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Editor, Catherine Taylor

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* What We're Reading
"Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette"
by Judith Thurman
"Garrick"
by Ian McIntyre
"Gore Vidal"
by Fred Kaplan
* Interview with Anthony Holden
* Interview with Roy Hattersley
* Whitbread Biography Award Shortlist
"Bruce Chatwin"
by Nicholas Shakespeare
"Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness"
by David Cairns
"The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse"
by Hilary Spurling
* Bestsellers
"If Only"
by Geri Halliwell
"Galileo's Daughter"
by Dava Sobel
"White Cargo"
by Felicity Kendal

***WHAT WE'RE READING***
"Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette"
by Judith Thurman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747543097/entertainments08
The scandalous French writer Colette was "the century's
first modern woman", whose long and turbulent life, firmly
rooted in the senses and filled with artistic achievement,
included male and female lovers, a stint in vaudeville and
an affair with her stepson. Judith Thurman's acclaimed
biography shrewdly disentangles fact from legend, while
assessing with equal acuity the bleakness of Colette's
world view and a zest for life that it never seemed to
dampen.

"Garrick"
by Ian McIntyre
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713993286/entertainments08
In the first major work on 18th-century actor David Garrick
for more than 40 years, biographer Ian McIntyre makes up
for the lack impressively, drawing on a wealth of
correspondence, literature and theatre records to document
a theatrical luminary of serious import, whose life in
itself was successfully unspectacular but which in context
ignites like a flare of limelight.

"Gore Vidal"
By Fred Kaplan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747546711/entertainments08
Fred Kaplan's lengthy yet cogent life of Gore Vidal reminds
readers that his subject has been for decades an astute,
sardonic observer of the American scene. His personal
relations are depicted frankly but briskly, as befits a
staunch defender of homosexual rights, open about his own
orientation and who refuses to be pigeonholed as a gay
writer.

***INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY HOLDEN: BATTLING WITH THE BARD***
Dismissing claims that there is nothing left to say about
Shakespeare, Anthony Holden's biography of the Bard is a
racy, incident-packed account of a man behaving badly who
rose to subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan
London. Jerry Brotton spoke to Holden about his fascination
with the glovemaker's son from Stratford.
Biography

***INTERVIEW WITH ROY HATTERSLEY: RELIGIOUS RADICALS***
William Booth's extraordinary life saw him starting out as
a pawnbroker's clerk and dying having created one of the
most successful and characteristic religious movements of
the 19th century--the Salvation Army. His wife Catherine
was, in her way, even more remarkable: Chronically ill, she
raised eight children in ten years and campaigned for social
amelioration. "Blood and Fire" is Roy Hattersley's powerful
biography of the influential pair. Hattersley spoke to Adam
Roberts about why he was drawn to this 19th-century couple.
Biography

***WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLIST***
"Bruce Chatwin"
by Nicholas Shakespeare
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860465447/entertainments08

"Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness"
by David Cairns
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713993863/entertainments08

"The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse Volume One"
by Hilary Spurling
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0241133408/entertainments08

***BESTSELLERS***
In bestsellers this month we bring you the former Ginger
Spice's life so far, the biography of a 17th-century
cloistered nun whose parent happened to be "the father of
modern physics" and a memoir of a theatrical dynasty by one
of Britain's best-loved actresses.

"If Only"
by Geri Halliwell
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593045831/entertainments08

"Galileo's Daughter"
by Dava Sobel
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857028619/entertainments08

"White Cargo"
by Felicity Kendal
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140271589/entertainments08

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