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The Euro
And its Threat to the Future of Europe
Joseph Stiglitz
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author explains why saving Europe may
mean abandoning the Euro
Designed to bring Europe closer together, the euro has
actually done the opposite: after nearly a decade without
growth, unity has been replaced with dissent and
enlargements with prospective exits. Joseph Stiglitz argues
that Europe's stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result
of the fundamental flaws inherent in the euro project economic integration outpacing political integration with a
structure that actively promotes divergence rather than
convergence. Money relentlessly leaves the weaker member
states and goes to the strong, with debt accumulating in a
few ill-favoured countries. The question now is: can the euro
be saved?
Laying bare the European Central Bank's misguided inflationonly mandate and explaining why austerity has condemned
Europe to unending stagnation, Stiglitz outlines three
possible ways forward: fundamental reforms in the structure
of the Eurozone and the policies imposed on the member
countries suffering the most; a well-managed end to the
euro; or a bold, new system he dubs the 'flexible euro;. This
important book, by one of the world's leading economists,
addresses the euro-crisis on a bigger intellectual scale than
any predecessor.
Joseph E. Stiglitz was Chairman of the President's Council of
Economic Advisers 1995-7 and Chief Economist at the World
Bank 1997-2000. He is currently University Professor at
Columbia University, teaching in the Department of
Economics, the School of International and Public Affairs, and
the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Chief
Economist of the Roosevelt Institute and a Corresponding
Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He won
the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the bestselling
author of Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring
Nineties, Making Globalization Work, Freefall, The Price of
Inequality and The Great Divide, all published by Penguin.
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August 2016
9780241258156
£20.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
496 pages
The Day Before Happiness
Erri De Luca
A moving, lyrical, charming story of friendship,
love, sex and memory -- for lovers of Elena
Ferrante
In Naples, immediately after World War II, a young orphan
comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the porter of an
old building. A generous man, Don Gaetano tells him about
the war and the liberation of the city, teaches him to play
cards and initiates him into the world of sex by sending him to
a widow who lives in the building. But Don Gaetano
possesses another gift as well: he knows how to read
people's thoughts and sees that his young friend is haunted
by the image of a girl he noticed by chance during a football
match. Years later, when the girl returns, the orphan will need
Don Gaetano's help more than ever.
Erri De Luca (Author)
Born in Naples in 1950, Erri De Luca is one of Italy's
bestselling novelists, whose work has been translated into
many languages. He was awarded the France Culture Prize in
1994, the Fémina Etranger in 2002 and, in 2013, he received
the European Prize for Literature. He is also a translator from
Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish. A passionate mountain climber,
he currently lives in the countryside near Rome.
July 2016
9780141398396
£9.99
Demy Octavo : Hardback
128 pages
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The House of the Dead
Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Daniel Beer
An epic new work of Russian history from a major
new talent
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the
beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian
Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more than one million
prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to
Siberia. Daniel Beer's new book, The House of the Dead, brings
to life both the brutal realities of an inhuman system and the
tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. This is the
vividly told history of common criminals and political radicals,
the victims of serfdom and village politics, the wives and
children who followed husbands and fathers, and of fugitives
and bounty-hunters.
Siberia served two masters: colonization and punishment. In
theory, exiles would discover the virtues of self-reliance,
abstinence and hard work and, in so doing, they would
develop Siberia's natural riches and bind it more firmly to
Russia. In reality, the autocracy banished an army not of
hardy colonists but of half-starving, desperate vagabonds.
The tsars also looked on Siberia as creating the ultimate
political quarantine from the contagions of revolution.
Generations of rebels - republicans, nationalists and socialists
- were condemned to oblivion thousands of kilometres from
European Russia. Over the nineteenth century, however,
these political exiles transformed Siberia's mines, prisons and
remote settlements into an enormous laboratory of
revolution.
This masterly work of original research taps a mass of almost
unknown primary evidence held in Russian and Siberian
archives to tell the epic story of both Russia's struggle to
govern its monstrous penal colony and Siberia's ultimate,
decisive impact on the political forces of the modern world.
Daniel Beer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at
Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of
Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal
Modernity, 1880-1930, 2008.
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July 2016
9781846145377
£30.00
512 pages
2 x 8 black and white plates
All Things Made New
Writings on the Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from
'one of the best historians writing in English
today' (Sunday Telegraph)
The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the
sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody
and transformative periods in their history. Ever since, it has
remained one of the most contested. Diarmaid MacCulloch is
one of the leading British historians of this turbulent and
endlessly fascinating era. Many essays in this volume expand
upon his now classic Reformation: Europe's House Divided,
tracing, for example, the evolution of the English Prayer Book
and Bible or reassessing the impact of the Reformation on
Catholicism. Henry VIII and his archbishop, Thomas Cranmer,
are both central presences. Throughout the book, he
brilliantly undermines one persistent English tradition of
interpreting the Reformation - that it never really happened and establishes that Anglicanism was really a product of
Charles II's Restoration in 1660 rather than the 'Elizabethan
Settlement' of 1559. All Things Made New shows Diarmaid
MacCulloch at his best - learned, far-seeing, sometimes
subversive, and often witty.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the
Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won
the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and
the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided
1490-1700 (2004) won the Wolfson Prize and the British
Academy Prize. A History of Christianity (2010), which was
adapted into a six-part BBC television series, was awarded
the Cundill and Hessel-Tiltman Prizes. His Gifford Lectures at
the University of Edinburgh were published in 2013 as Silence:
A Christian History. His most recent television series, Sex and
the Church, broadcast in 2015. He was knighted in 2012.
July 2016
9780241254004
£25.00
464 pages
8pp colour illustrations
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The Trainable Cat
How to Make Life Happier for You and Your Cat
John Bradshaw and Sarah Ellis
Contrary to myth, you can train your cat, helping
it become a more fulfilled, more sociable and more
happy animal
The idea of a trained cat seems a contradiction in terms. As
domestic pets, cats have evolved very differently from dogs:
naturally solitary, wary, easily threatened by newcomers,
they are attached to place rather than people, and much of
their 'antisocial' behaviour arises in situations where that
attachment is threatened. But, as cat experts Sarah Ellis and
John Bradshaw argue, such stress-induced behaviour can be
prevented, reduced, even eliminated, by training.
A comprehensive and engaging step-by-step guide, The
Trainable Cat will help you to help your cat negotiate the
complexities of everyday life: to enjoy living with humans including new babies and lively toddlers - and other pets; to
answer to their name; settle into a new home; and to
overcome the anxiety of a visit to the vet. You can train your
cat to do what is in its own best interests - even when its
instincts tell it otherwise. The result will be a cat that is easier
to manage, and a cat happy in its own well-being.
John Bradshaw is a biologist who founded and directs the
world-renowned Anthrozoology Institute, based at the
University of Bristol. He has been studying the behaviour of
domestic cats and their owners for over twenty-five years,
and is the author of, among others, the Sunday Times
Bestsellers In Defence of Dogs and Cat Sense.
As Feline Behaviour Specialist at charity International Cat
Care and Visiting Fellow in the School of Life Sciences,
University of Lincoln, Sarah Ellis specializes in the science and
psychology of companion animals. John and Sarah are onscreen experts for, among others, BBC2's Cat Watch.
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August 2016
9780241004746
£20.00
352 pages
Blood and Land
The Story of Native North America
Jonathan King
A rich, powerful, sweeping history of native North
America, from one of the world's greatest experts
Blood and Land is a personal view of the success and
achievements of Native North America, and of today's
challenges. It is about why Native Americans, First Nations
and Arctic peoples matter today and why no understanding of
the wider world is possible without comprehending the United
States and Canada through their original inhabitants.
This dazzling, panoramic account introduces a deeply complex
story, of myriad identities and determined ethnicities - from
the desert Southwest to the high Arctic, from first contact
between Europeans and Native Americans to the challenges
of Native leadership to-day. Instead of writing a chronological
history, King confronts the reader with the paradoxes,
diversity, and achievements of Native North America - the
astonishing ingenuity and supple intelligence that have
allowed, after suffering centuries of violence and
dispossession, a striking level of recovery, optimism and
autonomy in the 21st century.
Beautifully illustrated and filled with arresting and surprising
stories, Blood and Land looks well beyond the 'feathers-andfailure' narratives beloved by historians.
Jonathan King is currently the von Hügel Fellow at the
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of
Cambridge. He worked at the British Museum for nearly 40
years. Latterly he was the Keeper of Anthropology in what is
now the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. He
has traveled extensively in North America, from the California
Missions to Nunavut, and the Everglades to Point Barrow,
working with many different Native people to understand
cultures and to explain difficult histories for a general public.
