Issue #253 February 2011

Five Bells Gail Jones 224pp Tp $29.95 VINTAGE CLASSICS - ONLY $12.95 One fi ne and shining Saturday, four people fi nd themselves in Circular Quay. Ellie and James, who were teenaged lovers, are meeting for the fi rst time in years, over lunch and drinks. Catherine, having recently moved from Ireland to take up a new job, is doing the tourist thing. Pei Xing, who suffered dreadfully in China’s cultural revolution, is catching a ferry for a regular visit to someone she knows on the North Shore. Each character is struggling with something from their past and over the course of the novel this is revealed. And beneath the brightness of a day in the heart of Sydney, there is a dark mystery in play which the four people catch glimpses of… A lyrical novel, drenched in descriptions of Sydney Harbour and local colour, with some beautifully rendered characterisations. Sure to be listed for the top literary awards! Lindy   

Inside WikiLeaks My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website Daniel Domscheit-Berg 208pp Tp $29.95 WikiLeaks, a platform for disclosing information, has managed to produce more scoops in the last three years than The Washington Post has in the last 30: theh gruesome video of Iraqi civilians and journalists being murdered by members of the US military; the true circumstances surrounding the bombing of two hijacked petrol tankers in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which led to the resignation of Defence Minister Jung; the plundering of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing by its major shareholders, which triggered the country’s fi nancial collapse; and many more. Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals the evolution, fi nances and inner tensions of the whistleblower organisation, beginning with his fi rst meeting with Assange in December 2007 at the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin. He also describes the circumstances that led to his recent withdrawal from WikiLeaks, including his disenchantment with the organisation’s lack of transparency, its abandonment of political neutrality, and the increasing concentration of power by Assange. He also addresses the questions the world is asking: Who is really behind this organisation that has struck fear into the powerful, and prompted the Pentagon to convene a 120- man task force? And what explosive documents are still  slumbering there?  Specials p 10 

Abbey’s Bookshop 1 131 York St, Sydney NSW 2000 FICTION 13 rue Thérèse Delirium Elena Mauli Shapiro Lauren Oliver The Shelly Beach 256pp Tp $29.99 448pp Tp $27.99 As he settles into his new offi ce in There was a time when love was Writers’ Group Paris, American academic Trevor the most important thing in the June Loves 352pp Tp $29.95 Stratton discovers a box full of world. People would go to the end What do you do when your century-old artefacts. The pictures, of the earth to fi nd it. They would husband dumps you for his PA, letters and objects in the box relate tell lies for it. Even kill for it. Then, your company goes broke and to the life of Louise Brunet, a Frenchwomanhwoman who at last, they found the cure. Now, everything is your nearly published novel is lived through both World Wars. Trevor begins to different. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and cancelled? Gina, a 50-something piece together the story of her life: her love for the government demands that all citizens receive corporate high-fl ier, is counting her losses when hen a cousin who died in the war, her marriage to a the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has a chance meeting throws a sea change her way. man who works for her father and her attraction always looked forward to the day when she’ll be A job as a house-sitter / dog-sitter, albeit in a to a neighbour in her building at 13 rue Thérèse. cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, leaky cottage in windswept Shelly Beach, seems As he becomes enamoured with the charming, measured, predictable and happy. But then, with the perfect opportunity to relax and regroup. But feisty Louise of his imagination, he notices another only 95 days left until her treatment, Lena does the she hasn’t counted on the locals and soon fi nds alluring Frenchwoman, his clerk Josianne, who unthinkable... herself reluctantly convening the writers’ group, planted the mysterious box in his offi ce, and with babysitting, baking, seal-watching, bicycling... whom he decides he is falling in love. Mistaken and perhaps even falling in love. With a cast of Neil Jordan 320pp Tp $29.99 unforgettable characters, this is an irresistible story The Messenger Kevin Thunder grew up with a of reinvention. Yannick Haenel double - a boy so uncannily like 192pp Tp $29.95 him that they were mistaken More Than You Can Say Jan Karski, a young Polish for each other at every turn. As Paul Torday 288pp Tp $32.99 diplomat turned cavalry offi cer, children in 1960s Dublin, one The bestselling author of joined the Polish underground lived next to Bram Stoker’s house, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, movement after escaping from a haunted by an imagined Dracula, the other in the The Hopeless Life of Charlie Soviet detention camp in 1939. He more refi ned spaces of Palmerston Park. Though Summers and The Girl on the served as a courier for the underground, ferrying divided - like the city itself - by background and Landing (all Pb $22.99) returns messages between occupied Poland and the class, they