Robinson - The World of Paperbacks - new releases - Brief Article

Contemporary Review, Dec, 2002

New releases from ROBINSON, part of the CONSTABLE-ROBINSON partnership, are also dominated by history and biography. On the history front we have: Gianni Gaudalupi and Antony Shugaar's Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator which looks at those countries through which the equator runs; Richard Woodman's The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson which, as the review in Contemporary Review put it, 'opens the door on a hitherto neglected part of this country's great naval history'; and Jasper Ridley's Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England's Terror, a committed history of the reign of Queen Mary I.

All are priced at [pounds sterling]7.99. Robinson has also published Carole Seymour-Jones' Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot ([pounds sterling]9.99), the highly praised and controversial biography of T. S. Eliot's first wife. Modesty forbids the Literary Editor from commenting on the paperback edition of his biography, Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV ([pounds sterling]7.99), other than to say that it has been published. Last but not least we have a paperback edition of James Dyson's History of Great Inventions edited by Robert Uhlig, a treasure trove of interesting facts.