SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Do you feel like you’re living in the end of times? You’re not the first to feel that way, argues Phillips as he charts the apocalypse and how humans have always believed it to be “f*cking nigh”.
Professor Anna Whitelock The Sun Rising Bloomsbury Publishing, 27th February, hb, £25, 9781408863510
General History “1603. Elizabeth
Adam Farrer Broken Biscuits HarperNorth, 27th February, hb, £16.99, 9780008710699
Biography & Memoirs
Entertaining collection of autobiographical
essays that document Farrer’s lifelong struggle to grow into societal expectations of manhood; from his disastrous first relationship to the trauma of his adult circumcision and his chronic inability to smoke weed.
Lucy Brazier The Honesty Box Bloomsbury Publishing, 27th February, hb, £16.99, 9781526672957
Biography & Memoirs
After years of unhappiness, the author and
her husband decide to break up on National Divorce Day. Then a chance remark triggers a chain of events leading to his diagnosis with ADHD and autism. This is Brazier’s moving and funny diary about trying to heal a broken marriage, overcome a mental health crisis and “deal with a large marrow”.
Sonny Vaccaro Legends and Soles HarperCollins, 27th February, hb, £22, 9780008738952
Biography & Memoirs
Vaccaro reveals the inside story of his departure
from Nike and his relationship with co-founder Phil Knight, as well as his insights on the big sneaker deals that changed the lives of Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
Laura Dockrill
My Mum and Other Poems Faber, 27th February, hb, £10, 9780571394210
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
From performance poet
Dockrill and inspired by her own experiences of childhood and motherhood, this collection celebrates the best types of mum, including mum as gamer, party animal, slob and free spirit.
Tom Phillips A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World Wildfire, 27th February, hb, £20, 9781035402175
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Lorna Gibb Rare Tongues Atlantic Books, 27th February, hb, £20, 9781838951771
Language Learning & Linguistics
This “enthrall- ing” tour
around the rarest languages in the world explores how globally, language and culture are becoming increasingly homogenous—with a resulting loss of different viewpoints and ways of living.
Simon Hart Ungovernable Macmillan, 27th February, hb, £25, 9781035068791
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Asma Khan Monsoon DK RED, 6th March, hb, £26, 9780241718612
Food & Drink Khan was the first British chef
to appear on Netflix’s Chef’s Table. Her new cookbook is billed as a masterclass in building flavour in your
Amitav Ghosh Wild Fictions John Murray, 27th February, hb , £20, 9781529349382
Literature & Criticism
“Searing” collection of essays by
the acclaimed novelist and non-fiction writer offering an urgent new perspective on today’s world; covering topics including climate change, travel, literature, colonialism and more.
Rolf Dobelli The Not-To-Do List Atlantic Books, 27th February, hb, £12.99, 9781805463283
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
In this “anti self- help” book,
the author of The Art of Thinking Clearly returns to teach us the 52 habits that “the world’s most successful people avoid at all costs”.
dies and the Tudor line comes to an end. England is plunged into crisis.” Billed as a “unique, global retelling”, this charts the reign of James I and shows how the Jacobean period was one of huge cultural, political and global significance.
Biography & Memoirs
The “revealing, blow-by-blow” diaries of life
as a chief whip inside Westminster by Simon Hart MP, who served under both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, and oversaw the departure of a record 15 Conservative MPs.
March
Amanda Nguyen Saving Five Headline Press, 4th March, hb, £22, 9781035427789
Biography & Memoirs
Billed as a “revelatory and powerful” memoir
by the Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and soon to be the first Vietnamese woman in space, this details her activism and creation of the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights in the aftermath of being raped while a student at Harvard.
Ryan Holiday, George Raveling What You’re Made For Profile Books, 4th March, hb, £18.99, 9781805224013
Business & Economics
Renowned basketball coach and
former Nike director Raveling who played a leading role in signing Michael Jordan, teams up with philosopher Holiday for this book of lessons in adversity and leadership, which aims to illuminate the path for anyone who wants to achieve their full potential.
Edward Fishman Chokepoints Elliott & Tompson, 6th March, hb, £25, 9781783968916
Current affairs
Billed as a “major new work of
popular geopolitics”
this relates the untold story of how sanctions are shaping our world amid a fracturing global economy, and how the scramble for economic security will affect international business and politics for decades to come.
cooking through the “intuitive principles of Indian cuisine”, and the six core ayurvedic tastes: tangy, bitter, hot, sweet, sour and salty.
Cordelia Fine Patriarchy Inc Atlantic Books, 6th March, hb, £22, 9781838953348
Current affairs
The author of Testosterone Rex returns with a
strident and witty analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in the workplace. For the question of who does which tasks in society—and what they get in return—is at the heart of social justice, she argues.
Gabriel Weston Alive Jonathan Cape, 6th March, hb, £20, 9781787330603
Biography & Memoirs
Surgeon, TV presenter and award-winning
non-fiction writer Weston takes us on an entrancing journey around the human body in an attempt to marry her scientific knowledge with her lived, bodily experience; from the poetry of our bones to her own malfunctioning heart.
Dr Tao Leigh Goffe Dark Laboratory Hamish Hamilton, 6th March, hb, £20, 9780241628553
General History Trenchant, multilayered
and personal investigation of the Caribbean as both an imagined idyll, and a “dark laboratory of colonial experimentation”; from the human remains buried in museum archives to the “performative” nature of Black Lives Matter.
Haru Yamada Kiku Headline Press, 6th March, hb, £16.99, 9781035411818
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Listening expert Yamada is
a researcher in socio-linguistics and also has a hearing disability. His book draws on the Japanese concept of “kiku”—listening with 14 hearts—to counsel a type of deep listening that goes beyond the superficial.
Kathryn Hurlock Holy Places Profile Books, 6th March, hb, £22, 9781800817432
General History This exploration
of pilgrimage follows its trail through 19 sacred sites— from Tai Shan to Jerusalem and from Amritsar to Buenos Aires—to reveal the many ways in which this ancient practice has shaped our religions and the world.
Anthony Cheetham A Life in 50 Books Apollo, 6th March, hb, £25, 9781035912766
Biography & Memoirs
“Charming and entertaining” memoir in
which publisher Cheetham looks back on his near 60-year career in publishing through 50 milestone books, many of which he published himself; including The Thorn Birds, A Suitable Boy and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Gina Tonic Greedy Guts Coronet Books, 6th March, hb, £20, 9781399728690
Biography & Memoirs
“No one really talks about what it is to be a fat
woman”. By a sex and culture writer from South Wales, an irreverent, funny and candid memoir about growing up Welsh, working-class, queer and fat. Totally unapologetic, it is also full of Welsh slang and hard-hitting stats.
Bernice L McFadden Firstborn Girls Chatto & Windus, 6th March, hb, £20, 9781784744427
Biography & Memoirs
The novelist author of Richard & Judy
Book Club pick Sugar returns with an “astonishing, intimate and powerful” memoir that entwines her story with that of generations of women whose lives illuminate a century of Black American history.
Adam Frost For the Love of Plants DK, 6th March, hb, £22, 9780241662021
Gardening The BBC Gardener’s World
regular invites you to take a walk through his garden as he reflects on the plants that have shaped his life, and explains how to grow them.
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