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DANIEL SNOWMAN Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World Norman Lebrecht CHRISTOPHER BRAY Three Chords for Beauty’s Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw Tom Nolan HENRIETTA GARNETT Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown Angela Thirlwell Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonné Mary Bennett

WILLIAM TREVOR Taking Mr Ravenswood

ADAM LEBOR In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands Martin Gilbert JONATHAN MIRSKY Everything is Broken: The Untold Story of Disaster Under Burma’s Military Regime Emma Larkin ROBERT CHESSHYRE Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars Kenneth E Hartman

DANIEL MATLIN The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES Bomber County Daniel Swift NIGEL JONES Danger UXB: The Heroic Story of WWII Bomb Disposal Teams James Owen Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line Captain Kevin Ivison WILLIAM LEITH Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man Bill Clegg A Preparation for Death Greg Baxter RACHEL HEWITT The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today Francis Pryor

MIRANDA FRANCE The Elephant’s Journey José Saramago JONATHAN DERBYSHIRE C Tom McCarthy JONATHAN BECKMAN The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson SIMON BAKER The Financial Lives of the Poets Jess Walter OPHELIA FIELD The Slap Christos Tsiolkas FRANCIS KING Ghost Light Joseph O’Connor ROSALIND PORTER ON FOUR FIRST NOVELS

JOHN SUTHERLAND is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at UCL.

FREDERIC RAPHAEL’s novel Final Demands (the third volume in his The Glittering Prizes trilogy) has recently been published by JR Books.

LESLIE MITCHELL is Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford. His publications include a study of the Whig Party entitled The Whig World.

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.

DANIEL SNOWMAN’s books include The Hitler Emigrés: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism and, most recently, The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera.

RICHARD HOLMES is a military historian whose most recent books are Marlborough: England’s Greates t General (HarperCollins) and Churchill’s Bunker (Profile).

HENRIETTA GARNETT’s Anny, her b i ography o f Anne Thackeray Ritchie, was published in 2004. She is currently writing a biographical study of the women who inspired the Pre-Raphaelites.

CHARLES ESDAILE is Professor in History at the University of Liverpool and the author of numerous books on Napoleon’s wars. He is currently working on a study of the French occupation of Andalucia in the period 1810–12.

DAVID CESARANI’s latest book, Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945–1948, is published in paperback this month. The US edition was a finalist for the 2009 US National Jewish Book Award for history.

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