BOOKS
Carol Ann Duffy Frost Fair Picador, 31st, HB, £7.99, 9781509848171 Duffy’s 10th and final Christmas poetry book is set in the frost fairs on London’s Thames in the 16th century, and as gorgeously packaged as its predecessors.
Charlotte Mew & Julia Copus (ed) Selected Poetry and Prose Faber, 3rd, PB, £14.99, 9780571316182 Selected by Julia Copus, an anthology of Charlotte Mew’s best poetry and prose to mark the 150th anniversary of Mew’s birth. Hitherto neglected, her star, and her “curious mix of New Woman and stalwart Victorian”, is now beginning to rise again.
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obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should we take the dystopian visions of our favourite films? Exploring the science of death and mass destruc- tion in blockbuster films including “Armageddon”, “Dr Strangelove” and “The Terminator”.
9780751578973 Test your word-puzzling skills, map-reading savvy, general knowledge and problem-solving prowess with more than 400 ques- tions on British places. “Guaranteed to drive your mind round the bend.”
Chris Riddell Poems to Fall in Love With Macmillan, HB, £12.99, 9781529023237 This anthology of poems about love and romance, selected and gorgeously illustrated by Riddell, celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admira- tion through passion to tearful resignation.
Ella Risbridger (ed) Set Me on Fire: A Poem for Every Feeling Doubleday, 3rd, HB, £14.99, 9780857526267 “Poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too.” The author of the wonderful Midnight Chicken with an anthology of poems from all over the world, organised by feeling and championing diverse, lesser-known poets as well those we all recognise.
Popular science
Michael Brooks, Rick Edwards Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Popular Science of Death in the Movies Atlantic Books, 3rd, HB, £12.99, 9781786496928 Asteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse— why is Hollywood so
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Stuart Russell Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control Allen Lane, 8th, HB, £25, 9780241335208 Humans dream of super- intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Russell is a world-leading AI researcher who has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to his own species. He lays out the steps we must take to avert the worst threats before it’s too late.
Psychology
Jane Setter Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It’s Not What You Say, But How You Say It OUP, HB, £20, 9780198813842 Explaining why English has such a wide range of accents (and accent prejudice), the author, a professor of phonet- ics, draws on personal anecdotes and examples from the media to reveal the judgements we make about others’ voices with- out even noticing.
Quiz & puzzle books
The Chase 10th Anniversary Quizbook: The Ultimate Chase Quizbook Hamlyn, 3rd, HB, 314.99, 9780600636342 This celebration of 10 years of ITV’s most popular quiz show contains more than 2,000 questions and invites you to battle it out against The Governess, The Beast, The Sinnerman and The Barrister. Foreword by Bradley Walsh.
Simon Akeroyd & Dr Gareth Moore RHS Gardener’s Quiz Book & Puzzle Book: 100 Brainteasers for Gardeners Who Know Their Onions Mitchell Beazley, 3rd, PB, £14.99, 9781784726324 “In medieval times, a lawn rich with wild flowers was known as what?” Moore is the quizmaster creator of The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book. He joins forces with the RHS and garden expert Akeroyd to pose more than 400 questions and puzzles to test your knowledge of Latin names. Along with diagrams of plant anat- omy to annotate, there are botanical illustrations throughout, too.
Paul Barjoria The Round Britain Quiz Book: 250 Challenging Questions From Radio 4’s Cult Quiz Show BBC, 17th, HB, £12.99, 9781785944642 “A fictional criminal psychologist, a former Conservative minister, and the eponymous protago- nist of a Peter Hedges novel might all be served on the board, alongside some big cheeses. Can you explain?” Some 250 of the toughest cryptic questions from BBC Radio’s longest-running quiz show and, at more than 70 years old, one of the oldest broadcast quiz- zes in the world.
Dr Gareth Moore & The British Army The British Army Challenge Book HarperCollins, 17th, PB, £12.99, 9780008356859 Have you got what it takes to be the best? This official, MOD-approved book contains codes to crack, complex naviga- tional challenges, logic puzzles to solve and real-life scenarios where you can ask yourself: what would I do under pressure in this situation?
