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An AlternAtive HistOry Of BritAin series
In this series Timothy Venning explores the what-ifs of medieval history,
focusing on decisive moments and following the paths that British history
might have taken. These counterfactual studies are grounded in the actual
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From Prehistory to the Present
Fiona Watson In this scholarly, yet very
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Antony Eastmond Spanning more than a millennium from the Roman Empire
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JUDY
A Dog in a Million
Damien Lewis Judy was
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LOVE FROM NANCY
The Letters of
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David Loades Originating
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Jane was Henry VIII’s third
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RODIN
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Pascal Bonafoux
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AT HOME
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Ed. Charlotte Mosley
Nancy Mitford (1904-73)
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Lloyd Clark Sandhurst
historian Lloyd Clark
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including the testimonies
of veterans, to present a
thrilling narrative history
of the Battle of Kursk,
where Russian and German
armoured divisions clashed
on the western border of
the USSR in July 1943:
“the greatest land battle
the world has ever seen
on a fighting front that
epitomized ‘total war’’’.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
One of the most celebrated
travel writers of the 20th
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partisans, kidnapped the
German commander of
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GEORGE COLE
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George Cole was adopted
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THE AGE
OF EMPIRES
Ed. Robert
Aldrich In 13
richly illustrated
chapters on the
Ottoman and
European empires,
this volume
gives succinct
and accessible
overviews of
imperialism as it
was experienced
in each ‘home’
country, focusing
on the modes
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of colonial
expansion and its
repercussions. As
well as major imperial powers, such as Spain, Britain and the
Netherlands, the authors examine the less familiar colonial
ambitions of Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Italy and Russia,
and a final essay looks at ‘the American way of empire’.
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CATHERINE
OF ARAGON
The Spanish Queen
of Henry VIII
Giles Tremlett The
woman Henry VIII
‘divorced’ is much
overshadowed by Anne
Boleyn, the woman who
took her place, yet
Catherine of Aragon was
Henry’s wife for 22 years,
as queen regent she
defeated the Scots at
Flodden in his absence
and she fought tenaciously
against the divorce: the
king had never met a
tougher opponent on or off
the battlefield. This compelling biography brings Catherine to
the fore, stressing her intensity of character and approaching
her life through her Spanish family as well as her Tudor
in-laws. Slightly off-mint. WALKER 2010 HB 444pp Illus
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THE DOG
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The Complete
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Annette Conn
Whether you
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGY/ANCIENT HISTORY
ARABIA FELIX
An Exploration of the
Archaeological History of Yemen
Alessandro de Maigret Yemen’s archaeological treasures provide evidence for a
significant pre-Islamic civilization in southern Arabia. Drawing on de Maigret’s own
original fieldwork, this book comprises not
only an authoritative synthesis of the civilization’s art, material culture and archaeology, but also a history of exploration and
archaeology in the region since the 15th
century. First published in Italian in 1996,
Arabia Felix now appears in English with
a new introduction by Tony Wilkinson.
NEW PREHISTORIC PATHFINDERS
Pioneers of English Archaeology
Barry M Marsden presents short, illustrated
profiles of 40 individuals who helped shape
the study of prehistoric England. Arranged
alphabetically, from John Yonge Akerman to
George Backhouse Witts, these 18th- and
19th-century ‘pathfinders’ are a wildly varied
group, including ‘army officers, reverends,
country squires and gentry, bankrupts, suicides,
a probable illegitimate royal, a high churchman,
a tradesman and a farmer, plus a scion of the
nobility and a superintendent of a lunatic
asylum’. FONTHILL 2014 PB 128pp Illus
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DIG WW2
Rediscovering the
Great Wartime Battles
Jean Hood In the Dig WW2 TV series,
Dan Snow undertook a number of archaeological investigations on Second World
War battle sites, including diving the wreck
of a cargo ship laden with Sherman tanks
and unearthing a downed Spitfire. With
photographs from the excavations, as well
as archive images, this accompanying
book delves further into the digs, and the
human stories they reveal, and places the
finds in the context of the war as a whole.
CONWAY 2012 HB 272pp Illus 255x197mm
Patricia Southern Stonehenge is one of the most
famous monuments in the world, but the instantly
recognizable monument we know now is only its
last phase before it was abandoned around 1500
BCE. In this concise account, Patricia Southern
considers the conflicting theories about how
Stonehenge was built with such precision and
why, and traces the various transformations
on the site from c.8000 BCE to ‘Ever After’ –
from c.700 BCE to modern times.
THE STORY OF STONEHENGE
AMBERLEY 2014 PB 160pp Illus
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NEW LEGENDS OF
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Richard Stoneman A legend in his own
lifetime, Alexander the Great continued to
inspire a fertile and entertaining tradition
of European, Jewish and Arabic folklore
until the 15th century. Stoneman’s selection presents five texts describing adventures such as Alexander’s encounters with
monstrous animals, his voyage up the
Ganges, his debates with Brahman sages
and the journey to Paradise. This revised
edition features a substantial new introduction, and an appendix brings together
seven early English versions of Alexander
legends. IB TAURIS 2012 PB 180pp Illus
£14.99 21359 now £6.99
Daniel C Snell This overview of the ancient Middle East covers the region’s history from the time of the earliest communities to Alexander the Great’s conquests
in the fourth century BCE. Snell explains
what scholars mean by the term ‘Ancient
Near East’, traces the rise and fall of powerful states, discusses the evidence for daily
life and demonstrates how much has been
revealed by the rediscovery of ancient writing systems. ROUTLEDGE 2014 PB 176pp
ANCIENT NEAR EAST
THE PAST FROM ABOVE
Aerial Photographs of
Archaeological Sites
Georg Gerster; Ed. Charlotte Trumpler
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
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THE TROJAN WAR
IN ANCIENT ART
Susan Woodford The myths of the Trojan
War captured the imagination not only of
the Greek and Roman authors – Homer,
Euripides, Virgil, Ovid and many others
– but also of countless Greek and Roman
painters and sculptors. Following the
course of the war, this handsomely illustrated study brings to life the literary and,
above all, the visual traditions.
DUCKWORTH 1998 PB 134pp Illus
£19.99 22101 now £7.99
THE COMPLETE
ROMAN EMPEROR
Michael Sommer The emperors who
ruled Rome for five centuries are among
the most famous and notorious leaders in
history; yet what do we really know about
their daily lives and how they ran the empire? From Augustus to the fall of the Empire in the West, Sommer writes vividly
about the individuals who shaped the job
of Roman emperor and describes how the
role changed over the centuries. The book
includes brief biographies of the 85 emperors and over 200 illustrations.
THAMES & HUDSON 2010 HB 208pp Illus
£19.95 17596 now £9.99
NEW
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
DIVIDED, 400-700
John Moorhead By the beginning of the
eighth century, the vast Roman Empire
had been reduced to a shrinking remnant
based in the city of Constantinople. This
book ranges from west to east, showing
how the advances of Germanic peoples,
Slavs, and Arabs reduced Roman territory
and established new Mediterranean civilizations. The updated second edition features new sections covering such topics
as the large hoards recently discovered in
Britain and the widespread effects of the
plague. PEARSON 2013 PB 476pp Illus
£27.99 21543 now £14.99
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ANCIENT
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
THE ROYAL MUMMIES
Immortality in Ancient Egypt
Intro. Francis Janot Ancient Egyptians
believed that the art of embalming,
learned from the god Anubis, allowed
pharaohs to enter the paradisal Field of
Reeds and maintained the cosmic order.
This lavishly illustrated book explains
the physical procedure and religious
rites which prepared the royal corpse
and explores the texts which reveal
ancient beliefs about its destiny. Janot
also describes archaeologists’ rediscovery
of the mummies and presents information
about the monarchs’ lives and deaths
which recent technology has helped
reveal. Foreword by Zahi Hawass.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
THEODORA
Empress of Byzantium
Paolo Cesaretti The extraordinary story
of the empress Theodora, a burlesque actress who married Justinian and became
one of history’s most important women,
has been much mythologized ever since
the scandalous Secret History of Procopius. Cesaretti’s acclaimed biography is
based on research into the often contradictory literary and historical texts as well
as monuments and inscriptions which
combine to reveal how she created her
own unique identity and saved Justinian’s
empire through her wisdom and counsel.
VENDOME 2001 HB 400pp Illus
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84299 now £25.00
The 17th Dynasty pharaoh Seqenenre
Tao II, who died a violent death
A HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT
From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
John Romer presents a detailed account of the pre-literate culture of the ancient
lower Nile, from the first farmers to the full panoply of the pharaonic state,
culminating in the building of Khufu’s tomb (2550 BCE) – the Great Pyramid
of Giza. Romer shows how recent archaeology has revealed this strange and
long-lost world, and his book offers a new approach to the evolution of the
archaic state and the creation of ancient Egypt: ‘something new under the sun’.
ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 504pp Illus
£25.00 16849 now £9.99
SWIFTER THAN THE ARROW
The Golden Hunting Hounds of Ancient Egypt
Michael Rice The ancient Egyptians are the first known civilization to have
formed the special bond with the dog that persists today as the most remarkable
and enduring of animal-human relationships. The dog they selected and bred for
hunting and as a companion was the tjesm, a slender, pink-eared hound familiar
from tomb reliefs and still recognizable in the ‘Pharaoh’ hounds of today. This
study explores the place of these and other dogs, including the canine gods,
within ancient Egyptian civilization. IB TAURIS 2006 HB 246pp Illus
£22.50 40201 now £9.99
THE TREASURES OF
THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
Opened in 1902, the Egyptian Museum in
Cairo houses an unmatched collection of
antiquities charting the ancient civilization
over a period of 4,000 years. This impressive
volume presents, in hundreds of full-page
images, many of the most important pieces,
from simple decorated pots of the pre-dynastic
period, through the great statuary and tomb
treasure of the Old, Middle and New
Kingdoms to paintings and artefacts of the
period of Roman occupation up to around
300 CE. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
ROME’S LAST CITIZEN
The Life and Legacy of Cato,
Mortal Enemy of Caesar
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 PB 382pp
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Head of a lioness representing the
goddess Mehet on a funerary bed
from the tomb of Tutankhamun
NEW ROME AND HER ENEMIES
An Empire Created and Destroyed by War
Ed. Jane Penrose ‘The story of the Roman army was the story of Rome herself’,
writes Tom Holland in his introduction to this illustrated history of ancient Roman
warfare. But how did a single city achieve the military successes necessary to
amass an Empire that cast its shadow across the known world? Divided into four
chronological sections, this book answers that question by juxtaposing the society
and military structure of Rome’s greatest enemies, from Hannibal’s Carthaginians to
the Goths, with the contemporary Roman army. OSPREY 2005 PB 304pp Illus 242x190mm
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MEDIEVAL HISTORY
NEW BOSWORTH 1485
Psychology of a Battle
Michael Jones The Battle of Bosworth Field saw
the victory of Henry Tudor and the defeat of
Richard III, one of the most controversial figures
in England’s history and the arch-villain of one
of Shakespeare’s best-known plays. In telling
the story of this landmark battle, Michael Jones
eschews ‘the nightmare’ of Shakespeare’s
Bosworth and offers a radical reinterpretation
of Richard’s role, placing the much-maligned
king in the context of his family, his ideals and his
sense of honour. JOHN MURRAY 2002 PB 273pp Illus
£9.99 21410 now £3.99
NEW THE MEDIEVAL
TRAVELLER
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE NORMANS
The Conquests that
Changed the Face of Europe
François Neveux The history of the Normans began a long time before William the
Conqueror arrived in England in 1066. In
this absorbing and accessible introduction,
Professor Neveux describes the ‘extraordinary Norman adventure’ that changed the
landscape and culture of Europe, from the
first Viking raids of the eighth century to
the defeat of the Normans in Sicily in the
mid 13th century. Translated by Howard
Curtis. ROBINSON 2008 PB 280pp Illus
£8.99 63292 now £3.99
Norbert Ohler On foot, or on covered
wagon, risking bad weather, wild beasts
and robbers, unsure of shelter, and following barely known and mostly unmapped routes for months on end... The
medieval traveller in Europe and Asia had
a hard time of it. In this book, Ohler describes in vivid detail the conditions of
travel – by land, river and sea, for pilgrimage, trade, sending messages or exploration; and in part two, draws on contemporary sources to give accounts of
some well-documented journeys.
BOYDELL 2010 PB 320pp Illus
£19.99 21293 now £9.99
SANCTITY AND
PORNOGRAPHY IN
MEDIEVAL CULTURE
On the Verge
Bill Burgwinkle; Cary Howie Both
pornography and sanctity are body-focused, ostentatious and attention-grabbing. In this analysis of medieval hagiographies and visual images of saints,
the authors make startling connections
with the modern texts, films and photographs that we consider ‘pornographic’.
They argue that both religious and secular
representations of pain and pleasure, bodily exposure and enclosure, were ways in
which medieval Christians’ sense of the
possible were expressed and challenged.
Sexually explicit.
THE CISTERCIANS IN
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
David H Williams Published to mark the
nono-centenary of the foundation of the
Cistercian order at Cîteaux in 1098, this
volume portrays the growth and the cultural, spiritual and economic life of the
‘white monks’. Williams’ study is concerned with the first 250 years of Cistercian history, the so-called ‘Golden Age’
that was brought to an end by the Black
Death. The book includes numerous maps
and plans, a chapter on the Cistercian-affiliated nunneries and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
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MAGNA CARTA AND THE
ENGLAND OF KING JOHN
Ed. Janet S Loengard What was the social, economic, legal and religious background to Magna Carta? How was King
John perceived by those who knew him,
and what was England like during his
reign? The studies in this collection analyse such issues as the legacy of earlier
Angevin rulers, the burgeoning economy
of the early 13th century and Magna
Carta’s effects on widows and property.
The volume ends with the first critical
edition of an open letter of 1210 from the
king himself. BOYDELL 2010 HB 200pp
£60.00 17948 now £30.00
NEW
HERESY, CRUSADE
AND INQUISITION
IN MEDIEVAL QUERCY
Claire Taylor Inquests in the 1240s found
that Catharism and the Waldensian heresy
had taken firm hold in the county of
Quercy in Languedoc, which had previously played a significant role in the Albigensian crusade against the Cathars.
With detailed analysis of the evidence
gathered by the inquisitors, this study investigates the cultural and political origins
of Quercy’s dramatic confessional shift,
the divergent beliefs and allegiances
within families and the impact of heresy
on everyday life.
MANCHESTER UP 2010 HB 228pp Illus
YORK MEDIEVAL 2011 HB 298pp
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£60.00 21218 now £19.99
MEDIEVAL AND
RENAISSANCE TREASURES
Ed. Paul Williamson; Peta Motture
From the Symmachi Panel, made in
Rome around 400 CE, to a standing
cup in the form of a nautilus shell
from late 16th century Regensburg,
this volume tells the stories of 37
priceless masterpieces in the V&A
collections. The objects are divided into
chapters on those made for status and
display, religious artefacts and secular
works, and include such treasures as
the enamelled reliquary casket of
St Thomas Becket, the St Nicholas
Crozier and the Leonardo notebooks.
GRACEWING 1998 HB 494pp Illus 295x210mm
V&A 2010 HB 104pp Illus 207x184mm
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£14.99 17066 now £5.99
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with niello and silver overlay, c.1120
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ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
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
Keith Dockray Opinions about Edward IV have
always been divided; for Sir Thomas More he was
‘a goodly personage and very princely to behold, of heart courageous, politic in counsel’,
but chronicler John Warkworth wrote that ‘the people looked for prosperity and peace
but it came not’. These judgments are among the contemporary attitudes found in the
documentary sources excerpted and collected in this compendium, with the introduction
giving an overview of more recent assessments of Edward’s reign. (Previously published
as Edward IV: A Source Book.) FONTHILL 2015 PB 222pp Illus
NEW
BANNOCKBURN
Scotland’s Greatest
Battle for Independence
Peter Reese Cutting through the myths
that surround the battle, this is a landmark
study of the victory of Robert the Bruce
over Edward II’s army at Bannockburn
in June 1314. It shows how the battle
was a turning point in history for the
English as well as the Scots: a medieval
clash of arms that helped define the political landscape of Britain and became,
for many Scots, a patriotic talisman.
CANONGATE 2014 PB 256pp
£9.99 19875 now £3.99
NEW
JOUSTING
IN MEDIEVAL AND
RENAISSANCE IBERIA
Noel Fallows Despite the popularity of
jousting during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, little is known about its practicalities. To glean more details about the
evolution of the sport’s techniques and armour, Fallows focuses on three manuals
written by Iberian jousting champions of
the 15th and 16th centuries. As well as
providing editions of these important texts,
alongside their first translations into English, he discusses many illustrations
which clarify the authors’ technical terminology, and analyses aspects such as the
scoring system.
BOYDELL 2010 HB 572pp Illus 244x170mm
£75.00 21290 now £19.99
EDWARD IV
£16.99 22797 now £7.99
MODERN HISTORY
NEW THE CAPORALI MISSAL
A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination
Stephen N Fliegel The Caporali Missal is
named after the two brothers, Bartolomeo
and Giapeco Caporali, who decorated the
manuscript’s pages when it was produced
for the Franciscan community of Montone
near Perugia in 1469. The four essays in
this exhibition catalogue present new
research into the manuscript, its artists,
the Franciscan context and the church
where the book was used during Mass. The
reproductions of full pages and details from
the Missal’s illumination are complemented
by photographs of other artworks of the
period. PRESTEL 2013 HB 132pp Illus 290x227mm
£22.50 21441 now £9.99
Virgin and Child with Angels by
Benozzo Gozzoli, c.1460
THE TUDORS 1485-1603
A History of Britain: Book III
EH Carter; RAF Mears; David Evans Part of a series first published in 1937 and
used in schools for decades, this volume tells the story of the Tudors in straightforward
chronological narrative. Carter and Mears’s fast-paced prose gives a coherent sequence
of events, while incorporating major social and cultural developments such as the Reformation and Elizabethan poetry and drama. Edited and updated by David Evans,
former Head of History at Eton. No jacket. STACEY INTERNATIONAL 2010 HB 169pp Illus
£10.00 11828 now £4.99
‘NO HISTORIE SO MEETE’
Gentry Culture and
NEW THE FAITHFUL EXECUTIONER
the Development of
Life and Death, Honour and Shame
Local History in Elizabethan
in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
and Early Stuart England
Joel F Harrington When Frantz Schmidt died
Jan Broadway explores the importance of
1634, he was running a large medical practice,
history to Elizabethan and early Stuart genhaving retired from his long career as Nuremberg’s try, how this led to a vibrant antiquarian
executioner and torturer. We know much about
culture and the practicalities of local hishis life because of the diary in which, for more
torical research between medieval times
than 45 years, he recorded details of each
and 1660. The family, town and county hisexecution. Harrington uses this and other
tories written by the community which
documents to examine how Schmidt reconciled
form the core of this study had an influence
his violent work with his belief in forgiveness
on the development of local history in Engand redemption, his interest in healing and his
land which lasted into the 20th century and
quest to regain his family’s respectability.
is still felt today.
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HERETIC QUEEN
Queen Elizabeth I
and the Wars of Religion
Susan Ronald In this critically-acclaimed study
of Elizabeth I, Susan Ronald focuses on the
queen’s role in the Wars of Religion – the battle
between Protestantism and Catholicism that tore
apart Europe in the 16th century. Ronald shows
how, in the Tudor era, religion was high politics,
how domestic policy was governed by the
religious imperatives of the Reformation and
how Elizabeth ruled so successfully in a period
that saw a ‘monumental struggle of ideology
and survival’. ST MARTIN’S 2012 HB 368pp Illus
$27.99 16787 now £6.99
ROYALISTS AND ROYALISM
DURING THE INTERREGNUM
John Guy Henry VIII fathered four living
children, each by a different mother. The
relationships between his daughter Mary,
the illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy, Duke
of Richmond, Edward, who died at the
age of 15, and Anne Boleyn’s daughter
Elizabeth were often scarred by jealously,
mutual distrust and even hatred. In this
study, John Guy draws on a wide range of
sources to tell the stories of these four key
figures in the dynastic history of England.
THE CHILDREN OF HENRY VIII
OXFORD UP 2013 HB 276pp Illus 224x140mm
£16.99 18994 now £6.99
Ed. Jason McElligott; David L Smith
Comprising 12 essays by historians and literary scholars, this study explores the phenomenon of royalism in the 1640s and the experience of those who were loyal to
Charles II during the 1650s. The authors sketch the difficulties, complexities and nuances of the Royalist experience during the Commonwealth and Protectorate, examining
topics including women, religion, print-culture, literature, the politics of exile and the
nature and extent of royalist networks in England. MANCHESTER UP 2010 HB 278pp Illus
£60.00 20775 now £12.99
CONTESTED VISIONS
In the Spanish Colonial World
Ilona Katzew Spain’s vast American empire was a place of complex and contested
interactions. Focusing on Mexico and
Peru from the 15th to the 19th centuries,
this lavishly illustrated study examines
the way interactions between Spaniards
and indigenous peoples were interpreted
in the arts, embracing topics such as conflicting views of the conquest, the idea of
the Amerindian as ‘good Christian’, and
the survival of elements of Aztec and Inca
culture in the formation of new identities.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
$70.00 21115 now £16.99
THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS
1640-1660
THE RAINBOROWES
Pirates, Puritans and a Family’s
Quest for the Promised Land
Adrian Tinniswood In both England
and early colonial America the years
from 1630 to 1660 were a period of uncertainty, as idealists sought to fashion
a new kind of England, whether at
home or abroad. Tinniswood illustrates
this quest for identity by following the
activities of the prominent merchantmariner William Rainborowe and his
children, members of the first generation of New England settlers and bold
adventurers who encountered pirates
and witches, prophets and princes,
Muslim militants and Mohican Indians.
JONATHAN CAPE 2013 HB 423pp Illus
£25.00 21111 now £7.99
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Blair Worden presents a concise account
of the political upheaval that saw the English monarchy and the House of Lords
abolished and replaced by a republic and
military rule. He explores the origins and
course of the conflict – the war between
King and Parliament, the execution of
Charles I, the rule of Oliver Cromwell
BLOOD OF KINGS
The Stuarts, the Ruthvens
and the ‘Gowrie Conspiracy’
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and the Restoration – assessing the motives of the opposing sides and the legacy
of the struggle for future generations.
PHOENIX 2009 PB 202pp
£8.99 18953 now £3.99
NEW
COMMANDERS OF
DUTCH EAST INDIA SHIPS IN
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Jaap R Bruijn During the 18th century,
the Dutch East India Company was better
established than its British counterpart; it
ruled large parts of what is now Indonesia
and controlled the highly lucrative trade,
including monopolies in pepper and spices,
from the Dutch East Indies to Europe. This
study of that maritime world explores the
careers of the highly important and influential commanders of the Dutch East Indiamen, and covers topics such as training,
life at sea and the opportunities for private
trade. BOYDELL 2011 HB 348pp Illus
£75.00 21216 now £16.99
JD Davies In 1600, at their house in Perth, the
Earl of Gowrie and his brother were stabbed to
death by the attendants of James VI, who alleged
they were attempting to kill the king. The brothers’
decomposing corpses were later propped up in a
courtroom and tried for treason. In this gripping
work of historical detection Davies probes the
gruesome mystery to establish why James, who
would ascend the English throne less than three
years later, should wish to exterminate this noble
family. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 304pp Illus
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NEW GLADSTONE, GORDON
AND THE SUDAN WARS
The Battle over Imperial
Intervention in the Victorian Age
Fergus Nicoll General Gordon’s death in
Khartoum in January 1885 was a crucial episode
in British history and one that has remained
controversial. Gordon has been usually depicted
as the hero of the story, while Gladstone is often
portrayed as the villain, responsible for a ‘policy
of drift’ in Sudan. Nicoll’s radical reappraisal,
based on previously unpublished materials,
refutes the conventional image of both men
and offers insight into British policy in Africa
and the influence of the press and public opinion.
PEN & SWORD 2013 HB 224pp Illus
£19.99 21488 now £7.99
James Hawes Britain and Germany were
once natural allies, with closely related royal
families. Where did it all go wrong? Received wisdom says with the accession of
Wilhelm II in 1888. In fact, as this provocative history demonstrates, the hostility went
back a full half century before 1914, to the
1864 German-Danish war. And when
economic collapse hit the victorious Reich
in 1873, the catastrophe seemed so inexplicable that it could only be blamed on
the perfidious English policy of free trade.
NEW
ENGLANDERS AND HUNS
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2014 HB 448pp Illus
£20.00 20504 now £7.99
A WORLD ON FIRE
Britain’s Crucial Role in
the American Civil War
Amanda Foreman Britain’s position in
the American Civil War was officially
neutral but there were deep sympathies
in Britain for both sides in the conflict
and thousands volunteered for the Union
and Confederate armies. Amanda Foreman’s study tells the story of Britain’s
crucial involvement in the war, revealing
contemporary attitudes in support of either
side through the letters and diaries of a
cast of British and American characters
ranging from diplomats and politicians to
front line volunteers.
RANDOM HOUSE 2010 PB 1,007pp Illus
NEW
SURGEONS
OF THE FLEET
The Royal Navy and its Medics
from Trafalgar to Jutland
$20.00 20028 now £6.99
David McLean The Royal Navy was
waking up to the need for better health
and sanitation by the end of the 18th century, ordering lemon juice for all hands in
1795 and an issue of soap the following
year. This history traces the development
of naval medicine from Nelson’s time to
the outbreak of the First World War, and
also shows how the practices established,
and the hospitals built by the Navy on
land, contributed to the cause of public
health in Victorian England.
IB TAURIS 2010 HB 310pp Illus
£29.00 21370 now £12.99
RETURN OF A KING
The Battle for Afghanistan 1839-42
NEW KING LEOPOLD’S
GHOST
A Story of Greed Terror and
Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild In 1898, Edmund
Morel, an employee of a Liverpool shipping line, was in Antwerp watching ships
arriving from the Congo laden with rubber and ivory, but taking only soldiers,
firearms and ammunition back to Africa.
He realized that there was nothing traded
for the Congolese goods: they had been
produced by slave labour. Hochschild
tells the horrific story of King Leopold’s
Congo and describes how Morel mobilized public opinion to combat slavery
in the Belgian colony.
PAN 2006 PB 386pp
£9.99 21416 now £3.99
William Dalrymple Britain’s first military engagement in Afghanistan was in
1839, in order to restore the pro-British
Shah Shuja ul-Muluk to the throne. It
ultimately led to one of the most humiliating defeats in British history: the
Kabul Retreat of 1842. This analysis of
the First Afghan War draws on a range
of recently discovered sources including
material in Russian, Urdu and Persian
and contemporary Afghan accounts of
the conflict, including the autobiography
of Shah Shuja. American-cut pages.
KNOPF 2013 HB 560pp Illus
$30.00 20350 now £7.99
NEW
MAYHEM
Post-War Crime and
Violence in Britain, 1748-53
Nicholas Rogers When the War of Austrian
Succession ended in 1748, rapid demobilization
left thousands of soldiers and sailors unemployed,
leading to a rise in crime, drinking and rioting
on the streets of London. Rogers delves into
the interlocking stories of this Hogarthian world;
he investigates the reasons for the resulting moral
panic and the surprisingly modern varieties
of surveillance and social reform which were
implemented to combat the perceived threat
to ‘good order and Government’.
TO END ALL WARS
A Story of Protest and Patriotism
in the First World War
Adam Hochschild The First World War
has been well documented, but one aspect
has so far received little attention: the
experiences of those who campaigned
against it. This absorbing book tells the
story of the men and women – feminists,
trade unionists, aristocrats, philosophers
– who endured vilification, arrest and
imprisonment for the pacifist cause.
YALE UP 2012 HB 270pp Illus
£29.95 21362 now £9.99
PAN 2011 PB 468pp Illus
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20th CENTURY HISTORY
NEW IAN FLEMING AND SOE’s
OPERATION POSTMASTER
The Untold Top Secret Story
Brian Lett In January 1942, Captain Gus
March-Phillips sailed the Q ship Maid Honor to
Freetown, Sierra Leone; his mission – to ‘cut
out’ three enemy ships from the port of Santa
Isabel on the neutral Spanish island of Fernando
Po. Telling the story of this daring and successful
Special Operations Executive action during the
Second World War, Brian Lett argues that the
personalities involved in ‘POSTMASTER’ were
the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s James Bond
series of novels. PEN & SWORD 2013 HB 266pp Illus
£19.99 21491 now £7.99
I WAS HITLER’S CHAUFFEUR
The Memoirs of Erich Kempka
Erich Kempka Hitler developed an intimate rapport with his personal staff, some
of whom were perhaps closer to him than
any of the Nazi leadership. In this memoir,
first published in Germany in 1951, Erich
Kempka gives his account of the key
events and people of the Third Reich,
from the election campaign of 1932, when
he began driving for the Führer, to Hitler’s
final hours in the Berlin bunker in 1945.
FRONTLINE 2012 PB 184pp Illus
£12.99 20140 now £5.99
MI6: The History of the Secret
Intelligence Service, 1909-1949
Keith Jeffery From its foundation in 1909, through two world wars to its present
role at the heart of modern British government, the Secret Intelligence Service, or
MI6, has been a subject of sustained and intense public interest. This study, the first
to be written by an independent historian with unrestricted access to the Service’s
archives, analyses the role and significance of intelligence and gives an authoritative
account of SIS’s people and its organization, development and operations over the
first 40 years of its existence. BLOOMSBURY 2010 HB 832pp Illus
£30.00 93867 now £12.99
NEW
CHILDREN’S EXODUS
A History of the Kindertransport
Vera K Fast As the Second World War
loomed, religious and governmental organizations brought nearly 10,000 Jewish
children from Nazi-occupied territories to
Britain. Drawing on interviews, journals
and articles, this groundbreaking book reveals the people and politics behind the
evacuation, and the experience of the children themselves, including their struggles
to adjust to an unfamiliar society, often
after the loss of their entire families. It
also provides a unique account of the second wave of Kindertransport that rescued
young Holocaust survivors in 1945.
£27.00 21344 now £7.99
AFTER THE REICH
From the Fall of Vienna
to the Berlin Airlift
LONDON BRIDGE
IN AMERICA
The Tall Story of a
Transatlantic Crossing
Travis Elborough In 1968 the world’s
largest antique went to America. But
how do you transport a 130-year-old
bridge 3,000 miles? And why set it up
in the waterless Arizona desert? This
wry, compelling social history musters
a colourful cast of Fleet Street shysters,
Thames dockers, Disneyland designers
and gun-toting sheriffs to tell the extraordinary tale of how London Bridge
was sold to a US oil baron, and charts
its curious afterlife in Lake Havasu.
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Giles MacDonogh In 1945, Germany was
in ruins, with much of its population
bombed out, homeless, despairing and on
the move. Focused on the people, this sympathetic history unveils shocking truths
about how the defeated civilians were
treated by the Allies in all four occupation
zones even after the war was won, and
tells the story of their long and bitter journey to reconstruction through the experiences of those who lived through it.
JOHN MURRAY 2008 PB 640pp Illus
£12.99 20636 now £5.99
NEW
ALLIANCE OF
THE COLORED PEOPLES
Ethiopia and Japan
Before World War II
J Calvitt Clarke III With the Japanese
posing as the leader of the world’s
‘coloured’ peoples before the Second World
War, many Ethiopians turned to Japan for
inspiration and support against Italian encroachment on their country. Drawing on
Japanese, Russian, Italian, French and English sources, this detailed examination of
Ethiopian-Japanese relations from 1918 to
the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-6 illuminates the pernicious and flexible use of race
in international diplomacy of the period.
JAMES CURREY 2011 HB 216pp
£50.00 21295 now £12.99
THE ATLANTIC AND ITS ENEMIES
A Personal History of the Cold War
Norman Stone Assessing the years between
1945 and the collapse of the Iron Curtain in
1989, Norman Stone shows how, for every success
of the Atlantic powers, there seemed to be a dozen
triumphs for the USSR and the Communist Bloc.
He looks in depth at the confrontation of the
Communist and capitalist worlds, investigating
how, when even in the late 1970s the initiative
still seemed to lie with the Soviets, suddenly,
against all the odds, the Atlantic won
economically, ideologically and militarily.
JONATHAN CAPE 2013 HB 285pp Illus
BASIC 2010 HB 688pp Illus
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GENERAL HISTORY
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.
EMPERORS, KINGS AND QUEENS
STAR FIRE 2007 HB 200pp Illus 285x297mm
£20.00 19838 now £6.99
Christian VI, King of Denmark and Norway, 1730-46
THE HISTORY OF
CHRISTIAN EUROPE
NEW
A NEW HISTORY
OF ENGLAND
Jeremy Black Taking a cool and dispassionate look at the vicissitudes of over
two millennia of English history, Jeremy
Black identifies two central themes: the
lack of geographical and economic uniformity within England; and the fact that,
from the Roman invasion onward, a
united England was often politically associated with part of Europe, from the
Scandinavian Cnut to the German origins
of the Hanoverians and their descendants.
