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TRANSLATION RIGHTS LIST
NON-FICTION
SEPTEMBER 2021
OUR IMPRINTS
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T H E RIGH T S TEAM
Kate Hibbert
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US, worldwide Spanish and Catalan, Portugal, Far East,
the Netherlands, Flemish Belgium, and the Indian
Subcontinent
Kate.Hibbert@littlebrown.co.uk
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the Baltic States
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Sarah Birdsey
Rights Manager
France, Greece, Turkey, Hebrew and Arabic rights,
and all of Eastern Europe except Poland.
Sarah.Birdsey@littlebrown.co.uk
Ruth Case-Green
Rights Executive
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Jessica Callaghan
Rights Assistant
Jessica.Callaghan@littlebrown.co.uk
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CONTENTS
General 5
Highlights
HUMAN FRONTIERS (page 5)
IN TWO MINDS (page 6)
History 10
Music 14
Highlights
A LIKELY LAD (page 14)
Memoir & Biography 15
Health, Self-Help & Popular Psychology 17
Parenting 21
Food & Cookery 23
Mind, Body & Spirit 25
A Brief History Of… 27
Overcoming series 28
Workbooks 29
Titles in CAPITALS are published by Little, Brown, titles in Italics are not.
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General non-fiction
A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship
WHEN THERE with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the 21st century.
WERE BIRDS Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a
reminder of past experiences and a symbol of hope for the
future. For centuries, they were also seen as a source of food,
feathers and even fuel, and being so numerous, many were
Roy and Lesley persecuted as pests. When There Were Birds is a social history
of Britain that charts the complex connections between people
Adkins and birds, set against a background of changes in the landscape
and evolving tastes, beliefs and behaviour. Birds were once key
elements of the nation's history, traditions and sports, and this
November 2021 gave rise to a rich legacy of literature, language and myths.
Little, Brown
No other group of animals has had such a complex and lengthy
Natural History relationship with humankind. Birds have been kept in cages as
512pp pets, taught to speak and displayed as trophies. More
practically, they have been used to tell the time, predict the
weather, foretell marriages, provide unlikely cures for ailments,
ROY and LESLEY ADKINS are husband-and-wife historians and convey messages and warn of poisonous gases.
authors of widely acclaimed books on naval and social history,
including Jack Tar, Trafalgar, The War for All the Oceans and Although very familiar, birds have often seemed strange,
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England, which have been sinister and alarming. With their ability to fly, they bridged the
translated into seventeen languages. They are Fellows of the gap between the earth and the heavens, and superstitions
Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Historical were rife because they were presumed to be linked to the
Society, as well as Members of the Chartered Institute for supernatural. When There Were Birds draws together many
Archaeologists. disparate, forgotten strands to present a story that is an
intriguing and unexpectedly significant part of our heritage.
A provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the
HUMAN FRONTIERS: history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to
today.
THE FUTURE OF
BIG IDEAS IN A We're at a curious juncture of history. New inventions, a digital
revolution, a colossal output of cultural production, and a
WORLD OF SMALL sophisticated global economy catering to our every need have
changed our lives in an incredibly short space of time.
THINKING From quantum biology, nanotechnology and pictures of black holes,
to nudge unit governance, blockchain and virtual worlds, the sheer
Michael Bhaskar scale of progress over the last three hundred years is mind-
boggling. Surely this is a uniquely fecund moment for humanity?
September 2021 And yet a growing body of evidence suggests that big ideas have,
The Bridge Street Press over the last forty or fifty years, become much harder. After half a
Social forecasting century we have not been back to the Moon; we haven't cured
432pp cancer; life expectancy has stalled in some countries; we're still
Rights Sold:
addicted to carbon-based energy.
Korean (Publion)
Portuguese in Brazil (LVM Editora) In HUMAN FRONTIERS, Michael Bhaskar makes sense of this mixed
Spanish (Fondo de Cultura Economica picture to offer a sketch of what comes next. Drawing on the latest
US (MIT Press) cutting-edge research from economics, business analysis, cultural
theory and the history of science and technology, Bhaskar shows
MICHAEL BHASKAR is a writer, researcher and digital publisher. He is
how important new ideas are getting much harder to find, and how
Co-Founder of Canelo, a new publishing company. He has written
the nature of world- changing ideas - however we might find them -
and talked extensively about the future of media, the creative
will shape humanity's next steps.
industries and the economics of technology for newspapers,
magazines and blogs. He has been featured in and written for the Click here to listen to Michael Bhaskar talking about
Guardian, Financial Times, Wired and Daily Telegraph, and on BBC HUMAN FRONTIERS!
2, BBC Radio 4, NPR and Bloomberg TV among others. 5
General non-fiction
An honest, enlightening and at times humorous account of Dr Das’s
experience as a psychiatric doctor working with this dangerous
IN TWO clientele, detailing his most extreme, heart-breaking and bizarre
cases.
MINDS
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das diagnoses, treats and
rehabilitates mentally ill offenders - or the 'criminally insane' - in
prisons and secure hospitals, many of whom have committed
Dr Sohom Das serious violence, some even murder. He is also an expert witness,
and advises on insanity or diminished responsibility pleas - to
either steer the incapacitated, the vulnerable and voiceless away
March 2022 from a lifetime of incarceration towards recovery, or literally let
Sphere them get away with murder.
Forensic Psychology
In this book, Dr Das tells the untold story of forensic psychiatry
304pp during his fifteen years as a psychiatric doctor, and what happens
when an underfunded institution like this breaks - and how he's
learned to live with his mistakes when the worse happens. He also
writes very personally and movingly about the abundant tragedy
he has encountered in real-life cases, and the human cost of
violence caused by mental illness.
DR SOHOM DAS is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, working in
prisons, secure hospitals and criminal courts, assessing and
rehabilitating mentally ill offenders. He works as an expert
witness in criminal and civil court cases. In between work and
parenting his two young sons, he occasionally dabbles in stand-up
comedy and battle-rapping on TV.
MY NONIDENTICAL Evie Meg is a TikTok sensation (twelve million followers and
counting) who uses her platform to educate others on what it's
like living with Tourette's syndrome, amongst other health
TWIN: WHAT I’D complications. This book will explore her condition with honesty,
detailing the challenges she has faced through giving up her
LIKE YOU TO dream job, and navigating sudden internet fame. MY
NONIDENTICAL TWIN is also a positive and inspirational story,
KNOW ABOUT giving readers perspective and resilience to deal with their own
problems with the same amount of optimism Evie Meg employs.
