BOOKS
the end of the galaxy to save humankind.
Constance Sayers A Witch in Time Piatkus, 8th, £8.99, 9780349425948
Début A woman relives a doomed love
affair over and over again, after she is bound to her lover in 1895, and trapped by his side ever since.
Previews Paperback Preview
into the World … Piatkus, 15th, £9.99, 9780349420523 The latest in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series sees Syn crossing the path of the vampire race’s new enemy.
Tyler Whitesides The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn Orbit, 8th, £9.99, 9780356515366 Master thief Ardor Benn is hired to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known.
Mats Strandberg The Home Jo Fletcher Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781529402155 When Joel’s mother Monika develops demen- tia, she has to go into the care home Pineshade, where she starts having terrifying episodes—like the other residents there.
Jodi Taylor Doing Time Headline, 15th, £8.99, 9781472266774 This new series spinning off from The Chronicles of St Mary’s is set in a world where time travel is possible, and where the Time Police are tasked with keeping the timeline straight.
Timothy Zahn Heir to the Empire Arrow, 1st, £8.99, 9781787466326 The first in the Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy sees the last of the Emperor’s warlords, Grand Admiral Thrawn, taking command of the shattered Imperial fleet. The second and third in the trilogy are also published this month.
Biography and memoirs
Emily Atack Are We There Yet? Seven Dials, 1st, £8.99, 9781841883694 A memoir from “The Inbetweeners” and “I’m a Celebrity...” star. Atack has 1.6 million Instagram followers.
Danny Tobey The God Game Gollancz, 15th, £8.99, 9781473224490 Charlie and his friends start playing a virtual reality game in which if you die in the game, you die in real life.
Menna van Praag The Sisters Grimm Black Swan, 15th, £8.99, 9781784164614 Four sisters Grimm, daughters born to differ- ent mothers on the same day, must find each other again, and then fight to save their lives and those of the ones they love.
J R Ward The Sinner: Escape 28 24th July 2020
Chris Atkins A Bit of a Stretch Atlantic Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781838950170 An insight into the reality of life in Britain’s prisons, by a documentary maker who spent five years in HMP Wandsworth. “An incredibly compelling account, not just because of Atkins’ incongruity and his knack for black, observational humour, but because it lays bare a system that has become utterly dysfunctional,” said the Times.
Louise Callaghan Father Of Lions Head of Zeus, 1st, £9.99, 9781789540772 How Mosul Zoo survived two years of Isis rule, thanks to Abu Laith, the zookeeper.
Kyle Carpenter You Are Worth It Custom House, 29th, £12.99, 9780062898531 A memoir from the youngest living Medal of Honour recipient, a former US Marine who jumped on a grenade in Helmand Province to save a fellow marine.
Lenka Janiurek Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming Allison & Busby, 22nd, £8.99, 9780749025069 A memoir from the author, whose first play was performed at the Royal Court when she was just a teenager, tracing family fragmentation, relation- ships with sons, lovers and partners, and the solace of swimming.
Tom Cutler Keep Clear
Max Boot The Road Not Taken Head of Zeus, 1st, £16.99, 9781788542685 A biography of Edward Lansdale, the man said to be the model for Greene’s
Scribe UK, 8th, £9.99, 9781912854738 A memoir about living with Asperger’s syndrome, by an author who was diagnosed at age 55.
Eddy de Wind Last Stop Auschwitz Black Swan, 1st, £8.99, 9781784164980 An afterword from John
Norman Jay MBE Mister Good Times Dialogue Books, 22nd, £9.99, 9780349700670 The autobiography of the legendary DJ. “Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the “Windrush” generation in London’s Notting Hill, the violence and racism he faced, and his success,” said the Observer.
Rachel Johnson Rake’s Progress
The Quiet American. “Judicious and absorbing,” according to the New York Times Book Review.
Boyne for this memoir from an Auschwitz prisoner, written after the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945. Transworld says it has sold 10,000 copies in hardback.
Anne Boyer The Undying Penguin, 29th, £9.99, 9780141990859 The Pulitzer-winning exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, by Boyer, a poet and essayist who was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of cancer as a single mother at the age of 41.
Eamon Duffy John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History SPCK Publishing, 15th, £8.99, 9780281078592 A concise introduction to the life of the influential Christian thinker.
Holly George-Warren Janis S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 1st, £10.99, 9781471140945 A biography of Janis Joplin, exploring how a middle-class girl from Texas became a 1960s countercultural icon.
Jill Hedges Evita: The Life of Eva Perón I B Tauris, 15th, £12.99, 9780755602902 An exploration of the life of Eva Peron, the first substantial biography in English, according to Bloomsbury.
Russell Kane Son of a Silverback Corgi, 1st, £9.99, 9780552174909 The comedian’s memoir about growing up in the shadow of an alpha male, “silverback” dad.
Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House Serpent’s Tail, 1st, £8.99, 9781788162258
A memoir about domestic abuse and a relationship gone bad, by the prize- winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. “Ravishingly beautiful,” said the Observer.
Benjamin Moser Sontag Penguin, 1st, £18.99, 9780141977898 A biography of the tower- ing 20th-century literary figure, covering her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face. “Moser’s socially panoramic, psychologically incisive biography does a superb job of charting Sontag’s self-invention,” said the Guardian.
S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 15th, £8.99, 9781471190438 The writer and broad- caster, and sister of Boris Johnson, lays out why she stood for Change UK in the 2019 European Parliament election.
the Confessor, England’s penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.
Rossana Rossanda The Comrade from Milan Verso, 27th, £25, 9781788739634 A memoir from the legendary figure on the Italian left.
Francis Rossi I Talk Too Much Constable, 8th, £9.99, 9781472130181 The Status Quo front- man’s memoir, a Sunday Times bestseller called the rock ’n’ roll autobiography of the year by the Mail on Sunday.
Tegan and Sara High School Virago, 1st, £9.99, 9780349011981 The iconic musicians, twin sisters Sara and Tegan Quin, write about high school, first loves and first songs in this memoir. “Elegant and evocative,” said the Guardian.
Oliver Soden Michael Tippett W&N, 15th, £14.99, 9781474606035 A biography of the late 20th-century composer Michael Tippett. “A delight to read,” according to Philip Pullman.
Eliska Tanzer The Girl from Nowhere Mirror Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781912624942 A memoir about how the author, a gypsy, was shipped to England in a washing machine box for a new life, but found it turning into a nightmare.
Janet L Nelson King and Emperor Penguin, 1st, £16.99, 9780241305256 This biography of Charlemagne was called an “immense achieve- ment—brilliantly learned and profoundly wise” by BBC History Magazine.
Peter Rex King & Saint Te History Press, 1st, £12.99, 9780750994125 A biography of Edward
Laura Thompson Life In A Cold Climate Head of Zeus, 1st, £9.99, 9781789542660 A biography of Nancy Mitford called a “gem: fresh, intelligent and assured” by the Sunday Times.
Jonathan Van Ness Over the Top S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 29th, £8.99, 9781471179945 A memoir from the grooming and self-care
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40
