BOOKS


Abacus, 3rd, £12.99, 9780349123530 A historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution.


Geoffrey B Robinson The Killing Season Princeton University Pres, 1st, £17.99, 9780691196497 A history of the Indonesian massacres of 1965/66. “Masterly,” said the FT.


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in the contrasts of Trump and Obama’s presiden- cies, telling the tale of the two administrations through a series of visual juxtapositions.


Kassia St Clair The Golden Thread John Murray, 3rd, £10.99, 9781473659056 A history of fabric, from the threads woven by the Greek Fates to the wrap- pings of Tutankhamun’s mummy.


David Roediger Class, Race, and Marxism Verso, 8th, £11.99, 9781786631244 The author of The Wages of Whiteness explores how working-class people can become racist, and how it can be overcome.


Andy Saunders Stuka Attack! Grub Street, 1st, £12.99, 9781911621478 A history of Stuka operations during the Battle of Britain.


Lilia M Schwarcz & Heloisa M Starling Brazil: A Biography Penguin Press, 3rd, £12.99, 9780141976198 A history of Brazil, already a bestseller in that coun- try, according to Penguin.


Richard MacLean Smith Unexplained Sceptre, 3rd, £9.99, 9781473671164 A look at 10 real-life mysteries. This is the book of the popular “Unexplained” podcast, which Hodder says has an international listener- ship of 200,000 people per episode.


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On This Day in History John Murray, 3rd, £9.99, 9781473691308 From the Ides of March to D-Day, a key event for every day of the year.


Pete Souza Shade Sphere, 24th, £8.99, 9780751578690 Sixty-four new pages for the paperback edition of the White House photog- rapher for Obama’s study


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Jake Tapper The Outpost William Collins, 31st, £8.99, 9780008332853 A look at the attack in 2009 on Combat Outpost Keating, located in Afghanistan 14 miles from the Pakistan border. This has not previously been published in the UK.


James Waterson Dracula’s Wars Te History Press, 1st, £10.99, 9780750992404 A history of the real battles of Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century Romanian warlord who inspired Dracula.


whose guts you would wear for garters, if you had to choose somebody, to what you consider your median achievement. Great idea—very gifty.


Beatle was called a “superb portrait of a dissatisfied star who couldn’t stop reinventing himself” by the Telegraph.


Tom Jackson Postcard from the Past William Collins, 31st, £8.99, 9780008351816 A collection of real messages from the backs of old postcards, with an introduction from Mark Haddon. The author, who runs @PastPostcard on Twitter, has more than 40,000 followers.


Mick Wall When Giants Walked the Earth Trapeze, 24th, £12.99, 9781409180616 A complete rewriting of Wall’s biography of Led Zeppelin, 10 years after it was first published. Orion says the original has sold more than 120,000 copies.


Natural history & pets


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The creator of Bulletproof coffee lays out how to decelerate cellular ageing and “supercharge” your body’s ability to heal and rejuvenate.


Julian Baggini How the World Thinks Granta Books, 3rd, £9.99, 9781783782307 A global overview of philosophy—the world’s first, says Granta—explor- ing how it developed around the world and influenced cultures. Granta says this sold 14,000 copies in its first edition.


Hugh Barker


Million Dollar Maths Atlantic Books, 3rd, £11.99, 9781786493224 How to use maths for your own financial gain.


David McClay Dear Mr Murray John Murray, 3rd, £10.99, 9781473662704 An anthology of letters from John Murray’s authors to their publisher, from Jane Austen to Lord Byron.


Jacqui Wood Tasting the Past Te History Press, 1st, £9.99, 9780750992237 One of three volumes tackling the history of food, from the reigns of George III to Queen Victoria. Great cover look.


Humour, gift & reference


The British Army & Dr Gareth Moore The British Army Challenge Book HarperCollins, 17th, £12.99, 9780008356859 The official, Ministry of Defence-approved challenge book is full of puzzles and challenges, from code-cracking to navigation.


