2013 the year ahead + Science and nature books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/2013-the-year-ahead+books/scienceandnature model.DotcomContentType$TagIndex$@217cd66b en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2018 Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:30:55 GMT 2018-06-25T10:30:55Z en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2018 The Guardian https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png https://www.theguardian.com Nonfiction for spring – preview https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/30/nonfiction-spring-books-2013-preview Victorian cross-dressers, therapeutic hiking, a smart pop memoir and a graphic view of jealousy – Rachel Cooke's pick of nonfiction this spring<p>If, like me, you are a fan of the idiosyncratic, sideways-look biography, then 2013 is set to be an excellent year. I am mightily looking forward to <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9781408830444" title=""><strong>The Love-Charm of Bombs</strong></a> (Bloomsbury, Jan) by Lara Feigel, which explores the effect of the second world war on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Henry Green, Rose Macaulay and Hilde Spiel; to <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/search.do" title=""><strong>Fanny and Stella</strong></a> (Faber, Feb) by Neil McKenna, about the lives of two cross-dressing young men in Victorian England; and to <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780857205889" title=""><strong>Mad Girl's Love Song</strong></a> (Simon &amp; Schuster, Jan), in which Andrew Wilson, biographer of Patricia Highsmith and Harold Robbins, looks at Sylvia Plath's febrile and complicated life in the years before she met Ted Hughes. The prize for most tempting title, meanwhile, goes to Lucy Hughes-Hallett for the excellently named <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/search.do" title=""><strong>The Pike</strong></a> (Fourth Estate, Jan), a new biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio (I&nbsp;gather that people likened the Italian poet, seducer and preacher of war to this lurking, carnivorous&nbsp;fish&nbsp;with&nbsp;good&nbsp;reason).</p><p>Some good memoirs are also on their way. I can't wait to read <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9781844088669" title=""><strong>Bedsit Disco Queen</strong></a> (Virago, Feb) by Tracey Thorn, which sounds as though it might be that rare thing: a clever and funny book about what it's really like to be a pop star (Thorn is best known for being half of Everything But the Girl). <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780224096621" title=""><strong>Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked</strong></a> (Cape, Feb) tells the story of the novelist James Lasdun's ordeal at the hands of an obsessive former student, and I expect it to be as brilliantly written as it is chilling (Lasdun is a wonderful stylist). Richard Benson's <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-valley-9780747591849/" title=""><strong>The Valley</strong></a> (Bloomsbury, May) is part memoir and part social history – at its heart are four generations of his mother's family, all of whom worked in the pits of South Yorkshire – and if it's even half as good as his bestselling <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview4" title=""><em>The Farm</em></a>, I'll be very happy indeed. A friend whose taste I trust has recommended <a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780857897756" title=""><strong>Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found</strong></a><strong> </strong>(Atlantic, Jan) by Cheryl Strayed, in which the author, her marriage over and her mother having suddenly died from cancer, decides to walk all 1,100&nbsp;miles&nbsp;of the west coast of&nbsp;America.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/30/nonfiction-spring-books-2013-preview">Continue reading...</a> Books Science and nature books Autobiography and memoir Biography books History books Social history Travel writing Society books Richard Mabey Culture Society Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:05:19 GMT http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/30/nonfiction-spring-books-2013-preview Photograph: Murdo Macleod Naturalist Richard Mabey, whose new book looks at our obsession with the weather. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Photograph: Murdo Macleod Naturalist Richard Mabey, whose new book looks at our obsession with the weather. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Rachel Cooke 2012-12-30T00:05:19Z
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