Titles in this preview are published in July
This practical first aid kit for better mental health at work majors on the idea of wellbeing intelligence as a tool to help us assess wellbeing both as individuals and as part of wider organisational cultures.
Partha Dasgupta On Nature Capital: The Value of the World Around Us
Rider, 24th, HB, £22, 9781529144192
The Cambridge professor of economics, whose work centres on the economics of biodiversity, argues that although for centuries we have treated nature as free and infinite, we now know this is unsustainable. He presents a new model that “can and must”transform global economics.
Heather Elkington Your Boss Era: Become the Manager Everyone Wants to Work For
Ebury Edge, 17th, PB, £16.99, 9781529146967
Leadership trainer and content creator Elkington lays down 16 rules to follow if you want to lead a high- performing team, and “be the manager everyone wants to work for”.
Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li, Mark Bo Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds
Verso, 8th, PB, £18.99, 9781804296905
Southeast Asia has rapidly emerged as a global hub for a host of cybercrime operations targeting individuals all over the world. This is billed as the first book-length investigation in English.
Mehran Gul
The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies
William Collins, 3rd, HB, £22, 9780008327804
Aimed at both business and general readers, this book travels to Japan, China, India, South Africa and beyond to map the recent waves of technological advancement, showing how innovation has become a far more global game than previously.
Richard Harpin How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps
Piatkus, 10th, PB, £16.99, 9780349445380
At the beginning of 2023, Harpin sold his companies HomeServe and Checkatrade for
£4.1 bn. His book explains that success in business is not rocket science and showcases his “uncomplicated, grounded and humane” approach.
Nick Maggiulli The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life
Cornerstone Press, 24th, PB, £16.99, 9781529945904
What gets you from Level 1 to Level 2 is not the same strategy that will get you from Level 5 to Level 6. So says the author of this “groundbreaking” new framework for building wealth.
Timothée Parrique, Claire Benoit (trans) Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
Profile, 3rd, PB, £16.99, 9781805227090
Challenging the myth that perpetual economic growth is the solution to all our problems, this title argues that our obsession with growth is in fact accelerating social and ecological collapse. Parrique is one of the most popular economists in France, where this book has sold more than 40,000 copies.
Current affairs & politics
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
Hutchinson Heinemann, 3rd, HB, £25, 9781529154825
Billed as the first book on the 2024 US election, this “deeply reported” account by three award- winning Washington Post journalists tells the inside story of the Biden, Harris and Trump campaigns and of “the most significant presidential election of our lifetimes; one that will ultimately determine who will lead the free world, and whether it remains so”.
Colin Freeman The Mad and the Brave: The Extraordinary Story of Ukraine’s Volunteer Fighting Force
Mudlark, 17th, HB, £22, 9780008722463
Three days after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, President Zelensky issued an appeal for foreign military volunteers to help defend his country. This is the “often terrifying, often tragic, sometimes comic and sometimes glorious” story
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of the “ragbag collection of foreign fighters who answered the call”.
Andy Greenberg Operation Sandworm: The Hunt for the Kremlin’s Invisible Army
Monoray,3rd, PB, £10.99, 9781800963139
This title explores the hunt to unmask Sandworm, the group of hackers working in service of Russia’s military intelligence agency, orchestrating a series of cyberattacks on American utility companies, NATO and electric grids in Eastern Europe.
Karen Hao Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination
Allen Lane,24th, HB, £25, 9780241678923
Probing OpenAI and its enigmatic leader Sam Altman, this “eye- opening” account of the tech arms race shaping our planet provides an insider’s view of one of the most influential tech companies in the world today.
Chris Horton Ghost Nation Macmillan, 17th, HB, £22, 9781035034024
Drawing on more than a decade of living in and reporting from Taiwan and featuring interviews with both ordinary citizens and influential figures, the foreign correspondent author tells the “gripping” story of Taiwan’s past and its “precarious present”.
David Kilcullen, Greg Mills The Art of War and Peace: The Changing Face of 21st Century Warfare
Ithaka, 3rd, HB, £25, 9781785126857
Taking in the conflicts in Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel-Palestine and drawing on their decades of experience as policy advisers, the expert authors explore the future of modern warfare and how we might also prevent, fight and resolve future conflicts. Foreward by former UK Chief of the Defence Staff, Nick Carter.
Dean Spears, Michael Geruso After the Spike: The Risks of Global Depopulation and the Case for People
Bodley Head, 10th, HB, £22, 9781847928351
If we continue as we are, with birth rates falling globally, the world’s human population will peak in the next few decades and then rapidly decline. The economist authors explore the consequences of global depopulation and explain why it is in all our interests to prevent it.
Tim Weiner
The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century William Collins, 17th, HB, £25, 9780008606596
A follow-up to Pulitzer- winning Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes, this title tells the “gripping and revelatory” story of the CIA in the 21st century, from 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, through today’s battles with Russia, China and the US president himself.
Omar Zahzah Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley and Digital/ Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
Seven Stories, 10th, PB, £14.99, 9781644214800 This “groundbreaking”
book argues that social media platforms – initially instrumental in advancing the Palestinian struggle – have now become a new tool of anti-Palestinian suppression.
Film, music & gaming
Mike Evans Pink Floyd:
Behind the Music Gemini Books,3rd, HB, £30, 9781786751560
Celebrating 60 years since Pink Floyd’s formation in 1965, this richly illustrated book is billed as a career-defining retrospective of the influential rock band.
Audrey Golden ( 2) Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats
White Rabbit, 17th, HB, £25, 9781399624862
The first ever comprehensive history of The Raincoats, the trail-blazing all-female, queer, DIY band known as “the grandmothers of grunge” who emerged as one of the first artists out of the mid-1970 Rough Trade Records scene and influenced the likes of Nirvana and Sonic Youth.
Colin Harvey When Worlds Collide: How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling and Why it Matters
Canbury, 10th, PB, £16.99, 9781914487347
From genre to character and from emergent narrative to transmedia storytelling and the metaverse, this draws on interviews with leading writers and narrative designers in the video game industry to explore how games such as Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite are shaped by – and shape – popular culture.
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