This preview highlights titles to be published in December
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David S Richeson Tales of Impossibility Princeton University Press, 7th, £17.99, 9780691218724 A history of the quest to understand some of mathematics’ greatest puzzles.
Reissues
Diana Athill Stet Granta Books, 2nd, £9.99, 9781783787463 Granta is reissuing this memoir of the legendary Athill’s life spent working as an editor, as well as her Costa Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End.
Jeremy Black
Culloden and the ’45 Te History Press, 1st, £12.99, 9780750998505 A history of the Battle of Culloden in the 18th century.
Bryan Sykes The Nature of the Beast Coronet, 16th, £9.99, 9781444791242 The subject of a three-part Channel 4 documentary series, this sees the Oxford professor of genetics explore the genetic evidence on the survival of apemen, yeti and bigfoot.
Casper Ter Kuile The Power of Ritual William Collins, 9th, £9.99, 9780008389932 How to nourish the soul by turning everyday practices such as yoga or walking the dog into sacred rituals.
Peter Walker The Miracle Pill S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 23rd, £9.99, 9781471192555 Why exercise is the simple lifestyle change with enormous health benefits and how to bring more of it into your life.
James Lee Burke Lay Down My Sword and Shield Orion, 9th, £9.99, 9781398706392 A 50th-anniversary edition of a novel of conflict, history and shad- ows from the past.
Ruby Wax And Now for the Good News Penguin Life, 30th, £9.99, 9780241400661 The author and come- dian’s practical guide to achieving a kinder, more compassionate world.
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Nicholas Williams Elegies of Chu Oxford World’s Classics, 23rd, £12.99, 9780198818311 A translation of one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry.
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Daniel Cole Ragdoll Trapeze, 9th, £8.99, 9781398704732 Reissue of the thriller in which a body is discov- ered with the dismem- bered parts of six victims stitched together. Soon to be adapted for television.
Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie Vintage, 14th, £7.99, 9780593314883 Reissue of the classic novel about a small-town girl who runs away to
the big city, first published in 1900.
Erle Stanley Gardner The Case of the Duplicate Daughter Te Murder Room, 9th, £9.99, 9781471920875 Reissued to coincide with the second series of the Perry Mason TV drama.
Simon Garfield The End of Innocence Faber & Faber, 1st, £10.99, 9780571371020 New edition of the account of the early days of the Aids crisis in Britain, with a new introduction by Russell T Davies.
Faber & Faber, 2nd, £14.99, 9780571368075 Collection of four classic novels reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris’ centenary.
Patricia Highsmith Deep Water Sphere, 9th, £8.99, 9780751581874 Tie-in edition of the Highsmith novel to go alongside the upcoming film adaptation starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.
Vintage, 2nd, £9.99, 9780099458364 Vintage is reissuing four of Munro’s short story collections with a new look, with The Progress of Love, Dance of the Happy Shades and The Love of a Good Woman also out.
Kate Rhodes Crossbones Yard Mulholland Books, 9th, £8.99, 9781444738766 Mulholland is reissuing Rhodes’ thriller series starring psychologist Alice Quentin.
Andrzej Sapkowski Blood of Elves Gollancz, 9th, £8.99, 9781473235106 Reissue of the first novel in the Witcher series, which inspired the Netflix show.
Gwen Bristow The Invisible Host Dean Street Press, 1st, £10.99, 9781914150838 Originally published in the US in 1930, and never published in the UK until now, this is the widely suspected inspiration for Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, says Dean Street.
Myrna Loy Being and Becoming: A Memoir Dean Street Press, 1st, £13.99, 9781914150814 Reissue of the Hollywood star’s memoir.
William Lindsay Gresham Nightmare Alley Raven Books, 9th, £8.99, 9781526640864 Reissue of the American noir classic as a film tie-in edition to the forthcoming adaptation directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett.
Graham Masterton Walkers Head of Zeus, 9th, £8.99, 9781801101196 Head of Zeus is reissuing a handful of Masterton’s horror novels this month, with Plague and Black Angel also out.
Peter May The Chessmen Riverrun, 30th, £8.99, 9781529419450 Reissue of the third novel in May’s Lewis trilogy to mark 10 years since The Blackhouse, the first book in the trilogy, was published.
David Miller (ed) That Glimpse of Truth Anthos, 9th, £18, 9781800249646 A reissue of the anthology of the “finest” 100 short stories ever written, as Head of Zeus launches its Anthos imprint, which will be dedicated to producing high-quality anthologies.
Todd Harra & Kenneth McKenzie Mortuary Confidential Citadel, 30th, £12.99, 9780806541396 A collection of real stories from morticians and funeral directors across the US.
Anne Morice
Publish and Be Killed Dean Street Press, 1st, £10.99, 9781914150319 Dean Street is complet- ing its reprints of Anne Morice’s classic mystery series this month with books 21-25 in the run.
James Morton East End Gangland Sphere, 2nd, £10.99, 9780751584486 Reissue of the history of East End gangsters from the 1870s until today.
Wilson Harris The Guyana Quartet
Alice Munro The Moons of Jupiter
W&N has a new cover look for Smith, with this reissue of his look at the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand out this month alongside Supper with the Crippens.
Jill Bolte Taylor My Stroke of Insight Hodder Paperbacks, 9th, £10.99, 9780340980507 Reissue of the neuro- anatomist’s experience of a stroke.
Masako Togawa The Master Key Pushkin Vertigo, 2nd, £8.99, 9781782277729 A classic mystery from a writer known as “the Japanese P D James”, this follows the fallout when the master key to an apartment block—one which has a sinister secret hidden behind each door—goes missing.
Anna Seghers Transit Virago, 2nd, £8.99, 9780349014708 Written in 1942, this existential literary thriller explores the plight of the exile through the story of the unnamed narrator who has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp to find himself in Marseille. With an introduction from Stuart Evers.
Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf W&N, 9th, £8.99, 9781474621984 First published in 1975, this is a reissue of the influential choreopoem about the experiences of women of colour, which Orion says inspired Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other.
Lana Turner Lana: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth Dean Street Press, 1st, £13.99, 9781914150791 Reissue of the Hollywood star’s memoir.
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (eds) The Time Traveller’s Almanac Anthos, 9th, £18, 9781800249707 A special edition of the anthology collecting the best time-travel stories ever written, as Head of Zeus launches its Anthos imprint.
Louise Welsh (ed) Ghost Anthos, 9th, £18, 9781800249677 Reissue of the
anthology of the 100 best ghost stories, under Head of Zeus’ new Anthos imprint.
Charles Whiting
David James Smith One Morning In Sarajevo W&N, 9th, £9.99, 9781474623407
Paths of Death and Glory Canelo History, 16th, £9.99, 9781800325111 The story of how the Second World War was won, told through indi- vidual stories from the frontline.
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