BOOKS


the poisons found in nature and how we came to use and abuse them.


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the most colourful and controversial figures in the sport and the story behind his eventful career.


Jacqueline Yallop Into the Dark: What Darkness Is and Why It Matters Icon Books, 24th, £9.99, 9781837730728 Novelist and cultural historian Yallop examines various states of dark- ness through night-time walks and tracing artistic engagements with the dark.


Sport


Ryan Baldi Arsène Who: The Story of Wenger’s 1998 Double Cassell, 10th, £10.99, 9781788404556 Drawing on exclusive interviews with players, coaches, staff and opponents, Baldi traces Arsenal’s uneven path to become 1998 league and FA Cup winners. A case study in the modernisation of the English game.


Tim Wigmore, Matt Roller White Hot: The Inside Story of England Cricket’s Double World Champions Bloomsbury Sport, 10th, £12.99, 9781399411646 How England became the first men’s team to hold both of cricket’s World Cups simultaneously, with insights from the players and key people involved. Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards 2024.


Travel


David Fathers London’s Hidden Rivers Conway, 24th, £10.99, 9781844867189 An exploration of 12 hidden rivers in London, through a series of detailed guided walks.


Brown’s 2018 ecological documentary of the same name.


Jennifer L Armentrout Obsidian Hodderscape, 24th, £9.99, 9781399737982 The first of five books in BookTok star Armentrout’s Lux series, all reissued with contemporary covers.


Richard Balls Sex & Drugs & Rock N Roll: The Life of Ian Drury Omnibus Press, 3rd, £12.99, 9781915841391 A portrait of Ian Dury, based on interviews with 50 of his friends. Features a new foreword by Andy Serkis and an appealing new cover.


Alex Dowsett


Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling Bloomsbury Sport, 10th, £10.99, 9781399406413 Stories from a successful career as a pro-cyclist and the challenges of haemophilia in a sport where injury is expected.


Alan Shipnuck LIV and Let Die Simon & Schuster Adult Non-Fiction, 10th, £10.99, 9781398530492 The inside story of professional golf’s disruption by the Saudi- funded LIV Golf League.


Frank Warren Frank and Fearless: A Life in Boxing Constable, 26th, £12.99, 9781472126542 Boxing promoter Warren’s account of working with


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Julian Emre Sayarer Türkiye: Cycling Through a Country’s First Century MacLehose Press, 24th, £14.99, 9781529429985 A cycling tour through the history and landscape of the country from the Aegean coast to the Armenian border, just months before a devastating earthquake hit the region. Sayarer won the 2017 Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing.


Reissues


Gertrude Barrows Bennett Claimed! Penguin, 3rd, £9.99, 9781405972925 Penguin Weird Fiction launches this month, celebrating classic unsettling fiction. Originally published in 1920, Bennett’s novel concerns the frightening impact of a mysterious green box.


Algernon Blackwood Ancient Sorceries: The Adventures of John Silence Penguin, 3rd, £9.99, 9781405972994 A Penguin Weird Fiction edition of Blackwood’s stories of occult detective Dr John Silence.


C J Box Below Zero Head of Zeus, 10th, £9.99, 9781837932009 New look for the ninth mystery featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.


Robert W Chambers The King in Yellow Penguin, 3rd, £9.99, 9781405972963 Penguin Weird Fiction edition of Chambers’ classic stories, which influenced H P Lovecraft and the creators of TV’s “True Detective”.


Colin Chapman Whose Promised Land?: The Continuing Conflict over Israel and Palestine SPCK Publishing, 7th, £16.99, 9780281090617 Revised, expanded edition situating the ongoing war in Gaza in historical context.


trial for the New York World in 1893. Introduced by eminent journalist and editor Brooke Kroeger.


Simone de Beauvoir The Blood of Others Penguin Modern Classics, 3rd, £9.99, 9780241696453 De Beauvoir’s 1945 novel of occupied Paris is reissued with a new introduction by Ali Smith. Also reissued this month is the second volume of de Beauvoir’s memoirs on her formative years in Paris, The Prime of Life.


Matt Haig The Radleys Canongate Books, 10th, £9.99, 9781837262328 Tie-in to upcoming film featuring Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald.


Radclyffe Hall, Jana Funke, Hannah Roche (eds) The Well of Loneliness Oxford World’s Classics, 10th, £9.99, 9780192894458 Critical edition of Hall’s novel, famously banned as “obscene” in the UK in 1928.


Ted Chiang Exhalation Picador, 3rd, £10.99, 9781035039210 Picador Collection edition of the book which inspired Academy Award-winning film “Arrival”.


Agatha Christie And Then There Were None: Ultimate Mystery Edition HarperFiction, 10th, £22, hb, 9780008687496 Special edition featuring the final chapter sealed in an envelope at the back of the book to encourage readers to solve the puzzle.


Elizabeth Anthony Dramatic Murder: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery British Library Crime Classics, 10th, £9.99, 9780712355568 A rediscovered festive mystery, first published in 1948, telling of sinister events during and after a Christmas dinner party at a Scottish castle.


Susanna Clarke Piranesi Bloomsbury Publishing, 3rd, £12.99, 9781526681539 One of several dyslexia- friendly editions issued by Bloomsbury this month, each printed in a blue ink sans serif font on cream paper. An animated adaptation of this Women’s Prize for Fiction winner is forthcoming, directed by Travis Knight.


Sean B Carroll The Serengeti Rules Princeton University Press, 15th, £20, 9780691264295 New preface in this Princeton Science Library edition. Inspired Nicolas


Ann Cleeves Murder in My Backyard Pan, 3rd, £9.99, 9781529070545 Second Northumberland- set mystery featuring Inspector Ramsay, reis- sued in modern covers.


Edith Eger The Choice Rider, 3rd, £12.99, 9781846048395 Holocaust survivor and therapist Eger’s memoir is repackaged in a modern design this month alongside follow- up The Gift. Eger’s The Ballerina of Auschwitz is also published this month, retelling her experiences and expanding on her early life.


Carlo Emilio Gadda, Richard Dixon (trans) The Experience of Pain Penguin Modern Clas- sics, 31st, £9.99, 9780241706992 Gadda’s first novel, a critique of Fascist Italy, joins the Modern Classics series.


Hanshan Cold Mountain Poems Pocket Poets, 3rd, £12, hb, 9781841598338 A selection of Hanshan’s work, among the earliest Zen Buddhist poetry,


Bill Hare Facing the Nation: The Portraiture of Alexander Moffat Luath Press, 30th, £16.99, 9781804251676 Charting Moffat’s career from 1960s student days at Edinburgh College of Art to the recent Scotland’s Voices exhibit.


Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Jane Carr, Lori Harrison- Kahan (eds) The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings Penguin Classics, 31st, £16.99, 9780143137603 A collection of fiction and journalism from Garver Jordan, who made her name as one of a few female journalists to cover the Lizzie Borden murder


Max Hastings Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers Pan, 31st, £12.99, 9781035057344 Modern cover for Hastings’ memoir of a decade at the helm of the Telegraph, reissued alongside his reflections on his time as a foreign correspondent, Going to the Wars.


Thomas Heatherwick Thomas Heatherwick: Making Tames&Hudson, 24th, £40, 9780500297162


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