Somatic practitioner de Belgeonne explains the workings of the nervous system and how to restore calm by physically releasing held stresses.
Ali Fenwick Red Flags: How to Spot and Protect Yourself from Toxic People, Big Egos, and Walking Disasters
Penguin, 20th, £10.99, 9781405957908
From gaslighting crushes and pushy parents to bosses taking credit for your work, Fenwick offers guidance on navigating healthy and unhealthy social conduct and maintaining sustainable connections in friendships and family.
Shohini Ghose
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
The MIT Press, 4th, £21, 9780262552998
Stories of women physicists and astronomers who discovered fundamental rules of the universe.
Dale E Greenwalt Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
Princeton University Press, 25th, £14.99, 9780691221168
How ancient biomolecules found in old fossils, from pigments to proteins and DNA, are shedding light on the evolution of life on Earth.
Tim James Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
Robinson, 6th, £9.99, 9781472148421
From a sneeze in a petri dish leading to the creation of antibiotics, to the discovery of microwaves via melted chocolate, how scientific accidents have improved our lives.
Jeremy Kahn Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future
Bedford Square Publishers, 27th, £10.99, 9781835010600
The possible risks and benefits of generative artificial intelligence.
Adam Forrest Kay Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution W&N, 6th, £12.99, 9781399609609 How the long-overlooked quantum theory of pilot waves might be key to a true understanding of nature.
Frank Lantz The Beauty of Games The MIT Press, 4th, £16.99, 9780262552950
How games create beauty, evoke deep meaning and can be used to explore the aesthetics of thought.
Elaine Lin Hering Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent and Lead with Courage
Penguin, 20th, £10.99, 9781804941645
How we can have more authentic conversations, foster inclusive spaces and amplify all voices.
Monty Lyman
The Immune Mind: The New Science of Health Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9781804996027
A holistic approach to healthcare, working with our brain and body’s interconnections, offering advice for treating our immune system to improve our mental health.
Lauren Mishcon, Nicole Goodman Have You Tried This? The Only Self Care Book You Will Ever Need
Welbeck, 13th, £12.99, 9781801293167
Self Care Club podcast- creators Mishcon and Goodman report back, having tested out numerous forms of self-care, debunking the wellness world and providing simple, inexpensive and authentic care solutions.
Kevin J Mitchell Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Princeton University Press, 25th, £14.99, 9780691226217
How life evolved the power to choose and why it matters.
Madhumita Murgia Code Dependent: How AI Is Changing Our Lives
Picador, 6th, £10.99, 9781529097320
An exploration of the world created by computer algorithms and its impact on individuals. Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non- Fiction. “The No Logo of the 2020s,” said the Times.
Camilla Pang Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn to Fail and Embrace the Unknown
Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9780241545348
How the scientific method is one of the best ways we can learn about ourselves.
Mark Sedgwick Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order
Pelican, 6th, £10.99, 9780241487938
A guide to “the world’s least-known major philosophy”, an anti-modern movement essential to understanding our past, present and future.
Ben Shneiderman Human-Centered AI Oxford University Press, 20th, £14.99, 9780198945345
How artificial intelligence can be used to enhance human lives.
Frank Tallis Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
Abacus, 6th, £12.99, 9780349144559
A portrait of Sigmund Freud and the era which shaped his ideas.
David Vaux Stronger Short Books, 27th, £10.99, 9781780726106
How to build strength for future health, introducing 10 movements to fortify your body.
Religion
Candida Moss God’s Ghostwriters William Collins, 27th, £12.99, 9780008612214
A history of the co-authors and collaborators, some conscripted from the educated in conquered societies, who produced the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament.
Sport
Hanif Abdurraqib There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Penguin, 25th, £10.99, 9781802065824
Basketball as a way to examine what it means
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A guide to how to ask the right questions, set up experiments and make sense of the evidence produced. A fun and visually distinctive cover for the paperback. Pang won The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2020 for her first book, Explaining Humans.
Richard Restak How to Prevent Dementia Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9781405965224
Practical advice from neurologist Restak on reducing risks and supporting long-term brain health.
to make it, who we think deserves success and the tension between excellence and expectation. Longlisted for the National Book Award and the Carnegie Medal.
Bernie Collins How to Win a Grand Prix Quercus, 13th, £10.99, 9781529437614
Performance engineer and head of race strategy Collins takes the reader behind the scenes of a Formula One team from the factory to the race itself.
Ben Hunt Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing
Ebury, 27th, £10.99, 9781529929355
Account of the operations of a successful and disruptive Formula One team over a 20-year history. Foreword by team principal Christian Horner.
Travel
Gaar Adams ( 9) Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East
Vintage, 20th, £10.99, 9781529933604
Blending reportage, memoir and travel writing, an account of queer lives in the Gulf and the Middle East. Adams is a Penguin Random House WriteNow alumnus.
Hilary Bradt Taking the Risk: My Adventures in Travel and Publishing
Bradt Guides, 15th, £12.99, 9781804692783
From the summer of love in San Francisco, to Peru, Madagascar and beyond, Bradt’s memoir of 50 years of eventful travel and building up a travel publishing company from scratch. Foreword by Kate Humble.
Roger Morgan-Grenville Across a Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring
Icon Books, 13th, £11.99, 9781837731039
A pilgrimage across Britain from the shores of the Solent to the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to see what is being done to stem our loss of biodiversity.
True crime
Harriet Wistrich Sister in Law Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9781804995990
Stories of those let down by our justice system, shining a feminist light on a landscape of arcane laws, from solicitor and director of the Centre for Women’s Justice.
Reissues
Gilbert Achcar The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab– Israeli War of Narratives
Saqi, 27th, £17.99, 9781849250795
Timely revised second edition of Achcar’s history of the Arab world’s responses to the Holocaust.
Matthew Arnold, John Greening (ed) True to One Another
Renard Press, 15th, £8.99, 9781804471449
A selection of Matthew Arnold’s poetry selected by poet and critic John Greening. Brings together love poems, retellings of myths and some of Arnold’s better- known works alongside neglected gems spanning Dover Beach, Sohrab and Rustum.
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gerald Martin (trans) Men of Maize
Penguin Classics, 10th, £16.99, 9780143138402
First published in 1949, the Guatemalan Nobel prize winner’s novel of Indigenous Mayans and modernising society. Features a foreword by Hector Tobar.
Samuel Beckett Molloy Faber, 13th, £8.99, 9780571386765
The first of three volumes in the Molloy trilogy all reissued in modern covers. Introduced by Colm Toibin. Malone Dies and The Unnamable are introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride respectively.
Anthony Berkeley Not to Be Taken: A Puzzle in Poison
Crime Classics, 10th, £9.99, 9780712355421
Nobody in the sleepy Dorset village of Anneypenny seems to have a motive for the
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