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New history of abstraction from a global perspective, demonstrating how artists across the world have used abstract imagery to convey personal, social and political experience.
Ezio Manzini, Rachel Coad (trans) Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation
The MIT Press, 2nd, £23, 9780262554008
Study of how social innovations occur when specialists and non- specialists collaborate in design, generating new solutions and new meanings.
Alison Place (ed) Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design
The MIT Press, 30th, £21, 9780262553018
A collection of voices bringing theory and critical thinking to life in design, by feminist ways of doing and acting.
Biography & memoir
Peter Godwin Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars
Canongate Books, 11th, £10.99, 9781837260829
Memoir from Zimbabwean former journalist, soldier and presenter Godwin on how his life has been shaped by three women, prompted by his mother’s declining health and the end of his marriage. “An elegant, cerebral book,” said the Sunday Times.
Daniel Huhn, Rachel Stanyon (trans) I Will Come Back for You
Ithaka, 4th, £9.99, 9781804185346
Biography of Jewish German refugee Manfred Gans, who became a British Army soldier and who joined the D-Day landings and fought across a defeated Germany to on recently discovered diaries and letters.
Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Pan, 25th, £10.99, 9781035051069
Presley’s life story, completed by daughter the love she felt for her father Elvis, her marriage to Michael Jackson, addiction and grief. “A truly wild, compelling tale,” said the Telegraph.
Lara Marlowe How Good It Is I have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine
Apollo, 11th, £12.99, 9781035910182
Based on a series of interviews, a biography old female commander serving on the frontline of the Ukraine War, whose political awakening came in the 2014 Euromaidan protests.
David McGowan A Life Among the Dead: Stories from an Irish Funeral Director
Headline, 11th, £10.99, 9781035412266
Insights into the business, science and underexamined elements of death from Irish funeral director McGowan, documentary,
Angela Merkel Freedom: Memoirs
Pan, 25th, £12.99, 9781035020782
Chancellor and places it in her own life story, spending half of her life in the GDR and half in a united Germany.
Elliot Mintz ( 6) We All Shine On Penguin, 25th, £10.99, 9781804994238
The story of John Lennon and Yoko’s life, from The Beatles’ split to John’s death in 1980, told by former DJ, publicist and business manager Mintz who was in their inner circle.
Sonia Purnell Kingmaker Virago, 4th, £10.99, 9780349014753
A social and political life of Pamela Churchill Harriman, daughter- in-law of Winston
Churchill, who persuaded Americans to back Britain in the Second World War and later hand- picked Bill Clinton from obscurity, supporting his presidential bid.
Orlando Reade What in Me Is Dark : The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
Vintage, 4th, £10.99, 9781529923261
How Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost has been read across centuries and continents.
Anthea Rowan A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of My Mother’s Dementia
Bedford Square Publishers, 11th, £10.99, 9781835010594
Rowan shares the realities of living with a mother who has forgotten her daughter; how illness science of dementia.
Simon Russell Beale A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
Abacus, 4th, £12.99, 9780751534610
Acclaimed actor Russell Beale considers the life of Shakespeare through what it is like to approach and live with some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters. Shortlisted for the 2025 Theatre Book Award.
Nigel Slater A Thousand Feasts , 25th, £12.99, 9780008670788
travel and gardening, drawing on episodes in Slater’s life and driven by his need to keep notes of
good things, memories of meals shared or eaten alone, journeys or places visited, events big and small.
Chimene Suleyman The Chain: How Women Save Each Other
W&N, 4th, £10.99, 9781399606486
Grounded in her personal story, Suleyman examines how women shelter and strengthen one another in a society that asks them for men.
Emily Van Duyne Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
WW Norton, 5th, £13.99, 9781324110361
Superfan and scholar Van Duyne uses new archival materials to reimagine the last years of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath’s life, confronting her suicide and the construction of her legacy.
Jonathan Watts The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory
Canongate Books, 11th, £12.99, 9781837260874
Biography of scientist Lovelock, co-creator of Gaia Theory. “A well- researched chronicle of a complicated life,” said the TLS.
Charlene White No Place Like Home Renegade Books, 4th, £10.99, 9780349703664
Broadcaster and Jamaican Londoner White shares her story of home alongside eight other perspectives, which show how our ideas of home are shaped by myriad events, situations to political upheaval and war.
Business & economics
Paulina Bren She Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
John Murray, 25th, £9.99, 9781399800945
How women made it on Wall Street, navigating an exclusionary world from the typing pools of “A brilliant, many-layered social history of women’s ambition,” said the Observer.
Brooke Harrington and the New Colonialism
WW Norton, 19th, £8.99, 9781324110323
An account of the global
colonised the world and what it costs us.
Natasha Oakley Excessively Obsessed Piatkus, 18th, £10.99, 9780349437934
Step-by-step account of the work involved in creating a successful business, from registering your company and opening a bank account, to building your team and scaling for growth with notable observations on the equalising space of going online and a guide to easy-to-learn online platforms.
Film, TV & music
Darcus Beese Rebel with a Cause: Roots, Records and Revolutions
Nine Eight Books, 4th, £10.99, 9781788706124
president of Island Records, charting his journey from a teenage apprentice hairdresser in the biggest record labels, nurturing musicians from Amy Winehouse to & the Machine.
Anna Bogutskaya Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
, 25th, £10.99, 9780571385775
videos and TikTok trends show the popularity of horror and how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.
Alan Green Sound Advice: Timeless Life Lessons from 80s Pop Salt, 4th, £12.99, 9781784633585 Pieces of lyrical advice from 1980s top 10 UK chart hits are tested for their soundness, pairing ABBA and Einstein, Iron Maiden and Shakespeare, and Bob Marley and Darwin.
Robert Hilburn A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
Constable, 18th, £12.99, 9781408720349
Life story of songwriter Randy Newman by Los Angeles Times music critic, Robert Hilburn, with access to Newman’s archive and collaborators ranging from Bob Dylan to Linda Ronstadt, Don Henley to James Taylor.
Ann Hood (ed) Life’s Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
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