LIVING WITH
TOURETTE’S
Evie Meg Field
October 2021
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Autobiography
256pp
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General non-fiction
GUARDED BY DRAGONS follows rare book dealer Rick Gekoski as
GUARDED BY he uncovers the mysteries behind the most unusual manuscripts
and archives he has handled, where stories are weaved within
DRAGONS: IN stories.
SEARCH OF From the original memoir of Dr Watson and his discovery of DNA
LITERARY TREASURE toK. Rowling's
how Jeff Bezos improbably paid £2 million for a manuscript of J.
Beadle the Bard, Gekoski explores a world full of
legacy and billionaires where priceless copies of Ulysses can vanish
without a trace. In the world of literary dealership, a manuscript
Rick Gekoski can tell a thousand stories.
RICK GEKOSKI came from his native America to do a Ph.D at
July 2021 Oxford, and went on to teach English at the University of Warwick.
Constable In 1982, sick of lecturing, he decided to become a full- time rare
book dealer, specialising in important twentieth- century first
History
editions and manuscripts. He lives in London and spends time each
256pp year in Paris and New Zealand.
Praise for GUARDED BY DRAGONS:
“Guarded by Dragons is both wonderful fun and a fascinating glimpse into an arcane trade.” John Banville, Irish Times
“Fascinating anecdotes and excruciatingly funny chapters and vignettes about the often cloak-and dagger, highly litigious world of
book dealing…” Financial Times
“Does for bibliomania what James Herriot did for vets. …” The Times
“Like something out of a Raymond Chandler… Such fun”! The Spectator
“Combines a relish for commerce with tremendous joie de vivre.” Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
For the past twenty-five years, Belinda Kirk's professional life has
ADVENTURE revolved around adventure. She's seen it change people first hand:
turning the timid into the confident, the addicted into the
REVOLUTION recovering, and the lost into the intentionally wandering. As a
force for change, adventure can be powerful like few others.
This book is about this transformational power, and the first to
Belinda Kirk explore why adventure is essential to our wellbeing. From
managing anxiety and overcoming fear, to finding self-worth and
building interpersonal connections, to being happier, healthier,
August 2021 and more playful, ADVENTURE REVOLUTION draws lessons from
Piatkus more than two decades of experience leading groups into the
wilderness around the globe. Illuminated with Belinda's personal
Personal development narrative, her own research with modern hunter-gatherers, and
256pp the latest findings in neuroscience and behaviour, ADVENTURE
REVOLUTION presents a compelling case for ditching the living
room in favour of a longer, happier, and more adventurous life.
BELINDA KIRK is an explorer and the leading campaigner
promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing. She has led
numerous youth development challenges, pioneered inclusive
expeditions for people with disabilities and managed scientific
research missions in the Amazon, Sinai and Alaska. In 2009,
Belinda established Explorers Connect, a non-profit organisation
connecting people to adventure and has encouraged 30,000
ordinary people to engage in outdoor challenges. In 2020 she
launched the first conference to explore the Adventure Effect, the
positive impact that adventurous activity has on wellbeing.
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General non-fiction
Volcanoes help to make and shape our world, bursting forth
ADVENTURES IN from inside of the earth and, in many places, looming over us.
They have helped provide us with a habitable planet, playing a
Cover VOLCANOLAND key role in creating the atmosphere, oceans and land. Present
coming since the earth's beginning they continue to maintain its life
support systems and, their extraordinary chemistry may even
soon have created the ingredients needed for life to kick start. In
Tamsin Mather some places volcanoes are even beginning to provide us with
part of the energy we need to curb our use of fossil fuels. They
have fascinated humans for millennia, their eruptions charted
May 2023 throughout history, seeming to show us how the earth is living,
breathing and changing and has been doing so for billions of
Little, Brown years.
Volcanology
320pp ADVENTURES IN VOLCANOLAND will chart journeys across
deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's
most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini
to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these
momentous geological formations, the cultural and religious
roles they have played in the minds of those living around them
at different times throughout history, and the science behind
their formation and eruptions. Why exactly are these geological
mammoths found where they are? What can they teach us about
our environment, the Anthropocene and the ecological disaster
that is climate change? Are there volcanoes on other planets,
and what might they tell us about whether we could one day live
there if we exhaust our own habitat? How can we predict if or
when volcanoes might explode?
The CEO'S guide to achieving your career goals by finding - and
STYLE AND embracing - your authentic personal style.
SUBSTANCE In a world where everything is in a state of flux and where
working from home has become the 'new normal', old career
rules no longer apply. There will be new terms of doing business,
new ways of interacting with friends, colleagues and neighbours,
Helena Morrissey and different career patterns. This is an opportunity for women
to develop their own style in everything - from communication,
presence, networking and leadership, to personal brand,
October 2021 dressing and aesthetic.
Piatkus
Dame Helena Morrissey has run companies and campaigns and
Fashion learned through both her own experiences and observing other
272pp successful women that confident and authentic style and
presence is career-enhancing. Many women feel it's all a
minefield, that they should just copy men or 'blend in' but STYLE
AND SUBSTANCE explains why that's unlikely to be a recipe for
success and shows how you can achieve that next career goal by
developing your personal brand, building confidence and letting
DAME HELENA MORRISSEY is a financier, campaigner, author and
your personality shine through.
mother of nine. She is an inspirational leader who achieves
results - in business, diversity, family life and encouraging others
We're on the cusp of a new world, one in which women will not
to succeed. In 2010 Helen launched the 30% Club to improve the
only be shaping, but also leading - STYLE AND SUBSTANCE will be
gender balance on UK corporate boards, championed by the
the blueprint for success within it.
chairmen of those boards. Nine years later women represent
over 30% FTSE350 directors, up from less than 10%. Helena has
been described by Fortune magazine as one of the world's 50
Greatest Leaders and was the Financial Times Person of the Year
in 2017. Her first book A Good Time to Be a Girl sold over thirty
five thousand copies.
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General non-fiction
One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir, this is the
HOW TO SURVIVE definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive your family holiday,
by Jack Whitehall, with a little bit of help from Michael and Hilary
FAMILY HOLIDAYS Whitehall.
