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night, he writes himself a letter to read the next day.


Boney M, Barrett has survived desperate poverty in Jamaica, teenage pregnancy following abuse by a family friend, a messy group split (and millions in unpaid royalties), and a 1990s solo career interrupted by six bouts of cancer. She tells her feelgood, triumphant story in which she “looks upon every obstacle as a mere inconvenience”. Delayed from August.


STEPHEN BERNARD PAPER CUTS: A MEMOIR CAPE, 22ND, H/B, £12.99, 9781787330122 This shocking and arrestingly written memoir takes us inside the mind of a young Oxford academic whose life has been devastated by severe mental illness, triggered by long-term sexual abuse by a priest when he was an adolescent. Every morning when he wakes, he must reconstruct his self: every


KATE BOWLER EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON AND OTHER LIES I’VE LOVED SPCK, H/B, £12.99, 9780281079285 “Savagely witty, warm and profound” memoir by a young US woman with a terminal illness, about how she is contending with the fact that, even for her beloved husband and son, she is not the lynchpin of existence and life will go on without her. Told in the context of the “prosperity gospel” (the creed which promises believers a cure “if they want it badly enough”). A New York Times essay by Bowler was read by millions.


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10-year relationship ended almost concurrently. Published, of course, in time for Valentine’s Day.


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herself craving the wild, hedonistic times of her younger years at the age of 44, having successfully carved out a career as a successful writer, and become a faithful wife and mother. Dederer is the author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses.


MANDY LEN CATRON HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ANYONE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS BLACK INC, P/B, £10.99, 9781863959971 Why does love last? Does love ever work the way it does in films, books and on social media? Or does our obsessing over love stories harm real relationships? The author set out to answer these questions when her parents’ 28-year marriage and her own


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CLAIRE DEDERER LOVE AND TROUBLE: MEMOIRS OF A FORMER WILD GIRL TINDER PRESS, 22ND, P/B, £14.99, 9781472231178 “Hilarious and brilliant” memoir of one woman’s attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, when she found


LAURA FREEMAN THE READING CURE: HOW BOOKS RESTORED MY APPETITE WEIDENFELD, 22ND, H/B,


HISTORY


RODERICK BAILEY THE MAKING OF A SECRET AGENT HODDER, 8TH, H/B, £20, 978147367218 How do you go about training a secret agent? What kind of people were recruited and trained to kill and sabotage by the Special Operations Executive? And what happened to the 9,000 agents it recruited after the war? Drawing on pioneering research (sponsored by the Wellcome Trust), vivid personal testmonies and information never previously in the public domain, this reveals how the SOE addressed the impact of the psychological stresses to which its operatives were exposed, as well as the tests and processes through which they were selected. Accompanies a prime-time BBC2 series which sounds riveting.


BIOGRAPY & MEMOIRS


JOEL DOMMETT IT’S NOT ME, IT’S THEM HEADLINE, 8TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781472251299 “I knew I was a bit weird, but writing all the stories down in one block of readable published text, I’ve suddenly become aware of how aggressively odd I was.” This first book from the comedian, “Loose Women” regular and star of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!” (in which he was a runner-up) has a love theme, in keeping with its Valentine’s month publication. In his quest to find “the one”, Dommett embarks on a series of disastrous romantic encounters: carpets mistaken for toilets, futile grand gestures, and the catfishing to end all catfishing. It also features genuine teenage diary entries, amid the self-deprecation.


GARDENING


MONTY DON WITH DERRY MOORE PARADISE GARDENS TWO ROADS, 22ND, H/B, £35, 9781473666481 The TV gardener and bestselling author teams up with acclaimed photographer Moore on a journey to discover how a very different culture and climate has influenced garden design. Taking in Andalucía, Turkey, Iran and India, they explore the four areas of Islamic civilisation— Andalucían, Moghul, Persian and Ottoman—by visiting gardens that symbolise each. This “stunningly illustrated” account of that journey accompanies a BBC2 series that sounds rather glorious.


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KIERON DYER AND OLIVER HOLT OLD TOO SOON, SMART TOO LATE HEADLINE, 22ND, H/B, £20, 9781472249371


This memoir by the former Ipswich Town, Newcastle United, West Ham United, QPR, Middlesbrough and England footballer is said to provide the first intimate, honest and unsparing portrait of “the failures and excesses of the Baby Bentley generation of English footballers”. Nicknamed “The King of Bling” by the tabloids, Dyer was caught up in the kind of scrapes and scandals to which footballers are prone. Now the “quiet, caring, wise man” who was such a favourite on “I’m a Celebrity . . .” in 2015 reflects on opportunities lost amid the glitz, glamour, wealth and temptation.


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