Anticipated Books For Autumn 2025

I have scoured all the catalogues I could find online and here is my list of new books coming out in the latter part of the year that caught my attention.

 

Birlinn

The Edge of Silence: In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature – Neil Ansell

 

Bloomsbury

Neurodivergent, By Nature: Why Biodiversity Needs Neurodiversity – Joe Harkness

Floating Home: Lessons from a life less ordinary – Adam Lind

Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train – Monisha Rajesh

The Library of Lost Maps – James Cheshire

Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books – Hwang Bo-reum & Shanna Tan (Tr)

Jesus Christ Kinski – Benjamin Myers

Ghosted: A Social History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking – Alice Vernon

The Way of the Waves: A cycling odyssey to rediscover the soul of European surfing – Martin Dorey

Endemic: Exploring the wildlife unique to Britain – James Harding-Morris

 

Canongate

The Edge of Solitude – Katie Hale

Little Ruins: Rebuilding a Life – Manni Coe

The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too – Tim Clare

Could, Should, Might, Don’t: How We Think About the Future – Nick Foster

The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory – Jonathan Watts

The Bridge Between Worlds: A Brief History of Connection – Gavin Francis

Green Crime: Inside the minds of the people destroying the planet, and how to stop them – Julia Shaw

That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz – Malachy Tallack

Physics for Cats – Tom Gauld

 

Chatto & Windus

Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change — in 50 Questions and Answers – Hannah Ritchie

True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen – Lance Richardson

 

Chelsea Green

Ghosts Of The Farm – Nicola Chester

 

Duckworth

The Untold Railway Stories – Monisha Rajesh (Ed)

 

Elliott & Thompson

Three Rivers: The extraordinary waterways that made Europe – Robert Winder

The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds that Shape the Books We Love – Katie da Cunha Lewin

The Cat’s Tales: Feline fairytales and folklore – Charlie Creed

 

Faber & Faber

The Dark Frontier – Jeffrey Marlow

A Year with Gilbert White – Jenny Uglow

New Cemetery – Simon Armitage

 

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Greyhound – Joanna Pocock

 

Gollancz

Halcyon Days – Alastair Reynolds

No Man’s Land – Richard Morgan

 

Granta

How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy – Julian Baggini

Pulse – Cyan Jones

Every Last Fish: What Fish Do for Us and What We Do to Them – Rose George

 

Headline

The Lost Elms – Mandy Haggith

Upon a White Horse – Peter Ross

The Social Lives of Birds – Joan E. Strassmann

An Inconvenience of Penguins – Jamie Lafferty

 

Hurst

So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump – Elizabeth Buchanan

Travels Through the Spanish Civil War – Nick Lloyd

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America – Shafik Meghji

Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania – Hamish Mcdonald

Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century – Laura Beers

 

Jonathan Cape

Night Vision – Jean Sprackland

 

Oneworld

White Light: The Essential Element that Changed the World – Jack Lohmann

The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World – Christopher Jones

Off the Rails: The Inside Story of HS2 – Sally Gimson

Homesick: How the Housing Market Broke London – and How to Fix It – Miranda Kaufmann &Peter Apps

Humanish: How Anthropomorphism Makes Us Smart, Weird and Delusional – Justin Gregg

 

Profile

Abundance: How We Build a Better Future – Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

To the Sea by Train The Golden Age of Railway Travel – Andrew Martin

Think Like a Mathematician How Simple Tools Explain Complex Problems – Junaid Mubeen

Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World – Maxim Samson

 

Quercus

Think Like A Stoic: The Ancient Path to a Life Well Lived – Ken Mogi

The Longest Walk Home: The epic 2,000-mile escape of a WWII POW, in his own words – Ray Bailey with David Wilkins

 

Reaktion Books

The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination – Michaela Vieser And Isaac Yuen

Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation – Charles Watkins

 

Seven Dials

Volcanoes: 10 Things You Should Know – Dr Rebecca Williams

 

Souvenir Press

Whisky and Scotland: A Spiritual Journey from Grain to Glass – Neil M. Gunn

 

The Bodley Head

The Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world – Harriet Rix

Dangerous Miracle: A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them – Liam Shaw

Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades – James Fox

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Threat to Humanity of Superintelligent AI – Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity – Tim Wu

 

The Bridge Street Press

The Whispers of Rock – Anjana Khatwa

 

W&N

Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History – Vanessa Taylor

Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won – Oliver Bullough

 

Wellbeck

Kew: The Psychedelic Garden – Sandra Lawrence

There are some really good books coming out and if I had to say which ones I am most excited about it would have to be Neil Ansell’s and Monisha Rajesh’s.

Is there any here that you like the look of? Or are there any that I have missed that you think I should know about? Let me know in the comments below.