HISTORY PRESS 2015 PB 332pp
£12.99 22745 now £4.99
150 YEARS OF BRITAIN
IN PICTURES
Ed. Ian Penberthy Drawn from the Press
Association’s photographic archive of
over 15 million images dating back to the
early days of photography, this fascinating
collection presents over 600 pages of photographs that give the British perspective
on national and international events between 1860 and 2010. Among these remarkable pictures are portraits of politicians and great sporting personalities and
coverage of war, from the soldiers who
made the heroic last stand at Rorke’s Drift
in 1879 to Prince Harry in Afghanistan in
2008.
AMMONITE 2010 HB 608pp Illus 245x245mm
£30.00 18231 now £9.99
GR Evans Since the late Roman Empire,
Christianity has shaped the identity, institutions, art and architecture of Europe
and, by extension, a large part of the
world. This ambitious and lavishly illustrated survey traces its development from
the first Christians, through the East/West
schism, the Reformation and the Scientific
Revolution to the present, profiling key
figures from Bede to Knox, discussing
Christianity’s relations with Islam, and
assessing its prospects in the modern
world. LION 2009 PB 224pp Illus
£12.99 92579 now £5.99
Marnie Hughes-Warrington examines
the role of history makers and history audiences in a study that encompasses digital
environments, graphic novels and readerannotated texts, and shows that the ‘sides’
of history cannot be disentangled from
one another. Incorporating diverse and
controversial case studies, including the
French Revolution and Holocaust denial,
the book offers both a detailed account of
the development of revisionism and a new,
more spatial vision of historiography.
NEW
REVISIONIST HISTORIES
SOLVING GENEALOGY
PROBLEMS
How to Break Down ‘Brick Walls’
and Build Your Family Tree
Graeme Davis The genealogical
researcher often comes up against difficult areas and dead ends, but this book
provides advice, information and extra
techniques to take the family tree back
past apparently insurmountable difficulties. Drawing on his own long experience of research in the British Isles,
Graeme Davis suggests new ways of
looking at problems, offers advice on
finding new and unusual records and
gives additional ideas on using the census and census substitutes.
HOW TO BOOKS 2012 PB 223pp
£12.99 16841 now £3.99
ROUTLEDGE 2013 PB 160pp Illus
£22.99 21541 now £11.99
DON’T FORGET...
Spend just £15 and
VILLAGES
OF BRITAIN
is yours FREE
Karen Dolby From the philosophers and
courtesans of ancient Greece to the seedier side
of Victorian England, this is an entertaining survey
of history’s most notable sex scandals and secrets.
It combines the stories of such infamous figures
as the Borgias, Casanova and the Marquis de Sade
with the letters, diaries and court reports which
record the naughtier thoughts and deeds of
ordinary men and women.
HISTORY’S NAUGHTY BITS
MICHAEL O’MARA 2013 HB 224pp Illus
NEW
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF FRANCE
Cecil Jenkins France is the largest country
in Western Europe, and one of immensely
diverse regions, landscapes and cultures.
This absorbing account charts its history
from the battles between Caesar and the
Gauls, via the Revolution of 1789 and two
world wars, to the presidency of Nicolas
Sarkozy. It explores the way the French
have come to see themselves, and the
problems of identity they now share with
other nations. ROBINSON 2011 PB 336pp
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ARCHAEOLOGY
SOCIAL/INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
NEW
CULTURAL REGION
North East England 1945-2000
Natasha Vall considers how new post-war
cultural institutions, such as the regional arts
board and local broadcasting, presented
challenges to the hegemony of vernacular
traditions in north-eastern England, which
metropolitan officials considered a ‘cultural
desert’. She also discusses the part played
by new galleries, music venues and theatres
in urban riversides’ renewal, focusing on
Gateshead, which was long overshadowed by
Newcastle but by the end of the millennium
was widely acknowledged as a successful
culture-led regeneration.
£60.00 20670 now £12.99
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
CHANGED THE WORLD
Thomas Crump From the beginning of
the 18th century to the mid-19th century,
the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never
been seen before. In this accessible and
entertaining survey, Thomas Crump introduces the inventors, businessmen, scientists
and explorers who played a part in the
Industrial Revolution, and he examines the
scientific, technological and political changes
that spread across the world in its wake.
ROBINSON 2010 PB 400pp
£8.99 80282 now £3.99
THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTIONARIES
The Making of the Modern World,
1776-1914
NEW
PHYSICK AND THE FAMILY
Health, Medicine and Care in Wales, 1600-1750
Alun Withey How well equipped was the early modern household to prepare
medicines? Who was responsible for caring for the sick, both at home and in the
community? Drawing on largely unexplored source material, as well as a number of
different approaches and methodologies, Withey offers new insights into the early
modern experience of illness, medicine and care through a study of the medical
history of 17th-century Wales. MANCHESTER UP 2011 HB 254pp Illus
£60.00 20758 now £12.99
NEW
POVERTY, PHILANTHROPY AND THE STATE
Charities and the Working Classes in London, 1918-79
Katharine Bradley Founded in the 1880s and 1890s, ‘university settlements’ such
as Toynbee Hall and Lady Margaret Hall brought young graduates to work in deprived
areas of east and south London – among them William Beveridge and Clement
Attlee, the future architects of the Welfare State. This groundbreaking study explores
the work of these bodies in healthcare, the prevention of juvenile delinquency, the
care of ex-offenders, legal advice and anti-racism, and charts the complex relationship
between charities, community and government. MANCHESTER UP 2009 HB 236pp Illus
£55.00 20765 now £12.99
Gavin Weightman presents an engrossing
account of the creation and spread of
industrial societies, c.1776 to 1914, giving
equal prominence to enterprise, entrepreneurs and the transmission of technologies between countries. From ‘Iron Mad’
Wilkinson, who supplied Paris with water
pipes in 1781, to the British khaki dye crisis
on the eve of the First World War, the book
offers stories of individuals, both famous
and half-forgotten, technologies, industries
and espionage in countries as far flung as
Russia, America and Japan.
A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MERCHANT NAVY: Volume One
Neptune’s Trident: Spices and Slaves, 1500-1807
Richard Woodman This is the first volume of Woodman’s major study of the British
mercantile marine and its immense, yet often overlooked importance as ‘an historical
instrument of empowerment and imperial expansion’. Full of risk, adventure and
heroic action on the one hand, with exploitation, skull-duggery and piracy on the
other, Neptune’s Trident spans the period between the emergence of Tudor England
as a maritime power in defiance of Spain’s seaborne empire, and the abolition of the
slave trade in 1807. HISTORY PRESS 2008 HB 352pp Illus
£30.00 17028 now £9.99
GROVE 2007 HB 432pp Illus
$27.50 69745 now £7.99
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
SCOTTISH COTTON INDUSTRY, 1778-1914
‘The Secret Spring’
NEW
Anthony Cooke presents the first full-length history
of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings
in the late 18th century to its premature decline in the
early 20th century. The book examines the industry
chronologically and through themes such as precursors,
technology, capital and employers, markets, labour
and work, placed within their broader economic
and social contexts. The study is set within
important historiographical debates including protoindustrialization, workplace control, paternalism
and theories of industrial decline.
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NEW APPRENTICING
IN A MARKET TOWN
The Story of William
Harding’s Charity,
Aylesbury, 1719-2000
Hugh Hanley In 1719 a yeoman
farmer called William Harding
of Walton, Aylesbury, left the
whole of his estate to create
a charity to apprentice poor
children of the parish to ‘proper’
trades, which meant children
living in the home of a master
or mistress for several years.
Hanley’s well-researched book
offers a history of the charity
and the apprenticing system,
and sheds light on wider aspects
of British history, including
topics such as the rights of both apprentices and masters.
PHILLIMORE 2005 HB 194pp Illus 245x170mm
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SOCIAL HISTORY
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
Andrea di Robilant As the glory of Venice
faded, the scion of one of the city’s oldest
patrician families fell in love with the beautiful, illegitimate 16-year-old daughter of
a British father and an Italian mother.
Recreated from the lovers’ clandestine
letters, this true story has all the drama,
passion and intrigue of a novel. Against a
glittering backdrop of 18th-century salons,
casinos and masked balls, it vividly recreates the pain and exhilaration of forbidden
love. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
Off mint. VINTAGE 2003 PB 313pp
A VENETIAN AFFAIR
$14.00 20023 now £3.99
NEW BREWING FOR VICTORY
Brewers, Beer and Pubs in World War II
Brian Glover During the Second World War beer
was seen as vital for maintaining morale among
both civilians and the armed forces. This history
reveals how this came about, charting the rise of the pub as the bastion of the
nation’s morale and embodiment of its fighting spirit. Glover also describes the
epic struggle of the breweries to maintain production, despite shortages of men,
materials and ingredients. Archive photographs complement this highly readable
study of an industry in wartime. LUTTERWORTH 1995 HB 192pp Illus
20895 now £9.99
MRS MILES’S DIARY
The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front
Constance Miles; Ed. SV Partington In August 1939 a Surrey housewife began a
war journal in which she recorded daily life on the home front. She tells of bombers
overhead day and night, ration queues and the influx of evacuees. In 1947, she sent
the diary to the Imperial War Museum with a letter describing herself as a housewife
and a professional journalist; she was a naturally gifted writer whose diary gives a
compelling account of wartime Britain. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2013 PB 384pp
£7.99 19643 now £3.99
PRAIRIE FEVER
How British Aristocrats Staked
a Claim to the American West
Peter Pagnamenta From the 1830s onwards, a succession of British aristocrats
headed for the American West, taking with
them their valets, their dogs – and their
prejudices. This sparkling account describes
the newcomers’ experiences as they crossed
the country to meet Native Americans, hunt
buffalo and build cattle empires. Packed
with lively incident and colourful personalities, it also charts their reception by
Americans often less than pleased at the
return of their former colonial overlords.
DUCKWORTH 2012 HB 352pp Illus 240x164mm
£20.00 19282 now £7.99
A LARK FOR THE
SAKE OF THEIR COUNTRY
The 1926 General Strike Volunteers
in Folklore and Memory
NEW
Rachelle Hope Saltzman During the
1926 General Strike, many upper- and
middle-class young people volunteered to
drive buses, trucks and trains. Drawing
on interviews conducted with almost 100
survivors during the 1980s, this first book
to focus specifically on their experiences
uses folklore, anthropology and social history to reveal how their behaviour was
rooted in the fancy dress parties and treasure hunts of universities and country
houses, and how memories of the strike
have continued to shape British identity.
£65.00 20722 now £9.99
THESE WONDERFUL RUMOURS!
A Young Schoolteacher’s Wartime Diaries 1939-1945
May Smith was a 24-year-old schoolteacher, living with her parents in Swadlincote,
Derbyshire when war broke out in 1939. The previous year she had started keeping
the diary in which she recorded both the mundane details of life and the extraordinary
impact of war up to and beyond VE day. Introduced by Juliet Gardiner, this is May’s
‘snapshot of life as it was really lived’. VIRAGO 2013 PB 416pp Illus
£7.99 18333 now £3.99
Pamela Horn The 20th century saw a transformation in the scale and nature of paid
household employment. In 1900, domestic service was still the largest single female
occupation, but the First World War gave women new career opportunities and domestic
work was in decline until the 1980s and 1990s, which saw a new demand for cleaners
and childcare providers. In this major study, Horn examines the lives and changing
status of domestic workers from 1939 to the 1990s. AMBERLEY 2014 PB 196pp Illus
LIFE BELOW STAIRS: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present
£9.99 20963 now £4.99
GREASEPAINT AND CORDITE
The Story of ENSA and
Concert Party Entertainment
During the Second World War
Andy Merriman During the course of the Second
World War, the Entertainments National Services
Association put on countless productions for
the troops across the world, offering everything
from music hall turns to Laurence Olivier.
The enormous number of shows meant that the
talent was spread thinly and performances were
often delivered in difficult circumstances and
inhospitable climes. Drawing on interviews with
surviving ENSA performers, this book tells the
colourful story of this most unusual and complex
theatrical enterprise. AURUM 2013 HB 320pp Illus
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SOCIAL HISTORY/CRIME
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
A New History
Jim Morris The theft of millions of pounds from
a Post Office train in 1963 was a masterpiece of
planning but the gang’s behaviour thereafter was as
inept as the robbery was daring. This new telling of
the celebrated crime takes advantage of evidence that
has emerged since the 2000 Freedom of Information
Act and tracks the story from the night of the attack
and through 50 years of sensational media coverage.
£9.99 19550 now £3.99
THE MOST REMARKABLE
WOMAN IN ENGLAND
Poison, Celebrity and
the Trials of Beatrice Pace
NEW PRISON
Five Hundred Years
of Life Behind Bars
Edward Marston Drawing extensively on
the rich resources of the National Archives,
this history of British prisons tells the
stories of famous, infamous and unknown
inmates, from Tudor political prisoners
detained in the Tower of London to the
last executions in the 1960s. It also highlights the work of prison staff and individual reformers such as Elizabeth Fry, who
helped to bring about radical changes in
the appalling conditions of Newgate and
encouraged the rehabilitation of offenders.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2009 HB 240pp Illus
£18.00 20604 now £6.99
John Carter Wood In 1928, Mrs Beatrice
Pace was charged with the murder of her
husband by arsenic poisoning in the Forest
of Dean. By the time the case came to
trial, Mrs Pace was seen by the public as
the victim and had risen from rural obscurity to national adoration. This study
reopens the case, focusing on the sensational newspaper coverage, the public response to Beatrice and the debates in press
and Parliament arising from her treatment
by the justice system. No jacket.
£65.00 20733 now £9.99
INSPECTOR MINAHAN
MAKES A STAND
or The Missing Girls of England
Bridget O’Donnell’s meticulously researched book takes us back to London in
the sweltering summer of 1885 and Chelsea
police station, where Jeremiah Minahan is
about to enter a labyrinth of slums and dark
secrets in search of 13-year-old Eliza Armstrong. Having ruined his prospects of promotion once already, ex-Inspector Minaham set out to expose a Victorian sex-trade;
he lost everything, but won the amendment
of consent law that protects children to this
day. PICADOR 2012 PB 384pp
£9.99 21201 now £4.99
MURDER AND CRIME:
WHITECHAPEL AND DISTRICT
MW Oldridge The notorious Jack the
Ripper murders of 1888 were not the only
violent crimes that took place in the streets
of Victorian and Edwardian Whitechapel.
This true crime collection features seven
ROYAL PRAYER
A Surprising History
David Baldwin This book seeks to show
that throughout history royal prayers have
had a place at the heart of a nation’s life,
and that monarchs continue to play a
pivotal role in protecting the interests of
their people today. Chapters discuss royal
prayers at times of national tragedy or
emergency, prayers to launch ships,
prayers of remembrance, of patronage,
and of support for endeavours of science
or exploration. An appendix contains the
Collects of each branch of the Armed
Forces. CONTINUUM 2009 HB 218pp Illus
NEW
£17.99 20609 now £7.99
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sensational murders in the district, including the cases of Henry Wainwright, who
shot and later dismembered his mistress,
Harriet Lane, and Harold Hall, who
stabbed a prostitute to death in Spitalfields, within sight of the last Ripper murder. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 96pp Illus
£9.99 19739 now £3.99
CITY OF SIN
London and Its Vices
Catharine Arnold ‘If you do not want to
dwell with evil-doers’, wrote Richard of
Devizes in 1180, ‘do not live in London’.
In her third exploration of the city’s history, Catharine Arnold focuses on the sex
trade, from slave girls brought to service
Roman troops in first century Londinium,
through medieval stews, 18th century sex
clubs and Victorian male brothels to infamous ’60s call girls and the internet ‘Belle
de Jour’.
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2011 PB 384pp
£8.99 16629 now £3.99
CORNWALL MURDER FILES
Famous Cases Solved and Unsolved
Patricia Gray This true crime selection
recounts a number of interesting murders
committed in Cornwall during the later
20th and early 21st centuries and includes
some intriguing unsolved killings such as
that of millionaire farmer Les Bate in
2002. HALSGROVE 2010 PB 111pp
£8.99 19080 now £3.99
THE GEORGIAN ART OF GAMBLING
Being A Miscellaneous
Collection of Fashionable
Card Games and Diverse Pastimes
Claire Cock-Starkey From the genteel card
games of Jane Austen’s novels to the doomed
rakes of Hogarth, gambling permeated every rung
of Georgian society. This entertaining and lavishly
illustrated miscellany intersperses details of the
fashionable card and dice games of the period
with anti-gambling pamphlets, vivid descriptions
of the most notorious gaming houses, wagers
on cock-fighting, bull-baiting and boxing, and
accounts of the ruination of addicted aristocrats.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2013 HB 96pp Illus
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SOCIAL HISTORY/NOSTALGIA
Peter Williams Grand hotels and
beach huts, piers and Punch and
Judy, Second World War coastal
defences and sand castles: Peter
Williams’s photographs reveal
the tremendous diversity and
vitality of the English seaside.
Arranged as 42 topics, the
photographs show the things
we associate with traditional
holidays beside the sea, such
as deckchairs and fish and chip
shops, but also focus on new
artworks and architecture and
the regeneration of our seaside
towns. ENGLISH HERITAGE 2012 PB 208pp Illus 244x188mm
THE ENGLISH SEASIDE
£14.99 19309 now £6.99
PICNICS
and Other Outdoor Feasts
Claudia Roden This is the reissue of a
classic that was heralded on first publication as ‘the bible of outdoor eating’. It includes sections on meals to eat in the garden with access to the kitchen, meals to
eat outdoors away from home, food for a
barbecue and, finally, meals for travellers.
It is as much a joy to read as to cook from,
as Rosen stimulates the imagination with
tales from far and near told in her elegant
style. GRUB STREET 2012 HB 334pp Illus
Beach huts at
Felixstowe in Suffolk
NEW
HOLIDAY CAMPS IN
TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN
Packaging Pleasure
Sandra Trudgen Dawson In this very
readable study Dawson uncovers the factual
history behind the Hi-de-Hi! image of the
British holiday camp, from the struggle for paid
holidays that culminated in the Holidays With
Pay Act 1938 up to the end of the camps’ heyday
in the 1970s. The book describes the way in
which the major companies – Butlin’s, Warner’s
and Pontin’s – promoted the holiday camp
experience and also explores the implications of
the camps’ culture for gender, class and national
identity. MANCHESTER UP 2011 HB 260pp Illus
£14.99 24930 now £5.99
£60.00 20710 now £12.99
GREAT BRITISH HOLIDAYS
The Poster Collection
These evocative posters were originally created during the heyday of British rail
travel by companies such as the Great Western Railway and the London, Midland
and Scottish Railway seeking to promote their services by enticing day trippers
and holiday makers to resorts along their routes. The eight posters – for Devon,
Falmouth, Cromer, the Cambrian Coast, Edinburgh, Felixstowe, the Norfolk
Broads and Colwyn Bay – are reproduced as semi-gloss, ready to frame art prints
(12"x16" including border). CARLTON 2013 445x315mm
£9.99 19955 now £4.99
PORTRAIT
OF AN ERA
An Illustrated
History of Britain
1900-1945
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
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Reader’s Digest
Two earth-shattering
wars, countless new
technologies and
profound social
upheaval changed
Britain utterly during
the first half of the
20th century. It was
also a time when
photography came of
Anything men can do: Competitors in the 1925
age and this extensive
Six Days Reliability Trials at Brooklands
volume offers a
dramatic portrait of the period in a collection of well-chosen images. The
narrative encompasses the experiences of ordinary Britons as well as great
events and people, from a last portrait of Queen Victoria to soldiers returning
home in 1945. READER’S DIGEST 2011 HB 560pp Illus 286x225mm
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TOMMY AT WAR
1914-1918: The Soldiers’ Own Stories
John Sadler; Rosie Serdiville Describing – from
personal experience – the horror, exhilaration,
comradeship and humour of warfare, this collection
of first-hand accounts attempts to convey what
it was like to serve as an ordinary British soldier
in the Great War. Drawing on memoirs, diaries,
correspondence and recorded interviews with
survivors, the narrative examines recruitment and
training and the soldier’s experience of the home
front and life in rear echelons as well as the
discomfort, boredom and terror of the front line.
ROBSON 2013 HB 381pp Illus
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LETTERS FROM THE FRONT
Letters and Diaries from the BEF
in Flanders and France 1914-1918
NEW BATTLES OF
THE CRIMEAN WAR
Eyewitness Accounts
William H Russell The recent inventions
of the telegraph and photography allowed
the Crimean War (1853-56) to be reported
as no conflict had been before. William H
Russell reported its day-to-day progress for
The Times, alerting the public to the horrors
of the war and the incompetence of some
of the leaders. This book presents Russell's
influential coverage of battles including
Alma, Sevastopol, Inkerman and Balaclava.
AMBERLEY 2014 PB 224pp
£8.99 20958 now £3.99
Kevin Smith From the pre-war planning of the opposing nations to the aftermath of
war, Kevin Smith presents a new history of the First World War in which the letters
of men at the front describe in vivid detail the business of living and dying in the
trenches. The aim of Smith’s fresh narrative is to engage the interest of a new
generation and ‘build a bridge between those who knew It’s a Long Way to
Tipperary and those who do not’. FONTHILL 2013 PB 160pp Illus 233x155mm
£14.99 19802 now £6.99
REDCOATS AGAINST
NAPOLEON
The 30th Regiment During the
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Carole Divall Giving a fresh perspective
on on key events between the Siege of
Toulon in 1793 and Waterloo in 1815, Divall focuses, not on commanders or elite
units, but on the ordinary fighting men in
the 30th Regiment of the Line.
PEN & SWORD 2009 HB 256pp
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NEW LETTERS FROM
AN EARLY BIRD
The Life and Letters of Denys
Corbett Wilson 1882-1915
NEW ROBERTS AND
KITCHENER IN SOUTH AFRICA
1900-1902
Rodney Atwood After three military
defeats in a week in South Africa in late
1900, two military heroes – Field Marshal
Lord Roberts and Major General Lord
Kitchener – were sent to replace the beleaguered General Sir Redvers Buller. This
study of a spectacularly successful military
partnership describes how, within weeks,
Roberts and Kitchener had raised morale,
reorganized their forces and transformed
the war; but also how the relief of Kimberley and Ladysmith and the defeat of Boer
forces sometimes involved less than heroic
tactics. PEN & SWORD 2011 HB 236pp Illus
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Donal MacCarron tells the story of an
early pioneer aviator who took to the air
soon after the Wright brothers proved that
man was capable of controlled powered
flight. A record-breaking amateur before
1914, Corbett Wilson signed up with the
Royal Flying Corps at the outbreak of
war. His letters from France to his mother
vividly describe the life of a RFC airman
in the First World War. He was shot down
and killed in 1915.
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A PRAYER FOR GALLIPOLI
The Great War Diaries
of Kenneth Best
Ed. Gavin Roynon Kenneth Best was
awarded the Military Cross in 1918 for
his services as a chaplain during the First
World War. Posted to the Dardanelles, he
witnessed at first hand the bitter fighting
at Gallipoli and made it his business to
share the hardships of the front line with
the troops. His wartime diaries give a rare
insight into the horrors of the Turkish front
during the disastrous campaign of 1915.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
AND DISABLED SOLDIERS
OF THE GREAT WAR
With an Illustrated
Selection of his Writings
NEW
Jeffery S Reznick John Galsworthy
(1867-1933) was one of the bestselling
novelists of the 20th century, and the
author of the enduringly popular
Forsyte Saga. Less well known today
are his indefatigable efforts during and
after the First World War on behalf of
disabled ex-servicemen. This most comprehensive study to date charts
Galsworthy’s commitment to what he
called ‘the sacred work’, and includes
many of the powerful articles, essays
and works of fiction that he devoted to
the cause.
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NEW
TELLING
TALES ABOUT MEN
Conceptions of Conscientious
Objectors to Military Service
During the First World War
Lois S Bibbings During the First World
War and after, conscientious objectors
were vilified, assaulted, imprisoned and,
on occasion, executed. This radical and
refreshing book combines gender studies, criminology and sociology to explore the treatment of war resisters and
the relationship between patriotism and
conscience. Drawing on diaries, government papers, legal records, newspapers, magazines and fiction, it examines
notions of masculinity and manliness,
and explores the different ways in
which COs were viewed: as cowards,
heroes, criminals, degenerates or upstanding moral figures.
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STALIN’S GENERAL
The Life Georgy Zhukov
Geoffrey Roberts It is arguable that Georgy
Zhukov was the greatest of the Allied generals of
the Second World War, surpassing Eisenhower,
Montgomery or Patton in military effectiveness.
Unlike his rival Red Army generals he was
prepared to stand up to Stalin when necessary
and although charming in his private life, was a
brutal and decisive commander. This is the first
major biography of the Soviet hero, drawing on
newly available sources in the Russian archives
and previously unpublished excerpts from
Zhukov’s own memoirs. Slightly off-mint.
ICON 2013 PB 400pp Illus 197x129mm
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NEW BARBAROSSA
THROUGH SOVIET EYES
The First Twenty-Four Hours
Adam Culling The mustard-coloured
cover and challenging contents of the
British Army Manual of Physical Training of 1908 earned it the nickname, the
‘Yellow Peril’. Excerpts of this as well
as other Army training publications such
as Methods of Unarmed Attack and
Defence (1917) and Bayonet Training
(1916) are reproduced in this book, giving
an insight into how soldiers of the First
World War were prepared for action.
NEW
FIGHTING FIT 1914
Artem Drabkin; Alexei Isaev The German
invasion of Russia in June 1941 was a turning
point in the Second World War and also proved
a seminal moment in the shaping of the Soviet
nation. This history recounts, through Russian
eyewitness accounts, the first devastating 24
hours of the campaign during which generals
scrambled to marshal their unprepared forces
amid the chaos and bewildered soldiers and
civilians struggled to come to terms with the
shock and devastation of the surprise Nazi attack.
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Adam Culling, Curator of the Royal
Army Physical Training Corps Museum,
presents a number of the Army’s training
and equipment manuals, books and photographs. Ranging from Physical Training (1937) to Shoot to Kill (1944), the
publications reproduced here show how
the British soldier was kept fighting fit
before and during the Second World War.
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THE LAST OF THE EBB
The Battle of the Aisne, 1918
Sidney Rogerson The ‘ebb’ referred
to in the title of this First World War
memoir was the German offensive of
May 1918 that pushed the Allies miles
back towards Paris before the flow of
the war turned decisively in the Allies’
favour. First published in 1937, Rogerson’s eyewitness account criticizes the
French for their part in the humiliating
retreat and includes a chapter written
by the German officer who planned
the offensive.
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SUBMARINERS’ NEWS
The Peculiar Press of
the Underwater Mariner
Keith Hall For many years, British
submariners produced their own closedcirculation newspapers, reporting on their
unusual life beneath the waves. Held in much
affection by submarine crews, the journals and
their irreverent humour enjoyed a long period
of popularity from the 1970s-1990s. This
compendium presents some of the best
articles, anecdotes, jokes and cartoons from
these idiosyncratic publications and provides
and insight into the strange, self-contained
world of the submariner.
THE BOMBERS
AND THE BOMBED
Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-45
Richard Overy The collapse of Western
colonial empires in the 20 years after the
Second World War led to a series of vicious
power struggles in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. This panoramic history takes us
from Palestine to Pakistan, from Algeria to
Cuba, and from Kenya to Indochina. By forcing us to look away from the Cold War, it
sheds new light on the causes and common
themes of these conflicts, whose bloody consequences continue to haunt us today.
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Alan W Cooper In this new study of the Battle
for Arnhem, Alan Cooper focuses on the role
of the re-supply aircraft of the RAF. Operation
Market Garden relied on being re-supplied by
air, but it was a costly undertaking resulting in
the loss of 309 aircrew, 79 air despatchers and
107 aircraft. Day-by-day, from 17 September
1944 to 25 September, this book tells the story
of the RAF’s role at Arnhem, and ends with
details of its awards and casualties.
NEW
AIR BATTLE FOR ARNHEM
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John Frayn Turner Douglas Bader’s
story is one of the most remarkable of the
Second World War, not just for his own
personal triumph over disability but also
for his leading role in the Battle of Britain.
This analysis of the crucial period of the
war, first published in the 1980s, tells the
story of the five squadrons of the Bader
Wing and assesses the controversial ‘Big
Wing’ tactics favoured by Bader and Air
Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory.
NEW
DAY FIGHTERS IN
DEFENCE OF THE REICH
A War Diary, 1942-45
Donald Caldwell Based at airfields in
Britain, the American air force began their
strategic daylight bombing campaign
against Nazi Germany in August 1942. This
meticulous and comprehensive study of the
Luftwaffe’s defensive actions during the
USAAF raids that followed over the next
three years contains details of every mission
of every Luftwaffe unit involved, tables of
monthly sorties, losses and victory claims
by both sides, previously unpublished combat accounts, archive photographs and maps
of the most important missions.
FRONTLINE 2011 HB 480pp Illus 252x200mm
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THE BADER WING
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HEROES OF FIGHTER
COMMAND: SURREY
Rupert Matthews Surrey was a key area
in the effective defensive system operated
by the RAF during the Second World War,
with important fighter airfields such as
Kenley and Croydon as well as radar stations on the coast. This history describes
the air war in the county and profiles the
principal aircraft involved as well as some
of the aces, such as ‘Johnnie’ Johnson and
Peter Townsend, who flew from Surrey airfields. COUNTRYSIDE 2008 PB 175pp Illus
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Andrew D Bird After the invasion of
France in 1944, the air bases at Banff,
Fraserburgh and Peterhead in northern
Scotland were used to launch attacks on
U-boats and merchant ships in the waters
of south-west Norway, disrupting Germany’s vital supplies of iron ore. Thoroughly researched and drawing on firsthand accounts, Andrew Bird’s study
examines this nine-month campaign in
detail and reveals the largely unheralded
A SEPARATE LITTLE WAR
NEW PARAS
Voices of the British Airborne
Forces in the Second World War
Roger Payne Oam Volunteering for the
new airborne forces in 1941 did not guarantee entry – the selection process eliminated all but the fittest and most resilient
soldiers. The men who made it were therefore an elite band with a supreme esprit
de corps. This book collects first-hand accounts from Paras who fought in the Second World War, recalling their experiences
from the brutal training to action in the
Mediterranean, Normandy, Arnhem and
the Rhine. AMBERLEY 2014 HB 354pp Illus
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contribution of the Banff Coastal Command Strike Wing to final victory in 1945.
GRUB STREET 2008 PB 240pp Illus
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HITLER TRIUMPHANT
Alternate Decisions of World War II
Ed. Peter G Tsouras Based on a series of
‘what ifs’ posed by leading historians, this
alternate history reconstructs moments
during the Second World War which could
conceivably have altered the entire course
of the conflict and led to a German victory.
The scenarios explored range from the
possibility of a British Prime Minister
making peace with Hitler in 1940, to the
likely consequences of the defeat of Eisenhower’s landings in northern France in
1943. FRONTLINE 2011 PB 288pp
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(Three volumes)
Lisle A Rose From the battleships of the
imperial fleets in the late 19th and early
20th centuries, through two world wars to
the unprecedented supremacy of the United
States Navy in the years since 1946, Lisle
Rose presents a detailed narrative history
of sea power ‘during the war-drenched industrial-nuclear age’. The work is three volumes: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918;
The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945; and A Violent Peace, 1946-2006. Slipcased.
POWER AT SEA
MISSOURI UP 2007 PB 1305pp Illus 243x160mm
19762 now £25.00
NEW FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY 1943-45
A Coalition at War
Ian Blackwell Although nominally an American
formation, the Fifth Army that fought in Italy
from 1943-45 was a coalition force assembled
from more than 20 allied nations. With a view
to the lessons that can be applied to the
deployment of multinational coalition forces
today, this book reviews the problems British
general Harold Alexander faced organizing
his disparate resources against a determined
opposition in difficult terrain, and dealing
with the highly ambitious American commander
Mark Clark. PEN & SWORD 2012 HB 288pp Illus
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ABLE SEAMEN
The Lower Deck of
the Royal Navy 1850-1939
Brian Lavery The change from sail to steam in
the Royal Navy was underway by 1850 and in the
following decades the work and life of ordinary
seamen changed radically as new jobs, servicing
the engines and operating the sophisticated
gunnery and communications systems, replaced
the traditional lot of the sailor. This wellresearched history chronicles the increasing
professionalization and specialization of the lower
deck as the Navy rapidly evolved and introduced
many of the roles and practices which are familiar
today. CONWAY 2011 HB 352pp Illus
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THE PATHFINDER
COMPANION
War Diaries and Experiences of the
RAF Pathfinder Force, 1942-1945
BOMBERS OVER
SAND AND SNOW
205 Group RAF in World War II
NEW
Sean Feast Unable to obtain the latest
bomb-aiming aids quickly enough and in
sufficient numbers to equip every plane,
the RAF took the decision to employ
pathfinder aircraft to fly ahead and accurately mark targets for the main bomber
force to follow. This illustrated celebration
of the elite Pathfinder Force that was
formed as a result in August 1942 draws
on interviews with surviving veterans,
archive photographs and official documents
and memorabilia from the Pathfinder Museum at RAF Wyton.
