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4TH ESTATE &
WILLIAM COLLINS
January - July 2015
Books for the Independent Reader
4th Estate was founded in 1984 on a shoestring budget. The new imprint
aimed to bring innovative and thought-provoking writing to an intelligent and
discerning readership. Now thirty years old, we are proud to be publishing
the most original fiction and non-fiction, discovering the best new writing and
bringing our readers the greatest variety. Our list of authors is gloriously eclectic
and we have a well-earned reputation for making critically-acclaimed, awardwinning and beautifully-produced books. We were named Imprint of the Year
at the 2013 Bookseller Industry Awards.
‘‘See How Small’ is
superb. In prose that’s
as fine as any being
written today, Scott
Blackwood plumbs
the depths of a story
that is alternately
haunting, terrifying,
and achingly tragic.’
Ben Fountain
See How Small by Scott Blackwood
Both haunted and haunting, a gripping, heart-breaking novel about
the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in
incantatory prose.
Publication Date
15.01.2015
HB Demy
One autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an
ice cream shop shortly before closing time.They bind up the three
teenage girls who are working behind the counter, set fire to the
shop, and disappear. See How Small tells the stories of the survivors
– family, witnesses, and suspects – who must endure in the wake
of atrocity.
978-0-00-758093-4
£12.99
E-book
978-0-00-758094-1
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-811457-2
Scott Blackwood is the author of two novels and a book of
narrative non-fiction. A long-time resident of Austin,Texas,
Blackwood now lives in Chicago and teaches in the MFA program
at Southern Illinois University.
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‘Set during the time of
the Ripper murders in
Yorkshire, Alcock has
written a debut novel
of stunning narrative
control and authenticity.
Stevan Alcock is a
wonderful find.’
This book is amazing,
brilliant, and nothing
short of wonderful.’
Jennifer Close, author
of Girls inWhite Dresses
Alexander Masters
Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock
Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny
‘Blood Relatives is full of daring, authenticity and wit. It is a
work of brutal, hilarious poetry … Original, funny, sometimes
shocking, and true.’ Rachel Cusk
A tender and ruefully funny look at varieties of love, secrets,
and betrayal in ten exquisite stories that form a guided tour of
the human heart.
Ricky, a teenage boy growing up in 1970s Yorkshire, has got a
lot on his plate – he is gay and hiding the fact from his family,
he has to spend his days driving a Corona van, and he is only a
stone’s throw away from the Yorkshire Ripper murders. Blood
Relatives is a fresh, disarmingly funny coming of age novel, and
a tender, tragic portrayal of a city and its culture.
Stevan Alcock is a writer and translator. He was brought up
in the Yorkshire Dales, and has lived in Leeds and Berlin. He
has published several short stories and translated plays from
German. He lives in London.
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26.03.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-758084-2
£14.99
E-book
978-0-00-758085-9
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-810221-0
Publication Date
12.02.2015
TPB
Maya is torn between her boyfriend and her vet. Sadie’s lover
calls her every Thursday en route to meet his wife at marriage
counselling. Gwen pines for her roommate, who will hold
her hand, then tell her that her palm is sweaty. Populated
with unwelcome guests, disastrous birthday parties, needy
but loyal friends, and flirtatious older men, Heiny’s stories
are emotionally astute, sexy, and disarming — introducing a
marvellous, new voice.
978-0-00-810555-6
£12.99
E-book
978-0-00-810556-3
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-811524-1
Katherine Heiny’s fiction has been published in The NewYorker,
The Atlantic and Ploughshares. She lives in Washington, D.C. This
is her first book.
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‘Will Smith is the coolest
guy in the world (if
uncool is the new cool)
- he’s also terrifically
funny’
‘Oates writes about
America’s big themes.
Her prose is elegant.
She is the mistress of
all she surveys.’
Harry Enfield
The Times
Mainlander by Will Smith
The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
The thrilling debut from comedy writer and stand up star, Will
Smith – a novel about loneliness, about not belonging, and
about the corroding effects of keeping secrets.
‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and
creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned.’ Gillian Flynn
(Gone Girl)
Jersey 1987, and the storm clouds are gathering over Colin.
Soon after discovering that his wife used to date Rob de la
Haye, a brash hotelier who is everything that Colin is not, one
of his pupils disappears. A web of characters is spun around
this mystery, each with their own secrets. For living on Jersey,
where everyone knows everyone else’s business, you must
become your own island.
Will Smith is a writer on the multi-award winning television
shows Veep and The Thick Of It, in which he also appeared as
hapless Tory researcher Phil Smith. He spent his formative
years in Jersey, and now lives in London.
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12.02.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-759426-9
£12.99
E-book
978-0-00-759428-3
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-811523-4
When fourteen-year-old Sybilla is discovered, bound with
rope, covered in blood and faeces, her body scrawled with
racial slurs, her community is shocked and galvanized. This
incendiary novel illuminates the tragic impact of sexual
violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives,
probing the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge,
the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for
sensationalism.
Publication Date
29.01.2015
TPB
978-0-00-811486-2
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Joyce Carol Oates has published over forty novels. She has
won numerous awards, and is considered one of the great
American writers.
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‘A radical book in
every sense of the word
— thoroughgoing and
extreme, ghastly and
funny and gloriously
provocative...This book
will wake you up!’
‘Like Madame Bovary
blasted by lightning
… a masterpiece’
Angela Carter
Karen Russell,
author of
Swamplandia!
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart
Welcome to Braggsville
by T. Geronimo Johnson
A cult classic, which retains all of its searing poignancy and
beauty, reissued on the 70th anniversary of publication.
A dark, provocative Southern-fried comedy and a fierce, funny,
tragic work from a bold new writer.
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‘A revelation... This powerful work had a profound influence
on me’ Beryl Bainbridge
Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her intense
but ultimately tragic love affair with George Barker was the
inspiration for this novel.
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978-0-586-09039-8
£7.99
Publication Date
26.02.2015
29.01.2015
When D’aron tells his friends at Berkeley about his
hometown’s annual Civil War re-enactment, they descend
on Braggsville, armed with youthful self-importance,
slave costumes, and misguided ideas about the South.
A literary coming-of-age novel for a new generation,
Welcome to Braggsville captures the promise and perils of
youthful exuberance, while painting an indelible portrait of
contemporary America.
HB Demy
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T. Geronimo Johnson’s first novel Hold It ’Til It Hurts was a
finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. He lives
in Berkeley, California.
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At once heartbreaking
and wry, a suicide note
from three sisters, a cursed
family saga, and an
extraordinary novel.
‘Sansom is both
celebrating and sending
up the golden age of
detective novels when,
in the 1930s, Dorothy
L Sayers and Agatha
Christie were the queens
of crime.’
Evening Standard
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
Death in Devon by Ian Sansom
A compulsively readable literary masterpiece — the shared
confessional of three sisters preparing to kill themselves,
honouring the dark legacy that has haunted their family. The second instalment of Ian Sansom’s The County Guides
series, ‘a little gem of English crime writing’ (Daily Mail).
