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In How to Survive and Thrive Vol. III, Reebok founder Joe Foster returns with another inspiring collection of stories from those who’ve faced adversity and risen above it.

This volume celebrates twenty entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders who embody the ambition, resilience, and creativity that drive true success. Their journeys show that strength is not the absence of struggle, but the courage to move through it. Each story is a reminder that with determination and adaptability, it’s possible not just to survive, but to thrive.

Whether you’re launching your first venture, steering a team through uncertainty, or navigating personal challenges, How to Survive & Thrive Vol. III offers hard-won wisdom and lasting inspiration to help you grow, achieve, and realise your full potential.

Co-Authors: Fatima Whitbread MBE, Dr. Dave Williams, Jonathan Fitchew, Hazleen Ahmad, Charlie Cannon, Rashmi Dubé, Alejandro Martinez, Romaa Rajadhyaksha, Kyle Hartfield, Clayton Thomas, Andrea Baer, Zeeshan Hussain, Christine Du Toit, Abdulaziz Aziz Al-Roomi, Chiron Yeng, Adam Pope, Dominique Cagle, Maureen Hall, Steve Kavanagh, and Luiz Costa Macambira.

THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK to explore Mary Lavin’s relationship with The New Yorker. The Irish American writer was introduced to the magazine by J. D. Salinger in 1957, marking a new chapter in Lavin’s career. Lavin went on to have a lucrative first-reading agreement for 29 years, and the author and her chief New Yorker editor, Rachel MacKenzie, exchanged almost 400 letters. Within a year of working together, they were ending their letters with “love”, “gratefully” and “affectionately”.
Hurley’s book draws extensively from this correspondence and reveals their collaborative relationship, Lavin’s writing process, the inner workings and editing procedures of The New Yorker. The book also reveals Lavin’s friendships with prominent literary figures including Elizabeth Bowen, Eudora Welty, Frank O’Connor, William Maxwell, and John McGahern.
Gráinne Hurley worked on this book when she was the Ireland Funds Monaco writer in residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library (spring 2023). Published by New Island Books in June 2025 and available at the Princess Grace Irish Library. (pgil.mc)

EDDIE JORDAN was an iconic F1 team owner and motorsport pundit. The Monaco resident passed away aged 76 on March 20, 2025. Two months later, Prince Albert gave a speech at the official launch of the Eddie Jordan Foundation at the Yacht Club de Monaco. The Foundation will operate across Monaco, Dublin, London, and Cape Town, and provide scholarships and mentorship to people 18 and over to help unlock their potential through sport, music, and business.
The work of the Foundation will “be inspired” by a new book printed in Monaco - FTB: Lessons from Eddie Jordan, with all proceeds supporting The Eddie Jordan Foundation.
As described by the Foundation, the hardcover is “packed with 25 punchy, powerful principles from Eddie’s extraordinary journey - from launching Jordan Grand Prix to discovering F1 champions and closing billion-pound deals - FTB is more than a biography.” It’s a no-nonsense handbook for risk-takers, dreamers, creatives, and leaders with stories and lessons straight from Eddie’s inner circle.
See the Foundation’s website to join the wait for the book’s second print run. 

IN F1 CONFIDENTIAL, Guardian journalist Giles Richards speaks to the men and women inside Formula One to reveal the inner workings of the world’s most glamorous motorsport. Featuring exclusive interviews with experts at every level—from drivers and team principals to engineers and pit mechanics—and from teams including Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren, and more, this is an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look inside a modern Formula One team. With contributions from dozens of insiders, each with their own fascinating stories, insights and revelations, F1 Confi dential takes you inside Formula One like never before.

Winner of the 2025 Prix Fitzgerald, Richard Ford delivers the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature. 
Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, the Pulitzer Prize winner has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway.
Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives - sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent - Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured to each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.

AS ONE OF THE PRINCIPALITY'S iconic landmarks, the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM) serves “as a link between its members, the yachting industry at large, and Monaco itself.” This 192-page luxury coffee-table book from Assouline was released in July 2024 to coincide with Prince Albert’s 40th year as president of the YCM. It also marked the 10th anniversary of the inauguration of the 200-meter long premises along Quai Louis II. The club’s vision by internationally-renowned architect, Lord Norman Foster, including an air-conditioning system using seawater from a depth of 40 meters, is celebrated in this spectacular hardcover. Author Jill Bobrow has had an extensive career in yachting journalism and publishing. She was the founding editor of Boat International USA and is the co-author of more than twenty books, including Built by Oceanco and Classic Sailing Yachts.

IN 2025, THE PELAGOS AGREEMENT celebrates 25 years since Monaco, France, and Italy established the very first international marine protected area in the Mediterranean—and the first in the world to include a large portion of the high seas. From Italy, the marine sanctuary stretches from northern Sardinia to Elba Island in the east, then across Monaco to Hyères, France, in the west, encompassing the entire coast of Corsica.

As part of a year-long writer’s residency by the Pelagos Initiative, Olivier Weber and Simonetta Greggio were commissioned to travel across the Sanctuary to meet with scientists, fishermen, marine park managers, snorkellers and volunteers from conservation associations. They found themselves immersed in the deep blue sea that we dream of but know so little about. And they saw, first hand, how this vital territory of life faces growing pressure from our anthropogenic activity and the need to establish rules to protect it.