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What If Reform Wins
A Scenario
Peter Chappell
A compulsive non-fiction thriller that imagines what might happen if Reform win a majority at the next general election
At 10pm on 28th June 2029, exit polls predict that Nigel Farage will be the 60th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This is the story of what could happen next.
What If Reform Wins is a chilling and deeply researched scenario that takes us day-byday, minute-by-minute through a world in which Reform has the opportunity to put their policies into practice, from deporting 600,000 people to leaving the ECHR, abandoning net zero and ending the BBC’s licence fee. How will people fight back against mass deportations and fracking? And will this self-described ‘ill-disciplined pirate ship’ survive the rigours of government?
Drawing on dozens of new interviews, Peter Chappell, a reporter at The Times, explores a nation on a new and dystopian path in this compulsive non-fiction thriller.
P Peter Chappell is a breaking news reporter at The Times, having previously worked with the Spectator and the BBC. He has written for The Times, the Guardian, Sky News and Prospect Magazine. He was nominated for the Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism in 2018. Peter was born and raised in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.
Hardback 9781399433723 • £14.99
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Continuum
Living the 100-Year Life
How to build a career that lasts and a life you love
Lynda Gratton
How will you live your 100-year life? Bestselling author Lynda Gratton explores how we can navigate the challenges of a longer life, build a fulfilling career, and maintain a sense of purpose as we age
In a world of longer lives and constant change, work is no longer a single straight path. It is a fabric we weave – with threads of mastery, friendship, calm, intimacy, adventure, cooperation, knowing, and amplification. How we strengthen and reweave these threads will shape not just our working lives, but our happiness, health, and sense of purpose across a century.
In Living the 100-Year Life, Lynda Gratton – acclaimed co-author of The 100-Year Life –offers a practical and deeply human guide to navigating this new reality. Drawing on global research, expert voices, and the stories of four fictional characters at different life stages, Gratton helps you discover what each of the eight threads can make possible for you and weave a working life that is resilient, meaningful, and uniquely yours.
This is not a book about extending life for its own sake. It is a book about finding joy in friendships, resilience in calm, creativity in adventure, and purpose in work.
L Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School and founder of the advisory practice HSM Advisory. She is an award-winning author on the future of work and the role of corporation. Her ten books, including The 100-Year Life (Bloomsbury, 2016) have sold over a million copies and have been translated into more than 20 languages.
September 2026
9781399432955 • £22.00
TERRITORY: World English Bloomsbury Continuum
Homer Haunted
The Many Afterlives of an Ancient Poet Henry Power
This is the story of how Homer, the ancient poet of the Odyssey and the Iliad, still haunts us today
The siege of Troy and Odysseus’ long voyage home have inspired many of our most thrilling and radical poets . Henry Power takes us on a surprising journey through the afterlives of these mysterious epics, first sung thousands of years ago by a poet who may never have existed.
Power guides us through the twists and turns of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Travelling to the places where Homer’s stories have taken root – from the islands of Greece to the Scottish Highlands, from the Devon coast to suburban Los Angeles – he traces the footsteps of the poets, politicians, lunatics, and lovers haunted by mythical heroes and monsters.
Boldly original, dazzling and, above all, a heartfelt testimony to the power of poetry, Homer Haunted is an epic account of how our oldest stories have shaped the way we read, write, and think.
H Henry Power is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter. He has an international profile as an academic and has held visiting posts at All Souls College, Oxford; Yale University; the Huntington Library, California, and Peking University, Beijing. He is also a regular contributor to publications such as the TLS, Evening Standard and Literary Review
The Best Kind of American
A Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
Kim Ghattas
The gripping story of the assassination of Malcolm Kerr and the intertwined fates of America and the Middle East.
On the morning of January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, stepped out of the elevator in College Hall and was shot in the head by two gunmen. His murder, carried out in the midst of the Lebanese civil war—alongside an Israeli invasion, Palestinian guerrilla warfare, and the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks—made headlines for only three days.
Four decades later, the question of why he was murdered, and by whom, still haunts Kerr’s family, including his son Steve, a now world-famous championship basketball player and NBA coach.
Beginning with America’s entanglement in Lebanon in the early 1980s, Ghattas shows how one murder set in motion a conflict—including bombings, hijackings, and hostages— whose repercussions continue to shape the Middle East and the world, culminating in the Iran-Israel-US military showdown in the summer of 2025.
July 2026
Hardback 9781399428156 • £22.00
TERRITORY: World English Bloomsbury Continuum
K Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist and writer who covered the Middle East for twenty years for the BBC and the Financial Times. She has also reported on American politics and has been published in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy and is currently a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. October
TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market Bloomsbury Continuum
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Russia Starts Here
Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire - Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Prize 2025
Howard Amos
An extraordinary investigation into the lives of ordinary people in Russia, and what lies behind Putin's popularity.
On Russia’s borderlands, people live among the ruins of successive empires. Pskov, an old Slavic land of forgotten stories and faded waysides, has weathered the tides of history. Once a thriving hub of cultural exchange, today it is one of the poorest regions in this vast nation. To explore the darkness at the heart of Putin’s regime, Howard Amos journeys through a landscape of depopulated towns and rewilding fields. This is a lyrical portrait of Russia where it borders NATO and the EU – a place of frontiers that reveals unfamiliar and uncomfortable truths. In a country where history has been erased, the voices Howard Amos spotlights are a powerful antidote against forgetting. From the last inhabitants of a dying village to the long-term residents of a psychiatric hospital, Howard Amos uncovers compelling stories shaped by violence, tragedy and loss.
