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Winter Books 2010
A selection of forthcoming titles for January, February and early March
Biography
The Education Of A British-Protected Child Chinua Achebe A sequence of autobiographical essays by the author of 'Things Fall Apart' (pbk, £7.99)  hbk £20
The Letters Of Sylvia Beach Keri Walsh (ed) Bookseller and publisher for expatriate Paris, her coterie included Joyce, Hemingway and Gertrude Stein hbk £19.95
Star: The Life And Times Of Warren Beatty Peter Biskind hbk £17.99
Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes Wilder Shores Anne Boston Artist, writer, traveller, bohemian - and JS customer to boot hbk £25
Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten, 1928-1938 John Evans (ed) hbk £25
Waking Up in Toytown John Burnside A sequel to his acclaimed memoir about his troubled childhood, 'A Lie About My Father' (pbk, £8.99) hbk £16.99
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek And The Birth Of Modern China Hannah Pakula From the author of 'An Uncommon Woman' (pbk, £10.99), a major new biography hbk £27.50
The Churchills: A Family Portrait John Lee & Celia Lee The respected historians unearth the truth about Winston's family hbk £20
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson And Her Family's Feuds Lyndall Gordon Apparently, all was not peace and harmony around the Dickinson dinner-table hbk £20
Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas Mavis Batey The story of the eccentric codebreaker and classical scholar, Alfred Dillwyn Knox hbk £19.99
Letters of T. S. Eliot: vol 2: 1922-1925 Hugh Haughton & Valerie Eliot (eds) The long-awaited second volume, announced too late for our autumn catalogue - Unavailable
Letters Of T.S. Eliot: vol 1: 1898-1922 Hugh Haughton & Valerie Eliot (eds) And this reprint has been significantly expanded since the 1988 edition hbk £35
Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth I And The Mysterious Case Of Amy Robsart Christopher Skidmore A solution to the mystery surrounding the death of Dudley's wife sheds light on the Queen's refusal to marry the widower hbk £20
The Night Sky Julian Fane Reflections from the prolific novelist, who died in December hbk £16.99
Must You Go?: My Life With Harold Pinter Antonia Fraser hbk £20
Gandhi Jad Adams An admirably concise account of a remarkably active life hbk £20
Letters To Isabella Stewart Gardner Henry James - Unavailable
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini Frances Stonor Saunders The extraordinary story of The Hon Violet Gibson, who came closer than anyone else to felling a fascist dictator (Il Duce's nose), and was confined to a lunatic asylum for her pains hbk £20
All My Shows Are Great: The Life Of Lew Grade Lewis Chester hbk £20
Dream Days Kenneth Grahame A reissue of his meditation on childhood, first published in 1888 pbk £8.99
Mons Anzac And Kut: By An MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP) Edward Melotte (ed) First published anonymously in 1919, the Great War diaries of Buchan's model for Sandy Arbuthnot in Greenmantle have now been edited by Herbert's great-grandson hbk £19.99
Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual Michael Scammell hbk £25
Churchill's Grandmama: Frances, 7th Duchess Of Marlborough Margaret Elizabeth Forster hbk £20
How To Live: A Life Of Montaigne In One Question And Twenty Attempts At An Answer Sarah Bakewell An unorthodox biography of the most revered of thinkers and unorthodox of writers hbk £16.99
Iris Murdoch - A Writer At War: The Letters And Diaries Of Iris Murdoch Peter J Conradi (ed) hbk £16.99
The Life Of Irène Némirovsky: 1903-1942 Olivier Philipponnat & Patrick Lienhardt That she perished in Auschwitz is well-known, but Némirovsky's short life was full of incident - and very productive (16 novels) hbk £25
Pevsner: Germany And Art Stephen Games How a German émigré became a celebrity scholar in Britain hbk £20
Pitt The Elder: Man Of War Edward Pearce Warrior, politician, man and myth hbk £25
The Russian Countess: Escaping Revolutionary Russia Edith Sollohub An extraordinary first-hand account, now published for the first time hbk £18.99
City Boy: My Life In New York During The 1960s And '70s Edmund White Sex, writing, writers, and a lot more sex, in a now-vanished Manhattan hbk £18.99
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