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From the Symmachi Panel, made in Rome
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THE UGLY RENAISSANCE
Sex, Disease and Excess
in an Age of Beauty
NEW
Alexander Lee Known as an age of
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But behind the Mona Lisa’s smile lurked
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NEW THE ART OF THE
PRINTMAKER 1500-1860
Roger Baynton-Williams
A renowned expert in antiquarian
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PARALLEL GOSPELS
A Synopsis of Early
Christian Writing
Zeba A Crook The accounts of Jesus’
life in the early Christian gospels
share many episodes, but these often
differ in detail, so synopses are a
useful tool for the comparison of
such parallel passages and for the
study of each text’s structure, style,
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glossary giving the Greek original
for each word, to allow even students
without Greek to make comparisons
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OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Aubrey Burl She was alluring, musical,
married and faithless – but who was she?
Scholars have argued over the ‘Dark Lady’
of Shakespeare’s sonnets for centuries.
As absorbing as a whodunit, this study
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Against a rich backdrop of Elizabethan life,
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of the woman who caused the playwright
such joy and despair.
Revised second edition
Ed. EA Livingstone Based on the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church, this abridged edition contains over 5,000 condensed and accessible entries
covering theology, patristic scholarship, churches and denominations, the Church
calendar and organization and the Bible, as well as biographical entries on theologians,
philosophers, painters, musicians and writers of religious works. Revised in 2006,
the dictionary also has entries on topical issues including the ordination of women
and Liberation Theology. OXFORD UP 2006 PB 672pp
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A Field Guide
Gregory S Paul is a leading
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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
Colin Maggs The initials GWR
conjure a nostalgic image of a
Brunswick green locomotive
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coaches through a verdant West
Country landscape. But the GWR
was much more than locomotives
and rolling stock. Here, Colin Maggs,
one of the country’s foremost railway
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the company’s history: its construction
and expansion; the activities of its
publicity department; its sea, air
and road services; and its role as a
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original diagrams and photographs,
this was the first book to explore the
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Luca Mozzati Beginning with
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account of the religious and
social background and explain
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the secrets and crimes – the fraud,
blackmail and poisonings – that lay
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Innocence by Thomas
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Ed. Norma Farnes As well as being one of the 20th century’s greatest comics,
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ARCHAEOLOGY
BRITANNIA
100 Documents that
Shaped a Nation
Graham Stewart Taking
a stylish and original
approach to chronicling
the nation’s history,
Graham Stewart presents
the documents which have
left their mark on the life
of Britain, from its days as
a Roman province to the
modern European nationstate. Constitutional and
legal documents – among
them Magna Carta, the
Bill of Rights and the
Declaration of Arbroath –
sit alongside the most influential of Britain’s cultural
products, such as the film script of Brief Encounter
and James Bond’s very first martini order.
ISLAND FEVER
A Journey Around
the Coastal Islands
of England and Wales
Robin Jones Britain is an
island nation in more senses
than one: an island itself,
it has hundreds of smaller
islets and archipelagos off
its shores. This exhilarating
book takes the reader on
an illustrated tour of the
English and Welsh coasts,
describing the geography,
history and unique character
of each island as it travels
south from the Bristol
Portland Bill lighthouse
Channel, via Cornwall’s
magical St Michael’s Mount,
then northeast to Lindisfarne, returning via the spectacular
coast of Wales. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 160pp Illus 215x292mm
£19.99 10875 now £7.99
ATLANTIC BOOKS 2010 HB 448pp Illus
£25.00 19879 now £8.99
RIN TIN TIN
The Life and Legend
of the World’s
Most Famous Dog
The last lap: Ivinghoe Beacon seen from Pitstone Hill
John Cleare Used as a trade route by England’s earliest
settlers, a cross-country highway for medieval armies
and a cart track in more recent centuries, the Ridgeway
today is an official National Trail used by ramblers,
riders, cyclists and backpackers. This photographic
portrait explores beauty spots and points of interest
along the celebrated chain of chalk escarpments from
Overton Hill, near the Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire,
to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire.
THE RIDGEWAY
Susan Orlean Found abandoned
on a First World War battlefield,
Rin Tin Tin went on to become
a major international film star.
Described by John Banville in
The Guardian as ‘a wonderfully
entertaining account of one of
the strangest partnerships in
a very strange milieu’, this is
the improbable story of the
dog who came to represent
an ideal of bravery and canine
companionship and of how his
devoted master strove to keep
his legend alive. (Previously
available in paperback.) ATLANTIC 2011 HB 336pp Illus
£16.99 19884 now £5.99
FRANCES LINCOLN 2010 HB 112pp Illus 265x248mm
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JUST BORIS
The Irresistible Rise of
a Political Celebrity
Sonia Purnell ‘We may feel
we know the public Boris,
but so much about this multilayered character is not
quite as it seems.’ From
the vantage point of a once
close colleague, investigative
journalist Sonia Purnell
charts the remarkable rise of
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel
Johnson – just ‘Boris’ to
most of us – and offers the
first forensic account of
just how he did it.
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Michael HC Baker In 1948, nationalization turned the Great
Western Railway into British Railways Western Region but,
despite the revolution, much carried on as before: locomotives
retained their GWR numbers and brass number plates and
‘Castle’, ‘Hall’ and ‘Manor’ class engines continued to be
built. This selection of more than 150 images begins with
photographs taken in 1947, on the eve of the new era, and
then charts developments, year by year, to the last steam
services in 1966. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 160pp Illus 215x290mm
STEAM ON THE WESTERN: The Final Decades
AURUM 2012 HB 459pp Illus
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Nicholas Cooper A selection from the English Heritage archive of some 25,000 photographs
taken by professional architectural photographers Bedford Lemere between the 1870s and
the late 1920s, this volume focuses on the period after 1890 and offers a view of Britain at
the height of its wealth and power. Accompanied by Cooper’s introduction, the photographs
are arranged by themes, including public buildings, commerce and industry, transport and
technology, leisure and entertainment and life at home during the Great War.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BEDFORD LEMERE & Co.
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2011 HB 292pp Illus 275x215mm
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The Queen’s Day Saloon on
the LNWR Royal Train, 1902
Patrick Cramsie From cuneiform script to the Kindle,
graphic design has fused word and image to create one of
the most powerful and persuasive means of communication
in the history of civilization. Lavishly illustrated in colour,
this meticulously researched and passionately engaged
account charts its development through milestones such
as the invention of printing, the proliferation of newspapers
and the digital revolution. Cramsie also discusses key
works, profiles key designers and explains
how and why graphic design
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works so effectively.
Victor Ambrus The illustrations of Victor Ambrus
BRITISH LIBRARY 2010
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HB 352pp Illus 260x200mm
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recreations for the Time Team television
series. This collection of his paintings and
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drawings, each with a concise explanatory
Daily Herald poster
text, demonstrates Ambrus’ close attention
by Edward McKnight
to the detail of correct weapons and dress,
Kauffer, 1919
and includes interpretations of warfare
from the ancient Greeks, through Dark
Age warriors and the fighting ships of
Coleshill House, Berkshire,
Trafalgar to the Normandy beaches.
THE STORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN
destroyed by fire in 1952
HISTORY PRESS 2012 HB 144pp Illus 227x250mm
£20.00 99398 now £8.99
French cuirassier of Napoleon’s 1st Regiment
WALKING FOR WEIGHT LOSS
The Easy, Practical Way to Get in Shape
LOST BUILDINGS
Demolished, Destroyed,
Imagined, Reborn
Jonathan Glancey, Architecture
and Design editor for The Guardian,
surveys buildings that have gone –
whether by act of God, war or
planning committee – and some that
never were. Richly illustrated with
photographs and reproductions, the
book ranges from ancient structures
‘lost in myth’ such as the Tower
of Babel and Darius’ palace at
Persepolis to Norman Foster’s
Millennium Tower (‘left on the
drawing board’), and includes such
famous lost buildings as Fonthill
Abbey, Coventry Cathedral and the
World Trade Centre. GOODMAN
Lucy Knight As a refreshing alternative to
complicated aerobic routines and over-priced
gym memberships, walking is a form of exercise
that is free, enjoyable and a natural part of
everyday life. Fitness consultant Lucy Knight
explains how you really can lose weight by
walking – all you need to do is correct your posture
and your technique, work on your stride, speed up
your pace and change your focus to transform the
daily saunter into a fat-burning power-walk.
KYLE CATHIE 2011 PB 144pp Illus 235x190mm
£12.99 91836 now £4.99
A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD
The Illustrated Poetry
of the First World War
Fiona Waters This anthology of war
poetry combines the words of poets such
as Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Robert
Graves with around 200 newly restored
photographs of the First World War from
the Daily Mail’s archive. The poems
include those written by soldiers on the
battlefield and those composed later, with
the benefit of terrible hindsight; earlier
works, such as The Shropshire Lad, which
matched the mood of the nation at war; and
poems by those left behind, the women.
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Colin Renfrew; Paul Bahn A muchrespected text, designed for undergraduates
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this is a comprehensive, well-illustrated
introduction to all aspects of the discipline.
Beginning with the history of archaeology,
the book covers how the archaeological
record is formed and how it can be
recovered; the organization of societies,
the environments of early communities
and explanation in archaeology; and ends
with a survey of the discipline today and
five recent case studies. Fourth edition.
THAMES & HUDSON 2204
PB 656pp Illus 230x187mm
£24.95 19334 now £9.99
THE PAST FROM ABOVE
Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites
THE BIRTH OF A BOROUGH
An Archaeological Study
of Anglo-Saxon Stafford
Georg Gerster A pioneer of aerial photography, Georg Gerster travelled the world
for 50 years, photographing archaeological sites from the air. In this book, which accompanied a major exhibition of Gerster’s work in 2005, the archaeologist Charlotte
Trumpler introduces 250 photographs of sites, among them the Acropolis, Karnak,
the Great Wall of China and the Aztec palaces. The photographs are arranged by the
type of site and accompanied by expert captions and notes on memorable flights by
Gerster himself. FRANCES LINCOLN 2005 PB 415pp Illus 290x235mm
Martin Carver While much archaeological research on the Anglo-Saxon era has
focused on famous centres such as London
and York, Stafford offered an opportunity
for a large scale examination of an ordinary county town in the ninth and tenth
centuries. This volume reports on the
ten-year project during which archaeologists discovered that ‘dark age’ Stafford
had acted as a centre for the delivery of
grain tribute and was commandeered by
Aethelflaeda, Lady of the Mercians, for
the construction of her burh. No jacket.
$39.95 16411 now £14.99
Michael Dames The mysterious conical
hill at Silbury in Wiltshire has puzzled
antiquaries and archaeologists for centuries, and attempts to probe its interior
have only deepened the enigma. Bold, lucid and scholarly, this book interprets the
latest scientific findings in the light of ancient religious beliefs. With more than
150 illustrations, including 16 pages of
colour plates, it paints a compelling picture of Silbury as a centre for the worship
of the Earth goddess at the time of the
Neolithic agricultural revolution.
SILBURY: Resolving the Enigma
BOYDELL 2010 HB 194pp Illus 280x215mm
£60.00 17930 now £19.99
THE CODE-BREAKER’S
SECRET DIARIES
Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832)
devoted his short life to solving the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but he made
only one visit to Egypt, during a lull in
the Mediterranean war against the Ottoman Sultan. This book brings together
the letters and diary entries from May 1828
to March 1830 in which Champollion
vividly and amusingly documents both
the dangers of the expedition and his exhilaration at archaeological discoveries.
HISTORY PRESS 2010 PB 192pp Illus
£14.99 91561 now £5.99
CELTIC ORNAMENT
IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Down to AD 700
ET Leeds In tracing the history and evolution of pre-Christian Celtic ornamentation in the British Isles, this well-documented study describes and discusses
examples dating from the earliest ornament to 700 CE and ranging from frag-
GIBSON SQUARE 2009 PB 288pp
£8.99 17859 now £3.99
DOVER 2002 PB 185pp Illus 215x137mm
£9.99 84374 now £3.99
GREEK ARCHITECTURE
AND ITS SCULPTURE
Ian Jenkins Drawing on the collections
of the British Museum, curator Ian Jenkins
discusses some of the greatest monuments
of classical antiquity, such as the temple
of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum
at Halikarnassos, two of the seven wonders of the ancient world. As well as examining in detail these buildings’ construction and sculptural decoration, he
also considers how they reflect their historical background and what they reveal
about the people who funded, designed
and built them. HARVARD UP 2006 HB
11779 now £7.99
Toby Wilkinson The ancient Egyptians’ origins
are an enduring mystery: was Egyptian
civilization brought by invaders from elsewhere,
or did it develop over a long period within Egypt
itself? Archaeologist Toby Wilkinson presents
evidence for the latter option, outlining his
research on the intricate rock carvings found at
dozens of sites in the country’s inhospitable
Eastern Desert region, which date from 3,500
years before the tombs in the Valley of the Kings
yet foreshadow iconography and imagery of the
Pharaonic period. THAMES & HUDSON 2003 HB
ANCIENT EGYPT AS IT WAS
Exploring the City
of Thebes in 1200 BC
LYONS 2008 PB 160pp Illus
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$16.95 98192 now £3.99
NEW
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ments of a bronze hanging bowl decorated
with finely detailed palm leaves to a
bronze bucket with embossed ying-yang
scrolls. Originally published in 1933, the
study is reprinted here with its original
drawings and monochrome plates.
GENESIS OF THE PHARAOHS
Charlotte Booth What to do in the
Thebes of Ramses II (you won’t be allowed into the Valley of the Kings);
where to stay and how to travel around:
written in the style of a contemporary
guide for the inquisitive tourist, this entertaining book evokes the sights and
sounds of ancient Egypt with a combination of historical background and practical advice for visitors.
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ANCIENT HISTORY
NEW THE RESTORATION OF ROME
Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
Peter Heather follows up his acclaimed work on
the fall of the Roman Empire with this account of
Theoderic, Justinian and Charlemagne, three men
who sought to revive the Roman inheritance in
Western Europe in the first centuries after Rome’s
fall in 476 CE. Explaining why the Europe of the
early Middle Ages increasingly militated against
their efforts to maintain an old-style empire,
Heather shows that enduring power became possible
only with the arrival of churchmen from the old
barbarian north. MACMILLAN 2013 HB 524pp Illus
£30.00 19622 now £12.99
ROME’S LAST CITIZEN
The Life and Legacy of Cato,
Mortal Enemy of Caesar
TOWARDS ONE WORLD
Ancient Persia and the West
Warwick Ball The attempt by Persia to
extend its borders into Europe in the sixth
century BCE is usually considered to
mark the beginning of the relationship between East and West. Warwick Ball argues
against the common perception of this relationship as a short-lived ‘Manichean
struggle’, emphasizing instead the profound influence of the Persian religious
idea of a single universal creator and the
complexity of relations between the Persian Empire and the Greco-Roman world.
EAST & WEST 2010 PB 240pp Illus
John R Hale ‘The Athenians in their
years of greatness were first and foremost a people bound to the sea.’ Using
both ancient literary evidence and his
own researches as a marine archaeologist, Hale has produced this narrative
history of classical Athens which focuses on the significance of naval
power, from 483 BCE, when Themistocles proposed that the Athenians
should build a fleet, to the end of the
city’s hegemony, at the hands of the
Macedonians, in 322 BCE.
GIBSON SQUARE 2010 HB 420pp Illus
£15.00 17821 now £5.99
£19.99 17575 now £8.99
Luciana Jacobelli Using the abundant
evidence of Pompeii’s amphitheatre and
gladiatorial barracks, as well as the depictions of combat in the city’s wall paintings, mosaics and graffiti, Jacobelli presents an illustrated account of the gladiators
of the Roman Empire, their origins, training and equipment and the highly organized games in which they competed. The
final chapter, by Riccardo Lattuada, outlines the reception of gladiators in Western
culture, from the Middle Ages to the present day. GETTY 2003 HB 128pp Illus
GLADIATORS AT POMPEII
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LORDS OF THE SEA
Rob Goodman; Jimmy Soni For George
Washington and his revolutionary contemporaries, the Roman statesman Marcus
Porcius Cato (95-46 BCE) was the embodiment of Liberty, principle and Stoic
courage, who chose suicide to avoid becoming a political pawn for Caesar. In this
first modern biography the authors place
Cato in the context of his turbulent times
– an age of terrorism, debt crisis and political corruption – and consider why he
ultimately failed in his attempt to save the
Republic. THOMAS DUNNE 2012 HB 380pp
white photographs to reflect on the Grand
Tour, the ruins of antiquity, and our relationship with the past.
CONTRASTO 2010 HB 136pp Illus 260x277mm
£30.00 16964 now £9.99
D Sim; J Kaminski The Roman army’s
success was in large part founded on welltrained, well-disciplined soldiers who
were equipped with the most advanced
arms and armour then available. Using
both ancient sources and modern scientific
analyses, Sim and Kaminski present a
study of the processes used to manufacture each component of that armour, together with an examination of Roman
methods of extracting ores and transforming them into workable ferrous metal and
copper alloy. OXBOW 2012 PB 190pp Illus
ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMOUR
£25.00 99559 now £9.99
£24.95 16429 now £7.99
POMPEII
Echoes from the Grand Tour
Mimmo Jodice Almost as soon as it was
rediscovered in the 18th century, the lost
city of Pompeii became a highlight of the
Grand Tour, that essential rite of passage
for educated European gentlemen. This
magnificent and strikingly original book
combines the work of three celebrated
modern writers – Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet
and Jay Parini – with 53 of Mimmo
Jodice’s hauntingly evocative black and
Toby Wilkinson A concise, up-to-date reference
on the ancient civilization of the Nile valley,
this illustrated A-Z has entries on each king
who ruled Egypt, all the major archaeological
sites in Egypt and Sudan, and cultural topics
from creation myths to clothing. Part of the
Thames & Hudson World of Art series.
DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Paul Chrystal In this intriguing history
we encounter ‘admirable, exciting, evil,
slatternly and dangerous women fighting
to be heard and seen against insurmountable odds in a world run by men, for men’.
Chrystal’s account, written for the general
reader as well as students of ancient history, covers aspects of Roman women’s
lives ranging from betrothal and marriage
to education, religion and the dark arts.
THAMES & HUDSON 2008 PB 272pp Illus
£9.95 17611 now £4.99
WOMEN IN ANCIENT ROME
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MEDIEVAL HISTORY
NEW COMPOSTELA
AND EUROPE
The Story of Diego Gelmírez
Manuel Castineiras Santiago de
Compostela is perhaps the most
celebrated pilgrimage site in Europe,
but few know that its fame is largely
due to the energy and genius of one man,
Diego Gelmírez. Published in conjunction
with a major exhibition and beautifully
illustrated with many colour photographs
of medieval architecture, sculpture and
illuminated manuscripts, this handsome
volume chronicles the life and travels
of the visionary 12th-century cleric,
and charts his tireless campaign to
put Santiago on the map.
SKIRA 2010 HB 340pp Illus 277x237mm
£34.00 18995 now £16.99
MELISENDE OF JERUSALEM
The World of a Forgotten
Crusader Queen
EARLY ENGLISH
ARBITRATION
Margaret Tranovich Although she ruled
the Kingdom of Jerusalem for more than
20 years during the 12th century, Queen
Melisende is a shadowy figure whose name
is unfamiliar to most people today. Margaret Tranovich pieces together the sketchy
sources to set Melisende in the political
context of her tumultuous times and uses
the art of the period to explore the full
breadth of the queen’s contacts with the
rich Byzantine, Islamic and European
traditions. EAST & WEST 2011 PB 191pp Illus
Derek Roebuck How were disputes
managed in England before the Common Law? This interdisciplinary study,
using the work of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and
geneticists, begins with the prehistoric
evidence, which shows that people were
regularly assembling to deal with disputes. Then, using the surviving original
sources, presented here in new translations, it covers Roman, Anglo-Saxon
and post-Conquest times to demonstrate
that sophisticated techniques of mediation and arbitration were in use well
before Henry II’s new legal system.
£14.95 18178 now £6.99
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
AND THE SUNDAY LETTER
IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
NEW
WOMEN AND THE
CHURCH IN MEDIEVAL
IRELAND, c.1140-1540
Dianne Hall The position of women in the
medieval Irish church has been little studied
or understood. This groundbreaking work
draws on a wide range of primary sources
to examine the key role played by both
nuns and lay women as patrons, organisers
and motivators, shedding new light on both
the institution of the church and on Irish
history, and placing Irish women’s religious
activities in a wider European context.
FOUR COURTS 2008 PB 252pp
£8.95 18961 now £3.99
HOLO 2008 HB 330pp
Ed. Dorothy Haines Since the early Middle Ages Christians have marked a weekly
holy day in a tradition associated with the
so-called Sunday Letter, a communication
alleged to have fallen from heaven, which
was widely copied and translated. Haines’s
edition presents the six Old English versions of the text, with facing translations,
commentary and glossary.
She also discusses the Latin
versions, the texts’ historical,
legal and theological contexts and the development
of Sunday observance.
£40.00 17555 now £14.99
THE UNIVERSITY
AND COLLEGE LIBRARIES
OF CAMBRIDGE
Corpus of British Medieval
Library Catalogues 10
Ed. Peter D Clarke The booklists in this
volume are unusual in that a substantial
part of the medieval collections listed do
not relate to libraries long since dispersed,
but remain in situ. They offer a new understanding of how the collections were
established, grew and changed over time.
The volume includes an introductory essay by Dr Roger Lovatt and a substantial
appendix of donors and former owners.
DS BREWER
2010 HB 268pp
BRITISH LIBRARY 2002 HB 992pp
£60.00 17959
now £19.99
£145.00 98387 now £25.00
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
The Walters Art Museum
Martina Bagnoli; Kathryn Gerry Featuring photographs
of nearly 150 objects from the rich medieval art collection held
by the Walters Art Museum of Baltimore, The Medieval World
presents a lively and wide-ranging narrative covering such
topics as the classical tradition, materials and manufacture,
liturgical instruments and objects from everyday life. The final
chapter covers the revival of interest in medieval art during
the 19th century, focusing on Henry Walters (1848-1931),
who founded the museum. GILES 2011 PB 216pp Illus 270x205mm
16404 now £9.99
Saint James the Greater and Saint Peter, panel by Agnolo Gaddi
8
Abbey church of Sainte-Foy de Conques
THE TROYES MÉMOIRE
The Making of a
Medieval Tapestry
Trans. Tina Kane The only surviving
example of written instructions for the design of medieval tapestries is the so-called
Troyes Mémoire, which dates from the
late 15th century and shows how patrons
and church officials communicated their
wishes to artists. Textile conservator Tina
Kane provides an extensive introduction
and notes in this edition of the text, with
facing translation, which also includes
excerpts from Troyes’ account books concerning the people who worked on such
tapestries. BOYDELL 2010 HB 220pp Illus
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MEDIEVAL HISTORY
NEW ALEXANDER II
King of Scots 1214-1249
Richard Oram The 35 years of Alexander II’s
rule were a period of decisive change, as the king
contributed to the making of Scotland by bringing
together petty principalities into a unified state
with a common Scots identity. Oram offers a
reappraisal of this under-studied period of
Scottish history, examining Alexander’s
achievements in the fields of domestic politics
and international diplomacy as well as his
relationships with his mother, his first wife,
magnates, officials and senior clergy.
JOHN DONALD 2012 PB 304pp Illus
£25.00 19112 now £9.99
KINGS, MORMAERS, REBELS
Early Scotland’s Other Royal Family
JOCELIN OF WELLS
Bishop, Builder, Courtier
Ed. Robert Dunning Jocelin, a royal administrator and the bishop of Wells from
1206 to 1242, played a major role in the
growth of Somerset’s towns, fairs and markets as well as the completion of Wells
Cathedral and its Bishop’s Palace. This
volume comprises ten essays on Jocelin’s
life, career and reforms, his building projects and the findings of recent architectural,
archaeological and botanical investigations
into the curious physical nature of the
palace site. BOYDELL 2010 HB 236pp Illus
£60.00 17943 now £25.00
AGINCOURT
The Story of a Battle
NEW
Rosemary Hawley Jarman A decisive
victory for Henry V looked like a remote
prospect when he decided to march his
depleted army across Normandy to the
English stronghold of Calais in October
1415. The campaigning season was almost over and the capture of Harfleur, after a long siege, was all he had to show
for it. This very readable history profiles
the young king and his army and follows
the action from their arrival on French
soil to the great battle and its aftermath.
AMBERLEY 2012 HB 192pp Illus 240x160mm
£18.99 19315 now £7.99
David Crouch The ‘mêlée tournament’
– a mock battle involving huge numbers
TOURNAMENT
John Marsden tells the story of the Cenel Loairn,
one of the principal dynastic kindreds of Dalraida,
who first came to notice in the seventh century, displacing the Cenel nGabrain, but
moving from Argyll to Moray after the Pictish onslaught in the 730s. The Cenel
Loairn’s ascendancy reached its pinnacle in 1040, when Macbeth seized the high
kingship of the Scots, but went into decline after the death of Macbeth and his
successor Lulach at the hands of Malcolm Canmore. JOHN DONALD 2010 PB 206pp
£20.00 11477 now £7.99
PUIR LABOURERS AND BUSY HUSBANDMEN
The Countryside of Lowland Scotland in the Middle Ages
Piers Dixon Part of The Making of Scotland series of lively and accessible
introductions to important themes in Scottish archaeology and history, this
volume focuses on the countryside of Lowland Scotland in the Middle Ages.
BIRLINN 2002 PB 64pp Illus 260x190mm
£6.99 11499 now £3.99
of knights fighting over very large areas
– began in north-eastern France in the late
11th century and had spread to England,
Germany and Austria by 1200. In this
richly detailed study, Crouch aims to reconstruct how a tournament was experienced in its heyday and assess its significance in medieval society, particularly in
the evolution of the aristocracy. The book
includes a collection of 13 medieval documents on the tournament.
HAMBLEDON 2005 PB 248pp
£17.99 99050 now £5.99
ST GEORGE’S CHAPEL,
WINDSOR, IN THE
LATE MIDDLE AGES
Ed. Colin Richmond; Eileen Scarff Ten
essays examine the cultural context of the
late Gothic St George’s Chapel in Windsor
Castle – a centre of religious, intellectual
and artistic excellence in 15th century England. DEAN & CANONS 2001 PB 221pp Illus
£14.99 33816 now £6.99
THE PLANTAGENETS
The Kings that Made Britain
Derek Wilson At the accession of Henry
II in 1154, the Plantagenets ruled over a
realm that stretched from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees. When Richard III
died in 1485, only Calais was left on the
European mainland, but the Plantagenets
had consolidated and secured royal control within Britain. In this lucid account
of their 300 year reign, Wilson chronicles
the turbulent and often blood-soaked
world of kings such as Richard the Lionheart, King John and Henry V, the hero
of Agincourt.
QUERCUS 2014 PB 296pp Illus
£9.99 16645 now £4.99
MODERN HISTORY
IMPRISON’D WRANGLERS
The Rhetorical Culture of the
House of Commons, 1760-1800
THE PERILOUS CROWN
France Between Revolutions 1814-48
£63.00 17318 now £19.99
£20.00 77391 now £7.99
Christopher Reid Although the later 18th century
has been regarded as parliamentary oratory’s
golden age, its speaking history remains to a large
extent unexplored. Drawing on contemporary
sources ranging from newspaper reports to
memoirs, this study looks in detail at the making
of a rhetorical culture inside and outside the
House of Commons during a period when
Parliament consolidated its authority as a national
institution and gained a new kind of prominence
in the public eye. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 284pp Illus
Munro Price The period that followed the
restoration of the French monarchy in 1815 is
as dramatic and turbulent as the events that
preceded it. The reigns of the last three kings
of France were punctuated by intrigue, assassination attempts, street fighting and two further
revolutions. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, this absorbing history charts the
rise and fall of the ‘citizen king’ Louis-Philippe,
giving due prominence for the first time to the
role of his remarkable sister Adélaide.
MACMILLAN 2007 HB 462pp Illus
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ARCHAEOLOGY
MODERN/20th CENTURY HISTORY
UNDER EVERY LEAF
How Britain Played the Greater
Game from Afghanistan to Africa
William Beaver ‘Where a leaf moves’, according
to an old Farsi saying, ‘underneath you will find
an Englishman’. Between the Crimean and the First
World Wars, an anonymous-looking townhouse in
Queen Anne’s Gate was the headquarters of the
shadowy Intelligence Division of the War Office.
Drawing on an encyclopedic array of little-known
sources, this book tells the dramatic story of its
network of intrepid spies who promoted the
interests of the British Empire across the globe,
by fair means – or foul. BITEBACK 2012 HB 352pp Illus
£20.00 96823 now £7.99
MURDER IN THE HINDU KUSH
George Hayward and the Great Game
PANORAMA OF THE
ENLIGHTENMENT
Dorinda Outram Between the late 17th
century and the French Revolution, the
age of the Enlightenment was one of rationalism and intellectual curiosity, the
rejection of superstition and a growing
reliance on observation and experiment
to arrive at the truth. Dorinda Outram
places Enlightenment ideas in their widest
context and explores their impact across
social, cultural and political life, using
some 400 illustrations as an integral part
of a discussion that ranges from Diderot’s
Encylopédie to science and medicine.
J PAUL GETTY MUSEUM
$60.00 16776 now £8.99
Tim Hannigan George Hayward was a maverick
explorer whose murder in a remote spot in the Hindu Kush in 1870 was, from
the beginning, the subject of dispute and suspicion. While mapping the wild regions
of the western Himalayas, the political intrigues of the ‘Great Game’ left him on
the wrong side of both the British Raj and the powerful Maharaja of Kashmir.
This biography traces Hayward’s life from his Yorkshire origins and attempts to
unravel the mystery of his controversial death. HISTORY PRESS 2011 HB 254pp Illus
£18.99 96670 now £6.99
THE WORLD
AT THEIR FINGERTIPS
18th Century British
Two-Sheet DoubleHemisphere World Maps
Geoff Armitage Between
1680 and 1807, British
publishers produced a
sequence of double
hemisphere world maps,
each printed on two conjoined
sheets, with an eye to the
growing market among the
William Berry’s A Mapp of All the World
upwardly mobile. Drawing
in Two Hemispheres, London, 1680
on the collection of the British
Library, this handsome, informative book reproduces 24 maps in full colour, in
addition to many details and smaller illustrations. A valuable guide to identification,
it also sets the maps in their historical context and provides biographies of leading
figures in the trade. BRITISH LIBRARY 2012 HB 262pp Illus 238x310mm
£45.00
16947
now £19.99
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIFE IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
A Social History of Queen Victoria’s Reign
THE DAY PARLIAMENT
BURNED DOWN
Caroline Shenton When the old Palace
of Westminster burned down on 16 October 1834, it was seen as a national
catastrophe. Rumours about the cause
of the fire were rife: was it arson,
terrorism, foreign operatives, a kitchen
accident or even divine judgement on
politicians? In this riveting study, the
Director of the Parliamentary Archives
Caroline Shenton unfolds the story of
the fire over the course of that day,
and paints a skilful portrait of the social
and political context of Westminster at
the time. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 355pp Illus
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Michael Paterson makes the point that the Victorians were not so different from us:
‘they had a fixation with new technology, were guilty of gross materialism, yet this was
balanced... by a willingness to give charitable aid’. This readable history looks at
everyday life: the food, fashion, transport, religion, work and leisure of ordinary Britons
from the 1830s to the end of the century. ROBINSON 2008 PB 384pp Illus
£9.99 99687 now £3.99
20th CENTURY HISTORY
HITLER’S CHARISMA
Leading Millions into the Abyss
Laurence Rees Awkward, shabby, incapable of normal human relationships, Adolf
Hitler seems an unlikely figure to have won the hearts and minds of an advanced
European nation. But when asked why they followed him so blindly, Germans
invariably used the word ‘charisma’. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished
interviews recorded over many years as a documentary filmmaker, Laurence Rees
probes the enigma of how a little Austrian corporal whom his army comrades
thought ‘odd’ bewitched a nation and plunged the world into cataclysm.
Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
NEW
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EMPIRE LOST
Britain, the Dominions
and the Second World War
20th CENTURY/CONTEMPORARY
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
SIX MONTHS IN 1945
From World War to Cold War
Andrew Stewart On the outbreak of the
Second World War in 1939, the Dominions
of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa affirmed their commitment
to the British Empire. After the victory to
which they made such a great contribution,
they were effectively independent nations.
Drawing on government records, private
letters and diaries, and media sources, this
absorbing history examines they way in
which the exigencies of global conflict
fostered self-government, and how in winning the war, Britain lost an empire.
CONTINUUM 2008 HB 250pp
£30.00 99743 now £9.99
Michael Dobbs The six months between the
meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill at Yalta
in February 1945 and the dropping of the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August saw the transition
from old empires to new superpowers and the
world divided ideologically. Michael Dobbs
describes the dramatic events and the participants
in this historical turning point, the geo-political
background to the descent of the ‘iron curtain’, and
the confrontation of the USA and Soviet Russia.
American cut pages; felt-tip mark on lower
trimmed edge. KNOPF 2012 HB 436pp Illus
$28.95 17577 now £7.99
NEW STALIN’S CURSE
Battling for Communism
in War and Cold War
Robert Gellately When Stalin died in 1953 he had established the ‘Red Empire’
which defined the Cold War world until the fall of the Berlin Wall. What were the
motives behind Stalin’s ruthless and spectacular power grab? Was he intent upon
imperialist expansion for its own sake? Was he simply a psychopathic killer? Using
previously unavailable sources Gellately argues that Stalin is better understood as
a life-long Leninist revolutionary who saw the Second World War as a chance to
further the Communist mission. OXFORD UP 2013 HB 496pp Illus 241x160mm
£20.00 19285 now £7.99
NEW THE BRILLIANT
DISASTER
JFK, Castro and America’s
Doomed Invasion of
Cuba’s Bay of Pigs
EISENHOWER’S BLUFF
The World’s Secret Battle
Against Nuclear Annihilation
Evan Thomas As Supreme Allied Commander at the end of the Second World
War, Dwight Eisenhower wielded one of
the most formidable conventional military
forces in history. During his presidency
of the United States between 1953 and
1961, his focus was on avoiding the use
of nuclear weapons against his former
ally, the Soviet Union. This detailed analysis of his foreign policy, while President,
explains how his subtle and diplomatic
methods helped to keep the uneasy peace.
GIBSON SQUARE 2014 HB 494pp Illus
£25.00 17861 now £7.99
Jim Rasenberger ‘It could have been
worse,’ an advisor told JF Kennedy after
the failure of the disastrous US-backed
attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. ‘How?’
asked the President. ‘It could have succeeded.’ With clarity and narrative verve,
Rasenberger reveals the behind-the-scenes
machinations of the CIA, draws compelling portraits of the key players, traces
what Kennedy knew, thought and felt as
events unfolded, and charts the political
fallout of one of the worst blunders in
American history.
ROBERT HALE 2011 HB 478pp Illus
£20.00 19139 now £7.99
Stephen M Younger Does the United
States need its massive atomic arsenal in
the 21st century? How does the proliferation of nuclear weapons by North Korea
and Iran affect American nuclear policy?
With his extensive experience of nuclear
politics and research, Younger looks back
THE BOMB: A New History
THE PURSUIT OF THE NAZI MIND
Hitler, Hess and the Analysts
Daniel Pick, historian and psychoanalyst, tells
how, during the Second World War, the Allies used
the ‘psy’ professions to delve into the motivations
of the Nazi leadership and the mentality of the
‘masses’ they led. Focused on the psychiatric
examination of Rudolf Hess after his capture, the
book explores the role of psychiatry and Freudian
analysis in wartime and at the Nuremberg trials,
and the shadow it cast on post-war recovery
policy and political thinking in the longer term.
£18.99 11380 now £8.99
at the development of these weapons of
mass destruction and urges that ‘all of us
should have the opportunity to discuss
their future’. ECCO 2010 PB 254pp Illus
£8.95 11878 now £3.99
THE ROYAL STORY
The History of the House of
Windsor in Words and Music
Narrated by Dame Judi Dench Including historic speeches, radio broadcasts,
music and evocative sounds such as the
bell of St Paul’s tolling for the King’s funeral, this CD traces the history of the
House of Windsor over three generations.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2002 Audio CD
£9.95 58723 now £3.99
THE MINISTRY OF DEFEAT
The British War in Iraq 2003-09
Richard North In this hard-hitting account of Britain’s military occupation of
southern Iraq, from the aftermath of the
2003 invasion to 2009, when the last
British troops were ordered to leave by
the Iraqi government, Richard North argues that the occupation was an abject
failure and the blame lies with the Blair
government’s failure to provide the Army
with the forces and equipment to meet a
challenge that it and the military establishment had hopelessly misread from the
start. CONTINUUM 2009 HB 277pp Illus
£19.99 80377 now £7.99
THE BLACK BANNERS
Inside the Hunt for al-Qaeda
Ali H Soufan was the FBI’s head investigator into al-Qaeda, responsible for
thwarting plots and – without torture –
gaining some of the most important confessions from terrorists. This is his insider’s account of the realities of counterterrorism. ALLEN LANE 2011 HB 598pp
£25.00 10894 now £9.99
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GENERAL HISTORY
THE GREAT
EMPIRES
OF ASIA
Ed. Jim Masselos
For much of the past
millennium, Asia’s large
and diverse empires
dominated the world’s
political geography,
challenging the states of
Europe. The contributors
to this book examine
seven of the greatest,
from the Khmer Empire,
which arose in the early
ninth century, to Japan’s Tomb of the Mughal minister Itimad al-Daula and his wife in Agra
Meiji Restoration, which ended in 1945. They discuss such charismatic leaders as
Chinggis Khan and Suleiman the Magnificent, the legendary wealth of these empires
and the artistic and technological advances which they helped to bring about.
THAMES & HUDSON 2010 HB 240pp Illus
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
THE INDIAN DIASPORA
NEW
Ed. Brij V Lal There are now more than
20 million people of Indian origin living
outside the subcontinent. From South
Africa to North America, from Britain to
Australia, these communities have made
their mark in areas as diverse as literature,
politics, business, popular culture, sport
and cuisine. Written by more than 60 scholars from around the globe and lavishly
illustrated with maps, charts and photographs, this unique work of reference charts
their origins, their experiences, and their
distinctive contribution to host cultures.
