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78843 WORLD HERITAGE
SITES:
4th Edition
by UNESCO Publishing
936 sites are inscribed on the World
Heritage List in 153 countries
including 725 cultural, 183 natural
and 28 mixed sites all of which have
been recognised for their
‘outstanding universal value’. The
opening pages provide colour maps
of World Heritage Sites in Europe, North America and
the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Oceania, Asia,
the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula to guide us
through this complete guide to all 936 sites in this
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
OUR LOVELY CUSTOMERS
We thank you for your loyalty, enthusiasm
and wonderful letters over the past year.
Dorothy of Bristol writes:
“Just want to say
THANK YOU for all
the wonderful
books which I could
not have known
about or afforded.
As always, I make
a big list and have
to edit it and cross
off things, but the
process is
enjoyable. Keep up
the good work.
Best wishes to you
all for a Happy New
Year”
Timeless classics in Literature, the best crop
of History we have had in some time, superb
Handicrafts and baking titles, Early Learning
and Children’s, and a huge warehouse
clearance JANUARY SALE, this is a book
lover’s bonanza. Take advantage while the
prices are this low and of course of our
£3.50 flat rate postage and packing for
however many books you buy.
and the Team wish
all our lovely
customers a very healthy
and happy 2016.
78793 DARLING
MONSTER
$40 NOW £10
78645 JERUSALEM
Stone and Spirit
$60 NOW £12
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79047 PRECIOUS AND THE
MYSTERY OF MEERKAT HILL
by Alexander McCall Smith
Once upon a time in Botswana in
Africa there was a little girl who
would later grow up to be a famous
detective named Precious
Ramotswe of the No.1 Ladies’
Detective Agency. Having already
cracked the case of the missing
cakes at school, she now has a new
mystery to solve. Her two new friends have the
funniest and most resourceful pet you can imagine, but
they are upset that their family’s most valuable
possession, their cow, has gone missing. Precious has a
plan to find the missing animal. Yes, meerkats do
appear, particularly in Iain McIntosh’s utterly charming
black, red and white silhouette illus. 90pp. Suit ages
ten to adult.
£9.99 NOW £4
See companion 79048 PRECIOUS AND THE
MYSTERY OF THE MISSING LION in Children’s
78872 SOPHIA LOREN: A
Life in Pictures
The beautiful, iconic Sophia Loren
rose to fame in the in the 1950s,
becoming not only one of the
greatest Italian actresses, but feted
and loved throughout the world.
Voluptuous and sensual, Sophia
married film producer Carlos Ponti
with whom she had two children.
Bursting with photographs, here is
Sophia in all her guises, from sexy
siren to devoted mother and from
sophisticated lady to a casually
dressed cheeky young woman
cuddling Elvis Presley! There are
many still shots and posters from
her films, as well as a biography
recounting her life from her earliest
days. This is the story of how an
illegitimate child born into nearpoverty rose to become an
internationally famed film star of
Houseboat, Two Women, The Fall of the Roman Empire
and The Millionairess. She also loved singing. It is the
stunning collection of photos of this larger-than-life lady
that will make this a treasure for any Sophia Loren fan.
12x10", 190pp, colour and b/w illus.
78665 MASTERPIECES OF
ANCIENT EGYPT
$39.95 NOW £14
78626 GHOSTS OF
EMPIRE
£9.99 NOW £5
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78925 FIRST NORTH
AMERICANS: An
Archaeological Journey
by Brian Fagan
The compelling and little-known
story of the original settlers
thousands of years ago to America,
and when and how they arrived.
What kind of landscape did they find
and how did their societies develop?
Fagan describes the controversies
over the first settlement, which probably occurred via
Siberia towards the end of the Ice Age, and debates
over the routes used as humans moved south into the
heart of the continent. A remarkable diversity of huntergatherer societies evolved in the rapidly changing North
American environments after 10,000 years ago, and the
book explores the ingenious ways in which people
adapted to every kind of landscape imaginable, from
Arctic tundra to open plains and thick woodland. Later
chapters recount how Native Americans developed
increasingly sophisticated cultures, culminating in the
spectacular Ancestral Pueblo societies of the Southwest
who built striking cliff dwellings and the elaborate coastal
developments of California and the Pacific Northwest.
The author traces the origins of the moundbuilder
societies of the Eastern Woodlands which reached their
apogee in the flamboyant Mississippian culture. He also
looks at the elaborate cosmology and spiritual beliefs and
ends with the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples and St.
Lawrence Valley. Plus the devastating consequences of
European contact. See the bird-effigy smoking pipes,
copper masks, whale, seal and other mammal-hunting
native techniques through the ice, hunting bison,
astonishing eagle helmets and ivory carvings and other
exciting archaeological finds. 190 illus, 26 in colour.
272pp.
£19.95 NOW £8.50
78933 WRITING TALK
by Alex Hamilton
A dear friend of Bibliophile’s, Alex Hamilton, aka ‘Pooter’
kindly signed every copy of this book from his own
stocks. In his long career in literary journalism over the
last 50 years, Alex has probably met and talked in depth
to most of our great writers more than anyone else,
from hardnosed bestselling authors, novelists to
cartoonists in every genre from thrillers and whodunits to
short stories, romance and erotica, science fiction and
fantasy, poetry and ‘This World’. For the piece ‘Saving
Graces’ on Graham Greene, Alex travelled to the South
of France; for ‘What Secrets Are’ interviewing Muriel
Spark, to Italy. Margaret Atwood, Beryl Bainbridge,
Arthur Koestler, Joseph Heller, James Michener,
cartoonists Calman, Felwell and Hergé, Daphne du
Maurier, Michael
Moorcock,
Stephen King and
Harold Robbins
are among the
role call from this
selection, edited
by Alex’s talented
wife Stephanie.
Collected from his
life’s work, it is a
stimulating and
rare insight into
£25 NOW £15
With
collectable Red
Vinyl Single!
78860 DAVID BOWIE:
Mick Rock Tin
ONLY £15
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is
like typhus.
78698 THE
VENETIANS
ONLY £8
Alex (r) signing with our Annie.
78791 COMPLETE
WINE SELECTOR
$24.95 NOW £7.50
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78816 MILLER’S
COLLECTIBLES
$27.99 NOW £8
78981 AIR ARSENAL NORTH
AMERICA: Aircraft for the
Allies 1938-1945
by Phil Butler with Dan
Hagedorn
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79025 THE HOLY BIBLE WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE VATICAN
LIBRARY $599.99 NOW £150
See more spectacular images on back page
tremendous heavyweight book, dripping with
colour of the most extraordinary places in the world
featuring gorgeous colour photos and maps. Castles and
gardens, basilicas, lakes, rice terraces in the Philippines,
churches of Moldavia, Angkor, the Victoria Falls,
archaeological sites in Oman, the mausoleum of the first
Qin Emperor in China and the Great Wall, the historic
city of Toledo in Spain, the rock sites of Cappadocia
with obelisks and needles reaching heights of 40 metres
in the landscape, the medina of Marrakesh in Morocco,
Cordoba with its mezquita in Spain, the Vatican City,
the Taj Mahal, the Mammoth Cave National Park USA,
Old Jerusalem and included for this 4th edition ancient
villages of northern Syria, the citadel of the Ho dynasty
Vietnam and more. With time line, locator map, extra
information and country by country index. A
magnificent publication, 872pp in sturdy softback.
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The Favrile ‘Aquamarine’ vase of
1914 and the ‘Dragonfly’ table lamp
are some of the tallest and most
astonishingly beautiful examples of
‘Aquamarine’ glass ever produced.
The sinuous seaweed, the
numerous trapped air bubbles, the
varying depths and poses of the fish heighten the
underwater effect. See pages 154 to 55 of this
glamorous heavyweight tome, which makes full use of
black backgrounds to highlight the luminescent effects of
this exceptional glassware. It is a definitive account of
Louis Comfort Tiffany’s highly collectable art glass,
which he considered his signature artistic achievement,
produced between the 1890s and 1920s. Called Favrile
glass, every piece was blown and decorated by hand.
The book presents the full range of styles and shapes
from the exquisite delicacy of the Flowerforms to the
dramatically dripping golden flow of the Lava vases,
from the dazzling iridescence of the Cypriote vases to
the glazed-pottery like opaqueness of the Brown pieces
and more. See the Diatreta or Cage Cup, a magnificent
three dimensional design with latticework, now very
rare, ‘paperweight’ and Byzantine, cameo vases and
rose bowls. All beautifully photographed in 225 colour
illus. 228pp, 10" x 12", published by Thames & Hudson.
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78920 ART GLASS OF LOUIS
COMFORT TIFFANY
by Paul Doros
Britain ran short of munitions in
World War II and lacked the dollar
funds to buy American and
Canadian aircraft outright, so
President Roosevelt came up with
the idea of Lend-Lease to assist the
Allies. This meticulously researched big book covers the
details of the aircraft involved, the take-up by different
countries, the logistical complexities of transportation and
an account of “Due Process - how it all worked”. The
build-up began in 1938 before the outbreak of war, and
by 1941 the British and French were ordering almost
10,000 aircraft, more than twice the number made for
U.S. internal consumption. Standardisation was key for
the smooth running of the operation, and at the
“Arcadia” meeting in December 1941 the Allied heads of
state agreed to the pooling of British and American
aircraft production. Churchill urged the Americans to
increase their targets and the huge flow of orders
enabled companies like Lockheed to enter the “big
league” for the first time. The second part of the book is
a gazetteer of the types of aircraft delivered under the
purchase and lend-lease agreements. The Cessna T-50
Bobcat, for instance, was designed as light transport but
was selected as a twin-engine conversion trainer by the
RAF and the US and Canadian air forces, while the
Sikorsky Hoverfly helicopter was used for training by
the Royal Navy. The Boeing Superfortress with a range
of over 5,000 miles was ordered by the USAAF
following Pearl Harbor. 320pp, hundreds of black and
white photos with some in colour, serial numbers,
requisition numbers. Superbly comprehensive.
£40 NOW £10
78790 COLLISIONS OF
EMPIRES by Prit Buttar
Sub-titled ‘The War on the Eastern
Front in 1914’ here is a magisterial
account of the chaos and destruction
that reigned when three powerful
empires collided. Driven by
firsthand accounts and new, detailed
archival research, the author
examines the battles of the
Masurian Lakes and Tannenberg in
East Prussia, followed by the
Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia, the failed German
advance towards Warsaw, and the vicious fighting in the
Carpathian Mountains. Although the myriad of alliances
and suspicions that existed between the Russian,
German and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th
century proved to be one of the primary triggers for the
outbreak of World War One, much of the actual fighting
between these nations has largely been forgotten in the
West. An excellent chronicle of the Baltics from Osprey
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Crime Fiction - see page 3
Chesterton, Casanova, Dickens,
Huxley, Conan Doyle in Literature
see page 10
Christmas Cards & Books
REDUCED - see page 34
Full listings of all subjects page 2
78814 LIBERTY BOOK
OF HOME SEWING
$27.50 NOW £10
78929 A MAN MOST
DRIVEN
£20 NOW £7
78802 GRUMPY CAT:
A Grumpy Book
£8.99 NOW £5
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Writing Talk continued
the minds and lives of some of the most fascinating
creators of modern culture. Here are the struggles,
victories, serious or humorous commitments made by
them and their addiction to the kind of fiction they like to
write. Alex has an enormous vocabulary and had us
reaching for the dictionary on several occasions. Taut
and wondrous, he grabs the moment and in these very
short pieces we are there with him in the moment with
these most creative of minds. All copies kindly signed
by the author, the 390 page paperback ends with ‘Curse
Agin Book Stealers’ spotted on a noticeboard in a
Cambridge library.
£9.95 NOW £5
WAR & MILITARIA CONTINUED
Publishing. 472pp with many photos and maps and
Dramatis Personae of the nations including Serbian
military commanders. Tiny remainder mark.
£15 NOW £7.50
79045 OPERATION SUICIDE
by Robert Lyman
Sub-titled ‘The Remarkable Story of
the Cockleshell Raid’, this is the first
new narrative account of this
enthralling raid and its aftermath for
over 50 years. In 1942, 12 British
canoeists armed with limpet mines
were sent to paddle 100 miles up
the Gironde estuary, in the middle
of winter, in an audacious attempt
to sink German blockade ships in
Bordeaux Harbour. It was fully
expected that all 12 would die in the attempt. Two
ripped their collapsible canoes as they were manhandling
them out of the submarine. Two drowned when their
canoes capsized. A further six were captured by the
Germans and later executed. Nevertheless, the damage
they had caused represented a significant blow to the
German war effort, one that Churchill himself claimed
shortened the conflict by six months. By complete
chance, the two canoeists who managed to escape,
Major ‘Blondie’ Hasler and marine Bill Sparks, stumbled
into the arms of the French Resistance. Across France
and Spain, they made a risky and arduous journey,
crossing the Pyrenees in the company of a Gestapo
agent intent on betraying them all. The author has used
German records which were captured by the British in
1944 and which remain censored until 1976. With
photos, 346pp.
£18.99 NOW £8
78980 SUB-MACHINE GUN
by Maxim Popenker and
Anthony G. Williams
A comprehensive, full-colour look at
the advances in construction and
design of the SMG, or Sub-machine
gun, from its development during
the First World War to today’s
sophisticated weapon. The closequarter trench combat experienced
during the 1914-18 campaign
needed something with more fire-power than a handgun
or rifle, but smaller and more lightweight than a machine
gun. Various ideas were tried, but eventually the
solution arrived at was a fully automatic shoulder gun
firing pistol ammunition. Part one of this book explains
the history, design, ammunition design and cartridge
design of the SMG, while part two is an alphabeticallyarranged account of the development and SMG
weapons used in countries around the globe. Over 500
photographs depict the weapons, components, cartridges
etc. while clear diagrams show the workings and various
parts of the guns. 320pp. Colour illus and diagrams.
£29.95 NOW £10
78840 WHERE THE IRON
CROSSES GROW: The Crimea
1941-44 by Robert Forczyk
Throughout its history the Crimea
has seen much conflict, and it is still
a disputed region today. During the
Second World War it mirrored the
conflict on the Eastern Front though
differed in the fact that naval forces
played a vitally important role due
to Crimea, planted firmly in the
North Sea, was ideal for naval
supply and amphibious landings. Informatively written,
it also contains a few eye-witness accounts, such as a
German officer writing ‘The attackers poured out of the
depression. There were at least one hundred Russians
streaming with a loud “Urrah!” toward our seven-man
Pak crew and one machine gun position. Rifle shots
slammed into the side of the vehicle and ricocheted off
the gun shield of our Pak gun... An unteroffizier lying
next to me near the wheel of the carriage was firing
short, sustained bursts from his machine pistol when he
suddenly rolled backward, screaming with pain. We had
no time to assist the wounded, only to fire, fire and fire
to save our lives.’ This significant, knowledgeable
account of how both the Soviet and the German armies
were defeated in barbaric fighting, not only analyses the
conflict in detail but also explores the horrific ethical
cleansing atrocities practiced by both sides. 336pp, b/w
illus. Remainder mark.
£20 NOW £7
78606 DARK DEFILE:
Britain’s Catastrophic
Invasion of Afghanistan
1838-1842
by Diana Preston
In 1838 the British government,
convinced that its Indian territories
were threatened by Russia, Persia
and Afghan tribesmen, ordered its
mighty Army of the Indus into
Afghanistan with the aim of ousting
the independent-minded King Dost
Mohammed and install in Kabul the unpopular puppet
ruler Shah Shuja. Tragically over-confident, they
expected a quick campaign and were completely
unprepared for the nature of Afghan terrain and fighters.
With their only routes of retreat being the few narrow
passes such as the Khyber, Bolan and Khoord-Kabul,
despite taking Kabul in 1840 the army soon found itself
trapped, and when the tribes finally united in 1842 this
seemingly omnipotent fighting force was slaughtered as
it tried to retreat from Kabul to Jalalabad - only one
man, Dr William Bryden, made it back to tell the tale.
Thus ended the First Anglo-Afghan war and so began
“The Great Game” between Britain and Russia for
dominance of Central Asia which would continue for
another 60 years. Diana Preston skilfully interweaves
the events leading up to invasion, the complex interplay
between the countries and tribes and the arrogance and
resilience of the British commanders and Afghan
tribesmen respectively. She unravels the combination of
geography, political and military mismanagement and
many ignored warnings that saw 16,000 British and
Indian troops killed and employs some rarely seen
letters, diaries and eye-witness accounts to bring her
narrative to life. Over 170 years later, items seized from
the retreating British are passed down through Afghan
families in memory of their ancestors. 307pp, illus.
$28 NOW £7
78625 GERMAN PANZERS OF
WORLD WAR II by Jorge
Rosado and Chris Bishop
Although they existed for less than
a decade, Hitler’s Panzer Divisions
transformed the face of modern
warfare. Keen to avoid the bloody
attritional strategies of WWI, the
German army showed the world
their mastery of a new form of
warfare, the Blitzkreig. Blitzkrieg had its roots in tactics
employed - ultimately too late - in 1918, where special
heavily armed assault divisions would attack the weaker
points in the Allied lines, their superior firepower at the
point of contact allowing them to break through and then
encircle the enemy. Country after country fell to these
tactics, which cost Hitler very little in terms of time and
troops. The Panzerkampfwagen (literally “armoured
combat vehicle” and usually abbreviated to Panzer) had
arrived and the Nazis swept unchecked across Europe
and North Africa in less than two years, until the
Operation Barbarossa attack on Russia exposed the
strategy’s limitations. This exceptionally detailed volume
organises all the Panzer types that saw action in WWII
by division, then year-by-year through the course of the
war and all the different campaigns, from the invasion of
Poland to the death throes of the Third Reich, defending
Berlin from the Allies. The book is separated into two
sections, Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions. As the
war continued, SS Panzer divisions were much better
equipped than those of the Wehrmacht. With over 600
colour artworks and b/w photos and exhaustive technical
specs, division organisation and full history of each
division and vehicle. 384pp, 7¾”×9¾”.
£29.99 NOW £12
78322 SECRET WARRIORS
by Taylor Downing
Key scientists, code-breakers and
propagandists of the Great War are
the subject of this historian’s
revelatory account. It was a
modern, industrial and technological
war, but the war effort wasn’t
confined to the battlefield.
Engineers and chemists, doctors,
code-breakers, writers and scientists
all played vital roles. Here are the
bluff military adventurers and the
clumsy gentlemen scientists, the boffins and many
interesting characters, electronic eavesdropping and
large-scale chemical weapons in their infancy. 438pp in
paperback, photos.
£9.99 NOW £4
78446 LIVERPOOL VCs by James Murphy
The Victoria Cross was instituted by Royal Warrant
signed by Queen Victoria in 1856. This volume
chronicles the lives and times and gallant deeds of a
small contingent of Victoria Cross holders, 23 men of
Liverpool who covered themselves in glory on foreign
battlefields while the city was growing up. 18 were
Dicky Sams, native-born Liverpudlians, and five made a
home in the city - labourers, clerks, tradesmen,
servicemen, volunteers and professional soldiers, rich
and poor, rascals and angels, literate and illiterate. The
author recalls other actions in which they were involved
in the anecdotal entries and clears up myths and errors
of facts that have grown up around them. 243pp, illus.
£19.99 NOW £8
78432 COMPLETE GEORGE CROSS
by Kevin Brazier
The George Cross is for ‘Acts of the greatest heroism or
the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of
extreme danger’. Here is a complete chronological record
of the lives, careers and exploits of all of the George
Cross holders in this unique book. Read about 14 year
old Geoffrey Riley in Yorkshire who, in a violent
thunderstorm in 1944, went to the rescue of 76 year old
Maude Wimpenny. Heroic first aid at the Standard
Motor Company, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves,
gallantry in action in Malta and Dunkirk, here too are
Empire gallantry medals, the Edward medal and George
Crosses awarded after the Second World War.
Fascinating, anecdotal entries, photos, 242pp.
£25 NOW £7.50
77578 GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR
TWO: Book and DVD
by Dr Chris Mann
Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Britain, Operation
Barbarossa, Monte Cassino and Market Garden are good
examples where the knock-out blow was rarely
achieved. Here 28 such important actions including the
Siege of Leningrad, the D-Day Landings, the Battle of
the Bulge, Iwo Jima and the battle for Berlin and more
are presented with full-colour tactical maps. More than
250 fantastic images and artworks illustrating the
soldiers, uniforms, bewildered populace and military
technology of the era, many never before seen. Colour
and b/w illus. 240pp in large softback along with a 30
minute DVD highlighting ten crucial moments of World
War Two. Box set with elastic fastener.
£19.99 NOW £6
War & Militaria cont.
77161 SHERMAN
TANK: A Pocket History
by John Christopher
Once described as the ‘worst
tank that ever won the war’,
the Sherman Tank was
never going to be the equal
of the German heavies, the Tiger and Panther in a direct
tank-on-tank confrontation. The Sherman’s strength lay
elsewhere - in its reliability, manoeuvrability, and the
sheer weight of numbers produced. It became
ubiquitous, and was produced in such prodigious
quantities that the interchangeability of parts was what
made the Medium Tank M4, as the Sherman was
officially designated, a war winner. Built in the States in
car factories, railway works and new bespoke factories,
the Sherman came in many variants and was converted
for other uses by the Allied forces. The Brits made it a
bigger gun, made ‘funnies’ that could wade ditches, build
bridges, even float in the sea and clear minefields. The
Sherman lasted in service into Korea with the Americans
and was sold overseas to Israel, Uganda, India,
Paraguay, Argentina and Mexico, with the last coming
out of service in 1989 in Chile. The book presents new
and archive images of this most famous tank. Slightly
larger than postcard size softback, 126pp, colour
throughout.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
76566 GOOD SOLDIER: The Biography of
Douglas Haig by Gary Mead
Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, who
commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the
Western Front for much of the First World War.
Received wisdom presents him as an idiot who sent men
to their slaughter in scarcely credible numbers both at the
Battle of the Somme in 1916 and Passchendale a year
later. This book re-examines Haig’s record in these
battles and views his predicament with a fresh eye.
More importantly, it re-evaluates Haig himself, exploring
his character and convictions and his unstinting work on
behalf of ex-servicemen’s organisations after 1918. 509
paperback pages, maps, archive photos.
£14.99 NOW £3.50
78435 EDGEHILL: The Battle
Reinterpreted by Christopher
L. Scott, Alan Turton et al
The authors start with a clean slate
analysing original military and civil
documents, walking the ground to
explore topographical features and
examining rare archaeological finds.
They present a new study of a key
battle in the Civil Wars, reexamining one of the most
mysterious battlefields at Edgehill.
Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation,
military equipment and organisation, and battle
casualties and care. They debunk myths and all have
first-hand experience of the formations, drills and
weapons of the period from military re-enactments they
are involved in. 224 very well illustrated pages with
maps, line art, details of combatants, deployment,
attack, counter attack and concluding implications plus
Edgehill today.
£25 NOW £9
78447 MEMOIRES OF THE ROYAL NAVY
1690 by Samuel Pepys
Although the Diary is now Pepys’s most famous work, it
was unknown until long after his death. In fact he
published only one book in his lifetime, this account of
the administration of the Navy from 1679 until his
dismissal from office with the regime change in 1688.
Pepys is able to provide a fascinating insider’s view of
the working of the Admiralty, replete with technical
detail on shipbuilding and the operations of the
dockyards. However, the wealth of fact and figures is
misleading, and far from impartial. A new introduction
by David Davies explains the political controversy
around the book’s publication. The original appendix is a
detailed list of the state of the fleet in December 1688
and this edition is illustrated with contemporary drawings
of typical ships. Pepys served as Clerk of the Act from
1660-1679 and then Secretary of the Admiralty from
1684-1688. He lost office when the Glorious Revolution
placed William and Mary on the throne. Facsimile reprint
of the 1906 Clarendon Press edition. 136pp. Illus.
£19.99 NOW £6.50
78488 CIVIL WAR: Fort Sumter to
Appomattox
by Gary Gallagher, Stephen Engle et al
The American Civil War spanned four bloody years of
fighting in which over 620,000 American soldiers and
sailors lost their lives. From its outbreak at Fort Sumter,
South Carolina in April 1861 until its conclusion at the
Appomattox Court House, more than 10,000 battles,
engagements and skirmishes were recorded. Instead of
conserving the old America, it steadily and profoundly
reshaped the political, economic and social contours of
the nation. By the time it ended, the original American
republic was gone. From the First Battle of Bull Run to
Sherman’s March to the Sea. Here is the impact of the
new rifle on civilians and military personnel, the liberated
slaves, the destruction of the region’s farms and factories
and most significantly, the breaking of the spirit of the
Southern people. 150 contemporary b/w and colour
images, 40 specially commissioned colour maps. 334pp.
£25 NOW £10
76339 GUIDE TO BATTLES: Decisive Conflicts
In History
by Richard Holmes and Martin Marix Evans
The book tells the story of the world’s most dramatic
and important clashes from the Greco-Persian Wars and
Punic Wars through medieval Wars of the Roses, the
French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, World
Wars One and Two, the Americas with the War of
Independence up to the Falklands War, Islamic wars,
Japanese wars up the First and Second Gulf Wars, and
in Africa the French conquest of Algeria to the Boer
Wars. 300 key battles and battle formations. Maps,
paintings and photos. Paperback, 429pp, remainder
mark.
£10.99 NOW £2.50
78330 TAKING COMMAND:
The Autobiography by
General David Richards
David Richards retired in 2013 after
over 40 years of service. His
career saw him rise from Junior
Officer with 29 Commando to Chief
of the Defence Staff, the
professional Head of the British
Armed Forces. He served in the
Far East, Germany, Northern
Ireland and East Timor, was the
Brigade Major in Berlin when Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s
deputy, died in Spandau Prison. In 2006 he
commanded NATO forces in Afghanistan and became
the first British General to command US Forces at
theatre level since WW2. He won acclaim when he
brought together a coalition army and irregular forces in
Sierra Leone. He sat on the National Security Council
during the campaign to oust Colonel Gaddafi in Libya
and advised the government during the early years of
the Civil War in Syria. Here is his characteristically
outspoken account of his career. 365pp, colour photos.
£20 NOW £6.50
76608 DOUBLE CROSS: The True Story of the
D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
This epic event in world history has never before been
told from the perspective of the D-Day spies who were,
without question, one of the oddest military units ever
assembled. These included a colourful assortment of
MI5 handlers - as well as their counterparts in Nazi
Intelligence - and the five spies who formed Double
Cross’s nucleus: a dashing Serbian playboy, a Polish
fighter pilot, a bi-sexual Peruvian party girl, a deeply
eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming,
and a volatile French woman whose obsessive love for
her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire plan. Their
enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy
sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is uncovered here for the
first time. 400 pages, illus, map.
£16.99 NOW £7
77104 TIME: THE CIVIL WAR: An Illustrated
History edited by Kelly Knauer
The magnificent images captured by Mathew Brady,
Timothy O’Sullivan, Alexander Gardner and others and
the large-scale maps by veteran Time cartographer
Jackson Dykeman make even the most complicated
campaigns easy to follow. It shows the combat at sea
with the new ironclad ships and the difficulties that beset
both black and white Americans after the emancipation
of the slaves. Here are the great generals: Robert E.
Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson and William T.
Sherman and, of course - President Abraham Lincoln
himself. There are not only the battles familiar from
history such as Vicksburg and Gettysburg, but also those
that time has obscured like the Northern victory at
Chattanooga, the needless Union blood-bath at
Fredericksburg, and the brilliant Confederate triumph at
Chancellorsville. Analysed year by year from 1861 to
1865 inclusive. 202 pages 31cm x 28.5cm, colour and
archive photos, maps and contemporary documents.
$29.95 NOW £11
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77606 HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI by Paul Ham
The Might of the Nazis
78519 HITLER
by A. N. Wilson
An acclaimed biographer of
figures as diverse as Queen
Victoria and C. S. Lewis, A. N.
Wilson has now written a short,
readable and interesting life one
of history’s most difficult
subjects: Adolf Hitler. Many
biographers have tried to
penetrate the psyche of this
monstrous figure and Wilson
places responsibility squarely on
Hitler’s shoulders both for the Holocaust and for the
military blunders that led to Germany’s defeat in
World War II. In 1940 Himmler expressed an
aspiration to expel all Jews from the country by
enforced emigration, but three years later he
addressed a gathering of SS officers “in a toneless
voice” saying that anyone who shrank from the task
of extermination on home ground was “lily-livered”.
Under the cover of war and with Hitler as “demonic
maestro” a mass slaughter took place. “No-one will
ever plumb the murky depths of this terrible story.”
Meanwhile Germans had no dentists or other
professions where Jewish practitioners had led the
field. As the war turned against him, Hitler himself
was pumped with at least 28 different drug cocktails,
not including the sedatives that were needed to calm
him down. Resistance to the Nazis was useless, as
the secret police were everywhere, and the July plot
failed because the bomb was planted under a marble
table. Wilson analyses Hitler’s failures, his delusions
and crude Enlightenment beliefs in science and
progress, and discusses his legacy in terms of our
own society’s hang-ups. 215pp.
$24.99 NOW £7
78074 HITLER’S SAVAGE
CANARY: A History of the
Danish Resistance in World
War II by David Lampe
On 9 April 1940 the Luftwaffe
sprinkled the four million people
of Denmark with leaflets
explaining how they were about
to be invaded and to go about
their business as usual - the same
bombers that dropped the leaflets
were also carrying a payload of
high explosive to rain down on Copenhagen in case
King Christian rejected Hitler’s surrender ultimatum.
The next day the Wehrmacht rumbled largely
unopposed across Denmark, Hitler turning her into a
“model protectorate” - Churchill said that Denmark
was to become “a sadistic murderer’s canary”.
Totally isolated from the Allies and at the mercy of
the occupying enemy, the Danes managed to create
an extraordinary resistance movement fuelled only
by national pride and a sense of human decency, one
of which began within four hours of the invasion with
the “Ten Commandments”, a list of ten ways in
which people could make the Germans’ life difficult.
By 1945 they had published over 26 million illegal
newspapers, set up radio guides for Allied aircraft and
sabotaged ports, railways and airports so effectively
that German supply ships and aircraft in Denmark
were effectively stuck there. Most amazing of all
was the safe evacuation of 7,200 Danish Jews by
train to Sweden from right under the Nazis’ noses,
the only occupied country to have achieved such a
feat - this canary had the talons of an eagle. Here is
the inspiring story of how untrained civilians refused
to stand idly by. First published in 1957, this is the
237pp US paperback edition of 2010. Foreword by
the Danish Ambassador to London.
$14.95 NOW £5
78619 EXORCISING
HITLER by Frederick Taylor
Sub-titled ‘The Occupation and
Denazification of Germany’,
following the destruction of the
Third Reich in 1945, this was an
event nearly unprecedented in
history. The country’s cities lay in
rubble, its economic base
devastated. The German people
stood at the brink of starvation,
millions still in POW camps. This was the starting
77186 SECRET HISTORY OF AL-QA’IDA
by Abdel Bari Atwan
Atwan is a journalist with insider knowledge who in
1996 spent three days with bin Laden in his Tora Bora
hideout, and a profile of the Al Qa’ida chief starts the
book. In that year he was approached by bin Laden’s
representatives offering an interview with their leader
who was then in hiding. Atwan was not blindfolded on
his approach to the Tora Bora Eagle’s Nest, which the
mujahedin had captured from the Soviets. He examines
the significance of cyber-warfare for the concept of jihad,
the Al Qa’ida strategy of forcing up oil prices, and the
psychology of the suicide bomber. 292pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
77428 VC HEROES
by Nigel Cawthorne
In 1854, the Distinguished Conduct Medal was
established by Royal Warrant to be conferred on ‘other
ranks’ in the British Army, but not officers. Queen
Victoria herself favoured a single decoration without
classes, open to all. The VC has been only 16 times
since the end of WW2 in 1945. Three of these awards
were made to recipients who had paid the ultimate
sacrifice. Forged in battle, from the shell-scarred hills of
Korea, to the windswept marshland of East Falkland and
today’s counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan,
each one of these VCs has a uniquely inspiring tale to
tell. 303pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.50
War & Militaria
point as the Allies set out to build a humane, democratic
nation on the ruins of the vanquished Nazi state. Oxford
historian Frederick Taylor describes the bitter endgame
of war, the murderous Nazi resistance, the vast
displacement of people in Central and Eastern Europe
and the nascent Cold War struggle between Soviet and
Western occupiers. The occupation was a tale of
rivalries, cynical realpolitik and blunders, but also of
heroism, ingenuity and determination, not least that the
German people rebuilt their battered country. There are
astonishing revelations from the commandant of Belsen
Concentration Camp, Eisenhower in a letter to his wife
‘God, I hate the Germans’, guidance to GIs in Germany
and beliefs and instructions from speeches by Goering:
‘And if the German people loses here, then the next ruler
will be a Jew! And what a Jew is, this must be known
to you. And if anyone doesn’t know about the revenge
of Juda, let him read about it. This is not the Second
World War, this war is the great racial war.’ With very
moving photographs. 438pp.
£25 NOW £9
78500 HITLER’S FORTRESSES by Chris McNab
One of the greatest engineering projects of the 1930s
was Hitler’s West Wall, which encompassed 14,000
pillboxes and stretched for over 390 miles. Germany had
already taken steps to defend its western frontier with
plans to construct the so-called Neckar-Enz and
Wetterau-Main-Tauber lines as there were no constraints
on their construction, being outside the demilitarised
zones. However, the plans were abandoned following
Hitler’s decision to occupy the Rhineland, and so work on
the West Wall began. Another edifice, the Atlantic Wall,
was ordered in rather a kneejerk action as a barrier to an
anticipated Allied invasion and in response to British
raiding along the English Channel. Later, Runstedt, who
was the commander of the German forces in the west in
1944, said scathingly, ‘The Atlantic Wall was an
enormous bluff, less for the enemy than the German
people, rooted in Hitler’s romantic fervour for
architectural grandeur. Hitler never saw the Atlantic
Wall, not even one part of it.’ It took millions of tonnes
of concrete, yet failed to deter the Allied amphibious
invasion of France. Other topics include Hitler’s
headquarters, defensive lines in Italy, field fortifications
and specialist fortifications. An in-depth study,
attractively produced and with dozens of illustrations,
plans, and cutaways. 396pp. Colour and b/w illus.
£30 NOW £12
78635 HITLER’S ELITE: THE SS 1939-45
edited by Chris McNab
Perhaps the evil of the SS can be summed up by these
words in a 1943 speech by Himmler, ‘What other nations
can offer in the way of good blood of our type, we will
take, if necessary, by kidnapping their children and
raising them here with us. Whether nations live in
prosperity or starve to death interests me only so far as
we need them as slaves for our culture: otherwise, it is
of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females
fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank
ditch interests me only insofar as the anti-tank ditch for
Germany is finished.’ This comprehensive study of the
SS, the most infamous military formation of all time,
consisting of hundreds of thousands of men, traces the
organisation’s growth and explores its political origins.
Chapters examine the Waffen-SS soldier, the
Allgemaine-SS and Nazi Police State, the days of
victory and the diversification and destruction. ‘The
period 1934-1939 saw the expanding SS take over
responsibility for political police work, and it extended its
tentacles into many other areas of Party and
government function. By the outbreak of war it would
have been impossible to define exactly the role within
the German state of this huge organisation.’ Many colour
plates depict the various uniforms as well as over 200
photographs. 384pp. Colour plates, b/w illus.
£30 NOW £15
77417 DIG WW2: Rediscovering the Great
Wartime Battles by Jean Hood
A journey through the allied Battle for Europe,
unearthing a Spitfire buried in the Donegal peat bog,
joining a team diving on a tank graveyard off Malin
Head, and venturing into a sealed bunker on a D-Day
beach. Jean Hood delves deeply into the stories such as
the programme of ‘starfish’ sites, and the mystery of the
launch ramps pointing at London. Others, such as
Hobart’s Funnies, the Hamilton-Pickett ‘pop-up pill-box’
and Turner’s dummy aircraft simply celebrate British
eccentricity. 272 pages 25cm x 20cm, colour and b/w
photos and details of museums.
£25 NOW £4
77746 SMITH & WESSON HAND GUNS
by Roy McHenry and Walter Roper
The story of how Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson
formed their handguns company in 1854. Originally
published in 1945 and here offered in a facsimile softback
edition, beginning with 24 chapters that describe in detail
the how the company was founded and grew, plus all
the developments, patents, characters and competitors
like Colt and Enfield. There then follows 63 detailed
illustrations showing the various models, their unique
hammer mechanism and reproductions of vintage
advertising copy. Exhaustive description of every S&W
firearm ever made, with all dates, model names, specific
uses like policing, automatics and supers and serial
numbers. 235pp, 19.7 x 27cm.
$12.95 NOW £5.50
Arguing against the use of nuclear weapons, the book
presents the grisly unadorned truth about the bombings,
blurred for so long by post-war propaganda. In this
harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki
bombings, Paul Ham draws on hundreds of interviews to
prove that the bombings had little impact on the
eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than
100,000 people were killed instantly by the atomic
bombs, mostly women, children and the elderly. Ham
demonstrates convincingly that misunderstandings and
nationalistic fury on both sides led to the use of the
bombs and gives powerful witness to its destruction
through the eyes of 80 survivors, from 12 year olds
forced to work in factories to wives and children who
faced the holocaust alone. Covers the Manhattan
Project, Potsdam, an epilogue entitled Dead Heat,
appendices including the surrender speeches of Emperor
Hirohito, an index and Japanese terms. Photos, small
remainder mark, 629pp.
$35 NOW £6
77653 GORDON: Victorian Hero
by C. Brad Faught
During 1884 and early 1885 no one was more famous
than General Charles Gordon. Trapped in the middle of a
million square miles of unforgiving Sudanese desert,
supplies and morale running low in Khartoum and in the
face of thousands of so-called ‘Dervishes’ intent on
Islamic Jihad, Gordon held out for ten months before
finally being put to the sword in January 1885, two days
before his 52nd birthday. Traces his life from his
childhood in England, training as an engineer at the
Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, Corfu, the
Crimea, parts of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
115pp, paperback, maps and photos.
£11 NOW £4
77678 TRENCH KNIVES & MUSTARD GAS
With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France
by Hugh S. Thompson
One of the most celebrated American units sent to
France following the 1917 US declaration of war was
the 42nd Division, known as the Rainbow Division.
Hugh Thompson sought service as soon as war was
declared, secured a commission and after completing
Officer Training was sent to France with the first
contingent of unassigned officers of the Rainbow. After a
stint in the trenches of Lorraine, where he was wounded
and gassed, he was on the receiving end of one of
Ludendorff’s last desperate offensive “hammer blows” at
Champagne-Marne and took part in the September 1918
assault on the St. Mihiel salient, where he received the
leg wounds that would end his war and dominate the
rest of his life. Newly edited edition. 205pp, photos.
£26.95 NOW £5
77769 BATTLEFIELD DETECTIVES:
Unearthing New Evidence on the World’s Most
Famous Battlefields by David Wason
Re-examines seven of the most important battles in
history. We see how dramatically the coastline near
Pevensey (where William landed) and Hastings has
changed since 1066 and how two very different styles
of fighting and leaders fought each other to a standstill.
Was Agincourt really a victory for the English longbow
and the source of the two-fingered salute, or was it a
crowd disaster just waiting to happen? Oceanography
forces a rethink of the events surrounding the defeat of
the Spanish Armada, and, 200 years old this year,
military psychologists examine whether Marshal Ney,
who directed the French at Waterloo was unfit for
command. The Battle of Balaklava is remembered for
the pointless annihilation of the Light Brigade, but the
team point out that the real heroes where the 600 Turks
whose gallant defence held off the Russians. The myth
of Custer’s Last Stand at Little Bighorn is demolished.
255pp, colour and b/w photos.
£12.99 NOW £5
77848 VOICES FROM BRITAIN: Broadcasts
from the BBC 1939-45 by Henning Krabbe
Here are justly famed pieces of oratory such as
Churchill’s “We shall fight them on the beaches”, “The
Few” and “The end of the beginning” and the
magisterial “Survey of the War” from 13 May 1945, but
also a wide range of less well known radio speeches. As
well as Churchill here are transcripts of broadcasts by
Chamberlain, Atlee, Bevin, Charles de Gaulle (an
especially good one, damning the collaborators of Vichy
France), George VI, Queen Wilhemina of Holland, King
Haakon of Norway, Roosevelt, E.M. Forster and
broadcasts by BBC announcers on the World, Home or
European services describing events such as Dunkirk,
the Blitz, the invasion of Russia, the fall of Stalingrad,
the fall of Singapore, the D-Day landings, the Liberation
of Paris, the German surrender and the Atomic
Bombings of Japan which really make the hairs on your
neck stand up. 2013 softback reprint, 50 b/w photos.
286pp.
£16.99 NOW £7.50
77959 WAR PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of
Conflict edited by Thomas Barfield
Canadian troops on a tank, First World War, Burundi
Army in action against Hutu rebels 2000, a sniper in
Kosovo, May 1999, revenge in Kulna, 1971, Cyprus
1964, Sinn Féin volunteers drill with dummy rifles, 1916,
German troops with a flame thrower, 1917, French
troops charging, evacuation at Gallipoli, Serbian women
in training 1914, an Afghan woman with a gun in
modern times, British troops in Basra, prove the extent
of damage and horror inflicted by war. Here front line
photographers expose the bare reality. Colour and b/w
photos. 320pp, compact paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
77647 CHURCHILL AND THE KING
by Kenneth Weisbrode
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Concerning the wartime alliance of Winston Churchill and
George VI, Weisbrode suggests how the King’s shy
nature was offset by Churchill’s willingness to cast
himself as the nation’s saviour. The King had been a
supporter of appeasement and Neville Chamberlain.
Churchill had backed the King’s brother during the
abdication crisis. The pair met nearly every week
privately over lunch during the War and worked through
the many problems facing their nation and empire. Both
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made strong marriages to devoted wives; both had
even overcome speech impediments so as to rouse their
followers on radio and in person. King George gave
Winston insider status; the Prime Minister in turn gave
the King public confidence and poise. A perceptive
study of friendship in power. 208pp. Remainder mark.
$26.95 NOW £8
78307 LENINGRAD: Siege and Symphony
by Brian Moynahan
Leningrad - martyred by Stalin, starved by Hitler,
immortalised by Shostakovich. Brian Moynahan’s
unsparing, heartrending account of the Siege of
Leningrad lays bare the story of the relentless, mindless
depredations heaped by both Hitler and Stalin upon one
of the most cultured and vibrant cities in the world. And
yet, in its description of Shostakovich’s composition of
his Seventh Symphony, and its defiant, triumphant
première in July 1942 amongst the burnt-out ruins of the
city he loved so much, the books becomes a grand
testament to the strength of the human will and the
enduring power of great art. 542pp illus paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
77845 RANK AND RATE: Volume II: Insignia
of Royal Naval Ratings by E. C. Coleman
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The Royal Navy was slow to introduce distinguishing
rate badges for those serving on the “lower deck”, and
even when they did, in 1853, a uniform was still four
years away. The introduction of reserves, the
recruitment of nurses and the creation of the WRNS
created the need for recognition of a new officer
structure and rank and rating, which had to be clearly
related to the Navy, then came the Royal Fleet
Auxiliary, the Merchant Navy and the volunteer and
youth organisations. The stripes, badges and buttons are
catalogued separately in order of rank, rate and date of
introduction WRNS, Royal Marines, QARNNS and
Auxiliaries for wherever possible and actual examples are
photographed. There are also a great many original
photos of personnel wearing the insignia over the past
150 years. 96 8¾”×12" pages, colour and b/w illus.
£19.95 NOW £11
CRIME FICTION
Having gathered these facts, Watson, I
smoked several pipes over them, trying to
separate those which were crucial from
others which were merely incidental.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Crooked Man
78678 PHANTOM
by Jo Nesbo
Harry Hole, the troubled,
incorrigible Oslo police officer has
led us through Jo Nesbo’s
international bestsellers The
Snowman and The Leopard. He
returns in a reckless, full-tilt
investigation on which his own
tenuous future will come to depend.
When Harry left Oslo for Hong
Kong, desperately fleeing the
traumas of life as a cop, the unthinkable happened. The
son of the woman he loved, lost and still loves, has
been arrested for murder. Oleg, the boy Harry helped
raise but couldn’t help deserting could never be a killer
and he has come back to prove it. Barred from rejoining
the police force, Harry sets out on a solitary, increasingly
dangerous investigation that takes him deep into the
world of the most virulent drug ever to hit the streets
and into the maze of his own past. Electrifying crime
fiction from the master Norwegian noir. 378pp with
deckle pages in this US first edition glamorous hardback
with quality dust jacket.
$25.95 NOW £7
78831 STRANGE CASE OF
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE:
Leather Bound Edition
by Robert Louis Stevenson
With satin pagemarker, silver gilded
page edges, cross-hatch pen and
ink and silhouette drawings, here
are The Story of the Door, Search
for Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll Was Quite
At Ease, The Carew Murder Case,
Incident of the Letter, Remarkable
Incident of Dr Lanyon, Incident at
the Window, The Last Night, Dr Lanyon’s Narrative and
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case in this
unabridged edition of this classic. The novel was
inspired by a disturbing dream that prompted Stevenson
to write the first draft in a mere three days which he
burned upon his wife Fanny’s criticism and wrote
another draft within days, quite remarkable considering
the rich language, well crafted plot and surprising ending
of this classic work. 116pp in glamorous leather bound
hardback with silver foil and tipped in illustration on the
front cover.
$19.95 NOW £6.50
78604 THE CONSTANT
GARDENER
by John Le Carré
This eloquent, forceful and
uncompromising novel was made
into a major film, and it is
amazingly seductive, pulling you in
deeper all the time. It is a
magnificent exploration of the new
world order. The novel opens in
northern Kenya with the gruesome
murder of Tessa Quayle - young,
beautiful and dearly beloved to
husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal
odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he
finds could make him not only a suspect among his own
colleagues but a target for Tessa’s killers as well. By the
master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people
4 Crime Fiction cont.
caught in political conflict, John le Carré portrays the
dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. Justin
Quayle is an amateur gardener, aging widower and
ineffectual bureaucrat who discovers the extraordinary
courage of the woman he barely had time to love.
482pp in paperback.
$16 NOW £5
78680 POPPET: A Jack
Caffery Thriller
by Mo Hayder
Set in a high security mental health
ward, something is not right at the
Beechway Psychiatric Unit. First
one resident turns violently to selfharm, then another to suicide, both
of them recalcitrant patients with no
prior history of self-directed
violence. Whispers between the
inmates have travelled to the staff
that the place is being terrorised by a creature called The
Maude. The superstition is dismissed, but the surviving
victims certainly saw something and what of the
drawing the dead woman left behind showing the
creature wearing the sweater of a recently released
patient? Detective Jack Caffery is called in to
investigate. By the award-winning English crime writer.
379pp.
$25 NOW £5
78876 A BURNABLE BOOK
by Bruce Holsinger
A work of love and lives by a
medieval academic. This is a
burnable book, a work of high
treason certain to destroy any man
who holds it. London, 1385, a city
of shadows and fear, a kingdom
haunted by the spectre of revolt
and ruled by the headstrong young
King Richard II. It is a place of
poetry and prophecy, where power
is bought by blood. For John
Gower, part-time poet and full time trader in information,
secrets are his currency. When close confidant, fellow
poet Geoffrey Chaucer, calls in an old debt, Gower
cannot refuse. The request is simply to track down a
missing book, easy for a man of Gower’s talents who
knows the back alleys of Southwark as intimately as the
courts and palaces of Westminster. But what Gower
does not know is that this book has already caused one
murder and that its contents could destroy his life,
because its words are behind the highest treason - a
conspiracy to kill the king and reduce his reign to ashes.
473pp with cast of characters including English royals,
officers of the City of London, common women,
tradesmen and freeman and keepers of books in Oxford
and Florence. Map.
£14.99 NOW £5
78613 DYING ON THE VINE
by Aaron Elkins
The celebrated Skeleton Detective
is visiting friends at a vineyard in
Tuscany when murder leaves a
bitter aftertaste. A hiker in the
Apennines stumbles upon the
skeletal remains of a couple. The
carabinieri investigate and release
their findings - they are dealing with
a murder-suicide. The evidence
makes it clear that Pietro Cubbiddu,
the owner of the local wine empire,
shot and killed his wife and then himself the likely
motive being his discovery that Nola had been having
an affair. Skeleton Detective Gideon Oliver and his
wife Julie find themselves in a morass of family
antipathies, conflicts and mistrust to say nothing of the
local carabinieri’s resentment. When yet another
Cubbiddu relation meets an unlikely end, it becomes
bone-chillingly clear that the killer is far from finished.
Stylish mystery full of amazing information about the art
and science of forensic anthropology. 294pp US first
edition 2012. Remainder mark.
$29.95 NOW £6
78640 HUNTING SHADOWS:
An Inspector Ian Rutledge
Mystery by Charles Todd
Rutledge is summoned to the quiet,
isolated Fen country to solve a
series of seemingly unconnected
murders before the killer strikes
again. August 1912. A society
wedding at Ely Cathedral in
Cambridgeshire becomes a crime
scene when a guest is shot just as
the bride arrives. The local police
are forced to call in Scotland Yard but not before there is
another shooting in a village close by. One victim was
an Army Officer, the other a solicitor standing for
parliament. There paths have never crossed. What
links these two murders? The case reminds Rutledge of
a legendary assassin whispered about during the war
and his own dark memories come back to haunt him.
330pp, US first edition. Remainder mark.
£16.99 NOW £6
78651 KILLER’S ART
by Mari Jungstedt
‘One of best writers of
Scandinavian crime fiction.’ - Harlan
Coben. Yes, here is Nordic noir at
its best. On a cold Sunday
morning, art gallery owner Egon
Wallin is found murdered and
hanged naked on the medieval city
wall of Visby. When his death is
connected to the theft of a famous
painting, the reader is brought into
the exclusive Swedish art world and
an underworld of prostitution and drugs. In this hairraising story, Superintendant Anders Knutas is facing one
of the toughest investigations in his career. 362pp in
paperback.
$14.95 NOW £4.50
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78326 SKELETON ROAD by Val McDermid
By the mistress of the psychological thriller, here is the
number one bestseller, discounted for the first time.
When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a
crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief
Inspector Karen Pirie is faced with the unenviable task
of identifying the bones. She is drawn deeper into a
dark world. Meanwhile, someone is taking the law into
their own hands in the name of justice and revenge, but
when present resentment collides with secrets of the
past, the truth is more shocking than anyone could have
imagined. A spine-chilling thriller which wrong-foots the
reader. 456pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
76981 THE BAT by Jo Nesbo
The first Harry Hole thriller by the musician, songwriter
and economist and prize-winning author Jo Nesbo.
Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A
young Norwegian girl on her gap year in Sydney has
been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to
assist in any way he can. When the team unearth a
string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing
will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for
the serial killer is on, but the murderer will only talk to
Harry. But he might just be the next victim... 425pp,
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
78282 AGATHA RAISIN:
Something Borrowed
Someone Dead
by M. C. Beaton
Incomer Gloria French is at first
welcomed into the Cotswold village
of Piddlebury. She raises funds for
the church and cares for the elderly,
but has a bad habit of borrowing
things and not giving them back, so
when she is discovered dead,
poisoned by a bottle of elderberry
wine, folk in the village don’t mourn her passing too
intently. Parish councillor Jerry Tarrant hires Agatha
Raisin to track down the murderer, but the residents
don’t seem to want to find who the murderer is. Her
investigations are further hampered by the emotional
upset of finding her ex, James Lacey, has fallen in love
with the young detective Toni Gilmour. And now the
murderer is targeting Agatha… 198pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
78279 AGATHA RAISIN AND THE POTTED
GARDENER by M. C. Beaton
Agatha is taken aback when she finds a new woman
ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor
neighbour, James Lacey. The beautiful Mary Fortune is
superior in every way, especially when it comes to
gardening, and with Carsely Garden Open Day looming,
Agatha feels this deficiency acutely. So when Mary is
discovered murdered, buried upside down in a pot,
Agatha seizes the moment and immediately starts
yanking up village secrets by their roots and digging the
dirt on the hapless victim. 218pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78280 AGATHA RAISIN AND THE VICIOUS
VET by M. C. Beaton
Best let sleeping vets lie... Retired PR supremo Agatha
Raisin is enjoying life in her pretty Cotswold village and
it even seems likely that the attractive new vet, Paul
Bladen, has taken a shine to her. But before romance
can blossom, Paul is killed in an accident with Lord
Pendlebury’s horse. Only the circumstances are rather
suspicious. Agatha decides that once she must play
amateur sleuth. This cloud has a silver lining as she
persuades her usually standoffish neighbour James Lacey
to become her partner in the quest. 234pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78281 AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WALKERS
OF DEMBLEY by M. C. Beaton
Trespassers will get their heads staved in. After six
gruelling months spent in London, Agatha Raisin returns
to her beloved Cotswold village of Carsely and to her
attractive neighbour James. James is less than thrilled to
see her, but Agatha is soon consoled by a sensational
murder. The victim found in a field is hiker Jessica
Tartinck, who spent her life enraging wealthy
landowners by insisting on her walking club’s right to
hike over their property. Now she is found in the
cornfield, battered over the head Agatha lures the
reluctant James into her investigation. 218pp in
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78851 AGATHA RAISIN: Set of Four
by M. C. Beaton
uy all four and make further savings.
£38.96 NOW £10
76585 MURDER IN THE AFTERNOON: A Kate
Shackleton Mystery by Frances Brody
Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been
scared of the quarry where their stone mason father
works, so when they find him dead on the cold ground,
they scarper quick smart and look for some help. When
help arrives however, the quarry is deserted and there is
no sign of the body. Did he simply get up and run
away? It seems like a sinister disappearing act and an
unusual situation requiring the expertise of Kate
Shackleton. This is one case where surprising family ties
make it her most dangerous and delicate yet. 387pp,
paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
76576 KILLING GROUND: The Ultimate
Collection by Gerald Seymour
The US Drug Enforcement Agency is desperate to
capture Mario Ruggerio, the would-be leader of the
Sicilian Mafia and mastermind behind the international
drugs trade. Charlotte Parsons, a young English
schoolteacher, was the family’s nanny four years ago.
When she is asked to take up her old job she is excited
at the prospect of leaving behind a sleepy Devon
village. But Charlie doesn’t realise that she is the live
bait in an American trap. The book’s anti-Mafia judge is
evocative of the real life judge Giovanni Falcone.
491pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
76636 SCAREDY CAT by Mark Billingham
It was a calculated vicious murder at Euston station.
The victim had been followed home on the tube, then
strangled in front of her child. At the same time a
second body is discovered at the back of Kings Cross
station. It eerily echoes the murders of two other
women, both stabbed to death months before on the
same day. DI. Tom Thorne sees the link and comes to
the horrifying conclusion that it is not one serial killer the
police are up against, it is two. To stop them both,
Thorne must catch a man whose need to manipulate is
as great as his need to kill. 369 page paperback.
IAN RANKIN THRILLERS
79015 THE FLOOD
by Ian Rankin
The Flood was Ian Rankin’s first
published novel, not a crime novel
although it contains secrets and
revelations and nor is it a thriller.
Mary Miller has always been an
outcast. As a child, she fell into
the hot burn, a torrent of warm
chemical run-off from the local coal
mine, and her hair turned white.
Initially she was treated with
sympathy, but all that changed a
few days later when the young
man who pushed her in, died in an
accident. Now many years later,
Mary is a single mother caught up
in a faltering affair. Her son
Sandy has fallen in love with a
strange homeless girl, and both
mother and son are forced to come
to terms with a dark secret from
Mary’s past. One dark paperback.
252pp.
ONLY £2.50
78277 ACT OF VIOLENCE by Margaret Yorke
Peaceful Mickleburgh is the ideal English market town,
or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed
façade, having hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for
generations. But the casual murder of a man trying to
prevent an act of vandalism shatters its genteel
appearance. Parents are forced to consider whether
their children could be involved, friends avoid each
other’s eyes, and partners word their conversations
carefully. Someone in the town is close to the murderer,
someone with a past that threatens to resurface,
damaging the whole community. 282pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
78175 PIETR THE LATVIAN: The First
Maigret Novel by Georges Simenon
The iconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury
hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian.
‘His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light
worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his
hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big,
bony man. Iron muscles shaped his jacket and sleeves
and quickly wore through new trousers.’ 162 page
paperback, remainder mark.
£6.99 NOW £4.50
78160 CARTER OF LA PROVIDENCE:
Inspector Maigret by Georges Simenon
A companion to code 78175 Pietr the Latvian written by
the most addictive of writers. A well dressed woman
has been found strangled in a stable near a canal. Why
did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal
end here? Surely her aristocratic, taciturn husband
knows, or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the
barge La Providence? Penguin paperback, 150pp.
£6.99 NOW £4.50
78130 TWO FOR SORROW by Nicola Upson
Mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a
novel based on Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the
notorious ‘Finchley baby farmers’, unaware that her
research will entangle her in a desperate hunt for a
modern day killer. A young seamstress, an ex-convict
determined to reform, has been found brutally murdered
in the studio of Tey’s friends, the Motley sisters, amid
preparations for a star-studded charity gala. Inspector
Archie Penrose is not convinced this murder is the result
of a long standing domestic feud, and a horrific accident
involving a second young woman supports his
convictions. 485pp, paperback, remainder mark.
$14.99 NOW £4
78110 PORTOBELLO by Ruth Rendell
An intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives
of several people in London’s Notting Hill. Walking to
the shops one day, 50 year old Eugene Wren discovers
an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man
plagued by shameful addiction, and his own good
intentions, he hatches a plan to find the money’s rightful
owner. He prints a notice and posts it around Portobello
Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events
that links Wren to other Londoners, afflicted with their
own obsessions and despairs. As each volatile character
comes into his life, and that of his trusting fiancée, the
consequences will change them all. 290 pages.
$26 NOW £5.75
78101 MURDER SHORT AND SWEET
edited by Paul Staudohar
Spanning over 150 years of material the stories range
from old favourites penned during the golden age of
mystery fiction 1925-40 such as The Adventure of the
Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring
Sherlock Holmes who turns his all-seeing eye on a
baffling death in a lady’s locked bedchamber. Thomas
Burke’s The Hands of Mr Ottermole tests the limits of
every urban dweller’s psyche when a motiveless
murderer wreaks havoc in fog-enshrouded London. In
Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl does not mince
words, but his main character must as she struggles to
conceal an absurd murder weapon - a frozen leg of lamb.
Also includes Agatha Christie, John Updike, Dorothy L.
Sayers, Ruth Rendell and Ellery Queen among others.
501pp.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78994 BEGGARS BANQUET by Ian Rankin
Rankin started off life as a short story writer and here
are 22 mini masterpieces with titles such as Someone
Got To Eddie, The Only True Comedian, Video,
Nasty, The Hanged Man and Death Is Not The End.
From Suburban murders to the sinister workings of a
serial killer’s mind, from a bent cop with a terminal
approach to his work to a hit man who gets more than
he bargained for in a crowded fairground, here is a
super collection from the modern-day master of crime.
The streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town has seen more
than their fair share of blood. 376pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79005 THE COMPLAINTS by Ian Rankin
The Complaints are the cops who investigate other
cops. Malcolm Fox works in the Complaints and
Conduct Department, so he is not a popular man. He
has just had a result, and should be feeling good about
himself, but he has got problems of his own. Now he
is given a new task. There is a cop called Jamie Breck
and he’s ‘dirty’. The problem is no one can prove it.
Fox takes on the job and learns that there is more to
the Breck case than anyone thinks. This knowledge
will prove dangerous, especially when a vicious
murder intervenes far too close to home for Fox’s
liking. This impressive novel exposes the underbelly
of a city scarred by violence. 381pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79014 EXIT MUSIC: His Last Case May Be A
Killer by Ian Rankin
It’s late autumn in Edinburgh and
late autumn in the career of DI
Rebus. As he tries to tie up some
loose ends before retirement, a
murder case intrudes. A dissident
Russian poet has been found dead
in what looks like a mugging gone
wrong. By apparent coincidence, a
high-level delegation of Russian
businessmen are in town, and
everyone is determined that the
case should be closed quickly and
clinically. Meanwhile a brutal and
premeditated assault on a local
gangster sees Rebus in the frame.
Has the inspector taken one step
too far in tying up those loose
ends? Only a few days shy of the
end to his long, inglorious career,
will Rebus even make it that far?
Classic Rankin. 380pp in
paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79064 IAN RANKIN: Set of Four
by Ian Rankin
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£33.96 NOW £11
77920 DEATH OF A SCHOLAR
by Susanna Gregory
‘It was my friend, Bram Stoker, who told me of the
legend of the Wanderer, a man who made a bargain
with the Devil himself. Once I would have dismissed
such tales as mere fancy but I knew what I had seen,
and there is no mind so open as that of a desperate
man.’ This dark, gothic Victorian thriller unfolds in a
twilight world of music halls, boxing booths and travelling
theatrical shows, and pits a formidable Pinkerton
detective against a man who fears more than justice.
457pp in paperback.
In the summer of 1358 the physician Matthew
Bartholomew returns to Cambridge to learn that his
beloved sister is in mourning after the unexpected death
of her husband, Oswald Stanmore. Aware that his son
has no interest in the cloth trade that made his fortune
and reputation, Oswald has left the business to his
widow, but a spate of burglaries in the town distracts
Matthew from supporting Edith in her grief, and
attempting to keep the peace between her and her
wayward son. Meanwhile a new foundation, Winwick
Hall, is causing consternation amongst Matthew’s
colleagues in Michaelhouse. A perfect storm between
the older establishments and the brash newcomers is
brewing when the murder of a Guildsman is soon
followed by the death of one of Winwick’s senior
Fellows. Set in Restoration times. 454pp. Map of
Cambridge in the 1350s. 2014 hardback.
Amelia Peabody is only too happy to drop everything in
England and travel out to help a Lady Baskerville whose
husband Henry has died suddenly under bizarre
circumstances at the site of a tomb in Luxor. The
newspapers are proclaiming ‘The curse of the Pharaohs
has struck!’ Amelia and her husband Emerson find the
camp in Luxor in disarray and the workers terrified by
the appearance of an apparition which Amelia promptly
christens ‘The lady in white’. Armed with nothing more
than her trusty parasol, Amelia sets about bringing order
from chaos and her self much closer to danger. 312pp,
paperback.
An Enzo Macleod investigation set in Gaillac, South-West
France. Gil Petty, America’s most celebrated wine critic,
is found strung up in a vineyard, dressed in the
ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and
pickled in wine. For forensic expert Enzo Macleod the
key to this unsolved murder lies in decoding Petty’s
mysterious reviews which could make or break a
vineyard’s reputation. Lurking beneath the tranquil
façade of French viticulture lurks a back-stabbing
community riddled with rivalry, and someone who is
ready to stop him even if they have to kill again. 388pp
in paperback.
$19.95 NOW £4.75
78085 KINGDOM OF BONES
by Stephen Gallagher
£6.99 NOW £3.75
77919 CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
by Elizabeth Peters
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77917 THE CRITIC
by Peter May
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77072 OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
by John Le Carré
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with
Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English
couple takes a tennis vacation in
Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles
himself the world’s number one money launderer. Dima
wants among other things a game of tennis. Back in
London, the couple is subjected to an all-night
interrogation by the British Secret Service which also
needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead them to a
precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in
Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that
reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia,
the City of London, the government and the competing
factions of the British Secret Service. 307pp.
ONLY £5
78058 ENGLISH MONSTER OR THE
MELANCHOLY TRANSACTIONS
of William Ablass by Lloyd Shepherd
A riveting police procedural and a thrilling tale of life at
sea. Plymouth 1564. Young Billy Ablass arrives in the
busy seaport with the burning desire of all men - to get
and keep money. Setting sail on a ship owned by
Queen Elizabeth herself seems the likely means to a
better life, but the kidnapping of hundreds of human
souls in Africa is not the only cursed event to occur on
England’s first official slaving voyage. On a sun-blasted
Florida islet, Billy too is to be enslaved. London 1811.
Along the twisting streets of Wapping, bounded by the
ancient Ratcliffe Highway and the modern wonder of the
London Dock, two families have fallen victim to foul
murder. Charles Horton, a senior officer of the newly
formed Thames River Police Office must deliver
revenge to a terrified populace. 424pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
78021 SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT
by Max Allan Collins
Comic books are corrupting America’s youth. Or so the
esteemed Dr Werner Frederick would have people
believe, people like the Congressmen holding hearings
on banning violent crime and horror ‘funny books’. And
when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder,
Jack Starr, comics syndicate trouble shooter, has no
shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding
delinquent or the naked seductress? A frustrated
publisher or an outraged cartoonist? Or was it a comic
book reader? With hard-boiled cartoons, 269pp in
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.50
77976 JEWELS OF PARADISE by Donna Leon
A captivating tale of music, history and greed from a
master of literary crime fiction. Caterina Pellegrini is a
young Venetian musicologist hired to find the truthful
heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous
but now almost forgotten baroque composer. Sworn to
secrecy she can solve the mystery only by searching
through the papers contained in the composer’s two
chests that have not been opened for centuries. From
professional to personal she is drawn into one of the
most scandalous affairs of the baroque era. 276pp.
£17.99 NOW £5
77922 EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE
by Peter May
Forensic expert Enzo Macleod takes a wager to solve
the seven most notorious French murders using modern
technology, and a total disregard for the justice system.
As midnight strikes, a man desperately seeking
sanctuary flees into a church. The next day his sudden
disappearance will make him famous throughout France.
Deep in the catacombs below the city, Macleod unearths
dark clues deliberately set, as he draws closer to the
killer and discovers that he is to be the next victim.
347pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.75
78039 AN IMMORAL CODE:
A Caper Court Novel
by Caro Fraser
Now a QC at the eminent chambers
of 5 Caper Court, Leo Davies has a
big case on his hands. With Anthony
Cross at his side, Leo finds himself
representing a group of investors
desperate to claim back the fortunes
they unwittingly lost. At home, the
delicate façade of his marriage to
Rachel is swiftly crumbling and
meanwhile Anthony’s burgeoning relationship with a
colleague leaves Leo jealous at heart. But even these
distractions won’t stop Leo from making a play for one of
his clients, the handsome TV celebrity Charles Beecham.
But while Leo eyes Beecham, Beecham’s own interests
may lie elsewhere. 414pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78084 JUDICIAL WHISPERS: A Caper Court
Novel by Caro Fraser
For Leo Davies, the charming brilliant barrister at one of
London’s most prestigious chambers, life is good. It is
only when he applies to take silk and become a QC that
whispers begin of his scandalous sexual past. Leo, a
man who has always meticulously divided his personal
and professional lives, is unnerved to discover just how
much his colleagues seem to know. Could attaching
himself to a suitable woman be the solution? When
fellow barrister Anthony Cross falls in love with beautiful
solicitor Rachel Dean, Leo realises he may have to
callously hurt them both to save his own career. 446pp
in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78115 THE PUPIL: A Caper Court Novel
by Caro Fraser
Of the two pupil barristers at the prestigious chambers of
5 Caper Court, only one can win the coveted role of
junior tenant. In his quest for admission to the élite
world of London’s Commercial Bar, Anthony discovers
that behind the elegant doors of chambers lie hard
choices, deceitful politics and dangerous corruption. We
meet his ageing hippy father, a fickle girlfriend and
discover his confusing relationship with charismatic
barrister Leo Davies. A lovely twisty turny plot, 349pp
in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.25
Crime Fiction 5
77686 LAMENTATION by C. J. Sansom
THE RAILWAY DETECTIVE Inspector Colbeck
78559 A TICKET TO OBLIVION
by Edward Marston
Summer 1859 and young Imogen Burnhope and her
maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit her
Aunt Cassandra waiting at the terminus. All the
passengers alight at Oxford, but the two women are
nowhere to be seen. When he learns his daughter is
missing, Sir Marcus Burnhope contacts Scotland Yard for
help and Inspector Colbeck is assigned to the case. Is it
a simple case of runaways or a larger more sinister
conspiracy at work? 348pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78562 BLOOD ON THE LINE
by Edward Marston
1857 and on the LNWR train to London, a criminal is
being escorted to his appointment with the hangman.
But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and
murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve - a beautiful
and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save
her lover, including cold-blooded murder. When the
Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that
Oxley, his arch nemesis has escaped, black memories of
their shared past leave him no choice but to do his duty
whatever the cost. With the faithful Victor Leeming at his
side, could Colbeck have finally met his match? 349pp in
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78566 INSPECTOR COLBECK’S CASEBOOK
by Edward Marston
Thirteen tales from the railway detective in this special
collection from the publisher Allison & Busby. A young
porter is found dead in a coal tub. Colbeck devises a
trap to catch a thief and a burnt train carriage holds a
gruesome secret in a small country village. As Colbeck
and his trusty aide Victor Leeming begin to piece
together clues and motives about each crime, it becomes
clear they must stay one step ahead of the culprits to
solve the cases. With a new suspect at every turn, can
the duo unearth the real villains? Includes The End of
the Line, The Barber of Ravenglass and Wetting the Coal
as we steam back to the dirty, Victorian age when
railways were transforming lives. Packed with
jealousy, vengeance and duplicity. 286pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78576 THE STATIONMASTER’S FAREWELL
by Edward Marston
Told with great colour and wonderful sense of period.
Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Victor
Leeming are despatched to Exeter to close in a killer, but
find themselves in mortal danger. It is 1857 and Joel
Heygate is the popular stationmaster at Exeter St
David’s railway station. So when the charred remains
of a body are discovered on
Bonfire Night, everyone is
horrified to discover that they
belong to Mr Heygate. Can
justice prevail or will Colbeck’s
beloved Madeline be robbed of
a husband on the very eve of
their marriage? 382pp in
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78939 RAILWAY
DETECTIVE: Set of Four
by Edward Marston
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save even more.
£31.96 NOW £12
77348 WANT YOU DEAD by Peter James
When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and
rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency there
is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the
truth about his past and his dark side begins to emerge.
Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be
a tissue of lies. Within a year and under police
protection, she evicts him from her flat and her life.
Bryce is obsessed with her, and he intends to destroy
everything and anyone she has ever known or loved and then her too. 405pp, page marker.
£20 NOW £5
77721 DARK HEART OF FLORENCE
by Michele Giuttari
After enduring years at the mercy of an infamous serial
killer, the people of the city of Florence are relived at
news of his death, until a senator and his butler are
found brutally murdered. Chief Superintendent Michele
Ferrara suspects that the case isn’t closed and as he
becomes trapped in a spiral of vendettas and corruption,
a powerful adversary is conspiring against him from the
shadows. He is confronted with dead ends and
unreliable theories and finds himself faced with
something rotten at the heart of the city. 371pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
77478 GORKY PARK by Martin Cruz Smith
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A fine reprint of the 1981 blockbuster thriller. They lay
peacefully, even artfully, under their thawing crust of ice,
the centre one on its back, arms folded as if for a religious
funeral, the other two turned, arms out under the ice like
flanking emblems on embossed writing paper. They
were wearing ice skates. It did indeed become a triple
murder investigation for Chief Inspector Arkady Renko.
Three corpses have been found in Moscow, but why the
horrific mutilations? And why had they been buried in
the snows of Gorky Park? 559pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.75
From the popular Shardlake series, here the glamorous
hardback with colour maps on the endpapers of old
London 1546. As King Henry VIII is slowly and
painfully dying, his Protestant and Catholic councillors
engage in a final and decisive power struggle. Whoever
wins will control the government of Henry’s successor,
eight year old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted
across London, the radical Protestant Anne Askew is
burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack
on Henry’s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake’s old mentor,
Queen Catherine Parr. She has written a confessional
book ‘Lamentation of a Sinner’ so radically Protestant
that if it came to the King’s attention it would bring down
both her and her sympathisers. Inexplicably the book
has vanished and only one page has been found,
clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. 642pp
with page marker.
£20 NOW £6
77508 TREACHEROUS PARADISE
by Henning Mankell
Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural
Sweden for a job as a cook on board a steamship
headed for Australia. To her surprise she finds love in
the form of a ship’s mate whom she marries, but disaster
strikes when her husband contracts a fatal illness.
Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenço Marques,
Hanna decides to begin her life afresh. Hanna becomes
embroiled in a sequence of events that lead her to
inheriting the most successful brothel in town. She is
determined to befriend the prostitutes working for her,
and change life in the town for the better. But the
distrust between blacks and whites and the shadow of
colonialism lead to tragedy and murder. 390pp.
£17.99 NOW £5
77014 COMFORTS OF A MUDDY SATURDAY:
An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
by Alexander McCall Smith
Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced
by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly
marketed drug. Our ever-curious moral philosopher finds
her interest piqued. Would a doctor with a stellar
reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If
not, what explains the tragic accident that resulted in the
death of a patient? Could he be the victim of someone
else’s mistake? Or perhaps he has been wilfully
deceived by a pharmaceutical company with a great
deal to gain. Isabel has an ongoing struggle with her
housekeeper over the care of her small son Charlie but
her combination of spirit and unabashed nosiness
guarantees a delightful adventure. 240pp.
$23.95 NOW £6.50
76990 BAKER STREET TRANSLATION
by Michael Robertson
When brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath decide to lease
law offices at 221B Baker Street, they discover that
their new location comes with an unusual stipulation the responsibility of answering mail that arrives for the
previous resident, one Sherlock Holmes. An elderly
American heiress wants to leave her entire fortune to
Sherlock Holmes. A translator wants Sherlock Holmes
to explain a nursery rhyme. Media mogul Robert
Buxton, Reggie’s rival for the love of actress Lauran
Rankin, has gone missing. It’s up to Reggie to unravel
this tangled mess before an important upcoming royal
event or something very bad will happen to the guests
at the event, and to Laura. 278pp.
£16.50 NOW £4
78286 AUTUMN KILLING by Mons Kallentoft
From the Swedish crime writing Malin Fors series. It is
Autumn in Linköping and the heavens have opened, but
not even these biblical rains can wash away the blood of
crimes past and present. Then the brutally stabbed
body of self-made Internet billionaire Jerry Petersson is
discovered floating face down in the moat surrounding
his home, the imposing Skogsa Castle. Malin Fors, the
brilliant but flawed star of the police force is already
struggling to keep her life together following the recent
murder attempt on her teenage daughter. The case
forces Malin to delve deeper into her own family’s past
and the secrets she uncovers threaten to drown her too.
503pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
77921 DOLLMAKER by Richard Montanari
Mr Marseille is polite, elegant and erudite and he would
do anything for his true love, Anabelle. And he is a
psychopath. In a quiet Philadelphia suburb, a woman
cycles past a train depot with her young daughter and
finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench,
strangled. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance
in a week’s time. Seven days later, two more young
victims are discovered in a disused house, posed on
painted swings. At the scene is an identical invitation
though this time there is something extra waiting for
detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. A delicate
porcelain doll. 485 pages in 2014 hardback.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
78315 OSTLAND by David Thomas
Berlin, February 1941, and a murderer is on a killing
spree. Georg Heuser is the idealistic, brilliant young
detective set to crack the case. July 1959, West
Germany and lawyers Max Kraus and Paula Siebert are
investigating war crimes of unimaginable magnitude
committed near the Russian Front, the empire of Nazis
called Ostland. The man accused is called Georg
Heuser. Paula and Max have only one question left ‘What has happened to make this good man become a
monster?’ A mix of thriller, courtroom drama, fact and
fiction. 434pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78289 BLEED FOR ME by Michael Robotham
Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies
dead in his daughter Sienna’s bedroom. She is found
covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but
psychologist Joe O’Loughlin isn’t convinced. 14 year old
Sienna is Joe’s daughter’s best friend and Joe has
watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her
eyes. Against the advice of the police he launches his
own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead
him to a predatory schoolteacher, a conspiracy of silence
and a race-hate trial that is captivating the nation.
470pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
77105 TOOTH TATTOO: A
Peter Diamond Investigation
by Peter Lovesey
Peter Diamond, head of the
Criminal Investigation Division in
Bath, is investigating the murder of
a young woman whose body has
been found in the canal. The only
clue to her identity is a tattoo of a
musical note on one of her teeth.
Strange things are happening
meanwhile to concert violinist Mel
Farran who finds himself scouted by a very élite
classical quartet, one whose previous violinist
disappeared without trace. Despite the mystery
shrouding the group, the chance to join is too good to
pass up, and Mel finds himself in a cushy residency at
Bath Spa University with the quartet, and embroiled in
the unusually musical murder investigation. 348pp.
$25.95 NOW £6
78319 PRESENT DANGER by Stella Rimington
When MI5 officer Liz Carlyle arrives in Belfast, danger
immediately follows and she quickly learns that the
peace process in the province is precarious. Liz suspects
The Fraternity to be a front for renegade IRA men. It
looks as though a plot is being hatched against the
security forces and Liz and her colleague Dave
Armstrong believe that a former French Intelligence
officer is involved. During their investigations Dave
goes missing and Liz fears the worst, especially when
she discovers that the obvious suspects have all
disappeared. 326pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78318 PLOTTED IN CORNWALL
by Janie Bolitho
Rose Trevelyan has been commissioned to paint the
portraits of two sisters who live on Cornwall’s Bodmin
Moor. Rose’s curiosity is aroused when she hears from
one of her art students that the sisters have something
to hide, and when she also learns that two of the
student’s relatives have disappeared, Rose starts to
wonder how they are connected. Is she about to
uncover secrets that everyone would rather she left
alone? 255pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78288 BETRAYED IN CORNWALL
by Janie Bolitho
The stunning Cornish landscape is the backdrop for a
series of mysteries featuring Rose Trevelyan. Painter
and photographer Rose is not too concerned when her
friend Etta does not turn up to the opening of her
exhibition, but when she hears the following day that a
young man fell of a cliff in suspicious circumstances,
events take a darker turn. Police believe drugs were
involved in the deaths but Rose knows better. As she
starts to make connections with the help of DI Jack
Pearce, things begin to go terribly wrong. 250pp in
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
HISTORY
Man is a history-making creature who can
neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
- W. H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand
78633 HISTORY OF KING
RICHARD III
by Sir Thomas More
Our good friend and Bibliophile
customer and pen pal Sister Wendy
Beckett has written the foreword to
this ‘remarkably vivid account,
almost a novel in its immediacy
and intimacy. More enters into
every convolution of the plot,
every emotion of the players.’
History (Unfinished) was written by
Master Thomas More, then one of
the under sheriffs of London, in 1513. Edward IV has
recently died, leaving his offspring and potential future
monarch 12 year old Edward, Prince of Wales, and
Richard, Duke of York, aged nine. However, disturbing
the natural succession is their Uncle Richard, Duke of
Gloucester, who will stop at nothing to become King.
Richard conspires to have the Princes abducted and
imprisoned in the Tower of London. He usurps their
birthright, alleging that Edward is a bastard and not a
legitimate heir to the throne. Richard persuades London
to accept him as King and according to More’s account,
has the Princes smothered to death to secure his position
as monarch. Much of what modern scholarship knows of
Richard III stems from this biography. Freshly edited
and presented alongside a glossary of archaic terms.
102pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £5
78607 DAWN OF GENIUS
by Alan Butler
Sub-titled ‘The Minoan SuperCivilisation and the Truth About
Atlantis’ Butler discovers the real
origins of Western society. The
modern world looks back to Ancient
Greece for the birth of philosophy,
for the origins of science and even
the foundations of democracy. But
long before Greece flirted with
geometry, astronomy and inclusive
politics, there was a far more
innovative and pioneering culture,
the Minoans. From the enigma of the Phaistos Disc to
accounts of the destruction of Atlantis, a worldwide
catastrophe that took place around 1600BC, the book
celebrates the culture that was shattered in an instant, a
disaster that drove the world into a dark age from which
it has taken over 3,000 years to emerge. 234pp in
paperback.
£10.99 NOW £5.50
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78626 GHOSTS OF EMPIRE
by Kwasi Kwarteng
Sub-titled ‘Britain’s Legacies in the
Modern World’ this brilliant book
helps us understand the political
situation in the world today and
there is something new to learn on
every page. The ghosts of the
British Empire continue to haunt
today’s international scenes and
many of the problems faced by the
Empire still have not been
resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and
Hong Kong, new difficulties resulting from British
Imperialism have arisen and continue to baffle politicians
and diplomats. This powerful book addresses the
realities of the British Empire from its inception to its
demise, skewering fantasies of its glory and cataloguing
both the inadequacies of its ideals and the short-termism
of its actions. The book comes alive with wild and
wonderful characters and is crisply written - Kitchener
the Imperial Hero, The World of Sir Hari Singh, Saddam
Hussein and Beyond, Hierarchies and Democracy
Postponed are Among The Chapters. 465pp in
paperback, colour and other photos and map.
£9.99 NOW £5
78634 HISTORY OF THE
REIGN OF KING HENRY VII
by Francis Bacon
‘Bacon poured into this book the
distillation of a lifetime’s reading
and an insider’s experience of how
high politics actually works.’ In
1485, Henry Tudor defeated King
Richard III at the Battle of
Bosworth Field, and at one stroke
became King Henry VII of
England, ended the long-running
War of the Roses and founded the
Tudor dynasty. Although his military victory was a
conclusive one and he went on to marry a Yorkist wife,
thus uniting the warring houses of York and Lancaster,
Henry’s claim to the throne by descent was in fact rather
tenuous. Consequently his rule was troubled by
rebellions and conspiracies, including various desperate
attempts by the royal imposters Lambert Simnel and
Perkin Warbeck. Henry’s diplomatic relations, the
ruthless taxations that made him rich but alienated his
subjects, and his efforts to secure peace are all chronicled
in this compelling portrait of ‘a dark prince’. Bacon’s
unique work is the first biography of its kind, a classic of
modern literature. 180pp in paperback with a new
foreword by Brian Thompson, the book was first
published in 1622.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
78698 VENETIANS: A New
History From Marco Polo to
Casanova by Paul Strathern
The city-state or Republic of Venice
was the first great economic,
cultural and naval power of the
modern Western world. Like the
British Empire that came after its
final fall to Napoleon in 1797, the
Venetians were a seafaring island
race whose empire was out of all
proportion to the size of their
homeland and whose influence
extended to the limits of the known world. Unlike the
British, and more like post-independence America, its
empire was more concerned with domination of trade
rather than territorial possessions. Venice, presided over
since the earliest times by the Doge and the Council of
Ten, was also notoriously inward-looking and isolationist
when it wanted to be, prized stability over risk-taking
and was extremely suspicious of any “cult of
personality”. Paul Strathern has taken a different
approach toward Venice’s fascinatingly complex history
by shining a light upon the most celebrated personalities
of the Republic, emblemic people who by their very
success and fame found themselves frequently at odds
with the authorities. It may be expected that a libertine
such as Casanova would ruffle a few feathers, but even
Marco Polo and his family, who in effect established the
great Venetian trading empire in the late 13th century,
struggled with the snobbery and high-handedness of the
ruling families. As well as these, he also examines such
luminaries as Petrarch, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, Tiepolo,
Canaletto and many others alongside the influential
members of the ruling elite with whom they so often
clashed. Packed with excellent, maps and eight pages of
colour plates. 354pp.
ONLY £8
78978 NAPOLEON’S
BRITONS and the ST HELENA
DECISION
by Paul Brunyee
The people of Brixham, Devon,
were pleased to see two of His
Majesty’s ships sail into their
harbour, but were perplexed when
their boats carrying bread and other
supplies were not allowed to
approach. Then two boys in a
baker’s boat saw a man
surreptitiously drop a bottle over the side. They
managed to retrieve it and a note inside read ‘We have
got Bonaparte on board.’ Within five minutes of reaching
the shore ‘there was not a soul in Brixham, except
babies, ignorant of the news’. As the information spread,
boats thronged the ships and people clustered on the
quay. Obligingly, Napoleon appeared several times. The
Emperor had been forced to surrender and abdicate, and
assumed that he would be able to live in Britain. In the
event, however, he was exiled to St. Helena, where he
spent his last years in captivity. This fascinating account
is of Napoleon’s later years as seen through the eyes of
the Britons who knew him and seemed to grow quite
fond of him. Paperback. 224pp, colour illus.
£16.99 NOW £5
78929 MAN MOST DRIVEN:
Captain John Smith,
Pocahontas
And the Founding of America
by Peter Firstbrook
Everyone knows the story of
Pocahontas and how in 1607 she
saved John Smith. Were it not for
his leadership, the Jamestown
colony would surely have failed.
He fought and beheaded three
Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery,
then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a
pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows
to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour.
And all this happened before Captain John Smith was 30
years old. Far more than an ambitious explorer and
soldier of fortune than these tales suggest, and far more
ambitious self-promoter, this major new biography traces
his exploits across three continents, testing his own
writings against the historical and geographical reality on
the ground. 419pp, illus and maps.
£20 NOW £7
78317 PERSIAN FIRE
by Tom Holland
An award-winning history book
about the first world empire and the
battle for the West. In the 5th
century BC, a global superpower
was determined to bring truth and
order to what it regarded as two
terrorist states. The superpower
was Persia, incomparably rich in
ambition, gold and men. The
terrorist states were Athens and
Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous
backwater, Greece. The story of how their citizens took
on the most powerful man on the planet is as heartstopping as any episode in history. Chapter headings
include Greece and the Aegean, Mesopotamia and Iran,
The Peloponnese, Attica, Marathon, Thermopylae, and
The Battle of Salamis. 418pp, colour photos and maps.
£12.99 NOW £6
78323 SECRETS OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
by S. J. Hodge
Highly trained and adhering to strict chivalric code, the
Knights Templar is one of the most mysterious and
powerful religious orders in history. Their success on the
battlefield brought them both extraordinary wealth and
political influence and also ensured they would be
entrusted to guard Christendom’s greatest secrets. From
the true location of the Holy Grail to the Templars’
involvement in the Battle of Bannockburn, and from the
sudden downfall of the Order to the claims of those who
believe they descended from its Grand Masters, Hodge
lloks at their rituals and codes. 292pp in paperback,
colour illus.
£9.99 NOW £5
78411 LOST VICTORIAN BRITAIN
by Gavin Stamp
This book features 200 notable buildings that were
destroyed to make way for modernisation. Alfred
Waterhouse’s Eaton Hall in Cheshire, was destroyed in
the sixties apart from the chapel and stable block. Many
gems which have disappeared are more modest in scale,
for instance the Tiber Street County Primary School in
Liverpool, demolished within the past 20 years, and
Norman Shaw’s New Zealand Chambers in London’s
Leadenhall Street, destroyed by bomb damage in World
War II. While London’s 21st century skyline is
undoubtedly impressive, some magnificent buildings
were demolished to make way for the modern City,
among them the Coal Exchange with its superb cast-iron
rotunda, the Sun Fire Office with its Italianate façade,
and, after a huge fight, the buildings that were swept
away to create the new Mansion House Square.
Columbia Market in Bethnal Green was surely one of
the capital’s finest Gothic buildings. Glasgow, Leeds and
Bradford are among the northern cities whose
architectural heritage has been diminished by
indiscriminate development. 192pp, softback, photos.
£12.99 NOW £6.50
78442 IVAN THE TERRIBLE: A Military
History by Alexander Filjushkin
The first specialist study of the tsar’s military strategy to
be published in English, the book examines all of Russia’s
military campaigns in Eastern Europe and Western
Siberia during the period of 1533 to 1585. It describes in
full the organisation and equipment of Ivan the Terrible’s
army and the forces of his enemies - the Poles,
Lithuanians, Tatars and Livonian Knights. He was
responsible for establishing serfdom and devastating
much of Russia. He was also the first Russian ruler to
invade Europe and his campaigns against the Livonian
Confederation were initially very successful. In 1558,
Russian soldiers occupied Dorpat and Narva, and laid
siege to Reval, creating vital trade routes over the Baltic
Sea. At the Battle of Ergema, the Russians defeated
the Knights of the Livonian Order, fuelling Ivan’s dreams
of a Russian Empire. However as Eric XIV of Sweden
recaptured Reval, the Poles joined forces. In 1571, an
army of 120,000 Crimean Tatars crushed the Russian
defences and burned Moscow to the ground.
Increasingly paranoid, Ivan carried out a number of
terrible massacres. 40,000 were killed at Novgorod in
1570, many tortured and murdered in front of Ivan and
his son. 306pp, illus and maps, colour plates.
£25 NOW £9
25247 HISTORIES
by Herodotus, introduced by Tom Griffiths
Herodotus (c480 - c425 B.C.) is the Father of History
and his Histories are the first piece of western historical
writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did
Pheidippides run the 26 mile and 385 yards from
Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got
there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between
sausage sellers? Which is the oldest language in the
world? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile?
Answers as well as many fascinating insights into the
Ancient World. 734pp in paperback.
ONLY £4
78293 ENGLAND ARISE by Juliet Barker
What caused a group of men and women from all parts
of England to unite in armed rebellion against both the
Church and the State, demanding a radical political
agenda? This intriguing, enlightening account of the
background to the Peasant’s Revolt, as well as the
revolt itself, provides a fascinating insight into the
everyday life of 14th century Britain. Eventually, in
1381, people’s mutterings turned into a major uprising as
the commoners fought back, demanding justice and
lower taxation. In Essex a riot occurred when a royal
official tried to collect unpaid poll taxes, and the
confrontation spread to Kent where Wat Tyler led rebels
to London to meet the young King Richard II. In the
mayhem, Tyler was killed by the King’s party, and the
revolt spread across much of the country. Eventually
Richard mobilised troops to quell the uprising. It is
possible that Wat Tyler and Jack Straw were the same
person. The author remarks ‘What will surprise most
readers is that the three most famous protagonists of the
revolt [Tyler, Straw and Balle] scarcely appear at all in
my account... there are remarkably few references to
them in contemporary sources.’ Had the revolt
succeeded,
English society
would have
been
transformed,
anticipating the
French
Revolution by
400 years.
506pp, colour
paintings and
photos.
£25 NOW £7
47915 JEWISH ANTIQUITIES
by Flavius Josephus
IN
CK
BA O C K
T
The works of the Jewish writer Flavius
S
Josephus represent one of the most important records of
Judaism and the Jews that survives from the ancient
world. It is an account in 20 books of Jewish history
from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt
against Rome in AD66. Here is all the drama of the Old
Testament transformed into an historical narrative of
Greco-Roman character. More importantly, it is our only
continuous account of Middle Eastern affairs that led up
to the revolt. We have the famous translation of
Josephus’ works by Cambridge professor William
Whiston. 902 page paperback.
ONLY £4
75030 TITANIC: The Last Night of a Small
Town by John Welshman
This study takes eight survivors and looks at the
experience in the context of their lives as a whole. Also
included are Herbert Lightoller, the Second Officer whose
story dominated the book and film A Night to
Remember, the Assistant Wireless Operator Harold
Bride, and Arthur Rostron, the captain of the Carpathia
which came to the rescue of the Titanic. The featured
passengers include nine-year old Frank Goldsmith,
travelling in third class with his parents to start a new life
in Detroit, a Finnish domestic servant emigrating with
her new husband, Colonel Archibald Gracie, an amateur
military historian travelling first class, and seven year old
Eva Hart. 324pp, photos.
£18.99 NOW £4
76933 CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL:
Roger Williams, Church and State, and the
Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry
Roger Williams was the first person to describe individual
liberty in modern terms. His mentor, Edward Coke, the
greatest jurist in English history, inculcated in Williams
the concepts of individual rights, and limits to state
power, and was sent to the Tower for his views.
Williams developed an ‘altogether revolutionary’ and
dangerous point of view. The first man in the world to
insist that government should receive its power from and
be controlled by its citizens, he proposed that there
should be a hypothetical wall separating the church and
the state. Threatened with execution, Williams was
forced to flee Britain, and founded a new society in
Providence, Rhode Island. 150 years later, his ideas
were widely realised by Thomas Jefferson. 464 pages.
£25 NOW £4
77006 CALAMITIES AND
CATASTROPHES
by Derek Wilson
In ten entertaining chapters the
historian identifies the very worst
years of human history from the
destruction of the Roman Empire in
541 to the immediate aftermath of
the American Civil War in 1865,
from the march on Leningrad in
1942 to the Vietnam War of 1968.
He delves into the natural forces
beyond human control that have
wiped out whole peoples and above all shows how
history has a horrible habit of repeating itself. His last
chapter, 1994, looks at genocide or ethnic cleansing. He
begins with plague, Mongols and religion. 281pp in
paperback.
$15 NOW £4
77649 CROWN, ORB AND SCEPTRE
by David Hilliam
Sub-titled ‘The True Stories of English Coronations’ the
book is packed with facts about how the service,
traditions and accessories have changed over the years,
plus a full description of all the Crown Jewels. The book
covers 1,000 years of English coronations from that of
the Saxon King Edgar in Bath Abbey in the year 973 to
the memorable occasion nearly ten centuries later with
the televised coronation of Elizabeth II on 2nd June
1953. Read the strange-but-true stories of astrologers,
gargantuan banquets, medieval merrymaking, how fate
was unkind to Queen Anne, 300 years of robe making,
plus beautiful colour plates depicting historical scenes.
264pp, paperback.
77034 HISTORY OF THE WORLD: Sixth
Edition by J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad
Published by Oxford University Press, this monumental
volume runs to 1260 pages and includes no less than 86
supporting maps. The scope begins before history with
Homo Sapiens and the possibility of civilisation, Ancient
Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Classical Age and the
Hellenistic world, India, Imperial China, Mughal India,
the Age of Revolution, the Anglo Saxon World, the Era
of the First World War, the Making of New Asia, the
Ottoman Heritage, and into the Cold War and beyond.
It is a one-volume survey of the major events, changes
and personalities and a tour of the vast landscape of
human history. Roberts’ 1976 original has been updated
in 2013. This sixth edition offers a fuller discussion of
Central Eurasia and the late Byzantine Empire thanks to
new knowledge of major migration patterns; a broader
dialogue on early human life based on recent
archaeological and anthropological finds; and a more
complete presentation of social and cultural roles of
women and young people.
$45 NOW £12.50
77270 FROM KITCHEN TO GARRET: Hints for
Young Householders New and Revised Edition
by Mrs Panton
First published in 1887, this proselytising volume
describes in minute detail every nuance of taste and
economy, and advises how to avoid the perils awaiting
couples setting up their home, from choosing a house
and over-seeing the interior decoration to managing the
servants. Here is a suggestion for draping a door in the
hall and there a window so adorned with frills that you
can hardly see out of it, although couples were advised
always to use washable cretonne for curtains because it
was ‘healthy’. A bewitching revelation of life as it was
lived 120 years ago. 287 pages, line drawings.
£12.95 NOW £3.50
77368 EMPIRE OF THE DEEP by Ben Wilson
Looks at the rise and fall of the British Navy which is
nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our
empire. For a few decades after the Battle of Trafalgar,
Britain truly ruled the world’s waves. For much of her
history, Britain was a third-rate maritime power, assailed
by myriad seaborne threats from the lawless waters
surrounding her. Wilson provides lucid expositions of
shifting laws, ideas and arguments. The sea boils and
timbers creak as you read this salty, invigorating work.
Colour photos and 16 maps. 692pp, softback.
£12.99 NOW £6
77378 MILLENNIUM by Tom Holland
An exhilarating sweep across European history either
side of the year 1000. In AD900, few would have
guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Europe were
candidates for future greatness. It was the age of Otto
the Great and William the Conqueror, of Viking seakings, of hermits, monks and serfs. It witnessed the
spread of castles, the invention of knighthood, and the
founding of a papal monarchy. A brilliant narrative
spotlight on the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ which saw the
triumph of Byzantium, the ascent of Islam and the
lingering disaster of the Crusades. 476pp, paperback,
colour illus, maps.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
77526 CHIVALRY: The Origins & History of
the Orders of Knighthood by Kevin Gest
The book sets out the key facts relating to the various
Orders of Chivalry in existence in Britain and introduces
the beginning of the knighthood orders from the early
years of mounted warriors. Then, it investigates the
main western orders which have a connection with our
islands, such as the Hospitallers or Knights of Malta or
St. John, the Knights Templar (or poor soldiers of Christ),
the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the Golden Fleece,
Roman Eagle and so on, and summarises other
significant orders of chivalry. The author looks at the
cultural legacy of each one, and the buildings and
artefacts that remain, as well as its connections with
Masonry and its place in present day life. 247 slightly
chaotic pages, diagrams, photos in colour.
£19.99 NOW £6
77637 ARAB REDISCOVERY OF EUROPE
by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Attaining the status of a modern classic, the book is a
study in cultural encounters and here has the new
introduction by Rashid Khalidi. At the start of the 19th
century, Arabs were unprepared for the social, economic
and political progress Europe had made. By 1870
however their vague notions had evolved into a fairly
sophisticated knowledge of the various European
nations. The new reform movements in Egypt and the
Fertile Crescent had incorporated into their programme
some of the ideological premises and political institutions
of European Liberalism. This pioneering work traces the
role of the Arab Intelligentsia in increasing Arab
awareness of Europe and in shaping visions of Arab
political futures. A fascinating background to today’s
world. 190pp, paperback.
£14.99 NOW £4
77652 GLADIATOR
by Konstantin Nossov
Gladiators were famously popular in Ancient Rome for
seven centuries, from the 3rd century BC to the 4th
century AD. Curiosity about the gladiators disappeared,
yet in 1766, a new wave of interest in their lives and
actions arose when some gladiatorial weapons were
found in Pompeii. The Roman gladiatorial games
comprised both single combat and team fighting. They
also included beast hunts and mock naval battles which
were called venatio and naumachia respectively. These
two plus munus are all examined in the book. Types of
gladiator, equipment, methods of combat,
amphitheatres, organising the events and the day of the
show plus a conclusion questioning whether it is craving
blood or a blood sport are covered in this very well
illustrated large paperback. Some champions survived
up to 150 combats. In return for long-term contracts,
they earned huge annual salaries. 208pp, colour
artworks, photos, illus.
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78022 THE SHADOW KING
by Joe Marchant
Marchant traces King
Tutankhamun’s eventful afterlife,
from the glamorous treasure hunts
of the 1920s to high-tech scans
and DNA tests in volatile modern
Egypt. After resting undisturbed
for more than three millennia,
King Tut’s mummy was suddenly
awakened when archaeologist
Howard Carter discovered the
boy king’s tomb and the
mummy’s story. Our archaeological adventure leaves
from forgotten archives in London to the scorched
Egyptian desert uncovering new gems including an
anonymous pharaoh dipped with gold and a piece of
Tutankhamun kept in a drawer in Liverpool. The book
reveals the truth behind many mysteries such as what
happened to the poor king’s penis. 288pp, photos.
£17.99 NOW £5
77326 A HISTORY OF BRITAIN: Book IV The
Stuarts, Cromwell and The Glorious Revolution
1603-1714: New Edition
by E. H. Carter and R. A. F. Mears
Shows how the calamities of a Civil War, the execution
of one King and the deposition of another, all owed
something to the personalities of such Kings as Charles I
and James II, but even more to their preferences in
religion. Opening with the terrorism of the Gunpowder
Plot, and leading on to the protracted struggle between
King and Parliament, this book was first published in
1937 now revised. 183 pages, maps and outline
summary of events.
£10 NOW £2.75
77744 RENAISSANCE SECRETS: Recipes and
Formulas by Jo Wheeler
This beautifully produced volume from the V&A
transports us to the clandestine world of Renaissance
medicinal and trade secrets. The range of recipes and
potions contained herein is astounding, from plague
amulets which sound worse than the plague itself to
methods for manufacture and glazing of ceramics and
glass, and from hair oil, perfume and lip balm to chicken
soup and “biscuits to excite Venus”and Florentine Viagra
from 1583 which includes 1.5oz of powdered lizard! Also
here are trade secrets of the textile, illustration and
clothing variety alongside real objects from the V&A
vast collections, giving us the full compelling stories
behind these amazing formulae. Writers used the new
medium of print to inform an ever-broader public of the
latest “must-have” concoctions. 112pp, 6½”×12", colour
illus, red silk bookmark.
£19.99 NOW £7
78019 PERILOUS
QUESTION: Reform or
Revolution?
by Antonia Fraser
Britain on the Brink, 1832 is the
sub-title to this dazzling recreation
of the tempestuous two year
period leading up to the passing of
the Great Reform Bill. The era
begins with the accession of
William IV. It is lit with notable
characters. The reforming heroes
of the Whig aristocrats led by Lord
Grey, the all-too-conservative opposition headed by the
Duke of Wellington supported by the intransigent Queen
Adelaide, with hereditary memories of the French
Revolution. Finally there were revolutionaries like
William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides, the radical tale of
Francis Place and Thomas Attwood of Birmingham, the
charismatic orator. There were urban riots put down by
soldiers and agricultural riots led by the mythical Captain
Swing. The underlying grievance was the fate of the
many disfranchised people who lived in the new
industrial cities of Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and
Birmingham. Could a rotten system reform itself in
time? On 7th June 1832, it did, by one vote. Reform
had been chosen. 320pp, colour and b/w photos.
£20 NOW £8.50
78028 INSIDE THE RENAISSANCE
HOUSE by Elizabeth Currie
A beautifully designed Victoria & Albert Museum
publication which takes us on a tour, room by room, of
the Italian Renaissance house. The sala was devoted to
games and music as well as entertaining in as much
style as possible, with rich maiolica and pewter to
impress the guests, and a range of new utensils in the
kitchen. The camera or bed chamber was far from the
private space it is today - marriage and childbirth were
celebrated there with select social gatherings, and the
family’s fine textiles and furnishings were shown off
alongside the devotional objects and personal trinkets
concerned in the daily rituals of worship and hygiene.
From ordinary looking earthenware jars to beautifully
decorated jugs, a harpsichord, carved furniture and a
brass engraved salver, the book is beautifully decorated.
80 colour plates. 96pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
78246 SPARTA’S KINGS by John Carr
This overview of Sparta’s kings is an interesting and
well-researched guide to the intriguing history of ancient
Greece. The Spartans believed that Lelex, c.2000BC,
was the first king of the Lakonian Valley; he appears to
have been the first to consolidate a viable society there
on the foundation of Neolithic settlements. Throughout
the mythical and semi-mythical eras the names of
various kings were passed down. The Trojan War
seriously upset Greece’s domestic economy, causing the
prestige and power of centres such as Sparta and
Mykenai to shrink. By 1120 BC twin brothers
Eurysthenes and Prokles were kings of Agiad and
Eurypontid respectively, due in part to the fact that their
mother refused to divulge which twin was born first.
This chronological account of the kings begins with the
founding Herakleidai clan, and follows through to the
Roman Conquest in the 2nd century BC, telling the story
of the men who led Sparta in both war and peace.
188pp. Illus.
£19.99 NOW £8.50
78243 MARTELLO TOWERS WORLDWIDE
by Bill Clements
British Martello towers were constructed in the late 18th
and 19th centuries as gun towers to defend the English
coast from French invasion. Building of the British towers
commenced in 1805 with a line of 74 towers between
Folkestone and Seaford, whilst a further line of 29
towers commenced erection in 1809, between Clactonon-Sea and Aldeburgh. After the work was completed,
further towers were built in Scotland, Ireland, Canada
and other places, and although the war ended in 1815,
building continued until the 1850s in lands where
fortifications were needed to defend the colonies. Here
are detailed lists of the towers, with specifications,
locations and their uses today (many are now houses,
museums or restaurants). 240pp, illus, plans.
£19.99 NOW £9
HUMOUR
’Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if
a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument
of happiness.
- Dryden
78858 CATS WITH
GUNS
by Jonathan Parkyn
40 hilariously silly
photomontages of cats posed
with revolvers, rifles, pistols,
automatic and semiautomatic weapons.
Possibly the silliest and
funniest cat book we have
seen (and believe us, we’ve
seen a few!), here are 44 pussies packing heat, and just
in case you thought this was an entirely frivolous
exercise in photoshopping, the adjacent page gives full
details and history of the breed and its favoured firearm
with details of the weapon’s specifications and history.
The sphynx, the hairless modern-day ancestor of the
giant Sphinx that guarded the Great Pyramid of Giza,
prefers to back up its inscrutable countenance with a
Beretta Model 92, whereas the weapon of choice of the
cold-resistant Norwegian Forest is the equally
weatherproof AK-47. The American Selkirk Rex
naturally selects the stubby barrelled Smith and Wesson
.38 to settle its turf wars and the suave Burmese, the
James Bond of the cat world, goes nowhere without his
Walther PPK.
Colour throughout, great fun in 96pp.
ONLY £5
78811 LAUGH YOUR WAY
TO HAPPINESS
by Lesley Lyle
The founder of the website
laughterbusiness.com reveals the
amazing scientific evidence that
proves regular laughter can greatly
improve our mental and physical
health - strengthening the immune
system, lowering blood pressure,
improving circulation and reducing
stress. Here are simple daily
exercises to encourage more
laughter in your life - smiling, fooling yourself and not
others, hypnosis, random acts of kindness, when the
pupil is ready the teacher will appear, learn about the
Mountain Goddess Festival in Japan full of natural,
spontaneous and joyous laughter, laughing in the car or
when you drop something, the power of gibberish,
shoulder rolls, breathing, even laughter and grieving.
236pp with list of useful resources and websites.
Paperback. Remainder mark.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
78592 BITEBACK
DICTIONARY OF HUMOROUS
POLITICAL QUOTATIONS
by Fred Metcalf
A brilliant anthology of mieux mots
used in the theatre of politic over
the centuries containing politics with
a liberal dose of sex, drugs and
Frank Zappa. Baldwin, Stanley,
Cameron, Cuba, the House of
Lords, Boris Johnson, taxation to
tyrants, race to royalty, Kennedy to
Palin, Churchill’s gravitas meets Oscar Wilde’s wit:
‘Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.’ Churchill: ‘We
are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.’
342pp in paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
78638 HOUSEHOLD TIPS OF
THE GREAT WRITERS
by Mark Crick
Geoffrey Chaucer’s feisty onion tart,
shelf erecting with Julius Caesar,
caring for heather with Alan
Bennett, pruning a rose bush with
Pablo Neruda to unblocking a sink
with Jean-Paul Sartre, here is a
book to cover all your domestic
needs in a part homage, part
survival guide. It is a pitch perfect
companion for every Bibliophile, the well-read and the
domestically challenged. These literary and visual
pastiches of writers and their relationships with food is
laugh a minute. Here is Goethe applying sealant around
a bath, plum pudding à la Charles Dickens and burying
bulbs in autumn with Sylvia Plath and more. 278pp of
mirth and with a ‘Preface’ by Mrs Isabella Beeton.
Grouped by In the Kitchen, DIY Tips and In the garden.
£12.99 NOW £5
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78800 FRIENDS FOREVER
by Anne Rogers Smyth
This must be just about the most
perfect book to give to a friend;
it’s warm, witty and fun,
gorgeous to look at and contains
42 stunning colour photos from
the animal kingdom, each with a
special quote or message. The
message by a shaggy, windswept alpaca is ‘There’s no
such thing as a bad hair day in the eyes of a good
friend’, while that by the picture of two animated stripybeaked puffins reads ‘Time flies when you’re chatting
with a good friend’. ‘Going with the flow’ says the
caption on the charming, paw-waving sea otters, ‘A
good friend isn’t nosy but asks all the right questions’
reads that by the beak-rubbing toucan and parrot, while
the three bubble-blowing smiling dolphins are captioned
‘A little silliness goes a long way with friends’. Adorable
- definitely the best present for your bestie! 7" square,
92pp, colour photos. Remainder mark.
£7.99 NOW £4.25
78838 WHAT’S YOUR POO
TELLING YOU? by Josh
Richman and Anish Sheth
Do you look before you flush? Our
poo-phoria of excrement compares
floaters vs sinkers, monster poos,
pebble poo, the hanging chad, the
ritual poo, ring of fire, log jam,
green goblin, the streak, snake and
more, describing the symptoms,
look, shape, texture, synonyms and
nuggets of info about plop in general. With hysterically
funny descriptions, the book is actually co-written by a
medical doctor who demystifies the inner workings of
the digestive tract and explains your health by what you
leave behind in the loo. 96pp, illus.
$9.95 NOW £4
79013 EVIL CATS
by Elia Anie
When fluffy cats get mean, 8
out of 10 cats will rip to
pieces this book while their
owners are not looking. One
dastardly cartoon cat steals a
sock as lady owner loads
washing machine. Evil cat
beheads teddy. Naughty kitties terrify birds, wearing
costumes, try on nappies, play with dental floss and
mark their territory in ways we thought only humanly
possible. Wickedly evil kitty cartoons throughout.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
Now in his late 80s, Limerick (where else?) born O’Flynn
has published over 50 novels, plays, works of poetry,
short stories and biography in English and Gaelic. He
has selected 24 comic poems from the Irish tradition,
introduces each with a history of the work and then
provides us the full text (plus variations down the years)
in both English and Gaelic. It will be of no surprise to
learn that many of the songs and poems had double
meanings. Pubs, publicans and their customers feature
widely and there are ruminations on tobacco, the holy
orders, horses, bailiffs, unsavoury characters both male
and female and even a herring. 192pp paperback.
$14.95 NOW £4
20320 COMPLETE NONSENSE by Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble
Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear’s crazy
limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for
over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author,
contains all the verse and stories of The Book of
Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Nonsense
Stories and Nonsense Alphabets and Nonsense
Cookery. It has a biographical Preface by Lear himself,
and concludes with some delightful ‘heraldic’ sketches of
his cat, Foss. 272pp. Paperback.
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71723 A DYSLEXIC
CK
WALKS INTO A BRA... BA T O C K
S
by Nick Harris
‘Doctor, doctor, my wife has lost
her voice. What should I do to help
her get it back?’ ‘Try coming home
at 3 o’clock in the morning.’ ‘What’s
the difference between a banker
and a trampoline? - You take off
your boots to jump on a
trampoline.’ Wisecracks, cheeky
wordplay, Doctor Doctor, battle of the sexes, blondes,
children, psychiatrists, old people, music, marriage and
divorce, lawyers, law and order, farming, drunks, death,
art and books, army, navy and air force and animals are
among the long jokes, one liners, funny lists and
excruciating puns on this wide variety of subjects.
Telling jokes will never go out of fashion and as Woody
Allen memorably put it: ‘I am thankful for laughter,
except when milk comes out of my nose.’ 416pp in
paperback.
!
The New Yorker magazine began publishing in 1925 and
has never lost its original flair. Famous names such as
Arthur Miller, Ogden Nash, Roald Dahl, Roddy Doyle,
John Updike, James Thurber and a host more bring their
wit and wisdom to bear to create an unforgettable
collection of one-liners, short stories, essays and jokes.
Here are Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Top Dogs, Underdogs
and even a new essay by Adam Gopnik on the
immortal canines of James Thurber. Our favourite is the
sign at the entrance to a beer garden on the Rhine: ‘Das
Mitbringen von Hunden ist Polizeilich Verboten’ - or ‘The
Withbringing of Dogs is Police-Wise Forbidden’, but we
also love one dog saying to another: ‘On the Internet,
nobody knows you’re a dog!’ How true. 395 fun-filled
pages packed with cartoons, line drawings, colour
photos, covers, and list of contributors.
£30 NOW £14
308 musings, unlikely facts, inspired puns, daft plays on
words and jokes, each delightfully illus. with pen and ink
Victorian-style drawings. Were you aware that Tic-TacToe is actually a form of gout caused by eating too
many mints? Imagine the office atmosphere if Peter
Parker and Clark Kent worked at the same newspaper!
320pp.
£12.99 NOW £3
77266 MR DARCY’S GUIDE
TO COURTSHIP: The Secrets
of Seduction
by Fitzwilliam Darcy
The secrets of seduction from
Regency England’s most eligible
bachelor features beauty tips from
Miss Caroline Bingley, the improper
courtship techniques of Messrs
Wickham and Collins, reflections on
spinsterhood from Miss Emma
Woodhouse, how to pen an
effective advertisement for a
spouse, Mr Darcy’s counsel to correspondents including
Lord Byron, the Duke of Wellington and Mr Willoughby.
Includes making oneself agreeable and escaping the
unwanted attentions of rogues and fortune hunters,
224pp, paperback, woodcut illus and little quizzes.
£7.99 NOW £2.25
77364 BLEAK EXPECTATIONS
by Mark Evans
Recounts the remarkable adventures of young Pip Bin as
he tries to make his way in a world made all horrible by
the machinations of his cruel guardian, Mr Gently
Benevolent. Gasp as our hero suffers misfortunes such
as prison, poverty, the workhouse and at least one close
relative dying. Sigh as Pip finds love with London’s
most eligible frail beauty, Miss Flora Dies-Early. As
heard on Radio 4. 403pp.
£14.99 NOW £2.50
77634 WONDERFUL WONDER OF WONDERS
by Jonathan Swift
Most famous for his masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels,
Jonathan Swift was also the foremost satirist of his day.
Here he treats us to a condensed biography of his
posterior, enlivened by some inspired wordplay.
Beware, the words arse, bottom, rump, push up against
Rump Parliament and an accurate description of the
birth, education, manner of living, religion, politics,
learning of the late 1680s when it was first written.
Swift is in fine scatological form and there is a note to
assist the modern reader. 124 blunderful pages.
£9.99 NOW £2
78082 IRISH HUMOROUS POETRY
by Criostoir O’Flynn
£7.99 NOW £3.50
76387 BIG NEW YORKER BOOK OF DOGS
by Malcolm Gladwell
76897 A BILLION JOKES! (VOLUME ONE)
by Peter Serafinowicz
77658 ITWIT: Fake Apps for
Genuine Idiots
by Fintan Coyle and Dan
Louw
Too busy to know when to go to
the toilet? Download iGopoo.
Fresh out of clean underwear?
SniffTester will tell you which pants
are okay for one more day. Dying,
scary teeth, ambulance chasers,
self-service tills, Booze Views price
£1.99, Cat Scan to check what your
cat is doing all day (99p) and tons more crApps, this
book is full of it. 102pp, colour screen shots.
£7.99 NOW £2.75
77665 MORE CHINGLISH: Speaking in
Tongues
by Oliver Lutz Radtke
Keep valuables snugly, dumplings stuffed with the
ovary and digestive glands of a crab, monopoly wrinkly
old folks clothing, on a menu ‘Binaural infected cucumber’
under a photograph of it, on another ‘Onion explodes the
distant senate’, a beautiful brass plaque outside the
Resist Bacteria Hotel. Welcome to the wonderful world
of chinglish, not lost in translation on us, signs, menus
and more. Full page colour photos, softback.
£7.99 NOW £3
77675 SHIT LONDON: Snapshots of a City on
the Edge by Patrick Dalton
More disastrous spelling mistakes like Look Leet on a
zebra crossing in Covent Garden, amusing headlines on
newsstands, the C missing on Coral bookmakers,
‘Glamerous Hair and Beauty’, the rules at South Bank
book market - ‘No mobiles, no wigwams, none of that,
or anything else.’ From Tooting Broadway and Camden
to Wimbledon Village, a chip shop in Waterloo to a
nearby church in Mile End inscribed over the portal, ‘This
is the gate of Heaven’, is this a highway to London’s
typographic hell? Hilarious colour photos.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
77770 BEST OF PUNCH
CARTOONS:
2000 Classics
edited by Helen Walasek
!
Punch is a national treasure, a
British institution that has
amused generations of readers
for over 160 years and this is
the largest selection of cartoons
ever published in one entire
volume. It has attracted some
of the finest comic writers in the
English language from William Thackeray to P. G.
Wodehouse and Alan Coren and legendary political
cartoons by giants like Tenniel and Partridge. Here are
witty cartoons from the pens of the great - Leech, Du
Maurier, Phil May, H. M. Bateman, Pont, E. H.
Shepard, Fougasse, Emett, Anton, Thelwell, Searle and
Heath among them. Social stigma, attitudes and
observations, sport and recreation, British life unfolds
through these witty pens as we move through the
decades, wars, and changing times. We still love the
one of three Daleks at the bottom of a staircase: ‘Well,
this certainly buggers our plan to conquer the Universe.’
608 page tome.
£30 NOW £10
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MYTHOLOGY
Earth Dragon, which can grow to 100 feet in length with
a similar-sized wing span. Luckily they are introverts, so
with a bit of luck, you won’t ever come across one!
Paperback, 11"x8",144pp, colour illus.
$17.95 NOW £6
The fairies break their dances, and leave
the printed lawn.
78126 TALES OF HANS
CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Illustrated by Joel
Stewart
- A. E. Housman
78668 MIDAS TOUCH: World
Mythology in Bite-Sized
Chunks by Mark Daniels
Who could fail to be fascinated by a
woman who turns her love-rival
into a snake-headed gorgon whose
very glance turns mortals to stone?
The Greek and Roman myths are
but a small part of the pantheon of
world mythology, as this masterful
introduction to the subject
demonstrates. From the greatest
civilisations to the tiniest localised societies, humans
have created a rich catalogue of major and minor deities,
monsters, heroes and myths, tales constructed to explain
what was once inexplicable and also to honour great
triumphs, disasters or people and which also act as
creative tools to illustrate life’s most important lessons.
Mark Daniels explores epics from Australian Aboriginal,
Maori, Sumerian, Egyptian, Chinese, American Indian,
South and Central American, Greek, Roman and Norse
traditions. He untangles the complex web of men, gods
and monsters, revealing how these tales of the past
have had so much effect on the culture of the present.
Entertaining, enlightening, authoritative and beautifully
concise. 224pp, illus.
£12.99 NOW £6
78785 BOOK OF THE
DRAGON by Ciruelo
‘Throughout history, dragons and
human beings have been unable to
live peacefully side by side. As a
result, mankind has not been able to
benefit from ancient dragon
knowledge.’ Ciruelo, the creator of
this beautiful book, is a fantasy
illustrator, and his designs of cloudhazy castles, stalactite-encrusted
caves, willowy maidens and, naturally, fearsome
dragons, are a delight. Here are descriptions of the types
of dragons, their culture and customs, and the legends
involving dragons. Apparently, the most common and
abundant dragon species found on our planet is that of
‘Draco rex cristatus’, commonly known as the Great
WORDS AND
DICTIONARIES
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise
above the brutes; and thanks to words, we
have often sunk to the level of the demons.
- Aldous Huxley
78650 JUST MY TYPE: A
Book About Fonts
by Simon Garfield
Fonts surround us every day on
street signs and buildings, posters
and books and on every product
we buy. Where do they come
from and why do we need so
many? Who’s is behind the
business-like subtlety of New
Times Roman, the cool
detachment of Arial or the
maddening Comic Sans - and the
movement to ban it? Typefaces
are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names
until about 20 years ago when the pull-down font menus
on our first computers made us all the gods of type.
Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending
with the most adventurous digital fonts, Garfield
unravels our age-old obsession with the way our words
look including how Helvetica took over the world, the
graphic vision of Beatlemania, the ‘Times’ in New Type,
Futura and more. With dozens of illustrated examples,
356 naturally beautifully typeset pages and samples of
200 fonts from Albertus to Zeppelin II.
$27.50 NOW £6.50
78629 GOOD PROSE: The
Art of Non-Fiction
by Tracy Kidder and
Richard Todd
The authors met at the offices of
‘The Atlantic Monthly’ in Boston,
wrote an article together and
were soon working on a book
which went on to win the
Pulitzer Prize. Advice on how to
write narratives, whether it is
better to use first or third person,
memoirs, essays, fact, style,
editing is all here. One writer argues ‘that something
dishonest tends to lurk in all relationships between
authors and their subjects. Certainly, all such
relationships contain competing narratives. The subject
has a story, the writer has a story, and the two don’t
coincide exactly.’ Notes on usage cover some
problematical grammar such as who and whom, or may
and might, as well as words and phrases to avoid as
they have either been done to death or have already an
out-dated ring about them. 196pp.
$26 NOW £6.50
To many of us, just the
mention of Hans Christian
Andersen whisks us instantly
back to our childhood, tucked
up cosily in bed as our parents
read to us the stories of The
Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina,
The Little Mermaid and The
Princess and the Pea. They are all here in this excellent
translation by Naomi Lewis of 13 of Andersen’s bestloved tales, intriguingly illustrated by Joel Stewart. It
contains other favourites too, such as The Snow Queen
where Gerda, during her adventures to seek her beloved
friend Kay who has a splinter of ice in his heart and
another in his eye, travelled in a coach ‘lined with iced
cake and sugar candy, while the space beneath the seat
was packed with fruit and ginger nuts.’ With background
information. Paperback, 8x7", colour illus and mono
sketches, 208pp.
£9.99 NOW £6
78168 GODS, HEROES AND MEN OF ANCIENT
GREECE
by W. H. D. Rouse
First published in 1934, renowned classical scholar W. H.
D. Rouse delighted his students with his conversational
style and childlike wonder to make the legends come
alive. Many of the characters are familiar - Helen of
Troy, Icarus, Zeus, Athena. From the strong-arm
heroics of Heracles to the trickery of the Trojan Horse,
from the seductions of Circe the Sorceress to the terrors
of the Cyclops and Minotaur, here are the big names of
Pan, Hermes, Artemis, Jason, the Ram with a Golden
Fleece, the Argonauts and the brazen bulls and the
dragon’s teeth. With genealogical chart and pronouncing
index. 190pp in paperback. Remainder mark.
$14 NOW £5
23956 AESOP’S FABLES
illustrated by Arthur Rackham with an
introduction by G.K. Chesterton
The fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf
in sheep’s clothing and many others have entered the
languages and idioms of most European tongues.
Aesop’s celebrated simple tales embody truth powerful
for both adults and children. 199pp in paperback.
ONLY £2
78166 GESSAR KHAN: A
Legend of Tibet
by Ida Zeitlin
The legend of Gessar Khan is one
of the world’s great epics, existing
in many versions, and this reprint
of a classic retelling from the
1920s follows the Tibetan version
of the story. Gessar had a
miraculous birth and demonstrated
magic powers in his youth, and
he also wooed the Lady Rogmo in
disguise, winning his bride by plucking the golden
feathers from the tail of the Garuda Bird. Whereas
previously he had ridden a shrunken foal, he was now
transformed into the hero Gessar Khan, a warrior
mounted on a lordly steed, with a helmet wrought of the
light of the sun and moon and a countenance that
showed he was beloved of Buddha. His exploits included
journeying to China and slaying the twelve-headed
giant who had captured the Lady Aralgo of Ten
Thousand Joys. But following her rescue Aralgo gives
Gessar a potion that causes forgetfulness, and as a result
of the treachery of his rival Chotong, Gessar’s wife
Rogmo is also kidnapped. The hero finally triumphs.
200pp, paperback, woodcut illus.
$18.95 NOW £5
77108 UNDERSTAND GREEK MYTHOLOGY
by Steve Eddy and Claire Hamilton
When Theseus tracks down the Minotaur in the Cretan
labyrinth, he lays down a thread to guide his return. His
is a journey of self discovery and many of the elements
in the story hold their own symbolic importance. From
Achilles to Agamemnon, Demeter, Echo, the Golden
Fleece, Homer, Persephone to festivals, sacrifices, virgin
goddesses, the Underworld, key mythological figures
have reverberated through Western culture, providing a
rich bedrock of inspiration for poets, musicians, thinkers
and psychologists. 156pp in paperback, illus.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
77743 MEANING OF HOME
by Edwin Heathcote
The architectural correspondent of The Financial Times
draws on Jung’s ideas about symbols and archetypes to
suggest that buildings have hidden meanings. Individual
rooms have in the past been associated with rites of
passage - birth, marriage, death - but in today’s world it
is more likely to be the communal kitchen, or the rituals
of a family Christmas, that leave their mark on the
character of a house. If the front door is the crossing
between public and private spheres, the hall is a place of
introduction, a social space whose name has the same
derivation as “hell”, while the old-fashioned ceiling rose
represents the secrecy of the domestic sphere. 192pp.
£12.99 NOW £4
78822 ON WRITING
ROMANCE: How to Craft A
Novel That Sells
by Leigh Michaels
‘Not every story with a horse and
ranch in it is a Western; not every
story with a murder in it is a
mystery; and not every book that
includes a love story can be
classified as a romantic novel.’ A
romantic novel is a book about
lovers, and if you took out the love
story then there wouldn’t be much left. However, other
novels, maybe mystery or adventure, could have the
lovey-dovey bits removed and still be a good read. If
your burning desire is to write a romantic novel, you
need to decide which type to write because there are
many kinds, each needing a different approach. For
instance a historical novel is completely unlike chick lit
(usually, though of course, there will always be an
exception to the rule). Here is advice on how to create
your main characters, on writing gay romance,
establishing a framework, conflict and getting down to
writing. Invariably sex will rear its head, so the author
gives guidance on writing love scenes, from tender
moments to full-blown erotica. After reading this, writing
the next ’50 Shades of Grey’ will be a doddle.
Appendices include how to write a query letter, cover
letter and synopsis as well as a reading list of
recommended romantic novels. 264pp,
$22.99 NOW £5
78637 HOROLOGICON
by Mark Forsyth
Sub-titled ‘A Day’s Jaunt Through
the Lost Words of the English
Language’ this comes from the
author of the bestselling ‘The
Etymologicon’ as was heard on BBC
Radio 4. Forsyth unveils a selection
of obsolete, oh-so-wonderful words
to savour and cherish. Whether you
are out on the pickaroon or ogopogoing for a bellibone, this
wonderful book is a lexical lamppost. Arranged from
dawn till midnight includes trying to get back to sleep,
mugwumps, lunch, arranging your evening, hogging the
wine, fanfreluching to undressing, the words are
arranged according to the hour of the day. 258pp in
paperback.
£8.99 NOW £5
78706 WORD PUZZLES
by House of Puzzles
The earliest word puzzles date back
to the Ancient Greeks who were
very fond of their riddles and here
you will find everything from
antonym challenges and anthologies
to crafty ciphers to decode, several
of which owe their birth to Lewis
Carroll. Try grid runner, gap words,
jumbles, doublets and symbolic logic
tangles among the 200 superb
puzzles to challenge your logic and word power in this
fine array of brain teasers. With answers. 224pp in
paperback.
£5.99 NOW £3
79058 WORDS OF WISDOM:
Philosophy’s Most Important
Quotations and Their
Meanings
by Gareth Southwell
The purpose of this book is to
encourage readers to think, and
develop a critical response - not to
learn philosophy, but to put it into
practice. The discipline is not a
unified one, and does not really
possess an orthodox creed, so the author has tried to do
justice to a wide range of philosophical opinion and
hopes that, overall, things balance out. You will find in
this compelling compilation not just the stories behind the
likes of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Wittgenstein, but
also scientists, theologians, psychologists, anthropologists
and writers of all sorts. After all, as the author points
out, many thinkers lived in a time where what they
were doing - physics, psychology, sociology or
economics - was still part of philosophy. Find out who
said what, and in which circumstances, so that you can
then ponder on it and wonder whether it was a fair
statement. You might well start by thinking around a
statement of Peter Singer’s that ‘...the fact that a being
is human, and alive, does not in itself tell us whether it is
wrong to take that being’s life’. Tricky! 368 pages with
photos of the philosophers concerned.
£9.99 NOW £5
78247 TOMMY DOUGHBOY FRITZ: Soldier
Slang of World War I by Emily Brewer
65 million men fought in WWI. Their soldier slang terms
became infused with words from other cultures and ironic
mispronunciation of foreign words, and so the men, not
just the British Tommies, but also the American
Doughboys and the German Fritzs, soon created their
own special, almost secret, languages, helping comrades
to bond with each other through the grim times and to
laugh amidst the sorrow. In the case of the British and
Commonwealth troops, words were often adapted from
the Hindi, such as puttee, a cloth band wrapped around
the leg, pukka (authentic) and backchat (conversation).
Words such as thingumyjig, scrounge, cubby hole and
chatting all surfaced then. The Americans came up with
terms such as pipsqueak (a German shell) and hedgehop
(flying low), while from the Germans came badeurlaub
(bathing holiday, meaning to sleep in a proper bedroom)
dreckfresser (mud glutton, which was how they referred
to themselves) and vogelfutter (birdfood, their derisive
name for a kind of gruel made from millet). 218pp.
£12.99 NOW £5.50
77388 TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING
by Helen Stockton
If you want to facilitate a writing group or to inspire,
inform and encourage would-be writers, the book moves
from planning and structuring courses to giving ideas and
exercises. With ideas on lesson content, setting
homework, spotting and dealing with problems, adapting
for different abilities, group management and feedback
and an A-Z of specific genres with examples of learning
activities. Learn what to do about upset students, the
therapeutic aspects of creative writing, visits by published
authors or agents, writing competitions, using symbolism,
varying pace, naming characters and more. 207pp in
large paperback with tables of lesson plans and diagrams.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
Words
78310 MISCELLANY FOR
WORD LOVERS by Robin
Hosie and Vic Mayhew
A fun-packed guide with almost
100 quizzes to turn you into a
master of the spoken word. If you
enjoy doing crosswords, you will
warm to the crossword style clues
in the What’s the Word quizzes.
Side panels look at topics like the
Witty City, Liverpool, which has
produced more than its share of
great comics and why this may be. Decades like the
60s, quizzes on buildings, sacred and secular, opposites
and near opposites, Samuel Johnson, the language of
science, birds of a feather, quotes and misquotes and
much more. 214pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78489 COLLECTED QUOTATIONS: A Journal
to Record and Remember Words of Wisdom
by Chronicle Books
Record and remember words of wisdom by keeping a
pen handy, your eyes and ears open and filling in the
categorical sections to create a catalogue of all the
quotes that you can enjoy at leisure, to add meaning to
life. For each entry there is a date, source and notes,
three per page, with priceless quotes every now and
again in coloured typeface in this beautifully designed
journal-cum-gift book. Grouped by literature, songs and
poems, speeches, movies and TV, family and friends
and other sources. 188 lined pages.
£12.99 NOW £3.75
78496 FRENCH FOR DUMMIES: Portable
Edition by Dodi-Katrin Schmidt et al
Get started by practicing the French you already know,
revising basic French grammar, get started with
pronunciation and basic expressions, get your numbers,
dates and times straight, make small talk, ask directions
and find your way, dining out and going to the market,
planning a trip, dealing with money, planes, trains and
taxis, a place to stay, handling emergencies, and a
whole section of tens - ten favourite French expressions
and ten phrases that make you sound French! With mini
dictionaries and verb tables. 244pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
77197 TEDDY BEARS, TUPPERWARE AND
SWEET FANNY ADAMS: How the Names
Became the Words by Andrew Sholl
The unique piece of clever, humorous, erudite, creative
writing, that you are at this very moment reading and
admiring, owes its name to a shapely young woman
called Belinda Blurb, who was featured ‘in the act of
blurbing’ on the jacket of a book by Gelett Burges in
1906. Investigates the most familiar as well as more
unusual eponyms, revealing their origins and the stories
that surround them. If you are hoovering the carpet
while wearing a cardigan, a leotard, bloomers,
wellington boots and a balaclava, then you are entering
into the spirit of this book. 223 pages, line drawings.
£12.99 NOW £3.75
77198 THERE ARE TITTLES IN THIS TITLE:
The Weird World of Words
by Mitchell Symons
Did you know that forty is the only number that has its
letters in alphabetical order? That just 1,000 words
make up 90% of all writing in English? That the word
corduroy comes from the French cord du roi meaning
cloth of the king? If not, then you really need this
beguiling book. It is bursting with strange but true
revelations about the world of words and is such a
glorious celebration of language that it will have you
eagerly turning the pages to know more. There are
marvellous ice-breakers, palindromes, well-known lines
from literature and film, hilarious exam answers and
more. 192 pages, line drawings.
£9.99 NOW £4.75
77273 GENTLEMEN’S LETTER WRITER
foreword by John Mitchinson
A lovely facsimile reprint of the 1890 original Routledge
publication entitled ‘New Letter Writer for Use of
Gentlemen with Applications for Situations and A
Copious Appendix of Forms of Address, Bills, Receipts
and Other Useful Matter.’ Today we are supposed to
have abandoned the civilised art of letter writing, and a
gentility of using an ink blotter and writing thank-yous.
The charm of this book is that in fact it reminds us of
how little things have really changed. We still fall in
love and want to ‘get on in life’ and are late paying bills,
and we still need and like to complain and say thank
you. With plenty about books, subscriptions and late
returns to the library, a letter to your daughter’s suitor,
much about matrimonial affairs and proposals and
misunderstandings, school letters, vets, the water
company and more. 114pp.
£7.99 NOW £2
77320 TRAVEL WRITING: A Practical Guide
by Annie Caulfield
You may have a great aunt who set up a nudist colony
in Fiji or was the first woman whaler in Newfoundland.
It covers finding your personal style, clarifying the
purpose of your journey, selling your story, making and
maintaining local contact, crafting a readable descriptive
prose, plus the practicalities of travel and travel writing
and writing for other markets. Packed with tips as we
meet many authors on our journeys in this book. 96
page paperback.
£9.99 NOW £2.50
77907 QUICK PINT AFTER WORK?: And
Other Everyday Lies by Luke Lewis
‘Garden Flat’: basically a dungeon with some moss on a
paving slab outside. ‘Traditional Boozer’: pub that does
not serve wasabi peas. Jargon, clichés, euphemisms lies. Based on the popular BuzzFeed series this hilarious
manual includes swear words, British traditions, greetings
translated, ways British men address each other, ways
of saying goodbye, football clichés, exclamations,
euphemisms for sex, food and drink, relationships, the
media, critics with books, TV and film, at work and
modern life. 275pp, cartoons.
£9.99 NOW £3.75
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77550 OXFORD
DICTIONARY OF
QUOTATIONS: 7th Edition
edited by Elizabeth Knowles
A vast treasury of wit and wisdom
spanning the centuries and providing
the ultimate answer to the question
‘Who said that?’ (and when, and
why). With over 20,000 quotations
for all occasions from over 3,500
authors in A-Z format, a
comprehensive index to trace that half-remembered line
and almost 1,000 quotations added to this new edition
from over 500 authors. Includes proverbs,
Shakespeare, songs and shanties, Wordsworth and of
course Wilde. ‘Wit is the salt of conversation, not the
food’ - William Hazlitt. ‘Think only of the past as its
remembrance gives you pleasure’ - Jane Austen.
Heavyweight 1155 pages with two satin page markers.
£30 NOW £13
77376 HOW TO CRACK CRYPTIC
CROSSWORDS by Vivien Hampshire
Increase your word power and exercise your brain with
the many cryptic crosswords that appear regularly in
newspapers and magazines. Many of them offer the
chance of a prize of cash, books or a posh pen. Find out
what makes these puzzles so intriguing yet so infuriating.
Hints and tricks to help you find the right answers every
time from clever to cunning to downright devious, here
are all the different types of clue, how to recognise
them, interpret them and of course solve them. With
around 150 clues analysed. Abbreviations commonly
used, compilers’ favourites, tackling anagrams and more.
118pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.75
78098 MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S
EASY LEARNING FRENCH
IDIOMS
designed by Thomas Callan
‘Se regarder en chiens de faîence’ to look at each other like china dogs
= to glare at each other, to be on
hostile terms. The image given is a
pair of china ornaments set at each
end of the mantle piece and the
example given is a situation
reminiscent of the Cold War, when
the two super powers were on hostile terms. This ideal
resource contains 250 key phrases and idioms are
arranged by topics with illustrations and include
appearance, relationships, conflict, achievement and
happiness. The clear examples and usage guidance
illustrate how French is actually spoken. To help make
ends meet = ‘Mettre du beurre dans les ébinards’ (to put
butter in the spinach). And when we have a frog in our
throat they have a cat in their throat! 224pp in
paperback.
$8.95 NOW £4
CRAFTS
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible
to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the
needle.
be achieved even at a late stage by introducing
“directional orientation” or “meandering scaffolding” lines that pull elements of the composition together.
Finally the author says, “Surprise us!”, giving a few
fascinating examples of paintings transformed by an
unusual detail. Colour illus. 128pp.
$29.99 NOW £6
78988 FRENCH BEADED
FLOWERS
by Zoe L. Schneider
Have you ever wondered what you
could make, apart from a necklace
for a fairy, with those minute,
colourful, irresistible seed beads that
fill the counters of craft shops and
haberdashery stalls? All you need
are seed beads, a roll of fine beading wire and a small
pair of pliers. Beginning with details of tools, materials
and inspiration - which includes shapes of leaves and
flowers, types of beads, and setting up a work area so
you don’t ping beads all over the floor - the author then
explains the techniques. Here you can learn how to
make basic loops before gradually introducing spacer
beads, spokes, split leaves, cylinders, wraps, stems,
lacing and stamens. Best of all, because the book is
spiral bound, the required page will stay open and flat.
Once you have mastered these techniques, it’s time to
try out some of the gorgeous
beaded flower projects,
whether an intricate calypso
orchid or a delicate wild flax.
When you are proficient, then
the final project is an ‘Alpine
Azalea Tea Tray’; a profusion
of gold bead scroll work
decorated with intertwined
flowers, which surely would
become a family heirloom.
256pp, colour photos.
$29.99 NOW £5
78805 HANDMADE DESIGNS
by Ullmann
The first 45 pages of this
excellent craft book are devoted to
various techniques to ensure that
you can make your chosen creation
without trouble. Here are the basics
explaining how to crochet, use
decorative buttons, needle felt and
tie various knots, as well as advice on pyrography, glass
engraving, papier mache and other techniques.
Embroidery basics are included too, with instructions for
working many different stitches. Then follow over 140
projects, with step-by-step instructions not only to
enhance your home, but also fashion accessories to
enhance you! Brooches, purses, necklaces, hats, slippers
and bags rub shoulders with engraved glasses, salad
bowls, decorated boxes, lamps, notebooks and coasters.
The Special Jigsaw Puzzle is inspired - a set of frames
cut from felt layers, buttoned together, and with cut-outs
to hold your treasured photos, while the pretty candle
holder made from star anise is unusual, yet not too
difficult to make. All the projects were devised by
twelve young, talented people, and this book is
absolutely crammed with ideas. 10" x 8.5", 358pp,
colour illus and templates, paperback.
£19.99 NOW £7
78863 FRANK LLOYD
WRIGHT DESIGNS: Sticker
Book by Frank Lloyd Wright
Collections
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
78809 KNITTED
DINOSAURS
by Tina Barrett
Oh, I so want a pink and grey
striped Pterodactyl and a yellow
and black striped Quetzalcoatlus!
This gorgeous book contains 15
knitting patterns to allow you to
create your own stomp of
dinosaurs. The patterns are
simple to follow, knitted with
either double or chunky knit wool, and there is a helpful
guide to show beginners how to cast on, knit, purl and
cast off. Each dinosaur only takes a few balls of wool,
and you’re not tied to one particular make. Just see
what you find in your favourite wool shop. As the
author states, ‘Even though scientists can tell us each
dinosaur’s shape, size or how many spines it had by
looking at fossils, no one can definitively tell us what
colour they were.’ So pink, purple, emerald, scarlet,
cornflower, raspberry and orange are the order of the
day. You can make the beasts as cuddly or as scary as
you wish, and if you start now you’ll soon have an
impressive selection of dinosaurs, from Triceratops to
Diplodocus, Tyrannosaurus Rex to Plesiosaur and
Ichthyosaurus to Velociraptor, to bestow on your
favourite children. Or adults! Paperback. 9"x8", 128pp,
colour illus.
$16.95 NOW £5.50
78987 MASTER DISASTER:
Five Ways to Rescue
Desperate Watercolours
by Susan Webb Tregay
Every painter discards botched
studies, but a few months later the
rejected image may seem not quite
so bad after all. This invaluable book
encourages you to make the best of
a less than perfect job using tried
and tested rescue techniques.
Watercolour is a transparent medium that can not be
transformed by overpainting, but there are other ways
to make your painting a rewarding visual experience.
Poorly drawn elements can be eliminated by lifting the
paint off and repainting, and the use of a stencil is
effective for isolating an offending area: usually it is a
relatively small section that will need correction.
Knowing your paper is essential for lifting colour, and the
author suggests testing the paper for correction methods
before beginning to paint. The second troubleshooting
technique is breaking up a composition to make it
visually more interesting. Unifying the composition can
The stained glass window styles
and designs, angular bold geometric
lines, subtle greens and olives to
bold primary colours, concentric
circles, rug designs, the 150 reusable
colour stickers come in all shapes
and sizes. 50 different designs and read about the
architect Frank Lloyd Wright inside. For kids ages 3 to
103. Large softback.
$7.95 NOW £3.50
78986 LINE: CREATIVE
PAINTING SERIES
by Gemma Guasch and Josep
Asuncion
Line in painting means not the image
itself, but the way it is made,
whether it is precisely defined with
pen and ink or blurred with thickly
spread impasto. The five sections of
this book cover line in landscape,
living nature, still life, the human
figure and finally abstraction, and in each section
different approaches are demonstrated through a wide
range of examples and step-by-step experimentation.
The Landscape chapter explores the creation of a lunar
surface using synthetic paste on cardboard as a base and
then creating texture with marble dust, silt, iron shavings
and pigment. The Human Figure section starts with the
creation of a cartoon-like monocyclist in crayon, and
goes on to a painted nude in Expressionist style and flat
collages of people crossing a road. Still Life starts with
the power of weak and broken pencil lines, followed by
a strongly outlined study of a chair and finally the
smoky sfumato effect made famous by Leonardo. Living
Nature focuses on a superb step-by-step study of a
dachshund. There is a final section on tools and
techniques. A beautifully illustrated book. 160pp, colour
illus.
$26.99 NOW £5
78989 PAINTING STILL
LIFES
by Gabriel Martin Roig
Encompassing composition, creating
rhythm, colour schemes, light and
shade, texture and backgrounds, it
helps the student to master the basic
procedures. Following on is a series
of practical exercises in which you
can discover the secrets of painting
a monochromatic still life, a still life
on a white tablecloth, modelling and chiaroscuro,
Handicrafts
expressive brushstrokes and how to incorporate and
portray a reflective mirror background. The painting
of still life in abstract form is also covered. Plenty of
step-by-step pictures explain how to create the
desired effects and to build up a work of art almost
worthy as that of the still-life master, Paul Cézanne!
64pp, colour illus.
$12.99 NOW £4
76793 NAKED WALL
by Anne Bold-Pryor and Donna Lacis
A naked wall demands to be covered, whether with a
bold wallpaper design, a collection of antique clocks or a
display of Mexican crucifixes. The author starts with
painting and texturing your wall, with choice of colour
being a key element in providing a background for your
draperies or collections. Decorated ceilings can be striking
and unexpected, while painting the walls of a room
different colours can achieve bold architectural effects.
200 colour photos. 176pp, softback.
£14.99 NOW £1.75
77312 ARTS AND CRAFTS INSPIRATIONS:
21 Simple Projects Adapted from Classic
American Designs by Robert and Bob Belke
21 American Arts and Crafts projects that can be made
at home with a table saw, band saw, drill press and a
basic selection of chisels and hand saws. Desktop Book
Rack, Revolving Book Case, both in the Mission style,
Mission Wine Cabinet, Coffee Table, two Side Tables
and a Drop-Leaf Occasional Table, a Wall Clock and a
Trestle Table all with full step-by-step instructions,
materials and dimensions list, tools, diagrams and
photos. 160pp softback, 8¼”×10¼”.
£19.99 NOW £4.50
77319 THOMAS LESTER, HIS LACE AND THE
EAST MIDLANDS INDUSTRY 1820-1905
by Anne Buck
!
It was in Bedford in the 1820s that Thomas Lester
became a lace merchant. Lester’s family business was in
the forefront of developments. Our book sets Lester’s
designs and the development of his business against the
fashions of the period, the state of the industry, the
skills, pay and conditions of its workers and the
development of machine made lace. Using surviving
examples the astounding quality of his products is
assessed, most being photographed actual size to reveal
the incredible intricacy of design and superlative skill of
the lacemakers he employed, plus there are Lester’s own
original pattern sheets, design drafts, trade cards and
early photos. 1982 reprint with low cover price. 118pp,
8½”×11½”.
£12.60 NOW £6
77551 PAPER CUTTING TECHNIQUES: For
Scrapbooks and Cards
by Sharyn Sowell
!
Make your scrapbook pages, greetings cards and
journals special by adding delicate cut paper elements
and silhouettes, patterns and borders. A little girl reading
accompanied by two puppies, Santa and his gifts,
witchy Halloween, jolly clowns, chickens, birds and
lowercase letters are some of the dozens of examples at
the end of the book which could be scanned into a
computer, photocopied or replicated many times over at
any size for making a book for a best friend, a bird
house, flowers for a baby’s cradle or just paper chain
cards. There is advice on paper, cutting letters and tips
for cutting with either scissors or a craft knife. 128pp
large paperback.
$12.95 NOW £4
77419 MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME: Florals
and Nature by Stirling Publishing
Here are hundreds of copyright-free images for Mac and
PC computers and artwork for scrapbooks and fabrictransfer crafts. It can be downloaded from the CD,
photocopied or use the perforated pages. Here are
images of little girls in smocks picking lupins, beautiful
roses, cherubs and garlands, forget-me-nots, beautiful
butterflies and buzzy bees, snowdrops, Mackintosh-style
Art Deco floral borders and beautiful sunflowers designed
for decorating boxes, journals, making tags for gifts,
découpage or collage, fabric arts and crafts. 8½” x 11"
in softback, 57pp, colour.
$14.95 NOW £4
78814 LIBERTY BOOK OF
HOME SEWING
by Richard Merritt
and Lucinda Ganderton
When Arthur Lasendy Liberty
opened his shop in Regent’s Street,
selling imported textiles, the
Aesthetic Movement was at its
height and its followers soon turned
out to be Liberty’s most important
customers. The shop quickly began selling decorative
items from China, Persia, India and Japan, and then
approached dyer Thomas Wardle, who had previously
collaborated with William Morris on redeveloping
vegetable dyes, to create new dyes for imported silks to
become known as ‘Liberty Art Colours.’ Nowadays we
tend to associate Liberty’s with quality, pretty, small
floral prints, but they have a range of patterns, both old
favourites and new designs. Using beautiful fabrics, the
author explains how to create a range of items to
complement the home, from sumptuous paisley lawn
pillows to a traditional patchwork crib quilt using
delightful Liberty lawn sewn into six-petal rosettes. Other
projects include aprons, a kimono, beautiful cushions, a
door stop, display board, beanbag, a lamp shade, throws
and book covers. Particularly clever and useful is a tote
bag which can quickly be reduced in size when you need
a smaller bag by the
judicious use of press
studs. The final chapter
concentrates on sewing
basics; seams, hems
and edges, hand
stitches, notions and a
glossary of fabrics.
160pp, colour illus and
templates.
$27.50 NOW £10
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78818 MY MASTERPIECE:
American Needlework Kit
by the Metropolitan Museum
of Art
Inspired by an American crossstitch sampler, follow the
instructions in the 20 page booklet,
the full colour cross-stitch chart, and
use the one piece nine-count Aida
cloth and the embroidery thread in
six colours and needle provided to
get you started. A pretty star shape with bird on top
and hearts in the corners, the pack contains all you need
to make your own mini masterpiece. Suit ages six to
adult. Box set.
$12.95 NOW £3.50
78819 MY MASTERPIECE:
Japanese Gilded Panel Kit
by The Metropolitan Museum
of Art
The 12 page colour booklet gives
you all the instructions you need to
make and frame a gilded panel
based on a Japanese folding screen.
Simply tuck your completed
masterpiece into the pocket inside
this box and hang your work on the
wall for everyone to admire. The
pack includes one card stock panel with pre-printed
design, two sheets of gold foil, one wooden burnishing
tool, paint in four colours, one paint brush and one
disposable paper palette.
$12.95 NOW £3.50
78820 MY MASTERPIECE:
Pacific Island Mask Kit
by the Metropolitan Museum
of Art
A beautifully designed, easy-to-use
kit containing everything you need
to make and frame a masterpiece
based on an Eharo mask from
Papua New Guinea. Includes 12
page instruction booklet, 12 pre cut
pieces of balsa wood, chalk in three
colours, one length of jute rope, and one bottle of glue
(which we hope has not dried up!)
£9.99 NOW £4
77219 REALISTIC RAILWAY MODELLING:
STEAM LOCOMOTIVES by Iain Rice
!
Now you can create an authentic, realistic loco stud for a
steam-era layout. With several hundred magazine
articles and 23 books to his credit in the UK and US and
over half a century of hands-on experience and research,
Iain Rice uses his vast range of knowledge here to
create a realistic, authentic and reliable stud of
locomotives and rolling stock for a model railway. Biased
toward the most popular 4mm/foot scale and building
upon the excellent selection of good quality ready-to-run
models currently available, he takes the model from the
box and shows how they can be improved, modified,
detailed and made to run just as well as they look. He
also takes a good look at loco-modelling traditions,
explains the functioning of a full-scale loco and its
relationship with the traffic being worked and takes an
in-depth look at mechanisms and detailing, weathering
and refining your models. 750 colour and b/w photos.
Haynes, 176pp, 8½”×11".
£27.50 NOW £12.50
69289 BIG-PRINT QUILTS:
15 Projects Using LargeScale Fabrics
by Karen Snyder
Here fabric designer and quilt shop
proprietor Karen Snyder has one
message - Be Bold and Go Big!
Usually the big print fabrics that are
sold in quilt shops tend to be used
for borders and backs, but here
Karen shows you how to
incorporate large scale fabrics into beautiful traditional
and non-traditional quilts, by both keeping them whole
or cutting them into smaller pieces. In her introduction
she discusses the vast amount of big prints available
today and how using them can appear at first daunting
for the home quilter. She categorises them, then shows
how they are best employed, before moving on to her
general instructions section which incorporates the four
golden rules of big print quilting - accurate cutting, a ¼”
seam allowance, good pressing technique and
“measuring through the middle” when measuring up for
your borders, which ensures your quilt lies flat. The 15
projects include quilt and table runners and include the
Grand Prix for the petrolhead in your life, the visually
stunning Picture Window, Big Thunder, Grand Daddy
and Big Sky and the delightful cowboy themed
“Hercules”. Every project is described in intricate detail
with all measurements, requirements and instructions
plus colour photos and diagrams all the way. Create a
handmade object of beauty for your home. 112pp
softback, 8¼”×10¾”, colour.
$22.99 NOW £5
77425 SEWING BIBLE: Slipcovers: The
Ultimate Resource of Techniques, Projects and
Inspiration by Wendy Gardiner
Learn the essential hand and machine skills for
professional looking results. Techniques covered include:
inserting zippers, making ruffles, tucks, pleats and piping,
sewing special seams and much more. The book
contains easy-to-follow advice, including how to
measure existing furniture for new covers and how to
choose suitable fabrics. There are 12 stylish step-bystep projects designed by top sewing experts and include
a headboard, a bench seat and a bean bag. 144
paperback pages, 27.5cm x 21cm. Colour, diagrams and
templates.
£14.99 NOW £4
78357 101 WAYS WITH FLOWERS
by Good Homes Magazines
Tulips, their stems cut short, look stunning arranged in
square glass vases with their heads below the rims they can even be stacked to make a colourful talking
10 Handicrafts
Cosy & Warm
78985 INSPIRED CABLE
KNITS by Fiona Ellis
Chunky, warm, nubbly; cable-knit
jumpers are a comfort when winter
strikes, but, as the author explains,
the patterns don’t have to be
strictly vertical as tradition decrees.
They can morph and wander,
appearing to find their own path
through the pattern. Taking
inspiration from tree bark, sand
ripples on a beach, jagged lightning,
leaves and even a butterfly’s wing,
she has produced a selection of
garments such as sweaters for
women, men and children, hats,
scarves, tops and cardigans, all
knitted in cable stitch but as
variations on a theme. In addition,
each pattern has thought-provoking
comments from the author to spur
you on as you knit. I particularly
like her suggestion of photographing
each section as it’s knitted, to
remind yourself of all your hard work. Definitely cable
knitting with a twist! Paperback, 144pp, colour photos,
charts.
£16.99 NOW £6.50
78871 SHADES OF WINTER:
Knitting With Natural Wool
by Ewa Andinsson and Ingalill
Johansson
Living up to its title, this inspired
collection of knitting designs is in
winter colours of natural white,
beige and grey, using undyed,
ecological wool. Jumpers, dresses,
hats, shawls, gloves, leg-warmers
and cardigans fill this book, all
exquisitely photographed by Ewa
K. Andinsson at Sweden’s Icehotel,
making it a delight to browse
through even if you can’t knit! The
muted shades of the natural wool
emphasise the beauty of the stitch
work: I especially like the delicate
vintage 1950s-style lacy ruffled
beige cardigan knitted in babyweight wool, perfect over a toning
dress. Using a variety of textures, from elaborate
cables through to simple stocking stitch, all the garment
patterns are fully detailed, together with measurements
and needle sizes. Paperback,160pp., colour photos.
£16.99 NOW £6.50
77285 KNITTED LETTERS: Knit Your Own
Letters and Words into Clothes, Cushions and
More by Catherine Hirst and Erssie Major
Incorporate any combination of letters into jumpers,
cushions, blankets and more. Choose from nine
different alphabets, each in a stylish and distinctive
typeface. Each has space and instructions for you to
incorporate your own chosen letters, including numbers
and punctuation. Our favourite is the baby blanket.
144 paperback pages 24.5cm x 19cm, colour photos and
work charts.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
point. Cheer someone up with a zingy arrangement of
sky blue delphiniums combined with orange
snapdragons, or make a Christmas wreath using blue
thistles and lilac freesias mixed in with the more
traditional ivy and snowberries. If you feel really
creative, why not experiment combining flowers with
fruits or vegetables? At the end of the book are practical
tips and a selection of floristry suppliers. Paperback,
224pp. Colour photos.
£6.99 NOW £3
77717 CERAMICS: A World
Guide to Traditional
Techniques
by Bryan Sentance
There is something truly primal
about the making of pottery. What
is truly amazing is the difference
between the traditional materials,
methods and decoration of ceramics
around the world, from Delft tiles to
Yemeni water pipes and Nepalese
lamps to German hunting-scene jugs and Roman roof
tiles. Lecturer, author and exhibitor Bryan Sentance
organises his enormous subject into eight main headings
- Raw Material, Forming, Pre-fired Decoration, Firing,
Glazes, Alternative Finishes, Use and Function and
finally Quality of Life - and within these he addresses
over 75 topics of astounding diversity. 848 illus (753
colour). Thames & Hudson, 216pp, 10"×11".
$45 NOW £8
78029 LETTERING: From
Formal to Informal
by Rosemary Sassoon
Letter form and design is fascinating
whether looking back at ancient
calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts,
other archival material or modern
day design and typefaces. The
author’s journey from her very
early formal training to the lively
and imaginative work she does with
her students today fills these pages together with
Edward Johnston’s notes and Mary’s own work. The
book particularly features work done by her Italian and
Australian students and is a whistle stop tour of the
development of lettering from the early 20th century to
the present day. Artworks in themselves, the examples
fill nearly every page in black and red lettering and
alphabets and examples for every designer and hobbyist
to copy. An A&C Black publication, 112 very large
pages in softback.
£15.99 NOW £6
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LITERATURE AND
CLASSICS
Every author, however modest, keeps a most
outrageous vanity chained like a madman in
the padded cell of his breast.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
78673 ON TREMENDOUS
TRIFLES by G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) made
his name in journalism, working
with Hilaire Belloc at The Speaker
and was a prolific writer of literary
criticism, poetry and detective
fiction, best known for his Father
Brown stories. Taking as inspiration
subjects as diverse as the
importance of fairy tales, the great
art of lying in bed and the
advantages of having one leg, Chesterton embarks on a
tour of seemingly slight topics demonstrating that they
afford as much pleasure as the grander things in life, if
not more. It is an uplifting celebration and insight into
his preoccupations and sees him setting out a philosophy
valuable to all those in danger of taking life too
seriously. He writes of trains and taxis, shopping and
pottering, trips to the country, games of croquet, and the
contents of pockets. 98 page paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78476 INFERNO
by Dante Alighieri
Illustrated by Gustav Doré and with
introduction and notes by Stefano
Albertini, this lovely cloth bound
edition has gold tooling on the black
and red striking cover. In 1855 Paul
Gustav Doré decided to illustrate
Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’, but in
1861 when the plates for the
Inferno were ready he was unable
to find a publisher willing to invest
on the project. Undeterred he published the plates and
text himself and the book proved a great success.
Manuscript editions of the ‘Divine Comedy’ became
available between 1308 and 1322 and the first printed
edition published in Italy in 1472. This edition has been
prepared and designed for a modern audience and
explains the topographical structure of Dante’s Hell and
the astronomical, geographical and theological doctrines
of the Middle Ages. The realm of Hell occupies the
immense cone-shaped chasm formed at the moment of
Lucifer’s fall. The damned souls populate this chasm and
Dante’s classification of sins follows closely Aristotle’s
Nichomachean Ethics. All of the cantos in their entirety
and with excellent footnotes and beautiful Doré woodcut
illus. 256pp.
£9.99 NOW £5
78688 SOMEBODY’S
LUGGAGE by Charles Dickens
Stumbling upon some luggage that
has been left behind in the hotel he
works in, a waiter searches through
it to try to identify its owner.
‘Somebody’ remains anonymous,
but secreted away in different parts
of the luggage are a number of
stories. Impressed by their quality,
the waiter succeeds in getting them
published. The identity of their
author remains a mystery until a
visitor comes calling. The book is a wonderful composite
of tales reprinted in its entirety for the first time since its
original publication in 1862. ‘All The Year Round’ is a
rediscovered gem from Dickens’ later life. With
contributions by four eminent Victorian writers in this
marvellous collection of short stories. 135pp in
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £4
78595 BOY AT THE
HOGARTH PRESS
by Richard Kennedy
In 1928 after a rather unsuccessful
education at Marlborough College,
16 year old Richard Kennedy was
put firmly under the wing of Leonard
Woolf as his protégé at his publishing
house. Some 40 years later, and
by then a professional illustrator,
Richard wrote his recollections of his
time with Virginia and Leonard
Woolf in candid and often hilarious
detail. It tells of the success that Virginia enjoyed, their
chaotic office with its collapsing shelves, his own often
hapless attempts to keep pace with the literary giants
around him. A unique peep into the Bloomsbury set.
