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Finding Peggy
Transworld 2010; US$ 12.00*Now features never-before-published extra chapter* Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang warfare were part of daily life. Yet despite... more...
Ataturk
John Murray 2011; US$ 27.17This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies,... more...
Alan Clark: A Life in his own Words
Orion 2011; US$ 31.70The most outspoken and revealing account of British political life every written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power. more...
The Bolter
Little, Brown Book Group 2009; US$ 18.11On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge?s Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration... more...
A Rage for Rock Gardening
Short Books 2011; US$ 7.28A new edition of Nicola Shulman?s miniature masterpiece about the life of gardener Reginald Farrer A hundred years ago, there was a revolution in British gardening, as the garden changed from being a diversion of dukes to the hobby of millions. Few figures were more prominent in this renaissance than Reginald Farrer, whose passion for alpines, the... more...
Frederick the Great
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting but turbulent friendship with Voltaire. He was a military genius and... more...
Voltaire in Love
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Émilie du Châtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Château de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair and provoked revolutions both political... more...
Living a Political Life
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.00The first time Madeleine M. Kunin ran for office it was because she thought there ought to be more women in politics. In time she fulfilled that belief by becoming the first woman governor of Vermont. Throughout her career, Kunin found that the rules for women politicians were different: she would not be forgiven (nor would she forgive herself) for... more...
Cosgrove
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08This is the untold and long awaited story of the man under the slouch hat, General Peter Cosgrove?My name is Major General Peter Cosgrove. My task is to restore peace and order to East Timor. I plan to carry out that mission.? General Peter Cosgrove General Cosgrove's leadership of the Peacekeeping Force in East Timor saw him become the face of the... more...
Diaries: In Power
Orion 2011; US$ 24.45The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors,... more...