HAWAII UP 2007 HB 416pp Illus 287x237mm
£40.93 19262 now £9.99
£24.95 17603 now £9.99
AFGHANISTAN
Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Ed. Fredrik Hiebert; Pierre Cambon In 1978, an archaeologist unearthed the tomb
of a Bactrian warrior in the Afghan highlands. Sealed for 2,000 years, it contained more
than 22,000 golden artefacts. Within months, the Soviet invasion sealed the country and
the treasure disappeared. Produced in conjunction with a major touring exhibition, this
magnificent catalogue illustrates hundreds of items of jewellery and sculpture, and tells
the story of the courageous band of curators who risked their lives to save these
treasures from the Taliban. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2008 PB 304pp Illus 255x255mm
$30.00 16342 now £11.99
BORN IN AFRICA
The Quest for the
Origins of Human Life
Martin Meredith Darwin speculated
that our origins lay in Africa, but his
theory was dismissed for half a century.
However, with the identification of more
than 20 species of extinct humans, the
continent is now firmly established as
the birthplace of Homo sapiens. Meredith’s account of the epic quest for our
earliest ancestors tells of scientists’ and
anthropologists’ adventures and rivalries
and reveals how they uncovered the
very beginnings of technology, language
and art.
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2012 PB 256pp Illus
£8.99 16895 now £3.99
WHY DID THE HEAVENS
NOT DARKEN?
The ‘Final Solution’ in History
Arno J Mayer Was the ‘Final Solution’
part of the Nazi plan from the start? This
detailed, rigorous and sensitive study of
the evidence reaches the conclusion that,
while Nazi anti-Semitism was always virulent, the institutional and ideological
mechanisms of genocide evolved over
time, to be set in motion by the catastrophic war with Russia. Placing the
Holocaust within the wider context of European history, it also demonstrates how
similar ‘holy causes’ have triggered analogous – if less cataclysmic – atrocities in
the past. VERSO 2012 PB 540pp
£19.99 11796 now £7.99
NEW THE MISSISSIPPI
AND THE MAKING
OF A NATION
From the Louisiana
Purchase to Today
IRAN AT WAR
1500-1988
Kaveh Farrokh From the Safavid dynasty, which saw the revival of ancient
Persian traditions in the 16th and 17th
centuries, to the 1979 revolution and the
Iran-Iraq War, this military history of Iran
encompasses early successes followed by
centuries of defeat as nations such as Russia and Britain began to shape the country’s internal history; and it unravels the
very complex history of Iran during the
20th century. OSPREY 2011 HB 480pp Illus
£18.99 17630 now £7.99
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Stephen E Ambrose Thomas
Jefferson’s purchase of the vast
swathe of territory to the west of the
Mississippi in 1803 was a turning
point in the shaping of the United
States, doubling its size at a stroke
and stimulating trade and transport
along the great river. Illustrated
with contemporary photographs,
archive illustrations, documents
Black sharecroppers work a Tennessee cotton field
and maps, this celebration of the
Mississippi follows its course through ten states from Minnesota to Louisiana
exploring its significance to the history, culture and landscape of America.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2002 HB 273pp Illus 239x283mm
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BRITISH/GENERAL HISTORY
Alistair Moffat Since the retreat of the glaciers
at the end of the last ice age, Britain has been
repopulated entirely by immigrants. The stories
of the earliest settlers were lost in millennia of
prehistory, but geneticists are now able to uncover
these ancient ancestors’ geographical origins by
analysing modern Britons’ DNA. With genetic
insights complementing archaeological evidence,
this book forms a new people’s history of the
British which tracks the epic journeys of the
pioneering migrants. BIRLINN 2013 HB 304pp Illus
NEW
THE BRITISH: A Genetic Journey
£17.99 19115 now £6.99
NICK BARRATT’S BEGINNER’S
GUIDE TO YOUR ANCESTORS’ LIVES
Christian VI, King of Denmark
and Norway from 1730-46
NEW
EMPERORS, KINGS
AND QUEENS
Sonya Newland Spanning British and
European, Scandinavian and Russian royal
history since 1600, this volume profiles
every monarch from Sigismund III, King
of Poland (1587-1632) to Harald V of Norway (1991 to the present). As well as providing a portrait or official photograph, a
brief biography and a succinct survey of
the reign of each king, queen, tsar or emperor, the book traces their connections,
marriages and feuds with other royal houses.
STAR FIRE 2007 HB 200pp Illus 285x297mm
£20.00 19838 now £6.99
HOW FAT WAS HENRY VIII?
and 101 Other Questions
on Royal History
Raymond Lamont-Brown Beginning
with a section of ‘Royal Conundrums’
such as the nature of Queen Victoria’s
relationship with John Brown and whether
James II’s baby son was a changeling,
Raymond Lamont-Brown indulges our curiosity about all things royal with very
thorough answers. Other sections include
Pretenders and Usurpers; Murders, Plots
and Assassinations; Palaces, Castles and
Love Nests; and finally, Rumour and Scandal – wherein we learn which monarch
topped the list for siring royal bastards.
HISTORY PRESS 2009 PB 312pp
£9.99 17030 now £3.99
Nick Barratt As well as giving advice on the
practicalities of researching and constructing your
family tree, this guide explains how to use a range of sources to look more deeply
into the social history of each generation – their houses, streets, communities and
ways of life. Barratt also offers helpful suggestions for organizing and shaping your
findings and, with the help of the latest technology, creating an archive of your
personal heritage. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 282pp
£19.99 10985 now £7.99
WH Hudson After many adventures in Argentina,
William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) came to
England at 28 and established himself as a naturalist.
First published in 1909, Afoot in England recounts
his wanderings through East Anglia and from Surrey
to Cornwall. As Robert Macfarlane points out in his
introduction, it takes us through a ‘deep England’ of
‘spectres, ancestors... memories of violence and...
supernatural beauty’. BEAUFOY 2010 PB 200pp
AFOOT IN ENGLAND
£9.99 99542 now £3.99
Bryan Little Bristol was at a peak of prosperity in
the first half of the 18th century when its mercantile,
maritime and industrial interests all thrived. Boasting
the second largest population in England by 1750, the modern city was shaped by
the building of its elegant Georgian terraces and the achievements of Isambard
Kingdom Brunel in the 19th century. This illustrated history charts Bristol’s
development from the first Anglo-Saxon settlement to the recent regeneration
of the historic harbourside area. HALSGROVE 2008 HB 96pp Illus 204x204mm
THE STORY OF BRISTOL
£14.99 10764 now £6.99
Emma Marriott Did Mussolini make the trains run on time? Did Galileo invent the
telescope? How ‘Roman’ was Roman Britain? Examining these and 28 more examples,
Emma Marriott shows that some of our most cherished beliefs about the great events
of history are inaccurate, either through errors and misunderstandings or because of
deliberate attempts to cover up or mislead. MICHAEL O’MARA 2011 HB 192pp Illus
BAD HISTORY: How We Got the Past Wrong
£9.99 94156 now £3.99
THE DISAPPEARED
The Stories of 35 Historical
Disappearances from the
Mary Celeste to Lord Lucan
Ian Crofton Unexpected disappearances can
breed all kinds of conspiracy theories, but this
book presents the facts and allows the reader to
speculate on the most likely fate of the victims.
As well as individuals – such as the Princes in
the Tower, Glenn Miller and Ambrose Bierce –
it includes mass disappearances, from the three
Roman legions lost in the Teutoberger Forest
in 9 CE to the many thousand casualties of
Argentina’s Dirty War of 1976-83.
QUERCUS 2008 HB 176pp Illus 266x185mm
£15.00 77238 now £5.99
THE GREAT DEGENERATION
How Institutions Decay
and Economies Die
Niall Ferguson The decline of the West
is something that has long been prophesied. Now, it seems, symptoms of decline
are all around us: slowing growth, crushing
debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is amiss with
Western civilization? The answer, Niall
Ferguson argues, is that our institutions –
the intricate frameworks within which a
society can flourish or fail – are degenerating. This powerful polemic is based on
Ferguson’s BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures,
2012. ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 180pp
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NEW KENT WINDMILLS
AND WATERMILLS
Gregory Holyoake; Illus. Tom Burnham There
has been a revival of interest in Kent’s windmills and
watermills and many have been restored in recent years
by dedicated volunteers. Demonstrating the variety and
individual character of these mills across the county,
this book presents 16 of Tom Burham’s watercolour
paintings and includes notes about the design,
construction and workings of each building, from
the ‘open trestle’ rotating post mill at Chillenden to
the imposing and still-operational Georgian watermill
at Crabble. DOVECOTE 2012 HB 38pp Illus 295x210mm
£16.00 19021 now £6.99
The White Mill overlooking the village green at Woodchurch
WHEN SCHOOLDAYS WERE FUN
A Lighthearted Look at
‘the Best Days of Our Lives’
Stephen Browning In spite of the hard
benches, stodgy food and iron discipline that
feature prominently in people’s memories
of education in Britain before about 1970,
schooldays from this period are nevertheless
often fondly remembered. Covering a period
from about 1900 up to the 1970s, this
nostalgic miscellany of archive photographs,
literary references, poems and first-hand
accounts recalls the eccentric teachers,
interminable lessons, withering school
reports and punishing sporting trials that were
once the daily lot of British schoolchildren.
HALSGROVE 2010 HB 160pp Illus 296x210mm
TRADITIONAL CRAFTS AND
INDUSTRIES IN EAST ANGLIA
The Photographic Legacy
of Hallam Ashley
Ed. Andrew Sargent This collection of
140 photographs, taken mostly during the
1940s and 1950s by Hallam Ashley
(1900-87), depicts traditional working
practices in East Anglian agriculture,
crafts and industry. Working for the National Buildings Record and the Society
for the Protection of Ancient Buildings,
Ashley made an important pictorial survey of architectural heritage but, as these
images show, his interest in social documentary is perhaps more significant,
depicting a centuries-old way of life at
a time of rapid social change. ENGLISH
HERITAGE 2010 PB 176pp Illus 276x218mm
£16.99 94694 now £6.99
£19.99 99464 now £7.99
900 YEARS OF
CHICHESTER’S MARKETS
Cattle, Corn and Crawfish
Alan HJ Green A market town since
Roman times, Chichester has had several different markets: as well as the
famous Market Cross, erected in 1501,
there were the Beast Market, the Butter
Market, the Corn Exchange and Corn
Market and the New Cattle Market,
created in 1871 and closed and bulldozed to make way for a car park in
1990. With over 100 illustrations, local
historian Alan Green traces the histories of all Chichester’s markets in this
first book on the subject.
PHILLIMORE 2011 HB 176pp Illus
£17.99 10818 now £6.99
WESTERN NATIONAL
OMNIBUS COMPANY
Colin Morris In 1929, part of
the National Omnibus and
Transport Company’s
operations in the South-West
were merged with the Great
Western Railway’s bus services
to form Western National,
running services closely related
to GWR rail lines. Illustrated
with many archive photographs
and route maps, this book
documents the history of the
A rare open-top Bristol at Penzance in 1975
company, its services and its
green-liveried vehicles, which were a familiar sight in the West Country until
privatization and deregulation in the 1980s. IAN ALLAN 2008 HB 96pp Illus 277x210mm
£16.99 17150 now £6.99
MEMORIES OF BRITAIN PAST
The Illustrated Story of How
We Lived, Worked and Played
Juliet Gardiner Drawing on the wonderful
Getty photographic archive, this book is
full of memorable images of a bygone era.
It focuses on times within living memory,
from the early 1930s to the end of the 1970s,
during which the country underwent
profound changes. Covering key aspects
of the way we used to live, from home life,
childhood and schooling through to the
working world and popular entertainments,
social historian Juliet Gardiner looks back
on a largely vanished Britain. READER’S
DIGEST 2012 HB 256pp Illus 275x215mm
£19.99 95477 now £7.99
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Paul Atkinson This volume from
the Objekt series provides a history
of the computer that focuses on its
physical design, how it has been
promoted and shifts in public
attitude toward computers.
Illustrated with photographs and
advertisements, the book covers
machines from a 1962 decimal
computer weighing over five tons,
to a 2010 iPad, and will interest
students of design and technology,
IBM Ledger Card computer, 1974
as well as those interested in how
computers have shaped – and been shaped by – our lives. REAKTION 2010 PB 256pp Illus
COMPUTER
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SOCIAL HISTORY
NEW DICKENS AND THE WORKHOUSE
Oliver Twist and the London Poor
Ruth Richardson The recent discovery that the
young Charles Dickens lived within sight of a major
London workhouse, and the subsequent campaign
to save the building from demolition, made headlines
worldwide. This book, by the historian behind
the revelation, explains the importance of these
formative years on Dickens’s development as a
writer. It also charts the life of the institution and
the neighbourhood, introducing a cast of characters
as vivid and varied as those created by the novelist
himself. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 390pp Illus
£16.99 19096 now £7.99
VOICES FROM THE
WORLD OF SAMUEL PEPYS
Jonathan Bastable Pepys’s diary records
the pivotal events of his age – including
the coronation of Charles II and the Great
Fire of London – but also shows him rubbing shoulders with great men and enjoying all the pleasures that the capital had to
offer. This book combines excerpts from
Pepys with a range of contemporary
sources which paint a vivid picture of
everyday life and give their commentary
on the fashion, arts, entertainment, politics
and religion of Restoration London. (Inside Pepys’ London, previously sold in
Postscript, is the same book.) Slightly offmint. DAVID & CHARLES 2007 HB 286pp Illus
£14.99 10910 now £6.99
SERVANTS’ HALL
A Real Life Upstairs,
Downstairs Romance
Margaret Powell (1907-84) was a former
kitchen maid whose first account of life in
the great houses of wealthy families, Below
Stairs, was a national bestseller. In this second warm and funny memoir of her days
‘in service’, she tells the story of Rose, the
Wardham family maid, who shocked people upstairs and downstairs by eloping with
the family’s only son, Gerald. Slightly offmint. ST MARTIN’S PRESS 2013 HB 184pp
£9.99 17837 now £4.99
LOOKING BACK AT BRITAIN
PEACE AND PROSPERITY:
1860s
Brian Moynahan Industrial and commercial Britain went from strength to
strength in the 1860s; but photographers
also recorded the downside of economic
growth – barefoot street kids, squalid inner cities and rebellion in Ireland.
READER’S DIGEST
£17.99 76368 now £5.99
HOLIDAYS AND HARD TIMES:
1870s
Jeremy Harwood The 1870s started well,
but midway through the decade Britain was
heading into recession and political discontent. This volume reflects the divisions,
with as many images of the poor struggling
to survive as of the rich at their leisure.
READER’S DIGEST
£17.99 76358 now £5.99
TITANIC LIVES
Migrants and Millionaires,
Conmen and Crew
Richard Davenport-Hines In absorbing
detail, this book brings to life the stories
of the men who built and owned the
Titanic, the ship’s crew and the thousands
of passengers who sailed on its notorious
maiden voyage. Setting out from
Southampton, the ship was a microcosm
of Edwardian society, encompassing every
class and many nationalities, and this
portrayal of those on board is a compelling
social history as well as a fresh and fascinating account of the Titanic’s sinking.
HARPER 2012 PB 416pp Illus
£9.99 12009 now £4.99
NEW
CITIZENS TO LORDS
A Social History of Western
Political Thought from
Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Ellen Meiksins Wood provides a survey
of the canonical ancient and medieval political thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle
through the Roman Republic and Empire
to Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham in the Middle Ages. She also integrates political theory and social history
in a groundbreaking analysis of the development of these ideas by members or
clients of dominant classes against the
backdrop of complex interactions among
proprietors, labourers and states.
VERSO 2008 HB 336pp 240x160mm
£16.99 19341 now £9.99
VILLAGE SCHOOLING
IN SOMERSET
Learn ’em Hard
Sarah Villiers Little schooling had been
available in England’s rural areas until the
1870 Education Act, although significant
efforts had been made in Somerset prior
to this by philanthropists such as Hannah
More and the Rev. John Poole. This study
considers the development of village
schools in the county in the 19th and 20th
centuries, examining the experience of the
pupils, the curricula and the school management, from staffing and funding to the
layout of the buildings.
RYELANDS 2012 HB 224pp Illus 295x210mm
£24.99 18241 now £9.99
A SERIES OF ORIGINAL PORTRAITS
AND CHARACTER ETCHINGS (Two volumes)
John Kay Previously a surgeon-barber, John Kay (17421826) set up shop as a portrait etcher in Edinburgh in 1785.
This posthumously published work (commonly called
Edinburgh Portraits) presents, in no particular order, Kay’s
etchings of people from all walks of Edinburgh life, with
‘biographical; sketches and illustrative anecdotes’ by James
Paterson. The two volumes contain around 300 portraits,
giving an extraordinarily detailed view of late 18th century
Edinburgh’s population. These volumes are facsimiles
of the first edition (1837-8). Slipcased.
BIRLINN 2007 HB 1037pp Illus 264x204mm
£200.00 11474 now £50.00
Major-General Alexander Mackay, Deputy
Adjutant-General to the forces in Scotland
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THE BRITISH HERRING
INDUSTRY
The Steam Drifter Years 1900-60
Christopher Unsworth In its heyday, the
British herring fleet moved seasonally
around the coastline of the British Isles,
the close proximity of the fishing grounds
to land allowing the catch to be landed
and processed quickly and thus ensuring
a quality product. This illustrated account
tells the story of the boom years of the
industry, which coincided with the advent
and decline of the use of steam drifters.
AMBERLEY 2013 PB 160pp Illus
£15.99 18055 now £5.99
Sean Longden Going beyond the familiar
stories of children in wartime, usually
dominated by evacuation, Longden deals
with children as active participants in the
Second World War. He tells the stories of
child soldiers who lied about their age to
enlist, but also of the Royal Navy’s 14year-old boy buglers serving on battle
ships, teenagers in the Merchant Navy,
Boy Scouts and Girl Guides helping
victims of the bombing, and the children
who stayed in the cities during the Blitz.
BLITZ KIDS
CONSTABLE 2012 HB 560pp Illus
£20.00 16981 now £7.99
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S
LONDON WORKERS
Management of the Warehouse
Labourers, 1800-1858
Margaret Makepeace’s study relocates
the English East India Company in its rightful place at the centre of the early 19th century London economy. It explores the Company’s direction of commercial operations
in London, the management structure in its
warehouses and the strategies adopted to
control and regulate the thousands of
labourers in its workforce. This ‘history
from below’ approach provides new insights into the functioning of the Company
and the lives of the London working
classes. No jacket. BOYDELL 2010 HB 254pp
£65.00 17936 now £14.99
RICHARD DUNSTON LIMITED
Shipbuilders of Thorne and Hessle
A Pictorial History
Mike Taylor Among the notable achievements of the shipbuilders Richard Dunston Ltd, was the design and construction
of the modular TIDs (Tugs in Dock) in
the early 1940s, which they welded together from eight separate pre-fabricated
units, achieving a production rate of one
every five days. This history of the Yorkshire firm is told principally by means of
more than 200 archive photographs examining the company’s vessels from the
late 19th century to the 1990s.
WHARNCLIFFE 2009 PB 158pp Illus
£12.99 11001 now £5.99
CRIME
GRAVE-ROBBERS AND
BODYSNATCHERS IN DEVON
NEW
Patricia Gray As the importance of anatomy was
established, medical schools in the 19th century had
a growing need for human specimens to dissect. The
general religious belief that the body should remain
intact after death meant that they were scarce and
the illegal trade of grave robbing emerged. This
history examines the activities of one of the leading
exponents, Thomas Vaughan, in Plymouth during
the 1830s. HALSGROVE 2009 PB 128pp Illus
£8.99 19088 now £3.99
Steven Fielding From its opening in 1849,
HM Prison, Winchester was the main centre for
executions in Hampshire and the neighbouring
counties, and the executioners were infamous hangmen including William Marwood,
pioneer of the ‘long drop’, and Albert Pierrepoint. This history examines the cases
of each of the 29 hangings that took place there from the 1869 Aldershot army camp
murderer to the killers of a Cornish farmer in 1963. HISTORY PRESS 2010 PB 128pp
NEW
HANGED AT WINCHESTER
£14.99 92146 now £5.99
HOW BRITAIN KEPT CALM
AND CARRIED ON
Real-Life Stories
from the Home Front
Anton Rippon The ‘Keep Calm and
Carry On’ poster was never used during
the Second World War; people in Britain
had kept calm and carried on without
being told. Anton Rippon first started
collecting these first-hand accounts of
life on the home front in 1978, when
memories of the war were relatively
fresh. Above all, their strange, sad or
downright funny stories illustrate the
indomitable spirit and humour of the
British people during the war years.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2014 HB 223pp
£14.99 17703 now £4.99
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NEW CORNWALL MURDER FILES
Famous Cases Solved and Unsolved
Patricia Gray A murder case usually excites public interest and when the crime
takes place in a small community it is perhaps even more of a sensation.
This true crime selection recounts a number of murders
committed in Cornwall during the later 20th and early
21st centuries and includes intriguing unsolved killings
such as that of millionaire farmer Les Bate in 2002.
HALSGROVE 2010 PB 111pp
£8.99 19080 now £3.99
CRIMINAL LONDON
A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime
Kris Hollington From Newgate Prison to the West
London flat where Lord Lucan murdered his nanny, this
illustrated gazetteer lists the locations around the capital
that have played host to notorious crimes such as the
Christie and Crippen murders, arch villains such as the
Richardsons or famous London crime-fighters. The book
also includes comprehensive guided walks visiting sites
associated with Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and
the Krays. AURUM 2013 PB 336pp Illus
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MILITARY HISTORY
Hew Strachan In this highly acclaimed short history
of the First World War, Strachan argues that the
conflict became global long before the involvement
of the USA, and discusses the war in Africa, the Far
East and Eastern Europe, and the German-Ottoman
alliance. He also shows, by recovering contemporary
– pre-1920s – views of the war, that for liberal
countries struggling to defend their freedoms it was
far from futile. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2014 PB 414pp Illus
NEW
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
£9.99 18195 now £4.99
A HISTORY OF WAR
IN 100 BATTLES
Richard Overy From the earliest recorded
battles in the ancient Near East to Desert
Storm in 1991, Richard Overy has selected
100 battles, all of them significant in some
way, although the victors, like Sitting
Bull at Little Big Horn, did not always
win the war. Arranged chronologically
within chapters on factors that can influence the outcome of armed combat – leadership, overwhelming odds, technical
innovation, deception, raw courage, and
good fortune – the battles serve to illustrate
the history of warfare itself. WILLIAM
COLLINS 2014 HB 384pp Illus 190x246mm
£25.00 17591 now £12.99
NEW THE FATEFUL YEAR
England 1914
Mark Bostridge ‘To capture the character, spirit
and shape of this momentous year’, Bostridge’s
book approaches 1914 through stories and episodes
ranging from headline news, including the slashing
of Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus by a suffragette, to
obscure events such as the opening of the new Glastonbury Festival on 5 August;
and throughout the year there are comments by Prime Minister Asquith himself –
not from a political diary, but from his letters to the young woman he loved.
VIKING 2014 HB 432pp Illus
£25.00 18339 now £7.99
CRIMEAN LETTERS
From the 41st (The Welch)
Regiment, 1854-56
Major General William Allan; Ed. W
Alister Williams The letters of the young
Scottish officer William Allan offer an insight into the daily lives of the 41st (The
Welch) Regiment during the Crimean War
(1854-6). Supplemented in this edition
with a connecting narrative and letters
written by other officers, they reveal
vividly the effects of severe weather, enemy actions, ill-health and the incompetence of those in authority. An appendix
lists all the men who served with the 41st
Regiment in the Crimea campaign.
BRIDGE 2011 HB 224pp Illus
TO WAR WITH GOD
The Army Chaplain
Who Lost His Faith
Peter Fiennes Edward ‘Monty’ Guilford’s
descriptions of the First World War include moments of humour as well as horror as he struggles to reconcile his religious beliefs with what he is witnessing.
This chronicle of his time in the trenches,
pieced together by his grandson from
wartime diaries, photographs and letters,
is a valuable eyewitness account by a sensitive and intelligent observer trying to
make moral sense of the carnage.
MAINSTREAM 2012 PB 256pp Illus
£7.99 16536 now £3.99
£18.99 11870 now £6.99
THE TACTICS OF AELIAN
or On the Military
Arrangements of the Greeks
NEW
Ed. Christopher Matthew Dating from
the time of the Emperor Hadrian, Aelian’s
Tactics draws on earlier works to create
a fascinating picture of warfare during
the Hellenistic period. In Arabic and Latin
translations the work continued to be used
for many centuries as a practical manual,
right up to the English Civil War. Matthew
provides the fullest edition available of
the Greek text, with a new facing translation, illustrations of the formations
described and explanatory notes.
PEN & SWORD 2012 HB 247pp
£19.99 18278 now £8.99
NEW HEROES AND VILLAINS
Inside the Minds of the
Greatest Warriors in History
Frank McLynn Spartacus, Attila the Hun, Richard
the Lionheart, Cortes, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Napoleon:
the courage, ambition and military genius of these
six men have brought them almost legendary
status, but their personal character flaws and
the human cost of their achievements make
them more ambivalent figures. In his exploration
of the psychology of great warriors, the author
probes the mixture of qualities that enabled this
sextet of leaders both to inspire their troops and
to deal with simultaneous personal, military and
political stresses. BBC 2007 HB 384pp Illus
£18.99 77369 now £6.99
MATCHLOCKS TO FLINTLOCKS
Warfare in Europe and Beyond 1500-1700
William Urban By the early modern period, military leaders were increasingly
using mercenaries to press their territorial ambitions, as traditional armies of feudal
vassals struggled to cope with the developing military equipment and tactics, and
could not afford the long periods away on campaign. Identifying three dominant
war cultures – Christian western Europe, Ottoman Islam and east central Europe –
William Urban argues that this change led to the professionalization of national
armies and in turn helped to shape nation states. FRONTLINE 2011 HB 304pp Illus
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MILITARY HISTORY
Ed. Tony Husband In the battle for hearts
and minds during the Second World War,
cartoonists had a vital role to play. All
nations are represented in this book
and it is fascinating to see how each
side’s artists handled the war, aiming
their bullets with the precision of
frontline snipers. Selected and with notes
by cartoonist Tony Husband, the cartoons
follow the progress of the war and include
work by Kukryniksy, David Low, Sennep,
Philip Zec, Pont, EH Shepard and Bernard
Partridge. ARCTURUS 2014 HB 192pp Illus
CARTOONS OF WORLD WAR II
£12.99 16982 now £5.99
Hitting back on the home front – a poster
for part-time war workers from 1942
NEW ZERO NIGHT
The Untold Story of World War
Two’s Most Daring Great Escape
Mark Felton The ‘Warburg Wire Job’
was an audacious escape attempt by 40
British, Australian, New Zealand and
South African PoWs from Oflag VI-B
in Warburg, Germany. With the camp
lights fused, the prisoners laid scaling ladders constructed from bed boards over the
high perimeter fence and 28 made it
across. Mark Felton’s history tells the
story of the planning and execution of the
breakout and the stories of the escapees’
attempts to evade recapture and return
home. ICON 2014 PB 320pp Illus 215x134mm
£12.99 19834 now £4.99
SURVIVOR OF
THE LONG MARCH
NEW
Charles Waite was captured in 1940 and
spent the rest of the Second World War as
a PoW. With no combats or medals to his
name, he was silent about his experiences
for over 60 years but in this book recounts
the miseries of years of hard labour and
farm work, periods of solitary confinement for sabotage and the final monstrous
1600km journey, in freezing conditions
with few provisions, as the weak and dying prisoners were marched across eastern
Europe. SPELLMOUNT 2012 HB 224pp Illus
£14.99 10822 now £6.99
ORDER OF BATTLE SERIES
David Porter The Red Army’s fearsome
reputation in the Second World War was
earned at the cost of countless lives as
Soviet battle tactics took full advantage
of the vast human resources (up to 12.5
million men and women) at its disposal.
Arranged by campaign and battle, this
study shows the strengths and organizational structure of the Red Army at every
key conflict from 1939 to the capture of
Berlin in 1945.
THE RED ARMY IN WWII
AMBER 2009 HB 192pp Illus 240x187mm
$34.95 10601 now £9.99
WESTERN ALLIED
FORCES OF WWII
Walter James Cumming This memoir,
recently edited from a long-unpublished
manuscript, records the experiences of a
young officer in the Indian Army on the
frontier between Afghanistan and British
India in the 20 years leading up to the
Second World War. He describes the hardships and dangers of the notoriously lawless region, the ruthlessness and skill of
the Pathan tribesmen, and lighter moments
of polo, hunting and shooting – the entertainments available to British officers of
the Raj. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 202pp
£19.99 10976 now £7.99
Michael E Haskew It was Britain and
not Germany that had the most highly
mechanized army in 1939 and, of the
Western powers, it was France that had
the most men in uniform. This survey of
the campaigns of the Second World War
details the order of battle of every major
Allied army during the conflicts in Poland,
Norway, the Low Countries, Sicily, Italy,
North Africa, France and Germany and
includes more than 30 tactical maps illustrating key actions.
AMBER 2009 HB 192pp Illus
$34.95 10616 now £9.99
THE ULRICH VON HASSELL
DIARIES 1938-1944
The Story of Forces Against
Hitler Inside Germany
Ulrich von Hassell Had the July 1944 plot to
assassinate Hitler succeeded, Ulrich von Hassell
would have become Germany’s foreign minister,
negotiating peace with the Allies. Instead, he and
his fellow conspirators were executed. Hassell’s
diaries, described by his wife as his ‘bequest and
mission’, were first published in English in 1947.
This edition comprises the first complete English
translation of the diaries, together with Friedrich
Freiherr von Gaertringen’s extensive notes (1988),
and a new introduction by Richard Overy.
Translations by Geoffrey Brooks.
FRONTLINE 2011 HB 360pp
£30.00 98247 now £8.99
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FRONTIER FIGHTERS
On Active Service
in Waziristan
BLITZKRIEG NO LONGER
The German Wehrmacht
in Battle, 1943
Samuel W Mitcham The success of Germany’s blitzkrieg tactics in the early stages
of the Second World War made Hitler’s
relentless advance seem unstoppable. By
1943 however, the picture was changing:
defeat at Stalingrad, surrender in Tunisia
and the loss of Sicily all demonstrated that
the tide had turned. This study focuses on
this pivotal year of the war as the Wehrmacht, now unable to mount its feared lightning attacks, was forced onto the back
foot. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 320pp Illus
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NEW TANGMERE
Famous Royal Air Force
Fighter Station
Reginald Byron; David Coxon This is
the first full, authorized history of the
RAF fighter station at Tangmere, West
Sussex, from its origins in the First
World War until its closure in 1970.
Famous for air displays during the
1920s and 1930s, Tangmere sent the
first fighter squadron to France in September 1939 and played a major role in
the Battle of Britain in 1940. The book
features extracts from memoirs by pilots
and crew based there as well as the station’s Operations Record Books.
MILITARY HISTORY
NEW OBSERVERS
AND NAVIGATORS
And Other Non-Pilot Aircrew
in the RFC, RNAS and RAF
CG Jefford During the First World War,
observers and aerial gunners who flew with
the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air
Service were treated as somewhat inferior
personnel to the pilots, establishing a systemic
bias, CJ Jefford argues, that continued for
decades. This detailed analysis of non-pilot
aircrew describes the role of observers,
navigators and gunners and their everchanging training and management through
two world wars, the Cold War period and
into the present century.
GRUB STREET 2014 HB 328pp Illus
GRUB STREET 2014 HB 415pp Illus 283x210mm
£25.00 19050 now £9.99
£40.00 19049 now £16.99
AIR COMMANDOS
AGAINST JAPAN
Allied Special Operations
in World War II Burma
CHIEF OF STAFF
The Principal Officers Behind
History’s Great Commanders
In this first study to concentrate exclusively on the chief of staff – the key
staff officer responsible for translating
the ideas of the commander into practical plans for soldiers to execute on the
battlefield – David T Zabecki examines
the role and functioning of the post by
providing profiles of the most significant
practitioners of the chief of staff’s art.
William T Y’Blood In 1943, two USAAF officers were given the job of organizing an air assault detachment to assist British commandos in Burma. It was
a new kind of fighting force using airborne guerrilla tactics to cause disruption
behind enemy lines. Former US Air Force
pilot Y’Blood describes how the unit, using an array of light planes, fighters, helicopters, cargo aircraft and about 500
men, contributed to the defeat of the
Japanese in Burma.
NAVAL INSTITUTE 2008 HB 254pp Illus
$37.95/39.95
NAVAL INSTITUTE 2008 HB 320pp Illus
£27.95 10557 now £7.99
Paul Ham Today most people believe
that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 forced the
surrender of Japan and spared the millions
of deaths that would have resulted from
a continued war. Examining the bombings, the science and politics leading up
to them and, through harrowing personal
testimonies, the experiences of some of
the survivors, Paul Ham concludes that,
despite the American claim that they had
opted for ‘the least abhorrent choice’, viable alternatives were never considered.
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI
DOUBLEDAY 2011 HB 640pp Illus
£25.00 10899 now £11.99
Oliver Clutton-Brock; Raymond
Crompton The last Luftwaffe PoW camp
to be built during the Second World War,
Luft 7 in Silesia, was operational between
June 1944 and January 1945, when the
Russian advance forced its hurried evacuation. Using diary entries and first-hand
accounts, this book tells the story of
the camp and its prisoners who, weakened
by incarceration and in Arctic conditions,
made a 150-mile walk to a camp near
Berlin, where they suffered further
hardships before liberation in April 1945.
THE LONG ROAD
GRUB STREET 2013 HB 368pp Illus
£30.00 16627 now £12.99
now £7.99 each
Volume One: NAPOLEONIC
WARS TO WORLD WAR I
This first volume examines the history,
development and role of the position
through 14 operational-level chiefs of
staff, almost half of them German. Part
One deals with the 19th century, from
Napoleon’s Berthier to Count von Moltke;
Part Two covers nine First World War officers, from Erich Ludendorff, Hindenburg’s chief of staff at Tannenburg, to the
American James Guthrie Harbord, supporting General Pershing.
10561
Volume 2: WORLD WAR II
TO KOREA AND VIETNAM
This volume examines the development
of the modern military staff during the major conflicts of the second half of the 20th
century. It includes chiefs of staff to
Auchinleck, Eisenhower, MacArthur,
Montgomery, Patton and Rommel, ending
with Walter T Kerwin supporting General
Westmoreland in Vietnam.
10562
SM Plokhy With the end of the Second World
War in sight, the ‘Big Three’ Allied leaders –
Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill – met at Yalta in
February 1945. Their decisions on the shape of
post-war Europe had far-reaching consequences
and, many believe, led to the Cold War. This
assessment of the conference makes use of
newly discovered documents from US and UK
government sources as well as Russian archive
material only available since the collapse of the
Soviet Union. VIKING 2010 HB 479pp Illus
NEW
YALTA: The Price of Peace
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MILITARY HISTORY DVDs
THE GLIDER PILOT
REGIMENT
OPERATION MARKET GARDEN
The Allies’ bold plan to strike deep into occupied
Holland in September 1944 was intended to open up a
route into Germany and bring the war to a swift end.
This series of films examines in detail key aspects of
the operation, visiting the battlefields and assessing
the factors that led to the plan’s ultimate failure.
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2012/13 DVD
£16.99 each
now £5.99 each
While the airborne troops
secured the route, the advance
along it was to be made by the British XXX Corps. In
the event, progress was slow and fierce fighting along
the road earned it the nickname, ‘Hell’s Highway’. 18084
HELL’S HIGHWAY
Tim Saunders; Mike Peters Using
archive footage, interviews with
veterans and expert commentary, this
film describes the development of the
glider from the First to the Second
World War and charts the history of
the famous Glider Pilot Regiment and
their role in actions such as the capture
of Pegasus Bridge, Arnhem and the
Rhine Crossing.
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL
2010 DVD approx 120 min
£19.99 18083 now £5.99
At Nijmegen, the US 82nd Airborne might have
achieved a swift victory but for poor planning and miscommunication. The vital bridge was eventually taken
following a river crossing in small boats and a daring
assault on the north side of the bridge.
18087
NIJMEGEN
GERMAN ARMY IN NORMANDY
Narrated by expert battlefield guides and featuring
archive German footage, these films offer detailed
analysis of the battle experience of German divisions
fighting in the West to halt the progress of the Allies
following the Normandy landings.
LAST BOAT TO NORMANDY
D-Day Landings –
The Veterans’ Accounts
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2011 1 DVD each approx 100 min
£16.99 each
now £5.99 each
1st LEIBSTANDARTE
ADOLF HITLER SS PANZER DIVISION
Tim Saunders; Richard Hone; Andrew Duff The most
famous of the SS Panzer divisions, the Leibstandarte
were caught out by Allied deception, waiting for the invasion at
Pas de Calais; only later in June 1944 did they begin their nightmare
march to Normandy to attempt to halt the Allied advance.
18072
Tim Saunders; Richard Hone Formed of volunteers from the Hitler Youth,
with officers and NCOs from the Leibstandarte, the Hitlerjugend SS Division
quickly emerged as an elite formation. It moved to Normandy in the spring
of 1944, was declared operational on 1 June, and a few days later was
fighting to frustrate Montgomery’s invasion plans.
18071
12th HITLERJUGEND PANZER DIVISION
Dale Webb For this film, the camera
crew joins a band of D-Day veterans
as they make the journey across the
channel to revisit the Normandy
beaches, pay respects to their fallen
comrades, and share their memories
of the D-Day landings and the fierce
fighting of 6 June 1944.
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL
£14.99 18085 now £5.99
THE GERMAN WEHRMACHT SERIES
Using German archive film, private film clips and detailed English voiceovers,
this series of films looks in detail at German armoured forces, tank and infantry
units and examines their involvement in various theatres of the Second World
War. PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2011 1 DVD each approx 60 min
£22.99 each
now £7.99 each
WINTER WAR ON THE
NORTHERN AND EASTERN FRONT
Along with chapters on combat missions and conditions
on the Northern, East and West fronts, the film covers
topics including Stalingrad, North Africa, air combat and
motorcycle troop missions.18082
PANZER BATTLES ON
THE EASTERN FRONT
1944/45
The Eastern front began to break
down at the beginning of 1944.
Using German archive film with
English voiceover, this film follows
a year of defensive war by German
Tiger, Panther and 8.8 Flak units
fighting against the overwhelming
might of the Red Army.
