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Turing, himself a code-breaking expert, tells the inside story of how Enigma was broken, drawing on recently declassified archives in France and the US, and previously unexplored Polish material, and interviews with the families of hitherto unsung Polish codebreakers who continued working for Britain during the early years of the Cold War.


RICHARD VAN EMDEN 1918: THE FINAL YEAR OF THE GREAT WAR TO ARMISTICE PEN & SWORD, HB, £25, 9781526735553 The renowned First World War historian tells the story of 1918 in soldiers’ own words and photographs, the latter drawn both from his own interviews with veterans, and his outstanding collection of 5,000 images, many of which have never been published before. Van Emden will be the face of the BBC’s commemoration coverage, I’m told.


“The ideal Christmas gift for the difficult person to buy for”, an illustrated guide to, and meditation on, the art of making your own table; from the mindfulness of carpentry to the art of fox wedges and tenon joints. Bird is an architect, artist, designer and shed builder, and was the first winner of Channel 4’s “Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year” competition in 2014.


HUMOUR & GIFT BOOKS


9780349010144 From the secret power of rom coms, to what poker can tell us about gender, a funny and accessible book about embracing both feminism and our


imperfections by the host of the hit comedy podcast of the same name, which has 500,000 regular listeners, including the likes of Gemma Arterton, Giovanna Fletcher, Sarah Millican and Sara Pascoe. Virago is planning a big campaign.


ANGUS HYLAND & KENDRA WILSON THE MAZE: A LABYRINTHINE COMPANION LAURENCE KING, 24TH, PB, £24.99,


(NO AUTHOR) CAT VS TRUMP: AN INTELLIGENCE TEST FOR CATS WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM HEADLINE, 6TH, HB, £9.99, 9781472259240 Who’s smarter—your cat, or Donald Trump? A reminder of POTUS’ biggest gaffes and a genuine cat IQ test all in one, “the perfect present for cat lovers and Donald detractors alike”.


PETER WATSON FALLOUT: HOW THE WORLD STUMBLED INTO THE NUCLEAR SHADOW SIMON & SCHUSTER, 20TH, HB, £25, 9781471164484 The “pulse-pounding” story of how Roosevelt and Churchill ignited the Cold War between 1943 and 1944 by building an atomic bomb and excluding their Russian allies, and how two atomic physicists— Niels Bohr and Klaus Fuchs—sought to counter this in two very different ways. Watson argues that the atomic bomb “was not needed and was made as a result of flawed decisions”.


HOMES, INTERIORS & CRAFT


JOEL BIRD THE TABLE MAKER BLINK, 20TH, HB, £20, 9781788700030


CHARLES DICKENS, TESS NEWALL & ALEX GOODWIN A GUINEA PIG CHRISTMAS CAROL BLOOMSBURY, 6TH, HB, £7.99, 9781526601452 More squeaky clean literary fun in the tradition of A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice and A Guinea Pig Nativity.


MIRIAM ELIA & EZA ELIA PIGGY GOES TO UNIVERSITY DUNG BEETLE BOOKS, 27TH, HB, £9.99, 9780992834951 From the creators of Ladybird parody We Go to the Gallery, the “whip- smart and hilarious” story of a precocious young pig who goes to university and becomes a social justice warrior. Printed in red and black with a 1940s look and feel.


DEBORAH FRANCES- WHITE THE GUILTY FEMINIST VIRAGO, 6TH, HB, £14.99,


9781786273222 Delightful and fascinating book of 60 mazes around the world, including the mosaic labyrinth in the Cathédrale du Sacré Coeur in Algiers and the Folhammer maze in Gotland, Sweden. Includes birds-eye views of each maze so you can make your own journey around them.


MAC 50 YEARS OF MAC: A HALF CENTURY OF BRITISH LIFE ROBINSON, 6TH, PB, £9.99, 9781472141620 Nostalgic look back on half a century of British life from miniskirts and flower power to Andy Murray and the Spice Girls, through 120 cartoons by award-winning Daily Mail cartoonist Stanley McMurtry, aka MAC.


ANDREW MARTTILA CATS ON CATNIP ROBINSON, 6TH, HB, £9.99, 9781472142672 Splendid split-second images of cats enjoying the euphoric effects of catnip. Well over a million people follow Cats on Catnip on Facebook.


