Titles in this preview are published in September


Penny Lancaster Someone Like Me Bloomsbury, 25th, £20, HB, 9781526686978


This “emotional, honest and gutsy” memoir by Mrs Rod Stewart not only covers her life with Rod and uniting a family that includes five different mothers and eight children, but also addresses serious women’s issues, including the menopause, consent and women’s safety. In discussing this last issue, she draws on her work as a special constable for the City of London Police where her main concern is making the streets safer for young women.


Lulu


If Only You Knew Hodder, 25th, £25, HB, 9781399744249


“Hear her roar.” From the tenements of Glasgow to the Royal Albert Hall and Hollywood, the pop legend looks back over her life in this “relatable, vulnerable and honest” memoir in which Lulu “finds her voice as never before” and opens up about her addiction for the first time.


Huey Morgan The Fun Lovin’ Criminal: A Memoir


Quercus, 11th, £22, HB, 9781529442496


Beginning in 1990s New York as a marine freshly returned from combat and struggling to adjust to regular life, this is a “humorous and jaw- dropping” memoir by Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman, Morgan. “The Fun Lovin’ Criminal wasn’t just the name of his 1990s track – it’s also who Huey is,” says Quercus.


Franny Moyle Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Extraordinary Entwined Lives of Two Eighteenth- Century Painters


Apollo, 11th, £35, HB, 9781801107440


In 1790, artists Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun met in Rome and became fast friends. Moyle uses their meeting as a point of departure for this richly illustrated life-and- times biography of two brilliant but neglected female artists.


Joanna Page Lush! My Story: From Swansea to Stacey and Everything in Between


Sphere, 25th, £25, HB, 9781408724279


Telling a “riot of stories”, Gavin and Stacey star Page looks back on her life and career in this


Nigel Planer Young Once: A Life Less Heavy


John Murray, 25th, £22, HB, 9781399826693


“Hilarious and heart- warming” memoir by the actor and comedian best-known for playing Neil in The Young Ones. Planer takes us back through the roles, the friendships and the rivalries, the triumphs and the comic disasters that have brought him to where he is today.


Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist


Atlantic, 11th, £20, HB, 9781805465225


Drawing on dozens of interviews with his family, friends and memoirs, as well as the actor himself, this “intimate and captivating” exploration of Miranda’s artistic journey traces his path from isolated childhood to winning multiple awards for Hamilton, In the Heights and more.


Danny Rensch Dark Squares: A Cult Leader, a Child Prodigy and the Chess Revolution


Wildfire, 16th, £20, HB, 9781035404629


In a memoir billed as Educated meets The Queen’s Gambit, international US chess master Rensch describes his upbringing in the isolated confines of a cult, and explains how chess ended up saving his life.


Lionel Richie Truly William Collins, 30th, £25, HB, 9780008752323


From his childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama to his cross-generational fame as a judge on American Idol, the legendary Richie tells his story for the first time, “taking us on a thrill ride and reminding us of the power of love to


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elevate our own lives and our world”.


Mark Ronson Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City


Century, 16th, £25, HB, 9781529901573


“This is sex, drugs, down and dirty DJing.” Published just ahead of the release of Ronson’s new album, also called Night People, this is billed as a “raucous” memoir from the influential pop producer, conjuring 1990s New York City; his bohemian childhood, stories about Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson, and more.


Martin Sherman On the Boardwalk Inkandescent, 25th, £14.99, PB, 9781912620357


With early high praise from Alan Cumming, Hugh Jackman and Ruby Wax (“like Philip Roth but even funnier”), this memoir by acclaimed US playwright, perhaps best-known for his play, Bent, takes us from 1930s New Jersey, where he was born into a Jewish immigrant family to 1970s Broadway and beyond.


Yusuf Cat Stevens Cat on the Road to Findout


Constable, 18th, £25, HB, 9781408720837


The pick of this autumn’s music memoirs, this story of “quest, survival and redemption” from the influential singer-songwriter is “self- penned with raw honesty and poetic insight” and is illustrated with dozens of drawings in his own hand. A UK theatre tour will coincide with publication.


Jenny Uglow A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer


Faber, 11th, £25, HB, 9780571354184


From the migration of birds to the sex lives of snails and summer drought, this richly illustrated biography illuminates the life of the “father of ecology” by following a single year – 1781 – as charted by White in his Naturalist’s Journal. A joy to read, as are all Uglow biographies.


Leo Varadkar ( 2) Speaking My Mind Penguin Sandycove, 11th, £25, HB, 9781844886937


From speaking frankly with the Pope about the legacy of church abuses, to connecting with Barack Obama over both being the “tall, dark guy with the funny name”, the former Irish Taoiseach tells the story of his life in politics.


Tiggy Walker Both Sides Now: Laughter, Grief and Everything in Between with Johnnie Walker


HarperCollins, 11th, £20, HB, 9780008770037


In this “intimate and moving” account of BBC Radio 2 legend, Walker, his devoted wife explores the final stages of his illness, while reflecting on their life together and the challenge of saying goodbye to someone with love, dignity and grace.


Lea Ypi Indignity: A Life Reimagined


Allen Lane, 4th, £22, HB, 9780241661925


“What if everything I know about my grandmother turns out to be like a tale from One Thousand and One Nights.” The author of the brilliant Free returns with a prequel to that book which unravels the


mysterious world of her grandmother, Leman. It is both a sweeping and gripping story about vanished worlds – from the Ottoman aristocracy to Communist Albania – and a philosophical investigation into how we can understand the people closest to us.


Business & economics


Carl Benedikt Frey How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations


Princeton UP, 16th, £30, HB, 9780691233079


In this “ambitious historical analysis” billed as Guns, Germs and Steel meets The Innovators, the Oxford economic historian challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable, showing that for most of human history, stagnation has been the norm.


Tim Higgins iWar: Fortnite, Musk, Spotify and the Siege of Apple


Torva, 18th, £22, HB, 9781911709640


How a loose rebel alliance of tech entrepreneurs – including Elon Musk and the owners of Spotify - has formed to lay siege to Apple, aiming to knock the world’s biggest company off its pedestal.


Thomas Piketty Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Frontline 2021-2025


Yale University Press, £18.99, HB, 9780300282757


The French economics professor and author returns with a new volume of essays in which he takes stock of the world since 2020 and


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“hilarious and heartfelt” memoir; from her early life growing up in Wales to taking up her place at RADA and beyond.


Martin Parr, Wendy Jones Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: Martin Parr in Words and Pictures


Particular, 4th, £30, HB, 9780241740828


In a book containing more than 150 of his photographs and written in conjunction with his writer friend Jones, the renowned photographer looks back on his life and art in an “autobiography like no other”, providing a love song to queues, church fêtes and Spice Girl-themed crisps.


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