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Editor’s Choice


Biography & memoir


Neneh Cherry A Thousand Threads Fern Press, 3rd, hb, £25, 9781911717003


Swedish-born, New York-raised singer-song- writer Cherry shot to fame after her 1988 appearance on “Top of the Pops”, wearing a gold bra and bomber jacket and rapping, all while seven months pregnant. This enthral- ling memoir tells the story of her life in music and of the three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and legacy. Like all the best memoirs, it transcends the author’s celebrity to reflect on bigger issues here: racism, addic- tion, grief and loss. It’s also a wonderful articulation of creativity as a life force.


Jeremy Clarkson Diddly Squat: Home to Roost Michael Joseph, 24th, hb, £22, 9780241728192 Will the chickens finally come home to roost? Rev up your tractor engine for this account of another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm. Wellie-wearing antics and thigh-slapping humour are promised.


Daisy May Cooper Hexy Bitch Radar, 24th, hb, £22, 9781804192580 In her second book, the BAFTA award-winning actress and writer best known for comedy series “This Country” sets out to investigate how her own experiences with forces we can’t explain have influenced all parts of her life. “It’s like, Scooby Do, meets Mystic Meg, via a portal to the afterlife in the back room of an Oxfordshire pub”.


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Kaleb Cooper It’s a Farming Thing Quercus, 24th, hb, £20, 9781529437881 This third book from the star of “Clarkson’s Farm” provides more “hilarious peeks” into life on Diddly Squat Farm, along with doses of Cooper’s “unique wisdom”.


History


Hetta Howes Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The


Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women Bloomsbury, 24th, hb, £25, 9781399408738


“These extraordinary women were, in many ways, just like us.” Few medieval women were able to record their feelings on life, but in this engrossing début work, medieval historian Howes explores the lives of four women who did just that: poet Marie de France; mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich; Christine de Pizan, widow and court writer; and “no-good wife”, Margery Kempe. Despite women being dubbed “failed men” by one contemporary male writer, Howes shows that they thought, loved and navigated challenges just as we do today.


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Thomas Eriksen Surrounded By Liars: Or, How to Stop Half- Truths, Deception and Storytelling Ruining Your Life Vermilion, 10th, pb, £10.99, 9781785044762 The author of Surrounded By Idiots returns to unpack the psychological reasons why we lie, and the impact lying has on our relationships. With the same behavioural model employed in his previous book, he aims to help us detect the liars around us, and “shatter their decep- tion for good”.


Boris Johnson Unleashed HarperCollins, 10th, hb, £30, 9780008618209 “Written in his inimitable style”, we are promised an “honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing” book by the former PM. “Underlying everything in the book is Johnson’s belief that the UK is an


extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future”, says HarperCollins.


facts. Species include the Egyptian Goose, the Golden Eagle and the Long-Eared Owl. He also has a Sky Arts series, “Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy”.


G T Karber Murdle: The School of Mystery: 50 Seriously Sinister Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles Souvenir, 10th, pb, £10.99, 9781805222088 Book four in the Murdle puzzle series finds Deductive Logico taking us back to the early days of Deduction College where it all began.


Damien Lewis SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: The Mavericks Who Made the SAS Quercus, 24th, hb, £22, 9781529413885 In the summer of 1944, the SAS was charged with taking on the might of Hitler’s fearsome Panzer divisions deep behind enemy lines. The latest from Lewis is an account of how these “renegade warriors dared all to bring the war to its final blood- soaked close”.


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Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book: How Much Do You Really Know About the World? Elliott & Tompson, 3rd, pb, £16.99, 9781783968084 More than 300 questions, puzzles and word games to test your global knowl- edge across geography, politics and history from the author of the excellent Prisoners of Geography.


Laurence Rickard, Mat Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Ben Wilbond, Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick Ghosts: Brought to Life: The Making of a Classic Bloomsbury, 24th, hb, £20, 9781526684202 From understanding how ghosts walk through walls to learning who stole what from the set, a “wonder- fully funny, entertaining and official” behind-the- scenes companion book to the hugely popular BBC series which ended on Christmas Day 2023. Reruns for Christmas 2024 are likely, I’m told.


Tim Spector The Food for Life Cookbook: 100+ Recipes Created With ZOE Cape, 10th, hb, £28, 9781787335233 This official cookbook companion to gut health expert Spector’s book, Food for Life, contains more than 100 recipes created in collaboration with ZOE, and aims to show how simple and enjoyable it can be to adapt to a gut-friendly way of eating.


Art, architecture & photography


Gabrielle da la Puente & Zarina Muhammad (aka The White Pube) Poor Artists Particular, 3rd, hb, £20, 9780241633762 In which the collaborative and irreverent art critic duo known collectively as The White Pube guide the reader through the bizarre world of contemporary art, with a focus on aspir- ing artist Quest Talukdar as she embarks on a “surreal journey into the creative industry”.


Jim Moir More Birds:


Paintings of British Birds Unbound, 3rd, hb, £16.99, 9781789651706 In this follow-up to his first book of bird paintings, Birds, Moir brings us a new collection of 80 of his ornithological artworks, accompanied by favourite


Bendor Grosvenor The Invention of British Art Elliott & Tompson, 10th, hb, £40, 9781783968091 From folk art to the role of female artists and the influence of countries of the British Empire, a “provocative, captivating and highly accessible” illustrated history of


British art from 10,000BC to the 19th century.


Simon Jenkins A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard Viking, 31st, hb, £26.99, 9780241674956 From the Gothic cathedrals to the great estates of Georgian London and the docks of Liverpool, the renowned historian presents a “revelatory” narrative history of British architec- ture, told as an epic battle of classic, Gothic and modern styles.


Alexandra Loske The Artist’s Palette: The Palettes Behind the Paintings of 50 Great Artists Tames & Hudson, hb, £35, 9780500027776 Including such artists as Artemisia Gentileschi, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O’Keeffe and Bridget Riley, here are genuine artists’ palettes, presented alongside masterpieces by the artists who used them, and with detailed analysis of the paints used.


Everlyn Nicodemus, Perrin M Lathrop, Catherine de Zegher & Eddie Champters Everlyn Nicodemus National Galleries Scotland, pb, £25, 9781911054665 Coinciding with the first-ever retrospective exhibition of her socially engaged work, the first major publication on the 40-year career of the Tanzania-born artist.


Peter van Agtmael & Laura Wexler (eds) Magnum America: the United States Tames & Hudson, hb, £125, 9780500544563 What does America mean and for whom? “Breath- taking in scope”, this


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