BOOKS


tours Iceland’s 265 small museums.


Calum McSwiggan Eat, Gay, Love Hodder Paperbacks, 15th, £9.99, 9781529384529 A travel memoir in which the author meets LGBTQ+ people from all walks of life.


Tim Parks Italian Life Vintage, 29th, £9.99, 9781529112580 The writer on Italian culture sets out to explain how Italy actually works. “Parks is the best interpreter of Italian ways in Italy,” said the Sunday Herald.


Ed Stafford


Epic Expeditions Aurum, 6th, £9.99, 9780711259645 The explorer looks at 25 of the greatest expeditions in history, and what it took to survive them.


True crime


Mark Bowden The Case of the Vanishing Blonde Grove Press UK, 1st, £8.99, 9781611854572 Six true crime stories spanning the veteran reporter’s career.


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Richard Taylor The Mind of a Murderer Wildfire, 22nd, £9.99, 9781472268204 An insight into life as a forensic psychiatrist, revealing the minds of those who kill.


Paul Williams The Monk Allen & Unwin, 1st, £9.99, 9781911630807 The inside story of Irish criminal and gang boss Gerry Hutch.


Essays


Daniel Finkelstein Everything in Moderation William Collins, 22nd, £9.99, 9780008356613 A collection of Finkelstein’s writing from the Times, from the personal to the political.


Reissues


Ivo Andric The Bridge Over the Drina Vintage Classics, 22nd, £14.99, 9781784877057 Reissue of the work which won Andric the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961, as a Vintage Classic.


9781409198208 Reissue of the guide to modern financial empowerment.


Peter Carey Wrong About Japan Faber & Faber, 15th, £10.99, 9780571228706 Reissue of the Booker winner’s travelogue about Japan.


Ernst Cassirer An Essay on Man Yale University Press, 13th, £14.99, 9780300254075 Reissue of the great 20th-century philosopher’s lifetime study of man’s cultural achievements.


Clare Chambers Learning to Swim Arrow, 22nd, £12.99, 9780099277637 Arrow is reissuing Chambers’ novels Learning to Swim and In a Good Light, following her longlisting for the Women’s Prize for Fiction for Small Pleasures.


Jenny Colgan Operation Sunshine Sphere, 1st, £8.99, 9780751551068 Sphere is reissuing Jenny Colgan’s backlist with new covers, in line with her frontlist, with West End Girls and Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend also out this month.


Andrew Harding These Are Not Gentle People MacLehose Press, 8th, £8.99, 9781529405606 The BBC’s Africa corre- spondent tells of the events in the small town of Parys, South Africa, in 2016, when two Black men were cornered by a crowd of white farmers, assaulted, and died. “An extraordinary tale,” said the FT.


Ravi Somaiya Operation Morthor Viking, 8th, £9.99, 9780241975022 An investigation into the murder of the secretary-general of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld, in 1961, revealing the truth behind his death at last.


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Murray Bail Eucalyptus Vintage Classics, 1st, £9.99, 9781784876906 Reissue of the cult classic published in the 1990s, in which Ellen’s father announces she will marry the first man who can name all the eucalypts. Stunning cover.


Walter Benjamin One-Way Street Verso, 20th, £12.99, 9781839761652 A collection of Benjamin’s essays, with an introduc- tion by Susan Sontag.


C J Box The Highway Head of Zeus, 8th, £8.99, 9781801102902 Head of Zeus is reissuing the first four novels in the series that inspired the HBO and Disney+ series “Big Sky”.


Melissa Browne Unf*ck Your Finances Trapeze, 22nd, £9.99,


Adam Czerniawski Scenes from a Disturbed Childhood Holland House Books, 27th, £9.99, 9781910688380 A new edition of the memoir of the Anglo- Polish poet, starting in Poland in 1939 and tracing his arrival in England after the Second World War.


Lawrence Durrell Sicilian Carousel Faber & Faber, 1st, £9.99, 9780571362400 Faber is reissuing a handful of Durrell’s memoirs this month, with Reflections on a Marine Venus, The Greek Islands and Prospero’s Cell among the titles also reissued.