‘The truth was that I had really only read Orlando, Mrs
Dalloway and The Common Reader...’ Delightful line
art, captions and doodles, 88pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78583 ALEXANDER
by Klaus Mann
Published with a foreword by Jean
Cocteau, here is a captivating early
work of historical fiction, by a
troubled and unjustly neglected
writer. This historical fantasy,
written by the son of the wellknown German novelist Thomas
Mann, takes Alexander the Great for
its subject, charting his life and
career and examining his obsession
with conquest and supremacy,
regardless of its effects on his friends and lovers. It is a
fascinating study of power and highly political
connotations. 214pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
78603 COMMONPLACE
by Christina Rossetti
‘The three central characters, the
sisters Catherine, Lucy and Jane
Charlmont are a means of exploring
the plight on mid-19th century
middle class women as they swirl
down the marriage-stream towards
the rapids of lonely old age.’ Andrew Motion. When William
Charlmont is lost at sea, his
devoted wife lies dying in childbirth
and charges Catherine, their eldest
daughter, to await his return. Years later and now in her
30s, Catherine remains faithful to her promise, resigning
herself to a life of spinsterhood. A charming and witty
tale accompanied by more of Christina Rossetti’s longneglected short fiction this is a delightful novella of love,
matrimony and sisterhood. 116pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £4
78582 AFTER THE
FIREWORKS
by Aldous Huxley
As an acclaimed novelist, Miles
Fanning has grown accustomed to
the attentions of fawning admirers,
yet little prepares him for the
determination of the gauche Pamela
Tarn who resolves not only his
world, but also his bed. Initially
repelled by the enormity of the age
gap between them, he vows never
to acquiesce and resorts to his most
boorish behaviour to break his hold on her. Yet as they
are drawn inexorably together, they embark upon a
tempestuous and ultimately destructive love affair. This
satirical novella sees the author of ‘Brave New World’
turning his characteristic humour and keen observation to
the dual notions of obsession and control. An exciting
140pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78612 THE DUEL
by Giacomo Casanova
Translated for the first time into
English, this autobiographical novel
is an important example of
Casanova’s inimitable writing style
and is presented here with the
corresponding extract from his
memoirs, written some 15 years
later. Casanova, the Prince of
Italian adventurers, is remembered
as a libertine and rogue, yet few
know the true story of his
remarkable life, and of the duel he once fought with a
Polish Count. On the run from the Venetian authorities,
Casanova was forced to become an exile. His
reputation afforded him shelter throughout Europe, yet
he soon found himself implicated, insulted and forced to
enter into a duel over a ballerina. Describing the
dramatic encounter and its surprising outcome with
sardonic and even blasé humour, Casanova creates a
work of thrilling adventure and proves his literary
prowess. 112pp in paperback.
search for truth. Where is God? Taking the maxim ‘seek
and ye shall find’ literally, a recently converted African
girl embarks upon her own quest to find God. With only
her bible as a guide, she plunges into the jungle where
alongside snakes and lions she meets a dazzling array of
religious and philosophical figures, from the God of Noah
to Jesus, the Prophet to Voltaire, each seeking to
convince her of their claim to be truth. First published
1932, here is 80 page paperback with fabulous woodcut
illus.
£7.99 NOW £4
78866 MY FAVOURITE
STORIES OF WALES
edited by Jan Morris
From three medieval tales from the
Mabinogion, through three folk
stories, two narrative poems, two
romantics and three
contemporaries, this is a super
compilation of Welsh story-telling at
its very best. Dylan Thomas’s
mystic tale, The Followers, tells of
how he and his friend get a fright.
As usual, Dylan’s observations are
spot on as he notes that the barmaid had two gold front
teeth, ‘like a well off rabbit’s’! Welsh folk-lore invariably
includes fairies, treasure, time confusions, wizards and
unseen worlds, some of which are captured in The
Changeling, which tells how a woman retrieves her son
from the Others after tricking the boy who has taken his
place. Robert Grave’s poem Welsh Incident amusingly
captures the long-windedness of a Welsh narrator,
determined to spin out his story as much as he can. A
lovely read to while away chilly winter evenings.
127pp. Last sold at.
£16.50 NOW £7
78590 BETRAYAL
by Marquis de Sade
The Baron de Téroze has already
successfully married off his older
daughter to a colonel of the
Dragoons. Now it is time for him
to arrange his younger daughter’s
nuptials. A corrupt magistrate from
Aix seems to him the ideal
candidate, much to the disgust of
the young daughter who is in love
with another man. Vowing to rid
the beautiful marchioness of her
odious old husband, her lover, sister and brother-in-law
conspire in a series of hilarious manipulations that
ultimately results in complete humiliation and defeat for
their hapless guest. As a companion piece, Emilie de
Tourville tells the chilling story of another unfortunate
younger sister whose elder, lawyer brothers exact
revenge of her for compromising their family’s honour.
Two elegant tales of love and deception and a
scandalous glimpse into the Marquis de Sade’s society
and its hidden proclivities. 116pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £4
78641 HYDE PARK GATE
NEWS: The Stephen Family
Newspaper
by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa
Bell, Toby Stephen
£6.99 NOW £4
78623 FOXES COME AT
NIGHT by Cees Nooteboom
The Dutch writer is a superb stylist
who observes the world with a
combination of melancholy and
astonishment and has been
described by A. S. Byatt as ‘One of
the greatest modern novelists.’ Set
in the cities and islands of the
Mediterranean and linked
thematically, the eight stories in this
collection read more like a novel, a meditation on
memory, life and death. The protagonists collect and
reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely and now
lost, crystallised in memory or in the detail of a
photograph. In ‘Paula’, the narrator evokes the
mysterious, brief life of a woman he once loved. In
‘Paula II’, the same woman is aware of the man
thinking of her, and the time they spent together, his
fear of the black night when the foxes appear. Death it
seems is nothing to be afraid of in these stories.
Apologies for sticker. 144pp.
£12 NOW £4
78636 HOLLY TREE INN
by Charles Dickens
A journeying gentleman finds
himself snowed in at the Holly Tree
Inn and resolves to entertain
himself by recording the stories he
hears from his fellow tenants.
Trapped for a week, he is regaled
with tales from the barmaid and the
landlord and these fictional delights
include an intriguing mystery by a
master innovator of the genre,
Wilkie Collins, as well as classically
Dickensian sparks of humour and romance. The book
presents the complete 1855 Christmas number of
Dickens’ periodical ‘Household Words’ which was
adapted for the stage, published 1855. 130 page
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78581 ADVENTURES OF THE
BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH
FOR GOD by Bernard Shaw
‘Life is greater than death, and hope
than despair, I will do the work that
comes to me only if I know that it
is good work; and to know that, I
must know the past and the future
and must know God.’ So
controversial was this book when it
first appeared in 1932 that it
provoked a public outcry with
George Bernard Shaw decried as a
blasphemer. This brilliantly sardonic allegory showcases
some of his more unorthodox thoughts on race, religion
and God and remains a fascinating tale of the universal
As children, Virginia Woolf, her
sister and brother collaborated on
their own newspaper, recording the
day-to-events of their family home
at 22 Hyde Park Gate.
Ingeniously mimicking the style of
the leading newspapers of the day,
the children present a charming
portrayal of their lives in London and at their holiday
home in St. Ives. Aristocrats, academics, politicians and
artists, singing lessons, annual regattas, advertising for a
wife, plus the children’s fictional and poetic creations,
photographs and facsimiles make up a chronicle of joyful
and rollicking late Victorian family life. 240pp in
paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
78679 PILGRIMS
by Mary Shelley
A knight living alone in his isolated
mountain fortress shows hospitality
to a pair of pilgrims seeking shelter.
Entreating him to tell them of his
sorrow, the knight unburdens
himself of his loss and tragedy,
unaware of the true nature of the
two young people’s pilgrimage,
until a revelation transforms his
understanding of the past and
reveals the possibility of a new
future. A poignant tale of betrayal,
heartbreak, revenge and redemption, it is an exquisite
work of Gothic storytelling. Accompanied here by four
other short stories, The Dream, The False Rhyme, The
Invisible Girl and The Mourner, the stories echo tragic
aspects of Mary Shelley’s own life. She is best
remembered for Frankenstein. 100 page paperback.
£6.99 NOW £4
78696 UNDER THE NET
by Iris Murdoch
Her brilliant début novel which was
first published in 1954 entranced the
nation to Iris Murdoch’s writing - a
flawless fusion of the mundane and
the marvellous, laughter and
lyricism, farce and philosophy. In a
nutshell, the novel is Jake
Donaghue’s account of how he
became the writer, portrait of the
artist as a restless, feckless,
penniless young man, on a quest.
He scrapes a living as a hack translator of French fiction
and sponges off his girlfriend and others. When he is
kicked out of his latest lodgings he embarks on a series
of fantastic and hilarious adventures around London
involving movie stars, majestic philosophers, bookies,
singers and a celebrity hound. 286pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £5
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78692 TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO by Arthur Conan Doyle
A group of Western tourists collect aboard the Nile steamer Korosko
anticipating a trip filled with sightseeing and civilised colonial pleasures.
But one morning during an excursion in the desert they are kidnapped by
a group of Dervish camel-men, their relationships, their beliefs and their
very survival placed in jeopardy. Conan Doyle evokes the uncertainty
of the late-Victorian era, cultural hegemony, but also a time when the
moral authority of Western imperialist powers was starting to be called
into question. Each of his carefully drawn characters takes their part in
the cultural and spiritual debate that underlies the story. Written in 1898
and permeated with sharp humour this is high melodrama, and still very
pertinent today. 122pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £4
78644 JEEVES AND THE WEDDING BELLS
by Sebastian Faulks
In an homage to P. G. Wodehouse and authorised by his Estate, here is
a delightfully witty story of mistaken identity, a midsummer village
festival, a cricket match and love triumphant. Bertie Wooster, recently
returned from a very pleasurable soujourn in Cannes, finds himself at the
stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. Bertie is more than
familiar with the country house set-up - a veteran of the cocktail hour,
and thanks to Jeeves his gentleman’s personal gentleman, is never less
than immaculately dressed. However on this occasion it is Jeeves who is
to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs.
Bertie you see has met Georgiana and though she is clever and he has a
reputation for foolish engagements, it looks like it could be the real thing.
Georgiana is the ward of Sir Henry who has struck a deal that she should become Mrs Rupert
Venables. Must Bertie pass himself off as a servant when he has never so much as made a
cup of tea? Does Jeeves have an ulterior motive? 259pp.
£16.99 NOW £6
78662 MANON LESCAUT by Antoine François Prévost
First published in 1731, Prévost’s story proved hugely influential, inspiring
a number of operas and ballets. The compelling character of the
duplicitous Manon of the Abbé Prévost is emotionally inert, a giggling
empty-headed minx. Does she really love him or could she really love
anyone? She prefigures a host of 19th century Romantic heroines in this
truly ground-breaking novel of passion and immortality, and one of the
most famous love stories of all time. The Chevalier des Greux is still a
young man but life and bitter experience have already taken their toll.
The kindness of a stranger persuades him to reveal his troubles and he
unfolds his story, his helpless and ill-starred love for Manon, a lower-class
girl with whom he eloped to begin a new life together. But it was to
prove a mutually destructive affair giving him in turn the joy of sexual love and the misery of
betrayal and moral degradation. 158pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78666 MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN and NOVEMBER
by Gustav Flaubert
One of Flaubert’s earliest writings but published only after his death,
‘Memoirs of a Madman’ presents us with a young man as he reflects,
alternating between musings on the present and memories of the past, on
the years that have brought him to ‘madness’, recalling the innocence of
his boyhood, the first stirrings of sexual awakening and his abrupt
initiation into the adult world. The second autobiographical novella in the
collection is ‘November’ which Nadine Gordimer called ‘An unsurpassed
testament of adolescence’. In the story, love is not only short lived but
one dimensional, a brief holiday romance and first intense sexual
experience. It seems that Elisa, older and more experienced, took the
initiative and began a theme for Flaubert of masculine passivity. She has become a
prostitute because she likes sex. 196pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £5
78052 CLASSIC ENGLISH LOVE POEMS edited by Emile Capouya
87 Classic poems of love from 48 poets in a charmingly illustrated collection with woodcuts
and other masterpieces, many well known, which complement the writing. Here are the
timeless love lyrics of Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson,
John Donne, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Alexander Pope,
Lady Mary Montague, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy and Gerard
Manley Hopkins among others. Come Into the Garden, Maude and Now Sleeps the Crimson
Petal by Alfred Lord Tennyson sit alongside Robert Browning’s Meeting at Night and Two in
the Campagna. 144 page softback.
£10.99 NOW £4
78137 WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU by J. R. Ackerley
Breezy and sad, the book combines acute social realism and dark fantasy. Frank, the
narrator, is a middle aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in
love with Johnny, a young, married, working class man with a sweetly easy going nature.
When Johnny is sent to prison for committing a petty theft, Frank gets caught up in a struggle
with Johnny’s wife and parents for access to him. Their struggle finds a strange focus in
Johnny’s dog, a beautiful but neglected German shepherd named Evie. It is she in the end
who becomes the improbable and undeniable guardian of Frank’s inner world. 209pp,
paperback reprint.
£8.99 NOW £4
78159 BRIEF GUIDE TO C. S. LEWIS by Paul Simpson
Sub-titled ‘From Mere Christianity to Narnia’. Simpson charts Lewis’s journey from religion to
atheism and then under the influence of his friend J. R. R. Tolkien, through theism to
Christianity. The author’s marriage to the American writer Joy Davidman Gresham, his
battle with cancer, discussions of fiction, not only the Narnia series but also the science fiction
trilogy Out of the Silent Planet and his remarkably accessible religious writings, from the
‘Screwtape’ letters to ‘Mere Christianity’, the guide assumes no biblical scholarship. The focus
is in what Lewis wrote rather than the specific texts that he dissects. 284pp, paperback.
$13.95 NOW £4.50
78164 DRACULA by Bram Stoker
When first published in 1897, the novel was a commercial failure, yet Bram Stoker’s Dracula
has come to be revered as the epitome of the horror novel and a literary classic, exploring the
sanity and dark corners of sexuality and desire. Sent to Transylvania to help a local Count
complete the purchase of an English estate, young solicitor Jonathan Harker unwittingly
enters into a battle that risks his very soul and those of his friends and loved ones. Harker
discovers that his client, the charismatic and seductive Count Dracula, is not all that he
seems. Under the direction of Dr Abraham Van Helsing, Harker, his fiancée Mina Murray,
and friends Dr John Seward and Quincy P. Morris lead the charge in what will be the
ultimate battle of good and evil. The original horror classic presented in a deluxe hardcover
edition as a facsimile of the 1897 edition. Included is a sneak peak at Dracula the Un-Dead.
438 roughcut pages, red satin bookmark.
$24.95 NOW £5
78171 INCIDENT AT VICHY by Arthur Miller
A searingly dramatic journey into the moral vacuum of the Holocaust. In Vichy France in
1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaboration authorities and made to wait in a
building that may be a police station. Some of them are Jews. All of them have something
to hide, if not from the Nazis, then from their fellow detainees and inevitably from
themselves. For in this claustrophobic antechamber to the death camps, everyone is guilty,
and perhaps none more so than those who can walk away alive. 72 page paperback.
$12 NOW £4.75
78298 GREAT MODERN POETS: The Best Poetry of Our Times
edited by Michael Schmidt
Choosing 50 poets to represent a century must have been no easy task. Included are Robert
Frost, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Rudyard Kipling, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound,
Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, e.e. Cummings, Allen Tate, Laura Riding, W.
H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara,
John Ashbery, Adreinne Rich and Sylvia Plath. Over 150 essential poems are accompanied
by a brief discussion of poetry providing insight, observations and historical context for each
poet and their work. 224 large pages, photos. Softback.
£12.99 NOW £5
78456 EARLY POEMS AND
JUVENILIA by Philip Larkin
!
Born in 1922 and brought up in Coventry,
Philip Larkin became Librarian at the
University of Hull, a post he held until his
death in 1985. His Collected Poems has
become essential reading on any bookshelf,
covering his four published volumes and late
work. But Larkin was a prolific writer in his
youth, and wrote over 250 poems in the
years leading up to his first collection. And
here it is now in glamorous Faber hardback.
Draws on the pamphlets, manuscripts and
workbooks from 1938-1946. 382pp.
£25 NOW £8
78461 TABLES OF THE LAW
by Thomas Mann
GIFTS FOR BOOK LOVERS
78857 BRAVE NEW WORLD: Book
Lover’s Mug by Aldous Huxley and
buyenlarge.com
Microwave and dishwasher safe, one of the
original stylish book jacket designs in medium
and light blue with white writing is the striking
transfer design on this white heavy porcelain
mug. Very capacious, sturdy with handle
(yes, handy!) and in presentation box it holds 16floz or 473ml of
liquid. Lovely to keep your tea warm! Special import.
ONLY £10
78867 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: Book Lover’s Mug by
Charles Darwin and buyenlarge.com
Mann’s ironic and incisive style is brought to
this, the most dramatic and significant story
of the Hebrew Bible. The Tables of the
Law recounts the early life of Moses, his
preparations for leading his people out of
Egypt, the Exodus itself and the incidents at
the oasis Kadesh, as well as the engraving
of the stone tablets of the Law at Sinai.
The tale of the ethical founding and
moulding of a people sharply rebukes the
Nazis for their intended destruction of the
moral code set down in the Ten
Commandments, lending Thomas Mann’s
famous irony to this account of the shaping
of the Jewish people. 114pp, a beautiful
short novel.
Microwave and dishwasher safe, one very large leaping frog and
one smaller one, both in blue on a bright green background with The
Origin of Species, Charles Darwin as the bold transfer on this
heavyweight white porcelain mug. Holds 16floz or 473ml of liquid
to keep your huge mug of tea or coffee warm. Based on one of the
original book jacket designs and specially imported.
ONLY £10
78462 TRADITIONAL BOOK PLATE CAT DESIGN
by That Company Called If
Use to personalise your favourite books and make sure they always
return home! With a traditional Thomas Bewick woodcut design, these
book plates are printed with a peel off self-adhesive back. This is
important as some book plates can stick together if they are stored in
damp or humid conditions. Contains 12 book plates of one design.
Approx 7 x 9cm with a black cat striding across a wooden gate with the
words Ex Libris below.
£10 NOW £3
23783 COMPLETE FATHER BROWN
by G.K. Chesterton
Father Brown, one of the most quirkily
genial and lovable characters to emerge
from English detective fiction, first made his
appearance in The Innocence of Father
Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories
established G.K. Chesterton’s kindly cleric in
the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This
complete collection contains all the favourite
Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit
and compassion that has endeared him to
many, whilst solving his mysteries by a
mixture of imagination and a sympathetic
worldliness in a totally believable manner.
The Complete compenduim is 800pp.
Paperback.
ONLY £2
30326 DON QUIXOTE
by Miguel de Cervantes
Translated by P. A. Motteux
From first publication ‘Don Quixote’ was a
best-seller, initially taken as a knockabout
account of a mad Spanish gentleman and his
cowardly peasant squire, but later
reinterpreted as an enlightenment text, a
representation of universal human nature, a
myth of a tragic hero defending man’s
nobler aspirations, a study in alienation, a
spiritual autobiography, a metaphor for
Spain’s imperial decline, a tragedy and
comedy in one. P. A. Motteux’s vigorous
and lively translation brilliantly catches the
tone and comedy of the Spanish original.
992pp paperback.
ONLY £2.50
58192 WOMAN IN WHITE
by Wilkie Collins
When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a
moonlit night in north London, encounters a
solitary, terrified and beautiful woman
dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve
the mystery of her distress. The intricate
plot is peopled with a finely characterised
cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to
the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the
enigmatic woman herself. 502pp.
Paperback.
11
ONLY £1.99
78467 LITTLE BOOK HOLDER: BLUE
by That Company Called If
Looks like a lightweight - performs like a heavyweight! You can now use
your free hands to stroke the cat and pat the dog! Just clip this muscular
miniature on to your hardback and paperback books and let Little Book
Holder take the strain while you get to grips with your reading. (And,
yes, it really works!) Awarded Highly Commended Gift of the Year 2009
(under £10 category.) Turquoise blue, heavy plastic shaped like a man
(with big arms and feet!).
ONLY £3
78466 GIMBLE TRAVELLER: White by That Company Called If
Comfortable ‘hands-free’ reading comes to a beach or garden or sofa near you! This
ingenious variation on the popular Gimble now expands to fit the larger size ‘C’ books but
cleverly contracts to fit neatly smaller A and B paperbacks
and inside your travel bag. Of course, there’s nothing to stop
you using your Gimble Traveller at home, donning your
sunglasses and sombrero and just pretending you’re on
holiday! Fits and holds paperback books up to 40mm (over
1½”) thick and will hold the pages open and still allow them
to be turned easily. Slip the gimble over your book with the
larger loop placed over the thicker side - when you reach the
middle you can swap it over. White lightweight plastic design
adjustable to fit all books, or as a cookbook holder, leaving your hands free to scratch your
nose (or whatever!)
ONLY £6
78464 ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET: TAN SUEDE by That Company Called If
With a choice of real tan suede (78464) or genuine dark brown leather (78463), these
beautifully made jackets will cover, protect - and disguise - your hardback and paperback
books. The jacket fits neatly over the top of your book’s own cover and the ‘tuck-in’ flaps
are adjustable to fit most popular sizes, so you can easily swap it
over to a new book when you have finished. If you love your
books, why not dress and protect them in style with The
Original Book Jacket! Awarded Highly Commended Gift of the
Year 2009 (Mind, Body and Soul category) Measures 210mm x
140mm. Boxed for gift giving.
ONLY £13
78463 ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET: DARK BROWN
LEATHER by That Company Called If
Genuine dark brown leather, 210mm x 140mm.
ONLY £13
78474 EMMA by Jane Austen
Emma is the story of the eponymous Miss Woodhouse who having lost
her companion Anne Taylor to marriage, sets out on an ill-fêted career of
match-making in the town of Highbury. Taking as her subject the pretty
but dreary Harriet Smith, she manages to cause misunderstandings with
every new tactic she employs. Though precious and spoilt, Emma is
charming to all around her and so it takes her some time to learn her
lesson and profit from spending less time worrying about how other
people should live their lives. With four clear introductions by renowned
Austen scholars, a timeline, colour map, embossed clothbound cover and
tipped in front cover illus. Colour illus and bookmark, 350pp.
ONLY £2.50
78471 A CHRISTMAS CAROL: And
Two Other Christmas Books
by Charles Dickens
When ‘A Christmas Carol’ was first
published in 1843 it was an overnight
success. None would produce a character as
extraordinarily memorable as Ebenezer
Scrooge. Misers the world over meet their
match in this most committed of miserable
skinflints, but even Scrooge is not beyond
being saved by the magically redemptive
powers of the three spirits from Christmas’s
past, present and future that visit him on
Christmas night. The complete text in a
modern readable typeface, clear
introductions by Dickens scholars, an
illustrated character list, timeline of Dickens’
world, a colour map of Dickens’ London,
cloth bound, gold tooled with tipped in
illustration on the cover and coloured
endpapers and bookmark. 207pp.
£12.99 NOW £5
76217 THE AWAKENING AND
OTHER STORIES by Kate Chopin
This is the first paperback edition to bring
out in one volume Kate Chopin’s
extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899),
along with the complete text of her two
collections of short stories, Bayou Folk
(1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and 12
uncollected tales. The Awakening is an
evocative story of female emancipation, set
in the sensuous environment of Southern
Louisiana, where the young Edna Pontellier
reclaims her own individuality. Chopin’s
stories are brilliantly observed and often
humorous, alert to the foibles, weaknesses
and small triumphs of her characters.
Paperback, 508pp.
ONLY £2
Boxed.
£12.99 NOW £5
59994 THE CASTLE by Franz Kafka
Translated and with an introduction by John R. Williams which reads, ‘The novel remained
unfinished, indeed, it breaks off in mid-sentence. We have no indication whatever whether K
will ever gain acceptance or be granted access to Klamm. Max Brod claimed that Kafka told
him K was to be informed on his death bed that the Castle authorities had, exceptionally,
given him permission to stay in the village.’ Kafka’s final novel was written during 1922
when he was already at an advanced stage of TB which was to kill him. The novel is an
allegory of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire as it disintegrates into modern nation
states. It is the search by a central European Jew for acceptance or perhaps it is a spiritual
quest for salvation. 283pp, paperback.
ONLY £2.75
76934 GENIUS OF DICKENS by Michael Slater
Slater illuminates the truth of a famous tribute paid to Dickens: ‘The more you want out of
the Master, the more you’ll find in him.’ Widely ranging over Dickens’s fiction, journalism,
letters and speeches, the book looks at ideas and inspirations behind Britain’s greatest novelist
and his beliefs, social and artistic ideals, Dickensian ‘values’ and the ambition that shaped his
prodigious output. An inspiring portrait of the man and the writer. 184pp.
£10.99 NOW £2
78477 JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre was Charlotte’s first published novel and has long been the
most popular of all literary classics. It tells the moving story of Jane, an
orphan entrusted to the care of her aunt by her dying uncle. The aunt
cares greatly for her own children but dislikes Jane whom she punishes
unfairly. Jane is sent to a boarding school, a strict Evangelical school
where despite the austerities of her environment, she finally meets pupils
and teachers who nurture and encourage her. From there she goes to
work as a governess at a large country mansion where she falls in love
with the mysterious master of the house, the Byronic Mr Rochester, a
charismatic character with a troubled past who is already married to a
beautiful and wealthy Creole woman who has become insane, violent
and bestial. Colour map, timeline, Who’s Who, scholarly introduction.
Clothbound luxury hardback, 408pp.
£12.99 NOW £5
12 Literature continued
78472 CLASSIC FAVOURITE FAIRY TALES
OF ANDERSEN AND GRIMM
Deluxe, scarlet, satin bound outsized luxury
edition with tipped in illustration and gold tooling on the
cover, colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Walter
Crane, Fritz Kredel, Mabel Lucie Attwell and other
children’s book illustrator favourites, here are 320
glamorous, collectable, beautiful pages. Hans Christian
Andersen’s 32 fairy tales include The Tinder Box, Little
Claus and Big Claus, The Princess and the Pea, The
Little Mermaid, The Wild Swans, Something Ole Lukoie,
The Swine Herd, The Snow Queen, The Little Match
Girl, The Story of a Mother and The Dryad. Old classic
favourites and many forgotten stories are joined with 35
more fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm including The
Golden Bird, The Travelling Musicians, Old Sultan, The
Sleeping Beauty, The Willow-Wren and The Bear, The
Frog Prince, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, Rapunzel,
Tom Thumb, Clever Gretel, Sweetheart Roland, The
Golden Goose and The Seven Ravens.
£20 NOW £8.50
78492 COMPLETE SMOKING DIARIES
by Simon Gray
One of the funniest books Philip Hensher of the
Spectator has ever read in his life, curmudgeonly,
charming and capricious, these finely crafted diaries were
written when the playwright Simon Gray turned 65. He
began to keep a diary in which he reflected on a life
filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped),
several triumphs and many more disasters, shame,
adultery, friendship and love. Collected together here
for the first time, the volumes of The Smoking Diaries
(The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last
Cigarette and Coda) form a brilliant and moving account
of life’s unsteady progress, filled with painful selfdisclosure and comedy. 846pp. Satin bookmark.
£25 NOW £6.50
76878 ONE FOR THE BOOKS
by Joe Queenan
This collection of book-related
journalism includes bizarre
bookstores Queenan has known,
and also bad books, on which he is
something of an expert, dividing
them into “the stupid, the megastupid, and the ones written by O.
J. Simpson”. In Paris he visits key
sites associated with writers,
although in England he would not
bother with “the pub where A. S.
Byatt’s cribbage league dukes it out every Thursday
night”. A delight for every bibliophile. 244pp.
$24.95 NOW £2
77543 LES MISERABLES by Victor Hugo
A novel peopled by colourful characters from the 19th
century Parisian underworld - the street children, the
prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of
escaped convict Jean Valjean and his efforts to reform
his ways and to care for the little girl he rescues from a
life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of
the poor and oppressed. Valjean becomes a successful
businessman and generous benefactor to his ward,
Cosette, but the implacable Inspector Javert hounds him
from town to town, seeking justice. Les Misérables is a
masterful detective thriller, a comic and tragic story of
romance and revolution set during the Paris Uprising of
1832, first published in 1862. 908 pages.
£9.99 NOW £4.75
77552 PEAKE’S PROGRESS:
Selected Writings and
CED
Drawings:
EDU
of Mervyn Peake R
edited by Maeve Gilmore
Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) is best
known as the author of the
‘Gormenghast’ trilogy, and as one
of the great 20th century
illustrators, in particular of Alice.
‘Peake’s Progress’ is a selection
compiled by his late wife, Maeve
Gilmore, from every period of his work as writer and
draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from
childhood, ‘The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo
Kaffirs’, the early ‘Mr. Slaughterboard’, which
foreshadows the ‘Titus’ books, two plays, ‘The Wit to
Woo’ and ‘Noah’s Ark’, plus a wealth of short stories,
poems and nonsense verses and drawings - all of them
adding new perspectives on this prolific and astonishingly
original writer. Beautifully typeset, this handsome
edition includes a preface by Peake’s son, Sebastian. A
British Library reprint of 1978 original with new
Introduction. 576 pages with Peake’s own remarkable
line art.
£25 NOW £10
76629 TALE OF THE HEIKE
translated by Royall Tyler
Here is the original Samurai saga of pride, romance and
warfare from medieval Japan. An epic story from the
14th century about the 12th century wars between the
Heike and Genji clans, it is a masterpiece of Japanese
culture. We meet the ruthless warlord Kiyomori who
dies burning with such rage that water poured on him
boils; Hotoke, the beautiful young dancer who renounces
wealth and fame to follow her conscience; Shigemori,
the tyrant’s righteous son, who struggles against all odds
to uphold fairness and justice; and Yoshitsune, the daring
commander who defeats the enemy in battle after
battle, only to be condemned by his jealous, powerful
brother. Rich in scenes of battle and warfare. Landmark
translation with genealogies and maps. 734pp.
£30 NOW £7
77989 ZASTROZZI by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley’s particular genius lay with poetry. Here his
vivid love story dramatises the misplaced passion
between Matilda, Contessa di Laurentini, Verezzi, the
object of her crazed desire, and Matilda’s murderous
accomplice, the mysterious Zastrozzi. When Matilda
discovers that her love is unrequited, she traps Verezzi in
her castle and orders Zastrozzi to kill Julia, her rival. But
Zastrozzi has his own agenda. First published when
Shelley was only 18. 116pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74
77548 OXFORD COMPANION TO CLASSICAL
LITERATURE Third Edition
edited by M. C. Howatson
!
In print for over 70 years, extensively revised and
updated for this new third edition. It covers the lives
and works of the classical writers as well as plot
summaries, literary styles and characters (heroes, gods,
kings and queens), placing them in the wider context of
the history and society of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Over 3,100 fully revised and updated A-Z entries include
topical entries on subjects such as aesthetics, age groups,
anti-Semitism, Byzantium, calendars, Cicero,
Cynegeticus, Diana, Euripides, politics, genre, love and
sexuality, Oedipus, Punic Wars, Rome, slavery, theatre,
Tiber and universal and natural law. Contains six
detailed maps showing important locations with literary
connections, as well as a chronology showing events of
both historical and literary significance. Clear headwords
and layout, 632 pages.
£40 NOW £14
77687 SHAKESPEARE’S RESTLESS WORLD
by Neil MacGregor
Sub-titled ‘An Unexpected History in Twenty
Objects’. The Director of the British Museum and
renowned Shakespearian scholar Neil MacGregor
uncovers the extraordinary stories behind 20 objects
from the period to recreate an age both distant and
surprisingly familiar. A 400-year-old Venetian glass
goblet symbolises how the mystery and excitement of
Venice (“like a rotten post gilded on the outside”) was
depicted to agog audiences watching Shylock and
Antonio’s battles in The Merchant of Venice. A 65cm
long model of a ship from the 16th century was not
intended to be a toy - it was an offering to God to give
thanks for the delivering of a ship from the tempestbrewing witches. MacGregor’s brilliant understanding of
the Bard, his age and his audience is magisterially
distilled into simple physical objects that allow us to
enter deftly into our forefathers’ mental and spiritual
world. 320pp paperback, illus in colour and b/w. ALL
COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
£12.99 NOW £6
77975 ISLAND: Collective Stories
by Alistair MacLeod
Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia, these stories are all concerned with the
complexities and mysteries of the human heart. Steeped
in memory and myth and washed in the brine and blood
of the long battle with the land and the sea, they
celebrate a passionate engagement with the natural
world and a continuity of the generations in the face of
transition - in face of loss and love. The collection begins
with The Boat written in 1968 and The Vastness of the
Dark 1971 and ends with Island 1988 and Clearances of
1999. 431pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.25
77603 CLASSIC POETRY: An Illustrated
Collection
selected by Michael Rosen
Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson is coupled with one
of his many ballads about Australian life. Several
poems from ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ make an
appearance alongside beautiful poetry from Thomas
Hardy like Snow in the Suburbs, Cristina Rossetti with
Sonnets, Lewis Carroll with The Mock Turtle’s Song,
Emily Dickinson, Oh Captain! My Captain!, Browning’s
My Last Duchess, poetry from Emily Bronte and Edward
Lear with Calico Pie, Tennyson’s Sweet and Low and
The Eagle, Paul Revere’s Ride, Kubla Khan, and How
Doth My Little Crocodile are among the lyrics, ballads,
dramatic monologues, parodies, sonnets, and free verse.
Silhouettes, pencil drawings, line art and painted scenes.
Ages 10 to adult. 160pp large softback, colour.
$12.99 NOW £5.50
77659 JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT
by Henry Fielding
Based on the career and crimes of a real-life 18th
century gangland criminal, it is an hilarious black comedy
of manners and morals. Jonathan Wild treads his own
path to fame and glory by way of theft, fraud and
betrayal. Under the guidance of Mr Snap, a sheriff’s
officer and receiver of stolen goods, Wild becomes an
expert pickpocket and organises a gang of thieves whose
stolen wares he receives and resells at great profit for
himself. His crimes are played out against a backdrop of
colourful characters such as the whore Miss Molly
Straddle, the cardsharp Count La Rouse and the ‘base
and weak’ Mr Thomas Heartfree. 190pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
77977 MEETING THE DEVIL: A Book of
Memoir preface
by Alan Bennett
Autobiography has been an essential element in the
‘London Review of Books’ since its founding in 1979.
This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir
that first appeared in its pages. Edward Said pays
homage to the belly dancer and movie star Tahia
Carioca. Jenny Diski imagines her own burial. Hilary
Mantel tackles a strongman on her hospital bed. Julian
Barnes writes about not getting the Booker Prize.
Andrew O’Hagan confesses to his past as a schoolboy
bully. AJP Taylor hallucinates. Alan Bennett discusses
the lady who lives in his drive. Tariq Ali relates his
misadventures in Pyongyang. Frank Kermode tells his
wartime stories. There are reports from poker tables and
coal mines, stories of double agents, online romance and
stigmata. A study in the art of the self-portrait. 394pp.
£25 NOW £6
78015 LITERARY THEORY: A Very Short
Introduction
by Jonathan Culler
An Oxford University Press handbook about the
controversial subject of Literary Theory. Said to have
transformed the study of culture and society in the past
two decades, it is accused of undermining respect for
tradition and truth, encouraging suspicion about the
political and psychological implications of cultural products
rather than admiration for great literature. The
handbook sketches key ‘moves’ and speaks directly
about literature in the future, for human identity and the
power of language. 149pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.75
77979 RITES OF PASSAGE
by William Golding
Sailing to Australia in the early years of the 19th
century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his
Godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he
records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking
warship, where officers, soldiers, sailors and emigrants
jostle in the crammed spaces below decks. Then a
single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley,
attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion
of the fo’castle, something happens to bring him into a
‘hell of self-degradation’. Paperback, 278pp, facsimile
reprint.
£7.99 NOW £2.75
MUSIC AND DANCE
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- Thomas Carlyle, The Opera
78869 POP & ROCK PIANO
HITS FOR DUMMIES
by Robbie Gennet
Do they, in the words of the old
advertisement, laugh when you sit
down at the piano? Well, they won’t
laugh about your playing ability any
more if you invest in a copy of this
collection of musical favourites from
the pop world. Naturally, you need
to be able to read music and to
have a basic knowledge of how to play the piano, but
these arrangements also have a descriptive entry for
each song which should help to improve your
interpretation and understanding of the piece. Here, as
well as the background history, the tune is analysed,
explaining the key, chords and any special features that
you should take into account when you play. The music
is in standard piano notation, and also shows the basic
chords and their matching guitar frames. Amongst the
songs are Candle in the Wind, Good Vibrations, Hey
Jude, Mandolin Rain, Rainy Days and Mondays, and
Imagine. Even the words are given in case you want to
sing along as you play. Sheet music. Paperback, 12x9",
232pp.
£15.95 NOW £7
78860 DAVID BOWIE: Mick
Rock Tin Vinyl and Book
With the A side ‘Starman’ and B
side ‘Suffragette City’, the bright
red coloured vinyl 45" single
enclosed in this tin box set collection
is collectable in itself. Entitled
‘Starman: The Photography of Mick
Rock’, the softback book enclosed is completely
dedicated to the many faces, looks, attitudes and
expressions in words, pictures and music of the great
musician and legend, David Bowie. ‘I’m a tightrope
walker. Always have been. That’s the only way I
know how to live. The artist doesn’t exist. He’s strictly a
figment of the public’s imagination. None of us exist. We
are in the Twilight Zone. We’ve taken over from the
false prophets of Jesus’ time: spreading a phoney religion
and getting paid for it. We’ll all go to hell.’ - David
Bowie. A glamorous piece of EMI music merchandise,
highly collectable
and specially
imported
exclusive to
Bibliophile.
ONLY £15
79020 THE DOORS: A
Lifetime of Listening to Five
Mean Years
by Greil Marcus
‘Jim writes most of the lyrics.’
Young sings about a dead crack
baby ‘You’ll never go to school,
you’ll never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool’. If those
aren’t rock ‘n’ roll, what is? A fan
from the moment The Doors’ first
album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the
band many times at the legendary
Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967.
Five years later it was all over. 40 years after the
singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the
group disbanded, Marcus muses on how one could drive
from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to
another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three,
four Doors songs in one hour. Unsatisfied and in the
larger sense unfinished, The Doors remained absolutely
alive. This is the first book to bypass their myths and
mystique, and the death cult of Jim Morrison and focus
solely on the music of Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison,
John Densmore and Robbie Krieger. You really feel in
the room and soak up all the cultural and musical
references of the time. 210pp, illus.
£14.99 NOW £6.50
78854 ALFRED’S BASIC
GUITAR METHOD 1: Book,
CD and DVD by Morty Manus
and Ron Manus
Updated and expanded third edition
of a book recognised for over 50
years as the best-paced and most
comprehensive guitar method
available. This edition features a
new layout making it easier to read
and learn. Included are blues,
country, folk, jazz and rock styles plus pop songs. A
DVD with iPod compatible video has been added for the
visual learner. Learn how to hold your guitar, tune it,
the basics of reading music, notes on all six strings,
chords, scales and songs, bass-chord accompaniments
and duets. With photos and diagrams, the book is for
use with acoustic or electric guitars. Songs include
Singin’ in the Rain, Take me Home Country Roads,
Over the Rainbow and Annie’s Song. Combined
paperback, DVD and enhanced CD pack.
$24.99 NOW £6.50
78482 APATHY FOR THE
DEVIL: A 1970s Memoir
by Nick Kent
Rock writer Nick Kent began
interviewing the stars for the NME
(New Musical Express) when barely
out of his teens, but as his cutting
edge writing brought him nearer to
them his life began to mirror theirs.
Soon, he was deeply into the use
of drugs, with ever-worsening use
of heroin. To the distress of his
parents, Nick, who had been reared
mainly on classical music, discovered pop around the age
of ten. Three years later he was invited to a concert in
Cardiff featuring ‘old-school Tin Pan Alley dancers and
prancers’, but at the bottom of the bill was a new group,
the Rolling Stones. Nick was astounded when he was
suddenly surrounded by ‘young women in a collective
state of extremely heightened sexual psychosis,’
screaming at the group. He sweeps you along in this
exciting read as he becomes more and more enmeshed
in the pop world, gaining work as a music reviewer,
constantly interviewing the rock greats, accepting invites
to concerts, parties and other events. He first smoked
pot at the Bath Festival in 1970, and by 1971 was
deeply involved with the drug. Dylan, Sex Pistols,
Bowie, Stones, Led Zeppelin and many others - here are
the seventies excitingly brought to life in this vivid
account. Paperback. 408pp
£12.99 NOW £5
78853 ACOUSTIC GUITAR
SONGS FOR DUMMIES
by Greg Herriges
If you have ever air-strummed
along to great rock hits, here is
your chance to play them for real.
33 famous hits are collected here in
standard notation and tablature for
guitar, and in the back of the book
there is a beginners’ section on how
to read notation, while a central
section provides performance notes for each song. It is
assumed that you will know how to hold, tune and
strum a guitar, and how to look cool while doing it, but if
not, there is another “Dummies” book that will give you
the basics. Arranged alphabetically, the numbers start
with Across the Universe by Lennon and McCartney
from the Let it Be album, while Band on the Run is by
McCartney solo from the third Wings album. Hits by
John Denver include Annie’s Song and Leaving on a Jet
Plane, and variations on the theme of blue eyes come
from Pete Townshend’s Behind Blue Eyes and Stephen
Stills’ Judy Blue Eyes, with its iconic Indian-style drone
strings. Bob Dylan’s Tangled up in Blue from the 1975
Blood on the Tracks album is one of the great song lyrics
of all time, and the ultra-famous Mrs Robinson by Simon
and Garfunkel was first heard in the film The Graduate
but later appeared in their fourth album. 272pp, softback.
£15.95 NOW £6.50
78921 BRITTEN’S CENTURY
edited by Mark Bostridge
Celebrating 100 years of Benjamin
Britten, contributors include Alan
Bennett, Michael Berkeley, Ian
Bostridge, Edward Gardner,
Stephen Hough and Blake
Morrison. Through an extraordinary
range of worldwide performances
and his well-managed legacy, it is a
reassertion of Britten’s central place
as one of the greatest composers
this country has ever produced.
Here are essays by performers of his music as well as
pieces by biographers and music critics. His operatic
output, orchestral works, contribution to the revival of
the English song, creation of the Aldeburgh Festival and
the workings of the present day Britten-Pears
Foundation and its promotion of his music are all
revealed. Biographically, this book moves on beyond
the relationship with Peter Pears and the salacious
speculation about his infatuation with various boys to a
consideration of his experience as an outsider, a
homosexual living in a largely homophobic society.
184pp.
£16.99 NOW £6
77734 JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
edited by Marcus Hearn
Jimi Hendrix left New York for London in September
1966 and a week later he joined Cream onstage,
leaving Eric Clapton speechless with admiration for
Hendrix’s dazzling and athletic performance style on the
electric guitar. Hendrix and Clapton became friends and
appear together in a number of these photos, but the
rivalry remained. By October, Hendrix had been teamed
with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell as the Jimi Hendrix
Experience. These 130 stills from Rex photographic
agency, some previously unpublished, capture the group
during their heyday in 1967. An iconic photo series
shows Hendrix posing in his signature military coat with
a Dylan badge outside the flat in Montagu Place loaned
to Hendrix’s manager by Ringo Starr. His style, sense of
design, jewellery, dark eyes and talent held everyone
mesmerised. On tour in spring 1967 Hendrix made
headlines by setting fire to his guitar. Hendrix’s final UK
performance was at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970
before his shocking and untimely death. A superb photo
album. 160pp, 25 x 29.6cm.
£14.99 NOW £6.50
78483 ART OF TAP DANCING: Mega Mini Kit
by Running Press
The metal heel and toe taps provided with the kit screw
into your shoes, a bit like the old blakeys but better!
Become a Fred Astaire or Ginger Rodgers and join the
ranks of rat-tat-tatters everywhere. The 32 page book
gives a history and how-to of this lively, low impact
work-out and great dance form. In handy presentation
box, pick up you cane and tap!
£5.99 NOW £3
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77728 GEORGE
HARRISON: Living in the N
I
Material World
CK K
C
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by Olivia Harrison S T O
George Harrison, aka “the quiet
Beatle” was a perfectly normal
post-war Liverpool lad (albeit
with a huge guitar talent!) who
ended up at the age of 21 with
the world at his feet. Unlike
many however, his saturation in what the material
world could offer at such a young age caused him to
seek the spiritual side of life. Olivia Harrison married
George in 1978 and they remained together until
George’s death in 2001. In 2010 she worked with Martin
Scorsese (who provides the book’s foreword) to make a
documentary about her husband’s life entitled “Living in
the Material World” and this magnificent volume was
produced to accompany the film’s release in 2011. With
unequalled access to Harrison’s entire personal archive,
she traces the arc of her late husband’s life, from the
earliest photos from bombed out Liverpool (we see twoyear-old George at a VE Day party), through his guitarobsessed boyhood, the astonishing success of the
Beatles from 1958-70, his discovery of Indian culture
and music in the late 1960s to his days as independent
musician, film producer and bohemian squire. It is also
crammed with touching memorabilia - ticket stubs,
postcards, letters, telegrams, handwritten chord
diagrams, music, lyrics and mantras (including his original
draft for My Sweet Lord). Plus shots on the sets of films
that Handmade produced, including the one that started
it all off, The Life of Brian. Alongside the amazing photos
sit hundreds of pieces of related commentary from
George, Olivia and all those associated with his life and
work, which are particularly resonant and intriguing.
10"×11", 400pp, 300 colour and b/w images, many full
and double-page.
£26.99 NOW £10
77752 TEMPERAMENT by Stuart Isacoff
The piano can growl and sing and beat time and if you
keep it in tune, it will be an obedient servant. Through
it, a Chopin prelude can gently weep across the keys;
Debussy’s perfumed phrases can swirl in gentle clouds.
From the elements that shaped the temperament, or
character, of pivotal thinkers to endless efforts to temper
or transform the material world into something more
desirable, altering the purist and most beautiful
harmonies into something grotesque. Musical art,
religion, politics and science and great thinkers from
Leonardo to Newton are tangled into this complex and
clever little book. 260pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
77965 BLUE MOMENT
by Richard Williams
Sub-titled ‘Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue’ and the Remaking
of Modern Music’, here is a groundbreaking exploration of
how this album influenced the whole course of late 20th
century music. Recorded miraculously in a few hours in
a converted Manhattan church and first released in 1959,
Davis’s album was a meditative, melancholy
masterpiece. It profoundly influenced his band mate
John Coltrane, and artists as diverse as John Cale and
The Velvet Underground, The Who, Soft Machine, Brian
Eno and early Roxy Music, Talking Heads and U2. All
music lovers can gain much from this unsurpassed insight
in which Williams is very strong on the note-by-note
mechanics of the music. 310 page paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.75
76304 JOHANNES BRAHMS: The Complete
Sonatas for Violin and Piano
by Johannes Brahms
Brahms composed just three sonatas for violin and
piano. Musicians will be delighted to own all three
works in this single volume compilation, reprinted from
authoritative editions. Both Sonata No.1 in G Major,
Op78 and Sonata No.2 in A Major, Op100 are intensely
lyrical in nature containing some of Brahms’ most
beautiful and expressive melodies. Sonata No.3 in D
Minor, Op108 is a tempestuous work full of fire and
passion. Softback, 88pp plus removable violin score.
£14.95 NOW £3
77666 NOISE: A Human
History of Sound and Listening
by David Hendy
To tell the story of sound - music
and speech, but also echoes,
chanting, drumbeats, bells, thunder,
gunfire, the noise of crowds, the
rumbles of the human body,
laughter, silence, conversations,
mechanical sounds, noisy
neighbours, musical recordings and
radio - is to explain how we learned to overcome our
fears about the natural world and how we learn to
communicate with, understand, and live alongside our
fellow human beings. Oratory in Ancient Rome was
important not just for the words spoken but also the
tone, cadence, pitch of the voice and how the audience
might have responded to it. Breaking up the history of
sound into prehistoric noise, the age of oratory, the
sounds of religion, the sounds of power and revolt, the
rise of machines and what he calls our ‘amplified age’,
Hendy teases out continuities and breaches in our long
relationship with sound. 382pp.
$27.99 NOW £6
77182 LIVING YEARS: The First Genesis
Memoir
by Mike Rutherford
The author is a founding member of the talented prog
rock group Genesis. In 2010, he was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Against a background of
drink, drugs and line-up changes, Mike’s father, a World
War II naval officer, was always there. He would
watch Genesis grow, supporting them from the very
beginning when they toured the country in the back of a
Hovis bread van. Captain Rutherford remained loyal,
earplugs at the ready. However, when his father
suddenly died, Mike was forced to re-examine their
relationship. 243 pages, colour and archive photos.
£20 NOW £4
77416 DARIA KLIMENTOVA: Agony and
Ecstasy: My Life in Dance
by Daria Klimentova with Graham Watts
Prima Ballerina with the English National Ballet until her
retirement in 2014, Czech-born Klimentova experienced
a resurgence in her late career when she was partnered
by the young Vadim Muntagirov. Her long partnership
with Dmitri Gruzdyev had been more turbulent. When
she was invited as a guest artist to Cape Town and took
full advantage of numerous appearances on TV. She
was next invited as a principal by Scottish Ballet,
followed by a move to ENB. Klimentova’s mostperformed ballet is The Nutcracker, mainly as the Sugar
Plum Fairy, with Odette/Odile in Swan Lake coming a
close second. Strictly Gershwin and Alice in Wonderland,
both choreographed by Derek Deane, are among her
modern successes. 288pp, colour photos, appendices of
ballets, partners, roles.
£19.99 NOW £5
77518 50 YEARS OF BRITISH POP: 20th
Century in Pictures by Huw Pryce
British groups and artists have blazed a trail of glory
through the world of pop music. Their achievements are
celebrated here in 300 stunning images from the unique
archives of the Press Association. Now, back in the
lime-light where they belong, here are the Arctic
Monkeys, Boyzone, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, the
Spice Girls and literally hundreds more golden oldies and
memories of stars of the stage and your favourites for
you to admire for ever. 299 pages, action photos in
colour and b/w.
£14.99 NOW £3
77521 AIR GUITAR: A User’s Guide
by Bruno McDonald
!
Chuck down the hairbrush when you stand in front of
the mirror, pick up a big cardboard guitar, wear your
devil horns and play like a rock god. You will learn not
only about our fret-fondling favourites but also air
punching for the anthem songs, scissor kicks, pointing,
strumming, jumping, moves like the Hendrix, the duck
walk popularised by Chuck Berry and Angus Young,
mounting the monitor, kneeling and a’ rockin’, the Jimmy
Page, the Joey Ramone, and how to win an air guitar
competition. 50 favourites for Axemen of all ages.
Colour, 80pp.
$14 NOW £2
SCIENCE AND MATHS
You never fail until you stop trying.
- Albert Einstein
78691 TIME: ALBERT
EINSTEIN: The Enduring
Legacy of a Modern Genius
by Time Magazine
Sixty years after his death in
1955 Albert Einstein is still the
famous scientist ever. In 1999
Time Magazine chose him as its
Person of the Century, and since
its founding in 1923 the magazine
has amassed a rather impressive
archive of Einstein photos and
articles which form the basis of this richly illustrated
concise biography. We follow young Albert from his birth
in Ulm in Germany in 1879 to his solid but unremarkable
student days and on to his first job in the technical
department of the Swiss patent office. Once he had the
financial stability that the job offered and the family
stability that his wife Maric and their daughter provided,
Albert finally had time to devote time to his own unique
ideas on the nature of light, mass, gravity and energy.
1905 was his annus mirabilis - in five papers published
that year he proposed ideas that would literally change
the world, tying the whole lot up with the most
important equation in physics, E=mc². As well as
insights that gave the world, for better and worse, the
atomic age, a new understanding of gravity, the concept
of black holes and the weird things that happen near the
speed of light, his warm, funny and lovable personality
endeared him to the world. However, this was not
enough to overcome the fact that he was Jewish as far
as the Nazis were concerned, and in 1931 the forwardthinking Einstein family fled Germany for the USA.
Even today scientists continue to pore over the full
implications of what Einstein saw. 96pp, colour and b/w
photos and diagrams.
£16.99 NOW £6.50
78707 WORKING STIFF
by Judy Melinek and T. J.
Mitchell
Sub-titled ‘Two Years, 262 Bodies
and the Making of A Medical
Examiner’ far from the magic we
see on TV, the book describes
forensic pathology in the real
world and is full of compelling
detail. It is the fearless memoir of
a young pathologist’s ‘rookie
season’ as an NYC medical
examiner and the cases, hairraising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex, that
shaped her. Just two months before the September
11th terrorist attacks, Dr Judy Melinek began her
training, with her husband T. J. and their toddler Daniel,
holding down the home front. She performed in
autopsies, investigated death scenes and counselled
grieving relatives. Here she takes readers behind the
police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the
Big Apple, including a first hand account of the events of
September 11th, the subsequent anthrax bioterrorism
attack, and the disastrous crash of American Airlines
flight 587. Murders, accidents and suicides land on her
table, poison, bones and misadventures in medicine all
part of her tale. 256pp.
£16.99 NOW £7
Science 13
78642 INVENTORS AND
INVENTIONS
by Louis Hill et al
If you remove the back of your
mobile phone you will find an
unassuming block that is hardly
exciting to the eye. It is this, the
Lithium-ion battery, which has
driven the incredible advances in
electronics in the past decade and is
now powering more and more road vehicles and other
crucial applications. The Li-ion battery is a classic tale of
invention and the man who invented it, Michael
Whittingham. This exceptional book picks some of the
world’s most important inventions and those involved in
their invention - be it a single person in a single
brainwave or a number of people over a period of time
during which other
factors have a major
effect on that
invention, maybe
even its overall
viability. Divided into
eight chapters: Early
Inventions, Domestic,
Entertainment,
Engineering and
Transport, Medicine,
Warfare, Exploration
and Agriculture and
Food, we look at 150 innovative ideas which have had
a lasting effect on human society. From numbering
systems, money and alphabets, through the light bulb,
refrigeration, soap, the zip, photography, TV, the electric
guitar, pencil, typewriter, paper, the Internet, GPS, ball
bearings, bicycles, roads, aeroplane, cement,
vaccination, false teeth, machine guns, atom bombs,
maps and telescopes to combine harvesters and animal
husbandry, even Viagra, perfume and the Swiss army
knife, this is an endlessly fascinating and surprising read.
Colour and b/w photos, diagrams, 240pp, 9¼”×11¼”.
£24.95 NOW £10
78655 LIFE OF DISCOVERY:
Michael Faraday
by James Hamilton
Sub-titled ‘Giant of the Scientific
Revolution’, Michael Faraday lit up
the world of science and here is a
superb biography of this amazing,
reclusive and deeply contradictory
man. Born in 1791, he was a
blacksmith’s son, gifted with rare
intelligence and intuition. A devout
member of a small Christian sect
that believed in the literal truth of the Bible, he was
nevertheless open to all that mankind could glean from
earthly knowledge. As apprentice to the esteemed
Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution, he helped
develop the miner’s safety lamp and went on to make a
landmark study of induction, the connection between
electricity and magnetism, and the idea of the
electromagnetic field. From electric motors to precisionmade eyeglass lenses, steel razors to liquid chlorine, his
inventions, often designed with self-created instruments,
have become staples of modern life. He steered clear of
politics, remained devoted to his wife, yet found a
confidante in the bright, liberated and flirtatious daughter
of Lord Byron. Trying to reconcile his severe religion
with his demanding work, he eventually suffered a
mental breakdown. 465pp by this outstanding Oxford
biographer. With woodcut illus, a diagram of a safety
lamp (1814) and other experimental apparatus, and a
map of Faraday’s London.
$35 NOW £7.50
78660 LIVES OF THE
PLANETS by Richard Corfield
A sweeping tour of our solar system
from the Sun to the recently
demoted Pluto, from the Kuiper Belt
to beyond the edge of the
interstellar void. Ranging
historically from Galileo’s Telescope
to Kepler’s latest search for life on
other planets, Corfield deftly
describes the colourful history of
humanity’s unfolding discovery of
our solar system’s secrets. He balances politics and
science in a history of captivating ‘hold-your-breath’
attempts at planetary exploration and his subject is
wondrous to behold. From an Oxford Research Fellow
we have this 268 page US paperback edition, illus.
$16.99 NOW £6
77939 TEACH YOURSELF MATHEMATICS: A
Complete Introduction
by Trevor Johnson and Hugh Neill
The scales of a pinecone and the spiral of a snail’s shell
all follow the same sequence of numbers called the
Fibonacci sequence. In today’s technological age,
mathematics underpins all of our technology from civil
engineering to pharmacy. The book covers all key areas
including mathematics, fractions and percentages,
geometry including trigonometry, statistics, probability
and algebra. Use this easy-to-navigate and easy-toremember system. 390pp, paperback.
£11.99 NOW £6
78120 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: From the
Brilliant to the Bizarre
by Len Fisher
The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel prizes,
awarded each October for ten unusual or trivial
examples of scientific research. In 1901 Duncan
MacDougall was convinced that the human soul had a
weight (conveniently neglecting mass) and his
experiment with a near-death volunteer showed that the
departed soul did indeed weigh ¾oz. This led to a
wealth of extremely useful work in the fields of heat and
energy transfer, not to mention post-mortems. Even
scientists as eminent as Newton, Galileo, Franklin, Volta
and Schrodinger had some pretty bonkers theories that
nevertheless paved the way for useful discovery. 248pp
paperback.
$14.95 NOW £4.50
78328 SPY WHO CHANGED
THE WORLD Klaus Fuchs and
the Secrets of the Nuclear
Bomb by Mike Rossiter
Klaus Fuchs was a refugee from
Nazi Germany, where his
Communist Party activism made
him a target for organised violence.
Arriving in England he collaborated
closely with the émigré German
physicists Frisch and Meitner, who
were working on nuclear research
at Birmingham University. In 1941 Fuchs travelled to
London ostensibly to meet an old friend but probably to
make his first contact with Soviet intelligence, and later
in the war he was transferred to Camp Y in Los Alamos,
where the project was to develop nuclear diffusion to
make a weapon. It was probably in 1944 that he made
contact with his Soviet handler, Harry Gold, and gave
him details of the problems they were experiencing with
the Manhattan Project. At Los Alamos Fuchs had
worked on modifications to the Nagasaki bomb for the
Bikini tests and was in close contact with William
Penney, head of the British bomb programme. This
enabled him to claim that he passed on information to
the British as well as the Soviets, who by that time
were Britain’s Allies. It’s a story in which many
questions still remain. 344pp, photos.
£20 NOW £5
76941 CIRCULATION: William Harvey’s
Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
Diminutive, brilliant and choleric, William Harvey had a
huge impact on anatomy and modern biology. His
obsessive quest was to understand the movement of
blood which overturned beliefs held by physicians since
Roman times. Francis Bacon, England’s Lord Chancellor
and a recalcitrant patient of Harvey’s; John Donne, a
poet and preacher fascinated by anatomy and the
human heart; and King Charles I, Harvey’s beloved
patron and witness to many of his experiments. His
theory altered the culture and language of its time. The
biography charts the remarkable rise of a Yeoman’s son
to the position of King’s Physician. 246pp, illus.
£16.99 NOW £4
77195 NUMBERLAND: The World in Numbers
by Mitchell Symons
!
Pythagoras thought that numbers rule the universe
- and how right he was. This book views the world from
a different perspective, taking in the flora and fauna of
the natural world, the human body, creepy-crawlies,
music, art, literature, love and marriage, TV, celebrities,
religion, history, science - we could go on and on. Did
you know, for instance, that during your lifetime you are
likely to shed 57 litres of tears? 256 mind-stretching
pages. Line drawings.
£12.99 NOW £5
77672 RED COSMOS
by James T. Andrews
Sub-titled ‘K.E. Tsiolkovskii,
Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry’.
Tsiolkovskii first conceived multistage rockets that would later be
adapted as the basis of both the US
and Soviet rocket programmes.
This provincial scientist was
sanctioned by Stalin to give a
speech in Red Square on May Day
1935, lauding the Soviet
technological future while also
dreaming and expounding on his own visions of
conquering the cosmos. Later the Khrushchev regime
used him as a ‘poster boy’ for Soviet excellence during
its Cold War competition with the US. A cultural,
technological and political biography. 147pp, illus
paperback.
£20.50 NOW £5
77660 KEEPER OF THE NUCLEAR
CONSCIENCE by Andrew Brown
Jósef Rotblat (1908-2005) came to England as a research
scientist in 1939. His wife was trapped in Warsaw. He
became a key physicist in the embryonic British atom
bomb project. Early 1944 he transferred to Los Alamos
to work on the Manhattan Project but left under
controversial circumstances by the end of the year. The
subsequent bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
intensified his ethical concerns over the involvement of
scientists developing weapons of mass destruction. It
drove Rotblat to become deeply involved in the anti-war
movement and was one of the 11 illustrious signatories
to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955. He helped
establish the international Pugwash Conferences on
Science and World Affairs and remained their driving
force during six decades. He and Pugwash shared the
1995 Nobel Peace Prize. 347pp, photos.
£18.99 NOW £4.50
77716 BRAIN SUPREMACY:
Notes From the Frontiers of
Neuroscience
by Kathleen Taylor
Progress in neuroscience is
accelerating, particularly as
scanning technologies such as fMRI
and PET, which can observe
changes in the living brain as it
undertakes certain tasks or receives
certain stimuli, have improved
enormously and become much
more accessible. Few would question the benefits to be
gained and its practical application to combatting disease
and helping conditions such as autism, but what about
the other potential uses for this knowledge, such as
manipulation of the healthy brain for commercial or
military gain? In this richly informative (and with much
dry wit, we might add) account Dr Taylor explains the
ingenious experiments that give us clues as to how
learning, memory and other brain functions work, and
how painstakingly such knowledge is acquired. 380pp,
colour and b/w illus and diagrams.
£18.99 NOW £6.50
See also Nature on page 33
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TRANSPORT
If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
- Dean Martin
78984 MEN OF POWER: Rolls
Royce Chief Test Pilots
Harvey and Jim Heyworth
by Robert Jackson
Tough combatants with split-second
reflexes, Harvey and Jim Heyworth
both brought a distinguished war
record to their appointments as test
pilots at Rolls Royce. Harvey
started his flying career with the
RAF, taking part in the Hendon
aerobatic display of 1934 before
accepting a post with Rolls Royce. He remained a
Squadron Leader with the reserves and in 1939 was
recalled to the RAF. Throughout the Battle of Britain
Harvey flew a Hurricane and then was posted north to
take part in the “Newcastle Blitz” in which “Heyworth’s
Hurricanes” pounded the enemy aircraft while they were
still over the sea. Harvey’s squadron suffered no
casualties and this was the last time the Germans
ventured over northern England in daylight. The
following year Harvey returned to Rolls Royce, but
meanwhile his 19-year-old brother Jim was awarded his
wings and joined No. 12 Bomber Squadron as one of
their first volunteers. His first mission was the disastrous
raid against German battlecruisers in Brest harbour
where Jim’s Wellington was attacked by a
Messerschmitt, but the plane withstood the onslaught as
Jim directed the gunners to shoot it down. Jim alternated
periods as an instructor with flying missions and in 1944
was rewarded with a bar to add to his DFC. A month
later he was transferred to Rolls Royce, joining his
brother in the process of developing the jet engine.
192pp.
£19.99 NOW £8
78983 FLYING FROM MY
MIND by David G. Cook
When former RAF pilot David Cook
saw an advert for the foot-launched
glider VJ-23 he knew it was for
him. Earning only £25 per week in
1972, Cook was living in a
converted railway carriage but his
aim was to win the annual Selsey
Birdman contest, in which £3000
was offered to anyone who could
launch themselves off Selsey pier
and stay in the air for 50 yards. The first attempt saw
the glider flying within a few feet of the finish line, and if
the tide had been lower, Cook could probably have
secured the glittering prize. For the next attempt he
enlisted support, and at the 1975 rally the glider was
launched by himself and three able men at a run. This
method required the launchers to launch themselves off
the pier as well as the craft, and one of them was a nonswimmer, but in spite of exceeding the 50-yard limit, the
attempt was disqualified. Still in need of money, Cook
took up hang-gliding and at last achieved success as the
VJ23 won every class in which it was entered. He soon
decided to add a small engine and propeller, and in spite
of being arrested on the beach path near Aldeburgh
during the trial period, Cook was soon piloting the first
hang-glider to cross the Channel, at 9hp, achieving the
lowest-powered flight crossing in the history of aviation.
Before long he was receiving awards from royalty,
making films and setting up in business. 228pp, photos.
£19.99 NOW £8
78990 THE LIFE OF A
SAILOR: SEAFARERS’
VOICES
by Frederick Chamier
This eyewitness account of
seafaring in the early 19th century
was for a long time assumed to be
fiction, but recent research has
confirmed its autobiographical
status. Chamier’s experiences at sea
started in 1809 when at the age of
13 he was appointed to the Salsette following a process
of networking by seafaring relatives. A theme of the
book is the way the Navy was riddled with nepotism,
and when Chamier is appointed lieutenant he encounters
the resentment of the other Midshipmen, older and more
experienced but with no hope of promotion. The Salsette
sees action almost immediately at Flushing and then
proceeds to the Mediterranean. At Gibraltar one of the
seamen is flogged and Chamier’s account is a rare
example of an eyewitness description of this brutal
punishment. At Smyrna Lord Byron hitches a lift to
Constantinople, and Chamier describes Byron’s abortive
attempt to swim the Hellespont, followed by a second
more successful bid the next day. In Constantinople
some Turks come aboard and when Chamier tells them
that smoking is not allowed, they attempt to buy him as
a slave, with the other Midshipmen playing along. When
the Salsette is ordered for blockading duties Chamier
leaves, joining the Arethusa on a voyage to Africa to
hunt slave traders. Lively and readable. 228pp.
£13.99 NOW £5
77562 STEAM TRAILS: Manchester to Leeds
by Bob Pixton and Eric Bentley
Eric’s love of steam trains is reflected in these superbly
nostalgic photos. They cover everything to do with
railways from tracks to tunnels, signal-boxes to sidings,
water troughs to workings, and a host of oddities. There
are complicated shots of trains performing shunting
operations, puffing painfully up hills and crossing rivers
on precarious looking viaducts, not to mention junctions,
and even shots of sheds. 96 pages 25cm x 19cm, colour
and archive photos, route map.
£16.99 NOW £4
77986 TRANSPORT
DESIGN: A Travel History
by Gregory Votolato
78295 FIGHTING SHIPS 1850-1950
by Sam Willis
Published in conjunction with the National Maritime
Museum and with a foreword by N. A. M. Rodger this
remarkable book measures 12" across by 14" high. It is
a stunning collection of 150 large scale paintings,
drawings, photographs and ship plans that tell the story
of naval warfare from the first iron and steam ships to
the deadly U-boats and aircraft carriers of WWII.
Depicted in striking details are the bombardments of
Sveaborg during the Crimean war, the battles of
Tsushima and Jutland, the evacuation of Dunkirk, the
attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the DDay landings as well as the Japanese surrender.
Arranged chronologically, the ships illustrated include
HMS Warrior, the first iron-hulled heavily armoured
warship, the mighty HMS Dreadnought, the cruiser
Aurora which ignited the Russian revolution, the
formidable German battleship Bismarck and British
aircraft carriers HMS Argus and Illustrious and the
Japanese giant Akagi among many others. Artists
include the official British war artist Richard Eurich, and
great naval artists like Gustave Bourgain and William
Lionel Wyllie plus powerful photographs often taken by
the sailors themselves.
With an expert text on
the key naval conflicts
and the complexity of
each warship, we can
enter the fire room of
the US battleship
Mississippi, see a burn
victim in a Wandsworth
hospital 1914 and
marvel at the depiction
of the sea by Claus
Bergen in his painting
The Commander on
page 131. A spectacular
heavyweight huge
volume, 224pp.
£25 NOW £12.50
77832 BELFAST BUILT SHIPS by John Lynch
Belfast has a long and proud shipbuilding heritage, the
industry playing a great part in the shaping of the city’s
identity and culture. It was all begun by Robert Hickson,
a Liverpool engineer who arrived in Belfast in 1853 to
run the recently established Belfast Ironworks. He
launched just eight vessels between then and 1858, but
it was his 1854 appointment of a 23-year-old
Yorkshireman as manager which was historic. That man
was Edward Harland, and by 1858 he had taken over
the yard, having engaged one Gustav Wolff as engineer
and draughtsman and the firm of Harland and Wolff was
born. This company, together with Workman Clark and
McIlwaine & Co, had fascinating and turbulent histories.
Amazingly little is known about the 1500 plus vessels
they produced up until the beginning of the 21st century,
with one notable exception - the 46,238 ton Titanic.
Reveals the fascinating stories and stats of all the ships
built and launched in Belfast from 1858-2003. With full
alphabetical ship index and building lists with ship type,
propulsion, construction, displacement, dimensions,
dates, owners and many photos and other illus. 304pp
softback.
£19.99 NOW £8
78230 STEAM JOURNEY
by Roger Siviter
Remember standing on the bridge as
the steam train passed beneath, and
being engulfed in thick black smoke
that made your eyes water.
Throughout Britain steam is still run
on preserved lines, and sometimes
even on mainlines. This is a look at
the later days of steam, starting
with the 1950s when steam engines
were beginning to be phased out, finally disappearing in
1968 from the mainline routes. Also covers industrial
steam and investigates South African steam. Superb
colour and b/w photos. 80pp, 28 x 22cm.
£17.99 NOW £4
77859 LIFEBOAT: Courage on Our Coasts
by Nigel Millard
Since its founding in 1824, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has saved some 140,000 lives at sea, at a
cost of over 600 lives of servicemen. In 2013 it rescued
an average of 23 people a day around the coast of
Great Britain and Ireland. Its 235 stations house boats
that are ready to put to sea at a moment’s notice. This
magnificently produced book honours the dedication of
those crews who freely give their time and occasionally,
tragically, their lives in the face of danger, and their
families who wait for news when the lifeboats are out.
A stunning visual tribute to British coastal waters and
those who inhabit them, it is a selection of over 300
photos taken by professional photographer and RNLI
crewman Nigel Millard. With a clockwise
circumnavigation of the British and Irish coasts, meeting
crewmen and fundraisers. 240pp, colour, 10¾”×9".
£25 NOW £7.50
77148 BRITISH TOY BOATS 1920
ONWARDS: A Pictorial Tribute
by Roger Gillham
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Here a concise yet comprehensive record of products of
the major manufacturers of British waterborne toy boats
from 1920 onwards, plus a listing and description of all
models made, also includes a gripping look at many of
the smaller, lesser-known manufacturers. The most
prolific toy-boat-producing companies were originally
family concerns: the three Lines brothers (Tri-ang), Frank
Hornby (Meccano/Hornby) Frank Denye (Star),
Geoffrey Jenkins (Bowman) and John Sutcliffe
(Sutcliffe). A thumbnail account of the history of the
various companies is included in each chapter and the
final section documents the Lines family. 141 softback
pages 25cm x 25.5cm, 550 colour illus, glossary.
£19.99 NOW £5
Organised by air, land and
water, from canoes to space
craft, limousines to Zeppelins,
here is the evolution of many
types of transportation including
the relationship between mass
transit and the travel experience,
design styles, economics,
entertainment and customised
comfort. See the vibrant modern décor of the QE2
resulting from a successful collaboration of a group of
young British artists, architects and designers who gave
form to the upbeat mood of Swinging London in the
1960s. 143 illus, 240pp in large softback.
£17.95 NOW £4
78157 ADVANCED AIRCRAFT MODELLING
illustrated by Richard Caruana
The Junkers Ju 88A-4, Spitfire, Hawker Tempest, P-47D
Thunderbolt Razorback and Bubbletop, Dauntless SBD-3,
Supermarine 352 Spitfire, Fokker D.XXI (camouflage and
markings), Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9, Messerschmitt Bf
109 and single seat fighter Ki-61 Hien are among the 14
aircraft chosen with text, fact boxes, colours to use,
excellent photography, history and background in this
essential reference for the aircraft modeller. Includes
120 colour profiles, history of camouflage and markings
and 12 award winning models. Aimed at all levels of
modeller with tips for colour mixing, paint brush and air
brush techniques and more. Rendered artworks and
colour and archive photos. Large 178 page softback.
£35 NOW £6.50
78229 AIR FRANCE by Geoff Jones
Air France was formed in 1933, an amalgamation of
several small French airlines. By now, air travel was
becoming more reliable and popular, and by 1938 Air
France carried 104,000 passengers, with a fleet of 47
land planes and 12 seaplanes. After World War II Air
France became state owned and the state still has a
stake in the combined Air France/KLM business. The
1970s were dominated by Concorde, and, in a triumph
of organisation, not least years or political wrangling and
delicate negotiations, cumulated in a simultaneous arrival
of An Air France Concorde and a British Airways
Concorde at New York’s JFK international airport in
1977. Other planes flown by Air France include the De
Havilland Comet, the Vickers Viscount and the Sud
Aviation Caravelle. 160pp. Colour and b/w photos.
£19.99 NOW £5
78437 IMAGES OF WAR:
Flying Legends of World War
Two by Philip Handleman
Allied Force’s WWII bomber,
fighter, trainer and transport aircraft
together with vital data on
development history, combat
record, famous pilots and significant
air battles are presented from a
close up vantage point.
Performance, range and weapon loads are also included
and the unique colour photographs are from the collection
of the late William B. Slate, an aviation photographer
who captured the thrilling perspective from close-up, inflight vantage points from an aircraft flying in formation
with its subject. Dozens of colour and mono photos.
108pp, large softback.
£12.99 NOW £5
76452 LONDON’S CLASSIC BUSES IN BLACK
AND WHITE by John A. Gray
The London Transport “Routemaster” rear entry/exit bus
first hit the streets of the capital in 1954. This superb
selection of fully captioned b/w photos taken between
1948 and 2001 celebrates London’s great buses and the
routes they plied. Gray’s spots the smallest details
pertaining to bus, driver, conductor, passengers, roads,
other vehicles and even street furniture like pillar boxes
and signage which turns this into far more than just a
collection of photos. And the adverts - “Wool, the
Wealth of the Commonwealth”, Capstan Non-Filters and
Eno’s Fruit Salt - wonderful stuff! 96pp, 9"×10", over
130 photos, many full page.
£14.95 NOW £4
76620 MY GOLDEN FLYING YEARS
by Air Commodore D’Arcy Greig
The story begins in France in late 1918 when Greig was
flying FE2b night bombers, then through the early 1920s
as he served in Iraq, piloting Bristol fighters for three
years against rebel insurgents and dissident tribesmen.
Back in England, Greig became an instructor at the
Central Flying School and finally he recalls his
experiences commanding RAF’s High Speed Flight and
participating in the 1929 Schneider Trophy Race. Greig
is the master of practical joking, having fun with
explosives and enjoying daredevil high flying adventures
with other airmen. 276pp, 16 pages of photos.
£20 NOW £6.50
77262 MAP OF EDINBURGH 1893
by W. & A. K. Johnston
Map making skills acquired over two generations
ensured that Johnston’s were considered to be the
foremost mapmakers in the world. The city of
Edinburgh annexed neighbouring districts and viewed
overall, the 1893 map shows a number of elements
uniquely associated with the city. The grid-like
regularity of the New Town streets, begun in the east
around St. James and St. Andrew’s Squares in 1767 is
striking. The majority of the New Town houses were
actually built in the 19th century. Immediately to the
south and bounded by the Castle, gardens and Calton
Hill, the density and complexity of Old Town streets is
immediately apparent. Here too are the newly created
exclusive villa suburbs of the Grange, Blackford and
Morningside. Topography defines the main features of
the map with the volcanic plugs Arthur’s Seat, Calton,
Blackford and Craiglockhart and the Braid Hills. Folded
map.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
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77269 GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY MAP
1924 (Paddington to Penzance)
by Geoffrey Kichenside
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Land’s End, Mounts Bay, St. Michael’s Mount, Newlyn
and Penzance are the destinations on this fabulous
historical map. The Cornish Riviera Limited, one of the
most famous British express trains, was THE holiday
train from Paddington to the historic city of Plymouth,
and the mysterious land of legend beyond the Tamar to
Newquay, Falmouth, St. Ives and Penzance. From the
Paddington area we see Wormwood Scrubs and Kensal
Green Cemetery. With places of interest marked, the
return route is presented on a beautiful, coloured scroll
map of appro eight feet long and seven inches width,
printed on one side. In a glamorous cardboard tube.
£14.99 NOW £6
77423 O. S. NOCK POCKET ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF BRITISH STEAM RAILWAYS AND
LOCOMOTIVES by O. S. Nock
The classic handbook which was first published in 1967,
reprinted 1970, 1975 and 2009, improved on the original
192 coloured illustrations with the second volume seeing
a further selection of historical steam locomotives
illustrated in colour. This standard reference was written
by O. S. Nock who has been as well-loved as his
Blandford Pocket Encyclopedias covering British Steam
Locos and British Steam Railways. Combines the text and
illustrations from both of these two pocket encyclopedias.
386 colour illus of carriages, rolling stock, signals, railway
coats of arms and classic locomotives. Softback.
£9.99 NOW £4
77642 BOEING 747 1970 ONWARDS (ALL
MARKS): Haynes by Chris Wood
A Haynes Owners’ Workshop Manual which describes
the anatomy of this huge aircraft, how it is flown and
operated, and how the engineers keep Boeing’s
bestselling version of its 747 airworthy.
From 22nd
January 1970 the wide-body 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ enabled
airlines worldwide to slash ticket costs. In 2005 a major
redesign of the 747 (747-8) was launched that draws in
technology from Boeing’s 787 model. Pilot and author
Chris Wood sets his gaze on the 747-400 version and lifts
the inspection panels on this most numerous of all 747
models. Refuelling, water servicing, automatic landing,
climbing, cruising, handling, stalling, descent and
approach, all the controls are described, cutaways and
charts, masses of colour photos, diagrams, cutaway
illustration of the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 to first class
luxury is all graphically described. 168pp, large and
colourful pages.
£21.99 NOW £6
77669 PROFILES OF FLIGHT: Panavia
Tornado by Dave Windle and Martin Bowman
Strike, antique-ship, air superiority, air defence,
reconnaissance and electronic warfare fighter-bomber,
the Tornado has been the backbone of the RAF within
its many different theatres of operation. The aircraft
started as a European venture between Germany, Italy
and the UK, based on the original swing-wing
technology invented by Barnes-Wallis. It has also been
successfully exported to two Middle-Eastern air forces
and is likely to remain in service for several years to
come. Our book contains the world famous colour
profiles created by Dave Windle of the type in different
operational modes, configurations and colour schemes.
Includes archive and worldwide quality monotone
photographs. Colour profiles. 88 landscape pages.
£19.99 NOW £8
TRAVEL AND PLACES
Travel and change of place impart new
vigour to the mind.
- Seneca
78643 ITALY: An Illustrated
History by Joseph Privitera
Italy, the cradle of civilisation.
Without Dante, Petrarch,
Michelangelo, Vivaldi, Monteverdi,
Puccini, Quasimodo and Pirandello,
Italy’s history is incomplete. This
history is written in the Renaissance
mode, covering the full variety of
Italy’s achievements and its cultural
contribution to the modern world.
A map of the Boot explains its
geography and two islands, Sicily and Sardinia, then we
begin at the beginning, 478AD, enter the Barbarians and
the Middle Ages. Here are city-states, the Medicis,
Venice, invasions, monarchs, the Napoleonic period,
Garibaldi, the Knight Errant and Count di Cavour, the
most accomplished statesman, the golden age of Italian
opera and more. Many illus, 144pp.
