I’m a tiny bit late with this. I have scoured all the catalogues I could find online and went through the big pile that I had bought home from the London book fair and here is a list of new books coming out in the later part of the year that piqued my interest.
Birlinn
Italy’s Paradise: A History of Tuscany – Alistair Moffat
The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway – Ann Lingard
Bloomsbury
A Mudlarking Year – Lara Maiklem
How To Be A Citizen – C.L. Skach
Goodbye To Russia – Sarah Rainsford
Good Nature – Kathy Willis
The Golden Road – William Dalrymple
Smart Money – Brunello Rosa & Casey Larsen
The Starspotters Guide – Sheila Kanani
Kind – Graham Allcott
Finding Your Feet – Rhiane Fatinikun
The Long History Of The Future – Nicole Kobie
One Garden against The World – Kate Bradbury
Ebb And Flow – Tiffany Francis-Baker
Rare Singles – Benjamin Myers
The Great When – Alan Moore
The Wood At Midwinter – Susanna Clarke
Canongate
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI – James Muldoon, Mark Graham & Callum Cant
Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden – Marchelle Farrell
The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory – Jonathan Watts
Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton
That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz – Malachy Tallack
Duckworth
Standard Deviations: The truth about flawed statistics, AI and Big Data – Gary Smith
Firebrands: 25 Pioneering Women Writers to IgniteYour Reading Life – Joanna Scutts
Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic – Jonathan Hollins
Elliott & Thompson
Radical Rest – Evie Muir
A Winter Dictionary – Paul Anthony Jones
Owls! Owls! Owls! – Polly Atkin
Europa Editions
Shifting the Moon from its Orbit – Andrea Marcolongo
The Passenger: South Korea – Various
The Passenger: Naples – Various
Faber & Faber
Crunch – Natalie Whittle
A Year of Living Curiously – Beth Coates & Elizabeth Foley
Flint
Crypto Confidential – Jake Donoghue
Eliminating Poverty In Britain – Helen Rowe
Granta
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy – Julian Baggini
The Dead of Winter: The Witches, Demons and Monsters of Christmas – Sarah Clegg
Brilliant Maps in the Wild: A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds – Mike Higgins
Haus
Syracuse – Joachim Sartorius
Headline
Exploding Tomatoes and Other Stories – Sophie Grigson
Turning to Stone – Marcia Bjornerud
A Pub For All Seasons – Adrian Tierney-Jones
Hurst
Vatican Spies; From the Second World War to Pope Francis – Yvonnick Denoël Tr. Alan McKay
Secrets of a Suitcase: The Countess, the Nazis, and Middle Europe’s Lost Nobility – Pauline Terreehorst Tr. Brent Annable
A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine – Christopher Beckman
John Murray
Time And Tide: The Long, Long Life Of Landscape – Fiona Stafford
Lost To The Sea: A Journey Round The Edges Of Britain And Ireland – Lisa Woollett
Little, Brown
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence – Sara Imari Walker
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong – Paul Richardson
Still Waters and Wild Waves: A Printmaker’s Journey – Angela Harding
Trees in Winter – Richard Shimell
The Tree Almanac 2025: A Seasonal Guide to the Woodland World – Dr Gabriel Hemery
Murdoch Books
Everyday Folklore – Liza Frank
Oneworld
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds – Jennifer Ackerman
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep – Kenneth Miller
The Science of Spin: The Force Behind Everything – From Falling Cats to Jet Engines – Roland Ennos
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading – Sam Leith
Profile
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World – Joe Roman
Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions – And What We Can Do About It – Simon Kuper
On the Roof: A Thatcher’s Journey – Tom Allan
Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel – Sara Caputo
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age – Eleanor Barraclough
The Future of AI – Patrick Dixon
The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street – Annie Gray
A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France – Ned Palmer
Church Going: The Curious Story of Britain’s Churches – Andrew Ziminski
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell: From India to Alexandria (1912–47) – Michael Haag
Reaktion
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages – Sara J. Charles
England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s – David Matless
The English Table: Our Food through the Ages – Jill Norman
Readers for Life: How Reading and Listening in Childhood Shapes Us – Sander L. Gilman and Heta Pyrhönen (ed)
Weeds – Nina Edwards
Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels – Henry H. Work
September Books
Children of the Volcano – Ros Belford
Beach Explorer – Heather Buttivant
A Ride Across America – Simon Parker
Summersdale
Slow Trains To Istanbul – Tom Chesshyre
All Boats Are Sinking – Hannah Pierce
Vive Le Chaos – Ian Moore
Vagabond – Mark Eveleigh
University of Wales Press
Where The Folk – Russ Williams
Verso Books
The Masters Tools – Michael Alexander McCarthy
W&N
Homecoming: A Guided Journal To Lead You Back To Nature
Are there any I have missed that you’d think I’d like? Or are there any that you didn’t know about that you are now excited about?
Let me know in the comments below.
I’d be tempted by new books by Benjamin Myers and Susanna Clark, the two about gardens, the biography of James Lovelock and Sophie Grigson’s book, for starters!
There are so great books being released!
Love it when you go through the catalogues!
Can’t wait for the Susanna Clarke.
Thank you, Penny. I don’t think I had one standout book this time. Interesting selection though
I’ve got Rare Singles on NetGalley but some lovely sounding titles all through that list!
I am a big fan of his writing so will probably buy a copy.
Thanks Paul- some great books coming soon and I enjoy looking through the lists you post. I particularly look forward to Mallachy Tallack’s and Sarah Clegg’s books.
One upcoming book this Autumn which maybe of interest is: The Stones of Britain- A History of Britain through its Geology by Jon Cannon (Constable 12th September).
Thanks, James. I didn’t know about that book, thanks for letting me know