shared the same smell, the same with a Buchanesque thriller. A exiled Polish leaders, before he was captured and looks, and perhaps, as Kevin comes to realise, late-night gambling session ends brutally tortured by the Gestapo. Escaping from the same soul. They exchange identities when in a bet for Richard Gaunt: can he the Germans, he was charged with the mission it suits them, as their lives take them to England walk to Oxford by lunchtime the of his lifetime: to convey a message to the Allies and America, and fi nd that taking on another s next day? He sets off and, as morning breaks, his about Hitler’s program to exterminate the Jews of personality can lead to darker places than either evening’s winnings look set to double. But when Europe. He visited Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto so he had imagined. Jordan’s long-awaited new novel men in a Jeep reverse into him, scooping him off could relate the truth about inhuman conditions is an extraordinary achievement - a comedy of the roadside, his life takes a very strange turn. fi rsthand to leaders and top offi cials in London, and manners at the same time as a Gothic tragedy, a Taken to a country house, he is kept hostage by President Roosevelt in Washington. He had the thriller and an elegy. a man with impeccable manners, Mr Khan, who ears of the decision-makers, yet nothing was done makes him an unusual offer – £10,000 in return for to prevent the ultimate fate of millions of Jews. An Chronic City a ‘green card’ marriage to a woman called Adeena. extraordinary novelised biography about a man’s Jonathan Lethem Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Gaunt has moral courage and our collective humanity, with 512pp Pb $22.99 a cavalier attitude to life and feels he has nothing parallels to Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark Chase Insteadman is a handsome, to lose. He therefore decides to accept Khan’s (Pb $24.99) and W G Sebald’s Austerlitz (Pb inoffensive former child-star, living strange proposal - never imagining where this $22.95). a vague routine of dinner parties decision will take him... and glamorous engagements Old Enemies on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Meanwhile,hil The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul Michael Dobbs his astronaut fi ancée, Janice, trapped on the Deborah Rodriguez 432pp Tp $32.99 International Space Station, sends him rapturous 304pp Tp $32.95 In the Swiss Alps, a teenage love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift. Into his In a little coffee shop in one of girl is thrown from a helicopter life enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range the most dangerous places on and her boyfriend is brutally pop-critic, whose soaring conspiratorial riffs earth, fi ve very different women abducted to Trieste, a city fi lled are fuelled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth come together. Sunny, the proud with undercurrents of past hatreds. cheeseburgers and a desperate ache for meaning. proprietor, who needs an ingenious Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin,Breslin isis Together, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth plan - and fast - to keep her cafe in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless the Truth - that rarest of artefacts on an island and customers safe; Yazmina, a youngung pregnant kidnappers making impossible demands. His where everything can be bought. Like Manhattan woman stolen from her remote village and now terrifi ed mother contacts the only person she itself, this novel is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and abandoned on Kabul’s violent streets; Candace, a knows can help her son: Harry Jones, her former forgiving, a stand-in for the whole world and a wealthy American who has fi nally left her husband lover, whom she walked out on many years ago. place utterly unique. for her Afghan lover; Isabel, a determined journalist Now memories of their passionate affair - the with a secret that might keep her from the biggest guilt, hurt, anger and humiliation - come fl ooding What the World Will Look Like story of her life; and Halajan, the 60-year-old den back. Time is running out for Ruari. And Harry, When all the Water Leaves Us mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all torn between his loyalties, is quickly drawn into a Laura van den Berg 192pp Pb $24.95 the rules. As these fi ve discover there is more political game played for high stakes. Far higher The stories in this rich and inventive debut to one another than meets the eye, they form a than he realises... illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the unique bond that will change their lives and the The Lightkeeper’s Wife mundane. A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot lives of many others. impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes Karen Viggers 400pp Tpp $29.99 Yearn obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in A woman at the end of her life. the forests of the Congo. And, in the title story, a Tales of Lust and Longing A man unable to restart his. A young woman travelling with her scientist mother Tobsha Learner Tp $32.99 history of guilty secrets and things in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality After the success of Quiver (Pb left unsaid. This is a moving and and her dream of becoming a long-distance $24.95), Learner returns to the short redemptive story of love, loss and swimmer. Rendered with grace and