11th April 2025


states, countries and even people and bodies that have “provided a place to rest, or a place to flee”.


Cally Beaton Namaste Motherf*ckers: A Modern Manifesto for Keeping Cool When You’re a Hot Mess


Headline Home, 3st, HB, £22, 9781035420513


Beaton is a comedian, podcaster and writer. Part-memoir, part- manifesto, this is her no bullsh*t handbook for midlife female reinvention, “where the worlds of comedy, boardrooms, self-help and womanhood collide”. Beaton will embark on a UK-wide comedy tour under the same title around publication.


Nicola Jane Hobbs The Relaxed Woman: Reclaim Rest and Live an Empowered, Joy-Filled Life


Rider,1st, HB, £16.99, 9781846048067


Have you ever met a relaxed woman? Would you like to become one? Dispelling the myth that relaxing is lazy, this “powerful new vision for how relaxed women can change the world” shows that it is in fact a path to healing, freedom and joy.


Laura Huang You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition


Penguin Life, 15th, PB, £16.99, 9780241776452


What sets the most successful people apart? Deploying the science, a top business school professor argues that it is their intuition – the instinctive “gut” feeling that often determines who seizes opportunities, and who misses them.


Laura Kerbey, Eliza Fricker (illus) The (Slightly Distracted) Woman’s Guide to Living With an Adult ADHD Diagnosis


Jessica Kingsley, 31st, PB, 9781805012085


“Candid, funny and validating”, this guide for ADHD women in their 30s and beyond contains chapters on parenting, menopause, working life, mental health, relationships and more.


Fiona Lambert S.A.S. Sixty and Single: Your Survival Guide to Dating


Synergy, 8th, PB, £10.99, 9781610369145


Newly single at 60, the author entered a dating minefield, but one she discovered


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Based on lectures by the influential Japanese spiritual teacher Suzuki (1904-71), this collection of his teachings on meditative practice marks the first time his work has been published in the UK. No translator credited.


Emma Timms Faith Habits and How to Form Them: 21 Seasonal Practices to Strengthen Your Spiritual Life


SPCK, 17th, PB, £10.99, 9780281091317


This guide aims to help you to build adaptable rhythms and practices to help you cultivate and sustain a nourishing connection with God.


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could be navigated with the right mindset. Offering a candid mix of personal experiences, life-coaching insights and humour, she sets out the lessons she has learned in this survival guide for dating later in life.


Kate Moryoussef The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit: Embrace Your Authentic Self and Harness Your True Potential


DK, 3rd, PB, £14.99, 9780241715291


Coach and the host of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing podcast, Moryoussef presents a toolkit for managing the mental, emotional, physical and hormonal burnout associated with ADHD and learning your unique strengths, which can help you live with brain difference and also thrive with it.


Noémi Orvos-Tóth Inherited Fate: Family Trauma and the Ways of Healing


Cornerstone Press, 10th, PB, £16.99, 9781529941326


A bestseller across Europe since it was published in Hungary in 2018, this framework for recognising and healing from intergenerational trauma draws on vivid stories and questions which invite the reader to engage personally.


Ashley Roberts ( 6) Breathwork: 10 Simple Techniques for Better Mental Health, Improved Sleep and an Enriched Life


Leap, 17th, HB, £20, 9781785124624


The broadcaster and former member of The Pussycat Dolls presents an accessible and practical guide on how


breathwork can improve your mental, physical and brain health. It contains exercises, mantras, affirmations and meditations.


Ben Sedley Holding the Heavy Stuff: Making Space for Critical Thoughts and Painful Emotions


Robinson,17th, PB, £14.99, 9781472150011


Providing an introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy, this illustrated self-help guide is aimed at anyone who has struggled with low mood, self-doubt or mean thoughts about themselves, that make it difficult to move forward.


Cat Sims The Mental Load Diaries Gallery, 3rd, HB, £16.99, 9781398549401


With “eye-opening honesty and humour”, writer, podcaster and content creator Sims tells the story of her relationship with the mental load – that is, “having to constantly think about doing all the stuff” – in a book designed to invite honest conversation and sharing.


Philosophy & religion


Rasha Barrage The Little Book of Stoicism: An Introduction to the Key Thinkers, Ideas and Virtues You Need to Know


Summersdale, 10th, PB, £7.99, 9781837996278


This pocket beginner’s guide to the “great and unageing” world of Stoicism presents the key thinkers who defined the philosophy, including Marcus Aurelius and Zeno of Citium.


Jay Heinrichs Aristotle’s Guide to Self- Persuasion: How Ancient Rhetoric Can Help You Change Your Life


Particular, 15th, HB, £20, 9780241705735


The author of Thank You for Arguing and How to Argue with a Cat returns to test the rules of persuasion and how they might help us achieve our most desired goals, drawing on examples from the likes of Winston Churchill, Dolly Parton and the woman who invented the chocolate chip cookie.


John C Lennox


God, AI and the End of History: Understanding the Book of Revelation in an Age of Intelligent Machines


SPCK, 117th, HB, £29.99, 9780281091287


This fresh interpretation of the Book of Revelation for the 21st century explores the connections between John’s visions and the prospect of an artificial super intelligence that emerges to deceive the world and oppose the rule of Christ.


Prudentius, Plutarch, Michael Fontaine (trans) How to Have Willpower


Princeton UP, 15th, HB, £14.99, 9780691220345


Lively new translations with commentaries of two classical works, which offer wise advice about how to resist temptation, emphasising the power of personal choice and the possibility of personal growth.


Shunryu Suzuki Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life


Particular, 15th, HB, £20, 9780241781708


Father Bill W The Power of Two Way Prayer: Finding New Meaning in Addiction Recovery and Spiritual Growth


Morehouse, 1st, PB, £16.99, 9781640657991


An extension of the 11th step of AA, this book is a tool for those in addiction recovery and also for anyone seeking spiritual growth. It aims to explain how to listen to God’s message so that every person can become who they are meant to be.


Poetry


Deborah Alma Poetry Prescription: First Aid


Macmillan, 10th, HB, £10, 9781035061457


This addition to the Poetry Pharmacy series provides balm for days when the world is “too much with us” through poems that reassure and lift your spirits. Also out this month, Poetry Prescription: Inspiration (570).


Mona Arshi Mouth Chatto, 17th, PB, £12.99, 9781784746001


Drawing on her former career as a human rights lawyer, this third collection from Forward Prize-winning poet Arshi gives voice to the marginal women of Greek tragedy, including Antigone, Eurydice and Ismene, and presents fresh perspectives on war and migration today.


Bebe Ashley Harbour Doubts Banshee Press, 3rd, PB, £10.99, 9781917161008


This second collection by an up-and-coming Irish poet charts her efforts to qualify as a British Sign Language interpreter. It is also a love letter to the delights of linguistics,


Books New Titles: Non-Fiction


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