English-speaking reader as Gwilym waits in the woods for his lover, ogles girls in church and causes chaos during a midnight assignation.


Seamus Heaney, Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavin, Matthew Hollis The Poems of Seamus Heaney


Faber, 9th, £40, HB, 9780571340385


Billed as the definitive edition of Heaney’s poetry, this contains illuminating critical notes, along with previously uncollected poems and other unseen material. Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the poet’s Nobel Prize win.


Sarah Howe Foretokens Chatto, 2nd, £12.99, PB, 9781784746131


A new mother reckons with the inheritance of family, language and colonialism in this “stunning” new second collection from the TS Eliot Prize- winning poet – the first poet of colour to win – who was also named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.


Hollie McNish Virgin ( 11) Fleet, 16th, £14.99, HB, 9780349127446


This new collection from the hugely popular and much-followed McNish finds her reflecting on the word virgin in a “poetic love letter against the more nefarious effects of purity culture, packed with stacks of honeycomb, hand holds and early morning light”.


Shrikant Verma, Rahul Soni (trans) Magadh


And Other Stories, 7th, £14.99, PB, 9781916751330


First published in Hindi in 1984, a new English edition of a late- Modernist collection widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. “Elusive, dreamlike and prophetic,” this epic walks us through the ruins of history to question the future.


Popular science


Jim Baggott Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant OUP, £20, HB, 9780192864062 Science writer Baggott provides a detailed but


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accessible look at the troubled history of the Hubble constant, taking in the work of scientists including Albert Einstein and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.


Marcus Chown The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science


Michael O’Mara, 9th, £10.99, PB, 9781789296853


From gravity and black holes to global warming and social relativity, the award-winning science writer breaks down complex science into manageable chunks, explaining the one thing


you need to know to get to grips with each subject.


Brian Clegg The Multiverse: When One Universe Isn’t Enough


Icon, 23rd, £10.99, PB, 9781837732357


Investigating questions of expanding, parallel and communicating universes, Clegg delves into the endless possibilities of the multiverse, “one of the weirdest and most exciting areas of modern physics and cosmology”.


Aleks Krotoski The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life


Bodley Head, 23rd, £22, HB, 9781847928504


Journeying from cult fringes to the corridors of power, this takes us on a “wild and entertaining” adventure into the business of living forever to find out what it means for us all that Silicon Valley giants, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Bankman-Fried are investing in the “science” of eternal life.


Stephan Raaijmakers Large Language Models MIT Press, 21st, £15.99, PB, 9780262552691


Written by an expert in natural language processing, an in-depth history of large language models and what their ubiquity, disruption and creativity mean from a wider perspective.


Mary Roach Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy


Oneworld, 2nd, £18.99, HB, 9781836431558


What do we do when parts of the complex machine that is our body start breaking down? Roach – one of my favourite science writers – embarks on an exploration of regenerative medicine, charting remarkable advances, including animal organ donors, and


harvesting bones and tissue from the deceased.


Hank Schyma Storm: Chasing Nature’s Wildest Weather


DK, 28th, £30, HB, 9780241771570


Schyma is a veteran storm chaser who has more than one million followers on YouTube. Taking us on a whirlwind journey through the skies, he explains the science behind storms, accompanied by his photos, which chart wild weather moments.


Psychology


Gwen Adshead Four Questions About Violence: Insights From a Forensic Psychiatrist


Faber, 23rd, £9.99, PB, 9780571395095


Is violence normal? Is evil ever a useful concept? Does trauma cause it? And can we change violent minds? The leading forensic psychiatrist and author of the excellent The Devil You Know reckons with attitudes towards violence and punishment.


Nikolay Kukushkin One Hand Clapping: Unravelling the Mystery of the Human Mind


Swift, 23rd, £22, HB, 9781800755000


Taking the reader on a billion-year journey, this runaway Russian bestseller seeks to answer the seemingly impossible question of how the human mind came to exist within physical reality; from inorganic molecules to the emergence of language and beyond.


Nicholas Wright Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain


Macmillan, 30th, £22, HB, 9781035013982


Drawing on his work as a neuroscientist and more than a decade advising the Pentagon and the UK government, Wright reveals how, whether we like it or not, the brain is wired for conflict whether in the office or on the battlefield.


Reference & puzzle books


David Gentle Quizdom of the Crowd: The New General Knowledge Game That Pits You Against the Crowd


Ivy Press, 9th, £14.99, PB, 9781836005698


Every question in this novel quiz book comes with real answers from a mix of people across


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