Lists: Spring List 2010

BIGNAMINI & HORNSBY Digging & Dealing in 18th Century Rome First of two extensively illustrated volumes (£45)    [ref: 11332]

BILLCLIFFE (ROGER) Charles Rennie Mackintosh Beautifully illustrated catalogue of CRM's furniture & interior designs (£120)    [ref: 11337]

CHAPMAN & FAIETTI Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings From the collections of the British Museum & the Uffizzi (£45)    [ref: 11334]

GERE & RUDOE Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria Victorian attitudes to jewellery; richly illustrated (£50)    [ref: 11336]

HEWISON (ROBERT) Ruskin on Venice: The Paradise of Cities Fresh insight on Venice & Ruskin from the Mellon Centre for British Arts (£45)    [ref: 11331]

JANSEN & BAKKER The Real Van Gogh: The Artist & his Letters To accompany the Royal Academy exhibition (£40)    [ref: 11330]

JONES (JONATHAN) The Lost Battle Artistic rivalry between Michelangelo & da Vinci that fired the Renaissance (£20)    [ref: 11333]

POINTON (MARCIA) Brilliant Effects 'A Cultural History of Gem Stones & Jewellery' (£45)    [ref: 11335]

SCHOESER (MARY) Sanderson: The Essence of English Decoration History of England's leading manufacturer of wallcoverings & fabrics (£19.95)    [ref: 11339]

STEFANIDIS (JOHN) An Island Sanctuary The Patmos home of one of today's great designers (£32.5)    [ref: 11338]

ANDERTON (STEPHEN) Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter First biography of the late great plantsman (£20)    [ref: 11297]

BAKEWELL (SARAH) How to Live: A Life of Montaigne '...in one question & twenty attempts at an answer' (£16.99)    [ref: 11291]

BOSTON (ANNE) Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes Wilder Shores Drawing on archives and unpublished journals of the influential travel writer (£25)    [ref: 11292]

DAVIDSON (IAN) Voltaire: A Life New biography by the former Paris correspondent of the FT (£25)    [ref: 11302]

FORSHAW (BARRY) The Man Who Left too Soon Biography of the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson (£17.99)    [ref: 11301]

FORSTER (MARGARET E.) Churchill’s Grandmama 'Frances 7th Duchess of Marlborough' - daughter of 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (£20)    [ref: 11293]

FRASER (ANTONIA) Must You Go? Insight into one of the most celebrated literary couples of the age (£20)    [ref: 11287]

GAMES (STEPHEN) Pevsner: Germany & Art Biography of the architectural historian and reluctant Anglophile (£20)    [ref: 11298]

GLADSTONE (WILLIAM) Gladstone: A Bicentenary Portrait Prime Minister & champion of Home Rule for Ireland, born December 1809 (£18.5)    [ref: 11288]

HASTINGS (MAX) Did You Really Shoot The Television? Fascinating history of the author's family during the 20th century (£20)    [ref: 11294]

MOFFAT (WENDY) A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster The first biography written with full access to the author's papers & diaries (£25)    [ref: 11304]

PAKULA (HANNAH) The Last Empress 'Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek & the Birth of Modern China' (£27.5)    [ref: 11290]

PHILIPPONNAT (OLIVIER) & LIENHARDT (PATRICK) The Life of Irene Nemirovsky Panoramic biography of the author of 'Suite Francaise' (£25)    [ref: 11299]

SHEPHARD (SUE) The Surprising Life of Constance Spry A most unconventional woman whose influence is still felt today (£18.99)    [ref: 11305]

SISMAN (ADAM) Hugh Trevor-Roper First biography of the great historian (£25)    [ref: 11303]

SOLLOHUB (EDITH) The Russian Countess An extraordinary first-hand account (£18.99)    [ref: 11289]

STONOR SAUNDERS (FRANCES) The Woman who Shot Mussolini Extraordinary story of Hon. Violet Gibson (£20)    [ref: 11300]

WALSH (KERI) The Letters of Sylvia Beach Founder of Shakespeare & Co. & James Joyce's first publisher (£19.95)    [ref: 11295]

ALLEN (DARINA) Forgotten Skills of Cooking Wonderful compendium of knowledge, short-listed for the André Simon awards (£30)    [ref: 11322]

CLARK & SPAULL Leith's Meat Bible Leith's meat cookbook (£35)    [ref: 11324]

TITCOMBE & CLAYTON-MALONE Canteen: Great British Food Classic British food with a modern twist (£16.99)    [ref: 11323]

AMIS (MARTIN) The Pregnant Widow A gloriously risqué comedy of manners with its beginnings in Italy in 1970 (£18.99)    [ref: 11344]

CAREY (PETER) Parrot & Olivier in America An amusing tale from the two-time Booker prize winner (£18.99)    [ref: 11341]

