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MAX DICKINS
An honest, personal and funny look at male friendships, emotional connection and mental health When Max Dickins started to think about proposing to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. This realisation sent him down a rabbit hole, examining the friendships he had had over the years, and where they had foundered. Men are, on average, more isolated and lonelier than women. Countless studies have affirmed this peculiarity, and there is a staggering worldwide inequality consistently recorded between the sexes in respect to suicide rates. Dickins’ disarmingly honest and witty interrogation of traditional masculinity is a personal quest borne of inner crisis, providing a platform to intelligently explore the connection between widespread male loneliness and isolation and the recently christened social phenomenon of toxic masculinity. Join Max on his journey to find a best man, as he learns that perhaps what he and others like him really need is a best friend.
Max Dickins is a published playwright and author, an actor, presenter and comedian. He has had his own Sony Award-nominated show on Absolute Radio and appeared numerous times on BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show. Several of Dickins’ critically acclaimed shows have been taken to the Edinburgh Festival and on national tours, one of which he turned into his debut comedy adventure book, My Groupon Adventure.
He is also the co-director of Hoopla, the UK’s first improvisation training school and London’s first improv comedy theatre. Offstage, as a coach and business speaker, he has brought improvisation into workplaces across the world.
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MARGIE ORFORD
When an art expert goes missing, three women fighting to regain control of their lives realise their future is about to become as dangerous as their past in this brutally compelling thriller
Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist who has been dubbed the
‘A tale of love and abuse that is as powerful as it is elegant – and it grips like a vice, too’ Ian Rankin When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?
Queen of South African Crime Fiction. Her Clare Hart crime novels have been translated into ten languages and are being developed into a television series. She was born in London and grew up in
Cora carries secrets her daughter can’t know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground.
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One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth, when the people they love are not what they seem.
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educated in South Africa and the United States, has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and is
Oxford. She is president Emerita of PEN South Africa and was the patron of Rape Crisis Cape Town while she lived in South Africa. She now lives in London.
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The Coward JARRED McGINNIS
A startling and intimate debut novel which explores masculinity, family, disability and love as an estranged father and son struggle to reconcile A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ‘Sings from its first lines . . . unbearably poignant . . . a truly uplifting emotional journey; a tender, wise, brutally funny novel’ Guardian Jarred McGinnis is the co-founder of The Special Relationship, which was chosen for the British Council’s International Literature Showcase. His short fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4 and appeared in literary journals in the UK, Canada, USA and Ireland. He is an Associate Writer for Spread the Word, a fellow of the London Library’s Emerging Writer
After a car accident Jarred discovers he’ll never walk again. Confined to a ‘giant roller-skate’, he finds himself with neither money nor job, a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and strangers treating him like he’s an idiot. Worse still, he’s forced to live back home with his estranged father. Trying to piece himself together, Jarred comes to realise that things don’t have to stay broken after all. The Coward is about hurt and forgiveness, how the world treats disabled people, and how we write and rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about our lives – and try to find a happy ending.
Programme and a Writer-in-Residence for First Story. He also has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, but mostly he inspires the able-bodied by using public transport and taking his daughters to the playground.
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The Trenches PARKER BILAL
In this powerful, pacy thriller with a fresh perspective on crime in London, Theakston Crime Novel of the Year nominee Parker Bilal tackles our multicultural capital with blazing originality ‘Terrific crime fiction rooted in geopolitics’ Sunday Times Parker Bilal is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane & Drake London crime series, was published in 2019. Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary novelist. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the
In London, private investigator Dr Rayhana Crane is contacted by a woman who has received an unexpected letter from her estranged son Jason, not seen since he left to become a fighter for Islamic State. When his steps are traced back to the old stamping ground of her partner, Cal Drake, the former policeman goes undercover to infiltrate the sinister network which took Jason abroad. Meanwhile, Crane pursues a woman whose seemingly unconnected disappearance off the English coast is soon found to reveal a deadlier connection. As the two investigators delve deeper, they find themselves mired in a violent world where terror and organised crime intersect.
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Learwife J.R. THORP
Inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021 ‘Seductive . . . Gorgeous’ The Times ‘Gives voice to one of fiction’s most conspicuously absent women’ i J.R. Thorp is a writer, lyricist and librettist. She won the London Short Story Award in 2011 and was shortlisted for the BBC Opening Lines Prize, and has had work published in the Cambridge Literary Review, Manchester Review, Antithesis, Wave Composition and elsewhere. She wrote the libretto for the highly acclaimed modern opera
Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen. Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend? And what will become of her now? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice – one upon which her destiny rests.
