SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
the ultimate insider narrative to the last five years of government, revealing the strategies, gambles, mistakes, mindsets and scandals that have shaped and shaken Britain.
Edwards’ journey from losing her eyesight aged 17 to finding self- acceptance and happiness. Alongside Braille and large print formats, this will be the first ever book cover to include a NaviLens code which, when scanned with a smartphone camera, helps people with sight loss to navigate their environment and access information.
4 programme which profiles notable people who have recently died focuses on the remarkable and revealing lives of 80 inspiring women who made an impact on the world. They include Lt Islam Bibi, Helmand’s top female police officer, shot dead by the Taliban; Jo Cox MP; and Marie Colvin, the celebrated war reporter killed in Homs.
Mary McGlory, Sylvia Saunders The Liverbirds Faber & Faber, 14 March, hb, £20, 9780571377022
Music In the early 1960s, four friends from Liverpool
Grace Blakeley Vulture Capitalism Bloomsbury Publishing, 14 March, hb, £20, 9781526638076
Current affairs
Blakeley is a rising star progressive commentator,
regularly heard on BBC News, ITV and BBC Radio 4’s “Today” programme. Full of explosive examples and eye-opening original research, Bloomsbury’s lead non-fiction for the spring is her trenchant look at how our modern crises are the result of the capitalist system we have built and, in particular, the runaway power of the world’s biggest corporations. “It’s not a broken system; it’s working exactly as planned. It can’t be fixed, instead it must be replaced,” concludes Blakeley.
Anna Jones Easy Wins Fourth Estate, 14 March, hb, £28, 9780008526658
Food & Drink Following on from One Pot,
Pan, Planet, this new cookbook from the renowned cook and food writer features 132 recipes in which she aims to bring a variety of bold new tastes into vegetarian cooking, with each chapter celebrating a different hero ingredient, including lemons, tomatoes, capers, miso and more.
Gennaro Contaldo Gennaro’s Verdure Pavilion, 14 March, hb, £26, 9780008603731
Food & Drink In which the renowned
Italian chef transforms humble vegetables—Green, Red, Sunshine and Purple—from side dish material into the hero of the plate, using punchy flavours from staple ingredients, Italian-style.
Lucy Edwards Blind Not Broken Hamlyn, 14 March, hb, £20, 9780600637653
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Part memoir and part self- help guide,
this follows disability activist and TikToker (1.8 million followers)
Jenny Kleeman The Price of Life Picador, 14 March, hb, £16.99, 9781035004966
Current affairs
The author of Sex, Robots and Vegan Meat returns with a
trenchant interrogation of how much human life is worth. Philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and more weigh in on the issue as Kleeman considers 12 case studies and a vast price range; from £15,180, to hire a hitman; to most pitifully of all, as little as $400 to buy a slave.
Charles Spencer A Very Private School William Collins, 14 March, hb, £25, 9780008666088
Biography & Memoirs
In which the earl and author offers a clear-eyed
account of the culture of cruelty at the boarding school he attended in his youth, providing insights into the antiquated boarding school system. Drawing on the memories of his contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley The Lasting Harm Fourth Estate, 14 March, hb, £22, 9780008591182
Biography & Memoirs
Behind-the-scenes account of the Ghislaine Maxwell
trial from one of only four journalists allowed into the courtroom every day. Centring the stories of four women and their testimonies, and herself a victim of abuse, she aims to bring their experiences to life and offer a new blueprint for meaningful reparative justice.
Celia Hayley Last Word’s Uncommon Women Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 14 March, hb, £22, 9781474607643
Biography & Memoirs
This official companion book to the BBC Radio
formed a band. Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela—a fab four known as the Liverbirds— were one of the world’s first all-female rock ‘n’ roll bands. The two surviving members tell their entertaining story which included stadium tours, two hit albums and playing with the Kinks, the Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry, despite being told by John Lennon that “girls don’t play guitars”.
Joshua Fletcher And How Does That Make You Feel? Orion Spring, 14 March, hb, £18.99, 9781398713208
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Interestingly billed as Dr Adam
Kay meets Dr Julie Smith, a “hilarious and heartfelt” new book by a Manchester-based author and therapist who specialises in anxiety. Fletcher takes us on a “candid and human” journey into the individual sessions of four patients—Levi, Zahra, Noah and Daphne—as they engage in therapy for the first time.
Lyn Slater How to Be Old Yellow Kite, 14 March, hb, £20, 9781399715256
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
US content creator of a certain
age Slater began her blog “Accidental Icon” because in our “youth-obsessed world” she couldn’t find another one that spoke to mature people who lived “interesting but ordinary lives”. Her first book includes life advice on everything from fashion to social life, as she flaunts her grey hair and wrinkles.
Sarah Raven, Jonathan Buckley A Year Full of Pots Bloomsbury Publishing, 14 March, hb, £27, 9781526667472
Gardening Master the art of growing all year
round with inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice from the doyenne of flower growing. Includes her Bride (star of the show); Bridesmaid (similar but smaller and less conspicuous) and Gatecrasher (unexpected contrast) method which I try to follow myself.
Pierre Novellie Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? BLINK Publishing, 14 March, hb, £16.99, 9781785121012
Biography & Memoirs
This memoir by the up-and- coming comedian
who co-hosts the Frank Skinner show on Absolute Radio and the “BudPod” podcast with Phil Wang, explores his late diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, providing a light- hearted and accessible examination of neurodiversity through the lens of observational comedy.
Michael Taylor Impossible Monsters Bodley Head, 14 March, hb, £22, 9781847926784
Religion In 1811, a 12-year-old girl uncovered some
strange looking bones on Britain’s southern shoreline. This absorbing narrative history tells the story of the subsequent crisis which engulfed science and religion, and of a group of men and women “who not only thought impossible things but showed them to be true”.
£10.99, 9781784633073
Art & Antiques The author of White Spines
returns to explore the “shadow lines”: his term for the faint line on the top edge of a book which indicates whether it contains an inclusion; that is, items inserted into books and long forgotten. It’s a constant reminder of how books contain stories beyond what is printed on the pages, he says.
Venki Ramakrishnan Why We Die Hodder Press, 19 March, hb, £25, 9781529369243
Popular Science Winner of the 2009
Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Ramakrishnan explores the science of how we age and die. In an enthralling and eminently accessible narrative he romps through modern molecular biology to take a dispassionate look at efforts to extend lifespan, and whether they live up to their hype.
Dr Alok Kanojia How to Raise a Healthy Gamer Bluebird, 14 March, hb, £20, 9781035025886
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
“Dr K” as he’s widely known is
a Harvard Medical School expert on video game psychology. This is billed as his proven plan to help parents set and reinforce healthy boundaries around technology, communicate better with their children, and help kids who have developed an addiction to gaming.
Avril Horner Barbara Comyns Manchester University Press, 19 March, hb, £30, 9781526173744
Biography & Memoirs
Twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life
as captivating as the narratives she spun. This “pioneering” biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single- motherhood before the age of 30 but went on to publish a sequence of novels “unique” in the English language.
Gareth E Rees Sunken Lands Elliott & Tompson, 21 March, hb, £16.99, 9781783967698
Travel Writing From Stone Age lands
now beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans and a submerged Roman party town, the author of Unofficial Britain, longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize journeys through drowned forests, shrinking wetlands, and sinking towns in this absorbing exploration of flood places, both from the past and those disappearing before our eyes currently.
Nicholas Royle Shadow Lines Salt Publishing, 15 March, pb,
Neil Astley (ed), Pamela Robertson-Pearce (ed) Soul Feast
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