MAIN FRONT LINES ON
THE EASTERN FRONT
Beginning with a chapter on the origins of the Wehrmacht,
the film deals mainly with tank warfare in the East, but
also with Cossack associations and the maritime distress
and transport squadrons of the Luftwaffe. 18081
Among the topics covered in this film are the development of the tank, and
the wartime experience of armoured units on the Western and Eastern
fronts, including Operation Barbarossa.
ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES AND TANK DEFENCE
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BRITISH ISLES
NEW SOMERSET COAST
FROM THE AIR
Jason Hawkes The coastline of
Somerset runs from the heavily
industrialized port of Avonmouth,
along the Bristol Channel overlooking
South Wales to the wild high landscape
at the edge of Exmoor. This collection
of aerial photographs mixes fascinating
bird’s-eye views of Portishead,
Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon
and Burnham-on-Sea with majestic
landscapes and almost abstract studies
of beaches, rocks, fields, holiday
camps and docks. HALSGROVE
£14.99 19092 now £6.99
A LONDON YEAR
365 Days of City Life in
Diaries, Journals and Letters
Travis Elborough; Nick Rennison An
anthology of ‘intimate snatches of London
life’, with one or more entries for each
day of the year, this handsome volume
begins with a hungover Robert Hooke on
1 January 1672; in June we find Noël
Coward detesting the 1951 Festival of
Britain funfair (‘really the last word in
squalor and completely ungay’) and, finally, there is a millennial disappointment
– MP Oona King on New Year’s Eve
1999, stuck at Stratford Tube station en
route to the Millennium Dome festivities.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2013 HB 608pp Illus
£25.00 17508 now £9.99
Steven Brindle; Damian Grady During
and after the Second World War, the RAF
undertook a remarkable aerial survey of
the British Isles. The hundreds of images
of London reproduced in this book reveal
the ravages inflicted by the Luftwaffe,
juxtaposed with earlier views, often taken
from balloons, and specially commissioned modern photographs to reveal the
dramatic redevelopment of areas such as
the Docklands. A fascinating commentary
describes the radical transformation that
the city has undergone in the past 60 years.
SHOT FROM ABOVE
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2007 HB 304pp Illus
290x235mm
Ed. Pat Hill-Cottingham; Derek Briggs et al The ruinous flooding of the Somerset
Levels in recent years has brought this unique wetland environment to national
attention and highlighted the fragile nature of one of the country’s most important
wildlife conservation areas. Accessibly presented and extensively illustrated, this
academic survey assesses the area’s geological and archaeological history, explores
the vegetation and wildlife of the contemporary wetlands and discusses the threats
that a warming climate and changes in agriculture pose to the region.
THE SOMERSET WETLANDS: An Ever Changing Environment
SOMERSET BOOKS 2008 HB 239pp Illus 238x258mm
£19.99 10778 now £7.99
NEW THE ISLE OF WIGHT, PORTSMOUTH AND THE SOLENT
A Cultural History
Mark Bardell The Isle of Wight was a Mecca for Victorian society: Tennyson lived
here, Turner painted, Dickens took holidays and Darwin began The Origin of Species
here, and Queen Victoria built her Italianate villa Osborne House here. This
absorbing book charts the history of the island and the great mainland ports of the
Solent, exploring their maritime heritage, their literary and artistic associations, their
role in two world wars, and the growth of seaside tourism. SIGNAL 2012 PB 461pp Illus
£12.00 19075 now £4.99
NEW SOUTH DEVON’S
SHIPWRECK TRAIL
Jessica Berry The coast of South Devon has
been a hazard to shipping since the earliest
times; the protruding western stretch in particular catching out sailors in poor visibility
or bad weather. This guide to the coast’s
maritime history is aimed at the walker of
the coastal trail, each of the shipwrecks explored having taken place within sight of the
cliffs, from Bronze Age traders to vessels of
the Second World War.
AMBERLEY 2013 HB 128pp Illus 235x165mm
£14.99 19324 now £4.99
£25.00 87971 now £9.99
NATIONAL PARKS
OF BRITAIN
Roly Smith Britain’s first national parks,
which now attract millions of visitors
every year, were designated in 1951 and
defined as ‘extensive area[s] of beautiful
and relatively wild country, in which...
the characteristic landscape beauty is
strictly preserved’. This guide to their history and heritage discusses the legal and
political developments which created
them and includes chapters on points of
special interest in each of 14 parks, from
the ponies of Dartmoor and the New Forest to the wilderness of the Cairngorms.
THE CASTLES
OF GLAMORGAN
Monuments in the Landscape
Volume XII
Lise Hull Castle building in Glamorgan began with the arrival of the Normans in its fertile plains, when the castles built by the Welsh in the uplands
were no match for the great fortresses
of the invaders. The surviving remains
range from small earthworks to the impressive Caerphilly, Britain’s secondlargest castle after Windsor. For each
site this guide sets out what there is to
see, with a brief history and access
arrangements.
LOGASTON 2007 PB 256pp Illus
£7.95 86863 now £3.99
Patricia Southern Beginning with the hot
springs as they were long before the Romans
arrived – in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras –
this account of the rise and fall of Aquae Sulis
summarizes the archaeology of Roman Bath
and describes the town, its baths, its temple to
Sulis Minerva and its unique social role in the
province of Britannia. The concluding chapter
describes the decline of Roman Bath and its
revival as a spa town in the 17th century.
THE STORY OF ROMAN BATH
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NEW THE STROUDWATER CANAL
A History
Michael Handford First planned in the 1720s,
the Stroudwater Canal was built to bring cargoes
of primarily coal from the navigable River
Severn to the growing industrial area centred on
Stroud. This new edition of Michael Handford’s
classic work gives a detailed history of the
construction and usage of the historic waterway
and examines the business of the still extant
Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater
Navigation, the oldest canal company in the
world. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 256pp Illus 247x172mm
£16.99 19327 now £6.99
YORKSHIRE WOLDS WAY
Official National Trail Guide
EXPLORING BRITAIN’S
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Inspirational Journeys
of Discovery
Visiting churches and chapels is not just
about admiring superb buildings of architectural, artistic and historical importance;
the visitor is walking into places that have
been at the heart of people’s lives for centuries. This illustrated AA guide includes
over 870 of the most inspiring of these
buildings in England, Scotland and Wales.
The churches are presented in eight regional sections, but grouped around key
churches in smaller areas, so that visits
can be planned for one- or two-day tours.
AA 2011 HB 256pp Illus 280x215mm
£25.00 88697 now £8.99
TYNESIDE
A History of Newcastle
and Gateshead
from Earliest Times
Alistair Moffat; George Rosie Beginning with the retreat of the icefields
10,000 years ago, this history of a ‘unique,
magical, infuriating and dynamic place’
focuses on the people – from Hadrian and
Bede to Jimmy Nail and Alan Shearer –
who have played their part in creating its
culture. The authors investigate how the
region has come to look, sound and behave as it does today, examining the
legacy of the coal trade and Industrial
Revolution as well as the renewals of the
21st century.
MAINSTREAM 2005 HB 416pp Illus
£20.00 16920 now £7.99
HERITAGE OF LAKELAND
A Centenary Collection
A Harry Griffin wrote an unbroken series
of Country Diary entries for The Guardian
for 53 years; he documented the landscape, history and people of the Lake District both in these pieces and in personal
notes of his walking and rock climbing
experiences. This anthology of his writing
also features articles from Cumbria, the
Lancashire Evening Post and the journal
of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB 253pp Illus
£14.99 16834 now £5.99
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Roger Ratcliffe The Yorkshire Wolds Way is a
79-mile route winding through wonderfully unspoilt, gently rolling countryside,
from the Humber Bridge to Filey on the east coast. A complete companion for
walkers, this illustrated, practical guide begins with an introduction to the historical
background to the area, then details the route, with Ordnance Survey mapping
and information on points of interest along the way. AURUM 2011 PB 144pp Illus
£12.99 17515 now £5.99
Jason Friend Planned by
the Ramblers’ Association
to take walkers through
the most spectacular
landscapes in the county,
the Cumbria Way meanders
some 70 miles from
Ulverston to Carlisle in
the north. Jason Friend,
an award-winning
photographer, has walked
the route several times and
in different seasons. This
book of 83 photographs,
The view from Lower Lonscale near Keswick
with accompanying
commentary and maps, follows the trail northward, passing though Coniston,
Dungeon Ghyll, Keswick and Caldbeck to Carlisle Castle. The book concludes
with photographers’ notes on each image. ZYMURGY 2006 HB 128pp Illus 230x270mm
THE CUMBRIA WAY
£12.99 11060 now £5.99
Graham Uney The River Eden starts among
the fells of the Cumbrian Pennines, and travels
northwards to meet the sea at the Solway Firth.
On its journey it passes through stunning
scenery, including peaks, moorland, wooded
gorges and rolling farmland. This beautiful
collection of over 140 photographs celebrates
the diversity of the Eden’s landscape – its
characterful market towns, priories and castles,
rare wildlife such as otter, red squirrel and
black grouse, and ancient standing stones.
PORTRAIT OF THE EDEN VALLEY
HALSGROVE 2008 HB 144pp Illus
£14.99 10775 now £6.99
The River Caldew flowing at Water’s
Meet below Hesket Newmarket
RIVER DERWENT
From Sea to Source
HC Ivison From its source in the mountainous
heart of the Lake District, the River Derwent flows through the fantastic countryside
of Cumbria. It is famous as a salmon river and as ‘the river of saints and sinners’ –
used by St Cuthbert, St Herbert and other Holy Brothers, but also by smugglers.
In this well-illustrated book, Ivison describes the events, landmarks and people
of the Derwent, from the Iron Age to the present day. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 96pp Illus
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OLD HOUSE MAPS SERIES
An invaluable resource for local historians, these reproductions of historic maps
of British cities from the 16th to the 20th
centuries are printed in full colour to
the highest standards, at a scale sufficient for the detail to be fully legible.
Each comes enclosed in a sturdy cardboard wallet, with an informative essay
about the city and its depiction on the
map. OLD HOUSE 2012 PB 2pp 210x148mm
£9.99 each now £3.99 each
BRITISH ISLES
DISCOVERING THE
LLEYN PENINSULA
AND ANGLESEY
John Bailey The historic island of
Anglesey and the Lleyn Peninsula,
jutting out into the Irish sea to the
south, boast some of the most
remote and picturesque landscapes
in Britain. This exploration of the
region is led by the author’s
photographs, taking in all points of
interest from ancient standing stones
and historic castles to spectacular
coastal scenes and studies of the
flora and fauna. Also included are
eight guided walks, with maps.
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The remains of the customs officer’s cottage
on the cliffs overlooking Porth Ysgaden
Adam Burton The Brecon
Beacons are so named
because of the ancient
practice of lighting signal
fires on the hilltops to send
alerts rapidly across country.
This volume presents over
100 beautiful photographs of
the sweeping moorland and
sandstone summits, as well
as the rivers, waterfalls,
canals and rolling pastoral
countryside of the valleys.
The book is in four parts, recording the changing
landscape across the seasons of the year.
BRECON BEACONS
JOHNSTON’S MAP
OF EDINBURGH 1893
NEW
This map captures the ‘Athens of the
North’ in its 19th-century heyday, with
the regular grid of its Georgian New
Town, burgeoning Victorian suburbs, and
the railways that fuelled the city’s growth.
A thriving centre of finance and the arts,
Edinburgh also had a worldwide reputation for mapmaking; W & AK Johnston
was among its most prominent cartographical firms.
19226
FADEN’S MAP
OF OXFORD 1789
NEW
Oxford is one of England’s most historic
cities, but much of what we see today was
created or transformed in the Victorian
era. This map by the Royal Geographer
William Faden captures the Georgian city
with its ancient colleges and spreading
watermeadows around the winding
Thames. Inset engravings depict some of
its finest buildings.
19227
A STREET MAP
OF BIRMINGHAM 1828
NEW
In the course of the 19th century, Birmingham’s population grew almost tenfold.
Offering a glimpse of rural districts and
historic features since lost to urban development, John Pigott Smith’s meticulously detailed map depicts one of England’s foremost towns on the eve of the
industrial boom that would change it forever.
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The isolated Llyn y Fan Fach
high in the Black Mountain is
supposed to be the home of
the Arthurian Lady of the Lake
Rupert Matthews Kent and Sussex have witnessed both invasions by Romans and
Normans and home-grown conflicts dating from the ‘dark ages’ to the English Civil
War. In 15 walks, this book visits the sites of important battles and sieges, giving
details of the action, weaponry and outcome as well as practical information for
visiting the sites of battles such as Bigbury, Aylesford, Hastings and Maidstone.
BATTLEFIELD WALKS: Kent and Sussex
FRANCES LINCOLN 2008 PB 216pp Illus
£8.99 17484 now £3.99
VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDE SERIES
Reprinted from late 19th and early 20th-century originals, these vintage
guidebooks transport us back to the genteel tourism of a bygone era. Complete
with maps, old photographs, and a selection of period advertisements, they
vividly recreate a world of echoing cathedral cloisters, county cricket matches,
teashops and country railway stations. AMBERLEY 2014 PB 160pp Illus 199x124mm
£9.99 each
now £4.99 each
Edwin English First published in 1901, this guidebook charts the history of the
ancient university town since Anglo-Saxon times. It provides detailed descriptions
of all the colleges and other university buildings, churches, libraries, museums,
galleries and parks, and also of attractions in the surrounding area such as
Blenheim Palace.
19330
NEW
THE VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO OXFORD
Gordon Home; J W Clark Dating from the early 1900s, this guidebook surveys
the medieval town as it stood poised on the verge of the modern era. It provides
detailed descriptions of Cambridge’s ancient colleges, churches and libraries,
before concluding with a lively survey of the city’s social life.
19328
NEW
THE VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE
John Shetlock Dominated by its magnificent cathedral and just 60 miles from
London, Canterbury was as popular a tourist destination in the early 1900s as
it is today. This vintage guide provides descriptions of its rich architectural
and ecclesiastical heritage and covers the nearby attractions of the Isle of
Thanet and Herne Bay, then in its heyday as a seaside resort.
19329
NEW
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SCOTLAND
UNKNOWN
HEBRIDES
NEW RETURN TO ONE MAN’S ISLAND
Paintings and Sketches
from the Isle of May
Keith Brockie Over 30 years ago Keith Brockie’s
One Man’s Island established him as a leading
wildlife artist. In 2009 he returned to the Isle
of May to produce this new portfolio of artwork.
The island is a paradise for the nature artist, and
with nearly 150 drawings and paintings, Brockie
celebrates its enormous variety of flora and fauna,
including breeding and migrating birds, sea
creatures and grey seals.
Puffin with
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John MacPherson
This photographic
celebration of some of
the most beautiful yet
overlooked parts of
Scotland – the islands of
the Firth of Lorne, the
islands of Skye, and
Ullapool – is introduced
by Hamish Haswell-Smith.
BIRLINN 2005 PB 128pp
Illus 191x249mm
a sprat on
the Isle
of May
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NEW RENFREWSHIRE
A Scottish County’s Hidden Past
Derek Alexander; Gordon McCrae People have
lived in Renfrewshire for more than 8,000 years
and engaged in all kinds of agricultural, industrial,
religious and military activities. Starting with
the underlying geology and the earliest human
occupation, the authors – both archaeologists
based in Renfrewshire – present an archaeological
and historical survey of the county, listing its
surviving buildings, archaeological sites and
monuments up to Second World War remains
in the second half of the 20th century.
BIRLINN 2012 PB 312pp Illus
£14.99 19236 now £6.99
NEW THE STEWART
EARLS OF ORKNEY
Peter Anderson For almost a century the
islands of Orkney and Shetland were under the rule of the Stewart earls, father
and son; a rule remarkable for its infamous
reputation in island history. Exploring
why they were held in such low esteem,
Anderson presents a study of the two earls
and life in the islands during their reigns,
from Robert Stewart’s seizure of power
in Orkney in the 1560s to 1615, when his
son, the ill-starred ‘Black Patie’, was executed for treason.
JOHN DONALD 2012 PB 188pp Illus
£25.00 19241 now £11.99
Jason Friend During the day, the city of
Edinburgh holds a charm that will delight
any visitor or resident; but to fully appreciate the splendour of this city’s architecture and monuments, one has to experience
it at night. The powerful visual impact of
this spectacle is captured by photographer
Jason Friend, who presents 140 images of
illuminated Edinburgh, providing a fascinating nocturnal perspective on the city.
EDINBURGH ILLUMINATED
HALSGROVE 2009 HB 144pp Illus
£14.99 17673 now £6.99
CLAP HANDS FOR THE
SINGING MOLECATCHER
Scenes from a Scottish Childhood
Roderick Grant’s memoirs of his adventurous boyhood in Morayshire in the late
1940s and 1950s paint a vivid picture of
life in a remote country community, from
his first day at school, accompanied by
his pet jackdaw, to skinny dipping with
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his first love; and he portrays local characters including his grandfather, known
to all as The Red Terror, and top of the
bill at local concerts, ‘The Singing Molecatcher’. BIRLINN 2009 PB 176pp 127x197mm
£7.99 11109 now £3.99
PILGRIMS OF THE MIST
The Stories of Scotland’s
Travelling People
Sheila Stewart Singer, storyteller and author Sheila Stewart is one of the last in
the line of Scotland’s travelling people
and these tales, gathered from her friends
and family, are a tribute to a way of life
that has now all but died out. There are
stories of myth and magic, hauntings and
sudden deaths, lovers and childbirths, and
the hardships of a people often spurned
as social outcasts. BIRLINN 2010 PB 206pp
£8.99 11497 now £3.99
Looking over the G
Allan Wright The Scottish landscape
photographer Allan Wright spent a year in
the area between Loch Lomond and Stirling,
seeking the essence of this romantic part of
Scotland. BIRLINN 2005 PB 112pp Illus 191x249mm
THE TROSSACHS
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NEW NORTH UIST IN
HISTORY AND LEGEND
Bill Lawson The landscapes of the Hebrides are full of prehistoric and historic
sites and North Uist is no exception: Neolithic burial chambers, Iron Age forts,
medieval churches, battle sites and abandoned townships are evidence of its fascinating past. In this informative book,
Bill Lawson describes the island, drawing
on recorded history as well as the rich
oral tradition in which the story of the
people has been passed down.
BIRLINN 2004 PB 248pp Illus
£10.99 19220 now £4.99
THE LAND WHERE I BELONG
Fifty Years in Focus in the
Highlands and Islands
Mary Carmichael Over half a century
Duncan Macpherson (1882-1966) created
a vast photographic record of Highland
life. Born in Aberdeenshire, he graduated
from Edinburgh University as a pharmacist
and established his own pharmacy near
the ferry terminal at Kyle of Lochalsh in
1911. This book reproduces about 100 of
MacPherson’s photographs together with
quotations from his three books – Gateway
to Skye (1946), Lure of the West (1950)
and Where I Belong (1964) – along with
Mary Carmichael’s account of his life and
work. BIRLINN 2010 PB 128pp Illus 230x290mm
£20.00 88442 now £7.99
NEW FASCIST SCOTLAND
Caledonia and the Far Right
Gavin Bowd Today, Scottish nationalism is widely
seen as an ideology of the left, but before the Second
World War, it was often associated with the far right.
The poet Hugh MacDiarmid called for a ‘native
species of fascism’, Rudolf Hess hoped to talk peace
with the Duke of Hamilton, and a Dundee
hairdresser, Jessie Jordan, spied for Germany. This
disturbing history uncovers the extent to which
Nazism permeated Scottish society, winning the
support of aristocrats, intellectuals and the Protestant
League. BIRLINN 2013 PB 318pp Illus
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BIOGRAPHY
THE WOMEN OF THE COUSINS’ WAR
The Duchess, The Queen
and the King’s Mother
Philippa Gregory; David Baldwin; Michael
Jones In the murderous medieval power struggle
known as the Wars of the Roses, three formidable
women were key players: Jacquetta, Duchess of
Bedford, Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV,
and the Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort.
Back by
Bestselling author Phillippa Gregory teams
popular
up with two leading historians of the period demand
to explore the real lives of these women, who
loom large in her popular Cousins’ War series of
historical novels, bringing to life an extraordinary
saga of ambition, intrigue, witchcraft and murder.
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2011 HB 352pp
over the Garvellachs islands, from Unknown Hebrides
BIOGRAPHY
m
CONSTANTINE
Unconquered Emperor,
Christian Victor
Paul Stephenson In 312 CE, Constantine – one of four emperors ruling a divided empire – marched on Rome to establish control of the western empire. On
the eve of the decisive battle he saw a
vision which led him to convert to Christianity. Stephenson’s biography uses literary, artistic, numismatic and archaeological evidence to examine the religious
background of Constantine’s conversion
and the life and legacy of a seminal figure in the political and cultural history
of the West. QUERCUS 2011 PB 384pp Illus
£9.99 16643 now £4.99
QUEEN ANNE
The Politics of Passion:
A Biography
Anne Somerset In 1702, 14 years after
helping to oust her father James II, Queen
Anne became Britain’s last Stuart
monarch. Plagued by ill-health and obesity and beset by intrigue, she is often regarded as a transitional ruler. This sympathetic biography unravels the complex
politics of her court and her fraught relations with the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough to reveal a woman of good sense
and good intentions who overcame personal tragedy to set her kingdom on the
path to greatness. (Previously available
in hardback.) HARPER 2012 PB 640pp Illus
£18.99 91684 now £7.99
SULEIMAN THE
MAGNIFICENT
Andre Clot Suleiman I, called ‘the Magnificent’ by Europeans, ruled as Ottoman
sultan from 1520 to 1566, controlling his
state firmly, capturing Constantinople and
extending his empire as the Christian
world struggled to unite against him. In
an informed and intelligent study, Clot
describes the military and economic successes of a reign which marked the apogee
of Ottoman power, setting them in the
context of Europe’s recent troubled centuries and examining Suleiman’s reputation as a lawgiver. SAQI 2012 PB 409pp
£14.99 16873 now £5.99
JANET ASHBEE
Love, Marriage and the
Arts and Crafts Movement
Felicity Ashbee Though chiefly remembered as the wife of the celebrated Arts
and Crafts designer CR Ashbee, Janet Ashbee was an influential writer and thinker
in her own right. In this intimate, informative biography, her daughter charts the
private and public life of this pioneering
feminist and socialist for the first time.
Setting Ashbee’s achievements in the context of a period when established norms
were increasingly challenged, it also examines how she came to terms with her
husband’s well-known homosexuality.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
2005-2008
Ed. Lawrence Goldman This second
printed supplement to the 60-volume print
edition of the Oxford DNB contains biographies of 865 people who died between
2005 and 2008. The earliest of them by
birth is Alfred Anderson, the last surviving
soldier who served in the First World War
and who died in 2005, aged 109. Among
the other biography subjects are Ronnie
Barker, Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, Harold
Pinter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Robin
Cook, and Arthur C Clarke. No jacket.
OXFORD UP
2013 HB 1,252pp Illus 252x195mm
NEW
SYRACUSE UP 2002 HB 277pp Illus
$39.95 19027 now £9.99
£100.00 17381 now £40.00
OXFORD DICTIONARY
OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
2001-2004
Ed. Lawrence Goldman This is the first
printed supplement to the Oxford DNB
(2004) and includes entries on 819 men
and women who shaped recent British
history and who died between 2001 and
2004. The earliest person by birth date is
the dancer and choreographer Dame
Ninette de Valois (1898-2001), but the
majority of subjects grew up in the interwar years. Among the notable figures in
this supplement are Barbara Castle, John
Peel, Alicia Markova, Francis Crick and
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. No jacket.
OXFORD UP
2009 HB 1,278pp Illus 253x196mm
£100.00 17380 now £40.00
£10.99 18367 now £4.99
Ed. William Wilson Hunter; GB Malleson
This study of Robert Clive (1725-74) deals
very briefly with his early life, taking up the
story in 1744, when Clive, an officer in the
army of the East India Company, landed at
Madras and began his long and controversial
association with India. The biographer was
George Bruce Malleson (1825-98), an army
officer in the Bengal infantry and a military
historian, particularly of Indian affairs.
First published in 1893. Reprint. No jacket.
LORD CLIVE
LANCER 2008 HB 201pp
OXFORD DICTIONARY OF
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Index of Contributors
Ed. HCG Matthew; Brian Harrison Covering biographies from the earliest time to
the year 2000, the Index of Contributors
lists the authors of entries published in the
Oxford DNB in September 2004, and shows
which articles each wrote or revised.
In earlier editions of the DNB (published
between 1885 and 1900) articles were
signed with initials; in the Index, these have
been converted to full names. No jacket.
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BIOGRAPHY
Ashley Jackson Uniquely endowed with talent,
energy and determination, Winston Churchill
was, in the words of Professor Jackson, ‘a
formidably powerful human being, a man whose
achievements and greatness have become so
interwoven with 20th century world history that
it is easy to take them for granted’. In this muchacclaimed account, Jackson describes the
contours and contradictions of a remarkable life
and career and ‘Winston Churchill’s appointment
with destiny’. QUERCUS 2012 PB 432pp
CHURCHILL
£9.99 16642 now £4.99
NEW THE GRAND DESIGNER
Third Marquess of Bute
Rosemary Hannah When the third Marquess of
Bute (1847-1900) met the designer William Burges,
it marked the start of a lifetime’s collaboration with
artists and architects that resulted in the Victorian Gothic exuberance of Cardiff
Castle and the flamboyance of Mount Stuart. This absorbing biography tells the
story of this vastly wealthy eccentric, whose learning, insight and kindness found
expression in artistic patronage on a grand scale. A generous selection of colour
plates illustrates the splendour of the works he sponsored.
MRS ROBINSON’S DISGRACE
The Private Diary
of a Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale In June 1858, soon
after the new Court of Divorce began
sitting, Henry Oliver Robinson brought
a divorce suit on the grounds of his wife’s
adultery, submitting her diary as evidence.
Read aloud in court, the diary was more
sensational than anything in contemporary
fiction. Kate Summerscale tells the story
of romance, scandal, the boundaries of
privacy, and a diary in which Isabella
Robinson ‘seemed to have invited, and
lovingly recorded, her own disgrace’.
No jacket. BLOOMSBURY 2012 HB 320pp
£14.99 19127 now £6.99
DOCTOR BARNARDO
Champion of Victorian Children
Martin Levy Born in Dublin in 1845,
Thomas Barnardo was a workaholic Irishman whose non-stop efforts in the cause
of children changed Britain forever and
initiated much of modern child welfare.
In the writing of this book the author had
access to the Barnardo family archives in
order to research the story of this most
fascinating and influential man. He uncovers details of Barnardo’s childhood as
one of ten siblings and reveals his relentless quest to improve the lives of Victorian
children. AMBERLEY 2013 HB 252pp Illus
£16.99 93475 now £5.99
CHARLES DARWIN:
THE BEAGLE LETTERS
Ed. Frederick Burkhardt At the beginning of October 1831 the young Charles
Darwin left Shrewsbury to begin a fiveyear journey which would turn his mind
towards evolutionary theory. This volume
brings together the letters which he wrote
and received during his voyage on the
Beagle, recounting both scientific observations and adventures ranging from an
earthquake and political revolution to his
efforts at ostrich-catching. Watercolours
by the ship’s artist Conrad Martens complement the text, depicting the landscapes
and animals seen by Darwin.
£25.00 17117 now £7.99
MUCKRAKER
The Scandalous Life
and Times of WT Stead
W Sydney Robinson Long before phone
hacking and the Fake Sheikh, there was
WT Stead. This gripping biography charts
the life and career of a Fleet Street legend.
It recounts his dramatic abduction of a
£9.99 17977 now £3.99
FLAPPERS
Six Women of a
Dangerous Generation
Judith Mackrell For many young
women, the 1920s felt like a promise of
liberty; a decade when they dared to
shorten their skirts, crop their hair, smoke
cigarettes in public and claim new sexual
freedoms. From this generation of women
‘hell-bent on having their own way’, Judith Maxwell has chosen to profile six
that exemplify the spirit of the 1920s:
Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald,
Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka. MACMILLAN 2013 PB 504pp Illus
£20.00 16816 now £7.99
THE LIVES OF THE MUSES
Nine Women and the
Artists They Inspired
CAMBRIDGE UP 2008 HB 500pp Illus
£32.99 93907 now £12.99
RAGLAN
From the Peninsula to the Crimea
John Sweetman The reputation of Lord Raglan
was destroyed in the final months of his life
by events in the Crimea; the plight of front line
troops and the wounded and the disastrous
charge of the Light Brigade brought
condemnation of the commander’s personal
integrity and professional competence. In this
biography, Sweetman reviews Raglan’s long
and distinguished career before and during
Crimea, to make a balanced assessment of his
achievements and reveal a brave, thoughtful and
very capable man. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 384pp
£25.00 10998 now £9.99
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13-year-old girl to expose the evils of
child prostitution, an exploit that earned
him a prison sentence but changed the
law, and records his death in the greatest
news story of the era – the sinking of the
Titanic. ROBSON 2013 PB 299pp
Francine Prose In this collection of biographical pieces, Francine Prose draws
on diaries, letters, photographs, memoirs
and interviews to explore the complex relationship between artist and muse. The
nine muses and the men they inspired are
Hester Thrale (Samuel Johnson), Alice
Liddell (Lewis Carroll), Elizabeth Siddal
(Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Lou AndreasSalome (Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud),
Gala Dalí (Salvador Dalí), Lee Miller
(Man Ray), Charis Weston (Edward Weston), Suzanne Farrell (George Balanchine), and Yoko Ono (John Lennon).
UNION 2013 PB 432pp 197x129mm
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ELIZABETH THE QUEEN
The Life of a
Modern Monarch
Sally Bedell Smith This much-acclaimed
book by the American biographer Sally
Bedell Smith offers a perspective on the
public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II. In a meticulously researched account, Smith aims to portray the Queen
‘in the round, in many different settings,
surrounded by a great cast of characters’
and she succeeds admirably in illuminating the lively sense of humour and keen
intelligence with which Elizabeth II meets
the most demanding work and obligations.
American-cut pages.
RANDOM HOUSE 2012 HB 686pp
$30.00 11802 now £9.99
BIOGRAPHY
Harry Leslie Smith Born in Yorkshire in 1923
and brought up in poverty, Harry Leslie Smith is a
survivor of the Great Depression, an RAF veteran
of the Second World War and now an activist for
the preservation of social democracy and author
of Guardian articles online. Part autobiography,
part commentary on contemporary society, this is
his passionate account of ‘how the world my
generation built is falling down, and what we
can do to save it’. ICON 2014 PB 224pp
NEW
HARRY’S LAST STAND
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DAYS FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD
A Memoir of Childhood
John Simpson is well known as the BBC’s leading
foreign correspondent, reporting from the front line
of conflicts such as the Iraq war. In this engaging
memoir, he turns his attention to matters closer to home: his own childhood in 1950s
Croydon. His honest and clear-sighted account of the unravelling of his parents’
marriage amid the austerity of postwar Britain vividly evokes a vanished era and
shows how lives can be irrevocably changed by war. PAN 2005 PB 416pp
£9.99 18243 now £4.99
TREVOR BEER’S DOWN MEMORY LANE
Rural Reminiscences of a Devon Countryman
Trevor Beer Naturalist, nature writer, wildlife conservationist and artist Trevor Beer
was introduced to the countryside at the age of five, during walks with his family in the
lanes, woods and fields around his hometown of Barnstaple. Here he explores both the
humorous and serious side of his country years as boy and man, with reminiscences
from the 1940s through to the present about his passion for wildlife and conservation,
and the colourful characters he meets along the way. HALSGROVE 2007 HB 223pp
£12.99 18240 now £4.99
Ralf Georg Reuth; Trans. Debra S Marmor; Herbert A Danner German historian Ralf Reuth’s study of the great military commander, Erwin Rommel, eschews
the traditional biographical approach in
favour of focusing on five controversial
themes: Rommel’s relationship to National Socialism, the true value of his
North African successes, the wartime
ROMMEL: The End of a Legend
THE LOVE AND WARS
OF LINA PROKOFIEV
Simon Morrison When the singer Lina
Prokoviev accompanied her composer
husband on his return to Russia in 1936,
she had little idea she would be abandoned for a younger woman and incarcerated in a sub-Arctic gulag for eight
years. Written with the co-operation of
her grandson and full access to the
Prokoviev family archives, this biography
tells her remarkable story of courage and
endurance against the backdrop of one
of the darkest periods of Soviet history.
HARVILL SECKER 2013 HB 336pp Illus
£18.99 18105 now £5.99
propaganda that made his name, his participation in resistance to Hitler and the
post war myth-making that created his
legend. HAUS 2009 PB 249pp
£10.99 98027 now £4.99
Charles Williams Harold Macmillan
(1894-1986) was a figure of paradox: an
outward appearance of Edwardian elegance and urbanity concealing inner suffering – from his wife’s open adultery and
his progressive perplexity at the onward
march of time. In a biography described
by Martin Gilbert as ‘utterly compelling’,
Charles Williams addresses – among
many hitherto unanswered questions –
whether it was Macmillan’s personal life
that prevented him from achieving true
greatness or whether he became simply
out of date. PHOENIX 2010 PB 560pp Illus
HAROLD MACMILLAN
£14.99 89975 now £4.99
MASKERADO
Dancing Around Death
in Nazi Hungary
Tivadar Soros escaped from a Russian
PoW camp during the First World War,
an adventure that prepared him well for
the unique demands of evading capture
in German-occupied Hungary in 1944 –
the subject of this memoir. Describing
how he faced the daily threat of discovery
while helping many of his fellow Jews to
obtain false papers and escape, it is a remarkable account of day-to-day life in
Nazi-controlled Budapest.
CANONGATE 2000 PB 287pp
£8.99 17808 now £3.99
HARRY H CORBETT
The Front Legs of the Cow
Laurie Lee Laurie Lee (1914-97) was
born in Slad, Gloucestershire, in what was
then a remote corner of the Cotwolds.
This classic book is his evocation of the
village of his youth and his passage from
innocence to experience. First published
in 1959. GODINE 2008 PB 212pp 215x140mm
NEW
CIDER WITH ROSIE
£7.99 19399 now £3.99
Susannah Corbett Before landing the
role of ’Arold Steptoe in 1962, Harry H
Corbett had been gaining a reputation as
one of Britain’s most promising serious
actors. Appearing in Shakespeare, TV
drama and Joan Littlewood’s Theatre
Workshop, his intense performances provoked comparisons to Marlon Brando.
This biography, written by his daughter,
recounts how he rose from a Manchester
slum and how the enormous success of
Steptoe and Son restricted his later career.
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WEST’S WORLD
The Extraordinary Life
of Dame Rebecca West
Lorna Gibb Born in 1892, the young actress
Cicely Fairfield changed her name to that of the
heroine of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm – Rebecca West.
This definitive biography charts the life and work
of this major writer, best remembered for her
classic travelogue Black Lamb, Grey Falcon,
set in pre-war Yugoslavia. It explores her
commitment to feminism and socialism, her
notorious affair with HG Wells, and her troubled
relationship with their son Anthony, creating
a subtle and sympathetic portrait of this fiercely
intelligent woman. MACMILLAN 2013 HB 329pp Illus
LOVE FROM NANCY
The Letters of Nancy Mitford
Ed. Charlotte Mosley Nancy Mitford
(1904-73) was one of the great letter writers
of last century, and her sparkling correspondence to her famous family and wide
circle of friends sheds an extraordinary light
on their lives and the times in which they
lived. The first published collection of
Nancy Mitford’s correspondence, this volume draws on 8,000 letters spanning six
decades from 1912 to 1973. With introductions, notes and biographical notes on recipients. SCEPTRE 1994 PB 624pp Illus
£9.99 94683 now £4.99
£25.00 16823 now £7.99
POET McGONAGALL
The Biography of
William McGonagall
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
AND HER SISTERS
The Hidden Lives of
Piffy, Bird and Bing
BIRLINN 2010 HB 316pp Illus
HARPER 2013 HB 443pp Illus
Norman Watson ‘Oh, Heaven! ‘tis a
dreadful calamity to narrate, / Because the
victims have met with a cruel fate.’
William Topaz McGonagall is remembered as the worst poet of all time. With
their inept scansion and comic bathos, his
lurid verse accounts of death and disaster
have endeared themselves to generations.
But who was he? This revealing biography explores the extraordinary life of the
former Dundee weaver turned self-styled
‘tragedian and poet’ to ask whether, perhaps, the joke was on us all along.
£20.00 88461 now £6.99
£25.00 18257 now £9.99
THE LAST ENGLISHMAN
The Double Life
of Arthur Ransome
THE CHILDREN OF LOVERS
Roland Chambers Arthur Ransome
(1884-1967) is best-known today as the
author of Swallows and Amazons, his name
conjuring the books’ setting in an idyllic
1930s Lake District. Yet as a journalist he
lived in Russia between 1913 and 1924,
supported the Bolshevik revolution and
had a Russian lover as well as an English
wife. Documents declassified in 2005 revealed that he had worked for MI6. Here,
Chambers explores Ransome’s double life
and ‘the ease with which he adopted all
the competing ideals of his generation’.
GODINE 2009 HB 397pp Illus 235x160mm
$29.95 97368 now £9.99
PG WODEHOUSE
A Life in Letters
Ed. Sophie Ratcliffe One of the funniest
writers of the 20th century, PG Wodehouse
shied away from a biography. Drawing on
unpublished sources, this definitive edition
of his letters gives an unrivalled insight
into his life and his comic creations. Covering his schooldays, his family’s financial
troubles, his musical comedy career in
New York and the unhappy episode when,
interned by the Germans, he was accused
of broadcasting Nazi propaganda, it is a
book every fan of Jeeves and Wooster will
want. HUTCHINSON 2011 HB 620pp Illus
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Jane Dunn Daphne du Maurier’s fame
as the phenomenally successful author of
novels and short stories such as Rebecca
and Don’t Look Now eclipsed her sisters,
Angela and Jeanne and their creative
achievements as writer and painter respectively. For the much-acclaimed biographer Jane Dunn, ‘it is sisters who
weave the most complex webs of love
and loyalty, resentment and hurt’, and
here she tells the story the du Maurier
girls’ unique childhood and their unconventional adult lives.
