one-third the size of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hungary suffered economic collapse followed by fascist dictatorships, only ended by brutal Nazi occupation. Post-war optimism ended when the Iron Curtain came down. In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell; since then, it has been a patchy story of economic growth and democracy – though the future looks uncertain.

It is an extraordinary story, told with aplomb, verve and wit.

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February 2019£20.00Royal OctavoHardback480ppISBN 978 1 78125 725 8


Barnaby Rogerson has been travelling the Islamic world for the last forty years, first as a young man writing guidebooks, then as a journalist, and finally as a writer of histories. He is publisher of the acclaimed travel list, Eland Books. His books include The Prophet Muhammad: a Biography, The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and The Last Crusaders.

HistoryThe House DividedIslam’s Sunni-Shia ConflictBarnaby Rogerson

The schism of Islam between Sunni and Shia, from the death of the Prophet to the current political turmoil in the Middle East

• It is impossible to make sense of the civil war in Syria, the feud between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the disaster in Yemen or growing Middle East tensions, without an understanding of the Sunni-Shia schism

• By the author of three acclaimed books of Islamic history, The Prophet Muhammad: a Biography, The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and The Last Crusaders

• Rogerson is an authority on Middle East history and has presented documentaries for BBC and Al Jazeera

In order to understand the events in the Middle East today, we must understand the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 AD. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender fault line in the Middle East.

This is a vivid and pulsating tale full of doomed heroes and secret conspiracies as Rogerson shows how the rivalry between Arab, Turk and Persian has shaped the modern chessboard of nation states, oil wells, mountains and minorities. It is vital to understand these storylines, or this disastrous schism may pull us all apart.

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April 2018£15.00

OtherHardback

356ppISBN 978 1 78125 997 9

Rights sold: Linking, Taiwan; Athenaeum, Holland; Gingko, China

HistoryCivilisations: First Contact/ The Cult of ProgressAs seen on TVDavid Olusoga

Companion to the major BBC TV series CIVILISATIONS

Historian David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. In Part One, First Contact, we discover what happened to art in the great Age of Discovery, when civilisations first encountered each other. In Part Two, The Cult of Progress, he explores how the Industrial Revolution transformed the world, from Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt to the decimation of both Native American and Maori populations. Incredible art relays the key events and their outcomes throughout the world.

• Along with Mary Beard’s volume, these are the only companion books to the BBC series.

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian and television presenter. He is the author of three books: The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, The World’s War and Black and British: A Forgotten History.

March 2018£15.00

OtherHardback

240ppISBN 978 1 78125 999 3

Rights sold: Linking, Taiwan; Athenaeum, Holland; Liveright/WW

Norton, USA; Gingko, China

HistoryCivilisations: How Do We Look/ The Eye of FaithAs seen on TVMary Beard

Companion to the major BBC TV series CIVILISATIONS

Focusing on some of the earliest human figures in art, Mary Beard asks why cultures all over the world have been so invested in images of the body, and how one style of representation originating in classical Greece 2,500 years ago still determines how we look at the human form in art. She also looks at art and religion – ranging from Angkor Wat to the Parthenon, from Delhi to Ely, from idolatry to iconoclasm, exploring the often-difficult interface between these subjects.

• Civilisations is the flagship program for the BBC in 2018, drawing in audiences all over the world

Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. Her previous books include the bestselling SPQR and most recently Women & Power.

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April 2018£25.00Royal OctavoHardback384ppISBN 978 1 78125 679 4

Rights sold: Guangxi Normal University Press Group, China; Norton, USA

History/ Popular Science

Medieval BodiesLife, Death and Art in the Middle AgesJack Hartnell

A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints’ relics to lovesick troubadours

In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves.

• Full of stories from around the medieval world, told in gruesome detail, Medieval Bodies is beautifully illustrated – a perfect gift for anyone with an interest in history

Jack Hartnell is a Lecturer in Art History at Columbia University. He has held fellowships at the Courtauld Institute, the Max-Planck-Institut for Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

May 2018£16.99Demy OctavoHardback320ppISBN 978 1 78125 773 9

Rights sold: EKSMO, Russia; Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Holland; Basic Books, USAProofs available

Popular Science/ Memoir

ShapeshiftersOn Medicine & Human ChangeGavin Francis

The mysteries of human transformation lyrically brought to life by the bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being

Our minds and bodies change constantly in ways we have little choice about. Others are specific to the individual. And still others are rare in their manifestations, such as sun-sensitivity. Mixing case studies with observations about history, art, literature, myth and magic, and viewing it all with a humane and sensitive eye, Gavin Francis explores the various ways in which change is the very essence of being human.