In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters gather in their
ancestral Upper West Side apartment. An epic family story –
inspired partly by the life of Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner
and inventor of chlorine gas – unfolds. This is a memoir of
sisters unified by a singular burden, and an unflinching eulogy
to those who have gone before.
Judith Claire Mitchell, the author of The Last Day of theWar, is
an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She
lives in Madison with her husband.
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12.03.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-759434-4
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-759436-8
What do they know of England who do not Devon know?
Swooping down from the majestic heights of Dartmoor,
Swanton arrives to speak at the Founders’ Day at All Souls
School, Rousdon. But a boy has died. With occasional
outings to surf and to sample cream teas – Swanton Morley,
Sefton and Miriam once again pit their wits against the dark,
repressive, anti-intellectual forces of 1930s England.
Publication Date
12.03.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-753314-5
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Ian Sansom is the author of ten books including The Norfolk
Mystery, Paper: An Elegy, and The Mobile Library series. He writes
for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lives in
Nothern Ireland.
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ARTWORK
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ARTWORK
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A hugely exciting debut
novel and a witty and
powerful exploration
of the nature of love,
young people in crisis,
and the secrets that
change and destroy the
family dynamic.
Left of the Bang by Claire Lowdon
Black Run by Antonio Manzini
Tam is struggling to succeed in the competitive world of
classical music, and to overcome her feelings for Chris, who
is preparing to go to Afghanistan. Her ever-kind boyfriend,
Callum is absorbed in his work as a teacher. Leah is disgusted
by a world cluttered with unnecessary possessions and
unhealthy food.
The first title in a rollicking new crime series. Move over
Inspector Montalbano and Aurelio Zen, welcome inspector
Rocco Schiavone!
Publication Date
04.06.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-810217-3
£14.99
E-book
AVanity Fair for our times, Left of the Bang captures the foibles,
hopes and difficulties of young Londoners with sharp, satirical
humour, unparalleled social observation, and great empathy.
Claire Lowdon read English at Oxford and is the Assistant
Editor of Arete. She has written for Arete,Times Literary
Supplement, New Statesman, the Observer and The Sunday Times. She
lives in London.
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The first in a new crime
series introducing the
charismatic Rocco
Schiavone against
a romantic Italian
backdrop
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Black Run is a sizzling, delightful beginning to a new crime
series, already a huge hit in Italy. Inspector Schiavone is a
typical Roman – gritty, savvy, brutally ironic, and devoted to
his city. When he is reassigned to a resort town in the Alps, he
can’t see how things could get worse. That is, until a horribly
crushed corpse is discovered in the middle of a ski piste …
Publication Date
07.05.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-811900-3
£14.99
E-book
978-0-00-811902-7
Antonio Manzini is a screenwriter (TheVanity Serum, As God
Commands) director, actor and writer. He published several
short stories before embarking on this series.
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‘Corbett creates a
memorable voice to
explore the power that
heritage wields over an
outsider struggling to
find his place in the
world’
It unites the stories of
multiple characters whose
lives, though lacking in
heroic deeds, each reveal an
underlying defiance of power
in its different guises.
Sunday Times
The King is Always Above the People
by Daniel Alarcón
An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcón,
one of the NewYorker’s 20 best writers under 40, and one of the
best storytellers of our time.
A son is forced by his father to work as a guide to a blind man;
a vibrator decides the fate of a couple’s love; a lesbian woman
remembers her affair with the president. These unforgettable
stories are proof of Alarcón’s standing as a brilliant writer, able
to fuse together the best aspects of the Latin American and the
American literary traditions.
Daniel Alarcón was born in Peru and raised in Alabama. He is
the author of two novels, At NightWeWalk in Circles and War by
Candlelight. He lives in Oakland, California.
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Green Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett
Publication Date
‘A wonderful new voice’ - Joseph O’Neill, author of
Netherland
28.04.2015
PBO
978-0-00-751736-7
£8.99
E-book
978-0-00-751737-4
Publication Date
07.05.2015
After the critically acclaimed This Is The Way, Gavin Corbett
takes us on a very different journey in this darkly comic,
surprisingly contemporary and deeply surreal tale. Following
a path well-trodden by his ancestors, the disillusioned Rickard
leaves Dublin and sets off for New York. There two older
Irishmen invite him to sing with them, opening up a world
unknown and unimagined – a mysterious mythology located in
modern Manhattan.
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Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland. His second
novel, This is the Way, was published in 2013, and was named
the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2013. He lives in
New York.
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ARTWORK
TBC
A tour de force of endless
invention; a hilarious,
enchanting, surprisingly
relevant tale which will
make you see the world
as if freshly minted.
The Bees by Laline Paull
The Museum of Things Left Behind
by Seni Glaister
Welcome to Vallerosa, a European country you’ve never heard
of before. Reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Jonas Jonasson’s
fantastical fables, and Wes Anderson’s magical kingdoms, The
Museum of Things Left Behind follows a young English girl who
is mistaken for royalty. Allowed access to every corner of
Vallerosan society, her interactions with its people begin to
heal a dysfunctional nation.
Seni Glaister is the C.E.O of The Book People, and has been a
bookseller for her whole career. This is her first novel.
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‘A gripping Cinderella/
Arthurian tale with
lush Keatsian adjectives’
Margaret Atwood
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‘A beautifully written and unusual book … Captivating … A
book that changes the way we see our world’ Sunday Times
21.05.2015
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978-0-00-811895-2
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978-0-00-811897-6
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Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a
sanitation bee, living to accept, obey and serve her holy
mother, the Queen. But Flora is not like other bees…
Thrilling and imaginative, The Bees is the story of a a luminous
world both alien and uncannily familiar, and a heroine who
changes her destiny and her world.
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978-0-00-755774-5
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E-book
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Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-757835-1
Laline Paull is a playwright, who has had two plays performed
at the National Theatre, living in England. The Bees is her first
novel.
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Winter by Christopher Nicholson
From the author of the Costa
Best Novel-shortlisted The
Elephant Keeper, a poignant
imagining of Thomas Hardy’s
relationship with his last muse.
Thirty Girls by Susan Minot
Publication Date
15.01.2015
PB
978-0-00-751608-7
£8.99
‘A wonderful novel, moving,
gripping and illuminating.’
David Lodge
Will Wiles won a Betty Trask
award for Care of Wooden Floors.
He lives in London.
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PB B-Format
978-0-00-755072-2
£8.99
Susan Minot is an awardwinning novelist, short-story
writer, poet, and screenwriter.
Kinder Than Solitude byYiyun Li
The Way Inn by Will Wiles
‘The Way Inn is Terence Conran
meets HP Lovecraft. It is
Bulgakov staged in the Tate,
Kafka as a new Ikea furniture
range.’ Guardian
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‘A heart-rending novel based
on a horrific real-life event. A
punch in the gut over and over
again.’ Metro
Christopher Nicholson
read English at Cambridge
University and has worked
as a radio scriptwriter and
producer. He lives in Dorset.
The Way Inn takes the polished
surfaces of modern life, the
branded coffee and the free
wifi, and twists them into a
nightmare.
A literary tour de force set in
war-torn Africa and a longawaited return from the bestselling author of Evening.
