history and culture as Clark Kent defies his Smallville father Jonathan to become Superman, the first superhero of the Space Age.


Health & parenting


Dr Alok Kanojia How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: Break Bad Screen Habits, End Power Struggles, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids


Bluebird, 13th, £10.99, 9781035025909


Psychologist and former gaming addict Kanojia shares how parents can set and reinforce healthy boundaries around screens and video games.


Illiyin Morrison The Birth Debrief: Reflecting on Pregnancy, Reframing Birth, Redefining Post-Partum


Quercus, 20th, £10.99, 9781529417029


Midwife Morrison, who specialises in postpartum recovery and care, provides practical solutions to navigating pregnancy and transitioning into postpartum life.


History, politics & current affairs


Agnes Arnold-Forster Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion


Picador, 20th, £10.99, 9781529091397


Blending neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine, the evolution of nostalgia from illness in 17th-century Switzerland to its present day co-option by politicians and advertising agencies.


Tom Baldwin, Marc Stears England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight


Bloomsbury Publishing, 27th, £10.99, 9781526646248


From the muddy meadows of Runnymede


to the faded seaside glamour of Blackpool, a nuanced demystifying guide to England’s political and historical geography.


Eleanor Barnett Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation


Apollo, 6th, £10.99, 9781803281582


The many ways our ancestors sought to extend the life of food through preservation and our shifting attitudes towards food waste.


Kalwant Bhopal Race and Education: Reproducing White Supremacy in Britain


Pelican, 20th, £10.99, 9780241537336


Explores how race still determines who gains the best education in Britain, and who falls by the wayside, perpetuating racism across society.


Jeremy Black Paris Thames and Hudson Ltd, 6th, £10.99, 9780500297438


An eye-catching, stylised scene of the city adorns the cover of this concise history of Paris, considering its great events, personalities, impact and iconicity.


Tobias Buck Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century W&N, 6th, £10.99, 9781399604277 Investigation of the 2019 trial in Hamburg of Bruno Dey, charged with the murder of thousands at the Stutthof concentration camp more than 70 years ago. Situates the trial’s significance for ideas of German history, politics, collective memory and personal accountability. “A narrative that wrestles – calmly and very elegantly – with huge questions,” said the Observer.


Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain


Trapeze, 6th, £10.99, 9781398719743


Mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region propose a 10-point plan to spread economic and political power more evenly across the country.


Caroline Burt, Richard Partington Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State


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Faber, 27th, £12.99, 9780571311996 An account of the political


conflict, turmoil and six Plantagenet kings who ruled between 1199 and 1399, exploring England’s emergent statehood.


Dharshini David Environomics: How the Global Green Economy Can Save the World


Elliott & Thompson Ltd, 27th, £10.99, 9781783968473


Economist and broadcaster David follows the course of an average day to reveal the green changes already taking place in every aspect of our world.


Andrea Di Robilant This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World


Atlantic Books, 6th, £12.99, 9780857891815


How a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, gathered a vast array of closely guarded narratives, democratised knowledge and revealed the world to be much larger than anyone previously imagined. “A hugely entertaining account,” said the TLS.


Patricia Evangelista Some People Need Killing Grove Press UK, 6th, £10.99, 9781804710081


A chronicle of six years of the Philippines’ drug war, carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of President Duterte. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Moves from January.


Justine Firnhaber-Baker House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France


Penguin, 27th, £12.99, 9780141999241


From Hugh Capet to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the rise of the Capetian dynasty which dominated the Middle Ages.


Ian Goldin The Shortest History of Migration


Old Street, 4th, £9.99, 9781913083731


The story of human migration across vast distances, adapting to new environments, spanning every age and continent.


Garrett M Graff When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day


Monoray, 13th, £12.99, 9781800962194


New account of one of the most important days of the Second World War, told through the words of those who lived it.


Henry Hemming Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland


Quercus, 27th, £10.99, 9781529426779


How the death of an IRA spy led to the biggest murder investigation in British history. Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown Winner 2024.


Nick Hewitt


Normandy: the Sailors’ Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France


Yale University Press, 25th, £12.99, 9780300281095


Account of the allied navies’ contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign in the Second World War.


Mark Hodkinson Opening the Gates of Hell Cassell, 27th, £9.99, 9781788404860


Using diaries, letters and interviews, the story of Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, who was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.


Antonia Hylton Madness: Race and Insanity in America


Footnote Press, 27th, £9.99, 9781804441886


The 93-year history of Maryland’s Crownsville Hospital, one of the US’ last segregated asylums. An “impassioned and rigorous study,” said the Observer.


Simon Jarrett Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day


Reaktion Books, 1st, £10.99, 9781836390718


A history of the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of 18th-century England to the 19th-century asylum and care in today’s society.


Jenny Kleeman The Price of Life: In Search of What We’re Worth and Who Decides


Picador, 27th, £10.99, 9781035004980


Exploring the bounds of monetisation, Kleeman speaks to those who routinely calculate the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life.


George Monbiot, Peter Hutchinson The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History


of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)


Penguin, 27th, £10.99, 9781802062694


Tracing the roots of neoliberalism from its conception and propagation, to its concealment by a powerful few.


Phillips Payson O’Brien The Strategists Penguin, 20th, £10.99, 9781405966597


A collective study of Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Roosevelt, analysing how five leaders’ approaches to the Second World War were forged in the First World War.


Ilan Pappe Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic


Oneworld, 6th, £14.99, 9780861549160


How a century of lobbying changed the map of the Middle East and how pro-Israel lobbying groups influence US and British policy.


Christopher Phillips Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East


Yale University Press, 25th, £11.99, 9780300281088


Geopolitical rivalries in the Middle East today and the major external powers vying for influence.


Peter Pomerantsev How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler


Faber, 13th, £10.99, 9780571366361


Story of the complex and largely forgotten Second World War propagandist Sefton Delmer and what we can learn from him today.


Richard Rastall, Andrew Taylor


Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England Boydell Press, 4th, £39.99, 9781837652556


Insights into the lives of minstrels showing how these peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities.


James Riley Well Beings: How the Seventies Lost Its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves


Icon Books, 27th, £12.99, 9781837731978


From panoramic coastal retreats to darkened flotation tanks, a history of New Age health movements woven into a cultural history of 1970s music, film, art and literature.


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