Alun Granfield The focus on bombing
missions over Europe during the Second
World War meant that 205 Group had to
make do with Wellingtons for their duties
in the Mediterranean theatre long after
they had been replaced in UK-based
squadrons. This history tells the story of
the group, which flew night bombing
duties, often in direct support of ground
actions, from mobile bases and makeshift
landing grounds in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia,
Italy and elsewhere.
GRUB STREET 2012 HB 216pp Illus
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THE LONG ROAD
The Trials and Tribulations
of Airmen Prisoners
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.
GRUB STREET 2013 HB 368pp Illus
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THE JUNGLE JOURNAL
Prisoners of the Japanese
in Java, 1942-45
ELEVEN DAYS IN AUGUST
The Liberation of Paris in 1944
Matthew Cobb The liberation of Paris
in August 1944 was a turning point of the
Second World War and, contrary to myth,
is was far from bloodless. Drawing on
unpublished diaries, eyewitness accounts,
coded messages and secret conversations,
Matthew Cobb provides an hour-by-hour
account of the street fighting, the barricades, the burning tanks and the reprisals,
as the Germans, realizing defeat was imminent, played a nerve-racking game of
bluff with both the advancing Allies and
their own High Command.
Frank Williams Prisoners held by the
Japanese during the Second World War
suffered a terrible ordeal – most of those
who survived were left mentally or physically scarred for life. Told through the
journals and memories of Royal Artillery
officer Ronald Williams, as well as diaries, cartoons, poems and even a newspaper produced by his fellow prisoners in
Java, this book bears witness to the unspeakable sufferings as well as the humour
and spirit that kept hope alive.
SPELLMOUNT 2013 PB 240pp Illus
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NEW PANZERS IN THE SAND
The History of Panzer-Regiment 5
Volume One: 1935-1941
Bernd Hartmann The 5th Panzer Regiment
was well drilled from peacetime training
by the time it was called into action in
Poland in 1939, and after the Battle of
France in 1940 it took part in some of the
most famous tank confrontations of the
war in North Africa as part of Rommel’s
Afrika Corps. Including many contemporary
photographs and first-hand accounts, this
book presents a history of Panzer-Regiment 5
from its formation until the end of 1941.
FOR THIS ALONE
and Other Poems
RPL Mogg At the outbreak of the Second
World War, Ronald Mogg left journalism
to join the RAF. In 1940 his Wellington
bomber was shot down over Germany and
he became a PoW. It was in captivity that
he turned to poetry and two books of
poems were published while he was still
in German PoW camps: For This Alone
(1944) and Time to Stand and Stare (1945).
This little book brings together both
collections, along with two lithographs by
JW Lambert, a fellow prisoner.
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SCOTLAND
NEW THE SOUTHERN
HIGHLANDS OF
SCOTLAND
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. BIRLINN 2012 HB 175pp Illus 297x239mm
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Graeme Wallace From Beinn
Laoigh, Loch Lomond and
the Tyndrum Hills in January,
and month-by-month through
the year to a snow-covered
Ben Lomond in December,
Graeme Wallace’s panoramic
photographs capture the stark
beauty of the mountains, lakes,
woodlands and skies of the
southern Highlands. Around
100 photographs, taken over
a five year period, show the
area north of the Highland
Boundary Line up to a roughly
parallel line between Dalmally and Pitlochry. GW 2013 HB 200pp Illus
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NEW THE MAKING OF
A SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE
Moray’s Regular Revolution
1760-1840
John R Barrett During the later 18th century, in an age of Enlightenment rationalism, Scotland was swept by a craze for
the ‘improvement’ of both rural areas and
the built environment. This book reveals
how the landscape of Moray was redesigned, with lochs drained, new crops
sown and labouring families rehoused in
new villages with greater convenience and
comfort. Barrett examines the principles
behind these changes and considers why
landowners were able to impose them
with almost no dissent from their tenants.
FONTHILL 2015 PB 272pp Illus
£18.95 22801 now £6.99
SEA CHANGE
The Summer Voyage from East
to West Scotland of the Anassa
THE NORTHERN EARLDOMS
Orkney and Caithness
from AD 870 to 1470
Barbara E Crawford The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds: the Norwegian and Scottish. They were a maritime
lordship divided, or united, by the Pentland Firth, but survived – against the odds
– as a single lordship for 600 years. The
earldoms’ relationship with the kings of
Scotland and Norway, how they maintained their independence and how they
survived the clash of loyalties are themes
explored in this study of the period from
the early Viking age to the late Middle
Ages. JOHN DONALD 2013 HB 464pp Illus
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Mairi Hedderwick In the late 1990s, the
Scottish artist and author, Mairi Hedderwick embarked on a six-week voyage
through the Caledonian Canal to the western fjords in the antique yacht Anassa.
Filled with frank and fresh observations
on everything from the history of landscape painting in Scotland to the shipping
forecast and fish farming, and illustrated
with her own drawings and watercolours,
this is an enthralling account of a remarkable journey. New edition.
NEW SAWNEY BEAN
Dissecting the Legend
of the Scottish Cannibal
Blaine L Pardoe Legend has it that in
the 16th century, Sawney Bean and his
cave-dwelling and incestuous family of
cannibal killers survived for years on the
bodies of over 1,000 victims. In this investigation, Pardoe goes in search of what
is real and what is fictional in the saga of
Sawney Bean and how it has changed
over time. His researches provide some
fascinating insights into the literary formats, anti-Scottish prejudice and sensationalist culture of early modern Britain.
FONTHILL 2015 PB 176pp Illus
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THE BOOK OF ST ANDREWS
An Anthology
Ed. Robert Crawford This anthology of
imaginative writing inspired by or connected with St Andrews reflects the
charmingly kaleidoscopic juxtapositions
of the small but famous town’s buildings
and people. Ranging across millennia, the
poems, stories and memoirs are the work
of more than 60 authors, from Homer to
Ian Rankin, and illustrate the town’s significance as a place of the literary imagination. POLYGON 2007 PB 240pp 127x196mm
£7.99 11102 now £3.99
BIRLINN 2009 PB 185pp Illus 260x190mm
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Archie Foley; Margaret Munro Located three
miles east of Edinburgh, Portobello is best known
as a popular seaside resort. Less well known is
its role in the First World War, when thousands
of British troops were billeted there. Illustrated
with period photographs and including heartfelt
personal letters and diaries, this book documents
the effect of the war on the town, both on the
home front and in terms of the local residents
who fought and died in the conflict.
PORTOBELLO AND THE GREAT WAR
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BRITISH ISLES
ENGLISH JOURNEYS
A Penguin Collection
(Five titles)
The English Journeys set comprises extracts from
five classic works that offer a taste of the rich and
varied writing that England and the English have
inspired – Ronald Blythe: Voices of Akenfield;
Celia Fiennes: Through England on a Side-Saddle;
Edward Thomas: One Green Field; James LeesMilne: Some Country Houses and Their Owners;
Ralph Vaughan Williams & AL Lloyd: English Folk
Songs. This five-volume, slipcased set is exclusive
to Postscript. PENGUIN 2009 PB 603pp 180x110mm
£25.95 83945 now £9.99
Portland Bill lighthouse
Dic Mortimer Although the Roman
fort, built around 55 CE, stands at the
beginning of Cardiff’s recorded history,
archaeological evidence shows that the
local Celtic tribe, the Silures, had established a settlement on the site prior to
this. Examining Cardiff’s history from
the earliest settlements to modern times,
this book explores the historic centre
and waterfront as well as the outlying
suburbs, telling the story of each region
of the modern city in turn.
NEW
CARDIFF: The Biography
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 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
£16.99 21229 now £6.99
WALES
A Walk Through Time
Harlech to Cemaes Bay
Back by
popular
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Brian E Davies Starting at the great
castle of Harlech, this walk through
Welsh landscape and history follows an
upland route to the Vale of Ffestiniog,
then continues via Portmeirion, Porthmadog, the spectacular Pass of Aberglaslyn and Snowdon before continuing
on to Caenarfon, Bangor and Anglesey.
Each chapter covers one day’s walking,
with photographs, maps and a richly detailed historical commentary, making
this a guide for both walkers and armchair hikers. AMBERLEY 2014 PB 96pp Illus
£14.99 21244 now £6.99
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. DB 2012 HB 192pp Illus
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Alvin Nicholas; Ingrid Nicholas The Taff has two sources, which both rise close to
the high peak of Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons and join close to Merthyr Tydfil.
Finding historic curiosities and scenic views along the way, this photographic portfolio
follows the course of the river from the reservoirs and waterfalls of its upper reaches,
through Wales’s historic coalmining and iron-making landscape to the famous
landmarks of Cardiff and eventually the sea. AMBERLEY 2014 HB 159pp Illus 166x244mm
RIVER TAFF: From Source to Sea
£20.00 19861 now £8.99
NEW SOUTH
WEST WALES
Through the Lens
of Harry Squibbs
Volume Two:
Pembrokeshire
Pam Fudge A name
known to postcard
collectors, Harold
Squibbs was a
photographer and
artist working in
South Wales in the
first decades of the 20th century. This book gives a brief account of
Squibbs’s life and work and presents a collection of his photographs
and postcards, produced mostly in the 1910s and 1920s and charting
the landscapes and communities of Pembrokeshire and the area
south of the River Teifi. AMBERLEY 2014 PB 96pp Illus
Newport
between Cwm
and Betws
beaches, looking
towards Parrog
£14.99 21239 now £5.99
Julian Mitchell In the 1740s, a wealthy clergyman began to provide his guests with
a picturesque river trip from his home up the River Wye. Gaining a reputation, the
route inspired a commercial tour taking passengers from Ross to Chepstow, pausing
at Monmouth and Tintern Abbey. This exhibition catalogue tells the story of how
the tour evolved and displays over 100 examples of the work of 18th century artists
who took the trip and recorded the views. LOGASTON 2010 PB 176pp Illus 258x204mm
THE WYE TOUR AND ITS ARTISTS
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BRITISH ISLES
Ian D Rotherham has spent many years delving
into the lost landscape, wildlife and cultures of the
wetlands which once covered the Humber basin,
south Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire. In this
book he sets out the evidence for these ancient
landscapes and the processes of their draining,
before examining the region’s newly emerging wet
fenlands and the positive measures that we should
take in the future to work effectively with nature.
YORKSHIRE’S FORGOTTEN FENLANDS
WHARNCLIFFE 2010 PB 190pp Illus
£10.99 20127 now £4.99
YORKSHIRE WOLDS WAY
Official National Trail Guide
Roger Ratcliffe This illustrated, practical guide
begins with the historical background to the area,
then details the 79-mile route, from Humber
Bridge to Filey on the east coast. With OS mapping.
AURUM 2011 PB 144pp Illus
ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR
A Celebration of the
Commonplace, the Local, the
Vernacular and the Distinctive
Sue Clifford; Angela King Common
Ground is a charity that has pioneered the
notion of ‘local distinctiveness’: written
by two of the founders, this book is a celebration of that principle. It presents an
A-Z of the landscapes, buildings, people
and wildlife and the ‘conspiracy of nature
and culture’ that make each place unique.
From Abbeys to Zig Zags, via Hare Pie
Scrambling, Synagogues and Well-Dressing, in entries often accompanied by
woodcut illustrations, the book explores
‘the extraordinary richness of our everyday surroundings’.
SALT YARD 2006 HB 526pp Illus 245x192mm
£35.00 20401 now £11.99
THROUGH TIME SERIES
In each of the Through Time books,
more than 180 pictures trace some
of the many ways in which towns
have changed over the last century,
with ‘then’ and ‘now’ photographs
and notes on the transformations –
or continuities.
AMBERLEY 2013/14 PB 96pp Illus
David Gwynn
CENTRAL SWANSEA
21912
Steven Wood The Haworth the Brontës knew is presented here in extraordinary
detail: a large scale plan of the village in 1851 shows exactly who lived where and
what they did for a living. This is one of 100 old maps used to portray the history
of these three Yorkshire villages. Spanning more than 300 years, the maps include
estate, waterwork, rail and road plans, and a brief text explains their significance.
NEW
HAWORTH, OXENHOPE AND STANBURY FROM OLD MAPS
AMBERLEY 2014 PB 128pp Illus 169x245mm
£14.99 21237 now £4.99
Rob Talbot; Robin Whiteman
Writer Robin Whiteman and
landscape photographer Rob
Talbot have been working
together for over ten years,
producing books that chronicle
the beauty and diversity of the
English countryside. In this ‘tour
through the Ridings’ they explore
Yorkshire and some of the finest
examples of both natural and
man-made scenery in the country,
from wild coastal moorland to
secluded dales and fertile plains,
and from industrial cities to
medieval York and the dramatic ruins of Fountains and Rievaulx.
YORKSHIRE LANDSCAPES
WEIDENFELD 1998 HB 160pp Illus 298x254mm
£25.00 30980 now £6.99
Norber Boulders
near Austwick in
the Yorkshire Dales
Rob Talbot; Robin Whiteman A magnificent portrait of the Lakes, with Rob
Talbot’s landscape photography and Whiteman’s text describing every aspect
of the region, from its geology to literary and artistic connections.
LAKELAND LANDSCAPES
WEIDENFELD 1997 HB 160pp Illus 289x257mm
£25.00 30981 now £6.99
THE KENT COAST
Gravesend to Margate
Anthony Lane
21235
Steve Harris
21918
Simon Haines
21920
KINGSTEIGNTON
MINEHEAD AND DUNSTER
NORTHERN CANALS
Lancaster, Ulverston, Carlisle
and the Pennine Waterways
Ray Shill
20971
The Friends of Windsor
& Royal Borough Museum
20981
WINDSOR
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THE RIDGEWAY
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. FRANCES LINCOLN 2010
ESSENTIAL ESSEX
HB 112pp Illus 265x248mm
BREEDON 2009 HB 219pp
£16.99 98926 now £7.99
£12.99 85581 now £4.99
Carol Twinch It was in Essex that Julius
Caesar founded his capital, Camulodunum (Colchester). William the Conqueror ruled his new domain from Barking Abbey. Elizabeth I rallied her troops
at Tilbury as they awaited the Spanish
Armada. All this plus Cliff Richard’s
debut at Butlin’s, secret nuclear bunkers
and the home of Gentleman’s Relish
(Elsenham) can be found in this glorious
mix of historic and contemporary Essex
facts and figures, places and people.
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BRITISH ISLES
BRITISH RIVER
NAVIGATIONS
Inland Cuts, Fens,
Dikes, Channels and
Non-Tidal Rivers
NEW
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
The Biography
Nicholas Fogg The connection between
Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare ensured a keen interest in its local records as
early as the 18th century, and the resulting
archives are considerable. This local history
draws on them extensively to provide a detailed and lively picture of life in the town
through the centuries: from its origins as a
monastic settlement to the medieval guilds,
and from the Civil War to the dramatic
changes of the 19th and 20th centuries.
£16.99 21242 now £6.99
Stuart Fisher Beyond the
man-made canal system there
is an extensive network of
navigable inland waterways
in Britain, including famous
stretches of river such as the
Cam running through historic
Cambridge (the Bridge of
Sighs is pictured on the right),
former industrial thoroughfares, deserted fenland drains and hidden backwaters. Researched ‘from the water’,
this comprehensive guide to 47 navigations contains photographs, maps and notes
about each route, and is an invaluable reference for boaters as well as walkers,
cyclists and other visitors to the waterways. BLOOMSBURY 2013 PB 256pp Illus 291x210mm
£25.00 20391 now £9.99
Michael Raffael Bath’s elegant crescents
exude gentility, but in its Georgian heyday
the town was a magnet for card-sharps,
duellists, fortune-hunters and quacks. This
entertaining guide scours the streets of
Britain’s most celebrated spa for mementos of its most colourful characters and
their exploits, from Lady Cobbe’s ghost
to the inventor of Plasticine.
BATH CURIOSITIES
BIRLINN 2006 PB 187pp Illus 216x131mm
£9.99 77328 now £3.99
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. AMBERLEY 2014 PB 160pp Illus 199x124mm
THE VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO CANTERBURY
SOUTHERN COUNTIES
FROM THE AIR
Denny Rowland; John Mannion From
Kent to Dorset, the scenery of the southern
counties takes on a very different perspective
from the air. Photographer Denny Rowland
reveals that the real secret of these needlesharp images is a plane which can fly very
low and slow. Spectacular images of rolling
hills, seaside towns, picturesque villages,
stately homes and patchwork fields are laid
out before us, and John Mannion’s informative text combines history, geography, and
geology to provide further depth and context.
MYRIAD 2011 HB 128pp Illus 297x267mm
£20.00 40409 now £6.99
£9.99 19329 now £4.99
SECRETS OF THE HIDDEN SOURCE
In Search of Devon’s Ancient and Holy Wells
Terry Faull Natural springs were revered by Devon’s Celtic and early Christian
inhabitants as places of healing and spirituality. Local place names give clues to their
locations and many in fact still exist, hidden among modern town developments or in
remote and neglected rural spots. This book explores the history of sacred wells in the
county and seeks out over 90 surviving examples, with location photographs and notes
on how to find them. HALSGROVE 2004 HB 144pp Illus 220x235mm
£14.95 19541 now £6.99
WEYMOUTH
AND PORTLAND
Then Meets Now
Maureen Attwooll John Speed’s
1601 map of Dorsetshire contains
place names and an indication of
topography but it is the Ordnance
Survey of 1811 that first presents
a precise arrangement of the
geography to compare with later
developments. Reviewing a
selection of over 70 historic maps
from a Tudor town plan to the
1957 Ordnance Survey, this book
studies the changes in Weymouth
and Portland over the centuries,
supported by historic illustrations and archive and modern photographs.
DORSET 2011 HB 144pp Illus 237x256mm
£19.99 20288 now £7.99
Rodney Cooper The historic Dorset port of
Poole attracts visitors for its beaches and water sports and within a few miles are the natural wonders of the Isle of Purbeck and the
ancient towns of Wareham and Wimborne
Minster. This colourful guide includes historical notes, visitor information, directions
and photographs of all the main attractions
in the area, including Lulworth Cove, Corfe
Castle and Badbury Rings Iron Age fort.
DISCOVER POOLE
HALSGROVE 2011 HB 144pp Illus 214x228mm
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Old Battersea Bridge
by Walter Greaves
Peter Matthews In 1750 there was one bridge across the
Thames in London; today there are 33: twenty for road traffic,
ten railway bridges and three for pedestrians only. Matthews
presents an illustrated history of each bridge, its planning and
construction and its predecessors at the same crossing point.
Fascinating in themselves, the individual bridges’ stories
are part of the bigger picture of London’s development
from the Middle Ages to the new millennium, and a
reflection of architectural and engineering progress
and innovation. SHIRE 2008 PB 176pp Illus 254x194mm
NEW
LONDON’S BRIDGES
Not simply a striking image of a bus in the air, our
cover this month represents two features of London
that have slipped into the past – the much-loved
Routemaster and Millwall Docks. With apologies
to modern marvels such as the Gherkin and the
Millennium Bridge, these pages are looking back into
intriguing facets of the city’s architectural, industrial
and social history. Rather than palaces and grand
thoroughfares, our selection unearths the likes of
Battersea’s rickety wooden bridge (demolished 1885),
the Louse Church (designed by Hawksmoor and
Jones in 1732, bombed in 1940), a Byzantine subway
under Crystal Palace (currently walled up), and
an East End rag and bone man in the 1960s.
£12.99 22124 now £7.99
The first Michelin Green Guide was published in
1926 and devoted to Brittany; now they cover cities
and regions from New York to South Korea, always
packed full of information on local history, art, culture
and sightseeing as well where to eat, sleep and shop.
The guide to London covers the capital and nearby
sites such as Hampton Court and Windsor Castle,
and includes walking tours, street maps, plans, and
details of all the major museums and galleries.
NEW
LONDON: THE GREEN GUIDE
Columbia
Market,
described
by Pevsner
as ‘one of
the greatest
follies of the
Victorian age’.
MICHELIN 2013 PB 468pp Illus 218x114mm
£14.99 21822 now £3.99
Richard Tames London is forever reinventing itself, and buildings and
customs that once seemed permanent landmarks are now forgotten curios.
Every page of this engrossing book brings to light some fascinating facet
of history, from the Jacobean New Exchange that once stood on the
Strand to the ‘Charleys’ who once patrolled the city streets. More than
400 alphabetical entries, illustrated with historic images, bring to life
a lost world of coffee-houses and gin palaces, pillories and prefabs,
sedan chairs and soup kitchens. HISTORICAL 2008 HB 240pp Illus
NEW
THE LONDON WE HAVE LOST
£22.50 20425 now £7.99
LOST LONDON
1870-1945
Unloading bananas at the West India Docks in 1946
NEW LONDON’S DOCKLANDS
A History of the Lost Quarter
Fiona Rule Three generations ago, London’s
sprawling network of wharfs, quays, canals,
warehouses and high-walled basins provided
employment for 100,000 men. Today, it has all
but disappeared under office buildings. This
fascinating account charts the rise and fall of the
city’s lost quarter through the lives of people who
lived and worked in the area: dockers, seamen,
shipbuilders, wharfingers, merchant adventurers,
pirates, socialist agitators, brothel keepers and
opium eaters. IAN ALLAN 2012 PB 336pp Illus
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Philip Davies Featuring more
than 500 mostly unpublished
photographs from the London
County Council archive, this richly
evocative book opens a window
on a vanished past. Spanning 75
years, from 1870 to 1945, it charts
the transition from a Dickensian
world of coaching inns to the
devastation of the Blitz, revealing
the architectural beauty that
London has lost, explaining
why some buildings have survived
while others have perished, and
sounding a clarion call to save
what remains. TRANSATLANTIC
£39.95 88282 now £16.99
The Louse Church in
Bermondsey, nicknamed
after the shape of its
weather vane, was
demolished in 1972
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The
Crystal
Palace
subway
Steve Lewis found fame as a show business photographer, but
London’s East End was his first home. This collection of his
photographs reveals life on those streets during the early 1960s.
Uncaptioned, they speak loudly and poignantly of the variety
and drama of everyday life, for the families who had lived there
for generations and for the newly arriving immigrants. There is
poverty and hardship, but also laughter and above all a strong
sense of community. HISTORY PRESS 2014 HB 120pp Illus 227x248mm
NEW
AN EAST END ALBUM
NEW LONDON’S LABYRINTH
The World Beneath the City’s Streets
Fiona Rule London’s Underground is familiar to anyone
who lives in the capital, but beyond and below it stretches
a vast network of subterranean tunnels, from Victorian
sewers to Cold War bunkers. This enthralling book probes
the mysterious world beneath the city streets, and its dark
and dramatic history. Rich in detail, anecdote and urban myth,
it explores the ghost stations, lost rivers, air-raid shelters and
secret passageways that lurk beneath the metropolis, and the
strange crimes committed there. IAN ALLAN 2012 HB 192pp Illus
£19.99 20529 now £6.99
£20.00 22730 now £8.99
Nick Barratt From Barnet to Croydon, London’s suburbs stretch over
more than 600 square miles, but in most accounts of the capital they
take a back seat. This superb history places them centre stage, tracing
their journey from villages far out in open countryside to urban
enclaves, charting the transformation wrought by the railways and
the struggle to create a London-wide government. Illustrated with
contemporary engravings and photographs, this is essential reading for
anyone who has ever lived in London. RANDOM HOUSE 2014 PB 607pp Illus
NEW
’.
GREATER LONDON: The Story of the Suburbs
£13.99 22823 now £6.99
The rise of the mansion block: Du Cane Court in Balham, 1935
BUILDING LONDON
The Making of a Modern Metropolis
Bruce Marshall Over the past four centuries London has expanded from
within its medieval walls to absorb Westminster, Southwark and the
surrounding villages. Bruce Marshall’s impressive book explores the diverse
forces driving the city’s apparently haphazard growth, with more than 400
photographs in colour and black and white showing the architectural diversity
of its civic halls and corporate headquarters, theatres and stadiums, Victorian
villas and post-war estates, and its world-famous landmarks from the Tower
of London to the London Eye. MAINSTREAM 2007 HB 304pp Illus 338x218mm
£35.00 22003 now £12.99
Eros being moved before Piccadilly Circus Underground was excavated in the 1920s
A climbing lion and
dragon on the restored
Henry VII chapel of
Westminster Abbey
Ianthe Ruthven Everyone is familiar with the great lions that sit atop plinths
in Trafalgar Square but hidden among the architecture, statuary and graffiti
of London is a menagerie of other creatures with interesting stories to tell.
With photographs, historical notes and location maps, this book provides
an alternative guide to London, drawing the eye to rooftops and architectural
details to find dragons, camels, fish, insects and all manner of other creatures.
ANIMAL LONDON: A Spotter’s Guide
SQUARE PEG 2011 PB 173pp Illus 190x190mm
£9.99 16394 now £5.99
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BIOGRAPHY
THOMAS CROMWELL
The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s
Most Notorious Minister
Robert Hutchinson The son of a brewer, Thomas
Cromwell (1485-1540) rose to become Earl of
Essex, Vice-Regent and High Chamberlain of
England, Keeper of the Privy Seal and Chancellor
of the Exchequer. Cromwell was a master of
intrigue and pursued both his own career and the
interests of the king with bribery, corruption and a
single-minded energy. Drawing on contemporary
sources and quoting the words of the protagonists,
Hutchinson provides a colourful narrative of the
rise and fall of Henry VIII’s notorious Chief
Minister. THOMAS DUNNE 2007 PB 368pp Illus
$17.99 22477 now £3.99
THE WATCHFUL CLOTHIER
The Life of an Eighteenth-Century
Protestant Capitalist
Matthew Kadane A clothier and a deeply
religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept
a diary from 1733 until his death, two and
a half million words later, in 1768. Interpreted here by Matthew Kadane, the diary
contains reflections on Ryder’s family life,
religion, society and his state of mind; but
as an entrepreneur in Leeds, his observations also give a real-life perspective on
the relationship between capitalism and
Protestantism and what life was like during
the transition to modern capitalist society.
£35.00 20171 now £9.99
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. Bestselling author
Phillippa Gregory teams up with two
leading historians of the period 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
£18.99 91684 now £7.99
THE LIFE OF ANTHONY
WOOD IN HIS OWN WORDS
Ed. Nicolas K Kiessling The antiquarian
Anthony Wood (1632-95) spent most of
his life in Oxford and devoted himself
to the history of the university. His account of his own life, Secretum Antoni,
was composed to defend himself against
charges of libel. It presents a vivid picture of Oxford during the Civil War and
its aftermath, with information about eminent figures such as Christopher Wren
and John Locke and entertaining social
commentary. This first modern edition
is based on all the surviving sources.
Back by
popular
demand
ENLIGHTENMENT PRELATE
Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761
William Gibson Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop
in turn of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and
Winchester, was the most controversial
churchman of the 18th century. His sermon
on the nature of Christ’s kingdom sparked off
the Bangorian controversy which raged from
1717 to 1720, he was a committed Whig, and
a disciple of Locke. This study offers a fresh
appreciation of Hoadly’s life and work, but
also illuminates the thought of adversaries
such as Charles Leslie and Henry Sacheverell.
JAMES CLARKE 2004 HB 384pp Illus
£54.00 20907 now £9.99
NEW
THE HAMILTON LETTERS
The Naples Dispatches
of Sir William Hamilton
Ed. John A Davis; Giovanni Capuano Collector, connoisseur, amateur scientist and archaeologist, Sir William Hamilton was the
quintessential Enlightenment man. As George
III’s ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples,
he witnessed some of the most crucial events
of the Napoleonic Wars, including Nelson’s
controversial actions. This complete collection of Hamilton’s correspondence with the
English court between 1797 and 1799, published here with an informative introduction
and notes, provides a vivid, day-by-day account of events that would shape the destinies
of Britain, Italy, France and Spain.
IB TAURIS 2008 HB 270pp
£31.00 21353 now £7.99
BODLEIAN LIBRARY 2009 HB 266pp Illus
THE PRINCE OF MEDICINE
Galen in the Roman Empire
Susan P Mattern Galen of Pergamum,
court physician to the family of the emperor
Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential
figure in western medicine until the 20th
century. In the first biography of Galen
in English, Mattern examines his prodigious corpus of philosophical and medical
treatises to paint a portrait of a shameless
self-publicist who could be arrogant and
fiercely competitive but was also relentless
in his pursuit of cures and an advocate of
rigorous observation and experimentation.
OXFORD UP 2013 HB 358pp Illus
£20.00 18887 now £8.99
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NEW WELLINGTON’S RIGHT HAND
Rowland, Viscount Hill
Joanna Hill Rowland Hill succeeded the Duke of
Wellington as Commander-in-Chief of the British
Army in 1828 having successfully served under
him throughout the Peninsular Wars and at
Waterloo. This biography of the trusted and popular
leader, written by a descendant, draws on a wide
range of primary sources, including the Hill papers
in the British Library which contain an extensive
collection of letters to and from Wellington and
other military figures as well as personal
correspondence. SPELLMOUNT 2012 PB 256pp Illus
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BIOGRAPHY
NEW FROM SUFFRAGETTE
TO FASCIST
The Many Lives of Mary Sophia Allen
Nina Boyd Mary Allen (1878-1964) was a
redoubtable woman whose life embraced many
of the key issues of the early 20th century. She
was a suffragette, then a pioneer in creating
Britain’s first female police force. Her useful
police work during the First World War was
overshadowed by her later adoption of Fascism,
her formation of a private women’s army
and her increasingly dogmatic and irascible
behaviour, which set her at odds with the
authorities. HISTORY PRESS 2013 HB 168pp Illus
£14.99 22743 now £5.99
NEW LORD ESHER
A Political Biography
Peter Fraser Reginald Baliol Brett (18521930), the second Lord Esher, sat in both
Houses of Parliament, was a high ranking
civil servant and friend and confidential
adviser to three sovereigns and four prime
ministers. However large he loomed in
late Victorian and Edwardian political life,
Esher was an enigma to his contemporaries and remains a puzzle to historians.
Fraser’s study sheds light on a man whose
influence was regarded by many as unconstitutional and sinister.
£25.00 21495 now £7.99
NEW
CHARLES WATERTON
A Biography
Brian W Edginton A true English eccentric, Yorkshire squire Charles Waterton
(1782-1856) talked to insects, fought with
snakes, rode an alligator and lived like a
monk. Long before such things were fashionable, he turned his family estate into a
nature reserve, while his three-volume
natural history and his Wanderings in
South America became bestsellers in their
day. This exuberant biography embraces
its subject’s originality and quirky humour
to celebrate the indomitable spirit of a
pioneering environmentalist.
LUTTERWORTH 1996 HB 266pp Illus
£29.00 20900 now £9.99
THE HEIR APPARENT
A Life of Edward VII,
the Playboy Prince
Jane Ridley This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of
Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the
quintessential black sheep of Buckingham
Palace, who matured into a wise and effective monarch. Known to familiars as
‘Bertie’, the future King Edward VII had
a well-earned reputation for debauchery,
and when he became king in 1901, expectations were low. A magnificent life
of an unexpectedly impressive king, Jane
Ridley’s much-acclaimed study documents the remarkable transformation of a
man – and a monarchy.
RANDOM HOUSE 2013 HB 751pp Illus
$35.00 20155 now £7.99
NEW
THE LETTERS OF
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Volume 1: 1907-1922
Ed. Sandra Spanier; Robert W Trogdon Ernest Hemingway’s letters to his
family and friends reveal a far more complex character than the tough-guy public
persona he cultivated: here we find a devoted son, affectionate brother, infatuated
lover and disciplined writer. Volume 1 of
this first complete edition covers his experiences in the First World War and his
arrival in Paris, offering first-hand insight
into his creative process and the events
and relationships that inspired his novels.
With a detailed introduction, notes,
chronology, illustrations and index.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2011 HB 516pp Illus
£29.99 21040 now £12.99
Ed. Hunter Davies Alfred Wainwright
(1907-91) will always be known for his
handwritten, hand-drawn Pictorial Guides
to the Lakeland Fells. Throughout his life,
he was an eloquent and witty correspondent, as this selection of letters, compiled
by his biographer and fellow Lakeland resident Hunter Davies, testifies. Written to
friends, publishers, fans of his guidebooks
and to Betty, his great love and second wife,
they reveal a more sensitive character, eccentric, tough-minded yet innocent, than
his bluff public persona would suggest.
