Published By: VintagePages: 368Released On: 03/09/2026 (Paperback) From the Isles of Scilly to the Scottish Highlands, James Fox travels the length of Britain to seek out the country’s last great craftspeople. Stepping inside the workshops of blacksmiths and wheelwrights, cutlers and coopers, bellfounders and watchmakers, we glimpse not only our past but another way ofContinue reading “Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades – James Fox”
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The Agatha Christie Cure: What Reading the Queen of Crime Taught Me About Life – Cathy Rentzenbrink
Published By: CanongatePages: 352Released On: 10/09/2026 One Christmas, Cathy Rentzenbrink finds herself drained by life’s upheavals. In need of comfort and escape, she turns to her first literary love: Agatha Christie. As Cathy delves into Agatha’s novels and her mysterious disappearance in 1926, she discovers more than she expected. Beyond the hidden jewels, detectives andContinue reading “The Agatha Christie Cure: What Reading the Queen of Crime Taught Me About Life – Cathy Rentzenbrink”
Eleven Days: The Fascinating True Account of Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Disappearance – Laura Thompson
Published By: Bedford SquarePages: 224Released On: 27/08/2026 In December of 1926, Agatha Christie vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied media speculation, she was discovered alive and well. A century on, there are questions that have never been answered. Now Christie biographer Laura Thompson seeks to penetrate the story of the greatest mystery ever created byContinue reading “Eleven Days: The Fascinating True Account of Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Disappearance – Laura Thompson”
An Ocean and a Day – Hannah Richell
Published By: Bedford SquarePages: 272Released On: 27/08/2026 Hannah Richell was lost in writing her new novel when the outside world finally broke in to tell her that her husband, Matt, had been killed in a surfing accident. This is the story of the grief journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, butContinue reading “An Ocean and a Day – Hannah Richell”
A Bloody Scandal – Evelyn Scott
Published By: Fourth EstatePages: 256Released On: 13/08/2026 Evelyn was just a teenager when she first began suffering with the symptoms of endometriosis – a reproductive condition that affects one in ten women. For fifteen years, she endured constant, agonising pain. Where she was desperate for clarity and support from medical practitioners, she was instead metContinue reading “A Bloody Scandal – Evelyn Scott”
Love and Hunger – Charlotte Wood
Published By: SceptrePages: 288Released On: 20/08/2026 To award-winning novelist Charlotte Wood, cooking is ‘creativity in its purest form’, nourishing the soul – and the mind – as well as the body. And in the age of gastro-porn and Instagram lifestyle gurus, this wise and practical book is her invitation to rediscover the pleasure of good food,Continue reading “Love and Hunger – Charlotte Wood”
Hiroshima, 8:15 – Kiyoshi Tanimoto
Published By: Ebury PressPages: 256Released On: 06/08/2026 The whole city was covered with dark clouds, and conflagrations were breaking out in various directions. Could all of this have happened at once? It was then that black drops of rain, as big as blackberries, began to fall – rain caused by the atomic bomb. I wonderedContinue reading “Hiroshima, 8:15 – Kiyoshi Tanimoto”
The Future of Bananas – James Dale
Published By: Melville HousePages: 144Released On: 02/07/2026 The most eaten fruit in the world is facing possible extinction. While there are thousands of banana varieties, only one has become the West’s favourite – the Cavendish: our familiar curvy, yellow-skinned, soft-fleshed fruit. But our obsession with the Cavendish has come at a cost. Years of selectiveContinue reading “The Future of Bananas – James Dale”
Dreams in Which I’m Almost Human – Hannah Soyer
Published By: Red Hen PressPages: 232Released On: 02/06/2026 At eight years old, Hannah Soyer had no choice but to undergo an intensive spinal fusion surgery, in order to keep her lungs from eventually collapsing. Fourteen years later, she chose another treatment for her neuromuscular condition: regular drug injections into her spinal fluid. But what doesContinue reading “Dreams in Which I’m Almost Human – Hannah Soyer”
Humans: The Evolution of a Species – DK, Introduction by Professor Alice Roberts
Published By: DKPages: 320Released On: 04/06/2026 Physically, Homo sapiens is unremarkable in the animal world – a hairless ape. But somehow, in combination, our characteristics make us remarkable. With our dexterity and brain power, we discovered ways of finding food and beating the elements not only in our home on the African savanna, but inContinue reading “Humans: The Evolution of a Species – DK, Introduction by Professor Alice Roberts”
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