Dear Marie Stopes and has had works commissioned by the Arts Council, the Wellcome Trust and St Paul’s Cathedral. Born in Australia, she now lives in Cork, Ireland.
Learwife is her first novel.
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Sick Money Sky-high Prices and Dirty Tricks: Inside the Global Pharmaceutical Industrt BILLY KENBER
An urgent call to build a new model for the pharmaceutical industry, from the multiaward-winning Times journalist
Billy Kenber is an investigative journalist at The Times and has worked at the newspaper since 2010. He has won several accolades including prizes at the UK Press Awards, the British Journalism Awards and two prizes from the Medical Journalists’ Association including the 2017 award for Outstanding Contribution to Health or Medical Journalism. In 2013 he won the Laurence Stern Fellowship and worked for the Washington Post for three months. He lives in London.
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‘Billy Kenber is one of the most promising young journalists in the land, and he has, unsurprisingly, produced a compelling debut which surprises, entertains and inspires dismay. An essential read‘ Sathnam Sanghera The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill overnight to the children’s cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system built to drive innovation and patient care has been distorted to boost profits. Unless we take action we risk a dramatic decline in the pace of drug development and a future in which medicines go to the highest bidder. In Sick Money investigative journalist Billy Kenber offers a diagnosis of an industry in crisis and a prescription for how we can fight back.
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How to Stop Time MAT T HAIG
A new edition of The Sunday Times top ten bestseller from the author of The Midnight Library and The Humans ‘A rollicking time-hopping fantasy . . . How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight’ Observer ‘Magical, intriguing and, at times, very sad. A triumph’ Marian Keyes How many lifetimes does it take to learn how to live? Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet and seven highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys and The Midnight Library, which has become a worldwide phenomenon and multi-million copy bestseller. Haig also writes award-
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he’s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps changing his identity, he can stay one step ahead of his past – and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love. But what if the one thing he can’t have just happens to be the one thing that might save him?
winning books for children, including A Boy Called Christmas (now a feature film). He has sold more than three million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over fifty languages.
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Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary TRAVIS ALABANZA
An electric memoir about what it means Travis Alabanza is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker. After being the youngest recipient of the Artist-in-Residency programme at Tate Galleries, Alabanza’s debut show Burgerz toured internationally to sold-out performances in the Southbank Centre, São Paulo, Brazil and HAU, Berlin and won the Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre Award. In 2020 their theatre show Overflow debuted at the Bush Theatre to widespread acclaim and later streamed online in over 20 countries. Their writing has appeared in the Guardian, Vice, gal-
to live outside the gender boundaries imposed on us by society, from the awardwinning trans writer and performer ‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to you. And I have had a lot of things said to me.’ In None of the Above, Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them about their gender identity. These phrases have stayed with them over the years. Some are deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or offensive, some celebratory; sentences that have impacted them for better and for worse; sentences that speak to the broader issues raised by a world that insists that gender must be a binary.
dem and BBC Online, and they previously had a fortnightly column in the Metro. They have been published in numerous anthologies, including Black and Gay In the UK. Their work surrounding gender, trans identity and race has garnered
Through these seven phrases, which include some of their most personal transformative experiences as a Black, working-class, non-binary trans person, Travis Alabanza turns a mirror back on society, giving us reason to question the very framework in which we live and the ways we treat each other.
international recognition, and they have given talks at universities including Oxford, Harvard, Bristol and more.
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An epic and imaginative historical novel, based on the true story of the wrecked Batavia – from the Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author Jess Kidd was brought up in London as
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‘Kidd’s imagination is a thing of wonder’ New York Times 1629. Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea vessel of the age. During the long voyage, this curious and resourceful child must find her place in the ship’s busy world, and she soon uncovers shadowy secrets above and below deck. As tensions spiral, the fate of the ship and all on board becomes increasingly uncertain.
She is the author of three acclaimed novels for adults, Himself, The Hoarder and Things in Jars, and a book for children, Everyday Magic. In 2017, Kidd won the Costa Short Story Award and in 2020 she was picked by The Times as one of the best emerging Irish writers.
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1989. Gil, a boy mourning the death of his mother, is placed in the care of his irritable and reclusive grandfather. Their home is a shack on a tiny fishing island off the Australian coast, notable only for its reefs and wrecked boats. This is no place for a teenager struggling with a dark past and Gil’s actions soon get him noticed by the wrong people. The Night Ship is an enthralling tale of human cruelty, fate and friendship, and of two children, hundreds of years apart, whose fates are inextricably bound together.
