I have been through all of the 2022 publishers catalogues for the books they have coming out in spring that I could lay my hands on (28 so far and still a few missing too). I have extracted all the books that I really like the look of. Most 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 this list. What has staggered me a little is there are 194 books in this list below. That is more than I normally read in a year which is ominous as there are more books to follow for the latter half of the year and I still have many others to read. The pain of a reader…
4th Estate
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped America – William Sommer
Allen & Unwin
Dalvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra – Laura Galloway
Allen Lane
Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings – Leonard Mlodinow
Kingdom Of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern – Jing Tsu
Worn: A People’s History Of Clothing – Sofi Thanhauser
Otherlands: A World In The Making – Thomas Halliday
How To Stay Smart In A Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms – Gerd Gigerenzer
Regenesis: How To Feed The World Without Devouring The Planet – George Monbiot
The Playbook: Protecting The Corporation From The Risks Of Scientific Knowledge – Jennifer Jacquet
Fantastic Numbers And Where To Find Them: A Cosmic Quest From Zero To Infinity – Tony Padilla
Atlantic Books
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World – Oliver Milman
In the Camps: Stories from China’s High-tech Penal Colony – Darren Byler
Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Fight to Own the Amazon – Heriberto Araújo
Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry – Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Covert Action: The Global Story of Subversion, Sabotage and Secret Statecraft – Rory Cormac
The Line of Sight: How Vision Made Us Human – Andrew Parker
Basic Books
A Natural History Of The Future: What The Laws Of Biology Tell Us About The Destiny Of The Human Species – Rob Dunn
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power Of Game Theory To Explain Irrational Human Behaviour – Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli
Bloomsbury
The Perfect Golden Circle – Benjamin Myers
52 Ways To Walk: The New Science And Timeless Joy Of How, When, Where And Why – Annabel Streets
Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead Of Instinct To Make Better Choices – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
The Trespasser’s Companion – Nick Hayes
The Great Experiment: How To Make Diverse Democracies Work – Yascha Mounk
The Catch: Fishing For Ted Hughes – Mark Wormald
Motherlands – Amaryllis Gacioppo
The Digital Republic: Taking Back Technology – Jamie Susskind
Racing Green: How Motorsport Science Can Save The World – Kit Chapman
Growing Up Human – Brenna Hassett
Forget Me Not: Finding The Forgotten Species Of Climate Change Britain – Sophie Pavelle
Bluemoose Books
Ghost Stories by Stu Hennigan
Bodley Head
Cloudmoney – Brett Scott
The Journey Of Humanity – Oded Galor
An Immense World – Ed Yong
British Library
The Philosophy of Curry – Sejal Sukhadwala
The Book of Book Jokes – Alex Johnson
Shadows on the Wall: Dark Tales by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection – Mike Ashley
Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles – Emily Alder, Joan Passey & Jimmy Packham
The Philosophy of Whisky – Billy Abbott
Canongate
Time On Rock: A Climber’s Route Into The Mountains – Anna Fleming
The Unusual Suspect: The Remarkable True Story Of A Modern-Day Robin Hood – Ben Machell
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs Of A Working-Class Reader – Mark Hodkinson
How To Be Animal: What It Means To Be Human – Melanie Challenger
The Instant – Amy Liptrot
Explorer: The Quest For Adventure, Discovery And The Great Unknown – Benedict Allen
The Fire People: A Collection Of Black British Poetry – Ed. Lemn Sissay
More Fiya: A New Collection Of Black British Poetry – Ed. Kayo Chingonyi
Things I Have Withheld – Kei Miller
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With A Family’s Story Of Slavery – Alex Renton
The Secret History Of Here: A Year In The Valley – Alistair Moffat
Chatto & Windus
Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head – Warsan Shire
Nine Paths – Lexi Stadlen
Unearthed – Claire Ratinon
Coronet
We Need Snowflakes: In Defence Of The Sensitive, The Angry And The Offended – Hannah Jewell
A New Science Of Heaven: How The New Science Of Plasma Is Shedding Light On Spiritual Experience – Robert Temple
Custom House
Wahala – Nikki May
Doubleday
Wild Fell: Fighting For Nature On A Lake District Farm – Lee Schofield