PB, £9.99,


9781782439042 Interspersed with background information on the history of puzzles, an engrossing collection of logic puzzles, codes and conundrums for all levels, from easy through to fiendish.


JAMIE CAMPLIN & MARIA RENAURO BOOKS DO FURNISH A PAINTING THAMES & HUDSON, HB, £24.95,


SHARM MURUGIAH & ADAM WOODWARD WHERE’S THE DUDE? THE GREAT MOVIE SPOTTING CHALLENGE LAURENCE KING, PB, £11.99, 9781786272645 Everyone loves the “Dude” from the Coen Brothers “The Big Lebowski”. Now’s your chance to try and spot him and his friends as he ambles his way through the sets of 12 more iconic movies, from “Titanic” and “Rocky” to “Apocalypse Now” and “The Wizard of Oz”.


MISKA RANTANEN PÄNTSDRUNK: THE PATH TO FINNISH ZEN SQUARE PEG, 6TH, HB, £9.99, 9781910931943 Fresh out of Finland, this refreshing take on the personal development genre encourages drinking at home, alone in your underwear, as well as bingeing on Netflix, scrolling mindlessly on your phone and scoffing sweet and salty snacks. “No wonder Finland consistently rates in the top five in the happiness ranking.”


LANGUAGE & LITERATURE


DR GARETH MOORE ENIGMA: CRACK THE CODE MICHAEL O’MARA, 6TH,


(NO AUTHOR) WRITERS: THEIR LIVES AND WORKS DK, 6TH, HB, £20, 9780241301944 More than 100 biographies of the world’s greatest writers, from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison. Includes pages from authors’ notebooks, original manuscripts and first editions. Foreword by James Naughtie.


9780500252253 Richly illustrated survey of the relationship between the development of books, the artist, and Western pictorial art from the 15th to the 20th centuries, exploring the


representation of books in more than 150 thematically arranged works of art.


MARY BOYD RIOUX MEG, JO, BETH, AMY: THE STORY OF LITTLE WOMEN AND WHY IT STILL MATTERS NORTON, HB, £22.99, 9780393254730 In celebration of the novel’s 150th birthday, an account of how Louisa May Alcott came to write it, drawing inspiration from her own life, and examining why her book retains such power to move its readers.


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JOE MORAN FIRST YOU WRITE A SENTENCE: A PRIMER FOR WRITING, READING…AND LIFE VIKING, 27TH, HB, £14.99, 9780241978498 In this “style guide by stealth”, the English professor author of On Roads and Shrinking Violets explains how to find the ideal words, and craft the perfect sentences, in order to arrive at “verbal constellations of extraordinary grace”.


THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN THEIR OWN WORDS 2: MORE LETTERS FROM HISTORY CONWAY, HB, £25, 9781844865222 Second collection of letters, notes and other documents from people who made history, along with commentaries. Covering subjects from Suffragette disturbances to obscene publications, it includes facsimiles of the original letters penned by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Caitlin Thomas and Mary Whitehouse.


LORNA GOODISON REDEMPTION GROUND: ESSAYS AND ADVENTURES MYRIAD, PB, £9.99, 9781912408139 This enjoyable first collection of essays by the Poet Laureate of Jamaica interweaves the personal and political to explore her love of poetry and the arts; colonialism and its disorientating legacy; racism and social justice; authenticity and the enduring power of friendship. Illuminating too about how Caribbean writers have had to write themselves “into the story in any way we can”.


DARACH Ó SÉAGHDHA CRAIC BABY HEAD OF ZEUS, 6TH, HB, £15, 9781788545259 This follow-up to Ó Séaghdha’s exploration of the Irish language Motherfoclóir returns to the subject from a personal perspective, hingeing on the beginning of a father-daughter relationship, and how watching a child learn to communicate changes how you think about language.


GEORG SIMMEL THE ART OF THE CITY: ROME, FLORENCE, VENICE PUSHKIN, 27TH, PB, £12, 9781782274483 Quartet of essays on great European cities from an influential German thinker. This “seminal work of psycho-geography” has never been published in


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