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Gender delusions, happiness equations, a plane crash and a slaughter on a snowy morn...
Icon, Wizard and Corinthian Books: new titles for Autumn 2010
www.iconbooks.co.ukwww.twitter.com/iconbookswww.facebook.com/iconbooks
Turning heads – and making them think
Icon doesn’t really have a motto but this comes somewhere close. Whether it’s cutting-edge popular science, compelling true crime or Love, Sex, Death and Words, our luxury literary compendium published in October, we aim for each of our books to grab the reader’s attention – and hold it.
This season’s list is characteristically diverse. We lead with Plane Crash, a Channel 4 tie-in to what promises to be the television event of the year. Colin Evans’ Slaughter on a Snowy Morn tells the gripping story of the American farmhand wrongly convicted of murder, saved from the electric chair at the very last moment in 1916 by the new science of forensics.
Cordelia Fine – whose A Mind of Its Own Icon published to huge acclaim in 2006 – returns with a vehement attack on the sexist science of gender differences. Corinthian, our sports imprint, offers Luca Caioli’s biography of Arsenal talisman Cesc Fabregas, and a new history of the Ryder Cup, golf’s biennial clash of the titans which is played out this October in Wales.
Book publishing is a collaborative process and we greatly value your thoughts on our books and how we present them. Keep in touch via Facebook and Twitter or drop us a line at [email protected]
Icon, Wizard and Corinthian Books
New Titles and Paperbacks July – November 2010
Contents:
New Titles PG 04 - 13
Paperbacks PG 14 - 17
Introducing series - new titles and backlist PG 18 - 21
Fighting Fantasy - new titles and backlist PG 22 - 23
Backlist Highlights PG 24 - 25
Contact details PG 26
www.iconbooks.co.ukwww.twitter.com/iconbookswww.facebook.com/iconbooks
PG 02 PG 03
Turning heads – and making them think
Icon doesn’t really have a motto but this comes somewhere close. Whether it’s cutting-edge popular science, compelling true crime or Love, Sex, Death and Words, our luxury literary compendium published in October, we aim for each of our books to grab the reader’s attention – and hold it.
This season’s list is characteristically diverse. We lead with Plane Crash, a Channel 4 tie-in to what promises to be the television event of the year. Colin Evans’ Slaughter on a Snowy Morn tells the gripping story of the American farmhand wrongly convicted of murder, saved from the electric chair at the very last moment in 1916 by the new science of forensics.
Cordelia Fine – whose A Mind of Its Own Icon published to huge acclaim in 2006 – returns with a vehement attack on the sexist science of gender differences. Corinthian, our sports imprint, offers Luca Caioli’s biography of Arsenal talisman Cesc Fabregas, and a new history of the Ryder Cup, golf’s biennial clash of the titans which is played out this October in Wales.
Book publishing is a collaborative process and we greatly value your thoughts on our books and how we present them. Keep in touch via Facebook and Twitter or drop us a line at [email protected]
Icon, Wizard and Corinthian Books
New Titles and Paperbacks July – November 2010
Contents:
New Titles PG 04 - 13
Paperbacks PG 14 - 17
Introducing series - new titles and backlist PG 18 - 21
Fighting Fantasy - new titles and backlist PG 22 - 23
Backlist Highlights PG 24 - 25
Contact details PG 26
www.iconbooks.co.ukwww.twitter.com/iconbookswww.facebook.com/iconbooks
PG 02 PG 03
The official book tie-in to the television event of the year, a Channel 4 two-hour special.
Channel 4’s Plane Crash takes a large commercial airliner, fills it with cameras, sensors and crash test dummies – and crashes it into the ground at a couple of hundred miles per hour.
Devised, run, and supervised by some of the world’s leading aviation experts, Plane Crash will be one of the most useful experiments ever in the history of aviation – and breathtaking TV.
Going into much more detail than is possible in the programme, this official tie-in book will feature hundreds of photographs, the ‘making of’ story of the technical and journalistic efforts to bring the project to life, and untold stories from pilots and aircrew who have survived crashes. It will also provide many new answers to the question: how can we make air crashes more survivable?
Plane Crash is an unmissable, highly visual behind-the-scenes look at 2010’s most dramatic TV event.
Amanda Deehan is a journalist, writer, and radio and television producer.
How an innocent 37-year-old farmhand with the mind of an infant came within minutes of being executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York in 1916 is one of the most fascinating yet little-known stories in criminal history.
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn is the first full account of this landmark case, told at thrilling pace by forensic science historian Colin Evans.
The colourful cast list includes New York state governor Charles Whitman, angling for the White House, his nemesis, Sing Sing warden Thomas Mott Osborne, a passionate opponent of the death penalty, and the book’s unsung hero, the obsessively secretive, quietly spoken lawyer Charles E. Waite.
This is a nail-biting account of wrongful conviction, redemption in an age of bare-knuckle politics, cynical courtroom manoeuvring – and American forensic science’s baptism of fire.
Colin Evans is the author of several books specialising in forensics. These include The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World’s Most Baffling Crimes, and Father of Forensics (Icon, 2008)
01. 01.03. 03.
Plane Crash
Channel 4 / Amanda Deehan
HBK HBKPBKScience / AviationNew Title
July
ISBN: 9781848311886 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: July
UK: £16.99 Canada: n/a Format: 246 x 189mm E xtent / Illustrations: 224 pages / Full colour throughout Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. rest of European Union and Canada US rights: Dragonfly Productions Translation rights: Dragonfly Productions
St Andrews The Home of Golf
Henry Lord & Oliver Gregory Foreword: Seve BallesterosPhotography: Kevin Murray
St Andrews, once Scotland’s greatest city, is known internationally today as the spiritual home of golf, a place that evokes images of windswept seaside links and legendary golfing champions.
This luxurious full-colour visual history is packed with hugely-acclaimed golf photographer Kevin Murray’s spectacular shots and, as the Open Championship returns in 2010, marks the 150th anniversary of golf’s oldest and most prestigious tournament.
It also features a Foreword by one of golf’s all-time great players Seve Ballesteros.
Golf lovers everywhere will feast on the book’s lavish photographic journey through the medieval city’s cobbled streets, through the doors of many prestigious golf clubs residing within its greystone walls, and around each one of St Andrews’ several great fairways – from the famous Old Course to the stunning new Castle Course.
Henry Lord is the author of the highly acclaimed golf titles Creating Classics (Icon, 2008) and Masters of Design (Icon, 2009).
Oliver Gregory is a graduate of St Andrews University and attended the prestigious Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, as a Bobby Jones Scholar.
ISBN: 9781906850142 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: July
UK: £25.00 Canada: $45.00 US: $35.00 Format: 232 x 285 mm E xtent / Illustrations: 224 pages / Full colour throughout Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation rights: Icon Books / The Marsh Agency
SportNew Title
New Titles
02.
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn The Death Penalty Case that Revolutionised Forensic Science
Colin Evans
ISBN: 9781848311657 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: July
UK: £12.99 Canada: n/a Format: Demy E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages / 16 page b/w photo section Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex.Canada US rights: The Sayle Literary Agency Translation rights: The Sayle Literary Agency
True CrimePaperback Original
02.
PG 04 PG 05
The official book tie-in to the television event of the year, a Channel 4 two-hour special.
Channel 4’s Plane Crash takes a large commercial airliner, fills it with cameras, sensors and crash test dummies – and crashes it into the ground at a couple of hundred miles per hour.
Devised, run, and supervised by some of the world’s leading aviation experts, Plane Crash will be one of the most useful experiments ever in the history of aviation – and breathtaking TV.
Going into much more detail than is possible in the programme, this official tie-in book will feature hundreds of photographs, the ‘making of’ story of the technical and journalistic efforts to bring the project to life, and untold stories from pilots and aircrew who have survived crashes. It will also provide many new answers to the question: how can we make air crashes more survivable?
Plane Crash is an unmissable, highly visual behind-the-scenes look at 2010’s most dramatic TV event.
Amanda Deehan is a journalist, writer, and radio and television producer.
How an innocent 37-year-old farmhand with the mind of an infant came within minutes of being executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York in 1916 is one of the most fascinating yet little-known stories in criminal history.
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn is the first full account of this landmark case, told at thrilling pace by forensic science historian Colin Evans.
