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Non-Fiction/HistoryPrinces of theRenaissanceMary Hollingsworth‘The Renaissance owesas much to the sword asit does to the pen or thepaintbrush. It would nothave happened withoutthe princes of Italy whotook the radical decisionto adopt the language ofimperial Rome for thedisplay of their prestigeand power.’Mary HollingsworthA beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance toldthrough the lives of its most influential patrons.From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian citystates were taken over by powerful families who installedthemselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists,the princes of 15th- and 16th-century Italy immersedthemselves in the culture of antiquity, commissioningpalaces, villas and churches inspired by the architectureof ancient Rome, and offering patronage to artists andwriters. Many of these princes were related by blood ormarriage, creating a web of alliances that held societytogether but whose tensions sometimes threatened to tearit apart; thus were their lives dominated as much by thewaging of war as the nurture of the artistic talent.In a narrative that is as rigorous and closely researched asit is accessible and informative, Mary Hollingsworth setsthe princes’ aesthetic achievements in the context of thevolatile, ever-shifting politics of a tumultuous period ofhistory.MARY HOLLINGSWORTH is a scholar of the ItalianAUGUST 2020 APOLLO / HISTORY 234x153mm 480 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESRenaissance, and author of The Medici, The Cardinal’s Hat,The Borgias: History’s Most Notorious Dynasty and Patronagein Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century.HB 9781788547833 35.00 E 9781788547826‘Excellent.’Helen Castor,Telegraph Book of the Year‘Lucid and beautifullyillustrated.’The Timesmary-hollingsworth.com5
Non-Fiction/NatureA Short Historyof the WorldAccording to SheepSally Coulthard‘As I watch our flock grazeoutside the farmhousewindow, it’s hard toimagine them helpingthe Vikings pillagetheir way around theworld or financing theRenaissance. How couldsuch unassuming creatureshave changed the outcomeof wars, pioneeredscientific breakthroughsand brought untold wealthand grinding poverty tomillions? And yet they did.This is their story.’Sally CoulthardAn addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impactthat sheep have had on human history.From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rollinghills of medieval England to the vast sheep farms ofmodern-day Australia, sheep have been central to thehuman story.Starting with our Neolithic ancestors’ first forays intosheep-rearing nearly 10,000 years ago, they’ve fed us,clothed us, changed our diet and our languages, helped usto win wars, decorated our homes, and financed pioneersand privateers to conquer large swathes of the earth. Vastfortunes have been built on the backs of sheep, and citiesshaped by shepherds’ markets and meat trading.Sally Coulthard weaves the rich and fascinating storyof sheep into a vivid and colourful tapestry, brimful ofengaging anecdotes and remarkable ovine facts, whosemultiple strands reflect the deep penetration of thesewoolly animals into every aspect of human society andculture.SALLY COULTHARD is a best-selling author of designAUGUST 2020 APOLLO / NATURE 200x135mm 304 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781789544206 16.99 E 9781789544220‘A cracking book.’Sainsbury's Magazineand outdoor living books including The HedgehogHandbook, The Bee Bible, and The Little Book of BuildingFires. She lives on a Yorkshire farm where she keepschickens as well as – naturally – sheep.‘Coulthard isa fine writer.’Yorkshire ard7
