New Trade Paperbacks - Non-Fiction Trade Paperbacks Non Fiction Published In August 2024

Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about-hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love.

EVERY TRANSFORMATION STARTS FROM THE NECK UP

This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of people as they navigate questions of identity and belonging.

Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.

From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettable and fascinating biography.

Over the last few decades, space exploration has revolutionised our understanding of our place in the cosmos. We now know that there are many habitable environments within our solar system. Yet a profound question remains: are we alone in the universe?

Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux.

For every parent who's worried about their child's weight or size, Kids Thrive at Every Size offers an approach to health that focuses on the whole child-not just the growth chart.

A true story of murder and vengeance, a shattered community and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decades

Welcome to the biotech revolution. In the last century, technology has transformed the human experience across the world. This has been super-charged by the arrival of the internet, smart phones, AI and machine learning, and created trillion-plus dollar companies and household names like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Our Future is Biotech explains why biotech is next: because our biggest remaining challenges as a species concern biological systems.

Imagine being a model in the heady noughties, travelling all over the globe, your face on billboards everywhere. As Miranda Priestley might say, 'a million girls would kill for this job': well, Ruth Crilly is here to tell you why that might ... not ... quite be true.

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us.