THE WAINWRIGHT LETTERS
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB 414pp
£20.00 99840 now £7.99
ARBITER OF ELEGANCE
A Biography of Robert Adam
Roderick Graham The 18th century is
known as the age of elegance, and few
contributed more to that elegance than
the architect Robert Adam, whose cool,
rational classicism has come to define
the era. But, as this revealing, meticulously researched and extensively illustrated biography demonstrates, the style,
harmony and poise that became his signature did not come easily, but were the
product of intense study, purposeful travel
– and the driving ambition of this son
of an Edinburgh builder to be accepted as
a gentleman. BIRLINN 2009 HB 400pp Illus
£25.00 69637 now £7.99
THE PROFLIGATE SON
Fashionable Vice and Financial
Ruin in Regency Britain
Nicola Phillips William Jackson was a
charming, popular public schoolboy with
the world at his feet – until his attempts to
keep up with his Regency dandy friends set
him at odds with his family and led to his ruin.
This absorbing account draws on papers that
have lain in the archives for two centuries to
reveal how an appalled father charted his
son’s descent into a murky underworld of debt,
disease, prostitution and crime, culminating
in his transportation to Australia for fraud.
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BIOGRAPHY
NEW HOW MANY CAMELS
ARE THERE IN HOLLAND?
Dementia, Ma and Me
Phyllida Law Following on from the success of
Notes to My Mother-in-Law, this is Phyllida Law’s
affectionate and moving account of looking after
her own mother, Mego, as dementia took hold. She
has help from her actress daughters Emma and
Sophie Thompson, and a bevy of helpers and
neighbours. Their story is told with great warmth
and humour, as the memories and legends of
family life are resurrected at this challenging time.
FOURTH ESTATE 2013 HB 205pp Illus
£12.99 21415 now £4.99
Michael Baxandall (1933-2008) was probably
the most influential art historian of his generation.
In this memoir, he reflects on his childhood in
Cardiff, his education at Cambridge and on
the continent, and his early work with Pope
Hennessey at the V&A and Gombrich at the
Warburg. Its elegant prose offers a rare insight
into the mind of this ‘laconic, intense, shy,
passionate man’, as the Italian historian
Carlo Ginzburg describes him in the foreword.
NEW
THE DIARY OF
LENA MUKHINA
NEW
Elena Mukhina Sixteen year-old Lena
Mukhina lived through the Siege of
Leningrad in 1941-42, and through it all
she kept a diary. Translated here for the
first time, it constitutes a vivid testimony
of how she, her family and her fellow citizens fought to stay alive in a living hell
that lasted for months through the bitterly
cold Russian winter. Her courage and insight make this an absorbing and moving
account of the cruelty of war.
EPISODES: A Memorybook
FRANCES LINCOLN 2010 HB 144pp Illus
£14.99 20515 now £6.99
MACMILLAN 2014 PB 396pp Illus
£16.99 21458 now £6.99
JEW SÜSS
Life, Legend, Fiction, Film
Susan Tegel Joseph Süss Oppenheimer
(1698-1738) was a financial advisor to
the Duke of Wurttemberg. Clever, handsome and charming, he thrived at court,
but his economic policies were unpopular,
and when the duke died suddenly, he was
arrested on trumped-up charges and executed. This fascinating and chilling account charts his life, death and posthumous reputation, and how a sympathetic
novel by the Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger was transformed into a virulently
anti-Semitic film at the instigation of
Joseph Goebbels.
CONTINUUM 2011 HB 297pp Illus
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THE YOUNG HITLER I KNEW
The Memoirs of Hitler’s
Childhood Friend
August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in
Vienna in 1904. Their mutual passion for
music created a bond, and over the next
four years they became friends, even sharing a flat at one point. Kubicek’s memoir
was first published in 1953, but has never
before appeared in a full English translation; it offers a rare glimpse into the
dictator’s formative years and provides
important insights into his personality.
Ian Kershaw, Britain’s leading historian
of the Third Reich, provides a critical introduction. FRONTLINE 2011 PB 264pp Illus
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My Mother’s Unknown Life
Elisa Segrave As Anne Segrave approached old age and dementia, her
daughter Elisa was faced with the daunting task of sorting through her mother’s
belongings and was astonished to find a
cache of Second World War diaries that
revealed an adventurous woman she
barely recognized. This biographical account describes Anne’s wartime adventures through Bletchley Park, Bomber
Command and a newly liberated Germany, and includes many extracts from
the original diaries.
UNION 2013 HB 355pp Illus 240x160mm
£18.99 19522 now £6.99
Paul Merton Paul Martin renamed himself after
the London borough of Merton when informed
by the actor’s union, Equity, that a juggler in Leeds
was already working under his real name. He
soon established himself as a leading light of the
alternative comedy scene of the 1980s. Recounting
his childhood and adolescence, rise to fame and
personal struggles, including a description of his
spell in the Maudsley psychiatric hospital in 1990,
this autobiography is a candid summary of his
life and career. EBURY 2014 HB 352pp Illus
NEW
ONLY WHEN I LAUGH
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NEW JANE AUSTEN’S
COUNTRY LIFE
Uncovering the Rural Backdrop to
Her Life, Her Letters and Her Novels
Deirdre Le Faye Jane Austen spent most of her
life in two Hampshire villages, where her father
was a clergyman and farmer. Yet while the
Regency townscape of Bath described in her
novels has been studied and celebrated, this
is the first book to focus on the agricultural
backdrop to her life and work. Drawing on
her letters and other family documents, and
richly illustrated with contemporary paintings
and prints, it vividly recreates the life of
rural England during the Napoleonic Wars.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2014 HB 270pp Illus 210x150mm
£20.00 20519 now £8.99
Peter Ackroyd Born in Marylebone in
1824, Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman
in White and The Moonstone, was a true
Londoner, fascinated by the secrets and
crimes – the fraud, blackmail and poisonings – that lay behind the city’s respectable
facade. Collins had his own secrets: despite
his unprepossessing appearance, he sustained two long-term relationships with
two loyal women. Here, Peter Ackroyd
tells the story of the novelist’s life, his work
and his complex domestic arrangements.
WILKIE COLLINS
VINTAGE 2013 PB 208pp Illus
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HERMAN HESSE
The Classic Biography
Bernhard Zeller The Nobel Prizewinning author Herman Hesse (1877-1962)
was one of the most influential writers of
the 20th century. This biography, first published in German soon after his death,
draws on the recollections of family and
friends, including literary contemporaries
Thomas Mann and André Gide. It reveals
how formative experiences such as his
journey to India, his Jungian analysis, and
his emigration to Switzerland in protest
against German militarism found expression in his novels Steppenwolf, Siddartha
and The Glass Bead Game.
NEW THE ADVENTURES OF
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Russell Miller Famed for his Sherlock
Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle fretted that his creation had overshadowed
his more ‘serious’ literary efforts. He was
also a prolific letter writer, and this biography – the first to be based on unrestricted access to his correspondence –
offers a sympathetic and rounded portrait
of the writer and the man, from his difficult childhood in Edinburgh to the later
obsession with spiritualism that baffled
and frustrated his friends and fans alike.
PIMLICO 2009 PB 528pp Illus
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HOLDING ON
UPSIDE DOWN
The Life and Work
of Marianne Moore
PETER OWEN 2014 PB 220pp Illus
Linda Leavell Marianne Moore is a poet
of paradoxes: a major figure in the Modernist movement, she is little known outside English departments. She kept a detailed record of her life, but never revealed
her deepest feelings. Capable of warm
friendship (with, among others, Elizabeth
Bishop, TS Eliot and Ezra Pound), she
apparently never fell in love. The first biographer allowed to access and quote
from her archives, Leavell has created a
sensitive, insightful and authoritative life
of this deeply private poet.
£14.99 19602 now £6.99
FABER 2013 HB 479pp Illus
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Murder in the Making: More Stories
and Secrets from Her Notebooks
John Curran The ingenious plots of
Agatha Christie’s mysteries continue to
intrigue readers decades after they were
written. How did she do it? Drawing on
her unpublished notebooks, personal papers and letters, this book offers a unique
insight into the mind and working methods
of one of the world’s most popular authors.
Among the gems in these pages are
Christie’s own essay on Hercule Poirot, a
chapter deleted from The Mysterious Affair
at Styles, and a previously unseen Miss
Marple story. HARPER 2011 HB 430pp Illus
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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. PAN 2013 PB 336pp Illus
SO I HAVE THOUGHT OF YOU
The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
Ed. Terence Dooley Penelope Fitzgerald
(1916-2000) is acknowledged as one of the
finest English novelists of the late 20th century. Introduced by her friend AS Byatt,
this selection of her letters spans more than
half a century. Their recipients range from
family and intimate friends to fellow writers
such as Sybille Bedford, Julian Barnes and
Hilary Mantel. Tender, funny, sometimes
scathing but always insightful, they produce
a rounded picture of this remarkable
woman as a mother, a writer and a friend.
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THE SUPERIOR PERSON’S
SECOND BOOK OF WORDS
Peter Bowler Following the success of his first
volume of outlandish vocabulary, ‘deranged
lexicographer’ Peter Bowler presents another 600
weapons to arm the verbally oppressed. From
abdabs to zoopery, Bowler has collected ‘words that
would otherwise lie unseen and moribund in the
smallest print of the largest dictionaries’, with notes
on their meaning and usage to prevent any
catachresis. BLOOMSBURY 2003 HB 158pp
£9.99 36906 now £3.99
THE SUPERIOR PERSON’S
THIRD BOOK OF WORDS
GRAMMAR FOR GROWN-UPS
Everything you Need to Know
But Never Learnt in School
Craig Shrives During his many years as
an intelligence officer, Craig Shrives
learned how to write clearly for the eyes
of British and American generals. In this
guide he shares his practical experience:
he identifies common mistakes and ambiguities and offers suggestions for correcting and clarifying what you want to say;
and a final section gives useful advice on
easily-confused words. KYLE 2012 HB 251pp
Peter Bowler Why say ‘willy-nilly’ when you could
say ‘nolens volens’? Peter Bowler’s third collection
of verbarian exotica aims to fortify your vocabulary
and allow you assert your ascendancy ‘at the traffic
lights of life’, possibly. Along with practical definitions for words like haptephobia
(fear of being touched) and oscitancy (yawning), Bowler relates cheerful anecdotes
of eccentric scholars, idiotic concepts, oddities of the intellectual life and the odd
deliberate mistake. BLOOMSBURY 2004 HB 150pp
£9.99 62687 now £3.99
MIND THE GAFFE
A Troubleshooter’s Guide
to English Style and Usage
RL Trask First published in 2001 as Mind the
Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors
in English this A-Z by the linguist RL Trask
(1944-2004) is now revered as an invaluable
guide for wordsmiths and language aficionados.
Trask points out significant differences in
American and British usage and this American
edition favours American over British examples
in the listing. Off-mint; felt-tip mark on lower
trimmed edge. HARPER 2006 PB 312pp
£9.99 91829 now £4.99
SMITH’S COPIOUS AND
CRITICAL ENGLISH-LATIN
(1870)
DICTIONARY
William Smith; Theophilus D Hall
William Smith (1813-93) abandoned a legal career to become a prolific author of
classical reference works. His name was
a guarantee of quality scholarship –
though over half of this dictionary was in
fact the work of Hall! Designed for students writing Latin prose, it provides a
careful analysis of the various meanings
of English words, phrases and idioms,
giving the nearest Latin equivalents from
the best classical authors; it also includes
a list of Latin personal and place-names.
No jacket. WPC 2000 HB 1012pp
£39.95 79433 now £15.99
$13.95 20004 now £3.99
Peter Novobatzky; Ammon Shea From
aboiement (the involuntary blurting of animal
noises) to xanthodont (having yellow teeth),
via gardyloo and slubberdegullion, this lexicon
defines, with examples of their usage, some
300 of the most depraved and disgusting words
in the English language, past and present.
‘They are all first-rate words’, insist the editors,
‘and we present them to the reader with pride’.
DEPRAVED ENGLISH
ROBERT HALE 2010 PB 175pp Illus
£9.99 19140 now £3.99
Linda and Roger Flavell Both scholarly and entertaining, this dictionary defines
almost 300 commonly used words – from accolade to zoo – traces their origins and
places them in their historical contexts. It also illustrates the usage of every word
with at least one quotation, mostly drawn from modern literature and journalism;
and throughout the book there are discussions of more general topics such as the
common names of plants, acronyms and the distaff side. KYLE CATHIE 2008 PB 320pp
DICTIONARY OF WORD ORIGINS
£9.99 21246 now £4.99
DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS
and Their Origins
Linda and Roger Flavell Packed with such essential information as who originally
went berserk, and why crocodiles shed tears, this dictionary traces the etymologies of
over 500 idiomatic phrases, from above board to the wrong side of the bed, and sets out
the possibilities when origins are in doubt. Revised edition. KYLE CATHIE 2011 PB 352pp
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NEW MIND-BENDING PUZZLES
AND FASCINATING FACTS
A Compendium For All Ages
Paul Williams Why did grandfather
clocks once suffer ‘Thursday disease’?
How can you construct your own Sudoku
puzzles? How does one use a Chinese dictionary? Was Descartes right when he said
‘I think therefore I am’? Does ‘yes’ ever
mean ‘no’? Paul Williams explains more
than 120 conundrums, curiosities and surprising trivia, categorized from ‘easy’ to
‘fiendish’, which will challenge and stimulate all the family.
BOOK GUILD 2011 HB 166pp Illus
REFERENCE
NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA
PARANOIACA
Ed. Henry Beard; Christopher Cerf
From abstinence (celibacy turns out to be
quite dangerous) to zombulation (a variety
of financial disaster), this is an authoritative
inventory of everything we should be afraid
of or worried about. As well as the usual
suspects – french fries, smoking, global
warming etc – the authors have researched
and fully documented dangers lurking in
almost everything, including brown rice,
low-heeled shoes, money and welcome mats.
DUCKWORTH 2013 HB 395pp
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HOW TO SOUND
CULTURED
Thomas W Hodgkinson; Hubert van
den Bergh Covering such inscrutable
characters as Heidegger, Montaigne,
Kahlo and Lévi-Strauss, the authors have
chosen 250 names that are often dropped
into intellectual conversation and provide
information about who these people were
and what they achieved. Arranged under
headings such as Creative Traumas, Dipsomaniacs, the Vatican Says No and Surprise Bestsellers, the book will allow you
to follow highbrow chatter and also avoid
embarrassments such as mistaking Rimbaud for Rambo, or Georg Lukács for
George Lucas. ICON 2015 HB 398pp
THE I USED TO KNOW THAT
ACTIVITY BOOK
Stuff You Forgot from School
Caroline Taggart Just for fun, you understand, here are tests on English language and literature, history, geography,
maths, science and general studies. You
did know this stuff once – it’s just a matter
of bringing it out of those dusty cerebral
filing cabinets. Do not look at the answers
at the back until you are really stuck.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2012 PB 224pp
£9.99 16988 now £3.99
£12.99 21427 now £5.99
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
TELLING DILDRAMS AND
TALKING WHIFF-WHAFF
A General Dictionary
of Provincialisms
William Holloway (1786-1870) was an
early environmentalist, social reformer
and collector of ephemera. His General
Dictionary of Provincialisms, first published in 1839, was an offshoot of his mania for collecting: it was a compilation of
regional and dialect words and ‘fast fading
relics’ which he hoped to rescue from
oblivion. Reprinted in facsimile, it offers
a wondrous selection of arcane vocabulary, from abel-whackets (a sailors’ card
game) to the onomatopoeic zwop. Foreword by David Crystal.
OLD HOUSE 2012 HB 224pp
£10.00 19228 now £4.99
ENCARTA BOOK
OF QUOTATIONS
Ed. Bill Swainson From Hank Aaron
(b.1934), an American baseball star, to
the Chilean poet Raul Zurita (b. 1951),
this book contains 25,000 quotations by
more than 6,200 authors. International in
scope, the listings are also up to date,
with about half the quotations taken from
the last 100 years. The clearly laid-out
entries give authors’ dates, sources for the
quotations and contextual notes; and the
keyword and thematic indexes make it
easy to find the quotation you want.
BLOOMSBURY 2000 HB 1,340pp
£30.00 20223 now £11.99
IT’S ABOUT TIME
From Calendars and Clocks to Moon
Cycles and Light Years: A History
Liz Evers In the modern world we are
obsessed with time, having spent centuries
perfecting new methods of measuring and
defining it. Liz Evers’s history of timekeeping begins with ways of calculating
the planet’s age, then surveys the origins
and impact of each new development.
Throughout the book she provides fascinating trivia such as the size of the world’s
largest and smallest clocks and Linnaeus’
idea for using flowers to tell the time.
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NEW THE ART OF MANTUA
Power and Patronage
in the Renaissance
Barbara Furlotti; Guido Rebecchini
From the legend of its origin, as told by
Dante, through the medieval period and the
Renaissance, up to the sack of Mantua in 1627
and the demise of the Gonzaga dynasty, this
volume interweaves the story of the city and
its ruling family with the art and artists who
flourished there. Andrea Mantegna, Correggio,
Titian, Giulio Romano and Andrea del Sarto
are among the artists whose works are
discussed and illustrated, along with
architectural achievements including
Romano’s Palazzo Te. THE J PAUL GETTY
Peggy Fogelma
Cambareri The
the Getty Museu
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MUSEUM 2008 HB 278pp Illus 320x280mm
MUSEUM 2002 H
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Allegory of the Virtues by Correggio, c.1530
Bust of Emperor
unknown Florent
REMBRANDT TO GAINSBOROUGH
Masterpieces from
Dulwich Picture Gallery
NEW THE POETRY
OF INK
The Korean Literati
Tradition 1392-1910
Pierre Cambon;
Joseph P Carroll
Although overshadowed
by China, the ‘Land of
the Morning Calm’
escaped the invasions
that disrupted its larger
neighbour, preserving
its refined tradition of
Confucian art. This fully
illustrated catalogue of
Scholar in Landscape by Yun Che-hong, 1803
an exhibition at the
Musée Guimet in Paris draws on private collections to present more than 150 paintings,
ceramics, fans and items of furniture, many unknown to the public, and explores the
distinctive Korean culture that created these exquisite depictions of plants, animals
and landscapes. RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX 2005 HB 280pp Illus 280x220mm
21170 now £16.99
UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI
The Sixty-Nine Stations
of the Kisokaidô
Sarah E Thompson The Kisokaido was
an historic route between the cities of Edo
(modern Tokyo) and Kyoto in Japan. The
master artist Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) drew
on literature, legends and kabuki plays to
create his vision of the towns and stations
along the road in a collection of 72 colourful
ukiyo-e prints. The prints are reproduced
here with details and a commentary on
each image on the facing page and a brief
introduction to the artist and ukiyo-e.
NEW
Ian AC Dejardine; Desmond Shawe-Taylor;
Giles Waterfield The Dulwich Picture Gallery w
founded in 1811 as England’s first public museu
It boasts a remarkable collection of Baroque and
Rococo art, with major pieces from each of the
period’s six dominant European schools: Italian
Spanish, French, Flemish, Dutch and English –
and individual masterpieces by Tiepolo, Canale
Velázquez, Murillo, Poussin, Claude, Rubens,
Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Lely, Gainsborough and
many others. Over 90 of these opulent works
are fully discussed and sumptuously illustrated
in this beautiful and fully annotated volume.
MERRELL 1999 HB 248pp Illus 299x239mm
£39.95 29142 now £7.99
Detail of The Madonna of the Rosary by Murillo, c.16
Ed. Alison Smith Watercolour is an accessible a
landscapists and professional artists alike, and pe
painting tradition. This catalogue, published for
essays by the curators and 145 colour reproducti
in Britain from medieval illuminated manuscript
illustrations and the work of painters such as Tur
Howard Hodgkin and Callum Innes. TATE 2011 P
WATERCOLOUR
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POMEGRANATE 2009 HB 165pp Illus
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Nagakubo: Oshichi and Kichiza – the
doomed lovers are pictured by
Kuniyoshi at the Nagakubo station, 1852
Jim Cheshire Exploring the reasons behind the huge rise in popularity of stained
glass during the Victorian period, Jim Cheshire’s illustrated study examines in
detail the work of three glass-painters in Wellington, Bristol and Exeter, and their
patrons, projects and working practises. In so doing it sheds new light on the
wider subjects of the Gothic Revival and the relationship between architecture
and the decorative arts at this time. MANCHESTER UP 2004 HB 198pp Illus
STAINED GLASS AND THE VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL
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ART DECO
The Golden Age of Graphic Art and llustration
ITALIAN AND
NISH SCULPTURE
Michael Robinson; Rosalind Ormiston Beginning
with an exploration of the ideas and influences that
contributed to the exuberant new style of the 1920s,
this illustrated survey covers the two areas in which
Art Deco triumphed: fashion and advertising. It looks
at the work of artists such as Tamara de Lempica,
Erté, René Lalique and Georges Barbier in fashion,
and AM Cassandre and Paul Colin in advertising, but
also describes the media in which they worked and
the social context of their extraordinary graphics.
Fogelman; Peter Fusco; Marietta
areri The sculpture collection in
tty Museum is known both for its
by renowned artists and for its high
y works by lesser known sculptors.
umptuous catalogue of the Italian and
h sculpture reflects this reputation,
xceptional works by Cellini, Bernini
anova as well as dozens of stunning
by other artists. Each piece is
in a number of photographs, along
etailed information on its history,
raphy, manufacture, material
ndition. THE J PAUL GETTY
FLAME TREE 2013 HB 192pp Illus 277x290mm
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Detail from New Bridges
for the Seven Seas,
a Harper’s Bazaar
cover illustration
by Erté, 1919
UM 2002 HB 376pp Illus 304x228mm
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Emperor Commodus by an
wn Florentine artist, late 16th century
GUSTAV KLIMT
Art Nouveau and the
Vienna Secessionists
OUGH
Michael Kerrigan Gustav Klimt was one of a
number of Viennese artists who strove to break
free of the constraints of the late 19th-century
academic art establishment. The self-styled
Secessionists – among them Egon Schiele,
Koloman Moser and the architect Otto Wagner
– were united, not in the style of their work,
but in their desire for freedom and the bid for
Gesumtkunstwerk or total art. This volume
explores their art, their involvement with
literature and music, and the ‘total art’ of
Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze.
Taylor;
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Detail of Nuda Veritas by Klimt, 1899
urillo, c.1670-80
cessible and universal medium used by amateur
ke, and perhaps particularly embraced in the British
ished for a Tate Britain exhibition, contains thoughtful
eproductions telling the story of watercolour painting
anuscripts, through early cartography, botanical
uch as Turner and Blake, to contemporary artists
ATE 2011 PB 208pp Illus 265x215mm
CHRISTEN KØBKE
Danish Master of Light
David Jackson Christen Købke (1810-48) was arguably the greatest painter
of Denmark’s ‘Golden Age’, investing the faces of ordinary people and the
simplest details of town or country with universal resonance. Published to
accompany an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland, this first
study of his work in English reproduces 80 of his luminous paintings, sets
his life and work in their social and historical context, and highlights his
exquisite and innovative handling of light and colour.
NEW
YALE UP 2010 HB 128pp Illus 268x220mm
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STOLEN
The Gallery of
Missing Masterpieces
CONCUBINES AND
COURTESANS
Women in Chinese Erotic Art
Ferry M Bertholet Spanning the
period from around 1600 to the
1920s, Bertholet offers a richly
documented view of Chinese erotic
art, with the emphasis on the role of
the woman. Drawing on his own
collection of art and artefacts,
including porcelain figures, lotus
shoes, fans and photographs of
brothels, he discusses Chinese
philosophies, the culture of bound
feet and the lives of courtesans,
before examining Chinese erotic art
and imagery, from paintings and
ivory carvings to calender posters of
the 1920s. Sexually explicit.
PRESTEL 2011 HB 207pp Illus 304x255mm
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Rock at Hautepierre by Courbet: its owner Max Silverberg was
forced to sell his collection by the Nazis in 1935; this painting
eventually was found in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967
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. BLACK WALNUT
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Published to accompany an exhibition
at the Lenbachhaus, Munich, this
catalogue traces the development of
Mondrian’s art towards abstraction,
but also examines the interdisciplinary
and international approach of the
De Stijl movement, of which he was
a key member. As well as works by
Mondrian, the colour reproductions and
photographs feature the work of many
De Stijl artists in media ranging from
furniture and textiles to painting. Text
in English and German. HATJE CANTZ
DANGER! WOMEN
ARTISTS AT WORK
NEW
Debra N Mancoff In seeking recognition
as artists in their own right, women have
had to challenge conventions, steel
themselves for confrontation and be
unafraid to court danger. Their work, as
a result, has often been groundbreaking,
defiant and even subversive. This study
looks at a selection of more than 60
artists, from the Renaissance to the
present – among them Mary Cassatt,
Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois –
who, in their determination to present
a woman’s point of view, have shaken
up the art world. MERRELL 2012
MONDRIAN AND DE STIJL
£17.99 21437 now £11.99
Design for the Library/Study of Ida
Bienert, by Piet Mondrian, 1926
£24.95 99858 now £9.99
The Artist and her Mother
by Rolinda Sharples, c.1816
Susie Hodge In this volume from
the attractive Masterpieces of Art
series, Susie Hodge presents a
concise introduction to the British
painter, designer, wood-engraver
and war artist Eric Ravilious
(1903-42), followed by around 90
full-page reproductions. Among the
works shown are colour lithographs
of shops from High Street (1938),
idiosyncratic landscapes, including
The Westbury Horse and a
selection of war art, ending with
the watercolour painting, Runway
Perspective. FLAME TREE 2015
ERIC RAVILIOUS
Wiltshire Landscape by Eric Ravilious, April 1937
£12.99 20222 now £6.99
Susan Grange Particularly renowned for his depictions of the industrial towns
of Northwest England, LS Lowry had a distinctive style – the crowds of slim,
elongated ‘matchstick men’ became his signature. Often neglected by the elite of
the art world, Lowry’s work has received much greater attention in recent years. In
this volume, an illustrated essay introducing the artist’s life and work accompanies
around 90 reproductions of the urban and industrial paintings, landscapes, seascapes
and portraits. Masterpieces of Art series. FLAME TREE 2015 HB 128pp Illus 237x214mm
LS LOWRY
£12.99 19898 now £6.99
NEW THE
INDEPENDENT EYE
Contemporary British Art
from the Collection of
Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
Ed. Eleanor Hughes; Angus
Trumble The collection of
Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
comprises modern and
contemporary British art from
the last 40 years, particularly
major works by Caulfield,
Hodgkin and Kitaj, and 50
works by John Hoyland. This
exhibition catalogue examines
this period through the lens of
the collection, with essays by
several leading critics and art
historians. These are followed by biographies of each artist and
large scale reproductions of their works. A CD-Rom of the images
is also included. YALE UP 2011 HB + CD-Rom 180pp Illus 305x245mm
Ralph Steadman; Ceri Levy When asked
by film-maker Ceri Levy to produce one
drawing representing an extinct bird, Ralph
Steadman got somewhat carried away. Along
with the genuinely extinct species such as
the Auk, Dodo, Rodrigues Solitaire etc, there
are Steadman ‘boids’ that would have been
hunted to extinction – like the Jamaican Red
Macaw – had they ever existed. Altogether,
there are 100 boids, accompanied by a
commentary on their creation and
notes on their extinction.
In the words of Ceri
Levy: ‘such beautiful
chaos’. BLOOMSBURY
EXTINCT BOIDS
2012 HB 240pp Illus
350x240mm
£35.00 18260
now £14.99
Tiger Walk by
John Hoyland,
1981
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Portraits by Cecil Beaton
Susanna Brown The photographs of the British
royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-80) are
among the most widely published portraits of
the 20th century and were instrumental in
shaping the monarchy’s public image. From
teenage princess to mother and sovereign,
Elizabeth II posed for his camera on numerous
occasions. Containing over 50 formal portraits
as well as candid behind the scenes photographs,
and enlivened with anecdotes from Beaton’s
personal diaries, this book celebrates a unique
collaboration. V&A 2011 HB 128pp Illus 267x215mm
£19.99 17069 now £7.99
Princess Elizabeth, Colonel of the
Grenadier Guards, October 1942
Martin Caiger-Smith More than
any other contemporary artist,
Antony Gormley has reached out
beyond the art world to engage the
public with works such as Angel of
the North, and few have enjoyed
such acclaim. This illustrated survey
sets his career in context, examining
six key works, while conversations
with Gormley shed light on the
artist’s own assessment of his work
and his need to communicate with
a wide audience.
ANTONY GORMLEY
NEW THE SEA
An Anthology of Maritime
Photography Since 1843
Pierre Borhan The earliest photographs of
the sea give us a fascinating view of sailing
vessels, coastal communities and ports
before 20th century modernizations. Later
photographers and photo-journalists have
captured the majesty of the sea in spectacular
panoramas, responded to the striking shapes
of marine architecture and examined the lives
of sailors, fishermen and shipbuilders. This
impressive photographic collection presents
images of the sea by leading photographic
artists over a period of more than 170 years.
TATE 2010 PB 128pp Illus 269x210mm
£14.99 92020 now £5.99
FLAMMARION 2009 HB 300pp Illus 255x272mm
Rhizome II by Antony Gormley,
installation view at the
Parque Expo ’98, Lisbon
Larry Jim Holm
and Dunk by
Myron Davis,
1945
£40.00 21394 now £11.99
Launch of the Liner by Francisco Fernández Trujillo, 1927
LIFE: THE CLASSIC
COLLECTION
Ed. Robert Sullivan Launched in
1936, Life magazine created a new kind
of visual journalism, using the world’s
best photographers to bring readers the
drama of events, introduce them to the
people making the news and show
them the wonders of the world. This
collection presents its 100 most iconic
pictures, among them Eisenstaedt’s
VJ Day image of a sailor kissing a
nurse in Times Square, Robert Capa’s
‘Falling Soldier’ from the Spanish
Civil War, and the portrait of Gandhi
by Margaret Bourke-White. Includes
25 removable 10"x8" prints.
LIFE 2008 HB 144pp Illus 340x255mm
$49.99 98203 now £14.99
EROTICA SERIES
The Erotica series 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. ART PHOTO AKT 2013/14 HB 500pp Illus 310x265mm
EROTICA 1
EROTICA 2
EROTICA 3
now £25.00 each
18193
99691
18194
Women
in Welsh
traditional
dress having
tea, 1890s
MEMORIES OF A LOST WORLD
Travels Through the Magic Lantern
Charlotte Fiell In its heyday in the late 19th
century, the magic lantern show was a hugely
popular spectacle, designed to both educate and
entertain and, in particular, to satisfy curiosity
about distant lands. This remarkable collection
is drawn from those geographical slide shows.
Dating from the 1870s to the 1930s, the 674
photographs cover every continent and recover
lost worlds such that of late 19th century
Mandarin bureaucrats, cowboys in Montana
in 1900 or the Nile annual inundation in the
1890s. FIELL 2011 PB 704pp Illus 218x165mm
£29.95 19395 now £9.99
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Toby Creswell Covering eight decades of popular music and artists from ABBA to ZZ Top,
Creswell presents his best 1001 tracks, tells the
stories of the songs, and assesses the style of
both music and lyrics.
FOR THE LOVE OF LETTERS
The Joy of Slow Communication
1001 SONGS
John O’Connell In this entertaining book, paper geek John O’Donnell draws on great examples from the past as he puts forward a passionate case for the value of letter-writing in a
distracted, technology-obsessed world.
HARDIE GRANT 2007 PB 874pp Illus
£15.99 11912 now £6.99
ARMY OF EVIL: A History of the SS
MARBLE ARCH 2012 HB 192pp 220x147mm
$20.00 19378 now £6.99
FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS
IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
Adrian Weale’s narrative charts the rise and fall
of the Nazis’ most feared organization, the SS,
and assesses its legacy. Felt-tip mark on lower
trimmed edge. NAL CALIBER 2013 PB 480pp Illus
$17.00 20087 now £4.99
ATTLEE’S WAR
World War II and the
Making of a Labour Leader
Robert Crowcroft In this highly acclaimed
study, Crowcroft examines the political leadership of the unsung architect behind the development of wartime politics and the rise of the
Labour Party: Clement Attlee.
£62.00 21385 now £16.99
ATTRITION
Fighting the First World War
William Philpott In a radical re-evaluation of
the First World War and our perceptions of it,
Philpott explains why and how the new type of
combat came about, and examines the attitudes,
and actions of political leaders and the willing
responses of their peoples.
