New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - April Highlights

Selected new additions published this month

Updated May 8, 2024
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Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the...
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Gibbins, David
Paper Book
'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times ...
Power and Glory Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty.
Larman, Alexander. 
Paper Book
Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it depicts a monarchy...
Shakespeare The Man Who Pays the Rent.
Dench, Judi. 
Paper Book
Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig; cavorting naked through the countryside painted green; acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head... these are just a few things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare. In this book, Judi opens up about every...

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