2022 Holiday Gift Guide
We are delighted to share our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide offerings from Mobius Books. At Mobius, we strive to select the best titles from the Hachette UK lists and introduce them to the US market. Our offerings this year include a wide range of titles: heart-racing thrillers, guides to the great outdoors, green thumb tips from the gardening grandad Gerald Stratford, creative cookbooks (including Favorite Flavors, the new title from the Great British Bake Off team), moving biographies, and books to inspire change. We guarantee there is something for everyone on your holiday lists!
Stocking Stuffers • Staff Picks • For the Armchair Detective • Favorite Cookbooks • Foragers, Foodies and Farmers • Books For Change • Biographies
stocking stuffers
Self-Care Every Day – A beautifully illustrated guide to mental health from first coffee to lights out. With a host of furry friends to guide you, discover how to tackle everyday problems from Monday morning blues to low self-esteem, burnout to workplace tensions. Combining humor, warmth and wisdom, Self-Care Every Day provides practical tips to help establish a better work-life balance and to navigate the challenges and demands of modern life. Whether you need some words of comfort to set you up for the working week, tips on cultivating healthy habits, or a reminder of the importance of self-compassion, you will find your answer in these pages. (Now Available, $14.99)
Wild Kilted Yoga –Unwind your mind, improve your yoga practice and connect with the beauty of the great outdoors with viral Scottish yoga star Finlay Wilson and Wild Kilted Yoga. Finlay's book will take you on a journey through some of Scotland's most stunning locations and will leave you feeling zen and grounded. Finlay guides you through unique yoga sequences which are suitable for all levels: strong heat-building poses for Fire, flowing and graceful movements for Water, steady and grounded poses for Earth, and lightness and poise for Air. (Now Available, $16.99)
The Woman, The Mink, The Cod and the Donkey – An affectionate pastiche of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse, this book features the illustrated travels of a woman looking for an open pub, along with her unlikely cohort of three animal friends. (Now Available, $14.99)
The Clanlands Almanac – If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. Mountains, battles, famous (and infamous) Scots, the alarming competitiveness of Men in Kilts, clans, feuds, flora, fauna, with a healthy sprinkling of embarrassing personal reminiscences thrown in. Much is explored, all is shared. It is a camper van cornucopia of all things Alba. (On Sale November 1, $14.99)
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staff picks
The Earth – A unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene. It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms that developed in hydrothermal deep-sea vents to the diversity of life today. The Earth beautifully distills this complex story into a meaningful scale. In taking a closer look at 50 carefully selected organisms over ten epochs in our planetary history, this book tells the whole story of life on Earth. (On Sale July 19, $35.00)
How to Create Little Happy Learners – How to Create Little Happy Learners presents an inspiring selection of learning and craft activities designed to promote a love of learning. Written by Sophie David, a former pre-school teacher who is now a stay-at-home mom with 3 children under 5. Sophie offers over 60 fun-packed activities for children, all highlighting different skills (fine motor, phonics, math, creativity, communication and independence). she also adapts each activity for different age groups (from 0-5 years) so you can reuse the book as your child grows. (Now Available, $26.99)
Girlcrush – A dark feminist retelling of Jekyll & Hyde by bestselling author Florence Given. In Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly bisexual woman whilst also becoming a viral sensation on Wonderland, a social media app where people project their dream selves online. The distance between her online and offline self grows further and further apart until something dark happens that leads her into total self-destruction, forcing Eartha to make a choice; which version of herself should she kill off? (On Sale November 8, $26.99)
Quiet Escapes – The definitive guide to traveling for peace and quiet. With 50 carefully selected silent trips to choose from, including natural wilderness adventures, remote island retreats, sacred pilgrim routes and unexpected oases of quiet in urban areas, there is something for everyone. (On Sale October 25, $30.00)
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For the Armchair Detective
Birthday Girl – New York in the 1990s - impoverished writer Jonathan Dainty takes his wife Maddie out to the beach for her birthday. Hours later he finds himself at the local police precinct trying to explain how on earth he let his wife get into a stranger's car, and allowed it to drive her away. More than twenty years later, Maddie is presumed dead and Jonathan has channelled his grief into a best-selling series of crime novels. Then one day he catches a glimpse of his dead wife, moving through a throng of people. Is Maddie alive? Has she come back? And why does no one believe him? (On Sale June 28, $26.99)