Non-Fiction/HistoryPhilip and AlexanderKings and ConquerorsAdrian Goldsworthy‘We have all heard ofAlexander, and there areplenty of books abouthim, but they neglectPhilip. Without Philip’sincredible reform ofMacedon, Alexander wouldnever have become ‘thegreat’, so we need to lookat both men to understandthe real story.’Adrian GoldsworthyA joint biography that investigates how, during theirlifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedonfrom a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire.During his short life Alexander the Great carved out anempire stretching from the Balkans to Central India,re-drawing the map of the ancient world. Yet Alexanderrepresents only half of the story, for his success was notjust the product of his own genius, restless energy andambition, but was built on decades of effort by his father.History has portrayed Philip II of Macedon as an old man,one-eyed and limping, whose convenient assassinationallowed Alexander the Great to come to power. But therewas far more to him than this. Through decades of hardfighting, clever diplomacy, and sheer determination, Philipunified his country and conquered Greece.As authoritative as it is accessible, Philip and Alexander isthe latest in a much-praised sequence of essential historiesof the ancient world from a master historian.ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY studied at Oxford, where hisSEPTEMBER 2020 APOLLO / HISTORY 234x153mm 512 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781784978709 35.00 E 9781784978693 Audio 9781838937027‘Goldsworthy is an erudite guide.’BBC Historydoctoral thesis examined the Roman army, and became anacclaimed historian of Ancient Rome. He is the author ofnumerous books, including Caesar, The Fall of the West, PaxRomana, and Hadrian’s Wall.‘An authentic, enjoyable read.’The Timesadriangoldsworthy.com9
Non-Fiction/BiographyJet ManThe Making and Breaking ofFrank Whittle, the Genius behindthe Jet RevolutionDuncan Campbell-Smith‘The British establishmentdestroyed two geniuseswhose discoveries changedthe world: one was thecomputer scientist AlanTuring; the other wasFrank Whittle, inventorof the jet engine. DuncanCampbell-Smith haswritten the definitiveaccount of his troubledlife.’Richard Milbank,PublisherThe story of Frank Whittle – RAF pilot, mathematicianof genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero.In 1985 Hans von Ohain, the scientist who pioneered NaziGermany’s efforts to build a jet plane, posed the question:‘Would World War II have occurred if the Luftwaffe knewit faced operational British jets instead of Spitfires?’ Heimmediately answered, ‘I, for one, think not.’Frank Whittle, working-class outsider and self-taughtenthusiast, had worked out the blueprint of a completelynew type of engine in 1929, only for his ideas to beblocked by bureaucratic opposition until the outbreak ofwar in 1939. The importance of his work was recognizedtoo late by the government for his revolutionary engine toplay a major part in World War II. After the war Whittle’sdream of civilian jet-powered aircraft became a reality andBritain enjoyed a golden age of 1950’s jet-powered flight.Drawing on Whittle’s extensive private papers, CampbellSmith tells the story of a stoic and overlooked British hero,a tantalizing tale of ‘what might have been’.DUNCAN CAMPBELL-SMITH is a former FinancialTimes and The Economist journalist. He won theWadsworth Business History Prize for Masters of the Post:The Authorized History of the Royal Mail.SEPTEMBER 2020 APOLLO / BIOGRAPHY 234x153mm 448 pp Rights: WORLD ENGLISHHB 9781788544696 30.00 E 9781788544689duncancampbellsmith.com11
Non-Fiction/HistoryThe Hitler YearsDisaster 1940–1945Frank McDonough‘In the second volumeof The Hitler Years, Ichart the dramatic slidefrom triumph to disaster,shattering several mythsin the process.’Frank McDonoughThe second volume in a new, immensely readablenarrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Naziregime by a respected expert on the Third Reich.At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle ofits power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany hadsuffered a disastrous defeat.Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germanya super power and had left her people to cope with theendless shame of the Holocaust.In The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940–1945, Professor FrankMcDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune forthe Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of theHolocaust and Germany’s ultimate defeat.Despite Hitler’s grand ambitions and the successful earlystages of the Third Reich’s advances into Europe, FrankMcDonough argues that Germany was only ever a middleranking power and never truly stood a chance against thecombined forces of the Allies.FRANK MCDONOUGH is an internationally renownedSEPTEMBER 2020 APOLLO / HISTORY 234x153mm 600 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781789542806 30.00 E 9781789542790‘A masterclass in the historyof Nazi Germany.’Get Historyexpert on the Third Reich. He studied history at BalliolCollege, Oxford and gained a PhD from LancasterUniversity. He has written many critically acclaimed bookson the Nazi regime, including: The Gestapo, Hitler and theRise of the Nazi Party and Sophie Scholl: The Woman WhoDefied Hitler.‘One of thebooks of the year.’Dan Snowproffrankmcdonough.com@FXMC195713
