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Baking All Year Round (Bloomsbury), while two cookbook debuts to watch from Ebury are Remi Idowu’s Sugar & Spice and long-time Yottam Ottolenghi- collaborator Sami Tamimi’s delectable-looking first solo outing, Boustany. Having learned from reading
The Brain at Rest: Why Doing Nothing Can Change Your Life (Torva) by Dr Joseph Jebelli that napping can increase the size of my brain by the volume of a small plum, I am committed to summer siestas whenever possible; who could resist such a fact or such a book subtitle? And here’s a book that might grow in popularity as fast as a mycelial network: Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats: A Guide to the History, Identification and Use of Psychoactive Fungi (Rider) by world-renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, who has more than one million followers on Instagram.
Non-Fiction Book of the Month
by David Rooney, a soaring account of the race to make the first flight across the Atlantic. If, once you’ve flown there, you want to try and make sense of what is going on in America right now, you could read When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists and the Road to Trump’s America (Penguin) by John Ganz. And with the human world going cuckoo, it was a joy to read The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place (Bloomsbury Wildlife) by Michael J Warren about the endurance of birds in words. Talking of vanished worlds, I
Choosing a mere 10 Titles Not To Miss from across this month’s landscape has been the usual challenge
Across Biography and Memoir,
there’s an eye-catching memoir from former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and an excellent, on-the-pulse literary biography of Muriel Spark, Electric Spark (Bloomsbury Circus) by Frances Wilson. And in History I can highly recommend Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World (Faber) by Oliver Basciano, which, as the title suggests, is about much more than leprosy; and The Big Hop (Chatto)
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Biography & memoir
Olia Hercules Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story through War, Exile and Hope Bloomsbury, 19th, HB, £20, 9781526662927
With the fate of Ukraine hanging in the balance, this unforgettable more-than- a-memoir by the Ukrainian-born Hercules brims with both hope and fear as she charts a century of the history of her native land through the story of her own family; one of struggle and survival through decades of war. From her grandmother Lyusya’s
deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her parents’ flight from Ukraine in 2022, it is a moving ode to the land, to ideas of home and belonging, to family legend and to handed-down family recipes. Hercules is already the author of four cookbooks, including her first, Mamushka, which won the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award for the best debut in 2016. And in this memoir her food writing is so lush and evocative you can almost taste the sour cherries; the borsch; the kefir dough stuffed with dill and egg. Written in the wake of the 2022 Russian
invasion, Hercules thinks her book is partly “a complicated grief response”. But it is also a spirited assertion of national pride and identity and a celebration of the taste of home. Above all, it is a book about resilience. Writes Hercules: “If the roots are strong, it doesn’t matter if a storm breaks the fragile stem. It will all grow back again.”
learned from Recommended! (Holland House) by Dr Nicola Wilson, also out in June, about a time when the culture of book- buying was not yet widespread. Wilson quotes HG Wells’ writing in WHSmith’s 1927 Guide to Book Buying and Book Reading that it is “extravagant and wrong to own books”. Although I’d rather that than The War of the Worlds, I’m really pleased that some things have changed for the better and there is now plenty of extravagance going on. While my first words this month
were of American writers, my final ones are of a Ukrainian one. In the prologue to my Book of the Month, Strong Roots (Bloomsbury), Olia Hercules writes: “I am writing this story without knowing its end: it begins long before I was born and will continue long after I die. I am writing this story to help myself heal and to make you understand.” Nothing wrong, or extravagant in owning that.
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