SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
The Bookshop Woman BRAZEN, 6 June, hb, £16.99, 9781914240775
Biography & Memoirs
A heartwarming true story of how a Japanese
woman in crisis turned her life around by meeting people off a dating website by describing herself as a sexy bookseller and giving them personalised book recommendations. Who could resist?
Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell These Heavy Black Bones Canongate Books, 6 June, hb, £18.99, 9781805300441
Biography & Memoirs
By the age of 15 Achieng Ajulu- Bushell was world
number one in the 50m breaststroke. She would go on to become a double British champion, and make the GB Olympic team; the first Black woman to do so. This is the story of how she got there, what it cost her and why she walked away from it all.
June Sarpong Calling Una Marson HQ, 6 June, hb, £20, 9780008603885
Biography & Memoirs
Una Marson made history by becoming the first
Black female broadcaster at the BBC and paved the way for the amplification of Black voices in the media. However, her story has been all but forgotten by history. This “powerful” new biography shines a light on her legacy.
Wyl Menmuir
The Heart of the Woods Aurum, 6 June, hb, £16.99, 9780711289246
Biography & Memoirs
In which Menmuir travels the length and breadth of
Britain and Ireland to meet the people who plant trees, the ecologists who study them, those who shape beautiful objects and tools from wood, and those who use them to help others.
Alan Edwards I Was There Simon & Schuster Non-Fiction, 6 June, hb, £25, 9781398525245
Music “Raucous, funny and deeply insightful
memoir by the godfather of modern music PR”, whose stellar list of clients has included everyone from the Rolling Stones to the Spice Girls, Blondie, Prince, Britney Spears, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse and, outside music, David Beckham.
Sir Antonio Pappano, Jon Tolansky (ed) My Life in Music Faber & Faber, 6 June, hb, £25, 9780571371730
Music A “passionate” memoir exploring classical
music, its restorative qualities and wider cultural influence by
Karen McLeod Lifting Off Muswell Press, 7 June, pb, £10.99, 9781739193072
Biography & Memoirs
“Brimming with vertiginous loops and extreme
globe-trotting”, an account of
the celebrated music director of the Royal Opera House.
Charlotte Bradman The Happy Nomad Yellow Kite, 6 June, hb, £16.99, 9781399720557
Mind, Body & Spirit
At 17, Bradman was pregnant. By 30, her house
was repossessed. Shedding her possessions she used the last of her savings to buy a creaky old campervan with no loo or onboard water. It was the best thing she ever did, we discover.
Lewis Baston Borderlines Hodder & Stoughton, 6 June, hb, £25, 9781399723763
Popular Science The writer and political
historian author with a history of 21 key borderlines that demarcate Europe, and what they can tell us about the past, present and future of our continent.
Nemonte Nenquimo, Mitch Anderson We Will Not Be Saved Wildfire, 6 June, hb, £16.99, 9781472289247
Biography & Memoirs
Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon
rainforest, Nenquimo was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. Two decades later, she is one of the most forceful voices in climate- change activism having fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe’s territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.
Paulina Rowinska Mapmatics Picador, 6 June, hb, £22, 9781035007042
Geography How does a delivery driver
distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths, says the author.
the author’s experience flying as cabin crew for British Airways over a 12-year period, and the profound impact that experience had on her life as she sought her gay identity in a heterosexual world,
Rickson Gracie Invisible Power Collins, 11 June, hb, £25, 9780063264847
Sports & Gaming
A mythic figure in fighting and a legendary member
of the “first family of martial arts”, Gracie is considered the godfather of what we recognise today as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). This is his “inspiring and practical” book about the art of combat.
Evie Muir Radical Rest Elliott & Tompson, 13 June, hb, £14.99, 9781783967650
Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle
Billed bold, energetic and deeply
honest book about the malaise of burnout in our society—and how radical rest could help us map out a hopeful and healed future.
Greg Eghigian After the Flying Saucers Came Oxford University Press, 13 June, hb, £22.99, 9780190869878
General History Explores how sightings of
UFOs and aliens seized the world’s attention and what the fascination with flying saucers and extraterrestrial visitors says about our changing views on science, technology and the paranormal.
