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JONNY BEARDSALL The Daily Telegraph columnist, who edited KARL BUSHBY’s diaries (see below), is currently preparing his own travel adventure book in which he returns to Borneo, where he was stationed as a Gurkha officer in the 1980s, and traces the footsteps of Major Tom Harrisson, soldier, adventurer and founder of Mass Observation.
KARL BUSHBY The 36-year-old ex-Paratrooper hit the headlines when he was arrested in Russia in April 2006, having become the first man to cross the Bering Straits from Alaska by foot. His first book Giant Steps, in which he tells, in vivid diary form, the true-life, boy’s own adventure story of his ongoing 12-year, record-breaking attempt to walk solo around the world, was published by Little, Brown in paperback in April 2007. ‘It is an odyssey worthy of Ulysses himself, a saga fit for the old Nordic gods’ – Frederick Forsyth.www.earthtrekuk.net
PETER CHAPMAN The Financial Times journalist’s Jungle Capitalists: a Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revelation, published as Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World in the US, tells the intriguing story of United Fruit, the company that, by fair means and foul, took the banana from the Central American jungle in the 1870s and turned it into the most popular fruit. Canongate published in the UK in April 2007 and Grove will publish in the US in spring 2008. ‘If you only read a handful of non-fiction books this year, Jungle Capitalists is among your recommended five portions’ - Observer.
DAVID GOLDBLATT The former academic, stand-up comedian, broadcaster and Tottenham Hostspur fan's new book, The Ball is Round– A Global History of Football, is the definitive history of how humanity has played, watched and followed football. It will be published by Penguin in the UK in paperback in August 2007 and by Riverhead in the US in January 2008. ‘Stunning … Elegant, witty, stylish and crisp. Takes football history to a new level’ – Guardian ‘Astonishing … Could replace an entire bookcase by itself’ - Independent
TIM HARFORD The Financial Times columnist’s first book, The Undercover Economist, has been a worldwide bestseller, selling in 22 languages to date. ‘Required reading … it brings the power of economics to life’ - Steven Levitt; ‘As lively and witty an introduction to the supposedly “dismal science” as you are likely to read’ – The Times. His second book, The Logic of Life: The Hidden Economics of Everything, is published by Random House in the US and by Little, Brown in the UK www.timharford.com
GLYN REDWORTH World expert on English and Spanish early modern history Glyn Redworth’s The Nun of Spitalfields: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal, which tells the weird and wonderful story of the first female missionary since Roman times, will be published by OUP in 2008. ‘Hugely enjoyable … It has a vividness that never tips over to the garish. A gripping tale very well told’ – John Morrill. Glyn is currently working on a biography of ‘Philip the Brief’ of England, better known as Philip II of Spain.
NICK YARRIS Now living with his wife and baby in St Albans, Nick Yarris spent 23 years on Death Row for a murder he did not commit until DNA evidence proved his innocence and he was released in January 2004. His extraordinarily powerful, uplifting autobiography, which was bought by HarperCollins in a 6-figure pre-empt, will be published in autumn 2008. DOX Films are making a feature-length documentary about his life. www.nickyarris.com
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