BOOK OF THE YEAR
NON-FICTION: LIFESTYLE & ILLUSTRATED
With subjects from climate change to the menopause, mental health to endangered animals and a groundbreaking history of scope—but what these six books have in common
MENOPAUSING Menopausing spent 14 weeks in the Sunday Times top 10 and hit the number one spot three times overall, making it the UK’s bestselling menopause book ever. HQ worked hard to ensure the book was fully inclusive and effectively utilised Davina McCall’s star power to ensure Menopausing was unmissable: It even featured as a question on “The Weakest Link”.
THE GOLDEN MOLE Katherine Rundell appears twice on this year’s Book of the Year shortlists; here with a gorgeously produced tome that inspired readers to do more for the endangered animals with whom we share a planet. Faber p oduc
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ONE Jamie Oliver’s dominance of the cookbook market continued with One, the bestselling non-fiction title of 2022. Penguin Michael Joseph has been publishing Oliver for 20 years and keeping an author at the forefront of the market for so long requires strategic plan- ning and creativity. For the first time, the chef’s picture does not appear on the cover; instead the food is the focus.
THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN Katy Hessel’s pioneering exploration of women artists from the past 500 years featured over 300 images, yet was still at the affordable end of full-colour publishing. Thus Hutchinson Heinemann successfully broke what could have remained a specialist art title into the mainstream; sales skyrocketed when it won Waterstones Book of the Year.
THE CLIMATE BOOK Allen Lane’s cover of The Climate Book reproduced Ed Hawkins’ Warming Stripes graphic; each stripe represents the average global temperature for a year, from 1643 to 2021. Eye-catching and intended to shock, it encapsulated the book’s ethos: an authoritative guide to understanding climate change. The activist author made a pre-publication appear- ance at Glastonbury.
WHY HAS NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE? With 4.2 million TikTok follow- ers, psychologist Dr Julie Smith had a younger online audience, but Penguin Michael Joseph shaped a self-help book which would appeal across the gener- ations. All retailers, including the major supermarkets, came on board. The book was the second-bestselling non-fiction title of 2022, spending 23 weeks at number one.
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