BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 2015

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A selection of books to be published between now and Christmas

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This year’s Cuckoo Press publication is a short story, adapted from the first chapter of a novel in progress:

MONSIEUR KA

by Vesna Goldsworthy BIOGRAPHY

LAST IMPERIALIST: A PORTRAIT OF JULIAN AMERY Richard Bassett A privately published account of this extraordinary character, by the author of For King And Kaiser, and a Cuckoo Press pamphleteer...... £21 ALIVE, ALIVE, OH! AND OTHER THINGS THAT MATTER Diana Athill Further memoirs from a favourite literary lioness. Due in December...... £12.99 AUGUSTINE: CONVERSIONS AND CONFESSIONS A new interpretation of the man best known for his prayer ‘Give me chastity, but not yet’...... £30 THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW Anne Whitehead A biography of Betsy Balcombe, the teenage daughter of a St Helena merchant who was sent to dally with the new resident. She subsequently married a Regency cad (was there any other kind of Regency male?), then emigrated to Australia with her father in 1823 ...... £20 AFFIRMING: LETTERS 1975-1997 Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy & Mark Pottle The fourth and final volume...... £40 CHARLOTTE BRONTË: A LIFE Claire Harman Harman has written books on Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989), Fanny Burney (2000), Robert Louis Stevenson (2005) and Jane Austen. This new biog of Charlotte B coincides with the 200th anniversary of her birth...... £25 STALIN’S ENGLISHMAN: THE LIVES OF GUY BURGESS Andrew Lownie Argues convincingly that Burgess was more valuable to the Russians than Philby, Maclean and Blunt; and detested his Russian exile...... £25 EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE Richard Bourke A scholarly study of his life and work...... £30.95 RAB BUTLER: THE BEST PRIME MINISTER WE NEVER HAD? Michael Jago...... £25 JOHN LE CARRE: THE BIOGRAPHY Adam Sisman...... £25 NO MORE CHAMPAGNE: CHURCHILL AND HIS MONEY David Lough The story of Winston Churchill’s precarious finances. It transpires that his knack for getting out of tight corners was highly developed long before 1940...... £25 WINSTON CHURCHILL REPORTING: ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG WAR CORRESPONDENT Simon Read...... £17.99 FOOL FOR THY FEAST: THE LIFE TIMES OF TUBBY CLAYTON, 1885-1972 Linda Parker A biography of one of the most charismatic Anglican priests of the C20th. It was he who set up Talbot House, the rest home behind the lines at Ypres, and afterwards he continued his ‘Toc H’ work in London and elsewhere...... £25 BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK: MY LIFE IN SCIENCE Richard Dawkins Strutting his hour upon the stage...... £20 THE REAL TRAVIATA: THE SONG OF MARIE DUPLESSIS René Weis Another biography of La Dame aux Camélias - hot on the heels of Julie Kavanagh’s excellent Girl Who Loved Camelias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis (pbk £13.99)...... £25 ‘OFT IN DANGER’: THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL SIR ANTHONY FARRAR-HOCKLEY Jonathan Riley A biography of the scholar-soldier, who served in Greece, Palestine, Korea, Cyprus, Jordan, Borneo, Northern Ireland and became Commander-in-Chief of Nato’s Northern Region...... £29.95 OUTSIDER: MY LIFE IN INTRIGUE Frederick Forsyth The autobiography by the author of The Day Of The Jackal etc makes his thrillers seem rather tame...... £20 THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TYPEWRITER: IAN FLEMING’S JAMES BOND LETTERS Edited by Fergus Fleming Fleming really did have a gold-plated typewriter...... £25 FRANCIS: POPE OF GOOD PROMISE: FROM ARGENTINA’S BERGOGLIO TO THE WORLD’S FRANCIS Jimmy Burns The author was the FT correspondent in Buenos Aires in the 1980s. His previous books draw on that experience too, and they are all excellent...... £25 FREDERICK THE GREAT: KING OF PRUSSIA Tim Blanning Besides Nancy Mitford, there was Giles MacDonogh in 1999, David Fraser in 2000… Now Blanning brings his wide knowledge of C18th Europe to the subject...... £30 FROST: THAT WAS THE LIFE THAT WAS Neil Hegarty The authorised biography...... £25 THE RICHEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JACOB FUGGER Greg Steinmetz Fugger (1459-1525) cut his financial teeth in Venice and went on to make his fortune bankrolling the Hapsburgs, obtaining papal consent to money-lending and provoking Luther to write his Ninety-Five Theses...... £20 POUR ME: A LIFE A.A. Gill A memoir of the year between the end of his marriage and the end of his drinking...... £20 AMAZING GRACE: THE MAN WHO WAS W.G. Richard Tomlinson Not so much an account of his cricketing achievements as of his role as a modern celebrity in Victorian society...... £25 PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: THE SHOCK OF THE MODERN Francine Prose A lively portrait of the great patroness and collector, in the Yale ‘Jewish Lives’ series...... £16.99 THE LOST DETECTIVE: BECOMING DASHIELL HAMMETT Nathan Ward Makes DH’s life seem like one of his subsequent novels...... £16.99 HEMINGWAY IN LOVE: HIS OWN STORY A. E. Hotchner Based on conversations in the last weeks of Hemingway’s life, in which it seems he was very frank about women. Apparently Hotchner withheld publication in deference to Hemingway’s widow. Perhaps it has taken the subsqeuent 20 years to remember what the great man said - and be sure there’s no one else left to dispute it?...... £14.99 THE PRISONER OF KATHMANDU: BRIAN HODGSON IN NEPAL 1820-43 Charles Allen Posted to Kathmandu as a junior political officer, Hodgson became a major figure of western Orientalism. As well as being an account of this remarkable person, this is also a history of Asian studies in the West; from an author with a reliable, light touch...... £20 TED HUGHES: THE UNAUTHORISED LIFE Jonathan Bate Bate is one of the best contemporary writers on Shakespeare and he wrote a superb biography of John Clare. He is likely to prove a sensitive authority in this first attempt at a full life of our complex former customer...... £30 THE INVENTION OF NATURE: THE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, THE LOST HERO OF SCIENCE Andrea Wulf Although scarcely known now, von Humboldt was once a figure of immense importance. His travels in South America and Russia were a crucial influence on Darwin, Verne and other luminaries. He also predicted human-induced climate change...... £25 THE ASTRONOMER AND THE WITCH: JOHANNES KEPLER’S FIGHT FOR HIS MOTHER Ulinka Rublack Kepler himself conducted his mother’s defence at her six-year trial. A fascinating insight into the early C17th world, teetering between superstition and science...... £20 KISSINGER: 1923-1968: THE IDEALIST Niall Ferguson Draws not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives. An immense, authoritative book, the first of 2 vols...... £35 A VILLAGE CHRISTMAS: AND OTHER NOTES ON THE ENGLISH YEAR Laurie Lee A new collection of short pieces drawn from the Lee archives.... £9.99 THE LOST TUDOR PRINCESS: A LIFE OF MARGARET DOUGLAS, COUNTESS OF LENNOX Alison Weir Lady-in-waiting to five of Henry VIII’s wives, etc...... £20 MARTIN LUTHER: VISIONARY REFORMER Scott H. Hendrix A major new work, focussing on his personal relationships and political motivations rather than on his theology alone...... £25 THE MAISKY DIARIES: RED AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES’S, 1932-1943 Gabriel Gorodetsky These remarkable diaries by the Russian ambassador, published for the first time in English, give insights into Kremlin as well as British policy-making...... £25 TAKE SIX GIRLS: THE LIVES OF THE MITFORD SISTERS Laura Thompson The author has written good books on Agatha Christie, Lord Lucan and Nancy Mitford...... £25 NEMESIS: ONE MAN AND THE BATTLE FOR RIO Misha Glenny The story of Brazil’s most wanted criminal...... £18.99 PROUST: THE SEARCH Benjamin Taylor In the Yale ‘Jewish Lives’ series. Taylor shows how different events and emotional upheavals fired Proust’s imagination and how, sometimes completely transformed, they appeared in his work...... £16.99 DEVOID OF SHYNESS: FROM THE JOURNAL 1926-39 Alan Pryce-Jones This could helpfully, perhaps, be subtitled ‘Diary Of A Bright Young Thing’; or ‘The Youthful Adventures of a TLS Editor’. The manuscript was consigned to a bank vault after WW2...... £20 RICHARD III: A RULER AND HIS REPUTATION David Horspool This biography should bring some much-needed balance to the story of the last Yorkist King...... £20 THE MAN WHO BUILT THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLD Brian Sewell The man’s name was Royce, and the car was the Silver Ghost..... £11.99 KING OF KINGS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I OF ETHIOPIA Asfa-Wossen Asserate, foreword by Thomas Pakenham A biography by his great-nephew...... £20 SPEER: HITLER’S ARCHITECT Martin Kitchen A new account of Speer’s role in Nazi Germany before and during WW2 that disputes his professed ignorance of Nazi crimes against humanity...... £20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF MILITARY OBITUARIES: BOOK 3 David Twiston-Davies...... £20 JOSEPHINE TEY: A LIFE Jennifer Morag Henderson Tey was only one of this fascinating woman’s pseudonyms, and her cover photograph makes her look extraordinarily like Richard III, the subject of her best-known work The Daughter Of Time...... £19.99 THATCHER’S TRIAL: SIX MONTHS THAT DEFINED A LEADER Kwasi Kwarteng The six months in question were early 1981 - hunger strikes, unemployment and a restless Conservative Party...... £20 MARGARET THATCHER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME 2: EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Charles Moore The much-awaited second volume...... £30 THE WITNESS George Tomaziu, translated by Jane Reid The memoir of a Romanian artist who spied for the British in WW2...... pbk £12.99 ÉAMON DE VALERA: A WILL TO POWER Ronan Fanning The first full biography of one of the most remarkable men in the history of modern Ireland...... £20 GEORGE & MARTHA WASHINGTON: A REVOLUTIONARY MARRIAGE Flora Fraser The story of the awkward young soldier and the charming, rich young widow whom he married. A fine instance of the dictum that behind every great man there is a great woman...... £25 CHARLES WILLIAMS: THE THIRD INKLING Grevel Lindop Co-Inkling with C S Lewis and Tolkien, Williams was a publisher, literary critic, dramatist, theologian, occultist, poet...... £25 ZOLA AND THE VICTORIANS Eileen Horne, introduction by David Bellos A century before the famous Lady Chatterley trial came that of Henry Vizetelly, Zola’s English translator and publisher, an old man who was sentenced to hard labour for his struggle against censorship...... £14.99 Five more titles in the excellent ‘Penguin Monarchs’ series. We’re particularly excited that the great John Gillingham has contributed the volume on William Rufus:

