SOCIAL & LOCAL HISTORY
Beautifully photographed selection shows what makes the island such a popular destination.
A-Z of Cork Kieran McCarthy 15th June, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398119475 The places, people and history that make up the story of the city. Illustrated.
Illustrated Tales of Devon John Husband 15th June, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398118898 Collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.
Paranormal Black Country Richard O’Connor 15th June, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398119413 Spine-tingling collection of ghostly goings-on in the area: haunted places, supernatural happenings and weird phenomena.
Now That’s What I Call Edinburgh Jack Gillon 15th May, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781398117891 Fascinating pictorial history of Scotland’s capital through the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
Bloomsbury
A Mudlarking Year Lara Maiklem 17th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781526660787 Thoughtful exploration of the tidal Thames through the seasons offers a gentle ode to nature and history while inviting readers to discover hidden objects and their untold stories.
The Graces Breeze Barrington 17th July, hb, eb, £25, 9781526663788 Spellbinding work of women’s history uncovers the inner lives of Mary of Modena and her “graces”, three extraordinary women who practised art, poetry and politics in the Jacobite court.
James and John Chris Bryant 13th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781526644992 True story resurrecting the lives of the last two men who were hanged in England for being gay.
England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country—and How to Set Them Straight Tom Baldwin, Marc Stears 27th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781526646248
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Myths that distort our understanding of the country are exploded, offering a hopeful path forward for a nation too long focused on its past.
Bloomsbury Continuum
Russia Starts Here Howard Amos 27th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781472991348 Extraordinary investi- gation of the lives of ordinary people in Russia and an interrogation of what lies behind Putin’s popularity.
Cambridge University Press
Brooding Over Bloody Revenge Nikki M Taylor 6th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781009276856 Powerful stories of enslaved women who waged lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance.
Queer Cambridge Simon Goldhill 6th February, hb, eb, £25, 9781009528061 Remarkable portrait of the hidden history of Cambridge’s gay academic community and its impact on wider politics and culture.
Destinworld Publishing
Stockton-on-Tees: A Colourful Past Paul Menzies 24th April, pb, £20, 9781739819446 Illustrated history of the town, plus Thornaby, Billingham, Norton and Yarm.
Faber & Faber
Bad Friend Tiffany Watt Smith 24th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780571376537 Celebrated cultural historian reckons with the ways we understand the complex and vital connection of friendship.
The Lost Folk Lally MacBeth 19th June, hb, eb, £25, 9780571388301 Fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as “folk” in Britain.
Up the Youth Club Emma Warren 17th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780571389216 A searching look at the
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rise and fall of the youth club highlights its seismic impact on UK culture and why we need to ensure its existence for future generations.
Haus Publishing
A Short History of Cambridge Richard Tames 12th March, pb, £10.99, 9781914979163 Entertaining introduction to Cambridge’s
landmarks and people, from its foundation in the 13th century to the present day.
Hutchinson Heinemann
The North Road Rob Cowen 17th April, hb, eb, £22, 9781529152432 Highly anticipated major new work from the author of Common Ground.
The Possibility of Tenderness Jason Allen-Paisant 20th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529153620 The first work of non-fiction from an award-winning poet is a fierce reclamation of a link with the land, roaming from the Jamaican hills to the woodlands of Leeds.
IB Tauris
The Agony of a People Zabel Yesayan, Arakel Minassian (tr) 20th February, pb, eb, £19.99, 9780755654314 Eyewitness account of an Armenian genocide survivor who travelled down the Euphrates as the interpreter of a German officer from 1915 to 1916 by posing as a Syrian Christian Arab.
Oxford University Press
‘Gifted Children’ in Britain and the World Jennifer Crane 28th February, hb, eb, £84, 9780198928850 The idea that a child is intellectually “gifted” has a social and cultural history. This book analyses that history at multiple scales, making the voices of the “gifted” young central to its analysis.
Sport and the British Richard Holt 1st March, pb, eb,
£24.99, 9780199557202 Long the standard work on the history of sport in the UK. This new edition
provides a complete rewrite of the original text.
Pavilion
Brooklyn Then and Now Evan Joseph, Amy Evans 5th June, hb, eb, £20, 9780008716103 Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by- side, Brooklyn Then and Now offers a rich, visual chronicle of the city’s past.
Penguin
The Barn: The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism Wright Thompson 29th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781804952917 How forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta to cause one of the most notorious murders in US history.
Picador
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins 15th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781529034165 Brilliantly readable history of privacy with a simple and urgent argument: private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended.
Underdogs Joel Budd 17th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781035015122 Who are the white working class and why aren’t we listening to them? Economics journalist has spent five years investigating their stories. This is what they say.
Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick 29th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781035035748 Sweeping history explores where our ideas of fatherhood have come from, how the role has changed over the centuries and what it means to be a dad today.
Is This Working? Charlie Colenutt 6th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781035015047 From the sex worker to the lorry driver, the hedge fund manager to the veteran-turned-teacher, this is the story of work in 21st-century Britain as told by workers themselves.
Everything Must Go Dorian Lynskey
10th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529095951 Riveting and original exploration of our apocalyptic fantasies by the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize shortlisted author of The Ministry of Truth.
Nostalgia Agnes Arnold-Forster 20th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529091397 Dazzling history of that most slippery of emotions by an acclaimed young historian.
Dead Weight Emmeline Clein 20th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035014354 Combining cultural history and honest memoir, Dead Weight is a powerful exploration of disordered eating in the internet era.
India: A Wounded Civilization VS Naipaul 12th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035061198 Reissue of the second book in Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy.
Princeton University Press
In Humboldt’s Shadow H Glenn Penny 29th April, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780691216447 Compelling back story of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
The Girl in the Middle Martha A Sandweiss 10th June, hb, eb, £28, 9780691238418 A haunting image of an unnamed Native child opens up a recovered story of the American West.
Hillbilly Highway Max Fraser 25th February, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780691253497 The trans-Appalachian migration and the making of a white working class.
Iran’s Grand Strategy Vali Nasr 20th May, hb, eb, £30, 9780691268927 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival a revelatory account of Iran’s grand strategy at home and on the world stage.
Republics of Knowledge Nicola Miller 18th February, pb, eb, £25, 9780691271347 Enlightening account of the entwined histories of
knowledge and nationhood in Latin America and beyond.
In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa John Parker 25th March, pb, eb, £20, 9780691271354 In-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death in Africa have developed over four centuries.
Reaktion Books
Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir 1st May, hb, eb, £16.95, 9781836390251 Enchanting window into the world of Icelandic folk legend.
Scribe
Monsterland Nicholas Jubber 10th April, hb, £20, 9781915590299 Jubber blends folklore and travel writing to pick apart legends of giants, dragons and other myth- ical creatures across continents, from Corn- wall’s cliffs to Kyoto’s ancient streets.
The History Press
The A-Z of Curious Northern Ireland Doreen McBride 20th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781803993140 Compendium of quirky facts and stories.
Devon’s Forgotten Witches
Mark Norman, Tracey Norman 17th April, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781803994215 Obscure witchcraft cases from Devon’s past revisited through archive records draw modern comparisons.
The Little History of Birmingham Vanessa Morgan 20th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781803998589 From a small Saxon hamlet to a large sprawling city, Birming- ham has quite a story to tell. Within the pages of this compact book, these stories are told.
The Little Book of Welsh Landmarks Mark Rees 6th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781803998602 Fact-filled journey from the snowy peaks of Snowdonia to the glorious Wales Coastal Path.
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