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​​​Arts & History. For Inspiration.

The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers is out in the UK and Commonwealth countries in 2023. Released in North America in 2024. To be translated into 13 languages in 2023-25.
Penguin Website

​Review in ​The Japan Times, October 21, 2024
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Shortlisted authors' event at the British Academy in London, October 2024
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Photo: GregAllen
September 10, 2024
​British Academy Book Prize: Shortlist Announcement
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british-academy-book-prize-2024-shortlist-announced/
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Paperback design (August 2024)
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Cover design for North America (July 2024)

Review in The Guardian​, July 29, 2024
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New York, USA
Review in The New York Times​, July 24, 2024
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Review in Forbes, June 28, 2024

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The Sunday Times
* Booklist Starred Review *
Blackwell's Featured Non-Fiction * A review by Waterstones *
Best non-fiction published in August 2023 by 'i' Top Non-fiction *
My New Scientist Comment Piece * Kirkus Starred Review 
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​The Financial Times, December 15, 2023
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BBC World Service, More or Less, The Overlooked Mathematicians of History. October 28, 2023 
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CBC Radio, We Give You Five. This is about 'the case of five to be the greatest number of all time.' 
​September 29, 2023
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Original hardcover design (2023)
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UK: August 17, 2023
Bookshops in the UK
​(London, Oxford, Manchester & Liverpool)
German Translation 
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Germany: October 11, 2023
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Italian translation (March 2024)
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Slovenian translation (April 2024)
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Spanish translation (Autumn 2024)
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Portuguese translation (Winter 2024)
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Korean translation (Winter 2024)

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Australian edition
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Melbourne, Australia
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Adelaide, Australia
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Vancouver, Canada
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Portland, Oregon
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Brooklyn, New York
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Near Milan Convention Centre
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Italian translation in Milan (Galleria)
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Milan (Galleria)
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Paperback is out (Oxford)
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Blackwell's Norrington Room