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Frank Dikötter's Book Wins the BBC's Samuel Johnson Award
 Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter has won the BBC Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction 2011!
"[A] vivid catalogue of horrors...[a] bold portrait."—New Yorker
"Astounding...a critical contribution to Chinese history."—Wall Street Journal
Leningrad Gives Voice to Seige
 "With access to candid diaries, police records, and government and
military archives, [Reid] gives a detailed and harrowing account of life
and death in Leningrad. 'The end,' Ms. Reid writes, 'like the end of
all great conflicts, left a vast silence...of facts falsified or
left unsaid.' Now the people themselves have regained their voices." — Wall Street Journal Read full review.
Praise for The Sugar Barons:
 "an engaging journey to a mercifully vanished
world."—The Wall Street Journal
"Mr Parker tells an extraordinary, neglected and shameful story with
gusto and a keen eye for the telling contemporary
quotation."—The Economist Read our excerpt of The Sugar Barons.
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
"the bibliography continues to grow with smaller volumes that
fruitfully focus on facets on this dynamo's life. So be it with Theodore
Roosevelt in the Badlands, whose authors, a senior editor at National
Wildlife, worked as a lad on a ranch in Nebraska's Sand Hills, a realm
kindred to the vast barrens of the Dakota Territory, and knew a life
that resonated with the once-dwindling frontier."—American Heritage.
The Story of Charlotte's Web by Michael Sims
"In this lovingly rendered portrait, Sims details a life of careful
listening, insatiable curiosity, and empathy toward all living creatures
from people to spiders to pigs. The final line of Charlotte's Web is
one I had long forgotten but immediately remembered upon reading: It
is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good
writer. Charlotte was both. It could also be said that E.B. White
was both a true friend and a good writer. So is Sims, who has opened the
doors and windows in his gentle and wise biography about a man who gave
us Charlotte, Wilbur, Stuart, and so many beautiful
stories."
—Los Angeles Review of Books
Listen to Michael Sims's terrific NPR's Science Friday interview.
Dave Sobel's New Book A More Perfect Heaven available in the U.S. in October 2011
Dave Sobel, author of the New York Times Bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, will be publishing her newest book, A More Perfect Heaven: How Nicolaus Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, in October 2011. Here's a wonderful review in the UK's Financial Times.
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Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel is the
bestselling author of
Longitude, Galileo's
Daughter, and The Planets,
coauthor of The Illustrated
Longitude, and editor of Letters to Father. She lives
in East Hampton, New
York.
Photo: Mia Berg
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James Sallis
James Sallis is the author of more than two dozen volumes of
fiction, poetry, translation, essays, and criticism, including the Lew
Griffin series, Drive, Cypress Grove, Cripple
Creek, and Salt River. His biography of the great crime
writer Chester Himes is an acknowledged classic. The Killer is Dying is
his new book.
"After decades of toiling in relative obscurity,
building a small but fiercely devoted readership, James Sallis, 66, may
have finally made it to the big time."—Publishers Weekly.
Sallis lives
in Phoenix with his wife, Karyn, and an enormous white cat.
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