Highlights of the Season
people and its music, while she seeks to find her own place within it.”
Dave Grimstead Someone Must Know The Bodley Head, 11 June, hb, £22, 9781847928542
Every two minutes someone is reported missing in the UK. Grimstead, a retired detective inspector, tells the story of his eclectic team of passionate volunteers who follow clues wherever they lead in the hunt for answers, closure and the truth.
Philip Norman Mr Moonlight Simon & Schuster, 18 June, hb, £25, 9781398542266
By one of the most renowned of Beatles authors, a new biography of Brian Epstein, the band’s visionary manager.
Catherine Daunt How to Think Like an Artist Bloomsbury Continuum, 25 June, hb, £16.99, 9781399422925
This “illuminating” guide to some of history’s most influential and inspiring artists – from Michelangelo to Frida Kahlo – explores how they can teach us to see the world more clearly.
Current Affairs
Robin Yassin-Kassab The Blood Between Us Saqi Books, 4 June, hb, £20, 9781849251068
In 11 days in Syria, the Assad regime fell, but the struggle was decades deep. So says the author of this account of the revolution, which chronicles loss and the fragile hope of a nation remaking its future.
one of the great swindles of the 21st century”.
Jonathan Glancey Where We Live Icon Books, 18 June, hb, £20, 9781837732487
“Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis.” This is a critical history of the art of British housebuilding – urban, suburban and rural – a study of where British housing has lost its way for the best part of a century, and a source of inspiration and hope for the future.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce A British Childhood Picador, 18 June, hb, £18.99, 9781035080755
Capturing stories from homes, libraries, schools and streets across the country, Children’s Laureate Cottrell-Boyce shows our children and ourselves in a glaring new light as he charts contemporary childhoods in Britain.
General History
Kate Williams Regina Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 4 June, hb, £25, 9781474621359
From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, this epic new history of royal women leads us into the world of queens, empresses, princesses, mistresses and ladies-in-waiting and aims to shatters the myths we have built around them.
Michael Calvin ’66 Bantam Books (Transworld), 4 June, hb, £22, 9780857508638
Through the prism of the football World Cup of 1966, and the eight teams that reached the quarter finals – England, West Germany, Uruguay, Argentina, Portugal, Soviet Union, North Korea and Hungary – comes a “vivid portrait of a critical moment in world history”.
Discover what makes us distinctly human through this story of our evolution, with illustrations of our seemingly ordinary anatomy, alongside mind- expanding diagrams of what we achieved with it.
Marion Gibson Witchland Simon & Schuster, 4 June, hb, £22, 9781398545144
Hundreds of women were killed during the 1640-50 witch hunts. Gibson shares the stories of Anne West, Ellen Driver, Henry Maggs, Ann Jefferies and others unfairly accused and executed in this fresh new history of the country’s biggest witch hunt and why it is still relevant today.
Guy Walters Stealing Hitler’s Rocket Apollo, 4 June, hb, £25, 9781035910854
The “incredible” story of how one of Hitler’s top-secret V2 rockets was stolen by the Poles and smuggled to Britain in “one of the most extraordinary operations of the Second World War”.
Hester Grant The Twitnam Summer William Collins, 4 June, hb, £25, 9780008699987
This “rollicking” narrative history is set during the summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag. Alexander Pope and John Gay also feature.
Nandini Das This Little World Bloomsbury Publishing, 18 June, hb, £25, 9781526669650
This bold new history of Tudor and Stuart England is told not through its monarchs, but through the people crossing its borders: merchants and migrants, sailors and spies, pilgrims and exiles.
Roderick Bailey The Lifesavers Viking, 25 June, hb, £25, 9780241744079
Kojo Koram The Next Fix John Murray, 4 June, hb, £22, 9781399807715
If we legalise drugs, who profits? Who gets exploited? And what gets fixed? Koram explores how the legalisation of drugs is “gearing up to be
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Professor Alice Roberts Humans DK, 4 June, hb, £25, 9780241682746
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
The remarkable true story of the trailblazing men and women of Britain’s blood transfusion service in the Second World War, a revolutionary service that was later adopted around the world.