The colourful cast list includes New York state governor Charles Whitman, angling for the White House, his nemesis, Sing Sing warden Thomas Mott Osborne, a passionate opponent of the death penalty, and the book’s unsung hero, the obsessively secretive, quietly spoken lawyer Charles E. Waite.
This is a nail-biting account of wrongful conviction, redemption in an age of bare-knuckle politics, cynical courtroom manoeuvring – and American forensic science’s baptism of fire.
Colin Evans is the author of several books specialising in forensics. These include The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World’s Most Baffling Crimes, and Father of Forensics (Icon, 2008)
01. 01.03. 03.
Plane Crash
Channel 4 / Amanda Deehan
HBK HBKPBKScience / AviationNew Title
July
ISBN: 9781848311886 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: July
UK: £16.99 Canada: n/a Format: 246 x 189mm E xtent / Illustrations: 224 pages / Full colour throughout Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. rest of European Union and Canada US rights: Dragonfly Productions Translation rights: Dragonfly Productions
St Andrews The Home of Golf
Henry Lord & Oliver Gregory Foreword: Seve BallesterosPhotography: Kevin Murray
St Andrews, once Scotland’s greatest city, is known internationally today as the spiritual home of golf, a place that evokes images of windswept seaside links and legendary golfing champions.
This luxurious full-colour visual history is packed with hugely-acclaimed golf photographer Kevin Murray’s spectacular shots and, as the Open Championship returns in 2010, marks the 150th anniversary of golf’s oldest and most prestigious tournament.
It also features a Foreword by one of golf’s all-time great players Seve Ballesteros.
Golf lovers everywhere will feast on the book’s lavish photographic journey through the medieval city’s cobbled streets, through the doors of many prestigious golf clubs residing within its greystone walls, and around each one of St Andrews’ several great fairways – from the famous Old Course to the stunning new Castle Course.
Henry Lord is the author of the highly acclaimed golf titles Creating Classics (Icon, 2008) and Masters of Design (Icon, 2009).
Oliver Gregory is a graduate of St Andrews University and attended the prestigious Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, as a Bobby Jones Scholar.
ISBN: 9781906850142 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: July
UK: £25.00 Canada: $45.00 US: $35.00 Format: 232 x 285 mm E xtent / Illustrations: 224 pages / Full colour throughout Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation rights: Icon Books / The Marsh Agency
SportNew Title
New Titles
02.
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn The Death Penalty Case that Revolutionised Forensic Science
Colin Evans
ISBN: 9781848311657 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: July
UK: £12.99 Canada: n/a Format: Demy E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages / 16 page b/w photo section Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex.Canada US rights: The Sayle Literary Agency Translation rights: The Sayle Literary Agency
True CrimePaperback Original
02.
PG 04 PG 05
The surprising economics of our most valuable asset – happiness – from an author referenced by Freakanomics author Steven Levitt and ‘undercover economist’ Tim Harford.
Everybody wants to be happy. But should I get married? Will I really be elated after having children? How can we decide not only which choice is better, but how much better? The Happiness Equation brings to a general readership for the first time the new science of the economics of happiness.
Behavioural economist and happiness expert Nick Powdthavee explains why happiness from a lottery win takes two years to arrive, why time heals a divorce – but not unemployment – and how George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon can teach us to live happier lives.
‘An important, readable, incisive, and often marvellously funny book. The author is an international expert in the field and his deep knowledge shines through in the prose.’ Andrew J. Oswald, University of Warwick
Nick Powdthavee is an economist at the University of York. Discussions of his work have appeared in over 50 major international newspapers in the past five years, including the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as on TV including Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff.
The story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the arts.
Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains, Pygthagoras had much the same idea – but 2,500 years earlier.
Though known by many only for his famous Theorem, in fact the pillars of our scientific tradition – belief that the universe is rational, that there is unity to all things, and that numbers and mathematics are a powerful guide to truth about nature and the cosmos – hark back to the convictions of this legendary scholar.
Kitty Ferguson brilliantly evokes Pythagoras’ ancient world, shows how ideas spread in antiquity, and chronicles the incredible influence he and his followers have had on so many extraordinary people in the history of Western thought and science.
Kitty Ferguson was born in San Antonio, Texas. She now divides her time between New Jersey and Cambridge. An experienced science writer, her previous books include Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything.
01. 01.02. 02.03. 03.
HBK HBK HBK
August
ISBN: 9781848311664 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £14.99 Canada: $30.00 Format: Demy E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages Territory: UK & Commonwealth US rights: P.S. Literary Agency, Canada Translation rights: P.S. Literary Agency, Canada
Pygthagoras His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe
Kitty Ferguson
The Happiness EquationThe Radical Truth Behind Happiness, Wealth and How We Make Decisions
Nick Powdthavee
ISBN: 9781848311923 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £20.00 Canada: - Format: Royal E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Walker and Company Translation rights: Walker and Company
ISBN: 9781848311626 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £12.99 Canada: - Format: 238 x 187mm E xtent / Illustrations: 160 pages / Full colour throughout Territory: UK & Ireland only US rights: Ivy Press Translation rights: Ivy Press
EconomicsNew Title
ScienceNew Title
30-Second PhilosophiesThe 50 most thought-provoking philosophical ideas, each explained in half a minute
Barry Loewer (ed), Stephen Law, Julian Baggini et al
A full-colour illustrated tour through philosophy’s most famous – and most mind-bending – ideas
I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, Dialectical Materialism? The Socratic Method and Deconstruction? Even if you’ve heard of philosophy’s biggest ideas, do you know enough about them to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge?
30-Second Philosophies takes a revolutionary approach to getting a grip on the 50 most significant schools of philosophy. The book challenges leading thinkers to quit fretting about the meaning of meaning for a while and explain the most complex philosophical ideas – using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a metaphorical image.
Here, in one unique volume, you have the chance to pick the potted brains of our leading philosophers and understand complex concepts such as Kant’s Categorical Imperative without ending up in a darkened room with an ice pack on your head.
Contributors include Stephen Law, author of The Philosophy Files and Julian Baggini, author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten.
Also available: 30-Second Theories
PhilosophyNew Title
New Titles
PG 06 PG 07
The surprising economics of our most valuable asset – happiness – from an author referenced by Freakanomics author Steven Levitt and ‘undercover economist’ Tim Harford.
Everybody wants to be happy. But should I get married? Will I really be elated after having children? How can we decide not only which choice is better, but how much better? The Happiness Equation brings to a general readership for the first time the new science of the economics of happiness.
Behavioural economist and happiness expert Nick Powdthavee explains why happiness from a lottery win takes two years to arrive, why time heals a divorce – but not unemployment – and how George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon can teach us to live happier lives.
‘An important, readable, incisive, and often marvellously funny book. The author is an international expert in the field and his deep knowledge shines through in the prose.’ Andrew J. Oswald, University of Warwick
Nick Powdthavee is an economist at the University of York. Discussions of his work have appeared in over 50 major international newspapers in the past five years, including the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as on TV including Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff.
The story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the arts.
Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains, Pygthagoras had much the same idea – but 2,500 years earlier.
Though known by many only for his famous Theorem, in fact the pillars of our scientific tradition – belief that the universe is rational, that there is unity to all things, and that numbers and mathematics are a powerful guide to truth about nature and the cosmos – hark back to the convictions of this legendary scholar.
Kitty Ferguson brilliantly evokes Pythagoras’ ancient world, shows how ideas spread in antiquity, and chronicles the incredible influence he and his followers have had on so many extraordinary people in the history of Western thought and science.
Kitty Ferguson was born in San Antonio, Texas. She now divides her time between New Jersey and Cambridge. An experienced science writer, her previous books include Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything.
01. 01.02. 02.03. 03.
HBK HBK HBK
August
ISBN: 9781848311664 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £14.99 Canada: $30.00 Format: Demy E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages Territory: UK & Commonwealth US rights: P.S. Literary Agency, Canada Translation rights: P.S. Literary Agency, Canada
Pygthagoras His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe
Kitty Ferguson
The Happiness EquationThe Radical Truth Behind Happiness, Wealth and How We Make Decisions
Nick Powdthavee
ISBN: 9781848311923 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £20.00 Canada: - Format: Royal E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Walker and Company Translation rights: Walker and Company
ISBN: 9781848311626 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £12.99 Canada: - Format: 238 x 187mm E xtent / Illustrations: 160 pages / Full colour throughout Territory: UK & Ireland only US rights: Ivy Press Translation rights: Ivy Press
EconomicsNew Title
ScienceNew Title
30-Second PhilosophiesThe 50 most thought-provoking philosophical ideas, each explained in half a minute
Barry Loewer (ed), Stephen Law, Julian Baggini et al
A full-colour illustrated tour through philosophy’s most famous – and most mind-bending – ideas
I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, Dialectical Materialism? The Socratic Method and Deconstruction? Even if you’ve heard of philosophy’s biggest ideas, do you know enough about them to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge?
