Highlights of the Season
The “definitive” book on the theft of Hitler’s favourite painting from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and its importance to the history of art theft as well as the history of art more broadly.
of relationships and what it is that makes us human.
Anthony Joseph Haunting the Black Air Bloomsbury Poetry, 9 April, pb, £12.99, 9781526683380
From the TS Eliot Prize-winning poet and musician, this “dextrous and versatile” new collection spans the emotional spectrum of unabashed joy and crippling grief, with “musicality and verve”.
Natural History & Pets
Jacqueline Rose, WJT Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson, Benjamin Labatut, Antony Gormley et al
Drawing: Antony Gormley Thames & Hudson, 23 April, hb, £50, 9780500029282
In this first comprehensive overview of his drawing practice from 1980 to the present, artist and sculptor Gormley reflects on the ideas, processes and histories behind his craft.
Music Jim Windolf
Where the Music Had to Go White Rabbit, 16 April, hb, £25, 9781399627849
Featuring a new interview with Paul McCartney, this dual biography dives into the “surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, always fertile” relationship between Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
Dominic Mohan 1996 HarperCollins, 23 April, hb, £20, 9780008767136
From the aftermath of Kurt Cobain’s death to the birth of Britpop, this “part memoir, part cultural autopsy and part riotous tour through the 90s and its greatest year” aims to provide a “jaw-dropping” front-row seat to the madness, the music, the football and the politics that reshaped Britain – and created legends along the way.
Poetry
Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh (illus) The Kind Company of Others Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn), 2 April, hb, £12.99, 9781846977565
In his third collection of poetry, McCall Smith guides the reader through time and place, exploring “majestic themes” of nature, the complexities
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Jon Woolcott The Tattooed Hills Aurum, 23 April, hb, £17.99, 9781805700265
Travelling across southern England and beyond, Woolcott uncovers the stories, symbolism and shifting meanings of the mysterious figures carved into our chalkland hills in this alluring part travelogue, part cultural history.
Charles Scott Weidensaul The Return of the Oystercatcher
Picador, 23 April, hb, £20, 9781035016518
From a tiny island off the coast of Maine to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to a watery wilderness in Ukraine where air-raid sirens scream at night, birds’ fortunes are being reversed. Weidensaul tells the uplifting story of that success and what it means for us and for our planet.
Jeffrey Marlow The Dark Frontier Faber & Faber, 9 April, hb, £20, 9780571364923
Marine microbiologist and deep-sea explorer Marlow conducts an “awe-inspiring and panoramic” investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea – a mysterious, unforgiving landscape, the secrets of which radically revise our understanding of life on earth.
Victoria Bennett The Apothecary by the Sea Elliott & Thompson, 30 April, hb, £16.99, 9781783969340
From the author of All My Wild Mothers: a “lyrical” story of creating a wild apothecary garden on the Orkney islands, beautifully illustrated by local artist Adam Clarke.
Robert Moor In Trees Viking, 30 April, hb, £20, 9780241808535
From Ethiopia and Papua to the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Lake District, Moor uncovers the hidden art of “tree- thinking”, a powerful tool for approaching humanity’s oldest questions, including: how should we – as stewards of the Earth – live?
Travel Writing
David Gange Afloat William Collins, 23 April, hb, £22, 9780008413583
From Ireland and the Shetlands up to Greenland, across to Baffin Island, Newfoundland, the US and the Caribbean, Gange embarks on a seabound journey through North-Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.
Business & Economics
John Connell The Wisdom of Farmers Atlantic Books, 2 April, hb, £12.99, 9781805464235
The author of The Cow Book and Twelve Sheep provides a “thoughtful, illuminating” rumination on the life lessons we can take from those who work the land and the millennia of wisdom they draw upon when they go about their day, “making a living by turning light and time into money”.
Anja Shortland We Know You Can Pay a Million
Profile Books, 9 April, hb, £22, 9781805224549
From a leading expert in illicit trading, an investigation into the criminal underworld where organised groups trade stolen information and cryptocurrencies, revealing the hidden histories of the superhackers whose activities have potentially catastrophic consequences for us all.
