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Man & Dog A love story
COMING Introducing the Spring/Summer 2026 Buyer’s Guides: your essential guides to the season ahead Welcome. Introduction
Eye-catching Non-Fiction to anticipate in 2026
A line-up of titles strengthened by its eclecticism will inform, educate and entertain, with books from Antony Beevor, Mary Berry, Sajid Javid, Sylvester Stallone and many more
S Our expert
Caroline Sanderson
Caroline worked as a Waterstones bookseller, and as a book publicist before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. The Bookseller’s Non- Fiction previewer since 2000, she has judged numerous book prizes, including chairing the panel for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Programme director of Stroud Book Festival, Caroline is also a Royal Literary Fund Writing for Life Fellow, supporting writing skills within the NHS.
Spring/Summer 2026
pring is sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where the best books is? Here in this latest seasonal preview of Non-Fiction titles, of course. Spring still feels some way off, but with the
winter solstice passed it won’t be too long until we’re back to long hours of reading by daylight. Publishing loves an anniversary and April
brings the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Renowned royal biog- rapher Robert Hardman is back with The Essential Elizabeth (Macmillan), while Michelle Morgan offers The Queen (Robinson), a “warm” biography structured around 100 vignettes forming an “intimate” retelling of her long life. But my pick of royal books is Justine Picardie’s Fashioning the Crown (Faber) a sumptuously illustrated and fascinating look at how clothes were used to assert the image of the monarchy during a tumultuous 20th century. Spring is not traditionally high season for
hot celebrity memoirs, but we could have a contender in May with The Steps by Sylvester Stallone (Seven Dials). Two memoirs by politi- cians are worth seeking out: The Colour of Home by Sajid Javid (Abacus) in February, and, in March, Honoured by Naz Shah (Weidenfeld), while the late Tessa Jowell is commemorated in a beautifully written memoir by her daughter
Our guide to The Guides
The titles listed in the Buyer’s Guides are divided into categories, with sub-divisions according to format. Entries are listed under the publishers’ imprints, which have been ordered alphabetically. The books included
were submitted by publishers via the online database hosted at Bookseller
BuyersGuide.co.uk. Publishers were given a 30-word limit to describe each title. If a title is an audiobook or has an audio edition, it is stated in the title’s metadata. Other formats
are as follows: hb
pb tpb
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trade paperback
pbo paperback original
mmpb mass-market paperback
eb e-book
Jess Mills, We Are Each Other (Leap), also out in March. And in one of the biggest books of the season, the extraordinary Gisele Pelicot tells her story for the first time in A Hymn to Life (The Bodley Head, February). Other eye-catching memoirs to look forward
to are those by Mark Haddon (Chatto, February), Bethany Handley (Headline, April), and Kayo Chingonyi (July, Fourth Estate), while Blake Morrison, an éminence grise of the genre, considers the form in On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing (Borough Press, April). And while we are about it, I would like to fly the flag for biography. These days it undeservedly often feels like a poor cousin to memoir, but in Jan Morris by Sara Wheeler (Faber, April) and Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, Sathnam Sanghera’s forthcoming book on George Michael (Picador, June), we have two fantastic examples of the form. Also firmly on my TBR pile: Rasputin by
Antony Beevor (Weidenfeld, March); a volume of diaries by Alan Bennett, who turns 92 in May (Enough Said, Faber, March); Yiewsley, a poetry collection from the wonderful Daljit Nagra (Faber, May); Mary Berry’s first gardening book, My Gardening Life (DK, February); Kate Young’s delectably readable new cookery book, Dinner at Mine? (Apollo, March), and The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (Hamish Hamilton, May). If you have never read the work of
Ece Temelkuran, I suggest you make 2026 the year you discover her books, starting perhaps with the newest, Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century (Canongate, February). All will provide both bracing and embracing reading during a year when the state of the world looks likely to stay turbulent. In fact, from Neil Shea’s Frostlines: An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic (Picador, February) to Arthur Snell’s Elemental: How We Will Live on a Warming Planet (Wildfire, March), Sally Hayden’s This Is Also a Love Story (4th Estate, May) and Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer’s Story by Dominic Gregory (William Collins, March), my Top 10 Titles Not to Miss tell us something important about the life and times of 2026.
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The heart-warming and moving memoir from Sunday Times bestselling author,
TONY PARSONS From bestselling author Ben Hoare
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