What London’s Reading Now: Robert Martineau, Michael Lewis and Rachel Cusk top the list
Katie Law
Waypoints: A Journey on Foot by Rob Martineau (Cape, £16.99 )
At the age of 27, Martineau, a former lawyer in London, quit his job and embarked on a 1,000 mile walk with a backpack through West Africa, from Accra to Ouidah on the Beninese Coast. This is his story, beautifully-written, of how his pilgrimage of sorts changed him forever. In a good way.
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock (Little Brown, £16.99)
Stock tackles several key axioms of trans activism, from the idea that everyone has an inner gender identity that might not match their biological sex to the pressure on people to acknowledge and legally protect gender identity instead of biological sex. A clear-sighted analysis in tricky territory.