Titles in this preview are published in October
“I believe our bodies are carriers of experience.” Haunted by her father’s abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother and the death of her child, US writer Yuknavitch weaves together past and present, fact and fiction to create an honest and resonant exploration of memory and trauma, and how creativity might help us heal.
Business, economics & careers
Charlotte Aldred Autistic and Unemployed? The Complete Guide to Finding and Keeping a Job
Jessica Kingsley, 21st, £15.99, PB, 9781399830331
Approximately 80% of autistic people are unemployed, despite being associated with many qualities that are highly sought after by employers. This practical guide aims to help autistic adults find, keep and progress within a job.
John Baird, Matt Hunter Tough Enough: How to Lead a Team to Greatness Without Being a Jerk
Macmillan Business, 1st, £22, HB, 9781037422195
This “practical playbook for ambitious leaders” aims to teach how to achieve high- performance results by balancing high standards with radical respect, in order to lead with both toughness and humanity.
Ron Johnson, Zander Nethercutt Shop Different: A Retail Story
HarperCollins, 24th, £22, HB, 9780008766399
Johnson created and led the Apple Store during its first 12 years. In this part business memoir, part insider account, he reveals how he did it, from the first store’s opening to the now global empire of more than 500 locations.
Raoul Pal The Everything Code: Seizing the Opportunities at the End of Economic History and the Dawn of the Exponential Age
Harriman House, 13th, £16.99, PB, 9781804094198
Taking us on a journey from the Second World War to a future AI age, this promises to provide a clear and compelling explanation for our current political, economic and social problems, and a blueprint for succeeding in it.
Current affairs, politics & activism
Zaina Arafat
Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging and Hope Dialogue, 22nd, £25, HB, 9781408773185
In essays that move from Nablus to the Appalachian Mountains and from Amman to Manhattan, this is said to be a poignant collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today.
Rye Barcott Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future
Apollo, 8th, £20, HB, 9781035929238
From a US Marine and featuring nine veterans and a former FBI agent from across the political spectrum, the story of principled individuals working across party lines to shape the US nation and inspire others to serve with courage in our own lives.
Paul Brand Fight to the Death: Human Stories from the Assisted Dying Debate
August Books, 1st, £20, HB, 9781835985793
Timed to coincide with the reintroduction of the assisted dying bill to the Houses of Parliament, this is billed as the “definitive” account of the global battle over the issue, exposing the fierce moral, legal and political clashes that accompany it.
Seb Butcher Distorted: Ultra- Processed Feeds, Splintered Worlds and How the Internet Broke Reality
Icon, 22nd, £20, HB, 9781837734054
The world is hooked on Ultra-Processed Feeds – engineered diets of outrage, falsehoods and distraction that are reshaping how we think and what we believe. So says the technology lawyer author as he offers a practical path towards rebuilding truth, trust and human connection.
Cherry Casey Childhood Ltd: How We Turned Children into Data and Why We Need to Stop
Icon, 8th, £20, HB, 9781837733439
From understaffed nurseries and endless testing to zero tolerance behaviour policies, a trenchant and admirably researched examination
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of why current policies surrounding the lives and learning of children are not working. Casey also talks to inspirational leaders and workers who are championing an approach to care and education that puts children first.
Quassim Cassam, Richard English How to Think About Terrorism: Reflections on Philosophy, History and Politics
OUP, 8th, £25, HB, 9780198911074
What is terrorism? How do people become terrorists? And to what extent can terrorism be considered rational? These and other questions are considered in this book by a philosopher and a political historian.
Camilla Cavendish Generation Maybe: Why We’re Having Fewer Children and What It Means for Us All
Bodley Head, 1st, £25, HB, 9781847929129
By an award-winning journalist, a “bold yet balanced” investigation into how a multitude of individual decisions around the world have led to one of the biggest global challenges we face today: the baby gap. Cavendish travels the world to explore why we are having fewer children, how it is changing the world and what we might do about it.
Sarah Close This Did Hurt: What I Wish I’d Known About Our Stretched Maternity Services
Saraband, 1st, £12.99, PB, 9781916812772
Balancing “exasperation and jeopardy with biting
humour”, this memoir about one woman’s experience of navigating a healthcare system that, she argues, too often fails to take women seriously asks urgent questions about the gaps in women’s healthcare.
Matthew Cole Princes and Thieves: The Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East
Ithaka, 6th, £16.99, PB, 9781806177059
Billed as a real-time exposé of the hidden forces and secret scandals that have been, and continue to be at play in the Middle East, around the world and within the US itself in a conspiracy to quash democracy.
Abdelrahman ElGendy Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison and Becoming
Oneworld, 15th, £12.99, PB, 9781836433057
Described as a “reckoning with what it takes and what it costs to remain when erased and what endures beyond hope”, this memoir of survival, education and resistance by an Egyptian former student and political prisoner, offers “not a promise of hope but a provocation”.
Rana Foroohar Sea Change: The New Great Game in the Arctic Circle
Swift, 8th, £22, HB, 9781800757127
Based on two years of intensive research this is billed as the first account of the international struggle for dominance in the Arctic Sea, combining the latest trends in geopolitics, economics, security and espionage.
Leopold Froelich (ed) What We Do Now: Standing Up for Democracy in America
Melville House, 1st, £16.99, PB, 9781685892715
Featuring essays from leading thinkers on the urgent crisis facing the US today, from housing affordability to climate change, immigration and beyond. It proposes bold policies and strategies for constitutionally protected dissent.
Kim Ghattas ( 3) The Best Kind of American: A Story of Murder, War and America’s Undoing in the Middle East
Bloomsbury Continuum, 22nd, £25, HB, 9781399419437
This propulsive work of politics and true crime follows one family’s search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off a “geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day”.
Owen Jones The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It
Allen Lane, 1st, HB, £25, 9780241740644
Aiming to “turn every argument about Western decline on its head”, Jones argues that it is not migrants or a woke mob that is to blame but the Western elite’s greed, hubris and quests for power over the past 25 years, from Iraq and Afghanistan to the financial crash and Gaza.
Rashid Khalidi, Tariq Ali The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle
Verso, 27th, £9.99, PB, 9781836745761
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