Titles in this preview are published in October
Changing Days Among a Thousand Small Lives DK Red, 22nd, £20, HB, 9780241826522
Charting a life-changing three months at Port Lockroy, the world’s southernmost post office on a small island off the Antarctic peninsula, travel writer Watson gives us a “tender meditation on isolation and hope – a reminder that even in the coldest corners, small acts of care can ripple far and wide”.
Personal development & self-help
Diana Adams Chosen Family: A Personal and Practical Guide to Choosing the People You Commit to and Care For
Headline Home, 6th, £22, HB, 9781035432097
What does the word family really mean? It is high time, says the author, that we stopped assuming that “all happy families are alike” as they present this “thoughtful” guide to thriving with your chosen, modern family, which also advocates for equality and expansion of family laws.
Dr Sally Cubbin, Gillian Johnson Shakespeare Women and ADHD: from Puberty to Menopause and Beyond
Robinson, 1st, £16.99, HB, 9781472149824
Billed as a unique collaboration between an ADHD psychiatrist and an author-illustrator and coach, this guide – told through seven case studies – aims to bring ADHD in women to life through stories, medical information, nuanced insights and illustrations.
Ross Edgley How to Hero: Find Strength, Forge Resilience and Fulfil Your Purpose
Sphere, 8th, £25, HB, 9781408728468
In a book written during his 1,000-mile swim
look at joy and how we might choose to embrace it in daily life.
Eric Partaker, Dr Christian Poensgen Ultraproductive: The 90-Minute Method
Bloomsbury, 20th, £20, HB, 9781526688996
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around the entire coast of Iceland, the award- winning adventurer and expert on resilience details the science, psychology and history of heroism, uncovering what drives ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Adam Grant
Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
WH Allen, 15th, £22, HB, 9798217414222
Author, smart-thinking guru and TED talk success Grant, who also has two million followers on Instagram, provides a guide for successful relationships in all areas of life. Essentially, he says, similarity is not necessary for solidarity, chemistry does not always happen quickly and closeness does not always take time.
Elke Heidenreich, Charlotte Collins (trans) Ageing
Open Borders Press, 15th, £12.99, PB, 9781919503370
Billed as both a literary text and self-help book, this German bestseller by the author of children’s book Nero Corleone: A Cat’s Story is an “intelligent, compassionate and humorous” guide to growing old without fear.
Ann Ingle Still Here: Everything I Know About Being Older
O’Brien, 12th, £15.99, PB, 9781788496674
The 87-year-old writer Ingle – one of Ireland’s “most beloved late bloomers” – takes a humorous look at the ups and downs of being an older woman from losing eyesight and mobility to celebrating family and staying connected to her life passions.
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August Lamm ( 12) You Don’t Need a Smartphone: A Practical Guide to Downgrading Your Phone and Upgrading Your Life
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Monoray, 1st, £12.99, HB, 9781800964471
Drawing on her own experience of screen addiction, anti-tech activist Lamm presents a “revelatory” manifesto designed to help you ditch your smartphone once and for all for a newly fulfilling life.
Kelly McGonigal Joy Is a Risk Worth Taking
Headline Press, 13th, £20, HB, 9781035413713
Based on her popular course at Stanford University, psychologist McGonigal draws on psychology, neuroscience and storytelling to offer a “groundbreaking”
In a world inundated with distractions and demands on our time, this argues for the power of the 90-minute method, which incorporates cycles of 90 minutes of deep interrupted work each day, deep sleep each night and resetting stress levels.
April Snow Big Feelings, Big Joy HQ, 6th, £20, HB, 9780008834944
Have you ever been told that you are too sensitive or too much? Do you feel things intensely? Psychotherapist Snow argues that such sensitivity is not a problem to be solved but rather a gift you are born with that can lead to a more fulfilling and joyful life.
Paul Taylor-Pitt Still Here! Still Queer! Now What? A Guide to LGBTQ+ Wellness and Wholeness in Midlife
Jessica Kingsley, 21st, £16.99, PB, 9781399840293
Billed as the first practical self-help guide aimed at LGBTQ+ adults aged 40-60, this “love letter to Generation X queers” offers tools and reflections to help readers move beyond shame, reconnect with pleasure and step into our “most vibrant, deliberate selves”.
Matt Willis ( 13) Mending: Busted, Burnout and Getting Better
Quercus, 8th, £22, HB, 9781529455359
Willis, formerly of the band Busted, reflects on “rock bottom, recovery and how to get there”. Not a typical memoir, it is rather his story of how to recover, a roadmap of resilience and “hope that shows that it’s not being fixed that’s the goal, it’s mending”.
Sabrina Zohar Why Am I Like This? Break Your Relationship Patterns and Create the Life You Want
Merky, 15th, £20, HB, 9781529997491
The dating coach and host of The Sabrina Zohar Show has more than three million followers
A RADICAL REFRAMING OF RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINE
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