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what the mining industry once meant to its workers and their communities.
Will Ellsworth-Jones Banksy’s Lost Works Batsford, 13th February, hb, £20, 9781849949057
Art & Antiques This richly illustrated
“landmark” book documents the sold, stolen and destroyed works of Banksy, from his disappearing rats and his now-restored Valentine’s Day Mascara in Margate, to his artwork in partially destroyed buildings around Kiev in Ukraine.
Philip Hoare William Blake & The Sea Monsters of Love Fourth Estate, 13th February, hb, £18.99, 9780008534349
Art & Antiques The acclaimed author of
Leviathan, Or The Whale returns with a “strange and alluring” book on the reverberating influence of William Blake. It explores a range of artists, often through their relationships to the sea and natural landscapes and with a particular focus on London and Dorset.
Minna Salami Can Feminism be African? William Collins, 13th February, hb, £22, 9780008559212
Gender Studies
This “shining, powerful” polemic by the founder of award-
winning blog, Ms Afropolitan aims to open up a new view of gender equality by exploring what happens when we consider feminism through an African lens, and Africa through a feminist one.
Tim Minshall Your Life Is Manufactured Faber & Faber, 13th February, hb, £20, 9780571381012
Popular Science “We live in a manufactured
world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products.” By the inaugural Cambridge Professor of Innovation, an illuminating tour of the world of manufacturing and how it underpins and enables almost every aspect of our existence.
Dr Owen Rees The Far Edges of the Known World Bloomsbury Publishing, 13th February, hb, £25, 9781526653789
General History What was it like to
live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? This “bold, revisionist” history aims to shift our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the long-ignored societies on the borders.
Jonathan Sumption The Challenges of Democracy Profile Books, 13th February, hb, £18.99, 9781805222507
Law The former Supreme Court judge and winner
of the Wolfson Prize returns with a “provocative” series of essays that examine the state of democracy today; from the vulnerabilities of international law to the defence of freedom of speech.
Masud Husain Our Brains, Our Selves Canongate Books, 13th February, hb, £20, 9781805301059
Popular Science Oxford professor
of neurology and cognitive neuroscience shares seven cases of brain disorders from across his career, and shows what they can teach us about all our brains; from a man who ran out of words, to a woman who believed she was having an affair with the man who was really her husband.
The Great Pottery Throw Down Quadrille, 20th February, hb, £25, 9781837833443 With 18
Crafts, Hobbies & Pastimes
handbuilding and throwing projects to make
at home, this first TV tie-in for the popular series aims to accompany budding potters on their creative journey as they take their first steps in this ancient craft.
Kelsey McKinney You Didn’t Hear This from Me Viking, 20th February, hb, £18.99, 9780241741191
Current affairs
By a US writer and reporter who hosts the
Normal Gossip podcast, a “deliciously insightful” exploration of why we are so obsessed with gossip and what it can tell us about humans and their search for truth.
Michael Robb Shelf Life Te History Press, 20th February, hb, £22.99, 9781803998367
Professional & Careers
From the pioneering days of
William Caxton to Jeff Bezos, this chronicles the stories of those who transformed the world of books—publishers, booksellers and more.
Moudhy Al-Rashid Between Two Rivers Hodder & Stoughton, 20th February, hb, £25, 9781529392128
General History An enthralling history
of ancient Mesopotamia draws on what unearthed clay and stone tablets tell us about the intimate lives of people who lived 4,000 years ago; from the imprint of a child’s teeth, to the pawprints of a dog that accidently stopped on to some wet clay.
Helen Murray Taylor love lay down beside me and we wept Unbound, 20th February, hb, £16.99, 9781800183483
Biography & Memoirs
Infused with the author’s medical training as a
doctor, this is said to be a “remarkably honest and courageous” memoir about life- shattering mental illness. After being sectioned in a psychiatric ward, Taylor writes of the love that supported her through it.
