BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
Elizabeth Clark Wessel (tr), Linda Segtnan 25th April, hb, £20, 9781804184318 pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804185742 In the library archives, a young researcher sees a nine year-old girl’s face in the pages of a newspaper and the seed of an obsession is planted in her mind.
One Ukrainian Summer Viv Groskop 23rd May, hb, eb, £20, 9781804184868 Poignant, often comical, account of coming-of-age in the time after the Cold War and before Putin, Evokes a unique moment in Ukrainian history.
Dear Oliver Susan R Barry 15th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781804184905 Funny, fascinating and intimate glimpse of the great Oliver Sacks is also a love letter to the power of friendship at any time in life.
Brandeis University Press
Chaim Weizmann Jehuda Reinharz, Motti Golani, Haim Watzman (tr) 1st May, hb, £40, 9781684581962 How a Russian Jew who emigrated to the United Kingdom to work as a biochemist in the early 20th century became the first president of Israel.
Brazen
The Bookshop Woman Nanako Hanada, Catriona Anderson (tr) 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781914240775 Heartwarming, true story of how one woman in crisis turned her life around by meeting people from a dating website and giving them person- alised book recommendations.
Slum Boy Juano Diaz 29th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781914240829 Utterly inspiring story of a young boy’s self-discovery through art while growing up in the slums of Glasgow in the 1980s.
Broadleaf
The Mother Artist Catherine Ricketts 16th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781506488707 Twines meditations on parenthood with studies of painters, writers and
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others who blend caregiving and creative practice. Includes full- colour images by mother artists.
American Imam Taymullah
Abdur-Rahman 27th February, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781506489285 Explores the contempo- rary Black Muslim narra- tive by tracing Taymullah Abdur-Rahman’s story, from child to hip-hop performer to convert.
Callaway Editions
The Unconquerable Game Ely Callaway, Nicholas Callaway (ed), Andrew Moorhead (ed) 21st March, hb, £35, 9781737205142 Combination of knowl- edge and insight about golf, written with elegance, wisdom and humour by one of Ameri- ca’s foremost 20th-century entrepreneurs.
Calon
Seaglass Kathryn Tann 9th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781915279620 Tann brings together moments from her life, blending creative non- fiction, nature writing and memoir, to portray the journey of a young woman navigating modern adulthood.
Cambridge University Press
The Letters o Ernest Hemingway Vol 6, 1934-1936 Ernest Hemingway, Sandra Spanier (ed), Verna Kale (ed), Miriam B Mandel (ed) 31st May, hb, £35, 9780521897389 Hemingway’s letters, 85% of them previously unpublished, are a rich self-portrait and vivid eyewitness chronicle of the 20th century.
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters Andrew Stauffer 22nd February, hb, £25, 9781009200165 A Byron biography like no other, told through 10 moving and resonant letters. Publication timed for the bicentennial of his death.
Canbury Press
The Secret Lecturer Secret Lecturer
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
7th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781914487217 Falling standards, corporate extravagance, striking lecturers, oddball students and an A+ explosion in cheating— welcome to a British university in the 2020s. The explosive diaries of an anonymous academic.
Canongate
These Heavy Black Bones Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell 6th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781805300441 Brave and beautiful memoir written by the first Black woman to swim for Great Britain that reflects on race, identity, trauma, power and abuse with visceral vulnerability.
3 Shades of Blue James Kaplan 7th March, hb, eb, £25, 9781805302001 From the New York Times bestseller the story of jazz told through the journeys of three towering artists— Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans.
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith 4th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781805302452 Award-winning poet and author offers a lush and heartrending memoir that explores coming of age in middle age.
Brother. Do. You. Love. Me. Manni Coe, Reuben Coe 4th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805303060 Shortlisted for the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2023, this is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilience and repair.
O Brother John Niven 6th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781805303343 By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this evokes a working-class childhood of the 1970-80s and tries to answer the questions of guilt, culpability and regret that often haunt survivors of suicide.
Person Unlimited Dean Atta 4th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781838855659 Intimate memoir meditating on the power of reclaiming the body.
