New Non-Fiction

How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev

This book is both an inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer, and the story of the author as he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the US response to the invasion of Ukraine.

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones

Drawing on new research across various fields, Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe.

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts, Nuclear War is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever.

Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future by Daniel Lewis

A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that represent the challenges facing our planet, and the ways that scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future.

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark

Every queen had ladies-in-waiting. Ever present and yet hidden behind the scenes, these women held the secrets and the hearts of some of the Tudor period's most powerful men and women.

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

Hampton Sides' bravura account of Cook's last journey both wrestles with Cook's legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterised exploration in the 1700s.