This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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two statements on the same subject. One is from the real Trump, the other your average trump (i.e. a made-up statement, fake news, a big fat fart). Your task is to try and guess the Trumpisms from the hot air.
Anonymous Led by Donkeys: The Tweets They Can’t Delete Atlantic, 31st, HB, £10.99, 9781838950194 Illustrated companion to the Twitter sensation @LedByDonkeys, through which four regular guys exposed the hypocrisies of the Brexit debate by taking the biggest lies enshrined in our leaders’ published tweets and guerrilla-posted them on billboards around the country.
may be a late adopter of Twitter, but with more than 82,000 followers, including Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, the border isn’t so invisible any more.” And now there’s a book.
book featuring everyone’s favourite Russian premier contains pin-up portraits, tips, tricks and hacks for retro-sexual outdoor adventures, and join- the-dots pages, in which you follow the numbers to reveal the wild tiger that Putin has just shot a tranquiliser dart into. I felt quite queasy looking at it. Also out this month from the same authors, The Unofficial Donald Trump Yearbook (1911622321).
Nick Caruso & Dani Rabaiotti Believe It or Snot: The Definitive Field Guide to the Earth’s Slimy Creatures Quercus, 17th, HB, £9.99, 9781529403398 What is hyena butter, and would you want to put it on toast? A hagfish can produce how much slime in 60 seconds? Which animal produces a snotty sleeping bag? The authors of Does It Fart? return with a compendium of slimy, repulsive animal facts.
Lucy Baker Swipe Left HQ, 31st, HB, £6.99, 9780008334451 Ghosting, catfishing, breadcrumbing, orbiting… all of these baffling terms feature in this amusing stocking-filler guide to the dos and don’ts of digital dating. See what makes a perfect profile, and a sexy (not sexist) selfie. Fix first- date disasters and get over ghosting. And “resist using more than two exclamation marks. They are like cats—any more than two and it makes you look weird”.
Johanna Basford How to Draw Inky Wonderlands: Create and Colour Your Own Magical Adventure Virgin, 17th, PB, £12.99, 9780753553190 Remember colouring books? Their still-standing doyenne invites you to develop your personal drawing style and master creating marvellous creatures and landscapes with only the pen or pencil in your hand and the wildest reaches of your imagination.
@BorderIrish I Am the Border, So I Am HarperCollins, 17th, HB, £9.99, 9780008356996 “Ninety-seven years young, the Irish Border
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Jamie Coleman Please Stop Touching Me… and Other Haikus by Cats Bantam Press, 17th, HB, £9.99, 9781787632677 “Please stop touching me/ Every time you do/I have to lick everywhere/It’s so exhausting.” And 50 more such feline haikus.
Jane Graham & The Big Issue Letter to My Younger Self: Inspiring People on the Lessons They’ve Learned, the Mistakes They’ve Made and the Relationships That Changed Their Lives Blink, 31st, HB, £16.99, 9781788702324 Inspired by the Big Issue’s regular feature, this collection features letters from 100 notable people, writing with advice and observations to their younger selves. Contributors include Olivia Colman on overcoming confidence problems; Mo Farah on the importance of losing; and Jamie Oliver on trusting your instincts. All royalties go to the Big Issue.
includes uplifting quotes, surprising hug recipients, First Lady Firsts, Melania Trump’s copycat speech, Michelle’s Dream Dinner Party Guest List, and more. I particularly like the “Match the Secret Service code-names to the First Ladies and Daughters” feature.
Includes Georgia O’Keeffe, Julia Child, Taylor Swift, Judith Kerr (yay) and Jacinda Ahern.
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Katie Kirby Hurrah for Gin: Reluctant Adult: A Book for the Perpetually Overwhelmed Coronet, 3rd, HB, £12.99, 9781473662056 In her latest outing, the purveyor of cartoon balm for frazzled parents pinpoints with painful precision just how crap your life is now that you’re all grown-up… what with “people pleasing, social anxiety, Instagram twattery and everything in between”.
James Felton 52 Times Britain Was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught at School Sphere, 17th, HB, £9.99, 9780751578850 This “painfully funny” history of Britain chroni- cles some of the ludicrous things the British have done, such as inventing a law so we didn’t have to return objects we had stolen from other coun- tries. “And when we say British, for the most part we mean the English.”