30-Second Philosophies takes a revolutionary approach to getting a grip on the 50 most significant schools of philosophy. The book challenges leading thinkers to quit fretting about the meaning of meaning for a while and explain the most complex philosophical ideas – using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a metaphorical image.
Here, in one unique volume, you have the chance to pick the potted brains of our leading philosophers and understand complex concepts such as Kant’s Categorical Imperative without ending up in a darkened room with an ice pack on your head.
Contributors include Stephen Law, author of The Philosophy Files and Julian Baggini, author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten.
Also available: 30-Second Theories
PhilosophyNew Title
New Titles
PG 06 PG 07
A vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes.
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles increasingly defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it’s our brains.
Drawing on the latest research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, Delusions of Gender rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, help perpetuate the status quo.
Cordelia Fine reveals the mind’s remarkable plasticity, shows the substantial influence of culture on identity, and, ultimately, exposes just how much of what we consider ‘hardwired’ is actually malleable. This startling, original and witty book shows the surprising extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made – and not born.
Cordelia Fine, the author of A Mind of Its Own (Icon, 2006), is a Research Associate at the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
‘Fine sets out to demonstrate that the human brain is vainglorious and stubborn. She succeeds brilliantly.’ Mail on Sunday on A Mind of its Own.
A new history of the golfing calendar’s biggest event, by Sky Sports commentator and former star player Bruce Critchley. Includes a Foreword by Colin Montgomerie, Europe’s captain for this year’s match in Wales.
Covering the spirited early years of the Ryder Cup in the 1920s – when the British Isles versus the USA was a regularly one-sided affair – the inclusion of Europe in 1979, and the gladiatorial clashes since, this is an authoritative and up-to-date chronicle of this fascinating tournament. Critchley recounts the charismatic captaincy of Tony Jacklin, the cavalier brilliance of Seve Ballesteros, and, against all odds, triumph for Europe on American soil, first achieved in 1987 at Muirfield Village, Ohio.
With approximately one billion people watching 2010’s Ryder Cup, the popularity of the biennial contest has never been greater, and this new history will be the perfect 19th-hole companion.
Bruce Critchley played for Great Britain and Ireland against the USA in the Walker Cup and has commentated on golf tournaments for the last 25 years, on the BBC and as the leading golf commentator on Sky, for whom he will cover the 2010 Cup.
01. 01.02. 02.
HBK PBK
September
ISBN: 9781848311633 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: September
UK: £14.99 Canada: n/a Format: Demy E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Norton Translation rights: Norton
The Ryder CupA History
Bruce CritchleyForeword: Colin Montgomerie
Delusions of GenderThe Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Cordelia Fine
ISBN: 9781906850166 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: September
UK: £9.99 Canada: $20.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 224 pages with a 16-page colour photo section Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ScienceNew Title
SportNew Title
New Titles
PG 08 PG 09
A vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes.
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles increasingly defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it’s our brains.
Drawing on the latest research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, Delusions of Gender rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, help perpetuate the status quo.
Cordelia Fine reveals the mind’s remarkable plasticity, shows the substantial influence of culture on identity, and, ultimately, exposes just how much of what we consider ‘hardwired’ is actually malleable. This startling, original and witty book shows the surprising extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made – and not born.
Cordelia Fine, the author of A Mind of Its Own (Icon, 2006), is a Research Associate at the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
‘Fine sets out to demonstrate that the human brain is vainglorious and stubborn. She succeeds brilliantly.’ Mail on Sunday on A Mind of its Own.
A new history of the golfing calendar’s biggest event, by Sky Sports commentator and former star player Bruce Critchley. Includes a Foreword by Colin Montgomerie, Europe’s captain for this year’s match in Wales.
Covering the spirited early years of the Ryder Cup in the 1920s – when the British Isles versus the USA was a regularly one-sided affair – the inclusion of Europe in 1979, and the gladiatorial clashes since, this is an authoritative and up-to-date chronicle of this fascinating tournament. Critchley recounts the charismatic captaincy of Tony Jacklin, the cavalier brilliance of Seve Ballesteros, and, against all odds, triumph for Europe on American soil, first achieved in 1987 at Muirfield Village, Ohio.
With approximately one billion people watching 2010’s Ryder Cup, the popularity of the biennial contest has never been greater, and this new history will be the perfect 19th-hole companion.
Bruce Critchley played for Great Britain and Ireland against the USA in the Walker Cup and has commentated on golf tournaments for the last 25 years, on the BBC and as the leading golf commentator on Sky, for whom he will cover the 2010 Cup.
01. 01.02. 02.
HBK PBK
September
ISBN: 9781848311633 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: September
UK: £14.99 Canada: n/a Format: Demy E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Norton Translation rights: Norton
The Ryder CupA History
Bruce CritchleyForeword: Colin Montgomerie
Delusions of GenderThe Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Cordelia Fine
ISBN: 9781906850166 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: September
UK: £9.99 Canada: $20.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 224 pages with a 16-page colour photo section Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ScienceNew Title
SportNew Title
New Titles
PG 08 PG 09
HBK HBK
October
ISBN: 9781848311640 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: October
UK: £20.00 Canada: $40.00 Format: Royal E xtent / Illustrations: 576 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311961 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: October
UK: £12.99 Canada: $26.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 256 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
LiteratureNew Title
Humour / PhilosophyNew Title
Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval – the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries.
In this absorbing companion to literature’s rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious artefacts that literature has to offer.
Find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce, which great literary love affair was brought to a tragic end on 11 February 1963 and why Roy Campbell punched Stephen Spender on the nose on 14 April 1949 in this sumptuous voyage through the highs and lows of literature’s bejewelled past.
John Sutherland was the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL and a past Chairman of the Booker Prize panel, and is the author of one of the standard texts on Victorian fiction.
Stephen Fender has taught Literature in the US, in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and in England at London and Sussex, where he was head of American Studies from 1985 to 2003.
What do you think is the greatest idea ever? Where would humanity be now without fire, poetry, Rationalism, God ... or scaffolding?
Weaving has provided us with historical tapestries and clothes; electric light enables us to illuminate our cities, but then sewers allowed those cities to grow ... Justice, Writing, The Internet, Property, Banking, Romance … which is best?
John Farndon, author of the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever?, presents a unique project to find out. A shortlist of the 50 greatest ideas will be chosen by a panel of experts and then ranked online by the public before publication. The book then argues the fascinating case for each idea.
Both an eye-opening journey for the mind and a primer for the armchair intellectual, Could Mankind Do Without Scaffolding? distils humankind’s most powerful, intellectual, social, scientific and creative brainwaves. But do you agree?
John Farndon is the author of many popular reference books including Do You Think You’re Clever? (Icon, 2009)
01. 01.02. 02.
Love, Sex, Death and Words Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature
John Sutherland and Stephen Fender
Could Mankind Do Without Scaffolding?The Fifty Greatest Ideas that Have Changed Humanity
John Farndon
New Titles
PG 10 PG 11
HBK HBK
October
ISBN: 9781848311640 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: October
UK: £20.00 Canada: $40.00 Format: Royal E xtent / Illustrations: 576 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311961 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: October
UK: £12.99 Canada: $26.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 256 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
LiteratureNew Title
Humour / PhilosophyNew Title
Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval – the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries.
In this absorbing companion to literature’s rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious artefacts that literature has to offer.
Find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce, which great literary love affair was brought to a tragic end on 11 February 1963 and why Roy Campbell punched Stephen Spender on the nose on 14 April 1949 in this sumptuous voyage through the highs and lows of literature’s bejewelled past.
John Sutherland was the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL and a past Chairman of the Booker Prize panel, and is the author of one of the standard texts on Victorian fiction.
