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CORNERSTONE AUTUMN CATALOGUE 2021
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CONTENTS
Contacts | 4
Hutchinson Heinemann | 5
#Merky Books | 12
Random House Business | 14
Century | 19
Del Rey | 31
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HUTCHINSON HEINEMANN
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James Ellroy Douglas Kennedy
Widespread Panic Afraid of the Light
Freddy Otash Confesses
A return to the sleazy underbelly of Ellroy's 1950's Los A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times
Angeles bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The
Moment
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From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never
malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith
of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after
finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling
to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his
Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He age - driving for Uber.
operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and
he'll never work with the commies. When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped
off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds
Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - himself literally driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major
and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process.
sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the
head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the
idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the
scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex- corrosive divisions of our troubled times.
soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all!
'Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns
In Widespread Panic, we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the created by global
inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed affairs' OBSERVER
torture den; you'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief
stooge; you'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor; Douglas Kennedy's previous twelve novels include the critically acclaimed
you'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the 'Tattle Tyrant Who bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship
Held Hollywood Hostage'. and The Moment. He is also the author of three highly-praised travel books.
The Big Picture was filmed with Romain Duris and Catherine Deneuve; The
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Woman in the Fifth with Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas.
acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential
and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. In 2007 he was
'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid awarded the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des
and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His Lettres, and in 2009 the inaugural Grand Prix de Figaro. Born in Manhattan
previous novel, This Storm, is the second instalment in Ellroy's second 'L.A. in 1955, he has two children and currently divides his time between London,
Quartet'. Paris, Berlin, Maine and New York.
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Neil Blackmore Georgette Heyer
The Dangerous Kingdom of Love The Black Moth
The author of THE INTOXICATING MR LAVELLE returns The first novel by the greatest author of historical
with more scandal, sex and intrigue, but set in the romance in the world - a wonderful tale of love and
court of King James I - with added philosophers, adventure set in Heyer's Regency England.
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The kingdom of love is a frightening place. A dangerous place. What GEORGETTE HEYER'S REMARKABLE FIRST NOVEL
kind of fool wants to live there?
‘One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer’s books are as
How have I, Francis Bacon, well-known as the cleverest man in England, incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen’s’
been caught in this trap? For years I survived the brutal games of the Joanne Harris
English court, driven by the whims of the idiot King James I - and finally, I
was winning. Forget what my friends Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare 'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive
say about love. I had that which men truly crave above all else: power. escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA
But now, at the moment of my greatest success, a deadly alliance of my ______________________________
enemies has begun closing in on me. Led by the King's beautiful and
poisonous lover Carr, this new alliance threatens to turn our foolish King Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men.
against me, so that I may rot in the Tower.
Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his
I refuse to go down without a fight. I have concocted a brilliant new plan: I honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since.
will find my own beguiling young man and supplant Carr in the King's bed,
and take power for myself. All I need to do is find him, my beautiful and Returning to England, Jack pretends to be a gentleman named Sir Anthony
mysterious creature, my perfect chess move. Ferndale but makes his living in a most ungentlemanly fashion, as a
highwayman and a gambler.
In the dangerous kingdom of love, those who understand desire win. And I
intend to win, at all costs. When Jack encounters his nemesis, the Duke of Andover, in the midst of
kidnapping Diana Beauleigh, the two old enemies come to blows.
Neil Blackmore never had any intention of becoming a writer. He wrote his
first novel at work to fill time at a boring job. He published his first novel in Can Jack save the beautiful Diana from rakes, kidnap and ruin…?
his twenties but then spent most of his thirties travelling the world. THE ______________________________
INTOXICATING MR LAVELLE is his third novel. He lives in London.
‘Georgette Heyer is second to none’ Sunday Times
‘Fabulously witty’ Stephen Fry
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-
loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her
first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of
seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John.
Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven
detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.
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Sebastian Faulks Chips Channon
Snow Country Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries
(Volume 2)
The epic new love story from master storyteller 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century . . .
Sebastian Faulks, and his best novel since BIRDSONG finally, we are getting the full text, in all its bitchy,
scintillating detail' Ben Macintyre
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9781786330185 9781786331823
'Overpowering and beautiful ... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling
sleep-disturbing' Simon Schama on Birdsong diaries of Chips Channon.
