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 January 2026
Super Body: A 3-Week Program to Harness the New Science of Body Composition and Restore Your Youthful Contours
9781399740500 | Yellow Kit | TPB
Dr William Davis
Are you ready to take your health into your own hands? Heal your microbiome and improve your shape and body composition with Dr. William Davis‘ revolutionary new book.
Forget everything you’ve been told about dieting (from your doctor, the food industry, dietitians, and wellness influencers). You’ve been led down the wrong path, which has caused you to believe that calorie restriction, weight-loss drugs such GLP-1 agonists, and bariatric procedures are effective solutions for weight loss. They are NOT, nothing more than Ponzi schemes with upfront benefits, long-term disasters. Conventional weight-loss solutions are effective in the short-term but are plagued by serious problems, including virtually guaranteed weight regain over time. Muscle mass is the critical determinant of weight and provides vigor, youthfulness, and overall health. When we diet, lost muscle is regained as fat, leaving us in worse shape than before.
In SUPER Body, Dr. William Davis, MD, bestselling author of Wheat Belly and Super Gut, reveals how we can restore our health and youthful contours by returning to ancestral nutrition practices, restoring beneficial microbes, and taking synergistic supplements. The solution to losing weight lies not in pharmaceuticals or procedures but rather in restoring factors lost from the modern human life experience, specifically microbes lost due to overexposure to antibiotics and other factors, and the restoration of nutrients lost due to misguided dietary advice. Complete with a three-week program to help kick-start your journey, and including easy-to-make recipes to enhance your efforts, SUPER Body will show you how to lose the weight naturally and permanently while restoring your youthful shape and body contours.
Live Like You Give a Damn: 25 Bold Moves to Get Honest, Face the Hard Stuff and Show Up for Yourself
9781399748100 | Yellow Kite | TPB
Andrea Owen
Huge social changes occurring in real time are leading us to rethink traditional roles in our homes, workplaces and in society. So why do women who outearn their male partners still tend to do more housework and childcare? Why are unemployed men generally happier if their female partners are also unemployed? Why is unpaid labour still seen as a less important contribution than paid work within family units?
In Breadwinners, award-winning science journalist Melissa Hogenboom interviews dozens of female breadwinners, stay-at-home dads and same-sex couples, comparing their stories to the latest research to demonstrate the consequences of changing dynamics. She reveals how pursuing and maintaining power is a key part of every human interaction, affecting every area of our lives. Breadwinners shows how, the closer we look, the easier it is to see the influence of power structures all around us. Ultimately, it gives readers the tools to address imbalances and improve our relationships at home and at work.
If we can share power more equally, we can improve not only our own wellbeing but also recognise how to dismantle social structures that are seemingly set in stone.
Why Do I Keep Doing This?: Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy
9781035422005 | Headline Press | TPB
Kati Morton
Many of us were told to stuff our feelings down when we were younger. We were taught that that our emotional reactions and responses should be controlled so we didn’t embarrass or upset our parents and those around us. However, if that control oozes over into our relationships it’s considered a bad thing. Controlling our friends or romantic partners is seen as toxic. Control is a precarious thing. So, what are we supposed to do?
In Why Do I Keep Doing This? licensed family and marriage therapist, Kati Morton, explores this common struggle with control. Kati shows how our upbringing and anxiety are often connected to our struggle to take up space. We can feel like we are too much by just existing in the same place as someone else, or that we are less deserving of their time and care. This struggle with asserting ourselves or taking what we require can harm our development. We sometimes think the only way to feel okay and get what we need is to please everyone else first. Why Do I Keep Doing This? is a vital tool in helping us understand why control can be so attractive, but if left unmonitored can become detrimental to our lives.
Kati will shed light on shared struggles as readers follow her through some key points of growth in her own life while incorporating what she has learned as a therapist and content creator who knows how to create lasting healthy change. This book gives readers the ability to not only ask themselves why do I keep doing this? but also have the insight to find a real answer.
Half-Arse Human: How to live better without burning out
9781399820301 | John Murray | BPB
Leena Norms
TRYING TO BE A SUPERHUMAN IS OUT. BEING A HALF-ARSE HUMAN IS IN.
