History, politics, philosophy, social issues

Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton On the Edge: Living with Global Capitalism (Cape, March, £16.99, 0224059378). Comprehensive analysis of global capitalism.



Donald Woods The New South Africa (André Deutsch, May, £16.99, 0233998306). The author of Cry Freedom returns to his beloved South Africa.



Ken Livingstone Livingstone's London (Gollancz, February, £7.99, 0575068361). The candidate for mayor of London gives his views on the city.



Eric Hobsbawm On the Edge of the New Century (Little, Brown, March, £16.99, 0316854298). Sequel to his The Age of Extremes.



Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ed The Power of Ideas (Chatto & Windus, February, £20, 0701168714). Collection of shorter pieces on the power of ideas to shape civilisations and history.



Peter Jay The Wealth of Man (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, May, £20, 0297643673). History of mankind's instinctive desire to create material wealth.



William Shawcross Deliver Us from Evil: Warlords and Peacekeeping (Bloomsbury, April, £20, 0747548447). Examines the moral and political questions raised by humanitarian intervention.



Richard A Firmage The Alphabet (Bloomsbury, April, £14.99, 0747547572). Story of one of the greatest inventions, the Roman alphabet.



David Bodanis E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Macmillan, May, £12.99, 033378328X). Entertaining explanation of one of the greatest discoveries in modern science. Author promotion, p.o.s.



Richard Panek Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe (Fourth Estate, February, £12, 1841152862). Chronicle of the invention that has made humans smaller, and the universe vaster, than ever imagined.



Erik Durschmied The Weather Factor (Hodder & Stoughton, April, £14.99, 0340768053). Following The Hinge Factor, the author examines history's dramatic changes through climate.



Stephen Dorril MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations (Fourth Estate, March, £25, 1857020936). Study of the UK government overseas intelligence service by the author of Smear!



Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Enigma: The Battle for the Code (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, April, £20, 029784251X). Story of how the German Enigma codes were broken in the Second World War, based on hitherto secret files.



Edmund Dell A Strange Eventful History: Democratic Socialism in Britain (HarperCollins, February, £24.99, 0002559374). Heavyweight history to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Labour Party.



Rupert Christiansen The Visitors: Culture Shock in 19th-Century Britain (Chatto & Windus, May, £20, 1856197859). Cultural history that traces the stories of the remarkable foreigners who visited.



Martin Walker Makers of the American Century (Chatto & Windus, June, £20, 0701167998). Portraits of emblematic figures, from Henry Ford to Katharine Hepburn.



Piers Brendon The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (Cape, April, £25, 0224060384). Worldwide popular history.



Maureen Freely The Parent Trap (Virago, May, £9.99, 1860497020). Examines what the author regards as the authoritarian views of New Labour regarding parenting.



Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Who Do We Think We Are? creating the new Britain (Allen Lane, April, £18.99, 0713994134). Investigation of British life by the well-known journalist.



Alain de Botton The Consolations of Philosophy (Hamish Hamilton, April, £14.99, 0241140099). How Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche can help you with your problems.



Andrea Dworkin Scapegoat (Virago, May, £22.50, 186049773X). The outspoken and often controversial feminist on why women and Jews have been stigmatised.



Paul Gilroy Between Camps: Race, Identity and Nationalism at the end of the colour line (Allen Lane, May, £20, 0713991445). Going beyond identity politics to a planetary humanism.



Imelda Whelehan Overloaded (Women's Press, March, £11.99, 0704346176). Laddishness and the "girlie" phenomenon analysed.



Elizabeth Wurtzel The Bitch Rules (Quartet, May, £6, 0704381389). More from the author of Bitch and Prozac Nation.



Lynne Franks The Seed Handbook (Thorsons, March, £14.99, 0722539452). Lessons in being an entrepreneur from the former public

relations guru.



Food and drink, gardening

Jamie Oliver The Return of the Naked Chef (Michael Joseph, April, £19.99, 0718144392). The second book, to accompany a new BBC television series.



Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers River Café Green (Ebury Press, May, £30, 0091865433). Recipes emphasising seasonality and or- ganic produce. Instore campaign, television advertised national newspaper serial sale.

Keith Floyd Floyd Around the Med (HarperCollins Illustrated, March, £14.99, 0004140877). Accompanies the television series; Floyd tours the Mediterranean.



Kevin Gould Dishy (Hodder & Stoughton, April, £20, 0340 750952). From the chef described by Vogue magazine as "Food's all-round new It boy".



Antonio Carluccio Antonio Carluccio's Vegetables (Headline, April, £25, 0747275920). Author promotion, p.o.s., window competition.



Mark Hix Eat Up: Food for Children of All Ages (Fourth Estate, April, £14.99, 1841151475). Recipes from the executive chef of the Ivy and Le Caprice.



Conrad Gallagher One-Pot Wonders (Kyle Cathie, May, £16.99, 1856263622). Recipes from the Michelin-starred chef soon to present his own BBC TV series.



Allegra McEvedy The Good Cook (Hodder, March, £12.99, 0340 767928). Recipes from the young London chef's Notting Hill eaterie.



Gardening

Charlie Dimmock Enjoy your Garden (Michael Joseph, April, £18.99, 0718144295). Gardening for everyone.



Beth Chatto Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden (Frances Lincoln, March, £25, 0711213255). The author's first major work for 10 years.



Royal Horticultural Society Gardening Manual (Dorling Kindersley, March, £25, 075130364X). The lead title in the Dorling Kindersley Year of Gardening, with more than 1,000 photos and artworks.



Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, M Rothschild preface, Don Berwick photos English Plants for Your Garden (Frances Lincoln, March, £20, 0711214352). How to create a beautiful garden using 200 of the best species indigenous to the British Isles.



Roy Strong, Julia Trevelyan Oman illus Garden Party: Collected Writings, 1979–1999 (Frances Lincoln, March, £14.99, 0711214581). Collection of articles on all aspects of gardening.

Alan Titchmarsh The New Supergardener (Seven Dials, February, £10.99, 1841880469). An all-in-one gardening reference.



Paul Williams Garden Colour Palette (Conran Octopus, February, £17.99, 1840910895). Interactive format allows you to create numerous colour combinations.



Sports

Ian Bent Football Confidential (BBC Worldwide, March, £6.99, 0563 551496). The football stories the clubs and administration would prefer you not to know.



Jamie Osborne and John Gibb Too Much Egg: The Jamie Osborne Story (Collins Willow, March, £16.99, 0002189445). Real life drama from the racing world.



Terry Lovell Bernie's Game (Little, Brown, March, £16.99, 0316 648414). Biography of motor racing's Bernie Ecclestone.



Match of the Day Guide to Euro 2000 (BBC Worldwide, April, £5.99, 0563551074).



Colin Prescot Please God, Make Mr Branson Go Splosh in the Sea: Recollections of a Stuntman and Adventurer from Eton (Boxtree, April £18.99, 0752218654). Sporting memoirs from his time as a Hollywood stuntman to racing against Richard Branson. Balloon poster and "extensive publicity".



David Sims The Arsenal Football Club: Memories and Marble Halls (Pavilion, April, £19.99, 1862054274). A year in the life of the north London football club whose "marble halls" are now barely big enough to accommodate it.



Laura Thompson A History of Newmarket (Virgin Publishing, April, £25, 1852278536). History of the town and of its famous racecourse.



Bryn Vaile and Caroline Serle The Official Olympic Games Companion: Sydney 2000 (Brassey's, June, £12.99, 1857533453). Includes a programme and event list for the 2000 Games, plus a guide to past Olympic Games.



Frank Warren with Roy Collins Frank Warren: The Autobiography (Virgin Publishing, March, £17.99, 1852278064). Autobiography of the boxing promoter.