1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes
as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime
Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general
Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and
country declares war on hers. on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes
1927: For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small town has been with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in
impoverished and cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until a July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.'
young lawyer, Rudolf Plischke, spirits her away to Vienna. But the capital
proves unforgiving. Lena leaves her metropolitan dream behind to take a For much of this period, Channon is genuinely an eye-witness to unfolding
menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. events. He reassures Neville Chamberlain as he fights for his political life in
1933: Still struggling to come terms with the loss of so many friends on the May 1940. He chats to Winston Churchill while the two men inspect the
Eastern Front, Anton, now an established writer, is commissioned by a bombed-out chamber of the House of Commons a few months later. From
magazine to visit the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place of healing, his desk at the Foreign Office he charts the progress of the war. But with the
on the banks of a silvery lake, where the depths of human suffering and the departure of his boss 'Rab' Butler to the Ministry of Education, and
chances of redemption are explored, two people will see each other as if for Channon's subsequent exclusion from the corridors of power, his life
the first time. changes - and with it the preoccupations and tone of the diaries. The
conduct of the war remains a constant theme, but more personal
Sweeping across Europe as it recovers from one war and hides its preoccupations come increasingly to the fore. As he throws himself back into
face from the coming of another, SNOW COUNTRY is a landmark the pleasures of society, he records his encounters with the likes of Noël
novel of exquisite yearnings, dreams of youth and the sanctity of Coward, Prince Philip, General de Gaulle and Oscar Wilde's erstwhile lover
hope. In elegant, shimmering prose, Sebastian Faulks has Lord Alfred Douglas. He describes dinners with members of European royal
produced a work of timeless resonance. dynasties, and recounts gossip and scandal about the great, the good and
the less good. And he charts the implosion of his marriage and his
Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time burgeoning, passionate friendship with a young officer on Wavell's staff.
writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A
Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A These are diaries that bring a whole epoch vividly to life.
Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.
Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he
claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed - to
his embarrassment - in the Sunday Express). The son of a wealthy
businessman, he accompanied the American Red Cross to Paris in 1917, was
an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and then settled in London
where he mingled with society and enjoyed the high life. He married into
the Guinness family, and became a Conservative MP for Southend from
1935 until his death. He knew or was friends with all the leading politicians
and aristocrats of the period, wined and dined Edward VIII and Wallis
Simpson in the months before the Abdication crisis, and observed at first
hand the last days of appeasement. He died in 1958. Elliot Templeton in
Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge (1944) and the disappointed
schoolmaster Croker-Harris in Rattigan's play The Browning Version (1948)
were partly inspired by Channon.
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Robert Harris Richard Powers
The Cicero Trilogy Bewilderment
All three novels of the acclaimed Cicero Trilogy A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first
brought together in one volume, with a new novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize
introduction from the author. -winning The Overstory
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1,360 pages 256 pages
9781786332929 9781785152634
______________________________ Picked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times
'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.' _________________________________________________
The Times
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to
______________________________ search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny,
loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals,
'Laws are silent in times of war.' Cicero and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of
being expelled from third grade, for smashing his friend's face with a metal
One of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy thermos.
charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his
mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and
thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path. troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his
boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love
The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other
by Cicero's private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that planets, while all the while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help
made his master's name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the save this one.
rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato,
Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow
the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, and received the National Book Award. His most recent book, The
anxious, brave, and always intensely humane. Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for
the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic
vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its
tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of
democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.
Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy
- Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii,
The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes
including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The
Second Sleep and V2. Several of his books have been filmed, including The
Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated
into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He
lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
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Lauren Groff Amor Towles
Matrix The Lincoln Highway
A remarkable new novel from Lauren Groff, her first Three young fugitives venture across 1950s America
since the New York Times bestselling Fates and Furies to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author
of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow.
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MEET THE INDOMITABLE MARIE DE FRANCE In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to
Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just
Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse, too served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.
wild, too rough-hewn for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal
court. Woefully, she is sent to the muddy fields of Angleterre to take up her With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family
new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-
old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.
The abbey is a dreadful place: its inhabitants are on the brink of starvation,
beset by disease, stoic and stern, yet plagued with an unholy tendency to But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from
gossip. Marie cannot help but pine for the decadence and comfort of France; the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They
her secret lover Cecily, her queen Eleanor, and the very court that had have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of
spited her. them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City.
Yet Marie soon realises that, though she may be tied to a life of duty, she Bursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable
wields more power than she could have imagined. With the fearlessness characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s
that has always set her apart, she inspires her new sisterhood to awaken America from the pen of a master storyteller.
their spirits and finally claim what is theirs.
