THE BOOKSELLER BUYER’S GUIDE | PUBLISHERS’ AUTUMN TITLES
England, captured in the now traditional fashion of an array of 100 defining objects. These include birthing chairs, prosthetic arms, pocket watches, fuming pots, codpieces, ear scoops, bollock daggers and ducking stools.
HODDER
SHAKESPEARE BORIS JOHNSON 20 OCTOBER, HB, £25, 9781473625785 Johnson aims to explain Shakespeare’s genius in a simple and readable way which sets the man simply and intelligibly in the context of his time. He explores not only the origin of Shakespeare’s genius, but also the nature of his genius. If Shakespeare is the greatest ever, then of what exactly does his greatness consist?
JOHN MURRAY
FOUR PRINCES JOHN JULIUS NORWICH 20 OCTOBER, HB, £25, 9781473632950 Through the interlocking stories of four great princes— Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, and Suleiman the Magnificent —the renowned historian offers a short, vivid history of the Renaissance and the making of early modern Europe.
THE SECRET LIVES OF COLOUR KASSIA ST CLAIR 20 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9781473630819 Unusual stories of the 75 shades, dyes and hues; from the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague; the blue of Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux.
MACMILLAN
THE GAMES DAVID GOLDBLATT 14 JULY, HB, £20, 9781447298847 “Definitive, sporting, social and political history of the modern Olympic Games, the world that made them, and the world they helped to share”, from their reinvention in Athens in 1896 to the present day. He chronicles classic moments from Jesse Owens to Usain Bolt and shows how the Games have reflected changing attitudes to race and ethnicity.
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Nicola Sturgeon, Mary Quant, and Mary Somerville, to shed light upon a variety of social, political, religious and cultural aspects of British history.
PROFILE BOOKS
A BLACK HISTORY OF BRITAIN DAVID OLUSOGA 20 OCTOBER, HB, £25, 9781447299738 Exploration of the long relationship between black and white Britons. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, it reaches back to Roman Britain, confronts taboos and reveals hitherto unknown scandals. Accompanies a BBC series.
REVOLUTION PETER ACKROYD 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £25, 9780230706422 The fourth in Ackroyd’s History of England series begins with the accession of William of Orange following the Glorious Revolution; through the Regency to the Napoleonic Wars and the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
ONEWORLD
GAME OF QUEENS SARAH GRISTWOOD 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9781780749945
Gristwood examines how an extraordinary set of women in 16th-century Europe, including Isabella of Castile, Katherine of Aragon, Jeanne d’Albret and Mary Stuart created a unique culture of feminine power that saw them run the continent for decades.
A HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN 21 WOMEN JENNI MURRAY 06 OCTOBER, HB, £16.99, 9781780749907 The “Woman’s Hour” presenter draws together the lives of 21 women including Boudicca, Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mary Seacole, Margaret Thatcher,
RELEASE YOUR INNER ROMAN BY MARCUS SIDONIUS FALX JERRY TONER 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £14.99, 9781781254660 At last the Roman self-help book the world has been waiting for. Falx shows how to manage your love-life, choose a spouse and raise your children, as well as offering guidance on marital relations and the importance of loyalty and discipline in family affairs, as well as raising yourself up in society and keeping the gods on your side.
PUSHKIN PRESS AURUM PRESS
SORROW OF THE EARTH ERIC VUILLARD 25 AUGUST, HB, £12.99, 9781782272212 The story of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its North American participants: their humiliation and the simplification of their painful and complex stories for popular consumption. This “fiercely intelligent critique of human cruelty, colonialism and dumbing down” won four prizes on publication in France.
WILLIAM COLLINS
FULL STEAM AHEAD PETER GINN; RUTH GOODMAN 11 AUGUST, HB, £25, 9780008194314
Reveals how the world we live in today was entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation and how it left its mark on every aspect of life, landscape and culture. Based on the BBC series.
ATLAS OF IMPROBABLE PLACES TRAVIS ELBOROUGH; ALAN HORSFIELD 01 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9781781315323 The author of Wish You Were Here sets out in search of places obscure and bizarre, and the result is this beguiling alternative atlas. There’s the lost city of San Juan Parangaricutiro in Mexico, destroyed by an earthquake in 1943, save its great bell tower; the former closed society city of Zheleznogorsk in Siberia; and the underground river shaped like a dragon’s mouth in the Philippines.
W W NORTON
THE BOOK KEITH HOUSTON 13 AUGUST, HB, £18.99, 9780393244793 In this “invitingly tactile” history of our 2,000 year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today.
activities, website recommendations and down-to-earth advice.
BLUEBIRD
DOG MEDICINE JULIE BARTON 14 JULY, PO, £7.99, 9781509834488 “I believe that when I was suffering most dearly, the universe sent me a healer in the form of a dog.” Engaging and beautifully written memoir in which a young US writer charts the anguish of her severe depression and breakdown, and her recovery which came with the help of a Golden Retriever puppy named Bunker.
GEOGRAPHY
UNF*CK YOUR HABITAT RACHEL HOFFMAN 29 DECEMBER, PO, £8.99, 9781509830206
A practical, no-holds-barred approach to decluttering, subtitled “You’re Better Than Your Mess”
CANONGATE
INSANELY GIFTED JAMIE CATTO 14 JULY, SPIRAL,
£12.99, 9781782118039 “Creative dynamo” admired by the likes of Tom Robbins and Stephen Fry aims to show us how to turn our inner demons into allies. From infancy we are taught to edit out the darker, weirder, less acceptable parts of ourselves in order to please others, but this addiction to approval is holding us back, says the author.
SELF-HELP & PARENTING
ATLANTIC BOOKS
VITAMIN N RICHARD LOUV 21 JULY, TPB, £12.99, 9781786490421. The author of Last Child in the Woods returns with a sort of companion guide to that previous book with practical ideas for connecting children with nature. Addressed to the whole family and the wider community, it is chock-full of
HEALTH,
THE STORY CURE SUSAN ELDERKIN; ELLA BERTHOUD 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9781782115274 This sequel to The Novel Cure is a literary first aid kit of book recommendations for children (and grown-ups) of all ages, from picture books to YA novels. Whether a child you know is being bullied, the toddler can’t sleep, or the teenager has fallen in love for the first time—or just doesn’t know what to read next—the right story will help them feel themselves again.
FOURTH ESTATE
BREAKFAST IS A DANGEROUS MEAL TERENCE KEALEY 29 DECEMBER, TPB, £12.99, 9780008172343 In the wake of his own Type
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