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The Book of Sea
Shanties
Nathan Evans
An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and
seven seas.
Join international
bestselling singer Nathan Evans as he takes you through time and seafaring history to
discover the true meaning of Wellerman, and who and what
exactly was the Drunken Sailor.
Beautifully illustrated and featuring over 35 best
loved shanties, find out the meaning behind each of Evans
favourite shanties and how they have shaped and inspired him.
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Mark Johnston: Phenomenon
Nick
Townsend
A new, fully
authorised biography of the most successful trainer in British
horse racing history.
In the stratified and often secretive world of
racehorse training, Mark Johnston has always been different:
forthright, combative, provocative, and candid - a man who
delights in questioning convention.
In this new, fully authorised biography, acclaimed
author Nick Townsend provides a unique insight into the world of
Mark Johnston and his phenomenally successful operation.
Delve into his storied career, his strong and passionate
views on the sport of horse racing, and discover what he's
planning for the future in unprecedented times.
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Love, Interrupted
Simon Thomas
Navigating Grief, finding hope
Following on from
his book in 2019, Simon has begun to see how grief evolves: its
rawness becomes less brutal and time offers space to select, to
consider what has passed and to recognise that our experience
with grief itself changes.
A father and son's journey
down grief's bumpy road as they begin to find a reason to live
again, Love,
Interrupted shows that however much darkness closes
in, there is always light, love and life to be found.
'In this
incredibly moving must-read, Simon shares his journey through
immense grief and pain, and shows us how hope can spring from the
darkest of times' Fearne Cotton
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Letters of Great
Women
Lucinda Hawksley
Over 2,000 years of history seen
through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women
Celebrated historian Lucinda Hawksley
brings together 50 key female voices on the most
significant moments in history, and the everyday joys, sorrows
and struggles of women's lives.
This carefully curated
selection of correspondence on politics, literature, art,
entertainment, activism and science provides insight into the
personal and professional lives of some of history's most
influential names.
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It
is World Mental Health Day!
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The past
year and a half has been challenging for everyone and it
has most certainly taken a toll on our mental
health. Below is a round-up of some or our Welbeck Balance titles
that offer guidance across all aspects of self-care, from
understanding anxiety, to the process of grief as well as
learning how to start conversations around mental wellbeing in
the workplace.
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Yes, You Can Talk About Mental
Health At Work
Melissa
Doman, MA
According to The
Mental Health Foundation, 1 in 6.8 people in the UK experience
mental health problems at work and yet it is often still seen as
a taboo subject.
As the gap between the home and the
workplace closes more and more, it is clear that good leadership
and good mental health go hand-in-hand: how you set the tone in
your organisation is critical.
Organisational psychologist
and former therapist specialising in mental health in the work
place, Melissa Doman, MA, has written a book for any
employee, manager or leader who wants to understand mental health
at a deeper level in order to foster inclusive workplace
conversations.
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How to Help
Someone with Anxiety: A Practical Handbook
Dr Rachel M Allen
Watching someone you love
become overwhelmed by anxiety is tough, and it's not always
clear how best to help. Counselling Psychologist Dr Rachel M
Allan provides evidence-based advice on the cyclical nature of
anxiety, helping you understand how anxiety works and how your
loved one might be feeling.
Through the advice in this
book, you'll learn how to best support and empower your loved one
day to day without compromising your own emotional
wellbeing.
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Breath Like a
Badass
Hannah Jane Thompson
Beat Anxiety, Self-Doubt and
Imposter Syndrome and Build Your No-Nonesense Mindfulness and
Meditation Tool
A practical handbook
teaching you how to start and stick to a non-woo-woo,
scientifically based, zero-BS meditation habit that you can turn
to again and again when life and work gets tough.
Qualified meditation teacher and certified life coach Hannah Jane
Thompson draws on her own story, her teaching practices and
experiences of her clients, and shows you how to harness the
power of meditation.
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Finding Your Way
Through Loss and Grief
Christine Hopfgarten
A Therapist's Guide to Working
Through Any Grieving Process
Psychotherapist
Christine Hopfgarten looks in detail at the different reasons
that we may encounter feelings of loss, including bereavement,
relationship break-up, loss of a job, fertility problems or
miscarriage, and ilness. You will discover the importance of
acknowledging where you are in your own unique journey - it is
only then that you can move forward.
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Time to Talk
Alex Holmes
How Men Think About Love, Belonging
and Connection
We
live in a super-connected world, yet men specifically, struggle
to connect and share. This is changing... but not quick
enough. Award winning podcaster Alex Holmes sets out to
accelerate this shift, debunking lingering myths around
masculinity, love and connection by exploring what causes this
sense of loneliness.
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Lastly, if your mental health is declining, or
you're worried about someone you know, remember that help is available. Talk
to someone you trust; sharing a problem is often the first
step to recovery.
Charities like Mind and Mental Health UK can give you
the support you need.
