2010: Summer reading
Some of the best contemporary novelists have new books out (and most of them have exceedingly long titles) – look for:
Jonathan Coe – The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Maggie O’Farrell – The Hand that First Held Mine
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Andrew O’Hagan – The Life & Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his friend Marilyn Monroe
Jane Smiley – Private Life
For new non-fiction, try
Daisy Hay – Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and other Tangled Lives
Oliver Hilmes – Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth
(or if you prefer a paperback)
Jenny Uglow – A Gambling Man (Charles II)
Paula Byrne – Mad World: Evelyn Waugh & the Secrets of Brideshead
Roland Chambers - The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome
Miranda Seymour – Chaplin’s Girl: The Life and Loves of Virginia Cherrill
Adam Gopnik – Angels & Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln & Modern Life.
A welcome reissue in paperback is Gilbert Highet’s Poets in a Landscape (poets of Ancient Rome)