BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 2015 JOHN SANDOE (BOOKS) LTD 10 Blacklands Terrace, Chelsea, London SW3 2SR Tel: 020 7589 9473 [email protected] www.johnsandoe.com A selection of books to be published between now and Christmas OPENING HOURS: Monday-Saturday: 9.30-6.30 From 1st December till Christmas: 9.30-7.00 We will close at 1pm on Christmas Eve & New Year’s Eve We are open every Sunday: 11.00–5.00 (Sundays in December 11.00-6.00) 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 Robin Lane Fox 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 .......................................................