SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
privilege, extreme wealth and work culture”.
legal campaigns, test cases and individual injustices of the Victorian and Edwardian eras which fundamentally shaped the status of women under British law.
Jane Cholmeley A Bookshop of One’s Own Mudlark, 29 February, hb, £16.99, 9780008651046
Biography & Memoirs
Account of how three women, including
Alice Roberts Crypt Simon & Schuster Non-Fiction, 29 February, hb, £22, 9781398519237
Archaeology The final book in Roberts’
compelling trilogy about the remains of past days brings us face to face with individuals who lived and died between 10 and five centuries ago, and focuses on pathology, disease and injury, and the experience of human suffering.
Cholmeley established Silver Moon Women’s Bookshop in the 1980s. Written with “heart and humour” it reveals the struggles and joys that come with starting an underdog business, while celebrating “the power women have to change the narrative when they are the ones holding the pen”.
Overturning the idea that Western “civilisation” came purely from Greece and Rome, she argues instead that it was the product of interactions with numerous different cultures over time, with such connections being the driver of historical change.
Dr Martha Deiros Collado How to Be the Grown-Up Bantam, 29 February, hb, £16.99, 9781787636880
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Billed as the Dr Julie Smith of
child psychology, Dr Martha has a growing following on Instagram for her easily digestible child psychology posts. Her first book is billed as a “revolutionary guide” to modern parenting, tackling a wealth of topics including how to talk about honesty and lies, to consent, gender attachment, boundaries and tantrums.
Reaktion Books, 1 March, hb, £20, 9781789148459
General History Surveying the lives
and faith of important figures, including Julian of Norwich and William Blake, a “magisterial” portrayal by Ackroyd of English Christianity over the last 1,400 years.
RuPaul
The House of Hidden Meanings Fourth Estate, 5 March, hb, £22, 9780008614942
Biography & Memoirs
From the international drag superstar and host
of “Drag Race”, a “brutally honest, surprisingly poignant and deeply intimate” memoir of growing up Black, poor and queer in San Diego, and then finding meaning in the power of performance, a new family, and self-acceptance. It is also a “manual for living”.
Najwa Zebian The Only Constant Yellow Kite, 5 March, hb, £20, 9781399720601
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
The author of Welcome Home,
Rick Stroud I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles Simon & Schuster Non-Fiction, 29 February, hb, £22, 9781398507067
General History Through six main
Sarah Gristwood Secret Voices Batsford, 29 February, hb, £25, 9781849948159
Biography & Memoirs
Organised day-by- day through the calendar year, an
engaging anthology of extracts from women’s diaries spanning four centuries; from Lady Anne Clifford to Anne Frank, and from Queen Victoria to Alice Walker.
Nicola Tallis Young Elizabeth Michael O’Mara Books, 29 February, hb, £25, 9781789295191
Biography & Memoirs
Drawing on primary sources from both the
Queen herself and those closest to her, this is billed as the first fully comprehensive biography of the early life of Queen Elizabeth I in over 20 years.
Kate Morgan The Walnut Tree Mudlark, 29 February, hb, £20, 9780008559571
Law “A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more
they are beaten, the better they’ll be.”. Taking this proverb quoted by a prominent MP in 1853 as its starting point, this “devastating” work of legal history explores the
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Josephine Quinn How the World Made the West Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 February, hb, £30, 9781526605184
General History This epic work of history by
an Oxford professor of Ancient History calls for a major reassessment of what we understand by the West and the concepts that define it.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction March
Peter Ackroyd The English Soul
characters including British nurse Edith Cavell and Belgian national hero, Gabrielle Petit, Stroud tells the story of women of resistance in Belgium and occupied France during the First World War. “A devastating story, beautifully told which will introduce you to an entirely new version of the war.”
Lebanese-Canadian poet and activist Zebian has a large online following including 1.3 million on Instagram. This is her “profound” guide to celebrating impermanence, and times of change, through which she says, we can step into the world as our most authentic selves.
Susannah Gibson Bluestockings John Murray, 29 February, hb, £20, 9781529369991
Biography & Memoirs
I much enjoyed this illuminating group biography of the
original Bluestocking women who blazed an intellectual trail through 18th- century Britain. We meet women such as Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale, Anne Yearsley and Catherine Macauley who dared to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzle female brains and damaged their wombs.
Judith Flanders Rites of Passage Picador, 29 February, hb, £25, 9781509816972
General History From the sickbed to the
deathbed, the historian author of The Victorian City et al deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain. An “at times chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death, poverty, disease and unprecedented chaos”.
audit to helps us take stock of the visual messages we are absorbing from our environment, and disengage from the ones that negatively impact mood and ability to focus.
Eric Klinenberg 2020 Bodley Head, 7 March, hb, £22, 9781847926937
Current affairs
Drawing on original research across multiple countries
and continents, this is billed as a landmark comparison of how the pandemic unfolded in different nations, and why some did so much better than others. “Turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation.”
Gyles Brandreth (intro), Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs Notting Hill Editions, 7 March, hb, £12.99, 9781912559596
Humour, Novelty & Gift
This gift book, perfect for insomniacs, contains a splendid variety of
entertainments to help pass “the wakeful hours”, keeping you occupied as you seek the elusive rabbit-hole of sleep.
Kyo Maclear Unearthing ONE, 7 March, hb, £18.99, 9781911590958
Biography & Memoirs
Marianna Spring Among the Trolls Atlantic Books, 7 March, hb, £17.99, 9781838955236
Current affairs
Award-winning journalist Spring is the BBC’s disinformation
and social media correspondent. This is her “urgent and gripping” investigation into online trolling, disinformation and conspiracy theories; from the secret genocidal plot being run by Bill Gates, to the fact that the war in Ukraine isn’t real.
Marine Tanguy The Visual Detox Square Peg, 7 March, hb, £18.99, 9781529912647
Current affairs
“You are what you see.” This visual detox guide by a US writer
on contemporary art explores how what we see affects our minds. She suggests a visual
Three months after the death of the author’s
father, a DNA test showed that they were not biologically related. So she becomes a detective in her own life, desperately seeking answers from her ailing Japanese mother whose memories—and English —are fading. Featuring the author’s own black and white illustrations, it’s an alluring blend of grief, racial identity and memory.
Secret Lecturer The Secret Lecturer Canbury Press, 7 March, pb, £14.99, 9781914487217
Biography & Memoirs
Oddball students, falling academic standards,
lecherous colleagues, fortunes spent on corporate follies, an over-reliance on foreign fees and business donations, poor student welfare, and A+ explosion in cheating and more.
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