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moments and chance relationships that pass beneath the surface of our lives”.


William Scammell, John Greening (editor) Heft: Selected Poems


Renard, 1st, £10.99, PB, 9781804472101


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across her platforms for her relationship advice. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience and nervous system research as well as her own story, this is her “no bullshit roadmap to rewriting the patterns that are hijacking your love life”.


Philosophy & religion


Richard Boothby Twenty Shadows Divided Publishing, 26th, £13.99, PB, 9781068439537


Writing “with an openness that verges on the mystic”, this traces the author’s spiritual and philosophical transformation following the suicide of his son after a long addiction.


John Sellars Stoicism Is Not What You Think


Pelican, 1st, £20, HB, 9780241766958


Explaining that it is not about having a stiff upper lip or ignoring the world, this “invigorating” corrective to one of philosophy’s most misunderstood traditions argues that Stoicism is more inclusive, useful and warm than we think.


Bokyeong Sunim ( 14), Jinwoo Park (trans) One Day a Cat Came to Me: Timeless Zen Wisdom from a Cat and His Monk


Souvenir, 15th, £14.99, PB, 9781805229667


Drawing on years of learning, reflection and Bokyeong’s own practice as a monk, this tribute to the companionship of cats blends philosophy, mindfulness and connection with nature, powerfully capturing the essence of life in the company of others.


Poetry


Simon Armitage Gilgamesh Faber, 8th, £14.99, HB, 9780571357246


In “fresh and fluent” verse, this is the


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poet laureate’s translation of the ancient epic, accompanied by his illuminating commentary, and transporting us “right back to the origins of civilisation and storytelling”.


Nicholas Bateman Unearthed: Lost, Broken, Forgotten, Rediscovered – Poetry Across 35 Centuries


Batsford, 1st, £20, HB, 9781837330058


From a Sumerian princess writing about war to a lonely Irish monk addressing his cat, an anthology of 70 poems from history that were unearthed through archaeology, accompanied by the stories of how they survived.


John Cooper Clarke Have It Picador, 1st, £16.99, HB, 9781037404191


In this new collection, the legendary “Poet Laureate of Punk” confronts his mortality head on in “raucous” new poems. “More comic and more tragic than ever before,” says Picador.


Lindsey Hilsum I Brought the War with Me: Dispatches & Poems from the Front Line


Vintage, 15th, £12.99, PB, 9781529985559


While reporting on the Ukraine war, the international editor for Channel 4 tweeted a poem a day, having always carried a book of poetry with her during four decades of reporting on conflict. This is her collection of memories from those 40 years of reporting, alongside war poems from all over the world.


Graham Powell Tempera Crumps Barn Studio, 15th, £12.99, PB, 9781915067814


This alluring second collection from Powell “uncovers the colour and texture of those fleeting


Aiming to illuminate the work of the unjustly neglected poet Scammell, this new selection edited by fellow poet Greening, who knew him well, showcases a “unique voice with a finger on the pulse of the 1970s–90s”.


Marvin Thompson ( 15) Rooms Inpress Books, 1st, £10.99, PB, 9781845236199


Centring themes of family, fatherhood and Black identity in contemporary Wales, a second collection from Thompson, who won the National Poetry Competition in 2020.


Popular science, mathematics & technology


Philip Ball


The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics


The Bridge Street Press, 8th, £30, HB, 9780349136547


Charting his dramatic life and revolutionary science, a compelling new biography of Niels Bohr, one of the 20th century’s “most inventive and iconoclastic thinkers”, and a scientist whose insights continue to shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.


Peter de Bolla


Thinking with Machines: Margaret Masterman and the Discovery of AI


Bloomsbury Academic, 15th, £18, HB, 9781350643000


The untold story of Margaret Masterman – religious devotee, linguist, logician, philosopher, self-made computer scientist and the “forgotten prophet of AI” who, alongside her Cambridge collaborators, built the first machine that could think.


Mo Gawdat Alive: A Human’s Guide to Living in the World of AI


Bluebird, 15th, £22, HB, 9781035093090


The author and tech expert unpicks how we got here in terms of AI, outlines how it will soon profoundly change our lives, and offers both a guide for the storm ahead


and an uplifting vision of our far future.


Jeff Jarvis Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad


Bloomsbury Academic, 29th, £17.99, HB, 9798765123959


The linotype mechanised the 400-year-old process of setting type and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book and magazine empires. This tells the epic story of this 19th-century machine and how it opened the portal to mass media.


Mike Jay Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain


Yale, 13th, £20, HB, 9780300278880


From the fictions of HG Wells and William Gibson to The Matrix, the CIA’s Cold War experiments and Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a cultural history of the mavericks and scientists, crackpots and artistic visionaries who have imagined a future where machines fuse with our minds.


Barbara Lazio Off the Top of My Head: Stories from the Operating Room That Will Make You Laugh (or Cry)


Sourcebooks, 22nd, £13.99, PB, 9781464266874


“Inside every skill is a story of heart, humanity – and the occasional hairball.” Equal parts miraculous and messy, this “humorous and heartwarming” collection of stories from a neurosurgeon author reminds us that “life is hopeful, tender and a little bit squishy”.


Ethan Mollick Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI


WH Allen, 22nd, £18.99, HB, 9780753562369


This follow-up to Mollick’s book Co-Intelligence is billed as a guide to thriving at the “jagged


frontier where human and AI capabilities collide”. His Substack, One Useful Thing, has 400,000 subscribers, making it one of the largest newsletters on AI in the world.


Dr Albert Moukheiber, Pablo Strauss (trans) Mind Myths: How Pop Science Gets Your Brain Wrong


Greystone, 22nd, £15.99, PB, 9781778403163


“Popular discussions of neuroscience are riddled with intellectual shortcuts, half-truths and sometimes outright falsehoods.” From the idea of being left- brained to such vogueish concepts as the “lizard brain” and the “dopamine detox”, this fascinating book by a French neuroscientist exposes the dangerous gaps between real science and what we imagine goes in our heads. “Your brain deserves better,” he says.


Seamus O’Mahony The Longevity Delusion: Money, Myths and Bad Science


Apollo, 8th, £20, HB, 9781035921911


Cutting through a wealth of “pseudo-scientific nonsense”, the doctor author draws on actual scientific evidence to make a serious case for why longevity is a delusion, and why, despite what celebrities and billionaires might believe, we are unlikely to find a real solution to the inevitability of ageing.


Terence Tao Six Maths Essentials: How to Model the World


Pelican, 27th, £20, HB, 9780241829486


Dubbed “the Mozart of mathematics”, Tao takes us on a tour of six core ideas of mathematical thinking in this short primer, which “moves effortlessly” from the concept of infinity to curved geometries and the numbers that underpin our online lives.


Judy Wearing Anxious and Hairy: The Evolution and Culture of Human Hair


Icon, 8th, £20, HB, 9781837732814


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In a fabulously engaging saga of survival, sex and social life, this “wild romp through your furry real estate” draws on insights from evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, history and art to uncover what our hair reveals about being human. Bringing us popular science writing


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