SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
meditative and investigative essays on all that we lose in a virtual world—“a joyous book about the nature, grace and importance of everyday, face- to-face human interactions”.
Noo Saro-Wiwa Black Ghosts Canongate Books, 4 May, hb, £14.99, 9781838856946
Travel Writing
Saro-Wiwa goes in search of China’s “Black ghosts”:
African economic migrants. Her fascinating encounters include a Ghanaian cardiac surgeon, a drug dealer, a visa overstayer, a Nigerian popstar who sings in Chinese and men married to Chinese women who speak English with Nigerian accents.
the wonderful Thin Places and her partner moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. This new book maps the circle of a year from one winter to the next amid the changed world of the pandemic.
Joanna Moorhead Surreal Spaces Tames & Hudson, 4 May, hb, £30, 9780500025512
Art & Antiques Moorhead is Leonora
Carrington’s niece, who lived with the artist towards the end of her life. This is her illustrated biography of her aunt, told through the houses and locations that had meaning for her, and that are fundamental to an understanding of her work.
Daljit Nagra indiom Faber & Faber, 4 May, hb, £14.99, 9780571372256
Poetry In this mock poetic epic, a cast of
“Indic-heritage poets” meets to perform poems and discuss the future of poetry, along with such various subjects as the Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel, Shakespearean comedy, Under Milk Wood, The Simpsons and Newcastle United.
Madeleine Bunting The Seaside Granta Books, 4 May, hb, £20, 9781783787173
Travel Writing
Bunting takes a vivid journey around England’s great
seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggles, and what they reveal about the country.
Katherine Pangonis Twilight Cities Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 4 May, hb, £22, 9781474614115
General History Exploration of five forgotten
cities of the Mediterranean: Syracuse, Antioch, Ravenna, Tyre and Carthage. Their fascinating entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, the Byzantine general Maniakes, and the Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Norman conquests.
Richard Morris Barnes Wallis Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 4 May, hb, £25, 9781474623421
General History This is the fascinating
untold story of one of Britain’s greatest engineers and inventors, Barnes Wallis, the man behind the bouncing bomb of Dambusters fame.
Amelia Dalton Pages from My Passport Sandstone Press, 4 May, hb, £14.99, 9781913207786
Biography & Memoirs
Amelia has landed her dream job, creating itineraries
for exclusive holidays in exotic places. For a woman travelling alone, however, it turns out to be a far riskier venture than she anticipated.
Kerri ni Dochartaigh Cacophony of Bone Canongate Books, 4 May, hb, £16.99, 9781838856281
Biography & Memoirs
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Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019, the author of
Elizabeth Bingham Kneelers Chatto & Windus, 4 May, hb, £20, 9781784743963
Religion An illustrated celebration of the
most widely practised—but often overlooked—folk art in England and Wales in the past 90 years: the design and craft of church kneelers. Featuring charming stories and
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Ben Jacob The Orchid Outlaw John Murray, 11 May, hb, £16.99, 9781399802260
Conservation & the Environment
The alluring story of one man’s
mission to track down and rescue rare orchids from destruction on the building sites of Britain.
Charlie Burrell, Isabella Tree The Book of Wilding Bloomsbury Publishing, 11 May, hb, £35, 9781526659293 This
Conservation & the Environment
handbook for how we
can all help restore nature has grown out of the authors’ mission to help rewild Britain, Europe and the rest of the world by sharing knowledge from their pioneering project in Sussex, as related in Wilding.
Maria Bradford Sweet Salone Quadrille, 11 May, hb, £30, 9781787137967
Food & Drink This first contemporary
food and travel book celebrating Sierra Leonean food contains the author’s recipes, inspired by her grandmother’s cooking, which seek to re-create the traditional meals of her childhood and introduce delicious Afro-fusion dishes and flavours.
enchanting designs from churches across the country.
Serhii Plokhy The Russo-Ukrainian War Allen Lane, 9 May, hb, £25, 9780241617359
General History From the acclaimed
Ukrainian-American historian comes an illuminating account of the war in Ukraine—its historical roots, its course, and its possible outcomes.
Lizzie Pickering When Grief Equals Love Unbound, 11 May, hb, £16.99, 9781800182271
Biography & Memoirs
When Pickering’s young son Harry died in
2000, she set out on a journey to understand how she could survive her grief and learn to live with it. Now she details the lessons she’s learned from her own experiences and those of others, who share their thoughts in this moving and tender book.
Rob Burley Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me? Mudlark, 11 May, hb, £16.99, 9780008542481
Current affairs
Framed across 12 key political interviews of the
past quarter of a century, from Thatcher to Johnson via Corbyn and Cameron, this is billed as a “deliciously irreverent and humorous” insider’s account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television.
Bob Gilbert The Missing Musk Sceptre, 11 May, hb, £20, 9781529355970
Natural History & Pets
Detective stories from the natural
world from the author of the Wainwright and Rathbones Folio Prize-longlisted Ghost Trees.
Simon Schama Return of the Tribes Simon & Schuster UK, 11 May, hb, £30, 9781471169892
General History This new book from
the award-winning historian and broadcaster takes an in-depth look at the history of pandemics, vaccines and the health of nations.
Jonathan Losos The Age of Cats William Collins, 11 May, hb, £20, 9780008339463
Natural History & Pets
Writing as both a scientist and
a cat lover, the author explores the secrets of the cat, past and present, using all the tools of modern technology, from GPS tracking to forensic archaeology.
Jonny Steinberg Winnie & Nelson William Collins, 11 May, hb, £25, 9780008353780
Biography & Memoirs
This “deeply researched, shattering”
account of Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela draws on unseen material to reveal the fractures and bonds at the heart of a volatile, groundbreaking political marriage.
Joshua Levine SAS
William Collins, 11 May, hb, £25, 9780008549954
War & Military History
This authorised history of the SAS contains
never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories that bring the history of this special force to life in vivid colour and “astonishing” detail.
Joanna Cannon (editor) Will You Read This, Please? Te Borough Press, 11 May, hb, £14.99, 9780008519971
Biography & Memoirs
Twelve stories by bestselling authors, based
on their experiences of mental health service users in the UK. Contributing authors include Jenn Ashworth, Tracy Chevalier, Ben Johncock, Rhik Samadder and Hafsa Zayyan.
Ruby Wax I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was Penguin Life, 11 May, hb, £18.99, 9780241554890
Mind, Body & Spirit
Billed as Wax’s most honest and raw book to date,
it provides an insight into the depths of her psyche, and a stark exploration of what trauma can do to someone. Reflecting on years of personal and professional experience, she opens up to readers about her struggles with mental health and experience of different treatments over the years.
Lotte Jeffs, Stu Oakley The Queer Parent Bluebird, 11 May, hb, £16.99, 9781035001828
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Find all the information you need—
and more—to become a parent with this “groundbreaking and comprehensive” guide for the LGBTQ+ community from the hosts of the award-winning podcast “Some Families”.
Marion Gibson Witchcraft Simon & Schuster UK, 11 May, hb, £16.99, 9781398508507
General History This uses 13 significant
trials to explore the history of witchcraft and witch hunts. As well as investigating some of the most famous trials from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, it tells the stories of the victims —women whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men who hounded them.
Peter Ross Steeple Chasing Headline Book Publishing, 11 May, hb, £22, 9781472281920
Religion In this celebration of the weird and
wonderful churches of Britain, Ross visits the unassuming Norfolk church that contains a disturbing secret, London’s mighty cathedrals with their histories of fire and love, and
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