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Natural history & pets
Jay Griffiths ( 4) How Animals Heal Us Hamish Hamilton, 5th, HB, £20, 9780241614358
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Animal lovers instinctively know that our creature companions do us good. Now, Griffiths channels her customary compassion and wisdom and draws on science, history and indigenous knowledge to present myriad evidence that animals actually do heal us. And, remarkably, this is not just a book about how they heal loneliness, alleviate trauma, fear and depression in human individuals; from wolves that teach ethics to the collective decisions of bees, it is also about how animals can guide us in creating societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder.
Personal development
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Biography & memoir
Grace Spence Green ( 9) To Exist As I Am: A Doctor’s Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance Wellcome, 5th, HB, £18.99, 9781800814486
At the age of 22, junior doctor author Green – then a medical student – had her spine broken in a horrific accident and went from supporting patients to fighting for her life. As she recovered, she had to learn how to live as a wheelchair user and continue as both doctor and patient. This memoir considers how we can fight for change in the representation of disabled people but also find the freedom to embrace life just as we are.
7 History
Guy Stagg ( 7) The World Within Simon & Schuster, 5th, HB, £20, 9781398533509
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Barbara Demick ( 8) Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China’s Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins Granta, 5th, HB, £20, 9781783787227 In 2007, while working as Beijing correspondent of the LA Times, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning writer Demick began to question the idea that hundreds of young girls, abandoned because of China’s brutal one-child policy, had been “saved” by being adopted overseas. It led her to this extraordinary story of separated twins. Retold by Demick in another marvellous blend of reportage and storytelling, it questions prevailing assumptions about the quality of lives in East and West.
“All my life I have dreamed of retreat.” Blending history, biography and travelogue, this new book by the award- winning author of The Crossway weaves a profound exploration of the impulse to retreat and withdraw from the world. Following in the footsteps of three notable people compelled to do so – the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the painter David Jones and writer Simone Weil - Stagg spends solitary time in an abbey and monastery and on an isolated island as he explores why the idea of retreat is so perennially alluring.
Ita O’Brien ( 6) Intimacy Ebury, 5th, HB, £16.99, 9781529954036 Having advised on the sex that features in screen gems including Sex Education and Normal People, O’Brien has become one of the film and TV industry’s most sought-after intimacy coordinators, and the creator of intimacy on-set guidelines used around the world. In her first book, she draws on her 40-year career to provide sage and sensitive advice on transforming intimacy in our own off-screen lives; and building deep, healthy and equitable bodily connections, whatever the stage of relationship.
5 History
Iain MacGregor ( 5) The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It Constable, 5th, HB, £25, 9781408719503 On August 6th 1945, Hiroshima was struck by the world’s first atomic bomb, killing tens of thousands. A fitting commemoration, this meticulously researched history balances the macro story of this fateful event in the context of the Second World War with the stories of individuals caught up in it. The foreword includes MacGregor’s moving interview with Michiko Kodama of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors who won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.
Biography & memoir
David Whitehouse ( 10) Saltwater Mansions: The Woman Who Disappeared and Other Untold Stories Phoenix, 12th, HB, £18.99, 9781399621977
Whitehouse’s About a Son was a Book of the Month for me in 2022 and his second non- fiction book is equally compelling. It concerns the disappearance of a woman from a block of flats in Margate. Whitehouse becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her – but his detective story transforms into one about the hidden lives of other people entirely, and the dangerous allure of taking true-crime stories into our own hands.
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