THE AMBASSADOR BOOKLIST

2000 BOOKS-ACROSS-THE-SEA SELECTION FOR
THE RUDOMINO LIBRARY FOR FOREIGN LITERATURE, MOSCOW

In 2000 over 40 British publishers supported the BAS programme and a final selection of 125 books were exhibited at the Rudomino Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow. The exhibition was a great success and the books were received with enthusiasm by Russian librarians and citizens.
[see also BOOKS-ACROSS-THE-SEA 1999, 1998]
 






CONTENTS


FICTION

Frayn, Michael: Headlong. Faber & Faber: £6.99. (1999) 394pp

Gregory,Philippa: Zelda's Cut Harper Collins: £16.99 (2000) 421pp

Ishiguro,Kazuo: When We Were Orphans. Faber & Faber: £16.99 (2000) 313pp

Jacobson,Howard: The Mighty Walzer. Vintage: £6.99 (1999) 388pp

Kelly, Susan: The Lone Traveller. Allison & Busby: £16.99 (2000) 288pp

Lessing,Doris: Ben In The World. Flamingo: £16.99 (2000) 178pp

Lanchester,John: Mr Phillips Faber & Faber: £16.99 (2000) 247pp

Smith Zadie: White Teeth Hamish Hamilton: £12.99 (2000) 461pp

Thorpe,Adam: Shifts Jonathan Cape: £14.99 (2000) 239pp

Waites, Martyn: Candleland Allison & Busby: £16.99(2000) 254pp

Widdecombe, Weidenfeld &

Ann: The Clematis Tree Nicholson: £9.99 (2000) 277pp

Rowling, J.R. Harry Potter and the

Prisoner of Azkaban Bloomsbury £5.99 (1999) 468pp

Stevenson,Jane: London Bridges Jonathan Cape: £15.99 (2000) 293pp

 

POETRY

Adcock,Fleur: Fleur Adcoc, Poems 1960-2000 Bloodaxe £25.00 (2000) 287pp

Duffy,Carol Ann: Times Tidings, Greeting the 21st Century Anvil: £7.95 (1999) 157pp

Falk,Quemtin: Anthony Hopkins, The Authorised Biography Virgin £8.99 (2000) 322pp ,

Gunn,Thom: Boss Cupid Faber & Faber £7.99 (2000) 115pp

Heaney,Seamus: Beowulf, A New Translation Faber & Faber £14.99 (1999) 106pp

Longley, Michael: The Weather in Japan: Cape: £8.00 (2000) 68pp

Martin,William: Lammas Alanna: Bloodaxe: £7.95 (2000) 128pp

Paterson,Don: 101 Sonnets from Shakespeare to Heaney Faber & Faber £4.99 (1999) 129pp

Paulin,Tom: The Wind Dog Faber & Faber £7.99 (1999) 85pp

Rae,Simon ed; News That Stays News The 20th Century in Poems Faber & Faber £9.99 (1999) 174pp

Ricks: The Oxford Book of English Verse OUP

Royle, Nicholas: Neonlit Time Out Book of New Writing Volume 2 Quartet £7.00 (1999) 234pp

Satyamurti,Carole: Love and Variations Bloodaxe £7.95 (2000) 80pp

Shapcott,Jo: Her Book Poems 1988-1998 Faber & Faber £8.99 (2000) 125pp

Sweeney,Matthew: A Smell of Fish Cape: £8.00 (2000) 63pp

Williams,Hugo: Billy's Rain Faber & Faber £7.99 (1999) 54pp

 

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

Amis,Kingsley: The Letters of Kingsley Amis Harper Collins £24.99 (2000)1208pp

 

TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY

Mowl,Timothy: Pevsner versus Betjeman: John Murray: £14.99 (2000) 182pp

Jones,Anthea: A Thousand Years of The English Parish Windrush Press £25.00 (2000)336pp

 

BRITISH LIFE, GARDENING, HOMES & INTERIORS

Spencer Churchill.Henrietta: Classic Entertaining Turning Every Occasion into a Celebration Collins & Brown £29.95(1999) 160pp

Lloyd,Christopher: Chistopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers Perennials,Bulbs,Grasses Ferns Cassell £30.00 (2000) 383pp

Thomas,Graham: Thoughts from a Garden Seat John Murray £12.99 (2000) 158pp

Wallinger, Rosamund: Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden Garden Art Press: £25.00 (2000)

Devonshire, The Duchess of: Photographs Ferguson,Peter &Harrison,Stuart The Garden at Chatsworth Frances Lincoln £25.00 (1999) 190pp

Nottage,Jane: The Gleneagles Hotel 75 Years of Scottish Excellence Harper/Collins: £29.99 (1999) 192pp

