SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
observed what happened all around him, in a stationary garden safari.
Clerkenwell Boy, Magic Breakfast These Delicious Things Pavilion Books, 13 April, hb, £25, 9780008603601
Food & Drink Clerkenwell Boy brings us this
“Cook Book of Food Memories” in support of the Magic Breakfast charity, which aims to tackle childhood food poverty.
Ian Dunt How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn’t Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 13 April, hb, £18.99, 9781399602730
Current affairs
This “biting critique” of Westminster by the author of How to be
Liberal shines a light on how British politics really operates.
James Macdonald Lockhart Wild Air Fourth Estate, 13 April, hb, £18.99, 9780008399535
Natural History & Pets
Lockhart conveys the sound of bird
song through language, creating sound portraits of birds using their own language, in a very novel-sounding way, to write about different species.
Elizabeth Day Friendaholic Fourth Estate, 13 April, hb, £16.99, 9780008374891
Biography & Memoirs
The novelist, award-winning journalist and
chart-topping podcaster charts her journey to understand why, since her schooldays, she has been addicted to friendship, often to the detriment of her own boundaries and mental health. From ghosting to frenemies, to social media and communication styles, she leaves no stone unturned as she unpicks the significance and evolution of friendship.
Suzanne Heywood Wavewalker William Collins, 13 April, hb, £20, 9780008498498
Biography & Memoirs
At the age of seven, Heywood set sail with her
family on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, with little formal schooling. She tells her incredible true story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child’s worst nightmare—and how determination helped her to escape.
Michael Frayn Among Others Faber & Faber, 13 April, hb, £25, 9780571378609
Biography & Memoirs
It’s the other people around you, says
distinguished writer Frayn, who 22
Marina Benjamin A Little Give Scribe, 13 April, hb, £14.99, 9781914484568
Biography & Memoirs
In a new set of interlinked essays, the author of
The Middlepause and Insomnia The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Kate Clancy Period Princeton University Press, 18 April, hb, £22, 9780691191317
Popular Science Blending interviews
and personal experience with engaging stories from her own pioneering research, Clancy
Xiaolu Guo Radical Chatto & Windus, 13 April, hb, £18.99, 9781784744861
Biography & Memoirs
In the autumn of 2019 the author travelled to New
York to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. She charts how this encounter with American culture and people threatened her sense of identity and threw her into a crisis—of meaning, desire, obligation and selfhood.
James Hamilton-Paterson Stuck Monkey Head of Zeus, 13 April, hb, £20, 9781803285528
Popular Science A “ferociously intelligent,
funny, misanthropic” book about the ‘innocent’ habits of consumers and how they contribute vastly to climate change, taking in gardening, sports, the growth of eco-tourism, the wellness industry, our obsession with online shopping, mobile phones, military carbon, biofuels and electric vehicles, and more.
Jeremy Chan Ikoyi Phaidon Press, 15 April, hb, £44.95, 9781838666309
Food & Drink Recipes from the two-Michelin-
starred London restaurant, with a menu inspired by the spices of Sub-Saharan West Africa and produce from local farms and artisan producers.
make you what you are. He looks back on life from his 90th year, about a few of the people who have formed his own particular world in a memoir described as “truthful and loving, sometimes elegiac, sometimes comic, and a celebration of the endlessly intriguing otherness of others”.
Dr Jackie Ui Chionna The Queen of Codes Headline Book Publishing, 13 April, hb, £22, 9781472295477
General History Biography of the hitherto
unsung Emily Anderson, a leading member of British intelligence for more than three decades who played key roles in both world wars, worked at Bletchley Park and in the Middle East, and was reckoned among the top three female codebreakers in the world.
trains her astute eye on the tasks once termed “women’s work”, from cleaning and cooking to caring for an ageing relative.
Zoë Colville
The Chief Shepherdess Bantam Press, 13 April, hb, £16.99, 9781787635746
Specialist STM The “inspiring and hilarious”
story of a hairdresser turned shepherdess navigating loss and purpose through farming life.
challenges a host of myths and false assumptions when it comes to menstruation.
Gretchen Rubin Life in Five Senses Two Roads, 18 April, hb, £16.99, 9781529372755
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Exploring the mysteries
and joys of the five senses, Rubin draws on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature and her own efforts to practise what she learns, as she investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world.
Mark Kurlansky The Core of an Onion Bloomsbury Publishing, 20 April, hb, £20, 9781635575934
Food & Drink The author of Cod and Salt
returns to take a delectable look at the cultural, historical and gastronomical layers of onions, in a book featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world.
Simon Armitage Never Good with Horses Faber & Faber, 20 April, hb, £14.99, 9780571377619
Music This first-ever collection of the Poet Laureate’s
lyric output celebrates his ear for the music of language.
Tristan Gooley How to Read a Tree Sceptre, 20 April, hb, £20, 9781529339598
Natural History & Pets
The author of The Walker’s Guide and
How to Read Water returns to set out the simple principles that explain the shapes and patterns we can see in trees and what they mean. “Includes signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.”
Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst The Power of Trees Greystone Books, Canada, 20 April, hb, £16.99, 9781771647748
Natural History & Pets
The author of The Hidden Life of Trees
returns with a book that will “deepen our understanding of ancient forests, reaffirm our dependence on trees, and celebrate their ability to survive human-caused climate change”.
death, this memoir charts her discovery that nothing could have prepared her for the reality of illness, care-giving and losing someone you love.
Rachel Hewitt In Her Nature Chatto & Windus, 20 April, hb, £25, 9781784742898
Biography & Memoirs
Said to be a trail-blazing book about
women’s fight to access the great outdoors, it is also a very personal one about how running helped Hewitt through a bereavement.
Jackie Kohnstamm The Memory Keeper Canongate Books, 20 April, hb, £18.99, 9781838858018
Biography & Memoirs
Sarah Tarlow The Archaeology of Loss Picador, 20 April, hb, £16.99, 9781529099539
Archaeology Shortly after her appointment as
a chair of archaeology, the author’s partner Mark began to suffer from an undiagnosed illness, leaving him unable to care for himself. Although considered an expert in the history and archaeology of
Googling her grandparents’ names on a
whim, Kohnstamm discovered that four days earlier two Stolpersteine (“stumble stones”) had been laid in their names outside the house in Berlin where they had once lived. It was the first step on a remarkable story of loss, discovery and memory.
Giancarlo Caldesi, Katie Caldesi Recipes from Rome Hardie Grant Books, 27 April, hb, £18.99, 9781784886288
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