Tauris Parke Paperbacks Spring & Summer 2015 Catalogue

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THE TANGIER DIARIES JOHN HOPKINS Cult portrait of Tangier that takes you on a wild ride with Ginsberg, Burroughs and Bowles through the world’s most exotic literary scene Tangier in the ‘60s and ‘70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the ‘Interzone’, became muse and escapist’s dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites, who wrote, painted, partied and experienced life with an intensity and freedom that they never could back home. Into this louche and cosmopolitan world came John Hopkins, a young writer who instantly became a part of the bohemian Tangier crowd. Those intoxicating decades – Tangier’s ‘Golden Years’ – are long gone. But here, in the pages of Hopkins’ cult classic, all the decadence and flamboyance of those days is brought to life once more.

May 2015 256 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £11.99 9781780768458 Tauris Parke Paperbacks

‘It’s a beautiful work and I am only sorry it’s not longer. I’d be exceedingly proud to have written it’ – Paul Bowles ‘Every page drips with memories’ – William Burroughs John Hopkins is a writer who lived for many years in Tangier and was a central figure in the bohemian literary crowd of the ‘60s and ‘70s. He has written several novels, among them Tangier Buzzless Flies and The Flight of the Pelican.

The White Nile Diaries John Hopkins £15.99 Hardback 9781780768922

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THE LONGEST DAY The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944 CORNELIUS RYAN The multi-million-copy bestseller: one of the classic stories of D-Day One of the defining battles of the war, D-Day is seen as the moment when the darkness of the Third Reich began to be swept away. This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors – from high-ranking Allied and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast. Ryan captures the horror and the glory of D-Day, relating in emotive and compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion, its epic implementation and every stroke of luck and individual act of heroism that would later define the battle. In the words of its author, The Longest Day is a story not of war, but of the courage of man.

January 2015 352 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £12.99 9781784533090 B&W illustrations on 2 16pp plate sections Tauris Parke Paperbacks

‘Fifty years from now, the history of D-Day will, I’m sure, lean heavily on this book’ – New York Times Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) was a celebrated IrishAmerican journalist and author, most famous for his popular military history books on World War II, including The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far, both of which were made into major films. He was war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in 1941, where he covered the air war in Europe and the actions of Patton’s Third Army; and in 1947 he moved to the US to work for Time. He was awarded the Legion d’honneur and an honorary D.Litt from Ohio University, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection is housed.

London Was Ours Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz Amy Helen Bell £12.99 Paperback 9781848858497

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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.

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

‘Penetrating and generous’ – Sunday Telegraph ‘A superior contribution. Burgess brings empathy as well as knowledge to this study.’ – 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 thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three 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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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 the Second World War.

July 2015 336 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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TWILIGHT IN ITALY D.H. LAWRENCE NEW FOREWORD BY JAN MORRIS

‘Travel-writing in excelsis’: D.H. Lawrence’s classic and beautifully-wrought travels through Italy In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence travelled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy. It was here that he wrote Sons and Lovers and here too that we see the early flowering of the prose that would come to define Lawrence’s oeuvre. This is a travel book unlike any other, where landscapes and people are backdrops to Lawrence’s deeper wanderings – into philosophy, life, nature, religion and the fate of man. With sensuous descriptions of late harvests, darkening days and the fragility of ancient traditions, Twilight in Italy is suffused with nostalgia and premonition. For, looming over the idyll of rural Italy: the arrival of the industrial age and the brewing storm of World War I; upheavals that would change the face of Europe forever.

May 2015 192 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £8.99 9781780769653 Tauris Parke Paperbacks

‘If this is travel writing, it is travel writing in excelsis beyond the spectacle, beyond the experience, beyond even the interpretation, into profounder conclusions of the spirit.’ – Jan Morris D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is an icon of twentieth century literature. He began writing at an early age, publishing his first novel when he was 25. But Lawrence’s obituarists were dismissive and it was not until The Lady Chatterley Trial thirty years after his death that Lawrence was finally recognised as one of the great writers and thinkers of his age.

Etruscan Places Travels through Forgotten Italy D.H. Lawrence £10.99 Paperback 9781848855328

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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, archarologist, spy – was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the twentieth 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 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 parrallel 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.

July 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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