Non-Fiction/SportEngland and EternityDeclan Kiberd‘In the twenty-five yearsI have published DeclanKiberd’s work, I havebeen aware of his deepand surprising passion forcricket. Now that Irelandis a Test cricket side, Iplucked up the courageto suggest he write a bookabout this most Englishof games. This is anentertaining, affectionateand intelligent homage tothe absurdities and gloriesof a pursuit like no other.’Neil Belton,PublisherA teasing but affectionate celebration of cricket throughthe ages, written by one of Ireland’s greatest living critics.Cricket is the strangest game. It features idealism, brutality,low comedy, high intelligence, luck and sheer bravery inequal measure – and often achieves the condition of art.Declan Kiberd’s remarkable book is a celebration ofcricket through the ages, and of the peculiarities of thepeople who love and play it. He evokes brilliantly what it islike to be ‘out there’ on the field of play.Although the modern game is rooted in the gentle ruralEngland described by LP Hartley and George Orwell,it has in its more modern versions come to reflect theindustrial power and intermittent violence of modern life.England and Eternity is a teasing but affectionate studyof the genius of the English people as seen from apostcolonial perspective – and of the game which was oneof their richest, oddest and most lasting gifts to the widerworld.DECLAN KIBERD is Ireland’s greatest living critic,SEPTEMBER 2020 APOLLO / SPORT 234x153mm 288 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781788548182 18.99 XTPB 9781788548199 12.99 E 9781788548175‘One of the foremost Irishhistorians of our times.’Sunday Business Postinternationally celebrated for his work on literature andcolonialism. He is the author of Inventing Ireland, Ulyssesand Us and Irish Classics. He has won many literary prizesand holds chairs at the University of Notre Dame in theUSA and University College Dublin.‘Indispensable tocontemporary Irish writing.’President Michael D. Higgins15
Non-Fiction/CookeryThe Little LibraryChristmas50 Festive Recipes Inspired by FictionKate Young‘I adore food, and books,and Christmas. Whatan utter joy to have thechance to write The LittleLibrary Christmas, andto share my considerableenthusiasm for Brusselssprouts, for NoelStreatfield, for wrappingpresents, for terrible officeparties, for Carol, forcinnamon and nutmeg,and for Charles Dickensand his Cratchit family.’A festive cookbook from award-winning food writerKate Young. The perfect Christmas gift for cooks andbibliophiles alike.The Little Library Christmas is a collection of 50 festiverecipes from Kate Young, the Little Library cook. Fromedible gifts and cocktail party catering, to the big dayitself and ideas for your leftovers, this book will guide youthrough the Christmas period with meals, treats, tipplesand – of course – plenty of reading recommendations.With beautiful photographs throughout and in agorgeous, giftable, format, this is the perfect book to putunder your tree this Christmas.Kate YoungKATE YOUNG is an award-winning food writer whoserecipes are inspired by her bookshelves. After masteringthe treacle tart from Harry Potter, Kate started bloggingabout her creations and was named Blogger of the Yearin 2017 by the Guild of Food Writers. Her first book,The Little Library Cookbook, was shortlisted for Fortnum& Mason’s debut food book award and won a WorldGourmand food writing award. Her second book, TheLittle Library Year, was published to wide acclaim in 2019.Originally from Australia, she now lives in England.OCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / COOKERY 195x138mm 192 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES‘A cookbook for readers.’Nigella Lawson‘A very special book.’Diana Henry Jamie DrewTPB 9781838937461 15.00 E m@bakingfiction17
