Spring 2019 Booklist
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street Leeds LS1 6AL
0113 2453071
Welcome to our Spring Booklist. Please use the index below to find those subject areas you are interested in and use the checklist on page 42 to indicate which books you would like to reserve. You can email this back to [email protected] or drop it in at the counter.
Alternatively, you can reserve the books yourself by logging in to your account via our website. You will need your library number and PIN to log in. Please contact the library if you have forgotten your PIN or would like one setting up, or if you would like further assistance in using our online catalogue.
A hard copy of the booklist will be available in the library coffee corner for members to browse.
INDEX TO SPRING BOOKLIST NON-FICTION AERONAUTICS PAGE 3 ANIMALS PAGE 3 ARCHITECTURE PAGE 3 ART PAGE 3 ART, GENERAL PAGE 4 ASTRONOMY PAGE 4 BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE 5 BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PAGE 5 COMMERCE PAGE 5 COMMUNICATION PAGE 5 COOKERY PAGE 5 CRIMINAL LAW PAGE 5 CRIMINOLOGY PAGE 6 CULTURE PAGE 6 CUSTOMS, ETIQUETTE, FOLKLORE PAGE 6 DIET, COOKERY, FOOD, DRINK & C. PAGE 7 DORLING KINDERSLEY TRAVEL GUIDES PAGE 7 ECONOMICS, POLITICS, CURRENT AFFAIRS, BUSINESS PAGE 7 EDUCATION PAGE 8 EVOLUTION PAGE 8 EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDES PAGE 9 FOLKLORE PAGE 9 GARDENS & GARDENING PAGE 9 GENEALOGY, HERALDRY, FAMILY HISTORY PAGE 9 HISTORIANS PAGE 10 HISTORY, ANCIENT BRITAIN PAGE 10 HISTORY, CHILE PAGE 10 HISTORY, CHINA PAGE 10 HISTORY, EUROPE PAGE 10 HISTORY FRANCE PAGE 10 HISTORY, GERMANY PAGE 11 HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN PAGE 11 HISTORY, INDIA PAGE 14 HISTORY, IRAQ PAGE 14 HISTORY, LOCAL PAGE 15 HISTORY, PALESTINE PAGE 15 HISTORY, RUSSIA PAGE 15 HISTORY, RWANDA PAGE 15 HISTORY, SCOTLAND PAGE 15 HISTORY, SOUTH EAST ASIA PAGE 15
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page1
HISTORY, SUDAN PAGE 16 HISTORY, SOUTH AMERICA PAGE 16 HISTORY, SYRIA PAGE 16 HISTORY, USA PAGE 16 HISTORY, WEST AFRICA PAGE 17 HISTORY, WORLD PAGE 17 HISTORY, WORLD WAR I PAGE 18 HISTORY, WORLD WAR II PAGE 18 HOME AND FAMILY MANAGEMENT PAGE 19 JOURNALISM PAGE 19 LANGUAGE PAGE 19 LAW, CRIME & ESPIONAGE PAGE 19 LEEDS PAGE 19 LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES PAGE 20 LIBRARY OF AMERICA PAGE 20 LITERARY HISTORY & CRITICISM PAGE 21 MEDICINE PAGE 24 MILITARY ENGINEERING PAGE 25 MILITARY HISTORY PAGE 25 MILITARY SCIENCE PAGE 25 MUSIC PAGE 26 NATURAL HISTORY PAGE 26 NATURAL SCIENCES PAGE 26 NAUTICAL HISTORY PAGE 26 PALEONTOLOGY PAGE 27 PERFORMING ARTS PAGE 27 PHILOSOPHY PAGE 27 PHOTOGRAPHY PAGE 28 PHYSICS PAGE 28 PLANTS PAGE 28 POETRY PAGE 28 POLITICAL SCIENCE PAGE 29 POLITICS PAGE 30 PSYCHOLOGY PAGE 30 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PAGE 31 REFERENCE PAGE 31 SOCIAL PROBLEMS PAGE 31 SOCIAL SCIENCES PAGES 32 SPORT AND GAMES PAGE 33 THEOLOGY PAGE 34 TOPOGRAPHY AND LOCAL HISTORY PAGE 35 TRAVEL AND GEOGRAPHY PAGES 36 FICTION CRIME PAGE 37 GENERAL PAGE 38 HISTORICAL PAGE 39 SCI-FI / FANTASY PAGE 40 THRILLERS PAGE 41 CHECKLIST CHECKLIST PAGE 42 The Spring Booklist was compiled by Helen Holdsworth, Nichola Holmes and Aidan Thackray and edited and produced by Jane Riley and Anna Goodridge
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page2
BOOKLIST 190 NON-FICTION
AERONAUTICS
1 MEAD (Corey) The lost pilots : the spectacular rise and scandalous fall of aviation’s golden couple [xii, 273 p.] N039840 D/629.13 (MEA) Full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal and tragedy, this book brings to life the extraordinary story of Bill
Lancaster and Jessie Miller who in 1927 flew from London to Melbourne.
ANIMALS
2 ACKERMAN (JENNIFER) The genius of birds [[10], 405 p.] N042926 D/598 (ACK) Informative and beautifully written, this book richly celebrates these surprising and intelligent creatures.
3 WRIGHT (Peter) The Yorkshire vet : in the footsteps of Herriot [xxvi, 226 p.] N042505 D/636.089 (WRI) The real story of the much-loved Yorkshire vet, Peter Wright.
ARCHITECTURE
4 KERRIGAN (Michael) Lost interiors : beauty in desolation [192 p.] N042949 DQ/720 (KER) This incredible new book explores the half-life of abandoned buildings and the sad beauty of desolation.
5 LISTRI (Massimo) The world’s most beautiful libraries [560 p.] N042208 REFERENCE ONLY DF/727 (LIS) In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their
architectural, historical and imaginative wonder.
6 McCLOUD (Kevin) Kevin McCloud’s principles of home : making a place to live [256 p.] N042498 D/728 (MCC) In this inspirational yet also practical paperback Kevin explores all areas of domestic living, from materialism to sustainability, craftsmanship to comfort. An inspiring but always usable book from the foremost voice in modern architectural design.
7 WAINWRIGHT (Oliver) Inside North Korea [242 p.] N042115 DQ/720 (WAI) In a new book, British design and architecture critic Oliver Wainwright goes inside the world’s most notoriously closed-off
country to reveal Pyongyang’s “fairyland” design ambitions.
ART
8 GAIMAN (Neil) Art matters [unpaged] N040693 D/701 (GAI) Drawn together from speeches, poems and creative manifestos, Art Matters explores how reading, imagining and creating
can change the world, and will be an inspirational to young and old.
9 HOCKNEY (David) and GAYFORD (Martin) A history of pictures for children [128 p.] DQ/709 (HOC) N040334 JUVENILE Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children’s edition is told through conversations between the artist David Hockney and the author Martin Gayford, who talk about art with inspiring simplicity and clarity. Rose Blake’s illustrations
illuminate the narratives of both authors to bring the history of art alive for a young audience. A journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras.
10 TRIGG (David) Reading art : art for book lovers [352 p.] N040408 D/704.9 (TRI) A celebration of artworks featuring books and readers from throughout history and featuring over 250 artists. Spring 2019 Booklist / Page3
11 WARRELL (Ian) Turner’s sketchbooks [240 p.] N039836 DQ/759.2 (TUR) Turner's sketchbooks offer perhaps the most appealing introduction to the artist. They give us a privileged look over Turner's shoulder, allowing us to witness the creation and development of ideas that can be traced through to his major
paintings. In the absence of detailed written accounts of his extensive travels, the notebooks are also a record of his impressions of the many places he visited across Britain and Europe.
ART, GENERAL
12 ANDO (Hiroshige) and IKEDA (Eisen) Hiroshige and Eisen: the sixty-nine stations along the Kisokaido [233 p.] N043262 REFERENCE ONLY DQ/769.92 (HIR) A historic trail through the heart of Japan, by two legendary woodblock artists. This book is string-bound in Japanese style with accordion-folded uncut pages. Because of the delicate nature of this binding, the book will be kept in the Librarian’s Office.
13 ASHCROFT (Jeffrey) Albrecht Dürer : documentary biography (2 volumes) Volume I N042905, Volume II N042904 D/759.3 (DUR) Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. This unique combination of documentary evidence, current research, and exhaustive
bibliography will doubtless become a definitive source for students and scholars of Durer and his work, as well as for historians of early modern culture, language, and literature.
14 CRIPPA (Elena) All too human : Bacon, Freud and a century of painting life [224 p.] N042958 DQ/759.2 (CRI) Illustrated with over 120 intimate, poignant, and honest images of friends, lovers, and relatives, landscapes and cityscapes, and representing personal experiences and relationships, this book reveals complex and compelling stories, and captures the essence of what makes us human.
15 PACKER (Lelia) and SLIWKA (Jennifer) Monochrome: painting in black and white [240 p.] N043205 DQ/752 (PAC) Painting without colour has long held a fascination for artists and the authors of this striking and original book explore how
and why artists throughout the centuries have chosen to paint in black and white and shades of grey.
16 PHILLIPS (Tom) Tom Phillips : works and texts [296 p.] N042512 DQ/700.92 (PHI) Tom Phillips is a multi-talented artist whose central passion is language and whose genius lies in his ability to generate images that, while concerned with the structure of ideas, also convey a rich coherence of decoration, eloquence and sensuality.
17 WARD (Steve) Nineteenth century circus poster art [[6], 131 p.] N042842 DQ/741.6 (WAR) The nineteenth century was a boom time for the circus. It was a popular form of entertainment, catering for all sections of society, young and old, male and female, rich and poor. Circus posters appeared on almost every available space and it was very important for the circus proprietor to have eye-catching designs to grab the public's attention. This book by a Leeds Library member takes a broad look at some of the designs used on circus posters relating to the Wood Street circus in Wakefield during the nineteenth century.
18 WILLIAMS (Haydn) Turquerie: an eighteenth-century European fantasy [240 p.] N043238 DQ/709.56 (WIL) The first book to look at the artistic phenomenon known as Turquerie. At the end of the 17th century, the long-standing fear of the Turk in Europe was gradually replaced by fascination. Travellers’ accounts of the Ottoman lands and the
magnificent spectacle of Ottoman ambassadors and their retinues were among the catalysts that inspired the creation of a European fantasy of this world. Haydn Williams shows how Turquerie manifested itself in the arts across Europe.
ASTRONOMY
19 COX (Brian) and FORSHAW (Jeff) Universal : a guide to the cosmos [x, 294 p.] N042497 DQ/523.1 (COX) Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw take us on an epic journey of scientific exploration, revealing how the biggest questions - from
the size of the earth to the distance to the stars - are answerable from our own back gardens. Spring 2019 Booklist / Page4
BIBLIOGRAPHY
20 CARTER (John) ABC for book collectors [263 p.] N043245 D/002.075 (CAR) Now in its ninth edition, this book contains over 700 alphabetical entries giving the definition and analysis of the technical
terms of book collecting and bibliography.
21 GAMESON (Richard) Treasures of Durham University Library [160 p.] N040304 D/027.7 (GAM) A presentation of fifty selected highlights from the collection, along with an account of its nature and growth as a whole,
from medieval exchequer room to modern library.
22 HUGHES (M.E.J.) The Pepys Library : and the historic collections of Magdalene College Cambridge [88 p.] N040382 DQ/027.7 (HUG) A history of the collection and a celebration of some of the highlights.
23 PURCELL (Mark) Treasures from Lord Fairhaven’s Library at Anglesey Abbey [160 p.] N040310 DQ/027.7 (PUR) The library at Anglesey Abbey was assembled in the mid-twentieth century by the Anglo-American Huttleston Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven. The majority of these books have never been seen in public. They have been described as among the finest copies in existence of some of the grandest books ever produced.
BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES
24 TREE (Isabella) Wilding : the return of nature to a British farm [xx, 362 p.] N039860 D/333.95 (TRE) Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, it is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.
COMMERCE
25 SHAH (Oliver) Damaged goods : the inside story of Sir Philip Green, the collapse of BHS and the death of the high street [xx, 299 p.] N042341 D/381 (SHA) In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following
Sir Philip Green's journey to the big time, the wild excesses of his heyday and his dramatic demise.
COMMUNICATION
26 CONNELLY (Charlie) Last train to Hilversum: a journey in search of the magic of radio [viii, 328 p.] N043233 D/384.54 (CON) This is Charlie Connelly’s love letter to radio, exploring our relationship with the medium from its earliest days to the
present in a journey from the wireless to wireless.
COOKERY
27 RAYNER (Jay) Wasted calories and ruined nights : a journey deeper into dining hell [xxii] 86 p.] N042863 D/641 (RAY) A wickedly entertaining collection of 20 of Jay Rayner's most unfortunately memorable dining experiences from recent
years.
CRIMINAL LAW
28 GOUREVITCH (Philip) We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda [xviii, 356 p.] N042846 D/364.15 (GOU)
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page5
Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest non-fiction books of all time, this is a first-hand account of one of the defining outrages of modern history.
29 KONNIKOVA (Maria) The confidence game : the psychology of the con and why we fall for it every time [x, 340 p.] N042525 D/364.16 (KON) The con artist, from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong. How do they get away with it? Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the swindle, from the put-up all the way to the fix, and how we can train ourselves to spot a story that isn't all it seems.
30 WAUGH (Auberon) The last word : an eye-witness account of the trial of Jeremy Thorpe N042393 D/345.42 (THO) It was hailed in advance as "The Trial of the Century". Mr Jeremy Thorpe was charged with conspiracy to murder a former male model who claimed to have had a homosexual relationship with him. But when Thorpe was acquitted without having given evidence in his own defence, many people felt they had heard only half the story. One of Britain's most brilliant writers, Auberon Waugh followed the drama from its very beginning when an idle rumour reached his desk at Private Eye and gives us his own eye-witness account of the trial. This book is a classic of trial literature.
