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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON

Caroline Sanderson selects the best of the season’s non-fiction. She says: ‘This autumn is full of promise with celebrity life stories galore, a new Nigella, a new Jamie and second helpings of autobiography from Sir Bobby Charlton and Russell Brand. And a surprising number of titles place this sceptred isle of ours under the spotlight, and consider exactly what it is to be British’

BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIRS AND HISTORY AA Publishing On Holiday Atterbury, Paul September, £19.99, 9780749558048 Handsome illustrated title which celebrates the pleasures of yesterday’s holidays through evocative amateur photographs, postcards and other ephemera.

AA Publishing

Arrow Eric Clapton: The Autobiograph y Clapton, Eric July, pbk, £7.99, 9780099505495 The legendary guitarist’s autobiography, new in paperback.

Atlantic Books Playing the Enemy Carlin, John September, UK edn, £18.99, 9781843548591, pbk trade £12.99, 690 Account of how Nelson Mandela used the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final between South Africa and New Zealand to woo the hearts of white South Africans.

The Battle of Hastings Harvey Wood, Harriet November, £17.99, 9781843548072 Vivid new account of one of the most famous episodes in English history.

McKie’s Gazetteer: A Local History of Britain McKie, David September, £30, 9781843546542 Beautifully illustrated celebration of a huge range of historical and geographical gems to be found across the UK.

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Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties Moore, Lucy November, £19.99, 9781843547778 A vivid portrait of the 1920s, a decade heady with glamour, invention and excess.

Bantam Press Dreams that Glitter: Our Story Girls Aloud October, £14.99, 9780593061220 Autobiography and style guide by the hugely successful girl group.

Seven Troop McNab, Andy September, £20, 9780593059500 In his first work of non-fiction for 12 years, McNab looks back on his 10 years of service with the SAS.

Untitled (John Peel) Peel, John September, £20, 9780593060612 Collected writings from the journalistic career of the Radio 1 presenter, with diary entries and letters.

Why Do I Say These Things? Ross, Jonathan October, £18.99, 9780593060827 From discovering B-movies to fashion, from diets to childhood sweetshops, favourite presents and from sex to pets (and back to sex,) Ross tells the story of his life.

Target Basra Rossiter, Mike July, £17.99, 9780593060582 High-octane account of the most dramatic British military action of the Iraq war in which the Royal Navy Marines captured the country’s oil pipelines and pumping stations, and then took Basra.

BBC Books Blood and Guts Hollingham, Richard August, £18.99, 9781846075032 Stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients, and major advances which saves millions of lives around the world. This visceral and sometimes macabre history of surgery accompanies a five-part BBC series.

World War II: Behind Closed Doors Rees, Laurence September, £20, 9780563493358 Fresh account of the history of the Second World War by the author of Auschwitz and The Nazis: A Warning from History. Accompanies a major six-part BBC2 series.

Bloomsbury The English House Aslet, Clive September, £20, 9780747577973 From back to back, to stately pile, a delightful history of the English home.

Bloomsbury

Austerity Britain: Smoke in the Valley Kynaston, David July, pbk, £7.99, 9780747592280 Kynaston’s second volume in his series about post-war Britain covers the period from 1948-51 through eyewitness accounts, newspapers of the time and previously unpublished diaries.

Bloomsbury

Just Me Hancock, Sheila September, £18.99, 9780747588825 Hancock’s follow-up to The Two of Us is a moving account of how she has faced up to life without John.

Resistance Humbert, A; Mellor, B, tr September, £14.99, 9780747595977 Candid and personal account of one woman’s role in the formation of the French Resistence, told through her secret journal. First produced in 1946, it has never been published in English before.

The Bodley Head CCVP The American Future: A History Schama, Simon October, £20, 9781847920003 Schama examines how America, realising that it is suspected and vilified by much of the world, has come to an anguished moment of truth about its own identity as a nation and its place in the world.

Century How Could She? Fowley, Dana July, £12.99, 9781846053863 Described as “the book to end all books on the subject”, it describes the years of abuse which Fowley, and her younger sister suffered at the hands of one of Britain’s largest paedophile rings.

Dear Fatty French, Dawn October, £18.99, 9781846053443 Autobiography of the comedienne best known for French and Saunders and “The Vicar of Dibley”.

The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide: Autumn Books | July 2008
NEW FROM UCPRESS

Autumn 2008

AUGUST

Bruce Grenville, Editor KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art With Tim Johnson, Kiyoshi Kusumi, Seth, Art Spiegelman, Toshiya Ueno, and Will Wright £19.95 paper, 978-0-520-25784-9

Jeff Kelley Half-Life of a Dream Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection £19.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25779-5

SEPTEMBER

Kevin Bales Ending Slavery How We Free Today’s Slaves New in Paperback £9.50 paper, 978-0-520-25796-2

Ernest Callenbach Ecology A Pocket Guide Revised and Expanded Edition £8.50 paper, 978-0-520-25719-1

David R. Montgomery Dirt The Erosion of Civilizations New in Paperback £9.95 paper, 978-0-520-25806-8

Marion Nestle Pet Food Politics The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine £11.50 cloth, 978-0-520-25781-8

OCTOBER

Joel Best Stat-Spotting A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data £11.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25746-7

Bruce David Forbes Christmas A Candid History New in Paperback £7.95 paper, 978-0-520-25802-0

Dennis Ford The Search for Meaning A Short History New in Paperback £9.95 paper, 978-0-520-25793-1

Christiane Paul, Editor New Media in the White Cube and Beyond Curatorial Models for Digital Art £17.95 paper, 978-0-520-25597-5

Michael Sullivan The Arts of China Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded £23.95 paper, 978-0-520-25569-2

Hervéé This and Pierre Gagnaire Cooking The Quintessential Art Translated by M. B. DeBevoise £16.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25295-0

Jeffrey Vance Douglas Fairbanks Copublished with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences £26.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25667-5

Lawrence Weschler True to Life Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney £29.95 cloth, 978-0-520-24375-0 £14.95 paper, 978-0-520-25879-2

Lawrence Weschler Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin Expanded Edition £29.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25608-8 £14.95 paper, 978-0-520-25609-5

NOVEMBER

Gholam Reza Afkhami The Life and Times of the Shah £19.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25328-5

Mark di Suvero Mark di Suvero Dreambook £29.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25865-5

Neve Gordon Israel’s Occupation £12.95 paper ,978-0-520-25531-9

Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman Nightshift NYC Photographs by Corey Hayes £14.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25271-4

Daniel Lord Smail On Deep History and the Brain New in Paperback £9.50 paper, 978-0-520-25812-9

Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, and H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH Know Your Chances Understanding Health Statistics £9.95 paper, 978-0-520-25222-6

DECEMBER

Denis Feeney Caesar’s Calendar Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History New in Paperback £11.50 paper, 978-0-520-25801-3

Richard Taruskin The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays £23.95 cloth, 978-0-520-24977-6

Richard Taruskin On Russian Music £23.95 cloth, 978-0-520-24979-0

JANUARY

Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq Foreword by Cynthia Enloe £14.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25729-0

Adam Frank The Constant Fire Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate £14.95 cloth, 978-0-520-25412-1

Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson, Editors Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry £19.95 paper, 978-0-520-25598-2

Gustaf Sobin Ladder of Shadows Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc Foreword by Michael Ignatieff £11.95 paper, 978-0-520-25335-3

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