A dazzling work of literature, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality Amor Towles was born and raised in the Boston area. He graduated from
and ecstasy in a mesmerising portrait of consuming passion and Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. An
womanhood. investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full
time to writing. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The
Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia and Fates and Furies, and the celebrated
short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. Her work has been
featured in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Atlantic and several Best American
Short Stories anthologies. She has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the
PEN/O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize and the Story Prize; and has been a
finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award,
the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
among others. In 2017, Lauren was named a Granta Best of Young
American Novelist. In 2018, she received a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction
and a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives in
Gainesville, Florida with her husband, two sons and dog.
10Daniel Sloss Tim Benson
Everyone You Hate is Going to Die Britain's Best Political Cartoons
And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, 2021
In the first book from one of this generation's hottest Bringing much-needed humour to a chaotic year in
and boldest young comedians, Daniel Sloss presents a politics, this cartoon companion features the work of
transgressive and hilarious analysis of all of our Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Nicola Jennings and many
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Daniel Sloss's stand-up comedy engages, enrages, offends, unsettles, Bringing much-needed humour to a chaotic year in politics, this cartoon
educates, comforts, and gets audiences roaring with laughter - all at the companion features the work of Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Nicola Jennings
same time. In his groundbreaking specials, seen on Netflix and HBO, he has and many more of the nation's finest cartoonists.
brilliantly tackled everything from male toxicity and friendship to love,
romance and marriage - and claims (with the data to back it up) that his on 2021 is turning out to be another extraordinary year, from Covid crises and
-stage laser-like dissection of relationships has single-handedly caused more vaccine victories to lockdown learning, haddock havoc and Capitol coups.
than 300 divorces and 120,000 breakups. But, then, it has also been a very familiar story of Brexit blunders and
Trumpian tantrums. The nation's greatest cartoonists have recorded it all
Now, in his first book, he picks up where his specials left off, and goes after with searing wit and astonishing creativity. Britain's Best Political Cartoons
every conceivable kind of relationship - with one's country (Sloss's is 2021 brings together cartoons from the nation's finest satirists, along with
Scotland); with America; with lovers, ex-lovers, ex-lovers who you hate, ex captions from Britain's leading cartoon expert, to tell the story of another
-lovers who hate you; with parents; with best friends (male and female), tumultuous twelve months.
not-best friends; with children; with siblings; and even with the global
pandemic and our own mortality.
In Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die, every human connection gets the
brutally funny (and unfailingly incisive) Sloss treatment as he illuminates the
ways in which all of our relationships are fragile and ridiculous and awful -
but also valuable and meaningful and important.
Daniel Sloss finds About the Author descriptions wanky and outdated. He
would just like you to watch his fucking comedy specials. The publisher, on
the other hand, would like you to know that Daniel Sloss is an
internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish comedian and writer. He
has created eleven solo shows, toured them in theatres, music venues, and
arenas across fifty countries to rave reviews, and his specials, including X on
HBO as well as Dark and Jigsaw, on Netflix, can be seen in a total of 190
countries. Despite the relationship and marital mayhem he has caused, Sloss
still believes in love. Sloss is thirty and lives in Scotland, his 'forever home'.
11#MERKY BOOKS
12Ramla Ali Jade LB
Not Without a Fight: Ten Steps to Keisha The Sket
Becoming Your Own Champion
The ultimate book of what it takes to be a champion. A From cultural icon Jade LB comes the notorious Keisha
revealing account of inspiration, motivation and how the Sket, an unforgettable coming-of-age story and a
to overcome obstacles in your life told by a true force raw and original depiction of British youth culture.
September 2021 October 2021
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Ramla Ali is a real triple threat - professional boxer, philanthropist, Where were you when Keisha the Sket first broke the internet?
and model. The original force for change and good, her debut non-
fiction details ten vital fights in and outside the ring which taught Keisha is a girl from the ends, sharp, feisty and ambitious; she's been
her a life lesson and have shaped the person she is today. labelled 'top sket' but she's making it work. When childhood crush and long-
time admirer, Ricardo, finally wins her over, Keisha has it all: power, a love
"Sometimes we have to take a chance on our goals. We have to be open to life and the chance for stability. But trauma comes knocking and with it a
trying new things, even if they don't work out. Don't be afraid of putting whirlwind of choices that will define what kind of a woman she truly wants
yourself out there. The very act of trying something out tells yourself, and to be.
the world that you are brave, you are ambitious, and you are a force to be
reckoned with". Told with the heart and soul of the inner city, with an unforgettable heroine,
Keisha the Sket is a revelation of the true, raw, arousing and tender core of
Ten Fights, Ten Rounds: Step into the life of one of Ramla Ali as she talks British youth culture.
you through her challenges, and triumphs. From embracing failure, charging
forward with confidence, finding and following your dreams, being open to Complete with essays from esteemed contemporary writers Candice
love and dealing with defeat. Each chapter closes with a rousing pep talk, Carty-Williams, Caleb Femi and Aniefiok Ekpoudom.
encouraging the reader to keep going.
