Titles in this preview are published in October


Pavilion, 8th, £22, HB, 9780008818708


Centring community, connection, purpose and nature, the nutritional therapist author also sets out her “longevity larder” of nutrient-dense foods in this collection of 30 post-menopause friendly recipes.


Anna Louie Sussman Who Gets to Have Kids? Creating a Family in an Age of Uncertainty


William Collins, 8th, £20, HB, 9780008411718


Spurred by the unexpected obstacles she encountered in her own quest to become a parent, US journalist Sussman investigates the reasons why people who want a family do not actually have one. She discovers that the personal is political when it comes to falling global birth rates.


History


Nigel Biggar, Robert Tombs Our Islands’ Story: A Better Story About Britain


Forum, 22nd, £20, HB, 9781800756755


Aiming to counter “bad” stories currently being told about Britain – notably that it is a systemically racist country, its racism rooted in colonial history – this centres a national history that is “more historically honest and more appreciative of the legacy of Britain’s past”.


Edward Brooke-Hitching The Crackpot Compendium: A Mind- Boggling and Fascinating A-Z of History’s Most Eccentric Thinkers


Simon & Schuster, 8th, £16.99, HB, 9781398532427


Full of “jaw-droppingly” strange episodes from history, this is said to be a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo- scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly outside the box thinkers.


Camilla Cassidy The Ground Beneath Our Feet: A Path Through England’s Lost Commons


Reaktion, 1st, £20, HB, 9781836392828


Blending memoir, history and literature to explore the meaning of belonging in a landscape, this history of enclosure and the disappearance of common land in England connects the fraught history of land ownership to the human stories rooted within it.


Terry Deary ( 8) A History of the World in Ten Wars


Bantam, 8th, £22, HB, 9780857509383


What can we learn from 10 wars that have changed world history? This “ridiculously funny” new book for grown-ups from the author of A History of Britain in Ten Enemies examines what war is good for (“absolutely something, surely, or we wouldn’t keep doing it”).


Elisabeth Braw The Undersea War: The International Battle for Supremacy at the Bottom of the Sea


John Murray, 8th, £25, HB, 9781399825412


Beneath the oceans, a war is quietly unfolding – a battle over the pipelines and digital cables that carry the oil, gas and data modern life depends on. Award-winning journalist Braw exposes the frontlines of this hidden conflict.


Michael Bundock A Meeting on Mincing Lane: The Story of Granville Sharp and the Fight Against Slavery


Yale, 27th, £25, HB, 9780300264593


The “astonishing and largely forgotten” life of single-minded British abolitionist Granville Sharp, who collaborated with Black activists Olaudah Equiano and Ottobah Cugoano, and even came to the attention of America’s founding fathers.


Philip Delves Broughton Embargo: How the 1973 Oil Crisis Changed the World


Hutchinson Heinemann, 29th, £22, HB, 9781529154665


This “riveting” account of how the 1973 oil crisis upended the global economy and reshaped geopolitics for good shows how the events of that year also mirrored events in 2026, with war in the Middle East causing a spike in the price of oil.


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Timothy Garton Ash Europe in 7 ½ Chapters: The Shortest Introduction to the World’s Oldest and Newest Continent


Bodley Head, 22nd, £16.99, HB, 9781847929174


Drawing on his lifetime of travelling, studying and writing about Europe, Garton Ash presents the story of the European continent in 100 pages, taking us on an “exhilarating” journey through geography, history, culture, food, football and more to show how Europe came to be the united and divided place it is today.


Kim Ghattas The Best Kind of American: Murder, War and America’s Undoing in the Middle East


Bloomsbury Continuum, 22nd, HB, £25, 9781399419437


Focusing on the forgotten assassination of Malcolm Kerr, renowned Middle East scholar and president of the American University of Beirut, author and Middle East expert Ghattas connects this 1980s murder with Lebanon’s warlords and peacemakers, and shows how it is the point of origin for the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel and Iran.


Ewan Gibbs An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class


Verso, 27th, £25, HB, 9781804296493


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Whatever happened to the working class?


This “compelling” social history of Britain since 1945 aims to bring the everyday lives of workers to the centre of our national story, from union halls to supermarkets.


Yuval Noah Harari ( 9), David Vandermeulen(ed), Daniel Casanave (illus) Sapiens: A Graphic History Volume 4 – The Age of Revolutions Cape, 1st, £22, HB, 9781911717812 The fourth and final volume of the graphic adaptation of Harari’s Sapiens brings the story of humankind to a powerful close with the story of how scientific and industrial revolutions reshaped capitalism and propelled us into the technological age.


Bettany Hughes Ancient Egypt: A History in Seven Treasures


Weidenfeld, 15th, £14.99, HB, 9781399642422


Drawing on her own first- hand encounters at each site, historian Hughes unearths the stories of ancient Egypt through seven of its most precious treasures, revealing the people, power and beliefs that shaped the Nile’s enduring world.


Kelsey Jackson Williams Portrait of an Obsession: How England’s Greatest Private Library Was Built from the Ruins of Europe’s Monasteries


OUP, 8th, £25, HB, 9780198879053


Telling the story of George John Spencer,


who spent his life and fortune acquiring the rarest books in the world for what was perhaps Britain’s greatest ever private library, this shows how a Europe torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars sparked a book- collecting frenzy.


Eleanor Johnson Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women


Princeton UP, 6th, £25, HB, 9780691291666


This “engaging” cultural history of a figure the author dubs “the monstruous bitch” shows how an ancient myth about a sexually voracious, baby-slaying, loud- mouthed demoness of ancient Mesopotamia named Lamashtu set the tone for misogynistic archetypes thereafter.


Dan Jones Castles: A Fortified History of the World


Apollo, 8th, £30, HB, 9781035911974


Blending rich storytelling, cutting-edge research and original illustrations, and spanning the ages from prehistoric hill forts through samurai and fantasy castles to 21st-century military bases, Jones tells the epic story of how humans first came to build fortifications and how defiance, endurance and imagination have been carved into the landscapes we have inherited.


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