SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Food & Drink This culinary exploration of
Italy’s capital unearths Rome’s hidden gem recipes that have been handed down through generations, as well as new, exciting dishes inspired by Romans from all walks of life.
Rebecca Bishop Two Magpies Bakery Headline Home, 27 April, hb, £26, 9781472295903
Food & Drink This sumptuous- looking baking
book from the expanding Suffolk/Norfolk bakery chain includes recipes for breads, pastries, pizzas, celebration cakes, and many more bakes and bars.
Guenther Steiner Surviving to Drive Bantam Press, 27 April, hb, £20, 9781787636279
Biography & Memoirs
A “jaw-dropping” account of a year inside Formula 1,
from Haas team principal and breakout star of Netflix series “Drive to Survive”.
Tim Marshall The Future of Geography Elliott & Tompson, 27 April, hb, £20, 9781783966875
Current affairs
The author of Prisoners of Geography returns to
explore the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century: how the power and politics of space will transform our world.
Bethany Allen Beijing Rules John Murray, 27 April, hb, £25, 9781529367799
Business & Economics
Billed as a definitive book on the Chinese
Communist Party’s extensive campaign over the past two decades to take the pole position of global dominance.
Simon Winchester Knowing What We Know William Collins, 27 April, hb, £25, 9780008484385
General History From the creation of the
Kieran Yates All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In Simon & Schuster UK, 27 April, hb, £14.99, 9781398509832
Current affairs
By the age of 25 journalist Yates had lived in 20 different
Andi Oliver The Pepperpot Diaries DK, 27 April, hb, £27, 9780241560211
Food & Drink “The ingredients we use in
Caribbean cookery tell a story— and it’s a huge swirling tale.” Début cookbook by the chef and TV presenter.
houses across the country. In that time, the reality of Britain’s housing crisis grew more and more difficult to ignore. She charts the heartbreaks and joys of a life spent navigating the chaos of the housing system, exposing the issues underpinning the crisis.
Rebecca Struthers Hands of Time Hodder & Stoughton, 27 April, hb, £22, 9781529339031
General History Watchmaker and historian
Struthers offers a personal history of watches and watchmaking, exploring the ways in which timekeeping has indelibly shaped our attitudes to work, leisure, trade, politics, exploration and mortality, and introduces us to some treasured devices, each with their own story to tell.
Richard Makin Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan Bloomsbury Publishing, 27 April, hb, £25, 9781526638410
Food & Drink This guide to “truly creative
plant-based cooking with zero sacrifices” contains more than 100 innovative recipes, along with tips, techniques and ingredient guides.
Katty Baird
Meetings with Moths Fourth Estate, 27 April, hb, £18.99, 9780008474065
Specialist STM Why do butterflies bask
in the limelight, when the near- identical moths are relegated to be cast as their drab and dowdy, at best ignored, cousins? In response, ecologist Baird roams East Lothian, Scotland,
first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes, the award-winning Winchester takes an all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.
Clara Batten Gin and Phonics HarperCollins, 27 April, hb, £14.99, 9780008501419
Biography & Memoirs
Self-deprecating TikTok star @rabatts is every
middle-class mother trying to get through the day. In her first book she talks candidly about the ups, downs and sh*t-stained reality of trying to parent two small people and fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming an actress without losing her bloody mind in a sequence of comedic anecdotes and relatable vignettes.
Jess Joy, Charlotte Mia How Not to Fit In Torsons, 27 April, hb, £14.99, 9780008589226
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
With a foreground of women’s
experiences of autism and ADHD, this innovative book aims to be essential reading for anyone whose brain seems to see the world in a different way.
Lucinda Williams Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You Simon & Schuster UK, 27 April, hb, £20, 9781471177484
trapping, documenting and celebrating the lives of different moth species.
Music The US singer- songwriter and three-
time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs. She’s an absolute heroine of mine.
Celia Hayley Last Word’s Uncommon Women Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 27 April, hb, £22, 9781474607643
Biography & Memoirs
This official companion book to BBC Radio
4’s Last Word series, which celebrates the lives of those who have recently died, is “a rich tapestry of women’s lives in the 20th and 21st centuries”.
Luke Turner Men at War Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 27 April, hb, £18.99, 9781474618861
General History In a “radical blend of
history, memoir and biography”, Turner looks beyond the jingoistic myths of heroes and villains to reveal a nuanced portrait of wartime experience that embraces sex, lust and the body as much as tactics and weaponry.
Andrew Lauder, Mick Houghton Happy Trails White Rabbit, 27 April, hb, £20, 9781474623599
Biography & Memoirs
The “demented” story of one of the most influential
British A&R men from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (1968) to the Stone Roses (1989).
Dan Franklin Come My Fanatics White Rabbit, 27 April, hb, £25, 9781474625401
Biography & Memoirs
Fully approved biography of Electric Wizard,
the Dorset-doom metal band who for more than two decades have set the bar for heaviness, and, what’s more, have more than a quarter of a million followers on Facebook, have clocked up 25 million plays on Spotify and have sold tens of thousands of vinyl albums.
Kae Tempest Divisible by Itself and One Picador, 27 April, pb, £10.99, 9781529073119
Poetry This powerful new poetry collection from
one of the UK’s most dynamic performers “masterfully steers a path between their more public-facing performance and dramatic work, and their contemplative voice”.
Chris van Tulleken Ultra-Processed People Cornerstone Press, 27 April, hb, £22, 9781529900057
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Billed as an eye-opening investigation
into the science, economics,
Andy Field Encounterism September Publishing, 4 May, hb, £18.99, 9781914613234
Current affairs
Said to be a brilliant collection of personal,
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history and production of ultra- processed food.
Frieda Hughes George Profile Books, 27 April, hb, £16.99, 9781800814790
Biography & Memoirs
When Hughes moved to the depths of the
Welsh countryside, she rescued a baby magpie, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm— and embarked on an obsession that would change the course of her life.
May
Michio Kaku Quantum Supremacy Allen Lane, 2 May, hb, £20, 9780241555668
Computers & Te Internet
The renowned theoretical physicist reveals
the dazzling promise and potential pitfalls of the quantum computer, which may eventually unlock some of the greatest mysteries of our world, he says.
Subhadra Das (Un)civilised Coronet, 2 May, hb, £20, 9781399704359
General History Is the West really as
“civilised” as it thinks it is? This asks readers to reconsider what they thought they knew about civilisation. Taking 10 core values of Western civilisation in turn, it examines the root of each, how it developed, and how it has affected the way we live.
Andy Clark The Experience Machine Allen Lane, 2 May, hb, £25, 9780241394526
Popular Science From the most mundane
experiences to the most sublime, it is our predictions that sculpt our experience. Clark, a philosopher and cognitive scientist, lays out the extraordinary power of the predictive brain for our lives, mental health and society.
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