Biography & Memoirs
14th August, hb, eb, £25, 9780306834042
Groundbreaking look into the crucial role played by expert witnesses in the most high-profile criminal cases. Based on personal experiences within the criminal justice system.
Daunt Books
Swimming Studies Leanne Shapton, Rita Bullwinkel
14th August, pb, £13.99, 9781917092272
Modern classic of sports writing and memoir. Swimming Studies reflects on the author’s time immersed in a world of rigour and determination, routine and competition.
Dedalus Paris Noir
Christine Donougher (tr), Jacques Yonnet 8th August, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781915568632
“An admiring but never sentimental love letter to the French capital destined to be loved in its turn by fans of film noir”— Alex Barlow in Time Out.
DK Red
The View From Down Here Lucy Webster
6th November, pb, £10.99, 9780241789827
Powerful, hilarious and furious memoir shines a light on what it really means to move through the world as a disabled woman.
Doubleday
Two Women Living Together
Kim Hana, Hwang Sunwoo, Gene Png (tr) 9th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529959567
Korean bestseller celebrates carving out a path through life that suits you, female friendship, cats and a different kind of family.
Drawn & Quarterly
A Drifting Life Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Taro Nettleton (tr) 18th November, pb, £33, 9781770468139
Award-winning memoir with a new design by Adrian Tomine.
Ecco
Articulate Rachel Renee Kolb 6th November, hb, eb, £25, 9780063375185
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A deaf writer’s exploration of language, communication, what it means to be articulate and her journey to reclaim her voice.
Edinburgh University Press
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937 Helen Kay, Rose Pipes
31st August, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781399514538
The life and work of suffragist, barrister and campaigner for peace and human rights.
Elliott & Thompson
In Search of Beethoven John Suchet 21st August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781783969005
Suchet sets out on a Beethoven odyssey, journeying from palaces to warzones as he explores the composer’s life while demonstrating the enduring power of great music.
EnvelopeBooks
George Tomaziu Artist Spy Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
1st October, pb, eb, £14.95, 9781915023063
An anguished memoir of one man’s political struggle and physical resilience, as a captive in Fascist and Communist Romania.
Richard Cullen (ed) Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
1st October, pb, eb, £24.95, 9781915023612
Cullen reconstructs the life of society-debutante Margaret McLaren-Reid in the British Empire during the interwar years.
Ian Ross The West and the Rest 1st October, pb, eb, £18.95, 9781915023537
A top tobacco executive’s view of cultural differences, and how trade oils the world’s grinding wheels more effectively than political diplomacy can.
Equinox
The Boomer Archaeologist Thomas E Levy
1st August, pb, eb, £24.95, 9781800506954
Reflects on a career dedicated to understanding the evolution of social
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
inequality and the importance of cultural identity both in the past and present.
Eriu
Dynasty Matt Cooper 16th October, hb, eb, £22, 9781804188989
The real story behind Dunnes Stores, the most quintessentially Irish shop of all, and the family drama behind it. This is the story of excess, success and failure.
Europa Editions
After Oscar Merlin Holland 16th October, hb, eb, £25, 9781787705920
The definitive study of the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde. Written by Wilde’s only grandson, with exclusive revelations and rare photos from Holland’s personal archives.
Extraordinary Books
A Cool Head in Hell Jacqueline Passman, Harry Silman
16th October, hb, £14.99, 9781917569064
Compelling firsthand account of major Second World War events, including Dunkirk, the fall of Singapore and the POW experience in the Far East.
Eye Books
Me & #MeToo Olaf Tyaransen 28th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781785634222
A true story based on a false story.
Faber & Faber
A Year With Gilbert White Jenny Uglow 11th September, hb, eb, £25, 9780571354184
From one of the most enquiring and celebrated biographers a glimpse into the life and mind of a pioneering naturalist.
Keegan Anthony Quinn 28th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571392254
From the author of Klopp a funny and insightful look at one of Britain’s greatest and strangest football greats.