£12.50 NOW £5
78730 PARIS AND
SURROUNDINGS MAP
by Berlitz Motoring Map
Drive in France with confidence
whether you are a seasoned motorist
or first time driver abroad. With a
quick reference to driving rules and
regulations, road signs and common
symbols with their English
translations, French words and
phrases and distance indicators to plan
your journey, our large scale fold out
colour map extends from Rouen,
Chartres, Fontainebleau, Troyes and
Reims in the northwest and the entire
city of Paris, its Péripherique and the wonderful areas of
Montparnasse, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Fully
indexed, scale 1:200,000. Also one for all Francophiles
or armchair travellers. Softback.
£4.50 NOW £3
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78924 EVEREST 1953
by Mick Conefrey
Sub-titled ‘The Epic Story of the
First Ascent’ this is a wonderful
addition to Everest literature. On
the morning of Queen Elizabeth II’s
coronation, the first news ebbed
through to the British public that
Everest had finally been conquered.
Actually beset by crisis and
controversy, both on and off the
mountain, from funding panics to
Sherpa rebellions, hostile press to menacing weather,
John Hunt and his team had to draw on unimaginable
skill and determination to succeed. An intimate insight
into the forgotten personalities behind the ascent,
including Eric Shipton, the enigmatic ‘Mr Everest’, and
Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans who came within 100
metres of being the first to the summit, the book
recounts a bygone age of self-sacrifice and heroism. It
uses letters and personal diaries to reveal the immense
stress of the climbers which they often heard from their
fellow team members. Did Tenzing or Hillary reach the
top first? Ralph Izzard of the Daily Mail even hiked up
to base camp alone to discover the answer, only to be
met with stony silence and a cup of tea. The book
charts how the ascent affected the original team in
subsequent years and its immense cultural impact today.
322pp, eight pages of mainly colour photos.
£20 NOW £7.50
78611 DREAMING OF
TUSCANY: Where to Find the
Best There Is
by Barbara Milo Ohrbach
Private gardens, the finest cooking
schools, the best craftsmen and
workshops, the most elegant
antiques markets, food markets
overflowing with cornucopia of local
produce, tiny museums that open
once in a blue moon, astounding art and, naturally,
outstanding hotels and restaurants that you will not find
on TripAdvisor! Between the book’s covers, related in
spectacular colour photography and with the author’s
infectious enthusiasm, is the essence of Tuscany. Here
are the smells of baking bread, rich espresso, harvested
grapes and herbs, the sounds of campanile bells, idle
chatter over drinks and the echo of footsteps down a
post-lunch empty ancient street and - wow! - the tastes;
peppery olive oil, flaky pecorino, sweet tomatoes,
piquant salami and creamy gelato. Tiny trattorias,
artisan crafts, vineyards that date from Roman times
and those endless azure skies, this book evokes its
subject like no other. Add to that a wealth of practical
insider info on where to stay, how to rent locally and
how to get the absolute best from your visit from local
people. 224pp, colour, 9½”×11".
£12.95 NOW £6
78889 KON-TIKI
EXPEDITION
by Thor Heyerdahl
The spirit-lifting adventure is now
reissued and updated with a new
epilogue. It is the classic tale of
survival against almost
insurmountable odds when, in 1947,
Thor Heyerdahl and five
companions crossed the Pacific
Ocean on a balsa-wood raft. It was
an extraordinary bid to prove
Heyerdahl’s theory that the
Polynesians undertook the same feat on similar craft
over a thousand years ago. From building the model
raft, we are taken deep into the Andes, see Indian
women spinning wool as they walk, the explorers
lashing nine big logs together with hemp ropes, ready to
start in Callao Harbour and under full sail in the open
sea. Cooking, the bamboo cabin, beards, catching fish
to eat, a shark once on deck, tropical heat, coconuts and
reefs and more. 271pp in facsimile reprinted paperback
with sadly rather dark original photos.
£9.99 NOW £4
79065 VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND WALES
1897: West Wales OS Map
by Old House Books
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Covering Anglesey, Holyhead Island, Carnarvon Bay,
Merioneth, Montgomery, Cardigan, Pembroke,
Carmarthen and Brecknock right down to Milford Haven
and Freshwater Bay, Swansea Bay in Glamorgan and
the Gower peninsular, this coloured Ordnance Survey
map sheet three West Wales was first published in The
Royal English Atlas to commemorate the Diamond
Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Four miles to
the inch, coloured folded map. Softback.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
77761 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD:
Antiquity’s Greatest Feats of Design and
Engineering
by Justin Pollard
There are features on 40 great ancient wonders in this
fascinating book. The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant
statue said to bestride the harbour mouth, but modern
archaeology has shown that to be impossible. The
Hanging Gardens of Babylon are perhaps the greatest
mystery. The Great Ziggurat of Ur only exists at its
lowest level, and though it looks like the Pyramids it
was not a tomb but a temple. The Pont du Gard was
the highest and widest aqueduct of the Roman world
and an extraordinary feat of practical engineering. 192pp,
glossary, timelines, colour photos.
77633 WHEN IN ROME:
2,000 Years of Roman
Sightseeing
by Matthew Sturgis
In every age - Classical, Christian,
Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque,
Neoclassical, Romantic or Modern people have flocked to Rome to see
its wonders. The buildings, the
statues, the paintings, the artefacts
that have impressed each generation of travellers from
the time of the Roman Republic in the 2nd century BC to
the present age of mass tourism. What did the wealthy
milords making the Grand Tour in the 18th century
consider the greatest painting of all? And how did this
differ from the choice of the Romantic poets only a few
decades later? The most unusual questions which are
asked and answered in this one-of-a-kind book. 280
pages, colour plates and maps.
£20 NOW £5
78040 ANTARCTICA: A Biography
by David Day
The first ever major international history of the world’s
most forbidding and mysterious continent. For centuries
it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered
continent in the southern hemisphere, but explorers failed
to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific,
Captain Cook sailed further south than any of his rivals,
but he had to be content with claiming sub-Antarctic
islands for King George. It was not until 1820 that the
continent’s frozen coast was finally sighted. Territorial
rivalry intensified in the 1840s when British, American
and French expeditions sailed south to chart portions of
the continent. Here is the story from 18th century
voyages to the explorers of the early 20th century and
rivalries of today as governments, scientists and
environmentalists and oil companies compete for control.
614 heavy pages, 16 pages of photos and a 1703 map
of the world on the endpapers.
£25 NOW £7.50
78106 PALAZZI AND VILLAS OF ROME
by Caroline Vincenti Montanaro and Andrea
Fasolo
This colourful books show 60 buildings which span from
the 15th to the 19th centuries, listed in alphabetical
order. As well as the exteriors, here are rooms filled with
priceless treasures, paintings, fabulous ceilings and
crystal chandeliers. The 16th century Villa Medici was ‘a
home built to enchant and to astonish’, and at one time
amongst its art collection was a Madonna by Raphael, as
well as works by Andrea Del Sarto and Pontormo. The
17th century Palazzo Barberini contains what is probably
the most brilliant baroque decoration in a Roman palazzo,
Pietro de Cortona’s ‘The Triumph of Divine Providence’
with its stunning perspective and glorious colouring.
Paperback, 192pp. colour photos, 19 x 13cm, rare 2001
publication.
ONLY £4
78107 PARIS: An
Architectural Guide
by Heinfried Wischermann
The 228 buildings featured here are
described in both historical and
architectural detail, while the most
important buildings have in-depth
technical descriptions and plans. In
1869, during the construction of a
new road, an oval Roman-style
theatre was unearthed dating from
100 B.C. This Lutetian Arena could
have catered for an audience of
15,000. The Pont Neuf, the oldest intact bridge in Paris,
was built between 1578-1607, and stretches 233 metres
across the Seine. In 1993, after the Louvre’s complete
renovation, which now includes the outstanding glass
pyramid, the sculpture collections and several other
important departments of the museum were finally
moved to their new quarters. Paperback, 148pp, photos,
plans.
£12.50 NOW £5.50
78111 PRAGUE: An Architectural Guide
by Radomira Sedlakova
The first published guide to the architecture of Prague,
covering everything important from the Middle Ages to
the end of the 20th century. Prague is a living textbook
to ten centuries of European architecture. The author
begins with a concise yet well-detailed description of the
city and how it grew, from the earliest records from the
9th century onwards. Then arranged as chronologically
as possible from Romanesque through Gothic,
Renaissance, Baroque, Classicist to 19th and 20th
century buildings, the sites, 208 of them, are described in
full. Here are churches, convents and synagogues,
castles, palaces, grand city dwellings, department stores,
bridges, business headquarters, civic buildings, historic
houses and more, with all historical and architectural
details, technical descriptions and planimetric maps for
the biggest and all location details. Photos, 148pp.
£12.50 NOW £6
78457 FROM CAPE WRATH TO FINISTERRE
by Björn Larsson
£20 NOW £6.75
78012 HERE & THERE: Collected Travel
Writing by A. A. Gill
A travel book? In a way. Musings on life seen from
the cockpit and deck of a yacht? Certainly. It is only
when he is travelling that Björn Larsson feels really
content. Cabo Finisterre, the furthest point of Spain or
Galicia jutting into the Atlantic, is a place Larsson has
seen and sailed past at close quarters, in a northerly gale
that blew up in minutes. He outlines his own biography
in the first chapter of his book. With no possessions
except those that would fit into a boat, he spent four
years in France, 15 in Denmark, one in Ireland, two
years sailing and a total of six years living on board his
boat. This book is based on his sailing Celtic waters.
341pp, foldout map.
£12.99 NOW £3
Mysticism, Islamic piety and animism coexisted
peacefully and for Andrew Beatty and his family, Java
appeared a model for our strife-ridden world, a recipe for
multiculturalism. He lived with his family for 2½ years
in a village in East Java and when he arrived, he was
‘A. A. Gill is Away’ is the monthly column in Gourmet
Traveller, Gill’s perceptive, controversial, colourful and
humorous column. He ponders Italy’s ability to turn
organised crime into a tourist attraction and stumbles
upon lobster-shaped coffins in Ghana. His many travel
pieces collected here will make you more curious about
the world we live in. Remainder mark. 272pp in
paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4
78460 A SHADOW FALLS IN THE HEART OF
JAVA by Andrew Beatty
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entranced by a strange and sensual way of life. But a
harsh and puritanical Islamism, fed by modern
uncertainties, was driving young women to wear the
veil and young men to renounce the old rituals. The
mosque loudspeakers grew strident, cultural boundaries
sharpened and as a wave of witch-killings shook the
countryside, Beatty and his family began to feel like
vulnerable outsiders. Set among the rice fields and
volcanoes of Java. 318pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4
78287 BERLIN
by Rory Maclean
Here is an utterly beguiling and
original portrait of the city of Berlin,
devastated by Allied bombs,
divided by a Wall, then reunited and
reborn. No other city has
repeatedly been so powerful and
fallen so low, and few other cities
have been so shaped by individual
imaginations. We encounter an
ambitious prostitute refashioning
herself as a princess, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her
sexuality, and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city
Germania. Other names worth mentioning include
Frederick the Great, Christopher Isherwood, Bertolt
Brecht, Leni Riefenstahl, Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels,
Bill Harvey and The Tunnel, David Bowie and ‘Heroes’
and more volatile and creative characters. 421pp, illus.
£9.99 NOW £5
76311 LONELY PLANET NEW YORK CITY:
Special Collector’s Edition
by Brandon Presser et al
Get the best out of a trip to New York City, the Big
Apple, with this tried and tested handbook. The top 16
suggestions include Central Park, classic New York eats,
the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge,
the Museum Mile, the inverted ziggurat designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright, MoMA, the High Line which is the
disused railway track offering fantastic views during a
quiet stroll, Williamsburg, jazz in the West Village, and
good old Times Square. Plus an understanding of the
history, arts, architecture, NYC on screen and painting
the town pink. Removable New York City map.
456pp, paperback.
ONLY £3.50
76312 LONELY PLANET PARIS: Special
Collector’s Edition
by Catherine le Nevez, Christopher Pitts et al
The Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysées and Grande
Boulevards, the Louvre and Les Halles, Montmartre and
Northern Paris, Le Marais and Ménilmontant, Bastille and
Eastern Paris, the Islands, the Latin Quarter, St-Germain
and Les Invalides, Montparnasse and Southern Paris,
plus day trips, top itineraries, the top 16, museums and
galleries, what to see for free, nightlife and drinking,
shopping and entertainment, sports and activities. Plus a
little bit of history, fashion, architecture, literary Paris,
painting and the visual arts and music and cinema.
Directory A-Z, transport and language and a Paris city
map. 432pp, colour photos. Paperback.
ONLY £3
76621 A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE EAST
INDIES by Alexander Hamilton
!
Published in 1970 by Nico Israel of Amsterdam, volumes
one to two are bound in one glorious leather gold blocked
binding and has been edited by Sir William Foster in a
facsimile of the 1930 Argonaut Press original. The
importance of Alexander Hamilton’s account of his
experiences in the East (1688-1723) was written after his
great voyages through Europe, to Barbary and to
Jamaica before finally going in 1688 to the East Indies in
his early 20s. After his return from China, Hamilton in
1694 took his first independent venture and appears to
have called at Malacca in 1696. He found the survivors
of the Scottish East India Company’s vessel Speedwell
which, like the Harwich, had been wrecked after
careening. In 1702 he hired the Albemarle for a trading
voyage from Surat to the Malabar Coast and back
(volume one page 165) but whether this was before or
after the Achin venture cannot be determined. The
following year he made his fourth voyage to China in a
ship of 40 guns manned by a crew of over 150 (volume
two page 119). An old friend, now a Sultan, offered him
the present of the island of Singapore, but he refused the
gift! His next voyage was to Bengal and early in July
1705 he anchored off Calcutta with three ships, the
Vintaghurry, the Buckhurst and the St. George. We
follow him to the Red Sea, to Siam, the Persian Gulf and
read about him in the Minutes of the Court of Directors of
the East India Company. Facsimile reprint, 226pp, four
gatefold maps and woodcut illus.
ONLY £11
76795 OCEAN BOULEVARD
by David Baboulene
David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of
romantic dust for the first of his globetrotting adventures.
It takes him across the world and back, from New
Orleans and Houston, Barbados and Jamaica, through
the Panama Canal to Sydney and Melbourne then back
across the Pacific, through the Gilbert and Solomon
Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Azores, to a
triumphant homecoming in Liverpool. Despite the
laughs, the real journey in this strangely moving tale
takes David from boy to man and here are his tall tales
and youthful high jinks, hilarious tours such as the one in
Barbados. 318pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW 80p
77739 LETTERS FROM AMERICA: Travels in
the USA and Canada by Rupert Brooke
Brooke died famously young. In May 1913, the poet
embarked on a year long expedition of North America,
visiting the United States, Canada and finally the South
Seas. He sent his impressions home in a series of
letters, written for publication in the Westminster
Gazette. He reflects on the beauty of arriving by boat
at night in New York, the grandeur of the Niagara Falls
and the Canadian Wildernesses. He is blunt in his
judgements on society, business and cities, playful in his
accounts of Anglo-American relations, and finally
humbled by the vastness of the landscape. With Henry
James’s foreword. 124pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.75
77110 VENICE: A New History
by Thomas Madden
This perfect guide to the magical city of Venice is not
only encyclopaedic, encompassing everything from
Attila the Hun to Katherine Hepburn’s tribulations while
filming Summertime, but also readable and amusing.
Peopling his tale with doges, popes, knights, merchants
and famous figures from Charlemagne to Marco Polo,
and Casanova to Lord Byron, the author explores all
aspects of Venice’s breathtaking achievements. Here
are the stories of its unparalleled navy, its role as an
economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its
popularisation of opera, the stunning architecture of its
watery environs, and more. These are set in the
context of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, the
crusades to the Holy Land and the power of Turkish
sultans. 446 pages, colour plates and maps.
$35 NOW £7
77134 PANTHER SOUP: A European Journey
in War and Peace by John Gimlette
A very special piece of travel writing journeying to past
familiar European landmarks with someone who knew
them in the post-war chaos of the 1940s. By the end of
World War Two, in the hinterlands of France and across
the German plains, what happened to the battlefields?
Who lived on them? Is there any trace of the 2.7 million
Americans who smashed their way into the Reich or the
12 million who followed? With telling testimony from the
survivors linking old and new worlds, ideals and
ideologies. 402pp, paperback, photos.
£8.99 NOW £3
77141 A TRAVELLER’S HISTORY OF GREECE
by Timothy Boatswain and Colin Nicolson
This history will help readers to make sense of modern
Greece. The gazetteer, cross-referenced to the main
text, highlights the importance of sites, towns and
battlefields as well as details of ancient battles. 338
paperback pages with line drawings, maps, a note on
transliteration, spelling and pronunciation, chronology of
major events, heads of state since independence and
historical gazetteer.
£9.99 NOW £1.75
77520 ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK:
From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding
Your Way Out of the Desert
by Mick Conefrey and Adam Burton
Logs some of the greatest and most famous adventurers
ever, to provide a winning combination of intrepid tales
of yesteryear and witty retro tips. How do you survive
a charging elephant? What is the best way to serve
polar bear meat? Where do you find water in a desert?
Includes David Livingstone, Ernest Shackleton and John
Hunt. Discover which famous explorer was cooked by
Hawaiian natives, and who was left on an ice floe in the
Arctic by his drunken captain. 242 pages, line drawings
and maps.
£10.99 NOW £3.50
77571 100 CITIES OF THE WORLD: Book and
DVD by Falko Brenner
Beautifully packaged in a card folder with elasticated
fastener is a spectacular large paperback plus 60 minute
accompanying DVD. We begin in Africa in Algiers and
Tunis and Casablanca, travel across to Asia, throughout
Europe, Central and South America, North America to
Oceania landing finally in Auckland and Wellington. For
each entry there is a geographical location map, facts
about population, places of interest, famous citizens,
famous views in large and small colour photographs,
sights not to miss whether geographical or historical, the
beautiful architecture of Lisbon and Vienna, the colourful
houses of Warsaw, to squares, harbours, churches and
dramatic skylines. 240 page paperback, colour photos,
60 minute colour DVD.
£19.99 NOW £8.50
PETS
It often happens that a man is more
humanely related to a cat or dog than to any
human being.
- Henry David Thoreau
78802 GRUMPY CAT
by Grumpy Cat Cooper
‘If you’re happy and you know
it, get away from me,’ says our
favourite Grumpy cat. Grumpy
Cat lives in Arizona, and doesn’t
care whether or not you’ve
heard of it. He (or possibly she)
says there’s a lot of dirt and
sticks, and it’s mostly barren and
devoid of life, pointing out, ‘It’s
not all desert. Sometimes there’s
something green, like a tree.
Which is the worst.’ Here are plenty of photos of
Grumpy Cat, together with those that share Grumpy’s
life - Dog, Kitten, Cactus. Of them all, if Grumpy does
care about anything, it’s probably Cactus as they can
hang out together, though they don’t talk much, ‘we
mostly just stare off into space and think about things
we dislike.’ Grumpy explains how to get into a grumpy
mood, how to be grumpy, the anatomy of a frown, how
to visualise grumpiness, a grumpy reading list and
grumpy in translation. You even can host your own
grumpy party, complete with a special litter box cake sounds yummy! Grumpy hates the dog as it likes to sniff
inappropriate places with a cold wet nose, and the kitten
because it loves to cuddle and it is constantly saying ‘I
wuv you’. Colour a picture of Grumpy Cat, join the dots
to reveal how Grumpy is feeling, do the Grumpy word
search or the Grumpy crossword where every answer
seems to be No. As Grumpy remarks, ‘I tried looking on
the brighter side of life. It hurt my eyes.’ One to amuse
cat-lovers for hours. Poor Grumpy Cat, he can’t help
having an upside-down smile. Colour illus, puzzles.
£8.99 NOW £5
16 Pets continued
78777 67 REASONS WHY
CATS ARE BETTER THAN
DOGS by Jack Shepherd
Beastmaster and Buzz Feed
websites editorial director Jack
Shepherd purr-fectly pairs witty
text with hilarious photographs
and facts that only National
Geographic can provide in an
age-old battle, cat vs dog. Love reason 64 - cats are
fiercely protective parents. Mother cats love their
kittens almost as much as they love giving penetrating
death stares to anyone with the temerity to mess with
them. On the opposite page a little Chihuahua sits at a
party - ‘This mother dog is enjoying a delicious Margarita
while her puppies talk to strangers.’ Cats and dogs dress
for Halloween, in birthday party hats, caught hiding,
wearing a box entitled ‘Poop Factory’, black cat with his
fangs in a flip-flop, table manners and lap etiquette,
snuggling with babies, as students, having conversations
with their humans, the cat chasing and the dog paddling
with a baby fox, the contrasting pictures are really
funny, have captions and nuggets of wisdom.
Ultimately, it advocates the supremacy of cats.
Softback, colour photos.
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Walkies!
78810 LABRADOR
RETRIEVERS
by Katharina Schlegl-Kofler
78844 MINI
ENCYCLOPEDIA: The World
of Koi by Keith Holmes and
Tony Pitham
‘Alert, friendly, good-natured, and
always eager to please - these are
the qualities that Labradors use to
sneak into our hearts.’ As far as we
know, the St John’s Dog, from
Newfoundland, was the ancestor of
the Labrador, but because of import laws which took
effect in 1895 it became difficult to import the dogs and
so it was necessary to create hybrids from other breeds
with similar characteristics. Thus our much loved
Labradors today possibly include water spaniels and
pointers in their blood. Dog-devotees, particularly Lablovers, will drool over the glorious photos in this largeformat book. Here are Labradors posing, playing, eating
and resting, as well as plenty of adorable tumbling
puppies. A double-page spread shows all the salient
points of a Labrador from the shape of its muzzle to the
otter tail ‘with no feathering.’ Everything you need to
know about caring for your dog is here; choosing, care,
house-training, activity, nutrition, disease, breeding,
development and preventive health care. 11"x 9.5",
144pp, colour illus. Illustrated top right.
78586 ANIMAL WISE: The
Thoughts & Emotions of Our
Fellow Creatures
by Virginia Morell
In eight sections, Stinky Situations,
Messy Matters, Food Foul-Ups,
Sexual Stirrings, Problems with
People, Wilful on Walks, Horrible at
Home and Doggy Damage, each
featured problem is lucidly explained
and its causes analysed. Does your
dog chase your cat? How do you
introduce a new kitten and does
your dog view your pet rabbit as prey? Chasing
joggers, obsessed with following scents, stealing
children’s toys, going crazy when visitors ring the
doorbell, vomiting, digging up the garden, and more, this
superbly presented handbook gives clear guidance on
how to prevent or get rid of misbehaviour. Many
humorous cartoons on the lighter side of the humancanine relationship. Colour photo, 160pp in large
paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
The colourful varieties of koi fish
make them one of the most
charming and relatively easy-tokeep pets. Good filtration and
water quality in your pond are vital
if koi are to remain healthy all year
round. Our mini encyclopedia is packed with sensible
advice and practical guidance looking at equipment and
systems, how to build a pond, and plans and step-bystep sequences for both a liner and a brick-built rendered
pond. Then the best bit - fish and prized exhibits, their
anatomy, nutritional needs, healthcare, breeding and
showing in this richly illustrated guide to all colour
varieties like the spectacular Hikarimoyo, Koromo,
Showa and Hikariutsuri with their metallic lustre and
dark finnage. 208pp in well illus softback, colour photos.
$14.95 NOW £4
Virginia Morell is well-known in the
field of animal behaviour, being a
prolific contributor to Science and
National Geographic. She explores
the frontiers of research on animal
cognition and emotion and offers
some amazing insights into the
hearts and minds of wild and
domesticated animals, suggesting that there are many
parallels between their behaviour and our own. Did you
know that ants can teach, earthworms make rational
decisions, rats love to be tickled and higher primates
grieve? Some dogs have 1,000 word vocabularies,
songbirds practise songs in their sleep, crows improvise
tools, jays can plan ahead and even moths can
remember when they were caterpillars - incredible stuff!
Animal Wise takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the
lives of animals from ants to elephants and wolves to
sharp-shooting archer fish and rival pods of dolphins
engaged in turf wars like something out of West Side
Story. Morell takes us to field sites and labs around the
world and introduces us to pioneering researchers and
their surprisingly intelligent subjects. She probes the
moral and ethical dilemmas of recognising that even
“lesser animals” exhibit memory, feelings and selfawareness. 292 roughcut pages.
$26 NOW £6
78803 GUINEA PIGS: A
Complete Pet Owner’s
Manual by Barron’s
Guinea pigs are among the oldest
domestic animals in South America
with a reputation for being a bit
boring and even a little stupid. But
they are also extremely curious and
adept at learning, provided they
are given the proper
encouragement. They are herd animals and should
never be kept singly. Learn all about their teeth,
tongue, feet, coat, eyes, nose and ears, a day in the life
of a guinea pig, guidelines for happiness, determining
their sex, photography and guinea pig portraits, making
them a welcome home, courtship rituals and parenting,
chubbiness and weight, exciting indoor and outdoor
exercise areas, sickness and health. With informative
and attractive checklists and side bars and handsome
colour photos. 64 page paperback.
BIOGRAPHY /
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OK, we love cats at Bibliophile as you all know, but
Lottie our whippet has chosen this selection!
£16.99 NOW £6.50
78796 DOGGY PROBLEMS
SOLVED by Amanda O’Neill
$14.99 NOW £3.50
78834 TRICK IS IN THE
TRAINING by Stephanie
Taunton and Cheryl Smith
Meet Apple, the Australian cattle
dog demonstrating grapevine, the
figure of eight through the owner’s
legs which looks so impressive. See
Gypsy the Border Collie
demonstrating the hoop jump,
Ketchup the Northern Terrier
demonstrating jumping through your arms and Trouble,
the Mixed Breed demonstrating the Alley-oop for a hug
with his owner seated on a low chair. For each trick
there are prerequisites of sitting or standing, the uses of
each performance, the actions to take, timing, command,
signal and problems. Get him to roll over, take a bow,
play dead, high five or just stay. We have fallen in love
with Matilda, the Basset Hound on page 5! Have fun,
learn new things and at the very least have something
to show off on your walks in the park, or indeed on
YouTube or Facebook! Canine ‘tricks’ are showy
extensions of your dog’s natural behaviour. Also tips on
putting your dog’s training into use for fun, in
competitive shows or even film roles. Instructive and
fun colour photos. 104pp in large softback.
$14.99 NOW £4
78801 GREYHOUNDS: A Complete Pet
Owner’s Manual by D. Caroline Coile
Known since ancient times for its hunting and racing
prowess, the greyhound is increasingly popular and
much loved as a pet, particularly Saving Greys on which
there is a whole special chapter in this informative book.
Describes the origins, anatomy, physical traits,
temperament, feeding, healthcare, training, grooming,
exercise and play activities. Understand your
greyhound’s voice, body language and their meanings
like the smile, the pleading eyes, eye care and teeth,
ear mites, weight reduction diets, watering the lawn and
not the floors and other little accidents and their possible
A life spent making mistakes is not only
more honourable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
causes, first aid, walking and grooming. With checklists
and side bars and colour photos of the most handsome
greys, whites, blacks and our favourite, the brindle. 96
page paperback.
$9.99 NOW £2.75
78845 YORKSHIRE TERRIERS: A Complete
Pet Owner’s Manual by Sharon Vanderlip
The diminutive but spirited Yorkshire Terrier has always
been a favourite and is now one of the most popular
small breed dogs in the world. Who can resist those big
black pleading eyes, long silky coat, blue and tan colours
and diminutive size? With a little bow in their hair, shiny
white teeth and an adoring nature, here are all of the
typical Yorkie origins, behaviour, physical traits,
temperament and more. With expert advice on choosing
and training your dog, feeding, healthcare, exercise and
grooming, health, personality and their meaning, stepby-step directions for everyday care, checklists and
sidebars. Delightful doggie colour photos throughout, 96
page softback.
$9.99 NOW £2.75
78781 BASSET HOUNDS: A Complete Pet
Owner’s Manual by Joe Stahlkuppe
Everything about purchase, feeding and healthcare in
one classy Barron’s handbook from this excellent series
we have acquired packed with information and advice to
help you take good care of your Basset Hound. Looks
at the origins, anatomy, physical traits, temperament,
feeding, healthcare, training, grooming, exercise and play
activities for this calm dog, an ideal companion for
children. Understand his voice, body language and their
meanings, exercising your Basset, grooming, adoption
and selection, safety, training, pack behaviour, the five
basic commands, hunting with your Basset, field trialling
with your Basset, dietary concerns, preventing health
problems, emergency care and more. With dozens of
gorgeous puppies and fully grown elongated dogs in
colour photos. 96pp in paperback.
$8.99 NOW £2.75
78782 BEAGLES: A Complete Pet Owner’s
Manual
by Lucia Roesel-Parent and Debbie Bruce
A Beagle is not an easy pet to keep and requires a lot
from you. You have to remain devoted for 12-15 years
and provide good, constant and ever more expensive
health care. From selecting a breeder and puppy, there
are tips and fact boxes on kennel conditions, puppy
aptitude test on social attraction, following, restraint,
social dominance, retrieving, touch, sight, sound
sensitivity and structure before looking at basic training,
travelling, good and bad toys, Beagles and children,
grooming and healthcare, the proper diet, feeding your
senior or overweight Beagle, what to do if your Beagle
gets sick, body language vs. words, clicker training,
jackpotting rewards, all manner of training, besides the
history of Beagles for work in the field and Beagle
shows. Filled with attractive doggie colour photos, 96pp
in paperback.
$8.99 NOW £2.75
78825 PUG HANDBOOK by Brenda Belmonte
Outgoing and fun loving, the personality of the Pug
attracts young and old alike and life with one is never
dull. Called a Mopsi in Finnish, all of the European
names for the Pug are given and we learn that Prince
William of Orange in 1688 brought with him a large
number of Pugs to Britain. Covering their origins, kennel
club breeding standards, colour and variations,
purchasing your Pug puppy, house training and
destructive chewing, cat chasing, aggression, adoption,
breed rescue, retired pugs, we look carefully at food and
the finicky eater, coat types and making your Pug
pretty with pedicures and wrinkle care, the importance
of training and the tools and equipment to help you and
your Pug, plus health, disease, performing Pugs with
agility and tracking and showmanship, and the life of the
senior Pug. Colour photos, 168pp in paperback.
£10.99 NOW £4
£7.99 NOW £3
78833 TRAINING YOUR PET
FERRET by Gerry Bucsis and
Barbara Somerville
Not quite as cute as a meerkat, but
increasingly popular as family pets,
ferrets are furry, cuddly and
bursting with energy - and very
loveable. If you are thinking about
buying one or already have one,
here is the only book currently on
the market that speaks directly to the issue of training.
The good news is that you can begin ferret training at
any time, though the sooner the better for a happier
ferret and owner. Some ferrets don’t like the smell of
Bitter Apple spray. Tape down a plastic rubber to
protect your carpet. Learn about hazardous houseplants.
Get your ferret to perch comfortably on your shoulder or
hitch a ride in your hoodie. Lots of tricks, safety in the
car, special toys and bedding, winter warmth, walking
on a leash, coming when called, poop safety, it is a nononsense Barron’s publication. Colour photos
throughout, 80 page paperback.
ONLY £3
78275 A GIFT FROM BOB
by James Bowen
Bob is quite a famous cat now; he has featured in
several books like A Street Cat Named Bob, as well as
on YouTube and other media sites. James, at one time a
homeless drug addict, rescued Bob a few years ago and
nursed him back to health. James busks and sells Big
Issue while Bob sits on his shoulder. This wonderful,
warm account tells how James desperately needed to
earn money a few Christmases ago. It was snowy,
bitterly cold, and he had to pay his gas and electric bills
as well as buy some food. It didn’t help when he tripped
on ice and smashed his guitar. Yet people rallied round,
and suddenly James realised how lucky he was to have
so many friends. And Bob was happy too, just so long
as no one tried to rearrange his beloved Christmas tree
which had to be ‘just so’. 178pp, sketches.
£12.99 NOW £5
78528 CAT WIT by Kate May
Quips and quotes for the feline-obsessed and those who
think their magnificent moggy really is the cat’s
pyjamas, here are quotes on fantastic felines to dip your
paw into. ‘I don’t know he’s there until I yawn and my
mouth closes on a whisker.’ ‘Anything not nailed down
is a cat toy.’ ‘A meow massages the heart.’ 191 pages
of cat wisdom, glamour pusses and cat worship since the
days of Ancient Egypt, P. G. Wodehouse to today’s
YouTube videos.
£9.99 NOW £4
76659 DOG HAIR: The Best Doggy Hair-Dos
for Fashion-Conscious Hounds!
edited by Clare Churly
Just as with humans, a new haircut can transform a
puppy, whether you give it an image of carefully coiffed
class, sporty sass or a blast from the past. From the
Mohawk to the mullet, the bob to the beehive, with this
78620 FIRST WELL: A
Bethlehem Boyhood
by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
‘As we began descending the hill
towards the Sultan’s pool, the
ramparts of the old city and the
minaret of David the Prophet
became visible to us, bathed as
they were in the violet twilight of
the setting sun...’ Jabra’s love of
the Arabic language comes through,
even in translation: ‘Words glowed
in my mind’ he writes. ‘I imagine
myself walking on coloured silk carpets spread over the
waves of a wondrous sea of dreams.’ As a child in
British Mandate Palestine, the author recalls daily life in
Bethlehem and Jerusalem with pin-sharp observation.
His writing is funny, moving and tender. His Christian
family, his school friends and the eccentric characters of
the surrounding streets all come to light. Camels, eating,
drinking, barefoot through the dusty streets and rubbish
dumps ‘The heat and sweat were causing my buttocks
to become even more inflamed’, pigs and chickens,
slave girls, shiny oranges and the school and teachers he
loved, the book ends when he is 13 years old. ‘The
beautiful city of Jerusalem was there for me to discover,
neighbourhood by neighbourhood, stone by stone, the
old part and the new, its past and present. There were
also the Egyptian magazines which every week brought
us knowledge, humour and news of Cairo’s political
conflicts and literary battles.’ 216pp in paperback.
£8 NOW £4
78793 DARLING MONSTER
edited by John Julius Norwich
An enticing collection of letters from
the author’s mother that cover the
period 1939-1952. How could they
be dull when his mother was the
aristocratic socialite Lady Diana
Cooper? According to her son, her
bed was her office, and she would
sit there for hours, cross-legged,
writing in pencil so as not to get ink
on the sheets. The letters are
vivacious, gossipy, filled with her
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guide you can explore the short and sweet, the midlength for mutts, and the long-haired hounds, or model
your style on Jennifer Aniston, Pocahontas or Russell
Brand. There are even some hilarious doggy disasters.
96 pages, photos in colour.
£7.99 NOW £2.25
76713 KENNEL CLUB: MY DOG & ME: A
Record Book by The Kennel Club
Comes in user-friendly stiff ring-bound cardboard with
sections for you to enter all the important information
about your dog. Starting with your dog’s name, sex,
colour, breed and date of birth, there are spaces to
record likes, favourites foods, toys and a paw-print.
Pages for details of your vet, kennel, dog walker, pet
store, insurance claims and other important information.
Space to note down health checks, worming and flea
treatments with space to enter your dog’s favourite
places. Ends with a pocket storage to use as a gallery
for photos. 140pp, ringbound folder, colour photos, elastic
fastener for when it bulges!
£14.99 NOW £3.50
77503 SOLOMON’S TALE by Sheila Jeffries
Solomon is an old cat waiting to be reincarnated, a tiny ball
of fur found on a doorstep in the middle of a thunderstorm.
He is born the runt of a litter and with the help of his Angel
learns how to use his Psi-sense, or Satnav as humans call it,
to locate Ellen, who is now married to Joe. Joe, too, grows
to love him, but Joe has problems. He drinks, is violent and
is unable to afford mortgage repayments. There is already a
cat in place by the fire, a flirtatious black and white called
Jessica. 227pp.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
78278 AFTER CLEO CAME JONAH
by Helen Brown
The bestselling author of ‘Cleo’, like many of us, Helen
Brown swore she would never get another kitten.
Some say your previous cat chooses their successor. If
so, what in cat heaven’s name was Helen’s beloved
Cleo thinking when she sent a crazy kitten like Jonah?
But while she was recovering from surgery, an
unscheduled visit to a pet shop resulted in the explosive
arrival of the Siamese kitten. Helen was struggling with
her eldest daughter Lydia whose craving to become a
Buddhist nun in war torn Sri Lanka was matched by
Jonah’s yearning to be an outdoor cat in a decidedly
indoor cat neighbourhood. Heart warming reading.
324pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
78274 CAT IN THE WINDOW
by Derek Tangye
‘I first met Monty in room 205 of the Savoy Hotel. He was
six weeks old, and when I came in the room he was
tumbling, chasing, biting an old typewriter ribbon dragged
temptingly across the carpet. He was the size and colour of
a handful of crushed autumn bracken.’ The Minack
Chronicles tell the story of how Derek Tangye and his wife
Jean left behind their cosmopolitan lifestyle in London to
relocate to a cliff top daffodil farm in Cornwall, where they
lived in a simple cottage surrounded by their beloved
animals. The second in the series and tells of their beloved
ginger cat Monty. 106pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
Biography / Autobiography continued
observations on the world in general. Her husband, Duff
Cooper, ran the Ministry of Information for Winston
Churchill. Diana writes to her son, ‘Papa came home all
right about nine, as Winston dines at seven in a little blue
sort of workman’s overall suit. He looks exactly like the
good pig who built his house of bricks.’ Speaking of a tea
party she held in 1949, with Princess Margaret as a
guest, she wrote ‘She might have been one of our own
daughters - gay and talkative, funny and as attractive
as a mother could wish. We made her talk and tell us
journey stories and good she was about the Pope. “O
he was ever so sweet. I was told I must curtsey to him
three times. I imagined I should have room but when
the door opened he was right there and I went - donk donk - donk into his lap.” I expect donk is the family
word for curtsey, don’t you?’ Anecdotes abound, from
her aged godmother suddenly shuffling off into a corner
and wriggling to remove her drawers as the elastic had
broken to a true story told to her by David Niven of the
way a Commando tricked the Germans on the Channel
Islands into revealing the number of officers and men in
the garrison. Amusing, gossipy, indiscreet; these letters
are a joy. 520pp, b/w illus. Remainder mark.
$40 NOW £10
78923 E. M. FORSTER: A New
Life by Wendy Moffat
Based on extensive research to
Forster’s previously-restricted diaries
at King’s College, Cambridge, this
sensitively written biography is the
first to show how deeply his ideas
on freedom, tolerance, sexuality and
love permeated every aspect and
act of his life and work. One of the
great mysteries in the life of E. M.
Forster (1879-1970) is why, after
the publication of A Passage to India in 1924, he never
published another novel although he lived to be 90 years
old. At the end of his last novel his readers were left
with the melancholy sight of Aziz and Fielding, friends of
different races and cultures, riding out of the novel down
separate paths. It would not be until after his death that
Maurice, his novel of a homosexual affair, would be
published. E. M. Forster led a full and energetic life, as
a successful broadcaster, leading figure in Europe’s
intellectual life and brilliant essayist. Apparently casually
assembled, Abinger Harvest and Two Cheers for
Democracy are two of the most influential 20th century
essay collections. He helped create the more tolerant
world we know today with the support of colleagues
from Lowes Dickenson and Constantine Cavafy to
Christopher Isherwood and Benjamin Britten. 408pp.
16 pages of photos.
£25 NOW £7
78703 WHY BE HAPPY
WHEN YOU COULD BE
NORMAL?
by Jeanette Winterson
The providence of this book’s title is
possibly one of the most telling and
heart-wrenching parts of this
poignant memoir regarding the
author’s lesbianism. Born in
Manchester in 1959 and adopted into
a family of Pentecostal evangelists,
Jeanette Winterson is best known for her prizewinning
semi-autobiographical debut novel Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit. This soul-baring memoir is the story of her
life’s work to find happiness. Growing up with “a
religious zealot disguised as a mother” with two sets of
teeth (matt for everyday and pearlised “for best”) plus a
revolver in the top drawer in a northern industrial town
in the 60s and 70s, frequently locked out of the house
and spending the night on the doorstep, it is a painful
past. Winterson thought she had bested her demons, but
they rose again, sending her on a journey to madness
and back in search of her biological mother, who she
eventually tracked down a few years ago - named Ann,
still living in Manchester and a follower of her lost
daughter’s career. She also reveals that Jeanette’s (or
Janet as she named her) father was a rather handsome
teddy boy, then touchingly texts her after their first
meeting “I hope you weren’t disappointed”. US edition
of 230 roughcut pages.
£14.99 NOW £6
78669 MORTALITY
by Christopher Hitchens and Graydon Carter
Christopher Hitchens was one of the most widely read
and controversial writers of the late 20th and early 21st
century. The articles he wrote for the world’s best
known periodicals, particularly when he got onto the
subject of religion, politics and literature, were typically
incendiary, and his debating style, in which he never
pulled any punches, made him a staple on the talk show
and lecture circuits, as well as many friends and
enemies. It was in June 2010, while on a book tour to
promote his bestselling memoir “Hitch-22” that he was
suddenly struck with an excruciating chest pain which
saw him “deported from the country of the well across
the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady”.
The diagnosis was oesophageal cancer, which had
already spread and the prognosis was not good, which in
typical Hitch style meant he threw himself into
everything with even more gusto than before, despite
often being greatly weakened and in terrible pain.
Through the ensuing 18 months up to his death on 15
December 2011 he adamantly stuck to his atheist
beliefs, refusing to find solace in religion, determined to
meet death head on with his eyes wide open. In this
riveting, brave account of the course of his illness he
describes its torments, the taboos associated with it and
how a terminal disease transforms experience and
changes our relationship with our world. By turns
personal and philosophical - and, remarkably given what
he was going through, always with humour and a
scything wit - Hitchens embraces the full range of human
emotions as the cancer invades ever deeper and he is
forced to grapple with the enigma of imminent death
through a fog of medication and physical torment. An
ultimately tragic but amazingly uplifting account, with a
touching afterword by his wife Carol who “finally gets
the last word”, something she rarely did while her
husband was alive! 126pp.
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78514 WEST’S WORLD
by Lorna Gibb
Born at the end of the Victorian era,
Rebecca West spent her life in
rebellion and was a pioneering
feminist in matters of sex. Her most
famous affair was with H.G. Wells,
who fathered her son Anthony early
in their 10-year relationship and
caused Rebecca endless heartache.
She met him after she had written
an unfavourable review of one of
Wells’s books and their relationship was turbulent, full of
intense passion and intellectual cut and thrust. Wells was
unfaithful to both Rebecca and his wife, and by 1953
Rebecca was looking for some stability in her life. She
was one of the generation who found it difficult to marry
because of the scarcity of young men, and she issued
Wells with an ultimatum. He told her to disregard the
scandal that followed her everywhere, and in despair
she started an affair with Max Beaverbrook. Wells
meanwhile was being pursued by an infatuated admirer
called Hedwig Gattenrigg who slashed her wrists in an
effort to gain his undivided attention. In 1930 Rebecca
married a wealthy man but their marriage soon became
sexless and she looked elsewhere. In 1946 she renewed
acquaintance with a lawyer, Francis Biddle, who was
the primary American judge at the Nuremberg trials, and
Rebecca accompanied him, writing articles for the London
press which were avidly read by the public. When
Rebecca died, Bernard Levin described her reporting as
“unrivalled”. 320pp, photos.
£8.99 NOW £4
77176 HER BRILLIANT
CAREER: Ten Extraordinary
Women of the Fifties
by Rachel Cooke
Sheila van Damm became not only
a theatre owner but a successful
rally car driver in a sport peopled
only by testosterone-fuelled males.
Patience Gray became a successful
cookery book writer. Alison
Smithson succeeded as a female
architect.
Rose Heilbron dominated
the court as a Queen’s Counsel. Trouser-wearing rebels
Nancy Spain and Joan Werner Laurie became
respectively a journalist and an editor. Margery Fish
was a famous plantswoman, and Jacquetta Hawkes an
archaeologist. All showed what women could be
capable of. 324 pages. Archive photos.
£18.99 NOW £2.50
77926 A GULL ON THE ROOF
by Derek Tangye
By the author of the much-loved books collectively
known as ‘The Minack Chronicles’ here are his tales from
a Cornish flower farm. His books told of how he and his
wife Jean left behind their cosmopolitan lifestyle in
London to relocate to a cliff top daffodil farm in Cornwall,
where they lived in a simple cottage surrounded by their
beloved animals. This title is the first in the series,
telling of their departure from the city and how they
came to Minack which would be home to the Tangyes
and their menagerie including Monty the ginger cat.
216pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
77966 CITY LIGHTS & STREETS AHEAD
by Keith Waterhouse
It is 1952 and Keith has arrived in Fleet Street, in the
days of long liquid lunches, of eccentric and inspired
newspapermen and of foreign assignments. In 1959
Waterhouse teamed up with Willis Hall to write the stage
play of his novel Billy Liar. It was the start of a prolific
partnership that produced dozens of scripts for TV, stage
and screen. Waterhouse tells of Hollywood days with
Hitchcock and Disney, and Hollywood nights with the
Rolling Stones and Cap’n Bob Maxwell, the decline of
Fleet Street and his own successful adventures as a solo
playwright with director Ned Sherrin. A lyrical and very
funny memoir. 469pp in omnibus paperback.
£12.99 NOW £5
77985 TIMEBENDS: A Life
by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller dared to enter the fire that surrounded the
most potent sexual myth of the century. His plays have
been performed for over half a century, among them All
My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. This
autobiography recalls his childhood in Harlem and
Brooklyn in the 1920s and Depression, his successes and
failures in the theatre and in Hollywood, the formation of
his political beliefs that, two decades later, brought him
into confrontations with the House Committee of UnAmerican Activities, and his later work on behalf of
human rights as the President of PEN International. He
writes with astonishing perception and tenderness of
Marilyn Monroe, his second wife. First published in
1987, revised edition. 628pp illus paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
77207 EDITH HEAD
Isabella Alston and Kathryn Dixon
The Hollywood costume designer Edith Head produced
sketches for such famous costumes as worn in The
Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Birds,
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Facts of Life, Vertigo, Funny
Face, The Ten Commandments, To Catch A Thief with
Grace Kelly in a magnificent shimmering golden ball
gown, and Audrey Hepburn again in Sabrina among the
famous films with even more famous actors and
actresses and directors. Gloria Swanson in her three
costumes created by Edith Head for Sunset Boulevard,
jungle wear to evening wear in The Jungle Princess,
Edith did it all and dressed a stellar cast of female stars,
both in character and as themselves including Lucille Ball,
Barbara Stanwyck, Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor and
Doris Day among them. Her style acumen stretched
from the exotic, historical costume she designed for
Samson and Delilah and the Ten Commandments to the
classic, timeless costumes she designed for Roman
Holiday and To Catch a Thief. Our book is a sampling
of her most famous works. 96 pages, colour and b/w
photos and movie index.
ONLY £5
78299 HOW DID I GET HERE
FROM THERE?
by Claire Rayner
For 40 years Claire Rayner listened
to the nation’s stories. It is no
secret that happiness was spread a
bit thinly in her far-from-easy
childhood. Born in Stepney, East
London, with a father always on the
run and often with his family in tow
meant the family constantly
changed addresses and sometimes
even their names. Then when she
was 14, pretending she was 17, Claire enrolled as a
nursing cadet at the Epsom Cottage Hospital in Surrey,
and found her vocation, caring for and helping others.
She eventually became the advice columnist
extraordinaire, at one point receiving 1000 letters a
week. 434pp, paperback, photos.
£8.99 NOW £4
78181 THERE WAS A COUNTRY: A Memoir
by Chinua Achebe
Born in Nigeria to Igbo parents who had converted to
Christianity, Achebe distinguished himself academically
at a very early age. Achebe went on to the
Government College in Umuahia, where English was
spoken and many of the teachers had degrees from
Cambridge. He won a major scholarship to university in
Ibadan and felt pressured into studying medicine, though
he later changed to the Arts, losing his funding. Achebe’s
first job was with Nigerian broadcasting and here he met
his wife Christie. In 1966 an even greater disaster befell
the country with the massacre of Igbo Nigerians by the
dominant northerners. The Biafran war followed in which
Achebe supported the Biafrans who had seceded. He
narrowly escaped being killed when his house was
bombed, and his friend Christopher Okigbo was killed
fighting. Achebe progresses during the book from being a
highly educated product of the colonial system to a
passionate critic of its legacy. 333pp, paperback.
$17 NOW £5
78304 LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL
DOWNTON ABBEY
by The Countess of Carnarvon
Almina Carnarvon was an enormously wealthy heiress,
the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild. She
was contracted in marriage to the fifth Earl of Carnarvon
who most famously discovered the tomb of
Tutankhamun with Howard Carter. The book is about
this extraordinary woman, the family into which she
married, Highclere Castle that became her home, the
people who worked there, and the transformation of the
Castle when it became a hospital for wounded soldiers
during WW1. Almina expected a life of sumptuous
banquets and expensive dresses when she married at
19. But life at Highclere changed forever and Almina
and her staff were forced to draw on their deepest
reserves of courage. 310pp, paperback, colour illus.
£9.99 NOW £5
78305 LADY CATHERINE AND THE REAL
DOWNTON ABBEY
by the Countess of Carnarvon
In 1922 the young Lord Porchester, known as Porchey
to his friends, married the beautiful American Catherine
Wendell. Porchey’s father was Lord Carnarvon, the
discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamen, and shortly
after their marriage Carnarvon died suddenly, leaving
Porchey as the heir to Highclere Castle, now known to
millions as the setting of Downton Abbey. The
Porchesters’ marriage began to suffer because of
Porchey’s affairs, and in the mid-thirties he developed a
more serious relationship with Tanis Montagu, a member
of the wealthy Guinness family. Meanwhile Catherine,
who was a close friend of Prince George, had
opportunities to observe the struggles of his brother
David, the heir to the throne, to gain acceptance for his
divorced mistress Wallis Simpson. Catherine finally had
to agree to a divorce from Porchey, who set off to meet
Tanis in New York, only to find that she had a new
lover and was no longer interested. Catherine herself
later found happiness with Geoffrey Grenfell until his
death in combat. See the convoluted relationships of this
aristocratic family. 350pp, photos.
£20 NOW £6
78320 THE PRINCE, THE PRINCESS AND THE
PERFECT MURDER by Andrew Rose
The strikingly attractive Marguerite Alibert, better
known in Paris as Maggie Meller, had a ‘crazy physical
attraction’ with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward
VIII and Duke of Windsor, long before his relationship
with Wallis Simpson. On trial for her life, she was
married to ‘Prince’ Ali Fahmy, her bestial and sexually
perverted Eastern husband. Enormous riches, couture
by Chanel, jewellery by Cartier, accessories by Louis
Vuitton. The terrifying dénouement of a tempestuous
marriage. Shots fired amid a violent thunderstorm.
Sudden death in the luxurious Savoy hotel in London.
Triumphant acquittal against the weight of the evidence.
This book describes the first physical and emotional
obsession of the prince and lifts the veil on the affair
between Marguerite Alibert and the Prince of Wales
during the Great War, about the Prince’s love letters to
Marguerite and evidence from her 1934 memoir. 357pp,
paperback, photos.
£9.99 NOW £5
78333 WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A Life
by Barry Miles
No one since Burroughs has taken such literary risks,
developed such individual political ideals, or produced
works spanning such a wide range of media. He is
widely regarded as the original cult figure of the Beat
Movement and with his publication of Naked Lunch,
which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a
guru to the 60s youth culture. His biographer follows
Burroughs from his Midwestern origins in St Louis to his
foray into the pre-war Harvard gay scene. Communal
living gave birth to the Beat Movement at Columbia
University, ex-patriot culture in Mexico City, Peru and
Tangier, the Beat Hotel in Paris and the punk scene in
1970s London, all the while battling and balancing
addiction. 718pp, many photos.
£30 NOW £6.50
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77130 IT WASN’T ME, SIR!
The Childhood and
Schooldays of Bernard Carter
by Bernard Carter
In a style best described as verbal
slapstick, this book recounts the
young life of a boy, set in and
around a new post-war estate in
Derby. Children spent their school
days dodging flying chalk, airborne
blackboard rubbers and other
missiles. There was no escaping
the trauma and misery of Sports
Day, the mortifying experience of the Christmas nativity
play or the ghastliness of a recorder concert. As boys
matured, more agony was piled on with sweethearts,
girlfriends, lost loves. 190 paperback pages.
£9.99 NOW £4
65266 STIRRED BUT NOT SHAKEN: The
Autobiography
by Keith Floyd and James Steen
Keith was one of the first celebrity chefs, the
swashbuckling cook who crossed the high seas on a BBC
budget and communicated his love of food to millions of
viewers. He has made and lost fortunes, been married
four times, and dealt with a level of fame that has
bemused him. In this honest and revealing memoir, he
whooshes the reader through his adventures, from the
hilarious to the downright lunatic. 349 pages with colour
and b/w photos.
£18.99 NOW £6
76485 SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS: People and
Places by Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs visits Leeds, Birmingham, Chicago and
Melbourne among places that figure in his own ‘map of
learning’, a term that he was the first to use. He also
speculates on time travel, the history of wine and sport.
His career has been as unconventional as this book and
outside academic life he focuses on his wide range of
friends including John Reith, Dennis Foreman, Harold
MacMillan, Jim Callaghan, Denis and Edna Healey,
Richard Crossman, Penelope Lively, P. D. James and
John Sainsbury among them. 242pp, colour photos.
£19.99 NOW £3.50
77048 LAST LION: Winston Spencer Churchill
by William Manchester and Paul Reid
!
The much-heralded third and final volume of William
Manchester’s biography of Winston Spencer Churchill
‘Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965’. Beginning shortly
after Churchill became Prime Minister when Great Britain
stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi
Germany, Churchill organised his nation’s military
response and defense, compelled FDR to support
America’s beleaguered cousins and personified the ‘never
surrender’ ethos that helped to win the war. We see
Churchill driven from office, rising to warn the world of
the coming Soviet menace and hear him speak in
opposition to the socialist policies of the Labour
government. After his triumphant return to 10 Downing
Street, we follow Churchill as he pursues his final foreign
policy goal - a ‘summit at the top’ with President Dwight
Eisenhower and the Soviet chiefs. Hobbled by ill health
and age, he faces the end. Completed by Paul Reid
after William Manchester’s series of strokes. A
monumental 1182 pages. Remainder mark.
$40 NOW £14
77177 HOUSE IN SOUTH ROAD
by Joyce Storey
Born near Bristol in 1917, Joyce began her
autobiography at the age of 66. It follows her pre-war
life in Bristol, an era of corset and chocolate factories, of
‘service’ and glamorous silent movies. During the war,
like countless other women with an RAF husband rarely
on leave, she fights on the home front - air raids, inlaws, machine work and poverty. Then after the war,
Joyce begins to enjoy the luxury of a prefab house, first
holidays, the growing independence of her four children,
but suffers a breakdown in her marriage and her
husband’s final illness. 436pp, paperback, family photos.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
77480 IN PLAIN SIGHT: The Life and Lies of
Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies
This fascinating book tells the story of Savile’s life based
on the author’s interviews with Savile himself, with his
friends and with people who saw what was going on.
Interspersed with the life is the story of how the BBC
axed the Newsnight programme and then found
themselves under investigation for a cover-up. Far
stranger and more horrifying then any fiction, the book
reveals details of Savile’s early life as the youngest child
of seven and his lifelong closeness to his mother, his
wartime experiences as a miner and his stellar career as
a DJ. Numerous women now testify to Savile’s criminal
disregard. Bureaucrats who had heard the rumours were
urging caution, knowing that anyone who spoke out
would be ridiculed. 584pp.
£18.99 NOW £6
77648 THE CHURCHILLS: A Family Portrait
by Celia Lee and John Lee
Our story focuses on four members of the immediate
Churchill family - Lord Randolph, his American wife
Jennie, and their sons Winston and John (Jack). Lord
Randolph Spencer Churchill was the second son of the
7th Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, John and
Frances Churchill, who lived at the stately Blenheim
Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. In 1874, Lord Randolph
married the stunningly beautiful Miss Jenny Jerome of
New York. Jenny would become an established society
hostess, befriending Edward, Prince of Wales, and
Princess Alexandra. The Churchills’ younger son John
served as an army officer in first the Boer War and the
First World War. This is the first complete family portrait
and Jack’s story is essential to understanding the family
dynamic. Looks in depth at financial worries and career
development, Jennie’s work on the ‘Anglo-Saxon
Review’ and the Hospital Ship ‘Maine’ during the Boer
War, Gallipoli, Downing Street 1929-1940, Their Finest
Hour 1940-45 and The End of It All, 1945-65. 272pp,
paperback.
£10.99 NOW £4.50
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74635 PENGUIN ENCYCLOPEDIA
edited by David Crystal
Easy-to-use with world and political maps, clear headers,
28,000 entries from current affairs to sport, history to
science, maps and diagrams. From Frank Muir and the
Mujahideen, paper to Portuguese literature. 3rd edition,
heavyweight 1488 pages.
£30 NOW £13
76632 UNSINKABLE: A Memoir
by Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway
Debbie Reynolds is an actress, comedienne, singer,
dancer and author, best known for her roles in the films
Singing in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
She invites readers into the close circle of her family and
stories featuring Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Frank
Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Gene Kelly and more. 306 pages
illus in colour and b/w.
£17.99 NOW £7.50
76008 1000 NUDES: A History of Erotic
Photography from 1839-1939
Uwe Scheid Collection
by Hans-Michael Koetzle and Uwe Scheid
Ranging from the earliest nude daguerrotypes and
ethnographic nude photographs to experimental nude
photography. All the pictures shown are taken from the
late Uwe Scheid’s collection of erotic photographs of
nudes, dating mainly from the 1920s and ’30s. 5.5 x
7.7", 576 pages. Hundreds of b/w adult-only images.
Text in English, French and German.
ONLY £13
74003 GAUGUIN CÉZANNE MATISSE: Visions
of Arcadia by Joseph J. Rishel
This superbly illus catalogue focuses on three
monumental paintings - Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We
Come From? (1897-8), Paul Cézanne’s Large Bathers
(1900-1906) and Henri Matisse’s Bathers By A River
(1909- 1913, 1916-17). Masterpieces by Nicolas Poussin
and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot also serve as examples
of the high value given to Arcadia in the history of
French painting. 243 pages 31cm x 25cm with plates in
faithful colour, gatefold.
$40 NOW £12.50
75895 RIPPEROLOGY: A Study of the World’s
First Serial Killer by Robin Odell
Don Rumbelow in the foreword, points out that as a
serial killer the Ripper is in the small-time league, with
the number of his victims usually agreed at five - far
fewer than Harold Shipman. Other suspects reflected
the prejudices of the times. The author surveys the
whole of the literature and assesses the evidence about
the gruesome murders committed in 1888. 272pp, illus.
£20.50 NOW £7
75681 TRIALS OF THE DIASPORA: A History
of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
Anthony Julius unpacks English anti-Semitism in all its
manifestations. Following the medieval Expulsion of
Jews and their 17th century Readmission, the process of
emancipation was slow, though the author notes that
many restrictions on Jews applied to other nonProtestants. Covers the full range of 20th century antiSemitism from the Balfour Declaration and the Palestinian
Mandate to the exclusion of Jews from golf. 811pp.
£25 NOW £8
74696 JEWELS OF TIME: The World of
Women’s Watches by Roberta Naas
Features 100 watches with large photos accompanied by
inspirational texts, sometimes poetic, sometimes historical
or descriptive. Including Cartier’s tiger, lemur and
tortoise designs, Chopard’s monkey and penguin and
Boucheron’s jewelled elephant. 304pp, spectacular colour
photos. 28 x 26cm.
£45 NOW £14
75516 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF
BRITISH FOOTBALL: Facts, Figures, Stats, and
Legends, Updated Edition by Tim Hill
From 1900 to the present day, this detailed book charts
the key events in the history of British football with
photos from the Daily Mail archives. It records a time
when players wore knickerbockers and tasselled caps,
shocks and controversies, tactical developments and rule
changes and statistics. 240 pages, colour and b/w.
£16 NOW £6.50
76895 BERTIE: A Life of Edward VII
by Jane Ridley
The elder son of Queen Victoria and Albert. Edward
VII gave his name to the Edwardian Age but was
always known as Bertie. He was 59 when he finally
came to power in 1901. This richly entertaining
biography reveals his power struggle with Queen
Victoria. Denied any proper responsibilities, Bertie spent
his time eating (TumTum), pursuing women (Edward the
Caresser), gambling, and race meetings. With family
trees, photos and page marker. 608pp.
£30 NOW £8
77628 SHAKESPEARE ALMANAC
by Gregory Doran
A cornucopia of intriguing details about the life and times
of England’s most adored playwright. It is a day-byday calendar of the poet’s year, following the rural
farming cycle of lambing through sheep-shearing to
Harvest Home, Candlemas to Hocktide. Every passing
month is enhanced by quotations or the flowers and
plants as they bloom, as well as the animals and birds
with appropriate illustrations. Some days are
accompanied by extracts from influential books of the
period. 400 pages 25cm x 19.5cm, illus.
£20 NOW £8.50
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76996 I HEART PARIS SHOPPER: 17 x 11 x
6" by Rutu Modan
Beautifully designed shopping bag, short carry handle in
bottle green. The design features an outdoor café
brasserie scene. On the reverse side a couple buzz by on
their scooter in a bustling Parisian street scene. 95%
recycled material, with a handy wallet inside.
ONLY £6.50
75523 THE GLASGOW BOYS IN YOUR
POCKET by William Hardie
Sir John Lavery, Sir James Guthrie, George Henry,
Edward Atkinson Hornel, Joesph Crawhall, Edward
Arthur Walton and William Kennedy formed the main
group of painters associated with a Glasgow school,
known as the Glasgow Boys. They revolutionised
Scottish painting in the years between 1880 and 1895.
Looks at decoration, realism, background and contains
short biographies. Satin bookmark, 192pp.
£9.99 NOW £5
76880 PANORAMA OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
by Dorinda Outram
Illustrated account of the crucial and profoundly exciting
intellectual revolution that, between the late 17th century
and the final years of the 18th, changed the Western
world. Scientific research and advances in medicine, the
first dictionaries and encyclopedias to new attitudes
towards marriage and the rights of women. 320 pages
29cm x 23cm, 153 colour and 234 b/w illus, timeline,
chronology, biogs of the major personalities of the era.
£29.95 NOW £8.50
75786 GLORY OF THE SULTANS
by Yves Porter and Gerard Degeorge
As exquisite and finely tooled as the Islamic architecture
in India it depicts, this cloth bound tome has spectacular
full page and other colour illus plus architectural scale
plans and a map of the Indo-Pakistani sub-continent.
Masterpieces as the Kutub Minar in Delhi and the Taj
Mahal of Agra. Onion domes, minarets, Persian arches,
fine white marble alternating with the blaze of sandstone,
curved arcades, who the buildings were created for, from
Gujarat to Bengal, and Kashmir to the Deccan. Close up
and full page colour photos, 304 heavyweight glossy
pages, 9½” x 12", slipcased, glossary.
£50 NOW £23
77393 WORDS THAT BURN: How to Read
Poetry and Why - Poems from Eight Great
Poets: Book and CD by Josephine Hart
The poetry of Elizabeth Bishop is read by actors Charles
Dance, Robert Browning by Robert Hardy and Lord
Byron by Eileen Atkins, Edward Fox and Tom
Hollander. John Milton by Emilia Fox, and Percy
Bysshe Shelley by Alan Cox and Dominic West - all
recorded live at the British Library. 272 pages, illus,
actors’ notes and index of first lines, plus CD.
£16.99 NOW £6
75174 COMPLETE PROPHECIES OF
NOSTRADAMUS by Mario Reading
Michel de Nostredame (1503-66, and henceforth known
as Nostradamus) wrote down his prophesies, called the
Centuries, in 1555, and one of the first and most
dramatic occurred in 1559, when his prediction of the
exact manner and cause of the death of Henri II of
France came true. He predicted the assassination of
Benazir Bhutto, the 2008 Credit Crunch, New Orleans’
flooding, the Iraq War, the Twin Towers disaster. 931pp.
$24.95 NOW £7.50
75639 IL DUCE AND HIS WOMEN: Mussolini’s
Rise to Power by Roberto Olla
In the first biography to offer insights into Mussolini’s
private life, using his own complete works and the
recently published memoirs of two of his lovers, the
author charts the main events in Mussolini’s career, from
his humble beginnings in Romagna onwards. No
intimate detail is spared. 486 pages, photos.
£25 NOW £7.50
77432 CHARLES CONDER 1868-1909
by Ann Galbally and Barry Pearce
Moving to Melbourne in 1888 Charles Conder was soon
taken up into Melbourne’s bohemian artistic circles, but
Paris was the centre of Western art, so it was in
Montmartre he moved in 1890 but it was London that
really fascinated him and in 1895 he moved to Chelsea.
Published to coincide with a major retrospective of
Conder’s work in Melbourne and Sydney in 2003-4, with
over 100 reproductions of his paintings, prints and
watercolours. Beach and seaside watercolours of English
resorts such as Newquay, Brighton and Swanage, ladies
in their Edwardian finery and studies of the decadent
society of Paris and London at the turn of the century.
208pp softback, colour, 9½”×11½”.
ONLY £15
76456 A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF GLENCOE
by Bill Birkett
Glencoe plunges from the desolate wilds of Rannoch
Moor to the sea and the burial islands of Eilean Munde.
This collection of photos shows the seasonal changes
with a wealth of information concerning the region’s
history, wildlife, geology, myth, legend and lore. 100
spectacular colour photos, 112pp, 10"×10½”.
£12.99 NOW £6
75425 PRINCES OF WALES: Royal Heirs in
Waiting by David Loades
For over 700 years, the title Prince of Wales has been
awarded to royal heirs waiting to accede to the throne of
England. From the charismatic soldier the Black Prince
and the dissolute prince Hal, to the ill-fated Arthur,
Henry and Frederick, whose deaths shook the societies
of their time. Illustrates how the role, be it in medieval
chivalry or Tudor myth-making, Regency excess or
1920s glamour, reflects and defines the spirit of its age.
280 pages, paintings, photos and original documents.
£18 NOW £6.50
76684 THE KILLS by Richard House
Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2013, this is an epic
novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books: Sutler,
The Massive, The Kill, and The Hit. Moving across
continents, characters and genres, this ambitious novel
begins with a man on the run and ends with a burned
body. 1010 page omnibus softback.
£14.99 NOW £4.50
77149 FAMOUS REGIMENTS OF THE BRITISH
ARMY: Volume One A Pictorial Guide and
Celebration by Dorian Bond
Here, 35 of the most famous regiments are featured,
with details of their battle honours, their badges, their
most famous sons, and the stories of gallant actions by
holders of the Victoria Cross. Artworks and photos
illustrate insignia, uniforms and soldiers in action.
Flanders, Ireland, America, Africa, the West Indies, the
Crimea, from Ramillies to Talavera and Waterloo to
Arnhem. 192 pages 25.5cm x 20cm, illus.
£18.99 NOW £8.50
74801 TONY BENNETT IN THE STUDIO: A
Life of Art and Music Book and CD
by Tony Bennett and Robert Sullivan
A celebration of Tony Bennett’s lifelong dedication to his
passion for painting and singing. He reflects on times he
has shared with, and lessons he has learned from, the
likes of Frank Sinatra, Pearl Bailey, Louis Armstrong,
David Hockney and more. Richly illus with 200
reproductions of his artwork. 212 pages 29.5cm x 27cm.
Discography, art and FREE MUSIC CD of six tracks all
performed by Tony Bennett.
$29.95 NOW £8.50
75954 RESEARCH YOUR SURNAME AND
YOUR FAMILY TREE by Dr. Graeme Davis
Provides practical activities to investigate the meaning of
any British surname. Discover how old it is, where it comes
from, and what association it has today and how you can
use it to chase your ancestors. 213pp, illus softback.
£9.99 NOW £5
72051 LAUGHING GAS by P. G. Wodehouse
Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of
American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of
Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his
wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both
are under anaesthetic at the dentist’s when something
strange happens, and their identities are swapped in the
ether. 286pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
75831 SEX WITH KINGS by Eleanor Herman
The rise of the royal mistress in European courts was
sudden. Madame de Pompadour was beautiful, gracious
and practically ruled France for 19 years. An irreproachably
researched and amusingly written history of European
monarchs’ jezebels. Written with a key eye for politics and
pleasure. 288pp in paperback, colour plates.
ONLY £4
76755 REALISM IN 20TH CENTURY
PAINTING by Brendan Prendeville
The author uses the work of Eakins, Bellows, Vuillard,
Schiele, Hopper, Giacometti, Balthus, Freud and
Hockney among others to provide the historical, artistic
and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist
turn. 192 fully captioned illus, and current whereabouts
of each artwork. 224pp softback.
ONLY £6
73871 ALEXANDER: Destiny and Myth
by Claude Mossé and Paul Cartledge
From his ascension to the throne of Macedon in 336 BC
to his stunning conquest of Darius III’s Persian empire,
through his Indian campaign, and to his premature death
aged 32, the book reconstructs the major stages of his
reign. Here is the idea of him as a mythical hero from
antiquity to the present time, as reflected in ancient,
medieval, early modern and 20th century words and
images. 244 pages with chronology, map.
$22.95 NOW £6
75304 LA FOLIE BAUDELAIRE
by Roberto Calasso
Calasso turns his focused attention to the poets and
writers of Paris in the 19th century who created what
was later called ‘the Modern.’ His protagonist is Charles
Baudelaire, a poet of nerves, art-lover, pioneering critic.
Calasso ranges through his life and work, focusing on two
painters, Ingres and Delacroix about whom Baudelaire
wrote acutely. He then turns to Degas and Manet. In a
mosaic of stories, insights, dreams, close readings of
poems and commentaries on paintings. Illus, 337pp.
£35 NOW £8
76624 SEX PRESS: The Sexual Revolution in
the Underground Press 1963-1979
by Vincent Bernière and Mariel Primois
From 1963 to 1979, Oz, Other Scenes, Yellow Dog, The
East Village, Berkeley Barb, Actuel, Suck, Screw and many
other journals, magazines, fanzines and underground presses
were the voice of a dramatic sexual revolution. Artists such
as R. Crumb are showcased together with huge sized
reproductions of these revolutionary publications. Big and
bold, boobs, pubes, snogging, experimentation, lubes, dildos
and much more of the era both from Europe and the US.
240 pages, 8½ x 13", softback.
£25 NOW £9
74019 CLAPTON: The Ultimate Illustrated
History by Chris Welch
This sumptuous book is not only crammed with wonderful
pictures but also aims to assess Clapton’s appeal and
achievement. His first band was the Roosters, and when he
at last got a call - though he had no phone - from a serious
Blues band, the Yardbirds, Clapton was on his way to the
top. In 1965 Clapton quit the Yardbirds and the following
year Cream was formed. 256pp, colour photos, features on
his guitars, discography.
£25 NOW £9
74023 THE WOODBOOK
by Romeyn Beck Hough
Assembled between 1888 and 1913 ‘American Woods’ originally published in 14 volumes is a work of
breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for study
of trees and wood. Taschen’s Wood Book reproduces, in
painstaking facsimile, all of the specimen pages from the
original volumes. For each tree, three different crosssection cuts of wood are represented (radial, horizontal,
and vertical), demonstrating the particular characteristics
of the grain and the wealth of colours and textures to be
found among the many different wood types.
Multilingual edition in English, French and German. 768
pages, 6.6" x 9.6".
ONLY £18
77064 MOOMIN WALL DECALS
by Tove Jansson
The Moomin characters will make any children’s playroom or
bedroom simply magical. These 30 stickers can be
repositioned and will not leave marks on walls. The big
pack includes two 12 x 12" full colour sheets and two 12 x
24" full colour sheets featuring scenes of the Moomin and
friends at play; Moomintroll, Moominmamma and
Moominpappa, Snork Maiden, Little My, Mymble, Snufkin.
$24.95 NOW £5.50
75167 THE FABER BOOK OF LONDON
edited by A.N. Wilson
What sets London apart from the other great capital cities
of the world is that it has evolved in a gloriously
haphazard manner. Here are high life and low life,
beggars and politicians, criminals, royals, intellectuals and
criminals, and, of course, the buildings and byways,
railways and canals, the street level and subterranean.
493 paperback pages.
£14.99 NOW £5.50
77298 MICROSOFT WINDOWS 8 MADE EASY
by James Stables
Windows 8 has been designed to make using PCs easier.
Packed with Hot Tips, colour photos, big clear screen
shots, setting up your email, using your camera and
photo Apps, backing up, keyboard shortcuts and all the
basics. Large softback, step-by-step illus. 256pp.
£9.99 NOW £5
78400 INTERNET MADE EASY FOR THE OVER
50s by Which? Books
Buy weekly groceries, ordering prescriptions and
healthcare items online, using price comparison sites, tips
for buying and selling goods on eBay, setting up a
PayPal account, and more. Step-by-step advice, screen
shots, the book assumes no prior knowledge. 224pp,
large softback.
£10.99 NOW £5
75791 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF HENRY
JAMES introduced by Philip Rahv
The ten novellas in this marvellous hardback omnibus
are: Madame de Mauves, Daisy Miller, An International
Episode, The Siege of London, Lady Barberina, The
Author of Beltraffio, The Aspern Papers, The Pupil, The
Turn of the Screw and The Beast in the Jungle. With
biographical introduction, 382pp.
$30 NOW £7
73959 HIGH HEELS: Fashion, Femininity,
Seduction by Ivan Bartanian
Mostly colour photos of models teetering on heels,
dressed and semi-clothed, nearly nude, stockings,
blindfolded, cuffed and chained, lipsticked, sleek haired,
in lingerie, in bondage, in Polaroids and in studios. 192
huge pages and photography from amous names.
$49.95 NOW £10
76117 PATRICK LICHFIELD PERCEPTIONS
by Martin Harrison
A cousin of the Queen, Patrick, Earl of Lichfield was able
to take informal photographs of the Royal Family and
their circle. He inhabited a world of beauty, class and
style creating some of the 20th century’s most iconic
images. 224 pages 30.5cm x 25cm with peerless photos.
Colour and vibrant b/w.
£30 NOW £10
74260 VENETIAN GLASS MOSAICS 18601917 by Sheldon Barr
The 1850s found Venice in a deplorable state.
Fragments from both San Marco and Santa Maria
Assunta on Torcello were being detached and sold to
wealthy tourists. A lawyer called Antonio Salviati found
two similarly inspired allies, the Muranese abbot and
glass historian Vincenzo Zanetti and the Mayor of
Murano, Antonio Colleoni, who wanted to resurrect the
moribund industries. This compelling account relates
how these three men set about revitalizing a number of
industries. This volume records such splendours as the
amazing mural depicting Aurora and Cephalus on the
vault of the avant-foyer of the Opéra Garnier, Paris.
143 pages 30.5cm x 24.5cm. Colour.
£39.50 NOW £14
77367 DYING FALL by Elly Griffiths
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway spends her life
looking at death, but now death has found her, with the
news that her friend Dan Golding has been killed. Her
grief soon turns to suspicion when she receives a
desperate letter from Dan sent the day before he died.
405pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
75790 GREAT PEARL HEIST
by Molly Caldwell Crosby
This true story opens in 1909. A fabulously wealthy
jeweller will be handing over gems worth a fortune in
the Piccadilly cafe. The pink pearl heist took place in
1913 when a necklace was stolen from Hatton Garden’s
legendary dealer Max Mayer. The pearls are being
returned by post from France following a loan to a
prospective customer and Grizzard puts his Scotland Yard
men in place as postal workers ready to intercept the
pearls en route. Would anyone be prepared to give
evidence in court? 288pp, photos.
ONLY £4
77306 GARDENS THEIR HIDDEN LIFE:
Unnoticed Plants and Unseen Animals
by Colin Spedding
Intended for gardeners who enjoy wildlife, this
magnificent volume explores the garden environment,
discussing how plants and animals communicate. You can
be landlord to water boatmen, voles, pygmy shrews,
pond skaters, nymphs, yellow-necked mice and more.
Covers specific environments such as ponds and bog
gardens. 320 pages 25cm x 19.5cm, colour photos.
£25 NOW £7.50
73893 MARY BOLEYN: The Mistress of Kings
by Alison Weir
The book uncovers the truth about Mary’s much-vaunted
notoriety at the French court and her relations with King
François I and her role at the English court and how she
became Henry’s mistress. 364 pages, colour plates.
Genealogical tables of the Boleyns, the Careys and Knollys.
$28 NOW £7.50
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77707 88: The Giants of Jazz Piano
by Robert Doerschuk
Weaving firsthand reflections with historical insight and
musical analysis. Begins with Jelly Roll Morton, on to
James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Earl
Hines, Count Basie, Marylou Williams, Art Tatum, Oscar
Peterson among the 88. 341pp, photos.
$29.95 NOW £6
77151 FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS
DEATHS IN BATH by Kirsten Elliott
Bath has a long, dark history of shocking crime, from
robbery and revenge in Roman times, through criminal
acts in the dark ages, to the highwaymen of the
Georgian period and the murderous Victorian
underworld. 170 paperback pages, photos.
£12.99 NOW £6
75719 A SPY LIKE NO OTHER: The Cuban
Missile Crisis, the KGB and the Kennedy
Assassination by Robert Holmes
Soviet intelligence officers may have been involved in the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. According to
Holmes’ research, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy
relied heavily on information provided by Oleg Penkovsky,
an MI6/CIA agent inside Soviet military intelligence. But
the double agent’s cover was blown. He was executed, and
his boss, General Ivan Serov was dismissed, discredited and
consigned to obscurity. Serov’s anger at the West’s ‘victory’
in Cuba, and his resentment at the treachery of his protégé
and his own downfall, turned into an obsessive
determination to gain revenge. He is said to have worked
with KGB rogue officers to enlist a young American loner
and loser, Lee Harvey Oswald, to kill the President. 325
pages, archive photos.
£20 NOW £6
77226 ZIPOPS EARPHONES - TEAL ZIP UP
EARPHONES by Deuce Entertainment
Tangle free zip-up headphones. Cleverly, the separate
ear pieces are mounted on a zip which simply closes up
to the length required under your chin and zips away
fully for neat storage. Comes complete with two further
sets of comfort foam black ear plugs. Standard socket for
phones, tablets PCs etc. Teal pale green earpiece.
ONLY £5
76392 ILLUMINATIONS: A Novel of Hildegard
von Bingen by Mary Sharratt
The life of the unconventional abbess who was offered
to the church at the age of eight and entombed in a
small room to live in silent submission. It brings to life
one of the most extraordinary women of the middle
ages, Hildegard von Bingen who found comfort and
grace in studying books, growing herbs, writing verse
and music. 274pp.
$25 NOW £5
76992 BEAUTIFUL BIRD SONGS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD: Two CDs
by The British Library
A new collection of recordings from the British Library
Sound Archive. The rich melodious songs of the
blackbird, Pied Butcherbird and nightingale full of
complexity and the White-browed Robin-chat. 40
examples on 2 CDs, 122 minutes and 42 seconds.
