BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS
Artist and writer records in prose and incredible original line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds.
Duke University Press
Riding Pardis Mahdavi 25th March, pb, £12.99, 9781478031550 Riding from the mountains of Iran to the beaches of California, Mahdavi meditates on the lessons learned over a lifetime of horseback riding.
Ecco
The Golden Hour Matthew Specktor 22nd May, hb, eb, £28, 9780063008335 Personal and cultural exploration of the struggles between art and business at the heart of modern Hollywood through the eyes of the talent that shaped it.
Care and Feeding LaurieWoolever 13th March, hb, eb, £22, 9780063327603 Candid and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning and a tragedy.
Elliott & Thompson
Mother Animal Helen Jukes 27th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781783968381 Combining personal memoir with evolutionary biology, zoology and toxicology, Jukes presents a startling new vision of motherhood that is as wild and diverse as the world we inhabit.
Pathfinding Kerri Andrews 13th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781783968428 Melding history, landscape writing and memoir, Andrews brings to light stories of walking and motherhood that have long been neglected or hidden away.
Her Lotus Year Paul French 19th June, 2nd edn, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781783968800 Wallis Simpson’s early, formative years in the chaotic China of the 1920s. A fresh, paperback perspective on a woman too often maligned by history.
and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean and The Year of Magical Thinking.
Faber & Faber
Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You Candice Chung 24th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781783968855 Food journalist delivers a bittersweet memoir exploring love, culture and those fragile moments around the dinner table that bring us together.
Epic Ink Books SERIES
Modern Icons Kathleen Perricone hb, £14.99, 978076039 Takes fans on a journey through the lives and legacies of big names in entertainment. Rihanna is Life 27th March, vol 5, 4960 Lady Gaga is Life 6th March, vol 4, 4984 Zendaya is Life 24th April, vol 6, 5004 Adele is Life 24th July, vol 8, 6889 Timothee Chalamet is Life 26th June, vol 7, 6902
Equinox Publishing
Formation Brad Mehldau 3rd March, vol 32, pb, eb, £20, 9781800506596 Intimate, vulnerable and profound, Formation is a rare look inside the mind of an artist at the top of his field in his own words.
Everyman’s Library Classics
In a Yellow Wood Cynthia Ozick 3rd April, hb, £20, 9781841594316 Selected essays demon- strate again and again Ozick’s stylistic brilliance and the originality of her interweaving of the strands of history and myth.
I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking Joan Didion, Griffin Dunne 22nd May, hb, £17.99, 9781841594323 Hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected non-fiction including her final four books, Blue Nights, South
John and Paul Ian Leslie 27th March, hb, eb, £25, 9780571376117 The story of love and jealousy between two geniuses behind the Beatles who merged and multiplied their talents to produce one of the greatest bodies of creative work in history.
Fig Tree
Who Wants Normal? Frances Ryan 24th April, hb, £18.99, 9780241629437 Offers support, inspiration and a sense of solidarity to the many women with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
Poets Square Courtney Gustafson 8th May, hb, £16.99, 9780241650745 Beautifully written memoir-in-essays about accidentally rescuing a colony of feral cats and discovering what they can teach us about creating community and giving care.
Maternity Service Emma Barnett 13th March, hb, £12.99, 9780241696392 Reassuring and bracingly honest book about what it feels like to be on maternity leave.
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Dysphoria Mundi Paul B Preciado 25th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781804271452 Revolutionary book traces the collapse of the paradigms that have organised the world for a millenium.
The Possession Annie Ernaux, Anna Moschovakis (tr) 22nd May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804271490 Published in the UK for the first time, The Possession is a striking meditation on jealousy and a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Mary McCarthy 13th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804271650 One of the leading American intellectuals of the 20th century skewers her strict Catholic
upbringing in this witty and compelling memoir.
The City and the World Gregor Hens, Jen Calleja (tr) 22nd May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804271698 Threads memoir with travelogue, philosophy, photography and references from a wide variety of writers and thinkers to consider the phenomenon of the contemporary city.
Flower Ed Atkins 10th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781804271742 A book of realistic confessions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations. Flower treats personal truth as unavailable and some- thing that must be made up and convincing.
Fordham University Press
An Ordinary White David Roediger 4th March, hb, £21.99, 9781531509576 Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America.
Fourth Estate
The Lasting Harm Lucia Osborne-Crowley 3rd July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008591229 Explosive report of the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. “Powerful, vivid and affecting”—David Nicholls. “Urgent, necessary and courageous”—Elizabeth Day.
The House of Hidden Meanings RuPaul 13th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008614980 International drag super- star and pop culture icon remembers growing up Black, poor and queer before discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance.
In My Time of Dying Sebastian Junger 22nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008670238 Part medical drama, part autobiography and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
The Heart-shaped Tin Bee Wilson 8th May, hb, £18.99, 9780008685638 Strikingly original account from food writer charts
how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives.
Fuller Vigil
Better Than Cocaine Barry Max Wills 25th February, hb, eb, £15.99, 9786280115801 In Colombia Wills learns that things are seldom just black or white and one can never take anything for granted.
Gallery
My My!: Abba Through the Ages Giles Smith 8th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398529731 The story of the mega- band told through a selection of their greatest hits.
Dogs and Their Humans Noel Fitzpatrick 13th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398539464 Stories of healing and hope from the Supervet’s Surgery in a celebration of our connection with man’s best friend.
Madam Antonia Murphy 3rd July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781398540347 Poignant and darkly comedic memoir from a mother who opened an ethical escort agency in smalltown New Zealand.
Dinner for Vampires Bethany Joy Lenz 8th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781398541153 Deliciously witty memoir by One Tree Hill star about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.
Gemini Adult
Inside the Mind of Ted Bundy Jeremy Daniel, Tanya Farber 10th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781802472714 True-crime writers exam- ine how one charming man could conduct such horrific crimes as they uncover the cult of celebrity that followed the serial killer through the first televised trial in American history.
Giles
Polly Jessup Maggie Lidz 1st April, hb, £24.95, 9781913875954 The grande dame of Palm Beach decorators comes to life in this new book.
The Belle Epoque Life in Paris
Wilfried Zeisler 29th April, pb, £25, 9781917273060 Traces the life in Paris of Countess Olga von Hohenfelsen, Princess Paley, the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul of Russia and uncle of the last emperor.
Graffeg
An Unlikely Photographer David Wilson 3rd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913134815 Recounts Wilson’s progression from a motorbike accident through recovery and an ongoing battle with depression to become one of Wales’ finest landscape photographers.
Grand Central Publishing
Rebel Queen Susan Polgar 11th March, hb, £25, 9781538757291 Before Polgar’s improbable rise it was assumed that women were incapable of excellence in chess. More than just question those entrenched beliefs, Polgar disproved them single-handedly.
Granta Books
The Bullet Tom Lee 8th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781783785056 Deeply personal exploration of mental health and an indelible account of the legacy of familial illness and living with a fracturing mind.
All Before Me Esther Rutter 13th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781783787975 Intimate exploration of the emotional and restorative power of the Lake District landscape and its poets.
Strange Bodies Tom de Freston 13th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781783789917 Love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies.
The Möbius Book Catherine Lacey 19th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781803511474 A book of two halves— part memoir, part fiction— from the author of Biography of X.
River of Shadows Rebecca Solnit
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