This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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Ana DeBenedetti Botticelli: Artist and Designer Renaissance Lives, 1st, £14.95, 9781789149289 The life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli through the lens of his workshop and commercial outlook.
Megan Whalen Turner Return of the Thief Hodderscape, 10th, £10.99, 9781529387827 Conclusion to the Queen’s Thief series.
J R Ward The Beloved Piatkus, 8th, £9.99, 9780349430935 Latest instalment in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
Non-fiction
Art, design & fashion
Martin Bailey Van Gogh’s Finale: Auvers and the Artist’s Rise to Fame Frances Lincoln, 17th, £10.99, 9781836003144 Account of the final days of Van Gogh’s life and the story of his death.
trekked across 1,700 miles of Australian desert with a dog and four camels.
Alford Dalrymple Gardner, Howard Gardner Finding Home: A Windrush Story Jacaranda, 3rd, £9.99, 9781914344237 The story of one of the few living passengers to have travelled from Jamaica to Britain on the Empire Windrush.
Nick Kary Material: The Art of Handcrafting Beautiful Objects in a Digital Age Chelsea Green Publish- ing, 17th, £12.99, 9781915294623 From creating a linocut illustration to carving a spoon, Kary examines what it means to make things with your hands in a world disconnected from creative and material processes.
Biography & memoir
Maddie Ballard Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking Te Emma Press, 10th, £9.99, 9781915628305 A collection of essays on sewing and knowing who you are.
Martin Bailey The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece Frances Lincoln, 17th, £10.99, 9781836002697 Why Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower still lifes in Provence, the stories of those artworks and how they influenced modern art.
Mandy Kirkby (ed) Love Letters of the Great War Pan, 17th, £12.99, 9781035050536 From troops in battle to partners left behind, correspondence from over a century ago with an insight into the human heart. Features a foreword by Helen Dunmore.
Raleigh Briggs Make It Last: Sustainably and Affordably Preserving What We Love Microcosm Publishing, 22nd, £12.99, 9781648414046 A guide to mending and preserving the things which matter while on a budget.
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Rupert Callender What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking Chelsea Green Publishing, 3rd, £12.99, 9781915294234 Callender’s story of becoming an undertaker, driven by grief and a desire to do things differ- ently. Bold new cover look from Matt Broughton. Film and TV rights were recently acquired by Working Title Films.
Robyn Davidson Unfinished Woman Bloomsbury Publishing, 10th, £10.99, 9781408837184 Reflections on early life and motivation from adventurer Davidson, who in 1977, at the age of 27,
Christian Lewis Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK Coastline Pan, 24th, £10.99, 9781035033812 In the sequel to Finding Hildasay, Lewis’ new family walks the UK’s eastern and southern coastline as his struggles with mental health return. Finally returning to Swansea, Lewis reflects on what he has learned.
Selina Mills Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness Bloomsbury Academic, 17th, £14.99, 9781350507210 Inspired by personal experience, broadcaster and journalist Mills charts the lives, stories
Lee Jackson Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London Yale University Press, 22nd, £11.99, 9780300279344 From inspiration in the city of London, an exploration of how Victorian and Edwardian tourists responded to Dickens’ London and how subsequent genera- tions have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis.
and achievements of blind people. A raft of positive reviews, with the i praising Mills’ “wit, warmth and razor-sharp insight”.
Business & economics
Gary Morecambe Forever in the Sunshine: The Story of Morecambe & Wise as Only Family Can Tell It Sphere, 10th, £10.99, 9781408731123 Eric Morecambe’s son Gary shares insights into the comedy stars Morecambe and Wise, featuring conversations with high-profile fans from Ben Miller and Bob Golding to Jonathan Ross and Miranda Hart.
Stejarel Olaru, Alistair Ian Blyth (trans) Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape Bloomsbury Academic, 3rd, £14.99, 9781350511507 How Romanian child prodigy and gymnastics star Nadia resisted the brutal oppression of the communist regime and ultimately fled her homeland for America.
Nikolas Badminton Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futurism and Strategy Lead to Prosperity and Growth Bloomsbury Business, 24th, £14.99, 9781399422277 How professionals, organisations and businesses can develop strategies to prepare for an unpredictable future, using worst case scenarios to become more resilient.
John Densmore The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison’s Legacy Goes on Trial Constable, 17th, £12.99, 9781408719886 Account of the legal battle to control The Doors’ artistic destiny.
Will Hermes Lou Reed: The King of New York Penguin, 3rd, £10.99, 9780241971635 Biography of the musician and New York’s place as a cultural capital.
Angus Deaton Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality Princeton University Press, 22nd, £14.99, 9780691247847 Nobel prize winner in economics, Deaton weaves personal experi- ences as a naturalised American citizen with insights into how econom- ics addresses the most pressing issues of our time, from poverty and retirement, to the minimum wage and healthcare.
Essays
David Remnick Holding the Note: Writing On Music Picador, 17th, £12.99, 9781035024018 Pulitzer Prize winner Remnick examines a series of musical lives and their relationship to time.
Henry Winkler Being Henry: The Fonz... and Beyond Pan, 31st, £10.99, 9781035026678 An honest portrait of the highs and lows of an acting career from finding fame on TV’s “Happy Days” to gaining a new audience from featuring in “Arrested Development” and “Parks and Recreation”.
Gary Younge Dispatches From the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela To Black Lives Matter Faber & Faber, 10th, £10.99, 9780571391158 Essays from three decades of political writing, witnessing events which have profoundly affected the Black diaspora. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023.
Film, TV & music
Rupert Christiansen Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World Faber & Faber, 10th, £12.99, 9780571348022 How Diaghilev devel- oped modern ballet. “Deliciously entertaining,” said the Financial Times.
Dan Jolin Quentin Tarantino: The Complete Unofficial Guide Greenfinch, 10th, £14.99, 9781529438772 Biography of the cult film director.
Don Letts, Mal Peachey There and Black Again Omnibus Press, 17th, £12.99, 9781915841421 Autobiography of film- maker, musician, DJ, broadcaster and social commentator, Letts.
Hannah Spearritt Facing the Music Renegade Books, 3rd, £12.99, 9780349131030 Memoir from one seventh of iconic pop band S Club 7.
Food & drink
Grace Dent Comfort Eating Guardian Faber Publish- ing, 10th, £10.99, 9781783352876 Cumbrian culinary royalty
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