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Men Like Ours A Novel
Bindu Bansinath
From a brilliant new voice in fiction, a darkly comic and moving story about death, life, and community in a South Asian suburban enclave of New Jersey.
"The most promising debut I've read in decades." --Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends
When Matthew Pillai is found dead, slumped over the wheel of his BMW, the women of Willow Road are roped into the investigation of their friend’s death.
At the center of the case are the Sharmas—Anita, a widow whose late husband introduced Matthew to the neighborhood, and her boundary-pushing daughter, Leila, who called him Uncle. To Anita, who has been in freefall since her arrival in the United States as a young woman, Matthew’s presence offered hope, including a promise of betterment for Leila. The truth, however, is far stranger.
In this darkly funny debut, the women of Willow Road find that despite their internecine quarrels, casual backstabbing, and generational feuds, in the end, there is no one to turn to but each other.
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“This darkly funny satire threaded with a subtle murder mystery is thoughtful and unflinching . . . Bansinath's frank and sardonic insights into immigrant experiences within the walls of an insular community are complexly entertaining.” —Booklist
“Bansinath is an impressive storyteller . . . Readers will be engrossed by this clear-eyed and explosive tale.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Men Like Ours is a wonderful debut, a witty narrative following an amateur murder investigation in a South Asian enclave in New Jersey. On Willow Road, a group of women band together to solve the murder of a friend, and wade into a world of generational fe...
Bindu Bansinath is a senior writer for New York Magazine’s The Cut. Men Like Ours is her debut novel. She lives in Jersey City.
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR II
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/5/2026
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Spitfires
The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Becky Aikman
The heart-pounding true story of the daring American women who piloted the most dangerous aircraft of World War II through the treacherous skies of Britain.
They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers—all trained as pilots. But because they were women, they could not fly for their country when the U.S. entered WWII. But by 1942, Britain was desperate for transport pilots, so these twenty-five daring aviators left for England, becoming the first American women to command military aircraft.
These “spitfires” lived like women ahead of their time. Risking their lives in one of the deadliest jobs of the war, they ferried fighters and bombers to air bases and returned shot-up wrecks for repair, never knowing what might go wrong. They broke new ground off duty as well, shocking their hosts with thoroughly modern behavior.
With cinematic sweep, Becky Aikman brings to life nine of these forgotten heroines, drawing on unpublished diaries, letters, and records, along with her own interviews. Spitfires is a richly detailed account of war, ambition, and a group of remarkable women whose lives were as unconventional as their dreams.
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“Lively and entertaining.” —The Washington Post
“Deeply researched and thoroughly entertaining . . . These women come to life vividly, their feats recounted through suspenseful scenes and lyrical writing.”
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
“Aikman’s amazing account brings the ‘Atta-Girls’ boldly to life.” —Oprah Daily
“A rollicking ride through history . . . Empowering and inspiring.” —Olivia Campbell, New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats
Becky Aikman is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction: her memoir, Saturday Night Widows, Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge, and Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II. A former journalist at Newsday, Aikman has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and more. She lives in New York.
GARDENING / VEGETABLES
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/5/2026
9781526697523 | $22.99 / $30.99 Can.
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The Tomato Grower's Handbook
Everything you need to know, from seed to harvest and beyond
Holly Farrell
A fully illustrated, beginner-friendly guide to growing the popular and versatile ingredient, featuring simple recipes.
"Original, comprehensive, exceptionally user-friendly, The Tomato Grower's Handbook fully lives up to the promise of its subtitle." —Midwest Book Review
If you want to grow your own vegetables but feel a bit overwhelmed by it all, you're not alone. The Tomato Grower's Handbook is a simple, informative, and tasty solution from award-winning garden writer Holly Farrell. Easy to grow and a common cooking ingredient, tomatoes are the most popular plant to grow at home-not to mention how much better homegrown tomatoes taste! This user-friendly guide outlines how to grow them, from easy cherry tomatoes to trickier heirloom varieties, covering different methods of growing according to your space-indoors or outdoors, pot or plot. The book includes ten easy recipes (tomato pasta!) and tips on storing and preserving your produce (tomato jam!).
With this handbook, you'll reach your gardening goals (and some chef goals, too) while embracing and enjoying each step of the journey.
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“Original, comprehensive, illustrated, exceptionally 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, The Tomato Grower's Handbook by tomato growing expert Holly Farrell fully lives up to the promise of its subtitle 'Everything you need to know, from seed to harvest and beyond.' Ideal for the novice gardening and of immense interest to even the more experienced tomato grower.” —Midwest Book Review
“Delightful . . . Smartly laid out and replete with colorful photos and strategically organized bullet points . . . The book is accessible to even the most inexperienced gardener. All that is needed is a little patience.” —Publishers Weekly on Plant...
Holly Farrell is an award-winning garden writer and the author of The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs, Plants from Pits, and Miniature Garden Grower, among others. She is a Royal Horticultural Society Wisley–trained horticulturalist and lives in Guernsey, England.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIRS
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/12/2026
9781639739318 | $17.99 / $23.99 Can.
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The Loves of My Life
A Sex Memoir
Edmund White
Edmund White’s revelatory final memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.
“A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony.” —Robert Jones, Jr. • “In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund ...
I’m at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them—for me it would be thousands of sex partners
In his final memoir, the eighty-five-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that inspired his many masterpieces. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can.
Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.
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“The final offering from one of the most important queer writers of the past century, before he passed away a few months after its publication. A knockthe-wind-out-of-you account of the iconic author’s great loves and great sexcapades, living in New York City pre-Stonewall, and pre-AIDS.” —Queerty
“A gaspingly graphic, jaunty and tender sex memoir: a guided tour of gay desire in which libido is the wellspring of just about everything.” —New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Line for line, I can’t recall the last time I enjoyed reading anything so much.” Harper’s Magazine
“A brilliant argument for the importance of sex and love.” —The Atl...
Edmund White (1940-2025) authored more than thirty works of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction, including the novels A Boy’s Own Story and Our Young Man; the memoirs City Boy and Inside a Pearl; and The Flâneur, a tour through Paris. He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
COOKING / REGIONAL & CULTURAL / SCANDINAVIAN
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/19/2026
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The Swedish Cookbook
Lagom Flavors for the Modern Kitchen
Niklas Ekstedt
In the only Swedish cookbook you'll ever need, Michelinstarred chef Niklas Ekstedt brings the bright, rich flavors of Scandinavia to your home kitchen.
Swedish Meatballs with Potatoes and Pressed Cucumber • Swedish Waffles
Two Ways • Cured Salmon & Gravlax • Potato Pancakes with Lingonberries and Sour Cream • Rhubarb Pie with Vanilla Sauce • Cardamom Buns, and more . . .
The best Swedish cuisine starts with a touch of lagom. A word meaning “balanced” or “just right,” lagom informs the storied culinary traditions of Sweden: the fresh, bright ingredients in its recipes, and the rich, harmonious flavors that come together on its tables. Following the lagom philosophy, Michelin-starred chef Niklas Ekstedt has perfected classic and modern Swedish cooking alike, and in The Swedish Cookbook, he shares his best recipes from everyday meals to special feasts. With the perfect Swedish Pancakes and Meatballs, Smörgås, or open-faced tea sandwiches, Gravlax and cured salmons, and Cardamom Buns—and how to prepare your dream Fika, or cozy coffee break—Ekstedt shows the home cook how to master it all.
Whether you’re a seasoned chef or just starting your culinary journey, it’s time to find your lagom in the kitchen and savor the delightful simplicity of Swedish food.
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“[Ekstedt] is both a purist and a tinkerer. . . He carries on with typical Swedish humility, not chasing stars or lists, but committing night after night to purity, history, and heritage. To delivering pleasure and honoring his ancestry.” –Forbes “Ekstedt, 44, is a Swedish national treasure, in part for his championing of Nordic cuisine, his growing restaurant empire, and his mastery of open-fire cookery. But also, surely, for his easy charm, rugged good looks, and embodiment of a very Scandinavian vein of gung-ho. . .” –Esquire “If I get lost in the woods one day, I hope I stumble upon Niklas Ekstedt. He could charm a bear, and he cooks like a...
Niklas Ekstedt is a Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur. In 2011, he opened Ekstedt in Stockholm, which was awarded a Michelin star in 2013. He opened his first international outpost, Ekstedt at The Yard, in London in 2021 to great critical acclaim. He has appeared as a guest on Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef, among others. He is the author of books including Ekstedt and Food From the Fire. He lives in Danderyd, Sweden. @niklasekstedt
FICTION / FAMILY LIFE / SIBLINGS
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/19/2026
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All Us Saints A Novel
Katherine Packert Burke
From the author of the "vibrantly, brilliantly alive" (James Frankie Thomas) Still Life, a haunted family reenacts the violent night their lives changed forever.
“All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.” —Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition Baby
Exactly 19 years ago, in May of 1992, 17-year-old Roland St. Cloud fatally stabbed his twin sister Edna's three best friends. The slaying became instant tabloid fodder leading to a bestselling true-crime book and horror movie franchise. Each year on the anniversary of her family's undoing, Edna reenacts the murders. She is joined by her husband, Roger, the night's definitive chronicler; her younger sister Calla, a failed playwright who spends her days lost in online gaming; her younger brother James and his girlfriend Heather; and her teenage daughter Wren. Together, the St. Cloud family seals the windows and doors of the house and lights a grim candle. After their macabre theatrics there's nothing to do but wait for dawn, talk among themselves, and remember.
All Us Saints is a literary family drama packaged as a two-act play. Behind the curtain, Packert Burke unveils Roland's childhood as a closeted trans girl in the early 90s and offers a brilliant and scathing commentary on the cisgender gaze.
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“All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.” —Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition Baby
“Katherine Packert Burke is a genius. With incisive, irreverent prose and an encyclopedic knowledge of philosophy, theater, and film, she banishes commonplace narratives to masterfully capture the betrayals and succor of family, the snare of self-mythology, and the temptation, the danger, of the familiar within ritual and art. Utterly unforgettable, this book is bot...
Katherine Packert Burke is a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop in San Diego and the MFA program at the University of Alabama. Her debut novel, Still Life, was published in 2024. She lives in Minneapolis, MN.
FICTION / FANTASY / HISTORICAL
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/26/2026
9781635578881 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
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I Hear a New World A Novel
Alan Moore
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the second book in the Long London Series, a daringly inventive fantasy novel about murder, mayhem, and magic.
It’s 1958 and Dennis Knuckleyard has decided to leave his adventures in the Great When in the past where they belong. For nine years, he’s avoided so much as thinking about the magical version of London, until he rediscovers an unpleasant reminder of his last adventure—a key that he’d secretly brought into his own world from the other for safekeeping.
But while Dennis may believe he’s done with the Great When, it’s far from done with him. When Dennis gives the key to a friend, its magical properties reawaken, bringing creatures from the other world into Dennis’s and sparking riots in Notting Hill. Even worse, Dennis’s old crush Grace Shilling has been forced into the Great When to investigate strange happenings in both cities.
Desperate to keep Grace safe, Dennis follows her into Long London. But once inside the other city, it will not let him go away again so easily, and Dennis and Grace must fight to set things right in the Great When and their own world, or forever lose their lives—and each other.
Full of Moore’s characteristically stunning world building and rollicking prose, I Hear a New World is the extraordinary second adventure in the Long London series.
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“Bestseller Moore’s satisfying second Long London urban fantasy . . . again adroitly blends the fantastic and the mundane . . . Moore’s worldbuilding is as fascinating as ever. Series fans won’t be disappointed.” —Publishers Weekly
“Extraordinary . . . Does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience.” —Susanna Clarke, New York Times bestselling author of Piranesi on The Great When
“Moore is a wizardly prose stylist whose sentences flow in a Joycean stream.” —The Wall Street Journal on The Great When
“A dynamite story collection.” —The New York Times Book Review on Illuminations “I'm not sure there's a God, but I thank...
Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Lost Girls. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Jerusalem and The Great When. He was born in Northampton and has lived there ever since.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/26/2026
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Spawning Season
An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
Joseph Osmundson
NBCC and Lambda Literary Award finalist Joseph Osmundson chronicles his journey toward and away from parenthood to ask how we create and nurture queer families.
Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a couple he had known since college, two women, came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them?
Soon everything was falling into place. But when the two mothers communicated their need for a child to reflect their own racial backgrounds, Joe’s whiteness exposed fault lines in their parenting journey. Spawning Season is a genrebending memoir that treats the scientific as integral to the personal and that builds an entire species of the grief we carry in our bodies. In exploratory prose that builds on the work of Donna Haraway and José Esteban Muñoz, Osmundson considers the ethics of child-rearing in the 21st century, the brutal wonder of caregiving, and the joys and intricacies of building family beyond biology.
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“With Spawning Season, Joseph Osmundson offers us an intimate look at the way queer theory becomes written on the body and moves through the world. Spawning Season is a book that only a queer scientist could write, and a powerful exploration of the relationships between queer men and queer women, between white queers and queers of color. A powerful rejoinder to old notions about fatherhood, emotion, and masculinity, Spawning Season is a reminder that queer theory calls on us to not just transform society but also ourselves.” —Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos
“Good god, this book. A thunderclap of emotion. I am rearran...
Joseph Osmundson is a professor of microbiology at New York University and the author of Virology. His work has been published in leading biological journals including Cell and PNAS and in the Village Voice, Gawker, the Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. He lives and works in New York City.
New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale invites readers to Austenland, an utterly delightful, romantic escape.
Newly updated edition with brand new content, including a "behind the scenes" look at the making of Austenland the movie!
Preorder the third book in the series, Christmas in Austenland, coming in September 2026!
Jane Hayes is what some might call a hopeless romantic. Normal life (and men) continuously disappoint her. Why can’t she find anyone remotely like literary heartthrob, Mr. Darcy? Why can’t real life feel like a novel?
When a wealthy relative bequeaths Jane a trip to an English resort for Austen superfans, Jane's fantasies become realer than she ever could have dreamed. Dressed in empire waist gowns and torn between a charming gardener and an actor playing the brooding Mr. Darcy role, Jane attempts to master the Regency-era etiquette and the flirtatious games. But when it’s time to bid Austenland farewell, will she be able to leave her sincerest fantasies--and the men who helped bring them to life--behind for good?
The first book in this utterly delightful series gives readers the chance to relish all the fun of Regency romance, from the comfort of their modern lives.
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“Funny, moving, and a real surprise.” —USA Today
“Gloriously satisfying.” —Glamour
“Adorable! This is the best tribute to obsessed Austen freaks (like me) that I've ever read.” —Stephenie Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of the Twilight series “An utterly enjoyable tribute.” —Miami Herald
“An homage to Austen. . . . Austenland offers hope that after years of fruitless searching for a companion, just when you're ready to give up on love, it will find you on its own.” —Houston Chronicle
Shannon Hale is the bestselling author of over fifty books, including The Goose Girl and the Newbery Honor-winning Princess Academy; Rapunzel's Revenge (Dean Hale & Nathan Hale); bestselling memoir Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever (LeUyen Pham); Dream On (Marcela Cespedes); and books for DC Comics about Wonder Woman (Dean Hale & Victoria Ying). She lives in Utah with her family.
FICTION / ROMANCE / CLEAN & WHOLESOME
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/30/2026 9781639738991 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 36 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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Midnight in Austenland
Updated Edition
Shannon Hale
New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale offers up mystery, romance, and lots of fun in the second book in the Austenland series.
When Charlotte Kinder treats herself to a vacation at Austenland, she happily leaves behind her ex-husband and his new wife, her children, and the rest of her recently upended life in America. It’s been a long time since Charlotte has felt hopeful, let alone loved. Maybe doing something as outrageous as donning a bonnet and staying at an English manor house can help re-start her damaged heart.
Yet once the parlor games begin at Pembrook Park, Charlotte finds herself more uncertain than ever. Can she trust the feelings she has for a certain actor, or is his roleplaying that quality? Is the world-famous starlet concealing more than her real name? Has the respite of the country given her too much time to question her life choices? And when Charlotte suspects murder among them, she can’t help but wonder how much of their true selves everyone may be hiding
Revised and updated for today’s romance reader, this charming series brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us.
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Austenland
“Funny, moving, and a real surprise.” —USA Today “Gloriously satisfying.” —Glamour
“Adorable! This is the best tribute to obsessed Austen freaks (like me) that I've ever read.” —Stephenie Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of the Twilight series
“An utterly enjoyable tribute.” —Miami Herald
“An homage to Austen. . . . Austenland offers hope that after years of fruitless searching for a companion, just when you're ready to give up on love, it will find you on its own.” —Houston Chronicle
Shannon Hale is the bestselling author of over fifty books, including The Goose Girl and the Newbery Honor-winning Princess Academy; Rapunzel's Revenge (Dean Hale & Nathan Hale); bestselling memoir Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever (LeUyen Pham); Dream On (Marcela Cespedes); and books for DC Comics about Wonder Woman (Dean Hale & Victoria Ying). She lives in Utah with her family.
COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING / GAMES
Bloomsbury Sigma | 5/5/2026
9781399423397 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
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Next Level
Making Games That Make Themselves
Mike Cook
How generative systems are reshaping the way games are made, how we experience them, and what this reveals about creativity itself.
In video games creativity isn’t just seen – it’s played – from exploring endless landscapes, to diving into character details, to immersing ourselves in unpredictable narratives. Yet these elements are often the result of procedural generation – the creative use of algorithms to design game content. Procedural generation is the secret behind some of the biggest hits in video game history, from genre-defying titles in the 1980’s, to the most famous blockbusters of today.
Next Level demystifies the collection of algorithms and procedural techniques that are often as mysterious as the things they create. Written by game designer and creative AI researcher Mike Cook, it takes us on a tour of generative systems past and present, exploring how they work, the artistic uses they have in some of our favourite games and how procedural generation didn’t just change how we design games, but how we think about creativity.
Michael Cook is an AI researcher, game designer and writer from London, where he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London. He is best-known for his research into automated game design – building AI systems that can design games from scratch. His AI systems have won numerous awards.
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Alight with Hidden Glory
Erik Varden
A book that shows how ancient wisdom brings powerful, piercing clarity to modern life from one of our times’ most-read spiritual writers, an author able peacefully to bridge many divides.
"The richness of [these] reflections, will continue for a long time to be for us a source of blessing, of grace, of encounter with Jesus Christ." —Pope Leo XIV
In 2026, Pope Leo XIV asked Bishop Erik Varden to preach the Lent Retreat to the Roman Curia. Alight with Hidden Glory traces a Lenten journey proposed to the head of the Catholic Church and his closest collaborators, but has much to say to all people of good will.
Informed by Scripture and the liturgy, illumined by the insights of Bernard of Clairvaux, a man who helped shape medieval Europe, the book addresses questions of timeless relevance: What is the meaning of freedom? How can we speak well about truth? How do we respond when high ideals are compromised by human betrayal?
Erik Varden reveals Lent not as deprivation but as a clarifying pilgrimage toward Christ’s "hidden glory." This contemplative yet urgent work invites readers to walk the exodus path with renewed courage, vigilance, and hope.
Erik Varden is a monk and bishop. Norwegian by birth, he studied at Cambridge and in Rome. Having served as abbot of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, he was appointed to the ancient see of Trondheim in 2019. His books are read throughout the world. With Bloomsbury Continuum he has previously published The Shattering of Loneliness, Entering the Twofold Mystery, Chastity, and Healing Wounds
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PHILOSOPHERS
Bloomsbury Continuum | 8/11/2026
9781399410847 | $22.00 / $29.00 Can.
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Why Machiavelli Matters Now
Alexander Lee, Stephen Bowd
A fresh look at one of history’s great thinkers.
Every educated person knows the name Machiavelli. We describe certain types of behaviour as Machiavellian. But who was Niccolo Machiavelli and why should we consider him relevant to the problems and vexations of the modern world?
These are the questions this book sets out to answer. Rather than working through Machiavelli’s writings one by one, this book examines certain key topics, placing them in historical context and drawing out themes that will resonate today. The authors aim to ‘defamiliarize’ Machiavelli. Given that he is so well known, if only by name, and the subject of such grave misconceptions and prejudice, the authors set out to explain why he is not the ‘Machiavellian’ figure he is supposed to be, and that he was not just a political thinker (The Prince).
To bring him to life, the book will examine his frequently bawdy poetry, his comedies and his love affairs and friendships. Also covered will be his preoccupation with truth, falsehood, perception and confusion – all topics of urgent interest to us today. We are offered therefore in the passages of this book an exhilarating overview of what Machiavelli was really about, why his thought is so fascinating and why he matters so much today, as the world as we know it is torn apart.
Dr Alexander Lee is fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. He is the author of a number of books, most recently Machiavelli: His Life and Times (Picador 2020) and The Imperial Idea in Fourteenth Century Italy (OUP 2018).
Stephen Bowd is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Edinburgh and has published extensively on the history of Venice and on the Renaissance. He is an Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is committed to widening access to historical studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIRS
Bloomsbury Continuum | 5/26/2026
9781399421690 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
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The Descent
Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin
Marc Bennetts
An extraordinary first-hand account of Russia’s descent into totalitarianism, from a family man who witnessed it happen.
Marc Bennetts, Russia correspondent for The Times, moved to Russia in the final years of President Yeltsin’s rule – settling in what was then the most exciting new free country in the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Thirty years later, The Times pulled him out of Russia over concerns for his security. He is now banned by the Kremlin. His Russian wife and Russian-born daughter, meanwhile, have returned to Moscow, a place he may never be able to go to again.
Beginning with the Prodigy’s legendary concert in Red Square, which seemed to signal a new era of freedom for the Russian people, and ending with the author narrowly escaping death under Russian fire in Eastern Ukraine, this book is a unique and personal diary of a descent into totalitarianism, from a man whom in his own words, once loved Russia.
He witnessed the often-terrifying events in Russia up close, observing how slowly but surely freedoms were stripped away and how the Kremlin’s ubiquitous propaganda warped minds and fomented hatred of Putin's foes, both real and imagined.
Bennets meets a vast array of characters, from Russian MPs, Chechnyan rebels, influential Russian Orthodox Church officials and violent Kremlin activists to opposition figures and a Siberian shaman. In this extraordinary panorama of a place gone mad, he shows exactly how a democracy becomes a totalitarian state, as democracies around the world elect strongmen as their leaders.
Marc Bennetts is a British journalist formerly based in Moscow, where he lived for 25 years before being barred from the country by Vladimir Putin. He has reported from Russia, Iran, and North Korea for the Guardian, The Times, the Observer and the New York Times, among other publications. He is the author of Kicking the Kremlin, a biography of opposition figures in Russia.
Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared burdens and hopes that make solidarity possible.
From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for racial justice, the idea of solidarity is often invoked as the answer to inequality and conflict. And yet, as both a term and a practice, solidarity is tantalizingly slippery. We are encouraged to ‘show solidarity’, but how can we truly realize it?
As Rowan Williams argues in this impassioned book, solidarity is not something fixed to be achieved, but a process of mutual recognition. From its origins in the French Revolution to the Nueva Solidaridad in Mexico City and the Solidarnosc movement in Poland, Williams traces solidarity’s myriad forms through its deep influence on Catholic social thought, its transformation in the hands of thinkers like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jan Patocka and the creative struggle so central to the writings of Gillian Rose.
He reveals solidarity to be a constant exercise in self-scrutiny and dialogue in which we find that true recognition lies not in asserting that others are ‘just like us,’ but rather in affirming their claim to be ‘fully themselves’. It is in this work of recognition, this possibility of communion, that true hope can be found.
Rowan Williams is a former Archbishop of Canterbury, from 2002 to 2012 and until 2020 Master of Magdelene College at the University of Cambridge. He is contributing writer to The New Statesman
FICTION / HISTORICAL / 20TH CENTURY
Aria | 7/7/2026
9781035921997 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9 in H | 5.8 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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The Spy and the Snake
An exhilarating new novel from the author of the GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE
M. J. Robotham
The exciting continuation of the Mrs Spy series featuring a trailblazing heroine who defies societal expectations. Perfect for fans of Black Doves and Slow Horses—M.J. Robotham is the female answ...
One mission. One fake husband. One very real problem.
Maggie Flynn has finally earned her place at of MI5—but with promotion comes paperwork. No more disguises, no more danger, just meetings, memos, and the quiet realisation that life feels a little too safe.
With her daughter away at university and her spirited mother pursuing her own adventures, Maggie’s days in London are starting to feel decidedly ordinary. So when the chance arises to return to the field, she doesn’t hesitate.
The assignment: fly to Budapest and pose as the wife of a notorious British defector in order to smuggle him back to the UK. It should be a straightforward operation. But Maggie Flynn has never done straightforward—and what’s waiting in Budapest is anything but routine.
As Cold War tensions simmer and shadows linger on every corner, Maggie finds herself navigating a city steeped in secrets—and drawn to a mysterious stranger who may endanger the mission . . . or steal her heart.
M.J. Robotham saw herself as an aspiring author from childhood, but was waylaid by journalism, birth, children and life. After twenty years as a midwife and a Creative Writing MA, she is a full-time author, writing historical fiction as Mandy Robotham. She lives in Gloucestershire with her partner.
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“A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer.” —Ian Moore
“Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies.” —Ava Glass
“Maggie Flynn is a true original: a smart, intrepid, middle-aged spy with acute instincts and aching bunions.” —Gill Paul
“I loved this book: an absolutely gripping and heartwarming story . . . we need more heroes like Mrs Spy!” —Jane Bailey
“Robotham has taken the invisibility of the middle-aged woman and turned it on it's head.” —Emma Flint
“Exciting, alluring, seductive.” —Clare Whitfield
M.J. Robotham saw herself as an aspiring author from childhood, but was waylaid by journalism, 16
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781035914234
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Mrs Spy
An evocative and exhilarating ride through 60s London, described as "The Thursday Murder Club for spies"
M. J. Robotham
Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets.
Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum.
She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises.
Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession —providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death.
But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what’s worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him.
As Maggie searches for answers, she’ll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?
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“Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won’t be able to put it down.” —Ava Glass
“If you liked Netflix’s Black Doves, you might enjoy this. Good fun.” —The Gloss magazine
“A hilarious and gripping page-turner.” —Woman’s Own magazine
“An exhilarating ride through the 60s.” —Woman’s Weekly magazine
“Nukes, traitors, misogynists and the Beatles—a romp but an intelligent one.” Crime Time (Spy & Political Fiction Roundup)
“A compelling and sometimes very funny spy entertainment—reminiscent at times 17
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The Sisterhood Rules
The hilarious new novel from the million copy bestselling author
Kathy Lette
A laugh-out-loud, thought-provoking story about the challenges of sisterhood from international bestselling author Kathy Lette. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes, Dawn French and Jane Fallon
The Sisterhood Rules: Ah, so many, but the most important three?
1. Share all your secrets—trust is everything 2. Never do the dirty on her—in life, but especially in love 3. Be there for good and bad—nothing, especially a man, is worth losing her over
For twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Isabel’s husband.
Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister’s betrayal, Isabel vowed never to speak to her again and for ten years has kept her promise.
But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Isabel are forced to come together again to find her.
The only question is—when the person you once loved the most is now your mortal enemy, can you ever find a way back? And if the sisterhood is to rule, then surely you have to obey all the rules?
Full of laugh-out-loud humour and devastating pathos, Kathy Lette’s brilliant new novel takes us on a roller-coaster ride which proves that from pain comes healing, from honesty comes forgiveness, and nothing is more important than your sisters.
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“Deliciously rude and darkly funny.” —Nicole Kidman “Unputdownable.” —Stephen Fry “The thinking lady’s hornbag.” —Kath and Kim
Kathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV mini-series. She has written 20 books which have been translated into 19 languages. She is a TV presenter, newspaper and magazine columnist, has 3 honorary doctorates, and is an ambassador for Their World, the National Autistic Society and Ambitious About Autism. Find her on her website at www.kathylette.com, on X @KathyLette, and Instagram @kathy.lette
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / BOOK PRINTING & BINDING
Herbert Press | 6/16/2026
9781789942385 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Carton Qty: 18 11 in H | 8.6 in W | 0.8 in T | 1.8 lb Wt
Illustrated throughout with over 200 beautiful colour images
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Bound to be Beautiful
Over 20 Bookbinding Projects that Inspire and Delight
Bari Zaki
Learn how to create a range of beautiful and unique handbound books that feel lovely to hold and are a joy to use.
Learn how to make a range of beautiful hand-bound books and accessories with step-by-step instructions from experienced bookbinder Bari Zaki. Starting with an overview of the basic bookbinding tools, discover what materials should be used depending on the book you would like to produce, and get advice on binding, glueing, folding and trimming. An inspiring range of gorgeous papers are used throughout the book.
Each project includes clear instructions, stitching tips and alternative materials. Create stunning details such as a window spine on the buttonhole-stitch bound book, a front cover recessed window with a collage detail, and exposed spines with intricate Coptic-stitch binding. Collate an engaging mix of envelope pages to create a personal collector’s album, or preserve memories in hidden coverpockets on a drop-spine accordion book. Traditional case-bound and screw-post spine books are thoroughly and clearly explained, along with detailed stitching instructions for each book (including working with multiple needles).
Fill the pages of your finished works and use them to collect ephemera, preserve memories and display photographs—yes, it’s beautiful, but not too beautiful to use!
With a range of albums, folders, envelopes and journals, find out what makes the perfect book for you. Whether you are a bookbinding novice or an experienced binder, this is an essential book to start learning or perfecting your skills.
Bari Zaki has always loved paper. In her early 20s, she took a series of bookbinding and box-making classes at Artists Bookworks in Chicago. After working on custom projects in her studio, she finally opened Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago in 2015, a bookbinding workshop and supply shop where she regularly teaches groups.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / PRINTMAKING & STAMPING
Herbert Press | 5/12/2026
9781789943184 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Carton Qty: 20 10.9 in H | 8.5 in W | 0.6 in T | 1.5 lb Wt
Illustrated throughout with 250 stunning colour images.
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Hammered Flowers
Printing on Fabric, Paper and Wood
Michelle Moore
Create your own vibrant and sustainable botanical prints with 20 flower-pounding projects. Suitable for crafters of all levels.
You can make beautiful, colorful and surprisingly delicate prints by hammering the pigment from flowers and leaves with a mallet – a process known as 'flowerpounding'. These photographic step-by-step projects – ranging from indigo-leaf table runners to cosmos socks and viola tote bags – show you how to get the best results.
Not only can you find out how to grow the most suitable blooms in your garden and to forage wildflowers in the great outdoors, but you can discover which plants are best for dyeing; how to scour and mordant your fabric, paper or wood for accurate, long-lasting color; and which hammers, mallets and techniques work best on particular plants and base materials.
By the end, you will be able to take any of your favorite flowers, petals and leaves and turn them into sustainable printed textiles, greeting cards, and artwork that can be cherished for years to come.
Michelle Moore creates eco-friendly botanical prints with home-grown and foraged plants. She studied Textile & Surface Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, and teaches art and design at the State University of New York. She can be found on social media at @michellemooredesigns
FICTION / FAMILY LIFE / SIBLINGS
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/2/2026
9781639735556 | $28.99 / $38.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton
Qty: 20
9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9798260202333
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Crescendo
A gripping love triangle in glamorous 1950s Paris
Jane Healey
A piano virtuoso and his twin sister become rivals for a new spotlight—the adoration of a mysterious French patron —during the hot Parisian summer of 1957.
“An enthralling literary symphony of ambition, desire, and obsession.” —Layne Fargo, bestselling author of The Favorites and They Never Learn
Twins Natasha and Max Kitson have lived their lives on the road, together building Max's career as a world-renowned pianist, famous for bringing even the most stalwart audience members to tears. But when, at age 20, the former prodigy begins making uncharacteristic mistakes, he abruptly cancels his remaining concerts and moves himself and his sister into the home of an enigmatic French patron, never realizing that Henri has been his sister's lover.