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be/longing understories of nature, family and home AMANDA THOMSON
Reflections on family, history, identity, Amanda Thomson is a Scottish writer and visual artist, and a lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art. Her first book, A Scots Dictionary of Nature, was published in 2018. She has spoken at many book festivals and had her work published in Antlers of Water, Willowherb Review, The Wild Isles, Gifts of Gravity and Light and the Guardian. She lives and works in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands and Glasgow.
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place and nature, from acclaimed writer and artist Amanda Thomson ‘A reminder of how easily the beauty of language and its connection with nature can be lost’ Herald Reflecting on family, identity and nature, be/longing is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest. be/longing is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves. Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson’s artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are.
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The Edge of the Plain How Borders Make and Break Our World JAMES CRAWFORD
Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today
James Crawford is an acclaimed historian, publisher and broadcaster. He is the author of Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of the World’s Greatest Lost Buildings, which was shortlisted for the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. In 2016 he was elected as Chair of the Board of Publishing Scotland, the network body for the publishing industry in Scotland; and in July 2019 he was appointed as the first ever Scottish ambassador for the UK Archive and Records Association’s ‘Explore Your Archives’ campaign. He lives in Edinburgh.
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In this book James Crawford argues that our enduring obsession with borders has brought us to a crisis point: that we are entering the endgame of a process that began thousands of years ago, when we first started dividing up the Earth. Today, nationalism, climate change, globalisation, technology and mass migration are all colliding with ever-hardening borders. Something has to give. At stake is the future of the world as we know it. Borders are the ultimate test – can we let go of the lines that separate us? Or are we fated to repeat the mistakes of the past, as our angry, warming and segregated planet lurches towards catastrophe? Combining history, travel and reportage, The Edge of the Plain takes us through the history of borders – from the first ever marker which denoted the edge of one land and the beginning of the next, to the walls going up around the world today. It is a story told in four parts: Making, Moving, Crossing and Breaking. Each part explores a different aspect of the lifecycle and experience of borders all around the world and throughout history – how they are created, how they can change and evolve, how they are crossed or breached, and, finally, how they are overcome or broken.
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A Corruption of Blood AMBROSE PARRY
Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh – the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah Fisher A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.
Ambrose Parry is the penname for two very different authors – the internationally bestselling and multiaward-winning Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience, Dr Marisa Haetzman. Inspired by the gory details Haetzman uncovered during her History of Medicine degree, the couple teamed up to write a series of historical crime thrillers, featuring the darkest of Victorian Edinburgh’s secrets. They are
Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from. Across town, Raven finds himself drawn into Edinburgh’s mire when a package containing human remains washes up on the shores of Leith, and an old adversary he has long detested contacts him, pleading for Raven’s help to escape the hangman. Sarah and Raven’s lives seem indelibly woven together as they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood.
married and live in Scotland.
Both The Way of All Flesh and The Art of Dying were shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. A Corruption of Blood is the third Raven and Fisher Mystery.
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Imagine A Country Ideas for a Better Future EDITED BY VAL McDERMID AND JO SHARP
Visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices – edited by the bestselling author Val McDermid and Jo Sharp. Featuring 20 new contributors for 2022
Val McDermid is a number one bestselling and award-winning author, whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold over sixteen million copies.
Jo Sharp is a Professor of Geography at the University of St Andrews. The pair entered into a civil partnership in 2016.
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The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility. Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated and introduced by bestselling author Val McDermid and geographer Jo Sharp, it is a collection of ideas, dreams and ambitions, aiming to inspire change, hope and imagination. Featuring: Ali Smith, Phill Jupitus, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Kerry Hudson, Greg Hemphill, Carol Ann Duffy, Chris Brookmyre, Alison Watt, Alasdair Gray, Leila Aboulela, Ian Rankin, Selina Hales, Sanjeev Kohli, Jackie Kay, Damian Barr, Elaine C. Smith, Abir Mukherjee, Anne Glover, Alan Bissett, Louise Welsh, Jo Clifford, Ricky Ross, Trishna Singh, Cameron McNeish, Alexander McCall Smith, Carla Jenkins, Don Paterson, and many more . . .
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An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer’s thoughts on literature, love and poetry LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE
Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. In addition to New and Collected Poems:
‘For readers who already admire Borges, this memoir will be a delicious treat. For those who have yet to read him, Parini provides the perfect entry point to a writer who altered the way many think of literature’ New York Times
1975—2015, he has published eight novels including The Last Station and Benjamin’s Crossing. He has written biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner and Gore Vidal. He edited The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly
In frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. The pair embark on a trip to the Scottish Highlands, and on the way the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry.
for the Guardian and other publications.