Stephen Fender has taught Literature in the US, in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and in England at London and Sussex, where he was head of American Studies from 1985 to 2003.
What do you think is the greatest idea ever? Where would humanity be now without fire, poetry, Rationalism, God ... or scaffolding?
Weaving has provided us with historical tapestries and clothes; electric light enables us to illuminate our cities, but then sewers allowed those cities to grow ... Justice, Writing, The Internet, Property, Banking, Romance … which is best?
John Farndon, author of the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever?, presents a unique project to find out. A shortlist of the 50 greatest ideas will be chosen by a panel of experts and then ranked online by the public before publication. The book then argues the fascinating case for each idea.
Both an eye-opening journey for the mind and a primer for the armchair intellectual, Could Mankind Do Without Scaffolding? distils humankind’s most powerful, intellectual, social, scientific and creative brainwaves. But do you agree?
John Farndon is the author of many popular reference books including Do You Think You’re Clever? (Icon, 2009)
01. 01.02. 02.
Love, Sex, Death and Words Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature
John Sutherland and Stephen Fender
Could Mankind Do Without Scaffolding?The Fifty Greatest Ideas that Have Changed Humanity
John Farndon
New Titles
PG 10 PG 11
In this seasonal intellectual broadside, iconoclastic popular sociologist Steve Fuller reclaims Jesus as a philosophical thinker – and one who really puts his money where his mouth is…
Socrates and Jesus are among Western culture’s most iconic figures. They are even offered as exemplars of what it means to be human. Both are notable for their forthright views on the extent of moral obligation and the limits of knowledge, the meaning of life and the prospects of an afterlife. They were also both ‘celebrities’, and both died to make a point.
But how do the lives of Socrates and Jesus look to 21st-century eyes? Would either attract a following today?
Steve Fuller compares Socrates and Jesus as guides to living today and, in a point that will prove controversial to our secular reverence for Socrates, he argues that Jesus is the more demanding philosopher – and that Socrates is really just a Christ-lite.
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
Luca Caioli, bestselling author of Torres and Messi, presents Arsenal’s talismanic playmaker and captain Cesc Fabregas.
A product, like Leo Messi, of the famed Barcelona youth academy, Fabregas has established himself as one of the stars of the Premier League.
Caioli follows his meteoric rise from his small hometown of Vilassar de Mar to his move in 2003 aged just sixteen to the Arsenal side that won the Premier League undefeated and his European Championship winner’s medal with Spain.
Based on exclusive interviews with those closest to him, including his family, his mentor, Vicente Del Bosque, Thierry Henry, Arsène Wenger, Leo Messi and Cesc himself, Fabregas is a uniquely personal insight to the 22-year-old hailed as one of the best players of his generation.
Luca Caioli is a renowned Italian sports journalist who writes for Il Corriere della Sera.
Also available: Messi & Torres
01. 02. 01. 02.03. 03.
Socrates vs. JesusThe Struggle for the Meaning of Life
Steve Fuller
FabregasThe Captain
Luca Caioli
HBK HBKPBKPhilosophy / ReligionNew Title
SportPaperback Original
November
ISBN: 9781848311954 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: November
UK: £9.99 Canada: $20.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 192 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781906850173 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: November
UK: £7.99 Canada: $16.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 256 pages with a 4-page colour photo section Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Agencia Literaria ACER, Spain
Braid’s BestThe Golf Courses of James Braid
Henry Lord and Peter Pugh
A lavish, full-colour exploration of the illustrious golfer and course designer James Braid, from the authors of Creating Classics and Masters of Design.
James Braid was one of the greatest players in the history of golf, winning five Open Championships in the first decade of the 20th century. But he was also an accomplished course architect, designing layouts from the majestic Highland tranquillity of Gleneagles to the rugged linksland beauty of St Enodoc in Cornwall, courses that today rank as some of the finest in the world.
Braid’s Best celebrates the life and work of this remarkable Scotsman, who grew from modest beginnings as a joiner to become one of the most admired sporting heroes of his or any other generation.
Henry Lord is the author of the highly acclaimed golf titles Creating Classics (Icon, 2008), Masters of Design (Icon, 2009) and St Andrews: The Home of Golf (Icon 2010).
Peter Pugh was a member of Cambridge University golf team, playing on many of the courses featured in Braid’s Best.
ISBN: 9781906850159 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: November
UK: £40.00 Canada: $80.00 US: $65.00 Format: 248 x 270mm E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages, full colour throughout Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
SportNew Title
New Titles
PG 12 PG 13
In this seasonal intellectual broadside, iconoclastic popular sociologist Steve Fuller reclaims Jesus as a philosophical thinker – and one who really puts his money where his mouth is…
Socrates and Jesus are among Western culture’s most iconic figures. They are even offered as exemplars of what it means to be human. Both are notable for their forthright views on the extent of moral obligation and the limits of knowledge, the meaning of life and the prospects of an afterlife. They were also both ‘celebrities’, and both died to make a point.
But how do the lives of Socrates and Jesus look to 21st-century eyes? Would either attract a following today?
Steve Fuller compares Socrates and Jesus as guides to living today and, in a point that will prove controversial to our secular reverence for Socrates, he argues that Jesus is the more demanding philosopher – and that Socrates is really just a Christ-lite.
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
Luca Caioli, bestselling author of Torres and Messi, presents Arsenal’s talismanic playmaker and captain Cesc Fabregas.
A product, like Leo Messi, of the famed Barcelona youth academy, Fabregas has established himself as one of the stars of the Premier League.
Caioli follows his meteoric rise from his small hometown of Vilassar de Mar to his move in 2003 aged just sixteen to the Arsenal side that won the Premier League undefeated and his European Championship winner’s medal with Spain.
Based on exclusive interviews with those closest to him, including his family, his mentor, Vicente Del Bosque, Thierry Henry, Arsène Wenger, Leo Messi and Cesc himself, Fabregas is a uniquely personal insight to the 22-year-old hailed as one of the best players of his generation.
Luca Caioli is a renowned Italian sports journalist who writes for Il Corriere della Sera.
Also available: Messi & Torres
01. 02. 01. 02.03. 03.
Socrates vs. JesusThe Struggle for the Meaning of Life
Steve Fuller
FabregasThe Captain
Luca Caioli
HBK HBKPBKPhilosophy / ReligionNew Title
SportPaperback Original
November
ISBN: 9781848311954 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: November
UK: £9.99 Canada: $20.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 192 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781906850173 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: November
UK: £7.99 Canada: $16.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 256 pages with a 4-page colour photo section Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Agencia Literaria ACER, Spain
Braid’s BestThe Golf Courses of James Braid
Henry Lord and Peter Pugh
A lavish, full-colour exploration of the illustrious golfer and course designer James Braid, from the authors of Creating Classics and Masters of Design.
James Braid was one of the greatest players in the history of golf, winning five Open Championships in the first decade of the 20th century. But he was also an accomplished course architect, designing layouts from the majestic Highland tranquillity of Gleneagles to the rugged linksland beauty of St Enodoc in Cornwall, courses that today rank as some of the finest in the world.
Braid’s Best celebrates the life and work of this remarkable Scotsman, who grew from modest beginnings as a joiner to become one of the most admired sporting heroes of his or any other generation.
Henry Lord is the author of the highly acclaimed golf titles Creating Classics (Icon, 2008), Masters of Design (Icon, 2009) and St Andrews: The Home of Golf (Icon 2010).
Peter Pugh was a member of Cambridge University golf team, playing on many of the courses featured in Braid’s Best.
ISBN: 9781906850159 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: November
UK: £40.00 Canada: $80.00 US: $65.00 Format: 248 x 270mm E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages, full colour throughout Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
SportNew Title
New Titles
PG 12 PG 13
May / Jul / Aug
A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world.
‘This wonderful book ... With an engaging fervour, James Hannam has set about rescuing the reputation of a bunch of half-forgotten thinkers, and he shows how they paved the way for modern science.’ Boris Johnson, Mail on Sunday
‘A spirited jaunt through centuries of scientific development ... captures the wonder of the medieval world: its inspirational curiosity and its engaging strangeness.’ Sunday Times ‘This book contains much valuable material summarised with commendable no-nonsense clarity … James Hannam has done a fine job of knocking down an old caricature.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Hannam, the liveliest of guides, makes enjoyable reading out of some seriously dusty history and difficult ideas.’ Scotsman ‘Here, in short, is a readable book, aimed at an intelligent but ignorant layman. You’ll enjoy it.’ Daniel Hannan MEP, Daily Telegraph
Dr James Hannam was educated at Oxford and Cambridge where he studied physics and then the history of science.