Have you ever shaved one leg and forgotten the other? Eaten cereal out of a mug with a fork? Washed your clothes, forgotten to hang them up and then found them smelling worse than before?
Congratulations – you’re a half-arser! Welcome to the club. There are more of us than you might think.
In Half-Arse Human, Leena Norms helps you harness the power of considered chaos and upgrade the parts of your life that really matter, without expending more than you have to give. Living a slap-dash life isn’t something to be ashamed of – it might just be your secret weapon.
In a world of high-flyers and hustle, this book won’t launch you into orbit, but it will get you off the ground – and you will enjoy the ride.
The Joy of Well-Being: A Practical Guide to a Happy, Healthy, and Long Life
9781399811279 | John Murray One| PBO
Jason Wachob & Colleen Wachob
In this empowering and accessible new resource, the co-founders of mindbodygreen challenge our definition of wellness, health, and self-improvement by revealing what a healthy lifestyle looks like at the fundamental level-and it’s not what we think.On your journey toward a more health-conscious life, you’ve likely been bombarded by an overwhelming amount of information-from the Kardashian-like wellness influencers who (unrealistically) insist upon sustainably sourced Epsom salt baths every night, to the elite longevity optimizers who measure their lactate levels after a workout. The echo chamber of the internet, and social media algorithms that favor polarizing opinions to drive views and engagement, have hijacked our understanding of health. No matter which corner of the wellness world you inhabit, our social feeds are filled with advice that presumes we all have the same amount of time, money, and resources. In this saturated landscape, how can you avoid the potential scams and dodge the doctors-turned-celebrities to find what really works for you?Over the past decade, Colleen and Jason Wachob, co-founders of mindbodygreen, have cultivated a leading wellness lifestyle media brand for everyone seeking to cut through this noise, and live a happier, healthier, and greener lifestyle. The Joy of Well-Being is a distillation of almost fifteen years of this experience on the forefront of the well-being conversation: they’ve done the legwork so you don’t have to. The Wachobs are a product of their mentors and years of working with hundreds of the world’s most brilliant well-being minds, PhDs, MDs, therapists, movement specialists, spiritual leaders, and journalists. They’ve developed ways to discern meaningful points of information amidst the chaos, an act they consider both a science and an art. The Joy of Well-Being is more than a book, it’s a reawakening, marking a crucial shift away from the do-this-then-do-that paradigm, to cultivating a joyful lifestyle that centers each individual, and their own health and happiness. True well-being isn’t something you chase, it is something you weave together, as each new day presents an opportunity to make choices that support feeling good in your body, in your relationships, and in your life.
The Bullsh*t-Free Guide to Depression: How to Get Out of Your Mental Health Hole (from someone who has fallen down one or two)
9781839977015 | Jessica Kingsley Publishers | TPB
Jacs Guderley
Kick your depression to the curb and find self-acceptance in the process.
Depression can feel like being caught in a cyclone, totally powerless and never knowing when it will let up. But no matter what lies depression tells you, you have the power to take a stand. Packed full of illustrations, this book will show you how to take positive action even when depression drains your energy.
Jacs has lived through depression and knows how to cut through its bullshit. With insight from her own mental health journey, this book will help you lead your own recovery, from understanding your mental health to making an action plan and seeking professional support.
With her compassionate, down-to-earth and funny advice, you’ll be empowered to feel more confident, less fearful and more accepting of yourself.
Living Young: Techniques and Exercises to Lower Your Biological Age
9781789297423 | Cassell | HB
Lara Hemeryck & Anastasia Mabel
Look good, feel younger and learn how to age well with this beginner’s guide to biohacking. Packed full of practical tips, activities and the most effective hacks to improve your overall health.
Dr Lara Hemeryck, a stem cell researcher, science communicator and longevity advocate, will teach you how to take years off your biological age. Covering everything from sleep and exercise to nutrition, alongside tips and tricks to elevate your social connections, mental wellbeing and sense of purpose, this book will show you how to create a personalized health routine that works for you, and will get you eating, moving and thinking in a way to impact your body positively.