‘Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity. …Each piece is a pleasure to read, and in sum they are inspiring.’ Hilary Mantel

‘A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane - on his patients and their illnesses.’ Henry Marsh

Gavin Francis is a GP, the author of True North and Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins and Adventures in Human Being. He also writes for the Guardian, The Times, London Review of Books and Granta.

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January 2018£18.99

Royal OctavoHardback

320ppISBN 978 1 78125 528 5

Rights sold: UTET, Italy; Pegasus Books, USA TV documentary rights sold: Lion television

BiographyIn Search of Mary ShelleyThe Girl Who Wrote FrankensteinFiona Sampson

A new biography that reveals the woman behind Frankenstein

Astonishingly, it was while she was still a teenager that Mary Shelley composed Frankenstein. But what else do we know about her? In this fascinating dialogue with the past, Fiona Sampson sifts through letters, diaries and records to uncover a complex character trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary anomaly.

‘Gripping … Sampson has written a fascinating book’ The Times

‘A daringly swift and enjoyably irreverent retelling of Shelley’s life’ Observer

‘It is moving, it is alive, it is a success.’ Elaine Showalter, Spectator

Fiona Sampson is a writer and poet. She has been published in more than thirty languages and has received an MBE for services to literature. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, she has worked as an editor, translator and university professor.

January 2018£20.00


240ppISBN 978 1 78125 050 1

Rights sold: Harvard University Press, USA; Reclam, Germany

Ancient HistoryNefertiti’s FaceThe Creation of an IconJoyce Tyldesley

A major new work exploring the story behind Ancient Egypt’s most famous art-work

Nefertiti remains one of the most famous women who have ever lived. This enduring obsession is the result of one object: a beautiful and mysterious bust. Egyptologist Joyce Tyldersley explores the history of the bust from its origins in in Ancient Egypt, its rediscovery in Europe in 1912, to its present status as one of the world’s most important artefacts.

‘Tyldesley’s strength has always been her storytelling.’ Sunday Telegraph

Joyce Tyldesley is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester and research associate of the Manchester Museum. Her books include Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt, and Tutankhamen’s Curse: The Developing History of an Egyptian King.

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Rights sold: ZNAK, Poland; OUP, USA; Hakusui-sha, Japan

HistoryArmageddon and ParanoiaThe Nuclear ConfrontationRodric Braithwaite

How did we end up with the terrifying potential of nuclear annihilation?

In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and old ideas of warfare came to an end. Rodric Braithwaite paints a thought-provoking portrait of this historical period, right up to the present day, to examine how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation. The implications are as relevant today as they ever were, as talk about nuclear war spreads once more.

‘An even handed, nuanced and even chilling account of the nuclear confrontation between the USA and the USSR.’ Literary Review

Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat who served as British Ambassador in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union. He is the author of bestselling books Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan and Moscow 1941 (translated into nineteen languages).

May 2018£14.99Demy OctavoHardback256ppISBN 978 1 78125 974 0

Rights sold: Patakis, Greece; Geuldam Publishing Co., Korea; Butik, Denmark; New Century, Taiwan; Basic Books, USA; Bollati, Italy; Paidos, SpainProofs available

PoliticsHow Democracy EndsDavid Runciman

How to recognise the signs of democracy’s decline

Until recently, most citizens of Western democracies would never have imagined that the fall of their systems might happen before their eyes; that is until Trump, Brexit and paranoid populism became a reality. David Runciman, one of the UK’s leading professors of politics, surveys the political landscape of the West, helping us to recognise the signs of a collapsing democracy and advising us on what to do next.

• Comprehensive, accessible, essential and global, this book will start conversations everywhere

David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and Head of the Department of Politics. He is the author of five previous books, including Political Hypocrisy, The Confidence Trap and Politics. He hosts a weekly politics podcast, ‘Talking Politics’, with 50,000 listeners.

