HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON

Sphere Hardback Blighty Lowe, Steve and McArthur, Alan October, £12.99, 9781847441799 The authors of Is It Just Me? take an insightful look at Britain by watching Morris Men doing hankiedancing at dawn; getting attacked by monkeys in Gibraltar and watching East Anglia fall into the sea.

Sphere Paperback Do Bats Have Bollocks? Butler, Jon and Vincent, Bruno November, pbk, £7.99, 9780751541373 Splendidly titled follow-up to their bestselling Do Ants Have Arseholes?

Summersdale Sex Tips for Husbands and Wives from 1894 Smythers, Ruth September, £2.99, 9781840247022 Originally published as serious advice, and now an eye-opening stocking filler or wedding gift.

Thames & Hudson Magnum Magnum Medium Lardinois, Brigitte, ed September, £35, 9780500543665 Smaller format (and cheaper) edition of the official celebration of 60 years of the famous photographic agency with 400 memorable images by some of the world’s most renowned photographers.

V&A Publishing Cold War Modern: Design, 1945-70 Crowley, David and Pavitt, Jane, eds September, £35, 9781851775439 Survey of art, architecture, fashion and film during the Cold War. Accompanies a major V&A exhibition.

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Tate Publishing Rothko Borchardt-Hume, Achim, ed September, £35, 9781854377883, pbk £24.99, 371 Re-examination of Rothko’s work, published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Modern.

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Virgin Books Fictionary DailyCandy.com September, £7.99, 9781905264407 By the editors of website dailycandy.com, a hilarious guide to words and phrases that don’t exist but should, including “e-maul”, “lush flush” and “mouse potato”.

One Track Mind: A Revealing Insight Into the Obsessed Minds of Men Davidson, Tony September, pbk trade, £8.99, 9780753515518 For men with a one-track mind: a collection of photographs of objects that look like breasts. I know I shouldn’t like it, but I do.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Everything is Connected Barenboim, Daniel August, £16.99, 9780297855446 Memoir by the world-renowned pianist and conductor in which he reflects on his illustrious career and advocates the integration of music and musical thought into our everyday lives

TRAVEL

Arcadia Books The Good Tourist: An Ethical Traveller’s Guide Popescu, Lucy September, pbk original, £11.99, 9781905147793 Invaluable guide which exposes some of the abuses that remain hidden from tourists in around 20 popular destinations including The Maldives, China and Egypt, but suggests ways you can help causes and people rather than cancel your holiday outright.

BBC Books Francesco’s Mediterranean da Mosto, Francesco July, £25, 9781846073403 Accompanies a new BBC2 series in which Francesco sets out from his native city in the wake of an explorer ancestor in an old schooner, to cross the Med and discover the cities and islands which gave birth to Western civilisation.

Ebury Press Friends Like These Wallace, Danny July, pbk trade, £11.99, 9780091896768 Alarmed at the prospect of turning 30, Wallace decides to track down 12 of his long-lost best mates from school. Travelling from Berlin to Tokyo, and Sydney to Loughborough, he turns up mostly unannounced and asks them if they’re coming out to play.

Michael Joseph Amazon Parry, Bruce October, £20, 9780718154349 The explorer embarks on an epic journey down the world’s greatest river. Accompanies a major new BBC2 series.

Allen Lane Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places Somerville, Christopher July, £25, 9780713999679 Handsomely illustrated guide in which the author of Coast tracks down the wild, undiscovered places of the British Isles and reminds us what diversity of geography and wildlife these islands hold.

John Murray The Man Who Invented History Marozzi, Justin October, £20, 9780719567117 Marozzi journeys through Greece, Turkey, Egypt and war-torn Iraq in the footsteps of the eclectic, effervescent and profoundly modern Herodotus.

Picador The Discovery of France Robb, Graham July, pbk, £8.99, 9780330427616 The Ondaatje Prize winner in which Robb cycles through France in considering the formation of French national identity between the Revolution and the First World War. New in paperback.

Hamish Hamilton Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Theroux, Paul September, £20, 9780241142530 Thirty years on, Theroux retraces the route of his classic travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar.

Harper Non Fiction Stephen Fry’s In America Fry, Stephen October, £20, 9780007266340 Fry embarks on an epic journey across the US in his black taxicab, visiting each of its 51 states to discover how such a huge diversity of people, cultures, languages, beliefs and landscapes combine to create such a remarkable nation. Accompanies a major BBC1 series.

Sphere Hardback By Any Means Boorman, Charley October, £18.99, 9781847442468 Boorman travels from his home town in Co Wicklow all the way to Sydney using methods of transport as diverse as steam train, horse, boat, kayak, truck, tuk-tuk and, of course, his beloved motorbike.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson The Olive Tree Drinkwater, Carol October, £18.99, 9780297847748 In this fifth volume in her bestselling olive series, Drinkwater journeys further around the Mediterranean on the trail of the venerable olive, discovering how it has sustained and inspired people for centuries.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON

CURRENT AFFAIRS, EDUCATION, RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Atlantic Books Alpha Dogs Harding, James August, £22, 9781843548171 First book by the editor of The Times which tells the story of Sawyer-Miller, a pioneering campaigning company in the US which laid the foundations for our modern methods of politics and made “spin” a global phenomenon.