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Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It’s also a magical tour of an era – like our own – in which uncertainties abound, and when – as ever – it’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler REBECCA DONNER
The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance groups in Germany, now a New York Times Rebecca Donner is the New York Times bestselling author of two critically acclaimed books, and her essays, reportage and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Bookforum and Guernica. Donner was inspired to write All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days after her grandmother gave her a bundle of Mildred’s letters.
bestseller SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twentysix and living in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in her apartment, forming a small band of political activists set on helping Jews escape, denouncing Hitler and calling for revolution. When the Second World War began, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies.
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In this astonishing work of non-fiction, Harnack’s greatgreat-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research, fusing elements of biography, political thriller and scholarly detective story to tell a powerful, epic tale of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.
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A teenage boy, gifted an ageing manuscript, learns of his grandfather’s life under Nazi-occupied Venice, leading him to question everything he thought he knew about the man he loves
David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, Sunday Times and Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels including his Rome-based Nic Costa series, which has been published in fifteen languages. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series The Killing.
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‘I can thoroughly recommend this book . . . it has a strong message about fascism and about what happens to a country when people not only support and encourage it but also stand by and do nothing; are complicit in their silence. Masterful impassioned writing’ Richard Armitage When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-yearold Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and to the defining moment of his grandfather’s life: when Paolo’s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city’s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can’t stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.
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Hysterical Exploding the myth of gendered emotions P R AG YA AG A R WA L
An urgent exploration of how the gendering of emotions came about, and what we can do to change these damaging stereotypes
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist. She is the author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and
Emotions can be difficult things to define, yet we all recognise them when we feel them or see them in others. How we interpret those emotions and act on them has been heavily gendered, as far back as Ancient Greek and Roman times and – despite the improvements in societal equality – continues to be today.
Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children about Race. Sway was picked as a ‘best science book of 2020’, Guardian Book of the Week and was shortlisted for the Transmission Prize. Pragya is a two-time TEDx speaker, a TEDx Women organiser and the founder of a research think-tank ‘The 50 Percent Project’. She writes regularly for the Guardian, Prospect, Forbes, Huffington Post, BBC
We’ve all heard the sayings that girls should be ‘sugar and spice and all things nice’, while ‘boys don’t cry’. In Hysterical, Pragya Agarwal dives deep into the history and science that has determined the gendering of emotions to ask whether there is any truth in the notion of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact this has on men and women – especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history – and how a future where emotions are ungendered might look.
Science Focus and New Scientist, among others. She has also written for AEON, Scientific American and the Wellcome Trust.
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REBECCA MILLER
Arresting and darkly prescient – stories which deftly navigate the fault lines of relationships from the bestselling author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee A middle-aged novelist devoid of inspiration alights on material in the form of an obsessive pet-shop worker from Cincinnati. A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten document in an old desk in need of restoration is overwhelming. And when Roxanne rescues her sister from an institution, she comes to realise how vulnerable they both are. Each of the seven stories in Total is a full world, painted with vivid strokes. From the comforting mundanities of motherhood to a technologically infected near future that mirrors our present with dark prescience, each life captured in this collection is unforgettable.
Rebecca Miller is a writer and director. She is the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, which she also adapted for screen; Personal Velocity, her feature film which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and Jacob’s Folly. Her film work includes Angela, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Maggie’s Plan. Her work has been published in thirty-two languages.
Deftly navigating the fault lines of relationships – new, established or remembered – Total is a powerful collection of brilliantly imaginative stories, and eloquent proof of Rebecca Miller’s writing prowess.
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A devastating novel about broken relationships, the promises we’re unable to keep and living with the ghosts of your past Danny Ramadan is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, storyteller and LGBTQ-refugee activist. His debut novel The Clothesline Swing won the Independent Publisher Book Award for Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Fiction, was shortlisted for the Evergreen Award and the Sunburst Award and was named as a finalist for the Gay Fiction Category in the Lambda Awards. He is also the author of a children’s picture book, Salma the Syrian Chef. Danny also translated Raif Badawi’s 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think and has published two collections of short stories in Arabic. He was awarded the StandOut Award for his social activism, the 2018 RBC’s Top Immigrant in Canada award, and the Bonham Centre Award for
‘There are moments and scenes of intense clarity and poignancy that will stop readers in their tracks’ Irish Times Hussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim promises Hussam his protection, but ten years into the future, he has failed to keep his promise. Wassim is on the streets, seeking shelter from both the city and the civil war storming his country. Meanwhile Hussam, now on the other side of the world, remains haunted by his own ghosts, doing his utmost to drown them out with every vice imaginable. Split between war-torn Damascus and Vancouver, The Foghorn Echoes is a tragic love story about coping with shared traumatic experience and devastating separation. As Hussam and Wassim come to terms with the past, they begin to realise the secret that haunts them is not the only secret that formed them.
