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ROBERT DUDLEY BEST
MY MODERN MOVEMENT
PUBLICATION DATE 4 NOVEMBER 2021
A contemporary account of the battle between advanced tastes and democratic principle during Britain's first dalliance with the Modern Movement. Narrated by England's leading lighting designer, the owner of Best & Lloyd, once the world's largest light manufacturing company. Introduction by Pevsner biographer Stephen Games.
KIRBY PORTER
FRANCES CREIGHTON: FOUND AND LOST
PUBLICATION DATE 21 OCTOBER 2021
ROBERT MULLEN
MUSTARD SEED ITINERARY
PUBLICATION DATE 14 OCTOBER 2021
MARGUERITE POLAND
A SIN OF OMISSION
PUBLICATION DATE 7 OCTOBER 2021
A raw, compelling novel about a young black preacher in the 1870-80s, trained by the Anglican Church in England, then sent back to Cape Colony to face unresolved issues with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors, and That Woman—seen once in a photograph and never forgotten.
JANINA DAVID
THE HOPEFUL TRAVELLER
PUBLICATION DATE 2 SEPTEMBER 2021
ROBERT BEST
FROM BEDALES TO THE BOCHE
THE IRONIES OF AN EDWARDIAN CHILDHOOD
No one expected that a generation that had befriended Germany in the 1900s would be eagerly fighting it in the 1910s. In this extraordinary memoir, one of Britain's most important industrial designers tracks his career from the progressive idealism of his school days at Bedales to his passionate enlistment into the Royal Flying Corps.
JONATHAN LAWLEY
A ROAD TO EXTINCTION
CAN PALAEOLITHIC AFRICANS SURVIVE IN THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS?
The Jarawa tribe wants nothing to do with modern civilisation, but modern civilisation doesn't care. Tourists travel each day along the Andaman Trunk Road in the hope of seeing these naked pygmy hunters in what is now India's human safari park. Jonathan Lawley goes back to the colony his grandfather used to run to see how bad things are.
MICHAEL HOLMAN
POSTMARK AFRICA
HALF A CENTURY AS A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Eye-witness reports over 50 years on the state of sub-Saharan Africa, written for the Financial Times and other media, by the FT's former Africa Editor, providing rare insights into the continent's post-independence successes and set-back. Revealing, relevant and highly readable. Alexander McCall Smith says: "Profound observations on very page."