No one family has more experience of travelling together than the
Whitehalls. Indeed they've been allowing us a window to their
Jack Whitehall with escapades for the past five years in the hit Netflix show 'Travels
with my Father' and in this hilarious book they have now decided
Michael and Hilary to pool their advice for fellow travellers. To lay out the pitfalls of
family holidays. The dos and don'ts, the highs and lows. In doing
Whitehall so they are sharing some of their best anecdotes. Their most
extreme experiences and their most valuable advice. It is part
memoir of family life, part travel guide, and full on, laugh-out-loud
October 2021 funny.
Sphere
Whatever your version of holiday preparation the truth is always
Travel/Family
this: if it is with one's own family, no amount of sunshine, wine or
288pp holiday spirit will stop your worst character traits coming to the
JACK WHITEHALL is an award-winning actor, comedian, presenter surface. You have just volunteered to spend a week in close
and writer. proximity with the people who know you best and who will never
ever let you forget a f***-up. No one survives unscathed. Things
MICHAEL WHITEHALL was a leading theatrical agent and producer are always going to end in tears, you can only hope they're of
whose clients included Nigel Havers, Daniel Day-Lewis, Edward Fox laughter.
and Colin Firth.
When not busy attending to the various needs of members of her
family, HILARY WHITEHALL occasionally manages to work as an
actress (Fierce Creatures, The Bill, Woof, Miranda and Bad
Education) and photographer.
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H i s t o ry
A timely prospect with the centenary of the discovery of
THE CLIMAX OF Tutankhamun’s tomb in 2022, Guy de la Bédoyère’s new book is a
history of a key period in ancient Egypt’s astonishing history summed
Cover EGYPT: HOW up in its sub-title How Ambition, Greed, and Despotism drove the Rise
and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty. The book tears away the gold and
coming AMBITION, GREED glamour to show how this new line of kings and queens, some of the
first great historical personalities, ruled Egypt ruthlessly for 250 years
soon AND DESPOTISM between 1550 BC and 1295 BC. Using their power to enrich and glorify
themselves and the elite, these absolute monarchs presided over a
DROVE THE RISE brilliantly creative culture that was also exploitative, brutal,
oppressive, and self-destructive. As well as the obscure Tutankhamun,
AND FALL OF they included some of Egypt’s most successful and enigmatic rulers,
such as Hatshepsut, the queen who made herself king, the warrior
TUTANKHAMUN’S pharaoh Thutmose III, and the religious heretic Akhenaten and his
queen Nefertiti.
DYNASTY
GUY DE LA BÉDOYÈRE has written numerous books on the Roman
world and other subjects over the last thirty years, most recently
GLADIUS: LIVING, FIGHTING AND DYING IN THE ROMAN ARMY (Little,
Guy de la Bédoyère Brown, 2020). He was part of Channel 4’s archaeology series Time
Team for fifteen years.
July 2022
Little, Brown
History Option publishers:
Chinese (simplified) (Ginkgo (Beijing) Book Co., Ltd)
320pp
Italian (Newton Compton)
Spanish (Ediciones de Pasado & Presente)
US (University of Chicago Press)
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World
War. How the war was won . . . and lost.
STRATEGY AND
THE SECOND In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi
Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United
States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the
WORLD WAR United States.
In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages with the
strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically,
Jeremy Black and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about
the choices made, revealing their continued political
resonances.
July 2021
Robinson Beginning with Appeasement and the Soviet-German pact as
History key strategic means, Black examines the consequences of the
fall of France for the strategies of all the powers. He shows how
320pp Allied strategy-making was more effective at the Anglo-
Rights Sold: American level than with the Soviet Union, not only for
Portuguese in Brazil (LVM Editora) ideological and political reasons, but also because the
Americans and British had a better grasp of the global
JEREMY BLACK is one of the UK's most respected and prolific dimension.
historians. He is Professor of History at Exeter University and a
renowned expert on the history of war. His recent books include He explores how German and Japanese strategies evolved as
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ITALY and A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPAIN. He the war went badly for the Axis powers, and discusses the
appears regularly on TV and radio, including BBC Radio 4's In extent to which seeking to mould the post-war world informed
Our Time. Allied strategic choices from 1943 onwards, and the role these
played in post-war politics, notably in the Cold War.
Rights in the A BRIEF HISTORY OF…. series have sold in China,
Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Russia and Turkey. Strategy was a crucial tool not only for conducting the war; it
remains the key to understanding it today. 10H i s t o ry
THE STONES OF BRITAIN is about how rocks make places. The
THE STONES OF connection between geology and landscape, between the stones
beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it.
BRITAIN
About the varied character of the British landscape, and the rich
variety of places thatresult.
The shattered granite landscape of Dartmoor is different from the
soft red sandstone hills of east Devon; the rolling chalk downs
Jon Cannon distinct from the gritty moors of Yorkshire. Each of these
landscapes has a different historical story to tell; that story is
rooted in the characteristics of the rocks beneath the surface.
September 2022
Constable The Stones of Britain interprets these stories. It explains the
Natural History nature of place on the island of Britain, revealing the landscape as
352pp the joint product of geology and man: a history rooted in stone.
JON CANNON wrote Cathedral: The Great English Cathedrals and
the World that Made Them and other books. He also presented
the BBC's How to Build a Cathedral. He lives with his family on the
chalk downs of Wiltshire, from which he extols about place,
sacredness and architecture.
In 1942 there was a domestic crisis in Britain. Public morale
1942: BRITAIN collapsed with a widespread feeling that Winston Churchill was
no longer the right man to lead the nation. In the course of the
AT THE BRINK crisis, motions of No-Confidence were debated in Parliament. A
credible rival for Prime Minister emerged. This panic followed a
series of major military fiascos. If its war effort folded, Britain
would have had to negotiate a truce with Hitler. Had Britain
Taylor Downing been forced out of the war by this in 1942, it would have been
almost impossible for the US to fight back in Europe. The survival
of fascism, the outcome of the titanic battles on the Eastern
January 2022 Front and the ultimate result of the war could all have been very
different.
Little, Brown
History 1942 tells the story of this precarious moment when the British
288pp people nearly lost it.
TAYLOR DOWNING was educated at Cambridge University and is
the author of The Cold War, Breakdown (about shell-shock in
WWI) , and Churchill's War Lab. His books are 'vivid and fast-
Rights sold: paced' (Financial Times).
Vietnamese (The People’s Public Security
Publishing House)
Option Publishers:
Portuguese in Portugal (2020 Editora)
Russian (Political Encyclopedia)
US (Perseus)
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‘Everything was made for a purpose; everything is necessary for
THROUGH THE the fulfilment of that purpose. Observe that noses have been made
for spectacles; therefore we have spectacles’ from Voltaire’s
LOOKING Candide.