WILLIAM II: THE RED KING John Gillingham STEPHEN: THE REIGN OF ANARCHY Carl Watkins HENRY V: FROM PLAYBOY PRINCE TO WARRIOR KING Anne Curry WILLIAM IV: A KING AT SEA Roger Knight QUEEN ELIZABETH II: THE STEADFAST Douglas Hurd...... £10.99 HISTORY

BOG BODIES UNCOVERED: SOLVING EUROPE’S ANCIENT MYSTERY Miranda Aldhouse-Green, introduction by Val McDermid The use of forensic analysis to examine the ancient bodies recovered from peat bogs over Northern Europe makes this book a worthy follow-up to Professor Glob’s seminal work...... £18.95 SPQR: A HISTORY OF You may be forgiven for thinking you’ve come across this before, but this is much broader in scope than her previous books...... £25 PROMISED YOU A MIRACLE: UK80-82 Andy Beckett More social history from the author of the excellent When The Lights Went Out: Britain In The Seventies (pbk £12.99)...... £20 BLOOD, DREAMS, AND GOLD: THE CHANGING FACE OF BURMA Richard Cockett A survey from the colonial period to the present, from the former South-East Asian correspondent for the Economist...... £18.99 THE BOOK OF MAGIC: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT Edited by Brian Copenhaver An anthology that includes Aquinas, Milton, Dee, Ptolemy and Paracelsus...... £30 THE CONQUERORS: HOW PORTUGAL SEIZED THE INDIAN OCEAN AND FORGED THE FIRST GLOBAL EMPIRE Roger Crowley Epic narrative history of Portugal’s maritime expansion. Astounding intrepidity, cruelty, and growth - all in the name of Christianity, and in a mere 30 years (1483-1515). Without the Portuguese there could have been no Spanish, nor British, empires. This is a startling story, superbly told...... £20 SPITALFIELDS: THE HISTORY OF A NATION IN A HANDFUL OF STREETS Dan Cruickshank By an architectural historian who has lived there for 40 years...... £25 BY STEPPE, DESERT, AND OCEAN: THE BIRTH OF EURASIA An exploration of ‘connectivity and mobility’ from early prehistory to the fourteenth century, which does for Central Asia what his magnificentEurope Between The Oceans and Britain Begins did for Europe and Britain respectively. Cunliffe is a serious archaeologist who succeeds triumphantly in making complicated data and serious ideas intelligible to non-specialists too...... £30 IN NELSON’S WAKE: THE NAVY AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS James Davey From dockyards to Whitehall, this history covers battles, blockades, convoys and raids, 1803-1815...... £25 A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES James West Davidson Another in the Yale ‘Little History’ series...... £14.99 THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC Jonathan Dimbleby...... £25 FIGHT FOR A THRONE: THE JACOBITE ‘45 RECONSIDERED Christopher Duffy 544 pages of brilliant analysis...... £35 BALFOUR’S WORLD: ARISTOCRACY AND POLITICAL CULTURE AT THE FIN DE SIECLE Nancy W Ellenberger A serious work drawing on the letters and diaires of Balfour’s friends - Wyndhams, Tennants, etc...... £30 FIGHTERS IN THE SHADOWS: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE An authoritative account of the myths and the realities from the author of Marianne In Chains...... £20 SECRET WAR: SPIES, CIPHERS AND GUERILLAS 1939-1945 Max Hasting Covers not only Bletchley but also the Abwehr, and Soviet and Japanese Intelligence. In this remarkable work of synthesis, Hastings shows how what was done with intelligence was more significant than what it was, or how it was got...... £30 THE WAR IN THE WEST VOL 1: GERMANY ASCENDANT 1939-41 James Holland A new history that takes into account the economic, political and social as well as the military aspects of WW2...... £25 DYNASTY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF CAESAR Tom Holland Excellent, readable history of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Agrippina, Nero. Sequel to his Rubicon (pbk £12.99). Sadly, but understandably, overlooks J R Ewing in his praedium called Southfork...... £25 HUBRIS: THE TRAGEDY OF WAR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Horne takes six battles, including Tsushima, Hitler’s attempt on Moscow and Dien Bien Phu, to illustrate the catastrophic consequences of arrogance...... £25 THE SILENT DEEP: THE ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINE SERVICE SINCE 1945 James Jinks & Peter Hennessy Written with privileged access to documents and personnel...... £30 TO HELL AND BACK: EUROPE, 1914-1949 This contribution to the ‘Penguin History of Europe’ series is by one of our most eminent historians...... £30 BEDA: A JOURNEY TO THE SEVEN KINGDOMS AT THE TIME OF BEDE Henrietta Leyser A useful gazetteer for Bede’s England: Leominster, Lichfield... Whithorn,Whitby...... £20 THE OTTOMAN ENDGAME: WAR, REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, 1908-1923 Sean McMeekin...... £30 THE MAPMAKER’S WORLD: THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN WORLD MAP Marjo T. Nurminen...... £50 THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA: THE JOURNEY FROM GORBACHEV’S FREEDOM TO PUTIN’S WAR Arkady Ostrovsky From the translator into Russian of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast Of Utopia, and a regular contributor to the FT and the Economist..... £20 THE GATES OF EUROPE: A HISTORY OF UKRAINE Serhii Plokhy...... £20 ELEGY: THE FIRST DAY ON THE SOMME Andrew Roberts By the author of last year’s Napoleon: A Life...... £20 GHOST PATROL: A HISTORY OF THE LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP, 1940-1945 John Sadler Addresses not only their activities in North Africa but also how, after the defeat of the Axis in North Africa, they adapted to serve in the Mediterranean, the Greek Islands, Albania, Yugoslavia and Greece...... £19.99 THE GREAT BRITISH DREAM FACTORY: THE STRANGE HISTORY OF OUR NATIONAL IMAGINATION Dominic Sandbrook Why, in the post-Imperial era, does British popular culture punch so much above its weight around the world?...... £25 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Robert Service A history of the fall of the USSR and its European satellite states by the acclaimed biographer of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky...... £25 BLACK EARTH: THE HOLOCAUST AS HISTORY AND WARNING Timothy Snyder By the author of the brilliant Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler And Stalin (pbk £10.99). He is superb - and disturbing - on the ways in which slaughter occurred as a result of policies rather than incidental casualties of war...... £25 CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION: GREEKS AND ROMANS IN TEN CHAPTERS Nigel Spivey From Troy to Constantinople, via Athens, Sparta, Syracuse, Utopia, Alexandria, Pergamon, Rome and Ephesus...... £16.99 THE GERMAN WAR: A NATION UNDER ARMS, 1939-45 Nicholas Stargardt This excellent book tells the story of the war from the German perspective, making use of first-hand testimonies to show not only how it was experienced but also how it was viewed at home...... £30 COVENTRY: THURSDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER 1940 Frederick Taylor By the author of Dresden, Tuesday 13th February 1945...... £20 KARL DOENITZ AND THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH Barry Turner...... £20 HOW TO PLAN A CRUSADE: REASON AND RELIGIOUS WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES Christopher Tyerman A jokey title, but this is a serious book on the Crusades by their pre-eminent scholar...... £25 BEWARE THE RUGGED RUSSIAN BEAR: BRITISH ADVENTURERS EXPOSING THE BOLSHEVIKS John Ure The story of how the horrors of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the ensuing chaos came to be known in the West, by means of diplomats, spies, travellers, even governesses...... £20 THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL BOMB DAMAGE MAPS 1939-1945 Edited by Laurence Ward Each day during the Blitz, Churchill was handed detailed maps showing areas of the previous day’s bombardment shaded in different coloured watercolours to indicate severity - black for total destruction, indigo for damaged beyond repair... These are reproduced here, together with annotations and superb images of the damage. This is a remarkable book, carefully thought through and perfectly executed...... £48 THE STRUGGLE FOR SEA POWER: A NAVAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE Sam Willis How did thirteen isolated colonies, who in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth?...... £30

POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS

WINTER IS COMING: WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE ENEMIES OF THE FREE WORLD MUST BE STOPPED Garry Kasparov By the former world chess champion and long-standing critic of Putin...... £16.99 THE HEALTH GAP: THE CHALLENGE OF AN UNEQUAL WORLD Michael Marmot The social determinants of health, in our own back yards and across the globe, are discussed by Marmot, professor and senior government advisor...... £20 THE JOY OF TAX Richard Murphy The perfect stocking-filler...... £16.99 THE ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY Thomas Piketty A slim volume from the author of last year’s bestselling Capital...... £16.95 FOOLS, FRAUDS AND FIREBRANDS: THINKERS OF THE NEW LEFT Roger Scruton NB. As of September 12th, this is now the Old Left. The title rather gives away his thesis...... £16.99 CAMERON AT 10: THE INSIDE STORY OF 2010-2015 Peter Snowdon & Anthony Seldon...... £20 BLACK FLAGS: THE RISE OF ISIS Joby Warrick...... £18.99 Three useful new volumes. We note that the one on the Liberals is the longest, and that the Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn, MP does not feature in the Labour volume. Whether that is on a point of principle or because the books went to print in August, we’ll leave you to decide. BRITISH CONSERVATIVE LEADERS Edited by Toby James, Charles Clarke, Patrick Diamond & Tim Bale BRITISH LABOUR LEADERS Edited by Charles Clarke & Toby James BRITISH LIBERAL LEADERS Edited by Tony Little, Robert Ingham & Duncan Brack...... £25 FICTION

THE JAPANESE LOVER Isabel Allende A love story between a Jewish refugee and a Japanese gardener, set in America during the Second World War. Pearl Harbour brings a premature end to their relationship but they stay in contact for much of the rest of their lives...... £16.99 THE HEART GOES LAST Margaret Atwood A sinister novel set in the near future, in which the lawless go free and the lawful are locked up...... £18.99 THE BLUE GUITAR John Banville Story of a frail man with a passion for possession, told in characteristically entrancing prose...... £14.99 SWEET CARESS William Boyd A narrative that engages with C20th history through the character of a woman photographer: Berlin in the 1930s, Normandy, Vietnam… Boyd’s knack for compelling narrative remains undiminished...... £18.99 BLADE OF LIGHT Andrea Camilleri The 19th Montalbano book, which sees the inspector’s usual ingenuity a little fuzzed by romantic distraction...... £16.99 THE EARLY STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTE Truman Capote...... £14.99 MAKE ME Lee Child A new Jack Reacher novel...... £20 NUMBER 11: OR TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS Jonathan Coe Comedy and politics - the British zeitgeist wickedly lampooned by the author of The Rotters’ Club...... £16.99 THE CROSSING Michael Connelly A new Harry Bosch crime novel...... £19.99 A WILD SWAN AND OTHER TALES Michael Cunningham Fairy tales re-imagined for the present day...... £14.99 DEMOCRACY Annie di Donna, Abraham Kawa & Alecos Papadatos A graphic novel about the origin of democracy from the authors of Logicomix and others...... pbk £18.99 NUMERO ZERO Umberto Eco Post-WW2 Italy provides the background for this intelligent detective story...... £16.99 WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT Sebastian Faulks Tells the story of an aging doctor looking back at the events of the twentieth century with his enigmatic host on a French island...... £20 FRONT RUNNER Felix Francis More equestrian skulduggery...... £18.99 PURITY Jonathan Franzen Another big novel, in the same vein as The Corrections and Freedom. This one has an engaging heroine in search of a father who gets drawn by an Assange-like figure into a cult based in Bolivia. It turns on a comparison between a well-researched portrait of the GDR and internet surveillance - and the sensibility is definitely Californian...... £20 CAPTAIN IN CALICO George Macdonald Fraser The first, previously unpublished novel by the creator of Flashman. Concerns the exploits of an entertaining pirate working out of New Providence in the 1720s...... £16.99 CAREER OF EVIL Robert Galbraith The third in J K Rowling’s pseudonymous crime series about private detective Cormoran Strike...... £20 THE PAST Tessa Hadley Three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. Hadley is often referred to as ‘a writer’s writer’, which seems to mean that she is widely admired by critics but has yet to hit bestseller lists...... £16.99 DICTATOR Robert Harris The much-awaited conclusion to his ‘Cicero’ trilogy...... £20 THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES Dermot Healy...... £20 TRIGGER MORTIS: A JAMES BOND NOVEL Anthony Horowitz The latest in the Bond franchise. Given Horowitz’s two recent and ebulliently creepy Sherlock Holmes books, this should be fun - and it has already received rapturous praise...... £18.99 SUBMISSION Michel Houellebecq The English translation of the novel that will always be connected with the tragedy of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The plot envisages a freely elected Islamist government in France, reflecting Houellebecq’s disgust at the venality of the Gallic establishment...... £18.99 A SNOW GARDEN & OTHER STORIES Rachel Joyce Slim collection of seven stories set at Christmas from the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...... £9.99 HAND OF GOD Philip Kerr His second Scott Manson thriller, where death comes on the football pitch...... £12.99 THE GREAT SWINDLE Pierre Lemaitre From a French author known to some of our customers for three very creepy thrillers (Alex, Irene, Camille) comes a tremendous, intelligent and exciting - and Goncourt Prize-winning - novel of a very different ilk set in the aftermath of WW1...... £18.99 DANCING ON THE OUTSKIRTS Shena Mackay A new collection of stories...... £16.99 CHILDREN OF THE MASTER Andrew Marr Marr’s second novel is about the fallout of a Labour election victory in 2018. The party’s MPs decide they need to give their leader the heave-ho. Maybe not a novel after all...... £18.99 THE YELLOW DIAMOND: A CRIME OF THE SUPER-RICH Andrew Martin Thriller set in modern Mayfair from the author of The Baghdad Railway Club...... £14.99 END GAMES IN BORDEAUX Allan Massie A thrilling climax to Massie’s ‘Bordeaux’ quartet, featuring the magnificent, tired Superintendent Lannes trying to apply justice under the occupying Nazis...... pbk £12 THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING Colum McCann A new novella and three stories...... £16.99 Following Bloomsbury’s publication in August of three of Patrick Modiano’s early novels as The Occupation Trilogy (hbk £18.99), the MacLehose Press has published two others by Modiano: PEDIGREE Part fiction, part memoir...... £14.99 SO YOU DON’T GET LOST IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD A mysterious novella about a writer winkled out of seclusion by a threatening phone call from a stranger...... £14.99 SLADE HOUSE David Mitchell An extended ghost story from the author of The Bone Clocks etc...... £12.99 BEASTS ROYAL: TWELVE TALES OF ADVENTURE Patrick O’Brian O’Brian’s second book, first published in 1934. The stories are set in the South Seas, the Punjab, the African jungle...... £12.99 THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS Edna O’Brien Her first novel in a decade: a Balkan war criminal settles in a small coastal community in the west of Ireland with devastating consequences...... £18.99 A STRANGENESS IN MY MIND Orhan Pamuk Another long novel, observing 50 years of change in Istanbul, and reflecting on the nature of human aspirations and happiness...... £20 ARCADIA Iain Pears An adventure with three interlocking stories, from the author of An Instance Of The Fingerpost...... £18.99 THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, VOLUME ONE: FROM DANIEL DEFOE TO P.G. WODEHOUSE THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, VOLUME TWO: FROM JOHN BUCHAN TO ZADIE SMITH Both vols edited by Philip Hensher...... £25 GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS Max Porter A powerful short novel in which a dreamlike substantiation of Ted Hughes’s Crow converses with a bereaved husband and his two sons...... £10 EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD Ian Rankin Another Rebus thriller...... £19.99 SCARPIA Piers Paul Read Historical novel about one of opera’s greatest villains...... £16.99 DARK CORNERS Ruth Rendell Her last book...... £18.99 THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW Gregory David Roberts The long-awaited sequel to Shantaram...... £20 TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS & TWENTY EIGHT NIGHTS Salman Rushdie Thousand And One Nights meets Magical Realism in New York. Could happen to anyone...... £18.99 SLANTING OF THE SUN: STORIES Donal Ryan From the author of The Spinning Heart...... £12.99 LATE FAME Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Alexander Starritt This satirical and long-lost novella was published for the first time in Germany last year. A group of cynical young avant-gardists play upon the vanity of a middle-aged civil servant...... £15 STORIES FROM OTHER PLACES Nicholas Shakespeare Short stories with backdrops from Australia to Colombia...... £16.99 INSPECTOR MAIGRET OMNIBUS: 2 Georges Simenon Second annual omnibus edition...... £18.99 COCKFOSTERS Helen Simpson It’s been a while since there was a new book from Simpson, but she has long been regarded as a superb short story writer; an English Alice Munro...... £15.99 THE GOLDEN AGE Jane Smiley The concluding book of her acclaimed ‘Last Hundred Years’ trilogy...... £18.99 PUBLIC LIBRARY AND OTHER STORIES Ali Smith...... £16.99 THE WOMEN OF LAZARUS Marina Stepnova A sweeping novel set in Russia in the C20th, shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize...... pbk £11.99 KATHERINE CARLYLE Rupert Thomson The eponymous Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF, then stored as a frozen embryo for eight years. Thomson is a good novelist and this is a moving work about where we come from, what we make of ourselves, and how we are loved...... £14.99 FAITH AND BEAUTY Jane Thynne A fourth appearance for Clara Vine, an actress living in Berlin and agent for British intelligence just before WW2...... £20 THE DIVER’S CLOTHES LIE EMPTY Vendela Vida This nifty psychological thriller about identity is set in Casablanca and peopled with shady women...... £14.99 GHOST Edited by Louise Welsh A huge anthology of ghost stories...... £20 THE GAP OF TIME: THE WINTER’S TALE RETOLD Jeanette Winterson The first in a new series of reconstituted Shakespearean scenarios. This one has Leontes (‘Leo Kaiser’) in a mess after the financial crash...... £16.99 POETRY