LITTLE, BROWN 2014 PB 416pp Illus
£14.99 19629 now £5.99
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SLAVERY
Jeremy Black traces the role of slavery in the
building of empires and shaping of societies,
from the ancient world to the 19th century abolition movement and the persistence of forms of
slavery today. RUNNING PRESS 2011 PB 380pp
$13.95 18104 now £3.99
CAMBRIDGE AND AROUND
East Anglia from the Air
Martin W Bowman This collection of photographs presents fine aerial views of Cambridge, its university colleges and the surrounding area, including Ely Cathedral and Duxford
airfield. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 160pp Illus 166x245mm
£17.99 18245 now £6.99
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION
TO GANDHI
Ed. Judith M Brown; Anthony Parel Comprising 12 essays by distinguished experts, this
volume traces the story of Mahatma Gandhi’s
transformation from small town lawyer in South
Africa to ‘father of the Indian nation’.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2011 PB 294pp
£20.99 20992 now £9.99
A CAVALRYMAN IN THE CRIMEA
The Letters of Temple Godman
5th Dragoon Guards
Ed. Philip Warner The letters home of young
Richard Temple Godman give an unrivalled picture of life as a cavalryman in the Crimea. Introduced by military historian Philip Warner
and accompanied by maps and photos.
£19.99 91967 now £8.99
COUNTRY PURSUITS
British, American and
French Sporting Art
Malcolm Cormack Discussing 127 works from
the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts, Cormack examines the traditions of
sporting art in Britain, America and France.
VIRGINIA UP 2007 HB 474pp Illus 305x230mm
£63.50 16399 now £25.00
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William H Harrison In a clear, question-andanswer format, this accessible book provides answers for people who live in today’s busy society
and wish to explore the rich world of Christian
theology. MOWBRAY 2008 PB 181pp
BBC PROMS 2016
The Official Guide
This is the official BBC Proms Guide,
with illustrated articles on composers,
performers, new works and venues as
well as full concert listings and booking
information for the 2016 season.
BBC 2016 PB 180pp 220x220mm
£7.00 22100 now £2.99
CONNECTOME
How the Brain’s Wiring
Makes Us Who We Are
Sebastian Seung introduces the concept of individuals’ ‘connectomes’: the ‘wiring’ of brain
cells which he believes will help uncover the
basis of identity, personality, intelligence, memory and mental disorders.
ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 383pp Illus
£20.00 10795 now £6.99
THE DAYLIGHT GATE
Jeanette Winterson Set in the aftermath of the
Gunpowder Plot, Winterson’s story of Catholic
conspirators, witchcraft and the wealthy, mysterious and beautiful Alice Nutter has been described as ‘a nightmarish novella that burns like
a hot coal’ (Kirkus Reviews).
GROVE 2012 HB 224pp 192x136mm
$24.00 19344 now £3.99
THE DECISIVE DUEL
Spitfire vs 109
David Isby traces the design and development
of the classic Battle of Britain adversaries – the
Supermarine Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf109 –
and describes and assesses their wider contribution to the war. ABACUS 2012 PB 574pp Illus
£16.99 99511 now £6.99
GEORGIAN LONDON
The West End
Pat Dargan Handsomely illustrated with colour
photographs, maps and drawings, this book explores London’s fine legacy of Georgian buildings from Bloomsbury to Mayfair. Includes two
suggested walking tours.
£14.99 10551 now £5.99
GLORIOUS IN SOLITUDE
Colin Pateman A tribute to the men who served
in the isolation of rear gun turrets during the
Second World War, this book describes aspects
of flying bombing missions from corkscrew manoeuvres to flight rations, as well as profiling
15 individual rear gunners.
FONTHILL 2013 HB 272pp Illus
£25.00 19591 now £9.99
THE GOTHIC REVIVAL
Michael J Lewis In this World of Art study,
Professor Lewis pays as much attention to the
ideas that gave Gothic architecture its emotional
and intellectual power as to the great monuments of the Revival. THAMES & HUDSON
2002 PB 208pp Illus 210x150mm
£9.95 17602 now £4.99
THE GREAT WAR
AND MODERN MEMORY
Paul Fussell First published in 1975, this is
Fussell’s landmark study of the British experience of the First World War and, in the words
of the author, the ‘literary means by which it
has been remembered, conventionalized and
mythologized’. OXFORD UP 2000 PB 382pp Illus
£12.99 18793 now £6.99
THE HORSES OF ST MARK’S
A Story of Triumph in
Byzantium, Paris and Venice
£10.99 16829 now £4.99
DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS
Charles Freeman traces the history of Venice’s
set of four horses from their origins as a triumphal quadriga in antiquity to their present
day status as cultural icons. Felt-tip mark on
lower trimmed edge.
ONEWORLD 2011 PB 144pp
OVERLOOK 2010 HB 297pp Illus
£7.99 17922 now £3.99
EAST ANGLIA 1945
$27.95 84636 now £7.99
HOSTAS: An Essential Guide
Jonathan Swift This is Swift’s manual on how
servants should cope with the demands of their
indolent and greedy masters. Includes a biographical note on the author. Oneworld Classics.
R Douglas Brown In this final volume of
Brown’s evocative record of the Second World
War as experienced by the people of East Anglia,
the region is observed making the transition to
peace. TERENCE DALTON 1994 HB 152pp Illus
£16.95 85662 now £4.99
A FABULOUS KINGDOM
The Exploration of the Arctic
Charles Officer; Jake Page From the early
journeys of Viking Otta to Will Steger in the
1980s, the authors describe attempts to reach
the North Pole, but also discuss current scientific
and environmental issues that threaten the Arctic
region. OXFORD UP 2012 PB 232pp Illus
£12.99 18771 now £5.99
Richard Ford Covering some 50 varieties of
hosta, this practical guide advises on all aspects
of their care and cultivation including growing
conditions, propagation, growing in containers
and pest control.
CROWOOD 2010 HB 192pp Illus 245x188mm
£19.95 19149 now £7.99
ISLANDS BEYOND
THE HORIZON
Roger Lovegrove is our guide to the landscapes
and life on 20 of the world’s most inaccessible
islands, including wave-lashed St Kilda, balmy
Fernando de Noronha and ice-locked Wrangel.
£16.99 17326 now £6.99
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LIECHTENSTEIN
A Modern History
David Beattie traces the history of this small
country from its origins to its present status as
one of the most advanced high-technology industrial countries in Europe.
£37.00 21361 now £12.99
LIFE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
From the Double Helix
to the Dawn of Digital Life
J Craig Venter led the team of scientists who
succeeded in creating the world’s first synthetic
life form in 2010. In this book he describes the
long and ingenious process that brought about
that achievement. LITTLE, BROWN 2013 HB 234pp
£20.00 18332 now £7.99
THE LORD LIEUTENANTS AND
HIGH SHERIFFS OF YORKSHIRE
1066-2000
Ed. W Mark Ormrod After historical introductions to the two offices, this biographical
summary of all known High Sheriffs and Lord
Lieutenants of Yorkshire offers a remarkable
record of their lives, careers and achievements.
WHARNCLIFFE 2000 HB 284pp Illus
£30.00 20116 now £11.99
MAJOR BARBARA
George Bernard Shaw Edited by Nicholas
Grene, this is the definitive text of Shaw’s famous drama of the conversion contest between
the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and
his daughter, a Salvation Army Major. New Mermaids series. METHUEN 2008 PB 204pp
£8.99 11713 now £3.99
THE MAN WHO RAN LONDON
DURING THE GREAT WAR
Richard Morris This biography is based on the
letters and diaries of Grenadier Guardsman, General Sir Francis Lloyd (1853-1926) who became
GOC London District in 1913 and, throughout
the war, had sweeping powers, including running
hospitals, railway termini and the capital’s defences. PEN & SWORD 2009 HB 208pp Illus
£19.99 20469 now £8.99
MY DEAR HUGH
Letters from Richard Cobb
to Hugh Trevor-Roper and Others
Ed. Tim Heald Unconventional, anarchic and
almost impossibly erudite, Richard Cobb was
one of the most distinguished British historians
of last century and an inveterate letter writer.
This selection by a former pupil presents Cobb
at his epistolary best.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB 240pp
£20.00 17905 now £7.99
NAPLES
The Inside Lights
Ed. Francesco Lucarelli; Gerardo Marotta
Marking the city’s inclusion in UNESCO’s
World Heritage List, this volume explores the
origins and cultural heritage of Naples and presents examples of its visual arts and architecture.
ENEL 1996 HB 312pp Illus 302x330mm
97736 now £40.00
PINACOTECA VATICANA
Ed. Roberto Caravaggi With essays covering
Italian art of the 11th to 17th centuries and topics
including icons and the Bernini models, this
volume presents some of the great Old Masters
in the Vatican collection.
ELECTA 1992 HB 472pp Illus 300x330mm
97739 now £60.00
ON GOD
An Uncommon Conversation
Norman Mailer In conversation with his friend
and literary executor Michael Lennon, Norman
Mailer is original and unpredictable as he establishes his own system of belief – one that rejects both organized religion and atheism.
CONTINUUM 2007 HB 230pp
99523 now £5.99
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS
Lucretius In Lucretius’ long and
profoundly influential poem on the
philosophy of Epicurus, deities are
not involved in the material world
and immortality of the soul is a myth. Ian Johnston’s 2010 translation is read here by Hugh
Ross. 7 CDs; running time 8 hrs 43 min.
NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2010 Audio CD
£27.99 19188 now £6.99
ONE LEG TOO FEW
The Adventures of Peter
Cook and Dudley Moore
William Cook Beginning with their Behind the
Fridge programme notes on each other, this
book not only tells the story of one of the most
celebrated partnerships in British comedy, but
also brings together 36 short memoirs by friends
and colleagues. PREFACE 2013 HB 722pp Illus
£25.00 20542 now £7.99
OPERATION TONGA
The Glider Assault: 6 June 1944
Kevin Shannon; Stephen Wright Told through
the eye-witness accounts of pilots, paratroopers,
pathfinders, tug crews and passengers, this is
the story of the Glider Pilot Regiment’s role in
Operation Tonga, the first stage of the airborne
assault in the Normandy landings.
FONTHILL 2014 HB 160pp Illus
£20.00 19594 now £7.99
OSCAR WILDE’S
SCANDALOUS SUMMER
Antony Edmonds tells the full story of Wilde’s
holiday in Worthing in 1894: the summer during
which he wrote a masterpiece, The Importance
of Being Earnest, spent time with Lord Alfred
Douglas and went sailing, fishing and swimming with three teenage boys, forming a relationship that was to be his undoing in court.
AMBERLEY 2014 HB 224pp Illus
£20.00 19553 now £7.99
OXFORD DICTIONARY
OF ZOOLOGY
Ed. Michael Allaby With over 5,250 entries,
this dictionary covers all aspects of zoology, including terms from the areas of ecology, animal
behaviour, evolution, earth history, genetics and
physiology. Third edition.
OXFORD UP 2009 PB 704pp
£12.99 18743 now £4.99
PANZER BATTLES ON
THE EASTERN FRONT 1944/45
which pine trees have inspired art and have been
used symbolically – in East and West – throughout history. REAKTION 2013 HB 224pp Illus
£16.00 18128 now £6.99
THE QUEST FOR
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
John Cairney offers an original perspective on
Robert Louis Stevenson, examining the intimate
relationships of his life and their often destructive
effects on his work. LUATH 2007 PB 224pp Illus
£8.99 20309 now £3.99
RUNNING: A Global History
Thor Gotaas In this original, witty and often astonishing history, Gotass relates many rare and
curious stories, revealing the remarkable diversity
of running from earliest times to today’s athletics
championships. REAKTION 2009 HB 382pp Illus
£19.95 21080 now £6.99
SPECTRES OF THE SELF
Thinking about Ghosts and
Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920
Shane McCorristine Drawing on sources from
fiction to the reports of the Society for Psychical
Research, this study explores the cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in
England from the Enlightenment to the 20th
century. CAMBRIDGE UP 2010 HB 286pp Illus
£64.99 21044 now £14.99
THE TRUTH ABOUT COTTAGES
John Woodforde’s engrossing illustrated guide
to the 50 main types of English cottage identifies
architectural features and materials, but also describes the realities of cottage life since the 17th
century. First published in 1969.
IB TAURIS 2007 PB 150pp Illus
£11.99 41797 now £5.99
THE SHOCK OF AMERICA
Europe and the Challenge
of the Century
David W Ellwood Drawing on a remarkable
array of sources, this survey examines European
attitudes to the USA in the wake of the 20th
century’s three great conflicts: the First and Second World Wars, and the Cold War.
£37.99 17434 now £12.99
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation
Simon Jenkins From the fifth century ‘Saxon
Dawn’ to the recent coalition government, Jenkins provides, ‘as simply as possible’, a lucid –
and richly illustrated – narrative of how the
England we know today came to be. Off-mint.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2011 HB 386pp Illus
$35.00 11747 now £9.99
Using German archive film with English voiceover, this DVD follows a year of
defensive war by German Tiger,
Panther and 8.8 FLAK units fighting
against the Red Army on the Eastern
front. One DVD; running time approx 58 min.
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2013 DVD
£23.99 18088 now £7.99
PETER DEWINT
‘For the common observer
of life and nature’
Ed. John Lord With six essays, a memoir by
the artist’s widow and over 100 reproductions,
this volume re-evaluates the work of watercolourist Peter DeWint (1784-1849) and reassesses his contribution to British art history.
LUND HUMPHRIES 2007 HB 208pp Illus 270x250mm
£60.00 97250 now £16.99
PINE
Laura Mason In this beautifully illustrated
book, Laura Mason reveals the many ways in
A TRAVELLER’S
HISTORY SERIES
This series of concise, informative
and illustrated histories is for travellers
who want a comprehensive view of a
country’s past and more detail than
ordinary tourists’ guides can provide.
ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER 2011 PB 234-304pp
A TRAVELLER’S HISTORY
OF TURKEY
Richard Stoneman
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Robert Cole
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...OF SPAIN
Juan Lalaguna Due to a printing error,
page 213 is missing and a duplicate of page
264 appears in its place.
97216
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...OF PORTUGAL
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THE SPOKEN WORD:
LAURIE LEE
In these previously unpublished
BBC radio broadcasts Laurie Lee,
the author of Cider with Rosie, talks about his
life and reads from his work. One audio CD,
duration 71 minutes.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2014 Audio CD
£10.00 19871 now £4.99
THE TIMBER PRESS
DICTIONARY OF
PLANT NAMES
Walter Erhardt; Erich Gotz et al Written for
enthusiastic amateur gardeners as well as professional horticulturalists and botanists, this
definitive reference covers 20,000 wild and garden plants, organized alphabetically by genus.
18th edition. TIMBER 2008 HB 920pp
£25.00 18357 now £8.99
THE TRACTION ENGINE
IN SCOTLAND
Alexander Hayward Inspired by the centenary
of the National Museum’s 1907 Marshall traction engine, this is an illustrated history of traction engine manufacture and use in Scotland
since around 1850.
NMSE 2011 PB 144pp Illus 187x245mm
£16.99 98854 now £6.99
TREADING THE DANCE
Danish Medieval Ballads
David Broadbridge presents a new translation
of Danish medieval ballads in a beautifully
designed edition with Sonia Brandes’ papercut illustrations and notes on the ballads’
history and tradition. Bilingual text.
STACEY INTERNATIONAL
£25.00 17587 now £7.99
THE UNRETURNING ARMY
A Field Gunner in Flanders 1917-18
Huntly Gordon After leaving school in 1916
and being commissioned into the Royal Field
Artillery in 1917, Huntly Gordon fought at
Ypres, Passchendaele and Bapaume before being wounded in 1918. His memoir vividly describes life on the Western Front. First published in 1967.
DOUBLEDAY 2013 HB 237pp Illus
£16.99 22834 now £6.99
UPPIES AND DOWNIES
The Extraordinary
Football Games of Britain
Hugh Hornby’s illustrated celebration of local
‘festival football’, usually played on Shrove
Tuesday, examines the history and present day
pursuit of this little-known British institution.
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2008 PB 188pp Illus
£16.99 17687 now £6.99
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN
FURNITURE AND INTERIORS
From the Gothic Revival
to Art Nouveau
Jeremy Cooper’s richly illustrated survey looks
at designers and trends in interior decoration,
from Pugin and the Gothic Revival to the commercial furniture of pre-First World War Heal’s
and Liberty’s. THAMES & HUDSON 2007 PB
£19.95 17636 now £9.99
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ACADEMIC TITLES
BORDERS AND CONFLICT
IN SOUTH ASIA
The Radcliffe Boundary Commission
and the Partition of Punjab
Lucy P Chester This full-length study of the
drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab in 1947 paints a vivid picture of both the
partition process and the impact of the Radcliffe
line on Punjab. Studies in Imperialism series.
£60.00 20649 now £9.99
BRITAIN’S CHIEF RABBIS
AND THE RELIGIOUS
CHARACTER OF
ANGLO-JEWRY 1880-1970
Benjamin J Elton presents a radical reinterpretation of Britain’s Chief Rabbis from Nathan
Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits; and by placing
them in their intellectual context, reveals their
impact on the religious life of Anglo-Jewry.
£60.00 20650 now £9.99
BRITISH CIVILIANS
IN THE FRONT LINE
Air Raids, Productivity and
Wartime Culture, 1939-45
Helen Jones Challenging the usual image
of civilians simply taking shelter, this study
focuses on peoples’ reactions to air raids during
the Second World War, examining topics such
as working after the siren and the role of ‘roof
spotters’.
£45.00 20652 now £9.99
BRITISH LIBERAL
INTERNATIONALISM, 1880-1930
Making Progress?
Casper Sylvest This book explores the development, character and legacy of the ideology
of liberal internationalism which dominated
well-informed political discourse at a time when
Britain was the most powerful country in the
world. MANCHESTER UP 2009 HB 288pp
£60.00 20655 now £9.99
THE CARTULARY OF THE
KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN OF
JERUSALEM IN ENGLAND
Part Two: Prima Camera, Essex
Ed. Michael Gervers This critical edition of
charters from the great Hospitaller cartulary of
1442, presents the 230 Essex entries of the
prima camera, providing a wealth of evidence
for the study of both Hospitallers and Templars
in the 12th to 14th centuries.
BRITISH ACADEMY 1996 HB 438pp
£50.00 21587 now £12.99
COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY
The Making of Modern Gibraltar
Since 1704
Stephen Constantine While historians have
mostly dealt with ‘the Rock’ in strategic and
naval terms, this study focuses on the domestic
history of Gibraltar’s unique community since
the Anglo-Dutch military conquest in 1704. No
jacket. MANCHESTER UP 2009 HB 460pp
£75.00 20667 now £12.99
A CRITICAL
INTRODUCTION TO MAO
Rosemary Ashton In this major contribution
to the history of London, Ashton brings to life
the educational, medical and social reformists
who lived and worked in 19th-century Bloomsbury and who led egalitarian crusades for education, emancipation and health.
Ed. Timothy Cheek In this volume, 15 leading
scholars offer a critical evaluation of Mao Zedong, from the historical and political context
of his emergence as a revolutionary in the early
20th century to his legacy.
£25.00 21162 now £12.99
£69.99 21658 now £19.99
DAYS LINKED BY SONG
Prudentius’ Cathemerinon
Gerard O’Daly looks at the lyric poems of
Prudentius, the Cathemerinon, published in the
early fifth century CE, providing Latin texts,
English translations and critical essays on each
of the 12 poems. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 422pp
£89.00 17259 now £30.00
DISTORTED IDEALS IN
GREEK VASE PAINTING
The World of Mythological Burlesque
David Walsh examines Greek painted pottery
decorated with irreverent or burlesque images
of scenes from mythology and shows how these
parodic, mock-heroic narratives of monsters,
satyrs and distorted bodies can enhance our understanding of Greek society.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2009 HB 420pp Illus 252x178mm
£64.00 88174 now £30.00
A HISTORY OF THE
UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE
Volume IV: Universities Since 1945
Ed. Walter Ruegg The final volume in this history deals with the reconstruction and expansion
of higher education after 1945, tracing the development of the relationship between universities and nation states, teachers and students,
their ambitions and political activities, and curricula. CAMBRIDGE UP 2011 HB 660pp
£119.99 21018 now £30.00
JEWS ON TRIAL: The Papal
Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638
Katherine Aron-Beller explores the role of the
Inquisition in Modena, the status of Jews in the
early modern Italian duchy, and the trials of
professing Jews between 1598 and 1638, the
year of the Jews’ enclosure in the ghetto.
£65.00 20716 now £12.99
KING SAUL
The True History of the First Messiah
Adam Green In a thorough re-examination of
the First Book of Samuel and its treatment of
Saul, Green argues that Saul’s central role in
the development of the kingdom of Israel has
been misunderstood by generations of scholars.
LUTTERWORTH 2007 PB 240pp Illus
20924 now £5.99
THE LABOUR PARTY AND THE
POLITICS OF WAR AND PEACE
1900-1924
Paul Bridgen analyses the development and influences on the Labour party’s policy on ‘peace
and war’ 1900-24, particularly its attitude towards
Europe, the First World War and the subsequent
issues of European reconstruction and security.
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2009 HB 232pp
£50.00 98570 now £12.99
LOGICA MAGNA
Prima pars: Tractatus
de Scire et Dubitare
Paul of Venice The first part of the vast Logica
Magna by Paul of Venice (1369/72-1429), this
volume contains ‘On knowing and being uncertain’. Edited, with an English translation (en
face) and notes by Patricia Clarke. No jacket.
BRITISH ACADEMY 1981 HB 240pp
£50.00 21605 now £9.99
LOGICA MAGNA
Secunda pars: Tractatus
de Obligationibus
Paul of Venice Edited with an English translation
(en face) by E Jennifer Ashworth, this second
part of Logica Magna covers the theory of obligations, discussing the rules of logical disputations, but also raising points in the philosophy of
language. BRITISH ACADEMY 1988 PB 425pp
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THE LUTTERWORTH
DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE
Ed. Watson E Mills With 1,450 scholarly articles, this substantial dictionary includes outlines
of each canonical book and articles on key people, places and terms, non-canonical books and
Biblical scholarship. LUTTERWORTH 1994 PB
£37.00 20929 now £9.99
MEDICAL WRITING IN
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
Ed. Irma Taavitsainen; Paivi Pahta Based on
an electronic corpus of some two million early
modern medical texts (from c.1500-1700), this
volume of 12 essays provides a new perspective
on the evolution of the special language of
medicine. Studies in English Language series.
£71.00 21025 now £16.99
MODEL AND SUPERMODEL
The Artist’s Model in
British Art and Culture
Ed. Jane Desmarais; Martin Postle; William
Vaughan These eight essays on the phenomenon of the artist’s model include studies
of the Pre-Raphaelite model, the model in fiction, Henry Scott Tuke’s use of boy models and
the found model in contemporary art.
MANCHESTER UP 2006 HB 186pp Illus 237x170mm
£55.00 20728 now £14.99
MURAL PAINTINGS
OF THE SILK ROAD
Cultural Exchanges
Between East and West
Ed. Kazuya Yamauchi; Yoko Taniguchi et al
Originating in a symposium in Tokyo, 2006,
these 28 papers explore aspects of the art, history
and cultural exchange of the mural paintings in
churches, mosques and caves along the Silk
Road. ARCHETYPE 2007 PB 193pp Illus 297x210mm
£45.00 81313 now £12.99
THE NEW PERCY GRAINGER
COMPANION
Ed. Penelope Thwaites This definitive companion comprises a full catalogue of works by
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), with advice on
how to perform and appreciate his music, and a
biography. BOYDELL 2011 HB 356pp Illus
£50.00 17951 now £19.99
OUT OF AUSTRIA
The Austrian Centre in
London in World War II
Marietta Bearman; Charmian Brinson et al
By the outbreak of war in 1939, the 30,000 Austrians already in Britain became ‘enemy aliens’.
This study examines the achievements of the
Austrian Centre, the cultural and political life
of the refugees, and the often fraught relations
with their British hosts.
TAURIS ACADEMIC 2008 HB 280pp Illus
£59.00 21366 now £9.99
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.
PICKERING & CHATTO 2011 HB 244pp
£60.00 17161 now £19.99
POPULAR READING IN ENGLISH
c.1400-1600
Elisabeth Salter In a study of reading practice
and experience from 1400 to 1600, Salter examines four kinds of popular reading: religious,
moral and fictional literature and practical manuals. MANCHESTER UP 2012 HB 270pp Illus
£70.00 20763 now £19.99
PORTRAITURE AND
SOCIAL IDENTITY IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROME
Sabrina Norlander Eliasson In chapters on
the metaphor of landscape, classical myth and
the impact of the literary Accademia dell’Arcadia on portrait painting, this study explores the
relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity in 18th-century
Rome. MANCHESTER UP 2009 HB 186pp Illus
£60.00 20764 now £19.99
THE PRACTICE OF
ARCHITECTURE
Eight Architects 1830-1930
Ed. Christopher Webster Providing a picture
of British architecture over a seminal period, this
book discusses eight very different architects:
Henry Roberts, William Culshaw and Henry
Summers, William Hill, Bassett Keeling, Edward
Schroeder Prior, Harold Peto and Hugh Thackeray Turner. SPIRE 2012 HB 238pp Illus 238x158mm
£34.95 19066 now £16.99
SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER
AND THE IDEA OF HISTORY
Mark Nixon presents a new contextualization of
the work of Samuel Rawson Gardiner (18291902), author of the profoundly influential 20volume history of Britain from 1603 to 1656, and
suggests new ways of looking at Victorian historiography in general. BOYDELL 2011 HB 220pp
£50.00 21294 now £16.99
SPYING FOR THE PEOPLE
Mao’s Secret Agents, 1949-1967
Michael Schoenhals’ study of covert operations
during the first 18 years of Mao Zedong’s China
uses detailed examination of agents’ recruitment, training and operations to reveal a vast
surveillance and control apparatus. No jacket.
£59.99 21746 now £16.99
WATER AND FIRE
The Myth of the Flood
in Anglo-Saxon England
ARCHIVAL FACSIMILES TITLES
Covering a range of intriguing topics and
including some famous classics, these
volumes are facsimile reprints of the
British Library copies, being either first
or important editions. Although published
in 1987, these are new books. No jackets.
ARCHIVAL FACSIMILES 1987 HB 128-212pp
DE TRIPLICO NODO (1608)
The Corrected Copy
for the Second Edition
James I Written by James I, with the aid of
Lancelot Andrewes and others, this treatise attacked the counter-reformation Cardinal Robert
Bellamine, who had condemned the Oath of Allegiance demanded by James following the
Gunpowder Plot. Slightly off-mint.
£45.00 21270 now £19.99
TROIS DIALOGUES
Arcangelo Tucarro’s illustrated book on gymnastics and acrobatics, Trois dialogues de l’exercise de sauter, et vortiger en l’air dates from 1599.
This facsimile is of a copy belonging to Henry
Prince of Wales, son of James I.
21280 now £19.99
DICLIDES COELOMETRICAE
Nathaniel Torpolaeus An intriguing figure in
the history of mathematics, Nathaniel Torporley
(1564-1632) published this treatise on right-angled spherical triangles, with more than 100
pages of solutions tables, in 1602. Text in Latin.
£45.00 21271 now £19.99
PERSPECTIVE MADE EASIE
Bernard Lamy Subtitled ‘or the Art of Representing all manner of Objects as they appear to
the eye in all Scituations’, this treatise by the
French mathematician Lamy (1640-1715) was
published in Paris in 1710. The English translation
presented here was published in the same year.
21276 now £19.99
Daniel Anlezark Examining in detail a diverse
range of texts, from the works of Bede to
Beowulf, Anlezark presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood
myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination.
MANCHESTER UP 2006 HB 408pp
£60.00 20805 now £19.99
WITHIN REASON: A Life of Spinoza
Margaret Gullan-Whur shows how Spinoza’s
philosophical beliefs developed within the context of his life and focuses on his attempt to act
solely through reason in the face of personal and
national crises. JONATHAN CAPE 1998 HB 398pp
£20.00 12030 now £8.99
WORLD WAR ONE
The Global Revolution
Lawrence Sondhaus Revolution provides the
unifying theme for Sondhaus’ global history of
the First World War, from its origins, through the
technological advances in warfare, to the conflict’s transformative consequences and the collapse of the Romanov, Hapsburg and Ottoman
empires.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2011 HB 560pp Illus 245x175mm
£69.99 21057 now £19.99
WRITING ANCIENT HISTORY
An Introduction to
Classical Historiography
Luke Pitcher’s very accessible study of ‘ancient
history-writing in action’, merges two approaches
of modern historiography: that concerned with
reliability and sources; and that focussed on works
of history as literary productions. No jacket.
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FICTION
Rosemary Hawley Jarman In another classic of historical
romance, the author of We Speak No Treason tells the story
of Katherine de Valois, from the French court of her father,
Charles VI, through marriage to Henry V of England after
his victory at Agincourt, to early widowhood and her love for
Owen Tudor. First published in 1978. TORC 2008 PB 416pp
NEW
CROWN IN CANDLELIGHT
£6.99 22623 now £2.99
MY FAVOURITE STORIES
OF LAKELAND
DEADLY INHERITANCE
An Ursula Grandison Mystery
NEW
Janet Laurence April 1903: young American heiress Belle Seldon and her companion,
Ursula Grandison arrive in England to visit
Belle’s sister, now married to the Earl of
Mountstanton. But the Earl’s stately home
conceals dark secrets and when a nursemaid
dies, Ursula becomes an amateur detective,
working to protect Belle from scandal.
MYSTERY PRESS 2012 PB 416pp
£9.99 22628 now £2.99
Paul Emanuelli Set in the mid 19th century,
when Bath’s status as a resort of taste and
elegance was somewhat in decline, this
historical thriller centres around the Avon
Street district, then a slum area, home to
itinerants, immigrants and other poor
minorities. The story's starting point is the
factual deaths – in mysterious circumstances –
of Thomas Hunt and his daughter in 1850.
NEW
AVON STREET
Ed. Melvyn Bragg This classic collection of
stories about Lakeland, selected by Melvyn
Bragg in the 1980s, still has the capacity to
delight today. The dramatic landscape has
always attracted great writers, and here we
have pieces by Wordsworth, Dickens,
Coleridge, Ransome, Walpole and, of course,
Wainwright, among many others. Wainwright’s
detailed drawings and maps are a delightful
complement to the collection. Bears old cover
price. LUTTERWORTH 1981 HB 126pp Illus
20934 now £5.99
THE SPIRE
William Golding In Golding’s dark and
powerful portrait of one man’s will and the
folly that he creates, Dean Jocelin has a vision
that God has chosen him to erect a great spire
on his cathedral. Despite his mason’s warning
that the old cathedral was built without
foundations, the spire is built and casts a
shadow on the world below and on Jocelin in
particular. FABER 2005 PB 224pp
£7.99 20356 now £2.99
HUE AND CRY
Shirley McKay In 1579, returning to St
Andrews from Paris, a young lawyer named
Hew Cullan finds his friend accused of
murder. Investigating the crime amid a world
of religious piety and academic austerity, Hew
opens a Pandora’s box of lies and corruption.
This is the first Hew Cullan historical thriller.
MYSTERY PRESS 2012 PB 352pp
POLYGON 2010 PB 330pp
£9.99 22614 now £2.99
THE MAN IN THE MOONE
or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither
£8.99 94729 now £2.99
THE CROCK OF GOLD
Francis Godwin First published in 1638,
Francis Godwin’s fanciful tale pre-dates
Jules Verne by more than two centuries.
It tells of a Spanish sailor who flies to the
moon in a craft powered by birds. There,
he finds ‘a kind of people most strange,’
ruled by a great king called Irdonozur.
A modern introduction considers the
scientific knowledge available to Godwin,
who was Bishop of Hereford, and his
prescient understanding of gravity.
LOGASTON 1996 HB 54pp Illus
£8.95 19909 now £3.99
IMPRIMATUR
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SECRETUM
Rita Monaldi; Francesco Sorti In a thrilling
sequel to Imprimatur, Louis XIV’s spy Atto
Melani reappears in Rome in 1700 as intrigue
intensifies around the imminent death of Charles
II, King of Spain, and the question of succession.
£9.99 23067 now £2.99
James Stephens Widely acknowledged as one
of the greatest novels in the Irish comic
tradition, The Crock of Gold follows the
progress of two Philosophers and their
formidable wives (the Grey Woman of Dun
Gortin and the Thin Woman of Inis Magrath)
through a world of fantasy and satire.
JOHN MURRAY 2012 PB 224pp
£9.99 19425 now £2.99
PARK LANE
Frances Osborne In London in 1914, two
young women – a housemaid struggling to
make ends meet and, ‘upstairs’, the youngest
daughter of the house – both dream of
breaking free from tradition and obligation.
Then war begins... VIRAGO 2013 PB 384pp
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THE BLANKET OF THE DARK
John Buchan Set in the dark, dangerous days
of Tudor England, this powerful thriller finds
Peter Pentecost embroiled in a western
rebellion against the tyranny of Henry VIII.
Introduction by Robert Hutchinson.
