SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Kerry Irving Forever Max HarperElement, 11 April, hb, £18.99, 9780008645045
Biography & Memoirs
The heartwarming, inspiring final chapter in the life
of Max the Miracle dog, as he and Irving take on their final adventures around the Lake District, from providing joy to those stuck inside through lockdown to adjusting to Max’s twilight years.
Joe Shute Stowaway Bloomsbury Wildlife, 11 April, hb, £18.99, 9781399402507
Natural History & Pets
This cultural and social history of the
rat examines how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing. What do the lives of rats reveal to us about our own, and might there be a better way to live alongside our ancient enemies in the modern age?
Lennon, this investigates the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon.
Peter Marshall Storm’s Edge William Collins, 11 April, hb, £25, 9780008394394
General History This new history of the
Orkney Islands dives deep into island politics, the evolution of folklore, and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain.
Countryfile William Collins, 11 April, hb, £25, 9780008529338
Natural History & Pets
A month- by-month celebration
of the best of Countryfile magazine, along with an illustrated overview of the beauty and the drama of a year in the countryside.
Joe Clark Garden To Save the World One Boat, 11 April, hb, £20, 9781035032310
Gardening
“A complete guide to finding
joy in the natural world from social media sensation Joe’s Garden,” this covers everything from growing your own food and eating seasonally to keeping vital ecosystems alive by encouraging wildlife and appreciating all nature has to offer.
Kate Muir Everything You Need to Know About the Pill (But Were Too Afraid to Ask) Gallery, 11 April, hb, £16.99, 9781398529519
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Nicolas Hamilton Now That I Have Your Attention RADAR, 11 April, hb, £22, 9781804191705
Social & Local History
Born with a form of cerebral palsy, Hamilton
—brother of Lewis—was told that he would need a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Today he is the first disabled athlete to compete at the top level of British motorsport, The British Touring Car Championship. This book follows his remarkable journey and shares the valuable, tough, and often surprising lessons learned.
Robert Hutton The Illusionist Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 11 April, hb, £22, 9781474626026
General History The “astonishing”
story of how in Egypt, 1942, Colonel Dudley Clarke’s ingenious, eccentric A Force thwarted the Nazis and invented a whole new playbook of military deception.
Norman Ohler Tripped Atlantic Books, 11 April, hb, £20, 9781838953584
General History With a cast of characters
including Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Aldous Huxley and John
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Caroline Crampton A Body Made of Glass Granta Books, 11 April, hb, £16.99, 9781783789054
Popular Science Drawing on Crampton’s
own experience of surviving a life-threatening disease only to find herself beset by almost constant anxiety about her health, a “fascinating and revelatory” cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers.
Billed as the thinking- woman’s
guide to contraception, this aims to bring you answers to all those questions that have been “hidden behind a veneer of misplaced shame, bad science and centuries of patriarchy”.
Andrew Gold Take It to the Grave Macmillan, 11 April, hb, £20, 9781035002597
Psychology “We all keep secrets: 97% of us
are hiding a secret right now, and on average we each hold 13 at any one time”. From the host of award-winning podcast “On the Edge” comes this “surprising and thrilling” deep dive into the psychology of secrecy.
Dorian Lynskey Everything Must Go Picador, 11 April, hb, £25, 9781529095937
Literature & Criticism
In which the Baillie Gifford longlisted author
of The Ministry of Truth, investigates our fantasies of the end of the world, across both high and popular culture.
Steven Gaines, Peter Brown All You Need Is Love Monoray, 11 April, hb, £25, 9781800962330
Music Said to be a revelatory new book about the
final years of the Beatles based on “extraordinarily frank”, never-before-published or heard interviews with all the people
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Liz Truss Ten Years to Save the West Biteback, 16 April, hb, £20, 9781785908576
Current affairs
In which the former prime minister argues that the rise of
authoritarianism around the world and the adoption of fashionable ideas propagated
Rosalind Moody The Spark September Publishing, 18 April, pb, £16.99, 9781914613487
Mind, Body & Spirit
Described as “Dolly Alderton meets ‘Fleabag’
with a sprinkling of sage”, self- help-with-a-touch-of-memoir for anyone who has lost
involved, including George, Ringo, Paul and Yoko.
by the global left gives us barely a decade to preserve the economic and cultural freedom and institutions that the West holds so dear.
Patrick Strickland You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave Melville House Publishing, 18 April, hb, £25.99, 9781685890667
Current affairs
This remarkable- sounding work of reportage is based
on hundreds of hours on-the- ground reporting that tells how Greece’s far right is trying to destroy the birthplace of democracy.
The Great British Sewing Bee: Back to Basics Quadrille, 18 April, hb, £30, 9781837831463
Crafts, Hobbies & Pastimes
The companion book to the tenth series of the
flagship BBC1 show,
aims to support and inspire sewers at all levels on their creative journeys.
Rebecca Beattie The Way Through the Woods Elliott & Tompson, 18 April, hb, £14.99, 9781783967841
Mind, Body & Spirit
Grounded in the flow of the natural world, “green
witch” Beattie offers the tools and rituals to find our way through times of personal upheaval, change and transformation. I loved her book The Wheel of the Year.
George the Poet Track Record Hodder & Stoughton, 18 April, hb, £22, 9781529341935
Music In this “revolutionary” memoir, the rapper,
poet, and podcaster unveils the power dynamics that shape our world. By interrogating the history of colonialism and exploring capitalism’s racist legacy, George aims to offer a fresh perspective on the world around us.
Gwynne Dyer Intervention Earth Old Street Publishing, 18 April, pb, £12.99, 9781913083267
Popular Science From the deep oceans to
glaciers, from agriculture to energy production to the stratosphere, the latest, highly innovative ideas from climate scientists on how we might reduce global warming.
Roxanne Emery, Richard Pink Small Talk Square Peg, 18 April, pb, £14.99, 9781529915426
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Rich and Rox, the authors of
Dirty Laundry, are back with more warm, empathetic and down-to-earth advice to help those with ADHD and autism live authentic, bold and happy lives.
Adam Smyth The Book-Makers Bodley Head, 18 April, hb, £25, 9781847926296
General History Celebration of 550 years of
the printed book, told through the lives of 18 extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders.
Nick Hayes Wild Service Bloomsbury Publishing, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781526673312
Conservation & the Environment
In which Hayes and a host of
themselves while looking for love and needs help finding their way back.
Robert Ashton Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay? Unbound, 18 April, hb, £16.99, 9781800182981
Geography Exploring the relationship
between everyday items and the communities that make them, Ashton provides a snapshot of 21st-century England. Where are the people who grow barley, milk cows and produce wool? How have their farming methods become less ethical, sustainable and natural over time? And what are we doing today to reverse that change?
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