A rejacketed edition of the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2008.
For a brief moment Irishman Tommy Byrne was arguably the world’s greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali rolled into one. Crashed and Byrned is the award-winning autobiography of a poverty-stricken kid’s rise to become the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared – and how it all went wrong from there.
‘One of the best racing books you’ll read this decade’ Autosport
‘One of the most extraordinary sporting autobiographies you are likely to come across ... I challenge you to put it down. It might just be the greatest book you’ve never read.’ Daily Telegraph
Tommy Byrne was the 1980 Double British Formula Ford 1600 champion, the 1981 British Formula Ford 2000 champion and also the European Formula Ford 2000 champion. In 1982 – having also become British F3 champion – he entered Formula One, but by the following year had disappeared without trace.
Mark Hughes is recognised as one of Formula One’s top journalists.
01. May 01. May02. May 02. May 03. July 03. July04. August 04. August
PBKPBKPBKPBKNatural HistoryNew in Paperback
TravelNew in Paperback
SportNew Edition
Science / HistoryNew in Paperback
Paperbacks
God’s PhilosophersHow the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
James Hannam
Crashed & ByrnedThe Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw
Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes
A Carpet Ride to KhivaSeven Years on the Silk Road
Christopher Aslan Alexander
Hope for Animals and Their WorldHow Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink
Jane Goodall
ISBN: 9781848311510 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £8.99 Canada: n/a Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 416 pages with two 16-page colour photo sections and b/w numerous photos throughout Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Grand Central Publishing Translation rights: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9781848311497 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: July
UK: £8.99 Canada: $18.00 US: $14.95 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages with an 8-page colour photo section Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311503 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: May
UK: £9.99 Canada: $20.00 Format: B E xtent / 448 pagesIllustrations: Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Translation Icon Books / rights: Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781906850180 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: May
UK: £8.99 Canada: $18.00 US: $13.95 Format: B E xtent / 256 pagesIllustrations: Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation Icon Books / rights: Marsh Agency
In the walled city of Khiva in Uzbekistan, on the route of the ancient Silk Road, Chris Alexander discovered a world torn between Marx and Mohammed: a place where veils and vodka freely mingle against a backdrop of forgotten carpet designs, crumbling but magnificent Islamic architecture and scenes drawn straight from The Arabian Nights.
Alexander’s poignant and touching memoir of the seven years he spent there sees him stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in northern Afghanistan, and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar.
‘Alexander is an excellent guide through the chaos of local life, and his writing is thick with his adventures in this walled city, drawing a vivid portrait of the domestic lives of his Uzbek hosts with great affection and humour, while also casting his eye over the history of trade on the Silk Road.’ Sunday Telegraph
Christopher Aslan Alexander was born in Turkey and grew up in war-torn Beirut.
At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most renowned scientists, brings us new hope for the future of the animal kingdom.
With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Hope for Animals and Their World – which features a stunning array of beautiful photographs – reveals fascinating survival stories about formerly endangered species whose populations are now recovering.
‘Jane Goodall is the inspirational figure whose courageous example first fired the idea of a book to celebrate the ideals and work devoted worldwide to wildlife preservation … With hope, but without hype, Goodall and her co-authors identify rare animals and birds and describe the threats to them, pitching stories of survival to move and inspire new generations of ecologists.’ The Times
Dr Jane Goodall is the world’s most famous primatologist and a high-profile campaigner for animal conservation.
PG 14 PG 15
May / Jul / Aug
A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world.
‘This wonderful book ... With an engaging fervour, James Hannam has set about rescuing the reputation of a bunch of half-forgotten thinkers, and he shows how they paved the way for modern science.’ Boris Johnson, Mail on Sunday
‘A spirited jaunt through centuries of scientific development ... captures the wonder of the medieval world: its inspirational curiosity and its engaging strangeness.’ Sunday Times ‘This book contains much valuable material summarised with commendable no-nonsense clarity … James Hannam has done a fine job of knocking down an old caricature.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Hannam, the liveliest of guides, makes enjoyable reading out of some seriously dusty history and difficult ideas.’ Scotsman ‘Here, in short, is a readable book, aimed at an intelligent but ignorant layman. You’ll enjoy it.’ Daniel Hannan MEP, Daily Telegraph
Dr James Hannam was educated at Oxford and Cambridge where he studied physics and then the history of science.
A rejacketed edition of the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2008.
For a brief moment Irishman Tommy Byrne was arguably the world’s greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali rolled into one. Crashed and Byrned is the award-winning autobiography of a poverty-stricken kid’s rise to become the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared – and how it all went wrong from there.
‘One of the best racing books you’ll read this decade’ Autosport
‘One of the most extraordinary sporting autobiographies you are likely to come across ... I challenge you to put it down. It might just be the greatest book you’ve never read.’ Daily Telegraph
Tommy Byrne was the 1980 Double British Formula Ford 1600 champion, the 1981 British Formula Ford 2000 champion and also the European Formula Ford 2000 champion. In 1982 – having also become British F3 champion – he entered Formula One, but by the following year had disappeared without trace.
Mark Hughes is recognised as one of Formula One’s top journalists.
01. May 01. May02. May 02. May 03. July 03. July04. August 04. August
PBKPBKPBKPBKNatural HistoryNew in Paperback
TravelNew in Paperback
SportNew Edition
Science / HistoryNew in Paperback
Paperbacks
God’s PhilosophersHow the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
James Hannam
Crashed & ByrnedThe Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw
Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes
A Carpet Ride to KhivaSeven Years on the Silk Road
Christopher Aslan Alexander
Hope for Animals and Their WorldHow Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink
Jane Goodall
ISBN: 9781848311510 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: August
UK: £8.99 Canada: n/a Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 416 pages with two 16-page colour photo sections and b/w numerous photos throughout Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Grand Central Publishing Translation rights: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9781848311497 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: July
UK: £8.99 Canada: $18.00 US: $14.95 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 320 pages with an 8-page colour photo section Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311503 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: May
UK: £9.99 Canada: $20.00 Format: B E xtent / 448 pagesIllustrations: Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Translation Icon Books / rights: Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781906850180 Imprint: Corinthian Books Pub month: May
UK: £8.99 Canada: $18.00 US: $13.95 Format: B E xtent / 256 pagesIllustrations: Territory: World US rights: n/a Translation Icon Books / rights: Marsh Agency
In the walled city of Khiva in Uzbekistan, on the route of the ancient Silk Road, Chris Alexander discovered a world torn between Marx and Mohammed: a place where veils and vodka freely mingle against a backdrop of forgotten carpet designs, crumbling but magnificent Islamic architecture and scenes drawn straight from The Arabian Nights.
Alexander’s poignant and touching memoir of the seven years he spent there sees him stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in northern Afghanistan, and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar.
‘Alexander is an excellent guide through the chaos of local life, and his writing is thick with his adventures in this walled city, drawing a vivid portrait of the domestic lives of his Uzbek hosts with great affection and humour, while also casting his eye over the history of trade on the Silk Road.’ Sunday Telegraph
Christopher Aslan Alexander was born in Turkey and grew up in war-torn Beirut.
At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most renowned scientists, brings us new hope for the future of the animal kingdom.
With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Hope for Animals and Their World – which features a stunning array of beautiful photographs – reveals fascinating survival stories about formerly endangered species whose populations are now recovering.
‘Jane Goodall is the inspirational figure whose courageous example first fired the idea of a book to celebrate the ideals and work devoted worldwide to wildlife preservation … With hope, but without hype, Goodall and her co-authors identify rare animals and birds and describe the threats to them, pitching stories of survival to move and inspire new generations of ecologists.’ The Times
Dr Jane Goodall is the world’s most famous primatologist and a high-profile campaigner for animal conservation.
PG 14 PG 15
Sept / Oct / Nov Paperbacks
The Lucky Bugger’s Casebook Tales of Serendipity and Outrageous Good Fortune
Daniel Smith
FordlandiaThe Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
The SoldierA History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood
Darren Moore
03. November 03. November02. October 02. October01. September 01. September
In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a 5,000-square-mile tract of land in the Brazilian Amazon. There he built not only a rubber plantation but an entire town, aiming to recreate his vision of what America should be. By 1949 it was abandoned in ruins.
