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.
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.
I hadn’t re-looked up the Aaronovitch book to see if it has a title yet or not!
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.
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.
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
You are very welcome.
My TBR is north of 6k on Good Reads!!!
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?
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
Adam Nicolson has a new book coming out in March called Forgotten Field which looks good!
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 …
There are, and I have some more to add from the other comments on this post too!