SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Dr Kevin Tracey The Great Nerve Penguin Life, 15th May, hb, £22, 9780241762400
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Exploring the potential of the vagus
nerve to regulate the body’s vital systems and transform health.
Kassia St Clair Liberty Tames & Hudson, 15th May, hb, £50, 9780500028858
Design & Architecture
Published to mark the 150th anniversary
of Liberty, a richly illustrated celebration of the store’s historic range of innovative fabric designs and its global reputation.
Quintin Lake The Perimeter Hutchinson Heinemann, 15th May, hb, £35, 9781529154450
Photography In April 2015, photographer
Lake set off from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral on a five-year journey that would take him around the entire coastline of mainland Britain. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, this is his account of that journey.
emergence of private life, and argues that it is a precious resource that must be defended.
Yasmin Khan Sabzi Bloomsbury Publishing, 22nd May, hb, £26, 9781526664952
Food & Drink Sabzi is the Persian word for
fresh greens and herbs. Khan shares vegetarian and vegan recipes, inspired by her Pakistani and Iranian heritage, her mother’s cooking and her travels around the world.
Natalia Rudin Cooking Fast and Slow Penguin Life, 22nd May, hb, £25, 9780241706633
Food & Drink Some 110 recipes feature in this
debut cookbook, all drawing on Rudin’s experience as a personal chef and content creator with more than one million followers across her social platforms.
Saskia Sidey You’ll Love This HQ, 22nd May, hb, £20, 9780008729844
Food & Drink From TikTok- famous
scrambled oats to spicy pickled garlic, this aims to bring the internet’s most-shared recipes into one “fail-proof” collection.
Geoff Dyer Homework Canongate Books, 22nd May, hb, £20, 9781837261987
Biography & Memoirs
Born in Cheltenham in the late 1950s, the
Dr Kaitlyn Regehr Smartphone Nation Bluebird, 15th May, hb, £22, 9781035069040
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
A new exploration of how
smartphones, algorithms and AI are changing the way we think, act and feel
Dale Vince The Cow in the Room Sort of Books, 15th May, pb, £7.99, 9781914502293
Business & Economics
If cows were a country, they would be the
biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the US. Cut down on meat and you’ll slash your carbon footprint and likely live longer, says green entrepreneur and campaigner Vince.
Tiffany Jenkins Strangers and Intimates Picador, 15th May, hb, £20, 9781529034165
Social & Local History
From ancient times to our digital present,
this traces the dramatic
Damien Lewis SAS Great Escapes Four Quercus Publishing, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781529441093
only child of a dinner lady and a planning engineer, Dyer reflects on his childhood and coming of age in England in the ’60s and ’70s, in a country shaped by the Second World War but accelerating towards change.
Caroline Hirons Teen Skincare HQ, 22nd May, hb, £20, 9780008729707
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
The latest skincare guide from
expert Hirons aims to help you conquer teenage skin problems; from acne and rosacea to mastering the perfect routine
War & Military History
From the infamous desert
campaign of 1944 to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains, this latest volume from Lewis recounts how the SAS carried out some of the most daring escapes of the Second World War.
Yiyun Li Things In Nature Merely Grow 4th Estate, 22nd May, hb, £16.99, 9780008753870
Biography & Memoirs
This new non-fiction work from Li is billed as
a “remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance” as she considers the loss of her son James to suicide.
Gamal Turawa Unravelling Trapeze, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781398720572
Biography & Memoirs
Brought up as Vic with a white family in the rural
suburbs of Kent, Turawa was one day collected by his Nigerian father and became Gamal. Later he would be the UK’s first openly gay Black police office. This is his story.
Rosa Vasquez Espinoza The Spirit of the Rainforest Gaia Books, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781856755566
Specialist STM Scientist and Peruvian-born
explorer Espinoza celebrates the richness of Amazonian culture, the wonders of biodiversity, and the enduring spiritual connections between humanity and the natural world.
