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wrought by the slave trade and European colonial rule.
Professor Michael Banissy When We Touch Orion Spring, 16 March, hb, £16.99, 9781398708723
Popular Science Social neuroscientist
Banissy blends expert scientific insights with anecdotes from 90s romcoms to office politics to explore the new science of human touch; from why touch is essential for healthy development, to how kissing might help us choose a genetically beneficial mate.
Oliver Soden Masquerade Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 16 March, hb, £25, 9781474612807
Biography & Memoirs
This “sparkling, revelatory” new biography of Noël
Coward celebrates him as a pioneer in life, art and sexuality.
Nick Butter Run Britain Bantam Press, 16 March, pb, £16.99, 9781787636415
Biography & Memoirs
In the spring of 2021, endurance runner Butter set
out from the Eden Project in Cornwall to run every mile of Britain’s 5,250-mile coastline in 100 days. This is his account of that extraordinary feat, which involved a double marathon each day, every day.
Tess Daly 4 Steps Bantam Press, 16 March, pb, £18.99, 9781787636422
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
For the first time, the model,
mother and long-time presenter of “Strictly Come Dancing” shares her “well-informed” ways to look and feel amazing, whether you are 17 or 70. Her four steps, arrived at in consultation with qualified experts and incorporating lifestyle hacks are: Eat; Breathe; Move; and Sleep.
Nikhil Krishnan A Terribly Serious Adventure Profile Books, 16 March, hb, £20, 9781800812369
Philosophy Including such figures as Gilbert
Ryle, J L Austin, Elizabeth Anscombe and Iris Murdoch, this group biography traces the friendships and the rivalries, the shared preoccupations and the passionate disagreements of Oxford’s most brilliant thinkers.
Micael Dahlen, Helge Thorbjørnsen More. Numbers. Every. Day. Monoray, 16 March, hb, £16.99, 9781800961043
Business & Economics
How many steps have you done today? How many
emails answered? And how many hours have you slept? Welcome to the numberdemic
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where a deluge of figures, stats and data manipulates our every move. So say the behavioural economist authors, who explain why we’re so attached to numbers, and how we can free ourselves from their tyranny. It could strike a chord in a Hans Rosling vein.
Louise Mullany Polite Welbeck, 16 March, hb, £16.99, 9781802793420
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
The author teaches politeness
theory at the University of Nottingham and has spent years examining the prevalence and power of politeness in our everyday speech and actions. In her first book she shows how the unseen science of politeness governs everything we do.
Patrick Bringley
All the Beauty in the World Bodley Head, 16 March, hb, £18.99, 9781847926678
Biography & Memoirs
A moving, revelatory story about one of the
world’s great museums—the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York—and the power of art to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard.
Matthew Desmond Poverty, by America Allen Lane, 21 March, hb, £20, 9780241543221
Current affairs
Desmond is a Princeton professor who won the 2017
Pulitzer Prize for his influential book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. This new work is said to be a searing study of American poverty. Debunking many myths along the way, it also has clear relevance to the UK, I’m told.
Christopher Fallow Dragged Up Proppa Macmillan, 21 March, hb, £18.99, 9781529050851
Biography & Memoirs
Fallow was born the youngest of six boys in a village
near Durham. Destined to join his father and brothers down the pit, the closure of the mine in the 1980s saw him at the back of the dole queue. While he left school illiterate, he has now written this vivid and trenchant memoir of being dragged up “proppa”, working and travelling the world, before settling a few miles from where he grew up.
Tom Moorhouse Ghosts in the Hedgerow Doubleday, 23 March, hb, £16.99, 9780857528445
Conservation & the Environment
Is it the car driver? The badger?
The farmer, the gardener or something else? The conservationist author of Elegy of a River returns to investigate the various suspects implicated in the steep decline in hedgehog
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield, Venki Ramakrishnan (intro) Virtual You Princeton University Press, 28 March, hb, £25, 9780691223278
Popular Science A panoramic account of the
visionary scientists around the world who are building digital
numbers in this charmingly urgent book, which also sets out practical steps we can all take to protect our favourite small, spiny creature.
Jenny Odell Saving Time Bodley Head, 23 March, hb, £20, 9781847926845
Current affairs
The author of How to Do Nothing puts forward a radical
argument that we are living on the wrong clock, one that tells us time is money. Embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold, hopeful possibilities, she argues.
