SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
be British-Chinese today, including the ways she has felt consistently othered.
Cahal Moran Why We’re Getting Poorer William Collins, 13th March, hb, £22, 9780008637958
Business & Economics
Deciphering the jargon and complexity
of economic thinking, and drawing on examples ranging from The Simpsons and The Inbetweeners to the German football league, the presenter of YouTube channel Unlearning Economics shows why our economy is set up to fail and what we can do about it.
Matt Ridley Birds, Sex and Beauty Fourth Estate, 13th March, hb, £25, 9780008645526
Specialist STM On a quest to better
understanding the origin of beauty “and of humanity itself”, the author of Genome et al returns to explore the peculiar mating behaviour of birds, in particular the “lekking” of species such as the Black Grouse.
Ione Skye Say Everything HarperCollins, 13th March, hb, £22, 9780008661113
Music Film actress Skye is best known for her
roles in movies such as Say Anything and Wayne’s World. Her memoir is an unfiltered “wild ride of Hollywood thrills, confessions and desire” which reflects on her “messy, sexy, and unapologetically unconventional life”.
Caroline Litman Her Name Is Alice Mudlark, 13th March, hb, £22, 9780008667931
Gender Studies
The author’s daughter Alice died by suicide
at the age of 20, having waited almost three years for her first appointment at a gender identity clinic. In “stunningly beautiful” prose, her mother captures the realities of her daughter’s transition, and the days, weeks and months after her death.
Suzanne O’Sullivan The Age of Diagnosis Hodder & Stoughton, 13th March, hb, £22, 9781399727648
Popular Science From autism
to allergies and from ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But such diagnoses often do us more harm than good, argues the neurologist author, aiming to reframe how we think about illness and health.
Julian Barnes Changing My Mind Notting Hill Editions, 18th March, pb, £8.99, 9781912559695
Biography & Memoirs
In this beguiling essay—the first in a new series of
essay “shorts”, Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books; about memories, and finally about age and time.
Michael Morpurgo Spring Hodder & Stoughton, 20th March, hb, £16.99, 9781399728843
Conservation & the Environment
Fifty years ago,
Morpurgo
wrote All Around the Year, a diary of his first year living on a farm, deep in Devon river country. Five decades later and still living in the same location,
he has written this joyful evocation of spring.
Leor Zmigrod The Ideological Brain Viking, 20th March, hb, £22, 9780241741214
Popular Science Why do some people
Oliver Moody Baltic John Murray, 13th March, hb, £16.99, 9781399814287
General History By the Berlin bureau chief
for the Times, this blends history, politics and reportage to explore one of the most important but overlooked theatres of geopolitical change: the Baltic region, from Denmark to Russia.
Henry Gee The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire Picador, 13th March, hb, £18.99, 9781035030835
General History Gee won the 2021 Royal
Society Science Book Prize for A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth. His new book explores the future of our species and our probable extinction within the next 10,000 years. It also suggests ways in which our “exceptional species” might avoid that fate.
become radicalised? Can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas? In a “captivating” fusion of psychology, politics and philosophy, this explains the hidden forces that shape our beliefs and behaviours, and even change our brains.
Sue Gerhardt 1001 Days Cornerstone Press, 20th March, hb, £20, 9781529928679
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Psychotherapist and child development expert Gerhardt reveals the “shocking” truth about how your pre-natal and early experiences continue to shape your body and health throughout adulthood; from type-2 diabetes to cardiovascular disease, depression and dementia.
Jason Allen-Paisant The Possibility of Tenderness Hutchinson Heinemann, 20th March, hb, £18.99, 9781529153620
Social & Local History
Roving from the verdant hills of his childhood in
Coffee Grove, Jamaica, to the woodlands of Leeds where he now lives, this beguiling first work of non-fiction by the T S Eliot and Forward Prize- winning poet explores the transformative power of plants, and the influence of his formative rural experience.