Non-Fiction/NatureThe Book ofthe EarthwormSally Coulthard‘Earthworms are theundisputed super-heroesof the soil. Without them,life would stop. Beneaththe ground, they’regrafting away, puttinggoodness back into theearth and making sureour gardens and farmlandthrive. But how muchdo we really know aboutthem? Let’s dig below thesurface and find out.’Sally CoulthardSally Coulthard explores the miraculous world of theearthworm, the modest little creature without whom lifeas we know if would not be possible.For Charles Darwin – who estimated every acre of landcontained 53,000 earthworms – the humble earthwormwas the most important creature on the planet. Andyet, most people know almost nothing about these littleengineers of the earth. We take them for granted but,without the earthworm, the world’s soil would be barren,and our gardens, fields and farms wouldn’t be able to growthe food and support the animals we need to survive.Sally Coulthard provides a complete profile of theearthworm by answering fifty questions about thesewriggling creatures, from ‘What happens if I chop a wormin half?’ to ‘Would humans survive if worms went extinct?’Fascinating and beautifully illustrated, The Book of theEarthworm offers a feast of quirky facts and practicaladvice about the world’s most industrious – but leastunderstood – invertebrate.SALLY COULTHARD is a best-selling author of designOCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / NATURE 175x135mm 208 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781789544756 14.99 E 9781789544749‘A cracking book.’Sainsbury's Magazine‘Coulthard is afine writer.’Yorkshire Timesand outdoor living books including The Bee Bible, TheHedgehog Handbook, and The Little Book of Building Fires.She lives on a Yorkshire farm where she keeps sheep,chickens and the occasional lthard19
Non-Fiction/HistoryIn the Reign of King JohnA Year in the Life of Plantagenet EnglandDan Jones‘I have tried here to writea history of 1215 in thefullest sense. So as well asdescribing the high politicsof the year, I have built upa picture of what life wasreally like for people atevery level of society:king and barons, knightsand merchants, priestsand peasants.’Dan JonesA vivid and richly illustrated portrait of English societyin the penultimate year of the reign of a king with theworst reputation of any in our history.1215 is chiefly remembered for King John attaching hisseal to Magna Carta in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow– a milestone in the history of liberty. But it was also ayear of crusading and church reform, of foreign wars anddramatic sieges – a year in which London was stormed byangry barons and England invaded by a French army.As well as describing these upheavals, Dan Jonesintroduces us to the ordinary people of thirteenthcentury England – how and where they worked, whatthey wore, what they ate, and what role the church playedin their lives – to create a vivid gripping portrait of anextraordinary year in English history.DAN JONES is a historian, broadcaster and awardwinning journalist. His books, including The Plantagenets,Magna Carta, The Templars and The Colour of Time (withMarina Amaral), have sold more than one million copiesworldwide. He has written and hosted dozens of TVshows including the acclaimed Netflix/Channel 5 series,Secrets of Great British Castles. His writing has appeared innewspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times,The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and TheSpectator.OCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / HISTORY 234x153mm 400 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES (xUS)‘Dan Jones writes withpace, wit and insight.’Helen Castor‘Exhilarating, epic,sword-swinging history.’TLS Peter ClarkHB 9781838934828 25.00 E 9781800240643@dgjonesdanjoneshistoriand a n jones21
Non-Fiction/LanguagesLanguages areGood for UsSophie Hardach‘I’ve always wantedto publish a bookabout the ways inwhich other languagesopen up new worlds ofculture and experience.Sophie Hardach, a giftednovelist in her secondlanguage and fluent orcurious in many others,is the ideal writer for sucha book, and she’s writtena very fine one.’Neil Belton,PublisherA celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is opento all of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinatedhumans since the invention of speech.The acclaimed novelist Sophie Hardach – a Germannative who writes in English – explores languages, andmultilingualism, as an expression of human