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Spring Books 2007

A selection of forthcoming books from April to June

Biography

 
bulletIngrid: A Personal Biography   Charlotte Chandler   A new life of Ingrid Bergman   hbk £18.99
bulletTroublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill To Power In 1940 And Helped To Save Britain   Lynne Olson   Macmillan, Amery, Cartland & Boothby   hbk £20
bulletC Day Lewis: A Life   Peter Stanford   The first authorised biography of the poet (and detective novelist, under the name Nicholas Blake), written with the cooperation of his widow Jill Balcon and his celebrated children   hbk £25
bulletYou Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times Of Willie Donaldson   Terence Blacker   The colourful life of the author of 'The Henry Root Letters'   hbk £12.99
bulletFrom Winchester To This   William Donaldson   …And his own autobiography, now reprinted   hbk £18.95
bulletBlack Diamonds: The Rise & Fall Of An English Dynasty   Catherine Bailey   The rise and fall of the Fitzwilliams, England's richest mining dynasty, and their palace, Wentworth   pbk £8.99
bulletMichael Foot   Kenneth O Morgan   A fine biography of one of Labour's most interesting - if not successful - leaders   hbk £25
bulletGaribaldi: Invention Of A Hero   Lucy Riall   An account of the  life, and also the cult of this very modern political hero   hbk £25
bulletThe Last Leopard   David Gilmour   Reprint of a biography that brilliantly evokes the furniture of the rarefied mind of Giuseppe di Lampedusa   pbk £12.99
bulletPeeling The Onion   Gunter Grass   At last translated into English, this is a controversial memoir by the author of 'The Tin Drum' (pbk, £5.99) of his time in the Waffen SS, aged 17, fighting the Russians   hbk £17.99
bulletA Girl In Paris: A Persian Encounter With The West   Shusha Guppy   A reprint of her memoir of Fifties Paris, against the backdrop of her Persian childhood   pbk £9.99
bulletFrank Hurley: A Photographer's Life   Alasdair McGregor   A life of the photographer of Shackleton's expedition   hbk £30
bulletGeorge Kennan: A Study Of Character   John Lukacs   A valuable study of an important figure, by a shrewd and stimulating historian   hbk £16.99
bulletThe Perfect Hostage: A Life Of Aung San Suu Kyi   Justin Wintle   hbk £18.99
bulletFamily Romance: A Memoir   John Lanchester   Brilliantly joins the dots of his parents' mysterious history through secrets and lies   hbk £16.99
bulletNapoleon: The Path To Power, 1769-1799   Philip Dwyer   The first volume of a major new study   hbk £20
bulletHaven't We Been Here Before? Afghanistan To The Falklands: A Personal Connection   John Nott   Examines British involvement in wars over the last 150 years   pbk £14.99
bulletRobert Peel: A Biography   Douglas Hurd   hbk £20
bulletA Russian Diary   Anna Politkovskaya   This is the book that the courageous journalist completed just before she was murdered last year. It covers the period from the Russian elections of 2003 to the aftermath of the Beslan school siege two years later   hbk £17.99
bulletLeni: The Life And Work Of Leni Riefenstahl   Steven Bach   The controversial figure revealed   hbk £25
bulletThe Lost World Of James Smithson: The Science Revolution And The Birth Of The Smithsonian   Heather Ewing   A biography of the Englishman who left his fortune for the foundation of an institution in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men' - despite never setting foot in America   hbk £20
bulletThe Young Stalin: The Adventurous Early Life Of The Dictator 1878-1917   Simon Sebag Montefiore   A prequel illuminating Stalin's hitherto obscure origins   hbk £25
bulletFriendship And Betrayal: Ambition And The Limits Of Loyalty   Graham Stewart   A thought-provoking book on the role of friendship among those at the top: Sarah Churchill & Queen Anne; Franklin & Joseph Galloway; Asquith & Haldane (but luckily the book does not cover Tony Blair and Lord Cashpoint)   hbk £25
bulletTalleyrand: Betrayer And Saviour Of France   Robin Harris   And, suddenly, another new biography of this slippery genius   hbk £30
bulletClever Girl: A Sentimental Education   Brian Thompson   From the author of the excellent 'Keeping Mum' (pbk, £7.99), an engaging sequel   hbk £14.99
bulletWilliam Wilberforce   William Hague   After his hugely successful book on Pitt The Younger, here is the Shadow Foreign Secretary's life of one of Pitt's key friends and allies   hbk £25

 

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