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New Allen Lane Titles: The Education of a British-Protected Child is a collection of autobiographical essays by award winning novelist Chinua Achebe. Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz explains the financial crisis and the coming global economic order in Freefall. John Lancaster explains the credit crunch and tells the story of reckless banksters, snoozing regulators and innocent bystanders in Whoops!

Paul Davies reveals the latest findings on SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - in The Eerie Silence. Michael Lewis' The Big Short is the long-awaited follow-up to Liar's Poker. The Atlantic and Its Enemies is a highly personal, endlessly fascinating history of the Cold War.

Browse the full list of Spring and Summer Allen Lane titles below.