CRIMINOLOGY
31 FOX (Margalit) Conan Doyle for the defence : a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world’s greatest detective writer [xxviii, 317 p.] N040378 D/364.152 (FOX) In 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing. In 1925 a convict called William Gordon was released from Scotland’s Peterhead Prison with a message wrapped in paper, concealed in his mouth. It was from Oscar Slater, the man who had spent 16 years in prison for Gilchrist’s murder. The message appealed for help from the one man he believed could prove his innocence, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is Margalit Fox's vivid and compelling account of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Scottish history.
32 MACRORY (Henry) Ultimate folly : the rises and falls of Whitaker Wright : the world’s most shameless swindler [xii, 322 p.] N042389 D/364.16 (MAC) A gripping story of greed, treachery and ruthless ambition. Drawing on family papers and archives this compelling account of Wright’s life reads like a thriller and offers an insight into the mind of the ultimate gambler and conman.
CULTURE
33 GARFIELD (Simon) In miniature [[12], 289 p.] N042326 D/306 (GAR) A delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large. Simon Garfield reveals the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the truth about the flea circus, a doll's house made for a Queen, eerie tableaux of crime scenes, miniature food, model villages and railways, and more.
CUSTOMS, ETIQUETTE, FOLKLORE
34 THOMAS (Keith) In pursuit of civility : manners and civilization in early modern England [xvi, 457 p] N042153 D/390 (THO) What did it mean to be “civilized' in early modern England? Keith Thomas examines what English people thought it meant to be “civilized” and how that condition differed from being “barbarous” or “savage”. He shows how the upper ranks of
society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by developing distinctive forms of moving, speaking and comporting themselves - and how the common people in turn developed their own forms of civility.
35 WEIR (Alison) and CLARKE (Siobhan) A Tudor Christmas [[8], 184 p.] N042351 D/394.266 (WEI) Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings throughout, this delightful compendium will fascinate anyone with an
interest in Tudor life, and anyone who loves Christmas.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page6
DIET, COOKERY, FOOD, DRINK & C.
36 BOURDAIN (Anthony) Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly [xx, 364 p.] N039844 D/641.5092
(BOU) After twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decides to tell
all.
DORLING KINDERSLEY TRAVEL GUIDES
37 Top 10 Athens [160 p.] N042618 L/232.1 (DOR) 38 Top 10 Budapest [128 p.] N042614 L/232.1 (DOR) 39 Top 10 Copenhagen [128 p.] N042607 L/232.1 (DOR) 40 Top 10 Cornwall and Devon [128 p.] N042606 L/232.1 (DOR) 41 Top 10 Delhi [128 p.] N042602 L/232.1 (DOR) 42 Top 10 Iceland [144 p.] N042610 L/232.1 (DOR) 43 Italian Riviera [224 p.] N042858 L/232.1 (DOR) 44 Las Vegas [200 p.] N042857 L/232.1 (DOR) 45 Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza [208 p.] N042859 L/232.1 (DOR) 46 Milan and the lakes [248 p.] N042854 L/232.1 (DOR) 47 Munich and the Bavarian Alps [336 p.] N042851 L/232.1 (DOR) 48 Naples and the Amalfi Coast [252 p.] N042855 L/232.1 (DOR) 49 Seville and Andalucia [288 p.] N042852 L/232.1 (DOR) 50 Slovenia [252 p.] N042853 L/232.1 (DOR) 51 Sydney [264 p.] N042356 L/232.1 (DOR) 52 USA [784 p.] N042850 L/232.1 (DOR) 53 Vietnam and Angkor Wat [304 p.] N042856 L/232.1 (DOR)
ECONOMICS
54 CHRISTOPHERS (Brett) The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain [xviii, 362 p.] N043210 D/333.1 (CHR) Much has been written about Britain’s trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has escaped scrutiny until now: the privatization of land. Since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, and hidden from
the public eye, about 10 percent of the entire British land mass, including some of its most valuable real estate, has passed from public to private hands. This book provides the first ever study of this profoundly significant phenomenon.
55 GREENSPAN (Alan) and WOOLDRIDGE (Adrian) Capitalism in America : a history [[10], 486 p.] N042308 D/330.12 (GRE) Where does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role does innovation play in creating prosperity and why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, find the opposite? Capitalism in America explains why America has worked so successfully in the past and been such a gigantic engine of economic growth.
56 LEE (John S.) The Medieval clothier [xx, 365 p.] N042914 D/338.4 (LEE) Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages. This book offers the first recent survey of this hugely important and significant trade and its practitioners, examining the whole range of clothiers across different areas of England, and exploring their impact within the industry and in their wider communities.
57 NORMAN (Jesse) Adam Smith : what he thought, and why it matters [xviii, 382 p.] N042134 D/330.15 (SMI) Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. But this book is not only a biography. It dispels the myths and debunks the caricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith. Spring 2019 Booklist / Page7
58 OLIVER (Craig) Unleashing demons: the inside story of Brexit [[14], x, 421 p.] N043246 D/328.2 (OLI) As David Cameron's director of politics and communications, Craig Oliver was in the room at every key moment during the EU referendum. His book is based on his extensive notes, detailing everything from the decision to call a referendum to the subsequent civil war in the Conservative Party and the aftermath of the shocking result.
59 PILLING (David) The growth delusion : the wealth and well-being of nations [viii, 341 p.] N042113 D/338.9 (PIL) A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times.
60 SATIA (Priya) Empire of guns : the violent making of the Industrial Revolution [xvi, 528 p.] N042147 D/330.9 (SAT) Prize winning historian, Priya Satia argues that the true root of economic and imperial expansion was the lucrative military contracting that enabled the country’s near constant state of war.
61 SCHWARTZ (Herman Mark) States versus markets : understanding the global economy [xxviii, 379 p.] N043242 D/337 (SCH) Now in its 4th edition, this book examines the global economy from its inception in the sixteenth century to its workings in the present day.
62 SKIDELSKY (Robert) Money and government : a challenge to mainstream economics N042516 D/339 (SKI) The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty make money and government essential features of any market economy.
63 TOOZE (Adam) Crashed : how a decade of financial crises changed the world [xiv, 706 p.] N042358 D/332 (TOO) The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 which was triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
64 VAROUFAKIS (Yanis) Talking to my daughter about the economy : a brief history of capitalism [[8], 209 p.] N042109 D/330 (VAR) Why is there so much inequality? World famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his daughter Xenia’s simple question.
EDUCATION
65 VERKAIK (Robert) Posh boys : how the English public schools ruin Britain [viii, 392 p.] D/373.2 (VER) N042132 Robert Verkaik issues a searing indictment of the public school system and outlines how, through meaningful reform, we can finally make society fairer for all.
66 WESTOVER (Tara) Educated [x, 385 p.] N042532 D/371.8 (WES) Tara Westover describes what it was like to grow up in a fundamentalist Mormon/survivalist family in Idaho that did not believe in public education, western medicine and did not trust the government. At sixteen she decided to educate herself. This is the account of her struggle, the tale of fierce family loyalty, and the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties.
EVOLUTION
67 AYALA (Francisco J.) and CELA-CONDE (Camilo J.) Processes in human evolution : D/599.93 (AYA) the journey from hominins to Neanderthals and modern humanism [x, 574 p.] N042090 Written by two leading authorities in the fields of physical anthropology and molecular evolution, this is a reconsidered
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page8
overview of hominid evolution.
68 VAN GROUW (Katrina) Unnatural selection [xvi, 284 p.] N042092 DQ/636.08 (VAN) A stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding and the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. It is a unique fusion of art, science, and history celebrating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's monumental work The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. It is intended as a tribute to what Darwin might have achieved had he possessed that elusive missing piece to the evolutionary puzzle—the knowledge of how individual traits are passed from one generation to the next.
EYEWITNESS TRAVEL
69 PHILLIPS (Catherine) Russia [336 p.] N042087 L/232.1 (DOR) The latest addition to our travel guides.
FOLKLORE
70 FRY (Stephen) Mythos [xvi, 442 p.] N042944 D/398.2 (FRY) Discover Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told.
GARDENS & GARDENING
71 EYRES (Patrick) and LYNCH (Karen) On the spot : the Yorkshire Red Books of Humphry Repton, landscape DQ/712.092 gardener [x, 197 p.] N042159 (REP) The nine Yorkshire commissions of Humphry Repton spanned the twenty years between 1790 and 1810. Patrick Eyres and Karen Lynch enlarge the knowledge of his landscape gardening in Yorkshire in general, by offering new insights into these commissions, and, in particular, by reproducing the six extant Red Books that he produced for patrons in the county.
72 JENKINS (Allan) Plot 29 : a memoir [xvi, 255 p.] N040306 D/635.0942 (JEN) As a young boy in 1960s Plymouth, Allan Jenkins and his brother, Christopher, were rescued from their care home and fostered by an elderly couple. There, the brothers started to grow flowers in their riverside cottage. But as Allan grew older, his foster parents were never quite able to provide the family he and his brother needed. They found solace in tending a small London allotment which echoed the childhood moments when he grew nasturtiums from seed. A beautifully written, haunting memoir, a mystery story and meditation on nature and nurture from the editor of the Observer food monthly.
73 (NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME) The garden visitor’s handbook 2018 [744 p.] N042003 REFERENCE ONLY D/712.05 (GAR) A list of nearly 4,000 gardens open for visiting.
74 PARKER (Peter) A little book of Latin for gardeners [[8], 323 p.] N042918 D/580 (PAR) The book, beautifully illustrated with old woodcuts, explains how and why plants have been named, includes handy lists of identifying adjectives, and takes the reader down some of the stranger byways of human endeavour and eccentricity.
GENEALOGY, HERALDRY, FAMILY HISTORY
75 TINNISWOOD (Adrian) Behind the throne : a domestic history of the royal household [xii, 372 p.] N042310 D/929.7 (TIN) This book uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks, courtiers, clowns and crowned heads.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page9
HISTORIANS
76 EVANS (Richard J.) Eric Hobsbawm: a life in history [xiv, 785 p.] N043373 D/907.2 (HOB) The first biography of Eric Hobsbawm which tells the story of him as a historian and beyond this, as a witness to history itself.
77 WREN-LEWIS (Simon) The lies we were told: politics, economics, austerity and Brexit [xiv, 304 p.] N042865 D/338.9 (WRE) Simon Wren-Lewis is one of Britain's most respected economists. This book presents some of his most important work, telling the story of how the damaging political and economic events of recent years became inevitable.
HISTORY, ANCIENT BRITAIN
78 ALDHOUSE-GREEN (Miranda) Sacred Britannia : the gods and rituals of Roman Britain [256 p.] N042340 D/936.1 (ALD) In this fresh and innovative new account, Miranda Aldhouse-Green balances literary, archaeological and iconographic evidence to illuminate the complexity of religion and belief in Roman Britain.
79 CANTON (James) Ancient wonderings : journeys into prehistoric Britain [xii, 332 p.] N042895 D/936.1 (CAN) Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you.
HISTORY, CHILE
80 BULKELEY (John) and BYRON (John) The loss of the Wager [xxvi, 240 p.] N042301 D/983 (BUL) An eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines. The tale of mutiny, hardship and tenacity that ensued was told by two of the survivors, John Bulkeley, leader of those who repudiated the captain's authority, and John Byron, then a midshipman, who remained with the captain. This voyage was the basis for Patrick O'Brian's historical work The Unknown Shore, written before he embarked on the Jack Aubrey novels.
HISTORY, CHINA
81 BOYD (Julia) A dance with the dragon : the vanished world of Peking’s foreign colony [xxiv, 263 p.] N042104 D/951 (BOY) Julia Boyd tells the fascinating tale of the foreign community surviving in Peking between the end of the Ching Dynasty and Mao’s communist revolution.
HISTORY, EUROPE
82 JENKINS (Simon) A short history of Europe : from Pericles to Putin [xxxviii, 354 p.] N042921 D/940 (JEN) The first short narrative history of the continent.
83 KERSHAW (Ian) Roller-coaster : Europe, 1950-2017 [xxvi, 666 p.] N040326 D/940.55 (KER) From one of Britain's most distinguished historians, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present.
HISTORY, FRANCE
84 BROERS (Michael) Napoleon : volume 1 : Soldier of destiny,1769-1805 [xviii, 585 p.] D/944.05 (NAP) The first volume of a revelatory biography.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page10
85 BROERS (Michael) Napoleon : volume 2 : the spirit of the age, 1805-1810 [xvi, 536 p.] N042915 D/944.05 (NAP) The second instalment of this definitive biography sheds new light on this remarkable chapter in the life of an extraordinary man.
86 CHRISTIANSEN (Rupert) City of light : the reinvention of Paris [183 p.] N042130 D/944 (CHR) A sparkling account of the nineteenth century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world.
87 JACKSON (Julian) A certain idea of France : the life of Charles de Gaulle [xl, 887 p.] N042354 D/944.083 (JAC) Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents, including the recently opened archives that show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few.
88 POIRIER (Agnès) Left Bank : art, passion and the rebirth of Paris 1940-50 [xx, 379p.] N042114 D/944 (POI) A portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today.
89 ZAMOYSKI (Adam) Napoleon: the man behind the myth [xxiv, 727 p.] N043202 D/944.04 (NAP) Napoleon inspires passionately-held and conflicting visions. Adam Zamoyski strips away the lacquer of prejudice, explodes accepted myths and debunks long-held assumptions to reveal a more human, understanding and more interesting Napoleon.
HISTORY, GERMANY
90 CRASNIANSKI (Tania) The children of the Nazis : the sons and daughters of Himmler Gőring, Hőss, Mengele, and others : living with a father’s monstrous legacy [xx, 236 p.] N040370 D/943.086 (CRA) The story of eight children of Third Reich leaders and their journey from the descendants of heroes to the descendants of
criminals.
91 GIETINGER (Klaus) The murder of Rosa Luxemburg [x, 205 p.] N043225 D/943.085 (GIE) The cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in post-WW1 Germany is of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. No other political assassination has inflamed popular passions and transformed Germany's political climate as the killings in January 1919 in front of the luxurious Hotel Eden. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of their untimely deaths, Klaus Gietinger has carefully reconstructed the events on that fateful night, digging deep into the archives to identify who exactly was responsible for the murders.
