XXth Monthname 2025
Books
Titles not to miss in June
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Can animals teach us about ethics? What makes a good sex scene? Why do our brains play tricks? Caroline Sanderson's titles not to miss explore these queries and more
Popular science
Pria Anand ( 1) The Mind Electric: Stories of the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains Virago, 5th, HB, £22 9780349019109
A young woman plagued by the chords of a Van Halen song; a mother whose children have been replaced by changelings; a wandering man who thinks he’s a spy. These are among the neurological narratives that feature in this beautifully composed debut by a US neurologist about the peculiar ways individual brains behave and how this can teach us something universal about being human. If you love the work of Oliver Sacks, you’ll embrace this as I did.
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Krystal Evans ( 2) The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp: How to Survive a Fire and a Chaotic Upbringing (Without Losing Your Sense of Humour) Monoray, 19th, HB, £20, 9781800962729 When now Edinburgh-based comedian Evans was 14, the house she shared with her mother and six-year-old sister Katie burned down. Katie died. This is merely the awful headline to this complex and heart-reading memoir of growing up poor in America, with a mentally- ill mother and, at one point, a wolf for a pet. And yet, as the subtitle promises, it also somehow manages to be entertaining, funny and spikily resilient.
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Jeremy Atherton Lin ( 3) Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told Allen Lane, 5th, HB, £25, 9780241629789 It’s 1996, and US author Lin has met the British boy of his dreams just as US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act that denies same-sex couples rights – including immigration. This outlaw love story tells of their attempts to be together, set against the context of queer history and the battle for LGBTQ+ rights. It’s a supremely powerful reminder that the very recent victory of gay marriage was built on a mountain of love, defiance, heartbreak and grief.
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Books New Titles: Non-Fiction
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