BOOKS
Lawrence Dallaglio and Owen Slot The Boys of Winter Blink Publishing, 23rd, £8.99, 9781788706575 The inside story of England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup win told by the people and players who were there.
Julian Dicks Hammer Time Headline, 9th, £12.99, 9781472296597 Stories from the playing career of West Ham defender Dicks, whose physical presence was prominent in the first years of the English Premier League.
Roger Domeneghetti Everybody Wants to Rule the World Vintage, 2nd, £10.99, 9781529114843 A social history of 1980s Britain told through sport. Packed with “engrossing period detail about the pop–sport cultural nexus during the decade”, said the Literary Review.
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Kevin Sinfield The Extra Mile Penguin, 23rd, £10.99, 9781804942758 Autobiography of one-club rugby league Leeds Rhinos legend Sinfield, whose profile has soared in recent years, helping to raise nearly £10m for motor-neurone disease charities in honour of his old teammate Rob Burrows.
Richard Williams 24 Hours Simon & Schuster Adult Non-Fiction, 23rd, £14.99, 9781398517257 Story of an iconic motorsports event, the Le Mans endurance sports car race, which celebrated its centenary in 2023.
Travel writing
Tim Hannigan The Granite Kingdom Apollo, 9th, £10.99, 9781801108850 Account of an east-west walk across Cornwall.
Paul Hayward England Football: The Biography 1872–2022 Simon & Schuster Adult Non-Fiction, 23rd, £12.99, 9781471184376 The story of the England men’s football team drawing on interviews with players and coaches, past and present. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Uli Hesse The Three Lives of the Kaiser Simon & Schuster Adult Non-Fiction, 9th, £10.99, 9781471189128 Biography of Franz Beckenbauer, Germany’s greatest ever footballer, who managed the national side to World Cup glory in 1990.
Louise Minchin Fearless Sport , 23rd, £10.99, 9781399401173 Stories of ordinary women who have performed extraordinary feats of endurance.
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The Smile of the Stranger Pan, 16th, £10.99, 9781529093520 The first two books of the Paget Family Saga, Aiken’s Regency romance series, are reissued in modern covers, signalling to fans of “Bridgerton”.
Richard Askwith Feet in the Clouds Aurum, 16th, £9.99, 9780711291928 Classic study of fell- running is reissued in a 20th anniversary edition, with a brand new prologue and an updated epilogue from Askwith.
Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (ed) Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship Oxford World’s Classics, 9th, £7.99, 9780198900344 The original scouting blueprint features a new introduction from Boehmer, examining its influence on militarists and pacifists, capitalists and environmentalists.
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C J Box Trophy Hunt Aries, 9th, £9.99, 9781837931903 The fourth Joe Pickett mystery, recently adapted as a Paramount+ series.
Jackie Collins American Star Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 23rd, £10.99, 9781398525542 Features a new introduction by Isabelle Broom.
Colin Dexter The Wench is Dead Pan, 30th, £10.99, 9781035005468 One of five Inspector Morse mysteries reissued in an appealing modern look designed by Stuart Wilson.
Emma Donoghue The Wonder Picador, 2nd, £9.99, 9781035038824 Donoghue’s novel of 1850s Ireland, adapted as a film featuring Florence Pugh and Tom Burke, is reissued in the Picador collection.
Terry Eagleton Ideology Verso, 14th, £14.99, 9781804294680 Updated edition of Eagleton’s work of literary and political theory.
Stuart Maconie The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People HarperNorth, 9th, £10.99, 9780008498290 An entertaining travelogue on the state of modern England, following in the footsteps of J B Priestley’s 1930s tour published as English Journey.
True crime
Daniel Smith The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-life Victorian Murder Mystery Michael O’Mara Books, 1st, £10.99, 9781789296297 The real-life origins of Sherlock Holmes found on a Scottish estate where crime fiction and crime fact collided in a case that gripped Victorian Britain.