UNICORN: THE POETRY OF ANGELA CARTER Angela Carter & A collection of Carter’s poetry published 1963-1971...... £9.99 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF CAROL ANN DUFFY Carol Ann Duffy...... £25 THE POEMS OF T.S. ELIOT, VOLUME ONE THE POEMS OF T.S. ELIOT, VOLUME TWO Edited by Christopher Ricks...... each £40 GRAVEL IN MY SHOE John Fuller...... pbk £9.99 ALTERNATIVE VALUES: POEMS & PAINTINGS Frieda Hughes...... pbk £12 THE BONNIEST COMPANIE Kathleen Jamie A new collection from one of Scotland’s foremost writers...... £14.99 WAR MUSIC: AN ACCOUNT OF HOMER’S ILIAD Christopher Logue All the books of the late Logue’s modern re-imagining of the Iliad brought together in one volume. Includes an appendix, edited by Christopher Reid, of the unfinished last section...... £16.99 WE BRITISH: THE POETRY OF A PEOPLE Andrew Marr...... £25 40 SONNETS Don Paterson His first new collection sinceRain in 2009...... £14.99 COLLECTED POEMS Vikram Seth...... £30 COLLECTED POEMS AND DRAWINGS OF STEVIE SMITH Stevie Smith, edited by William May...... £35 AN ANTHOLOGY OF MINE Rex Whistler, introduction by Hugh Cecil & Mirabel Cecil A facsimile edition of the “little anthology” of favourite poems compiled and illustrated in an exercise book by RW in 1923, when he was 18. In a slipcase with an introductory booklet by the Cecils & with an afterword by Laurence Whistler...... £40

LITERATURE & IDEAS

HOPE WITHOUT OPTIMISM Terry Eagleton Pandora opened the box into which Professor Eagleton shines his inimitable light...... £18.99 THE POWER OF READING: FROM SOCRATES TO TWITTER Frank Furedi...... £20 WEATHERLAND: WRITERS AND ARTISTS UNDER ENGLISH SKIES Alexandra Harris A fascinating book about the pathetic fallacy on a grand scale, from the author of the superb The Romantic Moderns - see our Recent Favourites below...... £24.95 THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER Arthur Miller, edited by Matthew C Roudane...... £30 THAT’S NOT ENGLISH: BRITISHISMS, AMERICANISMS AND WHAT OUR ENGLISH SAYS ABOUT US Erin Moore...... £14.99 LIVING ON PAPER: LETTERS FROM IRIS MURDOCH 1934-1995 Iris Murdoch, edited by Avril Horner & Anne Rowe From her schoolgirl days to her last years, in one large volume...... £25 THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS Marilynne Robinson A new collection of essays from the author of Gilead and Lila...... £18.99 SECOND HAND STORIES Josh Spero A memoir that celebrates lives connected through second-hand books...... £14.99 MORE LETTERS OF NOTE: CORRESPONDENCE DESERVING OF A WIDER AUDIENCE: VOLUME 2 Shaun Usher Yes, this is more of the same. But vol 1 was wonderful, and why shouldn’t there be more? (Will this become an Xmas fixture?)...... £30 THE BRAIN: THE STORY OF YOU David Eagleman As a distinguished neuroscientist and entertaining writer, this author is the ideal cicerone to the brain...... £20 UNFORBIDDEN PLEASURES Adam Phillips How do these, so often overlooked, compare with the prohibited ones and all their surrounding rules? The exuberant fruit of a wide-ranging intelligence...... £14.99 13.8: THE QUEST TO FIND THE TRUE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING John Gribbin...... £16.99 THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING: HOW IDEAS EMERGE Matt Ridley Not so much top-down as bottom-up. Revealing new book by the author of Genome...... £20 THE INVENTION OF SCIENCE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION David Wootton The story of how a shift in the idea of what ‘discovery’ and ‘progress’ might mean transformed the nature of scientific enquiry and the possibilities of knowledge...... £30 ART & EXHIBITIONS

NORMAN ACKROYD: A HEBRIDEAN NOTEBOOK Norman Ackroyd A twin to his delightful A Shetland Notebook (2014)...... £16.95 SYBIL ANDREWS LINOCUTS: A COMPLETE CATALOGUE Hana Leaper...... £30 FRANCIS BACON IN YOUR BLOOD: A MEMOIR Michael Peppiatt Peppiatt has written about Bacon before, but this is the first narrative of their friendship. He’s rightly been referred to as ‘Bacon’s Boswell’...... £25 THE BAUERS JOSEPH, FRANZ & FERDINAND: AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY Hans Walter Lack Accompanies the exhibition of the celebrated botanical artists at the Natural History Museum...... £60 BAWDEN, RAVILIOUS AND THE ARTISTS OF GREAT BARDFIELD Edited by Malcolm Yorke & Gill Saunders Illustrated account of the community in Essex where Bawden, Ravilious and other artists lived in the 1930s, and which continues today...... £25 PORTRAITS: JOHN BERGER ON ARTISTS John Berger An illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the world’s most revered commentators...... £25 ETERNITY’S SUNRISE: THE IMAGINATIVE WORLD OF WILLIAM BLAKE Leo Damrosch A generously illustrated account of Blake’s life and vision...... £18.99 FLOWERS IN CHINESE PAINTINGS: THE PICTURESQUE FOUR SEASONS FROM 10TH TO 20TH CENTURY A magnificent book from the team who gave us the glorious unfolding book on the 15-metre picture that was shown at the V&A in the Chinese Art exhibition in 2013...... £80 PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: MONET TO MATISSE Monty Don et al Explores the relationship in the late C19th between artists and gardens. Accompanies RA exhibition in 2016...... £48 DUTCH ART AND URBAN CULTURES, 1200-1700 Elisabeth de Bievre A fascinating unpicking of the Dutch Golden Age that focusses on the artistic particularities of seven cities...... £40 ASIA IN AMSTERDAM: THE CULTURE OF LUXURY IN THE GOLDEN AGE Edited by Jan Van Campen & Karina Corrigan Catalogue for the Rijksmuseum exhibition...... £40 MASTERS OF THE EVERYDAY: DUTCH ARTISTS IN THE AGE OF VERMEER Quentin Buvelot & Desmond Shawe-Taylor Catalogue from the Royal Collection...... £29.95 CHRISTOPHER W ECKERSBERG Kasper Monrad Catalogue of the exhibition at the Danish National Gallery (in English) of one of the most important figures of the Danish Golden Age...... £40 FLORENCE: THE PAINTINGS AND FRESCOES, 1250-1743 Ross King & Anja Grebe Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, the Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many more...... £50 GIACOMETTI: PURE PRESENCE Paul Moorhouse Accompanies exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery...... £29.95 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: EPHEMERAL WORKS: 2004-2014 Andy Goldsworthy Ten years of new wonders - vanished, apart from what remains in Goldsworthy’s photographs...... £50 PARISH CHURCH TREASURES: THE NATION’S GREATEST ART COLLECTION John Goodall A good idea for a book; nicely (and inexpensively) done...... £25 GOYA: THE PORTRAITS Xavier Bray Fine catalogue to accompany the autumn exhibition at the National Gallery...... £35 EILEEN GRAY: THE PRIVATE PAINTER Peter Adam & Andrew Lambirth Far better known as a designer and architect, Gray painted all her life too. This book uses previously unpublished work from the Gray archive...... £30 TINTIN: HERGE’S MASTERPIECE Pierre Stercks An illustrated monograph on the master’s work...... £30 THE MUNICH ART HOARD: HITLER’S DEALER AND HIS SECRET LEGACY Catherine Hickley The story of the 1,280 paintings, drawings & prints discovered by police in a Munich flat in 2012...... £19.95 JAPANESE ART AND DESIGN Gregory Irvine Published to accompany the reopening of the V&A’s refurbished Toshiba Gallery of Art and Design in November 2015, which houses the UK’s largest permanent display of Japanese art...... £25 THE ART OF DAVID JONES: VISION AND MEMORY Ariane Bankes & Paul Hills Excellent catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Pallant House...... £40 THE WOMEN OF KLIMT, SCHIELE AND KOKOSCHKA Edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco Accompanies exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna...... £40 Events at John Sandoe’s this autumn

20th October

Edmund de Waal will talk about his new book on his travels in search of the history of porcelain, White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts (Chatto, £20)

