SEASON HIGHLIGHTS February
Catherine Ashton And Then What? Elliott & Tompson, 2 February, hb, £20, 9781783966349
Current affairs
In 2009, Baroness Ashton was thrust into the spotlight as
the first ever EU foreign affairs chief with the unenviable task of representing the views of 29 different nations to various international crises, including Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the Serbia/Kosovo conflict. In this memoir, she offers illuminating reflections on diplomacy and its vital role in our turbulent world.
Skye McAlpine A Table Full of Love Bloomsbury Publishing, 2 February, hb, £26, 9781526657367
Food & Drink The renowned chef offers a
Janet Malcolm Still Pictures Granta Books, 2 February, hb, £14.99, 9781783788361
Biography & Memoirs
From her departure from her native Prague
to the US aged five in 1939, to the world of editor William Shawn’s New Yorker, the renowned US literary journalist who died in June 2021 “turns her unblinking gaze” on her own life in this gem of a fleeting memoir, constructed from her memories of the camera-caught moments in 12 family photographs.
Victoria Bennett All My Wild Mothers Two Roads, 2 February, hb, £16.99, 9781529398618
Biography & Memoirs
When seven months pregnant, Bennett received
the devastating news of her sister’s death in an accident. Five years later, and still struggling with her grief and the demands of being a parent, she and her son set about transforming the rubble of their new house on a Cumbria estate into a wild apothecary garden, and thus sow the seeds of a new life in the process. The manuscript for the book won the Northern Début Award 2020.
Gennaro Contaldo Gennaro’s Cucina Pavilion Books, 2 February, hb, £25, 9781911682608
Food & Drink In the teeth of the cost-of-living
crisis, learn to use simple ingredients in inventive ways, eat seasonally, spend less and ultimately eat better with this
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Tom Bullough Sarn Helen Granta Books, 2 February, hb, £16.99, 9781783788095
Travel Writing
The author of Addlands takes an immersive
and evocative non-fictional journey through Wales in this “revelatory” meditation on the nation’s past, present and future.
Nigel Biggar Colonialism William Collins, 2 February, hb, £25, 9780008511630
General History This fresh assessment
of the West’s colonial record by an Oxford theology professor argues that we should moderate our post-Imperial guilt and bring balance to our perspective of colonialism’s impact, resisting what he calls easy equivalencies between, for example, empire and slavery.
Jon Gower The Turning Tide
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
collection of “aspirational and unabashedly romantic” recipes with which to comfort, seduce, nourish and spoil your loved ones; from scallops with buttery brandy gratin to chocolate, coconut and cherry cake. High production values include hand-marbled patterns and sumptuous photography.
Italian cookbook centred on “cucina povera”, the food that fed the poor of Italy and remains the basis of its cuisine today. From chickpea fritters to lentil soups and bread salads it aims to transform the way you cook, shop and eat.
HarperNorth, 2 February, hb, £20, 9780008532635
Natural History & Pets
This biography of the Irish
Sea combines social and cultural history, nature writing, travelogue and politics to chart a body of water that has carried Vikings and saints, invasion forces and furtive gun-runners, writers, musicians and fishermen.
Charly Cox Nobody Asked For This HQ, 2 February, hb, £14.99, 9780008591601
Poetry This pulls together Insta poet and mental
health ambassador Cox’s previous collections, She Must Be Mad (shortlisted for the 2018 Books Are My Bag Poetry Readers’ Award) and Validate Me, with brand new poetry, essays and hand annotations to paint a complex picture of the formative experiences of today’s young women.
Martin Wolf
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Allen Lane, 2 February, hb, £25, 9780241303412
Business & Economics
The chief economics commentator at
the Financial Times gives a “magnificent” reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it. Wolf argues that despite widespread disillusionment, democratic capitalism is still the best system.
