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the author takes a deep dive into all facets of the devil and the concept of evil throughout human history, exploring our preoccupation with the darkest parts of ourselves in the process.
Adrian Tinniswood The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War Cape, 3rd, hb, £25, 9781787334168 This “thoroughly enter- taining” prequel to The Long Weekend opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of daily existence in the late Victorian and Edwardian country house, when for the privileged few, “life in the country house was the best life of all”.
Neil Vickers & Derek Bolton
Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment Reaktion, hb, £16, 9781789149111 Drawing on neuroscience, psychology and psychanalysis as well as memoirs of the ill and their carers, this provides an original perspective on the experience of major illness, in particular our sense of self when ill and how infirmity plays out in our relationships with others.
Toby Wilkinson The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Bloomsbury, 24th, £25, 971526664648 Drawing on the latest archaeological
Popular science
Richard Dawkins & Jana Lenzová (illus)
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The Genetic Book of the Dead Apollo, 10th, hb, £25, 9781804548080 In this illustrated book, Dawkins returns to the territory of The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene and explores the principles of evolutionary history, showing how the body, behaviour and genes of
every living creature can be read as a book—an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. Filled with examples of the power of Darwinian natural selec- tion to build perfection and make blunders alike, the book asks whether all our “own” genes can be seen as a “gigantic colony of cooperating viruses”.
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discoveries and original papyrus docu- ments, a “definitive and thrilling” account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt. Wars, incest, double-dealing, foreign empires and huge wealth all feature.
Homes, craft & fashion
Massimiliano Capella & Sylvia Adrian Notini Barbie: The Celebration of an Icon Abrams, 10th, hb, £35, 9781419778766 This comprehensive official history shows how Barbie Millicent Roberts (who knew?) continues to be an “inspirational muse, true to her nature as a fashion icon and attentive to global issues, consistent with her motto, ‘You Can Be Anything’”.
Courtney Conquers & Brooke Lynn Hytes Planet Drag: Uncover the Global History White Lion, 3rd, hb, £22, 9780711290723 Styled by drag queens and with a foreword by “Drag Race” judge Brooke Lynn Hytes, a vibrant celebration of drag from all corners of the globe, exploring not just fashion and style, but also how drag has shaped cultural identity.
Catherine Ormen & Andrea Reece Absolutely Chanel Laurence King, 10th, hb, £50, 9781529438239 Billed as a landmark publication, this richly illustrated volume complete with booklets and tipped in fold-outs
is the only book to cover the story of the house of Chanel from its founding by Coco Chanel to Virginie Viard’s current tenure as creative director.
Jody Revenson & Juli Anne Harry Potter: Official Book of Crochet Amigrumi Greenfinch, 10th, hb, £22, 9781529440874 With patterns includ- ing Rubeus Hagrid, Pygmy Puff, Scabbers, Crookshanks and Trevor, an officially licensed guide to crochet- ing amigurumi from the Wizarding World.
Julie Summers British Vogue: The Biography of an Icon Weidenfeld, 3rd, hb, £30, 9781474626200 Richly illustrated with images from the Vogue archive and including interviews with the likes of Grace Coddington, Alexandra Shulman and Lucinda Chambers, a “glittering” official history of the fashion magazine from the first issue in 1916 to the present day.
modern goth includes style and beauty advice for three sartorial stages— the creepy teenage years, the trick or treat of adulthood, and the witchy winter—along with an inventory of undead icons including Miss Havisham, Wednesday Addams and Siouxsie Sioux.
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messy collection of musings” in which she looks back on a lifetime of trials, tribulations and public humiliations.
Philomena Cunk & Katie Hewson (ed) The World According to Cunk John Murray, 3rd, hb, £16.99, 9781399819381 Focusing on the inven- tions, art and brainboxes that made the modern world “the unbearable place it is today”, this is a comedy parody of the world from the star of BBC and Netflix’s “Cunk on Earth”.
Johanna Basford Magical Worlds: An Enchanted Colouring Adventure Ebury, 24th, pb, £16.99, 9781529928105 This new offering from the “Queen of Colouring” invites fans into a fairytale world of faraway lands, enchanted castles and inky realms.
Steve Bell If… Stands Up Verso, pb, £16.99, 9781804298831 The long-time Guardian cartoonist with a gifty compendium of his portrayals of “a world gone mad”; from Keir Starmer’s “Robots in Disguise” to Sunak, Truss and “other Tory fruitcakes”.
Tish Weinstock How to Be a Goth: Notes on Undead Style Radar, 10th, hb, £18.99, 9781804192368 Designed to carry you “from cradle to crypt”, this lifestyle guide for the
Sarah Cooper Foolish Canelo, 3rd, pb, £10.99, 9781835981368 This début book of personal essays by the US comedian is a “hilariously
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Terry Deary A History of Britain in Ten Enemies BantamBooks, 10th, hb, £20, 9780857506351
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The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten were it not for the Ninth Legion, Elizabeth a minor royal without the Spanish Armada, and Churchill an opposition windbag without the Nazis. So says Horrible
Histories author Deary as he take a whistle- stop tour through the history of Britain in his first book for adults. A passion project, I’m told, it majors on the idea that countries can be defined by the people who have attacked them throughout history.
Delayed Gratifictaion Misc Bloomsbury, 10th, hb, 312.99, 9781526675231 How many spiders have been to space? What would removing goal- keepers do to the Premier League table? A playful and modern take on the classic miscellany genre by the publishers of Delayed Gratification, the world’s first magazine dedicated to slow journalism.
Elsie Drake & Robert Popper The Elsie Drake Letters (Aged 104) John Murray, 24th, hb, £16.99, 9781399817875 Twenty years on, the creator of The Timewaster Letters by the pseudonymous Robin Cooper has a new alter ego: 104-year-old Mrs Elsie Drake, the sixth oldest woman in Britain. From her letter to London mayor Sadiq Khan, hoping he will quash the
rumour that Big Ben is to be pulled down, to a complaint sent to Badminton Horse Trials about why horses must be put through trials, this is a chortle-worthy collection of her letters from every- one to the Prime Minister to Greggs.
Jason Hazeley & Inco Tatarowicz The Centrist Dad Handbook Bloomsbury, 24th, hb, £14.99, 9781526681997 “Funny and gentle deep dive into the most unbearably reasonable men in the UK”, that is the tribe of sensible, see both sides, middle-class blokes who drink alcohol-free IPA and eat pretend sausages at women’s football matches. Not sure I’ve met any of them…
Ryan Herman And Finally… Weird and Wonderful Stories Told at the End of the News Pavilion, 10th, hb, £14.99, 9780008648008 From drunken mice causing havoc at a sherry distillery in Spain, to the bride-to-be who invited Taylor Swift to her bridal shower… and Taylor Swift came… a compendium of the funny, silly and often eccentric stories that newsreaders leave until the end of the programme in order to leave viewers on a high note.
Hannah Hillam Cat People Wildfire, 8th, hb, £14.99, 9781035411054 With a wealth of endorse- ments, this first collection from US comic artist
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