BOOKS


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increased emotional intel- ligence to creativity and confidence.


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Adam Peaty The Gladiator Mindset Quercus, 28th, Hb, £20, 9781529418422 The Olympic and world champion swimmer reveals his 10 lessons to a winning mental attitude in a book “bursting with no-nonsense advice on how to locate your inner gladiator, and first-hand wisdom to help you push yourself beyond what you thought was possible”.


Janina Scarlet It Shouldn’t Be This Way: Learning to Accept the Things You Just Can’t Change Robinson, 14th, PB, £10.99, 9781472145987 This “therapeutic and comforting” self-help guide aims to help you grieve and process events in a way that makes sense to you; accept feelings of anger, grief, frustration and anxiety; and own your truth, even if it makes others uncomfortable.


Kate Sloan 101 Kinky Things Even You Can Do Laurence King, 7th, HB, £14.99, 9781913947217 Everything you wanted to know about kinky prac- tices is contained in this “highly entertaining and readable” guide.


Dr Wendy Suzuki Anxiety is Your Superpower: Using Anxiety to Think Better, Feel Better, and Do Better Yellow Kite, PB, £14.99, 9781529335378 Renowned neuroscientist Suzuki aims to teach us how to flip anxiety on its head, introducing a “taboo-breaking” slant which shows how it can be good for us, and even become our superpower. She suggests six uses for good anxiety, from productivity and


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Planet Grief: Redefining Grief for the Real World Te History Press, HB, £18.99, 9780750994644 Grief therapist and former BBC producer Tait is the author of an impressive self-published book called Good Grief. In this explora- tion of the science of grief and our cultural responses to it, which draws on her own experiences, she seeks to redefine what we mean by grief, and argues that it can be the gateway to building a more resilient and resourceful society.


Stefanos Xenakis The Simplest Gift HQ, 14th, HB, £14.99, 9780008455651 This Greek bestseller by an Athens-based entrepreneur and social media phenomenon is a collection of everyday stories which aim to spark conversations around kindness, inviting you to delve into your own life and take stock of the way you live it. “They will also remind you, every step of the way, that life is a gift”.


Philosophy & religion


human and divine natures of the Christ child.


Brian Heasley Be Still: A Simple Guide to Quiet Times SPCK, PB, £9.99, 9780281086337 This “immensely practical” guide explores the differ- ent rhythms of Christian prayer and devotion, with the aim of helping readers spend quiet time with God amid full and fast-paced lives.


Benjamin Hoff The Eternal Tao Te Ching: The Philosophical Masterwork of Taoism and Its Relevance Today Abrams, 28th, HB, £17.99, 9781419755507 The author of The Tao of Pooh with a “uniquely authentic” translation of the Tao Te Ching, based on the meanings of the ancient Chinese char- acters in use when this classic was written.


Herbert A Davidson Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy Oneworld, 7th, HB, £40, 9780861542406 “Exhaustive and rigorous” analysis of all the signifi- cant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, the creation and the existence of God.


Sarah Drummond Divine Love:


The Art of the Nativity Unicorn, HB, £25, 9781913491864 Presented thematically, an exploration of the ways in which the birth of Christ has been depicted from the earliest times, and how artists have found ways to express both the


Bernard-Henri Lévy The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope Yale, HB, £20, 9780300260557 A collection of dispatches by the influential contemporary French philosopher, from the pressure points of conflict he has experienced during international reporting trips to countries includ- ing Nigeria, Kurdistan, Ukraine, Somalia and Afghanistan. They form a “powerful treatise on what it means to be a citizen of the world”.


Peter Stanford If These Stones Could Talk: The History of Christianity In Britain and Ireland Through Twenty-One Buildings Hodder Faith, 14th, HB, £20, 9781529396423 This intriguing history of Christianity in the British Isles is told through its sacred buildings; from ancient, wooden parish churches to lofty cathedrals. It’s the story of Christian faith and how it has been expressed in our real, material ways of life.