3rd November

Loyd Grossman on his new book, Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern (Merrell, £30)

10th November

Richard Bassett on his book (published in May) For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 (Yale, £25)

25th November

Peter Frankopan on his recent book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Bloomsbury, £30)

All events begin at 6.30 pm Wine and some food will be served Tickets cost £10 each To book, please telephone us, or email Signed, limited edition of MY BRILLIANT FRIEND by Elena Ferrante

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our signed, limited edition of the first volume of Elena Ferrante’s ‘Neapolitan’ quartet, My Brilliant Friend. First published in late 2012, the book immediately became a favourite at Sandoe’s and has been our best-selling novel ever since. The series has gradually been picked up by the international press and is now a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic. Besides being the first hardback edition, we believe these to be unique in being signed by the (pseudonymous) author

The edition is published by the Cuckoo Press in association with Europa Editions for John Sandoe (Books) Ltd. The books are hand sewn, rounded and backed, with red endpapers, and Japanese tissue inserts tipped in to protect the signature page. Both silk and leather versions come in a slipcase

The edition consists of:

Twenty-six copies, numbered A-Z, quarter bound in fine leather with Chiyogami blue and gold paper boards, two raised and tooled bands and hand-sewn head bands (£365)

One hundred copies, numbered 1-100, quarter bound in Japanese silk with the same Chiyogami paper boards (£195) MATISSE IN THE BARNES FOUNDATION Yve-Alain Bois 3 vols in slipcase. A fine publication on one of the most important Matisse collections in the world. The price will increase to £198 in 2016...... £175 PICASSO SCULPTURE Anne Umland & Ann Temkin...... £55 HENRI ROUSSEAU: ARCHAIC CANDOUR Gabriella Belli...... £31 THE FACE OF BRITAIN: THE NATION THROUGH ITS PORTRAITS Accompanies his TV series and an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery...... £30 ART IN BRITAIN 1660-1815 David H. Solkin A new volume in Yale’s superb revitalized ‘Pelican History of Art’ series...... £55 WAYNE THIEBAUD Kenneth Baker The most comprehensive book on this American painter yet...... £100 JAN VERMEER: COMPLETE PAINTINGS Karl Schutz...... £99.99 AI WEIWEI Tim Marlow et al Accompanies exhibition at the Royal Academy...... £48 BENJAMIN WEST AND THE STRUGGLE TO BE MODERN Loyd Grossman At the time of his death in 1820, Benjamin West was the most famous artist in the English-speaking world. Loyd will be talking about his book at Sandoe’s on 3rd Nov (see our Schedule of Autumn Events)...... £35 IMPRESSIONISM: REIMAGINING ART Norbert Wolf A useful general book by an authority...... £50

PHOTOGRAPHY

BEATON: PHOTOGRAPHS Cecil Beaton...... £50 JANE BOWN: A LIFETIME OF LOOKING Jane Bown The definitive monograph, with 200 black and white photographs, both portraits and photojournalism...... £30 WALKER EVANS: DEPTH OF FIELD Walker Evans & John T Hill...... £55 LIVES OF THE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS Juliet Hacking Same format as Thames & Hudson’s excellent Great Archaeologists, Great Builders and Great Naturalists (£24.95 each)...... £28 INDIA Introduction by William Dalrymple, photography by Steve McCurry...... £39.95 FORMS OF JAPAN: MICHAEL KENNA Edited by Yvonne Meyer-Lohr Presents 30 years of b & w pictures by this superb photographer. This is a ravishing book...... £45 KELLY KLEIN Kelly Klein Pics from a career among the icons of American style...... pbk £75 THE IMPORTANCE OF ELSEWHERE: PHILIP LARKIN’S PHOTOGRAPHS Richard Bradford, introduction by Mark Haworth-Booth That’s quite a title for a man whose fame is partly based on his reluctance to leave Hull...... £25 DON MCCULLIN: THE NEW DEFINITIVE EDITION Photography by Don McCullin A retrospective volume to celebrate the great British photographer’s 80th birthday, including 40 previously unpublished photographs...... £50 UNREASONABLE BEHAVIOUR: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Don McCullin Updated edition – 25 years on from its first appearance...... £25 LEE MILLER: A WOMAN’S WAR Antony Penrose & Hilary Roberts...... £29.95 IRVING PENN: BEYOND BEAUTY Merry Foresta Catalogue of the current retrospective show at the Smithsonian...... pbk £30 SEBASTIÃO SALGADO: OTHER AMERICAS Sebastião Salgado This is the first English-language version of Salgado’s early book: photographs from 1977-1984 of Mexico, Central & South America...... £30 ROMAN VISHNIAC REDISCOVERED Edited by Maya Benton We’re quite surprised to hear that Vishniac has been forgotten, but if you haven’t come across him before then here is a catalogue of the exhibition of the great photographer of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust...... £50

FASHION

GIORGIO ARMANI A handsome new volume to celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary...... £100 CLIVE ARROWSMITH: FASHION, BEAUTY & PORTRAITS Clive Arrowsmith, introduction by Martyn Walsh & Michael Roberts...... £50 MANOLO BLAHNIK: FLEETING GESTURES AND OBSESSIONS Manolo Blahník We might even be able to arrange for a signed copy...... £90 CORSETS & CODPIECES: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF OUTRAGEOUS FASHION Karen Bowman Fit for a fumble in the Christmas stocking? Disappointingly slight, perhaps...... pbk £16.99 THE HISTORY OF MODERN FASHION Nancy Deihl & Daniel James Cole 1850-2010, decade by decade...... £50 : NEW LOOKS Jérôme Gautier...... £65 DIOR BY AVEDON Justine Picardie & Jacqueline De Ribes...... £115 MARIANO FORTUNY: HIS LIFE AND WORK Guillermo de Osma The most complete book yet on this important designer...... £40 KIMONO: THE ART AND EVOLUTION OF JAPANESE FASHION Anna Jackson...... £50 LONDON COUTURE: BRITISH LUXURY 1923-1975 Edited by Amy de la Haye & Edwina Ehrman...... £50 THE FIRST BOOK OF FASHION: THE BOOK OF CLOTHES OF MATTHAEUS AND VEIT KONRAD SCHWARZ OF AUGSBURG Edited by Maria Hayward & Ulinka Rublack A delicious bit of vanity - a book of hand-painted ‘selfies’ by a well-to- do, fashion-conscious, 16th century German. Thoughtfully includes a pattern, so you can make an outfit at home...... £30 Marion Hume...... £75 DIANA VREELAND: THE MODERN WOMAN: THE BAZAAR YEARS, 1936-1962 Alexander Vreeland Harper’s, that is...... £40

ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS

THE AGE OF EMPIRE: BRITAIN’S IMPERIAL ARCHITECTURE FROM 1880-1930 Clive Aslet An illustrated survey of the churches, banks, civic buildings, public libraries, housing projects and so forth that were built around the world at the height of Britain’s might...... £35 THE DANISH COUNTRY HOUSE John Erichsen & Mikkel Venborg Pedersen Manor houses, chateaux and their magnificent outbuildings, with essays on the Danish nobility and their households...... £50 SOVIET BUS STOPS Christopher Herwig This is the book that all the Sandoe’s staff are clamouring for this Christmas. The dreary aesthetic of most Soviet buildings does not apply to bus stops: this is a cornucopia of eccentric flights of fancy, slightly the worse for wear. And you can arrange for a sympathetic snack with the CCCP Cookbook (see Food & Drink, below)...... £19.95 BRITAIN’S LOST CHURCHES: THE FORGOTTEN HOLY SITES OF BRITAIN’S CHRISTIAN PAST Matthew Hyde From churches in the Orkneys to casualties of Henry VIII and the Blitz...... £20 LANDMARK: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN 50 BUILDINGS Anna Keay & Caroline Stanford, introduction by Griff Rhys Jones A history of British architecture in 50 buildings, ranging from the utilitarian to the whimsical, all rescued by the Landmark Trust...... £25 EVERY ROOM TELLS A STORY Kit Kemp A second book of interiors...... £30 ROBERT KIME Alastair Langlands, photography by Tessa Traeger Designer, antique dealer, decorator extraordinaire...... £40 OSBERT LANCASTER’S CARTOONS, COLUMNS AND CURLICUES Osbert Lancaster A boxed set of three long out-of-print works - Pillar To Post, Homes Sweet Homes & Drayneflete Revealed - each brilliant for their erudition and comedy...... £40 BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND: ABERDEENSHIRE SOUTH & ABERDEEN David W Walker, Matthew Woodworth & Joseph Sharples...... £35 ALBERTO PINTO: SIGNATURE INTERIORS Anne Bony & Hubert de Givenchy, introduction by Linda Pinto...... £50 LOST COUNTRY HOUSES OF NORFOLK: HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND MYTH Ivan Ringwood, Tom Williamson & Sarah Spooner...... £29.95 LOST COUNTRY HOUSES OF SUFFOLK W. M. Roberts A handsome new edition...... £29.95 AN ARCHITECT’S SKETCHBOOK: NICHOLAS JOHNSTON: DESIGNS, DRAWINGS AND BUILDINGS Rosie Johnston, photographs by Christopher Sykes, with an introduction by Christopher Gibbs A generous slice of Nicky’s work over thirty-five years...... £30 THE HOUSE OF THURN UND TAXIS Andre Leon Talley An illustrated monograph on the spectacular family pad, St Emmeram, in Regensburg...... £60 DECORATIVE ARTS