Duckworth
Nice Is Not A Biscuit: How To Build A World-Class Business By Doing The Right Thing – Peter Mead
Vagabonds: Life On The Streets Of Nineteenth-Century London – Oskar Jensen
Elliott & Thompson
On the Scent: Unlocking the mysteries of smell – and how losing it can change our world – Paola Totaro and Robert Wainwright
A River Runs Through Me: A year and a life of salmon fishing in Scotland – Andrew Douglas-Home
A Village in the Third Reich: How ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of Fascism – Julia Boyd & Angelika Patel
Beside the Seaside: The Story of the English Coastal Town – Ian Walker
Europa Editions
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing – Elena Ferrante Tr Ann Goldstein
The Passenger: Rome – Various
The Passenger: Ireland – Various
Faber & Faber
Wild Green Wonders – Patrick Barkham
The Stasi Poetry Circle – Philip Oltermann
Shadowlands – Matthew Green
Black And Female: Essays – Tsitsi Dangarembga
Iconicon – John Grindrod
Sounds Wild And Broken – David George Haskell
The Premonitions Bureau – Sam Knight
Exiles: Three Island Journeys – William Atkins
Beyond Measure – James Vincent
Gollancz
The This – Adam Roberts
The Flight Of The Aphrodite – S.J. Morden
Eversion – Alastair Reynolds
Granta
Grounding: Finding Home In A Garden – Lulah Ellender
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender – Frans de Waal
Refractive Africa – Will Alexander
Garden Physic – Sylvia Legris
The End Of Bias: How We Change Our Minds – Jessica Nordell
Grove Press
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home – Alexander Wolff
Harvill Secker
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes Of Modern Africa – Dipo Faloyin
Head of Zeus
Furious Heaven The Sun Chronicles 2 – Kate Elliott
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs And The Hidden Toll Of Inequality – Eyal Press
Death By Nature?: Understanding Wildlife Diseases – Ben Garrod
Water Always Wins: Going With The Flow To Thrive In The Age Of Droughts, Floods And Climate Change – Erica Gies
A Feather At The Feast: Thomas Morton, America’s First Nature Writer And Falconer – Ben Crane
Headline
Chivalry – Neil Gaiman
Butter: A Celebration – Olivia Potts
The Mercenary River Private Greed, Public Good: A History Of London’s Water – Nick Higham
These Bodies Of Water – Sabrina Mahfouz
Hodder & Stoughton
When The Dust Settles: Stories Of Love, Loss And Hope From An Expert In Disaster – Lucy Easthope
Firmament: The Hidden Science Of Weather, Climate Change And The Air That Surrounds Us – Simon Clark
Escape From Siberia – Yoann Barbereau Tr Maren Baudet-Lackner
Dust: A History And A Future Of Environmental Disaster – Jay Owens
Where The Wildflowers Grow My Journey Through Botanical Britain – Leif Bersweden
After They’re Gone: A Love Letter To The Lost Species Of The World – Peter Marren
Hurst Publishers
Another World Is Possible: How To Reignite Radical Political Imagination – Geoff Mulgan
China Unbound A New World Disorder – Joanna Chiu
No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle To Develop A Military Cyber-Force – Max Smeets
Edge Of England Landfall In Lincolnshire – Derek Turner
Work Won’t Love You Back How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted And Alone – Sarah Jaffe
Icon Books
Hurricane Lizards And Plastic Squid: How The Natural World Is Adapting To Climate Change – Thor Hanson
Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes From A Small Island – Ben Aitken
Game Theory: Understanding The Mathematics Of Life – Brian Clegg
Jo Fletcher
Momenticon – Andrew Caldecott
John Murray
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey Into The Secret History Of Fairy Tales – Nicholas Jubber
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World – Nicholas Jubber
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign Of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth – Avi Loeb
Futureproof: 9 Rules For Humans In The Age Of Automation – Kevin Roose
Free To Go: From Orkney To New Zealand On A Motorbike – Esa Aldegheri
Rebel With A Clause Tales And Tips From A Travelling Grammar Guru – Ellen Jovin
Jonathan Cape
The Treeline: The Last Forest And The Future Of Life On Earth – Ben Rawlence
Pilgrim Bell – Kaveh Akbar
Ephemeron – Fiona Benson
Dreaming The Karoo – Julia Blackburn
Birdgirl – Mya-Rose Craig
Little Toller
Millstone Grit – Glyn Hughes
Shalimar – Davina Quinlivan
Brother Do You Love Me – Manni Coe & Reuben Coe
The Loveliness Of Ladybirds – JC Niala
Maclehose
Alice’s Book: How The Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook – KARINA URBACH Tr. Jamie Bulloch
Michael Joseph
