Highlights of the Season
Ashley Douglas With My Own Hand Headline Press, 16 July, hb, £22, 9781035430604
The untold story of Marie Maitland – “Scotland’s 16th-century Sappho” – who hid secret lesbian love poetry in the Maitland Quarto, a collection of poetry from the male great- and-good of the time.
Frank Miller Push the Wall Canongate Books, 16 July, hb, £30, 9781837262144
The US comic book writer chronicles the creation of such classic works as Sin City, 300, Ronin, Daredevil, Wolverine and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a foundation for all Batman film and animated adaptations for the past 40 years.
Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Halimi Djamila Boupacha
Verso Books, 28 July, pb, £19.99, 9781836741817
A classic text of anticolonialism, this searing denunciation of French torture in early 1960s Algeria is “a story that demands to be read and remembered”.
Gerald Martin Mario Vargas Llosa Bloomsbury Publishing, 30 July, hb, £35, 9781408825273
“Dazzling and deeply researched,” a compelling account of the “astonishing and profoundly contradictory” life of Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa, who died in 2025.
Current Affairs
Robert Barrington Corrupted Kingdom Profile Books, 9 July, hb, £22, 9781805223153
“Britain is complacent about corruption.” Barrington is one of the world’s leading researchers on corruption, and this is his comprehensive examination of how corruption manifests in Britain, from politicians to prisons, the monarchy and the Met.
Vicky Spratt We Were Promised the Moon
Fourth Estate, 16 July, hb, £16.99, 9780008658380
Were we mis-sold a future? Combining her own experience and the stories of women she has met across Britain over the past 10 years, journalist Spratt explores how the economic
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context of the past 30 years has shaped the lives of Millennials and Generation Z.
General History
Catrine Clay Children of the Third Reich Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9 July, hb, £22, 9781474622585
Historian Clay tells the “gripping” story of two children from the Lebensborn programme, in which 11,000 babies were bred to promote Nazi eugenics and be raised as the future of the Third Reich.
Popular Science
Roopika Risam Data Empire Torva, 9 July, hb, £25, 9781911709817
From clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history, arguing that information has always been the seed of power, and with “urgent lessons for the present day”.
Psychology
Charlotte Fox Weber Sacred Monsters Viking, 2 July, hb, £16.99, 9780241741092
“Sacred Monster: Someone who loomed very large in your life at a formative stage of young adulthood (15-30), changing your sense of self to the core.” Via her clients’ moving stories, psychotherapist Fox Weber explores how and why we cling to these figures who appalled and enthralled us.
Food & Drink
Caroline Hanna Hungry Hamlyn, 2 July, hb, £26, 9780600639831
No more coffee for breakfast and restrictions on snacking – when you are hungry, you should eat. So says nutritional therapist and chef Hanna as she shares more than 90 recipes to “honour both your hunger and your health”.
Health, Self-Help & Parenting
Will Darbyshire This Modern Love Now Century, 2 July, hb, £18.99, 9781529977158
Have you ever wanted to write something to a partner or ex? What is the best and worst message you have received on a
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dating app? What would you say to your last hook-up? Ten years after the publication of This Modern Love, its author takes a crowd-sourced look at how modern love has changed.
Milli Hill
The Body Myth HQ, 16 July, hb, £18.99, 9780008599003
Hill aims to transform the way a generation of women think, not just about one single aspect of being female, but about their lifetime experience of the female body.
Sports & Gaming
Mark Foster A Double Life Bloomsbury Sport, 2 July, hb, £20, 9781399425162
Explaining exactly why it took him so long, the colourful story of British Olympic swimmer Foster and his 30-year coming out journey.
Travel Writing
Chris Moss Where Tourists Seldom Tread
Guardian Faber, 16 July, hb, £20, 9781783353170
Travelling from Warrington, Birkenhead and Slough to Paisley, Dungannon, Newport and beyond, Moss seeks out Britain’s “unloved” towns and considers why the hidden pleasures they have to offer have been ignored by most.
Education
James Patterson Thank You, Teachers Century, 2 July, hb, £20, 9781529923049
“Teaching is among the most admirable professions.” Featuring a range of first-hand accounts, Patterson explores the creative and noble work of teachers across America, as well as the threats to that work, from book banning to lack of funding.
Gender Studies
Saskia Alaïs Bombshell Fourth Estate, 2 July, hb, £16.99, 9780008701482
In this powerful and precise book, which features the voices of women from around the world, Alaïs examines how we originated harmful beauty ideals and the many ways in which we continue to perpetuate them.
Literature & Criticism
Courttia Newland The Art of Opposition Faber & Faber, 30 July, hb, £16.99, 9780571393343
Both as a novelist and as a screenwriter, Newland has found himself in a place of opposition to the commercial mainstream. At the age of 50, he reflects on what it means to be an artist operating in the margins and shares his experiences for those facing similar hurdles and choices.
Specialist, Technical & Medical
Matt Parker The Vintage Video Basement
Hamlyn, 30 July, hb, £18.99, 9781846016158
Drawn from the author’s archive, a curated journey through the electronics of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, as seen on Parker’s hit Instagram, @vintagevideobasement (350,000 followers).
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