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Kicking off the Beeb’s centenary year, The BBC: A People’s History by DAVID HENDY (on sale this month) is full of people, stories and incidents from the past 100 years of television.
In February, look out for TV presenter KATE HUMBLE’s first cookbook Home Cooked: Recipes From The Farm, and The Gift Of A Radio: My Childhood And Other Train Wrecks, a compelling memoir by BBC Radio 4 Today presenter JUSTIN WEBB.
This year marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and March brings a new biography of our sovereign by ROBERT HARDMAN. Queen Of Our Times includes anecdotes from those who know her best.
April sees SARA DAVIES, star of Strictly Come Dancing and Dragons’ Den, tell how she built her multi-million-pound craft business in We Can All Make It: My Story, while actress and climate advocate BONNIE WRIGHT – Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films – presents Go Gently, her guide to changing your habits to live more sustainably.
Landing in May is Menopausing in which DAVINA McCALL aims to smash taboos and equip women to make more informed decisions about their health and their lives.
In June, Your Health In Your Hands by doctor and daytime TV regular EMEKA OKOROCHA provides simple hacks for the health of mind and body. June also brings What Are You Doing Here? by FLOELLA BENJAMIN, an account of her journey from Caribbean child to TV presenter and member of the House of Lords.
A memoir by MATTHEW PERRY, best known as Friends’ hilarious Chandler Bing, is due in the autumn. Billed as “the book that Friends fans have been waiting for”, Perry will take readers behind the scenes of the hit show and lift the lid on his battles with addiction.
And former doctor ADAM KAY returns in September with the follow-up to the bestselling book This Is Going To Hurt, promising to “open up old wounds with hilarious and heartbreaking stories from in and out of hospital”.
Finally, PRINCE HARRY’s “intimate and heartfelt memoir” is pencilled in for autumn and he promises to tell his story from childhood to the present day, taking in his military duty, marriage and parenthood. Caroline Sanderson and
Charlotte Heathcote