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other insightful collaborators present a hopeful manifesto for a new relationship with the natural world.
unknowingly witnessed throughout his childhood, the coercive control that led to his mother, Sally Challen, killing his father, and the subsequent “trial that changed everything for women”.
Saul David Sky Warriors William Collins, 25 April, hb, £25, 9780008522162
General History “Stunning and gripping”
new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War, focusing on the legendary Red Devils.
Michael Peel What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except The British) Monoray, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781800961760
Current affairs
Award-winning foreign correspondent digs into the national
consciousness to pull apart the ways in which we British have become unmoored from crucial truths about ourselves. He shows that from many perspectives we are no different from other countries whose own national delusions have seen them succumb to abuses of power, increased poverty and divisive conflict.
Marc Stears, Tom Baldwin Baldwin England Bloomsbury Publishing, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781526646231
General History Journalist Baldwin
and political scientist Stears interrogate the myths that form the foundations of England’s history, thereby analysing the modern struggle of forging a national identity.
Kathryn Hughes Catland Fourth Estate, 25 April, hb, £22, 9780008365103
Art & Antiques Hughes unravels the
history of how Victorian and Edwardian Britain fell in love with cats, from the first development of fashionable breeds to Louis Wain’s enduring artistic obsession.
Stuart Heritage Bald Profile Books, 25 April, hb, £12.99, 9781800818569
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Heritage has been bald for
two years. Part-memoir, part-manual, this is his “self-deprecating, funny and genuinely helpful” guide to having no hair: what really happens, why it matters and how to feel much less crap about it.
Suzanne Scanlon Committed John Murray, 25 April, hb, £16.99, 9781399804806
Biography & Memoirs
When Scanlon was a student in the 1990s, she
made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She recounts her story of recovery and understanding alongside her reading of writers from the “madwoman canon”—including Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Sylvia Plath.
Nusrit Mehtab The Good Cop Torva, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781911709459
Biography & Memoirs
Drawing on 30 years’ experience of fighting against
racism and misogyny in the Met, a “brave and insightful” policewoman’s memoir of a deeply-flawed institution and how we can fix it.
Richard Norris Strange Things Are Happening White Rabbit, 25 April, hb, £25, 9781399609760
Duncan Forbes (ed), Newell Harbin (ed), Lydia Caston (ed), Elton John, David Furnish Fragile Beauty V&A Publishing, 25 April, hb, £40, 9781838510466
Georgina Hayden
Greekish Bloomsbury Publishing, 25 April, hb, £26, 9781526630667
Food & Drink Inspired by her Greek-Cypriot
roots and Greek travels, Heyden presents 120 recipes for familiar Mediterranean classics, as well as plenty of Greek-influenced dishes with a twist.
David Challen Control BRAZEN, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781914240263
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Account of the abuse Challen
Photography Over the past 30 years, Sir Elton
John and David Furnish have built an unrivalled collection of photography. This book presents 150 of these works from artists including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei.
Rachel Stevens Untitled HarperCollins, 25 April, hb, £22, 9780008662172
Biography & Memoirs
Stevens’ “unfiltered” story about discovering
her true self in a manufactured world, whether as part of band
Biography & Memoirs
A memoir by one of the most influential and
ubiquitous underground British musicians of the past 30 years
Arman Azad Across Mountains, Land and Sea Trapeze, 25 April, hb, £22, 9781409199328
Biography & Memoirs
The extraordinary true story of one boy’s journey
across the world to escape death, war and destruction, and his inspiring life spent helping displaced people find safety against all odds.
What’s Your Era? HarperCollins, 25 April, hb, £12.99, 9780008686260
Music “Are you a ‘Fearless’ enthusiast or a
‘Reputation’-era renegade?” Discover which Taylor Swift era defines you and learn how to live in that knowledge with this
Cato Pedder Moederland John Murray, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781399810791
Biography & Memoirs
How did South Africa turn out the
Simon Barnes How to be a Bad Botanist Simon & Schuster Non-Fiction, 25 April, hb, £16.99, 9781398518919
Gardening
“Can you tell a tomato from a
grape? Lawn from an oak tree? Then congratulations—you are a botanist.” Self-confessed plant ignoramus Barnes guides us on a journey to better observing the beauty and diversity of nature.
Azeem Rafiq It’s Not Banter, It’s Racism Trapeze, 25 April, hb, £22, 9781398712409
Sports & Gaming
The first cricketer of Asian heritage to captain Yorkshire,
Rafiq made accusations of racism and bullying against the club that were later upheld. This part-memoir, part-polemic provides a bracing look at his own case and the state of a so-called gentleman’s game, but also explores institutional racism, Islamophobia and division more widely in society.
James Drake (ed), Edward Smyth (ed), Jonathan Aitken Letters for the Ages Behind Bars Bloomsbury Continuum, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781399413893
General History Collection of letters written
through the ages from historical figures who have been incarcerated, including Anne Boleyn, Bertrand Russell, Sylvia Pankhurst and Al Capone.
S Club 7 or as a successful solo artist. Constantly stereotyped within the industry, she documents struggles with her self-worth and mental health, and her journey of personal growth.
guide which takes a deep dive into all the albums and what they mean.
way it did? Pedder —the great- granddaughter of Jan Smuts— traces the country’s turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her own family’s charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.
Karen Valby The Swans of Harlem Manilla Press, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781786582492
Biography & Memoirs
Harlem 1969: Arthur Mitchell, the first Black
principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, takes his protest to the stage and establishes the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Linda Segtnan,Elizabeth Clark Wessel (trans) The Eighth House Bonnier Books, 25 April, hb, £20, 9781804184318
Biography & Memoirs
In the library archives, Segtnan sees a nine-year-
old girl’s face in the pages of a newspaper. That girl, Birgitta Sivander was brutally murdered in May 1948 but culprit was never found. Segtnan feels a deep connection to Birgitta,and begins to compulsively research the case.
Wayne Sleep Just Different Hodder & Stoughton, 25 April, hb, £22, 9781399712064
Biography & Memoirs
This memoir by the well-known ballet dancer is
billed as the inspiring story of how he danced his way to success, fulfilment and love, and how he overcame obstacles and prejudice along the way.
Liz Earle A Better Second Half Yellow Kite, 25 April, hb, £22, 9781399723671
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
In which the wellbeing expert
shares her hard-won wisdom, practical advice and know-how that can turn the tide on feelings of dejection and can have us heading into our second halves full of vigour and hope to live longer and better.
Jackie Kay May Day Picador, 25 April, pb, £10.99, 9781509864836
Poetry This new collection from the former Makar
of Scotland casts an eye over several decades of political activism; from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay’s childhood, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects with the urgency of Black Lives Matter.
Agnes Arnold-Forster Nostalgia Picador, 25 April, hb, £25, 9781529091366
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