BOOKS


them, and what happens when, like him, you don’t.


Shaun White Airborne


Rizzoli, 5th, HB, £40, 9780847870950 Illustrated biography of action sports star and Olympic gold medallist White, who is considered the world’s top snowboarder and skateboarder. A Netflix documentary about him is also scheduled for release this autumn.


Sonny Bill Williams You Can’t Stop the Sun From Shining Hodder, 14th, HB, £20, 9781529387858 Including his conver- sion to Islam and his mental health struggles, the “searingly honest” autobiography of the New Zealand and All Blacks legend, who traces his superstar journey from inner-city Auckland to competing at the highest level.


Sustainability & climate change


The Arkbound Foundation (ed) Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and Systems Change Arkbound, 25th, PB, £9.99, 9781912092123 Where is the world really heading, and what can we do about it? Collecting case studies and models from 16 authors around the world, this takes an unflinching look at the climate crisis and posits a “unique stance on climate adaptation”. The Arkbound Foundation is a UK literacy charity based in Glasgow and Bristol.


John Doerr Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now Penguin Business, 7th, PB, £14.99, 9780241537770 Doerr, a venture capitalist and author, draws on interviews with the likes of Al Gore, Bill Gates and Elon Musk as he sets out a practical course of action we need to follow if we


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are to bring a halt to the climate crisis. He also names and shames the sectors of society most in need of change.


Alister Doyle The Great Melt: Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change Te History Press, HB, £20, 9780750997843 The fate of the world’s coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers across the world. Through the stories of those affected, climate change reporter Doyle tracks the thaw that threatens life as we know it in this wake-up call to save our coastal communities.


environmental evolution our world needs.


to blame and what we can do about it, while also finding the comedy in the climate emergency.


Travel


Tom Heap 39 Ways to Save the Planet BBC, 14th, HB, £12.99, 9781785946974 “We got ourselves into this. Here’s how we can get ourselves out.” Accompanying a major new 40-part BBC Radio 4 series in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society, this reveals some of the real-world solutions to climate change that are happening around the world, from fossil fuel-free steel to grazing elk and carbon-capturing seagrass meadows.


Paul Goodenough (ed) The Most Important Comic Book on Earth DK, 28th, HB, £20, 9780241513514 Just announced, this collection of powerful comic strips calling for planetary change includes more than 120 inspiring visual stories on environmentalism from contributors including Ricky Gervais, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Jane Goodall, Sir Lenny Henry, Peter Gabriel and many more. Publication is part of a broader campaign called Rewriting Extinction, which is work- ing with such charities as the World Land Trust and the Born Free foundation.


David McDermott Hughes Who Owns the World? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy Verso, PB, £12.99, 9781839761133 To succeed, the energy transition to renew- ables—wind and solar power—must be fair, with the energy produced fairly distributed to all, says this study.


Peter Stott


Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial Atlantic, 7th, HB, £18.99, 9781838952488 Climate scientist Stott reveals the bitter fight to get international recogni- tion for what, among scientists, has been known for decades: human activity causes climate change. It’s the urgent story of how the science was developed, how it has been repeatedly sabo- taged, and why humanity hasn’t a second to spare in the fight to halt climate change.


Thich Nhat Hanh Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet Rider, 7th, HB, £16.99, 9781846046544 The Buddhist Zen master and renowned teacher draws on powerful exam- ples of engaged action he has himself undertaken, as well as Buddhist parables and daily meditations, to awaken us to the


Matt Winning Hot Mess Headline, 28th, PB, £14.99, 9781472276698 Winning is the only UK stand-up comedian whose act focuses on climate change; he also hosts the podcast “Operation Earth”. In his first book he aims to explain what climate change is, who’s


Tommy Barnes Trouble Brewing in the Loire: The Braslou Bière Chronicles Muswell Press, 7th, HB, £12.99, 9781916360259 The author of A Beer in the Loire returns to share more of his adventures as a maker of beer in one of the world’s most famous wine-producing regions. And, with Brexit looming, a second baby on the way and sales of IPA beer plummeting, trouble is brewing. Includes 12 reci- pes featuring his Braslou Bière, and Barnes is set for an appearance on “Escape to the Chateau”.