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KINGMAKER
Winter Pilgrims
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Toby Clements Set in the bitter winter of
1460, Clements’s much acclaimed novel
follows a young monk and a nun who are
forced to flee their priory after a shocking
act of betrayal, but find themselves in mortal
danger amid the warring factions of the
Wars of the Roses. CENTURY 2014 HB 560pp
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Sarah Dunant Beginning in Rome in 1492 as the
conclave of cardinals met and elected Rodrigo Borgia
as Pope Alexander VI, Dunant’s novel brings to life
the infamous Borgias and the avarice, ambition and
corruption of Renaissance Rome. VIRAGO 2013 PB 543pp
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Rome waits anxiously for news from Vienna,
where Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders
of Catholic Europe, a mysterious spy discovers
a papal plot to unleash awesome weapons in the
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DETECTIVE SERGEANT BEST MYSTERIES
FICTION/POETRY
POETRY
TYGER TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT
Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember
Ana Sampson has put together a delightful collection of
verse by more than 80 poets, dating from the 13th century to
the present day, whose work has proved enduringly popular
in schools and stuck, more or less accurately, in our
memories. She has also provided entertaining notes on the
poets and arranged the poems by themes such as the natural
world, battle and talking gods.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2011 HB 191pp
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MAKING LOVE TO MARILYN MONROE
The Faber Book of Blue Verse
Ed. John Whitworth Candidly sexual verse has always
thrived in literature and virtually every great poet is
represented in this anthology: from the Roman Marcus
Argentarius (‘Hetero-sex is Best’), through Chaucer and
the ribaldry of ‘The Miller’s Tale’, Rochester and Rimbaud, to a lewd limerick by TS Eliot.
The mean streets of Victorian London,
very accurately portrayed by Joan Lock,
are the setting for Detective Sergeant
Best’s challenging investigations.
MYSTERY PRESS 2013 PB 192-222pp
When the bodies of a number of babies are
found scattered around Islington, Detective
Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next
door to a suspected baby farm, but while tailing an alleged ‘child dropper’, Best finds himself caught up in the tragic sinking of the
Princess Alice in the Thames, 1878.
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DEAD BORN
It is 1874 and an explosion has killed boatmen
and wrecked the villa of the artist Lawrence
Alma-Tadema. Investigating the cause of the
explosion and the identity of a body in the
Regent’s canal, Best negotiates the conflicting
worlds of art, wealth and privilege and poor
canal boatmen.
22626
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DEAD IMAGE
On the day of the Metropolitan and City
Police Annual Fete in August 1880, Inspector
Best must uncover the identity and motives of
‘Quicksilver’ who has sent a note threatening
to cause an explosion at the event.
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FABER 2006 PB 319pp
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SELECTED POEMS OF LAWRENCE DURRELL
Ed. Peter Porter Lawrence Durrell is best known as a novelist and travel writer, but many
would maintain that his poetry is his finest work. This first selection in 30 years covers his
whole writing career, and ranges from deeply affecting love poems to vivid evocations of
place. As Peter Porter states in his introduction, it illustrates the power, originality and
technical skill that characterize Durrell’s best verse. FABER 2006 PB 83pp
£9.99 20215 now £3.99
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF SAMUEL BECKETT
Ed. Sean Lawlor; John Pilling It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the
little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This volume is the most
complete edition to date of his poetry and verse translations, and the first critical edition. The
contents establish a definitive text and canon for the poetry, including previously unpublished
material, with extensive commentary and notes placing each poem in context and identifying
resonances across Beckett’s work as a whole. FABER 2012 PB 519pp
£25.00 20353 now £11.99
CIVIL WARRIOR
The Extraordinary Life and Complete Poetical Works of James Graham
Ed. Robin Bell Executed by Parliamentarians in 1650, James Graham (1612-50), First
Marquis of Montrose, was Scotland’s great cavalier hero. A poet, man of action and
passionate Royalist, he was feared by his Puritan enemies as much for his popularity and
unflinching integrity as for his military prowess. This book tells his compelling story, based
on all that survives of the poems he wrote at moments of crisis, alongside other contemporary
accounts. LUATH 2002 HB 112pp Illus
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A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD
The Illustrated Poetry
of the First World War
now £2.99 each
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 drawn from the Daily
Mail’s archive. The poems include both
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.
THE DARKE CHRONICLES
Tales of a Victorian Puzzle-Solver
NEW
David Stuart Davies An expert on Sherlock
Holmes, Davies here introduces his own
flamboyant Victorian detective, Luther Darke.
In the murky underworld of fin de siècle
London, Darke tackles seven chilling mysteries
that had baffled Scotland Yard.
HISTORY PRESS 2014 PB 192pp
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ATLANTIC 2007 HB 192pp Illus 236x240mm
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THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION
Arthur Conan Doyle This is our very own set of
Sherlock Holmes mysteries. It comprises the first
and last of the novels, A Study in Scarlet (1887)
and The Valley of Fear (1915); two celebrated cases,
The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles;
and three volumes of short stories (The Adventures
of the Engineer’s Thumb, The Five Orange Pips
and The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, each
with at least 12 ‘Other Cases’).
This seven-volume, slipcased set
is exclusive to Postscript.
BIGGLES WWII COLLECTION
PENGUIN 2014 PB 1870pp Illus 198x130mm
DOUBLEDAY 2012 HB 246pp
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£12.99 20407 now £6.99
WE Johns Captain WE Johns (1893-1968)
flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First
World War and made a daring escape from
a German PoW camp in 1918. He was past
active service age by the Second World War,
but Biggles did his bit, encouraging young
men to train as pilots. This omnibus edition
contains four Biggles adventures from the
1940s: Biggles Defies the Swastika, Biggles
Delivers the Goods, Biggles Defends the
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HEALTH
OLIVER SACKS
A physician, professor of neurology and author,
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) has been described by
the New York Times as ‘a kind of poet laureate of
contemporary medicine’. His books are made up
of case histories of his patients and by exploring
their neurological disorders – such as visual
agnosia, Tourette’s syndrome or total colourblindness – and the strategies they adopted to
cope with them, Sacks’ work furthers our
understanding of the normal brain.
PICADOR 208-12 PB 240-438pp Illus
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The arteries of
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GRAY’S ANATOMY
A Facsimile
Henry Gray First published in 1858,
Henry Gray’s Anatomy: Descriptive and
Surgical aimed ‘to furnish the Student and
Practitioner with an accurate view of the
Anatomy of the Human Body, and more
especially, the application of this science
to Practical Surgery’. An important medical reference work, it retains its practical
value to this day. This book is a large format facsimile of the first edition, with the
original illustrations by Henry Vandyke
Carter, the most talented medical artist of
his time. TAJ 2014 PB 304pp Illus 366x277mm
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NEW THE MAN WHO MISTOOK
HIS WIFE FOR A HAT
A bestseller when it was published in 1985, this
collection of 24 case histories includes a man with
a special form of visual agnosia, people whose limbs
have become alien and the ‘lost mariner’ with no memory of recent events. 21418
Now a medical classic and the subject of a major film, this book describes the
awakening of 20 victims of a sleeping-sickness (encephalitis lethargica) epidemic
that had rendered them catatonic some 40 years earlier.
21409
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AWAKENINGS
Drawing on stories of his patients and his own experiences with hallucinogenics, Sacks
shows how hallucinations have influenced every culture’s folklore and art and why the
potential for hallucination is in all of us and not confined to the mentally ill. 21414
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HALLUCINATIONS
Exploring the powers of music to torment, calm and heal, Sacks analyses case
studies involving musical hallucinations, amnesia, synesthesia and even seizures
caused by romantic music, as well as more familiar phenomena such as tone
deafness and ‘earworms’.
18208
MUSICOPHILIA: Tales of Music and the Brain
In a journey into the world of the profoundly deaf, Sacks explores the consequences
of living in silence, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing
learn to categorize and convey the experience of their respective worlds.
21420
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NEW AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS
Seven Paradoxical Tales
The seven cases in this volume include the colour-blind painter, prodigious feats
of calculation and draughtsmanship by autistic and Asperger’s savants, and an
autistic professor of animal science.
21408
MANAGE YOUR MOOD
How to use Behavioral Activation Techniques to Overcome Depression
BODYSNATCHERS
TO LIFESAVERS
Three Centuries of
Medicine in Edinburgh
Tara Womersley; Dorothy H Crawford
This history looks at medical practice in
Edinburgh since the incorporation of the
Edinburgh Guild of Barbers and Surgeons
in 1505 and traces the city’s key role in
the development of modern medicine.
Chapters on surgery, anaesthesia and antisepsis, plague and public health, women
in medicine, and famous Edinburgh physicians culminate in a survey of modern triumphs including pioneering brain surgery
and the cloning of Dolly the sheep.
LUATH 2010 HB 192pp Illus
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David Veale; Rob Wilson Behavioural activation is a form of cognitive behavioural
therapy that works by identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and
behaviour. This guide to applying the technique to help with depression explains the
nature of the illness and its causes, explores the role of diet, exercise and medication
in its treatment, and sets out practical step-by-step techniques that encourage
sufferers to become more active and break free from
the characteristic cycle of negative thinking.
ROBINSON 2007 PB 288pp 247x190mm
£14.99 19429 now £4.99
GOD’S DOODLE
The Life and Times of the Penis
Tom Hickman To possess a penis, Sophocles
said, is to be ‘chained to a madman’. This lighthearted 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.
SQUARE PEG 2012 HB 240pp
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HEALTH/FOLKLORE
TIME WARPED
Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
Claudia Hammond Why does life speed up as we
get older? Why does time seem to slow down when
we fear we are about to die? Using research from
psychology, neuroscience and biology, the presenter
of BBC Radio 4’s All In The Mind examines the idea
that the experience of time is created by our minds.
She also presents her own research into people’s
visualizations of time and suggests how we can use
our brain’s warping of it to our advantage.
CANONGATE 2012 PB 352pp
£14.99 17814 now £5.99
CONSULT THE ORACLE
A Victorian Guide to
Folklore and Fortune Telling
A SHARP BRAIN FOR LIFE
Hundreds of Ways to Maintain
Your Mind and Memories
Reader’s Digest ‘The older we are the
harder we need to work to keep our brains
functioning efficiently’ – and this practical, illustrated guide aims to show you
how do just that. It explains the five ‘brain
boosters’ (diet, exercise, social connections, learning and sleep); offers strategies
for combatting ‘brain enemies’ such as
stress, anxiety and abdominal fat; and
presents a brain fitness programme for
improving memory, attention, verbal and
number skills, processing speed and
reasoning. No jacket. READER’S DIGEST
21896 now £6.99
Jordi Vigue This book explains the ageing process, looking at general aspects of
ageing, factors that affect it and the
changes it causes. It also offers practical
advice on how to stay healthy and happy
for as long as possible. Highlighting conditions and illnesses which affect older
people, it suggests what can be done to
mitigate the effects of ageing by way of
diet, exercise and psychologically helpful
activities. REBO 2006 HB 270pp Illus
OLD AGE
93347 now £4.99
Back by
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demand
Gabriel Nostradamus It is unlucky to
meet a white horse unless you spit at it, but
a strange dog following you is good luck;
dreaming of bees signals good fortune,
while to dream of finding money is nothing
short of disaster. First published in 1899
and by turns alarming and hilarious, this is
a layman’s guide to folk superstitions and
remedies (a cinder wrapped in paper and
dropped where four roads meet will cure a
wart), charms and supernatural mysteries.
THE GREEN ROADS
OF ENGLAND
(1914)
R Hippisley Cox Starting at the ‘central
gathering ground’ at Avebury, Cox’s guide
follows 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. Facsimile edition.
OLD HOUSE 2013 HB 192pp Illus 189x130mm
LOST LIBRARY 2010 PB 217pp Illus 198x128mm
£6.99 19625 now £3.99
£7.99 79672 now £3.99
NEED TO KNOW
UFOs, the Military and Intelligence
Timothy Good ‘Behind the scenes, highranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official
secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are
led to believe the unknown flying objects
are nonsense’ – a former CIA director. No
mere conspiracy theorist’s handbook, this
exposé of top-secret documents and discussions with military and intelligence
specialists, pilots, politicians and scientists, shows that UFOs – alien visitors or
not – are a real problem facing governments worldwide. PAN 2007 PB 466pp Illus
£12.99 10926 now £5.99
ENGLISH GYPSY LANGUAGE
Word-Book of the Romany (1909)
George Borrow As well as a dictionary
of English Romany words, this book includes chapters on Gypsy names, fortunetelling, the London ‘Gypsyries’ in
Wandsworth, Notting Hill and Friars’
Mount, folk hero Ryley Bosvil and a collection of Gypsy songs. Borrow (180381) was a great traveller and translator,
whose works included novels, travel writing and pioneering translations of Romany.
Pamela Brooks The legend of a disgraced
monk said to haunt Prittlewell Priory adds
to the romance of the site, as does the story
of a dragon attacking St Osyth’s Priory near
Clacton-on-Sea in 1170. This alternative
guide to more than 40 castles, abbeys and
priories across Essex explores the quirky
stories, ghostly legends, scandals and
crimes that took place at these historic sites.
ESSEX GHOSTS AND LEGENDS
LOST LIBRARY 2012 PB 2012 198x129mm
HALSGROVE 2010 PB 136pp Illus
£7.99 92053 now £3.99
£8.99 20270 now £3.99
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
PILATES FOR LIFE
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RELIGION
THE HISTORICAL DAVID
The Real Life of an Invented Hero
Joel Baden Described by Diarmuid MacCulloch
as ‘an invigoratingly grown-up reading of the
Bible’, this book is a revisionist analysis of
King David’s presentation in the Hebrew
scriptures. Baden shows that the historical
figure, who did not write Psalms or kill Goliath,
was reinvented as a glorious king through
layers of fact and fiction – the spin of Samuel
and Chronicles followed by the messianic
connections presented in the New Testament –
which have contributed to our idealized cultural
memory of David. HARPER ONE 2013 HB 352pp
$26.99 19903 now £6.99
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
AND NATURE
(Two volumes)
Ed. Bron R Taylor What are the relationships between human beings, their religions, and Earth’s living ecosystem? As the
environment comes under increasing pressure, this authoritative two-volume encyclopedia assembles a vast team of scholars
from around the world to explore these ageold connections. From Aquinas to Zoroastrianism, Aboriginal art to Zulu spirit
worlds, the alphabetical entries explain
what the diverse faiths have to say about
the natural world, and how spirituality can
enhance our stewardship of the planet.
CONTINUUM 2008 PB 2,033pp 246x176mm
£99.00 98737 now £40.00
WORLD RELIGIONS:
WESTERN TRADITIONS
Third edition
Ed. Willard G Oxtoby; Amir Hussain
This wide-ranging survey provides a succinct guide to the beliefs, practices, history
and distribution of the major Western
faiths. Chapters by specialist contributors
cover the religions of the ancient world,
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, indigenous
beliefs and new religious movements,
with fact boxes highlighting key points
and sacred places, extracts from essential
texts and glossaries of terms. This fully
revised and updated edition is illustrated
with a rich array of colour photographs.
OXFORD UP 2011 PB 480pp 253x203mm
£45.00 11439 now £9.99
Jonathan Black This is an alternative
narrative of human history, ‘a sort of folk
history of the world’, which weaves together stories of men and women who
had visionary experiences involving angels, daemons or other supernatural powers. A spellbinding display of the place of
mystery and mysticism in human experience, it features key episodes in religious
scriptures, moments in the lives of such
potent cultural figures as Joan of Arc and
Abraham Lincoln and tales from African,
Native American and Celtic traditions.
Candida Moss Central to the traditions
of Christianity is the example of the early
martyrs, crucified, burned and thrown to
wild beasts because they refused to renounce their faith. Yet as this controversial
study makes clear, the myth of persecution
was greatly exaggerated. Drawing on both
Christian and pagan sources, it shows that
only during brief, widely separated intervals did believers suffer violence, and that
for much of Roman history they prospered
and even achieved high public office.
THE MYTH OF PERSECUTION
HARPER ONE 2013 HB 320pp
$25.99 19906 now £6.99
QUERCUS 2013 HB 528pp Illus
£25.00 19303 now £8.99
ZEALOT
The Life and Times
of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan Why did the early Church
promulgate an image of Jesus as peaceful
spiritual teacher rather than political revolutionary? In the context of the first century, how did Jesus understand himself?
Aslan’s bestseller examines the Jesus presented by the Gospels within the context
of his times, when the Holy Land was
awash with apocalyptic fervour, with wandering prophets and would-be messiahs.
The result is a fresh perspective on the
birth of a religion and the complex figure
of Jesus himself.
WESTBOURNE 2013 HB 333pp
£17.99 19950 now £6.99
IN THE BEGINNING
Bibles Before the Year 1000
THE NEW TESTAMENT
IN SCOTS
Ed. Michelle P Brown The word ‘Bible’
derives from the Greek for ‘little books’,
since Christian texts first circulated not
as a unified body of teaching but in the
form of individual scrolls and codices. In
the Beginning is an exploration of the dynamic synergism between developments
in book technology and the shaping of the
canonical Christian scriptures. It is illustrated with colour reproductions of pages
from more than 70 volumes, ranging from
scraps of humble papyrus to sumptuous
illuminated manuscripts. SMITHSONIAN
£14.99 19876 now £4.99
£32.00 17561 now £14.99
William Laughton Lorimer A Professor
of Greek and lifelong champion of the
Scots language, William Laughton Lorimer
(1885-1967) devoted the last ten years of
his life to translating the New Testament.
First published in 1983, the work is
renowned as a great literary achievement
in a language that is, as James Robertson
writes in his introduction, ‘articulate, literate, ornate, delicate, robust, cheerful,
moving and capable of capturing and liberating all the rich wonders of its subject
matter’. CANONGATE 2012 PB 512pp
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THE SACRED HISTORY
How Angels, Mystics and Higher
Intelligence Made Our World
THE WISDOM BOOKS
Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
Robert Alter ‘Wisdom has built her
house, she has hewn her pillars, seven.’
Robert Alter’s bold new translations of
the Hebrew Bible were described by Seamus Heaney as ‘immediately readable,
immensely learned’; this volume features
three contrasting texts, each with an introductory essay and running commentary. Job is a radical subversion of the
Wisdom tradition; Proverbs offers pragmatic, wry advice; and Ecclesiastes, with
unblinking reflections on life’s ephemerality, grimly asks whether wisdom brings
any advantage at all.
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TRAVEL
THE GREAT RACE
The Race Between the English and the
French to Complete the Map of Australia
David Hill In April 1802, in the Southern Ocean,
two explorers met by chance: the Englishman
Matthew Flinders and his French counterpart
Nicolas Baudin. Each had been sent by his
government to explore the coast of Australia.
Drawing on diaries and other first-hand accounts,
this compelling book recounts the deadly race
to claim ownership of the continent, in which
both men endured terrible hardships, Flinders
shipwrecked and imprisoned by the French for
six years, and Baudin dying on his return journey.
LITTLE, BROWN 2012 HB 400pp Illus
£25.00 19632 now £9.99
NEW TROPIC SUNS
Seadogs Aboard an English Galleon
James Seay Dean English ships of the
1520s were built principally for coastal
sailing but over the following century, designs, and the life of the men aboard,
changed rapidly as Elizabethan mariners
ventured far beyond home waters. Drawn
from accounts of hundreds of 16th century
and early 17th century ocean voyages, including the words of Drake and Ralegh,
this book explores how these intrepid seamen coped with tropical heat, violent
storms, bad water, rotten food, disease,
navigational problems and enemy fire.
A CENTURY OF
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
PRS Moorey To what extent are the narratives of the Old and New Testaments
confirmed by the physical evidence in the
soil of the Holy Land? This chronological
survey charts the relationship between archaeology and biblical studies from the
19th century, through the pioneering work
of Pitt Rivers and Petrie, to the present,
and addresses the effect of the region’s
difficult geopolitics on excavations.
LUTTERWORTH 1991 PB 208pp
$39.50 20896 now £5.99
HISTORY PRESS 2014 HB 240pp Illus
£20.00 22760 now £7.99
COLUMBUS
The Four Voyages
Laurence Bergreen Within a decade of
his great discovery in 1492, Columbus
made three further voyages to the New
World, leading campaigns that became increasingly morally ambiguous. Bergreen
uses Columbus’ own logbooks and letters
to delve into the psyche which made him
a brilliant captain yet led to his devastating
failures. This biography also highlights the
far-reaching consequences of Columbus’
voyages not only on the native inhabitants
of the Americas but also on ecosystems,
human biology and culture across the
globe. VIKING 2011 HB 443pp Illus
$35.00 10838 now £6.99
ANCIENT ISRAEL
The Former Prophets: Joshua,
Judges, Samuel, and Kings
Robert Alter This volume in Alter’s
award-winning new translation of the
Hebrew Bible comprises the four books
of narrative history known traditionally
as the ‘Former Prophets’. They cover
the stories of Joshua and the fall of
Jericho, Saul and David (‘one of the
greatest pieces of narrative in all of Western literature’), and the cycle of tales
about the ‘Herculean folk-hero’ Samson.
At the foot of each page is running commentary on the cultural background and
difficulties in interpreting the Hebrew
text. NORTON 2013 HB 870pp 243x165mm
$35.00 19257 now £8.99
SEASPRAY AND WHISKY
Tale of a Turbulent Voyage
Norman Freeman Described by the Marconi company staff clerk as ‘Not a Cunarder’, the Allenwell turned out to be a
dirty, down-at-heel cargo ship with crew
to match, and Norman Freeman had
signed up as radio officer for a threemonth trip from Liverpool to the USA.
Some of the cargo – Scotch whisky – didn’t make it that far. Freeman’s memoir of
this 1961/62 trip is an entertaining and
sometimes poignant account of ‘a very
odd ship and an unusual voyage’.
IAN ALLAN 2010 PB 236pp
£9.99 17134 now £3.99
Michael Kerrigan Visitors flock to
Paris to marvel at its beauty and soak up
its atmosphere; alongside world-famous
sights such as the Eiffel Tower, Notre
Dame and the Arc de Triomphe, the city
offers an inexhaustible supply of lesserknown delights. This glorious visual
celebration of its historical and
architectural riches is arranged by area,
exploring both popular attractions and
quiet backwaters, tranquil parks and
Bohemian cafés.
BEST-KEPT SECRETS OF PARIS
£15.00 20129 now £6.99
Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in
the fifth arrondissement of Paris
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PETS/NATURE
Waxed cotton
overcoat with
Velcro fastener
NEW GOOD TIMES
WITH OLDER DOGS
Care, Fitness and Health
Dorothee Dahl The life expectancy of some dog
breeds is as little as five to eight years and as
dogs age they become less energetic and flexible
and their eyesight and hearing deteriorates. This
book shows how you can spot the signs of ageing
in your pet, how to deal with the diseases and
illnesses of old age and how to adjust the way
you care for your dog to ensure the longest and
happiest life possible. CADMOS 2009 PB 80pp Illus
£12.99 21464 now £4.99
NEW PAMPER YOUR POOCH
30 Practical Presents for Dogs
Rochelle Blondel The 30 projects in this
book provide clear and simple instructions
for making a whole range of accessories
to enrich the life of your dog. There are
food treats such as biscuits and birthday
cake, toys, including a frisbee, and comforting gifts such as the bone pillow, a
towel for Rover’s muddy paws and a crocheted cowl to keep Fido warm.
KYLE 2014 HB 112pp Illus 200x155mm
£9.99 22780 now £4.99
NEW UNDERSTANDING DOGS
WITH THE PACK CONCEPT
Uli Koppel The dynamics of the pack dictate a dog’s actions and understanding the
psychology of how dogs relate to each other
within this structure, argues Uli Koppel, is
the route to a better relationship. In this
manual he outlines his methods of ‘species
appropriate’ training that make it clear to
the dog who is the pack leader and avoids
confusing and misleading signals that can
lead to disobedience or aggressive behaviour. CADMOS 2008 PB 96pp Illus
£16.99 21465 now £5.99
NEW BRINGING UP PUPPY
Everything You Need to Know
About Care and Training
Gabriele Leharl The first few months of
a dog’s life set the foundations for its further development, and the way a puppy is
handled has a material effect on whether
it becomes a well-adjusted, happy dog
that relates well to humans. This book
provides a guide to choosing a puppy as
well as information on giving it the best
start in life, including advice on feeding,
healthcare, grooming, house-training, socialization with the family and obedience
training. CADMOS 2008 PB 96pp Illus
£9.99 21462 now £4.99
NEW WALKING ON EGGSHELLS
When Dogs Behave
Aggressively on the Lead
Nadine Matthews Despite fighting to
hold their aggressive dogs back in the park,
owners may actually be encouraging this
behaviour by the messages they unwittingly send to their pet, and the consequent
relationship they have with it. In this book,
Nadine Matthews considers the psychology and body language of dogs and their
owners in assessing the problem and identifies a number of factors that can cause it
as well as suggesting training methods to
change it. CADMOS 2012 PB 128pp Illus
NEW CHAT TO YOUR CAT
Lessons in Cat Conversation
Martina Braun It seems illogical that a
cat will choose to sharpen its claws on
upholstered furniture rather than the more
effective scratching post provided, until
you realise that in addition to keeping
their nails in good order they are marking
territory with the visible scratches and the
scent secreted from their paws. This cat
lover’s manual examines behaviours like
this and advises on how to interpret them
to best understand and communicate with
your pet. CADMOS 2009 PB 80pp Illus
£12.99 21463 now £4.99
£19.99 21466 now £6.99
Michael Bright What makes the wind blow? How do clouds form? Why are no two
snowflakes alike? This entertaining and informative book answers these and many
other meteorological questions. With some 3,000 fascinating facts and figures, it
illuminates the workings of phenomena such as sandstorms, avalanches, monsoons,
rainbows and tornadoes; and it explains how the weather shapes our planet and
affects all our lives. BLOOMSBURY 2013 HB 144pp Illus 180x115mm
THE POCKET BOOK OF WEATHER
£10.00 20394 now £4.99
CLOUDS THAT
LOOK LIKE THINGS
Ed. Gavin Pretor-Pinney; Ian
Loxley Seeing shapes in the clouds is
a time-honoured pastime and Gavin
Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud
Appreciation Society, has encouraged
people all over the world to keep
an eye out for unusual formations.
Exhibiting such intriguing
semblances as ‘a ghost carrying
A red snapper over the Blasket
home the shopping’ and ‘a topless
Islands, County Kerry
sunbather’, this is an entertaining
collection of photographs. It also includes an explanation of cloud formation
and the official classification system. SCEPTRE 2012 HB 112pp Illus 166x200mm
£12.99 96755 now £4.99
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Courtship ritual of the Magellanic penguin
PENGUINS
Their World, Their Ways
Tui de Roy; Mark Jones; Julie Cornthwaite Although penguins are usually
associated with the inhospitable coasts of
Antarctica, the 18 different species are in
fact spread widely across the southern
hemisphere from Australia and New
Zealand to the equatorial Galapagos Islands. Led by over 400 photographs of
the aquatic birds in their natural habitats,
this book explores the natural history, evolution and distribution of penguins and
reports on the status and conservation of
each of the species today. CHRISTOPHER
HELM 2013 HB 240pp Illus 290x233mm
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GARDENS/NATURE
NEW REMAKING
A GARDEN
The Laskett Transformed
Roy Strong In over 30
years, Sir Roy Strong and
his wife Julia Trevelyan
Oman created a stunning
historical garden at their
home, The Laskett in
Herefordshire. After his
wife’s death in 2003, Sir
Roy decided to remodel the
garden, which had become
overgrown and closed in on
itself. In a book to inspire
fellow gardeners, he records
the remaking of The Laskett The vista from Covent Garden to the Rose Garden in summer
garden in his own words, accompanied by the before-and-after and action
photographs of Clive Boursnell. FRANCES LINCOLN 2014 HB 208pp Illus 295x248mm
Back by
popular
demand
SIMPLE, GREEN PEST
AND DISEASE CONTROL
£30.00 20521 now £11.99
Bob Flowerdew In this pocket guide,
Gardener’s Question Time expert, Bob
Flowerdew sets out his methods for controlling pests and diseases without resorting to chemical poisons. Employing such
techniques as companion planting, encouraging natural predators and erecting
physical barriers, his approach is to use
wit and cunning to outmanoeuvre garden
pests rather than seeking to eradicate them
completely – gently shifting the natural
balance in the gardener’s favour. One of
the Bob’s Basics series. No jacket.
THE MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL
GARDENS ILLUSTRATED
DICTIONARY OF ORCHID GENERA
Peggy Alrich; Wesley Higgins Arranged
alphabetically from Aa to Zygostates and clearly
laid out, this is the most comprehensive and
extensively illustrated account of orchid
genera to date. Its concise entries provide
details of nomenclature, classification, original
publication, etymology and geographic range,
along with brief descriptions and colour images
of representative flowers. In addition to the
A-Z, the book includes an introduction, a list
of taxonomists, a bibliography and a glossary.
KYLE CATHIE 2010 HB 112pp Illus 200x152mm
£9.99 98500 now £3.99
COMSTOCK 2008 HB 512pp Illus 285x225mm
19274 now £12.99
OF RHUBARB AND ROSES
The Telegraph Book of the Garden
Tim Richardson The Daily Telegraph
has long been popular reading among gardeners, and its pages have featured some
of the nation’s finest horticultural writers.
Compiled by the newspaper’s gardening
columnist, this lively and varied anthology
includes articles by Fred Whitsey, Rosemary Verey and Bunny Guinness, along
with the more esoteric musings of Bill
Deedes, Germaine Greer and Roy Strong.
The subjects range from Vita Sackville
West’s garden at Sissinghurst to how to
grow prize-winning pumpkins. Book club
edition. AURUM 2013 HB 464pp Illus
Cattleya Dowiana by Samuel Jennings, 1875
Cyril Cowell; Morley Adams In the
1940s, the Adam the Gardener cartoon
appeared each week in the Sunday Express, advising what jobs to do in the
garden and how to do them. Featuring
Cyril Cowell’s illustrations, this replica
of a classic 1946 collection presents
Adam’s tips, week by week throughout
the year. CHATTO & WINDUS 2011 HB
ADAM THE GARDENER
£10.00 97993 now £3.99
£25.00 17514 now £7.99
LOST FISH
Anthologies of the Work
of the Comte de Lacépède
Intro. Elizabeth Kolbert Protégé of the naturalist Leclerc de Buffon, the Comte de
Lacépède was hired to be the ‘keeper’ of the
French royal natural history collection in the
1780s. Forced out of Paris by the Revolution,
Lacépède devoted himself to studying fish and
published his five-volume Histoire naturelle
des poissons between 1798 and 1803. This
book presents extracts from that text and nearly
200 reproductions of its illustrations, depicting
many fish that are now lost to us, along with
quotations from thinkers, naturalists and poets.
ASSOULINE 2008 HB 232pp Illus 297x230mm
£40.00 19393 now £12.99
A GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND
How England’s Gardeners
Fought the Second World War
THE BOOK OF THE TOAD
A Natural and Magical History
of Toad-Human Relations
Ursula Buchan As the Second World War
began, the government urged the British public
to ‘Dig for Victory’ by growing their own
vegetables. This absorbing book charts the
ingenuity, thrift, humour and fortitude with
which ordinary Britons dug in to keep the nation
nourished, as public parks – even Kensington
Gardens – were turned over to allotments. Above
all, it shows how wartime gardening made a
vital contribution to both the diet and the morale
of the nation during the fight for freedom.
Robert M Degraaff The toad has long suffered from image problems. By the time of
Shakespeare its ugliness was proverbial and
its reputation for being poisonous hardly
helped. Yet Professor DeGraaff makes a convincing and entertaining case for these muchabused creatures as deserving of our respect
and admiration. He includes not only toad
science but also an exploration of the toad as
a literary and artistic subject, mythological
symbol and threatened species. The result is
a treat for bufophiles everywhere.
HUTCHINSON 2013 HB 320pp Illus 240x162mm
LUTTERWORTH 1991 PB 224pp Illus 279x215mm
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FOOD
A TASTE OF SUMMER
A Collection of Delicious Summer Recipes
Brian Turner In this collection of nearly
100 summer recipes, British chef Brian Turner
presents wonderfully fresh salads and barbecues,
but also some classic dishes with a summer
twist. From Avocado and Coconut Soup to
Warm Lemon Curd Pudding, with easy-tomake fish and meat dishes in between, and
cocktails for summer evenings, the recipes
are designed not only for taste, but ‘for that
ultimate holiday feeling of pushing the boat
out and trying something new’.
BUCKINGHAM 2011 PB 240pp Illus 250x250mm
£20.00 16807 now £5.99
NEW THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
BOOK OF 650 FAVOURITE RECIPES
Burgundy Beef with Stilton Dumplings
TAKE ONE POT
Super Simple Recipes to
Cook in One Pot, Full Stop
Georgina Fuggle The idea of being able
to cook a whole dish in one pot is attractive to anyone short of pans or not too
keen on washing up, or both. This book
has many really enticing, innovative
recipes, for every meal and each season,
for everyday family meals and for entertaining. There are plenty of soups and
stews, but also pies, risottos, and desserts.
