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NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION SEPTEMBER


explores the theory that Iran, not Libya, was responsible for the attack; a hypothesis recently supported by a former Iranian spy.


GERRI CHANEL SAVING MONA LISA: THE BATTLE TO PROTECT THE LOUVRE AND ITS TREASURES FROM THE NAZIS ICON, 6TH, HB, £20, 9781785784163 Claiming to tell the “real story behind “The Monuments Men”, this is the compelling-sounding story of how curators at the Louvre packed away the Mona Lisa in August 1939 and spirited her away to the Loire Valley, along with many other masterpieces, to keep them safe from impending Nazi invasion. Self-published in 2014 and lavishly illustrated, the book has already garnered several independent publishing awards.


MELANIE CLEGG MARGARET TUDOR: THE LIFE OF HENRY VIII’S SISTER PEN & SWORD, HB, £19.99, 9781473893153


Fresh look at the turbulent and dramatic life story of Henry VIII’s eldest sister. She hurtled from one disaster to the next, and ended her life abandoned by virtually everyone, a victim both of her own poor life choices, and of the simmering hostility between her son, James V, and her brother.


KAREN DOLBY (ED) MY DEAREST, DEAREST ALBERT: QUEEN VICTORIA’S LIFE THROUGH HER LETTERS AND JOURNALS MICHAEL O’MARA, 20TH, HB, £9.99,


9781782439677 Using excerpts from her letters and diaries, this aims to reveal the human face of Queen Victoria, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother and, latterly, the great-grandmother of a royal dynasty. Published to coincide with the third season of ITV’s award- winning “Victoria”.


NORMAN EISEN THE LAST PALACE HEADLINE, 6TH, HB, £20, 9781472237286 Said to be an extraordinary


account of the various occupants of the beautiful Villa Petschek in Prague over the past 100 years, written by one of its most recent residents, a former US ambassador to the Czech Republic. From the optimistic Jewish financial baron who built it after the First World War, to the former child star who used it as her stage to help further the Velvet Revolution, it “weaves a tapestry as vast and intricate as any that hang in the palace itself”.


DAVID GILMOUR THE BRITISH IN INDIA: THREE CENTURIES OF AMBITION AND EXPERIENCE ALLEN LANE, 6TH, HB, £30, 9780241004524 This panoramic social history sets out to chronicle the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes who lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I to well into that of Elizabeth II. Gilmour takes in the ordinary lives of those little written about before: soldiers, officials, businessmen, doctors, planters, engineers and more, as well as their children, wives and sisters.


fiction, a social history of the Londoners who lived in a house in Finborough Road in London’s Little Chelsea between 1871 and 1930, a building the author now lives in. They include bodice- makers, booksellers, a bigamist and an Irish barrister.


GEORGE MORTON-JACK THE INDIAN EMPIRE AT WAR: FROM JIHAD TO VICTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE INDIAN ARMY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR LITTLE BROWN, 6TH, HB, £25, 9781408707692 Billed as a “brilliantly original take on the First World War”, this traces the hitherto overlooked story of the Indian army’s journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the conflict, which also throws new light on the development of Islamic jihad and the history of Indian independence.


Deeply personal account of both the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War, written by an author who was woken by her mother aged seven, and told the news that her uncle had been killed in the Falkland Islands. Drawing on numerous interviews and perhaps unprecedented access to the regiment, it’s motivated in part by her wish to understand what happened and why, but is also a portrait of Thatcher’s Britain, and a book about culture, class, manhood and the place of the Army in national life.


ROBERT HUTTON AGENT JACK: THE TRUE STORY OF MI5’S SECRET NAZI HUNTER WEIDENFELD, 6TH, HB, £20, 9781474605113 Revealed for the first time, the “astonishing” true story of Eric Roberts, the former bank clerk from Epsom at the heart of Operation Fifth Column, the secret Second World War operation to flush out traitors and Nazi sympathisers on British soil. Roberts—codenamed Jack King—penetrated the Communist Party, the British Union of Fascists and then played his greatest role as Hitler’s man in London.


JEFFREY P GREEN BLACK AMERICANS IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN PEN & SWORD, PB, £12.99, 9781526737595 Said to be the first study of its kind, this documents the lives of Black Americans throughout the Victorian period, refugees from slavery who worked as domestic servants, qualified as doctors, wrote books, taught in schools, and laboured in factories and on ships.