A Memoir of William Golding
by his Daughter
Judy Golding The Nobel Prizewinning
author of Lord of the Flies was a famously
acute observer of children. What was it
like to be his daughter? In this frank and
engaging family memoir, Judy Golding
recalls growing up with this brilliant, loving and sometimes difficult parent through
the years that saw his transformation from
an impecunious schoolteacher to a bestselling novelist. Looking back on their
warm, humorous and volatile family life,
she sheds light on the internal conflicts
that fuelled Golding’s writing.
FABER 2011 HB 272pp
£16.99 17886 now £7.99
Michael Slater Driven by childhood
demons, Dickens maintained a furious workload throughout his life. In addition to novels, he produced letters, journalism, essays
and travel books, and his famous after-dinner
speeches. Written with warmth, clarity and
economy, this masterly biography explores
the connections between Dickens’tumultuous emotional life, his outrage at the social
conditions of his day, and his prodigious output. Illustrated with many unfamiliar images,
it offers a rich and rounded portrait of the
writer and the man. YALE UP 2009 HB 711pp
CHARLES DICKENS
£28.00 98202 now £9.99
BASIL STREET BLUES
and MOSAIC
Family Stories
Michael Holroyd In these two volumes
of memoirs – published together for the
first time – Britain’s foremost biographer
turns his attention to the extraordinary
lives of his own family. Comic and moving by turns, Basil Street Blues is part detective story, part autobiography and part
oblique voyage of self-discovery. Witty,
touching and wry, Mosaic delves deeper
into his family history to reflect on the
strange interconnectedness of our lives.
VINTAGE 2010 PB 576pp Illus
£9.99 18160 now £3.99
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THE GENIUS OF DICKENS
The Ideas and Inspiration of
Britain’s Greatest Novelist
Michael Slater No writer aside from
Shakespeare is closer to the heart of
Britain’s national identity than Charles
Dickens. This absorbing little book ranges
widely over his fiction, journalism, letters
and speeches to capture the many facets
of his genius: his flights of fancy, his idealisation of innocence, his rage at social
injustice and faith in progress, and the energy and ambition that drove his prodigious output. DUCKWORTH 2011 HB 184pp
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LITERATURE/CLASSICS
THE POCKET GUIDE
TO CLASSIC BOOKS
WHO IS OZYMANDIAS?
And Other Puzzles in Poetry
Maureen Hughes Aiming ‘to open up
the world of the Classics to everyone,
everywhere’, Maureen Hughes’s Pocket
Guide provides the basic information on
literary history; on writers such as Thackeray, Henry James and George Orwell;
and whole chapters on each of the literary
‘giants’ – Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters
and Charles Dickens. There are also profiles of nine writers of children’s classics,
including the Brothers Grimm, JRR
Tolkien and JK Rowling, and tables of
literary prize winners (Nobel, Pulitzer and
Man Booker).
John Fuller Part of the pleasure of poetry
is unravelling its mysteries. Who is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is Crazy
Jane? In this playful, perceptive book, the
acclaimed poet John Fuller teases out the
conundrums, double-entendres, red herrings and misleading titles of some of our
best-loved poetry, from Shelley and Browning to Eliot and Bishop, to help us reach
the rewards and revelations at its heart.
VINTAGE 2013 PB 256pp 198x128mm
£9.99 18110 now £4.99
THE ODE LESS TRAVELLED
Unlocking the Poet Within
Stephen Fry believes that if you can write
English, you can write poetry. But it’s no
fun if you’ve been led to believe that anything goes. His typically amusing and
lighthearted book unlocks the delights of
rhyme, metre and form, explaining how
to compose a sonnet, a villanelle or an epithalamion. Its enjoyable exercises, witty
insights and step-by-step instructions will
guide any would-be poet towards a mastery of verse. ARROW 2007 PB 383pp
£8.99 18209 now £3.99
THE CAMBRIDGE
INTRODUCTION TO THE
SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH
Adrian Hunter This Cambridge Introduction examines the development of the short
story in Britain and in other English language literatures, providing a chronological
survey of the form, from Dickens to Alice
Munro. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed
edge. CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 HB 211pp
£59.99 88169 now £9.99
REMEMBER WHEN 2010 PB 288pp
NOVEL DESTINATIONS
Literary Landmarks from
Jane Austen’s Bath to Ernest
Hemingway’s Key West
Shannon McKenna Schmidt; Joni Rendon It’s said that a good book takes us
somewhere we’ve never been before.
Here is the proof: a booklover’s guide to
more than 500 literary locales around the
world, including the wild moorlands of
the Brontë sisters, Dostoyevsky’s brooding St Petersburg, Wordsworth’s Lakeland, Kafka’s Prague, Dickens’s London
and Joyce’s Dublin. Featured sites include
authors’ houses, museums, libraries, and
a generous selection of restaurants, pubs
and hotels where writers once caroused.
NEW
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
2008 HB 368pp 216x172mm
$25.00 19279 now £6.99
£14.99 10990 now £4.99
THE CONTINUUM
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Ed. Steven R Serafin Comprising more
than 1,100 signed biographical-critical
entries, the Continuum Encyclopedia
serves as both guide and companion to
American literature, surveying its growth
and development from Puritan writers of
colonial times to the best-selling authors
writing today. The volume also contains
70 substantial articles on topics and genres, from abolitionism to young adult
literature, all cross-referenced to the
biographical entries. Most articles include
bibliographic information and there is an
index of authors.
£50.00 99087 now £14.99
BOOKS ON FIRE
The Tumultuous Story of the World’s Great Libraries
Lucien X Polastron Whatever the size of our libraries, we feel an impulse to
enrich them and preserve them against the threats of fire and water, worms, war
and earthquake. Polastron examines the world’s libraries – from the Hebrew, Nordic
and Islamic myths of a vast library which existed before the world’s creation, to the
catastrophic losses of the libraries of Alexandria, the
Qing Dynasty and modern Iraq. He also asks whether
the digitization of books threatens the very existence of
the physical library. THAMES & HUDSON 2007 HB 381pp
£18.95 98391 now £7.99
CLASSICS
Stephen P Kershaw From the birth of the gods to
the aftermath of the Trojan War and Plato’s myth of
Atlantis, Kershaw tells the stories of Greek mythology
and discusses the wide-ranging influence of these tales
on western culture. The book’s final section surveys
the ways in which people have tried to understand
and rationalize myths, from antiquity to the present.
A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE GREEK MYTHS
THE GEORGICS
A Poem of the Land
Trans. Kimberly Johnson ‘Georgic’
means ‘to work the earth’, and Virgil’s
Georgics (29 BCE) is a poetic celebration of the land, combining practical
agricultural wisdom with exuberant
fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of
nature. This Penguin Classics edition
is translated and edited, with an introduction, notes and glossary, by Kimberley Johnson. PENGUIN 2010 PB 219pp
£12.99 98087 now £3.99
ROBINSON 2007 PB 539pp
£9.99 93532 now £3.99
Ann Wroe Half-man, half-god, Orpheus was both magician and poet, musician and
theologian; his mythical story has inspired philosophers and composers, scandalized
Church Fathers and fascinated Jung and Cocteau. Ann Wroe explores Orpheus’ cultural
influence and the many versions of his story, from his birth ‘a generation before Homer’
and his early musical talent, through the quest for the Golden Fleece and his love for
Eurydice to his terrible death at the hands of frenzied Maenads. American-cut pages.
ORPHEUS: The Song of Life
OVERLOOK 2011 HB 270pp
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FICTION
FROM THE EARTH
TO THE MOON
Jules Verne’s satirical and eerily prophetic
novel tells the story of a space race conducted
by three American Civil War artillerymen who
construct a gun powerful enough to propel
them to the moon. This is a reprint of the 1874
translation by Edward Roth, with the original
French illustrations. DOVER 2009 PB 217pp
£10.99 91922 now £2.99
METAMORPHOSIS
Franz Kafka The famous tale of Gregor’s
transformation into a monstrous bug is
accompanied by six more stories, including
Outside the Law and A Country Doctor.
Foreword by Martin Jarvis.
and Other Stories
HESPERUS 2011 PB 109pp
THE MOONSTONE
Wilkie Collins Rachel Verinder is given the
Moonstone, a large Indian diamond, on her 18th
birthday. That very night, the jewel is stolen, and
the curse of the Moonstone begins. First published
in 1868, Collins’s classic detective story is accompanied by notes and a short account of his
life and work in this Oneworld Classics edition.
ONEWORLD CLASSICS 2007 PB 530pp Illus
£6.99 17903 now £2.99
EMMA
Jane Austen Emma Woodhouse’s
determination to arrange marriages for her
friends, while avoiding one for herself, leads
to a painful series of misunderstandings in
Austen’s timeless comedy of manners. This
Oneworld Classics edition includes notes and
short accounts of Jane Austen’s life and work.
ONEWORLD 2007 PB 520pp
£8.99 99607 now £2.99
NEW THE CHILD’S CHILD
Norah Lofts This first book in Norah Lofts’s
epic ‘House’ trilogy begins in the late 14th
century with the story of Martin Reed, a serf
who rebels, gains his freedom and eventually
builds the House and founds a dynasty.
SCRIBNER 2012 HB 313pp
Norah Lofts Forced to flee Revolutionary
France after her father’s execution, Isabella
de Savigny seeks solace at Nethergate, a
cousin’s house in Suffolk. What she finds is a
life of servitude, cruelty and seduction – but
the birth of her daughter gives her the will to
fight back. HISTORY PRESS 2009 PB 255pp
$26.00 18978 now £4.99
MAN’S FATE
André Malraux Shanghai, 1927, and
revolution is in the air. As the city becomes
caught up in violence and bloodshed, four
men – an idealist intellectual, a leader of the
Communist insurrection, a Chinese assassin
and a French gambler – must try to resolve
their personal conflicts amid the turmoil.
Winner of The Prix Goncourt, 1933.
Translated by Haakon M Chevalier.
PENGUIN 2009 PB 380pp
£6.99 17924 now £2.99
NEW VILLETTE
Charlotte Brontë Echoing the novelist’s own
experience, Villette (1853) follows Lucy
Snowe, a young English woman, as she takes
up a teaching post in a town in Belgium, wins
the respect of pupils and headmistress, but
also becomes romantically entangled with
other teachers.
£9.99 98114 now £3.99
£7.99 17037 now £2.99
NETHERGATE
£7.99 17032 now £2.99
ONE FOR SORROW
ME Mayer In sixth century Byzantium, John
has risen from slave to emperor Justinian’s
right-hand man. Above all, the emperor prizes
John’s skill as an investigator – until the case
of a murdered treasury official threatens the
slave’s place at the imperial court and his life.
HEAD OF ZEUS 2012 HB 272pp
£14.99 17910 now £3.99
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
ARCTURUS 2011 PB 480pp
A CALENDAR OF LOVE
18372 now £2.99
WESTWARD HO!
George Mackay Brown In these 14 short
stories, George Mackay Brown (1921-96)
explores the ‘small green world’ of his native
Orkney through the lives of the fishermen, the
crofters, the tinkers and drinkers, interweaving
Norse and Scottish legend, past and present.
and Other Stories
Charles Kingsley Set in the golden age of
conquest and exploration under Elizabeth I,
Westward Ho! follows the fortunes of Amyas
Leigh as he takes to the high seas battling
pirates, hunting treasure and joining Sir
Francis Drake to confront the fearsome
Spanish Armada. BIRLINN 2009 PB 682pp
POLYGON 2011 PB 159pp 127x195mm
£7.99 19116 now £2.99
NEW THE MASKED FISHERMAN
£9.99 77335 now £3.99
THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS
Naomi Mitchison Set in Rome during Nero’s
reign of terror, Mitchison’s historical novel
traces the destruction of one cell of the early
church. Written in 1938-9, it echoes the contemporary plight of persecuted minorities under
European fascism. CANONGATE 2001 PB 431pp
£8.99 11101 now £3.99
George Mackay Brown This collection of
21 short stories was inspired by summer light
and winter darkness and by an incident from
the Orkneyinga Saga ‘in which the greatest
of the Orkney earls, Rögnvald Kolson, has
dealings with fisher-folk in Shetland’.
and Other Stories
POLYGON 2008 PB 224pp
£7.99 19208 now £2.99
NEW HAWKFALL
George Mackay Brown’s writing is permeated
by the layers of history and tradition in Orkney
and in these 11 stories he mingles past and
present – Neolithic man, Pict, Norseman
and Scot – in tales that explore legend, life
and the spiritual.
WE SPEAK NO TREASON
Book 2: The White Rose Turned to Blood
and Other Stories
TORC 2006 PB 322pp
POLYGON 2004 PB 222pp
Rosemary Hawley Jarman’s sweeping epic of England’s
last Plantagenet king continues with the testimony of
Richard III’s sworn man, Mark Archer, a soldier who
follows his lord into adventure-filled exile.
£6.99 92574 now £2.99
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THE TOWN HOUSE
Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) When Grace
and her brother inherit their grandmother’s
house, they decide to move in together.
But will splitting a house down the middle
work? Barbara Vine’s novel is an intriguing
examination of illegitimacy, homosexuality
and betrayal in families.
£7.99 19129 now £2.99
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FICTION/POETRY
ME CHEETA
POETRY
James Lever ‘The best celebrity memoir you’ll read
this year, and it’s not even a memoir’ (the Observer) –
and Cheeta isn’t even a human being. Johnny ‘Tarzan’
Weismuller’s co-star, chimpanzee Cheeta dishes the
dirt on Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’ in the story of his
journey from Liberian jungle to super stardom.
The Autobiography
FOURTH ESTATE 2009 PB 352pp
£7.99 17901 now £3.99
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929)
and Three Guineas (1938) are edited with an
introduction by Michele Barrett that aims to
show the relationship between these broadsides
against the establishment and the themes of
Woolf’s fiction. PENGUIN 2011 HB 423pp
and Three Guineas
NEW
FRIEND AND FOE
Shirley McKay Set in St Andrews in 1583,
this Hew Cullan novel finds the academic
lawyer called upon to investigate a mysterious
incident amid the dissension raging between
king and councillors and between the separate
factions of the Kirk. POLYGON 2014 PB 336pp
A Hew Cullan Mystery
£12.99 19124 now £3.99
THE POISONOUS SEED
Linda Stratmann When a customer dies
of strychnine poisoning after drinking
medicine dispensed by William Doughty
from his Bayswater chemist shop, the
family faces ruin. William’s daughter
Frances becomes convinced the customer
was murdered and turns detective to
clear her father’s name.
A Frances Doughty Mystery
£14.99 98147 now £4.99
THE FREE FISHERS
John Buchan Set during the Napoleonic
Wars, this tale of treason and espionage follows
Anthony Lammas, a young Professor of Logic
from St Andrews, as he sets off for London,
but becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy.
This new edition has an introduction by
Douglas Hurd. POLYGON 2009 PB 283pp
£7.99 94725 now £2.99
SAINT JACK
Paul Theroux These are the outrageous
confessions of Jack Flowers, saint or sinner,
who caught a bumboat into Singapore, got
a job as a water clerk to a Chinese chandler,
but pushed his luck when he agreed to act
as blackmailer for a sinister American ex-pat.
Twelve Soldier Poets
of the First World War
Jon Stallworthy The 1914-18 war began with
flag-waving, parades and patriotic poetry. Through
the lives and work of 12 soldier poets, including
Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen,
Edmund Blunden and Isaac Rosenberg, this book
explores the growing realization of the full horror
of modern mass warfare and the brutal reality of
life and death in the trenches. It includes a
selection of the poets’ finest verses and is illustrated
with historic photographs and documents.
CONSTABLE 2013 PB 192pp Illus 244x188mm
£12.99 18252 now £5.99
£8.99 99076 now £3.99
HOPKINS
Gerald Manley Hopkins Rev. Thomas
Ryan CSP contributes the preface to this
selection of poems by Gerald Manley
Hopkins, whose work presents mystical
images of Christ in the natural world.
From The Mystic Poets series.
Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
£8.99 17033 now £2.99
THE CASEBOOK
OF SEXTON BLAKE
Ed. David Stuart Davies Seven tales
from the early ‘golden age’ of super sleuth
Sexton Blake, who was created by Harry
Blyth (‘Hal Meredith’) in 1893 and taken
up by various authors up to the 1970s.
SKYLIGHT PATHS 2004 HB 112pp
WORDSWORTH 2009 PB 560pp
£14.99 36159 now £3.99
TREADING THE DANCE
£2.99 65282 now £2.99
IN GHOSTLY COMPANY
Amyas Northcote Garnering comparisons
with masters of horror including MR James,
Amyas Northcote’s stories exhibit a brooding,
measured insidiousness which tends to set
the nerves firmly on edge. This collection
of shorts is a rare treasure from horror
fiction’s golden age.
Trans. David Broadbridge In his
introduction David Broadbridge describes
Danish medieval ballads as a ‘national
inheritance of the first rank’. His new
translation of the ballads is the first in over
40 years and the first ever to be published in
a bilingual edition. The poems are beautifully
laid out and accompanied by Sonia Brandes’
paper-cut illustrations to create ‘a book
of poems and pictures in dialogue’.
Broadbridge also provides a short account
of the ballads’ history and tradition.
Danish Medieval Ballads
72453 now £2.99
ANTHEM FOR
DOOMED YOUTH
THE CASEFILES
OF MR JG REEDER
Edgar Wallace This collection presents the first
two novels and an assortment of short stories
featuring JG Reeder. With trademark umbrella
and flat-topped bowler, Reeder is an unsung hero
of mystery fiction whose timid manner belies a
fiercely high-powered, crime-solving intellect.
69936 now £2.99
THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS
Thomas H Cook The body of Julian Wells, whose writing
explored the darkest crimes of the 20th century, is found in
a boat drifting on a pond by a friend, Philip Anders. Later,
re-reading Wells’s work, Anders begins to question how well
he knew his friend – and unravelling the mystery becomes a
decades-long obsession. HEAD OF ZEUS 2012 HB 304pp
£16.99 17921 now £3.99
STACEY INTERNATIONAL
£25.00 17587 now £7.99
SEAN O’BRIEN:
COLLECTED POEMS
For almost 40 years, Sean O’Brien’s songs,
satires and elegies have sketched a landscape
of wild coasts and urban dystopias as
recognisable as those of Eliot or Auden.
This selection, drawn from across his
career, will allow the reader to appreciate
the variety and consistency of his work,
his flair for the dramatic, and his unique
ability to capture the texture of modern life.
PICADOR 2012 HB 504pp
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NEW COLLINS WORLD ATLAS
Essential Edition
With world maps and data, full page
physical mapping of all the continents,
Oceania, the oceans and poles, and a
complete index of all the names shown
on the reference maps, this is an ideal atlas
for students and general reference. When it
was first published, the ‘Essential Edition’
featured among The Independent’s Ten
Best Atlases; this third edition was
published in 2011 and reprinted in 2014.
COLLINS 2014 PB 127pp Illus 310x225mm
£10.99 19148 now £4.99
THE PENGUIN BOOK
OF WORD HISTORIES
WHO, OR WHY,
OR WHICH, OR WHAT?
A Global Gazetteer of the
Instructive and Strange
John Oldale ‘A collection of some of
the more unusual facts concerning every
nation on earth’, John Oldale’s illustrated
gazetteer provides a wondrous miscellany
of information, from the origins of the
carrot (Afghanistan) and the only confirmed gender cheat in Olympic history
(Germany) to Zimbabwe’s inflation nightmare. There are also Global Significance
Ratings for each country (UK comes
third), a list of their World Heritage sites
and how to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’.
PARTICULAR 2011 HB 309pp Illus
£16.99 98092 now £6.99
HOBSON-JOBSON
The Anglo-Indian Dictionary
Henry Yule; AC Burnell Bungalow, pyjamas, veranda, curry, chintz, gingham,
junk... Just a few of the words that have
crept into the English language from the
colonial era in the Indian sub-continent
and the Malay peninsula. This immensely
detailed glossary, tracing origins and giving quotations to illustrate usage, was
compiled in the late 19th century. Never
superseded in its field, it is a must for students of etymology and for anyone interested in the attitudes and activities of the
British imperialists in their heyday.
Reprint. WORDSWORTH 2008 PB 472pp
20417 now £3.99
COLLINS GERMAN
DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR
German-English . English-German
In addition to the clearly laid out German-English, English-German dictionary,
with its emphasis on up-to-date, everyday
vocabulary and the language of current
affairs, business and tourism, this volume
includes a complete 250-page grammar.
The dictionary also provides in-depth
treatment of difficult words and cultural
notes, making it ideal for intermediate
learners, or anyone wishing to improve
their German for business or pleasure.
COLLINS 2010 PB 272pp
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Fred McDonald After an introduction
providing a short history of English and
the languages that have contributed to it,
this Penguin reference book traces the origins and meanings of approximately 6,000
English words and 2,000 phrases. Listed
alphabetically, each word is given a detailed and authoritative history, along with
related words and their etymology, allowing the reader to make new connections
and gain insights into how the language
develops. PENGUIN 2010 PB 624pp
£16.99 98132 now £7.99
COMPACT OXFORD
THESAURUS Third edition, revised
Ed. Maurice Waite An invaluable tool
for anyone who writes for a living or for
pleasure, this compact edition of the Oxford Thesaurus has some very useful new
features. As well as the thousands of
clearly laid out synonyms and antonyms,
there are ‘Word Link’ panels with words
related to the headwork (eg. as ‘dermatology’ is related to ‘skin’), a section on
how to use a thesaurus to best advantage
and a final section of quick reference word
lists. No jacket. OXFORD UP 2008 HB 972pp
11847 now £6.99
Julie Coleman To the annoyance of language purists, slang has flourished in English for centuries, providing a fascinating
perspective on social and political change.
Professor Coleman’s entertaining history
of slang draws on researches in sources
ranging from Old Bailey records and newspaper reports to soap operas and tweets,
and it extends across the English-speaking
world. The book is guaranteed, the publisher warns us, ‘to teach you some new
THE LIFE OF SLANG
MODERN CHINESE
A Basic Course
words that you should never use in polite
company’. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 366pp Illus
£14.99 10586 now £5.99
POISONED PENS
Literary Invective
from Amis to Zola
Ed. Gary Dexter ‘Every time I read Pride
and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit
her over the head with her own shin bone’
– such was Mark Twain’s regard for Jane
Austen’s writing prowess. Similarly acrimonious sentiments fill this entertaining
compendium of literary backbiting, from
Thomas de Quincey’s low opinion of
Homer to the cut and thrust of modern
reviewing with Bevis Hillier v. AN Wilson. FRANCES LINCOLN 2009 HB 240pp
£9.99 99680 now £3.99
GRAMMAR FOR GROWN-UPS
Everything You Need to Know
but Never Learnt in School
Craig Shrives has spent many years as
an intelligence officer, which has taught
him how to write clearly for the eyes of
British and American generals. He shares
his practical experience in this guide
which identifies common mistakes and
ambiguities then offers some suggestions
for correcting and clarifying what you
want to say. The final section gives useful
advice on easily-confused words.
KYLE 2012 HB 251pp
£9.99 91829 now £4.99
Peking University This practical introductory
course in basic Mandarin, for home or school
study, was designed by the Chinese Language
Special Course for Foreign Students at Peking
University. Its 30 lessons are a self- contained
grammar, progressing from pronunciation to
quite complex conversational constructions.
With translated examples. First published in 1971
(hence ‘Peking’). DOVER 2002 PB 270pp 216x136mm
£9.99 10633 now £3.99
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REFERENCE
READER’S DIGEST DIY
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Step by Step Instructions,
Expert Guidance, Helpful Tips
Carefully checked to comply with the latest
building regulations and including hundreds
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diagrams, the Reader’s Digest DIY manuals
have been trusted by homeowners and
tradesmen for decades. This edition deals with
the repair and maintenance of plumbing and
heating systems around the home and includes
expert guidance on everything from fixing a
dripping tap to balancing a radiator circuit.
READER’S DIGEST 2012 HB 128pp Illus
£9.99 17869 now £3.99
ADONIS TO ZORRO
Oxford Dictionary of
Reference and Allusion
Ed. Andrew Delahunty; Sheila Dignen
This dictionary is ideal for those moments
when you need to avoid mixing up Eris
and Eros, to decide whether an allusion
to Shangri-La or Xanadu is more appropriate, or to check where ‘the horror, the
horror’ originated. The 1,900 entries include people, places, quotations and
events that have given rise to everyday
expressions and give examples of their
recent use in journalism and fiction. This
revised and updated third edition includes
many new entries from modern popular
culture and from non-English sources.
£20.00 88041 now £8.99
WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE:
1939-1945
A Selection of Outstanding
Facts and Figures
Intro. Richard Overy Published by the
Ministry of Information a few months after the end of the war in Europe, What
Britain has Done presented a long catalogue of military, economic and social
achievements. Covering everything from
the volume of shipping across the Atlantic
and weight of bombs dropped on Berlin
to the amount of vegetables produced on
British allotments, this unique document
presents a panoramic portrait of a country
engaged in total war. It is reprinted here
with a new introduction by Richard Overy.
No jacket.
£14.99 11862 now £6.99
STATIONERY
£9.99 83659 now £3.99
EMMA BRIDGEWATER
NOTECARDS
THE JUMBO CRYPTIC
CROSSWORD GIFT SET (Three books)
Ed. Edmund Akenhead; David Akenhead
It’s the world’s most challenging cryptic
crossword – times three. Book 1 is the very
first collection of 50 of The Times Jumbo
Cryptic crosswords, including the original
puzzle, published at Christmas 1970. Book 2
has 30 crosswords including the gigantic
Diamond Jubilee Puzzle that marked the
60th anniversary of The Times crossword in
1990. When you’ve ripped through those, there
are 30 more in Book 3. TIMES 2002 PB 319pp
£23.97 99862 now £7.99
KenKen is a mathematical puzzle invented by
the Japanese teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto as a brain training exercise. The
problems require a grid to be completed with numbers, like sudoku, but with
the additional challenge that internal blocks within the grid must adhere to a
prescribed arithmetical formula. This collection contains over 100 puzzles
with notes on how to solve them. TIMES 2008 PB 176pp
THE TIMES KENKEN
£5.99
18371 now £2.99
:
Sudoku puzzles have joined crosswords as a regular feature of our newspapers
and range from an amusing diversion at their simplest to a fiendish mathematical
challenge at their most complex. Graded for difficulty, the 100 puzzles in this set
are printed on wipe-clean cards, so the puzzles can be corrected or completely
erased to begin again. The cards, solutions cards, pen and wiper are all contained
in a sturdy and cleverly designed box. KUDOS 2006 150x110mm
WRITE ON – WIPE OFF SUDOKU: 100 Wipe-Clean Puzzles
£6.99 19138 now £3.99
A&C BLACK 2009 PB 288pp Illus 254x220mm
PUZZLES
NEW
Ed. Paul Lunde ‘We are all proficient
cryptoanalysts,’ writes Paul Lunde, and
his entertaining and visually exciting book
demonstrates how coded information
pervades our lives, whether we are learning to speak or generating keys for digital
encryption. This illustrated survey of how
codes of every sort have been used to
convey information – from early writing
systems to cutting edge computing – investigates topics as diverse as the Rosslyn
Chapel, Maya symbols and flag signals,
cracking Enigma, mapmaking and the
genetic code.
SECRETS OF CODES
Covered in an Emma Bridgewater design
of pink and red hearts on a cream background, this little box is made of rigid
card and holds fifteen blank notecards –
five each of three designs on the hearts
theme, one of them with ‘Love’ across its
centre – and envelopes.
BLUEPRINT 2012 155x105mm
£11.99 11907 now £4.99
Decorated with several different designs in
pale pink or lemon by the textile designers
Dwell Studio, this notebook includes ruled
and squared paper and has a red and white
labyrinthine design on its covers.
LABYRINTH JOURNAL
CHRONICLE 2011 PB 188pp 180x125mm
$9.95 17174 now £3.99
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY FRUIT AND VEG
NOTEBOOK
Fitting easily into a pocket or handbag,
this is a handy aide-mémoire for gardeners. Beautiful botanical drawings from the
RHS’s Lindley Library divide the notebook into sections for different types of
fruits and vegetables, each with pages for
recording names of varieties, dates of
sowing and harvesting, and your own
cultivation notes. FRANCES LINCOLN
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NEW A JOURNEY INTO THE
WORLD OF THE OTTOMANS
The Catalogue
NEW VAN GOGH IN AUVERS
His Last Days
Wouter van der Veen; Peter Knapp
Persuaded by his brother to move to
the artistic enclave of Auvers-sur-Oise,
near Paris, in 1890, the last months of
Van Gogh’s life were highly productive,
each day yielding at least one canvas
and many letters to family, fellow artists
and friends. This lavish volume presents
a day-by-day chronology of everything
that he produced during this period,
revealing the full complexity of Van
Gogh’s personality, emotions and
relationships through documents, letters
and reproductions of over 70 paintings.
Olga Nefedova; Eveline Sint Nicolaas
From the 15th to the 20th centuries, the
Ottoman Empire was a major power
that excited fear and fascination in the
West. Published in conjunction with
an exhibition at the Museum of Islamic
Art, Doha, this magnificent book
focuses on Western depictions of the
capital Istanbul, its sultans and its
citizenry. Featuring work by artists from
Gentile Bellini to Oskar Kokoschka, it
offers both a document of the meeting
of two cultures and a fascinating
glimpse of Ottoman civilization.
MONACELLI 2010 HB 304pp Illus 285x235mm
SKIRA 2010 HB 179pp Illus 280x278mm
£70.00 19009 now £25.00
£38.00 18999 now £16.99
What Fields,
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FASHION IN
Le Grand Seigneur, circle of
Jean-François Duchateau, c.1780
NEW MURILLO
Virtuoso Draftsman
Jonathan Brown Bartolome Murillo
(1617-82) is best known as a painter of
devotional scenes, yet a substantial part
of his work consists of pen-and-ink
drawings. Many are preparatory sketches
for paintings, while others are highly
finished pieces in their own right. This
handsome and authoritative catalogue
raisonné presents Murillo’s complete
output in this genre. Thoroughly revised
and updated, it contains more than 100
colour plates and many smaller figures,
greatly enriching our knowledge of
this major Baroque artist.
£24.95 94592
The Couple
by Auguste
Renoir,
c.1868
YALE UP 2012 HB 314pp Illus 270x217mm
£50.00 19002 now £19.99
Virgin and Child sketch by Murillo, 1675-80
FOUNDATIONS
OF A COLLECTION
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Ann Sumner; Jesse Campbell et al
Founded in 1931, the Barber Institute
of Fine Arts in Birmingham is one of
the finest cultural centres in the UK.
Drawing on extensive new research, the
essays in this handsome commemorative
volume explore the motives of its
founders, its history, and the scope and
purpose of its collections. Illustrated with
120 reproductions and archival images,
including work by Brueghel the Younger,
Poussin, Van Dyck,Tiepolo, Degas,
Gauguin, Rodin and others, it also
includes a full catalogue of the Institute’s
early acquisitions. SCALA 2012 PB 160pp Illus
£16.95 16637 now £5.99
THE WALLACE COLLECTION
Director’s Choice
ART TREASURES IN THE NORTH
Northern Families on the Grand Tour
Anne French focuses on the men and women
from northern England who travelled around
Europe on the Grand Tour and recorded their
interests and experiences in letters and journals.
She also discusses the numerous art treasures
which they brought back to the great houses of
the North, many of which have remained there
and continue to enrich the region’s cultural
heritage. This book is the long-awaited
companion volume to the millennium exhibition
at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle.
UNICORN 2009 HB 319pp Illus 240x208mm
£30.00 88275 now £12.99
THE DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH
PAINTERS: 1600 to the Present
St John the Evangelist by Simone
Martini, 1320, in the Barber Institute
Christoph Martin Vogtherr The Wallace Collection in London is one of
the world’s outstanding collections of French 18th century art, Old Master
paintings, arms and armour and 18th century decorative arts. Here, Christoph
Martin Vogtherr, Director of the Collection since 2011, presents a personal
selection of 37 works ranging from a representation of the Nativity on
gilded glass from 14th century Umbria to Horace and Lydia (1845) by
Thomas Couture. SCALA 2012 PB 80pp Illus
Julian Halsby; Paul Harris Now in a fully
revised edition, this is an essential reference
work for everyone interested in Scottish art.
The alphabetically arranged entries outline the
careers of over 2,000 painters who have worked
in Scotland and cover artistic institutions and
groupings ranging from the National Galleries
of Scotland to the Glasgow Boys. The book is
illustrated throughout with colour reproductions,
including works by some of the most exciting
contemporary artists.
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ART
NEW SCHOOL OF GENIUS
A History of the Royal
Academy of Arts
James Fenton Since its foundation in 1768,
the Royal Academy has been the stage on
which the triumphs, tragedies, sensations and
scandals of the British art world have been
played out. Drawing on unrestricted access
to its archives, this handsome, lavishly
illustrated history charts the development,
periodic crises and Machiavellian intrigues
of this unique institution, interviews presentday Academicians, and profiles key figures
such as Reynolds (its first president)
Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, Ruskin,
Stanley Spencer and Kenneth Clark.
hat Fields, one of Van Gogh’s last works, July 1890
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
£35.00 16999 now £14.99
N Mancoff The Paris of the Impressionists was the fashion
f the world. How was this reflected in their work? Featuring
s by Degas, Manet, Monet and Morisot, this captivating book
in the footsteps of stylish Parisians – at home, in cafes, in the
d on holiday; and it uses vintage photographs and prints to
the worlds of dressmaking, millinery and the department
oviding fresh insight into some of the most popular paintings
9th century. MERRELL 2012 HB 160pp Illus 265x220mm
ON IN IMPRESSIONIST PARIS
94592 now £9.99
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te
Christiane Weidemann ‘No artist these days can be
compared with this genius’, wrote Andy Warhol of
Leonard da Vinci; this introductory study of the great
Renaissance artist attempts to survey the breadth and
depth of that genius, the historical and artistic world
from which he emerged and the enduring appeal of
his work. The book is richly illustrated with over
100 reproductions, including works by Leonardo’s
contemporaries as well as his sketches, plans,
cartoons, paintings and copies of lost paintings.
NEW
LEONARDO DA VINCI
John Manners, Marquis of Granby
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1763-65
WILLIAM ORPEN:
AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE
A Critical Edition of the Artist’s War Memoirs
Robert Upstone; Angela Weight William Orpen was the only official
war artist to publish an extensive memoir of his experience in the First
World War. He was a talented and shrewd writer and his compelling
narrative, which first appeared in 1921, described both the trenches and
battlefields and the more comfortable life at Haig and Foch’s headquarters.
An Onlooker in France is presented here, with an introductory essay
by Robert Upstone, commentary and reproductions of 75 drawings
and paintings by Orpen.PAUL HOLBERTON 2008 HB 232pp Illus 255x190mm
£30.00 98374 now £14.99
ART NOUVEAU
Posters, Illustrations and Fine Art
from the Glamorous Fin de Siècle
Rosalind Ormistone; Michael Robinson
Lavishly illustrated with around 170
reproductions, this celebration of Art
Nouveau is in three parts, looking first at
the movement as a whole – a design ethos
that swept across Europe and America
between the late 19th century and the First
World War. Part two deals with the graphic
arts, including the posters of ToulouseLautrec and Alphonse Mucha, while the
final section explores the impact of Art
Nouveau in the fine arts, discussing artists
from Paul Gauguin to Gustav Klimt.
PRESTEL 2010 PB 128pp Illus 232x195mm
£9.99 19000 now £4.99
NEW STOLEN
The Gallery of Missing Masterpieces
Jonathan Webb The current wealth of the art market
is making it more attractive than ever to thieves and
unethical dealers. Illustrated with reproductions of
missing works and drawing on the work of Julian
Radcliffe of the Art Loss Register, this volume tells
the stories of stolen paintings and artefacts ranging
from Old Masters to Warhol screen prints and
examines topics such as the looting of antiquities,
Nazi art theft and the problems facing the art world
today. HERBERT 2008 HB 256pp Illus 277x227mm
NEW
£30.00 19042 now £12.99
FLAME TREE 2013 HB 192pp Illus 280x290mm
£20.00 99818 now £9.99
Poster for Bisleri Liqueur,
artist unknown, 1904
Michael Kerrigan A concise,
illustrated essay on Kandinsky’s
‘abstract ecstasy’ accompanies around
90 reproductions in this volume
from the Masterpieces of Art
series. The paintings are arranged
chronologically, following the artist’s
development from early ideas, through
the ‘Blue Rider’ years in Munich
and the development of an aesthetic
for abstract art, to his late style and
‘the sum of organized tensions’ in
canvases of amazing richness and
equilibrium. FLAME TREE 2015 HB
WASSILY KANDINSKY
£12.99 18251 now £6.99
On White II by Kandinsky, 1923
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Richard Lloyd David Hockney’s first print,
a self-portrait made while he was a student
in Bradford in 1954, marked the beginning
of one of the longest and most diverse careers
in modern printmaking. This volume, the
catalogue of an exhibition at Dulwich Picture
Gallery in 2014, features over 150 works
ranging from etchings made in the 1960s to
experiments with computer drawing 50 years
later, together with an essay on Hockney’s
graphic art by Richard Lloyd, head of prints
at Christie’s. SCALA 2014 PB 160pp Illus 277x240mm
HOCKNEY: PRINTMAKER
$39.95 17173 now £12.99
DAVID WESTON
An Artist at Home and Abroad
NEW
Stormclouds over Snowdon
David Weston (1935-2011) is best known as a railway artist, but in
this book he follows the success of his English landscapes (David
Weston’s England) with paintings from his travels around Britain –
where he does encounter a few locomotives – through Europe to
Greece, and home again to Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire. The 130
paintings reproduced illustrate the versatility of an artist equally
fascinated by snow-clad mountains or cottage interiors, the Forth
Bridge or Venetian backwaters. HALSGROVE 2007 HB 168pp Illus 247x270mm
£34.99 19084 now £14.99
NEW LIONEL
AGGETT’S
FRANCE
Sunflowers below Bonnieux
Lionel Aggett
In this collection
of more than 200
richly atmospheric
pastel paintings,
the artist Lionel
Aggett journeys
the length of
France from
Mont St-Michel to
Provence via the
Seine, the Loire
and the Dordogne.