ONLY £6.50
77187 SHOP GIRLS by Ellee Seymour
Meet Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working for the
exclusive department store Heyworth’s Fashions in
Cambridge. Set during the closing years of WW2 and
moving into the 1950s and swinging 60s, recreating the
camaraderie and friendship. 307pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
69313 COMPLETE STORIES OF OZ
by L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and Toto meet Scarecrow, Lion and Tin
Woodman who are to become her travelling companions
along the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City.
Paperback, 1486 pages. Ages 8+.
ONLY £4
75707 JOY OF ESSEX by Peter May
The first reference to ‘Essex Man’ came in 1990 in the
Sunday Telegraph. He didn’t like foreigners or books and
was an aspirational working class East-ender who had
made a bit of dosh and moved out to Essex. Let’s see
Clacton, Tiptree, Southend’s Pier, Chelmsford sissies
through rose-tinted spectacles. 280pp in paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
75983 IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR: A
Century of Film and How It has Shaped Us
by Francine Stock
Film is a communal dream in which our fears and
fantasies are revealed, often to startling effect, and it
has influenced our behaviour in small but significant
ways. Film has helped to forge national identity,
galvanise against a wartime enemy or warn of social
upheaval via horror or science fiction. 344 pages.
£18.99 NOW £4
76453 LONDON’S UNDERGROUND SUBURBS
by Dennis Edwards
Lured by continual newspaper advertising, and the ease
of daily travel by the new London Underground
extensions into Hertfordshire, Middlesex,
Buckinghamshire and Surrey, how could modern young
marrieds resist the attractions of a brand-new home in
the country? A delightful glimpse back into a world of
wind-up gramophones, wireless sets, cocktails and
Abdulla cigarettes. 110 pages, illus.
£16.95 NOW £8
74971 LONDON’S EAST END SURVIVORS:
Voices of the Blitz Generation by Andrew Bissell
In 1940, Hitler’s Luftwaffe started a devastating aerial
assault on London’s East End. Bombs rained down as the
tightly packed homes, pubs, shops and markets bore the
full brunt. Inspired by the childhood memories of the
author’s father, who lived in Plaistow, East London, this
profoundly moving volume is based on hundreds of indepth interviews with surviving East Enders. They
reveal harrowing, eye-witness accounts of the tragic
events, including Britain’s worst civilian wartime disaster
at Bethnal Green tube station in 1943. 240 pages,
archive photos, map and plans.
£20 NOW £8
70907 AN EDINBURGH CHRISTMAS DVD
by St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir
77196 POETRY OF THE WORLD WARS
edited by Michael Foss
75451 MY SONG: A Memoir
by Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson
ONLY £16
74612 CLASSICAL TRADITION: Harvard
University by Antony Grafton, Glenn Most and
Salvatore Settis
£14.99 NOW £6
75935 HOW TO WORK AS A FREELANCE
JOURNALISTby Marc Leverton
$30.50 NOW £4
75505 UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED
STATES by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
Once in Royal David’s City, In the Bleak Mid-winter,
Ding Dong! Merrily on High, Noel Nouvelet and It Came
Upon a Midnight Clear ending with Hark! The Herald
Angels Sing on colour DVD. Featuring Susan Hamilton
(soprano), The Holyrood Clarsach Trio on harp and
Matthew Owens on organ.
A gigantic volume packed with colour plates and essays,
we are shown how the Classical tradition has shaped
human endeavour from art to government, mathematics
to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to
popular culture. 150 colour images. 1067pp, 6cm thick
and 26 x 21 in a quality stitched hardback.
£36.99 NOW £16
76560 GENTLY AT A GALLOP by Alan Hunter
Bludgeoned by a jealous husband, drowned in his own
beer – that’s how you would expect a middle-aged
womanising brewer to be murdered, not savaged to
death by a horse. The strange death of Charles Berney,
infamous lothario. Inspector George Gently has
unravelled this most bizarre case. 187pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
77496 ODE LESS TRAVELLED: Unlocking the
Poet Within by Stephen Fry
Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your
lover’s birthday or an Epithalamion for your sister’s
wedding, this book will give you the tools and
confidence to do so. Indeed it is an idiot’s guide to the
writing of poetry. 357pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
75730 LANGUAGE OF THE ANGELS
by Claire Nahmad
The author inducts her readers into the mysteries of
heavenly magic, transforming power and sublime
wonders. Learn how to call on the angel of addictions
and obsessions, animals, birds, crystals, clear seeing,
friendship, heroes, hope, rivers, sanctuary, the
wilderness or the angel of wholeness. Colour illus. 96pp.
£10.99 NOW £4.50
75789 GREAT NOVELS OF E.M. FORSTER
introduced by Louis Auchincloss
Four must-read novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread,
The Longest Journey, A Room with a View and
Howards End. With the final novel, Forster established
his reputation as a writer. Gold tooling. 898pp.
$30 NOW £7
75019 THE SPANISH ARMADA: The Great
Enterprise Against England 1588
by Angus Konstam
The Catholic King Philip II of Spain planned to sail with
his vast Armada of ships up the English Channel, meet
the Spanish Army off Flanders on the French coast, and
ferry them across to England. But, he had not reckoned
with the tenacity of the British fleet, with its daring Sea
Dogs - Drake, Frobisher, Raleigh and Hawkins. Recounts
the Armada’s disastrous return voyage around Scotland
and Ireland. 224 pages lavishly illus in colour, maps.
£20 NOW £9
74879 WORLD ACCORDING TO BOB: The
Further Adventures of One Man and his StreetWise Cat by James Bowen
For over a decade James Bowen was a homeless heroin
addict living on the streets of London when one day in 2007
he found Bob the ginger cat, and he was the catalyst that
enabled James to turn his life around. 286pp.
£16.99 NOW £5.50
76178 AMERICAN BOMBER CREWMAN 194145 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
The United States played a vital part in the war effort in
the form of the strategic bombing campaign fought
between 1942 and 1945. This book seeks to describe the
lives of particularly those who served in the most
famous bomber aircraft of their day - the B-17 Flying
Fortress, the B-24 Liberator and B-29 SuperFortress.
64pp, large softback, photos.
£11.99 NOW £5.50
75874 ROGER FENTON, JULIA MARGARET
CAMERON by Sophie Gordon
Sub-titled ‘Early British Photographs from The Royal
Collection’, this superb, historic selection highlights the
existence of some of the finest works by two of the
leading photographers of the 19th century. Two days
after his demise, a Windsor-based photographer was
summoned to the Castle to take two poignant shots of
Prince Albert on his deathbed, seen here. The Queen
had the negatives destroyed. After that, she focused on
her children and extended family, as well as on portraits
of accomplished individuals of the day. At the time of
Queen Victoria’s death, the collection was estimated to
have been 20,000 strong. 64 pages, 25 x 25cm, first
edition.
£18.95 NOW £5
76726 ROBIN HOOD by J. C. Holt
With 26 illus, 15 in colour, this is a reprint of the excellent
1982 original. It is the legend of Robin Hood, who he
was, the physical setting, the audience, the later
tradition and an appendix on a Gest of Robyn Hode.
This new edition embodies some important changes and
carries the legend back to 1261-2, intermingling it with
the activities of real criminals. 265pp, softback, illus.
£12.95 NOW £6
74060 SURVIVOR by Sam Pivnik
When war broke out, Sam Pivnik was one of a family of
nine living in the Polish town of Bedzin. The town’s
Jews were ghettoised, starved and brutalised. When the
final Aktion came, the Pivnik family hid in an improvised
attic, but eventually they were herded into the train for
Auschwitz. His struggle for survival was precarious.
Transferred to Furstengrube, Sam was taught
bricklaying. Finally he was reunited with his brother
Nathan in London, but the rest of the family had
perished. 304pp.
£20 NOW £8.50
This sensitive collection covers not only some of the best
poems from such luminaries as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried
Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke but also
lesser-known, but equally compelling verse by ordinary
soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians. 192 pages, line
drawings, index of first lines.
Covering tools of the trade, writing reviews and opinion
pieces, the news, feature writing, travel writing, lifestyle
writing, sports, music journalism, finding ideas, how to
approach editors, the self employment checklist and
further reading and training. 223pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £6
76577 KING CHARLES II by Antonia Fraser
After the execution of his father King Charles I, the youth
led a life of poverty and bitter exile, but this was to
culminate in a magnificent escape from the troops of the
self-styled Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and Charles’s
eventual triumphant restoration to his throne in 1660.
This detailed book spans both periods of his life and
shows their relation to each other. 670 pages, plates,
family trees of the royal houses of Bourbon and Stuart.
£12.99 NOW £7.50
64377 SELECTED ILLUSTRATED WORKS OF
CHARLES DICKENS by Charles Dickens
This is a complete collection of his supernatural tales,
including such classics as The Signalman and The Trial
for Murder. The stories include illus from the original
editions, featuring the artwork of John Tenniel, Edwin
Landseer, George Cruikshank and others. The
Christmas Books include The Chimes, The Cricket on
the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man.
The Ghost Stories include The Queer Chair, A
Madman’s Manuscript, The Ghosts of the Mail, The
Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber and other tales. 56 spine
tingling stories. Deluxe binding in deep red cloth with
gold tooling and inset colour plate. Illus, 1408pp.
ONLY £10
75166 ILLUSTRATED STEP-BY-STEP COOK
edited by Lucy Bannell
300 delicious recipes from classics such as Roast Beef
and Yorkshire Pudding or Lemon Meringue Pie to the
modern treats of Sushi, Crisp Salmon with Cilantro
Pesto or Homemade Pasta. Heavyweight hardback,
each recipe are in a colour photographic sequence.
Rremainder mark, 544 pages.
$35 NOW £10
76126 SCHOOL OF GENIUS: A History of the
Royal Academy of Arts by James Fenton
For all visitors to Burlington House, we can now better
appreciate the collections. Charles West Cope RA’s ‘The
Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the
Exhibition’ 1876 has been chosen together with John
Constable’s The Leaping Horse 1825 and John William
Waterhouse RA’s A Mermaid for the opening double
page spreads of this weighty and substantial history of
the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768. Posters,
cartoons, archive and new photos. 320pp, 26.5 x 21cm.
Rare April 2006 publication.
£35 NOW £10
76347 AN OUTLINE OF EUROPEAN
ARCHITECTURE by Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner reviewed the most beautiful and
dramatic structures that represent the styles and cultures
of Europe from the 4th century onwards. His grand tour
of Romanesque basilicas, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance
villas and Baroque churches eloquently defines ‘the
changing spirits of changing ages’. His survey concludes
in the post-war years and the start of the redefinition of
many devastated cityscapes. 256 pages with over 200
gorgeous colour photos and new plans. 21.6 x 27.9cm.
$60 NOW £15
74136 NO FOND RETURN OF LOVE
by Barbara Pym
Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others. Her friend
Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so
surely isn’t it prying if Dulcie helps things along? Once
life’s little humiliations are played out, maybe love will
be returned and fondly, after all. A comic and heart
rending read, 288pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
77153 INSIDE ROOM 40: The Codebreakers
of World War I by Paul Gannon
A vibrant account, based on previously secret files,
brings to life hidden stories of British codebreakers in
WWI who worked inside Room 40 and its military
equivalent MI1(b). 287 pages, archive photos.
£19.99 NOW £6.50
77180 IS THE VICAR IN, PET? by Barbara Fox
A charming memoir of moving from a nice suburban
Newcastle to Ashington, a rather dirty mining town in
the North-East where her father was to become the new
vicar. A childhood where parishioners knocked on the
door at all hourst. Heartwarming. 308pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
77124 GEORGETTE HEYER: The Biography of
a Bestseller by Jennifer Kloester
A comprehensive insight into the life and writing of a
ferociously private woman, exclusive access to whose
personal papers was granted by Heyer’s son. Georgette
Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read
and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by
today’s bestselling authors. 448 paperback pages,
photos.
£8.99 NOW £4
70571 THE ROYALS by Kitty Kelley
The crimes of the House of Windsor speak for
themselves. Kitty Kelley has interviewed past and
present employees of the royal household, royal friends
and relations, courtiers, members of Parliament and
other intimate observers. Here are sexual ambiguities,
alcoholism, gambling and womanising. Family trees,
photos. 575pp, paperback. Remainder mark.
$16.99 NOW £4
From his poverty-stricken upbringing in Harlem and
Jamaica. In the US Navy during WWII he encountered
racism. His 1956 album Calypso was the first solo LP to
sell over a million copies and its Banana Boat Song
(“Day-O!”) made Belafonte famous the world over. 469
roughcut pages, photos, remainder mark.
This book challenges the basic narrative of U.S. history
that most Americans have been taught. Probing the dark
corners of the administrations of 17 presidents, from
Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, the writers daringly
suggest that the US has drifted a long way from its
founding democratic ideals. Beginning with the bloody
suppression of the Filipino struggle for independence and
spanning the two world wars. 750 paperback pages, illus.
£14.99 NOW £7
75928 DYING HOURS by Mark Billingham
A cluster of suicides among the elderly - something
sinister is taking place. D.I. Tom Thorne is back and
must gamble with the lives of those targeted by the
killer unlike any he has hunted before. A haunting
portrait of London’s dark heart. 496pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
75643 MICROSOFT POWERPOINT MADE
EASY by Chris Smith
Use at home for creating a household budget, make a
slide show, add hyperlinks, speaker notes and create a
video of your presentation, step-by-step guides to
adding audio, ClipArt, transitions and animations, text
alignment, using Presenter View, slide layouts and fact
boxes. Colour screen shots. 256pp, softback.
£9.99 NOW £4
77956 TROPICS BOUND: Elizabeth’s Seadogs
of the Spanish Main by James Seay Dean
Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake were celebrated
Elizabethan courtiers, but the voyages with which they
achieved fame are often forgotten. This book describes
some of the 100 Elizabethan voyages made from
England to Latin America between 1520 and 1620.
224pp, illus, chronology.
£18.99 NOW £7
77611 AIR DISASTERS OF THE WORLD
by Xavier Waterkeyn
Presents a comprehensive record of aeroplane disasters
going right back to the first recorded fatality. Over 200
disasters are examined including bizarre and unusual
accidents, hijackings, stories of miraculous survival,
celebrities who have perished, the development of black
boxes and much more. 288 pages 25cm x 21cm, photos.
£16.99 NOW £7
74893 FOR HONOUR AND FAME: Chivalry in
England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul
Tells the compelling story of England from the Norman
Conquest to the aftermath of Henry VII’s triumph at
Bosworth at the end of the Wars of the Roses. The
Professor charts the introduction of chivalry by the
Normans, the rise of the knightly class as a social élite
and its wide-ranging influence on literature, religion and
architecture. 416 pages, colour plates.
£25 NOW £7
75479 THEY MADE AMERICA by Harold Evans
Features 50 innovators, globally recognised names such
as Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Charles Goodyear and
Estee Lauder, also major inventors and researchers who
have not hit the headlines. 496pp, colour photos.
$50 NOW £8
75260 POETRY IN DESIGN: The Art of Harry
Leith-Ross by Erika Jaeger-Smith
Harry Leith-Ross (1886-1973) was born in Mauritius. He
studied in Paris then Cornwall. Enjoy his vibrant,
colourful, powerful, realistic carefully composed oil
paintings and renowned transparent watercolour
technique in harboursides, construction workers, cottages,
lighthouses and towpaths to watercolours in Holland. 70
of his finest works, 144pp softback, 9"×11½”.
£20.50 NOW £5
77188 TEACH YOURSELF TO MEDITATE
by Eric Harrison
The classic bestseller has now sold over 75,000 copies and
provides just 20 simple exercises for peace, health and clarity
of mind. An affective way to relax, combat stress, improve
your general health, increase your awareness and boost
your capacity to think clearly and creatively. Learn a skill to
greatly improve the quality of your life. 160pp in facsimile
reprint of the 1993 original. Paperback.
£9.99 NOW £5
75997 JUDY: A Legendary Film Career
by John Fricke
Hundreds of never-before-published photos, insights from
her co-stars and production histories are produced for
each film in which Judy Garland appeared. She starred
in A Star Is Born, Meet Me In St Louis, Babes in Arms,
Easter Parade, For Me and my Gal and The Harvey
Girls and most unforgettably in The Wizard of Oz.
Includes list of concerts, fabulous poster art, costume
tests. Colour. 352pp, 9" x 12".
£20 NOW £5
76196 DESSERTS by James Martin
Gâteau Saint-Honoré, Butterfly Cakes, Baked Pear and
Honey Tart, classic Lemon Tart, Baked Chocolate and
Orange Cheesecake, Figs in Vanilla Syrup, Mincemeat
and Apple Jalousie, Spicy Plum Crumble, Apple and
Blueberry Pie plus all the sauces, dried fruits, meringues,
pralines, Cinder Toffee Honeycomb, Shortbread, and
pastry making. Colour photos, 192 large softback pages.
£9.99 NOW £5
77135 POLLY: Memories of an East End Girl
by Jeff Smith
Born in 1911 into a close-knit family, Mary Rebecca
Chambers, known to all as Polly, spent her formative
years in the heart of the East End of London. Here are
the rigours of a school, working life in a sweet factory,
the ups and downs of married life and the perils of
rationing. 128 paperback pages, photos.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
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77295 BRUCIE: The
Biography of Sir Bruce
Forsyth by Jules Stenson
Sir Bruce Forsyth is perhaps best
remembered for hosting The
Generation Game and much more
recently Strictly Come Dancing.
He got his big break in 1958 when
he was asked to host the TV series
Sunday Night at the London
Palladium. The original two-week
stint ended up lasting five years
and he went on to present game
shows like The Price is Right and You Bet! and
developed catchphrases that were to last a lifetime ‘Nice to see you, to see you, nice.’ Insight into his life
and loves covering his three marriages. 298pp, colour
photos.
£17.99 NOW £3.50
77296 MARY BERRY: Queen of British Baking
the Biography by A. S. Dagnell
The Great British Bake Off has once again put Mary
back into the limelight and has reignited a passion for
baking across the nation. The undisputed Queen of the
Aga, Mary took a catering course at her local college
before gaining qualifications from the Cordon Bleu School
in Paris. As editor for Housewife and Ideal Home
magazine, Mary published her first cookbook ‘The
Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook’ in 1970 and hasn’t looked
back since. But her personal life has been touched by
tragedy, as her son William was killed in a car accident
at the age of just 19. 244pp, colour photos.
£17.99 NOW £3.50
77572 A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR
by Brenda Ashford
Brenda spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny and
began training at the Norland Institute in 1939 at the age
of 18. Chapters include Nannies in Training, The
Matron, East End Evacuees, Battle of Britain, We’re All
In It Together, Crumpets and Coal Fires, Stolen Kisses
and We’ll Meet Again in this warm, funny memoir of the
colourful world of wartime England. 291pp in
paperback, photos.
£6.99 NOW £2.75
77256 COMING UP TRUMPS: A Memoir
by Jean Trumpington
The indomitable and deliciously forthright Baroness
Trumpington of Sandwich, still an active Conservative
member of the House of Lords in her 94th year, was born
Jean Alys Campbell-Harris in 1922 to an officer in the 7th
Hariana Lancers and an American heiress. A privileged
childhood was rudely interrupted by her mother’s fortune
being wiped out in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 was
sent to Paris to study art, French and German. As war
broke out she was first a land-girl on a farm owned by
Lloyd George but soon joined naval intelligence at
Bletchley Park. After the war she worked in advertising
in New York’s Madison Avenue, where she met her
husband, the historian Alan Barker. She became a
Cambridge City Councillor, then Mayor of Cambridge,
before moving to Whitehall. They just don’t make them
like her anymore! 236pp, 37 colour and b/w photos.
£16.99 NOW £6
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Painting is easy when you don’t know how,
but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas
78870 SALVADOR DALI:
The Late Work
by Elliott H. King et al
Outrageous, imaginative, surrealist
artist Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
was renowned for his often
puzzling, disturbing art works,
especially during the 1930s. He
created 1,200 oil paintings and
countless illustrations and writings.
Refreshingly, this book focuses on
his later works, from the 1940s onwards, encompassing
such themes as his classism and his ‘nuclear mysticism’.
Amongst the many art works depicted are The Maximus
Speed of Raphael’s Madonna, Christ of Saint John of the
Cross, Madonna of Port Lligat, The Medusa and the
absolutely amazing (and long-winded) Fifty Abstract
Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into
Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen
from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal
Tiger. Dali developed a fascination for optical effects and
illusions, incorporating them into many of his works, and
later, with the help of photographer Philippe Halsman,
he translated his ideas into photographic form. The
astonishing art work In Volupate Mors, 1951, depicted
naked figures forming a skull and it was recreated ‘in the
flesh’ by the photographer. Another photographic work,
Dali Atomicus used high-speed equipment to depict Dali
jumping in mid-air with three cats and a bucket of water,
and was achieved by staging the action 26 times. A
stunning collection of images from the man whose
moustache became an icon in its own right. 11x8",
176pp. Colour and b/w illus.
£25 NOW £15
77713 ARTIST’S STUDIO
by Dominique de Font-Reaulx
These gorgeously furnished studios, outdoor studios
packed with organised clutter, easels and works in
progress, give us a glimpse of talent and mastery at
work. In picture no.20 (of 62) see Pierre Bonnard’s
portrait of Rodin sculpting a bust, 1897 and Camille
Corot working en plein air, 1871. Paul Delaroche and
Honoré Daumier, models including nudes, flowers in the
studio of Emile Gallé, Henri Matisse and Rembrandt
Bugatti at the zoo are some of the fascinating subjects.
Sepia and duotone still life capsules from a bygone era.
Paperback.
£6.95 NOW £3
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78645 JERUSALEM STONE
AND SPIRIT: 3000 Years of
History and Art
by Dan Bahat and
Shalom Sabar
The spiritual home of the world’s
three monotheistic religions,
Jerusalem is a crossroads of art,
architecture and history on a unique
scale. Since 1004BC, when King
David declared it to be the capital of
his kingdom of Israel, until it was proclaimed the new
capital of the State of Israel in 1948, the city has been
the arena of countless events that reflect the history of
Western and Middle Eastern culture. King Solomon built
the Temple where the prophets of Israel preached, their
teachings influencing the thinking and morality of the
Western world. The Greek and Roman empires left an
impressive mark on the city over a period of some 650
years, followed by the Byzantines, the early Muslims
then the Crusaders, before the Mameluke and the
Ottoman sultans re-established a new Islamic culture,
which was ended by the time of WWI, by which time
Jerusalem was dominated by Jews and Christians until
the end of WWII. In addition to the Old Testament
prophets, Jesus preached and disseminated His gospel in
Jerusalem, and also made His final mortal appearance
there, and 600 years later Mohammed ascended to
heaven from the site of the Dome of the Rock. This
magnificent book does full justice to the holy places,
world-altering personalities and breathtaking landscapes
of a city that have
captivated artists and
clerics of the Abrahamic
faiths for three millennia.
Complementing the
historical narrative are
220 colour illus, many full
and double-page, of art,
artefacts, maps, coins,
jewellery, manuscripts
and statuary, the soul of
Jerusalem past and
present that take us
through the tumultuous
religious, social, political
and artistic history of a
unique city. 150pp,
9½”×13¼”.
$60 NOW £12
75262 THOMAS HOVENDEN: His Art and Life
by Anne Gregory Terhune et al
Thomas Hovenden (1840-95) specialised in
narrative scenes of domestic rural life and, latterly, on
the American Civil War. He studied at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel,
whereupon he returned to an astonishingly successful
career as a painter and teacher at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins and Thomas
Anschutz. In his paintings black families could be going
about their daily chores, reading the Bible or receiving a
cordial visit from their ex-masters, or they could be
fleeing for their lives. His immense (6’6"×5’3") oil on
canvas “The Last Moments of John Brown” (1884)
depicts the famous abolitionist stopping to kiss a black
child on his way to the gallows in 1859. 133 colour and
b/w illus. Photos and daguerreotypes. 276pp, 9"×11½”.
£32.49 NOW £5
75861 DICKENS AND THE ARTISTS
edited by Mark Bills
Dickens was an immensely visual writer and he admired
artists, many of whom he counted as close friends. His
own daughter Kate Perugini was herself an artist. In his
travelogue ‘Pictures from Italy’ we find his views on the
Old Masters, a subject discussed in this book by Nicholas
Penny in his essay ‘Dickens and Philistinism’. In two
essays, one on George Cruikshank, the other on John
Leech, Dickens writes of the absurdity of their exclusion
from the Royal Academy. ‘Dickens and the Painting of
Modern Life’ considers modern painters particularly
William Powell Frith and the influence Dickens had upon
them. ‘Dickens and the Social Realists’ sees Pat Hardy
looking at a later group of artists, Frank Holl, Hubert
Herkomer and Luke Fildes. Included such moving art as
George Frederic Watts’ ‘Found Drowned’ and
Cruikshank’s ‘The Drunkard’s Children’ wood engraving.
Colour reproductions, engravings, watercolours and
etchings. 188 large pages, softback.
£23.80 NOW £6
77725 FIGURES AND PORTRAITS
by Françoise Heilbrun
Here are not only Lewis Carroll’s portraits of young girls,
but also Emile Zola, Alfred Stieglitz’s Portrait of Man
Ray, Paul Strand’s 1917 photograph of dirty faced New
Yorkers, theatrical portraits, and an Edgar Degas auto
portrait with two female friends c1895; beautiful
actresses, daring countesses one showing her legs,
several series of photographs, groups of women, Julia
Margaret Cameron’s portrait of William Holman Hunt,
1864, and of Carlyle three years later, of Virgina Woolf’s
mother and the beautiful Maud. A small collection of
internationally photography, 1850-1918. Sepia and
duotone, paperback.
£6.95 NOW £3.50
77492 MANET: Portraying Life
by Brian Kennedy and Christopher Le Brun
Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was the quintessential
painter of modernity. By depicting the Paris of his day,
and transforming his sitters into actors in his scenes of
everyday French life, he captured the 19th century
urban experience, legitimising ‘modern life’ as an artistic
subject. Here, leading authorities analyse the influence
on the artist of 17th century Dutch painters, identify
several parallels with the work of Renoir, and find links
with early photography. Two key portraits owned by
the Toledo Museum of Art - Portrait of M. Antonin
Proust and Mme Edouard Manet - are here joined by a
profusion of other masterpieces by a remarkable artist to
present a cornucopia of delights. 213 pages 28cm by
24.5cm in colour with photographs of models and sitters.
£35 NOW £12.50
77720 CORONATION OF NAPOLEON
PAINTED BY DAVID
by David Chanteranne and Sylvain Laveissiere
David’s huge painting of Napoleon’s coronation
dominates a wall of the Louvre and is admired by
thousands every year. Around 180 of the faces were
portraits and a useful table indicates the names of those
who have been identified. Close-ups give the viewer a
ringside seat at the event, including subtle nuances of
expression on the part of key players. Dignitaries such as
Talleyrand look on approvingly, while the expressions of
the clergy are more enigmatic. 64pp, softback, over 30
full-page colour reproductions.
•15 NOW £3.75
77727 WAR PHOTOGRAPHY: From The
Crimean War to World War One
by Joelle Bolloch
The Musée d’Orsay has an album entitled ‘Incidents of
Camp Life’ (Cats 1-13) which contains some 60 prints in
a serene mood that contrasts sharply with the letters
written by photographer Roger Fenton who had been
asked by Queen Victoria to photograph The Crimean
War. From the American Civil War, rebel works in front
of Atlanta, Fenton’s image of a cooking house of the
Eight Hussars, Lieut. Col Brownrigg and some very
young Russian boys in military uniform, Ismail Pacha
and his attendants, 1855, Lord Burgheish in a group at
Head Quarters, inside the hospitals and infirmaries, on
the canals, an explosion, armaments and bombs, ruins
and the deserted city of Atlanta, portraits and prisons.
62 sepia and duotone illus, paperback.
£6.95 NOW £3
76946 VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN
FURNITURE AND INTERIORS
by Jeremy Cooper
The furniture designs of William Morris, C. R. Ashbee
and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are even more popular
today than in their own lifetimes. Other major figures
such as William Burges and Christopher Dresser, once
outsiders, are now accepted as great designers whose
work is avidly collected. This glamorous Thames &
Hudson outsize softback contains rare contemporary
photographs of Victorian and Edwardian interiors. 683
illustrations, 74 in colour offer comprehensive coverage
of 19th century furniture from the Gothic Revival to Art
Nouveau. See the early Ambrose Heal furniture in the
Heal’s and Liberty’s chapter, the Arts and Craft
movement, wallpaper designs, cabinets, stained glass,
textiles and tiles, the influence of Asian, Japanese and
Indian decoration, geometric gothic, Pugin furniture from
household interiors to the dramatic architecture of the
Town Hall, Bradford. 8¾” x 11¾”, 256pp, softback.
£19.99 NOW £7
77251 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
and Peter Gössel
A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once
unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era.
Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic
environment, as well as for their use of steel and glass
to revolutionise the interface of indoor and outdoor,
Wright’s designs helped announce the age of modernity,
as much as they secured his own name in the annals of
architectural genius. Based on unlimited access to the
Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Taliesin, Arizona, the
collection spans the length and breadth of Wright’s
projects, both realized and unrealized, from his early
Prairie Houses, through the Usonian concept home,
epitomised by Fallingwater, the Tokyo years, his
progressive “living architecture” buildings, right through
to later schemes like the Guggenheim Museum, New
York, and fantastic visions for a better tomorrow in the
“living city.” Text in English, French and German. New
from Taschen. 13 x 10", 504 landscape pages, quality
colour.
ONLY £40
78665 MASTERPIECES OF
ANCIENT EGYPT: From the
British Museum
by Nigel Strudwick
Author Nigel Strudwick is
Assistant Keeper of Egyptian
Antiquities at the British Museum
and has produced several major
travelling exhibitions. He and his
wife have worked on the excavation of the Theban
Necropolis since 1984. He guides us through the
Museum’s magnificent ancient Egyptian and Sudanese
collection, arguably the world’s most comprehensive and
impressive. We begin with an introduction to and
chronology of Ancient Egypt, a history of the Museum’s
Egyptian collection and a map of the chief archaeological
sites. Then, arranged chronologically, we get right up
close to over 200 of the most important and visually
impressive objects from the collection. Examples include
a wall painting of the martyrdom of the saints (Coptic/
Byzantine period, 6th century AD), bronze figure of a
seated cat, sarcophagus lid of Sasobek, stela, reliefs,
papyri, statues, lintels, masks, heads, paintings, an
oracular shabti decree, a letter from Thebes on papyrus
and burial assemblage including chests, jars and coffins.
Each is photographed in eye-popping, full-page colour
and on the adjacent page Strudwick provides an expert
description, history and detailed analysis from a
professional’s viewpoint. As
well as the Museum’s world
famous artefacts such as the
Rosetta Stone and the Great
Harris Papyrus, the book
features a wealth of less
well-known but equally
significant and beautiful
pieces. Ranges from the
earliest pre-Dynastic pots
and figurines, right through
the 3,000 year reign of the
pharaohs with their golden
funerary items and on to
Roman Egypt and the Coptic
Christian period. 352pp, 8¾”
square.
$39.95 NOW £14
77661 LANGUAGE OF
ORNAMENT
by James Trilling
Whether in the monumental
architecture of Mycenaean Greece
or the inlaid vessels of the Zhou
Dynasty China, in the bronze
mirrors of early Celtic Britain or the
carved and woven ornament of
Native Americans, the erotic
temple at Khajuraho, India, six silk
textiles from France, modern-day tattoos, American
knotted rugs, embroidered riding coats from early 19th
century India, bronze and iron helmets with coral inlays
late 4th century BC found in Italy, ceramic plates, a
ceremonial lance-head from 17th century Java, here is
the floral ornament, freeform motifs, geometric motifs,
figural ornament. 224 page paperback, colour and mono
illus.
ONLY £5.50
77253 HIROSHIGE: One Hundred Famous
Views of Edo by Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede and
Dr. Lorenz Bichler
With rich colour on every illustration, this reprint is made
from one of the finest complete original sets of
woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial
Museum of Art in Tokyo. Hiroshige (1797-1858) was
one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. His
greatest talent was in creating landscapes of his native
Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and his final masterpiece was
a series known as “One Hundred Famous Views of
Edo” (1856-1858). This resplendent complete collection
pairs each of the 120 illustrations with a description,
allowing readers to plunge themselves into Hiroshige’s
beautifully vibrant landscapes. Literally meaning
“pictures of the floating world”, ukiyo-e refers to the
famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated
in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with
the Western world’s visual characterisation of Japan.
Traditionally they depicted city life, entertainment,
beautiful women, kabuki actors and landscapes. 5½” x
8", 584 pages, from Taschen. Colour.
ONLY £13
77630 TWENTIETH CENTURY CASTLES IN
BRITAIN by Amicia de Moubray
Among the ancient decaying castles transformed by new
owners have been Hever, which William Waldorf Astor
made into an opulent Edwardian fantasy where he
hosted sumptuous country house weekends. Colonel
Claude Lowther awakened the fairy-tale Herstmonceux
from its reverie, preferring radical alteration to authentic
restoration. At St Donat’s, Randolph Hearst disregarded
architectural purity as he turned the castle into a
plutocrat’s palace housing his astonishing art collection.
Reincarnations during a renaissance in the restoration of
the Scottish tower houses and castles include Dunderave
and Eilean Donan, which encapsulate the romance of the
Highlands. The moated ‘medieval’ castle of Braylsham
was in fact completed only in 1998. All the castles are
redolent of the past, and a potent symbol of status and
achievement. 200 pages 30cm x 26cm in glorious colour
and b/w.
£30 NOW £10
77731 HENRI MATISSE: Rooms with
a View by Shirley Neilsen Blum
As Matisse moved towards the centre of European art,
his style became more abstract but his vision of the
domestic interior with the window as an anchor
remained constant. The dark early interiors such as
Studio Under the Eaves (1903) are relieved by the
brightness of a view through a window, but under the
influence of the Fauves his work soon exploded into
vivid colour. Matisse’s decorative phase was more
sombre, as in the subtle blues and greys of Goldfish and
Palette of 1914, which uses the formal language of
Cubism in a highly original way to create a window that
is a complete abstraction. After World War I Matisse
returned to Naturalism, and his interiors are now peopled
with figures, for instance The Three O’Clock Sitting of
1924 where Matisse’s model, Henriette Decarrere, paints
her brother before an open window. See also Chapel of
the Rosary (1947-51) and The Piano Lesson (1916). The
book concludes with Matisse’s stained glass designs and
wall decorations for the chapel at Vence. 192pp, 98
superb full page colour reproductions of the 129 included,
authoritative text, chronology. 26 x 31.8cm.
$60 NOW £17.50
77738 LASTING ELEGANCE: English Country
Houses 1830-1900
by Michael Hall
The eclecticism of the architect Charles Barry was
typical of the period. Barry made his name with
Florentine Renaissance styles but when he was
commissioned to design the Houses of Parliament he
was equally able to turn his hand to the new fashion for
Gothic. Shortly afterwards he was employed to remodel
Highclere Castle and produced the magnificent Victorian
pile in Elizabethan style which we know nowadays as
the façade of Downton Abbey. Cardiff Castle is a riot of
unrestrained Gothic fantasy as Burges indulged his
knowledge of 13th century French design and coupled it
with a taste for oriental plasterwork. The Arts and Crafts
movement found inspiration in Tudor vernacular building
and Old Place, Lindfield, was the stained glass designer
C.E. Kempe’s design for his own living space. See also
Philip Webb’s Art and Crafts interiors at Standen.
Lavishly illustrated with 150 reproductions from Country
Life. Colour. 192pp.
$65 NOW £12
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68629 PAINTINGS OF ALICE DALTON BAC O C K
T
S
BROWN by April Kingsley
Virtually unknown in Britain and very reminiscent of
Edward Hopper, we love the paintings of the American
artist Alice Dalton Brown. Combining a clapperboard
white, New England style architecture, porches and
verandas, a beautiful mosaic swimming pool in what
seems to be the Florida Keys with lush palm trees
hanging over, finely draped windows looking onto huge
seascapes, this artist’s paintings genuinely look like
photographs. These are timeless distillations of a near
perfect world, sanctuaries for the spirit and deep-seated
memories. 77 colour plates, 75 b/w. 132 large pages.
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75128 EDWIN LUTYENS
COUNTRY HOUSES: From the
Archive of Country Life
by Gavin Stamp
The match between Edwin Lutyens
(1869-1944) and Country Life was
one made in architectural heaven.
Lutyens’ celebrated collaborator
Gertrude Jekyll introduced him to
the magazine’s then editor, Edward
Hudson, in 1889. Hudson commissioned him to design
the new Country Life offices in Covent Garden in 1904
and a further three country houses. An extensive and
masterly introductory essay by the esteemed
architectural historian Gavin Stamp, plus his commentary
on the 22 featured buildings, each representative of
phases of Lutyens’ career, is a grand pictorial odyssey.
There are superb examples of his Surrey-vernacular
style with its gables, timber and sweeping planes of tiled
roof, such as Fulbrook House, early Arts and Crafts
houses such as Goddards and Little Thakeham, his
carefully composed Classical houses like Heathcote and
his grandest
country house
of all, Middleton
Park in
Oxfordshire.
200 b/w
photos, many
double-page.
192pp,
10"×12",
softback.
£20 NOW £8
77740 LIFE: THE CLASSIC COLLECTION:
Book and 25 Removable Prints
by LIFE Magazine
Includes 25 ready-to-frame colour and black and white
images, each with a tissue overlay accompanying 144
pages of iconic photography. Here is Noel Coward,
Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, the skating waiter at
St. Moritz, the Eiffel Tower in snow, the daredevil
photographer Margaret Bourke-White photographed atop
the 61st floor gargoyle on the Chrysler Building New
York where she had her studio, D-Day Omaha Beach
by Robert Capa, the America’s Cup 1962 with a placid,
beautiful sea in colour, a champion whippet called Ricky
1964, spacemen, soldiers, Black Power Salute 1968 to
the famous image of the sailor kissing the girl in the
white mini dress. These photographs are on display in a
clean, over-sized format of 100 classics. All of the most
famous photographers from LIFE magazine are
represented. 10" x 13½”, each frameable image
measures 10" x 8".
$29.95 NOW £10
77751 SURREAL PEOPLE: Surrealism and
Collaboration by Alexander Klar
Sets out to explore the many collaborations between 15
of the Surrealists, telling the intriguing stories behind
some of the 20th century’s most celebrated works of art.
Its 47 colour and 32 b/w illustrations include the work
and in depth analysis of the characters of Dali, Magritte,
Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Man Ray, Jean Arp, Alberto
Giacometti, Edward James and André Breton among
many others. 96p, softback.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
78418 1000 DRAWINGS OF GENIUS
by Victoria Charles and Klaus H. Carl
Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting,
the art of Drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place
in the sun. With major museums around the world, from
the Met to the Uffizi, mounting exhibitions focussed on
the art of draughtsmanship, drawing is receiving more
critical and academic attention than ever before. This
captivating text gives readers a sweeping analysis of the
history of drawing, from the 13th - 14th century with
Renaissance greats like Leonardo da Vinci and
Michelangelo, Lucas Cranach, Grünewald, Dürer,
Veronese and Tintoretto, Rubens, Velázquez, Poussin,
Tiepolo, Degas, Rodin, to Modernist masters like M.C.
Escher, Chagall, Hopper, Ernst, Pablo Picasso covering
every century in detail and with masses of examples in
fine quality. 6.5" x 8", 544 glossy pages, 1000 illus,
colour. Chronology.
ONLY £16
77860 ART NOUVEAU: Posters, Illustration
and Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siècle
by Rosalind Ormiston and Michael Robinson
The term Art Nouveau encompasses many artistic
forms. It has been given different name-tags: Morris
Style, Glasgow Style, Métro Style and many more.
Artists, designers like Bonnard, Munch, Mackintosh,
Privat-Livemont, Berthon, Grasset, de Feure, Vallotton,
Serusier and Gauguin and architects did not set out
purposefully to identify their work as ‘new art’ yet they
adopted common traits associated with the movement,
and the notion of a new art for a new and progressive
age. The masterful Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige
inspired European artists to include many elements of
Japanese design in their work. They symbolized the
style in their curvilinear ‘whiplash’ lines and the
references to exotic birds and foliage. A cornucopia of
artistic delights. 192 pages 29.5cm x 28.5cm, bright
colour.
£20 NOW £8
78429 VINCENT VAN GOGH
by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria Charles
A handy-sized, quality softback packed with famous
colour artworks, self-portraits, famous scenes and no
sunflowers! Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a legend
who became a reference for modern art. In Holland, he
partook in the Dutch realist painting movement by
studying peasant characters. Anxious and depressed, he
produced more than 2000 artworks, yet sold only one in
his lifetime. A self-made artist, his work is known for its
rough and emotional beauty and is amongst the most
popular in the art market today. Softback, 4" x 5½”,
144 pages, 100 illus, colour.
ONLY £3.50
77974 INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS
by Karen Livingstone
and Linda Parry
A magisterial study with 320 colour plates and 40 black
and white illustrations presenting a compelling
reassessment of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and an
invaluable visual record of an ever-popular era of design.
Its pioneers included William Morris, C. R. Ashbee and
Walter Crane. Their idealistic principles were first taken
up in America and Europe and adapted to each country’s
cultural climate. In America, Arts and Crafts became
the first home-grown artistic movement and swept
figures of the calibre of Frank Lloyd Wright and Gustav
Stickley into its orbit. Its last great sphere of influence
was Japan, from 1926 to 1945, where it flourished as
the Mingei (Folk Crafts) Movement. The urban modern
aesthetic counted among its leaders the potters Hamada
Shoji and the Englishman Bernard Leach and their
influence abroad. Published to coincide with a major
exhibition at the V&A in London, this is a glamorous huge
hardback, 368pp, packed with colour including a dining
room designed by Gustav Klimt, earthenware, clothing,
a dressing table, stained-glass doors and lamps,
photogravure ‘Spring Showers - the Street Cleaner’ by
Alfred Stieglitz and the warm-toned silver prints of
Edward S. Curtis, church interiors and hand-woven linen
hangings like Godfrey Blount’s ‘The Spies’, plus beautiful
watercolours and paintings.
£40 NOW £11
78032 MEMORIES OF A LOST WORLD
by Charlotte Fiell and James Ryan
The story of the ‘Magic Lantern’ projector stretches back
200 years, before the advent of photography. It is part
of a wonderful tradition of optical projection alongside
the Camera Obscura, Shadow Shows and the Magic
Mirror. Charlotte Fiell has painstakingly trawled through
thousands of images to collect 900 of the very best such
as the Kurb Minar, Delhi 1870, Eskimo Belles from
Greenland, 1900, the ships on icy waters at the Peary
Expedition, 1901, Norwegian and Lapp families in
traditional coloured costumes, castles, country life, Dublin
in a series of Irish postcards, the Old Curiosity Shop
1880s London, dozens of London attractions, Yeomen
Warders at the Tower of London 1870 relaxing, beautiful
Venice, temples in Egypt, Mursi tribesman 1880s, tombs
of emperors, Mount Fiji, Japanese maidens, wool sorting
and sheep shearing in Australia, giant redwood trees
photographed in the 1890s, waterfalls and cityscapes.
Some are beautiful hand coloured images of a now-lost
world. Well bound softback, 17 x 22cm, 704pp.
£25 NOW £10
78422 LEONARDO DA VINCI
by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria
Charles
In one handy-sized pocket book
packed with colour examples of
Madonnas, inventions, portraits
including his Mona Lisa and the girl
with ermine, a delightful collection
with no text. Not only was
Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) an
astonishing painter, but also a scientist, anatomist,
sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor and
more. During the Italian Renaissance, he mastered the
most beautiful works of art for the Medicis in Italy and
for the King of France. We are all hoping to decipher the
numerous secrets of this visionary artist. Softback, 4" x
5½”. 144 pages, 100 illus.
ONLY £3.50
77756 UNKNOWN HIERONYMUS BOSCH
by Kurt Falk
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a visionary painter
whose canvases reach heights of spiritual intensity and
depths of demonic loathing. Bosch’s huge panoramic
paintings The Last Judgment and The Garden of Earthly
Delights are famous for their grotesque figures, impaled,
damaged, or half animal, and the meaning of these
enigmatic images is far from obvious. This collection of
Bosch’s work starts in the early period with paintings
such as The Conjurer, a beautifully designed study in
charlatanism, or Christ Among the Doctors. The
altarpiece of St Julia is unusual in showing the crucifixion
of a woman, while John the Evangelist on Patmos
depicts an ethereal saint with a devil in the shape of a
scorpion at his heels wearing pince-nez spectacles.
Exhibits themes that the author traces throughout his
work, identifying a fivefold division in which the Ego, or
“I”, moves towards spiritual selflessness. 116pp,
softback, numerous high-quality reproductions. 18 x
24cm.
$29.95 NOW £7.50
77682 WORLD OF J. G.
BROWN
by Martha Hoppin
John George Brown (born 1831)
was, and still is, most associated
with the image of the
entrepreneurial young bootblack,
American children from immigrant
families. He had himself
emigrated from England in 1853.
His street urchins make music,
play card games, imitate politicians by giving speeches
and art collectors by admiring objects pulled from the
rubbish bins. Brown
also painted portraits
and landscapes, Grand
Manan Island
fishermen, and elderly
farmers and their
wives. But here it is
the little dogs and little
children who take
centre stage in these
260 pages with over
200 illustrations, 140 in
colour. Large size and
published in association
with Antique Collectors’
Club.
$50 NOW £8
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78089 ART MYSTERIES: Leonardo, Mona Lisa
by Marco Carminati
The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world
but who was La Gioconda and where, when and for
whom was it painted? Why did Leonardo never finish or
sell it? From Fontainebleau to The Louvre we are
invited to interpret the Mona Lisa, the Femme Fatale or
Smiling Face. Covering the 1911 theft, here are the
secrets of the illustrious and misunderstood masterpiece,
revealed in close-up detail in this fabulously illustrated
guide. Every crack, nook and cranny is displayed and
investigated forensically - the hands that speak, the
bosom, the smile, with or without eyebrows. With a
short life and times of Leonardo da Vinci and a superb
gatefold colour double page, 80 pages.
£16.95 NOW £5.75
78284 ARCHITECTURE OF
LONDON
by Edward Jones and Christopher
Woodward
From John Nash’s elegant crescents to
Lubetkin’s uncompromising high-rise
blocks, from Wren’s churches to the
Victorian Byzantine of Westminster
Cathedral, from the Roman City Hall to
St. Pancras International, this guide
offers a critical appraisal of London’s
architecture. Updated in 2009, it has
over 1000 entries illustrated with beautifully detailed
colour photographs. Entries are arranged chronologically
within geographical sections and are clearly pinpointed
on the corresponding colour maps. We start in gorgeous
Georgian Hampstead with such houses as Fenton House
built in 1693 and a beautiful white stuccoed house called
Admiral’s House from the mid 18th century to the Vale
of Health. A superb chronological time chart shows the
development of major trends and influences and there is
a series of plans showing the development of the London
squares from 1650 to 1900. A very heavyweight
definitive guide, tall hardback of 496pp.
78056 EDWARD JERMAN:
1605-1668 The
Metamorphosis of a Master
Craftsman by Helen Collins
Following the Great Fire of London
in 1666, Edward Jerman,
considered ‘The City’s most able
known artist’ was invited by a
committee composed of the
Corporation of the City and the
Mercer’s Company to make designs for the new Royal
Exchange. Born into a dynasty of seven mastercraftsmen who worked in the City of London from 1520
until 1678 and spanning six reigns, Edward designed
pageants to celebrate several Lord Mayor’s days, as well
as the Coronation of Charles II. Born in 1605, Edward
died just 63 years later, two years after the Great Fire,
but in that time managed to plan and oversee many
prestigious buildings including eight Livery Company
halls and St. Paul’s School. This in-depth investigation
into the man and his creations contains information on his
career as he rises from city worker to pageant maker
and through to his work at the Royal Exchange, together
with that done for other City companies. It also has a
chapter on the
Jerman family,
gleaned from the
records of the
Carpenters’
Company.
208pp, illus, 19 x
25cm.
£42.25
NOW £9
77757 V&A PATTERN:
BOX SET OF 4:
Spitalfields Silks, Pop
Patterns
by Esmé Whittaker,
Moira Thunder et al
£30 NOW £9.50
78385 RICHARD COSWAY
by Stephen Lloyd
This absolutely beautiful small book is a tribute to the
work of the Regency portrait miniaturist artist, Richard
Cosway. Born in 1742, at the age of 12 he was sent to
London to study under the drawing master William
Shipley, and went on to win many awards. Later, he
was closely associated with the Prince of Wales, later
George IV, producing miniatures of his friends, family
and lovers. Amongst them was a miniature portrait of
Maria Fitzherbert, the Prince’s secret wife. The exquisite
miniatures shown here depict the cream of society at the
time, but perhaps the most appealing of all is that of
Richard’s toddler daughter, Lady Paolina Angelica
Cosway, in a frilled bonnet and white dress. 104pp. 6.5"
square, colour illus.
£19.95 NOW £5
78423 MEDIEVAL ART: Romanesque ArtGothic Art (987-1489) 2 Volumes
by Victoria Charles and Klaus Carl
A double volume box set in a glamorous decorated
slipcase, ‘Gothic Art’ is defined by a powerful
architecture of cathedrals of Northern France.
Abandoning curved Roman forms, the architect started
using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open
cathedrals to daylight, the era incorporated new
iconography celebrating the Holy Mary, a dramatic
contrast to the dismal scenes of Roman times.
Architecture, sculpture, painting, here is the decoration of
the Stag Room at the Palace of the Popes, Avignon,
1343, beautifully illuminated parchments, scenes from
the life of the Virgin or of St Sylvester, altarpieces made
of tempera on panel, oils on panel with gilding such as
Hans Memling’s The Shrine of St Ursula 1489 and St
Mary’s Cathedral, Palma de Mallorca begun 1229, all
among the many hundreds of full page photographs and
examples and diagrams in this glamorous publication.
The second volume is ‘Romanesque Art’. In art history,
Romanesque refers to the period between the beginning
of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This most
handsome volume gives hundreds of full page examples
in colour of mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, enamel and
copper panels, sculpted wood, pulpits and bishop’s
thrones, door panels, priories and monasteries and
convent churches, a horizontal plan of the Cathedral of
Santiago de Compostela 1075-1128 and the Cathedral
as it is today in a colour photograph, the fortified Castle
of Brunswick 1173 and UNESCO World Heritage Sites
among them. 400pp in total, colour, both 9½” x 11½”.
Two volumes boxed.
ONLY £35
74022 THE BOOK OF MIRACLES
by Till-Holger Borchert
and Joshua Waterman
The Book of Miracles that first surfaced a few years ago
and is one of the most spectacular new discoveries in the
field of Renaissance art. The nearly complete surviving
illustrated manuscript which was created in the Swabian
Imperial Free City of Augsburg around 1550, is
composed of 169 pages with large-format illustrations in
gouache and watercolour depicting wondrous and often
eerie celestial phenomena, constellations, conflagrations
and floods as well as other catastrophes and occurrences.
It deals with events ranging from the creation of the
world and incidents drawn from the Old Testament,
ancient tradition and medieval chronicles to those that
took place in the immediate present of the book’s author.
With the illustrations of the visionary Book of Revelation,
it even includes the future end of the world. The
surprisingly modern looking, sometimes hallucinatory
illustrations and the cursory descriptions of the Book of
Miracles strikingly convey a unique view of the concerns
and anxieties of the 16th century, of apocalyptic thinking
and eschatological expectation. The present facsimile
volume reproduces the Book of Miracles in its entirety
for the first time as well as a complete transcript of the
text, accompany the facsimile. Clamshell box, 12.6" x
8.5", 560 pages. Text in English, French and German.
From Taschen.
ONLY £95
The four delightful hardbacks
in the box set are Walter
Crane by Esmé Whittaker,
Spitalfields Silks by Moira
Thunder, Pop Patterns by
Oriole Cullen and Chinese
Textiles by Yueh-Siang
Chang. The names of the files correspond to the V&A
inventory numbers of the images. Peacocks, cherubs,
doves, cockatoo and pomegranate are among the
images in the colour collection in the Walter Crane
pattern designs. Lengths of painted silk, embroidery,
robes for a temple statue in silk brocade, trellises and
scrolls, fruit and flowers appear on the Chinese Textiles.
Lunar rocket, furnishing fabrics, matchbox designs,
Martini, and dress fabrics from the likes of Zandra
Rhodes are among the pop-inspired patterns from the
collections at Sanderson & Heal’s, furnishings, textiles
and wallpaper items with designers of abstract motifs.
Finally, Spitalfields Silks reproduces samples from
pattern books of woven silk in different colourways,
pencil, watercolour and body colour on paper, pen and
ink designs. The CD-Rom containing the 71 jpegs of
featured beautiful colour patterns. Four volumes, satin
bookmark, decorated slipcase.
£30 NOW £11
76009 75 YEARS OF MARVEL: From the
Golden Age to the Silver Screen
by Roy Thomas and Josh Baker
!
With the likes of the fiery android Human Torch,
vengeful sea prince Sub-Mariner, and pip-squeak-turnedparagon Captain America, in the 40s Marvel created a
mythological universe grounded in a world that readers
recognised as close to their own, brimming with humour
and heartache. In the early 1960s came Spider Man,
The Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the
Avengers, Thor, the X-Men - the list goes on. In
celebration of Marvel’s 75th anniversary, Taschen
presents a magnum opus with an inside look not only at
its celebrated characters, but also at the “bullpen” of
architects - Stan “the Man” Lee, Jack “King” Kirby, along
with a roster of greats like Steve Ditko, John Romita,
John Buscema, Marie Severin and countless others.
With essays by comics historian and former Marvel
editor-in-chief Roy Thomas. The XL-format book
includes more than 700 pages of nearly 2,000 stunning
colour images including vintage comic books, one-of-akind original art. With fold-out, ribbon bookmark, and
four-foot accordion-fold timeline, 11.4" x 15.6", 712
pages. Heavyweight, UK delivery only.
ONLY £135
78386 SARAH RAPHAEL
by William Packer
Sarah Raphael was just 40 years old when she died,
falling victim to pneumonia, yet in that short period she
accomplished portraits, sombre narratives and vibrant
abstracts with ease. A childhood trip to South America,
Mexico and Jamaica that lasted several months left a
deep, lasting impression, and the influence of the
decorative, colourful folk art resurfaced regularly
throughout her life, notably in her amazing Strip
paintings, as well a series of bric-a-brac boxes she
decorated for her family. Some of her darker paintings
have a disturbing, virtually surreal quality. Perhaps her
most stunning works are in the Strip series, consisting of
hundreds of tiny
squares, each
painstakingly coloured
and decorated, and
also her beautiful
Time Travel for
Beginners set, with
twisting perspectives,
flowing forms and
vibrant colour. Her
father was Frederic
Raphael. 11 x 9",
160pp. colour illus,
drawings.
£30 NOW £7
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GREAT BRITAIN & THE
ENVIRONMENT
I like the spirit of this great London which I
feel around me. Who but a coward would
pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever
abandon his faculties to the eating rust of
obscurity?
-Charlotte Brontë
78617 ENGLAND: An
Illustrated History
by Henry Weisser
‘In this illustrated history I hope to
clarify English history by sorting out
its main strands and describing the
truly important events, personalities
and developments in a concise,
comprehensive manner.’ History is
present in customs, institutions,
names, costumes, entertainment,
cathedrals, castles, stately houses,
inns, walls, parks, villages, graves, statues, paintings
and memorials. This handy little book is a super primer.
Beginning with a timeline of prehistoric England, Roman
Britain, Anglo-Saxons, Norman, Medieval, constitutional
developments, the Tudor dynasty, the English Civil
War, through to politics in the Georgian era, society, the
Industrial Revolution, Victorian achievements, world
wars, empire, the Thatcher era to the next millennium.
Pretty awful black and white illustrations, designed for
Americans needing a potted history, but somehow really
rather charming. 166pp.
£9.99 NOW £4
78631 A GUIDE TO
DICKENS’ LONDON
by Daniel Tyler
From Newgate Prison (which he
visited in 1836) to Covent Garden
and from his childhood home in
Camden to his grave in
Westminster Abbey, this delightful
tome traces the influence of the
places and people of London on the
life and work of Charles Dickens.
Arranged in eight chapters covering
the slums, the affluent areas, coach houses and hotels,
Dickens’ residences, legal London, the Thames and its
bridges, London prisons and finally London’s churches, it
features over 40 sites, locating and illustrating them as
they appear in his works and demonstrating how the
city’s architecture and landscape influenced Dickens’
work throughout his life. Dickens did not only feature
these places in his books; he also described the places,
the people and events in his correspondence, journals
and diaries, and here each site is described with
substantial quotations from his writings alongside photos
and pen and ink sketches, both modern and
contemporary. 152pp.
£12 NOW £6
78596 BRONTË
PARSONAGE MUSEUM
by Professor Ann Sumner
The Brontë Parsonage Museum
is one of the great British
literary shrines, the home of
the famous family. The Brontë
siblings moved to the Georgian
parsonage with their father
who was curate in the village
of Haworth from 1820.
Surrounded by high moorland, the three sisters
Charlotte, Emily and Anne and their brother Branwell
grew up together, reading widely and showing great
promise even in their juvenile writing. Here they wrote
their remarkable novels including Jane Eyre, Wuthering
Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and here they
died tragically young. Visitors began to arrive in
Haworth even during Charlotte’s lifetime to see the
landscape which inspired the novels. From 1895 Brontë
memorabilia was on display in rented rooms. In 1927
the Church of England offered the Parsonage for sale
and it was present to the Brontë Society for conversion
into a museum and library. Today we can experience
period recreations of the rooms where the sisters wrote,
cooked and slept and examine the world famous
collection of manuscripts, books and art. Here we have
the official handbook covering Mr Brontë’s study, the
dining room, kitchen, Mr Nicholls’ study, the servant’s
room, Charlotte’s room, children’s study, Mr Brontë’s
bedroom and Branwell’s studio. A Scala publication, 48
glossy page paperback, colour illus.
£6.95 NOW £3.25
78728 COTSWOLDS LEISURE
MAP
by the Automobile
Association
A superbly detailed Ordnance
Survey map at a scale of 2cms to
one kilometre or 1¼” to one mile,
all of the Tumuli, Long Barrows,
farms and hotels, the Tump, wells
and manors are clearly marked.
The River Dikler flows north to
south with Lower Swell and Stowon-the-Wold in the north, Upper
Slaughter and Lower Slaughter,
Cirencester, Tetbury and Cricklade all covered. The
Fosse Way, Gloucestershire Way, Monarch’s Way,
Macmillan Way and Heart of England Way cross this
important and very beautiful area of the country. For all
armchair travellers or locals. Large coloured folding map.
Softback.
ONLY £3.50
78729 AA STREET BY
STREET KENT
by the Automobile Association
Quality heavyweight large softback
in the familiar yellow and black
livery, this is practical, clear and
easy to use mapping. Navigate
easily from page to page, see car
parks, one way streets and petrol
stations plus AA recommended pubs
and hotels. Enlarged areas cover Ashford, Canterbury,
Chatham, Dover, Folkestone, Gillingham, Maidstone,
Margate, Ramsgate, Rochester, Royal Tunbridge Wells,
Sevenoaks plus Broadstairs, Bromley, Croydon,
Dartford, East Grinstead, Herne Bay, Whitstable and
Woolwich. 422pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
78294 ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR: A
Celebration of the Commonplace
by Sue Clifford and Angela King
A thick, heavy, treasure trove of a book. The chosen
topics include bee boles, dialects, warehouses, smells,
libraries, fingerposts, pigeon lofts, dry stone walls,
gargoyles, quicksand, sheep, windmills, topiary, accents
to wrestling, dawn chorus, badgers and dew ponds.
Oaks are amongst our longest-lived trees, the first
seaside promenade was developed in the 1770s at
Weymouth, people have ice-skated across the Fens’
waterways in winter for centuries, originally using
animal bones attached to their shoes, while Cornish
legend has it that the soul of King Arthur migrated into a
chough. The sketches, woodcuts and drawings are
charming. 512pp, b/w illus, 19 x 24cm, first edition 2006.
£35 NOW £15
78302 JOURNEYS THROUGH
ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR:
Coasting by Sue Clifford and
Angela King
From Albion (an elusive old name
for Britain) to Zawns (rock clefts in
Cornwall) this lovely book
celebrates the richness of our
everyday surroundings, opening our
eyes to things we might have
walked past dozens of times without really seeing. This
charmingly illustrated volume explores the coastline,
encompassing such diverse topics as beach huts,
quicksand, shingle, funicular railways, ammonites,
kippers and Blackpool rock. Did you know that the
British devoured around three hundred million portions of
fish and chips in 1999? A captivating cornucopia of
coastal comprehension . 6¾” x 5½”, 138pp, sketches.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
78303 JOURNEYS THROUGH ENGLAND IN
PARTICULAR: On Foot
by Sue Clifford and Angela King
From Alleys to Zig-Zags, the entries cover a veritable
mixture of topics including beachcombing, Cornish
pasties, stepping-stones, bluebells, cottages, manhole
covers and terriers. At Land’s End, hedge banks that
carry hardly any shrubs have been dated to the Bronze
Age, ranking them amongst the world’s oldest artefacts
still in use. Terriers are unique to Britain and all the
breeds originate here, while the earliest sheep were
shepherded in Neolithic times. 6¾” x 5½”, 154pp,
sketches.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
78327 SOMERSET COAST PATH
by Damian Hall
Starting at Bristol’s Temple Meads station, you will pass
landmarks such as the Cabot Tower and the SS Great
Britain before heading out underneath the Clifton
Suspension Bridge and joining the coast path at
Portishead with a fine view of Wales. Clevedon Pier and
Burnham on Sea’s lighthouse on stilts are two fascinating
sights at these small resorts, and Weston-super-Mare
offers magnificent views of Steep Holm Island and Iron
Age Worlebury Hill. Turning the corner past the
Quantocks you make your way along the foot of
Exmoor to Minehead and Porlock, where Coleridge
composed “Kubla Khan” following an the opium-induced
dream. Each section comes with an OS map and full
route directions, together with interesting things to see.
142pp, softback, colour photos.
£12.99 NOW £5
78335 YORKSHIRE WOLDS WAY
by Tony Gowers and Roger Ratcliffe
The Yorkshire Wolds Way meanders north from the
Humber Bridge through places with wonderful names
like Fridaythorpe, Nunburnholme and Thixendale, until
eventually it takes the walker down the cliffs and into
the old Yorkshire town of Filey. This walker’s guide
includes reproductions of paintings by Hockney as well
as a section-by-section Route Description with maps and
detailed walking instructions. “Things to look out for”
includes the grass sculpture “Time and Flow” by Chris
Drury, the spectacular deserted medieval village of
Wharram Percy, and a feature on “The Sykes Churches
Trail”, all of them built by the Sykes family of Sledmere
and several being favourites of that arbiter of
architectural excellence, Nikolaus Pevsner. The city of
Hull is associated with Philip Larkin and William
Wilberforce, while Beverley Minster is one of England’s
Gothic masterpieces. 140pp, softback, maps, colour
photos, contacts.
£14.99 NOW £6
77772 BRITAIN YESTERDAY AND TODAY
by Janice Anderson and
Edmund Swinglehurst
A nostalgic and informative look at “then and now”.
Some quintessentially British things have changed little compare the pictures of Victoria and Elizabeth II’s
Diamond Jubilees (115 years apart) and the 100 years
between the church fete pictures. We loved the contrast
between Butlins at Clacton in the 1930s vs Center Parcs
at Longleat. 192pp, 11½”×8¾”, colour, nostalgic images
on every page.
£19.99 NOW £5.50
78354 FIELD GUIDE TO THE BRITISH
by Sarah Lyall
In her 13 years married to an Englishman and living in
London, the New York Times correspondent has learned
many valuable lessons about being British. Here are
Anglo-Saxon attitudes toward class, sex, alcohol, animals
and, naturally, the weather, and some classic examples
of British characteristics such as self-deprecation,
understatement and eccentricity. Here too are the quirks
and curiosities of contemporary Britain, from salad cream
to Cornish pasties, binge drinking to personal hygiene
and MPs who behave like naughty boys at prep school.
Often revelatory and always very funny. 277pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
78362 HISTORIC WALKS IN AND AROUND
YORK by Brian Conduit
Glossy colourful pages packed with photos, historical
facts and stories, easy-to-follow maps and directions.
The walks are leisurely, designed for all ages and
abilities, with plenty of opportunity to enjoy the views,
absorb the history and relax in one of the many cosy
pubs or cafés. Enjoy the formal gardens at Harewood
House, Spofforth Castle, Knaresborough, Markenfield
Hall, Ripon Cathedral and the deserted medieval village
of Wharram Percy. 25 walks in total including of course
York Minster, the castles, museums and gardens and
National Railway Museum. 180pp, paperback.
£8.95 NOW £3.75
76390 FAMILY ALBUM: Edwardian Life in the
Lake Counties by John Satchell
In a uniquely important glimpse of life in Kendal and the
Lake District during Edwardian times, this remarkable
collection of almost 200 photographs, taken mainly
between 1900 and 1908, ranges from genteel ladies
pouring afternoon tea to the joyful return of soldiers from
the Boer War. The photographer, Margaret Shaw spent
the mornings nursing her aged mother, but afternoons
were a round of tennis, golf and tea parties. She visited
Lakeland beauty spots and seaside resorts, and attended
local weddings and chapel social events. Everything
was photographed. 152 paperback pages, archive
photos, family tree.
£12.99 NOW £3.50
76455 TOUR OF THE ENGLISH LAKES
With Thomas Gray and Joseph Faringdon RA
by John R. Murray
In 1769 Thomas Gray made a tour of the Lake District
and recorded it in his journal, thus creating the first
example of modern travel writing. Eight years later the
renowned watercolourist Joseph Faringdon, a fervent
admirer of Gray’s Lakeland journal, followed in his
footsteps, painting the sites Gray described, these being
published together in one volume in 1789. Here is a
series of fascinating “then and now” juxtapositions. The
lakes and places featured here include Penrith,
Ullswater, Keswick, Borrowdale, Derwentwater,
Castlerigg, Bassenthwaite, Kendal, Grasmere, Skiddaw,
Thirlmere, Rydal Water, Windermere and Ambleside.
Colour photos, watercolours, engravings, old maps and
manuscripts, 160pp, 8½”×11".
£25 NOW £5
76476 STORY OF THE THAMES
by Andrew Sargent
Focuses on both the social and economic changes
exemplified in the life of the river, as well as touching on
fascinating episodes of national and political history.
Here are the ritual deposit of metalwork in the river in
the Bronze Age, the working river of the Middle Ages
and post-medieval period, the development of leisure epitomised in Three Men in a Boat - the river in wartime
and modern environmental conservation. 192 pages,
colour and b/w illus.
£16.99 NOW £2.75
76538 A PEAK DISTRICT ANTHOLOGY: A
Literary Companion to Britain’s First National
Park by Roly Smith
Ruskin extolled its beauties, while novelists Charlotte
Brontë and George Eliot used closely observed Peakland
settings for some of their most vivid narratives.
Topographical writers including Edward Bradbury,
Thomas Tudor and James Croston enthusiastically
described the delights of the Derbyshire scenery to the
ever-increasing stream of Victorian visitors. This
charming anthology brings together the finest writing
about the Peak District through the ages. 208 pages illus
in colour and b/w.
£16.99 NOW £3
66042 GREEN ROADS OF ENGLAND
by R. Hippisley Cox
First published by Methuen in 1914, this facsimile edition
has been carefully reprinted with all 24 original
illustrations, eight colour maps and 87 plans. This
seminal book covers all the ancient roads of England. It
reveals not only the Stone Age ridge roads of southern
England, but also details of the hill forts and other
earthworks found along them. ‘...the Stone Circles at
Avebury, Stonehenge, Knowlton and Rollright are proof
that astronomy had advanced beyond the limits of
savage outlook and the Sun worship of Neolithic man
appears to have been a higher form of religion than
demoniac Druidism. 220pp, paperback.
ONLY £5
77261 GEAR GUIDE 1967: Hip-Pocket Guide
to Britain’s Swinging Fashion Scene
by Old House Books and Maps
The hip-pocket guide to Britain’s swinging, with-it hip
fashion world, first published in 1967, this pocket guide
describes the lively boutiques which were springing up
on Carnaby Street and King’s Road. For each shop the
full address, opening hours and a full description of
whether the range was ‘ready to wear’ clothes, a
tailored suit, books of samples, how much a suit would
cost, classical or unassertive, or as crazy as you like.
You may even remember shops like I Was Lord
Kitchener’s Valet, The Foale & Tuffin or Male W.1. at 38
Carnaby Street. Maps, photos. Facsimile reprint, 72pp,
paperback.
£5.99 NOW £2
BIBLIOPHILE BOOKS UNIT 5 DATAPOINT, 6 SOUTH CRESCENT, LONDON E16 4TL TEL: 020 74 74 24 74
Windsor and Eton
On April 6th, our Annie will become President of
the Windsor & Eton Royal Warrant Holders’
Association. The area is a perfect backdrop to the
many events she has planned for her year
promoting the high levels of service and quality of
goods from all recognised “By Royal Appointment”
companies (like Bibliophile). These crafts and
trades are often traditional and are to be
celebrated. Please wish her luck in her new role!
78518 A YEAR
IN THE LIFE OF
WINDSOR AND
ETON
by Joanna
Jackson
The Royal Borough
of Windsor is home to
both Windsor Castle,
the oldest and largest
inhabited castle in the
world and Her Majesty’s favourite weekend home,
and Eton College, perhaps the most famous school in
the world, founded in 1440 and the alma mater of 19
prime ministers. Windsor Great Park, 1000 acres of
woodland, lakes and gardens hosts the Carriage
Driving Championships and events include the Windsor
Royal
Tattoo,
state
visits and
the
Windsor
Horse
Show.
Every
June
Ascot
Racecourse is the setting for a spectacular pageant of
horses and race goers. From the Order of the Garter
to spectacular hats at Ascot, from swan upping to the
Changing of the Guard, nearby Virginia Water and the
Magna Carta at Runnymede are all captured together
with glamorous riverside shots, statues, meadows in
spring flower, autumnal colours, bluebells and
snowscapes in this beautiful photobook. 112 very
large pages. Colour.
£15.99 NOW £5
78913 HISTORICAL MAP OF WINDSOR &
ETON ABOUT 1860 by David Lewis
A huge coloured fold out map showing Eton College,
the quadrangle, St. Mary’s Chapel and the Hall to the
north, South Meadow and the Brocas to the west, the
Worth and cricket ground, Riverside Station, Windsor
Bridge (toll), the Cobbler, the gas works, Windsor
Town Centre including the Infantry Barracks, south to
the Cavalry Barracks and Spital and of course the
entire aerial plan of Windsor Castle, the Statue
Garden, the Royal Mews and even the dwellings
demolished in 1690 at
the end of Park Street.
On the reverse of the
map is a fabulous
gazetteer of historic
buildings and sites like
the Christopher Inn, in
Eton before it was
relocated in 1846, views
of Windsor Castle,
Windsor Bridge after its
rebuilding in 1822 in
woodcut illustrations and
short history of the
historical features
referred to. Presented
in a cardboard folder
with introduction by
David Lewis. Softback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
76750 WHITEHALL: The Street that Shaped a
Nation by Colin Brown
Whitehall, the hideaway of all those bowler-hatted
mandarins who really run Britain, is built on top of a
Tudor palace whose ruins were uncovered during the
building of the present Ministry of Defence in 1939. It
was here that Henry VIII had his wine cellar and kept
fit on the tennis court. He would sometimes take the
secret passage which survives as a route from the
Cabinet Office to Downing Street. Elizabeth I’s tough
resistance to foreign invaders and domestic plotters was
played out in Whitehall and Charles I was executed at
Inigo Jones’s newly built Banqueting House, an event
witnessed by Samuel Pepys who played truant from
school. In 1914 Asquith summoned Kitchener from his
command of the Egyptian Army to become War
Secretary. The network of tunnels under Whitehall were
later developed into a nuclear bunker. 388pp, colour and
b/w photos.
£17.99 NOW £5
78066 FROZEN THAMES
by Helen Humphreys
The author has created 40 vignettes based on historical
events that took place each time the River Thames froze
solid, between 1142 and 1892, intended as a meditation
on the nature of ice. ‘It is the coldest winter there has
ever been and the ice freezes hard and fast and smooth.
The watermen trade their boats for sledges and pull
people across the river for the same price as when they
had rowed them over. A whirly sledge twirls passengers
around a stake set into the ice. Coaches are pulled by
both horses and men. There are games of football and
bowls, horse and donkey races.’ This description is from
a 1684 vignette, while another, later, entry describes
how a miller’s son is surrounded one morning by a flock
of frozen birds. Period art works. 186pp, colour illus.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
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78267 EXETER AND SIDMOUTH: 1919
Popular Edition OS Map
by Cassini Publishing
Including Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Honiton, Ottery
St Mary, Seaton and Teignmouth, this map was first
surveyed in 1912-23 and first published 1919-26, and
here has been rescaled to the traditional 1:50,000.
Discover such villages as Luppitt, the bull farm near
Cotleigh, Little Silver Smithy near Clyst Hydon, a weir
and a mill on the River Exe, lodges and manor houses
and the growing city of Exeter with the steep hillsides to
the south where we find the village of Shillingford, the
Exeter Canal alongside the Great Western Railway and
way south to the River Teign, the Tolgate and the
Salty. Colour, folded into softback.
£6.99 NOW £3
76944 REMOTE BRITAIN: Landscape, People
and Books by David St John Thomas
David organises his book by themes such as the holistic
life, wine and cheese, the Old Testament and Tess,
localism, before taking us on his rather special tours to
dip into time and again to the Isles of Scilly, Yorkshire,
the Gower Peninsular, Tenbury Wells in Herefordshire,
Bodmin Moor, hilly and flat Lincolnshire, the Wye Valley,
the Lake District, remoter Essex with the Tolleshurst
Knights to remoteness in London and beyond. With
books mentioned and quoted. 536pp, colour photos.
£18.99 NOW £5.50
ANTIQUES AND
COLLECTABLES
We take issue even with perfection.
- Pascal
Beautifully designed spiral-bound
hardback book with antique maps
and clocks sepia design on the
cover and dedication page, the
book is designed to enable
collectors to keep detailed records
of all their acquisitions. Each item
has been allocated a two-page
spread on which there is space for an image, a detailed
description, price, contact details for the artist and the
gallery involved as well as notes for provenance etc.
about the piece. The index provides quick access to the
items included and there is space for general notes and a
pocket on the inside back cover for invoices, business
cards etc. If no photograph is available, you may insert
your own sketch and be as detailed as you like in the
description of your object, materials, construction and
size and where the image filename may be found on
your computer, date of manufacture, gallery auction or
stock, shop from which purchased, date, price, maker’s
mark, contact details etc. A unique item of stationery
we are proud to present.
!
From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto to Verner Panton
to Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to International Style,
from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the
chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as
comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all
here: Thonet’s bentwood chairs and Hoffmann’s sittingmachines, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair and Ron Arad’s
avant-garde armchairs or our favourite (pictured)
Alessandro Mendini’s Proust’s armchair of 1978 in
rainbow painted colours and cut-out decoration. The
book devotes one page to each chair, displayed on its
own as pure form, with biographical and historical
information about the chairs and their designers. 5.5" x
7.7", 624 heavy pages, satin pagemarker. Colour illus.
ONLY £9
Pattern primer
The ultimate decorative resource
78723 WORLD OF
ORNAMENT: A. Racinet
and A. DupontAuberville
edited by David Batterham
“The sheer profusion of Moorish arabesques to
Neoclassical stripes is inspiring.” Discover a world of
decorative ideas with this compendium of history’s most
elegant patterns and ornamental designs. The World of
Ornament brings together the two greatest
encyclopedic collections of ornament of the 19th
century: Auguste Racinet’s L’Ornement polychrome
Volumes I and II (1875-1888) and Auguste DupontAuberville’s L’Ornement des tissus (1877) to provide
one lavish source book spanning jewellery, tile, stained
glass, illuminated manuscript, textile and ceramic
ornament. Encompassing classical, Egyptian, Greek,
Roman, Etruscan, Asian and
middle-Eastern, as well as
European designs from
medieval times through the
19th century, this
compilation of cultures and
aesthetics offers a primary
reference for artists,
historians, designers and
patternmakers, and anyone
engaged in decorative
design and impact. 5.5" x
7.7", 824 pages. Text in
English, French and
German. New from
Taschen.
ONLY £13
This is the must-have book for
anyone who has ‘things’, and
don’t we all? We might not
have a fantastic 1920s toy
Marlin tinplate clockwork
zeppelin with celluloid rear
propellers, valued at $25,00030,000 or a vividly striped Murano Venini ‘Arado’ vase,
$10,000-$15,000, but it’s still good too read about them.
However, there must still be hundreds of other things
depicted in this volume that many of us do have, such
as 1950s wire magazine racks with atomic ball shaped
feet, royal commemorative mugs, old cameras, belt
buckles, children’s books, ceramics, glass ware, whistles,
rock and pop memorabilia, dinky and corgi cars, Star
Wars figures, toy trains and posters. Did you know that
1960s Pyrex glass kitchenware is becoming
collectable now? Or that the beautiful
textured Whitefriars vases of the 1960s now
sell for large sums? Even 1950s Formicatopped coffee tables are sought after.
All you need to make your
fortune is this book together
with a bit of luck when you
root around a boot sale - and
who knows what treasures
you might have up in your
loft. Note that prices are
shown in dollars, but easy to
convert. Up-to-date 20142015 edition, 4000 objects
featured in colour. 432pp,
colour illus.
$27.99 NOW £8
78789 COLLECTOR’S
LOGBOOK by Linda and
Michael Lambert
£9.99 NOW £3.75
77238 1000 CHAIRS
by Charlotte and Peter Fiell
78816 MILLER’S
COLLECTIBLES
HANDBOOK AND PRICE
GUIDE by Judith Miller
and Mark Hill
77724 ENGLISH STYLE AND DECORATION: A
Source Book of Original Ideas
by Stafford Cliff
Alongside the work of famous and familiar taste-makers,
this sumptuous resource contains over 600 designs,
patterns and settings in colour and black and white
developed in workshops and factories throughout
England. There are page after page of original sketches
and printed patterns for furniture, textiles, flooring,
wallpaper, glass, ceramics and household utensils,
doorknobs to tableware and light fittings. Susie Cooper
pattern books from the Wedgwood Museum, a folding
screen from the Omega Workshops by Percy Wyndham
Lewis, a theatre set by Paul Nash and designs for
lampshades and wallpapers are among the full page
colour plates towards the end of the book. 250 very
large quality pages. Colour and b/w.
$29.95 NOW £5.50
77722 DISH: 813 Colourful, Wonderful
Dinner Plates
by Shax Riegler
Buying a dinner service is a lifestyle choice, and the
world’s great artists, including Picasso and Monet, have
tried their hand at creating designs. This book is
organised thematically, with sections on topics such as
Flora and Fauna or People and Places. The first section
entitled Elegance and Tradition includes Clarice Cliff”s
famous “Biarritz” design, based on medieval trenchers
and featuring a circular centre in a square surround. Blue
and white china is celebrated in this section, including
Willow Pattern and Spode. A chapter on Colour and
Form covers innovations from 18th century tortoiseshell
ware to Town and Country line from New York. The
Art and Craft chapter starts with 16th century majolica
ware and other tin glazes such as faience and Delftware,
and also includes Royal Winton’s popular chintz designs
from the 1930s. Explains monograms and back stamps
from Meissen to Sevres. 280pp, sumptuous colour.