Kill For It – Erin Goodman is a very good reporter. Up until recently, in fact, she was the best. Cat Sullivan suddenly seems to have the inside scoop, she's always in the right place at the right time for the juiciest news reports. When Cat just happens to be in the area when a murder is called in, Erin can no longer ignore the long run of coincidences giving Cat's career a boost. But Cat knows Erin is onto her. And Cat is more than happy to toy with her colleague, especially if it gets her an even bigger story to report on. In the game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner. (On Sale November 22, $12.99)
In Two Minds – As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr. Das's job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the “criminally insane”, many of whom assault, rob, rape, and even kill. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as inside courtrooms, giving evidence as an expert witness. In this honest, revealing and at times humorous memoir, Dr Das shares stories from his fifteen years as a psychiatric doctor working with this dangerous clientele, detailing some of his most extreme, heart-breaking and bizarre cases - and how he's learned to live with his mistakes when the worst happens (On Sale August 9, $26.99)
The Lover – How can you hide your affair when your lover's been murdered? Is it worse to lie to your husband or the police? When their upstairs neighbor Jørgen is found dead, Rikke is questioned alongside her husband Åsmund. How can Rikke admit in front of Åsmund that Jørgen and she were having an affair? Before she can summon the courage to confess, Rikke is struck by a chilling revelation. Jørgen can only have been killed by someone living in their small apartment building. From the mind of a psychologist, and the author of The Therapist, comes a gripping story of secrets, lies, extramarital affairs and murder. (On Sale July 12, $26.99)
The Three Dahlias – Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of Lettice Davenport, the author whose sleuthing creation of the 1930s, Dahlia Lively, had made each of them famous to a new generation. When fictional death turns into real bodies, can the three Dahlias find the answers to the murders among the fans, the film crew and the family - or even in Lettice's books themselves? A contemporary mystery with a Golden Age feel, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Jessica Fellowes - and Janice Hallett and Richard Osman, of course! (On Sale July 26, $26.99)
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Favorite Cookbooks
Meat-Free Mexican – Quick and tasty vegetarian and vegan Mexican recipes from Tommi Miers, founder of the Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca and author of Wild Gourmets, Mexican Food Made Simple and Wahaca Mexican Food at Home. From sweet potato and mushroom taquitas to a Mexican tetela – a burrito packed with seasonal vegetables, black beans, avocado salsa and cashew crema, Meat Free Mexican has something tasty – and vegetarian – for everyone! (On Sale June 28, $30.00)
How To Go Plant-Based – Despite the increasing number of people moving towards a plant-based diet, there are no clear, evidence-based mainstream books to help anyone looking to adopt this way of eating - either for themselves, or for their family. It can be overwhelming to switch to a plant-based diet, and you may have no idea where to start. Thankfully Ella Mills and her team at deliciously ella have done all the research for you. This book demystifies going plant-based, making it as easy, clear and delicious as possible, and features 100 new recipes to get you started on your plant-based journey. (On Sale August 16, $30.00)
Bake Yourself Happy – A joyful celebration of baking, including over 50 recipes for delicious bakes from bread to cakes and patisserie, by Great British Baking Show contestant Steph Blackwell. More than a simple recipe book, Bake Yourself Happy delves into the psychology and science of why baking can help to alleviate stress, increase self-confidence, and bring us a greater sense of wellbeing. Steph Blackwell has discovered the life-affirming power of baking in her own life, and since then has been on a mission to sprinkle a little more baking joy in the world. (On Sale Sept. 6, $30.00)
Great British Baking Show: Favorite Flavors – A new book to tie into season 13 of the Great British Baking Show. With recipes from the judges, the bakers and the Baking Show team. (On Sale November 8, $35.00)
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Foragers, Foodies and Farmers
Big Veg – Learn how to grow big veg with Gerald Stratford, the gardening grandad loved by over a quarter of a million fans on Twitter. Big Veg is packed with decades of gardening know-how and fully illustrated with photos from his Cotswolds garden. It includes a helpful month-by-month guide to sowing, planting and harvesting veg, as well as tips on how to grow Gerald's specialty: really big veg. Full of encouragement and Gerald's infectious enthusiasm, Big Veg makes an ideal companion for anyone keen to grow-your-own. (Now Available, $22.99)
Outsiders: The Outdoors is Yours – Nature is a powerful source of creativity, inspiration and healing; however, it has not always felt like a safe space for people of color. Flock Together is here to change that, by inspiring everyone, regardless of race, religion or economic status, to build their relationship with the outdoors and embrace all that nature has to offer. Founded by Ollie Olanipekun and Nadeem Perera in summer 2020, Flock Together is the UK's first birdwatching collective for people of color. Part memoir, part manifesto, Outsiders is Flock Together's call-to-action. (On Sale October 4, $26.99)
