SOCIAL & LOCAL HISTORY
Destined to be a classic, this is a poet’s powerful look at the courage of resistance.
William Morrow
Together We Roared Steve Williams, Evin Priest 10th April, hb, eb, £25, 9780063418707 Williams, arguably the greatest caddie in golf history, teams up with renowned golf journalist to give his definitive account of his 12-year partnership with Tiger Woods.
Windgather Press
A Medieval Life Graham Fairclough 21st February, pb, £49.95, 9781914427435 Biographical fusion of history, geography and archaeology with a focus on landscape and castles studies examining Edlingham Castle and its first builder, William de Felton.
WW Norton
Love, Queenie Mayukh Sen 15th April, hb, eb, £22.99, 9781324050810 Beautiful reclamation of pioneering South Asian actress Merle Oberon captures her glittering, complicated life and her lasting impact on Hollywood.
Ghost Dogs Andre Dubus 22nd April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324105046 From the literary master and author of Townie reflections of a life of challenges, contradictions and fulfillments.
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald Judith Tick 18th March, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781324105220 Landmark biography puts Fitzgerald bang in the centre of popular music as a major American artist and Modernist innovator.
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution Jane Kamensky 15th April, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781324105381 Historian Kamensky chronicles an indelible 20th-century life-and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.
The Spinach King John Seabrook
19th July, hb, eb, £23.99, 9781324003526 Riveting saga of the Seabrooks of New Jersey by one of the New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers.
Grand Finales Susan Gubar 25th July, hb, eb, £25, 9781324065647 One of our most form- idable literary critics explores how nine women artists, including George Eliot, Colette, Isak Dinesen, Mary Lou Williams and Louise Bourgeois, flourished creatively in their final acts.
Collisions Alec Nevala-Lee 25th July, hb, eb, £23.99, 9781324075103 From the biographer of Buckminster Fuller a magnetic biography of the Nobel Prize-winning experimental physicist hailed as “the greatest scientific detective of the 20th century”.
Chop Fry Watch Learn Michelle T King 4th July, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324110484 Remarkable food-infused cultural history centred on the life of celebrity television chef and cookbook author Fu Pei-mei.
Wymer Publishing
Blockbuster! Martin Popoff 4th April, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781915246691 The Sweet were the heaviest glam band in the 1970s. Read about their bizarre start and how it went wrong in a blizzard of booze, cocaine and busted relationships.
Born to Play Loud Brian Ireland 11th April, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781915246707 First biography of guitarist Vivian Campbell. His whole career is chronicled, from his first semi-professional band, Sweet Savage, through to Dio, Whitesnake and Def Leppard.
Kate Bush Laura Shenton 18th April, pb, £32.99, 9781915246714 An innovator throughout her career in a visual biography packed with photos, many of which have not been published before.
Jethro Tull Chronicles 1967-79 Laura Shenton 25th April, pb, £32.99, 9781915246721 Visual book with countless photos, gig and album reviews, contemporary quotes from band members and rare advertisements preserve the history of an important prog rock band.
Glitter in the Air Laura Shenton 9th May, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781915246738 Chronicles P!nk’s rise to fame in a celebration of her remarkable career and lasting impact on the music industry.
The Aviator Adrian Jarvis 16th May, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781915246745 Covering his work with Dixie Dregs, Kansas and nearly three decades with Deep Purple, this is the story of the life and music of Steve Morse.
Thin Lizzy Martin Popoff 30th May, pb, £32.99, 9781915246769 Drawing on several thousand images, this large-format book is crammed full of live and offstage shots and memorabilia.
Yes: A Visual Biography I: 1968-1981 Martin Popoff 6th June, pb, £32.99, 9781915246776 Popoff takes fans on a journey from the early days to the hugely successful ’70s.
The Hard Road Marc Shapiro 20th June, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781915246783 Who remembers Atomic Rooster? Classic tale of talented musicians who, through luck, chance and fate, ultimately came up short.
Yale University Press
SERIES
Jewish Lives hb, eb, 978030024 Winning series of interpretative biographies designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Franz Boa Noga Arikha 22nd July, £18.99, vol 71 1235 The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth Franklin 25th March, £16.99, vol 68 8128
Louis B Mayer and Irving Thalberg Kenneth Turan 25th March, hb, £16.99, 9780300254495 Brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Mayer and Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it.
Turner and Constable Nicola Moorby 11th March, hb, £25, 9780300266481 Born just 14 months apart, JMW Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art.
Abraham Anthony Julius 25th March, hb, £16.99, 9780300266801 The story of the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person in parallel to the contra-dictions in Judaism throughout its history.
Robert Wedderburn Ryan Hanley 25th February, hb, £18.99, 9780300272352 First-ever biography of ultra-radical thinker, from his native Jamaica to London.
Josephine Baker’s Secret War
Hanna Diamond 8th April, hb, eb, £25, 9780300279986 The full story of Baker’s wartime and intelligence work in France and North Africa.
Alfred Dreyfus Maurice Samuels 6th May, pb, £11.99, 9780300281804 Insightful biography of the central figure of the Dreyfus Affair focuses on the man himself. Based on newly accessible documents.
Spinoza
Ian Buruma 22nd April, pb, £11.99, 9780300281866 Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlight-enment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time.
Julian Philip Freeman 25th February, pb, £10.99, 9780300281873 The tragic life of the last non-Christian emperor of Rome.
Facing Down the Furies Edith Hall
6th May, pb, £12.99, 9780300281927 Award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves.
Vagabond Princess Ruby Lal 22nd April, pb, £11.99, 9780300281958 Captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess
Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir.
Vergil Sarah Ruden 22nd April, pb, £11.99, 9780300282009 Biography of Ancient Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of The Aeneid.
Y Lolfa
The Woman Who Helped Win the Wa Richard Rhys O’Brien 1st March, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781800996403 Biography looking at Margaret Llloyd George’s major welfare campaigns during the First World War. Draws on the archive of unpublished letters and speeches belonging to her private secretary, and contemporary newspaper accounts.
A Welsh Odyssey Jos Simon 30th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800996410 Memories of growing up in Pwllheli and how that affected the author’s later life as a Welsh exile in England. As much about North Wales as about the author himself.
Social & local history 404 Ink
Roses for Hedone Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin 17th April, pb, eb, £7.50, 9781916637108
Exploring queer hedonism as a transformational route through which we can learn from our past, connect in the present, and look towards the future with hope together.
Amberley
Golden State Michael Hiltzik 15th February, hb, eb, £22.99, 9781398109025 Written by Pultizer Prize- winning local, this is the essential work on California’s history and legacy.
Jane Austen in 50 Places and Objects Paul Kendall 15th June, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398127463 Fifty artefacts, buildings and places that together provide a fascinating insight into the life and legacy of Austen, published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of her birth in December 2025.
Tourism in Britain Peter Robinson 15th July, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398122680 Illustrated history of the subject over the last 150 years. New perspectives on popular knowledge and a look at the way that the visitors of yesteryear have shaped today’s tourist experiences.
The Digital Watch Story Andrew Morten 15th April, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398120068 The story of a cult classic of both fashion and technology.
London’s Theatrical Heritage David C Ramzan 15th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398120426 London’s theatres under the microscope.
50 Gems of the Isle of Wight Andrew Powell-Thomas 15th June, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398117174
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