MAY 2010

MUSIC & FILM

FOREIGN PARTS

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MICHAEL TANNER Music and Sentiment Charles Rosen LEO ROBSON A Room and a Half Dir: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy DANIEL MATLIN Jazz Gary Giddins & Scott DeVeaux Duke Ellington’s America Harvey G Cohen CHRISTOPHER BRAY Clint: A Retrospective Richard Schickel

MICHAEL HOLMAN The Last Resort: A Zimbabwe Memoir Douglas Rogers JONATHAN RANDAL Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East David Hirst MIRANDA FRANCE Andes Michael Jacobs

ZACHARY MASON The Lost Books of the Odyssey

JOHN GRAY Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents Tony Judt JEREMY WARNER The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis JOHN STUBBS Shakespeare, Sex, and Love Stanley Wells JOHN MARTIN ROBINSON Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles Robert Sackville-West MIRANDA SEYMOUR Gardening Women: Their Stories 1600 to the Present Catherine Horwood STEPHEN AMIDON Manhood for Amateurs Michael Chabon SIMON HEFFER Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language Robert McCrum DAVID PROFUMO At the Loch of the Green Corrie Andrew Greig TOM FORT Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship & Fishing Luke Jennings

TIM MARTIN The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe Andrew O’Hagan PATRICIA DUNCKER Desert J M G Le Clézio S IMON BAKER The Dead Republic Roddy Doyle JANE CHARTERIS Burley Cross Postbox Theft Nicola Barker ADRIAN TURPIN The Stars in the Bright Sky Alan Warner OPHELIA FIELD Private Life Jane Smiley LESLEY DOWNER The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell

JESSICA MANN

LUCY POPESCU LR CLASSIFIEDS 64 LR BOOKSHOP 6

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

SARAH BRADFORD is writing a book about Queen Victoria.

BRYAN APPLEYARD writes on everything for The Sunday Times and is writing a book about everything.

RICHARD CARWARDINE FBA is president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

ADRIAN WEALE governed Dhi Qar province in Iraq in the second half of 2003. His next book, The SS: A New History, is published by Little, Brown this autumn.

KEITH LOWE is the author of Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Viking).

CATHERINE PETERS’s short biography of Dickens has recently been reissued by The History Press.

JOHN STUBBS is the author of a biography of John Dunne, The Reformed Soul (Penguin, 2006), and is currently writing a book on seventeenth-century writers and the civil wars.

MICHAEL HOLMAN i s a f o rmer Africa editor of the Financial Times. Dizzy Worms, the third novel in his satirical trilogy set in east Africa, will be published by Polygon in June.

NADIRA NAIPAUL worked as a special correspondent and columnist for The Nation and The Frontier Post for twelve years. She now lives in Wiltshire and is married to V S Naipaul.

ALEXANDER WAUGH is working on a p r o j e c t t o s a ve au t hors f r om exploitation by the Internet.

DAVID PROFUMO is fishing columnist for Country Life.

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