13th December 2024
Pete Etchells Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and How to Spend it Better)
Piatkus, 6th, £10.99, 9780349432946
How we can gain by establishing a more positive relationship with our screens.
Stella Grizont The Work
Happiness Method Headline Home, 6th, £12.99, 9781035422197
Psychologist and career coach Grizont guides employees to take control of their careers.
David Kean, Louisa Clarke Networking for Introverts Piatkus, 6th, £10.99, 9780349429175
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correspondence between major members of the royal family.
Paige Layle But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
Headline Home, 6th, £14.99, 9781035423118
Activist and TikTok influencer Layle’s personal journey to an autism diagnosis and living life to the full.
Jane McDonald Let the Light In Ebury, 13th, £10.99, 9781529936926
Broadaster and performer McDonald’s experiences of heartbreak and loss, failure and burn out.
Pierre Novellie Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things: A Comedian’s Guide to Autism
Blink Publishing, 27th, £10.99, 9781785121029
How a random encounter led to comedian Novellie’s diagnosis of autism at the age of 31.
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
Penguin, 27th, £9.99, 9781804947975
True stories from the front lines of the book trade, from contemporary booksellers and librarians.
RuPaul
The House of Hidden Meanings 4th Estate, 13th, £10.99, 9780008614980
Memoir of drag icon and producer of globally successful TV franchise Ru Paul’s Drag Race.
Lucy Sante I Heard Her Call
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My Name: A Memoir of Transition Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9781804940884
A memoir of gender transition in later life from acclaimed writer and critic Sante.
Anthony Seldon Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister
Atlantic Books, 6th, £12.99, 9781805462163
A behind the scenes account of the brief premiership of Liz Truss and the latest in Seldon’s biographies of consecutive prime ministers. “A textbook on bad government,” said the Guardian.
Ingrid Seward My Mother and I Simon & Schuster, 13th, £9.99, 9781398515208
Portrait of the relationship between King Charles III and his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Dani Shapiro Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Vintage, 20th, £10.99, 9781529909999
First UK publication for Shapiro’s memoir of marital reckoning in which she confronts the life she dreamed of and the life she made.
Charles Spencer A Very Private School William Collins, 13th, £10.99, 9780008666118
Memoir of cruelty and abuse Spencer witnessed and experienced in his five years as a pupil at an exclusive Northamptonshire boarding school in the 1970s.
Clover Stroud The Giant on the Skyline
Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9781804990735
Forced to leave the home she loves, Stroud considers what makes a home. She explores the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire and why it is so hard for her to leave it.
Ramie Targoff ( 7) Shakespeare’s Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
riverrun, 27th, £12.99, 9781529404913
A female perspective on Shakespeare’s day, focusing on the writing lives of Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary and Anne Clifford.
Karen Valby The Swans of Harlem Manilla Press, 6th, £8.99, 9781786582522
Group biography of the five Black ballerinas whose groundbreaking training at the Dance Theatre of Harlem in 1969 has been largely omitted from both history books and cultural awareness.
Business & economics
Dan Davies The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions
Profile Books, 6th, £11.99, 9781788169554
How decisions which used to be made by rulers and bosses are now the result of systems and processes. Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024. “About 10 times funnier than any book about management has the right to be,” said the Guardian.
How to build meaningful relationships, find new clients and grow business without pretence.
Joshua Oliver Hype Machine: How Greed, Fraud and Free Money Crashed Crypto
Heligo Books, 13th, £10.99, 9781785122347
Financial Times journalist Oliver tells the story of the boom and bust of crypto currency, exemplified by the rise and subsequent fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of crypto-exchange FTX.
Andrew J Scott The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives
Basic Books, 13th, £8.99, 9781399801065
How lengthening lifespans must lead us to build sustainable lifestyles for ourselves and for the planet. Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024.
James Timpson The Happy Index: A People-first Approach to Leadership
HarperNorth, 27th, £9.99, 9780008654788
How to build thriving organisations through supporting the workforce. Timpson is the CEO of family-owned Timpson Group, known for key cutting and shoe repair, and is also a government prisons minister.
Film, TV & music
Jamie Collinson The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music
Constable, 13th, £12.99, 9781408717981
From brushes with Nirvana, Soundgarden, Britpop and Guns N’
Roses, a thoughtful look at people who have been kicked out of bands, what they experienced and what came afterwards.
Christoph Dallach, Katy Derbyshire (trans) Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
Faber, 27th, £12.99, 9780571377688
Oral history of music in post-war 1960s Germany, defined by bands like Can, Neu! and Kraftwerk.
Aniefiok Ekpoudom ( 6) Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
Faber, 27th, £10.99, 9780571363261
From communities in south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, a social history of UK rap and grime. “Engaging, erudite, sweeping,” said the New Statesman.
Joel Morris Be Funny or Die: How Comedy Works and Why it Matters
Unbound, 20th, £12.99, 9781789652093
Comedy writer Morris reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves.
Ian Haydn Smith A Chronology of Film: A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen
Thames and Hudson Ltd, 13th, £19.99, 9780500298565
Large format guide to cinematic history contextualising key developments with social, political and cultural events.
Graphic novels EM Carroll
A Guest in the House Faber, 13th, £14.99, 9780571355464
A visually powerful Gothic horror of grief and ghosts. Newly married Abby wonders what happened to her husband’s first wife and is haunted by the vivid dreams and fears of her childhood.
Tom King, Clay Mann, Liam Sharp, Tomeu Morey (illus) Batman/Catwoman
DC Comics, 18th, £22, 9781799503842
Batman and Catwoman’s past, present and future collide in a tense, romantic epic.
Mark Russell, Michael Allred, Laura Allred (illus) Superman: Space Age
DC Comics, 4th, £22, 9781799500575 A journey through US
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