11th July 2025
Pearl Lowe, Kate Martin (photography) Faded Glamour in the City: Romantic Interiors for Urban Living
Cico, 14th, £25, HB, 9781800654679
By the former singer now known for her love of vintage interiors and fashion, this aims to capture the essence of city interiors via a fusion of modern design with vintage elements.
Nick Offerman, Lee Buchanan Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop’s Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery
Ebury, 16th, £25, HB, 9781529958874
Actor Offerman is best known for his role as Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation, but he also has a passion for woodworking. In this practical and “very funny” guide to his craft, he shows how to make a range of projects from carved twig animals and box kites to toolboxes and simple hayloft benches.
Humour, activity & novelty
Richard Ayoade Afterthoughts, or Some Pistachios Won’t Open (Wisdom for the Unreflective)
Faber, 23rd, £10, HB, 9780571398201
“If, when one door shuts, another opens, there’s something wrong with your doors. They shouldn’t be doing that.” Writer and director Ayoade distils a “lifetime of deepness” into over 500 individually digestible thought pellets: “Taste, masticate, and savour. You are about to get extremely wise.”
Martina Calvi A Year of Junk Journalling: 52 Creative Prompts to Transform Scraps of Your Life into Art
Quadrille, 9th, £16.99, HB, 9781837834303
52 weekly creative prompts and ideas that turn junk materials into playful projects, from creating a self- portrait to celebrating your favourite snacks.
Louis Catlett Say What Ewe Sea: A Very Silly Visual Puzzle Book
Summersdale, 9th, £7.99, HB, 9781837995745
Is that a scar on an ace or is it the film Scarface? Is that a limb on a cello or the drink limoncello? Challenge your wits with this daft pictorial puzzle
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book where the answers are hidden in plain sight.
Charlie Mackesy Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Ebury, 9th, £22, HB, 9781529108446
“One day you’ll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did.” Six years on from the phenomenal The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes this sequel, which features the same four characters along with a new foe, facing a yet more dangerous world. Lost in a dark storm, can the boy find a way through?
Elliot Martyn History’s Greatest Drinking Games: From the Notorious to the Wisely Forgotten
Constable, 9th, £16.99, HB, 9781408723098
From the Ancient Greeks flinging their wine across the room to modern Australians pegging bags of wine to spinning clothes lines, a gifty compendium of drinking games from history and across the globe.
Stacey McNeill Fox Under the Moon: Seasons of Comfort and Hope
Quercus, 23rd, £20, HB, 9781529448115
In this appealingly illustrated book of hope and affirmations from McNeill’s Instagram of the same name, a young fox talks to the wise old moon about the things that truly matter.
Dave Tarnowski Sorry in Advance for Making Things Weird: A Disappointing Affirmations Collection
Chronicle, 7th, £10.99, HB, 9781797236902
The creator of the Disappointing Affirmations Instagram account (2.5 million followers) presents a “fresh and funny” collection of realistic affirmations, which recognise that failure is always an option.
Rob Temple A Very British Christmas: Your Festive Survival Guide
Allen & Unwin, 30th, £12.99, HB, 9781805464044
From the forensic science of gift-giving to who sits where at the dinner table, the creator of Very British Problems returns with a “one-of- a-kind” survival manual to navigating the most challenging aspect of Christmas: spending it with your family.
Poo Knew It! A Crap Miscellany Featuring 100s of Facts, Fun and Trivia for the Small Room
Summersdale, 9th, £6.99, PB, 9781837996858
Transform your bathroom breaks into an educational escape with this miscellany of poo- related trivia, from the history of toilets and toilet customs from around the world, to tracking your own bowel movements, with a humorous twist.
Language,
literature, essays & mythology
Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, Nava Kavelin Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss and Coming-of-Age
Headline, 7th, £20, HB, 9781035423200
From the hosts of podcast Podcrushed, which features guests’
Charlie Creed The Cat’s Tales: Feline Fairytales and Folklore
Elliott & Thompson, 23rd, £14.99, HB, 9781783969210
Cutely illustrated gifty collection of feline folktales from around the world, from Dick Whittington and His Cat to Japan’s The Boy Who Drew Cats and Iceland’s The Cottager and His Cat.
stories about their formative teenage experiences, this essay collection celebrates the formative years of early adolescence as they share their own stories of heartbreak, anxiety and self-discovery.
Danny Bate Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them
Blink, 2nd, £14.99, HB, 9781785307430
Why are the Cs in circus pronounced differently? And why is there an L in salmon and a K in know? Bate takes us on a journey through the English alphabet, to reveal the alphabet’s hidden mechanisms and inspire a newfound sense of wonder in this ancient tool.
Hwang Bo-reum ( 7), Shanna Tan (trans) Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Bloomsbury, 23rd, £14.99, HB, 9781526692801
Why do we read? What is it we hope to take away from the experience of reading for pleasure? The author and translator of debut novel Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop reflects on these questions and more in this collection of essays about reading, language and life.
Stella Dadzie Stella Dadzie: A Whole Heap of Mix Up
Lawrence Wishart, 16th, £15, PB, 9781913546991
Black feminist activist and writer Dadzie reflects on her political activism, travel in Africa and the Caribbean, and race and racism in Britain in this collection of her short stories, poems, speeches and travel writing.
Lily Dunn Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform
Manchester UP, 7th, £16.99, HB, 9781526179258
Aiming to demystify the craft of memoir writing and help writers turn raw experience into universal truth, this radical and excellent guide draws on conversations with writers including Pragya Agarwal, Marina Benjamin, Noreen Masud and Richard Beard as well as her own memoir, Sins of My Father to explore how writing such books can transform both author and reader.
Matthias Egeler, Stewart Spencer (trans) Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld
Yale, 14th, £20, HB, 9780300284409
From the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon, Middle Earth and Tudor period drama, an “enchanting” history of the otherworld of elves and fairies.
Anne Enright Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World
Cape, 30th, £20, HB, 9781787335776
Taking us from Galway to Honduras and from keen-eyed memoir to urgent political writing, and reflections on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison and Helen Gardner, this is a “timely, moving and piercingly intelligent” essay collection from the multi award-winning novelist.
Mara Gold
Ancient Myths & Legends Without Men Ebury, 23rd, £22, HB, 9781529953138
From stories of virgin goddesses Athena and Artemis to the frenzies of the Maenads, a giftily packaged collection of legendary tales from ancient mythology, centred around stories of women and retold for a modern audience.
Sarah Gristwood (ed) Celebrating Women: Women Writing on Women – Family, Friends, Feminism and Fun
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