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Books For Christmas 2006
A selection of books to be published between now and Christmas
Biography
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name To America Felipe Fernández-Armesto A biography of Amerigo Vespucci, the shameless self-promoter  hbk £16.99
The Life Of Kingsley Amis Zachary Leader The authorised biography, from the editor of the letters hbk £30
The View From Here: Life At Seventy Joan Bakewell A sequel to 'The Centre Of The Bed' (pbk, £9.99) hbk £16.99
Nature's Engraver: A Life Of Thomas Bewick Jenny Uglow This is the first book for a generation on the great engraver, by one of our generation's great historical biographers hbk £20
One Must Also Be Hungarian Adam Biro From the author of the wonderful 'Two Jews On A Train' (pbk, £7), here is a collection of witty vignettes of his family members going back 200 years that reveal something about what it means to be a (surviving) Hungarian Jew hbk £13
The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus And The Triumph Of Rome Anthony Everitt From the author of 'Cicero' hbk £25
Conrad And Lady Black: Dancing On The Edge Tom Bower The author's previous subjects have included Fayed, Maxwell, and Gordon Brown hbk £20
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson A memoir: growing up in 1950s America hbk £18.99
David Cameron Bruce Anderson It had to happen hbk £15.99
The Rich Spoils Of Time Frances Campbell-Preston, Hugo Vickers (ed) Spanning nearly 90 years, the vivid recollections of a woman who was invited to become a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother in 1965, and continued to serve until the QM's death in 2002 hbk £17.95
The Canons Trevor Beeson After 'Bishops' (pbk, £12.99), 'Deans' (£19.99) and 'Priests And Prelates' (pbk, £6.99), the author seems to have cornered a market. Perhaps we can look forward next year to the exposure of vergers hbk £19.99
Diana Sarah Bradford The respected biographer attempts to disentangle truth from myth hbk £20
William Empson: Against The Christians John Haffenden The second volume, and successor to what the critic and writer James Wood called, "One of the finest biographies of an English literary figure" hbk £30
John Evelyn: Living For Ingenuity Gillian Darley A new life, from Soane's biographer hbk £25
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History Jonathan Franzen From the author of 'The Corrections' (pbk, £7.99), a memoir of growing up in the Midwest hbk £15.99
George III: America's Last King Jeremy Black A new volume in the dependable Yale English Monarchs series hbk £25
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man Claire Tomalin The eminent literary biographer turns her attention to another of English literature's giants hbk £25
The Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Christopher Hibbert (ed) A reissue of one of the most popular military books of all time, edited by one of our most popular historians. A Dorset shepherd, Harris fought - and served as his battalion's cobbler - in the Peninsular War pbk £7.99
Henry VIII's Last Victim: Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey Jessie Childs Soldier, poet and maverick courtier hbk £18.99
My Name In Lights Clive James A 4th volume of memoirs hbk £17.99
Boris: The Rise Of Boris Johnson Andrew Gimson The author was his subject's colleague on the 'Spectator'; presumably he is fully aware of the risks inherent in the book's subtitle hbk £17.99
Freud's Wizard: The Enigma Of Ernest Jones Brenda Maddox From the author of the excellent book on Rosalind Franklin (pbk, £7.99), a biography of the founder of British psychoanalysis hbk £25
King's Counsellor: Abdication And War: The Diaries Of Sir Alan Lascelles Duff Hart-Davis (ed) The first volume of 'Tommy' Lascelles's diaries, 'End Of An Era: 1887-1920', was published in 1988; 'In Royal Service: 1920-1936' followed in 1989: both are sadly unavailable. This third volume had to wait until the Queen Mother's death for publication. After serving Edward VIII, Lascelles became Private Secretary to George VI in 1943, and continued in this role for Queen Elizabeth until the Coronation hbk £25