M D Usher (ed, trans) How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land: A Work of Many Hands Princeton UP, 19th, HB, £13.99, 9780691211749 This latest addition to the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series is a “delightful” anthology of classical Greek and Roman writing celebrating country living, from a philosophy of compost to hymns addressed to the gods of agriculture. Also out in the same series, How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking by Aristotle (0691213736).


Poetry


Taz Alam It’s Fine, It’s Fine, It’s Fine HarperCollins, 28th, HB, £12.99, 9780008501389 Alam, alias “ClickforTaz”, has a growing online audi- ence for her poetry. Her first published collection contains “raw, honest and heartfelt poetry for the shitty days, fake friends, and pretending you’re OK when you’re not”.


tragedy called “Herakles” by the fifth-century BC poet Euripides.


Louise Glück Winter Recipes from the Collective Carcanet, 28th, HB, £12.99, 9781800171800 The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature-winning poet with a “rapt” new collection of 15 poems and sequences which explore the human predicament. Includes “A Children’s Story”, a real fairytale in which the girls are princesses learning the power and extent of their agency.


Wamuwi Mbao (ed) Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems Icon, 7th, PB, £10.99, 9781776191444 Said to be a “powerful and timely” collection of protest poetry, written in South Africa over five decades by authors young and old, united around the theme of decolonisation. Mbao is an award-winning Black English lecturer at Stellenbosch University.


Simon Armitage & Clive Hicks-Jenkins (illus) The Owl and the Nightingale Faber, 7th, HB, £14.99, 9780571357291 In similar vein to Faber’s gifty presentation of Armitage’s marvellous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a “witty and enchanting” new illustrated edition of the poet laureate’s version of the Middle English debate poem in which an unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between two birds.


Anne Carson H of H Playbook Cape, 21st, HB, £20, 9781787333796 Beautifully illustrated by the author, this latest collection by the prize- winning Canadian-born poet, produced in facsim- ile of Carson’s handmade edition, is an “explosion of thought in poems and language” about a Greek


Maurice Riordan Shoulder Tap Faber, 21st, HB, £14.99, 9780571367115 The Irish-born poet’s fifth collection continues his “agile exploration of time, both in its depredations and rewards”, while also bringing a sceptical and enquiring intelligence to bear on the anxieties and vanities of our age.


George Szirtes Fresh Out of the Sky Bloodaxe, 21st, PB, £12.99, 9781780375847 This latest collection by the T S Eliot Prize-winning poet contains poems relating to country, identity, memory, belong- ing, war and upheaval, many of which relate to his arrival in England as a young child after his family fled the 1956 Hungarian uprising.


Various The Poetry of Horses Serpent’s Tail, 7th, PB, £7.99, 9781788166041 Published for National Poetry Day, a selection of verses in praise of the horse, spanning a range of eras and styles, and including work by Philip Larkin, Matsuo Basho, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and many others.


Popular science, mathematics & medicine


Dr Peter Altman Mysteries of the Universe: Answerable & Unanswerable Questions Jaico Books, PB, £9.99, 9781860360626 A wondering journey through the universe, probing the possible answers to questions about life and the universe, from “How did the universe begin?” to “Astrology: Sense or Nonsense?”


Wes Ely Every Deep Drawn Breath Scribe, PB, £16.99, 9781913348670 Leading US ICU doctor reveals the long-term problems caused by the harrowing experience of spending time in intensive care, and how these can be prevented by introducing pathways that bring hope and healing to healthcare.


Kyle D Evans Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind Allen & Unwin, 7th, HB, £10.99, 9781838953669 From the infamous “Hannah’s sweets” exam question to percentages “life hacks”, this gifty collection contains 50 maths problems that have gone viral on social media in recent years.


John Gribbin Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon and Other Implausible Scientific Truths Icon, 7th, HB, £11.99, 9781785787355 In this sequel to his Six Impossible Things, the prolific science writer turns his attention to some of the mind- bendingly improbable truths of science, such as the fact that all complex life on Earth is descended from a single cell, but that without the influence of the Moon, life forms like us could never have come into being.


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