4TH ESTATE & WILLIAM COLLINS January - July 2015...Rocco Schiavone! Black Run is a sizzling,...

January - July 2015

4TH ESTATE &WILLIAM COLLINS

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, award-winning and beautifully-produced books. We were named Imprint of the Year at the 2013 Bookseller Industry Awards.

Books for the Independent Reader

4TH ESTATECATALOGUE 2015

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‘‘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

Publication Date 15.01.2015

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Both haunted and haunting, a gripping, heart-breaking novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose.

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.

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.

See How Small by Scott Blackwood



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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.’

Alexander Masters

Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock

‘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

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.

Publication Date12.02.2015

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Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny

This book is amazing, brilliant, and nothing short of wonderful.’

Jennifer Close, author of Girls in White Dresses

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.

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.

Katherine Heiny’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Ploughshares. She lives in Washington, D.C. This is her first book.



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‘Oates writes about America’s big themes. Her prose is elegant. She is the mistress of all she surveys.’

The Times

The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned.’ Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)

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.

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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‘Will Smith is the coolest guy in the world (if uncool is the new cool) - he’s also terrifically funny’

Harry Enfield

Mainlander by Will SmithThe 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.

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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Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo JohnsonA dark, provocative Southern-fried comedy and a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer.

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.

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.

‘A radical book in every sense of the word — thoroughgoing and extreme, ghastly and funny and gloriously provocative... This book will wake you up!’

Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!


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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth SmartA cult classic, which retains all of its searing poignancy and beauty, reissued on the 70th anniversary of publication.

‘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.

‘Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightning … a masterpiece’

Angela Carter



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A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire MitchellA compulsively readable literary masterpiece — the shared confessional of three sisters preparing to kill themselves, honouring the dark legacy that has haunted their family.

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 the War, 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.

At once heartbreaking and wry, a suicide note from three sisters, a cursed family saga, and an extraordinary novel.


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‘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

Death in Devon by Ian SansomThe second instalment of Ian Sansom’s The County Guides series, ‘a little gem of English crime writing’ (Daily Mail).

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.

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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Black Run by Antonio ManziniThe first title in a rollicking new crime series. Move over Inspector Montalbano and Aurelio Zen, welcome inspector Rocco Schiavone!

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 …

Antonio Manzini is a screenwriter (The Vanity Serum, As God Commands) director, actor and writer. He published several short stories before embarking on this series.

The first in a new crime series introducing the charismatic Rocco Schiavone against a romantic Italian backdrop


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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.

A Vanity 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.

Left of the Bang by Claire Lowdon

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.

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An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’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 Night We Walk in Circles and War by Candlelight. He lives in Oakland, California.

The King is Always Above the People by Daniel Alarcón

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.


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Green Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett

‘A wonderful new voice’ - Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland

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.

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.

‘Corbett creates a memorable voice to explore the power that heritage wields over an outsider struggling to find his place in the world’

Sunday Times

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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.

A tour de force of endless invention; a hilarious, enchanting, surprisingly relevant tale which will make you see the world as if freshly minted.


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The Bees by Laline Paull

‘A beautifully written and unusual book … Captivating … A book that changes the way we see our world’ Sunday Times 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.

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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‘A gripping Cinderella/Arthurian tale with lush Keatsian adjectives’ Margaret Atwood

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Winter by Christopher Nicholson


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From the author of the Costa Best Novel-shortlisted The Elephant Keeper, a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy’s relationship with his last muse.

‘A wonderful novel, moving, gripping and illuminating.’ David Lodge

Christopher Nicholson read English at Cambridge University and has worked as a radio scriptwriter and producer. He lives in Dorset.

The Way Inn by Will Wiles


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The Way Inn takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee and the free wifi, and twists them into a nightmare.

‘The Way Inn is Terence Conran meets HP Lovecraft. It is Bulgakov staged in the Tate, Kafka as a new Ikea furniture range.’ Guardian

Will Wiles won a Betty Trask award for Care of Wooden Floors. He lives in London.

Thirty Girls by Susan Minot

A literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa and a long-awaited return from the best-selling author of Evening.

‘A heart-rending novel based on a horrific real-life event. A punch in the gut over and over again.’ Metro

Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter.


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Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li


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A gripping mystery and poignant tale of love forever blighted, inspired by the notorious poisoning of a Chinese student in 1995.

‘Yiyun Li has grown into one of our major novelists.’ Salman Rushdie

Yiyun Li was one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, and The New Yorker’s top writers under 40. She lives in California.



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John the Pupil by David Flusfeder

The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham


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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.

‘Umberto Eco through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino’ Louisa Young, Daily Mail

David Flusfeder is a critically acclaimed novelist, living in London.

‘This is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist.’ Sunday Times

‘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

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’ New York Times

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.

‘Epic in scale, subject and compassion … A magnificent achievement.’

Sunday Express


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Snow in May by Kseniya Melnik


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A debut collection of short stories: each a small-town miracle, each a miniature epic.

