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change the face of medicine, our treatment for mental health conditions such as depression, and our understanding of the human brain. Rooted in his team’s world-leading research in the brain imaging of psychedelics, Nutt aims to equip us with the information to make informed decisions about this medical revolution.
Samuel Kasumu The Power of the Outsider Hodder & Stoughton, 22 June, hb, £20, 9781529396911
Biography & Memoirs
Drawing on his own experiences as the most senior
Black adviser in Boris Johnson’s government, Kasumu shows how outsiders are more likely to be trailblazers and break barriers, have a greater sense of perspective and progress and that our differences can be a force for good—in both politics and beyond.
Kimberly McIntosh Black Girl, No Magic Te Borough Press, 22 June, hb, £14.99, 9780008477042
Biography & Memoirs
Personal essays about what it means to be a
fallible and flawed Black woman today: exploring race, class, sex, dating and friendship.
James Kinross Good Sh*t Penguin Life, 22 June, hb, £20, 9780241543979
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
With “dazzling” science and
stories spanning from the dawn of humankind to the current race to develop personalised healthcare; and practical advice on how to nurture your microbiome through your diet and lifestyle, this “pioneering” book aims to change the way you think about health forever.
Onyekachi Wambu Empire Windrush Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 22 June, hb, £25, 9781399601917
Literature & Criticism
An inspiring anthology of some of the best
Black British writing centred around the experiences of the “Windrush” generation, published for the 75th anniversary of the ship’s arrival. Featuring an introduction by Margaret Busby, its contributors include Bernardine Evaristo, Mike Philips and Dan Hicks.
Tim Smedley The Last Drop Picador, 29 June, hb, £20, 9781529058147
Conservation & the Environment
Award- winning environ-
mental journalist Smedley meets experts, victims, activists and pioneers to find out how we can mend the water table that our survival depends on, and offers
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practical ways to address the crisis, before it’s too late.
Tara Isabella Burton Self-Made Sceptre, 29 June, hb, £22, 9781529364699
General History From the Renaissance
genius to the Regency dandy and Silicon Valley, a “dizzying” tour of modern history’s most prominent self-makers.
Klaus-Michael Bogdal, Jefferson Chase (trans) Europe and the Roma Allen Lane, 29 June, hb, £35, 9780241519028
General History A cultural history of
Europe’s response to the Roma, whose culture, despite persecution, nonetheless spread out across the continent and became an important, perhaps indispensable, element in the European imagination.
Viv Groskop Happy High Status Torva, 29 June, hb, £16.99, 9781911709275
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Using the latest research,
analysis and observations, Groskop shows us how to channel our authentic confidence effortlessly, to give ourselves strength and energy, and move through life with ease.
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Arunima Datta Waiting Oxford University Press, 1 July, hb, £35, 9780192848239
Academic History
This history focuses on a largely forgotten group
in the story of movement and migration: South-Asian ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia.
Imad Al Arnab Imad’s Syrian Kitchen HQ, 6 July, hb, £22, 9780008532376
Food & Drink A collection of 120 recipes
celebrating the flavours of Syria make up this first cookbook from Al Arnab, a renowned chef from Damascus who now runs an acclaimed restaurant in London, named GQ’s Best Breakthrough Restaurant 2022.
Phil Whitaker What is a Doctor? Canongate Books, 6 July, hb, £16.99, 9781838857974
Biography & Memoirs
A damning portrait of political interference in
medical treatment and the shift away from patient-centred care, as told through the stories from the GP author’s 30-year career.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Ayishat Akanbi The Awokening Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6 July, hb, £16.99, 9781474614948
Current affairs
This timely critique of “wokeness” encourages an
appeal to humanism, and provides an inspiring reminder of the power of curiosity and the benefits of intellectual humility.
Marisa Bate Wild Hope HQ, 6 July, hb, £16.99, 9780008392413
Biography & Memoirs
The author takes a journey through women’s rights
of the past 40 years via her mother’s story, retracing her visit to what looked like a progressive America for women in 1976.
Sally Bayley The Green Lady William Collins, 6 July, hb, £16.99, 9780008414221
Biography & Memoirs
The brilliant author of Girl With Dove returns
with a poignant exploration of relationships between children and their teachers, and of the need for space and literature in order to grow.
The Reluctant Carer The Reluctant Carer Picador, 6 July, pb, £9.99, 9781529029390
Biography & Memoirs
“Irresistibly funny, unflinching and deeply moving”,
a true story of what it really means to be a carer, and of the ties that “bind even tighter when you least expect it”.
Emmett de Monterey Go the Way Your Blood Beats Viking, 6 July, hb, £18.99, 9780241570531
Biography & Memoirs
This sounds like an extraordinary and powerful
memoir about a man born with cerebral palsy and the strange, heart-breaking experience of becoming a charity poster boy.
Luke Edward Hall, Seán Hewitt Three Hundred Thousand Kisses Particular Books, 6 July, hb, £25, 9780241575734
General History In this illustrated
anthology, award-winning poet Hewitt and renowned designer Hall collect queer Greek and Roman love stories, and bring them to life.
Tracy King Learning to Think. Doubleday, 6 July, hb, £16.99, 9780857527431
Biography & Memoirs
From writer and science communicator
King, a startling memoir about poverty and superstition and how her very human need for answers opened the door to a world of critical and scientific
Lauren Elkin Art Monsters Chatto & Windus, 6 July, hb, £25, 9781784742935
Art & Antiques Billed as a landmark
feminist intervention, this is cultural critic Elkin’s reassessment of women’s stories, bodies and art—and how we think about them.
Kenny Imafidon That Peckham Boy Torva, 13 July, hb, £16.99, 9781911709190
Biography & Memoirs
Now a social entrepreneur, political
commentator and activist, Imafidon found himself in prison at age 18. This is his manifesto about creating positive change for people on the fringes of society.
Robin Lane Fox Homer and His Iliad Allen Lane, 13 July, hb, £25, 9780241524510
General History Drawing on a lifelong love
of Homer’s Iliad, Lane Fox combines the detailed expertise of a historian with the sensitivity of a teacher of the epic as poetry in this reassessment.
James Ball The Other Pandemic
thinking that ultimately taught her to think for herself.
Tori Tsui It’s Not Just You Gallery UK, 6 July, hb, £12.99, 9781398508729
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Billed as the first inter-
sectional book to explore the relationship between mental health and the climate crisis, it draws on the wisdom of diverse environmental advocates who have been on the frontlines long before eco-anxiety became an issue in the global north.
Alex Wheatle Sufferah MacLehose Press, 6 July, hb, £16.99, 9781529428421
Music In a “breathtaking” memoir, acclaimed
author Wheatle shows how music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse and his imprisonment as a young man following the Brixton uprising.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 13 July, hb, £20, 9781526642554
Sociology In a “gripping” investigation, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author decodes the cryptic language of the online right and tracks the spread of QAnon, “the world’s first digital pandemic”.
Rachel Wilson Losing You(ng) William Collins, 20 July, hb, £14.99, 9780008502324
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Grief does something particular
when it hits you young, causing a rewiring of the brain on the matters of life and death. That’s the premise of this moving exploration of loss from the founder of The Grief Network.
Annie Worsley Life at Red River Croft William Collins, 20 July, hb, £14.99, 9780008278373
Biography & Memoirs
A memoir about making a life in the rugged,
awe-inspiring Scottish Highlands.
Simon Price Curepedia White Rabbit, 27 July, hb, £30, 9781474619325
Music Billed as playful literary biography of The Cure
in the form of an A-Z of the band: “for trainspotters and casual fans alike”.
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