SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
billed as the first comprehensive guide to navigating mental illness, and combines medical expertise with the empathy of “someone who gets it”.
more meaningful and mindful relationships; and learn how to love authentically and unconditionally.
Patricia Field Pat in the City Fourth Estate, 14 February, hb, £20, 9780008598709
Biography & Memoirs
Carrie Bradshaw’s pairing of a tutu with a tank top
was a look that turned avant- garde New York designer and stylist Field into a household name. This is her playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions.
Beatrice Searle Stone Will Answer Harvill Secker, 9 February, hb, £18.99, 9781787302556
Biography & Memoirs
Blending memoir with travelogue and meditation on
stone and the transformative power of craft, this début is an enchanting-sounding account of the author’s vocation as a stonemason, and an “unusual adventure story of resilience and homecoming”.
Jennie Agg Life, Almost Torva, 9 February, hb, £16.99, 9781911709046
Specialist STM A “powerful and personal”
reflection on miscarriage from a health journalist who has herself lost four pregnancies with no obvious cause. Drawing on interviews and research, and blending memoir with scientific investigation, Agg explores why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under-researched and under- acknowledged experience.
Fern Brady Strong Female Character Brazen, 14 February, hb, £16.99, 9781914240447
Specialist STM “Game- changing”
memoir in which the comedian uses her voice as a neuro- divergent, working-class woman from Scotland to bring issues such as sex work, abusive relationships and her time spent in teenage mental health units to the page.
Blake Morrison Two Sisters Te Borough Press, 16 February, hb, £16.99, 9780008510527
Biography & Memoirs
Thirty years after publication of his seminal And When
Did You Last See Your Father? (followed in 2002 by Things My Mother Never Told Me) comes Morrison’s third family memoir. It focuses on his sister Gillian, who battled alcoholism for much of her life—and his half- sister Josie, only definitively revealed as his father’s daughter after both parents had died.
Marieke Bigg This Won’t Hurt Hodder & Stoughton, 16 February, hb, £22, 9781529377699
Gender Studies
Bigg has dedicated her career to researching and
writing about inequality in medicine. From the way pain is felt to how heart attacks are diagnosed, her first book dissects the ways in which the medical landscape is one that was designed for, and by, men; and is not gender-neutral.
Emmanuel Iduma I Am Still With You William Collins, 16 February, hb, £16.99, 9780008430726
Vex King Closer to Love Bluebird, 13 February, hb, £16.99, 9781529087840
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
In this “transfor- mational”
guide to creating lasting connections published on Self Love Day, the Instagram self- love guru and author of Good Vibes, Good Life aims to help you understand the role you play within your relationships; thus assisting you to build
Biography & Memoirs
The story of an “astonishing search for a
missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history”, this is said to be a “powerful and personal” investigation into the Nigerian civil war by Nigeria’s “most gifted young writer”.
Sander van der Linden Foolproof Fourth Estate, 16 February, hb, £22, 9780008466718
Popular Science Social psychologist
van der Linden—dubbed University of Cambridge’s “defence against the dark arts” teacher —takes us through the common traits of conspiratorial thinking and aims to equip us with the 11 antigens needed to help stop the spread of misinformation once and for all.
The Rt Hon Frank Field Politics, Poverty and Belief Bloomsbury Continuum, 16 February, hb, £20, 9781399408394
Biography & Memoirs
In a “touching but also profound” memoir, the former
Labour MP for Birkenhead, now Baron Field of Birkenhead— aged 80 and terminally ill— reveals two hugely influential factors in his life: the poverty of his own childhood, and the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism.
Gail Simmons Between the Chalk and the Sea Headline Book Publishing, 16 February, hb, £22, 9781472280275
Travel Writing
Described as England’s Camino, a long-lost, long-
distance pilgrim route threads its way between Southampton and Canterbury. So discovers the author from an old map in the Bodleian Library. In this blend of nature memoir and history, Simmons sets out to walk the Old Way in a quest to rediscover what a long journey on foot has to offer us today.
of US policing, as they reveal what it’s like to wear the uniform and carry the weight of the responsibility they’ve been given.
Hayley Morris Me vs Brain Century, 16 February, hb, £18.99, 9781529196047
Biography & Memoirs
Comedian Morris is a sensation on Instagram and
TikTok for her taboo-busting sketches, which regularly attract millions of views. So her first book comes with a lot of built-in momentum, as she furthers her mission to prove that “You. Are. Not. A Weirdo”.
Oksana Masters The Hard Parts Scribner UK, 21 February, hb, £16.99, 9781398519923
Biography & Memoirs
The inspiring- sounding autobiography
of the US Paralympian who was born in Ukraine with birth defects due to utero radiation poisoning from the Chernobyl disaster, and suffered appalling abuse as an orphan before being adopted and moving to the US, where she went on to win 10 Paralympic medals in four different sports.
Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer Voyager Daunt Books, 23 February, pb, £9.99, 9781914198441
Biography & Memoirs
Fernández, a Chilean author, actress and
screenwriter, weaves a scintillating autobiographical essay with numerous facets, including her mother’s epilepsy and what maps of our brain activity tell us about black holes in all our memories; mankind’s myth-making around the constellations of the night sky; a memorial to 26 people executed in the Atacama desert under General Pinochet’s regime, and more.
it comes to everything from climate change to implicit bias.
Jim Down Life in the Balance Viking, 23 February, hb, £18.99, 9780241506387
Biography & Memoirs
Down is an intensive care unit consultant at
University College Hospital in London. This is his “moving, frank and unflinching” account of intensive care medicine; from headline-grabbing cases such as that of Alexander Litvinenko after his poisoning by Russian agents, to the mundane struggle simply to find enough beds.
Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington The Big Con Allen Lane, 23 February, hb, £20, 9780241573082
Business & Economics
There is an entrenched relationship
between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. So say the authors as they show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, “obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown”.
Bernard Wasserstein A Small Town in Ukraine Allen Lane, 23 February, hb, £20, 9780241609224
General History A compelling account of
the people of a “little place you’ve never heard of”—namely Krakowiec, a small town 40 miles west of Lviv where the history professor author’s family originated, and of which he has traced thousands of inhabitants. Blending memoir with history, Wasserstein thus provides a microcosmic account of events in Eastern Europe, through which we can “feel the shocking immediacy of history”.
Munroe Bergdorf Transitional Bloomsbury Tonic, 16 February, hb, £16.99, 9781526630315
Gender Studies
The subject of an 11- way auction, this “millennial self-help”
book by the writer, model and transgender rights activist blends her own experience with the views of experts, change- makers and fellow activists to explore the ways in which transitioning is deeply engrained in the human experience.
James Patterson American Cops Century, 16 February, hb, £20, 9781529136418
Biography & Memoirs
Patterson’s latest outing collects “unforgettable”
stories from across the spectrum
Julian Baggini How to Think Like a Philosopher Granta Books, 23 February, hb, £16.99, 9781783788514
Philosophy Drawing on decades of work
in philosophy including dozens of interviews with contemporary philosophers, Baggini sets out how philosophical thought can promote incisive thinking when
Kate Strasdin The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes Chatto & Windus, 23 February, hb, £20, 9781784743819
General History In 1838, a young woman
named Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. She
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