Anna Nyburg The Art of the Book Tames & Hudson, 20th March, hb, £50, 9780500028063
General History Celebrating 75 years of
publishing at the renowned illustrated publishing house, this lavishly illustrated survey of the company’s history and titles ranges across art, archaeology, architecture, history, design, photography and fashion.
Jane Dismore No Country for a Woman Te History Press, 20th March, hb, £20, 9781803996141
Biography & Memoirs
Travel with Lady Dorothy Mills around the world,
from high society in the Jazz Age to Timbuktu—her globe- trotting story is one of cannibals and cocktails.
Amanda Knox Free Headline Book Publishing, 25th March, hb, £25, 9781035428151
Biography & Memoirs
Knox reflects on her confinement in an Italian prison
prior to her murder conviction being overturned, and her return to an “ordinary” life. She reveals “hard-won truths about purpose and fulfilment, designed to resonate with anyone who has felt trapped by circumstances”.
Julian Treasure Sound Affects Quercus Publishing, 25th March, hb, £22, 9781529428803
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
This “epic journey to the heart
of sound” aims to help us rediscover the wonders of audio, to enhance our happiness and wellbeing. In the process we discover that stars are like bells; shrimps are very loud; and dolphins have names and call each other by them.
Tom Daley Get Hooked HQ, 27th March, hb, £18.99, 9780008657017
Crafts, Hobbies & Pastimes
“Dive headfirst” into the world of crochet with this new book from the Olympic
and World diving champion, who tutors us in the basic skills, and suggests 15 crocheted projects including clothing, cosy accessories and desirable homewares.
Mo Wilde Free Food Simon & Schuster UK Adult Non-Fiction, 27th March, hb, £16.99, 9781398508668
Food & Drink The forager author of
The Wilderness Cure explains how to identify plants, seaweeds, nuts and species that grow wild and are safe to eat, including foraging staples such as wild garlic, and lesser-known herbs like sweet cicely.
Roopa Gulati Indian Kitchens Bloomsbury Publishing, 27th March, hb, £26, 9781526642585
Food & Drink In which Gulati takes a culinary
journey through India and celebrates the rich variety of its regional food; from Mumbai and Gujarat, to the backwaters of Kerala and the old French quarter of Pondicherry.
Bernadette Russell Conversations of Kindness Elliott & Tompson, 27th March, hb, £16.99, 9781783968510
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
On a quest to see whether
being kind can change our lives for the better, the author of How to be Hopeful charts her year of doing a kind thing for a stranger every day. Along the way she converses with those for whom kindness sits at the centre of their work and lives.
Jon Gower Raider Calon, 27th March, hb, £16.99, 9781915279941
Christian Dior, Antonia Fraser (trans) Dior by Dior V&A, 27th March, hb, £20, 9781838510497
Biography & Memoirs
This luxurious updated edition of Dior’s
autobiography gives a fascinating insight into the workings of the great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile public face.
Peter Carpenter BOWIELAND Monoray, 27th March, hb, £22, 9781800961548
Music Walking to recover and stay alive, the author
also recovers David Bowie, his lost hero, by walking in his footsteps from south London edgelands and suburbia to remoter Bowie haunts: Croydon, Aylesbury, Pett Level and Southend-on-Sea.
Adele Zeynep Walton Logging Off Trapeze, 27th March, hb, £20, 9781398722927
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Helen Molesworth (ed), Rachel Garrahan (ed) Cartier
V&A, 27th March, hb, £40, 9781838510534
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Featuring over 150 dazzling
Cartier items, and published to coincide with a major V&A exhibition, this celebrates the history of the company King Edward VII called the “Jeweller of Kings and King of Jewellers”.
Biography & Memoirs
”Dive into the thrilling life of Raymond
Chester”, the Oakland Raiders legend who was central in moving Black American football into the mainstream. His story is one of resilience and triumph that resonates far beyond the world of sport, Gower shows.
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