SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Profile Books, 1 June, hb, £30, 9781788169790
Biography & Memoirs
This “definitive” new biography of Lawrence Durrell
by leading Durrells expert Haag, who died in 2020, covers his time in London and Paris, Corfu and Alexandria.
Florian Illies, Simon Pare Love in a Time of Hate Profile Books, 1 June, hb, £20, 9781800811140
General History Taking in the likes of Sartre,
de Beauvoir and Nabokov, this charts the love lives of famous Europeans, as the Second World War approaches.
Lewis Dartnell Being Human Bodley Head, 1 June, hb, £20, 9781847926708
General History How have our biological
abilities and flaws shaped our past? This reveals how our fundamental physical nature has expressed itself in shaping our cultures, societies and the whole course of our story.
Thomas Curran The Perfection Trap Cornerstone Press, 1 June, hb, £22, 9781847943842
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
When did “good enough”
become the same as “perfect”? This explores what’s really driving the rise in perfectionism, and its impact on how we learn, work, parent and relate to ourselves and each other.
Elliot Page Pageboy Doubleday, 6 June, hb, £20, 9780857529282
Biography & Memoirs
“Groundbreaking” coming-of-age memoir from the
Academy Award-nominated actor Page charting what it means to untangle ourselves from the expectations of others and step into who we truly are with defiance, strength and joy.
Kate Bailey (ed) Diva
V&A Publishing, 8 June, hb, £30, 9781838510350
Music Delving into public and private personas of
artists ranging from Sarah Bernhardt to Nina Simone and Rihanna, this book examines how “diva-dom” has been embraced, rejected and subverted over time. It accompanies a major V&A exhibition.
award-winning food writer Finney presents a passionate, heartfelt exploration of the intertwining influences of food and love throughout her life.
Justine Pattison Ping! HQ, 8 June, hb, £20, 9780008580162
Food & Drink This accessible cookbook
showcases recipes cooked in the microwave oven, and ready in under 20 minutes.
Chetna Makan Chetna’s Indian Feasts Hamlyn, 8 June, hb, £26, 9780600637677
Food & Drink New recipes from the “Great British
Bake Off” finalist and Indian home cooking doyenne.
Faiza Shaheen Know Your Place Simon & Schuster UK, 8 June, hb, £16.99, 9781398505377
Current affairs
Part memoir, part polemic, this is a personal and
statistical look at how society is built, the people it leaves behind, and what we can do about it.
approval and involvement of his estate, draws on copious original research, new interviews, and personal archive material unavailable to previous biographers.
David Scheel Many Things Under a Rock Hodder & Stoughton, 8 June, hb, £25, 9781529392609
Natural History & Pets
A marine behavioural ecologist’s
“riveting” account of his decades-long obsession with the octopus, his discoveries and adventures, and new scientific understandings of their behaviour.
Alexander Christie-Miller To the City William Collins, 8 June, hb, £25, 9780008416041
General History In this “extraordinary
literary début”, Christie-Miller traces the history of Istanbul by walking along its crumbling defensive walls and talking to those he passes.
Daniel Finkelstein Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad William Collins, 8 June, hb, £25, 9780008483845
General History Political columnist and
commentator Finkelstein gives us a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.
Rebecca Smith Rural William Collins, 8 June, hb, £18.99, 9780008526276
General History Starting with Smith’s own
family history—foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal—an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it.
Ken Smith The Way of the Hermit Macmillan, 8 June, hb, £14.99, 9781035009817
Biography & Memoirs
Having spent the past four decades living alone in the
Scottish Highlands with no electricity or running water, 74-year-old Smith recounts a life he has chosen to spend in the wilderness.
