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OF DOCTORS HEINEMANN, 22ND, H/B, £16.99, 9781785150906 A “groundbreaking examination of the pain, pressures and joy of medical work” by a psychologist known as the “doctor’s doctor”. For more than 20 years she has listened as doctors have unburdened themselves of the pressures of their jobs, including the obstetrician whose own fertility treatment failed, and the trainee oncologist unable to treat patients suffering from the disease that killed her father.


HOW TO PLAN, ORGANISE AND RUN A SUCCESSFUL FESTIVAL ROBINSON, 1ST, P/B, £14.99, 9781472139085 How to get a festival started, find funding, put together a balanced programme and more. Spelman has been involved in the Stamford Book Festival, the Oundle Festival of Literature and the Sherborne Literary Festival.


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RONALD GIPHART AND MARK VAN VUGT MISMATCH: HOW OUR STONE AGE BRAIN DECEIVES US EVERY DAY (AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT) ROBINSON, 15TH, P/B, £14.99, 9781472139702 Psychologically, we are still stuck in the Stone Age. That’s the intriguing claim of this book, which looks at how we can use our primitive, slow-moving minds to survive in a modern information society which changes radically every 10 years or so.


MEG JAY SUPERNORMAL: CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF RESILIENCE CANONGATE, 1ST, H/B, £20, 9781782114949 A fascinating study of trauma and survival from the American author of The Defining Decade, which inspired one of the most-watched TED talks of all time. Jay tells the compelling stories of a diverse group of “supernormal” people who have overcome trauma in their childhoods to go on and live successful lives as adults; and discusses what their experiences can teach us about resilience.


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JUDITH SPELMAN THE FESTIVAL ORGANISER’S BIBLE:


EDWINA BROCKLESBY IRONGRAN: HOW TRIATHLON TAUGHT ME THAT GROWING OLDER NEEDN’T MEAN SLOWING DOWN SPHERE, 22ND, P/B, £14.99, 9780751571110 Brocklesby is the oldest British woman to have competed in an Ironman triathlon, at the age of 74 (she ran her first half-marathon at 50). This is her inspiring and entertaining guide to staying healthy in older age, in which she combines her own story with research about why keeping active in later life is so crucial.


actors, nightclub owners and socialites—and ordinary Berliners too.


£16.99, 9781784974985 Evoking the waves in Cornwall, Galicia, Portugal, Andalucía, Morocco and Ireland, the author describes his quest to achieve his surfing dream: catching a tube and riding inside it as it closes behind him.


LEE HOWEY MASSIVELY VIOLENT AND DECIDEDLY AVERAGE BITEBACK, P/B, £12.99, 9781785903502 “The most entertaining football memoir you are ever likely to read,” trumpets Biteback of this auto- biography by a former Ipswich, Burnley, Northampton and Bishop Auckland footballer, who now works in financial services.


ANNA HART DEPARTURES: A GUIDE TO LETTING GO, ONE ADVENTURE AT A TIME SPHERE, 15TH, P/B, £12.99, 9780751569568 In this call-to-action for female adventurers everywhere, Hart—a lifestyle and travel journalist—reflects on the power of travel to transform us, heal us, challenge us, and turn us into everyday adventure seekers.


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from history and tales of courtesans, Casanova, robberies, murders and executions, which give a vivid picture of social change over the centuries.


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a liar after reporting her brutal rape, and of the detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth behind a growing number of similar cases.


HELEN CROYDON THIS GIRL RAN: TALES OF A PARTY GIRL TURNED TRIATHLETE SUMMERSDALE, 8TH, P/B, £9.99, 9781786852175 How the author swapped a life of cocktail bars and dating for the challenges and exhilaration of outdoor sport, signing up for every kind of race she could, and setting herself the seemingly impossible goal of qualifying as a Team GB athlete.