Mary Tudor David Loades The celebrated Tudor historian examines the life of Mary I hbk £19.99
Diaries, 1942-1954 James Lees-Milne This volume contains selections from the diaries, with a dash, but no more, of previously censored material hbk £25
Europe's Physician: The Life Of Sir Theodore de Mayerne Hugh Trevor-Roper Discovered amongst the author's papers after his death in 2003 was the manuscript of this biography of a Swiss Huguenot doctor (1573-1655). Mayerne had close links to the courts of Henry IV of France, and to James I & Charles I of England. He mixed medicine, diplomacy and political intrigue at the highest levels. A chance for those who enjoyed the recent 'Letters From Oxford' (hbk, £20), to reacquaint themselves with Trevor-Roper's formidable talent and prose hbk £25
Decca: The Letters Of Jessica Mitford Peter Y Sussman (ed) hbk £25
Ireland's Minstrel: A Life Of Tom Moore: Poet, Patriot And Byron's Friend Linda Kelly Another interesting subject for this versatile biographer hbk £20
In The Blood: A Memoir Of My Childhood Andrew Motion Boarding-school in post-war England, and other joys, described movingly by the Poet Laureate hbk £14.99
No Make-up: Straight Tales From A Queer Life Jeremy Norman From the creator of Heaven (the nightclub), possibly the first of this year's biographies to feature both Grace Jones and Edward Heath hbk £15.95
The Same Solitude: Boris Pasternak And Marina Tsvetaeva Catherine Ciepiela An analysis of their relationship and influence, drawing on many previously unpublished letters and poems hbk £16.95
Mervyn Peake: The Man And His Art Sebastian Peake & Alison Aldred Lavishly illustrated biographical volume hbk £35
Bringing The House Down: A Family Memoir David Profumo After the dreaded Affair, Jack Profumo dedicated his life to charitable works and never made any public comment about the events that led to his political downfall. Now, following his death, his son, the novelist and critic, has written about it all for the first time hbk £20
Semi-Detached Griff Rhys Jones A characteristically wry account of his suburban childhood hbk £20
Grass Seed In June John Martin Robinson The author of many books on architecture, he has now written an engaging memoir hbk £16.95
Liberty: Lives And Times Of Six Women And The French Revolution Lucy Moore Mme de Staël, Mme Roland, Théroigne de Méricourt, Pauline Léon, Thérésia Tallien and Juliette Récamier hbk £20
Napoleon's Master: A Life Of Prince Talleyrand David Lawday The first major biography for 70 years (and yes, Duff Cooper's classic is still available in paperback, at £12.99) hbk £20
Daily Telegraph Military Obituaries: Book Two David Twiston-Davies hbk £17.99
The King Never Smiles: A Biography Of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej Paul M Handley The photograph of the subject which graces the book's jacket would support the title's proposition hbk £22.50
The Joke's Over: Memories Of Hunter S Thompson Ralph Steadman The story of a friendship and collaboration hbk £20
A Very British Family: The Trevelyans And Their World Laura Trevelyan A short account of the family of Lord Macaulay and G M Trevelyan, who, for a century, contributed to the writing and making of history. By G M's great-granddaughter, a BBC correspondent hbk £18.99
Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir Gore Vidal A sequel to one of the most entertaining autobiographies of the 90s, 'Palimpsest' (pbk, £10.99). The author is not prone to false modesty hbk £17.99
A Lover Of Unreason: The Life Of Assia Wevill Yehuda Koren Ted Hughes's doomed love hbk £20
Leonard Woolf Victoria Glendinning So much is known about Leonard Woolf's life with Virginia, that Glendinning wisely concentrates on the early and late years of this Bloomsbury insider, who always remained rather aloof. His own wonderfully observant diaries provide much source material in this appropriately cool biography hbk £25
The Friendship: Wordsworth And Coleridge Adam Sisman …and, of course, their quarrel hbk £20
Alexis: The Memoirs Of The Baron de Redé Hugo Vickers (ed) This extraordinary book is now available again hbk £45
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