SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
continents and millennia as award-winning historian Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics, highlighting the “passionate connections made by women and men of science to the diversity of the animal world”.
Louise Boyce Mama Still Got It HarperCollins, 2 March, hb, £14.99, 9780008561840
Biography & Memoirs
Now best known by her Instagram handle
@mamastillgotit_ (225,000 followers), Boyce started modelling more than 20 years ago as a teenager. She humorously addresses the stark contrast between her jobs as model and mother in this “hilarious” début book in which she chronicles the euphoric highs and epic fails of the school year.
Leah Broad Quartet Faber & Faber, 2 March, hb, £20, 9780571366101
Music This notable début is an absorbing group
biography of four influential and trail-blazing female musicians born between 1859 and 1922— Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen—whose reputations and achievements have been hitherto neglected. Broad was one of 2016’s BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers.
through the next stage of her journey; from her single days and meeting her partner Jake, to the moment she found out she was pregnant, and the magic of their first family Christmas.
Aasmah Mir A Pebble in the Throat Headline Book Publishing, 2 March, hb, £20, 9781472288523
Biography & Memoirs
In this imaginative and enthralling memoir, the
award-winning broadcaster, and co-presenter with Stig Abell of the “Breakfast Show” on Times Radio, tells two parallel stories: her own as an unsettled young girl of Pakistani heritage growing up in her native Glasgow, and that of her mother a generation before, sent to a foreign country called Scotland when only just married to a man she barely knew.
Sarah Standing Dancing With the Red Devil Headline Book Publishing, 2 March, hb, £20, 9781472296351
Biography & Memoirs
“Radiating personality from the very first
page, this memoir is filled with joy, hope and love, and screams “fuck you, cancer” at the top of its lungs”. Such is the billing for this book by the journalist author, written after a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Anna Motz A Love That Kills Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2 March, hb, £20, 9781474624343
Psychology Motz is a consultant clinical
Nandini Das Courting India Bloomsbury Publishing, 2 March, hb, £30, 9781526615640
General History “Profound, ground-
breaking” new history of the British arrival in India in the early 17th century that focuses on the four years Thomas Roe spent there, and when imperial seeds were sown. Das is a BBC New Generation Thinker and this has already been called a “sparkling gem of a book” by Peter Frankopan.
Charlotte Crosby Me, Myself and Mini Me Headline Book Publishing, 2 March, hb, £20, 9781035401420
Biography & Memoirs
The much- followed reality TV star with a
“touching and laugh-out-loud” pregnancy and motherhood memoir, in which she takes us
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and forensic psychotherapist with 30 years’ experience working with violent women both in prison and in the community. This is her compelling and illuminating account of 11 ordinary women who came to commit extreme acts; from Mary, who turned to arson after her son was taken into care, to Dolores, who killed her own daughter.
Sarah Raven A Year Full of Veg Bloomsbury Publishing, 2 March, hb, £27, 9781526639349
Gardening Following A Year Full of Flowers,
Raven returns with the obvious follow-up, a month-by-month guide to growing the best seasonal veg.
Adam Gopnik The Real Work riverrun, 2 March, hb, £20, 9781529414622
Biography & Memoirs
The award- winning New Yorker staff writer
sets out to find out how we learn new skills, apprenticing himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer and even a driving instructor in order to try his late middle-aged hand at things he assumed were beyond him.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Sarah Clegg Woman’s Lore Head of Zeus, 2 March, hb, £27.99, 9781803280271
General History This history of demonic
Sarah Polley Run Towards the Danger September Publishing, 2 March, pb, £10.99, 9781914613296
Biography & Memoirs
Polley is an Academy Award-winning
screenwriter, director and former child actor. This “extraordinarily beautiful” series of essays on embodied memories, exploring the initiations into performance, pain, womanhood, sex, threat, motherhood and injury that
Stephen Moss Ten Birds That Changed the World Guardian Faber Publishing, 2 March, hb, £16.99, 9781783352418
Natural History & Pets
The popular naturalist and author tells the story of the long and eventful
relationships between humans and birds through 10 diverse species from all seven of the world’s continents; ravens, pigeons, turkeys, dodos, Darwin’s finches, Guanay cormorants, snowy egrets, bald eagles, tree sparrows and emperor penguins.
Ben Wilson Urban Jungle Jonathan Cape, 2 March, hb, £20, 9781787333130
Natural History & Pets
This “eye-opening and urgent” re-examination of urban landscapes
around the world shows that nature has always been at the heart of the city, and should stay that way.
Claire Horn Eve Wellcome Collection, 2 March, hb, £14.99, 9781788166898
Specialist STM With science on the cusp
of being able to grow babies outside human bodies, Horn— who wrote this book while pregnant—takes us on a radical and pro-choice dive into the law, ethics and technological future of birth, which has become more pertinent than ever with the fall of Roe vs Wade.
Martyna Wiśniewska Michalak The Very F*cking Tired Mummy Unbound, 2 March, pb, £9.99, 9781800182110
Humour, Novelty & Gift
“Parenting is hard and this mummy is f*cking tired.” This deeply relatable,
winningly illustrated parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar features an exhausted mother over the course of one week, with a side of wine, coffee, chocolate from last Christmas, and the kids’ leftover lunch.
temptresses looks at a tradition that stretches back 4,000 years, and shows how figures from Lamia and Lilith to mermaids and vampires were co-opted by a male-centric society before being recast as symbols of women’s liberation.
Erica Berry Wolfish Canongate Books, 2 March, hb, £16.99, 9781838854591
Philosophy This alluring début charts the US
author’s years-long quest to study the legacy of the wolf, in which she weaves history, science, journalism and memoir to illuminate our cultural constructions of predator and prey. Along the way she finds new expressions for courage and survival, and how to “be a brave human and animal member of our fragile, often dangerous world”.
Alice Vincent Why Women Grow Canongate Books, 2 March, hb, £16.99, 9781838855437
Gardening I enjoyed Vincent’s first book, her
memoir, Rootbound. This follow-up is a wider exploration of why women turn to earth as gardeners, growers and custodians, musing on big themes, including the parallels between raising plants and nurturing children.
Timothy Garton Ash Homelands Bodley Head, 2 March, hb, £20, 9781847926616
General History Drawing on half a century
of travel and experience, Ash tells the story of Europe in the later 20th and early 21st centuries in this compelling- sounding personal history.
Arjan Dwarshuis The (Big) Year That Flew By Chelsea Green Publishing, 9 March, pb, £18.99, 9781645021919
Conservation & the Environment
The glorious story of one avid birder’s
epic, record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over six continents—in just 365 days— to see more than 7,000 bird species, many on the precipice of extinction.
Lisa James, Meg Russell The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit Oxford University Press, 9 March, hb, £25, 9780192849717
Current affairs
Providing the “first detailed” account of the way in which the
Brexit process played out in Parliament, this draws on eye-opening insider accounts and interviews with the key players to show what might have been handled better. The authors argue that Brexit was largely a battle inside the Conservative Party, for which Parliament got the blame.
Zing Tsjeng Forgotten Women BRAZEN, 9 March, hb, £30, 9781914240690
Current affairs
From neolithic times to the present day,
we share, has attracted endorsements from Margaret Atwood and Miriam Toews.
Roy Strong
The Stuart Image Boydell Press, 7 March, hb, £30, 9781783277209
Art & Antiques Based on his lifetime’s work
in the field, the renowned art historian offers an expert and engaging new look at portrait painting in Stuart England, studying the sitters as much as the artists.
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