SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Bloodaxe Books, 21 March,
pb, £12, 9781780377063 Poetry This companion anthology to
Bloodaxe’s Soul Food offers up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times.
during the Obama administration, this argues that a confluence of four intersecting causes let to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Nick Bano Against Landlords Verso Books, 26 March, hb, £16.99, 9781804293874
Current affairs
What can be done when landlords always win and
renters pay the price? This radical new interpretation shows how the current housing crisis set the conditions for the Grenfell Tower fire, and also means a life of anxiety for the nation’s renters.
James Bradley Deep Water Scribe UK, 28 March, hb, £20, 9781914484605
Jeremy Black Paris Tames & Hudson, 21 March, hb, £16.99, 9780500027080
General History Published ahead of the
Paris Olympics, this presents more than 2,000 years of history exploring a diverse range of cultural cornerstones including art, architecture, politics, fashion and film.
Alexandra Harris The Rising Down Faber & Faber, 21 March, hb, £25, 9780571350520
Social & Local History
When critic and cultural historian Harris returned to her childhood home in
West Sussex, she realised she barely knew the place at all. This enthralling book is based on delving into treasure troves that are local archives, and of listening out for the forgotten voices of people who dwelt in and shared this landscape. Full of epic human stories about small things, she describes it as a work of “radical miniaturism”.
Joseph Hone The Book Forger Chatto & Windus, 21 March, hb, £22, 9781784744670
General History In 1930s London,
“pompous and fearsome” book dealer Thomas James Wise was renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for unearthing rare first editions and bringing them to market. One night two young booksellers stumble on a strange discrepancy which leads them to suspect his books are not all they seem. They set about exposing a maverick bibliophile who forges not only books but an entire life.
Michael Kimmage Collisions Oxford University Press, 22 March, hb, £22.99, 9780197751794
Current affairs
Written by a historian and former US diplomat who served
on the Russia-Ukraine desk 16
Conservation & the Environment
Scribe’s lead
non-fiction
title for spring 2024 is this beguiling blend of history, science, nature writing and environmentalism by the award-winning Australian essayist, novelist and poet. It’s a richly layered book which considers everything from swimming and migration to fishing and reefs.
Geoffrey Robertson The Trial of Vladimir Putin Biteback, 28 March, hb, £14.99, 9781785908675
Current affairs
This deep-dive into international law offers a new
perspective on the war in Ukraine: how it has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and threatens to overturn the accepted world order, through the lens of its key protagonist.
Gillian Clarke The Silence Carcanet Poetry, 28 March, pb, £12.99, 9781800173927
Poetry At 86, the former National Poet of
Wales’ writing is as luminous and relevant as ever and in this new collection, her subjects include her mother, Welsh history, the Great War and the cycle of the seasons. Threaded through is a resonant note of the consolation she finds in the company of the animal and bird life which surrounds us.
Matt Gaw In All Weathers Elliott & Tompson, 28 March, hb, £16.99, 9781783967735
Natural History & Pets
“What if, rather than staying
indoors, we could go out and embrace all this so-called unpleasant weather?” Gaw embarks on a series of journeys from the wind-smoothed landscape of Orkney to the fog-coated coasts of eastern England as he calls for us to embrace to the elements, and
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open our doors, windows and soul to the inspiring wildness of weather.
Emily Katy Girl Unmasked Monoray, 28 March, hb, £18.99, 9781800961395
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
This powerful new memoir
by a 21-year-old author explores what it’s like living as a troubled teenager with undiagnosed autism. Now with a highly engaged following on social media, she works as a mental health nurse and is a trustee of The Autistic Girls’ Network. Fern Brady is a fan.
Henry Hemming Four Shots in the Night Quercus Publishing, 28 March, hb, £25, 9781529426755
War & Military History
In May 1986, the body of an undercover
British agent named Frank Hegarty was found by the side of a muddy lane. His brutal killing began a decades-long search for justice, the story of which is told in this blend of investigative journalism and true crime thriller. Was he killed by the IRA or someone else?