‘Melnik’s stories reveal a writer who is wise and insightful beyond her years.’ Anya Ulinich

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


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A new collection from one of America’s brightest young talents, written with deep emotion, dry wit and eye-opening ingenuity.

‘Strikingly beautiful.’ Guardian

The child of Israeli immigrants, Galchen has been named one of the top twenty American authors by The New Yorker.

The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol


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A stunning collection with the power not only to absorb and thrill, but to move.

‘These subtle stories of flawed humanity are a delight.’ Observer

A Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University, Molly Antopol is a Jones Lecturer, living in the US.



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All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr


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In The Approaches by Nicola Barker


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Barker’s wildest and most haunting book is the concluding instalment of her subliminally affiliated ‘digital trilogy’.

‘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

The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher


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‘A performance of extraordinary flair and majesty from a writer who seems capable of anything.’ Guardian

‘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.

‘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 Light We 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.

‘Such a page-turner, entirely absorbing … Magnificent’

Guardian

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The Dog by Joseph O’Neill


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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.

‘I’m in love with this book … superbly written and very very funny’ David Aaronovitch

‘One of the wittiest critiques of modern, materialistic life that you’ll read for a long while’ The Times

Consumed by David Cronenberg


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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.

‘Cronenberg’s novel is as troubling, sinister, and as enthralling as his films.’ Stephen King

‘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

Head of State by Andrew Marr


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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. Marr is a former editor of the Independent and BBC Political editor, a radio presenter, a documentary creator a hugely successful non-fiction author.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel


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From one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers comes this brilliant – and rather transgressive – collection of short stories

‘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 the Western world’

Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall

Swallow This Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets by Joanna BlythmanFrom the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat.

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.

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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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 long-buried porcelain collection.

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.

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.

The Porcelain Thief by Huan Hsu

An intimate and personal exploration of Chinese history through one family’s long-buried porcelain collection.

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Delicious comforting home baking for everyone.

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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Stalin’s Daughter The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Stalina by Rosemary SullivanSvetlana 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. 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.

‘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.’

Margaret Atwood



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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.

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 US Vogue, and the author of The Meaning of Sunglasses and Be Awesome. She lives in New York and London.

Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

‘...It’s good to know you have someone this fearless, funny and awesome in your corner.’

Stylist


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Tear Down the Sky Hooks by Matt Ridley‘What a superb writer he is, and he seems to get better and better.’ Richard Dawkins

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.

Matt Ridley is an internationally respected and bestselling science writer. His books include Genome and The Rational Optimist. He lives in Northumberland.

‘Terrific...authoritative... lucid.’

Sunday Times

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Eating is not something we are born knowing how to do. We learn it as children, sitting at the kitchen table, being fed.

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.

The Child at the Table by Bee Wilson

‘I love Bee Wilson’s writing.’

Nigella Lawson


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I Will Find You by Joanna ConnorsA compelling and hard-hitting memoir which follows one woman’s search, twenty years after the event, for answers about her rapist.

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.

Joanna Connors is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, and Redbook, amongst other publications.

This is an extraordinary real life story, told with the propulsive energy of a thriller.

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Drink by Ann Dowsett-Johnston


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Intimate and startlingly honest, Drink is a book to change the lives of women of all ages – and those who love them.

‘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.

A Great Day at the Office by Dr. John Briffa


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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.

Dr. John Briffa is a practising doctor, international speaker and author of the bestselling The Diet Trap.

How to Make a Human Being by Christopher Potter

An Encyclopaedia of Myself by Jonathan Meades


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A startling investigation of what it means to be human.

‘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

Christopher Potter, one time publisher, is the author of the much-praised You Are Here.

‘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



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How to be A Husband by Tim Dowling


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From Britain’s favourite columnist, a hilarious, touching look at the marital day-to-day.

‘You’ll whoosh through this book with cheery hoots of laughter’ Guardian

‘Offers wisdom, insight and laugh-out-loud one-liners in equal measure … Gloriously entertaining’ Observer

‘A rare delight.’ Spectator

Dataclysm by Christian Rudder


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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

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’. 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.

‘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


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Because Ideas Matter

The Retreat How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan by Christina Lamb


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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. 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.

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?

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 best-seller 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.



ISIS The State of Terror by Jessica Stern & J.M. Berger


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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. 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.

Two leading experts on violent extremism explain the genesis, evolution and implications of today’s most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State.


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Late Fragments Everything I Want to Tell You (About This Magnificent Life) by Kate Gross

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.

Before developing cancer, Kate worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. She then set up an African-based charity . Awarded an OBE in 2014, she lives with her husband and sons in Cambridge. She is 36.

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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Went the Day Well? Witnessing Waterloo by David Crane


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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.

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.


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The Looting MachineWarlords, Tycoons and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom BurgisIn 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.

A blistering, page-turning investigation which exposes high-level corruption and highlights the appalling human cost of the new scramble for resource-rich Africa.



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.

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.

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.

