This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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and bandmate Eddie van Halen, who died in 2020.
Victoria Whitworth Dust and Pomegranates: How Greece Changed Me Forever Apollo, 10th, hb, £20, 9781035910663 The author of Swimming With Seals entwines the story of her turbulent childhood and often disturbing experiences as a young English teacher in Greece with myth, history and archae- ology. “Asks where truth lies and how, as women, we can survive violence and conquer fear”.
Sarah C Williams When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for Women Hodder Faith, 12th, hb, £25, 9781399803731 This new biography of the political activist, social reformer and pioneer of modern feminism presents a fresh interpretation of the relationship between Butler’s public leadership, her political activism, and her spirituality.
Business & economics
Lionel Barber Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son Allen Lane, 3rd, hb, £25, 9780241582725 Written with Masayoshi Son’s cooperation but not authorised by him, an account by the former Financial Times editor of the founder of Softbank, from his childhood in a Korean slum to becoming the “world’s craziest inves- tor”, who has three times both lost and made tens of millions of dollars.
Daniel Crosby The Soul of Wealth: 50 Reflections on Money and Meaning Pan Macmillan, 15th, pb, £14.99, 9781804091036 From why willpower is overrated to why anything worth doing carries some risk, 50 short essays exploring what wealth really is, and providing practical suggestions for changing your thinking and achieving a wealthier life.
Carolyn Dailey The Creative Entrepreneur: 10 Industry Trailblazers Explain
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Duncan Mavin Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse Macmillan Business, 31st, hb, £22, 9781035037469 From Mozambique to Australia, and from Hong Kong to New York and inside the corridors of Zurich’s banking elite, an account of the collapse of once venerable Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, amid a raft of financial scandals.
Brunello Rosa & Casey Larson Smart Money: How Digital Currencies Will Win the Second Cold War Bloomsbury, 24th, hb, £22, 9781526675873 Whereas the last Cold War was dominated by the threat of nuclear conflict, the next one will be economic, argue the authors of this “urgent and timely” manifesto on how digital currencies will be central to the struggle for geo-political supremacy in the 21st century.
Graham Ruddick Risk Roulette: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Businesses
the Path to Building a Creative Business DK, 3rd, hb, £16.99, 9780241651292 Bringing in the stories of high-profile creative leaders, including Nile Rodgers, Thomas Heatherwick and Roksanda Ilincic, a guide to using business to empower creativity.
Bronwen Everill Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance William Collins, 10th, hb, £25, 9780008581145 The West does not under- stand African economics. So says the author of this “bold polemic” that exposes the blinkered assumptions which lie behind centuries of Western intervention on the African continent; from the MP who tried to intro- duce farming by horse in 1840s Nigeria, to contem- porary South African marketing schemes.
Work and Others Fail Kogan Page, 3rd, pb, £14.99, 9781398616059 Aimed at the general busi- ness reader, this guide to “playing the risk game to your advantage” explains why only those who have a real understanding of how risk works will succeed in business.
Current affairs, politics & activism
This new collection of writings by the author of Peak Inequality (2018) covers such subjects as the challenges which face the next government, the impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s legacy, and the “implica- tions of Keir Starmer’s many blind spots”.
Janet Alder with Dan Glazebrook Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister’s Fight for the Truth Dialogue, 17th, hb, £22, 9780349702858 The killing of Christopher Alder in 1998 was one of the most notorious deaths in custody in the UK. His sister Janet reports on her decades-long fight for justice and holds the UK state to account for his death in this “damning account of injustice in the UK police system”.
Noam Chomsky & Nathan J Robinson The Myth of American Idealism: How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World Hamish Hamilton, 10th, pb, £16.99, 9780241700884 In the lead-up to the US elections and taking in Washington’s relationship with the Global South, as well as the Israel- Palestine conflict, renowned political theorist Chomsky and fellow commentator Robinson address urgent ques- tions about the role of American power globally and the threat it poses to the future of humanity.
Gavin Evans White Supremacy: From Eugenics to Great Replacement Icon, 10th, hb, £12.99, 97819155630 Beginning with an account of the racist murder of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York in 2022, a chilling explora- tion of the historical roots of white supremacy which breaks new ground in showing the links between “Replacement Theory” (the belief that white people are being replaced with Black and brown people) and the terrorist version espoused by far-Right killers.
Dr Linda Gask Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change Cambridge UP, hb, £20, 9781009382465 Why is it so hard for women to find the kind of help they need? And why have so many lost faith in mental healthcare? Grounded in the real-life experiences of women, the psychiatrist author provides an “informed, referenced and balanced” overview of what is happening to women’s mental health, and what must change.
David Goodhart The Care Dilemma: How to Care Enough in the Age of Sex Equality Forum, 24th, hb, £25, 9781800753617 This third book in Goodhart’s trilogy on British politics and society asks whether the transformation of family life over the past 60 years has been an unalloyed good thing; from falling birth rates to children’s mental health.
Danny Dorling Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Equality Crisis Bristol University Press, pb, £14.99, 9781447372615
Peter Hennessy & Andrew Blick The Kingfisher’s Wings: Glimpsing the British Constitution in the 2020s Haus, 3rd, pb, £7.99, 9781914979125 In which the historian
Editor’s Choice
Biography & memoir
Lulu Miller Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love
and the Hidden Order of Life One, 10th, hb, £16.99, 9781805337591
When science journalist Miller’s relationship fell apart, she turned to the story of taxonomist and fish obsessive David Starr Jordan for guidance. After learning the San Francisco earthquake had destroyed more than 1,000 of his specimens, she fastened on his scientific resilience as a lesson in coping with life’s unpredictability. But a much darker story emerged about Jordan’s zeal for eugenics, which he promoted on US soil with horrendous consequences. I loved this original blend of science and memoir, which has already been a word-of-mouth success in the US.
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Natural history & pets
James Rebanks The Place of Tides Allen Lane, 17th, hb, £22, 9780241426937
“We are all in need of lights to follow.” Years ago, Rebanks encountered Anna, who lived and worked alone on a tiny, rocky north Norwegian island, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Back home, the memory long remained resonant. Later, at a stressed time in his life, he wrote to her asking if he could return. This new gem from Rebanks tells of the season he spent with Anna, her last on the island. What he thought would be a journey of escape became a transformative lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness, told in this bewitching fable of a story.
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