I have been through all of the autumn 2021 publishers catalogues that could lay my hands on (31 so far). I have listed all the books that I really like the look of. The majority on this list are non-fiction, as you have probably come to expect by now, but there are a smattering of fiction, sci-fi and the odd poetry in there.
4th Estate
Thinking Better – Marcus De Sautoy
A Cook’s Book – Nigel Slater
Allen Lane
Index, A History Of The – Dennis Duncan
Basic Books
Rule Of The Robots – Martin Ford
Bloomsbury
Farewell Mr Puffin – Paul Heiney
Everybody Needs Beauty – Samantha Walton
A Field Guide To Larking – Lara Maiklem
Ripples On The River – Laurie Campbell & Anna Levin
Abundance – Karen Lloyd
Tales From The Tillerman – Steve Haywood
In Kiltumper – Niall Williams & Christine Breen
Truffle Hound – Rowan Jacobsen
Urban Wild – Helen Rook
Feet First – Annabel Streets
The Book Of Vanishing Species – Beatrice Forshall
Bloomsbury Sigma
Our Biggest Experiment – Alice Bell
Worlds In Shadow – Patrick Nunn
Fire And Ice – Natalie Starkey
Sticky – Laurie Winkless
Bodley Head
Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman
British Library
Future Crimes – Mike Ashley (Editor)
Canongate
Livewired – David Eagleman
Small Bodies Of Water – Nina Mingya Powles
Explorer – Benedict Allen
Chatto & Windus
The Amur River – Colin Thubron
Ebury
Why We Swim – Bonnie Tsui
Evil Geniuses – Kurt Andersen
Surrounded By Bad Bosses And Lazy Employees Or, How To Deal With Idiots At Work – Thomas Erikson
The Man Who Mistook His Job For His Life – Naomi Shragai
Eland
The Turkish Embassy Letters – Mary Wortley Montagu
A Moroccan Trilogy – Jérôme And Jean Tharaud
Bengal Lancer – Francis Yeats-Brown
Elliott & Thompson
The Pay Off – Gottfried Leibbrandt And Natasha De Terán
The Eternal Season – Stephen Rutt
Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other – James Aldred
The Red Planet – Simon Morden
Light Rains Sometimes Fall – Lev Parikian
Europa Editions
A Short History Of Spaghetti With Tomato Sauce – Massimo Montanari Tr. Gregory Conti
Eye Books
Above The Law – Adrian Bleese
Faber
Chewing The Fat – Jay Rayner
Allegorizings – Jan Morris
Gollancz
The Ultimate Discworld Companion – Terry Pratchett And Stephen Briggs, Illustrations By Paul Kidby
Granta
Hello, Stranger – Will Buckingham
A Trillion Trees – Fred Pearce
Slime – Susanne Wedlich
Greenfinch
A Portrait Of The Tree – Adrian Houston
This Is The Canon – Kadija Sesay, Deirdre Osborne And Joan Anim-Addo
Harvill Secker
The Dream Of Europe – Geert Mak
Haus
Walking Pepys’s London – Jacky Colliss Harvey
My Cyprus – Joachim Sartorius Tr. Stephen Brown
Head of Zeus
The Story Of Life In 10 1/2 Chapters – Marianne Taylor
Scenes From Prehistoric Life – Francis Pryor
Fire, Storm & Flood – James Dyke
The Heath – Hunter Davies
Headline
A Curious Absence Of Chickens – Sophie Grigson
Secret Nation – Sinclair Mckay
Hodder & Stoughton
Gifts Of Gravity And Light – Editors: Anita Roy & Pippa Marland
Firmament – Simon Clark
Journeys To Impossible Places – Simon Reeve
Trust No One Inside The World Of Deepfakes – Michael Grothaus
(Dis)Connected – Emma Gannon
Icon Books
Space 2069 – David Whitehouse
Flight Of The Diamond Smugglers – Matthew Gavin Frank
Once Upon A Time I Lived On Mars – Kate Greene
The Babel Message – Keith Kahn-Harris
Jonathan Cape
Learning To Sleep – John Burnside
Silent Earth – Dave Goulson
Vuelta Skelter – Tim Moore
Eating To Extinction – Dan Saladino
Little Toller
English Farmhouse – Geoffrey Grigson
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen – Ken Worple
