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Lagom, 9th, £16.99, 9781788708173 Financial psychotherapist Reynal advises on changing our financial behaviour and resolving unhealthy money habits.
Christina Wallace The Portfolio Life Ebury Edge, 16th, £10.99, 9781529146356 How to build sustainable, future-proof, fulfilling lives that don’t tie our identities and livelihoods to one single job.
Film, TV and music
A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time Elliott & Tompson, 30th, £10.99, 9781783967926 A novel musical almanac to chart your way through the year via the major events and trivial incidents of the lives of pop stars and recording artists.
Glen Matlock Triggers Nine Eight Books, 9th, £10.99, 9781788709477 The story of Sex Pistols bassist Matlock, told through 30 of his most formative songs.
An insider’s perspective on the inception and rise of Goth music.
Graphic novels
Joshua Williamson & Daniel Sampere (illus) Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths DC Comics, 28th, £16.99, 9781779525185 A sprawling crossover event sees a new generation of heroes attempt to save the Multiverse in the wake of the death of the Justice League at the hands of Pariah.
Richard Evans Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 Omnibus Press, 2nd, £14.99, 9781915841452 Archive press materials and interviews help tell the story of early electronic music.
Howard Fishman To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse Wildfire, 2nd, £14.99, 9781035408887 Story of a 1950s New York singer-songwriter who made a unique contribution to music history and then mysteriously disappeared.
Justin Lewis Don’t Stop the Music:
Simon McVeigh Music in Edwardian London Boydell Press, 21st, £24.99, 9781837651603 The emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of high and low- brow musical innovation and experimentation.
Bernie Taupin Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me Monoray, 23rd, £9.99, 9781800960770 Memoir of a creative powerhouse, the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John and conceived ideas for countless hits.
Cathi Unsworth Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth Nine Eight Books, 2nd, £14.99, 9781788706278
Natural history and pets
Hamza Yassin Be a Birder Gaia, 9th, £10.99, 9781856755108
Chip Zdarsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico (illus) Batman: The Knight Vol 1 DC Comics, 28th, £26, 9781779525079 Tales of Bruce Wayne’s early training to become Batman, including an adventure in Paris.
Health and parenting
Lotte Jeffs & Stu Oakley The Queer Parent Bluebird, 16th, £10.99, 9781035001835 Funny and informative LGBTQ+ parenting handbook from the hosts of podcast “Some Families”. Features an introduction by Sandi Toksvig.
Dr Samara Linton & Dr Rianna Walcott The Colour of Madness: 65 Writers Reflect on Race and Mental Health Bluebird, 2nd, £10.99, 9781035044399 Stories, essays, poetry and art shining a light on the experiences of
mental health for people of colour.
Devorah Baum On Marriage Penguin, 16th, £10.99, 9780241998021 A celebration and critique of the cultural institution of marriage.
Dr Louise Newson The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause Yellow Kite, 2nd, £12.99, 9781399705172 Revied and updated guide to help debunk myths and help women thrive.
History, politics and current affairs
Gareth Atkins Converting Britannia: Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770–1840 Boydell Press, 14th, £26.99, 9781837651269 How Evangelicalism functioned not just as a powerful social movement but also as a political machine.
Munroe Bergdorf Transitional Bloomsbury Publishing, 23rd, £9.99, 9781526630322 A memoir and manifesto on transitioning as an ingrained part of the human experience.
Burkhard Bilger Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets William Collins, 9th, £10.99, 9780008100773 Bilger unravels his dark family history, travelling to the Alsace Lorraine region to try to understand his German grandfather, a Nazi Party chief whose wartime conduct is subject to contradictory accounts.
Chris Bryant Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament —and How to Do It Bloomsbury Publishing, 23rd, £9.99, 9781526663603 Sitting MP and chair of the Standards and Privileges Committee, Bryant reports back from the battle over standards in Parliament with plans on how to clean up Westminster.
Michael Batty Inventing Future Cities Te MIT Press, 7th, £25.00, 9780262548656 Understanding the complexity of cities to develop inventive, innovative approaches to our most pressing urban challenges.
Love Affair Granta Books, 2nd, £10.99, 9781783787197 A clockwise journey from Scarborough to Blackpool, uncovering the history and current struggle of England’s great seaside resorts.
Christopher de Hamel The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club Penguin, 2nd, £16.99, 9780241304389 From a Florentine bookseller to an English antiquary, and a rabbi from central Europe to a French priest, the stories of those people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts over the past thousand years.
Julia Ebner Going Mainstream: Why Extreme Ideas are Spreading, and What We Can Do About it Ithaka, 9th, £10.99, 9781804183786 How ideas previously on the fringes of the political spectrum have become widespread and how activists and educators are fighting to turn the tide.
Madeleine Bunting The Seaside: England’s The Seaside: England’s
One to Watch
As spring edges towards summer this mix of autobiography entwined with the natural world and informative guide should coax out some inner birders. Yassin’s profile has risen from stints on BBC’s “Countryfile” and winning “Strictly Come Dancing” in
2022 to fronting congruent programmes such as “Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey”. A mix of anecdote and observational notes detail 50 of Yassin’s favourite birds, accompanied by beautiful illustra- tions from Rebecca Seddon.
Biography and memoir Rebecca Struthers
Hands of Time Hodder Paperbacks, 2nd, £10.99, 9781529339048
Tom Fort Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Village Life in the Hardware Shop Headline, 9th, £12.99, 9781472291950 A personal history of a hardware shop at the centre of village life, told through its previous owners, the customers and the items it sells. “A quirky tale of a subculture, a shrine where many of us worship”, said the Sunday Times.
One to Watch
Recommended to me by Tim Morris from Oswestry’s Booka Bookshop, this is the life story of a modern-day watchmaker, a celebration of human craft and an examination of how time-keeping has shaped our attitudes to work, leisure,
trade, politics, exploration and mortality. “A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy”, said the Telegraph.
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