Autumn 2006 Nonfiction Highlights

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Doubleday, 2006) / Bill Bryson
Seminary Boy (Fourth Estate, 2006) / John Cornwell
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Bloomsbury, 2006) / William Dalrymple
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran (Picador, 2006) / Jason Elliot
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (Fourth Estate, 2006) / Jonathan Franzen
The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (Faber & Faber, 2006) / Michael Frayn
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (Penguin Viking, 2006) / Nick Hornby
Things I Didn’t Know: A Memoir (Harvill Secker, 2006) / Robert Hughes
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (Little, Brown, 2006) / Edward Luce
The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (Pantheon, 2006) / Edward Mendelson
In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood (Faber & Faber, 2006) / Andrew Motion
How Novels Work (Oxford University Press, 2006) / John Mullan
Connemara: Listening to the Wind (Penguin, 2006) / Tim Robinson
A Time-Torn Man: A Life of Thomas Hardy (Penguin Viking, 2006) / Claire Tomalin
Shadow of the Silk Road (Chatto & Windus, 2006) / Colin Thubron
Much Ado About English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language (Nicholas Brealey, 2006) / Richard Watson Todd
Guerra: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War (Doubleday, 2006) / Jason Webster
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Canongate, 2006) / Rebecca West