Excellency. He lives in Vancouver with his husband.
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Revenge of the Librarians TOM GAULD
the Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in the New York Times and on the cover of the New Yorker. He is the author of Goliath,
A hilarious new comics collection from
You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack,
the New York Times bestselling cartoonist
Mooncop (a New York Times bestseller), Baking with Kafka (winner of an Eisner Award) and, most recently, Department of Mind-Blowing Theories. He lives and works in London.
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1 September 2022 Hardback Fiction 160pp
and illustrator – the perfect gift for all book lovers Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Revenge of the Librarians contains even more murders, drubbings and castigations than The Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Baking For Kafka or any other collections of mordant scribblings by the inimitably excellent Gauld.
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Major Labels A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres KELEFA SANNEH
A comprehensive and celebratory journey through the history of popular music, from the former New York Times music critic
Kelefa Sanneh has been a New Yorker staff writer since 2008, when he left his position at the New York Times, where he
‘Kelefa Sanneh has achieved the impossible. Major Labels somehow manages to unspool everything you need to know about 50 years of music, but more impressively, he makes you care about all of it. It’s funny, it’s personal, and as a piece of writing the book borders on poetry‘ David Letterman
had been the pop-music critic since 2002. Previously, he was the deputy editor of Transition, a journal of race and culture based at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. His writing has also appeared in a number of magazines and a handful of books, including Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z, a Library of America Special Publication, and Da Capo Best Music
From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us. Distilling a career’s worth of knowledge, he explores the tribes music forms, and how its genres, shapeshifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns. This is a book to shock and awe the deepest music nerd, and at the same time to work as a heady gateway drug for the uninitiated.
Writing (2002, 2005, 2007 and 2011).
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A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more – from more than forty hours of conversations between cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave and journalist Sean O’Hagan Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life.
Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work ever. Cave’s body of work also covers a wider range of media and modes of expression including film score composition, ceramic sculpture and writing of novels. Over the last few years his Red Hand
Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations between Cave and Sean O’Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in his own words, of what really drives Cave’s life and creativity. The book examines questions of faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years. From a place of considered reflection, Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true creative visionary.
Files website and ‘Conversation with’ live events have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with his fans.
Sean O’Hagan has interviewed many major artists, writers and musicians over the last four decades. He currently works as a feature writer for the Observer and
Also by Nick Cave Stranger Than Kindness £35 (9781838852245) The Sick Bag Song £9.99 (9781782117933) The Death of Bunny Munro £9.99 (9781782115335)
is photography critic for the Guardian.
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The Rickman Diaries ALAN RICKMAN
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) was an English actor and theatre director. He was a renowned
Alan Rickman was one of the world-class actors of his generation, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller
stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In film his best-known work featured roles in Die
and a devoted confidant and friend.
Hard, the Harry Potter series and Sense
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– a twenty-five-year passion project – Rickman invites readers backstage and
including a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy. He died on 14 January 2016.
into his life Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard‘s villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate new audiences today. But Rickman‘s artistry wasn‘t confined to just his performances. General fans of memoirs will delight in the intimate experience of reading Rickman detailing the extraordinary and the ordinary in a way that is “anecdotal, indiscreet, witty, gossipy and utterly candid”. He grants us access to his thoughts, not only on plays, films and the craft of acting, but also politics, friendships and life. The Rickman Diaries was written with the intention to be shared, and reading it is like listening to Rickman chatting to a close friend.
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Poetry Unbound 50 Poems to Open Your World Photo © Trevor Brady
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times – the perfect gift for all poetry lovers An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry Unbound. This inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama, presents fifty poems each with their own commentary and personal anecdotes alongside insights into the content of the poem. The poems gathered in this selection are from many walks of life, many experiences, many points of view. Engaging, accessible, diverse and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who wants to go deeper into poetry.
Pádraig Ó Tuama is an Irish poet, conflict mediator and theologian. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios, and the series is the most successful poetry podcast ever, amassing over six million downloads since its launch in spring 2020. Pádraig travels widely, lecturing and leading retreats, and writes both poetry and prose. He currently lives in New York City.
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Contains expanded reflections on poems as heard on the podcast, as well as exclusive new selections.
