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intervention led to her cerebral palsy, but lives with the consequences every day. This is her “complex, lyrical, gut- punch” of a memoir.
Nathan Waddell A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell
Oneworld, 5th, HB, £22, 9780861549764
Told through moments of everyday life, from waking and showering to sleep and dreaming, this new biography of Orwell is published to mark the 75th anniversary of his death, and the 80th anniversary of Animal Farm.
Frances Wilson Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark
Bloomsbury Circus, 5th, HB, £25, 9781526663030
In this inventive and intriguing new life of Dame Muriel Spark, biographer and critic Wilson tries to decode a famously puzzling and elusive writer by following the clues and riddles Spark planted for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography and archives. Wilson is such an inventive biographer and this is sure to be widely reviewed.
Nic Wilson Land Beneath the Waves: How the Natural World Helped One Woman Navigate Chronic Illness, Self-Acceptance and Belonging
Summersdale, 12th, HB, £18.99, 9781837996223
“Moving, honest and revealing” memoir by a writer and monthly Guardian country diarist, of living with chronic illness, and an examination of the ways in which a relationship with the natural world can helps us handle the things that ail us.
Stuart Wood Mania: Tartan, Turmoil and My Life as a Bay City Roller
Nine Eight, 19th, HB, £22, 9781785121982
This “rollicking” memoir by Stuart “Woody” Wood charts how he was catapulted to stardom as an unsuspecting 16-year-old when he became a member of the Bay City Rollers. It wasn’t all glitz and glamour, we soon discover.
Business & economics
Michael Aldous, John D Turner The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry
Cambridge UP, 19th, HB, £25, 9781009489522
From gentleman amateurs to professional managers, this tells the story of the British CEO over the past century, exploring issues such as the lack of diversity and the dramatic rise in CEO pay.
Ben Chu
Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails
Basic, 5th, HB, £25, 9781399817165
A striving for national self- sufficiency is shaping up to be one of the greatest forces of 21st-century geopolitics. So says the former economics editor of Newsnight in this timely-sounding warning about the risks of abandoning globalisation and how isolationism weakens the global economy.
Robin Givhan Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture With Virgil Abloh
Hutchinson Heinemann, 26th, HB, £20, 9781529153439
From a Pulitzer Prize- winning culture critic and journalist for the Washington Post, this is a “ground-breaking” account of the legacy of fashion powerhouse Virgil Abloh, whose rise to head of menswear at Louis Vuitton “transformed our ideas about the connection between who we are and what we wear”.
Chris Hirst
Indispensable: The No Bullshit Guide to Thriving in the Workplace
Macmillan Business, 26th, HB, £20, 9781529051742
The author of No Bullsh*t Leadership returns with a “foolproof” guide to achieving success and reaching your maximum potential at work.
David McWilliams Money: A Story of Humanity
Simon & Schuster, 19th, PB, £10.99, 9781471195464
From its birthplace in Ancient Babylon to the dawn of cryptocurrency, the global economist author unlocks the mysteries of money – humanity’s “most inventive, destructive and dangerous animal”.
Alex Vail Data Culture: How to Succeed With Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence
Icon, 5th, PB, £14.99, 9781837732319
Capturing the views of more than 300 business leaders, this aims to be an
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accessible guide to help organisations of all sizes build successful data- driven cultures.
Duncan Weldon Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to Ukraine
Abacus, 5th, HB, £25, 9780349145396
From why Genghis Khan should be regarded as the father of globalisation to why handing out medals hurt the Luftwaffe in the Second World War, the former economics correspondent for BBC Newsnight examines how war and violence have shaped our economies, in a book described as a Freakonomics for war.
Current affairs, politics & activism
James Bloodworth Lost Boys: Undercover Adventures in Toxic Masculinity
Atlantic, 5th, HB, £17.99, 9781786499820
By the former editor of political website Left Food Forward, and combining memoir with reportage and more, a “powerful and deeply compelling” investigation into the bizarre and paranoid underground male subcultures that make up the “manosphere”, as men search for new forms of belonging.
Noam Chomsky, José Mujica Surviving the Twenty-First Century
Verso, PB, £12.99, 9781804299517
Two world-renowned figures from contemporary politics come together to explore freedom,
power and the biggest challenges of the 21st century, including populism, the crisis of capitalism and the market economy.
Iain Dale ( 3) Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series
Swift, 5th, HB, £16.99, 9781800753587
The Iron Lady is reconsidered in this biography, published in the centenary year of her birth.
Juliana Gleeson Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation
Verso, 3rd, PB, £16.99, 9781839760938
Examining how freedom from binary thinking about sexual difference can liberate us all, this is billed as the first book to offer a serious engagement with the politics of intersex, telling the story of the movement’s history.
Thane Gustafson Perfect Storm: Russia’s Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future
OUP, 3rd, HB, £22.99, 9780197795682
Drawing on the author’s experience as a consultant on Western business in Russia, this is a concise yet authoritative history of the Russian economic relationship with the West, from the fall of the USSR to the present day.
Kevin Guyan Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion
Bloomsbury, 12th, HB, £20, 9781350429680
Investigating six systems, including the police, borders, film and TV and
dating apps, this reveals how the fight for LGBTQ+ equalities in the UK is shaped and constrained by the classifications we encounter every day.
Paul Spicker What is the Welfare State For?
Bristol UP, 24th, PB, £8.99, 9781529250756
Welfare states matter for people’s lives but there is little agreement about what one is. So says the author of this discussion of the institutions and methods that characterise welfare states around the world. Also out this month in the same series, What is Humanism For? by Richard Norman (41990).
Joe Tidy
Ctrl+Alt+Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet
Elliott & Thompson, 5th, HB, £16.99, 9781783968763
This gob-smacking true crime narrative by the BBC’s cyber correspondent centres on the life and crimes of Julius Kivimäki, arguably the most hated hacker in history, including the time he blackmailed 30,000 Finnish psychotherapy patients with their stolen notes. Tidy also draws parallels with other recent high-profile attacks by “bored, lonely and unsupervised teenage boys who team up to cause mayhem from their bedrooms”.
Stephen Unwin Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong
Wildfire, 5th, HB, £25, 9781035424733
Told through the eyes of a father whose son has severe learning
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