BOOKS


Absolutely Remarkable Thing, the statues which mysteriously appeared on Earth have disappeared, and April’s friends are trying to get on with their lives. Hank Green, brother of novelist John Green, has a huge online platform.


Olga Grushin The Charmed Wife Hodder Paperbacks, 1st, £8.99, 9781529346398 Thirteen years after Cinderella and Prince Charming said “I do”, she sneaks out of the palace to ask the Witch for a spell that will leave him dead.


David Hair Map’s Edge Jo Fletcher Books, 8th, £10.99, 9781529401929 Renegade sorceror Dashryn Cowl has run out of places to hide, in this first in the Tethered Citadel series.


Una McCormack The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway Titan Books, 6th, £8.99, 9781789095333 The story of Starfleet’s most famous female captain.


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Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world.


Joan Passey Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Haunted Peninsula British Library Publishing, 29th, £8.99, 9780712353991 A collection of haunted tales from Cornwall, part of the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, featuring authors includ- ing Bram Stoker.


Tom Allen No Shame Hodder Studio, 8th, £9.99, 9781529348941 A memoir from the comedian, moving from his childhood to his attempts to navigate the gay dating scene.


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The Secret Midwife John Blake, 22nd, £8.99, 9781789464573 The highs and lows on the frontline of the maternity unit are recounted by a working midwife.


Andrzej Sapkowski The Tower of Fools Gollancz, 8th, £8.99, 9781473226142 This first in a new tril- ogy from the author of the Witcher series sees Reinmar of Bielau in a medieval asylum after being caught in an affair with a knight’s wife.


Charles Soule Light of the Jedi Del Rey, 1st, £9.99, 9781529101461 The latest Sunday Times Star Wars bestseller, this takes place before the events of “The Phantom Menace”.


S J Morden Gallowglass Gollancz, 22nd, £8.99, 9781473228559 Jack Van Der Veerden is on the run, and lands a job on a mining ship chas- ing down an asteroid.


Jaime Lee Moyer Divine Heretic Jo Fletcher Books, 22nd, £8.99, 9781787479258 The story of Joan of Arc is reimagined by the author of Brightfall, a retelling of the Maid Marian legend.


Garth Nix The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Gollancz, 8th, £8.99, 9781473227781 In an alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father when she falls in with an extended family of magi- cal fighting booksellers who police the mythical


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Adrian Tchaikovsky Bear Head Ad Astra, 8th, £8.99, 9781800241565 Jimmy Martin, who lives in Hell City on Mars, discovers that humanity isn’t the only entity with designs on the Red Planet. The follow-up to Dogs of War from the Arthur C Clarke-winning author.


Non-fiction


Biography & memoirs


Celia Brayfield Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists Bloomsbury Caravel, 22nd, £12.99, 9781448217502 A study of the women writers, starting with Shelagh Delaney and including Edna O’Brien, Lynne Reid Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster, who challenged the world in the 1960s.


Richard Atkinson Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract 4th Estate, 22nd, £9.99, 9780007509232 Atkinson goes on a journey into his family’s past, from his Cumbrian ancestors to the aban- doned ruins of their sugar estates in Jamaica, and an earlier Richard Atkinson, a merchant who had shipped all the British Army’s supplies during the American War of Independence.


Martin Bailey


Studio of the South Frances Lincoln, 6th, £18.99, 9780711268180 An account of van Gogh’s life in Provence.


Mussolini and his young lover Claretta, drawing on her diaries, which are only recently available. Slipped from June.


Kim Darroch Collateral Damage William Collins, 27th, £9.99, 9780008411619 The former UK ambas- sador to the US, who resigned over leaked cables which were critical of the Trump administra- tion, tells his story. “Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree,” said the Guardian.


Jeremiah Emmanuel Dreaming in a Nightmare Merky Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781529118629 The young activist and entrepreneur looks at the challenges for the new generation, from crime to poverty to an increas- ingly divided society. “A powerfully moving account of his humble, single-parent upbringing in south London; his dreams and the barriers he had to break through,” said Voice.