In Paris, over the course of one summer, Natasha's long-simmering resentments and Max's deep insecurities drive the siblings apart as each vie for Henri's attentions. But neither twin can have their host entirely to themselves, because while, during the day, Henri woos Natasha with lavish gifts and trips to the ballet, it's Max's music that draws Henri from bed each night.
One part delicious family drama, and one part twisted love triangle, Crescendo is an altogether un-put-downable escape to the concert halls, ballet theaters, and bedrooms of 1950s France.
PRAISE
"Crescendo is a riveting study in pressure—artistic, romantic, and familial—set within the rarefied world of 1950s French concert halls and ballet. Jane Healey renders ambition and rivalry with remarkable psychological acuity, illuminating the quiet compromises and irreversible choices that shape a life devoted to genius.”
—Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept
"Crescendo is the perfect title for this book, not only because it revolves around a brilliant pianist, but because the story builds, slowly, grippingly, leaving you breathless with every new revelation, heart beating in your ears until the explosive en...
Jane Healey is the author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor (winner of the Historical Debut Novel) and The Ophelia Girls. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award, the Bristol Prize, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in London.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MILITARY
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/9/2026
9798260200575 | $32.00 / $42.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton
Qty: 20
9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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Courage Can Save Us
Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future Rye Barcott
From a U.S. Marine and co-founder of With Honor, and written ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, comes the story of principled veterans who work across party line...
* Mikie Sherrill * Todd Young *Mark Kelly * Brian Fitzpatrick * Wes Moore * Dan Crenshaw * Seth Moulton * John James * Don Bacon * Jared Golden *
When most Americans think of acts of courage, elected office is rarely the first place they look. And while more Americans than ever reject party labels, the political arena remains dominated by the loudest voices at each extreme. This moment demands leaders willing to govern across party lines, resist the incentives of modern politics, and choose courage over outrage.
One group is uniquely suited to meet that challenge: America’s veterans. Courage Can Save US follows nine veterans and a former FBI agent—five Democrats and five Republicans—who have carried the ethic of service from the battlefield into public life. Ambitious and altruistic, forthright and flawed, they confront the moral and personal costs of leadership in an unsettled age: public attacks, private doubt, and the risk of losing everything they have worked for in service of the common good.
More than a collection of political profiles, Courage Can Save US is a portrait of a bipartisan generation of post-9/11 leaders striving to rise above polarization and a culture of contempt. It is an examination of courage in its many forms—and a challenge to all of us to consider how courage can strengthen our democracy, and our own lives.
PRAISE
“For much of the twentieth century, military service helped shape American leadership. Nearly two thirds of our presidents wore the nation’s uniform, and in the decades after World War II, veterans held the majority of seats in Congress—an era when bipartisanship flourished. In Courage Can Save Us, Rye Barcott shines a dramatic spotlight on nine veterans and an FBI agent—men and women, Republicans and Democrats—now serving in elected office across the country. Forged in service and tested by sacrifice, their inspiring stories reveal how courage, character, and common purpose can still renew our democracy—and restore hope for its future.” Dor...
Rye Barcott is a Marine Corps veteran, social entrepreneur, and author of It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace. He is co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan organization that fights polarization by supporting principled veteran leadership in public office. While serving in the Marines, he co-founded CFK Africa, a locally led youth leadership and public health organization based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He received an honorary doctorate 22
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIRS
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/9/2026
9781639738748 | $25.99 / $34.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 224 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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The Art of Becoming a Citizen
A Memoir
Gail Godwin
From the three-time National Book Award nominee and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin comes an incandescent reflection on past and present that speaks urgently to our current politica...
“He just had the presidency stolen from him.”
It’s November 1960, and a crush of reporters eagerly await the first postelection meeting between Kennedy and Nixon when Nixon’s ally Bebe Rebozo speaks these words to the crowd. Among the eyewitnesses is Gail Godwin, reporting for the Miami Herald
Hearing these words echoed in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Godwin embarks on a project to reflect on that long-ago moment and offset a mounting pressure of dread about the election that loomed ahead.
In looking back at her life as a young woman abroad, her early marriage, her friendships with Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving juxtaposed with chronicles of the recent election cycle, she discovers an understory that surprises her—one that leads her to ask, “What, at this late date, did I still want to become?” With urgency and a yearning so many now feel, Godwin’s blend of history and memoir delivers both inspiration and a rousing battle call, encouraging readers to engage in their own reflection on the art and meaning of being a citizen.
PRAISE
"Gail and I were beginning writers and Kurt Vonnegut’s students when we first met. In this insightful memoir, the past and present are as purposely interwoven as the plot of a good novel. A most relevant political history is entwined with Trump’s 2024 re-election and the debacle he’s made of our beloved democracy. This book is about being a vigilant citizen." John Irving
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Getting to Know Death
“Could just as easily be called Getting to Know Life. As a meditation, it is both unsentimental and full of wonder. As a piece of writing, it stands beside the best of Godwin’s fiction. Extraordinary.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author...
Gail Godwin is the bestselling author of more than twenty critically acclaimed books, including the memoir Getting to Know Death, and the novels Grief Cottage, Grief Cottage, Evensong, and A Mother and Two Daughters. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York. www.gailgodwin.com
COOKING / REGIONAL & CULTURAL / MEDITERRANEAN
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/9/2026
9781639738823 | $35.00 / $47.00 Can. Hardcover Paper over boards | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 12
9.7 in H | 7.4 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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MEDesque
Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots
Georgina Hayden
From award-winning chef Georgina Hayden, more than 100 sunny, salty recipes to cook your way along the Mediterranean coast.
"Joyful, generous and drenched in olive oil." —YOTAM OTTOLENGHI "Delicious, easy food that's full of happiness." —JAMIE OLIVER
In Medesque, award-winning food writer Georgina Hayden finds the very best recipes from across the Mediterranean and adapts them to suit the home cook. Incorporating the modern twists and tricks that made Greekish such a fan favorite, Medesque is full of dreamy recipes that meet the summer produce season—and beat the heat—perfectly. From Spain to Egypt, the Baltics to Italy, these recipes are delicious, feel-good, and as sunny and refreshing as the Mediterranean itself.
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Greekish
“Delectable . . . For anyone and everyone: perfect for those who already love Greek cuisine, or a lovely introduction for those just starting out.” —Esquire, “Best Cookbooks of 2024”
“The flavors and dishes manage to feel both classic and fresh, inspiring Tuesday night dinner options that will transport your family.” —NPR, “Books We Love” Nistisima
“Mouthwatering recipes and beautiful storytelling—I want a seat at Georgie’s table.” —Jamie Oliver
“The only proper response to Georgina Hayden’s new book . . . is greedy delight, as far as I'm concerned.” —Nigella Lawson
Georgina Hayden is a cook and food writer. She has appeared on CBS Mornings and BBC One, and her work has been published in the Guardian, People, Condé Nast Traveler, and others. Her most recent book, Greekish, was named a Best of the Year by Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, and Table, and was a Jamie Oliver Cookbook Club Pick. Her first book, Nistisima, was voted Best Cookbook at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards. In 2021, she won the Fortnum & Mason Best Cookery Writer Award. She lives in London. @georginahayden
HISTORY / UNITED STATES / 20TH CENTURY
Bloomsbury Publishing | 7/21/2026
9781639732111 | $32.99 / $43.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 400 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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The Biggest Lie
The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
Joseph Kelly
An eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the antebellum South.
When American fascists suddenly goosestepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical new European import. It was not. It didn’t come from abroad. Nor was it new or radical. The seed of American fascism was planted by elite Southern planters who insisted that slavery need not be addressed in the Constitution because it would soon die out on its own.
In The Biggest Lie, Joseph Kelly chronicles fascism’s deep roots in the antebellum South; its codification under Jim Crow; and then, after the SpanishAmerican War, its ascendency in the form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism, proposing that the nation belongs to a master race—the original lie of American fascism. In this dark hour of American history, Kelly’s gripping story reminds us that the monied elite have always excelled at deploying disinformation to bias and inflame the masses, and that there have always been courageous patriots helping us to fight our way out of darkness toward the light.
PRAISE
"About the madness of Trump’s America, it’s easy to feel: This is unprecedented. But, as Joseph Kelly brilliantly shows, it’s not. And without full knowledge of that painful history, we’re not going to find our way to a better, more just country. Kelly tells this story with vivid immediacy." —Adam Hochschild, author of the NBCC and NBA finalist King Leopold's Ghost and American Midnight
Marooned
“A superb portrait of the founding, combining brilliant detail with epic sweep.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[A] mythmaking, myth-breaking history . . . Kelly’s dynamic narrative brings Jamestown to life and shows how history reflects the presen...
Joseph Kelly is a professor of literature and history at the College of Charleston. He is the author of two other books on American democracy: Marooned and America’s Longest Siege. He also wrote Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon and he edits the popular Seagull Reader anthologies of stories, poems, plays, and essays. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
HISTORY / UNITED STATES / 20TH CENTURY
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/23/2026
9781639733491 | $32.00 / $42.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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The Perfect Moment
God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars
Isaac Butler
The prize-winning author of The Method reveals the forgotten origins of America’s culture wars—a story of late twentieth century art vs. censorship, brimming with intense drama and fierce moral u...
It’s 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency, and the curtain is closing on the Cold War. In the absence of external adversaries, the American public is on the precipice of war with itself. The religious right, newly ascendant and emboldened, is determined to seize control of America’s future. And the first battles will be fought over, of all things, contemporary art.
In The Perfect Moment, cultural historian Isaac Butler reexamines this pivotal, misunderstood American era. Archconservatives like Jesse Helms, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson fixed their sights on artists including Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, and Karen Finley, capitalizing on the provocative politics of their work to stir a nascent evangelical coalition into moral panic. It was at this moment, Butler argues, that the far right perfected the tactics it still uses today to whip its base into a frenzy—from banning books and sanitizing American history to spreading medical misinformation. All too relevant today, The Perfect Moment is an incisive and meticulously researched account of this crucial period and a stirring ode to the power of the creative spirit.
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"Critic and historian Butler offers a comprehensive overview of the religious right’s targeting of artists and arts funding in the 1980s and ’90s . . . Throughout, Butler incisively highlights the spiraling damage inflicted by the tepid responses of arts supporters like NEA chairman John Frohnmayer, who, desperate to protect the Endowment, agreed to diminish artists’ freedom of expression, and of the liberal establishment as a whole, which squeamishly demurred from defending works . . . [The Perfect Moment] makes for a dramatic retelling of a sea change in American arts and politics." —Publishers Weekly
“Entertaining and illuminating.” —The Ne...
Isaac Butler is the author of the NBCC Award winner The Method and the coauthor of The World Only Spins Forward. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, Slate, American Theatre, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and more. He created the podcast Lend Me Your Ears, co-hosted the podcast Working, and co-created the multimedia production Real Enemies Butler teaches theater history and performance at NYU. He lives in Brooklyn.
FICTION / LITERARY
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/23/2026
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Agnes Lives! A Novel
Hallie Elizabeth Newton
A day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next SoulCycle class.
"An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving." —Joyce Carol Oates
"A tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-deforce.” —Nell Zink
New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle class she resolves that before her next lesson she will find someone happy to murder her. Over the course of the following twenty-four hours, as she moves from apartment to office to bar to Barney's, she scrolls from one contender to the next: an ice-cold magazine editor, a Craigslist gun dealer, an older politician she dated as a teen, her cruel novelist boyfriend. As she does so, a portrait emerges from the loops and spools of her thought: of a place between beauty and rot, of a time between confidence and collapse, and of a woman between desire and destruction.
Written in exhilarating, shocking prose, Agnes Lives! is an extraordinary debut novel from one of the most exciting new writers at work today, detailing everything chic, everything sexy and everything terrifyingly, crushingly depraved about a culture totally hung up on image.
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“Agnes Lives! is an astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving. Like a surreal film it unfolds before us vivid as a nightmare from which we are unable to look away; by turns wildly funny, harrowing, and moving.” —Joyce Carol Oates, National Humanities Medal, NBCC’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, and National Book Award-winning author of Fox
“Unsettling, compelling, mysterious, and also, well, so fun to read. Newton's first novel is a marvelous debut.” —Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
“Agnes Lives! is a tale of suspense, a statement, a cry for help, and a delicious tour-de-force.” —Nell Zink, author...
Hallie Elizabeth Newton was born in Mississippi. A recipient of NYU’s Goldwater Fellowship, she won first prize for fiction in Columbia Journal’s 2020 Winter Contest. Agnes Lives! is her debut novel. She lives between New York and the Deep South.
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The Dark Mirror
A Bone Season Novel
Samantha Shannon
The epic and spellbinding fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series—from the million-copy bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree.
Everything is about to change.
Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade—but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory.
Her journey back to the revolution takes her to Venice, where the Domino Programme has uncovered evidence of a secret Scion plan. Before Paige can return to London, she must help the network unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist, which threatens to bring Europe to its knees in weeks. And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories—Arcturus Mesarthim—might also hold the key to thwarting Scion, allowing the revolution to strike an unprecedented blow . . .
With its intricate worldbuilding, slow burn romance, and “complex, ever evolving, scrappy yet touching” (NPR) heroine, the Bone Season series shows Samantha Shannon at the height of her considerable powers.
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“This series is the best . . . Nobody writes like Samantha Shannon!” —Sabaa Tahir, NYT bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes series “Real entertainment . . . Shannon has continued to build on this imagined world with intricacy, and Paige’s voice comes through to deliver a suspenseful story.”
The Washington Post “Intoxicating.” —NPR.org “A deeply satisfying read on an emotional level.” —Paste
Samantha Shannon is the million copy bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Roots of Chaos series. Her work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. She lives in London. samanthashannon.co.uk • @say_shannon
FICTION / LITERARY
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/9/2026
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Lush
Rochelle Dowden-Lord
A Belletrist Book Club Pick • A TIME, Town & Country, NPR, Marie Claire, and Ms. Magazine Best of the Summer “A sumptuous treat.” —Bolu Babalola, author of Honey and Spice
Sweetbitter meets The Bea...
Four wine experts arrive at a French vineyard estate for an unforgettable experience—but not the kind they expected. Avery gave up her hardwon but exploitative sommelier job to come. Wine prodigy Cosmo is trying to disguise that his life is in freefall. Millionaire Sonny owns a tacky wine brand, while caustic magazine writer Maëlys hovers with her pen poised. All await the penultimate night of trip, when they will taste a bottle rendered divine by age and scarcity.
Unfolding over several days of indulgence in delicious food and drink, raucous debauchery, and transformative truths that will leave each character changed forever, Lush is a sensuous tour of the wine industry’s extreme pleasures and pains, a captivating summer read that, like a fine vintage, will linger long after you’ve finished turning the pages.
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“Captivating and best to be enjoyed like a good bottle of wine.” —Town & Country
“Reading like an afternoon spent nursing a hangover under the mercy of a beach umbrella, fans of Saltburn and The Dreamers will delight in prose that drips with boozy tension.” —Marie Claire
“[A] polished debut . . . the narrative finishes on a bittersweet and satisfying note. Wine enthusiasts will savor this.” —Publishers Weekly
Rochelle Dowden-Lord is a writer from south London. Lush is her first novel.
FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL
Raven Books | 6/16/2026
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A Case of Mice and Murder
The Trials of Gabriel Ward
Sally Smith
The first in the delightful new mystery series set in the hidden heart of London’s legal world—now in paperback.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 BRITISH BOOK AWARD, CRIME & THRILLER
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, and Christian Science Monitor
"I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." —Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal
When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case--the disputed authorship of bestselling children’s book Millie the Temple Church Mouse--that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep.
But even he cannot fail to notice the judge’s dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest. In the shaded courtyards and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple, the hidden heart of London’s legal world, murder has spent centuries confined firmly to the casebooks. Until now . . .
The police can enter the Temple only by consent, so who better to investigate this tragic breach of law and order than a man who prizes both above all things? But murder doesn’t answer to logic or reasoned argument, and Gabriel soon discovers that the Temple’s heavy oak doors are hiding more surprising secrets than he’d ever imagined . . .
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"With its unique Inner Temple setting, A Case of Mice and Murder is an exciting story full of suspense, head-scratching complexity, and Dickensian coincidences, one that leaves readers guessing until the very end . . . Having spent considerable time with its many interesting characters, I’m ready for more. Happily, a series is in the works.” —The Washington Independent Review of Books
“A delightful read, well-paced, and full of interesting details.” —The California Review of Books
“A quiet triumph. Each small unfolding supports the next, characters blossom off the page, and the pitch-perfect pacing is as pleasurable as the descriptive detail.” ...
Sally Smith is the author of A Case of Mice and Murder and A Case of Life and Limb, the first two books in a series starring the reluctant sleuth Sir Gabriel Ward KC. Having spent all her working 30
PSYCHOLOGY / COGNITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY & COGNITION
Bloomsbury Sigma | 6/16/2026
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Unseen
Blind spots and why we miss what matters most David Lewis, Keelan Leyser
The fascinating psychology of blindspots, their complex causes, and the alarming consequences of looking without seeing.
Can we believe our eyes? Most of us are confident that we can, but we shouldn't be so sure. Every day, we fail to see things that are right in front of us, miss sudden or unexpected changes and fall for illusions without realising it. The culprit? Blind spots. These hidden gaps in our perception are responsible for errors in operating machinery, diagnosing medical conditions, giving evidence in court and even influence how we invest our money or shop.
Unseen explores the hidden corners of the human mind where perception fails, from the everyday oversights to the deep-rooted cognitive biases that shape our worldview. Lifting the lid on how our minds shape what we see, neuropsychologist David Lewis and illusionist Keelan Leyser explore the different types of blind spots, why they occur, how they can be used to manipulate our thoughts and the practical steps we can take to avoid them.
What have you been missing?
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How To Think Like an Artist
Painters and Sculptors Who Have Changed The Way We See The World
Catherine
Daunt
The latest in the How To Think series, focusing on artists who have changed the way that humans view, depict and navigate the world.
The 30 artists included have each made an important, often revolutionary, contribution to the development of the visual arts. In doing so, each of these figures has in some way changed the way that humans view, depict and navigate the world.
This selection of artists represents a broad span of history, from antiquity to the present day, and portrays a diverse view of the visual arts by looking beyond the traditional white, male and Western art canon and including a high proportion of women artists and artists from outside Europe and North America.
These artists have not been chosen for their fame, although many are household names, but for their achievements, their approach to their art and for the interesting and innovative ways in which they thought and interpreted the world. In addition, each selection provides an entertaining and colourful account that will appeal to readers with varying knowledge of art, including those who know nothing about these figures. This is done through descriptions of their work, pertinent anecdotes that reveal something about the way they thought and by providing context for their art.
Although each of these artists is highly individual, aspects of their experiences, approaches and how they think can be compared to other artists and reference is made to others who worked/work in a similar way. This allows the reader to learn more about art from these stories of 30 individuals than they might t...
Catherine Daunt is the Hamish Parker Curator of Modern and Contemporary Graphic Art at the British Museum, working across the Museum’s collection of Western prints and drawings made in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a particular interest in British and American art. Catherine has worked as Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Assistant Exhibition Officer at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / CYBERPUNK
Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book | 6/16/2026
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HEAD OF ZEUS -- AN ADASTRA BOOK
Bee Speaker
Adrian Tchaikovsky
From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, comes the third instalment of the Dogs of War series, a future where genetically engineered “Bioforms” have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System.
The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts.
But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees—an outlawed distributed intelligence—survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.
Fast forward to today. A signal—“For the sake of what once was. We beg you. Help.”—reaches Mars. How could they refuse? A consortium of Martian work crews gather the resources for a mission: a triumphal return to the blue-green world of their ancestors. And now here they are—three hundred million kilometres from home. And it has all already gone horribly wrong.
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Dogs of War
“A gripping dive into bioethics and artificial intelligence.” —New Scientist
Bear Head
“You don’t need to have read Dogs of War to enjoy Bear Head—but why deny yourself the pleasure?” —The Times
“Funny, appalling, gruesome and uplifting (often at the same time), Bear Head is propelled by a cracking plot that balances dystopian satire with a palpable sense of moral peril.” —Daily Mail
“If you're a fan of Black Mirror, this classic dystopian book will have you hooked within the first few pages. Smart, fast-paced, and razor-sharp, this book is surprisingly funny while still remaining deeply thought-provoking.” —Daily Express “A rousing go...
Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.
FICTION / ROMANCE / SPORTS
Aria | 7/21/2026
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Polo Fever
A sizzling sports romance perfect for fans of Rivals
Katherine Reilly
A sizzling sports romance full of witty banter, high society scandal, and titillating tight breeches. Perfect for fans of Rivals, Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer.
She ran from the spotlight . . . straight into his stable.
As the assistant to one of fashion’s most powerful designers, Ashley has always stayed out of frame—until her secret romance with the face of his latest menswear line, tennis star Chris Courtney, is exposed in a single, perfectly-timed paparazzi shot. In the space of a day, Ashley’s career, reputation, and privacy are torn apart by the press.
With nowhere to turn, she escapes to the countryside to stay with family, hoping to disappear. But solace comes in an unexpected form: a quiet stable and a beautiful horse. That is, until she’s caught trespassing by none other than international polo icon, tabloid regular, and infuriatingly charming Mateo.
Horses? Zero experience. Polo players? Definitely off-limits.
As Ashley’s thrust into a world of high-stakes games and elite scandal, she finds herself at the centre of a yet another storm, one where passion and power collide, and her heart might just be the biggest risk of all.
Katherine Reilly is the pseudonym for an author of several young adult and adult novels, published globally. Under Katy Birchall, she is the author of The Secret Bridesmaid and also writes YA novels as Ivy Bailey. Katherine lives in London with her family and rescue dog.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / JEWELRY
Herbert Press | 8/18/2026
9781789943450 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
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Natural Settings
Creating Botanical Jewelry with Eco-resins
Sharon Wu
A sustainable guide to making plant-based resin pieces with your favourite flowers, including earrings, bezel necklaces and pendants.
Whether you’re a beginner looking to take up an eco-friendly hobby, or an established crafter looking to ditch harmful petroleum-based resins, these 24 projects provide essential advice for setting your botanicals in natural resins. Gather some greenery and use this non-toxic material to turn them into a variety of beautiful accessories!
You’ll learn to select, pick and prepare flowers, leaves and other natural materials for preservation, before following a beginner-friendly introduction to encapsulation, working with bezels and jewellery tools. Once you’ve got to grips with shaping and curing plant-based resin, later projects open up a world of sculptural creativity – using a range of moulds, you’ll learn how to cast, layer and assemble like a pro.
Brimming with tips and tricks throughout, including the addition of colourants, foil and glitter to your finished pieces, Sharon Wu’s step-by-step instructions will help you create personalised, vibrant and sustainable accessories for every occasion. Whether preserving that precious first flower of spring or the leaves from your Christmas wreath, Natural Settings is the indispensable guide for anybody interested in resin jewellery.
Sharon Wu lives in Houston, with her family. She is a Research Scientist with a Ph.D. in Material Science. She is a nature lover, an artist, an entrepreneur, and a passionate STEM education advocate. Since 2018, Dr. Wu has been teaching flower pressing and resin jewellery making. She has run her handmade jewellery store “Flower Reader” on Etsy since 2020, and in 2021 she founded 12 Dalton to spread the joys and wonders of science and empower women in STEM.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / LEARNING DISABILITIES
Green Tree | 6/23/2026
9781399426572 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can.
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Dyslexia Unlocked
How to be successful in work and life
Natalie Brooks
A refreshingly honest and practical guide for adults struggling to understand their dyslexia, based on a 3-pillar approach to success.
Did you know that it’s not your dyslexia that's causing you problems, but the way you engage with it? Based around a 3-part formula, Dyslexia in Adults will give you the tools and guidance to help you:
1. Build confidence through letting go of your negative thoughts around dyslexia
2. Build systems that actually work with your brain and make you feel in control and
3. Unlock strengths to help you identify the opportunities that can come from dyslexia.
Today 1 in 10 adults have dyslexia, and Natalie Brooks is one of them. Growing up, Natalie was shocked to see the lack of resources aimed at adults and wanted to help. She is now the founder of coaching company, Dyslexia in Adults, which provides educational content and real solutions to help people transform the way they manage their dyslexia.
With a straightforward and no-nonsense approach, Dyslexia in Adults is full of practical advice and real-life examples to give you the tools and inspiration you need to achieve whatever you want in life.
Natalie Brooks was diagnosed with dyslexia at age 7, and has always been told she “couldn’t” do a lot of things as a result. Today, Natalie is an Adult Dyslexic Coach and founder of Dyslexia in Adults, which is a haven for ambitious and determined people who crave more from life. Natalie is passionate about helping people manage their dyslexia in real and honest terms (so she won’t be calling it your “superpower,” we promise). @Dyslexia_in_adults
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIRS
Bloomsbury Publishing | 7/7/2026
9781639735785 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can.
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American Alt
A True Story of Madness and Friendship in a Broken Country
Chris Lockhart
A glimpse into the mind of an American conspiracy theorist, the schizophrenia, trauma, and misinformation that drove him to the brink, and the friendship that brought him back.
On the eve of January 6, 2021, Michael Dodd and his three friends found themselves in a stolen vehicle on the grounds of the Washington State capitol, armed to the teeth, and ready to kidnap Governor Jay Inslee. Only there weren’t actually three others in the car—Michael was alone. Months later, the violent plan thwarted, Michael sat in a psychiatric hospital and learned that he was struggling with undiagnosed schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder. His knowledge of that fateful day was spotty, fractured by the different personality states he now knew were affecting his reality. Skeptical of a state mental health system, but anxious to find out how his world turned upside down, he reached out to his longtime friend, the author Chris Lockhart, for help.
American Alt is the odyssey of two friends trying to piece together the fragments of Michael’s shattered memory and uncover the truth of what pushed him to the edge. Set against the beautiful but economically broken region where both men rambled in their youth, Lockhart delivers a suspenseful, profoundly moving story of discovery and affirmation.
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"A triumph of character and place, American Alt goes where few books dare: deep into the fractured psyche of the American west. It's a bold, unflinching study of individual, collective, and environmental trauma written with the page-turning lucidity of a thriller."—Maxim Loskutoff, author of Old King and Come West and See
"Chris Lockhart’s American Alt is a mesmerizing, compassionate, and deeply meaningful exploration of a perilous corridor of American life. By recounting the story of a friend whose mental illness brought him to the brink of conspiracy-fueled violence, Lockhart discovers hidden truths in his own story—and in the way many of us...
Chris Lockhart has a PhD in medical anthropology from the University of California San Francisco and Berkeley and is the coauthor of Tupa Tjipombo’s memoir, I Am Not Your Slave He is the co-author with Daniel Mulilo Chama of Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka, a New York Times notable book and NPR Best of the Year. He lives in Seattle.
NATURE / ANIMALS / FISH
Bloomsbury Publishing | 7/7/2026
9781639736812 | $32.00 / $42.00 Can.
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Tin Can Coast
A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State Joseph Ogilvy
The hidden story of the California Coast, told through generations of immigrants, surges of industry, and three marine species caught in the dragnet of human history.
Look west from San Francisco or Monterey, past the surfers and cargo ships. This is the California Current, 1,900 miles of the most productive waters on earth. It was here that eighteenth-century locals encountered frisbee-sized abalone mollusks, sardine schools the size of buses, and Yellowfin tuna, each the size of a man. But it was not to last.
Over the next three centuries, the abalone, sardine, and tuna were swept into the violent undertow of history. Their species became resources. Fishing and hunting drove the Spanish-Russian territory battle of the eighteenth century, California’s virulently racist first “conservation” laws in the 19th, and an ad campaign that kept America fed on just-like-chicken canned goods in the 20th. Along the way, they became drivers of geopolitical competition, catalysts for the dramatic rise and fall of Cannery Row aristocracy, and even surly muses for John Steinbeck and Fritz Lang.
Collapsing the distinctions between human and natural history, Tin Can Coast brings the cautionary tale of the California shore to life.
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"In Tin Can Coast, Ogilvy does a masterful job of weaving together the enmeshed fates of the California Current’s fisheries, the immigrant communities that first exploited them, and the way greed eventually killed what could have been the Golden Coast’s golden goose. A fascinating story at every turn, exceptionally well told." —Scott Weidensaul, New York Times bestselling author of The World on the Wing
Joseph Oglivy is a writer and chef. After graduating from Oxford University, he spent several years working in restaurants in both London and Texas, while writing on his days off. His experience in kitchens led him to research involving the tangled human and ecological history of food. This is his first book.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LITERARY
Bloomsbury Publishing | 7/7/2026
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The Odyssey
Seymour Chwast
Design legend Seymour Chwast lends his "diabolically witty, devilishly expressive" style [NPR] to one of the western world's most celebrated classics.
Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to Homer's Odyssey, one of the best-known stories in history. The tale is one that begs for visual interpretation, filled with mythic characters we all know well: the Cyclops, the Lotus-Eaters, the cannibal Laestrygonians, the Sirens, the monster Scylla (beside the whirlpool Charybdis), Poseidon, Athena, and Zeus.... Featuring a bold black, white, and blue interior design throughout, imbued with his own sly humor, The Odyssey brings us a dazzling new vision of one of the epic journeys.
PRAISE
Dante's Divine Comedy
"Diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings...an accessible introduction to The Divine Comedy—a sort of high-end, WHAM-POW Cliff's Notes. . . . fiendishly entertaining." —NPR.org "With his signature mix of humor, artistry, and high-level design, he conveys a breathtaking amount of information in clear black and white line drawings . . . Chwast does a stunning job of telling Dante's story in his own brilliant style."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Seymour Chwast is a graduate of the Cooper Union, where he studied illustration and graphic design. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual communications. In 1985 the name was changed to the Pushpin Group; Chwast is the studio's director. Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and has created two previous graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante's Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. He lives in New York City.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
(SINGLE AUTHOR)
Bloomsbury Publishing | 7/14/2026
9781639736256 | $26.99 / $35.99 Can.
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Please Don’t Touch the Body
Stories
Emily Doyle
“A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood.
By turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in Please Don’t Touch the Body are thrillingly concerned with the devastation—and power—of being alive today.
In the collection’s first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades. In the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped, and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in “Thank You No Thank You,” a young woman grapples with the rules she learned in her religious childhood, the freedoms of her new and more liberal life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend.
Together these inventive, emotionally rich stories reveal an incredible new vision and “a writer to watch” (Rita Chang-Eppig).
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“I’ve had the pleasure of glimpsing Emily Doyle’s muscular, heart-forward fiction in a writing workshop, and all I can say is brace yourselves. The body is front and center in these uniquely brewed stories, which range from surreal to poignant . . . This debut collection is thrillingly concerned with how we come to feel at ease in—or in power of—our meatsacks.” —Literary Hub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2026"
“Doyle is a knockout writer.” —Debutiful, "Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2026"
"An electrifying debut that thrums with dark humor, desire, and the uncanny ache of being alive. These effervescent stories are sharp as a scalpel and tender a...
Emily Doyle has an MFA from UC Riverside. She has received awards including the Bread Loaf–Rona Jaffe Participant Scholarship and the Abraham Lincoln Polonsky Endowed Award and her work has appeared in The Sun, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles.
HUMOR
Bloomsbury Publishing | 7/14/2026 9781639739332 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 1 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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Cry for Me, Argentina
Stories From My Messed-Up Life
Tamara Yajia
Now in paperback, a hilarious, moving memoir by Argentine American comedian Tamara Yajia, “one of the funniest people I know” (Cecily Strong).