The writing is clear, lively and encouraging – all you need in a cookery book.
KYLE 2013 PB 176pp Illus 238x206mm
£15.99 19951 now £6.99
NEW THE FISH STORE
Recipes and Recollections
Lindsey Bareham The inspiration for this
cookbook came from the author’s love of
her family home in Mousehole, Cornwall,
where she taught her sons to cook mackerel, monkfish, crab and sole. From there
it grew into a book of memories and anecdotes, as well as a fabulous collection of
recipes. There is much more than just fish
here, with enticing recipes for chicken,
lamb, eggs, vegetables and puddings, all
written in her inspiring style.
GRUB STREET 2013 PB 410pp Illus
£14.99 21379 now £5.99
MUM’S FAVOURITE
SLOW-COOKED CLASSICS
Ed. Jane Birch This collection of warming dishes includes soups, spicy curries,
stews, casseroles and even slow-baked
cakes and puddings as well as recipes for
your slow cooker.
BOUNTY 2013 HB 192pp Illus 230x195mm
£14.99 99831 now £6.99
HEALTHY EATING FOR
LOWER CHOLESTEROL
Daniel Green; Catherine Collins The
100 delicious recipes presented in this
book have been created by a chef and dietician, working together to help people
with high cholesterol. With chapters on
breakfasts, salads, snacks, main courses
and deserts, and recipes such as Buckwheat Pancakes, Mexican Breakfast Bur-
50
Collected over several decades, and representing a mix of the traditional and the
new, these WI favourites cover all the usual categories including starters, soups,
fish, meats, salads, pasta, eggs, vegetables, desserts, drinks and, of course, baking
and preserves. A special section presents 50 prizewinning recipes original to WI
members who submitted them for competitions. BOUNTY 2015 HB 304pp Illus 210x148mm
£10.99 20501 now £4.99
NEW THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
BOOK OF PRESERVES AND PICKLES
The recipes in this collection represent the area of expertise for which the WI is
famous – jams, pickles, relishes and preserves. There are traditional favourites such
as Orange Marmalade, Apricot Jam and Pickled Onions, and more unusual ideas
such as Turnip Chutney and Bengal Relish. Tips on colour, consistency and
appearance will help those who find the making of these delicious products
somewhat challenging. BOUNTY 2015 HB 208pp Illus 210x147mm
£10.99 20502 now £4.99
ritos, Oriental Chicken Wraps, Salmon
Fishcakes and Light Chocolate Tart, you
need never feel deprived while looking
after your health. KYLE 2007 PB 144pp Illus
$16.99 22496 now £4.99
THE CONSTANCE SPRY
COOKERY BOOK
Constance Spry; Rosemary Hume Originally published in 1956, this is one of
the great cookbooks – the sort that has its
own bit of shelf, gets greasily annotated
and is referred to as ‘The Book’. It provides an encyclopedic range of basic
know-how (even how to boil eggs);
recipes for everyday and for special days;
and describes techniques that pre-date
most modern gadgetry, relying instead on
sharp knives and elbow grease. This presentation edition is unchanged apart from
the addition of metric measurements.
GRUB STREET 2011 HB 1,200pp
£30.00 18150 now £9.99
PAUL GAYLER’S
SAUCE BOOK
NEW
Paul Gayler Sauces are a great way to
liven up everyday dishes, and the 300 in
this collection provide something for every meal. There are classics such as hollandaise, velouté, harissa and sweet chilli,
dessert sauces such as coulis, custards and
syrups, and many more unusual sauces
from cuisines around the world. For each
there are ‘PG tips’ to ensure perfect results
every time, and a recipe to showcase it in
practice. KYLE 2015 PB 224pp Illus
£16.99 21249 now £7.99
THE GREAT BRITISH
VEGETABLE COOKBOOK
Sybil Kapoor Written by Sybil Kapoor
as ‘a labour of love for both omnivores
and vegetarians who, like me, are fascinated by the incredible array of vegetables
that we have at our disposal in Britain
throughout the year’, this book is organized by season, from purple sprouting
broccoli in spring to potatoes in winter.
In between are 150 recipes using 50
featured vegetables on their own, in main
dishes, in soup or cakes, as snacks, pickles
or even – like Mrs Marshall’s Cucumber
– as ice cream. NATIONAL TRUST 2013
£25.00 19457 now £9.99
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COLLECTABLES/CRAFTS
Rosa Barovier Mentasti Venice, in
particular the island of Murano, has been
the leading centre of glassmaking since
the 13th century and the work of Venetian
designers of all periods is avidly collected.
This lavishly illustrated volume explores
the development of Venetian glass from
1890 to 1990 and the influence of artistic
movements such as the Vienna Secession,
Art Deco and Modernism. Over 200
photographs show key examples by the
greatest names of the Murano industry
and include rare pieces from private
collections.
VENETIAN GLASS: 1890-1990
ARSENALE 1992 HB 208pp Illus 303x235mm
$95.00 20024 now £19.99
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
£29.95 17634 now £14.99
ORIENTAL RUGS
An Introduction
Gordon Redford Walker Nothing adds
more character to even the smallest room
than an oriental rug, but their sheer variety
can often deter the inexperienced buyer.
This practical, down-to-earth guide for
the layperson shows how to identify a rug
by its patterns, colours and weaving technique. Illustrated in colour and organized
by region of origin, from Turkey via Iran
and Afghanistan to Central Asia, it also
includes advice on buying at auction, care
and maintenance, and a colour analysis
chart. PRION 2012 HB 224pp Illus 208x150mm
£16.99 20880 now £5.99
Attilia Dorigato Glass making has played Pieces by Giorgio Ferro, Alfredo Barbini
and Agostino Venturini, 1962
a key role in the history of Murano almost
uninterruptedly since the Middle Ages and
today blown glass is a thriving modern industry on the island. Written by the
Director of the Murano Glass Museum and describing and illustrating hundreds of
fine examples, this book traces the history of glass making from medieval times to
the 20th century, with special features and photographs demonstrating techniques
such as filigree, murine and incalmo. ARSENALE 2013 PB 400pp Illus 279x235mm
MURANO: Island of Glass
20006 now £14.99
NEW THE SHORTER CONNECTION
A J Wilkinson, Clarice Cliff, Crown Devon: A Family Pottery 1874-1974
Irene Hopwood; Gordon Hopwood A typical Staffordshire family firm, Shorter
& Son was founded in the 1870s and produced pottery – notably Fish ware, Toby
jugs and Gilbert and Sullivan figurines – up until 1974. This detailed history of
the business places it in the wider context of the mainstream popular ceramics
industry through the 20th century. It also discusses the influences of Clarice
Cliff, who married into the family, and Mabel Leigh, who produced many of
its most distinctive designs. RICHARD DENNIS 2002 PB 132pp Illus 225x245mm
£24.00 20537 now £5.99
Patent 1920s brassiere,
with side lacing for
tightening at the front
VINTAGE LINGERIE
30 Patterns Based on Period
Garments, Plus Finishing Techniques
Jill Salen As well as an engrossing commentary on the progress of
lingerie from pantaloons and corsets of the 1890s, through tango
knickers in the 1920s, to a Gossard long-line brassiere produced in
the 1970s, Jill Salen provides accurate patterns for making each of
the 30 period garments illustrated. The historical background and
the patterns giving the classic shape of each period will prove an
invaluable resource for fashion students and costume designers working
on stage or screen. ST MARTIN’S GRIFFIN 2011 HB 128pp Illus 280x230mm
$29.99 10859 now £7.99
THE LAMPS OF LOUIS
COMFORT TIFFANY
RELICS OF THE PAST/
RELIQUES DU PASSÉ
The Benaki Museum Collections
Robin Hildyard Based on the unrivalled
collections of British ceramics in the
V&A, this book charts their development
from simple drinking vessels of the 17th
century to the sophisticated enamelled
tableware of the 1800s. The narrative describes changes in taste and manners as
British potters assimilated and adapted
new influences from Europe and the Far
East. With photographs of nearly 150
carefully chosen pieces, this volume presents an expert yet highly accessible view
of a rich seam of British material culture.
Martin Eidelberg; Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen et al ‘Nature is always beautiful,’ wrote Louis Comfort Tiffany, and the
forms of leaves and flowers inspired the
Art Nouveau glassware for which he is
renowned. This handsome volume features
more than 70 rarely seen lamps from public and private collections, sets them in
the context of contemporary thought, and
follows the complex manufacturing process from freehand sketch to finished form.
Stunning modern photographs reveal
Tiffany’s mastery of glassmaking and metalwork, alongside his own watercolours
and period photographs of his workshops.
VENDOME 2005 HB 224pp Illus 257x210mm
£50.00 17053 now £19.99
$35.00 19082 now £11.99
£29.00 20013 now £14.99
ENGLISH POTTERY
1620-1840
Ed. Anna Ballian The catalogue of an exhibition of ecclesiastical art, Relics of the
Past: Treasures of the Greek Orthodox
Church and the Population Exchange, this
volume underlines the cultural importance
of religious artefacts. Essays on the displacement of Christian populations in the
Aegean, Black Sea and Anatolian regions
following the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne accompany detailed commentaries on 76 artefacts, including crosses, icons and liturgical
vessels and vestments, taken by the
refugees as they left their homelands. Texts
in English and French. FIVE CONTINENTS
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CRAFTS/HOBBIES
BUILDING A HISTORY
The Lego Group
Sarah Herman The LEGO brick was
patented in 1958, but the story began much
earlier in the carpentry workshop of Ole
Kirk Christiansen (1891-1958) in Billund,
Denmark, where he made wooden toys
rather than plastic bricks. This illustrated
history of what is now the market-leading,
award-winning LEGO Group also describes
the ever-expanding range of LEGO toys.
It surveys the catalogue of products from
simple bricks to Duplo, Technic and
Mindstorms sets, video games and even
sculptors ‘building outside the box’.
REMEMBER WHEN 2012 HB 316pp Illus
£25.00 20442 now £9.99
ULTIMATE PAPERCRAFT BIBLE
A Complete Reference with
Step-by-Step Techniques
Ed. Marie Clayton ‘Papercraft’, writes
Marie Clayton, ‘is an exciting and absorbing pastime that offers a simple and effective way to express your creativity,
without having to learn complicated skills
or buy lots of expensive tools’. This
colourful, step-by-step guide shows how
to get started in papercraft and how to
progress from simple colouring, through
card-making, gift wrapping and scrapbooks to origami; and a final chapter gives
a taste of crafts such as papier maché,
paper flowers and quilling. COLLINS
& BROWN 2012 HB 304pp Illus 272x213mm
£25.00 20020 now £9.99
ASPECTS OF MODELLING SERIES
BASEBOARDS FOR
MODEL RAILWAYS
Ian Morton The baseboard is naturally
the foundation of any model railway and
seasoned modellers know that cutting corners at this stage can lead to frustration
and wasted time later. This book provides
a complete introduction to the tools, materials and techniques for layouts of any
size or scale, from simple solid-top baseboards to more advanced ‘open top’ configurations and portable designs. The techniques are supported by step-by-step
photographs and diagrams.
NEW
IAN ALLAN 2012 PB 80pp Illus 280x210mm
NEW LETTERING
A Reference Manual of Techniques
Andrew Haslam Using explanatory
text, step-by-step photographs and many
classic and contemporary examples, this
manual explains more than 80 processes
for creating lettering and applying it to
surfaces. The range is huge, including
calligraphy, sandblasting, tattooing,
braille, neon signage, road marking and
engraving, even fireworks and lettering
with plants. Design and architectural
professionals will find this reference
invaluable, and the interested amateur
will find much to intrigue and instruct.
LAURENCE KING 2011 HB 240pp Illus
267x208mm
$50.00 21360 now £9.99
MAKING VINTAGE
ACCESSORIES
25 Original Sewing Projects
Inspired by the 1920s-60s
Emma Brennan Accessories have
always been economical and inventive
additions to any outfit. This collection of
25 pieces inspired by the fashions of the
past – from the 1920s to the 1960s –
includes hats, scarves, belts, jewellery
and bags. A helpful introduction
explaining techniques and fabrics is
followed by step-by-step instructions for
each project, with plenty of detailed
photographs and pattern templates for
photocopying. GUILD OF MASTER
SEWING SOLUTIONS
Tips and Advice for the Savvy Sewist
Nicole Vasbinder With this welldesigned guide, expert sewing teacher
Nicole Vasbinder aims to answer the
questions that learners ask and to provide
‘the essential reference book for the
new generation of sewists and sewists
of all abilities’. It begins with a detailed
explanation of the basic sewing machine
and marking, measuring and cutting tools,
then goes on to deal with fabrics, patterns,
sewing techniques, embellishments and
trims, fitting and finishing.
INTERWEAVE 2012 PB 192pp Illus 208x145mm
£13.00 20016 now £4.99
1,000 TILES
2,000 Years of Decorative Ceramics
Ed. Gordon Lang Decorative ceramic
tiles have been an integral part of
interior decoration for centuries.
They have been used to adorn temples,
churches and palaces as well as modest
domestic interiors. Illustrated with
hundreds of colour photographs, this
is an outstanding reference directory
of tiles from all periods and places, from
ninth-century Mesopotamia to medieval
Europe, and from Maiolica and Delft
to Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the work
of contemporary ceramicists.
HERBERT 2004 PB 320pp Illus 235x194mm
£19.99 20313 now £7.99
CRAFTSMAN 2009 PB 190pp Illus 270x210mm
£14.99 21070 now £6.99
£14.99 21424 now £5.99
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.
LINESIDE BUILDINGS
IAN ALLAN 2012 PB 96pp Illus 280x210mm
£14.99 17125 now £5.99
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MAKE DO AND MEND
Keeping Family and Home
Afloat on War Rations
Ed. Jill Norman How to patch shirts, sheets and
blankets, ways of saving fuel (giving up toast
helps), mending saucepans and how to look after
parachute nylon... Jill Norman introduces this
compilation of leaflets issued by the Board of
Trade during the Second World War, when
making-do and mending on the home front was
an important part of the war effort. These tricks
could also help survive a recession – but don’t
do that saucepan and flux thing. No jacket.
£9.99 10911 now £3.99
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CRAFTS/COLLECTABLES
NEW THE COMPLETE
BOOK OF DRAWING
Essential Skills for Every Artist
Barrington Barber This guide to mastering
the art of drawing begins with simple
exercises in drawing shapes and single
objects, and learning the rudiments of
proportion, form and light, before
progressing to still-life, landscape, the
human figure and portraiture. In later
chapters, Barber encourages the student
to experiment, describing the styles and
techniques available to the draughtsman, the
skill of composition, and the value of studying
the drawings of masters such as Raphael and
Rubens. CAPELLA 2014 PB 352pp Illus 297x210mm
£14.99 22792 now £5.99
PURLS OF WISDOM
The Book of Knitting
NEW MASTER DISASTER
Five Ways to Rescue Desperate Watercolors
Susan Webb Tregay presents a practical guide to ‘rescuing’ watercolour paintings
that seem to have gone hopelessly wrong and from would-be disasters, creating
successful works. With many before-and-after examples that show her techniques
in action, and stressing the need for flexibility and daring, Tregay explains five
steps to achieving success: correct any disliked elements, break up boring spaces,
enrich with colour, unify values and colour, and add something surprising.
Jenny Lord ‘Anyone can knit’; the
secret, according to Jenny Lord, is to
start small. After a history of knitting
and a guide to choosing yarn and
needles, this beginner’s guide is clearly
set out with illustrated instructions and
photographs of what the finished stitch
patterns should look like. Once you have
mastered the basics, there are more than
20 simple patterns – all designed as gifts,
including scarves, hats, cushions and
socks for girls, boys, babies and iPods.
NORTH LIGHT 2007 HB 128pp Illus 278x215mm
$29.99 21183 now £6.99
THREE COLOR
PAINTING
Stan Kaminski’s guide shows
beginner and experienced
artists alike how to create
successful paintings with just
three colours: alizarin crimson,
ultramarine blue and yellow
ochre. The techniques used are
universal and work for many
mediums,including watercolour, oil, acrylic or gouache.
Twenty demonstration
paintings are explained step
by step, with plenty of clear
Dark objects reflect lighter in water, while
illustrations and an emphasis on
light surfaces (the walls) reflect darker
the thought process involved as
you paint. GUILD OF MASTER CRAFTSMAN 2009 PB 128pp Illus 248x240mm
PENGUIN 2010 PB 208pp Illus 254x202mm
£16.99 98142 now £5.99
£16.99 21074 now £5.99
Liz Arthur From 1934 to 1962, the Needlework Development Scheme collected
contemporary and historical textile work for teaching and encouraging needle crafts.
Deposited at the Glasgow School of Art when the Scheme closed, and augmented
by later acquisitions, the collection now includes work from many countries and
many different techniques. Presented by the curator, this catalogue describes and
illustrates 82 of the best examples, ranging from a 17th century plaited silk belt to a
1930s linen sample book. HERBERT 2005 PB 124pp Illus 275x218mm
TEXTILE TREASURES AT THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
NORDIC KNITTING
TRADITIONS
Knit 25 Scandinavian, Icelandic
and Fair Isle Accessories
Susan Anderson-Freed Traditional
Scandinavian and Icelandic designs are
given new life in these 25 projects, with
new floral, star, feather and geometric
motifs, all knit in fresh and modern colours.
The patterns – for hats and tams, mittens
and gloves, and socks, knee-highs and leg
warmers – are all clearly presented with
full-colour charts, variations on the main
pattern to allow you to customize, and tips
and tricks for sizing, construction and
stress-free knitting. Felt-tip mark on upper
edge. KRAUSE 2012 PB 144pp Illus 253x200mm
£15.99 20008 now £5.99
£19.99 20397 now £7.99
Kathy Martin Merrythought is Britain’s longest-established
teddy-bear maker and its threatened closure in 2006
sparked a national outcry. This delightful book charts
the Shropshire firm’s history, complete with teddy-bear
timeline, and illustrates many of its much-loved products.
It offers advice on care and cleaning, how to date a teddy
and how to spot fakes, and provides a list of stockists.
Engaging and well-informed, it is a charming
celebration of what Gyles Brandreth describes in his
introduction as ‘the world’s favourite soft toy’.
MERRYTHOUGHT TEDDY BEARS
REMEMBER WHEN 2009 HB 224pp Illus
£19.99 87989 now £7.99
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CHILDREN’S
NEW BEAR SEES
COLOURS
Karma Wilson; Illus Jane
Chapman Strolling through the
countryside, Bear and Mouse
meet their friends Hare, Badger,
Gopher and Mole, and see
colours everywhere – blue
flowers, red cherries, brown
chocolate cake at Raven, Owl
and Wren’s picnic – and invite
young readers to find them too.
Age 3+ SIMON & SCHUSTER
£6.99 20503 now £2.99
Angie Morgan Enormous had no idea
why he was so big, and although it
was useful sometimes – especially for
carrying the little mice when their legs
got tired – it did worry him. Then one
day he discovered that he was really a
rat and went off to live with the other rats
– but soon found out he’d rather be a very
big mouse. Age 3+ FRANCES LINCOLN
THE LARGE FAMILY (Four books)
Jill Murphy Apart from being elephants,
Mr and Mrs Large have a very normal
family: four children full of enthusiasm and
energy who make a dreadful racket helping
with housework when Mum is not well,
pester Dad to read stories when he comes
home from work exhausted and generally
create havoc. This set contains four of
these wonderful storybooks: A Quiet
Night In, A Piece of Cake, All in One
Piece and Mr Large in Charge. Age 4+
WALKER 2005 PB 136pp Illus 213x260mm
£6.99 20514 now £2.99
£23.96 17974 now £9.99
NEW
ENORMOUSE
For very early learners, adding up and taking away
are fun with the pop-up pictures, tabs to pull and
flaps to lift in Simon Abbott’s Number Pops. There
are dinosaurs, princesses, fish and footballers to add
and subtract and both books end with some simple sums
– answers under the flaps. Age 3+ TANGO 2012 HB 12pp Illus
NUMBER POPS SERIES
CS Evans; Illus. Arthur Rackham This version
of Sleeping Beauty, retold by CS Evans and
illustrated by the great Arthur Rackham, was
first published in 1920, but remains one of the
finest books of silhouettes ever created. The
original is faithfully reprinted in this edition,
with an introduction to Rackham’s work by
fellow illustrator Michael Hague. Age 9+
NEW
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
17909
17908
ADDITION
SUBTRACTION
LAUGHING ELEPHANT 2012 HB 100pp Illus 227x177mm
$22.95 21368 now £5.99
(Seven books)
Margret Rey ‘A good little monkey and always very curious’,
George gets into all sorts of trouble, but it’s easy for a monkey to
get out of trouble and somehow he always redeems himself. This series
of stories by Margret Rey, with illustrations in the style of George’s
creator, HA Rey, finds the little monkey in a museum, a toy shop,
the library, a fire station, the train station, a chocolate factory and at
his own birthday party. Age 4+ WALKER 2008 PB 174pp Illus 202x202mm
A CURIOUS GEORGE SET
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CHILDREN’S
PRESS OUT AND BUILD BOXED SETS
This boxed set contains
all you need to build a 61cm
pirate ship plus an illustrated
booklet on famous pirates and
the ships they sailed in. The
black-and-white model is
constructed from press-out
shaped card, with instructions,
templates for making the sails
and stickers to adorn the
finished ship. Age 8+ (with
adult assistance).
NEW
PIRATE SHIP
TOP THAT! 2015 24pp Illus
£14.99 22791
now £6.99
This kit comprises 20 pieces of shaped card ready to colour in, then simply press out and
slot together to make a three storey Georgian house, with drawn details down to the clock
on the mantlepiece. A 24-page booklet begins with a short description of life in Georgian
times, then gives full instructions for making ten pieces of dolls’ period furniture,
including a washstand and toilet (templates provided). TOP THAT! 2013 24pp Illus
NEW
ART SMART
48 Creative Prospects to
Draw, Paint, Print and Make
NEW
Traci Bunkers; Kath Durkin et al
These 48 creative projects for children
involve a variety of techniques, including
drawing, printing, painting, stencilling,
weaving and sewing. The simpler items,
such as birthday cards and wrapping
paper, can be done independently,
while the more complex ones will be
fun for an adult and child to do together.
Lists of equipment and step-by-step
instructions make each project simple
to plan and follow. Age 8+
QED 2012 HB 120pp Illus 265x210mm
£9.99 20509 now £4.99
DOLL’S HOUSE
£14.99 22790 now £6.99
WALLACE AND GROMIT
The Complete Cracking Contraptions Manual
Derek Smith; Illus. Graham Bleathman How do the Techno Trousers work?
How did Wallace rebuild Preston the Cyber Dog? All is revealed in this twovolumes-in-one manual, with descriptions of how each of Wallace and Gromit’s
fantastic inventions works, cutaway diagrams and photographs of the machines
in action. There are details of 40 contraptions, from the Bed Launcher to
Wallace’s A35 van, plus cutaways of his house and Invention cellar. Age 9-90
HAYNES 2013 PB 208pp Illus
£16.99 18027 now £6.99
HOW TO DRAW DINOSAURS
and Other Cool Stuff
Illus. Barry Green; Dan Green
As well as 18 different dinosaurs (from
Allosaurus to Velociraptor) this book
has simple three-or-six-step instructions
for drawing all sorts of ‘cool stuff’ –
pirates, parrots and the jolly roger,
trains and boats and planes, lots of
different fish, cartoon characters,
monsters and superheroes. Altogether
there are 404 things to draw. Age 5+
TOP THAT 2014 PB 192pp Illus 280x217mm
£9.99 12016 now £4.99
NEW BREAKING THE SPELL
Stories of Magic and
Mystery from Scotland
Lari Don; Illus. Cate James
These tales of kelpies, selkies, witches,
friendly giants and a baby monster
are all based on Scottish legends
and folklore, retold for children by
storyteller Lari Don and illustrated
by Cate James. There are ‘notes from
the author’ on each of the ten stories
at the end of the book. Age 5+
Juliet Rix; Illus. Juliet Snape Juliet
Rix retells the Greek myth of Theseus
and the Minotaur, the monster in King
Minos’ labyrinth that was fed Athenian
girls and boys every nine years. With
concise text and colourful pictures
inspired by Minoan art, the book
shows how Ariadne helped Theseus
kill the monster and escape. Includes
a real maze puzzle. Age 5+ FRANCES
NEW
FRANCES LINCOLN
A-MAZE-ING MINOTAUR
LINCOLN 2014 HB 28pp Illus 275x240mm
£11.99 20508 now £3.99
£8.99 20510 now £4.99
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NEW BRITAIN’S FIRST MUSLIMS
Portrait of an Arab Community
Fred Halliday The rise of radical Islam
has placed British Muslims under unprecedented scrutiny. This groundbreaking
study examines the complexities of their
experience by focusing on Yemenis who
settled in ports in the early 20th century.
Through the stories of sailors in Cardiff,
South Shields and Liverpool, and industrial workers in Sheffield, Birmingham and
Manchester, it traces the development of
community organizations and the impact
of government policies, shedding valuable
new light on Islam in Britain today.
NEW THE JEWISH ODYSSEY
An Illustrated History
Mark Halter This magnificent volume charts
the history of the Jewish people from their
origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the present.
Beautifully printed and lavishly illustrated
with historic paintings, photographs and
documents, the book records the triumphs
and tragedies, as well as the immense
contributions made by Jews to science,
politics, philosophy and the arts. It concludes
with an assessment of contemporary issues
such as anti-Semitism, multi-faith families,
and the complex relationship between
the Diaspora and the state of Israel.
FLAMMARION 2010 HB 224pp Illus 310x237mm
IB TAURIS 2010 PB 192pp Illus
£27.50 21391 now £8.99
£16.99 21343 now £6.99
BEACON FOR CHANGE
How the 1951 Festival of Britain Helped to Shape a New Age
LANGUAGE
Barry Turner The 1951 Festival of Britain brought a breath of excitement and
optimism to the drab post-war years of rationing and austerity. This absorbing book
explores the intentions of its creators, charts the effect of its satellite festivals all
over Britain, and records how it transformed London’s South Bank with buildings
such as the Royal Festival Hall and the futuristic Skylon, spawned the Miss World
contest, introduced Britons to Scandinavian design... and offered them their first
experience of soft lavatory paper. AURUM 2016 HB 288pp Illus
£16.99 17884 now £6.99
THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU THINK THE BIG QUESTIONS:
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophical Quotes
Simon Blackburn Part of a series
and What They Mean
Alain Stephen Examining the best-known
quotes of the world’s most highly regarded
philosophers, Alain Stephen explains the theories
behind the words in concise and accessible essays. Beginning with Bentham on happiness
(‘The greatest happiness of the greatest number
is the foundation of morals and legislation’) the
book is in sections on religion and faith, reason
and experience, life and death, and people and
society; and discusses quotations from 39
philosophers, ancient and modern, and from East
and West. MICHAEL O’MARA 2013 HB 224pp
£12.99 10912 now £4.99
in which each book poses fundamental questions in a particular discipline
and explains the answers given by
its greatest thinkers, this volume
deals with philosophical problems.
Simon Blackburn’s 20 questions begin with consciousness (am I a ghost
in a machine?), include topics such
as artificial intelligence, beauty and
time, and end with the ‘awful abyss
of extinction’ (is death to be feared?).
QUERCUS 2009 HB 208pp
£12.99 97807 now £4.99
NEW
LIBERALISM AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
IN EARLY VICTORIAN LONDON
Benjamin Weinstein In this study, Weinstein considers the development of London’s
liberal political culture between the general election of 1832 and the establishment of the
Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855. He offers a fresh interpretation of the city’s
political life, arguing that Whiggery was a potent force, exerting a ‘powerful “negative
influence” on the construction of early Victorian metropolitan radical identity’.
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2011 HB 216pp
£50.00 21212 now £16.99
LABOUR INSIDE THE GATE
A History of the British Labour Party
Between the Wars
NEW
Matthew Worley Between the two world wars, the
Labour Party grew from a parliamentary pressure
group to a credible opposition and then a party of
government. Drawing on many sources, this
comprehensive, accessible study examines this crucial
but often neglected period of the party’s development.
It charts the growth of the party’s institutions at the
grass-roots, council and Westminster levels that,
despite the collapse of the 1929 government amid
the Great Depression, left Labour poised to win a
landslide victory in 1945. IB TAURIS 2008 PB 286pp
£18.99 21357 now £7.99
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NEW
ROOTS OF ENGLISH
Exploring the History of Dialects
Sali A Tagliamonte Many varieties of
English are now spoken across the world,
each gradually evolving from one generation to the next. But which key features
of these dialects grew up in their new
contexts and which are the legacy of their
origins in England and Scotland? Tagliamonte’s groundbreaking investigation
focuses on the ways in which four dialects
from northern Britain have influenced
aspects of the language used in areas of
the world where the founding populations
came from these dialect regions.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2013 PB 270pp
£21.99 21038 now £9.99
NEW
WHY DO
LANGUAGES CHANGE?
RL Trask Every aspect of a language
changes over time, with each new generation using slightly different grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation from the last.
Trask’s engaging introduction to historical
linguistics presents examples from the English language to explain how and why
these changes happen; chapters focus on
such topics as the origins of place names,
the differences between British and American forms of the language and the historical reasons for the eccentricities of English
spelling. CAMBRIDGE UP 2010 PB 204pp
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MUSIC
NEW POP AND ROCK PIANO
HITS FOR DUMMIES
Robbie Gennet With 35 full songs by such
greats as Elton John, David Bowie, John
Lennon, the Doors and Coldplay, this is a
compilation of hits from the last five decades
in piano arrangements. For extra flexibility
they are presented together with guitar chords
and a separate stave for melody and lyrics.
A section of notes offers helpful tips for
performance and straightforward explanations
of the structure and harmonies of each song.
HAL LEONARD 2007 PB 232pp 304x227mm
£15.95 21151 now £5.99
NEW ACOUSTIC GUITAR SONGS
FOR DUMMIES
THE CLASSIC FM HALL OF FAME
The Greatest Classical
Music of All Time
Darren Henley; Sam Jackson; Tim
Lihoreau The Classic FM Hall of Fame
is a top 300 chart of the popular radio
station’s most requested pieces. The
selections range from stalwarts of the
classical repertoire such as Mozart’s
Requiem and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
to celebrated film scores and British
favourites such as Elgar’s Cello Concerto
and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending. The book provides programme notes
and recommended recordings for each
of the pieces as well as profiles of
the most important composers. ELLIOT &
THOMPSON 2011 HB 256pp Illus 253x195mm
£25.00 19557 now £8.99
Albert L Blackwell Despite the central
role of music in religion, academic
theology has treated its sacred
significance as a peripheral concern.
In a provocative exploration of the
connections between theology and
music theory, Blackwell redresses
this balance. Bringing together the
perspectives of different Christian
traditions, he uses the concept of
‘sacramental potential’ to show how
these two interdependent ‘realms of
experience veiled in mystery’ can
work together in worship to place the
essence of the divine in human minds.
NEW
THE SACRED IN MUSIC
Greg P Herriges This easy-to-use resource
contains arrangements for acoustic guitar of
33 popular and enduring hits, ranging from the
1960s (Space Oddity, Mrs Robinson) to the 1990s (Tears in Heaven, Fly to the
Angels). They are presented in both standard notation and guitar tablature, together
with lyrics and performance notes which give tips for dealing with the trickier
moments in each song. At the end of the book are a chord chart and a guide to
guitar notation. HAL LEONARD 2007 PB 272pp 305x227mm
£15.95 21160 now £5.99
HAYNES BRASS INSTRUMENT MANUAL
How to Buy, Maintain & Set Up Your Trumpet,
Trombone, Tuba, Horn and Cornet
Simon Croft; Andy Taylor From the trombones and French horns of the symphony
orchestra to double bell euphoniums, Wagner tubas and jazzaphon trumpets, there
is a wide array of sizes, shapes and designs in the brass family. This practical
manual sets out to explain why the different instruments are designed the way they
are, how they work and how they should be maintained and repaired. The technical
maintenance and repair section includes detailed easy-to-follow instructions with
step-by-step photographs. HAYNES 2013 HB 208pp Illus
£21.99 18022 now £9.99
THE GREAT FOLK
DISCOGRAPHY
Volume One: Pioneers
and Early Legends
Martin C Strong The first volume of
Martin Strong’s groundbreaking trilogy
of folk encyclopedias includes over 500
biographies of individuals and groups,
along with album reviews, discographies
and commentaries on styles and influences. Focusing on pioneers and early legends, it takes us from the ‘unique musical
talent’ of Leadbelly via the still ‘utterly
relevant’ Woody Guthrie to the US folk
LUTTERWORTH 1999 HB 256pp
20943 now £9.99
BEETHOVEN
His Life and Music
£20.00 88425 now £6.99
THE GREAT FOLK
DISCOGRAPHY
Volume Two: The Next Generation
Martin C Strong The second volume of
Strong’s trilogy takes us from the late
1970s, where ‘folk music had the stuffing
kicked out of it by the advent of punk and
new wave’, through the genre’s swift revival via emerging 1980s acts such as Billy
Bragg and The Waterboys, up to the present
day. The Next Generation features over 500
biographies of individuals and groups,
along with album reviews, discographies
and commentaries on styles and influences.
