Highlights of the Season
From his childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama to his current cross- generational fame as a judge on American Idol, the legendary Richie tells his story for the first time, “taking us on a thrill ride and… reminding us of the power of love to elevate our own lives and our world”.
Current Affairs
the husband-and-wife authors and former CIA officers relate how they triumphed against the odds in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the intelligence agency.
French nation today. What he discovers is both revelatory and depressing.
Penny Mordaunt, Chris Lewis Pomp and Circumstance Biteback Publishing, 16 September, hb, £22, 9781785909948
The former secretary of state and her co-author Lewis serve up a paean to the traditions and values that underpin British life, strengthen communities and help navigate the future.
Vince Cable Eclipsing the West Manchester University Press, 16 September, hb, £20, 9781526179821
Tim Berners-Lee This Is for Everyone Macmillan, 9 September, hb, £25, 9781035023677
Cass R Sunstein On Liberalism MIT Press, 2 September, hb, £27, 9780262049771
Harvard professor Sunstein, who was also an adviser to US presidents Obama and Biden, mounts a defence of liberalism – what it is, why it is under threat, and why we need it more than ever.
Sheehan Quirke The Cultural Tutor Viking, 4 September, hb, £20, 9780241742853
Quirke started his The Cultural Tutor Twitter account in 2022 and has since amassed more than 1.5 million followers. His enjoyable first book is structured around seven pillars of culture and 50 short lessons and provides a witty and engaging cultural primer on subjects from Plato to Lionel Messi.
Tom McTague Between the Waves Picador, 4 September, hb, £25, 9781529083095
For readers of Rory Stewart, Tim Shipman, Dominic Sandbrook and David Kynaston, a “gripping, persuasive and authoritative” account by the editor-in-chief of the New Statesman of Britain’s long and fractious relationship with Europe.
Andrew Bustamante, Jihi Bustamante Shadow Cell Headline Press, 9 September, hb, £22, 9781035412402
In a “thrilling” first-hand account that provides an “unprecedented insider view of 21st-century spycraft”,
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In this intimate memoir, the creator of the World Wide Web tells the story of his invention, explores the power of technology to fuel our worst instincts and profoundly shape our lives for the better, and provides a bold manifesto for advancing humanity’s future.
Valentine Low Power and the Palace Headline Press, 11 September, hb, £25, 9781035418817
In this follow-up to his book Courtiers, Low draws on his high-level access to both the Palace and 10 Downing Street to lift the lid on the intimate relationship between sovereign and government and how it has changed over the past 200 years.
The former Liberal Democrat politician and secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills offers a “compelling” account of what the rise of the Asian superstates of China and India means for the future amid the crumbling of the international order.
Thomas Piketty Equality Is a Struggle Yale University Press, 23 September, hb, £18.99, 9780300282757
The French economics professor and author returns with a new volume of essays in which he takes stock of the world since 2020 and offers a blueprint for achieving equity in our rapidly changing global landscape. He finds reasons for hope.
tales. The audiobook will feature sung versions of the ballads.
Harry Tanner The Queer Thing About Sin Bloomsbury Continuum, 25 September, hb, £20, 9781399422291
Tanner takes a “gripping” journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of “those who dared to love”.
unpublished material, Beaver tells the “gripping” story of Reginald Mitchell, the pioneer behind the Spitfire.
survey of the company’s history and titles ranges across art, archaeology, architecture, history, design, photography and fashion.
Jerry Moore Cat Tales Thames & Hudson, 11 September, hb, £30, 9780500029534
Billed as the first book to explore, from an archaeological perspective, the incredible and improbable history of our relationship with cats, from fearsome foe to purring pet.
Miranda Kaufmann Heiresses Oneworld, 4 September, hb, £25, 9780861548019
Noam Chomsky, Jose Mujica, Saúl Alvídrez (ed) Surviving the 21st Century Verso Books, 30 September, pb, £12.99, 9781804299517
A companion to a new documentary film by Saúl Alvídrez, narrated by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, this brings together two renowned political writers to discuss freedom, power and the biggest challenges of the 21st century.
General History
Philip Ball Alchemy Yale University Press, 2 September, hb, £30, 9780300280876
This richly illustrated book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas and culture through the lens of alchemy
Kaufmann’s Black Tudors received a lot of attention when it came out in 2018. Exposing the hidden ways in which slave-produced wealth poured into Britain, she now tells the story of the Caribbean Marriage Trade and the heiresses whose fortunes attracted the attention of fortune- hunters and enabled them to marry into the top tiers of the aristocracy.
Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown Hodder & Stoughton, 4 September, hb, £26, 9781399732888
Showing that “truth and monarchy have always been strange bedfellows”, this enthralling latest book by the chief historian at Historic Royal Palaces tells the dramatic story of the end of the Tudor dynasty, and the rise (and fall) of the Stuarts who came afterwards.
Nicholas Blincoe Oliver Twist & Me The Bridge Street Press, 4 September, hb, £25, 9780349136387
Andrew Hussey Fractured France Granta Books, 11 September, hb, £25, 9781783786602
Speaking to commentators, writers (including Édouard Louis) and politicians as well as locals, the author of Paris: The Secret History travels across France to trace the social, political and economic fault-lines that are shaping the
Amy Jeffs, Gwen Burns (illus) Old Songs riverrun, 25 September, hb, £30, 9781529438741
From Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight meeting in the shadow of Arthur’s Seat, to the Lambton Worm, this latest book from the most marvellous Jeffs and illustrated by Burns takes a journey through the traditional ballads of Britain and features 10 eerie and enchanting folkloric
A contemporary memoir by workhouse orphan Robert Blincoe supplied much of the source material for Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist. This intriguing- sounding dual biography of both Dickens and the author’s great, great, great grandfather shows how the novel took off, inspired by the true story of a workhouse boy.
Paul Beaver Mitchell Elliott & Thompson, 4 September, hb, £20, 9781783969036
Drawing on new interviews, private archives and previously
Anna Nyburg The Art of the Book Thames & Hudson, 4 September, hb, £50, 9780500028063
Celebrating 75 years of the renowned illustrated publishing house, this lavishly illustrated
Ferdinand Mount Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality Bloomsbury Continuum, 11 September, hb, £20, 9781399421881
“It is not the stoics who are ruling the roost: we are living in an age of emotion”. Exploring all the ways in which people have expressed their grief and joy and in the past, this is an engaging history of human emotions, and the ways in which they have swayed civilisation, from the French Revolution to civil rights and soap operas.
Saul David Tunisgrad : Victory in Africa William Collins, 11 September, hb, £25, 9780008653811
Drawing on first-hand sources and told from the perspective of all the combatants, the author of Sky Warriors and SBS presents an epic history of the North African campaign during the Second World War, and argues that the defeat of the Axis powers at “Tunisgrad” marked the beginning of the end for Hitler.
Jill Lepore We the People John Murray, 11 September, hb, £20, 9781399827041
Published in the 250th anniversary year of the American Revolution, this by a professor of American history at Harvard is billed as “the most original history of the US Constitution in over a century”.
Terry Deary Revolting Bantam Books, 25 September, hb, £22, 9780857507600
After the success of his first foray into adult history, Deary returns to highlight the stories of revolutionaries gone by, and celebrate
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