The Plant Hunter’s Atlas – Travel the world with extraordinary tales of the botanical discoveries that have shaped empires, built (and destroyed) economies, revolutionized medicine and advanced our understanding of science. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 botanical artworks from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, this absorbing book tells the stories of how plants have traveled across the world - from the missions of the Pharaohs right up to 21st century seed-banks and the many new and endangered species being named every year. (On Sale June 28, $35.00)
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Books For Change
Hot Mess – What is climate change, who's to blame, and what the f**k can we do about it? Award-winning comedian and climate change researcher Dr. Matt Winning explains all. (Now Available, $26.99)
Earthshot – The definitive book of the Earthshot prize, The concept of Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need the world’s best solutions and one shared goal – to save our planet. The Earthshots are unifying, ambitious goals for our planet which, if achieved by 2030, will improve life for all of us, for the rest of life on Earth, and for generations to come. It’s not too late, but we need collective action now. With an Introduction by HRH Prince William and Forewards by Sir David Attenborough, Shakira, Christiana Figueres, and Naoko Yamazaki. (Now Available, $28.00)
Speeches That Changed the World – From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context. This completely revised and updated pocket edition includes speeches by those that have truly shaped the modern world: from Greta Thunberg to Donald Trump, and from Nadia Murad to Oprah Winfrey. (On Sale July 12, $26.99)
Strong Female Lead – In Strong Female Lead, Arwa Mahdawi investigates the qualities demonstrated by female leaders who show us how it's done, including original research and interviews with Madeleine Albright, Mary Robinson, Alicia Garza and many others. Above all, she asks the question: What can women in power teach all of us about leadership? (Now Available, $26.99)
A Delicate Game – A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should. A 14-year old-rugby player is told to play on through multiple blows. He never wakes up from the last one. A scientist reveals endemic brain disease in NFL players and is discredited. A survivor of domestic abuse can't remember details when standing up in court. This is the story of the degenerative brain disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This is a story of power, of science and sport, and of the bodies that society deems worth sacrificing. (On Sale July 5, $26.99)
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biographies
Does My Butt Look Big in This? – Felicity's debut book is a joyful and powerful guide to how you can take control of your own self-image and learn to love your true and authentic self. From dispelling harmful body myths to finding your own unique style, and from mental self-care to navigating toxic social media – Felicity shares her own highs and lows and gives practical, actionable advice to achieve true body confidence. (Now Available, $19.99)
Exit Stage Left – A quirky, thought-provoking look at the curious afterlife of pop stars. These are tales of heroin addiction, bankruptcy, depression, divorce - but also of optimism, a genuine love of the craft, humility and hope. All of which makes Exit Stage Left a fascinating, laugh-out-loud funny and often shocking look at what happens when the brightest of stars fall down to earth. (On Sale June 28, $26.99)
I’ll Try Anything Once – Originally published as Relish, a fully revised and updated edition of the eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: Dame Prue Leith, judge of hit show Great British Bake Off, tells all from childhood in South Africa to becoming a DBE. (On Sale November 1, $26.99)
All My Friends Are Invisible – Jonathan Joly, known widely as one of social media's most successful content creators, shares the secret he's kept hidden these many years – as a child he was creative, expressive, and - on the inside - a girl. The limitations of the people around him to understand his differences led to years of tyrannical bullying and abuse, forcing him to withdraw within himself to the point of clinical absence. His only chance for survival was the inner world he created for himself, that only he could see. This mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir gives hope and community for all those who have ever felt “other.” (Now Available, $26.99)
Nailing It – A collection of true stories from comedian Rich Hall's professional and personal life where he really had to nail it. They're not about glitz, or fame, or how he met his seventh wife at the rehab clinic and found spiritual direction. They're about accidentally melting Kraft cheese at his first Edinburgh Fringe Festival, alienating an entire convention of RV holiday-makers in Las Vegas, and attempting to seduce Karen, which must have been successful because she is now his wife. Hall doesn't always come out of them all covered in glory, but they make for excellent stories. (On Sale September 20, $26.99)