After their beloved yacht was struck by a dying sperm whale, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey frantically packed their belongings into a life raft and dinghy - and watched their new life sink beneath the waves
From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next year
Memoirs from Neneh Cherry and Rebel Wilson, Colm Tóibín’s sequel to Brooklyn and a departure for Ali Smith – the biggest fiction and nonfiction for the year ahead