This preview highlights titles to be published in March


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Seamus O’Mahony Can Medicine Be Cured? Head of Zeus, 5th, £9.99, 9781788544559 A look at the fallacies crippling modern medi- cine, from an over-reliance on metrics, to a neglect of compassion. “What makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just O’Mahony’s scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty,” said the Times.


Revolting Prostitutes Verso, 3rd, £9.99, 9781786633613 Two sex workers argue for full decriminalisation of sex work. Mac’s Ted talk has been viewed more than 2.5m times.


Tatton Spiller The Breakdown Elliot & Tompson, 12th, £9.99, 9781783964970 A handbook and guide to our shifting political handscape, from austerity to Brexit—and what we can do about it.


Leslie Peirce Empress of the East Icon Books, 5th, £10.99, 9781785785603 The story of Roxelana, the slave girl who rose to become Queen of the Ottomans in the 16th century.


Gareth Russell The Ship Of Dreams William Collins, 19th, £9.99, 9780008263201 A narrative history looking at how the sinking of the Titanic heralded the end of the Edwardian era.


Guy Shrubsole Who Owns England? William Collins, 5th, £9.99, 9780008321710 The most comprehensive map of land ownership in England that has ever been made public, reveal- ing how England’s elite came to own our land, and how our countryside can be opened up once more. A pick of the month for Caroline Sanderson.


Jamie Susskind Future Politics Oxford University Press, 26th, £9.99, 9780198848929 A look at how digital technology will change society.


Christina Thompson Sea People: In Search Of The Ancient Navigators Of The Pacific William Collins, 5th, £9.99, 9780008339050 A investigation into the ancient navigators of the Pacific, the Polynesians who colonised the remot- est islands in the Pacific Ocean.


Western attitudes have shaped its story and how we can escape this vicious cycle.


Humour, gift and reference


James Bowen


The Little Book of Bob Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £8.99, 9781473688537 A collection of wisdom from street cat Bob.


A demonstration of how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, drawn from a course the author has been running for over three years both as part of the Guardian Masterclasses programme and the Faber Academy.


The Moth The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic Serpent’s Tail, 5th, £9.99, 9781781256671 A collection of 50 true stories from real people first told on “The Moth Radio Hour”, which is broadcast across the US and also on the BBC. “Brilliant and quietly addictive,” said the Guardian.


Music


Liz and Jimmy Reed Bites of Terror


Quirk Books, 24th, £11.99, 9781683691648 A collection of darkly funny horror stories starring “creepy-cute food folk”, presented in a photographed diorama- comic format. By the husband and wife team behind Cuddles and Rage, which started out as a webcomic and has grown to include books, anima- tion, and product design.


David Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Corsair, 5th, £12.99, 9781472154941 A history of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. “An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait,” said the New York Times Book Review.


Joan Smith Home Grown riverrun, 5th, £9.99, 9781787476066 A manifesto about the links between domestic violence and terrorism from the feminist and human rights campaigner, arguing that terrorism begins at home.


Molly Smith, Juno Mac TheBookseller.com


Dermot Turing X, Y & Z Te History Press, 2nd, £12.99, 9780750993937 Draws on recently declas- sified archives, this tells the real story of how Enigma was broken.


Tom Young We Need to Talk About Africa Oneworld, 5th, £10.99, 9781786074966 Argues that it is time to change how we think about Africa—how


David Shimwell Dining with the Durrells Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £9.99, 9781529337556 A collection of recipes from the Durrell family’s archives. Official and authorised, by a family friend, this has a foreword by Lee Durrell (Gerald’s second wife), and is timed for Mother’s Day. Hodder says the last Durrell book, The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag, has sold 38,576 copies to date.


K K Downing Heavy Duty Constable, 5th, £9.99, 9781472128683 A memoir from the co-founder and former lead guitarist of heavy metal band Judas Priest.


Steven Isserlis Robert Schumann’s Advice to Young Musicians Faber & Faber, 5th, £9.99, 9780571355686 The cellist adds his own commentary to Robert Schumann’s 19th-century text Advice for Young Musicians. “How much musical wisdom can be packed into one slim volume?” asked the FT, which made this a book of the year.


Richard King The Lark Ascending Faber & Faber, 5th, £8.99, 9780571338801 A history of Britain’s landscapes and the musical movements they have inspired, from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Brian Eno.


Mark Boyle The Way Home Oneworld, 5th, £9.99, 9781786077271 The author’s memoir about the first year he spent off-grid, as charted in his Guardian column. Gorgeous cover—“a poetic meditation on the almost- mystical benefits of falling in sync with nature” said the New Statesman.


Elizabeth-Jane Burnett The Grassling Penguin, 26th, £9.99, 9780141989624 An exporation of identity and belonging, written as the author’s father’s health declined. “Brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books,” said the Guardian.


Tony Juniper Rainforest Profile Books, 5th, £10.99, 9781781256374 Why we need to save the rainforests we have left, and how we can do it, by the well-known environ- mental campaigner.


Robert Kugler


Will Storr The Science Of Storytelling William Collins, 5th, £9.99, 9780008276973


Frank Turner Try This At Home: Adventures in Songwriting Headline, 5th, £10.99, 9781472257864 A songwriting memoir


A Dog Named Beautiful Corgi, 5th, £8.99, 9780552174770 How the author took his three-legged labrador on a tour of the US after learning she had


Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen The Planets William Collins, 19th, £9.99, 9780008280574 Publishing to coincide with the major new


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from the folk-rock icon and author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Road Beneath My Feet.


Natural history and pets


Max Adams


The Little Book Of Planting Trees Head of Zeus, 5th, £8.99, 9781789545883 The author of The Wisdom of Trees’ guide to tree planting.


David Barrie Incredible Journeys Hodder Paperbacks, 19th, £9.99, 9781473656857 How animals navigate— and what we can learn from them. “Immensely entertaining,” said the Sunday Times.


cancer. Transworld says the journey was a viral news sensation when it happened.


John Lewis-Stempel Still Water Black Swan, 5th, £9.99, 9781784162429 The final title in Lewis- Stempel’s nature quartet looks at a year in the life of a farm pond. It’s a “magical celebration” according to the Mail. Digital advertising and press ads planned.


Sally Urwin Blue Sky Days Profile Books, 5th, £8.99, 9781788160704 The highs and lows of a year on the author’s farm in Northumbria. New colour plates for the paperback.


Peter Wright My Yorkshire Great and Small Mirror Books, 12th, £8.99, 9781912624850 A collection of anecdotes from Channel 5’s popular “The Yorkshire Vet”.


Popular science, philosophy and self-help


Peter Atkins Conjuring the Universe Oxford University Press, 26th, £9.99, 9780198813385 A look at the origin of the laws that structure our universe—the fundamen- tal constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny.


Richard Baldwin The Globotics Upheaval W&N, 5th, £9.99, 9781474609036 The globalisation expert looks at how we can survive in in a world of virtual globalisation, laying out how to prepare for the oncoming wave of the advanced robotic workforce.


Jolene Brighten Beyond the Pill Harper One, 19th, £12.99, 9780062847096 A 30-day programme to reverse the side-effects of the birth control pill, whether you stay on it or not.


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