92 NIPPOLDT (Robert) and POFALLA (Boris) Night falls on the Berlin of the roaring twenties [224 p. 1 sound disc) N042929 DF/943.1 (NIP) The Berlin of the 1920s was a wildly carousing, ultra-modern metropolis filled with joie de vivre. The spirit of these years is captured in this new Taschen book. An accompanying musical cd with rare original recordings is also included.
HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN
93 ABELL (Stig) How Britain really works : understanding the ideas and institutions of a nation [xii, 404 p.] N040374 D/941.08 (ABE) A witty, engaging and wide-ranging attempt to understand the country we now live in.
94 ACKROYD (Peter) The history of England : volume V : Dominion [x, 387 p.] N040330 D/942.081 (ACK) The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England series begins in 1815 and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.
95 BEER (Anna) Patriot or traitor: the life and death of Sir Walter Ralegh [xii, 317 p.] D/942.05 (RAL) Sir Walter Ralegh’s life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh’s famous adventures to
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page11
the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness.
96 BEESTON (David) Hospitable, generous England : anti-Semitic journalism and literature in Britain during the First World War and its aftermath [251 p.] TS003184 LD/941.083 (BEE) The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 generated a stream of national emergencies in Britain, which frequently targeted and occasionally threatened to engulf various sections of its diverse and expanding Jewish community. This account provides a detailed analysis of each of these successive phases of Anti-Semitic agitation.
97 BORMAN (Tracy) Henry VIII and the men who made him [[8]. 499 p.] N042899 D/942.05 (HEN) Henry’s relationships with the men who surrounded him reveal much about his beliefs, behaviour and character. In this new biography, Tracy Borman reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory.
98 BREAY (Claire) and STORY (Joanna) Anglo-Saxon kingdoms : art, word, war [424 p.] N042941 DQ/942.01 (BRE) This richly illustrated book, which accompanies a landmark British Library exhibition, presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated, artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. At the heart of the book are highlights from the British Library’s outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.
99 CANNADINE (David) Victorious century : the United Kingdom, 1800-1906 [xxii, 602 p.] N040415 D/941.081 (CAN) A dazzling new book in which David Cannadine has created a bold new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice.
100 CURZON (Catherine) The scandal of George III’s court [xii, 203 p.] N042930 D/941.07 (CUR) From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Prepare to meet some shocking ladies, some shameless gentlemen and some politicians who really should know better.
101 EDGERTON (David) The rise and fall of the British nation : a twentieth century history D/941.082 (EDG) [xxx, 682 p.] N042088 David Edgerton's major new history breaks out of the confines of traditional British national history to redefine what it was to British, and to reveal an unfamiliar place, subject to huge disruptions.
102 EREIRA (Alan) The nine lives of John Ogilby : Britain’s master map maker and his secrets [xiv, 354 p.] N042328 D/941.06 (OGI) John Ogilby was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings that placed roads on maps for the first time. Beset by danger he carefully concealed his biography in codes and cyphers, which meant that the truth about his life has remained unknown until today. This is the story of a remarkable man, and of a covert journey which gave birth to the modern world.
103 HARVEY WOOD (Harriet) Edward the Elder and the making of England [356 p.] N042319 D/942.01 (EDW) Edward the Elder succeeded Alfred as king of the Anglo-Saxons. He died as King of the English, yet virtually nothing has been written about him, until now.
104 HEMMING (Henry) Churchill’s iceman : the true story of Geoffrey Pyke : genius, fugitive, spy [xii, 548 p.] N042923 D/941.082 (HEM) In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adventurer and polymath, he was an unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre- school, and is seen as the father of the U.S. Special Forces. In 1942, he convinced Winston Churchill to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. 70 years after his death, Henry Hemming reveals Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.
105 HIGHAM (Nicholas J.) King Arthur: the making of a legend [xii, 380 p.] N042867 D/942.01 (ART) A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, suggesting that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century. According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it Spring 2019 Booklist / Page12
gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars. Nick Higham sets out to solve the puzzle.
106 HOWSE (Christopher) Soho in the eighties [xviii, 269 p.] N042528 D/942.1 (HOW) In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties. Christopher Howse recaptures the lost Soho he once knew as home, its cellar cafés and butchers' shops, its villains and its generosity. As the author relates, he never laughed so much as he did in Soho in the Eighties.
107 JOHNSON (Alan) In my life : a music memoir [x, 261 p.] N042517 D/941.085 (JOH) In the bestselling and award-winning tradition of This Boy, Alan Johnson transports us to a world that is no longer with us - a world of Dansettes and jukeboxes, of heartfelt love songs and heart-broken ballads, of smoky coffee shops and dingy dance halls. From Bob Dylan to David Bowie, from Lonnie Donnegan to Bruce Springsteen, all of Alan's favourites are here. But this isn't just a book about music. It a fourth dimension to the story of Alan Johnson the man.
108 LE BAS (Damian) The stopping places : a journey through Gypsy Britain [x, 310 p.] N042083 D/941 (LEB) Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language, the places her family stopped and worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions and lores of their people. In a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of the Britain's Romanies and the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places – the old encampment sites known only to Travellers.
109 LEE (Christopher) Carrington : an honourable man [xiv, 559 p.] N042527 D/941.085 (CAR) Lord Carrington was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary when the Argentinians invaded the Falklands in 1982. The descendant of a famous banking family, Carrington served as a minister in every Conservative government from Churchill
to Thatcher. In this full biography, authorised but not read by the subject Christopher Lee offers a fascinating portrait of a Tory icon whose career is a window into post-war British politics and life as a politician and diplomat.
110 LOGUE (Mark) an CONRADI (Peter) The king’s war [xviii, 302 p.] N042919 D/941.084 (LOG) The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. This is a fascinating portrait of the two men and their families, as they together faced up to the greatest challenge in Britain’s history.
111 MACCULLOCH (Diarmaid) Thomas Cromwell : a life [xxiv, 728 p.] N042538 D/942.05 (CRO) Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous and notorious figures in English history. He became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s and was promoted to a series of ever greater offices by Henry VIII. This is a masterclass in historical detective work, making connections not previously seen.
112 MARLOW (Joyce) The Peterloo Massacre [x, 278 p.] N043247 D/942.07 (MAR) The true story of the working-class fight for the vote. On August 16, 1819, a large non-violent gathering in St Peter’s Field, Manchester demanding parliamentary reform turned into a massacre, leaving many dead and hundreds more injured. It was one of the key moments of the age.
113 MILLER (William) Gloucester Crescent : me, my dad and other grown-ups [[8], 338 p.] D/942.1 (MIL) N040350 From the son of Jonathan Miller, a memoir of growing up amidst a group of the most brilliant intellectuals of a generation - along with their children.
114 OLIVER (Neil) The story of the British Isles in 100 places [xx, 428 p.] N042377 D/941 (OLI) The British Isles, this archipelago of islands, is to Neil Oliver the best place in the world. This is his very personal account of what makes these islands so special, told through the places that have witnessed the unfolding of our history.
115 POPE-HENNESSY (James) The quest for Queen Mary [335 p.] N040685 Edited by Hugo Vickers D/941.083 (MAR) When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the door to meetings with
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page13
royalty, court members and retainers around Europe. The series of candid observations, secrets and indiscretions contained in his notes were to be kept private for 50 years. Now published in full for the first time and edited by the highly admired royal biographer Hugo Vickers, this is a riveting, often hilarious portrait of the eccentric aristocracy of a bygone age.
116 RIDING (Jacqueline) Peterloo: the story of the Manchester massacre [xiv, 386 p.] N043226 D/942.07 (RID) As fast paced and powerful as it is rigorously researched, this book adds significantly to our understanding of a tragic staging post on Britain’s journey to full democracy.
117 ROBERTS (Andrew) Churchill : walking with destiny [xliv, 1105 p.] N042514 D/941.084 (CHU) Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in the twentieth century history of Britain. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. Drawing on forty new sources, this biography depicts him more intimately and persuasively than any previous biography.
118 SYKES (Christopher Simon) The man who created the Middle East : a story of empire, conflict and the Sykes- Picot agreement [[12], 368 p.] N039729 D/941.082 (SYK) At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.
119 WILKINSON (Philip) Irreplaceable : a history of England in 100 places [viii, 224 p.] N042531 DQ/942 (WIL) Historic places across the country have shaped England and the world beyond. In 2017 Historic England, supported by specialist insurers Ecclesiastical launched the Irreplaceable : A History of England in 100 Places campaign, designed to celebrate England's remarkable places. Guided by public nominations and a panel of expert judges, a list of 100 places was compiled where noteworthy things have happened and shaped our collective identity as the country we are today. The result is a unique history of England chosen and told by the people who live here.
HISTORY, INDIA
120 BOSE (Mihir) From midnight to glorious morning : India since independence [xvi, 487 p.] N042353 D/954.04 (BOS) Bose travels the length and breadth of India to explore how a country that many doubted would survive at birth has been transformed into one capable of rivalling China as the preeminent economic superpower.
121 GILMOUR (David) The British in India : three centuries of ambition and experience [xviii, 618 p.] N040356 D/954.03 (GIL) This book explores the lives of many different sorts of Briton who went to India. It evokes three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India.
122 LAL (Ruby) Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan [xvi, 308 p.] N042352 D/954.02 (NUR) In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. She was an an astute politician and a devoted partner. When Jahangir was imprisoned by a rebellious nobleman, the Empress led troops into battle and rescued him. She was the only woman to acquire the stature of Empress in her male-dominated world. Here, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography.
HISTORY, IRAQ
123 MAKIYA (Kanan) Republic of fear : the politics of modern Iraq [xxxvi, 323 p.] N042145 D/956.7 (MAK) First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke out, it was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This edition, updated in 1998, has a substantial introduction focusing on the changes in Hussein's regime since the Gulf War.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page14
HISTORY, LOCAL
124 SENIOR (Janet C.) Some bits of Bradford’s history : local history talks given at Glyde House, Bradford [[6], 105 p.] N042304 LD/942.817 (SEN) A new book published by the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society.
HISTORY, PALESTINE
125 HOSLER (John D.) The siege of Acre, 1189-1191 : Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and D/956.94 (HOS) the battle that decided the Third Crusade [xvi, 253 p.] N042081 The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade, one of the longest wartime sieges of the middle ages.
HISTORY, RUSSIA
126 RAPPAPORT (Helen) The race to save the Romanovs : the truth behind the secret plans to rescue Russia’s imperial family [xxviii, 372 p.] N039856 D/947.08 (RAP) On 17 July 1918, the whole of the Russian Imperial family was murdered. On the 100-year-anniversary of these brutal murders, historian Helen Rappaport set out to uncover why the Romanovs’ European royal relatives and the Allied governments failed to save them. In this incredible detective story, Rappaport draws on an unprecedented range of unseen sources, tracking down missing documents, destroyed papers and covert plots to liberate the family by land, sea and even sky.
127 ZEEPVAT (Charlotte) The camera and the Tsars: the Romanov family in photographs [xiv, 242 p.] N043237 DQ/947.04 (ROM) The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for a little over three hundred years and their story, ending with their tragic deaths, has exerted a lasting fascination. This book, an album of pictures gathered by the author over many years, shows the
extended Romanov family. Together with anecdotes and quotations, it captures the essence of the personalities portrayed by the camera lens.
HISTORY, RWANDA
WAMARIYA (Clemantine) and WEIL (Elizabeth) The girl who smiled beads [[12], 276 p.] D/967.571 128 N042499 (WAM) In 1994, Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries, searching for safety, hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping
refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness and witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.
HISTORY, SCOTLAND
129 DEVINE (T.M.) The Scottish clearances: a history of the dispossessed 1600-1900 [xxii, 463 p.] N042508 D/941.1 (DEV) This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Although some were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, others lost everything. The clearances created the landscape of Scotland today, but at a huge price.
HISTORY, SOUTH EAST ASIA
130 HASTINGS (Max) Vietnam : an epic tragedy 1945-1975 [xxx, 722 p.] N042381 D/959.704 (HAS) A masterful chronicle of one of the most devastating international conflicts of the twentieth century.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page15
HISTORY, SUDAN
131 MARTELL (Peter) First raise a flag : how South Sudan won the longest war but lost the peace [xxiv, 332 p.] N039395 D/962 (MAR) Peter Martell has reported from South Sudan for more than a decade. This is his first-hand account of how the world’s
newest nation came to be.
HISTORY, SOUTH AMERICA
132 MENDOZA (Plinio Apuleyo) Guide to the perfect Latin American idiot [xviii, 218 p.] N043234 D/980 (MEN) A controversial best seller when first published in Spanish and now available in its first English translation, this book opens
up the ever-increasing debate in Latin America regarding its “underdeveloped” status.
HISTORY, SYRIA
133 PALANI (Joanna) Freedom fighter [[8], 355 p.] N043352 D/956.9 (PAL) The gripping story of one woman's war against ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.
HISTORY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
134 GOODWIN (Doris Kearns) Leadership: lessons from the presidents for turbulent times [xvi, 473 p.] N042866 D/973 (GOO) Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others.
135 LASKAS (Jeanne Marie) To Obama : with love, joy, hate and despair [x, 403 p.] N040677 D/973.93 (OBA) Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama received ten handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizens from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first president to interact daily with the mail
of citizens and to archive it in its entirety. One of the most important politics books of the year, this is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.
136 LEPORE (Jill) These truths : a history of the United States [xxii, 934 p.] N042524 D/973 (LEP) In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore
offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
137 LEWIS (Michael) The fifth risk : undoing democracy [219 p.] N042938 D/973.93 (LEW) The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy, an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity, waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team.
Nobody appeared and all across the US government, the same thing happened. And now government is under attack by its own leaders.