In 2005, the author known only as 'Jade' began releasing chapters of Keisha
Packed full of honesty and urgency, powering the reader on to become their The [Da] Sket on Piczo. The work became a viral sensation, capturing black
own champion. British culture and youth-authored youth experience. Jade LB is a London-
based creative and academic writer whose writing explores black women
Ramla Ali is a Somali-born, London raised professional boxer, model and and relationships, black British culture and the black British working-class
activist. She took up the sport of boxing aged 12, training and competing in experience. One half of The Echo Chamber podcast, she has written articles
secret from her family for over ten years. Ramla rose to early prominence and essays for Black Ballad and other publications and currently takes up
as the two-time winner of the national amateur championships in England space in academia. Here, she returns to Keisha The Sket, revisiting and
and winning the Great British Championships. With over sixty-five amateur amplifying a character she created when she was just thirteen.
fights under her felt, Ramla made history by becoming the first boxer to
have won an international gold medal whilst representing the country of
Somalia. Ramla is a Nike Global Athlete and brand ambassador for Pantene,
Coach and Cartier. She is a proud ambassador of UNICEF, Coach's 'Dream It
Real' foundation and Choose Love.
13RANDOM HOUSE BUSINESS
14Gian Volpicelli Ali Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne,
Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides) Alex Chesterfield
How Digital Money Could Transform Finance Poles Apart
The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to A groundbreaking work on why people become so
cryptocurrency divided - and how they can brought back together.
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9781847943279 9781847942951
The past decade has seen the relentless rise of cryptocurrency as an Why are people so divided?
alternative form of digital currency. But what precisely is it and what
potential does it have to change the world of money? Can they be brought together?
In this brilliantly clear, one-stop guide WIRED Senior Editor Gian Vopicelli We live in a world riven by competing beliefs and values. Liberal versus
explains everything you need to know about cryptocurrency. He outlines its conservative. Pro-life versus pro-choice. Global warming sceptic versus
development and describes precisely how it operates. He demystifies the environmentalist. The splits and tensions cut across almost every area of our
jargon it has spawned, from blockchain, Bitcoin and stablecoins to mining, lives.
smart contracts and forking. He looks at the political and economic
ideologies that drive it. And he addresses the central question: will In Poles Apart, three leading experts explain why we are so prone to be
cryptocurrency have the transformative economic and social impact that its drawn into rival, often deeply antagonistic groups. They delve into our
champions claim for it? genetic makeup to reveal the extent to which our world views are fixed the
day we're born. They explore the competing influences of family, friends
Gian Volpicelli (Author) and peers and the dynamics of ingroups and outgroups. They pinpoint the
Gian Volpicelli is a Senior Editor for WIRED UK. economic and political triggers that tip people from healthy disagreement to
dangerous hostility, and the part played by social media in spreading
WIRED (Author) entrenched views. And they help us to understand why, when presented
WIRED is the world's most authoritative and respected publication reporting with precisely the same information, different people will so often draw
on the emerging trends, ideas and technologies shaping our world. Our diametrically opposed conclusions.
mission is to tell the stories of the people who are driving this change and to
understand its impact on business, society and individuals. WIRED has Above all, by meticulously showing how and why polarisation takes root,
become synonymous with informed and intelligent analysis of these they show what practical and effective steps we can all take to narrow
transformational forces and the significance of them for industries and divisions, create a greater degree of common understanding - and persuade
individuals and is a consistently reliable predictor of change. others to appreciate our point of view.
Ali Goldsworthy (Author)
Ali Goldsworthy has spent over 20 years active in politics and campaigning.
A former Deputy Chair of the Liberal Democrats, she led the team that built
the fastest growing campaigning organisation in the UK. In 2017 she was a
Sloan Fellow at Stanford, creating its first depolarisation course and claiming
numerous awards for her work. Ali has written for the Telegraph,
Independent, New Statesman and Financial Times.
Laura Osborne (Author)
Laura Osborne is a professional communicator and change maker, with a
background in public affairs and government communications. Currently
Communications Director and a spokesperson at London First, the voice of
London’s largest businesses, she was the UK Consumer Association’s first
Head of Corporate Affairs, working with some of the UK’s biggest corporates
to directly intervene to improve the banking, energy and telecoms markets
for consumers.