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It's All in Black
and White
Pepsi & Shirlie
London. Wham! Pop, glitz and glamour. And two girls
with stars in their eyes.
Our friendship began one windy day in 1982, outside Finsbury Park
tube. We were on our way to a Wham! rehearsal. Pepsi was the new
girl in the band and over a car stereo, a cassette tape and that
journey to Bushey we bonded.
We had no idea that we were on the first of many journeys
together and that soon we'd be travelling all over Europe,
Australia, America, China and Japan or that we were saying
yes to a lifetime of connection that has endured whatever we've
done, wherever we've been. From the side of the stage to its
centre – we have many stories to tell.
And it's all here, it's all in black and white
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Publishing
Today in Paperback!
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The Locksmith
Linda
Calvey
Villains aren't
born. They're made
Combining Linda's own experience - the glamour, the
danger, the high of running with gangsters, hitmen and villains -
with a supreme gift for character and storytelling; everything
Linda Calvey lived shines through in The Locksmith.
Poor, destitute and hungry, young ruby decides to pull
her family from the ashes. It starts as one job, one step
outside the law. Yet that one step sets her on a path - straight
to the top. But in the East End you don't build an empire without
making a few enemies...
The Locksmith invites you into the criminal underbelly, to a
world of empire-building, and shows us how a villain is made.
'The
bravest and most authentic new voice in crime
fiction' -Martina Cole
'I can't
think of anyone I would rather read a crime novel by' - Jeremy
Vine, BBC Radio 2
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Prince: A
Portrait of the Artist
Paul Sexton
In Memories and Memorabilia
Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who
constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colourful
career, changing his style and even his name to keep his artistic
output fresh and funky
The seductive story of the unique artist that was Prince
comes to life through a portfolio of fascinating and rarely
seen items. Photographs of custom-built guitars, beautifully
crafted clothing and rare personalized recordings are all
included alongside Prince expert Paul Sexton's insightful text,
which includes original interview material from people close to
Prince.
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The Ice Coven
Max
Seeck
The electrifying new novel from the New York Times
bestselling author of The Witch
Hunter
Investigator Jessica Niemi is in a race against
time. A Young woman's corpse washes up on a near-frozen Helsinki
beach, dressed in a manga costume.
At the same time, two famous instagram influencers
are missing from the city, and Jessica is thrown into the darkest
case of her career.
Max Seeck is a bestselling Finnish novelist, widely
hailed as the leading light of a new generation of Nordic crime
writers.
'A riveting
procedural with a deliciously creepy undertone' -
Publishers Weekly Starred
Review
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I Am A Druglord
Anonymous
The Last Confession of a Real-Life
Gangster
As you read this, someone
somewhere is buying drugs.
We've all been guilty of
falling into the world of gangs, crime and drugs through
our screens. There's something about that cut-throat world
which people of all generations find entertaining. What
we can often forget is that these fictional shows are based on
real life experience.
This
is a unique and unbelievable first-hand account of how one man
fought his way to the top of the criminal underworld...and what
he needed to do to stay there.
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How To Help
Someone with Depression
Dr Emma Cotteril
Accessible, practical information
that will help you to build a supporter's toolkit.
Clinical
psychologist Dr Emma Cotterill offers a clear understanding of
the nature of depression, likely causes and practical ways you
can help someone experiencing depression - however severe.
Throughout the
book you will develop you own 'supporters toolkit' of knowledge,
understanding, skills, strategies, self-care and resources that
will help you support your loved one as best you can, whilst
maintaining your own self-care boundaries.
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'A horse was in flames. It roamed beneath the ocean
breathing fire . . . '
When he wakes up, Elango knows his life has changed.
His dream will consume him until he gives it shape. The potter
must create a terracotta horse whose beauty will be reason enough
for its existence. Yet he cannot pin down from where it has
galloped into his mind – the Mahabharata, or Trojan legend,
or his anonymous potter-ancestors. Nor can he say where it
belongs – in a temple compound, within a hotel lobby, or with
Zohra, whom he despairs of ever marrying.
Moving between India and England, The Earthspinner reflects
the many ways in which the East encounters the West. It breathes
new life into ancient myths, giving allegorical shape to the war
of fanaticism against reason and the imagination. It is an
intricate, wrenching novel about the changed ways of loving and
living in the modern world.
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Praise for the
Earthspinner
'A writer of great subtlety and intelligence, who understands
that emotional power comes from the steady accretion of detail'
Kamila
Shamsie, Guardian
'She
writes elegantly and intelligently whatever the subject matter'
Francesca
Angelini, The Times
'A
compulsively readable novel'
Manil
Suri, New
York Times
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Anuradha Roy's 2011
novel, The
Folded Earth, won the Economist Crossword Book Award
and was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
In 2015 Sleeping
on Jupiter was long listed for the Man Booker Prize
and won the 2016 D.S.C Prize for South Asian Literature, and in
2020, All
The Lives We Never Lived was shortlisted for the
international Dublin Literary Award.
