SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Music The critic and author of
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirror returns with a three-part study of composer and pianist Satie.
Maiwand Banayee Delusions of Paradise Icon Books, 24th April, hb, £20, 9781837731909
Biography & Memoirs
This “celebration of self- determination
and redemption” by a former Taliban fighter offers a powerful warning about the dangers of radical religion.
Huw Turbervill The Final Test Bloomsbury Sport, 24th April, hb, £20, 9781399417525
Sports & Gaming
In which the editor of The Cricketer goes on a soul-searching
journey to discover what the future holds for Test cricket.
Tim Wigmore Test Cricket Quercus Publishing, 24th April, hb, £25, 9781529428612
Biography & Memoirs
Drawing on interviews with more than
40 players, this “first narrative history” of Test cricket from 1877 to the present day is told through the moments and personalities that have shaped the format.
Alice Vincent Hark Canongate Books, 24th April, hb, £18.99, 9781805302063
Popular Science As the world grows
ever noisier, Vincent embarks on a personal quest to rediscover sound as something alive, vital and restorative. It is also a book for “women who feel unheard” and a “means of listening more deeply in a world that has grown too loud”.
Martin Porter, David Goggin Buzz Me In Tames & Hudson, 24th April, hb, £30, 9780500028698
Music From Jimi Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac
and The Eagles, the inside story of Record Plant studios—the real “Hotel California”—which reveals how the greatest music of the 1970s was recorded, and “why the artists checked out but rarely left”.
Phil Craig 1945: The Reckoning Hodder & Stoughton, 24th April, hb, £22, 9781399714495
War & Military History
Clearing away the nostalgia, this “epic
conclusion” to Craig’s Finest Hour trilogy aims to be a “humane and balanced” exploration of what victory in the Second World War truly meant.
Tessa Dunlop Lest We Forget HarperNorth, 24th April, hb, £22, 9780008713140
General History Dunlop explores
what 100 British monuments to war and peace tell us about our history and ourselves.
Hyeseung Song Docile HQ, 24th April, hb, £16.99, 9780008733438
Biography & Memoirs
From Texas sugar cane fields and
Ivy Leagues to South Korea and back again, this memoir of the Korean American immigrant experience is described as a journey through identity crises, mental health, and the quest for selfhood.
Tiffany Watt Smith Bad Friend Faber, 24th April, hb, £18.99, 9780571376537
Social & Local History
What is a friend? The cultural
historian author reckons with the ways in which we understand this complex and vital connection.
Drew Harvell The Ocean’s Menagerie Te Bodley Head, 24th April, hb, £20, 9781847927712
Specialist STM This tale of marine
marvels relates the story of the author’s passion for a career in science, and issues a call to arms to protect the world’s most ancient ecosystems.
Dr Richard Mackenzie, Peter Walker Stress Tested Bluebird, 24th April, hb, £22, 9781035049028
Psychology Billed as a groundbreaking
investigation into the new science of stress hormones and their impact on our bodies—covering obesity, mental health, early- years attachment, type-2 diabetes, fertility and more.
Geraint Jones Voices of Victory Macmillan, 24th April, hb, £22, 9781035070046
Sheila Fitzpatrick The Death of Stalin Old Street Publishing, 29th April, hb, £12.99, 9781913083939
General History Recreating the drama
of Stalin’s death, this also examines the problems and missed opportunities that occurred when the dictator breathed his last. “A cautionary tale for our times?”
May
Charlotte Proudman He Said, She Said Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st May, hb, £20, 9781399612449
Law Through real-life cases spanning
forced marriage, domestic abuse, child abduction and female genital mutilation, barrister Proudman highlights the troubling biases and shocking prejudice against women that underlie our legal system.
Johan Norberg Peak Human Atlantic Books, 1st May, hb, £18.99, 9781838957292
Business & Economics
Looking at seven of humanity’s
greatest civilisations—ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere —historian Norberg seeks to answer the question: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?
Robert Wainwright The Fall of the House of Montagu Atlantic Books, 1st May, hb, £22, 9781838959555
Biography & Memoirs
A “scandal- drenched” account of
the fall of one of England’s great aristocratic dynasties: the House of Drogo Montagu.
War & Military History
Published in association with the
Imperial War Museum for the 80th anniversary of VE Day, a new oral history of final bloody battles to defeat Nazi Germany in 1945.
at home experienced and celebrated the end of the Second World War.
Sophie Gilbert Girl on Girl John Murray, 1st May, hb, £20, 9781399812306
Gender Studies
Malcolm Mackenzie The Taylor Book DK, 1st May, hb, £16.99, 9780241700761
Music With in-depth text, infographics,
illustrations and photos, “everything die-hard Taylor Swift fans need to know” is in this comprehensive exploration.
Deepa Paul Ask Me How It Works Viking, 1st May, hb, £18.99, 9780241698396
Biography & Memoirs
One woman’s story of discovering her
own desires, of shifting identities from mother to lover and back again, and of finding the courage to ask for the marriage she wanted, beyond the marriage she had.
Molly Conisbee No Ordinary Deaths Wellcome Collection, 1st May, hb, £22, 9781800815872
General History From a cross-dressing
madam in Victorian London to the professional death-watchers of the Middle Ages, historian and bereavement counsellor Conisbee reveals how cycles of dying, death and disposal have shaped the lives of everyday people.
Dan Hicks Every Monument Will Fall Hutchinson Heinemann, 1st May, hb, £25, 9781529152746
General History An urgent reappraisal of
how we think about culture, and how to find hope, remembrance and reconciliation in the fragments of an unfinished violent past.
Tom Wright, Pete Townshend (intro) Their Generation Omnibus Press, 1st May, hb, £30, 9781787601451
Music The story of The Who’s momentous first tours
of America told through many unseen photos by the band’s official photographer and tour manager Wright.
Lucy Noakes The People’s Victory Atlantic Books, 1st May, hb, £20, 9781838955120
General History Historian Noakes mines
the Mass Observation archive to present a comprehensive and colourful account of how Britons
Robin Ince Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal Macmillan, 1st May, hb, £22, 9781035036929
Biography & Memoirs
”What if being a bit weird is actually entirely
normal?” The author and host of BBC Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage uses his own late-stage diagnosis of ADHD to explore neurodivergence and anxiety.
Ben Aitken Shitty Breaks Icon Books, 7th May, hb, £16.99, 9781837730469
Travel guides From skiing in Sunderland, to
the football in Wrexham, and more craic in Limerick than was wise, the author takes city breaks in 12 of Britain and Ireland’s less popular destinations as ranked by the official tourist boards.
David Farrier Nature’s Genius Canongate Books, 8th May, hb, £20, 9781837260539
Conservation & the Environment
Billed as the story of how
we shape the lives of animals and plants and how they shape us. In their example we may find ways that we too can adapt, and stop the destruction we are causing to the planet, says the author.
Lia Leendertz A Year of Feasting & Festivities Gaia Books, 8th May, hb, £10, 9781856755832
Food & Drink Drawn from Leendertz’s
bestselling The Almanac comes this equally cutely presented collection of recipes exploring the sumptuous delights of every season and its festivals.
February 2025–July 2025 19
From a Pulitzer Prize-finalist for journalism, an
attempt to understand the toxic legacy of popular culture on feminism today and what we can do to fight back.
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