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told through his food memories from the trials of being a diabetic with a sweet tooth to teenage battles with obesity.
Salena Godden Springfield Road: A Poet’s Childhood Revisited Canongate Canons, 2nd, £10.99, 9781805300243 A poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer evokes a childhood in Thatcher’s Britain. “Urgent and detailed, colourful and clamorous”, said the Times.
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in 99 Particles John Muray, 9th, £9.99, 9781529372502 A portrait of the scientist in 99 stories, from telling jokes to cheer up his sad parrot Bibo to refusing the presidency of Israel.
Chris Harris Variable Valve Timings Ebury Spotlight, 23rd, £10.99, 9781529913606 Memoir of Harris’ life- long obsession with the automobile, from the Scalextric track to the “Top Gear” studio.
Lottie Jackson See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns Penguin, 2nd, £10.99, 9781529156058
On living with a disability, and how we can redefine what it means to be disabled.
Ben Goldsmith God is an Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature Wildlife, 9th, £12.99, 9781399408363 In the wake of his teenage daughter’s death, Goldsmith finds solace in nature by planning to rewild his Somerset farm. “An ambitious blend of memoir, nature diary and search for the meaning of life”, said the Times.
Jake and Hannah Graf Becoming Us Coronet, 30th, £12.99, 9781399719223 Memoir of the UK’s most visible transgender couple and family.
Samuel Graydon Einstein in Time and Space: A Life
Reissues/literary Rosemary Tonks
The Halt During the Chase Vintage Classics, 2nd, £9.99, 9781784879303
who taught herself in secret when forced out of school by the Taliban.
Theresa May The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life Headline, 23rd, £12.99, 9781035409914 A political memoir reflecting on how those in power often fail those they serve.
study of what constitutes believability in our society.
Elliot Page Pageboy Penguin, 9th, £10.99, 9781804991466 Autobiography of the Canadian actor.
Hannah Pick-Goslar My Friend Anne Frank Rider, 9th, £9.99, 9781846047466 Bergen-Belsen survivor Pick-Goslar shares a portrait of her childhood friend Anne Frank. “Unsparing with the truth, but ultimately uplifting”, said the Times.
Iwan Morgan FDR Bloomsbury Academic, 30th, £14.99, 9781350447950 A political biography of Franklin D Roosevelt drawing on archival research and analysis of early decisions made by his administration.
Malka Levine A Mother’s Courage Pan, 23rd, £10.99, 9781035027835 Holocaust survivor Levine’s powerful tribute to her mother Rivka who kept her and her two older brothers alive.
Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor Defiant Dreams Penguin, 9th, £10.99, 9781529176056 Account of a young woman from Afghanistan
Clive Myrie Everything is Everything Hodder Paperbacks, 23rd, £10.99, 9781399715003 From a Bolton teenager with a paper round, to one of the BBC’s flagship journalists and presenters, Myrie recalls episodes from his career and how his family history has influenced his view of the world.
Dina Nayeri Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough Vintage, 2nd, £10.99, 9781529920529 A combination of life writing and a
Wes Streeting One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up Hodder Paperbacks, 9th, £10.99, 9781399710138 East End memoir of Streeting, the Labour MP for Ilford North and Shadow Health Secretary.
Alice Vincent Why Women Grow Canongate Books, 2nd, £10.99, 9781838855468 Why women are drawn to garden, recovering histories that have been hidden in the soil. “Full of restless curiosity”, said the Independent. Longlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize.
Virago, 2nd, £10.99, 9780349010595 On losing her mother, Walter searches for the legacy of a family who lived through some of the great crises of the 20th century. “Heartfelt and upfront”, said the Guardian.
Removing Barriers and Building Belonging in the Workplace Piatkus, 9th, £10.99, 9780349435022 How to launch a reverse mentorship programme, where senior leaders learn from and foster underrepresented junior employees, creating a culture where people feel safe to contribute their ideas.
Michael Wolff The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire Te Bridge Street Press, 9th, £10.99, 9780349128825 How Fox News and the Dominion lawsuit hit Rupert Murdoch’s empire, and the battles over which of his children would be his successor.
Business & economics
Philip Coggan
Surviving the Daily Grind Economist Books, 16th, £10.99, 9781788169257 Based on the Economist Bartleby column, Coggan rewrites the rules of modern work.
Micael Dahlen & Helge Thorbjørnsen Numbermania Monoray, 9th, £10.99, 9781800961050 Two economists explore how a deluge of figures, stats and data have made their way into every part of our lives.
Natasha Walter Before the Light Fades
Patrice Gordon Reverse Mentoring:
One to Watch
A publishing milestone arrives for us fans of poet Rosemary Tonks, whose career in 1960s London and subsequent vanishing were the subject of a 2009 Radio 4 documentary. Interest from the “Backlisted” podcast fuelled the reissue
of The Bloater in 2022, and now Vintage is reissuing three more novels in May. First published in 1972, The Halt During the Chase is packed with potent imagery, wry remarks and liberatory energy. Businessmen as Lovers (1969) and The Way Out of Berkeley Square (1970) are similarly revelatory.
History, politics and current affairs Ilyon Woo
Master Slave Husband Wife Ithaka, 16th, £10.99, 9781804184851
Simon Johnson & Daron Acemoglu Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity Basic Books, 23rd, £10.99, 9781399804479 Why technology has often benefited elites and how we can reshape the path of innovation. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
Glory M Liu Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism Princeton University Press, 28th, £20, 9780691240862 How generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, misinterpreted, and weaponised the moral philosophy of Adam Smith.
Vicky Reynal Money on Your Mind
One to Watch
The true story of the epic journeys of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery in disguise, travelling for 800 miles with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as “his” slave, eventually fleeing the
reach of the Fugitive Slave Act by moving to England and raising a family in Hammersmith. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in non-fiction.
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