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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS


RICHARD FORD BETWEEN THEM BLOOMSBURY, 4TH, H/B, £12.99, 9781408884690


Written 30 years apart, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Sportswriter brings together his separate biographies of his mother and father, to give us a wonderfully vivid portrait of mid-20th century life in the American South. Edna Akin was a dark-eyed Arkansas beauty; Parker Ford was a tall country boy turned travelling salesman. They married and began a life on the road: “a swirl of miles traversed, cocktails drunk and hotel rooms vacated”. Then the birth of a single, late child changed everything. The love and humanity which shines from his spare prose reminds us what a marvellous writer Ford is.


FOOD & DRINK


VICTORIA MOORE THE WINE DINE DICTIONARY GRANTA, 11TH, H/B, £20,


9781783782093


Moore’s first book, How to Drink is a favourite and indispensable reference of mine: I had it off the shelf only last weekend, finding out how to make Manhattans. This brilliant follow-up is a characteristically unpretentious (no Pinot Grigio bashing for her) but immensely knowledgeable guide to matching food and wine. Arranging dishes A-Z at one end, and wines A-Z at the other, Moore explains—in her trademark warm and witty style—not only which wine goes with which food, but why, and how each combination works. Macaroni cheese and Picpoul, anyone?


NATURAL HISTORY


HUGH WARWICK LINESCAPES: REMAPPING AND RECONNECTING BRITAIN’S FRAGMENTED WILDLIFE SQUARE PEG, 4TH,


H/B, £16.99, 9780224100892


Those who love Robert Macfarlane’s books will enjoy this engrossing, thought-provoking take on the British countryside in which Warwick, an ecologist and writer with a particular fondness for that linear creature, the hedgehog; shows how a vast network of lines —hedges, walls, ditches, dykes, green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines—has transformed our landscape. Happily he also shows that, with a manifesto for reconnection, we can help our wildlife to flourish.


BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS


HENRY MARSH ADMISSIONS: A LIFE IN BRAIN SURGERY WEIDENFELD, 4TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781474603867


Marsh’s Do No Harm,


was, of course, widely acclaimed. His equally compelling second book is more of a memoir than its predecessor, though once again many case histories of his patients do feature. His retirement from his full-time job as a consultant neurosurgeon with the NHS (about which he has trenchant things to say) prompts him to reflect more deeply about what 40 years handling the human brain has taught him. “I have to come to find a certain solace in the thought that my own nature, my I . . . is as great a mystery as, if not greater than, the universe itself.”


WAYS


TO SEE GREAT BRITAIN


Curious Places & Surprising Perspectives


TRAVEL


ALICE STEVENSON WAYS TO SEE GREAT BRITAIN: CURIOUS PLACES AND SURPRISING PERSPECTIVES


SEPTEMBER, 2ND, £12.99, 9781910463482 With slow travel, mindful walking and creative exploration in mind, the walker and artist author journeys far and wide across Britain in search of beautiful spaces, unusual locations and overlooked towns, which she describes in short chapters with enticing titles: Bass Rock, Histories in Pottery and Glass, The Redemptive Power of Puffins and The View From the Dinosaur’s Back. There are many delightful tales of the unexpected here. Each of her 150 quirky location choices are accompanied by her striking illustrations. There’s no other travel guide quite like it.


BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS


TIM WINTON THE BOY BEHIND THE CURTAIN PICADOR, 4TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781509816941


I love Tim Winton’s writing, and this


treasure trove of autobiographical stories and essays is packed with enthralling insights into his life and work. From his childhood encounters with guns, and his memories of his policeman father’s serious car crash to “2001: A Space Odyssey”, evangelical Christianity, the point of surfing, his encounters with novelist Elizabeth Jolley, and how Australians view sharks, we discover how his views on class, faith, fundamentalism, the environment have been shaped and, most interesting of all, how it has all come together to make the wonderful writer he is today.


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