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND NPR “Fascinating.” —Taika Waititi
Tamara Yajia entered the world on a wave of absurdity, born into a family no one would call normal, from her grandfather, the salami-obsessed poppers salesman, to her mother, the OnlyFans model. Not only will her family try anything once, like moving to the United States and opening a food stand named Sexy Chicken; they'll try anything multiple times, like moving back to Argentina, then back to the United States.
The road doesn't get easier for a twelve-year-old Argentinian Jew trying to make it big in Orange County. But through grit, hustle, and a series of harebrained schemes like joining a girl band, and performing her own one-woman show, Cumming of Age, Tam has made it through, and she's ready to spill some shit-figuratively and literally.
Tamara Yajia's debut memoir is the messy, blazing story of a young Argentine trying to survive while holding on to her confidence, ambition, and sense of humor.
“Tamara Yajia’s book is everything you could want from a memoir—the juiciest details, unforgettable characters, all sensually dancing on that delicate tightrope of hilarious and vulnerable. I wholeheartedly give it five out of five child stars.” —Aparna Nancherla
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“Raw and raunchy . . . Yajia’s account is appealingly unfiltered.” —Publishers Weekly
“Yajia writes as if she’s unloading years of pain, grief, and hard knocks . . . With sharp, biting prose, she recalls every detail . . . as if it happened just yesterday.” Jewish Book Council
“Simultaneously funny and heartfelt.” —Mark Duplass
“Tamara Yajia awakens the dim light of my melancholy and sends me into joyous hysterical laughter all at once.” —Flea
"Remember that scene from Little Miss Sunshine where a young Abigail Breslin performs a striptease for a room full of horrified onlookers? That’s a story straight out of Cry for Me, Argentina. Onl...
Tamara Yajia is an Argentine writer, comedian, and former child star. She has written for ClickHole, Funny Or Die, and several TV series, including Acapulco, This Fool, and the upcoming Netflix animated series Strip Law. Tamara has performed on The Moth and was featured on NPR’s 41
HISTORY / HISTORIOGRAPHY
Bloomsbury Publishing | 6/16/2026
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Little Blue Dot
How GPS Shaped the Modern World
Katherine Dunn
The unexplored history of the GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all matters economic, social, and cultural.
Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that and squinted in exasperation before saying, “We’re lost.” Now, a network of satellites that circle the earth points us in the right direction. The Global Positioning System is now not only embedded in our phones but in our cultural history and our future. GPS, intangible but ubiquitous, has instigated a radical shift in our relationship to our own intuition and place in the world, making us critically dependent on technology we forget is even there.
Little Blue Dot uncovers the GPS’s origins as a product of the Cold War, from the space race to the bombing campaigns in Vietnam, following along as its military and civilian uses expanded and shifted to become part of the fabric of modern life. With pulsating detail and witty expertise, investigative reporter Katherine Dunn takes us on a fascinating journey from the origins of the technology to its modern-day iteration, considering its role in international politics and conflict—and its rising vulnerabilities to manipulation.
Initially a cog in the wheel of globalization, GPS has now taken on a new life, and may even serve as a parable for the proliferation of AI and newer technologies on the horizon. Sharp and evocative, Little Blue Dot considers the future of GPS, its impact on our understanding of space and time, and the role of technology in our lives.
Katherine Dunn is a journalist based out of London. Until early 2022 she was an editor at Fortune magazine. She currently works at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where she helps run the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, an international network to help improve climate reporting worldwide.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY FIGURES
Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/18/2026
9781639737727 | $36.00 / $48.00 Can.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
A Life
Gerald Martin
The long-awaited first biography of Mario Vargas Llosa, Latin America’s greatest living writer, from acclaimed biographer Gerald Martin.
Mario Vargas Llosa is often considered not only the greatest living writer from his continent but the most influential intellectual in the entire Hispanic world. This is the first authoritative and comprehensive biography of the brilliant author of Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, and The Feast of the Goat, a man who ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 and in 2010 won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The long life of Vargas Llosa is one of variety and eccentricity. He has never stopped writing and traveling, and he has certainly never been far from political controversy. Handsome, elegant, and debonair, Vargas Llosa is a giant of social influence and literature who has taken a political journey across the spectrum. But behind his compelling public story, his personal life is one of deep intrigue. This captivating biography will be the first to unveil the mystery surrounding the personal, literary, and political relationships between Vargas Llosa and the public, his family, and his contemporaries—confidantes and enemies alike—including Gabriel García Márquez.
With privileged access to Vargas Llosa’s archives and papers, Gerald Martin brings meticulous research, scrupulous attention to detail, and narrative verve to bear on a life that has towered over global literature for decades.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life:
“Could any biographer have been better suited to this gargantuan undertaking? Absolutely not: Mr. Martin is the ideal man for the job . . . An intensive, assured, penetratingly analytical book.” —The New York Times
“Nothing short of a revelation . . . Martin has understood, as far as it is possible for a biographer to understand, the motivations and experiences that have guided Gabo, and all of us who love the maestro’s work are grateful for it . . .
Extraordinary.” —Los Angeles Times
“Terrific . . . Crisp, clear, compelling . . . A biography that is fresh and insightful.” USA Today
“A masterful, admiring (but fa...
Gerald Martin is Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and a former president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. His publications include Journeys Through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century and Gabriel García Márquez: A Life. He has visited or resided in all the nations of Latin America, as well as France, Spain and the United States, and currently lives in Hampshire in the United Kingdom.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / ANCIENT & CLASSICAL
Bloomsbury Continuum | 7/14/2026
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Homer-Haunted
The Many Afterlives of an Ancient Poet Henry Power
This is the story of how two ancient epics captured the world’s imagination, for fans of Stephen Fry and Natalie Haynes.
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.
Henry Power is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter. He has been awarded a research fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to allow him to work on this book. As well as publishing academic books, he is a regular contributor to publications such as the TLS, Evening Standard and Literary Review. He has appeared as a guest on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. He has a significant 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.
FICTION / HISTORICAL / MEDIEVAL
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book | 7/28/2026
9781035921805 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can.
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Duel of Beasts
Boyd Morrison, Beth Morrison
The thrilling new historical adventure novel from Boyd and Beth Morrison features perilous quests and deadly plots in medieval Spain.
Málaga, Spain, 1352. Knight-errant Gerard Fox and his daring wife Willa seek young noblewoman Madelena to deliver news of her brother's death: an innocuous mission, yet one that plunges the couple into a fight for their lives against their most dangerous adversaries yet.
Madelena's sister-in-law Helvira desires two things that Madalena now possesses: a considerable inheritance, and a letter that provides grounds for Helvira's execution in both the Christian and Muslim worlds. With everything at stake, Helvira will stop at nothing to seize both.
Fox and Willa soon find themselves in a desperate battle to survive on a journey that will take them from the royal court at Seville to the mighty complex of the Alhambra Palace. To save Madelena and reveal the truth, the duo must outwit Helvira and her allies at every turn – and escape the ferocious creatures of Helvira's deadly menagerie.
The unmissable new novel in the Tales of the Lawless Land series, combining thrilling historical action and clever puzzles, from New York Times bestselling author Boyd and expert medievalist Beth Morrison.
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“This duo knows all the right chords to touch.” —Steve Berry “Will dazzle fans of The Da Vinci Code.” —Lee Goldberg “Full of authenticity and thrills.” —Mark Greaney
Boyd Morrison is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen thrillers, including six with Clive Cussler. He has a PhD in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech. Beth Morrison is Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the Getty Museum. She has curated major internationally acclaimed exhibitions and has a PhD in the History of Art from Cornell University. Together the siblings write the Tales of the Lawless Land series, adventure thrillers mixing authentic history and clever puzzles.
FICTION / ROMANCE / CONTEMPORARY
Aria | 8/11/2026
9781035915392 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can.
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The One Where They Fall in Love
Cristina Wolf
A heartwarming, enemies-to-lovers rom-com about second chances, unexpected companionship, and the healing power of love. Perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez, Elsie Silver and Mhairi McFarlane.
You never know when love may come knocking . . .
Hopeless romantic and romance editor Elle Thompson lives for happy endings—but real-life love? Not so much. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t thrilled when her best friend gets engaged. Really. Not jealous at all.
Meanwhile, Oliver Cole likes things a certain way. Schedules and routines and order. So when his move back to New York is disrupted with the unwelcome addition of Thor—the dog his sister adopted for him—he’s less than enthused. Even less enthused than Oliver? Elle.
When Elle can’t bear to hear Thor howling all night, the two agree to strike a deal: she’ll dog-sit while he’s on shift.
But what starts as a reluctant arrangement soon turns into late-night chats, sizzling chemistry, and two lonely hearts daring to let each other in.
Cristina Wolf wrote her first book in the third grade. It was an adventure book about her beagle, Abby, complete with hand-drawn illustrations and top-notch handwriting. Needless to say, writing and reading has been a passion of Cristina’s from the beginning. Cristina pursued a career in the publishing industry while earning her Master of Science in Publishing from New York University. Cristina has experience working at literary agencies and as an editorial assistant at a publishing house.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / POTTERY & CERAMICS
Herbert Press | 7/14/2026
9781789943931 | $35.00 / $47.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.6 in H | 7.5 in W | 0.6 in T | 1.3 lb Wt
Over 150 colour illustrations throughout
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Exploring Crystalline Glazes
Diane Creber
Explore the art and craft of producing beautiful crystalline ceramic glazes.
Crystalline glazes are known for producing exciting works reminicient of floating galaxies, frosty windows, rare gemstones and delicate flowers. Until recently, however, few potters worked in this elusive material. Now, with new advancements in materials and digital processors, the method has become simplified and amazing results can be achieved without the problems usually associated with these glazes.
In this book, Diane Creber sketches the history of this material, beginning with the the formation of crystals and how they can be grown under controlled conditions. Through a survey of the different types of glazes and most suitable clays, Diane Creber demonstrates how different ingredients react with each other.
From helpful clay and glaze recipes to an in-depth look at firing aids and types of kilns, Exploring Crystalline Glazes has everything a potter needs to make their own glazes and produce their own dazzling works of art.
Diane Creber operated Wilton Pottey for 45 years making one-of-a-kind and functional pottery. Once she discovered crystalline glazes, there was no turning back. At the time, there was no written information on this process, so she contacted over a hundred potters working in this medium. The material gained was put in the first book ever written on this process: Crystalline Glazes, published by A&C Black Visual Arts and University of Pennsylvania Press in the Ceramics Handbooks series.
HEALTH & FITNESS / ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES
Green Tree | 7/28/2026
9781399429801 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can.
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Rasayana
Feel young in mind and body with the wisdom of Ayurveda
Geeta Vara
Harness the time-honoured practice and wisdom of Rasayana—the Ayurvedic principle of rejuvenation—for optimal life-long health and well-being.
We are all a little bit burnt out from the multiple demands of modern life. Instead of rushing through life and dealing with old age after it arrives, what if we had the wisdom to maintain optimal health throughout our lives?
Rasayana comprises the art of healthy ageing, and is a key principle of Ayurveda – an ancient holistic health system, often known as ‘the sister science of yoga’. Far more than a passing wellness trend, Rasayana focuses on our mind, body, emotions, environment and relationships to support us in staying healthier for longer.
Ayurvedic practitioner Geeta Vara guides us through this dynamic approach to longevity, helping us to mature with grace in a simple and holistic way. Drawing on personal stories, client case studies and lessons from ancient sages and modern-day older generations, Vara teaches us how to incorporate simple principles into our life to rejuvenate our mind and body, including:
Key Rasayana herbs, like Ashwagandha, to reduce stress, support immune function and boost energy
Ayurvedic practices such as Abhyanga (daily oil massage) to nourish the skin and improve circulation
Dietary habits to support digestion and detoxification
Non-herbal practices like Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) and Trataka (candle gazing) to enhance mental acuity and sensory perception Yoga and Pranayama (breathwork) to enhance flexibility, strength and mental clarity.
With a growing demand for a shift in our we...
Geeta Vara is an experienced Ayurvedic practitioner. As a British-born practitioner with Indian roots, Vara is passionate about bringing the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda to as many people as possible. Her goal is to make Ayurveda accessible and understandable while preserving its authenticity. She is the author of AYURVEDA: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Wellbeing(Orion Spring, 2018.)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / INDUSTRIES / NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION
Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/4/2026
9781639733224 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
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The Vanishing Earth
Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction
James Crawford
A journey to the ravaged frontiers of extraction and the promising, often radical alternatives emerging just as we reach the point of exhausting the earth’s natural resources.
Over the last half century, humanity has taken more resources from the earth than in all prior history combined. The planet is littered with the vast scars of extraction. It is only by confronting the ruins of our “old” world that we can find the path toward the “new.”
In The Vanishing Earth, James Crawford, born into a landscape and family steeped in fossil fuels, takes readers to the literal and ideological frontiers of extraction. Beginning with the story of humanity’s decoupling from nature, Crawford embarks on an epic journey to five resource landscapes rapidly trending toward exhaustion: landscapes of rock, metal, sand, water, and thought. From the salt flats of Chile’s Atacama Desert lithium mines to the “sacrifice zone” of Florida’s phosphorus-rich Bone Valley, and even to chillingly advanced attempts to harvest personal data from the brain itself, Crawford explores some of the most extreme scenes of the Anthropocene. Along the way, he asks what lies behind our insatiable appetites and explores emerging alternatives that might just spare our vanishing natural resources, transform our economies, and save our relationship with nature itself.
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“Beautifully written, surprising and (dare I say it) important, Crawford explores the ragged edges and obscure interiors of capitalism's relentlessly expanding territory and asks how we can stop commodifying and consuming everything from sand to our own minds before it really is too late. This book is worth your time and attention.” Adam Welz, author of The End of Eden
James Crawford is an acclaimed historian, publisher, and broadcaster. His book Fallen Glory was selected as a Sunday Times Must Read, and a Book of the Year by the New Statesman and the Independent. His latest, The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World, earned rave reviews in the New York Review of Books and the Washington Post, and was featured on CNN’s Amanpour. He lives in Edinburgh.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / DECORATING
Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/4/2026
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The Spooky Season Handbook
The ultimate guide to celebrating the best time of year
Bea Witched
Crafts, recipes, and cozy inspiration to celebrate the spooky spirit of Halloween—and recommendations to conjure up the autumn ethos all year round.
For those who wait in anticipation for the first brush of crisp autumn air, The Spooky Season Handbook is a necessary companion for dark, stormy nights and chilly, magical mornings.
Within its pages, readers will find:
- Do-it-yourself crafts, costumes, and decorations for hosting the perfect seasonal soiree to the coziest solo night, with pumpkin carving and jack-o-lantern making, witchy tablescapes, and irresistible hand-poured candles.
- Curated movies, television episodes, books, and playlists that let you sink your teeth into the eerie atmosphere.
- Perfectly pumpkiny recipes, seasonal sweet treats, and spooky snacks— from Meringue Bones, to Caprese Eyeballs, to the ultimate Pumpkin Spice Latte.
- Devilish drinks, like a Blood Orange Margarita and Full Moon Elixir.
- Rituals and spells, with horrorstrology, journaling prompts, and tarot reflections.
Lovers of the horrific, the campy, and the cozy alike will discover endless inspiration between the ghost stories and folklore. Each craft and quiet meditation will guide you in honoring the spooky season with purpose, reverence, and, of course, a little mischief.
Bea Witched is the mistress of spooky season and expert in all things unearthly, from classic horror movies to the spiritual guidance of constellations. Nestled in a crooked cottage by the edge of an enchanted wood, this part-time green witch spends her time by the crackling fire – studying folklore, unearthing hidden histories and practicing the healing art of herbalism. Bea is rarely seen without Pumpkin, her crafty black cat, or a sinfully sweet treat on the side of her lavender-steeped tea.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / DEATH & DYING
Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/11/2026
9781639733651 | $29.00 / $39.00 Can.
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Are They Dead Yet?
The Art of the Obit
Sam Roberts
From celebrated New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts, the art of the obit: Who we remember, how we forget, and where we find the true meaning in a life.
After nearly a decade behind the obituaries desk at the paper of record, Roberts knows an obit isn’t really about death. In fact, they usually only mention dying once. Over the course of the nearly 1,500 obituaries he has written throughout his career, he has come to understand that it’s about distilling an entire life lived— whether for a celebrity or for someone whose name he learned that morning.
In Are They Dead Yet?, Roberts explores the major questions and quirks that arise from the task of producing a succinct yet record-defining account of a life. Who deserves an obituary, and how do we decide who gets one? How does an obituarist choose what to include—and what to omit? What happens when a person’s life story includes embarrassing information like a crime, affair, or eyebrow-raising cause of death? What makes a legacy? And what happens when a person’s claim to fame, so important in death, isn’t what mattered in life at all?
With wit, wisdom, and behind-the-scenes intrigue, Roberts examines the practice of writing advance obituaries, the histories and styles of precedent-setting newspapers, classic euphemistic language, and more. Through it all, Roberts brings his humor, eccentricity, and experience to prove what he has learned from a long career in death: There’s no such thing as an ordinary life.
PRAISE
"Are They Dead Yet? is amusing, informative, anecdotal, revelatory, digressive, surprising—I could go on, but I'll end with this: Death has never been so much fun!" —Daniel Okrent, Pulitzer Prize finalist and first New York Times public editor
"Writing obituaries calls for a finely balanced blend of sensitivity, truth-telling, decorum, boldness, humanity, and philosophy—all despite rowdy newsrooms and the thirst for instant copy. Few know the challenges of the job better than Sam Roberts, for a decade a [the?] leading obituary writer at The New York Times. His book is an engrossing voyage through the practice of his trade, from its pitfalls a...
Sam Roberts, a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter and formerly the Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times. He has hosted the NYT Close Up on TV and the podcast Only in New York. He is the author of The New Yorkers, A History of New York in 27 Buildings, A History of New York in 101 Objects, and The Brother. He has written for the New Republic, New York, Air Mail, and Foreign Affairs, among others. He lives in New York with his wife.
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The Salt King
A Novel
Natasha Pulley
A novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with Natasha Pulley’s biting wit and queer romance.
Jesuit priest Avelyn Brocken was born into a mining family in Hreodwater, a small, isolated salt town in England. At 16, after a mining disaster killed his family, he fled.
When a fellow priest is miraculously healed only to then be turned to salt after a visit to Hreodwater, Avelyn is sent to investigate. When he arrives, the town’s doctor, Jericho, tells him that the priest is not the only one experiencing strange cures—and may not be the only one in danger from a substance in the mine that the locals call “salt light.”
As Avelyn and Jericho team up to protect the Hreodwater from salt light, strange happenings occur at mines around the world. At an archaeological dig on the Dead Sea, electrical devices froth salt, while at a huge salt works in Poland, communication is lost, and rumors circulate of total annihilation.
As salt light devastates cities around the world, Avelyn must decide what to believe—and whether his faith is strong enough to withstand an apocalypse.
PRAISE
“Witty, bittersweet, surprising, and compellingly readable.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on The Hymn to Dionysus “A queer love story wrapped up in questions about the end of empire and the need for revelry—quite fitting for 2025.” —Town & Country on The Hymn to Dionysus “Delightful . . . An epic love story and a deft political thriller.” —The Washington Post on The Mars House “Beautiful.” —The New York Times Book Review on The Kingdoms
Natasha Pulley is the bestselling author of eight books, including The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Mars House, and The Hymn to Dionysus. She has won a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Climate Fiction Prize, and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize.
FICTION
/ THRILLERS / CRIME
Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/18/2026
9781639739363 | $21.99 / $28.99 Can.
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Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain
Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo, and The Bobby Gold Stories
Anthony Bourdain
Rediscover the legendary Anthony Bourdain through his three early crime novels full of criminal cooks, bloody kitchens, and extra-sharp knives.
It was the seedy 1990s, and Anthony Bourdain was an anonymous headband-clad chef in New York. Sweating over gas ranges with criminals-turned–prep cooks, he loved the camaraderie of cleaving beef bones with the troublemakers of the world. It was all part of a good kitchen, and to him, it was art.
Bourdain’s first book, Bone in the Throat, was pulled from the entrails of this world. The mafia caper follows wannabe chef Tommy’s stint at a red sauce joint in Little Italy, unaware that it’s in trouble with the mob—and now he is too. After writing, Bourdain headed to St. Martin to “straighten himself out.” Soon came Gone Bamboo, a thriller that follows Henry, an assassin who thinks he can hide in St. Martin after a botched murder. Then Bourdain published Kitchen Confidential, the book that made him a legend. But before cleaning up his act for good, Bourdain had one final job: to write The Bobby Gold Stories, which follows Bobby as he takes a job at a mobbed-up club, then falls for a fiery cook who’s more trouble than he can handle.
Full of knife-slingers, fast-talkers, and the kitchens that harbor them, these books reveal Bourdain’s mind before his fame. “You can find him, I think, in these early novels” (Eater), and he's Bourdain as you’ve never known him before.
PRAISE
“Deliciously depraved.” —The New York Times on Bone in the Throat
“A new master of the wiseass crime comedy.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Gone Bamboo
“The chef wields his pen with the same murderously winning flair as he does his knives.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Bobby Gold Stories
“A Manhattan tale with Elmore Leonard flavor . . . Bourdain cooks as a writer.”
The New York Times on The Bobby Gold Stories
Anthony Bourdain, the renowned chef and author, is best known for authoring the bestselling Kitchen Confidential and Medium Raw; A Cook’s Tour; The Nasty Bits; and the cookbooks Les Halles Cookbook and Appetites. He wrote for the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Times He hosted the docuseries Parts Unknown and No Reservations, among others. He died in 2018.
HISTORY / ASIA / CHINA
Bloomsbury Continuum | 3/26/2026
9781399417754 | $18.00 / $24.00 Can.
Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 48
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W
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Emperor of the Seas
Kublai Khan and the Making of China
Jack Weatherford
A gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, by the author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire" - The Telegraph
"sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine
Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of dynastic rivalry and innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immersion in Mongol culture and tradition, Emperor of the Seas brings this little-known story vibrantly to life.
Kublai Khan is one of history’s most fascinating characters. He brought Islamic mathematicians to his court, where they invented modern cartography and celestial measurement. He transformed the world’s largest land mass into a unified, diverse and economically progressive empire, introducing paper money. And, after bitter early setbacks, he transformed China into an outward looking sea-faring empire.
By the end of his reign, the Chinese were building and supplying remarkable ships to transport men, grain, and weapons over vast distances, of a size and dexterity that would be inco...
PRAISE
Astonishing...brings to life the smells and tastes of distant lands -Daniel Brooks / The Daily Telegraph
Jack Weatherford, an anthropologist and specialist in Mongol history, is an informed and lively guide to this extraordinary transformation. -Michael Prodger, the New Statesman sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down. -Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine
Weatherford puts Kublai’s accomplishments in full context, following up with a summary of China’s maritime history right up to the present day. Readers will find this a valuable treatment of a part of history previously familiar primarily to
ART / HISTORY
Apollo | 5/5/2026
9781804547397 | $55.00 / $73.00 Can.
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The Story of Tudor Art
A History of Tudor England Through its Art and Objects
Christina J. Faraday
A chronological exploration of the volatile and traumatic years of England’s Tudor dynasty, using the art of the era—both images and objects—as a means of investigating every facet of a period of...
A unique, illustrated history of Tudor England told through its art and artefacts.
The volatile years of England’s Tudor dynasty (1485–1603) and the five monarchs who ruled England during this period continue to fascinate and intrigue. Thanks to the paintings of artists like Hans Holbein, we have very definitive ideas about the appearance and personalities of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and her successor Elizabeth I. It is through their eyes of artists that we still see the dynasty which ruled England for just over a century. Yet, iconic though they are, when it comes to Tudor art, portraits—and monarchs—are far from the whole story.
Throughout the sixteenth century, images and objects were employed for political, religious, social and scientific ends, by a greater range of people than ever before. The Church and the royal court, archbishops, monarchs, and courtiers, were some of the most important patrons, commissioning artists in painting, tapestry, print and other materials, to convey particular messages and promote them as individuals and office-holders. But in this period too, the “middling sort,” professional men and women, increased in power, wealth and influence. They also wanted to promote themselves, and used not only art, but also a plethora of other objects to do so.
In this novel and unique exploration of England’s Tudor dynasty, Christina Faraday uses the art of the era—both images and objects—as a mean...
PRAISE
“Whether you love art or the Tudors or both—this book is for you.” —Philippa Gregory
“An engaging and authoritative exploration of the art of the Tudor era, looking at not just paintings and sculpture, but throwing a wider net over the artistic legacy of this profuse age. Faraday rightly insists on the importance of textiles—including tapestries, embroideries and costume—now only faintly evoked by contemporary descriptions of Court spectacles, and in the few precious examples that survive.”
—Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection
“Christina Faraday brings her astute and searching mind to visual art in the Tudor century, giving us sparkling,...
Christina J. Faraday is Research Fellow in History of Art at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge 55
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / POTTERY & CERAMICS
Herbert Press | 5/19/2026
9781789943535 | $35.00 / $47.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 22 9.7 in H | 7.5 in W | 0.5 in T | 1.3 lb Wt
Throwing Clay
The Art of Making Pottery On The Wheel
Rebecca Proctor
Learn how to throw clay on the wheel with this essential guide from one of the UK's leading contemporary studio potters.
Whilst a potter shaping clay on the wheel is both the iconic and familiar image we associate with ceramics, the skill is notoriously hard to learn. Using step-by-step photos and illustrations, Rebecca Proctor shows you how to master the potter’s wheel.
With an emphasis on craftsmanship, Throwing Clay demonstrates the specific techniques required to make a range of elegant modern tableware – mugs, jugs, plates and more as well as vases and more complex forms such as teapots. In addition to detailing the processes required to create each piece, Proctor features beautiful examples of finished ceramics from other contemporary makers based around the world.
Including a combination of projects and gorgeous inspirational photographs, Throwing Clay is the ultimate guide for complete beginners and advanced ceramicists alike.
Rebecca Proctor is a potter and pottery teacher specialising in wheel thrown tableware and ceramics. Frequently commissioned by chefs and stylists, her pots are created for some of Britain’s finest restaurants, as well as being found in beautiful homes all around the world. Prior to making pottery, Rebecca worked as a design writer and author. A lifelong commitment to craftsmanship, led her to making pots as well as writing about them.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING / GRANDPARENTING
Green Tree | 5/26/2026
9781399416948 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 1
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Grand Expectations
The joys and dilemmas of being a grandparent
Celia Dodd
The must-read guide to navigating family life as a grandparent.
The relationship between grandparent and grandchild is more important to families than ever before, with 7 million grandparents providing childcare in the UK. But while the joys of being a grandparent are widely celebrated, some challenges are generally brushed under the carpet.
Author, journalist and grandparent Celia Dodd speaks to grandmothers and grandfathers and draws on the latest research to better understand how to manage your emotions, time and energy alongside other commitments and dreams.
Whether you’re a grandma, dada, nanny or pops, Grand Expectations encourages you to celebrate your age and experience as a strength – not a weakness. This book also reminds you how to channel your wisdom and empathy into nurturing deep and lasting family relationships, and includes topics such as:
Managing relationships with your adult children and son/daughter in law
Providing childcare and babysitting
Coping as a single grandparent
Supporting your adult child through fertility treatment Navigating your own or your child’s divorce.
Celia Dodd is an author and journalist with over 30 years’ experience of writing about family and relationships for national newspapers and magazines, including the Times, the Independent, Daily Mail and Radio Times. Her previous books include All Grown Up, Not Fade Away, and The Empty Nest. Celia has 6 grandchildren who she looks after regularly.
GARDENING / ORGANIC
Green Books | 5/12/2026
9781399422802 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 1
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Black and white illustrations and colour photos
How to Start a Market Garden
The Comprehensive Guide to Starting a Sustainable Vegetablegrowing Business
Kate Collyns
All you need to know about starting a successful, sustainable business growing fresh produce.
More and more people are discovering the rewards of growing their own food, and there's plenty of advice to be found on methods of growing. But what about producing larger quantities to sell? Or even trying to make a living from horticulture? And how do you grow organic produce on this scale?
This book covers everything you need when starting out; from finding land to grow on and sourcing the finance to get going, to winning customers and marketing your produce, working on your business plan, deciding which crops to grow, and demystifying legal considerations. With an extensive directory of invaluable contacts and resources and a market gardening calendar, this friendly guide is packed with reassuring, first-hand advice and beautiful photographs and illustrations.
Whether you’ve got surplus produce from a vegetable garden, are starting a community project or looking to sell to wholesale from a fully-developed business, this is the perfect guide for anyone interested in selling produce for profit.
Kate Collyns started her own organic market garden in Wiltshire from scratch in 2011, and now grows tonnes of food every year to sell to her local community. She is the Chair of Bath and Bristol Organic Growers Group and a regular contributor to Organic Grower magazine. Kate has also written two books on growing and thoughtful gardening.
ART / COLLECTIONS, CATALOGS, EXHIBITIONS
Philip Wilson Publishers | 7/21/2026 9781781301371 | $35.00 / $47.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 1 11 in H | 9.5 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Winston Churchill
The Painter
Lucy Davis
This catalogue accompanies the Wallace Collection exhibition of around sixty of Sir Winston Churchill’s paintings, presenting a fascinating backdrop to the complex and poignant times he lived in.
This richly illustrated book accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Winston Churchill: The Painter, the first ever to take place in a UK public museum.
It is an unprecedented opportunity to reconsider Churchill through his paintings. Despite starting late at the age of forty, painting became a passion that would endure for the rest of his life. A careful selection of around sixty paintings from museums, institutions and private collections traces his life and presents a fascinating backdrop to the complex and poignant times he lived in. His paintings are ultimately representations of places he loved to visit and depict, but they are just as much autobiographical and provide an insight not often appreciated by the public into his private life.
Lucy Davis is a specialist in Flemish painting and has been curator of paintings at the Wallace Collection since 2011.
Xavier Bray is an art historian and has been director of the Wallace Collection since 2016.
FICTION / WOMEN
Aria | 6/2/2026
9781035906574 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 416 pages | Carton
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The Sisters of Hope Square
Faith
Hogan
Faith Hogan returns with another gripping and heart-warming saga as two sisters battle to save their inheritance, a small hotel on the Irish coast. Perfect for fans of Amanda Prowse, Sally Page a...
From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel in peaceful Ballycove, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive.
Upon their parents’ death, sisters Rae Johnson and Blythe Carney split their inheritance. Following their father's wishes, Blythe takes control of the family home, Ivy Hill House, and Rae their family’s business, Scott’s Hotel.
With a new hotel complex opening on the outskirts of the village, free-spirited Rae is under increasing pressure from all sides to make the hotel work but never really wanted the responsibility of it, feeling that organised Blythe would be better placed to run it. Meanwhile Blythe puts her feelings aside and busies herself with committees and village life, secure in the knowledge that her daughter Abigail, who works in Scott’s, will one day inherit it.
Now with the village struggling with an influx of new visitors, the hotel is at a turning point as Rae has to decide whether to sell or try and make it work. With the family’s inheritance and legacy at stake, these two sisters must decide where their future lies and what a home truly means, before they lose it forever.
Faith Hogan lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, four children, and two very fussy cats. She has an Hons Degree in English Literature and Psychology, has worked as a fashion model and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector.
From Trump to Le Pen, from Brexit to AfD, populists are rewriting the rules of politics, stoking division and promising a return to “common sense” leadership. Their message electrifies millions who feel left behind, unheard and fearful of the future. But behind the slogans lies a dangerous truth: populism isn’t the solution—it’s the road to ruin.
