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Books For Christmas 2007
Biographical
Lives Of Eminent Men John Aubrey A selection from his 'Brief Lives', including Bacon, Herbert, Hobbes, Sidney, Shakespeare and others  pbk £6.99
Balfour: 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
Maurice Baring: Letters Julian Jeffs, Jocelyn Hillgarth (ed) hbk £15.95
More Time For Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 Tony Benn Recounts the agitations since he stepped down after 51 years in Parliament hbk £20
Jane 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
Caesar: A Life In Western Culture Maria Wyke hbk £18.99
My Life Ignacio Ramonet & Fidel Castro The nearest there will be to an autobiography, this is based on a series of interviews hbk £25
Cavalier: A Tale Of Chivalry, Passion And Great Houses Lucy Worsley The life & family of William Cavendish hbk £20
The 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
Agatha Christie: An English Mystery Laura Thompson A new biography drawing on unpublished papers hbk £20
Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother Anne Sebba hbk £20
Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta Jnr hbk £20
Cochrane The Dauntless: The Life And Adventures Of Thomas Cochrane David Cordingly hbk £20
Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes Andrew Lycett hbk £20
Clarissa Eden: A Memoir Clarissa Eden She knew 'everyone' - Isaiah Berlin, Waugh, Orson Welles - as well as being the Prime Minister's wife hbk £20
Gladstone: God, Politics & The Million Richard Shannon A new biography from the author of the magisterial 2-volume study hbk £80
Graham Greene: A Life In Letters Richard Greene (ed) hbk £20
Shakespeare's Wife: The Life & Times Of Ann Hathaway Germaine Greer Presumably quite a lot about the author too hbk £20
Gunboat 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
Henrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant Tracy Borman George II was the king in question hbk £20
Lion 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
As I Was Going To St Ives: A Life Of Derek Jackson Simon Courtauld hbk £17.50
Soldier: The Autobiography Mike Jackson General Sir Michael Jackson's army career is unusual not least for its length: 45 years hbk £18.99
Kipling 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
Diaries, 1971-1983 James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch (ed) The second abridged volume hbk £25
Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography Louis MacNeice A new edition of this fragment from the 1940s, posthumously published in 1965 pbk £9.99
John Stuart Mill: A Life Richard Reeves hbk £30
The 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
Lucia 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
A Voyage Round John Mortimer Valerie Grove A riposte to Graham Lord's biography last year hbk £20
Soldier 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
Horses & 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
Ezra 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
Priestley'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
Bright Day J B Priestley hbk £14.99
The Good Companions J B Priestley hbk £14.99
The Unbearable Saki: The Work Of H.H. Munro Sandie Byrne hbk £19.99
Farewell 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
Shopping, 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
The 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
Two 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- Unavailable
Katherine Swynford: The Story Of John Of Gaunt And The Scandalous Duchess Alison Weir The recent convert to fiction returns to history hbk £20
Sir Francis Walsingham: Courtier in an Age of Terror Derek Wilson From another eminent chronicler of the Tudors hbk £18.99
Selective Memory Katharine Whitehorn The autobiography of the well-known 'Observer' columnist hbk £18.99
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