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Winter Books 2012
A selection of titles for January, February and early March
Biography
Queen Anne: The Politics Of Passion Anne Somerset Drawing on some new sources, the author focuses on the rivalries and personalities which have shaped perceptions of Anne's reign  hbk £25
Ashoka: The Search For India's Lost Emperor Charles Allen The piecing-together of the life of the man who turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion is as much about Britain's entanglement with India as with India's ancient history hbk £25
Soldier In Arabia: A Military Memoir From Jordan To Saudi Arabia Nigel Bromage An account of thirty years' fighting and finagling in the Middle East, from the Grenadier Guards and the Arab Legion in the first Arab-Israeli War to Military Advisor to the British Embassy in the UAE hbk £27.50
Our Man In Rome: Henry VIII And His Italian Ambassador Catherine Fletcher 'Our man', whose name seems to have been superseded in the title by his master, was Gregorio 'the Cavalier' Casali, and he fixed the divorce from Catherine of Aragon hbk £20
Catherine The Great: Portrait Of A Woman Robert K Massie From the author of 'Nicholas and Alexandra' and 'Peter The Great' hbk £25
The Arch Conjuror Of England: John Dee Glyn Parry hbk £25
Charles Dickens And The Great Theatre Of The World Simon Callow The actor and writer explores the central importance of the theatre in the novelist's life hbk £16.99
The Selected Letters Of Charles Dickens Jenny Hartley (ed) Reduced from 12 volumes hbk £20
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life In Our Times Sarah Bradford The distinguished biographer examines the reasons for the enduring popularity of the monarch during a reign which has seen enormous political and social changes hbk £20
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved In Life, And Lost, 1934-1961 Paul Hendrickson The one constant in a turbulent life hbk £20
George F. Kennan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis Too late to make our Autumn list, this is a major biog of one of the most important figures of the Cold War hbk £25
Journey To The Abyss: The Diaries Of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918 Laird M Easton (ed) The remarkable diaries of the Anglo-German diplomat and aesthete hbk £30
Under A Cruel Star: A Life In Prague, 1941-1968 Heda Margolius Kovály A new translation of this remarkable memoir: the author was a Czech Jew, sent to Auschwitz with her family (who perished). She escaped and returned to life in Prague, later to face persecution under the Communists, after the execution of her husband in a show-trial pbk £12.99
Free France's Lion: The Life Of Philippe Leclerc, De Gaulle's Greatest General William Mortimer Moore hbk £20
What It Is Like To Go To War Karl Marlantes The author of the successful Vietnam war novel 'Matterhorn' (pbk, £8.99), recounts and analyses his real-life experience as a soldier hbk £17.99
Mary Quant: My Autobiography Mary Quant The life of a Chelsea icon hbk £25
A Lucid Dreamer: The Life Of Peter Redgrove Neil Roberts hbk £30
Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life Peter McPhee hbk £25
Joseph Roth: A Life In Letters translated by Michael Hofmann From his birth in Galicia to death in Paris in 1939 hbk £25
Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite Brian Sewell A memoir of the author's early life, ending with his departure from Christie's in the 60s hbk £25
Look Back With Love Dodie Smith The latest in the reprints from 'Slightly Foxed', an Edwardian upbringing in Manchester hbk £15
The King Of Hans Place Neil Sullivan A biography of Stuart Townend, the celebrated headmaster of Hill House school hbk £15
A Glimpse Of Empire Jessica Douglas-Home Based on her diaries, this is an account of a trip to India by Lilah Wingfield, an Irish lady, in 1911: from the Delhi Durbar to the Khyber Pass hbk £17.95
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