GLASSES With the broad appeal of books by the likes of Mark Kurlansky,
Billy Bryson and Simon Garfield, Travis Elborough uses a single, life-
changing object to tell a much bigger story. Using personal
observation, memoir, reportage, science, social history and
Travis Elborough cultural criticism , the book moves chronologically through the
story of spectacles.
July 2021 The historical scope is wide, ranging from early theories about how
Little, Brown the eye worked and theological and philosophical arguments
about the limits of perception by Greek thinkers and Arab scholars,
History
through to the ingeniousness of Italian glassmakers in the
352pp Medieval and Renaissance periods. There are appearances by the
Rights sold
great and the good bespectacled men and women of yesteryear,
Korean (UU press)
running the gamut from the fictional Clark Kent in Superman to the
Acclaimed by the Guardian as ‘one of the UK’s finest pop culture authors Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, and Angela Carter, and
historians,’ TRAVIS ELBOROUGH has been a writer, author and including such actors and musicians such as Buddy Holly, Michael
broadcaster for twenty years. Caine, Dizzy Gillespie and John Lennon, and their lorgnettes,
monocles, pince-nez, horn-rims, tortoise-shell ‘Oxfords’ and Ray
Praise for THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASSES: Ban aviator shades. Through the Looking Glasses is about vision
‘Elegantly framed and multi-focal, this is a gloriously panoptical and the need for humanity to see clearly and where the impulse to
survey. As a history of restored sight it is instructive, and as a improve of our eyesight has led us.
narrative of facial furniture it is fascinating’ - Simon Garfield
‘There are four billion adults around the globe who wear glasses. It The society of the spectacle may finally be upon us . . . but how
will make you look at specs with fresh eyes’ New Statesman much of it do we really see?
‘...lively, engaging, admirably wide-ranging’ Times
LOVE AND DECEPTION is the extraordinary story of Eleanor, an
LOVE AND able, cultured American woman living in the espionage hot spot of
1950s Beirut and - despite herself - falling in love with the kindest,
DECEPTION: most sensitive of men, a Lebanon-based journalist with a
mysterious past. Unknown to her, the young, idealistic Kim Philby
PHILBY IN BEIRUT was
had signed up to help the Russians fight fascism in the 1930s and
to become the twentieth century's most notorious double
agent. But not only did he adore and marry her - just as the British
authorities were closing in on him - but their love survived the
James Hanning most shattering of calamities.
Drawing on some of those closest to the main players, LOVE AND
September 2021 DECEPTION sheds new light on the love of Philby's life and breaks
Corsair remarkable new ground in revealing the loyalty of his Cambridge
History contemporaries and the failure of the British authorities to convict
them.
432pp
Former deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday JAMES HANNING is co-biographer of David Cameron and secured the exclusive
collaboration of News of the World investigator Glenn Mulcaire for an expose of the phone hacking scandal. Including new evidence from
key figures, LOVE AND DECEPTION is the result of twenty years of research into one of the Cold War's most mysterious episodes.
Praise for LOVE AND DECEPTION:
‘A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating’ – William
Boyd
You may think the Philby saga has been mined to exhaustion but that is clearly not true. One of the most intriguing aspects is the final
period in Beirut where he was still working as an MI6 'stringer'. Displaying his formidable skills as an assiduous researcher, James
Hanning has continued digging and has discovered new gems that illuminate the tortured but living relationship between Kim and his
wife, Eleanor, and the mystifying intrigues that surround Philby's last days in Beirut. Definitely a recommended read - Stephen Dorril,
historian of MI6
In a masterly narrative, James Hanning has plotted through the intrigue to explain the murky and controversial climax of Britain's 12biggest
spy scandal - Tom BowerH i s t o ry
THREE EPIC BATTLES The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of
democracy, fought off the mighty Persian empire. Kershaw tells the
Cover THAT SAVED story of the three epic battles - Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
- that saved democracy, without which the history of Europe and
coming DEMOCRACY the West would have been radically different.
soon Praise for STEPHEN KERSHAW:
Stephen P Kershaw A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: Eminently sane, highly
informative, and reasonably priced. - BBC History magazine
April 2022 As his exhaustive survey shows, Atlantis has been adapted to
countless ideologies and agendas over time, serving the needs of
Robinson every sort of reader - 'harmless hippies or Heinrich Himmler' in Mr
History Kershaw's memorable phrase. - Wall Street Journal
384pp
Praise for the author: The experts interviewed . . . [for the TV
documentary series Barbarians Rising] are both entertaining and
illuminating. - Wall Street Journal
DR STEPHEN P. KERSHAW has been a Classics tutor for some thirty years, teaching at all levels from beginner to PhD, currently
operating out of the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, authoring and teaching undergraduate courses, and
tutoring on the Masters in Literature and Art. Steve has also created Oxford University's online courses on Greek Mythology, The Fall
of Rome and The Minoans and Mycenaeans. He lectures at the Victoria and Albert Museum and, as Professor of History of Art, runs
the European Studies Classical Tour for Rhodes College and the University of the South.
A significant new work on slavery in the Americas as an agent of
WHY SLAVERY IN global change, the culmination of the life’s work of respected
historian of slavery James Walvin. It draws on the latest research to
THE AMERICAS show the significance of the impact of slavery in the Americas on
the entire world, from South America to China and from
Scandinavia to Africa. Walvin also looks at the Americas as a whole
MATTERS: THE rather than focusing more narrowly on North America.
ORIGINS OF Walvin explores the transformation of the world as a result of the
global reach of the Atlantic slave system, from the Peruvian silver
GLOBAL POWER mined by slaves, which was so vital to the finances of imperial
China, to the significance of Swedish iron, vital for shackles and
firearms; also the development of regulated labour, bookkeeping
and numerous other innovations. Walvin aims to shift the debate
James Walvin about slavery from its more narrowly focused interest on
particular countries, to considering slavery as an agent of major
global change.
Rights sold: March 2022 JAMES WALVIN is the author of many books on slavery and
US (University of California modern social history. His book, Crossings, was published by
Press)
Robinson
Reaktion Books in 2013 and he is the author of HOW SUGAR
History CORRUPTED THE WORLD: FROM SLAVERY TO OBESITY (Robinson,
512pp 2017) and FREEDOM: THE OVERTHROW OF THE SLAVE EMPIRES
(Robinson, 2019). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature in 2006, and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services
to scholarship.