creativity andidentity, and a way to connect in an often fractured world– a necessary and important pursuit in these politicallydivided times.The book’s chapters roughly follow the trajectory of ahuman life, tracing our relationship with language fromthe first muffled sounds we hear in the womb, to thecomfort and companionship it can provide in old age. Theauthor weaves together her own experiences of language asthe mother of a multilingual child and explores the scienceand history of speech. Languages Are Good For Us offers aunique perspective on a subject that affects us all.SOPHIE HARDACH is the author of three novels, TheOCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / LANGUAGES 234x156mm 256 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781789543926 18.99 XTPB 9781789543933 14.99 E 9781789543940‘Wise and unsentimental.Excellent.’The Times‘An absorbing slowburn of a book.’GuardianRegistrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages, aboutKurdish refugees, Of Love and Other Wars, about pacifistsduring World War Two, and Confession with Blue Horses,about the repercussions of the division of Germanyon the lives of individuals. Confession with Blue Horseswas shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize 2019. Also ajournalist, she worked as a correspondent for Reuters newsagency in Tokyo, Paris and Milan and and has written fora number of publications including the Guardian, BBCFuture and The Economist.sophiehardach.blogspot.com23
Non-Fiction/Modern History¡Populista!The Rise of Latin America’s21st Century StrongmenWill Grant‘The story of LatinAmerica in the 21stcentury has beenone of populism, ofastronomical rises andeven more precipitous falls.¡Populista! will outlinethe seductive appeal ofmodern Latin America’sstrongmen and theirclientelist policies whichhave plunged the regioninto its current malaise ofconflict and polarization.’Will GrantAn exploration of the phenomenon of the caudillofigure in Latin American politics and the rise ofpopulism.The swing to the Left in Latin America, known as the‘Pink Tide’, was the most important political movement inthe Western Hemisphere in the 21st century. It involvedsome of the biggest, most colourful and most controversialcharacters in Latin America for decades, leaders whowould leave an indelible mark on their nations and whowere adored and reviled in equal measure.Parties became secondary to individual leaders andpopulism reigned from Venezuela to Brazil, fromCentral America to the Caribbean, financed by a spikein commodity prices and the oil-backed largesse ofVenezuela’s charismatic socialist president, Hugo Chávez.Yet within a decade and a half, it was all over. Today, thiswave of populism has left the Americas in the hands ofsome of the most authoritarian, militarized and dangerousleaders since the military dictatorships of the 1970s.WILL GRANT is one of the UK’s leading broadcastjournalists on Latin American affairs. He has been theBBC’s senior correspondent in Latin America since2007 with successive deployments to Venezuela, Mexicoand Cuba. Across his career, he has been responsible forcovering the region from Patagonia to the Rio Grande andhas travelled to every part of the continent in that time.He is currently based in Havana and Mexico City.OCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / MODERN HISTORY 234x153mm 400 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781789543957 20.00 XTPB 9781789543964 14.99 E 9781789543988@will grant25
Non-Fiction/History (Landmark Library)VoyagersThe Settlement of the PacificNicholas Thomas‘I grew up on a Pacificcoast and was lucky laterto travel by boat betweenPacific islands. No onewho experiences whatPolynesians call Te Moananui a Kiwa, the great sea,can be less than astoundedby the voyages thattransformed this vast spaceof ocean and islands intoan inhabited human realm.So my questions are simply,how did people becomeIslanders? What is it, to bean Islander?’The extraordinary four-thousand year story of thesettlement of the Pacific Ocean.In Oceania, the distinguished anthropologist NicholasThomas charts the course of the seaborne migrationsthat populated the islands between Asia and the Americasfrom late prehistory onwards: firstly the colonizationby speakers of Austronesian languages of the westernPacific littoral, from around 3000 BC, of the