Universal Man The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport-Hines

‘Davenport-Hines is superb on the English … His eye is as shrewd and telling as Anthony Powell’s’

The Times


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While enjoying a pint with his brother, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow 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.

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.

The Shed That Fed A Million Children The Extraordinary Story of Mary’s Mealsby Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

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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10% Human How Your 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.

You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up your body, there are nine impostor cells, hitching a ride.


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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.

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.

Our Land at War by Duff Hart-Davis

Duff Hart-Davis revisits rural Britain to tell the stories of ordinary people living in villages and farms across the country during World War II.




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Farthest Field A Story of India’s Second World War by Raghu Karnad 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.

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.

A brilliantly conceived non-fiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.

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


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

Daniel Mendelsohn writes frequently for the New Yorker and is a columnist for the New York Times. His books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the Prix Medicis and many other prizes. He lives in New York.

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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Who Gets What - And Why From Birth to Death and Along the Way by Alvin RothThe 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.

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.

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.


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Catallus’ Bedspread by Daisy Dunn

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.

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.

The Poems of Catullus, edited and translated by Daisy Dunn, will also be published by Collins Classics on 4 Jun 2015.

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.

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Have I Got More Views For You by Boris Johnson Six years as Mayor of London and one glorious 2012 Olympics since his bestselling Have I Got Views For You, 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! 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 For You, The Dream of Rome and The Spirit of London.

In this superb new collection, the inimitable Boris Johnson delivers his unique insight on a refreshingly diverse range of topics.


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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.

End Game Tipping Point for Planet Earth by Professor Anthony Barnosky & Professor Liz Hadly

How close are we to a tipping point which will break up of the workings of our global society?

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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.

Frank Ryan is a consultant physician and the international bestselling author of Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told, a New York 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.

Mysterious World of the Human Genomeby Frank Ryan

‘Frank Ryan has the page-turning and spine-chilling ability of a good novelist’

Matt Ridley

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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.

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.

Between the Sunset and the SeaA View of 17 British Mountains by Simon Ingram

Ingram takes us high into the rafters of Britain’s most forbidding, unflinching and unchanging wild places through all the seasons of the year.


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A rich historical biography of three beautiful, cultured aristocratic sisters born into immense wealth in late Victorian Britain.

‘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.

Death and intrigue in the promised land: The mesmerising true story of two ruthless adversaries and the wartime killing of Avraham Stern.

‘Bishop’s depiction of Stern’s downfall is masterful’ Economist

Previously Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, Patrick Bishop has also written the acclaimed and bestselling Fighter Boys.


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The Reckoning by Patrick Bishop

Those Wild Wyndhams by Claudia Renton The Mighty Dead by Adam NicholsonLonglisted 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

‘Exhilarating. Full of insight, generosity and unaffected passion’ Guardian


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Smell of Summer Grass by Adam Nicholson


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The story of the years spent finding and building a personal Arcadia – sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare – on a rundown Sussex farm.

‘Candid, observant and often very funny’ Daily Mail

Adam Nicolson is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize. He lives at Perch Hill.



Chinese Rules by Tim Clissold

The Book of Forgiving by Archbishop Desmond Tutu


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A rollicking adventure story – part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio – that offers valuable lessons from China.

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.

Drawing on his memories of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, together with his daughter, Revd Mpho Tutu, herself an experienced teacher and preacher, 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.


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Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell

The Cruel Victory by Paddy Ashdown


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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

‘A fabulous story, superbly told... cannot be bettered.’ Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

The long neglected D-Day story of the largest action by the French Resistance during the Second World War.

‘A powerful account of an extraordinary story’ The Times

Paddy Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats for eleven years. Later he was the international community’s High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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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

Collins New Naturalist Library: Alien Plants by Clive A. Stace and Michael J. Crawley

‘Taken either individually or as a whole, they are one of the proudest achievements of modern publishing’

The Sunday Times

‘As essential as binoculars’ – New Scientist

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.

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.


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Birds of India by Norman ArlottBirds of South America – Passerines by Ber van Perlo

‘This book is worth buying for the magnificent artwork alone.’

Eric Brown

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Collins New Naturalist Library 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.

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.

The regional titles in the New Naturalist series are essential reading for nature enthusiasts.

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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.

Collecting the New Naturalists by Tim Bernhard and Timothy Loe

‘The books are glorious to own’

Independent




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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

‘Entertaining and informative. A visual delight.’ BBC Wildlife

Collins British Tree Guide by Owen Johnson and David MoreCollins British Wild Flower Guide by David StreeterCollins British Butterfly Guide by Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington

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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.

Collins Bird AppLars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom and Peter J. Grant

‘Simply the best’

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Rainbow Good News BibleThe first choice for primary school.

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.

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New Life Good News Bible

Perfect for young adults.

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.

Mission Praise – 30th Anniversary EditionCompiled by Peter Horrobin and Greg Leavers


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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.

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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Sunrise Good News BibleThe 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.

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.

July-December 2014

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