Highlights of the Season
hugely entertaining account about her time as the window dresser for Harvey Nichols, full of juicy anecdotes from the fashion world and 1990s nostalgia.
Joanna Lumley My Book of Treasures Hodder & Stoughton, 2 October, hb, £20, 9781399741613
Lumley has long kept private notebooks, filled with her favourite writings, thoughts and quotes. Now she shares many of those jottings, including lines from her favourite authors, pearls of wisdom that she has heard or read, and nuggets of trivia that have made her happy.
Tim Curry Vagabond Century, 7 October, hb, £25, 9781529932478
“Outrageous, riotous” memoir from the cult actor and star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and IT.
Gilbert King Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida
Wildfire, 7 October, hb, £22, 9781035419371
The stranger-than-fiction story of a husband who has spent more than 35 years in jail for his wife’s murder, even though a known murderer confessed to the crime.
Thea Lenarduzzi The Tower Fitzcarraldo Editions, 9 October, pb, £14.99, 9781804271797
Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, this new work by the author of Dandelions is described as an “extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we don’t always tell the story we set out to tell”.
Rebecca Lucy Taylor A Complicated Woman Brazen, 9 October, hb, £22, 9781914240652
Through lyrics, vignettes and observational prose, the Mercury Prize- nominated musician and artist Taylor, aka Self-Esteem, takes us on a journey through womanhood –”whatever the hell that means”.
Oisin Murphy Sacrifice Bantam Books, 9 October, hb, £22, 9780857507587
A “searingly honest” account of the turbulent life of a professional jockey and the personal
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cost of success in the high-stakes world of horseracing, from four-time champion jockey Murphy.
Randal Plunkett Wild Thing Bonnier Books, 9 October, hb, £20, 9781804189559
At the age of 28, Plunkett inherited the title of Baron Dunsany, alongside Dunsany Castle and a 1,600-acre estate and found himself at a crossroads. A reluctant aristocrat, he describes how he now allows nature to run wild on grounds his ancestors farmed for centuries.
Natalie Cassidy Happy Days HQ Non-Fiction, 9 October, hb, £20, 9780008737269
This “heartwarmingly hilarious” autobiography of EastEnders star Cassidy takes her readers on a journey through the highs and lows and the changing seasons of life: from yo-yo diets to raising strong girls, and from coping with grief to getting acting lessons from June Brown.
James Corden, Ruth Jones When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between Bantam Books, 9 October, hb, £25, 9780857507440
The Gavin & Stacey creators detail what’s occurred every step of the way, from their tentative initial pitch to the emotionally overwhelming final day of filming, “bouncing off each other in inimitable style”.
Marc Bennetts The Descent Bloomsbury Continuum, 9 October, hb, £20, 9781399421690
In this personal diary, the foreign correspondent for the Times and the Sunday Times charts how Russia spiralled into “violent insanity”, observing how the Kremlin’s ubiquitous propaganda warped minds and fomented hatred of Putin’s foes.
Kim Hana, Hwang Sunwoo, Gene Png (trans) Two Women Living Together
Doubleday, 9 October, hb, £14.99, 9781529959567
This warm and witty Korean bestseller about two women who became a family celebrates carving out a path
through life that suits you, as well as female friendship and cats.
Lisa Hogan My Animals and Other Eejits
Century, 9 October, hb, £20, 9781529961751
Hogan, a star of TV series Clarkson’s Farm, charts a year in the life of Diddly Squat.
chapters from the life and work of an artist who helped reframe contemporary art.
Merlin Holland After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal Europa Editions (UK), 16 October, hb, £25, 9781787705920
The definitive study of the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde after his death, written by Wilde’s only grandson, with exclusive revelations and rare photos from Holland’s personal archives.
Damien Lewis SAS The Great Train Raid Quercus Publishing, 23 October, hb, £22, 9781529441161
Andrew Morton Winston and the Windsors Michael O’Mara Books, 9 October, hb, £25, 9781789297041
Morton tells the “rich and vivid” story not only of how Churchill befriended and advised kings, queens, princes and princesses, but of how Churchill’s association with the crown shaped modern Britain.
Gosia Buzzanca There She Goes, My Beautiful World
Calon, 23 October, hb, £16.99, 9781837600151
Examining the meaning of home, Buzzanca tells the story of how she left Poland at the age of 19 in search of a bigger life, settling in Wales and hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind her.
Sylvester Stallone The Steps Seven Dials, 23 October, hb, £25, 9781399629454
Ben Elton What Have I Done? Macmillan, 9 October, hb, £25, 9781035059942
Sixty-five years in the making, this “frank, forthright and hugely entertaining” autobiography takes a deep dive into Elton’s life and times, both private and public. “Ben has a lot of stories to tell, and he tells them unvarnished and uncensored because that’s who he is.”
Doug Woodham Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon Thames & Hudson, 14 October, hb, £30, 9780500030691
Based on more than 100 interviews, this claims to fill in long-missing
Bringing together a no-holds-barred account of a fascinating life with messages of hope, positivity and resilience, Stallone gives readers an intimate and revealing glimpse into his own journey for the first time.
Lewis’ latest centres on a daring SAS mission during the Second World War: the seizure of a train to raid deep into enemy territory to liberate a concentration camp.
Zadie Smith Dead and Alive Hamish Hamilton, 30 October, hb, £20, 9780241729595
Illuminating new essay collection from Smith takes in her thoughts on artists, musicians and writers who are no longer with us, a walk down Kilburn High Road, and considers changes of government on both sides of the Atlantic – and the meaning of “the commons” in all our lives.
Michael Morpurgo Funny Thing, Getting Older Hodder & Stoughton, 30 October, hb, £20, 9781399739719
Collected for the first time, Morpurgo’s thoughts on nature, childhood, writing, politics and getting older. “Full of wonder, gentle humour and sharp observation.”
Current Affairs
Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Boleyn is at the centre of this fresh appraisal of her place in Tudor history.
Verso Books, 7 October, pb, £12.99, 9781836742241
Through personal testimonies, expert insights, poetry and war reportage, leading Palestinian writers powerfully narrate their fight for survival since October 7. Also includes illustrations from Joe Sacco and Mona Chalabi.
Ilan Pappe
Israel on the Brink Oneworld, 9 October, hb, £20, 9781836430636
Israel is becoming a pariah state. Its worst enemy is not Hamas, but itself. So says Pappe, as he paves a path out of the Jewish state, rooted in restorative justice and decolonisation. The future can be one of reconciliation, not endless war, he argues.
Jacob Silverman Gilded Rage Bloomsbury Continuum, 9 October, hb, £20, 9781399419987
A “searing” insight into the political radicalisation of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.
Jens Stoltenberg On My Watch William Collins, 9 October, hb, £25, 9780008708740
From the former secretary general of NATO, a “frank and riveting” account of running the world’s most powerful military alliance, taking us inside the significant flashpoints of the past decade.
General History
Roger Luckhurst Graveyards Thames & Hudson, 2 October, hb, £30, 9780500027707
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman Elizabeth Boleyn The History Press, 23 October, hb, £20, 9781803997650
Mother to Anne Boleyn and grandmother of
Fatima Bhutto (ed), Sonia Faleiro (ed) Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
An “arresting and poignant” illustrated cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to the present day.
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