This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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Won’t aims to show parents of neurodivergent children that life can become brighter when we find joy in the things that may seem small to others, but which are huge mile- stones for such children.
Anisha Joshi Heal Your Back: 4 Steps to a Pain-Free Life Vermilion, 17th, pb, 9781785044670 Manage your symptoms and bulletproof your back with this “empower- ing” and practical guide to banishing back pain for good by an osteopath and author who is a regular on “This Morning”.
Dr Philippa Kaye The Science of Menopause: Understand Your Body, Treat Your Symptoms DK, 10th, hb, £16.99, 9780241674543 From the causes of brain fog to whether herbal supplements can help. This menopause bible aims to gather all the latest scientific research in one place to enable women to make informed choices.
Mumsnet Am I Being Unreasonable? Real- Life Dilemmas and Top-Rated Answers from the Users of Mumsnet Aurum, 10th, hb, £9.99, 9780711298224 This “hysterically funny” read from the world of Mumsnet is packed with uproarious stories about everything from toddler mishaps to humorous homework blunders, as well as plenty of
Natural history & pets
Rory Cellan-Jones Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope With a Rescue Dog Square Peg, 10th, hb, £22, 9781529918588
One to Watch
A week before Christmas 2022, former BBC journalist and podcaster Cellan-Jones and his family adopted Romanian rescue dog Sophie—”a kind girl who loves every- body and is just looking for her
forever home”. Little does he realise that their first walk together will be a year ahead. This is the story of that year, charting Sophie’s battles with anxiety, the joys of play and her first foray outside, and navigating Cellan-Jones Parkinson’s diagnosis.
advice on real-life parenting dilemmas.
History
Jeremy Black English Culture: From the 18th Century to the Present Day Amberley, hb, £22.99, 9781398118492 This fresh look at 300 years of English cultural history examines how the “public market for an explicitly English engage- ment with culture and history” became stronger in the 18th century, giving rise to many aspects of English identity today.
a liquid and a solid? Why did the Dutch once eat their prime minister? The author of The Devil’s Atlas presents a “remarkable” illustrated treasury of tales and trivia that draws on his lifetime’s search for the weird and wonder- ful. “A unique hybrid of encyclopaedia, trivia and drunken-bar raconteur”.
actions of each Taoiseach; from W T Cosgrave to Micheál Martin.
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The Brutish Empire: Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities O’Brien, pb, £17.99, 9781788493697 From the massacre at Amritsar to the slaughter of the Zulu wars, this takes us on an eye- opening journey through the modus operandi of the British Empire, exploring the pseudo- science of eugenics, religious destiny and more along the way.
Tim Blanning Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco Allen Lane, 3rd, hb, £30, 9780241705148 “Riotous” biography of Augustus, the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony and his catastrophic reign, a period which saw the dramatic rise of Russia and the equally shocking collapse of Sweden as great powers. Also ideal for anyone who loves Dresden or plans to visit.
Edward Brooke-Hitching The Most Interesting Book in the World Simon & Schuster, 10th, hb, £14.99, 9781398532373 Why is a cat technically
Helen Castor The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II & Henry IV Allen Lane, 3rd, hb, £25, 9780241419328 The author of She Wolves returns with an absorbing account of the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, first cousins of contrasting characters, born three months apart, whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration and back again. Diving into matters of identity, power, legiti- macy and the limits of constitutional rule, it has a contemporary resonance too.
Iain Dale The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership Swift, 24th, hb, £20, 9781800754249 Based on Dale’s political podcast “The Taoiseach Podcast”, this tells the story of Irish politics over the past century by examining the lives and
Annie Gray The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street Profile, 10th, hb, £22, 9781800812260 From apothecaries to penny bazaars and the birth of Marks & Spencer, this people’s history of the high street tells the story of how we shopped and lived in one of Britain’s most loved but ever- changing public spaces.
Dan Hancox Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World Verso, hb, £16.99, 9781804294482 From the Nuremburg Rally to the 6th January insurrection on the Capitol, this popular history of crowds examines both the contagion of mob violence, but also how the crowd can be a place of liberation, passion and collective joy, and, as such, distrusted by politicians.
Food & drink Katarina Cermelj
The Elements of Baking: Making Any Recipes Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free or Vegan YellowKite, 3rd, hb, £30, 9781399712897
This latest book by the author of the award-winning Baked to Perfection, who has a PhD in chemistry and 1.7 million followers @theloopywhisk, shows how to adapt any baking recipe to suit
every possible dietary requirement, whether gluten-free, egg-free, vegan or for that matter, gluten-free vegan. Each recipe has qualitative rules you can use to convert any recipe into any version you fancy, and will “transform the way you think about ingredients” as a consequence.
One to Watch
Andrew Hyde A Century of Humiliation 1839-1949: The Exploitation of China Amberley, hb, £22.99, 9781398115989 From 1839-1949, Imperial and Republican China was subjected to territorial exploitation by Europe, Japan and the US, in a period known as the “century of humiliation”. This account shows how such ordeals serve to explain Beijing’s current political worldview.
Barbara Kingsolver Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike Faber, 10th, hb, £16.99, 9780571392070 Never previously published in the UK, this début work by the Women’s Prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead is an account of the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. Kingsolver records the stories of striking copper miners and, in particular, the resilience and resistance of their wives, sisters and daughters in a book that speaks to the ever-topical issue of disenfranchised ordinary people, battling big corporations.
Sergio Miller Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan 2001-2014 Osprey, 10th, hb, £30, 9781472868299 Published to coincide with the 10th-anniversary of the British Army’s with- drawal from Afghanistan, a detailed new account of the British military campaign there from 2001 to 2014, based on the
experiences of those who served there.
NAM Rodger The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1814-1945 Allan Lane, 3rd, hb, £35, 9780713994124 The final volume in Rodger’s “definitive, authoritative” trilogy charting Britan’s naval history covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to the Second World War.
Sebastian Smee
Paris in Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism Oneworld, hb, £25, 9780861542697 Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Smee relates the hitherto untold story of how the turbulent events of the Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune in 1871 had a monumental impact on the birth of Impressionism, with Manet, Morisot, Degas, Renoir and Monet all caught up in events. Sounds fascinating.
Randall Sullivan The Devil’s Best Trick: A History of Evil Grove Press, 3rd, hb, £20, 9781804710760 From Biblical times to European witch hunts and the devil-worshiping “Black Mass” ceremony,
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