Peter Fiennes A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece Oneworld, 21st, HB, £18.99, 9780861540617 The author of Footnotes and Oak and Ash and Thorn, and former Time Out publisher, travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, walking on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, and consulting the Oracle as he loses himself in “this storied land”.


Suitable both for profes- sionals and amateurs alike, this guide by an award-winning photog- rapher presents 12 steps to improving your travel photography, with each chapter focusing on a different area of imagery, including people, land- scape, architecture and adventure.


definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive your family holiday by the actor and comedian, with his parents pitching in. A super-lead title for Sphere.


True crime


Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilå Notes from an Island Sort of, 8th, HB, £12.99, 9781908745934 I haven’t been able to get my hands on any material sadly, but this looks like a gorgeous tribute to Jansson’s island refuge in the Gulf of Finland, famil- iar from The Summer Book et al, and to the art of her beloved partner, Pietilå. I will be acquiring it.


Cees Nooteboom & Laura Watkinson (trans) 533 A Book of Days MacLehose, 14th, HB, £16.99, 9781529402582 The Dutch poet, novelist and travel writer charts 533 days in his life, in a meditative rhapsody which charts the day-to- day care of his house and his plants on the island of Menorca, as he reflects on the world and his place in the universe. Illustrated with black and white photos by Simone Sasson.


Peter Hohenhaus Atlas of Dark Destinations: Explore the World of Dark Tourism Laurence King, 21st, HB, £25, 9781913947194 This “compendium of travel destinations like no other” is said to be the first complete guide to the growing global trend of dark tourism, featuring 300 destinations, from nuclear bunkers and disaster sites to strange medical museums and eerie catacombs.


Nori Jamil The Travel Photographer’s Way: Practical Steps to Taking the Best Travel Photos Bradt, 15th, PB, £18.99, 9781784778507


John Warland Liquid History: An Illustrated Guide to London’s Greatest Pubs Bantam Press, 7th, HB, £12.99, 9781787634893 From Shakespeare’s local to Jack the Ripper’s bar, taking in backstreet boozers and architectural marvels along the way, the founder of Liquid History Tours with a guide to 50 of London’s best pubs and their extraordi- nary histories.


Jack Whitehall with Michael & Hilary Whitehall How to Survive Family Holidays Sphere, 14th, HB, £18.99, 9780751583892 Part travel guide and part tell-all family memoir, a


Carl Chinn Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath John Blake, 14th, PB, £8.99, 9781789464511 The third in Chinn’s Peaky Blinders series delves into the murky underworld of the mid-20th century, from dog tracks to the pubs of the East End. Published to coincide with the new series of the show.


Caitlin Davies


Queens of the Underworld Te History Press, HB, £20, 9780750993173 The author of Bad Girls returns to tell the neglected stories of female gangsters from the 17th century to the present day. From Moll Cutpurse, who ruled the criminal underworld in Jacobean London, to Mary Carr, who led the Forty Elephants Gang in Victorian England, these were charismatic women at the top of their game, she shows.


Carla Valentine Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie Sphere, 21st, HB, £16.99, 9780751577778 Valentine, a pathologist and lifelong Christie fan, with a study of the foren- sics of Christie’s novels, and how the twists and turns of her plots were written with an expert weave of human observa- tion, ingenuity and genu- ine science of the era.


Paul Williams


Gilligan: The Rise and Fall of a Brutal Gangster Allen & Unwin, 14th, PB, £14.99, 9781838954895 Leading Irish true crime writer Williams with a revelatory biography of notorious Irish criminal John Gilligan, one of the most hated figures in Irish history, I’m told.


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