Publication Date
15.01.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-754554-4
£8.99
A gripping mystery and
poignant tale of love forever
blighted, inspired by the
notorious poisoning of a
Chinese student in 1995.
Publication Date
12.02.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-730313-7
£8.99
‘Yiyun Li has grown into one
of our major novelists.’ Salman
Rushdie
Yiyun Li was one of Granta’s
BestYoung American Novelists,
and The NewYorker’s top
writers under 40. She lives in
California.
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The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
‘Epic in scale, subject
and compassion
… A magnificent
achievement.’
‘This is a profound novel
about love from a highly
regarded, Pulitzer-winning
novelist.’ Sunday Times
Sunday Express
‘Clean and sharp as an ice
crystal; a brief but profound
and poetic meditation on
love, death and compassion
from a master craftsman of
language’ Observer
Publication Date
26.02.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-755769-1
£8.99
Michael Cunningham is
the author of six novels,
including The Hours.
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
‘An honest, intimate family story with the power to rock you
to your core’ NewYork Times
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Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, We Are Not
Ourselves tells the story of Eileen Leary– mother, wife,
daughter, lover, nurse, caretaker, whiskey drinker and dreamer
– places her stock and love in a handsome young scientist.
Soon, however, she and her son are left to grapple with a
husband and father who is, beyond their control, fading away.
A stunning, heartbreaking debut – both the intimate story of a
family and an epic of the American Century.
Matthew Thomas is a debut novelist and former school
teacher, living in New York.
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978-0-00-754832-3
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John the Pupil by David Flusfeder
Erudite and earthy,
horrifying, comic,
humane, David Flusfeder’s
extraordinary novel reveals
to the reader a world very
different and all too like the
one we live in now.
Publication Date
26.02.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-756120-9
£8.99
‘Umberto Eco through the
eyes of Quentin Tarantino’
Louisa Young, Daily Mail
David Flusfeder is a critically
acclaimed novelist, living in
London.
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Snow in May by Kseniya Melnik
A debut collection of short
stories: each a small-town
miracle, each a miniature epic.
The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol
Publication Date
09.04.2015
A stunning collection with the
power not only to absorb and
thrill, but to move.
PB B-Format
‘Melnik’s stories reveal a writer
who is wise and insightful
beyond her years.’ Anya Ulinich
978-0-00-754872-9
£8.99
‘These subtle stories of flawed
humanity are a delight.’ Observer
Publication Date
07.05.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-754883-5
£8.99
A Wallace Stegner Fellow in
fiction at Stanford University,
Molly Antopol is a Jones
Lecturer, living in the US.
Snow in May is shortlisted for
the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Born in Russia, Kseniya Melnik
was selected for Granta’s New
Voices series.
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen
A new collection from one
of America’s brightest young
talents, written with deep
emotion, dry wit and eyeopening ingenuity.
Publication Date
07.05.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-754877-4
£8.99
‘Strikingly beautiful.’
Guardian
The child of Israeli
immigrants, Galchen has
been named one of the top
twenty American authors by
The NewYorker.
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‘Such a page-turner,
entirely absorbing …
Magnificent’
Guardian
In The Approaches by Nicola Barker
Barker’s wildest and most
haunting book is the concluding
instalment of her subliminally
affiliated ‘digital trilogy’.
Publication Date
21.05.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-758372-0
£8.99
‘I have never read anything like
it … Barker is some kind of
genius.’ Observer
‘A novel that propels you
helplessly forward into the
light.’ Independent
All The Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
‘I’m not sure I will read a better novel this year…
Enthrallingly told, beautifully written and so emotionally
plangent that some passages bring tears’ Washington Post
As Europe is engulfed by war and two lives collide
unpredictably in occupied France, All The LightWe Cannot See
illuminates how, against all odds, people try to be good to one
another. Ten years in the writing, this is Anthony Doerr’s most
ambitious and powerful work – a captivating tale of courage in
sacrifice and a haunting elegy for the end of innocence.
Anthony Doerr is a bestselling author, one of Granta’s Best
Young American Novelists, and recipient of the Sunday Times
Short Story Prize. Doerr lives in Idaho.
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The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
Publication Date
07.05.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-754869-9
£8.99
‘A performance of
extraordinary flair and
majesty from a writer who
seems capable of anything.’
Guardian
Publication Date
18.06.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-745959-9
£8.99
‘A gorgeous amalgam
of literary, musical and
philosophical ideas … I loved
it’ Evening Standard
Philip Hensher is a columnist
for the Independent, arts
critic for the Spectator and a
Granta Best of Young British
novelist. He lives in London.
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The Dog by Joseph O’Neill
Longlisted for the Man Booker, a
brilliantly original, achingly funny
fable for our globalized times,
from the author of the bestselling
and award-winning Netherland.
Head of State by Andrew Marr
Publication Date
23.04.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-727575-5
£8.99
‘I’m in love with this book …
superbly written and very very
funny’ David Aaronovitch
‘Classic Cronenberg! Who else can
tell such a frightening, thrilling,
shocking story about the nexus of
the spirit and the flesh? Consumed
will, well, consume you.’ J. J.
Abrams
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PB B-Format
978-0-00-759194-7
£8.99
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
by Hilary Mantel
Consumed by David Cronenberg
‘Cronenberg’s novel is as troubling,
sinister, and as enthralling as his
films.’ Stephen King
Publication Date
Marr is a former editor
of the Independent and BBC
Political editor, a radio
presenter, a documentary
creator a hugely successful
non-fiction author.
‘One of the wittiest critiques of
modern, materialistic life that
you’ll read for a long while’ The
Times
This exuberant, provocative debut
novel from one of the world’s
leading film directors follows
Naomi and Nathan, lovers and
competitors, through a world
of airport hotels and browser
windows.
The first novel from Britain’s
most celebrated political
commentator is a darkly
comic tale of murder and
skulduggery, played out at
the very heart of Downing
Street.
Publication Date
26.03.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-729914-0
£8.99
From one of Britain’s most
accomplished and acclaimed
writers comes this brilliant
– and rather transgressive –
collection of short stories
Publication Date
21.05.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-758099-6
£8.99
‘An exhilarating, if
dark, collection … ‘The
Assassination of Margaret
Thatcher’ is a small triumph:
a lesson in artfully controlled
savagery’ Sunday Times
‘A fabulously nasty
concoction... wickedly
good.’ Simon Schama,
Financial Times
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‘Joanna Blythman has
one of the sanest food
heads in theWestern
world’
Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall
Swallow This
Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
by Joanna Blythman
From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory
investigation into what really goes into the food we eat.
Publication Date
Joanna Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food
journalist. She has won five Glenfiddich awards for her writing
and the prestigious Derek Cooper Award. She writes and
broadcasts frequently on food issues. She lives in Edinburgh.
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The Porcelain Thief by Huan Hsu
An intimate and personal exploration of the bloody, tragic
and largely forgotten events that defined Chinese history in
the 19th and 20th century – as mapped by one family’s longburied porcelain collection.
