SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Welcome to a British university in the 2020s as seen by the anonymous author who works there.
Tobias Buck Final Verdict Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 7 March, hb, £22, 9781399604253
General History “Soon the greatest crime
in human history will be left, finally, to the historians alone.” The managing editor of the FT with an absorbing account of one of the last trials of a Nazi war criminal—that of Bruno Dey in Hamburg, for the murder of more than 500 inmates at Stutthof, a Nazi concentration camp in Poland when he was only 17 years old and a member of an SS unit.
Jessica Hepburn Save me from the Waves Aurum, 7 March, hb, £17.99, 9780711291300
Biography & Memoirs
In her 40s Hepburn became an endurance
athlete and is now the first and only woman to have completed the Sea (swimming the English Channel), Street (running the London Marathon) and Summit (climbing Chomolungma/Mount Everest) Challenge. This adventurous memoir charts this latter climb while listening to every episode of Desert Island Discs along the way.
Steven Mithen The Language Puzzle Profile Books, 7 March, hb, £25, 9781800811584
General History Drawing on recent
archaeological discoveries, this “groundbreaking” new account of prehistory explores how the invention of words 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors, to today when there are 6000 languages in the world, and each of us knows around 50,00 words.
into one of the 20th century’s great artists,” says Katy Hessel.
Peter Pomerantsev How to Win an Information War Faber & Faber, 7 March, hb, £20, 9780571366347
General History The leading expert on
disinformation and author of the brilliant Nothing is True and Everything is Possible tells the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten Second World War propagandist Sefton Delmer, and what we can learn from him today.
Jason Okundaye Revolutionary Acts Faber & Faber, 7 March, hb, £20, 9780571372218
Social & Local History
At 26, Okundaye is being hailed as a major
new voice in non-fiction. His first book is indeed a striking début: a work of oral history in which he documents an elder generation of Black British gay men who created meaning within a society often indifferent or hostile to their existence. Okundaye relays their stories with both verve and sensitivity.
Kazuo Ishiguro The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain Faber & Faber, 7 March, hb, £17.99, 9780571378876
Music This distinctive book available in physical
form only contains the 16 song lyrics written by Nobel Prize -winning author Ishiguro for the Grammy-nominated US jazz singer Stacey King, and subsequently set to music by her partner, Jim Tomlinson. Illustrated by acclaimed Italian artist Bagnarelli, each copy will contain a QR code for recordings of all the songs.
Tracy King Learning to Think. Doubleday, 7 March, hb, £16.99, 9780857527431
Biography & Memoirs
King grew up on a Birmingham council estate, in a
Eileen Agar, Andrew Lambirth (intro), Olivia Fraser A Look at My Life Tames & Hudson, 7 March, hb, £35, 9780500026809
Biography & Memoirs
New edition of the long unavailable autobiography of
the pioneering surrealist artist, Eileen Agar: “A thrilling insight
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loving home. But her childhood was marked by her father’s alcoholism and her mother’s agoraphobia, and by the time she was 12, her father had been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother seduced by born-again Christianity. This lead 2024 non-fiction title is a timely, unforgettable account of how any family can find itself on a downward spiral in a broken system. But it’s also about curiosity and a love of learning as passports to safety and fulfilment.
Ranulph Fiennes Around the World in 80 Years Hodder & Stoughton, 7 March, hb, £25, 9781399729734
Travel Writing On the eve of his 80th
birthday, the world’s greatest The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Derek Gow Hunt for the Shadow Wolf Chelsea Green Publishing, 7 March, hb, £20, 9781645020424
Natural History & Pets
“I would like to tell you the story of the
wolves that were once and of what they might be again if we ever wrench free from the past.” The renowned conservationist and author of Bringing Back the Beaver sets out a new cherished dream: that one day we will see the return of the wolf to our shores. This is his alluring account of this magnificent but persecuted creature; from history and myths to current rewilding projects.
Joel Morris Be Funny or Die Unbound, 7 March, hb, £16.99, 9781800183100
Humour, Novelty & Gift
What are the rules? How does comedy do its magic and why does it matter?