Philippines,Indonesia, Micronesia and Melanesia; followed by the latersettlement, by Polynesian peoples, of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga,Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and eventuallyNew Zealand, up to AD 1250.Alongside a compelling narrative of this remarkablesequence of long-distance migrations, Nicolas Thomasdescribes the sea-going technologies that allowed theseepic voyages to take place; the nature of the cultures thatembarked on them; and the societies that emerged acrossOceania in their wake.Nicholas ThomasNICHOLAS THOMAS is an Australian anthropologist,OCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / HISTORY (LANDMARK LIBRARY) 200x135mm 256 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781838930486 18.99 E 9781838930493 Annie Coombeswho was co-curator of the Royal Academy exhibitionOceania (2018). He is a professor of HistoricalAnthropology and in 2010 he was awarded the WolfsonHistory Prize for Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire.27
Non-Fiction/History & TravelThe Gardens of MarsMadagascar, an Island StoryJohn Gimlette‘In Madagascar, peopleoften spend more on theirtombs than their homes.I’ve never come acrossanywhere so maddeninglymysterious. We don’t knowwhen its first humansarrived, or why, or howthey got here from Borneo(3,700 miles away). Tryingto make sense of it all, Iembarked on a "walkthrough" history, and hereit is: wild, beguiling andthrillingly odd.’John GimletteA journey – both historical and contemporary – amongthe fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures andisolated tribes of the world’s fourth largest island:Madagascar.An improbable world beckons. We think we knowMadagascar but it’s too big, too eccentric, and tooimpenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretchedout across Europe, the island would reach from Londonto Algiers, and yet its road network is barely bigger thantiny Jamaica’s. There is no evidence of any human lifeuntil about 10,000 years ago, and, when eventually peoplesettled, it was migrants from Borneo — 3,700 miles away —who came out on top.As well as visiting every corner of Madagascar, JohnGimlette journeys deep into its past in order tobetter understand how Madagascar became what it istoday. Along the way, he meets politicians, sorcerors,gem prospectors, militiamen, rioters, lepers and thedescendants of seventeenth-century pirates.JOHN GIMLETTE is a prize-winning travel writer whohas journeyed to more than 80 countries. He is the authorof At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, Panther Soup: A EuropeanJourney in War and Peace, Wild Coast: Travels on SouthAmerica’s Untamed Edge and Elephant Complex: Travels inSri Lanka.OCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / HISTORY & TRAVEL 234x153mm 480 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781788544726 30.00 E 9781788544719johngimlette.com@JohnGimlette29
Non-Fiction/BiographySunshine and LaughterThe Story of Morecambe & WiseLouis Barfe‘Being a child star isinvariably the basis fora messy, even tragic,adulthood. Lena Zavaroniand Judy Garland weremessed up, ultimatelyfatally, by their childhoodyears in show business.Eric Morecambe and ErnieWise were rare exceptions.Making front pageheadlines in the West Endat 13, and topping the TVratings on Christmas Day40 years later. What madethem so different?’Louis BarfeThe unique story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise– British television’s most iconic double act.British television has hosted some celebrated doubleacts over the years – from the Two Ronnies to Reevesand Mortimer, from French and Saunders to Fry andLaurie and from Mitchell and Webb to Matt Lucas andDavid Walliams. But none of these acclaimed duos comewithin a million miles of challenging the cherished placein television’s golden age occupied by Eric Morecambeand Ernie Wise, whose partnership lasted from 1941 toMorecambe’s death in 1984. Icons of British televisionin the 1970s, Eric and Ernie were, in the words of onecommentator ‘the most illustrious, and the best-loved,double-act that Britain has ever produced’.Louis Barfe has a gift for narrating celebrity lives in amanner that is informative and affectionate but neverhagiographic. Funny, human and incisive, Sunshineand Laughter gets to the heart of what made TV’s mostenduringly popular double act tick.LOUIS BARFE is expert on all aspects of theNOVEMBER 2020 APOLLO / BIOGRAPHY 234x153mm 320 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781838933371 25.00 E 9781838933395‘Sure to delight.’TLSentertainment industry. He is the author of Turned OutNice Again – The Story of British Light Entertainment, TheTrials and Triumphs of Les Dawson and Happiness and Tears:The Ken Dodd Story.‘An absolute 31