Kathleen Jamie Cairn Sort of Books, 13 June, pb, £9.99, 9781914502002
Biography & Memoirs
For the past five years marvellous poet and author
Jamie has undertaken a new form of writing: micro-essays, prose poems, notes and fragments. Placed together here, like the stones of a wayside cairn, they “mark a changing psychic and physical landscape”.
Christine Figgener, Jane Billinghurst (trans) My Life with Sea Turtles Greystone Books,Canada, 13 June, hb, £18.99, 9781778400582
Biography & Memoirs
Filled with reverence and wonder for the
natural world, this “captivating” book reveals the secret life of sea turtles, one of the oldest living creatures on Earth.
Dr Shehan Hettiaratchy The Careful Surgeon Hodder Catalyst, 13 June, hb, £22, 9781529350654
Biography & Memoirs
How we, as individuals— and as a society— respond to crisis
says a lot about us. So says
Tom Chesshyre Slow Trains to Istanbul Summersdale, 13 June, hb, £20, 9781837992737
Travel Writing Ever dreamt of dropping
everything and adventuring cross-country to the edge of the Orient? This charts rail enthusiast Chesshyre’s journey by train to Istanbul and back.
Will Tosh Straight Acting Sceptre, 13 June, hb, £25, 9781529390476
Biography & Memoirs
This “fresh,
surprising” portrait of Shakespeare’s
England, reveals its deeply queer nature, a heritage that we have forgotten but that “powerfully and fundamentally shaped the life and career of the world’s most famous playwright”.
Adam Higginbotham Challenger Viking, 13 June, hb, £25, 9780241543696
Specialist STM “Definitive, heart-
stopping” account of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster based on declassified reports, never-before-seen diaries and first-hand testimony
Catherine Fletcher The Roads To Rome Bodley Head, 13 June, hb, £25, 9781847928030
General History “All roads lead to Rome.” This
part history, part travelogue, “brimming with life and drama”, tells the story of one of the greatest imperial networks ever built: Rome’s roads.
Sanne de Boer Mafiopoli Monoray, 20 June, hb, £22, 9781800962125
Biography & Memoirs
Billed as the first comprehensive book to be
published in English about the ‘Ndrangheta, this takes us deep inside the world’s most powerful Mafia.
David Walsh, Pippa York The Escape
Dharshini David Environomics Elliott & Tompson, 20 June, hb, £20, 9781783966295
Current affairs
The author of The Almighty Dollar returns with an
“insightful, highly accessible” exploration of the global green economy, revealing how the eco-revolution is transforming our world and our lives.
Richard Davenport-Hines History in the House William Collins, 20 June, hb, £25, 9780008285722
General History Pulls back the curtains on
Christ Church College, Oxford, and reveals its great and lasting historical significance.
Matthew Lockwood Island Refuge William Collins, 20 June, hb, £25, 9780008442569
General History How have those who
arrived on Britain’s shores shaped its history? Migration scholar Lockwood overturns many of today’s misconceptions by revisiting both our history of migrants and the way British attitudes have flexed and changed over time.
Neneh Cherry A Thousand Threads Fern Press, 20 June, hb, £22, 9781911717003
Biography & Memoirs
This launch title for Fern Press is said to be an
extraordinary memoir of identity, art and acceptance, by singer-songwriter Cherry.
Jill Halfpenny A Life Reimagined Macmillan, 20 June, hb, £22, 9781035037582
Biography & Memoirs
Actress Halfpenny, perhaps best known for her
roles in “Coronation Street” and “EastEnders” shares what she
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Hettiaratchy, London’s major trauma director as he gives us an insight on how to cope with and be our best selves during crisis.
Mudlark, 20 June, hb, £22, 9780008510602
Biography & Memoirs
Both an “unforgettable travelogue
through the world’s greatest cycling event and a one-of-a- kind memoir from arguably the sport’s most enigmatic and fascinating competitors”, Pippa York, who formerly competed as Robert Millar.
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