I have been through all of the autumn 2022 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 is a smattering of fiction, sci-fi and the odd poetry in there.
4th Estate
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis – Annie Proulx
Allen Lane
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval – Gaia Vince
Atlantic Books
The Raven’s Nest Sarah Thomas
Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism – Joanne Limburg
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial – Peter Stott
Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Fight to Own the Amazon – Heriberto Araújo
Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit: What They Don’t Tell You About the Climate Crisis – Assaad Razzouk
Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive’s Tour of the Bookshops of Britain – Robin Ince
Aurum
The Draw Of The Sea – Wyl Menmuir
Shape Of A Boy: Family Life Lessons In Far Flung Places – Kate Wickers
Basic Books
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray And What We Can Do About It – Erica Thompson
Birlinn
Hebridean Journey: The Magic of Scotland’s Outer Isles – Brigid Benson
Hindsight: In Search of Lost Wildness – Jenna Watt
A Taste for Treason: The Letter That Smashed a Spy Ring – Andrew Jeffery
The Perfect Sword: Forging the Middle Ages – Paul Gething
The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the West – Ian Bradley
Bloomsbury
Swamp Songs – Tom Blass
Sixty Harvests Left – Philip Lymbery
Himalaya – John Keay
The Book of Vanishing Species – Beatrice Forshall
The Big Bang of Numbers – Manil Suri
The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wilderness – Amy-Jane Beer
Settlers – Jimi Famurewa
Canongate
Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem – Max Dickins
Sick Money: Sky-high Prices and Dirty Tricks: Inside the Global Pharmaceutical Industry – Billy Kenber
be/longing: understories of nature, family and home – Amanda Thomson
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World – James Crawford
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler – Rebecca Donner
Revenge of the Librarians – Tom Gauld
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World – Pádraig Ó Tuama
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs – Geoff Dyer
Elliott & Thompson
Thunderstone: A true story of losing one home and discovering another – Nancy Campbell
Why Is This a Question? : Everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask – Paul Anthony Jones
The Wheel Of The Year: A nurturing guide to rediscovering nature’s cycles and seasons – Rebecca Beattie
Faber & Faber
Landscapes of Silence – Hugh Brody
The Passengers – Will Ashon
Black and Female – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Waste Land – Matthew Hollis
What Just Happened? – Marina Hyde
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasures – Katherine Rundell
England’s Green – Zaffar Kunial
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Dandelions – Thea Lenarduzzi
Frances Lincoln
Colours Of London – Peter Ackroyd
Road Life: A Slow Life Guide Sebastian – Antonio Santabarbara
Granta
Wild Maps: A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds – Mike Higgins
The Curtain and the Wall: A Journey in the Shadow of the Cold War – Timothy Phillips
Head of Zeus
Cixin Liu’s For The Benefit of Mankind – Sylvain Runberg, Ill. Miki Montllo
Cixin Liu’s The Butterfly – Dan Panosian
Cixin Liu’s The Circle – Xavier Besse
Cixin Liu’s The Devourer – Jean-David Movan Ill. Yang Wei-Lin
The Best Of World SF: 2 – Ed. Lavie Tidhar
The Po: An Elegy For Italy’s Longest River – Tobias Jones
The Museum Of The Wood Age – Max Adams
House of Snow – Ed. Ed Douglas
Wild Women – Ed. Marialla Frostrup
Hodder & Stoughton
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in the Woods – Lyndsie Bourgon
Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition – Lulu Chen
Hurst Publishers
The Rupture: China and the Global Race for the Future – Andrew Small
The White Mosque: A Silk Road Memoir – Sofia Samatar
A New Spirit of Capitalism: Toward More Sustainable and Inclusive Economies – Various
Authoritarian Century: Omens of a Post-Liberal Future – Azeem Ibrahim
Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine – Anna Arutunyan
Heinman
Into Iraq – Michael Palin
Icon Books
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories From Inside One Of The Richest Nations On Earth – John Mcmanus
Killers Amidst Killers: Murder, An Opioid Epidemic And A Hunt For Justice – Billy Jensen
The Milky Way Smells Of Rum And Raspberries … And Other Amazing Cosmic Facts – Dr Jillian Scudder
The Life Cycle: 8,000 Miles In The Andes By Bamboo Bike – Kate Rawles
Maclehose Press
High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China – Erika Fatland
What We Leave Behind: A Birdwatcher’s Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe – Stanisław Łubieński
Michael Joseph
The Half Bird – Susan Smillie
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain – Philip Parker
Landlines – Raynor Winn
Motorbooks
Space Race 2.0: Spacex, Blue Origin, Virgin Orbit, Nasa, And The Privatization Of The Final Frontier – Brad Bergan
Octopus Books
The Accidental Detectorist – Nigel Richardson
I Bought a Mountain – Thomas Firbank
The Atlas of Abandoned Places – Oliver Smith
How To Make The Best Coffee – James Hoffmann
Oneworld
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View – Will Macaskill
Overruled: Our Vanishing Democracy in 9 Cases – Sam Fowles
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green – Henry Sanderson
Particular Books
Henry Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists – Henry Eliot
Pelagic Publishing
Rhythms of Nature: Wildlife and Wild Places Between the Moors – Ian Carter
Pelican
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea – Guy Standing
Profile Books
Siege: Dispatches From Our War on the Wild – Charles Foster
Genetic Dreams: The Promise and Peril of Our Most Revolutionary Technology – Matthew Cobb
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown – Shaun Bythell
The Physicks of Dirt: Matter for the Modern Wizard – Felix Flicker
Quercus
Nailing it Rich Hall
An Atlas Of Endangered Alphabets – Tim Brookes
Reaktion Books
The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God – Robin Vose
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape – Jeremy Harte
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year – Eleanor Parker
Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office – Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross
Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming – Karen Eva Carr
Riverrun
The Storm is here: An American Reckoning – Luke Mogelson
Wild – Amy Jeffs
Swift
You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments and Schools Use Games to Control us All – Adrian Hon
Transworld
Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life Malachy Tallack
I Don’t Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging – Suad Aldarra
She’s In CTRL: How women can take back tech – Anne-Marie Imafidon
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography – Rob Wilkins
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare bookseller – Oliver Darkshire
Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark – John Lewis-Stempel
W&N
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia – Simon Garfield
36 Islands: The Hidden Wonders of the Lake District – Robert Twigger
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop – Alba Donati
Exploring the World: Two Centuries of Remarkable Adventurers and Their Journeys – Alexander Maitland
White Lion
The Writer’s Journey – Travis Elborough
William Collins
The Lost Rainforest Of Britain – Guy Shrubsole
Home Is Not a Place – Johny Pitts & Roger Robinson
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings – Thomas Williams
Where the Seals Sing: Exploring the Hidden Lives of Britain’s Grey Seals – Susan Richardson
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