Travelling at a leisurely pace through its towns and villages and along its
inland waterways, he captures the glories of the French landscape in all
seasons, taking in the waterfront at Honfleur, Monet’s garden at Giverney,
and sunset over St Tropez. HALSGROVE 2005 HB 160pp Illus 246x265mm
£24.99 19089 now £12.99
Lionel Aggett’s love affair with Italy began in 1957 when, as a young
architectural student, he first visited Umbria. This luminous collection
of more than 200 pastel paintings and Conté sketches from his notebook
record a more recent journey that took him through Puglia, Umbria,
Tuscany and on to Venice. Accompanied by a narrative of his travels, they
capture the peninsula’s beguiling landscape and breathtaking architecture
in all their beauty. HALSGROVE 2007 HB 160pp Illus 246x270mm
NEW
LIONEL AGGETT’S ITALY
£34.99 19090 now £12.99
Unicorn by
Jane Lewis,
2008
Afternoon Swimming, 1980
MARC CHAGALL
Early Works from Russian Collections
Ed. Susan Tumarkin Goodman Chagall’s haunting
depictions of life in the Jewish stetls of pre-revolutionary
Russia are among the most celebrated paintings of the
20th century, but many were never seen in the West until
they were brought together for a landmark exhibition at
the Jewish Museum in New York. This sumptuously
illustrated catalogue reproduces 60 of these magical
works, and discusses Chagall’s formative years, shedding
new light on the influence of his teacher, Yehuda Pen.
NEW
THIRD MILLENNIUM 2001 PB 110pp Illus 225x225mm
£13.95 16418 now £6.99
Anenomes in a Cornish Window by Christopher Wood, 1930
PAINTING THE WARMTH OF THE SUN
St Ives Artists 1939-1975
Tom Cross This is the second of Cross’s two books that
are now standard works on the history of the Newlyn and
St Ives Schools. First published in 1984, it was based on
interviews and discussions with those artists who were
still working in and around St Ives in the 1970s and ’80s.
The book begins with the war years, when several artists
sought refuge in Cornwall from the bombing in London.
Among those discussed are Ben Nicholson, Barabara
Hepworth, Naum Gabo, Roger Hilton and the potter
Bernard Leach. HALSGROVE 2008 HB 192pp Illus 237x255mm
£34.99 58873 now £14.99
A SINGULAR VISION
Fifty Years of British Painting at the Portal Gallery
Jess Wilder; Laura Gascoigne The Portal Gallery in London has provided
a venue for works by up-and-coming as well as established artists since
1959. Its unusual pictures, which lean toward the fantastic, magical and
surreal, often with a dash of humour, include works by Beryl Cook, Peter
Blake and Kit Williams, Jane Lewis and Heather Nevay. In this volume,
more than 160 reproductions of paintings first shown at the Portal chronicle
the gallery’s first 50 years, its artists and its flair for the unconventional.
PRESTEL 2008 HB 209pp Illus 280x240mm
£30.00 97269 now £12.99
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ART/PHOTOGRAPHY
John Banville; Jean-Claude Lemagny; Carlos
Fuentes A major retrospective of the work of Mexican
photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002),
this volume reproduces over 370 tritone photographs –
landscapes, urban scenes, nudes, still life and portraits
of luminaries including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo,
Leon Trotsky and Octavio Paz. Accompanying the
photographs are essays by John Banville, Carlos
Fuentes and Claude Lemagny and a preface by Bravo’s
widow, Colette Álvarez Urbajtel. The book concludes
with a detailed chronology and a bibliography.
MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO: Photopoetry
THAMES & HUDSON 2008 HB 336pp Illus 260x280mm
£42.00 17605 now £19.99
The Eclipse by Álvarez Bravo, 1933
EYEWITNESS
Hungarian Photography
in the Twentieth Century
ry
Peter Baki; Colin Ford; George Szirtes Brassaï, Capa, Kértesz, Moholy-Nagy and
Munkácsi revolutionized photojournalism and art photography in the first half of the 20th
century. This landmark study explains how these five men – all of whom left their native
country to work in Europe or America – established Hungary as a crucible of photography;
and it explores their influence on succeeding generations of photographers. Three illustrated
essays are followed by over 180 photographs, including major works of the featured
photographers and their contemporaries. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS 2011 HB 239pp Illus
il
t
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£40.00 10882 now £16.99
Sparta (Hoop III)
by Tibor
Csörgeö,
1936, from
Eyewitness
IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE
The English Photographs of JWG Gutch, 1856/59
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mm
Ian Charles Sumner Travelling by cart along muddy
tracks with a cumbersome wet-plate camera, the
pioneering photographer JWG Gutch created an
unparalleled record of the people and landscapes of
western England – from the Lake District to the Lizard –
in the mid-19th century. More than 100 of his longneglected images of great houses and simple farmsteads,
pilchard fishermen and tin miners, are published here for
the first time, offering a Hardyesque vision of a vanished
way of life. WESTCLIFFE 2010 PB 192pp Illus 210x242mm
£14.95 77776 now £6.99
PHYSIQUE
Classic Photographs
of Naked Athletes
Peter Kuhnst’s selection of over
150 images traces the history of
the nude athlete in photography
from the mid 19th century to
the present. From Eadweard
Muybridge’s motion studies of
runners and javelin throwers,
through European Naturalism
and Leni Riefenstahl’s work
under the Third Reich, to
contemporary photographs
by Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce
Weber and Annie Liebovitz,
the photographers’ styles range
from traditional to rebellious,
humorous and provocative.
THAMES & HUDSON 2004 PB
National Danish Athletics Team –
Sky #18 by Anderson and Low
£24.95 68080 now £8.99
EROTICA SERIES
The Erotica series, edited by Andrej Kulakowski, presents selections of the nude work
of contemporary photographers, both professional and amateur, from Europe, Russia,
the USA and Japan. Each volume contains
around 500 photographs, including both
monochrome and colour images, mostly
reproduced full-page. In Erotica 1 the photographs are arranged by theme; in 2 and 3,
they are arranged as individual portfolios,
with notes introducing each photographer.
Text in eight languages. Sexually explicit.
BEING HUMAN
Enigmatic Images of People
by Unknown Photographers
Robert Flynn Johnson Anonymous
photography has a magic all its own.
The 220 intriguing images assembled
here by collector and curator Robert
Flynn Johnson are the work of
photographers whose identities have
been lost in time, but their common
subject – the human condition –
remains mesmerizing. The photographs
are carefully reproduced and grouped
in ten chapters, from childhood
(‘Immaturity’) to death (‘Inevitability’),
with an introductory essay by
Alexander McCall Smith. THAMES &
ART PHOTO AKT 2012-14 HB 500pp Illus 310x265mm
EROTICA 1
EROTICA 2
EROTICA 3
HUDSON 2009 HB 208pp Illus 250x250mm
£19.95 98855 now £8.99
18193
99691
18194
now £25.00 each
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365 EVERYDAY
GAMES AND PASTIMES
Martin and Simon Toseland Who needs computer shoot ’em ups when you could be playing
Redondo or Victorian body challenges? Here
are instructions and rules for 365 games, including card, word and outdoor games and
magic. SQUARE PEG 2010 HB 267pp
£14.99 91575 now £3.99
AIRLIFE’S GENERAL AVIATION
A Guide to Postwar General Aviation
Manufacturers and their Aircraft
RW Simpson Aimed at the aviation professional or enthusiast, this is an exhaustive A-Z
reference to every type of business and light
aircraft constructed in America and Europe,
1945 to 1995. AIRLIFE 1995 PB 446pp
£20.00 96127 now £6.99
THE BIRTH OF
MODERN BRITAIN
A Journey into Britain’s
Archaeological Past
1550 to the Present
Francis Pryor In the fourth and final instalment
of his critically acclaimed archaeological history
of Britain, Pryor makes a convincing case for
the relevance of archaeology to the study of
modern history. HARPER 2011 HB 313pp
£25.00 97749 now £7.99
COGWHEELS OF THE MIND
AMF Edwards In this short history of the venn
diagram, Edwards examines its development
and explains the diagram’s usefulness – now
far beyond the possibilities envisaged by its
inventor, John Venn (1834-1923). JOHNS
The Story of Venn Diagrams
HOPKINS UP 2004 HB 124pp Illus 233x175mm
£19.50 95100 now £9.99
THE COMPLETE SOPHOCLES
Ed. Peter Burian; Alan Shapiro Part of Oxford’s Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, this volume contains Antigone, Oedipus
the King and Oedipus at Colonus, each with a
detailed introduction and notes.
Volume I: The Theban Plays
OXFORD UP 2011 PB 446pp
£8.99 17240 now £3.99
COWS IN THE MAZE
And Other Mathematical
Explorations
Ian Stewart This third compilation of Stewart’s
recreational maths columns from Scientific
American covers mathematical stories and puzzles including the mind-bending geometric and
logical maze in which lurks the cow.
£8.99 91288 now £3.99
CRIMSON SNOW
Jules Stewart tells a compelling story of imperial misadventure on the North-West Frontier:
the First Anglo-Afghan War, which was
launched in 1838 and ended in complete disaster
in 1842. HISTORY PRESS 2010 PB 256pp
Britain’s First Disaster in Afghanistan
£9.99 91556 now £4.99
ART TO HEAR SERIES
A new way of experiencing art, each book
in this series comprises a CD audio guide
to an exhibition, with colour reproductions
of the paintings in the accompanying book.
HATJE CANTZ 2009/10
HB + Audio CD 48pp Illus 220x220mm
BOTTICELLI
£15.99 90268 now £5.99
GEORGES SEURAT
$30.00 90272 now £5.99
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DARWIN’S ORIGIN OF SPECIES
Janet Browne, Darwin’s foremost biographer,
describes the genesis of his theories, explains
how they were initially received by Victorian
readers and discusses why they remain contentious today. ATLANTIC 2007 PB 182pp
A Biography
£8.99 97360 now £3.99
THE DISTANT SCENE
Fred Archer was a farmer and his book, written
from his own experience, records events and
describes traditional crafts and working life in
his Cotswolds village from around 1876 to
1939. AMBERLEY 2009 PB 192pp Illus
£9.99 80254 now £4.99
THE DIVINE COMEDY:
PURGATORY
Dante Alighieri The second stage in Dante’s
journey to redemption, Purgatory is presented
here in a verse translation by JG Nichols, with
English and the original Italian on facing pages,
notes and a concise introduction to each canto.
ONEWORLD 2011 PB 396pp
£10.99 18169 now £4.99
DON QUIXOTE
Miguel de Cervantes Retold for younger readers by Martin Jenkins, with illustrations by Chris
Riddell, this is the epic of the ‘not quite sane’
Don Quixote de la Mancha and his adventures.
Age 10+ WALKER 2010 PB 352pp Illus 210x180mm
£12.99 99485 now £4.99
DREAMS,VISIONS
AND REALITIES
Ed. Stephanie Forward Part of a series that
makes available prose texts by Late Victorian
and early Modernist women writers, this book
contains 17 short stories, including work by
Charlotte Mew, Edith Wharton and Evelyn
Sharp. BIRMINGHAM UP 2003 PB 198pp
£22.99 99088 now £5.99
EGMONT CHILDREN’S TRIO
These three children’s books are all stories with
wonderful twists, read with great sound effects
on the accompanying CDs: Sir Charlie Stinky
Socks and the Really Frightful Night; The Night
Pirates; and Aaaaarrgghh Spider! Age 3+
(Three volumes)
EGMONT 2007-10 PB + Audio CD 96pp Illus
250x285mm
98040 now £8.99
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN
Sally Bedell Smith In a meticulously researched
account, the American biographer Sally Bedell
Smith offers a fresh perspective on the public
and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II. American-cut pages. Off-mint; felt-tip mark on lower
edge. RANDOM HOUSE 2012 HB 685pp Illus
The Life of a Modern Monarch
$30.00 10662 now £9.99
ENGLISH DRAWINGS
AND WATERCOLOURS
1600-1900
Christopher Baker This scholarly catalogue
of the English drawings and watercolours in the
National Gallery of Scotland includes over
2,000 works by more than 250 artists. Arranged
alphabetically by artist. NATIONAL GALLERY
OF SCOTLAND 2011 HB 463pp Illus 295x235mm
£125.00 99033 now £50.00
ESCHER JOURNAL
The cover designs of this 160-page journal have
been adapted from Escher’s Mural Mosaic in
the Alhambra (1922) and Symmetry Drawing
(1967). With ruled pages, inside pocket and
elastic penholder.
POMEGRANATE 2012 HB 160pp 175x110mm
97303 now £5.99
THE EXPERTS GUIDE TO
100 THINGS EVERYONE
SHOULD KNOW HOW TO DO
Samantha Ettus On the premise that the simplest things can be hardest to get right, this
guide starts with how to sleep (explained by a
psychology professor) and includes things such
as how to pack, swim, make conversation and
scramble eggs. EBURY 2007 HB 336pp
£9.99 17894 now £4.99
FABLES
Jean de la Fontaine This edition of the fables
of the French poet Jean de La Fontaine (162195) presents the poems in new English translations by Gordon Pirie and in the original French.
£7.99 99592 now £3.99
THE FIRST EPISTLE
TO THE CORINTHIANS
Nigel Watson Revised and updated for this second edition, this Epworth commentary on 1
Corinthians focuses on Paul’s efforts to correct
the Corinthians’ tendency to ‘reshape the gospel
into something less austere, disturbing and challenging’. EPWORTH 2005 PB 226pp
£9.99 98893 now £3.99
FOCUS ON MINI BEASTS
Illus. John Butler This illustrated book of questions and answers delves into the world of insects, whether beautiful Morpho butterflies or
head lice, killer bees or helpful earthworms.
Age 8+ TOP THAT 2008 PB 65pp Illus 198x198mm
£4.99 99028 now £2.99
FOCUS ON OUTER SPACE
Illus. Stephen Sweet What was the Big Bang?
How do astronauts take a shower? No question
is too big or too complicated for the illustrated,
fact-filled Focus On books. This one takes on
the universe. Age 8+
TOP THAT 2008 PB 65pp Illus 198x198mm
£4.99 99029 now £2.99
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
Mark Twain Full of Mark Twain’s characteristic wit and descriptive brilliance, this is his
account of his travels on a worldwide lecture
tour, across America to Vancouver, then on to
Australia and finally India.
JOHN BEAUFOY 2010 PB 556pp
£14.99 99546 now £4.99
FOR HONOUR AND FAME
Nigel Saul Structured around the themes of war,
politics and knighthood, Saul’s book tells the
story of chivalry in England 1066-1500, and
examines how it shaped kingship and aristocratic codes of behaviour and personal piety.
Chivalry in England 1066-1500
BODLEY HEAD 2011 HB 430pp
£25.00 97797 now £11.99
FORGOTTEN VOICES
OF DUNKIRK
Joshua Levine Drawing on the Imperial War
Museum’s Sound Archive, this book presents,
in the words of both rescued and rescuers, a
dramatic account of the operation Churchill described as ‘a miracle of deliverance’.
EBURY 2010 HB 312pp
£19.99 84679 now £8.99
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
AND ANSEL ADAMS
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum With over 100 reproductions and three critical essays, this volume explores the significance of Georgia
O’Keeffe’s and Ansel Adams’s achievements
in capturing – in painting and photography –
the reality and essence of the natural world.
Natural Affinities
LITTLE, BROWN 2008 HB 176pp Illus 260x260mm
£30.00 91082 now £14.99
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HITLER
AN Wilson’s short biography portrays the perplexing figure of Adolf Hitler with verve and
acuity, and shows that it was his frightening
normality, not some otherworldy evil, that
makes him truly terrifying. BASIC 2012 HB 219pp
£16.99 95453 now £7.99
IN THIS SIGN CONQUER
A History of the Society
of the Holy Cross, 1885-2005
Ed. William Davage In 1855 a group of priests,
deeply influenced by the Oxford Movement,
formed a new society dedicated to working
among the poor. Marking its 150th anniversary,
this book chronicles the history of the Societas
Sanctae Crucis. CONTINUUM 2006 PB 230pp
£14.99 99514 now £4.99
THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTIONARIES
The Making of the
Modern World, 1776-1914
Gavin Weightman presents an engrossing account of the creation and spread of industrial
societies, with stories of individuals, technologies, industries and espionage in countries as
far flung as Russia, America and Japan.
GROVE 2007 HB 422pp
$27.50 69745 now £7.99
JESUS
Paul Johnson Setting Jesus in the geopolitical
context of the Roman Empire into which he
was born, Johnson discusses how his example
of an inner life of humility and love offers an
eloquent protest which can guide our response
to the 21st century. VIKING 2010 HB 208pp
A Biography from a Believer
£17.99 92380 now £9.99
KINGDOM OF PLANTS
Will Benson Beginning with the evolution of
plants, this very accessible and well-illustrated
account of plant life includes chapters on flowers, how plants have shaped the world, extreme
survival mechanisms and fungi. Accompanied
a Sky TV series. COLLINS 2012 HB 265pp Illus
A Journey Through Their Evolution
£25.00 17846 now £9.99
KINGS, QUEENS AND
FOUR-LEGGED ATHLETES
Ed. Martin Smith Drawn from the Telegraph
archives, this anthology relives horse racing’s
greatest moments through the passion and authority of the sports pages’ true thoroughbreds
– racing corespondents from John Oaksey to
Frankie Dettore. AURUM 2011 HB 352pp
The Telegraph Book of Horse Racing
£20.00 16693 now £7.99
THE LIQUID CONTINENT:
A MEDITERRANEAN TRILOGY
Nicholas Woodsworth From Venice, Woodsworth travels through Albania, the Aegean
islands and the Dardanelles to complete his
exploration of the ‘liquid continent’ of the
Mediterranean in Istanbul.
Volume III: Istanbul
HAUS 2008 HB 246pp 160x120mm
£12.99 98022 now £3.99
A LONDON CABBIE’S YEAR
Mick Rose guides us through a London cabbie’s
year, month by month, describing the people
he meets and the places he has seen to give an
insider’s view of the London cab trade.
ambulation’ starts with the East End and covers
the whole area of Stanford’s 1862 map of London, detailing the history and important personages associated with every church.
BLYTHE SMART 2012 PB 354pp Illus 260x200mm
£18.99 11441 now £7.99
MADE IN BRITAIN
Evan Davis dispels the fashionable gloom about
Britain not making anything, showing how
British manufacturers have learnt to specialize
in high-end, niche products and how British advertising and creative industries are now second
to none. LITTLE, BROWN 2011 HB 288pp
£18.99 90035 now £5.99
MADE IN THE ICE AGE 1+1
Featuring the characters from the popular Made
in the Ice Age series, this set comprises a 48piece jigsaw of a woolly mammoth and friends
and a ‘minimemo’ – a simple pelmanism-type
puzzle. Age 4+ DINO 2012 274x190mm
Jigsaw and Minimemo Puzzle
£5.99 17874 now £2.99
MAHATMA GANDHI
Douglas Allen re-examines Gandhi’s life and
thought, how he shaped history and how his
philosophy and practices can be reformulated
to make them meaningful and effective for our
own times. From the Critical Lives series.
REAKTION 2011 PB 224pp
£10.95 18126 now £4.99
MANCHESTER CONSULS
OLDE COTSWOLD
PUNISHMENTS
Nell Darby surveys the uneven and often
unsavoury application of the law in the
Cotswolds in the 18th and 19th centuries, from
stocks and pillories to hard labour, transportation and hanging.
£12.99 96677 now £4.99
OLD LECKHAMPTON
Quarries, Railways,
Riots, Devil’s Chimney
David Bick In this exploration of the quarrying
activities around Leckhampton Hill near Cheltenhamin, the author offers an explanation of a
curious local construction – the rock tower
known as the Devil’s Chimney.
RUNPAST 1994 HB 72pp Illus
£8.95 99552 now £3.99
OLIVER CROMWELL
Peter Gaunt This study offers a concise and
accessible introduction to the life and career of
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) as statesman, military genius and religious visionary. From the
Historic Lives series.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2004 HB 144pp Illus
£12.95 67124 now £4.99
THE OUTLAW BIBLE
OF AMERICAN ESSAYS
Ed. Alan Kaufman With essays by ‘incendiaries’ such as Tennessee Williams, William
S Burroughs and Eldridge Cleaver, Kaufman’s
anthology of ‘American outlaw literary culture’
covers topics including the betrayed American
dream, racial equality and revolutionary
politics.
David John Fox Manchester has the largest
and most active consular corps in the country
outside London. This study is the first detailed
history of consuls and their activities for any
region of the UK. Limited edition.
THUNDER’S MOUTH 2006 PB 349pp
£30.00 10672 now £9.99
MEMOIRS OF A NOVELIST
$16.95 11746 now £4.99
POOR ROBIN’S PROPHECIES
Benjamin Wardhaugh This unusual history
examines how mathematics was learnt and used
in 18th century Britain through the story of Poor
Robin, whose bestselling, light-hearted almanac
(‘Calculated for the Meridian of SaffronWalden’) remained in print from 1663 to 1828.
CARNEGIE 2007 HB 315pp
Virginia Woolf This collection of five of Virginia Woolf’s earliest stories explores the role
of women in society and hints at the stylistic
form that would go on to define her later writing.
The title story is joined by Phyllis and Rosamond, The Mysterious Case of Miss V, The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn; and A Dialogue
upon Mount Pentelicus.
£7.99 99605 now £3.99
MERCATOR
Nicholas Crane presents a compelling portrait
of Gerard Mercator (1512-94), the cobbler’s
son who changed the world when he invented
the first workable projection to show the curved
Earth on a flat surface. PHOENIX 2003 PB 413pp
The Man Who Mapped the Planet
£10.99 97868 now £4.99
MORE SLOW
COOKING RECIPES
A Curious Almanac and the
Everyday Mathematics
of Georgian Britain
£14.99 18879 now £6.99
PRIESTS IN LOVE
Roman Catholic Clergy and
Their Intimate Friendships
Jane Anderson In the 1960s and ’70s, thousands of Catholic priests left the ministry to get
married. This study examines the moral and social struggles of those men who could no longer
find a rationale for obligatory celibacy.
Australian Women’s Weekly With recipes for
cooking on top of the stove and in the oven as
well as in dedicated slow cookers, this book
presents recipes for soups, main courses, accompaniments and deserts. Measurements in
grams and cups. ACP 2012 HB 200pp Illus
The Russo-Japanese War
in History and Imagery
VMB 2010 HB 224pp Illus 273x220mm
£16.99 16528 now £6.99
A MUCH RECORDED WAR
£30.00 98708 now £6.99
PUPPIES
Jane Burton For anyone who has no puppy of
their own to fall in love with, here are hundreds,
captured in beautiful studio photographs by
wildlife filmmaker and photographer Jane Burton (1933-2007).
Wet Noses and Fuzzy Bellies
11120 now £8.99
RELIGION AND
PLACE IN LEEDS
£9.99 16962 now £3.99
LONDON CHURCHES
AND OLDE CELEBRITIES
Frederic A Sharf; Anne Nishimura Morse;
Sebastian Dobson Presenting over 80 art
works, this study examines the ways in which
the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was promoted, mythologized and represented in a variety of media, from woodblock prints to photographs. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
John Blythe Smart’s ‘compleat guide and per-
2005 PB 112pp Illus 205x255mm
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2007 PB 80pp Illus
£18.50 91421 now £5.99
£7.99 88757 now £3.99
EARLSWOOD 2013 PB 258pp
Volume II: Environs
John Minnis; Trevor Mitchell Part of the
Informed Conservation series, this book surveys
places of worship built since 1900 for the many
faiths in Leeds, with a final chapter devoted to
religions established there since 1945.
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REMARKABLE BIOLOGISTS
THE SPEAK OF THE MEARNS
Ioan James profiles 38 remarkable biologists
from the last 400 years. While the emphasis is
on their life stories rather than details of their
achievements, read in sequence the biographies
convey something of the way in which biology
has developed.
With Selected Short
Stories and Essays
From Ray to Hamilton
CAMBRIDGE UP 2009 PB 196pp Illus
£32.99 16705 now £14.99
RESPLENDENT FAITH
Liturgical Treasures
of the Middle Ages
Stephen N Fliegel This introduction to medieval church treasuries explains their form and
function for the nonspecialist, discussing and
illustrating nearly 70 sumptuous artefacts typically found within treasuries.
KENT STATE UP 2009 HB 115pp Illus 280x220mm
£26.95 97374 now £9.99
SCYTHIAN METALWORK KIT
With this My Masterpiece kit, you can make
your own golden Scythian griffin, based on the
real thing in the Metropiltan Museum of Art.
With full instructions and ready-made display
box. STERLING 2011 PB 12pp Illus 180x130mm
£9.99 95116 now £4.99
SEA DOG BAMSE
Andrew Orr; Angus Whitson This is the story
of Bamse, a 14-stone St Bernard who began his
Second World War life-saving career on the
mine sweeper Thorodd, became the mascot for
the Royal Norwegian Forces, and was posthumously awarded the PDSA Gold Medal for Gallantry. BIRLINN 2008 PB
World War II Canine Hero
£9.99 11506 now £3.99
THE SEVEN CHURCHES
or, The Heptecclesion
A Gothic Novel of Prague
Milos Urban Written in the style of a literary
thriller, but with an intriguing historical, even
supernatural, mystery at its core, this best-selling
novel by ‘the dark knight of Czech literature’ is
set in a medieval quarter of Prague, where for
K, a misfit policeman, a series of strange murders draws him into a shadowy world. Translated by Robert Russell. PETER OWEN 2010
PB 303pp
£8.99 92413 now £2.99
SKA’D FOR LIFE
A Personal Journey
with the Specials
Horace Panter, the Specials’ bass player, tells
the story of the great 2-Tone band, from early
days on the punk circuit to success following
‘Too Much Too Young’ and on to the final ‘fizzle
out in America’. PAN 2007 PB 320pp Illus
£9.99 17647 now £4.99
SOUL OF THE AGE
A Biography of the Mind
of William Shakespeare
Jonathan Bate In this innovative biography,
Jonathan Bate uses Shakespeare’s own list of
the seven ages of man – infant, schoolboy, lover,
soldier, justice, pantaloon and oblivion – to
frame the crucial events of the playwright’s life
and career. RANDOM HOUSE 2009 PB 488pp
$18.00 97345 now £9.99
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
BLOCKADE RUNNERS
Paul Heaton tells the story of the British merchant vessels that ran the gauntlet of General
Franco’s blockade, transporting munitions and
other provisions to the Republic.
PM HEATON 2006 HB 112pp Illus 275x215mm
£20.00 99553 now £7.99
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon With introductions by
Ian Campbell and Jeremy Idle, this volume presents a selection of Grassic Gibbon’s short works:
the novella The Speak of the Mearns, his portrait
of a rural community on the North-eastern coast;
seven essays from Scottish Scene; and seven
short stories. POLYGON 2007 PB 304pp
£7.99 11511 now £2.99
THE SWORD AND
THE SKETCH BOOK
A Pictorial History of
Queen Victoria’s Wars
Ian Hernon’s visual history of Victorian warfare comprises a selection of stirring graphic illustrations from contemporary war coverage in
newspapers and magazines.
SPELLMOUNT 2012 PB 224pp Illus
£14.99 97718 now £5.99
TITIAN: The Last Days
Mark Hudson Vividly recreating the atmosphere of 16th century Italy, this compelling biography chronicles the painter’s last days, and
his relations with his powerful patrons and quarrelsome family. WALKER 2009 HB 317pp
$27.00 97139 now £7.99
FROM TRASH TO TREASURE
Judith Miller offers a practical guide to help
you identify and value everything in your home,
whether it is an inherited piece of old furniture
or a childhood toy. READER’S DIGEST 2012 HB
97731 now £7.99
THE TRAVELLER’S DAYBOOK
Fergus Fleming’s day-by-day anthology comprises extracts, with commentaries, from works
by the world’s greatest explorers, from Columbus to Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian wanderings
in the 1940s. ATLANTIC 2012 HB 478pp
A Tour of the World in 366 Quotations
£16.99 97235 now £5.99
THE VERY THING
The Memoirs of Drummer Richard
Bentinck, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Jonathan Crook weaves the memoirs of his ancestor, Drummer Richard Bentinck of the 23rd
Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers), into an exciting
narrative of a soldier’s life in the Napoleonic
Wars. FRONTLINE 2011 HB 208pp Illus
£19.99 97874 now £9.99
WISH YOU WERE HERE
Travis Elborough This witty exploration of
British beach holidays charts the rise, fall and
rise again in the popularity of resorts such as
Skegness and Brighton, and investigates the
culture of the seaside. SCEPTRE 2011 PB 256pp
England on Sea
£8.99 97676 now £3.99
THE WORLD ATLAS OF BEER
Tim Webb; Stephen Beaumont This is a complete, illustrated guide to the development of
beer and brewing techniques around the world,
with tasting notes for 500 beers and maps
locating important breweries. MITCHELL
BEAZLEY 2012 HB 256pp Illus 290x225mm
£25.00 16704 now £11.99
A WRITER AT WAR
Vasily Grossman with
the Red Army 1941-1945
Ed. Antony Beevor; Luba Vinogradova This
book presents the Second World War reports by
Vasily Grossman, a Soviet newspaper correspondent and eyewitness to the titanic struggle on the
Eastern Front. PIMLICO 2006 PB 400pp Illus
£9.99 98000 now £4.99
ACADEMIC TITLES
ACTRESSES AND WHORES
Kirsten Pullen The image of the actress as
prostitute has haunted the theatrical profession
since women first went on stage. Pullen explores
the history of this connection both in the cultural
imagination and in real life.
On Stage and in Society
CAMBRIDGE UP 2005 HB 227pp
£58.99 17708 now £16.99
AELFRIC AND THE CULT
OF SAINTS IN LATE
ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Mechthild Gretsch analyses Aelfric’s Lives of
five important saints – Pope Gregory, Benedict,
Cuthbert, Swithun and Aethelthryth – in the
light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England.
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England: 34
£79.99 17710 now £25.00
THE ARCHAEOLOGY
OF THE CARIBBEAN
Samuel M Wilson In this synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by
humans more than 6,000 years ago to the time
of the European conquest (15th to 17th centuries), Wilson pays particular attention to evidence of migration and cultural interaction. No
jacket. CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 HB 224pp
£74.99 17714 now £19.99
BRITISH SPIES
AND IRISH REBELS
British Intelligence
and Ireland, 1916-1945
Paul McMahon Using recently opened archives,
this study reveals how intelligence and intelligence agencies shaped Anglo-Irish relations between 1916 and 1945, and sheds light on shadowy figures including IRA gunrunners,
Bolshevik agitators, Nazi saboteurs and British
double agents. BOYDELL 2011 PB 540pp Illus
£19.99 92959 now £9.99
THE CAMBRIDGE
INTRODUCTION TO
EARLY ENGLISH THEATRE
Janette Dillon Highlighting continuities as well
as divisions, this introduction offers an overview
of early English theatre from the earliest
recorded vernacular texts of the late medieval
period to the closing of the theatres in 1642.
£58.99 17735 now £19.99
CORIOLANUS
Ed. David George With extracts from writings
on Coriolanus ranging in date from 1687 to
1940, this volume from the Shakespeare: The
Critical Tradition series aims to show how the
play was received and understood by critics,
editors and general readers. No jacket.
THOEMMES CONTINUUM 2004 HB 481pp
£160.00 99437 now £30
DECONSTRUCTION
AND CRITICAL THEORY
Peter V Zima Surveying Derrida’s work and
American deconstructive literary theories, Zima
emphasizes the ‘heterogeneity of Deconstruction’ as he establishes the philosophical roots
of the various theories and traces their development. CONTINUUM 2002 PB 231pp
£24.99 29690 now £5.99
EDEN, SUEZ AND
THE MASS MEDIA
Propaganda and Persuasion
During the Suez Crisis
Tony Shaw’s reappraisal of Anthony Eden’s
handling of the Suez crisis reveals the extent to
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which the Prime Minister succeeded in manipulating the news and exposes an unhealthy intimacy between press and government.
IB TAURIS 1996 HB 279pp
£62.50 99338 now £7.99
GLOBAL TRADE AND
COMMERCIAL NETWORKS
Eighteenth-Century
Diamond Merchants
Tijl Vanneste At the heart of this study on crosscultural trade lies a case study of a network of
diamond merchants operating internationally in
the early 18th century. Perspectives in Economic
and Social History series.
PICKERING & CHATTO 2011 HB 281pp
£60.00 17154 now £9.99
HEGEL AND THEOLOGY
Martin J De Nys Giving an account of the essential positions of Hegel’s mature understanding
of religion and Christianity, De Nys discusses the
role of that understanding in the development of
Hegel’s philosophy. T&T CLARK 2009 PB 211pp
£16.99 95236 now £6.99
HISTORY OF THE JEWS
IN MODERN TIMES
Lloyd P Gartner Starting in 1650, Gartner’s
introductory history traces Jewish traditions and
communities and how they interacted both externally and internally, up to the Holocaust and
the foundation of Israel.
£22.00 17312 now £9.99
INCONSISTENCY
IN ROMAN EPIC
Studies in Catullus, Lucretius,
Vergil, Ovid and Lucan
James J O’Hara Classicists once assumed that
all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be
emended, explained away or lamented. Based
on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this study explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistences in Roman epic.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 PB 177pp
£21.99 16718 now £7.99
LANGUAGE AND STATECRAFT
IN EARLY MODERN VENICE
Elizabeth Horodowich In her study of how the
Venetian state constructed a normative language,
Horodovich demonstrates that a crucial but unrecognized component of early modern statebuilding was the management of public speech.
£64.00 97336 now £19.99
THE LANGUAGE OF WHIGGISM
Kathryn Chittick highlights the connections
between the Whig party and ideological Whiggism and addresses the question of how wartime
politics affected early 19th century literary language. The Enlightenment World series. No
jacket. PICKERING & CHATTO 2010 HB 256pp
Liberty and Patriotism, 1802-1830
£60.00 89684 now £9.99
THE MAKING OF THE MODERN
SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
1939-1965
John A Burnett’s study focuses on the period
1929 to 1965, when war, welfarism and the
planned integration and reconstruction of the
British economy dramatically impacted on the
Highland ‘way of life’.
FOUR COURTS 2011 HB 310pp
£50.00 18958 now £19.99
MEMORY AND WORLD WAR II
Ed. Francesca Cappelletto The death and destruction of war leave behind scars and fears
that can last for generations. This study consid-
An Ethnographic Approach
ers the connections between memory and violence in the wake of the Second World War in
Europe. BERG 2005 HB 219pp
£53.00 99309 now £9.99
MISSIONS TO THE GAELS
Reformation and
Counter-Reformation in
Ulster and the Highlands
and Islands of Scotland 1560-1760
Fiona A MacDonald Studying the impact of the
Gaels in the west of Scotland and in the north of
Ireland on each other’s religious heritage, this
book illuminates the origins of sectarian division
in Northern Ireland, but also ranges beyond ecclesiastical issues to political and cultural forces
in Gaelic society. JOHN DONALD 2006 PB 431pp
£30.00 11489 now £14.99
MODEL NAZI
Arthur Greiser and the
Occupation of Western Poland
Catherine Epstein presents a full biography of
Arthur Greisler, the man who initiated the Final
Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland and was responsible for overseeing the segregation of Germans and Poles and founding the first ghetto,
forced labour programmes and the first mass murders of Jews. OXFORD UP 2012 PB 467pp Illus
£21.99 17363 now £9.99
THE N-TOWN PLAY
Drama and Liturgy in
Medieval East Anglia
Penny Granger This is the first full-length
study of the N-Town Play, a cycle compiled in
the 15th century somewhere on the NorfolkSuffolk border and a significant but enigmatic
example of late-medieval vernacular theatre.
DS BREWER 2009 HB 268pp
£50.00 98832 now £9.99
THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC
THE ROYAL PARDON
Access to Mercy in
Fourteenth-Century England
Helen Lacey In this comprehensive study Lacey
examines the theological underpinnings of royal
mercy, the social and legal context, the procedures of pardoning and their use at moments of
political upheaval such as the Peasants’ Revolt.
YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS 2009 HB 270pp
£50.00 98577 now £19.99
SAMUEL BARBER
A Thematic Catalogue
of the Complete Works
Barbara B Heyman Providing an essential foundation for any serious study of the American composer Samuel Barber, this is a chronological listing of his entire musical output, with a musical
extract, information on first performance, text of
songs and scoring and general comments for each
piece. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 608pp Illus 260x185mm
£60.00 19382 now £19.99
SEEING JUSTICE DONE
The Age of Spectacular
Capital Punishment in France
Paul Friedland Part history of penal theory,
part study of the penal ritual, this book traces
the historical roots of modern capital punishment and sheds light on the fundamental disconnect between the theory and practice of public execution. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 344pp Illus
£37.99 17426 now £12.99
SEEKING A ROLE
Brian Harrison A self-contained volume within
The New Oxford History of England, Harrison’s
wide-ranging study covers a period that begins
with much of the British Empire intact and ends
with it gone and with Britain seeking a role it had
yet to find. CLARENDON 2009 HB 680pp Illus
The United Kingdom 1951-1970
Carl Stumpf Edited and translated by David
Trippett, this volume presents two texts by Carl
Stumpf (1848-1936): The Origins of Music
(1911) containing his ground-breaking hypothesis about the prehistory of music; and Self Portrait, an autobiographical survey of his life and
work. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 281pp
£47.99 17427 now £16.99
THE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS
IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
Ed. Karen Weisman This Handbook provides
both an historical survey and a thematic engagement with relevant issues, including
women’s elegies, elegy in English drama 15901640, mourning, the elegiac in film and the war
memorial as elegy.
£37.99 94826 now £8.99
TRADING TERRITORIES
£38.99 17379 now £12.99
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK
OF THE ELEGY
£100.00 18868 now £19.99
PARLIAMENT AND
POLITICAL PAMPHLETEERING
IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY
ENGLAND
Clementine Oliver Some 60 years before the
invention of the printing press, the first political
pamphlets about parliament circulated in London. This study reconstructs the lives of the first
pamphleteers, with particular emphasis on the
large group of bureaucrats in London.
YORK MEDIEVAL 2010 HB 248pp
£60.00 17953 now £19.99
A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
OF WILLIAM KING
Christopher Fauske This multi-disciplinary
study examines the work of William King
(1650-1729), the dominant Irish intellectual of
his day, who was pivotal to the emergence of
the modern concept of the liberal nation state.