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Peter Doherty is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - maybe
A LIKELY LAD even the best ever rock 'n' roll story. Since his band The Libertines
rose to international fame, he has proved endlessly fascinating,
the subject of numerous books, documentaries, magazine
articles, front-page newspaper headlines and TV news reports.
Peter Doherty & This, for the first time, is his version of his story.
Simon Spence As an icon Doherty is on a par with the early Rolling Stones and
Sid Vicious as a bad boy and public enemy. To his hundreds of
thousands of devoted fans he is a cult hero, a modern-day rebel
May 2022 Rimbaud. He divides critics - for every award and accolade
Constable (Greatest Hero of Rock or No 1 on the Cool List) there is a
scathing review, an objection almost to his very being. Musically,
Autobiography there is no doubt he has defined the past twenty years of British
336pp rock 'n' roll with his sound, words, attitude, lifestyle, aesthetic and
early buccaneering use of the internet to communicate with fans
directly. It is also true that too often his talents as a songwriter
Cover not final and performer have been over-looked amid the whirlwind of
controversy and scandal that has tailed him since his first spell in
prison in 2003.
This memoir is a coming of age story like no other.
CHAISE When punk rock star Ian Dury disappeared to make films in the
LONGUE late eighties, he left his twelve year old son in the care of his
roadie in a damp run down flat in Chiswick. But this was no
ordinary rock and roll tour roadie; this was the Sulphate Strangler.
The Strangler having taken a lot of LSD in the 1960s was prone to
Baxter Dury depression, anger and hallucinations. He’d then gone on to gain
notoriety in the 1970s by working with Led Zeppelin – he
undoubtedly presented a complex personality for a boy of twelve
August 2021 to grasp. CHAISE LONGUE is the story of these formative years and
Corsair the extraordinary relationship that developed between the two, in
a bohemia and time that we can all but imagine now.
Memoirs
224pp Told in the uncompromising tone found in Dury’s lyrics and filled
with a brutal starkness that will draw comparisons to Viv
Albertine’s Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Boys, Boys, Boys, CHAISE
The soya latte poet laureate of London's Ladbroke Grove, BAXTER LONGUE will be one the most talked about publications of 2021.
DURY has spent the last fifteen years uniquely chronicling the inner
workings of his (and everyone's) human condition over six critically The Guardian said of Baxter Dury’s last album, Prince of Tears,
acclaimed albums. His latest, The Night Chancers, was released in ‘The songs are so good, the author’s parentage scarcely seems to
March 2020. matter.’ Dury said of the record himself, ‘The man singing and
speaking it all is unreliable; he can't see the world properly. Its
massively delusional, but because of that it's also emotionally
Praise for CHAISE LONGUE: true.' The period described in this book was the genesis of the
A must-read for pop culture fans. - Evening Standard Best talent we witness today.
Non-fiction 2021
This unflinching memoir by singer Baxter Dury, son of Ian, recalls his chaotic family life with the 'pot-soaked Fagin' and his bodyguard...[It] is
written with linguistic gusto. His father would be made up. - The Observer
'A bright, bruising account of growing up in the blast zone of a chaotic parent. Chaise Longue is wild, exhilarating and very funny.' - The
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WHEN MARILYN 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it
was me.’ Marilyn Monroe
MET THE QUEEN In July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon
with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Prince and the
Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. This is a richly detailed account of
Michelle Morgan Monroe's troubled time in England, culminating in her meeting
with the Queen.
The book focuses on Marilyn Monroe's four-month trip to
March 2022 England in 1956, when she made The Prince and the Showgirl
Robinson with Laurence Olivier. It covers every aspect of the trip, including
the making of the movie, as well as the time spent off-set: at
Biography
home in Englefield Green, Surrey, and her relationship with
288pp Arthur Miller.
MICHELLE MORGAN is the author or co-author of nine books
about Marilyn Monroe, including MARILYN MONROE: PRIVATE
AND UNDISCLOSED.
The inspiring memoir of presenter and disability campaigner,
Sophie Morgan
DRIVING
On the precipice of starting the life she had always dreamed of,
FORWARDS Sophie Morgan was the victim of a tragic accident at eighteen that
left her paralysed. Over the years, medical setbacks would level
the fragile life she had begun to build; each time challenging her
mental health and resilience. Yet each time she struggled through,
Sophie Morgan determined to channel her adversity into opportunity, to see her
challenges as a unique chance for creativity and fuel this into
becoming an agent for change.
March 2022
Sphere Part memoir, part coping strategy for how to cope with the
Memoir unforeseen, Starting Over looks at adversity, change and resilience
- the anger at the tumultuous change of fortunes, but that as
304pp
arbitrary and frightening as these changes may be, some things
will always remain, like the beauty of our landscape and the
strength of our community, and it is as much up to you what you
choose to let go, as it is what fate may take from you.
SOPHIE MORGAN is an award-winning disability advocate & social
entrepreneur who was paralysed when she was eighteen years
old. Determined to channel her adversity into opportunity, she
sees her challenges as a unique chance for creativity and has
become the ultimate agent for change.
Morgan is one of the main presenters for the Tokyo 2020
Paralympic Games.
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OH, WHATA Written by an upper class travel writer who was born in 1921, this
stranger-than-fiction memoir about love, sex, war, tragedy and
adventure traverses the whole of 20th century planet earth and
LOVELY features countless celebrities, politicians and royalty.
CENTURY For fear of growing up like his stiff-upper-lipped Uncle Dick, Roderic
Fenwick Owen (1921-2011) survived Eton, Oxford and the Second
World War to become a travel writer, experiencing the varied
wonders of the 20th century's people and places in that guise.
Roderic Fenwick Frequently finding himself party to crucial historical events (including
experiencing Nazi Germany in 1939 and the Pentagon during the
Owen Cold War Years), his life featured a stellar cast of characters from
Eisenhower and Jackson Pollock to Christopher Lee and Sean
Connery.
August 2021
Sphere RODERIC FENWICK-OWEN (1920-2011), a relation of a jockey who
Memoir won the Grand National, the founder of the National Trust, the
576pp High Sheriff of Lincolnshire and as many Dukes and Duchesses as
you like, was at one time or another a travel writer, a
Praise for OH, WHAT A LOVELY CENTURY: beachcomber, a husband to a Polynesian princess, a painter, a
'Outrageous fun . . . days after reaching page 560, I'm still feeling court poet and a Royal Air Force veteran. He was at all times a
energised by the infectious optimism of the man' - The Times romantic and never passed up on love, even if only for the night.