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June 2018£8.99

B formatTrade Paperback

192ppISBN 978 1 78125 837 8


FeminismFeminismIdeas in ProfileDeborah Cameron

A short, authoritative and lively introduction to feminism

This book unpicks the strands that constitute one of history’s most important movements. In Deborah Cameron’s incisive account, she discusses sexuality, violence, academic theory and practical activism. She also shows how feminism can be a way of viewing the world and provides an overview of the history of feminism.

Deborah Cameron is the Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford.

March 2018£20.00


288ppISBN 978 1 78125 968 9


HistoryHistory RepeatingWhy Populists Rise and Governments FallSam Wilkin

The laws of political turmoil laid bare in five astonishing stories

Now that political instability has come home, it’s time to ask: what causes it? This book leads us on a colourful romp through the history of recent revolutionary moments while also conducting a profound enquiry into the machinery of social unrest. Why are farming nations so unstable? Is there really a ‘resource curse’ on mineral-rich nations? Do tall rulers last longer? Wilkin answers all these questions and more in pursuit of the ultimate answer: how to make things better without first making them much, much worse.

• France is now a riskier prospect than Thailand – this book will show you why

• Profound diagnosis of the problems facing western democracies

Sam Wilkin is a senior advisor to Oxford Analytica and to Oxford Economics, one of the world’s foremost global forecasting consultancies. His previous book is Wealth Secrets of the One Percent.

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July 2018£16.99Demy OctavoHardback288ppISBN 978 1 78125 965 8


EconomicsLying for MoneyHow Fraud Makes the World Go RoundDan Davies

Financial fraud made simple

Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways in which you can con someone out of what’s theirs. In fact, there are four. From Ponzi schemes to fake mining companies, Dan Davies explains how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy, and what it takes to be a white-collar criminal mastermind.

• Witty, intelligent writing on finance – will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis and John Kay

Dan Davies is a former regulatory economist at the Bank of England. He has tackled the LIBOR and FX scandals, and the Swiss Nazi gold scandal, and has written for the Financial Times and the New Yorker.

July 2018£12.99Demy OctavoTrade Paperback336ppISBN 978 1 78816 038 4

Rights sold: Commonwealth, Taiwan; CITIC, China; Basic Books, USA Proofs available

Popular ScienceThe Art of LogicHow to Make Sense in a World that Doesn’tEugenia Cheng

A survival guide for our post-truth world using the timeless methods of logic, from a Royal Society Prize shortlisted mathematician

Emotions are powerful. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric. In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng explains how mathematical logic can help us see the world we live in more clearly, and communicate more powerfully. She also shows how logic and emotions, if used side-by-side, can help us be more rational individuals, and live more thoughtfully.

• Eugenia Cheng is an international maths superstar with unique media appeal: she has been profiled in The New York Times and featured on Woman’s Hour and the Late Show

Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of How to Bake Pi and Beyond Infinity.

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HealthDementiaThe One-Stop GuideJune Andrews

A practical guide to dealing with dementia for anyone affected, by a world-leading expert

This book will help readers recognise symptoms, talk to professionals, manage financially, stay at home, understand treatment, and be a carer. An invaluable guide for those with dementia and their families. With a foreword by Dame Judi Dench.

• Over 30,000 copies sold

June Andrews is an international dementia specialist adviser who advises families, organisations and governments across the world.

HealthMenopauseThe One-Stop GuideKathy Abernethy

A practical guide to understanding and living with the menopause

With clear and sensible information about recognising symptoms, getting help, treatment and staying positive, this guide will help those who are going through the menopause, and family members who wish to better understand and offer their support.

Kathy Abernethy is the chair of the British Menopause Society with over twenty years of clinical experience.

February 2015£9.99


384ppISBN 978 1 78125 171 3

Rights sold: Harmonis Universalis, Poland; Greystone Books, USA

January 2018£9.99


272ppISBN 978 1 78125 872 9


January 2019£9.99


228opISBN 978 1 78816 027 8


HealthNEW TITLE

Understanding and Responding to Self-HarmThe One-Stop GuideDr Allan House

Practical advice for anybody affected by self-harm

This book examines what self-harm is (and is not) and explores why it happens. It gives advice for people who may be thinking of harming themselves, or have already done so, as well as for families and friends on which strategies will be helpful, and ideas based on research evidence.

Dr Allan House specialises in suicide and self-harm. He serves on many expert committees and is Professor of Liaison Psychiatry at the University of Leeds.