138 OBAMA (Michelle) Becoming [xvi, 428 p.] N042901 D/973.93 (OBA) An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
139 POTTER (Jennifer) The Jamestown brides : the untold story of England’s maids for Virginia [xii, 372 p.] N042322 D/975.5 (POT) In 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in Virginia. Delving into company records and original sources on both sides of the Atlantic, Jennifer Potter tracks the women's footsteps from their homes in England to their new lives in Virginia. She invites the reader to journey alongside the brides as they travel into a perilous and uncertain future.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page16
140 RHODES (Ben) The world as it is : inside the Obama White House [xx, 450 p.] N042079 D/973.93 (RHO) Aged 29, Ben Rhodes was plucked from obscurity and for ten years he was at the centre of the Obama administration,
first as a speechwriter, then as a policymaker. This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama’s presidency.
141 SPARROW (Jeff) No way but this : in search of Paul Robeson [xii, 292 p.] N042150 D/973.9 (ROB) Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time, before losing everything for the sake of his principles. Jeff Sparrow traces Robeson’s career, showing how his remarkable life tells the story of the twentieth century and illuminates today’s reality. Part travelogue, part biography, it is a story of political ardour, heritage, and trauma and a luminous portrait of a man and an urgent reflection on the politics that define us now.
142 WOODWARD (Bob) Fear : Trump in the White House [xxvi, 421 p.] N040714 D/973.93 (TRU) With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.
143 ZELIZER (Julian E.) Jimmy Carter [xx, 185 p.] N043326 D/973.92 (CAR) An accessible, insightful examination of the Carter presidency.
HISTORY, WEST AFRICA
144 GREEN (Toby) A fistful of shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution [xxxvi, 614 p.] N043241 D/966 (GRE) A ground-breaking new history that will transform our view of West Africa.
HISTORY, WORLD
145 ATTENBOROUGH (David) Journeys to the other side of the world : further adventures of a young naturalist [xii, 415 p.] N042925 D/995.3 (ATT) Written with David Attenborough's characteristic charm, humour and warmth, Journeys to the Other Side of the World is
an inimitable adventure among people, places and the wildest of wildlife.
146 HARARI (Yuval Noah) 21 lessons for the 21st century [xvi, 352 p.] N042344 D/909.82 (HAR) A thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues. An exploration of what it means to be human in an age of
bewilderment.
147 HARTNELL (Jack) Medieval bodies : life, death and art in the Middle Ages [[6], 346 p.] N042530 D/909.07 (HAR) Art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves. Peopled with saints, soldiers, kings, queens, caliphs, knights, monks and monstrous beasts, this striking and unusual history unfolds like a medieval pageant.
148 JONES (Dan) and AMARAL (Marina) The colour of time: a new history of the world 1850 to 1960 [432 p.] N043218 DQ/900 (JON) Spanning more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Space Age, this book charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the politics of peace, and the lives of men and women who made history. Marina Amaral has created 200 stunning images, using contemporary photographs as the basis for her full-colour digital renditions, while Dan Jones has written a narrative that anchors each image in its context.
149 MISHRA (Pankaj) Age of anger : a history of the present [x, 406 p.] N042148 D/909.8 (MIS) How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world.
Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page17
present.
150 ST. CLAIR (Kassia) The secret lives of colour [320 p.] N042897 D/909 (STC) The unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. Across fashion and politics, art and war, this book
tells the vivid story of our culture.
HISTORY, WORLD WAR I
151 MAYHEW (Emily) Wounded : the long journey home from the Great War [[12], 275 p.] N042142 D/940.4 (MAY) The story of a journey from injury on the battlefield to recovery in Britain. It is the story of the soldiers themselves and of
those who cared for them.
HISTORY, WORLD WAR II
152 DRONFIELD (Jeremy) The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz [xvi, 416 p.] N043221 D/940.53 (DRO) The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust. It is a reminder of both the
best and the worst of humanity, the strength of family ties, and the power of the human spirit.
153 FULBROOK (Mary) Reckonings : legacies of Nazi persecution and the quest for justice [xii, 657 p.] N042940 D/940.53 (FUL) The single word "Auschwitz" is often used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. This book expands our understanding, exploring the lives of individuals across a full spectrum of suffering
and guilt. Reckonings seeks to explore the disjuncture between official myths about dealing with the past on the one hand, and the extent to which the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators evaded justice, on the other.
154 HITCHENS (Peter) The phoney victory : the World War II illusion [xxii, 264 p.] N042327 D/940.53 (HIT) In a provocative, but deeply-researched book, Hitchens questions the most common assumptions surrounding World War
II, turning on its head the myth of Britain's role in a “Good War”.
155 MESNIL-AMAR (Jacqueline) Maman, what are we called now? [xxii, 190 p.] N042160 D/940.53 (MES) Maman, what are we called now? was the question nine-year-old Sylvie asked her mother in a crowded French railway station one day during the war. But why was this such an important if not disastrous thing to ask? It was because she and her mother were Jewish, living under assumed names and with forged papers, and therefore if anyone had overheard her hesitation about her real name they would have been immediately suspicious. Originally published in 1957, these diaries have now been reprinted by Persephone Books.
156 OLSON (Lynne) Last hope island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war [xvi, 557 p.] N042849 D/940.53 (OLS) An engrossing account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate
struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.
157 SCHLOSS (Eva) After Auschwitz: a story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank [[8], 326 p.] N043349 D/940.53 (SCH) An honest account of how an ordinary person survived the Holocaust. Eva's memories and descriptions are heartbreakingly clear, and her account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be. It is also an exploration of what
happened next, of Eva's struggle to live with herself after the war and to continue the work of her step-father Otto, ensuring that the legacy of Anne Frank is never forgotten.
158 VAN ES (Bart) The cut out girl: a story of war and family, lost and found [[6], 281 p.] D/940.53 (VAN) The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes
of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page18
HOME AND FAMILY MANAGEMENT
159 NAISH (Sarah) Therapeutic parenting in a nutshell [51 p.] N042141 DQ/649 (NAI) A concise overview for anyone caring for a child who has suffered early life trauma.
160 THOMPSON (Laura) The last landlady: an English memoir [[8], 253 p.] N042492 D/647.95 (THO) Laura Thompson’s grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to hold a publican’s licence in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to
embody their essence. Part memoir, part social history, part elegy, this book pays tribute to an extraordinary woman and the world she epitomised.
JOURNALISM
161 HILSUM (Lindsey) In extremis : the life of war correspondent Marie Colvin [xvi, 400 p.] N042520 D/070.4 (COL) Written by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, this is the story of the most daring war reporter of her time.
162 RUSBRIDGER (Alan) Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now [xxiv, 440 p.] N042504 D/070.4 (RUS) Reflecting on his twenty years as editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger offers a stirring defence of why quality journalism matters now more than ever.
LANGUAGE
163 SIMPSON (John) The word detective : a life in words : from serendipity to selfie [xvi, 366 p.] N042954 D/422 (SIM) The story of words, cultures, the OED and John Simpson, a word detective with thirty-seven years of dictionary experience
and twenty years as Chief Editor of the world's most important dictionary.
LAW, CRIME & ESPIONAGE
164 McGANN (Anthony J.) Gerrymandering in America : the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the future of popular sovereignty [vi, 261 p.] N042336 D/342.73 (MCG) This book will appeal to anyone interested in elections, the Supreme Court, Congress, or equality grounded on the
Constitution.
165 SAUNDERS (Robert) Yes to Europe! : the 1975 referendum and seventies Britain [xiv, 509 p.] N042314 D/341.24 (SAU) On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. In a panoramic survey of 1970s Britain, this volume offers the first modern history of the
referendum, asking why voters said 'Yes to Europe' and why the result did not, as some hoped, bring the European debate in Britain to a close.
LEEDS
166 APPLEYARD (J.E.A.) Geoffrey : Major John Geoffrey Appleyard : being the story of Apple of the Commandos and Special Air Service Regiment [[10], 191 p.] N042039 LD/940.53 (APP) Major John Geoffrey Appleyard, DSO, MC and Bar is the subject of many books detailing his bravery from Dunkirk to West Africa and cross channel raids on Occupied France and the Channel Islands. With the permission and support of his family, 700 copies of this book have been reprinted each with a numbered bookplate. The proceeds of the sale will help restore and maintain Geoffrey's Memorial in Bramley Baptist Churchyard. The Library and Thoresby Society each hold an original copy of this book, but they are now for reference only.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page19
167 BOYLSTON (Anthea) Auntie B’s war : the life of Leeds’ first female lord mayor [48 p.] TS003180 LDQ/920 (KIT) Jessie Beatrice Kitson was a formidable Victorian lady who was elected Lord Mayor of Leeds during the Second World War. She was well known locally as a Magistrate and Poor Law Guardian, in addition to other charitable work. This book is written by her great niece.
168 BURT (Steven) and UNSWORTH (Rachael) Leeds : cradle of innovation [284 p.] N042019 LDQ/942.819 (BUR) A beautifully illustrated book to demonstrate how Leeds has contributed to changing the world and to showcase innovative activities in the city today.
169 CHRYSTAL (Paul) Leeds [96 p.] N041995 LD/942.819 (CHR) An illustrative history of Leeds with photographs taken from the Historic England Archive.
170 EDWARDS (John), MARSH (David), and ALLEN (Christopher) Secret Leeds [96 p.] N042078 LD/942.819 (EDW) This book reveals and unravels scores of fascinating and little-known details about Leeds that will intrigue and inform the reader.
171 (LEEDS PALS VOLUNTEER RESEARCHERS) The Leeds Pals : a handbook for researchers [240 p.] TS003152 and TS003321 LD/940.412 (LEE) A new acquisition for the Thoresby Society which can also be borrowed by members of the Leeds Library.
172 PARKIN (Harry) Your city’s place-names : Leeds [122 p.] N042303 LD/942.819 (PAR) This scholarly book provides a sound survey of the place-names within the city of Leeds, defined by the modern metropolitan area. It is a dictionary of parish and district names, names of well-known buildings and features a selection of street names.
173 ROBBINS (Ruth) and WEBSTER (Chris) Through the pages : 250 years of the Leeds Library LDQ/027.6 [[8], 215 p.] N042544 (ROB) A book for bibliophiles and a worthy celebration of the Leeds Library’s milestone.
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
174 MANLEY (K.A.) Irish reading societies and circulating libraries founded before 1825 : knowledge and agreeable entertainment [248 p.] N042337 D/027 (MAN) "Reading is for the improvement of the understanding," wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It underpinned the spread of rural workers' reading societies in Ulster and urban middle-class private subscription libraries among the Anglo-Irish and educated Catholics, paralleled by the growth of commercial circulating libraries that concentrated on light fiction. This book explains the rise of these libraries in the context of their times.
175 ORLEAN (Susan) The library book [[12], 321 p.] N042345 D/027 (ORL) After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morning of 29 April 1986. Who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library, ultimately destroying more than 400,000 books. She uses this terrible event as a lens through which to tell the story of all libraries - their history, their meaning and their uncertain future as they adapt and redefine themselves in a digital world.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA
176 ADAMS (John Quincy) Diaries 1 : 1779-1821 [xiv, 729 p.] N042932 L/49.1 (ADA) The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 when he was twelve years old and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost seventy years later, it is an unrivalled record of historical events and personalities. 177 ADAMS (John Quincy) Diaries II ; 1821-1848 [xiv, 763 p.] N042933 L/49.1 (ADA) 178 ADAMS (John) Writings from the new nation 1784-1826 [xxvi, 905 p.] N042934 L/49.1 (ADA)
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page20
179 JOHNSON (James Weldon) Writings [x, 906 p.] N042935 L/49.1 (JOH) Includes – The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, Along this way, Essays and editorials, Selected poems. 180 KEROUAC (Jack) The unknown Kerouac : rare, unpublished and newly translated L/49.1 (KER) writings [xxxiv, 467 p.] N042936 181 KEROUAC (Jack) Kerouac [[6], 806 p.] N042931 L/49.1 (KER) Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur 182 LEONARD (Elmore) Four later novels [[10], 961 p.] N042521 L/49.1 (LEO) Get shorty, Rum punch, Out of sight, Tishomingo blues. 183 MACDONALD (Ross) Three novels of the early 1960s [[8], 784 p.] N042902 L/49.1 (MAC) The zebra-striped hearse, The chill, The far side of the dollar. 184 MURRAY (Albert) Collected novels and poems [[10], 977 p.] N042501 L/49.1 (MUR) 185 UPDIKE (John) Novels 1959-1965 [xii, 814 p.] N042937 L/49.1 (UPD) The poorhouse fair, Rabbit, run, The centaur, Of the farm.
LITERARY HISTORY & CRITICISM
186 BARKER (Ronnie) All I ever wrote: the complete works [734 p.] N042868 D/828 (BAR) A funny and engaging collection of Ronnie Barker’s writing.
187 BOOTHROYD (Basil) Accustomed as I am : the loneliness of the long-distance speaker or, all you’d never guess about public speaking [xviii, 138 p.] N042343 D/808.5 (BOO) Basil Boothroyd takes the reader on a comic journey through an era when the likes of the Women's Institute and the Rotary Club were still the social hubs of the nation and needed a steady stream of guest speakers to keep their members entertained. This is an intimate portrait and sometime surreal travelogue of his own grim and terrifying experiences on the public speakers' circuit in the wilds of Little England.
188 CHEYETTE (Bryan) Diasporas of the mind : Jewish and postcolonial writing and the nightmare of history [xiv, 306 p.] N042137 D/809 (CHE) Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War.
189 CHRISTINE (de Pizan) The book of the city of ladies [xl, 284 p.] N042106 D/843 (CHR) Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the city of ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, she has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.
190 DENNISON (Matthew) Eternal boy : the life of Kenneth Grahame [[10], 288 p.] N042924 D/823 (GRA) Matthew Dennison charts with consummate poignancy the life of the author of The wind in the willows, from bookish bachelorhood to the torment of an emotionally arid marriage touched by tragedy.
191 ELBOROUGH (Travis) Letters to change the world : from Pankhurst to Orwell [[8], 263 p.] N042519 D/808.86 (ELB) A collection of inspiring letters offering reminders from history that standing up for and voicing our personal and political beliefs is not merely a crucial right, but a duty, if we want to change the world.
