HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON

Caroline Sanderson selects the best of the season’s non-fiction. She says: ‘This spring, publishers’ preoccupations extend beyond the girth of our waistlines to the wider world beyond. These are sobering times when current affairs, economics and making-do take centre stage, along with the misery memoirs. Fortunately, Delia Smith is back to provide a bit of a comfort blanket’
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The Blair Years Campbell, Alastair May, pbk, £9.99, 9780099514756 Campbell’s daily diaries from the tumultuous years of Tony Blair’s premiership. New in paperback. How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov, Garry March, pbk, £8.99, 9780099489863 The chess player shares the secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world’s most intellectually challenging game for two decades. Spearhead Assault Geddes, John May, pbk, £6.99, 9780099514299 “Uncut” squaddie’s account of the infantry battle at Goose Green: the decisive battle of the Falklands War. New in paperback.

Colourful literary memoir which abounds with anecdotes and characters from politics, royalty and literature. For Your Eyes Only Macintyre, Ben April, £20, 9780747595274 Published to coincide with the 2008 Imperial War Museum exhibition of the same name, a look at the entwined worlds of James Bond and Ian Fleming. Austerity Britain: A World to Build, 1945–1948 Kynaston, David March, pbk, £8.99, 9780747585404 Readable history of post-war Britain. New in paperback. Courage Brown, Gordon April, pbk, £8.99, 9780747593317 The Prime Minister celebrates the lives of eight courageous people who have inspired him, including Edith Cavell, Martin Luther King and Aung San Suu Kyi. New in paperback.

Chatto & Windus

Poe Ackroyd, Peter February, £15.99, 9780701169886 The bestselling biographer and historian with a life of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whose Gothic and mysterious life sounds the perfect subject for him.

Account of her complex relationship with her brother William, the celebrated poet. The Error World Garfield, Simon April, £14.99, 9780571235261 The author of Our Hidden Lives with an examination of mid-life male obsession and desire.

Corgi

Fourth Estate

Soldier Jackson, Mike June, pbk, £8.99, 9780552156028 Forthright autobiography charting his 45-year career in the British army, latterly as Chief of General staff. New in paperback.

Miracles of Life Ballard, J G February, £16.99, 9780007270729 The novelist looks back on a life which began in the city of Shanghai where he was interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. The Sum of Our Days Allende, Isabel April, £16.99, 9780007269488 This new memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist documents her family life and difficult times since the death of her daughter Paula.

DK

Bantam Press

Flowers of Manchester Hall, David January, £16.99, 9780593059227 Fifty years on, an account of the 1958 Munich air crash, which also examines the effect it had on the city of Manchester. Hall is the author of Fred, a bestselling biography of Fred Dibnah. A Million Bullets Fergusson, James June, £16.99, 9780593059029 The “real story” of 3 Para’s 52-day siege in Helmand Province.

A Celebration of Britain’s Buildings Dean, Ptolemy March, £20, 9781405329637 Exploration of the wonders of British architecture by the presenter of BBC2’s “Restoration”.

Ebury Press

The Bodley Head

McMafia Glenny, Misha April, £20, 9780224075039 Sobering account of the new world of international organised crime; a shadow economy that may now account for 20 per cent of the world’s GDP.

Don’t You Know Who I Am? Morgan, Piers March, pbk, £7.99, 9780091913922 More spectacular bean-spilling from the former Mirror editor. New in paperback. Look Me in the Eye Robinson, John Elder February, £10.99, 9780091924690 Moving and unexpectedly funny memoir of growing up with Asperger’s Syndrome by the brother of Augusten Burroughs. The Lost Village Askwith, Richard April, £18.99, 9780091909130 Journey in search of the quintessential English village. Forgotten Voices of SOE Bailey, Roderick May, £19.99, 9780091918507 Previously unpublished personal testimonies providing fitting testament to the efforts and sacrifices of a courageous group of men and women.

HarperElement

My Father’s Keeper Gregory, Julie June, £12.99, 9780007268788 The author of Sickened with a memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father. Daddy’s Little Earner: A Heartbreaking True Story of a Brave Little Girl’s Escape from Violence Landon, Maria January, £12.99, 9780007268757 Landon was forced into prostitution aged nine by her pimp father, and only years later did she escape his clutches and see him jailed, enabling her to build a new life. Co-written with Andrew Crofts. Silent Tears: The True Story of the Horrific Childhood of a Mute Little Boy Phillips, Jamie March, £12.99, 9780007274048 How a mute boy survived horrifying childhood cruelty and found his voice to speak out against his abuse.

Black Swan

Jonathan Cape

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain O’Farrell, John June, pbk, £7.99, 9780552773966 The author of Things Can Only Get Better with a cantankerous but amusingly accurate history of Britain. New in paperback.

Bloomsbury

Nothing To Be Frightened Of Barnes, Julian March, £17.99, 9780224085236 The novelist with a family memoir that is also a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard.

The Great Western Beach Smith, Emma June, £12.99, 9780747595915 Atmospheric memoir of a 1920s childhood spent in Newquay, Cornwall. Cold Cream Mount, Ferdinand April, £20, 9780747595076
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Century

Jordan: Pushed to the Limit Price, Katie February, £18.99, 9781846052392 In this latest instalment: a traumatic miscarriage, a kidnap attempt on her children, Peter battles meningitis and a daughter is born.

Faber & Faber

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth Wilson, Frances March, £16.99, 9780571230471

HarperPerennial

A Long Way Gone Beah, Ishmael January, pbk, £7.99, 9780007247097

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