SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
guide to modern dating from TikTok’s big sister Tinx.
Della O’Sullivan Fight Like a Girl HarperCollins, 25 May, hb, £8.99, 9780008546793
Biography & Memoirs
This “practical and empowering” guide by a
martial arts and self-defence expert aims to arm you with the knowledge and confidence needed to keep yourself safe, and provides tips and tricks on how to fight to protect our bodies.
Harriet Gibsone Is This OK? Picador, 25 May, hb, £16.99, 9781035000999
Biography & Memoirs
An “honest and outrageously funny” account
of growing up as a millennial woman in the era of the early internet—from bad MSN boyfriends, to the tyranny of Instagram ‘mumfluencers’.
Alice Roberts Crypt Simon & Schuster UK, 25 May, hb, £25, 9781398519237
Archaeology In the final instalment
of her trilogy that includes Ancestors and Buried, Professor Roberts tells the story of modern Britain from 1066 to the present day by exploring changing methods of honouring the dead.
John Rapley, Peter Heather Why Empires Fall Allen Lane, 25 May, hb, £20, 9780241407493
General History Why did Rome fall—
and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate.
Patrick Barkham The Swimmer Hamish Hamilton, 25 May, hb, £20, 9780241471470
Biography & Memoirs
The definitive biography of Roger Deakin,
author of cult classic Waterlog, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours.
Noreen Masud A Flat Place Hamish Hamilton, 25 May, hb, £18.99, 9780241544051
Biography & Memoirs
Masud takes a journey through Britain’s flatlands
—landscapes that she has always loved—and finds herself reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes.
Theresa MacPhail Allergic Allen Lane, 25 May, hb, £20, 9780241638163
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Popular Science Medical anthropologist
MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of a bee sting, set out to understand why allergies have risen so sharply in recent years. The result is this holistic examination of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the mind-bending new treatments that are giving patients hope.
John Nichol Eject! Eject! Simon & Schuster UK, 25 May, hb, £20, 9781398509405
War & Military History
Nichol tells the astonishing story of an
invention that has saved many thousands of lives around the world, including his own: the ejection seat.
Richard Williams 24 Hours Simon & Schuster UK, 25 May, hb, £20, 9781398517226
Sports & Gaming
From the Bentley Boys of the 1920s to modern stars
such as Allan McNish, Williams tells the story of the iconic race, 24 Hours of Le Mans, which celebrates its centenary in 2023.
Mick Wall
Dark Desert Highway Trapeze, 25 May, hb, £22, 9781409190691
Biography & Memoirs
The definitive story of “the American
Beatles”, The Eagles—a band that has sold more records than Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones combined. Wall explores their meteoric rise to fame, and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA.
Katie Spalding The Limits of Genius Wildfire, 25 May, hb, £16.99, 9781472294067
Popular Science From Nikola Tesla falling
in love with a pigeon to non-swimmer Albert Einstein’s near-fatal love of sailing holidays, this is billed as a hilarious look at how the line between “genius” and “extremely lucky idiot” is finer than we’d like to admit.
Nicholas Clee Courses for Horses Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 25 May, hb, £22, 9781474618427
Sports & Gaming
By The Bookseller’s former editor, a “humorous and
informative” journey through Britain and Ireland’s racecourses.
M John Harrison Wish I Was Here Serpent’s Tail, 25 May, hb, £14.99, 9781800812970
Biography & Memoirs
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
In his first memoir, an “anti-memoir”, written in his
mid-seventies with “aphoristic daring and trademark originality”, the fiction writer sets out the perils of the writing life with “joyful provocation”.
Charlotte Shane Prostitute Laundry Serpent’s Tail, 25 May, hb, £14.99, 9781800815834
Biography & Memoirs
Billed as a “taboo-breaking and radically
honest” account of love, friendship and sex work.
June
Henry Cole Riding Route 66 Quercus, 1 June, hb, £20, 9781529406702
Biography & Memoirs
TV presenter Cole rides Route 66 for a major new
television series and to “manage his mid-life crisis”.
Chris Broad Abroad in Japan Bantam Press, 1 June, hb, £16.99, 9781787637078
Travel Writing
“Hilarious and insightful” memoir of a Brit assimilating
into life in Japan, unravelling the wonders of one of the world’s most mysterious cultures.
Hannah Stowe Move Like Water Granta Books, 1 June, hb, £16.99, 9781783788590
Natural History & Pets
From a young marine biologist,
sailor and artist, a “beguiling and beautiful” book about our human relationship with the sea and the creatures that inhabit it.
Mark Cocker One Midsummer’s Day Jonathan Cape, 1 June, hb, £18.99, 9781787332799
Natural History & Pets
Drawing on a lifetime’s close observation,
acclaimed nature writer Cocker explores swifts, the natural world and our place in it, in a book billed as his most ambitious and wide-ranging to date.
Polly Toynbee An Uneasy Inheritance Atlantic Books, 1 June, hb, £18.99, 9781838958350
Biography & Memoirs
Through a colourful, entertaining
examination of her own left- wing family, Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.
Octavia Bright This Ragged Grace Canongate Books, 1 June, hb, £16.99, 9781838857462
Biography & Memoirs
“I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn’t
make it stop.” Memoir of the author’s journey through recovery from alcohol addiction, alongside the parallel story of her father’s descent into Alzheimer’s.
Susan Sontag On Women
Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor Defiant Dreams Doubleday, 1 June, hb, £16.99, 9780857528803
Biography & Memoirs
An extraordinary memoir of a young woman from
Afghanistan and her struggle to rise above the circumstances into which she was born and get herself an education. She eventually studies quantum computing in the US. “The story of an Afghan girl who dared to ask for more.”
Helen Czerski Blue Machine Torva, 1 June, hb, £20, 9781911709107
Popular Science In a book that will
“recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet”, physicist Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it.
Hamish Hamilton, 1 June, hb, £14.99, 9780241597118
Current affairs
This “brilliant” new collection on the oppression of women
and the tools necessary for liberation contains essays written by Sontag during the 1970s and the height of second- wave feminism. They have hitherto never been published in the UK.
Lucy Jones Matrescence Allen Lane, 1 June, hb, £25, 9780241513484
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
The author of Losing Eden returns
with an urgent new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body.
David Omand How to Survive a Crisis Viking, 1 June, hb, £20, 9780241561331
War & Military History
Professor Sir David Omand, formerly both
a director of GCHQ and the UK’s security and intelligence co-ordinator, demonstrates how to manage crises in myriad forms, using methodologies employed by the British intelligence agencies.
Fiona Maddocks Goodbye Russia Faber & Faber, 1 June, hb, £25, 9780571371136
Music The moving story of Rachmaninoff’s years
in exile and the composition of his last great masterpiece, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Lottie Jackson See Me Rolling Hutchinson Heinemann, 1 June, hb, £16.99, 9781529151091
Biography & Memoirs
In a “warm, thought-provoking and often
hilarious” memoir, Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the difficulties of going shopping on a mobility scooter, to the intense pleasure of finally swapping a hospital gown for a slinky dress.
Tim Burrows The Invention of Essex Profile Books, 1 June, hb, £17.99, 9781788166768
Social & Local History
It’s where the Peasants’ Revolt began and the
“Empire Windrush” docked— where Essex leads, the rest of us often follow. So says the author of this “deeply researched and engaging” study that aims to show that there is more to this fabled English county than meets the eye.
Eugenia Cheng Is Maths Real? Profile Books, 1 June, hb, £16.99, 9781788169523
Popular Science From imaginary
numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Cheng—mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia —reveals how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unlikely sources.
Michael Haag Larry
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