Champs-Élysées in Paris, and from the mountains of the Alps to the cobbles of northern Europe.
Nick Thompson The Running Ground: A Father, a Son and the Simplest of Sports
Ebury Edge, 30th, £22, HB, 9781529146103
One of the top 25 master marathon runners in the world, who ran 50km and broke the age 45-49 record in 2020, presents a “motivational and enlightening” book exploring why some of us improve with age and others do not. The title refers to his father who inspired him to run as a young child.
Felix White Whatever Will Be, Will Be: A Journey Through the FA Cup’s 2024/25 Season
Cassell, 23rd, £22, HB, 9781788405591
The musician and author of It’s Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket returns to take a personal road trip style journey through the FA Cup campaign of the 2024/25 football season, from the first non-league rounds to the final at Wembley.
Jonathan Wilson The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup
Abacus, 16th, £25, HB, 9780349145709
“From its inception, the World Cup has been a vehicle for far more than football.” Exploring the socio-political impact of the tournament across the globe, as well as the goals, incidents and scandals that keep us all gripped, this comprehensive, absorbing book is billed as the “definitive” history of the men’s football World Cup.
Sustainability & climate change
Dr Thomas Doherty Surviving Climate Anxiety: Coping, Healing and Thriving on a Changing Planet
Quercus, 7th, £20, HB, 9781529437645
Described as a “groundbreaking” and practical guide to managing anxiety in the face of the climate emergency by clinical and environmental psychologist Doherty, this sets out his practical approach to healing environmental anguish.
Elin Kelsey How to Be Hopeful: Empowering Practices to Overcome Despair and Act for Climate Justice
Greystone, £18.99, HB, 9781778402623
Kelsey aims to empower readers to confront their own emotional landscapes, engage in collective action, envision a sustainable future and cultivate a hopeful and resilient response to the pressing issues of our time.
Julia Shaw Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them
Canongate, 9th, £18.99, HB, 9781805301158
From oil spills to wildlife crimes, this investigation into “green crime” by criminal psychologist Shaw is told through accounts of some of the worst environmental crime cases of our times. Profiling those who commit them, she explores how we can stop such Earth killers from stealing our future.
Chris Smaje Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft
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Chelsea Green, 14th, £19.95, PB, 9781915294739
Arguing for local, productive lives that work for the community rather than centralised government or corporations, this explores how we might live more slowly and become more immersed in local ecologies.
Travel & transport
Maps, Annotated: The World’s 300 Greatest Maps Explained
DK, 2nd, £40, HB, 9780241682845
Written by an expert academic panel of geographers, historians and curators, this guided tour of cartographic history features more than 300 of the most important and beautiful maps ever created; from Chinese star charts to surveys of the lunar surface.
James Cheshire The Library of Lost Maps Bloomsbury, 9th, £30, HB, 9781526676610
At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library. Cheshire – Britain’s only professor of Geographic Information and Cartography – tells its remarkable story in this handsome-looking book, revealing how maps have helped inspire some of the greatest scientific discoveries, but also paved the way for some terrible atrocities.
Mike Hall, Matt Brown The Boroughs of London Batsford, 9th, £30, HB, 9781837330003
Marking the 60th anniversary of their establishment, this is a stylish-looking compendium of maps of every London borough, paired with quirky and interesting facts about places of interest in each one.
Miles Morland The Hopeless Biker: Who Went Twice Round the World
Muswell Press, £25, HB, 9781068389320
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“True adventure starts where preparation ends.” Over five continents, armed with nothing but stubborn determination and tatty maps, Morland trades deskbound comfort for breakneck adventure in this entertaining account of his series of helter-skelter motorbike journeys, which take him around the world twice.
Anthony Seldon The Path of Light
Atlantic, 30th, £20, HB, 9781805464105
The distinguished historian and author of The Path of Peace offers an “inspiring and reflective” memoir about walking the 1,000km route from where the First World War ended, to Auschwitz, discovering the towns and people who resisted in the face of destruction, and ruminating on the Second World War’s legacy.
David Suchet Travels With Agatha Christie
Constable, 16th, £30, HB, 9781408723920
Celebrated Poirot portrayer Suchet travels across the world to recreate a journey undertaken by Agatha Christie in the 1920s. This account of his odyssey expands on a tie-in five-part Channel 4 documentary.
Anna Tzortzi (illus) The Mediterranean Lonely Planet, £37.50, HB, 9781837585830
This gorgeous looking photographic coffee table book takes a visual journey through the Mediterranean region, introducing 30 cities and islands and featuring on-the-ground recommendations, as well as 15 weekend-long road trip itineraries.
True crime
Matt Blake Hearth of Darkness Elliott & Thompson, 30th, £16.99, HB, 9781783969159
“If your home had a dark past, would you want to know?” Blake’s Guardian article – House of Horror – which was the springboard for this book attracted more than half a million reads in its first week. Now in a nasty but gripping blend of memoir, true crime and paranormal, he tells how he discovered that his creepy new home was once the lair of the E17 Nightstalker.
Gilbert King Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida
Wildfire, 7th, £16.99, PB, 9781035419388
By a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and based on the hugely popular Bone Valley podcast, which has been downloaded more than 14 million times, the stranger-than-fiction story of a husband who has spent more than 35 years in jail for his wife’s murder, despite the fact that a known murderer had confessed to the crime.
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