TRADE BOOKS 2019 AUTUMN THE ROAD ART & THE ENIGMA ONLY THE TO BREXIT ESPIONAGE OF GENIUS DREAMERS Europe & the The Lawn Bach and Herzog, Decline of Social Road Flats Mozart Romanticism Democracy & Fitzcarraldo FIFTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENT RIT PRESS PUBLISHING NEW WAS BREXIT INEVITABLE? Europe and the Decline of Social Democracy in Britain From Attlee to Brexit ADRIAN WILLIAMSON The definitive account of the long road to the 2016 EU referendum. ɶ For everyone asking, ‘How did it ever come to this?’ here is one answer, in its full historic context ɶ Charts the nation’s relationship with the ‘European Project’, initially embraced by the Right and distrusted by the Left, positions each later reversed with vocal dissenters on both sides ɶ Unlike most Brexit books, this study will not date: while the outcome remains uncertain, the historic political, economic and social factors behind it remain unchanged ɶ Features many of post-war Britain’s most prominent politicians: Heath, Wilson, Macmillan, Benn, Powell, Thorpe, Thatcher and Blair Between about 1957 and 1979, British governments pursued policies loosely based on social democracy, with a strong commitment to full employment and egalitarianism. At this time, there was almost unlimited enthusiasm on the Right for membership of the EEC; the real debate was within the Left. 1975, when the nation voted by 2 to 1 to stay in the EEC, was a triumph for supporters of the European project. It was also the high-water mark of the UK’s commitment to social democracy. Full employment remained the central goal of macro-economic strategy, and the nation’s income and wealth were more evenly distributed than ever before (or since). But social democracy has been in headlong retreat since the rise of Thatcherism, a viable alternative to which was never identified by New Labour, whose own mixture of metropolitan social liberalism and finance-based capitalism came unstuck in the crisis of 2007- 9. The ostensibly pro-European forces thus came into the 2016 CONTENTS: referendum campaign in a very weak state. Tories were, at best, ɶ The Rise and Fall of British ɶ The Tories turn against unenthusiastic and many were hostile. Eurosceptic socialists had Social Democracy, 1945-2016 Europe, 1983-2005 taken back control of Labour. The forces of social democracy, triumphant in 1975, were beleaguered. It is perhaps not surprising ɶ A European Love Affair, ɶ Labour changes position, that Remain lost. 1960-1973? 1983-2005 ɶ ɶ ADRIAN WILLIAMSON is a QC and practicing barrister at Keating The Voices of Dissent, Crisis, Renegotiation and Chambers, London, an Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1960-1973 Referendum, 2005-2016 and the author of Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth ɶ The Referendum and its ɶ Conclusion of Thatcherism, 1964-1979 (Palgrave, 2015). Aftermath, 1975-1983 £25/$34.95 September 2019 978 1 78327 443 7 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB FROM THE INTRODUCTION: What, then, do I mean by social democracy?....The term has had many meanings over the years, but I equate this very approximately to the policies pursued by British governments, especially Labour governments, from the 1940s to the 1970s. These policies included: an explicit commitment to full employment as a central goal of macro-economic strategy; egalitarian and redistributive approaches to taxation and public spending; strong trade unions; a mixed economy, with utilities held in public ownership; comprehensive education; the welfare state; a substantial public rented housing sector. 2 www.boydellandbrewer.com NEW ART & ESPIONAGE The Lawn Road Flats Spies, Writers and Artists DAVID BURKE A modernist first (and home to Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius from 1934 to 1937), London’s Isokon building attracted writers, artists, architects – and some of the most dangerous spies ever to operate in Britain. ɶ The story of an iconic building with a remarkable list of residents and visitors ɶ Cocktails, glamour, spies – Bond would love it. SAGA MAGAZINE ɶ This book, like the Lawn Road flats themselves, is full of surprises. SUNDAY TIMES ɶ 32 black & white illustrations Completed in Hampstead in 1934, the Isokon, better known as the Lawn Road Flats, contained 32 apartments and was home to, among others, Henry Moore, Agatha Christie, historian V. Gordon Childe, Walter Gropius, designer (and Bauhaus member) Marcel Breuer, novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, Charles Madge (the creator of Mass Observation) and several senior civil servants. But many of their neighbours hid dark secrets: Arnold Deutsch was a senior Soviet agent and controller of the infamous Cambridge spies Philby, Blunt and Burgess; Eva Collett Reckitt, heiress and owner of Collett’s bookshop was an active Soviet spy; Andrew Rothstein was a TASS correspondent and agent; and the four members of the Kuczynski family in residence were all agents – and probably the most successful family of spies in the history of espionage. David Burke’s book answers many questions, including how much did Christie know of what was going on around her? She did, after all, write