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...The Enchanters by James Ellroy, Hutchinson Heinemann £22/Knopf $30 Knopf, 448 pages...
...This Other Eden by Paul Harding (Hutchinson Heinemann/WW Norton) A novel inspired by historical events, and centred on an island of castaways located off the US mainland, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
...Yet the literary greats that really inform Powers’ thinking and writing are the Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, as well as the metaphysical poets....
...‘Testimony’ is published by Heinemann Photograph: Getty Images...
...His ‘A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby’ is published by Heinemann in May Photographs: Bridgeman Art Library; British Museum...
...Winder recreates the mood of 1934, while providing a sort of triple biography of cricketer Hedley Verity, tennis player Fred Perry and golfer Henry Cotton....
...Scout is met at the “flag stop” (Maycomb doesn’t run to a station) by Henry “Hank” Clinton. He’s a youngish man, with a boyish crewcut and a war wound disfiguring his otherwise handsome face....
...Blood Runs Green: The Murder that Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago, by Gillian O’Brien, University of Chicago Press, RRP$25 The 1889 murder of Patrick Henry Cronin, an Irish-American physician and political...
...David Vann is author of ‘Goat Mountain’ (William Heinemann)...
...I’m smarter and funnier as a writer. ——————————————- Paul Harding’s latest novel is ‘Enon’ (William Heinemann)...
...Byron Easy, by Jude Cook, William Heinemann, RRP£14.99, 516 pages Jude Cook’s debut novel follows Byron Easy, 30 years old and balding, on a train journey from London’s King’s Cross railway station to Leeds...
...Fooling Houdini: Adventures in the World of Magic, by Alex Stone, Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 320 pages With its long sleeves and longer secrecy codes, the world of magic is a subject best tackled by an insider...
...My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, by Henry Jaglom, edited by Peter Biskind, Metropolitan Books, RRP$28 British-born actor and director Jaglom taped his lunches...
...Bring up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, Fourth Estate, RRP£20, 411 pages This brilliant sequel to the astonishing Wolf Hall charts the decline and enforced disgrace of Anne Boleyn and her family as Henry...
...After a brief failed early marriage, he wed Marlene Anne Heinemann, who died last year, in 1966....
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
...To Pieces, by Henry Parland, translated by Dinah Cannell, Norvik Press, RRP£9.95 Russian-Swedish Henry Parland died of scarlet fever, aged 22....
...On China, by Henry Kissinger, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 586 pages Perhaps Kissinger’s most notable achievement during his period as US secretary of state was the secret negotiation of America’s “opening to China...
...The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women, by James Ellroy, William Heinemann RRP£16.99, 224 pages James Ellroy’s breakthrough 1987 crime novel The Black Dahlia opens with a rookie cop being given words of...
...Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate, £18.99 This year’s Man Booker Prize-winner is a convincing portrayal of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister....
...Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate £18.99, 672 pages This exercise in historical imagination produces a convincing portrayal of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister, but avoids most of the...
...There is disappointingly little insight in the 1998 critique of Henry Kissinger....
...Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of the Victorian Mind By Antonio Melechi William Heinemann £20, 276 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Ghost Hunters: The Victorians and the Hunt for Proof of Life...
...SPAIN The Disinherited: The Exiles Who Created Spanish Culture by Henry Kamen Allen Lane £30, 528 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Eminent historian Kamen has written a consummate work on Spain’s cultural...
...Afterwards By Rachel Seiffert Heinemann £14.99, 336 pages FT bookshop price: £11.99 In stripped-down prose, Seiffert explores a relationship heavy with the silences of things that cannot be spoken....
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