POLYGON 2011 PB 359pp 270x210mm
Jeremy Siepmann Transforming the role and
perception of the artist in society, Beethoven
acted as a bridge from the Classical to the
Romantic era. This biographical portrait
combines accessible analysis of his music with
contemporary descriptions of his difficult and
mercurial character, his heroic struggles with
deafness, his response to his revolutionary age
and the emergence of the cult of the hero and
genius. NAXOS 2005 PB + Audio CD 224pp Illus
£12.99 20289 now £4.99
revival and British artists of the 1960s
and 70s, including Fairport Convention,
Nick Drake and The Incredible String
Band. POLYGON 2010 PB 643pp 270x210mm
£20.00 88426 now £6.99
‘HALLO SAUSAGES’
The Lyrics of Ian Dury
Ed. Jemima Dury Edited by his daughter,
Hallo Sausages is the collected lyrics of
Ian Dury, plus scrawled notes, dog-eared
typescripts, candid snapshots and other
fragments. With an accompanying CD of
music and interviews. BLOOMSBURY 2012
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MUSIC/PERFORMING ARTS
NEW THE COMPLETE
LYRICS OF JOHNNY MERCER
NEW
THE ALBUM COVER
ALBUM
Ed. Storm Thorgerson; Roger Dean ‘In
the face of the digital tsunami’, writes
Storm Thorgerson, ‘it seems an appropriate time to resurrect and remember
“things” (the ones we can touch) that may
shortly be confined to entropy’. This selection of over 600 album covers explores
their tremendous variety of design and imagery in sections on jazz, psychedelia, the
‘golden years’, covers disguised as other
things, and ‘Influence and Coincidence’,
looking at shared themes such as group
portraits, weird make-up and men leaning
on cars. ILEX 2008 HB 160pp Illus 303x303mm
Ed. Robert Kimball; Barry Day
et al Johnny Mercer began writing
songs in the 1930s, first in New York
and then in Hollywood, and during
a career spanning over four decades
he was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Song no fewer than
18 times. This large-format volume
collects his entire oeuvre of more than
1,200 songs, written with composers
including Hoagy Carmichael and
Jerome Kern, and intersperses the
lyrics with information about the
songs, photographs, film stills and
publicity material. ALFRED A KNOPF
$65.00 21171 now £19.99
NEW THE TREASURES
OF NOËL COWARD
Barry Day From the daring playwright
of the 1930s and consummate filmmaker
of the war years to the witty songwriter
and cabaret performer of the 1950s and
1960s, Noël Coward’s broad-ranging
theatrical career was one of the most
interesting and influential of the 20th
century. This celebratory volume gives
a resumé of his life and achievements
and includes a DVD of rare film footage
and facsimiles of 21 personal documents
including hand-written letters, publicity
material, photographs, lyrics and song
sheets. ANDRÉ DEUTSCH 2012 HB 62pp
£19.99 21429 now £8.99
NEW TOP OF THE POPS
50th Anniversary
Patrick Humphries; Steve Blacknell
Originally planned for six episodes in 1964,
the success of Top of the Pops earned it an
indefinitely extended run which only came
to an end in 2006. This celebration of the
programme recalls the famous appearances
and iconic performances that influenced
generations of pop fans, as well as revealing
some of the backstage secrets and telling
the story of the producers, presenters,
dancers and regular performers that shaped
the show over the decades.
McNIDDER & GRACE 2014 HB 208pp Illus
£24.99 21397 now £6.99
Terry Teachout Both of Edward Kennedy
Ellington’s parents were pianists but it
was not until the teenage ‘Duke’ heard a
DUKE: The Life of Duke Ellington
Illus 280x245mm
£35.00 21398 now £9.99
Laurence Olivier and Noel Coward go head to head in the 1930 production of Private Lives
ragtime piece in 1913 that he took the instrument seriously. By the 1920s he was
in Harlem, New York, leading his own
orchestra and on the path to worldwide
fame. This biography assesses the life and
artistic legacy of the most prolific and influential jazz composer of all time, drawing on private papers, scrapbooks, musical
manuscripts and interviews. Felt-tip mark
on lower trimmed edge.
ROBSON 2013 HB 495pp Illus
£25.00 22927 now £7.99
OXFORD UP 2012 HB 304pp Illus 262x183mm
$35.00 19381 now £6.99
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 &
THE CHRONICLE OF OPERA
HUDSON 2007 PB 260pp Illus 278x217mm
THE BEATLES
The Archives 1962-1970
Kevin Howlett The Beatles appeared on
the BBC on countless occasions, the network hosting some of the group’s most
significant projects such as the Our World
satellite broadcast in 1967 and the Magical Mystery Tour film. This book charts
every appearance by the Beatles on the
BBC with transcripts of interviews, photographs and ephemera from the files. The
boxed set also contains a wallet of facsimile documents including correspondence relating to appearances, an audition
report and publicity photograph. HARPER
DESIGN 2013 HB 336pp Illus 273x273mm
£16.95 18190 now £7.99
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Jon Burlingame From the most recognizable theme in movie history to a catalogue of hit songs by the world’s best
singers, music has played an important
role in the unparalleled success of the
Bond films. Dissecting the score and
songs of each film up to Quantum of Solace this book reveals how the musical
style of Bond was created and developed
and how the songs and singers were chosen for the iconic title numbers.
THE MUSIC OF JAMES BOND
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PERFORMING ARTS
Peter Cowie Francis Ford Coppola earned
his place in film history with The Godfather in 1972 and consolidated it with a
string of films in the 1970s culminating
in Apocalypse Now. This analysis of the
great director is based on interviews with
Coppola, his friends and colleagues and
examines the influences that have shaped
his productions as well as the creative and
financial turmoil behind them that, by the
early 1980s, left him $20 million in debt,
despite having won five Oscars.
NEW
David Jason Born the son of a Billingsgate porter
at the height of the Second World War, David
Jason was a reluctant electrician before finding
his vocation – making people laugh – in the
1960s and 1970s. Then in 1981, kitted out with a
sheepskin jacket and a clapped-out Reliant Regal,
he found the part that captured the nation’s hearts:
Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter. Here he tells the story
of life, near-death experiences and five decades
as one of Britain’s favourite actors.
COPPOLA
DAVID JASON: My Life
CENTURY 2013 HB 400pp Illus
£20.00 20827 now £7.99
ANDRÉ DEUTSCH 2013 HB 288pp Illus
£19.99 21396 now £7.99
IN MY FATHER’S SHADOW
A Daughter Remembers
Orson Welles
Chris Welles Feder Few Hollywood stars
have achieved the stature or notoriety of
Orson Welles, creator of arguably the
greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane.
Much has been written about his artistic
triumphs and human failings, but as the
author makes clear, this is not another such
book. Owing nothing to research and everything to first-hand experience, it is the
beautifully realized, intensely personal tale
of a daughter’s search for her lovable,
larger-than-life yet strangely elusive father.
MAINSTREAM 2010 HB 302pp Illus
£14.99 19572 now £5.99
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.
ESSENTIAL FILM: A World History
HERBERT 2008 PB 480pp Illus 160x120mm
£12.99 11988 now £5.99
POSSESSED
The Life of Joan Crawford
Donald Spoto Joan Crawford (1908-77)
was one of Hollywood’s most incandescent stars, yet also one of the most misunderstood. In this thoughtful biography,
Donald Spoto goes beyond the popular
caricature – the abusive, unstable mother
portrayed in her adopted daughter’s memoir, Mommie Dearest – to give a rounded
portrait of an extraordinary woman, her
dazzling career and her dramatic life and
times. HUTCHINSON 2011 HB 352pp Illus
£20.00 17912 now £7.99
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Barry Cryer; Philip Porter Barry
Cryer has been a stalwart of British
comedy since the 1950s. Cutting
his teeth at the famous Windmill
Theatre in Soho, he has since
written for, worked with and often
become friends with most of the
greats of the post-war era, among
them Tommy Cooper and Eric
Morecambe. This memoir is presented as a scrapbook of his personal photographs,
illuminated by Cryer’s observations about his life and the stars he has worked with,
and by their comments about him. PORTER PRESS 2009 PB 176pp Illus 248x300mm
£19.99 10785 now £7.99
Brenda Blethyn is one of Britain’s best-loved
actresses. In this autobiography she tells the story
of her early life and career, from 1940s Ramsgate
where she was the youngest of nine children, to
the National Theatre, television, Hollywood
and stardom. She tells her tale with characteristic
warmth and humour; the story of how she forced
herself to run the London Marathon, three times,
is a typical example. POCKET 2007 PB 320pp Illus
MIXED FANCIES
£7.99 20414 now £3.99
A STILL UNTITLED
(NOT QUITE) AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Ron Moody was studying at the London School of
Economics in the early 1950s when he got the
theatrical bug, writing and starring in student revues.
His comic talent was soon spotted by a leading
agent who encouraged him to take the stage
seriously as a profession. In this eccentric and thoughtful memoir, Moody looks
back on his early theatrical experiences and his
career leading up to the part that made his name –
Fagin in Oliver!. ROBSON PRESS 2010 PB 256pp Illus
£12.99 19775 now £4.99
THE HOUSE OF REDGRAVE
The Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty
Tim Adler The story of the Redgrave family is a
febrile mix of ambition, scandal, dazzling success
and appalling unhappiness. For more than a
century, the acting dynasty has dominated British
theatre and film. Drawing on many interviews,
this biography charts their private and
professional lives, from the brilliant, troubled
Michael Redgrave and his wife Rachel Kempson,
through their children Lynn, Vanessa and Corin,
to the triumphs and tragedies of the latest
generation. AURUM 2012 PB 346pp Illus
£8.99 20067 now £3.99
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SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS
NEW FROM 0 TO INFINITY
IN 26 CENTURIES
The Extraordinary Story of Maths
Chris Waring presents the history of mathematics
not as a tedious procession of numbers, symbols
and formulae, but as a tale of human endeavour,
culture, hopes and dreams, which have helped
to shape how we see the world today. In an
accessible chronological survey he tracks down
the mathematical stories behind each major advance,
from ancient Mesopotamian maths homework and
the Mayan calendar to the Large Hadron Collider
and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2012 HB 191pp
£9.99 21413 now £4.99
A BRIEF GUIDE TO
THE GREAT EQUATIONS
The Hunt for Cosmic Beauty in Numbers
PATRICK MOORE’S
YEARBOOK OF ASTRONOMY
2015
NEW
Ed. John Mason Continuing Sir Patrick
Moore’s 52-year tradition of editing a
guide to noteworthy astronomical
events, his collaborator John Mason
compiled this yearbook for 2015. It features sets of star charts for Northern and
Southern Hemispheres, astronomical
data, a month-by-month listing of the
year’s phenomena, and seven speciallycommissioned articles by eminent astronomers on subjects such as Edmond
Halley, the New Horizons mission
which reached Pluto in 2015, and the
curious history of the star Lalande
36613. MACMILLAN 2014 HB 393pp Illus
£20.00 21461 now £7.99
PHILIP’S GUIDE TO STARS
AND PLANETS
Patrick Moore ‘Strictly for newcomers’ and now a classic, Sir Patrick
Moore’s practical guide to the night sky
is for observers with the naked eye,
binoculars or a telescope. After chapters
on the Moon (with Moon maps), the
Sun, the planets, stars and galaxies, it
provides detailed maps of all the constellations, with notes on the main stars
and other interesting objects.
PHILIP’S 2013 PB 256pp Illus
£9.99 20183 now £4.99
Robert P Crease From 1+1=2 and Pythagoras’ theorem to the work of Einstein and
Heisenberg, Crease tells the stories and personal struggles behind the creation of the
most fundamental, powerful and influential equations. He also considers what each
equation reveals about the cultural and historical background that produced it and the
effects, often unforeseen by their originators, which these pithy distillations of
knowledge have had on later generations. ROBINSON 2009 PB 313pp
£8.99 18188 now £3.99
Ed. Paul Kent; Allan Chapman Robert Hooke (1635-1703) has been described as
‘an English Leonardo da Vinci’, but although his name is immortalized in Hooke’s
Law of Elasticity, his ingenious inventiveness has been too long neglected. This
volume comprises nine essays which help to redress the balance; they cover
Hooke’s achievements in a range of scientific endeavours, his influence on
science and scientists in the centuries after his death and our modern world’s
debt to such inventions as the universal joint and the
anchor escapement. GRACEWING 2005 HB 207pp Illus
ROBERT HOOKE AND THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
£15.99 97680 now £6.99
DECEIVED WISDOM
Why What You Thought Was Right Is Wrong
David Bradley From the claim that a hot cup of
tea on a warm day will cool you down to thinking
there is no gravity in space, this book looks at
things we think we know and explains why we
are wrong. Among the topics examined and myths
exploded are passwords, multitasking, sleep, the
‘six degrees of separation’, and food fads. Each
section ends with a succinct statement of the
science involved and most include website
addresses for finding out more.
ELLIOTT & THOMPSON 2012 HB 174pp
£11.99 19461 now £4.99
Yorkshire road contractor Percy Shaw developed his ‘cat’s eye’ reflector device in
the 1930s – a simple but critical innovation that soon spread all over the world.
This attractively illustrated book explores many such inventions that have shaped
human progress and characterize modern civilization. Covering a range of fields
it traces, for example, innovation in communication from the quill pen to global
positioning systems, and progress in medicine from the invention of spectacles in
the 13th century to genetic engineering. BLACK DOG 2009 HB 240pp Illus 279x230mm
INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
£24.95 21108 now £9.99
GUIDE TO URBAN ENGINEERING
Infrastructure and Technology in the Modern Landscape
Claire Barratt; Ian Whitelaw How does drinking 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 very accessible, illustrated guide provides an introduction to the technology
that underpins modern life. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 224pp Illus
£14.99 97696 now £5.99
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TRANSPORT
Michael A Vanns This revised, second edition of the
popular abc Signalboxes (1997) provides a concise,
well-illustrated history of the once familiar trackside
signal box, from the 1860s to 2007. It also discusses
the preservation of this threatened species of railway
structure and provides a detailed table of signalboxes
surviving on the network up to 2012.
NEW
ABC SIGNALBOXES
IAN ALLAN 2013 PB 128pp Illus 184x120
£13.00 21422 now £4.99
NEW BRITISH RAILWAYS:
STANDARD CLASS 5
BUILDING A RAILWAY
Bourne to Saxby
Ed. Stewart Squires; Ken Hollamby
When the Bourne to Saxby railway was
built in Lincolnshire between 1890 and
1893, the supervising engineer, Charles
Wilson, took a series of photographs
recording the construction of cuttings and
bridges, and generally detailing the progress
of works along the line. Offering a rare insight into the building of a Victorian railway, this volume presents a selection of
these images with extensive explanatory
captions, comparative modern photographs
of the featured locations and a brief history
of the line. LINCOLN RECORD SOCIETY
£30.00 97990 now £9.99
David Clarke One of the 12 standard designs
introduced by the newly nationalized British
Railways, the Class 5 was based on the LMS
‘Black 5’ and built in Derby and Doncaster during the 1950s for service in all regions. This
exploration of its history includes both colour
and black-and-white photographs and seeks to
identify the numerous variations in detail within
the class while reviewing its design, construction, operational history, liveries and preserved
examples. IAN ALLAN 2012 HB 96pp Illus
£19.99 21425 now £8.99
NEW AC ELECTRIC
LOCOMOTIVES IN COLOUR
Gavin Morrison The first British AC locomotives entered service on the newly electrified
East Coast Main Line in 1959. This survey of
AC electric traction on British railways, illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, examines each of the types built from the prototype Class AL1 (later Class 81), through the
AL6 (86) which clocked up decades of reliable
service from the mid-1960s, to the Class 92,
designed to run through the Channel Tunnel.
IAN ALLAN 2013 HB 104pp Illus 280x210mm
£25.00 21423 now £9.99
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 by the early pioneers
to specially commissioned maps showing recent
re-openings 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
Ed. Sam Atkinson; Jemima Dunne;
Kathryn Hennessy Often associated
with nostalgia for bygone local
services, the history of the train
is in fact a story of global,
nation-changing consequence
and technological innovation
that continues to this day.
Supported by hundreds of
GWR City of Truro,
colour ‘cut-out’ images,
1902, claimed to be the
The Train Book charts the
development of locomotive first locomotive to reach 100mph
design from Trevithick’s 1803 tram engine to modern metro systems and high-speed
trains; it profiles the railway pioneers and the most notable trains and, in a final
section, explains how railways work. DORLING KINDERSLEY 2015 PB 320pp Illus 275x230
THE TRAIN BOOK: The Definitive Visual History
NEW
EDITIONS
TINY TRAINS
A Guide to Britain’s Miniature
Railways 2015-2016
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. Ninth edition
SOCCER BOOKS 2014 PB 96pp Illus
£9.99 22089 now £3.99
LITTLE PUFFERS
A Guide to Britain’s Narrow
Gauge Railways 2015-2016
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,
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A Guide to Britain’s Standard
Gauge Steam Railways
2015-2016
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
kept at the National Railway Museum
to former industrial railways and picturesque preserved lines. 19th edition.
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ILLUSTRATED HISTORIES OF THE LONDON UNDERGROUND
Published in association with London’s Transport Museum and London
Underground, these illustrated histories trace the development of each
underground line from its initial planning to the present day, covering topics
such as electrification, wartime, infrastructure and station design, with behindthe-scenes photographs from the Museum’s collections showing details of the
construction of tunnels and stations, rolling stock, maintenance and operation.
CAPITAL TRANSPORT 2003-9 PB 80pp Illus
MAC Horne When it opened in 1968, the
Victoria Line was the first complete underground
railway to be built across London since
Edwardian times. This volume begins by
examining the long process of planning that
began decades earlier.
20137
THE VICTORIA LINE
Mike Horne Beginning with Peter Barlow’s
great civil engineering feat of tunnelling under
the Thames, the story of the Northern Line starts
with fascinating details of the problems that
faced the original builders.
20135
THE NORTHERN LINE
NEW
THE MICHELIN MEN
Driving an Empire
Herbert R Lottman After taking over the
family rubber business, Édouard Michelin’s striking innovation, in 1891, was a
removable pneumatic bicycle tyre. This
idea, together with brother André’s marketing genius, was the foundation of a phenomenal rise in the company’s fortunes.
This highly readable history tells the story
of how the two brothers’ groundbreaking
efforts built a global empire and helped
to create a tourist industry around motoring
with their famous Michelin guides
and maps. IB TAURIS 2003 HB 320pp Illus
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J Graeme Bruce; Desmond F Croome Capital
to build the original Central London Railway
was hard to raise; but with the general public, who had
shown little interest in the share issue needed to finance construction, the new
line was an immediate success when it finally opened in July 1900.
20130
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MAC Horne From financially disastrous beginnings – no one seemed particularly
keen to invest in tube railways – the District Line now serves 60 stations and is one
of the busiest in the London Underground network.
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THE CIRCLE LINE
including the Hammersmith and City Line
Desmond F Croome The Circle Line had no single original company and owned
no track, rolling stock or stations, but used those belonging to the Distinct and
Metropolitan lines. Its history is bound up with London’s overground termini
and the need to connect them.
20132
HIGH-FLYING WOMEN
A World of Female Pilots
THE CAR BOOK
The Definitive Visual History
Ed. Kathryn Hennessy Conceived as an
alternative to the ‘bubble cars’ popular in
the 1950s, Alec Issigonis’ revolutionary
Mini established the pattern for the modern
car with its front-wheel drive and transverse
engine. This history of more than a century
of evolution includes illustrated features
exploring mileposts in car design and engine development as well as profiling the
great marques and presenting over a thousand colour images of important cars, from
Daimler’s first petrol-engined vehicle of
1886 to modern hybrids. DORLING
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Alain Pelletier Being a female aviator in the
early 20th century took bravery, determination
and patience. Today, a handful of names have
survived from this era, including Amelia Earhart
and Amy Johnson, but there are many more who
deserve to be celebrated. In this comprehensive
history, Pelletier reveals the heroines of aviation,
from the pioneers of 1910 to 21st century
cosmonauts, with 50 biographies and stories
of ‘firsts’, record attempts, military aviation,
aerobatics, journeys across the planet and even
into space. HAYNES 2012 HB 192pp Illus 278x227mm
£25.00 17698 now £9.99
Andrew Morgan Since London’s iconic
Routemaster buses were retired from service,
enthusiasts from Britain and abroad have
acquired vehicles and restored and adapted them.
This celebration of the enduring appeal of the
Routemaster focuses on vehicles that are still in
use today, from working tour buses in various
parts of the world to the bus built into the foyer
of London’s M&M’s World, and includes some
weird and wonderful bodywork on versions.
DIAMOND ROUTEMASTER
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A Celebration
NEW
RMS EMPRESS OF IRELAND
Pride of the Canadian
Pacific’s Atlantic Fleet
Derek Grout In May 1914, only two years after
the sinking of the Titanic, the Canadian Pacific
liner Empress of Ireland collided with a smaller
vessel in the St Lawrence River. The mighty ship
sank in less than 15 minutes and 1,000 people
died within sight of land. This illustrated history
of the disaster includes almost 200 archive photographs, artworks, posters and other ephemera
relating to the elegant ship and its tragic demise.
HISTORY PRESS 2014 PB 118pp Illus 226x246mm
QE2 prior to being painted
for her final departure
from Southampton
William H
Miller Since
1936, when
Queen Mary
entered service,
the Cunard
Queens have
been the most
celebrated of
passenger ships,
feted in every
port of call. In
2008, Cunard had all three Queens in service: Queen Elizabeth 2; Queen
Mary 2 and Queen Victoria. In this book, William Miller brings together
over 200 photographs and an informative text telling the story of these
legendary ocean liners, including the farewell voyage of the QE2 and the
arrival of the new Queen Elizabeth. AMBERLEY 2014 PB 128pp Illus 168x245mm
£19.99 21089 now £7.99
Janette McCutcheon A ‘visual record of one of the finest liners ever to
sail’, this book presents over 180 photographs and reproductions of
advertisments and memorabilia. McCutcheon traces Queen Elizabeth’s
history, from its launch in August 1939 and duty as a troopship during the
Second World War, through a distinguished career as a liner in Cunard’s
golden years, to its sad end – burned out in Hong Kong Harbour in 1972.
RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH: The Beautiful Lady
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THE ILLUSTRATED
SINKING OF THE TITANIC
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
A Photographic History
THREE GREENWICH
BUILT SHIPS
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£19.99 21087 now £9.99
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LT Myers Such was the sensation caused by
the Titanic tragedy, publishers raced to bring
out commemorative volumes. This book is a
republication of an edition produced within
a month of the sinking and contains information about the ship and its passengers, and
numerous accounts of the disaster. The dramatically written content inevitably contains
inaccuracies and inflations but the book is
nevertheless a valuable contemporary document and contains 80 illustrations, photographs and artists’ impressions.
Ian Collard Originally founded by the
visionary Alfred Holt (1829-1911) who,
in the 1850s, saw the steamship as the
economical way to transport cargo and
passengers to the East, the Blue Funnel
Line became the major British company
serving South Africa, Australia, Indonesia
and the Far East. Here, Ian Collard presents a short history of the company up
to the container era, along with a complete
fleet list and some 200 photographs and
prints.
Alistair Deayton The River Clyde was the home of the very
first commercial paddle steamer, the Comet in 1812 and
thereafter steamboats proliferated on the river, progressing
rapidly from the wooden hulls and adapted stationary engines
of the first vessels to steel construction and triple expansion
engines. This reference work provides the specifications and
operational history of 400 paddle steamers that worked the
Clyde over the last 200 years and includes a number of archive
photographs. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 250pp Illus
DIRECTORY OF CLYDE PADDLE STEAMERS
£19.99 20255 now £7.99
Serena Cant From the remains of primitive boats of uncertain
date to 18th century trading ships and vessels of the Second
World War, there are hundreds of wrecks around England’s
coast bearing testament to the importance of shipping in the
nation’s history. This illustrated study assesses the factors that
have led to maritime disasters over the centuries and provides
an insight into naval archaeology and the role of English
Heritage in the protection of historic wreck sites.
ENGLAND’S SHIPWRECK HERITAGE
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2013 HB 300pp Illus 273x218mm
£50.00 19308 now £19.99
David C Ramzan In addition to the
Royal Naval Hospital and later College, the shipyards established at Deptford and Woolwich in the 16th century
made the area of Greenwich the most
important nautical centre in the world.
This book tells the story of maritime
Greenwich and the age of sail through
the careers of three ships built there:
an East Indiaman of the 1730s, a Royal
Navy vessel of the 1750s and an iron
clipper of the 1870s.
EMPIRE OF
THE CLOUDS
When Britain’s Aircraft
Ruled the World
James Hamilton-Paterson
In 1945 Britain was the
world’s leading builder of jet
aircraft and in the decade that
followed, produced planes
such as the Comet, Vulcan,
Hunter and Lightning; but
by the early 1960s aviation
companies such as Avro and
Vickers were either gone or
struggling. This book fuses
the author’s memories of
British aviation’s heyday
with tales of the legendary
aircraft and test pilots and a
rueful history of Britain’s loss
of self-confidence and power.
Special illustrated edition. FABER 2011 PB 304pp Illus
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ARCHITECTURE
The Eiffel Tower under construction in June 1888
COLOSSAL
Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty,
Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Written by an art historian,
this volume traces a history that leads from Napoleon’s
encounter with the gigantic monuments of ancient
Egypt to the building of the wonders of the industrial
world: the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Suez
and Panama Canals. Grigsby shows how all four modern colossi owe their existence to French engineers
and the fantasies of wealth, progress and colonial expansion they and the French financiers and politicians
took as a call to destiny. With over 200 illustrations.
PERISCOPE 2012 HB 224pp Illus 290x257mm
£45.00 19791 now £19.99
HOUSE
British Domestic
Architecture
Three-gabled tollhouse in
Bruton, Somerset, c.1831
Philippa Lewis begins this
very accessible, illustrated
survey of domestic
architecture with a concise
history of vernacular
building from the earliest
surviving medieval houses
to low environmental impact
housing of the early 2000s.
Using around 600 of her
own photographs of
properties throughout
Britain, she goes on to
discuss types of housing,
including bungalows,
cottages, manor houses,
terraces and conversions, and their architectural and decorative
features, in sections arranged alphabetically from Apartments to
Windows. PRESTEL 2011 HB 192pp Illus 240x191mm
£24.99 16748 now £11.99
Peter L Smith The former Bishop’s Palace is one of the finest yet
one of the least known buildings in Salisbury. It is also one of the
oldest, having been in use for almost 800 years. This first in-depth
study includes not only a review of the architectural modifications
it has undergone over the centuries, but a lively account of the
daily lives of its episcopal inhabitants. The many illustrations in
colour and black-and-white include works by Constable and Turner.
THE BISHOP’S PALACE AT SALISBURY
SPIRE 2013 HB 220pp Illus 240x158mm
£29.95 19057 now £14.99
Alfred-Nicolas Normand’s reconstruction of
the front of the Temple of Vespasian, 1852
RUINS OF ANCIENT ROME
The Drawings of French Architects
Who Won the Prix de Rome
1786-1924
Roberto Cassanelli; Massimiliano
David et al The prestigious Prix de Rome
offered the opportunity for young students
of architecture to examine the ancient
monuments of Italy, many of which were
being rediscovered during the 18th and
19th centuries. After three introductory
essays this beautiful volume brings together 150 drawings produced by winners
of the prize, which record the buildings
in a better state of preservation than we
can see today as well as presenting cutaway views and proposing reconstructions
of their original appearance. J PAUL GETTY
MUSEUM 2002 HB 223pp Illus 363x262mm
£55.00 19006 now £25.00
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RURAL URBANISM
London Landscapes in the
Early Nineteenth Century
Dana Arnold London has more green space
than almost any other city of comparable size.
This innovative study explains how this came
about. Extensively illustrated with historical
maps and plans, it shows how the principles
of landscape gardening developed for
country houses in the 18th century were
imported into the expanding metropolis
in the 19th. The results, from the garden
squares of Bloomsbury to the green
expanses of the Royal Parks, give the
city much of its character today.
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EPISODES IN THE
GOTHIC REVIVAL
Six Church Architects
Ed. Christopher Webster By the late
Victorian era, Gothic was universally
recognised as the only appropriate idiom
for church building, having emerged
triumphant from the ‘battle of styles’
thanks to the passionate convictions of
architects such as those profiled here. In
six illustrated essays, architectural historians
discuss the contributions to the Gothic
Revivial of the late-Georgian pioneer John
Carter, Thomas Rickman, Thomas Taylor,
the great church architects RC Carpenter
and George Street and JT Micklethwaite.
SPIRE 2011 HB 240pp Illus 238x158mm
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NEW THE COLLIER
CAMPBELL ARCHIVE
50 Years of Passion in Pattern
Emma Shackleton; Sarah
Campbell Sisters Susan Collier
and Sarah Campbell were at the
forefront of textile design for more
than 50 years. Their painterly
prints reinvented Liberty’s image
in the 1960s and 1970s, and their
colourful patterns were hugely
popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
This major retrospective features
a history of their work, a detailed
exploration of their creative
methods and a gallery of their
designs, with many insights from
the designers themselves. With forewords by Terence Conran
and Nicholas Serota. ILEX 2012 HB 320pp Illus 302x300mm
Sketch for Barge
Roses design, 1976
NEW FLORIATED ORNAMENT
£50.00 21430 now £19.99
A Series of Thirty-One Designs
Augustus Welby Pugin One of the most
NEW CHLOË PRESTON
influential architects and designers of the
AND THE PEEK-A-BOOS
19th-century Gothic revival, Augustus
Mary Hillier Published in 1910, The Peek-aPugin (1812-52) describes how the designs
Boos, the first book by Chloë Preston (1887in this source book were inspired by Gothic
1969) reflected her own happy and affluent
ornament and the medieval artists’ close
background and made the ‘Peeks’ a great
adherence to natural forms. Published in
popular success. As well as illustrating the
1849, the book contains an introduction by
series of Peeks adventures that followed,
Pugin and 33 colour plates, including two
Preston brought her distinctive style to many
reproductions of his preliminary watercolours.
other media and this richly illustrated study of
RICHARD DENNIS 1994 PB 72pp Illus 305x215mm
her life and work looks at her illustration and
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design for postcards, dolls and toys, ornaments,
ceramics, jigsaws and advertising.
RICHARD DENNIS 1998 PB 84pp Illus 230x225mm
£15.00 20535 now £4.99
Illustration by Preston for Jacob’s Cream Crackers
DICTIONARY OF CHILDREN’S
CLOTHES: 1700s to Present
‘Fashion Fabric Forecast’ in issue 8, 1848
Noreen Marshall The last 300 years have
witnessed a shift from dressing children in formal
styles to the booming designer childrenswear
market today. Over 300 garments from the last
three centuries are presented in this beautifully
illustrated and comprehensive A-Z, with detailed
entries on clothing from air-raid suits to zouave
jackets, all from the V&A Museum of Childhood.
The 400 illustrations include specially
commissioned photographs of examples of
clothing as well as sewing patterns, fashion
plates and paintings. V&A 2008 HB 288pp Illus
THE AMBASSADOR MAGAZINE
Promoting Post-War
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British Textiles and Fashion
Ed. Christopher Breward; Claire Wilcox
V&A PATTERN:
The Ambassador has been described as
DESIGNERS BOXED SET (Four volumes)
‘probably the most daring and enterprising
Karen Livingstone This set of books from
trade magazine ever conceived’. Founded
the V&A Pattern series draws on the Museum’s
to promote British textile and fashion
collection of designs for textiles and wallpapers
manufacturing, the innovative design,
to present patterns by four of the greatest
ambitious photo-shoots and adventurous
designers of the late 19th and early 20th
editorial approach set it apart from other
centuries: Owen Jones, Walter Crane, William
magazines. Illustrated with examples of
Morris and CFA Voysey. Each book contains
the best covers and layouts, some featuring
a brief introduction, reproductions of 66
original artwork by artists such as John
designs and a CD-Rom with the same patterns
Piper and Graham Sutherland, this book
stored as JPEG files, which can be opened and
tells the story of the Ambassador during
manipulated in most image software. Slipcased.
its 30-year run from 1942 to 1972.
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