Explore our diverse collection of thought-provoking new releases – these captivating titles promise to expand your horizons and challenge your perspectives.
Must Read Non-Fiction For February 2026
Attacking the Space: Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data Revolution
9781399625104 | Seven Dials| TPB
Sam Larner
Does it matter which foot your fly-half kicks with? How can teams win matches when the clock stops? Why don’t wingers actually play on the wing? Does having more possession increase a team’s chances of winning?
Leading data analyst Sam Larner lifts the lid on international rugby, using his decade of experience at the professional level to reveal the tactical and data revolution that has taken the sport by storm. Sharing ground-breaking insight into the modern game, Sam explores the exciting innovations players and clubs are currently using to improve their gameplay. He analyses the metrics by which teams succeed and fail in their attempts to win metres, tries and matches, as well as why recent law changes are so important for rugby’s development and what a data-driven future holds for the sport.
With each chapter focusing on a different match, such as France facing the All Blacks in 2023 and Wales’ remarkable comeback against England at the 2008 Six Nations, Attacking the Space is revolutionary in its approach as the first book to tackle rugby’s new obsession with data and tactics. It takes readers on a fascinating tour of modern rugby to offer a twenty-first century overview of one of the world’s most exciting sports. This is rugby as you’ve never seen it before.
Where We Stand (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
9780300285550 | Yale University Press | PB
Djamila Ribeiro
he instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil
In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila Ribeiro offers a compelling intervention into contemporary discussions of power and identity: the concept of “speaking place.” A crucial component of conversations on race and gender in Brazil, speaking place is the idea that everyone has a social position in the world and that what we are able to say, and how it is received by others, depends on it. Ribeiro traces the history of Black feminist thought through several centuries, examining the ways that Black women have been silenced, ignored, and punished for speaking.
Building on feminist standpoint theory, and in conversation with the works of Sojourner Truth, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and others, Ribeiro invites all of us to recognize where we stand, to imagine geographies different from those we’ve inherited, and to speak a more humane world into being.
Love Lessons: A Modern Guide to Showing, Giving, and Receiving Love
9781419783456 | Abrams | HB
Alise Morales, Illustrated by Ana Jaren
An inspirational reframing of the bestselling classic The 5 Languages of Love, including all kinds of people and all kinds of love
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman has sold millions of copies since it was published in 1992. Framed around how to best communicate with your romantic partner, “What’s your love language?” is such a pervasive conversation topic that it’s become a common prompt on dating apps. But despite its popularity, it really hasn’t kept up with the times―it’s simplistic, limited, and doesn’t allow room for all the beautiful complexities life has to offer.
Love Lessons, written by Alise Morales and illustrated by Ana Jarén, reframes the familiar concept of love languages as a more fluid and flexible method of communication that we all engage with at different times, in different moods, and with different people.
From romantic partners to close friends, from family to coworkers, this book shows how love languages don’t have to be a one-size-fits-all approach. Existing love languages are reexamined and new ones introduced as equally powerful tools for expressing respect, admiration, and care in our most valued relationships. Morales’ text is accompanied by Jarén’s diverse artwork, showcasing illustrations that reflect the anarchy of the universal approach previously set forth by Chapman. Her maximalist, colorful drawings are indicative of the fun and freeing content that Morales has reframed to reach a more open-minded generation.
Informative writing, inclusive language, and multiple-choice quizzes come together in Love Lessons to reach new heights within the community of people wanting to uncover how they give and receive love.
100 Poems to Grow Your Confidence (Volume 5)
9781837330034 | Batsford | HB
Liz Ison
A collection of 100 upbeat, empowering and encouraging poems aimed at anyone who is looking for a boost of confidence.
This collection of 100 poems is here to be your biggest cheerleader. Whether you need a push towards inspiration for the big or little things in life, there’s a poem to help you through it. From calling on a higher power for support and reminders of who you are to meditations on the difference between confidence and arrogance, there are a variety of perspectives to learn from in this collection.
In this expertly crafted anthology, you can find little boosts of support from the likes of Emily Brontë, Maya Angelou, William Shakespeare, Denise Levertov and D. H. Lawrence. With poems from a whole host of bright minds from throughout the ages, you can gain comfort from knowing you are not alone in not feeling your best, draw encouragement from strong voices, and overcome feelings of fear or uncertainty through the meditative and empowering practice of reading poetry.
Following on from 100 Happy Poems, 100 Poems to Help You Sleep, 100 Poems to Help You Heal and 100 Poems to Help You Relax, this is a collection of poems that will give you a pep talk in your time of need.
