SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Kat Hill
Simple Shelter William Collins, 9 May, hb, £16.99, 9780008619022
Natural History & Pets
Hill travels between 15 bothies—
across Scotland, England and Wales—revealing the beauty of these wild shelters, their history, the stories of the people who frequent them and the core of why we all crave escaping into the remote.
Clover Stroud The Giant on the Skyline Doubleday, 9 May, hb, £18.99, 9780857529152
Biography & Memoirs
Faced with the prospect of uprooting her
family to move from rural Oxfordshire to the US, the ever- wonderful Stroud considers what home means, and what ties us to the places we love.
hb, £25, 9780300253757
Biography & Memoirs
This first full-length biography of civil rights hero and
congressman John Lewis traces his upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress.”
Clare Mulley Agent Zo Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 16 May, hb, £22, 9781399601061
General History The “incredible”
story of Elzbieta Zawacka, or Agent Zo, a Second World War Polish resistance fighter who became the only woman to be parachuted back behind enemy lines.
Wade Davis Beneath the Surface of Things Greystone Books,Canada, 16 May, hb, £18.99, 9781778400445
General History The author of the Samuel
Johnson Prize-winning Into the Silence, a timely and eclectic essay collection which takes in such varied topics as the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; and reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation.
Sarah Harkness Literature for the People Macmillan, 9 May, hb, £25, 9781035008933
Biography & Memoirs
From an impoverished childhood in the
Scottish Highlands to Victorian London, the inspiring story of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who built a publishing empire— and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world.
Christopher Clarey The Warrior John Murray, 9 May, hb, £20, 9781399811507
Biography & Memoirs
An intimate biography of tennis legend
Rafael Nadal, publishing in his final year before retirement.
Ruth Ivo Performance Coronet, 9 May, hb, £16.99, 9781399720700
Biography & Memoirs
“To dance when nobody’s watching is one
thing. To dance when everyone is, quite another.” Billed as an electrifying memoir from the dark heart of London’s Soho by a burlesque performer who tumbles “willingly down the rabbit hole, only to lose herself in the dark”.
Raymond Arsenault John Lewis Yale University Press, 14 May,
Rose Boyt Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud Picador, 16 May, hb, £18.99, 9781035024919
Biography & Memoirs
“Searing” memoir in which Boyt explores her
complicated relationship with her beloved artist father, Lucian Freud, through diary entries and other accounts of sitting for him, naked or otherwise.
Africa Brooke The Third Perspective Hodder Catalyst, 16 May, hb, £16.99, 9781399722520
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Brooke is an internat- ionally
recognised consultant, accredited coach, public speaker and podcaster. Billed as “a compass to a bolder, braver existence”, this book aims to enable us to build a set of authentic beliefs and enjoy a life of purpose, integrity, joy and confident communication.
Benji Waterhouse You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here Jonathan Cape, 16 May, hb, £18.99, 9781787333178
Biography & Memoirs
“Most of the characters in this book are his
patients. Some of them are family. One of them is him.” Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Waterhouse provides a “fly-on- the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality”.
Kara Loewentheil Take Back Your Brain RADAR, 21 May, hb, £20, 9781804190333
Current affairs
Said to be bold new paradigm for breaking free from
negative self-talk and creating a life of confidence, power, and joy, from host of the “UnF*ck Your Brain” podcast.
Paul Scheer Joyful Recollections of Trauma Collins, 21 May, hb, £25, 9780063293717
Biography & Memoirs
A “candid,
hilarious” memoir- in-essays from
award-winning actor and comedian Scheer on coming to terms with a traumatic childhood and finding the joy in embracing your weird, authentic self.
