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9780300222906 “Juxtaposing the different parts of the Muslim world brings out a new dimension of their separate and collective experiences.” Scholarly but extremely readable account of the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism and colonialism in the entire Muslim world, from Nigeria to Indonesia, and from the dawn of Islam to the rise of Islamic State.


CONFIDANT: ENEMY TO LIFELONG FRIEND ROBINSON, 1ST, H/B, £18.99, 9781472140760 The story of the unlikely friendship between the thrusting aristocrat Winston Churchill and philosophical farm boy Jan Smuts; the pair first met as enemies on either side of the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War. It is a rich study in contrasts, I’m told.


officers and intelligence operatives, this offers a fresh perspective on the Arab Revolt (1916–18), in which T E Lawrence famously helped Sherif Hussein of Mecca gain independence from the Ottoman Empire.


KEITH WILSON RAF IN 100 PICTURES AMBERLEY, P/B, £14.99, 9781445666020 Ahead of the centenary of the Royal Air Force in April 2018, this illustrated history offers an alternative insight into the key developments over its first 100 years. Some of the images have never previously been published.


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BRUNHILDE POMSEL AND THORE D HANSEN THE WORK I DID: A MEMOIR OF THE SECRETARY TO GOEBBELS BLOOMSBURY, 8TH, H/B, £18.99, 9781408894491 Pomsel, who died this year, was one of the last surviving witnesses of the internal workings of the Nazi power apparatus. “Timeless and gripping”, the story of her close collaboration with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is also “a powerful morality tale, and a chilling study of the banality of evil”. Translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.


ERIC THOMPSON ON HER MAJESTY’S NUCLEAR SERVICE CASEMATE, H/B, £19.99, 9781612005713 First ever memoir by a Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine officer, whose career spanned the entire Cold War. It’s a human story, “rich in both drama and comedy”, I’m told. Including the Russian spy trawler which played dance music at passing submarines.


CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD UNION JACK: JOHN F KENNEDY’S SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GREAT BRITAIN THE HISTORY PRESS, H/B, £20, 9780750985802 Billed as the first book to explore JFK’s own special relationship with Britain and the British, showing how his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealised Englishness influenced him throughout his life; and how he, in turn, charmed the British.


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RACHEL TRETHEWEY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BRITISH RED CROSS PEARLS BEFORE POPPIES: THE STORY OF THE RED CROSS PEARLS THE HISTORY PRESS, H/B, £20, 9780750968294 In February 1918, Lady Northliffe had the idea of asking women to donate a pearl as a tribute to the dead and wounded from the First World War, with which a necklace would be created—and auctioned at Christie’s. Thousands of donations poured in from around the world, to huge coverage in the press. Trethewey tells the story of this forgotten episode. For every copy sold, £1 will be donated to the Red Cross.


PHILIP WALKER BEHIND THE LAWRENCE LEGEND: THE FORGOTTEN FEW WHO SHAPED THE ARAB REVOLT OUP, H/B, £25, 9780198802273 Bringing together the experiences of 12 British


HUMOUR, GIFT & ACTIVITY BOOKS


THE LITTLE BOOK OF MR & MRS QUESTIONS POP PRESS, 1ST, H/B, £4.99, 9781785037757 What’s the first thing she does in the morning? What’s his favourite cocktail? Who gets the last word in an argument? Test your relationship with this book of 100 playful, flirty and quirky Mr & Mrs questions.


STREET ART ACTIVITY BOOK MITCHELL BEAZLEY, 1ST, P/B, £14.99, 9781784723224 Create your own virtual street art within the pages of this activity book, filled with pages of city canvases on which to create your own graffiti masterpieces.


of class and education along the way.


IAN JACK LITTLE ENGLAND QUARTET, 22ND, P/B, £12, 9780704374430 Tackling subjects as various as Englishness, class, Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon and Trident, a timely selection of the Guardian columnist and former Granta magazine editor’s thought-provoking journalism, which attempts to get to grips with the mess we’re in.


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£18.99, 9780349010465 New collection of essays by the much-admired Orange and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila, in which she impels us to action and offers us hope. She investigates the work of great thinkers about the US, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville; discusses the ways in which beauty informs and disciplines daily life; and, all the while, her “peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display”.


TARA BUTTON A LIFE LESS THROWAWAY: THE LOST ART OF BUYING FOR LIFE HARPERCOLLINS, 8TH, P/B, £12.99, 9780008217716 The c.e.o. and founder of buymeonce.com explains why she advocates a life that celebrates what lasts, what is classic and what really suits a person. She also explains the 10 steps to mastering mindful curation, in order to shift from short-term buying to long-term buying.


JOCELYN DE KWANT CREATIVE FLOW: A YEAR IN MY MINDFUL LIFE LEAPING HARE, 15TH, P/B, £12.99, 9781782405610 There are 365 ways to embrace the new, via this workbook which encourages the use of focused creativity to “cultivate beautiful awareness every day”.


LANGUAGE & LITERATURE


ISMAIL KADARE ESSAYS ON WORLD LITERATURE: SHAKESPEARE, AESCHYLUS, DANTE RESTLESS BOOKS, P/B, £16.99, 9781632061744 Albania’s best-known novelist explores what three giants of world literature have to say about resisting totalitarianism in incisive critical essays informed by personal experience, which lends the classics a distinctly “Albanian tint”.


SHARI LOW BECAUSE I SAID SO HEAD OF ZEUS, 8TH, H/B, £14.99, 9781786696731 Collection of favourite stories of motherhood by the newspaper columnist which document the ups, downs and biohazardous laundry baskets of family life. Pull-up pants, disastrous summer holidays, childhood milestones, nativity plays and chicken pox: it’s all here. Low writes a weekly column for the Daily Record.


JUDITH MILLER MID-CENTURY MODERN: LIVING WITH MID-CENTURY MODERN DESIGN MILLERS, 1ST, H/B, £30, 9781784723750 From the “soft modernism” of Scandinavian furniture to the sleek clean lines of the lighting created by the Castiglioni brothers in Italy, this reveals the glory of the 1940s to the 1970s in design history.


DAVID CRYSTAL SOUNDS APPEALING: THE PASSIONATE STORY OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION PROFILE, 18TH, H/B, £12.99, 9781781256091 The language expert unpacks the subtleties of pronunciation, explaining why, and how, we pronounce words as we do, taking in regional accents and the influence


WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A ROUNDABOUT MANNER: SKETCHES OF LIFE NOTTING HILL, 22ND, H/B, £14.99, 9781910749920 This Thackeray anthology covers all his varied writings as journalist and essayist, and is also illustrated with his own sketches and cartoons. With an introduction and explanatory notes by John Sutherland.


SIMON WARNER AND JIM SAMPAS KEROUAC ON RECORD: A LITERARY SOUNDTRACK BLOOMSBURY, 22ND, H/B, £28, 9781501323348 Fresh approach to understanding the output of the On the Road novelist which uses music to illuminate his written work, from jazz to blues, Broadway to Hollywood, and folk to rock and country.


MIND, BODY, SPIRIT


MARILYNNE ROBINSON WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? VIRAGO, 20TH, H/B,


EMMA LUCY KNOWLES THE POWER OF CRYSTAL HEALING: CHANGE YOUR ENERGY AND LIVE A HIGH-VIBE LIFE POP PRESS, 1ST, H/B, £12.99, 9781785038259 This “ultimate crystal bible for modern mystics” features over 100 crystals to cleanse your mind, body and spirit, heal your home, charge your creativity, achieve your career goals, improve your relationships, or simply bring greater


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