It’s been a very autumnal summer here in the UK — now, it’s time to prepare for the real thing. Rain will become heavier, branches will become lighter, and many-a-dormant-bibliophile will retire their flip-flops for flipping pages. But as the seasons change, so too do bookshelves. Stockpile for the cool breeze and falling leaves by pre-ordering a pile of shiny new books. (And it’s not like we’re biased or anything, but here are a few that we just can’t wait for! 👇)
Power Up
Leadership, Character, and Conflict Beyond the Superhero Multiverse
Multiple Authors
In the past decade, heroes and villains spawned from the pages of comic books have upended popular culture and revolutionised the entertainment industry. Through the lens of the superhero genre, each chapter from this innovative book explores contemporary challenges in leadership, team building, and conflict, while emphasising the role of humanity and human nature in our own world.
9781636243399 | Hardback | September 2023 | Find out more
Parallel Lives
Eight Women Artists
Gill Clarke, Steve Marshall
Parallel Lives looks at the careers and experiences of nine women artists, all born within 20 years of each other. This book is intended as a celebration of the lives and work of these contrasting and highly accomplished artists, each an original and innovative creative force whose work has an enduring appeal.
9781915670076 | Hardback | September 2023 | Find out more
Belle Nash and the Bath Circus
William Keeling
At the end of his last adventure (Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé), Belle Nash was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835, and Belle has returned to Bath, glad to be back but pained by the absence of his most recent Caribbean love. William Keeling’s whimsical tale brings Belle, his gay hero, into a situation where comedy does not obscure stark moral issues to do with prejudice and bigotry that are as alive today as they were in Regency times.
9781915023117 | Paperback | September 2023 | Find out more
Next War
Reimagining How We Fight
John F. Antal
An analysis of the lessons learned from recent wars, including the conflict in Ukraine, and how top war-fighting disrupters are transforming the methods of warfare. Imagine a peer fight against Communist China, a new war in Europe against a resurgent Russia, or a conflict against Iran in the Middle East. How can our forces survive an enemy-first strike in these circumstances? Can we adapt to the ever-accelerating tempo of war? Written by a military strategy and leadership expert, John Antal addresses these tough questions and more.
9781636243351 | Paperback | August 2023 | Find out more
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia
The Place-Name Evidence
David Boulton
This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries. It examines their different categories linguistically and explores the landscape and archaeological contexts of the settlements associated with them, with the aid of GIS-generated maps.
9781914427251 | Paperback | September 2023 | Find out more
Eilean Donan Castle
Exploring a Highland Icon, Archaeological Research Excavations 2009–2017
Multiple Authors
Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands. This book provides a refreshed view of the lost medieval guise of the castle, of its 13th-century origins and form, and of who was responsible for building it, allowing the castle to be positioned accurately in the complex dynamics of powerholding and display of the earls of Ross and associated militarised kindreds of the west Highlands during six centuries of change up to the castle’s destruction in 1719.
9798888570548 | Hardback | September 2023 | Find out more
Late Hokusai
Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy
Timothy Clark
This publication has been developed from ideas first presented at the international symposium Late Hokusai: thought, technique, society, held at the British Museum in May 2017. Building on the themes of the exhibition, authors from the UK, Europe, Japan, and USA have engaged with late Hokusai from a variety of perspectives, both intrinsic and extrinsic to his life and works. This innovative approach provides new insights into the work of one of the world’s most celebrated artists and suggests many new avenues for Hokusai research.
9780861592319 | Paperback | September 2023 | Find out more
Forgotten War
The British Empire and Commonwealth’s Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941–1945
Brian E. Walter
This meticulously researched book provides a complete, balanced, and detailed account of the often-overlooked role that British and Commonwealth forces played on land, sea, and in the air in the Far East during WWII. It also provides unique analysis regarding the effectiveness and relevance of this collective effort and the contributions it made to the overall Allied victory.
9781636243573 | Hardback | October 2023 |Find out more
A Painter and a Poet
Conversations in Colour
Alice Mumford & Sue Leigh
This beautiful book, of paintings by Alice Mumford and poems by Sue Leigh, brings together exciting new work from the two makers. Collaboration is perhaps not the right word for a project in which paintings and poems sit side by side, each illuminating the other. Onlooker and reader are offered another glimpse, another view which may change the experience of looking and reading.
9781915670069 | Paperback | September 2023 | Find out more
What are your rainy day reads? ☕💬
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