192 FORSYTH (Frederick) The outsider : my life in intrigue [368 p.] N040363 D/823 (FOR) At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War. Before he turned thirty, he was in Africa controversially covering the bloodiest civil war in living memory. Three years later, broke and out of work, he wrote his game-changing first novel, The Day of the Jackal. He never looked back. This is his story.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page21
193 FOWLES (John) The tree [94 p.] N039689 D/823 (FOW) A unique insight into the writer which offers the key to a true understanding of the inspiration for his work.
194 FRANZEN (Jonathan) The end of the end of the earth : essays [[8], 230 p.] N042864 D/814 (FRA) A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Corrections.
195 GARNER (Alan) Where shall we run to? : a memoir [[12], 195 p.] N042346 D/823 (GAR) From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge.
196 GIFFORD (Terry) Ted Hughes in context [xxviii, 404 p.] N042347 D/821 (HUG) The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century is complimented by his growing reputation as a writer of letters, plays, literary criticism and translations. In addition, Hughes made important contributions to education, literary history, and debates about life writing. This book brings together thirty-four contributors who inform new readings of the works.
197 GRIFFITHS (Eric) If not critical [xii, 248 p.] N042313 D/809 (GRI) Eric Griffiths is Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. This is a collection of ten of his essays, originally delivered at the University and now published for the first time.
198 HAMMARSKJŐLD (Dag) Markings [[8], xxvi, 222 p.] N042331 D/839.7 (HAM) Universally known as a peacemaker and a former secretary of the United Nations, Dag Hammarksjőld concealed a remarkably intense inner life that he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. It has inspired thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964.
199 LARKIN (Philip) Letters home 1936-1977 [lxix, 612 p.] N042306 D/821 (LAR) This book gives access to the last major archive of Philip Larkin’s writing to remain unpublished, the letters to members of his family. This important edition is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.
200 LAYMON (Kiese) Heavy : an American memoir [xiv, 241 p.] N042359 D/813 (LAY) Kiese Laymon grew up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his career as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationships with his mother, grandmother, abuse, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing and ultimately gambling.
201 LEADER (Zachary) The life of Saul Bellow : love and strife 1965-2005 [xii, 769 p.] N042360 D/813 (BEL) The second volume of Zachary Leader’s definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.
202 LEINWAND (Theodore) The great William : writers reading Shakespeare [viii, 231 p.] N042089 D/822 (SHA) The first book to explore how seven renowned writers wrestled with Shakespeare in the moments they were reading his work. The writers are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg and Ted Hughes.
203 LEWIS-JONES (Huw) The writer’s map : an atlas of imaginary lands [256 p.] N042537 DQ/809 (LEW) An atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them. Philip Pullman recounts a map he drew for an early novel. Joanne Harris tells of her fascination with Norse maps of the universe. David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps. A book which is irresistible for lovers of maps, and also anyone who likes to get lost in a good book.
204 MENDELSSOHN (Michele) Making Oscar Wilde [viii, 360 p.] N042144 D/823 (WIL) The untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post Civil War America.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page22
205 MOORE (Lorrie) See what can be done : essays, criticism, and commentary [xx, 410 p.] D/818 (MOO) N042133 Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years, and her intelligent, witty and engaging essays are collected here for the first time.
206 O’BRIEN (Flann) The collected letters of Flann O’Brien [xxxviii, 605 p.] N042397 D/828 (OBR) An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, this book presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O’Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presented works to the reading public under a variety of pseudonyms.
207 PIKE (Judith E.) and MORRISON (Lucy) Charlotte Brontë from the beginnings: new essays from the Juvenilia to the major works [xiv, 197 p.] N043351 D/823 (BRO) Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves, as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë as an author whose career encompassed the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the developing nineteenth century's literary concerns as well as the growth of the writer's mind.
208 PLATH (Sylvia) The letters of Sylvia Plath : volume I 1940-1956 [xxxvi, 1388 p.] N042847 D/811 (PLA) This selection of correspondence marks the key moments of Plath’s adolescence, including childhood hobbies and high- school boyfriends, and her meeting and marrying Ted Hughes, including a trove of letters post-honeymoon.
209 PLATH (Sylvia) The letters of Sylvia Plath : volume 2 1956-1963 [lii, 1025 p.] N042939 D/811 (PLA) Sylvia Plath was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth century poetry. This volume of letters witnesses Plath and Ted Hughes becoming major influential writers, as it happened. 210 PROSE, Francine) Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them [[8], 275 p.] N040701 D/808 (PRO) In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured.
211 PULLMAN (Philip) Daemon voices : essays on storytelling [xvi, 480 p.] N042309 D/809 (PUL) In over thirty essays, written over twenty years, one of the world’s great storytellers meditates on storytelling.
212 RILKE (Rainer Maria) The dark interval : letters on loss, grief, and transformation [xxvi, 101 p.] N042320 D/831 (RIL) A profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death’s place in our lives. An indispensable resource for anyone searching for solace, comfort, and meaning in a time of grief.
213 SALMON (Christian) Storytelling : bewitching the modern mind [xii, 173 p.] N042095 D/808.5 (SAL) Christian Salmon makes a riveting case for how public relations (or more euphemistically, storytelling) has come to dominate statecraft and business in the West. He traces the political uses of narrative to the end of the 20th century.
214 SEDARIS (David) Calypso [viii, 261 p.] N042139 D/514 (SED) The long-awaited new collection of stories from David Sedaris who sets his powers of observation towards middle age and mortality.
215 SMITH (Rommi) Check hope remains : poems from Rommi Smith’s poetry workshop [xii, 120 p.] N039685 D/821 (SMI) In 2012 Rommi Smith, a member of the Leeds Library, started a poetry workshop to facilitate the nurturing and development of writers. This is a collection of those poems.
216 STURGIS (Matthew) Oscar : a life [xxii, 890 p.] N042342 D/828 (WIL) In the first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research to place the man firmly in the context of his times. Spring 2019 Booklist / Page23
217 TÓIBÍN (Colm) Mad, bad, dangerous to know : the fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce [[6], 186 p.] N042302 D/820 (TOI) A look at the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers and the surprising ways they surface in their work.
218 TRIPLOW (Nick) Getting Carter : Ted Lewis and the birth of Brit Noir [320 p.] N042515 D/823 (TRI) The classic film Get Carter was based on a book called Jack's Return Home, and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that novel. The influence of both book and film is strong to this day. But what of the man who wrote this seminal foundation work? Ted Lewis is one of the most important writers you've never heard of. This is a riveting account of a doomed genius.
219 WILSON (Jean Moorcroft) Robert Graves : from Great War poet to Good-bye to all that (1895-1929) [xiv, 461 p.] N040314 D/821 (GRA) The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems about war in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir Good-bye to All That. This book casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete.
220 YOUNG (Damon) The art of reading [[8], 167 p.] N042094 D/808 (YOU) A celebratory tribute to one of our most undervalued skills.
MEDICINE
221 ARNOLD (Catharine) Pandemic 18 : the story of the deadliest influenza in history [[10], 357 p.] N043263 D/614.5 (ARN) Published 100 years after the disease burned its way across the globe, this book also looks to our future and what we still need to learn to stop this happening again.
222 BLAKEMORE (Sarah-Jayne) Inventing ourselves: the secret life of the teenage brain [[10], 241 p.] N043370 D/612.8 (BLA) Drawing upon her cutting-edge research in her London laboratory, award-winning neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how our brains develop in adolescence and what scientific experiments have revealed about our behaviour and how we relate to each other and our environment in these years.
223 GEORGE (Rose) Nine pints : a journey through the mysterious, miraculous world of blood [[12], 372 p.] N042332 D/612.1 (GEO) Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here, award-winning investigative journalist and Leeds Library member Rose George, tells nine different stories about this sustaining, surprising liquid.
224 LE FANU (James) Too many pills : how too much medicine is endangering our health and what we can do about it [xvi, 303 p.] N042082 D/615 (LEF) Doctor and writer James Le Fanu examines how the progressive medicalisation of people’s lives now poses as a major threat to their health and wellbeing, responsible for a hidden epidemic of drug induced illnesses.
225 SHEPHERD (Richard) Unnatural causes [8], 392 p.] N042315 D/614 (SHE) As the country’s top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead. This is a record of an extraordinary life, a unique insight into a remarkable profession, and above all a powerful and reassuring testament to lives cut short.
226 SPINNEY (Laura) Pale rider: the Spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world [[12], 332 p.] N042493 D/614.5 (SPI) Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant as two world wars in shaping the modern world. It
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page24
disrupted, and often permanently altered, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts.
227 WATSON (Christie) The language of kindness : a nurse’s story [xii, 324 p.] N042112 D/610.73 (WAT) Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, this book is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness.
228 YALOM (Irvin D.) Becoming myself : a psychiatrist’s memoir [viii, 344 p.] N042943 D/616.89 (YAL) Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this, his long-awaited memoir he turns his therapeutic eye on himself, delving into the relationships that shaped him and the groundbreaking work that made him famous.
MILITARY ENGINEERING
229 BENNETT (Natasha) Chinese arms and armour [96 p.] N042333 D/623.4 (BEN) Natasha Bennett, curator at the Royal Armouries introduces the fascinating world of Chinese arms and armour in the collection.
MILITARY HISTORY
230 GUSS (David M.) The 21 escapes of LT Alastair Cram : a compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War [xvi, 432 p.] N042080 D/940.54 (CRA) The remarkable story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once, but over and over again. It is the story of courage in the face of terrible odds, and a testament to one man’s absolute determination to be free.
231 HOLLAND (James) Big Week : the biggest air battle of World War II [xxviii, 403 p.] N040302 D/940.54 (HOL) During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the main factories and production centres of the Luftwaffe and at the same time draw the German fighter force up into the air and into battle. Officially called Operation Argument, this monumental air assault very quickly became known simply as Big Week. This book follows the fortunes of pilots, aircrew and civilians from both sides.
232 HOLLAND (James) Dam busters: the race to smash the dams, 1943 [576 p.] N042509 D/940.54 (HOL) On the night of May 16th, 1943, nineteen specially-adapted Lancaster bombers took off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000-lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath. Their mission was to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland. From the outset, it was an almost impossible task. What followed was an incredible race against time which became one of the most successful and game-changing bombing raids ever.
233 HUTTON (Robert) Agent Jack : the true story of MI5’s secret Nazi hunter [xiv, 313 p.] N040697 D/940.54 (HUT) Drawing on newly declassified documents and private family archives, Agent Jack shatters the comfortable notion that Britain could never have succumbed to fascism, and celebrates - at last - the courage of individuals who protected the country they loved at great personal risk.
234 TATE (Tim) Hitler’s British traitors : the secret history of spies, saboteurs and Fifth D/940.54 (TAT) Columnists [xxiv, 454 p.] N042373 Drawing on hundreds of declassified official files, Tim Tate uncovers the largely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mostly in secret trials, of working to help Nazi Germany win the war, and several hundred British Fascists who were interned without trial on evidence that they were working on behalf of the enemy.
MILITARY SCIENCE
235 HOLLAND (James) RAF 100 : the official story 1918-2018 [224 p.] N040322 DQ/358.4 (HOL) This book celebrates and commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the Royal Air Force. Officially endorsed by the RAF, Spring 2019 Booklist / Page25
and with unique access to their historic archives, the world-renowned broadcaster James Holland uses photographs and documents to tell the story of the people, planes and missions as never before.
MUSIC
236 CHERNAIK (Judith) Schumann: the faces and the masks [xiv, 35 p.] N042489 D/780.92 (SCH) A groundbreaking account of Robert Schumann, a major composer and key figure of Romanticism, whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy since his early death in a mental asylum.
237 DALTREY (Roger) Thanks a lot Mr Kibblewhite : my story [[6], 346 p.] N042927 D/782.42 (DAL) Four years in the making, this is the first time Roger Daltrey has told his story. It is not just his own hilarious and frank account of more than 50 wild years on the road. It is the definitive story of The Who and of the sweeping revolution that was British rock 'n' roll.
238 DECURTIS (Anthony) Lou Reed : a life [viii, 520 p.] N042843 D/782.42 (REE) The essential biography of one of music’s most influential icons.
239 GLOVER (Jane) Handel in London : the making of a genius [xviii, 430 p.] N042323 D/780.92 (HAN) Jane Glover, who has conducted Handel’s work in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, draws on her profound understanding of music and musicians to tell Handel’s story.
240 KILDEA (Paul) Chopin’s piano : a journey through romanticism [xviii, 349 p.] N040366 D/780.92 (CHO) This book traces the history of Chopin’s 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them and the traditions they came to represent.
241 WALKER (Alan) Frederyk Chopin : a life and times [xxxii, 727 p.] N042917 D/780.92 (CHO) Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York and Washington D.C., Alan Walker’s book is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century.
NATURAL HISTORY
242 ATTENBOROUGH (David) Amazing rare things: the art of natural history in the age of D/508 (ATT) discovery [223 p.] N043201 An exploration of how artists portrayed the natural world during an age of burgeoning scientific discovery.
243 FLANNERY (Tim) Europe: a natural history [[10], 357 p.] N042491 D/508.4 (FLA) In this unprecedented evolutionary history, Tim Flannery shows how, for the past 100 million years, Europe has absorbed wave after wave of immigrant species. This book charts the history of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it.
NATURAL SCIENCES
244 HAWKING (Stephen) Brief answers to the big questions [xxiv, 232 p.] N042312 D/500 (HAW) The final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we as a planet, are heading next.
NAUTICAL HISTORY
245 PALIN (Michael) Erebus : the story of a ship [xviii, 334 p.] N042311 D/623.82 (PAL) HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of ground-breaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found. This is its story.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page26
PALEONTOLOGY
246 LESCAZE (Zoe) Paleoart : visions of the prehistoric past [292 p.] N043252 REFERENCE ONLY DF/567.9 (LES) In this unprecedented new book, writer Zoe Lescaze and artist Walton Ford present the astonishing history of paleoart from 1830 to 1990.