Sophie Yeo Nature’s Ghosts HarperNorth, 23 May, hb, £22, 9780008474126
Conservation & the Environment
Exploring how the Earth
would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity, this uncovers the stories of the people who have helped to shape our landscapes through time, and looks at how time-worn knowledge of the
Lotte Jeffs, Stuart Oakley The Queer Parent Bluebird, 16 May, pb, £10.99, 9781035001835
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
This informative, funny and
empowering book from the hosts of the award-winning podcast “Some Families” is billed as the must-have parenting toolkit for the LGTBQ+ community, their friends, family and allies.
natural world can help us to mend our own relationship with the earth.
Lorna Tucker Bare BRAZEN, 23 May, hb, £20, 9781914240737
Current affairs
Aged 15, Tucker was living on the streets of Soho, while battling
an addiction to heroin. She worked as an escort and a stripper, lost custody of her daughter, and relapsed multiple times. “But somehow, and unlike most of the people imprisoned by the streets, Lorna didn’t just survive but she flew.”
Heather Thomas The Anti-Processed Air Fryer Cookbook HarperCollins, 23 May, hb, £20, 9780008685041
Food & Drink Break the addiction to ultra-
processed foods with over 90 speedy, healthy air fryer recipes to “revolutionise your cooking and improve your health”.
Candice Brathwaite Manifest(o) Quercus, 23 May, hb, £20, 9781529435610
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Supported by her four pillars of
Seeing, Believing, Doing and Being, Brathwaite aims to guide you towards the life you deserve and show you that manifesting can be for everyone—not just those to whom the universe has already been kind.
David McGowan Have You Trouble? Headline Non-Fiction, 23 May, hb, £22, 9781035412228
Professional & Careers
Ireland’s best known Funeral Director, and
subject of award-winning Netflix documentary, The funeral director, shares lessons learned from a lifetime dealing with the dead.
Harry Ricketts, David Kynaston Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes Bloomsbury Publishing, 23 May, hb, £20, 9781526670298
Sports & Gaming
The compelling story of the Ashes Test match that
encapsulated an age-old rivalry between two nations at the dawn of an era.
Henry Cole Riding Route 66 Quercus Publishing, 23 May, hb, £22, 9781529406702
Transport One of the most well-known
figures in motorcycling and founder of bespoke motorcycle manufacturer Gladstone Motorcyles travels along Route 66, on a journey of self-discovery.
Owen Elliot-Kugell My Mama, Cass
Omnibus Press, 23 May, hb, £25, 9781915841001
Music A “myth-busting, and deeply affecting”
memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “Mama Cass” Elliot. She was “a single parent who embraced motherhood from the moment Owen entered the world”.
David Kitson On Green Pitches Mudlark, 23 May, hb, £20, 9780008653361
Sports & Gaming
Billed as the powerful story of a unique
Sunday League club forged from a shared trauma and the extraordinary strength of the community local to Grenfell Tower.
Taylor Downing The Army That Never Was Icon Books, 23 May, hb, £25, 9781837731572
General History The story of the “biggest
deception operation of the Second World War”—the plan to mislead the Germans into thinking that the invasion of Europe would come at the Pas de Calais, by inventing an entirely fake Army group in the south-east of England.
Daisy Dunn The Missing Thread Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 23 May, hb, £25, 9781474615617
General History Spanning 3,000 years,
from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio- Claudian dynasty in Rome, a “magisterial” new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through the women so often pushed to history’s sidelines.
Brian Groom Made in Manchester HarperNorth, 23 May, hb, £20, 9780008608521
General History The tale of England’s
second city; a metropolis that exported industry and commerce to all others and whose culture is celebrated globally. “Combines pacey narrative with vividly drawn portraits.”
Jake Hall Shoulder to Shoulder Trapeze, 23 May, hb, £22, 9781398718593
General History Spanning movements
from the Black Panthers coalition with the Gay Liberation Front in the US to the Pride support for the miners’ strike in the UK, this shows that the stories of marginalised activists have always been intertwined and “comradery will always be the best option for joint liberation”.
Helen Molesworth Precious Doubleday, 23 May, hb,
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