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Read our Autumn 2021 catalogue by clicking on the image below or download a PDF version here.

Read our Autumn 2021 catalogue by clicking on the image below or download a PDF version here.

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Bestselling author Emma Jane Usworth's powerful, funny memoir of postnatal depression, is out today

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Animals and Adults

'Brave and important ... beautiful, hilarious, clever ... I loved this book' Clover Stroud
'Funny, gruelling, wonderful' Claudia Hammond
'Brilliant' Nikesh Shukla
'Breath-takingly brave and honest ... by turns hilarious, heart-breaking and wise' Leah Hazard

"How did it come to this? I am tough, I am smart, I have lived alone. Now I am cracking, right down the middle..."

Six months after the birth of her son, Emma Jane Unsworth finds herself in the eye of a storm. Nothing - from pregnancy to birth and beyond - has gone as she expected. A birth plan? It might as well have been a rough draft! Furious and exhausted, her life is the complete opposite of what it used to be. She's swapped all night benders for grazed labia and Whac-a-Moling haemorrhoids. How did she end up here?

In this brave and hilarious account of postnatal depression, Emma tells her story of despair and recovery. She tackles the biggest taboos around motherhood and mental health, from botched stitches and bleeding nipples to anger and shame. How does pregnancy adapt our brains? Is postnatal depression a natural reaction to the trauma of modern motherhood? And are people's attitudes finally changing?

Dazzling and vital, After the Storm is a celebration of survival, holding out a hand to women everywhere.

#afterthestorm #pnd #postnataldepression #motherhood #parenting #bookstagram #nonfiction #memoir

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Steam Trains Today by Andrew Martin is a delightfully warm exploration of a very British obsession.

After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were 'rationalised' and gradually shut down. Rural communities were isolated without ready access to the main lines and steam trains slowly gave way to diesel and electric traction. But some people were not prepared to let the romance of train travel die. Thanks to their efforts, many of these lines passed into community ownership and are now booming with new armies of dedicated volunteers.

Andrew Martin goes out to meet these enthusiasts and find out just what it is about preserved railways which makes people so devoted. From the inspiration for Thomas the Tank Engine to John Betjeman's battle against encroaching modernity, Steam Trains Today is a wonderful journey across Britain from Aviemore to Epping.

Come aboard the journey across Britain in this compelling book full of fascinating nuggets of history, out now!

#SteamTrainsToday #AndrewMartin #steamtrains #trainenthusiast #railway #heritage

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Perfect for your daily commute, #RicherWiserHappier is out in audio today.

Learn about William Green’s interviews with over 40 of the world's super-investors and how the keys to wealth and business success hold other life lessons.

Billionaire investors. If we think of them, it's with a mixture of awe and suspicion. Clearly, they possess a kind of genius - the proverbial Midas Touch. But are the skills they possess transferable? And would we really want to be them? Do they have anything to teach us besides making money?

In Richer, Wiser, Happier, award-winning journalist William Green has spent nearly twenty-five years interviewing these investing wizards and discovered that their talents expand well beyond the financial realm and into practical philosophy.

Green ushers us into the lives of more than forty of the world's super-investors, visiting them in their offices, vacation homes, and even their places of worship - all to share what they have to teach us. Green brings together the thinking of some of the best investors, from Warren Buffett to Howard Marks to John Templeton, and provides gems of insight that will enrich you not only financially but also professionally and personally.

Download your copy today!

#RicherWiserHappier #WilliamGreen #investing #business #economics #investments

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🥐 Are you missing being able to hop on the Eurostar and taste a real French croissant? Watched all of Richard Curtis's back catalogue and feeling at a loss? Ceci est pour vous...

🍷In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anaïs, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have become quatre, living in their beloved 10th arondissement with teenage kids who chat to their African neighbours in fluent Parisian slang, and John has even become kind of French himself. Well, he likes to think he has. The family still see him as an American innocent abroad.

🇫🇷Paris Match is one of those rare books that makes you laugh out loud, as von Sothen attempts to understand what makes the French tick. Why do they take such long holidays with friends who ration snacks and mock you for sleeping in; why do French men turn to him (an American!) for fashion tips; what really is the correct way to cut brie, and how do you tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or a weird sex club? John von Sothen has found most of the answers and in this delightful, witty book shares his experience, insights and humour into the fine art of becoming everyday French.

💕Immerse yourself in this unusual histoire d'amour in paperback from 3rd June...

#ParisMatch #JonathanvonSothen #Richardcurtis #lovestory #howtobefrench #howtobeparisian #bookstagram

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What would make a society drain its public swimming pools and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?

In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit?

Their tragedy is that they believe they can’t win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy.

Racism in the United States drained the pools and this is everybody’s problem.

Discover the heartbreaking, liberating truth about what racism has cost all of us in Heather McGhee’s revolutionary international bestseller The Sum of Us

Out in audio now!

#TheSumofUs #HeatherMcGhee #antiracistreading #antiracism #economics #nonfiction #igreads #bookstagram

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'Highly researched and deeply thoughtful, it guides us through complex rural issues that are hardly ever well explained' @herdyshepherd1

'Exactly the book I've been longing to read about farming. A proper behind-the-scenes look' Melissa Harrison

For many of us, Britain is countryside - drystone walls, stiles, sheep on a distant hillside. But farmers themselves often remain a mystery: familiar but unpredictable, a secretive industry still visible from space. Who are these people who shape our countryside and put food on our tables? And what does it take to pull a life out of earth?

From fruit farmers to fallen stock operators, from grassy uplands to polytunnels, Bella Bathurst journeys through Britain to talk to those on the far side of the fence. As farmers find themselves torn between time-honoured methods and modern appetites, these shocking, raw, wise and funny accounts will open out a way of life now changing beyond recognition.

#FieldWork is out on 29th April.

#farming #farm #agriculture #society #nonfiction #bookstagram

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