SEASON HIGHLIGHTS February
Sheree Bekker, Stephen Mumford Open Play Reaktion Books, 1st February, hb, £14.99, 9781836390534
Current affairs
Arguing that the category of “women’s sport” is not the
feminist win some would have us believe, this sets out the case that ending gender segregation in sport would increase women’s participation, challenge outdated myths about the female body and more.
Anna Sulan Masing Chinese and Any Other Asian Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6th February, hb, £20, 9781399606653
Current affairs
“Short, powerful and punchy” exploration of the East and South
East Asian experience in Britain today, celebrating the multiple elements and varied experiences that make up ESEA identity.
Pankaj Mishra The World after Gaza Fern Press, 6 February, hb, £20, 9781911717492
Current affairs
Exploring anti- colonialism, religion and race, the
celebrated novelist and essayist wrestles with fundamental questions posed by the current crisis in Gaza: whether some lives matter more than others, and why racial antagonisms are intensifying amid a far-right surge in the West.
Patrick Maguire, Gabriel Pogrund Get In Te Bodley Head, 6th February, hb, £25, 9781847928375
Current affairs
The Times and Sunday Times duo behind Left Out
return to give an “explosive, definitive, behind-the-scenes” account of Labour and the 2024 general election. Includes “eye-watering, in-the-room details about infighting between key Labour figures” and major revelations about both Starmer and Angela Rayner, I’m told.
I read. Reading makes me feel calm, curious and connected.”. So writes the journalist, author and presenter of the You’re Booked podcast in this warm and witty guide to embracing “shelf-help” for anyone struggling with anxiety.
Aaron Robertson The Black Utopians Chatto & Windus, 6th February, hb, £18.99, 9781784744755
General History What does utopia look
like in Black? Billed as the first book to offer a counter history of how Black Americans envisioned utopia, this also tells the story of the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit, a major institution during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
Michael Haag Larry Profile Books, 6th February, hb, £25, 9781788169790
Biography & Memoirs
Haag, regarded as the world’s foremost scholar
of the Durrell family, died in 2020. Written over 20 years, this “definitive” biography of Lawrence Durrell covers his life up until the end of the Second World War, including his time in London, Paris, Corfu and Alexandria, and is said to be Haag’s magnum opus.
Clive Webb Vietdamned Profile Books, 6th February, hb, £22, 9781800812338
General History The untold story of
the 1967 Russell Tribunal in which writers including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Stokely Carmichael attempted to hold the US government to account for atrocities committed during the Vietnam War.
Camille Juzeau, The Shelf Company Phenomena Tames & Hudson, 6th February, hb, £30, 9780500028650
Popular Science From fireflies to the Big
Bang, from the magnificent maps of the world’s sands to the anatomy of ice crystals, these 125 illustrated graphic phenomena are designed to take you on a stroll through the vast world of knowledge.
Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson Forgotten Profile Books, 6th February, hb, £14.99, 9781805222415
General History From two leading
Daisy Buchanan Read Yourself Happy DK RED, 6th February, hb, £16.99, 9780241691656
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
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“When I’m feeling anxious,
writers and thinking on Palestine, this is said to be a profound meditation on memory, charting a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine and what they might tell us about the land and people.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Annabel Karmel Finger Foods for Babies and Toddlers DK, 6th February, hb, £18.99, 9780241707678
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
The doyenne of weaning and early
eating presents her latest expert guide for “a new generation of food explorers” with expert advice on introducing finger foods to your child via small easy steps and with tips for fussy eaters.
Pico Iyer Learning from Silence Cornerstone Press, 6th February, hb, £16.99, 9781529944112
Mind, Body & Spirit
Exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be
found in quiet retreat, based on Iyer’s experience of making more than 100 retreats over the past three decades to a Benedictine hermitage above the sea in Big Sur, California.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Message Hamish Hamilton, 6th February, hb, £18.99, 9780241724187
Biography & Memoirs
Pre-eminent writer on race travels to three sites of
conflict—Dakar in Senegal, Columbia in South Carolina and Palestine—and illuminates the “tragedy that grows in the clash between the stories we tell and reality on the ground”.
