New Year, New Reads

New Year is the perfect time to refresh your reading so jump into January with one of these brilliant new books...

SEX, DRUGS AND WALKING STICKS

by Dr Miriam Stoppard 

After decades on TV, as well as being a health and relationship expert for the Daily Mirror newspaper, Dr Miriam Stoppard is one of the most recognisable and trusted voices on health, wellbeing, parenting and everything in between. 

Now, as she approaches her 89th birthday, Dr Miriam turns her attention to an often-overlooked section of society - the over-60s. 

Sex, Drugs and Walking Sticks is a one-stop guide to living well and feeling confident in your older years, looking to free readers from what they think they ‘should’ be, to being whatever they like. The book outlines an approach designed to get readers feeling happy about as many aspects of their lives as they want, be that confidence in health, happiness, relationships, looks or something else.

Published January 15th by Mirror Books 

HEAD & HEART 

by Helen Flanagan 

Head & Heart is a powerful, frank and moving memoir that follows actress Helen Flanagan from childhood right up to present day. From her life-changing audition for Coronation Street and the incident that led to her leaving Rosie Webster forever, to her relationship with former footballer Scott Sinclair and its eventual collapse, to becoming a mum to her three children. 

In her memoir, Helen retraces every bump in the road and reveals the real woman behind the constant headlines, all along looking to help others facing struggles in their lives and to show there really is a way back from rock bottom. 

Published by January 29th by Mirror Books 

THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIM

by Laura Dave

A text from an unknown number. It’s from Owen, Hannah’s husband, who left her and his daughter Bailey without warning five years previously, and hasn’t been seen since. 

Hannah saw him the previous evening though and although they didn’t talk or even acknowledge each other, she knows she and Bailey are in danger. And that they need to leave their home in Los Angeles... and run.

Published January 15th by Cornerstone 

THE SUCCESSOR: BORIS NEMTSOV, VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE DECLINE OF MODERN RUSSIA 

by Mikhai Fishman 

Drawing on buried archives and off-the-record interviews, exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman gives a gripping insider account of the tragedy of modern Russia, told through many lives of Boris Nemtsov - activist, playboy, leader-in-waiting, dissident and, finally, victim. 

From the economic reforms under Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy, through two wars in Chechnya and the invasion of Ukraine, this is the story of a man fired by the belief that Russia could, still, have another future. 

Published January 15th by Pushkin Press