Anticipated Books for Spring 2025

As usual, I have scoured the catalogues for all the books that pique my attention I only managed to find 16 catalogues this time, so this may be updated as the others are published. So without further ado, here are my picks from all the books being published next year :

 

Allen & Unwin

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See – Bianca Bosker

The Meaning of Beer: How our pursuit of the perfect pint built the world – Jonny Garrett

 

Atlantic Books

Conspiracyland: My Journey with Trolls, True Believers and the New Information War – Marianna Spring

Patriarchy Inc.: Exposing Inequality at Work and Why Men Still Rule – Cordelia Fine

Rare Tongues: A Journey Through the Languages of the World – Lorna Gibb

Lost Boys: Undercover Adventures in Modern Masculinity – James Bloodworth

Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Extraordinary Places – Alex Riley

 

Bodley Head

The Technological Republic: The Crisis of Technology and the West – Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska

TheAICon: Exposing the Myth, the Hype and the Harm of AI – Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

Earth, Wind and Fire: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Conquered the World – Harriet Rix

The Roma: A Travelling History – Madeline Potter

 

Canongate

The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World – Sumit-Paul Choudhury

Let the Light Pour In – Lemn Sissay

The Secret Painter – Joe Tucker

A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History – Annabelle Hirsch

Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World – James Canton

Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark – Dan Richards

Hark: How Women Listen – Alice Vincent

Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Better World – David Farrier

Homework: A Memoir – Geoff Dyer

 

Chatto & Windus

The Drowned Places Diving in Search of Atlantis – Damian Le Bas

The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future – David Rooney

 

Doubleday

A Training School for Elephants – Sophy Roberts

 

Duckworth

Catastrophe Ethics: How to be Good in a World Gone Bad – Travis Rieder

Standard Deviations: The truth about flawed statistics, AI and Big Data – Gary Smith

In Green: Two Horses, Two Strangers, 2,000 Miles from Mountain to Sea – Louis D. Hall

Understorey: A Year Among Weeds – Anna Chapman Parker

 

Elliott & Thompson

Mother Animal – Helen Jukes

Pathfinding: On Walking and Motherhood – Kerri Andrews

Lifelines: Finding a Home in the Mountains of Greece – Julian Hoffman

Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts – Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Ctrl+Alt+Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet – Joe Tidy

 

Eland

A Quiet Evening – Norman Lewis

 

Europa Editions

The Passenger: Thailand – Various

The Passenger: Naples – Various

 

Faber & Faber

Your Life is Manufactured – Tim Minshall

The Lost Folk – Lally MacBeth

Nature Matters – Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf

Dwell – Simon Armitage

 

Fern Press

Speaking in Tongues – J M Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos

 

Gollancz

Frankenstein Rex – Adam Roberts

T B C – Ben Aaronovitch

 

Granta

Under A Metal Sky – Philip Marsden

No Straight Road Takes You There – Rebecca Solnit

 

Grove

Searches – Vauhini Vara

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean – Helen Scales

 

Hamish Hamilton

Is A River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane

 

Head of Zeus

A Life in 50 Books – Anthony Cheetham

Steel River: Walking the Tees – A Journey Through Nature in a Human World – Steve Nicholls

Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister Legacy – Phil Tinline

Picks and Shovels – Cory Doctorow

Bee Speaker – Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

Hurst

Ransom War – Max Smeets

Rebooting A Nation – Joel Burke

 

Jonathan Cape

Midden Witch – Fiona Benson

 

Little Toller

The English Path by Kim Taplin

Angels in the Cellar by Peter Hahn

 

Profile Books

Your Right to Protest Understand It, Use It – Christian Weaver

My Head For A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors – Martin Goodman

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time – Helen Gordon

Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–47 – Michael Haag

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World – Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Out of this World – and into the Next Notes from a Physicist on Space Exploration – Adriana Marais

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West – Shaun Walker

Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy – Laleh Khalili

Land of Shifting Sands: A New History of the Sahara – Judith Scheele

Unequal: The Maths of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up – Eugenia Cheng

 

Reaktion Books

Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact – Keith Cooper

Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain – Liz Williams

Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends – Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens – Peter Dale

Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction – Barbara Allen

Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music – Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison

Delicioso: A History of Food in Spain – María José Sevilla

Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy – Fabio Parasecoli

Future Cities: Architecture and the Ima – Paul Dobraszczyk

 

Square Peg

Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives – Lucy Mangan

 

Summersdale

Land Beneath the Waves – Nic Wilson

 

W&N

Motherland – Luke Pepera

Threads of Empire – Dorothy Armstrong

38 Londres Street – Philippe Sands

 

There are some really good books coming out and if I had to say which one I am most excited about it would have to be Robert Macfarlane’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.

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11 Comments

  1. snoakes7001

    I’m with you – can’t wait to read the new Robert MacFarlane.
    Also the next in the Rivers of London series, which I believe is titled Stone and Sky.
    Lots of other goodies in that list to look forward to in 2025.

    • Paul

      I hadn’t re-looked up the Aaronovitch book to see if it has a title yet or not!

  2. Penny

    I LOVE it when you go through the catalogues although my TBR mountain is officially out of control (going to try and do a bit of a cull over the next few weeks).
    Agree about the Robert Macfarlane – always special when he has a new book out.
    I also love James Canton’s books and his new one sounds good, as do the ones by Dan Richards and Peter Dale.

    • Paul

      Thank you, Penny
      Your TBR isn’t that much out of control compared to mine! Jame Canton is another really good author as well as Dan Richards.

  3. James Urquhart

    Thanks Paul- it’s great that you bring out these lists!!! I really enjoy going through them and I agree with all the comments above and I too am really looking forward to Robert Macfarlane’s new book! There are quite a few others that look great as well such as Alex Riley’s Super Natural and Lorna Gibb’s Rare Tongues. Dan Richards is always a treat as well!
    And my TBR pile is also out of control!!😁
    James

    • Paul

      You are very welcome.

      My TBR is north of 6k on Good Reads!!!

  4. Andrew Morris

    Thanks for drawing my attention to the new James Canton title – now on my to be purchased list. Quarto are publishing an updated and enlarged edition of Richard Mabey’s Whistling in the Dark in April. All three forthcoming Little Toller Nature Classics will no doubt end up on my bookshelves.

    Two new titles by small publishers that I am looking forward to are Alan Cleaver’s Postal Paths (Monoray) and Ian Carter’s Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway – A Portrait of a Glen (Whittles).

    A new series is being published called Picador Shorts on the theme of Oceans, Rivers and Streams. Titles by John McPhee and Adam Nicolson caught my eye. A rehash of previous books, but nicely designed jackets.

    Pushkin are doing a reissue of Ithell Colquhoun’s Living Stones: Cornwall.

    The Macfarlane will go on my borrow list;
    an important subject, but perhaps less interesting / readable than his early books. We shall see – perhaps you have a proof copy?

    • Paul

      I have had a confidential list of Little Toller proposed releases, but these are the only two they have announced so far.

      Thanks for the other books, shall add them to my list.

      I haven’t got a proof, though I have just seen that Folde have received a copy of the Macfarlane book today

      • Penny Hull

        Adam Nicolson has a new book coming out in March called Forgotten Field which looks good!

  5. Liz Dexter

    Some tempting titles there indeed. I have Meteorites via NetGalley and have requested the Lucy Mangan from there but will buy it if I don’t win it …

    • Paul

      There are, and I have some more to add from the other comments on this post too!

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