The London Library is renowned as a centre of creativity and we’re always keen to showcase some of the many works that get produced here. A number of our members have been in touch recently, letting us know about new books they are publishing this Autumn.
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Please note, the Library does not necessarily hold all of these titles in our collection. Please check Catalyst to see whether we hold the book.
Coming up in Autumn 2020
The Confession, Jessie Burton
Picador, September 2020
Britain and Europe in Troubled Times, Vernon Bogdanor
Yale University Press, September 2020
Life & Love of the Forest, Lewis Blackwell
September 2020
Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat - A Biography, Oliver Soden
The History Press, September 2020
Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night, Matthew Beaumont
September 2020
The Museum Curator’s Guide - Understanding, Managing and Presenting Objects, Nicola Pickering
Lund Humphries, September 2020
The Golden Calves of Jeraboam, Adrian Leak
September 2020
Japan's Far More Female Future, Bill Emmott
Oxford University Press, September 2020
Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit, Stephen Wall
Oxford University Press, September 2020
The Fragrance of Tears, Victoria Schofield
Head of Zeus, October 2020
After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes, Robert Fraser
Palgrave, October 2020
My Dearest Martha: The Life and Letters of Eliza Hillier, Andrew Hillier
Hong Kong City University Press, October 2020
After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes, Robert Fraser
Palgrave Macmillan, October 2020
Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Alexandra Campbell
Flammarion, October 2020
My Berlin: The Story of a City, Sir Barney White-Spunner
Simon & Schuster, October 2020
Art, Memoir and Jung. Personal and Psychological Encounters, Juliet Miller
October 2020
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City, Matthew Beaumont
November 2020
Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy, Professor Brett Kahr
Confer Books, Autumn 2020
Beyond the Secret Garden, Anne Thwaite
Duckworth, 2020
(Revised version of Waiting for the Party, the life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Secker and Warburg, 1974)
Juvenal: Satires Book V, John Godwin
Liverpool University Press, Autumn 2020
Industrial Letchworth: The First Garden City 1903-1920, Philippa Parker
University of Hertfordshire Press, Autumn 2020
A Dirty Broth: Early Twentieth Century Welsh Plays in English
Parthian Press, November 2020
Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration, Essay by Jill Longmate
Published in ‘Brigid Brophy: Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist’, edited by Richard Canning and Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh University Press, 2020
At the Edge of the Desert, Basil Lawrence
Penguin, Spring 2021
The Novotny Papers: Prostitute/Provocateur, Lilian Pizzichini
Amberley, Spring 2021
Published recently in 2020
Those Who Are Loved, Victoria Hislop
Paperback published by Headline Review, August 2020
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, Tom Holland
Paperback published by Little Brown, August 2020
Elitism A Progressive Defence, Eliane Glaser
Biteback Books, August 2020
The Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching, Anne Scoular
Financial Times, August 2020
If I Don’t Have You, Sareeta Dominga
Jacaranda, July 2020
The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785-1865, Diana Davis
Getty Research Institute, July 2020
Madeleine, Euan Cameron
Quercus, July 2020
(Hardback published by MacLehose Press, June 2019)
Bad Love, Maame Blue
Jacaranda, June 2020
Liminal, Caroline Maldonado
Smokestack Books, April 2020; sequel to be published 2021
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April - May 1945, Eric Lee
Greenhill Books, April 2020
The Straits of Treachery, Richard Hopton
Allison & Busby, April 2020
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge April - May 1945, Eric Lee
Greenhill, April 2020
Arthur Jeffress: A Life in Art, Gill Hedley
Bloomsbury, April 2020
Mediating Empire, Andrew Hillier
Renaissance Books, April 2020
Smoke and Mirrors, Gemma Milne
Little Brown, April 2020
Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages, Richard Barber
Boydell & Brewer, March 2020
Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought, Adam Lecznar
Cambridge University Press, March 2020
Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages, Richard Barber
Boydell & Brewer, March 2020
The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré
Sceptre, February 2020
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction, Clement Knox
William Collins, February 2020
Escape Routes, Naomi Ishiguro
Tinder Press, February 2020 (Paperback January 2021)
John of Garland’s ‘De Triumphis Ecclesie’, Martin Hall
Brepols, February 2020
Along the Amber Route, Chris Schuler
Sandstone Press, February 2020
Escape Routes, Naomi Ishiguro
Tinder Press, February 2020
Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein: A Biography, David Beattie
van Eck Publishers, 2020
The Earliest Views of Budapest, Andrew Alchin
2020
The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, Victoria Dowd
Joffe Books 2020
EW Hornung: The Emergence of a Popular Author 1866-98, Peter Rowland
Academic Press, December 2019
Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia, Venetia Congdon
Berghahn Books, December 2019
EW Hornung: The Emergence of a Popular Author, 1866-1898, Peter Rowland
Academica Press, December 2019
Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia, Venetia Johannes
Berghahn Books, November 2019
Excellent Essex: In Praise of Britain's Most Misunderstood County, Gillian Darley
Old Street Publishing, Hardback 2019; Paperback, Spring 2020