So how do we fight back?
In this urgent and provocative book, Liam Byrne dissects the five core tactics of the populist playbook and lays out a bold strategy to defeat them. Drawing on cutting-edge research from across the UK, US, France and Germany—including brand new studies of populist voters—he reveals why simply shouting louder won’t work. Instead, mainstream politics must evolve, channelling the rage that fuels populism into a revitalised Radical Centre.
By drawing connections between growing inequality and the populists’ clarion call for a “revolt against elites,” Byrne unveils the uncomfortable answers behind—and transformative strategies to tackle—the defining crises of our time.
Smart, sharp, and packed with real-world solutions, Why Populists Are Winning is a call to action for anyone who refuses to surrender the future to fear.
PRAISE
Armed with original research from across Europe and America, Liam Byrne explains why populism has seduced voters worldwide, unpacks the 5 keys to populist appeal and offers a game-plan for defeating populism and saving democracy
Liam Byrne is a British Labour Party politician and the Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, a member of His Majesty’s Privy Council, elected Chair of the Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF and a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. He is the author of over twenty publications on economics, foreign policy and public service reform. His book, The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it, was shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2024.
HISTORY / MODERN / 20TH CENTURY
Apollo | 6/23/2026
9781801104838 | $21.99 / $28.99 Can.
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Carton Qty: 1
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Norway's War
A People’s Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940–45
Robert Ferguson
A magisterial account of the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, and why its aftershocks continue to trouble the Norwegian national consciousness.
In the early morning of 9 April 1940, a fleet of German battleships entered the Oslofjord. Norwegian artillery delayed them long enough for King Haakon VII and his cabinet to escape to England, but there was no stopping the Nazi Blitzkrieg. Norway stood on the cusp of a traumatic five-year occupation whose aftershocks would continue to trouble its national consciousness long after the defeated Germans departed in May 1945.
Robert Ferguson tells the extraordinary story of the occupation and its judicial aftermath. He focuses in particular on German attempts to use a Norwegian Nazi administration under Vidkun Quisling to impose a National Socialist revolution on the country, and on the many brave and ingenious ways in which the Norwegians resisted.
Ferguson describes the occupation in all its aspects—from Nazi terror to non-violent resistance, from censorship to sabotage—via a series of heterogeneous but interlinked narratives. Key players in the occupation and its wider story—including the pitiless Reichskommissar Josef Terboven, the Norwegian crime writer-turned-SS-strongman Jonas Lie, the principled Lutheran bishop Eivind Berggrav and the enigmatic double agent Gunnar Waaler—are drawn in memorably vivid colours.
A riveting account of the Second World War’s forgotten occupation, Norway’s War evokes in moving fashion the moral and physical courage of a people who, faced with the brutal tyranny of a totalitarian invader, refuse...
PRAISE
“Masterly . . . thoroughly recommended for anyone wishing to learn more about one of the more under-explored areas of the second World War.” —Irish Times
“A dramatic, humane and hugely knowledgeable account of betrayal, resistance and double lives which brings to life a hidden dimension of the Second World War and reads like a thriller.” —Robert Gildea
“Long overdue, this is a masterful and cutting-edge analysis of Norway’s 1940 invasion, occupation and aftermath, penned by Europe's foremost scholar of Scandinavia.” —Peter Caddick-Adams
Robert Ferguson is an award-winning writer, translator, and radio dramatist. He is the author of numerous books, including Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North, The Vikings: A History, Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography, and Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Best Biography Award and won the University of London J.G. Robertson Award. His translation of Lars Mytting's Norwegian Wood won Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2016.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / GIRLS & WOMEN
Green Tree | 7/14/2026
9781399425650 | $18.00 / $24.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Black and white illustrations throughout
The Girls' Guide to Growing Up Great 2nd edition
Changing Bodies, Periods, Relationships and Life Online
Sophie Elkan
A positive and empowering guide for girls who are going through puberty or are interested in what’s in store.
Going through puberty? Thinking about puberty? Worried about growing up? Don't worry! This book is for you. Packed with facts and thoughtful advice, plus words of wisdom from older women and quotes and questions from girls who are also going through it, this book covers every aspect of going through puberty for girls (and even has a chapter on what's going on with boys because knowledge is power, after all). Also filled with quirky illustrations from the fabulous Flo Perry, coupled with space to scribble your own thoughts and ideas.
From body basics like breasts, spots and periods, to the questions with no easy answers (Does how you look matter? Is a crush ever wrong? Is it bad to be jealous of your best friends – and does having a best friend even matter?) Plus, of course, clear and empowering information on sex, sexuality and gender and a whistle-stop guide to the wonderful world of online.
Written by women who just happen to be mums: word whizz Sophie Elkan, psychotherapist Laura Chaisty and GP Dr Maddy Podichetty.
PRAISE
“Funny, kind and wise.” —Daisy Buchanan “Brilliant, accessible sensitive and funny—get this book for your children, your godchildren, your grandchildren and then everyone else’s children!” —Emily Maitlis
“This book frees girls from any ill-conceived myths about what they should or shouldn’t be feeling as they go through puberty. It says that you are ok the way you are - a message that could not be more important particularly during this crucial time where our bodies are going through a revolution.” —Brita Schmidt, Women for Women International–UK “Wise, kind, non-judgemental and empathetic. This book should be within every girl’s arm’s reach.” —...
Sophie Elkan has a background in Marketing and PR and now works in communications. She started her career working on women's magazines as well as teen titles Mizz and 19 Laura Chaisty is a qualified Art Psychotherapist with over fifteen years' experience working in the NHS. Dr Maddy Podichetty is a GP based in Oxford. All three are mothers of girls. Flo Perry is a freelance illustrator and writer. She has a passion for drawing funny pictures, especially about boobs and cats.
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the world’s greatest spiritual treasures, yet its profound teachings remain a mystery to many. Spoken on a battlefield in just 700 verses, this ancient text holds life-changing insights, but for first-time readers, its depth can feel overwhelming.
Nitesh Gor, a student of the Gita for over three decades, unlocks the gateway to its riches. This book distils the Gita’s core teachings into an 18-day journey –perfect for newcomers and a refreshing companion for seasoned readers. This guide illuminates timeless concepts like karma, dharma, and yoga without jargon and deviation from the original spirit of the text.
The Gita isn’t just philosophy – it’s a roadmap for living wisely. Discover how its insights can reshape your relationships, work, and inner world. A treasure awaits. Begin your journey today.
PRAISE
"The 5-minute Gita is your new guide to life. It powerfully distills the timeless wisdom of the East for a world with less time." —Jay Shetty
Nitesh Gor is a lifelong student of the Bhagavad Gita and founder of Avanti Schools Trust, an academy trust which integrates meditation, yoga, and ethics into education. His projects span retreats, wellness spaces and spiritual initiatives. Nitesh received an OBE in 2018 for Services to Education.
GARDENING / FLOWERS
Green Books | 7/28/2026
9781399418744 | $35.00 / $47.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 12
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Colour photos and illustrations throughout
The Flower Farmer's Year
Growing Flowers for Pleasure and Profit
Georgie Newbery
A fully updated practical guide for anyone wanting to grow cut flowers for pleasure or to start their own business.
Grow your own cut flowers and you can fill your house with the gorgeous colours and heavenly scents of your favourite blooms, knowing that they haven’t travelled thousands of miles – and you can make money while you do it.
Combining boundless passion with down-to-earth guidance and practical advice, Georgie Newbery draws on her own experiences as an artisan flower farmer, florist and educator in the second edition of this definitive guide. The Flower Farmer's Year covers everything, from how to start a cut-flower patch and guidance on what to grow, to cutting, conditioning and presenting cut flowers, and creating a hedgerow for Christmas.
For those interested in selling cut-flowers, the guide includes new chapters on how to start a business, including where to sell cut-flowers, and marketing and social media tips. A fully revised flower farmer's year planner is also provided to make your cut-flower farm as productive as possible.
Georgie Newbery is an artisan flower farmer, florist, writer and small business educator, supplying cut flowers direct to customers from her smallholding in Somerset. Georgie is a leading authority on growing cut flowers for a local market and runs courses, workshops and mentoring to flower farmers worldwide. She regularly judges for the RHS and is a junior committee member.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / POWER RESOURCES / NUCLEAR
Bloomsbury Sigma | 7/14/2026
9781399410502 | $19.00 / $25.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 1 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W
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Six Minutes to Winter
Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
Mark Lynas
Nuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than climate change, yet we are in near-total denial. This book puts the issue back to the top of the global agenda.
“Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed.” —George Monbiot
“Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call.” —David Wallace-Wells
“Powerful and insightful. Although many have forgotten about nuclear weapons, we shouldn’t.” —Charles Oppenheimer
The world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge.
Despite receiving very little attention, nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanity's immediate survival than climate change. While climate heating threatens humanity over many decades, nuclear war could destroy civilisation in just a few hours. A major missile exchange would mean months of near-total darkness, followed by a decade-long global nuclear winter that would destroy most life on Earth. Virtually everyone would starve in the resulting worldwide famine, and there would be no reliable refuge.
We are sleepwalking to Armageddon. There are no mass marches, no COPs, no nuclear Greta. But the climate experience teaches us that ignoring a problem is no solution, and that a worldwide mobilisation can work. Six Minutes to Winter presents an unflinching view of the nuclear nightmare, but also describes how weapons can be taken off hair-trigger alert and ultimately ...
PRAISE
“Staggering, necessary . . . Six Minutes to Winter is Lynas’s way of smashing the alarm button . . . Lynas closes Six Minutes to Winter on this resonant ceremony—so right in its moral soundness and so neat in its poetic symmetry that it made me weep.” —Washington Post
“Lynas’ fearsome yet humane clarion call should trigger a new era of nuclear disarmament. This should be the opening read of the Heads of Nuclear States book club. Pulverizing physics react with Mark Lynas' poetic soul to deliver a book of unmatched power.” —Tom Heap
“Six Minutes to Winter offers morbidly compelling descriptions of exactly what it would be like if the Eastern seab...
Mark Lynas is the author of five major works of popular science; his climate book Six Degrees won the 2008 Royal Society prize and was translated into 22 languages. He has written for the Guardian, New York Times and Washington Post, and appeared in the films Pandora’s Promise and 66
Bloomsbury Continuum | 7/7/2026
9781399433723 | $24.00 / $32.00 Can.
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What If Reform Wins
Peter Chappell
A compulsive nonfiction 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-by-day, 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 license fee. What will happen to peace in Northern Ireland? How will people fight back against mass deportations and fracking? And will this self-described ‘ill-disciplined pirate ship’ survive the rigors 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.
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, Prospect Magazine and various local papers. His writing for The Times has led to the preservation of Covent Garden’s historic gas lamps, a Channel Island not being cut off from the British mainland, and threats from the captain of an oligarch’s superyacht. In his career so far, he has interviewed Amazon explorers, clean air campaigners, and Heston Blumenthal. He was nominated for the Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism in 2018. He was born and raised in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY FIGURES
Bloomsbury Continuum | 7/14/2026
9781399426305 | $22.00 / $29.00 Can.
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2 x black and white 8-page plate sections
Robert Graves
From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
This revelatory biography of Robert Graves re-examines his position as a major First World War poet, as well as a master prose writer.
The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves’s status as a “war poet” seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected –until now.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves’s fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding’s even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final “goodbye” to “all that.”
In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves’s compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it.
PRAISE
“Wilson unveils the poet behind the man struggling to make, not write, poetry [and] clarifies our understanding of what Graves was about.” —Literary Review
“25 years after the last biography, a fresh approach . . . Measured and dispassionate . . . This is biography at its best.” —Country Life
‘A sensitive rendering of the poet's formative years . . . A sympathetic perspective on Graves’ eventful life.” —Kirkus Reviews
Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a celebrated biographer and leading expert on the First World War poets. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper biography prize for her Isaac Rosenberg, she has also written biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley and Edward Thomas. She has lectured for many years at the University of London, as well as in the United States and South Africa. She is married to the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, on whom she has also written a widelypraised biography of place.
HEALTH & FITNESS / DISEASES & CONDITIONS / DIABETES
Green Tree | 7/7/2026
9781399423755 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Take Control of Your Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Prevent, manage and reverse your condition
Val Wilson
All the tools you need to be in control of your prediabetes risk rather than being controlled by it.
We are currently in the midst of a diabetes epidemic. It is estimated that an all-time high one in five adults in the UK now living with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, with nearly one million undiagnosed cases.
Whether you already have one of these conditions or are at an increased risk of developing prediabetes or type 2 diabetes at a later date, you are not alone and you don’t have to suffer in silence. In fact, for many, making changes to your lifestyle can help reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 50%.
Dr Valerie Wilson draws on her 25 years of experience as a diabetes specialist and patient to filter through the latest evidence and present you with essential answers. The book covers the signs and symptoms to look out for, the groups at higher risk, how to turn contemplation into action and more. Through case studies to highlight other people’s experiences, mouth-watering tried and tested recipes, and advice on physical activity, this book has everything you need to take action now.
Dr Val Wilson is an award-winning diabetes writer and researcher with a PhD in Diabetes Health Education. Her previous books include Psychology in Diabetes Care and Practice, which won a British Psychological Society award, and How To Live Well With Diabetes, which was nominated for a British Medical Association award. Dr Wilson has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 40 years.
An honest guide to dating women and owning your identity
Rosie Turner
The ultimate Gay-Z guide for any woman new to dating women.
So, it’s finally happening . . . the months of sapphic back and forth, wondering if this person might be into you, have finally come to fruition in the form of an IRL meeting. You’re ecstatic, elated. Finally the two of you are alone. But hang on . . . now you have to actually go on the date. But wait—is it even a date? Oh, f*ck: this is complicated.
Fear not, because Rosie Turner is on hand to help. Let Rosie guide you through everything you could possibly want to know about dating women, from exploring your sexuality, coming out and sharing your first kiss with a woman, to making friends in the community, finding your Queer style and learning how to look after your mental health.
Rosie draws on her own experiences of navigating her Queer journey, from early teens to turning 30, and nothing is off limits—from working out who should pay for dinner on a first date to figuring out how to have sex with another woman. Plus, how to identify if your co-worker is really flirting with you, or is she just being friendly? All this and more.
And because there is no “one way” of being gay, Rosie draws on advice from the community, from anonymous case studies to her celeb pals. Join Rosie and her friends as they welcome you into the LGBTQ+ community with open arms; it’s a friendly place. No Queer person deserves to feel alone, so wherever you are right now, Rosie is writing this for you.
Rosie Turner is a creator, presenter, comedian and writer. She has with over 10+ years’ experience specialising in content creation for brands such as BBC Sounds, the British LGBT Awards, NIKE, Red Bull, MTV, Netflix and Hinge. Rosie has a growing online community where she creates advice and comedy content, primarily aimed at women in the LGBTQ+ community. She is currently training to be a life coach with the goal of helping more Queer women. Rosie is based in London. @rosieturnerdaily
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / LIFE STAGES / TEENAGERS
Green Tree | 7/28/2026
9781399425278 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
The Parent's Guide to Exam Stress
Practical, positive ways to support and motivate your child (Year 7 to GCSEs, A levels & more)
Katharine Radice
The ultimate guide to why so many children experience problematic levels of stress at school today, and what we—as parents—can do to understand and support them at home.
Katharine Radice draws on her training in child and adolescent development and 20+ years teaching in the classroom to provide you with practical advice, valuable insights and effective strategies to support your child through exams and assessments from KS3 to A level.
The teenage years are a swirl of trying to find an identity surrounded by other people’s expectations, so it’s no wonder pupils are feeling the pressure. It's well known that teenage anxiety seems to be on the rise and it’s visibly present in classrooms today, especially during exams and assessments.
As parents, the challenge is this: is the pressure on your child healthy or not? And if it’s not healthy, what can we do about it?
The Parent’s Guide to Exam Stress includes voices of students, teachers and mental health professionals, all giving their take on what the exam experience can be like for teenagers today. You will learn how to open up the difficult conversations, how to understand where your child is coming from, and how to help pave the way for your child to feel motivated, prepared and ready for their exams.
Katherine Radice is an experienced teacher and author with a post-graduate qualification in Child and Adolescent Development. She is passionate about advocating for the needs of students today.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING / FATHERHOOD
Green Tree | 7/28/2026
9781399427395 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Integrated black and white illustrations
Bounce
How to raise resilient kids and teens
Naomi Holdt
An easy-to-read, meaningful guide to make an immediate difference to your parenting approach and your relationship with your children.
Naomi Holdt is a parent, just like you. She’s one who messes up and gets it wrong; one who has learnt to smile at her faults because no matter how many textbooks we read, we all find ourselves face-planted in the sand sometimes. Naomi sees through all this to understand the immense joy that comes with the unpredictable, roller-coaster ride of raising children, but it’s nice to have a little support and guidance along the way! Bounce is loaded with tons of practical, bite-sized advice, thought-provoking exercises and proven techniques to help you raise happy, healthy and resilient kids. Naomi explores issues that impact us all, such as: understanding what resilience is, big emotions, problem solving, helping highly sensitive children, allowing your children to mess up, anxiety and depression, divorce, and more. With real-deal, true-life stories from Naomi’s own home, and from her psychotherapy practice, read on to move from “What the heck do I do now?” to “I’ve got this!” (even if your voice trembles slightly as you declare it).
Naomi Holdt is a psychologist, author and speaker with over 20 years’ experience in education, educational psychology and psychotherapy with a special interest in the emotional well-being of children and young adults. She qualified with an MA in Educational Psychology and her online parenting courses have now reached an international following. Naomi is a mother of two young children and regards this as a privilege and her most important role. @naomiholdtpsychologist
FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book | 7/7/2026
9781035916863 | $19.99 / $26.99 Can.
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Her Perfect Escape
the addictive and twisty thriller for summer 2026 from the author of SUN TRAP and FIVE NIGHTS
Rachel Wolf
A gripping destination thriller and murder mystery from the author of Five Nights and Sun Trap, set on an exclusive and secluded Greek island.
TWO SUMMERS. TWO BODIES . .
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July 2025. Tash and Mark Webster host a picture-perfect party at their Greek island villa. Among the guests are rising political stars Richard and Nancy Davies, a couple obsessed with their public image.
By the end of the night, the unthinkable happens when Tash’s sister drowns.
Months later, Nancy dies tragically too. Another “accident.” But Richard’s son, Theo, starts noticing a pattern—people close to his father keep getting hurt.
July 2026. Another Webster party with the same guest list as last summer. Everyone was there when Nicole drowned—which is no coincidence. Tash wants to know what really happened to her sister, and she’ll do anything to find out . . .
Don’t miss the latest pacy, breathless thriller from must-read author, Rachel Wolf.
Rachel Wolf grew up in the North of England and studied at Durham University. Before turning to writing, she worked for a holiday company and travelled widely. Her thrillers take inspiration from some of those travels.
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781035906529
The Women at Ocean's End
A captivating story of secrets and friendship from the million copy bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies
Faith Hogan
Bestselling Irish writer Faith Hogan has created another captivating story of three friends who must come together to save not just a house but also each other.
From the author of, The Bookshop Ladies, comes a brand new novel guaranteed to pull at your heartstrings as three women, all with secrets waiting to be uncovered, meet on a beautiful island off the Irish Coast.
Constance Macken, in her ninth decade, is looking back on a life filled with laughter and loss, tragedy and triumph, but knows it is time to right the wrongs from her past that have always haunted her.
Heather Banks arrives on the island to bury her mother. Already adrift with her business sold and her divorce finalised this may be the perfect opportunity to change the course of her future.
Ros Stokes has managed to slip into the perfect job, the perfect cottage and friends that feel like family. However, when the stitches of her life begin to unravel, she must find a way to hold onto the things that have become most dear to her and let go of what holds her back.
Now, in a faded art deco house near the ocean’s end, these women must come together to save the house they love, and each other, because they might have run from their troubles but only time will tell if they can overcome their past.
“Another brilliant novel by one of my favorite authors—prepare to get lost in this beautiful story, masterfully told.” —Amanda Prowse
PRAISE
“This is an absolute beauty of a book. I loved everything about it—the richness and depth of the characters; the poignant, intricately woven story and the beautiful descriptions of the house and island. It is a book that will stay with me for a very long time.” —Sally Page
“A luminous and moving read.” —Woman’s Own magazine and Woman’s Weekly magazine
“The perfect summer poolside read . . . [an] uplifting story of intergenerational female friendship.” —My Weekly Magazine
“This bittersweet story, with wonderful characters and poignant moments, focuses on relationships and friendships and how they change over time.” —Candis magazine
“Faith Hogan is...
Faith Hogan lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, four children, and two very fussy cats. She has an Hons Degree in English Literature and Psychology, has worked as a fashion model and 74
NATURE / ANIMALS / WILDLIFE
Apollo | 7/28/2026
9781035912131 | $28.99 / $38.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton
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8.6 in H | 5.4 in W | 1.2 in T | 0.9 lb Wt b&w integrated illustrations
The Secret World of Twilight
A Natural History of Dusk and Dawn
Sally Coulthard
An illuminating exploration of the remarkable and often surprising relationship between the natural world, human life and our long-standing obsession with twilight, that most otherworldly time of...
Every day, in the brief stretch of time just before sunrise and soon after sunset, magic happens. Not once, but twice a day, the atmosphere is partially illuminated by a sun that’s hiding below the horizon, creating a sky that glows with soft, diffused light – opening the secret world of twilight.
Few of us truly know what goes on in those precious moments betwixt dark and clear. Circadian rhythms affect almost all living things, including animals, plants, and even microbes. They, of course, profoundly affect us too. The gentle shift in light and colour that happens during twilight is probably the most singular and important cue that keeps the natural world running smoothly. In a world when so many of us live according to rhythms defined by artificial light, or in spaces that remove any connection with the outside, the need to understand and celebrate twilight has never been greater. In The Secret World of Twilight, author and smallholder Sally Coulthard shares her love of twilight and celebrates thirty iconic and often surprising animals and plants that thrive in this liminal, otherworldly space. From hedgehogs to hawkmoths, garden slugs to badgers, many of our most familiar animals are drawn to twilight. Birds, insects, mammals, flowers and even some fungi have complex crepuscular routines.
PRAISE
A Short History of the World According to Sheep “A snappy, stimulating book, and certainly not just for shepherds.” —Mail on Sunday
“Sally Coulthard’s story of how sheep shaped the human story is full of rich pickings . . . Full of fascinating social history.” —Independent “Global in scope, with fascinating vignettes from the ancient world to the present day, this is anything but woolly.” —BBC History Magazine
Sally Coulthard is a bestselling author of books about natural history and rural life including The Barn, A Short History of the World According to Sheep, The Book of the Earthworm, The Hedgehog Handbook and over twenty more titles. She lives on a Yorkshire smallholding which she shares with her husband, three girls and an assortment of unruly animals.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / POLITICAL
Bloomsbury Continuum | 8/11/2026
9781399407120 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 56
7.8 in H | 5 in W | 1.3 in T | 0.6 lb Wt
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781399407106
Rivals in the Storm
How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost his Government - Recommended by Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics
Damian Collins
A vivid biography in cinematic snapshots of David Lloyd George, one of the world’s greatest statesmen.
Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through the ranks with charisma, fierce intelligence and fighting spirit to become, as Churchill put it in his tribute, a man who ‘stood, when at his zenith, without a rival’.
But his rise was not without its hardships, and in Rivals in the Storm, experienced MP and author Damian Collins focuses on the impact of Lloyd George’s personality on other leading politicians, in driving progressive reforms through government, changing the course of the First World War to lead the Allies to victory, and cementing Britain’s alliance with America.
Covering Lloyd George’s emergence as the dominating political personality in Great Britain to the aftermath of his resignation, this fascinating biography takes you inside the rooms where the important decisions happened, and shows the bitter struggles as well as the triumphs of this great man of his or any other age, who nonetheless fell short of his own high expectations.
PRAISE
“In this deeply researched and intensely readable book, Damian Collins shows the inner man, and how he navigated the great crises of his country, and ultimately of civilization.” —Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“An astonishing argument for the power of politicians at a time when it often feels as though there is no power anywhere.” —Rory Stewart, Guardian
“A beautifully written page turner.” —Aspects of History
“This study of David Lloyd George’s premiership reveals once again that no more fascinating character, not even Disraeli or Churchill, has presided over the destiny of the nation.” —Literary Review
“All the mater...
Damian Collins OBE was the MP for Folkestone and Hythe from 2010 to 2024. He is a former Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy and was Chair of the House of Commons select committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. He wrote the chapter on Lloyd George for Iain Dale’s book, The Prime Ministers, published by Hodder in 2020. In addition, he has written for several publications, including The Times, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Irish Times, Guardian, Daily Mail and Wired
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The Wise and Their Works
The Legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851
A. N. Wilson
An in-depth celebration of the marvel that was The Great Exhibition of 1851, and the people who inspired it, by renowned author and historian A. N. Wilson.
The Royal Commission of 1851 was set up to organise The Great Exhibition of 1851. Its inception it was to be an international trade exhibition founded by Prince Albert, an exhibition on an unparalleled scale. Its enormous success enabled the Royal Commission to finance today’s Albertopolis – that is the area between Kensington Gardens and South Kensington station, containing the V&A Museum, the Natural History Museum, the many academic institutions like Imperial College, the Royal College of Music , the Royal College of Arts and the Albert Hall. In fact, the prodigious success of the Exhibition continues to finance graduates and academic research.
The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Exhibition in 2026. The men who inspired the Exhibition itself – men like Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel and above all Prince Albert himself were at the hub of this extraordinary combination of manufacturing, commercial skill and political vision which made Victorian Britain an unparalleled success story.
These men were idealists who genuinely believed that free trade would make the world not only a freer place but one in which their own ideas of decency and parliamentary democracy would be spread: the human race would be at peace, as prosperity spread there would be an improvement in living standards of the poor nations and warfare would be consigned to history.
A. N. Wilson is an author critic and journalist of great distinction. He has been literary editor of The Spectator and the Evening Standard. He is at the moment at work on a major intellectual biography of Goethe (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2024).
FICTION / ROMANCE / FAKE
DATING
Aria | 8/4/2026
9781035926039 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can.
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
The Love Contract
An award-winning rom-com, perfect for fans of fake dating and enemies-to-lovers
Steph Vizard
An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.
Can she (pretend to) love her neighbour?
I didn't know the guy next door. And given he was now my daughter's manny and my fake boyfriend, I needed to find out.
Single mum Zoe had the parenting thing all figured out with little Hazel until a childcare drought derailed her plans to return to work. Enter Will, Zoe's nemesis and frustratingly handsome neighbour. When Will's boss mistakenly assumes Will is Hazel's father and insists he take parental leave, it seems like a simple white lie could get Zoe out of a jam and help Will to make partner at his law firm.
But life with an adorable toddler – and a growing attraction between Will and Zoe – is never as tidy as their agreement's bullet points and dry clauses suggest. As they get deeper into the lie, the lines between truth and fiction blur. But Zoe's hiding a secret and when it comes out, the consequences for all of them could be devastating.
PRAISE
"A witty, warm page-turner about love, friendship and the glorious chaos of new motherhood. We're officially Steph Vizard's biggest fans." —Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus, authors of The Book Ninja
"Crisp, sweet and delicate, The Love Contract is pure indulgence. Vizard's writing sucks you in and wrings you out. An ideal cosy weekend read." —Genevieve Novak, author of Crushing
"A snappy fun read about juggling your love life with motherhood and how messy it can all get in the best possible way." —Saman Shad, author of The Matchmaker
"A delightful, heart-warming read that left me with all the feels. Steph Vizard's engaging writing and endearing char...
Steph Vizard is an Australian writer and lawyer. After studying literature at Oxford University, she worked in publishing in London. Her debut romantic comedy, The Love Contract, won the 2022 HarperCollins Banjo Prize and has been optioned for a TV series by a major UK production company. She is a connoisseur of salt and vinegar chips and lives with her family in Melbourne.
FICTION / THRILLERS / PSYCHOLOGICAL
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book | 8/4/2026
9781035914319 | $19.99 / $26.99 Can.
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
The Last Encore
A gripping, claustrophobic Australian thriller with a killer twist
Rebecca Heath
A sweltering, claustrophobic Australian thriller where a former band reunite for a one-night-only show on a private island . . . but not everyone is there to enjoy the music.
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REMOTE ISLAND
It’s been eighteen years since the accidental explosion that killed The Cedrics Band lead singer Jonny Rake, and a special documentary is bringing the rest of the band back to play together for the first time. With Jonny’s daughter, Monet, stepping into her father’s role, and a private island secured as the perfect reunion backdrop, it’s set to be a special occasion.
A
REUNION CONCERT
But everyone remembers what happened on that fatal night differently, and as questions are asked about the band’s rise and sudden tragic fall, not everyone likes the answers. Old wounds reopen and tempers flare… Then a body is found.
A KILLER ON STAGE
They’re trapped on the island together until help arrives, but that might be too late. Because Jonny’s death wasn’t an accident, and someone wants revenge.
PRAISE
“Unputdownable from start to finish.” —The Australian “The perfect beach read.” —The Herald Sun “Escapism at its best.” —Weekend Australian “Tense, compelling . . . a gripping mystery.” —Better Reading
Rebecca Heath studied science at university, worked in hospitality and teaching, but she always carved out time to write. She lives in Adelaide, Australia, halfway between the city and the sea with her husband, three children and a much-loved border collie. Her debut adult novel, The Summer Party, was released in 2023 by Head of Zeus, followed by The Dinner Party in 2024 and The Wedding Party in 2025. This is her fourth adult novel.
FICTION / HISTORICAL / MEDIEVAL
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book | 8/11/2026
9781035916528 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 464 pages | Carton
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9 in H | 5.8 in W
2 maps
Bane of Bernicia
Matthew Harffy
The unmissable new Bernicia Chronicles novel. Anglo-Saxon warlord Beobrand answers the call to arms as rival kings scheme for power.
Anglo-Saxon warlord Beobrand must navigate the caprices of kings as he fights for his honour and his life. The unmissable new Bernicia Chronicles novel from Matthew Harffy.
Returning from a dangerous mission to Rome, warlord Beobrand looks forward to peace at home, but bloodshed remains his constant companion.
While bringing criminals to justice Beobrand believes he has discovered a secret alliance between two of Bernicia's enemies: the Picts and the Mercians.
He hastens to warn his king, but finds Oswiu distracted, preparing to marry his eldest son to the daughter of former adversary Penda of Mercia, who remains as slippery as ever.
Dismayed, Beobrand finds himself blamed for breaking the truce with the Mercians, and must fight once more for his life. Worse, Penda insists on taking Oswiu's young son as a hostage.
Beobrand is surprised when Queen Eanflæd concocts a plot to rescue her son and orders him to take part. It will take all their guile to achieve their goal... and keep their heads, when half the kingdoms of Albion want Bernicia destroyed.
A gripping Anglo-Saxon adventure perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and David Gemmell.
Matthew Harffy grew up in Northumberland where the rugged terrain, ruined castles and rocky coastline had a huge impact on him. He now lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and their two daughters. Matthew is the author of the critically acclaimed Bernicia Chronicles and A Time for Swords series, and he also presents the popular podcast Rock, Paper, Swords! with fellow author Steven A. McKay.
FICTION / OCCULT & SUPERNATURAL
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book | 8/11/2026
9781837931132 | $19.99 / $26.99 Can.
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781837931118
House of Flies
an unmissable supernatural procedural from the master of the thriller that will keep you up all night in 2026
Graham Masterton
The latest Patel & Pardoe supernatural mystery from the million-copy bestseller and master of the genre.