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June 2018£14.99Demy OctavoHardback288ppISBN 978 1 78125 795 1


Nature/TravelWater WaysA Thousand Miles Along Britain’s CanalsJasper Winn

There is a lot more to canals than just narrowboats!

For 150 years, canals drove the Industrial Revolution. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday. Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain’s waterways where he discovered a world of underground adventures; from endurance kayak races to shared journeys with the last working boat people. Meet the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the canals their home.

• Good nature and travel writing – a book of immediate appeal to anyone planning a canal holiday

Jasper Winn is the author of Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland, and is Writer in Residence for the Canal and River Trust.

April 2018£16.99Demy OctavoHardback448ppISBN 978 1 78125 636 7


Environment/ Popular Science

RainforestDispatches from Earth’s Most Vital FrontlinesTony Juniper

Saving the rainforest could be the best bargain of the century

Rainforests are the lungs of our planet, home to 50 per cent of the world’s animals and plants. This is the full story: an in-depth, first-hand narrative that looks at the state of the world’s tropical rainforests today, the implications arising from their continuing decline, and at what is being done to protect our forests and the 1.6 billion people that depend upon them.

• Tony Juniper is a world-renowned environmental campaigner – and this is an issue with global consequences

Dr Tony Juniper is Britain’s best-known environmental campaigner. He has published several books including What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? and Saving Planet Earth. He has worked to conserve tropical forests for more than thirty years and as an advisor to The Prince’s Rainforests Project.

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Demy OctavoHardback

352ppISBN 978 1 78125 985 6

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The HardmenStories of the toughest cyclists of all time, told by The Velominati, originators of The Rules

June 2017 £12.99 B format Hardback 256ppISBN 978 1 78125 612 1

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Giro d’ItaliaThe full, rich story of the legendary Giro d’Italia, published to celebrate its 100th edition

April 2017£16.99 Demy Octavo Hardback 240pp ISBN 978 1 78125 716 6

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SportThe Medal FactoryKenny Pryde

An investigation into the phenomenally successful, world-dominating British Cycling

In the 1990s competitive cycling was done only by eccentrics in the UK. But by 2008 Team GB dominated Olympic cycling, winning eight gold medals. Now disaster looms with allegations of sexism, bullying and complicity with drug taking threatening the reputation and funding of British Cycling. The Medal Factory creates a new blueprint for performance by tackling questions about funding, politics, and culture.

• This book covers a highly-newsworthy topic with far-reaching implications into business, leadership, ethics, and psychology

Kenny Pryde was a staff writer at Cycling Weekly, and editor at large of Cycle Sport. He has written for the Guardian, Ride, VeloNews, Herald, Scotsman and Irish Independent.

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November 2018£16.99Royal OctavoTrade Paperback256ppISBN 978 1 78816 080 3


FinanceNEW TITLE

The Signs Were ThereThe Clues for Investors that a Company Is Heading for a FallTim Steer

The stories, scandals and crucial insights behind stock market disasters – and how to avoid them

Through the forensic examination of more than twenty recent stock market disasters from around the world, Tim Steer reveals how companies hide or disguise worrying facts about the robustness of their business. Full of invaluable lessons for investors, the book concludes with some trenchant observations on what is wrong in the worlds of investment, audit and financial regulation, and what changes should be introduced.

• Gripping stories of corporate collapses, which reach further than their own companies to implicate job forces at home and even economies as a whole, are revealed with lively writing as well as crucial insight

Tim Steer is one of the most highly rated fund managers in Britain. Since 2000 he has written regularly for The Times and Sunday Times, as well as the Financial Times.

January 2019£25.00Royal OctavoHardback416ppISBN 978 1 78816 042 1

Rights sold: Objetiva, Portugal; CAN, TurkeyProofs available

BiographyMr Five Per CentThe many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest manJonathan Conlin

Deal-maker, art collector, philanthropist – the definitive biography

At his death in 1955, Calouste Gulbenkian was the richest man in the world, known as ‘Mr Five Percent’ for owning 5% of all Middle East oil production. Today, the international agreements he brokered still shape the fortunes of oil-producing countries across the globe. This book reveals the effects of Gulbenkian’s restless life on those whose interests he sought to serve, as well as on the Foundation which remains his greatest legacy.