You Had to be There Jodie Harsh 25th September, hb, eb, £20, 9780571392414
The noughties era of pop culture in London
as told by a DJ who saw, did and survived it all.
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
(So What) If I’m a Puta? Amara Moira, Amanda De Lisio, Bruna Dantas Lobato (tr), Charlotte Shane 4th September, pb, £12.99, 9781558613485
Moira’s diary offers a raw look at her life as a trans sex worker in Brazil, exploring themes of transition, consent, whorephobia and violence.
Firefly Books
Holocaust Hero Alan Twigg 1st October, pb, £24.99, 9780228105718
Important book provides previously unrevealed information about Rudolf Vrba, the hero who escaped Auschwitz and helped save 200,000 Hungarian Jews during the Second World War.
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Greyhound Joanna Pocock 14th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804271384
Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing and literary criticism, Greyhound captures an America in the throes of late capitalism.
The Tower Thea Lenarduzzi 9th October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804271797
Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, The Tower is an extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we don’t always tell the story we set out to tell.
The Other Girl Annie Ernaux, Alison L Strayer (tr)
25th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804271841
Translated into English for the first time, The Other Girl explores the meaning of a family secret, one only discovered by chance.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev Maxim Gorky, Bryan Karetnyk (tr) 25th September, pb, £12.99, 9781804271971
Superb new translation of “one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written”
(Leonard Woolf) by one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century.
Flammarion
La Pausa Helene Fulgence (ed), Olivier Meslay, Flavia Frigeri et al 25th September, hb, £130, 9782080454928
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s vacation villa on the French Riviera, where she entertained the leading lights of the French cultural scene in the 1930s and ’40s.
Chanel
Isabelle Fiemeyer 25th September, hb, £40, 9782080482440
Illustrated biography offers unprecedented insight into Coco Chanel’s complex life through fresh research and analysis.
Fleet
Lifeform Jenny Slate 7th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780349127507
Surreal and soulful chronicle of becoming a mother. From co-creator of Marcel the Shell.
Footnote Press
Heart on My Sleeve Andrew Porter 25th September, hb, eb, £25, 9781804442647
Porter opens up about his challenges and successes on and off the pitch and speaks about his mental health after losing his mother at the age of 12.
Fourth Estate
The Scapegoat Lucy Hughes-Hallett 9th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780008126599
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
You’re Embarrassing Yourself
Desiree Akhavan 14th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008204372
“I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again”— Lena Dunham. Akhavan shares her hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love.
The Elements of Marie Curie Dava Sobel
6th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008536954
Sobel illuminates the scientist through the
previously untold story of the young women who trained in Curie’s laboratory and became key parts of her legacy.
A Voyage Around the Queen Craig Brown
28th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008557539
Sunday Times Best Memoir of 2024, a portrait of this most public yet private of sovereigns.
A Thousand Feasts Nigel Slater 25th September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780008670788
Sharply observed collection of the good bits of life.
A Truce That is Not Peace Miriam Toews 28th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008722845
Author of Women Talking returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life.
Powsels and Thrums Alan Garner 9th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008725242
Traces Garner’s life from a working-class childhood in wartime Cheshire to the University of Oxford, to becoming a writer.
Frontline Books
Richard Duke of York, Father of Kings Paul L Dawson 30th September, hb, £25, 9781036126117
Life and legacy of Richard Plantagenet, third Duke of York, shedding new light on the Wars of the Roses.
The Ultra Spy Frederick William Winterbotham
30th October, hb, £20, 9781036135348
Autobiography of a man whose career spanned two world wars and involved some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century.
Fuller Vigil
The Mompos Project Richard McColl 4th August, pb, eb, £17.99, 9786280173528
When British foreign correspondent McColl bought a ruined colonial building in rural Colombia he imagined a lifestyle of relaxation.
Gaia Books
Homeward Bound Hamza Yassin 11th September, hb, eb, £22, 9781856755412
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