SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Helen Carr Sceptred Isle Hutchinson Heinemann, 29th May, hb, £25, 9781529151657
General History Beginning with the death
of Edward I in 1307 and ending with the deposition of Richard II in 1399, an account of the experiences of the last Plantagenets, uncovering lesser- known voices and untold stories along the way.
Akshi Singh In Defence of Leisure Jonathan Cape, 29th May, hb, £20, 9781787335059
Biography & Memoirs
The celebrated psychoanalyst Marion Milner
lived for the entirety of the 20th century. This study by a woman born 90 years later presents Milner as a writer for our times.
Lotte Jeffs, Stuart Oakley Do Ask. Do Tell Bluebird, 29th May, hb, £20, 9781035042074
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
What is the difference between
bisexual and pansexual? Why does gender evoke such divisiveness? What does it mean to be femme, masc or camp? This LGBTQ+ guide aims to answer these questions and more.
Augustine Sedgewick Fatherhood Picador, 29th May, hb, £20, 9781035035748
Social & Local History
This sweeping history explores where our
inherited ideas of fatherhood have come from, how the role has changed over the centuries, and what it means to be a dad today.
June
Ryan Gilbey It Used to Be Witches Faber, 5th June, hb, £20, 9780571381524
Cinema & Television
Blending personal memoir, criticism and candid new
interviews with filmmakers from across the LGBTQ spectrum, an “engaging and dynamic” non-chronological treasure-hunt through queer cinema past and present.
Lili Taylor Turning to Birds One Boat, 5th June, hb, £20, 9781035039999
Conservation & the Environment
US actress Taylor explores
the importance of how we look at the world in this collection of essays, braiding together stories from birdwatching with musings on life, meaning and the beauty of paying attention.
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Gurdeep Loyal Modern Pantry Quadrille, 5th June, hb, £27, 9781837832583
Food & Drink With the help of his 15
favourite pantry heroes and in 80 recipes, Loyal aims to demonstrate how any home cook can elevate their daily cooking with minimal effort for maximum reward.
Ryamond Blanc Simply Raymond Kitchen Garden Headline Home, 5th June, hb, £26, 9781472293824
Food & Drink From an easy Garden Veg
Omelette to Beetroot-Marinated Salmon Tartare, this is a celebration of seasonal ingredients, grown and cooked by Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons.
Paul Hollywood Celebrate Bloomsbury Publishing, 5th June, hb, £26, 9781526679017
Food & Drink Showstopping bakes for
every kind of celebration from The Great British Bake Off judge and “best baker in the business”.
The COOK Kitchen COOK: Serve up Joy Octopus, 5th June, hb, £28, 9781804192924
Food & Drink This first book from frozen
meals brand COOK includes 100 recipes for serving up at home, from weeknight suppers to special nights in.
Gordon Corera The Spy in the Archive William Collins, 5th June, hb, £25, 9780008644796
Current affairs
The remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin,
the in-house archivist for the KGB, became determined to expose the truth about the dark forces that had subverted Russia.
Deborah Douglas, Tracy King The Cost of Trust Mudlark, 5th June, hb, £20, 9780008712938
Current affairs
In 2017, Ian Paterson, dubbed the “Butcher Surgeon”, was
convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding and sentenced to 20 years in prison. This is the story of “one of the most horrifying scandals in British medical history”.
James Bloodworth Lost Boys Atlantic Books, 5th June, hb, £17.99, 9781786499820
Current affairs
A “powerful and deeply compelling” investigation into
the bizarre and paranoid underground male subcultures
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Barbara Demick Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Granta Books, 5th June, hb, £20, 9781783787227
Current affairs
The extraordinary story of separated Chinese twins,
with one twin seized by the authorities and adopted into America, by the Samuel Johnson-winning journalist who reunited them as young adults.
Melissa Febos The Dry Season Canongate Books, 5th June, hb, £16.99, 9781837260096
Biography & Memoirs
In this “wise and transformative” look at
relationships. Febos charts her year of celibacy, and the solitude, the freedoms and the feminist heroes that she discovered along the way.