August 2016
9780713995510
£25.00
600 pages
200 integrated pictures
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Karl Marx
Greatness and Illusion
Gareth Stedman Jones
This towering intellectual biography allows us to
understand both the greatness and the illusion
that lie at the heart of an extraordinary man
As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to
come to terms with an unparalleled range of economic,
political, religious and intellectual challenges. Distances
shrank, new towns sprang up, and new inventions
transformed the industrial landscape. In the shocked
aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, a European-wide
argument began (which has in many ways continued ever
since) about the industrial transformation in England, the
Revolution in France and the hopes and fears generated by
these events.
One of the most distinctive and arresting contributions to this
debate was made by Karl Marx, the son of a Jewish convert in
the Rhineland and a man whose entire life was devoted to
making sense of the puzzles and paradoxes of the nineteenth
century world. It was an era dominated by new ideas (many
of which we now take for granted) about God, human
capacities, empires and political systems - and above all, the
shape of the future. In a world where so many things were
changing so fast, would the coming age belong to those
enthralled by the revolutionary events and ideas which had
brought this world into being, or to those who feared and
loathed it?
Gareth Stedman Jones is currently Professor of the History of
Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of
King's College, Cambridge and taught at the university for
many years, becoming Professor of Political Science in 1997.
He is the author of Outcast London, Languages of Class and An
End to Poverty? as well as being the editor of the Penguin
Classics edition of The Communist Manifesto.
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August 2016
9780713999044
£35.00
768 pages
The Wealth of Humans
Work and its Absence in the Twenty-first Century
Ryan Avent
When the world of work defines us as individuals
and societies, what happens when that world
changes for ever?
To work is human. It puts food on the table, meaningfully
structures our days, and strengthens our social ties. When
work works, it provides the basis for a stable social order.
Yet the world of work is changing fast, and in unexpected
ways. With rapid advances in information technology, huge
swathes of the job market - from cleaners and drivers to
journalists and doctors - are being automated, or soon will
be: a staggering 47% of American employment is at risk of
automation within the next two to three decades. Yet at the
same time millions more jobs are being created. What does
the future of work hold?
In this illuminating new investigation of what this revolution in
work means for us, Ryan Avent lays bare the contradictions in
today's global labour market. From Volvo's operations in
Sweden to a vast Foxconn production facility in Shenzhen, via
Indian development economists and Silicon Valley venture
capitalists, he offers the first clear explanation of the state
we're in-and how we could get out of it.
With an ever-increasing divide between the rich and the rest,
Avent states, something has got to give. The traditional
escape routes - improved education, wage subsidies, and
new industries built by entrepreneurs-will no longer work as
they once did. In order to navigate our way across today's
rapidly transforming economic landscape, he argues, we must
revisit our previous experiences of massive technological
change - and radically reassess the very idea of how, and
why, we work.
September 2016
9780241201039
£25.00
288 pages
Ryan Avent is a senior editor and economics columnist for The
Economist, where he has covered the global economy since
2007. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the New Republic, the Atlantic and the
Guardian. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, two
children and golden retriever.
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The Dream of Enlightenment
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb
The author of the celebrated The Dream of
Reason vividly explains the rise of modern
thought from Descartes to Rousseau
Never has the story been told so well,' said the New York
Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an
'endlessly entertaining and frequently instructive' (Times
Literary Supplement) history of philosophy from the Greeks to
the Renaissance. This long-awaited sequel takes the story
through the century and a half when a string of extraordinary
thinkers including Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz,
Hume, and Rousseau remade Western philosophy in the
wake of religious upheaval and the rise of Galilean science.
What does the new science mean for our understanding of
ourselves and of God? How should one deal with religious
diversity? These questions remain our questions, but the
thinkers who first asked them did not live in our world. The
Dream of Enlightenment steps back into the shoes of these
frequently misunderstood philosophers, lucidly explains their
arguments, and assesses the Enlightenment's legacy.
Anthony Gottlieb is a former executive editor of the
Economist and has held visiting fellowships at Harvard
University and All Souls College, Oxford. His work has
appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times. He lives
in New York.
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August 2016
9780713995442
£20.00
320 pages
The Vanquished
Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923
Robert Gerwarth
A gripping new work of history in the tradition of
Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers
For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a
solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a
generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with
the total collapse of the principal enemies, the German
Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. But for
much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning,
as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed
country after country.
In this highly original and gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks
us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War.
In large part it was not the fighting on the Western front
which proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the
devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the
original conflict were wrecked by revolution, pogroms, mass
expulsions and further major military clashes. If the War itself
had in most places been a struggle purely between statebacked soldiers, these new conflicts were about civilians and
paramilitaries, and millions of people died across central,
eastern, and south-eastern Europe before the USSR and a
series of rickety and exhausted small new states came into
being. Everywhere there were vengeful people, their lives
racked by a murderous sense of injustice, and looking for the
opportunity to revenge themselves on enemies real and
imaginary. Only a decade later, the rise of the Third Reich and
other totalitarian states provided them with the opportunity
they had been looking for.
Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at University
College Dublin and Director of its Centre for War Studies. He
is the author of The Bismarck Myth and a biography of
Reinhard Heydrich. He has studied and taught in the United
States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
August 2016
9781846148118
£25.00
464 pages
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Meetings with Remarkable
Manuscripts
Christopher de Hamel
An extraordinary exploration of the medieval
world - the most beguiling history book of the
year
This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter.
Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript
in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person. We
may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different
from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in
actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature.
The idea for this book, which is entirely new, is to invite the
reader into an intimate conversation with a selection of the
most famous manuscripts in existence, and to let each of
those manuscripts illuminate the Middle Ages and sometimes
the modern world too. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
invites the reader to accompany the author on exclusive
private visits to a dozen very varied collections, in different
parts of the world, to discover twelve great manuscripts and
to explore their historical and intellectual significance.
In the course of a long career at Sotheby's Christopher de
Hamel has probably handled and catalogued more illuminated
manuscripts and over a wider range than any person alive.
Since 2000, he has been Fellow and Librarian of Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library, in his care,
includes many of the earliest manuscripts in English language
and history. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and
the Royal Historical Society.
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September 2016
9780241003046
£30.00
640 pages
The Pursuit of Power
Europe, 1815-1914
Richard J. Evans
A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to
life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era
of revolutionary change.
The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about
nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich,
surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent
undergoing drastic change. The aim of the book is to reignite
the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as
rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and
technological changes. It was a time where what was seen
as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned,
where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European
countries were created and where, for the first time, humans
could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles.
Richard Evans gives full coverage to the revolutions, empirebuilding and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but
the book is about so much more, whether it is illness,
serfdom, religion or philosophy. The Pursuit of Power is a book
by a historian at the height of his powers and an essential
book for anyone trying to understand Europe, then or now.
Sir Richard J. Evans is President of Wolfson College,
Cambridge and Provost of Gresham College. Until 2014 he
was the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University.
His previous books include In Defence of History, Telling Lies
about Hitler, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in
Power and The Third Reich at War. He was knighted in 2012.
September 2016
9780713990881
£35.00
848 pages
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A Farewell to Ice
A Report from the Arctic
Peter Wadhams
A captivating guide to the past, present and
future of 'the amazing crystal' that plays a vital
role in regulating our planet
What is really happening in the Arctic regions of the world some of the most mysterious, beautiful, and essential places
on the planet? Peter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics
at Cambridge University and the world's leading expert on
sea ice, having made forty-five journeys to polar regions
during his professional life. This book examines the natural
properties of sea ice, explaining how it is able to act as an air
and water cooling system for our oceans. It gives a brief
history of ice on our planet and explains what is happening to
it now. Using the latest research from the Arctic Ocean, he
shows that change is occurring much faster than previously
predicted. The implications for our world are immense.
Peter Wadhams is the UK's most experienced sea ice
scientist. He was Director of the Scott Polar Institute in
Cambridge from 1987 to 1992 and Professor of Ocean Physics
at Cambridge from 1992 to 2015. He has made more than 50
expeditions to both polar regions, working from ice camps,
icebreakers, aircraft, and, uniquely, Royal Navy submarines
(making six submerged voyages to the North Pole). His
research group in Cambridge has been the only UK group
with the capacity to carry out field work on sea ice. He has
also held visiting professorships at the National Institute of
Polar Research, Tokyo, the US Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, the University of Washington, Seattle and the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla.
Peter Wadhams has been awarded the W.S. Bruce Prize of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1977), the UK Polar Medal
(1987) and the Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences
(1990). He is an Associate Professor at the Laboratoire
d'Océanographie de Villefranche, and a Professor at the
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona. He is also a
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of the
Finnish Academy.
