This preview highlights titles to be published in March


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on recently discovered family documents to write this biography of The Thirty-Nine Steps author. “Outstanding,” according to the Sunday Times.


Cash Carraway Skint Estate Ebury Press, 12th, £8.99, 9781529103380 A memoir about life lived in Britain below the poverty line, called “funny, outrageous, defiant, visceral” by the Times.


Allen Esterson & David C Cassidy Einstein’s Wife Te MIT Press, 10th, £15.99, 9780262538978 The real story of Mileva Einstein-Maric, Einstein’s wife.


Lisa Faulkner Meant to Be Ebury Press, 5th, £8.99, 9781529104158 The author and actress, who discovered she wouldn’t have biological children, on the different routes to building a family.


Sara Cox Till the Cows Come Home: A Lancashire Childhood Coronet, 5th, £8.99, 9781473672703 A coming of age memoir from the broadcaster and presenter, who grew up on a cattle farm, the youngest of five siblings. A Sunday Times bestseller, it’s “like a big warm hug, full of local characters and misadventures”, according to the Observer.


Armand D’Angour Socrates in Love Bloomsbury Publishing, 5th, £9.99, 9781408883822 An exploration of the early life of Socrates and how he became the first philosopher. “Sympathetic and irreverent,” found the Telegraph.


James Doty Into the Magic Shop Yellow Kite, 5th, £9.99, 9781444786194 How the author, a neuro- surgeon, walked into a magic shop as a child and discovered mindfulness.


Carolyn Forché What You Have Heard Is True Penguin, 26th, £10.99, 9780241405581 How the author, when she was a young poet, was drawn into activism by an El Salvadorean stranger named Leonel, becoming enmeshed in the early stages of its civil war.


Leonie Frieda Francis I


W&N, 5th, £10.99, 9781474601221 An exploration of the life of the French king, who lived from 1494 to 1547. By the author of Catherine de Medici, this was called a “thoughtful, vivid and well-paced telling of a complex story” by the Sunday Telegraph.


Beth Lynch Where the Hornbeam Grows W&N, 5th, £8.99, 9781474606905 A memoir about the author’s move to Switzerland and her need to tend a garden to make a new home, as well as her memories of her late parents’ garden in Sussex. “Gorgeously written memoir about inheritance, exile and the healing power of gardening,” said Caroline Sanderson, who made it an editor’s choice in The Bookseller.


Owen Matthews An Impeccable Spy Bloomsbury Publishing, 19th, £9.99, 9781408857816 A biography of Richard Sorge, the Soviet Union’s most formidable spy. “Gloriously readable... Every chapter of Matthews’s superbly researched biography reads like something from an Eric Ambler thriller,” said the Sunday Times.


Sarah Jane Douglas Just Another Mountain Elliot & thompson, 26th, £9.99, 9781783964956 After losing her mother to breast cancer, the author sets out to walk the mountains of Scotland in her footsteps.


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Nikki Gerrard What Dementia Teaches Us About Love Penguin, 5th, £9.99, 9780141986432 The bestselling novelist explores dementia, after her own father’s death from the disease. One of the the Sunday Times 100 best summer reads 2019. “An extraor- dinarily luminous book, at once terribly sad and frightening but also somehow hopeful and energising,” said the Independent.


Rachel Haynes What Doesn’t Kill You Watkins, 10th, £9.99, 9781786783554 The author, who has survived bowel cancer twice, tells her story.


Jane McDonald Riding the Waves Virgin Books, 5th, £7.99, 9780753554340 The TV star and platinum- selling singer, who first hit the big time overnight on TV show “The Cruise” 20 years ago, tells her story. “Cruising with Jane McDonald” is Channel 5’s top show with 2m viewers, says Bloomsbury.


unexpected revolution- ary—a Jewish American from Long Island—with the Black Panthers in Algiers.


Sean O’Connor The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 5th, £9.99, 9781471132728 A fresh look, with new evidence, at the notorious Rattenbury case of 1935, and the woman at the heart of the story. “A case study in human frailty, jealousy and desire... Fascinating,” said the Times.


