This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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9781529012071 “I told my players during the break: Since we’re here anyway, we might actually play a bit of football.” Gifty, illustrated collection of witticisms and quotes from the charming and irrepressible Liverpool FC manager, Jürgen Klopp.
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F2: Ultimate Footballer: The All New F2 Book Blink, 17th, PB, £14.99, 9781788702584 With a “revolutionary” augmented reality app featuring exclusive videos, pictures and more, the fourth skills book from the football social media stars who have six million YouTube subscribers and four million Instagram followers.
Robbie Fowler A Footballer’s Life Blink, 3rd, HB, £20, 9781788701105 The “definitive” autobiography (his last one was in 2006) from the former Liverpool FC player who has a million followers on Twitter and a regular column in the Sunday Mirror.
Nick Fry with Ed Gorman Survive. Drive. Win: The Inside Story of Brawn GP and Jenson Button’s Incredible F1 Championship Win Atlantic, 17th, HB, £20, 9781786498908 Published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Brawn GP winning the 2009 F1 drivers’ championship with Jenson Button, this is the first time that someone in charge of a winning F1 team has written about their experiences, I’m told.
reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered and deeply fearful of humans. So when McDougall learns of the sport of Burro Racing (or running with donkeys), he sets out to give Sherman something worth living for. It’s all most enjoyable.
Ennis-Hill and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, in which they give lively insights into their motiva- tion, the highs and lows of competing, and the camaraderie of female sport. Foreword by HRH The Princess Royal and all royalties go to Dame Mary’s charitable trust.
Kevin Moore What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong: The Global Game’s Greatest Myths and Untruths Bloomsbury, HB, £12.99, 9781472955661 Shirt colours do make a difference. The Germans took football to Brazil, not the English. Goalkeepers should not dive for penalties. The founding director of the National Football Museum debunks 50 of the greatest myths surrounding football.
Leo Moynihan & Jonny Owen Three Kings Quercus Publishing, 17th, HB, £20, 9781787475656 “Three of the greatest football clubs: Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester United. Their three greatest managers: Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and Matt Busby.” The story of how these three men, born within a 20-mile radius, shaped the course of modern football. Published to accompany a major documentary from the Bafta-winning makers of “Amy”, “I Believe in Miracles” and “Senna”.
Christopher McDougall Running With Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion Profile, 10th, HB, £20, 9781781258262 When the barefoot- running guru author of Born to Run takes in a neglected donkey, he aims to get Sherman back to
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Dame Mary Peters (ed) Passing the Torch: Sportswomen Who Inspire Gateway Publishing, PB, £12.99, 9781902471167 The Northern Irish Gold medal-winning pentath- lete at the 1972 Olympics has since inspired a generation of athletes (The Bookseller’s Gerard O’Hare tells me what an inspiration she was to him, and other Northern Irish kids growing up at the height of the Troubles). This illustrated book contains her interviews with sportswomen including Dame Jessica
Richard Porter How to Be Formula One Champion Virgin, 3rd, HB, £9.99, 9780753553282 Are you the next Lewis Hamilton? Humorous yet practical guide to hitting the big time in top-flight motorsport, with advice on everything from the correct look, to more advanced skills such as remembering to insert “for sure” at the start of every sentence.
This sumptuously illus- trated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography, a glorious genre of map- making often overlooked by modern map books. It also draws on medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogues, instruments and other compelling curiosities to tell extraordinary stories of mankind’s fascination with the skies above.
again blends travel writ- ing, memoir and cultural history as he charts his voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, peri- odically inhabited archi- pelago off the Scottish Highlands. To get there, he charts a course along the exposed and exhilarating western coasts of Ireland and Scotland, following in the wake of many a trav- eller and adventurer.
Amy Raphael A Game of Two Halves: Famous Football Fans Meet Their Heroes Allen & Unwin, 3rd, HB, £14.99, 9781911630036 This anthology pairs some of the biggest names in football with their celebrity fans for a series of revelatory interviews, including James Corden with Zlatan Ibrahimović, John Bishop and Jürgen Klopp, and Val McDermid and John McGlynn. Profits will be donated to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support their work with child refugees.