• Mr Five Per Cent is the first biography of Calouste Gulbenkian in over 60 years and was authorised by the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, one of the world’s highest-profile arts and education bodies

Jonathan Conlin teaches modern British history at the University of Southampton. His books include The Nation’s Mantelpiece: a history of the National Gallery, Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Making of the Modern City, and a biography of Adam Smith.

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February 2018£25.00


464ppISBN 978 1 78125 482 0

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HistoryThe Last BattleEndgame on the Western Front, 1918Peter Hart

A new history laying bare the last months of the Great War

In this book, Peter Hart brings to life the dramatic final months of the war of 1918, as men fought on to secure victory with survival seemingly only hours, or days, away. Drawing on experience of both generals and ordinary soldiers, and dwelling with equal weight on strategy, technology and individual experience, this is a powerful and detailed account of history’s greatest endgame.

‘A superb account of the tactics that finally brought victory on the Western Front. The Last Battle pays just tribute to the allied military achievement of 1918, too often forgotten in our preoccupation with earlier horrors.’ Max Hastings, The Times

Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and has written several titles on the First World War. His latest books for Profile are Gallipoli, The Great War and Voices from the Front.

August 2018£25.00


320ppISBN 978 1 78125 710 4


HistoryThe Bell of TreasonThe 1938 Munich Agreement in CzechoslovakiaP. E. Caquet

A key episode in the prelude to the Second World War presented in a vivid and tragic new light

The history and events leading to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath is told for the first time from the point of view of the peoples of Czechoslovakia and Germany. Based on countless previously unexamined sources including press, private journals, and parliamentary records, Pierre Caquet presents the familiar tale of one of the most shameful episodes in modern European history in a tragic new light.

• A timely warning from history about the dangers of appeasing fascism

P. E. Caquet is a senior member of Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

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December 2017£9.99B formatTrade Paperback304ppISBN 978 1 78125 988 7

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PsychologyWellcome Collection

In TherapyThe Unfolding StorySusie Orbach

In this complete and updated edition, world-renowned therapist Susie Orbach reveals what really goes on in therapy

Worldwide, an increasingly diverse and growing number of people are seeking therapy. We go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk about relationships, or simply because we want to find out more about ourselves. Susie Orbach explores what goes on in the process of therapy through a series of dramatized case studies.

‘Susie Orbach’s stories from the couch are warm, revealing and irresistible.’ Guardian

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. She is the founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre of London, a former Guardian columnist and visiting professor at the London School of Economics. She lives in London and lectures extensively worldwide.

March 2018£16.99Demy OctavoHardback352ppISBN 978 1 78125 587 2

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ScienceWellcome Collection

SleepyheadNarcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good NightHenry Nicholls

An examination of sleep and its many variations

Sleep is something so fundamental that most of us take it for granted. Henry Nicholls doesn’t have this problem – he suffers from narcolepsy. Through personal reflections, interviews with fellow narcoleptics, insomniacs and neuroscientists, anecdotes from medical history, and insights from art and literature, Henry Nicholls travels through the half-lit world of sleep.

‘What good science writing is all about – explanation through a ripping narrative.’ Independent

Henry Nicholls is a contributor to New Scientist, Nature, BBC Focus and BBC Wildlife. He writes a regular column for BBC Earth and the Guardian, and is the author of three books: Lonesome George, The Way of the Panda and The Galapagos.

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WELLCOME COLLECTION

Notes on BlindnessA Journey Through the DarkJohn Hull, Foreword by Cathy Rentzenbrink

February 2017 £8.99 B format Trade Paperback240ppISBN 978 1 78125 859 0

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A Heavy ReckoningWar, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and BeyondEmily Mayhew

May 2017 £16.99 Demy OctavoHardback320ppISBN 978 1 78125 585 8

In the Bonesetter’s Waiting RoomTravels Through Indian MedicineAarathi Prasad

October 2017 £8.99 B formatPaperback224ppISBN 978 1 78125 487 5

The Book of Human EmotionsAn Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to WanderlustTiffany Watt Smith

September 2016 £9.99 B formatPaperback320ppISBN 978 1 78125 130 0

Rights sold: Beijing MediaTime Ltd, China; DVT, Germany; 4, Italy; Foksal, Poland; Ecus, Taiwan; Koletif, Turkey

ForensicsThe Anatomy of CrimeVal McDermid

February 2015 £9.99 B formatPaperback320ppISBN 978 1 78125 170 6Rights sold: Betrand , Brazil; Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, China;