'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the He died shortly before his 90th birthday and left behind three
most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - Encyclopedia-sized volumes of memoirs, which have been abridged
William Boyd into the book A 20TH CENTURY SORT OF LIFE.
'A wonderful journey through 20th Century history. I thoroughly
enjoyed it' - Anne Glenconner
‘Stuffed to the gills with raucous anecdotes and mesmerising detail
... Fenwick Owen's memoirs are witty and touching but also an
important record of how society has changed' - Jessica Fellowes
16Health, Self-Help & Popular Psychology
UNITED A new illustrated book that captures the real life tales of people
suffering from the cruel disease of dementia, and from the loved
ones and professional carers who support them.
Tony Husband Told in Tony Husband's uniquely humorous but moving style, this is
a book for anyone touched by dementia, and covers:
and Gina Awad • The heart-wrenching decision to move a loved one to a care
home and the guilt and emotions that accompany this
• The tale of a person living with dementia and planning ahead
for their imminent future when they may lose the capacity to
May 2022 make decisions
Robinson • The realities of caring for a loved one with early onset dementia
Self-Help • The loneliness and isolation of caring and the importance of
peer support
128pp • Inspiring tales of carers in care home settings trying to make life
interesting and comfortable for those under their care
• The worry and guilt around long-distance caring
TONY HUSBAND is a British cartoonist whose cartoons contain much black humour. His cartoons have appeared in many newspapers,
magazines, books and websites, in several TV and theatrical productions, and are often found on humorous greeting cards, and he has a
regular cartoon strip in Private Eye entitled Yobs, which has run from the late 1980s. He co-wrote the Round the Bend children's television
series, which ran from 1989 to 1991. He was also involved with Hangar 17, which ran from 1992 to 1994. He and the poet Ian McMillan
tour the UK regularly with their show 'A Cartoon History of Here', an evening of live, improvised poetry and cartoons. He has won The
Cartoon Museum's Pont Award.
GINA AWAD was honoured in the Queen's birthday list in June 2018 with a British Empire Medal for her voluntary services to people with
Dementia in Devon. This accolade adds to her other 5 awards received locally, regionally and nationally over the past 4 years. Gina
founded and leads the Exeter Dementia Action Alliance (EDAA) which empowers and inspires organisations and businesses to raise
awareness and deliver dementia-friendly services. Gina qualified as a Person-centred Counsellor in 2003 and graduated with the Open
University in 2017 with a BSc in Health & Social Care. Gina hosts a quarterly radio show on Phonic 106.8 FM 'Living Better with Dementia'.
In the last 40 years or so, we have seen an astounding rise in the
LIVING WELL prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) in most western and
'developing' countries. National data suggests a six-fold increase
WITH TYPE 2 from around 1% of the population in 1980 to over 6% in 2020.
There are thought to be nearly 4 million people with the disease in
DIABETES the UK, and close on half a billion affected worldwide. In parts of
the USA and China over 10% of the population have DM2.
Traditionally thought of as a disease of mid-life and old age, both
DM2 and the metabolic markers of future disease are now
John Gedney increasingly being seen in young people, children and even infants.
What is happening?
and Pamela
The burden of this disease is huge at all levels - for health care
Myles-Hooton spend and for added risk of other medical problems. Its overall
impact on health is at least as great as that of Type 1 Diabetes - it's
certainly not the 'mild Diabetes' it was once called. In addition,
other than its physical impacts - more than a third of people with
September 2022 DM2 are said to experience psychological problems related
Robinson specifically to the condition.
Health
In spite of the tidal wave of disease and costs, the response from
224pp
authorities has been somewhat underwhelming, with non-specific
advice to lose weight (move more/eat less) being more or less the
DR JOHN GEDNEY qualified from the University of Nottingham in 1979
only public health guidance.
and from 1984 worked as a GP in Northumberland with a special
interest in Mental Health, Rheumatic Diseases and Diabetes.
We now however have a sense of being at something of a
crossroads in understanding the science behind DM2 with a more
PAMELA MYLES-HOOTON is an accredited cognitive behavioural
focused approach emerging. Research and practice are challenging
therapist, trainer and supervisor. She co-wrote The CBT Handbook,
the traditional way in which we approach and manage DM2 - and
which has been used by many people to overcome problems with
offer too the potential for prevention - at scale.
anxiety, depression and anger. 17Health, Self-Help & Popular Psychology
THE COLOUR-FIT 'The lightbulb moment came one evening as I was working at the
kitchen table. With my seven-year-old son climbing over my
Cover METHOD shoulders, I played around with a few ideas on a piece of paper.
Within moments my son pointed and said: "that one makes you
run", "that one makes you healthy", and "that one makes you
coming strong". If I'd cracked it with a seven-year-old, I might just have a
soon Dr Tom Little chance with footballers.'
From its humble beginnings at his kitchen table, Dr Tom Little's
Colour-Fit Method has rapidly become a revolutionising force in
June 2022 professional sport. It is used by many of the UK's best-loved
Piatkus football clubs, including Arsenal, Celtic, Chelsea, Manchester City,
Rangers and Manchester United, and by elite teams and
Health and fitness organisations across the globe ranging from Mercedes Racing to
256pp British Judo, and from Sri Lankan Cricket to Welsh Rugby Union.
DR TOM LITTLE is a performance and nutrition specialist with over Until now the Colour-Fit Method has only been available to those
twenty years' experience in professional sport. He has worked at in professional sport, a secret weapon for elite-level coaches and
football clubs at Premier League and EFL Championship levels, athletes. Now, Colour-Fit's founder Dr Tom Little lets you in on
including Manchester City, Nottingham Forest, Burnley and Sheffield the secret too. Whether you're an Olympic swimmer or a
Wednesday. He has a BSc and MSc in Sports Science and Nutrition, champion couch potato, the uncomplicated, intuitive and
and gained his PhD in the Physiology of Professional Football sustainable method outlined in this book will help you to look and
Training from Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a feel better, and lead a healthier and more active life.
registered sport and exercise nutritionist (SENr) by The British
Dietetic Association and an accredited strength and conditioning
coach (ASCS) by the UK Strength and Conditioning Association. His
peer-reviewed academic papers have been published on subjects
including physical conditioning, exercise intensity and stretching
protocols, and he regularly speaks at national and international
conferences. He also hosts the 'Colour-Fit Chat' podcast, covering all
aspects of nutrition and fitness.