Helen Brocklehurst The AA British Road Map Puzzle Book Sphere, 17th, PB, £14.99,
The Classic FM Puzzle Book Cassell, 3rd, PB, £12.99, 9781788401388 Blending together basic trivia, complex wordplay, and calling on the knowledge of the experts of Classic FM, this book of music-themed chal- lenges has difficulty levels ranging from “pleasantly tricky” to “fiendishly hard”. Foreword by Alexander Armstrong.
Marshall Julius Vintage Geek: The Quiz Book: Over 1000 Intriguing Questions and Fascinating Answers for Nerds of All Ages September, 10th, PB, £8.99, 9781912836024 This off-the-wall quiz book includes 50 expert celebrity geek ques- tions from the likes of “Goldeneye” game creator Jane Whittaker, Sam Neill of “Jurassic Park”, Forbidden Planet founder Mike Blake, Dan Lloyd (a.k.a. the kid from Kubrick’s “The Shining”), “League of Gentlemen” writer Jeremy Dyson, Leonard Nimoy’s daughter, Julie, and many others.
9781409184713 This year’s iteration of last year’s hit (“bigger and better than before!”) invites you to map your way around Britain in 40 more of the OS’ regional maps, with hundreds of puzzles, mind-boggling brainteasers, navigational tests, word games, code-crackers, anagrams and mathematical conundrums to keep you occupied.
Philip Parker The British Library Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book British Library, PB, £14.99, 9780712352994 This gorgeously illustrated but pretty fiendish quiz book features 100 fascinating maps from the remarkable cartographic collection at the British Library, and includes world and city maps, and celestial and sea charts.
The Royal Geographical Society and Nathan Joyce The Royal Geographical Society Puzzle Book Bonnier, 3rd, HB, £14.99, 9781788702362 “Pit your wits against the world’s greatest explorers.” That’s the billing for this “wonder- fully designed and packaged” quiz book from the RGS, which comprises 50 explorer profiles and expeditions, retold through a set of increas- ingly difficult questions.
Michael Mulligan NOW That’s What I Call a Quiz: Puzzle Your Way Through Sixty Years of Pop Trapeze, 3st, PB, £9.99, 9781409179924 Do you know your power ballads from your punk anthems? Can you identify the dons of dance, or the professors of pop? A quiz book which puts your music knowledge to the test as you puzzle your way through the last 35 years of pop’s most memorable hits—and a few of its biggest flops.
The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Tour of Britain Trapeze, 17th, PB, £14.99,
Neil Somervile For the Love of the Archers: The Unofficial Quiz Book Summersdale 10th, HB, £9.99, 9781787830271 From crosswords to sudoku, 200 brain-teasing activities based around all things Ambridge and the latest goings-on in Borsetshire.
and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie’s surname? What is Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? Arranged in themed sections, 400 questions covering books from literary classics to modern bestsellers, and Antony Beevor to Zadie Smith.
Sport
Peter Alliss
Speaking of Golf… And a Few Other Things Hodder, 17th, HB, £20, 9781529396218 Now in his late 80s, the BBC’s “voice of golf” for more than 50 years looks back on his remarkable journey from player to presenter, and describes some of the greatest play- ers he has encountered, on and off the fairway. He also selects what he believes to be the greatest Ryder Cup teams.
Henry Blofeld My A-Z of Cricket Hodder, 3rd, HB, £20, 9781529378498 The legendary cricket broadcaster takes readers on an alphabetical jour- ney through the world of cricket, telling some of his favourite anecdotes from the past 50 years with his trademark charm.
James Walton The Penguin Quiz Book: From the Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ulysses Penguin, 10th, PB, £9.99, 9780241986035 Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Charlie
Jenson Button How to be an F1 Driver Blink, 17th, HB, £20, 9781788702614 Why is it best to practice your champagne celebra- tion ahead of the big day? How do you tell a multiple F1 champion they need to check their blind spot? And how do you face down your boss when you’ve just stacked his multimillion-pound car into a wall? From the couch to the podium, the pit-lane to the race track, learn how to become an F1 driver with former champion Button and this “brilliantly written and revealing” book.
Giles Elliott The Little Red Book of Klopp Macmillan, 3rd, HB, £9.99,
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