This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Biography & memoirs
Amrou Al-Kadhi Unicorn: The Memoir
of a Muslim Drag Queen Fourth Estate, 3rd, HB £16.99, 9780008306069
“When I was 10, I announced to my family that I was in love with Macaulay Culkin in ‘Home Alone’. The resultant fallout was like the Iraqi version of ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’.” From a god-fearing Muslim boy, through incompre- hension and worse at Eton and Cambridge, to the liberating emergence of Glamrou, Al-Kadhi’s acerbic queer drag-queen persona in seven-inch heels, this is a moving, frank and often very funny memoir about the artist’s journey to be true to themselves. Al-Kadhi’s star is on the rise, with a feature film in development with Film 4.
Biography & memoirs
Katy Brand I Carried a Watermelon:
Dirty Dancing and Me HQ, 24th, HB, £12.99, 9780008352783
The award-winning writer, comedian and actor with a witty, endearing and surprisingly political take on how her lifelong obsession with “Dirty Dancing” (aged 13, she watched it every night for three months until her dad hid the videotape) has influenced her attitudes to sex, love, rights and respon- sibilities. She explores the film’s legacy, from pushing women’s stories to the fore- front of commercial cinema, to its “gold standard” depic- tion of abortion, according to pro-choice campaigners, and its powerful take on the classic coming-of-age story.
History
The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie Priests de la Résistance... Oneworld, 10th, HB, £12.99, 9781786076724
Disgracefully, I’ve been enjoying a glass of kir all this time without realising that the drink is named after Félix Kir, parish priest and French resistance hero who rode into Dijon on the front of a tank after the town was liber- ated from the Nazis. Thanks to this brilliant new book by the reverend author of A Field Guide to the English Clergy, I now know Kir’s story, and that of 14 other priests, nuns and laypeople of faith who have bravely fought oppres- sion, among them the Duke of Edinburgh’s mother, and Mother-Superior Alice-Elizabeth, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark.
Editor’s Choice
History Lee Child
The Hero... TLS Books, 31st, HB, £10, 9780008355784
As a recent convert to the novels of Lee Child, it’s a pleasure to highlight this, his first work of non-fiction: a short, sharp and compelling exploration of the roots of human storytell- ing, the purpose of fiction, and the genesis of the fictional hero, from Achilles and Hector to Robin Hood and James Bond. It’s also the first in a series of books from new HarperCollins imprint TLS Books, through which the literary magazine hopes to bring its quality of writing to a wider public. Future additions to the series will include an essay from Virginia Woolf on reading and re-reading. NB The publication of this title has now been delayed until November 2019.
Art, design & photography Stephen Ellcock
All Good Things... September, 17th, HB, £20, 9781912836000
In 2013, picture researcher and art publisher Ellcock began to select and post images on his Visual Rapture Facebook page. Six years later he has more than 300,000 followers and a host of devotees, including Mark Haddon, Sarah Perry and Matthew Collings. Taking its title from the first ever encyclopeadia in English, this glorious compendium of art and photography, inspired by both the natural world and human endeavour, and accompanied by quotes, is designed to calm the soul, provoke wonder and re-energise the spirit as it takes us on an artistic journey through the realms of the universe.
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Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Biography & memoirs
Debbie Harry Face It HarperCollins, 1st, HB, £25, 9780008229429
While there’s also an enticing music memoir by Elton John this month, I’m looking forward to this one even more—but then “Hanging on the Telephone” by Blondie was the first single I ever bought. Harry invites us into the “complexity of who she is” and how her life and career have played out over the past seven decades. “Upending the standard music memoir, with a cutting-edge style keeping with the distinctive qualities of her multidisciplined artistry”, it includes an introduction by Chris Stein, rare personal photos, origi- nal illustrations and more. “The text is incredible,” HarperCollins tells me.
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