£25 NOW £7
77708 A CENTURY OF FINE
CARRIAGE CLOCKS
by Charles Terwilliger and Joseph Fanelli
One hundred superb examples of highly collectable
carriage clocks have been selected by Joseph Fanelli
who first opened his New York clock shop in the 1960s.
Each one is beautifully photographed and comes with
basic information about country of origin, type of
movement, style of case, signature, date, serial number
and height. Much of this book is devoted to French
examples and Tiffany & Co. The Grande Sonnerie alarm
clock of 1880 by Leroy has a lever for different levels of
chime, and unusual features are the moon phase
aperture and a central seconds hand. Another clock of
similar date has fewer gadgets but is decorated with an
exquisite Limoges enamel dial and panels. An earlier
clock by Leroy has a visible mechanism. 227pp,
glossary, hundreds of colour photos, 23 x 29cm, rare
1987 publication.
$59.95 NOW £11
78415 WARMAN’S WORLD WAR II
COLLECTIBLES (2nd Edition)
by Michael Haskew
From a Women’s Army Corps Song Book to a Hitler
Youth Field Cap, this book is a superb guide to collecting
World War II memorabilia, accoutrements, clothing and
weapons from both Allied and Axis forces. There are
3,000 entries, over a third of them illustrated in colour,
and they all come with the price at the date of
publication, 2010, making it easy to compare items
following an adjustment in line with a 5-year price rise.
Items worn in combat tend to command higher prices,
though if a uniform is being purchased for a reenactment, the larger sizes are preferred. German
helmets have always been sought-after, but recently the
helmets of other nations have gained ground.
Accoutrements include water bottles, bags, map cases, a
Luftwaffe wrist compass, an RAF Oxygen Mask
microphone, and U.S. Army Anti-Flak goggles. Medals
are the most popular segment of militaria. 286pp,
softback, glossary, 1100 colour illus.
$24.99 NOW £6
71455 GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION
IN
CK
PRICES: Eight Edition
BA O C K
ST
by R. B. Russell
Worth its weight in gold at 786 large pages, this is the
completely revised and updated eight edition (2010).
The volume provides a guide to the value of over
50,000 sought-after titles. Includes Jane Austen to
Oscar Wilde, Eric Ambler to Minette Walters, illustrators
from Aubrey Beardsley to Florence Upton and poets
from Richard Alvington to Walt Whitman. Authors and
artists are represented in British and American first
editions, limited editions and important, collectable
reprints. As featured on Radio Four’s ‘Front Row’.
Lovely clear layout.
£19.95 NOW £6
77462 BIOGRAPHY OF A BUILDING
How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster
Built a Great Museum
by Witold Rybczynski and Norman Foster
Tells the remarkable inside story of the Sainsbury
Centre For The Visual Arts at the University of East
Anglia. The centre was created for the Sainsburys’
private collections of paintings, drawings and sculptures.
The project was Norman Foster’s first public commission
as an architect. Here is the selection of Foster, the
identification of the site, the design of the building and
the installation of the collection are traced in fascinating
detail, enlivened with quotations from the main players
in the drama. 240 pages with 50 illus, 34 in colour, line
drawings, plans.
£19.95 NOW £5
77284 ORIENTAL RUGS: An Introduction
by Gordon Redford Walker
Here is a superb gazetteer of different rug types, all with
high quality photos. City rugs include the Persian
Tabriz, Ispahan and Nain patterns, all designed with
central medallions. Tribal rugs include the brightly
coloured Kazak Lambalo, with its striking three
medallions in reds, greens and ivories. The beautiful
Baku is a Caucasian Shirvan rug, with an overall
repeated pattern in blues and turquoises, often made
with goat’s hair. Advice about nuying and care. 224pp,
colour photos, colour chart.
£16.99 NOW £4
78359 GUIDE TO COLLECTING STUDIO
POTTERY by Alistair Hawtin
How do you recognise the good pieces, the pieces that
will gain or hold their value, the quality from the tat? It
was not until the late 1800s that a few potters began to
move away from industrialised mass-produced ceramics,
such as Emile Decoeur and Ernest Chaplet in France,
and the three Martin brothers in Britain. However, the
name invariably linked with the rise of the studio potter
is Bernard Leech, arguably the most influential potter of
the 20th century, setting up his pottery at St Ives in
1920. Soon, he was taking on students such as Michael
Cardew and Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie. This
colourfully illustrated, informative book provides short
biographies of many classic studio potters, as well as
advice on the types of ceramics to collect, how to start
collecting, whose work to collect, collecting to a theme,
and developing an eye for a good pot. Paperback,
128pp, colour photos.
£16.99 NOW £5
78100 MURANO: A History of Glass
by Gianfranco Toso
The book is fabulously illustrated in colour with even the
most ancient examples, a 14th century enamel
decoration on the Aldrevandini glass, the most exquisite
drinking glasses, one with lid and retorted edges, a
Murano chandelier designed like the peacock, beautiful
bottles with the swirling colours we know and love,
vases decorated with flowers and their incredible
submerged vases and metallic glass bottles. 192pp,
paperback.
£5.95 NOW £4
77750 STARTING TO
COLLECT ANTIQUE
PORCELAIN
by John Sandon
What should you look for and
how do you spot a fake? Is it
worth getting a damaged piece
repaired? Beautiful colour
photos show off his selected
pieces at their best, and for
each he provides details of
specialist books that offer more
detail. The “What is Available in Your Price Range?”
chapter is invaluable for those starting out. Details of
makers’ marks and the Chinese Dynasties. Hopefully
one day you’ll dazzle Fiona Bruce and co! 192pp.
$25 NOW £4.50
77749 STARTING TO
COLLECT 20TH CENTURY
CERAMICS
by Andrew Casey
With the novice collector in
mind, the book includes tips on
how to care for and best display
a collection as well as a brief
history of the trends in ceramic
designs through the 20th
century. Carefully selected are
over 40 important ceramic
manufacturers from Britain, Europe and America, each
with a brief history, the designers associated with the
company, and the names of important shapes and
patterns. The easy-to-use format allows you to see ata-glance the main collecting tips. Here are the elaborate
shapes and decoration by Royal Crown Derby to the
elegant vases of Rookwood USA, classic Homemaker in
the 50s, from the traditional Blue Willow pattern to the
strikingly avant-garde wares of Rosenthal Germany,
Royal Copenhagen, a Longwi earthenware plaque,
geometric designs by Eduardo Paolozzi, Natwest piggy
banks from 1984, novelty dishes, figurines, Portmeirion
home wares, William Moorcroft, Susie Cooper, Clarice
Cliff, Wedgwood all on display. 223 large pages, colour.
$35 NOW £6
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FICTION AND ROMANCE
The Possible’s slow fuse is lit, By the
Imagination.
- Emily Dickinson
78598 CANADA
by Richard Ford
‘First I’ll tell about the robbery our
parents committed. Then about the
murders, which happened later.’ It
was more bad instincts and bad luck
that led to Dell Parsons’ parents
robbing a bank. They weren’t
reckless people, but in an instant,
their actions alter 15 year old Dell’s
sense of normal life forever. In the
days that follow he is saved before
the authorities think to arrive.
Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the
unknown - a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and
enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada, but as
Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval,
he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side
of the border. A novel that delineates the essential
fragility and loneliness of life, the vicissitudes of fate, a
masterful and profound novel. 515pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £5
78608 DAYLIGHT GATE
by Jeanette Winterson
Can a severed hand speak? Good
Friday 1612, Pendle Hill,
Lancashire. A mysterious gathering
of 13 people is interrupted by a local
magistrate Roger Nowell. Is this a
witches’ Sabbat? Two notorious
Lancashire witches are already in
Lancaster Castle awaiting trial.
Why is the beautiful and wealthy
Alice Nutter defending them and
why is she among the group of 13 on Pendle Hill?
Elsewhere a starved, abused child lurks. A Jesuit priest
and a former Gunpowder plotter recently returned from
France is widely rumoured to be heading for Lancashire,
but who will offer him sanctuary and how quickly can he
be caught? This is the reign of James I, a Protestant king
with an obsession - to rid his realm of twin evils,
witchcraft and Catholicism at any price. 194pp.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
78676 PEGASUS
DESCENDING
by James Lee Burke
Detective Dave Robicheaux senses
a storm bearing down on his new
life of contentment. 25 years ago,
lost in a drunken haze in Florida, he
was too far gone to save his friend
and fellow Nam veteran who was
murdered in cold blood for gambling
debts. Now the arrival of his
friend’s daughter opens a door
locked long ago and the suicide of a
local ‘good girl’ pulled into a vortex of power, sex and
death. Who is Trish Klein passing $100 bills in local casinos?
A rollercoaster deadly novel. 356pp in paperback.
$16.99 NOW £5
78654 LEAVING BERLIN
by Joseph Kanon
From the bestselling author of ‘The
Good German’ comes a riveting
new novel of conflicted loyalties
and dangerous deceptions in postwar East Berlin. Set in 1949, Berlin
is a city still in ruins and now a
political symbol about to rupture.
In the West a defiant, blockaded
city is barely surviving on airlifted
supplies. In the East, the heady
early days of political reconstruction
are being undermined by the murky compromises of the
Cold War. Espionage like the black market is a fact of
life. German intellectuals are being lured back from exile
to add credibility to the competing occupying powers.
Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for
America before the war, but the politics of his youth
have now put him in the cross hairs of the McCarthy
witch hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his
family, he makes a desperate plea bargain with the
fledgling CIA and will earn his way back to America by
acting as their agent in his native Berlin. A kidnapping
misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds
himself a wanted man. Alex must spy on the woman
he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. With
pitch-perfect detail. US first edition March 2015. 371pp.
Maps on endpapers. Remainder mark.
$27 NOW £6
78652 KING’S CURSE
by Philippa Gregory
As an heir to the Plantagenets,
Margaret Pole, the last of the Yorks,
is seen by the King’s mother, the
Red Queen, as a rival to the Tudor
claim to the throne. She is buried in
marriage to a Tudor supporter, Sir
Richard Pole, Governor of Wales,
and becomes guardian to Arthur,
the young Prince of Wales and his
beautiful bride, Katherine of Aragon.
But Margaret’s destiny as cousin to
the White Princess is not for a life in the shadows.
Tragedy throws her into poverty, yet a royal death
restores her to a place at young King Henry VIII’s court
where she becomes Chief Lady-in-Waiting to Queen
Katherine. There she watches the dominance of the
Spanish Queen over her husband, and her tragic decline.
614 roughcut pages, tiny remainder mark. Elegant US
first edition, September 2014. With family trees and map
of London, 1499.
$28.99 NOW £6.50
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77916 CHRISTMAS PARTY by Carole Matthews
Louise Young is a devoted single mother whose only priority is providing
for her daughter Mia. Louise has a good job in a huge international
corporation and she is grateful for it. The only problem is her boss who
can’t keep his hands to himself, but Louise can handle him. What she
really doesn’t have time for is romance, until she meets the company’s
rising star Josh Wallace. It’s the office Christmas party, she has a pretty
dress to wear and she is looking forward to some champagne and fun.
She is completely unaware that others around her are too busy playing
dangerous games to enjoy the party, until she is pulled into those games
herself. 406pp.
£19.99 NOW £3.50
77915 CAKE SHOP IN THE GARDEN by Carole Matthews
Looking after the cake shop, the garden and taking care of her cantankerous mother means
Fay is always busy, but she accepts her responsibilities because if she doesn’t, who will?
Then Danny Wilde walks into her life and makes Fay question every decision she has ever
made. When a sudden tragedy strikes, Fay’s entire world is thrown off balance even further
and she doesn’t know which way to turn. Love, life and family are about to collide in this
wonderful story of friendship, joy, laughter and romance. 422pp.
£19.99 NOW £4
77933 AGNES SOREL: Mistress of Beauty by HRH Princess Michael of Kent
The Queen of Four Kingdoms is dead. Agnes Sorel, her beautiful and innocent maid of
honour, soon catches the attention of the mourning court. As a trusted confidante of the
deceased Queen Yolande, Agnes captivates all whom she meets, but none more so than the
King of France, Charles VII. Appointed a demoiselle to his wife Queen Marie d’Anjou, Agnes
discovers a burgeoning love for the King that she can no longer refuse or deny. As their
relationship deepens and Agnes’s gentle influence over the King is recognised, she is viewed
with suspicion by the court. 296pp.
£18.99 NOW £4.75
77982 SMALL WARS by Sadie Jones
Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other
commitment in life is to his beloved wife Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus, she
and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat of the emergency - the British
are defending the colony against Cypriots, schoolboys and armed guerrillas alike, battling for
union with Greece. Clara shares Hal’s sense of duty and honour. She knows she must settle
down, make the best of things, smile, but action changes Hal. 472pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2
78002 JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL by Susanna Clarke
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In 1806 the York Society of Magicians is thrown into disarray by the suggestion that they are
frauds and that no-one is doing practical magic any more. But Mr Segundus has heard a
prophecy that two great magicians will restore magic to England. So they journey to
Hurtfew Abbey to see Mr Norrell. Mr Norrell heads for London and learns that the great
politician Sir Walter Pole’s intended bride, the daughter of a rich widow, has died two days
before her wedding. Distraught at the loss of income, Sir Walter summons Mr Norrell to
Brunswick Square where a strange apparition with thistledown hair helps him restore the
young woman to life. Meanwhile Laurence Strange’s son Jonathan is growing up in
Edinburgh and surprising himself by performing magic for the benefit of his prospective inlaws. Paperback, 1006 pages, monochrome drawings.
£9.99 NOW £4
78123 SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT by Jane Finnis
Britannia, 91AD, a raw, frontier province lying at the northern edge of the Roman Empire.
It’s 50 years since the legions invaded, but the land still simmers with tension, especially in
the north. But in the Oak Tree Inn on the road to Eburacum, both Roman and Briton are
welcome, until innkeeper Aurelia Marcella finds a decapitated body on the road, a crude
message scrawled on his body - ‘All Romans will be killed. Get out or die’. She must face the
possibility that someone she knows and trusts wants her dead. 356pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £5
78316 PAYING GUESTS by Sarah Waters
It is 1922 and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out of work and the
hungry are demanding change. Widowed Mrs Wray and her daughter Frances, an unmarried
woman with an interesting past, find themselves obliged to take in lodgers. The arrival of a
young modern couple of the ‘clerk class’, brings unsettling things with it - gramophone music,
colour, fun. It offers Frances glimpses of habits, sounds and travel and she and Lillian are
drawn into an unexpected friendship. Secrets are confessed, dangerous desires admitted and
the most ordinary of lives can explode into passion and drama in just one house. 566 pages.
£20 NOW £5.75
78321 SCARLET THIEF by Paul Fraser Collard
Jack Lark is an unforgettable new hero. Set in 1854 on the banks of the Alma River, on the
Crimean Peninsular, the Redcoats are staggering to a bloody halt. The men of the King’s
Royal Fusiliers are in terrible trouble, ducking and twisting as the storm of shot, shell and
bullet tears through their ranks. Jack Lark has to act immediately and decisively and the life
and success of the campaign depends upon it. But does he have the mettle, the officer
qualities that are the life blood of the British Army? From a poor background, Lark has stolen
a rank and position far above his own. 343pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.75
78103 NEEDLE IN THE BLOOD by Sarah Bower
January 1067. Charismatic bishop Odo of Bayeux decides to commission a wall hanging on a
scale never seen before to celebrate his role in the conquest of Britain by his brother William,
Duke of Normandy. His life becomes entangled with the women who embroider his hanging,
especially Gytha, handmaid to the mistress of the fallen Saxon king and Odo’s sworn enemy.
Against their intensions they fall passionately in love and in doing so Odo comes into conflict
with his king and his God, and Gytha with Odo’s enemies who mistrust her hold over such a
powerful man. Goes into the making of the Bayeux Tapestry and the many mysteries
stitched into this famous embroidery. We will never look at it in the same way again.
576pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
76961 SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS by Elizabeth Gilbert
From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her.
Instilled with an unquenchable sense of wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the
richest man in the New World, Alma is raised in a house of luxury and curiosity. It is not long
before she becomes a gifted botanist in her own right, but as she flourishes and her research
takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the
opposite direction - into the realm of the spiritual, the divine and the magical. The novel
soars across the globe of 19th century London and Peru to Philadelphia, Tahiti and beyond.
582pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
78072 HABITS OF THE HOUSE: Book One in the Love and
Inheritance Trilogy by Fay Weldon
1899 was a time of social upheaval, war abroad and shortage of
money. Tea gowns were still laced with diamonds. There are still nine
courses at dinner, but bankruptcy looms for the Dilbernes. The Earl, a
gambler and man-about-town must seek out a new position in
government; his wife Lady Isobel’s solution is to marry off their son
Arthur to a wealthy heiress. But how? At the end of the season there
is only Minnie O’Brien from Chicago, rich enough, but daughter of a
stockyard baron, and with a vulgar mother and a dubious past.
Viscount Arthur refuses to give the matter of marriage much attention,
but the servants do. A tale of restraint and desire, manners, morals, wit
and sympathy and no small measure of mischief. 314pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4
78093 LONG LIVE THE KING by Fay Weldon
1902. London Society is in a frenzy of anticipation for the coronation of the new king, Edward
VII. The Earl and Countess of Dilberne are caught up in the lavish preparations, yet Lady
Isobel still has ample time to fret. Her new daughter-in-law is pregnant with a potential heir,
but still completely untrained in the particular ways of the English aristocracy. Her plain yet
clever daughter Rosina is threatening to elope to Australia - of all places - and her 16 year old
niece Adela, tragically orphaned, has run off with a troop of fake spiritualists. 344pp,
paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4.75
78325 SHELL SEEKERS
by Rosamunde Pilcher
77937 THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA by Rumer Godden
A mother loves her children, of course she
does, but sometimes she may not like them
very much. In Penelope Keeling’s case,
two of her three grown-up children often
gave cause for dislike. When they put her
under pressure to sell her most treasured
possession, one of her father’s paintings,
they provoke a family crisis. Learn more
about your favourite author whose family’s
farm was sold and the family moved to
Glasgow. An enchanting account of her
Cornish childhood. Facsimile reprint, 671pp
in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
78331 THIRTEENTH TALE
by Diane Setterfield
Angelfield House stands abandoned and
forgotten. It was once the imposing home of
the March family - fascinating, manipulative
Isabelle, Charlie, her brutal and dangerous
brother, and the wild, untamed twins,
Emmeline and Adeline. Now Margaret Lea
is investigating the past and the mystery of
the March family starts to unravel. What has
the house been hiding? What is the
connection with the enigmatic writer Vida
Winter? 456pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
66180 COMPLETE RICHARD IN
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HANNAY STORIES
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by John Buchan
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Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the
fictional secret agent created by writer and
diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an
Intelligence officer. In Greenmantle, he
undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in
the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast, set in
the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel
in which Hannay finally falls in love. In The
Three Hostages, he finds himself unravelling
a kidnapping mystery with his wife’s help.
In the last adventure, The Island of Sheep,
he is called upon to honour an old oath. 992
paperback pages. Great value.
ONLY £2
76542 BLOOD AND BEAUTY: The
Borgias by Sarah Dunant
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A window into the extraordinary
machinations and skulduggery of the
Borgias. Here are the great paterfamilias
Alexander, Falstaffian, uxorious, charming
and ruthless; the sinister Master of
Ceremonies, Johannes Burchardt; and the
handsome, vicious Cesare, who matures
marvellously from a rake decked out in the
latest fashions to a savage melancholic,
mired in violence and dressed in black.
529pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.25
76550 DEBORAH GOES TO DOVER:
The Travelling Matchmaker
by M. C. Beaton
Destined for Dover, Miss Hannah Pym has
her matchmaking work cut out for her when
she encounters the pretty, boisterous Lady
Deborah Western. Encouraged by an unruly
twin brother, golden haired Lady Western
seems set on acting the tomboy, much to
the dismay of her handsome neighbour, the
Earl of Ashton. He challenges her to a
horse race and the outcome is certainly
unexpected, but fortunately for the
handsome, green-eyed Earl, Miss Pym is on
hand to make sure the gorgeous girl is
introduced to some more feminine pursuits!
186pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
76567 GRAIL KNIGHT: A Novel of
Robin Hood by Angus Donald
When past crimes resurface, Sir Alan Dale,
loyal lieutenant of the Earl of Locksley,
better known as the murderous thief Robin
Hood, faces terrible vengeance at the hands
of those he and his master have wronged.
With his beloved wife on her deathbed, Sir
Alan must seek salvation by following Robin
into the lair of their enemy, the mysterious
leader of a band of renegade Templars, on
the trail of the most precious object in the
world, the Holy Grail. The companions
must find the Cup of Christ before they face
certain destruction. 536pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.25
76574 INVITATION TO THE
WALTZ by Rosamond Lehmann
On her 17th birthday, Olivia Curtis receives
a diary for her innermost thoughts, a ten
shilling note and a role of flame-coloured silk
for her first ball dress. She anticipates the
dance, the greatest and most terrifying
event of her life so far, with uncertainty and
excitement. For her pretty sister Kate, it is
sure to be a triumph, but what will it be for
shy, awkward Olivia? 232pp.
£12.99 NOW £2
76812 SOUTH RIDING
by Winifred Holtby
Forward thinking, ambitious and determined
to live life to the full, Sarah Burton is a
woman of the time. Her fiancé dead in
WWI, she returns to South Riding as the
Head Mistress of the local school. Robert
Carne stands firmly against Sarah’s modern
idylls, and in Sarah’s eyes he represents
everything she detests. But he is also a
man tormented by the past, and despite
herself, Sarah finds she is drawn to him.
Paperback, 529pp.
£7.99 NOW £1.50
When their mother leaves the country to be with her lover, Hugh and
Caddie’s seemingly perfect life falls apart. Devastated, the children
travel alone to the Villa Fiorita on Lake Garda, determined not to leave
without her. On arrival they can tell Fanny and Rob are deeply in love,
and their mother is happier than they have ever seen her. Will the
children realise that their actions have consequences before it is too late?
284pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
77935 THE RIVER by Rumer Godden
In simple, flawless prose, a young girl’s first encounters with jealousy,
sex and guilt are evoked against the sounds, people, colours and smells
of India. Harriet is caught between two worlds - her older sister is no
longer a playmate; her brother is still a little boy. The comforting rhythm of her Indian
childhood - the colourful festivals that accompany each season and the ebb and flow of the
river on its journey to the bay of Bengal - is about to be shattered. Intense, vivid and with a
dark undertow. 208pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
78003 PEACOCK SPRING by Rumer Godden
Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their
diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and
companion the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses a motive to their presence. But
through the pain of the months to come, the poetry and logic of India do not leave Una
untouched, and it begins with a feather, a promise of something genuine and precious. Rumer
Godden evokes the magic of an India she knows so well and all the bitter sweetness of
loyalty and love. First published in 1975. 323pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.75
78004 COROMANDEL SEA CHANGE by Rumer Godden
Blaise and Mary arrive at Patna Hall, a hotel on India’s shimmering Coromandel coast to
spend part of the honeymoon their. Patna Hall is as beautiful and timeless as India itself,
ruled over firmly and wisely by proprietor Aunty Sanni. For Mary, it feels strangely like
home. In a week that will change the young couple’s future forever, election fever grips the
Southern Indian state and Mary falls under the spell of the people, the country and Krishnan,
god-like candidate for the Root and Flower party. Exotic, sensuous pleasure you too are in for
a sea change. 269pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
77927 LADY AND THE UNICORN by Rumer Godden
In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescoes and a jasmine-covered garden, the
Lemarchant family live, clinging to the fringes of respectability. Neither Indian nor English,
they are accepted by no one. After only a day in India, Stephen Bright meets Rosa
Lemarchant. In an ill-fitting dress she is awkward and shy. She couldn’t be more different
from the fast ‘Eurasian’ girls he has heard stories of. Ignorant of Calcutta’s strict social codes,
he falls in love with Rosa and becomes enchanted by the building in which she lives,
determined to uncover its secrets. 208pp paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
78184 RUMER GODDEN: Set of Five
Buy all five paperbacks and save even more.
£46.95 NOW £15
76865 CONFUSIONS OF YOUNG MASTER TORLESS by Robert Musil
A fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy
humour. As the 19th century draws to an end, Young Törless is sent to a military boarding
school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Far from his comfortable free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he
experiences the pains and joys and self doubts of adolescence. Confronted with desire and
love and also his own cruelty, he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils’ bullying
campaigns. Translation of the 1906 original, 185pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £1.50
76875 MAKING OF HENRY by Howard Jacobson
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One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St. John’s Wood.
His old school friend and rival Osmond ‘Hovis’ Belkin is currently enjoying success in
Hollywood; his tragic great-aunt Marghanita for whom Henry once entertained a dangerous
passion; and his father Izzi, upholsterer turned illusionist is a fire-eater and origamist. Henry’s
dyspeptic neighbour Lachlan wants his sympathy and his sloppy red setter Angus wants a
walk. Moira, the waitress with the crooked smile and custard hair seems to want him. He
might finally be falling in love. 340pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
77059 MARSEILLE CAPER by Peter Mayle
Sam had carried off a staggering feat of derring-do in the heart of
Bordeaux, infiltrating the ranks of the French élite to rescue a stolen,
priceless wine collection. With the question of legality, Sam thought it
would be a while before he returned to France, especially with the
charms of the beautiful Elena Morales to keep him in Los Angeles. But
when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul, the victim of Sam’s last
heist, asks our hero to take a job in Marseille, it is impossible for Sam
and Elena to resist the pleasures of that region. A competition over
Marseille’s valuable waterfront grows more hotly disputed. Roughcut
edges, 208pp. Remainder mark.
$24 NOW £4
76974 KATHARINE THE VIRGIN WIDOW by Jean Plaidy
The young Spanish widow Katherine of Aragon has become the pawn between two powerful
monarchies. After less than a year as the wife of the frail Prince Arthur, the question of
whether the marriage was ever consummated will decide both her fate and England’s. But
whilst England and Spain dispute her dowry, in the wings awaits her unexpected escape from
poverty - Henry, Arthur’s younger, more handsome brother, the future King of England. He
alone has the power to restore her position, but at what sacrifice? 312pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
77039 IN ONE PERSON by John Irving
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, here is
the unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making
himself ‘worthwhile’. It is a compelling novel of desire, secrecy and sexual identity, a story of
unfulfilled love, tormented, funny, and affecting, and an impassioned embrace of our sexual
differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more
than half a century) of his life as a ‘sexual suspect’. US first edition with deckle pages, 425pp.
$28 NOW £4
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In the idyllic small town of Pagford, a councillor dies
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and leaves a ‘casual vacancy’ - an empty seat on the Parish Council. In
the election for his successor that follows, it is clear that behind the pretty
surface this is a town at war. From the smallest of elections in a sleepy
British town, J. K. Rowling conjures an epic, emotional, profane, and
deeply upsetting, emotional and readable. 568pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.75
77371 GLASGOW COMA SCALE by Neil D. A. Stewart
When Lynne offers money to a homeless man on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall
Street, she is shocked to recognise Angus, her former art tutor from
college. Lynne insists on inviting him to stay at her flat. Just as Angus
doesn’t go out of his way to explain the reasons for his misfortune,
neither is Lynne’s insistence on taking him in to her home purely altruistic. The more Lynne
and Angus rely on each other, the more they hate doing so. The novel is a barbed love
letter to this dysfunctional, romantic city. 213pp.
£14.99 NOW £3.50
77589 RED TENT by Anita Diamant
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Her name is Dinah and in the Bible her fate is merely hinted at in a brief and violent detour
within the verses of the Book of Genesis that recount the life of Jacob and his infamous dozen
sons. The Red Tent is an extraordinary tale of ancient womanhood and family honour. Told
in Dinah’s voice, it opens with the story of her mothers - the four wives of Jacob - each of
whom embodies unique feminine traits and concludes with Dinah’s own startling and
unforgettable story of betrayal, grief and love. 386pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.75
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77460 BERTIE’S GUIDE TO
LIFE AND MOTHERS
by Alexander McCall Smith
A 44 Scotland Street novel,
illustrated by Iain McIntosh. It’s not
that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing
his life away, but having anticipated
his 7th birthday for so long he is
now longing to be 18. At 18 he
probably won’t have a ‘genderneutral’ birthday - it probably won’t
be gate-crashed by Tofu (a thug),
Olive and Pansy (manipulative), and Ranald Braveheart
McPherson (nervous). And at 18 he can definitely leave
his eternally pushy yet endlessly smothering mother
Irene.
Not even Bertie could foretell that fate would
bring Sister Maria-Fiore and a literary festival in Dubai.
295pp, illus.
£16.99 NOW £6
77228 AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED
by Khaled Hosseini
Set in Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari
live in the small village of Shadbagh. To Abdullah, Pari,
as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she
was named, is everything. One day the siblings
journey across the desert to Kabul with their father.
They have no sense of the fate that awaits them there,
for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.
Crossing generations and continents and moving from
Kabul to Paris to San Francisco, to the Greek island of
Tinos. 404pp, softback.
£12.99 NOW £3
77366 CRAMPTON HODNET by Barbara Pym
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea
parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for
the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is
in love with a dashing undergraduate with political
ambitions. Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However
Anthea’s father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the
most unseemly fashion with a student. They have been
spotted together at the British Museum! But the only
liaison Miss Doggett isn’t aware of is taking place under
her very own roof - the lodger has proposed to her paid
companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn’t approve of that
at all. 271pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4.25
77385 SPRING OF KASPER MEIER
by Ben Fergusson
A desolate sea of rubble, there is a shortage of food,
clothing and tobacco in Berlin. Kasper Meier is a German
struggling to get by and his solution is to trade on the
black market to feed himself and his elderly father.
When a young woman, Eva, arrives at Kasper’s door
seeking the whereabouts of a British pilot, he feels a
reluctant sympathy for her but won’t interfere in military
affairs. Who is the shadowy Frau Beckmann and what is
her hold over Eva? The seemingly random killings of
members of the occupying forces are connected to
Kasper’s own situation but he must work out who is
behind Eva’s demands and why. Apologies for sticker.
388pp.
£14.99 NOW £3
77507 THE THREAD
by Victoria Hislop
Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri
Komninos is born, a devastating fire
sweeps through the thriving Greek
city where Christians, Jews and
Muslims live side by side. Five
years later, Katerina Sarafoglou’s
home in Asia Minor is destroyed by
the Turkish army. Losing her
mother in the chaos, she flees across
the sea to an unknown destination in
Greece. Soon her life will become entwined with
Dimitri’s and with the story of the city itself, as war, fear
and persecution begin to divide its people. Fast forward
90 years to 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears his
grandparents’ life story for the first time and realises he
has a decision to make. 390pp.
£18.99 NOW £4
77581 LADY AND THE POET by Maeve Haran
Anne is the fiery and spirited daughter of the Mores of
Loseley House in Surrey, educated by her grandfather in
Latin and Greek. She comes to London destined for a
life at the court of Queen Elizabeth and an
advantageous marriage. There she encounters John
Donne, the darkly attractive young poet who is
secretary to her uncle, the Lord Keeper of the Great
Seal. As they are thrown together, Donne opens
Anne’s eyes to a new world of wit, passion and
sensuality. But John Donne is Catholic by background in
an age when this is deadly dangerous. 501pp,
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
77583 MISTRESS OF MY FATE
by Hallie Rubenhold
England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta
Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. With little
money and no worthwhile talents, the only hope of
survival lies with the dashing but elusive Lord Allenham.
In a desperate quest to find him, Henrietta embarks on a
journey through London’s debauched and glittering
underworld. With the aid of new-found skills at the card
table and on the stage, will she be able to turn her life
around to become mistress of her fate? 506pp,
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.75
77736 KITTY PECK AND THE MUSIC HALL
MURDERS by Kate Griffin
In the opium-laced streets of Limehouse in 1880, the
ferocious Lady Ginger rules with ruthless efficiency. But
she is not happy. Somebody is stealing her most
valuable assets - her dancing girls - and that someone
has to be found and made to pay. Bold, impetuous and
with more brains than she cares to admit, 17 year old
seamstress Kitty Peck reluctantly performs the role of
bait for the kidnappers. But as her scandalous and
terrifying act becomes the talk of the city, Kitty is about
to go down a path of discovery. 352pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
77904 CHURCHILL’S SECRET
KBO by Jonathan Smith
10 Downing Street June 1953. 78
year old Sir Winston Churchill still
holds the most powerful position in
the land. On the brink of a major
peace summit, the great man is
felled by a devastating stroke. It
would be many years for the world
to know precisely how close Britain
had come to catastrophe. With his
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in
Boston for emergency surgery, the
situation becomes critical - there is no one at Britain’s
helm. As Churchill lies fighting for his life, the people
must believe all is well. His devoted wife Clemmie and
a handful of loyal companions rally to the Prime
Minister’s support in his clandestine sickroom. A superb
recreation. 190pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
77909 GOOD GERMAN by Joseph Kanon
The classic thriller set in Berlin, 1945, loaded with
emotional and ethical resonance. In the rubble of the
Third Reich, Churchill, Stalin and Truman meet to map
out the shape of the post-war world. The body of an
American officer is found with his pockets stuffed with
money. Journalist Jake Geismar returns to the city in
search of one last big story to end his war, but instead
he finds that another is about to begin. Explores issues
around the Holocaust sensitively while still delivering a
powerful thriller. 518pp in paperback. Map.
£8.99 NOW £4
EROTICA
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when
the old one is burnt out, a new one rises
from its ashes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
78677 PERSONA
by Susan Brown
‘Female impersonation is all about
transition. I choose to emulate
women who exude sex appeal,
glamour and shock value. If I had
been born a woman that’s who I
would have been.’ Fiona is a
gender illusionist who performs in
clubs. If she can catch a man and
bring him home, he would want her
to stay dressed that way. Drag just happened. From
Chicago to LA to old London town, fellas are dressing up,
not just as drag queens, movie stars, Dame Edna
Everage, Marilyn Monroe and Liza Minnelli, but as
beauty queens and girls about town. This album of drag
queens offers up both the magic and reveals the early
influences of members of this community from small
town Mississippi to the glittering streets of Manhattan.
Ludicrous names include Polly Grip, Rude-A Lenska, Ima
Mess, Urban Sprawl and Lady Bunny of Wigstock. Coco
LaChine tells her story of being the one person in a
crowded New York fund raising event who attracted
President Clinton. 85 models photographed classy black
and white for this very large Rizzoli glossy page
softback. 156pp.
£22 NOW £7.50
78273 7 DAYS TO AMAZING SEX
by Sarah Hedley
Sex and lifestyle expert Sarah Hedley will help you feel
sexier and more confident in the bedroom and also see
benefits in every area of your life - making you look
younger and live longer, helping you reduce your weight
and improve overall fitness, as a defence against illness
and relief of pain, and of course boost your self esteem
and reduce stress. Each of the book’s seven chapters will
relate to a day in the programme making it ideal to dip
into. Packed with Q&A sessions, real life case studies,
and practical exercises, websites and resources including
adult magazines and videos. 211pp in paperback.
£12.99 NOW £3
78292 DARE by Tracey Cox
Erotic secrets are laid bare by the sex expert. Fantasies
offer an escape from real life into a world where there
are no rules and you are entirely in charge of the show.
But have you ever wondered what would happen if you
turned that longed-for fantasy into a reality? From those
who loved it to those who look back and laugh, here are
real women’s most private, intimate thoughts and what
your fantasy says about you. 293pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.75
78309 THE MASSEUSE: The Body Work
Trilogy by Sierra Kincade
Anna never takes on a massage client without screening
them first, but the pay check offered by billionaire
Maxim Stein is just too good to turn down. Plus, she’s
more than capable of taking care of herself, but she isn’t
prepared for Maxim’s tall, dark and devastatingly
handsome bodyguard, or the desperate desires he
awakens in her. Alec is dangerous, mysterious and
completely irresistible and won’t be refused. But as
Anna falls fast for him, she begins to realise that giving
herself over to a man with so many secrets may be
endangering her life. A smoking hot and suspenseful
novel. 340pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
78341 BEAUCASTEL by Caroline Swift
The grim chateau of Beaucastle casts its shadow over
the lives of all the slaves who enter its portals. In its
cellars and dungeons they undergo training which will
forever bind them to their masters and mistresses. But
for Verena and Marina, it holds a very different destiny.
When they pass through the doors nothing will ever be
the same again. Caroline Swift writes with an intimate
knowledge of the lives of wealthy and cosmopolitan
dominants and draws us into an unforgettable and erotic
world. 238pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
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78347 DERRIÈRE by Julius Culdrose
Julius Culdrose has spent over four decades delighting in
every aspect of the female bottom - the different shapes
and sizes, the possibilities of presentation, the aesthetics
and uses and now reveals his explicit experiences and
frank thoughts in this epic journey of bottom adoration.
As kinky as fiction can get... ‘Her skin was baby pink
and smooth, textured like silk, each buttock a perfect egg
of girl flesh.’ Written in the early 80s and with a very
contemporary, playful, adult storyline, completely
besotted with the derrière. For adults only, 232pp,
paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
78375 MOST BUXOM by Aishling Morgan
She climbed out of the car and Daniel swallowed hard.
The light dress clung to her contours, showing off the
shape of her full firm breasts, a lean waist, and elegant
hips, while it was so short the full length of her legs
showed, long and exquisitely shapely. One thing rules
Daniel’s life - voyeurism. For all the guilt it brings him,
he knows the risks and is determined to give up his
filthy habits, but when he finds himself as landlord to
four voluptuous young female students, the opportunities
for peeping are far too tempting to resist. Plenty of
kinky sex. 237pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
78394 TALES FROM THE LODGE
by Sean O’Kane and Falconer Bridges
A glimpse into the world of the super rich SM devotees
who inhabit the most opulent and secretive club in the
country. From Brittany comes Oliver’s account of how
the lovely Marie-Hélène introduced him to the delights of
mastery. From the gorgeous Lolli comes a story of
schoolgirl passion which resulted in a devastating sexual
awakening. Caroline recalls how her husband John
started The Lodge and how she came to be one of its
first servants after training by both him and Madame
Stalevsky. Six highly charged adult stories. 218pp,
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
44509 FANNY HILL : Memoirs of a Woman of
Pleasure by John Cleland
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as
Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English
literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition
was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century
John Cleland’s open celebration of sexual enjoyment
was a best selling novel. Fanny’s story, as she falls into
prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the
form of a confession that is vividly coloured by copious
and explicit physiological details of her carnal adventures.
112pp. Paperback.
ONLY £2
72419 LITTLE BOOK OF PUSSY
by Dian Hanson
A petite version and “best of” edition of The Big Book of
Pussy. Now you can follow the evolution of genital
exposure with ease, through 100 years of photos with
one thing in common: the exhibitionistic pleasure with
which the models present their feminine pulchritude.
Most of hirsute and very natural and certainly enjoying
themselves in front of the camera. The triple stack is
fascinating! Over 150 photos - 36 new to this book.
Softback, 192 pages.
ONLY £7
76015 THE ART OF PIN UP
edited by Dian Hanson
With a carry case for added protection, ‘The Art of Pin
Up’ is a truly spectacular publication. Each chapter
opens with a tipped-in colour reproduction of an original
calendar or magazine cover by that artist. Deliciously
erotic, clothed, semi-clad, in sheer stockings, teasingly
kneeling down or cross-legged, always provocatively
posed and inviting. The top 10 artists are profiled in
depth include Peter Driben, Arthur ‘Art’ Frahm, William
‘Bill’ Bedcalf, Earl Moran, Zoë Mozert, George Petty IV,
Alberto Vargas and others. Gil Elvgren painted 700
iconic images alone! The reproduction quality of the
paintings, pastels, and preparatory sketches that follow,
largely sourced from the original art, while the exquisite
period calendars, vintage prints, and original model
photos document the artists’ creative process. Pin up
drawings, paintings and pastels of an idealised female
face and figure intended for public display, was produced
between 1920 and 1970, for use on calendars, magazine
covers and centrefolds. Includes thumbnail bios and
representative art of 85 additional artists. 11.4" x 15.6",
546 pages. Four spectacular gatefolds. Text in English,
French and German.
ONLY £125
76039 ART OF DOUG SNEYD:
A Collection of Playboy
Cartoons
by Doug Sneyd
Doug Sneyd’s first cartoon for
Playboy was published in the
September 1964 issue and since
then, the magazine has carried over
450 of his distinctive works, mostly
in full page colour. Being Hugh
Hefner, he knows the perfect “fit” for a magazine like
Playboy. The women in Sneyd’s cartoons are all
undeniably drop-dead gorgeous with a particular blend of
naïveté and worldliness, girl-next-door and coquettish
minx. Doug served his time as a commercial artist and
book and magazine illustrator and syndicated cartoonist
until he got his big break.
This magnificent collection
features almost 300 of the
very best, the vast
majority printed full-page,
the gorgeous scantily-clad
(actually, more usually
non-clad!) Sneyd girls with
their men-skewering oneliners and unique charm
are a real treat; highly
risqué certainly, but never
obscene or crass.
Chronological index by gag
line, 248pp, 9½”×12¼”.
$39.99 NOW £6
77249 PIRELLI - THE
CALENDAR 50 YEARS
AND MORE
by Philippe Daverio
The notoriously exclusive
Pirelli Calendar, featuring
glamorous shots of topless,
nude or semi-clad beautiful
women in swimwear, was first
published in 1964. It
showcased the beauty of models such as Alessandra
Ambrosio, Gisele Bündchen, a very young Naomi
Campbell Dec 1987, Laetitia Casta, Cindy Crawford,
Helena Christiensen, Penelope Cruz, Milla Jovovich,
Heidi Klum, Angela Lindvall, Sophia Loren and Kate
Moss. The beaches and seaside locations are as inviting
as the lips, lollies, fags, curves and draped clothes. It’s a
retrospective volume through the decades right up to
2015 reproducing the complete calendars, photographed
by Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Terence Donovan,
Patrick Demarchelier, Nick Knight, fashion designer Karl
Lagerfeld, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin,
Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Sarah Moon, Helmut
Newton, Uwe Ommer, Terry Richardson, Herb Ritts,
Mario Sorrenti, Bert Stern, Mario Testino, Bruce Weber
and many others. Bonus features include rarely and
never-before-seen behind-the-scenes and relaxed images
of the shoots, the unpublished 1963 calendar, and a
selection of “censored” images deemed too risqué by the
editors of the time. Colour. Lavishly produced landscape
hardback with glossy quality paper, satin cloth cover,
silver tooling. Herb Ritts’ 1984 calendar is packed with
the most well-known models! 11.8" x 11.8", 576 pages,
gatefold pp.270-276 and 477-484.
ONLY £42
76809 SEX DRIVE: Fantasies in Flesh and
Steel by Allen Jake Bronstein
20 classic cars and 20 anything-but-classic ways to have
libidinous sex in them. Each motor vehicle comes with
racy text and a feature “Auto-Erotica” box describing a
steamy encounter. When the girlfriend of a Mercury
1949 Coupe owner joined him on an 11-hour road trip
she little expected to find a vibrator in the glove
compartment. They never made it to their destination.
Featured cars include the Chevrolet Corvette, the Rolls
Royce Phantom V, Ford Thunderbird and Jaguar EType. 119pp, colour photos.
£12.99 NOW £1.75
76891 1970s GLAMOUR: 20th Century PinUps by Ian Penberthy
The 1970s saw British glamour publishers reflecting social
tastes by testing the boundaries of what was
permissible. Innovations included the showing of pubic
hair. The female ideal had long, straight hair, soft make
up and often wore denim. Despite the occasional pair of
legwarmers, the 1970s remains one of Glamour’s sexiest
decades. There are dusky maidens, a riding crop and
sexy jockey on page 220, knickers being pulled down,
lingerie on show, strings of pearls, chains, bodices open,
bras down, nipples in close up. 296 pages of colourful
glamour and 300 images. Large softback.
£14.99 NOW £5.50
76892 1980s GLAMOUR: 20th Century PinUps by Ian Penberthy
!
Full frontal glamour 80s style with heavily eye lined
sultry eyes, big hair, pubic hair, the occasional tattoo,
hats, jewellery, cheeky grins, in aerobic leotards wide
open, lingerie, a cheeky nurse with her elderly gentleman
patient, legs akimbo across a desk, and one or two
chunkier ladies towards the end. Publishers of glamour
provided the public with what it wanted which by this
time was more explicit photography and girls dressed in
more stagy outfits and with the increasing use of fetish
gear. 300 images, all in colour. Large softback, 296pp.
£14.99 NOW £6
77038 HOW TO READ EROTIC ART
by Flavio Febbraro and Alexandra Wetzel
Tintoretto’s ‘Lady Baring Her Breast’, Giulio Romano’s
‘Rustic Banquet’, ‘A Pair of Male Lovers’ 19th century
ivory Netsuke, Ingres’ ‘The Large Odalisque’, Goya’s
‘The Naked Maja’, Frangonard’s ‘The Bolt’, Hogarth’s
‘Before and After’, Velázquez’s ‘The Toilet of Venus’
(The Rokeby Venus), Caravaggio’s ‘Love Victorious’, the
peacock feathers and magical elements in ‘The Spell of
Love’ from 1470, here is all manner of voyeurism and
eroticism in art - paintings, etchings, drawings,
sculptures, woodcuts, decorations of porcelain and
allegorical illustrations, Japanese woodblock prints to
Iranian manuscript miniatures. 391, softback, colour.
$35 NOW £7
77245 ERIC STANTON: The Dominant Wives
and Other Stories by Eric Stanton
Eric Stanton (1926-1999) was America’s top fetish artist
who produced hundreds of graphic novels in his 50 year
career. Amazonian women abound. Bound in leather,
teetering on ridiculously high heels, flesh gets spanked,
nipples tweaked, whips lashed against willing and
unwilling flesh in these torturous erotic sequence of
fantasies. These 20 stories involve much male
submission, female dominance, female wrestling, facesitting, dildos, spanking, near torture, gimp masks,
bondage, cruelty and S&M. This is the very best of the
cult underground cartoonist’s work. Taschen publication,
bookmarker, graphic colour cartoon strips from 60s and
70s Pulp Culture. 576 pages.
ONLY £12
77664 MINE-HAHA OR ON THE BODILY
EDUCATION OF YOUNG GIRLS
by Frank Wedekind
‘Mine-Haha’ describes a unique boarding institution for
girls - part idyllic refuge, part prison. The pupils are
trained only in the physical arts of movement, dance and
music, sometimes to perform they wear no underwear,
do handstands and wear beautiful silk to dance. They
are issued into an adult world for which they have been
unwittingly prepared by an old woman whose own
strange childhood story is focussed through the eyes of
her earlier self. It is perversely erotic, freaky and antisociety. Plus two short fictional pieces ‘The Burning of
Egliswyl’ and ‘The Sacrificial Lamb’. First published in
German in 1903. Paperback reprint, 92pp.
£8.99 NOW £4.75
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77486 LACE by Shirley Conran
Sex, glamour and bitchery to an epic degree. Which one
of you bitches is my mother? 1980. In Manhattan’s
most exclusive hotel, four friends come face to face with
a young, mega-watt film star. She has a question for
them that has brought her from the streets of Paris to
the playgrounds of the rich and famous, and it has
almost destroyed her. Explores the feelings and
emotional aspects of sexual encounters, relationships,
love and friendship. Reprinted from the 1982 original.
Paperback, 751pp.
£7.99 NOW £2
77988 WOMEN ON TOP by Nancy Friday
Masturbation is thrilling in itself, a release from tension, a
sweet sedative before sleep, a beauty treatment that
leaves us glowing, our smile more mysterious. A guru to
a generation of feminists, Nancy Friday is a clever and
compassionate woman who reveals that women possess
erotic imaginations. She looks at how today’s
generation of women have responded to changes
brought about by feminism. Explicit, iconoclastic, often
shocking, these erotic daydreams - angry, lustful, tender
and dark - blow apart old taboos. 533pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
78182 WRITERS BETWEEN THE COVERS: The
Scandalous Romantic Lives
by Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon
Subtitled “The scandalous romantic lives of legendary
literary Casanovas, Coquettes and Cads”, this highoctane dash through the salacious and bizarre sexual
exploits of literary men and women leaves not much to
the imagination, but there are also poignant moments in
which real love and devotion break through in spite of
everything. T.S. Eliot’s extraordinary relationship with
his first wife Vivienne included her affair with Bertrand
Russell during their disastrous honeymoon. More
famously, Miller was married to Marilyn Monroe, and
the opening chapter tells the fascinating story of their
torrid relationship. The American wit Dorothy Parker
divorced her husband only to remarry him three years
later. Karen Blixen’s love for Denys Hatton Finch was
memorably brought to life by Streep and Redford in the
film Out of Africa. 286pp, paperback,.
$15 NOW £5.75
FOOD AND DRINK
We should look for someone to eat and
drink with before looking for something to
eat and drink.
- Epicurus
78791 COMPLETE WINE
SELECTOR
by Katherine Cole
‘If you’re overpaying for wine, or
tasting the same release week after
week, you’re cheating yourself.
Imagine paying twice the usual
price for a music download that just
isn’t that sweet.’ If you’re unsure
which wine to choose, or which
wine goes best with which meal,
then help is at hand within the covers of this informative
and colourful book. The first section introduces the wine
styles, arranging them into ten kinds, embracing such
grades as crisp, lean whites; rich, full bodied whites;
sparkling whites and rosés; light refreshing reds; rich, fullbodied reds, and fortified. Each style is fully described,
with a guide to the names to look for, price range
(American) and length of time the wine should be drunk
after the vintage. There are pictures of assorted bottles
labelled ‘Cracking the Code’ explaining bottle shape,
label details etc., as well as masterclasses on the various
wines, their production and what to look for when you
buy. The section ‘Tools of the Trade’ shows you the
various types of wine glass, corkscrews, decanters and
wine cradles available. This chapter also looks at wine
storage in the home, opening and decanting, and
winemaking. The author says that ‘unless you have
thousands of bottles of wine in a cellar don’t waste your
time on wine-cataloguing software. Instead, check out
online wine-speciality stores for simple single-bottle tags.
You can write on these with an extraordinary device. It’s
called a pen.’! Excellent, informative book explaining all
you need to know about wine. Paperback, 10"x7.5",
256pp, colour illus.
$24.95 NOW £7.50
78486 CAKE LOVER’S
RECIPE NOTEBOOK
by Jane Brocket
A glamorous hardback folder
(wipeable) featuring a Black Forest
gateau on a delicate floral
background, this large spiral bound
journal has tabs for navigation.
Each of the following sections Cake-Tin Cakes, Everyday Cakes,
Little Cakes, Posh Cakes, Fancies and Frivolities and
Celebration Cakes offers two mouth-watering recipes to
get you started followed by prettily patterned blank
pages for you to write out your own recipes, notes,
ideas and experiments. Make a note of the delectable
treats you have seen on TV, eaten in cafés or baked for
friends. 160 large pages.
£24.99 NOW £4.75
76785 GROCERY GARDENING
by Jean Ann Van Krevelen
The main part of the book gives details on cultivating
herbs, fruit and vegetables, and each plant comes with
several delicious recipes. Basil can be used in a delicious
Sorbet, a Margherita Pizza and “Not just another pesto”,
while Dill and Fennel flavour a Lemon-Dill Tartar Sauce
and Fennel Hollandaise. Fruit recipes include Blue
Cheese Baked Apples, Blueberry Ginger Muffins,
Watermelon Popsicles and Mascarpone Crostata with
Strawberries and Apples. 255pp, softback, colour photos.
ONLY £2.50
78498 FRENCH KITCHEN:
Classic Recipes for Home
Cooks
by Serge Dansereau
In this beautifully photographed
and designed cook book from
leading chef Serge Dansereau,
you will find 230 classic French
recipes combining expert French
techniques with wonderful
produce. Whether Cassoulet or
Clafoutis, buttery Brioche, Roast Peaches for breakfast
through to Chicken Confit with mushrooms and bacon
for dinner, and a slice of Chocolate and Raspberry Tart
to finish up, there is also a chapter on cooking for kids,
lazy brunches, Saturday family lunches, birthday parties,
dinner with friends, supper picnics, barbecues or delicious
high teas. Glossy colour photos, simple to follow recipes
for Beef Bourguignonne, Homemade Potato Purée, Pan
Roasted Lamb, Loin of Venison, Grilled Squid with
Merguez Sausages and hundreds more with serving
numbers and variations for each.
£25 NOW £7.50
76615 MATTER OF TASTE: A History of Wine
Drinking in Britain by Jon Hurley
Hurley brings his 30 plus years’ experience of wine and
the wine trade to bear on the development of our
national palate, not always noted for its sophistication in
matters of winemaking. Full of wit and anecdote, we
learn about the wine list at the Coronation of George VI,
the minefield of French wine legislation, the explosion in
the popularity of Hock in the 1970s and the immense
number of shameful frauds and outrages perpetrated
upon the traditionally naive British wine market. From
Romans officials plying British tribal leaders with
amphorae of rosso to icy screw-top Pinot Grigio. 256pp.
TABLE DÉCOR
Elegant Entertaining
£16.99 NOW £1
77530 EPICURE’S ALMANACK: Eating and
Drinking in Regency London The Original
1815 Guidebook
by Ralph Rylance and Janet Ing Freeman
When it was published in 1815, this book was the first
British ‘good food guide’. Working alone and on foot, the
author visited and described some 650 establishments,
ranging from City chophouses and ancient coaching inns,
to London’s first Indian restaurant, humble tripe-shops
and oyster rooms, dockyard taverns and village pubs.
He concluded his tour with a comprehensive account of
London’s markets. Annual updates were promised but
never appeared.
Provides a commentary on the original book and its
author. 313 softback pages, plans, maps and
contemporary documents, list of survivors.
£17.99 NOW £4
77643 BOOK OF TUSCAN CUISINE
by Giulia Poggiali
Sink your teeth into Rosemary Bread, sip a Livorno
Punch, make alcoholic Florentine Alkermes or sugary
Cinnamon Sticks, a sponge cake made with ricotta
cheese, a Wine Grape Cake, Chestnut Flour Cake, Ugly
but Good Meringues. Black Risotto, Crêpes, Mussels
and Clams, Sausage and Cheese, Fried Sage, Chicken
Livers on Toast, in a book packed with snacks, first
courses, dips, sauces, mains and desserts. Many are
classic ancient Tuscan recipes, good winter dishes
dressed with ‘olio novo’ served with fresh-ground pepper
for a real taste of Italy. Large softback, colour illus, map
of Tuscan wines.
£10.95 NOW £4
77962 BAKING MAGIC by Kate Shirazi
Try perfectly pink Beetroot Muffins, Spice Maple and
Pecan Munchies, Choccy Cake made with Beetroot,
light and spongy Spicy Fruitcakes, Black Halloween
Cupcakes, Very Fanciful Fondants, cupcakes with
mascarpone and fruit, Banana Cupcakes with cream
cheese frosting, Ginger and Lemon Cupcakes, all with
low-fat to high-fat clear instructions in the recipes. With
a note on wheat and gluten, oven tips and storage.
Thyme and Cheese Biscuits, Sesame Crackers,
Bananas-A-Go-Go Cookies, Super Food Berry Biscuits,
Shortbread, Tiramisu Bars, Macaroons, Argentinean
Alfajores, Gingerbread and more. Colour photos.
288pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
78513 VODKA DISTILLED
by Tony Abou-Ganim
Is your favourite Smirnoff No.21,
Tito’s Handmade Vodka from
Texas, Effen, Vietnamese Kai,
Vermont Gold or the delicious bison
grass flavoured Zubrowka? If you
have a love of vodka, here is the
full history, definition, anatomy,
how to drink it and enjoy its taste
and tasteability from an expert. The
book analyses the characteristics of 58 featured vodkas
explaining how traditional-style vodkas, those produced
in Eastern Europe, differ from those made in the West.
There are 28 top vodka drink recipes tailored to show off
these different vodkas to their best effect including The
Wizard with yellow Chartreuse, a classic Martini, the
Hurly Burly with Cointreau and cranberry juice, the
Flame of Love with La Ina Fino sherry, the Black Boot
made with Russian vodka and more. Beautifully
illustrated in colour. Websites and ingredients. 208pp.
£15 NOW £4.50
He whose face is inflamed with anger shows
that the Evil Spirit burns within him.
- The Zohar
79022 HAVANA MOB
by T. J. English
78664 MAROC PAPER PLACEMAT PAD: 48
Place Mats by Pepin van Roojen
Intricate Moroccan tile patterns in three, four or five
colours, almost Escher-like in their repeating geometric
patterns decorate these paper mats. They are designed
to be used as disposable yet elegant placemats for
picnics or outdoor eating, but also could be used for giftwrapping, paper crafts, art or framing materials. The
outsize softback contains 48 sheets, eight each of six
designs, measuring 16½” x 11¾” (42x30cm) which
separate neatly from the perforated edge.
£18.98 NOW £7.50
Gangsters, gamblers, showgirls and
revolutionaries in 1950s Cuba
evokes a time when the Cuban
people laboured under a violently
repressive regime. Mob-financed
revelry in Havana never stopped.
Tourists from around the world
flooded in to gamble, go to the race
track, see an elaborate floor show
at the Tropicana, hear some of the
hottest music around and perhaps
partake in the kinky sexual activities that flourished on
the fringe of the most colourful and exciting nightlife
scene of the 20th century. But it was a deadly serious
business, led by Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, and
with the full compliance of President Batista. The Mob
set out to create a financial empire that would rival the
‘glory days’ of Prohibition in the US. But behind the
scenes, Fidel Castro was building opposition to what he
portrayed as the debauchery and corruption of capitalism
- the result was revolution. The book captures a unique
and exotic chapter in modern history with first hand
accounts of those who are actually there. 400pp,
photos.
£17.99 NOW £8.50
78361 HILLIKER CURSE - MY PURSUIT OF
WOMEN: A Memoir by James Ellroy
£20 NOW £3.50
76818 WHERE SHALL WE GO FOR DINNER?
by Tamasin Day-Lewis
This delightful memoir incorporates not only recipes but
also memories of encounters with the world’s literary
figures that Tamasin met through her father, the poet
laureate Cecil Day-Lewis. They meet Julia Roberts on
Broadway and then join her for brunch with champagne.
In Venice they moor at the city’s Michelin-starred Hotel
Metropole and enjoy a wonderful Bigoli dish from a chef
who is described as “an acrobat of flavours”. In Lyon,
the pair are faced with a heart-rending choice between
Lobster with Calf’s Head or Parmentier of Beef. Tamasin
finds alternative recipes to Christmas fare are available
in Seafood Spaghetti and Tunisian Orange Cake.
288pp.
TRUE CRIME
78653 LACE PAPER PLACEMAT PADS: 48
Place Mats by Pepin van Roojen
Based on photos of actual doilies and beautiful lace table
linen with tulips or paisley effect designs here are eight
each of six designs measuring about 16½” x 11¾”
(42x30cm) which separate neatly from the perforated
edges of this huge softback. Elegant and disposable for
picnics or outdoor eating, they could also be used for giftwrapping, paper crafts, art and framing materials. With
black or white backgrounds and rather sepia effect, the
texture of the lace is what makes it so attractive,
particularly at this large size.
£18.98 NOW £7.50
77972 FRENCH GENERAL
PARTY PAPERIE: Dinner
Party Décor
by Ayako Akazawa
Inspired by vintage French
textiles, the borders are beautiful
floral designs in pale grey, red,
black and contrasting with the
white space on these 12
invitations, 12 envelopes, 12 place
cards and 12 menu cards. It is an
elegant ensemble of dinner party
décor to bring a special flourish
and elegance to your dinner table.
Could also be used for any party
or gathering. Please join us...
Place, Date, Time; Our Menu, and blank place cards
which could be used for any suitable occasion. And all
can be popped in the beautifully decorated envelopes.
£10.99 NOW £2.95
78497 FRENCH GENERAL
CORRESPONDENCE CARDS
by Kaari Meng
design
French
dinner
20 flat
Inspired by vintage French fabrics in
cool shades of pink, olive, blue and
red flowers and in one case a striped
pattern, these classic palettes look
beautiful on these flat oversized
cards, a bit like a postcard, together
with thick quality envelopes
decorated in a pale vintage fabric
with blank space for the address on the front and
mock stamp decoration. Perfect for thank-yous,
invitations and correspondence. Boxed import.
cards and 20 Envelopes.
£10.99 NOW £4.25
78076 HOME DISTILLER’S HANDBOOK
by Matthew Teacher
Make your own whisky and Bourbon blends, infused
spirits and cordials and maybe even create your own
signature blend. Try Smoked Bacon Bourbon, October
Apple Liqueur, Horseradish Vodka, Silver Kiwi
Strawberry Tequila, Cucumber Gin, Cherry Whisky,
Blueberry Bourbon, Jalapeño and Lime Vodka, Spiced
Pumpkin Vodka or a Strawberry Rosemary Cordial. 50
recipes, no equipment required, step-by-step we are
taken through the process of creating unique and
delicious alcoholic infusions, cordials and crèmes.
Fabulous quotations, big colourful photographs and
graphics. Small paperback, 144pp.
£9.99 NOW £4
78170 ICES AND ICE CREAMS
by Agnes Marshall
Marshall’s Book of Ices was published in 1883 and this
compilation collects her most mouthwatering recipes for
the modern cook to try. Ice cream was often served
semi-frozen as ice preserved from the winter freeze was
an expensive commodity and its temperature had to be
maintained with lashings of salt. Cream ices include
Blackcurrant, Brown Bread, Gooseberry, Kirsch,
Chocolate, Maraschino and Walnut. Water ices can be
made with fruit syrups, jams or fruit purees, or mixed
with wine or spirits to create a sorbet, and variations
include Mousses, soufflés and dressed ices. 122pp,
glossary.
£9.99 NOW £4.75
Born in Los Angeles in 1948, Ellroy is the author of The
Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and
White Jazz known as the LA Quartet. Ugly, beautiful,
reprehensible and moving, this is a hard book to forget.
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker has divorced her fastbuck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name.
Her son James was 10 years old. He hated and lusted
for his mother and “summoned her dead”. She was
murdered three months later. Ellroy unsparingly
describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens,
his writing life, love affairs and marriages, nervous
breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an
extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought
Her. 203pp.
£16.99 NOW £3
78008 ART OF BETRAYAL: The Secret
History of MI6 by Gordon Corera
A former MI6 officer, one of the few to have risen to
become ‘C’ or Chief of the Service, takes pleasure in
recounting a story with a playful twinkle in his eye.
James Bond, John Le Carré’s novels, his tale illustrates
how fact and fiction have commingled. The story
centres on Britain’s overseas intelligence service MI6,
but some characters find their homes in its sister service,
the domestic security agency MI5, the CIA, and its
deadly rival, the KGB. The grand dramas of the Cold
War, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban
Missile Crisis, the September 2001 attacks and the Iraq
War are the backdrops for the human stories of our
selected spies. At the heart of the book lie the personal
accounts. Remainder mark. 481pp in paperback, photos.
$18.95 NOW £5
77170 DID SHE KILL HIM? A Victorian Tale
of Deception Adultery and Arsenic
by Kate Colquhoun
The details of this account, and all italicised speech, are
taken from primary records, court transcripts and
Florence Maybrick’s own emotionally charged memoir.
During the summer of 1889, the young Southern belle
stood trial in Liverpool for the alleged arsenic poisoning of
her much older husband, cotton merchant James
Maybrick. James was widely believed to be addicted to
a number of poisons. Did he have a hand in his own
death? His sickroom contained a bottle of meat juice
that appeared to have been tampered with, but did it
contain arsenic and was there enough to kill a man?
Shortly before James’ death, had Florence been
conducting an affair? It forced the public to question
whether a well-bred lady could harbour such ill-will
towards her husband. 419 pages, archive photos.
£18.99 NOW £4
76927 WHITE SHOTGUN: The Sicilian Mafia in
their Own Words by Attilio Bolzoni
An anthology of interviews, court proceedings and
transcripts of phone taps of Mafia bosses and foot
soldiers. Attilio Bolzoni has been the chief crime
correspondent for La Repubblica for many years and has
reported upon all aspects of the Mafia and Camorra and
associated criminal trials. The voices he has brought
together here are from the past 50 years of the Sicilian
Mafia, yet they could easily be from a different world.
More than just words, Mafia language is an exercise in
intelligence, power, threat and honour. 473pp paperback.
£12.99 NOW £3
78324 THE SHARPER YOUR
KNIFE, THE LESS YOU CRY
by Kathleen Flinn
Sub-titled ‘Love, Laughter and
Tears at the World’s Most Famous
Cooking School’ here is a vibrant
portrait of Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a 36 year
old American living in London,
returned from holiday to find that
her corporate job had been
terminated. She cleared out her
savings and moved to Paris to
pursue a dream, a diploma at the famed Le Cordon Bleu
Cooking School. A unique insider look amid battles with
demanding chefs and competitive classmates and her
‘wretchedly inadequate’ French. 286pp with index of
recipes, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £4
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WAR MEMOIRS
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred
without a head.
- Euripides
78594 BOXER’S STORY:
Fighting for my Life in the
Nazi Camps by Nathan Shapow
Nathan Shapow was a member of
the Zionist youth movement Beitar
in the thirties, and boxed for the
sporting organisation Maccabi. When
the Nazis occupied his home town of
Riga, the Jews were corralled into a
Ghetto. Nathan’s fitness kept him
alive when the Ghetto police
selected the able-bodied men for
slave labour, but his mother and brother were deported
and he never saw them again. He was later reunited
with his father who got away to Israel. Seeing an old
girlfriend being deported with her young brother, he
impulsively claimed the brother as his own and kept
Osha with him throughout the war, saving his life.
Nathan became an accomplished food-thief who
narrowly escaped death for pilfering on several
occasions. His good looks incurred the hatred of
Obersturmfu?hrer Hoffman, who one day ordered
Nathan to return to his cell. Nathan knew he was going
to be killed but overpowered the SS man, grabbing his
gun and battering him to death with a stool. Two
innocent Jews were hanged for the murder the next day
and Shapow reveals that he has never told anyone
about the incident until now. He also tells the story of
his friendship with the Ghetto Guard Rudi Harr who
saved him on several occasions and was casually killed
when the whole Ghetto was deported to the Kaiserwald
concentration camp. A gripping read. 246pp, photos.
£16.99 NOW £5
78431 BICKERSTETH
DIARIES 1914-1918
edited by John Bickersteth
An imaginatively-edited version of
11 volumes of more than 3,000
pages of diaries of the original work.
Ella Bickersteth began to put it
together for her six sons because one
of them was in Australia at the
outbreak of WWI. By the spring of
1915, four of her boys were on
active service. We are presented
with a vivid mixture of English social, military and family
history with graphic accounts of firing squads, trench
warfare, narrow escapes, a sensitive chaplain ministers
to dying men, long periods of inactivity, sadness at a
brother’s death bringing a family more united, and the
way an imaginative padre sets about his priestly work
at the Front. Interwoven are reflections on church and
state politics, theological musings, matter-of-fact detail
about a busy vicar’s wife. Third edition, also rare, a
1998 publication of 332 pages with maps.
£25 NOW £8
78443 KAISER’S RELUCTANT CONSCRIPT
by Dominik Richert
As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realised
from the outset of WWI that his family would be at or
near the front line. He was a reluctant soldier and his
thoughtful memoir gives a lively picture of major events
from the rare perspective of an ordinary German soldier.
In 1914 he was involved in fighting on the French
border and then moved to Northern France where he
was in combat with Indian troops. In 1915 he was sent
to the East and took part in the Battle for Mount Zwinin
in the Carpathians and the subsequent invasions of the
western parts of the Ukraine and of Eastern Poland. In
1917 he took part in the capture of Riga before returning
to the Western Front in 1918 where he saw German
tanks in action at the Battle of Villers-Brettoneux. No
longer believing in the war, he subsequently crossed No
Man’s Land and surrendered to the French, becoming a
‘deserteur alsacienne’. The books ends with his return
home early in 1919. He and his wife were deported to
do forced labour in Germany in 1943. He survived.
272pp, photos and map.
£19.99 NOW £9
76469 LAND GIRLS: Women’s Voices from the
Wartime Farm by Joan Mant
Drawing on the reminiscences of over 300 ‘Land Girls’,
as well as her own experiences, the author brings to life
the story of farms during the Second World War. Wages
were at subsistence levels and, in most cases, living
conditions were Spartan. Those who had volunteered
expecting a bucolic life of jolly hay-making were quickly
pitch-forked into reality. Eating raw potatoes, keeping
clean by bathing in milk sterilisers, and starting work at 4
a.m. were common conditions. Accidents, sometimes
fatal, added to the hazards endured. Yet throughout
these moving accounts of their lives runs a common
thread of humour, camaraderie and pride. 183 pages,
photos in colour and sepia.
£16.99 NOW £4
77677 THIS MAN’S ARMY: A War in Fifty-Odd
Sonnets
by John Allan Wyeth
We herald the reappearance of this long lost, valuable
piece of American historical literature. First published in
1928, it represents the beginning of a promising literary
career of John Allan Wyeth (1894-1981), a Princetoneducated French interpreter in the American
Expeditionary Force’s Thirty-Third Division. It is an
autobiographical account of his service in France and
Belgium from 1917 to 1919, detailing his duties as
interpreter, messenger and occasionally sentry while
travelling town by town towards the German
Hindenburg line. He never doubts the eventual
American victory yet is keenly aware of the brutality of
combat. 60 page paperback reprint. Glossary.
£18.95 NOW £5
78276 ABDUCTING A
GENERAL
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Amazingly, the author and his
accomplice, Billy Moss, both
attached to Britain’s Special
Operations Executive (SOE) and
dressed as German military police,
succeeded in smuggling the
kidnapped General Kreipe though
twenty-two German checkpoints,
pulling him below the window level,
with a dagger at his throat and hands clamped over his
mouth whenever Germans were nearby. This audacious
real life adventure took place in Crete in 1944, in the
hope that the moral damage inflicted on the Germans by
the loss of their General would be traumatic. The last
checkpoint had been the worst as there were a large
number of German soldiers as well as the sentries, but
then they were waved through. This exciting read, in
addition to the kidnap account, contains nine War Reports
submitted at the time by the author together with a
guide to the abduction route, enabling the modern visitor
to Crete to relive the experience. 206pp, b/w illus.
£20 NOW £8
76470 LIVING ON THE HOME FRONT
by Megan Westley
Megan Westley decided to spend a year “living on the
Home Front”, throwing herself into wartime cooking and
rationing levels and espousing the mottos of “Dig for
Victory” and “Make Do and Mend”, sacrificing TV and
modern electrical appliances, even recreating an air raid!
She divides the book into six chapters to cover the war’s
six year span and divides up her 12 month Home Front
experience into the six chapters to compare and contrast
her experiences with what was actually happening
during the war itself. Authentic wartime recipes and
mending and making. 100 b/w photos. 224pp.
£20 NOW £3.50
77156 MEMOIRS OF A BRITISH AGENT
by R.H. Bruce Lockhart
!
An immediate classic on publication in 1934, this book is
both a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary
Russia. Bruce Lockhart was Acting Consul General in
Moscow when the first revolution broke out in 1917.
Sent home because of an affair with a married woman,
he returned to Russia the following year as Head of the
British Mission to the Bolsheviks. His graphic first-hand
description of the Moscow of 1918, frequent encounters
with Lenin, Trotsky and the other architects of the
Revolution, his experiences as a prisoner in the famous
Loubianka Prison all combine as a fascinating picture of
one man present at history in the making. 355pp,
paperback, photos.
£14.99 NOW £3.75
77193 HOW BRITAIN KEPT CALM AND
CARRIED ON: Real-Life Stories from the Home
Front edited by Anton Rippon
There are tales from men, women and children from all
walks of life, from the Blitz to the Home Guard, from
blackouts to unexploded bombs and from Bermondsey to
Burma. Our favourite is the description of the author’s
Gran when the Luftwaffe bombed Spalding Liberal Club,
a few yards from where she lived. No-one had built an
air-raid shelter so, when the bombing started, the whole
family crammed themselves under the grand piano
which took up most of the dining-room. All except old
Gran. She refused to indulge in such an indignity and
sat in her usual chair, defying Hitler to do his worst. 223
pages, line drawings.
£14.99 NOW £4
77463 BLITZ KIDS: The Children’s War
Against Hitler by Sean Longden
Thousands of children in World War II made key
contributions to the war effort. In an act of extraordinary
heroism 16-year old canteen assistant Tommy Brown
rescued code books from a sinking submarine that helped
to break the Enigma code. On the Home Front, 16-year
old Peter Richards delivered the telegrams that brought
news of a death, and the grief and courage of parents
receiving the terrible piece of paper is vividly described.
Anne Paton’s father was chief engineer on the
construction of the Mulberry Harbours used for the
invasion, and when Anne noticed that the au pair was
eavesdropping on every phone conversation, she took
action. 541pp, photos.
£20 NOW £6
77645 CAPTAIN CONAN
by Roger Vercel
Facsimile reprint of the 1935 original translation of the
novel. The book follows the exploits of a French
Commando unit attacking Bulgarian outposts along the
Romanian border. The unit is led by the 23 year old
Captain Conan, a haberdasher’s son, who finds his
calling as a fearless killer ready to crawl through barbed
wire and slit the throats of his enemies on midnight raids.
Conan is loyal only to his men, as all notions of
patriotism are lost in the place of the fraternity and
brutality needed for survival and success. News of the
Armistice is slow to reach the Bulgarian front, and when
it comes it changes little. Conan’s soldiers have become
murderers, thieves and rapists, and Conan himself is
charged with injuring his lover’s husband, a Romanian
major. Conan leaves Bucharest when the French are
called to combat Lenin and Trotsky’s guerrilla forces
along the Ukrainian border. Maps, 296pp, paperback.
Remainder mark.
£18.95 NOW £5
77991 BOMB GIRLS
by Jacky Hyams
Rarely spoken about before, here are the intimate and
personal stories of an unforgettable group of women.
They worked round the clock often exposed to toxic,
lethal chemicals. A factory accident could mean
blindness, loss of limbs or worse. Frequently their male
bosses were coarse and unsympathetic. Cheerfully
ignoring the dangers and the exhaustion, bombing,
rationing and separation, these women clocked in daily
to work in the vast munitions factories, helping to make
the explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines
that would ensure victory. 214pp, paperback, photos.
£7.99 NOW £4
77676 THE SOMME
INCLUDING ALSO THE
COWARD by A. D. Gristwood
First published in London in 1927.
Heavily autobiographical and much
influenced by H. G. Wells, the tales
of World War I combat of a reluctant
infantryman in the London Rifle
Brigade are rife with acts of unheroic self-preservation, fear,
bitterness and hopelessness. The
Somme centres on a futile attack in
1916 on the Western Front. The uncourageous
behaviour of wounded protagonist Tom Everitt both in
and out of combat reflects Gristwood’s assessment of the
weak mettle of British forces. In The Coward, a soldier
commits an act of self-mutilation to escape combat duty,
an offence punishable by death. With discovered
information about Gristwood. 189pp, paperback.
£18.95 NOW £5
77683 ZERO HOUR
by George Grabenhorst
An autobiographical novel of World War One experiences
in the German ranks, the novel equates duty with
camaraderie, and is experienced here through the keen
eyes of Hans Volkenborn. Grabenhorst recalls specifics
of battlefield action on the Western Front with a visceral
language that still resonates today. Of particular
historical importance are accounts of combat in the Ypres
campaign in 1917 and the futile clashes in the woods of
Avelui in Northern France the following summer as
German hopes for victory faded. The novel’s greatest
distinction lies with the vivid description of shellshock, in
this case the result of being briefly buried alive by a
mortar explosion. The condition ultimately engulfs
Volkenborn’s ailing psyche and leaves him tormented,
isolated and blinded at the war’s end. First published in
1928. Apologies for printing error on page 216.
Facsimile reprint, paperback, 306pp.
£18.95 NOW £5
78068 GERMANS WE TRUSTED
by Pamela Howe Taylor
Introduced by Douglas Hurd, this inspiring story of 36
friendships between British citizens and German prisoners
of war focuses on one of the lesser known aspects of
wartime life. A year after VE Day there were still
400,000 German POWs in Britain, and friendship and
trust often grew up across the barrier of official enmity.
The story starts in Skipton in north Yorkshire, where
Earle Walls decided to take a job in Germany overseeing
the clearing of waterways. Picking up a hitchhiker
against regulations on a German road, he found to his
astonishment that the man had a son in a POW camp
near his home town. The young man went to visit
Earle’s family on Sunday afternoons and the friendship
lasted 40 years. Johannes Baumann, an accomplished
church musician, was in the same camp and was
allowed to play in the Skipton churches. One member of
the congregation said, “Ba gum, lad, thou’s played
afore!” 208pp, paperback, photos in b/w and colour.
£13.50 NOW £5
78231 UNDER THE
QUEEN’S COLOURS: Voices
From the Forces 19522012
by Penny Legg
Talking to anyone who has
served in the Armed Forces will
bring forth a series of anecdotes
and recollections, some
thoughtful, others hilarious. This
collection of reminiscences from
the 1950s onwards contains a
cornucopia of delights, including
those from a soldier in the Australian Army serving in
Malaya who, together with his mate, was dumped near
an airstrip to await a helicopter. Then came the
helicopter ride, and when one noticed a poisonous snake
had sneaked aboard they quickly sobered up. Another
anecdote, from a man recalling his National Service, tells
how he managed to wangle his way into the navy. ‘All
the nice girls love a sailor’. Took me months to realise it
wasn’t the nice girls we wanted.’ Candid stories from
male and female service personnel demonstrate just
how much we owe our soldiers, sailors and airmen.
272pp, colour and b/w illus.
£18.99 NOW £6
76833 WOMAN AT THE FRONT: Memoirs of
an ATS Girl by Sylvia Wild
Here is the story of a young South Londoner working for
the Senior Royal Engineer Officers who were initially
developing the D-day plans concerning ports, docks,
harbours and railways as part of Operation Overlord,
followed by the reinstatement of these services
throughout Northern France into Belgium and finally into
Germany. It was a predominantly male environment
and this memoir offers a fascinating insight into Sylvia's
world. 126pp, paperback, illus.
£12.99 NOW £3
78296 FORCE BENEDICT by Eric Carter
If Murmansk fell it could have altered the whole
outcome of the war. It was the only USSR post not
under Nazi occupation, and so in 1941 Winston Churchill
sanctioned a secret mission, code-named Force Benedict.
One of the surviving members is Eric Carter. The first
part of the journey to Murmansk was more like a cruise;
a steward brought the team morning tea, the food was
plentiful and there were even improvised concerts. The
Russians were impressed at the speed the British
engineering party worked to assemble the planes; in just
nine days 15 crated Hurricanes were erected and ready
for flying by Eric and the team. The team’s mission was
to protect Murmansk, to pit their Hurricanes against the
Messerschmitts. As Eric watched, the tracer and
incendiary hit the plane, and white glycol poured from
the aircraft, followed by black smoke. The pilot dropped
from the plane, canopy billowing. If the German did
make it alive it was likely he would be taken as a
prisoner of war by the Russians. Details the secret
mission in Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic
Circle. Previously unseen photos and documents.
