Highlights of the Season Gardening
aims to help you break through fear and find joy through creativity.
Fearne Cotton Likeable Vermilion, 12 March, hb, £22, 9781785046292
Lottie Delamain Gardens That Can Save the World Thames & Hudson, 5 March, hb, £30, 9780500028742
An illustrated exploration of the many ways in which green spaces can be the solution to some of our most pressing problems, from loneliness to climate change. Foreword by Isabella Tree.
Sarah Raven A Year of Cut Flowers Bloomsbury Publishing, 12 March, hb, £30, 9781526683427
From plant rotation to flower arranging, this latest illustrated book from the doyenne of flower growing aims to provide all the tips and tricks you need to plan, grow and arrange flowers from your own cutting garden.
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Julia Cameron The Prosperous Heart Souvenir Press, 5 March, pb, £16.99, 9781805226956
In this “dynamic creative renewal programme”, the celebrated author of The Artist’s Way offers tools, insights and prompts to help us tune in with our inner wisdom and achieve spiritual fulfilment alongside creative purpose.
“For too long, our value and self-worth has been tied to pleasing others.” So says Cotton in this “empowering and raw personal account” of her own experience.
Deepika Chopra The Power of Real Optimism
Leap, 17 March, hb, £16.99, 9781785122729
Optimism is not about pretending everything is fine, but rather staying open and flexible when it is not fine. So says psychologist Chopra as she shows us how to build the kind of optimism “that can actually withstand real life”.
Elizabeth Davies Training for Your Old Lady Body
Leap, 19 March, pb, £16.99, 9781785127069
Irresistibly titled guide for women of a certain age to reframe exercise as a way of safeguarding our quality of life into older age, with a focus on muscle and strength, bone mineral density, heart health, pelvic floor and mobility, flexibility and stability.
Kate Murphy Why We Click Viking, 26 March, hb, £22, 9780241744246
The science communicator author of You’re Not Listening delves into the science of why people click, and the hidden power of “interpersonal synchrony”.
Mind, Body & Spirit
Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa (trans) The Supreme Gift
Thorsons, 3 March, hb, £14.99, 9780008791940
Holly Ringland The House That Joy Built Batsford, 5 March, hb, £16.99, 9781837330447
With seven chapters, each addressing an obstruction to creativity with a suggested remedy, this “uplifting, positive and powerful” book
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Already a bestseller across Europe, this latest book from Coelho focuses on the thought of St Paul, and of 19th-century biologist and missionary Henry Drummond, who defined love as the culmination of nine elements: patience, kindness, generosity, humility, gentleness, dedication, tolerance, sincerity and innocence.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction Sports & Gaming
Paul Harris The Warrior Walker Blink Publishing, 26 March, hb, £20, 9781785128691
In 2020, former Royal Marine Harris, aka The Warrior Walker, weighed down by his traumatic military past, set off to walk the UK’s coastal paths in their entirety, twice. He charts his journey of self-discovery, which changed his life and the way he saw the world forever.
Alan Shipnuck Rory Simon & Schuster, 31 March, hb, £25, 9781398552593
Major new account of the “tumultuous” life of golfer Rory McIlroy, published just ahead of the 2026 Masters tournament at which he will defend his title.
Art & Antiques
Paul Perrin, Christopher Riopelle, Chiara Di Stefano, Katie Hanson Renoir and Love National Gallery Company, 10 March, hb, £40, 9781857097580
Accompanying a major National Gallery exhibition, a celebration of Renoir’s imagery of love in all its guises: from affection and friendship to flirtation, courtship and parenthood.
Anna Thomasson A Vast Horizon Picador, 26 March, hb, £20, 9781447245568
This alluring fusion of history and art tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited artistic circle in the 1930s, including Lee Miller, Man Ray and Dora Maar. Thomasson traces their creativity, friendships and pursuit of freedom, painting a portrait of “rebellious lives and the redemptive power of art”.