Levison Wood, Geraint Jones Escape from Kabul Hodder & Stoughton, 23 March, hb, £20, 9781399718127
War & Military History
Drawing on a wide range of first-hand
accounts, the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift ahead of the fall of the Afghan capital to the Taliban in August 2021.
Clare Carlisle The Marriage Question Allen Lane, 23 March, hb, £25, 9780241447178
Biography & Memoirs
Moving between philosophy, literary interpretation
and the histories of art and religion, this “exceptional” new biography of George Eliot shows how the celebrated novelist wrestled with the question of marriage in both art and life. Sounds terrific.
Tippa Irie It’s Good to Have the Feeling You’re the Best Jacaranda Books, 23 March, hb, £20, 9781913090845
Biography & Memoirs
Grammy Award- winning reggae artist Irie reflects
on fame, longevity and the power of music in this “infectiously charismatic (and frequently poignant”) autobiography.
twins of human beings, thereby ushering in a new era of personalised medicine where your twin can help predict your risk of disease, and thus save your life. With a foreword by Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan.
Su Scott Rice Table Quadrille, 30 March, hb, £27, 9781787138964
Food & Drink This exploration of Korean food
culture and identity through 100 recipes is also a love letter from a mother to a daughter, a book about identity and immigration, and about how you feed your children builds a story about their heritage.
Saliha Mahmood Ahmed The Kitchen Prescription Yellow Kite, 30 March, hb, £25, 9781399706292
Food & Drink Transform your gut
health one bite at a time is the promise of this book of recipes by gastroenterologist and Masterchef winner Ahmed; from gut-friendly breakfasts and immunity-boosting lunches to quick family suppers.
Ben Ansell Why Politics Fails Viking, 30 March, hb, £20, 9780241517628
Current affairs
Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us
disappointed? In this, one of Viking’s lead non-fiction titles for 2023, award-winning Oxford professor Ansell shows that it’s not the politicians that are the problem. It’s that our collective goals—from democracy to equality—result in five political “traps” by which our self- interest undermines our ability to deliver on them.
Michael Bond Fans Picador, 30 March, hb, £20, 9781529052473
Current affairs
I loved Bond’s previous book, Wayfinding. Now
he journeys into the world of superfans to explore the psychology of what happens to us when we interact with people who share our passions. Fandoms offer much of the pleasure of tribalism, with little of the harm, he finds.
Elliot Rappaport Reading the Glass Sceptre, 30 March, hb, £22, 9781529369335
Natural History & Pets
Rappaport is a professional ship’s captain
with more than 30 years’ experience of sailing tall ships all over the world, while watching the weather unfold. In this absorbing blend of science, history, nature writing and memoir, he shares his wisdom about the weather at sea.
Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin The Survivor Bantam Press, 30 March, hb, £20, 9781787636293
General History Said to be one of the
“great untold stories” of the Holocaust, in which Lewkowicz— now 96—testifies how he survived six Nazi death camps. When he discovered that he had lost all 150 members of his family, he joined the hunt to bring his tormentors to justice as an intelligence officer in the US army.
Mike Parker All the Wide Border HarperNorth, 30 March, hb, £20, 9780008499181
General History The author of On the
Red Hill returns with a funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border.
Blessin Adams Great and Horrible News William Collins, 30 March, hb, £18.99, 9780008500221
Biography & Memoirs
This history and true crime crossover by
an ex-police officer focuses on nine historic crimes from early modern Britain; from a fugitive killer at large in London pursued by citizen detectives, to a mother trying to clear her dead daughter’s name. Adams’ original research sheds light on how crime has changed over the centuries (and how it hasn’t).
Jenn Granneman, Andre Sólo Sensitive Penguin Life, 30 March, hb, £18.99, 9780241525760
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
The US authors are leading
experts on sensitivity and co-founded platform Highly Sensitive Refuge. Backed by 20 years of research, this is billed as a groundbreaking look at how highly sensitive people exemplify our most human traits, and also demonstrates the power of a deeper, more tuned-in mind.
Simon Wilde The Tour Simon & Schuster UK, 30 March, hb, £25, 9781471198489
Sports & Gaming
Examining “the delicate chemistry that makes for a
successful tour”, this looks at all aspects of the history of England’s cricket tours abroad, examining how this “seemingly anachronistic activity has been adapted from an instrument of soft power to a relentless cricket circus that never ends”.
Richard Fisher The Long View Wildfire, 30 March, hb, £25, 9781472285218
Sociology Fisher is a senior BBC Future
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