Woods Of Se Wales – Oliver Rackham
The Long Field – Pamela Petro
Aurochs And Auks – John Burnside
Venetian Bestiary – Jan Morris
Millstone Grit – Glyn Hughes
Maclehose
The Dawn Of Language – Sverker Johansson Tr. Frank Perry
533 – Cees Nooteboom Tr. Laura Watkinson
Nicholas Brealey
Why Travel Matters – Craig Storti
Oneworld
The Longest Story – Richard Girling
The Gold Machine – Iain Sinclair
Animal Vegetable Criminal – Mary Roach
A Thing of Beauty – Peter Fiennes
By Any Other Name – Simon Morley
Life as We Made it – Beth Shapiro
Infectious – John S. Tregoning
The Invisible Universe – Matthew Bothwell
Pan Macmillan
Broken Heartlands – Sebastian Payne
Penguin
Gathering Moss – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Another Bangkok Reflections On The City – Alex Kerr
This Is Your Mind On Plants – Michael Pollan
Picador
The Glass Wall – Max Egremont
The Cat Who Saved Books – Sosuke Natsukawa
New And Selected Poems – Ian Duhig
Oak – Katharine Towers
Profile Books
The Nation Of Plants – Stefano Mancuso
What’S The Use? – Ian Stewart
Being A Human – Charles Foster
A Spotter’S Guide To Countryside Mysteries – John Wright
The Library – Andrew Pettegree And Arthur Der Weduwen
Fabric – Victoria Finlay
The Wordhord – Hana Videen
Reaktion Books
Crime Dot Com – Geoff White
Blood, Sweat And Earth – Tijl Vanneste
The Sea – Richard Hamblyn
Miracles Of Our Own Making – Liz Williams
Most Unimaginably Strange – Chris Caseldine
Riverrun
Storyland – Amy Jeffs
September Publishing
The Wheel: The Witch’s Way Back to the Ancient Self – Jennifer Lane
Seven Dials
Frozen In Time – Rhys Charles
Square Peg
The Swan – Stephen Moss
Tor
Invisible Sun – Charles Stross
Transworld
Woodston – John Lewis-Stempel
London Clay – Tom Chivers
Making Numbers Count – Chip Heath And Karla Starr
Liquid History – John Warland
The Soaring Life Of The Lark – John Lewis-Stempel
Two Roads
An Atlas Of Endangered Animals – Megan Mccubbin
A Spell In The Wild – Alice Tarbuck
Unbound
Mainstream – Ed Justin Davis & Nathan Evans
W&N
The Star Builders – Arthur Turrell
William Collins
The Black Ridge – Simon Ingram
Cider Country – James Crowden
Sbs – Silent Warriors – Saul David
WW Norton
The Sound Of The Sea – Cynthia Barnett
Cryptography – Keith Martin
Super Volcanoes – Robin George Andrews
Seed Money – Bartow J. Elmore
Any that take your fancy? More importantly, are there any that I might have missed that you know about?
Ooh a super list! I just bought The Parakeeting of London published by a tiny press, Paradise Road, although they only seem to have three books out so far …
Thank you, Liz! I will look out for that one
I like the sound of A Short History Of Spaghetti With Tomato Sauce – probably best not to read that when I’m hungry though.
I’ve seen Walking Pepys London reviewed somewhere in the blog world and have put it on my wishlist for when (fingers crossed) I get to go to London again
I am more than happy to send on the copy that I have to you after I have read it, Karen. I saw it too, I think it was on Jason’s blog
That’s so generous of you Paul, thank you. I’ll only say yes if you agree to letting me pay for the postage!
The publisher wants a review close to the publication date so I will send it on after that. I would never dream of charging postage, Karen. It is only going to be a pound or so as it is such a slim volume.
So long as you are sure Paul, I shall just say thank you in advance. Maybe I can return your generosity at a later date
I am. I get so many books that I have to pass them on. I post books to people all the time