306pp.
£20 NOW £6
27
MODERN HISTORY AND
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Political necessities sometimes turn out to be
political mistakes.
- Bernard Shaw
78841 WHITE HOUSE
DIARY by Jimmy Carter
Each day during his presidency of
the United States of America,
Jimmy Carter made several entries
in a private diary. He wrote
unvarnished assessments of cabinet
members, congressmen and foreign
leaders and narrated the progress of
secret negotiations such as those
that led to the Camp David
Accords. He records his thoughts,
impressions, delights and frustrations. When his four
year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary
amounted to more than 5000 pages. This extraordinary
document has never been made public, until now.
Bibliophile has acquired the US first edition in glamorous
hardback, 2010. By selecting the most illuminating and
relevant entries, Jimmy Carter provides an astonishingly
intimate view of his presidency, day by day. We see
his forceful advocacy for sustainable energy, nuclear
containment, human rights and peace in the Middle East
and witness his interactions with Ted Kennedy, Henry
Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat and Menachem
Begin. We get inside the story of his so-called ‘malaise
speech’, his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic
nomination and his relentless efforts to resolve the
Iranian Hostage Crisis. Remarkably we also get his
retrospective comments more than 30 years after the
fact with the annotations and candid reflections added for
this edition. 572pp, many photos.
$30 NOW £8
78928 LAST EMPIRE: The
Final Days of the Soviet
Union by Serhii Plokhy
On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail
Gorbachev resigned as President of
the Soviet Union. By the next
day, the USSR was officially no
more and the USA had emerged as
the world’s sole superpower. Here
is a page-turning account of the
preceding five months drama filled
with failed coups d’états and
political intrigue. Plokhy shattered the established myths
of 1991 and argues that contrary to the triumphalist
Western narrative, George W. Bush desperately wanted
to preserve the Soviet Union and keep Gorbachev in
power, and that it was Ukraine and not the US that
played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The consequences are still being felt in Crimea, Russia,
the US and Europe today and will help anyone seeking
to make sense of current international politics. 489pp,
eight pages of photos plus map of the Cold War rivalry
c.1980.
£25 NOW £8
77640 BELARUS: The Last European
Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson
The first book in English to explore Belarus’s complicated
road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics
and economics since 1991. Wilson focuses particular
attention on Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s surprising longevity
as President despite human rights abuses and
involvement in yet another rigged election in December
2010. He looks at Belarusian history as a series of false
starts in the medieval and pre-modern periods, and at
the many rival versions of Belarusian identity,
culminating in the Soviet Belarusian Project and the
establishment of the current borders of Belarus during
WWII. He looks at the on-off relationship with Russia,
its simultaneous attempts to play a game of balance in
the no-man’s-and between Russia and the West, and
how, paradoxically, Belarus is at last becoming a true
nation under the rule of Europe’s ‘last dictator’. 304pp,
illus and maps.
£20 NOW £5
78162 COAL: A HUMAN HISTORY
by Barbara Freese
In the 21st century coal is regarded as a threat to the
environment, but this superb history shows how it
changed the world in the 19th century and laid the basis
for the civilized comforts we now take for granted. As
one writer put it: “With Coal, we have light, strength,
power, wealth and civilization; without Coal we have
darkness, weakness, poverty and barbarism.” This book
starts in Britain which for centuries led the world in coal
production and during the Industrial Revolution became
the most powerful force on the planet. It then moves to
the United States, where coal was central to the taming
of the wilderness and cities like Pittsburgh, described by
Antony Trollope as the blackest place he had ever seen,
were permanently shrouded in dense smoke. The book
ends in China, where coal was described by Marco Polo
in the 14th century as “a sort of black stone”. The author
describes the impact of climate change legislation on the
industry and on politics. 304pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4.75
58089 BRITISH SHIPBUILDING AND THE
STATE SINCE 1918
by Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy
This book is the first to provide an industry analysis of
the period, blending the records of central government
with those of the Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation
and the Shipbuilding Conference, as well as records from
individual yards, technical societies and the trade press.
All abbreviations are explained at the outset such as
RMSP for Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited. With list of
templates and 40 tables. 306pp in large softback.
$27.95 NOW £1.75
28 Modern History continued
78368 LEISURE IN POSTWAR BRITAIN
by Stuart Hylton
Are we having fun yet? This is the
question that the author asks in
each chapter as he looks at some of
the ways in which post-war Britain
spends its leisure time, and also the
ways in which the powers-that-be
try to thwart it. Comics, for
instance. American comics first
appeared in Britain in 1947 and
were completely different to our more innocent ones.
With looks at leisure topics such as Holidays (which are
not for fun, ‘The useful purpose they serve is to reconcile
you to the fact that the rest of your life is not really as
bad as you imagine it to be’), Food, Motoring, Television
and Bad Fun, this is a nostalgic, wry account of the
British character and our success, or lack of it, at having
fun. Paperback. 158pp, photos,
£16.99 NOW £5
78177 RETURN FROM THE NATIVES: How
Margaret Mead Won the Second World War
and Lost the Cold War by Peter Mandler
Margaret Mead is one of the biggest names in 20th
century cultural anthropology, a pioneer whose fieldwork
in Samoa was hugely influential, though her emphasis
on nurture rather than nature has been challenged. From
the 1930s to the 1950s Mead worked on problems of
international relations, in the first place trying to prevent
the outbreak of World War II and then studying how to
defeat the Germans and Japanese. After the war the
task was to come to terms with the Russians and the
Chinese as the Cold War began. At the beginning of this
period conflicts were assumed to be between nations,
but by the time of Mead’s death in 1978 the dividing
lines were drawn differently, focusing on equality of the
sexes and between majority and minority ethnic groups.
This study of Mead’s role in World War II and the Cold
War has implications for the involvement of social
scientists with the U.S. Government and its policy,
particularly in Vietnam. Mead’s relations with her three
husbands and with her lover Ruth Benedict also
impacted on her thinking. 366pp, photos.
£30 NOW £6
78180 STREET FIGHTING
YEARS: An Autobiography of
the 60s by Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker
who revisits his formative years as
a young radical in this new edition
of his 60s memoirs. His story
moves between London, Paris and
Berlin, Vietnam and Bolivia,
encountering along the way
Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon
Brando, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Henry Kissinger and
Mick Jagger. A new introduction has been added as
well as an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
‘In the sense that this book is a critique of the efforts of
the Western political system it is uncomplimentary to
many who held the reins of power in this period...The
assertion that Kim Il Sung liquidated political refugees is
defamatory of Sung if he is still living... The critique of
Cuba prior to the Revolution is defamatory of Batista... ,
Peter Carter-Ruck. Read on at your peril! Tariq Ali’s
passion and vim made him the symbol of the spirit of
’68. 403pp, paperback, 24 pages of photos.
£12.99 NOW £5
78290 BORDERLAND: A Journey Through the
History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
Fully updated and highly acclaimed on Radio 4. Centre
of the first great Slav civilisation in the 10th century,
then divided between warring neighbours for a
millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the
collapse of the Soviet Union. Threatened by Moscow,
misunderstood in the West, Ukraine hangs once more in
the balance. Speaking to pro-democracy activists and
pro-Russia militiamen, peasants and miners, survivors of
Hitler’s Holocaust and Stalin’s famine, Anna Reid
combines history and travel writing to unpick the history
of this bloody and complex borderland. 341pp,
paperback, photos.
£10.99 NOW £5.50
78369 LITTLE BOOK OF THE 1960s
by Dee Gordon
Britain may have lost almost all of the Empire by the
1960s, but we had gained mini-skirts, boutiques, discos,
the Beatles, the Stones, the Notting Hill Carnival, mods
and rockers knocking merry hell out of each other at the
seaside and unprecedented conflict between the
generations. “Swinging London” encapsulated much of all
this, being memorably described in May 1966 by the
New York Times as “the new Sodom and Gomorrah”,
which seems a little harsh! Southend-on-Sea based
author Dee Gordon was there and yes, she can
remember it! Her book is nostalgia with a difference,
based as it is on quirky facts and surprising data from the
1960s, with a discerning eye for the bizarre, frivolous
and funny. Arranged under 11 chapters such as Music
and Musicians, Fashion and Style, Food and Drink,
Science and Technology and Travel and Transport, the
sights, sounds, lifestyle - in fact the whole 1960s
experience can be relived through its pages, but be
warned, a sense of humour is essential. Groovy stuff in
192pp, b/w illus.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
76840 BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS: Life in the
Roaring Twenties by Alison Maloney
Readers can step into a time of hot jazz and even hotter
all-night dance halls, as the author shares the gossip in a
scintillating celebration of a truly iconic decade. Read all
about high society’s scandalous exploits, fresh new
fashions, the Charleston dance craze, costume parties,
talking movies and, of course, the feisty flapper. Take,
for instance, the reputation of the American actress
Tallulah Bankhead. She aroused the interest of MI5,
who suspected her of seducing schoolboys! 192 pages,
bespoke illus and list of websites.
£9.99 NOW £4
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76824 LIFE IN 1940s
LONDON by Mike Hutton
The war gave birth to a heady
brew of bravery, fear, stoicism,
cowardice and a vast increase in
crime - all set to a background of
popular music from the likes of Vera
Lynn and Glenn Miller. Thousands
of lower income Londoners sheltered
from the bombs each night on the
platforms of the underground, and
came out in the morning to find their
homes gone, while the privileged few enjoyed the
relative comfort of the capital’s poshest hotels. After the
war, servicemen returned home
as strangers, often to resentful
wives. A royal wedding and
the 1948 Olympics cheered up
the public, but they still had to
cope with the continuing grinding
austerity of post-war rationing
and food shortages. Then, too,
the first influx of West Indian
immigrants caused anger.
Difficult times realistically
described. 220 pages, archive
photos.
£20 NOW £3.50
78484 BANG! A HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN
THE 1980s by Graham Stewart
The paradox of the 80s is simply put. Some Britons
rioted and went on protest marches while others hung
patriotic bunting and bought shares in British Telecom.
Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street tenure (1979-1990)
almost perfectly framed the 1980s as if it were her own.
The book encompasses politics, economics, the arts and
society. Here is the Falklands War, the miners’ strike, a
re-escalation of troubles in Northern Ireland, the Brighton
bombing of the entire Cabinet, also mass privatisation of
state-owned industries and the deregulation of financial
markets, a cultural ferment, the emergence of house
music and the growth of alternative comedy. An
illuminating reminder of a decade that sowed the seeds
of modern Britain. 544 paperback pages, colour and b/w
photos.
£12.99 NOW £4.75
77365 CHINESE WHISPERS by Ben Chu
Chinese people don’t care about political freedom, so
why is the country’s Internet exploding with anti-regime
dissent? China will one day rule the world, so why do
the country’s political leaders feel so insecure? Perhaps it
is time to stop engaging in a centuries-old game of
Chinese Whispers in which the facts have become more
distorted in the telling. Ben Chu examines the myths
and forces us to question everything we thought about
China in his surprising and provocative insight into China
today. 280pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
76224 MAFIA STATE: How One Reporter
Became an Enemy of The Brutal New Russia
by Luke Harding
Soon after the start of Luke Harding’s posting as The
Guardian’s man in Moscow, an article criticising Putin
appeared in the paper under Harding’s name. Harding
was summoned for interrogation by the F.S.B. His four
years of being treated as an enemy of Russia had
begun. When Harding attends the funeral of the
murdered dissident lawyer Markelov he meets Natasha
Estemirova, head of the human rights group in Grozny.
Harding keeps up the mockery of Moscow in The
Guardian. Harding trawls the documents for material,
finally discovering damning evidence about Litvinenko
and the F.S.B.’s intimidating home visits. Finally he is
expelled, but not before he has shaken up the Russian
propaganda machine. 310pp, colour photos.
£20 NOW £4
76509 KEEPING UP WITH THE GERMANS:
A History of Anglo-German Encounters
by Philip Oltermann
This unusual book interweaves memoir and history to
look at eight historical encounters between English and
German people from the last 200 years. Helmut Kohl
tries to explain German cuisine to Margaret Thatcher,
Theodor Adorno clashes with A. J. Ayer over jazz, the
Mini plays catch-up with the Volkswagen Beetle, Dada
artist Kurt Schwitters rediscovers German Romanticism in
the Lake District and Joe Strummer has an unlikely brush
with the Baader-Meinhof gang. 268 softback pages.
76908 FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS: An
Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris
The Pax Britannica trilogy by acclaimed historian Jan
Morris published between 1968 and 1978 remains to this
day the definitive examination of the British Empire from
Queen Victoria’s accession in 1837 to 1965. In 1897 the
Empire and Britain’s position in the world order appeared
unassailable, with many recent gains in Africa, the last
unconquered continent. Germany was also busy in
Africa, and it had not escaped Britain’s notice that the
arms it was stockpiling seemed a little excessive for
adventures up the Nile. India and other overseas
“possessions” took back their independence, leaving the
Commonwealth as a reminder of what had been. Jan
Morris chronicles the end of empire in incredible detail.
Paperback, 572pp.
£12.99 NOW £3.50
76903 DICTATOR’S HANDBOOK Why Bad
Behaviour is Almost Always Good Politics by
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
Whether that coalition is a cabal of five generals, a group
of 50 tribal chiefs or 50 million voters, the techniques of
persuasion and coercion are the same. Why do leaders
who destroy their countries hold power for so long? Why
do autocracies have such disastrous economic policies?
Why are resource-rich nations often home to deprived
populations? Why do “natural disasters” hit poorer
nations harder? Why do terrible leaders collect so much in
foreign aid? A profoundly necessary portrait of politics
and power. 319pp.
£18.99 NOW £2.50
77121 COUTURE OR TRADE: An Early
Pictorial Record of the London College
of Fashion by Helen Reynolds
Until the end of the 19th century, London’s fashion
industry had produced luxurious hand-made clothing for
women of the leisured classes. At that time, however,
the West End was suffering from a shortage of skilled
employees, and trade was being lost to Paris. The
response to this challenge was the founding in 1906 of
women’s trade schools, with a needle-trade curriculum
devised in close co-operation with leading dressmakers
and the exclusive London stores. The London School of
Fashion had its origin in three of those schools, in Barrett
Street, Shoreditch and Clapham respectively. A vivid
insight into the training of the girls, life in the workrooms,
the fashion industry’s evolution and, of course, its social
history. 124 pages, archive photos.
£14.99 NOW £4
77638 ARAFAT AND THE DREAM OF
PALESTINE by Bassam Abu Sharif
Bassam Abu Sharif was one of the world’s most
notorious and dangerous terrorists of the 1960s and 70s,
acting as ‘Minister of Propaganda’ for the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter
for terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. Then in 1972, a
bomb was placed in a book sent to him, leaving him half
blind, deaf in one ear, and almost fingerless. He aligned
himself with Yasser Arafat, eventually becoming one of
his closest advisors. In his book he takes us behind the
scenes of all the major events in the Middle East during
the last 30 years, from the secret caves in the West
Bank where Arafat hid on his way to Jerusalem in 1967,
to the Peace Negotiations in Oslo in 1993. 260pp.
£17.99 NOW £3
76558 FRACTURED TIMES: Culture and
Society in the Twentieth Century
by Eric Hobsbawm
The last book from one of our foremost modern-day
thinkers. From communism and extreme nationalism to
Dadaism and the emergence of information technology,
Hobsbawm explores the lives of forgotten greats,
analyses the relationship between art and totalitarianism,
and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, the
emancipation of women, the American cowboy, Al
Qaeda to Frank Zappa. 319 pages.
£25 NOW £3.50
ENTERTAINMENT
If it be true that good wine needs no bush,
’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
£12.99 NOW £2
76614 MAN WITHOUT A FACE: The Unlikely
Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
Chapter headings give a flavour: ‘The Autobiography of a
Thug’, ‘Once A Spy’, ‘Insatiable Greed’. Having served as
Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg, a brief stint as Director of
the Secret Police, the ‘faceless’ creature who Boris Yeltsin
and his cronies thought they could mould, in 1999, Vladimir
Putin was chosen by the unpopular President. Russia and
an infatuated West were determined to see him in the
progressive leader role of their dreams, even though with
ruthless efficiency Putin dismantled the country’s media,
wrested control and wealth from a burgeoning business
class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy.
Political rivals and critics have been driven into exile or to the
grave. 314pp.
$27.95 NOW £5
77458 ARAB UPRISING: The People Want the
Fall of the Regime by Jeremy Bowen
The desperate act of a young Tunisian man in October
2010 would be the touch-paper that united people in
anger and frustration, sparked a series of extraordinary
events that was to change the lives of millions. Bowen
examines how the unforeseen but highly infectious
rebellion shook the Middle East and unseated its dictators,
whilst also lifting the lid on the brutal police states, tribal
loyalty, the influence of social media and the part played
by foreign help. These revolutions are put into in their
political context, giving insight into the broader history of
the Middle East. 339 pages, colour photos.
£20 NOW £5.50
79042 DISNEY MUPPETS
CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA
by Craig Shemin
Afghan Hound, Animal,
Baskerville, Behemoth, Bobby
Benson’s Baby Band, Bobo,
Camilla, Dr Teeth, Fazoobs, the
Flying Zucchini Brothers, Fufu,
Fozzy Bear, Gladys the Cafeteria
Lady, Kermit the Frog, Mad Monty,
Miss Piggy, Penguins, Mr Poodle Pants, Sam Eagle,
Pigs in Space, the Swedish Chef, Waldorf, to Zoot, plus
Muppet food, theatre, backstage, take the best seat in
the house. Play the music, light the lights, and meet all
the Muppets from the TV series and movies in a book
packed with stills, close-ups, fact boxes, sick humour,
wild mayhem, digging for dirt in this alien nation which
has enchanted us all for many years. Take your seats.
200 colourful pages.
£9.99 NOW £5
76584 MUMMY’S BOY: My Autobiography
by Larry Lamb
A hugely entertaining memoir which tells captivating
tales of making it as an actor, breaking out from smalltown life in Essex, finding himself a new life starring on
Broadway, in Hollywood, in leading roles in Eastenders
and Gavin & Stacey. 16 pages of colour and sepia photos
and short little anecdotal chapters with headings like Escape
from College, Coming Home for Christmas, After Germany
and Bluebell to Broadway. 350pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2
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78250 A FUNNY WAY TO
MAKE A LIVING!
by Bill Pertwee
Bill Pertwee’s remarkably varied
career has included over a thousand
radio broadcasts including cult
classics Beyond Our Ken and
Round the Horne, TV appearances
and theatre appearances in the
West End including the recordbreaking Run For Your Wife. Born
in Amsterdam in 1926, Bill has
farmed, helped build Spitfire planes,
acted as a baggage boy on the 1946 Indian cricket tour
of England, and worked as a window cleaner. In 1954
he offered Beryl Reid some comedy material and ended
up on stage in her revue. He rubbed shoulders with
great names like Kenneth Williams, Spike Milligan, Ken
Horne, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Derek Nimmo,
Donald Sinden and has played cricket with Colin
Cowdrey and Bill Edrich. He played the excitable Chief
Air Raid Warden Hodges for the full nine year run of
Dad’s Army. Humorous and entertaining, 240pp,
softback, photos.
£10.99 NOW £3.50
78251 STARS IN
BATTLEDRESS: The Story of
Service Entertainers in World
War II by Bill Pertwee
This entertaining book contains
memories of dozens of household
names who began or furthered their
entertainment careers during the
war, complete with anecdotes from
Bill Pertwee. Amongst the many
artists featured are Harry Secombe,
Kenneth Connor, Spike Milligan,
Charlie Chester, Frankie Howerd, Janet Brown, Jon
Pertwee and Reg Varney. Bryan Forbes was recovering
from pneumonia in Anglesey when he received a
telegram telling him to report immediately to a War
Office department. He had been selected to join the
Army Theatre Unit, where informality was the order of
the day. Paperback. 232pp. Photos.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
76610 FULL SERVICE
by Scotty Bowers and Lionel Friedberg
‘His startling memoir includes great figures like Spencer
Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Scotty doesn’t lie - the
stars sometimes do - and he knows everybody.’ - Gore
Vidal. An unknown Hollywood legend, at a time when
sex outside marriage was taboo, Scotty Bowers built up
a reputation as the guy who would discretely fix you up
with the person of your dreams. He developed a long
term friendship with Katherine Hepburn and set her up
with young women that she wanted to sleep with. He
bedded Vivienne Leigh while her husband Laurence
Olivier was out of town, and when Edith Piaf played
the Mocambo Club in LA, Scotty had sex with her
almost every night. Vincent Price, the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor, Cary Grant, Cole Porter, Rock
Hudson, Charles Laughton are among the list he ‘fixed’.
286 pages packed with salacious detail, studio gossip,
the vice squad, royal affairs and more.
$25 NOW £5.50
76776 DORIS DAY: All-American Girl: Book
and Six Prints by Helen Akitt
More than half Day’s films achieved a Top 10 box office
ranking, but Day’s career suffered when she rejected the
Mrs Robinson role in The Graduate. She suddenly found
herself at the centre of a different kind of media
attention when her husband died and she discovered
that he and his business partner had left her with huge
debts. In later life Day has continued to a receive
awards and has released old recordings of never-issued
tracks devoting herself in private life to animal welfare.
Full filmography. Six 8" x 10" prints, four in colour. 64pp,
softback, photos.
ONLY £4
77248 TASCHEN’S FAVORITE TV SHOWS:
The Top Shows of the Last 25 Years
by Jürgen Müller
!
Downton Abbey, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The X-Files,
Buffy, Ally McBeal, The Sopranos, The West Wing,
CSI, Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers, 24, Lost,
Desperate Housewives, Damages, House of Cards and
more all covered and pictured in colour. In the last
decade, shows like Breaking Bad, Borgen and Mad Men
have toppled cinema from its leading position in the
popular culture universe and ushered in a whole new
level of small screen excellence and appreciation. With
ambition to tear down the barriers around commercial
television, networks such as HBO, AMC, and ABC
have launched a new era of cinematic narrative, while
cable TV networks, DVDs, and the Internet have
brought about new, flexible ways of watching and
engaging. Alongside a wealth of stills, this overview of
the TV revolution presents the most important and
successful series of the last 25 years, from David Lynch’s
groundbreaking masterpiece Twin Peaks to current
highlights like Game of Thrones, Girls and House of
Cards. Find all of the facts about creators, authors and
actors, influences and backgrounds, sequels and spinoffs. New from Taschen, 13" x 9.9", 744 pages.
ONLY £38
77990 BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: The
Biography by Justin Lewis
A 2014 publication about the talented young actor and
star of the ‘Sherlock’ series and The Imitation Game
film. Benedict Cumberbatch has played detective and
monster, barrister and scientist, politician and painter,
comic and spy. Still only in his 30s, he is excelling in
theatre, television, radio and cinema with a string of
starring and supporting roles from Stephen Hawking to
William Pitt the Younger to Frankenstein and most
recently Sherlock Holmes. His biographer traces his
career from his early promise in Harrow school plays, Sir
Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Parade’s End on TV and
to feature films. Colour photos, 278pp.
£17.99 NOW £4.75
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77541 JOHN GIELGUD: Matinee Idol to Movie
Star by Jonathan Croall
Within British theatre John Gielgud stood centre stage. A
matinée idol in his 20s, he was acclaimed as the greatest
classical actor of the 20th century and the supreme
interpreter of Shakespeare. But he was also hugely
influential as a director, an actor-manager, and a nurturer
of young talent. From his ground-breaking Hamlet at
the age of 26, to his later flowering in plays by Pinter,
Storey, Bond and Bennett, the book offers a
reassessment of his complex relationship with his great
rival Laurence Olivier. Chronicled too are his
appearances on Broadway, including the record-breaking
runs of Hamlet and his one-man Shakespeare
production, Ages of Man. Like many other gay men
John Gielgud had to live a double life, at least outside
the theatre. As well as many frank letters to his lovers,
the book includes the first full and accurate account of his
arrest and its aftermath. 720 pages, archive photos,
chronology.
£30 NOW £6
77639 AVA GARDNER: The Secret
Conversations
by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner
Born poor in rural North Carolina, Ava Gardner was
given a Hollywood tryout thanks to a stunning photo of
her displayed in a shop window. Not long after arriving
in Hollywood, she caught the eye of Mickey Rooney, a
womaniser so notorious that even his mother warned
Gardner about him. They married, but the marriage
lasted only a year. She then married band leader and
clarinettist Artie Shaw, but that marriage too lasted only
about a year. She carried on a passionate affair with
Howard Hughes but didn’t love him she said. The third
marriage was a tempestuous one to Frank Sinatra. The
star of ‘Showboat’, ‘The Barefoot Contessa’ and ‘On The
Beach’ backed out and halted the publication of this
book. 292pp, photos.
$26 NOW £6.50
77793 TREASURES OF NOEL COWARD: Book
and DVD
by Barry Day
Barry Day is the world’s foremost authority on Coward.
Here, he amasses facsimile reproductions of unpublished
photos from the Noël Coward archive, handwritten
letters, lyrics, song sheets and more. Here, recounted in
words, photographs and personal memorabilia, is how
the boy from the London suburbs conquered the world
with his wit, charm and - as he himself modestly put it star quality. To begin with, the sobriquet ‘The Master’
was said slightly tongue-in-cheek, and Noël accepted it
benignly in that spirit. No one in the 20th century
achieved so much in so many different aspects of the
arts. Here he is in all his glory. 63 pages 29cm by
25cm with padded covers, colour and b/w photographs,
in a strong slip-case, plus 21 removable facsimile
documents from Coward’s personal collection including a
telegram to Cairo, handwritten letters, colour sketches of
costumes, theatre handbills, prayer card, lyrics and song
sheets plus a fantastic colour 27" wide x 19" high Brief
Encounter (David Lean) film poster and FREE DVD
featuring previously unreleased home movie footage of
him and his friends, songs, and an interview with David
Frost.
£35 NOW £12
CHILDREN’S
I think we dream so we don’t have to be
apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s
dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
78778 THE ABOMINABLES
by Eva Ibbotson
‘Before J. K. Rowling, there was
Eva Ibbotson’ - The Telegraph. The
Newcastle writer died in 2010 and
from this beloved author came this
one last charming novel. When a
gentle family of yetis is forced out of
their Himalayan paradise by
tourism, it is the beginning of an
unforgettable road trip adventure.
Across Asia and Europe they travel in search of a new
home. They find themselves performing a mountain
rescue in the Alps and interrupting a bullfight in Spain,
before making their way to an ancestral estate in
England where they believe they have discovered their
new paradise. What they have actually found is the
playground of big-game hunters who have their sights
on the most exotic prey of them all - the Abominable
Snowmen. With unforgettable characters and thoughtful
messages about animal cruelty, these haunting pen and
ink illustrations are by Fiona Robinson. Young Con and
Ellen take these educated and civilised yetis across
Europe to Lady Agatha’s home in England. Utterly
charming beautifully made hardback. Tiny remainder
mark. Ages 8-11. 260pp.
£10.99 NOW £6
79010 DINOSAURS LOVE UNDERPANTS: Book
and Toy
by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Look out! These dinosaurs are after your underpants!
Wage your own very Mighty Pants War with this
hilarious book and toy set. The Pantastic dinosaur toy
measures 6" tall, is blue stripy, has a cheeky grin, and,
inevitably, Stone Age Y-front
bright green underpants on!
With CE safety
tag on the toy,
and the mini
hardback book is
a bold picture book
thriller. Suit ages
2-5.
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78807 HEAP HOUSE
by Edward Carey
‘Heap House torques and tempers
our memories of Dickensian London
into a singularly jaunty and creepy
tale of agreeable misfits.’ Young
Clod is an Iremonger who lives at
Heap House, his family’s mansion at
the centre of the Heaps, a vast sea
of lost and discarded items which
has been known to swallow people
alive. An odd family, each the
owner of a Birth Object they must
keep with them at all times, Clod’s gift and his curse is
that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House
whispering. A storm is brewing and many objects are
showing strange signs of life. Clod is on the cusp of
being married off unhappily to his cousin when he meets
the plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant with whose
help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family’s
empire. The first instalment of a trilogy which can be
read alone with 26 artful atmospheric fantastical
illustrations of the animal-loving Tummis with his pet
seagull and more. Ages 10 and up. 405pp. Remainder
mark.
£16.99 NOW £4.50
79048 PRECIOUS AND THE
MYSTERY OF THE MISSING
LION
by Alexander McCall Smith
A companion to code 79047
Precious and the Mystery of
Meerkat Hill (see front cover), a lion
is on the loose. Precious Ramotswe
is on holiday, staying with her
auntie Bee at a safari camp deep in
the Botswana countryside. She is
excited when a new lion arrives, the actor-lion called
Teddy with his own film crew. But when the fourlegged movie star goes missing, the camp is thrown into
confusion. Can the young detective and her resourceful
new friend Khumo solve the mystery? The search
plunges the two young sleuths deep into the jungle
where they dodge hippos and crocs and need all the
bravery and cleverness they can muster to catch their
prize. With charming red, black and white silhouette
illustrations. 90 pages. Suit ages ten to adult.
£9.99 NOW £4
77573 ANGUS RIDES THE GOODS TRAIN
by Alan Durant and Chris Riddell
When the goods train, laden with milk and honey and
rice, speeds away across land and sea, Angus is full of
excitement as he stands beside the driver. But why
can’t they stop for those who are hungry and thirsty and
need their help? Angus gave honey to the caged bears.
He poured water on the roots of the withering trees.
When Angus arrived home to his bed, the goods train
was empty and Angus was full of joy. Ages 5-8. Big
colour softback.
£6.99 NOW £2
78088 LEGEND OF LUKE: A
Tale of Redwall
by Brian Jacques
Joined by Trimp the Hedgehog,
Dinny Foremole and Gonff, the
ever-mischievous Prince of
Mousethieves, Martin, embarks on a
perilous journey to the Northland
shore, where Luke, his father,
abandoned him as a child. There
within the carcass of a great red ship
he finally uncovers what he has
been searching for - the true story of the evil pirates
Stoat, Vilu Deskar, and the valiant warrior who pursued
him relentlessly over the high seas. 374pp, paperback.
78104 NICOLA
BAYLEY’S BOOK OF
NURSERY RHYMES
by Nicola Bayley
A classic from 1975 here
reissued from the renowned
illustrator of The Mousehole
Cat. Who Killed Cock Robin?,
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary,
Old Mother Hubbard, Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Three Men In A
Tub, As I Was Going To St Ives I Met A Man With
Seven Wives, The Queen of Hearts She Made Some
Tarts All On A Summer’s Day, Simple Simon Met a
Pieman, There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A
Shoe are among the classic nursery rhymes included. A
whole set of seven Monday’s Child Is Fair of Face etc.
adorns a double page spread. Very large softback.
Colour.
£6.99 NOW £3.75
77409 ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Disney
Classic by Lewis Carroll and Parragon
A modern retelling of this classic with most appealing
Disney artworks in big cold colour, this board book even
has Alice featured on the cover in a splendid cut-out with
twinkly stars. Join her on her adventures with the
grinning Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the ferocious
Queen of Hearts in this all-time classic adventure. 70pp,
colour.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
77237 GRUFFALO WRITING BOX
by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Decorated in the inimitable style, this lovely stationery
writing set is a postcard sized box, 2" deep with bright
orange satin tie, and a cheeky Gruffalo image inside!
‘I’m the scariest creature in this wood’ says the little
mouse. The set comprises 15 sheets of writing paper,
15 envelopes, a pencil, and paw print Gruffalo envelope
seals. All colour co-ordinated, this would make a lovely
gift for girls and boys and a useful little box after the
stationery has been used up.
ONLY £4.50
77100 STORIES OF CHILDREN FROM
DICKENS retold by Mary Angela Dickens
A beautiful facsimile edition containing shortened
versions of some of the most famous stories created by
Charles Dickens and written by his granddaughter
featuring memorable child characters including Tiny Tim,
Jenny Wren, Smike, Little Nell, David Copperfield and
Oliver Twist. Includes exceptional colour plates and
woodcut illustrations by Harold Copping with the text
wrapped around them, and all evoking the Victorian
hardships, misery and moments of joy. 104pp with an
introduction by Percy Fitzgerald.
£9.99 NOW £3
76494 HIS SHOES WERE FAR TOO TIGHT
by Edward Lear
Come inside this book and find poetry to feed your
mind, a place to see the world anew, let your
imagination stretch and cast a boundless net to catch a
trove of laughter just for you. Daniel Pinkwater and
Calef Brown have teamed up to champion the value of
ridiculousness in Lear’s fresh and joyful poems. Huge
pages, colour illus including a charming one of Mr
Edward Lear himself (plus cat!)
£10.99 NOW £2.25
76492 GIANT BOOK OF GIANTS: With
Poster by Saviour Pirotta
$8.99 NOW £2.50
77429 WINNIE THE POOH: Disney Classic
by A. A. Milne, E. H. Shepard and Parragon
3D giant poster, taller than you are, folded into the
inside front cover. Watch it pop up complete with ear
wax, toadstools, grub in his belly button, axe, bats for
companions, a coin pouch, stubble and warts on his face
and earrings in his pointy ears. There are two sturdy
eyelets on the poster for secure fastening. Clamber up
the beanstalk with Jack, sail the Seven Seas with
Sinbad, meet the Curious Giantess. Pull the tabs and lift
the flaps to find hidden treasures in the book. 4+,
colour.
£9.99 NOW £3
77497 POSTMAN PAT THE MOVIE: Book and
Toy by John Cunliffe
This annual celebrates 20 years of the wonderful
Horrible Histories books. Deary’s dry gallows humour
with his trademark rats running riot, alongside awful
Egyptians, rotten Romans, and terrible Tudors, plagues,
pestilence and natural disasters galore. Beginning with
the ancient Egyptian (plenty of fun with mummies and
funny pharaohs), via the Greeks and Romans right the
way up to the Great War. Foul facts, gory stories,
queasy quizzes. Ages 7+. 62pp, 9¼”×12", colour.
Reduced.
Winnie the Pooh’s Easter and Winnie the Pooh’s
Christmas are two stories, retold by Bruce Talkington in
the inimitable Disney style. Big bright white pages with
borders, the illustrations are one per page of Eeyore,
Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Owl and all the friends as
they chase the rolling egg downhill and up, and rush
through streams and muddy spaces to deliver the Easter
Egg to Christopher Robin. Christmas is ablaze with light
and colour and merry dancing, glass balls and tinsel. 68
big pages, colour, cutaway front cover.
Postman Pat in his smart blue uniform and cap (he of the
little black cat fame) stars in his own book of the film
Postman Pat The Movie. He becomes a pop star in the
celebrity spotlight in this exciting storybook when he
enters the TV show ‘You’re the One’ in the village hall.
Follow the story and best of all enjoy the 6" high felt
cuddly toy of Pat himself to play with. Box set.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
77504 SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: STICKER
SCENES by Nickelodeon
Use your Sponge-tastic stickers to create scenes of
undersea silliness - a face of fun, jellyfish fields or a
Squidward’s gallery. Plankton has pinched Mermaid
Man’s shrink ray, but he has gone a bit over the top and
started shrinking everything in sight! Finish the scene by
putting the little troublemaker in the picture. Over 70
colourful stickers, 12 page softback, and the stickers
could be used on any kind of craft project, bedroom
decoration or school project. Ages 4-8.
£3.99 NOW £2.25
73833 TIMMY TIME POCKET LIBRARY: Six
Mini Books by Aardman
Timmy the Artist, Timmy’s Hiccup Cure, Timmy Steals
the Show, Timmy Wants the Beret, Snapshot Timmy
and Timmy Plays Football are the titles of these six
eight page board books to share. In bold colour and
from the Shaun the Sheep creators, watch little Timmy
the sheep and friends in their adventures. Suit ages 2+.
£4.99 NOW £2.25
$19.95 NOW £3.50
74426 HORRIBLE HISTORIES ANNUAL 2014
by Terry Deary and Martin Brown
£7.99 NOW £2.50
73728 THE BEATRIX
POTTER COLLECTION:
Volume One
by Beatrix Potter
All of your favourite Beatrix Potter
stories are available in two
volumes. Volume one contains The
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of
Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of
Gloucester, The Tale of Benjamin
Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice,
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty
Pan, The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher, The Story of A
Fierce Bad Rabbit, The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale
of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The
Tale of Pigling Bland and Appley Dapply’s Nursery
Rhymes. 412 page paperback, illus.
ONLY £2
73729 THE BEATRIX POTTER COLLECTION:
Volume Two by Beatrix Potter
Volume two contains The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, The
Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, The
Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Ginger and
Pickles, The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, The Tale of
Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr Tod, The Tale of
Johnny Town-Mouse, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
and Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes. 430 page
paperback, illus.
ONLY £2
29
73240 THE SILVER DONKEY
by Sonya Hartnett
IN
CK
BA O C K
ST
During WWI, two French girls, Marcelle and Coco,
discover an English deserter hiding in the countryside,
shell-shocked and psychologically blind. The girls help
him to plan his journey home back to his brother, John.
They bring him food and he in turn tells them a series of
moralistic stories, all made up except for one, the story
of his brother finding a silver donkey when digging in the
garden. He gives Coco the silver donkey, and its luck
and inspiration continue. Linen-bound, pencil/charcoal
drawings. First US edition 2006. 266pp.
$15.99 NOW £2
78172 LITTLE HOUSE ON
THE PRAIRIE
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The second, original book by the
actual Laura Ingalls whose family
settled on the sun-kissed prairie
stretches in America. The prairie
stretches out around the Ingalls
family, smiling its welcome after
their long, hard journey across
America. But looks can be
deceiving and they soon find that
they must share the land with wild
bears and Indians. Is there room for everyone? ‘In
Dixie land I’ll take my stand, and live and die in Dixie!’
Beautiful woodcut illus. 209pp, paperback, ages 8+.
£5.99 NOW £2.50
23961 PETER PAN AND PETER PAN IN
KENSINGTON GARDENS by J.M. Barrie
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the
Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches
them to fly, then takes them through the sky to NeverNever Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves,
Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the
sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a
crocodile. Illus by Arthur Rackham. 272pp, paperback.
ONLY £2
78527 OXFORD TREASURY OF FAIRY TALES
by Gerladine McCaughrean and Sophy Williams
Escape into a world of knights and princesses, wicked
witches and talking frogs. All the best known favourites
are here including Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel,
Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel together with
much less known tales like The Dancing Princesses, The
Three Gifts of the North Wind, The Old Lady Next Door,
The Thirteenth Child, Tamlin, The Frog at the Well and
Cap-of-Rushes. With beautiful calligraphy, border
decorations and specially commissioned beautiful
artwork. 240pp, large softback.
£10.99 NOW £4.50
78502 THE LITTLE PRINCE: A Graphic Novel
by Joann Sfar
Adapted from the classic book by Antoine de SaintExupéry, and translated from the French by the awardwinning Sarah Ardizzone, Sfar brilliantly and beautifully
captures this tale for a whole new generation of readers
in this graphic novel, six cartoon sequence images per
page. A little prince from a tiny planet with only three
volcanoes and a rose one day sets off in search of new
friends and new places. He travels far away and sees
many remarkable things, yet only when he talks with a
wise fox does he realise what is most important to him,
and where he truly belongs. 110pp large colour softback.
£9.99 NOW £3
78499 GEORGE AND THE KNIGHT
by Sue McMillan and Ellie Jenkins
Long ago, when the tallest oaks were nothing more than
tiny acorns, brave dragons roamed a distant land.
Fearsome and mighty, George was different, George
was kind and gentle. He was banished from the
mountain and told never to return. This is when Alric,
the blacksmith’s son, spotted him. Urged to show him,
George opened his mouth and sent a scorching fire onto
a nearby log which burst into hot flames. Then arrived
Badwick, the selfish, cruel knight and slithering, eyepiercing, bloodthirsty, ruthless, dragon-hunter. Ages 6
and up. Colour.
£9.99 NOW £3.75
78490 A COLOURFUL WISH
by Noel Grammont and Gillian Tyler
One spring morning the rays of the warm sun tickled the
whiskers of a sleepy rabbit called Pipkin. His tummy
growled. Some bright orange carrots would do nicely he
said to himself. Painting eggs, being helped by the old
gentleman artist and his grandchildren, when they found
the little works of art they laughed and clapped their
hands with excitement. Perhaps this is how the tradition
of egg painting began. Ages 4 and up. Colour.
£9.99 NOW £3.25
78487 CALVIN CAN’T FLY
by Jennifer Berne
The story of a Bookworm Birdie, Calvin the little starling.
Born under the eaves of an old barn with his three
brothers, four sisters and 67,432 cousins, Calvin may be
one of many, but he is certainly different from the rest.
While the other little starlings learn to swoop and hover
and fly figure of eights, Calvin buries his beak in books.
In the library his mind soars, taking him places his wings
never could.
Farmyard scenes and the wonderful library
built inside a big tree trunk are beautifully illus in colour.
Large softback. Ages 3 and up.
£5.99 NOW £2.75
78087 LABYRINTH OF DREAMING BOOKS
by Walter Moers
It is 200 years since the destruction of Bookholm, the
City of Dreaming Books. Optimus Yarnspinner who
witnessed the disaster has since become Zamonia’s
greatest writer and is resting on his laurels at Lindworm
Castle. Spoilt by his success he one day receives a
disturbing message that lures him back to the rebuilt
literary metropolis where he is reunited with old friends
but also introduced to the mysterious Biblionauts, the
warring Puppetists, and the city’s latest craze, the
Invisible Theatre. Yarnspinner strays even deeper into
the Labyrinth of Dreaming Books and an irresistible
maelstrom of events. Ages 8-12. Fabulously illus.
430pp, large paperback.
£14.99 NOW £4.50
30 Children’s continued
77971 FLY AWAY HOME
by Christine Nostlinger
Life for Cristal has been upside
down for a long time and she can’t
even remember things before the
war began, before potatoes for
every meal and bombs raining
down from the sky, before being
forced to shelter in the dark, damp
cellars. Then one day, Cristal’s
home is turned into a pile of rubble
and dust five metres high. But a
chance offer saves her family. They move to the
safety of a wealthy suburb, camping out amongst the
chandeliers and family portraits of someone else’s house.
That is until the dreaded Russians roll into Vienna and
move in too. Ages 9+. With test questions, 249pp.
£5.99 NOW £2
78031 LOST WORLDS
by John Howe
Atlantis, Troy, Shambhala and Avalon. Eminent
Tolkien illustrator John Howe delves into the secrets of
history from the Garden of Eden, Babylon, Thebes,
Knossos, Asgard, Persepolis, Teotihuacán, Rapa Nui,
Camelot, Faerie and Hollow Earth and more, which are
all given a magical treatment. Colour artwork. Large
hardback, 96pp. Ages 9 to adult.
£16.99 NOW £6
78057 EMIL AND THE
THREE TWINS
by Erich Kastner
Emil Tischbein is a schoolboy from
Neustadt on his first visit to Berlin
without so much as a penny in his
pocket. The Three Byrons are
acrobats and do their stuff in music
halls. The sons’ names are Mackie
and Jackie who are twins. Emil
and the detectives are on holiday
by the seaside when they meet the
three Byrons. When they discover that Byron Senior is
planning to abandon poor Jackie, they are determined to
come to the rescue, but not before they have been cast
away on a desert island. A vintage classic in illustrated
paperback with quiz, the original unabridged text.
£5.99 NOW £3.25
77742 MAISY’S SNUGGLE BOOK
by Lucy Cousins
For little babies aged one to three, bedtime snuggles,
cuddles and stories will be extra fun with this bright red
soft felt story book. Maisy is a little white mouse with
pink ears and nose, stripy green pyjamas and a little pet
panda teddy. Watch Eddy the big grey elephant read
her a story as she closes her eyes to sleep. Wipe clean
fabric story book with special stitching.
£9.99 NOW £5
77961 A PATCH OF
BLACK
by Rachel Rooney and
Deborah Allwright
This charming tale with a
lullaby feel has magical full
page colour illustrations with
a friendly tiger, dragon,
cuddly toys, teeny-weeny
ants on the ends of branches, petals, monkeys and even
animated spoons striding towards a feast of jellies and
cakes! From a magical wish-granting cloak to a
hammock rocked by jungle animal friends, there’s
nothing that a patch of night-time sky can’t become, and
certainly no need to be afraid of the dark. A beautiful
bedtime storybook.
£11.99 NOW £3
77723 DREAM DAYS by Kenneth Grahame
By the perennially popular author of ‘The Wind in the
Willows’, here are eight short stories published under the
title ‘Dream Days’ in 1898. For Charlotte, Edward,
Harold, Selina and the unnamed narrator, days pass in a
whirl of adventures, travelling through hidden lands,
building bonfires, sailing raging torrents in homemade
barks and mediating with dragons. The hero of ‘The
Reluctant Dragon’ comes to rely on the Boy to mediate
his cause and avoid humiliation of apparent cowardice.
Ages 7+. 130pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
77594 THREE LITTLE PIGS
retold by Nina Filipek
£4.99 NOW £1.25
77585 MY BABY SISTER
by Emma Chichester Clark
An adorable big glossy picture book in the Humber and
Plum series. Humber finds it quite a shock when
Mummy comes home with a new baby sister. ‘She’s
not staying,’ she tells all the relatives, but before she
sends her back, he thinks he just might try to get to
know her a little better. Engaging, funny, poignant, full
of joy and tantrums. Large softback, colour. Ages 2-5.
!
In a timeless collection of some of the most beloved
classics such as Dorothy, Heidi, Lorna Doone and Black
Beauty here reinterpreted with charming new
illustrations. With authors ranging from Lewis Carroll and
Charles Kingsley to Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot,
even the youngest child will love to hear the stories read
aloud, while older children will enjoy reading the tales
for themselves. Most of the stories here are extracts,
which will encourage readers to seek out the books for
themselves. With an introduction to the book and its
characters, as well as a short biography of the author.
512 softback pages in glowing colour.
£14.99 NOW £5.75
77582 LOVE SPLAT by Rob Scotton
It’s Valentine’s Day and Splat has a special card for a
certain someone in his class. Her name is Kitten and
Splay likes her even more than fish fingers and ice
cream. But she doesn’t seem to like him at all. Then
there’s Splats rival, Spike, who also likes Kitten. Will
Splat’s heartfelt card win her paw in the end? Black and
white cats, bright red umbrella, hearts galore this is a
beautifully made big glossy picture book. Ages 4 to 94.
Softback.
£5.99 NOW £1.50
77577 GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
retold by Nina Filipek
With exclusive stickers and activities, dedication pages
and glossy colour illustrations, the ever-popular tale
begins ‘Once upon a time there were three little bears Daddy Bear, Mummy Bear and Baby Bear. One
morning, Mummy Bear made some porridge for
breakfast.’ The stickers include buzzing bees, butterflies
and owls as well as the characters from the story, 20
stickers and caption in a small round badge style sticker
to wear. Suit ages 3-5.
78675 PATTERNS: Charles
Rennie Mackintosh 10
Notecards designed by
Marshall Perin
After creating a handful of
masterpieces in his native Glasgow,
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish,
1868-1928) settled in London where
he began creating designs for fine
fabrics, many of which he sold to
Foxton’s and Sefton’s, at the time
England’s two leading textile producers. Having proved
himself a master of modern buildings enriched with
curves, organic geometry and repeated motifs, he
applied those visual themes to two dimensional designs.
These Art Nouveau cards are adapted from his Wave
Pattern - Purple and Black 1916-20 and Wave Pattern Green, Black and Pink fabric designs. Five each of two
designs, quality large blank notecards with white
envelopes. In folding wallet.
ONLY £4.50
78615 FOUR TOTEMS: 16
Blank Notecards
by Gina Bostian and Vancouver
Art Gallery
£4.99 NOW £1.50
MISCELLANY
Quality Stationery & Gift Ideas
78580 1950s ABSTRACT
GIFT AND CREATIVE PAPER:
12 Large Sheets
by Pepin van Roojen and
Antonia Edwards
A handsome folio of 12 different
quality gift wrapping papers,
perforated for easy removal that
unfolds to 19½ x 27½” (50x70cm).
Use them for gift wrapping, craft
projects, decorative items or
artworks. The imaginative textile
patterns of the 1950s, liberated from
wartime restrictions, influenced by
abstract art movements are the
inspiration for this colourful set of 12
distinct abstract patterns in various colours, geometric
shapes, cracked effects, all very appealing and multipurpose. Softback 13.6" x 9.8".
£9.99 NOW £5
78585 ANIMAL PRINT GIFT
WRAP: 12 Large Sheets
by Pepin van Roojen and
Fenke van Eijk
Get a little wild with this folio
containing 12 distinct sheets that
unfolds to 19½ x 27½” (50x70cm)
perforated for easy removal from
the large softback, 13.6" x 9.8".
Snake skins, leopard skins, big cats,
a green one based on the turtle,
panther, even aardvark, they are
scaly but all very beautiful in their
natural patterning, based on the
beautifully camouflaged leopards,
desert snakes, zebras and other
animals. Use them for gift wrapping of course or craft
projects, décor or artworks. With an introduction
describing the sources of the designs.
£9.99 NOW £5
78727 200 PAGE A5 SPIRAL
NOTEBOOK by Grafix
Black laminate cover with three
dividers in pink, blue and yellow and
200 pages of quality writing paper,
70gsm, the paper is lined and there
are cutaways in the front cover with
a plain sheet beneath to organise
your work into headers. Exceptional
value for money. A5 size.
ONLY £3
78726 200 PAGE A4 SPIRAL NOTEBOOK
by Grafix
Black laminate cover with three dividers in pink, blue
and yellow and 200 pages of quality lined writing paper.
A4 size.
Huff, puff and try to blow the houses down with this
beautiful short retelling in 25 pages of the ever-popular
story, newly illustrated in colour. At the end there is a
Can You Remember? and Did You Spot?, True or False
and Search the Puzzle set of questions. 34 colour
stickers. Ages 2-4. Dedication page.
£5.99 NOW £1.50
77414 CLASSIC STORIES FOR GIRLS
by Miles Kelly and Fiona Waters
ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74
ONLY £5
78587 AT PLAY: 20
Animal Blank Notecards
by Sierra Club
Three giant pandas tumble
together, all black and white
fur balls, two baby orangutans, legs outspread lie on
their backs, staring straight up
at the camera with their human-like faces, two little fox
cubs tumble in the grass and a cheetah is smothered by
her young fluffy cub in the last of the four adorable
colour designs. Five each of these four designs, quality
blank notecards 20 with white envelopes. Boxed.
$15.95 NOW £6
78817 MUSICAL NOTES: 18 Assorted
Greetings Cards by Susie Ghahnemani
The Owl and the Pussycat sing you a birthday song, a
long beaked little birdie is ‘playing our song’ on the vinyl
record deck, and a pair of squirrels tinkle the ivories on
an old stand up piano. There are three charming
images, six of each design with white envelopes in these
stylised, modern, fun small blank note cards for many
occasions; drop a thank you note, congratulations, send
Happy Birthday wishes etc. All decorated with musical
notes and quality
colour, they will
make you sing out
loud. With
matching white
envelopes.
$14.95 NOW £4
Well before her encounter with the
famous Canadian Group of Seven,
Canadian artist Emily Carr (18711945) had studied in San Francisco,
London and Paris before returning to
her home in British Columbia in 1912.
There she embarked on an ambitious
project to record the twilight of the
coastal First Nations peoples,
communities that had nearly vanished
along the northern Pacific coast.
During a six week stay she focused on the monumental
wooden totem poles the natives had carved, many of
them erected after 1860. About 250 Haida people were
then living in Skidegate on Graham Island, where a
Christian mission had been established. The four oil
paintings reproduced for these notecards are testament
to her artistic skill. Subtle use of colour, Native
American mythology, two of the totem poles have
stunning eagles atop. Elegant tall blank notecards with
16 white envelopes, four each of four designs. Boxed.
$15.95 NOW £6
78621 BOOKMARK FLEXIBLE
MAGNIFIER: 2x
by Thinking Gifts
A thin, flexible and very lightweight
bookmark engraved with fine ridges like a
Fresnel lens, simply lift it away from hardto-read text to see the words getting larger
and more visible. 2½” x 7¼” (64x190mm),
it’s a bookmarker that tucks away almost
anywhere. The vinyl storage sleeve
provided keeps the magnifier in pristine
condition without scratches. Ideal for
directories, newspapers, craftwork etc. A
companion to code 77726 the Page Style
Flexible Magnifier.
£8.42 NOW £4
78656 LIFE OF THE BUDDHA:
16 Notecards by Gina Bostian
and the British Library
The images in this notecard set are
from one of two magnificent Burmese
concertina-fold manuscripts collected
by Orientalist Henry Burney. In the
first image, the Bodhisattva accepts
the offering of a bowl of rice-milk.
Deep blue sky contrasts with the
burnt-orange terrain, and unicorns float
in the stream. The second image is
the Buddha preaching his first sermon,
in another Prince Siddhattha Gotama
displays his skills in archery with the
court in a pagoda palace beneath, and another the Prince
crosses a river with one leap of his horse and dismounts
on a bank of silvery sand. The onlookers can’t look, but
the fish and crabs in the river can. Beautifully detailed
and colourful, very tall elegant blank notecards with 20
white envelopes. Four each of four designs, boxed.
$15.95 NOW £6
78784 BINTH LITTLE NOTES: 18 Assorted
Greetings Cards by Binth
Attractive box set of six each of three jolly, modern
designs with red, black, pale blue and olive green
flowers, abstract designs with the words HAPPY!,
HELLO! and HOORAY! The assorted greetings cards
come with white envelopes and are suitable for dropping
a note to friends
and loved ones
along these
themes, just saying
hello or
congratulating
someone.
£10.99 NOW £4
75533 SCRAP BOOK: Coloured Pages
by W. F. Graham
Alongside our bestseller which we have stocked for over
25 years code 27592, we are proud to present a 24 page
colour version of the same scrap book measuring 8½” x
12". The better paper quality pages are turquoise blue,
yellow and pink. Ideal for all scrapbooking, preserving
postcards, photographs, letters etc.
ONLY £1.50
77726 FLEXIBLE MAGNIFIER PAGE SIZE
by Thinking Gifts
In a handy protective wallet this nearly A4 sized 7½” x
10¼” flexible sheet weighs nothing. It is ideal for laying
over your needle crafts and handy work, scrapbooking,
newspapers, home computing, map reading, books anything you need to bring a little closer to avoid eye
strain. It would also make a thoughtful gift for those
who are a little short sighted. Wipe clean and nonbreakable.
ONLY £4
77995 PAPER ROSE SPIRIT
FINE ART COLLECTION
JOURNAL by Sue Waddicor
and Paper Rose
The painter and designer Sue
Waddicor is fascinated with pattern
and colour combinations and uses
collage as her main technique,
always using and element of gold
as a highlight. Here we have
beautiful collaged koi carp, huge
dragonfly with blue body, flowers and motifs and many
elements outlined in a rather Art Deco or Gustav Klimt
style. The spiral bound notebook or journal has
approximately 60 lined pages and measures 8½” x 12".
Strong board cover and very useful for jotting notes,
beginning your first novel, poem or song or writing very
long shopping lists!
ONLY £3.75
77996 ANTIQUE MAP SHOPPING PLANNER
by Robert Frederick Ltd
With Great Britain at the centre, Iceland to the north,
France and the tip of Spain, the image is of an antique
European map, printed in colour on the front of the board
mounting with a silver gel pen. It has a magnetic strip
to pop onto your fridge or use the hole at the top to pin
it on your corkboard or elsewhere. On to the board is
mounted a lined tall shopping planner with tear out
sheets for all your shopping and To Do lists. A
companion to the Antique Map Notes Memo Block code
77997. 9" tall.
ONLY £3.50
77997 ANTIQUE MAP MEMO BLOCK
by Robert Frederick Ltd
Approximately 4" square the antique map of Europe
extends from Portugal in the west to Moldavia in the
east and decorates the padded cover of this square block
stationery item. The pages are decorated with the same
map very faintly on the otherwise blank pages for all
your notes, scribbles, To Do lists, poetry, notes for your
novel or simply to leave by the telephone. A
companion to code 77996.
ONLY £3
78062 FRANK LLOYD
WRIGHT ADDRESS BOOK
by Pomegranate
Sturdy spiral bound hardback with
lovely clear A-Z tabs and space for
six entries per page, name, address,
email, home and work phone
numbers, fax and mobile numbers.
Opposite is a full page glorious
colour photograph of a Frank Lloyd
Wright design, for example his art-glass such as the
Sumac Window 1902 or a whole house like the Susan
Lawrence Dana House of the same year or a glamorous
interior with folding Frank Lloyd Wright designed
colourful windows inside the Avery Coonley House of
1907. A glamorous design which would make an ideal
gift.
$19.95 NOW £4.50
78064 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT MOUSEPAD:
SAGUARO FORMS by Pomegranate
Your computer mouse will love to skid across this
brightly coloured, wipe cleanable, slightly padded vinyl
mouse mat which measures 7¾ x 9¼”. The rainbow
colours chosen for the design is the Saguaro Forms and
Cactus Flowers from a lighted glass mural designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) who was inspired by the
Arizona Desert. 28 x 16cm.
ONLY £3
78063 WATERLILIES FRANK
LLOYD WRIGHT MAGNETIC
NOTEPAD by Pomegranate
The art glass screen of 1895 was the
vision of Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959). With its three water lilies in
bright white, the geometric design is in
greys, pinks and predominantly purple
and adorns the front cover and the right
hand column of each lined page of these
70 lined sheets on a rather smart
shopping list or jotter pad. It has a self
adhesive magnet to easily stick on your
fridge and tear-off perforated pages.
10cm wide x 22cm tall. Softback.
ONLY £3
78065 BILTMORE PANELS FRANK LLOYD
WRIGHT: Playing Cards Two Decks
by Pomegranate
The pattern on these cards began as a 1934 sketch the
architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) labelled
‘Machine Age Screen’. In 1973, architects used that
image to design wall panels at a hotel in Phoenix,
Arizona. Bold, geometric and colourful with lime green,
orange, blue and purple, here is a set of two full decks of
52 playing cards with the two designs on the reverse.
Boxed.
$13.95 NOW £4
78526 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COLLECTION:
Set of Four
Buy this beautiful collection and save even more.
ONLY £13
72193 LADIES’ GOLD WATCH AND
BRACELET
by Pier Carlos D’Alessio
A stunningly beautiful gold coloured metal chain link
design with nine Swarovski crystals inset into the bar
links and a very clever removable link to shorten the
watch strap. With a simple clock face and PCA, the
designer’s logo, on the face, it comes with a matching
bracelet with 12 Swarovski crystals inset. Please wind
up using the crown button when wearing for the first
time. Batteries included. In black presentation box, this
was manufactured for Reader’s Digest (sadly now
defunct). Would make a very stylish gift or treat for
yourself. Bracelet and watch set, each approx. 8" in
length.
ONLY £15
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72195 MAGNIFYING GOLD
NECKLACE SWAROVSKI
CRYSTAL
by Art de France
Presented in a silver gift box with
silver foil bow and with Certificate
of Warranty and Authenticity, this
unique item of jewellery is antiallergenic and 24 carat gold-plated. With six curves in a
flower shape setting is a good quality magnifying glass
(1" diameter) to wear around your neck with four amber
Swarovski crystals linking it to a gold plated rope chain.
Ideal to use in those awkward moments when you need
to see the small print or would make a stylish gift.
Chain length 26" or 66cms. Depending on where you
place the glass, we reckon approx 3 times magnification.
£79.95 NOW £6
78465 HANDS STAND: Duck Egg Blue
by That Company Called If
The Hands Stand is designed to hug all books, kindles
and tablets. Its gentle, spring-loaded mitts will hold on
tightly, freeing up your hands for all kinds of other useful
things like holding your coffee mug! In duck egg blue, it
folds away neatly after use, making it ideal for use at
home, on the train, a plane or in the office. 21cm high,
lightweight 3.5oz, stylish.
ONLY £12
27592 SCRAP BOOK
Shiny red laminate cover; 16 pages of recycled grey
paper. 8½” x 12", great value. Ideal for photographs,
cuttings, pressed flowers, artistic doodles etc.
ONLY £1
61516 BIBLIOPHILE SQUIGGLE PEN
by A. Squigley
In Bibliophile blue, this is the latest in our own collectable
company designs with a quick reminder for our book
hotline printed on. It has a super squeezy black rubber
grip, ideal for older hands, and an attractive metal
‘squiggle’ clip. Black ink. One happy customer said
“Bought some of these pens last year & they keep going
walkies. I think my visitors like them too. I love the soft
grip. I have arthritis & the soft grip makes these pens a
joy to hold. I have bought other types, but keep coming
back to these. Worth every penny,a great buy.”
ONLY £1
76920 NON DATED DIARY: ELEGANT PINK
by Spank Publishing
!
With beautifully decorated, embossed cover, a rather
classical French wallpaper style design, we have a rose
pink and black or a mint blue and black (code 76919)
design from which to choose. The diary can be used for
any year, and laid flat to show Monday to Sunday
across each double page spread. In addition there is
space for personal details, birthdays and anniversaries
and numbers/addresses and finally some lined blank
pages for your notes at the back and a very useful
wallet on the inside back cover. Please ignore the
‘forward’ planners since they are 2012-15.
ONLY £2.25
EARLY LEARNING
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
78837 WE’RE GOING TO THE
FARMERS’ MARKET
by Stefan Page
To market, to market, we are on
our way. So many groceries to
find, on this warm sunny day! Eggs,
milk and cheese, veggies and fruits
big and small, pack your shopping
bag with healthy goodies from the
Farmers’ Market. Suit ages 3-5, colour board book and
perfect to team up with our shopping bag and activity
box set code 78812.
£4.99 NOW £3.75
78932 YOUNG SAILOR
by Basil Mosenthal
These days you may well get the
chance to sail in a yacht or boat, join
family and friends, a sailing school or
a ‘flotilla’ fleet for sailing holidays in
the Mediterranean. Find out all
about sailing the boat, steering it,
returning to harbour, using a dinghy,
tying knots and learning to recognise
the flags that boats fly in this super
cool big picture book. Learn about the weather, tides,
test yourself with the quiz at the end, find your way
along a tidal stream, all about lighthouses and buoys and
follow the tips for a safe and pleasant hobby and trip of
a lifetime. Suit ages nine to adult. 36 page very large
softback, colour, illus and photos.
£10.99 NOW £4
78792 CREATIVE CRAFTS
FOR KIDS
by The Craft Library
Bursting with ideas, everyone
with youngsters need this book take my word for it! It will prove
a blessing to mums, grans and
teachers time and time again.
Whenever you hear, ‘I’m bored’,
just get this out and children will
be galvanised into action! Girls will love to make seed
bracelets, necklaces and hair slides using painted melon
or pumpkin seeds, while boys will enjoy creating scary
giant insects from paper and pipe cleaners. Have fun in
the kitchen making fudge, bat biscuits, Noah’s ark
cookies, coconut ice or shortbread spirals. Create
fantastic glitter masks, Halloween masks, and beautiful
crowns. Or how about letting your children make bird
feeders, candle holders, painted plant pots, lip balm,
novelty soaps or beeswax candles? All perfect gifts that
children will enjoy giving to friends and relations, and
made extra-special by the fact that they can proudly say
that they made each present themselves. Every project
has a suggested age range; even two-year-olds are
catered for, while some are more suited to ten-year-olds
(but, of course, great for adults to make as well). This
colourful book will provide loads of inspiration, and is
perfect for keeping children. 256pp, colour illus and
templates.
$14.99 NOW £3.50
78117 ROALD DAHL’S
SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS
STICKER BOOK
illustrated by Quentin Blake
Welcome to Mr Willy Wonka’s
Chocolate Factory and recall the
fantastic moments when Charlie
meets Mr Wonka. Can you find the
stickers to match the pictures of Mr
Wonka and the lucky Golden Ticket
winners? With short stories including Mr Fox and the
Three Farmers, James and the Giant Peach Mystery,
use the stickers of Silkworm and Glow Worm, James
Henry Trotter, Lady Bug and draw one of your friends in
the portrait boxes provided. Enjoy the famous excerpts
once again and use your dozens of colourful stickers.
Large softback. Small remainder mark.
$6.99 NOW £3
78390 SPOOKY STREET
by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins
Follow the werewolf as he leads the way down Spooky
Street, calling in to see Old Mother Hubble the witch
(looking up a recipe for toad in the hole), or see the
Blods in Gory Grange with a mummy in the bath and a
snake in the loo. Visit the creepy corner shop, or maybe
the skeleton family where bony hands will grasp and
clasp and hold you tight forever. Then you reach the
Werewolf’s house. Finally you turn the last page - and
aaargh! 12" x 8.50", colour, flaps and pop-ups.
£9.99 NOW £4
77327 A HISTORY OF BRITAIN: Book III The
Tudors 1485-1603 New Edition
by E. H. Carter and R. A. F. Mears
First released in 1937, this widely admired and
successful series, here revised and updated by historian
David Evans. Set in a context of related events in the
rest of the world, and incorporating the arts, religion and
social changes, this informative volume considers in turn
how the Renaissance deeply influenced learning and
education, art and architecture, clarifying how science
was transformed and inventions made, how geography
was differently understood and exploration revolutionised
and, most vitally, how religion altered fundamentally.
169 pages, b/w illus and maps. Ages 10 to adult.
£10 NOW £2
77154 JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS: Myths
and Legends by Neil Smith
The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts and their hunt
for the Golden Fleece is one of the most enduringly
popular of all the Ancient Greek heroic myths.
Accepting the quest in order to regain his kingdom, Jason
assembled a crew of legendary heroes including
Heracles, Orpheus, Atlanta and the twins Castor and
Polydeuces. With his band of warriors and demi-gods,
Jason sets sail and faces numerous challenges from the
Harpies, the Clashing Rocks, the Sirens, Talos the
bronze giant, the Sleepless Dragon that guarded the
fleece and of course, the fickle will of the Gods of
Olympus. Ages 10 to adult. 80 page paperback, colour.
£10.99 NOW £3
77467 FASHION MODEL COOL CREATIONS:
Book and CD Rom by Rennie Brown
Get the look with this fab fashion folder, complete with a
place to save your fashion models and outfits you have
designed. Find photos of your favourite celebrity styles
and collect fabrics or patterns in magazines that you like.
Chelsea is wearing a boho babe style, Beth an urban
style, Scarlett punk glam with black leggings, and
Kimberly city chic. For all seasons with sections on
beauty, hair, shoes, jewellery, there are four locations
for the fashion shoot. Fashion quiz, ages 8+. Large
colour softback.
£4.99 NOW £2
78485 THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
by Helen Oxenbury
A series of three delightful picture books describing
memorable moments of childhood that parents and
children will recognise and love - the set includes The
Dancing Class, Eating Out and The Birthday Party. I
chose John’s birthday present on my own. ‘Can’t I try
them out, Mum?’ ‘No’, said Mum, ‘we bought them for
John.’ Putting on a party frock and a blue ribbon in her
hair, the little girl eats cake, John shouts, he left her
present on the floor, games, balloons, running about and
jumping, this is a tender story for ages 2 and up. Colour
illus.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
78494 EATING OUT by Helen Oxenbury
Mum said, ‘I’m too tired to cook.’ Dad said, ‘I’ll take you
out for supper.’ The family go out, a high chair is
provided, going to the toilet, accidents and the comfort
of getting home all bring back wonderful childhood
memories. Ages 2 and up. Colour illus.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
78493 THE DANCING CLASS
by Helen Oxenbury
Mum said I should go to dancing classes. ‘We’ll take
these tights. She’ll soon grow into them.’ The bemused
little girl is tiny compared with the huge tights mummy is
holding up. Hair grips, ballet shoes, children tumbling,
the old lady at the piano, the draughty church hall, tears
and tantrums, you will gallop all the way home
remembering such delightful childhood moments. For
ages 2 and up. Colour illus.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
78852 HELEN OXENBURY: Set of Three
by Helen Oxenbury
Buy all three and save even more.
£14.97 NOW £5
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77598 REALLY WOOLLY
BEDTIME TREASURY
by Bonnie Rickner Jensen
Here are the stories of David and
Goliath, The Ten Commandments,
Joseph, Abraham, Creation, Daniel,
Jonah, Jesus is born, Jesus
welcomes the children, The Good
Samaritan, The Cross and The
Tomb plus verses, prayers and
promises. With rhyming text and
take away thoughts, and Really Woolly art with cuddly
lambs, bunnies, tortoise, ducks and birds, we can grab a
cosy blanket and snuggle up close. Colour illus, padded
cover.
£10.99 NOW £4
78512 TREASURE ISLAND
by Robert Louis Stevenson
An Easy Reader classic with dedication page ‘this book
belongs to’ featuring stories chosen from beloved
children’s novels, retold in a simple style and beautifully
illustrated. Children can develop their reading skills
while enjoying Stevenson’s classic take of villainous
buccaneers and a young boy who had the adventure of
a lifetime. Jim Hawkins, off on an expedition to search
for treasure, overhears pirate Long John Silver’s evil
plan. Jim is in more danger than he had bargained for.
Four to six lines of text per page. Colour, sturdy 184
pages.
$12.95 NOW £3.50
78054 DINOSAUR TATTOO
BOOK
by Caroline Rowlands
Packed with mighty, prehistoric
monsters, find out fearsome facts
and test your dino knowledge with
cool quizzes and fun puzzles. The
fantastic colour artwork show you
the whopping wings of the high
flying Quetzalcoatlus which is
actually a prehistoric lizard and
about the same size as a small plane or the oddest
looking dinosaur ever with a strange crest on the top of
its head, the Parasaurolophus. There are 24 fearsome
dinosaur tattoos to wear with attitude. Ages 5 to adult.
32 page large softback.
£5.99 NOW £3
78069 GOSSIE & FRIENDS STICKER FUN
by Olivier Dunrea
Gossie is a small, yellow gosling who loves to wear
bright red boots. Now draw a picture of your own
favourite shoes in the big white space provided on the
page of the book. Circle all the items in the picture of
Gertie, mouse and gosling friends which are coloured
blue. Peedie is a small, yellow Gosling who sometimes
forgets things. Help him find his red hat. Gideon loves
to play but help him through his maze to find his little
friend Ollie. Number the scenes in the right order to see
how Ollie hatches. Join the friends on their activities in
page after page of creative and entertaining matching,
counting, colouring and drawing activities. Plus 50 teeny
colour stickers. Softback.
$4.99 NOW £2
78516 WITCH AND THE DOG: A Lesson in
Manners by Sue McMillan and Owen Davey
Good manners don’t cost a penny, but they do help
people get along. Daphne is an enchanting witch.
Thanks to her politeness and excellent manners she is
often asked to work her magic, taming tearaways,
transforming troublesome teens and making awful
animals into perfect pets. She takes on any challenge,
even Harry, a dog who arrived with no manners at all.
Table manners, learning to share, never cheating or
being a sore loser, good manners can even take you to
Buckingham Palace! Ages five and up. Colour illus,
softback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
44604 PAINT WITH WATER
There are six colours (green, red, yellow, aubergine, blue
and orange) on a pallet across the top of each page. All
youngsters need do is wet the brush, choose a colour
and begin to paint the black and white outline large
drawing beneath. There are traditional scenes with
children, food, flowers and animals, eight per book,
beautifully designed so each is detachable and could be
framed. Large softback. Ages 3+.
ONLY £1.25
74779 USBORNE CHILDREN’S SONGBOOK
illustrated by Stephen Cartwright
17 well known songs such as This Old Man, My Bonnie
Lies Over the Ocean, Michael Finnegan, Home on the
Range, Cockles and Mussels and The Big Ship Sailed on
the Illy Ally-o with music specially arranged for young
children’s voices. All the songs have easy
accompaniments for piano or keyboard and indications
for simple guitar chords. Colour illus. Large softback.
£4.99 NOW £1.75
76496 HOW IT WORKS: Plane
by Nicholas Harris
Dogs guard grazing animals, pull
sleds, help the police catch
criminals, rescue injured people,
and help the blind, disabled and ill.
And what do they expect from us
from all this loyalty and
unselfishness? Nothing special.
Several of the most popular breeds are described by
their characteristics like strong hunting instincts, gentle
and clever, beloved pets for centuries. Fun ideas and
fab facts. Ages 7+.
£10.99 NOW £2
77584 MUSIC AND SOUNDS: Book, Game and
Wooden Maraca by Globe Publishing
From the minute we are born we love the sound of our
own voice and teeny tots aged 36 months to 6 years
will love shaking their own maraca provided in this fun
activity kit. The lovely 64 page book is full of colourful
pictures about all manner of noises from the buzz of the
bee and the wail of the ambulance, to the moo of the
cow. The bright red wooden maraca enclosed with the
kit is decorated with musical notes. The game is a
matching game with 24 cards to remember their location
and turn over to find a matching pair. CE safety mark.
£9.99 NOW £4
77586 MY HOME: Book and Puzzle and 5
Wooden Figures by Globe Publishing
Traditional meets modern presentation with mummy,
daddy, son and daughter and little doggie being
represented in five high quality wooden family figures to
use on the box as your own doll’s house. The puzzle has
16 chunky pieces to create a neighbourhood representing
home and the vicinity. There is a great 64 page book all
about the houses and uses of each room in the house.
Ages 3-5. 420 x 438mm when finished. Box set.
ONLY £4
77608 JESUS AND ME: Bible Storybook
by Stephen Elkins
The angels said Jesus was the son of God. John the
Baptist said Jesus was the lamb of God. Where was
Jesus baptised? How does Jesus want us to live?
Where is Jesus now? Find out about the region of Israel,
Jerusalem in AD30 and read all the Bible stories which
refer to specific events that happened when Jesus was
walking on the earth. It is a book for you and children
to enjoy together, blessed by His presence. Ages 6+.
Maps and appealing colour illus. 138pp, remainder mark.
$14.99 NOW £4
HOBBIES
Somebody just back of you while you are
fishing is as bad as someone looking over
your shoulder while you write a letter to
your girl.
- Ernest Hemingway
78708 WORLD CLASS
PUZZLES
by Erwin Brecher
150 riddles, paradoxes and brain
teasers from around the world to
improve your lateral thinking and
keep your grey matter fit. The
collection has been selected to
concentrate on material that
requires a great deal of inspirational
thinking but a minimum of
mathematical expertise, catering in
part to the many puzzle fans who
have an inborn aversion to all things mathematical!
These are exercises to enjoy and you will be rewarded
with a profound sense of achievement with every puzzle
you crack. Here are general puzzles, fallacies and
paradoxes, visuo-spatial tests and it includes the Monte
Carlo Racing Rally Riddle, the British Prison Paradox and
the Swiss Smugglers’ puzzle. With solutions, 160pp in
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
77415 CONCISE GUIDE TO WATERCOLOURS
by Jennifer Sanderson
Line, shape, form, space, texture, value and colour, the
book is to help you feel confident when using
watercolours, a vibrant and flexible medium. Experiment
with different painting tools from sponges and twigs,
different paper and different techniques to create a work
of art you will be proud to hang on a wall. Subjects
range from landscapes, waterscapes, portraits, animals,
townscapes, still life and there are even templates to
photocopy and reuse. 128 page paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.75
!
How does an aeroplane lift off and then stay in the air?
What does the pilot have to do to control its speed and
direction? How does a jet engine work, and in what
ways is it different from, say, a car engine? The book
tells you in clear and concise language about the first
planes that ever flew (for just 12 seconds), how the
various parts of the engine work together and how it
actually flies, as well as what it feels like to be at the
controls. 15 strong pages 30 cm x 21.5cm, dazzling
colour illus, 20 flaps to open.
$12.99 NOW £2.50
77604 CREEPY GLOWING MAGIC CRAFT BOX
by Jenny Siklos and SpiceBox
A creepy and very realistic looking cockroach,
two ridiculously realistic looking eyeballs, a magic wand,
a glow-in-the-dark finger chopper, a mummy trick, foam
bogies, a trick card set, four haunted cards, a small
rubber band and two optical illusion cards are included.
Alongside in the pack is a creepy magic tricks and glowin-the dark illusions handbook teaching the techniques
every frightening magician should know. Ages 8+.
$19.99 NOW £5
77529 DOGGY WHYS
by Lila Prap
59849 COUNTRYSIDE
COLOURING BOOKS:
Set of Four
Mountains and Moors
by Henrike Petzl
The four titles are ‘Mountains
and Moors’, ‘Forests and
Fields’, ‘Rivers and Reeds’
and ‘Sea and Sand to Colour’. In ‘Forests and Fields’,
for example, there is a poppy field in Northamptonshire,
Buttermere, Lake District, Ribblehead in snow with a
steam train pulling into the station and Clun Castle,
Shropshire. Each of these four large colouring books has
a rather excellent watercolour painting in colour on the
left hand side of each double page spread. On the right,
an outline only copy of the same artwork is ready for
you to work on. Each picture is 11½” x 9". Softbacks.
ONLY £3.50
77418 TEST YOUR IQ: Mind Trainer
by Nathan Haselbauer
Includes general IQ tests to get you started, verbal IQ
tests to assess your vocabulary skills, logic IQ tests to
really push your brain to the limits, mathematical IQ
32 Hobbies continued
ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74
tests to quiz your knowledge of numbers and a test of
Exceptional Intelligence for the advanced braniacs. 400
questions, 12 tests, answers. 208pp in paperback.
£4.99 NOW £1.75
77001 THE BRIDESMAID:
500 Art Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
by John Everett Millais
The model for this painting, a Miss
McDowell, is seen acting out a
popular superstition of the day - the
bridesmaid. If she passes a piece
of the wedding cake nine times
through the bridal ring, will see a
vision of her own future love. She
is wearing orange blossom, a
symbol of purity. Painted in 1851, John Everett Millais
(1829-1896) was one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
and this richly decorated famous image of the blue eyed,
titian-haired beauty is ever popular. Use the box top as
your visual reference when putting together this 500
piece quality jigsaw puzzle. Boxed. The puzzle size
measures 18" x 24" when complete.
$16.95 NOW £5
77745 SCRABBLE SCORE AND TILE TRACKER
!
The tear-out, easy-to-use score sheets include board
grids printed with triple and double letter and word
score squares, lists of all the letter tiles used in a game,
rack sheets with rating, overtime penalty and final score
boxes and record pages for tracking up to four players
per game. Store the score sheets as permanent archives
or study them to plan future winning strategies. Key
word lists. 144pp, paperback, diagrams.
$4.95 NOW £2.50
24415 ANIMAL COLOURING BOOKS: Set of
Four
A unique concept. Four large softback books, each
containing eight hand-coloured drawings of wildlife
scenes. Whales, lions, a crocodile; the squirrel and the
fox; rabbit, kittens and hamster; and farm animals, the
sheep dog, the hen and goats. The right hand side is the
black and white drawing for you to colour: the left side is
the original, many of which could easily be framed.
With helpful colouring hints. Distributed through
Bibliophile by special arrangement with the publisher.
Per set of four
ONLY £3.50
24416 NATURE COLOURING BOOKS: Set of
Four
This set of four outsize (11½”× 9") softbacks includes
animals to colour, birds to colour, flowers to colour and
countryside to colour. Each depicts a beautiful colour
drawing on the left hand side and the black and white
equivalent on the right for you to colour yourself,
including two beautiful butterflies on lilac flowers, a
harbour with boats and an owl in woodland. Per set of
four
ONLY £3.50
71302 DISCOVERING FRIENDLY AND
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES: Their Badges and
Regalia by Victoria Solt Dennis
Aprons and medals sometimes turn up in car boot sales
or are found in an attic or shop selling bygones. Many
of these objects are decorated with arcane symbols and
their inscriptions such as Guardians, Past Arch or even
more cryptically PCR or KON. So what are these
things, who wore them and what do they mean?