Dakers,Caroline: The Holland Park Circle Artist & Victorian Society. Yale: £25.00 (1999) 303pp

Jones,Chester: Colefax & Fowler The Best in English Interior Decorations Barrie & Jenkins: £29.95 (2000) 222pp

 

ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

Hughes,Dr Dominic & Phillips, Benedict: The Oxford Union Guide to Successful Public Speaking Virgin £9.99 (2000) 227pp

Barber,Charles: The English Language CUP £8.95 (2000) 296pp

McEvoy, Sean: Shakespeare: the Basics Routledge £9.99 (2000) 282pp

 

POLITICS, POLITICAL SATIRE

Hislop, Ian ed: The Private Eye Annual 1999 Private Eye: £10.99 (1999) 95pp

Hislop,Ian ed; Private Eye Book of Covers. Private Eye £10.99 (1999)

Major,John: John Major: The Autobiography Harper Collins: £25.00 (1999) 774pp

Seldon,Anthony: 10 Downing Street: The Illustrated History HarperCollins: £24.99 (1999) 232pp

Russell: Reforming the House of Lords OUP

Campbell,John: Margaret Thatcher The Grocers Daughter: Jonathan Cape: £25.00 (2000) 516 pp

Sen: Development as Freedom OUP

Roffe: Domesday OUP

 

ART & PERFORMING ARTS

Gage,John: J.M.W. TURNER 'A Wonderful Range of Mind' Yale: £25.00 (1999) 262pp

Murphy,Robert: British Cinema of The 90s British Film Institute: £14.99 (2000) 196pp

Heffer,Simon: Vaughan Williams Weidenfeld & Nicolson £12.99 (2000) 152pp

Harry.Bill: The Beatles Encyclopedia Virgin £14.99 (2000) 1196pp

Sammons,Eddie: Shakespeare A Hundred Years on Film Shepheard Walwyn: £40.00 (2000) 247pp

 

HISTORY

Cameron,Andrew: Express Newspapers the Turbulent Decade Inside Story of a London House £16.99 (2000) 218pp

Coles,John: Making Foreign Policy Certain Idea of Britain John Murray £17.99 (2000) 224pp

Heffer,Simon: Nor Shall My Sword . The Reinvention of England Weidenfeld Nicolson £12.99 (1999) 133pp

Darlow,Michael: Terence Rattigan: Quartet Books: £25.00 (2000) 530pp

Gillman, Peter & Leni: The Wildest Dream. Mallory His Life and Conflicting Passions Headline: £12.99 (2000) 306pp

Roberts,Andrew: Salisbury: Victorian Titan Weidenfeld & Nicholson: £25.00 (1999) 938pp

Readers Digest: Yesterdays Britain Readers: The Illustrated Story of How We Lived, Worked and Played Digest: £24.99 (1999) 319pp

Briggs,Asa: The Age of Improvement: 1783-1867 Longman £19.99 (2000) 486pp

Hilton,Tim: John Ruskin:Vol.2 Yale: £20.00 (2000) 656pp

Rollason,Helen: Life's Too Short: Hodder Stoughton: £16.99 (2000) 240pp

Scott Bonnie,Kime: Selected Letters of Rebbeca West Yale £22.50 (2000) 497pp

Scott,Rebecca with Mary Scott: A Fine Kind of Madness Ronnie Scott Remembered Headline: £20.00 (1999) 341pp

Wilson,Christopher: Dancing With The Devil Windsors and Jimmy Donahue Harper/Collins £16.99 (2000) 270pp

Deakin, Roger: Waterlog, A Swimmers Journey Through Britain Vintage £7.99 (2000) 340pp

Waller,Maureen: 1700 Scenes from London Life Hodder/Stoughton £20.00 (2000) 387pp

Clayton,Tim & Craig, Phil: Finest Hour: Hodder/Stoughton: £20.00 (1999) 418pp

Gardiner,Juliet: From the Bomb to the Beatles. The Changing Face of Post War Britain Collins & Brown £19.99 (1999) 157pp

Owen,Geoffrey: From Empire to Europe The Decline & Revival of British Industry. Since the Second World War Harper/Collins £19.99 (1999) 517pp

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh: Engima. the Battle for the Code Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20.00 (2000) 403pp

Amis, Martin: Experience: Jonathan Cape : £18.00 (2000) 401pp

Clark,Nick: Alistair Cooke: The Biograph Weidenfeld &Nicolson £20.00 (1999) 548pp

