Stephen Fry has always been fascinated by America (Thorsons, December). It helps when you’re famous and a holiday consists of taking tea with Steven Spielberg and chatting to George Bush in Texas. Fry does traverse the country though, and is sure to capture both magnificence and eccentricity.
Good liquor and high prose are celebrated in Kingsley Amis’ Everyday Drinking (Bloomsbury, December); and in the
first biography to be printed since his death, Marlon Brando’s life, powerful performances and Hollywood culture are revealed in Somebody (Stefan Kanfer, Faber, December).
Black Dog Books Black dog books publishing highlights May 200929 April, 2009
Lit-picking From Nagasaki to Delhi, Pakistan to New York, Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury, May) is a sweeping, powerful look at love, loss, history and conflict in the tradition of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, or The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.25 March, 2009
Science and nature How much science ‘really’ allows us to understand is explored in 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense (Profile Books, April).25 March, 2009
Crowd pleasers Christian Cameron follows up the epic Tyrant with Tyrant: Storm of Arrows (Orion, April) about an exiled cavalry commander violently reclaiming his freedom.25 March, 2009
Talking point Unmissable for Anzac Day is On the Paths of Ash (Pier 9, April), the diaries of Robert Holman, edited and given historical context by Peter Thomson.25 March, 2009
Artful Persuasion Art at Te Papa (ed. William McAloon, Te Papa Press, April) presents the Te Papa collection, its history closely linked with that of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Over 400 artworks are on show, accompanied by mini essays.25 March, 2009
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