Titles in this preview are published in September
Canongate Books, 19th, £10.99, 9781837262953
Nineteen notable games, which explore how Jürgen Klopp’s footballing approach transformed
Adam Hurrey Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom
Headline, 18th, £12.99, 9781035408382
A top-drawer guide to the language of football, which takes the game by repay the reader’s faith. Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards 2025 and longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Daniel Light The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Oneworld, 4th, £12.99, 9781836430476
Stories of the Incan and tweed-clad mountaineers who broke ground for modern mountaineering.
Joe Posnanski Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
Old Street, 2nd, £10.99, 9781917532075
from baseball’s history, ranging from mesmerising mistakes to heroic actions.
Venus Williams ( 11) Strive: 8 Steps to Train for Success
Piatkus, 11th, £12.99, 9780349443140
Williams shares her training strategy after her diagnosis with an autoimmune disease, introducing habits to improve long-term health and wellness goals.
Travel
Gavin Francis The Bridge Between Worlds: A Brief History of Connection
Canongate Books, 11th, £10.99, 9781837260812
How bridges around the world can improve human connection.
Lonely Planet Epic Runs of the World Lonely Planet, 12th, £18.99, 9781837587599
Maps and photographs person accounts of running routes across all seven continents, and 150 suggestions of similar runs to experience.
Reissues
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jawid Mojaddedi (trans) The Masnavi Book 6
Oxford World’s Classics, 11th, £10.99, 9780192874283
translation of book six of Rumi’s Masnavi.
Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire Picador, 4th, £10.99, 9781035065264
Picador Collection edition of Ashworth’s memoir.
Jo Baker Longbourn Black Swan, 4th, £9.99, 9780552779517
Baker’s reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants, reissued to mark the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth.
John Berger Art and Revolution Verso Books, 30th, £10.99, 9781804298596
One of three books joining the Essential John Berger list this month, alongside From A to X and A Seventh Man.
Jeremy Bowen The Making of the Modern Middle East
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Picador, 18th, £10.99, 9781035083992
Personal history of the Middle East drawing on three decades reporting from the region, updated with a new chapter.
Marjorie Bowen Black Magic Vintage, 4th, £9.99, 9781529956351
The revival of interest in Bowen’s writing continues with a new edition of this Gothic classic with a gender- non-conforming protagonist. One of nine books in the new Vintage Classics Weird Girls series, championing
and inclusive feminist by Ottessa Moshfegh, Jewelle Gomez, Angela Carter and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Katharine Briggs, Fee Greening (illus) Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts and Other Folklore Creatures
Monoray, 11th, £18.99, HB, 9781800963504
Shetland selkies, Briggs’ A-Z of British folklore is reissued in an appealing gift edition with new artwork
from West Country illustrator Greening.
Anthony Burgess One Hand Clapping Galileo Publishing, 25th, £10.99, 9781915530714
consumerism. One of two Burgess titles reissued by Galileo this month, alongside Tremor of Intent.
Nick Cave The Death of Bunny Munro
Canongate Books, 25th, £9.99, 9781837264193
Tie-in edition of Cave’s novel ahead of a six- part Sky TV adaptation
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