Greg Grandin’s massively acclaimed Fordlandia is the powerful fable of the pride and arrogance of the man who thought he alone could tame the Amazon. Filled with clash and contradiction, it is the battle between industrialised capitalism and the raw power of nature; it is the struggle too within Ford himself, the man who despised the new America that he himself had set in motion.
‘Greg Grandin’s compelling new book [is] both a merciless exposé of misplaced idealism and a detailed study of the economic forces behind it.’ Guardian ‘Grandin tells the story of Ford’s hubris with great skill and panache. His book works both as a gripping narrative of extraordinary events and as a telling fable of a dream destroyed by harsh realities’ Waterstone’s Books Quarterly Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University.
ISBN: 9781848311541 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: October
UK: £9.99 Canada: n/a Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 432 page with occasional b/w illustrations Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Metropolitan Books Translation rights: Metropolitan Books
Focusing on the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Global War on Terror, Darren Moore draws upon hundreds of narrative accounts of warfare written by soldiers from forces throughout the world to tell their story in this penetrating insight into the politics, emotions and psychology of war and its aftermath.
‘This is a powerful book, and should be read by anyone contemplating taking the queen’s shilling.’ Max Arthur, The Lady
‘A thoughtful study of the impact of fighting on the individual soldier in which [Moore] examines the process by which armies try to “develop an empathetic distance” between new recruits and the enemy they might face one day’ Daily Mail
‘A very rich book that thoroughly explores the psychology and behaviour of the soldier on the frontline’ Military Illustrated
‘An intriguing look at the emotion, psychology and politics that underpin soldiering … essential reading’ Soldier
Darren Moore served in the Australian Army for seventeen years and held the rank of major when he left the service.
An upbeat collection of good-luck stories and fortuitous serendipity.
What connects the discovery of America, the creation of Coca-Cola and the art book bought for £50 that turned out to contain original Picassos? That’s right: sheer blind luck. No matter how meticulously things are planned, time after time the most important bits of life are the product of simple, random chance.
From the Japanese trader who made a fortune after a share price typo to the German novelist who lost his manuscript on a train, and ended up buying some fish wrapped in his own pages at the station, The Lucky Bugger’s Casebook is a celebration of the type of unexpected good fortune we all dream of – just ask Sir Paul McCartney, who awoke one morning with the tune to ‘Yesterday’ having arrived in his head overnight.
Daniel Smith worked in publishing as a researcher, writer and editor of non-fiction and in 2003 lived and worked in Calcutta, India.
ISBN: 9781848311527 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: November
UK: £7.99 Canada: $16.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 256 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311534 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: September
UK: £10.99 Canada: $22.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 560 pages with an 8-page b/w photo section Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
PBKHistoryNew in Paperback
PBKMilitary HistoryNew in Paperback
PBKHumourNew in Paperback
PG 16 PG 17
Sept / Oct / Nov Paperbacks
The Lucky Bugger’s Casebook Tales of Serendipity and Outrageous Good Fortune
Daniel Smith
FordlandiaThe Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
The SoldierA History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood
Darren Moore
03. November 03. November02. October 02. October01. September 01. September
In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a 5,000-square-mile tract of land in the Brazilian Amazon. There he built not only a rubber plantation but an entire town, aiming to recreate his vision of what America should be. By 1949 it was abandoned in ruins.
Greg Grandin’s massively acclaimed Fordlandia is the powerful fable of the pride and arrogance of the man who thought he alone could tame the Amazon. Filled with clash and contradiction, it is the battle between industrialised capitalism and the raw power of nature; it is the struggle too within Ford himself, the man who despised the new America that he himself had set in motion.
‘Greg Grandin’s compelling new book [is] both a merciless exposé of misplaced idealism and a detailed study of the economic forces behind it.’ Guardian ‘Grandin tells the story of Ford’s hubris with great skill and panache. His book works both as a gripping narrative of extraordinary events and as a telling fable of a dream destroyed by harsh realities’ Waterstone’s Books Quarterly Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University.
ISBN: 9781848311541 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: October
UK: £9.99 Canada: n/a Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 432 page with occasional b/w illustrations Territory: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US rights: Metropolitan Books Translation rights: Metropolitan Books
Focusing on the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Global War on Terror, Darren Moore draws upon hundreds of narrative accounts of warfare written by soldiers from forces throughout the world to tell their story in this penetrating insight into the politics, emotions and psychology of war and its aftermath.
‘This is a powerful book, and should be read by anyone contemplating taking the queen’s shilling.’ Max Arthur, The Lady
‘A thoughtful study of the impact of fighting on the individual soldier in which [Moore] examines the process by which armies try to “develop an empathetic distance” between new recruits and the enemy they might face one day’ Daily Mail
‘A very rich book that thoroughly explores the psychology and behaviour of the soldier on the frontline’ Military Illustrated
‘An intriguing look at the emotion, psychology and politics that underpin soldiering … essential reading’ Soldier
Darren Moore served in the Australian Army for seventeen years and held the rank of major when he left the service.
An upbeat collection of good-luck stories and fortuitous serendipity.
What connects the discovery of America, the creation of Coca-Cola and the art book bought for £50 that turned out to contain original Picassos? That’s right: sheer blind luck. No matter how meticulously things are planned, time after time the most important bits of life are the product of simple, random chance.
From the Japanese trader who made a fortune after a share price typo to the German novelist who lost his manuscript on a train, and ended up buying some fish wrapped in his own pages at the station, The Lucky Bugger’s Casebook is a celebration of the type of unexpected good fortune we all dream of – just ask Sir Paul McCartney, who awoke one morning with the tune to ‘Yesterday’ having arrived in his head overnight.
Daniel Smith worked in publishing as a researcher, writer and editor of non-fiction and in 2003 lived and worked in Calcutta, India.
ISBN: 9781848311527 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: November
UK: £7.99 Canada: $16.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 256 pages Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311534 Imprint: Icon Books Pub month: September
UK: £10.99 Canada: $22.00 Format: B E xtent / Illustrations: 560 pages with an 8-page b/w photo section Territory: World ex. USA US rights: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Translation rights: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
PBKHistoryNew in Paperback
PBKMilitary HistoryNew in Paperback
PBKHumourNew in Paperback
PG 16 PG 17
Introducing Series and Backlists
Autumn 2010 sees a huge expansion in the range of the compact Introducing series.
We’re republishing sixteen titles in this period, bringing the total number of books available in the cheaper, brighter, pocket-size format to 47.
Find out more about the series, read excerpts, enter competitions and connect with the Introducing community at www.introducingbooks.com
July
July
September
September
November
November
Title: Introducing Heidegger ISBN: 9781848311749
Title: Introducing Cultural Studies ISBN: 9781848311817
Title: Introducing Lacan ISBN: 9781848311831
Title: Introducing Media Studies ISBN: 9781848311848
Title: Introducing Evolution ISBN: 9781848311862
Title: Introducing Anthropology ISBN: 9781848311688
Title: Introducing Semiotics ISBN: 9781848311855
Title: Introducing Aristotle ISBN: 9781848311695
Title: Introducing Evolutionary Psychology ISBN: 9781848311824
Title: Introducing The Enlightenment ISBN: 9781848311794
Title: Introducing Aesthetics ISBN: 9781848311671
Title: Introducing Consciousness ISBN: 9781848311718
Title: Introducing Descartes ISBN: 9781848311725
Title: Introducing Newton ISBN: 9781848311763
Title: Introducing Plato ISBN: 9781848311770
Title: Introducing Romanticism ISBN: 9781848311787
PG 18 PG 19
Introducing Series and Backlists
Autumn 2010 sees a huge expansion in the range of the compact Introducing series.
We’re republishing sixteen titles in this period, bringing the total number of books available in the cheaper, brighter, pocket-size format to 47.
