11th April 2025
language and an exploration of words and the body.
Whitney Hanson Climate: Poems to Celebrate Change
Quercus, 8th, HB, £16.99, 9781529442243
US poet Hanson has a substantial social media following (2.6 million on TikTok and 3 million on Instagram). This collection reminds readers to embrace the sun, the storm and the rain, while emphasising the beauty and value of change.
Kyo Lee I Cut My Tongue on a Broken Country
Arsenal Pulp, 24th, PB, £16.99, 9781551529776
Drawing on themes of lineage, family, war and hope, this debut collection by an award-winning queer Korean-Canadian poet is about coming of age, reconciling with oneself and learning to love.
Rachel Long, Caroline Bird Something New: Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings
Picador, 3rd, HB, £16.99, 9781035069170
Aiming to shake up the selection of poems you might find in a frantic Google search, this title presents non-cringey and non-conventional poems suitable for an alternative wedding, whether it be small, huge, as camp as Christmas, shotgun, a third wedding held in a nursing home or any other permutation.
Peach Martine Let Every Little Thing Make You Happy
Bonnier, 1st, HB, £12.99, 9781785306662
US singer-songwriter Martine has a fan base of more than 1.1 million on TikTok. This follow-up collection to her debut, Love, Peach, released as a spoken word EP, aims to “inspire, entertain and heal your heart”.
Popular science, medicine & mathematics
Douwe Draaisma The Man Who Lost His Head: On Illusions and Delusions of the Mind
Reaktion, 1st, HB, £15.99, 9781836390886
From patients who believed their loved ones had been replaced by doubles to those who insist they are really dead, this is an exploration of some of the most bizarre and intriguing brain disorders from history.
22 John Duncan
The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves
WH Allen, 10th, HB, £25, 9780753560921
Duncan is a prize-winning neuroscientist. This book draws on his life’s work to explain that each of us is not just one person but two: our animal instincts on one side and our rational brains on the other. Understanding how these competing selves interact offers “revealing and often surprising” answers to questions of who we are and how we find meaning, he argues.
Lara Lewington
Hacking Humanity: How Technology Can Save Your Health and Your Life
WH Allen, 10th, HB, £16.99, 9780753561140
Lifestyle technology specialist and TV presenter Lewington explains how new innovations in artificial intelligence, gene editing and robotics are transforming medicine and reveals what we should all do now to improve our current and future wellbeing.
Junaid Mubeen Think Like a Mathematician: Simple Tools for Complex Everyday Problems
Profile, 3rd, HB, £18.99, 9781788167345
Mathematician and educator Mubeen presents a catalogue of mathematical concepts designed to show even those who are maths-phobic that maths underpins our everyday lives, from internet security to the transmission of radio waves.
Starre Vartan The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body
Atlantic, 24th, HB, £22, 9781805460886
Drawing on her extensive research into the science of the female body, Vartan reveals in this “myth-busting vindication of women’s physical strengths” that women actually surpass men in endurance, flexibility, immunity, pain tolerance and – the ultimate test – longevity.
Reference & puzzle books
GT Karber Murdle: The Case of the Seven Skulls: 64 Wildly Wicked Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles
Souvenir, 31st, PB, £10.99, 9781805222095
In this fifth instalment of the bestselling puzzle series, Deductive Logico is excited to attend the grand opening of The Museum of Mysticality, until the mysterious theft of seven bejewelled skulls throws the event into chaos.
Sport
Sylvie Barco, Philippe Danjean, Stéphane Madoeuf The Art of Skateboarding: Skateboarding’s Urban Heritage
Cassell, 3rd, HB, £30, 9781788405751
From the streets of 1960s Los Angeles to today’s Olympic skateparks, this illustrated guide traces the evolution of skateboarding from the first boards to a thriving industry with iconic brands and various distinctive styles.