Howard Amos is a writer and journalist, who has been published by outlets including The Guardian, The Associated Press and Politico. He spent a year living in Russia’s Pskov Region before working for almost a decade as a correspondent in Moscow. After the invasion of Ukraine, he did a stint as editor-in-chief of The Moscow Times. He lives in Edinburgh.
TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open
Soft
A Brief History of Sentimentality
Ferdinand Mount
A sweeping history of emotion that spans the decades, from renowned author Ferdinand Mount
In Soft, Ferdinand Mount tells the millennium-long history of emotion through masterly storytelling and bizarre historical anecdotes.
He explores the shifting importance societies have placed on empathy. Each seismic moment, Mount argues, from the French Revolution to Civil Rights, has had a corresponding sentimental revolution that has fuelled these great political turning-points.
But no one wants to be accused of being sentimental; its detractors call it soppy, effeminate and populist. The Reformation tried to stamp out excessive emotion, the Victorians resolutely maintained their stiff upper lips and no one loathed sentimentality more than the modernists – and yet, today, it is not the stoics who are ruling the roost: we are living in an age of emotion.
This is a witty, pacey story of the understanding of emotions and the way they have swayed civilisation.
F Ferdinand Mount was Political Editor of The Spectator and Editor of The Times Literary Supplement. For two years he was head of Margaret Thatcher’s think-tank.
His recent titles include Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca and Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall, from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
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Gilded Rage
Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
Jacob Silverman
Insight into the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Donald Trump, and how it will affect our lives.
New York Times bestselling author Jacob Silverman takes us inside the surreal, highstakes world of Silicon Valley. This is the story of the political awakening and radicalization of a cabal of tech billionaires and their descent into ideological extremism.
At the center is Elon Musk, the mogul whose obsession with the “woke mind virus” has turned him from a tech innovator to an ideological crusader. But Musk is just the beginning. Silverman maps a sprawling network of radicalized elites - from Peter Thiel and JD Vance to the financiers bankrolling Donald Trump’s return - who are using their platforms and their money to ensure a political revolution that’s already underway.
Silverman travels from San Francisco to Miami, New York to DC, reporting on a cast of extraordinary characters. Gilded Rage is a gripping, essential dispatch from the front lines of the billionaire revolution.
J JACOB SILVERMAN is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection and co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He’s a contributing editor at The New Republic and The Baffler, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and many other publications.
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Continuum
SCIENCE AND NATURE
SCIENCE AND NATURE
How to Design a Universe
The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds
Catherine Heymans
Could we be living in a computer simulation or our reality a sophisticated digital illusion? How could we even know?
In How to Design a Universe, Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans takes you on a humorous and mind-bending journey through the science of reality itself. From the quantum quirks of subatomic particles to the cosmic mysteries of dark matter and the secrets of the human senses, Heymans explores whether humanity could ever create a virtual universe as rich and diverse as our own – and what that means for our sense of self, free will and consciousness.
Blending personal stories, pop culture, cutting-edge technology and ground-breaking experiments, this book makes the biggest questions in science accessible and urgent. How to Design a Universe will change the way you see the world – and your place in it.
C Catherine Heymans is Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the first woman to hold the title, whose research has been featured in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Washington Post and New Scientist. She is a regular contributor to BBC radio.
September 2026
Hardback 9781399421447 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sigma
Influenced
The science of why we buy
Aarron Atkinson-Toal
Influenced reveals the invisible forces shaping your spending habits, from impulse buys to brand loyalty
Have you ever questioned your sanity looking at all your unnecessary purchases after a late-night online shopping spree? Or worse still, have no recollection of buying them at all?
Every purchase we make is influenced by hidden forces, from what you’re wearing, to what you’ll eat for lunch and what you’re going to watch on television. These choices are designed by marketers who know which parts of the psyche to prod to get the customer to feel, think, believe and behave a certain way.
Influenced uncovers the science behind our buying decisions, revealing the psychology of decision-making, from the emotional triggers you don’t notice, the quirks of personality that shape your spending and the surprising influence of other people. Drawing on cuttingedge research and real-world examples, Aarron Atkinson-Toal offers a fascinating look at the inner workings of the consumer mind – and how understanding it can change how you shop.
Aarron Atkinson-Toal is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Durham University. His experience spans a broad range of marketing, business and psychology.
November 2026
Hardback 9781399427807 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sigma
Future Build
How construction can help heal the planet
Will Arnold
Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change
Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our cities, Future Build reveals how our dependence on five key materials has led to soaring carbon emissions, waste and ecological destruction.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Structural engineer Will Arnold offers a bold vision for change, revealing how every stage of construction - from design to demolition - can be transformed for the better. Through a global journey of pioneering projects and groundbreaking innovations, he showcases buildings that do more than just minimize harm: they actively heal the planet. From schools built of bamboo, to concrete floors designed with plant-like efficiency and houses made from waste, a better future is not only possible, it is already being built.
Will Arnold is a multiple award-winning environmentalist and structural engineer, and a visiting professor at the University of Bath. He is best known for his work around policy, standards and guidance related to the sustainable use of construction materials.
TERRITORY: World English Bloomsbury Sigma
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Six Minutes to Winter
Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
Mark Lynas
Nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanity's survival than climate change - why aren't we talking about it?
A blip comes onto radar screens, followed by another. False alarm? System malfunction? Or is a massive missile about to hit? With America's 'launch on warning' policy, the US president has as little as six minutes to decide whether to mount a nuclear response.
