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scientists in the process. Each chapter considers a different part of the body, along with such subjects such as pain and cancer, through both science writ- ing and “wry stories”.


Julie Andrews Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years Weidenfeld, 15th, HB, £20, 9781474602167 The announcement of this second volume of memoirs by the beloved actress generated much excitement. Picking up the story with Andrews’ arrival in Hollywood, it charts her movie-making career, including the personal stories behind such classics as “Mary Poppins”, “The Sound of Music”, “Victor/Victoria” and many others. Along with anecdotes about Hollywood and Broadway and fellow stars, Andrews also reflects on her work- ing and life partnership with Blake Edwards.


John Bishop How to Grow Old Ebury, 17th, HB, £20, 9781529105391 Bishop’s follow-up to his bestselling autobi- ography How Did This All Happen? is a guide to getting older. With sage advice on ageing, intimate confessions and “spit-your-dentures-out” hilarious commentary on his own advancing years, it is comic writing at its very best, I’m told.


Fearne Cotton Happy Vegan Seven Dials, 3rd, HB, £20, 9781841882895 “Be an imperfect vegan with Fearne.” Each of the recipes in Cotton’s latest collection includes options to add fish, meat or dairy. So if you are vegan but “want your kids to have some fish, or your partner throws a strop that they are missing meat, or your friend coming over for dinner just really loves cheese, you can pop some in and keep every- one happy”.


Gino D’Acampo Gino’s Italian Express Hodder, 31st, HB, £20, 9781529352252 D’Acampo’s latest cook- book contains 80 new recipes inspired by the authentic local foods he discovered on train travels across Italy. Accompanies his new ITV series, airing this autumn.


Bill Bryson The Body: A Guide to Occupants Doubleday, 3rd, HB, £25, 9780857522405 “We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.” Bryson spent three years researching this, his “magnum opus”, reading 2,500 books and interviewing doctors and


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Neil deGrasse Tyson Letters from an Astrophysicist WH Allen, 10th, HB, £14.99, 9780753553787 The world-leading astrophysicist, science communicator and author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry returns with answers to some of the thousands of questions he receives by letter every year: seeking advice or inspiration, or express- ing wonder. Covering everything from God to the history of science, and from aliens to death, he bares his soul and voices his doubts, passions and hopes. The big theme is: what is our place in the universe?


surprises and classic one-pot puddings. “This collection hits the Bikers’ core audience/Middle England in their sweet spot—with traybakes!,” says Seven Dials.


places they get stuck at this most wonderful time of the year”.


Elton John Me Macmillan, 15th, HB, £25, 9781509853311 In his only official autobiography, the music legend looks back on all the drama of his extraordinary life, from the early rejection of his work with song-writing partner Bernie Taupin, to spinning out of control as a chart-topping superstar, to half-heartedly trying to drown himself in his LA swimming pool, to disco- dancing with the Queen. He writes powerfully about getting clean after a drug addiction that gripped him for a decade, finding love and becom- ing a father. A massive campaign is planned, and the cover is splendid, too.


Owen Jones The Alternative: And How We Build It Allen Lane, 3rd, HB, £20, 9780241253960 We know our world’s unequal. But, says Jones, it doesn’t have to stay that way. He goes in search of the people who are already making change happen: from the US and the UK to Latin America, from Hungarian and Turkish dissidents struggling against author- itarian governments to the millions-strong anti-austerity movement in Spain.


Hairy Bikers The Hairy Bikers’ One Pot Wonders Seven Dials, 31st, HB, £22, 9781409171935 Includes belting curries, rollicking roasts, vegetable


Adam Kay Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas Picador, 17th, HB, £9.99, 9781529018585 This gifty follow-up from the author of the million- selling This is Going to Hurt alternates between the hilarious and the heart- breaking in a love letter to 1.4 million NHS staff who spend the festive season on the NHS frontline, “removing babies and baubles from the various


Jonny Keeling & Scott Alexander Seven Worlds, One Planet BBC Books, 10th, HB, £25, 9781785944123 As highlighted by Sir David Attenborough in his wonderful Glastonbury appearance, his new BBC1 series is an astonishing- sounding exploration of the natural wonders and wildlife on our seven continents. This stunning tie-in book featuring more than 250 images, including stills from the programme footage. It accompanies the seven- part series narrated by Sir David, who has also written the foreword.


