This preview highlights titles to be published in October


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celebration of one of our most versatile and endur- ing acting talents” by the Sunday Express.


S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 17th, £9.99, 9781471177651 The first man ever to complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnaviga- tion of the world tells the story of his life, 50 years later.


Bill Cunningham Fashion Climbing Vintage, 3rd, £8.99, 9781529110616 A memoir from the New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, featuring period photographs. A documentary, “The Times of Bill”, will be released later this year, featuring his life as a hat designer; it will be narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker.


Sally Field In Pieces S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 17th, £9.99, 9781471175787 The actor’s memoir, from a lonely childhood to her success. “Beautifully written,” said the Sunday Times.


Astrid Franse & Michelle Morgan Before Marilyn Te History Press, 1st, £20, 9780750992541 This story of Marilyn Monroe’s modelling career sold just under 5,000 copies in hardback, says The History Press.


Adam Gopnik In Mid-Air Riverrun, 3rd, £12.99, 9781786489241 A collection of essays on life, art and family from the New Yorker writer and author.


Ramachandra Guha Gandhi: 1914–1948 Penguin Press, 31st, £16.99, 9780141044231 The Guardian said this biography of Gandhi was “a magnificent achievement”.


Ellie Kemper My Squirrel Days Coronet, 3rd, £8.99, 9781473657281 A collection of essays from the comedian and star of “The Office” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”.


Robin Knox-Johnston Running Free


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Kiese Laymon Heavy Bloomsbury Publishing, 3rd, £8.99, 9781526605764 A memoir moving from early experiences of sexual violence, to anorexia, to the author’s career as a young college professor, this is another side of the American black male experience. “So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate... A gift,” said the TLS.


Joseph Mitchell Joe Gould’s Secret Vintage Classics, 3rd, £9.99, 9781784875619 This essay tackling writ- er’s block, the last thing Mitchell ever published, appears for the first time as a standalone edition.


Vladimir Nabokov Insomniac Dreams Princeton University Press, 1st, £13.99, 9780691196909 This first publication of Vladimir Nabokov’s dream diary was called “utterly fascinating” by William Boyd in the Guardian.


Stone for the film memoirs and photographs of the Oscar-nominated Alan Tomkins.


Jenny Uglow Mr Lear Faber & Faber, 17th, £12.99, 9780571269556 A biography and appre- ciation of Edward Lear, the poet whose humour masked epilepsy, depres- sion and loneliness. “An outstandingly elegant and perceptive account of a complex, wounded man,” said the Standard.


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History, politics & current affairs


Jeffrey Boakye Black, Listed Dialogue Books, 3rd, £8.99, 9780349700564 A celebration of the words and phrases which define the black British experience.


Lauren Bravo What Would the Spice Girls Do? Corgi, 31st, £8.99, 9780552177054 A celebration of the Spice Girls and a look at how the generation who idol- ised them benefited from their brand of feminism.


Alexandra Churchill Blood and Thunder Te History Press, 1st, £12.99, 9780750992428 The story of the First World War is told through the students from Eton College who fought in it.


Hamish McKenzie Insane Mode Faber & Faber, 3rd, £10.99, 9780571327676 The story of Elon Musk’s Tesla, from a former writer for Tesla.


Eric A Posner & E Glen Weyl Radical Markets Princeton University Press, 8th, £14.99, 9780691196060 This argument for uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society was one of the Economist’s best business and economics books of last year.


Ray Clark Radio Caroline Te History Press, 1st, £10.99, 9780750992534 A history of the pirate radio station Radio Caroline.


business and political history with a sense of exhilaration that so much of the American experi- ence could be described so vividly and insightfully”.


The author of Team of Teams profiles leaders whose real stories defy their legends, from Margaret Thatcher to Martin Luther.


William Hansen The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths Princeton University Press, 29th, £17.99, 9780691195926 The first anthology to present the entire range of Ancient Greek and Roman stories.


Jonathan Holslag A Political History of the World Pelican, 3rd, £10.99, 9780241395561 A 3,000-year history of the world, examining the causes of war and attempts at diplomacy.


Greg Miller The Apprentice William Collins, 3rd, £9.99, 9780008325787 The Pulitzer Prize- winning Washington Post reporter investigates the truth behind the Kremlin’s alleged interference in Donald Trump’s election.


Marcia & Thomas Mitchell Official Secrets William Collins, 3rd, £8.99, 9780008348564 The official tie-in to the film starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith and Ralph Fiennes about whistleblower Katharine Gun, who was arrested under the Official Secrets Act for leaking informa- tion to the press about the US invasion of Iraq.


Romesh Ranganathan Straight Outta Crawley Corgi, 3rd, £8.99, 9780552173704 The bestselling memoir from the comedian. “Very, very funny. I can’t recom- mend it highly enough,” said Jonathan Ross.


Jill Soloway She Wants It Ebury Press, 10th, £7.99, 9781785032851 A memoir about love, sex and art from the creator of the award-winning series “Transparent”.


Alan Tomkins Stars and Wars Te History Press, 1st, £20, 9780750992565 A foreword from Oliver


Diarmaid Ferriter The Border Profile Books, 3rd, £8.99, 9781788161794 A number-one bestseller in Ireland, this is the history and possible future of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.


Nicholas Shaxson The Finance Curse Vintage, 10th, £9.99, 9781784705046 How global finance is making us all poorer, working for the few, not the many. “Hard-hitting, well written and informa- tive,” said the FT.


Michael Ventura Applied Empathy Hodder Paperbacks, 10th, £9.99, 9781529378238 The entrepreneur explains why empathy could be what businesses need to succeed.


Daniel Gray Homage to Caledonia Luath Press, 15th, £9.99, 9781913025366 A history of the Scots who volunteered to join the armed resistance during the Spanish Civil War.


Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge Capitalism in America Penguin Press, 3rd, £12.99, 9780141989310 The former chair of the Federal Reserve co-authors this history of capitalism in the US. The FT said that “readers will emerge from this heady blend of economic,


Winston James Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia Verso, 1st, £19.99, 9781788736459 A history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the US.


Patrick Leigh Fermor More Dashing Bloomsbury Publishing, 3rd, £10.99, 9781408893692 The second volume of letters from the legendary travel writer, edited by Adam Sisman.


Allan Mallinson Fight to the Finish Bantam, 3rd, £9.99, 9780857503800 Based on the author’s series in the Times, this is a month-by-month chronicling of the First World War.


General Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers, Jason Mangone Leaders Penguin, 24th, £10.99, 9780241336342


Ed Morales Latinx Verso, 29th, £12.99, 9781784783228 A look at the Latinx revolution in US culture, society and politics.


Thomas Morris The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine Corgi, 17th, £8.99, 9780552175456


“Delightfully horrifying,” said Popular Science of this collection of medical case studies from history.


Ferdinand Mount Prime Movers S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 3rd, £10.99, 9781471156014 The stories of 12 great thinkers, from Pericles to Gandhi.


Jürgen Osterhammel & Robert Savage (trans) Unfabling the East Princeton University Pres, 1st, £20, 9780691172729 How Enlightenment Europe measured itself against Asia.


Mike Rapport Rebel Cities


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