Peter Watson The British Imagination Simon & Schuster UK Adult Non-Fiction, 22nd May, hb, £30, 9781398513884
General History During Elizabeth I’s
reign, creative and intellectual life flourished and Britain became one of the leading nations of “the West”. Watson investigates what happened in the past 500 years to bring about this change, and to maintain it.
Patrick McGee Apple in China Simon & Schuster UK Adult Non-Fiction, 22nd May, hb, £25, 9781398534360
Business & Economics
Said to be a riveting look at how Apple helped
build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing, only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever- increasing demands.
Madeline Potter The Roma Te Bodley Head, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781847927675
General History ”Profoundly personal”
portrait of the Roma people, shedding light on their history in countries through which they have travelled and in which they have settled, and what it means to be Romani in Europe today.
Richard Holmes The Godless Deep William Collins, 22nd May, hb, £25, 9780007386932
Biography & Memoirs
From the renowned biographer, an
account of the young poet Tennyson in the context of the new science and scepticism of the 19th century; including ideas of geology and deep time.
Ivo Graham Yardsticks for Failure Headline Book Publishing, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781035411306
Biography & Memoirs
After coming last by quite a distance on Taskmaster
Series 15, Graham writes of adapting to an increasingly irreversible reputation as a man better known for his chaos than his comedy in this debut book.
Davina McCall Birthing HQ, 22 May, hb, £22, 9780008701840
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
This new guide for parents
from the TV presenter and author of Menopausing aims to help you through every stage of pregnancy from conception to birth and the fourth trimester.
Francesca Wade Gertrude Stein Faber, 22nd May, hb, £20, 9780571369317
Literature & Criticism
This biography of Stein is “as surprising as the
life it tells” and portrays her “as she was when nobody was watching: captivating, complex and human”.
Christopher Stephens, Louise Radnofsky The Light of Day Headline Press, 22nd May, hb, £20, 9781035421527
Biography & Memoirs
Billed as the remarkable true story of the
first man to voluntarily come out as gay in his own words, using his own name. “A vital piece of missing history about a brave revolutionary in the fight for equality.”
Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Jamie Bulloch (trans) The Buried City Hodder Press, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781399731171
General History Sharing new secrets
of Pompeii based on recent excavations, the director of Pompeii offers a revelatory new history of the city, offering a behind-the-scenes tour as it was before: who lived there, what mattered to them,
and what happened in their final hours.
Marieke Bigg No Such Thing as Normal Profile Books, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781800819016
Specialist STM Examining the psychiatric
industry: its genesis, its obsession with “often ineffective, over-medicalised treatments”, and its relationship with a pharmaceutical industry “driven by profitability rather than social welfare and change”.
Hazel Wallace Not Just a Period Bluebird, 22nd May, hb, £22, 9781035049592
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
“Truly
pioneering” look at
seven aspects of women’s health: nutrition, movement, sleep, mood, libido, body image, and skin and hair, examined for the first time through the lens of the menstrual cycle.
Abhishek Choudhary The Believer’s Dilemma Picador, 22nd May, hb, £30, 9781035023202
Biography & Memoirs
”Compelling, important and insightful”
biography of India’s 12th prime minister and the co-founder of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
David Roberts We Are Your Children Two Hoots, 22nd May, hb, £25, 9781529015362
Gender Studies
Touching on major moments in the fight for LGBTQ rights,
including the Stonewall Uprising, the first Gay Pride Rally and the dazzling history of drag, a wide- ranging and inclusive illustrated account of gay activism.
Emma Szewczak The Stitch-Up Chatto & Windus, 29th May, hb, £22, 9781784744915
Current affairs
Medical misogyny kills, and leaves many more in
agony, unable to live full lives. So says Szewczak, telling stories of such women, and calling for better research, healthcare options, language and treatment.
Kate Wilson Disclosure Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 29th May, hb, £20, 9781399614290
Biography & Memoirs
In 2003, British police infiltrated a group of
young environmental groups, without warrant, spying on hundreds of innocent civilians. This is Wilson’s account of how she fought back, taking the Met to court in a bid to uncover the truth about Britain’s secret political police.
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