Paul Feeney


A 1950s Childhood Special Edition Te History Press, 1st, £11.99, 9780750997379 The History Press says it has sold more than 200,000 copies of this look at a 1950s childhood. This is a new, larger- format edition.


Patrick Leigh Fermor A Time of Gifts John Murray, 8th, £12.99, 9781529369526 The travel classic first published in 1977 becomes a “John Murray Journey”, part of a new series of classic and rediscovered travel books; other titles out this month include Eddy L Harris’ Mississippi Solo and Ella K Maillart’s The Cruel Way.


Katie Flynn


Orphans of the Storm Arrow, 8th, £7.99, 9781787463936 In 1940s Liverpool, the future looks bleak for two nurses when they lose their lovers in the trenches.


Henry Kamen Early Modern European Society Yale University Press, 27th, £14.99, 9780300250510 A new edition of the study in early modern history, with updated material on gender, religion and population movement.


Georg Lukács The Destruction of Reason Verso, 20th, £30, 9781839761843


A long out-of-print classic of Western Marxism.


Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Serpent’s Tail, 1st, £8.99, 9781788167109 A lovely bright new package for the Booker shortlisted novel.


Max Hastings Bomber Command Pan, 8th, £12.99, 9781529047790 An in-depth account of one of the most contro- versial struggles of the Second World War, the RAF’s bombing offensive.


Georgette Heyer The Nonesuch Arrow, 22nd, £8.99, 9780099474388 Arrow has been reissuing the inimitable Heyer for the past couple of years, but has seen a bump in interest in the queen of Regency romances following “Bridgerton”. With a handful of reissues out this month, it is plan- ning a PR and marketing campaign to draw in existing fans, and that younger audience lured by “Bridgerton”.


Attia Hosain Sunlight on a Broken Column Virago, 15th, £9.99, 9780349014470 Reissue of the novel writ- ten against the backdrop of Indian Partition, for its 60th anniversary. Kamila


Anne Morice Scared to Death Dean Street Press, 5th, £10.99, 9781914150111 Dean Street is publishing books 11–20 of the Tessa Crichton series this month, light-hearted mysteries set in the world of acting which were originally published in the 1970s and ’80s.


Shamsie, the author’s great-niece, will provide an introduction. Phoenix Fled is also out in July.


James Hunter The Appin Murder Birlinn, 1st, £9.99, 9781780277202 Reissue of the story of one of Scotland’s most notori- ous murders and miscar- riages of justice, which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped.


A revised and updated edition of the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.


Guy Standing The Precariat I B Tauris, 15th, £14.99, 9780755637072 An updated foreword for the pandemic era for this look at the Precariat: the people facing lives of insecurity, doing work without a future.


George R Stewart Storm NYRB Classics, 13th, £15.99, 9781681375182 First published in 1941, this early “eco-novel” follows the progress of a storm across the US.


Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House Vintage Classics, 1st, £9.99, 9781784877033 Reissue of 25 science- fiction short stories from the legendary author. Vonnegut’s Palm Sunday is also reissued this month.


Alice Munro Who Do You Think You Are? Vintage, 1st, £8.99, 9781529115451 Vintage has a great new look for Munro’s backlist, with the Nobel laureate’s Friend of My Youth also reissued this month.


Mark Pack & Edward Maxfield 101 Ways to Win an Election Biteback Publishing, 8th, £9.99, 9781785906893 An updated edition of the classic political guide revealing how to win on election day.


Laurence Rees The Nazis BBC Books, 29th, £9.99, 9780563493334


Alan Watts The Way of Zen Rider, 1st, £9.99, 9781846046902 A new series look for Watts’ exploration into the origins and history of Zen Buddhism. His Wisdom of Insecurity is also reissued this month.


Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out Modern Library, 6th, £11.99, 9780593242629 Reissue of Woolf’s début novel.


John Wyndham The Outward Urge Gateway, 8th, £8.99, 9781473230729 Reissue as a Golden Age Masterwork of the classic slice of science-fiction from the author of The Day of the Triffids.


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