This preview highlights titles to be published in March
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Appleyard called him the “greatest nature writer in the world” in the Sunday Times.
Christopher Somerville Ships Of Heaven Doubleday, 19th, £9.99, 9780857523655 The January Man author walks across Britain to tell the stories of his favourite cathedrals. Lovely cover.
True Crime
Karen Farrington, forewords by Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC Murder, Mystery and My Family BBC Books, 26th, £8.99, 9781785944765 The team behind the BBC series “Murder, Mystery and My Family” explores five historical true-crime tales, each with a woman at the heart of the story.
Robert Kolker Lost Girls Harper Perennial, 5th, £11.99, 9780063012950 A new afterword to coincide with the Netflix film for this account of the lives of five young women in the case of the Long Island Serial Killer.
governor, now expert criminologist and profes- sor. Sphere says it has sold over 10,000 copies to date across all editions.
Essays
Derek Owusu Safe Trapeze, 12th, £9.99, 9781409182641
Début An anthology of writing by black
British men, edited by the “Mostly Lit” podcast host.
Reissues
Douglas Adams The Original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Pan, 5th, £14.99, 9781529034479 To mark the 42nd anni- versary of the first-ever transmission of Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” on BBC Radio 4, Macmillan is bringing back into print The Original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts with a new introduction from Simon Jones (who played Arthur Dent), and reissuing the five individual volumes with new covers.
Richard Neville and Julie Clarke On the Trail of the Serpent Vintage, 19th, £9.99, 9781529112436 This is an updated edition of the 1979 biography of the notorious serial killer Charles Sobrhaj, whose capture is set to be the basis of a forthcoming eight-part drama for the BBC and Netflix.
Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine Last Chance To See Arrow, 5th, £9.99, 9780099536796 Reissue of Adams and Carwardine’s journey in search of the world’s most endangered species, with a new introduction from Richard Dawkins.
Theodor Adorno Minima Moralia Verso, 24th, £9.99, 9781788738538 Verso is reissuing some of its classic Radical Thinkers series in lovely new jackets to mark its 50th birthday.
Roland Barthes Camera Lucida Vintage Classics, 5th, £9.99, 9781784876012 A Vintage Design edition of Barthes’ seminal work on photography, marking 40 years since his death.
Bella Bathurst The Lighthouse Stevensons William Collins, 5th, £8.99, 9780007204434 Reissue of the history of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses.
Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death Souvenir Press, 5th, £9.99, 9781788164269 Reissue of the 1974 Pulitzer prize winner which tackles our relation- ship to mortality.
Antony Beevor Berlin Viking, 12th, £9.99, 9780141032399 Reissued with a new foreword for the 75th anniversary.
Tracy Borman Thomas Cromwell Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £10.99, 9781529357189 Reissue of Borman’s biography of Henry VIII’s “most faithful servant”.
Frances Brody A Medal for Murder Piatkus, 5th, £8.99, 9780749941925 A new look for the cosy crime series.
Henrietta Clandon Good by Stealth Dean Street Press, 2nd, £10.99, 9781913054878 Four classic Golden Age mysteries from Clandon are reissued by Dean Street this month.
Dr David Wilson My Life with Murderers Sphere, 19th, £8.99, 9780751574135 An exploration of the psychology of murderers from the former prison
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Anil Ananthaswamy The Man Who Wasn’t There Duckworth, 5th, £9.99, 9780715653944 Republished in a series packaging following the release of the author’s new book Through Two Doors at Once in January.
Moira Forsyth Waiting for Lindsay Sandstone Press, 26th, £8.99, 9781912240951 Reissue of Forsyth’s story of a 13-year-old who disappears, and the fallout from her disap- pearance 30 years later.
Freeman Wills Croft The Cask Reissue
Mike Gayle The Stag and Hen Weekend Hodder Paperbacks, 19th, £8.99, 9781444708608 Hodder has a new look for Mike Gayle, out this month.
Jody Day Living the Life Unexpected Bluebird, 5th, £9.99, 9781529036138 Reissue of the guide to a life without children, previ- ously titled Rocking the Life Unexpected.
Marilyn Edwards The Cats of Moon Cottage Hodder Paperbacks, 19th, £9.99, 9781529373448 Hodder is reissuing this series about the joys and trials of living with cats first published between 2003 and 2008, when it sold 70,000 copies, according to the publisher.
HarperFiction, 5th, £8.99, 9780008333942 HarperCollins is reissu- ing four classic murder mysteries by Croft this month. The author, it says, was once dubbed “The King of Detective Story Writers” and recog- nised as one of the “big four” Golden Age crime authors.
Moray Dalton The Belfry Murder Dean Street Press, 2nd, £10.99, 9781913054779 Dean Street reissues five more of Dalton’s classic Golden Age mysteries this month.
Mark Hebden Pel and the Staghound Farrago, 5th, £8.99, 9781788422352 Farrago has a host of reis- sues of the Inspector Pel mysteries this month.
Melissa Hill Something from Tiffany’s Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £8.99, 9780340993361 Hodder has a new series look for Melissa Hill which it is débuting this month.
Roy Horniman Kind Hearts and Coronets Dean Street Press, 2nd, £10.99, 9781913054762 Reissue of the novel which inspired the Alec Guinness movie.
Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities Bodley Head, 19th, £20, 9781847926180 Described as “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning” by the New York Times Book Review, Vintage is reissuing this in time for Jane Jacobs Day 2020—an event set up following renewed interest in her work after a 2016 documentary.
Stephen Jimenez The Book of Matt Steerforth Wholeseale, 31st, £17.99, 9781586422523 New introduction and revelations for this reissue of the investigation into the murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming in 1998.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Viking, 5th, £8.99, 9780241968581 A new edition ahead of the forthcoming Netflix adaptation.
Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford Business as Usual Handheld Classics, 23rd, £12.99, 9781912766185 First published in 1933, this is an illustrated novel in letters from an Edinburgh girl who takes a job at a fictional version of Selfridges. Handheld is
comparing this to Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. The author founded the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in memory of her late husband, funded from her own royalties as the bestselling author of over 40 years of historical and romance fiction.
Kate O’Riordan Penance Constable, 5th, £8.99, 9781472121264 A television tie-in edition for this story of sexual obsession and family secrets.
E & M A Radford Death and the Professor Dean Street Press, 2nd, £10.99, 9781913054953 Lovely covers for three more reissues of the couple’s mysteries from Dean Street this month.
Peter Shapiro Turn the Beat Around Faber & Faber, 5th, £8.99, 9780571359820 Reissue of the history of disco as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits series, with Ben Ratliff’s Coltrane and a handful of other titles also reissued this month.
The Dalai Lama and Howard C Cutler The Art of Happiness Hodder Paperbacks, 19th, £10.99, 9781529352795 A 20th anniversary edition.
Oscar Wilde Lies Vintage Classics, 5th, £3.50, 9781784876074 Vintage is adding to its Vintage Minis series this month—short books by major writers on the experiences that make us human, with contributions from Dickens, Shakespeare and Charlotte Brontë due out in March.
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