CONDON (MATTHEW) The Trout Opera A centenarian discovers the modern world on a road trip across Australia (£20)    [ref: 11347]

FORSTER (MARGARET) Isa and May A young woman, her grandmothers and family secrets (£17.99)    [ref: 11346]

GRANDES (ALMUNDENA) The Frozen Heart A Spanish 'Dr. Zhivago' set during the Civil War (£16.99)    [ref: 11348]

HILL (SUSAN) The Shadows in the Street Fifth in the series of novels featuring Simon Serrailler (£12.99)    [ref: 11355]

LEON (DONNA) A Question of Belief Commisario Brunetti investigates murder at the courthouse in Venice (£16.99)    [ref: 11356]

LEVY (ANDREA) The Long Song Tale set in Jamaica in the turbulent last years of slavery (£18.99)    [ref: 11345]

MCCALL SMITH (ALEXANDER) Precious & the Puggies Precious Ramotswe's first case - published in Scots for children of all ages (£9.99)    [ref: 11343]

MCCALL SMITH (ALEXANDER) The Double Comfort Safari Club Mma.s Ramotswe & Makutsi are called to the Okavango Delta (£16.99)    [ref: 11353]

MCEWAN (IAN) Solar Satirical novel on climate change & marital chaos (£18.99)    [ref: 11350]

POWELL (JIM) The Breaking of Eggs Thought-provoking & moving debut novel about displacement & alienation (£12.99)    [ref: 11349]

TORDAY (PAUL) Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers Fourth novel from the author of 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' (£12.99)    [ref: 11342]

TREMAIN (ROSE) Trespass Set in southern France, a story of love and revenge (£17.99)    [ref: 11354]

TREVOR (WILLIAM) The Collected Stories Updated two-volume edition with handsome slipcase (£60)    [ref: 11340]

WODEHOUSE (P.G.) Service with a Smile The Duke of Dunstable is out to steal the Empress of Blandings (£10.99)    [ref: 11351]

WODEHOUSE (P.G.) The Pothunters The hunt is on for the stolen pots (trophies) (£10.99)    [ref: 11352]

ATTLEE (HELENA) Gardens of Japan An introduction to 28 Japanese gardens with photographs by Alex Ramsay (£16.99)    [ref: 11327]

HICKS (DAVID) My Kind of Garden A welcome return to print for the hardback edition of this wonderful book (£29.5)    [ref: 11328]

BAETJER (KATHERINE) British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art First comprehensive catalogue of work in the collection by artists born before 1841 (£55)    [ref: 11310]

FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO (F.) 1492: The Year Our World Began How the exploration of the globe led to our modern world (£25)    [ref: 11312]

FITZROY (CHARLES) Renaissance Florence on Five Florins a Day Following on from Ancient Athens & Rome (£12.95)    [ref: 11321]

GARDINER (JULIET) The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain A fresh insight into a fascinating decade (£30)    [ref: 11315]

HEMMING (JOHN) Monuments of the Incas From the author of 'Tree of Rivers' (£29.95)    [ref: 11313]

HURD (DOUGLAS) Choose your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary '200 Years of Arguments, Successes & Failures' (£25)    [ref: 11309]

MACINTYRE (BEN) Operation Mincemeat A wartime tale of deception and daring-do from the author of 'Agent Zigzag' (£16.99)    [ref: 11306]

PLONSKY (RACHEL) Molotov's Magic Lantern: Letters from Russia An original exploration of Russia & its literature (£20)    [ref: 11319]

SKIDMORE (CHRIS) Death & the Virgin Elizabeth, Dudley & the mysterious fate of Amy Robsart (£20)    [ref: 11316]

SUAREZ & WOUDHUYSEN The Oxford Companion to the Book With 48 essays & 5000 cross-referenced entries (£195)    [ref: 11308]

THOMPSON (IAN) The English Lakes: A History With colour photographs & illustrations (£25)    [ref: 11317]

TINNISWOOD (ADRIAN) Pirates of Barbary 'Corsairs, Conquests & Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean' (£20)    [ref: 11318]

URE (JOHN) Shooting Leave Snapshots of some of the adventurous officers on the North West Frontier (£16.99)    [ref: 11307]

WINDROW (MARTIN) Our Friends Beneath the Sands The French Foreign Legion in the Sahara (£25)    [ref: 11320]

CONRAN (JASPER) Country A stunning portrait of Britain's countryside with 300 original photographs (£45)    [ref: 11325]

LEWIS (CELIA) The Illustrated Guide to Chickens With an introduction by HRH The Prince of Wales (£16.99)    [ref: 11329]

MABEY (RICHARD) A Brush with Nature 'Twenty-five years of personal reflections on nature' (£12.99)    [ref: 11326]

RUSSELL (FRANCIS) Places in Turkey: A Pocket Grand Tour A perfect travelling companion, with a comprehensive itinerary (£14.99)    [ref: 11311]