The Rebels’ Hour Joris, Lieve August, pbk trade, £12.99, 9781843547532 Award-winning Belgian travel writer with a compelling portrait of a young Congolese herd boy turned rebel leader, and of the plight of innocent children in his vast and chaotic country

Counterknowledge Thompson, Damian July, pbk, £7.99, 9781843546764 Daily Telegraph leader writer maintains that we are being overwhelmed by nonsense about science, medicine and history, and that this “counterknowledge” is reaching epidemic proportions. New in paperback.

Ebury Press The Fridge-Hiker’s Guide to Life Hawks, Tony October, £9.99, 9780091924188 Hawks looks back on what he learnt during his journey around Ireland with a fridge: namely if all you have between birth and death is a journey, and if the journey is all you have, then wouldn’t it be best to make it fun? Such is the “Philosophy of the Fridge”.

Belching Out the Devil Thomas, Mark September, pbk trade, £11.99, 9780091922931 Provocative and entertaining book in which Thomas travels the globe to investigate the background of one of the planet’s biggest brands.

Constable 50 People Who B*ggered Up Britain Letts, Quentin September, £12.99, 9781845298555 Outrageous pen portraits of the 50 people Letts believes have made our country the ugly, scheming, cheating, beer-ridden bum of the Western world.

Corgi Could Do Better! Beadle, Phil July, pbk, £7.99, 9780552155113 Teacher from the Channel 4 series “The Unteachables” maintains that every child has the ability to learn, and to do better at school, telling parents that there is no such thing as a stupid child, only boring lessons. New in paperback.

Duckworth In Defence of America Maddox, Bronwen September, £14.99, 9780715637913 Chief foreign correspondent at The Times defends the US from its detractors, maintaining that the world would be a lot more unstable without it.

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Harper Non Fiction For the Love of Julie Ming, Ann September, £12.99, 9780007262625 A series of blunders allowed the man who murdered the author’s daughter to walk free. Knowing he could not be tried again under the law of Double Jeopardy, he callously bragged about his “perfect crime”. So she fought to overturn the 800-year old law.

Street Boys: 7 Kids. 1 Estate. No Way Out. The True Story of a Lost Childhood Pritchard, Tim October, pbk, £6.99, 9780007267064 Vivid portrait of deprivation and broken young lives: Pritchard, the producer of “Ross Kemp on Gangs”, spent two years getting to know a gang on one of the UK’s deprived estates. New in paperback.

HarperPress Not a Shot Fired: The War on Terror in Afghanistan Lamb, Christina November, £20, 9780007256921 Award-winning journalist who knows Afghanistan well, with an expose of the failures of the West to bring peace and stability to the country.

Headline Books Criminal Walsh, Caspar November, pbk, £6.99, 9780755317493 Abandoned by his mother at the age of three, Walsh was sent to live with his drug-dealing, bank-robbing father. A life doing drugs and doing time followed. New in paperback.

What Next? Patten, Chris October, £25, 9780713998566 Patten argues that cooperation between states is fundamental to a global sense of security, prosperity and well-being.

Pocket Books Reconciliation Bhutto, Benazir August, pbk, £8.99, 9781847393197 In a book completed just days before her assassination, Benazir Bhutto argues that democracy, economic development, moderation and modernity are the greatest threats to international terrorism.

Hodder & Stoughton Into Danger Adie, Kate September, £20, 9780340933213 Adie travels the globe in pursuit of those who choose a career in danger, like stuntpeople, landmine exploders and a “snake man” bitten countless times by poisonous snakes in order to find venom for vaccines.

It’s a PC World Stourton, Edward November, £16.99, 9780340954867 The phenomenon of political correctness just seems to keep growing, depite the many who rage against it. Why? Broadcaster Stourton investigates.

England, Our England Titchmarch, Alan October, pbk, £7.99, 9780340953037 Titchmarsh’s anthology of everything an Englishman should know, from tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea, and from the rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Michael Joseph Gangs II Kemp, Ross September, £16.99, 9780718154417 More criminal groups under Kemp’s spotlight — a second series airs on Sky this autumn. The paperback edition of Gangs I is out in July.

Allen Lane Hot, Flat and Crowded Friedman, Thomas L August, £20, 9781846141294 Friedman says we need a green revolution to shock us out of our collective apathy, and that involves changing our leaders, not our lightbulbs.

Death of a Dissident Goldfarb, Alex and Litvinenko, Marina November, pbk, £8.99, 9781847391070 The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko as told by his closest friend and his widow.

Profile Books Darwin’s Angel Cornwell, John September, pbk, £6.99, 9781846680656 Articulate riposte to The God Delusion from a friendly guardian angel. New in paperback.

Simon & Schuster Untitled on the Blair Administration Boulton, Adam October, £17.99, 9781847372420 Sky News anchor and political editor gives an insider’s view of the Blair administration from a press perspective.

Virgin Books Not in My Name Burchill, Julie and NewkeyBurden, Chas August, £12.99, 9781905264223 Burchill’s extended harangue of those who say one thing and do another, from Everyday Hypocrites to Stinking Ones.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Finding Happiness Jamison, Christopher October, £12.99, 9780297852773 The abbot from the television series “The Monastery” proposes monastic steps for a fulfilling life.

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