There are no marches, no COPs, no nuclear Greta, but a full nuclear exchange would literally mean the end of civilisation, destroying in a week what has taken millennia to build. In the post-nuclear global darkness, there would be no photosynthesis. The biosphere would be wiped out in a mass extinction rivalled only by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Virtually the entire global human population would starve.
The time to act is now. Six Minutes to Winter outlines the horror but also proposes building an international political movement fighting for the total global abolition of these terrible weapons.
Mark Lynas is the author of five environmental books, and 2012 winner of the inaugural Breakthrough Paradigm Award. His book Six Degrees won the 2008 Royal Society science books prize and was translated into 22 languages. He is an advisor for WePlanet, a proscience environmental network, and has also written for the Guardian, and New York Times and Washington Post.
The Long History of the Future
Why tomorrow's technology still isn't here
Nicole Kobie
We love to imagine dramatic future technology, but why is it always just around the corner and never a reality?
For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart cities. And why not? Building a better world — be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle — is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. But why are these innovations always out of reach?
Delving into the remarkable history of technology, The Long History of the Future introduces us to the clever scientists, genius engineers and eccentric innovators who first brought these ideas to life and have struggled to make them work since. These stories reveal a more realistic picture of how these technologies may evolve — and how we'll eventually get to use them. You may never be able to buy a fully driverless car, but automated braking and steering could slash collision rates. Smart cities won't perfect city life, but they could help empty bins on time. Hyperloops may never arrive, but superfast trains are already here.
We always believe current technology is the best it could be. By looking to the past and the future, Nicole Kobie shows how history always proves us wrong and how what lies ahead may not be what we imagine, but so much better.
Nicole Kobie is a technology and science journalist. A contributing and futures editor for Wired and PC Pro, her research has appeared in publications from Teen Vogue to New Scientist and GQ. Nicole specialises in debunking PR around future tech, reporting on the limitations of flying cars and computer-brain interfaces and the slow progress in developing self-driving cars.
July 2024
Hardback 9781399403108 • £18.99
TERRITORY: World English Bloomsbury Sigma
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To Have or To Hold
Nature's Hidden Relationships
Sophie Pavelle
A thrilling exploration of nature’s symbiotic relationships, some comforting and familiar, others wildly alien, by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not
What can nature teach us about living together? Investigating eight relationships trying to survive the climate crisis, Sophie Pavelle explains why it’s never been more vital we understand how nature’s symbiotic relationships regulate ecosystems, strengthen resilience and bind pivotal connections.
Symbiotic relationships don’t happen accidentally – these dynamics evolved. Alliances form and sever everywhere, from deep within temperate rainforests to the open ocean, quiet tidal pools or chalk grasslands, and nature thrives on relationships as glamorous as they are grotesque and as bizarre as they are engrossing.
While low-carbon travelling around the British Isles, Sophie relishes nature’s interconnectedness and presents its frauds, fortune-tellers, misfits and cheaters. Nature is built on a cunning blend of bargaining and exploitation in the name of survival. In our relationship with the natural world, are we the parasites? Will we continue to exploit nature’s resources? Or will we love and cherish what remains, shaping a more restorative life alongside nature until death do us part?
Sophie Pavelle is a US-born and UK-based science communicator. She worked for Beaver Trust and presented their award-winning documentary Beavers Without Borders. She is an Ambassador for The Wildlife Trusts and sits on the RSPB England Advisory Committee. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller, New Scientist, The Independent and BBC magazines. Her first book, Forget Me Not, was widely praised for encouraging action against climate change and biodiversity loss.
V is for Venom
Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death
Kathryn Harkup
Fourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn’t mean it's all made-up
Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off victims. And what better way to add intrigue to a story than poison? The surreptitious ways they can be administered and the characteristic symptoms they produce make them the ideal murder weapon in a ‘whodunit’. But how is it that some compounds prove so fatal, and in such tiny amounts?
The follow up to Kathryn Harkup's best-selling A is for Arsenic, V is for Venom is an exploration of Christie’s use of poisons and her extensive chemical knowledge. It explores the science behind the lethal compounds – how they affect the body, the history of their use in real-life murders and the feasibility of obtaining, administering and detecting these chemicals, both when the novels were written and today.
V is for Venom is a celebration of the use of science by the undisputed Queen of Crime.
K Kathryn Harkup is a former chemist turned author. Her first book, A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie, was shortlisted for a Mystery Readers International Macavity Award and a BMA Book Award. Her other works include Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts and Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond.
July 2026
Paperback 9781399412179 • £10.99
Hardback 9781399412162 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Wildlife
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Ghosted
A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking
Alice Vernon
A social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost hunting
Belief in ghosts is ancient, but active ghost hunting is relatively recent. Investigations into the paranormal have developed hand-in-spirit-hand with scientific discoveries, from radio waves to smartphone apps. Is it to help process grief? Just curiosity? Or to ease our fear of death?
Ghosted explores paranormal investigations from the Victorian era to the modern day, examining how ghost hunting has changed alongside technology and culture. Where we once gathered around séance tables we now take app-laden phones around haunted locations. Where conjurers once recreated the tricks of fraudulent mediums in concert halls, we now pick apart evidence of the supernatural presented on TV.
In this book, Alice Vernon delves into the history of ghost hunting and encourages us to challenge our own scepticism and beliefs. Ghosted examines what we are looking for, and why we have never quite given up the ghost.
Dr Alice Vernon is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. Her debut book, Night Terrors explored troubled sleep in literature and culture, and was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Her research focuses on parapsychology, sleep disorders, and the horror genre.
