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Winter Books 2008
Biographical
Somewhere Towards The End Diana Athill At 90, the veteran publisher & writer (her wonderful 'Stet' - pbk, £7.99 - is still a favourite here) reflects on old age and her career  hbk £12.99
Miracles Of Life: Shanghai To Shepperton J G Ballard His childhood in a Japanese concentration camp and his career as a writer hbk £14.99
Pavilions Of The Heart Lesley Blanch From the Sultans' seraglio to Samarkand, and back to the Wagners in Lucerne…: a welcome reprint of the recently deceased centenarian's book about love-nests pbk £9.99
My Father's Country Wibke Bruhns The author was 6 years old when her father was executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. This is the story of her quest to trace his history hbk £20
Under Two Dictators Margarete Buber-Neumann Having been stripped of German citizenship for being 'left deviationist', the author and her husband left Spain for Moscow, where he was executed for attempting to split the Communist Party and she was sent to a slave labour camp. In 1940 she returned to Germany in an exchange of prisoners, and spent the next five years in Ravensbrück where she became friends with Kafka's Milena. An unusual angle on experiences that survival rendered exceptional hbk £17.99
Wartime Notebooks Marguerite Duras 'Retrieved' from notebooks covering the years 1943-49, and revealing the inspiration for much of her fiction hbk £19.99
A Great And Terrible King Marc Morris A portrait of Edward I, born to rule England, but eager to rule the whole of Britain hbk £20
George Gissing: A Life Paul Delany The first new biography of this Grub Street denizen for a long time hbk £25
The Hamilton Letters: The Naples Dispatches Of William Hamilton John A Davis & Giovanni Capuano (eds) Correspondence between our man in Naples & the English Court from 1797-1799, including an account of Nelson's betrayal of the Neapolitan Republic hbk £29.50
Henry James's Waistcoat: Letters To Mrs Ford, 1907-1915 Rosalind Bleach (ed), introduction by Philip Horne Beautifully produced by Stone Trough Books in an edition of 600, these affectionate letters were written to a friend/neighbour in Rye and found in a desk in 1999 hbk £18
Heroes: From Alexander The Great To Mae West Paul Johnson In the same vein as his 'Intellectuals' (pbk, £9.99) and 'Creators' (pbk, £8.99), some portraits hbk £20
Dealing With Satan: Reszo Kasztner's Daring Rescue Of Hungarian Jews Ladislaus Lob The controversial story of Bergen-Belsen survivor Reszo Kasztner, who did a deal with Eichmann in order to save Jews - he himself was murdered in Israel in 1956 hbk £18.99
Omar Khayyam: Poet, Rebel, Astronomer Hazhir Teimourian The first detailed study of the life of one of the world's most popular poets - and a new light on the Middle East in the eleventh century - Unavailable
Ringing The Changes: A Memoir Richard Luce From the former minister and Governor of Gibraltar hbk £16.95
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer & Patriot Anna Beer A biography which also attempts to give us an idea of the man himself hbk £20
Axel Munthe: The Road To San Michele Bengt Jangfeldt A biography of everyone's favourite Swedish doctor hbk £25
American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Robert J Oppenheimer Martin J Sherwin & Kai Bird The physicist who led the team that developed the atomic bomb hbk £25
Poe: A Life Cut Short Peter Ackroyd The indefatigable Mr Ackroyd takes time out with a concise life of the another luminary hbk £15.99
Marco Polo: From Venice To Xanadu Laurence Bergreen A major new account of his adventures hbk £19.99
Peter Thorneycroft Stanley Crooks, introduction by Lord Carrington Handsomely illustrated with the subject's own pictures, this is a thorough examination of the life of the neglected but respected Tory politician hbk £27.50
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