Alex Chesterfield (Author)
Alex Chesterfield is a behavioural scientist with a Masters in Cognitive &
Decision Science. She currently works in financial services, leading a team of
psychologists to encourage consumers to make better decisions and drive
15Azeem Azhar Matt Reynolds
Exponential The Future of Food (WIRED
How to Bridge the Gap Between Technology and guides)
The first book from Britain's most-followed tech writer The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to
- a revelatory new way to make sense of the modern food technology and food production in the future
world.
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We are entering the Exponential Age. Between faster computers, better With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we
software and bigger data, ours is the first era in human history in which face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be
technology is constantly accelerating. achieved?
Azeem Azhar - writer, technologist, and creator of the acclaimed Exponential In this brilliantly insightful, one stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Reynolds
View newsletter - understands this shift better than anyone. Technology, he assesses the limits and drawbacks of current food production and looks at
argues, is developing at an increasing, exponential rate. But human society the ways in which they can be tackled. He considers the potential for lab-
- from our businesses to our political institutions - can only ever adapt at a grown meat to replace inefficient livestock farming. He talks to the scientists
slower, incremental pace. The result is an 'exponential gap' - between the hoping to perfect more productive and disease-resistant crops. He explores
power of new technology and humans' ability to keep up. initiatives to make agriculture less environmentally damaging and to reduce
food waste. And he addresses the fundamental question: how do we feed
In Exponential, Azhar shows how this exponential gap can explain our more people while using fewer of the Earth's resources?
society's most pressing problems. The gulf between established businesses
and fast-growing digital platforms. The inability of nation states to deal with Matthew Reynolds (Author)
new forms of cyberwarfare. And the sclerotic response of liberal democracies Matt Reynolds is a senior editor at WIRED UK.
to fast-moving social problems.
WIRED (Author)
But the exponential gap is not inevitable. Drawing on fields as varied as WIRED is the world's most authoritative and respected publication reporting
economics, political science and psychology, Azhar sketches out how we can on the emerging trends, ideas and technologies shaping our world. Our
harness the power of tech to serve our real needs - fostering new ways of mission is to tell the stories of the people who are driving this change and to
doing business, innovative forms of politics, and fresh approaches to understand its impact on business, society and individuals. WIRED has
national defence. become synonymous with informed and intelligent analysis of these
transformational forces and the significance of them for industries and
The result is a holistic new way to make sense of the modern world. individuals and is a consistently reliable predictor of change.
Exponential technology is transforming all of our lives. This book explains
how.
Azeem Azhar is the creator of Exponential View, Britain's leading platform
for in-depth tech analysis. His weekly newsletter is read by 200,000 people
from around the world, and his hit podcast has featured guests including
Yuval Noah Harari, Reid Hoffman and Mariana Mazzucato. He is a member
of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council, and a contributor to
publications including the Financial Times, Prospect and the MIT Technology
Review.
16Guy Hands Andrew Chen
The Dealmaker The Cold Start Problem
Lessons from a Life in Private Equity How to take your business from launch-pad to
An inside account of the multi-billion pound world of From Airbnb to Uber, a revelatory exploration of how
private equity and a masterclass on the art of networks effects can turbo-charge businesses - from
dealmaking one of Silicon Valley's best-respected investors
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An inside account of the multi-billion pound world of private 'A true Silicon Valley insider' WIRED
equity and a masterclass on the art of deal-making.
Why do some companies grow exponentially overnight? And what
The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexic can we learn from them?
child who struggled at school went on to graduate from Oxford and become
a serial entrepreneur. It describes Guy Hand's career in private equity, first In the age of Facebook, Amazon and Apple, founders must answer a big
at Nomura and then as head of his own company, Terra Firma. It looks in question. The established tech companies have an almost insurmountable
detail at the huge deals that Terra Firma has done over the years, involving advantage - making it nearly impossible to break into their markets. This is
everything from cinema chains and pubs to waste management, aircraft the Cold Start Problem.
leasing and green energy. And it offers a brutally honest appraisal of the
one deal that turned sour - the acquisition of multinational music recording Now, one of Silicon Valley's most esteemed investors explains how to
and publishing company EMI in 2007, just as a global financial crash loomed surmount the Cold Start Problem - and take your business from idea to
on the horizon. Above all, it takes the reader inside the previously very reality.
secretive world of private equity, explaining how this multi-billion pound
sector operates and providing pen-portraits of some of the larger-than-life His solution lies in the power of network effects, the hidden force behind the
figures who people it. Both insightful and page-turning, it will prove success of the world's leading tech companies. Put simply, network effects
inspirational and essential reading for all those concerned with or interested explain the way a product becomes more useful the more people use it.
in the world of investment. Think of a telephone: there's nothing more redundant than a phone without
a connection at the other end. But, as more people join the network, the
phone becomes exponentially more useful - until, one day, your phone
Guy Hands, who was born in 1959, graduated with an MA in Politics, becomes impossible to live without. This phenomenon has always existed,
Philosophy and Economics from Mansfield College, Oxford, and then went to but is even more crucial in an age of hyper-connected online media
work for Goldman Sachs International where he became Head of Eurobond platforms.
