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COCKTAILS: FASHIONABLE MIXES FROM ICONIC LONDON BARS CICO, 11TH, HB, £9.99, 9781782496465
Compendium of trademark cocktail recipes and tips from world-class bartenders at five of London’s most famous bars. Features specially commissioned photography of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel.
HEALTH, DIET & PARENTING
Compendium of over 800 natural remedies for treating over 170 common ailments, arranged by body system, and with dedicated sections for women, men, children and first-aid. There are also 11 step-by-step guides covering the key techniques needed to make the remedies, including ointments and balms and diffuse essential oils.
AVRUM BLUMING MD & CAROL TAVRIS MD OESTROGEN MATTERS: WHY TAKING HORMONES IN MENOPAUSE IMPROVES WOMEN’S WELL-BEING, LENGTHENS THEIR LIVES AND DOESN’T RAISE THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER PIATKUS, 4TH, PB, £13.99, 9780349421773 Compelling defence of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) which exposes the “faulty” science behind its fall from grace, and empowers readers to make informed decisions about their menopausal health.
MATT COYNE MAN VS TODDLER WILDFIRE, 20TH, HB, £16.99, 9781472245069 More inept, more clueless and more exhausted than ever, the author of Dummy is back with the latest instalment of his (and son Charlie’s) journey through the chaos and comedy of parenting. He has 218,000 followers across social media.
SUSAN CURTIS, PAT THOMAS & JULIE WOOD NEAL’S YARD REMEDIES COMPLETE WELLNESS: ENJOY LONG-LASTING HEALTH AND WELLBEING WITH OVER 800 NATURAL REMEDIES DK, 6TH, HB, £25, 9780241302132
TANYA GOODIN STOP STARING AT SCREENS! A DIGITAL DETOX FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY ILEX, 6TH, PB, £9.99, 9781781575765 Start making healthy and realistic decisions about when technology is really necessary with diagnostic quizzes, sanity-saving solutions and practical tips for a family digital detox. Goodin is founder of www.
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Tower tragedy. Sinclair journeys at home and overseas to explore the intriguing notion that the structures we choose to inhabit absorb our histories and leave traces for future generations to read.
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ALISON PORTER STRONGER THAN BEFORE: TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALING TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE WITH BREAST CANCER HAY HOUSE, 18TH, PB, £12.99, 9781788171601 Said to be a powerful, uplifting and practical three-part guide to
supporting yourself through breast cancer, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Porter is a journalist, coach and interfaith minister, and “cancer survivor and thriver”.
PAULA GRAINGER ADAPTOGENS: FIND CALM, BALANCE AND WELLBEING USING NATURE’S POWER HERBS GAIA, 6TH, PB, £10, 9781856753852 Introduction to a group of powerful herbal ingredients—including Korean Ginseng and Turmeric—known as adaptogens, and how they can be used to regulate and balance the body’s response to stress.
PENELOPE ODY TURMERIC: NATURE’S MIRACLE HEALER. FACT OF FICTION SOUVENIR, PB, £10, 9780285644038 Provides both an encyclopaedic history of turmeric—used medicinally in South Asia for over 4,000 years—and a guide to its current uses in treatments for a whole host of illnesses from diabetes and cancer to Parkinson’s and heart disease.
MARK RYAN THE HASHIMOTO’S HEALING DIET: ANTI-INFLAMMATORY STRATEGIES FOR LOSING WEIGHT, BOOSTING YOUR THYROID AND GETTING YOUR ENERGY BACK HAY HOUSE, 11TH, PB, £15.99, 9781781809198 How to use diet and nutrition to strategically heal Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Written with “humour and compassion, seamlessly integrating Western and Chinese Medicine”.
(NO AUTHOR) POPPIES: BLOOD SWEPT LANDS AND SEAS OF RED IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, HB, £25, 9781904897514 Portrait in 150 specially commissioned photographs of the major 2014 art installation at the Tower of London, “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red”, created by Paul Cummins from 888,246 ceramic poppies and visited by more than five million people.
(NO AUTHOR) BATTLES THAT CHANGED HISTORY DK, 6TH, HB, £20, 9780241301937 From the fury of the Punic War to the icy waters of Dunkirk, a visual journey through 5,000 years of combat, detailing more than 90 important historic battles. Foreword by Sir Tony Robinson.
PETER ACKROYD DOMINION: A HISTORY OF ENGLAND VOLUME V MACMILLAN, 6TH, HB, £25, 9780230706439 This fifth instalment of Ackroyd’s six volume history of England begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.
IAIN SINCLAIR LIVING WITH BUILDINGS: HEALTH AND ARCHITECTURE WELLCOME COLLECTION, 20TH, HB, £14.99, 9781788160469 It’s always worth reading anything Sinclair has to say, and this “ground- breaking” exploration of how architecture can affect our health has to be particularly compelling in the light of the Grenfell
FERDINAND ADDIS ROME: ETERNAL CITY HEAD OF ZEUS, 6TH, HB, £30, 9781781851883 The city of Rome, brought engagingly to life in 22 scenes from its 2,500- year history, from the murder of Caesar and its near-destruction by the Gauls in 390BC to the sinister degeneration of Mussolini’s first state, and the magical, corrupt Rome of Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita”.
SETH ANZISKA PREVENTING PALESTINE: A
POLITICAL HISTORY FROM CAMP DAVID TO OSLO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 4TH, HB, £27, 9780691177397 How and why Palestinian statelessness persists is the central question in this “ground-breaking book”, which explores the complex legacy of the Camp David agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter.
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ruthlessness made it possible for the emperors’ line to continue.
NEAL BASCOMB THE ESCAPE ARTISTS: A BAND OF DAREDEVIL PILOTS AND THE GREATEST PRISON BREAKOUT OF WWI JOHN MURRAY, 20TH, HB, £20, 9781473686779 The story of three daredevil First World War pilots held in Holzminden, Germany’s infamous POW prison, and how they organised one of the greatest escapes of the conflict by constructing a tunnel which allowed a handful of prisoners to make it to neutral Holland, and then back to Britain. The story has already been optioned for film by Film 4/ Element.
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BRISARD & LANA PARSHINA THE DEATH OF HITLER: THE FINAL WORD ON THE GREATEST COLD CASE IN HISTORY HODDER, 4TH, HB, £20, 9781473686526 Billed as a “dramatic and revelatory” new account of the final days in Hitler’s bunker, based on the authors’ access to hitherto secret Russian files, which detailed the Soviets’ incredible hunt to recover Hitler’s body. It also contains the results of the forensic analysis of bits of the Fuhrer’s skull and teeth. Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
GUY DE LA BÉDOYÈRE DOMINA: THE WOMEN WHO MADE IMPERIAL ROME YALE, HB, £25, 9780300230307 This absorbing history focuses on the women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (the longest lasting in Roman history)—including Livia, Octavia, and the elder and younger Agrippinas—explaining why they were the true backbone of the era: their bloodlines, ambition and
RIA BRODELL BUTCH HEROES MIT PRESS, HB, £20, 9780262038973 This visually arresting book asks us to re-examine the “heteronormative narratives of history”, presenting stories of real queer people around the world, going back as far as 1477. I particularly like Mary East and her wife who met when they were teenagers, lived as Mr & Mrs James How and ran east London pubs in the 18th century.
DOUGLAS BOYD LOCKERBIE: THE TRUTH THE HISTORY PRESS, HB, £20, 9780750985772 Published ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing in December 1988, this
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