13th December 2024
New Books Spotlight Wellbeing
Titles in this Spotlight are to be published between January and December 2025 Previews
Publishers look to manifest success with range of titles
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Our expert, their picks
Angie Crawford
Angie works in the non-fiction buying team at Waterstones, looking after lifestyle, cookery and biography. Previously she was the Scottish buyer at Waterstones and, before that, the children’s buyer at both Waterstones and Ottakar’s.
Dr Alok Kanojia How to Raise a Healthy Gamer Bluebird, January, £10.99, PB, 9781035025909
In hardback this was a favourite of mine and I hope the paperback format brings it to a wider readership. Timely and razor sharp, it’s a hugely empowering navigation to managing screen time and dealing with associated behavioural issues. Author Dr K (to his millions of followers) offers practical solutions to the modern parent, drawing from his own experience of gaming addiction along with psychiatric and neuroscientific expertise. Feels essential and the paperback cover really pops.
Roxie Nafousi Confidence Yellow Kite, March, £16.99, HB, 9781399734837
Known as the ‘manifesting queen’, Nafousi’s iconic first book Manifest was an instant bestseller worldwide and the media campaign was far-reaching. Now she turns her attention to confidence and her transformative new book helps the reader unlock self-worth. It’s fair to say Nafousi is a leading voice in the wellness world and with many contacts in the media, this is surely one of the highlights of the year that customers will be eagerly seeking.
Poppy Okotcha A Wilder Way Bloomsbury, April, £18.99, HB, 9781526666512
A gorgeous account of a year in a Devon garden from a charismatic and knowledgeable new voice in the nature space. Okotcha is an ecological horticulturalist with a popular Instagram following who has presented Channel 4’s Great Garden Revolution, (you may also have read her articles in the Times and Observer). Her account infectiously shares the joy of connecting with nature and the benefits for our physical and emotional wellbeing as our world grapples with climate emergency.
Dr Devon Price Unmasking for Life Monoray, March, £22, HB, 9781800962910
This is an enlightening read and there has never been such a need for this book as there is right now. Dr Price continues to examine the phenomenon of “masking” after his bestselling Unmasking Autism, which helped readers to embrace their neurodiversity. In this book, Price helps advocate for readers’ needs and shows how to foster self-acceptance and embrace autism for life. Can be read as a follow-up or as a standalone, and will benefit from an international campaign.
Dr Hazel Wallace Not Just a Period Bluebird, May, £20, HB, 9781035049592
Dr Wallace is best known for her bestselling The Food Medic (and podcast) and The Female Factor. In her new book, she takes a fresh approach to women’s health through the lens of hormones and menstrual cycles. The book brings together pioneering research and case studies to teach how to navigate every phase of the menstrual cycle and ultimately enhance understanding of how our bodies work. More importantly, it is a call to arms to remove the stigma around periods.
he Cambridge Dictionary word of the year 2024 is ‘manifest’, specifically in its contemporary use as a verb, which it defines as: “to use methods such as visualisa-
tion (picturing something in your mind) and affirmation (repeating positive phrases) to help you imagine achieving something you want, in the belief that doing so will make it more likely to happen”. As booksellers, words are
our stock-in-trade. Their amazing metamorphoses help describe and give meaning to our and our fellow readers’ lives. In this review of wellbeing publishing for 2025, we encounter many familiar
words and terms that have evolved new mean- ing: ‘zebra striping’ (the alternate enjoying of/ abstaining from alcohol); ‘dose’ (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphins); or old words such as ‘akashic’ (esoteric ideas finding a new popularity). Neurodiversity has become a familiar term
in recent years, and books helping to describe, diagnose, parent and live with all aspects, from ADHD to autism, continue to come to market. Finally, we continue our fascination around optimising brain health and, looking to the future,
I expect to see books discussing the subject of assisted dying.
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Spotlight: Wellbeing
JERMAIN BINNS
POPPY WOOD
SHUTTERSTOCK
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