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AND ADVICE FOR THE EVERYDAY CHALLENGES OF RAISING CHILDREN (7–16 YEARS) VIE BOOKS, 8TH, P/B, £9.99, 9781786852472 What’s the best way to encourage good behaviour? How can I ensure my child has a healthy body image? How do I get my children to play nicely? Advice on these questions and more.


HANNAH HUNTER-KELM A BUN IN THE OVEN: A WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE WONDERS OF PREGNANCY CICO, 13TH, P/B, £9.99, 9781782495581 Follow your baby’s development during pregnancy, week by week, with this quirkily illustrated guide, designed to stand up and flip over on your desk or table top.


DR VALTER LONGO THE LONGEVITY DIET MICHAEL JOSEPH, 8TH, P/B, £9.99, 9781405933940 The Italian author is a world leader in the field of ageing and age-related diseases. This longevity diet, designed to help you and the people around you live longer, healthier and happier lives, is based on the benefits of fasting, but consists of an FMD (Fat-Mimicking Diet) which only limits your calorie intake for five days, up to four times a year. A bestseller around the world, with 300,000 copies sold in Italy.


MARTHA CLARE MORRIS DIET FOR THE MIND: THE LATEST SCIENCE ON WHAT TO EAT TO PREVENT ALZHEIMER’S AND COGNITIVE DECLINE MACMILLAN, 8TH, P/B, £14.99, 9781509879748 From the creator of the MIND diet, this is billed as a scientifically proven diet designed to prevent cognitive decline and cut your risk of dementia by as much as 53%. Its 80 recipes major on whole grains, leafy greens, lean proteins, beans and vegetables, and also flags foods to avoid (“brainless foods that harm the mind”).


DOMINIC MUNNELLY AND GRÁINNE PARKER TRAIN, MOVE, NOURISH: THE SUSTAINABLE WAY TO A HEALTHIER YOU THE COLLINS PRESS, P/B,


£TBC, 9781848893351 This “dogma-free” approach to fitness, nutrition and mental wellbeing includes at-home workouts, along with 60 recipes tailored to suit the whole family.


the changing role of women in society.


DR MIKE SHOOTER GROWING PAINS: MAKING SENSE OF CHILDHOOD: A PSYCHIATRIST’S STORY HODDER, 8TH, H/B, £18.99, 9781473643260 Eminent child psychiatrist sheds light on the painful issues and universal experience of growing up, drawing on the stories of his patients and their families, gathered over 40 years. He also reveals how his own life has been shaped by his battle with depression. “Will do for child and family therapy what The Examined Life did for adult therapy,” says Hodder.


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ANN BAER MEDIEVAL WOMAN: VILLAGE LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES MICHAEL O’MARA, 22ND, P/B, £9.99, 9781782438984 A year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this portrait of carpenter’s wife Marion and her extended family. Baer is now 103 years old, and this is a reissue of a book which Philippa Gregory lists among her 10 historical must-reads.


£30, 9781846682964 This new addition to Profile’s Ancient World series is a richly peopled account of the dramatic successes and failures of the Hellenistic Period, from Alexander the Great’s early days of empire building, right up to the death of Hadrian.


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mythology and use in religious practice.


DONLEIGH GAUNKEY THE HARDEST JOURNEY HOME: A TRUE STORY OF LOSS AND DUTY DURING THE IRAQ WAR PEN & SWORD, H/B, £25, 9781594162916 Pulled out of a combat deployment in Iraq, the author soon found himself bringing his younger brother’s body home from war, arriving in their small-town Wisconsin home on Thanksgiving Day. He tells his story which, movingly, reveals the human costs of a long, seemingly invisible war.


A J BAIME THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT DOUBLEDAY, 8TH, H/B, £20, 9780857523662 The remarkable story of President Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when, following the death of Roosevelt, this unlikely, small-town Washington outsider found himself taking on Germany, Japan, Stalin and the atomic bomb while the fate of the world hung in the balance. He was wholly unprepared, but rose to the occasion extremely well, we’re shown.


MITCHELL ABIDOR MAY MADE ME: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE 1968 UPRISING IN FRANCE PLUTO, P/B, £12.99, 9780745336947 Fifty years on, a collection of oral testimonies from the mass protests which shook France in May 1968, which at the height of their fervour brought the entire economy to a halt. Included are the voices of students and workers, both in Paris and elsewhere in France.


