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Summer Books 2006

A selection of titles to be published in July and August

Biographical

 
bulletOut Of Egypt: A Memoir   André Aciman   A re-issue of the classic memoir of Jewish Alexandria   pbk £11.99
bulletDaughter Of The Desert: The Extraordinary Life Of Gertrude Bell   Georgina Howell   A new biography   hbk £20
bulletAn Aristocratic Affair   Janet Gleeson   The life of Georgiana's sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough   hbk £20
bulletBetjeman   A N Wilson   A celebration of the poet in the centenary of his birth   hbk £20
bulletHeat   Bill Buford   At last - 2 years after its original announcement! - the tale of the erstwhile Granta editor's sojourn in a professional kitchen   hbk £17.99
bulletTitle Deeds   Liza Campbell   Life with the late Thane of Cawdor, by one of his daughters   hbk £14.99
bulletWords And Deedes: Selected Journalism 1931-2006   W F Deedes   hbk £25
bulletKatey: The Life And Loves Of Dickens's Artist Daughter   Lucinda Hawksley   The author is herself a great-great-great-grandaughter of Dickens   hbk £20
bulletThe Politics Of Pleasure: A Portrait Of Benjamin Disraeli   William Kuhn   hbk £20
bulletDonne: The Reformed Soul   John Stubbs   A vivid portrait of a complex man, which illuminates the intense religious upheavals of his times   hbk £25
bulletFashion Babylon   Imogen Edwards-Jones   Following her exposés of the hotel and airline industries, she now lays barethe fashion business, with thanks to more anonymous informers   hbk £12.99
bulletThe Selected Letters Of William Empson   John Haffenden (ed)   The letters of this towering figure of C20th literature have been edited by his biographer to superb reviews   hbk £40
bulletHeartbreaker: Judy Garland   John Meyer   A songwriter recalls his two-month romance with the legend in the last year of her life   hbk £16.99
bulletParallel Lines   Peter Lantos   A Hungarian Jew, the author was deported to Bergen-Belsen with his parents.  This is the extraordinary story of his survival, and his journey back to revisit his past   hbk £17.99
bulletLove And Louis XIV   Antonia Fraser   The women in the life of the Sun King   hbk £25
bulletTime At War   Nicholas Mosley   While his father and stepmother were in prison, Mosley fought with the Rifle Brigade in Italy, winning an MC at Monte Cassino. An intriguing memoir of a unique situation   hbk £18.99
bulletGeorge Orwell In "Tribune"   Paul Anderson (ed)   Orwell's most substantial journalistic output appeared in the weekly 'Tribune' during the 1940s   hbk £19.99
bulletThe Lost Orwell   Peter Davison (ed)   Includes material left out of the 21-volume 'Complete Orwell', that has surfaced during the last 8 years. In particular, many revealing letters and his notorious 'list' of Crypto-Communists   hbk £18.99
bulletSplit Image: The Life Of Anthony Perkins   Charles Winecoff   A re-issue: the story of a tortured star   pbk £10.99
bulletLorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures Of Mozart's Librettist In The Old And New Worlds   Rodney Bolt   From the author of the excellent 'History Play' (pbk, £8.99), the extraordinary life of Wolfgang's collaborator   hbk £20
bulletThe Letters Of Marcel Proust     A selection of his letters, reprinted with a new introduction   pbk £11.99
bulletShakespeare And Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher And The Other Players In His Story   Stanley Wells   The eminent Shakespearean scholar examines the astonishing variety of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre   hbk £25
bulletThe Man Who Went Into The West: The Life Of R S Thomas   Byron Rogers   hbk £16.99
bulletLetters From Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper To Bernard Berenson   Richard Davenportr-Hines (ed)   hbk £20
bulletWaxing Mythical: The Life And Legend Of Madame Tussaud   Kate Berridge   hbk £25
bulletThe Daily Telegraph  Military Obituaries: Book 2   David Twiston-Davies   hbk £17.99
bulletVirginia Woolf: Bloomsbury & Beyond   Anthony Curtis   An elegant contribution to a crowded field from the distinguished critic   hbk £18

 

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