Diana Evans I Want to Talk to You Chatto & Windus, 6th February, hb, £18.99, 9781784744243
Biography & Memoirs
Eclectic collection of essays,
journalism and
criticism by the author of Ordinary People in which she reflects on fashion, yoga, the British monarchy, George Floyd and Grenfell, and interviews the likes of Viola Davis, Alice Walker and Edward Enninful.
Josephine Baker, Anam Zafar (trans), Sophie Lewis (trans) Fearless and Free Vintage Classics, 6th February, hb, £18.99, 9781784878344
Biography & Memoirs
Never before published in English, this
memoir from iconic figure Baker was formed from a series of conversations with French journalist Marcel Sauvage over a 20-year period and tells the story of Baker’s life up until the end of the 1940s.
Cass R Sunstein Climate Justice MIT Press, 11th February, hb, £27, 9780262049467
Current affairs
In this “bracing” challenge to current thinking, Sunstein sets
out what is at stake in terms of the “social cost of carbon”, along with a moral imperative for rich countries to pay for the harms they have caused environmentally.
Nick Thorpe Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness Yale University Press, 11th February, hb, £20, 9780300253542
Specialist STM Journeying from the
banks of
the Danube to Transylvania, Thorpe takes us on an evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history.
Becky Excell Budget Gluten Free Quadrille, 13th February, hb, £20, 9781837832453
Food & Drink Shop, cook and eat-gluten-
free on a budget with these 100 easy and affordable recipes for dinners, on-the-go lunches, decadent desserts and bakes, along with dairy- free, low FODMAP, veggie and vegan options.
Alexina Anatole Sweet Square Peg, 13th February, hb, £27, 9781529193138
Food & Drink I loved Anatole’s first cookbook,
Bitter. This follow-up contains 80 recipes designed to upgrade your favourite desserts as it journeys through 10 different shades of sweetness; including brown sugar, vanilla, coconut, banana, peaches, strawberries and honey.
Lorna Tucker Bare BRAZEN, 13th February, hb, £20, 9781914240737
Biography & Memoirs
Aged 15, Tucker— now an acclaimed film director—was
living on the streets of Soho, while battling an addiction to heroin. “But somehow, and unlike most of the people imprisoned by the streets, Lorna didn’t just survive, but she flew”.
Diane Seuss Modern Poetry Fitzcarraldo Editions, 13th February, pb, £12.99, 9781804271599
Poetry The Pulitzer-winning poet’s latest
collection takes its title from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college as an enrapt but ill-equipped student who felt that poetry was beyond her reach.
Andrew Brodsky Ping Penguin Life, 13th February, pb, £16.99, 9780241746363
Business & Economics
In this guide to better online communication
at work, US management professor Brodsky explains why that meeting could have been an email, while your email should have been a voice memo. Also sometimes it is okay to turn your laptop camera off.
Helen Rappaport The Rebel Romanov Simon & Schuster UK Adult Non-Fiction, 13th February, hb, £25, 9781398525962
General History To Queen Victoria
she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was her granddaughter-in-law. The story of the eventful life of Princess Uliane- Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Luke Smith On the Grid Simon & Schuster UK Adult Non-Fiction, 13th February, hb, £22, 9781398532465
Sports & Gaming
Smith has spent more than a decade reporting on
Formula One from all over the world. He reveals what the sport is really like, profiling the minds and characters that give it colour and intrigue and tracing the origins of the sport.
John Long The Secret History of Sharks Quercus Publishing, 13th February, hb, £25, 9781529427356
Specialist STM From ancient megalodons
to fearsome
Great Whites, this “definitive” history of sharks by an Aussie professor who is at the cutting edge of shark research, is also a “riveting look at scientific discovery with ramifications far beyond the ocean”.
Emily P Webber Mining Men Chatto & Windus, 13th February, hb, £22, 9781784745448
General History Combining extensive
archival research with interviews with former miners from Fife to Kent via Northumbria and South Yorkshire and Wales, Webber— who grew up in a former mining community herself—explores
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