TEN NOT TO MISS Ten titles not to miss Highlights of the Season
Kerry Hudson Newborn Chatto & Windus, 1 February, hb, £18.99, 9781784744991
Biography & Memoirs
In Lowborn, her remarkable 2019 memoir about
her challenging and fractured working-class upbringing, Hudson writes about her hope that there might be a different life for her out there somewhere. This brave and beautiful continuation of her story is about trying to fulfil the dream of that different life as she navigates the creation of the nourishing, safe and loving family she so passionately desires. The challenges she faces sometimes seem insurmountable. But her love, hope, fight and determination to break the mould and give her young son a loving and stable childhood keep breaking through to light her path.
Popular Science “I like to think of memory as
less like a photograph and more like a painting.” US professor of psychology and neuroscience Ranganath is a world pioneer in the use of brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) to study the mechanisms in the brain that enable us to remember past events. If you’ve ever berated yourself for failing to remember something, or worried that you might be losing your marbles along with your car keys, then you need to read this riveting and radical exploration of the science of remembering, which Faber hopes will do for memory what Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep did for slumber.
Chimene Suleyman The Chain Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 28 March, hb, £18.99, 9781399606462
Biography & Memoirs
In early 2017, Suleyman went to an abortion
Sophie Elmhirst Maurice and Maralyn Chatto & Windus, 29 February, hb, £18.99, 9781784744922
Biography & Memoirs
Husband and wife Maurice and Maralyn couldn’t
have been more different. But their unlikely yin-yang romance worked, and when—deeply bored by 1970s suburban English life—Maralyn suggested they sell their house, build a boat, set sail for New Zealand, Maurice was game for the adventure. But halfway round the world, their beloved boat is struck by a whale. It sinks in a jiffy and the pair are cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This captivating début is the true story of their 117 days at sea. It’s a terrific classic adventure yarn, but also an authentic love story for Valentine’s Day
Dr Charan Ranganath Why We Remember Faber & Faber, 14 March, hb, £20, 9780571374144
clinic in New York with her boyfriend and father of her child. After he scarpered during her appointment, Suleyman quickly discovered that a whole chain of other women had been cruelly betrayed by him. In this compulsive, devastating narrative which I read in one sitting, she tells their stories, presenting a searing indictment of heartless misogyny, which can make any woman question her worth no matter how intelligent or self-aware. But read the The Chain too as a spirited testament to the sisterhood that forms in the wake of such betrayal.
renowned writer, a searing and deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life 30 years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. To be published simultaneously in multiple territories around the world, this account of the traumatic events of August 12th 2022 answers violence with art and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Cape describes it as “a defence of freedom of speech that will endure across generations”.
Carol Atherton Reading Lessons Fig Tree, 4 April, hb, £18.99, 9780241629482
Biography & Memoirs
How can a Victorian poem help the teenagers
of today understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage youngsters to speak out? For almost three decades Atherton has taught English to secondary school students. In this brilliant and rallying book she revisits some of the texts that have long been fixtures on the syllabus and celebrates their impact on us then, and their enduring power today. In the process she makes a powerful case for the importance of teaching literature at a time when the importance of the arts in education is being eroded.
Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time Picador, 2 May, hb, £20, 9781529066678
Gardening In 2020, Laing began to restore
a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. It’s a transformation I have loved following on her Instagram account. So I’m much looking forward to this “personal yet inventive” exploration of the notion of earthly paradise and its long association with gardens both real and imagined. From “Paradise Lost” to a wartime sanctuary in Italy and Derek Jarman’s queer utopia in Dungeness it offers a tapestry of the pleasures and possibilities of gardens as places to hide from the world but also as sites of encounter and discovery.
of his wife’s. His search for understanding leads him to artists and artworks from Titian and Francis Bacon. Addressed directly to his wife, the result is this intimate and powerfully moving account of a relationship, full of wonder and insight.
studied and in every area of medicine she has examined, people belonging to marginalised racial and ethnic groups disproportionately experience poor health outcomes; from cardiovascular disease to viruses, cancer to mental illness. She shows that the widespread adoption of anti-racist medical standards and societal policies will be central to creating a healthier world for everyone. Chris van Tulleken calls it “a work of towering importance”.
Richard Mabey The Accidental Garden Profile Books, 6 June, hb, £12.99, 9781805220701
Gardening We regard gardens as our personal
dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But they are also occupied by myriads of other organisms, all with their own lives to lead. The conflict between these two power bases, Mabey suggests in this provocative new work— rooted in the daily dramas he witnesses in his own Norfolk garden—is a microcosm of what is happening in the wider world, making the garden a powerful metaphor for our troubled planet. Any new book from Mabey is an important event, and I cannot wait to read this.
Tom de Freston Strange Bodies Granta Books, 2 May, hb, £16.99, 9781783789894
Biography & Memoirs
In 2020, artist de Freston and his novelist wife
Salman Rushdie Knife Jonathan Cape, April, hb, £20, 9781787334793
Biography & Memoirs
From the Booker Prize winner and internationally
Kiran Millwood Hargrave discovered they were expecting twins. But Hargrave miscarried, and thus began a long journey to parenthood that saw the loss of six more pregnancies. De Freston began exploring his experience of the losses in his artwork, searching for a way to make sense of his grief and
Layal Liverpool Systemic Bloomsbury Publishing, 6 June, hb, £20, 9781526652157
Current affairs
In this remarkable exposé, science journalist Liverpool
unearths shocking research which shows that across the world, in every country she has
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