IF THESE JEWELS COULD TALK: THE LEGENDS BEHIND CELEBRITY GEMS Beth Bernstein...... pbk £50 THE FABRIC OF INDIA Edited by Rosemary Crill Accompanies exhibition at the V&A...... £35 THE WORLD OF CHARLES AND RAY EAMES Edited by Catherine Ince...... £45 EARLY CARPETS AND TAPESTRIES ON THE EASTERN SILK ROAD Gloria Granz Gonick A fascinating account, and display, of the mysterious 500-year-old Chinese textiles in Japan...... £40 GRAFF Produced by the House of Graff, showing off some of their most famous baubles...... £60 A TOKEN OF ELEGANCE: CIGARETTE HOLDERS Martin Barnes Lorber et al A fabulous visual celebration of obsolete trinkets...... £35 AN ANTHOLOGY OF DECORATED PAPERS: A SOURCEBOOK FOR DESIGNERS P. J. M. Marks 400 years of decorated papers of all kinds - endpapers, lining papers, etc - collected by the bookbinder Olga Hirsch. This is a gorgeous book...... £38 DAMASCUS TILES: MAMLUK AND OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURAL CERAMICS FROM SYRIA Arthur Millner Beautifully produced. Spans C13th - C20th...... £60 PERFUME: A CENTURY OF SCENT Lizzie Ostrom The stories of 100 scents, ten for each decade of the twentieth century...... £16.99 BEJEWELLED: TREASURES OF THE AL-THANI COLLECTION Susan Stronge Spectacular collection of Indian jewellery, ancient to modern, and its European progeny by the likes of Cartier, etc...... £25 VOGUE THE JEWELLERY Carol Woolton...... £75 THE WHITE ROAD: A PILGRIMAGE OF SORTS Edmund de Waal The author of The Hare With The Amber Eyes has written an idiosyncratic history of porcelain, and his own fascination with it. He will be talking about the book at Sandoe’s on 20th Oct...... £20

TRAVEL

ENGLISH ALLSORTS Peter Ashley, introduction by Clive Aslet Ashley is a designer, writer & photographer who leans towards the odd and the neglected to produce an eclectic mix of Englishness...... £18.99 THE RAILWAYS: NATION, NETWORK AND PEOPLE Simon Bradley By the general editor of the Pevsner ‘Buildings of England’ series...... £25 THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING: MORE NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND Bill Bryson To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first round-Britain jaunt...... £20 THE DEAD LADIES PROJECT: EXILES, EXPATS, AND EX-COUNTRIES Jessa Crispin Partly an account of an American living and travelling, and partly an essay on exile...... pbk £11 CONCORDE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SUPERSONIC AIRLINER Jonathan Glancey...... £20 PALIO John Hunt A richly illustrated celebration of the extraordinary Siennese horse race...... £45 MAP: EXPLORING THE WORLD Laura Imaoka et al From the dawn of cartography to contemporary digital map-making...... £39.95 HIDDEN TREASURES OF LONDON Michael McNay Includes over 400 little-known treasures, from whole buildings (including Alexander Pope’s grotto) to details to individual objects...... £30 THE GILDED CHALET: OFF-PISTE IN LITERARY SWITZERLAND Padraig Rooney From Byron et al by Lake Geneva to Le Carré, Ian Fleming and others...... £20 THE HOTEL YEARS: WANDERINGS IN EUROPE BETWEEN THE WARS Joseph Roth A new selection of non-fiction writing by the author of The Radetzky March...... £16.99 BLACK APPLES OF GOWER Iain Sinclair London’s great explorer goes back to his childhood coast in South ...... £15 DEEP SOUTH Paul Theroux Travelling on back roads in the southern USA...... £20 PACIFIC: THE OCEAN OF THE FUTURE Simon Winchester Everything from Captain Cook to Bikini Atoll - with China at the centre of everything and a rogue state or two to leaven the mix...... £25 THE NATURAL WORLD

PRIVATE GARDENS OF ENGLAND Tania Compton...... £75 LANDSCAPES OF THE NATIONAL TRUST Ben Cowell, Stephen Daniels & Lucy Veale...... £30 LABRADOR: THE STORY OF THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE DOG Ben Fogle Woof...... £20 THE LOVELIEST VALLEY: A GARDEN IN Stewart Grimshaw, photography by Tessa Traeger Those who recall our Cuckoo Press booklet in 2008, A Garden in Sussex, will not be surprised to know that this large format illustrated book on Stewart’s garden is simply the most gorgeous gardening book in the shop...... £40 ANOTHER GREEN WORLD: LINN GARDENS Philip Hoare & Alison Turnbull...... £18.99 THE CABARET OF PLANTS: BOTANY AND THE IMAGINATION Richard Mabey An exploration of encounters with plants and people, from the last Ice Age to now, showing how plants have challenged our imaginations...... £20 THE GARDENS OF ARNE MAYNARD Arne Maynard, introduction by Rosie Atkins...... £45 NORWEGIAN WOOD: CHOPPING, STACKING AND DRYING WOOD THE SCANDINAVIAN WAY Lars Mytting Unlikely though it may seem… as compelling as any Scandinavian thriller - obsessive, fraught with danger, but (hopefully) without any of the gore. We expect to see a surging market next year in Vintage chainsaws (the JoBu Tiger could double as an outboard motor). The section on axe manufacturers is particularly appealing. One of the Sandoe’s staff has already furnished herself with a new Gränsfors splitting axe, so pay attention...... £20 THE MAN WHO MADE THINGS OUT OF TREES Robert Penn Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it, then travelled in Europe and the USA to see what other people have made from ash...... £16.99 DANIEL OST Kengo Kuma, Paul Geerts & Cees Nooteboom A lavish book on the Belgian floral artist and designer whose epic, sculptural work is commissioned for palaces, embassies, fashion shows, etc around the world...... £59.95 THE COMPANY OF TREES: A YEAR IN A LIFETIME’S QUEST Thomas Pakenham In the form of an illustrated diary, Pakenham takes us from his own arboretum in Ireland to Patagonia in search of monkeypuzzles, Tibet for magnolias and elsewhere...... £30 THE ILLUSTRATED HERDWICK SHEPHERD James Rebanks By the author of the best-selling A Shepherd’s Life who also happens to have been tweeting photographs of his flocks and dogs at work for several years...... £14.99 OXFORD COLLEGE GARDENS Tim Richardson, photography by Andrew Lawson...... £40 JAMES SOWERBY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT’S NATURAL HISTORIAN Paul Henderson Sowerby (1752-1822) was an eminent natural historian of the period and produced numerous beautifully illustated booklets on fauna, flora, fossils and minerals. Published in association with the Natural History Museum...... £35 GREAT GARDENS OF LONDON Victoria Summerly, photography by Marianne Majerus & Hugo Rittson Thomas Thirty gardens revealed, including the American Ambassador’s in Regent’s Park, and the garden at No. 10...... £30

FOOD & DRINK

A NATURAL HISTORY OF WINE Rob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall...... £25 THE ONE POT COOK Hattie Ellis...... £20 RIVER COTTAGE: LOVE YOUR LEFTOVERS: RECIPES FOR THE RESOURCEFUL COOK Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Even the alliteration gives us the shivers...... £20 MODERN HISTORY OF ITALIAN WINE Walter Filiputti...... £45 10 MINUTE SUPPERS FOR CHILDREN Poppy Fraser Quick and delicious...... £12.99 THE OXFORD COMPANION TO WINE Edited by Julia Harding & Jancis Robinson The 4th edition, comprehensively revised...... £40 SIMPLY NIGELLA: FEEL GOOD FOOD Nigella Lawson...... £26 THE CLAIRE MACDONALD GAME COOKBOOK Claire MacDonald...... £20 INSIDE CHEFS’ FRIDGES: 40 OF EUROPE’S MOST INTERESTING CHEFS OPEN THEIR HOME REFRIGERATORS Adrian Moore & Carrie Solomon ‘Caverns measureless to man’? See Corpus Cavernario Mayoricense in our Recent Favourites. (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall hasn’t contributed to this book but that may be because he’s eaten up all his lovely leftovers)...... £34.99 THE NORDIC COOKBOOK Magnus Nilsson Nilsson’s own book, Fäviken, was one of our favourites of 2012. In this he’s travelled around Scandinavia gathering less recherché recipes (i.e. rather more modest with the lichen and moss)...... £29.95 SPUNTINO: COMFORT FOOD (NEW YORK STYLE) Russell Norman How to feed a baby Sputnik? From the author of the celebrated Polpo, this is a book about what’s on offer in his New York bar...... £25 THE BOOK OF SPICE: FROM ANISE TO ZEDOARY John O’Connell Good culinary history...... £14.99 NOPI: THE COOKBOOK Yotam Ottolenghi & Ramael Scully The popular chef is off to Asia this time…you might be too if you want to get all the ingredients...... £28 THE SHERIDANS’ GUIDE TO CHEESE Seamus Sheridan & Kevin Sheridan Cheeses of the world, unite! By the well-known Irish cheesemongering brothers...... £16.99 A YEAR OF GOOD EATING: THE KITCHEN DIARIES III Nigel Slater Always delicious and beautifully produced...... £30 OYSTER: A GASTRONOMIC HISTORY Drew Smith A pearl for all walruses and carpenters amongst our customers...... £18.99 CCCP COOKBOOK Pavel Syutkin & Olga Syutkin The true Culinary Revolution starts here! Includes a recipe for ‘Napoleon Cake: The Hat Of A Defeated Emperor’...... £18.95

