XXth Monthname 2025
Books
Titles not to miss in September
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Non-fiction heavyweights return to our shelves this autumn, with new books from Jung Chang, Arundhati Roy and more. Caroline Sanderson reveals her top picks
Memoir
Jung Chang ( 1) Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China William Collins, 16th, HB, £25, 9780008661069
Thirty-four years ago, I was among many readers captivated by Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, the debut memoir of a young writer named Jung Chang. This is the enthralling sequel to that book, in which Chang returns to the story of her family and that of China, showing how the past continues to shape the future for both. It is above all a moving love letter to her heroic mother, now in her 90s, whom Chang is unlikely to be able to return to visit ever again.
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James Fox ( 3) Craftland Bodley Head, 4th, HB, £25, 9781847927866 From weavers and wheelwrights to watchmakers and silversmiths, this handsomely-produced celebration of regional crafts by the author of The World According to Colour takes a marvellous, multi-faceted journey though the history of such practices and their practitioners. Though they once shaped every aspect of our homes, lives, landscapes and identities, many such crafts are now endangered. And, argues Fox, this is a crying shame in today’s rationalised world where every high street looks the same.
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Jonathan Freedland ( 2) The Traitors Circle John Murray, 11th, HB, £22, 9781399813679 I had a frisson of excitement on starting to read this new non-fiction from Freedland after his outstanding The Escape Artist – and it does not disappoint. A total thriller with a profound message about choosing to stand up to tyranny, it concerns a group of secret rebels against Hitler. Belying the prevailing idea that all Germans were in at least tacit support of the Nazi regime, Freedland tells the astonishing stories of some of the men and women who were not – and who actively defied and resisted it.
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Books New Titles: Non-Fiction
PHILLIPPA GEORGE
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