I have been through 23 catalogues so far and it is that time of the year when I release the list of books coming out in the Autumn that I really like the sound of. It is not a full list, there are many more books being published than I have included here. It is not complete, so this may be updated if I come across any more after this has been published.
Bloomsbury
The Other Pandemic – James Ball
Code of Conduct – Chris Bryant
The Globemakers – Peter Bellerby
Slow Seasons – Rosie Steer
Unfinished Woman – Robyn Davidson
The Gardener of Lashkar – Larisa Brown
God Is An Octopus – Ben Goldsmith
Bodley Head
Techno-Feudalism What Killed Capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis
Bradt
Call of the Kingfisher: Bright Sights and birdsong in a Year by the River – Nick Penny
Canongate
Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank – John Lister-Kaye
Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Country Garden – Marchella Farrell
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World – James Crawford
Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman – N.S. Nuseibeh
Let the Light Pour In – Lemn Sissay
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history – Annabelle Hirsch Tr. Eleanor Updegraff
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews – Ed Adam Biles
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China – Noo Saro-Wiwa
Cheerio
Shopping Lists: A Consuming Fascination – Ingrid Swenson
Faber & Faber
Cahokia Jazz – Francis Spufford
The Farmer’s Wife – Helen Rebanks
Property – Rowan Moore
The Wisdom of Sheep (And Other Animals): Observations From a Cotswold Farm – Rosamund Young
Granta
Nature’s Calendar: The British Year in 72 Seasons – Kiera Chapman, Lulah Ellender, Rowan Jaines and Rebecca Warren
A Book of Noises” Notes on the Auraculous – Caspar Henderson
Headline
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland – Tom Parfitt
Lost Music of the Holocaust – Francesco Lotoro
Hodder & Stoughton
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses – David Scheel
Dust: The Story of the Modern World in a Trillion Particles – Jay Owens
Mountains Of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes – Clive Oppenheimer
Hurst Publishers
Stuff” Humanity’s Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper – Chip Colwell
All That Glistens: Chinese Party-State Influence in Britain – Martin Thorley
Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire – Darek Turner
John Murray
Interesting Stories about Curious Words – Susie Dent
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions – Akshat Rathi
The Race To The Future: Peking to Paris and Beyond – Kassia St Clair
The Women Who Made Modern Economics – Rachel Reeves
Starborn – Roberto Trotta
Jonathan Cape
Orbital – Samantha Harvey
Little Toller
Elowen – William Henry Serle
Oneworld
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds – Jennifer Ackerman
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View – William MacAskill
The Battle for Thought: Freethinking in the Twenty-First Century – Simon McCarthy-Jones
Pan Macmillan
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History – Ben Mezrich
Profile Books
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World – Maxim Samson
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs – David Runciman
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict – Andrew Pettegree
The Secret Life of John le Carré – Adam Sisman
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary – Hana Videen
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper – Roland Allen
Pushkin
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths Brad Fox
National Dish: Around The World In Search Of Food, History And The Meaning Of Home – Anya von Bremzen
A Line In The World: A Year On The North Sea Coast – Dorthe Nors
Reaktion Books
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking – Kerri Andrews
Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World before Time – Boria Sax
Alone – Daniel Schreiber Tr. Ben Fergusson
The Food Adventurers: How Around-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat – Daniel E. Bender
The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters – Barbara Burman
Stones: A Material and Cultural History – Cally Oldershaw
Living with the Dead: How We Care for the Deceased Vibeke – Maria Viestad and Andreas Viestad
Dreamwork: Why All Work Is Imaginary – Steven Connor
Square Peg
The Owl: A Biography – Stephen Moss
Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times – Olivia Swarthout
Summersdale
Moderate Becoming Good Later: Sea Kayaking the Shipping Forecast – Katie Carr & Toby Carr
Two Roads
Rambling Man: Travels of a Lifetime – Billy Connolly
William Collins
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas – Karen Pinchin
The Bone Chests – Cat Jarman
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands – Annie Worsley
The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London – Niall Kishtainy
So are there any there that you have heard of before? Are you now making your TBR much longer? Let me know in the comments below
Uprooting, Black Ghosts, The Way Makers and The Bone Chests appeal to me most as titles/authors – and I am looking forward to Rachel Reeves’ book, having heard her talk very enthusiastically about women economists in an interview I was transcribing the other week.
I really liked Noo Saro-Wiwa’s first book. Do you have a link to the interview?
Yes, I have that on my wishlist, too. I think this is the one, you have to register to read it but get three free reads, unless you’re a subscriber, which I am https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2023/06/reeves-doctrine-labours-plan-power-shadow-chancellor-washington-dc-jason-cowley
I have signed up to read the three articles per month, mostly to read this:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2023/06/rise-waterstones-dad-library-history-bookshops
Which is utter nonsense to be honest!
Definitely looking forward to reading Annie Worsley’s Windswept aka Red River Croft. Stephen Moss titles are always worth reading and nicely illustrated. I would add Michael Morpurgo / All Around the Year (the third Little Toller Nature Classic this year) and looking slightly further ahead, Kathleen Jamie / Cairn: Micro-Essays, Prose Poems, Notes and Fragments from Sort of Books.
I didn’t know about the Kathleen Jamie!! There is a Eland book coming out too, but I can’t say anything about that yet