My Lady Parts Doon Mackichan 4th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781838856397
Smart and fiercely feminist memoir from popular comedian and actor.
This Ragged Grace Octavia Bright 7th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781838857493 Beautiful, brave, ideas- rich, open and electric reckoning with addiction, loss, self and hope in your twenties and thirties.
The Memory Keeper Jackie Kohnstamm 4th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781838858056 Compelling story of Kohnstamm’s search for the truth about her grandparents’ deaths in the Holocaust.
Your Wild and Precious Life Liz Jensen 7th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781838859992 Honest and ultimately uplifting memoir about family grief and ecological breakdown.
Canongate Canons
The Cello and the Nightingales Patricia Cleveland-Peck 4th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781805300182 The memoirs of cello prodigy Beatrice Harrison, the woman who brought the music of the nightingale to millions worldwide and created the first interspecies collaboration.
Springfield Road Salena Godden 2nd May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781805300243 Born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican dancer—an absent father and resilient mother— this is the colourful memoir from award-winning author and poet.
Casemate
The Way of the Hunter Brian R Johnson 15th March, hb, £27.95, 9781636244051 A naive, patriotic, teen- age German boy is will- ingly drafted into the Wehrmacht and posted to Yugoslavia where he is immersed in a bloody civil and world war.
Cassell
Enzo Ferrari Luca Dal Monte 29th February, hb, eb, £25, 9781788404716 Conclusive look at the life of Ferrari and how he became one of the most
imposing figures in the automobile world.
Searching for Novak Mark Hodgkinson 4th July, hb, eb, £22, 9781788405164 Compelling biography of Novak Djokovic uncovers the unconventional world of the most successful tennis player of our time.
Narcoball David Arrowsmith 9th June, hb, eb, £22, 9781788405232 Detailed, eyewitness account of the chaotic period of Colombian football where cartels dictated results and players and referees died for drug lords’ sporting obsessions.
Chatto & Windus
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out Katherine Bucknell 20th June, hb, eb, £35, 9780701186388 Ultimate biography of the author from the editor of his letters and diaries.
Maurice and Maralyn Sophie Elmhirst 29th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781784744922 A true tale of love, ship- wreck and survival, beau- tifully told—the British couple who escaped grim, 1970s England and found themselves stuck on a raft in the Pacific for 118 days.
Newborn Kerry Hudson 1st February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781784744991 Powerfully moving new book from a game- changing writer.
Cloistered Catherine Coldstream 7th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781784745059 In a striking memoir Coldstream describes life as a nun in the 1990s and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the nunnery.
Chicago Review Press
Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species Greg Cummings 5th March, hb, £26.95, 9780897330312 Sure to enchant readers with its account of Cummings’ experiences around the world and insights into the work it takes to save a species from extinction.
Ground Control Savannah Mandel 16th July, hb, £25.95,
9781641609920 Drawing on the author’s research and work in the commercial space indus- try, this book offers an insider’s glimpse of the side of human space exploration not often put on display.
Chiselbury
A Holocaust Legacy Kenneth Wolfe 1st March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916556072 Story of one family’s tragedy illustrates the tenacity of human endeavour to overcome a sorrowful past, shrug off a limited life and reach out for a better future.
A Faithful Spy Jimmy Burns 1st April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916556164
Intriguing look behind the scenes of British intelli- gence charts Walter Bell’s career in MI6 and MI5 during some of the most important geopolitical events of the 20th century.
By the Way François Carrard 1st March, hb, eb, £22, 9781916556225 If there was one individual around whom modern sport was built, it was a modern-day Renaissance man Carrard. This is his story.
Chronicle Books
Move by Move Maurice Ashley 11th April, hb, £17.99, 9781797223650 A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from the first black Chess Grandmaster.
C Hurst
Thank You Mr Crombie Mihir Bose 2nd May, hb, eb, £25, 9781911723004 Bracing yet affectionate reflections on migration, race and society in Britain from the 1960s on by a journalist who was the BBC’s first non-white editor.
Clemson University Press
Alexander Pope Howard Erskine-Hill, Alexander Lindsay (ed) 1st July, hb, eb, £110, 9781638041092 Critical biography places Pope’s life and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688.
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