OCTOBER 2009
GARDENS
BELLES LETTRES
THE ARCTIC
GENERAL
FICTION
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CHARLES ELLIOTT Paradise of Exiles: The Anglo-American Gardens of Florence Katie Campbell ANDREA WULF Great Gardens of America Tim Richardson
HUGH HAUGHTON The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume I (Edd) Peter Brooker & Andrew Thacker RICHARD GRAY A New Literary History of America (Edd) Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors
FERGUS FLEMING The Magnetic North Sara Wheeler ROLAND HUNTFORD Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage Glyn Williams
ALLISTER HEATH The Constant Economy Zac Goldsmith JOHN CORNWELL The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins DAVID PROFUMO To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon Richard Shelton EDWARD NORMAN A History of Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch ANTHONY BURTON Blood,Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World Christian Wolmar M R D FOOT The Making of the British Army Allan Mallinson CHRISTOPHER BRAY The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger Chris Fujiwara Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director Geoffrey Macnab PHILIP WOMACK What on Earth is Going on? A Crash Course in Current Affairs Tom Baird and Arthur House
ELAINE SHOWALTER A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore CAROLINE MOOREHEAD The Dogs and the Wolves Irène Némirovsky TIM MARTIN Lustrum Robert Harris JONATHAN BARNES Juliet, Naked Nick Hornby TOBY LICHTIG Last Night in Twisted River John Irving ADRIAN TURPIN Transition Iain Banks SUZI FEAY Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger
LUCY POPESCU ON J S TISSAINAYAGAM JESSICA MANN
RICHARD OVERY’s The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars was published in May and his 1939: Countdown to War was published in August, both by Allen Lane.
LESLIE MITCHELL is Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford.
JESSIE CHILDS’s Henry VIII’s Last Victim is available in paperback from Vintage.
DAVID PROFUMO is Chairman of the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Trust (Scotland), and is the fishing columnist for Country Life magazine.
BRENDA MADDOX is writing Reading the Rocks, a group biography of Victorian geologists, for The Bodley Head.
NORMA CLARKE is Professor of English Literature at Kingston University and author of Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington (Faber).
DAVID KYNASTON’s Family Britain 1951–57 is due to be published by Bloomsbury in November.
HUGH HAUGHTON is the co-editor (with Valerie Eliot) of Volume II of The Letters of T S Eliot, out next month.
ROBERT CHESSHYRE was on the staff of The Observer throughout Harold Evans’s editorship of The Sunday Times.
ANTHONY BURTON’s books include The Railway Builders, The Railway Empire, On the Rails and a biography of Richard Trevithick.
MICHAEL FARR is the author of The Adventures of Hergé and Tintin: The Complete Companion, both published by John Murray.
NICHOLAS RANKIN’s latest book, Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945, is out in paperback from Faber.
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