12.02.2015
TPB Demy
Swallow This is a fascinating exploration of the food processing
industry and its products – not just the more obvious
ready meals, but the less overtly processed: washed salads,
smoothies, yoghurts, cereal bars, bread. With unprecedented
access to factories, suppliers and industry insiders, Joanna
Blythman gives an utterly eye-opening account of what we’re
really swallowing.
An intimate and
personal exploration of
Chinese history through
one family’s long-buried
porcelain collection.
978-0-00-754833-0
£14.99
E-book
978-0-00-754834-7
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-756126-1
In the tradition of the best works of history that uncover a
forgotten family story, such as The Hare with Amber Eyes or The
Lost,The Porcelain Thief recounts journalist and first-generation
Chinese American, Huan Hsu’s journey through the old and
new worlds of China to learn more about his family’s hidden
treasure, reconnect with his ancestry, and come to terms with
his hyphenated identity.
Publication Date
26.03.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-747943-6
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-747942-9
Huan Hsu is a journalist, whose essays and fiction have also
appeared in Slate,The Literary Review, and Center: A Journal of
the Literary Arts. He currently lives in Amsterdam and teaches
writing at Amsterdam University College.
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‘As a poet and writer,
[Rosemary Sullivan] knows
that life is lived not as theory
but as practice, that we exist
on earth not as ideas but as
living creatures, and that
you can understand nothing
about a place without
listening to individual people
and their stories.’
Delicious comforting
home baking for everyone.
Margaret Atwood
The Hummingbird Bakery: Life is Sweet
by Tarek Malouf
The brilliant new book from Britain’s favourite bakery, with
100 original recipes: from quick pancakes and cookies to
indulgent puddings, show-stopping layer cakes and delicious
ice creams.
Packed with home-made versions of all-American favourites
– Vanilla and Chocolate Cookies, Peanut Butter Ice-cream,
Toasted Marshmallow Cupcakes – as well as new takes on
Hummingbird classics, such as Red Velvet Brownies and Black
Bottom Pancakes, Life is Sweet has something for every baking
occasion.
Tarek Malouf set up the first Hummingbird Bakery on
Portobello Road. The Bakery now has six London branches.
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26.02.2015
HB
978-0-00-756459-0
£20
E-book
978-0-00-756460-6
Stalin’s Daughter
The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana
Stalina
by Rosemary Sullivan
Svetlana Stalina’s life story is more sensational than a
Hollywood film, encompassing life within the Kremlin’s
gilded cage, concealed deaths, unhappy romances, a dramatic
defection, an unlikely life in America, and a never-ending,
always-unsuccessful flight from her past. This is a work of
narrative non-fiction on a grand scale – both a private life and
the story of the 20th century.
Publication Date
26.03.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-749111-7
£20
E-book
978-0-00-749112-4
Rosemary Sullivan is the author of eleven books, and a poet,
essayist, journalist and recipient of the Lorne Pierce Medal for
distinguished contributions to Canadian literature and culture.
She teaches at the University of Toronto.
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ARTWORK
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ARTWORK
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‘...It’s good to know
you have someone
this fearless, funny
and awesome in
your corner.’
‘Terrific...
authoritative... lucid.’
Sunday Times
Stylist
Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman
Tear Down the Sky Hooks by Matt Ridley
Hadley Freeman’s personalised guide to American movies
from the 1980s – why they are brilliant, what they mean to
her, and how they influenced movie-making forever.
‘What a superb writer he is, and he seems to get better and
better.’ Richard Dawkins
Pretty in Pink, Ghostbusters, Say Anything, Back to the Future, ET …
Born in the late 1970s, and raised on a well-rounded cinematic
diet, Hadley Freeman’s worldview was forged by these cult
classics. She eulogises a cinematic world in which bankers are
always evil, children wiser than adults, science embraced with
intense enthusiasm, the future viewed with excitement, and
Molly Ringwald reigns supreme.
Hadley Freeman is a hugely popular journalist, writing in
the Guardian and USVogue, and the author of The Meaning of
Sunglasses and Be Awesome. She lives in New York and London.
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07.05.2015
TPB
978-0-00-758558-8
£12.99
E-book
978-0-00-758559-5
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812135-8
Publication Date
07.05.2015
In this major new work, internationally acclaimed author Matt
Ridley makes us look at our world anew. We are taught that
the world is a top-down place, but this wide-ranging, highly
opinionated non-fiction narrative shows just how wrong this
is, and how bottom-up order still shapes the world. Drawing
on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics,
philosophy and his own life, Ridley reveals bottom-up trends
shaping our world and future.
HB Royal
978-0-00-754248-2
£20
E-book
978-0-00-754250-5
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812137-2
Matt Ridley is an internationally respected and bestselling
science writer. His books include Genome and The Rational
Optimist. He lives in Northumberland.
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ARTWORK
TBC
‘I love BeeWilson’s
writing.’
Nigella Lawson
The Child at the Table by Bee Wilson
I Will FindYou by Joanna Connors
Eating is not something we are born knowing how to do. We
learn it as children, sitting at the kitchen table, being fed.
A compelling and hard-hitting memoir which follows one
woman’s search, twenty years after the event, for answers
about her rapist.
Publication Date
07.05.2015
The food we consume over the course of a day, a week, a
lifetime, depends on countless glancing choices, most of which
are based on preference. And these preferences, in turn, are
largely formed by the way we first learn to feed ourselves in
childhood. Drawing on current research, and the author’s
experience parenting three children and visiting numerous
school canteens, The Child at the Table looks at where our food
habits come from; and what it would really take to change
them for the better.
Bee Wilson is an award-winning food writer, reviewer and
journalist and the author of four previous books. She lives in
Cambridge.
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This is an extraordinary
real life story, told with
the propulsive energy of
a thriller.
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978-0-00-754970-2
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-754971-9
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812138-9
When she was 30, newspaper reporter Joanna Connors was
raped. Now, finally, she investigates the biggest story of her
life. Her search leads her into the past – to the attack, and
the shadow it cast over her life – and forward to surprising
discoveries, encounters with unforgettable characters, and
into dangerous situations.
Publication Date
04.06.2015
TPB Royal
978-0-00-752185-2
£14.99
E-book
978-0-00-752187-6
Joanna Connors is an award-winning journalist whose work
has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Glamour,
and Redbook, amongst other publications.
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A Great Day at the Office by Dr. John Briffa
Dreading work? Tired of a
9 to 5 that’s more like an 8
to 10? Feeling overwhelmed
by your job? A Great Day at
the Office offers practical
solutions to the challenges of
modern-day business life for
a healthier, happier and more
productive time at the office
and away.
Publication Date
01.01.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-754793-7
£8.99
Dr. John Briffa is a practising
doctor, international speaker
and author of the bestselling
The Diet Trap.
‘A game-changing look at
one of our culture’s hidden
problems.’ Margaret Trudeau
Ann Dowsett Johnston is
a gifted writer, editor and
public speaker. A graduate of
Queen’s University, she lives
in Toronto.