Richard Herring Emergency Questions Sphere, 10th, £8.99, 9780751574388 The comedian provides 1,001 emergency conver- sation starters, from


John Sutherland Frankenstein’s Brain Icon Books, 3rd, £8.99, 9781785785627 This follow-up to Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, Can Jane Eyre be Happy? and Who is Dracula’s Father? delves into the secrets behind Mary Shelley’s masterpiece.


Music Mark Blake


Bring It On Home Constable, 10th, £10.99, 9781472126900 Published for the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s formation, this biography of their manager Peter Grant was a music book of the year in several broadsheets, and called “an all-you- can-eat buffet of guilty pleasures... a riotous roller- coaster” by the Times.


Ray Connolly Being John Lennon W&N, 3rd, £9.99, 9781474606820 This biography of the


Colin Butcher Molly and Me Michael Joseph, 31st, £7.99, 9780241371770 How the ex-policeman set up his own pet detective agency, working with cocker spaniel Molly to solve crimes around the country. Apparently, she has helped reunite 86 missing cats with their owners. Good on her.


William Hartston Sloths Atlantic Books, 3rd, £8.99, 9781786494252 A celebration and history of the sloth.


Daniel Hume The Art of Fire Arrow, 17th, £9.99, 9781784758424 A guide to starting and handling fires; Cornerstone is pitching this as a companion to Norwegian Wood.


Popular science, philosophy & self-help


Karen Armstrong Religion Vintage Classics, 3rd, £3.50, 9781784875695 One in another slew of titles from the Vintage Minis series, in which writ- ers including Ian McEwan and Simon Schama tackle “the experiences that make us human”, out this month.


Dave Asprey Super Human Torsons, 1st, £14.99,


Lily Bernheimer The Shaping of Us Robinson, 10th, £9.99, 9781472137869 How our behaviour and character is subtly influ- enced by our environment.


Anna Buckley The Life Scientific: Explorers


W&N, 17th, £8.99, 9781474608091 The latest book from the BBC Radio 4 hit series “The Life Scientific”, which reveals the lives of key scientists explor- ing our world and the universe today.


Bruno Cadoré With Him Bloomsbury Continuum, 17th, £12.99, 9781472970152 The Master of the world- wide Dominican Order ponders the role of the Dominican in the modern world.


Persi Diaconis & Brian Skyrms Ten Great Ideas About Chance Princeton University Press, 8th, £13.99, 9780691196398 A history of the ideas that transformed probability and statistics in the 16th and 17th centuries.


Oli Doyle Mindfulness at Work Orion Spring, 17th, £7.99, 9781409167532 A six-week guide to turning your job into a “gateway to joy”.


Benjamin Hardy Willpower Doesn’t Work


Piatkus, 10th, £8.99, 9780349417943 Why willpower alone won’t help us change our lives, and how we can change our environments to support success.


Michael Hebb Let’s Talk about Death (Over Dinner) Orion Spring, 10th, £9.99, 9781841883007 A guide to changing the way we talk about death.


Peter Jones Memento Mori Atlantic Books, 3rd, £11.99, 9781786494825 How the Romans confronted mortality and old age.


Stephen Joseph Authentic Piatkus, 3rd, £9.99, 9780349404868 The professor of psychol- ogy, health and social care looks at why being yourself really does matter.


Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller The Way of Wisdom Hodder Faith, 17th, £10.99, 9781473647572 A year of daily devotions drawing from the Book of Proverbs.


Mark Lynas Seeds of Science Bloomsbury Sigma, 31st, £9.99, 9781472946973 The author, one of the original GM field wreckers who would destroy trial sites of genetically modi- fied crops at night in the 1990s, looks at the fight for and against genetic modification in food.


Neil MacGregor Living with the Gods Penguin Press, 3rd, £12.99, 9780141986258 The author of A History of the World in 100 Objects explores how belief shapes us. “Mind- expanding,” said the Sunday Times. This follows a 30-part Radio 4 series, which reached 3.5 million listeners a week.


Brian D McLaren Seeking Aliveness


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