Social & Local History
Julie Summers, Jochen Hemmleb The Everest Mystery
Macmillan, 11 June, hb, £22, 9781035097883
Drawing on previously unpublished material and new discoveries, Sandy Irvine’s great- niece Summers and mountaineering historian Hemmleb (who was part of the team that found Mallory’s body) present the “definitive” book on Irvine and the mystery of his and Mallory’s disappearance on Everest in June 1924.
War & Military History
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon Tank Command Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction, 4 June, hb, £22, 9781035437610
The former tank commander and author offers a “unique and timely” exploration of the evolution of the tank, on and off the battlefield, written in close collaboration with the renowned Tank Museum in Dorset.
Philosophy
Massimo Pigliucci How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic
Headline Press, 4 June, hb, £16.99, 9781035424023
Updating ancient philosophy with modern cognitive and social science, a leading philosopher presents a guide to cultivating curiosity and reveals how a sceptical approach is the way to a good life.
Popular Science
Melanie Challenger Alive Canongate Books, 4 June, hb, £20, 9781805300052
This takes a “bold and beguiling” journey into the unexpected interactions between different organisms on our planet.
Rowan Hooper Togetherness Fern Press, 4 June, hb, £25, 9781911717140
Revealing the intimate connectedness of nature through “remarkable stories of symbiosis”: from the female wasp venturing deep inside a fig to the symbiotic gut microbes that influence our moods.
Dr Saira Hameed Signals Faber & Faber, 4 June, hb, £20, 9780571389773
Leading endocrinologist Hameed takes us on a journey inside our bodies to reveal hormones
Orlando Swayne How to Use a Fork Picador, 4 June, hb, £20, 9781035064335
Fusing cutting-edge neuroscience with human stories, this is “compelling” popular science about what happens when the brain breaks and how incredibly good it is at healing.
Christophe Galfard, Stuart Wilson (illus) This Is Life
Picador, 25 June, hb, £20, 9781529032031
The author of The Universe in Your Hand presents a “riveting and comprehensive” guide to everything we know about life, from impossibly intricate cells to mind- boggling evolution.
Psychology
Dr Emma Kavanagh The Psychopath Effect Seven Dials, 18 June, hb, £22, 9781399637442
The psychologist author exposes the potent impact of the psychopaths among us, and how, from friends to colleagues, partners to parents, they are busily trying to alter our brains. “Finally, we have a way to spot them to try to reverse their damage.”
Crafts, Hobbies & Pastimes
Ben Mezrich Checkmate Macmillan Business, 4 June, hb, £22, 9781035070459
The author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House provides a narrative deep-dive into the scandalous, high-stakes world of competitive chess.
at work; combining “compassionately told” patient histories, with stories of pioneering medical breakthroughs. “To be human is to be hormonal too.”
Food & Drink
Tommy Barnes Something Brewing in Cornwall
Muswell Press, 11 June, pb, £12.99, 9781919247120
The author of A Beer in the Loire and Trouble Brewing in the Loire returns to, celebrate beer, Cornwall, family and friendship.
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Pamela Pavliscak All the Feels Elliott & Thompson, 11 June, hb, £16.99, 9781783967988
In this “fun and accessible” book on tech and emotions, Pavliscak argues that we can harness the power of technology to lead emotionally rich lives, both online and off.
Milly Goldsmith Things I Told My Notes App Bantam Books (Transworld), 25 June, hb, £16.99, 9780857509406
Comprised of short, honest reflections on everything from self- worth to the impact of male validation, this passionate guide to living life on your own terms celebrates the beauty of being single and finding happiness within yourself.
Emma Gannon A Creative Compass Torva, 25 June, hb, £20, 9781911709237
Gannon presents an empowering, inside-out guide for artists, makers, writers and anyone seeking to live more creatively, with confidence, calm and joy.
Mind, Body & Spirit
Liam McClintock Fit Mind Penguin Life, 11 June, pb, £16.99, 9780241555170
Bridging cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient meditation tools, a practical guide to unlocking mental fitness in everyday life, including techniques that enable us to meditate at home, work or on the move.
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