THE BOOKSELLER BUYER’S GUIDE | PUBLISHERS’ AUTUMN TITLES
BUDDHA TONY MORRIS 01 JULY, PB, £6.99, 9780750954600 Short pithy biography of the Buddha.
HODDER
DEAR MICHAEL, LOVE DAD IAIN MAITLAND 28 JULY, HB, £16.99, 9781473638167 In 2007, the author’s son Michael left home for university and in the years that followed, developed depression, OCD and almost fatal anorexia. In Dear Lupin vein, this is a compendium of the letters Maitland wrote to Michael after he left home, coupled with extracts from Michael’s daily diaries in The Priory and behind-the-scenes commentary.
TWO KISSES FOR MADDY MATT LOGELIN 15 DECEMBER, PB, £7.99, 9781473632875 Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts who seemed to have it all. Then shortly after their baby girl Maddy was born, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly without ever holding her daughter. This memoir of sudden single fatherhood was a NYT bestseller and has now been turned into a “tear-jerking” Hollywood film produced by, and starring Channing Tatum.
FEAR RANULPH FIENNES 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9781473617988 The renowned explorer and adventurer explores the concept of fear and shows us through his own experiences how we can push our boundaries in everyday life. Apparently his fear of heights is so great he would rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it himself.
ICON BOOKS
BANDIT MOLLY BRODAK 06 OCTOBER, HB, £14.99, 9781785781032
In the summer of 1994, when the author was 13 years old, her father robbed 11 banks, until the police finally caught up with him. Dubbed the Mario Brothers Bandit by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was released, only to rob another bank several years later and end up back behind bars. In a “powerful,
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HOW TO WRITE LIKE TOLSTOY RICHARD COHEN 01 SEPTEMBER, HB, £16.99, 9781786070210 The former Hutchinson and Hodder publishing director with an “enchanting” journey into the minds, techniques, concerns, tricks and flaws of the world’s greatest writers, revealing how the likes of Eliot, Dickens, Woolf, Joyce and others grappled with plot and character as they created their great works.
DASHING FOR THE POST PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR 06 OCTOBER, HB, £25, 9781473622463
The letters in this “revelatory” collection span almost 70 years, the first written 10 days before Leigh Fermor’s 25th birthday, the last when he was 94. His correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Ann Fleming, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper and his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner.
TREVOR NOAH TREVOR NOAH 03 NOVEMBER, HB, £16.99, 9781473635289 Born under apartheid to a black South African mother and a white European father, Trevor Noah’s improbable rise to stardom led to his sold-out one-man show at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and then to his succeeding Jon Stewart as the host of “The Daily Show”. This is his “fascinating and darkly funny” memoir.
MACMILLAN
I AM DURAN ROBERTO DURAN 08 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9781509802180 Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest boxers of all time and the “boxers’ boxer”, Duran describes for the first time and in his own words, his journey from the mean streets of Panama as the illegitimate son of a serving US soldier, to the bright lights of Las Vegas. Five times world champion at four different weights, he is Ricky Hatton’s hero.
provocative” début memoir, Brodak attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her father, a man she only half knew.
JOHN MURRAY
MY TURN: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY JOHAN CRUYFF 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9781509813902
In March 2016 Cruyff died after a short battle with lung cancer. This is the long- awaited autobiography of one of the world’s most renowned footballers, who was also a brilliant teacher and analyst of the game he loved.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MARCONI MARC RABOY 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £25, 9780199313587 Based on original research and unpublished archival materials, this is billed as the first biography of the wireless pioneer to connect significant parts of Marconi’s story, from his early days in Italy, to his groundbreaking experiments, to his protean role in world affairs.
PICADOR
I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY PAUL HOWARD 20 OCTOBER, HB, £18.99, 9781509814954 The extraordinary life of the Irish aristocrat who inspired the Beatles’ greatest song.
PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
KIND OF BLUE KEN CLARKE 06 OCTOBER, HB, £25, 9781509837199 “Vivid, witty and forthright” is the billing for this autobiography from the Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
MICHAEL JOSEPH
ALANATOMY ALAN CARR 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9780718180751
In this follow-up to his first book Look Who It Is!, the comedian and broadcaster is ready to divulge the next chapter in “bursts of hilarious technicolour” in a sequel which will be “a guaranteed tickler with a laugh-out-loud gag on every page”.
ONEWORLD
OUT OF THE DESERT ALI AL-NAIMI 03 NOVEMBER, HB, £25, 9780241279250 The extraordinary memoir of global oil’s central banker, from abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s to heart of the global oil business.
PROFILE BOOKS
HINTERLAND CHRIS MULLIN 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9781781256053
After publishing three volumes of diaries, acclaimed as a “best account of the Blair years and the rise and fall of New Labour”, the former Labour MP for Sunderland South now gives us this “wry and revealing” political memoir.
KEEPING ON KEEPING ON ALAN BENNETT 20 OCTOBER, HB, £22, 9781781256497 This third collection of prose contains Bennett’s diaries from 2005 to 2015, which reflect on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (“The Habit of Art”, “People”, “Hymn” and “Cocktail Sticks”), a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.
PUSHKIN PRESS
A WORLD GONE MAD ASTRID LINDGREN 27 OCTOBER, HB, £20,
9781782272311 The wartime diaries of the celebrated children’s writer, published now for the first time in English, provide a fascinating insight into a Europe poisoned by fascism, racism and violence, from the point of view of a wife, mother and budding writer living in a formally neutral country.
QUERCUS BOOKS
TO SIRI WITH LOVE JUDITH NEWMAN 01 SEPTEMBER, HB, £16.99, 9781784298296 The author chronicles one year in the life of her sweet, complicated and autistic 13-year-old son Gus. At the heart of the book lies Gus’ passionate friendship with Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal assistant” who always has the right answers to Gus’ incessant stream of questions about the intricacies of national rail schedules, or box turtle varieties.
JACK AND JACK JACK AND JACK 08 SEPTEMBER, HB, £16.99, 9781786480637 Vine ingenues, YouTube megastars, hip-pop sensations, and best friends Jack & Jack bring their own brand of irreverent comedy to this autobiography which charts their journey from two regular kids growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, to global superstardom.
ROBSON PRESS
GOODBYE, PET BEL MOONEY 01 SEPTEMBER, PB, £9.99, 9781785900600
In a bid to understand her own profound sorrow in the wake of the death of her beloved dog, Bonnie, the writer and Daily Mail columnist explores pet
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