Take your pick from the best new reads of the week...
The Colour Of Time
Dan Jones and Marina Amaral
This book, a collaboration between historian Dan Jones and Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, takes 200 photographs from the century between 1850 and 1960 and renders them into colour, replacing the sepia-toned dust of history with a livelier image.
Leading politicians, queens and kings alternate with soldiers and peasants, serfs and scientists, labourers and assassins.
Images of Russia before and after the revolution share pages with figures before and after the American Civil War. Jones sketches the historical context with wry economy. Even familiar images take on a new dimension in colour, from Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her plane to the famous VJ Day photo of a sailor kissing a girl in Manhattan.
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BY NEIL NORMAN
Head Of Zeus, £15.99
To Throw Away Unopened
Viv Albertine
The Slits’ guitarist had a complicated relationship with her difficult, secretive mother. But she instilled in Viv the survival instincts that enable her to come up fighting when life packs its punches.
In this memoir of self-discovery, Viv offers up extraordinary honesty – and reveals a ruckus with her sister at her mother’s deathbed.
BY EITHNE FARRY
Faber & Faber, £8.99
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The Lido
Libby Page
This summer’s poolside must-read The Lido is the story of two women, one 26 and the other 86, joining forces to save their beloved South London pool from developers.
Libby Page takes modern themes, including gentrification and urban loneliness, to weave a timeless tale of friendship, love and chilly swims. It may be about freezing-cold water but it will leave you with a warm glow.
BY ANDREINA CORDANI
Orion, £7.99
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
Meet Queenie – young, irrepressibly funny and, when she wants to be, as fiercely regal as her name. But after a break-up, she steers her life off course, self-sabotaging at work and dating some awful men.
Before she can move on, Queenie must learn to love herself. We are irresistibly drawn into her world by a romcom which is wry and often hilarious.
BY ANDREINA CORDANI
Orion, £12.99
Flower Market: Botanical Style At Home
Michelle Mason
This beautiful book is teeming with inspiration for decorating your home with seasonal blooms.
Michelle Mason runs a ‘vintage emporium’ so she is full of ideas for using reclaimed jugs or vases to display flowers to best effect. She offers inspiration by season and colour.
BY CHARLOTTE HEATHCOTE
Pimpernel Press, £20
We’d love you to read it and tell us what you think. We’ll share our readers’ thoughts on April 19. What did you like (or loathe!) about it?
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