O C TOBER 2002
ADVENT URERS
GENERAL
FICTION
CRIME SILENCED VOICES CHILDREN'S BOOKS AUDIOBOOK POETRY COMPETITION
LR CROSSWORD LRBOOKSH OP
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CHRISTABEL K ING News FrMn No Man's La11.d: Reporting th e World John Simpson CHRI TOPHER ONDAATJE The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict A l ien CHARLI£ CAMPBELL Brewe r's Rog ues, Villai11s & Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Bri tons Through the Ages Willi a m Donaldson
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PETER WASH INGTON Albion: The Origins of th e E11g /ish Imag ination Peter Ackroyd PATR IC K O 'CoNNOR The Unexpurgated Beaton: T /1e Cecil Beaton D iaries as th ey LIJere written (Ed) Hugo Vickers ALEXANDER WAUGH Y: Th e Desce nt of Man Steve J ones ADRIA BERR v cience: A History John Gribbin
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FRAN C IS KIN G Th e Critnson Petal and the White Mi c hel Faber ROB ERT S C CORDON Baudo !i no Umberto Eco ALLAN MA SS !£ A Life's Music Andrei Makine CHR ISTOPHER HART Platform Michel Houe l lebecq JOHN Du GDA LE Th e Book of Il/ nsio11. s Pau l A u ster SARAH A SMITH Indelible Acts A L Kennedy TH OMAS H ODGK INSON Th e Song s of the Kings Harry Unsworth SAM L EITH Middlesex J effrey Eugenides LILIA N PI ZZICH INI Th e Seven Sisters Ma r garet Drabble AIDA N HAR TLEY Zan z ibar Gi l es Fod en
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PHILIP 0AKES SIOBHAN D owD MI CHAE L THORN SU SAN CROSLAND
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PHILIP Z IEGLER is halfwa y through writing a biography of Rupett HartDavis, which will be publish ed by C hatro & Windu s. H e is enjoying the process enom10usly, although h e wonders whether the end product will be a runaway bestseller.
F l~ANK G ILES is a fom1er Edjror of the S uuday Ti111es. Hi s apoleou Bouaparte: Eu&laud's Prisouer will be ava il a bl e in paperback from Constab le Robinso n next month .
KATHRYN H UGHES is writing a book abo ut Mrs Beeron. She has mastered Stewed Ox-Cheek and is now moving on to Lark Pi e.
PATrU CK MAR HAM's The Death of ]eau ,\J ouliu is published by J ohn Murray.
M E Y APP is Emeritus Professor of th e M odern Hi stor y of Western Asia, University of London.
GEORDIE GREIG is Editor of Tat/er.
CHARLES ALLEN's most recent book , The Buddha aud the Sahibs: The Merr vliho DisCOIIered lrrdia 's Lost Reli,~iou, i s published by J ohn M urray. H e is curre ntl y researching the British invasion of Tibet in 1903, to be published as The Year of the Wood-Dmgou.
F ltANK M c: L YNN's most recent book, Wa&ous West , is pubhshed by J onathan Cape.
PETER WASHINGTON is General Editor of Everyman's Lib rary.
CHR ISTOPHER BRAY is w ritin g a biography of Mi c h ae l Cai n e for Faber & Faber.
ADRIAN BERRY is Consulting Ediror (Science) of the Daily Tele&mplr.
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