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life, this collection by the food writer and Ottolenghi insider features witty rhymes alongside expert cooking tips.


Rebecca Wilson What Mummy Makes Slow Cooker


DK, 25th, £18.99, HB, 9780241790434


The latest cookbook from the mum, recipe developer and founder of food channel @rebeccawilsonfood suggests easy and convenient, all-in-one slow-cooker recipes suitable for the whole family.


Gardening


Jamie Butterworth What Grows Together: Fail-Safe Plant Combinations for Every Garden


DK, 11th, £22, HB, 9780241723074


Recommended by both Monty Don and Jo Whiley, this guide by one of the UK’s leading and youngest nursery owners provides 65 planting recipes for winning plant combinations across every season.


Stephen Mansfield et al The Modern


Japanese Garden Thames & Hudson, 4th, £50, HB, 9780500026243


Featuring gardens from Tokyo and Kyoto to Osaka, Okayama, Fukuoka and beyond, and investigating the relationship between nature and modernity, this is a major survey of the Japanese garden from 1900 to the present day.


Tom Massey RHS Waterwise Garden: Sustain Your Garden Through Drought and Flood


DK, 25th, £22, HB. 9780241740224


This comprehensive guide includes a complete visual design for a waterwise garden, with practical solutions for both too much and too little water, and for using water sustainably.


Health, diet & parenting


Julia Bradbury Hack Yourself Healthy: Reclaim Your Health to Boost Your Energy, Clear Your Mind and Live a Long, Vibrant Life


Piatkus, 4th, £20, HB 9780349436258


Can you go from a cancer diagnosis to being healthier and fitter than


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ever before? Yes is the answer, according to this guide to personalised medicine and how to make it work for you by the popular TV presenter, drawing on her own rigorous journey to reclaim her health after a breast-cancer diagnosis.


Tansy Forrest Ten Steps to Drink Less and Live Well: Find Freedom From Overdrinking: A Complete Guide to Lasting Change


Synergy, 2nd, £10.99, PB, 9780912106434


Combining practical exercises, hypnotherapy recordings and expert advice, a guide to changing your drinking habits via the hypnotherapist author’s 10-step process designed to help you leave binge drinking behind and embrace a more balanced life.


Andrew Huberman Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body


Cornerstone Press, 9th, £22, HB, 9781529921281


This first book from Stanford professor Huberman whose The Huberman Lab is the “most downloaded” podcast on the planet, and who has 12 million followers across his platforms, is billed as an essential guide to improving brain function, enhancing mood and energy, optimising body health and rewiring your nervous system to transform your life.


Dr Sarika Dewan The Weaning GP Vermilion, 25th, £20, HB, 9781785045400


Billed as the first weaning book by a GP, this contains evidence-based advice on such topics as allergies, rashes and iron deficiency, along with 70 recipes designed to introduce a variety of flavours and textures.


Davina McCall ( 5) Birthing HQ, 11th, £22, HB, 9780008701840


Following the Nibbie-winning success of her book, Menopausing, McCall turns her attention to conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum with this “ultimate” guide compiled with a team of experts and designed to support and empower women at every stage of this life-changing experience. “Beautifully designed, unapologetically bold


and refreshingly real,” says HQ.


Peanut It Takes a Village: And Other Essential Truths for New Mothers


Penguin Life, 11th, £16.99, PB, 9780241709986


Social media app Peanut connects 10 million new mothers around the world. Curated by that community, this is an “essential” guide to becoming a new mum, with advice and insights both from experts and real mums.


Tim Spector Ferment: The Life-Changing Power of Microbes


Cape, 11th, £25, HB, 9781787334656


Looking at the subject from ecological, nutritional and financial perspectives, the leading gut scientist and author of books including The Diet Myth and Spoon-Fed presents an introduction to the life-changing benefits of fermentation; from kombuchas and kefir to sauerkraut and miso.


History


Richard Anderton The Last Yorkists: Edmund and Richard de la Pole


Amberley, £25, HB, 9781398121690


First full-length biography of brothers Edmund and Richard de la Pole, the last princes of the House of York to seek the English throne who waged a 30-year struggle against Henry VII and Henry VIII.


Andrew Bayliss Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower


Profile, 11th, £25, HB, 9781800816015


This major new history of the Ancient Greek city-state traces its story from its humble beginnings as a hamlet in the Peloponnese to its meteoric rise as the foremost military superpower of the Classical world.


Dorian Bond Forgotten Generals: Assigned from Above and Confirmed From Below


Amberley, 15th, £22.99, HB, 9781398117853


From Roman times to the Second World War, this analysis of military geniuses largely lost to history includes such figures as Count Suvorov of the Russian Empire, and General Sir Richard


O’Connor who took Tobruk and half of Libya.


Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty


Hodder, 4th, £26, HB, 9781399732888


Showing that “truth and monarchy have always been strange bedfellows”, this enthralling latest book by the Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces tells the dramatic story of the end of the Tudor dynasty, and the rise (and fall) of the Stuarts who came afterwards. Borman marshals dramatic new evidence to show that James I was never actually named by Elizabeth as her successor.


Jamie Camplin Being Victorian: How It Felt Then, Why It Matters Now


Unicorn, 11th, £25, HB, 9781917458283


Taking in hundreds of lives from the famous (Dickens, Disraeli, Darwin) to little-known female doctors, Black actors and more, this explores the Victorian era as the dividing line between all past history and the modern world.


Christopher Clark A Scandal in Königsberg Allen Lane, 4th, £22, HB 9780241767887


Focusing on the period between Napoleon’s defeat and the 1848 revolutions, the distinguished historian tells a scandalous story of the city of Königsberg where sensational accusations implying dark erotic currents and betrayals of trust were bandied about.


Robert Cowley The Killing Season: A New History of Autumn 1914


Osprey, 11th, £30, HB, 9781472874320


Based on more than 30 years of research, an in-depth, authoritative


account of the autumn of 1914 on the Western Front, and the First Battle of Ypres, a turning point in modern warfare.


Peter Cozzens Deadwood: Gold, Guns and Greed in the American West


Atlantic, 4th, £25, HB, 9781805460671


Telling the true story of the infamous American frontier town of Deadwood, made famous by the eponymous HBO series, and how it came to embody the best and worst of the human quest to create order from chaos, and security from violence.


Saul David Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa


William Collins, 11th, £25, HB, 9780008653811


Drawing on first-hand sources and told from the perspective of all the combatants, the author of Sky Warriors and SBS presents an epic history of the North African campaign during the Second World War; and argues that the defeat of the Axis powers at “Tunisgrad” marked the beginning of the end for Hitler.


Terry Deary Revolting: A Riotous History of Rebellions and Revolutions


Doubleday, 25th, £22, HB, 9780857507600


After the success of his first foray into adult history with A History of Britain in Ten Enemies, Deary returns to highlight the stories of revolutionaries gone by, and celebrate the resilience and determination of those who dared to challenge the status quo; from the Bulgarian swineherd who fought off the Mongols, to the suffragettes who posted themselves by Royal Mail.


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