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September 2016
9780241009413
£20.00
256 pages
16pp colour
Universal
A Guide to the Cosmos
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
The Top Ten bestselling authors of The Quantum
Universe take us on an awe-inspiring journey of
scientific exploration
We dare to imagine a time before the Big Bang, when the
entire Universe was compressed into a space smaller than an
atom. And now, as Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw show, we can
do more than imagine: we can understand. Over the
centuries, the human urge to discover has unlocked an
incredible amount of knowledge. What it reveals to us is
breathtaking.
Universal takes us on an epic journey of scientific exploration
and, in doing so, reveals how we can all understand some of
the most fundamental questions about our Earth, Sun, Solar
System and the star-filled galaxies beyond. Some of these
questions - How big is our solar system? How fast is space
expanding? - can be answered from your back garden; the
answers to others - How big is the Universe? What is it made
of? - draw on the astonishing information now being gathered
at the frontiers of the known universe. Science reveals a
deeper beauty, connects us to our world, and to our
Universe; and, by understanding the groundbreaking work of
others, reaches out into the unknown. What's more, as
Universal shows us, if we dare to imagine, we can all do it.
Brian Cox OBE FRS is a Professor of Particle Physics at the
University of Manchester and The Royal Society Professor for
Public Engagement in Science. His many highly acclaimed BBC
television documentaries include, most recently, 'Human
Universe' and 'Forces of Nature'.
September 2016
9781846144363
£25.00
Other : Hardback
304 pages
Jeff Forshaw is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the
University of Manchester, specializing in the physics of
elementary particles. He was awarded the Institute of Physics
Maxwell Medal in 1999 for outstanding contributions to
theoretical physics.
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The Bestseller Code
Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers
What if an algorithm could predict which
manuscripts would become mega-bestsellers?
Girl on the Train. Fifty Shades. The Goldfinch. Why do some
books capture the whole world's attention? What secret DNA
do they share? In The Bestseller Code, Archer and Jockers
boldly claim that blockbuster hits are highly predictable, and
they have created the algorithm to prove it. Using cuttingedge text mining techniques, they have developed a model
that analyses theme, plot, style and character to explain why
some books resonate more than others with readers.
Provocative, entertaining, and ground-breaking, The Bestseller
Code explores the hidden patterns at work in the biggest hits
and, more importantly, the real reasons we love to read.
Jodie Archer bought and edited books for Penguin UK before
she decamped for the doctoral program in English at Stanford
University. After her PhD, she worked at Apple as their
research lead on literature. She is now a full-time writer.
Matthew L. Jockers was the co-founder of Stanford
University's Literary Lab in Silicon Valley. His digital humanities
work has been profiled in The New York Times, the LA Review
of Books and more. He is Associate Professor of English at the
University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
September 2016
9780241243701
£20.00
256 pages
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Hero of the Empire
The Making of Winston Churchill
Candice Millard
One dramatic - and emblematic - year in the early
life of Winston Churchill
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve
his ambition of becoming Prime Minister he must do something
spectacular on the battlefield. Although he had put himself in
extreme danger in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a
journalist covering the Spanish-American War in Cuba, glory
and fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in
1899 to cover the brutal colonial war against the Boers. Just
two weeks after his arrival, he was taken prisoner.
Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape - but then had to
traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory alone. The story
of his escape is extraordinary enough, but then Churchill
enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles
and ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been
imprisoned.
Churchill would later remark that this period, 'could I have
seen my future, was to lay the foundations of my later life'.
Millard tells a magnificent story of bravery, savagery and
chance encounters with a cast of historical characters including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener and Gandhi - with
whom he would later share the world stage, and gives us an
unexpected perspective on one of the iconic figures in our
history.
Candice Millard is the author of The New York Times
bestsellers The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic. She
lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children.
September 2016
9780241280973
£20.00
400 pages
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The Enemy Within
Sayeeda Warsi
An explosive account of modern Britain from one
of its most refreshing political voices
Sayeeda Warsi, peer of the realm, could be considered part of
The Establishment. So why does she wonder over half a
century after her grandfather came to the UK whether the UK
will still be a home for her grandchildren? Tracking the
changing currents in British attitudes and policy towards Islam
and unpicking the challenges for Muslims with brutal honesty,
The Enemy Within offers solutions to the big issues of our time
with much-needed clarity and humour.
A lawyer, businesswoman, and racial justice campaigner,
Sayeeda Warsi is Britain's first Muslim Cabinet minister.
Appointed a life peer at the age of 36 she served as
Chairman of the Conservative Party, in the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office and as Minister for Faith and
Communities. In the summer of 2014 she resigned from
Government, citing its 'morally indefensible' policy on Gaza.
February 2017
9780241276020
£20.00
320 pages
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Outlandish Knight
The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman
Minoo Dinshaw
The biography of one of the greatest British
historians - but also of a uniquely strange and
various man
In his enormously long life (he was born in 1903 and died in
2000), Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great
historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of
the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling
Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg. His
friendships, curiosities and plottings entangled him in a huge
array of different artistic movements, civil wars, Cold War
betrayals and, above all, the rediscovery of the history of the
Eastern Mediterranean. He was as happy living in a remote
part of the Inner Hebrides as in the heart of Istanbul. He was
obsessed with historical truth, but also with tarot, second
sight, ghosts and the uncanny.
Outlandish Knight is a dazzling debut by a writer who has
prodigious gifts, but who also has had the ability to spot one
of the great biographical subjects. This is an extremely funny
book about a man who attracted the strangest experiences,
but also a very serious one: about the rigours of a life spent
both in the distant past and in the harsh world of the
twentieth century in which so much of what he studied and
cherished across the Balkans and Asia Minor was subjected to
rapid and often catastrophic change.
Minoo Dinshaw lives in London and this is his first book.
September 2016
9780241004937
£30.00
784 pages
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Age of Anger
A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra
A compelling, powerful argument about the roots
of current global disorder
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long
been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the
many. Today, however, botched experiments in nationbuilding, democracy, industrialization and urbanization visibly
scar much of the world. As once happened in Europe, the
wider embrace of revolutionary politics, mass movements,
technology, the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast
billions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from
tradition but still far from modernity. It was from among the
ranks of the disaffected and the spiritually disorientated, that
the militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men
who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic
revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and
anarchist terrorists internationally.
Many more people today, unable to fulfil the promises freedom, stability and prosperity - of a globalized economy,
are increasingly susceptible to demagogues and their
simplifications. A common reaction among them is intense
hatred of supposed villains, the invention of enemies,
attempts to recapture a lost golden age, unfocused fury and
self-empowerment through spectacular violence.
In Age of Anger Pankaj Mishra explores the origins of the great
wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our closeknit world---from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, Modi,
and racism and misogyny on social media.
Pankaj Mishra is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludiana, The
Romantics, An End to Suffering,Temptations of the West and
From the Ruins of Empire. He writes principally for the
Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books and
New York Review of Books. He lives in London and Shimla.
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January 2017
9780241278130
£20.00
288 pages
Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the
First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary
was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and
changed the history of the world
By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides
in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to
break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the
German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea:
why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic
Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most
notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled
up in neutral Switzerland, to go home?
Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's
extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a
Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and
northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic
reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland
Station.
With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the
train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a
gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian
revolution and shows how these events intersected. She
brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses,
observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not
seen for many years. Many thought he was a mere 'useful
idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed,
others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less
influence. They would all prove to be quite wrong.
October 2016
9780241011324
£25.00
368 pages
Catherine Merridale's books include Night of Stone: Death and
Memory in Russia, which won the Heinemann Prize for
Literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize,
Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939-45 and Red Fortress: The
Secret Heart of Russia's History, which won the Wolfson Prize
for History and the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. She is
a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Reality Is Not What It Seems
The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli
From the bestselling author of Seven Brief
Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the
mind-bending nature of the universe
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come
from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has
spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the
boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our
image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From
Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to black holes and
loop quantum gravity, he takes us on a wondrous journey to
show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a
whole new world that has yet to be discovered.
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made
significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He
has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the
quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique
théorique in Marseille, France. His Seven Brief Lessons on
Physics is an international bestseller translated into forty-one
languages.
October 2016
9780241257968
£16.99
272 pages
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Blitzed
Drugs in Nazi Germany
Norman Ohler
A compelling, original account of the
overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third
Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary
troops
The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral
degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller
reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs:
cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all,
methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from
factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops'
resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940.
The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also
impaired and confused decision-making, with Hitler and his
entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of
stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war
turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own
explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome,
Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed
forms a crucial missing piece of the story.
Norman Ohler was born in Zweibrücken in 1970. He is the
author of three novels, Die Quotenmaschine (the world's first
hypertext novel), Mitte and Stadt des Goldes as well as two
novellas. He was co-writer of the script for Wim Wenders' film
Palermo Shooting. He researched Blitzed in numerous archives
across Germany and the United States.
