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Grace Mortimer My One Pot Meals HQ, 3rd July, hb, £22, 9780008647124
Food & Drink Eighty new recipes feature
in this third cookbook from the author behind the popular @myfirstmeals Instagram account.
Gender Studies
By the author of the wonderful memoir Consumed, a cultural,
social and sexual exploration of the night: who and what we find in it, why we fear it, and how it can seduce, transform and liberate.
Dana R Carney Tell Penguin Business, 3rd July, hb, £20, 9780241568194
Business & Economics
Exploring how nonverbal communication
shapes the way we see others, and how we can use it to transform how others perceive us.
Paul Dimond The Book Cover Batsford, 3rd July, hb, £25, 9781849949484
Shahnaz Ahsan The Jackfruit Chronicles HarperNorth, 3rd July, hb, £16.99, 9780008683795
Food & Drink This “heartfelt” memoir delves
into the flavours and captivating history of Bengali food and gives a voice to those individuals who introduced this cuisine to the UK.
Simon Hall Three Revolutions Faber, 3rd July, hb, £25, 9780571367153
General History From the streets of
Petrograd in 1917, to Mao’s victory in October 1949, and Fidel Castro’s arrival in Havana, in January 1959, an account of how the history of the 20th century was transformed by the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions.
Design & Architecture
From Art Deco gems to quirky mid-century
designs, a rich treasure trove of 20th-century Batsford book covers showcasing the very best of the illustrated publisher’s design heritage.
Tim Franks The Lines We Draw Bloomsbury Continuum, 3rd July, hb, £20, 9781399423083
Biography & Memoirs
In this journey through a Jewish family history,
the former BBC Middle East Correspondent who once drew a clear line between his identity and his work explains how he came to begin exploring his Jewishness and how it informed his journalism.
Johanna Lukate (Dis)Entangled Coronet Books, 3rd July, hb, £20, 9781399700962
General History Delves into the intricate
and deeply personal relationship between Black individuals and their hair, through a collection of diverse experiences.
Jon Day The Pilgrim’s Castle John Murray, 3rd July, hb , £20, 9781473635418
War & Military History
In the 1950s, Day’s mother and her
Caroline Sanderson Listen with Father Unbound, 3rd July, hb, £16.99, 9781789652055
Biography & Memoirs
By listening to her late father’s favourite
composers, the author (ahem) reconnects to him and to her past in this touching story of remembrance told through classical music.
Arifa Akbar After Sunset Sceptre, 3rd July, hb, £16.99, 9781399712859
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German-Dutch siblings came into contact with a secretive circle of writers, artists and intellectuals known as Castrum Peregrini. This investigative memoir uncovers a secret history of wartime hiding, and its long-lasting legacy.
Elizabeth Alker Everything We Do Is Music Faber, 10th July, hb, £20, 9780571370177
Music Alker shines a light on the rich tapestry that
exists between rock music and the classical canon, drawing on interviews with the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, The Blessed
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Madonna, Soweto Kinch and Jean-Michel Jarre.
Alayo Akinkugbe Reframing Blackness Merky Books, 10th July, hb, £20, 9781529186406
Design & Architecture
From the African diaspora to Western
civilisation, Blackness has been distinctly missing from discussions of art history. So shows art historian Akinkugbe, interrogating the consequences of this on culture, society and education.
Colin Freeman The Mad and the Brave Mudlark, 17th July, hb, £22, 9780008722463
Current affairs
With real-life echoes of SAS Rogue Heroes, an “astonishing”
account of Europe’s biggest conflict, told through the eyes of ragbag collection of foreign fighters.
Emma Warren Up the Youth Club Faber, 17th July, hb, £18.99, 9780571389216
Social & Local History
From factory workers in Victorian Boys’
and Girls’ clubs to the music- generating youth clubs of more recent decades, this maps the shifting story of youth clubs in the UK and Northern Ireland, and explains why we need to ensure their existence for future generations.
Donna Leon Backstage Hutchinson Heinemann, 17th July, hb, £12.99, 9781529155143
Literature & Criticism
An engaging collection of stories and essays
by the author of the Guido Brunetti series, “infused with her ever-present and delightful senses of humour and irony”.
Wayne Barton Rebuilding Manchester United Bloomsbury Sport, 17th July, hb, £20, 9781399413848
Sports & Gaming
Billed as a “compelling” study of Manchester
United’s illustrious history, which reveals the United DNA and explores how that understanding can help deliver a bright future for the club.
Kafui Okpattah Scam Nation William Collins, 17th July, hb, £16.99, 9780008603076
Sociology Online scams have become a part of
life. This takes a journey into the “seedy, sketchy, often surprising” world of online scammers.
Chris Horton Ghost Nation Macmillan, 17th July, hb, £22, 9781035034024
General History Draws on more than
SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
a decade of life and reportage in Taiwan, and features interviews with both everyday citizens and influential figures, this is “the gripping story of Taiwan’s past and precarious present”.
Ryan Gingeras Mafia: A Global History Simon & Schuster UK Adult Non-Fiction, 31st July, hb, £25, 9781398531659
Current affairs
Everybody knows they exist, the Medellin Cartel,
New York’s Five Families (la Cosa Nostra), China’s tongs. This book asks the question: how have mafias helped define the modern world?
Cally Beaton Namaste Motherf*ckers Headline Home, 31st July, hb, £22, 9781035420513
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Part memoir and part stereotype-
defying manifesto, this takes an irreverent look at the author’s own story of radical midlife reinvention—taking her from meetings in the boardroom to becoming a stand-up comedian.
Mathelinda Nabugodi The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive Hamish Hamilton, 31st July, hb, £18.99, 9780241606346
Biography & Memoirs
This “bracing and essential” new work of revisionist
history reframes the Romantic canon through the lens of slavery, abolition and 19th-century racial politics.
James Patterson The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe Century, 31st July, hb, £20, 9781529928471
Biography & Memoirs
Drawing on rigorous research, this true crime
investigation tells the story of Marilyn Monroe’s extraordinary life and explores the shocking circumstances of her death.
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