Tauris Parke Paperbacks AW 2015

tauris parke paperbacks Autumn & Winter 2015

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I.B.tauris

Autumn & Winter 2015

Autumn & Winter 2015

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new general books Autumn & Winter 2015

I.B.Tauris

Syria The Desert and the Sown Gertrude Bell A classic and timely portrait of Syria, by the legendary Gertrude Bell “You may rely upon one thing – I’ll never engage in creating kings again; it’s too great a strain.”

Gertrude Bell – traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy – was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th Century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant force behind the Arab Revolt and was responsible for creating the boundaries of the modern state of Iraq, as well as installing the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq and Jordan. Her knowledge of the Arab world was forged through decades of travel and the relationships she built across Arabia with tribal leaders and kings, who referred to her as Umm al Mu’mineen, or ‘Mother of the Faithful’. In the winter of 1906, she undertook an often dangerous journey through Greater Syria – Damascus, Jerusalem, Beirut, Antioch and Alexandretta and her portrait of the landscapes, people and customs of a part of the world that very few had explored at the time is now a classic of travel writing. Bell’s Syria illuminates a region that continues to preoccupy us today as well as the unique life of a remarkable, still-controversial and ultimately tragic woman.

August 2015 352 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £11.99 9781780766911 Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Gertrude Bell, CBE (1868-1926), ‘the Queen of the Desert’, was one of Oxford University’s most brilliant students and the greatest female mountaineer of her time. She was also a writer, traveller, political officer, archaeologist and spy who helped forge the boundaries of the modern Middle East.

Persian Pictures From the Mountains to the Sea Gertrude Bell £11.99 Paperback 9781780766928

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Vanessa Bell Portrait of a Bloomsbury Artist Frances spalding The definitive biography of Vanessa Bell, whose extraordinary life was at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet she has largely remained a silent and inscrutable figure. Tantalising glimpses of her life appeared mainly in her sister, Virginia Woolf’s, letters, diaries and biography.

Spalding draws upon a mass of unpublished documents to reveal Bell’s extraordinary achievements in both her art and her life. She recounts in vivid detail how Bell’s move into the Bloomsbury Group and her exposure to Paris and the radical art of the Post-Impressionists ran parallel with an increasingly unorthodox personal life, from her marriage to Clive Bell and her affair with Roger Fry, to her friendship with Duncan Grant, and her relationship with her sister.

August 2015 416 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £11.99 9781784532413 B&W illustrations Tauris Parke Paperbacks

‘Vanessa Bell emerges from Frances Spalding’s sensitive and scholarly biography as an unexpectedly formidable figure ... the central portrait is full and generous and it rings wonderfully true’ – The Times Frances Spalding is an art historian, critic and biographer, and a leading authority of Bloomsbury. She wrote an introductory book, The Bloomsbury Group, for the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Companion’ series, and for ten years she edited the Charleston Magazine. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Art History at Newcastle University, and was awarded a CBE in 2005.

Love in Bloomsbury Frances Partridge New introduction by Frances Spalding £10.99 Paperback 9781780766904

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Army of the Night The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance Patrick Marnham A gripping account of the life and mysterious death of a hero of the French Resistance Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured to death by Klaus Barbie, the infamous ‘Butcher of Lyon’, is revered alongside that of Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin’s story is full of unanswered questions and the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend. Patrick Marnham, winner of the Marsh Prize for Biography, thrillingly tells the epic story of France’s greatest war hero, bringing to light the shadowy and deceitful world of the French Resistance and offers a shocking conclusion to one of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II.

August 2015 320 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £10.99 9781784531089 16 B&W integrated illustrations Tauris Parke Paperbacks

‘... as gripping as a detective story.’ – Antony Beevor ‘A brilliantly sustained, atmospheric and often tensely thrilling narrative … This book is a remarkable achievement that evokes the whole tragedy of wartime France.’ – The Independent Patrick Marnham is a journalist and author, whose books include So Far from God (winner of the Thomas Cook Prize) and The Man who Wasn’t Maigret (winner of the Marsh Prize for Biography and an Edgar Allen Poe finalist). He has been Paris correspondent for The Independent, a reporter for Private Eye and Literary Editor of The Spectator.

Road to Katmandu Patrick Marnham £9.99 Paperback 9781845110178

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Ernest Hemingway Anthony Burgess New introduction by Patrick Marnham Unflinching portrait of one of America’s greatest writers by one of Britain’s most iconic authors Ernest Hemingway was ‘a man who lived it up to write it down’ and his life became the root from which his novels grew. At the age of 18 he was awarded a medal for bravery in World War I; he honed his literary craft in 1920s Paris; his macho image grew with his love of hunting, fishing and bull-fighting and was cemented during the Spanish Civil War, when he survived the bombardment of Madrid. But, by the 1940s, the darkness of his alcoholism and violent rages began to weigh heavily. Hemingway had become the patriarch of American literature but he was plagued by unrelenting demons and an insidious disenchantment with life. In this unflinching portrait, Burgess explores Hemingway’s fatal contradictions: his arrogance and self-doubt, his machismo and vulnerability.