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ELIN CULLHED
A luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her Elin Cullhed (1983) made her debut in 2019 with her critically lauded YA novel The Gods (published in Sweden as Gudarna). Euphoria, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, is her first novel for adults. Cullhed became obsessed with the life and work of Sylvia Plath when she found herself in a similar position: mother to several young children, wife of another writer, struggling to find space
A woman’s life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life, reimagined in fictive form by Elin Cullhed, who seizes the flame of Plath’s blistering, creative fire in Euphoria, lending a voice to women everywhere who stand with one foot in domesticity and the other in artistic creation.
and time for her own work. Euphoria is a meticulously researched work of historical fiction, drawing extensively from Plath’s own journals and work from this time.
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As Plath’s marriage to Ted Hughes unravels through the heady days of their first summer in Devon together, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and power. She has decided to die, but the art she creates in her final weeks will set her name, and the world, ablaze.
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PATIENCE AGBABI
Elle and her friends are back! This time, they’ll be leaping to the past, the present and the future to safeguard the secret of The Gift and destroy The Vicious Circle Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry
Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a not-tobe-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, faceto-face with the criminal mastermind of The Vicious Circle – Millennia’s Leapling ancestor, The Grandfather!
for over twenty years, and her first novel for children, The Infinite, the first in the Leap Cycle series, won a Wales Book of the Year Award. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers and pepper soup,
To Elle’s surprise, he needs her expertise. An anonymous person has threatened to reveal The Gift to the media. If that happens, everyone will know that Leaplings can leap through time; no Leapling will be safe. Meanwhile, Millennia’s power grows.
but, disappointingly, her leaping is less spectacular.
Will Elle work for a villain to save her secret community? Can she and The Infinites crush The Vicious Circle for good?
Also by Patience Agbabi The Infinite £6.99 (9781786899651) The Time-Thief £6.99 (9781786899903)
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See/Saw Looking at Photographs GEOFF DYER
An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment ’Wide-ranging and eclectic’ TLS ’Seductively curious’ Observer Geoff Dyer is the author of ten non-fiction books and four novels. He has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the
’A visual and intellectual journey’ Herald See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world’s most important photographers – from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb – Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2012 he won a National Book Critics Circle Award and in 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.
Also by Geoff Dyer The Last Days of Roger Federer £20 (9781838855741) Out of Sheer Rage £9.99 (9781782115137) The Missing of the Somme £10.99 (9781782119265)
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DEREK OWUSU
A vital and honest book exploring the pain of the immigrant experience and the turmoil it can carry across generations, from the winner of the Desmond Elliott Derek Owusu is a writer, poet and
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podcaster from North London. In 2016, he joined the multi-award winning literature podcast Mostly Lit. He also produced the well-received This Is Spoke podcast for Penguin Random
‘When writing is this honest, it soars’ Yrsa Daley-Ward ‘Once you lock on to his words, it is hard to break eye contact’ Benjamin Zephaniah
House and Freemantle Media. He has written for the Big Issue, i and more. His essay on Black men and insecurities was the second-most read article on Media Diversified in 2018, and his essay on language was picked up by BBC
Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother’s life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of displacement are felt across generations.
Newsnight to be turned into a short documentary. He contributed to What Is Race by Nikesh Shukla and Claire Hutchens and has had poems published by The Good Journal. Derek also collated, edited and contributed to SAFE: On Black
Told through the eyes of both mother and son, Losing the Plot is at once emotionally raw and playful as Owusu experiments with form to piece together the immigrant experience and explore how the stories we share and tell ourselves are just as vital as the ones we don’t.
British Men Reclaiming Space. He is the author of That Reminds Me, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize.
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DAVID WHY TE
The author of Consolations collects his best poetry and offers a deep-dive into the significance each one holds Internationally acclaimed poet David Whyte makes his home in the Pacific Northwest, where rain and changeable skies remind him of the other, more distant homes from which he comes: Yorkshire, Wales and Ireland. He holds a degree in Marine Zoology and honorary degrees from Neumann University in Pennsylvania and Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry and four books of prose, as well as a collection of audio recordings. twitter @whytedw
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’Great poems’, David Whyte has said, ’are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.’ Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily shifts, the ever-turning seasons or the bigger cycle of gain and grief that are part of our journey through life. Each poem is accompanied by a short context on where and when it was written. Together they form an elegant testament to David Whyte’s most closely-held understanding – that human life cannot be apportioned out as one thing or another; rather, it is best seen as a living conversation, a way between and beyond, made beautiful by darkness as well as light, at its essence both deeply solitary and profoundly communal. This updated edition includes poems from his 2021 collection, Still Possible.