Travel, transport & maps
Jason Barlow Top Gear: Ultimate Supercars BBC, 17th, HB, £25, 9781785944819 From the stylish curves and cutting-edge technol- ogy, to the absurd power and baffling price tags, an illustrated celebration of the supercar in all its glory. “Guaranteed to rev the engines of car fans everywhere.”
Edward Brooke-Hitching The Sky Atlas Simon & Schuster, 17th, HB, £25, 9781471178931
Tom Cox Ring the Hill Unbound, 3rd, HB, £16.99, 9781783528356 The author of The Good, the Bad and the Furry and 21st Century Yokel writes about nine types of hill, taking each as a starting point for one of his inimi- table explorations, includ- ing a northern hill, a hill that never ends, and the smallest hill in England. Crowdfunded in less than three days thanks to Cox’s large and highly engaged network.
Edward Platt The Great Flood: Travels Through a Sodden Landscape Picador, 31st, HB, £16.99, 9781447298199 In an absorbing blend of travel writing, report- age and interviews, the prize-winning author of Leadville explores floods and flooding, both in liter- ature and mythology, and its modern-day affecting of communities all over the UK. Journeying from the south-east up the East Coast to Northumberland and down again to the Somerset Levels, he seeks out flooded places and those who live in them to give a timely picture of how water shapes both our landscapes and our sense of who we are.
Rory MacLean Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the Heart of Europe Bloomsbury, 31st, HB, £20, 9781408896525 In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow. Thirty years on, he retraces his original journey, backwards, from Russia, through Ukraine, to Hungary, Poland, Germany and the UK, “across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears”. “An unsettling, poignant and darkly comic exposé”, says Bloomsbury.
Philip Marsden The Summer Isles: A Sea Voyage Granta, 3rd, HB, £20, 9781783782994 The author of the wonder- ful Rising Ground once
Gareth E Rees Car Park Life: A Portrait of Britain’s Unexplored Urban Wildernesses Influx Press, 22nd, PB, £9.99, 9781910312360 This “dark, satirical” psycho-geographic exploration of the hitherto neglected landscapes of the UK’s retail chain store car parks presents a troubling vision of Brexit Britain. Rees journeys across the country from Plymouth to Edinburgh, walking purposelessly through car parks, “much to the horror of his family, friends and, most of all, himself”.
in the rich and troubled culture of modern Mexico. Beginning in the border town of Nogales, where a 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, he drives the length and breadth of the country, attending local language and culinary schools, interviewing deportees and taking in such locations as Tijuana, Guadalajara and the Lacondon jungle. Sure to be widely reviewed.
Dixe Wills Tiny Castles AA Publishing, 31st, HB, £16.99, 9780749581978 Wills’ second Tiny book this month is a full-colour guide to Britain’s most interesting diminutive castles, from St Mawes in Cornwall to Scalloway in Shetland where, it is said, the blood and hair of Earl Patrick’s tenants were used in the mortar.
True crime
Dick Kirby Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad: 100 Years of Crime Fighting Pen & Sword, HB, £25, 9781526752130 Published to coincide with the centenary of the “Sweeney Todd, Flying Squad”, a “no-holds- barred” illustrated history of the celebrated police unit, written by an ex-Scotland Yard author with “unrivalled contacts”.
TV tie-ins Paul Theroux
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip Hamish Hamilton, 24th, HB, £20, 9780241266670 In this timely travelogue, the renowned travel writer immerses himself
Alistair Moffat Britain’s DNA Journey: Our Incredible Genetic Story Birlinn, 10th, PB, £9.99, 9781780276298 Based on the largest-ever DNA sampling in Britain, and published to coincide with a major 90-minute ITV special entitled “Ant and Dec’s DNA Journey”, this updated narrative history of the British people is made up from stories “only DNA can tell” and offers insights into who we are and where we came from. Three more ITV programmes focusing on different celebrities will be broadcast in 2020.
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