“God, he’s good.” —Stephen King
IF YOU SEE THEM—RUN . . .
A clergyman is murdered in his bed in the dead of night, triggering a chilling chain of events, each more bizarre and unnerving than the last—brutal killings, corpses vanishing, decomposed bodies digging their way out of graves.
These shocking events seem unconnected but, at each scene, people report witnessing swarms of flies—hundreds, thousands, even millions of them.
As DI Patel and DS Pardoe hunt for the mastermind behind these atrocious crimes, they are forced to ask: is this person human – or is all of this linked to the mysterious figure caught on CCTV, running at speed without moving its legs?
And can they stop the swarm before they themselves are consumed?
For fans of Joe Hill, Peter James and Stephen King, Graham Masterton is a master of the horror genre whose books have sold millions of copies across the globe.
ALSO IN THE PATEL & PARDOE SERIES
Ghost Virus
The Children of God Forgot
The Shadow People
What Hides in the Cellar
PRAISE
“One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.” —Peter James “Suspenseful and tension-filled... all the finesse of a master storyteller.” —Guardian “One of Britain’s finest horror writers.” —Daily Mail
Graham Masterton’s writing spans many genres, including horror, thriller, and sex-advice books. His first horror novel, The Manitou, became a bestseller and was made into a film starring Tony Curtis. In 2019, Graham was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association. He is also the author of the Katie Maguire series of crime thrillers, which have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.
SPORTS & RECREATION / WATER
SPORTS / BOATING
Adlard Coles | 5/12/2026
9781399419758 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Carton Qty: 28
9.2 in H | 6.3 in W | 0.7 in T | 1.1 lb Wt
Colour photographs and illustrations throughout
A Year on the River
A Boater’s Guide to Growing, Foraging, Storing and Cooking
Fiona Sims
A seasonal guide to food and cooking, including over 40 delicious recipes, for all those that live on or near the water.
The demands of a postage stamp galley are different to the home kitchen; you have to be organised and planning is key. But there’s no need to continually reach for the can-opener. For anyone living with a tiny boat kitchen, but with an appetite for fresh, interesting and sustainable food, there's good news: it's all here!
On the inland waterways, how can we make the most of what nature provides for us throughout the year? How can we live sustainably and embrace the slow living lifestyle? A Year on the River takes you through each season and shows you:
- how to grow your own delicious produce on your boat or at your mooring - the beauty of towpath foraging - how to cook fresh, easy and delicious meals when short on space
- how to sensibly store your food and reduce waste
- how to buy local and seasonally where you're moored
All of this is interspersed with over 40 easy and appealing recipes, such as wild garlic pesto, banana pancakes with foraged blackberries and roasted chalk stream trout, making the most of your new-found skills in growing, sourcing, storing and foraging. Beautiful photography and charming illustrations set the scene of river life, making this a practical yet beautiful book, brimming with ideas, tips and practices to transform your boating lifestyle.
Fiona Sims has written for The Times, Delicious, Decanter, Food & Travel, and more. The food, wine and travel writer has interviewed many of the world’s top chefs, including Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay, and travels the world regularly visiting wine regions and exploring local cuisines. She sails regularly from the south coast of the UK and is always cooking on board. She is the author of The Boat Cookbook and The Boat Drinks Book, both published by Bloomsbury.
SPORTS & RECREATION / WATER SPORTS
Adlard Coles | 5/12/2026
9781399421607 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Flexibound | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 20
9.3 in H | 6.2 in W | 1.1 in T | 1.6 lb Wt
Full colour photography throughout
The Paddleboard Bible 2nd edition
The complete guide to stand-up paddleboarding
Dave Price
From the basics of getting on and moving, to mastering advanced techniques and going on paddleboard adventures, this book gives you everything you need to know to get up and get SUPping.
All the fundamentals are here, from equipment (a guide to boards, including bargain-priced inflatables, as well as paddles, clothing and simple safety gear) to essential techniques (getting on, getting moving and, just as importantly, landing and getting off). The book also explores more advanced techniques, places to go and things to see, and explains all the important things you’ll need to understand about weather, tides, waves and currents.
The Paddleboard Bible will take you on paddleboard adventures, from night paddles to wildlife-spotting safari and unique photography opportunities; it even reveals the benefits of fishing from a paddleboard. And it’s not all gentle stuff –for adrenaline junkies there is SUP surfing, riding white water rapids and for the more competitive types, SUP racing.
This second edition is thoroughly updated throughout to reflect current guidance and safety regulations, and includes new advice on accessibility and travel. Whether you’re new to the sport or a seasoned paddler who wants to challenge themselves further and enjoy the social side of SUPping, The Paddleboard Bible is the one-stop book that covers everything you need to know about the most beginner-friendly and inexpensive paddlesport.
Dave Price is a certified SUP instructor at Easyriders, one of the UK's leading watersports centres, as well as The Watersports Academy, home of stand-up paddleboarding on the south coast. As well as teaching beginners, he also leads SUP expeditions, and his wildlife tours are especially popular. He has been featured in the Guardian's Weekend magazine for his SUP activities.
Everything you need to know to turn your garden, balcony, patio or windowsill into a haven for wildlife.
If you want to attract more bees, birds, frogs and hedgehogs into your garden, Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything is your go-to guide. Teaming up with the RHS and Wildlife Trusts, award-winning, wildlife gardening writer Kate Bradbury shares expert, up-to-date advice on nature-friendly gardening and how to offer local wildlife natural food and shelter.
With handy charts tailored to every size and style of garden, this easy-to-use guide shows you how to create ideal habitats for the species you want to welcome. It features fact files for the UK’s most common garden species, step-by-step projects – from making bee hotels and wildlife ponds, to compost corners and wildflower meadows – plus the latest guidance on growing fungi, attracting rarer bees to your pollinator plants, and feeding local birds naturally.
Whether you’re growing vegetables, flower-filled borders or gardening on a balcony or doorstep, this fully updated guide is packed with simple, practical ideas to help every gardener create an attractive, climate- and wildlife-friendly outdoor space.
Kate Bradbury is an award-winning wildlife-gardening writer and author of One Garden Against the World and The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. She is the Wildlife Editor of BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, and writes a Guardian Country Diary column as well as for BBC Wildlife, the RHS’ The Garden and The Wildlife Trusts’ member magazines. Kate’s garden appeared on BBC Springwatch and Gardeners’ World, and she works with Froglife, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Butterfly Conservation charities.
SPORTS & RECREATION / SOCCER
Bloomsbury Sport | 5/5/2026
9781472990747 | $18.00 / $24.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 48
7.8 in H | 5 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.7 lb Wt 8 pages colour and black-and-white plate section
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781472990792
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How to Win the World Cup
Secrets and Insights from International Football’s Top Managers
Chris Evans
This insightful investigation reveals the mindsets and unbelievable approaches of the coaches seeking football's ultimate prize. With new and updated content for the 2026 world cup.
Godlike geniuses or the focus of a disappointed nation's fury – the world's most prestigious tournament makes or breaks national coaches. Only 20 managers have guided their team to World Cup glory, so what are their secrets? From revolutionary tactics to hare-brained schemes, this book searches for the keys to the most exclusive club in international football.
They may silently plot on the bench or manically gesticulate from the sidelines, but what can coaches really do to influence their team's performance? Discover the tactical innovations and brilliant strategies as well as the bizarre superstitions, psychological masterclasses and bonkers team-building regimes that managers have employed in the quest for that iconic trophy.
Charting the successes, failures, dramas and controversies of 90 years of World Cup action through the insights of World Cup stars including Alexi Lalas, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Pierre Littbarski, Roberto Martinez and Mick McCarthy, this book reveals the lengths the men in the dugouts will go to in order to bring home the greatest prize.
PRAISE
“Superbly insightful . . . A brilliant new perspective on World Cup management.”
—Jamie Carragher
“Superb–great stories about the greatest tournament.” —Daniel Taylor
“A fascinating read.” —Barry Davies
“If you like a rich and rewarding football read, look no further.” —Patrick Barclay “Detailed, humorous, extensively researched and very difficult to put down.”
—Terry Butcher
“A wonderful look into the beautiful game and the quest to unlock the secret to winning its ultimate prize.” —Alexi Lalas
“An incisive analysis of “the beautiful game” at its highest levels . . . a must-read for soccer fans.” —Publishers Weekly
Chris Evans is a freelance writer whose work regularly appears in FourFourTwo magazine and is the editor of TheSetPieces.com. His work has appeared in newspapers including The Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph. Chris is the author of Gary Lineker: A Portrait of a Football Icon. @ChrisEvansWrite
HEALTH & FITNESS / MENOPAUSE
Bloomsbury Sport | 5/26/2026
9781399423854 | $24.00 / $32.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 28
9.1 in H | 6 in W | 1.1 in T | 0.9 lb Wt
53 black and white illustrations and exercises
The Runner’s Guide to Menopause
Your essential toolkit for strong, happy and healthy training
Juliet McGrattan
Written by a running and medical expert, this is an encouraging and practical book, packed with tips and plans to support your running journey through menopause.
We know that running makes us healthy; the benefits are widely known and strongly evidenced. We also know that conditions such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis become increasingly common after the menopause transition. Although the risk of developing these conditions lowers if you remain active, research shows that women over 50 tend to exercise less.
Dr Juliet McGrattan is here to help you make sense of all the benefits and challenges of running through menopause. Starting with a refresher on what actually goes on in your body during that time, she also touches on all the common symptoms to look out for before delving into topics such as energy levels, bones, muscles, skin, mental health, treatments, nutrition and more.
With digestible tips, training plans and illustrated step-by-step exercises, this is a book you can dip in and out of to find exactly what you need. You are not alone in your menopause journey, so let Juliet help you overcome your hurdles one step at a time.
Dr Juliet McGrattan is an award-winning author, speaker, runner, and a former GP. She is the Women’s Health Lead and a Master Coach at the global, women’s, social running network 261 Fearless. Juliet is the author of Run Well and Sorted. @drjulietmcgrattan
SPORTS & RECREATION / RUNNING & JOGGING
Bloomsbury Sport | 5/26/2026
9781399428828 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
The Power Within
Record-breaking, ultrarunning and fighting for change
Sophie Power
An inspiring exploration of ultra-runner and campaigner Sophie Power’s life, achievements, and the transformative power of endurance.
In 2018 a photograph of Sophie Power breastfeeding her three-month-old son during the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc went viral. This powerful image not only changed Sophie’s life but sparked global conversations about motherhood, endurance and the barriers women face in sport.
The Power Within delves into the key life lessons Sophie has learned through running: lessons on resilience, self-belief and female empowerment. Her journey is extraordinary: from coming second to last in the school cross country to reaching her peak in her forties when she not only ran for Great Britain in the 24-Hour World Championships but also broke two Guinness World Records in ultra-running.
Sophie shares how she built resilience through life’s toughest moments, learned to prioritise herself beyond motherhood, and discovered the power of both saying no and empowering herself in male-dominated spaces.
Through deeply personal reflections and practical insights, The Power Within offers a roadmap for women to reclaim space—in sport, in life and within themselves.
Sophie Power is a campaigner, advisor and athlete, passionate about increasing access to sport for women. She has run over 50 ultras including Spartathlon (153 miles), UTMB (106 miles) and Spine Fusion (268 miles) and represented Great Britain at the 24-Hour World Championships. In 2018, a picture of Sophie breastfeeding her three-month-old baby at the 106-mile UTMB went viral. This led to Sophie setting up SheRACES, with a goal to educate races to be more inclusive to female athletes.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / EUROPEAN / GERMAN
Alma Classics
9781847499363 | $19.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote
New Translation
A unique edition of one of Thomas Mann’s most significant cultural essays which reflect on environmentalism, the degradation of nature, the challenges facing Western civilization and democracy, w...
Written immediately after his return from his first trip to America in June 1934, A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote follows the author’s observations about life aboard a Dutch vessel bound for New York, interspersed with remarks on his reading of Cervantes’s immortal novel. Using Don Quixote as a springboard, Mann reflects on a number of urgent topics: art, literature, religion, the artist’s freedom of conscience and the misuse of technology.
The result is an engaging dialogue between past and present, an offbeat, witty travelogue of a voyage undertaken during the Great Depression, a creative tour de force that will delight and amuse in equal measure all those wishing to experience a lesser-known facet of the great German novelist’s oeuvre.
Alma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / KNOTS, MACRAME & ROPE WORK
Adlard Coles | 8/18/2026
9781399429856 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Flexibound | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 16
9.2 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Colour illustrations throughout and photographs for each chapter opener
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The Big Book of Knots
The complete guide to over 300 knots for all uses
Graham MacLachlan
A practical and fun-filled compendium of over 300 knots for every occasion and knotting need, from camping, sailing, climbing, archery and DIY to cooking, clothes, and decorative projects.
This big and fantastically varied knot guide will help you in any situation where a knot is needed, whether you’re in the countryside, at sea, on the summits, in the city, or even at home in the kitchen. This book will soon have you learning how to string a tennis racket, mend a fishing net, tie a cravat, do a trick, learn the best all-purpose camping knot and so much more. Hitching knots, loop knots, button knots, junction knots, ligature knots, as well as lashings, lacings and splices will become part of your ever-growing and impressive knotting repertoire. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions, this handbook first teaches you how to master all the essential knots, and then you can move on to tackle more complex and fascinating projects in 13 wide-ranging areas, including fishing, games, cooking, sport, kite flying and music. The decorative knots section will introduce you, among other things, to macramé, braids and scoubidous.
Whether you’re just starting out or an experienced tyer, this guide will help you to tie the perfect knot for every circumstance and it is set to become your companion to knotting. This book is a mine of expert information and not be missed by knotting fans!
Graham McLachlan is an expert knot tyer and the President of the French branch of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. He regularly organises conferences and workshops on knots.
TRANSPORTATION / NAVIGATION
Reeds | 6/16/2026
9781399421171 | $50.00 / $67.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 20
8.5 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Area maps throughout
Reeds Marine Distance Tables 19th edition
Kendall Carter
Reeds Marine Distance Tables gives quick and accurate distance references between 500 regularly used ports around the world including major turning points and a Transatlantic distance table.
Reeds Marine Distance Tables is the perfect ready-reckoner for captains, navigators and owners of merchant and cruise ships large and small wanting a quick and accurate distance reference between all the regularly used commercial ports around the world. They are also of increasing value to the superyacht fleet.
The book is divided into key “market areas,” and includes a pull-out map for area identification and easy see-at-a-glance port reference. Traffic Separation Schemes are calculated into the tables whilst the distance to any port not included can easily be determined by making an approximation from the next closest port. Useful tables of major “turning points” around the world (such as Cape Finisterre, Cape Horn and the Dover Straits), Transatlantic distances, world time zones, and time and speed conversion tables are also included.
This edition is thoroughly updated throughout. Reeds Marine Distance Tables is an invaluable reference for ship owners, operators, brokers, navigators and superyacht skippers. Using this one reference, anyone can calculate the shortest or most economical distances between all the major ports in the world.
Kendall Carter was the pilot for HMS Ark Royal between 1991 and 1994, and also ran the Royal Navy’s Navigation School. He was later harbour master for Portsmouth Harbour, and is now based in Australia, where he acts as a consultant for the Port Authority of New South Wales (Sydney). He is a Fellow of the Nautical Institute.
SPORTS & RECREATION / RUNNING & JOGGING
Bloomsbury Sport | 6/23/2026
9781399423113 | $24.00 / $32.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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Breathe Smarter, Run Stronger
Breathwork to Transform Your Running
David 'Jacko' Jackson
This groundbreaking practical guide for runners reveals the breathing techniques required for maximising running performance, whatever your level.
“Learning to breathe better is a game changer for your running . . . Jacko is a fantastic coach.” —Richard Whitehead MBE, Paralympic champion & world record holder
Transform your breathing and unlock the key to running faster or further
If you always feel out of breath when you go on a run and don’t seem to make any progress, it might be because of your breathing and not your actual fitness. Your breath is key to your sporting performance and beyond, from affecting fatigue levels, recovery and sleep to connecting to your nervous system and combatting stress.
Breathe Smarter, Run Stronger will give you the practical tools and underlying theory to understand how to breathe better. Former professional rugby player, now Master Oxygen Advantage® coach, David “Jacko” Jackson takes you through the limitations of how we currently breathe. He reassures you that, just like any other system and muscle group in the body, you can train your respiratory system and strengthen your breathing muscles.
Through clear exercises and techniques integrated into your training schedule you can:
Ventilate more efficiently like an elite runner
Learn about the two most important but overlooked muscles in the human body to strengthen your breathing mechanics
Discover the relationship between your running cadence, breathing efficiency, running posture and running economy.
Better runners breathe better, and this is your guide to becoming one.
PRAISE
“Jacko is a fantastic coach, who’s been part of my coaching team that supported me to multiple gold medals and world records. Learning to breathe better is a game changer for your running.” —Richard Whitehead MBE, Paralympic champion & world record holder
“Jacko’s breathwork helped me defend my world title. Because I was always in control of the effort, I was in control of my body and in total control of my mind. It meant I could relax, enjoy and express myself on the world stage.” —Sam Ruddock, Double World Champion Para Cycling
“A fantastic guide and learning tool.” —Bob Stewart, England Rugby Medical Lead Men’s Senior Team 91
SPORTS & RECREATION / RUNNING & JOGGING
Bloomsbury Sport | 6/23/2026
9781399426336 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
8 pages of colour images
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Running on Air
From BBC Headlines to Life-Changing Finish Lines
Sophie Raworth
From BBC news to the Marathon des Sables, this is an extraordinary and confidence-boosting journey into running.
In her first attempt at a half-marathon, Sophie Raworth crossed the line in two hours and six minutes. She has since run all six World Marathon Majors, completed 15 marathons and three ultra-marathons. In her first book, Sophie looks back on her most cherished and vivid memories, from the newsroom to the trails.
Running, which she took up in her 40s, has helped Sophie to boost her confidence, resilience and ability to take on tough challenges such as navigating lockdown as a newsreader, stepping in for Andrew Marr in BBC's Sunday Morning and interviewing Boris Johnson.
Sophie’s tales feature the amazing community at Richmond Parkrun, her running adventures along the Thames Path and incredible friendships with the likes of ultra-runner Susie Chan. But she also recalls extraordinary challenges such as the gruelling Marathon des Sables – running 6 marathons in 5 days in the Sahara Desert – and the Man versus Horse Marathon, trying to beat 60 horses and riders over 20 miles of hills in the Brecon Beacons.
When life gets busy and fitting it all in becomes a struggle, running gives her a structure, purpose and a goal, but most of all, a breath of fresh air.
Sophie Raworth is one of the BBC’s main evening newsreaders, a presenter and journalist, and is well known as a marathon runner, regularly presenting and giving talks about her running adventures. She only took up running in her 40s and now has a monthly column in Runner’s World
9.8 in H | 7.8 in W | 1.4 in T | 3.6 lb Wt 36 plates, c. 500 photos
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Nightjars of the World
Nigel Cleere
The definitive guide to the world’s nightjars.
Nightjars—a beautiful and charismatic group, popular with birders around the world. Some species have developed spectacular tails and wing adornments, but the majority are fairly uniform in appearance, making their identification a stern test.
The culmination of nearly 50 year of study by expert ornithologist Nigel Cleere, this new book focuses on these elusive birds. As the successor to Cleere’s 2000 book Nightjars: A Guide to Nightjars and related birds, this new edition has been updated to include a comprehensive photographic selection, fully revised taxonomy and new distribution maps.
Authoritative text covers physiology, behaviour, plumage and moult, foraging, breeding and taxonomy. This is accompanied by around 400 photos, encompassing as much subspecific, sexual and age-related variation as possible, and 36 plates depicting feather-by-feather detail of every species.
Meticulously researched, this new Helm Identification Guide is the definitive account of the species, bringing the world of the nightjar out of the dark and into the spotlight.
Nigel Cleere is the world’s leading expert on nightjars. He has studied them for nearly 50 years, and has travelled widely in search of these elusive birds. As a qualified ringer (bander), he has taken part in many ringing expeditions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America, often making considerable efforts in order to capture and examine nightjars.
SPORTS & RECREATION / WALKING
Conway | 6/9/2026
9781844867240 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Colour photography and mapping throughout
Access Adventure
The UK's best trails and outdoor activities by wheelchair and on foot
Debbie North
This groundbreaking guide opens up the best of the UK’s trails and outdoors adventures to all, with expert practical advice and inspirational interviews from accessibility champion Debbie North.
There’s something truly magical about being outside and feeling the rhythm of the land beneath you. Whether it’s the crunch of gravel on a canal path or the quiet hush of woodland in early morning light, the outdoors offers something no screen or schedule can provide: a sense of space, stillness, and connection. This book is a celebration of that magic.
Access Adventure is a collection of accessible routes, taking you from the spectacular Lake District to the Kent and Hampshire Coast, from the Yorkshire Dales to the Brecon Beacons and the Wye Valley, and from the Isle of Skye to Rendlesham Forest's UFO trail. Each route is backed up with practical information and ideas for other adventures nearby, specifically written for wheelchair-users.
This book is also a bringing together of beautiful stories: as Debbie describes her experience of each trail alongside an inspirational interviewee, she gives us portraits of people whose lives have been changed, healed or uplifted by the simple act of being outside. These aren’t just walks; they are windows into the resilience of the human spirit.
These are walks that welcome, not intimidate, and this is a book you’ll turn to time and time again, for inspiration, for comfort, or simply for the pleasure of reading something crafted with love. Whether you’re planning your next walk or seeking a deeper connection with nature and people, these pages offer both a guide and a companion.
Debbie North is a passionate advocate for countryside accessibility. After losing her mobility due to spinal degeneration, she continued exploring the outdoors in a TerrainHopper 4x4 all-terrain wheelchair. With her late husband Andy, she tackled Wainwrights, Munros and created her own Coast to Coast route. She founded Access the Dales in Andy’s memory. Debbie is now a writer, speaker, consultant and disability and access ambassador. Her motto is “making the inaccessible accessible.”
TRAVEL / EUROPE / ITALY
Alma Books | 7/28/2026
9781846884757 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
8.6 in H | 5.5 in W | 1.3 in T | 1.1 lb Wt
Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand
An adventure in landscape and Italian memory
Tim Parks
A voyage through the thrilling history of the expedition of the thousand which led to the unification of Italy in 1860. Written by one of the most accomplished British writers.
The 1860 Expedition of the Thousand, in which a group of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa, landing on the west coast of Sicily and advancing to its capital Palermo in a bid to liberate the island from Bourbon rule, is perhaps the defining moment of the unification of Italy, and a testament to the bravery, resilience and vision of the country’s last condottiere.
Drawing on a wealth of contemporary diaries and other first-hand accounts by the protagonists of the events, and interspersing them with his own penetrating remarks, best-selling author Tim Parks retraces the journey of the “Mille” through the ragged landscape of Sicily under the blazing summer heat, bringing back to life an entire world in all its intricate complexity. Along the way he revisits old controversies and provides answers to many unresolved questions –as well as offering a vivid commentary on the Italy of today.
Tim Parks is the author of nineteen novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, Sex Is Forbidden and, most recently, Hotel Milano, all of which have been translated into many languages. As well as being a novelist and the author of several works of non-fiction, Tim is the acclaimed translator of books by Moravia, Calvino, Machiavelli and other Italian writers. He’s a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
FICTION / CLASSICS
Alma Classics
9781847499370 | $16.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Death in Venice
New Translation (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Presented in a sparkling new translation by Sander Berg, Death in Venice contains an introduction by the translator, notes and extra material, including the author’s life and works. Part of Alma ...
As the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author who has recently been ennobled in recognition of his literary achievements, arrives in Venice for a holiday and checks into his Lido hotel, he is struck by the arresting good looks of Tadzio, an aristocratic Polish youth of around fourteen who is sojourning there with his family. Gradually, what starts as a feeling of intense curiosity develops into a profound passion, until Aschenbach begins to follow the adolescent secretly through the streets of the Serenissima and becomes utterly infatuated with his beauty.
Considered by many to be Mann’s masterpiece, Death in Venice, first published in 1912 and based on the author’s own stay in Venice the previous year, is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Sander Berg.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Classics Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material, including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.
SPORTS & RECREATION / WATER
SPORTS / BOATING
Adlard Coles | 8/18/2026
9781399417334 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6.1 in W
Colour photographs throughout
The Liveaboard Guide 3rd edition
Living Afloat on the Inland Waterways
Tony Jones
A thoroughly updated new edition of the comprehensive guide to living afloat on the inland waterways.
“For anyone considering living afloat on the inland waterways, this excellent book by a veteran liveaboard is a ‘must have’ guide.” —Towpath Talk
The romantic dream of downsizing, giving up the rat race, and living life at 4mph on the inland waterways is proving more and more attractive. But for tens of thousands of people it is not just a romantic dream but an actual lifestyle.
Tony Jones is one of those people. He has lived aboard his 50ft narrowboat for over 18 years and in this very practical book he documents what the liveaboard lifestyle is really like, focusing on the practical issues of day to day living for those who want to know what living on a boat actually entails, to see how to manage it for themselves.
Topics covered include:
· the pros, cons and costs of a mooring
· power usage and energy consumption (and how it differs from a house)
· how to stay warm - the choice of coal, electric, gas or wood heating
· boat loos - the pros and cons, and troubleshooting problems
· entertainment - TV, radio, internet
· logistical problems - no postal address, GP access, vehicle access
This third edition has been comprehensively revised and expanded to include updated or new information on costs, toilets and ecological living, boat crime and security, keeping fit afloat, heating options, earning a living aboard, plus much more.
The dream is perfectly possible, and this book is the complete practical guide to achieving it.
Tony Jones has lived aboard his narrowboat, The Watchman, since 2005 and has cruised the inland waterways network extensively. Having fallen completely in love with canal life it’s unlikely that he will ever live on dry land again. He is the features editor for Waterways World magazine and author of The Liveaboard Guide and The Narrowboat Guide, both published by Adlard Coles.
SPORTS & RECREATION / WATER
SPORTS / SAILING
Adlard Coles | 7/28/2026
9781399427357 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Colour photography and beautiful watercolour illustrations by the author
Floating Through France
Cruising the inland waterways to the Med
Kerry Buchanan
A readable and practical how-to guide to taking your boat through the French canals to the fabulous cruising grounds of the Mediterranean.
The inland waterway route to the Mediterranean has long been popular, and something many sailors dream of doing, for good reason: crossing the Channel, motoring through some of France’s most iconic parts and popping out the other side (think mooring right by the Eiffel Tower, enjoying the slower pace and beautiful vistas) is the obvious and most enticing way to get your boat from Northern waters to the Med.
The book is divided into sections covering:
· The dream: choosing a boat, preparations and route planning
· Home Waters: Irish Sea, Bristol Channel, Cornwall and South Coast, English Channel and Northern France
· Inland Waterways: mast unstepping and prep for transport, rigging radio aerial, Tidal Seine and Paris, Marne-Champagne, Saône and Rhône to Port Napoleon and mast restepping
· Sailing the Med: Southern France and Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and Straits of Messina, Southern Italy to Greece
· Debrief: lessons learned, sources, notes on bureaucracy
Each chapter includes sketches showing sections of the voyage, boxes on topical issues, trivia, lessons learned and useful tips, all aimed to create an enjoyable adventure yarn to help dreamers ready to cast off. The emphasis is on learning from mistakes and living long enough to laugh about it.
Kerry Buchanan began writing in 2014, and despite having a disability (psoriatic arthritis) that affects her stamina and her ability to write and type for prolonged periods she has been prolific and diverse with her work. She also writes freelance for publications including Practical Boat Owner Magazine. She wouldn’t have been able to produce so many novels, stories and articles if it wasn’t for the support of her husband, Fraser.
Fraser Buchanan is a retired professor of biomedical engineering and has sailed since he was a teenager.
NATURE / PLANTS
Bloomsbury Wildlife | 7/7/2026
9781399425469 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton
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8.5 in H | 5.3 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt black-and-white botanical line drawings
The Devil’s Garden
The world's most sinister plants and fungi
Peter Marren
A lively exploration of the poisoners, tricksters, stingers, stinkers and invaders of the plant world and how their lives intertwine with those of humans and other animals.
Some plants and fungi—those we cultivate in farms, gardens and allotments—are pretty, useful or edible. Others are more troublesome: poisonous, or with painful stings or thorns, or simply a bloody nuisance. They might look sinister, smell bad, or come with warnings from folklore. Lily-of-the-valley, associated with purity and motherhood, is in reality toxic—a quiet assassin. The Mandrake is said to scream if uprooted, killing anyone who hears it. The biggest pitcher-plants can even catch and digest mice.
In the medieval mind, these would be flowers of the devil, planted on earth to trouble humankind. Many of these species have a rich and deeply rooted backstory made up of tradition, lore and superstition, sometimes based on underlying scientific fact. There are of course biological reasons why plants are the way they are, which have nothing to do with humankind. But they intrude into our own world, collectively presenting a gleeful floorshow of devilishly cunning entities, making us fearful, angry, desperate, or badly behaved.
In The Devil’s Garden, Peter Marren explores these ‘dark’ plants in Britain and beyond, relaying their stories which are variously gripping, unexpected, inspiring, amusing, horrifying, but above all, entertaining.
Peter Marren is an award-winning natural-history writer and conservationist. He is a wildlife polymath whose writings extend from journalism, obituaries, book reviews and opinion pieces to humour and news summaries for the likes of Whitaker’s Almanack. He was a regular contributor to British Wildlife magazine for 33 years and is the author of many books, including Rainbow Dust, Chasing the Ghost, After They’re Gone, as well as Mushrooms and Rare Plants in the British Wildlife Collection series.
NATURE / ANIMALS / WILDLIFE
Bloomsbury Wildlife | 7/7/2026
9781399428750 | $15.00 / $20.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 128 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
7 in H | 4.4 in W
30 newly commissioned line artworks
RSPB Pocket Book of Owls
Marianne Taylor
A beautifully crafted RSPB gift book celebrating nature’s mystical hunters—owls.
This enchanting hardback gift book celebrates some of the world’s most admired and mysterious birds—owls. Owls have captivated human imaginations for centuries, and this new gift book, licensed by the RSPB, combines delightful, easy-to-read prose with beautiful line illustrations, inviting readers to explore the fascinating world of owls.
This thoughtfully designed book is a perfect gift or personal keepsake written and designed to appeal to readers of all ages and levels. Marianne Taylor’s text is presented in beautifully designed bite-sized text, and she considers why owls captivate us, weaving together folklore, mythology, and our unique cultural connections to these remarkable birds across the globe.
From ancient legends to surprising, lesser-known facts, readers will uncover what makes each owl species so fascinating, from the striking snowy owls of the Arctic to the soulful barn owls of the British countryside.
With its blend of accessible content, exquisite artwork, and an inspiring conservation message, this gift book is ideal for nature enthusiasts, gift-buyers, and anyone enchanted by owls’ quiet beauty and for reading with your family.
Marianne Taylor is a life-long wildlife-watcher living in Kent, UK, and since 2007 has worked as a writer, photographer and illustrator, focusing on wildlife and nature and, particularly, British birds. Her books include RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds, RSPB Spotlight Owls and RSPB British Birds of Prey.
NATURE / ANIMALS
Bloomsbury Wildlife | 7/7/2026
9781399429214 | $15.00 / $20.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 128 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
7 in H | 4.4 in W
30 newly commissioned line artworks
RSPB Pocket Book of Hedgehogs
Hugh Warwick
A beautifully crafted RSPB gift book celebrating our most beloved garden visitors—hedgehogs.
