The World Of Paperbachs - Bibliography

Contemporary Review, July, 2001

New releases from PIMLICO cover a wide range of subjects. In history there is a reprint of Christopher Hill's Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century ([pound]l2.50). When first published in 1958 this was a major new analysis of the Civil Wars and it is good to have it in print once again. Another history title in which biography is mixed with analysis is the late Sir Isaiah Berlin's The Power of Ideas ([pound]12.50). This collection of essays has been edited by Henry Hardy. In biography, Pimlico has brought out an edition of John Campbell's highly praised Margaret Thatcher. Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter ([pound]9.99). Other new titles include Michael Davie's Anglo-Australian Attitudes ([pound]12.50), which looks at the 'love-hate relationship' between Australia and the Mother Country, and, finally, Bruno Bettelheim's Freud and Man's Soul ([pound]9.00) which remains one of the most significant studies of Freud ever written.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS has published a paperback edition of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s ([pound]8.99) and two literary titles. The first of these is Stephen Gill's Wordsworth and the Victorians ([pound]16.99) which describes and analyses the reception given to Wordsworth by his fellow Victorians. The second is Lucy Newlyn's Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader ([pound]15.99), first published in 1993. In this the author examines the unique influence of Milton's epic poem on Romantic writers.

METHUEN has reprinted the Rev. William Taylor's This Bright Field: A Travel Book in One Place ([pound]8.99) in which the young clergyman combines autobiography with a description of life in London's East End.

PAPERMAC has brought out two biographical titles. The first is Alistair Horne's edition of Telling Lives: From W. B. Yeats to Bruce Chatwin ([pound]l2.99), the collection of biographical essays first published last year. The second is R. A. C. Parker's Churchill and Appeasement ([pound]l2.99), which appeared last year in hardback to considerable praise.

PAN, another imprint from Macmillan, has republished Tom Clancy's Every Man a Tiger ([pound]7.99), first published by Putnam in the U.S. in 1999. The book was written in conjunction with General 'Chuck' Homer who commanded the Allied air-forces during 'Desert Storm'. Clancy does not only tell the story of the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein, but describes how the American military recovered from the tragedy of Viet Nam.

Literary titles dominate new releases from VINTAGE CLASSICS with three new reprints in the firm's publication of Graham Green's fiction: The Man Within, A Burnt-out Case and A Gun for Sale, all priced at [pound]6.99. In addition there is a new edition of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ([pound]6.99), Edward Albee's play that was so controversial when first performed in 1962. New releases which provoke thought include: Thomas Lynch's Bodies in Motion and at Rest ([pound]7.99), an American funeral director's thought-provoking essays on life and its earthly end; Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature ([pound]8.99) and Stephen Jay Gould's The Living Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History ([pound]7.99).

CONSTABLE has republished John Winton's The Submariners: Life in British Submarines 1901-1999 ([pound]12.99), an inside view of the Royal Navy's 'hidden service' that has done so much to defend Britain from her enemies over the years.

New paperback titles from YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS are dominated by history and biography. New history publications include: David Satter's Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union ([pound]12.95), which exposed the personal tragedies involved in the rise and fall of the 'evil empire'; Gabriel Gorodetsky's Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia ([pound]12.95), an incisive study of Germany's 1941 invasion of Russia; John Larner's Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World ([pound]8.99), which traces the influence Marco Polo's book had on European thought; a third edition of Leonard Thompson's A History of South Africa ([pound]10.99); and, finally, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones' Pace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War ([pound]12.50). New biography releases include David Daniell's William Tyndale: A Biography ([pound]8.99), first published in 1994, Gerald E. Myers' William James: His Life and Thought ([pound]14.95) and, in the Yale English Monarchs series, Bertram Wolf fe's Henry VI ([pound]16.00) and Ragnhild Hatton's George I ([pound]16.00). In its Nota Bene series Yale has also published a new translation of Thomas More's Utopia ([pound]4.99) by Clarence H. Miller.

SUTTON PUBLISHING continues its impressive list of history titles with five new releases, placed here in chronological order: John Peddie's Alfred: Warrior King ([pound]12.99); Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times ([pound]12.99), edited by R. E. Pritchard; Graham Edwards' The Last Days of Charles I ([pound]12.99), praised in this publication as a 'gripping account'; John Van Der Kiste's Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor ([pound]10.99); and, finally, Keith Laybourn's A Century of Labour: A History of the Labour Party ([pound]6.99).