World English Bloomsbury Sigma
My Double Life
Mark Foster
The colourful story of one of Britain’s best loved sportsmen, and his thirty year long coming out journey
If anyone was going to come out as gay at the height of their sporting career it should have been Mark Foster – a confident, laid-back guy who doesn’t care what anyone thinks. So how is it that it took someone like him half a lifetime to come out?
From a Jack-the-lad from Southend to becoming the fastest man through water on the planet and a television favourite, Mark takes readers on a remarkable journey. He shares with us the sometimes serious and sometimes comic tactics that enabled him to live a double life for so long and convince himself he was happy doing so.
But Mark’s story, told with humour and honesty, makes us stop and reassess where we really are in terms of society’s approach to homosexuality and diversity in sport.
Inspiring and moving, A Double Life is the story of one man’s pursuit of sporting prowess and finding the freedom to live his truth.
M Mark Foster is an English former competitive swimmer, broadcaster and public speaker. He is a five-time Olympian, six-time World Champion and eight-time World Record holder over a 23-year professional swimming career. Foster trains and inspires the next generation of competitive swimmers through the Mark Foster Swimming Academy and is a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ community, promoting compassion, equality and inclusion.
July 2026
Hardback 9781399425162 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners
The British women who asserted their right to run
Katie
Holmes
The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and pioneered female running today.
Until April 1975 women in the UK were not permitted to race more than four miles and were banned from racing against men. Back in the 1960s, women started to break the rules and ‘crash’ men’s road races, challenging discrimination and showing that they were perfectly capable of running marathons – or even further. This book shines a light on the development of women’s distance running in the UK and the women who believed in their right to run.
Sports historian Katie Holmes shares the untold stories of these female pioneers. Amidst social and cultural change, feminism and the 1970s jogging craze and the marathon boom of the early 1980s, these inspirational women broke the rules, broke records and broke barriers.
This is a fascinating, inspiring account of how British women asserted their right to run long distance and changed the landscape of running for good.
Katie Holmes is an independent sports historian. She is a recognised expert in the field of women’s distance running and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars. She was awarded the Sporting Inequities Prize 2022 by British Society of Sports History for outstanding work in an under-researched area. Holmes is a keen runner and is based in Nottingham. Runyoung50.co.uk / @RunYoung50
August 2026
Hardback 9781399425353 • £22.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
The Cycling Addiction
A Radical Rethink of Pain, Passion and Performance
Phil Cavell
The author of The Midlife Cyclist explores how our cycling addiction can safely be used to become stronger and faster
‘Make pain your friend’ is a mantra cyclists at every level take to heart – pain is the internationally recognised currency of bike racing. You become immersed, single-minded, even obsessed with your training and racing. However, in a sport that requires such a physical and emotional investment, Phil stops to ask: where’s your head at?
The Cycling Addiction helps riders to understand and improve their most effective cycling muscle: the human brain. Each chapter focuses on a plausible justification as to why so many of us seek to suffer, and why our bikes are our preferred instruments of self-torture.
Phil Cavell turns to psychiatrists, team physicians, and stars such as Philippa York, Chris Boardman and Eddy Merckx for answers. With a profound understanding of and respect for the cycling tribe, this book examines how our addiction can be controlled and utilised to reboot our mindsets and revolutionise our riding, for good.
P Phil Cavell is joint founder of the pioneering Cyclefit organisation which runs worldwide education programmes and provides bike-fitting services to professional cycling teams and athletes. He is the author of the best-selling Midlife Cyclist.
July 2026
Trade Paperback 9781399419178 • £15.99
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
The Gentleman
Gianluca Vialli and How He Changed English Football Forever
Luca Dal Monte
A vivid, incredibly heartfelt account of Gianluca Vialli’s enduring legacy as a Premier League icon and London gentleman
Gianluca Vialli signed for Chelsea on a free transfer in May 1996. An international striker at his peak, he left Italy’s star-studded Serie A for a mid-table club in a fledgling Premier League. This engrossing book tells how he made London his home, transformed the trajectory of the club and helped change English football forever.
Brought to England by Ruud Gullit to bring ‘sexy football’ to Stamford Bridge, Vialli more than delivered. In his philosophy and approach, he adapted the lessons he had learned in Italy to the passion and soul of the English game.
Written by his lifelong friend Luca Dal Monte, the book reveals what was in the striker and player-manager’s heart and mind. From Vialli’s time at Chelsea and brief spell as Watford manager, to his struggle with pancreatic cancer, this is a gripping account of a man who left an indelible mark on the English game.
L Luca Dal Monte was born in Cremona, Italy. He is the author of 20 books including Ferrari Rex, a study of Enzo Ferrari. He met Luca Vialli in nursery school and then played football with him until Vialli had to stop playing for fun to join U.S. Cremonese. They remained lifelong friends.
August 2026
Hardback 9781399431828 • £16.99
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
Fanzine
The story of football's alternative press
Daniel Gray
A history of how fanzines redefined football and amplified supporters’ voices.
When the matchday many were treated as the hooligan few, football supporters didn’t react with violence or vandalism, but with typewriters, staple guns and Tippex. The fanzine movement of the 1980s transformed a bleak time into a hopeful one, re-humanising spectators in the process.
Producing DIY zines and selling them outside football grounds, supporters offered authenticity, humour and criticism written from the terraces and not the press box, with truths that their clubs and the footballing authorities found uncomfortable. From Heysel and Hillsborough to anti-racism and the women’s game, the millions of zines sold every season agitated for positive change, unifying fans across the nation.
