SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
this intersectional compendium rediscovers the lives of more than 190 significant women who have been erased from history, but who shaped the age they lived in and revolutionised society. Tsjeng is editor-in-chief of VICE UK.
aside and unite to help win the war?
Andrew Millham Singing Like Larks Saraband/Contraband, 9 March, hb, £14.99, 9781913393663
Music In this charming book, folklore, verse and
nature writing combine to explore why birds appear in so many folk songs, with song lyrics, history and anecdotes drawing on a rich heritage.
Will Gompertz See What You’re Missing Viking, 9 March, hb, £20, 9780241315460
Art & Antiques In a book that claims
Saba Alemayoh Tekebash and Saba Murdoch Books, 9 March, hb, £22, 9781922351821
Food & Drink This celebration of the food of
Tigray, Ethiopia’s northernmost state, presents a collection of recipes interweaved with the author’s own story, and that of her mother. They arrived in Australia as refugees and have since nurtured a connection to their beloved homeland through food.
to do for art what Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life does for literature, the artistic director at the Barbican aims to take us into the minds of artists from different time periods to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened powers of perception; from how Hockney sees colour to how Frida Kahlo can help us see pain.
Priya Joi Motherland Penguin Life, 9 March, hb, £16.99, 9780241574317
Biography & Memoirs
This powerful memoir by a science journalist
explores race and motherhood, considering how personal and cultural identity intersect with becoming a mother, and interrogating how multicultural parenting in a space where you are the minority continues to affect and challenge our futures.
Joseph Kessel The Man with the Miraculous Hands Elliott & Tompson, 9 March, hb, £20, 9781783966936
General History A portrait of Felix Kersten,
whose success as Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician allowed him to ultimately save thousands of lives from the concentration camps and outlive his master. First published to acclaim in 1962, the film rights have now been acquired by Woody Harrelson.
Alexander Larman The Windsors at War Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9 March, hb, £25, 9781474623933
War & Military History
This new account of the turbulent
royal decade between 1937 and 1947 includes such events as the bombing of Buckingham Palace in May 1940, and the Duke of Windsor’s ill-advised visit to Germany in October 1937, and asks: how did this squabbling, dysfunctional family manage to put their differences
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Alice Kinsella Milk Picador, 9 March, hb, £12.99, 9781529097948
Biography & Memoirs
This “map of motherhood”, told in short
chapters á la Maggie Nelson, is the meditative story of one woman’s experience of her first year of motherhood, as well as an often painful examination of what it’s like to have children in contemporary Ireland, as a young mother in her twenties, adrift in a new town.
Katherine May Enchantment Faber & Faber, 9 March, hb, £16.99, 9780571378333
Natural History & Pets
Without
enchantment, argues the
author of Wintering in this balm of a book, it feels as if our lives are lacking an essential nutrient; but one that can be found by digging “our own soil” with ordinary attention and wonder. As she begins to unravel the threads of a life wound too tightly, she finds nourishment and a more hopeful relationship with the world.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Tobi Asare The Blend Headline Home, 9 March, hb, £16.99, 9781472296016
Professional & Careers
Asare is a mother of two and the founder
of My Bump Pay, an online platform that aims to give pregnant women and mothers the tools to smash the glass ceiling. She shares her hard-won advice on making work work for you, while successfully blending it with family life.
Deepa Anappara (ed), Taymour Soomro (ed) Letters to a Writer of Colour Vintage, 9 March, pb, £14.99, 9781529115840
Language Learning & Liguistics
Wide-ranging collection of essays on the power of literature
and the craft of writing from a striking array of writers of colour, in which they share the experiences, cultural traditions and convictions that have shaped them and their work. It encourages us to re-evaluate the codes and conventions around how we assume fiction should be written and challenges us to apply its wisdom both to what we read, and how we read.
Jew in Holland who betrayed his fellow Jews.
intentional life. That’s the premise of this guide to drawing inspiration from nature’s events, by a moon mentor, soul alignment and transformation coach.
Chris Laoutaris Shakespeare’s Book William Collins, 16 March, hb, £25, 9780008238384
Literature & Criticism
Published for the 400th anniversary of the First Folio,
Helen Ledwick Why Mums Don’t Jump Atlantic Books, 9 March, pb, £14.99, 9781838958497
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Said to be a stigma- shattering
look at the pelvic floor issues suffered by one in three women, in which the author shares her own experience along with those of many other women, and promises to have readers “laughing, crying and cringing”. Ledwick has a podcast of the same title.
Gary Younge Dispatches from the Diaspora Faber & Faber, 16 March, pb, £14.99, 9780571376827
Current affairs
This powerful career-spanning collection of Younge’s
Dina Nayeri Who Gets Believed? Harvill Secker, 9 March, hb, £20, 9781787302709
Biography & Memoirs
The author of The Ungrateful Refugee combines
deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. She takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask —where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed?
Ian Buruma The Collaborators Atlantic Books, 9 March, hb, £20, 9781838957650
Biography & Memoirs
The prize-winning historian offers a “spell-binding”
investigation of the complex and tangled lives of three collaborators during the Second World War: Felix Kersten, a “plump Finnish pleasure seeker”; Kawashima Yoshiko, a gender fluid Manchu princess; and Friedrich Weinreb, a Hasidic
journalism ranges through civil rights, international politics and personal experience to provide a thematically diverse but interconnected portrait of the past 30 years. There’s an account of accompanying Nelson Mandela on his first election campaign and interviews with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou and Stormzy.
Dr Louise Newson The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause Yellow Kite, 16 March, hb, £18.99, 9781399704984
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Newson is a GP and pioneering
medical expert on menopause. In this guide, which draws on her many years of research in this field as well as her own experience, she aims to provide all the information any woman might need at this time of life; from the key facts about hormones, to family histories, hormone replacement therapy, libido, careers and relationships.
Kirsty Gallagher Sacred Seasons Yellow Kite, 16 March, hb, £16.99, 9781399712811
Mind, Body & Spirit
Journey through the seasons and learn to live in
alignment with nature’s cycles in order to live a happier, more
this is a collective biography of the personalities behind its first publication, and the astounding labour of love that went into the creation of the first collection of Shakespeare’s plays. Laoutaris shows how it shaped the transmission of the playwright’s legacy to future generations, determining that the world would remember him “not of an age but for all time”.
Nooruddean Choudry Inshallah United HarperNorth, 16 March, hb, £16.99, 9780008522230
Biography & Memoirs
A deeply personal account of growing up
in the late 1980s and ’90s as a Muslim Asian Mancunian kid, during the most successful period in Manchester United FC’s history.
Emmanuel Asuquo Get Your Money Right William Collins, 16 March, hb, £16.99, 9780008584368
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Financial adviser Asuquo is
a regular on the “Jeremy Vine Show” and has appeared on TV in such programmes as “Secret Spenders” and “Your Money, Your Life”. This practical guide aims to help you achieve excellent financial health, even while battling through the current financial crisis.
John Parker (editor), David Adjaye (editor) Great Kingdoms of Africa Tames & Hudson, 16 March, hb, £25, 9780500252529
General History Written by world-
leading scholars in the field, a “groundbreaking” illustrated survey of the great kingdoms in African history, taking our knowledge of the continent beyond the devastation
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