Trading, and then Head of Goldman Sachs' Global Asset Structuring Group.
He left Goldman Sachs in 1994 for Nomura International plc where he The Cold-Start Problem is the first business book to outline how companies
established PFG before spinning out Terra Firma as an independent private can use network effects to grow at speed. Andrew Chen - investor, blogger,
equity firm in 2002. Since then, he has overseen the investment of €17 and general partner at VC firm Andreesen Horowitz - argues that networks
billion of equity in 35 businesses with an aggregate value of €48 billion. In hold the key to understanding every notable business of the digital age. He
2012, Guy was named the 20th most influential figure in Private Equity interviews dozens of the leading figures in tech, including the founders of
International's '100 Most Influential of the Decade'. He established Terra LinkedIn, Tinder DropBox and Airbnb, to unravel how network effects can
Firma Capital Partners Limited's commitment to donate 10% of annual pre- make or break an organisation.
tax profits to local initiatives in London, while Terra Firma Capital
Management Limited supports numerous charities in Guernsey. He is also Above all, he outlines a step-by-step framework for using network effects to
President of 'Access for Excellence' which promotes access to higher grow any company, big or small. Your company can overcome the Cold
education. Additionally, Guy is a fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh's award Start Problem - this book explains how.
scheme. In 2018, Guy was awarded Spear's 'Philanthropist of the Year'. He
is also a member of the University of Oxford Chancellor's Court of Andrew Chen is best known for his newsletter on tech and business, which
Benefactors. has grown to nearly 200,000 followers in just over two years. He is currently
a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, the investment company behind
Twitter, Airbnb, Github, Lyft and Skype. He was formerly head of rider
growth at Uber, where he oversaw an increase from 15 million to 100
million active users of the platform.
17Jake Humphrey and Damian
Hughes
High Performance
A revelatory guide to excellence in sport, business and
life - based on the hit High Performance Podcast
December 2021
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Unlock the secrets of high performance.
As one of Britain's best-respected sports presenters, Jake Humphrey has
witnessed first-hand the highs and lows of some of the most remarkable
athletes on earth. And in his multi-million download podcast, High
Performance, he teams up with Professor Damian Hughes to examine the
secrets of the world's highest-performing people - in sport, in business and
in life.
Now, Jake and Damian reveal how we can all become high performers.
Drawing on interviews with leading sportspeople and entrepreneurs, they
uncover the nine hidden principles that drive high performers to success:
from taking absolute responsibility for their situation, to working out their
non-negotiable 'trademark behaviours', to getting the very best out of their
teammates. And they draw on cutting-edge psychology to explain why
these methods have such a transformative impact.
Above all, Jake and Damian reveal how to build the principles of high
performance into our own lives, whether on the pitch, in our careers, or at
home.
You too can harness the secrets of high performance. This book explains
how.
Drawing on interviews with: Ben Ainslie | Steven Bartlett | Lily Cole |
Tom Daley | Rio Ferdinand | Steven Gerrard | Kelly Holmes | Steph
Houghton | Chris Hoy | Eddie Jones | Kelly Jones | Siya Kolisi | Frank
Lampard | Jo Malone | Matthew McConaughey | Ant Middleton | Tracey
Neville | Phil Neville | Robin Van Persie | Nims Purja | Mauricio Pochettino |
Jonny Wilkinson | Clive Woodward | and many more . . .
Jake Humphrey is one of the UK's best-respected sports presenters.
Currently the lead Premier League football presenter on BT Sport, Jake
previously spent over a decade at the BBC - covering Formula 1, the FIFA
World Cup, the London Olympics and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, as
well as becoming the youngest ever presenter of Match of the Day.
Damian Hughes is an expert on high-performance sporting cultures and a
visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. The author of a
number of bestselling books, Damian's research has been praised by the
likes of Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger
Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.
