BOOKS


Margo Jefferson Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Granta, 5th, £16.99, HB, 9781783785544 The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Negroland fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be—as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes—this account is both a critique and a vindication of the constructed self.


Emiliano Monge What Goes Unsaid Scribe, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781912854424 A memoir about three generations of men who are driven to escape the confines of their tradi- tional lives and roles.


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listening as activism by pre-eminent composer Oliveros. Publishing on the 90th anniversary of her birth, to be celebrated with a series of events, screenings and talks.


Ronnie Spector Be My Baby Macmillan, 12th, £18.99, HB, 9781529091557 Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, this autobiogra- phy sees singer Spector detail the dazzling highs and devastating lows that have shaped her life.


Ruth Wilson Gilmore Abolition Geography Verso, 10th, £25, HB, 9781839761706 This title is a collection of three decades of prison abolitionist Wilson Gilmore's essays and interviews on the politics of abolition as a theorist, researcher and organiser.


Children’s


from the founder of Dope Black Dads, a digital safe space for Black fathers to discuss their experiences with parenthood.


Sharna Jackson The Good Turn Puffin, 12th, £7.99, PB, 9780241523599 When 11-year-old Josephine learns about Josephine Holloway—a woman who started the first Girl Scout Troop for Black girls in America—she’s certain she must start her own. Jackson’s début novel, High Rise Mystery, won the Waterstones Prize for Younger Readers.


Emily Kenny The Extraordinary Adventures of Alice Tonks Rock the Boat, 26th, £6.99, PB, 9780861542055 Themes of friendship and neurodiversity, in the the first of two books featur- ing Alice Tonks, an autistic girl who discovers she can talk to animals and learns that creatures are going missing.


Gerald Murname Last Letter to a Reader And Other Stories, 3rd, £11.99, PB, 9781913505424 In the first days of spring in his 82nd year, Murnane began a project to read all of his books and prepare a report on each. These reports grew to form miniature memoirs.


Kate Noakes Real Hay-on-Wye Seren, 23rd, £9.99, PB, 9781781725771 This title explores the town of Hay-on-Wye, home to the prestigious Hay Literature Festival, How the Light Gets In festival and Town of Books.


Alliah L Agostini, Sawyer Cloud (illus) The Juneteenth Story becker&mayer!, 3rd, £14.99, HB, 9780760375143 With colourful illustra- tions and a timeline, The Juneteenth Story explains the origins and evolution of this American celebra- tion and connects dots between the Civil War, civil rights and today.


Joseph Coelho, Daniel Gray-Barnett (illus) Smile Out Loud Wide Eyed Editions, 10th, £12.99, HB, 9780711271791 A book of 25 poems designed to help children build their confidence reading poems aloud and expressing and manifest- ing happiness and joy.


Pauline Oliveros Quantum Listening Ignota, 30th, £5.99, PB, 9781838003944 The second in Ignota’s Terra Ignota series, this title is a manifesto for


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Marvyn Harrison, Diane Ewan (illus) I Love Me! Macmillan Children’s Books, 12th, £7.99, PB, 9781529083880 This book of positive affirmations is designed to help children build confidence and happiness,


Andrus Kivirähk, Adam Cullen (trans), Anne Pikkov (illus) Oskar and the Things Emma Press, 5th, £8.99, PB, 9781912915781 A whimsical novel that will appeal to fans of other dry Nordic children’s whimsy such as the Moomins and Pippi Longstocking, this story is about the joy of play and the power of imagination. 2016 winner of the Tartu Prize for Children’s Literature.


Caryl Lewis, George Ermos (illus) Seed Macmillan Children’s Books, 12th, £7.99, PB, 9781529077667 A story about the power of hope and imagination, Seed is the publisher’s lead middle-grade title for 2022 and features a main character who is deaf.


Yijing Li Through the Forest Lantana, 5th, £11.99, HB, 9781913747770 Illustrated story about coming to terms with difficult memories, this book follows a young boy who learns to trea- sure his memories and find his true path.