Non-Fiction/HistoryThe First KingdomBritain in the Age of ArthurMax Adams‘Sooner or later any writeron the Dark Ages mustfront up and deal withArthur. Now it is my turnto jump feet first into themost obscure period ofBritish history and try tofigure out what happenedto Britain after Rome. Ithas been an exhilaratingjourney through alandscape at once familiarand wildly exotic.’Max AdamsThe bestselling author of The King in the North turnshis attention to the obscure era of British history knownas ‘the age of Arthur’.Somewhere in the dim void between the departure fromBritain of the Roman legions at the start of the fifthcentury and the days of the venerable Bede, the kingdomsof Early Medieval Britain were formed. But by whom? Andout of what?Max Adams scrutinizes the narrative handed down tous by later historians and chroniclers, stripping away themore lurid nonsense about Arthur and synthesizing theresearch of the last forty years to tease out strands of realityfrom myth. In doing so, Adams reveals how archaeologyhas revealed evidence of invasion, settlement and foreigntrade, and how this can attest to the emergence of distinctpolities in the sixth century which are recorded in thelines of river, road and watershed and in place names.MAX ADAMS is the author of an acclaimed sequence ofNOVEMBER 2020 APOLLO / HISTORY 234x153mm 480 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGESHB 9781788543477 30.00 E 9781788543460 Audio 9781838937294‘A triumph.’The Times‘A beautifully writtenarchae-travelogue.’TLShistories of Early Medieval Britain: The King in the North,In the Land of Giants, and Ælfred’s Britain. His other booksinclude Admiral Collingwood and the bestselling The Wisdomof Trees. He has lived and worked in County Durham, inthe North-East of England, since 1993.TheAmbulisttheambulist.co.uk33
Non-Fiction/NatureThe Wild IslesPatrick Barkham (ed.)‘I hope that reading thisbook will be like going fora walk in the countryside:rich in tranquility, joyand the stimulationof serendipitous andsurprising connectionsand discoveries.’Patrick BarkhamAn anthology of British and Irish nature writing selectedby the natural history writer Patrick Barkham.From Thomas Hardy’s idyllic ‘Wessex’ to Nan Shepherd’sfiercely beautiful Cairngorm mountains, the Britishlandscape has been imagined and reimagined through ourliterature for as long as we can remember. Literature ofthe land has become part of our collective identity, seepedinto our stories, and shaped the way we think about place.Patrick Barkham’s anthology brings together a selectionof wild writing from every corner of these islands. Thechosen pieces are arranged in themes – from woods tobirds and from childhood to future nature – and includeextracts from much-loved classics alongside passages bysome of our finest contemporary writers, such as RobertMacfarlane and Helen Macdonald. These voices from pastand present will bring wonder as they journey around ourfields, mountains and coastlines, exploring, describing andcelebrating our landscape in all its rich diversity.PATRICK BARKHAM is the author of The ButterflyNOVEMBER 2020 APOLLO / NATURE 234x153mm 592 pp Rights: UK/COM (xCAN)HB 9781789541403 25.00 E 9781789541397 Marcus GarrettIsles and Badgerlands, which were both shortlisted for theOndaatje Prize, and Islander, which won the NationalGeographic Traveller Magazine Book of the Year 2018.He lives on the edge of the Norfolk Broads.@patrick barkham35
Non-Fiction/MemoirThe Fragrance of TearsMy Friendship with Benazir BhuttoVictoria Schofield‘When you go to universityone of the unknowns iswho you will meet. This isthe story o
OCTOBER 2020 APOLLO / COOKERY 195x138mm 192 pp Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TPB 9781838937461 15.00 E 9781838937478 'A cookbook for readers.' Nigella Lawson 'A very special book.' Diana Henry Non-Fiction/Cookery 'I adore food, and books, and Christmas. What an utter joy to have the chance to write The Little