This book is a people’s history of football and wider Britain in the late 20th century. It is an alternative version of our national game’s narrative, encompassing themes that still matter now from social class and club ownership to the dubious nature of pie contents.
Daniel Gray is a writer, broadcaster and magazine editor from York. He presents the When Saturday Comes podcast and has published a host of critically acclaimed books on football and social history, including The Silence of the Stands which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023. @d_gray_writer
Sir Alex Ferguson : The Lost Tapes
Manchester United’s Greatest Era Retold
Wayne Barton
On the 40-year anniversary of Ferguson's arrival at Manchester United, this is the story of the club’s greatest manager – told through previously unheard tapes
Using 400 hours of exclusive, previously unheard or published audio archive from 1986–2013, interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson and many of his players, the most successful era in football management history is brought to life in the most remarkable, intimate, and forensic way.
Written by Manchester United historian Wayne Barton, the book takes us through the corridors of the Cliff, Carrington, and Old Trafford. It is a fly on the dressing room wall of Manchester United and their opponents. It is a recorder at press conferences. It is a friend next to Ferguson at the most vulnerable moments. It takes the voices belonging to those who knew, worked with and against Ferguson, and encountered him in his full glory.
Wayne Barton is the author of 20 books on Manchester United. He's been described as the leading writer and an ‘encyclopedia’ on the club. He's interviewed and worked with players through every decade of the club’s post-War years and has produced films in conjunction with Manchester United. He is part of the club’s media team as an editorial consultant. @WayneSBarton
September 2026
Hardback 9781399431705 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
Heading for Trouble
The Art and Risks of Football’s Iconic Skill
Kevin Moore
Headers are thrilling. But football, like many sports, is facing a concussion crisis. Is heading worth it?
Heading the ball is considered as much a part of football as passing, tackling and shooting. Pelé, Cristiano Ronaldo, Robin Van Persie – all have executed memorable headers. But the impact can cause lasting damage. Heading for Trouble is an essential exposé on this dynamic yet increasingly controversial skill.
Through new research and exclusive interviews with former players and neurological experts, Dr Kevin Moore, consultant researcher and founding director of the National Football Museum, explores the fascinating history of heading in football and the dangerous, frequently tragic consequences it can cause. He highlights the football establishment’s inaction and exposes what may be the game’s greatest ever scandal.
Heading for Trouble brilliantly brings this urgent issue into sharp focus and explores how football and heading can move forward without such tragic cost to its players.
D Dr Kevin Moore is the founding director of the National Football Museum and now serves in a research capacity at the Museum. He is on the editorial board of the world-leading academic journal for football, Soccer and Society, and holds key roles at the International Football Institute, the Chinese Football Museum and Indian Sports Museum.
The Football Fan’s Handbook
What does being a football fan entail? Can you be a good or bad one? And just how much passion, knowledge, sensitivity and schadenfreude do you need to pass as a ‘proper' fan? Laced with sharp humour, acclaimed comedy writer and podcaster Kevin Day’s witty exploration of football fandom is part investigation, part psychology and part history.
With the help of top players, legendary managers and celebrity supporters, he dissects what it is that makes a real fan. He discusses the instinct to support a club, how we pick our team and, heart-searchingly, whether we saddle our children with the hopes, despair and occasional exhilaration that has marked our own lives.
Being a football fan isn’t easy. Like any religion, it has its cherished, long-established customs, outdated practices and troublesome elements. This is your guide through this minefield: an in-depth, analytical if sketchily-drawn road map to becoming a ‘real’ fan.
Kevin Day is an acclaimed stand-up comedian and one of the country’s leading comedy writers. He writes for Have I Got News for You and A League of Their Own and regularly appears on TalkSport and BBC 5 Live 2. Kevin also presents a podcast called The Price of Football, and co-authored Unfit and Improper Persons.
September 2026
Hardback 9781399428224 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
October 2026
Hardback 9781399426237 • £14.99
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
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The Final Test
The Uncertain Future of Cricket’s First-Class Game
Huw Turbervill
The editor of The Cricketer goes on a soul-searching journey to discover what the future holds for Test cricket
The Final Test is a love letter to cricket and a manifesto in favour of the Test format. Taking readers on a nostalgic journey, Huw Turbervill shares stories of cricket past and present and of the incredible characters the sport has encountered over the years: Viv Richards, Graham Gooch, David Gower, Merv Hughes, Richard Hadlee and more.
The IPL is expanding, The Hundred still seems to dominate the thoughts of English cricket’s controllers, and the men’s Ashes in 2023 was relegated to a narrow window. As T20 keeps growing internationally and domestically like Japanese knotweed, attracting more fans than ever before, is it still possible for the longer format to retain its wistful shine?
Huw asks a five-star panel of cricketers, commentators and writers if Test cricket can truly survive the next decade. This book is the ultimate soul-searching journey around the great game.
Huw Turbervill has been the editor of The Cricketer since 2021 after 15 years at the Telegraph (doing some touring as Scyld Berry’s sidekick). He started his career in Ipswich at the East Anglian Daily Times. His books include The Toughest Tour: The Ashes Away Series Since the War and The Cricketer’s Anthology of the Ashes.
Bill Edrich
Leo
Record-breaking England cricketer, war RAF hero and Tottenham Hotspur footballer this is the story of one of cricketing’s greatest characters
571 first-class matches from 1934 to 1958. 36,965 runs. 29th on all-time lists. 86 centuries. 479 wickets. Bill Edrich was one of the biggest cricket stars of his time along with Denis Compton and Len Hutton. He even played football for Norwich City and Tottenham Hotspur during the 1930s.