Shaun Whiteside has translated widely in both French and
German, including Sybille Steinbacher's Auschwitz: A History.
October 2016
9780241256992
£20.00
368 pages
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The Value of Everything
Makers and Takers in the Global Economy
Mariana Mazzucato
One of the world's foremost economists presents
a major new analysis of the crisis in modern
capitalism, and how to reform it
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we
decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's
financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight.
In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of
profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is
rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive
process that drives a healthy economy and society. We
misidentify takers as makers, and have lost sight of what
value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought,
this concept of value - what it is, why it matters to us - is
simply no longer discussed.
Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and
passionate new book, if we are to reform capitalism - to
radically transform an increasingly sick system rather than
continue feeding it - we urgently need to rethink where
wealth comes from. Who is creating it, who is extracting it,
and who is destroying it? Answers to these questions are key
if we want to replace the current parasitic system with a type
of capitalism that is more sustainable, more symbiotic: that
works for us all. The Value of Everything will reignite a longneeded debate about the kind of world we really want to live
in.
Mariana Mazzucato holds the RM Phillips Chair in the
Economics of Innovation in the Science Policy Research Unit
(SPRU) at the University of Sussex. She has been called 'one
of the three most important thinkers about innovation' in The
New Republic. Her prizewinning work, currently funded by the
Ford Foundation, the European Commission and the Institute
for New Economic Thinking, focuses on the economics of
innovation, finance and economic growth, and the role of the
State in modern capitalism. She advises policymakers around
the world on innovation-led, inclusive growth and her
previous book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs
Private Sector Myths, won the 2014 New Statesman SPERI
Prize for Political Economy, and the 2015 Hans Matthöfer
prize, awarded by the Friedrich Ebert Siftung.
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September 2017
9780241188811
£20.00
256 pages
A Day in the Life of the Brain
The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till
Dusk
Susan Greenfield
A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the
science of consciousness by exploring a single day
in the life of the brain
Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we
can never share directly with anyone else. But how do our
physical brains actually give rise to this rich and varied
experience of consciousness? In this ground-breaking book,
internationally acclaimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield
brings together a series of astonishing new, empirically based
insights into consciousness as she traces a single day in the
life of your brain. From waking to walking the dog, working to
dreaming, Greenfield explores how our daily experiences are
translated into a tangle of cells, molecules and chemical blips,
thereby probing the enduring mystery of how our brains
create our individual selves.
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE is a Senior Research Fellow
at Lincoln College, Oxford University. A scientist, writer,
broadcaster and Cross-Bench member in the House of Lords,
she has been the recipient of 32 honorary degrees from both
British and foreign universities, and of many awards including
Chevalier Legion d'Honneur from the French Government and
an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians,
as well as being selected as Honorary Australian of the Year
in 2006.
October 2016
9780241256671
£20.00
304 pages
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The Language of Cities
Deyan Sudjic
The director of the Design Museum defines the
greatest artefact of all time: the city
We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how
do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century?
Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic
decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as
resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious
elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite
and entertaining, he considers the differences between
capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we
often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners,
Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.
Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born
in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has
worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as
the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice
Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul
and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The
Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.
October 2016
9780241188040
£25.00
B Format : Hardback
240 pages
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Britain's War
II: A New World, 1942-1947
Daniel Todman
The second volume in Daniel Todman's triumphant
new history of the British experience of the
Second World War
This book opens with one of the greatest disasters in British
military history - the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Unlike
in the aftermath of Dunkirk there was here simply no
redeeming narrative available - Britain had been totally
defeated by a far smaller Japanese force in her grandly
proclaimed invincible Asian 'fortress'.
The unique skill of Daniel Todman's epic history of the War lies
in its never losing sight of the inter-connectedness of the
British experience. The agony of Singapore, for example, is
seen through the eyes of its inhabitants, of its defenders, of
Churchill's Cabinet and of ordinary people at home. Each
stage of the War, from the nadir of early 1942 to the great
series of victories in 1944-5 and on to Indian independence,
is described both as it was understood at the time and in the
light of the very latest historical research.
Todman dramatizes the dreadful uncertainties of Britain's
position and the plight of families doomed to spend year after
year struggling with bombing, rationing, exhausting work and,
above all, the absence of millions of family members scattered
around the country and the world.
Britain's War is a triumph of narrative, empathy and research,
as gripping in its handling of individual witnesses to the war
as of the gigantic military, social, technological and economic
forces that swept the conflict along. It is the definitive account
of a drama which reshaped our country.
September 2017
9780241249994
£35.00
848 pages
Daniel Todman is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Queen
Mary, University of London. He was named Times Young
Academic Author of the Year in 2005 for The Great War: Myth
and Memory. He previously taught in the Department of War
Studies at the Royal Military Academy and was the co-editor
of Lord Alanbrooke's bestselling War Diaries.
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The Descent of Man
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender
that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,
essential book
What is masculinity and what can it become? It might seem
like a luxury in a world facing climate change and vast
imbalances in global wealth, but Grayson Perry sees
masculinity as a highly active component in all the big issues.
Tracing the contours of the dominant male role today, its
history and its clearly defined rules, The Descent of Man
explores everything from sex, seriousness and intimidation to
clothing, childhood and power, suggesting a more modern
model of manhood which may reach escape velocity from the
gravity of Traditional Man.
Grayson Perry is a man. He is also an award-winning artist, a
Bafta-winning TV presenter, a Reith Lecturer and a bestselling
author with traditional masculine traits like a desire to always
be right and to overtake all other cyclists when going up big
hills.
October 2016
9780241236277
£16.99
160 pages
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Native Lands
A Global Journey into History and Memory
Norman Davies
Where have the people in any particular place
actually come from? This evocative historical
journey around the world shows us.
In 2012, Norman Davies set off on a global circumnavigation.
Native Lands is his account of the places he visited and the
history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the
settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas.
As in Vanished Kingdoms, Davies's historical gaze penetrates
behind the present to see how things became as they are,
and how peoples came to tell themselves the stories which
make up their identities. Everywhere, it seems, human beings
have been travelling - pushing out others or arriving in terra
nullius - since the beginning of recorded time. To whom is a
land truly native? As always, Norman Davies has his eye on
the historical horizon as well as on what is close at hand, and
brilliantly complicates our view of the past.
Norman Davies was for many years Professor of History at
the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London. He is the
author of the acclaimed Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half
-Forgotten Europe (2011) and the number one bestseller
Europe: A History (1996). His previous books, which include
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (2003), The Isles: A History
(1999) and God's Playground: A History of Poland (1981), have
been translated worldwide. From 1997 to 2004 he was
Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; he is now
Professor at the Jagiellonian University at Kraków, an
Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is a Fellow
of the British Academy, and lives in Oxford and Kraków.
April 2017
9781846148316
£30.00
848 pages
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A History of Ancient Egypt,
Volume 2
From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle
Kingdom
John Romer
This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's
first known state reveals that much of what we
have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the
product of narrow-minded visions of the past
Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the
history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid
through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of
Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished.
He reveals how the grand narratives of nineteenth and
twentieth-century Egyptologists have misled us by portraying
a culture of cruel monarchs and chronic war. Instead, based in
part on discoveries of the past two decades, this
extraordinary account shows what we can really learn from
the remaining architecture, objects and writing: a history
based on physical reality.
John Romer has been working in Egypt since 1966 in key
archaeological sites, including Karnak and Medinet Habu. He
initiated conservation studies in the Valley of the Kings and
led the Brooklyn Museum expedition to excavate the tomb of
Ramesses XI. He has written and presented a number of
television series, including Romer's Egypt, Ancient Lives,
Testament and Byzantium. His major books include The Great
Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited and Valley of the Kings. He
lives in Italy.
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December 2016
9781846143793
£30.00
512 pages
PENGUIN MONARCHS
The latest titles for 2016 in the Penguin Monarchs series: short, vivid
biographies of every one of England’s rulers.
‘A publishing venture in the best Penguin tradition’ Financial Times
9780141978697
£12.99
July
9780141977843
£12.99
August
9780141977966
£12.99
September
9780141979342
£12.99
October
9780141978772
£12.99
November
9780241184103
£12.99
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Curiocity
In Pursuit of London
Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose
An unprecedented journey of discovery through a
uniquely enigmatic city, from the beginning of
time to the end of the world as we know it
Curiocity is the most beautiful and unusual guidebook ever
written about London. The authors reimagine the city in
twenty-six distinct ways, one for each letter of the alphabet,
considering how London might look from a child's perspective
or mapping the airspace above the city. At the heart of each
chapter is an original, hand-drawn map from artists including
Chris Riddell and Steven Appleby, supplemented by countless
London voices from Monica Ali to Philip Pullman to Shami
Chakrabarti. With practical and highly-unusual itineraries, the
authors explore every dimension of London, visiting nuclear
bunkers, talking ATMs and Japanese Monkey Fish along the
way.
Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose are old friends and Curiocity
is their first book. Henry likes mazes, maps and literature. He
leads cheese walks through the City and has lectured on
Geoffrey Chaucer on the London Eye. Matt Lloyd-Rose has
been a primary teacher, police officer and social researcher in
London. He wrote this book while living in Buenos Aires.
August 2016
9781846148675
£30.00
Other : Hardback
256 pages
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The Apple Orchard
The Story of Our Most English Fruit
Pete Brown
Through the seasons in England's apple-growing
heartlands, the author uncovers the magic and
folklore of our most familiar fruit
An orchard is not a field. It's not a forest or a copse. It
couldn't occur naturally; it's definitely cultivated. But an
orchard doesn't override the natural order: it enhances it,
dresses it up. It demonstrates that man and nature together
can - just occasionally - create something more beautiful and
(literally) more fruitful than either could alone. The vivid
brightness of the laden trees, studded with jewels, stirs some
deep race memory and makes the heart leap. Here is bounty,
and excitement.
Pete Brown is simultaneously allergic to and obsessed by
apples.
He has written several books on food and drink, including Man
Walks into a Pub, Three Sheets to the Wind, and Hops and Glory.
His discriminating palate has led him to be a judge in the
Great Taste Awards and the Radio 4 Food and Farming
Awards, and a frequent contributor to Radio 4's Food
Programme.
September 2016
9781846148835
£16.99
352 pages
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All the Words Are Yours
Tyler Knott Gregson
For the lovers, the seekers and the romantics, the
selected haiku of a poet who has won hearts
around the world
I'll be your deep breath,
I'll be your simple relief.
I'll be home to you.
Every day for the past six years, Tyler Knott Gregson has
written a simple haiku about love and posted it online. These
heartfelt poems have spoken to readers around the world,
and won Tyler a large and loyal following. Now, in All the
Words Are Yours - the follow-up to the US bestseller Chasers of
the Light - this startlingly honest, vulnerable and moving new
voice presents his favourites among those haiku. Some are
previously unpublished; all are accompanied by his signature
photographs, reproduced in gorgeous full colour. Together,
they capture the textures of daily life and extraordinary love
through the eyes of a man truly present in each moment.
Tyler Knott Gregson is a poet, author, professional
photographer and artist who lives in the mountains of
Montana, USA. When he is not writing, he operates his
photography company, Treehouse Photography, with his
talented partner, Sarah Linden.
September 2016
9781846149160
£11.99
Other : Hardback
144 pages
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Life on Instagram
Life on Instagram is the first and only annual of
its kind. Bringing together hundreds of
photographs from the world's biggest
photography app, it celebrates moments of
beauty and imagination, uniting countless lives
and stories from all over the globe
Eighty million photos are posted on Instagram each day. At
no point in time have we had access to this wealth and
diversity of fascinating imagery.
Life on Instagram truly reveals the world we live in, a time
where individuals curate and share their lives, telling their
visual stories as they would like them to be told, from the
inside out. Today our phones and cameras allow us to
instantly impart our joys, excitements and heartbreaks, with
one another, and to find comfort in so doing. This book is
about the beauty and wonder of everyday life, the
commonalities and differences between us all, and the ability
to connect with and understand others, as never before.
September 2016
9781846149092
£20.00
Other : Hardback
304 pages
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Dear Data
Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
From an award-winning project comes an
inspiring, collaborative book that makes data
artistic, personal - and open to all
Each week for a year, Giorgia and Stefanie sent each other a
postcard describing what had happened to them during that
week around a particular theme. But they didn't write it, they
drew it: a week of smiling, a week of apologies, a week of
desires.
Presenting their fifty-two cards, along with thoughts and
ideas about the data-drawing process, Dear Data hopes to
inspire you to draw, slow down and make connections with
other people, to see the world through a new lens, where
everything and anything can be a creative starting point for
play and expression.
Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec are two award-winning
and internationally recognized information designers with a
hand-crafted approach to data visualization. Both expats
(Giorgia an Italian in New York, Stefanie an American in
London), they had only met twice before they began Dear
Data. The project was awarded two Kantar Information is
Beautiful Awards and is being exhibited as part of Somerset
House's Big Bang Data exhibition, and at London's Science
Museum.
September 2016
9781846149061
£22.00
Other : Flexibound
304 pages
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The Zoo of the New
Poems to Read Now
Nick Laird & Don Paterson
Full of cherished classics and new surprises, an
anthology of two beloved poets' favourite verse
from the last 500 years
Selected by Nick Laird and Don Paterson, two of our most
lauded and beloved living poets, and conceived of as a
collection of their favourite poems, The Zoo of the New is set to
establish itself as the classic anthology of our time. Laird and
Paterson have brought together an inspired and diverse
selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare
discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and
traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology
will transform the way we define and appreciate poetry, and
it will continue to do so for years to come.
Including writers from Shakespeare and Blake to Sylvia Plath
and T. S. Eliot, The Zoo of the New is eclectic, instructive and
inspiring at the same time.
March 2017
9780141392486
£25.00
768 pages
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Where The Animals Go
Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and
Graphics
James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
From the best-selling authors of London: The
Information Capital comes the first book to use
big data to map the movements and behaviour of
wild animals all over the world
For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following
footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone
networks, apps and accelerometers allow us to see the
natural world like never before. Geographer James Cheshire
and designer Oliver Uberti take you to the forefront of this
animal-tracking revolution. Meet the scientists gathering wild
data - from seals mapping the sea to cougars crossing
Hollywood, from birds dodging tornadoes to jaguars taking
selfies. Join the journeys of sharks, elephants, condors,
snowy owls, and a wolf looking for love. Find an armchair,
cancel your plans and go where the animals go.
James and Oliver's complementary skills enable them to
produce graphics and book pages that few others can match.
As a lecturer at University College London, James applies his
cartographic and programming skills to the staggering amount
of data that scientists are now collecting. Oliver has more
than a decade of experience visualizing and writing about
wildlife research-from 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design
department of National Geographic, most recently as Senior
Design Editor.
November 2016
9781846148811
£25.00
Other : Hardback
174 pages
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The Joy of Quiz
Alan Connor
A jaunty journey into the world of the quiz, from
the question editor of BBC2's Only Connect,
sometimes in the form of excellent quiz questions
In 1938 Britain started to quiz. Since then, quizzes have
become ubiquitous entertainment from pubs to primetime,
suffered major criminal investigations, created unlikely folk
heroes and been subjected to the rigours of question
checkers. The Joy of Quiz tells the history of quiz and its
makers, wonders how we came to make a game out of
remembering scraps of information, looks at the tactics of
professional quizzers and reveals the shadowy worlds of
setters and checkers. Along the way, it asks questions such
as 'What is a fact, anyway?' and 'Whatever happened to
prizes like sandwich toasters?'
Alan Connor is the question editor of BBC2's Only Connect
and writes quizzes for various newspapers. He cannot see a
new fact without wondering how to make it into a piece of
quiz. Alan is a screenwriter, journalist and the author of Two
Girls, One on Each Knee, about the puzzling world of
crosswords. His favourite quiz question is: What word was
intentionally omitted from the screenplay of The Godfather?
November 2016
9781846148682
£14.99
B Format : Hardback
256 pages
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GEORGES
Penguin Classics’ long-term project
to publish all 75 of Georges Simenon’s
Maigret novels, in new translations,
continues in Autumn 2016 with 6 new
titles in the series.
Maigret and the Old Lady
9780241206829
July
£7.99
Madame Maigret’s Friend
9780241240168
August
£7.99
Maigret’s Memoirs
9780241240175
September
£7.99
Maigret at Picratt’s
9780241240281
October
£7.99
Maigret Takes a Room
9780241206843
November
£7.99
Maigret and the Madam
9780241277386
December
£7.99
INSPECTOR MAIGRET
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SHIRLEY JACKSON
Let Me Tell You
August 2016
9780241198209
£9.99
Just An Ordinary Day
November 2016
9780141983202
£9.99
Shirley Jackson is one of the great writers of the twentieth century,
her work by turns haunting, funny and disturbing. Just an Ordinary
Day and Let Me Tell You are two brilliant collections of stories,
essays, cartoons and autobiographical writings that will offer fans
of We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill
House a new window into Jackson’s beguiling and unsettling
world. Jackson’s star has been on the rise over the past few years,
and interest will be particularly high in 2016, her
centenary year.