PERFORMING ARTS
247 CAINE (Michael) Blowing the bloody doors off and other lessons in life [[8], 294 p] N042922 D/791.43 (CAI) Over the six decades of his remarkable career, film legend Michael Caine has starred in some of the biggest movies of all time. Now in his 85th year, he looks back at an incredible life and career and everything it’s taught him.
248 CRIBBINS (Bernard) Bernard who? : 75 years of doing just about everything [vi, 297 p.] D/791.45 (CRI) N042896 The long-awaited memoirs from one of Britain’s greatest entertainers.
249 HOLLISS (Richard) Harryhausen : the movie posters [192 p.] N042330 DQ/791.43 (HAR) The iconic creations of special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen are beloved the world over. This book showcases a carefully selected collection of full-colour movie posters and promotional materials, taken from the archive of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation and private collectors from around the world.
250 HOLLISS (Richard) Harryhausen : the movie posters [192 p.] N042330 DQ/791.43 (HAR) The iconic creations of special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen are beloved the world over. This book showcases a carefully selected collection of full-colour movie posters and promotional materials, taken from the archive of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation and private collectors from around the world.
251 LONGWORTH (Karina) Seduction, sex, lies and stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood [xiv, 543 p.] N042507 D/791.43092 (LON) Karina Longworth draws upon her own unparalleled expertise and an unprecedented trove of archival sources, diaries, and documents to produce a landmark and gossipy work of Hollywood history.
252 PIPPIN (Robert B.) The philosophical Hitchcock : Vertigo and the anxieties of unknowingness [x, 132 p.] N042140 D/791.43 (PIP) A bold exploration of one of the most admired works of cinema.
253 POSEY (Parker) You’re on an airplane : a self-mythologizing memoir [[8], 310 p.] N042156 D/791.43 (POS) In her first book, actress and star of movies such as Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, You've Got Mail, The House of Yes, and so many more, Posey opens up about the art of acting, life on the set, and the realities of its accompanying fame.
254 SMITH (Ian Haydn) Selling the movie : the art of the film poster [288 p.] N042513 DQ/791.43 (SMI) An entertaining journey through cinema art and the business of attracting audiences to the box office.
PHILOSOPHY
255 APPIAH (Anthony) The lies that bind : rethinking identity : creed, country, colour, class, culture [xvi, 256 p.] N040347 D/126 (APP) A revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction, from one of our leading philosophers.
256 MIDGLEY (Mary) The owl of Minerva: a memoir [xii, 220 p.] N043249 D/192 (MID) One of the UK’s foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and a profound love of teaching.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page27
257 MORRIS (Errol) The ashtray (or the man who denied reality) [xvi, 207 p.] N040346 DQ/501 (MOR) Forty-five years ago, the inventor of the term “paradigm shift”, Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray in exasperation at a young graduate student in the philosophy of science, and soon afterwards ejected him from Princeton. His student grew up to become the documentary film-maker Errol Morris, who has harboured a grudge ever since. This book is his long-brewed revenge.
258 PRIDEAUX (Sue) I am dynamite! : a life of Friedrich Nietzsche [xii, 444 p.] N042307 D/193 (NIE) In this myth shattering book, Sue Prideaux brings readers into the world of a brilliant, eccentric and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events that shaped his life and work.
PHOTOGRAPHY
259 LEIBOVITZ (Annie) Annie Leibovitz : the early years, 1970-1983 [unpaged] N042959 DQ/779.092 (LEI) For more than half a century, Annie Leibovitz has been taking culture-defining photographs. This is a comprehensive presentation of her earliest work which formed an exhibition that opened in France in 2017.
PHYSICS
260 KLEIN (Stefan) On the edge of infinity : uncovering the visible world’s scientific beauty D/530 (KLE) [239 p.] N042099 Award winning, bestselling German science author Stefan Klein transforms a simple object or everyday event into a key to understanding the most complex ideas and theories in 21st century physics.
261 MIODOWNIK (Mark) Liquid : the delightful and dangerous substances that flow through D/530.4 (MIO) our lives [xii, 276 p.] N042518 This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tour of the world of the droplets, heartbeats and ocean waves that we come across every day. Structured around a plane journey which sees encounters with substances from water and glue to coffee and wine, he shows how these liquids can bring death and destruction as well as wonder and fascination.
PLANTS
262 STAFFORD (Fiona) The brief life of flowers [viii, 232 p.] N042950 D/582.13 (STA) This beautifully written book is enchanting and intriguing, weaving together art, science, history and horticulture to offer a fresh perspective on the world around us. It reveals how the most ordinary of flowers have extraordinary stories to tell.
POETRY
263 ACRE (Amy) and WILD HALL (Jake) The dizziness of freedom [233 p.] N042385 D/821 (ACR) In this anthology, fifty of contemporary poetry’s most exciting voices speak out about mental health.
264 ARMITAGE (Simon) Still : a poetic response to photographs of the Somme DQ/821 (ARM) Battlefield [74 p.] N042955 A series of poems which brings a fresh and haunting perspective both to the Battle of the Somme and the terrain it scarred.
265 CAMPBELL (Nancy) Disko Bay [64 p.] N042157 D/821 (CAM) The poems in Nancy Campbell’s first collection transport the reader to the frozen shores of Greenland and relate the struggle for existence in the harsh polar environment.
266 DUFFY (Carol Ann) Sincerity [x, 75 p.] N042355 D/821 (DUF) This collection of poems is a fitting culmination of her time as Poet Laureate.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page28
267 JAMES (Clive) Injury time [xiv, 97 p.] N042338 D/821 (JAM) A new collection of deeply moving and life-affirming poems from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.
268 JAMES (Clive) The river in the sky [[6], 122 p.] N040662 D/821 (JAM) Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In this autobiographical epic we find him in ill health but high spirits as he shares his passions with enormous generosity, making brilliant and original connections, and fearlessly tackling the biggest questions, the meaning of life and how to live it.
269 NASH (James) A bench for Billie Holiday : 70 sonnets [85 p.] N042529 D/821 (NAS) James Nash tenderly retraces seventy years of life through seventy new sonnets.
270 PESSOA (Fernando) A little larger than the entire universe: selected poems [xliv, 436p.] D/869 (PES) Writing obsessively in French, English and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) left a remarkable body of work. This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by him available in English.
271 RAMLOCHAN (Shivanee) Everyone knows I am a haunting [71 p.] N042523 D/821 (RAM) A collection of poems shortlisted for the Felix Dennis prize in 2018.
272 RIMBAUD (Arthur) The drunken sailor : the life of the poet Arthur Rimbaud in his own DQ.841 (RIM) words [unpaged] N042960 This book traces the life of Arthur Rimbaud, poet, surrealist, libertine and gun-runner. In dazzling artwork, Nick Hayes follows him from his youth in the Ardennes to the poetry salons of Paris.
273 SMITH (Ken) Collected poems [647 p.] N043346 D/821 (SMI) Ken Smith was a major voice in world poetry, with his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. This collection brings together poetry from four decades.
274 SMITH (Tracy K.) Wade in the water [[8], 82 p.] N042143 D/811 (SMI) A collection of poems from the poet laureate of the United States.
275 SULLIVAN (Hannah) Three poems [[6], 73 p.] N043217 D/821 (SUL) Winner of the 2018 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
276 ANDREW (Christopher) The secret world : a history of intelligence [xii, 948 p.] N040362 D/327.12 (AND) A gripping account of spies, secrets and espionage through the centuries.
277 CORMAC (Rory) Disrupt and deny : spies, special forces, and the secret pursuit of D/327.12 (COR) British foreign policy [xii, 394 p.] N042131 The remarkable untold story of UK covert action since the end of World War II.
278 HARDMAN (Isabel) Why we get the wrong politicians [xxviii, 307 p.] N042369 D/324.2 (HAR) Politicians are consistently voted the least trusted professional group by the UK public. They've recently become embroiled in scandals concerning sexual harassment and expenses. Every year, they introduce new legislation that doesn't do what it sets out to achieve, but with some notable exceptions, they are decent, hard-working people. In this searching examination of our political class, award-winning journalist Isabel Hardman tries to square this circle. She lifts the lid on the strange world of Westminster and asks why we end up with representatives with whom we are so unhappy.
279 MACINTYRE (Ben) The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold D/327.127 (MAC) War [xii, 366 p.] N040681 Spring 2019 Booklist / Page29
Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of betrayal, duplicity and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War for ever.
280 ROBINSON (Jane) Hearts and minds : the untold story of the great pilgrimage and how D/324.6 (ROB) women won the vote [xxii, 374 p.] N042091 Set against the colourful background of the entire campaign for women to win the vote, Hearts and Minds tells the remarkable and inspiring story of the suffragists' march on London.
281 ROGERS (Robert) and WALTERS (Rhodri) How parliament works [xiv, 424 p.] N042101 D/328.41 (ROG) Now in its seventh edition, this book gives a straightforward and readable analysis of one of the country’s most complex and often misunderstood institutions.
282 RUNCIMAN (David) How democracy ends [[6], 249 p.] N042086 D/321.8 (RUN) David Runciman, one of the leading political scientists surveys the political landscape of the West and show us how to spot the signs of trouble ahead.
POLITICS
283 EATWELL (Roger) and GOODWIN (Matthew) National populism : the revolt against D/320.5 (EAT) liberal democracy [xxxii, 344 p.] N042911 A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time, the rise of national populism.
284 HANEBRINK (Paul) A spectre haunting Europe : the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism D/320.53 (HAN) [[8], 353 p.] N042948 The first comprehensive account of the evolution and exploitation of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth, from its origins to the present day.
285 SLOANE (Nan) The women in the room : Labour’s forgotten history [xx, 252 p.] N042522 D/324.241 (SLO) In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. This became the Labour Representation Committee and six years later it changed its name to the Labour Party. No women took part in that first meeting, but several watched from the public gallery. Throughout Labour's history, women were present in the room, but they were not always recorded or remembered. This book tells their story.
PSYCHOLOGY
286 EGER (Edith) The choice [[12], 367 p.] N042502 D/150.92 (EGE) In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Separated from her parents on arrival, she endures unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. When the camp is finally liberated, she is pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. The horrors of the Holocaust didn't break her, they helped her learn to live again with a life-affirming strength and a truly remarkable resilience.
287 HAIG (Matt) Notes on a nervous planet [[8], 310 p.] N042158 D/158 (HAI) How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? How do we stay human in a technological world? How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious? After years of experiencing anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. This is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human and whole in the twenty-first century.
288 JOHNSON (Steven) Farsighted: how we make the decisions that matter the most D/153.8 (JOH) [[12], 244 p.] N043229 A ground-breaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions.
289 PLOMIN (Robert) Blueprint : how DNA makes us who we are [xiv, 266 p.] N042506 D/155.7 (PLO) In Blueprint, Robert Plomin, a pioneer in the field of behavioural genetics, draws on a lifetime's worth of research to make the case that DNA is the most important factor shaping who we are. Spring 2019 Booklist / Page30
290 POLLAN (Michael) How to change your mind : the new science of psychedelics D/154.4 (POL) [xii, 465 p.] N042335 Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? Michael Pollan takes us on a journey to the frontiers of the human mind. He has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs.
291 STORR (Will) Selfie : how the West became so self-obsessed and what it’s doing to us D/155.2 (STO) [[12], 403 p.] N042111 We live in the age of the individual. We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our culture’s image of the perfect self. But this model of the perfect self can be extremely dangerous. People are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy. Unprecedented social pressure is leading to increases in depression and suicide. Where does this ideal come from? Why is it so powerful? Is there any way to break its spell? To answer these questions, Will Storr takes us on a journey across continents and centuries.
292 WALKER (Susannah) The life of stuff: a memoir about the mess we leave behind D/155.9 (WAL) [x, 373 p.] N042510 Only after her mother’s death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, she has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, in search of a woman she'd never really known or understood in life. This is her last chance to piece together her mother’s story and make sense of their troubled relationship. What emerges from the mess of scattered papers, discarded photographs and an extraordinary amount of stuff is the history of a sad and fractured family, haunted by dead children, divorce and alcohol.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
293 CHANDLER (Mike) And nothing but the truth [xviii, 206 p.] N042324 D/35.3 (CHA) An honest account of life in an inner-city Yorkshire police force in the 1960s.
REFERENCE
294 COOK (Christopher) Pears’ cyclopaedia 2017-2018 [various pagings] N041924 D/032 (PEA) REFERENCE ONLY Originally published in 1897, this is the final edition of this quintessentially British almanac to be published.
295 RHS plant finder 2018 [960 p.] N043254 REFERENCE ONLY D/508.3 (RHS)
296 Whitaker’s 2019 : an almanack [1184 p.] N043251 REFERENCE ONLY D/032 (WHI)
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
297 DRISCOLL (Clive) In pursuit of the truth : my life cracking the Met’s most notorious D/363.2 (DRI) cases [xii, 385 p.] N042155 Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll reveals the tactics used to bring down some of the most notorious criminals while giving a brutally honest insight into modern day policing.
298 OPPERMAN (Averil Douglas) While it is yet day : the story of Elizabeth Fry [[12], 336 p.] D/365.92 (FRY) N042100 Elizabeth Fry was born in 1780 into a wealthy merchant family in Norwich. Her greatest achievement was in prison reform but she also formalised nursing with her Fry’s Nurses. This is the remarkable story of the woman who has graced our £5 notes for many years.
299 TODD (Janet) Radiation diaries : cancer, memory and fragments of a life in words D/362.196 (TOD) [[8], 168 p.] N042105 Spring 2019 Booklist / Page31
An exquisitely written diary of radiation treatment that delves into literature, ageing, memory and an unquiet life.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
300 ARNOLD (Dana) Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness [xii, 205 p.] D/305.8 (ARN) N043348 An examination of the British imperial and colonial national identities within their political and social contexts.
301 CHABON (Michael) Pops : fatherhood in pieces [[14], 129 p.] N040386 D/306.874 (CHA) A collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.
302 COX (Trevor) Now you’re talking: human conversation from the Neanderthals to D/302.2 (COX) artificial intelligence [[8], 312 p.] N043324 An exploration of the full range of our voice – how we speak and how we sing, how our vocal anatomy works, what happens when things go wrong, and how technology enables us to imitate and manipulate the human voice. Beginning with the Neanderthals, this book takes us all the way to the digital age.
