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NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION FEBRUARY


German by Shelley Frisch.


ZARA PHILLIPS SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER JOHN BLAKE, 22ND, P/B, £7.99, 9781786065667 Said to be a hard-hitting and witty memoir by a singer-songwriter and documentary maker who was adopted as a baby in the 1960s and has spent much of her life trying to track down her birth parents—and a sense of identity.


£12.99, 9780008271008 Described as a cross between The Wrong Knickers and The Unmumsy Mum, this “wry, resonant and deeply emotional” memoir explores


motherhood as an issue of identity, following the author’s journey from young, married national press features writer “at the top of her editorial game” to a thirtysomething mum, confused as to how she can love someone as much as her daughter and yet still feel lost as a person.


devastating consequences of war on young lives. No proof, but Bloomsbury believes he is a major new voice.


BUSINESS & ECONOMICS


KATIE PIPER WITH DIANE PIPER FROM MOTHER TO DAUGHTER: THE THINGS I’D TELL MY CHILD QUERCUS, 22ND, H/B, £14.99, 9781787470613 The TV presenter, charity campaigner and author of Beautiful Ever After presents her first book on motherhood as she prepares to become a mother for the second time. Written with her own mother, it celebrates the power of mother- daughter relationships while also dealing with the serious topical issues that young girls and teenagers face today.


RIAD SATTOUF THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE VOLUME 3: A CHILDHOOD IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1985–1987. A GRAPHIC MEMOIR TWO ROADS, P/B, £18.99, 9781473638280 Continuation of former Charlie Hebdo contributor Sattouf’s widely acclaimed graphic memoir about growing up between Libya, Syria and France. This third volume charts the years when he is aged between six and nine, and becoming aware of the society he is growing up in. Zadie Smith, Mark Haddon, Alain de Botton and Posy Simmonds are all fans.


GRACE TIMOTHY MUM FACE: THE MEMOIR OF A WOMAN WHO GAINED A BABY AND LOST HER SH*T HARPERCOLLINS, 22ND, P/B,


JOHN TUSA MAKING A NOISE: GETTING IT RIGHT, GETTING IT WRONG IN LIFE, ARTS AND BROADCASTING WEIDENFELD, 22ND, H/B, £25, 9781474607087 This absorbing memoir by the former “Newsnight” presenter, m.d. of the BBC World Service and m.d. of the Barbican Arts Centre, spans both his professional career in journalism, broadcasting and the arts, and is also an account of his childhood. He came to England from what was then Czechoslovakia when he was three. Among much else, we get the inside story of two years of internecine warfare at the top of the BBC; and his recollections of a hilarious and petty-minded few months as head of a Cambridge college.


JEREMY BAILENSON EXPERIENCE ON DEMAND: WHAT VIRTUAL REALITY IS, HOW IT WORKS AND WHAT IT CAN DO NORTON, H/B, £22.99, 9780393253696 Beginning with a plank-walking Mark Zuckerberg, Bailenson, a professor of communication at Stanford University, draws on two decades of research into the psychological effects of virtual reality for this fascinating look at what it is, and how it can be harnessed to improve our everyday lives.


household names such as Guinness and Wrigley’s, the “digestible” tales of 12 businesses with a combined age of almost 5,000 years. What can we learn from them?


RICHARD ASKWITH PEOPLE POWER BITEBACK, H/B, £10, 9781785903526 The author of Feet in the Clouds and Running Free with an account of how people have taken back power, why support for the big political parties has tailed off, what caused the “roar of pent-up rage against the Brussels- friendly elite” that led to Brexit, and, of course, the seemingly crazed elevation of Donald Trump. The latest addition to Biteback’s Provocations series.


Nigerian railroads, the oil fields of Iraq, and beyond, this readable and illuminating book aims to answer such questions as: why is China the world’s biggest manufacturer, and the US its biggest customer? Is free trade really a good thing? And, why would a nation build a bridge on the other side of the globe? Darshini is a rising-star economist who has fronted the “Tonight” programme on Sky News, and the BBC’s Wall Street coverage in New York.


SOPHIE DEVONSHIRE SUPERFAST: HOW TO LEAD AT SPEED JOHN MURRAY LEARNING, 15TH, H/B, £20, 9781473661868 How to lead innovatively, decisively and impactfully in today’s fast-paced world is the theme of this book, which draws on interviews with leaders of big global corporations, start-ups and, appropriately, the head of the Counter-Terrorism Unit.