her only spy novel, N or M? in the Flats; how did so many foreign agents escape detection? and why did this particular building become a hub for spies, artists and writers? The reasons are many CONTENTS: and varied. In uncovering the whole remarkable story, David Burke displays a talent for detection that would no doubt have delighted ɶ Prologue ɶ The Plot Thickens: Christie herself. ɶ Remembrance of Things Past, Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and DAVID BURKE is a historian of intelligence and international Hampstead Man among ‘The Colletts Bookshop relations and author of The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Modernists’ Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage (The Boydell ɶ ‘National Planning For The ɶ Refugees, The Kuczynski Press, 2009). Future’ and the arrival of Network, Churchill and £16.99/$24.95 October 2019 Walter Gropius Operation Barbarossa 978 1 78327 470 3 ɶ 1935: ‘Art crystallises the ɶ Klaus Fuchs, Rothstein 312pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB emotions of an age.’ Musicology, once more, and and the art of Espionage Charles Brasch ɶ Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby ɶ Vere Gordon Childe and Austro-Marxism ɶ The New Statesman, Ho Chi ɶ The Isobar, Half Hundred Club Minh, and The End of an Era and the arrival of SONYA ɶ Epilogue www.boydellandbrewer.com 3 NEW LIVES AND LOVES OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITES MAKING THE AMERICAN SOUND Joanna, George and Henry Aaron Copland and the American A Pre-Raphaelite Tale of Art, Love and Friendship Legacy of Gustav Mahler SUE BRADBURY MATTHEW MUGMON The paintings of Joanna Boyce will feature prominently in the Reveals how Copland’s complex relationship with the work of National Portrait Gallery’s major Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition, Mahler shaped his vision for American music. which will open in October. ɶ A case study of the largely hidden role European music played in ɶ A biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre- the development of American concert music Raphaelites that gives a vivid insight into the realities of day-to- ɶ Features a cast of highly influential musicians including Nadia day artistic life and creative processes Boulanger, Leonard Bernstein and Serge Koussevitzky ɶ The careers, loves and daily lives of the Pre-Raphaelites, both ɶ Details the phenomenal mainstream revival of Mahler, after the major and minor period of obscurity following his death ɶ Features 62 colour and 28 black & white illustrations The iconic American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is Between them, Joanna Boyce, George Price Boyce and her suitor often credited with creating an unmistakably American musical Henry Wells knew all the artistic luminaries of the mid-19th century, style, a style free from the powerful sway of the European classics among them Ruskin, Millais and Rossetti (with whom George shared that long dominated the art-music scene in the United States. Yet a great deal, including mistresses). They wrote to each other not just Copland was strongly attracted to the music of the late-romantic about art, but about their friends, their favourite books, their travels, Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), whose monumental their passions and their quarrels. symphonies and powerful songs have captivated and challenged Their letters are a revelation, giving not only a comprehensive picture American audiences for more than a century. Drawing extensively on of what it was to be an artist at the time, but containing within them archival and musical materials, this is the first detailed exploration a powerful family drama and a most unusual love story. It is a love of Copland’s multifaceted relationship with Mahler’s music and story, moreover, told largely from a woman’s point of view. its lasting consequences for music in America. Matthew Mugmon demonstrates that Copland, inspired by Mahler’s example, blended SUE BRADBURY was Editorial Director of the Folio Society for 25 modernism and romanticism in shaping a vision for American music years and was awarded an OBE for services to publishing in 2011. in the twentieth century, and that he did so through his multiple roles £18.99/$25.95 September 2019 as composer, teacher, critic, and orchestral tastemaker. Copland’s 978 1 78327 454 3 career-long engagement with Mahler’s music intersected with 62 colour & 28 b/w illus.; 376pp, 24.4 x 17.2, PB Copland’s own Jewish identity and with his links to such towering figures in American music as Nadia Boulanger, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. MATTHEW MUGMON is Assistant Professor of Music at the The light their correspondence shines on the more famous painters of the period University of Arizona. is delightful. THE SPECTATOR £30/$49.95 August 2019 978 1 58046 964 7 12 b/w illus.; 240pp, 9 x 6in, HB Eastman Studies in Music 4 www.boydellandbrewer.com NEW THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY THE MEN BEHIND THE MUSIC Claude Debussy Bach and Mozart A Critical Biography Essays on the Enigma of Genius FRANÇOIS LESURE, Translated by MARIE ROLF ROBERT L.