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‘By far the best picture of the
1950s I have read’ The Times
‘If this book is thought of
less as a memoir than as
a symphonic poem about
postwar England and
Englishness – well, then it
is a masterpiece … Meades
is a sort of apocalyptic John
Betjeman’ Financial Times
Publication Date
29.01.2015
PB B-Format
978-1-85702-905-5
£9.99
How to Make a Human Being
by Christopher Potter
Drink by Ann Dowsett-Johnston
Intimate and startlingly
honest, Drink is a book to
change the lives of women
of all ages – and those who
love them.
An Encyclopaedia of Myself
by Jonathan Meades
Publication Date
A startling investigation of
what it means to be human.
01.01.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-750358-2
£8.99
Publication Date
29.01.2015
‘Well-travelled imaginations
will enjoy a jaunt with
fiery polymath Christopher
Potter; How to Make a Human
Being is a quirky investigation
into our deepest nature.’
Hilary Mantel
PB B-Format
978-0-00-744781-7
£8.99
Christopher Potter, one time
publisher, is the author of the
much-praised You Are Here.
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Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
‘Funny, empowering and
as good a millennial
guide for navigating and
laughing at your foggy
adolescence and murky
twenties as there can be.
I only wish it had been
around earlier’
Sunday Times
An irreverent, provocative, and
visually fascinating look at what
our online lives reveal about
who we really are.
‘An absurd, funny, and
profound book about
important issues. Race, love,
sex – you name it. Are we the
sum of the data we produce?’
Errol Morris
Publication Date
26.03.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-749443-9
£8.99
Christian Rudder is co-founder
of OkCupid and now serves as
chief data analyst and author of
the popular blog OkTrends.
Not That kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
This hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of
personal musings confirms Lena Dunham – the acclaimed
creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls – as one of the
brightest and most original writers working today. Marked by
Lena’s characteristic wit and wry observation, the book covers
crucial topics from ‘platonic bed sharing’ and ‘crying at work’ to
‘red lipstick with a sunburn’.
Publication Date
27.08.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-751554-7
£8.99
E-book
Lena Dunham is a 28-year-old writer and director. She is the
creator and star of multi-award winning Tiny Furniture and hit
HBO series, Girls. She has received eight Emmy nominations and
won two Golden Globes. She lives in New York.
How to be A Husband by Tim Dowling
From Britain’s favourite
columnist, a hilarious,
touching look at the marital
day-to-day.
Publication Date
09.04.2015
PB B-Format
‘You’ll whoosh through this
book with cheery hoots of
laughter’ Guardian
978-0-00-752768-7
£8.99
978-0-00-728727-7
‘Offers wisdom, insight and
laugh-out-loud one-liners in
equal measure … Gloriously
entertaining’ Observer
‘A rare delight.’ Spectator
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Founded in Glasgow in 1819, William Collins publishes some of the best
nonfiction authors writing today. The best writers in their fields – across
biography, history, science, religion, art, politics and natural history – our authors
combine deep understanding of their subject with ability to write for a general
readership. Our books, in many different ways, seek to understand, analyse,
question tired and accepted views, to illustrate and explain. From Max Hastings,
Bernard Cornwell and Richard Holmes via David McCandless to Brian Cox and
David Attenborough, our authors regularly win literary prizes and top the bestseller lists. The William Collins Natural History list is the most respected nature
list in the world – publishing the renowned New Naturalist Library and some
of the most inspiring nature authors and brands. We are also the biggest bible
publisher in the UK and publish the ever-popular Good News Bible.
Published to mark the
final retreat of Western
troops from Afghanistan,
this book asks how the
might of NATO – with
140,000 troops on the
ground – failed to defeat
a group of religious
students and farmers.
How did it go so wrong?
The Retreat
How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan
by Christina Lamb
Because Ideas Matter
With unparalleled access to all key decision makers, the leading
journalist on the region tells how the West turned success into
defeat in the longest war fought by the U.S. in its history and by
Britain since the Hundred Years War. How well-intentioned men
and women went into a place they did not understand, and how
this fiasco has left Afghanistan still one of the world’s poorest,
most dangerous nations.
Publication Date
12.03.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-725692-1
£25.00
E-book
978-0-00-728727-7
Christina Lamb is the bestselling author of The Africa House, and
I Am Malala, co-authored with Malala Yousafzai, and a foreign
correspondent for the Sunday Times. Formerly bureau chief in
Washington, she has been named Foreign Correspondent of the
Year many times for her reporting from Afghanistan.
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US
JACKET
Two leading experts on
violent extremism explain
the genesis, evolution and
implications of today’s
most barbaric jihadist
army, Islamic State.
ISIS
Late Fragments
The State of Terror
by Jessica Stern & J.M. Berger
Everything I Want to TellYou
(About This Magnificent Life) by Kate Gross
With ground-breaking research, ISIS:The State of Terror delves
into the origins of ISIS, the ghoulish pornography of pro-jihadi
videos, the seductive appeal of ‘jihadi chic’ and the startling
effectiveness of the Islamic State’s use of social media as a means
of luring Westerners. A necessary book on an unprecedented
enemy, it attempts to answer the question of what our next
move – as a country, a government, and world community –
should be.
Kate Gross was a woman who ‘leaned in’ until cancer stopped
her in her tracks. Now terminal, it is clear that she will die
before her children finish primary school. Kate began to write
as a gift to herself, a reminder that she could create as her
body began to self-destruct. The result is not an average cancer
memoir filled with medical jargon and misery. Instead, it is
Kate’s powerful attempt to understand the woman who has
emerged in this strange, lucid final chunk of life.
Jessica Stern is a Lecturer on Terrorism at Harvard University
and serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National
Security and Law. J.M. Berger is the author of the acclaimed
history of the American jihadist movement, Jihad Joe.
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A frank, heartbreaking
book about what it means
to die before your time,
and how to fill your life
with wonder and joy even
in the face of tragedy.
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27.01.2015
TPB Royal
978-0-00-812093-1
£14.99
E-book
978-0-00-812094-8
Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812095-5
Publication Date
29.01.2015
HB B-Format
978-0-00-810345-3
£14.99
E-book
978-0-00-810346-0
Before developing cancer, Kate worked in Downing Street for
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. She then set up an Africanbased charity . Awarded an OBE in 2014, she lives with her
husband and sons in Cambridge. She is 36.
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Midnight, Sunday, 17
June 1815.There was
no town in Britain that
had not sent its soldiers,
hardly a family, as Byron
put it, would escape
‘havoc’s tender mercies’
at Waterloo.
Went the Day Well?
The Looting Machine
Witnessing Waterloo
by David Crane
Warlords,Tycoons and the Systematic Theft of
Africa’s Wealth
by Tom Burgis
David Crane’s new book is a stunning portrait of the Britain
that fought Waterloo and the changes victory wrought.
For the soldiers and families who grieved it was a fight for
freedom, but for a swathe of radicals it was the death knell of
their hopes. In a narrative that shifts hour by hour between
Britain and Belgium, prison and palace, poet and pauper, this
book records a cast of ordinary lives, all glimpsed through
the smoke of battle and burgeoning mythology of the single
most celebrated day in Britain’s history.
