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New titles October
Titles not to miss in October
Biography
From the rise of Artificial General Intelligence to the history of fairies, and from the fabled gardens of antiquity to an exploration of the struggle between ownership and belonging, Caroline Sanderson presents an eclectic selection of must-reads for October.
Current affairs Current affairs Film & music
Emily Ogden Darkness Becomes Bright: The Haunted Life (and Afterlife) of Edgar Allen Poe
Picador, 1st, £14.99, HB, 9781037408267
“He braved what kills us about ourselves. He breathed the life of his first-person pronoun into our deadliest truths.” I read this darkly imaginative biography of Edgar Allen Poe knowing little about him, yet was quickly lured into his fascinating, short and tragic life: his strange disappearances, his tortured romances, his near-fatal use of opium and his works of horror. Ogden cleverly weaves his story with those of his readers who have found solace and recognition in his writing, for creepy as it is, it helps us to look directly at things that are otherwise difficult to confront.
Malcolm Gladwell The American Way of Killing
Abacus, 1st, £25, HB, 9780349149288
Why, when it comes to lethal violence, is America so different from the rest of the world? Long conscious of this question having grown up in Canada, Gladwell embarked on this bold quest for answers, seeking out lethal stories of guns from across American life and culture in emergency rooms, Hollywood westerns, big- city police departments, the Supreme Court and beyond. He begins with the tragic story of Chicago trauma surgeon Abdullah Pratt, who works in the neighbourhood where he grew up and has lost 15 close friends from childhood to gun violence, many of them pronounced dead in his own trauma bay.
Stephen Sackur Hard Truth: 10 Investigations That Shook the World and Why They Matter Now Headline Press, 8th, £25, HB, 9781035434329
The respected journalist and presenter of the now sadly defunct BBC HARDTalk programme issues a rallying cry for the vital and continuing role of investigative journalism in holding the powerful to account. Highlighting 10 cases where journalists told truth to power, sometimes paying the ultimate price - from Daniel Ellsberg’s exposé of the Pentagon Papers to Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption fight in Russia, via the shocking murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia who took on systemic corruption in Malta - he argues that despite a world turned toxic by disinformation, the fight for democracy can still be won.
Louise Willder The Book Was Better: The Triumphs and Travesties of Book to Film Adaptation Oneworld, 1st, £14.99, HB, 9780861547722
Is the book always better than the film? Those of you who relish having that argument will adore this opinionated, frequently hilarious odyssey through the towering heights and unplumbed depths of book-to-screen adaptations by the author of Blurb Your Enthusiasm. I will not share too many spoilers about her most and least favourites so you can savour them yourselves, but Willder’s chapter titles include The Book Was Not Better: The Godfather, Jaws, The Exorcist; Silly Book, Silly Film: The Da Vinci Code, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fountainhead and Perfect Book, Perfect Film. Any guesses?
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Books New Titles: Fiction
JEN FARIELLO
CELESTE SLOMAN
TIM RILEY
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