Anticipated Books For Spring 2026

As usual, I have scoured the catalogues for all the books that pique my attention I only managed to find 15 catalogues so far, so this may be updated as I come across others. So without further ado, here are my picks from all the books being published in the first half of next year:

 

Aurum Press

The Tattooed Hills by Jon Woolcott

 

Bloomsbury

Access Adventure: The Ultimate Book of Trails and Adventures By Wheelchair And On Foot – Debbie North

Beauty Of The Beasts: Rethinking Nature’s Least Loved Animals – Jo Wimpenny

To The Limit: The Meaning Of Endurance From Mexico To The Himalayas – Michael Crawley

The Devil’s Garden: A Wicked Medley Of Flowers, Fruits and Fungi – Peter Marren

How To Fly – Simon Barnes

The Wind Beneath the Stone: My Quest to Unearth A Piece of Ireland’s Folklore – David Keohan

Sun Country: Writing My Way Home – Howard Cunnell

 

Canongate

Hark: How Women Listen – Alice Vincent –

The Future Is Peace – Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon

Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century – Ece Temelkuran

Homework: A Memoir – Geoff Dyer

In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment – Jo Marchant

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange – Katie Goh

Alive: A Revolutionary Understanding of the Earth’s Intelligences – Melanie Challenger

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – Omar El Akkad

Between Two Waters: Heritage, landscape and the modern cook – Pam Brunton

Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet – Stuart Gillespie

At Sea – Y.M. Abdel-Magied

 

Daunt Books

Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya – Anuradha Roy

Over the Water: Essays on Islands– Various

 

Doubleday

Up – Lucy Rogers

The Edges of the World – Charles Foster

 

Duckworth

The Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the creation of Apple, and how one company changed the world – Michael Moritz

On Thin Ice: A Journey in Siberia, and Prison in Putin’s Russia – Charlie Walker

Bread and War: A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope – Felicity Spector

In Green: A Journey to the End of the Land – Louis D. Hall

 

Eland

News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir –Peter Fleming
Saints of Sind –Peter Mayne

 

Elliott & Thompson

Farewell to Russia: A Journey through the Former USSR – Joe Luc Barnes –

All the Feels: How Technology Is Changing Our Emotional Lives for the Better – Pamela Pavliscak

Full Circle: A History of Cricket – Peter Oborne & Richard Heller

The Waterlands: Follow a raindrop from source to sea – Stephen Rutt

The Apothecary by the Sea: A Year in an Orkney Garden – Victoria Bennett

 

Faber & Faber

Wilderlands – Eloise Kane

The Dark Frontier – Jeffrey Marlow

Tales of the Suburbs – John Grindrod

Jan Morris: A Life – Sara Wheeler

 

Granta

Despite It All: A Handbook For Climate Hopefuls – Fred Pearce

The Beginning Comes After The End – Rebecca Solnit

 

Harper Collins

Wild Peaks: A Journey on Foot Through England’s First National Park – Tom Chesshyre

 

Harvill Secker

Herlands: Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules – Megha Mohan

 

Headline

Elemental – Arthur Snell

My Body is a Meadow – Bethany Handley

Power Play: Video Games, Politics and the Battle for Global Influence – George E. Osborn

A History of Booksellers and the Bookshop – Jean-Yves Mollier

Grassroots – Julia Rosen

The Writer and the Traitor: Graham Greene, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal – Robert Verkaik

The Garden Through Time – Thomas Rutter

 

Jonathan Cape

Think Like a Forest: Letters to my Children from a Changing Planet – Ben Rawlence

Goyle, Chert, Mire – Jean Sprackland

Borrowed Land: A Highland Story – Kapka Kassabova

Dog Star – Michael Symmons Roberts

 

Little Toller

The Icknield Way – Edward Thomas

The Charm of Birds – Edward Grey

Looking for Mr Schwitters – Jennifer Potter

 

Oneworld

How Queer Bookshops Changed the World – A. J. West

How Not to Save the World: Activism Without Annoying Everyone Around You – Anthea Lawson

This Land Is Your Land: On A Road Trip to Make Sense of America – Beverly Gage

Transported – Elizabeth Margulis

En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers – Peter Fiennes

The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet – Sylvain Tesson & Frank Wynne (Tr.)

 

Particular Books

Attensity!: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement – The Friends of Attention

The Fire in the Mountain: Sicily, Etna and Her People – Helena Attlee

 

Picador

Frostlines: An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic – Neil Shea

 

Profile Books

We Know You Can Pay a Million Inside the Dark Economy of Hacking and Ransomware – Anja Shortland

Land of Hot Sauce and Gravy: Notes from a Hungry Island – Ben Benton

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature – Emily Wilson

On the Mark: A History of Punctuation from Ancient Egypt to the Emoticon – Florence Hazrat

Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers – Hannah Lucinda Smith

Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths – Ian Stewart

Grasslands: The Intricate Life of Britain’s Hidden Habitats – John Wright

Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic – Kenneth R. Rosen

Ancient: Reviving the Woods That Made Britain – Luke Barley

“Rogues, Widows and Orphans: When Words Go Wrong and Other Bookish Misadventures” – Rebecca Lee

 

Reaktion Books

The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters – Barbara Burman –

The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army – Jack Margolin

You Want What We’ve Got: Big Tech v. Big Journalism – Jason Whittaker

Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend – Jeremy Harte

The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living – Katherine Harvey

Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking – Kerri Andrews (Ed)

Whispers from Celtic Seas: The True Meanings of Ancient Stories from Northwest Europe – Patrick Nunn

Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany – Paul Robichaud

 

September Books

The Wild Within: What Plants Taught Me about Life, Recovery and Renewal – Brigit Anna McNeill

Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity – Davina Quinlivan

Underwing: A Story of Motherhood, Loss and Wild Intuition – Jennifer Lane

Chopsy: Resistance Tales of a Working-Class Woman – Maya Jordan

Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales Now – Sharon Blackie

 

The Bodley Head

Imitation Games: How the Gambling Industry Hijacked Sport – Darragh McGee

Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience – Kate Brown

The Resilience Response: The New Science of Trauma and How We Heal Across Generations – Rachel Yehuda