21st March 2025


making us increasingly unhappy, Brendborg argues, suggesting ways we can break free.


Eugenia Cheng ( 12) Unequal: The Maths of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up


Profile, 5th, HB, £18.99, 9781805223061


Equality and inequality are not nearly as immutable as they seem. In fact, they are the opposite: a mathematical playground of choice and abstraction, leading to far greater insight than you could have dreamed, shows mathematician Cheng.


Jonathan R Goodman Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World Yale, HB, £25, 9780300274356 For centuries, people have argued about whether humans are moral animals; altruistic or selfish. Goodman makes the case for synthesising the two sides, showing that we are both competitive and co-operative as the situation demands.


Tim Gregory Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World


Bodley Head, 12th, HB, £25, 9781847928078


Gregory is a nuclear chemist at the National Nuclear Laboratory. Exposing the shortcomings of wind and solar power, this is his “bold and ground- breaking” call to harness the currently untapped potential of nuclear power to tackle our global climate and energy crises, and make abundant energy available to all.


Kathryn Harkup V is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death


Bloomsbury Sigma, 19th, HB, £20, 9781399413077


This follow-up to Harkup’s A is for Arsenic features 14 more poisons from the works of Agatha Christie in an exploration of the Queen of Crime’s extensive chemical knowledge.


Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics: And Everybody Needs to Know Something About It


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Macmillan, 5th, HB, £22, 9781035065844


The husband-and-wife authors – a world- leading scientist and a writer - unite to explain the revolutionary discoveries and astounding phenomena at the heart of quantum physics; from the greenness of grass to the solidity of matter.


Carl Zimmer Air-Borne:


The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe Picador, 5th, HB, £25, 9781035023462


This odyssey through the living atmosphere and the history of its discovery portrays a place where the oceans and forests loft trillions of cells into the air, where microbes eat clouds, and where life soars thousands of miles on the wind.


Psychology


Nathan H Lents The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender and Mating Shape Modern Relationships


Canongate, 5th, HB, £20, 97818372600706


“Even a cursory glimpse of the sex lives of other animals demolishes any notion that sexual activity is narrowly purposed towards procreation”. From lesbian albatrosses to bonobos who kiss, the forensic-biologist author engagingly explores what sexual diversity in the animal kingdom can teach us about our own, aiming to demolish biases “held by even the most open- minded among us”.


Amber Medland Attention Seeker Dialogue, 26th, HB, £20, 9780349704135


Billed as the definitive book on ADHD, this aims to cut through the online noise, and reclaim the narrative around the condition by looking at how it affects individuals throughout their lives, through such themes as diagnosis, education, gendered experience, employment, addiction and prisons.


Daniel Yon A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality


Cornerstone Press, 26th, HB, £22, 978152900064


“We are all prisoners to our past experiences.” Psychologist and neuroscientist Yon reveals the ways in which our brains also act as scientists, forming our perceptions of the world, the judgements we make about people and the beliefs we develop about ourselves. It all has implications for mental health, neurodiversity and more.


Reference & puzzle books


The Fortune Hotel The Fortune Hotel: The Official Puzzle Book


Michael O’Mara, 5th, PB, £14.99, 9781789297843


This official puzzle- book companion to the ITV series invites you to put your radical and strategic skills to the test with cunning puzzles, tricky tasks and crafty challenges to solve.


Sport & games


Vassos Alexander Swimmingly: Adventures in Water


Bloomsbury Sport, 5th, HB, £16.99, 9781399414593


The sports presenter and ultra-athlete takes the plunge and explores the delights and rewards of wild and open- water swimming. He interviews the great and good of the pursuit, including Alison Streeter, the first woman to swim the Channel three ways non-stop, to find out what makes so many of us want to dive in.


Ned Boulting The Accidental Tourist: (Final) Dispatches From the Road


Bloomsbury Sport, 19th, HB, £20, 9781399419826


Boulting picks up the story he told 15 years ago in his book How I Won the Yellow Jumper with some fresh dispatches from the front line of road racing, and from behind the scenes of the madness of the modern professional peloton on the road.


Joey D’Urso More Than a Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power


Seven Dials, 19th, HB, £22, 9781399622806


Promising to “change the way you think about the beautiful game’s most universal symbol”, this intriguing-sounding book centres on 22 football shirts that best explain the modern world; from FC Schalke of Germany’s shirt and the war in Ukraine; to West Bromwich Albion’s and China’s foreign policy.


Peter Grimsdale Superveloce Simon & Schuster, 5th, HB, £25, 9781398513037


Featuring charismatic and competitive drivers, this traces a century of Italian design genius, and the rise of great automative and motorsport dynasties including Ferrari, Farina, Maserati, and Fiat’s Agnelli family.


Alastair Horne Chess Illustrated Amber, 14th, HB, £29.99, 9781838865191


Featuring classic Chinese binding, this richly illustrated gift book offers a guide to the game of chess, featuring chess moves, great players of the game and notable chess sets.


Mark Kriegel Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson


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Ebury Spotlight, 5th, HB, £25, 9781529958942


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