Step into the delightful, hidden world of hedgehogs with this beautifully crafted hardback gift book, the RSPB Pocket Book of Hedgehogs. This enchanting little volume combines engaging, accessible prose with charming line illustrations, inviting readers of all ages to discover why these endearing animals have become a symbol of warmth, resilience, and the joys of the natural world.
The RSPB Pocket Book of Hedgehogs celebrates the unique charm of these beloved garden visitors, making this captivating new book on hedgehogs an ideal gift choice or personal keepsake. Hugh Warwick’s delightful text is thoughtfully designed in bitesize sections. He offers readers of all levels fascinating and fun details about hedgehogs’ habits and behaviours and their surprising adaptability.
From their storied place in traditional British lore to their surprising global connections, Hugh reveals hedgehogs’ longstanding connections with humans by exploring how they appear in our folklore, mythology, and cultural history. Discovering what makes these gentle, spiny animals unique, readers of all ages and levels will enjoy the quirky and lesser-known facts Hugh shares about hedgehogs.
Ideal for nature lovers, gift buyers, and anyone with a soft spot for our prickly friends, this book promises to be a cherished addition to any shelf. With beautiful artwork and an inspiring message, the RSPB Pocket Book of Hedgehogs will quickly become a best-loved f...
Hugh Warwick is an ecologist and environmental writer with a particular fondness for hedgehogs. Hugh has written for various publications, including BBC Wildlife, New Scientist and The Daily Telegraph. He is an accomplished public speaker, giving regular talks on conservation issues. His role as spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society has led to many appearances on national radio and television.
NATURE / BIRDWATCHING GUIDES
Helm | 9/8/2026
9781399419697 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Over 150 photographs; 2 illustrations
The Complete Guide to Patch Birding
Making the most of your local area
Ed Stubbs
The essential guide to getting the most out of birding in your local area.
For birdwatching thrills and excitement, why not look closer to home? You need not rely on hours of travel to reach remote locations—instead choose a local “patch” that you can visit regularly. Cut out the car or unreliable public transport and become familiar with the resident and visiting birds that can be found in your chosen spot, their habits and behaviour, and the subtle changes that occur there throughout the seasons.
In The Complete Guide to Patch Birding, you'll find out how to make the most of local birding, including how to identify and pick a patch, the best times of days to go to try and find different birds, the essential kit, how to record sightings, understanding the impact of weather, how to find rare birds, and information about migration and breeding species.
Whether it’s spotting a charm of goldfinches lighting up a gloomy January day, a robin gathering leaves and moss for its new nest in March, the uplifting sight of migratory swallows arriving to signify the start of summer, or hearing the call of young little owls on mild October nights, there are many joys to be had in simply watching and enjoying the birds on your doorstep, and this practical guide contains all the information you need to get started.
Ed Stubbs is the Deputy Editor of Birdwatch magazine and BirdGuides. Based in Surrey, birding has been part of his life since he was a child, with a passion for patch birding a constant throughout. He believes that endless excitement and learning can be had by birding close to home. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge, experience and advice in order to encourage and inspire others to embrace patch and local birding.
SPORTS & RECREATION / CYCLING
Bloomsbury Sport | 7/7/2026
9781399426558 | $18.00 / $24.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781399426541
Tadej Pogacar
Unstoppable
Andy McGrath
The first in-depth biography of the modern era’s greatest cyclist, written by William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awardwinning journalist.
Tadej Pogacar is not like any other professional cyclist. The Slovenian is a sporting phenomenon. He won almost everything there is to win in bike racing, has done so with breathtaking audacity and style – and all by the age of 26.
This comprehensive biography follows his meteoric rise to the top, recounts his greatest race wins and rivalries, and reveals the character, motivation and skills that have led to his domination of elite cycling.
Experienced cycling journalist Andy McGrath has documented the versatile superstar’s development from his victory in the Tour de l’Avenir in 2018 to his Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Il Lombardia and Tour of Flanders successes and his historic 2024 season, when he won cycling’s prestigious triple crown of the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and the World Championship road race. His victories include four Tours de France (2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025).
McGrath explores how this diminutive child from a small, mountainous nation of Slovenia first took up the sport, his emerging talent as a teenager and the role played by his UAE Team Emirates-XRG coaches and management. He also gets the inside story from those close to him, trusted teammates and fierce adversaries.
It is not only what Pogacar has won, but the manner in which he wins that also makes him so unique and popular. McGrath gets to the very heart of the cycling phenomenon that is ‘Pogi’ – and the fascinating young man behind the runaway succ...
PRAISE
“Andy McGrath's in-depth biography covers Pogi’s meteoric rise, his victories and rivalries, while revealing more about the character behind the sporting domination.” —Cyclist
“The guy to beat.” —Mathieu van der Poel
“This fascinating new biography draws on multiple sources to try to explain how the Slovenian became the best cyclist of his generation while shining a light on the trajectory of the winner of four Tour de France, ten monuments, two world championships, a Giro d’Italia and more.” —The Times
SPORTS & RECREATION / RUNNING & JOGGING
Bloomsbury Sport | 7/21/2026
9781399404013 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Running Through Sand
An Ageing Comedian’s Ill-Thought-Out Ultra in the Sahara
Paul Tonkinson
This hilarious and philosophical exploration of running and ageing sees comedian and award-winning writer Paul Tonkinson take on an ultra-marathon through the heart of the Sahara Desert.
Ageing as a runner is no joke.
In running, as in life, you are gradually overtaken by a stream of young people wearing clothes you couldn’t get in to and in shoes you don’t recognise. The relationship with running changes – you no longer run as fast as you can, you run as fast as your body can handle, which is slow. So, embrace it.
Why not the toughest footrace on earth? The Marathon Des Sables, a week long, 250kms self-sufficient sweat fest across the Sahara Desert. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out . . . lots. While training for the event—calves explode, tendons pop, knees disintegrate. Years come and go, time seems to be running out as the race seems an impossible dream and then, in 2024 when fitness is finally achieved, a freak accident—he’s run over by dogs, hospitalised, all hope is lost . . .
Spring 2025, the planets align. Tonkinson snags entry to MDS, two months till race time. It’s on—the last hurrah. Get the gear down from the attic, apply the toe jelly and find that mandatory whistle.
With such little time to train, he can’t compete any more that’s for sure—the question is more basic—can he possibly finish? As his body crumbles, is the mind strong enough to run through the sand and hold off the sands of time?
Paul Tonkinson has been a regular on the UK comedy circuit for over 25 years. He was a presenter on Channel 4’s Big Breakfast and has regularly appeared on the BBC, ITV and Sky1. Paul is one half of the podcast Running Commentary with Rob Deering. Paul also writes a monthly column for Runner’s World magazine. His last book 26.2 Miles to Happiness won at the prestigious Sports Book Awards—Sports Entertainment Book Of The Year.
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Black and white images throughout
Eddy Merckx – Out On His Own
‘The Cannibal’ through the eyes of his rivals and teammates
Guy
Roger
What was it like to race a cycling legend?
For over fifty years, Eddy Merckx has reigned supreme as the greatest cyclist of all time. His insatiable appetite for victory won him over 500 races. With Tadej Pogacar’s recent exploits inviting comparison with the man they called the “Cannibal,” this book re-examines Merckx’s incredible lifetime of racing.
From 1967 to 1978, Eddy Merckx won every bike race going, many of them several times over: five Tours de France, five Giros d’Italia, La Vuelta, all five Monuments, three World Championships and the Hour Record.
Former L’Équipe journalist Guy Roger has traversed Europe to talk to the officials and journalists who were there, to interview Merckx’s former adversaries and teammates, and to reveal their accounts of racing with and against him. He has emerged with a unique and fascinating analysis of Merckx’s incredible career.
Filled with anecdotes, insights and memories—many previously untold—this unique celebration features a moving Afterword from the great man himself. Eddy Merckx: Out On His Own sheds new light on the great man’s courage, his self-doubts, the pain he suffered and the Merckx madness which drove him to often unnecessary, 100km-plus solo attacks.
Guy Roger is a former journalist at L’Équipe and specialises in cycling. He wrote the successful autobiography of Luc Leblanc, Moi, Lucho, as well as Bernal et les fils de la Cordillère
SPORTS & RECREATION / CAMPING
Conway | 7/7/2026
9781844867325 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Colour photographs and maps
Wild Camping 3rd edition
Exploring and Sleeping in the Wilds of Britain and Ireland
Stephen Neale
Have a big adventure on a tiny budget in the UK’s most beautiful spots. This guide to wild camping shows how anyone can camp, sleep and wake in secluded, stunning sites.
Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly . . . What’s not to like? And it’s all accessible right here, without the need for a flight or a big budget. From getting back to nature with a tent, some matches and a few litres of bottled water, to enjoying a pub dinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this book shows how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms. There’s an idea that wild camping is illegal in Britain, but it isn’t—you just need to know the rules and where to go.
This guide opens up this amazing experience for all, covering: what is wild camping and why bother?
different types (bivvying, tenting, hammocking, on the water) what the law says (Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Ireland, EU, waterways)
how many of the largest landowners in the UK are actively encouraging wild camping getting started (vital equipment, where to go, when to go, safety) drinking water and foraging for food
The majority of the book features the best places to go in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, along with stories, tips, helpful maps and inspiring photos. The new edition includes a Foreword by Ed Stafford, a chapter on the new England Coast Path, and updated text throughout, giving readers the knowledge and the inspiration to escape the noise, clutter and stress of day to day life and go wild.
PRAISE
“Camping in the wilds is an experience not to be missed, as detailed by Neale.” Discover Britain
“A handsome and enjoyable celebration of the pastime.” —Scotland Outdoors “Useful information that is amplified by the author’s enthusiasm.” —The Great Outdoors Magazine
“If you want to avoid what Robert Louis Stevenson called: ‘a dead monotonous period under a roof,’ and instead hear ‘Nature breathing deeply and freely’ in the open air, then this is the book for you.” —Outdoor Focus
Stephen Neale is an award winning author, journalist and adventurer. He is obsessed with camping, walking, boats and fishing, and is the author of Wild Camping, Camping by the Waterside, The England Coast Path and The South West Coast Path, all published by Conway.
POETRY / EUROPEAN / GERMAN
Alma Classics | 7/21/2026
9781847495266 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Carton Qty: 1
8.5 in H | 5.3 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.4 lb Wt
Footprints
Poems Selected and Translated by Anthony Mortimer (DualLanguage Edition)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
First English translation of the most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century. Now presented in a dual-language edition.
The most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is regarded as a crucial figure in the transition of German-language poetry from the Romanticism of Heine, Novalis and Eichendorff to the Symbolism of Rilke and Stefan George.
In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images—high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers—to present his own symbolic world with a vividness and intensity that few poets can match. In these sensitive and accurate versions by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer, Meyer’s achievement is available to anglophone readers for the first time.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–98) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist. He is best remembered today for narrative ballads such as “Feet in the Fire.”
A new annotated edition of 'the funniest book in the world' (Evelyn Waugh). It features Weedon Grossmith's hilarious illustrations and contains notes, a bibliography and extra material.
Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, “the Laurels”, the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in the City firm Perkupp’s, begins to keep a diary, one that, over the next fifteen months, will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations – as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and social anxieties – of a late-Victorian family.
Serialized in Punch between 1888 and 1889, and later expanded and illustrated for publication in volume form in 1892, The Diary of a Nobody, the Grossmith brothers’ highest achievement, is a comic masterpiece and arguably one of the greatest artistic collaborations of all time.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Classics Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material, including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.
SPORTS & RECREATION / FISHING
Adlard Coles | 8/18/2026
9781399430722 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 1
8.5 in H | 5.5 in W
Photographs and diagrams throughout
Sea Fishing 3rd edition
The complete guide to angling from your boat or kayak
Jim Whippy
A practical hands-on guide to sea fishing from your boat with step-by-step photos and expert angling tips and techniques, covering all the basics you need to know to catch your own fish.
A practical guide to catching, preparing and cooking fish on a boat or kayak. There’s nothing better than freshly caught fish for supper, and this book includes everything you need to know to make a catch, whether you’re cruising along the coast, at anchor or drifting. Packed with useful step-by-step photos, diagrams and clear explanations, this handbook shows you how to:
- set up the tackle
- bait the line correctly
- work with the tide to best effect
- catch fish on the move, at anchor or while drifting
- fillet, skin and cook your catch
Fishing from a boat doesn’t need to require a lot of expensive equipment or high levels of skill. Expert sea angler Jim Whippy explains in simple terms the tackle required and shows you how to get the best out of each item and when it should be used. He also covers what you can catch as you travel further afield and how to prepare the fish for cooking with easy-to-follow recipes for use on board with limited ingredients.
This updated third edition includes a handy fish identification section that shows the most likely species that can be caught between Scotland and Gibraltar, as well as the latest information and advice on equipment and techniques, new photography throughout and even more recipes.
With this book, some perseverance and a little luck, anyone trying their hand at fishing from a boat or kayak will soon be able to plan for the pleasure of fresh fish cooked aboard.
Jim Whippy is a well-known international sea angler having fished in six World Championships for the full England boat team. He has edited four sea angling publications, written three books, appeared on TV several times and won numerous major sea angling titles. His long-running monthly article “Whippy Afloat” now appears in Saltwater Boat Angling
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / MARINE & NAVAL
Reeds | 8/18/2026
9781399413473 | $42.00 / $56.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 20
9.2 in H | 6.1 in W
Black and white diagrams throughout
Reeds General Engineering Science
Chris Patterson
The core textbook for all students studying GES I&II and A&B, covering the entire syllabus and featuring worked examples, past examination questions and self-assessment tests on all topics.
The core textbook for all students studying GES I&II and A&B, covering the entire syllabus and featuring worked examples, past examination questions and self-assessment tests.
Focusing on the fundamental skills and knowledge tested in examinations, with worked examples and clear, helpful illustrations throughout, this essential coursebook covers the entire syllabus:
- Mathematics
- Applied mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Electricity
- Hydrostatics
- Naval architecture
Aimed directly as a study aid for students taking a GES course, the book contains past examination questions with full solutions, as well as self-assessment questions on every topic covered so that students can test their own understanding as they progress.
Chris Patterson is Head of Marine Engineering at Warsash Maritime College, Solent University. He is the current author of Reeds volume 13: Ship Stability, Powering and Resistance
This annotated edition of Martin Salander is accompanied by A Village Romeo and Juliet, which are widely considered some of the finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism.
Martin Salander, one of the Gottfried Keller’s most famous novels, traces the progress of an impoverished idealist towards becoming a self-sufficient, deeply humane individual. At the same time, offering a reflection on the social and political changes of the time and a compassionate picture of a family which, for the author, is a mirror of the Free Switzerland he had hoped to help build.
Martin Salander is here accompanied by A Village Romeo and Juliet, a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired by the story of two real-life sweethearts and set in rural Switzerland, it evokes the overwhelming beauty of young love and nature, but is ultimately pessimistic about the possibility of such beauty surviving in the real world.
Both novellas are considered finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism.
Reaching the height of his fame for the semi-autobiographical novel Green Henry, Gottfried Keller (1819–90) is widely considered to be one of the greatest Swiss-German writers.
Presented here for the first time, Bel Canto is Albert Maltz’s final testament. Based on the life of Holocaust survivor Fania Fénelon, a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer whose memoir P...
Paulette Bonnard, a “little blackbird” gifted with a lyrical soprano singing voice, is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory. Her father was a strict Catholic—her mother is a Hungarian Jew. Paulette identifies with neither faith, but she perceives the creeping anti-Semitism infecting France in the late 1930s. Married in September 1939, days after the outbreak of the Second World War, Paulette lives alone in a Paris slum, working in a camera shop but pouring her passion into voice-training lessons to drown her longing for her husband, a sergeant in a tank brigade under the command of Colonel Charles de Gaulle. When the city falls to the Nazis in 1940, Paulette joins the Resistance, earning her bread by performing in cabarets for lecherous German officers—but her few remaining certainties are shattered when she is arrested for espionage and faces deportation to a concentration camp.
Completed shortly before the author’s death in 1985, and undiscovered for more than forty years, this moving, richly historical novel is Albert Maltz’s final testament, and consolidates his place as one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
Calder Publications was founded by John Calder in 1949, and became known for the edgy and avant-garde writers it was proud of having in its list. Calder Publications, an imprint of Alma Books, offers a list of books which will challenge and stimulate the serious readers.
Albert Maltz (1908–85) was a prizewinning American playwright, fiction writer, and screenwriter. His novel The Cross and the Arrow, about the German resistance to the Nazi regime, was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during the Second World War. He worked on a number of films, including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during the period of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and The Journey of Simon McKeever.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / ESSAYS
Alma Classics
9781847499387 | $27.00 Can.
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 1
7.8 in H | 5.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
As I Please
Annotated Edition
New annotated collection of George Orwell’s articles while he was writing for the British left-wing newspaper Tribune. Part of Alma George Orwell Collection.
After leaving his job with the BBC Eastern Service in November 1943, George Orwell became literary editor of Tribune magazine, penning a regular column called “As I Please” between 3rd December 1943 and 28th March 1947. Encompassing political opinion, literary criticism and social critique, Orwell’s editorials represent an invaluable commentary on the major cultural issues that preoccupied Britain during and after the war.
Collected here in one volume, and fully annotated, these opinion pieces showcase Orwell’s polemical brilliance and cement his reputation as one of the finest journalists and literary writers in the English language.
Alma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics.
Eric Blair (1903–50), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was a novelist, journalist and critic, best remembered for his seminal novels 1984 and Animal Farm, and for works of non-fiction such as The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / BOARD GAMES
Osprey Games | 4/21/2026
9781472870803 | $50.00 / $67.00 Can.
Game | Carton Qty: 6
11.1 in H | 7.6 in W | 3.1 in T | 2.8 lb Wt
Threaded A Game of Needles and Points
Ellie Dix
Create brilliant bargello embroidery in this crafty worker placement game for 2-5 players, from influential designer Ellie Dix.
In this easy-to-learn board game, you’ll hunt for the perfect thread, fulfil demanding commissions, seek out artisan equipment, and create stunning canvases.
Establish a thriving needlecraft studio by designing and stitching your very own gorgeous needlework projects!
Do you know just the tool to bring a project to life? Can you pick the patterns that you just know your customers will most want? Will you be patient for the perfect threads, or improvise with the colours that tumble to the sale shelves? Get your assistants to the shops that suit your creative flair and always try to have thread you need for that next pattern!
Ellie Dix is a multi-award winning British board game designer from a big game-loving family. She is owner of The Dark Imp and author of the book The Board Game Family. She has games with Gamewright, Ginger Fox, Laurence King, Outset Media, Mindware and Indie Boards and Cards.
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR II
Osprey Publishing | 5/5/2026
9781472869661 | $38.00 / $51.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 448 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1.8 in T | 1 lb Wt 8-page plate section in b&w
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Berlin Endgame 1945
Prit Buttar
A fascinating history of the final battle for Berlin and the heart of Germany written by one of the world’s leading experts on the Eastern Front.
This sweeping saga takes us from the banks of the River Oder as the Red Army begins it relentless drive towards the still beating heart of the Third Reich: Berlin. Only the Seelow Heights stood between the Soviet forces and the capital. Over the course of three days almost one million Soviet troops would attack these final entrenched positions. Once these defences were breached it was guaranteed that a bitter fight street by street would take place in the city itself between a vengeful Red Army and desperate, fanatical Nazis until final capitulation. Prit Buttar reveals the brutal combat that defined the final death throes of the Third Reich including vivid first-hand accounts as the city burned. Not only was the outcome of the war at stake. Indeed, as the Red Army rolled into Berlin this was already a foregone conclusion even if it would take its toll in blood. Already battle lines for the forthcoming Cold War were being drawn. Stalin, fearful that the Western Powers would not honour their agreements, was determined to have boots on the ground to ensure his control of what would become the Soviet occupation zone.
Both a ferocious climax to World War II and a chilling prologue to the Cold War, this is a brilliant account of one of history’s most pivotal battles.
Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a general practitioner. An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, his most recent titles include the critically acclaimed new history of the siege of Leningrad: To Besiege A City: Leningrad 1941–42 and Hero City: Leningrad 1943–44. He lives in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.
HISTORY / EUROPE / NORDIC COUNTRIES
Osprey Publishing | 5/5/2026
9781472871589 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 400 pages | Carton
Qty: 1
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt 8-page plate section in colour
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Hammer of the Gods
King Olaf's Viking Conquest
Don Hollway
Don Hollway weaves together traditional Norse sagas and Anglo-Saxon chronicles to vividly depict the violence and spectacle of the Viking age, bringing to life the legendary Olaf Trygvasson.
Hammer of the Gods tells the extraordinary saga of Olaf Tryggvason – warlord, wanderer, king, and crusader – whose life rivals the most legendary figures of Viking lore. Born in exile and hunted from birth, Olaf survived slavery, betrayal, and shipwreck to become a fearsome warrior across the Viking world from the icy fjords of Norway to the courts of Kiev, the slave markets of the Baltics, and the battlefields of England and Ireland. His rise would shake the foundations of Norse society, forge new kingdoms, and ignite a holy war against the old gods themselves.
In an age of axe and flame, when the Viking world stood at the crossroads of pagan traditions and the spread of Christianity, Olaf emerged as the fiercest adherent to the new faith – a sword in one hand and a cross in the other. Drawing on a vast array of early medieval sources from Icelandic sagas and skaldic verse to Byzantine and Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Don Hollway brings the world of Olaf Tryyvason vividly to life cutting through the legend to reveal the man behind the myth.
For readers of Bernard Cornwell and lovers of Viking history, Hammer of the Gods is the epic history of a great Norse king whose story shaped the fate of a civilization.
Don Hollway is an author and historian. His first book, The Last Viking, is a gripping history of King Harald Hardrada which was acclaimed by bestselling author Stephen Harding, by Carl Gnam of Military Heritage magazine and by Michael Dirda in The Washington Post. He is also a classical rapier fencer. His Battle for the Island Kingdom (Osprey, 2023) was shortlisted in the Military History Matters 2024 book awards. He lives in Pennsylvania.
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Moonlight Crusaders
Special Duties Pilots over Occupied Europe
Paul Smiddy
This engrossing history explores the creation, development and actions of the Special Duties squadrons, who carried spies, political figures, and documents in and out of Occupied Europe.
As World War II continued to unfold, Winston Churchill pushed for a creation of a special operation programme. However, with the introduction of secret agents and needing to support resistance movements already in Europe, there was also a need for a unit that could carry these men and women to and from Nazi-controlled areas. Flying under the moonlight, the daring pilots of 138 and 161 Squadron constantly faced danger. With the chance that their locations would be discovered or betrayed, they also dealt with being shot at once in the air. Despite these extra risks, the Special Duties pilots continued to do their part for the war.
Full of first-hand sources and expert research, this book dives into the history of the men who flew these dangerous missions and the main aircraft they used—the Lysander. Author Paul Smiddy explores the origins of the Lysander and how it became the mainstay of these squadrons. Facing political interference and limited resources from the RAF, these men provided a critical role in the war—bringing back agents with important information to help Britain and the Allies defeat the Germans.
After reading John Nesbitt-Dufort’s autobiography as a teenager, Paul Smiddy was bitten by the aviation bug. A pilot from the age of 16, and trained by the RAF, he has flown halfway around the world. His interest in flying and his familiarity with France led him to investigate the Special Duties pilots. He is the author of two previous books, QuickLook at Flying (QuickLook Books) and A Passion for Speed: The Daring Life of Mildred, The Hon Mrs Victor Bruce (The History Press).
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR II
Osprey Publishing | 7/14/2026
9781472874382 | $40.00 / $53.00 Can.
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Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45
A Study in Command
Robert Forczyk
A new study of command on the Eastern Front in World
War II.
The War on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground conflict in military history. It lasted a total of 46½ months, involved over 10 million combatants at its peak and resulted in roughly 15 million military deaths, as well as about 20 million civilians. The Eastern Front also played the decisive role in the defeat of the Third Reich. More than 50 percent of all German military fatalities in 1941–45 occurred there, and by the time that the Western Allies invaded France in June 1944, the Wehrmacht was already decimated and lacked the resources to fight a protracted multi-front war.
Who were the generals who led these campaigns on the Eastern Front? The standard historiography of World War II tends to focus on a few prominent leaders while ignoring the mass of commanders and operational-level military staffs who actually fought most of the war. This new study seeks to redress the balance and offer an objective analytic framework for assessing the senior German and Soviet commanders on the Eastern Front through the lens of generalship and battle command. It examines a total of 54 German officers who commanded at the Army Group or Army level on the Eastern Front, as well as 140 Soviet officers who commanded at the Front or Army level, to offer a comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II.
Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the US Army Reserves having served eighteen years as an armor officer in the US 2nd and 4th infantry divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). Dr Forczyk is currently a consultant in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Soviet Artillery Tractors of World War II
James Kinnear
A fully illustrated history of the Red Army’s tracked artillery tractors that were pivotal to its success in World War II.
The development of Red Army artillery tractors in the 1930 was integral to the industrial development of the Soviet Union that produced them, the tracked tractor plants at Chelyabinsk, Kharkov and Stalingrad having been built specifically to industrialize the Soviet Union and to simultaneously mechanize the Red Army, and in particular its artillery.
The opening months of the war were difficult, and it was not uncommon for Red Army artillery units to lose 100% of their material during combat. While these combat losses were immense, Soviet built artillery tractors continued to be built, Soviet-built artillery tractors were also joined by Lend-Lease tractors. At the end of the war, the same slow moving and cumbersome Red Army artillery tractors that had served with the Red Army in the dark days of 1941 would 4 years later now tow the same heavy artillery pieces at a steady pace during offensive operations across Europe.
Wartime Red Army artillery tractors have been historically little researched, as almost no surviving examples were maintained after the war, with even the unique surviving examples displayed in the secret NII-21 museum near Moscow having been scrapped in the 1960s. In recent years, interest in these military workhorses has been revived, wrecks exhumed and restored, and Soviet factory and operational records made available. This new research can now tell the remarkable story of the artillery tractors that delivered...
James Kinnear was born in Great Britain and has researched the topic of Soviet and Russian military hardware since his first visit to the Soviet Union as a young teenager. James has written hundreds of articles on Soviet and Russian technology. He is a formal contributor to IHS Jane's defence yearbooks and has published books on Soviet military technology with Barbarossa, Darlington, Osprey and Tankograd.
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Forged in War
A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today
Mark Galeotti
A masterful account of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia’s destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.
Putin retains his stranglehold on his position in Russia despite an almost ruinous invasion of Ukraine. The answer as to how and why can be found in Russian history. With no naturally defensible borders, and environmental factors constraining its economy, Russia has been pitched against the pre-eminent military powers of the age across the centuries, and often at a technological disadvantage. To respond to these challenges, it has had to sit heavily on the backs of its people, and so war – and the need to be able to fight it – has shaped its evolution, from tsars to commissars and presidents.
The national identity has been forged in the furnace of war. From the medieval kingdom of Rus battling against a Scandinavian princes and Mongol emperors, to its own empire-building conflicts in 19th-century Asia, to the formative wars of the 20th century which saw Russia pitch from Tsarist empire to communist state and defender against Nazism, all these conflicts stained the lands of Russia red with blood. A weak post-Cold War Russia then turned to Putin, who created a new mood for martial triumphalism which led directly to the Ukrainian war.
Packed with contemporary accounts, Forged in War strips away the myth to give an insider’s view on Russia’s past and present
PRAISE
“Galeotti’s absorbing book shows how Putin’s Russia has been defined by endless wars against often more sophisticated neighbours and by its spluttering attempts to modernise itself in response.” —Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former UK Ambassador to Russia
“The battles, the geopolitics, the palace ideologies and intrigues are set forth in Mark Galeotti’s masterful and absorbing narrative.” —Leon Aron, author of Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War
Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service and business. He heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy and is an Honorary Professor at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies as well as holding fellowships with RUSI, the Council of Geostrategy and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He is the author of over twenty-five books including Putin’s Wars (Osprey, 2022).
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Warship 2026
The 2026 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.
For nearly fifty years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, Warship combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which the annual has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the hallmark of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs.
This year’s annual includes feature articles on the French 450-tonne destroyers of the early 20th century, the Soviet Narvik-class destroyers, and the Italian carrier Falco/Sparviero; a chronological account and assessment of Royal Navy carrier battle damage during World War II; a comparison of the US, British and Canadian escort naval construction programmes in the summer of 1942; and the next part of Warship's ground-breaking coverage of early German destroyers.
John Jordan is a former teacher of modern languages. He is the author of two major books on the Soviet Navy, and has coauthored a series on the French Navy, of which the most recent is French Armoured Cruisers 1887–1932 (2019) with Philippe Caresse. John is also the sole author of Warships After Washington; a sequel, Warships After London, was published in 2020. John has been associated with Warship from its earliest beginnings and took over the editorship in 2004.
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Osprey Publishing | 5/12/2026
9781472865908 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 50 9.8 in H | 7.3 in W | 0.3 in T | 0.6 lb Wt Illustrated throughout with 40 archive photos and 15 pages of original colour illustrations
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French Navy 1939–42
The Marine Nationale in World War II
Hugues Canuel
An authoritative, illustrated analysis of the official French Navy in World War II, under the command of the Third Republic and of Vichy.
At the outbreak of World War II, France's Marine Nationale was the most powerful navy in continental Europe, unified in its purpose of defending the nation and the colonial empire. It was the product of the unique 1920s–30s French naval doctrine and armaments development, as a continental power with worldwide interests. The fall of France shattered this unity, as the fleet split between loyalty to Vichy and Free France.
In this book, Hugues Canuel presents a sharp, focused operational study of the official French Navy in World War II, from action alongside its British allies in 1939–40 to the fiery end of the Vichy fleet in Toulon harbour in 1942. Based on a wealth of French, British, and American archive material, it explores the warships and their capabilities, the roles the fleet was designed and structured to perform, and the combat they saw, including operations off Norway and tackling German raiders in the Atlantic, operations in Indochina, and the battle with the Allies in Operation Torch.
Illustrated throughout with rare photos, spectacular battlescenes, 3D diagrams of engagements and fleet formations, and a strategic map of France’s naval responsibilities, this book is an essential guide to one of the least-known major navies of World War II.
Captain Hugues Canuel, RCN, PhD is a career naval officer who currently serves as Defence Advisor at the High Commission of Canada in Singapore, and was previously Defence Attaché in Tokyo 2018-22. He completed a PhD in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of History in 2021. The Naval Institute Press has published his doctoral thesis as The Fall and Rise of French Seapower: France’s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy, 1940–1963
HISTORY / MILITARY / UNITED STATES
Osprey Publishing | 5/19/2026
9781472868497 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 46 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Colour illustrations throughout, including battlescene artworks, maps, 3D diagrams and photographs.
Grenada 1983
American Resurgence Toward the End of the Cold War
Matthew A Frakes
A detailed look at the 1983 American invasion of Grenada, the largest and most significant US military operation since the end of the Vietnam War.
Following independence from the UK in 1974 and internal power struggles, Grenada was under communist rule in the early 1980s. When a hardline Marxist faction overthrew the existing regime and executed the prime minister in October 1983, the US was asked to intervene by several Caribbean states. President Reagan had to weigh an appeal for intervention, while US military leaders were forced to plan the operation with minimal warning and poor intelligence. The US invaded Grenada on October 25, as Operation Urgent Fury. Despite international criticism and UN disapproval, the US maintained that the American citizens trapped in Grenada were reason enough to engage. The main combat of the invasion lasted three days, with the evacuation of the US medical students a priority, as well as capturing the airports.
This was the first major deployment of the post-Vietnam all-volunteer force and involved the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Special Forces. This book examines the tricky political situation Reagan faced, the battle against Grenadian and Cuban forces, and how this operation led to reforms that shaped the US military for future conflicts. With detailed maps, diagrams, and stunning artwork, this book explores the legacy of this small but crucial military campaign in US history.
