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Spring Books 2008
A selection of forthcoming titles for April, May & June
Biographical
The Sum Of Our Days: A Memoir Isabel Allende Recounting the years following the death of her daughter, Paula  hbk £17.99
Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations Neil Powell A dual biography of the writers hbk £20
A Dangerous Liaison Carole Seymour-Jones A new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre hbk £20
William Beckford: A Bibliography Jon Millington hbk £50
Burghley: William Cecil At The Court Of Elizabeth 1 Stephen Alford An authoritative study of the man and his times hbk £25
The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus And The Fate Of His Lost Library Marcus Tanner One of Europe's most charismatic Renaissance monarchs, whose treasures were dispersed following the Ottoman invasion after his death hbk £20
Holder of the White Lotus: The Secret Lives Of The Dalai Lama Alexander Norman The institution and current individual hbk £20
The Remarkable Lives Of Bill Deedes Stephen Robinson hbk £20
Downing Street Diary 2: With James Callaghan In No.10 Bernard Donoughue - Unavailablepbk £16.99
So I Have Thought Of You: The Letters Of Penelope Fitzgerald Terence Dooley (ed) hbk £25
Black Diamonds: The Rise & Fall Of An English Dynasty Catherine Bailey The jaw-dropping rise and fall of the Fitzwilliams, England's richest mining dynasty, and their palace, Wentworth. This excellent book disappeared very soon in hardback, but is now available again pbk £8.99
The Red Prince: The Fall Of A Dynasty And The Rise Of Modern Europe Timothy Snyder The colourful Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947), Paris playboy of the 1930s who died, a spy for Britain, in a Soviet prison hbk £20
House Of Wits: An Intimate Portrait Of The James Family Paul Fisher Henry, William et al pbk £16.99
The Semi-Invisible Man: A Life Of Norman Lewis Julian Evans The great travel writer revealed hbk £25
The Pain And The Privilege: The Women In Lloyd George's Life Ffion Hague hbk £25
The Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer And Mrs John Maynard Keynes Judith Mackrell A biography of Lydia Lopokova, Imperial dancer & Mrs John Maynard Keynes hbk £25pbk £8.99
Madame de Maintenon Veronica Buckley From the author of 'Christina, Queen of Sweden', a rags to riches story as the Sun King's wife hbk £25
Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius Richard Holmes hbk £25
Isabella de Medici Caroline P Murphy The life of Cosimo's daughter hbk £20
Cold Cream: My Early Life And Other Mistakes Ferdinand Mount Now a successful novelist, Mount recalls a varied career - writing speeches for Mrs Thatcher, editing the 'TLS', and more - with tremendous charm hbk £20
The World Is What It Is Patrick French The first major biography of V.S.Naipaul. Written with the subject's support, and access to papers hbk £20
Trying To Please John Julius Norwich Wartime evacuee, the British Embassy in Paris, Belgrade & Beirut: the autobiography of a well-travelled writer hbk £20
Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne And Sir William Temple Jane Dunn A vivid portrait of two remarkable people who sustained their clandestine love through wonderfully romantic letters, despite the implacable opposition of their divided Royalist and Parliamentarian families hbk £25
Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, The Rhodes Trust And Rhodes Scholarships Philip Ziegler hbk £25
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days Of The Romanovs Helen Rappaport A serious book on what happened in the Ipatiev House, taking into account evidence that has emerged since 1989, and the dynamics among the Bolsheviks hbk £18.99
Isaac Rosenberg Jean Moorcroft Wilson A new account of the poet's life from Sassoon's biographer hbk £25
The Bolter Frances Osborne The story of Idina Sackville, the 'seductress' of Happy Valley who scandalised 1920s society, by her great-granddaughter hbk £18.99
Snowdon: The Biography Anne de Courcy (mid-June) hbk £20
Blue Remembered Hills Rosemary Sutcliff This is the first in a new series of reprints from the quarterly, 'Slightly Foxed'. Attractively produced in a little blue hardback, this is Sutcliff's classic account of her Devon childhood and evolution into celebrated children's writer hbk £12.50
The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale A marvellous account of a celebrated murder, solved by Detective Whicher, which inspired both Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone) and also Conan Doyle. From the author of "Queen of Whale Cay" hbk £14.99
The Ballad Of Dorothy Wordsworth Frances Wilson An examination of the life - 'culminating in 30 years madness' - of the poet's sister hbk £18.99
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