Verlagsgruppe Random House, Germany; Nieuw Amsterdam, Holland; Codice Edizioni, Italy; Codice kiosk edn, Italy; Kagaku-Dojin Publishing, Japan; Grupa Wydawnicza FOKSAL, Poland; Alpina, Russia; Alfabeta, Sweden; Marco Pol Press, Taiwan

Sex by NumbersWhat Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual BehaviourDavid Spiegelhalter

April 2015 £12.99 Demy OctavoTrade Paperback368ppISBN 978 1 78125 329 8Rights sold: Life Science Publishing Ltd,

Japan; Aylinari, Turkey

Adventures in Human BeingGavin Francis

February 2016 £9.99 B formatPaperback288ppISBN 978 1 78125 342 7Rights sold: Zahar, Brazil; CITIC, China; City Editions, France; Nieuwezijds,

Holland; EDT, Italy; Koon Ja Publishing, Korea; Bukowy Las, Poland; Eksmo, Russia; Plataforma, Spain; Briefing press, Taiwan; Nokhook Publishers, Thailand; Domingo, Turkey; Family Leisure Club, Ukraine

A Practical Course in Personal MagnetismThe Victorian Guide to Health, Happiness, Power and Success

February 2017 £7.99 A formatHardback128ppISBN 978 1 78125 834 7

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November 2017£25.00Royal OctavoHardback432ppISBN 978 1 84668 411 1

Rights sold: Ginko, China; Newton Compton, Italy; Harvard University, Press, USA; Klett-Cotta, Germany

Ancient HistoryThe Rise of RomeFrom the Iron Age to the Punic Wars (1000 BC–264 BC)Kathryn Lomas

A fresh, original account of the origins and rise of the ancient world’s greatest imperial power

How did Rome move from a small collection of huts to a world-dominating empire? From its complex forms of government, to its innovative connections with other states, Kathryn Lomas shows what set Rome apart from other cities in this period. Examining the context and impact of the city’s dominance, as well as the key political, social and economic changes it engendered, this is crucial reading for anyone interested in Rome.

‘Lomas’s fully reference and detailed, authoritative book admirably fulfils its remit to understand Rome in its wider Italian setting.’ BBC History Magazine

Dr Kathryn Lomas is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She has held Research Fellowships at UCL and the University of Newcastle, as well as teaching posts at the Universities Edinburgh and Durham.


Rights sold: WGB, Germany; Newton Compton, Italy; Harvard University Press, USA; Crete University Press, Greece

Ancient HistoryImperial TriumphThe Roman World from Hadrian to ConstantineMichael Kulikowski

Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life

Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome, Michael Kulikowski describes the empire’s cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth, showing the root of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires.

‘A genuinely bracing and innovative history of Rome for a general audience.’ TLS

Michael Kulikowski is a Professor of History and Classics at Penn State University, and a specialist in the history of the western Mediterranean world of late antiquity. His books include Rome’s Gothic Wars.

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February 2018£30.00


480ppISBN 978 1 84668 296 4

Rights sold: Crete University Press, Greece; Hoepli, Italy; Ginko, China;

Harvard University Press, USA

Ancient HistoryAge of ConquestsThe Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (336 BC–AD 138)Angelos Chaniotis

A rich period of Ancient History that includes Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Jesus Christ and Nero

Alexander the Great ushered in what we now call the Hellenistic period: a time of intense conflict, but also one of growth and intellectual achievement. From Alexander’s early days building an empire, via pirates, the Jewish diaspora and Cleopatra’s death, right up to the death of Hadrian, this book examines the social structures, economic trends, and technological progress of an era that spans five centuries and where, perhaps, modernity began.

‘Offers a brilliant picture of the cosmopolitan Greek world and shows why it still matters to us today.’ Phiroze Vasunia, author of The Gift of the Nile

Angelos Chaniotis is a History Professor at Princeton, and a Quondam Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. He is senior editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, a member of the German Archaeological Institute and an editor of the classical studies journal Mnemosyne.

Forthcoming:

Imperial TragedyFrom Constantine’s Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy (AD 363–568)Michael Kulikowski

November 2019

The Rise of Imperial Rome264 BC–AD 138David Potter

April 2019

New RomeThe Eastern Roman EmpirePaul Stephenson

February 2020

The Greeks1000 BC–300 BC Hans van Wees

October 2020

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