Clare Finney Hungry Heart Aurum Press, 6 June, hb, £16.99, 9780711266766
Biography & Memoirs
Beginning with a childhood spent in her grandmother’s
hotel kitchen and ending at her grandfather’s bedside,
Nathan Gray Hazard Spectrum Headline Book Publishing, 8 June, hb, £22, 9781035402519
Richard Morton Jack Nick Drake John Murray, 8 June, hb, £25, 9781529308082
Biography & Memoirs
This, the only life of Drake to be written with the
Biography & Memoirs
Commander Nathan Gray is currently the UK’s
top test pilot. This is the story of his service flying in some of the world’s harshest combat zones, flying the deadliest planes technology has thus far created
and coming out the other end in one piece.
Harry Pearson No Pie, No Priest Simon & Schuster UK, 8 June, hb, £16.99, 9781471198304
Sports & Gaming
Pearson takes a “warm and witty” journey around
Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out how and why they have survived, and to meet the characters who keep them going.
Rosie Harte The Royal Wardrobe Headline Book Publishing, 8 June, hb, £22, 9781472297464
General History As seen on TikTok, the
horrible and colourful history of royal clothes, from the Tudors to the Victorians right through to the 21st century.
Tim Blackburn The Jewel Box Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 8 June, hb, £20, 9781474624527
Natural History & Pets
An ecologist and biology professor uses
his moth trap to demonstrate how the contents of one small box can illuminate the workings of all nature.
Chris Bryant James and John Bloomsbury Publishing, 8 June, hb, £25, 9781526644978
Social & Local History
From historian and MP Bryant, this book tells
the story of what it meant to be gay in early 19th-century Britain through the lens of a landmark trial.
Darrin Bell The Talk Jonathan Cape, 8 June, hb, £25, 9781787334526
Biography & Memoirs
A graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
Editorial Cartooning on “the talk” parents must have with Black children about racism.
Alastair Campbell But What Can I Do? Hutchinson Heinemann, 15 June, hb, £22, 9781529153330
Current affairs
In a blend of polemic, analysis and practical advice, Campbell’s
aim in his new book is to explain why things have gone so wrong politically, and show what we can do to help put them right.
Greg Marshall Leg Trapeze, 15 June, hb, £18.99, 9781398716346
Biography & Memoirs
Said to be a “hilarious and poignant” memoir
about grappling with family, disability, and coming of age
in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy.
Mir Rahimi The Boy in the Boat Trapeze, 15 June, hb, £20, 9781409199328
Biography & Memoirs
The extraordinary true story of one boy’s journey
from fleeing the Taliban to arriving in Britain underneath a lorry, and the inspiring story of what came next.
Ben Judah This is Europe Picador, 15 June, hb, £18.99, 9781447276265
Travel Writing
Drawn from hours of painstaking interviews, this
portrait of Europe through 20 individual stories reveals a frenetic and vibrant continent, transformed by diversity, migration, the internet, climate change, Covid, war and the quest for freedom.
Sung-Yoon Lee The Sister Macmillan, 15 June, hb, £20, 9781529073539
Biography & Memoirs
This first book on Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister,
tipped to be his successor, provides a “jaw-dropping” insight into a secretive and murderous dynasty.
Oliver Franklin-Wallis Wasteland Simon & Schuster UK, 22 June, hb, £20, 9781398505452
Current affairs
From the features editor at GQ and former contributing
editor at Wired, this is billed as a timely and fascinating exploration of the hidden global crisis with waste management.
John Vidal Fevered Planet Bloomsbury Publishing, 22 June, hb, £20, 9781526632272
Conservation & the Environment
This “timely and urgent” investigation
from the former long-time environment editor of the Guardian investigates how the human destruction of nature is releasing catastrophic diseases into our societies.
Anonymous The Secret Agent Headline Book Publishing, 22 June, hb, £22, 9781035403028
Biography & Memoirs
“A professional confessional like no other”, this
plunges us into the face-paced, high-stakes and glamorous world of London’s super-prime property business.
Professor David Nutt Psychedelics Yellow Kite, 22 June, hb, £18.99, 9781529360530
Popular Science Psychedelics are set to
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