precision, story format with this collection of family, and what we have to do to this breathtaking collection is narrated by women nine sensual, witty and mystical stories,es exploring exploring live the best kind of life. yearning for absolution, for solace, for the fl ash of the universal experiences of near-miss romantic extraordinary that will forever alter their lives. encounters and secret regrets. www.abbeys.com.au 2 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 FICTION One Foot in Eden CHILDREN’S Ron Rash 208pp Tp $29.95 REVIEWED BY LINDY JONES The History of History The year is 1951 and Holland The Story of the Little Mole Winchester, the local thug and a Who Knew it was A Novel of Berlin war veteran, has gone missing Ida Hattemer-Higgins from his small, backwater South None of his Business 400pp Tp $32.99 Carolina town. The local sheriff, Sound Edition 2002. A young American woman Will Alexander, has a gut feeling Werner Holzwarth & stumbles one morning from the Holland has been murdered, but the sheriff can Wolf Erlbruch forest outside Berlin - hands dirty, fi nd neither body nor killer. He has his suspects, 16pp Hb $29.99 clothes torn. She can remember nothinghing of the but no evidence. And his suspects have their The Little Mole is a classic - very few young boys night. She returns to the life she once knew, but stories, motives and truths. But secrets can only (or girls!) can resist the story of how he sets off to soon an enigmatic letter arrives from an unknown stay buried so long. Told from the perspective of fi nd out “who has done this on my head”. To add to doctor claiming to be “concerned for her fate”. the sheriff, a local farmer, his wife, their son and the naughtiness of a book concerned with animal Shortly after, the city of Berlin transforms. Nazi the sheriff’s deputy, Rash explores the crime, scats, this edition also has sound effects! A lot of ghosts manifest as preening falcons; buildings turn shifting suspicion, blame and guilt with each new fun (and I’ve seen more than one adult enjoy this to fl esh. This is the story of Margaret’s descent into voice. This brilliant southern gothic novel observes book). madness and her race to recover her lost history, the consequences of love and murder across the night in the forest and the chasm that opened generations. Wendy in her life as a result. Awash with guilt, Margaret Gus Gordon fi nds her amnesia resonating with two suppressed The Sandalwood Tree 32pp Pb $14.95 tragedies of Berlin’s darkest hour. Harrowing and Elle Newmark Wendy is an irrepressible provocative, beguiling in its lyricism and sensuality, 416pp Tp $32.95 chook. While she likes the this is a tale of obsessive love, family ruptures and It is 1947 and Evie and Martin farm she lives on, where there a nation’s grief. And it is an elegy to ‘the history of Mitchell have just arrived in the is plenty to do, she really history’ - the role of the German past in the psychic Indian village of Masoorla with their wants something more. Given thehe chance to join life of the present age. fi ve-year-old son. But cracks soon the circus and become a stunt chicken, off she Palo Alto appear in their marriage as Evie strugglesggles to adapt goes! She becomes famous for her daredevil to her new life, and Martin fails to bury unbearable stunts, until one day it all becomes too much. A James Franco wartime memories. When Evie fi nds a collection lovely story about having a go, wherever you are, 208pp Tp $29.99 of letters, concealed deep in the brickwork of with jaunty illustrations that often contain little From the talented actor and artist their rented bungalow, so begins an investigation jokes for the reader. Ages 3-6 James Franco, here is a fi ercely that consumes her, allowing her to escape to vivid collection of stories about another world, a hundred years earlier, and to Our Australian Girl troubled California teenagers and the extraordinary friendship of two very different Meet Grace by Sofi e Laguna misfi ts. Violent and harrowing, thesee stories trace trace young women. As her fascination with her Victorian Meet Letty by Alison Lloyd the lives of an extended group of teenagers as discoveries deepens, she unearths powerful they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle secrets... but at what cost to her present, already Meet Poppy by Gabrielle Wang with their families and one another, and succumb fragile, existence? Meet Rose by Sherryl Clark (all Pb $14.95) to self-destructive, often heartless, nihilism. Franco These are each the fi rst books in presents his characters in all their raw humanity, The Legion a new historical series aimed at providing insight into the teenage mind. Cato #10 girls aged 8-11; there will be three Simon Scarrow more books on each of these four Caribou Island 384pp Tp $29.99 characters. Grace is arrested and David Vann 240pp Pb $24.95 Trouble is brewing in Egypt. Rebel transported to Australia in 1808. On a small island in a glacier-fed gladiator Ajax and his men have Letty is an unintended stowaway lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, been posing as Roman soldiers when she is waving her sister a marriage is unravelling. Gary, and attacking naval bases, merchantt vesselsvessels andand off, who is migrating to Sydney in driven by 30 years of diverted villages. Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro have 1841. Poppy, who has a Chinese plans, and Irene, haunted by a been charged with the task of tracking down the father and an Indigenous mother, tragedy in her past, are trying to renegade warrior before the problem gets out of experiences the goldfi elds in rebuild their life together. Following the outline control. Joining forces with Legion III, they hope 1864 when she runs away from of Gary’s old dream, they are hauling logs out to destroy their enemy on the battlefi eld. But the a children’s mission. Rose is an to Caribou Island in both good weather and in cunning gladiator has other ideas... upper-class girl whose mother terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to has decided ideas on how she shouldould act, act which patch together the kind of cabin that drew them The Raven’s Heart just don’t suit her tomboy daughter. They are appealing, age-appropriate, well written and to Alaska in the fi rst place. From the author of The Story of a Quest, the acclaimed Legend of a Suicide (Pb $23.95) adventurous, and make a change from all the comes this devastating novel about a marriage, a a Castle and fantasies currently out there! couple blighted by past shadows and the weight of Mary Queen of Scots expectation - of themselves and of each other. Jesse Blackadder Matched 464pp Tp $32.99 Ally Condie Blue Skies Scotland, 1561. A ship carries Mary, the young 366pp Pb $19.95 Helen Hodgman Queen of Scots, home from the French court to For the lovers of dystopian Young 176pp Tp $29.95 wrest back control of her throne. Masquerading as Adult fi ction, here’s another to A young wife and mother watches a male crew member, Alison Blackadder must fi nd get lost in! The story begins with a clock that seems forever stuck a way to gain the Queen′s favour so she can win Cassia on the way to her Match at three in the afternoon. Her back her family′s castle and lands, cruelly stolen by Banquet. The governing body, Society,ety determines neighbour obsesses over the a murderous clan a generation before. Surrounded the lives of each and every citizen, from birth to front lawn, and the women at the by treachery and deep suspicion, the Queen can death at the age of 80. At the age of 17, those who local beach chatter about knitting patterns. Her trust nobody in the Scottish court until Alison, with have chosen to be paired are told who they are husband didn’t come home last night. She lives her fl air for disguise, becomes her most valued most compatible with and will marry. Cassia’s best for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when her baby confi dante and spy. But Alison′s drive to reclaim friend is Xander and it is a great (but delightful) is with Mother-in-law and she can escape to a the Blackadder birthright is relentless, setting off surprise that he is her intended partner. But when less humdrum life. Jonathan, man about town, is events that threaten to bring down the monarchy. Cassia reviews the offi cial material she has been Tuesday. Ben, a freethinking artist, is Thursday. Alison discovers lies, danger and betrayal at every given, she discovers that another boy is named But Jonathan is in serious trouble, and Thursdays turn. Then, unexpectedly, she fi nds love... This instead. In a highly regulated society with no are turning sour... A brilliant, acerbic tale set in sweeping and imaginative tale of political intrigue, margin for error, this is a bombshell. She starts stultifying suburbia marks the emergence of a secret passion and implacable revenge is a to fi nd herself attracted to Ky, who is not what he unique voice in Australian fi ction. breathtaking epic from a remarkable literary talent. seems. The fi rst in a trilogy.

Abbey’s Bookshop 3 131 York St, Sydney NSW 2000 IOGRAPHY TRAVEL B I Shall Not Hate A Gaza Doctor’s Journey Mennonite in a on the Road to Peace Oh Mexico! Little Black Dress and Human Dignity Love and Adventure A Memoir of Going Home Izzeldin Abuelaish in Mexico City 224pp Pb $29.99 Rhoda Janzen Lucy Neville 256pp Tp $29.99 Dr Abuelaish - now known 366pp Pb $24.99 simply as ‘the Gaza doctor’ - Not long after Janzen turned 40, Graduating from university, Lucy captured hearts and headlines aroundd theth worldld her world turned upside down. faces a dilemma: fi nd a job or in the aftermath of horrifi c tragedy: on 16 January It was bad enough that her disappear to Latin America, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, husband of 15 years left her for Bob, a guy he met the exotic land of her childhood dreams? She killing three of his daughters and a niece. It was on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident arrives in Mexico City with little money and only his response to this tragedy that made news and left her injured. Needing a place to rest and pick basic Spanish. Her to-do list is simple enough: won him humanitarian awards around the world. up the pieces of her life, she packed her bags, get a job, fi nd a place to live and master the Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, crossed the country, and returned to her quirky language. She promptly fi nds work as an English he called for the people in the region to start Mennonite family home, where she was welcomed teacher and scores a room in a sunny apartment. talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his back with open arms and offbeat advice. (Rhoda’s Her new fl atmate, the well-connected Octavio, daughters will be “the last sacrifi ce on the road to good-natured mother suggested she get over her is unnervingly attractive. So begins a comic peace between Palestinians and Israelis”. heartbreak by dating her fi rst cousin - he owned a tsunami of challenges as Lucy