SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Nicolas Niarchos The Elements of Power William Collins, 8th May, hb, £22, 9780008553944
Current affairs
New Yorker Niarchos takes us on a journey from Congolese mines
to Chinese factories, uncovering the darker side of cobalt, the metal powering the green revolution through batteries.
Jess Davies No One Wants to See Your D*ck Headline Press, 8th May, hb, £20, 9781035416578
Current affairs
Ex-model and women’s rights campaigner Davies
provides a “vital” handbook at a time when the popularity of misogynistic content and a lack of regulation within social media have formed the perfect storm.
as her broader reflections on women’s rights, the fight for democracy, the trends in masculinity, and the rise of the far right in the West. A bracing treat in store, I feel sure.
Martha Collison Pull Up a Chair Octopus, 8th May, hb, £26, 9781804192429
Food & Drink Whether you’re looking for a
weekend brunch spread, a little treat to share over coffee with a friend, a three-course extravaganza or a weeknight winner for two, Collison presents a collection of unfussy recipes designed to be shared.
Katie Goh Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange Canongate Books, 8th May, hb, £16.99, 9781805301738
General History This memoir by an author
who grew up queer in a Chinese- Malaysian-Irish household in the north of Ireland uses the history of the orange to reckon with her own identity while unpacking themes of globalisation, colonialism and migration.
Dean van Nguyen Words for My Comrades White Rabbit, 8th May, hb, £25, 9781399615433
Laura Bates The New Age of Sex(ism) Simon & Schuster UK Adult Non-Fiction, 8th May, hb, £20, 9781471190483
Current affairs
The feminist activist and author shows how we’re
sleepwalking into a new era of misogyny in her latest “urgent and shocking” book.
Emily English Live to Eat Seven Dials, 8th May, hb, £25, 9781399620079
Food & Drink The author of So Good returns
with a new collection of simple and nutritious recipes designed to make healthy eating a joy.
Biography & Memoirs
This cultural history reckons with Tupac
Shakur’s coming of age, fame and cultural capital and how the political
machinations that shaped him as a boy have since buoyed his legacy as a revolutionary.
Courtney Gustafson Poets Square Fig Tree, 8th May, hb, £16.99, 9780241650745
Biography & Memoirs
Said to be a beautifully written memoir-in-essays
about accidentally rescuing a colony of feral cats, sparking discoveries about what cats can teach us about creating community and giving care.
Holly Dawson All of Us Atoms: A Memoir Canongate Books, 8th May, hb, £18.99, 9781805301479
Biography & Memoirs
What makes us who we are? What stories do we
inherit—and leave behind? Faced with the prospect of losing her memory, Dawson revisits the moments that changed her, from childhood to motherhood, loss and ill-health.
Rebecca Solnit No Straight Road Takes You There Granta Books, 8th May, hb, £16.99, 9781803511641
Current affairs
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Solnit’s best recent essays about the climate crisis, as well
Tom Chesshyre Slow Trains Around Britain Summersdale, 8th May, hb, £20, 9781837995271
Travel Writing
Travel writer and self-confessed “train nut” Chesshyre
celebrates 200 years of passenger railways by taking a zigzagging tour around the UK
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
from the Isle of Wight to Snowdonia, Inverness and Penzance
Nige Tassell Final Destination Mudlark, 8th May, hb, £20, 9780008700089
Transport For the 200th birthday of
the world’s first passenger- carrying railway, Tassell sets out to ride Britain’s railway network all the way to its lesser-travelled-to corners, its seldom-visited outposts.
Paul Symons Still Got It Wildfire, 8th May, hb, £12.99, 9781035424078
Humour, Novelty & Gift
The perfect gift for every dad who is still convinced he’s cooler than his kids, this
exploration of Hipster Dads aims to prove that they are experts in the things that matter.
