This preview highlights titles to be published in October


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Arwa Mahdawi Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power Hodder, 28th, HB, £18.99, 9781529360639 Drawing on interviews with Madeleine Albright, Mary Robinson and others, Guardian colum- nist Mahdawi investigates the qualities demon- strated by female leaders who show us how it’s done. Above all, she asks the question: what can women in power teach all of us about leadership?


This first narrative book from the polemical journalist, author and commentator examines the conversations around gendered violence, sexual inequality and consent that are transforming our culture. “Urgent, hopeful and unapologetically radical.”


John Potash The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s Microcosm, 14th, HB, £15.99, 9781621064558 This new analysis of Shakur’s death and its political context claims to expose systematic racism by US government agencies.


Brian O’Donovan Four Years in the Cauldron Penguin Sandycove, 21st, HB, £17.99, 9781844885770 This insider account from RTE’s US correspondent includes his time covering Trump, the 2020 presiden- tial election, Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office, the Black Lives Matter move- ment and the Covid-19 pandemic.


Laurie Penny Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback Bloomsbury, 28th, HB, £20, 9781526602190


Biography & memoirs Lady Hale


Spider Woman Bodley Head, 7th, HB, £20, 9781847926593


Tim Stanley Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging and the Future of the West Bloomsbury Continuum, 14th, HB, £20, 9781472974129 From the deserts of Australia to the court of 19th-century Japan, this “hard-hitting” book explores how tradition can be both beautiful and useful, and explains why, instead of turning our backs on tradition, we should embrace it.


Ari Ezra Waldman Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data and Corporate Power Cambridge UP, HB, £20, 9781108492423 Including previously unpublished interviews with industry insiders and tech employees, an exposé of exactly


how the tech industry conducts its “ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy”.


Film, music, theatre & TV


John Aizlewood Joy Division + New Order Decades Palazzo, 7th, HB, £25, 9781786751164 Published to coincide with the 45th anniversary of Joy Division’s founding in 1976, this illustrated tribute contains more than 200 images, includ- ing previously unseen behind-the-scenes stills, and is a “tale of death, destroyed friendships and bungled finances, but also the saga of two bands who made extraordinary music which defined the times”.


Diana Ambache The Soul of the Journey: The Mendelssohns in Scotland and Italy Birlinn, 7th, PB, £14.99, 9781780277257 Containing the text of original letters by brother and sister composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, as well as drawings by the latter, and facsimiles of her manuscripts, this is a portrait of Scotland and Italy as seen through the eyes of two acclaimed composers of the Romantic movement.


Chris Andrew & Julius Green Stars and Spies Bodley Head, 14th, HB, £20, 9781847925282 “Hugely enjoyable and original” history of the interplay between spying and showbusiness, from the Elizabethan age (playwright and spy Chistopher Marlowe, playwright and spy Aphra Behn) to James Bond. Andrew is the author of The Secret World: A History of Intelligence et al, while Green is a theatre producer and entertain- ment historian.


Zeba Blay Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture Square Peg, 21st, PB, £14.99, 9781529110463 In this collection of essays, film and culture critic Blay—one of the first people to coin the term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter—celebrates Black women in art, music and other cultural contexts, from Josephine Baker to Cardi B. Foreword by Clara Amfo.


Stephen Bourne Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre Te History Press, HB, £18.99, 9780750996297 Told through the lives of such trailblazers as Ira Aldridge and Paul


One to Watch


In this “wise and warm” memoir, Brenda Hale, Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE, the first female president of the Supreme Court, gives us her against-the-odds account of how “a little girl from a little school in a


little village in North Yorkshire became the most senior judge in the UK, when all previous incum- bents had been public school-educated males”. She also shows the law shapes our world and supports us in crisis. My proof arrived just too late for this preview, but I’m much looking forward to reading her inspiring story.


Biography & memoirs


Alison Hammond You’ve Got to Laugh: Stories From a Life Lived to the Full Bantam Press, 14th, HB, £20, 9781787635272


Robeson, this story of Black British theatre at its “most radical, enter- taining and profound” spans 150 years and includes original research and interviews.


Tim Bouverie Perfect Pitch: 100 Pieces of Classical Music to Know and Love Short Books, 7th, HB, £9.99, 9781780725284 Author and former politi- cal journalist Bouverie selects his 100 all-time favourite classical pieces for the benefit of those who want to bring more classical music into their lives, but don’t know where to start.


Rankin, a definitive collec- tion of the Joy Division photographs of Kevin Cummins, presented alongside interviews, essays (including contri- butions from David Peace and Ian Rankin) and previously unpublished images.


Michael Cidoni Lennox & Chris May Carpenters: The Musical Legacy Princeton Architectural Press, 19th, HB, £25, 9781648960727 The story of the Carpenters musical duo, told for the first time in the words of Richard Carpenter himself. He reflects on their journey “with heart and humour”, but also speaks candidly about the high price of success. Also includes never-before-published images from his archive.


Kevin Cummins Joy Division: Juvenes Cassell, 7th, HB, £30, 9781788402712 With a foreword by Ian


Rich Deakin Grebo! The Loud and Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead Headpress, 7th, PB, £19.99, 9781909394797 A familiar word to Midlanders like me, grebo was a media-dubbed music genre that even today “sends a shud- der down the spines of discerning music fans and critics”. This is the first book on “seminal” 1980s bands Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead, both born in Leicester.


Daniel de Visé


King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B B King Grove Press, 14th, HB, £20, 9781611856545 Said to be the first authoritative, cradle-to- grave biography of the great Blues guitarist, from his Deep South childhood as a sharecropper’s son, to musical trailblazer and international ambas- sador for America’s Blues tradition. The author has interviewed almost every surviving member of King’s inner circle.


One to Watch


“I always say a day is wasted without laughter”. The presenter of “This Morning” and of BBC primetime show “I Can See Your Voice”, responsible for “countless classic moments of broad- casting gold, from getting stuck on a


caravan door to dressing as a Christmas elf”, gives us never-before-seen insights into her life, her loves and her losses, with a large side order of gossip. She explains how she was shaped by the influence of her incredible mum, and how her appearance on “Big Brother” changed everything.


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