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in a 2016 season that surpassed all expectations, while player Keegan Hirst became a national celebrity after coming out in 2015. Not just a book about Batley but also “a story of northern working-class culture . . . and a report from the frontline of a society struggling to find its identity in a changing world”.


IAN HERBERT QUIET GENIUS: BOB PAISLEY, BRITISH FOOTBALL’S GREATEST MANAGER BLOOMSBURY, 4TH, H/B, £20, 9781472937322 New biography of the manager who brought unprecedented—and still unmatched, as my husband and son are always keen to remind me—success to Liverpool FC. Herbert—the Independent’s chief sportswriter who began his career in Liverpool—has conducted interviews with Paisley’s family, and footballers such as Kevin Keegan, John Toshack and Alan Hansen who played under him.


DEAN JONES & JOHN SPOONER DEAN JONES CRICKET TIPS SCRIBE, 11TH, P/B, £11.99, 9781911344094 Around 50 cricket tips from the Australian former test cricketer, illustrated in full colour by Spooner, and featuring contributions from the likes of Allan Border, Ricky Ponting, Kevin Pietersen, Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Younis.


JENNY LANDRETH SWELL: A WATERBIOGRAPHY BLOOMSBURY, 4TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781472938947 This part social history, part memoir—dedicated to our swimming


foremothers—examines how women fought their way into the water, having only been granted equal access to swimming in the sea in the 1930s. Landreth uncovers a world of secret swimming in the face of discrimination, and in the process, becomes a keen swimmer herself.


MAX LEONARD GETTING HIGH: CYCLING’S ADDICTION TO THE MOUNTAINS YELLOW JERSEY, 25TH,


H/B, £16.99, 9780224100380 What is it about mountains that cyclists love? Leonard uncovers the allure—and the pain, sweat and tears—of the peaks, investigating how riders push themselves to the limit to get up a 10% gradient on pedal power alone.


DAVID PAPINEAU KNOWING THE SCORE: HOW SPORT TEACHES US ABOUT PHILOSOPHY (AND PHILOSOPHY TEACHES US ABOUT SPORT) CONSTABLE, 4TH, P/B, £14.99, 9781472123541 How can Roger Federer select which shot to play in 400 milliseconds? Should foreign-born footballers be eligible to play for England? Why does test cricket run in families? Papineau, a philosophy professor, keen amateur sports fan and omnivorous sports fan shows how philosophy can illuminate sporting issues (didn’t Monty Python once do that?).


THE SECRET FOOTBALLER THE SECRET FOOTBALLER: WHAT GOES ON TOUR BANTAM PRESS, 4TH, H/B, £12.99, 9780593078785 Billed as the most


sensational exposé to date of the real lives of Premier League footballers, this fifth book in the series details what overpaid and excitable young men get up to when in Marbella, Ibiza, Dubai and Las Vegas. The Secret Footballer series has been optioned for TV by award-winning producer Julia Stannard.


TRAVEL & TRANSPORT


Exploring the joys and idiosyncrasies of Britain’s one-off narrow gauge railway lines, from the miniature railway on the Kent coast used for Home Guard military trains during the Second World War, and the UK’s only Alpine-style rack-and-pinion railway, to the five different gauges which circle one man’s landscape garden.


a sign that reads: “Walking to Listen”. He collects the stories of people of all ages and inclinations as he travels the highways of America on an epic trek across the nation on a “cross-country quest for guidance”.


JOHN BAXTER MONTMARTRE: PARIS’S VILLAGE OF ART AND SIN HARPER PERENNIAL, 18TH, P/B, £9.99, 9780062431899 In this second book in his Great Parisian Neighbourhoods series (Saint-Germain-des-Près was published last December), Baxter takes us on a narrative tour through Montmartre, the centre of the city’s bohemian and artistic life, from buzzing Boulevard de Clichy to the Sacré Coeur.


MICHAEL DOBBS- HIGGINSON A RAINDROP IN THE OCEAN: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF A GLOBAL ADVENTURER EYE BOOKS, 14TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781785630323 Billed as a unique memoir, in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia—variously turned Buddhist monk, logger, surf instructor, drug smuggler and chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific—charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets and losing a $50m fortune to the CIA. Foreword by John Kerry.


