BOOKS 9781786496355
A guide to the history and future of cars. Illustrations and photographs throughout.
Tim Macwelch
Hunting and Gathering Survival Manual Weldon Owen, 6th, £11.99, 9781681885391 A manual for the modern hunter-gatherer.
Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie A Field Guide to the English Clergy Oneworld, 1st, £9.99, 9781786074416 Almost 20,000 hardbacks sold of this “group biogra- phy of ecclesiastical nutti- ness... All gloriously mad,” as the Times put it.
Mason Currey Daily Rituals Women at Work Picador, 15th, £10.99, 9781509852857 From Charlotte Brontë to Vanessa Bell, nearly 150 female writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, poets, choreographers, and filmmakers on how they create and work. The follow-up to Daily Rituals.
Tim Macwelch The Essential Pandemic Survival Guide Weldon Owen, 13th, £9.99, 9781681886138 Over 150 practical tips and guides that will help safeguard your family during a pandemic.
Richard Osman and Alan Connor Richard Osman’s House of Games BBC Books, 8th, £9.99, 9781785944635 Osman presents the first official quiz book to accompany his BBC Two Show.
Mike Pearl
The Day It Finally Happens Hodder & Stoughton, 15th, £9.99, 9781473685635 A speculative look at how the world might end, laying out the possible scenarios.
Jeremy Hardy Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes Two Roads, 29th, £9.99, 9781529300369 A collection of “words, wit, wisdom, one-liners and rants” from the late comedian.
Zach Klein Cabin Porn: Inside Penguin, 1st, £10.99, 9780141990194
A deeper look inside the best-loved homes featured on the blog over the last 10 years, featuring photog- raphy and design stories. This is the follow-up to Cabin Porn, which has sold over 100,000 copies since publication in 2015, says Penguin.
Tim Macwelch Beat the Odds Insight Editions, 6th, £19.99, 9781681885308 A survival expert’s guide to surviving in scary situations.
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Steven Poole A Word for Every Day of the Year Quercus, 29th, £9.99, 9781787478589 A collection of 366 weird and wonderful words and their meanings, one for every day of the year, by the author of the “Word of the Week” column in the Guardian.
Adam Savage Every Tool’s A Hammer S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 27th,
Joseph Piercy A Rum Tale: Spirit of the New World Te History Press, 1st, £9.99, 9780750995986 A guide to rum, featuring history, culture and cock- tail recipes.
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Moves from May
This Sunday Times bestseller is a practical guide to
creativity and making, including interviews with Pixar director Andrew Stanton, Nick Offerman, Oscar-winner Guillermo Del Toro and artist Tom Sachs.
a Curious Cat Sphere, 1st, £7.99, 9780751581195 Sphere says it has sold 10,000 copies of the hardback of this first book from social media star and cat Curious Zelda, who has over 190,000 followers on Twitter.
Music
Lyndsy Spence The Mitford Girls’ Guide to Life Te History Press, 1st, £12.99, 9780750994255 A guide to how the Mitford girls would deal with modern life.
Gary Susman Friends Forever Harper Design, 1st, £16.99, 9780063050525 An illustrated guide celebrating the 25th anniversary of television show “Friends”, including new interviews with show creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman.
Rob Temple Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet Sphere, 15th, £8.99, 9780751574715 The fourth in the series tackles the most awkward problem of all, Brexit, among other classic British problems. Sphere says it has sold 160,000 copies of the books through the Nielsen Total Consumer Market.
Jimmy Barnes Working Class Boy Harpercollins AU, 29th, £10.99, 9781460757338 The rock singer- songwriter, lead vocalist of the band Cold Chisel, tells of how he grew up a working-class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.
Canongate, 22nd, £9.99, 9781786898173 A reflection on the crucial turning points in the history of music, from the BBC broadcaster and musician.
Rakim Sweat the Technique Amistad, 15th, £12.99, 9780062850249 A life story and writing guide for aspiring lyricists from one of the first rap artists to go platinum.
Natural history and pets
of goose in the UK. “A poignant testament to how we can find peace in the rhythms of the natural world,” said the Times.
Popular science, philosophy and self-help
Anna Buckley The Life Scientific: Explorers
W&N, 15th, £9.99, 9781474608091 Based on the interviews broadcast on Radio 4’s “The Life Scientific”, this introduces us to experts from Brian Cox to Henry Marsh.
Flea, Patti Smith Acid For The Children Headline, 15th, £10.99, 9781472230836 The autobiography of the Red Hot Chili Peppers co-founder Flea. “[Flea creates] a rhythm for his prose as curt and distinct as his bass playing,” said the Guardian.
Celia Haddon One Hundred Secret Thoughts Cats have about Humans Hodder & Stoughton, 15th, £6.99, 9780340861707 The Daily Telegraph’s pet agony aunt has sold nearly 250,000 copies of her previous cat books in this range, says Hodder.
Marc Hamer A Life in Nature Vintage, 1st, £8.99, 9781784709938 Previously published as How to Catch a Mole, this follows the author’s experience working as a traditional mole-catcher. “A fascinating, lyrical account of the loneliness and beauty of life on the margins, a memoir of vagrancy,” said the TLS.
Greg Wise &
Emma Thompson Last Christmas Quercus, 15th, £9.99, 9781529404234 Caitlin Moran, Meryl Streep, Emily Watson and others share their memories of Christmases past, and their hopes for future ones.
Curious Zelda The Adventures of
Mark Radcliffe Crossroads
Ralph J Gleason & Toby Gleason Conversations in Jazz Yale, 13th, £12.99, 9780300255232 Previously unavailable interviews with Ralph J Gleason, former co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, in which he talks to names from Charles Mingus to John Coltrane.
Julian Norton A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter Coronet, 15th, £9.99, 9781529378375 More veterinary stories from around Yorkshire.
Elli H Radinger The Wisdom of Old Dogs Mirror Books, 15th, £8.99, 9781912624904 How old dogs can be a source of wisdom, comfort and love in their old age.
Stephen Rutt Wintering:
A Season with Geese Eliott & Tompson, 15th, £9.99, 9781783965052 The author of the wonder- ful The Seafarers explores the lives and habits of the most common species
Dalai Lama Approaching the Buddhist Path Wisdom Publications, 1st, £16.99, 9781614296980 The first volume in a collection presenting the Dalai Lama’s explanation of the Buddhist path.
Mike Davis Old Gods, New Enigmas Verso, 6th, £11.99, 9781788732178 The author engages with Karl Marx, exploring history, labour, capitalism, and revolution.
Oli Doyle Mindfulness at Work Orion Spring, 15th, £7.99, 9781409167532 How to turn a job into a gateway to stress-free living.
Shaman Durek Spirit Hacking Yellow Kite, 15th, £9.99, 9781529378986 Six shamanic keys to reclaim your personal power.
David Epstein Range Macmillan, 1st, £9.99, 9781509843527 An exploration of how to be successful in the world today, arguing that it is necessary to gain a breadth of experiences. A Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.
Henrik Fexeus The Art of Reading Minds Yellow Kite, 15th, £9.99,
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