£60.00 17161 now £9.99
Jeffrey B Gibson This study lays the groundwork for establishing the validity of the thesis
that the early church held a selective and unified
view of the nature and content of the various
temptations Jesus was subjected to in his lifetime. T&T CLARK 2004 PB 378pp
Jerry Brotton presents an illustrated account
of the status of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world, focusing on
how early European geographers mapped the
territories of Africa and Southeast Asia. Slightly
off-mint. REAKTION 1997 HB 208pp Illus
Mapping the Early Modern World
£22.50 18381 now £7.99
THE UNIVERSITY OF
LONDON, 1858-1900
The Politics of Senate
and Convocation
FMG Willson analyses issues surrounding the
consolidation of the ‘external’ system in 1858
and the newly established Convocation, and
covers many related topics including women’s
degrees and the University’s parliamentary seat.
BOYDELL 2004 HB 478pp
£60.00 60241 now £9.99
WILBERFORCE
Anne Stott While much has been written about
William Wilberforce’s role in the abolition of
slavery; this biographical study focuses on his
family and his friends, the group of Evangelical
philanthropists retrospectively named the
Clapham Sect. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 354p Illus
Family and Friends
£37.99 17476 now £9.99
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NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS
Part of the Naxos group, renowned for its classical music, Naxos AudioBooks
is an award-winning label offering abridged and unabridged digital recordings
of great literature and non-fiction titles. On these pages we present a selection
of classic novels and poetry, but also studies in music, history, architecture
and philosophy. NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2006-13 Audio CDs
NEW THE DECAMERON
Selections
Boccaccio As plague ravages
Florence in the summer of 1348,
ten young Florentines take refuge in
the countryside and entertain themselves
by telling stories. Of the 100 tales in
Boccaccio’s affirmation of life’s
pleasures, 16 are read here by a group
of nine actors, accompanied by music of
the troubadours and Gregorian chant.
4 CDs; running time 4hr 41 min.
RD Blackmore Set amid the political
turmoil of the late 17th century, Lorna
Doone brings West Country history and
legends alive in a novel brimming with
vivid description and cliff-hanging
action. Jonathan Keeble reads an
abridged version of Blackmore’s
classic of romantic adventure.
4 CDs; running time 4hr and 43min.
NEW
LORNA DOONE
£16.99 19166 now £5.99
NEW WAGNER
His Life and Music
Stephen Johnson Well over a century
after Wagner’s death, the man and his
music are as controversial as ever. In
this study, Johnson makes no attempt
to gloss over the darker sides of the
composer’s character, personal or
artistic, but argues that the finer
aspects of his vision transcend its
flaws. The audiobook is in two parts:
the unabridged biography, followed
by a careful selection of Wagner’s
music. Read by the author.
7 CDs; running time approx 9hrs.
£19.99 19165 now £5.99
Alan Garner Following the much-loved
children's novels, The Weirdstone of
Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath,
Boneland takes the story of Colin
and Susan into adulthood. Read,
at the request of Garner himself,
by Robert Powell. Unabridged.
4 CDs; running time approx 5 hours.
NEW
BONELAND
£27.99 19199 now £9.99
Sheikh Nefzaoui Written between
1410 and 1434, The Perfumed Garden
is a manual of sexual instruction that
mixes commentary and advice with
entertaining and stimulating stories.
It was first translated into English in
1886 by the bold linguist and explorer
Richard Burton: that classic translation,
unabridged, is read here by Jonathan
Keeble. 5 CDs; running time 6hrs 35min.
£19.99 19189 now £6.99
Jonathan Gregson This guide from
the In a Nutshell series traces the
development of the cathedral from its
origins as a Bishop’s house, through the
Romanesque and Gothic periods and up
to the most extravagant contemporary
designs around the world. The text
is read by Roy McMillan, and is
accompanied by Early English Organ
Music performed by Joseph Payne.
1 CD; running time 1hr 17min.
NEW
CATHEDRALS
£8.99 19182 now £3.99
COMPLETE CLASSICS SERIES
£16.99 19164 now £5.99
Some of the great classics of English literature are presented in these sets,
unabridged and accompanied by notes on the work, its author and the actor
or broadcaster reading on the recording. Sets with more than 10 CDs, such
as Wives and Daughters, are ring-bound books of plastic CD sleeves in a sturdy
outer case. NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2010-12 Audio CDs
Thomas Paine Written in 1791 in
defence of the Revolution in France,
Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is a
seminal work on human freedom and
equality, arguing that government must
respect the welfare rights of all its
citizens. It is read here by David Rintoul.
4 CDs; running time 4hrs 37min.
NEW
NEW THE PERFUMED
GARDEN
RIGHTS OF MAN
NEW THE MYSTERY
OF EDWIN DROOD
Charles Dickens Through a mist of
decay and opium, Dickens weaves a
tale of murder and mystery in this, his
enigmatic last – and unfinished – novel.
It is read here by David Timson.
9 CDs; running time 101/2 hrs.
£16.99 19190 now £5.99
£32.99 19173 now £7.99
NEW WIVES AND
DAUGHTERS
NEW A SENTIMENTAL
JOURNEY
Laurence Sterne Narrated by the
(apparently) innocent Parson Yorick,
this is Sterne’s lightly fictionalised
account of his own European travels –
and therefore full of digressions,
misunderstandings and risqué
jokes. Read by Anton Lesser.
4 CDs; running time approx 4 hrs.
£16.99 19193 now £5.99
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Elizabeth Gaskell Following the
fortunes of Molly Gibson, whose world
is turned upside down when her father
remarries and a new stepmother and
stepsister enter her life, Gaskell's novel
is read by Patience Tomlinson.
22 CDs; running time 271/2 hrs.
£29.99 19181 now £7.99
Edgar Wallace The villains in Wallace’s
thriller are not necessarily bad people
and the good guys are vigilantes, acting
outside the law – yet the Four Just Men
manage to remain heroes. This crime
classic is read by Bill Homewood.
4 CDs; running time approx 41/2 hrs.
NEW
THE FOUR JUST MEN
£16.99 19177 now £5.99
Arthur Conan Doyle In these popular stories, Conan Doyle created a hero second
only to Sherlock Holmes, but very different. Rupert Degas reads the sometimes
hilarious adventures of the dashing Napoleonic Brigadier, accompanied by Berlioz’
overtures. 6 CDs; running time approx 7 hrs.
NEW
THE ADVENTURES OF BRIGADIER GERARD
£24.99 19170 now £6.99
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THE GREAT POETS SERIES
PAX BRITANNICA TRILOGY
In The Great Poets series from Naxos, fine actors and broadcasters such as
Ronald Pickup and Derek Jacobi recite substantial selections from the work of
poets such as Milton and Masefield. The accompanying booklets contain listings
and brief introductions to the poets. NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2008-13 Audio CDs
£8.99 each
now £3.99 each
With Browning’s best-known poems,
such as The Pied Piper of Hamelin and
How They Brought the Good News from
Ghent to Aix and dramatic lyrics such
as My Last Duchess, this selection of
16 works shows the many facets of this
often neglected Victorian poet. Read by
David Timson and Patience Tomlinson.
1 CD; running time 76 min.
19195
NEW
The very best of Milton’s works are
presented here: among them, the most
famous sonnets and the three great poems
– Lycidas, L’Allegro and Il Penseroso –
in their entirety, and excerpts from
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,
Comus and Samson Agonistes. Read
by Samantha Bond and Derek Jacobi.
1 CD; running time approx 80 min.19197
NEW
JOHN MILTON
This collection contains 36 poems
spanning Mansfield’s entire career from
1902 to 1967. It includes extracts from
the narrative poems The Everlasting
Mercy, Dauber and Reynaud the Fox,
as well as sonnets, poems on the Romans
and some rarities. Read by Ronald
Pickup. 1 CD; duration 67 min. 19196
NEW
JOHN MASEFIELD
ROBERT BROWNING
This recording presents 59 of the Laura
sonnets, including some of the most
powerful, addressed to her spirit after
death by the heartbroken poet. Anton
Lesser reads from the 1931 translation
by the American poet Joseph Auslander.
1 CD; running time 62 min.
19179
NEW
FRANCESCO PETRARCH
THE SPOKEN WORD SERIES
Drawing on the British Library
Sound Archive and the BBC Sound
Archives, The Spoken Word series
presents the voices of some of the
20th century’s greatest literary figures
in recordings taken from the original
radio broadcasts. Each CD contains
excerpts from talks, readings and
interviews, with notes in the
accompanying booklet.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2006-12 Audio CDs
The most famous author of his day,
HG Wells was frequently asked to
contribute to radio series. Among these
recordings are excerpts from his talks
for ‘Whither Britain’ (1934) and
‘I Knew a Man’, in which his chosen
outstanding personality was TH Huxley.
Running time approx 1 hour.
HG WELLS
NEW LADY CHATTERLEY’S
LOVER
DH Lawrence’s reflection on mankind’s
relation to nature, expressed through
the story of Lady Chatterley’s sexual
involvement with her gamekeeper,
is read by Maxine Peake.
£38.50 19187 now £9.99
NEW MOLLY BLOOM’S
SOLILOQUY
James Joyce Molly Bloom’s famous
soliloquy from Joyce’s Ulysses is a
languorous internal monologue in which
the passionate wife of Leopold Bloom
meditates on love and life. The reader
here is Irish actress Marcella Riordan.
£10.99 19186 now £4.99
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£10.00 16938 now £3.99
This set of three audio CDs contains
recordings of 30 novelists or playwrights from the earliest generations
whose voices survive, beginning with
Arthur Conan Doyle speaking in 1930
and including excerpts from BBC talks
and interviews by Kipling, Tolkien,
GK Chesterton, Graham Greene,
Doris Lessing and Joe Orton.
Announcements are read by Juliet
Stevenson. Running time: 214 minutes.
BRITISH WRITERS
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan
Morris’s accessible and entertaining
narrative history of the British empire
from the accession of Queen Victoria
to the death of Winston Churchill.
We have the first two volumes, both
unabridged and both read by Roy
McMillan. NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2011
£55.00/£45.50
now £9.99 each
HEAVEN’S COMMAND
An Imperial Progress
NEW
Jan Morris This first volume covers
Victoria’s reign from her coronation
in 1837 to the Diamond Jubilee in 1897,
and ranges far and wide, from India
to the Canadian prairies, and from
Zululand to Tasmania. 16 CDs;
running time 20hrs 10min.
19184
NEW PAX BRITANNICA
The Climax of Empire
Jan Morris A snapshot of the Empire
at the Diamond Jubilee, Volume Two
looks at how it was made up –
from adventurers and politicians to
communications and infrastructure –
but also examines the jumble of
ideologies within it and how they
affected its 370 million people. 13 CDs;
running time 17hr 5min.
19185
Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon’s book
of poems, first published in 1932, tells
the story of English monarchs since
William the Conqueror, with a poem
devoted to each king or queen. This
children’s classic, along with a selection
of the Farjeons’ Heroes and Heroines
(from Alexander the Great to Emmeline
Pankhurst), is read by actors Isla Blair
and Julian Glover. Duration: 73 minutes.
KINGS AND QUEENS
BRITISH LIBRARY 2011 Audio CD
£10.00 16940 now £3.99
VOICES OF HISTORY 2
Arts, Science and Exploration
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Tennyson reading from Maud, Howard
Carter describing his discovery of
Tutankhamun’s tomb, Einstein discussing
the responsibility of the scientists who
developed the atomic bomb: this set
contains 38 such historic recordings,
extracts from radio broadcasts, speeches
and commercial records drawn from
the British Library Sound Archive.
2 CDs, with accompanying notes on the
speakers. Running time: 139 minutes.
£10.00 16941 now £3.99
£18.99 98388 now £6.99
£20.00 10731 now £7.99
The 17 tracks on this CD include
Lawrence Durrell in conversation
with Malcolm Muggeridge in 1965,
and reading and commenting on several
of his poems, including ‘Alexandria’
and ‘Cavafy’.
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PILATES FOR LIFE
How to Improve Strength,
Flexibility and Health over 40
Lynne Robinson; Carmela Trappa
With age comes reduced flexibility,
which can affect our posture and strength
and further compromise fitness. This
collection of targeted Pilates routines
has been developed to help with common
age-related conditions, from recovering
from a hip replacement to alleviating the
effects of osteoarthritis. Illustrated with
colour demonstration photographs, the
book is a complete programme of
exercises for strengthening muscles,
easing back problems, keeping joints
supple and preventing common aches and
pains. KYLE 2014 PB 224pp Illus 250x210mm
£18.99 12046 now £7.99
OUR NECESSARY
SHADOW
The Nature and
Meaning of Psychiatry
NEW
GOD’S DOODLE
The Life and Times of the Penis
Tom Burns Psychiatry is a polemical battleground, damned by sociologists as an
instrument of social control but held up
by self-help gurus as the key to emotional
wellbeing. Tom Burns, who has spent 40
years as a psychiatrist, sets out the debates
and contradictions at the heart of the science, traces its historical development and
shows that both mental illness and our
drive to relieve the suffering it causes are
intimately tied to what makes us human.
Tom Hickman To possess a penis, Sophocles said, is to be ‘chained to a madman’.
This light-hearted but impressively researched book ranges across history,
world cultures, literature, art, medicine
and myth to examine man’s relation to
his characteristic member. It investigates
the reasons why this unruly appendage
all too often appears to have a mind of its
own – and the joint relationship of man
and his madman to the opposite sex.
ALLEN LANE 2013 HB 384pp 240x165mm
SQUARE PEG 2012 HB 240pp
£20.00 19280 now £7.99
£12.99 18307 now £3.99
THE SECRET HISTORY
OF THE WORLD
NEW ADVENTURES IN
THE ORGASMATRON
The Invention of Sex
Jonathan Black Biographers have often
underplayed the role played by esoteric
knowledge in the lives of some of history’s most influential characters, including the founders of the modern scientific
world – Newton was a practising alchemist, Voltaire a participant in ceremonial magic. This book tells the complete
history of the world, as explained by the
beliefs of secret societies; beliefs which
trace their origin to ancient Mystery religions and claim to reveal the world’s true
workings through altered states of consciousness. QUERCUS 2007 HB 416pp Illus
Christopher Turner A student of Freud,
psychoanalyst William Reich developed a
theory in the 1930s that proposed sexual
permissiveness as a means to alleviate repression and improve health. His ideas prepared the way for the sexual revolution of
the 1960s and his machine to focus ‘orgone
energy’ was ultimately lampooned by
Woody Allen as the orgasmatron in The
Sleeper. Christopher Turner’s much-praised
book tells the story of the radical and influential thinker and his extraordinary life.
FOURTH ESTATE 2012 PB 544pp Illus
£25.00 58937 now £6.99
£9.99 17882 now £4.99
ATLAS OF EPIDEMIC BRITAIN
A Twentieth Century Picture
Matthew Smallman-Raynor; Andrew Cliff
Covering the period from the publication of
Charles Creighton’s A History of Epidemics
in Britain in 1891 to the first decade of the
21st century, this atlas presents an historical
geography of epidemics. After general
chapters on the mapping of epidemics,
it deals with common infections 1901-45,
epidemics during both world wars, and
infectious diseases after 1945, from
diphtheria, tuberculosis and poliomyelitis
to the ‘new plagues’ of HIV/AIDS and
hospital superbugs. No jacket.
OXFORD UP 2012 HB 216pp Illus 357x262mm
James Baldwin First published in New
York in 1896, this is Baldwin’s retelling
of the story of Siegfried. Drawing materials from various versions of the northern
sagas and from his own imagination, he
presents the action-packed adventures of
Siegfried and other mythical figures, including Aegir, Brunhild, Thor and Balder,
in 20 tales from the ancient Eddas.
Reprint. DOVER 2006 PB 224pp 215x136mm
THE STORY OF SIEGFRIED
$9.95 19360 now £3.99
THE LOST LIBRARY
Based, most appropriately, in Glastonbury, the Lost Library is a publishing
house dedicated to reprinting rare,
esoteric and scholarly texts from the
late 19th and early 20th centuries. The
texts are presented in their entirety in
facsimile reprints, with their original
illustrations.
THE GREEN ROADS
OF ENGLAND (1914)
R Hippisley Cox Starting at the ‘central
gathering ground’ at Avebury, Hippisley
Cox’s guide covers all the ancient roads
of England, following the Stone Age
ridge roads of southern England, describing, with the help of maps, plans and illustrations, the hill forts and other earthworks found along them and discussing
other aspects of neolithic civilization.
LOST LIBRARY 2010 PB 217pp Illus 198x128mm
£7.99 79672 now £3.99
ENGLISH GYPSY LANGUAGE
Word-Book of the Romany (1909)
George Borrow In addition to a dictionary of English Romany words, this
book includes chapters on Gypsy names,
fortune-telling, the London ‘Gypsyries’
in Wandsworth, Notting Hill and Friars’
Mount, folk hero Ryley Bosvil and a
collection of Gypsy songs. George
Borrow (1803-81) was a great traveller
and translator, whose works included
novels, travel writing and pioneering
translations of Romany.
LOST LIBRARY 2012 PB 2012 198x129mm
£7.99 92053 now £3.99
£132.50 17211 now £50.00
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SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS
NEW FIREBALLS,
SKYQUAKES AND HUMS
Probing the Mysteries of Light and Sound
Antony Milne Weird and mysterious phenomena
can often be observed in skies around the world,
ranging from unusual sunsets, comets and St Elmo’s
fire to less easily explicable voices and humming
sounds, phantom planes and UFOs. In this book
Antony Milne analyses reports of such sightings,
delves into defence files on UFOs and surveys
some of the explanations that have been suggested
by physicists, biologists, meteorologists and
astronomers. ROBERT HALE 2011 HB 288pp Illus
£18.99 19142 now £5.99
SEDUCED BY LOGIC
Émilie du Châtelet,
Mary Somerville and
the Newtonian Revolution
Robyn Arianrhod celebrates the key contribution of two women to the acceptance
of Newton’s theory of gravitation. In the
late 1740s ‘the wonderfully outrageous
Émilie du Châtelet’ translated his Principia into French. Almost a century later
‘the charmingly subversive Mary
Somerville’ became a world authority on
Newtonian physics, despite being denied
entry to university because of her gender.
This book tells the story of these women
and the radical ideas that inspired them
to pioneer popular science writing.
NEW
$34.95 18909 now £7.99
PLANETARY SYSTEMS
AND THE ORIGINS OF LIFE
Ed. Ralph E Pudritz; Paul Higgs;
Jonathan Stone Breakthroughs in the
field of astrobiology have ranged from
the study of micro-organisms adapted to
living in extreme environments on Earth,
to the discovery of over 200 planets orbiting around other stars and the ambitious
programmes for the robotic exploration
of Mars and other bodies in the Solar System. Focusing on these developments, this
book explores some of the most exciting
and important problems in this field. No
jacket. CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 HB 323pp
£94.99 17782 now £19.99
GUIDE TO URBAN
ENGINEERING
Infrastructure and Technology
in the Modern Landscape
Claire Barratt; Ian Whitelaw How does
water get to your tap, clean and under pressure? How does a pumpjack get oil out of
the ground? What lies beneath a manhole
cover? In sections on the six main areas of
infrastructure – raw materials, water, power,
transport (by road, rail, canal and air), communication and waste – this accessible, illustrated guide provides an introduction to
the technology that underpins modern life.
£14.99 97696 now £5.99
NEW THE DANCE
OF AIR AND SEA
How Oceans, Weather
and Life Link Together
Arnold H Taylor Our oceans and atmosphere are locked in a long, slow dance,
interacting in ways that shape our lives.
Events on the other side of the Pacific can
trigger droughts in India, and shifts in the
Gulf Stream can affect wayside flowers
in Britain. This important book charts the
stages by which scientists came to understand these complex interrelations, and offers an urgent warning that failure to respect them could threaten the very survival
of life on Earth. OXFORD UP 2011 HB 302pp
£16.99 18736 now £6.99
Francisco Ayala From the Big Questions
series, in which each book tackles 20 big
questions, providing accessible and concise distillations of the best ideas in
philosophy, science and mathematics, Professor Ayala presents a cutting-edge exploration of the origins and development
of life as we know it – from basic principles of adaptation and natural selection to
cloning. QUERCUS 2012 HB 208pp
EVOLUTION
£12.99 97805 now £4.99
PARACELSUS’S
THEORY OF EMBODIMENT
Conception and Gestation
in Early Modern Europe
Amy Eisen Cislo The most famous physician of the 16th century, Paracelsus
(c.1493-1541) left behind a significant body
of work that included writings on alchemy,
health and healing and theology. Focusing
on conception and gestation, this study ex-
plores how Paracelsus’ theological and
medical interests intertwined and converged, and how the theory of embodiment
– the idea that humans consist of a physical
and a spiritual body – emerged from his
desire to explain conception. No jacket.
£60.00 17160 now £9.99
HIDDEN HARMONIES
The Lives and Times of
the Pythagorean Theorem
Robert and Ellen Kaplan Highly regarded
for their erudite and accessible writing on
mathematics, the authors of The Nothing
That Is: A Natural History of Zero here unfold the remarkable tale of the Pythagorean
theorem. They show how the familiar
a2+b2=c2, although it sounds simple, has
stunning implications (among other things,
it works in any number of dimensions up
to infinity) and a dizzying profusion of
proofs. BLOOMSBURY 2011 HB 302pp
£20.00 97100 now £7.99
A SLICE OF PI
All the Maths You Forgot
to Remember from School
Liz Strachan Using her long experience
of making maths fun in the classroom,
Liz Strachan presents 66 bits of trivia
which explain useful number tricks and
mnemonics alongside tales of the great
mathematicians of the past, from the tenyear-old Gauss’s precocious feat of addition and Babbage’s pedantic literary criticism to Fermat’s famous Last Theorem.
CONSTABLE 2009 HB 171pp 180x130mm
£7.99 83574 now £3.99
THE ANNOTATED FLATLAND
A Romance of Many Dimensions
NEW
Edwin A Abbott In 1884 the celebrated English
clergyman and teacher Edwin A Abbott published
Flatland, a delightful satirical tale which
introduced Victorian readers to the radical idea
of a fourth dimension. Ian Stewart’s extensively
annotated edition of the book makes the text
accessible to the modern reader, not only
explaining the mathematics needed to understand
A Square’s sojourn in The Land of Three
Dimensions but also giving information about
references to Victorian culture and Abbott’s
intellectual circle. PERSEUS 2002 HB 267pp 235x190mm
£21.99 96779 now £9.99
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GARDENS/NATURE
NEW BUTTERFLIES OF
BRITAIN AND IRELAND
A Field and Site Guide
Michael Easterbrook Written by an expert
on British butterflies and drawing on data
collected by Butterfly Conservation, this
excellent field guide covers all 58 resident
species. Each entry provides detailed
information on identification, variation,
habitat, flight period, history and
conservation, distribution and behaviour,
and is illustrated with colour photographs
of the adult butterflies and caterpillars. In
addition, a site guide gives details and OS
grid references for over 240 good locations
for butterfly watching.
A&C BLACK 2010 PB 352pp Illus 232x155mm
£29.99 19037 now £9.99
Anna Pavord The best-selling author
of The Tulip shows how to grow fruit,
vegetables and herbs, combining them
with flowers in a kitchen garden that is
beautiful as well as productive. Growing
Food has plans for different garden styles
such as the cottage garden, the city larder
and the orchard, and shows how to
achieve the ordered profusion that is
the hallmark of the best kitchen gardens.
NEW
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 PB 288pp
£7.99 16878 now £3.99
Christopher Lloyd For Christopher Lloyd
(1921-2006), who developed one of
Britain’s finest gardens at Great Dixter, ‘it
is an indisputable fact that appreciation of
foliage comes at a late stage in our development’. In this book, written in 1973 with
Lloyd’s characteristic wit and informality,
he shares his years of experience in cultivating and using foliage of all kinds for
its invaluable colour, texture and structure.
NEW
The unmistakable Swallowtail feeding on a Sweet William flower in a Norfolk garden
GROWING FOOD
FOLIAGE PLANTS
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 PB 208pp 215x135mm
£12.99 19263 now £4.99
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NEW GARDENS:
THEIR HIDDEN LIFE
Unnoticed Plants
and Unseen Animals
Colin Spedding ‘Intended for gardeners
who enjoy wildlife and wildlife watchers
who love their gardens’, this book explores
the garden’s hidden world of creatures living amid the grass and flowers, behind the
bushes, in the trees and under stones. It
explores interactions between plants and
animals; the different kinds of animals,
from ants to badgers and deer; and covers
a miscellany of topics including ponds and
bog gardens, cats and dogs and what to
look for each month. BLOOMSBURY 2012
Candace Savage As the planet’s bee populations suffer worrying declines – with
potentially disastrous consequences for
our ecosystem – Candace Savage considers the diversity, biology and cultural significance of these remarkable insects.
Combining fact, fiction and poetry, and
beautiful illustrations of bees drawn from
a range of sources, this book is sure to
appeal to conservationists and gardeners
alike. GREYSTONE 2008 PB 128pp Illus
BEES: Nature’s Little Wonders
$19.95 17079 now £4.99
£25.00 19039 now £8.99
THE PAPER GARDEN
Mrs Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72
Molly Peacock Mary Delany (1700-88) had already led a full and fascinating
life when, at the age of 72, she began to create paper collage flowers. With her
eye for botanical detail, she completed nearly 1,000 plant depictions so accurate
that botanists still refer to them. Illustrated with 35 reproductions of her flower
‘mosaicks’, this book traces Mary’s extraordinary life – her marriages, her
family and her friendships with Handel, Swift, Hogarth and Queen Charlotte
and George III. BLOOMSBURY 2012 PB 413pp Illus
£12.99 18263 now £5.99
Laura Mason Pine trees have been subjects
for artists for centuries, particularly in China
and Japan, where they symbolize wisdom
and longevity, but pine symbolism runs deep
in many countries in both East and West.
Above all, pines are admired for their resilience and usefulness: their resin provides
adhesives and their wood is ubiquitous. In
this beautifully illustrated book, Laura Mason
reveals the many ways in which pine trees
have inspired humanity throughout history.
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Marcia Reiss From the tomb carvings
of ancient Egypt to the paintings of
Georgia O’Keeffe and Salvador Dalí,
the lily has long been an object of
fascination. It is a flower of contradictions, representing both life and death,
innocence and passion. In a book filled
with striking illustrations of these
gorgeous plants, Marcia Reiss traces
the lily’s cultural significance in art,
literature, religion and popular culture.
LILY
REAKTION 2013 HB 224pp Illus
REAKTION 2013 HB 224 Illus
£16.00 18128 now £6.99
£16.00 18125 now £6.99
Male bullfinch on berries in the
North Esk Valley in January
UP RIVER
The Song of the Esk
Darren Woodhead In watercolour paintings that pulse with life and light, Darren
Woodhead has captured the outstanding
natural beauty of the countryside around
Carlops and the valley of the North Esk
river, which lies just south of Edinburgh
on the edge of the Pentland Hills. This
beautifully produced volume contains reproductions of 125 watercolours, following local flora and fauna through the seasons during Woodhead’s year as Artist in
Residence at the Orcome Trust, along with
the artist’s own commentary on his work.
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NATURE/PETS
Marc Duquet; Illus. Alban Larousse;
François Desbordes Conceived and
designed especially for novice bird
watchers, this guide helps the beginner to
identify 184 of the most common bird
species of Britain and western Europe
simply by their shape and colour.
The birds are divided into typical shapes,
then groups of species that share similar
colours (eg. birds with a grey head) are
illustrated together. The identification pages
are followed by concise species accounts
with colour photographs, and finally, some
general information on bird watching.
NEW
BIRDS BY COLOUR
HELM 2008 PB 222pp Illus 199x160mm
£12.99 19035 now £5.99
Steve Piotrowski Suffolk is one of England’s
most important counties for birds. It is
relatively undeveloped, with a diversity
of habitats including traditionally farmed
land, Breckland heaths and some of the
most important wetlands in the country;
and its position on the east coast means
it plays host to great numbers of migrant
birds. This authoritative work covers all
aspects of habitats, climate and conservation
within the county as well as detailed species
accounts of its birds, including migrants,
visitors and vagrants.
THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK
NEW
THE SPIRIT OF THE DOG
An Illustrated History
Tamsin Pickeral Dogs have a unique partnership with humans, loyally performing
a variety of roles as hunters, herders, guards
or simply companions. Among all species
of mammals, the dog is the most varied in
shape, size and colour and this celebration
explores the history and development of
major dog breeds around the world, grouping them according to key characteristics
including elegance and speed; power and
strength; devotion and loyalty. Animal
photographer Astrid Harrison provides
striking portraits of each breed. FRANCES
HELM 2003 HB 360pp Illus 237x167mm
£40.00 19036 now £14.99
LINCOLN 2012 HB 288pp Illus 279x229mm
£25.00 17528 now £9.99
Back by
popular
demand
IT’S ALL ABOUT TREO
Life and War with the
World’s Bravest Dog
Dave Heyhoe The world’s most highly
decorated dog, Treo and his handler David
Heyhoe did the most dangerous job on
earth – sniffing out bombs in Afghanistan
– and survived. Dave and Treo would be
sent forward to detect the enemy’s explosive devices ahead of soldiers on patrol,
and were so successful they became ‘target
number one for the Taliban’. Their exciting
and heart-warming story shows how invaluable Arms Explosive Search dogs can
be in modern warfare. Slightly off-mint.
QUERCUS 2012 HB 332pp Illus
£18.99 16990 now £6.99
THE HEDGEROWS
HEAPED WITH MAY
The Telegraph Book
of the Countryside
ANTARCTICA
Secrets of the
Southern Continent
£20.00 17499 now £7.99
£45.00 16566 now £19.99
WONDERS OF THE
INDIAN WILDERNESS
VANISHED OCEAN
How Tethys Reshaped the World
ABBEVILLE 2006 HB 855pp Illus 330x280mm
£67.00 99997 now £40.00
£16.99 86822 now £6.99
Stephen Moss To most people in Britain
the countryside is hugely important and
the Telegraph has always chronicled the
ever-changing fortunes of rural Britain;
from its pages, this anthology collects the
best articles on subjects ranging from the
rarity of the spoonbill to the rise of the
wind turbine. The book features Telegraph
countryside columnists JHB Peel and
Robin Page, the distinguished naturalist
Richard Mabey, and writers and public
figures such as Joanna Trollope, Boris
Johnson, John Humphrys and Clive
James. AURUM 2012 HB 320pp
Erach Bharucha The tracts of wilderness
in India offer an amazing diversity of
habitats and biodiversity of flora and
fauna, but these areas are shrinking and
their wildlife is endangered. This magnificent book, the result of 30 years visiting
and recording the Indian wilderness, is a
call for its preservation. A wildlife photographer and conservationist, Bharucha
presents over 2,000 photographs, with his
own informative text, in two parts: the
flora and fauna; and the national parks
and wildlife sanctuaries. Slipcased.
David McGonigal Beginning with a
guide to the polar landscape, its formation
and its impact on world climate, the six
parts of this magnificently illustrated book
cover the geography of Antarctica’s different regions; its wildlife, including
plants, invertebrates and fish, whales,
seals, penguins and other birds; the exploration of Antarctica from the earliest
speculations about ‘Terra Australis’ to the
scientific researches of the International
Geophysical Year (1957-8); and the final
part looks at the continent and the work
going on there today. FRANCES LINCOLN
Dorrik Stow A hundred million years
ago, the Tethys Ocean covered four-fifths
of the planet and teemed with life. In this
enthralling book, oceanographer Dorrik
Stow explains how, as the Earth’s tectonic
plates shifted, this mighty sea broke up
and vanished, strewing clues to its existence across the globe: fossils of its extinct
denizens, a whale graveyard and the oilfields of the Middle East. A thought-provoking final chapter demonstrates how
this continuing process will eventually
transform our world.
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NATURE/FOOD & DRINK
Andrew Robinson Recent years have witnessed
destructive earthquakes in Haiti, Japan and New
Zealand, and history is littered with accounts of
similarly devastating events that have destroyed
cities and killed millions of people. This study
examines two millennia of major earthquakes and
their effects on societies around the world; the
ways in which cultures have mythologized them
through religion, the arts and popular culture; and
the science of measuring, understanding and trying
to predict them. REAKTION 2012 PB 224pp Illus
EARTHQUAKE
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The San Andreas Fault, the most visible break in the
Earth’s crust, cuts across the Carrizo Plain in California
James Hamilton The earliest known depiction of
an erupting volcano, a wall painting discovered at
an archaeological excavation in western Turkey, dates to around 6200 BCE.
Their power and destructive magnificence has gripped people’s imaginations
and remained an inspiration for artists ever since. This volume charts the history
and cultural impact of volcanic eruptions, examines their depiction by artists
including Wright of Derby, Hokusai and Warhol, and also explores the science
and geography of volcanism. REAKTION 2012 PB 304pp Illus
VOLCANO
WHAT ON EARTH EVOLVED?
100 Species That
Changed the World
Christopher Lloyd Of the billions of
plants and animals that have emerged
since the dawn of time, some have had a
greater impact than others, either in shaping the planet’s environment or because
evolutionary innovations allowed them to
thrive and dominate. This accessible study
divides its content between 50 of the most
important species ever to have evolved,
such as trilobites, mosquitos, algae and
earthworms, and 50 species that have
prospered thanks to man’s intervention,
including horses, wheat, roses and silkworms. BLOOMSBURY 2009 HB 416pp Illus
£25.00 17825 now £6.99
FOOD & DRINK
NEW AL DENTE
Madness, Beauty
and the Food of Rome
David Winner This is neither a recipe
book nor a restaurant guide, though it will
tell you how to cook an artichoke and
where to find the sexiest tiramisu. It is,
rather, a portrait of a city where history
and art are inseparable from cuisine. The
result is a Fellini-esque intellectual banquet as rich and complex and as beguiling
and bewildering as the Eternal City itself.
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2012 PB 304pp
£8.99 18300 now £3.99
£14.95 18130 now £5.99
A TASTE OF THE
UNEXPECTED
Japanese Wineberry Trifle
Mark Diacono, the River
Cottage Head Gardener, knows
that it is no harder to grow and
eat unusual and utterly delicious
foods than ordinary ones. At
Otter Farm, his smallholding,
Diacono cultivates little-known
gourmet delights such as
Chilean Guava, Japanese
wineberries, Romanesco and
Szechuan pepper. With advice
for growing and recipes for 40
of the most remarkable fruits,
vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices and flowers, this beautifully illustrated book invites
you to share Mark’s sense of culinary adventure. QUADRILLE 2010 HB 192pp Illus
£20.00 17004 now £8.99
Eliza Acton Dedicated ‘To the Young Housekeepers of England’, Modern
Cookery (1845) has advice for novice cooks, very detailed instructions and the
author’s own ‘Observations’ as well as lists of ingredients and cooking times –
and splendid recipes. It established Eliza Acton as the first modern cookery writer.
No jacket. Saffron page edges and silk marker. QUADRILLE 2011 HB 636pp
MODERN COOKERY FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES
£16.99 10680 now £5.99
THE WORLD’S
BEST WHISKIES
750 Unmissable Drams
from Tain to Tokyo
LET’S EAT
Recipes from
My Kitchen Notebook
JACQUI SMALL 2012 PB 288pp 270x210mm
PAVILION 2012 PB 272pp Illus 244x187mm
£20.00 17543 now £7.99
£14.99 16527 now £6.99
NEW
Dominic Roskrow ‘A classic iodine-charged
medicinal and peaty nose, with big, grungey
taste and through the brooding clouds of
peat, some sweet and succulent barley’:
Dominic Roskrow brings back enthusiastic
reports from his adventures into whisky
and its ‘wildest new frontiers’. After
chapters on history, distilling and blending,
he explores the world’s whiskies distillery
by distillery, from Aberfeldy in Scotland
to Amrut in Bangalore, India. And where
did the big grungey one come from? Islay.
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Tom Parker Bowles Food writer Tom
Parker Bowles’s battered old notebook
contains recipes gathered on his travels,
as well as family favourites he grew up
with. His range includes comfort food,
quick salads, exotic food, puddings, children’s food and cocktails. Here he shares
his home-cooking, including Shepherd’s
Pie, Boeuf Bourgignon, Smoked Eel and
Bacon Salad, Ceviche, Sichuan Gong Bao
Chicken and Treacle Tart. What they all
have in common is their combination of
flavour and simplicity.
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FOOD
NEW ANTONIO CARLUCCIO
The Collection
Antonio Carluccio This ‘Collection’ contains
300 of Antonio Carluccio’s favourite recipes,
gathered from the diverse regions of Italy.
Using the finest and freshest ingredients
available and reflecting Italian cooking at
its best, the recipes cover everything from
antipasti to dolci and include dishes such as
Mushroom Minestrone, Polenta with Chicken
and Sausage Stew, Spinach and Artichoke
Tart and Sweet Ricotta Tart, making the book
a kitchen essential for those who love Italian
food. QUADRILLE 2012 HB 320pp Illus 275x217mm
£25.00 18359 now £9.99
Trotta al Cartoccio (Trout Baked in Foil)
SLOW COOKING
Mouthwatering Recipes
with Minimum Effort
NEW
James Martin Popular TV chef James
Martin demonstrates ‘slow’ techniques
such as braising, pickling and marinating
to create dishes that range from traditional
Beef Stew and Dumplings to new ways
of using slow cooking in recipes such as
Miso-Marinated Monkfish or Slow Roast
Fillet of Beef. Covering soups, vegetables,
'one-pots' and even puddings and bakes,
as well as stews and braises, Martin shows
how to make show-stopping dishes by
letting the oven do the work.
QUADRILLE 2012 HB 208pp Illus 245x185mm
£20.00 18369 now £7.99
SERIOUSLY GOOD! GLUTENFREE COOKING FOR KIDS
Phil Vickery Finding out that your child
is coeliac can be a daunting prospect. This
book equips parents to provide a balanced,
gluten-free diet. With recipes such as
Fruity Pork Casserole, Chicken Burgers
with Avocado and Lime Salsa, and Polenta
and Peach Cake, there is something for
all tastes. The book also includes sections
on lunch boxes, party food and recipes
older children can make by themselves.