Abigail Leonard Four Mothers Sceptre, 8th May, hb, £20, 9781399734387
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Blending reporting, research and
history, this follows four women— Anna from Finland, Tsukasa from Japan, Sarah from the US and Chelsea from Kenya—during their first year of motherhood.
Duncan Ferguson BIG DUNC Century, 8th May, hb, £22, 9781529939286
Biography & Memoirs
“They don’t make footballers —and football
autobiographies—like this any more: the brutally honest, riotously entertaining story of the Everton legend and Premier League bad boy.”
Mark Lynas Six Minutes to Winter Bloomsbury Sigma, 8th May, hb, £20, 9781399410519
War & Military History
Nuclear war is a far greater immediate
threat to humanity’s survival than climate change, but why is no one talking about it? So asks Lynas in this unflinching book that explains how weapons can be taken off hair-trigger alert and abolished altogether.
Julia Jones Stars to Steer By Bloomsbury Publishing, 8th May, hb, £22, 9781399415460
Biography & Memoirs
From the 19th century to the present day, the
extraordinary stories of the fearless women who set their sights on the sea, paving the way for the female sailing superstars of today.
Iain Pears Parallel Lives William Collins, 8th May, hb, £18.99, 9780008628963
Christopher Clarey The Warrior John Murray, 8th May, hb , £15.99, 9781399811507
General History “It is a tale of a world we
seem to have lost.” Two people fall in love. But the route that brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell together in 1962 was anything but simple, shows Pears in this compelling- sounding story.
Marcus du Sautoy Blueprints Fourth Estate, 8th May, hb, £22, 9780008684990
Popular Science The Oxford professor
reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts.
Daniel Harding (ed) Letters to My Younger Queer Self HarperCollins, 8th May, hb, £16.99, 9780008685065
Gender Studies
If you could write a letter to your younger queer self, what
would you say? This collection of such letters from eminent queer people aims to create an inspiring resource for anyone who has ever struggled with growing up different.
Bee Wilson The Heart-Shaped Tin Fourth Estate, 8th May, hb, £18.99, 9780008685638
Biography & Memoirs
One ordinary day, out of the blue, the heart-shaped tin
in which Wilson baked her wedding cake fell to the ground. Not insignificantly, two months earlier her husband had left her for another woman. This book charts how everyday kitchen objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives. I love Wilson’s writing.
Naga Munchetty It’s Probably Nothing Torsons, 8th May, hb, £22, 9780008686574
Gender Studies
The journalist and broadcaster explores the challenges of
being heard, diagnosed and treated, writing candidly about her own experience of poor care and speaking to women directly affected by undiagnosed and untreated health issues.
Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield Ocean John Murray, 8th May, hb , £18.99, 9781399818506
Maritime This landmark publication from
Attenborough and long-time collaborator Butfield tells the story of our last great, critical wilderness: how it shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe.
Judith Scheele Land of Shifting Sands Profile Books, 8th May, hb, £25, 9781788166454
General History From the geology of the
region, to the life it shelters and more, the compelling story of the Sahara Desert; how it sits at the heart of our world, and how its future holds implications for us all.
Julian Hoffman Lifelines Elliott & Tompson, 15th May, hb, £18.99, 9781783968640
Travel Writing
The author charts his courageous leap into a new life, by
which he and his wife made a new home in the ancient mountains and lakes of Prespa in northern Greece.
Ekow Eshun Black Earth Rising Tames & Hudson, 15th May, hb, £50, 9780500028780
Art & Antiques Contemporary art anthology
exploring the complex ties between race, climate crisis and colonialism through the work of 100 leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity.
Sports & Gaming
An intimate biography of tennis legend Rafael
Nadal, written in his final year before retirement.
Ian Kumekawa Empty Vessel John Murray, 8th May, hb , £20, 9781399816229
Business & Economics
From Swedish offshore oil rig in the 1970s to
housing Nigerian oil workers in the 2010s, a history of the world economy over the past 50 years told through the life of a single ship.
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