Also by David Whyte Consolations £14.99 (9781786897633)
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Idol, Burning RIN USAMI
A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon – about obsession, pop culture and fandom. Winner of the 2020 Akutagawa Prize and 500,000 copies J A PA N E S E BESTSELLER — UK COVER TO COME!
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Born in 1999, Rin Usami is a university
’My oshi was on fire. Word was he’d punched a fan’
student and writer. Her debut novel Kaka won the Bungei Prize and the Mishima Yukio Prize. Her second novel Oshi, Moyu / Idol, Burning won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2020 and has become a phenomenon, selling over 500,000 copies in Japan alone. She lives in Japan.
Asa Yoneda is a literary translator and editor, and has translated works by Banana Yoshimoto, Aoko Matsuda, Natsuko Kuroda and Yukiko Motoya. Born in Osaka, she lived in Tokyo for ten
‘Rin Usami writes as if under a spell’ Sayaka Murata WINNER OF THE 2020 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
High school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one fifth of Japanese boyband Maza Maza. Akari’s devotion to her oshi consumes her days completely. She keeps a blog entirely devoted to him, piously chronicling and analysing all his events. He is the spine of her life, she cannot survive without him. When Masaki is rumoured to have assaulted a female fan, facing waves of social media backlash, Akari’s world falls apart. Offering a vivid insight into otaku culture and adolescence, Idol, Burning is a brilliantly gripping story of obsession, coming of age and the addictive, relentless nature of fandom culture.
years and now lives in Bristol.
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A Mouse Called Miika MAT T HAIG
The story of a small mouse finding his place in a big world – a tale of friendship, cheese and the magical power of being yourself – from the number one bestselling author Matt Haig ‘The perfect package of happiness’ Olivia Colman ‘Amazing’ CBBC Book Club ‘Brilliant . . . Will make you laugh out loud’ Fun Kids As well as being a number one bestselling writer for adults, Matt Haig
The epic adventure of a teeny-tiny hero
has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults. His book A Boy Called Christmas has been made into a feature film with an
Miika just wants to belong. Living with elves and trolls and pixies can make a mouse feel like the odd one out. When he makes friends with a fellow mouse, Miika thinks he can relax. But really, his quest is just beginning . . .
all-star cast. He has sold more than two million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over fifty languages.
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Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen and has been drawing ever since. He has produced work for theatre companies, film development, television
Also by Matt Haig A Boy Called Christmas £7.99 (9781782118268)
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas £7.99 (9781782118602)
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Father Christmas and Me £7.99 (9781786890726)
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The Heart of Things On Memory and Lament R I C H A R D H O L LOWAY
A moving and personal anthology from the Sunday Times bestseller, encompassing melancholy, morality, mortality and more
Richard Holloway was Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. A former Gresham
Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. He has been a radical voice of compassion and realism. And throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which have been his own guide, offered in the hope they will help us too.
Professor of Divinity and Chairman of the Joint Board of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Leaving Alexandria won the PEN/ Ackerley Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. It was a Sunday Times bestseller, together with Waiting for the Last Bus.
Here then are some lights along life’s path, with thoughts and reflections on living well, death, sadness, regret, sin, conflict and forgiveness. All interwoven with Richard’s philosophical consideration of what they have meant to him. This is a book to turn to for inspiration, guidance and comfort. It offers lessons from those who, in Richard’s words, ‘know best how to listen and teach us to listen’, all united by ‘the sensual appeal of words, the pain and pleasure they impart’. It is a book to treasure.
Also by Richard Holloway Stories We Tell Ourselves £9.99 (9781786899965) Leaving Alexandria £9.99 (9781786898913) Looking in the Distance £9.99 (9781786893932)
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Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
A stunning collection of all new stories from the twice winner of the PEN/ Faulkner Award – essential reading for understanding the state of America today ‘This is truly inimitable storytelling’ Observer ‘[A] master of language’ New York Times John Edgar Wideman’s books include, among others, American Histories, Writing to Save a Life, Philadelphia Fire and Brothers and Keepers. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice, won the Prix Femina Étranger, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a
A boy stands alone, unable to enter the room in which his grandfather’s coffin lies. Freddie Jackson’s song ’You Are My Lady’ plays on the car radio as a son is brought to a prison cell in Arizona. A narrator contemplates the Atlanta child murders from 1979. Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone is vital reading for anyone interested in the state of America today. Historical and contemporary, intimate and expansive, the stories here represent a pioneering writer whose innovation, form and imagination know no bounds.
recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement and the PEN/ Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. He divides his time between New York and France.