THEATRE & FILM

WOODY ALLEN: A RETROSPECTIVE Tom Shone Same format as Thames & Hudson’s recent big books on Spielberg and Scorsese...... £29.95 THE LADY IN THE VAN: THE COMPLETE EDITION Alan Bennett, illustrated by David Gentleman Combining both memoir, screenplay and diary entries...... £14.99 THE 101 GREATEST PLAYS: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT Michael Billington...... £18.99 EASILY DISTRACTED Steve Coogan One-time readers of the News Of The World will know most of this already...... £20 WORLDS ELSEWHERE: JOURNEYS AROUND SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE Andrew Dickson Travelling from Robben Island to Bollywood…Four continents and 600 years… An attempt to understand how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why...... £20 DIETRICH & RIEFENSTAHL: HOLLYWOOD, BERLIN, AND A CENTURY IN TWO LIVES Karin Wieland A dual biography of a pair who started in comparable places and diverged, which brings out some of the age’s contradictions...... £22.99 GILLIAMESQUE: A PRE-POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR Terry Gilliam...... £30 THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER: A MEMOIR David Hare A first volume of memoir from the great playwright, up to 1979...... £20 JOY RIDE: LIVES OF THE THEATRICALS John Lahr An anthology of profiles and reviews by the theatre critic of the New Yorker...... £30 THE OXFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE Edited by Michael Dobson & Stanley Wells, introduction by Simon Russell Beale An updated edition of this valuable reference work, compiled by a team of distinguished Shakespearians...... £40 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR James Shapiro Or the seven year itch? Ten years ago, Shapiro had a great success with 1599: A Year In The Life Of William Shakespeare...... £20 SINATRA: THE CHAIRMAN James Kaplan...... £30 MAGGIE SMITH: A BIOGRAPHY Michael Coveney...... £20 A STAR IS BORN: THE MOMENT AN ACTRESS BECOMES AN ICON George Tiffin A handsomely produced volume examining the key moments for 70 actresses, from the author of the excellent All The Best Lines, an anthology of quotes from the movies (pbk £15)...... £25 ORSON WELLES: VOLUME 3: ONE-MAN BAND Simon Callow...... £25

MUSIC

THE OTHER CLASSICAL MUSICS: FIFTEEN GREAT TRADITIONS Edited by Michael Church A splendid, wide-ranging illustrated book exploring non-Western classical music traditions...... £25 BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONIES: AN ARTISTIC VISION Lewis Lockwood...... £20 AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: HOW DEBUSSY CREATED A NEW MUSIC FOR THE MODERN WORLD Harvey Lee Snyder...... £24 O SING UNTO THE LORD: A HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC Andrew Gant...... £20 THE LIVES OF GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL David Hunter...... £30 RECKLESS Chrissie Hynde An honest and lively memoir of the 80s music scene and after...... £20 I’LL NEVER WRITE MY MEMOIRS Grace Jones...... £20 OVER THE TOP AND BACK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY Tom Jones My, my, my. Why, why, why? Fie, fie, fie!...... £20 REAL LIFE ROCK: THE COMPLETE TOP TEN COLUMNS, 1986-2014 Greil Marcus, introduction by Dave Eggers...... £25 NOTES FROM THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: THE LIFE OF LOU REED Howard Sounes...... £20 M TRAIN Patti Smith “A meditation on travel, detective shows, literature and coffee” from the author of the hugely popular Just Kids...... £18.99

HUMOUR

WOULD YOU TREAD ON A QUADRUPED?: AN ANIMAL ALPHABET OF QUESTIONABLE RHYMES Anthony Barnett, illustrated by Natalie Cohen ‘Would you wallop a scallop?’ and other eccentric delights. With delicious illustrations...... pbk £7.50 NOTES FROM THE SOFA Raymond Briggs...... £14.99 THE WICKED WIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II Compiled by Karen Dolby A delightful concoction for after lunch on Christmas Day...... £9.99 WE GO TO THE GALLERY: A DUNG BEETLE LEARNING GUIDE Miriam Elia Sharp and extremely funny satire on the contemporary art world, in a style not dissimilar to that of an old Ladybird book: in Elia’s words, ‘Preparing young people for a lifetime of crippling uncertainty’. When first published, this book was named after a more elegant creature, but lawyers caused it to be pulped...... pbk £8.99 HIRSCHFELD CENTURY: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AND HIS AGE David Leopold...... £30 THE LUNATICS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM: POLITICAL LETTERS TO THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Iain Hollingshead...... £12.99 THE DEVIL’S FINANCIAL DICTIONARY Jason Zweig A financial guide that takes its lead from Ambrose Bierce’s original Devil’s Dictionary. Intelligent and bitingly funny...... £12.99 Those who employed the lawyers referred to above have had the idea to produce some skits on the idea of the old-fashioned Ladybird books. We’re still wondering whether it’s a coincidence. They are: THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF THE HANGOVER THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF MINDFULNESS THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF THE MID-LIFE THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF DATING THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF SHEDS THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF THE HIPSTER Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris Each...... £6.99

CHILDREN’S

THE SNOW QUEEN Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Sanna Annukka Retold and illustrated by the wonderful Finnish illustrator who gave us The Fir Tree a couple of years ago. Ages 6+...... £9.99 THE QUEEN’S HANDBAG Steve Antony A jolly romp around Britain, for ages 5 and under...... £11.99 THE BOY AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN John Boyne Another novel from the author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, about a servant’s child growing up in the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Ages 10+...... £12.99 IMAGINARY FRED Eoin Colfer, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers An invisible friend. This book comes in two sizes, one large and one... less large (but not mini). Ages 3+ Both formats hbk...... £12.99 THE RIDDLEMASTER Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Stephanie Jorisch There is buried treasure on the island across the water, if only you can get there… Ages 4+...... £10.95 HEARTSONG Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jane Ray A short novel set in Venice, about a dumb foundling who discovers her voice through the music of the orphanage music master, Antonio Vivaldi. Ages 8+...... £9.99 THE SECRETS OF THE WILD WOOD Tonke Dragt The sequel to the superb The Letter For The King, likewise illustrated by the author and beautifully published. Ages 8-12...... £16.99 THE LION AND THE BIRD Marianne Dubuc A delightful story about a friendship and loneliness, written and illustrated by the French-Canadian graphic artist/author of the glorious A Lion In Paris. Ages 6 and under...... £11.99 PARIS UP, UP AND AWAY Helene Druvert The Eiffel Tower is bored… and so off it goes for a wander around the sights of Paris. A story told in rhyme with stylish (and slightly fragile) laser-cut illustrations. Ages 3-6...... £14.95 MONSTERS Emerald Fennell Two friends show suspicious interest in a murder on a Cornish beach in the holidays… Ages 12+...... pbk £7.99 A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould The true story of Father Christmas - snow, kidnapping, elves and an eleven-year boy called Nikolas. Ages 8+...... £12.99 QUEEN GUINEVERE: OTHER STORIES FROM THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR Mary Hoffman, illustrated by Christina Balit Large format illustrated book with delicious tales of some of the women (a change from all those knights…) Ages 7+...... £14.99 GO HOME, LITTLE ONE Cate James Florence discovers what happens with animals in winter as she goes for a walk in the dark forest with her squirrel friends. A nicely illustrated and narrated tale for 4+...... £11.99 TWIT AND HOWLET AND THE BALLOON Barbara Jones Reprint of the 1970 classic by the celebrated ‘vernacular’ artist. It’s about a pair of owls who leave their oak tree behind and go travelling. Ages 3+...... £12 HOW TO BE: HOW TO GROW UP TO BE HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE Munro Leaf From the author of the classic The Story Of Ferdinand, a selection from his guides to good behaviour...... £14.99 THE BEAR AND THE PIANO David Litchfield An entertaining illustrated tale about a bear who learns to play the piano and goes to New York. Ages 4+...... £11.99 THE RIDE-BY-NIGHTS Walter de la Mare, illustrated by Carolina Rabei Like last year’s Snow (and in fact the second in a series of four), another pairing of a de la Mare poem with Rabei’s attractive illustrations. This time it’s witches and Halloween. Ages 3-5...... pbk £6.99/hbk £12.99 THE ADVENTURES OF MISS PETITFOUR Anne Michaels A foray into children’s literature from Michaels sees Miss Petitfour flying about with her many cats paw-to-tail in tow. Ages 6+...... £10.99 AN EAGLE IN THE SNOW Michael Morpurgo A moral thriller set in 1940. Ages 9+...... £12.99 THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE Patrick Ness What if you were just ordinary, and had greatness thrust upon you…? From the author of A Monster Calls and the ‘Chaos’ trilogy. Ages 11+...... £12.99 THE OXFORD COMPANION TO FAIRY TALES Edited by Jack Zipes A new edition containing 100+ new entries...... £35 GOTH GIRL AND THE WUTHERING FRIGHT Chris Riddell The third book about Ada and her friends from Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Ages 8+...... £10.99 MAGNUS CHASE AND THE SWORD OF SUMMER Rick Riordan The first in a new adventure series from the author of the Percy Jackson books - this time, however, the Norse gods rule. Ages 9+...... £14.99 HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE: ILLUSTRATED EDITION J K Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay A new, larger-format edition with colour illustrations throughout...... £30 THE WOLF WILDER Katherine Rundell, with illustrations by Gelrev Ongbico From the author of the wonderful Rooftoppers, here is a magnificent, fast-paced, imaginative adventure set in snowy Russia in the latter days of the Tsars, with wolves, children, revolution, courage, a really bad baddie and a tremendous heroine. Sparks come off it. Ages 9-90, and could possibly cheer up even the most jaded teenagers...... £12.99 SCHOOL SHIP TOBERMORY Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by Iain McIntosh A dastardly plot is uncovered on a sail-powered training ship. Ages 6+...... £9.99 THE MELLOPS GO SPELUNKING Tomi Ungerer Let us go a-Mellopping once again with this excellent family of pigs. Ages 3-6...... £9.95 RUFUS: THE BAT WHO LOVED COLOURS Tomi Ungerer A reprint of this classic Ungerer tale. Ages 3-6...... £10.95 SOME OF OUR RECENT FAVOURITES