Karen Dobres Pitch Invasion: My Story as a Feminist on a Football Club Board
Cassell, 31st, HB, £22, 9781788405881
A title in which Dobres shares her journey from someone who “always zoned out when bloody football was on the telly” to becoming a director at fan-owned Lewes FC, the first football club in the world to pay its women and men players equally.
Michael Hutchinson Further: Seeking the Limits of Cycling Endurance
Allen & Unwin, 3rd, HB, £18.99, 9781805460459
Former professional cyclist Hutchinson draws on interviews with a wide range of athletes as well as scientists, nutritionists and psychologists as he attempts to understand the secrets of successful endurance cycling.
Maarten Meijer Arne Slot Ebury Spotlight, 3rd, HB, £22, 9781529949506
By a Dutch sportswriter, this is billed as the first-to-market biography of the head coach of Liverpool FC, from his upbringing in a tiny Dutch village to the formidable task of following in the footsteps of Jürgen Klopp.
Simon Wilde
Chasing Jessop: The Mystery of England Cricket’s Oldest Record
Bloomsbury, 31st, HB, £22, 9781526692535
At the Oval against Australia in 1902, Gilbert
Jessop set the record for the fastest Test century for England, which still stands more than 1,000 Test matches later. Wilde reconstructs this feat in an attempt to establish what actually happened; including how many balls Jessop actually faced.
Sustainability & the climate crisis
Kate Jones My Plastic-Free Home: Simple Steps to Live More Sustainably
HarperCollins, 31st, HB, £12.99, 9780008715748
The founder of The Natural Living Shop and creator of @my_plastic_free_home provides ideas and tips for reducing plastic waste in the home, from simple and nutritious snacks, and DIY cleaning products to low-waste play ideas.
Filippo Menga
Thirst: The Global Quest to Solve the Water Crisis Verso, 1st, PB, £16.99, 9781804290712
With an increasingly urgent global water crisis, Menga argues that if humanity is to address it, we must reconsider both our faith in the market and our relationship with nature.
Travel & adventure
Mark Agnew There Will Be Headwinds: Kayaking the Northwest Passage
Icon, 3rd, HB, £20, 9781837732142
Spending 103 days in the Arctic, Agnew was part of the first team to kayak the Northwest Passage. He reflects on this momentous journey, its demands and the lessons from sports psychology which allowed him to conquer the demons from two previous failed expeditions.
Andrew Martin To the Sea By Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel
Profile, 31st, HB, £18.99, 9781805221555
From the development of pleasure resorts such as Brighton and Scarborough to the introduction of bank holidays, this “charming” history of the seaside getaway channels both nostalgia and escapism. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Jules Mountain
Arctic Insanity: 4,300 Miles Over the Polar Ice Cap by Helicopter
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Eye Books, 10th, PB, £9.99, 9781785633928
Illustrated with the author’s own photographs, this “hair-raising” book charts a 4,300-mile trip across the polar ice cap in a helicopter with a maximum range of only 300 miles.
Steve Silk Go West: London to the Welsh Coast: 8 Days, 2 Wheels and a Whole Lot of Hills
Summersdale, 10th, PB, £10.99, 9781837995721
Enriched with “legends, humour and tales of friendship”, this is an account of a cycle ride from central London to the Welsh coast via an indirect route and many hills.
Thomas J Vosper Historic Pub Crawls Through England: 11 Guided Walks Around England’s Iconic Pubs and Landmarks
Sphere, 24th, HB, £16.99, 9781408722954
From London to Liverpool, Newcastle and Brighton and beyond, the hitherto self-published founder of Historic Pub Crawls presents a collection of 11 walks around historic pubs and landmarks in English cities.
True crime
James Patterson ( 7), Imogen Edwards-Jones The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
Century, 31st HB, £20, 9781529928471
Drawing on rigorous research, Patterson’s true crime investigation tells the story of Marilyn Monroe’s extraordinary life and explores the shocking circumstances of her death, seeking answers to the mystery that still surrounds it. Also out this month from Patterson is The Idaho Murders: The True Story of an American Tragedy (440).
Books New Titles: Non-Fiction
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