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Ecology of Wisdom
Arne Næss
A selection of the most inspiring and influential
writings from groundbreaking Norwegian
environmentalist Arne Naess, in Penguin Modern
Classics for the first time
Philosopher, mountaineer and visionary Arne Naess was a
key inspiration for the environmental movement in his lifetime
and remains vital today as the father of the Deep Ecology
movement. Drawing on Naess's own time spent living in the
wilderness, as well as influences as diverse as Eastern
religious practices, Gandhian nonviolent direct action and
Spinozan unity systems, his writing calls for cooperative
action to protect the earth.
This Penguin Modern Classics edition brings together the best
of Naess's trailblazing essays, full of the writer's characteristic
enthusiasm, wit, and spiritual fascination with nature. This
selection is an inspiration for all those looking to follow in his
footsteps.
Arne Naess was born in Slemdal, Norway, in 1912. After
earning his Ph.D. at the age of 27, he became the University
of Oslo's youngest professor, and Norway's only Professor of
Philosophy.
Naess was a keen mountaineer, environmentalist and social
activist. In 1938, he finished building an isolated wooden hut
high in the Hallingskarvet mountains, where he would spend
a quarter of his life. It was here that he developed his
concept of 'deep ecology,' and his lifelong commitment to the
environmental movement. His activity within the movement
ranged from grassroots protest, to candidacy for political
office with the Green Party, to a post as the first chairman of
Greenpeace Norway in 1988.
His achievements as a philosopher, ecologist and activist
were widely recognised during his lifetime. In 2005 he was
knighted and made a Commander with Star of the Royal
Norwegian order of St. Olav First Class. He died in Oslo in
2009.
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July 2016
9780241257197
£10.99
B Format : Paperback
352 pages
Boys in Zinc
Svetlana Alexievich
Mesmerizing, haunting and extraordinary stories
from the Soviet-Afghan War collected by the
winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating
war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on
both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peacekeeping' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc
coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of
soldiers, doctors and nurses, mothers, wives and siblings who
describe the lasting effects of war.
Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us
the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict: the killing and the
beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returned
veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was
first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge
controversy for its unflinching, harrowing insight into the
realities of war.
Svetlana Alexievich (Author)
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1948 and
has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day
Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe.
Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre which brings together a chorus of voices to
describe a specific historical moment. Her works include The
Unwomanly Face of War (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Boys in
Zinc (1991), Chernobyl Prayer (1997) and Second-Hand Time
(2013). She has won many international awards, including the
2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her polyphonic writings, a
monument to suffering and courage in our time".
March 2017
9780241264119
£9.99
272 pages
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The Penguin Book of Dutch Short
Stories
A collection of innovative and astonishing short
stories from Dutch writers from 1850 to the
present day.
A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a
government employee has a haunting experience on his
commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy
party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical
illness. These short stories contain some of the most
groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from
1915 to the present day, with most pieces appearing here in
English for the first time. Blending unforgettable snapshots of
the realities of everyday life with surrealism, fantasy and
subversion, this collection shows Dutch writing to be an
integral part of world literary history.
Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was a novelist, poet, essayist
and editor of several anthologies. He started his career as a
writer with bestselling novels, describing the atmosphere of
the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gimmick! (1988) and False
Light (1991). In later years, he concentrated on writing
essays - notably on pop culture and visual arts - and poetry.
Suicide was the theme of the novel Six Stars (2002). He took
his own life just after having published a new collection of
essays on art, The Museum of Light.
September 2016
9780141395722
£12.99
592 pages
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A Shepherd's Life
W. H. Hudson
A classic of English rural life by a writer admired
by Hemingway, published in Classics for the first
time
Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A
Shepherd's Life is a rare account of the lives of those who
lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural
Britain. A masterful work of prose, W. H. Hudson focuses on
the story of one man, a Wiltshire shepherd named Caleb
Bawcombe, whose tales of sheep dogs, farmer's wives,
poachers and local fairs become a sublime account of a way of
life that has largely disappeared from these shores.
A writer, naturalist and founding member of the Royal Society
for the Protection of Birds, W. H. Hudson was born and raised
in Argentina before settling in England in 1874. The author of
numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, his writing was
acclaimed by both Jorge Luis Borges and Ernest Hemingway,
and his work is now considered part of the national literature
of Argentina. He died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1922.
December 2016
9780241273357
£8.99
240 pages
48
Alone in Berlin (Film
Tie-in)
The Card
A Story of Adventure in the
Five Towns
Hans Fallada
Arnold Bennett
A tie-in edition to accompany
the major new film starring
Emma Thompson and Brendan
Gleeson
One of fiction's greatest
chancers - the story of Denry
Machin and his unceasing,
ingenious efforts to become a
great man
January 2017
9780241277027
£9.99
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592 pages
Billy Bathgate
July 2016
9780241255544
£8.99
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256 pages
Six Memos for the
Next Millennium
E. L. Doctorow
Italo Calvino
From the American master of
historical fiction, an awardwinning coming-of-age story
set amidst the gangster
underworld of Depression-era
New York City
A new translation of Calvino's
influential last work
August 2016
9780241256428
£9.99
Paperback
320 pages
Anna of the Five
Towns
Seeing Things as
They Are: Selected
Journalism and Other
Writings
Arnold Bennett
Bennett's remarkable 'sermon
against parental tyranny' set
in the industrial world of early
twentieth century England
George Orwell
An enlightening anthology of
George Orwell's journalism
and non-fiction writing
August 2016
9780241255773
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256 pages
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August 2016
9780241275955
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176 pages
August 2016
9780141984230
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496 pages
Zuleika Dobson
The Great Science
Fiction
Max Beerbohm
The Time Machine, The Island
of Doctor Moreau, The
Invisible Man, The War of the
Worlds, Short Stories
Max Beerbohm's brilliant,
surreal satire on Oxford life
H. G. Wells
An omnibus of all four of the
greatest science-fiction novels
of H. G. Wells
January 2020
9780241253120
£8.99
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208 pages
September 2016
9780241277492
£12.99
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704 pages
Riceyman Steps
The Hand
Arnold Bennett
Georges Simenon
Arnold Bennett's superb
London novel - both a story
about one grim household
and a panorama of the life of
a great city
A new translation of this
gripping novel, the inspiration
for David Hare's new play The
Red Barn
September 2016
9780241255797
£9.99
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352 pages
October 2016
9780241284650
£7.99
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192 pages
Mortal Engines
Raising A Smile
Stanislaw Lem
Selected Non-fiction
Kingsley Amis
A Jorge Luis Borges for the
Space Age' The New York
Times
Devastatingly witty, offensive
and wonderfully irreverent: a
new selection of non-fiction by
the curmudgeon of English
letters
October 2016
9780241269077
£9.99
Paperback
240 pages
November 2017
9780141194202
£20.00
Hardback
416 pages
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Collected Poems
The Complete Short
Stories
Kingsley Amis
Evelyn Waugh
One of the very best of our
poets' Anthony Powell
One of the century's great
masters of English prose . . .
It is never too late to read or
reread Evelyn Waugh' Time
November 2017
9780141194219
£12.99
Paperback
224 pages
The Early Stories of
Truman Capote
November 2017
9780141193694
£25.00
Hardback
736 pages
The Man Who
Watched the Trains
Go By
Truman Capote
Georges Simenon
Breathtaking in their
precocity, craftsmanship,
simplicity and the tenderness
[Capote] became renowned
for' Andrew Johnson,
Independent
A new translation of
Simenon's haunting
masterpiece of a man on the
run from guilt, desperation
and mundanity
May 2017
9780241202425
£8.99
Paperback
256 pages
The Snow Was Dirty
Village Christmas
Georges Simenon
And Other Notes on the
English Year
A new translation of
Simenon's visceral, critically
acclaimed classic
Laurie Lee
From the author of Cider With
Rosie, Village Christmas is a
moving, lyrical portrait of
England through the changing
years and seasons
November 2016
9780241258569
£7.99
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304 pages
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November 2016
9780241258552
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256 pages
November 2016
9780241243671
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160 pages
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POCKET
PENGUINS
The next twenty books in the unmissable, A format
Pocket Penguins series, including great reads from
around the world and across the centuries
4th AUGUST
No 21-30
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Good Morning, Midnight Dream Story Storm of Steel
The Island of Doctor Moreau Sanshiro
Don't Look Now
Wind, Sand and Stars The Twelve Caesars The Gambler and A Nasty Business
Carson McCullers Jean Rhys
Arthur Schnitzler
Ernst Junger H. G. Wells Natsume Soseki
Daphne du Maurier Antoine Saint-Exupery
Suetonius
Fyodor Dostoevsky £7.99
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Nikolay Gogol Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ford Madox Ford
Wu Ch'eng-en
Honore de Balzac
Simone de Beauvoir
Vladimir Nabokov
John Reed
Evelyn Waugh £7.99
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No 31-40
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The Age of Reason Dead Souls The Magician of Lublin
The Good Soldier
Monkey
Eugenie Grandet
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Laughter in the Dark Ten Days That Shook the World
Put Out More Flags Treatise on Toleration
Voltaire
One of the most important essays on religious
tolerance and freedom of thought
In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed
after being falsely accused of killing his son. As it became
clear that Calas was in fact persecuted for being a Protestant,
Voltaire began a campaign to get his sentence overturned and in the process made the case for some of the most
important values upheld by the Enlightenment, from religious
tolerance to freedom of thought. Treatise on Toleration is the
story of this case and a screed against fanaticism - a book
that is as fresh and urgent today as it was when it was first
published in 1763.
