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with his rock band, Foregone Conclusion, and this is the official songbook of all the hits from his new album, with real sheet music arranged for piano, vocals and guitar. Also includes official photography and handwritten lyrics by Brent, as well as compositions by Coldplay’s Chris Martin.


JOEL JESSUP PETS ROCK: MORE FUN THAN FAME! CARLTON, 11TH, P/B, £9.99, 9781780977553 Book inspired by the Pets Rock brand, which plays on our passion for pets and the cult of celebrity. Includes 16 previously unseen characters and an outtakes section looking at the “stars” as they prepare for camera.


LAURA LANE AND ANGELA SPERA THIS IS WHY


YOU’RE SINGLE BLINK, 11TH, P/B, £5.99, 9781911274124 Said to be a laugh-out-loud guide to for the modern dater, based on the iTunes Top 10 comedy podcast, Twitter feed and YouTube channel of the same name. It breaks away from traditional dating guides by taking a leaf out of Aesop and offering modern-day dating fables, paired with advice, entertaining quizzes, graphs and illustrations.


LAUREN URASEK POPULAR BLINK, 11TH, P/B, £8.99, 9781910536605 From “OkCupid’s most messaged girl”, a laugh-out-loud guide to online dating. The content includes cheeky sidebars on such topics as: Red flags you should never ignore; The 15 worst usernames you should beware of; and


there’s a useful comparison between different dating services (OkCupid, Tinder, Match etc).


LANGUAGE & LITERATURE


TEJU COLE KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS FABER, 4TH, H/B, £17.99, 9780571328055 Essays by the novelist and New Yorker writer about art, literature, politics and place, on subjects ranging from Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin and W G Sebald, to President Obama and Boko Haram, and including his noted piece on the Charlie Hebdo murders.


DEXTER DIAS THE TEN TYPES OF HUMAN HEINEMANN, 11TH, H/B, £20, 9781785150166 Celebrated human rights lawyer Dias with an “imaginative and


provocative” blend of neuroscience, psychology, memoir and criminal investigation in which he invites us to meet the 10 types of human, each adapted to meet a specific and serious survival threat. Such adaptation may lead them to kill, it may lead them to sacrifice . . .


NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION AUGUST


edition of a comprehensive, illustrated anthology of vampires in literature, from Dracula and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber to Twilight, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein. Also includes vampires in visual art and film.


CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING VAMPYRES: GENESIS AND RECONSTRUCTION FROM COUNT DRACULA TO VAMPIRELLA THAMES & HUDSON, H/B, £18.95, 9780500252215 Revised and expanded


O N E S TO WATC H


CLIVE JAMES PLAY ALL: A BINGEWATCHER’S NOTEBOOK YALE, H/B, £14.99, 9780300218091 Though he is now making a joke of it, it’s wonderful that Clive James is still around to entertain us in his eclectic way. Here, the veteran TV reviewer in him examines the radical change in content, format, programming and viewing— notably the US cable channels —that has taken place since he served as TV columnist for the Observer in the 1970s and ‘80s.


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ANNE JAMISON E O E SOMERVILLE AND MARTIN ROSS: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP AND LITERARY COLLABORATION CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, H/B, £35, 9781782051923 Exploring the remarkable collaboration of one of the most prominent and successful female literary partnerships at work in the late 19th Century, exploring their often subversive cultural position within Irish and Victorian literary society.


STEWART LEE CONTENT PROVIDER FABER, 4TH, P/B, £14.99, 9780571329021 From what your Spotify playlist says about you to the dearth of right-wing stand-ups, this “brilliantly funny and observant” book from the comedian collects pieces from his weekly column in the Observer,


CURRENT AFFAIRS


PUK DAMASGÅRD THE ISIS HOSTAGE ATLANTIC, 4TH, P/B, £9.99, 9781786490568 A chart-topping bestseller in Denmark, with rights sold in 10 languages since, this is the dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured in Syria and held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, alongside British hostages Alan Hemming and David Haines and US journalist James Foley—all of whom were murdered. Written with the full co-operation of Rye, who was freed after his family paid a huge ransom, it details his intense ordeal and tells a moving and terrifying story of friendship, torture and survival.


PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT


WILL DARBYSHIRE THIS MODERN LOVE CENTURY, 11TH, H/B, £14.99, 9781780895727


“Question 1: What would you say to your ex, without judgement?” A contemporary of Joe Sugg, “Zoella” and Alfie Deyes, Darbyshire’s advice videos on the subject of romance have won him more than a million social media followers. Aimed primarily at 16 to 25-year-olds, the book grew from the thousands of emails he received from fans from all over the world about relationships on social media, and has been entirely crowdsourced and curated by them into this compendium of letters, poems and photographs summing up modern relationships.


HEALTH, DIET & FITNESS


BRYONY KIMMINGS AND TIM GRAYBURN BOYS DON’T CRY: A STORY OF LOVE, DEPRESSION AND MEN HODDER, 25TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781473636903 In this “brave and life-affirming” book, artist Kimmings and Grayburn, who works in advertising, tell of their relationship. Tim suffers from severe clinical depression, a secret he kept from Bryony until they had been together for six months. They decided to stand up to the stigma by touring with a theatre show about their relationship; now comes this account of deep love and depression. “The go-to, self-purchase, men’s mental health memoir for autumn 2016,” says Hodder.


HISTORY


J C H KING BLOOD AND LAND: THE STORY OF NATIVE NORTH AMERICA ALLEN LANE, 25TH, H/B, £25, 9780241282359 Drawing comparisons with Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Viking calls this a rich, powerful, sweeping history of native North America, from a historian who has spent a lifetime engaging with the subject. King looks beyond the “feathers and failures” narratives to argue that, from a low point before the First World War—when Native Americans were on the verge of becoming extinct—the story of recent years has been of renewed cultural confidence and much larger numbers. Beautifully illustrated.


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