BOOKS
A Countryside Companion: 74 Tips, Tales and Talking Points Profile Books, 2nd, £10.99, 9781788168700 Father-daughter co-authors present a guide to the countryside, full of facts, rural lore and useful advice.
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Cropper Wainwright Prize.
Miriam Mulcahy This is My Sea Eriu, 9th, £9.99, 9781804185032 The lessons Mulcahy learned from the sea, in the wake of grief at the loss of her mother, father and sister.
Popular science, philosophy and self-help
Adam Alter Anatomy of a Breakthrough Heligo Books, 16th, £10.99, 9781785121593 Drawing on scientific studies, anecdotes and interviews, a guide to boldly breaking away from what holds you back and realising your goals.
Jim Leary Footmarks: A Journey Into Our Restless Past Icon Books, 9th, £10.99, 9781837730254 How human history has been filled with travel, enforced (or prohibited) by people with power, and often showing bravery and ingenuity on journeys across continents and oceans.
Jonathan B Losos The Age of Cats William Collins, 9th, £10.99, 9780008339500 A more formal cover direction for the paperback of this delve into the secrets of cats, using modern technology, from GPS tracking and genomics to forensic archaeology.
James Macdonald Lockhart Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong Fourth Estate, 9th, £10.99, 9780008399566 The sounds birds make become an introduction to their lives in a study of eight species, each representative of a different habitat.
Lev Parikian Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed the Earth Elliott & Tompson, 16th, £10.99, 9781783967827 A beautiful new cover for the paperback edition of Parikian’s study of flight from humanity’s long history of a “mitigated plummet” to the special adaptations and behaviours of 14 flying species. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
Poetry Liz Berry
The Home Child Vintage, 2nd, £9.99, 9781529937817 A novel-in-verse about Edwardian emigration from the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia.
Charlotte Lee (ed) German Romantic Poets Everyman’s Library, 2nd, hb, £12, 9781841598314 Spanning Goethe, Eichendorff, Mereau, von Günderrode and von Droste, a new selection of classics works from German Romantic poets, presented in a collectable pocket hardback format.
Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall Black Ops and Beaver Bombing Oneworld, 2nd, £10.99, 9780861548002 A bright woodcut cover for this celebration of Britain’s mammals, tracked down in the most unexpected places. Shortlisted for the James
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Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan (ed) 100 Queer Poems Vintage, 30th, £10.99, 9781529115338 A questioning, redefining selection of 100 queer poems from across the 20th and 21st centuries, and chosen by acclaimed poets McMillan and Chan. It has been shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
Karen Bakker The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants Princeton University Press, 7th, £17.99, 9780691240978 How technology holds the power to reconnect us to the natural world. Winner of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Paul Bloom
The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know Vintage, 2nd, £12.99, 9781529925470 Psychology professor Bloom shines new light on everything we think, feel, say and do. “An up-to-the- minute snapshot of the field, full of unknowns and uncertainties… guided by an ever-more rounded idea of what it is to be human”, said the New Scientist.
Cat Bohannon Eve Penguin, 30th, £12.99, 9781529156171 An exploration of what it means to be female today.
Andy Clark The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality Penguin, 16th, £10.99, 9780141990583 An explanation of how our minds, guided by prior expectation, build our worlds.
Helen Czerski Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World Penguin, 2nd, £10.99, 9781804991961 What the ocean does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather, human history and culture. “Readers will see the seas anew”, said the Telegraph.
Amy Edmondson Right Kind of Wrong
Penguin, 30th, £10.99, 9781847943781 How “intelligent failure” can make any team more resilient, successful, and happy. FT Business Book of the Year winner.
Kristen Ghodsee Everyday Utopia: Better Ways of Living Equally Vintage, 16th, £10.99, 9781529925487 Feminist ethnographer Ghodsee’s guide to better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children.
Theresa MacPhail Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World Penguin, 2nd, £10.99, 9781802062830 With allergy diagnoses steadily increasing, an in-depth study of those affected by allergies, the new treatments being provided and the potential of pollution, chemicals and antibiotics to irritate our immune systems.
Junaid Mubeen Mathematical Intelligence Profile Books, 9th, £10.99, 9781788166843 An argument for our uniquely human mathematical abilities.
Better World John Murray, 23rd, £9.99, 9781529393903 How to work through thorny moral questions, identify our positions and carefully defend them in our age of “culture wars”.
Siddarth Shrikanth The Case for Nature Duckworth, 2nd, £10.99, 9780715655306 A manifesto assessing our natural capital and how we can value the services that nature provides to make our economies work with our living planet.
James Hamilton-Paterson Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love Apollo, 9th, £9.99, 9781803285535 From pets, gardening, sports and more, how our everyday habits and activities are contributing to climate crisis.
Noor Hibbert You Only Live Once John Murray One, 23rd, £10.99, 9781529379983 A guide to designing a life you want and making it happen.
Chris van Tulleken Ultra-Processed People Penguin, 2nd, £10.99, 9781529160222 A study of food science, examining the role ultra- processed food is playing in our lives. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize.
Sport
Dr Jeremy Nobel Project UnLonely: Navigate Loneliness and Reconnect with Others Headline Home, 9th, £12.99, 9781472287069 Responding to a public health crisis of chronic loneliness, how meaningful reconnection can be fostered.
Luke O’Neill To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science Penguin, 2nd, £10.99, 9780241994122 A history of science via the human stories behind the biggest discoveries.
Michio Kaku Quantum Supremacy Penguin, 2nd, £10.99, 9780141999456 How the quantum computer, harnessing the power of the atomic realm, may solve humanity’s greatest challenges.
Lawrence M Krauss The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos Apollo, 9th, £9.99, 9781801100656 From time and space to life and consciousness, 25 of cosmology’s greatest unanswered questions that shape the future of science.
Daniel Oberhaus Extraterrestrial Languages Te MIT Press, 7th, £21, 9780262548649 If there is extraterrestrial life, how would we communicate with it? A cross-disciplinary look at our attempts at interstellar messaging.
Tim Peake Space Penguin, 23rd, £10.99, 9781804946268 A human history of space travel, looking at the lives and experiences of the 656 people who have left Earth for space.
Arianne Shahvisi Arguing for a
Stuart Barker Ragged Edge John Blake, 9th, £10.99, 9781789467017 The story of the Isle of Man TT motorcycle road race, first held in 1907.
Liam Brady Born to be a Footballer Eriu, 30th, £10.99, 9781804185018 Autobiography of the footballer who joined Arsenal as a 15-year-old in the 1970s and went on to play in Europe and manage at the highest level.
Mike Brearley Turning Over the Pebbles Constable, 2nd, £12.99, 9781408715970 Cricketing memoir of Brearley, former Cambridge and Middlesex player, who captained England between 1977 and 1980.
Stuart Broad Stuart Broad: Broadly Speaking Hodder Paperbacks, 30th, £10.99, 9781399729444 Autobiography of the former England and Nottinghamshire cricketer.
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