OLIVER HILMES BERLIN 1936: SIXTEEN DAYS IN AUGUST BODLEY HEAD, 22ND, H/B, £16.99, 9781847924339 This German bestseller tells the story of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 through the eyes of those who were there, including Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, athletes and journalists, writers and


ALEX HUTCHINSON ENDURE: MIND, BODY AND THE CURIOUSLY ELASTIC LIMITS OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE HARPERCOLLINS, 8TH, P/B, £14.99, 9780008277062 Already garlanded with plaudits from the likes of Malcolm Gladwell and Bear Grylls, this is a compelling sounding investigation into the individual limits to which we can push ourselves both physically and psychologically as human beings. Hutchinson, himself a former world-class runner, takes us to the forefront of current sports psychology, including brain electrode jolts, computer- based training and subliminal messaging.


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IAIN GATELY THE SECRET SURFER HEAD OF ZEUS, 8TH, H/B,


JAMES MORTON THE HIDDEN LIVES OF LONDON’S STREETS: A WALKING GUIDE TO SOHO, HOLBORN AND BEYOND ROBINSON, 22ND, P/B, £9.99, 9781472139269 Arranged in the form of a collection of street maps, this takes the reader on walking tours of central London districts, accompanied by episodes


ERIC HAZAN A WALK THROUGH PARIS: A RADICAL EXPLORATION VERSO, H/B, £12.99, 9781786632586 I love the sound of this walking guide to Paris which majors on the revolutionary, reactionary past of the city of Robespierre, the Commune, Sartre and de Beauvoir, and the events of May 1968. Hazan, who has lived in Paris all his life, also illuminates his own radical past in the city.


MICK DAVIS AND DAVID LASSMAN THE AWFUL KILLING OF SARAH WATTS: A STORY OF CONFESSIONS, ACQUITTALS AND JAILBREAKS PEN & SWORD, H/B, £19.99, 9781526707307 First full-length account of a notorious Victorian murder case of 1851, which took place nine years earlier than Mr Whicher’s Road Hill case. The brutal rape and murder of 14-year-old Sarah Watts gripped the nation, and had more twists and turns than a crime thriller, I’m told.


STUART KELLY THE MINISTER & THE MURDERER: A BOOK OF AFTERMATHS GRANTA, 1ST, H/B, £20, 9781847089229 Can a self-confessed murderer become a priest? Kelly uses the case of James Nelson, who did just that in 1969, to write a compelling history of the church in Scotland, and a “considered, clever and rigorous book about faith”.


BARBIE LATZA NADEAU THE DOMITIANA WAY: SEX, DRUGS AND GUNS ALONG ITALY’S MOST DANGEROUS HIGHWAY ONEWORLD, H/B, £16.99, 9781786072559 The Rome bureau chief of Newsweek uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe’s doorstep, in which tens of thousands of migrants–caught between Camorra gun-runners and Nigerian drug-gangs–are trapped. Colin Firth’s Raindog Films is in negotiation to adapt this book for the screen.


ALEX PERRY THE GOOD MOTHERS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WOMEN WHO TOOK ON THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL MAFIA WILLIAM COLLINS, 8TH, H/B, £20, 9780008222109 The Calabrian Mafia is one of the richest and most ruthlessly organised crime syndicates in the world, running 70% of the cocaine and heroin in Europe. In 2009, state prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti tried to persuade two more Mafia wives to testify against the network. This is a nail-biting account of what happened next.


CHRISTIAN MILLER AND KEN ARMSTRONG A FALSE REPORT HUTCHINSON, 6TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781786330802 In this real-life story behind a major new Netflix series due to air in summer 2018, scripted by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists uncover the story of Marie, an 18-year-old girl branded


NEIL ROOT THE MURDER GANG: FLEET STREET’S ELITE GROUP OF CRIME REPORTERS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF TABLOID CRIME THE HISTORY PRESS, H/B, £20, 9780750983716 The remarkable true story of the elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters who covered the most infamous British murders between the mid-1930s and the 1960s. They drank in the same pubs, but were also ruthlessly competitive, Root finds.


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