Priscilla Mante The Dream Team:


Charligh Green vs the Spotlight Puffin, 26th, £6.99, PB, 9780241482032 The Dream Team tells the story of Charligh, who has always loved being the centre of attention, but she’s beginning to attract attention for all the wrong reasons.


Brigita Orel, Jennie Poh (illus) The Pirate Tree Lantana, 18th, £7.99, PB, 9781915244062 A title about friendship from Slovenian author and translator Orel.


Burning Eye, 25th, £9.99, PB, 9781913958237 The third main collection from multiple slam cham- pion Dickinson.


Tristram Fane Saunders The Rake New Poets List, 2nd, £5, PB, 9781914914201 These “sly, untrust- worthy” poems tell the story of a nameless, ageless dandy, his slow decline and his well- deserved fall.


Sarah James Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic Verve Poetry Press, 12th, £10.99, PB, 9781913917111 James’s exploration of 40 years living with type one diabetes tracks her personal journey from diagnosis, age six, to adulthood in poems of pain, love and beauty.


Marcus Rashford & Alex Falase-Koya, Marta Kissi (illus) The Breakfast Club Adventures Macmillan Children’s Books, 26th, £6.99, PB, 9781529076622 The début fiction title from footballer Rashford and the third title in the Marcus Rashford Book Club. Rashford’s You Are A Champion has sold 220,000 copies through the UK TCM, according to the publisher.


Tracey Turner, Asa Gilland (illus) This Is Our World: From Alaska to the Amazon—Meet 20 Children Just Like You Macmillan Children’s Books, 12th, £9.99, PB, 9781529062304 A colourful celebration of our planet’s cultural and environmental diversity brings the people, customs and wildlife of 20 places around the world vividly to life for young readers.


Kevin van Whye Nate Plus One Puffin, 12th, £7.99, PB, 9780241567807 A story of two boys, two bands and a summer of music. Self-discovery and simmering romantic tension from South African author van Whye.


Poetry


Ash Dickinson Instructions for Outlaws


Bibi June Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer Burning Eye, 18th, £6.99, PB, 9781913958244 The Kinsey Scale is an archaic sexuality rating scale that runs from 0-6. This title is a rewriting of the original scale, measured to fit the expansiveness of a generation of queers who have lived from “apoca- lypse to apocalypse”.


and from teaching the trumpet in schools and running a brass band, right through to playing in working men’s clubs in a 10-piece soul band.


Samantha Thornhill The Animated Universe Peepal Tree Press, 12th, £9.99, PB, 9781845235383 This début features themes of coming of age, sexuality, femininity, immigration, injustice.


Olly Todd Out for Air Penned in the Margins, 16th, £9.99, PB, 9781913850074 The first collection by the former professional skate- boarder is infused with movement, surprise and play. From Manhattan’s '‘silky streets" and the Pacific Coast Highway, to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things.


Jane Monson The Chalk Butterfly Cinnamon Press, 3rd, £9.99, PB, 9781788641296 Responding to the fragile borders between climate change and mental health to evolve into conversations around trauma, change, care and the natural world, this title explores images of home and the paradoxes around our simultaneous care and “un-care” for nature and language.


Kim Moore What the Trumpet Taught Me smith | doorstop, 2nd, £8.99, PB, 9781914914140 A collection of Moore’s vivid and immediate snapshots, from first lessons to music college,


Katie (Tom) Walters My Body is a Resource I Am Willing to Expend Burning Eye Books, 4th, £9.99, PB, 9781913958220 In 2016, Walters developed a severely disabling, incurable disease. This début collection exposes the process of acceptance, reconfiguring their relationships and finding their place in an increasingly inaccessible world.


Julia Webb The Telling Nine Arches Press, 19th, £9.99, PB, 9781913437367 The third collection from Norfolk-based poet and editor Webb is a moving and dark exploration of complicated families, class, single parenthood, loss and identity.


Julie Wong Kcomt, Jennifer Shyue (trans) Vice-royal-ties Ugly Duckling Press, 1st, £10, PB, 9781946433855 The poems in this chap- book play with binaries: of power, love, language, country and identity.


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