Gender Studies
Royal Shakespeare Company Shakespeare’s Strong Women
HarperCollins, 23 April, hb, £14.99, 9780008809409
From the fiery passion of Juliet, to the unapologetic ambition of Cleopatra, the RSC’s own “witty, empowering” guide to Shakespeare’s fiercest female characters.
Literature & Criticism
Daniel Hahn If This Be Magic Canongate Books, 9 April, hb, £25, 9781805301622
What does it mean to translate Shakespeare? When we change all the poetry, all the wordplay, all the syntax - all the words! - is it still Shakespeare? And is it still any good? Award- winning translator Hahn considers all these questions and more.
Greg Doran Walking Shadow Bloomsbury Publishing, 23 April, hb, £22, 9781526694379
After the death from cancer of his husband, Antony Sher, and in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director sets out to see how many first folios he can find on a journey to Japan, South Africa, New Zealand and beyond.
Maïa Hruska Kafkaesque William Collins, 23 April, hb, £16.99, 9780008768614
After Kafka died young and unknown, 10 writers rescued him from oblivion. For years, Kafka existed mostly through their wildly different readings of his words. This is the untold story of those translators.
Sociology
Elizabeth Baxter A Murderer’s Guide to Cleaning
Oneworld, 16 April, hb, £18.99, 9781836431671
Drawing on her 25 years in Britain’s probation service, Baxter offers a fresh perspective on care within the criminal justice system. She pays tribute to probation officers who often act as the final safety net for society’s most vulnerable, from teenage asylum seekers to survivors of domestic abuse.
Specialist, Technical & Medical
Kathryn Paige Harden Original Sin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2 April, hb, £22, 9781399604338
“Intellectually daring and deeply intimate” exploration of how genetics complicate our ideas about blame, punishment and moral responsibility - from the acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery.
Virginia Mendoza, Thomas Bunstead (trans) The Search for Water
Pushkin Press, 9 April, hb, £25, 9781805332930
This “expansive, dazzling” book tells the story of human history through our constant search for water; from flows of migration, agriculture and pagan rain gods to contemporary struggles with drought and climate change.
Dr Hannah Critchlow The 21st Century Brain Torva, 30 April, hb, £22, 9781911709961
How do we nurture our own and our children’s brains so we have the resilience to thrive during the coming wave of technological and societal change? The neuroscientist author shows how we can lean into human strengths to flourish in the face of such global challenges.
Francesca Rhydderch It Might Not Be True Parthian Books, 7 May, hb, £12, 9781913830540
Rhydderch is certain that she is chronically ill, but her doctors disagree. This memoir of “life and love and everything in between” is an “intimate, poignant portrait of hope in crisis”.
May
Biography & Memoirs
Sylvester Stallone The Steps Seven Dials, 5 May, hb, £25, 9781399629454
This “gritty, inspiring, heart-wrenching” memoir by Academy Award-nominated actor Stallone charts his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told.
Nick Cave,
Dominique Issermann Susie Thames & Hudson, 5 May, hb, £40, 9780500029855
This “exquisite” visual and lyrical portrait of designer Susie Cave unites the creative talents
John Robins Thirst Viking, 7 May, hb, £20, 9780241740040
Stand-up comedian, Taskmaster champion and broadcaster Robins is also an alcoholic. He tells the story of the drinks that made him and those that broke him as he explores our relationship with alcohol through reflections on decades of his own drinking.
Herta Müller, Kate McNaughton (trans) The Village on the Edge of the World
Granta Books, 7 May, hb, £16.99, 9781783788170
Taking us back to her childhood in Romania, the Nobel Prize for Literature Laureate reflects on cultural history, memory and trauma, and on what it was to live and write during Ceausescu’s regime.
Brian Dillon Ambivalence Fitzcarraldo Editions, 9 May, pb, £14.99, 9781804272473
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of her husband Nick Cave, photographer Issermann, designer Irma Boom, and Susie Cave herself.
Mitchell Hutchcraft Limitless HarperCollins, 7 May, hb, £22, 9780008800154
In 2024, former Royal Marine Hutchcraft attempted an unprecedented 12,000km triathlon from the UK to the top of the world. His gripping account of that record- breaking expedition is also a “raw and unflinching account of what drives us to the edge and what we discover when we get there”.
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