negotiates Mexico tractor, see). Written with wry humour and tackling My Favourite Teacher City’s stratifi ed worlds, meeting everyone from faith, love, family and ageing, this is an immensely street-hawkers to crazy gringos, academics and Robert Macklin (Ed) moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone socialites. She marvels at how cheerfully they who has ever had to look homeward in order to 256pp Tp $32.95 cope in a town held together by corruption, where move ahead. In this book, high-profi le Australians kidnapping is a constant threat and decapitations including author Mem Fox, by narcotics gangs are a staple of the daily news. Bird Cloud comedian Anh Do, retired Chief As she struggles with her Spanish verbs, the two Annie Proulx Justice Michael Kirby, broadcaster men she accidentally falls in love with discover 288pp Pb $27.99 Alan Jones and The Chaser’s each other’s existence. With a curious mind and ′Bird Cloud′ is the name Proulx Julian Morrow share very personal storiestories of theirtheir a knowing eye, this account of life in the riotous gave to 640 acres of Wyoming favourite teachers. Their entertaining, inspiring and metropolis that is Mexico City is irresistible. wetlands, prairie and 400-foot often moving accounts reveal how these teachers cliffs plunging down to the North inspired their students to follow their dreams. The UFO Diaries Platte River. On the day she fi rst Colonel Roosevelt Travels in the Weird World visited, a cloud in the shape of a birdrd hunghung inin thethe of High Strangeness evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, Edmund Morris 766pp Hb $52.95 Martin Plowman golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores 320pp Pb $24.99 of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a Theodore Roosevelt is the only dozen antelope. She knew she had to purchase US President whose greatness When postgrad student Martin the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, increased out of offi ce. When he Plowman became fascinated and she knew what she would build on it - a house toured Europe in 1910 as plain by the weird world of UFOs, in harmony with her work, her appetites and her ‘Colonel Roosevelt’, he was alien abductions and conspiracy theories, he character - a library surrounded by bedrooms and hailed as the most famous man didn’t realise it would lead to an amazing seven- a kitchen. In her fi rst non-fi ction work in more than in the world. Crowned heads vied totopu putt himhimup up year journey that would take him thousands 20 years, this is the story of building that house in their palaces. “If I see another king,” he joked, of kilometres across the world. In his quest to - solar panels, a Japanese soak tub, a concrete “I think I shall bite him.” Had he not died in 1919, uncover the mystery at the heart of people’s fl oor, elk-horn handles on kitchen cabinets - as well at the early age of 60, he would unquestionably fascination with UFOs, he met surprisingly as an enthralling natural history and archeology of have been re-elected to a third term in the White grateful alien abductees in Mexico, reluctant UFO the region, inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho House and completed the work he began in 1901 ‘witnesses’ in Roswell and secretive mountain and Shoshone Indians. of establishing the United States as a model ufologists in Chile. Both funny and profound, this democracy, militarily strong and socially just. is the kind of book Bill Bryson and Douglas Adams Irrepressible Morris recounts the last decade of perhaps the might have written if they’d been abducted on the same fl ying saucer! The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford most amazing life in American history. Leslie Brody 405pp Hb $45.00 Endgame Going Postal Admirers and detractors use The Spectacular Rise and The Ups and Downs of the same words to describe Travelling the World Jessica Mitford: subversive, Fall of Bobby Fischer mischief-maker, muck-raker. Frank Brady on a Postie Bike Those who knew her best simply 416pp Tp $34.99 Nathan Millward called her Decca. Born into When Bobby Fischer passed 288pp Pb $29.99 one of Britain’s most famous away in January 2008, he left When Millward learns that he aristocratic families, she eloped behind a confounding legacy. has just 20 days to leave Australia before his as a teenager with Winston Everyone knew the basics of his lifefe - he began visa expires, he has a choice to make: fl y home Churchill’s nephew. The couple as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride to England on the return ticket he already has, considered Britain’s Communist of American chess, before taking a sharp turn, or set off on the adventure of a lifetime riding a Party insuffi ciently leftist, so they went to America. struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But decommissioned Australia Post bike across the For her, the personal was political, especially as nobody truly understood him. What motivated him world. With encouragement from the girl who took a civil rights activist and journalist. She coined from such a young age, and what was the source him to Australia in the fi rst place, he hits the road. the term “frenemies” - and as a member of the of his remarkable intellect? What drew this man of No time for planning or preparation, just go - with American Communist Party she made several! Jewish descent to fulminate against Jews, and how nothing more than the gear he can carry on the - though not among the Cold War witch-hunters. was it that a mind so famously disciplined could back of the bike - in a race across the Outback and When she left the Communist Party in 1958 after unravel so completely? From his meteoric rise to on to Darwin to catch a cargo boat to East Timor. 