Matthew A Frakes is an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is a historian of US foreign relations and national security and holds a PhD in history.
Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University.
HISTORY / MILITARY / VEHICLES
Osprey Publishing | 5/19/2026
9781472870841 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 84 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8 pages of colour illustrations
US Heavy Tanks of World War II
Steven J. Zaloga
Through World War II, the US Army worked on projects for new heavy tanks. Fully illustrated, this charts the development of the M6 and the never-built T14, T28, and Pershing-derived designs.
In this book, world-renowned armour expert Steven Zaloga examines the series of heavy tanks that were designed or developed by the US Army in World War II, but which never saw action.
The first heavy tank of the war was the M6 heavy tank, which never saw combat use despite being type classified. The US Army also developed the heavy T14 assault tank, which was earmarked for Lend-Lease service by Britain. The most outrageous US heavy tank of the war was the T28/T95 superheavy tank, which was so large that it required four sets of suspension bogies instead of the usual two.
The M26 Pershing medium tank program also spawned a number of heavy tank projects, such as the T30, T32 and T34, which are also examined. Although production of these was envisioned in 1945-46, the end of the war put an end to any possibility of serial manufacture. Nevertheless, these tanks were heavily influenced by World War II lessons and their development and technical features are examined.
Illustrated with rarely seen archive photos and meticulously illustrated new profiles of the key designs, this book traces the US Army’s efforts to develop heavy tanks comparable to the German Tigers, and the reasons why such monstrous machines were never required.
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history.
Felipe Rodríguez is a renowned digital illustrator who specializes in tank reconstructions.
HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL
Osprey Publishing | 5/19/2026
9781472871121 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 50 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
Illustrated throughout with 40 archive photos and 13 pages of original colour illustrations
Kriegsmarine Southern Command 1941–45
The Adriatic, Aegean and Black Sea naval wars
Lawrence Paterson
Fully illustrated, the first history of the little-known Marinegruppenkommando Süd, Germany’s southern naval command fought a fast and furious war in the Adriatic, Aegean and Black Seas.
As Germany and Italy overran Yugoslavia and Greece in early 1941, the Kriegsmarine established a new theatre command, tasked with establishing German control over the eastern Mediterranean and coordinating actions with the Italian, Romanian and Bulgarian navies. With the invasion of the USSR that summer, the Black Sea would also become a battleground, and Naval Group South would be established.
For the first time, Kriegsmarine historian Lawrence Paterson outlines the dizzying array of Kriegsmarine combat units that fought under Naval Group South – S-boats and U-boats, flotillas of escort ships, landing ships, artillery vessels, patrol boats, submarine hunters and minesweepers – and how they operated, including their organization, their complex logistics, and vital intelligence and communications. Combat was frequently fast and furious, ranging from pitched battles with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and operations supporting Operation Barbarossa to combat against naval units of Tito’s Partisans off the Croatian coast.
Superbly illustrated with rare photos, artwork of dramatic actions, 3D diagrams and maps, this explores the little-known naval war fought by Germany’s smaller craft, at the farthest reach of German naval power in Europe.
Lawrence “Larry” Paterson is a diving instructor who spent years researching German wrecks off Brittany, from which his first book First U-boat Flotilla directly resulted. Since then he has had over twenty books published, mostly on the Kriegsmarine. He attributes much of his interest in World War II to his grandfathers; one of whom was an ANZAC during the First World War, the other a Royal Navy stoker in the Second.
8 colour artwork plates; black & white and colour photographs and illustrations.
Roman Cavalry Helmets
M.C. Bishop
Renowned authority M. C. Bishop investigates the origins, development, manufacture, decoration and use of the Roman cavalry helmet.
Roman cavalry helmets of the Republican period at first differed little from the infantry helmets and identifying them proves a challenging but not impossible task.
Changes to the Roman army under the Principate at the end of the 1st century BC, not least the incorporation of auxiliary forces drawn from neighbouring Iron Age peoples brought changes, with cavalry and infantry helmet types soon diverging and quickly saw the introduction of face-mask helmets specifically for use in the hippika gymnasia, a form of combined mounted training and display manoeuvres.
As with Roman infantry helmets, contact with Eastern cultures led to completely new types of cavalry helmet being introduced which simplified manufacture and ultimately led directly to a variety of post-Roman helmet types found, among others, with Saxon and Viking warriors.
Many new finds have ensured that much has changed in the narrative of Roman helmets since the time of Robinson's magisterial work and the time is ripe for a new and accessible examination of the development, manufacture, and use of the Roman cavalry helmet.
Writer, publisher and archaeologist M. C. Bishop is an authority of all aspects of Ancient Rome at war, with particular emphasis on arms and armour of the era. He has written, co-written or edited dozens of books and articles on the subject, including volumes on the gladius, pilum, and spatha for the Osprey Weapon series and Roman Shields, Roman Plate Armour, and Roman Mail and Scale Armour for Osprey Elite, and leads tours of Hadrian’s Wall and other Roman sites.
HISTORY / MILITARY / VEHICLES
Osprey Publishing | 5/19/2026
9781472872555 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 84 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 0.2 in T | 0.3 lb Wt Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8 pages of colour illustrations
Warships at Dunkirk 1940
Angus Konstam
A fully illustrated study of the hundreds of British and French warships at the heart of the Dunkirk evacuation, whose actions have been overshadowed by the fame of the “Little Ships.”
Although an operation most famous for the “little ships,” the backbone of the Dunkirk evacuation fleet was the warships of the Royal Navy and French Navy.
In this book, naval historian Angus Konstam examines the Anglo-French warships that were ordered into action to rescue the British Expeditionary Force: an anti-aircraft cruiser, nearly 50 destroyers, and more than 200 MTBs, minesweepers, trawlers, and other small warships were involved, as many as could be spared without recklessly endangering naval strength. He highlights the lack of decent anti-aircraft defences available to the Allies in 1940, and shows how improvised weaponry were used to help fend off the Stukas. Dunkirk was the first naval operation of World War II to be carried out under sustained air attack, and nearly a fifth of the destroyers and a quarter of the smaller vessels were sunk, with more badly damaged.
Illustrated with archive photos, profiles illustrating the range of both British and French warships involved, and dramatic original artwork, this studies the naval side of the greatest evacuation of World War II.
Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.
HISTORY / MILITARY / VEHICLES
Osprey Publishing | 5/19/2026
9781472873620 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 50 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Colour illustrations throughout, including profiles, technical drawings, battlescene artworks, maps and photographs.
Panzer I vs T-26
Spanish Civil War 1936–39
Jacek Zabielski
This fully illustrated study pits Germany’s Panzer I against the Soviet T-26 in the Spanish Civil War and during Operation Barbarossa.
In 1936, as Spain descended into civil war, both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sent light tanks to aid the opposing sides, keen to see how they fared in combat. Armed with twin machine guns, Germany’s Panzer I fought alongside Nationalist troops, while the 45mm-armed Soviet T-26 took the field with Republican forces. In this book, Jacek Zabielski reveals the origins, development and combat history of these two types, which remained in front-line service in 1941 as Hitler’s forces invaded the Soviet Union.
While both were soon outclassed by better-armed and -armoured successors, the two tanks remained in service throughout World War II. Featuring specially commissioned artwork, full-colour mapping and archive photographs alongside the authoritative text, this study also considers the many variants derived from the Panzer I and T-26, and their technical and tactical legacy.
Jacek Zabielski holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Warsaw University in Poland, European Studies from Central European University in Prague, an MBA from National-Louis University, and has completed a post-graduate programme in Political Science and Media Policy at the University of Amsterdam. His historical research has primarily centred around contemporary military technology, camouflage and markings, with a particular emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe.
HISTORY / MILITARY / VEHICLES
Osprey Publishing | 5/19/2026
9781472867872 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 46 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Colour artwork plates and maps; black & white and colour photographs and illustrations.
Junkers Ju 88C Day and Nightfighters
Chris Goss
An illustrated account of the action-packed combat missions carried out by the Luftwaffe’s powerfully armed Junkers Ju 88C day and nightfighters.
The Junkers Ju 88A was the Luftwaffe’s most effective medium bomber during much of World War 2, and its high speed and surprising agility made it an ideal candidate for conversion into a Zerstörer (destroyer) fighter. Initially designed to be used as a long-range bomber escort, the solid-nosed Ju 88C fighter boasted powerful cannon that made the aircraft ideally suited to the nightfighter role. Its unrivalled endurance also meant the Ju 88C could undertake sweeps of the Bay of Biscay from the French Atlantic coast in search of Allied maritime patrol aircraft hunting U-boats.
Luftwaffe historian Chris Goss charts the action-packed service history of the Ju 88C through first-hand accounts and combat reports from the crews that flew the twin-engined Zerstörer into combat. Newly commissioned profile artworks and more than 50 photographs of aircraft and crews help detail the aircraft’s conversion from a fast bomber into a deadly heavy fighter that proved to be the scourge of Allied bomber and patrol aircraft.
After a career in the RAF and industry, Chris Goss now concentrates on writing about the air war over northwest Europe in World War II. The author of more than fifty books, he has written five titles for Osprey. He lives in Buckinghamshire, England.
Gareth Hector has worked on numerous Osprey aviation titles over the past eighteen years, producing some of the finest battlescene and cover artwork seen in these volumes. He produced the cover art for this volume.
Based in Poland, Janusz Swiatlon has produced artwork for a variety of publications for many years. This will be his ninth commission for Osprey.
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Winter War 1939–40
Repelling the Soviets from Finnish skies
Kari Stenman
Finland’s Winter War with the USSR was one of the greatest David-and-Goliath battles in history. This is the first study in English of the Finnish Air Force’s battle to repel the invaders.
In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded its neighbour Finland, sparking the Winter War. While Finland was heavily outnumbered in troops and equipment, in few respects was the contest as uneven as in the air. In this book, veteran Finnish aviation historian Kari Stenman draws on his decades of research to present the first account in English of the Finnish Air Force’s defence of the country’s skies, a clash that pitted its 114 combat aircraft against the Soviets’ 2,318. He explains that, equipped initially with a handful of British and Dutch aircraft, Finland’s air force adopted similar guerilla tactics to its infantry. Fokker D.XXI interceptors were scattered to remote landing grounds to ambush the Soviets and give an impression of strength, while the bombers were first used for long-range reconnaissance and harrassment. Over the course of the war, the Finns received new Gladiators, Fiat G.50s and French MS.406s, until at the close of the war, all flying units were thrown in to repel the Russian invasion across the frozen Gulf of Finland.
Illustrated with previously unpublished photos, superb original artwork, 3D diagrams and maps, this reveals for the first time the full story of how Finnish aviators fought for their country’s independence.
Born in 1945, Kari Stenman studied economics and was an import-export specialist until Finland’s EU accession in 1995, when he turned his hobby of aviation history into a profession, founding a company to publish his research. He retired in 2009 but has continued to research and write about the Finnish air force. In over 50 years in this field, he has written more than 100 titles.
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Into the Firestorm
The Allied Heroes Who Flew World War II's Most Daring Missions
Scott McGaugh
From the hellish skies over Europe to the unforgiving terrain of the Himalayas and Sahara, this is the deeply human account of the C-47 aircrew who helped turn the tide of war.
One of the most perilous combat roles of World War II was that of the Allied aircrews who flew unarmed transport planes into enemy territory, often just hundreds of feet above the battlefield. Tasked with delivering paratroopers and towing combat gliders packed with troops and equipment, the crews braved anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters without the means to shoot back.
Drawing on after-action reports, letters, and personal diaries, Into the Firestorm brings readers into the cockpit of the C-47, revealing the extraordinary courage of these crews who flew into the flak-filled skies. Aircrews of the C-47 were ordered to fly straight, low, take no evasive action, and arrive “on time and on target.” On every mission they were sitting ducks. Among them were college students, farmhands, and store clerks many of whom would never return yet their contribution to the war effort was vital. Without crucial resupplies from C-47 crews, Patton would have lost the Battle of the Bulge and arguably the war. Without the willingness of C-47 aircrews to fly directly over the Himalayas, Japan’s war in the east may well have prevailed. Award-winning author Scott McGaugh restores these unsung heroes to their rightful place in the legacy of the Greatest Generation.
Scott McGaugh is author of a number of books including New York Times bestseller Surgeon in Blue, Midway Magic and his most recent title, Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin Midway Magic became the basis for a History Channel program, Hero Ship: The USS Midway. McGaugh served as the founding marketing director of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, the most visited floating ship museum in the world. TV appearances have included the History Channel, Travel Network, Discovery Channel, among others.
HISTORY / MILITARY / MEDIEVAL
Osprey Publishing | 6/2/2026
9781472874733 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can.
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Lords of the Salt Road
The Norse Earls of Orkney and the Viking World Angus Konstam
The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean.
The Norse earls of Orkney owed their allegiance to the Kings of Norway and ruled their own semi- autonomous empire, with lands in mainland Scotland and the Western Isles. At their military height in the 11th century, they held a 400-mile swathe of territory, stretching from Shetland down to the Clyde Estuary. From their base in Orkney these Norse earls and their followers led Viking raids around the British Isles and even further afield. For over four centuries their warriors and longships battled alongside Scandinavian kings and Norse rebels, and as Norse kingmakers these warlike earls sometimes paid the ultimate price for dabbling in international affairs. They were the key players in Viking Britain. Lords of the Salt Road draws on contemporary sagas as historical sources and captures some of their spellbinding narrative drive. It also draws on a wide range of historical sources such as Celtic-Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon chronicles to tell this spellbinding tale of love, war, triumph, tragedy, treachery, murder, rebellion and greed.
Angus Konstam is a widely published and highly respected military and naval historian, with numerous books to his credit, many of them published by Osprey. A former Royal Naval officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, he holds degrees from three universities, including an MA in medieval history and a Masters from St. Andrews. Angus is the author of several major books, including The Historical Atlas of the Viking World and Viking Warrior, as well as The Convoy and The Pirate Menace
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR II
Osprey Publishing | 6/16/2026
9781472874962 | $40.00 / $53.00 Can.
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1942 Hitler's Gamble for Victory Richard Hargreaves
A unique history of the Axis powers attempt to win the Second World War in 1942 told through the eyes of those who were there.
Drawing upon sources in German, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian and English, Hitler’s Zenith describes the spring and summer campaigns in the Soviet Union and Africa which crowned the Axis forces with fresh laurels—victories at Kharkov, Sevastopol, Tobruk—and to the cusp of victory in Egypt, the Caucasus and Stalingrad until the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut was brought to a halt in the autumn of 1942.
Based upon fifteen years of research in archives, museums and libraries across Europe, this is a unique account of this critical year in World War II. No other history has looked at the Eastern and North African theatres in conjunction, masterfully illustrating how the crushing gains on both fronts would be lost by the end of the year. Richard Hargreaves shines a light on the little studied areas of the war such as the aftermath of Tobruk and challenges traditional Germancentric accounts of the Caucasus campaign. Strategy and the hubris of Hitler and his generals is brilliantly illustrated but so too are the lives and deaths of ordinary soldiers caught up in extraordinary events.
Richard Hargreaves has been a journalist for 30 years, ten of them in regional newspapers. Since 2000 he has almost exclusively covered the Royal Navy and naval affairs and was an official UK war correspondent in Iraq, 2003. He currently works for the Royal Navy as a press officer/writer and sub editor of its monthly magazine Navy News. He has had four books published to date: Germans in Normandy (2006), Blitzkrieg Unleashed (2008), Hitler’s Final Fortress (2011) and Opening the Gates of Hell (2025).
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / BOARD GAMES
Osprey Games | 6/9/2026
9781472871763 | $19.99 / $26.99 Can.
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Rattlesnake
Michael Hardacre
Trade lead with explosive card combos and quick-fire abilities in a riotous Wild West shootout.
Tensions are high in the town of Rattlesnake. The sun beats down and tempers fray. Two figures start moving, hands flashing to the pistols at their hips . . . The first shot rings out . . .
Rattlesnake is a chaotic, action-packed card game for two players. Target your opponent with high-powered card combos. Disrupt their plays or get out of scrapes using special card abilities. Reinforce your dwindling deck with new cards to stay in the action. But, above all, don't get hit!
Players: 2
Ages: 14+
Playing time: 15 minutes
Contents: 65 cards, active player token, rulebook, travel pouch
Michael Hardacre is an engineer, inventor, and master procrastinator. He started game design over a decade ago, mostly as a hobby, but didn’t take it seriously until meeting other designers in London and The Netherlands.
Roland MacDonald is a graphic designer, illustrator, and board game designer. After working on Shogun 2: Total War, he moved on to board games, including illustrating the Undaunted series, Final Girl, and Western Legend
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Overshadowed
US Marines in World War II: Europe, the Caribbean, and South America
Isaac Lamberth
A visual journey examining World War II through the lens of the US Marine Corps, outside of the Pacific, and sheds light on some nearly forgotten parts of World War II history.
The history of the US Marines’ service in the Pacific theater of World War II is well known and celebrated, but the Marines served in almost all the other theaters of the war as well. From 1941 to 1945, Marines fought the Germans in Operation Torch in North Africa, landed on D-Day, parachuted behind enemy lines, made commando raids into Italy, attacked German submarines in the Caribbean and were in a plethora of other battles around the world. Often overshadowed by the Pacific narrative, this book provides a visual journey of where the Marines also served and how their service supported the Allies' victory.
Fully illustrated with period images, featuring content from firsthand sources and written by a current US Marine, this book honors the service of these men and provides insight into the bigger role the US Marines played in World War II across the globe.
Isaac Lamberth was born in Maryland in 1988 and moved to South Carolina as a child. As an 8th generation military service member, he always wanted to serve. He enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 2008 and remains in active service. He lives with his wife and children in Quantico, Virginia.
More than 200 ships' plans and colour illustrations.
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The Lost Ships of Charles II's Navy
Understanding the Seventeenth-Century Warship
Richard Endsor
A comprehensively researched and beautifully illustrated history of the design of the ships of Charles II Navy, using carefully reconstructed architectural plans based on contemporary records.
The Royal Navy of the late 17th century was the greatest enterprise in the country, and in 1777, with Samuel Pepys as Secretary of the Navy, the House of Commons voted to fund the building of 30 new ships, the largest single shipbuilding project up to this point. This new history by award-winning naval historian Richard Endsor describes the history of this great endeavour, and seeks to recreate architectural plans of these ships based on detailed measurements and calculations left behind by Edmund Drummer, an assistant to master shipwright Sir Anthony Deane and later Surveyor of the Navy from 1692 to 1699.
Using Drummer’s surviving notebook, supported by the official specification dimension list for the ships, large-scale, artistic drawings and several surviving models, The Lost Ships of Charles II's Navy contains dimensioned and accurate architectural plans for several named ships alongside numerous other illustrations, including contemporary Van de Velde drawings of the ships.
Richard Endsor has written extensively on the structures and the building process of 17th-century ships, including The Restoration Warship (2009), The Warship Anne (2017) and most recently, The Master Shipwright’s Secrets (2020) for which he was awarded the prestigious Anderson Medal for the best maritime book published in 2020. He has also co-authored other books including The Great Ordnance Survey of 1698 (2013) with Frank Fox.
HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL
Osprey Publishing | 6/16/2026
9781472868695 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 50 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
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US Liberty Ship vs German Surface Raider
The Battle of the Atlantic 1942
Mark Lardas
Fully illustrated, this study examines World War II’s most dramatic single-ship action, in which the Liberty Ship Stephen Hopkins fought a heavily armed German auxiliary cruiser, Stier.
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the Battle of the Atlantic was already raging. The so-called “Liberty Ships,” built at breakneck speed and astonishing numbers during 1941–45, were crucial to the Allied war effort. While the greatest successes of Germany’s auxiliary cruisers occurred in 1939–41, one of these ingenious warships, Stier, confronted the Liberty Ship Stephen Hopkins in World War II’s most dramatic single-ship duel on September 27, 1942.
Stephen Hopkins carried one 4in gun, two 37mm cannon and six machine guns, all primarily intended for antisubmarine and antiaircraft purposes. Stier had six 150mm, one 75mm, one twin 37mm, four single 20mm and four 533mm torpedo tubes. The fight was grossly uneven. At the end of it, Stier had sunk Stephen Hopkins, but was so badly damaged it had to be scuttled.
While the battle between Stephen Hopkins and Stier has garnered much attention, there were other clashes between the German surface raiders and their Liberty Ship quarry during 1942. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside carefully selected archive photographs, this lively study investigates the important role both ship types played as the Battle of the Atlantic reached its climax.
Mark Lardas, a former navigation engineer for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, is the author of numerous books on military, naval and maritime history, including many for Osprey.
HISTORY / RUSSIA / POST-SOVIET
Osprey Publishing | 6/16/2026
9781472869524 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 50 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
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Kyiv 2022
The battle for Ukraine's capital
Mark Galeotti
Key to Russia’s 2022 invasion was an audacious strike on Ukraine’s capital. This expert, illustrated account explains how it was planned and carried out, and how it was defeated.
Vladimir Putin had convinced himself he could seize Kyiv, install a puppet government, and close his fist on Ukraine in a matter of weeks, with minimal fighting.
In this book, Dr Mark Galeotti explains how this lightning conquest was conceived and planned, and how it was defeated. The Russian commanders themselves did not expect to go to war and were forced to invade under-prepared, but nonetheless they made a concerted attempt to seize Hostomel Airport and from that bridgehead take the capital, with mercenaries detailed to hunt down the government. But Ukrainian military and civilian resistance thwarted the attack and within a month, the Russians were already on the retreat, leaving behind the smoking remains of the 40-mile invasion column outside Kyiv.
Written by a top expert on the Russian military, drawing extensively on Russian and Ukrainian sources including interviews with soldiers involved in the operation, and fully illustrated with photographs, original artwork and maps, this is the most detailed and compelling study of this operation available in English. It is the story of a strike whose defeat signalled both the shattering of Putin’s expectations of an easy victory, and the start of the reorientation of the war towards the south-east.
Dr Mark Galeotti is an internationally recognized expert on Russian politics and security. Educated at Cambridge and the LSE, he has taught in the UK, US, Russia, and the Czech Republic; been attached to the British Foreign Office; and has advised NATO and several governments. He now runs the consultancy Mayak Intelligence; and is an honorary professor at UCL and a senior associate fellow with RUSI and the Council on Geostrategy. He has written more than thirty books, including Putin’s Wars
HISTORY / ANCIENT / EGYPT
Osprey Publishing | 7/28/2026
9781472870551 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
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Kadesh 1286 BC
Egypt Attempts to Take Syria
Anthony Spalinger
An illustrated look at one of the earliest recorded battles that put a stop to Ramesses II’s drive into Syria.
In c. 1274 BC, Ramesses II was pharaoh and commander of the Egyptian army. He led an expedition northwards from the eastern delta, through Palestine, and aimed for the city of Kadesh, which was currently in the hands of the Hittites. What Ramesses did not expect was that the Hittites' leader, King Muwatallis, was in the city, which made his plan to take the city much harder. Meeting in battle at the Orontes River in southern Syria, it was the largest clash of chariots in battle ever seen. The Hittites proved to be formidable opponents, managing to slice through the second division of the Egyptian army with a targeted chariot attack. In the end, the Hittites were forced to retreat but the Egyptians also failed to capture Kadesh and had to withdraw out of Syria.
In this detailed volume, Egyptologist Anthony Spalinger explores the history of the Egyptians and Hittites, looking at how they fought and how Kadesh came to be considered one of the most decisive battles of the ancient world. With stunning artwork, maps and diagrams, Ancient Egypt is brought to life, showcasing one of the earliest recorded set-piece battles.
Anthony Spalinger is an Egyptologist and Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient Egypt at the University of Auckland. He has published several books on Ancient Egypt. Specializing in history and military history, Marco Capparoni is a fine artist and illustrator for wargames, fiction and non-fiction publishers and private commissions.
HISTORY / EUROPE / AUSTRIA & HUNGARY
Osprey Publishing | 6/16/2026 9781472871282 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 46 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
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Königgrätz 1866
The Creation of Modern Germany
Angus Konstam
An in-depth look at one of the biggest set-piece battles and one of the most decisive in European history pre-WWI.
Growing friction between the centuries-old Austrian Empire, self-styled guardian of Germany, and the smaller but more dynamic Prussian Empire led to war between the two countries. In June 1866, three Prussian armies crossed into Bohemia, and brushed aside the hastily assembled Austrian forces that stood in their path. The battered Austrians fell back to the town of Könnigrätz (now the Czech city of Hradec Králov) on the River Elbe, where their reserves were waiting. The battle began on 3 July and resulted in a Prussian victory.
Expert historian Angus Konstam explores this critical battle, examining what the Prussian victory meant for the political landscape and how it led to the modern German state. Featuring stunning artwork, detailed maps and period images, this book also highlights how advanced Industrial Age technology played an important role, and how more modern tactics fought against the old style. The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 was one of the most significant campaigns of the 19th century and this title showcases why.
Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS
Osprey Publishing | 6/16/2026
9781472873279 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 84 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt 8 colour artwork plates; black & white photographs and illustrations.
Armies in North Russia and Siberia 1918–20
Phoebus Athanassiou
This absorbing study describes and illustrates the US, British, Japanese, French, Italian and Czechoslovak troops deployed to Northern Russia at the height of the Russian Civil War.
Between March 1918 and late 1920, a multinational force was deployed in the former Russian Empire’s Arctic Circle and in Eastern Siberia, becoming drawn into the Russian Civil War. American, British, Canadian, Czechoslovak, French and Japanese troops all took the field as the victorious Allied Powers sought to intervene in the unfolding struggle between the Bolsheviks and their opponents.
In this book, Phoebus Athanassiou surveys the main operations conducted by the expeditionary force before covering the organization, weapons and equipment of each of the contingents involved. Eight plates of specially commissioned artwork reveal the appearance of these troops, many of them World War I veterans, as they lived and fought in the challenging environment of Northern Russia.
Dr Phoebus Athanassiou is a Greek Army (Reserve) officer who has seen service in Greece and Cyprus. A military history enthusiast and an avid modeller, he lives in Germany, where he works in the financial sector. He is the author of Osprey's Armies of the Greek-Italian War1940–41 and Armies in Southern Russia 1918–19.
Oathmark: Second Edition is a revised and expanded version of the popular mass-battle fantasy wargame, Oathmark.
Empires have fallen, and the land is broken. The great oathmarks that once stood as testaments to the allegiances and might of nations have crumbled into ruin. In this lost age, fealty and loyalty are as valuable as gold and as deadly as cold iron, and war is ever-present.
Oathmark: Second Edition is a revised and expanded version of the popular mass-battle fantasy wargame, Oathmark. Featuring new and expanded rules, units types, and a whole host of other revisions from years of player feedback. Command the fantasy army you’ve always wanted in Oathmark: Second Edition, whether a company of stalwart dwarves or a mixed force with proud elves, noble men, and wild goblins standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the battle-line.
Fight through an integrated campaign system and develop your realms from battle to battle, adding new territories, recruiting new troop types, and growing to eclipse your rivals . . . or lose what you fought so hard to gain and fall as so many would-be emperors before you.
Joseph A. McCullough’s first brush with writing for games was as co-author of The Grey Mountains supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game, and he has remained passionate about Fantasy gaming since, going on to become an award-winning game designer. He is the creator of the “Frostgrave Family” of skirmish wargames and of the Oathmark Fantasy battle game and The Silver Bayonet, a game of Napoleonic Gothic Horror.
A revised edition of A Billion Suns, the game of intense starship combat featuring new missions and modes of play.
A Billion Suns: Second Edition, the wargame of interstellar combat, puts you in command of fleets of powerful starships. This revised and updated edition contains improved, streamlined, and expanded gameplay as well as an updated campaign system, along with new solo rules.
A Billion Suns: Second Edition contains three distinct game types that escalate in game size and complexity, allowing players to pick what suits their playtime and skill level. The quick start rules allow new or returning players to jump straight into the game and the Limited Mode lets players use premade lists and battle it out, the classic wargaming experience. Finally, Unlimited Mode, the original A Billion Suns gameplay, where fleets are created and developed over the course of the game.
This second edition also features three sets of Contracts: the Core Systems, Warzone, and Fringe. These Contracts determine what scenarios and missions players undertake with objectives ranging from simple combat encounters to heists and smuggling. Along with premade ship classes, there are also revised customisation options that give players even more choice in creating and upgrading their vessels.
This new, streamlined second edition provides all the rules for players to lead their fleet to victory and assert their dominance over the stars.
Mike Hutchinson is a passionate gamer and model-maker who wrote his first wargame at the age of fifteen. He is the creator of the award-winning and popular Gaslands series as well as other wargames including A Billion Suns and Hobgoblin.
HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL
Osprey Publishing | 8/18/2026
9781472874894 | $60.00 / $80.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages | Carton
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Illustrated with over 400 photos and a set of colour profiles and plans.
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Soviet Cold War Destroyers
Jan Radziemski
Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of previously unseen photos, this is the first history of the destroyers of the Cold War Soviet Navy, the heart of its surface fleet.
With ten classes and hundreds of units built, and with roles varying from nuclear strikes on NATO shipping to anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare, the destroyers of the Soviet Union were among the most numerous and important assets to the surface fleet. After Soviet shipbuilding overcame its severe postwar problems, the traditional destroyers of the early Cold War were replaced over the decades by increasingly capable guided-missile ships. However unlike their NATO counterparts, the details of these warships remain practically unknown in the West.
In this book, Jan Radziemski, a naval historian and authority on the Soviet Navy, presents the first book in English on the fleet’s Cold War destroyers, concisely assessing each class’s development and construction, its roles, technology, weaponry, sensors and seakeeping. He also draws upon his extensive photo collection to present more than 450 superb photos, illustrating all the classes and subclasses from Project 30 to the final Sovremennyj-class.
Complete with data tables on the destroyer classes, the individual ships, and the capabilities of weaponry, this is the essential guide to the Soviet fleet’s Cold War stalwarts.
Jan Radziemski was born in Olsztyn, Poland. A graduate of the University of Gdansk, he had a long managerial career in Polish and international corporations. He is a regular contributor to Polish naval and maritime magazines, and specializes in the history of the Soviet Navy. His 200 publications include a monograph on the Kashin-class missile destroyers, six mini-monographs on Soviet cruisers and submarines, and he is co-author of the three-volume Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945.
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / ROLE PLAYING & FANTASY
Osprey Games | 7/28/2026
9781472864079 | $40.00 / $53.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W
Bolt Action: Armies of the British Commonwealth: Third Edition
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A detailed guide to the Commonwealth forces in Bolt Action: Third Edition.
This new and revised supplement for Bolt Action: Third Edition provides players with all of the information they need to command the varied forces of the British Commonwealth including those from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa, along with many others. From early campaigns in Europe to the deserts of North Africa and the jungles of the Far East, Commonwealth forces faced the Axis threat.
Warlord Games is one of the world’s leading producers of wargaming miniatures, as well as the publisher of the successful Black Powder and Hail Caesar rule sets. Their Bolt Action range of 28mm World War II miniatures is the most extensive on the market and continues to grow and develop.
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / ROLE
PLAYING & FANTASY
Osprey Games | 7/28/2026
9781472868244 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
Daimyo
A Mass Battle Samurai Wargame
Alexander Smith
A set of fast-play, mass battle wargames rules set during the Japan's Sengoku period.
During the mid-15th to early 17th Century, often known as the Sengoku period, Japan saw continuous warfare between the Daimyo—the great feudal lords—as they strove for power and domination.