CHRIS ARNOT SMALL ISLAND BY LITTLE TRAIN: A NARROW-GAUGE ADVENTURE AA PUBLISHING, 1ST, H/B, £16.99, 9780749578497


ANDREW FORSTHOEFEL WALKING TO LISTEN: 4,000 MILES ACROSS AMERICA, ONE STORY AT A TIME BLOOMSBURY, 4TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781632867001 Aged 23, the author walks out of his Pennsylvania home with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and


MATTHEW FORT SUMMER IN THE ISLANDS UNBOUND, 4TH, H/B, £14.99, 9781783523320 The award-winning food and travel author takes us on a sun-soaked journey through the culture and cuisine of the Italian islands, travelling by Vespa and by ferry to Elba, Salina (famous for its capers), Pianosa (the setting for Catch-22), and indeed all of the 52 Italian islands he has never written about before.


ROBERT KAHN CITY SECRETS: FLORENCE & VENICE GRANTA, 4TH, H/B, £12.99, 9781783783632 Writers, journalists, architects, chefs, artists, playwrights, travel writers and others recommend their favourite little-known places in two Italian cities; from hidden passageways in Florence to favourite Venetian eateries.


NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION MAY


HONNO, 18TH, P/B, £9.99, 9781909983601 After an ovarian cancer diagnosis, the inspiring author embarks on a 3,700-mile walk round, through and across Wales, publicising the need for early detection for the disease and raising more than £11,000 for two charities. Based on her blog, this is her account of her travels.


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guns, grenades and poison were for sale. “Killing Pablo for the digital age”, says Virgin.


DANIEL NEILSON WILD PUB WALKS CAMRA, 22ND, P/B, 9781852493400 Thirty walks of varying challenge, in beautiful, remote or mountain landscapes, each with a great pub—often with a historical significance—at journey’s end. The guide is aimed primarily at hillwalkers and covers such areas as the Peak District, Lake District, Scottish Highlands and Islands, Snowdonia, South Wales and Pembrokeshire.


ANDREW P SYKES SPAIN TO NORWAY ON A BIKE CALLED REGGIE SUMMERSDALE, 11TH, P/B, £9.99,


MARK KURLANSKY HAVANA: A SUBTROPICAL DELIRIUM BLOOMSBURY, 4TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781632863911 In this part cultural history, part travelogue with recipes, engravings photographs and his own pen and ink drawings throughout, the award- winning author of Cod and Salt presents his insider view on Havana, an elegant, tattered city he has come to know well over 30 years. There’s music, literature, architecture food and baseball.


URSULA MARTIN ONE WOMAN WALKS WALES


9781849539906 In his third travelogue, French teacher and long-distance cyclist sets off on Reggie (his bike) on his most daring trip yet, 8,000km extreme south to extreme north in Europe, from Tarifa in Spain to Nordkapp in Norway.


TRUE CRIME


NICK BILTON AMERICAN KINGPIN: THE EPIC HUNT FOR THE CRIMINAL MASTERMIND BEHIND THE SILK ROAD DRUGS EMPIRE VIRGIN, 4TH, P/B, £12.99, 9780753546673 True-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbright, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts, founder of Dark web online market Silk Road, a place where drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash,


BOBBY CUMMINES THE PARKHURST YEARS: MY TIME LOCKED UP WITH BRITAIN’S MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS EBURY, 4TH, P/B, £7.99, 9781785035166 The author, a gangland leader turned penal reformer and OBE recipient, writes of his days in Parkhurst at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, banged up with the Krays, the Yorkshire Ripper and high-ranking members of the IRA during the prison’s most infamous years of the 1960s and ’70s.


EDDIE MAHER FAST EDDIE: MY 20 YEARS ON THE RUN AS BRITAIN’S MOST WANTED MAN BLINK, 4TH, H/B, £14.99, 9781911274353 How Securicor guard Maher pulled off a £1.2m heist, fled the country despite every port being closed, spawned an international manhunt and managed to stay one step ahead of the law, and evade capture for 20 years. This is the first time he has told his story.


ALEXANDRIA MARZANO- LESNEVICH THE FACT OF A BODY: A MURDER AND A MEMOIR MACMILLAN, 18TH, H/B, £20, 9781509805624 In this award-winning true story, the author tells how as young law student, she worked on the case of a convicted murderer and child molester and starts to find something in his story unsettlingly, uncannily familiar. “Heart-stopping investigation into how the law is personal, composed of individual stories, and proof that arriving at the truth is more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.”


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