Reading Addicts love to disappear into fictional worlds and escape reality for a while, but occasionally it is good to enrich our reading time with a dose of non-fiction.
2018 has a slew of non-fiction in the pipeline from biographies and memoirs, to history, science, and philosophy. We have selected a handful of intriguing titles for your perusal, just follow the links provided to order/pre-order your copy.
The Doctor (certified Reading Addict) loves a bit of non-fiction
“Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, “Joy,” and, “Find Your Beach,” Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith’s own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive–and never any less than perfect company. This is literary journalism at its zenith.”
Feel Free is due for release on February 6th 2018
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“Part memoir, part biography, and part literary criticism, Free Woman is an examination of Lessing’s life and work, structured as a series of nine investigations of sexual, psychological, intellectual, and political freedom. Feigel combines incisive writing, elegant exploration, and intimate revelations with a delicate sensitivity to relationships (both real and in literature) in times of great stress to mesmerizing effect.”
Free Woman is due for release in the US on May 8th 2018, and in the UK on March 8th 2018.
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“Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.”
The Order of Time is due for release in the US on May 8th 2018, and in the UK on April 26th 2018.
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“A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Timesbest sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs–and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world.”
How To Change Your Mind is due for release on May 15th 2018.
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“Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Searing and insightful, Behold America tells the unknown history of two key American phrases, ‘America First’ and the ‘American Dream’, and the role they play in the struggle in modern America.”
Behold, America is due for release on May 3rd 2018.
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“An investigation into our complicated 7-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. In Fallout, Fred Pearce uncovers the environmental and psychological landscapes created since the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Fallout is the definitive look at humanity’s nuclear adventure, for any reader who craves a clear-headed examination of the tangled relationship between a powerful technology and human politics, foibles, fears, and arrogance.”
Fallout is due for release on May 22nd 2018.
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“Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted Under Another Sky, tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, the mysterious turf labyrinths of northern Europe, the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Velázquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse.”
Red Thread is due for release on August 2nd 2018.
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“We all know how identities―notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion―are at the root of global conflict, but the more elusive truth is that these identities are created by conflict in the first place. In provocative, entertaining chapters, Kwame Anthony Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with engrossing historical tales―from Anton Wilhelm Amo, the eighteenth-century African child who became an eminent European academic, to Italo Svevo, the literary genius who changed countries without leaving home―and reveals the tangled contradictions within the stories that define us. An arresting argument from one of our leading philosophers, Mistaken Identities will transform the way we think.”
The Lies That Bind is due for release on August 28th 2018.
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