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NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION FEBRUARY
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS
NEIL ANSELL THE LAST WILDERNESS: A JOURNEY INTO SILENCE TINDER PRESS, 8TH, H/B, £18.99, 9781472247117
“It is not that I do not care for other people, but rather that I do not depend on having others around me in order to feel whole.” The Bookseller m.d. Nigel Roby is a fellow admirer of this captivating, meditative memoir on nature and solitude by a writer and TV journalist with profound hearing loss. Structured around a series of five solo journeys Ansell makes to the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands at different seasons during the course of one year, it beautifully charts the challenges and solaces of being alone and part of nature, instead of aloof from it, as most of us routinely are.
HISTORY
DIANE ATKINSON RISE UP WOMEN! BLOOMSBURY, 6TH, H/B, £30, 9781408844045 Published to coincide with the centenary of
women gaining the vote, this impressive group biography covers the lives of more than 200 Suffragettes and the role they played in securing the vote, through 50 years of campaigning. While she pays fitting tribute to such high-profile campaigners as the Pankhursts, Emily Davison and Annie Kenney (the mill girl from Oldham who became the poster girl of the Women’s Social and Political Union), Atkinson also celebrates the contribution of many lesser-known figures, such as Dora Thewlis, a 16-year-old weaver from Huddersfield; bootmakers Alice Hawkins and her husband Arthur from Leicester; and music hall artiste Kitty Marion.
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT & SELF-HELP
TRICIA CUSDEN LIVING THE LIFE MORE FABULOUS ORION SPRING, 8TH, H/B, £20,
9781409172697 “It is my sincere wish that it will excite, inform, inspire and empower you as we all embark on the great adventure of this fabulous third act of our lives.” Cusden began posting YouTube make-up tutorials out of frustration that her age group was being ignored by the beauty industry. Then in 2013, at the age of 68, she launched online beauty brand Look Fabulous Forever, and now counts Judi Dench among her fans. This is her irresistible guide to looking good and feeling great, whatever your age. Vlogging for the older generation is a growing market, I’m told, and Cusden has over 100,000 devotees on her mailing list.
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS
AIDA EDEMARIAM THE WIFE’S TALE: A PERSONAL HISTORY 4TH ESTATE, 22ND, H/B, £16.99, 9780007459605
This “new Wild Swans” tells the enthralling story of the author’s grandmother Yètèmegn, an indomitable woman who lived to be nearly 100, against the backdrop of an extraordinary and often bloody sweep of Ethiopia’s history. Married at eight years old, Yètèmegn gives birth to the first of 10 children at 14, and outlives half of them, while witnessing fascist invasion and occupation, Allied bombardment and exile from her city, the rise and fall of Emperor Hailè Selassie, revolution and civil war. Edemariam, who writes for the Guardian, won an RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction for the unpublished book.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
AFUA HIRSCH BRIT(ISH) CAPE, 25TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781911214281
Where are you from? No, where are you
really from?” Repeatedly being asked this question prompted Hirsh, a former Sky News and Guardian journalist who has Ghanian, Yorkshire, German and Jewish heritage to write this bracing and brilliant exploration of national identity, which won an RSL Jerwood Award for non-fiction. Through her often intensely personal investigations, she exposes the everyday racism that plagues British society, caused by our awkward, troubled relationship with our history, arguing that liberal attempts to be “colour-blind” have caused more problems than they have solved. A book everyone should read: especially comfy, white, middle-class liberals.
TRAVEL
URSULA MARTIN ONE WOMAN WALKS WALES HONNO, 15TH, P/B, £9.99,
9781909983601 A routine trip to the doctor in between
adventurous European travelling trips left 32-year-old Martin with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Determined not to sink into self-pity, she decided to continue her travels by walking between her mid-Wales home and her hospital appointments in Bristol, in order raise money and awareness of the need for early detection of the disease. This gripping account of her often gruelling 3,700-mile odyssey came out of Martin’s popular blog of the same name, and tells a remarkable story both of self-discovery through physical connection with the landscape, and of one woman’s admirable bravery and bravado. Published ahead of Ovarian Cancer Month in March.
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