BOOKS


Kaya Genç The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey Bloomsbury Academic, 16th, £14.99, 9781350436770 The story of modern Turkey, told through the places and people in whom the contrasting pasts of the nation meet. Features new material on the 2023 elections.


Ed Gillett Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain Picador, 9th, £10.99, 9781529070651 A history of dance music in the UK, and its pivotal, rebellious role in Britain’s social, political and economic development. “Valuable social history, the politics of dancing expertly laid bare”, said the Times.


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Ian Knight Warriors in Scarlet Pan, 9th, £12.99, 9781447223535 Military historian Knight uses first-hand accounts to tell the story of the Victorian army between 1837 and 1860.


Joshua Levine SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS William Collins, 9th, £10.99, 9780008549992 An authorised history of the SAS, with previously unseen photographs and stories.


Ronan McGreevy & Tommy Conlon The Kidnapping Penguin, 30th, £9.99, 9781405959018 Account of the IRA kidnapping of a supermarket executive in 1983, the massive manhunt which followed which explains how nobody came out of the incident unscathed.


Amanda Harvey-Purse The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors Amberley Publishing, 15th, £10.99, 9781398119611 The long history of the Boleyn bloodline across five centuries of royal drama.


Natalie Haynes Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth Picador, 2nd, £10.99, 9781529089516 The role of goddesses in the world of Greek myth. Combines “immense scholarship with a sarky, easygoing tone”, said the Times.


James Holland The Savage Storm Penguin, 23rd, £8.99, 9781804991404 The Allies campaign across Southern Italy in September 1943, told through a wealth of documents, letters and diaries.


Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook The Rest is History Bloomsbury Publishing, 23rd, £10.99, 9781526667731 Two acclaimed historians answer history’s most curious questions, building


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Leo McKinstry Cinderella Boys John Murray, 23rd, £10.99, 9781529319378 Story of the RAF’s maritime wing who rescued Britain from Hitler’s U-boats and enabled Allied victory.


James O’Brien How They Broke Britain W H Allen, 2nd, £10.99, 9780753560365 How Britain has changed for the worse over the course of a decade, told through 10 people judged to be complicit in the nation’s downfall, whether by incompetence or design. A “thorough record of the self-serving actions and pronouncements of those who have held power in Britain”, said the Guardian.


Brendan O’Leary Making Sense of a United Ireland Penguin, 16th, £10.99, 9780241995778 Following the electoral success of Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin, an exploration of the future of Ireland by an expert on Irish partition.


Tomiwa Owolade This is Not America: Why We Need a British Conversation About Race Atlantic Books, 2nd, £10.99, 9781838956233 A new framework for understanding race and racial injustice in Britain today, distinguishing a particular British history apart from a prism of American ideas. Winner of the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction.


John Nichol Eject! Eject! Simon & Schuster Adult Non-Fiction, 23rd, £9.99, 9781398509436 The story of the ejection seat in war and in peace, including the pioneers who risked everything in the early days of development. “A nice eye for the curious detail”, said the Telegraph.


Jenni Nuttall Mother Tongue Virago, 2nd, £10.99, 9780349015316 A history of words we have used to describe women’s lives, bodies, menstruation and sexuality from the dawn of Old English to the present day.


Penguin, 16th, £14.99, 9780141996271 Cradle of the Reformation and starting point of the Enlightenment, the precarious, creative, and often turbulent shared history of central Europe, including German lands, Switzerland and most significantly Ukraine.


John Rapley and Peter Heather Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West Penguin, 30th, £10.99, 9780141991160 The uncanny parallels and productive differences between the demise of the Roman empire and the waning power and political division of the Western world.


Charlotte Lydia Riley Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain Vintage, 16th, £10.99, 9781529923803 How empire and its ever-present aftermath have shaped Britain throughout the last 70 years. “A chilling history of institutional and public prejudice”, said the Guardian.


Gareth Russell The Palace William Collins, 9th, £10.99, 9780008437015 A history of Hampton Court, from the Tudors to the present day, spanning power, scandal and intrigue at the centre of British history.


Michael Palin Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire Penguin, 9th, £10.99, 9781804940655 A mix of memoir, travelogue and history telling the life and tragic death of a First World War soldier, Palin’s great- uncle Harry.


Martyn Rady


The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe


John Sadler The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border Amberley Publishing, 15th, £11.99, 9781398119628 Borderer and historian Sadler examines the Anglo-Scottish border from Roman times to today, considering a history of wild inhabitants, reivers, castles and battlefields.


Nan Sloane Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries Bloomsbury Academic, 16th, £14.99, 9781350459786 How female political pioneers from the 1800s changed public space, speaking, writing, marching, organising, asking questions, even facing prison and death.


“A compelling study”, said the Guardian.


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Nancy Birtwhistle Green Living Made Easy One Boat, 9th, £10.99, 9781529088571 Eco-friendly household tips and recipes from “The Great British Bake Off” winner Birtwhistle.


Tim Smedley The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis Picador, 16th, £10.99, 9781529058178 How climate crisis threatens water scarcity and pollution, and practical ways to address it.


Graham Smith Abolish the Monarchy Penguin, 9th, £10.99, 9781804992272 An argument against an unelected family sitting at the heart of our democracy. Arrested during King Charles’ coronation, Smith’s new preface addresses the censorship surrounding the coronation broadcast and soaring republic membership numbers.


Susan Sontag On Women Penguin, 30th, £10.99, 9780241996843 A new selection of Sontag’s essays on women, with the majority drawn from the 1970s and the height of second-wave feminism. Introduced by Merve Emre.


Ashley Walsh Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800 Boydell Press, 14th, £24.99, 9781837651498 How lay and clerical writers in England proclaimed public support for Christianity and transformed it into a civil religion.


K C Davis How to Keep House While Drowning Penguin, 2nd, £9.99, 9781529159417 A gentle guide to staying afloat when life is tough, with practical compassionate strategies to create a functional home and make your space work for you.


Rob Temple The Very British Problems Quiz Book Sphere, 16th, £9.99, 9780751585360 Teasers and puzzles on topics ranging from our iconic weather to types of cake.


Natural history and pets


Steve Backshall Deep Blue: My Ocean Journeys Witness Books, 23rd, £10.99, 9781529144116 Memoir, travel writing and marine science combine in this exploration of aquatic life. “Backshall is an eloquent enthusiast for the wonders to be found in the world’s oceans”, said the Daily Mail.


Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Twelve Words for Moss Penguin, 16th, £10.99, 9780141999548 Blending poetry, nature writing and memoir, an immersive journey through the British wetlands, Burnett renames her favourite species of moss as she grieves her father’s death.


Calder Walton Spies Abacus, 2nd, £12.99, 9780349145013 A history of the intelligence war between Russia and the West over the past 100 years.


Keggie Carew Beastly Canongate Books, 2nd, £10.99, 9781786896933 True stories of kinships between humans and animals feature in an impassioned account of how wild animals shape our lives. Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize.


Meg Clothier and Jonny Clothier Country Matters:


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