Titles in this preview are published in October


Michael Morpurgo Funny Thing, Getting Older: And Other Reflections


Hodder Press, 30th, £20, HB, 9781399739719


Gifty collection of Sir Michael’s thoughts on nature, childhood, writing, politics and getting older. “Full of wonder, gentle humour and sharp observation,” it is the closest he will come to writing a memoir, I’m told.


Hans Ulrich Obrist Life in Progress Allen Lane, 2nd, £20, HB, 9780241712207


The renowned art curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London reveals how a near-death experience in early childhood – knocked down by a speeding car when he was six – catapulted him towards art and artists. He also tells “funny, surprising and inspirational” stories about the artists he has met, in an ode to the “healing properties” of engaging with both art and people.


Ozzy Osbourne Last Rites Sphere, 7th, £25, HB, 9781408724057


His turbulent marriage to Sharon, his regrets over Black Sabbath’s reunion, encounters with fellow hellraisers, harrowing final moments with Motorhead’s Lemmy: it is all in this “shocking, bitterly hilarious and surprisingly life-affirming” memoir from the Brummie rock ‘n’ roll legend.


Randal Plunkett Wild Thing Eriu, 9th, £20, HB, 9781804189559 At the age of 28, Plunkett inherited the title of Baron Dunsany, alongside Dunsany Castle and a 1,600-acre estate and found himself at a crossroads. A reluctant aristocrat, he describes how he now allows nature to run wild on grounds his ancestors farmed for centuries.


Mimi Pond Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me


Cape, 2nd, £25, HB, 9781787335561


The Mitford sisters are brought to life in this “sparkling, brilliantly mischievous and intimately researched biography”, by US comedy writer and illustrator, Pond.


Lance Richardson True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen


Chatto, 16th, £30, HB, 9781784743017


First major biography of the revered writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master, founder of the Paris Review and author of classic work The Snow Leopard who died in 2014. Richardson aims to pull together the seemingly disparate threads of his story in a “kaleidoscopic” narrative.


Mai Serhan ( 2) I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter’s Memoir American University in Cairo Press, 14th, £14.99, PB, 9781649034595


At the age of 21, Serhan was living in Cairo and had never been to Palestine, the country from which her family was expelled in 1948. But after a call from her estranged father, she joined him in China, and from then on, the ghosts of the Nakba come to haunt them both. “A courageous memoir of exile over generations.”


Sylvester Stallone The Steps Seven Dials, 23rd, £25, HB, 9781399629454


Combining a no-holds- barred account of a fascinating life with messages of hope, positivity and resilience, the actor, film-maker and screenwriter best known for creating and starring in the Rocky and Rambo franchises gives readers an “intimate and revealing” account of his own journey for the first time. Orion prevailed for this in a 16-publisher UK auction.


Frank Thabani Sayi No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Zimbabwe


riverrun, 9th, £25, HB, 9781529427301


Conveying the realities of a war-torn childhood, this is said to be a moving and beautifully written memoir about growing up in colonial Rhodesia in the 1970s under white minority rule. Sounds remarkable.


Economics, careers &


personal finance


Emily Baker-White Every Screen on the Planet: The Secret Story of TikTok


Macmillan Business, 2nd,£22, HB, 9781035049264


Investigative journalist Baker-White charts TikTok’s rise – from its Chinese founders’ early ambitions to its emergence as the world’s most valuable start-up.


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Based on explosive reporting that caused TikTok to track the author, leading to an ongoing criminal investigation.


Heather and Douglas Boneparth Money Together: How to Find Fairness in Your Relationship and Become an Unstoppable Financial Team


Harriman House, 28th, £16.99, PB, 9781804090831


Showing how to work together to form an equitable loving and lasting financial future, this guide to navigating money as a couple contains “messy, beautiful, heartbreaking and emotional” stories of people’s financial lives.


Laura Brown, Kristina O’Neill All the Cool Girls Get Fired


Ebury Edge, 16th, £16.99, PB, 9781529147025


Turning losing your job into an epic comeback with this “unfiltered” and comprehensive guide to rebuilding a career that draws on interviews with women from different fields as well as contributions from Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lisa Kudrow and more. The authors also have personal experience of what they write and Ebury promises it will give “hordes of readers a shot of confidence in an age of redundancies and reorganisation”.


John Y Campbell, Tarun Ramadorai Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone


Princeton UP, 21st, £25, HB, 9780691263298


Two leading economists reveal how and why


today’s personal finance markets are rigged against ordinary people, and offer practical steps to fix this exploitative situation.


Giuliano da Empoli, Sam Taylor (trans) The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World


Pushkin, 9th, £12.99, PB, 9781805680161


This “gripping” work of political non-fiction, already a bestseller in France contains insights from da Empoli’s time working as a senior adviser to the Italian prime minister. He portrays a world of ruthless power struggles where tech lords already seem to inhabit another world, and AI is already out of control.


Ray Eitel-Poster, Paul Dongha, Miriam Vogel In Machines We Trust: How to Navigate the Risks of AI and Unlock Its True Potential


Bloomsbury Business, 23rd, £25, HB, 9781399426299


This practical guide for business leaders aims to provide an examination of the safe and ethical use of AI which complies with forthcoming regulations in the UK, Europe and the US.


Christopher Jones The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World


Oneworld, 16th, £25, HB, 9780861540044


Growth is the prime ambition of economists and politicians alike. But what is it costing the Earth? So asks this timely exploration of how economic systems are


perpetuating the climate crisis.


Alex Schultz Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising


Wildfire, 7th, £25, HB, 9781035434091


From the chief marketing officer at Meta, this is billed as a “brilliantly insightful and all- encompassing” guide to digital marketing for marketeers and business of any size and stage.


Jacob Silverman


Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley


Bloomsbury Continuum, 9th, £20, HB, 9781399419987


A “searing” insight into the political radicalisation of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.


Current affairs, politics & activism


Cory Doctorow Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It


Verso, 14th, £22, HB, 9781836742227


Life online is getting worse and worse but leading tech critic Doctorow has the answer, arguing that we need to question the monopolies that dominate so much of our online lives, demand regulation and our privacy back, and more.


Jude Ellison S Doyle DILF: Did I Leave Feminism Melville House, 16th, £12.99, PB, 9781685892159


Offering a strong rebuke to trans-exclusionary


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