SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
energy systems now powering our world with the aim of bringing about a cleaner future. It reveals how such feats of science interact with real lives, including her own.
Nick Lloyd The Eastern Front Viking, 28 March, hb, £25, 9780241506851
General History This second volume of
Lloyd’s history of the Western Front tells the story of the “unknown war”, the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires. It remains central, he says, to understanding the trajectory of the entire 20th century, including the current war in Ukraine.
Sam Carr All the Lonely People Picador, 28 March, hb, £16.99, 9781035005512
Psychology At a time when social isolation is a
health concern of growing significance, this stirring exploration of loneliness asks what we might do to combat it. Based on hours of conversation with people young and old, including teenagers, the bereaved, single parents, and carers, psychologist and social scientist Carr offers a personal collection of touching human stories which tell us something profound about our shared desire and need for human connection.
of the nature of reality. So shows Cliff, a CERN experimental physicist, as he takes us on a tour of the weird universe.
Madhumita Murgia Code-Dependent Picador, 28 March, hb, £20, 9781529097306
Popular Science By highlighting
the lives of ordinary people from an Indian doctor to a British poet, the first AI editor of the FT looks at the more insidious ways in which AI is affecting our daily lives; from our interpersonal relationships to our kids’ education, public services and even our human rights. She exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency and shatter our illusion of free will.
April
Rebel Wilson Rebel Rising HarperCollins, 2 April, hb, £25, 9780008684129
Biography & Memoirs
From the star of “Pitch Perfect” and “Bridesmaids”
comes a “refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring” book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.
Katie Gee Salisbury Not Your China Doll Faber & Faber, 4 April, hb, £25, 9780571388677
Biography & Memoirs
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los
Angeles in the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this début tells the “definitive” story of Anna May Wong, the first East-Asian Hollywood star, and how she blazed a trail for the Chinese diaspora.
Eat, Poop, Die Profile Books, 4 April, hb, £18.99, 9781805221692
Popular Science From the volcanoes of
Iceland to the tropical waters of Hawaii and beyond, this reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying— and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe.
John Connell Twelve Sheep Atlantic Books, 4 April, hb, £12.99, 9781805461906
Biography & Memoirs
Centred on the author’s 12 sheep, and “both simple
and profound”, a meditation on the rituals of farming life and a primer on the lessons that nature can teach us.
Suzi Ronson Me and Mr Jones Faber & Faber, 4 April, hb, £20, 9780571371853
Music From the stylist behind David Bowie’s Ziggy
Stardust look, this is billed as an electrifying peek behind the curtain during a legendary chapter of pop culture history.
Maurice Watkins Legally Red Hodder & Stoughton, 4 April, hb, £25, 9781399721561
Biography & Memoirs
Memoir by the long-time director and club solicitor
at Manchester United, the “lynchpin that kept the club together”. Foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson.
Rob Eastaway Much Ado About Numbers Atlantic Books, 4 April, hb, £14.99, 9781805460275
General History There are two unavoidable
Christian Lewis Hildasay to Home Macmillan, 28 March, hb, £20, 9781035033782
Biography & Memoirs
“Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a
family.” This follow-up to former paratrooper Lewis’ Finding Hildasay finds him meeting the love of his life, and starting another adventure as he builds a family and also finishes his epic walk back to Swansea.
Harry Cliff Space Oddities Picador, 28 March, hb, £18.99, 9781529092868
Popular Science Newly discovered
strangenesses could transform our understanding of the fundamentals of physics—and
Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst Wisdom from the Hidden Life of Trees Greystone Books,Canada, 4 April, hb, £9.99, 9781778401404
Natural History & Pets
A new illustrated collection of
insights from the bestselling The Hidden Life of Trees. “Perfect for anyone who wants to forever remember the wisdom of the forest.”
Joe Roman
topics at school: Shakespeare and maths. But in what ways do the two overlap? This new take on the Bard investigates why Shakespeare never ended a line with the word “orange', why King Lear was every inch a king, why early drafts of the plays could possibly have been written with a pencil and more.
Nels Abbey
The Hip Hop MBA Canongate Books, 4 April, hb, £16.99, 9781838856403
Business & Economics
In which banker- turned-writer Abbey offers an
entertaining look at business and economics through the rise of Hip Hop. It’s the story of how rap industrialists—such as Jay-Z, Suge Knight, Sylvia Robinson, Puff Daddy, 50 Cent and Bryan “Birdman” Williams—“took chronic economic pain and turned it into champagne”.
Wendy Moore Jack and Eve Atlantic Books, 4 April, hb, £20, 9781838958091
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall How to Eat 30 Plants a Week Bloomsbury Publishing, 10 April, hb, £25, 9781526672520
Food & Drink In chapters such as six packed
soup and soups, seven big salads, meat and six veg, fish fivers and tripe threat sides, Fearnley-Whittingstall shows how to get many more plants on your plate, with people-pleasing plant-only dishes at the fore, as well as some “humdingers with a little well-chosen meat or fish along for the ride”.
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (trans) A Woman’s Story Fitzcarraldo Editions, 10 April, pb, £10.99, 9781804270943
Biography & Memoirs
In April 1986, Ernaux’s mother, after years of
suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss, she embarks on a daunting journey back through time to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for
Biography & Memoirs
The latest from the always excellent Moore is said to be
a ground-breaking account of two suffragettes who lived wild and brave lives together during the First World War and beyond.
Monty Lyman The Immune Mind Torva, 4 April, hb, £22, 9781911709169
Popular Science Lyman explores the
fascinating connection between the mind, immune system and microbiome, offering practical advice on how to stay healthy as he argues that we need to change the way we treat disease and the way we see ourselves.
Graeme Lawson Sound Tracks Bodley Head, 4 April, hb, £25, 9781847926876
General History Charting the history of
humankind’s relationship with music in 50 detective stories, this shows that music is part of what makes us human—not just as a pastime or religious expression but as a way of commemorating our pasts, communicating with each other, and shaping our lives.
reading created the conditions for the author’s own social ascent.
Benjamina Ebuehi I’ll Bring Dessert Quadrille, 11 April, hb, £24, 9781837830398
Food & Drink From recipes made in one dish
or desserts that are easy to transport, to the perfect pud to feed a table of four, 70 sweet recipes to cater for any occasion.
Will Hutton This Time No Mistakes Apollo, 11 April, hb, £25, 9781804549377
Current affairs
In which the author of The State We’re In argues that it is the
absolute dominance of a neoliberal consensus that has broken Britain, and that we need a new economic, social and political settlement if the country is not to become even poorer and more irrelevant.
Simon Kuper Impossible City Profile Books, 11 April, hb, £18.99, 9781800816480
Current affairs
“An explorer’s tale of eventually getting to understand a
complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city—at least a little” by the author and Parisien d’adoption.
Jason Roberts Every Living Thing riverrun, 11 April, hb, £25, 9781529400465
Popular Science This true-life tale of
intertwined lives and enduring legacies, traces an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day, charting the race to identify and describe all species on earth.
Noah Angell Ghosts of the British Museum Monoray, 11 April, hb, £18.99, 9781800961340
Mind, Body & Spirit
Fusing storytelling, folklore and
history, the author digs deep into our imperial past and investigates strange goings on at the British Museum, where “under the guise of preservation, restless objects are held against their will”.
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