303 FEDERICI (Silvia) Caliban and the witch [286 p.] N042102 D/305.4 (FED) The author demonstrates the importance of the role of witch hunts in the emergence of capitalism.
304 LANIER (Jaron) Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now D/302.23 (LAN) [x, 146 p.] N042085 Jaron Lanier is the wold famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first raised the alarm on the dangers of social media. Here he offers ten simple arguments for liberating yourself from its addictive hold.
305 McGREAL (Chris) American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts [xvi, 316.] D/362.29 (MCG) N042848 A devastating portrait of America’s opioid painkiller epidemic, the deadliest drug crisis in US history.
306 MILLER (Gina) Rise : life lessons in speaking out, standing tall and leading the way D/303.48 (MIL) [xviii, 206 p.] N040360 Gina Miller came to prominence when she brought one of the most significant constitutional cases ever to be heard in the British Supreme Court. She successfully challenged the UK government's authority to trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval. She became the target of not just racist and sexist verbal abuse, but physical threats to herself and her family. This is an extraordinary account of what it means to stand up for justice, and for yourself, no matter the cost.
307 O’BRIEN (James) How to be right … in a world gone wrong [[10], 224 p.] N043230 D/303.3 (OBR) Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists and immigrants. But what makes James’s daily LBC show such essential listening is the careful way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning. In this bestselling book he provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions.
308 PERRY (Grayson) The descent of man [[10], 145 p.] N043214 D/305.31 (PER) In this funny and necessary book, Grayson Perry looks at men and asks what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone?
309 RAMAMURTHY (Anandi) Black star : Britain’s Asian youth movements [x, 226 p.] D/305.235 (RAM) N042951 A vibrant history of the anti-racist campaigns of the British Asian youth movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
310 REES (Martin) On the future : prospects for humanity [x, 256 p.] N042339 D/303.48 (REE) A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees. Spring 2019 Booklist / Page32
311 RIDDELL (Fern) Death in ten minutes : Kitty Marion : activist, arsonist, suffragette D/305.42 (RID) [x, 341 p.] N042305 ‘Votes for women. Death in ten minutes’ was the message painted on the side of a canister, containing explosive material and a lit wick, left at Smeaton’s Tower on Plymouth Hoe. It was a bomb, part of a nationwide campaign of attacks, as women fought for the vote using any means necessary. This is the story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion told by historian Fern Riddell.
312 RODGERS (Nigel) The Dandy : peacock or enigma [256 p.] N042844 The ‘Dandy’ is not just an elaborately well-dressed man, nor is he an exclusively English phenomenon. This book captures the lives of the Dandies.
313 SHUKLA (Nikesh) The good immigrant [[16], 254 p.] N042108 D/305.9 (SHU) Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you – however many generations you’ve been here – but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.
314 SMITH (Martin) Signs of my times : a life with deaf people [xiv, 165 p.] N042093 D/305.9 (SMI) In the summer of 1957, at the end of his service in the Royal Navy, Martin Smith's local labour exchange in Exeter offered him two interviews. One was for a local insurance post, the other for a trainee welfare officer post in Leeds in the deaf and dumb department of the local Institute for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb. He chose Leeds and sixty years on he reflects on his lifelong obsession with the Leeds signing community. This is a frank autobiography interwoven with the long efforts to change attitudes.
315 SUSSKIND (Jamie) Future politics: living together in a world transformed by tech [xvi, 516 p.] N043327 D/303.48 (SUS) Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time - how will digital technology transform politics and society?
316 WEBSTER (Wendy) Mixing it : diversity in World War Two in Britain [xii, 317 p.] N042913 D/305.8 (WEB) During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more diverse than it had ever been before. This is the first book to look at the big picture of large-scale movements to Britain and the rich variety of relations between different groups.
SPORT & GAMES
317 BEARD (Peter H.) The end of the game : the last word from paradise [292 p.] N042861 DQ/799.2 BEA Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of this book. It combines his salient text and remarkable photographs to document the overpopulation and starvation of tens of thousands of elephants, rhinos, and hippos in Kenya's Tsavo lowlands and Uganda parklands in the 1960s and '70s. Researched and compiled over two decades, Beard's work is a powerful and poignant testimony to the damage done by human intervention in Africa.
318 BREARLEY (Mike) On cricket [xiv, 418 p.] N042536 D/796.358 (BRE) In this collection of sparkling essays, Brearley reflects on the game he has come to know so well. Insightful and humorous, it is an intelligent exposition of the game’s idiosyncratic culture and its enduring appeal.
319 DYSON (Paul) Who’s who of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club [256 p.] N042119 D/796.358 (DYS) Profiles of all 670 men who have represented the Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
320 HILL (Stephen) and PHILLIPS (Barry) Somerset cricketers 1964-1970 [383 p.] N042103 D/796.358 (HIL) An outline of the lives of each man who has played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1964 and 1970.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page33
321 HILMES (Oliver) Berlin 1936 : sixteen days in August [[8], 312 p.] N042084 D/796.48 (HIL) A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics told through the voices and stories of those who were there.
322 LONCRAINE (Rebecca) Skybound : a journey in flight [[10], 310 p.] N042533 D/797.5 (LON) In her mid-thirties Rebecca Loncraine was diagnosed with breast cancer. After months of gruelling treatment, she flew in a glider for the first time. Soaring 3,000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she fell in love and gliding showed her a way to learn to live again. Taking in the history of unpowered flight, and with extraordinary descriptions of flying in some of the world’s most dangerous and dramatic locations, this is a nature memoir with a unique perspective. This is a book for anyone who has ever looked up and wanted to take flight.
323 PRINGLE (Derek) Pushing the boundaries: cricket in the eighties: playing home and D/796.358 (PRI) away [xii, 400 p.] N043206 The Eighties was a colourful period in English cricket. As a member of the most successful team in Essex's history, Derek Pringle was lucky enough to be in the thick of it. Now, with the perspective of more than twenty years as a journalist, he lays bare the realities of life as a professional cricketer in a decade when the game was dominated by a cast of unforgettable characters, whose exploits became front-page news.
324 WILDE (Simon) England : the biography : the story of English cricket 1877-2018 N042503 D/796.358 (WIL) The most comprehensive account of the England cricket team that has ever been published, taking the reader into the heart of the action and the team dynamics that have helped shape their success, or otherwise.
THEOLOGY, RELIGION
325 BUTLER-GALLIE (Fergus) A field guide to the English clergy : a compendium of diverse D/283.092 (BUT) Eccentrics, pirates, prelates and adventurers all Anglican, some even practising [[14], 175 p.] N042534 A humorous collection of some of the oddball clergy who have served the Church over the centuries.
326 Crockford’s clerical directory 2018-2019 [xxiv, 1341 p.] N043261 D/283 (CRO) REFERENCE ONLY
327 HAAG (Michael) The quest for Mary Magdalene [xii, 323 p.] N042920 D/270 (MAR) This book follows Mary Magdalene through the centuries, explores how she has been reinterpreted for every age, and examines what she herself reveals about woman and man and the divine.
328 MACGREGOR (Neil) Living with the Gods : on beliefs and peoples [xxiv, 488 p.] D/290 (MAC) N042316 A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years.
329 O’MARA (Veronica) Quakers and the First World War: conscience and courage from a LD/289.6 (OMA) Leeds perspective [x, 110 p.] N043371 This book provides personal accounts of how various individuals and families, the ancestors of some present-day Leeds Quakers, reacted with conscience and courage in turbulent times. It also shows how the ongoing work for peace is part of a continuing story.
330 SPENCER (Robert) The history of Jihad : from Muhammad to Isis [447 p.] N042912 D/297.8 (SPE) This book shows that jihad warfare has been a constant of Islam from its very beginnings, and present-day jihad terrorism proceeds along exactly the same ideological and theological foundations as did the great Islamic warrior states and jihad commanders of the past. It is the first one-volume history of jihad in the English language.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page34
TOPOGRAPHY & LOCAL HISTORY
331 ARMITAGE (Simon) Stanza stones [112 p.] N040359 D/914.28 (ARM) The Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region. Simon Armitage was born and raised here, in the village of Marsden, and in 2012 he was commissioned through the Ilkley Literature Festival to write site-specific poetry. He composed six new poems on his Pennine walks and, with the help of local expert Tom Lonsdale and letter- carver Pip Hall, found extraordinary, secluded sites and saw his words carved into stone. This book is a record of that journey.
332 HOULTON (Jane) An almshouse for Linton : Richard Fountaine’s legacy [130 p.] D/942.841 (HOU) N042097 The engaging story of a remarkable building – a hospital almshouse of English Baroque style in the Dales village of
Linton-in-Craven and the story of its benefactor, Richard Fountaine.
333 LOFTHOUSE (Irene) Stories from stone : an anthology inspired by Undercliffe cemetery D/942.817 (LOF) [[10], 90 p.] N040358 Dip into these pages to explore the Grade II listed Undercliffe cemetery through the imagination of the Stories from Stone writers group.
334 REDMONDS (George) A vocabulary of wood, wood-workers and wood management in D/942.81 (RED) Yorkshire [x, 150 p.] N042862 In medieval times woodland was an important resource for all communities and industries, so it is frequently found mentioned in historical documents such as charters, but often with a vocabulary that is now difficult to understand. This dictionary provides an extremely useful guide to such terms, which will be welcomed by local and landscape historians in both Yorkshire and the country as a whole (most of the terms are not confined to Yorkshire).
335 RENTZENBRINK (Cathy) and HENNISON (Victoria) Yorkshire [[6], 138 p.] N040367 D/942.839 (REN) This book contains two unique memoirs about Yorkshire. Cathy Rentzenbrink gives a deeply moving account of returning to Snaith, where her brother was knocked down by a car twenty years earlier and Victoria Hennison traces a powerful journey from a carefree childhood to surviving dark periods of depression in the village of Holme-upon-Spalding Moor.
336 STERNBERG (Claudia) and STOWE (David) Pleasure, privilege, privations : Lofthouse Park LD/942.815 near Wakefield, 1908-1922 [xxxii, 300 p.] TS003188 (STE) In 1914, a Yorkshire amusement park on the tram route between Leeds and Wakefield was converted into an internment camp for civilians. This book combines military and family history research and presents the first encompassing coverage of the history of Lofthouse Park in the early decades of the twentieth century. This is a new acquisition for the Thoresby Society.
TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY
337 ATKINS (William) The immeasurable world : journeys in desert places [[8] 408 p.] D/910.91 (ATK) N042149 One third of the earth's land surface is desert, much of it desolate and inhospitable. What is it about this harsh environment that has captivated humankind throughout history? William Atkins has travelled to five continents over three years, visiting deserts both iconic and little-known. Along the way, he illuminates the people, history, topography, and symbolism of these remarkable but often troubled places.
338 CLARE (Horatio) Something of his art : walking to Lübeck with J.S. Bach [94p.] N042526 D/914.3 (CLA) During the winter of 1705, the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long walk from Arnstadt to Lübeck, a distance of more than 250 miles. It was a journey that became pivotal in the life of the great composer. Three centuries on, Horatio Clare retraces the journey and discovers that walking in Bach’s footsteps evokes a deep sense of the landscape, light and wildlife of early eighteenth- century Germany.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page35
339 COATES (Ben) The Rhine : following Europe’s greatest river from Amsterdam to the D/914.3 (COA) Alps [xii, 291 p.] N042350 For five years, Ben Coates lived alongside a major channel of the river in Rotterdam, crossing it daily, swimming and kayaking in its tributaries. He sets out to follow the river all the way from its mouth to its source, exploring the impact that it has had on European culture and history, and how it has shaped the people who live beside it.
340 COCKIN (T.C.H.) The parish atlas of England : an atlas of English parish boundaries DQ/912.42 (COC) [898 p.] N043246 REFERENCE ONLY An atlas for the general user, local historians and genealogists. Using desktop publishing and high capacity memory PCs, the 19th Century Ordnance Survey 6-Inch County series maps have been traced over at 16.8mm (0.6619 inch) to 1 mile with readable text, combined with information from tithe maps and other sources. This is seven-year, solo, labour of love project by T.C.H. Cockin and contains all 39 counties of England.
341 JOHNSON (Alex) Book towns : forty-five paradises of the printed word [192 p.] N042392 D/910.2 (JOH) The first directory of the best book towns combining practical travel advice and illuminating histories. A must read for literature lovers.
342 MOORE (Tim) Another fine mess : across Trumpland in a Ford Model T [[6], 362 p.] D/917 (MOO) N042348 Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original 1924 Ford Model T. With his trademark blend of slapstick humour, he invites us on an unforgettable road trip.
343 MORRIS (Roz) Not quite lost : travels without a sense of direction [185 p.] N042500 D/910.4 (MOR) Roz Morris celebrates the hidden dramas in the apparently ordinary. Her childhood home, with a giant star-gazing telescope on the horizon and a garden path that disappears under next door's house. A tour guide in Glastonbury who is having a real-life romance with a character from Arthurian legend. A unit on a suburban business park where people are preparing to deep-freeze each other when they die. Wry, romantic, amused and wonder-struck, it is an ode to the quiet places you never realised might tell you a tale.
344 MURPHY (Dervla) A place apart : Northern Ireland in the 1970s [317 p.] N042496 D/914.16 (MUR) At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy bicycled to Northern Ireland to try to understand the situation by speaking to people on either side of the divide. She also sought to interrogate her own opinions and emotions.
345 RAJESH (Monisha) Around the world in 80 trains: a 45,000-mile adventure [[8], 321 p.] D/910.41 (MON) N043213 Captured with wit and warmth, energy and zest, this is one woman's attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty eventful train journeys
346 THORPE (Adam) Notes from the Cėvennes : half a lifetime in provincial France D/914.4 (THO) [[12], 244 p.] N042146 Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton. Part celebration of both rustic and urban France, part memoir, Thorpe's humorous and precise prose shows a wonderful stylist at work.
