 | Trickster Travels: In Search Of Leo Africanus: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds Natalie Zemon Davis The first UK publication of this fascinating book  hbk £20 |
| Risky Business: People, Places, Poker And Books Al Alvarez hbk £12.99 |
| Beaumarchais In Seville: An Intermezzo Hugh Thomas We are not sure if the subtitle imputes levity to this book (a squib in comparison to the author's prodigious previous books) or the subject's Spanish adventure hbk £16 |
| Last Days In Babylon Marina Benjamin The story of the Jews of Baghdad, through the eyes of one family hbk £14.99 |
| Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister Robert Hutchinson Detailing his part in the trial of Anne Boleyn, and in the seizure of the monasteries hbk £20 |
| When A Crocodile Eats The Sun Peter Godwin Several years ago the author published a wonderful account of his childhood in Zimbabwe, 'Mukiwa' (pbk, £8.99). This new memoir concerns his return as an adult to visit his dying father, as the country is collapsing around them hbk £16.99 |
| Pages From The Goncourt Journals Geoff Dyer (ed) Surprisingly, it is a generation since these classic journals have been available. This is a first-rate new edition pbk £11.99 |
| Roman's Journey Roman Halter Taken with his family from his Polish village to the Lodz Ghetto, the author also survived Auschwitz and the Dresden bombing before finally escaping to Prague, from where he was brought to England after the war, together with other Jewish orphans. He became a respected architect. This shocking, vivid memoir is a testament both to horrors and also to the extraordinary power of hope hbk £15.99 |
| Moss Hart: A Prince Of The Theatre Jared Brown This biography, for which the author has had unprecedented access to family papers, not only tells the fascinating story of the great writer and director, but is also a roll-call of some of the greatest names in the American theatre hbk £17.99 |
| Lawrence Of Arabia: Mirage Of A Desert War Adrian Greaves A new biography aims to unravel the many myths surrounding one of the most enigmatic figures in British Colonial history hbk £20 |
| The Tiddly Quid & After: A Memoir Of Places And People Met Along The Way Nicholas Gordon Lennox A posthumous collection of reflections and sketches from the much-loved diplomat hbk £16.95 |
| Mellon: An American Life David Cannadine A monumental life of the American financier from the respected historian hbk £30 |
| Thomas Paine: His Life, His Time And The Birth Of Modern Nations Craig Nelson The amazing life of one the most influential political thinkers hbk £20 |
| Beatrix Potter: A Life In Nature Linda Lear For those of you not tempted by the biopic, here is a biography which emphasizes Potter's lifelong interest in natural history hbk £25 |
| Call Her Miss Ross J Randy Taraborrelli We - and the security staff at Heathrow - all have a pretty good idea of what happens if you don't… hbk £18.99 |
| Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance George Ireland A group biography of Nathan's four sons, Lionel, Anthony, Nathaniel and Mayer, the first British-born members of the family hbk £25 |
| In My Father's House: Elegy For An Obsessive Love Miranda Seymour An extraordinary family memoir, in which the distinguished biographer recounts her capricious father's transfer of affection from his house to his motorbike and young male friend hbk £14.99 |
| Alexis De Tocqueville Hugh Brogan From the author of the 'Penguin History Of The United States' (pbk, £12.99), the much-anticipated new life hbk £30 |
| The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole - Scoundrel, Genius And Britain's First Prime Minister Edward Pearce A remarkable career, engagingly told by the journalist and writer hbk £25 |
| BB Remembered: The Life And Times Of Denys Watkins-Pitchford Tom Quinn A slim, beautifully produced book on the legendary fisherman hbk £19.95 |
| Edith Wharton Hermione Lee From the biographer of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, a terrific life of the great American writer, with an emphasis on her European years hbk £25 |
| Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life Sofka Zinovieff A biography of the author's grandmother - from Tsarist St Petersburg to member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, with a spell in occupied Paris. A fascinating study of an extraordinary woman and her times, and, incidentally, of the way in which an ancestor can occupy the imagination hbk £16.99 |
| Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist Lois Gordon hbk £21 |
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