Voltaire (Author)
François-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire,
was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. He became
notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice
imprisoned in the Bastille. By his mid-thirties his literary
activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he
won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His
publication, three years later in France, of Lettres
philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733), an attack on French
Church and State, forced him to flee again. For twenty years
Voltaire lived mainly away from Paris. Among his best-known
books are satirical tales such as Zadig (1747) and Candide
(1759). He died in Paris in 1778.
August 2016
9780241236628
£8.99
208 pages
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Writings from Ancient Egypt
Toby Wilkinson
The essential writings of ancient Egypt, from
songs to stories, newly translated
'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass
away. But writings make him remembered.'
The fascination Ancient Egypt holds in our minds has many
sources, but at the heart of it lie hieroglyphics. This
extraordinary writing system was for many years seen as the
ultimate challenge and puzzle before finally being cracked in
the 1820s. Preserved carved in stone or inked on papyri,
hieroglyphic writings give a unique insight into an aweinspiring but also deeply mysterious culture.
Toby Wilkinson has translated a rich selection of pieces,
ranging from accounts of battles to hymns to stories to royal
proclamations. This book is both very enjoyable and an
essential resource for anyone wanting to study one of
humankind's great civilizations.
Toby Wilkinson is a Fellow of Clare College, University of
Cambridge. He has written a number of major books on
Ancient Egypt, most recently The Rise and Fall of Ancient
Egypt (Bloomsbury, UK; Random House, US)which won the
Hessell-Tiltman prize. He has excavated at the Egyptian sites
of Buto and Memphis.
August 2016
9780141395951
£10.99
384 pages
55
The 120 Days of Sodom
The Marquis de Sade
A new translation of Sade's most notorious,
shocking and influential novel
This horrible but hugely important text has influenced
countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and
Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed
with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with
twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such
as Simone de Beauvoir and Angela Carter clashed over him.
This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into
Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate
around this most controversial of writers.
The Marquis de Sade (Author)
The Marquis de Sade was born in Paris in 1740. He was
imprisoned several times for his scandalous behaviour, and
wrote The 120 Days of Sodom, his most notorious work, while
in prison in the Bastille. He managed to ingratiate himself with
the new regime after the French Revolution, but by 1796 was
a ruined man. He died in an insane asylum in 1814.
Will McMorran (Translator)
Will McMorran is a Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative
Literature at Queen Mary, University of London.
Thomas Wynn (Translator)
Thomas Wynn is Reader and Director of Research in the
School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham
University.
September 2016
9780141394343
£12.99
464 pages
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The Story of Hong
Gildong
Shahnameh
The Persian Book of Kings
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
The first modern translation of
the quintessential Korean
classic: the Robin Hood story
of a magical boy who joins a
group of robber bandits and
becomes a king
A newly revised and
expanded version of the great
national epic of Persia
July 2016
9780143107699
£9.99
Paperback
128 pages
July 2016
9780143108320
£15.99
Paperback
1,040 pages
Billy Budd, Bartleby,
and Other Stories
A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man
Herman Melville
James Joyce
A new Penguin Classics
edition of Herman Melville's
virtuosic short stories American classics wrought
with scorching fury, grim
humour and profound beauty
For the centennial of its
original publication, a
beautiful Deluxe Edition of
one of Joyce's greatest works
August 2016
9780143107606
£9.99
Paperback
368 pages
Selected Poems and
Prose
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Percy Bysshe Shelley
One of the great
masterpieces of seventeenthcentury English prose,
thoroughly corrected and with
a major new introduction
A major new anthology of
Percy Bysshe Shelley's work,
edited by Jack Donovan and
Cian Duffy
November 2016
9780241253069
£16.99
Paperback
912 pages
57
August 2016
9780143108245
£11.99
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336 pages
May 2017
9780141395098
£12.99
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608 pages
The Praetorians
The Tales of Ise
Jean Lartéguy
One of the three seminal
works of Japanese literature,
this beautiful collection of
poems and tales offers an
unparalleled insight into
ancient Japan
Jean Lartéguy's unflinching
sequel to The Centurions, a
searing novel of modern
warfare
September 2016
9780143110231
£11.99
Paperback
384 pages
On the Aesthetic
Education of Man
September 2016
9780141392578
£10.99
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416 pages
The Ultimate
Ambition in the Arts
of Erudition
Friedrich Schiller
Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
Schiller's famous treatise on
art, politics and society
For the first time in English, a
catalogue of the world
through fourteenth century
Arab eyes
September 2016
9780141396965
£9.99
Paperback
224 pages
The Dance of Death
October 2016
9780143107484
£11.99
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352 pages
Daisy Miller and Other
Tales
Hans Holbein
Henry James
A new departure in Penguin
Classics: a book containing
one of the greatest of all
Renaissance woodcut
sequences - Holbein's
bravura danse macabre
A wonderful new collection of
Henry James's short stories
about Americans in Europe
October 2016
9780141396828
£9.99
Paperback
208 pages
October 2016
9780141389776
£9.99
Paperback
432 pages
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The Book of Magic
Remembrance of
Things Past: Volume
1
From Antiquity to the
Enlightenment
Brian Copenhaver
Marcel Proust
A rich, strange anthology of
the western magical tradition,
from the Old Testament to
Doctor Faustus and Paradise
Lost
November 2016
9780141393148
£10.99
Paperback
672 pages
Remembrance of
Things Past: Volume
2
Remembrance of
Things Past: Volume
3
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
One of the greatest
translations of all time: Scott
Moncrieff's classic version of
Proust, published in three
stunning clothbound volumes
designed by Coralie BickfordSmith
One of the greatest
November 2016
9780241205945
£20.00
Hardback
1,208 pages
Russian Fairy Tales
The Will to Power
Alexander Pushkin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Three of Pushkin's magical
fairy tales in new verse
translations, accompanied by
Ivan Bilibin's stunning original
illustrations
New to Penguin Classics, The
Will to Power includes some of
Nietzsche's most important
thoughts on nihilism,
metaphysics and the future of
Europe
November 2016
9780241250020
£14.99
Hardback
32 pages
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One of the greatest
November 2016
9780241205921
£20.00
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1,056 pages
November 2016
9780241205969
£20.00
Hardback
1,136 pages
January 2017
9780141195353
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320 pages
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60
PENGUIN MODERN POETS
The Penguin Modern Poets series is your essential guide
to contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together
selections of representative work by three poets
now writing, with a new book released every three months.
Modern Poets 1: If I’m Scared We Can’t Win
Emily Berry – Anne Carson – Sophie Collins
9780141982694
July 2016
Modern Poets 2: Controlled Explosions 9780141983943
Michael Robbins – Patricia Lockwood – Timothy Thornton October 2016
£7.99
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128 pages
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61
Ai Weiwei Speaks
with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist
A new edition of conversations between the artist
Ai Wei Wei and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming
up to the present day
Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and
urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's
most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of
interviews, conducted over several years with the curator
Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many dimensions of his
artistic life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, blogging,
nature, philosophy and the myriad influences that have fed
into his work. He also talks candidly about his father, his
childhood spent in exile and his criticism of the Chinese state.
Together, these extraordinary discussions are an essential
reminder of the need for personal, political and artistic
freedom.
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist, designer, architect, curator,
blogger and publisher.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and critic. Since 2006 he has
been Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director
of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
July 2016
9780141983912
£8.99
A Format : Paperback
128 pages
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The Fox and the Star
Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Waterstones Book of the Year, beautifully
realised as a classic paperback picture book
Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as
long as Fox could remember, his only friend had been Star, who
lit the forest paths each night. But then one night Star wasn't
there, and Fox had to face the forest all alone.
The Fox and the Star is a beautiful work of prose and design,
each page thoughtfully created by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
October 2016
9780141978895
£8.99
Other : Paperback
64 pages
63
Collective Choice and Social
Welfare
Expanded Edition
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen's first great book, out of print for
many years, now reissued in a fully revised and
expanded second edition
Can the values which individual members of society attach to
different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as
a whole, in a way that is both fair and theoretically sound? Is
the majority principle a workable rule for making decisions?