Adam G Goodwin, Dicken Goodwin & Jonathan Parkyn Putin: A Man’s Manual of Manliness Portico, 3rd, HB, £9.99, 9781911622338 This spoof gift activity
Conn Iggulden The Double Dangerous Book for Boys HarperNonFiction, 17th, HB, £20, 9780008332983 This follow-up to Iggulden’s blockbusting bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys has been co-written with his sons Cameron and Arthur, and is billed as an all-new compendium of cunning schemes, projects, tricks, games and tales of extraordinary courage, from learning how to pick a lock to mastering a Rubik’s Cube.
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The Unofficial Michelle Obama Activity Book Portico, 3rd, PB, £9.99, 9781911622376 From the creator of The David Attenborough Activity Book, this tribute to the former First Lady
Justine Solomons-Moat Behind Every Great Woman is a Great Cat Lom Art, 17th, HB, £12.99, 9781912785063 Over 30 inspirational cat-loving women profiled and cutely illustrated.
Steve Lowe The Shitshow: An ‘Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?’ Special Sphere, 31st, HB, £12.99, 9780751579215 “So it turns out things can get even shitter. Who knew? Er, we did, sadly.” The author of Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit? returns to take on Jeremy Corbyn, Danny Dyer, hipster pies, Mark Zuckerberg, Theresa May, TED talks, Irish passports, Vladimir Putin and more.
Kate Moore So That Went Well…. Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph White Lion, 1st, HB, £9.99, 9780711242128 In a year when even the most seasoned commen- tators have struggled to keep pace with events, this latest edition of the hardy perennial features the refreshing take on events of letter-writers to the Daily Telegraph.
100 Things I Meant to Tell You: Rants, Rhymes & Reportage from the Original Grumpy Old Man AA Publishing, 31st, HB, £12.99, 9780749581947 The comedian’s first book for many years brings together 100 stories, poems and articles, gathered over a colourful lifetime of making a living on the comedy circuit, from the time he hitched a lift from a nun and heard his own voice on her car radio, to the fight he had with Billy Connolly and (in verse) his hatred of the Teletubbies.
Boris Starling William Shakespeare’s Brexit
Blink, 17th, HB, £12.99, 9781788702546 “Two parties, both alike in dishonour, in fair Westminster where we lay our scene.” This spoofy comedy of errors by the novelist and journalist retells the tragic story of the UK’s acrimonious break from the EU, with our most prominent politi- cians in the leading roles.
memories of Christmases past and their hopes for future ones in this “funny and soulful” collection of personal essays about the meaning of Christmas, published to coincide with the forthcoming release of the film of the same name, starring Emma Thompson.
@Trouteyes with Moose Allain Last Night a Bidet Drenched My Wife: Misheard Lyrics and Other Outrageous Earworms Blink, 3rd, HB, £6.99, 9781788702126 “When I get that feeling, I need saxophone clean- ing.” This and many other chuckleworthy misheard lyrics from Twitter handle @Trouteyes, a.k.a. artist, illustrator and prolific tweeter Allain.
Elma van Vliet Grandma, Tell Me: A Give & Get Back Book Particular, 3rd, HB, £16.99, 9780241367230 This guided journal contains all the questions you always wanted to ask your grandmother: What kind of toys did you play with as a child? Who was your first love? How did you meet your husband? What would you have done differently if you were given the chance? And many more.
Language, literature & anthologies
Rob Temple Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet Sphere, 3rd, HB, £12.99, 9780751574708 The author of the Very British Problems series returns for a fourth outing, giving his insights into such hot topics as pub lunches, motorway services, farmers’ markets and, erm, Brexit.
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Emma Thompson Last Christmas Quercus, 31st, HB, £14.99, 9781529404227 When you think back to Christmases past, what (if anything) made it magi- cal? Actors, writers, char- ity workers, singers and refugees—including Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran and Emily Watson—share their
Cows on Ice & Owls in the Bog: The Weird and Wonderful World of Scandinavian Sayings Hardie Grant, 3rd, HB, £10, 9781787134720 In Norway, if you’re a bit slow on the uptake, the locals would suspect you were “born behind a brown cheese” (a vaere født bak en brunost). Fifty such Scandi phrases you never knew you needed, with explanations of their origins and literal translations.
John Burnside The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century Profile, 3rd, HB, £30, 9781781255612
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