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Books For Christmas 2009
A selection of books available between now and December
Biography
Away at Christmas: From The Journals Of History's Greatest Adventurers Jeremy Archer (ed) An aptly seasonal anthology  hbk £9.99
The Selected Memoirs Of Diana Athill Diana Athill Four of the slim volumes grouped as one: 'Yesterday Morning', 'Instead Of A Letter', 'Stet', 'Somewhere Towards The End' hbk £25
Letters To My Grandchildren Tony Benn hbk £18.99
A Life Like Other People's Alan Bennett If you have read 'Untold Stories', then you have already read this. To be fair to the publisher, this is pointed out on the jacket of this smart little gift book hbk £12.99
The Lady In The Tower: The Fall Of Anne Boleyn Alison Weir The renowned historian of the Tudor era reassesses Anne's imprisonment, trial and execution hbk £20
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man Of Resistance Ferdinand Schlingensiepen hbk £19.99
Something Sensational To Read On The Train: The Diary Of A Lifetime Gyles Brandreth Diaries from the Swinging Sixties to the world of Obama, by everybody's favourite professional ex-MP hbk £25
Papa Spy: Love, Faith And Betrayal In Wartime Spain Jimmy Burns The extraordinary story of Tom Burns, a publisher who joined the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of war in 1939, and was sent to Madrid as a press attaché to try to keep Spain neutral. With superiors like Philby and Blunt back in London, he had enemies on all fronts, and his wife had fallen for another man - yet he overcame the odds, and served his country loyally hbk £20
Where The Hell Have You Been? Monty, Italy And One Man's Incredible Escape Tom Carver A compelling account of Monty's stepson's capture in Italy and subsequent escape from a POW camp hbk £16.99
The Marchesa Casati: Portraits Of A Muse Scot Ryersson A picture book of the eccentric socialite's life, and of the designs she inspired hbk £29.99
Cheever: A Life Blake Bailey The enigma of John Cheever hbk £25
Churchill Paul Johnson A short biography which covers the whole life hbk £15.99
Alan Clark: The Biography Ion Trewin His editor reveals what his subject's diaries did not hbk £25
Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life Fernando Morais Not one for the cynics at JS, but there must be some readers who will relish the inspirational story of a writer who discovers his royalties, oops, vocation after a life of struggle etc. hbk £18.99
Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor Paul Stephenson The life and legacy of Rome's first Christian Emperor hbk £30
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined By Writing Michael Slater A major new biography hbk £25
The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story Mary-Kay Wilmers The editor of the 'LRB' investigates her family, whose members were involved in China & Turkey in the 1920s, Spain during the Civil War, Mexico with Trotsky, Vienna with Freud, and so on hbk £20
T. S. Eliot John Worthen What the poetry reveals about the man hbk £16.99
Elizabeth's Women: The Women Who Shaped The Virgin Queen Tracy Borman A biography through the filter of the influential women in her life, both friends and rivals hbk £20
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother William Shawcross The long-awaited authorised biography hbk £25
My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times - An Autobiography Harold Evans hbk £25
Mad Dogs And Englishmen: An Expedition Round My Family Ranulph Fiennes From Eustache, who fought for William the Conqueror, to the recent conqueror of Everest hbk £20
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord Of The Flies' John Carey The first biography hbk £20
Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family And The Making Of Modern Europe Stuart Carroll The most well-known member of the family was Mary, Queen of Scots hbk £18.99
Redeeming Features Nicholas Haslam If a name's worth dropping, it's worth dropping well… hbk £25
1415: Henry V's Year Of Glory Ian Mortimer From the biographer of Henry IV and Edward III hbk £20
Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin Pierre Assouline hbk £16.99
Samuel Johnson: A Life David Nokes From one of Jane Austen's biographers hbk £20
Mother Land Dmetri Kakmi The author was born into a Greek community on the Turkish island of Bozcaada - formerly Tenedos - near the mouth of the Dardanelles in 1961. Bitter cultural and political conflicts forced the family to emigrate to Australia in 1970. While capturing childhood and the glories of the place with marvellous lyricism, this memoir also reveals how the conflicts fuelled domestic violence, already kindled by endemic secrets. Surely destined to be a classic, we strongly recommend this book hbk £16.99
Keynes: The Return Of The Master Robert Skidelsky His biographer outlines what he sees as the real importance of Keynes to the current crisis hbk £20
Edward William Lane: 1801-1876: The Life Of The Pioneering Egyptologist And Orientalist Jason Thompson An enormous biography (900 pp) and apparently the first hbk £25
Conspirator: Lenin In Exile Helen Rappaport From the author of 'Ekaterinburg: The Last Days Of The Romanovs' (pbk, £7.99) hbk £18.99
Macaulay: The Tragedy Of Power Robert E Sullivan A biography of the great historian hbk £29.95
The Macmillan Diaries: Volume 2: The Premiership 1959-1966 Peter Cattrall (ed) hbk £25
Memoirs Of A Radical Lawyer Michael Mansfield hbk £20
The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham Selina Hastings A fascinating and well-researched biography, which paints a clear picture of a man who had a 'knack' for writing, but who remained personally unfulfilled: notoriously and sometimes shockingly honest in his fiction, he was far less candid in his private life. Utterly engrossing hbk £25
Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint John Cornwell hbk £18.99
No End To Snowdrops: A Biography Of Kathleen Raine Philippa Bernard hbk £20
Small Memories José Saramago Born in 1922, the writer evokes his childhood and tells of his introduction to literature hbk £12.99
Joseph Severn, a Life: The Rewards Of Friendship Sue Brown Severn nursed Keats through his illness in Rome, and reported on his final weeks in a series of letters. He has been a controversial figure to successive biographers of the poet; here his own life story is told, attempting to fill in some of the gaps in the history of Keats and his circle hbk £30
Drawing Fire: The Diary Of A Great War Soldier And Artist Len Smith An ordinary soldier and talented artist, who kept (illegally) an illustrated diary which survived the conflict hbk £20
Trotsky: A Biography Robert Service The author has written biographies of both Lenin and Stalin; now he turns his attention to Trotsky, drawing on extensive and apparently unexamined archival material hbk £25
Gore Vidal: A Visual Memoir Gore Vidal Photos, letters, ephemera from a well-lived life, and from his family hbk £24.99
An Infinity Of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected The World Francis Larson hbk £18.99
The Devil Is A Gentleman: The Life And Times Of Dennis Wheatley Phil Baker Novelist with sales of 50 million, Satanist and wannabe politician hbk £25
Climbing The Bookshelves: The Autobiography Shirley Williams hbk £20
The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell In a new translation: autobiography, but also an evocation of Vienna's golden age, and a description of the city's fall pbk £16.99
James Lees-Milne: The Life Michael Bloch This title and the two following were all published in late August 2009 and we draw your attention to them a second time as they figure among the major books of the autumn hbk £25
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets Of Brideshead Paula Byrne Informative and hugely enjoyable hbk £20
Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd Written with his trademark fluency, the story of a man on the run - in Chelsea, of all places… hbk £18.99pbk £11.99
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