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JONATHAN KEATES The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples David Gilmour ADAM LEBOR Jerusalem: The Biography Simon Sebag Montefiore GILES MILTON Venetian Navigators: The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the Far North Andrea di Robilant JONATHAN MIRSKY Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet Yangzom Brauen
BRYAN APPLEYARD Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier Edward Glaeser ANTHONY DANIELS The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee ALAN RYAN How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism Eric Hobsbawm MARK GLANVILLE Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory Chil Rajchman JOHN SUTHERLAND The Language Wars: A History of Proper English Henry Hitchings The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel Nicholas Ostler ERIC KAUFMANN Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways Olivier Roy FREDERIC RAPHAEL The Classical Tradition (Edd) Anthony Grafton, Glenn W Most & Salvatore Settis STUART CLARK The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos Brian Greene The Book of Universes John D Barrow TOM MARKS The Lost Art of Walking Geoff Nicholson AMOL RAJAN I & I: The Natural Mystics – Marley, Tosh & Wailer Colin Grant
D J TAYLOR Other People’s Money Justin Cartwright ADRIAN TURPIN The Anatomy of a Disappearance Hisham Matar URSULA K LE GUIN Custody Manju Kapur KEITH MILLER King of the Badgers Philip Hensher LEO ROBSON When the Killing’s Done T C Boyle ANTHEA BELL The Island of Second Sight Albert Vigoleis Thelen ANTHONY CUMMINS The Architect of Ruins Herbert Rosendorfer CHARLOTTE NEWMAN Summer Without Men Siri Hustvedt The Cookbook Collector Allegra Goodman Daughters-in-Law Joanna Trollope
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MICHAEL BURLEIGH’s Blood & Rage: A Cultural History o f Terrorism i s a v a i l a b l e i n p a p e r b a c k f r om HarperPerennial.
S IMON S I NGH i s t he au t hor o f Fermat’s Last Theorem, Big Bang and The Code Book.
ALEXANDRA HARRIS’s Romantic Moderns was published by Thames & Hudson last year.
CHARLES GUTHRIE i s a f o rmer Chief of Defence Staff and head of the Army. He served in Aden during the Sixties on three occasions.
RICHARD CANNING’s most recent book is Brief Lives: E M Forster (Hesperus).
URSULA K LE GUIN’s most recent book is Out Here, poems and sketches of southeastern Oregon, with photographer Roger Dorband.
JONATHAN KEATES’s most recent book, The Siege of Venice, is published by Chatto & Windus.
FREDERIC RAPHAEL’s Ifs and Buts, his fifth volume of notebooks, is published this month by Carcanet.
STUART CLARK’s The Sun Kings (Princeton) was shortlisted for the Royal Society’s General Book Prize in 2008.
JOHN GRIBBIN’s latest book, The Reason Why, is published by Allen Lane.
GILES MILTON’s Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War was published in February.
FRANK MCLYNN’s Captain Cook: Masters of the Seas is published next month by Yale University Press.
AMOL RAJAN’s Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket’s Greatest Spin Doctors will be published in May.
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