DANIEL COYLE THE CULTURE CODE: THE SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL GROUPS RANDOM HOUSE BUSINESS, 1ST, P/B, £14.99, 9781847941268 What can we learn from the Chilean miners trapped underground in 2010, the San Antonio Spurs basketball team and Pixar Animation Studios? That sometimes groups of people can flourish in the most unexpected and trying of circumstances, says this exploration of how the best teams operate.


STEVE COLL DIRECTORATE S: THE CIA AND AMERICA’S SECRET WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN, 2001–2016 ALLEN LANE, 1ST, H/B, £25, 9781846146602 Following Coll’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, this tells the story of the US’ grim involvement in Afghanistan from 2001 until 2016, weaving together the actions of the political and military leaderships, and including vivid accounts both from the point of view of ordinary troops in nightmarish situations, to the arguments that raged in the White House. “A powerful, bitter story of just how badly policy decisions can go wrong, and of many lives lost.”


MATT YOUNG EAT THE APPLE BLOOMSBURY, 22ND, H/B, £14.99, 9781408888285 “Gut-wrenching, beautiful” memoir by a US Army Iraq veteran in which he explores toxic masculinity, the misguided motivations which led him to join the Marine Corps, and the


DARK ANGELS ESTABLISHED: LESSONS FROM THE WORLD’S OLDEST COMPANIES UNBOUND, 22ND, H/B, £20, 9781783524655 From the oldest pub in the world, to the Liberty Bell and the stories of


DAVID DHARSHINI THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR: FOLLOW THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF A SINGLE DOLLAR TO SEE HOW THE GLOBAL ECONOMY REALLY WORKS ELLIOTT & THOMPSON, 22ND, H/B, £16.99, 9781783963386 By tracking an imaginary single dollar around the globe, from a shopping trip in suburban Texas, via China’s Central Bank,


NANCY KOEHN FORGE IN CRISIS: THE POWER OF COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP IN TURBULENT TIMES JOHN MURRAY, 22ND, P/B, £14.99, 9781473674707 Harvard Business School historian with an in-depth portrait of five remarkable figures—Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rachel Carson—which illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity, and the diverse skills they summon in the process. Arianna Huffington and Angela Duckworth are among those impressed.


JOANNE LIPMAN WIN, WIN: WHEN BUSINESS WORKS FOR WOMEN, IT WORKS FOR EVERYONE JOHN MURRAY, 22ND, H/B, £20, 9781473627017 Described as “Lean In meets Freakonomics”, this investigates how men (yes, men) and women can work together to close the gender gap in the workplace. It’s full of entertaining examples, I’m told, from Iceland’s campaign to feminise an entire nation to transgender scientists, to the latest differences between how men and women email. The “well-connected and


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promotable” author is a former deputy managing editor at the Wall Street Journal and the founding editor-in-chief of Portfolio magazine.


JONATHAN MACDONALD POWERED BY CHANGE NICHOLAS BREALEY, 8TH, H/B, £20, 9781473665583 “When the winds of change are blowing, some build a wall and others build a windmill.” This ancient proverb is the basis for this business manual, which instructs leaders to adopt a more radical view about the way they do business, urging them to use change as a fuelling mechanism to generate success.


VIKTOR MAYER- SCHÖNBERGER AND THOMAS RAMGE REINVENTING CAPITALISM IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA JOHN MURRAY, 22ND, H/B, £25, 9781473656499 Billed as a provocative look at how big data is reinventing markets. In so doing, it is ushering in an era where the firm is no longer predominant, and the rules for surviving and thriving are therefore changing.


IRWIN STELZER THE MURDOCH METHOD: NOTES ON RUNNING A MEDIA EMPIRE ATLANTIC, 1ST, P/B, £14.99, 9781786494009 “Exclusive, insider” and first-hand account of the Murdoch media empire by one of his closest personal and business aides. Disclosing information on some of Murdoch’s most infamous business deals and decisions, it will provide much practical business insight and guidance, I’m told. Stelzer has a column in the Sunday Times.


DAVID STEPHENSON BIG DATA DEMYSTIFIED: HOW TO UNDERSTAND IT, KNOW YOUR MARKET AND IMPROVE YOUR RESULTS PEARSON, 15TH, P/B,


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