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History Of Britain – Philip Parker
Prized Women – Caroline Lea
The Lost Paths – Jack Cornish
One Place De L’Eglise – Trevor Dolby
Oneworld
A Brief History Of Timekeeping: The Science Of Marking Time, From Stonehenge To Atomic Clocks – Chad Orzel
The Elements Of Choice: Why The Way We Decide Matters – Eric J. Johnson
How Minds Change: The Science Of Belief, Opinion And Persuasion – David McRaney
The Biggest Number In The World: A Journey To The Edge Of Mathematics – David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee
Orion
Wild City: Encounters With Urban Wildlife – Florence Wilkinson
Pan Macmillan
Wild Flowers Of Britain And Ireland – Roger Phillips
The Greatest Escape – Neil Churches
Too Big To Jail: Inside Hsbc, The Mexican Drug Cartels And The Greatest Banking Scandal Of The Century – Chris Blackhurst
Penguin
The Voltage Effect – John A List
Picador
In Defence Of Witches: Why Women Are Still On Trial – Mona Chollet
The Vulture – Gerard Woodward
Tomorrow’s People: The Future Of Humanity In Ten Numbers – Paul Morland
Lurex – Denise Riley
The Greatest Invention: A History Of The World In Nine Mysterious Scripts – Silvia Ferrara
Who Are We Now? Stories Of Modern England – Jason Cowley
The Book Of Minds – Philip Ball
Sea Of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
Profile Books
The Social Lives Of Animals: How Co-Operation Conquered The Natural World – Ashley Ward
Tickets For The Ark: From Wasps To Whales – How Do We Choose What To Save? – Rebecca Nesbit
Strandings: Confessions Of A Whale Scavenger – Peter Riley
How To Live With Each Other: An Anthropologist’s Notes On Sharing A Divided World – Farhan Samanani
Tenants: The People On The Frontline Of Britain’s Housing Crisis – Vicky Spratt
Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World Of Frequency, From Bad Vibes To Good Vibrations – Richard Mainwaring
Geography Is Destiny: Britain’s Place In The World, A 10,000-Year History – Ian Morris
Chums: How A Tiny Group Of Oxford Tories Took Over Britain – Simon Kuper
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have That Machines Don’t – Junaid Mubeen
The Celts: The Fall And Rise Of An Idea – Simon Jenkins
Quercus
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story Of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds And Our World – MAX FISHER
Reaktion Books
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History – Ronald H. Fritze
Polling UnPacked: The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls – Mark Pack
Sandstone Press
The Year the World Went Mad: A Scientific Memoir – Mark Woolhouse
Saraband
Ring Of Stone Circles – Stan L Abbott
North Country – Karen Lloyd
Summersdale
Riding Out – Simon Parker
The Best British Travel Writing Of The 21St Century – Jessica Vincent
Tor
Eyes Of The Void – Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi
Two Roads
An Atlas Of Endangered Animals – Megan McCubbin
Devorgilla Days A Memoir Of Hope And Healing – Kathleen HartWindswept: Walking In The Footsteps Of Remarkable Women – Annabel Abbs
Viking
How The World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide To Our Past, Present, And Future – Vaclav Smil
A Black Boy At Eton – Dillibe Onyeama
This Way To The Universe: A Journey Into Physics – Michael Dine
Birds And Us: A 12,000 Year History, From Cave Art To Conservation – Tim Birkhead
Vintage
Pharmacopoeia – Derek Jarman
W&N
The Cure For Sleep – Tanya Shadrick
Control: The Dark History And Troubling Present Of Eugenics – Adam Rutherford
Spring Tides: A Story From A Small Island – Fiona Gell
The Ballast Seed: A Memoir Of Motherhood, Nature And Staying Afloat – Rosie Kinchen
Wellcome Collection
Dark And Magical Places: The Neuroscience Of How We Navigate – Christopher Kemp
This Book Is A Plant: How To Grow, Learn And Radically Engage With The Natural World – Various
Am I Normal: The 200-Year Search For Normal People (And Why They Don’t Exist) – Sarah Chaney
William Collins
The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present – Alison Richard
Origin Africa – Jonathan Kingdon
Black Holes – Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It – Harriet Johnson
Where The Seals Sing – Susan Richardson
In Search Of One Last Song – Patrick Galbraith
To Cure All Ills – Camper English
Platypus Matters – Jack Ashby
How To Speak Whale – Tom Mustill
Where My Feet Fall – Duncan Minshall
The Social Machine – Justin Hampston-Jones
Nazi Billionaires – David de Jong
Any that take your fancy? And are there any that you know about that you think that I should know too? Let me know in the comments below.
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