THE BOOKSELLER BUYER’S GUIDE | PUBLISHERS’ AUTUMN TITLES
SIMON SPENCE 11 JULY, HB, £20, 9781783059379 The “dark history” of the Bay City Rollers: “one of pop hysteria coupled with an unrelenting behind the scenes darkness”.
PICADOR
WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN DANIEL RACHEL 08 SEPTEMBER, HB, £25, 9781447272687 This history of “Rock Against Racism”, “2 Tone”, and “Red Wedge”, from over 150 contributors charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain’s musical history.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES—INSIDE NEW ORDER PETER HOOK 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9781471132407 The former New Order bass player tells the arguably most important and controversial part of the band’s story: what happened in the wake of the suicide of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis.
THE AGE OF BOWIE PAUL MORLEY 14 JULY, HB, £20, 9781471148088 In the first biography to be published since David Bowie’s untimely death, the music journalist and broadcaster “constructs a definitive story of Bowie”, capturing the greatest moments of his career, and exploring how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, invented the future and entered history as someone who could not, and never would be forgotten.
What if we could predict with certainty which debut manuscripts would become mega-bestsellers? Archer and Lockers (Archer is a former Penguin US editor) have a bestseller-o-meter at Stanford University which shows, they claim, that blockbuster hits such as Girl on the Train, Fifty Shades of Grey and The Goldfinch are highly predictable on content alone.
REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS CARLO ROVELLI 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9780241257968 What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? The author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on a wondrous journey to show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.
UNIVERSAL BRIAN COX; JEFF FORSHAW 01 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9781846144363 The author of The Quantum Universe return with this illustrated attempt to demonstrate that everyone can think like a physicist and grasp the grandeur of our cosmos by asking questions about the world around us. They might include enquiring what fridges tell us about the direction in which events are unfolding; how we know the age of things like the Atlantic Ocean; and how magnets reveal space time.
BANTAM PRESS
POPULAR SCIENCE
ALLEN LANE
THE BESTSELLER CODE JODIE ARCHER; MATTHEW L JOCKERS 20 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9780241243701
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THE STORM IN A TEACUP HELEN CZERSKI 03 NOVEMBER, HB, £16.99, 9780593075425 What makes a magnet stick to a fridge? Why does blueberry jam go pink when it’s boiling? The answers lead to an endlessly fascinating kaleidoscope of reflections and connections between the everyday and the big things in life, as Czerski reflects on the physics of everyday lfie.
CARLTON BOOKS
COSMIC! BRIAN MAY; PATRICK MOORE; CHRIS LINTOTT 08 SEPTEMBER, HB, £25, 9781780978376 Take your seats for the greatest tour ever—one that encompasses the whole of the
universe, stopping off to gaze at 100 amazing sights en route. Your tour guides are cosmic voyagers, the late Patrick Moore, Brian May and Chris Lintott.
FABER & FABER
1,342 QI FACTS TO LEAVE YOU FLABBERGASTED JOHN LLOYD 10 OCTOBER, HB, £10.99, 9780571332465 The sock-blasting, jaw- dropping, side-swiping phenomenon that is “QI” serves up a sparkling new selection of 1,342 facts that will leave you flabbergasted, as Sandi Toksvig takes over the duties as presenter on the double-BAFTA nominated TV show, and the QI Elves’ podcast “No Such Thing as a Fish” wins its second Chortle award.
HARPERPERENNIAL
CULTURE JOHN BROCKMAN 11 AUGUST, PB, £9.99, 9780062023131
“Cutting-edge master class” covering everything you need to know about Culture, with original contributions from leading thinkers and scientists, including Jared Diamond, Daniel C Dennett, Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier and others.
ICON BOOKS
WHAT COLOUR IS THE SUN? BRIAN CLEGG 03 NOVEMBER, PO, £7.99, 9781785781223 Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? How long can a goldfish remember things? Who thought up Newton’s First Law? 100 brain-teasers to test yourself, discover some amazing answers, and learn a lot of stuff along the way. “The mind-bending quiz book that every science geek needs in their Christmas stocking.”
JOHN MURRAY
NEW SCIENTIST: THE ORIGIN OF (ALMOST) EVERYTHING NEW SCIENTIST 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9781473629257 Does Anything Eat Wasps? meets Information is Beautiful is the billing for this striking infographic journey through life, the universe and everything; from what happens when you get too
GRUNT MARY ROACH 01 SEPTEMBER, PO, £12.99, 9781780749778 The brilliant author of Gulp, Stiff and Bonk explores the odd and obscure adversaries faced by the military in the other side of war: those which result from panic, exhaustion, heat and noise. In the process she experiences maggot debridement therapy, sniffs archival World War II stinkbombs, samples caffeinated meat, dodges enemy fire from the Marine Corps’ paintball team and stays up all night with the sleep-deprived crew of a nuclear submarine.
THE BIG PICTURE SEAN CARROLL 01 SEPTEMBER, HB, £18.99, 9781780746067 The author—a US theoretical physicist—won the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize and in this his “most ambitious book yet” he breaks down the workings of the universe to quantum, cosmic and human levels to reveal how our everyday lives connect with the underlying laws of nature.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
WHO CARES ABOUT PARTICLE PHYSICS? PAULINE GAGNON 25 AUGUST, HB, £25, 9780198783244 Aimed at every person who wishes to learn a little more about particle physics, without requiring prior scientific knowledge, this starts from the basics to build a solid understanding of current research in particle physics and explains in clear terms for non-specialists what is happening at CERN.
PROFILE BOOKS
CALCULATING THE COSMOS IAN STEWART 15 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9781781254318 The eminent mathematician and author with an engaging exploration of the origins, history and future of the universe, and how
close to a black hole (it sucks you up like a noodle: it’s called spaghettification) to a history of sex, and why your keyboard is laid out as QWERTY.
ONEWORLD
mathematics has been the driving force in astronomy and cosmology since ancient Babylonian times. Gravity, General Relativity, Spacetime and Quantum Theory are among the big ideas he aims to make accessible.
QUADRILLE
FUN SCIENCE CHARLIE MCDONNELL 20 OCTOBER, HB, £14.99, 9781849498029 Cheeky vlogger star, known across the internet as charlieissocoollike takes us on an “awesome journey” through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the solar system and the origins of life on Earth, all the way down to the particles that make up everything around us.
SCRIBE
RISE OF THE MACHINES THOMAS RID 29 AUGUST, HB, £20, 9781925228649 This “thoughtful, accessible and engaging” history of all things cyber begins in the midst of the Second World War with the birth of radar and takes us right up to the present day and our fears about cybersecurity in the age of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. It draws on unpublished sources, including interviews with hippies, anarchists, sleuths and spies, I’m told.
SOUVENIR PRESS
BEYOND WORDS CARL SAFINA 01 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9780285643468
Illuminating insights into the unique personalities of animals through stories of animal joy, jealousy, anger and love. Safina is a leading voice for nature: his TED talk based on this book was viewed over 1 million times in its first month.
VERMILION
THE POWER OF WHEN MICHAEL BREUS 15 SEPTEMBER, TPB, £12.99, 9781785040450 New research proves there is a right time to do just about everything, based on our biology and
hormones.This programme advocates getting back in sync with your natural rhythm by making minor changes to your daily routine. after you’ve taken the
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