Featuring more than 40 practical and easy-to-follow ideas, Living Young also brings together the latest science on biohacking to show you that lowering your biological age doesn’t need to include fancy gadgets or lots of money. It’s all about getting to know your body and using simple yet effective preventative techniques to make you feel the best you can. Dr Hemeryck will help you to create a practical and accessible plan to overhaul your habits, improve your nutrition and optimize your physical and mental health in a way that is perfectly tailored to you.
The GLP-1 Handbook: Eating well when taking weight loss medication
9780349446950 | Piatkus | TPB
Ian Marber
Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Saxenda all promise weight loss, but how can we eat well when we’re eating less?
Taking weight-loss medication can be transformative as it offers liberation from a lifetime of dieting. But when you have a smaller appetite, good nutrition often takes a backseat – and it’s common to miss out on the vital nutrients needed to build long-term health.
Drawing on twenty-five years of clinical experience, nutrition expert Ian Marber shares evidence-backed guidance, simple day-to-day menu ideas and supplement advice to help you eat well when eating less. Ian’s holistic approach to wellbeing prioritises protecting muscle and managing side-effects so that you can build lasting health while losing weight.
The GLP-1 Handbook is your essential guide to understanding how the medication works, what to expect and how to adapt your diet and lifestyle – because weight loss should never come at the cost of your wellbeing.
Dear Universe 365
9780349444260 | Piatkus | HB
Sarah Prout
An inspiring collection of 365 mini-meditations, empowering you to manifest your transformative change, day by day, with just a few minutes of practice. From the author of Dear Universe, this book is your guide to connecting with the Universe’s power and aligning with your true self.
Are you ready for your best year yet?
Maybe you feel lost in the hustle and bustle of life, or perhaps you’re navigating a transition, or grieving a loss. Despite life’s challenges, this can be the year you embark on a healing journey and overcome the obstacles that have been holding you back. But where to begin? One day at a time of course.
Dear Universe 365 takes you by the hand and guides you through a year of personal growth with 365 meditations to manifest your best life. Every day you are offered a unique power word to meditate on and a mini-meditation to call upon the energy of the word and put your manifesting practice into action. The book is organised into twelve categories, so you can focus on a different theme each month, such as:
* Gratitude and Appreciation (daily power words include contentment, compassion, and peace)
* Connection and Relationships (daily power words include community, loyalty, and altruism)
* Resilience and Strength (daily power words include bravery, grit, and audacity)
* Self-Love and Acceptance (daily power words include self-belief, inner joy, and authenticity)
You don’t need to spend hours meditating to harness the powerful energetic currents of the universe. This book meets you exactly where you are to help you find strength, clarity, and purpose during times of change. If you take just a few minutes each day of reflecting more about what you love and enjoy, rather than what disappoints you in life, then the magic of manifestation will unfold for you in miraculous ways.
Hour of the Heart: Connecting in the Here and Now
9780349436746 | Piatkus | BPB
Irvin Yalom, Benjamin Yalom
One of the most prominent psychotherapists of our time offers a deeply moving chronicle of the challenges and breakthroughs that come from a wholly new practice of one-time-only therapy sessions.
Facing memory loss at age ninety-three as well as the fallout from a global pandemic that moved much of daily life online, legendary psychotherapist and bestselling author Irvin D. Yalom was forced to revolutionise his practice. Rather than rail against these changes, Dr Yalom turned his focus to what might be achieved between patient and practitioner in just a one-hour, one-time-only meeting.
In Hour of the Heart, Yalom recounts some of these intense, life-changing sessions, exploring an array of human predicaments and his own late-career development as a therapist. In recounting these consultations, he shows how a therapist’s willingness to be open helps patients let down their own guards, leading to a deeper and more immediate connection – one necessary to achieving profound realisations in just sixty minutes.
Written in collaboration with his son, Hour of the Heart shows us how to relate to each other, with more honesty and vulnerability. That hour of connection helped to sustain both patient and therapist, and enriched Yalom’s vision of what psychotherapy can do.