How should income inequality be measured? When and how
can we compare the distribution of welfare in different
societies?' So reads the 1998 Nobel citation by the Swedish
Academy, acknowledging Amartya Sen's important
contributions in welfare economics and particularly his work in
Collective Choice and Social Welfare.
Originally published in 1970, this classic study has been
recognized for its ground-breaking role in integrating
economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new
areas of research in social choice. This expanded edition
preserves the text of the original while presenting eleven
new chapters of fresh arguments and results. Both the new
and original chapters alternate between non-mathematical
treatments of Sen's subjects accessible to all, and
mathematical arguments and proofs. A new introduction gives
a far-reaching, up-to-date overview of the subject of social
choice.
Amartya Sen is one of the world's leading public intellectuals.
He is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at
Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from
1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998.
His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom
(1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005) and The Idea of
Justice (2010). They have been translated into more than 30
languages.
January 2017
9780141982502
£12.99
288 pages
64
Lives of the Artists,
Lives of the
Architects
The Anatomy of
Peace
How to Resolve the Heart of
Conflict
Hans Ulrich Obrist
The Arbinger Institute
A unique opportunity to learn
about the creative lives of the
world's leading artists and
architects
A guide to understanding why
conflict occurs and finding
peace for good
July 2016
9780141976631
£12.99
Paperback
720 pages
July 2016
9780141983929
£9.99
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288 pages
In Wartime
Augustus
Stories from Ukraine
The Biography
Tim Judah
Jochen Bleicken
An urgent, insightful account
of the human side of the
ongoing conflict in Ukraine
The great modern biography
of Augustus, founder of the
Roman Empire
July 2016
9780141981086
£9.99
Paperback
288 pages
The Thrilling
Adventures of
Lovelace and
Babbage
The Criminal Alphabet
An A-Z of Prison Slang
Noel "Razor" Smith
The ultimate guide to the
criminal world through its
slang - from insults to terms
of respect, weapons to
injuries, crimes to punishment
The (Mostly) True Story of the
First Computer
Sydney Padua
My new favourite book. It has
everything. Byron, maths,
imaginary computers,
emotion' - Matt Haig
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July 2016
9780140294828
£14.99
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784 pages
August 2016
9780141981536
£12.99
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320 pages
August 2016
9780141038568
£6.99
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384 pages
integrated b/w line
drawings
The Dream of Reason
A Beautiful Question
A History of Western
Philosophy from the Greeks to
the Renaissance
Finding Nature's Deep Design
Anthony Gottlieb
A Nobel Prize-winning
physicist argues that beauty
is the fundamental organizing
principle for the entire
universe
Frank Wilczek
A fully revised and updated
edition of the most
approachable introduction to
the beginnings of philosophy
August 2016
9780141983844
£9.99
Paperback
512 pages
The Great British
Dream Factory
August 2016
9780718199463
£9.99
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448 pages
Cabin Porn
Inspiration for Your Quiet
Place Somewhere
The Strange History of Our
National Imagination
Zach Klein
Dominic Sandbrook
Dreams of rural escapes now
available in a beautifully
compact paperback
A dazzling, entertaining and
revolutionary overview of
British popular culture
September 2016
9780141979304
£12.99
Paperback
688 pages
September 2016
9780141982144
£10.99
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336 pages
The Vikings
Strangers Drowning
Else Roesdahl
Voyages to the Brink of Moral
Extremity
A new and updated edition of
this authoritative work on
Viking history, from a
distinguished expert in the
field
Larissa MacFarquhar
Renowned New Yorker
journalist Larissa
MacFarquhar's acclaimed
account of the individuals who
devote themselves to the
lives of strangers
September 2016
9780141983288
£10.99
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343 pages
September 2016
9781846143991
£10.99
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336 pages
66
Kissinger
How to Plan a
Crusade
1923-1968: The Idealist
Niall Ferguson
Reason and Religious War in
the High Middle Ages
The definitive biography of
Henry Kissinger, based on
unprecedented access to his
private papers, written by one
of our greatest historians
Christopher Tyerman
A lively and compelling
account of how the crusades
really worked, and a
revolutionary attempt to
rethink the Middle Ages
September 2016
9780141022000
£16.99
Paperback
1,008 pages
The Invention of
Science
September 2016
9780241954652
£10.99
Paperback
432 pages
Margaret Thatcher
The Authorized Biography,
Volume Two: Everything She
Wants
A New History of the Scientific
Revolution
David Wootton
Charles Moore
The first major history of the
Scientific Revolution in more
than a generation, by one of
the UK's leading intellectual
historians
The sensational second
volume of Charles Moore's
bestselling and definitive
biography of Britain's first
female Prime Minister
September 2016
9780141040837
£12.99
Paperback
784 pages
16pp colour
illustrations
Tove Jansson
Frederick the Great
Work and Love
King of Prussia
Tuula Karjalainen
Tim Blanning
Now in paperback, a
beautifully illustrated account
of of Tove Jansson's life and
art
A dazzling historical biography
in the tradition of Andrew
Roberts' Napoleon the Great or
Simon Sebag Montefiore's
Potemkin
October 2016
9780141978826
£12.99
Paperback
304 pages
67
October 2016
9780140279627
£12.99
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880 pages
32pp b/w
illustrations
October 2016
9780141039190
£12.99
Paperback
672 pages
16 pp b/w
illustrations
The Rise And Fall of
British Naval Mastery
LONDON: The
Information Capital
Paul Kennedy
100 maps and graphics that
will change how you view the
city
The landmark book which
began the revival of naval
history, now with a new
introduction by the author
James Cheshire and
Oliver Uberti
October 2016
9780141983820
£12.99
Paperback
448 pages
Millions of data points
translated into maps and
graphics that chart life in
London like never before
Augustine
The Tower
Conversions and Confessions
A Novel
Robin Lane Fox
Uwe Tellkamp
A major interpretation of how
one of the great figures of
Christian history came to
write the greatest of all
autobiographies
The German bestseller paints
a powerful, candid portrait of
a family in crisis amid the
turbulent fall of the Berlin Wall
November 2016
9780241950753
£12.99
Paperback
672 pages
16pp colour
illustrations
November 2016
9780141979250
£12.99
Paperback
1,024 pages
Gray's Anatomy
The Gates of Europe
Selected Writings
A History of Ukraine
John Gray
Serhii Plokhy
A new edition of John Gray's
wisdom and writing, with two
new chapters and an updated
foreword
The definitive history of
Ukraine which helps us
understand the country's past
and the current crisis
November 2016
9780141981116
£14.99
Paperback
640 pages
no illustrations
October 2016
9780141978796
£14.99
Paperback
224 pages
December 2016
9780141980614
£9.99
Paperback
432 pages
68
The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will
Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
A spell-binding quest for the one algorithm
capable of deriving all knowledge from data,
including a cure for cancer
Society is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from
search engines to online dating, personalized medicine to
predicting the stock market. But learning algorithms are not
just about Big Data - these algorithms take raw data and
make it useful by creating more algorithms. This is something
new under the sun: a technology that builds itself. In The
Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos reveals how machine
learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And
he takes us on an awe-inspiring quest to find 'The Master
Algorithm' - a universal learner capable of deriving all
knowledge from data.
Pedro Domingos is one of the world's top machine learning
researchers, and a Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He
is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence and has received Fulbright and Sloan Fellowships
and the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award.
March 2017
9780141979243
£9.99
352 pages
69
The Ring of Truth
The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung
Roger Scruton
A magnificent book by a famous author on
perhaps the greatest of all musical works
Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest
works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated
both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. The
Ring of Truth is an exploration of the drama, music, symbolism
and philosophy of the Ring from a writer whose knowledge
and understanding of the Western musical tradition are the
equal of his capacities as a philosopher. Scruton shows how,
through musical connections and brilliant dramatic strokes,
Wagner is able to express truths about the human condition
which few other creative artists have been able to convey so
convincingly. For Wagner, writes Scruton, the task of art is to
'show us freedom in its immediate, contingent, human form,
reminding us of what it means to us. Even if we live in a world
from which gods and heroes have disappeared we can, by
imagining them, dramatize the deep truths of our condition
and renew our faith in what we are.'
Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher who has held
positions at the universities of London, Oxford, Boston and St
Andrews and who has written widely on art, architecture,
music and aesthetics. His books include his now classic Short
History of Modern Philosophy (1981), The Aesthetics of Music
(1997), Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's
Tristan and Isolde (2004), Fools, Frauds and Firebrands (1985,
republished 2015) an examination of the New Left and its
influence on intellectual life in Europe and America. He is a
fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Literature.
June 2016
9780241188552
£25.00
416 pages
70
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- Penguin Random House UK

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