A concise guide to overcoming agoraphobia.
HOW TO BEAT
This book is the perfect resource for helping you beat
AGORAPHOBIA agoraphobia, either by yourself or in conjunction with the support
of a family member or a healthcare professional. It is written in a
friendly, engaging and jargon-free style and encourages
interactive reading through tables, illustrations and worksheets. It
Pamela Myles- also has some handy top tips on how to deal with any setbacks
along the way. Real-life case studies illustrate the use of each
Hooton intervention and demonstrate how you can gradually increase
your tolerance for the situations that you fear and avoid. This
book is designed to help you understand your agoraphobia and
September 2021 learn techniques so that you can unlock the door to reclaiming
Robinson your freedom.
Psychology
224pp This series of self-help books follows a 'low intensity cognitive
behavioural therapy' (LICBT) approach which is frequently the
PAMELA MYLES-HOOTON is Deputy Director of the Charlie Waller first choice treatment for depression and some anxiety disorders
Institute, University of Reading. She develops and convenes a like agoraphobia because of its strong evidence base. The series is
range of training programmes, some of which form part of the written by authors with considerable experience in the field of
Government-funded Improving Access to Psychological Therapies LICBT self-help research, training and clinical practice.
project including the training of High Intensity Therapists and
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, and the national Children
and Young People's Mental Health trainings, including: Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy and Parent Training routes; wellbeing
practitioners, education mental health practitioners, supervision
and leadership. She is the recipient of the University of Reading
Teaching and Learning Team Award. She also sits on the Scientific
Committee for the British Association for Behavioural and
Cognitive Psychotherapies.
18Health, Self-Help & Popular Psychology
Invite more happiness, wellbeing and success into your life, one
RISE AND SHINE morning at a time.
The way you start your morning matters - it sets the tone for the
rest of your day, shaping your interactions, mood and productivity.
Kate Oliver & Toby
Oliver In Rise and Shine, psychologist Kate and therapist Toby share their
innovative approach to embracing mornings: the S.H.I.N.E.
method. A unique and flexible way to build positive, long-term
habits that will set you up for a happy and successful day. S.H.I.N.E.
December 2021 represents the five elements we all need in our mornings:
Piatkus
Silence - embrace stillness, peace and reflection
Self-Help
Happiness - discover techniques to help you begin the day with a
256pp smile
KATE OLIVER has been working as a Chartered Psychologist and Intention - find practices that empower you to shape your day
Executive Coach for nearly 30 years. She runs her own consulting Nourishment - feed your mind, body and soul
business, KO Consulting Ltd (www.koconsulting.co) and has worked Exercise - get your body moving, creating energy for the day ahead
with thousands of leaders, in many leading UK and global
organisations, helping them develop both themselves and their Based on the latest scientific research, as well as ancient traditions
teams. and insights gathered from decades of personal and professional
experience, the S.H.I.N.E. method outlines thirty different practices
TOBY OLIVER is a Dru Yoga, Laughter Yoga and Traditional Yoga that will allow you to curate a routine that blends seamlessly with
Meditation teacher, registered Therapist (psychotherapy, CBT, NLP, your lifestyle. Because by changing your mornings, you can change
and hypnotherapy) and Heal Your Life® Workshop trainer your life.
(www.tobyyoga.com & www.eastviewtherapy.com). He works with
groups in hospitals, hospices, charities and corporate organisations
as well as supporting individual clients. He specialises in helping
adults and young people deal better with anxiety, serious or life-
limiting illness, and to cope with grief or loss.
Every life-changing experience, be it the loss of a function, a job or a
IT SHOULDN’T friendship, or the death of a loved one, can be excruciating. Illness
can forever alter our life and our abilities. And what makes it even
BE THIS WAY more challenging is that many other people might fail to understand
how challenging our adjustment to "normalcy" might be. Because
there is no "normal" in these experiences. How can there be?
Janina Scarlet When people hear the word acceptance, they might assume that it
means being OK with what happened in the past or with how things
currently are. In fact, there is a difference between acceptance and
October 2021 "feeling good" about what happened - acceptance means allowing
yourself to feel whatever emotions naturally come up in response
Robinson to what you are going through. It means acknowledging the reality
Self-Help of the pain, even though in an ideal world, it shouldn't be that way.
Option publishers:
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This therapeutic and comforting self-help guide will help you:
US (New Harbinger) · Give yourself the permission to grieve or process events in the way
Romanian (Editura Trei) that makes sense to you
Russian (Eksmo)
· To fully experience and accept your feelings of anger, grief,
Italian (Giovanni Fioriti Editorie )
frustration or anxiety
JANINA SCARLET is a Also available: · To own your truth, even if it makes others uncomfortable
licensed clinical
psychologist in San Diego,
This essential book will teach you to understand and be able to
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accept the difficult moments and circumstances in your life and
creator of ‘superhero
make room for how you feel about them. And with this kind of an
therapy’, which embraces
acceptance, there can be healing.
examples from geek
culture and encourages
you to find your inner
superhero.
19Health, Self-Help & Popular Psychology
An accessible, comforting and practical book for anyone
HOW TO TELL experiencing anxiety, from the author of The Recovery Letters and
HOW TO TELL DEPRESSION TO PISS OFF.
ANXIETY TO SOD
Despite more and more people opening up about their mental
OFF health, anxiety is still taboo. We're not supposed to be anxious;
we're supposed to be resilient and able to 'get on with it'. We are
expected to excel while juggling a hectic, pressurised schedule at
home and at work, despite the lines between the two being more
James Withey blurred than ever.
This book dispels that taboo. It is for anyone who has experience
January 2022 general anxiety disorder, trauma-related anxiety, clinical anxiety
and those with 'low-level' anxieties.
Robinson
Self-Help At once empathetic and entertaining, How to Tell Anxiety to Sod
176pp Off offers 40 ways to get to a better place with anxiety. They are
born out of the author's personal experience of managing his own
Option publishers: anxiety and his many years of working as a counselor helping
Chinese (simplified) (Beijing Imaginist Time Culture Co., Ltd) people with their mental health.
Romanian (Pagina De Psihologie SRL)
JAMES WITHEY is the founder of The Recovery Letters project which publishes online letters from people recovering from depression.
He is the co-editor of the bestselling book The Recovery Letters: Addressed to People Experiencing Depression.
Withey trained as a person-centred counsellor and worked in addiction, homelessness and mental health services for fifteen years. He
lives with depression and writes and speaks about mental health.