Comedy writer Morris (co-creator of the Ladybird
Sophie Williams The Glass Cliff Macmillan Business, 7 March, hb, £20, 9781035038732
Business & Economics
“Once I had seen it, I saw it everywhere”. By
the author of Millennial Black and Anti-Racist Ally, a data-led examination of the Glass Cliff social phenomenon whereby
living explorer looks back on his adventurous life, both in his own words, and also in interviews and tributes from his friends, colleagues and admirers.
Books for Grown-Ups) takes a “hilarious” journey into the world of shared laughter where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work, and what comedy can teach us about ourselves.
Juno Carey A Necessary Kindness Atlantic Books, 7 March, hb, £16.99, 9781805460411
Biography & Memoirs
In 2015, Carey left her job as a midwife, and
Esther Rutter All Before Me Granta Books, 7 March, hb, £16.99, 9781783787951
Biography & Memoirs
Beguiling exploration of the emotional and
restorative power of the Lake District landscape and its poets. Rutter—the author of This Golden Fleece—parallels William and Dorothy Wordsworth’s creative homecoming with her own recovery in Lakeland after an acute mental breakdown while teaching in Japan.
began to work in abortion clinics. This “urgent and essential” book tells the stories of patients who seek abortion care, illuminating an issue that is often misunderstood and still surrounded in shame. “Stories we need to share, conversations we need to be having, and rights we need to protect.”
Liz Jensen Your Wild and Precious Life Canongate Books, 7 March, hb, £16.99, 9781838859992
Biography & Memoirs
Transformative account by acclaimed
novelist Jensen of the unexpected and poleaxing death of her climate activist and filmmaker son, Raphaël when he was 26. Set against the background of climate and ecological catastrophe it does not flinch from the wreckage of loss. But, Jensen writes, “resilience is a seed that we all bear inside us. It germinates in emergencies…And if we notice it, and tend to it, it blooms”.
Janey Godley Not Dead Yet Hodder & Stoughton, 7 March, hb, £20, 9781399728034
Biography & Memoirs
In which the award-winning Scottish comedian
looks back on her extraordinary life from pub landlady to comedy legend as she faces her recent diagnosis with terminal cancer.
women are often only hired into leadership roles when a business is already underperforming, thus undercutting their chances of success.
Catherine Nixey Heresy Picador, 7 March, hb, £25, 9781529040357
General History From the arrogant,
aggressive Christ who killed or crippled those who opposed him, to the Christ who had a twin brother and went to India, and the Christ who consorted with dragons, a fascinating- sounding group biography of the many, diverse Jesuses who thrived in early Christian traditions, and how they were killed off until just one “true” Christ survived.
Catherine Coldstream Cloistered Chatto & Windus, 7 March, hb, £20, 9781784745059
Biography & Memoirs
After losing her father at 24, the author’s grief and
subsequent search for meaning led her to Akenside Priory in Northumberland where she spent 12 years as a Carmelite nun. She at first found peace in ancient, holy rituals. But then power struggles in the community erupted. A memorable memoir about cutting yourself off from the world, an act that can be both nourishing and destructive.
Ramie Targoff Shakespeare’s Sisters riverrun, 12 March, hb, £25, 9781529404890
Biography & Memoirs
“Once we learn about these women and
read their books after centuries of neglect, it’s not only their names that we recover. Suddenly, we hear them speak.” Fascinating group biography of four remarkable women writers of the Renaissance—Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Carey and Anne Clifford—now rescued from obscurity by US English professor Targoff.
Susan Tomes Women and the Piano Yale University Press, 12 March, hb, £25, 9780300266573
Biography & Memoirs
Celebratory account of 50 ground-breaking
women piano players from throughout history and from across the world; from Maria Szymanowska to Nina Simone and including interviews with those performing today.
Tim Shipman Out HarperCollins, 14 March, hb, £25, 9780008308940
Current affairs
The final instalment of Shipman’s Brexit trilogy is said to be
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