KYLE 2012 PB 160pp Illus 255x205mm
£14.99 12049 now £5.99
Ken Albala The humble bean has always
attracted attention – from Pythagoras’
notion (according to Varro) that the bean
hosted a human soul to current research
BEANS: A History
FOUR SEASONS
COOKERY BOOK
Margaret Costa Few cookery writers
have shaped our tastes as Margaret Costa
did in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now
reissued with a preface by Delia Smith,
her classic cookbook is unique. Rather
than following the traditional arrangement
of starters, mains and puddings, it is divided according to the four seasons. Each
section contains essays on seasonal meat,
vegetables and herbs, along with appropriate recipes: cold soups, salads and
seafood for summer, warming casseroles
and filling puddings for winter.
into the deadly toxins contained in the
most commonly eaten beans. Albala tells
the story of the bean, from ancient times
to the present, arranging his book as a series of bean biographies, from lentils to
soy, and including 55 historic bean recipes
such as Pease Pudding, Hoppin’ John, Fagioli Antipasto, Succotash and Miso Soup.
BERG 2007 HB 262pp
£14.99 77579 now £3.99
THE TRADITIONAL
AGA FOUR SEASONS
COOKERY BOOK
Louise Walker Described as the ‘Delia
of the Aga’, Louise Walker is the author
of ten cookery books for the Aga and Rayburn. Here she turns her attention to the
British culinary calendar, offering seasonal
recipes for fresh produce such as Watercress Soup, Spiced Lamb with Tomatoes,
Mackerel Fishcakes, Broad Bean and Bacon Soup, Summer Fruit Torte and Apricot
and Almond Tart. ABSOLUTE 2002 PB 208pp
£9.95 16382 now £4.99
THE BEST OF
MRS BEETON SERIES
GRUB STREET 2013 PB 383pp 245x184mm
£14.99 10750 now £6.99
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED
PIES AND STEWS
Laura Mason Steak and Kidney Pie,
Bolton Hotpot, Fish Pie or Game Casserole... Laura Mason explores such great
stalwarts of British cookery and demonstrates how versatile pies and stews can
be, whether you are cooking beef, veal,
lamb, pork, chicken, game, fish or vegetables. As well as recipes for a great variety of these ‘quiet and good tempered
dishes’, Mason explains the basic techniques for cooking pies and stews and accompaniments such as pastry coverings
and dumplings. NATIONAL TRUST 2011
£16.99 11825 now £6.99
FOOD
The History of Taste
Ed. Paul Freedman Why did Europeans,
who had enjoyed spicy food since Roman
times, prefer bland flavours in the 19th century? What were the origins of the sophisticated dishes of the Arabian desert? How
did French cuisine conquer the world? Addressing such questions, this lavishly illustrated volume of essays traces the history
of food, from the evolution of taste in prehistory to the development of the restaurant,
and concludes with a discussion of gastronomy since the turning point of the 1970s.
THAMES & HUDSON 2007 HB 368pp Illus
These attractive books take their
inspiration from probably the
most famous cook book of all, Mrs
Beeton’s Book of Household
Management (1859/60). They provide generous selections of
straightforward, reliable and
delicious recipes, all updated with
metric as well as imperial measurements, the full range of ingredients available today and hints
on using equipment that Isabella
Beeton wouldn’t have believed
possible – freezers and microwaves. ORION 2007 HB 256pp Illus
THE BEST OF
MRS BEETON’S EASY
85010
ENTERTAINING
THE BEST OF
MRS BEETON’S
PUDDINGS AND
DESSERTS
85011
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ARCHAEOLOGY
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
PORTRAIT JEWELS
Opulence and Intimacy from
the Medici to the Romanovs
Diana Scarisbrick From the Renaissance in Italy
to late 19th century Russia, this volume traces the
art of creating jewelled settings for the ‘portraits
in little’ that became so popular among the rich
and ruling dynasties after 1500. While much has
been written about cameo and intaglio portraits,
medals and miniatures, this study concentrates
on the art of the jewellers who set the portraits
in frames, pendants, brooches, bracelets and
rings of gold, enamels, precious stones or
portrait diamonds. With over 350 illustrations.
THAMES & HUDSON 2011 HB 352pp Illus 226x232mm
£29.95 17634 now £14.99
Carnet de bal with diamond lettering and a miniature
of Marie-Antoinette by Louis-Marie Sicardi, 1783
Kathy Martin The company of Farnell
& Co is of unparalleled importance in
British toy history. Founded in the early
19th century, it created Britain’s first teddy
bear, as well as the bear that inspired
Winnie the Pooh. Kathy Martin tells the
story of Farnell here for the first time: it
is a tale not only of highly prized teddy
bears, many illustrated here, but also of
business triumphs and setbacks, family
rift, devastating fire and untimely death.
FARNELL TEDDY BEARS
THE HISTORY OF
GIRLS’ COMICS
Susan Brewer Comics such as School
Friend, Bunty and Twinkle were a
weekly treat for girls growing up in
the 1950s and 1960s. In the following
decades, titles like Jackie and Blue
Jeans appealed to a more fashionconscious reader. This nostalgic history
tells the story of girls’ papers from the
worthy journals of the 1900s, through
the golden age of picture-story comics
to today’s celebrity-led magazines,
and includes many colour reproductions
of vintage issues.
REMEMBER WHEN 2010 HB 192pp Illus
£19.99 18305 now £7.99
ARTISTIC LUXURY
Fabergé . Tiffany . Lalique
Emmanuel Ducamp; Jeannine Falino;
Stephen Harrison The works of
Fabergé, Tiffany and Lalique are
synonymous with bygone opulence. Yet
these three great designers came together
only once, for the 1900 Exposition
Universelle in Paris. The fabulous
jewellery, furnishings and objets d’art on
display there were reunited for the first
time in a major exhibition at the
Cleveland Museum of Art. Sumptuously
illustrated with modern colour
photographs and richly atmospheric
period images, this magnificent
catalogue explores their work, and the
glittering milieu for which it was created.
REMEMBER WHEN 2010 HB 218pp Illus
Bookplate for Richard Walter Essex, c. 1897
DOLLS ETCETERA
£25.00 94759 now £12.99
PANACHE 2012 HB 264pp Illus 270x270mm
Karen Livingstone Carefully designed
and produced, as befits a study of the great
Arts and Crafts architect and designer
CFA Voysey (1857-1941), this book presents his own collection of his designs for
bookplates and badges. Beautiful to look
at and full of interesting symbolism, each
design encapsulates the spirit and underlying principles of Voysey’s work. They
are presented here in over 120 plates, with
facing commentaries and an illustrated introduction to the artist and to the history
of the bookplate. ACC 2011 HB 305pp Illus
YALE UP 2008 HB 371pp Illus 267x302mm
Ruth E Funk; Photo. Dominic
Agostini American doll collector Ruth
Funk has been assembling her unique
collection for over 60 years, inspired by
a fascination with the ethnic dolls and
national costume figures that she has
found on her extensive travels. Several
hundred of her most treasured items
have been carefully photographed for
this book, demonstrating an eclectic
range of interests from antique china
figurines to modern baby dolls, exquisite
miniature doll’s house furniture
and whimsical animal characters.
$45.00 16428 now £9.99
£40.00 11015 now £19.99
REALISTIC RAILWAY MODELLING:
STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
ASPECTS OF MODELLING:
LINESIDE BUILDINGS
HAYNES 2013 HB 176pp Illus 268x208mm
IAN ALLAN 2012 PB 96pp Illus 280x210mm
£27.50 16615 now £11.99
£14.99 17125 now £5.99
Iain Rice The steam locomotive is at the
heart of most modellers’ interest in railways
and this book provides a comprehensive
guide to creating accurately detailed and
appropriate engines for any layout.
Concentrating on the 4mm scale, Iain Rice
discusses how to select locos – explaining
their mechanics and how different designs are
appropriate to different terrains – offers tips
on modifying commercially available models,
and demonstrates advanced techniques
for detailing, painting and weathering.
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THE BOOKPLATES AND
BADGES OF CFA VOYSEY
Nigel Digby In this well-illustrated,
practical guide Nigel Digby gives the
background history to railway buildings
and their various functions and the typical
civil engineering structures to be found on
British railways. He also discusses the
development of a model, including
research, measurement and scale drawing,
and provides some case studies, with
examples of model construction mostly
from his own speciality, the Midland &
Great Northern Joint Railway.
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CRAFTS &ARCHAEOLOGY
COLLECTABLES
NEW RÖRSTRAND
Art Nouveau Porcelain from Sweden
The White Gold of the North
Rörstrand vase,
c.1902-5
Bengt Nystrom Art Nouveau porcelain from the Rörstrand factory
is renowned for its delicate style, with wafer-thin petals and an
underglaze colour palette capable of the finest nuance. Swedish art
historian Bengt Nyström surveys Rörstrand’s output during the
late 19th and early 20th centuries, describing the pieces, the artists
– particularly the painter Alf Wallander, and technical aspects
of ceramic production. With excellent photography, the study
presents around 150 examples of these unusual Jugendstil/
Art Nouveau ceramics. Bilingual: German and English text.
ARNOLDSCHE 2011 HB 224pp Illus 316x250mm
£45.00 19283 now £19.99
ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE
MAIOLICA
Elisa P Sani The V&A
has the greatest collections
of maiolica in the world.
Tracing the uses of these
ceramics – from birth through courtship
and marriage rituals – the book provides
an engaging insight into the society, art
and culture of Renaissance Italy. New
photography shows the dazzling colours that
appealed when the pieces were first made
and that remain so popular with collectors
today. Lavishly illustrated with over 150
examples, this book is a comprehensive
companion to the art of maiolica.
Diana in bronze and ivory by Ferdinand Preiss
FERDINAND PREISS:
ART DECO SCULPTOR
The Fire and the Flame
Alberto Shayo Based in Berlin, Johann
Philipp Ferdinand Preiss (1892-1943) was
the finest ivory carver and the most prolific sculptor of the Art Deco period in
Germany. As well as illustrating over 110
examples of the ivory, bronze, onyx and
marble figures that so vividly reflect their
era, this volume offers a study of Preiss’s
life and work, set against the difficulties
and constraints of German politics between the wars and the rise of Nazism.
£30.00 17063 now £12.99
ANTIQUE COLLECTORS’ CLUB
£45.00 66117 now £16.99
Emmanuel Cooper Pottery-making is one of the oldest
of human activities, and can be traced back to the Stone
Age. This comprehensive history charts its technological
and stylistic development from the earliest civilizations of
the Middle East, through the classical Mediterranean, the
Orient and the Islamic world, to the china of Wedgwood
and Meissen. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs
throughout, it concludes with an analysis of the use of
ceramics as a medium of artistic expression in the present
day. PENNSYLVANIA UP 2000 HB 352pp Illus 277x215mm
TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF POTTERY
$69.95 11815 now £19.99
Ming Wilson Confucius (551479 BC) praised jade as the
‘embodiment of virtue’ and it
has been a central element of
Chinese material culture for 7,000
years. The V&A houses one of
the world’s finest collections of
Chinese jades, ranging from the
Neolithic era to the 19th century.
This book illustrates in colour over
100 exceptional pieces and draws
on the latest archaeological data,
including rare artefacts unearthed
from tombs and pagoda fountains
during the past two decades. One of the V&A’s
Far Eastern series. V&A 2004 HB 127pp Illus 243x208mm
English tin-glazed earthenware dishes, late 17th century
CHINESE JADES
£30.00 17048 now £12.99
ROYAL COMMEMORATIVE
MUGS AND BEAKERS
Jade vase in the form of a lotus,
symbolically bringing the garden
into the house, late 18th century
Peter Lockton Drawing on Peter
Lockton’s own extensive collection
of royal mugs and beakers, this is a
guide to monarchical memorabilia
from Swansea Pottery’s Queen
Victoria coronation mug to cups
commemorating the late Queen
Mother’s 100th birthday in 2000.
A valuable resource for collectors,
with details of over 200 illustrated
examples, the book covers every a
spect of these valuable ceramics,
from the great national issues to oftenoverlooked local commemoratives.
TUCKWELL 2001 HB 198pp Illus 234x153mm
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES
CULTURAL STUDIES
Ed. Anthony Grafton; Glenn W Most; Salvatore Settis The legacy of the classical
world still surrounds us, in such varied fields as art, literature, philosophy, legal
theory, politics, religion and science. This authoritative volume is a guide to the
creative power of later centuries’ understandings – and misunderstandings – of the
Greeks and Romans. With some 500 articles, from ‘Academy’ to ‘Zoology’, and
more than 160 illustrations, it offers an opportunity to regain at least something of
the easy familiarity with classical culture which past generations took for granted.
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
HARVARD UP 2010 HB 1,067pp Illus 260x200mm
£36.95 10685 now £14.99
NEW
SWEEPING THE GERMAN NATION
Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945
Nancy R Reagin Is cleanliness next to Germanness? This lively, sophisticated
study charts the promotion of the ideal of the ‘Hausfrau’ among the emerging
bourgeoisie of imperial Germany, when domestic order was seen as vital to the
stability of the newly unified nation. It goes on to show how notions of domesticity
and gender roles were incorporated into social policy after 1918, and exported
to conquered territories by the Nazis, adding a new dimension to our understanding
of German nationalism. CAMBRIDGE UP 2007 HB 261pp
NEW THE PLEASURES OF
SKETCHING OUTDOORS
Clayton Hoagland Addressing the needs
of amateur artists, illustrator Clayton
Hoagland presents an informal guide to
the art of sketching out of doors, beginning
his lucid series of lessons with general
principles and procedures and going on to
cover topics such as subject matter, composition and perspective. The book is illustrated with Hoagland’s own sketches
in progress and finished drawings by masters such as Rembrandt and Gainsborough.
It was first published in 1947. Reprint.
£64.99 17797 now £9.99
NEW
ANIMAL
ENCOUNTERS
Human and Animal
Interaction in Britain from
the Norman Conquest
to World War One
Arthur MacGregor
The importance of animals
to the progress of human
civilization is hard to grasp in
our largely urbanized society
from which the animal world
has become increasingly remote.
In this detailed, well-illustrated
work, MacGregor draws on
disciplines including art history,
Painting of a shorthorned heifer, exemplifying the
topographical literature and
developments in cattle cross-breeding in the 1840s
archaeology to explore human
interaction with animals in activities ranging from horse riding to bee-keeping; and
provide an overview of relations between human and animal populations in the
British Isles over the past 1,000 years. REAKTION 2012 HB 512pp Illus
DOVER 2012 PB 176pp Illus 278x206mm
$14.95 19355 now £4.99
QUILTING, PATCHWORK
AND APPLIQUÉ
A World Guide
Caroline Crabtree; Christine Shaw
Covering a vast range of textiles, this
is a worldwide survey of the ancient
and very varied traditions of quilting,
patchwork and appliqué. A source
of inspiration for anyone working in
these crafts today, the book is full of
fascinating examples such as the
appliqued uniforms of the Mahdi’s
followers, pojagi wrapping cloths from
Korea and English 19th century quilted
bonnets. The guide is in three parts –
Materials, Uses, Construction –
and covers over 50 topics, with some
500 illustrations. THAMES & HUDSON
£24.95 98411 now £11.99
£40.00 18151 now £16.99
Mary Noble; Janet Mehigan This carefully prepared workbook shows how to
construct 14 complete alphabets ranging from the Celtic-style uncial to copperplate
and gothic. Each of the letterforms is illustrated with a diagram showing the exact
form and direction of every pen stroke, as well as step-by-step photographic
sequences. Additional sections provide information on pens, inks and other
materials, handwriting exercises and instruction on how to add colour and
decorative effects to illuminate your calligraphy. A&C BLACK 2008 HB 256pp Illus
CALLIGRAPHY ALPHABETS FOR BEGINNERS
£15.99 16378 now £5.99
David Balade Dating back to the eighth century
BCE, Celtic designs were used to decorate items
such as jewellery, weaponry, cauldrons
and wine jars as well as illuminated
manuscripts. This sourcebook surveys
different types of ornament including
spirals and triskels, interlace, labyrinths
and portrayals of animals. Colourfully
illustrated and complete with accounts
of the history and symbolic meanings
of the designs, the book also includes
a practical guide to drawing the motifs. Cross design
DESIGNING CELTIC ORNAMENT
VIVAYS 2011 HB 240pp Illus 215x215mm
£9.95 93428 now £4.99
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with spirals
and triskets
NEW THE CROCHET
STITCH BIBLE
Betty Barnden Over 200 crochet
stitches are presented in this smart and
practical ring-bound book. Ranging
from basic single and double rows and
rounds to special effects such as bouclé
loops, beading and woven checks, the
stitches are fully explained with
photographed samples, row-by-row
instructions and easy-to-follow symbol
charts. There are also chapters on basic
techniques and materials and an
illustrated stitch selector. CHARTWELL
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A USER’S GUIDE TO
THOUGHT AND MEANING
Ray Jackendoff What are language,
meaning and thought – and what is the
relation between them? How does our
language influence our thought? What
is the difference between seeing and
imagining something? What is truth?
Using contemporary linguistics and cognitive science to offer radically new
ideas, Ray Jackendoff looks again at
long-standing philosophical questions
in 43 chapters which offer insight into
conundrums about human nature and
intuition, from optical illusions and logical paradoxes to consciousness itself.
£16.99 11428 now £5.99
Plato’s dialogue is set at a drinking
party, or symposium at which a group
of intellectuals debate the benefits of
desire and its role in the good and happy
life. Among them, Socrates praises
philosophical desire and argues for the
superiority of the philosophical life as
the best path to happiness. Edited, with
a substantial introduction by MC
Howatson, this critical edition presents
a new translation by Frisbee CC
Sheffield. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.
NEW
THE SYMPOSIUM
£34.99 17783 now £14.99
THE TRADITION
OF SCOTTISH
PHILOSOPHY
A New Perspective
on the Enlightenment
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS & ECONOMICS/LAW
NEW CAMERON
Practically a Conservative
Francis Elliott; James Hanning Who is David
Cameron the politician and what does he believe in?
The book that first gave a detailed account of
Cameron’s ‘floor by floor’ rise to the top of the
Conservative Party is here fully updated to chart
his subsequent rise to Number 10 and the first two
years of the Coalition government. Critical and
insightful, the book has been described in The
Independent as ‘A superb, impeccably balanced
biography’. FOURTH ESTATE 2012 PB 528pp Illus
£10.99 17885 now £4.99
IN IT TOGETHER
The Inside Story of the
Coalition Government
Matthew D’Ancona On 7 May 2010, Britain
woke up to find it had elected a hung Parliament.
The response masterminded by David Cameron and Nick Clegg was the Lib DemConservative coalition: one of the most radical, dramatic and bruising experiments
in power the country has ever seen. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with
the key players, one of our foremost political journalists tells the story in unsparing
detail, with exclusive revelations and insightful analysis. VIKING 2013 HB 432pp
£25.00 10800 now £7.99
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY EDWARD MANNING
AND WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
(Four volumes)
Ed. Peter C Erb Between 1833 and 1891, Manning and Gladstone maintained
a correspondence, broken significantly only for the decade from 1851 up to
1861 and from 1875 to 1882. Presented here with introductions, notes and index,
the letters provide substantial insights into debates on Church-state alignments;
entanglements of Anglican Old High Churchmen and Tractarians from the
Oxford Movement to 1851; and relationships between Roman Catholics and the
British Government over issues including Ireland,
Italy and education in the later 19th century.
OXFORD UP 2013 HB 2,213pp
£332.50 17250 now £100.00
Alexander Broadie Many works on
Scottish philosophy have concentrated
on the Scottish Enlightenment, leading
to a seriously distorted picture of Scottish intellectual history. In this very accessible study, Broadie attempts to correct that bias by looking at the evolution
of philosophy in Scotland from the beginning of the 15th century. He relates
ideas and concerns in philosophy before
the Enlightenment to those which followed, revealing important similarities
between them.
DOWNFALL
The Tommy Sheridan Story
Alan McCombes From prison cell to the political
limelight and back again, Tommy Sheridan was
one of the most colourful figures in the drab world
of party politics. Written by his closest political
advisor and based on a raft of documentary
and eyewitness evidence, this no-holds-barred
biography charts his rise from hero of the poll
tax riots to leader of the Scottish Socialist Party,
revealing the tragic flaws that led to his conviction
for perjury in 2010. BIRLINN 2011 PB 346pp Illus
£9.99 11457 now £4.99
JOHN DONALD 2011 PB 192pp
£14.99 11514 now £6.99
PRIVATE EMPIRE
ExxonMobil and
American Power
Steve Coll One organization wields more
power and has greater revenues than many
nation states: the oil giant ExxonMobil.
Drawing on more than 400 interviews,
1,000 pages of previously classified documents and intrepid field reporting, this
chilling expose lifts the lid on the shadowy
corporation: from Washington to the Niger
Delta, the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989
to the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010,
it exposes ExxonMobil’s culture of secrecy, its lobbying of governments and its
promotion of climate change denial.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Law and Letters in the
Eighteenth Century
Wilfrid Prest The 18th century lawyer,
writer and politician William Blackstone
was one of the most important and influential figures of his age, and the impact
of his ideas on English law is still felt today. Yet his name is little known outside
legal circles. Drawing on Blackstone’s
scattered archives, this absorbing and
meticulously researched biography explores his upbringing, private life and public career to paint a vivid picture of a brilliant man of letters, Enlightenment activist
and early champion of human rights.
ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 696pp
OXFORD UP 2012 PB 375pp Illus
£11.99 17374 now £4.99
£25.00 98139 now £7.99
£22.99 11436 now £7.99
NOT EXACTLY
In Praise of Vagueness
Kees van Deemter We can measure
temperature in degrees, but just how
warm is a ‘warm day’? Are you the
same person today as you were yesterday? Our world is full of questions with
no clear-cut answers, and our language
is intrinsically vague. In this accessible
study, Kees van Deemter introduces issues of vagueness as explored in philosophy, mathematical logic, linguistics
and artificial intelligence, showing that
it is both characteristically human and
(sometimes) a virtue.
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
THE LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE
Overland from Cape Town to Angola
Paul Theroux In what he states will be his last
African journey, the acclaimed author of Dark
Star Safari travels north from Cape Town through
Namibia, Botswana and Angola into the ‘green
zone’ of central Africa. The journey takes him far
from the tourist itinerary and the bright hopes of
post-independence movements into an anarchic,
war-torn world of heat, poverty, road blocks and
mob rule, prompting him to ask himself – with
typical honesty – ‘What am I doing here?’
HAMISH HAMILTON 2013 HB 365pp
£20.00 10802 now £7.99
THE CHICAGO OF EUROPE
And Other Tales
of Foreign Travel
Mark Twain; Ed. Peter Kaminsky Before he achieved fame with The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain honed his talent writing about new places, people and
experiences. In the 68 letters, newspaper
articles and lectures collected here, he
takes us from the Mississippi to the Holy
Land, India and Berlin, which he mischievously dubbed ‘the Chicago of Europe’.
These dispatches, some published here for
the first time, confirm that Twain’s wit,
insight and human sympathy still hit the
mark more than a century later. Americancut pages. UNION SQUARE 2009 HB 449pp
£16.99 10560 now £6.99
FORMASIA 2005 HB 147pp Illus 186x102mm
THE GOLDEN STEP
A Walk Through
the Heart of Crete
Christopher Somerville’s only plan was
to walk across Crete from east to west between Easter and Whitsun. The 300-mile
trek took him through mountain gorges
and high plateaux to some of the island’s
most inaccessible places, where each
night’s accommodation was uncertain.
Along the way, he reveals a Crete few
see, of remote Byzantine churches, ruined
Minoan palaces, village celebrations and
impromptu taverna music sessions.
ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER 2012 PB 205pp
£7.99 11824 now £3.99
WOMEN ON THE NILE
Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence
Nightingale and Amelia Edwards
19281 now £3.99
NEW LIJIANG
The Imperiled Utopia
Peter Moss Situated beneath snowcapped mountains in the farthest
reaches of China’s Yunnan province,
near the borders of Tibet, Myanmar,
Laos and Vietnam, the historic town
of Lijiang has changed little since
Kublai Khan arrived in 1253. This lavishly illustrated guide explores the
colourful history, picturesque pagodas
and pavilions, tranquil lakes and
graceful bridges of a Unesco World
Heritage site that many believe to be
the original Shangri-La.
19273 now £3.99
Joan Rees The opening of Egypt following
Napoleon’s invasion attracted European travellers
in search of adventure, imaginative encounters with
ancient civilization and evidence for Biblical events.
Women on the Nile features extracts from accounts
of Nile journeys written by three remarkable and
independent English women who visited Egypt in
the mid-19th century. Rees’s wide-ranging essays
offer analysis of the social, religious and personal
history that shaped these visitors’ reactions to their
Egyptian experiences. RUBICON 2010 HB 144pp Illus
NEW THE LEGACY
OF LHASA
EXPLORERS OF THE NILE
The Triumph and the Tragedy
of a Great Victorian Adventure
£18.95 18174 now £7.99
Anna Hestler Hidden behind the
highest mountains on earth, Lhasa was
for centuries the capital of a Buddhist
theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama,
until its invasion by China in the
1950s. Stylishly designed and lavishly
illustrated with colour photographs,
this concise history charts the development of the city, the creation of its
palaces and monasteries, its vibrant
spiritual and artistic life, and its legacy
in the world today.
19272 now £3.99
Tim Jeal The source of the Nile had baffled Europeans since antiquity. In 1856,
the quest began in earnest. Drawing on new research, Tim Jeal describes how
Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Florence and Samuel Baker, James Grant,
Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone braved uncharted territory, spear
wounds, malaria and flesh-eating ulcers to unlock the secret. Jeal also examines
the tragic consequences for Uganda and Sudan, providing both a thrilling adventure
story and a new understanding of Britain’s imperial past. FABER 2011 HB 528pp Illus
£25.00 11856 now £9.99
BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER
On Foot to Constantinople: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Patrick Leigh Fermor In this second volume of his captivating account of his
travels across pre-war Europe, Fermor continues his epic journey through Hungary to
Romania. After travelling by river boat to Budapest, he traverses the Great Hungarian
Plain on horseback, and crosses the Romanian border into Transylvania – a land of
wild forests, remote castles, mountain villages, isolated monasteries and towering
ranges patrolled by bears, wolves, eagles and gypsies. JOHN MURRAY 2013 PB 304pp
£9.99 99834 now £4.99
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NEW PEKING
Heart of the Celestial
Empire 1409-1949
Stella Dong In 1404, on the ruins
of Khanbalik, capital of the defeated
Mongols, the Ming emperor Chu Ti
founded Peking, a dazzling metropolis
designed to express his transcendent
power. This compact, elegant pocket
book traces the city’s history over the
subsequent five centuries until its capture by the Communist forces of Mao
Zedong. Illustrated with evocative period photographs and antique prints,
it includes a fold-out map of the Forbidden City.
WILD EUROPE
The Balkans in the Gaze
of Western Travellers
Bozidar Jezernik Since the 16th century,
Western geographers, naturalists and historians have perceived the Balkans as the
wild fringe of Europe, a semi-Oriental
region populated by warlords and brigands. Combining witty commentary with
meticulous research, one of Slovenia’s
foremost anthropologists reviews more
than a thousand first-hand reports, from
Baedeker and Gladstone to Rebecca West,
to examine how their impressions say
more about their own culture than about
the lands and peoples in question.
SAQI 2004 PB 320pp Illus
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CALENDARS
2016 WALL CALENDARS
The prints include depictions of
Mount Fuji, bridges and the sea
by artists such as Hokusai and
Hiroshige.
19684
JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS
Drawing on British collections, including those of the V&A, the Ashmolean
and Glasgow Museums, these calendars
reproduce interesting, less familiar
works along with masterpieces such as
Klimt’s The Kiss or LS Lowry’s Coming
from the Mill; and as well as paintings
there are posters, decorative art, Japanese prints and English wood engraving.
The calendars are 30x60 cm when open
and show one month per page, with holidays marked and notes on the pictures.
FLAME TREE 2015 PB 24pp Illus 300x300mm
£10.00 each
now £4.99 each
Whether advertising ink or promoting
night clubs, the posters include work
by great artists such as ToulouseLautrec and Steinlen.
19671
ART NOUVEAU POSTERS
JMW TURNER
From the Tate collection, these 12
seascapes include Turner’s darkly
atmospheric Fishermen at Sea. 19701
ENGLISH TRAVEL POSTERS
Originally published by the railway
companies, these posters are from the
halcyon days of the day tripper. 19677
ALPHONSE MUCHA
LS LOWRY
These distinctive portrayals of the
industrial North West are from
The Lowry’s collection in
Manchester.
19689
MACKINTOSH
These examples of Mackintosh’s
profoundly influential work
include interior designs and
stained glass motifs.
19685
W HEATH ROBINSON
The Mad Hatter’s tea party and Solomon
Caw are among these 12 illustrations
by the great Arthur Rackham. 19672
VICTORIAN LIFE AND ART
Including Egley’s Omnibus Life
in London, these Victorian ‘modern
life’ paintings are from the Tate. 19702
SPITFIRES
ARTHUR RACKHAM
Luxuriant images of women from the
popular Art Nouveau painter’s Arts,
Flowers and Seasons series.
19690
Along with the famous contraptions
are cartoons such as The Trials
of Spring Cleaning as Endured
on the Ark.
19682
Images of Spitfires in paintings,
photographs and posters from the
Imperial War Museum.
19700
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MUSIC
THE GESUALDO HEX
Music, Myth and Memory
Glenn Watkins The melancholic Renaissance
composer, visionary and murderer Carlo Gesualdo
(1566-1613) is famous as much for the scandal of
his personal life as for his eccentric music, which
was once deemed unperformable and ‘sadly
amateurish’. Watkins reassesses the evidence for
his life of adultery, intrigue and witchcraft, but
also presents a fascinating analysis of Gesualdo’s
surprising influence on avant-garde composers
such as Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Boulez during
the 20th century. NORTON 2010 HB 400pp Illus
£28.00 17082 now £9.99
NEW HAYDN’S VISITS
TO ENGLAND
BEETHOVEN
The Man Revealed
NEW
John Suchet writes that ‘Beethoven’s music is his autobiography’, and in this book
he demonstrates how knowledge about a
work’s place in Beethoven’s difficult and
tumultuous life can help us listen to the
music ‘with different ears’. He pays special
attention to the composer’s childhood and
teenage years – such as the influence of
his grandfather and a mysterious encounter
with Mozart at the age of 16 – and presents
rarely-published source material which has
not previously been available in English.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY 2012 HB 407pp Illus
$30.00 19095 now £9.99
Christopher Hogwood The year 1790
brought the death of Haydn’s patron Nicolaus Esterhazy and the subsequent sacking
of his music staff; the impresario Johann
Peter Salomon seized this moment to lure
the celebrity composer to London for two
visits in 1791-2 and 1794-5. Hogwood
makes extensive use of contemporary
documents – such as newspaper reports
and Haydn’s own notebooks and letters –
to examine the English public’s Haydnmania and the composer’s own reactions
to new people and experiences. No jacket.
THAMES & HUDSON 2009 HB 116pp
£12.95 18200 now £5.99
SCHUMANN
A Chorus of Voices
John C Tibbetts During over 30 years of
travel and research, Professor Tibbetts has
interviewed a host of distinguished performers, biographers, critics and commentators who share his interest in the music
of Schumann. In this book he brings together their insights concerning the composer’s works, his circle of friends and
his place in the history of romantic music.
The accompanying CD features a discussion of Carnaval and performances by
pianist Ronald Brautigam of the eight
Noveletten.
AMADEUS 2010 HB + Audio CD 512pp Illus
£27.95 10708 now £12.99
NEW BRITTEN’S CENTURY
Celebrating 100 Years
of Benjamin Britten
Ed. Mark Bostridge The 19 contributions to Britten’s Century are by a range
of performers, critics, biographers and
colleagues of Britten. Analysing both his
life and music, these stimulating essays
and interviews cover subjects such as the
work of the present-day Britten-Pears
foundation, Dame Janet Baker’s experiences performing under the composer’s
direction, pianist Roger Vignoles’ insights
into the five Canticles and Alan Bennett’s
reflections on his play about Britten and
Auden. BLOOMSBURY 2013 HB 201pp
£16.99 18259 now £6.99
MY GENERATION
The Glory Years of British Rock
HANDEL’S BESTIARY
In Search of Animals
in Handel’s Operas
Donna Leon Crime writer and Handel
enthusiast Donna Leon presents a collection of 12 Handel arias that make reference to animals, from the lion (Qual leon
che fere irato from Arianna in Crete) to a
turtle dove (Fuor di periglio from Floridante). For each animal there is an illustration by Michael Sowa, the words of
the aria in Italian and English and a short
essay on its significance. The arias are
performed on the accompanying audio
CD, with Alan Curtis conducting Il Complesso Barocco. WILLIAM HEINEMANN
2011 HB + Audio CD 141p Illus 176x140mm
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Alwyn W Turner For the first ten
years of the BBC television
programme Top of the Pops (from
1964 to 1974) Harry Goodwin was the
official photographer, giving him
unprecedented access to the musicians
performing each week. Alongside a
cultural commentary of the era by
Alwyn W Turner, this photographic
portfolio collects the best of Goodwin’s
archive, including images of artists
performing on the show, portraits and
behind the scenes snaps of everyone
from the Beatles to David Bowie.
£24.99 17068 now £9.99
Nicholas Dawidoff Before Elvis and Bill Haley remodelled black music into
new forms, Jimmie Rodgers’ style in the 1920s and 1930s borrowed from the
work chants of African Americans and the guitar style of workers and hobos he
encountered working on the railroad. This investigation into the roots of country
music charts its development from Rodgers and the Carter Family to Johnny
Cash and Emmylou Harris. FABER 2005 PB 480pp Illus
IN THE COUNTRY OF COUNTRY
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PERFORMING ARTS
Darcey Bussell During Darcey
Bussell’s 20-year career with the
Royal Ballet she captivated audiences
with her performances in best-loved
ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and
Swan Lake. This photographic record
of her career depicts her on stage and
in studio shoots by photographers
including Lord Snowdon and Annie
Leibovitz. Featuring descriptions
by Darcey herself, as well as tributes
by some of her closest associates,
this book celebrates one of the
most talented and charismatic
prima ballerinas. HARDIE GRANT
DARCEY BUSSELL
£30.00 19940 now £6.99
Darcey Bussell in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth at the Royal Ballet, June 2007
Charles M Joseph Stravinsky’s early ballets, most notably The Rite of Spring,
caused a sensation and propelled classical dance into the modern era. This superb
exploration of his lifelong preoccupation with dance explores the way Stravinsky’s
music energized colleagues such as Diaghilev, Karsavina, Balanchine, Nijinsky
and Picasso, and provides a detailed analysis of each of his ballet scores. The
result is both an intimate portrait of the composer at work and a fresh perspective
on a crucial chapter in the history of ballet. YALE UP 2011 HB 316pp
STRAVINSKY’S BALLETS
£25.00 17090 now £7.99
NEW THE CHRONICLE
OF OPERA
Michael Raeburn Derided by Dr Johnson
as ‘an exotic and irrational entertainment’,
opera has captivated audiences for four
centuries. This handsome volume charts the
historical development of the art form, with
features on composers from Monteverdi to
Britten, key works from The Magic Flute
to Wozzeck, and legendary singers such as
Maria Callas. The reference section includes
a timeline, discography, biographies and a
guide to further reading, and over 100 colour
illustrations show the magnificence of many
operatic productions. THAMES AND HUDSON
£16.95 18190 now £7.99
Tim Ewbank; Stafford Hildred Now regarded as a ‘National Treasure’, Joanna
Lumley began her career as a model before becoming an actress and starring in
well-known series such as Absolutely Fabulous and The Avengers. Her early life
abroad, her complicated love life and her film and TV career are described in this
lively biography, which brings the story up to date with her recent campaign for
Gurkha rights. ANDRE DEUTSCH 2009 PB 268pp Illus
JOANNA LUMLEY: The Biography
NEW LONDON STAGE IN
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Robert Tanitch From the premiere of
Thomas Holcroft’s The Road to Ruin on 3
January 1880 to the 1899 pantomime season, when the audience cheered a snub to
the Boer leader in Jack and the Beanstalk,
this is a year-by-year record of the great
actors, premieres and revivals of the 19th
century. The entries cover performances
by legendary actors, Shakespeare revivals
and productions of works by, among
others, Wilde, Ibsen and Gilbert and
Sullivan, with quotations from contemporary reviews and over 220 illustrations.
CARNEGIE 2010 HB 350pp Illus 245x188mm
£24.99 18312 now £7.99
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
The Rise of Medieval
and Renaissance Theatre
Philip Freund The third volume of Freund’s Stage by Stage history of the theatre
resumes the story of European theatre
with the passion plays, mysteries and
moralities of the Middle Ages. Moving to
Renaissance Italy, it discusses the revival
of classical drama and the birth of opera,
before surveying the great age of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, exploring
the work and personalities of Shakespeare
and his contemporaries.
PETER OWEN 2006 HB 928pp Illus 250x195mm
£45.00 85055 now £9.99
£7.99 93419 now £3.99
NEW PHILASTER
or, Loves Lies a-Bleeding
Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher
Edited by Suzanne Gossett, this is the
tragicomic rewrite of Hamlet that made
Beaumont and Fletcher famous. The play
was notorious for its emotional excesses,
but its political content was long neglected. This critical, fully annotated edition offers fresh assessments of the play’s
politics and its presentation of deviant
sex and gender. Arden Early Modern
Drama series. ARDEN SHAKESPEARE
NEW JOHN GIELGUD
Matinée Idol to Movie Star
Jonathan Croall A matinée idol in his twenties,
John Gielgud went on to become the greatest
classical actor of the 20th century. This
entertaining but critical biography charts the
ups and downs of his life, his stage roles, his
rivalry with Olivier, his personal relationships –
and the arrest that nearly wrecked his career.
Drawing on Gielgud’s own frank correspondence
and on interviews with colleagues and friends,
Croall draws an intimate, often startling portrait
of this great and much-loved actor.
2009 PB 358pp Illus
METHUEN DRAMA 2011 HB 736pp Illus
£11.99 18264 now £3.99
£30.00 18262 now £9.99
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FILM/THEATRE/RADIO
Jean-Pierre Berthome; François
Thomas Orson Welles’s capacity for
work earned him the nickname ‘Public
Energy Number One’ during his early
years in Hollywood. His hyperactivity
and compulsion to innovate and
experiment also meant that he always
had several projects on the go, often
over-committed himself and, as a
result, left many works unfinished.
This beautifully produced book examines
the entirety of Welles’s career including
his early theatre work, programmes for
television, short films and unfinished
works, and his 12 completed feature films.
