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0LEG G ORDIEVSKY Th e Am e ri can Agent: My Life in th e CIA Ri c hard L H o lm TIM H EA LD Life on Air David Att e nborough R OGE R B o wDLER E choing Voi ces : Mor e M em o ri es of a Country Hous e Snoop e r John H a rri s TH OMAS H ODGKIN SO N My Life as M e Barry Humphri es CHARLIE CAMPB ELL A Pound of Pap er John B ax t e r

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SHERIDAN MORLEY Sam Spi eg el: Th e Biog raphy of a Hollywo od L ege nd Natasha Fraser- C avassoni Nobody 's Perfect: Billy Wilder - A Perso nal Biog raphy C h a rlotte C handler JO NATH AN MIR SKY Th e Qui e t A m e ri can

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PETER WA SHI NG TON H e rmit in P a ri s l talo Calvino DAMIAN THOMPSON Violence A g ainst C hristians (Ed) J G Orban CHRI STO PHER 0 NDA ATJE Hom e /and : Into a W o rld of Hat e Ni c k R y an SEB AST IAN SHAK ES PEARE B ench Press Sven Lindqvi s t KAT HRYN HUGH ES On Not B e ing Able to Sl eep: P s y choan a ly s is and th e Mod em World J a cquelin e Ro se JONATHAN KAT Z Th e Ve il of Order Alfred Bre ndel MARCUS BERKMAN N Th e E sse ntial Spik e Mi/lig an (Ed ) Al ex ander G a m es ToM CoG HLAN World of Caffein e Bennett Al a n W e inberg and Bonnie K Bealer Green Cold Al a n a nd Iri s M a cfarlane Indulge nce Paul Ri c h a rd son Swee ts Tim Rich a rd son

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FRAN C IS KING Dancer Colum McCa nn DJ TAYLO R Th e Photog raph Penelope Li v ely J OHN DUGDALE You Shall Kno w Our V elocity D ave Eggers CHRISTOPHER HART S tar of th e S ea Jose ph O 'Conno r LILI AN PI ZZ ICHINI D o t in th e U niv e rse Lu cy Ellm a nn MAR TYN BEDF ORD Th e Fall Simon Maw e r AMA NDA CRAIG I 'll Tak e You Th e re Joyc e Ca rol O a te s SAM LEITH A Bo x of Mat ch es Ni c hol son B a k e r W ENDY H OLDEN T en St ep s t o H appin ess D a i sy W a ugh RA CHEL H OLM ES O N FIR ST NOVELS SU SAN C ROS LA ND

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RI CHARD GOTT is a l o n g - t im e lover o f Paraguay, and has w ritte n abo ut i t s fr o nti e r la nd s in L a11 d W ithou t Evil : Utop ia11 j oumeys Across th e So uth A merica n Wa t ershed, publi shed te n years ago by Verso.

FI~NCES SPALDING 'sj o/111 Piper in 1h e 1930s: A bstractio11 011 the Beach, coauthored with David Fraser J enkin s, w ill be published in April by Merrell to coin cid e with an exhibiti o n at th e Dulw ic h Pi c ture Gall ery .

O LEG GORDIEVS KY sp e nt e leve n years of his ca ree r as a Briti sh sec re t age nt in sid e th e KG B. H e was exposed in 1985 and pl ace d und er h o u se a rr es t i n M osc o w , fac i ng a n immin e nt d ea th se nt e n ce. H oweve r, w i th th e ass is ta n ce of British Intelli ge nce, he esca ped and was brou g ht t o Lond o n . H e survi ves, so n1 ewhere in E ngland , to tel l th e ta le , and h as w ritte n fo ur books, three of th em in partn ership with Christo ph e r Andrew.

DJ T AYLOR's ce nt e n a r y li fe of Geo rge Orwell w ill be published in J un e by C hatto & W indus.

AMANDA Cl~IG's fi f th nove l, LoJJe in Idl eness , a r ewo rkin g of A Mid summ er N ig hl 's Drea m se t in T usca ny, and fea turin g lv o Spo nge fr o m A V icious C ircl e, w ill b e published by Littl e ,Brow n in Jul y.

T HOMAS H ODGK INSON is currentl y working as a night porter in a ho tel in th e Alps, where he has become kn own as 'Jac k London', th o ugh he is not sure why. The snowboarding is good.

MARTYN B EDFO IW is a nove list and lec turer in c rea ti ve writin g at th e University of M anchester.

W EN DY H OLDEN's la t es t n ovel is Fame Fa1ale (H ea dlin e). H e r las t few months have bee n a race against tim e as sh e stru ggled to fini sh h e r fi fth novel , the am azingly- titl ed Azur Like It, a romanti c-co medy-c rim e-cape r se t in th e South of France, before the birth o f her first baby (as yet untitl ed).

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