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NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION SEPTEMBER


of the changing world of publishing, amid a wealth of stories about household names, whether driving Muhammad Ali around Britain, laughing with Maureen Lipman, reading poetry with Ted Hughes, or just coping with Michael Winner.


MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE THE DESERT AND THE SEA: 977 DAYS CAPTIVE ON THE SOMALI PIRATE COAST HARPERWAVE, 6TH, HB, £20, 9780062449177 Part memoir, part reportage, part history, a harrowing, revelatory and sometimes humorous account of the author’s 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. It’s also a conflicted and probing meditation on the contradictions of Muslim extremists and the effects of post-colonialism.


LALAGE SNOW WAR GARDENS: A JOURNEY THROUGH CONFLICT IN SEARCH OF CALM QUERCUS, 6TH, HB, £20, 9781787470682 The freelance war correspondent and photographer author profiles the garden oases people create in war zones. Ranges from the royal gardens in Kabul, still lovingly tended despite the king being long gone, to Camp Bastion where bored soldiers improvise tiny gardens to give themselves


a moment’s peace; to Jerusalem, where families tend olive groves and raise beautiful flowers from disputed soil. Illustrated with Snow’s own award-winning photography.


LAURA THOMPSON THE LAST LANDLADY: AN ENGLISH MEMOIR UNBOUND, 6TH, HB, £16.99, 9781783525027 The magical brightness of glass behind the bar, beer and ash on the carpets in the morning. . . The award- winning author of The Dogs and Take Six Girls pays homage to the English pub through the remarkable story of her grandmother Violet, the first woman in England to be given a publican’s licence in her own name.


STEPHEN WESTABY THE KNIFE’S EDGE HARPERCOLLINS, 6TH, HB,


£14.99, 9780008285777 I have little information on this follow-up to Westaby’s Costa-shortlisted Fragile Lives, other than that it will be a more personal book, examining what it takes to be a heart surgeon on a psychological level.


forgotten her Deep South roots looks back on her “incredible life through personal essays”, and shares her tips, advice, recipes and book recommendations from the place where she learned “the true value of grace and charm”.


REESE WITHERSPOON WHISKEY IN A TEACUP SIMON & SCHUSTER, 18TH, HB, £20, 9781471166228


In this illustrated lifestyle book, the Hollywood actress who has never


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LUCY WORSLEY QUEEN VICTORIA: DAUGHTER, WIFE, MOTHER, WIDOW HODDER, 6TH, HB, £25, 9781473651388 Major new biography of Queen Vic by the historian author and TV presenter, in which Worsley focuses on 24 significant days in her life—including her birth, wedding and coronation— to explore how she transformed herself from dancing princess to the Widow of Windsor. May 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth.


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ELLE WRIGHT THE LIGHT GETS IN: FILLING THE LOSS WITH LOVE, AND LEARNING TO LIVE (AGAIN) BLINK, 20TH, HB, £14.99, 9781788700344 Said to be an emotional, heart-breaking memoir from a mother who lost her baby boy at three days old, and recorded the experience in her blog, Feathering the Empty Nest (over 50,000 followers). She writes about how to build a new life after the devastating loss of her child.


BUSINESS, ECONOMICS & PERSONAL FINANCE


JOHN ADAIR HOW TO LEAD OTHERS: SEVEN LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS BLOOMSBURY, 20TH, PB, £16.99, 9781472956972 Acclaimed business writer


BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS


LILY ALLEN MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY BLINK, 20TH, PB, £20, 9781911600893 This first book from the “music world’s most outspoken star” whose fourth album is is due out in June, is a “powerful and candid” account of the “things she cares about and the things that have happened in her life”: feeling isolated as a child; finding huge success, only to find herself feeling isolated again; falling into dependence on drink and drugs; and getting married. It’s also, I’m told, about feminism, the tabloids, sex, money, faking orgasms, bad managers, fame, sexual abuse, mental health and narcissism.


CURRENT AFFAIRS


KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH THE LIES THAT BIND: RETHINKING IDENTITY PROFILE, 6TH, HB, £14.99, 9781781259238 This compelling new perspective on identity, which expands on the author’s 2016 Reith Lectures, has already garnered praise from Zadie Smith. Appiah—who is both grandson of a British Chancellor of the Exchequer and nephew of a Ghanian king, as well as chair of judges for the 2018 Man Booker Prize—urges us to challenge our assumptions about how identity works. Our sense of self, he argues, is shaped by our families and our racial thinking, in particular, is an artefact of discarded science, he says.


NATURAL HISTORY & PETS


HELEN BROWNING PIG: TALES FROM AN ORGANIC FARM WILDFIRE, 20TH, HB, £16.99, 9781472258038


“In a frosty field on the longest night of the year, eight little piglets snuffle their first breaths, and jostle close to their mother to feed. . .” Billed as this year’s The Secret Life of Cows, an evocative and illuminating ac- count of the wonder of pigs, by the president of the Soil Association. It focuses on the life and times of a gang of Saddleback pigs on her Wiltshire farm, shining a light on the inner lives of these mischievous, intelligent and inventive animals, and on the hot environmental topic of sustainable farming and food.


SELF-HELP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT


SUSAN CALMAN DANCING FOR JOY: A SHORT ORDER OF KINDNESS TWO ROADS, 6TH, HB, £16.99, 9781473663862 Glasgow’s Calman and Grimsby’s Kevin danced their way across our screens over 10 weeks on “Strictly Come Dancing” 2017, charming many viewers in the process, and the experience was so damn wonderful it turned Calman into a “one-woman army of hope and joy”. Her evangelical mission with this book is simple: to get the nation to join her in not being negative, cross or shouty, and to find that joy in the little things in life, and defeat the hate and fear.


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