Award-winning writer Leo McKinstry recounts Edrich's audacity both as a cricketer and an RAF pilot. Edrich’s flying prowess brought him a promotion to Squadron Leader and won him the Distinguished Flying Cross.
The same action-filled intensity applied to his turbulent private life and grand total of five marriages. Equally unrestrained was his fondness for alcohol and partying which brought him into conflict with both the cricket and the judicial authorities. After one particularly exuberant display of intoxication during a home Test match, he even lost his place in the England team, only to return for the famous Ashes triumph of 1953.
Leo McKinstry writes for the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Sun and the Daily Express He has also produced major biographies of Geoff Boycott and Jack Hobbs, two great batsmen, and of football legends Jack and Bobby Charlton as well as manager Sir Alf Ramsey. Bill Edrich won the Derek Hodgson Cricket Book of the Year Award.
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
PAPERBACKS
Who Owns Football?
The Changing Face of Club Ownership
Nick Miller
Insightful, enlightening and thought-provoking, leading football journalist Nick Miller discusses football club ownership: the defining issue shaping the modern game
This clear, insightful and thought-provoking guide provides serious football fans with a unique and timely account of modern football ownership: the central issue shaping the game.
Fascinating for supporters looking to understand their club’s and its rivals’ strategy and methods, and those curious about finance and power in football, it reveals how the game's custodians operate. This book relates the jeopardy, strategies, transformative successes and horror stories as it uncovers the complex world of football finance.
Who Owns Football? lifts the lid on the inner workings of modern club ownership. It is an account that will enlighten, surprise and entertain the football obsessive. Full of captivating tales, fascinating characters, high finance and shady deals, it examines the forces at play and discusses how today’s football club ownership models face up to an impending crisis in the game.
Nick Miller is a football writer for The Athletic and the Totally Football Show podcast, and the editor of the Totally Football Show Yearbook . Nick has written for Eurosport and has launched Your Boys Took a Hell of a Quizzing , a weekly football quiz newsletter. @NickMiller79.
Once Upon a Toon
18 Years Inside Newcastle United
Paul Ferris
t Fascinating chronicles of a unique life in football and 18 years a Newcastle United, with a foreword by Alan Shearer
No other individual has had the privilege of working at Newcastle United in the capacity that Paul Ferris once did: as a player between 1981 and 1986, physiotherapist between 1993 and 2003, and finally as a key member of Alan Shearer’s management team in 2009.
This is a light-hearted, often hilarious retelling of endless, unbelievable stories of events Paul experienced, and characters he met. His tales from a bygone era in 1980s football include the likes of Kevin Keegan, Jack Charlton, Paul Gascoigne, George Best and more. Ferris’ chronicles from 18 years at Newcastle United also feature managers such as Graeme Souness, Bobby Robson, the tumultuous 1993–2006 period and Alan Shearer’s ill-fated short tenure.
If you are a Newcastle United supporter, football fan or loved The Boy on the Shed, this book is the ultimate way to revisit the club’s precious glory days of football.
P Paul Ferris is a Northern Irish former footballer, physiotherapist for Newcastle United, barrister and author. His first book, The Boy on The Shed, was a critically-acclaimed bestseller and he also wrote The Magic in the Tin about his journey through prostate cancer. Paul is the CEO of Speedflex, a successful health and fitness business.
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
Victory in Australia
The Remarkable Story of England's Greatest Ashes
Triumph 1954-55
Richard Whitehead
The definitive account of an epic Ashes battle
The Ashes series of 1954–55 marked a watershed moment in the history of English cricket. Under Len Hutton, one of the greatest group of players ever to represent England won an Ashes series in Australia for the first time in more than 20 years. It is a feat that has been repeated only four times since.
But Hutton’s men had to overcome the additional obstacle of losing heavily in the first Test – only one England team has managed to win an overseas Ashes series after such a monumental setback.
The names of the cricketers who locked horns in 1954–55 resonate down the decades –Denis Compton, Frank Tyson, Brian Statham, Trevor Bailey, Godfrey Evans, Peter May and Colin Cowdrey. Among their Australian opponents were Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller, Neil Harvey and Richie Benaud. In the 1950s, these players were not just elite sportsmen, they were household names.
Richard Whitehead worked in newspapers for nearly 40 years, spending 21 of them at The Times, including spells in the sport, books and obituaries sections. He has been writing obituaries for Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack since 2012. His previous books include The Cup: a Pictorial Celebration of the World’s Greatest Football Tournament, The Times on the Ashes and Warne in Wisden
9781399415026 • £22.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Bloomsbury Sport
The Radically Honest Guide to Fertility Treatment
How to navigate the process and take back control
Louise Goddard-Crawley & Jules McDonald
A candid and practical guide to demystify the complexities of fertility treatment
Fertility treatment is one of the most emotionally challenging journeys, yet it’s one that too often leaves people feeling isolated, uninformed, and overwhelmed. The Radically Honest Guide to Fertility Treatment changes that.
Written by two fertility experts with decades of experience, both personal and professional, this book offers a practical, honest guide that empowers readers to take control of their treatment options with confidence and clarity. Infertility affects 1 in 6 people globally, which means that roughly 48 million couples and 186 million individuals worldwide are currently living with infertility,
Drawing from years of professional experience and countless conversations with patients, this book highlights the essential information often overlooked, navigating the NHS or exploring private options available, how fertility medications truly affect patients, the meaning behind test results, the hidden challenges that can arise during treatment, and much more.