20Parenting
THE STRONG LIKE Tap into your inner power with an exercise and wellness plan tailored
for mothers on the go, by prenatal and postnatal fitness expert,
Shakira Akabusi.
MUM METHOD
THE STRONG LIKE MUM METHOD is designed to help pregnant
women and mothers build a positive relationship with exercise and
with their bodies, all while fitting into a busy lifestyle.
Shakira Akabusi
As a mother of four, Shakira Akabusi knows how difficult it can be
find time to look after yourself, much less achieve the perfect state
April 2022 of holistic wellbeing you're bombarded with almost everywhere you
turn.
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Women’s health THE STRONG LIKE MUM METHOD will disrupt outdated narratives
256pp surrounding pregnant women and new mums, and redefine prenatal
and postnatal fitness. In this empowering, accessible book, Shakira
will accompany you on your pregnancy journey through the entire
first year of parenthood, helping you get to know your body, nourish
your inner strength and find a place of calm, contentment and
wellbeing. In relatable language, Akabusi will give you the tools to
make sustainable changes to your mindset and lifestyle, in order to
enjoy a positive postnatal journey.
As Shakira says, 'My method will show you how to make positive
changes, and how to maintain them too. It has been created for all
mothers. The working mum, the new mum, the mums-to-be and the
mums of four (or more!).'
SINGLE BUT NOT
SINGLE BUT NOT ALONE explores what it means to be a single
mother. Scorned as victims, outcasts and sinners, the very existence
of lone mothers has long been a 'problem' that skewers the heart of
Cover ALONE prevailing systems of morality, oppression and power. This book
combines personal essay with interviews and historical research to
coming reveal the shrouded history and present-day struggles of women who
raise their children outside marriage, on the fringes of society, and in
soon Ruby Russell communities that challenge the very definition of family. It looks to
traditions of female solidarity around the world, and to the few
explicitly political movements of single mothers in Western history-
most significantly the Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers that arose in
March 2023 the US in the early 1970s.
Dialogue
There has been a wave of wonderfully radical examinations of
Parenting motherhood in recent years. But no one has deeply examined the
304pp specific questions and communal histories of single motherhood. Like
queer relationships, single motherhood has always been an anathema
to patriarchy. Now, a long history of the mother as a mere channel
through which a man's progeny is birthed and nurtured into an heir is
waning. We no longer need to relinquish our independence or sexual
RUBY RUSSELL is a journalist, writer, editor, and single mum from selves to a man to legitimise our children. Yet for all the feminist
London. Russell started out publishing books of photojournalism with arguments made against marriage half a century ago and more,
award-winning publisher Trolley. Frustrated with the mediation of women who choose to be mothers still aren't offered much else.
stories of injustice through the reporter's lens, she then worked on
participatory projects that helped marginalised groups-from British Single mothers have always been a thorn in society's side, revealing
teenage single mothers and adults with mental health challenges, to its structural and ideological shortcomings. The welfare state's
young women born and raised in refugee camps in North Africa-to tell earliest incarnation was public assistance for lone mothers, breaking
their own stories and advocate for visibility. She has written for the the ground for others to receive social support. Unpacking the
Telegraph, Teller, the Guardian, and now works as a part-time hardships single mothers face today, Russell argue that the
environment editor at German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. transformation that society must undergo to accommodate our ways
of life are essential to make homes and workplaces fit for all women,
and to create a more just and sustainable society. 21Parenting
An engaging, fun and warm guide for parents of 0-5 years olds that
THERE’S NO will completely redefine how we see and raise our children. This
unique, ground-breaking book will explain why - for our under-fives -
SUCH THING AS there is no such thing as 'naughty’
'NAUGHTY' Kate Silverton presents a groundbreaking – and charming – new way
to understand child brain development, based on the animal
kingdom (with a lizard, baboon and wise owl representing the
different parts of the brain), that will completely change the way you
Kate Silverton see and raise your children.
In twenty five years as a journalist for the BBC, KATE SILVERTON has
April 2021 become a much loved fixture of British television as a news
Piatkus broadcaster and journalist, currently presenting the One, Six and Ten
Parenting o'clock national news bulletins as well as on BBC Radio 4.
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For the past decade Kate has worked closely with leading children's
mental health charities the Anna Freud National Centre for Children
and Families, The Maudsley Foundation Trust and Place2Be. It is with
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the charity Place2Be that she is training to become a children's
Chinese (simplified) (Jieli Publishing House)
counsellor and, in due course, will go on to qualify as a full child and
Croatian (Egmont) adult psychotherapist.
German (Goldmann)
Greek (Dioptra) Praise for THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ‘NAUGHTY’:
Polish (Otwarte)
Russian (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber) ‘As a parenting support book, it is in a class of its own . . . perhaps
Slovak (Slovensky Tatran) the most helpful book for parents of children of any age’ Prof Peter
Spanish (Obelisco) Fonagy, Senior National Clinical Advisor on children and Young
Turkish (Pegasus) People’s Mental Health for NHS England and CEO Anna Freud National
Centre for Children & Families
HOW TO COPE Parenting and caring for a child who is struggling to cope can be
painful and stressful. When you know your child is struggling and is
unhappy, it is hard to enjoy life yourself. Feelings of blame, guilt,
WHEN YOUR sorrow, despair, fear and frustration may be swirling around
alongside a desperate desire to cure their pain.
CHILD CAN’T
This is a very common problem, although we can feel very alone
when this is happening to us. When someone we love is unable to
cope, we may become unhappy too. When it is our child - the person
Roz Shafran, Ursula we feel responsible for and inextricably linked to - these feelings can
be agonising. It is very hard to take any pleasure in our own lives,
Saunders, Alice when our children are clearly unhappy in theirs. In fact, it can be very
Welham difficult to even have a life of our own.
We don't want bad things happening to our children. From the time
we take our babies to have their first injections or cradle them
February 2022 through the night as they scream through colic, we realise that we
Robinson would do anything rather than have them unhappy and in pain. But
we can't. And understanding what we can and cannot do is a key part
Parenting of the purpose of this book.
288pp
Coping, in the purest sense, may be about learning acceptance -
facing your distress, worry, anxiety, sadness or loss of control, and
seeing that you can tolerate these things and pick yourself up and
carry on. This book is packed with stories from real parents, and will
show you how you can manage to find comfort from knowing you
are not alone, find help from resources and techniques that really
work, and find hope that things can and do change, often for the
better.
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