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of more than 40 books on a wide range of subjects (including editor of Poems That Make Grown Men Cry), looks back “whimsi- cally and wittily” on his richly varied, anecdotal and action-packed career, which has taken him from Merseyside to Buckingham Palace, the White House and beyond.
beginning again, living a crime-free life for more than 40 years… until the FBI came knocking and it all came crashing down. “A compelling story for underdogs everywhere, it’s proof that transformation is possible and redemp- tion is real.”
Frank Krake The Last Survivor Seven Dials, HB, £18.99, 9781841885254 The remarkable story of 20-year-old Wim Aloserij (now 94 and living in Amsterdam), who survived not one, but three concen- tration camps, only—in the final days of the war—to be bombed while aboard a Nazi prison boat and find himself caught up in one of the war’s major maritime disasters. His decision to finally tell his story, kept secret for most of his life, was the result of a chance meeting with Krake.
Bobby & Cheryl Love The Redemption of Bobby Love: The Humans of New York Instagram Sensation Bantam Press, 7th, PB, £12.99, 9781787634862 In 2020, Bobby Love, a sixtysomething Black man from Brooklyn, became a “Humans of New York” Instagram sensation with his extraordinary story of escaping from jail and
Biography & memoirs Joan Collins
The Unapologetic Diaries Weidenfeld, 14th, HB, £20, 9781474621274
Ijoma Alexander Mangold The German Crocodile: A Literary Memoir Digitalback Books, HB, £14.99, 9781838221508 Mangold is one of Germany’s leading liter- ary critics. This is said to be a “reflective and compelling” memoir of growing up different, both in terms of his ethnicity (East German mother, Nigerian father) and his erudite interest in litera- ture, in 1970s Heidelberg, in the US as the Berlin Wall fell, and as a young adult in the new Germany. Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
From the Emmy, Grammy and Tony-winning US actor, a “powerful and revealing” autobiography about race, sexuality and art, and of being a small boy who didn’t fit in.
Derecka Purnell Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest and the Pursuit of Freedom Verso, HB, £16.99, 9781839766671 In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, the call for the abolition of the police became a central demand of the movement. Purcell, a US human rights lawyer and activist, describes how she herself became an abolitionist.
Mick O’Shea Billie Eilish Plexus, 28th, PB, £9.99, 9780859655682 Illustrated biography of the prodigal pop singer, full of fun facts and rare photos which chronicle Eilish’s journey from her first hit at 14 to her current fame.
Billy Porter Unprotected: A Memoir Abrams, 14th, HB, £19.99, 9781419746192
Sheridan Smith Honestly: My Story Ebury Spotlight, 14th, Hb, £20, 9781529108873 In her first memoir, the Bafta and Olivier Award-winning actress, singer and renowned live performer relates how she faced her demons, sought help and fought to recover from the mental health struggles and panic attacks which have dogged her career. She also looks back on her Lincolnshire childhood, her rise to fame and becoming a mother.
Seven Stories, 19th, HB, £18.99, 9781644211052 As a paediatrician, Vonnegut (the son of Kurt) has spent 40 years treat- ing children for coughs, fevers, ear infections and sometimes more serious complaints. Here he looks back on the cases that have stuck with him, and reflects on larger changes in medicine, whether it be the privatisation of health care, innovations in cancer treatment, or the rise of anti-vaxxers.
Simon Woolley The Whole of the Moon Bonnier, 14th, Hb, £18.99, 9781786581174 Baron Woolley of Woodford is a political and equalities activist and the founder and director of Operation Black Vote. Here he looks back on his journey from Leicester council estate childhood, the adopted child of two white parents, to wheeler- dealer, power broker, salesman and member of the House of Lords.
Business, economics & personal finance
cogs: self-interested, independent agents. But the digital economy is much more characterised by monsters (“untethered, snowballing and socially influenced unknowns”), says the author of this book on how 21st century economics needs to change.
TED talks on the subject of innovation.
Claudia Goldin Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Towards Equity Princeton UP, 5th, HB, £22, 9780691201788 Leading US economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap, and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home.
Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj & Naeema Pasha Futureproof Your Career: How to Lead and Succeed in a Changing World Bloomsbury, 14th, PB, £14.99, 9781472988447 Guide to future-proofing your career and taking full advantage of opportuni- ties for progression. With a focus on the changing business, economic and technological landscape, it explores the new chal- lenges of job retention and career progression.
Sahil Lavingia The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less Piatkus, 26th, PB, £14.99, 9780349431406 Billed as a “revolutionary roadmap for building start-ups that go the distance”, a manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great compa- nies than big ones.
Neil C Hughes Great TED Talks: Innovation: An
Mark Vonnegut The Heart of Caring
Diane Coyle Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be Princeton UP, 12th, HB, £20, 9780691210599 Mainstream economics still assumes people are
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The stage and screen actress perhaps best known for play- ing Alexis Carrington in “Dynasty” unveils her “intimate, funny and uncensored” diaries, most written within 10 hours of the events described. They are, I’m told, as scan-
dalous as Andy Warhol’s and pull no punches. For example, of Donald Trump she writes: “That ungal- lant schmuck has written something horrible about me in the New York Post saying: ‘The last thing I would want to do in real life or on television is to be your lover’. What a gentleman!”
Biography & memoirs
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Spinning Plates: Thoughts on Men, Music and Motherhood Coronet, 7th, HB, £16.99, 9781529363784
Unofficial Guide with Words of Wisdom from 100 TED Speakers Portico, 14th, PB, £9.99, 9781911622611 Including the wisdom of the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sheryl Sandberg, the 100 best
General Stanley McChrystal Risk: A User’s Guide Penguin Business, 7th, HB, £20, 9780241481929 The retired US four-star general offers a new system of responding to risk and understanding uncertainty in business, through 10 dimensions
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Most recently famous for her kitchen discos posted on Instagram during lockdown, the singer, broadcaster and mother of five reflects on love, life and creativity in this memoir, partly inspired by her hit podcast “Spinning Plates”, in which she talks to other women about how they juggle motherhood with life and work. Covering relationships, good-enough parenting and “delusion and dancing”, this is a book “about learning from our experiences and not being afraid to smash a few plates for the sake of what we actu- ally need, want and value”. Publication coincides with the released of Ellis-Bextor’s new album.
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