In 2020, Jake and Damian launched The High Performance Podcast to offer
an intimate glimpse into the lives of high-achieving individuals. In its first
18CENTURY
19James Patterson James Patterson
Private Rogue The Shadow
(Private 16)
The new thriller in James Patterson's bestselling The latest stand-alone thriller from James Patterson
Private series, featuring private investigator Jack
Morgan
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In Afghanistan, an experienced pilot is shot down during a covert mission. Only two people know Lamont Cranston's secret identity as the Shadow, a
The man survives the crash, but is pursued into the mountains by Russian vigilante of justice: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy,
operatives. Shiwan Khan. Then Khan ambushes the couple, who find the slimmest
chance of survival . . . in the uncertain future.
In New York, a wealthy businessman hires Jack Morgan to track down his
daughter, who has gone missing along with her two children. But it is more A century and a half later, Lamont awakens in a world both unknown and
than a missing persons case, the daughter has been linked to the murder of strangely familiar. The first person he meets is Maddy Gomes, a teenager
two men. with her own mysterious secrets, including a more than passing awareness
of the legend of the Shadow.
Jack finds the missing daughter and discovers that she is being pursed, and
killed two of her pursers in her escape. Jack takes the woman and her Most disturbing, Khan's power continues to be felt over New York and its
children into his protection, but now he is harbouring a wanted murderer. people. No one in this new world understands the dangers of stopping him
better than Lamont Cranston. He also knows he's the only one who stands a
As Jack discovers more of the backstory of this woman and her children, he chance. Lamont must prove that the Shadow is more than just a legend.
realises the only way to clear her name is for him to head to Afghanistan,
and face the traumatic memories of his own time there serving as a US JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of
Marine many years ago. all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He
is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades -
JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of the Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and
all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers
is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades - including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.
the Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and
Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own
including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young
readers including the Middle School, Dog Diaries, Treasure Hunters and Max
James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent
son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young bookshops and has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the
readers including the Middle School, Dog Diaries, Treasure Hunters and Max past thirteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.
Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent
bookshops and has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the
past thirteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.
20Felice Fallon Lisa Jewell
Interviews with an Ape The Night She Disappeared
A remarkable novel about vulnerable animals and the From the global number one bestselling author of The
men who hunt them. And it's about us: our pasts and Family Upstairs: a missing woman, an abandoned
our present, and the way we see the world. mansion, family trauma, and deep buried secrets. It
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'An unusually powerful book - and a timely one too.' MICHAEL PALIN ___________________________
NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER: the brand new twisting page
'Revealing, perceptive and chilling in turns, the book is unlike any turner from Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of THE FAMILY
other I have read. Felice Fallon's ability to write with so many UPSTAIRS and INVISIBLE GIRL
voices makes Interviews with an Ape compelling and thought-
provoking. It will break your heart and change your mind.' JOANNA "Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back
LUMLEY to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?"
Ripped from family. Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving
Sold into captivity. her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.
Held for financial gain.
At 11pm she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30am Kim awakens to
This is a book about vulnerable animals and the men who interact with discover that Tallulah has not come home
them. And it's about us. Our pasts and our present, and the way we see the
world. Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a
house in the woods nearby called Dark Place
It's about the triumph of hope, our infinite capacities to endure and to love -
and how we survive through the tales we tell. Tallulah never returns.
Most of all it's a story of homecoming told through a gorilla called Einstein 2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her
who comes to us with a remarkable secret. He can communicate with boyfriend has just started as a head-teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a
humans through sign language. fence.
Interviews With An Ape is a work of imaginative daring, written with a direct A sign that says: DIG HERE . . .
simplicity yet deep insight. A novel of beginnings and endings, destruction ___________________________
and restoration, its many voices will linger long in the memory and in the
heart. A cold case. An abandoned mansion. A family hiding a terrible
secret.
Felice was born in Los Angeles, California and worked in advertising in New Prepare to be hooked. Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet.
York before moving to London to marry and raise a family. In her mid-fifties
she read History, Politics and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. LISA JEWELL was born in London in 1968.
Her debut novel, Interviews with an Ape is about our relationships with
animals, one another and the natural world, imagined in a series of Her first novel, Ralph's Party, was the best- selling debut novel of 1999.
interlinking stories by a group of vulnerable animals told to a gorilla named Since then she has written another eighteen novels, most recently a number
Einstein, who can communicate with humans through sign language. of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone and
The Family Upstairs (all of which were Richard & Judy Book Club picks).
Lisa is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author
who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives
in north London with her husband, two teenage daughters, one cat, one
guinea pig and the best dog in the world.
