13th December 2024
Alpa Shah The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India
William Collins, 13th, £12.99, 9780008518844
How dissenting voices in India have been criminalised. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing.
CL Skach How to Be a Citizen: Six Lessons for a Brave New World
Bloomsbury Publishing, 27th, £9.99, 9781526655219
How working on our relationships, building social capital and being a good neighbour are critical to democracy.
Anne Somerset Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers
William Collins, 27th, £12.99, 9780008106256
Queen Victoria’s political evolution and her involvement in state affairs seen through her relationships with ten prime ministers. “Magnificent, disturbing and innovative,” said the Spectator.
Gavin Stamp Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
Profile Books, 6th, £25, 9781800817401
An account of the period that still shapes much of Britain’s towns and cities. “Elegant, erudite and entertaining,” said the Times.
Rick Stroud I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles: Women of the Resistance in World War One
Simon & Schuster Non-Fiction, 13th, £10.99, 9781398507081
The actions of eight women across the class spectrum telling the story of the resistance in Belgium and occupied France during the First World War.
Michael Taylor Impossible Monsters: How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World
Vintage, 20th, £12.99, 9781529931341
How the discovery of the dinosaurs upended our understanding of the origins of the world. Positive reviews all round with Literary Review praising its “clarity, zest and wit”.
Leah Thomas The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Souvenir Press, 13th, £10.99, 9781800815827
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How fighting for the environment must mean fighting for social justice.
Robert Verkaik The Traitor of Arnhem Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction, 27th, £9.99, 9781802797442
Previously unseen records shed new light on the Allies airborne Operation Market Garden towards the end of the Second World War. “A bombshell book,” said the Daily Mail.
Harvey Whitehouse Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9781529159158
A new perspective on our collective history, weaving together psychological experiments, on-the- ground fieldwork and big data, identifying three biases that shape human behaviour everywhere: conformism, religiosity and tribalism.
Yair Zivan (ed) The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation
Elliott & Thompson Ltd, 6th, £12.99, 9781783968909
Essays from politicians, thought leaders and social commentators on embracing complexity, moderation and pragmatism in order to make people’s lives better.
Natural history & pets
Jessica J Lee
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging Penguin, 13th, £10.99, 9780241996881
Environmental historian Lee’s essay collection
combines memoir, history and scientific research, asking how both plants and people come to “belong” or not. Shortlisted and Highly Commended for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.
Chantal Lyons Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar
Wildlife , 13th, £11.99, 9781399423991
How reintroduced British boar are ecosystem engineers but are contested for their unsettling role in the British landscape. Shortlisted and Highly Commended in the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Conservation.
Emma Smith, Anthony Smith, Lisa Cutts Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs
HarperNorth, 13th, £10.99, 9780008701970
How a volunteer-led team operates on the streets of rural Bulgaria, meeting and rescuing remarkable dogs.
Fiona Stafford
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape John Murray, 13th, £9.99, 9781473686342
A personal response to the surprise of landscape and the gradual revelation of what is hidden from immediate view. Meditations on place reveal those which appear most fixed are frequently unsettled, dynamic, shifting spaces.
Chris Thorogood Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers
Popular science, philosophy & self-help
Ben Alderson-Day Presence:
The Strange Science of the Unseen Other Manchester University Press, 25th, £12.99, 9781526184948
Interviews and research from psychology and neuroscience help explore the uncanny phenomenon of felt presence. Winner of the British Psychological Society 2023 Book Award for Popular Science.
Penguin, 6th, £12.99, 9781802062427
A botanist’s adventures encountering weird, wonderful and sometimes fearsome flora, revealing our “plant blindness” when thinking of conservation. A conservative cover look for the paperback edition, rather than the attractive abstract neon hardback, but it should appear more descriptive for nature readers.
Poetry
Hollie McNish ( 8) Lobster Fleet, 13th, £8.99, 9780349726656
Acclaimed poet McNish turns her attention to what we have been taught to hate, asking how we might learn to love again. Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry 2024.
Maurice Riordan Selected Poems Faber, 13th, £12.99, 9780571384990
Jack Underwood selects Riordan’s best work from the last 40 years.
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Federica Amati Every Body Should Know This: The Science of Eating for a Lifetime of Health
Penguin, 27th, £10.99, 9781405966702
The science behind nutrition from the head nutritionist at ZOE.
Ellen Atlanta Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
Headline Press, 6th, £10.99, 9781472298799
The pressures women face in a world obsessed by image and the chokehold beauty culture has on our world.
Philip Ball How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Picador, 6th, £12.99, 9781529096002
Drawing on the latest research, how we can redesign, reconfigure and reprogram living systems, tissues, and organisms and what the future of biology looks like.
Sam Carr
All the Lonely People: Conversations on Loneliness
Picador, 13th, £10.99, 9781035005550
Psychologist and social scientist Carr examines the issue of loneliness, using true stories from all walks of life to explore what we can do about it.
Helen Chandler-White Lost & Found Aster, 13th, £12.99, 9781783255603
Reflecting on losing all her possessions in a storage unit fire, Chandler-Wilde examines why we buy and keep the things we do, and how we can live a less cluttered life. Moves from January.
Richard Conniff Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
The MIT Press, 11th, £26, 9780262552974
How we came to understand and prevent many of our worst infectious diseases.
Caroline Crampton A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria
Granta Books, 13th, £10.99, 9781783789061
Mixing memoir and science, a history of hypochondria moving from the age of Hippocrates to today’s wellness industry.
Nahid de Belgeonne Soothe Souvenir Press, 20th, £10.99, 9781800817111
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