Richard Appignanesi is currently preparing What Do Existentialists Believe? for publication by Granta Books (April 2007) www.granta.com

And looking ahead...

Martyrs of Postculture: looking back on thirty years of terrorism , Richard Appignanesi's new book in preparation is the first retrospective investigation and existential analysis of terrorism's Cold War origins in America, Europe and the East.   The desperado causes of that Thirty Years' War have been forgotten at our peril in the 21 st century.

The Man Who Never Was: A Biography of Fernando Pessoa, commissioned by Manchester University Press.

The Original of Art, an illustrated postmodern history of art.

Axis Enigma, a study of Mishima, Pasolini and Fassbinder.