ORSON WELLES AT WORK
PHAIDON 2006 HB 320pp Illus 277x227mm
£39.95 17170 now £19.99
BOND ON BOND
The Ultimate Book on
50 Years of Bond Movies
Roger Moore; Gareth Owen A friend of
the producers from before the first film and
the longest serving incumbent of the starring role, Roger Moore has been associated
with the Bond films from the beginning
and, in this wonderfully anecdotal book,
provides his personal insights into the
series. Film stills, publicity material and
behind-the-scenes shots are supplemented
by material from Moore’s own private
archive and reflect on every aspect of the
movies from Dr No to Quantum of Solace.
NEW
MICHAEL O’MARA
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THE THIRD REICH’S
CELLULOID WAR
Propaganda in Nazi Feature
Films, Documentaries
and Television
Ian Garden The Third Reich controlled
every aspect of film production in order
to bolster its ideology. This book takes
the reader on a journey through the Nazi
propaganda machine to reveal the way in
which cinema was manipulated to arouse
hostility to Germany’s enemies. Illustrated
with a wealth of stills and posters, it includes objective analyses of key films
such as The Emperor of California, an
anti-capitalist version of Titanic, and the
anti-British Boer War epic Ohm Kruger.
Carole le Berre François Truffaut was one of the most influential French filmmakers; a key member of the Nouvelle Vague who broke with the studio system to
assert the role of director as auteur and scripted many of his films himself. Drawing
on film archives and Truffaut’s personal papers, this chronological overview charts
the making of all his major films, including classics such as Jules et Jim. The book
is illustrated with over 400 images, including stills, on-set photographs, letters and
storyboards. PHAIDON 2005 HB 320pp Illus 278x227mm
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT AT WORK
£39.95 17171 now £19.99
NEW HOLY FRANCHISE
BATMAN!
Bringing the Caped
Crudader to the Screen
Gary Collinson More than 20 years before the camp television series launched
in 1966, the Caped Crusader first appeared on screen in the 1943 film serial
Batman. This book documents the entire
screen history of the character and includes a full episode guide to the classic
TV series, detailed insights into the making of the movies by Tim Burton, Joel
Schumacher and Christopher Nolan and
an overview of Batman’s various animated incarnations.
ROBERT HALE 2012 PB 256pp 208x207mm
£12.99 19143 now £5.99
ALISTAIR COOKE
AT THE MOVIES
Alistair Cooke The incomparable correspondent of the BBC’s Letter from America began reviewing films as a Cambridge
undergraduate in the 1920s and continued
to do so for the BBC and The Guardian
HISTORY PRESS 2012 HB 284pp Illus
£12.99 98047 now £4.99
PERIOD HAIRSTYLES
For Studio, Stage and Screen
Kit Spencer This practical reference for
actors, hair stylists, photographers, stage
managers and directors, provides step-bystep instructions to create period hairstyles. Starting with a gallery of film stills
showing authentically recreated hairstyles
from prehistoric times to the 21st century,
the author then picks a key look and
shows how to reproduce it. For professionals and anyone seeking a touch of vintage style for their own hair, this sourcebook will provide the techniques and
inspiration. METHUEN DRAMA 2008 HB
256pp HB 210x160mm
£19.99 11995 now £6.99
£20.00 17036 now £7.99
HELLO AGAIN
Nine Decades of Radio Voices
ESSENTIAL FILM
A World History
RANDOM HOUSE 2012 HB 384pp
HERBERT 2008 PB 480pp Illus 160x120mm
Simon Elmes Even before the foundation
of the BBC in 1922, the radio had made
an unlikely star of Peter Eckersley, the
engineer of the first licensed station. This
history of British radio broadcasting recalls the best loved voices of the following
90 years of radio, from the clipped tones
of the dinner-jacketed pre-war newsreaders to the pirate radio disc jockeys of the
1960s and the familiar voices of today.
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newspaper throughout his long career. In
these articles – most of them previously
unpublished – Cooke gives his measured
opinions on famous films and the movie
business, and recalls the various stars he
knew personally, among them Charlie
Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart. Edited
by Geoff Brown.
Daniel Borden; Florian Duijsens et al
This handy, quick reference to world cinema
covers every aspect and era of film, from its
origins to 2008. It is packed with portraits and
stills, facts and figures and includes profiles
of great directors, articles on landmark movies
such as Psycho and The Lord of the Rings, the
great stars of each era, cinema genres, national
cinemas and topics such as censorship, the
impact of television, and digital technology.
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STILL STEAMING
A Guide to Britain’s Standard
Gauge Steam Railways 2014-15
Ed. John Robinson The 90 railways
listed in this guide bear testament to the
success of the preservation movement and
the public’s continued fascination with
steam. Including a location map and
visitor information about each site, it
catalogues the best places to see working
steam all over Britain, from the 79
historic steam locomotives at the National
Railway Museum to former industrial
railways and picturesque preserved lines.
MARKSMAN 2014 PB 96pp Illus
£7.99 17833 now £3.99
THE TIMES
MAPPING THE RAILWAYS
David Spaven; Julian Holland The 121
maps reproduced in this volume tell the
story of the railways in Britain in a unique
and visual way, from proposals and plans
produced by the early pioneers to specially
commissioned maps showing recent reopenings and newly-built lines. Including
passenger route planners from the height
of the steam age and Beeching’s controversial network revisions of the 1960s,
the book charts two centuries of profound
change and provides insights into both
railway and cartographic history.
TIMES 2014 HB 304pp Illus 285x220mm
£30.00 94872 now £12.99
SIGNALBOXES
FOR THE MODELLER
Michael A Vanns The majority of railway
modellers are interested in reproducing a
period scene somewhere between 1923
and 1968 and must therefore include a
signalbox in their layout. This comprehensive analysis of these buildings on the
British railway network considers the
various styles constructed at different
periods and in different regions, the equipment associated with them, inside and out,
and where they should be located on a
model layout for maximum authenticity.
£14.99 17135 now £5.99
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
OF THE TRAVELLING
POST OFFICE
Peter Johnson The Travelling Post Office
– the transport of mail by train, with sorting carried out on the move – was a part
of Britain’s railway operations for over
160 years. In a history illustrated with
some 250 photographs, Peter Johnson
charts the development of the TPO since
1838; he describes the routes, services
and rolling stock it used, the consequences
of the 1963 Great Train Robbery, and the
deteriorating relationship with the privatized railways, up to the abandonment of
TPO services in 2004.
OPC 2009 HB 144pp Illus 290x215mm
£19.99 97207 now £7.99
TINY TRAINS
A Guide to Britain’s
Miniature Railways 2014-15
Ed. John Robinson The working model
locomotives operated by steam
enthusiasts are a popular attraction in
many parks and gardens around the
country. Classifying railways with gauges
of 71/4 inches or less as ‘miniature’, this
guide covers 90 railways, with brief
details of their track and locomotives,
a photograph and information for visitors.
£7.99 17834 now £3.99
LITTLE PUFFERS
A Guide to Britain’s
Narrow Gauge Railways 2014-15
Ed. John Robinson For the purposes of
this guide, ‘narrow gauge’ is anything
smaller than UK standard gauge but
larger than 71/4 inches. This designation
includes some of Britain’s most
interesting railways such as the Talyllyn
– the world’s first preserved line – and
scenic wonders such as the Snowdon
Mountain Railway. The listings provide
track and locomotive details, opening
times and directions.
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THE BRIGHTON LINE
Simon Jeffs Electrification came early to
the Brighton line, with an overhead system
fitted between London Bridge and Victoria
in 1909. The third rail electric system was
adopted in 1923 and today most services
on, and connected to, the line rely on electric traction. This collection of over 150
archive and modern photographs charts the
changing traffic, from early steam engines
to electric locomotives and diesel and electric multiple units.
SOUTHERN BRANCH LINES
CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2008 HB 120pp Illus
£14.99 17990 now £6.99
£18.95 77786 now £9.99
BR PASSENGER SECTORS
IN COLOUR
For the Modeller and Historian
THE WEST THE
RAILROADS MADE
David Cable From 1983 until privatization
in 1996, British Rail was organized into
separate sectors rather than all operations
falling under a single corporate umbrella.
For passenger services this meant new
brands such as InterCity and Scotrail, each
with its own colour scheme to replace the
old blue livery. This book examines the
various classes of locomotives and multiple
units used in these sectors in over 200
colour photographs and associated captions.
£18.99 17127 now £6.99
Michael Welch From a WR pannier tank
locomotive leaving Folkestone Harbour station in 1959 to Beattie locomotives working
on the Wenford Bridge branch in Cornwall
in 1960, this collection of over 150 excellent colour photographs, all with detailed
captions, brings to life some of the branch
lines – many of them running through magnificent countryside – that were still to be
found in the south of England during the
closing years of the steam age.
Carlos Schwantes; James Ronda The
construction of railways across the plains
of North America transformed the nation,
setting up rivalries between gateway cities
such as St Louis and Chicago, rapidly
growing west coast settlements such as Los
Angeles and Seattle and transforming much
of the territory in between. This analysis
of how railways shaped the American West
draws on the archives of the University of
Missouri’s Barriger Railroad Library and
is illustrated with contemporary maps,
archive photographs and ephemera. WASH-
INGTON UP 2008 HB 231pp Illus 250x214mm
£27.99 17115 now £8.99
Michael Welch The Southern Region’s
investment in its Kent lines in the late 1950s
meant that resources were not available to
extend electrification to the Sevenoaks to
St Leonards ‘Hastings’ line, and dieselelectric multiple units were introduced
instead. Similar in some respects to SR’s
electric rolling stock, they integrated well
into the system and proved reliable and
long-lasting. The 100 colour photographs
in this book show the units in action
from 1957 until the early 21st century.
SOUTHERN DEMUs
CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2005 HB 96pp Illus
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Mick Webber In 1933, the new London Passenger Transport Board inherited an
assortment of buses from the private operators which can be seen plying the streets
of the capital in the first pages of this portfolio of photographs. The period covered
extends to the reorganization of the network at the end of 1969 and demonstrates the
evolution of the vehicles as well as the changing face of London through a period of
wartime devastation and post-war renewal. CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2012 HB 80pp Illus
LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES: A Black and White Album
£14.95 16498 now £6.99
Michael HC Baker Designed to replace the ‘RT’ buses, which had been in
production since 1938, the Routemaster was introduced in 1956 as the long-standing
programme to replace London’s electric trolleybuses continued. This pocket history
describes how the bus become a London icon, despite far fewer being built than the
RT, and illustrates the Routemaster in the many colours of its long career from
original service duty to privatized operations and heritage assignments.
THE ROUTEMASTER
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 128pp Illus 130x188mm
£9.99 17133 now £4.99
LONDON UNDERGROUND
STATIONS IN COLOUR
For the Modeller and Historian
John Glover From the oxblood tiled exteriors of the 1900s and the striking Art
Deco buildings of the 1930s to the spacious
designs of the 21st century, the London
Underground has significantly contributed
to the capital’s architectural heritage. This
photographic survey illustrates the wide
variety of designs and provides, in detailed
captions, an account of the development
of station architecture across the network
from the 1860s to the present day.
£16.99 17130 now £5.99
HAYNES GREAT CARS SERIES
NEW JAGUAR XK
A Celebration of
Jaguar’s 1950s Classic
Nigel Thorley Designed as a
concept car to demonstrate the new
XK engine, the XK120 was launched
at the Motor Show of 1948. Its
stylish appearance and unrivalled
performance made an immediate
impact and persuaded Jaguar to go
into production. This review of the
iconic car chronicles its development
year by year from the first prototype
to the last XK150s of the early
1960s, and is illustrated with archive
images and contemporary studio
photography of restored examples.
£19.99 18274 now £9.99
NEW MGB, MGC AND MGB GT V8
A Celebration of Britain’s Best-Loved Sports Car
David Knowles Launched in 1962, the original MGB was only available as
a convertible (roadster), the attractive GT version, with styling by Pininfarina,
appearing three years later. Immediately popular, particularly in America, the
model quickly established itself as the quintessential affordable British sports
car and stayed in production until the beginning of the 1980s. This illustrated
celebration charts each development and refinement up to the re-imagined RV8
model of the early 1990s. HAYNES 2004 HB 160pp Illus 248x248mm
£19.99 18269 now £9.99
A HISTORY OF
ELECTRIC CARS
NEW
Nigel Burton Henry Ford’s Model T is
well documented as bringing the automobile into the reach of ordinary Americans,
but at the same time it ended the challenge
of electric locomotion as a realistic option
in the car industry. This illustrated history
covers the development of electric vehicles from the first designs of the emergent
motor industry in the early 20th century,
through the wilderness years of quirky
concept cars and milk floats to the hi-tech
hybrids and electric vehicles produced today. CROWOOD 2013 HB 208pp Illus
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NEW PORSCHE 911
A Celebration of the World’s Most Revered Sports Car
Michael Scarlett The legendary status of the 911 has been well earned by Porsche’s
success in continually adapting and refining the model so that it has remained
the benchmark for high-performance supercars for over 50 years. Beautifully
illustrated from the Porsche Photographic Archive, this celebration of the instantly
recognizable car tells the complete story of how and why it was originally built,
the many refinements and evolutions that it has undergone and its racing history.
£19.99 18277 now £9.99
THE ZERO CARBON CAR
Green Technology and the Automotive Industry
Brian Long Electric cars were popular in America before Henry Ford’s Model T
revolutionized the industry, and there were even petrol-electric hybrids available
as early as 1899. Today motor manufacturers are experimenting with a host of
emissions-reducing technologies that explore every aspect of the car from its
motive power to the construction and operation of every component. This book
explores the history of green technology in the automotive industry and assesses
and explains the latest developments. CROWOOD 2013 HB 208pp Illus 222x271mm
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NEW TURBINE EXCURSION
STEAMERS: A History
Alistair Deayton; Iain Quinn The first
commercially operated ship powered by steam
turbine, the King Edward, was commissioned
in 1901 and included fittings for conversion
to paddles in case the experiment with the new
technology failed. It proved an instant success
and quickly revolutionized ship design from
ferries to battleships. This marine history
focuses on the development of steam turbine
pleasure steamers serving the Clyde, the Irish
Sea and short sea crossings of the English
Channel. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 288pp Illus
£19.99 18014 now £7.99
Nick Robins In the early days of steam tugs, the
boats’ towage duties were supplemented in the summer months by taking
passengers on pleasure trips. Likewise, coastal and estuary steam packets
were employed to ferry passengers out to the sailing ships, and later steam liners,
too big to berth in port. This book traces the history of this overlooked class of
vessel from the first steamers of the 1820s to the last working vessels of the 1960s.
PASSENGER TUGS AND TENDERS
CARS OF
EASTERN EUROPE
The Definitive History
NEW
Andy Thompson With body shells made
from cotton waste, rear-engined limousines and air-cooled superminis, Eastern
Europe’s car industry developed along
different lines to that of the West, but with
the fall of Communism, marques such as
Skoda and Dacia rapidly evolved to compete in the free market. This extensively
illustrated book tells the story of the motor
industry in Poland, the former Yugoslavia,
the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany,
from its pre-communist beginnings to the
present day. HAYNES 2011 HB 416pp Illus
£35.00 18268 now £14.99
William Presland Aston Martin’s V8 engine was first fitted to the DBS model in
1969, giving the car a performance that
could only be matched at the time by twoseaters from Ferrari, Lamborghini and
Maserati. With design drawings, factory
photographs, specifications and portraits
of the production models, Presland tells
the story of the engine which powered a
series of legendary cars, including the Vantage Volante and Lagonda, up to the 1990s.
NEW
ASTON MARTIN V8
CROWOOD 2009 HB 208pp Illus
£25.00 18032 now £12.99
BERNARD McCALL 2010 HB 96pp Illus 295x205mm
£15.00 16481 now £6.99
Bernard McCall In recent years, towage in Northern European ports has been
dominated by standard design tugs from Dutch and Spanish shipbuilders; but
this photographic survey focuses on port activities in the later 20th century when
a much greater variety of designs were in service. The images show a range of
scenes with tugs at work, at sea and at the quayside, and the captions provide
information about each vessel, including notable design features and engine power.
TUGS IN COLOUR: Northern Europe
BERNARD McCALL 2010 HB 80pp Illus 188x240mm
£16.00 16484 now £6.99
COASTAL SHIPS
AND FERRIES
Second edition
David Hornsby Listing fleet information about all the major ferry and coastal
shipping operators based in northern
European waters, this comprehensive
volume gives details of every ship in
service with a deadweight tonnage of
up to 10,000, recording their specifications, year of manufacture and country
of origin, as well as freight or passenger
capacity. There are also brief details
about each operating company, and
almost 200 colour photographs complete this up-to-date survey of coastal
shipping.
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 224pp Illus
£24.99 17128 now £7.99
TITANIC
The Last Night of a Small Town
GLAMOUR IN THE SKIES
The Golden Age of
the Air Stewardess
Libbie Escolme-Schmidt Starting in the
1930s in 12-passenger, tri-motor Boeing
80s, air stewardesses progressed to serving
hundreds on Jumbo jets and Concorde,
while flying evolved from a dangerous
adventure to a safe and comfortable way
to travel. Written by a former BOAC stewardess and drawing on the testimony of
flight-deck and cabin crew, this book celebrates the stewardesses of British Airways
and their predecessors, from 1936 to 1980,
and evokes the excitement and optimism
of the early years of passenger airliners.
Off-mint.
HISTORY PRESS 2009 HB 122pp Illus
£20.00 92553 now £7.99
US AIRCRAFT IN THE SOVIET
UNION AND RUSSIA
John Welshman The 2,201 people who
boarded Titanic for its maiden voyage made
up a microcosm of Edwardian society, but
historians have tended to focus on First Class
male adult passengers. This book tells the stories
of 12 individuals of diverse backgrounds who
travelled as crew or passengers; it traces their
lives before, during and after the disaster as well
as covering wider themes, such as nationality and
migration, the history of radio and the American
and British investigations into what went wrong.
Yefim Gordon Even before the revolution
of 1917, American aircraft were being imported into Russia, beginning an association
between the two nations’ aviation industries, which was particularly important to
design development during the 1930s and
the prosecution of the Second World War.
This review of the relationship examines
collaborations from the early years of flight
to the post-Cold War period, and is illustrated with over 600 photographs, design
drawings and colour illustrations.
OXFORD UP 2012 HB 346pp Illus 242x164mm
MIDLAND 2008 HB 336pp Illus 280x214mm
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£40.00 16673 now £16.99
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DESIGN SERIES
A British Book Design and Production Award-winner in 2009, the Design
series presents introductions to some of the great names in British book design,
illustration and typography from the last century. Each volume is exceptionally
well-illustrated with fine reproductions, accompanied by a concise and
informative essay on the designer’s career. ACC 2008-11 HB 96pp Illus 213x140mm
HAROLD CURWEN
AND OLIVER SIMON: Curwen Press
NEW
STAR PIECES
The Enduring Beauty of
Spectacular Furniture
David Linley; Charles Cator; Helen
Chislett We engage with furniture in a
very physical way: its legs, arms and backs
echo our own bodies. This book, by authors passionate about their subject, introduces 20 golden ages of furniture including Italian and French Baroque, English
Chippendale, Biedermeier, Shaker, Art
Deco and the work of the most brilliant
contemporary designers. This is a celebration of the art and craft of fine furniture,
with over 320 illustrations, including
interiors, original drawings and both antique and contemporary pieces. THAMES
& HUDSON 2009 HB 256pp Illus 330x260mm
£40.00 17635 now £19.99
PUFFIN BY DESIGN
70 Years of Imagination 1940-2010
Phil Baines In 1939 a chance meeting between Penguin founder Allen Lane and
publisher Noel Carrington led to the founding of the children’s imprint Puffin Books.
Richly illustrated with cover designs – from
the first book War on Land (1940) to Diary
of a Wimpy Kid and today’s YA fiction, this
attractive book looks back over 70 years
of publishing Puffins, chronicles the role
of its editors, illustrators and designers and
explores the dynamic changes in typography, illustration and printing since 1940.
ALLEN LANE 2010 PB 256pp Illus 222x185mm
£20.00 98141 now £6.99
THE FUTURE OF
EROTIC FANTASY ART
Paul Peart-Smith Drawn from fantasy
media including graphic novels, book covers, magazines and role-playing games,
this collection of erotic fantasy art features
work by both leading artists in the genre
and rising new talents. The reproductions
are arranged by themes such as Gods and
Monsters, Sinister Sexuality and Angels
and Fairies, and each picture is accompanied by the artist’s comments on its inspiration and techniques. Felt-tip mark on
lower trimmed edge. HARPER DESIGN
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Brian Webb; Peyton Skipwith Harold Curwen and
Oliver Simon jointly ran the Curwen Press during its
heyday, commissioning illustration and jacket design
from outstanding artists such as Edward Bawden,
Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash, Barnett Freedman and
Edward Ardizzone. With over 150 reproductions,
this volume looks at the whole range of books and
printed ephemera produced by the Curwen Press
between 1915 and the late 1930s.
19158
Edward Bawden’s title page for a 1931
brochure by Thomas Meadow & Co
Brian Webb; Peyton Skipwith
Although known today mainly for his
poster, costume and stage sets for Nigel
Playfair’s 1920 production of The
Beggar’s Opera, Claud Lovat Fraser
worked in a great variety of media.
This book examines his work in
watercolours, fabric design, book
illustration and the design of patternpapers, particularly for the Curwen
Press and Poetry Bookshop.
19154
NEW
CLAUD LOVAT FRASER
Teleri Lloyd-Jones Best known for
what are now classic cutlery designs,
David Mellor (1930-2009) referred
to himself as an ‘instinctive modernist’
and his work – particularly public
commissions such as the Abacus bus
shelters and street lighting – helped
modernize the post-war British
landscape.
19155
NEW
DAVID MELLOR
Ruth Artmonsky; Brian Webb
FHK Henrion was one of a distinguished
group of graphic designers, refugees from
Europe during the 1930s, who brought
cutting-edge design to England. This
book covers his poster and exhibition
design as well as his work in corporate
identity and iconic logos for companies
such as Tate & Lyle, Blue Circle Cement
and the National Theatre.
19157
NEW
FHK HENRION
Brian Webb; Peyton Skipwith
The American-born Edward McKnight
Kauffer (1890-1954) was one of the
outstanding graphic artists of his
generation. Arriving in England via
Germany and France in 1913, he
chanced to meet Frank Pick, publicity
manager for the London Underground,
and began producing the posters for
which he is now famous.
19156
NEW
E McKNIGHT KAUFFER
Ruth Artmonsky Better known as Lewitt-Him,
Jan Le Witt (1907-91) and George Him (1900-82)
met in Warsaw in 1933 and were already a graphic
design duo when they arrived in Britain in 1937.
They worked together for some 20 years,
bringing their innovative use of strong colour,
abstraction and symbolism to commissions
ranging from public information posters
to children’s book illustration.
19159
NEW
JAN LE WITT AND GEORGE HIM
BRITISH POSTERS
Advertising, Art and Activism
Catherine Flood Posters are present in almost every area of our lives: glossily
produced hoardings for consumer goods, public health campaigns, election
propaganda and images of bands Blu-Tacked to bedroom walls. Drawing on
the extensive collections of the V&A, this lavishly illustrated, stylishly designed
book charts the development of the poster in Britain since 1945 in the hands of
graphic designers, artists and advertising agencies, and looks at how it has kept
pace with technological change. V&A 2012 PB 128pp Illus 277x210mm
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LEWIS FOREMAN DAY (1845-1910)
Unity in Design and Industry
Joan Maria Hansen Though less well-known
than his friend and contemporary William Morris,
Lewis F Day was one of the most influential
figures of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Convinced that the highest aesthetic ideals could
be applied to industrial design, he produced a
range of distinctive furniture, clocks, stained
glass, pottery and tiles, while his magazine
articles provided a perceptive commentary on the
changing fashions of his day. This handsome book
is sumptuously illustrated with examples of Day’s
striking work. ANTIQUE COLLECTORS’ CLUB
£35.00 72493 now £16.99
Lewis F Day clock case with ceramic panels
illustrating the months of the year, 1878
Inlaid oak sideboard by Seddon & Co, 1865,
with Minton breadplates by AWN Pugin
and gilt bronze candlesticks by Chertier
THE POETIC HOME
Designing the 19th Century
Domestic Interior
Stefan Muthesius In the 19th century,
cultural and artistic factors created a new
challenge for architects and designers: the
creation of atmosphere and character in the
ordinary living room. This study of domestic
interiors in Britain, Europe and America,
from 1800 to the mid-1890s, considers the
design of the interior as a whole. The author
makes use of long-neglected contemporary
texts and images to reveal what designers,
producers, shops and clients actually thought
about the business of creating characterful
interiors. THAMES & HUDSON
VICTORIAN AND
EDWARDIAN FURNITURE
AND INTERIORS
From the Gothic Revival
to Art Nouveau
Jeremy Cooper Beginning with an introductory chapter on Victorian attitudes to
style and taste, Cooper’s richly detailed
survey looks at designers and trends in
interior decoration from AWN Pugin and
the Gothic Revival to the Arts and Crafts
Movement, the ‘New Art’ of Charles
Rennie Mackintosh and the commercial
furniture of pre-First World War Heal’s
and Liberty’s. The book is illustrated
with nearly 700 photographs and drawings
and offers a comprehensive picture of
interior design, c.1840 to 1914. THAMES
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£19.95 17636 now £9.99
Rosalind Ormiston Early 20th century improvements in colour printing and
a largely literate population in Britain, France and America meant that posters
were becoming more effective than ever before and they were widely used for
mass propaganda during the First World War. From Lord Kitchener’s famous
pointing finger recruitment poster of 1914 to messages promoting thrift,
contribution to war work or investment in war bonds,
this book examines the progress of the war through
100 colour posters from the UK, USA, Canada and
Europe. FLAME TREE 2013 HB 144pp Illus 230x205mm
FIRST WORLD WAR POSTERS
£14.99 99823 now £6.99
THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL
FASHION DESIGNERS
Noel Palomo-Lovinski In this illustrated survey of
50 of the world’s most influential designers, PalomoLovinski explores the hidden connections and lasting
legacies of these iconic fashion creators. The book is
in six themed chapters: designers as celebrities, such
as Lagerfeld and Tom Ford; those, like Coco Chanel,
who defined women for a new generation; artisans
such as Fortuny and Issey Miyake; the futurists, led
by Pierre Cardin; modernists and postmodernists;
and conceptualists such as Schiaparelli and
McQueen. A&C BLACK 2010 PB 192pp Illus 264x220mm
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MGM designer Adrian in the 1946 film Humoresque
Jupp Ernst
poster for
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Jeremy Aynsley German design – in graphics,
furniture, fashion and architecture – is celebrated
the world over for its innovation, elegance and
efficiency. This in-depth study shows how its
development since 1870 reflects the country’s
fraught political history and affected citizens’
personal lives. Elegantly designed and lavishly
illustrated, it proceeds from the first Arts and
Crafts schools to the role of the Bauhaus and
Peter Behrens, examines Nazi design and the
separate cultures of East and West Germany, before concluding with developments since reunification. REAKTION 2009 PB 256pp Illus
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHITECTURE
THE BUILDING OF ENGLAND
How the History of England
Has Shaped our Buildings
Simon Thurley Throughout England’s history,
its buildings have reflected not only changing
tastes but social and economic conditions. This
handsome volume presents a chronological survey
of the nation’s architecture from Saxon times,
through the cathedrals and castles of the Middle
Ages to the burgeoning suburbs of Metroland.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 colour
photographs, archival images, drawings, maps
and plans, it shows how buildings, whether grand
public projects or modest domestic structures,
reflect and embody our rich and complex history.
WILLIAM COLLINS 2013 HB 544pp Illus
£35.00 16805 now £11.99
The 14th/15th century Monk Bar, York
The Library of St Paul’s Cathedral
‘GOTHIC FOR EVER’
AWN Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Rebuilding of Catholic England
NEW
Michael Fisher Determined to restore the splendour of the medieval Church,
Augustus Pugin was the driving force behind the Gothic Revival in Victorian
Britain. To accomplish his vision, the young architect needed a wealthy patron,
and found one in John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury and England’s leading
Catholic layman. Extensively illustrated with prints, drawings and colour
photographs, this book charts their fruitful collaboration at Talbot’s home, Alton
Towers, and elsewhere, and the momentous change in public taste it brought about.
SPIRE 2012 HB 341pp Illus 273x208mm
£49.95 19060 now £19.99
Geoff Brandwood Founded in the 1830s by the multi-talented Edmund Sharpe, the
Lancaster firm of Sharpe, Paley and Austin went on to become the greatest provincial
architectural practice in Victorian and Edwardian England. This book charts the firm’s
history for the first time, explaining how it secured commissions through a web of
personal and family connections; and, with a wealth of photographs, it illustrates
the urban and rural churches, country houses, schools and infirmaries
built by the company. ENGLISH HERITAGE 2012 HB 294pp Illus 275x217mm
THE ARCHITECTURE OF SHARPE, PALEY AND AUSTIN
Philip Davies’s selection of 180 London
interiors, all beautifully photographed by
Derek Kendall, reveals the architectural
riches – and eccentricities – hidden behind
inscrutable London facades or tucked
away in sidestreets: houses such as 11
Bedford Row, with its magnificent Georgian painted staircase; hidden gems such
as the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in Malet Street; and the complete
18th century dining room by Robert
Adam, removed from Bowood House in
Wiltshire and reconstructed on the ninth
floor of the Lloyd’s Building.
LONDON HIDDEN INTERIORS
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£50.00 17677 now £17.99
Amicia De Moubray No matter that its original defensive purpose
is now redundant: enthusiasm for the castle shows no sign of
abating. This book describes the castle creations of the 20th century,
whether ruins given a new lease of life or modern interpretations
of traditional architectural themes. Among the buildings described
and beautifully photographed are Lutyens’s Castle Drogo,
Lindisfarne Castle, Leeds Castle, the enigmatic Braylsham Castle
(completed in 1998) and the even more recent Corrour Lodge in the
Scottish Highlands. FRANCES LINCOLN 2013 HB 200pp Illus 295x250mm
TWENTIETH CENTURY CASTLES IN BRITAIN
£30.00 17534 now £11.99
St Donat’s Castle, Glamorganshire, restored by Randolph Hearst
THATCHES
AND THATCHING
A Handbook for Owners,
Thatchers and Conservators
NEW
Marjorie Sanders; Roger Angold
The prevention of fires and the sustainable
sourcing of traditional straw and reed varieties
are significant challenges to the craft of
thatching today, but its environmental
credentials and attractive appearance have
nevertheless led to a rise in its popularity. This
practical book explains the different types of
thatch and how it is laid and examines every
aspect of its practical application to housing,
including assessments of how to manage and
maintain a roof and conservation and planning
issues. CROWOOD 2012 HB 160pp Illus 245x188mm
£19.95 19150 now £9.99
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AN OUTLINE OF
EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE
Nikolaus Pevsner Tracing architectural
styles, materials and techniques from the
Acropolis to a factory by Walter Gropius,
Pevsner’s concise history of European
architecture as ‘man shaping space’ has
remained unsurpassed for over 60 years.
The original book ended with the
beginnings of the modern movement
around 1914; in this elegant new edition
a preface and final chapter by Michael
Forsyth bring the story up to date, while
the whole work is enhanced by over 200
superb new colour photographs and plans.
GIBBS SMITH 2009 HB 256pp Illus 280x217mm
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SLEEPY TIME STORIES
Five Minute Classic Tales (Four volumes)
Christine Deverell Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty,
The Frog Prince, Puss in Boots, Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs... These are among the
20 classic stories adapted by Christina
Deverell from the collections of the Brothers
Grimm, Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen.
Retold especially for bedtime reading and
illustrated in colour by various artists, the
stories are presented in beautiful linen-bound
editions, with gold embossed lettering and
silk page markers. Age 4+
NORTH PARADE 2012 HB 368pp Illus 205x145mm
£39.96 16353 now £12.99
Sarah Dyer Batty isn’t very popular at the zoo. All he can do is hang upside down,
but when tries to join the exciting animals he finds their lifestyles don’t suit bats
at all. After getting cold and wet with the penguins, sunburnt with the lions and
deafened by birds, he goes home to a big surprise. Age 3+
NEW
Joan Aiken Mortimer the Raven, who
lives with Mr and Mrs Jones and Arabel
in Mumbury Town, London NW3, is
causing chaos again, all because he
wants to sleep in the bread bin. But when
Arabel is ill in hospital, Mortimer saves
her – and gets his bread bin. Illustrated
in black and white by Quentin Blake.
Age 4+ BARN OWL 2001 PB 80pp Illus
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MORTIMER’S BREAD BIN
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THE OXFORD TREASURY
OF FAIRY TALES
Geraldine McCaughrean; Sophy
Williams Escape into a world of knights
and princesses, wicked witches and talking
frogs in this beautifully illustrated treasury
of fairy tales. All the favourite stories are
here, such as Sleeping Beauty, Hansel
and Gretel and Cinderella, as well as
lesser-known but no less charming tales.
It is the perfect collection for sharing
with young children and for them to
treasure and read alone as they get older.
£4.99 17512 now £2.99
NEW THAWING
FROZEN FROGS
Brian Patten One of the original
Liverpool poets and author of Gargling
with Jelly, Brian Patten provides a
powerful mix of the comic and serious
in poems such as ‘I’m Going to be an
Environmentalist When I Learn What
to do with the Greenfly’. With drawings
by Chris Riddell. Age 6+
OXFORD UP 2012 PB 240pp Illus
£10.99 17660 now £4.99
FRANCES LINCOLN 2012 PB 112pp Illus
£5.99 17530 now £2.99
NEW NUMBER RHYMES
Tens and Teens
Opal Dunn 100 honey bees, 20 green
bottles, 10 in the bed... numbers are fun
in this entertaining collection of ten
rhymes chosen by an expert in early
childhood language. There is also a
page on how to ‘crack the codes’ of
tens and teens, and colourful pictures
for counting by Hannah Shaw. Age 3+
FRANCES LINCOLN
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RETURN TO THE
HUNDRED ACRE WOOD
David Benedictus Eighty years after the
publication of the last Winnie the Pooh book,
David Benedictus continues the famous bear’s
adventures. Pooh is joined by all his friends,
Owl, Rabbit, Piglet, Eeyore and Christopher
Robin, and a new playmate, Lottie the Otter.
Capturing the charm and humour of AA Milne’s
original, this addition to the canon has delightful
illustrations by Mark Burgess. Age 5+
DUTTON 2009 HB 215pp Illus
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NEW SPELLBOUND
Tales of Enchantment
from Ancient Ireland
Siobhan Parkinson Butterfly
Girl, The Children of Lir and
The Enchanted Birds are among
these seven magical stories from
ancient Ireland, retold for younger
children by the first Irish Children’s
Laureate and with beautiful colour
illustrations by Olwyn Whelan.
Age 4+ FRANCES LINCOLN
£8.99 17527 now £3.99
Cú Chulainn rescues Emer from
captivity in her father’s castle
NEW THE BLACK CAT
DETECTIVES
Wendy Meddour Auntie Urooj
was lonely, and Ramzi and Shaima
decided to get her a suitor from
the Truly Deeply Muslim online
marriage agency. But smooth-talking
Rasheed was not all he seemed;
he even cheats at Monopoly. It’s
a case for the Black Cat detectives
in this much-acclaimed and very
funny novel for children. Age 7+
FRANCES LINCOLN 2012 PB 176pp
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David Loades ‘To his subjects he was
not a psychological dilemma, but he
was a great and terrifying king’; Professor
Loades, at the outset of this authoritative
biography, emphasizes the need for
caution in interpreting the character of
this 16th century ‘king under God’, and
the importance of Henry’s carefully
nurtured image. He portrays the king as
neither genius nor tyrant, but a complex
and compelling man, who ruled at the
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England. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 448pp Illus
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NEW HUNDRED DAYS
The End of the Great War
Nick Lloyd Beginning at the turning
point of the war on the Western Front,
the Marne in July 1918, Nick Lloyd tells
the story of the last four months of the
First World War, following the fighting
in France and Belgium that included
some of the bloodiest battles of the
war, up to the Armistice. The book
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NEW THE WIFE OF JESUS
Ancient Texts and Modern Scandals
Anthony le Donne Was Jesus married?
The question has inspired fierce debate,
conspiracy theories, sensationalist news
stories and The Da Vinci Code. In this
clear account of the evidence Anthony
le Donne examines a range of ancient
texts and modern scholarship to offer
arguments for and against a married
Jesus; he also considers how the changing
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social and cultural preoccupations.
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A 15th century illustration of Galahad and the
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NEW HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL
The Secret History of Jesus, The Shocking Legacy of the Grail
Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln This is a special illustrated edition
of the controversial work which, its authors claimed in a 2005 court case, formed the
basis of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Greeted with outrage on its first appearance,
the book presents startling evidence that Christ did not die on the Cross, that he married
Mary Magdalene, and their descendants form a secret order that still influences world
affairs. It is a work of painstaking historical research, but with the makings of a thriller.
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Welcome...
to Postscript’s October catalogue – the
Dodo issue. Asked to draw one extinct
bird, Ralph Steadman produced a hundred.
From his Extinct Boids (opposite), we’ve
chosen the magnificently rotund dodo
for this month’s cover.
Also extinct, but living on in the hearts and
minds of many, is the Great Western Railway.
This month devotees of the GWR will be
spoilt for choice: as well as Colin Maggs’s
History (back cover), and Steam on the
Western on our Favourites pages (4-5),
we have reprints of the GWR’s own 1930s
publications for ‘Boys of All Ages’ –
Track Topics and Cheltenham Flyer (p67).
A special feature in this catalogue is a
selection of CD audiobooks from Naxos,
(pp42-43) including studies of Wagner,
the British empire and Cathedrals as well
as fiction and poetry; and recordings of
broadcasts and interviews with great writers
from the British Library’s Spoken Word series.
Elsewhere in the catalogue there are
19th century maps and guides (p23),
an excellent series on 20th century
British designers (p62), handbooks on
butterflies and birds (pp46-47) and a
history of Cars of Eastern Europe (p61).
As ever, we are hoping that everyone will
find something to enlighten or amuse,
and we thank you for taking the time
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55
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65
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62-64
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30-31
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48-49
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11
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14-16
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28-29
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17-20
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44
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56-58
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46-48
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