Alexander C Karp, Nicholas W Zamiska The Technological Republic Te Bodley Head, 20th February, hb, £25, 9781847928528
Popular Science Arguing that Silicon Valley
has lost its way, Karp, of Palantir Technologies, and his deputy Zamiska present a sweeping indictment of how the West is sliding into a culture of complacency even as we enter a new era of threats.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian The Hidden Globe Picador, 20th February, hb, £22, 9781529058338
Geography Exposing the parallel universe
exempt from the laws of the land that has become a haven for the rich and powerful; including free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centres, charter cities and even mining rights on asteroids.
Ash Sarkar Minority Rule Bloomsbury Publishing, 27th February, hb, £18.99, 9781526648334
Current affairs
This “explosive” debut by journalist and political commentator
Sarkar breaks down the ways in which the power of ordinary people is under attack from an elite minority, aiming to redirect outrage to those who deserve it.
Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Canongate Books, 27th February, hb, £16.99, 9781837264186
Current affairs
“This is a book about things that have become unbearable
and things that can no longer go unsaid.” As an immigrant to the West, author and
Poppy O’Toole Poppy Cooks: The Potato Book Bloomsbury Publishing, 27th February, hb, £22, 9781526664143
Food & Drink Whether roast, fondant,
gnocchi, wedges or chips, 101 spud recipes feature in this “ultimate potato” book from TikTok’s “High Priestess of the Potato”.
Helen Jukes Mother Animal Elliott & Tompson, 27th February, hb, £16.99, 9781783968381
Biography & Memoirs
Examining what we humans can learn about
mothering from how other animals experience it, this alluring blend of memoir, evolutionary biology and zoology presents an arresting new vision of motherhood, “as wild and diverse as the world in which we live and the animals with which we share it”.
Dorothy Armstrong Threads of Empire Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 27th February, hb, £30, 9781399614221
General History From contents of the tombs
of Scythian chieftains from the 5th century BCE to the carpets under the boots of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the 1945 Yalta Peace Conference, this book offers
journalist El Akkad believed it would be a place of freedom and justice. But his experiences have led him to conclude that much of what the West promises is a lie.
an absorbing history of the world told through the stories of 12 notable carpets.
Chris Fitch Wild Cities William Collins, 27th February, hb, £22, 9780008557188
Specialist STM Blending science,
observation and history and taking in locations including Tokyo, Nairobi, Syndey and Copenhagen, a “global- spanning” look at how to integrate nature into urban design and create the wild cities of the future.
Nancy Birtwhistle Nancy’s Green and Easy Kitchen One Boat, 27th February, hb, £25, 9781035044481
Food & Drink The latest book from
the brilliant Birtwhistle includes her no-frills recipes and advice on learning to cook in a more sustainable efficient way while making the most of seasonal ingredients.
Erling Kagge The North Pole Viking, 27th February, hb, £18.99, 9780241645833
Travel guides The Norwegian explorer
and author of Walking and Silence returns with his magnum opus: an epic history of the North Pole; from its mythologising throughout history by writers, thinkers and philosophers to the more recent expeditions that have attempted to reach it.
Peter Conrad Dickens the Enchanter Bloomsbury Continuum, 27th February, hb, £22, 9781399409193
Biography & Memoirs
In this creative biography, the respected
literary critic repositions Charles Dickens as a true giant of literature and provides an exploration of “the most powerfully transformative imagination in literature, a force that was at once divine and devilish”.
Lindsey Burrow Take Care Century, 27th February, hb, £22, 9781529941333
Biography & Memoirs
This memoir “full of love and hope” by the wife of
Rob Burrow, the late Leeds Rhinos rugby league legend and fundraiser for Motor Neurone Disease, explores the “deepest reserves of resilience, personal, sacrifice and love” she had to demonstrate every day while caring for her husband, working in the NHS and raising her young family.
Michael Ohajuru John Blanke Project Canbury, 27th February, hb, £30, 9781914487484
General History Trumpeter to the court
of Henry VII and Henry VIII, John Blanke is the first person of African descent in British history for whom we have both an image and a record. This richly illustrated book contains images by more than 100 artists and historians who were asked to imagine Blanke’s world.
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