Base Notes: Scents of a Life is picked by The Observer as a non-fiction highlight of 2025
Adelle Stripe’s olfactory memoir of growing up in the north of the 1980s will be published by White Rabbit in February.
Harper NonFiction and Broadside acquire Douglas Murray’s book about Middle East and the West
On Democracies and Death Cults, the new book by bestselling author Douglas Murray, draws on his on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, taking readers on a harrowing journey through the horrific aftermath of the 7th October attack.
Street Level Superstar by Will Hodgkinson is the number one book of the year in Mojo, Uncut and Rough Trade
“Our Book of the Year changes how we think about music memoirs, how they are structured and what they tell us,” say Rough Trade. “It tells us of a particular indefatigable individual who will go further than anyone else.”
Yaba Badoe is nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing
Following its shortlisting for The Week Junior’s Best Older Fiction Award and the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award, ‘Man-Man and the Tree of Memories’ has now been nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
John Murray to publish ‘guide to the end times’ from comic Frankie Boyle and and his writing partner Charlie Skelton
A Short History of the Apocalypse is a “comprehensive guide to the challenges presented by Armageddon”. The book follows Boyle and Skelton as they debrief time traveller and bon vivant from the late 21st Century, Alonso Lampe.