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From identifying dangerous behaviours and formulating an exit strategy, to safely escaping from an abuser and healing from it all. A guide to identifying narcissistic abuse, especially in inter- personal relationships.
a “manifesto for radical belonging”.
The School of Life The Secrets of Successful Relationships Te School of Life, 3rd, hb, £16.99, 9781916753013 The first title in a new series offering advice on successful relation- ships, this aims to teach us the ingredients of contented love, with chapters including “Learning to Love Oneself”, “Knowing What to Overlook” and “The Importance of Bad Dates”.
Philosophy & religion
Stephen Cottrell Praying By Heart: The Lord’s Prayer for Everyone Hodder Faith, 10th, hb, £12.99, 9781399805308 Unpacking each clause of the Lord’s Prayer—both for those who want to encounter it afresh and those beyond church circles—this timely book by the Archbishop of York aims to refresh the prayer as
Psychology
Malcolm Gladwell Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering Abacus, 1st, hb, £25, 9780349147185
One to Watch
”We need a guide to the fevers and contagions that surround us.” Twenty-five years on from his hugely successful first book, The Tipping Point, Gladwell revisits the same territory to “look at the under-
side” of its lessons for the present-day. From what big cats and clusters of teen suicides have in common to why Los Angeles became the world’s bank-robbery capital, it’s packed with his customary engaging storytelling as he draws on social science, history and pop culture.
Paula Frederiksen Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years Princeton UP, 15th, hb, £25, 9780691157696 From the hills of Judea to the halls of Rome and Constantinople, this traces the evolution of the plural- ity of early Christianities through five centuries of empire and through the interactions of pagans, Jews and Christians. It’s a much more complex story than the New Testament reflects.
Emily Herring Herald of a Restless World: How Henry Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People Basic, 24th, hb, £25, 9781529371918 This “intimate” biography of the influential and, in his day, celebrated French philosopher takes his life and signature ideas as a starting point from which to explore how he defined individual creativ- ity and transformed 20th-century thought.
Poetry
S C Flynn The Colour of Extinction Renard Press, 9th, pb, £10, 9781804471180 This début poetry collec- tion from a Dublin-based poet celebrates his dual Irish and Australian heritage and is a “wildly topical” collection which foregrounds the natural world and the effects of our climate crisis.
Catherine Hyde
Darkling: The Owl’s Song Apollo, 10th, hb, £15, 9781035900961 Prize-winning poet and illustrator Hyde celebrates the magic and creatures of the night as she follows the journey of the owl through words and images in this “gorgeous” gift book with colour paintings.
Philip Terry Dante’s Purgatorio Carcanet, 31st, pb, £16.99, 9781800174450 This reinvention of “Purgatorio” in the spirit of James Joyce’s Ulysses replaces Dante’s cast with contemporary figures including Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Putin and Marina Warner as Beatrice.
Claudine Toutoungi Emotional Support Horse Carcanet, 31st, pb, £11.99, 9781800174474 This third collection by award-winning poet and playwright Toutoungi is a “tragi-comic journal of grief”, that out of the chaos of bereavement, her failing eyesight and eco-stress, blends poems of “startling wit and hard-won joy”.
Popular science & mathematics
(no author) Cosmos: Explore the Wonders of the Universe DK, 3rd, hb, £30, 9780241664308 Richly illustrated tour through space, from Mars to the furthest galaxies, using the latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope and from the latest space
missions. Foreword by astrophysicist Becky Smethurst.
Carol Cooper A History of Medicine in 12 Objects Aurum, 24th, hb, £18.99, 9780711294622 From the barbaric to the bizarre, an illustrated, anecdotal journey through 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages, including Leeches, The Microscope and The Bone Saw.
William Egginton The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant and the Ultimate Nature of Reality One, 10th, hb, £25, 9781805337652 This “elegant and richly illuminating” narrative intellectual history weaves the thoughts and lives of a poet, a physicist and a philosopher to profoundly demonstrate the enduring mystery of the world and our place within it. Rave reviews on US publica- tion, including from John Banville and Carlo Rovelli.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy Allen Lane, 3rd, hb, £25, 9780241718896 This pointedly topical French bestseller is said to be an “astonishing radical and engaging” account of humanity’s insatiable need for resources. He shows that the idea of a “green transition” is a myth—we are actually putting off any meaningful change and burning more wood and coal than ever before.
Mick O’Hare Yawns Freeze Your Brain: More Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Life and the Universe Bedford Square, 10th, pb, £10.99, 9781835011409 How much fuel does the sun burn in a second? Why does cheese smell? What are the most misheard song lyrics? The author of Does Anything Eat Wasps? returns with a new stocking filler popular science book.
Dr William Pao Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines Oneworld, 3rd, hb, £25, 9780861547340 We often hear about the dark side of the pharma- ceutical industry. But there’s another story to be told of surprising innovations and collabo- rations in tackling the world’s worst diseases. So shows the author as he profiles eight revo- lutionary treatments and vital medicines.
Lluís Quintana-Murci Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaption Allen Lane, 31st, hb, £25, 9780241609156 “Without diversity, without difference, there is no evolution.” Billed as the new “Bible of population genetics”, this explains how “the ground-breaking science of our shared past” is allowing us to analyse an individual’s genome, compare it with populations all over the world and show its place in migrations across continents.
Film, TV, music & gaming
Colin Greenwood How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead JohnMurray, 15th, hb, £26, 9781399817844
One to Watch
Radiohead bassist Greenwood presents a collection of his never-before-seen photos, accompanied by a personal essay about his life in the band since it was formed in 1985, and up until latest album, “A Moon-Shaped Pool” in 2016.
Two decades in the making, the book documents the band’s life on stage, backstage, on tour and at play, capturing the joys, tensions and strug- gles of a group seeking “a communion through music”. A lead autumn title for John Murray with supporting events.
Terrence J Sejnowski ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution MIT, 29th, pb, £21, 9780262049252 This “insightful” exploration of ChatGPT and other advanced AI systems asks how we got here, where we’re head- ing, and what it all means for the ways in which we interact with the world.
David Spiegelhalter The Art of Uncertainty: Living With Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck Pelican, 3rd, hb, £25, 9780241658628 Cambridge professor of statistics Spiegelhalter has spent his career crunching data in order to understand uncertainty. This follow-up to his book The Art of Statistics takes a broad view of the role that luck plays in our lives, as he draws on a wide range of real-world examples to help us navigate uncertainty “in a world that makes it inevitable”.
Psychology
Josh Cohen All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World Granta, 10th, hb, £16.99, 9781783789450 From Olive whose repressed resentments are causing her migraines, to Gerard who is
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