Cinema & Television
Paul Fischer The Last Kings of Hollywood Faber & Faber, 12 March, hb, £22, 9780571378647
Deep diving into the period 1969-84, this tells the “thrilling, dramatic”, inside story of how three leading film-makers rivalled, supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and worked
Caroline de Guitaut, Amy de la Haye, Anna Wintour Queen Elizabeth II: Fashion & Style Royal Collection Trust, 26 March, hb, £40, 9781909741942
“Queen Elizabeth II was one of the most stylish and instantly recognisable women of the 20th century.” This book explores the late Queen’s unique and significant personal dress collection.
Poetry Polly Atkin
Emergency Dream Seren Books, 16 March, pb, £10.99, 9781781727959
Growing from entangled emergencies, social, political and personal, these new poems by Atkin offer close observations of the natural and human worlds, highlighting the inextricability of climate justice and disability justice.
Donna Ashworth Loss: The New Collection Blink Publishing, 19 March, hb, £12.99, 9781788709842
Also containing previously unpublished material, this revised and expanded edition of Ashworth’s 2022 collection brings all her poems for the bereaved together in one volume.
Conservation & Environment
Luke Barley Ancient Profile Books, 5 March, hb, £25, 9781805222231
Drawing on more than 20 years’ experience rehabilitating ancient woodlands from the Lakes to the Peak District and in suburban London, Barley invites us to step into the woods and discover the trees that made Britain. With its “exceptionally lyrical storytelling”, Profile is drawing comparisons with James Rebanks.
to reinvent popular American cinema.
Design & Architecture
Natural History & Pets
Cathy Haynes The Fullness of Time Bloomsbury Publishing, 12 March, hb, £22, 9781526665133
In a “stunning and joyful” debut book, artist and curator Haynes travels from remote Scottish islands to the farmyards of Somerset and the dynamic landscapes of Iceland to explore how nature marks time.
Michael Bond Animate Picador, 19 March, hb, £22, 9781035021246
Blending psychology with anthropology, literature and neuroscience, the author of Wayfinding offers an absorbing account of how animals have shaped us; from our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose brains were rewired by the prey they hunted to the Enlightenment thinkers who used animals to promote ideas of human supremacy.
David George Haskell How Flowers Made Our World
Torva, 26 March, hb, £22, 9781911709985
Through “vivid storytelling and profound insights”, Haskell illuminates flowers as portals into deep time and essential players in our ecological future, inviting readers to see them in a new light.
Transport
Hattie Hearn, Adi Gilbert (illus) How to Fly a Spitfire Frances Lincoln, 5 March, hb, £19.99, 9781836009795
From the basics of starting the engine and preparing for flight, to an outline of its aerobatic abilities and some fundamentals of keeping this complicated plane airworthy, an accessible step-by-step guide to the Spitfire and “its incredible operational life”.
Travel Guides
Harry Bucknall A Road for All Seasons Constable, 19 March, hb, £22, 9781472126924
Propelled by recent turbulent politics to try to better understand the country he calls home, Bucknall embarks on a series of four walks across Britain, mirroring the changing seasons and covering
Tom Chesshyre Wild Peaks HarperNorth, 12 March, hb, £20, 9780008733469
Chesshyre takes a journey through the Peak District – Britain’s first National Park on its 75th anniversary, to discover how this dramatic landscape has fared since its creation.
Tom Sykes The Years of Travelling Anxiously
Icon Books, 26 March, hb, £20, 9781837732555
Writer and academic Sykes has travelled the world, but his trips have often been marred or ruined by his anxiety. In this part travelogue, part wellbeing memoir, he looks back on stressful travels and explains what can be learned about mental health on the road from a baby with an “inspiringly calm attitude to travel”.
nearly 1,600 miles. It forms a snapshot of 21st-century Britain, and is his “ardent tribute” to the British Isles.
Travel Writing
Joe Luc Barnes Farewell to Russia Elliott & Thompson, 5 March, hb, £22, 9781783969401
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Barnes journeys across the former USSR to find out what has become of people in the other 14 states outside Moscow that made up the former Soviet Union.
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