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AURUM PRESS
ON TRAILS ROBERT MOOR 04 AUGUST, HB, £16.99, 9781781312582 Said to be a “strikingly original début from a tremendous new talent” in which the author explores the nature of trails, from hiking the Appalachian Trail to the biological
phenomenon of how the trails of ants are formed, melding travel writing and nature essay in the process. Rebecca Solnit is a fan, which is always a recommendation.
AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
TINY CHURCHES DIXE WILLS 01 OCTOBER, HB, £16.99, 9780749577681 The author of Tiny Islands returns with a delightful guide to 60 of the loveliest and most diminutive churches that Britain has to offer, many of which are known only to locals or tourists who are simply lucky enough to stumble across them.
ECONOMIST BOOKS
TREASURE PALACES MAGGIE FERGUSSON ED 10 NOVEMBER, HB, £12.99, 9781781256909 Exuberant celebration of the world’s museums, based on the feature in the Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine, in which renowned writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes and Neil Gaiman tell us about their favourite museums, including the Lower East Side
HOUSE OF SNOW RANULPH FIENNES FOREWORD; ED DOUGLAS INTRO 11 AUGUST, HB, £20, 9781784974589 From Michael Palin to Jon Krakauer, a bumper anthology (500+ pages) of writing—both fiction and non-fiction—about Nepal, selected by authors and scholars of Nepali literature. Foreword by Ranulph Fiennes, and all profits will be donated to charities providing relief to victims of the 2015 earthquake.
MACLEHOSE PRESS
BOOKSHOPS JORGE CARRIN 06 OCTOBER, HB, £16.99, 9780857054449 A journey around the world by way of its best bookshops.
POLYGON
Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London.
HEAD OF ZEUS
THE UN-DISCOVERED ISLANDS MALACHY TALLACK; KATIE SCOTT ILLUS 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £14.99, 9781846973505 The acclaimed travel writer returns with a beautifully illustrated “archipelago of myths and mysteries, phantoms and fakes” as he explores more than 20 islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error; from the well-known myths of Atlantis to the more obscure legends of Thule and Antilla.
Saddam Hussein after his capture by the US military in December 2003. It revealed that both Nixon and America had greatly misunderstood just who Saddam really was, and now he presents this “astounding and candid” portrait of who the notorious Iraqi president really was.
THE TUNNELS GREG MITCHELL 20 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9780593075968 The hitherto untold story of the escape tunnels, dug from 1962 under the Berlin Wall. The tunnellers risked prison, Stasi torture, even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin: they includeed a legendary cyclist, an American student from Stanford, and an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel.
MILITARY HISTORY
ALLEN LANE
BLITZED NORMAN OHLER 06 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9780241256992 The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy; yet this book reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs—cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops’ resilience—even partly explaining German victory in 1940.
BANTAM PRESS
DEBRIEFING THE PRESIDENT JOHN NIXON 04 AUGUST, HB, £16.99, 9780593077788 The CIA’s former lead interrogator tells the full story of the interrogation of
WAR & HISTORY PRESS
LINDELL’S LIST PETER HORE 01 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9780750966214 The story of Mary Lindell, the Comtesse de Milleville, a British-born but largely forgotten Second World War agent who smuggled a secretly compiled list out of Ravensbrück which gave the lie to the German denial that American and British women were imprisoned there.
PROFILE BOOKS
BOOTS ON THE GROUND RICHARD DANNATT 13 OCTOBER, HB, £25, 9781781253809 Against the backdrop of Britain’s shifting postwar security and defence policies, its former Chief of Staff brings 40 years of military service to bear on the fascinating story of how the British Army has shaped, and been shaped by, world events from the Cold War to the Good Friday Agreement.
QUERCUS BOOKS
HUNTING HITLER’S NUKES DAMIEN LEWIS
20 OCTOBER, HB, £20, 9781786482075
In the Spring of 1940, the hunt began for Hitler’s nuclear weapons. The author of Zero Six Bravo intercuts this account of the hunt for the scientists, the raw materials and the plant with the cloak and dagger intelligence game being played in the shadows.
TWO ROADS
QUEEN BEES SIÂN EVANS 08 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9781473618022 “Brilliantly entertaining” account of six legendary rival hostesses in the interwar years—Lady Astor, Lady Colefax, Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Mrs Ronnie Greville. With a cast of characters that includes Noël Coward, the Mitfords, and Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, it will have great appeal for “Gosford Park” and “Downton Abbey” fans.
VIKING
SAS BEN MACINTYRE 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £25, 9780241186626 “An exhilarating tale of fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy. It is a story of the meaning of courage”. This first ever authorised history of the SAS is published to mark the 75th anniversary of the feared and revered regiment. Bestselling author Macintyre is the first person ever to be allowed into the archives among top secret material
WILLIAM COLLINS
GAME OF SPIES PADDY ASHDOWN 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9780008140823
The former Royal Marine and Liberal Democrat politician with the story of a lethal spy triangle in Bordeaux between 1942 and 1944—and of France’s greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader Andre Grandclement.
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