He reveals a man who was as much a creation as his books yet who, even at his worst, reminds us that to engage literature one has first to engage life.

August 2015 160 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £9.99 9781784531188 Tauris Parke Paperbacks

‘Penetrating and generous’ – Sunday Telegraph ‘A superior contribution.’ – London Evening Standard Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, but altogether he wrote 33 novels, 25 works of non-fiction, 2 volumes of autobiography, 3 symphonies, more than 150 other musical works and reams of journalism in his role as longtime literary critic of The Observer and The Guardian.

Rabindranath Tagore The Myriad-Minded Man Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson New Foreword by Anita Desai £14.99 Paperback 9781845118044

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recent titles The Tangier Diaries

The Longest Day

John Hopkins

The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944

£11.99 Paperback 9781780768458

Cornelius Ryan £12.99 Paperback 9781848853874

Twilight in Italy

The Zodiac Arch

DH Lawrence New introduction by Jan Morris

Fifty Years of Travel

£8.99 Paperback 9781780769653

Freya Stark £9.99 Paperback 9781780766881

Rembrandt’s House

Tangier

Exploring the World of the Great Master

City of the Dream

Anthony Bailey

£11.99 Paperback 9781780769264

£11.99 Paperback 9781780769240

Iain Finlayson

The Lycian Shore

Persian Pictures

A Turkish Odyssey

From the Mountains to the Sea

Freya Stark £9.99 Paperback 9781848853126

Gertrude Bell £11.99 Paperback 9781780766928

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recent titles The Glorious Adventure

Rome on the Euphrates

Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus

The Story of a Frontier

Richard Halliburton

Freya Stark £12.99 Paperback 9781848853140

£9.99 Paperback 9781848857711

Seven League Boots

South from Ephesus

Adventures across the World from Arabia to Abyssinia

Travels through Aegean Turkey

Richard Halliburton New Foreword by Tahir Shah

£11.99 Paperback 9781780761206

Brian Sewell

£11.99 Paperback 9781780761381

Journey into Barbary Travels across Morocco Wyndham Lewis Edited and with an Introduction by C.J. Fox

Virgil A Life Peter Levi £12.99 Paperback 9781848859043

£12.99 Paperback 9781780763521

Tuscan Cities

Etruscan Places

Travels through the Heart of Old Italy

Travels Through Forgotten Italy

William Dean Howells Foreword by Matthew Stevenson

D.H. Lawrence

£11.99 Paperback 9781848855502

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£9.99 Paperback 9781848855328

recent titles Lifting the Veil Two Centuries of Travellers, Traders and Tourists in Egypt Anthony Sattin £9.99 Paperback 9781848857698

The Land of an African Sultan Travels in Morocco Walter Harris £11.99 Paperback 9781848855731

A King Condemned

Queen Victoria

The Trial and Execution of Charles I

A Life

C.V. Wedgwood New Foreword by Clive Holmes

£11.99 Paperback 9781780760483

Lytton Strachey

£9.99 Paperback 9781848856882

The Divine Supermarket

Elizabeth and Essex

Travels in Search of the Soul of America

A Tragic History

Malise Ruthven

£11.99 Paperback 9781780760490

£11.99 Paperback 9781780760223

Lytton Strachey

Italian Journeys

Alexandria

From Venice to Naples and Beyond

A History and Guide

William Dean Howells Foreword by Matthew Stevenson £11.99 Paperback 9781848855496

E.M. Forster Introduction by Lawrence Durrell £10.99 Paperback 9781780763576

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recent titles Edward Lear A Life Peter Levi Introduction by Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Twelve Days in Persia Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe

£12.99 Paperback 9781780765693

Vita Sackville-West £9.99 Paperback 9781845119331

News from Tartary

Horace

An Epic Journey Across Central Asia

A Life Peter Levi

Peter Fleming

£11.99 Paperback 9781780761398

£12.99 Paperback 9781780765037

Bayonets to Lhasa Francis Younghusband and the British Invasion of Tibet Peter Fleming £11.99 Paperback 9781848856981

Brazilian Adventure A Quest into the Heart of the Amazon Peter Fleming New Foreword by Giles Foden £12.99 Paperback 9781848857919

Perseus in the Wind A Life of Travel Freya Stark £9.99 Paperback 9781780762401

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Falling for Icarus A Journey Among the Cretans Rory Maclean £12.99 Paperback 9781848859562