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Summer Books 2009
A selection of new titles for July & August
Biography
The File: A Personal History Timothy Garton Ash A reissue of his remarkable account of gaining access to the file on him gathered by the Stasi during his years of reporting  pbk £8.99
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name Timothy Garton Ash And a new collection hbk £25
History Man: The Life Of R G Collingwood Fred Inglis hbk £23.95
Finest Years: Churchill As Warlord Max Hastings From a writer whose perspective is always interesting, the highs and the lows of the war years hbk £25
Danton: Gentle Giant Of Terror David Lawday From the author of a recent life of Talleyrand hbk £20
Franklin: Tragic Hero Of Polar Navigation Andrew Lambert The life and career of the man who led the doomed attempt to discover the Northwest Passage hbk £20
A Genius For Failure: The Life Of Benjamin Robert Haydon Paul O'Keeffe After painting iconic historical pictures in his youth, he went out of fashion and ended up killing himself (at the third attempt) hbk £25
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition Ernest Hemingway A new edition of Hemingway's posthumous memoir of his early life in Paris, reconstructed by his grandson hbk £17
The Virgin Warrior: The Life And Death Of Joan Of Arc Larissa Juliet Taylor hbk £20
Kissinger's Year: 1973 Alistair Horne How this complex character confronted the challenges of Vietnam, Watergate, the Middle East and the oil crisis hbk £20
James Lees-Milne: The Life Michael Bloch The long-awaited biography of the 'twentieth-century Pepys' by the editor of the final volumes of the diaries hbk £25
Diaries George Orwell The only single volume edition, covering the period 1931-1949 hbk £20
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome Roland Chambers From 1917 to 1924 he was a controversial foreign correspondent in Russia; writing for children came later hbk £20
The Other Mr Rogers Byron Rogers This author has produced some gems - notably a book about R S Thomas. Here he describes his quest to find the intended recipient of some mysterious love letters he has received hbk £14.99
Muriel Spark Martin Stannard The first biography of this great writer - and JS customer! - written with the subject's full co-operation hbk £25
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets Of Brideshead Paula Byrne Conjures up the Lygons of Madresfield, who lay behind Waugh's novel hbk £20
Allegedly: The Biography Of Franco Zeffirelli Anna Kythreotis hbk £25
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