Des Powell SAS: My Trial By Fire: True Stories and Life Lessons from SAS Selection Quercus Publishing, 5th June, hb, £22, 9781529441918
War & Military History
A memoir by “the only person to pass
SAS selection twice”.
Susannah Cahalan The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary Canongate Books, 5th June, hb, £22, 9781838857424
Biography & Memoirs
The untold story of Rosemary Woodruff Leary,
who played a critical role in bringing psychedelics into the mainstream, until her audacious exploits forced her into the shadows.
that make up the “manosphere”, as men search for new forms of belonging.
Felicity Cloake Peach Street to Lobster Lane Mudlark, 5th June, hb, £16.99, 9780008687656
Food & Drink Cloake embarks on a culinary
mission to take a closer look at the iconic American dishes that have conquered the world, and the immigrant cultures behind them.
Frances Wilson Electric Spark Bloomsbury Circus, 5th June, hb, £25, 9781526663030
Biography & Memoirs
The biographer and critic presents an “exhilarating,
landmark’ new look at Muriel Spark, in which she aims to ‘crack her code’ by following the clues and riddles Spark planted for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography and archives.
Mark Urban Tank Viking, 5th June, hb, £25, 9780241741504
General History The historian and former
officer in the Royal Tank Regiment tells the remarkable story of the tank through the 10 most important armoured vehicles ever made.
Katie Piper Still Beautiful DK RED, 5th June, hb, £18.99, 9780241722596
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Aiming to challenge deeply
ingrained thinking about ageing, Piper offers a positive, life-enhancing alternative way of thinking through essays on everything from the beauty of laughter lines to seeing the joy in slowing down.
Eugenia Cheng Unequal Profile Books, 5th June, hb, £18.99, 9781805223061
Popular Science Equality and inequality
are not nearly as immutable as they seem. In fact, they are the opposite: a mathematical playground of choice and abstraction, leading to far greater insight than you could have dreamed, shows mathematician Cheng.
Anna Hushlak, Billie Quinlan Turn Yourself On Penguin Life, 5th June, hb, £18.99, 9780241706640
Psychology How can being better in bed
lead to a more fulfilling life? Through eight principles and 24 tools, this explains how, aiming to transform the most important relationship in your life: the one with yourself.
Renay Richardson, Arisa Loomba Human Resources Profile Books, 5th June, hb, £18.99, 9781800816220
General History The creators of podcast,
Human Resources explore 39 ways in which the slave trade transformed Britain, through the places, objects, institutions, commodities and activities we encounter every day.
Marlies Bongers, Corien van Zweden, Alice Tetley-Paul (trans) Pear-Shaped Greystone Books Canada, 5th June, hb, £18.99, 9781778401602
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
It gives life to
humankind,
billions of people have one, and yet the uterus is still mysterious to many. In this book, a gynaecologist and a science communicator join forces to tell its life story.
Stephen Unwin Beautiful Lives Wildfire, 5th June, hb, £25, 9781035424733
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
From the Graeco- Roman
and medieval worlds to the contradictions and challenges of today, a powerful examination of changing attitudes to those with learning disabilities, and the way that this has affected people’s lived realities.
Kate Muir How to Have an Absolutely Magnificent Midlife Crisis Gallery UK, 5th June, hb, £16.99, 9781398525504
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Blending personal narrative
with expert voices and the experiences of other women, Muir gives us the tools to embrace midlife and beyond with confidence and optimism.
Vassos Alexander Let the River Run Bloomsbury Sport, 5th June, hb, £18.99, 9781399414593
Sports & Gaming
Sports journalist and ultra-athlete Alexander takes the
plunge and explores the delights and rewards of wild and open water swimming on a quest to swim the Channel.
Adam Hart Operation Pimento Hodder & Stoughton, 5th June, hb, £22, 9781399740135
War & Military History
“Thrilling and moving” account of
RAF Squadron Leader Frank Griffiths’ remarkable escape from the Nazis after his plane was shot down over occupied France, as told by his great-grandson.
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