“Turning The Pebbles, the memoir by the Ashes-winning captain, is the work of the ultimate polymath — a scholar, psychoanalyst and almost a spy. It is unlike any book you will read this year.”
Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack is the only biography of Drake to be written with the blessing and involvement of his sister and estate. It will be published to mark what would have been Drake’s 75th birthday on the 19th June.
White Rabbit has signed Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard, the inside story of a band said to be the heaviest in the world and the “pioneers” of doom metal, by Dan Franklin.
“The provocative historian fires an intellectual antitank missile into the agonised debate over the impact and legacy of the British Empire,” writes Trevor Phillips in the Sunday Times
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker has been shortlisted for The Barbellion Prize, a book prize dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing.
“Naked Portrait explores Boyt’s experience of sitting for her father’s paintings from childhood until her marriage and the power imbalance in their relationship. When Freud died Boyt discovered her old diary from the years 1989 to 1990, she was shocked…”