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9781784724580 Based on interviews with the likes of Richard Branson, Jamie Oliver, Tracey Emin, Andy McNab and Tom Daley, advice on acquiring such winning skills as sushi etiquette, folding a suit for crease-free travel, dancing without looking like your dad and surviving a kidnapping.


explains why the week he spent in Cornwall building a seven-foot surfboard helped him push beyond his preconceptions of what he could do as a person. “An indispensable guide to exceeding your own limitations and doing great things for their own sake, out of love.”


CELIA DODD NOT FADE AWAY GREEN TREE, 20TH, PB, £12.99, 9781472951335 Successful retirement is all about attitude, says this guide which aims to inspire people to nurture a positive attitude to life beyond work, and take control of their future. Over 600,000 people retire in the UK every year.


KATE INGLIS NOTES FOR THE EVERLOST: A FIELD GUIDE TO GRIEF SHAMBHALA, 20TH, PB, £12.99, 9781611805505 Part memoir, part handbook for the


heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby aims to speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving.


CATH KIDSTON THE LITTLE BOOK OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS: 101 WAYS TO BRIGHTEN UP YOUR DAY QUADRILLE, 20TH, HB, £7.99, 9781787132528 Cutely produced and illustrated with her signature prints, this is the first book to combine the Cath Kidston brand with the area of wellness, offering practical and motivational advice.


DAN KIERAN THE SURFBOARD: HOW USING MY HANDS HELPED UNLOCK MY MIND UNBOUND, 20TH, HB, £9.99, 9781783526383 The author, and co-founder and c.e.o. of Unbound,


JAKE KNAPP & JOHN ZERATSKY MAKE TIME: HOW TO FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS EVERY DAY BANTAM PRESS, 27TH, PB, £14.99, 9780593079584 This buzzy, quirkily illustrated guide from the creators of Google Ventures’ “design sprint”, also the authors of Sprint, presents a four-step system—Highlight, Laser, Reflect, Energise—for improving focus, finding greater joy in your work and getting more out of each day. It’s about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant “busy-ness” and distraction.


9781788400671 “The best cure for a hangover is being under the age of 25.” This first book from the creators of popular blog and Saturday Telegraph column “The Midult” provides a “wry, funny guide for women of 35-55 who don’t feel middle-aged”. Includes chapters on dating, sex, joy, work, self-image and more.


DONALD ROBERTSON STOICISM AND THE ART OF HAPPINESS TEACH YOURSELF, 6TH, PB, £12.99,


9781473674783 Discover how the ancient wisdom of the Stoic philosophers—in many ways a precursor to CBT— can provide you with a 21st-century philosophy of life which will make you more resilient, positive, successful and content.


JO PETERS SLOW: FINDING PEACE AND PURPOSE IN A HECTIC WORLD SUMMERSDALE, 13TH, HB, £12.99, 9781786855398 Discover ways to slow time via this cute and compact book of practical advice on self-care, breathing techniques, mindfulness, ethical living and how best to cultivate quiet moments every day.


KATIE PIPER CONFIDENCE: THE JOURNAL. YOUR YEAR OF POSITIVE THINKING QUERCUS, 6TH, PB, £9.99, 9781784295448 The author, TV presenter and charity campaigner with a journal designed to boost confidence through daily affirmations and creative prompts.


ANNABEL RIVKIN & EMILIE MCKEEKAN I’M ABSOLUTELY FINE CASSELL, 6TH, HB, £16.99,


FARRAH STORR THE DISCOMFORT ZONE: HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT BY LIVING FEARLESSLY PIATKUS, 27TH, PB, £13.99, 9780349415352 Advocating the BMD (brief moments of discomfort) method, the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine shows how to break through and embrace those difficult hurdles to take on challenges you never thought possible, and “achieve astonishing success along the way”.


PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION


RICHARD HARRIES HAUNTED BY CHRIST SPCK, HB, £19.99, 9780281079339 The life peer and former Bishop of Oxford considers the work of 20 writers, including Dostoevsky, Emily Dickinson, T S Eliot and W H Auden, examining the spiritual dimensions in their writing.