David Crane’s previous book Empires of the Dead was
shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize . He has
written many others including an acclaimed biography of
Scott of the Antarctic and Lord Byron’s Jackal, a life of Edward
Trelawny.
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A blistering, pageturning investigation
which exposes highlevel corruption and
highlights the appalling
human cost of the new
scramble for resourcerich Africa.
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Publication Date
29.01.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-735836-6
£25
E-book
978-0-00-735837-3
In this vital and arresting book, investigative journalist
Tom Burgis reveals a systematic looting machine that links
Western multinationals, shadowy Chinese syndicates,
corrupt local power elites – and the people on the ground
who suffer the shattering consequences of living above the
richest mineral deposits on earth.
Tom Burgis is investigations correspondent at the Financial
Times. In 2013 he won the prestigious Jerwood Award for
Non-Fiction which has helped to fund the writing of this
book. He lives in London.
Publication Date
26.02.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-752308-5
£20
E-book
978-0-00-752311-5
Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-811463-3
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‘Davenport-Hines is
superb on the English
… His eye is as shrewd
and telling as Anthony
Powell’s’
The Times
Universal Man
The Shed That Fed A Million Children
The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
by Richard Davenport-Hines
The Extraordinary Story of Mary’s Meals
by Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow
From the bestselling author of An English Affair, a dazzlingly
original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the
greatest economist of the twentieth century.
While enjoying a pint with his brother, Magnus MacFarlaneBarrow had an idea that would change his life. What neither of
them expected is that what began as a one-time road trip in a
beaten-up Landrover would radically change the lives of others
and become Magnus’s life work – leading him to leave his job,
sell his house and direct all his efforts towards feeding the world’s
poorest children.
Richard Davenport-Hines goes beyond the economics to write
about the ‘climate’ of John Maynard Keynes’s life, presenting
a public and private portrait of a man who was as at ease
socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was influencing
prime ministers and presidents.
Publication Date
12.03.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-751980-4
£18.99
PB
978-0-00-751982-8
£8.99
E-book
978-0-00-751981-1
Richard Davenport-Hines is a historian and biographer. A
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of
Literature, he reviews regularly for the Guardian, Spectator and
Literary Review. He lives in London.
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The compelling story of
how a cripplingly shy
Salmon farmer from
Argyll in Scotland began
feeding a million school
children every day from
his garden shed.
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Publication Date
26.02.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-757832-0
£12.99
E-book
978-0-00-757833-7
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow is the CEO of Mary’s Meals, a
charity giving children one daily meal in their place of education
and helping all who have more than they need to share with those
who lack even the most basic things.
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You are just 10%
human. For every one of
the cells that make up
your body, there are nine
impostor cells, hitching
a ride.
10% Human
HowYour Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health
and Happiness by Alanna Collen
You are not just flesh and blood but also bacteria and fungi.
And you are more ‘them’ than you are ‘you’. Over your
lifetime you will play host to bugs the equivalent weight of
five African elephants. There are more on your fingertip than
there are people in Britain. This ground-breaking book offers
a new scientific perspective on the importance of friendly
bacteria and their vital role in obesity, child development,
allergies, mental health and, ultimately, forming who you
are.
Alanna Collen holds a PhD in evolutionary biology from
UCL. She has written for the Sunday Times Magazine and has
featured on BBC One and Radio 4. She lives in Bedfordshire.
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26.03.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-758403-1
£18.99
E-book
978-0-00-758404-8
Duff Hart-Davis revisits
rural Britain to tell the
stories of ordinary people
living in villages and
farms across the country
duringWorldWar II.
Our Land at War
by Duff Hart-Davis
From the Home Guard struggling with ludicrous equipment
(250,000 bayonets soldered to the end of metal poles); to the
plans by the Observation Unit to enlarge rabbit warrens into
bunkers for harassing the enemy; to sign-posts swivelled to
confuse unwelcome visitors; and the unexpected tenderness
shown to enemy POWs at work on the land, this warm-hearted
and – at times – hilarious book casts new light on wartime
Britain.
Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-758492-5
Publication Date
07.05.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-751653-7
£20.00
E-book
978-0-00-751654-4
Audio (unabridged)
Duff Hart-Davis has written over fifty books on a wide variety of
subjects. He has worked as Literary Editor and a feature writer
at the Sunday Telegraph and as a columnist for the Independent. He
lives at Owlpen, in Gloucestershire.
978-0-00-812136-5
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ARTWORK
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A brilliantly conceived
non-fiction epic, a war
narrated through the
lives and deaths of a
single family.
Farthest Field
An Odyssey
A Story of India’s Second World War
by Raghu Karnad
A Father, A Son and an Epic
by Daniel Mendelsohn
A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing
adventure, follows his brothers-in-law onto the front lines
of India’s Second World War. His army fights for the British
Empire, even as his countrymen fight for freedom from it, in
a story that travels from Madras to Eritrea, Iraq and Burma,
following a family amazed by their violently changing world.
In penetrating prose, Raghu Karnad retrieves from obscurity
the epic of India’s Second World War – a war the world
reveres, but India would choose to forget.
An intimate account of a year-long reading of Homer’s Odyssey
– with its eternal themes of travel, adventure and transformed
identities – that acclaimed writer Daniel Mendelsohn
undertook with his ailing father, in the classroom and around
the Mediterranean in Odysseus’ footsteps. How the poem
effects recognitions between them, and the questions it raises
once his father began to die, become the stuff of a moving
adventure.
Raghu Karnad was born in Mumbai in 1983, and studied
political science at Swarthmore College, PA, and at Oxford,
where he took a first. An award-winning journalist, he was
Editor of Time Out Delhi until 2011. He has also written for
the Financial Times and n+1. He lives in Delhi.
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From the award winning
and internationally
bestselling author of ‘The
Lost’, a moving memoir
about a father, a son and
the lessons of a literary
classic.
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04.06.2015
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978-0-00-811572-2
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-811571-5
Publication Date
07.05.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-754512-4
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-754514-8
Daniel Mendelsohn writes frequently for the NewYorker and
is a columnist for the NewYork Times. His books include the
international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million,
which won the Prix Medicis and many other prizes. He lives in
New York.
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ARTWORK
TBC
ARTWORK
TBC
A ground-breaking book
from a Nobel Prize
winner on how lives are
shaped not only by the
choices we make, but by
the choices we have.
Who Gets What - And Why
Catallus’ Bedspread
From Birth to Death and Along the Way
by Alvin Roth
The distribution of rewards is often unfair, but it’s seldom as
random as it seems. In Who Gets What, Nobel Prize winning
economist Alvin Roth looks at the markets that exist in
everyday life, markets where choice not just price is the
determining factor, and how everything – from getting
accepted at university or getting the job we want – can be
better understood and negotiated when we understand how
many things that we choose in life also must choose us.
by Daisy Dunn
Publication Date
04.05.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-752076-3
£25
E-book
978-0-00-752079-4
Audio (unabridged)
Alvin Roth is Professor of Economics at Stanford University
and Professor Emeritus of Economics and Business
Administration at Harvard University. Roth is one of the
founders of the new economic discipline of market design.
He was named Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2012. This
book is based on his pioneering research in this field.