CLARE HASTINGS THE HOUSE IN LITTLE CHELSEA PIMPERNEL PRESS, 6TH, HB, £12.99,


9781910258965 Blending history and


GILES MILTON D-DAY: THE SOLDIER’S STORY JOHN MURRAY, 20TH, HB, £25, 9781473649019 Ahead of the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, the renowned writer and historian brings us the “definitive soldier-on-the- beach” account, told through the eyes of those who took part.


GILES MORGAN A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS POCKET ESSENTIALS, 27TH, PB, £9.99, 9780857301666 Compact account of the Anglo-Saxon era and its people, from early migrants such as Angles, Saxons and Jutes to the dramatic end of the period following William the Conqueror’s victory at the Battle of Hastings. Publication coincides with a British Library exhibition on Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (October 2018 to February 2019).


JENNI MURRAY A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 21 WOMEN ONEWORLD, 6TH, HB, £16.99, 9781786074102 The BBC Radio 4 “Woman’s Hour” presenter and author of “A History of Britain in 21 Women” returns with the worldwide version which includes figures both familiar and more obscure like Joan of Arc, Coco Chanel, Margaret Atwood, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Hatshepsut and Wangari Maathai. A superlead for Oneworld.


NEIL OLIVER THE STORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN 100 PLACES BANTAM PRESS, 20TH, HB, £25, 9780593079799 The TV historian takes a “wonderfully engaging” personal tour of Britain and Ireland through 100 places to tell the story of these islands. From Grime’s Graves to Stirling Castle, some locations are well-known, some obscure, and some have particular significance for Oliver himself. Publication coincides with 30-date theatre tour throughout the autumn.


HELEN PARR OUR BOYS: THE STORY OF A PARATROOPER ALLEN LANE, 6TH HB, £20, 9780241288948


LESLIE PEIRCE EMPRESS OF THE EAST: HOW A SLAVE GIRL BECAME QUEEN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE ICON, 6TH, HB, £20, 9781785783494 Love the sound of this biography of Roxelana, who was brought to Constantinople in the early 16th century by slave traders from her native Ruthenia (modern-day Ukraine) to become a concubine to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and who subsequently rose to become the Ottoman Empire’s only queen.


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LOST MASTERPIECES YALE, HB, £25, 9780300234770 First English-language biography of Shchukin, the successful Moscow textiles merchant and pioneering art collector who was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, and whose lost collection of paintings was recently exhibited to great acclaim in Paris.


MARK SIMMONS IAN FLEMING AND OPERATION GOLDEN EYE: KEEPING SPAIN OUT OF WORLD WAR II CASEMATE, HB, £19.99, 9781612006857 Full of colourful characters and unbelievable schemes, an account of how Ian Fleming and his operational colleagues used intelligence and espionage to ensure that Spain did not ally itself with Germany during the Second World War. This period supplied much of the background for Fleming’s fiction.


IAN RUTLEDGE SEA OF TROUBLES: THE EUROPEAN CONQUEST OF THE ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN, C1750–1918 SAQI, HB, £25, 9780863569500 “Lively and sweeping” account of how the might of the centuries-old Ottoman Empire was gradually defeated by the six European powers of Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia as they jostled for control of the Mediterranean.


NATALIA SEMENOVA & ANDRÉ DELOCQUE THE COLLECTOR: THE STORY OF SERGEI SHCHUKIN AND HIS


ADRIAN TINNISWOOD BEHIND THE THRONE: A DOMESTIC HISTORY OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD CAPE, 27TH, HB, £25, 9781910702826 From the first Elizabethan age to the second, this is a fascinating-sounding history of the British monarchy seen through the eyes of those charged with keeping their secrets: their domestic servants. Among many others, we meet Queen Victoria’s team of 30 doctors, three dentists and a chiropodist; William IV’s assistant table decker; and some of Charles I’s 2,000-strong household.


DERMOT TURING X, Y & Z: THE REAL STORY OF HOW ENIGMA WAS WON THE HISTORY PRESS, HB, £20, 9780750987820 The nephew of Alan


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