Julia Hollander Why We Sing Atlantic Books, 2 February, hb, £16.99, 9781838953621
Music From lullabies to songs for the dying,
an absorbing exploration of singing in all its varied manifestations, from the perspective of a music therapist, teacher and performer-author, Hollander highlights the effectiveness of singing in tackling the symptoms of Long Covid, helping people overcome loneliness and more.
Sir Stephen Hough CBE Enough Faber & Faber, 2 February, hb, £18.99, 9780571362899
Music This coming-of-age memoir by one of the
world’s leading pianists recounts his unconventional coming-of- age story, from his beginnings in an unmusical home in Cheshire to the main stage of Carnegie Hall in New York aged 21.
Tony King The Tastemaker Faber & Faber, 2 February, hb, £20, 9780571371938
Biography & Memoirs
King has been confidante and creative muse to
Marc Hamer Spring Rain Harvill Secker, 2 February, hb, £16.99, 9781787303317
Biography & Memoirs
The author of Seed to Dust returns with a beguiling
and poetic memoir—illustrated with his own line drawings— about the significance of gardens throughout his life, as he charts his horticultural path from violent childhood and homelessness as a young man, to contentment in his sixties.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Metamorphosis Jonathan Cape, 2 February, hb, £18.99, 9781787334250
Biography & Memoirs
“We all have trapdoors in our lives.” For
distinguished biographer and Oxford English professor Douglas-Fairhurst, the trapdoor was a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. This devastating news took him deep into his own mind, but also to books that would sustain, inform and nourish him while his body became increasingly disobedient. The result is this intimate and alluring memoir that charts his journey from the
some of the world’s greatest artists—The Beatles, Bowie, Elton John. Now, for the first time, he tells his story.
Christopher Reid Toys / Tricks / Traps Faber & Faber, 2 February, hb, £14.99, 9780571376605
Poetry The Costa Award- winning poet’s
ingenious new collection of poems is an investigation and test of Wordsworth’s famous adage: “the child is father of the man”.
Jennifer Higgie The Other Side Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2 February, hb, £22, 9781474623322
Art & Antiques Spiritualism has famously
influenced numerous male artists but its influence on radical women artists has hitherto been sorely neglected, says the author of this work of art history, which explores the supernatural creative leanings of a remarkable group of women; from Hildegaard of Bingen to British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun.
“kingdom of the sick to the kingdom of the well”.
Adam Kuper
The Museum of Other People Profile Books, 2 February, hb, £25, 9781800810914
Sociology Originally created as
colonial enterprises, what is the role of the world’s most famous anthropological museums today? So enquires the author of this exploration of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples have been represented, and what museums might now do to help us understand and appreciate other cultures.
Sally Adee We Are Electric Canongate Books, 2 February, hb, £20, 9781838853327
Popular Science “The bioelectric
revolution starts here.” Award- winning science and technology journalist Adee introduces us to the revelatory science of our body’s electrome: the bioelectricity by which our brains send signals throughout our bodies. If we can control and correct this electrome when it goes awry, she shows, we can potentially flick an undo switch for cancer, and more.
James Canton Grounded Canongate Books, 2 February, hb, £18.99, 9781838855871
Natural History & Pets
Seeking to help heal our ruptured
connection with our ancestors, and with the land, Canton— director of wild writing at the University of Essex—takes us on a beguiling journey through England, visiting stone circles, long barrows, churches and more to try to understand what landscape meant to those who came before us.
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung What Women Want Hutchinson Heinemann, 9 February, hb, £18.99, 9781529151114
Psychology This début from a leading
psychotherapist is an enthralling, intersectional investigation of female desire, told through Chung’s extended conversations with seven very different women; from a young bride-to-be struggling with her sexuality, to a woman learning to heal after years of trauma.
Dr Ken Duckworth You Are Not Alone Cornerstone Press, 9 February, hb, £20, 9781529900019
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Duckworth is chief medical
officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness and a world- renowned psychiatrist whose entry into the field was inspired by his father’s battle with bipolar disorder. This accessible and compassionate book is
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