This preview highlights titles to be published in October


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the friendliest flowers for moths, to the best sites for bird boxes. Foreword by Isabella Tree of the Knepp Wildland Project.


Kathryn Bradley-Hole & the Duke of Devonshire English Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life Magazine Rizzoli, HB, £55, 9780847865796 Said to be the “most authoritative book ever” on the glories of English gardening, both histori- cally and horticulturally. Bradley-Hole, longtime gardening columnist for Country Life, examines the enduring appeal of the English style, accompanied by lavish photography.


£20, 9781786275301 This attractive and comprehensive book profiles over 50 weeds— just plants in the wrong place, of course—and suggests surprising ways to grow them, no matter what type of garden you have: in window boxes, borders, containers and over walls. Weeds in a changing world, you might say.


Health, diet & parenting


and cutting-edge” guide aimed at parents and anyone working with teenagers explains the incredible teen brain, and how to support both academic and life learning during adolescence.


Dr Sally Smith (ed) The Baby Club Book: Explore, Play and Learn With Your Baby DK, 3rd, PB, £14.99, 9780241410219 Bite-sized suggestions for exploring everyday objects with your baby, and for enjoying talk- ing, singing, telling stories, playing together and mellowing with cuddles and calm time. Accompanying the CBeebies TV series, it has a foreword by Nigel Clark, co-presenter of the show.


Phil Clarke & Isabel Lloyd Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse Head of Zeus, 3rd, HB, £14.99, 9781789542387 This grow-your-own guide for the generation who would rather eat compost than watch “Gardeners’ World”, tells you how to sow and grow 20 key crops to keep you fed come the apocalypse, whether you have two pots, a patio or a whole allotment to play with.


Jack Wallington Wild About Weeds: Garden Design with Rebel Plants Laurence King, 21st, HB,


Dr Sarah E Hill How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control Orion Spring, 10th, PB, £14.99, 9781409178835 Leading researcher in the field provides crucial infor- mation that women taking hormonal birth control need to know. Among her revelations: the Pill can change your brain, remove a key feature of your stress response, potentially increase your risk of depression, and has the ability to funda- mentally change your mate selection.


Bettina Hohnen, Jane Gilmour & Tara Murphy The Incredible Teenage Brain: Everything You Need to Know to Unlock Your Teen’s Potential Jessica Kingsley, 21st, PB, £15.99, 9781785925573 This “accessible, positive


Personal development & self-help


Flo Perry How to Have Feminist Sex Particular, 3rd, HB, £14.99, 9780241391563


One to Watch


We talk about feminism in the work- place, and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but when it comes to our sex lives, few of us are free from niggling


fears and body image insecurities. So says Flo Perry, the daughter of artist Grayson and psychotherapist Philippa, a young, “super-cool”, proudly bisexual woman in a unique position to talk warmly and inclu- sively about our current attitudes to sex, gender and identity. Particular is pitching her first book for readers of Scarlett Curtis and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, while Perry has almost 50,000 Instagram followers and is a former BuzzFeed editor.


Dr Dominique Thompson & Fabienne Vailes How to Grow a Grown-Up: Prepare Your Teen for the Real World Vermilion, 3rd, PB, £12.99, 9781785042782 Whether you have a teen struggling with exam pressure, a young adult who hasn’t settled well into university life, or are curious about what lies ahead for your younger child, this guide aims to help you build your child’s confidence and resilience.


History


Roger Crowley Accursed Tower: The Crusaders’ Last Battle for the Holy Land Yale, 8th, HB, £20, 9780300230314 In Yale’s lead title for the autumn, acclaimed narra- tive historian Crowley


vividly chronicles the tumultuous Crusader attack on Acre, the heavi- est bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left a once-great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin. “The last word” on the Crusades, says Yale of its first book with this author.


Nathaniel Flakin Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Amongst Nazi Soldiers Pluto, PB, £14.99, 9780745339955 The short life of Martin Monath, a young Jewish socialist who risked everything to foment revolution among rank- and-file German soldiers in occupied France during the Second World War.


Windrush scandal, and “brimming with humour, anger and wisdom”, this is the first book to bring together the oral testimonies of post-war Caribbean immigrants to Britain. We hear from nurses in Manchester, bus drivers in Bristol, seam- stresses in Birmingham, teachers in Croydon, Carnival Queens in Leeds, and many more.


British Forces in Germany from 1945 to the present day, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Army Museum and the release of a docu- mentary film.


Nicholas Foulkes Time Tamed Simon & Schuster, 31st, HB, £25, 9781471170645 Richly illustrated account of how man has sought to tame time over thousands of years, from the baboon bone that marked the lunar cycle in the Palaeolithic era, and the 3,500-year-old water clock at Karnak, to the newest watches and other time pieces.


Colin Grant (ed) Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation Cape, 3rd, HB, £20, 9781787331051 Commissioned before the


Biography & memoirs


Prince with Dan Piepenbring The Beautiful Ones Century, 29th, HB, £25, 9781780899176


One to Watch


This sumptuous-looking illustrated tribute to the late, great musician and singer tells the official story of Prince’s life, through his own words and


personal effects. An “intimate and unconven- tional” narrative, “echoing his mantra of creativ- ity, community and identity”, it is based partly on a memoir he began writing before his tragic death in 2016, chronicling his upbringing in Minnesota, and his introduction to music. There are also hand-written lyrics, selections from his notebooks, photos from his personal collection and concept art for his albums and films. The introduc- tion, by the book’s editor Dan Piepenbring, is about his own collaboration with Prince.


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Simon Jenkins A Short History of London: The Creation of the World’s Greatest City Viking, 10th, HB, £20, 9780241369982 Based in part on his own experience of events that shaped the post-war city, Jenkins shows how London has taken shape over more than 2,000 years, from the prehistoric occupants of the Thames Valley, to the preoccupied commuters of today. “Fascinating for locals and visitors alike.”


Michael Kulikowski Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine’s Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568 Profile, 3rd, HB, £30, 9781781256329 Two-hundred years of Roman imperial politics and the empire’s gradual collapse are brought to life in an action-packed narrative which contests the idea that Rome fell due to eternal invasions. Rather, it was the choices and living conditions of those within it which led to its collapse.


Peter Johnston British Forces in Germany 1945–2019 Profile, 31st, HB, £35, 9781788160322 Official history of the


Norman Lebrecht Genuis and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World 1847-1947 Oneworld, 3rd, HB, £20, 9781786076670 In a 100-year period, a handful of people changed the way we see the world, including Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka and Franklin. What do these visionaries have in common? They all have Jewish origins. How was it they saw what others could not? Acclaimed music writer Lebrecht investigates in this absorbing history.


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