Also by John Edgar Wideman American Histories £9.99 (9781786892089) Writing to Save a Life £9.99 (9781786893727) Philadelphia Fire £9.99 (9781786892034)
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Moving from Khartoum, Sudan, to Washington, D.C., and then across the US in a road trip unlike any other, this is a book about music, friendship and the desire for home ‘An immersive, humorous and powerful novel from a truly great writer’ Chigozie Obioma
Jamal Mahjoub is a British-Sudanese writer. Born in London, he was raised in Khartoum where his family remained until 1990. He has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands. His novels include Travelling with Djinns and The Drift Latitudes. Under the pseudonym Parker Bilal he is the author of the Inspector Makana crime
The Kamanga Kings, a Khartoum jazz band of yesteryear, is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime when a surprise letter arrives inviting them to perform in Washington, D.C. The only problem is . . . the band no longer exists. Rushdy, a disaffected secondary school teacher and the son of an original Kamanga King, sets out to revive the band. All too soon an unlikely group are on their way, knowing the eyes of their country are on them. As they move from the familiarity of Khartoum to the chaos of Donald Trump’s America, Jamal Mahjoub weaves a gently humorous and ultimately universal tale of music, belonging and love.
series and, most recently, the Crane and Drake series. His latest non-fiction book, A Line in the River, was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.
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Using the latest research from psychology and neuroscience, and working in collaboration with the University of Sussex’s world-leading Kindness Institute, Claudia Hammond takes us on a eye-opening tour of kindness: what constitutes kindness (it’s not just one thing), effective strategies to build more of it into our lives and the benefits of being kind. The book is structured around the Nine Keys of Kindness: 1. There is more kindness in the world than you might think 2. Kind people are winners 3. It is okay to be kind because it makes you feel good 4. Kindness comes from understanding the point of view of others 5. Even small acts make a difference 6. Concentrated kindness has more impact 7. Anyone can be a hero 8. Institutions can be kind too 9. Kindness starts with being kind to yourself You are kinder than you think, but we could all be kinder still – with enormous benefits for our personal mental health and wellbeing. The Keys to Kindness sets out a prescription for a kinder life that you can adapt to your own circumstances, and how to apply these lessons to ourselves, others and the planet.
of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. She has been awarded the President’s Medal from the British Academy, the British Psychological Society’s Public Engagement & Media Award, Mind’s Making a Difference Award and the British Neuroscience Association’s Public Understanding of Neuroscience Award. She is the author of Emotional Rollercoaster, Mind over Money, Time Warped, which won the Aeon Transmission Award and the BPS’ Best Popular Science Book Award, and The Art of Rest, which was also shortlisted for the latter.
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The scientific solution to influencing your life positively, from the award-winning author of The Intelligence Trap People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.
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Lucky charms really do improve an athlete’s performance. Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still improve your health. Welcome to The Expectation Effect.
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JU LY
Thrust
SEPTEMBER
LIDIA YUKNAVITCH
Billy No-Mates
MAX DICKINS
The Eye of the Beholder MARGIE ORFORD
The Coward Learwife
PARKER BILAL
J.R. THORP
Sick Money
BILLY KENBER
How to Stop Time None of the Above TRAVIS ALABANZA
be/longing
REBECCA MILLER
The Foghorn Echoes Revenge of the Librarians TOM GAULD
Major Labels
KELEFA SANNEH
Faith, Hope and Carnage NICK CAVE & SEAN O ’HAGAN
MAT T HAIG
AUGUST
The Night Ship
Total
P R AG YA AG A R WA L
DANNY RAMADAN
JARRED McGINNIS
The Trenches
Hysterical
JESS KIDD
AMANDA THOMSON
The Edge of the Plain JAMES CRAWFORD
A Corruption of Blood AMBROSE PARRY
Imagine A Country
OCTOBER
The Rickman Diaries ALAN RICKMAN
Poetry Unbound PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA
Euphoria
ELIN CULLHED
The Circle Breakers PATIENCE AGBABI
See/Saw
GEOFF DYER NOVEMBER
VAL McDERMID & JO SHARP
Losing the Plot
Borges and Me
Essentials
J AY PA R I N I
DEREK OWUSU
DAVID WHY TE
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days R E B E C C A D O N N E R
Idol, Burning
The Garden of Angels
The Heart of Things
DAVID HEWSON
RIN USAMI
A Mouse Called Miika
MAT T HAIG
R I C H A R D H O L LOWAY
Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
The Fugitives
JAMAL MAHJOUB
The Keys to Kindness CLAUDIA HAMMOND DECEMBER
The Expectation Effect DAVID ROBSON canongate.co.uk/catalogue
Cover illustration: Sophy Louise, sophylouiseillustration.co.uk