15 years, she promised to be subversive whenever his eventual descent into madness, the book draws From there it′s on, riding the road to England at an the opportunity arose. True to her word, late in life upon hundreds of newly discovered documents, average speed of 65 kilometres an hour, through she hit her stride as a writer, publishing nine books recordings and fi rsthand interviews with those who jungles and over mountain passes, on mud roads before her death in 1996. knew him best to paint a complete picture of one of and dirt highways. Will man and machine make it? America’s most enigmatic icons. And what happens with the girl? This tale has it all: foreign cultures, wrong turns, the kindness of strangers and the bittersweet trials of love. www.abbeys.com.au 4 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 HISTORY The Longest War Anne of Cleves America and Al-Qaeda Henry VIII’s Thucydides Since 9/11 Discarded Bride The Reinvention Peter Bergen Elizabeth Norton of History 304pp Hb $35.00 224pp Pb $24.95 Donald Kagan Investigative journalist and The fi rst major biography of Henry 272pp Pb $22.95 bestselling author of Holy War, VIII’s least favourite wife - but Kagan’s magisterial The Inc (Pb $24.95), Bergen is one of the one who outlived them all. Peloponnesian War (Tp the few Westerners to have sat down withith OsamaO “I like her not!” was the verdict of Henry VIIIVIII on $32.95) is recognised as bin Laden and is renowned for his analysis of al meeting his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, for the a landmark of classical Qaeda and its evolution over the last decade. He fi rst time. Anne could have said something similar scholarship. Now he turns his attentionention from one of reveals the details of how al Qaeda has evolved on meeting Henry and, having been promised the greatest confl icts in history to the author who since the 9/11 attacks and tells the parallel story the most handsome prince in Europe, she was so magnifi cently chronicled it: Thucydides, the fi rst of how the US government has changed its own destined to be disappointed in the elderly and truly modern historian. This study offers readers course in response. Bergen has unprecedented corpulent king. Henry also felt that Anne was not a remarkable opportunity to experience one great insight that comes through many channels: as she had been described, complaining that historian engaging another across the centuries, internal documents from both al Qaeda and US he had been sent a Flander’s mare. Forced to in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage counterterrorism offi ces, personal interviews with al proceed with their wedding for diplomatic reasons, of discovery, a moving tribute and a revelatory Qaeda members of the highest and lowest ranks, they tried to make the best of the situation, but meditation on the practice of history and its value hundreds of interviews conducted with senior attempts to consummate the match were farcical. in human affairs. offi cials in the White House, Pentagon, CIA and After only seven months of marriage, Henry was so the FBI, and his own experiences on the ground in desperate to rid himself of Anne that he declared The World of King Arthur Afghanistan. himself impotent in order to secure a divorce. 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Numerous mental health retells hundreds of years of music history - from his infamous clash with the Catholicic church.church ThisThis problems such as anxiety, depression and phobias Renaissance dance to Led Zeppelin - through a wonderfully rounded new biography presents are rising dramatically and there seems to be no few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. a multi-talented, but diffi cult, man - writer, solution in sight. Tacey argues that the solution Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross philosopher, scientist, musician and artist. lies in breaking free from the confi nes of modern writes in a style at once erudite and lively, showing Galileo medicine. Instead we must turn to spirituality and how music expresses the full complexity of the to what Tacey calls ′meaning-making′ - to make human condition. 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Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer against a disease that, just three decades ago, something about classical music every day of and author, this book places him at the centre of was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out the year, with everything from brief biographies Renaissance culture. It traces his early rebellious ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of favourite composers to summaries of the years; the beginnings of his scientifi c career of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, most revered operas. Interesting facts about the constructing a ‘new physics’; his move to Florence told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, world’s most celebrated songs and discussions seeking money, status and greater freedom to training their wits against an infi nitely resourceful of ‘classical music meets pop culture’ make this attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy adversary. 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