D Dr Louise Goddard-Crawley is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS). She specialises in health and fertility psychology and is a former fertility nurse.
J Jules McDonald has over 20 years of experience in patient care and has become a trusted expert in fertility nursing. She has supported patients across every stage of their treatment. July 2026
The Co-Parent
A Toolkit for Parenting Together, Apart
Aaron Dale
The essential guide to help co-parents navigate the intricate journey of raising children across multiple households, following divorce or separation
Contrary to harmful stereotypes, research actually shows that children raised in cooperative co-parenting environments are more likely to feel secure and supported as they grow, despite the changes in family structure.
The Co-Parent gives you the tools to help your family experience the positive aspects of coparenting, while also navigating the more challenging parts. The book contains real-life insights, interviews with experts, practical tips and moments of reflection in order to help you find your own way forward.
Designed for any stage in the co-parenting journey, you will find advice on resolving past conflict, setting boundaries, maintaining healthy communication, managing finances, dealing with new relationships, organising schedules, navigating special occasions and –where applicable – transitioning to a blended family.
Aaron Dale co-parents his two sons and has emerged as a huge beacon of support and guidance for parents navigating the complexities of co-parenting. He is the go-to expert on a subject that affects so many but is rarely discussed. He is also the host of the Raisingboys2men podcast. @Raisingboys2men
September 2026
Trade Paperback 9781399427579 • £16.99
TERRITORY: World All Languages Green Tree
How to Make and Use Compost
The Practical Guide for Everyone
Nicky Scott
Create healthy soil and lower your carbon footprint with this handy guide to composting
A process at the heart of organic gardening, composting is an easy and rewarding way to connect with nature while improving the health of your soil. Most importantly, composting encourages us to live more sustainably by reusing food waste that would otherwise go to landfill.
From wormeries and bokashi to hot boxes and home-made bays, Nicky Scott offers beginner-friendly advice suitable for any space – whether you’re composting in a garden, balcony or a kitchen. The book also includes an A–Z of compostable materials, an extensive list of resources, and tips for setting up school or community schemes.
Packed with beautiful photographs and illustrations, unearth the many rewards of composting with this handy step-by-step guide.
Nicky Scott is the author of several books on composting and recycling. He advises schools, local authorities and businesses on composting kitchen waste and helps set up community composting groups. The ‘hot box’ composter he developed is widely used for composting food waste.
Grower-Gatherer
Edible perennials to grow and forage in your garden
Jack Wallington
Bring the joy of foraging into your own garden with this beautiful guide to growing lowmaintenance edible perennials
Many gardeners enjoy growing crops to harvest, but when winter strips the garden bare, it can be dispiriting. Edible perennials offer a resilient, sustainable alternative: beautiful plants that return each year, need little care, and provide delicious food you can forage.
Award-winning garden writer and designer Jack Wallington shares practical growing advice for fifty of his favourite perennial vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, fungi, and edible flowers. Featuring beautiful photography, clear cultivation guidance and nutritional insights, Grower-Gatherer explains how to site, plant and maintain productive perennial beds that will thrive in a range of conditions. It also includes inspiring interviews with growers worldwide, sharing tips for small urban plots, food forests and community-led spaces.
From asparagus to blackcurrants, pine nuts and oyster mushrooms, Grower-Gatherer is the essential companion to cultivating an environmentally friendly garden that nourishes body and mind year after year.
J Jack Wallington is an award-winning garden writer, designer and food grower. A columnist for Gardeners' World magazine, Jack is a regular contributor to The Guardian and also writes for Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden and the RHS. His acclaimed books Wild about Weeds and A Greener Life were both named The Times' & Sunday Times' 'Gardening Book of the Year'.
September 2026
Hardback 9781399426855 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Green Books
The Botanical Wellness Guide
Natural Herbal Treatment for Common Ailments
Anna Newton
Discover how herbal remedies can treat common ailments and improve your general health
In The Botanical Wellness Guide, professional herbalist Anna Newton reveals how plantbased remedies can help with everyday health issues. From anxiety, eczema and irritable bowel syndrome to treating colds and digestive issues, Anna shares clear guidance for creating a range of herbal infusions, tinctures, ointments and decoctions.
Packed with hundreds of beautiful colour photos, this stunning guide features detailed information on how to use a wide range of versatile herbs. It also includes advice on how to get the best out of herbs for general health, including tips for healthy ageing, boosting energy levels, recovering from a serious illness and lifting your mood.
Whether you're looking to grow a medicinal herb garden, build your own home apothecary or make the most of the herbs and spices you already have in your cupboards, this modern guide is an essential companion for natural self-care.
Anna Newton studied Herbal Medicine at the University of Wales, and has run a successful herbal medicine practice in Cheltenham for the past six years. She is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy.
July 2026
Paperback 9781399422987 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Green Books
Organic Gardening
Volume 1 – The basics of no-dig growing
Charles Dowding
Volume one of Organic Gardening – a green approach to growing healthy, vibrant crops with no-dig beds
The no-dig approach to gardening – based on the key principle of leaving the ground as undisturbed as possible – has gained popularity in recent years as a more efficient, economical and sustainable way to grow healthy plants.
In the first volume of Organic Gardening, leading no-dig gardener Charles Dowding reveals a range of sustainable techniques to grow organic crops while enhancing soil structure. Filled with beautiful photos and inspiring case studies from Charles’ own land, this practical guide is packed with easy-to-follow, expert advice on establishing healthy beds. Charles also explores natural alternative organic gardening approaches, such as growing with the moon and electroculture.