21Emma Hughes James Patterson
No Such Thing As Perfect The Noise
A smart, funny and moving love story about a woman A stunning psychological suspense novel from the
who signs up to a dating service that uses her entire world's bestselling thriller writer
online history to find her perfect match. Perfect for
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____________________________ Terror has a new sound . . . and it comes from the darkest corners
'I lost count of the number of times I laughed out loud, I was of James Patterson's imagination.
rooting for Laura from the first page. Tender, funny, smart and
brilliantly observed. The perfect blend of uplifting escapism and Young sisters, Sophie and Tennant Riggin, are the only two people to
social satire, an utter page turner and such a clever, perceptive withstand a massive explosion that destroys their community, located in the
moving one. I LOVED it!' DAISY BUCHANAN shadow of Oregon's Mt. Hood.
No one's life is as perfect as it looks. A team of elite government investigators are sent to research the fallout and
the girls - why did only they survive? - but with conflicting objectives. For Dr
Least of all Laura Morrison's. (Although she's not sure how perfect hanging Martha Chan, a psychologist who analyses large-scale medical emergencies:
onto your job by a thread and sleeping on an air mattress at your sister's study them. For Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Fraser, a career military
looks, in all honesty.) leader with an inherent mistrust of civilians: contain them.
When Laura gets the chance to trial Cupid - a high-tech new dating service But as the disturbance replicates across the Pacific Northwest, it threatens to
which will draw on everything she's ever done online to find her perfect topple the chain of command. Dr Chan and Lieutenant Colonel Fraser are
match - she figures it's got to be worth a try. caught between the perpetrators of the threat - and those who have the
power to resist.
She can't believe her luck when good-looking, kind considerate Adam turns
up for their first date. On paper he's...well...perfect. JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of
all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He
But when Laura develops feelings for the person who led her to Adam in the is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades -
first place, familiar doubt creeps in. the Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and
Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers
Maybe for life to start falling into place, Laura has to learn to let go... including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.
Sharply-observed and laugh-out-loud funny, NO SUCH THING AS James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own
PERFECT is the perfect novel for anyone who has ever wondered if son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young
there's a formula for finding love. readers including the Middle School, Dog Diaries, Treasure Hunters and Max
____________________________ Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent
'Brimming with wit and razor sharp observations' SOPHIE COUSENS, bookshops and has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the
author of This Time Next Year past thirteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.
'A fresh, funny, sexy tale of dating woes, family expectations,
technological adventure, and loyal friendships, this book will make
your world a brighter place' KATHERINE HEINY
'It is so funny (properly laugh-out-loud funny) and smart and full
of characters I feel like I know' LAURA KAY
'Whip-smart on relationships, especially the trickiest of family
dynamics, all so tenderly and charmingly drawn too' ABBIE GREAVES
Emma Hughes is a London-based freelance writer and editor who has
worked for a number of publications including Time Out, Wired, ES, The
Telegraph and Eater. She studied English at Cambridge before being
awarded a bursary to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University
22Anthony Horowitz James Patterson
A Line to Kill Jailhouse Lawyer
By the global bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, Two brand-new legal thrillers in one book - from the
the third novel in his acclaimed Hawthorne and authors of Juror No. 3
Horowitz series. One island, two murders and a killer
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'I couldn't see the sea from my bedroom but I could hear the Justice in a small town can be hard to come by - especially when
waves breaking in the distance. They reminded me that I was on a the judges, jailers and jury all know each other.
tiny island. And I was trapped.'
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are
There has never been a murder on Alderney. misdemeanours. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.
It's a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released?
perfect location for a brand new literary festival. Private Investigator Daniel There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets.
Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book. The writer, Anthony
Horowitz, travels with him. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard
time.
Very soon they discover that not all is as it should be. Alderney is in turmoil
over a planned power line that will cut through it, desecrating a war JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of
cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour. all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He
is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades -
The visiting authors - including a blind medium, a French performance poet the Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and
and a celebrity chef - seem to be harbouring any number of unpleasant Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers
secrets. including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.
When the festival's wealthy sponsor is found brutally killed, Alderney goes James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own
into lockdown and Hawthorne knows that he doesn't have to look too far for son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young
suspects. readers including the Middle School, Dog Diaries, Treasure Hunters and Max
Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent
There's no escape. The killer is still on the island. And there's about to be a bookshops and has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the
second death... past thirteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.
Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed
Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; two James Bond
novels, Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day; and the acclaimed crime
novel Magpie Murders.
He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for
creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series
including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War.
He regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and
magazines on subjects ranging from politics to education. He was awarded
an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014.
A Line About Killing is the third in a series of crime novels starring Private
Investigator Daniel Hawthorne, and follows on from The Sentence is Death.
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