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Books For Christmas 2007

Biographical

 
bulletLives Of Eminent Men   John Aubrey   A selection from his 'Brief Lives', including Bacon, Herbert, Hobbes, Sidney, Shakespeare and others   pbk £6.99
bulletBalfour: The Last Grandee   R.J.Q. Adams   His 1917 'Declaration' underlies the structure of the modern Middle East; he is the referent of the phrase 'Bob's your uncle'. This is a major new biography of a figure whose legacy is far more significant than most of us realise   hbk £25
bulletMaurice Baring: Letters   Julian Jeffs, Jocelyn Hillgarth (ed)   hbk £15.95
bulletMore Time For Politics: Diaries 2001-2007   Tony Benn   Recounts the agitations since he stepped down after 51 years in Parliament   hbk £20
bulletJane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Roachford   Julia Fox   A glimpse into the Tudor court through the sister-in-law of Anne Boleyn & cousin of Katherine Howard   hbk £20
bulletCaesar: A Life In Western Culture   Maria Wyke   hbk £18.99
bulletMy Life   Ignacio Ramonet & Fidel Castro   The nearest there will be to an autobiography, this is based on a series of interviews   hbk £25
bulletCavalier: A Tale Of Chivalry, Passion And Great Houses   Lucy Worsley   The life & family of William Cavendish   hbk £20
bulletThe Cecils: Privilege & Power Behind The Throne   David Loades   An illustrated biography of William and Robert by the prolific historian of the Tudor period   hbk £18
bulletAgatha Christie: An English Mystery   Laura Thompson   A new biography drawing on unpublished papers   hbk £20
bulletJennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother   Anne Sebba   hbk £20
bulletHillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography   Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta Jnr   hbk £20
bulletCochrane The Dauntless: The Life And Adventures Of Thomas Cochrane   David Cordingly   hbk £20
bulletConan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes   Andrew Lycett   hbk £20
bulletClarissa Eden: A Memoir   Clarissa Eden   She knew 'everyone' - Isaiah Berlin, Waugh, Orson Welles - as well as being the Prime Minister's wife   hbk £20
bulletGladstone: God, Politics & The Million   Richard Shannon   A new biography from the author of the  magisterial 2-volume study   hbk £80
bulletGraham Greene: A Life In Letters   Richard Greene (ed)   hbk £20
bulletRedeeming Features: A Memoir   Nicky Haslam   The first of two volumes in which the exuberant designer recalls his childhood, going to Eton, on to New York and his early years in London   hbk £20
bulletShakespeare's Wife: The Life & Times Of Ann Hathaway   Germaine Greer   Presumably quite a lot about the author too   hbk £20
bulletGunboat Commander: The Biography Of Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO DSC RNVR   Antony Hichens   The most highly decorated RNVR officer of the war, Hichens was killed in action in 1943   hbk £25
bulletHenrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant   Tracy Borman   George II was the king in question   hbk £20
bulletLion Of Jordan: The Life Of King Hussein In War And Peace   Avi Shlaim   How the king navigated a path between Arab radicals and Israel   hbk £30
bulletAs I Was Going To St Ives: A Life Of Derek Jackson   Simon Courtauld   hbk £17.50
bulletSoldier: The Autobiography   Mike Jackson   General Sir Michael Jackson's army career is unusual not least for its length: 45 years   hbk £18.99
bulletKipling Sahib: India & The Making Of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900   Charles Allen   From the respected and highly readable historian of the subcontinent, an new assessment of Kipling's time in India   hbk £20
bulletDiaries, 1971-1983   James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch (ed)   The second abridged volume   hbk £25
bulletStrings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography   Louis MacNeice   A new edition of this fragment from the 1940s, posthumously published in 1965   pbk £9.99
bulletJohn Stuart Mill: A Life   Richard Reeves   hbk £30
bulletThe Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters   Charlotte Mosley (ed)   We know these were in the last list, but they are simply too good to ignore, and are as revealing and surprising as you would imagine   hbk £25
bulletLucia In The Age Of Napoleon   Andrea di Robilant   From the author of 'A Venetian Affair' (pbk, £7.99), a portrait of Lucia Mocenigo, Byron's landlady   hbk £20
bulletA Voyage Round John Mortimer   Valerie Grove   A riposte to Graham Lord's biography last year   hbk £20
bulletSoldier Sailor: An Intimate Portrait Of An Irish Family   Eliza Pakenham   Another of this prodigious clan takes up the pen - to write about her own clan   hbk £20
bulletHorses & Husbands: The Memoirs Of Etti Plesch   Hugo Vickers (ed)   This goer won the Derby twice and had six husbands by the age of 40   hbk £17.95
bulletEzra Pound: Poet: Volume 1: The Young Genius, 1885-1920   A David Moody   The first in a major new biographical study that concentrates on Pound as a poet   hbk £25
bulletPriestley's Wars   Neil Hanson   There is a move to 'rediscover' J B Priestley. Here is a new biography, and two new editions   hbk £16.99
bulletBright Day   J B Priestley   hbk £14.99
bulletThe Good Companions   J B Priestley   hbk £14.99
bulletThe Unbearable Saki: The Work Of H.H. Munro   Sandie Byrne   hbk £19.99
bulletFarewell To Salonica   Leon Sciaky   The author, a Sephardic Jew, was born in 1893 into a provincial Ottoman town (now Thessaloniki) where his family were grain merchants. This nostalgic but vivid memoir ranks alongside 'Out Of Egypt' (see 'Favourites' below) and Irfan Orga's 'Portrait Of A Turkish Family' (pbk, £12.99) and is published here for the first time   hbk £16.99
bulletShopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge   Lindy Woodhead   From the author of 'War Paint' (about Arden and Rubinstein), a biography of the maverick Harry Gordon Selfridge, in which lies the story of a revolution in shopping   hbk £17.99
bulletThe Lodger: Shakespeare On Silver Street   Charles Nicholl   From the renowned biographer of Marlowe, Rimbaud and Leonardo, a subtle and elegant portrait of the playwright at 40, when he lived with a French immigrant family   hbk £20
bulletTwo Lives: Gertrude And Alice   Janet Malcolm   The author has written several brilliant biographical studies. In this short book, she illuminates both the relationships between Toklas and Stein, and  between literature and biography   hbk £16.99
bulletKatherine Swynford: The Story Of John Of Gaunt And The Scandalous Duchess   Alison Weir   The recent convert to fiction returns to history   hbk £20
bulletSir Francis Walsingham: Courtier in an Age of Terror   Derek Wilson   From another eminent chronicler of the Tudors   hbk £18.99
bulletSelective Memory   Katharine Whitehorn   The autobiography of the well-known 'Observer' columnist   hbk £18.99

 

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