Baylis,Trevor: My Life as an Inventor Headline: £6.99. (1999) 339pp

Bredin, Miles: The Pale Abbyssian: Harper Collins £17.99 (2000) 290pp

Hill,Roland: Lord Acton: Yale £25.00 (2000) 548pp

James,P.D.: Time to be in Earnest: Faber & Faber: £16.99. (1999) 281pp

Judd, Alan: Mansfield Cummings and Service. the Founding of the Secret Harper Collins: £19.99. (1999) 501pp

Motion, Aandrew: Wainwright the Poisoner. Faber & Faber : £20.00 (2000) 305pp

Newby, Eric: Learning The Ropes: John Murray: £22.50 (2000) 182pp

Phillips,Sian: Private Faces Hodder &

Stoughton £18.99 (1999) 294pp

Cook,Chris: The Longman Companion To Britain since 1945 Longman/Pearson £19.99

Jones, Helen: Women in British Public Life 1914-1950 Longman/ Pearson: £19.99 (2000) 60pp

Marr Andrew: The Day Britain Died Profile £7.99 (2000) 251pp

Seldon,Anthony& Collings,Daniel: Britain Under Thatcher: Longman/ Pearson. £7.99 (2000) 142pp

Smith,Jeremy: Britain & Ireland From Home Rule to Independence. Longman/Pearson: £7.99 (1999) 163pp

Stroud,Angus: Stuart England: Routledge: £14.99 (1999) 220pp

Thompson,Andrew: Imperial Britain Politics c 1880 1932 The Empire in British Longman/Pearson: £17.00 (2000) 218pp


Travel Books, GUIDE BOOKS, TOURISM

Automobile Association: Book of Britain’s Walks: AA £30.00 (1999) 287pp

Wessex,Edward: Crown & Country; A Personal Guide to Royal London. Harper Collins: £24.99 (1999) 192pp

Binney, Marcus: The Ritz Hotel London Thames & Hudson: £28.00 (1999) 144pp

Harrison ,Stuart: Rievaulx Abbey. Yale: £60.00 (1999) 283pp

Bentley,James & Palmer

Hugh, Photographer The Most Beautiful Villages of England Thames & Hudson: £24.95. (1999) 208pp


CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN

Morton,Rachel: One Island Many Faiths The Experience of Religion In Britain. Thames & Hudson: £27.50 (2000) 160pp

Whelehan,Imelda : Overloaded. Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism Women's Press £11.99 (2000) 202pp

 

HISTORY

Coates,Tim ed: The Boer War/ Ladysmith and Mafeking/1900 The Stationary Office: £6.99 (1999) 212pp

Coates,Tim ed: The Russian Revolution/1917. The Stationary Office: £6.99 (2000) 244pp

Coates,Tim ed: The Loss of the Titanic/1912. The Stationary Office: £6.00 (1999) 198pp

Coles,John: Making Foreign Policy. A Certain Idea of Britain. John Murray: £17.99 (2000) 224pp

Crook J. The Rise of the Nouveaux

Mordaunt: Riches. John Murray: £15.00 (1999) 354pp

Erickson,Carolly: Our Tempestuous Day A History of Regency England Robson Books: £9.99 (2000) 302pp

Hickman, Kate: Daughters of Britannia The Lives & Times of Diplomatic Wives Flamingo: £7.99 (2000) 321pp

Hitchens,Peter: The Abolition of Britain from Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair Quartet Books: £8.00 (1999) 369pp

Winks: The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. V: Historiography OUP

Carr: Spain: A History OUP

Shaw: The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt OUP

Clout, Hugh ed: The Times History of London. Harper Collins: Times Books £24.99.(1999) 192pp

Hedgecoe,John: Portraits Collins & Brown: £40.00 (2000)

 

SPORT

Heilig,John with Abbiss,Reg: Rolls-Royce The Best Car In The World Apple: £12.99 (1999) 128p

Tyrrell,Tom & Meek,David: The Hamlyn Illustrated History of Manchester United Hamlyn: £20.00 (1999) 208pp



Biography & Autobiography

English,Alan ed: The Sunday Times The Sporting Century 50 Momentous Stories in Sports History Collins Willow: £16.99 (1999) 224pp

Rosenthal,Michael: The Art of Thomas Gainsborough Yale: £40.00 (1999) 312pp

Thames & Hudson: Vision 50 Years of British. Creativity a celebration of art, architecture and design Thames & Hudson: £24.95 (1999) 255pp

 

Biography & Autobiography

Denyer,Susan: Beatrix Potter at Home Frances Lincoln: In the Lake District: National Trust: £20.00 (2000) 144pp

Matthews,Stanley: The Way It Was My Autobiography Headline: £18.99. (2000) 440pp

Paterson,Len: One Man's River Clyde In Pictures 1920-1980. ( Dan McDonald Collection) House of Lochar: £24.99 (1999) 144pp