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Books For Christmas 2008
Biographical
Tightrope: Six Centuries Of A Jewish Dynasty Michael Karpin The extraordinary history of the Backenroth family  hbk £22
Lord Berners: Composer, Writer, Painter Peter Dickinson Rather than a biography, this work collects and annotates interviews about the subject with, among others, Lord David Cecil and Sir Frederick Ashton. There are also selections of his prose and poems, and many colour plates of his pictures hbk £25
Dresden Lord Berners …And a reprint of his own memoir pbk £9.99
Journal Hélène Berr A remarkable diary kept in Paris from April 1942 to March 1944, when the author was taken to Drancy, and thence to Auschwitz hbk £16.99
Words In Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop And Robert Lowell Thomas J Travisano (ed) hbk £30
Robert Burns: The Patriot Bard Patrick Scott Hogg hbk £17.99
Julius Caesar Philip Freeman hbk £18.99
Cameron on Cameron Dylan Jones The editor of 'GQ' magazine has spent a year shadowing the Leader of the Opposition. I suppose we should be grateful it wasn't the other way round hbk £12.99
The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl Of Derby: Vol II: Achievement Angus Hawkins The first volume of this magisterial work came out last year hbk £35
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith And Fiction Rowan Williams A critical appreciation designed to cast light on modern religious belief hbk £16.99
George Eliot Brenda Maddox In the 'Eminent Lives' series, this volume concentrates on her 23-year relationship with Lewes, when she wrote all but one of her novels - Unavailable
Gandhi And Churchill Arthur Herman A weighty account of their long-standing rivalry hbk £25
Coda Simon Gray The last volume of 'The Smoking Diaries', in which Gray describes the last year of his life hbk £14.99
The Smoking Diaries Boxed Set Simon Gray The first three volumes, in a paperback boxed set hbk £25
A London Scrapbook: A Memoir Polly Grose The story of one woman's mid-life move from the Midwest to London pbk £10
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man Duncan Wu With details of Hazlitt's connections with many leading figures of the day - Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Stendahl, Turner et al - this excellent biography reveals the man who invented the art of sketch-writing, and interpreted Romanticism for his contemporaries hbk £25
Henry: Virtuous Prince David Starkey This is the first volume of a huge work: the second is due to appear in 2009, the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession hbk £25
King Hussein Of Jordan: A Political Life Nigel Ashton The author has had access to private papers, including correspondence with US, British & Israeli leaders hbk £25
C.L.R. James: Cricket's Philosopher King Dave Renton hbk £16.99
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography Stanley Plumly Neither criticism nor quite what is usually understood to be biography, this is a brilliant meditation on the poet that makes a shrewd attempt to understand what it felt like to be Keats, rather in the manner of Ann Wroe's remarkable 'Being Shelley' (pbk, £9.99) hbk £16.99
The Kennedys Amidst The Gathering Storm: A Thousand Days In London, 1938-40 Will Swift The clan and a sometimes fraught relationship with the British hbk £18.99
Kilvert's Diary: Selections From The Diary Of The Rev. Francis Kilvert William Plomer (ed) A reprint of the three-volume boxed set of the famous diary of Rev. Kilvert, which has been unavailable for many years hbk £70
The Earl And His Butler In Constantinople: The Secret Diary Of An English Servant Among The Ottomans Nigel Webb & Caroline Webb Lord Kinnoull, a Jacobite who was almost ruined in the South Sea Bubble, was the surprising appointment as ambassador to the 'Sublime Porte' in 1729. This lively biography is compiled from the diary kept by his butler, Samuel Smedley, and from letters pbk £14.99
My Life As A Wife: Love, Liquor & What To Do About The Other Women Elizabeth Luard Describes her 40-year marriage to the co-founder of 'Private Eye' hbk £16.99
'The Times' Great Irish Lives Charles Lysaght (ed) With an introduction by Garret FitzGerald, a collection of obituaries from the last two centuries hbk £12.99
Origins Amin Maalouf Following the death of his father, the distinguished novelist and historian decides to trace his family tree hbk £16.99
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life Gerald Martin The first English-language biography. The author has had extensive interviews with his subject, and talked to many others including Mario Vargas Llosa & Fidel Castro (and possibly even to Hugo Chavez, although not, apparently, to Ken Livingstone) hbk £25
In Tearing Haste: The Letters Of The Duchess of Devonshire And Patrick Leigh Fermor Charlotte Mosley (ed) For those of you who missed this over the summer, we are including this delightful selection of letters again hbk £25
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend Mark Bostridge The first major biography of this iconic figure for more than 50 years hbk £25
The Same Man: George Orwell And Evelyn Waugh In Love And War David Lebedoff An unusual, polemical study of Waugh and Orwell - two men of the same time, but of very different backgrounds, whose opinions, the author contends, were remarkably similar - and prescient hbk £15.99
A Cab At The Door V S Pritchett The third in the attractive hardback reprints from Slightly Foxed hbk £14.50
Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-1964 Susan Sontag, introduction by David Rieff Her youthful enthusiasms, and encounters with other writers hbk £16.99
Soul Of The Age: The Life, Mind And World Of William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate For those of you suffering from 'bardbiographobia', rest assured that this comes from one of the foremost Shakespeare scholars, whose work is not only highly accomplished, but also original. Here he examines the intellectual and cultural world which informed Shakespeare's thinking hbk £25
Harry S Truman Robert Dallek A short biography from the distinguished biographer of JFK and LBJ: how a former haberdasher rose to the challenge of the presidency hbk £14.99
Becoming Queen Kate Williams From the author of 'England's Mistress', a biography of Emma Hamilton (pbk, £7.99), a fascinating account of the early years of Victoria's reign, describing the effect of Princess Charlotte's death and the young Queen's struggles to establish her authority hbk £20
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family Jane Wellesley A personal biography concentrating on the great man's family life, written by one of his descendants hbk £20
The Thief At The End Of The World: Rubber, Power And The Seeds Of Empire Joe Jackson The extraordinary story of Henry Wickham, who in 1876 smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the Brazilian rainforest hbk £20
The House Of Wittgenstein Alexander Waugh Besides the philosopher and the one-armed concert pianist, the siblings included three brothers (who killed themselves) and three sisters (one of whose husbands killed himself). It seems uncontroversial to describe the family as dysfunctional, but they were also immensely wealthy and brilliant - and lived in unstable times. A riveting account that stretches usual views both of what is possible and what is bearable. Even the author, who has great experience in writing about music and remarkable families, seems at times to be pretty startled by his subject(s) hbk £20
Lady Worsley's Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale Of Sex, Scandal And Divorce Hallie Rubenhold hbk £25
Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen Pat Southern She who challenged Rome's authority from the east hbk £25
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