ANTHONY KENNY BRIEF ENCOUNTERS:


NOTES FROM A PHILOSOPHER’S DIARY SPCK, HB, £19.99, 9780281079193


The eminent philosopher recalls his encounters with some of the leading religious, political and intellectual figures of our time, including Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Noam Chomsky, Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch.


NEIL MACGREGOR LIVING WITH THE GODS ALLEN LANE, 23RD, H/B, £30, 9780241308295 Through a new kaleidoscope of objects, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects examines the patterns, meanings and stories in the beliefs of humankind through the ages, looking at faiths not in an institutionalised way, but rather at how human societies have constructed shared narratives about who they are. Originally scheduled for last autumn but now being published following a 30-part BBC Radio 4 series and a parallel exhibition at the British Museum.


IVOR THOMAS REES PATHWAY TO THE STABLE CIRCLE BOOKS, PB, £4.99, 9781785358609 For those seeking a deeper understanding of the Christmas story, a 21st-century introduction to the people and places central to the story of the birth of Jesus, with reference to the promises of the Old Testament and its setting in the contemporary Jewish and Roman worlds.


ROWAN WILLIAMS CHRIST, THE HEART OF CREATION CONTINUUM, 6TH, HB, £25, 9781472945549 “Who do you say that I am?” The former


Archbishop of Canterbury answers that question put by Jesus to his disciples as he explores who Jesus was, and how his inner human life related to his inner divine life.


SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK LIKE A THIEF IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: POWER IN THE ERA OF POST- HUMAN CAPITALISM ALLEN LANE, 20TH, HB, £16.99, 9780241364291


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The “most dangerous philosopher in the West” reviews the current march of techno-scientific progress and argues that the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble and is on the verge of vanishing. It’s time for us to wake up and understand the implications, he says.


POETRY


SUZANNE BATTY STATES OF HAPPINESS BLOODAXE, 27TH, PB, £9.95, 9781780374260 Taking in poems concerned with love, illness, healing and recovery, along with a sequence written in memory of her late sister, this second full-length collection by a Manchester- based poet is championed by Carol Ann Duffy.


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EXPLORERS WEIDENFELD. 20TH, HB, £18.99, 9781474607483 Based on interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s “The Life Scientific” presented by Jim Al-Khalili, this profiles scientists currently exploring the world, the universe and everything. From neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, and Jane Francis, director of the British Antarctic Survey, to Nobel-winner John Sulston and why he thought it would be a good idea to sequence the human genome.


JIM CARRUTH KILLOCHRIES POLYGON, 6TH, PB, £8.99, 9781846974625


Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize, this verse novella by the prize-winning Glasgow Laureate tracks the relationships between two very different men working a remote farm over the course of 12 months.


KATE TEMPEST RUNNING UPON THE WIRES PICADOR, 6TH, PB, £9.99, 9781509830022 The electrifying performance poet with her deeply personal third collection in which she charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship, and the joy at the beginning of another, but considers too what happens in between when the heart is pulled both ways at once. “A heart-breaking, moving and joyous book about love, in its endings and its beginnings.”


POPULAR SCIENCE


ANNA BUCKLEY THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC:


VYBARR CREGAN-REID PRIMATE CHANGE: HOW THE WORLD WE MADE IS REMAKING US CASSELL, 20TH, HB, £16.99, 9781788400220 Wide-ranging look at how and why the human body has changed since the agricultural revolution, and how the way we live now (especially on chairs) is changing us inside and out: from giving us flat feet and making us taller to changing the shape of our faces, rendering our jawlines slacker, our teeth wonkier and our jowls fleshier. Being adapted as a three-part radio series for the BBC World Service.


JAMES GILLIES CERN AND THE HIGGS BOSON: THE GLOBAL QUEST FOR THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF REALITY ICON, 6TH, PB, £8.99, 9781785783920 Gillies, a member of the strategic planning and evaluation unit at CERN, tells the gripping story of particle physics through the ages, from the original atomists of ancient Greece to those whose work led to the eventual confirmation of the Higgs Boson particle.


JULIEN HARROD & THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY COLUMBUS IN SPACE: A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY ON THE


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