Daimyo is a mass battle wargame set during this Sengoku period. As Daimyo, players will take control of a clan, assemble an army, and crush their enemies in order to unite Japan under their banner. The core of the game is based around your army, which is made up of units and groups of units known as contingents, with unit characteristics determined by varying dice types. Players’ commanders also play a role in the battle, with a variety of abilities that can turn the tide of an encounter. Also included in this rulebook are a number of scenarios with varying themes and objectives as well as a robust, yet simple to play, map-based campaign system allowing players to decide the fate of Japan.
Alexander Smith hails from Southern California, where he resides with his wife and daughter. By day he teaches History and English. His wargaming interests extend from ancient all the way to modern history. His writing credits include the Stalingrad and Case Blue and Bolt Action campaign supplements.
HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL
Osprey Publishing | 7/28/2026
9781472867261 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
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Battle of the Atlantic (2)
From Operation Drumbeat to the Defeat of the Wolfpacks, 1942–43
Mark Stille
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, and this volume details the dramatic success and failures of Hitler’s U-boats in the mid-war years.
At the start of 1942, the German benefited from the utter lack of American preparations to defend shipping along the US East Coast, and this “Second Happy Time” saw serious Allied losses between January and July 1942. After this Allied debacle, Admiral Dönitz planned to shift his focus to the North Atlantic. This was interrupted by the Allied invasion of North Africa, which diverted the U-boat force for the last months of 1942. When Dönitz was finally able to move his U-boats into the North Atlantic, they inflicted very heavy losses on Allied shipping and, by March 1943, looked poised for victory.
Respected naval historian Mark Stille analyses this critical period in the Battle of the Atlantic, describing how Allied advances in technology and intelligence saw the balance shift, with a stunning 34 boats lost in May 1943 alone and the Germans forced to withdraw from the mid-Atlantic. He also examines whether the Germans could ever have actually threatened the Allied sea lanes of communication in any meaningful way. Using maps, diagrams, photographs and stunning battlescene artworks, the weapons, personalities, and tactics of the opposing sides are brought vividly to life in a unique and engaging way.
Mark Stille is the author of numerous Osprey titles focusing on naval history in the Pacific. He recently concluded a nearly 40-year career in the intelligence community. He received his BA in History from the University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College. Jim Laurier lives in New Hampshire. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration ever since.
HISTORY / MILITARY / VEHICLES
Osprey Publishing | 7/28/2026
9781472867834 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Colour artwork plates and maps; black & white and colour photographs and illustrations.
Fw 190 Schlacht Units
Robert Forsyth
An illustrated account of the Fw 190 “tank-buster” and its operations on the Eastern, Western and Mediterranean Fronts from 1942–45.
The Fw 190 offered the Luftwaffe a reliable successor to the Ju 87 Stuka, able to operate from primitive forward airfields in both the freezing winters of the Soviet Union and the desert heat of North Africa. Converted by Focke-Wulf from a radial-engined fighter into a deadly fighter-bomber and ground-attack aircraft, it used its aerial gun platform, wide-tracked undercarriage and powerful BMW engines to devastating effect on the Eastern, Western and Mediterranean Fronts between 1942 and 1945.
In this new study, leading Luftwaffe historian Robert Forsyth examines all aspects of the Fw 190 and its career as a “tank-buster,” detailing the considerable damage it wrought upon Allied armour, troop concentrations, bridges and road junctions. First-hand accounts from Schlachtflieger pilots bring to life the operational and tactical histories of the aircraft, and are complemented by archive photos and newly commissioned artwork that vividly demonstrates its technical and ballistic assets.
Robert Forsyth operates a publishing and book production company specialising in aviation, motor sport, wildlife and history titles. He has a long-held interest in the history of the Luftwaffe and is the author of many books on the subject, including more than 30 for Osprey. He is a member of the editorial board of The Aviation Historian journal and lives in Sussex, England.
Gareth Hector produced the cover art for this book.
Janusz Swiatlon produced the profile artworks in this book.
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR II
Osprey Publishing | 8/25/2026
9781472870506 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
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Florence 1944
The Allied Advance in Central Italy
Pier Paolo Battistelli
A highly illustrated look at the Allied push to stop the Germans across central Italy, culminating in a battle in the middle of Florence.
Following the fighting at Anzio and Cassino, the Allies were in pursuit of the Germans, who had managed to get away when the Americans took Rome. With experienced troops recalled from Italy to participate in the invasions of Normandy and southern France, the Allied numbers dwindled, only partially replaced by three divisions. The Allies pushed on, following the Germans into central Italy in a bid to stop them getting to the Gothic Line. The Allies also made efforts to shorten their lines of communication and advance into the north. Fighting across Rome, Pisa, Leghorn, Lake Trasimene, Ancona and Florence, the Allies pushed their advance across the country. Troops from the US, UK, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Poland, and India fought in these campaigns, chasing the Germans as they withdrew to safety. With detailed maps, diagrams and period images, Italian historian Pier Paolo Battistelli sets the scene for this last push from Rome, showcasing the highly motorised fighting in multiple cities across central Italy, and explains why this was an Allied tactical failure.
Pier Paolo Battistelli earned his PhD in Military History at the University of Padua. A scholar of German and Italian politics and strategy throughout World War II, he is active in Italy and abroad writing books and essays on military history subjects. Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and Édouard Detaille.
/ MILITARY / AVIATION & SPACE
Osprey Publishing | 8/25/2026
9781472870742 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
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F4F Wildcat vs A6M2-N "Rufe"
Solomon Islands 1942–43
Michael John Claringbould
An illustrated study of the oft-overlooked engagements between the iconic F4F Wildcat and Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force’s 6M2-N “Rufe” floatplane during the Solomon Islands campaign.
A number of unique confrontations took place between floatplanes and land-based fighters during the fierce aerial battles fought above the Solomon Islands throughout 1942–43. Whilst the most famous Battle of Guadalcanal “slugfests” saw US Marine Corps/US Navy F4F Wildcats engage the Zero-sens of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force, the pugnacious Wildcats also came up against the A6M2-N “Rufe” floatplane—termed the “Zero on floats” by American pilots. Such encounters have gone under-explored and misrepresented in Western histories, with the elusive capabilities of the “Rufe” and its role combatting raids against Guadalcanal receiving only scant attention.
In this ground-breaking study, Pacific War expert Michael John Claringbould uncovers an aspect of the Pacific air war that has, until now, remained largely unknown. Operational documents, combat reports and first-hand accounts from both Wildcat and “Rufe” pilots are combined to help align adversaries, in some cases one-on-one, for the first time in print, while archive photographs, formation diagrams and newly commissioned artwork brings the action to life.
Michael John Claringbould was raised in Papua New Guinea, where he became fascinated by the Pacific air war. An extensive career in the Australian Foreign Service saw him complete six postings within Asia and the Pacific. He is the author of numerous books and was appointed into the executive of Pacific Air War History Associates in 2018.
Gareth Hector produced the cover and battlescene artworks for this volume.
Jim Laurier created the cockpit and armament views in this volume.
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR II
Osprey Publishing | 7/28/2026
9781472870865 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
Illustrated throughout with 65 photos and 16 pages of colour illustrations
Philippines 1941–42
America's disastrous start to the Pacific War
Mark Lardas
The weeks following Pearl Harbor saw the well-prepared US air forces on the Philippines destroyed by the Japanese. Fully illustrated, this studies the Pacific War’s first major air campaign.
On the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they also struck at US and other Western bases throughout the Pacific, including the USA’s biggest overseas territory, the Philippines. However, that was an air battle the US was expecting. In anticipation, the USAAF had beefed up its assets there, sending nearly a quarter of its available B-17s to the Far Eastern Air Force (FEAF). It could also call on the Philippine Army Air Corps (PAAC).
Aviation historian Mark Lardas explains how despite that, in a campaign that lasted barely a month, Japan’s air forces routed both the FEAF and the PAAC, gaining air superiority and permitting Imperial Army troops undisturbed access to the Philippine coast. Within a week Japan ruled the skies over Luzon. Two weeks later it held air superiority over all the Philippines. At the end of a month, control was so total the Imperial Army felt confident to move its 5th Air Group back out of the Philippines. While desultory air combat would continue off and on for the next three months, the issue was decided by January 5, 1942. Packed with original artwork, 3D diagrams, maps and photos, this is the history of how the first air campaign of the Pacific War turned into a humiliating defeat for the United States.
Mark Lardas has always been fascinated by things related to the sea and sky. From building models of ships and aircraft as a teen, he then studied Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but his interest in aviation led him to take a job on the then-new Space Shuttle program, where he worked for the next 30 years as a navigation engineer. Currently he develops commercial aircraft systems as a quality assurance manager. He has written numerous books on military, naval or maritime history.
HISTORY / MILITARY / VEHICLES
Osprey Publishing | 7/28/2026
9781472872142 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8 pages of colour illustrations
German Marders of World War II
The Wehrmacht's prime tank destroyers
Steven J. Zaloga
Built for mobile antitank firepower, the Marder family combined the superb 7.5cm antitank gun with existing light tank chassis. Fully illustrated, this studies their design and use.
The appearance of T-34 and KV tanks in 1941 forced the Wehrmacht to field a more powerful antitank gun, the 7.5cm PaK 40. Although an excellent weapon, the towed gun was heavy, awkward to employ, and vulnerable to enemy counter-fire. At the same time, many light tanks had become obsolete even though their chassis was still useful.
In this book, armor expert Steven J. Zaloga presents a study of how these obsolete tanks and the superb new gun were combined to create the Marder family of tank destroyers. The Marder I was based on the captured French Chenilette Lorraine chassis, and subsequently on other French light tanks such as the Hotchkiss H39 and FCM36, while the Marder II was based on the PzKpfw II chassis. The Marder III was the most significant of the new types, based on the Czech PzKpfw 38(t) chassis. The Marder family reached its peak production in 1942, constituting over 18 percent of German Panzer production, and production ended in 1944.
Packed with rare photos and original artwork, this book explores the designs, capabilities, and employment of the Marders, as well as the little-known and largely unsuccessful late-war attempts to produce further self-propelled 7.5cm PaK 40 vehicles on half-track, armoured car and tractor chassis.
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history. He lives in Maryland.
Felipe Rodríguez is a renowned 3D illustrator specializing in tank reconstructions.
HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL
Osprey Publishing | 7/28/2026
9781472872517 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Illustrated throughout with 40 archive photos and 13 pages of original colour illustrations
ABDA Striking Force 1942:
The joint Allied command lost at Java Sea
Angus Konstam
In early 1942, the overwhelmed Allies facing the Japanese formed a joint command, which fought until defeat at Java Sea. Fully illustrated, this explores the pioneering multinational fleet.
The Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor and the near-simultaneous invasions of the Philippines and Malaya were soon followed by the invasion of the oil-rich Dutch East Indies. In mid-January, the American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command was created to unify the available forces, of which its naval component would be its most integrated. It was the first joint Allied fleet of World War II.
In this book, naval historian Angus Konstam studies this almost-forgotten formation, which was charged with defending the Malay Barrier, and preventing Japanese access to the Indian Ocean and Australian waters. Following its fleetingly successful debut at the Battle of Belikpapan in January 1942, a remorseless, grinding erosion of ABDACOM’s forces followed, during a string of naval clashes fought amid the straits and islands in the southern Java Sea. Outnumbered and without adequate air cover, it was a hopeless task, and ended in the fleet’s destruction at the battles of Java Sea and the Sunda Strait.
Packed with illustrations and photos, this traces the rise and fall of ABDACOM’s naval squadron—a unique mixture of cruisers and destroyers from four Allied navies—and how it performed when thrust into the path of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.
HUMOR / TOPIC / LANGUAGE
Osprey Publishing | 8/11/2026
9781472876188 | $15.00 / $20.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 144 pages | Carton
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D’you Hear There!
Daily Pipes of the Royal Navy
Richard Harris
A unique approach to describing life at sea in the Royal Navy.
Despite the introduction of modern-day technology, Ships and Submarines of the Royal Navy still operate on the basis of main broadcast announcements, known in the Royal Navy as Pipes. Before the introduction of main broadcasts, a Crew (or Ship’s Company) would be alerted to forthcoming ship’s activity either using a Bosun’s Call (which is a small pipe or whistle) or a Bugle. Whilst those methods are still in place, and still used, a Pipe is now the term for any verbal announcement made over a ship’s main broadcast in the Royal Navy.
This book aims to translate their meanings, not simply to make the seemingly incomprehensible understandable, but also to conjure up often humorous anecdotes that provide an insight into life at sea in the RN. Each Pipe is provided with a brief description of its meaning followed by longer observation of what it meant to different members of the Ship’s Company.
Richard Harris served for thirty-one years in the Royal Navy, joining the RN Reserve as an Able Seaman, and leaving the Regular Service as a Commodore in 2023. He served at sea in nine ships and undertook operational deployments to the Arabian Gulf, South Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Arctic Circle.
HISTORY / MILITARY / VEHICLES
Osprey Publishing | 8/25/2026
9781472870179 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8 pages of colour illustrations
Tanks in the Caucasus 1942–43
William E. Hiestand
Illustrated throughout, this is the first book to study the Soviet and German armored forces that fought the campaign for the Eastern Front’s vital oilfields.
Although Sixth Army’s battle for Stalingrad dominates accounts of the German summer 1942 offensive, the parallel thrust by von Kleist’s elite First Panzer Army actually came closer to Hitler’s main strategic objective of 1942: the Caucasus oilfields.
In this book, military historian William E. Hiestand presents an analysis of the armoured forces that fought this campaign. The Germans struggled with difficult terrain, stiffening Soviet resistance, and extraordinarily long lines of communications, but the campaign would see the Panzers battle into the mountains and towards the Caspian Sea, marking the Wehrmacht’s deepest thrust eastward. The Soviet defenders had to make do with tank brigades of obsolete T-26s and inferior T-70s, with limited T-34s and KV-1s, as most T-34 production was funneled towards Stalingrad. However the Western Allies had opened the Persian Corridor to the USSR, and the Caucasus defenders made extensive use of Lend-Lease Valentine and M3 Lee tanks.
Illustrated with rare photos and detailed new profiles of the tanks on both sides, this book explores how both sides’ armor fought the campaign, until the collapse of German forces around Stalingrad forced von Kleist’s Panzers to retreat, ending German hopes of securing the vital oil.
William E. Hiestand has worked for over thirty years as a US Department of Defense analyst, focusing on military issues and serving in a wide variety of analytic, leadership and representational roles. He holds an MA in History from Cornell University, and has a lifelong interest in military history with a particular focus on 20th-century armored and mechanized operations and Soviet military history. He lives in Virginia near Washington D.C.
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR II
Osprey Publishing | 8/25/2026
9781472870353 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
Illustrated throughout with 65 photos and 16 pages of colour illustrations
New Guinea 1943–44
The Allies assume the offensive
Mark Stille, John Rogers
Fully illustrated, a history of airpower in the decisive stage of the New Guinea campaign, when the Allies could finally go on the offensive to shatter Japanese forces.
In mid-1943, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF) took over responsibility for New Guinea air operations from the Imperial Japanese Navy. In its first large-scale contest against the USAAF, the IJAAF was challenged to defend its bases, defend the sea lanes supporting numerous Japanese outposts along the coast, and influence ground operations.
In this book, the second of two on the New Guinea campaign, Pacific War scholars Mark Stille and John Rogers draw upon years of research and Japanese, American and Australian sources to explain how the New Guinea air war turned against the Japanese between June 1943 and 1944. THE over-extended IJAAF gradually lost combat strength in the face of vastly improved Allied airpower, leaving the Japanese unable to contend with new Allied air offensives. The two prongs of Allied airpower in New Guinea targeted Japanese shipping to isolate its forces, while supporting the Allied ground offensives and landings that smashed Japanese forces and left most of them isolated for the remainder of the war. Packed with artwork, maps, and archive photos, this book explains how the lessons learned and the forces built up during the harsh struggle for Papua in 1942-43 transformed the Allies’ airpower into a decisive element in MacArthur’s 1943–44 campaign.
Mark Stille is the author of numerous books focusing on naval history in the Pacific. He recently concluded a nearly forty-year career in the intelligence community, including tours on the faculty of the Naval War College, on the Joint Staff and on US Navy ships.
John Rogers is a retired US Navy captain who saw operational service in the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. He is also a retired senior intelligence analyst with the US DoD, focused primarily on East Asia. He lives near Washington, D.C.
HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL
Osprey Publishing | 8/25/2026
9781472871046 | $23.00 / $31.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W
Illustrated throughout with 35 archive photos and 13 pages of original colour illustrations
Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet 1793–1805
The war at sea against Napoleon
Casey Baker
The Mediterranean Fleet was at the heart of Britain’s naval war against Revolutionary France. Fully illustrated, this explores the reality of its multifaceted war from Toulon to Trafalgar.
When war broke out with Revolutionary France in 1893, the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet was launched into a long and complex war. Operating at arms-length from London, the fleet assumed traditional responsibilities for trade protection, blockade, and high-seas warfare, but also diplomatic and counterrevolutionary activities across the region. It was the theatre that produced some of the most iconic moments of British naval history, and made a legend out of Horatio Nelson.
However, the reality of the Mediterranean war has long been overshadowed by its fleet battles and personalities. In this book, naval scholar Casey Baker draws upon his years of archive research to present a comprehensive portrait of the Mediterranean Fleet’s war – its strategic roles, its organization and decisionmaking, fighting capabilities and shortcomings, diplomatic and political responsibilities, logistics and manning, and the combat that it saw from the Levant to Cape Trafalgar.
With superb original artwork, new maps and 3D diagrams of little-studied actions from amphibious operations to the maritime trade war, he assesses how Royal Navy’s most active fleet of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars fought and operated in this most crucial theatre.
Casey Baker is a career army officer and academic, whose first book on the French Revolutionary Wars, Britain’s War for the Mediterranean, is published by Naval Institute Press. He is a regular contributor to the Society for Military History and the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. He has a PhD in Military History, and has taught at West Point and at the Command and General Staff College. He lives in Colorado with his wife and three boys.
8 colour artwork plates; black & white and colour photographs and illustrations.
US Tank Tactics in World War II
Steven J. Zaloga
Fully illustrated, this book examines the evolving tank tactics used by US forces during World War II.
US tank tactics were governed, in practice, by the terrain and the enemy as much as the quality of equipment, so they developed markedly between November 1942 and May 1945. When the United States entered the ground war against Germany and Italy in North Africa in November 1942, both a proportion of its armored equipment, and the doctrine on how to use it in battle, were immature, and its crews were novices compared with those of the battle-hardened Panzer formations. The fighting in French North Africa taught the US Army costly lessons, but these were learned rapidly.
The campaigns that followed in Sicily and Italy in 1943 demanded further tactical adaptation, and this was doubly true in to the extremely thick terrain of Normandy in summer 1944. Again, the sweep across France, the Low Countries, over the Rhine, and across Germany, although against weakened opposition, raised continuing challenges, and the US Armored Force was learning lessons in battle right up to VE Day. Similarly, the war against Japan on the Pacific islands had its own distinct character.
This book, by an internationally respected historian, concentrates on tracing these developments of how battles were fought rather than upon the technicalities of the tanks themselves, and is illuminated by after-action reports of typical actions in all theaters.
Steven J. Zaloga has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II
HISTORY / MILITARY / UNIFORMS
Osprey Publishing | 8/25/2026 9781472873118 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt 8 colour artwork plates; black & white photographs and illustrations.
Roman Army Units in the Eastern Provinces (3)
4th–5th Centuries AD
Raffaele D’Amato
This fully illustrated volume describes and illustrates the soldiers who garrisoned the Roman Empire’s eastern provinces in the 4th and 5th centuries.
After the 50-year chaos of the mid-3rd century AD, Emperor Diocletian (r. AD 284–305) and his successor, Constantine I (r. AD 306–37), the first Christian emperor, undertook major administrative reforms to reflect new realities and improve defensive strategy. These changes saw the Roman Army completely reorganized, with its old structure of legions and auxiliary units giving way to central mobile field armies and various classes of garrison troops. In addition, the Army also began recruiting ‘allied barbarians’ in ever-increasing numbers, some of whom rose to positions of supreme command.
In this book, Dr. Raffaele D’Amato draws on the latest archaeological and extensive material from the unique Notitia Dignitatum to explore the armies associated with the Roman Empire’s eastern provinces in the two centuries before the demise of Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476. Illustrated with photographs and drawings of surviving artefacts and imagery, this latest entry in a series charting the Roman Army’s evolution also features eight newly commissioned colour plates.
Raffaele D'Amato, PhD, is the author numerous books and articles on the Roman Empire, Byzantium and Medieval Europe. He taught at the University of Ferrara, and was a visiting professor at Fatih University, Istanbul. He currently works as an archaeological consultant and lawyer for Timeline Auctions Ltd of Harwich, and also as an external researcher for the Laboratory of the Danubian Provinces at the University of Ferrara. Raffaele Ruggeri produced the artwork plates for this volume.
HISTORY / WARS & CONFLICTS / WORLD WAR I
Osprey Publishing | 10/20/2026 9781472872234 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Colour illustrations throughout, including battlescene artworks, maps, 3D diagrams and photographs.
Baku 1918
Dunsterforce and the Race for Oil in World War I
Louise Provan
A highly illustrated look at the desperate race for oil between Britain, Germany, Turkey, Russia and local forces in Azerbaijan in World War I.
Against the background of the Armenian–Azerbaijan war, the Russian Revolution, the Ottoman invasion of Armenia and World War I, Baku suddenly found itself the at the centre of a geopolitical minefield. After signing a treaty with Germany, Russia's withdrawal from the war left Germany and Turkey with access to the oilfields at Baku. Extremely critical to keeping the war machine moving, oil was a precious commodity. Worried about Germany and the Ottomans having access to the oilfields, Britain assembled a multinational force under Major General Dunsterville to prevent this. The force set off to Baku with the aim of training and raising the local Armenian population to stop the Turks from seizing the oilfields.
Weakening relationships between Germany and Turkey saw both countries trying to keep the other out, while also fighting off the British forces, the Bolsheviks, and the White Russians. The rise of Bolshevism in the area, supported by the Jangalis, was a concern to Britain as well, who worried it might spread towards their interests in central Asia and India. With stunning artwork, detailed maps and period images, this book dives into the highly political campaign to secure oil in Baku in 1918 and explores the long-reaching consequences of involvement in that area.
Louise Provan has an MA in Military History and has been studying the Dunsterforce for several years.
HISTORY / MILITARY / LAND FORCES
Osprey Publishing | 8/25/2026 9781472868473 | $25.00 / $33.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Colour illustrations throughout, including battlescene artworks, maps, 3D diagrams and photographs.
Donbas 2014–15
Undeclared and Uncivil War in Ukraine
Mark Galeotti
A detailed look at the undeclared war in Donbas, illuminating the long-running Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The emerging and undeclared struggle for Ukraine's south-eastern Donbas region that erupted after the Russian annexation of Crimea and only effectively froze in mid-2015 with the Minsk II peace deal was at once an insurgency, a proxy war and a direct Russian intervention. At first, it was a struggle largely between local insurgents and Russian volunteers on the one hand, and local security forces and pro-government militias on the other. Over time, Ukrainian government forces assumed a growing role – and so too did Russian regulars. Over the next year, back-and-forth struggles continued as neither side was able to assert themselves until the conflict settled into an uneasy, bad-tempered and ultimately unstable stalemate.
Expert historian Mark Galeotti explores the war in Donbas in 2014–15, detailing the eclectic mix of combatants (including commanders ranging from a tsarist-era war re-enactor to a neo-Nazi ex-con) and the mix of set-piece battles, scrappy insurgency and plain street brawls. With new artwork, detailed maps and diagrams, this book dives into the causes of the conflict and shows how this played a role in the 2022 invasion.
Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service and business. He is a prolific author and a frequent media commentator. He heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy.
Marc Lee is a digital artist with experience in a wide range of both digital and traditional skills. He currently works freelance in Singapore.
SELF-HELP / PERSONAL GROWTH / HAPPINESS
Bloomsbury Publishing | 5/19/2026
9781526697691 | $26.99 / $35.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 208 pages | Carton
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A Theory of Happiness
Lessons from a 100 year old Korean Philosopher THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Hyung-Seok Kim
This Korean bestseller from a 105-year-old professor—known as the grandfather of Korean philosophy—shows us how we can curate our own happiness from within, sharing his philosophical wisdom from ...
What does real happiness look like? How can we find true purpose, meaning and connection in our finite time on Earth?
Revealing key aspects of ancient Korean philosophy and sharing stories from over a century of living, Professor Kim shows us how to lean into the world with more softness, gratitude, openness and sincerity – especially when confronted with life’s challenges. He invites us to discover the everyday lessons we can take from Korean values, giving us deeper insight into:
how to find the happiness that currently exists in our daily lives how to cultivate happiness through hard work and growth how happiness shines brighter in precious relationships how to enjoy happiness that will never fade as we age and mature.
The answers to finding genuine, long-lasting happiness in life are more straightforward than we think.
Professor Hyung-Seok Kim is a 105-year-old first-generation Korean philosopher. A former Harvard research professor, he has found true happiness in life, having overcome adversity from a young age, and is committed to spreading joy and helping others through his work. He was born in and grew up in the North Korean province of South Pyongan before leaving to study philosophy at Choson University in Japan. From 1954, he served as a professor of philosophy at Yonsei University, South Korea, for 31 years, laying the foundations of contemporary Korean philosophy as we know it today. He was a research professor at Harvard University and the University of Chicago and, to this day, remains engaged with lecturing, broad...
A sweeping and vivid novel inspired by the life of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, the illustrator behind the famed Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck--featuring line drawings from the iconic cards.
“Pixie”. I like it. “Pixie Pamela”. It’s a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible. Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down on everyone.
It’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but skeptical of the world around her.
After the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father, Pixie finds herself in the complex, political world of fin-de-siècle art, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica, Devon, London and Brooklyn, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman’s talent, grit and determination.
In Pixie, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination.
PRAISE
"Pixie is a captivating insight into the life of the most famous occult artist you've never heard of." —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
"In Pixie, Jill Dawson has deftly conjured back into life a woman who is shrouded in mystery and the occult. For too long Pamela Coleman Smith has remained an anecdote to England’s rich history of magic, when indeed, via her life and drawings for the Ryder-Waite-Smith tarot deck, she played a central role . . . I not only rejoiced in this book, but welcome it as an important work of feminist reclamation . . . Pixie is a story that needed to be told. She is in good hands, here, and a work of magi...
Jill Dawson is the author of eleven novels and one poetry collection and the editor of six anthologies of poetry and stories. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has been a Costa Judge, and has taught creative writing in many different settings. She lives in Cambridgeshire, England.
Fully illustrated with colour photography throughout
High Fibre Heroes
How to turn 12 everyday vegetables into 100 joyful, healthboosting recipes
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Let Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall take you on a journey as he puts plants centre stage, turning 12 of the most humble veg into delectable plant heroes
With a foreword from Tim Spector, bestselling author and founder of ZOE
Many of us aren't getting enough fibre in our diets, but Hugh shows us how simple—and delicious—it can be with 100 easy recipes all celebrating 12 veg heroes.
Getting the most out of these 12 plant superstars doesn’t need to be complicated – many of the recipes use only one pan and can be on the table within half an hour. In this book, Hugh gets the very best out of these often underestimated veggies, serving up completely delicious, health-boosting, sustainable, plantfriendly recipes every time. This is food that’s good for you and for the planet, too.
Recipes include:
· Warm bashed pea dip;
· Carrot lasagne;
· Cabbage and onion bhajis with spicy tomato sauce;
· Spiced ‘baked’ beans on toast;
· Seared cauliflower and little gem salad
· Roast leek and potato gratin;
· Roast mushroom and kimchi sourdough sarnies;
· Tomato dhal with greens;
· Lentil, onion and cider soup;
· Spinach, chilli and lemon pasta;
· Smoky corn and courgette chowder;
· Broccoli and squeak … and many more.
Alongside handy swaps and additions for most recipes, Hugh also shares his go-to list of store-cupboard essentials to amp up the flavour and pack in the fibre count for any dish. You’ll find these pages...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His recent BBC One series Easy Ways to Live Well, alongside comedian Steph McGovern, looked inwardly at our perceptions of healthy eating and wellbeing. Hugh's Channel 4 series have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy and the André Simon Food Book of the Year. Hugh’s additional broadcasting, like the hugely influential Fish Fight, has earned him a BAFTA as well as awards from Radio 4, Observer and the Guild of Food Writers. Hugh lives in Devon with his family. @hughfearnleywhittingstall • 164
The instant Sunday Times bestseller and brand new for 2026
Katie Fforde
The heartwarming and uplifting summer holiday read from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Katie Fforde.
She's found her dream home but can she make her dreams a reality?
Hattie finds other people their dream homes for a living.
Surely she, of all people, has the connections and the knowledge to find her own forever home? Instead, she baffles those closest to her by choosing to pack up and move every few months from one housesitting job to the next.
Of course, that's because she knows where she wants to live. It's a beautiful house owned by a lovely old woman who'd simply love for Hattie to have it.
But nothing is ever that simple.
There's Clive who refuses to listen to his great-aunt's wishes about her house. There's Luke, Hattie's oldest friend, who just wants to see her happy. And there's Hattie herself. It might take a difficult client, an awkward teenager and a couple of dogs to help her see what really makes a house a home.
PRAISE
"The queen of uplifting, feel good romance." —AJ Pearce "A force to be reckoned with for her uplifting tales of romance." —Daily Express "Top-drawer romantic escapism." —Daily Mail "Warm, brilliant and full of love." —Heat "Effortlessly loveable, warm and fun." —Closer
Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life. She's been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and she's even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; to her there isn't a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories.
LITERARY CRITICISM / SHAKESPEARE
Bloomsbury Publishing | 7/28/2026
9781526694379 | $32.99 / $43.99 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 400 pages | Carton
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Walking Shadow
Love, Loss and Shakespeare
Greg Doran
A compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation, Walking Shadow sheds new light on the past while Doran himself emerges from the darkness of loss.
After the death from cancer of his husband, Antony Sher, Greg Doran stepped down from his role as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, and inspired by the surprising history of the company’s own copy, he set out to see how many of these important volumes he could find. Walking Shadow relives the months leading up to Sher’s death, told via the two men’s raw and loving diaries, and maps Doran’s quest to track down folios worldwide.
The journey took him to Japan, where Doran met the emperor, and to New Zealand and South Africa where the legacy of Shakespeare has become entwined with the story of colonialism. In Europe, his trip to Frankfurt takes him to the place where the First Folio was initially offered for sale in 1622. While in England, he visits the places where Shakespeare and his actors once walked. Each copy has its own unique features – often visible only to the eagle-eyed –and remarkable tales.
By his journey’s end, Doran had seen more than 200 First Folios – over 90 per cent of all the surviving copies – including one whose existence was previously unknown. He had also gained a greater understanding of Shakespeare and his times, as well as his impact on the world.
PRAISE
"A deeply involving, humane book." —Rowan Williams
"Intimate, humorous, yet profoundly moving." —Sir Stanley Wells
"Deeply enjoyable." —Dame Harriet Walter
Greg Doran has been described as ‘one of the supreme Shakespeare directors of our era’ (Financial Times). He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as an actor in 1987 and was its artistic director from 2012 to 2022. He has directed and/or produced every single play in the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays at Stratford-upon-Avon. He was awarded the Sam Wanamaker Prize for pioneering work in Shakespearean theatre in 2012. He was knighted for services to the arts in 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/18/2026
9781037202018 | $18.00 / $24.00 Can.
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The Dykonic Handbook
The ultimate guide to living your best queer life
Amy Spalding
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