Lionel Barber The Powerful and the Damned W H Allen, 8th, £9.99, 9780753558201 This intimate diary from the FT editor features his encounters with global leaders and billionaire c.e.o.s, from Trump to Blair. Slipped from June.


Adrian Bleese Above the Law Eye Books, 19th, £9.99, 9781785632624 A memoir from the author, who spent 12 years flying on police helicopters and attended almost 3,000 incidents.


R J B Bosworth Claretta Yale University Press, 13th, £10.99, 9780300254891 A history of the tumultu- ous relationship between


Michael J Fox No Time Like the Future Headline, 22nd, £9.99, 9781472278500 The actor and advocate on his daily negotiations with Parkinson’s, and his reflections on life, love and loss. “In this moving, often funny memoir, Fox reveals how he regained his sense of optimism, and reflects on age, family and living with a disability,” said the Guardian.


Debora Harding Dancing with the Octopus Profile Books, 1st, £9.99, 9781788165174 The author, who at 14 was abducted at knife- point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom and left to die, explores the impact of traumatic violence on the victim, perpetrator and society. Profile is planning a “major” publicity and marketing campaign, and says the hardback sold 4,500 copies.


Sophie Heawood The Hungover Games Vintage, 8th, £8.99, 9781784707644 The journalist’s memoir about how she fell pregnant while working in


LA, and became a single mother. “Funny, dark and true,” said Caitlin Moran.


Gavanndra Hodge The Consequences of Love Michael Joseph, 8th, £8.99, 9781405943222 The journalist tells the story of how her sister died suddenly on holiday at the age of nine. “There are scenes that will reduce you to tears, but there’s also humour, forgiveness and uplifting optimism [...] by the end of this dazzling début you just want to give her a huge cheer for coming through,” said the Evening Standard. Slipped from January.


Richard Holloway Stories We Tell Ourselves Canongate, 22nd, £9.99, 9781786899965 The former Bishop of Edinburgh examines how we make sense of the world. “An engaging, erudite explanation of how he came to be where he now stands,” said the Sunday Times.


S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 22nd, £9.99, 9781471194948 A memoir from Skin, the lead singer of the multi-million-selling rock band Skunk Anansie and LGBTQ+ activist.


Arthur J Magida Code Name Madeleine WW Norton, 23rd, £9.99, 9780393867558 A biography of Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic and a Second World War heroine.


Rachel Morris The Museum Makers September Publishing, 1st, £9.99, 9781912836826 A curatorial expert’s memoir about museums and memory-making. “Skilfully interwoven, history, reflection and detective work, bouncing off one another to build a spirited narrative... Engrossing,” said the Spectator.


Rosayra Pablo Cruz The Book of Rosy HarperOne, 8th, £11.99, 9780062941930 The author tells of how she was separated from her children after seeking asylum in the US. “Offers hope in the face of desperate odds,” said Elle.


Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason House of Music Oneworld, 1st, £9.99, 9780861540297 A memoir about how Kanneh-Mason raised seven children as classi- cally trained musicians, one of them who became Young Musician of the Year and performed for the royal family. This “frank memoir reveals the eye-watering level of practical, emotional, intellectual and financial commitment required to raise seven outstanding classical musicians... Her beautiful, wise writing is its own music,” said the Mail.


Tom Karen Toymaker


Blink, 8th, £9.99, 9781788704151 The toy inventor and designer who invented the Marble Run and designed the Chopper bike tells the story of his life through the objects that have come to define it.


Skin with Lucy O’Brien It Takes Blood and Guts


Nimsdai Purja Beyond Possible Hodder Paperbacks, 8th, £9.99, 9781529312263 The first man to summit all 8,000m “Death Zone” peaks in less than seven months tells his story. “An inspirational study in


Matthew Parris Fracture Profile Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781781257241 The presenter of “Great Lives” on BBC Radio 4, on which this is based, explores the connection between trauma and greatness, looking at lives from Ada Lovelace to Carl Jung. The hardback sold more than 6,000 copies, says Profile. “An elegant, compassionate and wide- ranging tribute to the resilience of humans,” said the Times.


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