27th June 2025
Bloomsbury Publishing, 25th, £10.99, 9781526664679
New account of the last dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra.
Humour, gift & reference
Frankie Boyle, Charlie Skelton, Frank Quitely (illus) A Short History of the Apocalypse
John Murray, 11th, £12.99, 9781399817738
Chaotic recollections of Alonso, a time traveller from the future, outlining how to survive the end times, as narrated by Boyle and Skelton.
Alan Connor The Traitors Penguin, 25th, £10.99, 9781804947685
game book tie-in TV show.
Victoria Wood
Chunky: The Best Bits from Acorn Antiques to Kitty and more
Trapeze, 18th, £12.99, 9781398707528
Selection of Wood’s comic writing, introduced by Celia Imrie with additions and annotations from Wood’s biographer Jasper Rees.
Language & literature
Rachel Cooke (ed) The Virago Book of Friendship
Virago, 4th, £10.99, 9780349018423
Literary anthology of friendship between women, stretching from Naomi and Ruth in the Bible, via Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley to Margaret Drabble’s The Radiant Way and Jackie Kay’s Fiere.
Natural history & pets
Joanne Bourne Flint: A Lithic Love Letter Eye, 11th, £10.99, 9781785634611 A geological, architectural and social North Downs.
Philippa Forrester Wild Woman: Empowering Stories from Women Who Work in Nature
Bloomsbury Wildlife, 11th, £10.99, 9781399400862
A study of women who live and work in the wild, from a to modern-day women responding to bear attacks in Yellowstone, all interwoven with
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to England from Jackson, Wyoming.
Poetry
Charly Cox Nobody Asked for This HQ, 25th, £11, 9780008639839 New and collected poems of poet and activist Cox, whose work soared to fame on Instagram.
Major Jackson Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected
WW Norton, 5th, £13.99, 9781324105138
Collection drawing on Nashville-based poet Major Jackson’s work and featuring a selection of new poems entitled Lovesick.
Robert J Meindl, Mark T Riley, RF Yeager Vox Clamantis by John Gower: “The Voice of One Crying”
DS Brewer, 2nd, £24.99, 9781843847557
translation of the full Vox Clamantis, Jon Gower’s medieval Latin poem, with explanatory notes.
Popular science, philosophy & self-help
Steve Biddulph Wild Creature Mind: Transform Anxiety and Live a Fiercely Loving Life
Bluebird, 11th, £10.99, 9781529076516
How our hidden animal minds are an untapped power that can help us trust our intuition and overcome stress, anxiety and trauma.
Paul Bierman
When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland
Ice Core Reveals About Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
WW Norton, 19th, £13.99, 9781324110309
How the discovery that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted before and is more fragile than scientists once realised, impacts our understanding of the earth’s climate, past and present.
James Binney Entropy: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions, 25th, £9.99, 9780198901488
How the concept of entropy has implications material reality.
Deepak Chopra, Jack Tuszynski, Brian Fertig Quantum Body: The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life
Rider, 4th, £12.99, 9781846047718
Exercises to improve our well-being, steeped in the quantum universe.
Josh Cohen All the Rage: Why We Feel Anger and How to Use It
Granta Books, 11th, £10.99, 9781783789467
Psychoanalyst Cohen explores the taboo of anger in our personal and political lives.
Richard Fortey Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms
William Collins, 11th, £10.99, 9780008639723
Study of the rule-breaking world of fungi, which can cure and cause disease, clean up metallic waste and move through trees like “mycelial monkeys”.
E Jay Gilbert Haunted: The Ghost Stories and Folklore of the British Isles
, 11th, £10.99, 9781786582928
Spooky tale, memoir and cultural exploration of ghost stories, examining their origins and why we love them.
Malcolm Gladwell ( 10) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering
Abacus, 4th, £12.99, 9780349147208
Gladwell returns to the subject of 2000’s The Tipping Point, re-evaluating epidemics and the ways we manipulate the spread of ideas, viruses and trends
Verity Harding AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own
Princeton Uni Press, 2nd, £14.99, 9780691277479
Determining what and who AI is for and how to ensure AI serves the public good. Paperback edition contains a new foreword by Harding.
Brandon Keim
Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
WW Norton, 5th, £14.99, 9781324110439
Our developing understanding of animal intelligence, from snake friendships to rats and how we might live with the wild creatures around us.
Janette Manrara Tiny Dancer, Big World: from the Inside Out
William Collins, 11th, £10.99, 9780008619268
Life advice and motivational tips, illustrated with stories from dancer Manrara’s life and career.
Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor AI Snake Oil: What Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to
Princeton University Press, 23rd, £12.99, 9780691249148
How AI works and why it often does not, written to stop us falling for false or distorted claims.
Ollie Ollerton How to Survive Almost Anything: The Special Forces Guide to Staying Alive
Blink, 25th, £9.99, 9781788705028
Ex-special forces soldier Ollerton on surviving any scenario.
Bijal Shah Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading
Piatkus, 5th, £10.99, 9780349436050
Counsellor Shah presents a history of how therapeutic reading evolved, noting the role played by the Stoics, Michel de Montaigne, George Eliot and William Wordsworth.
Andrew Smith Devil in the Stack: Searching for the Soul of the New Machine
Grove Press UK, 11th, £12.99, 9781804710999
The bizarre world of computer code seen through Smith’s attempt to become a coder. “Dense, prickly and rewarding,” said the TLS.
David Spiegelhalter The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
Pelican, 18th, £12.99, 9780241658635
Data-driven guide to living with risk and uncertainty, from the Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge.
James Timpson The Happy Index: A People-First Approach to Leadership
HarperNorth, 11th, £9.99, 9780008654788
Practical leadership advice for a happier workforce, inspired by Timpson’s column on business and leadership for the Sunday Times.
Sport
Neil Atkinson Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture
Books
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