SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
many more. Along the way we meet cats and bats, monks and druids, and angels of oak and steel.
Joanna Biggs A Life of One’s Own Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 11 May, hb, £18.99, 9781474621229
Biography & Memoirs
This “piercing blend of memoir, criticism and
biography” examines how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the same.
first major life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in more than 40 years is based on extensive research, hundreds of interviews with those who knew him, and thousands of previously unreleased documents, including a huge cache from the FBI.
Frances Haugen Integrity Hodder & Stoughton, 16 May, hb, £25, 9781399708319
Computers & Te Internet
Whistleblower and former employee
Haugen’s exposé of the internal workings of Facebook, revealing the company’s struggles to regain control over its platform and stop the spread of misinformation.
Andrew Motion Sleeping on Islands Faber & Faber, 18 May, hb, £20, 9780571375295
Biography & Memoirs
By the former Poet Laureate, a “tender,
revelatory” memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry.
Leah Redmond Chang Young Queens Bloomsbury Circus, 11 May, hb, £25, 9781526613424
General History A “richly told” narrative
history of the intertwined lives of three 16th-century queens: Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine de Medici and Elisabeth de Valois.
Rudy Reyes Hero Living Quercus Publishing, 11 May, hb, £20, 9781529429497
Biography & Memoirs
Reyes, the latest recruit in Channel 4’s “SAS Who
Dares Wins” introduces his philosophy to life—part Homer, part Bruce Lee and part Spider-Man. He outlines various stages towards revealing your inner hero: recognising the hero’s call, following the hero’s path and returning from life’s battlefield with a hero’s hard- earned wisdom.
Tracy Borman Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I Hodder & Stoughton, 18 May, hb, £25, 9781399705080
General History One of the most
extraordinary mother and daughter stories of all time— Anne Boleyn and her daughter Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen”— told by the joint chief curator of the Royal Palaces.
Vaclav Smil Size Viking, 18 May, hb, £20, 9780241506998
Popular Science “The big ideas book of the
year” is Viking’s billing for this “mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth (and beyond)”, from microbes to economies and the expanding universe. Is bigger always better? Can something keep growing indefinitely, or become too big to fail? These are among the questions around this goliath subject that Smil tackles.
Devorah Baum On Marriage Hamish Hamilton, 18 May, hb, £18.99, 9780241618011
Sociology Drawing on philosophy, film,
fiction, comedy, psychoanalysis, music and poetry, Baum considers the marriage plot. What are we really talking about when we talk about marriage? And what are we really doing when we say, “I do”?
Jonathan Eig King Simon & Schuster UK, 16 May, hb, £25, 9781471181009
Biography & Memoirs
By the acclaimed US biographer whose subjects
include Muhammad Ali, this
John Lewis-Stempel La Vie Doubleday, 18 May, hb, £16.99, 9780857526458
Natural History & Pets
For many years a farmer in
Pharrell Williams, Larry Warsh (ed) Pharrell-isms Princeton University Press, 22 May, hb, £12.99, 9780691244990
Music An “essential, inspiring” collection of quotations
about creativity, social justice, and more from the musician, producer, artist, and designer Pharrell Williams.
Sunder Katwala How to be a Patriot HarperNorth, 25 May, hb, £20, 9780008553869
Current affairs
Taking in race, nationhood and belonging, this argues
that love of country can end our very British culture war.
Tim Rich On Days Like These Quercus, 25 May, hb, £20, 9781529428551
Biography & Memoirs
Joe Sealey was watching his son play for
Manchester United’s under-14s when a man came up to him and said: “I’ve got your dad’s book.” His father, Les, had been United’s goalkeeper but had died of a heart attack in 2001 at
Damien Lewis SAS Great Escapes 2 Quercus, 25 May, hb, £22, 9781529429381
War & Military History
Seven more epic escapes made by
Second World War heroes.
Jason Fox Direct Action Bantam Press, 25 May, hb, £20, 9781787636729
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Challenge your limits, embrace
change and reboot your life with this “revolutionary” programme of personal challenges and exercises, from the star of “SAS Who Dares Wins”.
Justin Lewis 365 Elliott & Tompson, 25 May, hb, £14.99, 9781783967162
Music Featuring notable events, surprising
nuggets and entertaining coincidences from music history, a “wry and constantly surprising” companion, charting your year alongside popular music facts and trivia.
Claire Dederer Monsters
England, Lewis-Stempel yearned to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey- coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis- Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers. This charts their first year in Charente.
Lady Antonia Fraser Lady Caroline Lamb Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 18 May, hb, £25, 9781474624824
General History From the renowned
historian, an account of the vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose love affair with the poet Lord Byron scandalised British society. Fraser shows why she was “a free spirit” who was far more than mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Laura Freeman Ways of Life Jonathan Cape, 18 May, hb, £30, 9781787331907
Biography & Memoirs
Exploring a
thrilling moment in the history of
modernism, the first group biography of the Kettle’s Yard artists, told through the life of its visionary founder Jim Ede.
Arianne Shahvisi Arguing for a Better World John Murray, 25 May, hb, £20, 9781529390575
Philosophy Drawing on the author’s work
as a philosopher, this “antidote to division” aims to arm you with the ability to build good arguments and find a path through conflict and confusion.
Lorraine Candy What’s Wrong With Me? Fourth Estate, 25 May, hb, £16.99, 9780008530099 This
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
humorous book about
midlife is peppered with glitzy anecdotes from the author’s time as a fashion magazine editor and tempered with real-world advice from her own family.
Gavin Francis Sir Thomas Browne Oxford University Press, 25 May, hb, £18.99, 9780192858177
Literature & Criticism
Francis draws on his own experiences as a 21st-century
writer and doctor to highlight the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne.
Christina Najjar The Shift Bluebird, 25 May, hb, £16.99, 9781035004621
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Shift your mindset towards self-
worth with this empowering February 2023–July 2023 25
the age of 43. He had forgotten what his father’s voice sounded like. Now, here it was in the form of a Tupperware box full of cassette tapes.
Sceptre, 25 May, hb, £20, 9781399715034
Art & Antiques Billed as a “passionate,
provocative and blisteringly smart” interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, whether we can separate an artist’s work from their biography, and how we should respond to good art made by bad people.
Michael Scott X Marks the Spot Hodder & Stoughton, 25 May, hb, £25, 9781529367768
Archaeology This “thrilling and adventurous”
Ravinder Bhogal Comfort and Joy Bloomsbury Publishing, 25 May, hb, £26, 9781526655370
Food & Drink This fresh take on vegetarian
and vegan cooking is geared not towards health or denial but indulging all the senses with a decadent global larder and recipes “of great bounty”.
new history of discovery takes us on a global tour of the most fascinating archaeological finds of all time.
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