February New Releases 2026

Gravity doesn’t just pull apples from trees — it shapes our bodies, minds, and even our emotions. Dr Brennan Spiegel reveals how this invisible force influences everything from digestion to depression — and how building gravity resilience can help us find balance, stand stronger, and live longer.

Pull presents a groundbreaking exploration of how gravity influences conditions of body and mind that have puzzled medical professionals for centuries. Starting with a simple observation at a family dinner and culminating in a new approach to gravity-based health and wellness, Pull is a captivating journey through the human body’s inner struggle to keep us upright and healthy.

Why do people with depression literally feel like they’re being dragged to the ground? Why do you get that butterfly feeling in your stomach when going down a roller coaster? Why do you get it when you are ‘falling’ in love? What can we learn from astronauts with heartburn and swollen faces to inform our lives back on Earth? How do gut microbes help us fight gravity? And most importantly, how can we change our connection to gravity for the better? To get there, Spiegel proposes the concept of ‘gravity resilience’, a fresh perspective on traditional interventions such as weight loss, exercise, diet, and meditation.

Rooted in hard science, buttressed by compelling storytelling, and punctuated with actionable strategies to boost your own gravity resilience, Pull is an eye-opening, life-changing book.

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE PRIX JEAN GIONO
FINALIST FOR THE PRIX INTERALLIÉ

A bestselling, award-winning World War II novel about the heroism of a single Finnish infantry company — and the best sniper the world has ever seen — defending their country against the largest army in the world.

November 1939: the Soviet Union invades its tiny, relatively defenceless neighbour Finland, just three months after the declaration of World War II. So begins what is known as the Winter War. A small makeshift company of soldiers, workers, and farmers must face off against columns of tanks and Stalin’s Red Army fighters.

In this propulsive and deeply moving narrative based on the true story of the Finnish infantry division, heroes emerge: the star sniper Simo Häyhä, nicknamed the ‘White Death’; the young men from farms and villages who meet again on the battlefield to fight for their homes; and nurses who must treat old childhood friends. The soldiers go to battle with old guns as their wounds freeze in the unforgiving cold, and yet not only do they resist the Soviet soldiers, but they force the superpower to offer terms for peace only a few months later.

Drawing on the real-life figures and battles of the Finnish–Soviet Winter War, The Winter Warriors is a riveting, heart-pounding, epic historical thriller from one of Europe’s most acclaimed crime writers.

From a seasoned political journalist, an eye-opening examination of Tucker Carlson’s rise through conservative US media and politics, and his ideological transformation over the past thirty years, tracking the concurrent shifts in the political and media landscapes that have both influenced and succumbed to the hyper-partisan politics of today.

To many, Tucker Carlson is synonymous with modern conservative politics. Carlson has been present on US screens for almost three decades, and is known for his increasingly extreme right-wing views. But those who knew Carlson in his earlier days in political journalism remember a very different man — a serious and gifted writer and commentator who enjoyed debating with liberal friends and calling out conservative failures in equal measure. Now, after watching Carlson turn away from measured reporting, while simultaneously gaining unparalleled power in Donald Trump’s Republican Party, most are left asking, What the hell happened to Tucker?

New York Times Magazine writer Jason Zengerle’s rich and evocative character study of Carlson tells the story of how the former Fox News talking head rose through the ranks of conservative media to his current position as one of the most powerful voices in right-wing politics. Through deep reporting and a sweeping view of the political and media landscapes over the past thirty years, Zengerle reveals how Carlson’s career offers a unique lens into the radical transformation of American conservatism and the media that covers and ultimately shapes it.

Simón López Trujillo‘s ‘mind-blowing’ (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts its own resistance.

In the disorienting, devastatingly tense world of López Trujillo, a eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for the first time, but Pedro, miraculously, awakes. His survival fascinates a foreign mycologist, as well as a local priest, who dubs his mysterious mutterings to be the words of a prophet. Meanwhile Pedro’s kids are left to fend for themselves: the young Cata, whose creepy art projects are getting harder and harder to decipher, and Patricio, who wasn’t ready to be thrust into the role of father. Their competing efforts to reckon with Pedro’s condition eventually meet in a horrifying climax that readers will never forget.

For readers of Jeff VanderMeer and Samanta Schweblin, López Trujillo is a next-generation Bolaño with a fresh, speculative edge and a mind that’s always one step ahead of us.