Her fiction has been translated into more than fifteen languages.
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Mountain
Leopard Press was launched in March 2021 as a new home in Britain
for the authors and translators of the best literary fiction and
nonfiction from all over the world.
- the publication of brave voices, writers whose messages have the power to
change the world
- the excitement of discovery, authors of shimmering expression
- the energy of the best thriller writing from overseas
- the art of translation, we champion established and upcoming
translators into English
- the beauty of design, photographic and illustrated books produced to
the highest standards
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Frontline
Dr.
Hilary Jones
'The doctor hits the spot and deserves to be read' -
Jeffrey Archer
Frontline is the first book in a series
charting the rise of a prominent British medical family in the
twentieth century.
The story follows an aristocrat's daughter who joins the war
effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she meets
Will, a dockworker's son serving as a stretcher-bearer.
As rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so too does a
mysterious respiratory illness that soldiers are referring to as
the 'Spanish flu'.
'Dr
Hilary is a master storyteller, and Frontline is an
utterly absorbing page-turner' - Lorraine Kelly, CBE
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Saint Death
Mark Dawson
"Dawson
writes the kind of thrillers I love. Non-stop,
grab-you-by-the-throat tales of doing the right thing no matter
the odds. Simply excellent."
- USA Today bestselling author
Brett Battles
John Milton has been off the
grid for six months.
He surfaces in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and immediately finds
himself drawn into a vicious battle with the narco-gangs that
control the borderlands.
Milton saves the life of an idealistic young journalist who has
been targeted for execution. The only way to keep her safe is to
smuggle her into Texas.
But when the man looking for her is the legendary assassin Santa
Muerta - Saint Death - that's a lot easier said than done.
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Paul McCartney:
The Stories Behind the Songs
Mike Evans
Paul McCartney has been a genuine pop idol, a
cutting-edge experimenter, and in later years recognized as an
international musical treasure.
Taking an in-depth look at 50
of his post-Sixties hits, The Stories Behind the Songs
includes full session details, personnel lists and chart data,
each described in detail, from original inspiration to the
final release.
Quotes from session musicians and studio personnel - and star
guests such as Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and Kanye West -
bring the making of every song to life, alongside a wealth of
related photographs in and out of the studio.
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Ghibliotheque
Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham
Based on the Ghibliotheque Podcast, which leafs
through the library of films from the world's
greatest animation studio, Studio Ghibli.
A fully illustrated book, including details of
production, release, themes, key scenes and general review as
well as Ghibli-specific information.
The perfect gift for Ghibli-novices and super-fans alike!
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The
Duchess
Wendy Holden
From the Sunday Times bestselling author
of The Governess
Arriving in 1928, Wallis was a divorced, penniless, middle-aged
foreigner with average looks and no connections.
Yet, just eight years later, a king renounced his throne for
her.
How did a woman from nowhere capture the heart of the
world's most glamorous bachelor? Wendy Holden tells the amazing
story.
'Compelling characters and a wonderful blend of
historical accuracy and real narrative drive . . .
A heart-breaking study of loyalty and love'
- Sally
Morris, Daily
Mail
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First Casualty
Toby Harnden
Within weeks following the 9/11 attacks, UK
Special Forces enter the fray in Afghanistan alongside the CIA's
Team Alpha and US troops.
Hundreds of jihadists surrender and two operatives from Team Alpha
enter Qala-i Jangi – the 'Fort of War' – to interrogate them. The
prisoners revolt, one CIA man falls, and the other is trapped
inside the fort, which prompts seven members of the SBS –
elite British Special Forces – to volunteer for the rescue force and
race into danger and the unknown.
Superbly researched, gripping and intense, bestselling and Orwell
Prize-winning author Toby Harnden tells the incredible
story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan.
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How to F**cking
Save the Planet
Jennifer Crouch and
IFLScience
Decades of gas-guzzling and
plastic parasites have brought the Earth to its knees. Entire
species are disappearing, the icecaps are melting and forest fires
are raging like never before. Basically, we've really messed the
place up.
Packed full of easy-to-digest climate truths and
IFLScience's trademark witty humour, How to F**king Save the
Planet is your essential handbook to global
warming and climate change.
Written by Jennifer Crouch with global go-to science site
IFLScience, let this book guide, infuriate and inspire you into
getting up off your arse and actually doing something to save the
world!
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Small Inventions
that made a difference
Helen Pilcher
Small inventions – modest yet essential, diminutive in
size and humble in stature – are an essential component of every
element of everyday life.
Fifty little objects of fascination, each concealing
an unexpected history of innovation, are explored in Small Inventions that
Made a Big Difference.
From the ever-present (teabags) to the barely visible (ball
bearings), science writer and comedian Helen Pilcher will
guide you through the wonderful world of tiny examples of
ingenuity.
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