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NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION FEBRUARY


£16.99, 9781474604642 “It began with Sassoon’s eggs. His ham sandwiches eaten perched on a country gate. His slice of cherry tart at a very good cricket tea.” Honest and delightful memoir about recovering from anorexia by discovering an appetite for food, and for life, through literature. Plum puddings and pots of fruit in Dickens gave her the courage to try new dishes; the wounded Robert Graves and his appreciation of greengages changed her view of plenty; and Virginia Woolf tempted her with painterly descriptions of bread, blackberries and biscuits.


CATHY GLASS A LONG WAY FROM HOME HARPERELEMENT, 22ND, P/B, £7.99, 9780008275891


The story of two-year-old Anna, abandoned by her parents and left alone in a neglected orphanage, despite having been dearly wanted for adoption. Glass explains what went wrong.


ANGELA HART THE GIRL WITH TWO LIVES: A SHOCKING CHILDHOOD. A FOSTER CARER WHO UNDERSTOOD. A YOUNG GIRL’S LIFE FOREVER CHANGED BLUEBIRD, 22ND, P/B, £7.99, 9781509839070 This fourth book in the series of true tales by a foster carer tells the story of 12-year-old Danielle, who arrives in her care after being excluded from a special school and when her former foster family can no longer cope with her.


the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules across Africa, Asia and Latin America.


GRANT HAYTER-MENZIES THE LOST WAR HORSES OF CAIRO: THE PASSION OF DOROTHY BROOKE, ANIMAL WELFARE PIONEER ALLEN & UNWIN, 1ST, H/B, £16.99, 9781760631420 First biography of remarkable Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke (1883-1955), who founded a charity in 1930s Cairo to rescue British war horses. Today it lives on as the Brooke Animal Charity, which works to improve


A J JACOBS IT’S ALL RELATIVE: ADVENTURES UP AND DOWN THE WORLD’S FAMILY TREE ONEWORLD, P/B, £12.99, 9781786073754 The author of The Know it All and The Year of Living Biblically charts his three-year quest to understand what constitutes family by building the biggest family tree in history. The mission takes him to all seven continents, and sees him drinking beer with a US president, uncovering genetic links to Hollywood actresses and singing with a Mormon tabernacle choir.


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KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD SPRING HARVILL SECKER, 15TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781910701676 The third volume in Knausgaard’s seasonal quartet follows the author and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. Previous volumes have divided reviewers.


JAMAL MAHJOUB A LINE IN THE RIVER: KHARTOUM,


CITY OF MEMORY BLOOMSBURY, 8TH, H/B, £25, 9781408885468 Said to be a moving portrait, part memoir, part history of Sudan, once one of the largest and most diverse countries in Africa—then it self-destructed. The author fled the country with his family after the 1989 coup. He describes his return, almost 20 years later, to a country on the brink of rupture.


CAMERON MCNEISH THERE’S ALWAYS THE HILLS SANDSTONE PRESS, 15TH, H/B, £19.99, 9781910985953 TV presenter, former international long-jump athlete and writer on the outdoor life–especially walking and climbing in


HEALTH, DIETING & PARENTING


ALEX JONES WINGING IT! BLINK, 8TH, H/B, £14.99, 9781911600015


In her first book—“a frank, warm and hugely entertaining guide to midlife motherhood”—the presenter of “The One Show”, who recently returned to the sofa after giving birth to her son Teddy, shares her experiences of becoming a first-time mum at the age of 40, along with those of other mums and dads who have had children a little later in life. It also provides reassuring answers to such questions as: Can my body handle this? Will I still have a career when I come back from maternity leave? And will I look ancient at the school gates?


CURRENT AFFAIRS


HELENA MORRISSEY A GOOD TIME TO BE A GIRL WILLIAM COLLINS, 8TH, H/B, £14.99, 9780008241605 Dame Helena Morrissey has been named in Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list, and also a Business Person of the Year by the Financial Times. She also guest- edited the BBC Radio 4 “Today” programme at Christmas 2016. Published to mark International Women’s Day 2018, this is her guide to how we can make further progress towards gender equality in the workplace by changing the system, rather than ourselves. In the process, she draws on her considerable experience as a City c.e.o., mother of nine, and leader of the successful 30% Club campaign to get more women on UK company boards. A “massive, high-profile” launch is promised.


BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS


ANDREW MORTON WALLIS IN LOVE MICHAEL O’MARA, 22ND, H/B, £20, 9781782437222 The author of Diana: Her True Story and, most recently, 17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up, returns with a “vivid, fresh and frank” biography of Wallis Simpson, which draws on interviews, secret letters, diaries, and never before seen (or heard) primary sources to “totally transform our perception” of the late Duchess of Windsor. Telling her story right from her lowly beginnings in the US, it reveals the men she truly loved and the men who broke her heart, and exposes for the first time “the truly astonishing offer she made, days before her wedding to the ex-king, the Duke of Windsor”.


PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION


STEVEN PINKER ENLIGHTENMENT NOW ALLEN LANE, 27TH, H/B, £25, 9780241004319 “The story of human progress is truly heroic. It is glorious. It is uplifting. It is even, I daresay, spiritual.” In his “energising” new book, Pinker issues a “headline- grabbing” challenge to the dominant narrative of a society in decline, arguing that the values of the Enlightenment —science, reason, humanism—have made the world a better place. Progress is the gift of a coherent value system that most of us embrace without even realising it, and that is why we must defend it amid populism and fundamentalism he says, making the case for a new Enlightenment, recharged for the 21st century.


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