The image on the front cover is taken from Hans Sloane’s A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the natural history : 2 vols. 1707 and 1725 A232.5
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page36
BOOKLIST 191 FICTION CRIME
347 DEAN (Will) Dark pines [339 p.] F022985 When two bodies are found deep in a forest near a small Swedish town, deaf reporter Tuva Moodyson feels that this is the story that will make her career. Tuva uncovers a web of secrets relating to an unsolved murder from twenty years ago. The first in a new series.
348 HAMMER (Chris) Scrublands [487 p.] F023096 The debut novel from this Australian journalist. On the first anniversary of a multiple murder committed by a priest in the Australian scrublands, a journalist struggles to write his feature when the locals give different accounts of what happened. Then two backpackers are found dead nearby and the townsfolk close ranks against media investigation.
349 HANNAH (Sophie) The narrow bed [401 p.] F022869 A serial killer who murders pairs of friends gives each victim a small white book before he kills them. Kim has been given one of these books by a stranger at one of her stand-up comedy gigs, but she explains to the police that she has no friends so why would she be a target? At least the baffled detectives have a lead, while she’s still alive…
350 HARPER (Ali) The disappeared [333 p.] F023067 When Susan Wilkins walks into No Stone Unturned, Leeds’ newest private detective agency, owners Lee and Jo are thrilled. Their first client is the kind of person they always hoped to help – a kind woman desperately worried about her
son. The case seems simple, but when Lee and Jo dig deeper it quickly becomes clear that they are both in immediate danger. By a Leeds Library member.
351 HOLMÉN (Martin) Clinch [336 p.] F023094 Harry Kvist was once a boxer but now spends his days drinking and his nights as an enforcer on the streets of Stockholm. One night, he is sent to collect from a debtor named Zetterberg. When the man is found dead shortly afterwards, all eyes look to Kvist, who must struggle to clear his name in the eyes of the city’s criminal underworld. The first in a new series.
352 PELECANOS (George) The man who came uptown [265 p.] F022879 Phil Ornzian is a private investigator moonlighting as a criminal. He’s not exactly proud of it, but in Washington D.C. you
must change to survive. From the creator of the HBO series The Wire.
353 QUINN (Anthony J.) The listeners [309 p.] F023074 Not long after the fast-tracking course at Edinburgh’s police college, Detective Sergeant Carla Herron is about to be tested to breaking point. She has been called to interview a patient at Deepwell Psychiatric Hospital; a patient who has confessed
to murdering one of the hospital’s psychotherapists. The confession is vividly detailed, but for a man locked in a secure ward and under 24-hour surveillance, it is also utterly impossible. The first in a new series.
354 SCOTT (Manda) A treachery of spies [462 p.] F022907 An elderly woman of striking beauty is found dead in Orléans. She was murdered in a very specific way: the way that was used to kill traitors to the Resistance during WWII. To solve this crime, Inspector Inés Picaut’s investigation must go right back to the 1940s.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page37
355 TAYLOR (June) Keep your friends close [306 p.] F023114 When Karin is taken on a romantic break by her loving partner Aaron, she is expecting him to propose. Unfortunately,
Karin’s expectations couldn’t be further from the truth. Another novel from a Leeds Library member.
GENERAL
356 BECHDEL (Alison) Are you my mother? [290 p.] F022873 Alison Bechdel uses the graphic novel as a medium to explore her complex relationship with her mother. A voracious reader and passionate amateur actor, her mother is a woman whose creative aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood and fuelled her creative life as an adult.
357 GREATHEAD (Kate) Laura and Emma [338 p.] F023077 Laura is from the upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. After a one- night stand with a man who promptly vanishes, she becomes pregnant. Despite her progressive values, Laura raises her daughter Emma in the same blue-blooded world of private schools and summer houses.
358 MANGAN (Christine) Tangerine [390 p.] F022914 Alice Shipley and Lucy Mason were good friends until an horrific accident tore them apart and they have not spoken for over a year. Alice has not adjusted to life with her new husband in Morocco, when she runs into Lucy in Tangier. More
independent and fearless, Lucy helps Alice explore her new home, but soon Alice suffers the familiar feeling of being controlled and stifled by Lucy. Then Alice’s husband goes missing and Alice begins to question everything around her.
359 HENRY (Veronica) Christmas at the beach hut [366 p.] F022906 Lizzy Kingham loves Christmas, but this year she is feeling unloved and underappreciated by her family. The present- buying and decorating have all been left to her, so Lizzy decides to run away and leave her family to have their own Christmas. Lizzy heads to her favourite place: a beach hut on the golden sands of Everdene. Although trying to escape from Christmas, the spirit of the holiday gets under Lizzy’s skin, and soon the fairy lights are twinkling, and the scent of mulled wine mingles with the sea air.
360 LODATO (Elis) An unremarkable body [271 p.] F022956 When Katherine is found dead at the foot of the stairs, it becomes a mystery that consumes her daughter, Laura. The medical examiner’s report, in which precious parts of Katherine’s body are weighed and categorised, motivates Laura to write her own version of events.
361 MURATA (Sayaka) Convenience store woman [163 p.] F022915 Keiko is 36 years old and has been working in the same supermarket for 18 years. She's never had a boyfriend, and her family and friends wish she'd get a proper job and get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...
362 PEET (Mal) Mr Godley’s Phantom [230 p.] F023113 Martin Heath has returned traumatised from the Second World War so is glad to find a position as chauffeur to old Mr. Godley who lives on Dartmoor, far from the horrors of soldiering. However, over the next few years as Martin tries to recover, he finds that remote areas have their own peculiarities to unsettle the most practical mind.
363 PHILLIPS (Caryl) The final passage [205 p.] F022960 Leila is a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950’s. Dissatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas. Her passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page38
364 SLOAN (Robin) Ajax Penumbra 1969 [99 p.] F022917 San Francisco, 1969. The summer of drugs, music and a new age dawning. A young earnest Ajax Penumbra has been given his first assignment as a Junior Acquisitions Officer – to find the single surviving copy of Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune to anyone who has owned it. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles upon a 24-hour bookstore and the possibilities before him expand exponentially. With the help of his friend’s homemade computer, an ancient map, and the vast shelves of the 24-hour bookstore, Ajax Penumbra might just find what he’s seeking…
365 SZALAY (David) London and the south-east [340 p.] F023098 Paul Rainey is an ad salesman. Through a fog of psychoactive substances, he dimly perceives his dissatisfaction with his existence – professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. If only there was something he could do about it. A meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, seems to offer Paul that “something”.
366 SZALAY (David) Spring [263 p.] F023112 Set in 2006 before the financial crisis, this is a story of a modern relationship begun in London by two people at crossroads in their lives. James is a lonely entrepreneur, Katherine a paparazzo with a failing marriage. Both are taking a leap into the unknown in search of something meaningful in a shallow world.
367 TITCHMARSH (Alan) Mr Gandy’s grand tour [314 p.] F023115 Timothy Gandy is going to fulfil an ambition he has had for most of his life; to set off on a Grand Tour. He anticipates high
art, culture and pleasant weather.
368 TOKARCZUK (Olga) Drive your plow over the bones of the dead [268 p.] F022810 In a remote Polish village, elderly eccentric Janina Duszejko, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She prefers the company of animals to people, believes in the stars, and is fond of the poetry of William Blake.
When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. From the Man Booker International prize-winner, this is a novel that caused political uproar in Tokarczuk's native Poland.
369 VOINOVICH (Vladimir) Monumental propaganda [361 p.] F022990 Aglaya Stepanova Revkina is a true believer in Stalin. After his death, Aglaya finds herself out of touch with the new political era and thinks the Khrushchev regime too open. When the statue of Stalin is taken down from the town centre, Aglaya takes it home with her and continues her worship of the dead dictator.
HISTORICAL
370 FREEMAN (Anna) Five days of fog [355 p.] F022968 As the great smog falls over London in 1952, Florrie Palmer has a choice to make. Will she stay with the Cutters, a gang of female criminals who have terrorized London for years, or leave the criminal life behind to make a safer but duller life with the man she loves?
371 HARRISON (Melissa) All among the barley [337 p.] F023120 Edie is a farmer’s daughter growing up on the farm in Suffolk between the wars and on the brink of womanhood. Constance FitzAllen is a journalist from London documenting the traditional ways of rural life as they begin to change, but there is more to her research than meets the eye and Edie finds herself drawn into a dangerous situation.
372 ROY (Anuradha) All the lives we never lived [335 p.] F023083 The story of Myshkin and his mother Gayatri, driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist’s instinct for freedom. In India the fight for a different kind of freedom is filling the air as the fight against British rule reaches a critical turn. At this point of political crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives. Spring 2019 Booklist / Page39
373 SACKVILLE (Amy) Painter to the King [322 p.] F023119 Diego Velázquez was court painter to King Philip IV of Spain for 38 years. Through the eyes of the young artist, we see the workings of seventeenth-century palace life and the progression of the King’s reign as documented in art and their fictional relationship.
374 THOMSON (Rupert) Never anyone but you [344 p.] F023078 Suzanne, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie. The two young women embark on a clandestine love affair. Feeling stifled by a provincial and patriarchal society, they move to Paris and reinvent themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Moving through the city, they are swept up by their encounters with Hemingway, Dali and André Breton. As World War II looms over Europe they leave Paris for Jersey, where they embark on an audacious campaign of propaganda against Hitler’s occupying forces.
375 SZALAY (David) The innocent [180 p.] F022981 It is 1948 and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB, is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead, but actually a severely incapacitated veteran of the Second Wold War, who seems unable to remember any of his past.
376 WEST (Rebecca) Cousin Rosamund [295 p.] F023118 The third novel in the Cousin Rosamund trilogy. (See below.)
377 WEST (Rebecca) The fountain overflows [438 p.] F023091 The first novel in the Cousin Rosamund trilogy, this story of childhood and family life spans the first three decades of the twentieth century. The first novel was published in 1956 and the others posthumously, Cousin Rosamund being compiled
from West’s draft chapters. This leaves the narrative as unfinished business, the characters’ futures unresolved, still developing, true to the human experience.
378 WEST (Rebecca) This real night [266 p.] F023090 The second novel in the Cousin Rosamund trilogy. (See above.)
379 WITTLIN (Józef) The salt of the earth [352 p.] F022952 At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian Mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. The modern world has yet to reach the inhabitants of this isolated and remote region of the Habsburg Empire. Among them is Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, who wants nothing more from life than an official railway cap, a cottage with a mouse trap and cheese, and a bride with a dowry. But then the First World War comes to the mountains, and Piotr is drafted into the army. All the weight of imperial authority is used to mould him into an unthinking fighting machine, so that the bewildered peasant can be forced to fight a war he does not understand, for interests other than his own.
SCI-FI / FANTASY / HORROR
380 BYERS (Sam) Perfidious Albion [387 p.] F022944 Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in England, in the near future. Brexit has happened and fear and loathing are on the rise, assisted by right-wing political party “England Always”. The residents of a deteriorating housing estate are being cleared from their homes and a multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. As tensions mount, masked men begin a series of 'disruptions' and suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it always imagined itself to be.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page40
381 OATES (Joyce Carol) Hazards of time travel [324 p.] F022940 When Adriane Strohl uses her high school valedictorian speech to ask a series of a questions about the world in which she has grown up – officially known as the North American States, or NAS – she is deemed a provocateur and arrested on seven counts of Treason-Speech and Questioning Authority. Her punishment is to be sent back in time to a region of North
America – Wainscotia, Wisconsin – that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”, but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.
382 REEVE (Philip) A darkling plain F023097 The fourth novel in the Mortal Engines quartet. (See below.)
383 REEVE (Philip) Infernal devices [365 p.] F023102 The third novel in the Mortal Engines quartet. (See below.)
384 REEVE (Philip) Mortal engines [320 p.] F023101 A film of Mortal Engines is now on general cinema release. This is a post-apocalyptic future, the Traction Era, where motorized cities hunt, attack and fight each other for survival. As London pursues a small town, young apprentice Tom is
flung out into the wastelands, fleeing capture. Through the following books our hero strives, in company with other refugees, to end the war which has devastated his world. The first novel in the Mortal Engines quartet.
385 REEVE (Philip) Predator’s gold [344 p.] F023111 The second novel in the Mortal Engines quartet. (See above.)
386 SETTERFIELD (Diane) Once upon a river [420 p.] F022991 A mixture of folklore, suspense and Victorian scientific curiosity, this mystery centres around the fourteenth century Swan Inn on the Thames, where a drowned child miraculously revives, hours after being pulled from the river. Who is she and is there a supernatural element to what has happened?
THRILLERS
387 KERNICK (Simon) We can see you [388 p.] F023086 You have it all: success, a beautiful home and a happy family. But in a heartbeat your life can change forever. When your daughter is abducted and a ransom note left in her place, what would you do to find the abductors and get your daughter back?
388 LAWS (Richard) The syndicate manager [279 p.] F023093 Ben Ramsden is a racehorse syndicate manager, and someone is trying to buy up all the shares in his potentially top- class racehorse 'The Ghost Machine'. What's worse, it looks like the people behind the plot to wrest 'The Ghost' from his syndicate will stop at nothing to secure all the shares. One by one, the shares are acquired and soon the remaining syndicate members have a tough decision to make when the shadowy group behind the ownership coup makes its true intentions known. Set in England, the story follows the elation, disappointment, intrigue and thrills of racehorse ownership and reveals a world where the promise of money, recognition and success can prove to be a toxic combination. The Syndicate Manager is the debut novel by Richard Laws, who has worked in the racing industry for twenty-five years.
389 MAY (Peter) The man with no face [ 406 p.] F022993 Journalist Neil Bannerman is sent from Edinburgh to Brussels in search of a scandal. His editor wants the iconoclastic journalist out of the way for a few weeks. At the same time, Kale, an assassin, is sent to Europe with instructions for a
secret rendezvous. In Brussels, a terrified child looks on as a mysterious figure murders her father. Helpless, she turns to the man lodging at her house – Neil Bannerman.
Spring 2019 Booklist / Page41