Find out more about the series, read excerpts, enter competitions and connect with the Introducing community at www.introducingbooks.com
July
July
September
September
November
November
Title: Introducing Heidegger ISBN: 9781848311749
Title: Introducing Cultural Studies ISBN: 9781848311817
Title: Introducing Lacan ISBN: 9781848311831
Title: Introducing Media Studies ISBN: 9781848311848
Title: Introducing Evolution ISBN: 9781848311862
Title: Introducing Anthropology ISBN: 9781848311688
Title: Introducing Semiotics ISBN: 9781848311855
Title: Introducing Aristotle ISBN: 9781848311695
Title: Introducing Evolutionary Psychology ISBN: 9781848311824
Title: Introducing The Enlightenment ISBN: 9781848311794
Title: Introducing Aesthetics ISBN: 9781848311671
Title: Introducing Consciousness ISBN: 9781848311718
Title: Introducing Descartes ISBN: 9781848311725
Title: Introducing Newton ISBN: 9781848311763
Title: Introducing Plato ISBN: 9781848311770
Title: Introducing Romanticism ISBN: 9781848311787
PG 18 PG 19
Introducing Backlist Series and Backlists
Title: Introducing Critical Theory ISBN: 9781848310599
Title: Introducing Buddha ISBN: 9781848310117
Title: Introducing Freud ISBN: 9781840468519
Title: Introducing Feminism ISBN: 9781848311213
Title: Introducing Darwin ISBN: 9781848311176
Title: Introducing Capitalism ISBN: 9781848310551
Title: Introducing Hinduism ISBN: 9781848311145
Title: Introducing Foucault ISBN: 9781848310605
Title: Introducing Ethics ISBN: 9781848310087
Title: Introducing Chaos ISBN: 9781848310131
Title: Introducing Islam ISBN: 9781848310841
Title: Introducing Fractals ISBN: 9781848310872
Title: Introducing Modernism ISBN: 9781848311169
Title: Introducing Relativity ISBN: 9781848310575
Title: Introducing Jung ISBN: 9781848310100
Title: Introducing Nietzsche ISBN: 9781848310094
Title: Introducing Shakespeare ISBN: 9781848311152
Title: Introducing Keynes ISBN: 9781848310650
Title: Introducing Philosophy ISBN: 9781840468533
Title: Introducing Postmodernism ISBN: 9781840468496
Title: Introducing Sociology ISBN: 9781848310858
Title: Introducing Linguistics ISBN: 9781848310889
Title: Introducing Statistics ISBN: 9781848310568
Title: Introducing Logic ISBN: 9781848310124
Title: Introducing Psychology ISBN: 9781840468526
Title: Introducing Stephen Hawking ISBN: 9781848310940
Title: Introducing Marxism ISBN: 9781848310582
Title: Introducing Quantum Theory ISBN: 9781840468502
Title: Introducing Time ISBN: 9781848311206
Title: Introducing Mind and Brain ISBN: 9781840468540
Title: Introducing Wittgenstein ISBN: 9781848310865
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Title: Introducing Critical Theory ISBN: 9781848310599
Title: Introducing Buddha ISBN: 9781848310117
Title: Introducing Freud ISBN: 9781840468519
Title: Introducing Feminism ISBN: 9781848311213
Title: Introducing Darwin ISBN: 9781848311176
Title: Introducing Capitalism ISBN: 9781848310551
Title: Introducing Hinduism ISBN: 9781848311145
Title: Introducing Foucault ISBN: 9781848310605
Title: Introducing Ethics ISBN: 9781848310087
Title: Introducing Chaos ISBN: 9781848310131
Title: Introducing Islam ISBN: 9781848310841
Title: Introducing Fractals ISBN: 9781848310872
Title: Introducing Modernism ISBN: 9781848311169
Title: Introducing Relativity ISBN: 9781848310575
Title: Introducing Jung ISBN: 9781848310100
Title: Introducing Nietzsche ISBN: 9781848310094
Title: Introducing Shakespeare ISBN: 9781848311152
Title: Introducing Keynes ISBN: 9781848310650
Title: Introducing Philosophy ISBN: 9781840468533
Title: Introducing Postmodernism ISBN: 9781840468496
Title: Introducing Sociology ISBN: 9781848310858
Title: Introducing Linguistics ISBN: 9781848310889
Title: Introducing Statistics ISBN: 9781848310568
Title: Introducing Logic ISBN: 9781848310124
Title: Introducing Psychology ISBN: 9781840468526
Title: Introducing Stephen Hawking ISBN: 9781848310940
Title: Introducing Marxism ISBN: 9781848310582
Title: Introducing Quantum Theory ISBN: 9781840468502
Title: Introducing Time ISBN: 9781848311206
Title: Introducing Mind and Brain ISBN: 9781840468540
Title: Introducing Wittgenstein ISBN: 9781848310865
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PG 20 PG 21
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Fighting Fantasy Fighting Fantasy Backlist
ISBN: 9781848311947 Imprint: Wizard Books Pub month: September
UK: £5.99 Canada: $12.00 Format: B E xtent / 384 pages with frequent Illustrations: b/w illustrations Territory: UK & Commonwealth US rights: Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone Translation rights: Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311930 Imprint: Wizard Books Pub month: September
UK: £5.99 Canada: $12.00 Format: B E xtent / 256 pages with frequent Illustrations: b/w illustrations Territory: UK & Commonwealth US rights: Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone Translation rights: Marsh Agency
GamebooksNew Edition
GamebooksNew Edition
Lupravia is a cursed land; a chill place of snow-capped mountains, brooding forests and mist-shrouded moors, haunted by the spirits of the restless dead. Only the foolhardy or insane would enter that benighted realm of predators.
But enter you must, after a vicious wolf attack sets you on the path to murder and madness. Steadily succumbing to the beast within, YOU must seek out a cure to your condition before the next full moon. But how long can you survive in a land where all live in fear of the Howl of the Werewolf?
Steve Jackson is, with Ian Livingstone, the originator of the Fighting Fantasy series. He is also a co-founder of the Games Workshop. Since Fighting Fantasy’s huge success, he has become a major figure in world of computer games, and was a founder of Lionhead Studios, the name behind Black & White.
A Fighting Fantasy gamebook classic in the series’ bold new look
The kingdom of Allansia is under threat. Agglax the evil Zombie-Lord is amassing an army of undead warriors in easter Allansia, beyond the Forest of Fiends. His army increases in size with every attack it makes on the local villages and every day its ranks are swelled with slaughtered victims under Agglax’s evil spell. Unless they are stopped now, the undead will take over the entire kingdom.
YOU are Allansia’s only hope. Your mission is to raise an army which will defeat the terrifying undead troops... but how can you conquer an army which grows in numbers with every battle it fights?
Ian Livingstone is, with Steve Jackson, the originator of the Fighting Fantasy series. He is also a co-founder of the Games Workshop. Since Fighting Fantasy’s huge success, he has become a major figure in world of computer games, and is currently Creative Director of Eidos, the name behind Tomb Raider. He was recently made an OBE.
01. September 02. September
Fighting Fantasy: Howl of the Werewolf
Steve Jackson
Fighting Fantasy: Armies of Death
Ian Livingstone
New Titles Series and Backlists
Title: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain ISBN: 9781848310759
Title: City of Thieves ISBN: 9781848311138
Title: Citadel of Chaos ISBN: 9781848310766
Title: Night of the Necromancer ISBN: 9781848311183
Title: Deathtrap Dungeon ISBN: 9781848310773
Title: Bloodbones ISBN: 9781848311190
Title: Stormslayer ISBN: 9781848310780
Title: House of Hell ISBN: 9781848311220
Title: Creature of Havoc ISBN: 9781848311121
Title: Eye of the Dragon ISBN: 9781848311237
Title: Appointment with F.E.A.R. ISBN: 9781840465273 Title: Armies of Death ISBN: 9781840464368
Title: Caverns of the Snow Witch ISBN: 9781840464320 Title: Crypt of the Sorcerer ISBN: 9781840463965
Title: Freeway Fighter ISBN: 9781840465655 Title: Island of the Lizard King ISBN: 9781840464917 Title: Return to Firetop Mountain ISBN: 9781840464818 Title: Sorcery 1: The Shamutanti Hills ISBN: 9781840464306
Title: Sorcery 2: Kharé – Cityport of Traps ISBN: 9781840464337 Title: Sorcery 3: The Seven Serpents ISBN: 9781840464351 Title: Sorcery 4: Crown of Kings ISBN: 9781840464382
Title: Starship Traveller ISBN: 9781840465525 Title: Sword of the Samurai ISBN: 9781840467321 Title: Talisman of Death ISBN: 9781840465662 Title: Temple of Terror ISBN: 9781840465280
Title: Trial of Champions ISBN: 9781840464344
www.fightingfantasy.com
Fighting Fantasy - Older Wizard editions:
PG 22 PG 23
PBK PBK
Fighting Fantasy Fighting Fantasy Backlist
ISBN: 9781848311947 Imprint: Wizard Books Pub month: September
UK: £5.99 Canada: $12.00 Format: B E xtent / 384 pages with frequent Illustrations: b/w illustrations Territory: UK & Commonwealth US rights: Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone Translation rights: Marsh Agency
ISBN: 9781848311930 Imprint: Wizard Books Pub month: September
UK: £5.99 Canada: $12.00 Format: B E xtent / 256 pages with frequent Illustrations: b/w illustrations Territory: UK & Commonwealth US rights: Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone Translation rights: Marsh Agency
GamebooksNew Edition
GamebooksNew Edition
Lupravia is a cursed land; a chill place of snow-capped mountains, brooding forests and mist-shrouded moors, haunted by the spirits of the restless dead. Only the foolhardy or insane would enter that benighted realm of predators.