MAGGIE ANDREWS AND JANIS LOMAS WOMEN IN 100 OBJECTS THE HISTORY PRESS, H/B, £20, 9780750967143 From the corset to the Pill, the typewriter to the first pair of women’s trousers and the invention of IVF, 100 objects that document


EDWARD BURMAN TERRACOTTA WARRIORS: HISTORY, MYSTERY AND THE LATEST DISCOVERIES WEIDENFELD, 8TH, H/B, £25, 9781474606080 New history of the Terracotta Army in Xi’an in China, exploring what we now know about it, what we still do not know and the various theories that surround its creation. With full access to leading Chinese archaeologists and historians, Burman is also able to tell us about the latest discoveries on site.


ANGELOS CHANIOTIS AGE OF CONQUESTS: THE GREEK WORLD FROM ALEXANDER TO HADRIAN (336BC–AD 138) PROFILE, 22ND, H/B,


GORDON CORERA SECRET PIGEON SERVICE: OPERATION COLUMBA, RESISTANCE AND THE STRUGGLE TO LIBERATE OCCUPIED EUROPE WILLIAM COLLINS, 22ND, H/B, £20, 9780008220303 The BBC security correspondent with an original piece of investigation in which he reveals the Second World War operation MI14(d): the “Special Pigeon Service”. It includes the compelling story of how a priest, a flock and pigeon-transported war intelligence brought back messages from those under Nazi occupation. Delayed from January.


TESSA DUNLOP THE CENTURY GIRLS SIMON & SCHUSTER, 22ND, H/B, £20, 9781471161322 Profiles of seven centenarians who have lived through the 10 decades since women gained the vote, looking at what they saw, how they were treated, who they loved, what they did for work and where they are now. Precise details are sketchy, but Dunlop is a broadcaster best known for Coast, as well as the author of The Bletchley Girls.


IAIN FERRIS CAVE CANEM: ANIMALS IN ROMAN CIVILISATION AMBERLEY, H/B, £20, 9781445652931 Drawing on both written and archaeological sources, an exploration of the role of animals in Roman civilisation, from the slaughter of vast numbers for entertainment in arenas and their association with the gods, to their place in


ROBERT GELLATELY (ED) THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH OUP, H/B, £25, 9780198728283 Written by a team of leading historians, this comprehensive new reference traces the history of the Nazi Party, from its rise under the Weimar Republic to its fall in 1945. It covers all aspects including elections, the economy, the Holocaust, architecture, photography and cinema, war and empire, and its collapse.


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drawing on the experiences of both generals and ordinary soldiers, and placing equal weight on strategy, tactics and individual experience.


KATE HODGES I KNOW A WOMAN: INSPIRING CONNECTIONS OF THE WOMEN WHO HAVE SHAPED OUR WORLD AURUM, 1ST, H/B, £20, 9781781317365 Published ahead of International Women’s Day, this illustrated title highlights connections between influential women, to give a “unique” perspective on how history can change when we work together.


LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO LADY DEATH: THE MEMOIRS OF STALIN’S SNIPER GREENHILL BOOKS, H/B, £19.99, 9781784382704 First English-language version of the wartime memoir of one of the Second World War’s top 10 snipers, and a woman who was regarded as a key hero for the war effort. She spoke at rallies in North America, visited the UK, and had a song written about her by Woody Guthrie.


JOHN GIBNEY A SHORT HISTORY OF IRELAND, 1500–2000 YALE, H/B, £16.99, 9780300208511 Accessible to readers with little or no knowledge, this provides a broad history of Ireland over five centuries, addressing culture, religion and socio-economics, as well as the its more commonly discussed political history.


PETER HART THE LAST BATTLE: ENDGAME ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1918 PROFILE, 15TH, H/B, £25, 9781781254820 The oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and author of Great War and Gallipoli returns to tell the story of the last months of the First World War,


GEOFFREY PIMM THE DARK SIDE OF SAMUEL PEPYS: SOCIETY’S FIRST SEX OFFENDER PEN & SWORD, H/B, £19.99, 9781526717290 Said to be the first work to systematically describe a less well-known aspect of Samuel Pepys’ character, tracing his extramarital affairs as they happened, and translating the coded messages in his diaries. By modern standards, says Pimm, he was a serial sexual offender: a voyeur, a groper and a rapist.


WILLIAM R POLK CRUSADE AND JIHAD: THE THOUSAND-YEAR WAR BETWEEN THE MUSLIM WORLD AND THE GLOBAL NORTH YALE, H/B, £30,


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