Joel Golby Four Stars Mudlark, 28 March, hb, £16.99, 9780008284091
Psychology From almond croissants to
vaping at the Euro 2020 with a load of ex-Army lads and the concept of life itself, this new book from the viral Vice writer sets out on a journey through modern living to find out what it all means.
Anne Somerset Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers William Collins, 28 March, hb, £30, 9780008106225
Biography & Memoirs
“It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria
reigned, but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong.” So says the author of this “romp” through the said monarch’s political life and her relationships with 10 prime ministers which demonstrates her “passionate and often all-encompassing” involvement in state affairs.
Alexander Larman Power and Glory Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 28 March, hb, £25, 9781399615525
Biography & Memoirs
This “royal biography for people who
wouldn’t usually read royal biographies” brings us to the dramatic conclusion of the author’s Windsors trilogy, tracing the period between the wartime treachery of the Duke of Windsor to the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2nd June 1953
Annie Jacobsen
Nuclear War Torva, 28 March, hb, £20, 9781911709596
War & Military History
We could have an unhabitable earth in a
century. Or it could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. That’s the billing for this “edge of your seat, non-fiction thriller” about the threat of nuclear annihilation which draws on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts to mount a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these weapons forever.
White Rabbit, 28 March, hb, £25, 9781399621861
Biography & Memoirs
By a Pulitzer Prize- winning author, the epic story of
the friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of “improv”, and the making of comedic film classic, “The Blues Brothers”. Draws on dozens of interviews, including with director John Landis and Aykroyd himself.
Phoebe Smith Wayfarer HarperNorth, 28 March, hb, £16.99, 9780008566524
Travel guides At the age of 32, on
assignment to walk the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, the author suffered a mental health crisis. In recovering, she found herself walking some of Britain’s oldest pilgrim paths and began to confront past traumas she thought had been laid to rest. A beguiling blend of memoir, history and travel writing.
Fernanda Eberstadt Bite Your Friends Europa Editions (UK), 28 March, hb, £18.99, 9781787705029
Biography & Memoirs
This unusual and strikingly written memoir combines
history and cultural criticism to tell the author’s own story, that of her glamorous mother, and of an eclectic band of saints, philosophers and artists who have used their own wounded or stigmatised bodies to challenge society; including Diogenes, martyrs Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, and Pussy Riot, whom Eberstadt interviews for the book.
Oliver Smith
On This Holy Island Bloomsbury Continuum, 28 March, hb, £20, 9781399409032
Travel Writing Almost 500 years ago,
pilgrimage was outlawed in England. Now the travel writer author travels across Britain to create an entirely modern pilgrimage by seeking out the holy places across the country that time has left behind.
Madeleine Pelling Writing on the Wall Profile Books, 28 March, hb, £25, 9781800811997
Social & Local History
This “eye-opening” new history of the 18th century is told through the graffiti
its citizens left behind and the evidence it presents of how ordinary people experienced the events that defined their lives; from sex workers and homesick sailors to romantic poets and artisans of the industrial revolution.
Daniel de Vise The Blues Brothers
Bruce Hood The Science of Happiness Simon & Schuster Non-Fiction, 28 March, hb, £22, 9781398526372
Psychology Based on the most popular course at
Bristol University, this guide to improving mental wellbeing by a leading psychologist presents seven lessons to help break the patterns of unhappiness.
Yasmin Ali Power Up Hodder Press, 28 March, hb, £22, 9781529382976
Popular Science “We rarely think about
the system that props up our existence.” Ali is an Iraqi-born chemical engineer, currently working in green hydrogen project development. This is her fascinating primer on the global
Joe Boyd And the Roots of Rhythm Remain Faber & Faber, 28 March, hb, £30, 9780571360000
Music Aiming to do for global music what The Rest
is Noise by Alex Ross did for 20th-century classical music, this explores the stories behind the world music that the producer author has helped to popularise; from Cuba and Brazil to Bulgaria and Mali.
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