CURRENT AFFAIRS
How children and young people engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to 20something, and how they can best be supported.
Undue Hate Daniel F Stone 9th May, pb, £26, 9780262047500 How to understand the mistakes we make about those on the other side of the political spectrum and how they drive the affective polarisation that is tearing us apart.
White Sight Nicholas Mirzoeff 28th February, hb, £27, 9780262047678 From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing and a strategy for dismantling them.
Waiting to Inhale Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Tahira Rehmatullah 11th April, hb, £26, 9780262047685 The roots of a racial reckoning through the lens of cannabis.
#you Know You’re Black in France When Trica Keaton 14th February, hb, £32, 9780262047784 Groundbreaking study about everyday anti- blackness and its refusal in an officially race-blind France.
Beyond Data Elizabeth M Renieris 7th February, hb, £25, 9780262047821 Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people and how an approach centred on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity in a cyberphysical world.
Green Card Soldier Sofya Aptekar 2nd May, hb, £27, 9780262047890 In-depth and troubling look at a little-known group of immigrants— non-citizen soldiers who enlist in the US military.
Italian Operaismo Gigi Roggero, Clara Pope 28th March, pb, £33, 9780262047920 Accessible introductory presentation of opera- ismo, one of the most important revolution- ary theories of the 20th century.
Worn Out Madison Van Oort
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7th March, pb, £26, 9780262544931 Immersive, firsthand account of retail worker surveillance and resistance in the digital age.
Espionage: A Concise History Kristie Macrakis 28th February, pb, £15.99, 9780262545020 The history and methods of espionage illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today’s high-tech world.
Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology Aaron Trammell 7th February, pb, £18.99, 9780262545273 Provocative study reconsiders our notion of play and how its deceptively wholesome image has harmed and erased people of colour.
The Parent Trap Nate G Hilger 4th April, pb, £17.99, 9780262545945 How parents have been set up to fail and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society.
Monoray
Very Bad People Patrick Alley 2nd February, pb, £9.99, 9781913183509 The untold story of how three friends formed Global Witness to fight organised worldwide criminality, kleptocracy and corruption.
Mudlark
We All Go into the Dark Francisco Garcia 27th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008531454 Electric probe into the story of serial killer Bible John.
Why is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me? Rob Burley 11th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008542481 Deliciously irreverent and humorous insider’s account of 25 years working at the top of British political television.
The Angel Makers Patti McCracken 13th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008579531 Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of wives conspiring in what would become history’s longest and most prolific murder spree.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
North Atlantic Books
Embodied Activism Rae Johnson 30th May, pb, £14.99, 9781623176990 Radically different approach to social and environmental justice work for readers of Adrienne Maree Brown and Bessel van der Kolk.
Healing Justice Lineages Cara Page 7th February, pb, £16.99, 9781623177140 A profound offering and a call to action— collective stories, testimonials and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, brown and queer healing justice lineages.
Old Street
The Shortest History of Democracy John Keane 4th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913083380 Myth-busting addition to the bestselling series from “one of the world’s leading political thinkers” (the Times). “A whirlwind tour of democracy through three acts”—the Age.
OR Books
Sabotage: The Inside Hit Job That Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn Alex Nunns 28th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781682192887 Impeccably researched and written with pace and wit, Nunns’ book delivers the definitive account of how, and by whom, Corbyn and his team were sabotaged.
Oxford University Press
Secession and State Creation Mikulas Fabry, James Ker-Lindsay 9th March, pb, £12.99, 9780190494049 Short guide to the timely topic of state creation and secession illuminates the legal, poltical and practical matters involved on a global scale.
The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit Lisa James, Meg Russell 9th March, hb, £25, 9780192849717 Answers those who want to understand the bitter arguments over Brexit.
Peace: A Very Short Introduction Oliver P Richmond
23rd February, pb, £8.99, 9780192857026 Updated theory intro- duces a new framework to understand the overall evolution of international peace architecture.
Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age Marlies Glasius 28th February, hb, £70, 9780192862655 Challenges the assump- tion that authoritarianism is a phenomenon located at the level of the state and that states as a whole are therefore either demo- cratic or authoritarian.
Beijing’s Global Media Offensive Joshua Kurlantzick 19th March, hb, £22.99, 9780197515761 Major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world.
Democracy Amid Crises Daniel Romer, Kate Kenski, Ken Winnipeg, Bruce Hardy, Yotam Ophir et al 16th February, hb, £64, 9780197644690 Unmatched in its analyti- cal rigour, Democracy Amid Crises will be the authoritative account of the unprecedented 2016 US election and its tumul- tuous aftermath.
The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order Rush Doshi 1st May, pb, £18.99, 9780197645482 Outlines a comprehensive US response to China’s ambitions for regional hegemony and global influence.
Our Own Worst Enemy Tom Nichols 1st May, pb, £12.99, 9780197645505 Contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.
The Principle of Political Hope Loren Goldman 23rd February, hb, £54, 9780197675823 Refreshing and lucid, Goldman reconstructs hope as a necessary precondition for social and political engage- ment, reinvigorating the possibility of utopia in the process.
The Myth of Left and Right Verlan Lewis,
Hyrum Lewis 28th February, pb, £18.99, 9780197680629 The assumption that the left-right divide is philosophical leads Ameri- cans to absolutism and extremism.
Pan
The Fall of Boris Johnson Sebastian Payne 1st June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035016563 Inside story of his last days in power.
The Pyramid of Lies Duncan Mavin 13th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529088922 Unpicks the dramatic fall from grace of one of the superstars of global fintech, Lex Greensill.
Parthian Books
Women, Devolution and Wales
Emma Schofield (ed) 5th June, pb, eb, £10, 9781914595479 Collection brings together the voices of leading female writers, artists, commentators and academics, reflecting on how devolution has affected them and altered political and social landscapes.
Penguin Caste
Isabel Wilkerson 14th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780141995465 From one of America’s most celebrated writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about power, history and what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives.
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics Matthew Goodwin 30th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780141999098 What happens to a democracy when voters just will not do as they are told?
Illegitimate Authority Noam Chomsky, CJ Polychroniou 11th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241629949 In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chom- sky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultu- ous time, examining the rapidly deteriorating qual- ity of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally.
Why We Fight Christopher Blattman 6th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780241989258
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop them.
Penguin Classics SERIES
Penguin Modern Classics pb, eb, 9780241
Penguin Modern Classics have been shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961. The History of Sexuality 4 Robert Hurley (tr), Michel Foucault 20th July, £12.99, vol 5 389614 The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing Hannah Dawson 2nd March, £14.99, vol 6 633977
Penguin (Transworld)
BFF?: The Truth About Female Friendship Claire Cohen 20th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529176032 Glorious celebration and interrogation of friendship packed with insights from Emma Barnett, Pandora Sykes, Jane Garvey and Jilly Cooper among others.
The Quiet Before Gal Beckerman 9th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529177404 Why do some promising ideas take root and others never bear fruit? In this dazzling, big-ideas book, Beckerman shows how history is made.
Future Stories David Christian 15th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804990759 Author of Origin Story tells you everything you need to know about the future in this interdisciplin- ary book, which takes in history, philosophy, theol- ogy, physics, biology and, of course, futurology.
Killer in the Kremlin John Sweeney 16th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804991206 Explosive account of Vladimir Putin’s tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar and exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.
Pen & Sword History
Queen Victoria’s Daughters-in-law John Van der Kiste 28th February, hb, £25, 9781399001458 Recounts the lives of the
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