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A biography of Catullus,
Rome’s first great poet,
a dandy who fell in
love with another man’s
wife and made it known
to the world through
timeless erotic verse.
978-0-00-812139-6
Famed for his elegant and subversive voice, Catullus was
Rome’s foremost poet, original satirist and inventor of the
Latin love elegy. Daisy Dunn’s rediscovery of the man himself,
told with literary verve, is an extraordinary journey through
the dark velvet seas, disputed lands, ambitious poets and
ruthless politics that made his famous verse.
Publication Date
04.06.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-755433-1
£20
E-book
Daisy Dunn is based in London. She read Classics at Oxford,
followed by Art History at the Courtauld and a PhD in
Classics at University College London. She also writes for
Spectator, Evening Standard, History Today, Apollo and more.
978-0-00-755434-8
Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812058-0
The Poems of Catullus, edited and translated by Daisy Dunn,
will also be published by Collins Classics on 4 Jun 2015.
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How close are we
to a tipping point
which will break up
of the workings of our
global society?
End Game
Tipping Point for Planet Earth
by Professor Anthony Barnosky & Professor Liz Hadly
Over a lifetime of research, Professors Barnosky and
Hadly have studied the fearsome clues of a perfect storm
facing planet earth. Their renowned investigations have
identified a tipping point in man’s history, incited by huge
population growth, in which resources, climate change and
environmental contamination all become critical at once.
And soon. End Game is the most important wake-up call since
The Population Bomb.
For twenty-five years Anthony Barnosky and Liz Hadly have
been married and studying the scientific underpinnings that
will help ensure a viable future for humanity. They live in
California.
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Publication Date
02.07.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-754815-6
£20
In this superb new
collection, the inimitable
Boris Johnson delivers
his unique insight on
a refreshingly diverse
range of topics.
Have I Got More Views ForYou
by Boris Johnson
Six years as Mayor of London and one glorious 2012
Olympics since his bestselling Have I Got Views ForYou,
this anthology of his recent journalism sees Boris give
impassioned voice to his opinions on learning, education,
the latest developments in media, culture, transport, and all
things British – from bees to baby boomers and chutney to
royalty!
E-book
978-0-00-754816-3
Publication Date
26.02.2015
PBO
978-0-00-759056-8
£8.99
E-book
978-0-00-759057-5
Before being elected Mayor of London in May 2008, Boris
Johnson was the Editor of the Spectator and Member of
Parliament for Henley. He is the author of many books,
notably Have I Got Views ForYou,The Dream of Rome and The Spirit
of London.
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‘Frank Ryan has the
page-turning and spinechilling ability of a
good novelist’
Matt Ridley
Mysterious World of the Human Genome
by Frank Ryan
Between the Sunset and the Sea
In 2001, the actual sequence of the DNA of the Human
Genome was published for the first time. Consisting of 3.2
terrabytes, it contains instructions on how to make a human
being. But how is a simple set of 4 different letters converted
into a living organism? Welcome to the Mysterious World of
the Human Genome. From introns to extrons, viral DNA to
mitochondrial DNA, this world is an array of incredible
stories that is beginning to dominate medical research.
The high places of Britain have an allure that many people
are unable to resist. But what is it about Snowdon, or Ben
Nevis, or Ben Alligan that makes people fall in love with
them? Simon Ingram, editor of Trail magazine brings a
fresh eye to some of Britain’s most iconic peaks and paints
beautiful portraits of their history and present-day allure.
Publication Date
21.05.2015
HB Royal
978-0-00-754906-1
£16.99
Frank Ryan is a consultant physician and the international
bestselling author of Tuberculosis:The Greatest Story Never
Told, a NewYork Times Book of the Year. He pioneered the
evolutionary concepts of ‘viral symbiosis’ and ‘genomic
creativity’ and has contributed to the modern understanding
of the evolution of the human genome. He is a Fellow of The
Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Society of Medicine
and the Linnean Society of London.
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A View of 17 British Mountains by Simon Ingram
E-book
978-0-00-754907-8
Audio (unabridged)
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Ingram takes us high
into the rafters of
Britain’s most forbidding,
unflinching and
unchanging wild places
through all the seasons of
the year.
978-0-00-812210-2
Simon Ingram is a journalist and photographer. He has
written dozens of features for award-winning national
magazines and websites, including Empire, Trail, Country
Walking and the Guardian. He has produced short films on
various themes both for work and play – from extreme
BMW-driving on a German racetrack to climbing Mount
Kilimanjaro.
Publication Date
26.02.2015
HB Demy
978-0-00-754540-7
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-754789-0
Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-811972-0
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The Reckoning by Patrick Bishop
Death and intrigue in
the promised land: The
mesmerising true story of two
ruthless adversaries and the
wartime killing of Avraham
Stern.
Smell of Summer Grass by Adam Nicholson
Publication Date
15.01.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-752561-4
£9.99
E-book
‘Bishop’s depiction of Stern’s
downfall is masterful’ Economist
978-0-00-751827-2
Those Wild Wyndhams by Claudia Renton
Publication Date
29.01.2015
PB B-Format
‘Magnificent … [It] has the
wisdom, excitement and
psychological depth of a very
good novel’ Observer
Previously an actress, Claudia
Renton appeared with the RSC.
Now a practicing barrister, she
lives in London.
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‘Candid, observant and often
very funny’ Daily Mail
Publication Date
26.02.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-810472-6
£9.99
E-book
978-0-00-733558-9
Adam Nicolson is winner of
the Somerset Maugham Award
and the British Topography
Prize. He lives at Perch Hill.
Previously Middle East
correspondent for the Daily
Telegraph, Patrick Bishop has
also written the acclaimed and
bestselling Fighter Boys.
A rich historical biography
of three beautiful, cultured
aristocratic sisters born
into immense wealth in late
Victorian Britain.
The story of the years spent
finding and building a personal
Arcadia – sometimes a dream,
sometimes a nightmare – on a
rundown Sussex farm.
978-0-00-754491-2
£9.99
E-book
978-0-00-754490-5
The Mighty Dead by Adam Nicholson
Longlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize 2014, this
passionate hosannah to
Homer’s poems explores why
they still have so much to say
about what it is to be human.
‘As gripping as a thriller and
as delicately constructed as
a sonnet … A tour de force’
Daily Telegraph
Publication Date
26.02.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-733553-4
£9.99
E-book
978-0-00-733554-1
‘Exhilarating. Full of insight,
generosity and unaffected
passion’ Guardian
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The Book of Forgiving
by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Cruel Victory by Paddy Ashdown
Publication Date
Drawing on his memories of
26.03.2015
reconciliation in post-apartheid
B-Format
South Africa, Archbishop Desmond PB
978-0-00-757260-1
Tutu, together with his daughter, £8.99
Revd Mpho Tutu, herself an
E-book
experienced teacher and preacher, 978-0-00-751289-8
offers four concrete steps along
the path to forgiving and being
forgiven.
Desmond M. Tutu’s extraordinary
contributions in the transition to
a free democracy in South Africa
earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in
1984.