John Banville The Sea Picador, 2nd, £9.99, 9781035039043 Booker Prize-winning novel from 2005 joins the Picador collection.
Antony Beevor D-Day Penguin, 23rd, £10.99, 9780241968970 Reissued in an 80th anniversary edition
Brigid Benson North Coast Journey: The Magic of Scotland’s Northern Highlands Birlinn, 2nd, £12.99, 9781780278803 Revised and updated guide to the north of Scotland, ideal for those exploring the NC500.
Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (trans) Planet of the Apes Vintage Classics, 2nd, £9.99, 9780099529040 A new edition of the work which spawned the
Martin Edwards (ed) Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries British Library, 10th, £10.99, 9780712355452 A selection of crime stories of scholarly ambition featuring Dorothy L Sayers, Celia Fremlin, Michael Innes and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Anne Enright Actress Vintage, 16th, £8.99, 9781529112139 Four novels from Booker Prize winner Enright’s backlist are reissued.
Norman G Finkelstein The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation
of Jewish Suffering Verso, 14th, £11.99, 9781804297216 Study of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture
Paul Foot The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined Verso, 28th, £19.99, 9781804294697 New edition of a history of the right to vote in Britain.
Max Hastings Das Reich Pan, 16th, £18.99, 9781035022397 Reissued to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the 2nd SS Panzer Division’s march north through France.
William Hope Hodgson The Night Land British Library, 20th, £10.99, 9780712355759 Hodgson’s 1912 novel of a future Earth facing perpetual night after the failing of the Sun joins the Tales of the Weird series.
Miranda July The First Bad Man Canongate Canons, 16th, £9.99, 9781838852740 July’s first novel is reissued in the Canons collection to coincide with publication of her latest novel, All Fours.
Hans Keilson, Damion Searls (trans) Comedy in a Minor Key Pushkin Press Classics, 30th, £9.99, 9781782279761 German-Dutch novelist’s 1947 slim novel about a Dutch couple hiding a Jewish man during the Occupation is reissued in the Pushkin Press Classics series.
George R R Martin Fire and Blood HarperFiction, 23rd, £60.00, 9780008699697 A slipcase edition of Martin’s historiography of the House Targaryen, inspiration for HBO’s “House of the Dragon”.
E Nesbit, Melissa Edmundson (ed) The House of Silence Handheld Classics, 14th, £13.99, 9781912766826 A glimpse of Victorian and Edwardian uncanny in a fresh selection of E Nesbit’s ghost stories.
Julia Quinn Bridgerton: Romancing
Mr Bridgerton Piatkus, 9th, £9.99, 9780349438467 Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton are the focus of the fourth book in Quinn’s series, adapted as the third series of “Bridgerton”.
Jon Ronson Them: Adventures with Extremists Picador, 2nd, £10.99, 9781035039036 Ronson’s exploration of the world of extremists joins the Picador Collection.
C J Sansom Dissolution Pan, 9th, £10.99, 9781035012282 A new look for all seven books featuring Tudor lawyer Shardlake, released ahead of a Disney+ adaptation featuring Arthur Hughes and Sean Bean.
Wesley Stace (ed) Music Stories Everyman’s Library, 2nd, hb, £15, 9781841596365 Musician and novelist Stace selects stories on a musical theme by a wide spectrum of writers from Proust and Nabokov, to Katherine Mansfield and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Leonid Tsypkin Summer in Baden-Baden Faber & Faber, 2nd, £9.99, 9780571386895 A Jewish narrator travels across 1970s Russia reading about Dostoevsky’s 1860s honeymoon in the German spa resort of Baden Baden and their journeys soon become entangled. Introduced by Susan Sontag.
P G Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite Penguin, 2nd, £9.99, 9781529157116 One of a handful of Wodehouse titles reissued in the new series look of bright and jaunty deco covers. Features a new introduction from Greg James.
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