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    Caitlin Moran sports her stylish "How To Be a Woman" T-shirt to promote this summer's bestseller Spiros Politis

For a downbeat year we’ve a pretty upbeat bunch of books. Listen to birdsong to brighten the gloom, says Simon Barnes in Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed (Short, £11.69). He’ll tune your ears to winter’s lonely voices — robins, wrens, long-tailed tits — before preparing you for the exultant sounds of spring.

Or peruse the blossoming nature paintings of the visionary Samuel Palmer, an overlooked but highly influential and eccentric contemporary of William Blake. Rachel Campbell-Johnston’s Mysterious Wisdom (Bloomsbury, £20) is the first biography of Palmer for more than 35 years. From the Romantics to romance, Ann Treneman’s Dave & Nick (Robson

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