Damien Lewis SAS Shadow Raiders: The Special Forces Mission That Changed the Course of WWII Quercus, 31st, HB, £20, 9781787475182 Lewis reveals the incred- ible story of the radar wars—“Britain’s most secret battle”—an untold epic of “daring, ruthless rule-breaking and ferocity, coupled with bravery and ingenuity beyond measure”. The results of Operation Biting would resonate throughout the war and beyond, changing the course of 20th-century history, I’m told.


BBC, 17th, HB, £14.99, 9781785944628 Do you know how many postboxes there are in the UK? How many times does the word “goat” appear in the King James Bible? This first official quiz book to accompany Osman’s hit BBC2 show “House of Games” features ques- tions based on some of its most loved rounds, includ- ing Roonerspisms, Venn Will I Be Famous?, Dim Sums and Answer Smash. Up against an extensive field, this is my pick to be the bestselling quiz book of the autumn.


To be launched with a landmark Letters Live event at the Royal Albert Hall, which sold out within hours, they are among this Christmas’s classiest stocking fillers.


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Nigel Slater Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter Fourth Estate, 3rd, HB, £26, 9780008213770 The second of Slater’s sumptuously produced pair of seasonal plant- based cookbooks. His recipes can mostly be on the table in 30 minutes.


Rick Stein Rick Stein’s Secret France BBC, 31st, HB, £26, 9781785943881 Almost 20 years after his French Odyssey, Stein returns to France to discover real and simple French cooking on a meandering quest through the highways and byways of rural France, from Normandy to Provence. Accompanies a major six- part BBC2 series.


John Lewis-Stempel The Private Life of the Hare Doubleday, 17th, HB, £9.99, 9780857524553 This enchanting and beautifully illustrated gift book, the latest from the always marvellous Lewis- Stempel, explores the myths, history and natural history of hares, from hare superstitions to the pet hares of William Cowper. This creature remains as elusive and magical as ever, he reveals.


Richard Osman Richard Osman’s House of Games: 1054 Questions to Test Your Wits, Wisdom and Imagination


Jacqueline Cockburn, Holly Grothe Howard, Felicity Price-Smith A Taste of Art. London: One City, Ten Museums, One Hundred Artworks Unicorn, PB, £12, 9781912690459 This original-sounding guide takes the reader on a journey around 10 of the capital’s galleries to explore 10 significant artworks at each location. Each gallery section also focuses on a different time period, beginning with Roman Britain in the British Museum.


Charlotte & Clementine Fiell Women in Design Laurence King, 28th, HB, £35, 9781786275318 “A much-needed inspirational focus for women currently studying or practising design,” this absorbing, beautifully illustrated book uncovers an alternative female history of design, highlighting the work of innovators such as Eileen Gray, Ray Eames, Florence Knoll Bassett and Anni Albers.


Shaun Usher (ed) Letters of Note: Love Canongate, 3rd, PB, £6.99, 9781786895325 This, the first in a series of 24 cutely packaged, small-format spin-off anthologies from Usher’s Letters of Note, contains a selection of remarkable letters with love at their heart. Also published this month: War (1786895349), Cats (1786895547) and Music (1786895592).


Jan Marsh Pre-Raphaelite Sisters National Portrait Gallery, 17th, HB, £29.96, 9781855147270 “For far too long the male protagonists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement have dominated accounts of this revolution in British art.” Accompanying a National Portrait Gallery exhibition (October 2019— January 2020), this richly illustrated book aims to address that imbalance and show just how central women were to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, not merely as the subjects of the images, but also in their production.


Catherine McCormack The Art of Looking Up White Lion, HB, £35, 9780711242173 This visual feast of a book features 40 spec- tacular ceilings around the world, from the


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