From sowing seeds and making compost to watering techniques and tackling pests and disease, this accessible guide is an essential resource for beginners and experienced gardeners.
C Charles Dowding is a prolific writer on vegetable growing and contributes regularly to many magazines, including Permaculture, Gardeners’ World, Gardens Illustrated and Grow It!, as well as numerous TV and radio shows. A veteran organic grower, Charles gives regular talks, advising gardeners on best practice and runs courses on organic, no-dig gardening.
The Natural Beauty Book
Eco-Friendly Skincare Recipes
Tiffany Francis-Baker
Learn to make your own natural beauty products with this collection of organic, beginnerfriendly recipes.
In The Natural Beauty Book, environmentalist and forager Tiffany Francis-Baker shares more than 40 everyday recipes that use nourishing, eco-friendly and affordable ingredients. From toothpaste and shampoo to soothing body scrubs and bath bombs, each recipe includes clear instructions, suitability for different skin or hair types, application techniques and storage tips.
Aided with beautiful illustrations and photographs throughout, this book also features a useful directory on the most common natural ingredients and the issues they are used to address. A comprehensive introduction outlines the art of making your own skincare, as well as information on the rhythms and cycles of the skin, how the menstrual cycle affects the skin, and how to safely use products when dealing with skin sensitivity and allergies.
Discover the power of natural ingredients, practice self-care and have fun along the way with this empowering guide.
Tiffany Francis-Baker is a writer, artist and environmentalist from the South Downs in Hampshire. She writes and illustrates for national publications and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. Her previous books include Ebb and Flow and the Concise Foraging Guide
October 2026
Paperback 9781399424196 • £25.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Green Books
The Sustainable Gardener
Simple strategies and solutions for eco-conscious growers
Angela Youngman
The definitive guide for anyone looking to become a truly sustainable gardener.
Sustainable gardens are a key element in re-greening our increasingly urban environment as well as maintaining our rural landscape. With simple techniques such as energyefficient landscaping and container planting, even the smallest garden can become a thriving growing space. But knowing how to achieve this and assessing the potential impacts are not always easy.
In this forward-thinking book, Angela Youngman shares her expert knowledge on how to create a beautiful garden that will both survive and flourish in our changing climate. From upcycling garden furniture and growing your own food to rainwater harvesting and living walls, The Sustainable Gardener offers innovative ways to transform your outdoor space. Richly illustrated with creative garden design ideas throughout, the book also includes aspirational case studies and stunning planting lists.
Create a garden buzzing with wildlife and embrace the delights of self-sufficiency with this inspiring new guide.
A Angela Youngman is an author and freelance journalist who specialises in sustainable gardening. A member of the Garden Media Guild, Angela is often called upon to deliver talks to garden clubs across the UK. She also writes regularly for Grow It! magazine. Her previous book, The Water-Efficient Gardener, won The Beth Chatto Environmental Award in the Garden Media Guild Awards.
November 2026
Paperback 9781399425742 • £20.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Green Books
How to Grow Perennial
Vegetables
Second edition
Martin Crawford
An updated guide to growing perennial vegetables to harvest fresh food throughout the year and improve soil quality
Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow. Whereas traditional vegetable plots are largely made up of short-lived, annual vegetable plants, edible perennials live longer than three years. Grown as permaculture plants, they take up less of your time and effort than annual vegetables, and extend the harvesting season – avoiding the hungry gap between the end of the winter harvest and the start of the summer harvest of annual vegetables.
Written by gardening expert Martin Crawford, this updated edition gives comprehensive advice on how to grow and care for both common perennial vegetables like rhubarb, Jerusalem artichokes, horseradish and asparagus and unusual edible plants such as skirret, red chicory, nodding onions, Babington's leek, scorzonera, sea kale, wild rocket, coppiced trees and aquatic plants.
With plenty of cooking tips, colour photographs and illustrations throughout and an A–Z of over 100 perennial edibles, it is an inspiration for all gardeners.
Martin Crawford is a horticulturalist, writer and founder of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a non-profit-making charity that researches temperate agroforestry. At his forest garden in Devon, Martin systematically researches plant interactions and unusual crops. He also runs a commercial tree nursery specialising in unusual trees and shrubs, and has a large trial site, researching fruit and nut trees.
November 2026
Paperback 9781399419550 • £18.99
TERRITORY: World All Languages Green Books
Warsaw
A City at War, 1939–45
Prit Buttar & Lottie Taylor
Discover the history of Warsaw’s six-year struggle through the devastation of war and the city’s enduring spirit.
Historians Prit Buttar and Lottie Taylor bring to light the unparalleled experience of a city caught between two invading powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and the resilience of its citizens.
This fascinating history illuminates how Warsaw’s centuries-old fight for identity shaped the course of its wartime experience. For a mere 21 years, Warsaw thrived as the proud capital of an independent Poland, only to be betrayed when Nazi Germany invaded in 1939. Yet the heart of the city – its people – refused to surrender. From the tragic Ghetto Uprising to the heroic city-wide revolt, Warsaw's resistance was fierce as it faced the systematic attempt to destroy it. The story does not end with the conclusion of the war, as Warsaw found itself trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
Drawing from rare archival material including first-hand accounts, Warsaw’s wartime years are majestically brought to life.
Prit Buttar has been writing for nearly 20 years about the conflicts between Germany and Russia in both world wars. This is his seventeenth book.
L Lottie Taylor studied history at St John’s College, Cambridge and was awarded a double first class honours degree. Lottie is Prit's daughter and this is her first book.
September 2026
Hardback 9781472873514 • £30.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages Osprey Publishing
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