Praise for Mr. China: ‘Clissold’s
memoir is an instant classic.
Sharply observed, funny as hell.
Indispensible’ Time Magazine
Tim Clissold has lived and worked
in China for more than twenty
years.
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‘A powerful account of an
extraordinary story’ The Times
Publication Date
07.05.2015
PB B- Format
978-0-00-752081-7
£9.99
E-book
978-0-00-752082-4
Paddy Ashdown was leader
of the Liberal Democrats for
eleven years. Later he was the
international community’s High
Representative for Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
Chinese Rules by Tim Clissold
A rollicking adventure story –
part memoir, part history, part
business imbroglio – that offers
valuable lessons from China.
The long neglected D-Day story
of the largest action by the
French Resistance during the
Second World War.
Publication Date
23.04.2015
PB B-Format
978-0-00-759028-5
£9.99
E-book
978-0-00-759026-1
The true story of the epic battle
of Waterloo – a momentous
turning point in European
history.
‘Readers new to the campaign
could hope for no better
introduction, and veterans will
find fresh insights’ Independent
Publication Date
07.05.2015
PB B- Format
978-0-00-753940-6
£8.99
E-book
978-0-00-753939-0
‘A fabulous story, superbly
told... cannot be bettered.’ Max
Hastings, The Sunday Times
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‘Taken either
individually or as a
whole, they are one of the
proudest achievements of
modern publishing’
‘This book is worth
buying for the
magnificent artwork
alone.’
Eric Brown
The Sunday Times
Collins New Naturalist Library: Alien Plants
by Clive A. Stace and Michael J. Crawley
Alien plants, plants that have been unnaturally introduced to
the British Isles, currently make up nearly half of all common
species, and are having a profound effect on our nature. This
ground-breaking title in the New Naturalist series looks at why
these incomers are so successful and what, if anything, can be
done to stop the invasion.
‘The series is an amazing achievement’ The Times Literary
Supplement
‘The books are glorious to own’ Independent
Birds of India by Norman Arlott
Birds of South America – Passerines
by Ber van Perlo
‘As essential as binoculars’ – New Scientist
Publication Date
26.03.2015
Leatherbound
978-0-00-759423-8
£250
HB
978-0-00-759422-1
£75
Publication Date
The next two volumes in the acclaimed Collins Field Guide
series: Birds of India covers very popular birdwatching
destinations, from the high peaks of the Himalayas to the
southern tip of Sri Lanka.
15.01.2015
PLC
978-0-00-742955-4
£29.99
E-book
978-0-00-756068-4
Birds of South America – Passerines is the first field guide
to illustrate every species of perching-bird found in this
extraordinary area – it will become an essential companion for
anyone visiting South America.
Publication Date
04.06.2015
PLC
978-0-00-747796-8
£30
E-book
978-0-00-747797-5
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The regional titles in
the New Naturalist
series are essential
reading for nature
enthusiasts.
Collins New Naturalist Library
Publication Date
04.06.2015
John Lee is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Biology
at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on plant
responses to pollution and the effects of global change on
ecosystem processes.
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Independent
Collecting the New Naturalists
by Tim Bernhard and Timothy Loe
Yorkshire Dales by John Lee
This is a definitive natural history of the Yorkshire Dales,
covering the range of wildlife habitats, rich cultural heritage
and ecological history of one of our best-loved National
Parks.
‘The books are
glorious to own’
HB
978-0-00-750369-8
£60
E-book
978-0-00-750371-1
Collecting the New Naturalists offers a detailed insight into the
fascinating phenomenon that has gripped Britain since just
after World War II and which reflects the country’s continued
enthusiasm for wildlife and nature publishing generally. With
previously unpublished in-depth insight into the workings of
the series and its collectors, the book will comprehensively
cover every aspect of the New Naturalists series, from rare
editions produced for Bloomsbury and the Reader’s Union
to foreign editions, interviews with the iconic cover artists
and well-known naturalists such as Nick Baker and Alan
Titchmarsh telling the story of their own fascination with the
series.
Publication Date
26.03.2015
Leatherbound
978-0-00-745057-2
£250
HB
978-0-00-736715-3
£60
E-book
978-0-00-741346-1
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‘Simply the best’
Birdwatch
magazine
Collins British Tree Guide
by Owen Johnson and David More
Collins British Wild Flower Guide
by David Streeter
Collins British Butterfly Guide
by Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington
Experience the joy of discovering the natural world around
you with these beautiful pocket guides to British trees, wild
flowers and butterflies, an inspiration and treat designed to
enthral all nature lovers.
‘Richard Lewington’s illustrations are magnificent…Tom
Tolman’s text is excellent’ New Scientist
Collins Bird App
Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom
and Peter J. Grant
Publication Date
07.05.2015
PBO
978-0-00-745123-4
978-0-00-745125-8
978-0-00-749974-8
£9.99
The Collins Bird Guide App provides everything needed to
identify a species quickly and learn about it thoroughly.
The latest search functions and browsing technology allow
quick and easy discovery and clarification. The app combines
world-class illustrations, comprehensive information about
all the species encountered in Britain and Europe, videos,
plus more than 700 songs and calls, for the most complete,
hands-on field guide.
Release Date
14.08.2014
App
£12.99
E-book
‘Entertaining and informative. A visual delight.’ BBC Wildlife
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978-0-00-750770-2
978-0-00-749975-5
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Rainbow Good News Bible
Sunrise Good News Bible
The first choice for primary
school.
HB
The Rainbow Good News Bible
is a full-text Bible designed
specifically to introduce the
scriptures to young children,
with guidance from an adult.
It includes maps, full-colour
pictures, must-read passages
and plenty of extra features to
help young readers find their
way around and aid learning.
978-0-00-748011-1
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-755623-6
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978-0-00-748012-8
£16.99
PB
978-0-00-748014-2
£13.99
E-book
Mission Praise – 30th Anniversary Edition
Compiled by Peter Horrobin and Greg Leavers
Perfect for young adults.
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978-0-00-755625-0
The Good News Bible was the
first Bible translation compiled
to be easy to read as well as
authoritative. Translated from the
best sources by a team of experts,
it was immediately popular and
has sold more than 150 million
copies worldwide.
New Life Good News Bible
The New Life Good News Bible
is one of a kind. It is ideal for
young adults (aged 12+) who
are eager to find out what
the Bible has to say about the
world. Includes a full-colour
section tackling issues such as
poverty, sexuality, work, sport,
the environment, media, and
many, many more.
The Sunrise edition is an
attractive edition of the UK’s
favourite Bible, for older students
and adults alike. It includes Annie
Vallotton’s timeless line drawings
– many published for the first
time in this edition.
HB
978-0-00-748013-5
£16.99
E-book
978-0-00-755624-3
This brand new anniversary
edition of Complete Mission
Praise includes the whole of the
existing collection, and adds the
best new songs in various styles
from the past few years.
Publication Date
15.01.2015
HB Shrinkwrapped
978-0-00-756343-2
£55
Mission Praise was the first hymn
book of its kind, introducing
modern styles of music into
worship, and was made famous at
Billy Graham’s Mission England,
where thousands came to faith.
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