AGENTS OF EMPIRE: KNIGHTS, CORSAIRS, JESUITS AND SPIES IN THE 16TH- CENTURY MEDITERRANEAN WORLD Noel Malcolm This book focuses on two families - the Brunis and the Brutis - across three generations during the C16th, to show how, despite the conflicts and the rhetoric, the Ottoman and Christian power blocs were in fact very porous. A wide-ranging and illuminating account of Mediterranean culture, the product of astonishing archival sleuthing in a panoply of languages. This is not a quick read, but it is one that will change your ideas about the Renaissance and the development of Mediterranean Europe...... £30

FROM VENICE TO ISTANBUL Rick Stein Perhaps this could be a culinary accompaniment to Noel Malcolm’s Agents of Empire (see above) for it covers the same geographical territory. There are recipes in the book from countries all down the eastern Mediterranean coast (with a slight bias to Greece and Italy) and they range from very simple Mezze to more adventurous dinner party centrepieces such as Albanian Baked Lamb. Given the subject, and Stein’s Padstow cooking empire, there is a strong seafood focus in the book which looks to be among the best of the CCCC (Celeb Chef Christmas Crop)...... £25

LIGHT YEARS James Salter Nedra and Viri seem to have a perfect marriage, successful careers and a healthy social life, yet both feel unfulfilled. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Light Years illuminates what goes on behind the façade. Salter’s prose is characteristically lyrical. The narrative shares the slightly meandering quality of some of his other work, which has the effect of allowing life to a wide cast of persuasive characters...... pbk £9.99

THREADS: THE DELICATE LIFE OF JOHN CRASKE Julia Blackburn Craske was born in Norfolk in 1881 into a family of fishermen but was unable to work, being subject to ‘stuporous’ states which could last months, even years at a time. Cared for by his remarkable wife, Laura, he lived in poverty. When he could, he painted seascapes from memory; when bedridden he embroidered them, culminating in a 10ft long depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk. Julia Blackburn has made of his strange story a book of real beauty, teasing out the details of his life and weaving them together with elements of her own. His work survived in the first place thanks to the efforts of Sylvia Townsend Warner & Peter Pears; JB has done her part now in bringing it to a modern audience - and it’s wonderful...... £25 GORSKY Vesna Goldsworthy This short, entertaining novel came out earlier this year. Our hero is a soulful Russian oligarch building a palace somewhere on the Embankment for the benefit of a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is married to someone else (an English cad). There is an overt nod to Gatsby here. His story is deftly told by the bookseller responsible for making the library – who works in small, independent bookshop in Chelsea, as it happens. It followed that we should invite Vesna to do our Cuckoo Press pamphlet this year...... pbk £7.99/hbk £12.99

THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE Paulus Hochgatterer This chilling, seasonal thriller is set in a town in the Austrian Alps over the Christmas period. A young girl finds her grandfather decapitated lying in the snow, a discovery which stuns her into silence. The investigation is split between the town’s psychiatrist who desperately tries to coax her into speaking and a local battle- hardened and world-weary police officer. The whole town falls under their focus which makes the final twist all the more of a surprise...... pbk £7.99

ROMANTIC MODERNS: ENGLISH WRITERS AND THE IMAGINATION FROM VIRGINIA WOOLF TO JOHN PIPER Alexandra Harris The great battles for modern art and society were fought in Paris and Spain; but in England in the 1930s & 40s a very different modernist movement was underway which, for all its diversity, upheld a particular sensibility - gentle, lyrical, witty. This very readable cultural history roams delightfully this way and that - Hitchens, Nash, Auden, Betjeman, Brandt, Ravilious, Grant, Bell, Bowen,Vaughan- Williams, and many more. Illustrated...... pbk £16.95/hbk £19.95

AGAINST NATURE J K Huysmans Also known in English by its French title A Rebours, this is surely one of the most bizarre novels of the C19th. It tells the story of Jean des Esseintes, who retreats from bourgeois society into an extraordinary idealistic world of his own making. Houellebecq (see Fiction, above) owes a debt to this Decadent novel. It will shock and delight in equal measure...... pbk £9.99

THE FISH LADDER: A JOURNEY UPSTREAM Katharine Norbury An accidental journey in which the author follows a river from mouth to source in order to overcome her grief at losing a baby. Both honest and charming, this memoir is a gem about the healing power of nature...... £16.99 THE FISHERMEN Chigozie Obioma A very fine first novel about four middle-class brothers and an almost Biblical curse that ravages their family in 1990s Nigeria. The author’s voice is distinctive and clear, his language rich and yet straightforward. In large part told from a child’s point of view, the tautness of the unfolding drama, however domestic, makes one’s breath catch. The novel - especially its depiction of hope outdone by fear - can be read as a parable of recent Nigerian history, and its Booker Prize shortlisting is in this case well deserved...... £14.99

THE YEAR OF THE RUNAWAYS Sunjeev Sahota Also shortlisted for the Booker, this is a sweeping story of four Indian lives intertwined by chance and tragedy in northern England. Their stories, often grim as they battle with what it means to be an illegal immigrant, are revealed with wisdom and humour...... £14.99

EVERY OBJECT TELLS A STORY Oliver Hoare Some of our customers may have been lucky enough to see this astonishing collection of exotica earlier this year in Fitzroy Square - antiquities from Europe to the Far East, the 13th Dalai Lama’s double bass, erotic scrimshaws, Andean bell stones… The catalogue’s appeal is partly in its superb reproductions but also in Oliver’s glorious narratives about the objects themselves, how they came into his possession and what they mean to him. A fine gift for those who are presumed to have everything...... pbk £30

A WHOLE LIFE Robert Seethaler A moving and delicate novella which tells the story of the life of Andreas Egger, a goatherd, who lives in a remote Austrian valley. As the 20th century’s political upheaval and technological advances encroach into this community, Egger remains, adapting but bound to his Heimat. The book has been read and loved by many of us here and has undeniable echoes of Angharad Price’s The Life Of Rebecca Jones...... pbk £8.99/hbk £12.99

PERSEUS IN THE WIND: A LIFE OF TRAVEL Freya Stark A book of essays by the doyenne of Middle East travel writers and ‘the poet of travel’ on subjects as personal and universal as happiness, beauty, education, acceptance of death and the spell of wanderlust. In luminous writing, it shows the motivations and drive behind the travels, and the woman behind the traveller...... pbk £9.99 THE ELEPHANT AND THE POLISH QUESTION: AND OTHER STORIES Helen Lynch An account of the author’s time living in post-communist Poland, written in the form of entertaining, informative and often (if you happen to be a Pole) poignant stories. The title is a reference to a joke in which a group of students is asked to write an essay on the subject of the elephant. The Frenchman writes on the love life of the elephant, the Englishman on how to conquer the elephant and the American on how to make bigger and better elephants. The German produces a 10-volume preliminary outline for an introductory essay on the elephant, the Russian writes a metaphysical essay entitled, ‘’Does the elephant really exist?’’ and the Pole writes on the elephant and the Polish question...... pbk £10.99

CORPUS CAVERNARIO MAYORICENSE S J A Encinas This is a staggering production and the second book on caves in this catalogue. A bottle of bubblebath to the first person who identifies the other. Besides cheering any melancholy potholers among our customers this Christmas, we hope it will raise the spirits of a few despondent bibliophiles who imagine that the internet has rendered books such as this unfeasible. It records every known cave on the island of Mallorca (and it’s riddled with them, vast and small), providing detailed descriptions, plans & elevations. It is produced by a small independent publisher based in the north-west of the island. Señor Encinas has trounced Coleridge (see Chef’s Fridges above). We wish him a very happy Christmas. Text in Spanish...... £125 We are sad to say that Dan Fenton has left John Sandoe’s after 22 years. We wish him every success and happiness in his new ventures

We shall also miss Sam Buchan-Watts, who has left us after 5 years before the mast to do a PhD on rhyme in contemporary poetry. He regrets that York is too far to commute and so do we

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