Amanda Owen Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess Pan, 19th, £8.99, 9781509852697 More adventures from the life of the star of Channel 5’s “Our Yorkshire Farm”. A Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.


Anna Pasternak The American Duchess William Collins, 19th, £9.99, 9780008297305 A biography of Wallis Simpson which aims to rehabilitate her image. Previously published as Untitled.


Sonia Purnell A Woman of No Importance Virago, 5th, £9.99, 9780349010168 A biography of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who became the Gestapo’s most wanted Allied spy. Virago says it has sold 30,000 copies sold across all editions in the UK, with nearly 100,000 copies sold in the US.


in a high-security prison in Tehran for 18 months and whose release became a part of the Iran nuclear deal.


Margaret Scard Edward Seymour Te History Press, 2nd, £10.99, 9780750993944 A biography of Jane Seymour’s brother, Lord Protector and “king in all but name”.


Catherine Simpson When I Had A Little Sister: The Story Of A Farming Family Who Never Spoke 4th Estate, 5th, £9.99, 9780008301675 A memoir about the author’s sister Tricia’s suicide at the age of 46. The siblings grew up in a farming family which never addressed Tricia’s mental illness, but Simpson found she had kept a lifetime of diaries after her death. “Gripping and heart-wrenching,” said the Mail on Sunday.


9780735218840 A coming-of-age memoir about what it’s like grow- ing up if you’re not sure if you’re a boy or a girl. “A trans Nora Ephron,” said OUT magazine.


Kelcey Wilson-Lee Daughters of Chivalry Picador, 5th, £9.99, 9781509847914 A biography of the five daughters of Edward I, Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth, in the Middle Ages.


Brian Wood Double Crossed Virgin Books, 12th, £20, 9780753552599 A memoir about how Wood was awarded the Military Cross for his brav- ery in Iraq, only to face PTSD on his return, as well as allegations of war crimes by British soldiers from a lawyer who was subsequently struck off and stripped of an honor- ary doctorate.


Katharine Smyth All The Lives We Ever Lived Atlantic, 5th, £9.99, 9781786492869 The author writes of the pain of losing her father, and how after his death she returned to read her beloved novel To the Lighthouse as a way of dealing with her grief. “Transcendent,” said the Washington Post.


Joshua Mensch Because W W Norton, 27th, £11.99, 9780393357646 A verse memoir tackling the author’s experience of childhood sexual abuse.


Elaine Mokhtefi Algiers, Third World Capital Verso, 24th, £9.99, 9781788730037 The autobiography of an


Matthew Qvortrup Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Leader Duckworth, 5th, £12.99, 9780715653999 Fully updated biography of the German leader.


Jason Rezaian Prisoner Anthony Bourdain, 19th, £12.99, 9780062691583 The memoir of the journal- ist who was held hostage


Darcey Steinke Flash Count Diary Te Canons, 5th, £9.99, 9781786898128 An exploration of meno- pause from the author of Suicide Blonde. “Not afraid to confront the intricacies of the female body and mind,” said our own Cathy Rentzenbrink in the Times.


Stephanie Straine Andy Warhol Tate Publishing, 13th, £8.99, 9781849763189 An introduction to the great modern artist.


Jacob Tobia Sissy Putnam, 5th, £12.99,


Damon Young What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker Ecco, 19th, £12.99, 9780062684318 A memoir in essays exploring what it means to be black, and a man, in America. By the co-founder of VerySmartBrothas, which was called “the blackest thing that ever happened to the internet” by the Washington Post.


Business and economics


Jonathan Conlin Great Economic Thinkers Reaktion Books, 16th, £9.99, 9781789142105 An introduction to the most influential econo- mists of modern times, from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen.


Chris Hirst No Bullsh*t Leadership Profile Books, 5th, £9.99, 9781788162531 A Financial Times Business Book of the Month, this is a step-by-step manual on how anyone can lead.


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