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awareness about the condition and encouraging others to see that there is life after a diagnosis. This is her memoir, both a “heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy used to be, and a brave affirmation of the woman dementia has seen her become”.


Scotland–looks back on the ups and downs of a full life, much of it lived in the public eye.


WENDY MITCHELL AND ANNA WHARTON SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW BLOOMSBURY, 8TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781408893364 When Mitchell–a


non-clinical team leader in the NHS–was diagnosed with Young Onset Dementia at the age of 58, she vowed to spend her time raising


both actual and imagined, of life with a pitbull terrier called Rosie, by a US author who, in the process, also charts her own experiences of alcoholism and recovery, intimacy and mourning, celebrity and politics. Colm Tóibín and Helen Macdonald are both admirers, the latter calling it “ravishingly strange”— which it is.


WILLIAM MORROW, 8TH, H/B, £20, 9780062219572 The autobiography of the Hollywood actor is said to be a “pull-no-punches page-turner” in which he describes, in juicy detail, his rise to stardom from intense method actor to commercial success; his troubled marriages; his prolonged drug use; the stars he has worked with; and his comeback to earn a 2011 Oscar nomination for “Warrior”.


EILEEN MYLES AFTERGLOW: A DOG MEMOIR GROVE PRESS, 1ST, P/B, £14.99, 9781611855142 Strikingly written account,


NICK NOLTE REBEL: MY LIFE OUTSIDE THE LINES


CHRISTINA OXENBERG DYNASTY: A TRUE STORY QUARTET, 21ST, H/B, £30, 9780704374485 Part memoir, part royal history by the great- great-great-granddaughter of Karadorde, the founder of modern Serbia and a descendant of the


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Karadjordjevic dynasty, who rose from shepherds to kings. Illustrated with photos from the author’s private collection.


KATJA PETROWSKAJA MAYBE ESTHER FOURTH ESTATE, 8TH, H/B, £12.99, 9780008245283 This European “literary sensation”, translated into 19 languages and the winner of four book prizes in Germany, tells the engrossing story of the author’s family and its


entanglement with 20th-century history. Moving from Berlin to Warsaw, to Moscow and to Kiev, it takes in her Ukrainian grandfather, who disappeared during the Second World War and reappeared 40 years later; her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomat in Moscow in 1932 and was sentenced to death; and her great-grandmother, who was killed by a Nazi outside her house in Kiev. Translated from the


PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & SELF-HELP


CATHERINE PRICE HOW TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR PHONE TRAPEZE, 8TH, H/B, £12.99, 9781409176268


“Conquer your phone addiction in 30 days and, in the process, discover a happier, healthier and more fulfilled you,” is the promise of this book which was a buzzy title at the London Book Fair earlier this year, and has now sold in 13 territories. Price is a US science journalist and her mindful manual reveals the latest research about what overuse of your phone does to your brain, and then offers an easy-to-follow plan for recalibrating your relationship with your phone. “This book will do for phone addiction what Marie Kondo did for sock drawers,” says Trapeze.


PSYCHOLOGY


NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB SKIN IN THE GAME ALLEN LANE, 27TH, H/B, £20, 9780241247471 The author of The Black Swan and “the hottest thinker in the world” draws on everything from Roman emperors to Donald Trump, and ethics to used car salesmen, to explain why we should only trust those who have something to lose. Too many people running our world—including policy wonks, corporate executives, theoreticians, bankers and most journalists— don’t have skin in the game, and there’s our problem, he says. Ultimately, Taleb offers a key rule to live by: do not do to others what you don’t want them to do to you. In other words, never take advice from someone who gives advice for a living.


FOOD & DRINK


RUBY TANDOH EAT UP! PROFILE, H/B, £12.99, 9781781259597 The food writer and former “Great British Bake Off” finalist presents her radical manifesto for the joys and cultural benefits of eating, with which readers can arm themselves against the fad diets and bad science that can make it such a guilt-laden and expensive business. Along the way, we break bread with Roald Dahl, Nora Ephron and Gemma from “TOWIE”, dine in the “When Harry Met Sally” deli, taste blackberries in Ruby’s grandmother’s garden and wash them down with an empowering glass of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade”.


NATURAL HISTORY AND PETS


DAVE WARDELL WITH LYNNE BARRETT-LEE FABULOUS FINN QUERCUS, 8TH, H/B, £16.99, 9781786489067


This, the “inspirational life of Britain’s bravest police dog”, tells the story of German Shepherd Finn, who was stabbed through the chest with a 10-inch knife protecting his owner, PC Dave Wardell while on duty. It’s an incredible story of friendship and loyalty, and of the bond between one man and his highly trained, and now highly decorated, dog, who won the 2017 Daily Mirror Animal Hero of the Year Award. Public support is gathering for Finn’s Law which would give the same status to police dogs and horses as human police officers when assaulted in the line of duty.


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