But enter you must, after a vicious wolf attack sets you on the path to murder and madness. Steadily succumbing to the beast within, YOU must seek out a cure to your condition before the next full moon. But how long can you survive in a land where all live in fear of the Howl of the Werewolf?
Steve Jackson is, with Ian Livingstone, the originator of the Fighting Fantasy series. He is also a co-founder of the Games Workshop. Since Fighting Fantasy’s huge success, he has become a major figure in world of computer games, and was a founder of Lionhead Studios, the name behind Black & White.
A Fighting Fantasy gamebook classic in the series’ bold new look
The kingdom of Allansia is under threat. Agglax the evil Zombie-Lord is amassing an army of undead warriors in easter Allansia, beyond the Forest of Fiends. His army increases in size with every attack it makes on the local villages and every day its ranks are swelled with slaughtered victims under Agglax’s evil spell. Unless they are stopped now, the undead will take over the entire kingdom.
YOU are Allansia’s only hope. Your mission is to raise an army which will defeat the terrifying undead troops... but how can you conquer an army which grows in numbers with every battle it fights?
Ian Livingstone is, with Steve Jackson, the originator of the Fighting Fantasy series. He is also a co-founder of the Games Workshop. Since Fighting Fantasy’s huge success, he has become a major figure in world of computer games, and is currently Creative Director of Eidos, the name behind Tomb Raider. He was recently made an OBE.
01. September 02. September
Fighting Fantasy: Howl of the Werewolf
Steve Jackson
Fighting Fantasy: Armies of Death
Ian Livingstone
New Titles Series and Backlists
Title: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain ISBN: 9781848310759
Title: City of Thieves ISBN: 9781848311138
Title: Citadel of Chaos ISBN: 9781848310766
Title: Night of the Necromancer ISBN: 9781848311183
Title: Deathtrap Dungeon ISBN: 9781848310773
Title: Bloodbones ISBN: 9781848311190
Title: Stormslayer ISBN: 9781848310780
Title: House of Hell ISBN: 9781848311220
Title: Creature of Havoc ISBN: 9781848311121
Title: Eye of the Dragon ISBN: 9781848311237
Title: Appointment with F.E.A.R. ISBN: 9781840465273 Title: Armies of Death ISBN: 9781840464368
Title: Caverns of the Snow Witch ISBN: 9781840464320 Title: Crypt of the Sorcerer ISBN: 9781840463965
Title: Freeway Fighter ISBN: 9781840465655 Title: Island of the Lizard King ISBN: 9781840464917 Title: Return to Firetop Mountain ISBN: 9781840464818 Title: Sorcery 1: The Shamutanti Hills ISBN: 9781840464306
Title: Sorcery 2: Kharé – Cityport of Traps ISBN: 9781840464337 Title: Sorcery 3: The Seven Serpents ISBN: 9781840464351 Title: Sorcery 4: Crown of Kings ISBN: 9781840464382
Title: Starship Traveller ISBN: 9781840465525 Title: Sword of the Samurai ISBN: 9781840467321 Title: Talisman of Death ISBN: 9781840465662 Title: Temple of Terror ISBN: 9781840465280
Title: Trial of Champions ISBN: 9781840464344
www.fightingfantasy.com
Fighting Fantasy - Older Wizard editions:
PG 22 PG 23
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Proust and the Squid
9781848310308
Atomic
9781848310827
Selfish Genius
9781848310490
Atom
9781840468731
The Genius in All of Us
9781848311374
Do You Think You’re Clever? 9781848311329
Wholly Irresponsible Science 9781906850067
How I Caused the Credit Crunch
9781848310674
Bob Wilson’s Ultimate Collection of Peculiar Sporting Lingo 9781848310025
Messi
9781906850111
Science and Islam
9781848310810
A Very British Revolution
9781848311282
The Devil’s Children
9781848310667
Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War? 9781840467949
The Psychic Tourist
9781848311244
God’s Philosophers
9781848311503
Alec Stewart’s Cricket Companion 9781906850005
365
9781840466751
Shakespeare on Toast
9781848310544
Bats Sing, Mice Giggle
9781848311305
The Girl on the Wall
9781848311268
Don’t Get Fooled Again
9781848310520
Will America Change?
9781840468793
In the Red
9781848310230
Lewis Hamilton
9781840469417
The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time
9781906850104
365 Modern History
9781848310698
Stealing the Scream
9781840468649
Battle of Waterloo
9781848311558
The History of Britain Revealed 9781840468359
Economyths
9781848311480
X Marks the Box
9781848310513
Mafia Son
9781848311275
Life in the Beautiful Game
9781906850036
Torres
9781906850074
366
9781848310056
Supercapitalism
9781848310469
China: Friend or Foe?
9781840467338
The Last Amateurs
9781848310452
Foul Play
9781840468908
Making Time
9781848310018
50 Facts
9781840468465
Tales of War
9781848310742
Dawkins vs. Gould
9781840467802
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers 9781848311350
From Democrats to Kings
9781848311312
Not Fade Away
9781848310346
A Time to Dance, A Time to Die 9781848310537
The Chilling Stars
9781840468663
Diagnosis
9781848311336
The Man Who Ran the Moon 9781840468366
Future Proof
9781848310049
Quantum
9781848310353
Corinthian Backlist Highlights
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Backlist Highlights Series and Backlists
Proust and the Squid
9781848310308
Atomic
9781848310827
Selfish Genius
9781848310490
Atom
9781840468731
The Genius in All of Us
9781848311374
Do You Think You’re Clever? 9781848311329
Wholly Irresponsible Science 9781906850067
How I Caused the Credit Crunch
9781848310674
Bob Wilson’s Ultimate Collection of Peculiar Sporting Lingo 9781848310025
Messi
9781906850111
Science and Islam
9781848310810
A Very British Revolution
9781848311282
The Devil’s Children
9781848310667
Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War? 9781840467949
The Psychic Tourist
9781848311244
God’s Philosophers
9781848311503
Alec Stewart’s Cricket Companion 9781906850005
365
9781840466751
Shakespeare on Toast
9781848310544
Bats Sing, Mice Giggle
9781848311305
The Girl on the Wall
9781848311268
Don’t Get Fooled Again
9781848310520
Will America Change?
9781840468793
In the Red
9781848310230
Lewis Hamilton
9781840469417
The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time
9781906850104
365 Modern History
9781848310698
Stealing the Scream
9781840468649
Battle of Waterloo
9781848311558
The History of Britain Revealed 9781840468359
Economyths
9781848311480
X Marks the Box
9781848310513
Mafia Son
9781848311275
Life in the Beautiful Game
9781906850036
Torres
9781906850074
366
9781848310056
Supercapitalism
9781848310469
China: Friend or Foe?
9781840467338
The Last Amateurs
9781848310452
Foul Play
9781840468908
Making Time
9781848310018
50 Facts
9781840468465
Tales of War
9781848310742
Dawkins vs. Gould
9781840467802
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers 9781848311350
From Democrats to Kings
9781848311312
Not Fade Away
9781848310346
A Time to Dance, A Time to Die 9781848310537
The Chilling Stars
9781840468663
Diagnosis
9781848311336
The Man Who Ran the Moon 9781840468366
Future Proof
9781848310049
Quantum
9781848310353
Corinthian Backlist Highlights
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