Although often grouped under the misleading umbrella
title of Masonic, these objects represent a vast range of
friendly and fraternal orders to savings societies. 160pp
in paperback, colour photos.
£10.99 NOW £2.50
AUDIO - BOOKS ON CD
76836 CANTERBURY
TALES CD: Extracts from
the General Prologue
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Extracts from Geoffrey
Chaucer’s General Prologue
and Tales are read in Middle
English by Trevor Eaton from
the Canterbury Tales.
Includes Sir Thopas, Canon’s
Yeoman’s Tale, The Knight’s, Miller’s, Reeve’s and
Shipman’s Tales, grouped under Love, Marriage and
Adultery, plus The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The Wife of
Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Merchant’s and Franklin’s,
Pardoner’s and Summoner’s and ending with The
Pilgrims. 71 minutes 32 on CD.
ONLY £5.50
76914 A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA: Six CDs
by Richard Hughes
RSC actor Michael Maloney narrates this classic tale on
six CDs, running time seven hours of the unabridged text
plus an exclusive interview. Set in the 19th century
against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding
seas, the novel is a gripping story of the Bas-Thornton
children, whose parents send them back to England
following a hurricane. Having set sail, the children
quickly fall into the hands of pirates. The supposed
innocents are not only the victims of amoral behaviour,
but sometimes the perpetrators. First published in 1929.
Six audio CDs.
£21.99 NOW £5
69647 THE GREAT WAR: An Evocation in
Music and Drama CD by Pearl
Includes It's A Long Way to Tipperary, Pack Up Your
Troubles, and Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty/
Another Little Drink (actually recorded in 1930). All
other recordings from 1912 to 1918. Now on audio CD,
playing time 71 minutes 30 seconds. There is 'unofficial'
as well as 'official' music, some excellent dramatic
sketches, the earthy testament of a young British
Sergeant. 24 pieces, ending with Land of Hope and
Glory.
ONLY £3.50
HEALTH & BEAUTY
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered
body, soundness of health is impossible.
- Cicero
79031 HAND BOOK OF
PERFUME
by Tobias Pehle and
Sylvia Jonas
Varieties, origins, production
and selection, we enter the
heady world of scents and the
history of perfume, the
components of fragrance and
how they are created, scent
families, fragrances for men and
women, the psychology of scent and advice. Spray
bottles deliver the scent in a very fine mist, so that you
can perceive it as soon as they are sprayed. Perfumes
without an atomiser which are dabbed on by the drop,
require a little more development time. As a rule, the
lighter scent substances in the top note are released in
the first ten minutes before the middle (or heart) note
and base note reveal themselves. After about an hour,
a good perfume will have developed its full bouquet.
You can smell quality. A good scent contains fixatives
that cause the heavy notes, like resin, balsams or animal
substances, to hold on as tightly as possible through the
lighter accords like bergamot, orange, or green leaf. This
ensures an ideal interplay between the ingredients.
Now with famous names, beautiful packaging, and
shops like Jo Malone, the allure is greater than ever.
296pp, glossy colour pages and padded cover.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
78297 GOOD GUT HEALING
by Kathryn Marsden
This easy to read, plain-speaking guide to bowel and
digestive disorders is not only packed with excellent
practical advice, it also, unlike many self-help books,
contains a lavish supply of humour. The author suggests
hundreds of natural ways to ease symptoms of various
gut ailments, and even helpfully indicates the important
bits to read in each chapter if you are pushed for time.
Subjects covered include acid reflux, food allergies,
hiatus hernia, constipation, diarrhoea, candida, IBS and
ulcers. It also includes plenty of information on fibre,
stress, digestion, probiotics and diet. Just what the
doctor ordered! 340pp.
£14.99 NOW £7
76595 TAKE CARE, SON: The Story of My Dad
and His Dementia by Tony Husband
When Tony’s father Ron started to forget things like
names, dates and appointments, it took a while to
realise that it was the first sign of the illness that
gradually took him away from his beloved family.
Emotional, honest and painful, Tony’s loving cartoon
strip account of the illness is presented in full page colour
cartoons with text about life at the golf club, the pub,
walking Lossie the dog (in pyjama bottoms) and the
words of both Tony and his dear father. 60 page
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
76859 AMORTALITY: The Pleasures and
Perils of Living Agelessly
by Catherine Mayer
The author coined ‘amortality’ to describe the
phenomenon of living agelessly. As she follows this
social epidemic through generations and across
continents, she reveals its profound impact on society,
our careers, our families and ourselves. Overturns longheld assumptions about getting old. 296 paperback
pages with 10 Questions Towards A Diagnosis.
£12.99 NOW £2
77960 DROP A DRESS SIZE: Good
Housekeeping by Anita Bean
Clever food swaps and tiny, easy changes could make
big, lasting results to help you lose weight, keep it off
and change your life. With tips for guilt-free barbecuing,
party-proofing your diet, easy ways to burn 100 calories
like weeding the garden, turning up the music and
dancing round the room, a guide to good trainers for
your feet, low-sweat workouts, ten reasons to be
active, 25 minute mini workouts and more. 144 large
pages, colour.
£12.99 NOW £4.75
78314 OPTIMUM NUTRITION COOKBOOK
by Patrick Holford and Judy Ridgway
200 recipes which are not only very good for you but
also taste delicious. Garlic and yoghurt are well known
for their disease-fighting properties, and fish is good
against heart disease. The ultimate power breakfast
begins with a mix of four or five fruits, yoghurt and
seeds. Healthy light meals include Beetroot and Smoked
Herring, an easily made Brunch Rösti, Devilled
Tomatoes on Polenta Squares and Provençal Vegetables
with Goat’s Cheese Dressing. Typical main courses are
Duck Slivers with Orange Beansprouts and Chinese Egg
Noodles, Pot-Roasted Guinea Fowl and Thai-Baked
Fish. Puddings are mainly compotes and fools. 222pp,
softback, colour photos.
£15.99 NOW £5
77913 B IS FOR BREAST CANCER
by Christine Hamill
An honest and frank account of the emotional and
physical impact of a cancer diagnosis, by turns funny,
sad, angry and ultimately optimistic. In an A-Z way it
covers anger, bras, crying, chemotherapy, grief,
mastectomy, questions, unsung heroes, recovery and
resources include dozens of useful organisations and
websites. 225pp in paperback.
£12.99 NOW £3
78935 PRETTY AND
ORGANISED: Go Clutter Free
by Jane Hughes
HOW TO…
Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep
muddling through.
- P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel In Distress
78780 BACK TO SCHOOL
FOR GROWN-UPS
by Stephen Evans and Ian
Whitelaw
Have you ever wished you could
remember some of those fascinating
facts and essential information that
you were taught at school and then
promptly forgot? If so, help is at
hand, at least with subjects such as
history, geography, art, science,
sport, literature and mathematics. Arranged as though it
was a school timetable, with twenty topics each day
and a test for you to take at the end of every day, this
should help improve your general knowledge. Topics,
such as ‘When does a solid become a liquid?’, ‘Why do
animals migrate?’ or ‘Who painted the Mona Lisa?’ are
dealt with in depth, and although the book has a slight
American bias the majority of it is still pertinent to British
readers. We were fascinated to learn why soccer balls
are round, why poems don’t have to rhyme and how
the discovery of DNA came about. This one certainly
deserves a gold star for merit. 256pp, colour and b/w
illus, sketches.
$18.99 NOW £5
76572 HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS AND
CARICATURES
by Mark Linley
Choosing a good victim you spot outdoors, Prince
Charles’s famous ears, different ways to depict hair,
adding a face to a hairstyle, nose, eyes and brows, here
is a step-by-step guide to cartooning, spotting characters
and making up conversations. First of all capture the
character of your ‘victim’, use swift strokes to
exaggerate the features to make a comical caricature.
Illus paperback, 256pp.
£6.99 NOW £3
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Great Value CDs & DVDs
78657 LITERARY LOVE
AFFAIR: British Library CD
read by Natalie Thomas
and Benjamin O’Mahony
An anthology of poems, letters
and extracts from classic novels
by Jane Austen, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Robert
Browning, Lord Byron, Lord
Alfred Douglas, George Eliot,
Thomas Hardy, John Keats, Lady Caroline Lamb, D. H.
Lawrence, Christopher Marlowe, Walter Raleigh,
Shakespeare, Shelley, Mary Shelley and Oscar Wilde.
Duration 74 minutes on audio CD.
£10 NOW £5
78589 BEST OF BRITTEN
CD by Benjamin Britten
The outstanding English composer
Benjamin Britten won a significant
international reputation and his
compositions appeal to all ages
from the delightful Simple
Most of us have accrued clutter in
our homes, but often it’s essential
clutter or sentimental clutter that we
don’t want to part with. You can
make it look good, tidy and part of
your décor quite easily with the
help of this book which is brimming
with ideas. Divided into eight
chapters, one for each type of room, not forgetting
outdoors, it covers a host of possibilities. Suggestions
include colourful cotton tidy bags in your hallway to tidy
away scarves, gloves and hats; fabric-covered storage
tubs for the living room to hold TV remotes or a few
books and odds and ends; beautiful garment bags for
keeping special occasion outfits
dust free in the bedroom; a meal
planner clipboard for the kitchen
with shopping lists, recipes and
coloured markers to show the
week’s meals - so many ideas.
One favourite is the charming
toy storage cart on wheels,
perfect for a child’s bedroom or
even as a holder for those bits
and bobs such as craft items that
you may want to trundle from
room to room. Paperback.
144pp, colour illus, templates.
$19.95 NOW £6.50
77938 IMPROVE YOUR HANDWRITING:
Teach Yourself
by Rosemary Sassoon and Gunnlaugur se
Briem
Our practical and informative book uses self-diagnosis to
identify problems and provides masses of practical
exercises for improving your script. In a digital age
where writing by hand remains a vital skill, here is
everything from retaining bad habits to the difficulties
that left-handers face and problems caused by medical
conditions. The way you write mirrors your mood and
character. Experiment with a style that suits you best.
With examples from master writers of the past like
Palatino in 1540 and dozens of real handwriting
examples. 174pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £5
78025 BAKING SODA:
IN
House and Home
CK
BA O C K
by Diane and
T
S
Jon Sutherland et al
Bicarb or bicarbonate of soda is a
wonder product - deodorant,
toothpaste, exfoliant, antiseptic,
cleaning agent leaving your kitchen
grease free and shining and chemical free at the same
time, a shampoo, for your pets, to clean out a paddling
or swimming pool, relieve insect bites or shaving rash,
remove blood stains and other stains from your laundry,
wine or ink from your carpet and any number of health
care needs. Plus entertain the kids, use for cooking
some delicious recipes included like carrot cake and easy
chocolate cake, make mini rockets, inflate balloons, look
after your vehicles, free your lawn from mould, use as a
greenhouse fungicide or to clean your birdbath, baking
soda is so safe to use that you can also ingest it. It is a
compound that occurs naturally as sedimentary mineral
deposits and that’s why we can add it to coffee, use in
the mouth for thrush, for cold sores, conditioning your
hair, to clean your hairbrush, a dry skin bath additive, to
sprinkle on your sofa before vacuuming off to freshen it
up and hundreds more uses. Truly this is a wonder
powder! Add to your shopping list now. 256pp with
quality colour photos.
£8.99 NOW £5
78077 HOW TO BECOME AN
INTELLECTUAL
by Nick Kolakowski
There are much easier ways to
convince your friends that you are
a high-powered brainiac with
Parisian tastes who has seen
absolutely everything. Try placing
a few prestigious books on your
shelves in a prominent position.
Know the names of a few
designers, and refuse to be
ashamed of your vehicle: an
intellectual does not need an Alfa-Romeo. Your computer
is important, but spellchecks make a lot of mistakes:
always back up using your own eyes. Choose a
favourite philosopher, and find out just enough about
their theories to dash off a couple of impressive verdicts.
Cultivate rivalries with other intellectuals, but lose a
debate graciously. 240pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.75
Symphony composed for a school orchestra and ‘The
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ written for an
educational film, to the haunting ‘Serenade for Tenor,
Horn and Strings’ and the intense anti-war statement of
his ‘War Requiem’. They all appear among the 15
tracks. Also includes Four Sea interludes, Gloriana and
Hymn to St. Cecilia. Total playing time 79 minutes 21
seconds on this Naxos audio CD.
£12.99 NOW £6
73438 GREAT RIVER JOURNEYS OF THE
WORLD: Four DVDs
by Reader’s Digest
Romantic Rivers is the first DVD directed by Alain
Dayan in the footsteps of the Dutch and Flemish
masters travelling deep into the heart of eternal Russia
to stop at Moscow’s Red Square. We navigate the
beautiful Danube from Vienna to Budapest and finally
admire Melk Abbey, a masterpiece of Austrian Baroque
architecture. We meander along the sun-drenched Douro
to the majestic cities of the Italian Renaissance from the
River Po. We visit Cremona and its Bell Tower, Mantua
with frescoes by Mantegna and then to Venice. We set
sail from Paris to Honsleur along the magnificent Seine.
We head for the Americas and navigate the St Lawrence
in the company of whales, meet the Warao Indians in
the Orinoco delta and sail to discover the highest
waterfall in the world. Our cruise of a lifetime ends in
the holy waters of the Nile. 4 DVD set.
ONLY £12
78618 ETERNAL CD
by Thomas Tallis
Tallis (1505-1585) began his
career as organist at the
Benedictine Priory at Dover then
at Waltham Abbey until the
dissolution of the monasteries in
1540. He was then organist at
Canterbury Cathedral and in
1543 became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, a
position he retained until his death. He wrote a quantity
of Latin church music and contributed to the reformed
English liturgy and one of his most remarkable
achievements is the 40-voiced Spem in alium. This
superb collection of 14 tracks begins with ‘With All Our
Heart’, ‘Mass for Four Voices - ‘Sanctus’, ‘Lamentations’,
‘In Nomine’, ‘Spem in alium’ and a solfing song among
them.
£12.99 NOW £6
78865 MOZART: Piano
Sonatas KV311-330-331
CD by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
With Clara Würtz on piano, this
recording was made in the
summer of 1998 and features
over 56 minutes worth of
beautiful piano sonatas - allegros,
rondeau and menuetto by Mozart (1756-1791). Digitally
remastered CD at a bargain price.
ONLY £5
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NATURE
I wonder who it was defined man as a
rational animal. It was the most premature
definition ever given. Man is many things,
but he is not rational.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
78478 ROMANTIC
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
by Gill Davies and Gill
Saunders
The first section of the book draws
upon the ‘Book of Memory’, by
artist Fanny Robinson (1802-1872).
These delicate watercolours of
flowers symbolise heartache and
heartease. Pansies, snowdrops,
primrose and wild strawberry,
flowering quince, apple blossom and daffodil,
honeysuckle, daisy, mock orange and rosebuds, fuchsia
cascading in an extravagant spray over sweet creamy
roses, its meaning is confiding love and good taste.
Accompanied by fun facts such as that there are now
over 7,000 fuchsia varieties. Hawthorn and periwinkle,
holly, mistletoe and Christmas rose, bluebells and lily-ofthe-valley, the second section discovers more about
flowers’ romantic associations and their complex code.
128pp, gorgeous colour illus.
£9.99 NOW £3
78479 100 YEARS OF WEATHER: 20th
Century in Pictures edited by Andy Stansfield
Rainfall has been recorded on a daily basis since 1766
and provides the longest continuous set of weather data
in the world. These pictures from The Press Association
image archives include Henley Regatta bathed in
sunshine in 1907, the very wet 1908 London Olympics,
the Richmond Horse Show 1910, Margaret and David
Lloyd George camping on a Welsh mountain, 1913,
bathing at Margate, the London Opera House, London
buses in the fog, poor children, a lone policeman in a
snowy Trafalgar Square, storm damage, dancing girls,
floods in Norfolk and Canvey Island, snowballs,
overturned cars, weather forecasters in the 70s and 80s
including Michael Fish, a Highland cow buried in snow
2007, Wimbledon to a thick carpet of autumn leaves and
more. 300 fascinating images in both colour and b/w.
300 pages, softback.
£14.99 NOW £3
78138 WILDLIFE WALKS:
Great Days Out at Over 500
Nature Reserves
by Malcolm Tait
Britain has 2,500 nature reserves
managed by the Wildlife Trust, and
this is their guide to 500 of the best.
The book is divided into regions,
with around 20 reserves with their
opening times, access and facilities,
directions and parking. For each
venue there is a suggested walk
with a map, and also a short programme for a 30-minute
visit. Local attractions in the area are described, some of
them quite off-beat; for instance, near Earl’s Hill in
Shropshire, Hignett’s bakery in Pontesbury offers
whinberry pies baked with fruit picked on the nearby
Stiperstones. 450pp, softback, beautiful colour photos,
maps, diagrams.
£12.99 NOW £4.75
78301 HUMAN AGE: The World Shaped by Us
by Diane Ackerman
“Many of nature’s doors have shivered open - human
genome, stem cells, other earth-like planets”. We
humans are redefining our perception of the world
around us and the world inside us, asking questions
about what it means to be human. In spite of the threat
of climate change and the challenge of devising safer
ways to feed and fuel our civilisation, Ackerman is
optimistic. She considers the implication of medical
changes to the human body, including carbon blade legs,
silicon retinas and computer screens worn over the eye.
The magnolia tree in her garden provides a mini-history
of our relationship with vegetation, from the tree’s origin
millions of years ago, its survival through ice ages, its
popularity as an Aztec icon and finally its eventual
migration to Europe in the 18th century. Ackerman’s
name for this civilisation is Anthropocene, with humans
far more dominant than at any other time in history but
with a responsibility to develop new forms of partnership
with the planet. 344pp.
£20 NOW £5
77620 DEADLY ANIMALS
by Gordon Grice
Sub-titled ‘Savage Encounters Between Man and Beast’
here you will witness the world’s most bizarre and
terrifying encounters. Learn what it is like to hear your
skull crack in a grizzly bear’s jaws, have a hyena drag
you from a tent at night by your face or lose a fight to a
pair of white tip sharks. The author treats his subject
with deadly wit and humour including his personal
encounters with black widow spiders and a mouse that
defecated in his strawberry pie. 382pp illus, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
77412 BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES: Book
and CD by Nancy Rosin
!
The bonus CD included provides copyright-free images
for all personal computers and Macs of artwork for
scrapbooks and fabric-transfer crafts. There are
hundreds of high quality vintage images ranging in size
from small detailed borders to large page-filling elements
of birds, butterflies, from greetings cards and invitations,
humming bird bicycle advert, a sonnet to My Valentine,
hymns, notecards, decorative Victorian messages,
postcards to lovers, Cupid’s message, botanical
illustrations, a glorious peacock. Framed prints, themes
for a scrapbook. Large softback, 57pp.
$14.95 NOW £4
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78934 HUMAN BODY
CLOSE UP by John Clancy
Over 300 cutting edge anatomical
images beautifully depict the
complexity of our cells, tissues and
organs and how our body parts
and systems grow together. Using
the very latest microscope technology, witness
exceptional views of the body from spectacular scans
inside the brain revealing connections of our 100 billion
neurons, umbilical cord vessels, sperm and the
reproductive system, the digestive and urinary system,
the nervous and endocrine systems as you look inside
the pancreas firstly at
magnification 2,100 and then
at 21,000 a spectacular
array of red dots, white
circles, a green ocean with
some sort of purple algae on
top. Controlling the heart
are the Purkinje fibres,
modified muscle tissue that
has developed to carry
electrical impulses. The
images use fluorescent dyes
to show how the fibres contain both nerve tissue in
green and muscle proteins in red. They are seen at
magnification 8,500 and 1,200. Motor nerve endings,
nerve synapses, cells, the retina and all parts of the eye,
fighting infections and disease with white blood cells, hair
follicles, skeletal muscles to the cell’s power house,
mitochondria. Truly dramatic, breathtaking microscopic
detailed images, bold colour on black pages and with
clear text in white in this rather glamorous art cum
science book. 320pp.
$29.95 NOW £8.50
78799 BOUNCING BUGS: Fly
by David Hawcock and Lee
Montgomery
To make your fly, fold back the
covers of the book until they meet
and thread the elastic string through
the loop and hang up. All flies have
six legs, two wings and two
balancers, two large eyes and hooklike claws. See the top view of
their colours, shapes, furry, hairy,
underwater, in dung, on dead
animals, in flight, stealing food from
spiders as you lift the flaps and peep
through the holes. The finale is a
superb green bottle pop-up. Colour. Ages three to adult.
$10.99 NOW £4
78178 SEEDS OF HOPE
by Jane Goodall and Gail Hudson
Long before she began her work with chimpanzees, Jane
Goodall had a passion for the natural world. Her story
takes us from England to her home-away-from-home in
Tanzania, Africa, deep inside the forests of the Gombe
National Park. She explores our dependence on the
plant kingdom as food, as medicine for our bodies and
psyches, and as helpers in the task of healing the harm
we have inflicted on the natural world. She introduces
her heroes - botanists and naturalists, who risk their lives
to rescue endangered plants and forests. Jane gives us
hope for the future including transforming the massively
fertilised grass lawns into sanctuaries for native plants
and wildlife or organic food gardens. 370 large pages,
well illus plus colour photos.
£21.99 NOW £6
77075 THE POPPY: A Cultural History
from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to
Afghanistan by Nicholas Saunders
The poppy became associated with Flanders Fields in
1915 when a young army doctor, John McRae, found
himself improvising a burial service for a close friend.
The corn poppy is a different plant from the bigger, pinkcoloured opium poppy, and this fascinating book traces
the history of both varieties. From the 7th to the 13th
centuries, Egypt was the centre of poppy-growing, with
processed opium being traded to Europe, India and
China. The mid-century Opium Wars in China saw the
British Empire officially trafficking opium. The author
describes in fascinating detail the tortuous process by
which the Remembrance poppy was adopted by the
British Legion, and the story finally ends in modern
Afghanistan. 301pp, colour illus.
£20 NOW £8
77411 BBC SPRINGWATCH: BRITISH
WILDLIFE by Stephen Moss et al
This book of the BBC TV series is divided into five
sections, covering birds, mammals, insects, reptiles,
amphibians and fish, and concluding with plants and
flowers. The short section on mammals includes the
dormouse, mole, whale and polecat. Spiders often have
a bad press, but the belief that the daddy long-legs has a
venomous bite is an urban myth, and while an imported
tarantula may be deadly, it does not survive long in the
British climate. Britain is home to more than 50 native
varieties of orchid, among them the Lady’s Slipper which
was so sought after that it almost became extinct, but
work is now in hand to reintroduce it. 255pp, superb
colour photos.
£20 NOW £4.50
77622 ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS
by Gerald Durrell
2012 paperback re-issue of the 1958 classic. Gerald
Durrell’s accounts of the animals he encountered on his
travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions
of the world’s most extraordinary species. Moving from
the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South
America and elsewhere, he observes the courtships,
wars and characters of a variety of creatures from birds
of paradise to ants and anteaters, snakes to human
beings. ‘Not all animals are as good as the hedgehog at
looking after their babies.’ All with his trademark charm
and humour. 163pp illus, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
77737 LAST LIONS
by Dereck and Beverly Joubert
Follows the lives of several prides of lions on the river
island of Duba in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. In the
1950s, there were 500,000; today only 45,000 remain.
At this rate, they will be gone in just 25 years. The
main predator is Silver Eye, so called because one of her
eyes is damaged and skinned over. The Jouberts watch
her in action, and also see a young female defending her
two cubs against the killer with a ferocious barrage of
blows. The two males on the island are killed by buffalo
and a new male moves in, nicknamed “Skimmer”.
176pp, softback, over 100 wonderful colour photos.
£18.99 NOW £4
77970 EARTHQUAKE: Nature and Culture
by Andrew Robinson
With 93 illustrations, 48 in colour, and written by a highly
experienced science writer, journalist and scholar, here is
a superb popular science book. Los Angeles and Tokyo,
Istanbul and Beijing, Lima and Cairo are among the
more than 60 large cities at definite risk from an
earthquake. Devastating earthquakes have also hit
Athens, Bucharest, Lisbon, Madrid, Rome and Naples
over the past three centuries. Even London experienced
a shock in 1884. The Haiti earthquake of 2010 took
some ¼ million lives. Colour photos, map, mono plates,
208pp, paperback.
£14.95 NOW £4
78030 LOST FISH: Anthologies of the Work of
Comte de Lacepede
by Elizabeth Kolbert
A beautiful book about magnificent sealife creatures like
the Balistes Vetula with its iridescent yellow fish scales
and blue fins and sharp teeth, the hammer head of the
Sphyrna Zygaena, the almost rainbow colours of the
Scarus Ghobban and Frenatus or the Coryphaena
Huppurus on page 98-9. With apt quotations from
Jacques Cousteau, Albert Einstein to Frank Lloyd Wright.
The book shows hundreds of fish, now lost to us, as
carefully drawn in the 18th and 19th centuries by
scientists. Writers such as Rousseau and Audubon
expounded on the beauties of nature, while naturalists
like Linnaeus, Buffon and his successor, the Comte de
Lacépède struggled to catalogue the world around them.
Nearly 200 antique illustrations in glowing colour record
the wonders of the deep, paired with Lacépède’s
introductory musings on man’s relationship to the marine.
232pp, 9¼” x 12".
£40 NOW £14
78042 BIRDS IN A CAGE by Derek Niemann
At Warburg, Germany in 1941, four British PoWs formed
a bird watching society, and embarked on obsessive
quest behind barbed wire and also drew in some of their
German guards. The book follows the stories of the four
young men, prisoners of war in WW2, who overcame
hunger, hardship, fear and stultifying boredom to bring
purpose to their lives behind barbed wire. In the words of
one, birds ‘occupied hundreds and hundreds of hours
during which, in spirit, I was not confined.’ Peter Conder
became Director of the RSPB. George Waterston
established Fair Isle as a bird observatory. John Buxton
wrote The Redstart, one of the most acclaimed and
lyrical natural history books of the 20th century and John
Barrett was author of the century’s most popular
seashore guide. An inspirational, untold story of the most
bizarre and enriching episodes in the history of British
environmentalism. 312pp in illustrated paperback.
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HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as
spectators for a while and then act out our
part in it.
- Swift
77646 CHARLES DICKENS:
The Making of A Literary
Giant
by Christopher Hibbert
Here is the Chronicle reporter rising
to triumphant novelist. This lively
and insightful biography of the
literary giant details the crucial
years that formed Dickens the
writer and Dickens the man and
how he transferred the smallest
fragments of his experience into his
fiction. Hibbert throws a clear light on the creative
process and sources of literary imagination. 321pp,
paperback, sketches by Boz.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
76449 THOMAS WYATT:
The Heart’s Forest
by Susan Brigden
Born in Allington, Kent, in 1503,
Thomas Wyatt would grow into a
handsome and physically strong
young man, over six feet tall and
first entered the service of Henry
VIII aged just 12 years. Rising
rapidly in favour, he accompanied
Sir John Russell to Rome to petition
Pope Clement VII to annul the
King’s marriage to Katherine of Aragon, leaving him free
to marry Anne Boleyn. While in Rome he was captured
by the army of Charles V, but managed to find favour
with the Emperor, which was ended promptly when the
Pope called for a crusade against Henry VIII and set the
Inquisition against Wyatt. One of six accused of
adultery with Anne Boleyn - and possibly the only one
who actually did so - he was imprisoned in the Tower in
1536 and witnessed not only the execution of the Queen
but his five co-accused. He escaped on account of his
friendship with Henry’s chief legal adviser Thomas
Cromwell. It was for his poetry however that Wyatt
was respected, nay revered, at court. Considered the
first modern voice in English poetry, his poetry held a
mirror to the capricious world of court. He died riding to
Cornwall at the King’s behest in 1542. Brigden’s life of
Wyatt is an unconventional one, being an evocation of
its subject among his friends and enemies at courts in
England, Italy, France and Spain, or alone in
contemplative retreat. Aiming to show Wyatt in all his
diversity, parrying faith, poetry and politics in early
Reformation England and attuned to his dissonant voice
and paradoxical inwardness, this biography is a
remarkable analysis of the poet, diplomat and lover at
the heart of Henry VIII’s court. 16 pages of colour
plates, b/w illus, 714pp.
£30 NOW £7.50
78336 100 GREAT BRITS: A
Rhyming History from Bede
to Beckham
by James Muirden
£8.99 NOW £6
78459 OVERLOADED ARK by Gerald Durrell
Director and owner of Jersey Zoo, Gerald Durrell was
internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting
wild animals. Here is his first, which remains his funniest
book, which describes an expedition to the remote territory
of the Cameroons in West Africa before independence. You
can feel his bush-shirt sticking to his back as he bags a
monitor, smokes out a Pangolin or scaly anteater, celebrates
the capture of a rare Angwantibo or small lemur, goes bird
liming for Giant Kingfishers on the warm, milky waters of
Lake Soden. Paperback, 222pp, line art, reprinted from the
1953 original.
£8.99 NOW £4
76861 BIRDING WITH BILL ODDIE
by Bill Oddie
This practical guide from the birdman himself, published
by the RSPB, has an impressive centrepiece of notes
from a year’s birding on Oddie’s local patch, Hampstead
Heath. The total number of species recorded in 1995
was 116. Lapwings, a woodlark, a Montagu’s Harrier,
whitethroats, blackcaps, flycatchers, chiffchaffs - the list
is pure poetry. Oddie starts with the basics, advising on
binoculars, telescopes and bird clubs, followed by a field
guide explaining the essentials of identifying a bird.
224pp, softback, colour photos.
£12.99 NOW £2.50
76881 SHARK THAT WALKS ON LAND
by Michael Bright
From the Kraken to Jaws, sharks exert a special
fascination and have achieved some remarkable exploits.
Sharks have even been known to swim up the Amazon
and Zambezi, attacking hippos and crocodiles. Sharks
can detect electrical activity in their prey’s muscles, but
there are few instances of taking human prey whole.
Deep-dwelling creatures include the Vampire Squid have
eyes an inch across, making them the world’s largest
eyes for the size of the body, while on the bed of
California’s Monterey Bay are two newly-recorded
species of marine worms. 285pp, drawings.
£12.99 NOW £3
76947 WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY
by Jared Diamond
Drawing on his own field work as well as evidence from
Inuit, Amazonian Indians and other cultures, Diamond
explores how tribal peoples approach essential human
problems from child rearing to old age, conflict resolution
to health, and discovers that we have much to learn
from traditional ways of life. He unearths remarkable
findings - from the reasons why modern afflictions like
diabetes, obesity and hypertension are largely nonexistent in tribal societies - to the surprising cognitive
benefits of multilingualism. 498 pages, paperback,
photos, some colour.
£13.99 NOW £3.50
In 2002 the BBC conducted a poll
to find the 100 greatest Brits and
James Muirden has used this as the
basis for his book, keeping about
half of them. Oliver Cromwell,
Samuel Johnson, Charles Darwin,
Anita Roddick and Winston Churchill
are included. An entertaining take
on British history, enlivened by Merrily Harpur’s
drawings. 264 pages.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
76831 VICTORIAN ELLIOTS IN PEACE AND
WAR by John Evans
Sub-titled Lord and Lady Minto, their Family and
Household between 1816 and 1901. Set in
Roxburghshire in Scotland and the fashionable Eaton
Square in London is told principally by the Earl and
Countess of Minto, their five sons, a diplomat, an MP, a
soldier, a sailor and a lawyer and the daughters’
governess. Four of the five daughters made
‘appropriate’ marriages. The action takes place in Britain
and across the world, in such places as Brazil and
Uruguay, Morocco, China, Cape Province, Russia,
Corfu, the Crimea, Bulgaria, Prussia, Italy, Sicily and
the Vatican. It includes colourful descriptions of crises
and revolutions, as well as the consequences of the
fortunate marriage made by one of the Elliot daughters
to a future British Prime Minister. 351 pages. Maps,
plans and sketches.
£25 NOW £4.50
76856 THOMAS BECKET: Warrior, Priest,
Rebel, Victim
by John Guy
The story of Thomas Becket is the story of an enigma.
This tall and handsome offspring of a Norman draper’s
merchant rose, within the space of 35 years, to become
the most powerful man in the kingdom, second only to
Henry II himself as his chancellor then as Archbishop of
Canterbury in 1162. He led 700 knights into battle,
brokered peace between nations, held the ear of the
Pope and brought one of the strongest rulers in
Christendom to his knees. Within three years of his
bloody assassination in Canterbury Cathedral at the age
of 50, he was a saint whose cult had spread the length
and breadth of Europe. At once a peacemaker and a
ruthless manipulator, a lover of hunting and fine clothes
yet with a reputation for asceticism, a dilettante who
later found the capacity for rigorous hard work but who
remained deeply insecure about his background. 422
pages, colour and b/w.
£25 NOW £5
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76822 ENGLAND’S QUEENS:
The Biography
by Elizabeth Norton
From the early queens of England,
both real and mythical, such as
Boudicca, Etheldreda, Guinevere
and Cordelia and then right up to
Elizabeth II, this splendid biography
impressively details each individual
monarch. Nearly 80 women have
sat on the throne of England, either
as queen regnant or queen consort.
The birth of an heir was also a route to power, as
instanced by Eleanor of Aquitaine, who became the
most powerful woman in Europe during the reigns of her
sons. Queens like Isabella of France and Catherine
Howard, fatally, took lovers as a form of escape. The
unhappy Sophia Dorothea of Celle was imprisoned for
over 30 years by her husband George I when her affair
was discovered, and her lover was murdered. 354
pages, colour and b/w illus and genealogical tables.
£16.99 NOW £3.50
76870 HERETIC QUEEN: Queen Elizabeth I
and the Wars of Religion by Susan Ronald
Queen Elizabeth I was a political prisoner for most of her
young life. She knew that the English people wanted
something between Catholicism and Calvinism and set
herself to provide it. Under her adviser William Cecil she
consolidated her position legally but refused all Cecil’s
efforts to persuade her to marry, so that her virginity
began to symbolise her even-handedness on matters of
religion. Her first love Robert Dudley was always in the
background, and Elizabeth maintained an aloof public
façade. Meanwhile the government systematically
stripped parish churches of the accoutrements of
Catholicism such as chalices and images. In the 1580s,
when Jesuit infiltration was perceived as a threat,
Elizabeth’s right hand man was Francis Walsingham, and
his exploits as spymaster and torturer make fascinating
reading. 350pp.
£27.99 NOW £4
76872 LETTERS FROM AMERICA
by Alexis de Tocqueville
For the first time here are the complete translated
correspondence of Tocqueville on his first journey to
America in 1831. The comments on American fine arts
are rife with comic snobbery - American theatre is
‘frightful’, its actors ‘detestable’, its music ‘simply
barbaric’. There there’s the clothing - ‘of various colours,
all loud.’ And there is also reflective wisdom about ‘the
happiest people’ and their materialist mode, about
Indians and slaves. 284pp, paperback.
£16.99 NOW £2.50
77641 BEN JONSON: A Life by Ian Donaldson
A lovely heavyweight publication with colour plates and
many other illustrations. A close friend of William
Shakespeare and his most famous rival, poet, scholar,
playwright and principal masque-writer to the early
Stuart court, provocateur and felon, Ben Jonson was a
complex and volatile character. He was ‘almost at the
gallows’ for killing a fellow actor after a quarrel, supped
with the Gunpowder conspirators on the eve of their
planned coup at Westminster, walked to Scotland and
back in order to see the country of his forbears and it
would seem, to fulfil a wager, and mixed with the most
learned thinkers of his day. Donaldson reveals his
mysterious and fractured life. 533 pages in softback.
£14.99 NOW £5.50
77663 MASTERS OF MYSTERY
by Christopher Sandford
Sub-titled ‘The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle
and Harry Houdini’, this is an amazing true story of how two
men searched for the afterlife. The famous magician Harry
Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created Sherlock
Holmes both used their work to access the supernatural. Set
against a colourful cast of vaudeville mentalists, tabletappers, furniture-levitators and slate-writers, this sometimes
macabre often comic tale is a fascinating look at two icons
and their pursuit of magic and the ‘living’ afterlife. Chapters
include Parallel Lives, Metamorphosis and Double Exposure.
281pp in paperback.
$17 NOW £4.50
77667 JOHN DONNE: Poetic Lives
by Nicholas Robins
Although the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral at his death,
much of John Donne’s early poetry was satiric and
surprisingly bawdy, written largely for private
amusement. Nicholas Robins here presents an
accomplished and concise biography of the life and
career of Donne, charting his progress from an
impoverished young writer to one of the most senior
churchmen in the country. Born to a Catholic family of
martyrs and exiles, Donne fought in the war against
Spain, converted to Anglicanism and was appointed to a
diplomatic position of some authority. But in marrying
young Anne More without her father’s permission, he all
but brought his own ruination. 144pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
77674 SAMUEL JOHNSON: A Personal History
by Christopher Hibbert
The master biographer Christopher Hibbert’s account of
Samuel Johnson’s life was, and remains, a delightfully
readable introduction since it was first published in 1971.
Nine years after the publication of Johnson’s famous
Dictionary, here was the titan of literary London holed
up in a dirty set of rooms, evidently in penury. What did
he think of women? How exactly should we define his
politics? Did he really loathe the Scots? What possessed
him to make such an unlikely marriage? We see
intimate glimpses into Johnson’s time as a schoolboy, his
eccentricities as an undergraduate at Oxford, his struggle
as a poor writer in London, and his slow rise to
legendary figure with a court of admirers and a steady
stream of visitors. 364pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £5
77735 KING’S MISTRESS by Claudia Gold
!
Sub-titled ‘The True and Scandalous Story of the
Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I’, Ehrengard
Melusine von der Schulenburg was England’s first
Georgian queen in all but name, and possibly the secret
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CHRISTMAS REDUCTIONS
78788 LITTLE HANDS CREATIVE STICKER
PLAY: Christmas by Steph Clarkson
Decorate the snowy scene with fir trees, penguins and
snowballs and meet Santa, Mrs Claus, Felicity the
Christmas fairy, Ronnie the reindeer and Stanley the
snowman. 1,000 reusable coloured stickers. They are
bright and beautiful and provide hours of play for hands
of all ages developing dexterity and hand to eye
coordination. Added fun for little ones is a true or false
quiz and things to do. 64 page very large softback.
$9.99 NOW £3
78682 A ROUND OF STORIES BY THE
CHRISTMAS FIRE by Charles Dickens
One of Dickens’s earliest collections for the Christmas
season here are tales of romance, theft, justice, heartwarming reunions and ghost stories. The voices in this
round include servants and employers, host and
charwoman, mother and nursemaid and some surprising
ruminations on topics as diverse as disability and
interracial love. Published in its entirety for the first time
since 1952 with a foreword by D. J. Taylor. 136pp in
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
73454 CHRISTMAS CARD AND TAG: Set of
Four by Reader’s Digest
The four designs are a beautiful poinsettia, a close up of
a Christmas pud with holly and brandy sauce oozing
over it, Christmas baubles and a beautifully packaged
gift. The cards themselves are 5" x 7" and are good
quality, blank inside for your own message, four white
envelopes, four pieces of red string and matching gift
tags one of each design to match the cards.
ONLY £2.50
77602 CHRISTMAS POP-UP CARDS: Eight
Christmas Cards illustrated by Louise Gardner
The big jolly red Santa says Merry Christmas, his
golden buckle shining, his big happy face inviting us to
join him and his elves and little white mouse and
reindeer at the window in a big pop-up scene as you
open this rather special large Christmas card. A second
design is a Christmas tree, little white mice and happy
bunny collecting presents. The third design has a happy
Rudolph and inside four reindeers pull Santa and one elf
on a sled across snowy rooftops. The fourth design is of
a jolly snowman with metallic red stripes on his scarf
and a carrot nose. Inside the big pop up card he leaps
forward. Eight fun, beautifully made pop-up cards with
strong white envelopes, 5¾ x 7½”, boxed.
75539 GIANT CHRISTMAS COLOURING
BOOK by W. F. Graham
A festive book of line art which could be traced and used
for craft purposes or simply coloured in by little ones.
Christmas trees and baubles, St. Nicklaus, children
sleighing, a duck skating, a jack-in-the-box surrounded
by presents, a reindeer on his sleigh, snowy houses,
snowmen, angels and happy children, holly and gifts.
Every one’s a cracker! 8" x 12", softback.
ONLY £2.25
78380 PERFECT CHRISTMAS
by Rose Henniker Heaton
SQUIRREL
AWAY FOR
2016!
In a nostalgic look at Christmas in those easy days
before the Second World War, the author describes food,
games, guests, house-parties, decorations and family
reunions. It is practical, useful and instructive. 152
pages, illus, recipes and menus.
£4.95 NOW £2.50
78249 A CHRISTMAS CAROL & DICKENS’
LONDON by Charles Dickens
A must-have version, with its beautiful illustrations by
artists such as Arthur Rackham and John Leech. Dickens
brought Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Crachit, Old Fezziwig
and, of course, the Christmas Spirits, to life. There is
also a short biography of Charles Dickens and some
superb old photos. There’s certainly no ‘Bah, Humbug!’
about this delightful book. Paperback. 11½ x 8", 64pp.
£4.99 NOW £2
77601 CHRISTMAS IS HERE by the King
James Bible, illustrated by Lauren Castillo
A book for every family as a reminder of the true
meaning of the Christmas season and what it has meant
to families since the birth of Jesus. As each Christmas
comes we look forward to gifts and decorations, but
perhaps we should take a moment to consider where
Christmas began and what it truly means to be with
family and friends, celebrate firsts, embrace old customs
and start new traditions. For little tots aged three and
up, this big picture storybook has only a few lines from
the King James Bible on some of the big double page
colour artworks. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came
upon them… Merry Christmas everyone. 26cm square.
$12.99 NOW £5
78366 JUST THE RIGHT CHRISTMAS WORDS
by Judith Wibberley
The best Christmas present is love and these loving
words will bring just the right seasonal cheer and festive
fun to family and friends at Christmastime. From poetic
verses to heart warming sentiments here are over 450
messages and motifs to celebrate the Christmas season.
The 100 fun, copyright-free motifs may be scanned from
the book for paper craft projects and personalised cards.
192pp in illustrated softback.
£14.95 NOW £6
£9.99 NOW £4
wife of George I. Her nickname amongst the English who
loathed her and found her scrawny was The Maypole. She
condoned incest, willingly sharing George’s affection and bed
with his half sister Sophia Charlotte. Melusine charmed
George away from his wife, the beautiful and tempestuous
Sophia Dorothea of Celle, and bound him to her until his
death. Her gentle nature and good sense helped keep his
notoriously dysfunctional family from tearing itself apart. We
see her astonishing rise from minor courtier to the ranks of
the most powerful woman in Europe, her love of music that
saw her mixing with everyone from Handel to the
flamboyant theatrical impresario John James Heidegger.
Family trees, 314pp.
78283 AGINCOURT: My Family, the Battle,
and the Fight for France by Ranulph Fiennes
£20 NOW £6
77759 THE WAGNER CLAN by Jonathan Carr
The Wagner family has been at the very centre of
German history for over 150 years, most controversially
through their association with Hitler and the Third Reich.
Their remarkable story, in which music and politics are
linked, mirrors the triumphs and catastrophes of the
whole nation. This paperback edition includes details of
how the new director of the Wagner-run Bayreuth Music
Festival was chosen, bringing the story right up to date.
The true extent of their association with the Nazis is
soberly delivered in this splendidly readable saga of
greed, jealousy, plotting and scrapping in and around the
ill-named family seat Wahnfried, which roughly
translates as ‘Peace from Delusion’. 411pp in paperback
with photos and family tree.
£12.99 NOW £7
78433 CONSTANTINE THE GREAT: Warlord of
Rome by Elizabeth James
Best known for being the first Christian Emperor and for
moving the seat of Imperial rule to ‘New Rome’
(Constantinople), Constantine the Great is a titanic figure
in Roman and indeed world history. He won victories
over external ‘barbarian’ armies as well as defeating the
armies of his own rivals in civil war. Elizabeth James
sets the scene with a discussion of the nature of the
Roman Army as it emerged from the Third Century
Crisis, describing the make up of armies, their weapons
and tactics and the impact of Constantine’s policies and
reforms. She examines each of his campaigns and
battles including the British campaign which led to his
proclamation as Emperor at York and shows that he
deserves to be remembered as a great general as well
as a great emperor. 171pp, three maps and 16 illus.
£19.99 NOW £9
78011 BRIEF HISTORY OF CLEOPATRA
by M. J. Trow
Sub-titled ‘Last Pharaoh of Egypt’, the real Cleopatra was
perhaps the reincarnation of the goddess Isis, fabled beauty,
seductress and whore. Descended from a general of
Alexander the Great who had conquered the Nile as part of
Macedonian lands, Cleopatra was destined to be the last
Pharaoh who challenged a mighty empire, but in doing so
destroyed her own. She bore a child to Julius Caesar and
her relationship with Mark Antony is one of the greatest love
stories of all time. The pair are said to be entombed
together, but their final resting place has never been found.
Trow draws on archaeological finds and fresh
reinterpretations of ancient texts. 262pp, paperback.
$13.95 NOW £3.75
£20 NOW £6.50
SCIENCE FICTION
“The Guide says there is an art to flying”,
said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies
in learning how to throw yourself at the
ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and
Everything
78795 DOCTOR WHO:
Prisoner of the Daleks
by Trevor Baxendale
The Daleks are advancing,
their empire constantly
expanding. The battles rage on
across countless solar systems
and the Doctor finds himself
stranded on board a starship
near the frontline with a group
of ruthless bounty hunters.
Earth Command will pay these
hunters for every Dalek they
kill, every eye stalk they bring
back as proof. With the
Doctor’s help, the bounty
hunters achieve the ultimate prize - a Dalek prisoner,
intact, powerless and ready for interrogation. But with
the Daleks, nothing is what it seems and no one is safe.
Before long the tables will be turned and how will the
Doctor survive when he becomes a prisoner of the
Daleks? The story featured David Tennant in the TV
series. 238pp in paperback.
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Millions of twinkling stars filled the sky as Clara and her
father walked joyfully through the snow. Crunch,
crunch, crunch, went their boots. Angels stand watch
over glittering sky lambs. The gleaming angel boy
Sylvester hitches the moon horses to a magnificent gold
and silver sleigh they head into a shower of moon dust
spray to the gates of the magical garden and to the River
of Life. A beautiful fairytale originally written c1860 in
German, now translated. Colourful illus. Ages 3 and up.
£9.99 NOW £3.75
77866 GREAT CHRISTMAS CRISIS
by Kim Norman
Big, shiny embossed raised figures make this big colourful
story book extra special. Santa and his Elfin crew are
exhausted from working too fast to wrap Christmas
presents. That night over tea Santa told Mrs Claus ‘The
North Pole’s in trouble, I must find the cause.’ Rickety
bicycles, sinking toy boats, games systems ready but
missing remotes... Finally the dolls were dressed properly,
kick balls bounced higher, cars stayed on track with not a
single flat tyre. They were ready to fly! 10" square.
$14.95 NOW £4.50
78034 A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens, illustrated by P. J. Lynch
Almost in the style of Arthur Rackham, these spooky
and sometimes gleeful artworks by Kate Greenway
medal winner P. J. Lynch will be much enjoyed by
children aged 6-96. First published in 1843, A Christmas
Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean old
skinflint who hates everyone. On a Christmas Eve as
cold as his heart, he receives three ghostly visits - the
spirits of Christmases Past, Present and Yet To Come.
Gorgeous colour illus, 160pp, large softback.
£9.99 NOW £6
78161 CHRISTMAS STORY IN MEDIEVAL
AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
by Karl Kup
The Spencer Collection in New York Public Library is a
superb archive of illustrated manuscripts and in this
elegant book 55 of the best are selected to illustrate the
Christmas story. On each double spread there is a
manuscript reproduced in black and white accompanied
by a full and informative commentary. The story starts
with the Old Testament prophets, with Isaiah’s prophetic
sacrifice appearing beneath a charming Nativity scene in
the 14th century De La Twyere Psalter from Yorkshire.
Among the Nativities there is one from 12th century
Bavaria in which the animals peer over the side of the
manger with Mary at a distance. The Magi are illustrated
in the same Psalter crowding round the child with their
gifts, while the same scene in a French vernacular Book
of Hours shows the Kings keeping a reverent and courtly
distance. No page numbers, softback, 55 illus.
ONLY £6
Fiennes is a world-famous arctic explorer who is also the
oldest Briton to reach the summit of Everest. He is has
some illustrious ancestors, being descended from Count
Eustace of Boulogne, William the Conqueror’s Second in
Command at the Battle of Hastings. William de Saye,
another Norman ancestor, was granted land in William’s
redistribution after the battle. 350 years later in another
monumental clash between the British and the French,
Fiennes had ancestors on both sides at the Battle of
Agincourt. He traces the story of his family between
these two game-changing conflicts and in the process
gives the reader a completely new angle into the
military, political and social life of the medieval period.
The siege of Acre by Richard the Lionheart saw the
deaths of three knights of the Fiennes clan: Sir Ingelram
Fiennes and his cousins Tougebrand and John, whose
heart was buried in Finsbury Square, London. The
daughter of the Black Prince married into another branch
of the Fiennes dynasty, the Mortimer family. Finally we
join the four Fiennes men in a barn on the night before
Agincourt and follow their progress through the battle.
326pp, drawings, colour photos.
£7.99 NOW £4
78509 SYLVESTER AND THE NEW YEAR
by Eduard Mörike
75600 SALVAGE by Robert Edric
100 years in the future in the far north of England, the
Gulf Stream has ceased and the climate is in turmoil.
Civil servant Quinn has been appointed to conduct an
audit on a remote area of land designated for a brand
new model town. Soon he is immersed in a quagmire of
corruption. Winston, a disillusioned journalist turned
alcoholic with a gallery of photos which show dangerous
levels of water below the site, and Pollard, the local
man of God whose faith is for sale. But it is Anna,
Quinn’s some-time girlfriend in charge of filling the dead
cattle pits who faces the deepest abyss of all. An alltoo-plausible Orwellian vision. 348pp.
£16.99 NOW 75p
77003 BRIEF GUIDE TO STAR TREK
by Brian Robb
It is hard to believe that the first episode of Star Trek
aired in 1966. It has had a phenomenal cultural impact.
J. J. Abrams’s reinvented ‘Star Trek’ movie grossed 385
million dollars worldwide. Here is the transition from the
first series and its 25 years of mythology that have
grown up with one generation to the next and casting
the new Captain of the Enterprise named Jean-Luc
Picard who would be a more intellectual, older figure
than Kirk had been. On the list was the balding British
Shakespearian actor, Patrick Stewart. A fascinating
history of the show. 288pp, paperback.
$13.95 NOW £4
77012 CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell
Knitting together science fiction, political thriller and
historical pastiche with musical virtuosity and linguistic
flair, Mitchell’s book is a meditation and an
entertainment. He has a gift for creating fully realised
worlds with a varied cast of characters in a most
believable way. 514pp, paperback. Remainder mark.
$15 NOW £3
78017 MARTIAN WAR by Kevin J. Anderson
Millions thrilled to H. G. Wells’ brilliant account of the Martian
invasion. But what if that account proved not to be fiction?
What if he sought to warn us of impending doom? In the
wake of the first Martian assault, H. G. Wells has united with
scientists T. E. Huxley and Dr Moreau, astronomer Percival
Lowell and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man. They seek a
weapon that will stem the tide of the invasion, though their
paths may take them from the streets of London to the
treacherous sands of the Sahara, and then to the Moon itself!
342pp, paperback, remainder mark.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78023 TEHANU: Earthsea Cycle
by Ursula K. Le Guin
With millions of copies sold worldwide, the Earthsea Cycle
has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy
lovers of all ages. Years ago the young priestess Tenar and
powerful wizard Ged helped each other in a time of darkness
and danger. Together they shared an adventure like no
other. Tenar has since embraced the simple pleasures of an
ordinary life, while Ged mourns the powers lost to him
through no choice of his own. Now the two must join forces
again and help another in need - the physically, emotionally
scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed.
Thrilling, wise and beautiful fantasy fiction. 277pp in
paperback. Ages 12 and up.
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54981 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press
edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in
which they were written. Includes Shakespeare’s Sonnets,
as well as his longer poems ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘The
Rape of Lucrece’. Coloured edges with matching endpapers
and headbands. Deluxe binding in cloth, gold tooling and
inset colour plate on front cover. 1280 pages.
ONLY £10
75429 TEAPOT BOOK by Steve Woodhead
Covers the theory, design and practical aspects in depth,
using a step-by-step approach to show the throwing of
spouts, bodies, handles and lids. Profiles some 25 potters
from around the world, showcasing their work. Images of
teapot design from makers worldwide, some 75 in all,
demonstrate throwing, hand building, moulding, casting
and so on. 218 pages 28cm x 23cm, colour, suppliers.
£30 NOW £8
75442 CASTLES OF SCOTLAND: Places and
History by Christina Gambaro and Anna Galliani
From the first defensive towers in bare stone to the
stately homes of the 19th century, through ancient
buildings, narrow spiral staircases, imposing halls,
splendid libraries. Eilean Donan Castle and by contrast,
Drummond Castle which still retains all the features of a
17th century Scottish Renaissance castle. 136 pages
30.5cm x 25cm, colour, fold-out triple spreads, map.
ONLY £9
75788 GREAT NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES
OF SOMERSET MAUGHAM
by Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence, The Magician, Liza of Lambeth
are the three novels plus five short stories The Pool,
Rain, Macintosh, The Fall of Edward Bernard and Red
are combined into a huge omnibus hardback, well bound
and 665pp. From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to
Pago in this collection of masterfully crafted tales.
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64072 WORDS OF MERCURY
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Whether he is drawing portraits in Vienna or sketching
Byron’s slippers in Missolonghi, watching a voodoo
ceremony in Haiti or a snake festival in Italy, the Leigh
Fermor touch is unmistakable. Here is evocative
writings are drawn together in book form, as never seen
before. 274 page paperback.
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73307 IMPRIMATUR
by Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti
PSYCHOLOGY AND
SOCIOLOGY
Don’t despair, not even over the fact that
you don’t despair.
- Kafka
78291 CONSTRUCTIVE
WALLOWING: How to Beat
Bad Feelings by Letting
Yourself Have Them
by Tina Gilbertson
Thinking positively is one of the
mantras of our age, but sometimes
you simply can not manage to do it.
Tina Gilbertson has an alternative
therapy. Invite your bad feelings in,
greet them, let them happen,
wallow - and then let them go.
Hailed by therapists as well as by
individuals struggling against stress and depression, this
book opens new ways of getting to know what might
be best for you. You need to escape from the tyranny of
negative expectation, and actively letting it flow through
you is a way of leaving it behind. It was Roosevelt who
said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, and
with this book you look fear in the eye and stare it
down. The author uses case-histories. 252pp, paperback.
£10.99 NOW £4
77973 HELPING ELDERLY RELATIVES
by Jill Eckersley
By 2033 almost 25% of the British population is
predicted to be over the age of 65, and 5% will be over
85. Topics include what the problems might be, mental
distress in later life such as anxiety and depression, the
rise in problem drinking, mental disorders including
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and personality disorder,
dementia, when and how to offer help, living options
such as sheltered housing and care homes, beating social
isolation and loneliness, further help and benefits, if the
relationship breaks down and care for the carer. Useful
addresses, 100 page paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
77978 PRICE OF ALTRUISM: George Price
by Oren Harman
Our book tells for the first time the moving story of the
American eccentric genius George Price, a gifted
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Atto Melani is a spy in the service of the Sun King, Louis
where he finally made his most dramatic discovery.
XIV. He enlists the help of a fellow detainee, a young
Ultimately a homeless recluse, he had caught a glimpse
serving boy, and together they discover a network of
of a deep and scary truth about humanity. From the
tunnels beneath the city. Their discoveries included a deadly
Beagle in the southern seas to the court of the Russian
enmity between Louis XIV and Pope Innocent XI. A
Tzar to the chambers of London’s Royal Society, from
captivating thriller, 568pp. £16.99 NOW £5.50
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77410 ASK GRAHAM by Graham Norton
77903 JOY OF SIN by Simon Laham
£7.99 NOW £2.50
77656 HOW EVERYONE BECAME DEPRESSED
by Edward Shorter
£8.99 NOW £2.75
77923 FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Graham Norton is best known as a TV presenter and his
warm demeanour and dry wit has endeared him to the
nation. He is also the agony uncle to the readers of the
Daily Telegraph and scores of people write hoping his
wise words will ease their worries or at least point them
in the right direction. Each perfectly-pitched response
includes just the right mixture of sound advice, humour
and occasionally, reprimand. We’re all fascinated by
each other’s lives. Dip in at your leisure. Paperback,
250pp.
Sub-titled ‘The Rise and Fall of the Nervous
Breakdown’. How did everyone become depressed? In
his provocative book, Edward Shorter describes how in
the 19th century patients considered ‘nervous’ when
they lost control were having a ‘nervous breakdown’.
The result has been a scientific disaster, leading to the
misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatments with
‘antidepressants’ given to millions of patients. The trend
is sure to continue. Urging that the diagnosis of
depression be re-thought, the book turns a dramatic page
in the understanding of psychiatric symptoms that are
common and looks at diagnosis, its flawed heritage and
future. 256pp.
£19.99 NOW £5.50
78122 SEIZE THE DAY: How the Dying Teach
Us to Live by Marie de Hennezel
Just before Princess Diana’s untimely death, the author
of this moving volume had made an appointment with
her to visit the Lighthouse, where Diana regularly went
to sit with young patients dying of HIV-AIDS.
Entrusted by the French government with the mission to
raise palliative-care awareness, Marie is an esteemed
psychologist and psychotherapist, and is the author of
two ministerial reports about caring for those with
terminal illnesses. Her encounters with people at the
end of their lives have given her a unique perspective
on what life and death really mean. She is confident
that talking about and facing up to death can actually
help us to lead fuller lives. An inspirational 189 pages.
£12.99 NOW £3
78136 WARMTH OF THE HEART PREVENTS
YOUR BODY FROM RUSTING
by Marie de Hennezel
Clinical psychologist Marie de Hennezel uses her
comforting and eloquent words to examine the art of
growing old, how to avoid depression, how to stay
happy, to enjoy a fulfilling love life and maintain energy
in our hearts. The heart she refers to is that inexplicable,
incomprehensible force which keeps the human being
alive and which Spinoza christened conatus - primordial
energy or vital endeavour. It is this heart that can help
us push on through our fears and bear us up amid the
worst ordeals of old age. A tremendously thoughtful
and engaging read. 274pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4.25
77967 CONVERSATIONS: 66 Reasons to Start
Talking
by Olivia Fane
Where does conversation go to when you have been
with the same partner for a long time? ‘Even though we
were out of practice, the art of conversation was a skill
we soon picked up again with a relish I would not have
thought possible.’ This brilliant book encourages us all to
think anew and provides the starting points for 66
conversations to be had with a partner, friend, stranger
or simply with ourselves. With stimulating short
discussions on happiness, vanity, infidelity, education
and more. 261pp.
£15.99 NOW £4.50
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From gluttony to greed, envy to lust, even the deadliest
sins can make you successful and happy. Anger for
instance can breed perseverance, sloth hopefulness,
greed happiness and envy can actually bolster our selfesteem. Employing modern psychological science
together with historical anecdote, Laham eloquently
demonstrates why the greedy are happy, the slothful
are clever, the gluttonous are social butterflies and how
anger can make you a fearsome negotiator. 242pp,
paperback.
The Mindfulness classic now revised and updated. How
to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness
meditation, this is an accessible, effective antidote to
anxiety, panic and other stress-related disorders. The
book is a manual for developing your personal
meditation practice. It provides easy-to-follow
meditation techniques, a detailed eight week practice
schedule, and dozens of success stories. Covers medical
symptoms, physical and emotional pain, anxiety and
panic, time pressures, relationships, work and events in
the outside world. 652pp in large paperback, diagrams.
£24 NOW £9.50
78312 ON BECOMING A PERSON
by Carl Rogers
The aim of the book is to find the path to personal
growth and harmonious maturity. How can one person
help another? What is creativity and how can it be
fostered? Contemporary psychology derives largely
from the experimental laboratory or from Freudian
theory. There are rebels, of whom the author counted
himself as one, along with Gordon Allport, Abraham
Maslow and Rollo May who feel that psychology and
psychiatry should be aiming higher, and be more
concerned with growth and potentiality in man.
Successful development will make us less open to
suggestion and control. 420pp in facsimile reprinted
paperback from the 1967 original classic work.
£12.99 NOW £5
SPORT
Golf is so popular simply because it is the
best game in the world at which to be bad.
- A. A. Milne
78020 PRACTICAL FISHING
KNOTS
by Mark Sosin and Lefty Kreh
For fly fishing, trolling, baitcasting
and spinning in fresh or salt water,
here is how to tie over 50 knots.
Field & Stream Magazine called the
first edition of this essential book
‘The long time bible of knots and
knot tying.’ New lines and leaders,
new knots and nomenclature have
required a completely new book.
This is the fully rewritten and freshly illustrated successor
for those who need a strong hitch and a handy knot,
fisherman or not! 140pp in paperback.
$12.95 NOW £3
78234 FOOTBALL GROUNDS THEN AND NOW
by Aerofilms
This intriguing, unusual book for fans of the ‘beautiful
game’ comprises aerial photographs of dozens of famous
pitches. Before and after aerial shots let you see the
difference; you can take in much more detail when you
see the whole thing at once from the air. Tottenham
Hotspur, Southampton, Manchester United, Crystal
Palace, Swansea, QPR, Norwich City, Hereford United,
and many more, all in then-and-now bird’s eye view
photos courtesy of Aerofilms. Detailed descriptions of
each ground. Paperback, 192pp, colour and b/w photos.
£14.99 NOW £4.75
77450 TRUE LINKS: An
Illustrated Guide to the
Glories of the World’s 246
Links Courses
by George Peper
and Malcolm Campbell
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There are over 30,000 golf
courses in the world, many of
which call themselves links.
Links courses are the golfer’s
ultimate challenge, presenting obstacles and conditions
that a parkland course can never offer and the British
Isles - and Scotland, the home of golf, in particular leads the way with almost 90% of the world’s true links
courses. Which country comes second? That would be
our almost exact global opposite, New Zealand’s South
Island, which has a very similar climate to ours and
offers eight true links. The authors’ 50-odd personal
choices such as Carnoustie, Turnberry, Royal Liverpool,
Nairn, Muirfield, Royal Porthcawl, Ballybunion and
Lahinch, among many others follow a whole chapter on
“The Crucible”, St Andrews Old Course, the links upon
which the game was born and been played for 600
years. We then move overseas to the most northerly,
Norway’s Lofoten, located above the Arctic Circle to
other European courses and those in the US and Old
Tom Morris of the Royal and Ancient. 11¼” square,
many full and double-page spreads capture the majesty
of these exposed, rugged and beautiful courses. 308pp.
$40 NOW £16
76564 GOLDEN RULES OF BRIDGE
by Paul Mendelson
Whether you play social rubber bridge or Chicago, club
teams events or duplicate pairs, these tips and
techniques will transform both your results and your
enjoyment of the game. Understand the logical
reasoning behind the most common bids, leads and
plays, develop winning understandings with your regular
partner or group of players. 247pp, paperback,
examples.
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79025 HOLY BIBLE
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM THE
VATICAN LIBRARY
by Turner Publishing
RELIGION AND
PHILOSOPHY
Wise men speak because they have
something to say; fools because they have
to say something.
- Plato
78804 HANDBOOK OF
ANGELS AND FALLEN
ANGELS
by Dr Robert Curran
Cherubim and Seraphim, the
archangels including Azrael and
Gabriel, fallen angels like Lucifer,
Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and Shax,
here too are angels on earth,
guardian angels, Tobit and the
Angel, The Poison Pot and modern
tales. Angels are ‘spiritual beings’ that have appeared
throughout the centuries in many religions around the
world. Our handbook is an essential guide to angels and
demons and more importantly, how to spot them. Are
they loving, winged messengers of Heaven, peaceful
caring beings spreading love, or are they mighty
warriors to be feared? The opening page has a beautiful
stained glass window illustration which when opened
reveals the contents of this special padded cover book
with elastic fastener. Fantastical illustrations in colour on
every one of the 80 pages and with glossary.
$14.99 NOW £4.50
78690 TEN POPES WHO
SHOOK THE WORLD
by Eamon Duffy
The Bishops of Rome have been
Christianity’s most powerful figures
for nearly 2,000 years, but their
influence has extended far beyond
the purely spiritual and still does
today. Popes have played a central
role in European history and also
that of the wider world, shouldering
the spiritual burden of their office
and also contending with - and
often causing - the cultural and political crises of their
times. The papacy is an institution that matters a great
deal whether one likes it or not, as this 262-strong
succession of popes, the world’s most ancient dynasty,
exercises a quasi-monarchic role, touching the
consciences and influencing the opinions of nearly a fifth
of the human race. In 2007 Eamon Duffy, Cambridge
professor of history of Christianity, broadcast a series of
ten shows on BBC Radio 4 on the ten most influential
popes in history and now readers can also enjoy Duffy’s
superb portraits of these ten exceptional men. Not
surprisingly we start with St Peter, the Rock upon whom
the Catholic Church was founded, then follow Leo the
Great (440-461), Gregory the Great (590-604), Gregory
VII (1073-1085), Innocent III (1198-1216), Paul III
(1534-1549), Pius IX (1846-1878), Pius XII (who landed
the world’s toughest job when he was elected on the
eve of WWII), his successor John XXIII (1958-1963) and
finally the much-loved John-Paul II (1978-2005), the first
non-Italian pope in 450 years and once a formidable
goalkeeper who played for both Catholic and Jewish
teams before WWII. With his prodigious knowledge and
obvious love of his subject, Duffy shows how these
men shaped their own worlds and in the process helped
to create ours. Photos and artworks, 151pp.
£14.99 NOW £6.50
78050 BUDDHA: Images In
Art by Michael Jordan
Each stance of the Buddha that an
artist displays, whether seated,
standing, walking or reclining,
reflects some aspect or incident of
Gautama (Shakyamuni) Buddha’s
life.’ Writer and broadcaster Michael
Jordan tells the story of Buddha’s
life, as well as describing glorious
artworks that have been created
over the centuries depicting the
holy man, explaining the religious significance and
symbolism in common themes such as poses, hairstyles
and positioning of hands. From the emergence of the
baby Gautama Siddharta, later to become the Buddha,
from the thigh of his mother Queen Maya, through to his
death by a small stream at Kusinagara near the
Nepalese border, this beautiful book is packed with
photographs of statues and other artworks. Paperback,
320pp, colour illus.
£16.99 NOW £6.50
77730 GOSPEL OF JUDAS: CRITICAL
EDITION
edited by Kasser, Wurst, Meyer, Gaudard
There is only one ancient reference to the Gospel of
Judas, by the Church Father Irenaeus in 180 A.D.,
hidden for 1600 years in a cave in Egypt. When the
Gospel surfaced in modern times as part of the Codex
Tchacos, discovered in the region of Al Minya around
1978, there was great excitement, tempered by caution.
Years spent in a safe deposit box caused decomposition
and disintegration until eventually Frieda Tchacos
acquired it for the Swiss Maecenas foundation. Scholars
have painstakingly reconstructed the damaged
manuscript, written in Sahidic, a form of Coptic, and it is
translated here into English alongside a transcription and
photograph of each original fragment. Each of the books
in the Codex has an introduction in both English and
French. Apart from The Gospel of Judas, the Tchacos
manuscript also includes The Letter of Peter to Philip, a
book simply called James, with the same text as the
Nag Hammadi Second Revelation of James, and the
seriously damaged Book of Allogenes. The content of
the Gospel of Judas concerns Judas’s visions of the
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reproduced from a one-of-akind handcrafted world
treasure completed by a
Florentine book dealer in
1478, the text having taken
the scribe Ugo Comminelli of Mézières four years to
write by hand. The numerous illuminations gracing the
original parchment papers of the Urbino Bible were hand
painted by such masters as Domenico and Davide
Ghirlandaio. The present volume makes use of all the
major illustrations from that bible and includes countless
other artistic details such as decorative borders, column
dividers, and illuminated and historiated initial capitals.
This extraordinary family heirloom Bible also draws
illustrations from 30 additional manuscript volumes in the
cosmos and ends with his betrayal of Jesus. 378pp,
colour facsimiles of the original papyrus pages,
codicological and historical introductions, parallel texts,
extensive index. For all New Testament scholars.
£25 NOW £7.50
77088 SECRET LANGUAGE
OF CHURCHES AND
CATHEDRALS
by Richard Stemp
Subtitled ‘Decoding the Sacred
Symbolism of Christianity’s Holy
Buildings’, here a lecturer at the
National Gallery takes us from
basilicas through Byzantine,
Romanesque, Gothic and beyond.
Why is there a pelican on the
lectern and ornate foliage on the
pillars? This special and richly adorned book restores the
lost spiritual meaning of these fine and fascinating
buildings. The book has three parts - from walls to
ceilings, with a theme by theme guide identifying
significant figures, scenes, stories, animals, flowers and
the use of numbers, letters and patterns in paintings,
carvings and sculpture. The final part is a historical
decoder, tracing the evolution of styles and the layers of
meaning. 30 x 24cm with many plans and layouts
including Salisbury Cathedral and Durham Cathedral, the
Tree of Jesse from St Michael’s Hildeshein, Germany,
the ecclesiastical calendar, the Ghent altarpiece and
much more. 225pp, colour photos.
$35 NOW £11
77712 ANCIENT ISRAEL: The Former
Prophets by Robert Alter
An award-winning translation of the Hebrew Bible of the
Books of the Former Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel
and Kings. Samson, the vigilante superhero of Judges,
slaughters thousands of Philistines with the jawbone of a
donkey. David, the Machiavellian Prince of Samuel and
Kings, is one of the great literary figures of antiquity. A
scattering of contentious desert tribes joined by faith in a
special covenant with God, Israel emerges through
bloody massacres of Canaanite populations recounted in
Joshua and the anarchic violence of Judges. David dies
bitterly isolated in his court, surrounded by enemies. His
successor Solomon maintains national unity through his
legendary wisdom, wealth and grand public vision, but
after his death Israel succumbs to internal discord and
foreign conquest. Near its end, the saga of Ancient
Israel returns to the supernatural. 852pp with Bible
references and map.
£25 NOW £6
78061 FONT OF LIFE: Ambrose, Augustine
and the Mystery of Baptism by Garry Wills
In the year 387, a man who was to become a major
figure in the history of Christianity, St Augustine, was
baptised by the Bishop of Milan who as St Ambrose
would become one of the most important Church
Fathers. Ambrose touched the ears and noses of the
people to be baptised to open their awareness before
they were required to renounce the devil, and they then
descended into the baptismal pool before emerging and
being given a white garment. Ambrose’s teaching to
Augustine included ways in which Old Testament figures
were forerunners of characters from the Christian story,
something Augustine would develop in his writings. This
fascinating book follows the careers of Augustine and
Ambrose. 194pp, photos.
ONLY £5
76491 STORY OF THE BIBLE: The Fascinating
History of its Writing, Translation and Effect
on Civilisation
by Larry Stone
This is a hands-on Bible history, and bound into the text
are 10 envelopes containing facsimiles of different Bible
manuscripts, starting with the Great Isaiah Dead Sea
Scroll, written in the first century B.C. Other facsimiles
include an illuminated page from The Morgan Crusader’s
Bible, described as one of the most beautiful Gothic
manuscripts in existence, together with illuminated Celtic
initial pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book
of Kells. Printing revolutionised the Bible’s availability,
and a facsimile from the Gutenberg Bible, of which there
are 48 still in existence, shows the text printed in
movable type with illustrations added by hand, making
every one unique. Luther’s and Erasmus’s Bibles are
reproduced, and other translations include the 17th
century translation into Algonquin. 96pp, large format
with enclosures, colour illus, timeline.
£21.99 NOW £9.50
Vatican Library featuring painters such as Pietro Perugino
and Bernardino Pinturicchio. By commissioning special
formulations of metallic-gold ink and applying them to
the printed pages in detailed hand-silhouetted from the
original gold, Turner Publishing in this first edition has
created a modern bible with all the special qualities of an
historic facsimile. 700 full colour illustrations, 1312
pages, satin bookmarker, maroon watermarked silk
binding, gilt-edged pages,
matching silk bound slipcase
and colour wrapper, this is a
once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to buy the most
beautiful family heirloom
bible we have ever seen.
With masterpieces of
Renaissance art with the
modern text of the Bible
most widely accepted by all
religious denominations, the
New Standard Revised
Version. Super
heavyweight, 10½” x
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first pages. No returns.
$599.99 NOW £150
78173 LIVING IN THE FACE OF DEATH: The
Tibetan Tradition by Glenn Mullin
This book incorporates writings from nine writers on the
tradition of death and dying, including several Dalai
Lamas and the author of the famous Tibetan Book of the
Dead. It introduces the concepts of karma and
reincarnation and also samsara, the world of cyclic
existence. When the body dies the mind enters the
bardo, or state between death and rebirth, taking with it
the karmic instincts it has generated during life, and
these, whether positive or negative, will determine what
kind of rebirth the spirit will receive in one of Buddhism’s
six realms. Each moment’s consciousness is said to
derive from the previous moment, and Buddhists are in
training for death at every moment of their lives.
Includes the Longevity Yogas and the Yoga of
Consciousness Transference. 238pp, paperback.
$16.95 NOW £5.50
77732 HOLY BLOOD,
HOLY GRAIL
by Michael Baigent, Richard
Leigh, Henry Lincoln
This new edition of the book that
created a sensation in 1982. The
authors originally started their
research with the mystery of
Father Berenger Sauniere, the
late 19th century priest of Rennes
le Chateau who, following a
renovation of his ancient church
dedicated to Mary Magdalene, suddenly became
fabulously wealthy. Speculation has focused on two
parchments discovered in the most ancient part of the
church, thought to contain some esoteric secret. The
village had links with the Cathars and Albigensian
crusade, as well as being a Visigoth bastion ruled by the
Merovingian King Dagobert II. Going back even earlier,
there was the treasure of the temple of Jerusalem,
pillaged by the Visigoth Alaric. The legends of secret
treasure led the authors to the Grail story, King Arthur,
and the German myths of the Nibelung. Their search
leads them to the possibility that Jesus was married to
Mary Magdalene and that their descendants are alive
today. 511pp, colour illus.
$35 NOW £9
78176 PURITY OF DESIRE: 100 Poems of
Rumi translated by Daniel Ladinsky
A book capturing the beauty, intimacy and musicality of
Jalaluddin Rumi, the Persian poet born 1207 who fled
the invasion of the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan.
Rumi and his family settled in Turkey where his father
was a scholar and mystic. Later, Rumi succeeded his
father in leading a Dervish college (divinity school) and
his life was transformed in 1244 when he met Shams
who became Rumi’s beloved companion and doorway to
God. Ladinsky explores 100 of his poems and the
nuances of desire and compelling wisdom of one of
Islam’s most revered artistic and religious voices. ‘Be
like the cat, so alive after the mouse, never wondering
or questioning why, when there is really only God, only
God... touching our paws.’ Softback, 118pp.
£11.99 NOW £5
78179 SILENCE: A Christian History
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
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In his thoughtful book, MacCulloch takes us on a guided
tour of the role of silence in Christian history and
tradition. He considers Jesus’ strategic use of silence, the
lessons of the first mystics in Syria, and the long arc of
monastic tradition. Plus silence in Protestant and
evangelical circles and more sinister institutional forms of
silence within the Catholic Church. In a deeply personal
final chapter he brings a message of optimism. 338pp in
paperback. Tiny remainder mark.
£17 NOW £5
77753 TEMPLARS AND THE SHROUD OF
CHRIST by Barbara Frale
The Turin Shroud is one of the most controversial relics
of the Catholic church. This swathe of fabric is claimed
to be imprinted with the image of the face of Jesus
Christ and, for a long time, was kept in the central
treasury of the Knights Templar. The Templars
considered the shroud to be a powerful antidote against
the proliferation of heresies. This compelling book tracks
them from their inception as warrior-monks protecting
religious pilgrims, following the Shroud’s pathway
through the Middle Ages, a Vatican historian has gone
back in time, to the dawn of the Christian era, to
provide a new perspective on this much disputed object.
296pp.
78285 ART OF HAPPINESS: A Handbook for
Living by H. H. Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler
One of the world’s great spiritual leaders offers his
practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome
everyday human problems and achieve lasting
happiness. Written for a Western audience, it combines
his Eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler’s
Western perspective. They apply the principals of
Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems and reveal
how one can find balance and complete mental and
spiritual freedom. Deal with anger and hatred, anxiety
and self esteem, bring about change and reflect on living
a more spiritual life. 269pp in paperback.
£9.99 NOW £5
30323 HOLY QUR’AN by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The Holy Qu’ran (also known as The Koran) is the
sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth
was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the
angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. The first full
compilation was by Abu Bakar, the first Caliph, and it
was then recompiled in the original dialect by the third
Caliph Uthman, after the best reciters had fallen in
battle. Muslims believe that the truths of the Qur’an are
fully and authentically revealed only in the original
classical Arabic. This translation, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
is considered to be the most faithful rendering available
in English. 562pp. Paperback.
ONLY £4
77179 IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD
by Tom Holland
Does the Qur’an really date from the Prophet’s lifetime?
Where did he actually live? The author focuses
particularly on the struggles of late antiquity, including
the Christian revolution of the Emperor Constantine and
its reversal by Justinian, with the result that
Constantinople was flattened and looted by thugs.
Justinian’s savage response and rebuilding of
Constantinople achieved temporary stability, but the
world seemed to be in apocalypse and the arrival of
Muhammad and his followers and Islam on the scene
promised a new way forward. 574pp, paperback,
timeline, colour reproductions.
£12.99 NOW £4.75
78356 FOUR GOSPELS by A. N. Wilson, Nick
Cave, Blake Morrison et al
The Bible has supreme status as a work of myth and
poetry. Encouraging the reading of the Bible as
literature rather than doctrine, the four central gospels
are presented here in the beauty of the Authorised King
James Version, with four fresh, modern introductions.
The revelatory essays by A. N. Wilson, Nick Cave,
Richard Holloway and Blake Morrison were
commissioned for the groundbreaking Pocket Canons
series. They offer piercing, moving and highly personal
responses to the most influential stories of the last 2000
years - the life of Christ. 313pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
77229 ON HEAVEN AND EARTH: Pope Francis
on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st
Century by Jorge Mario Bergoglio and
Abraham Skorka
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is better known, since 13th March
2013, as Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the 1.2
billion-strong Roman Catholic Church, and Rabbi
Abraham Skorka, like Pope Francis also born in Buenos
Aires, is a world-respected scholar of Talmudic and
Biblical research, as well as a biophysicist. For years
Cardinal Bergoglio (as he then was) and Rabbi Skorka
sought to build bridges between Catholicism and Judaism
and the world at large. This book brings together a
compelling series of dialogues where both men talk
about God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion,
euthanasia, same-sex marriage, science, communism vs.
capitalism, the Holocaust, the Arab-Israeli conflict,
education and plenty more. 236pp.
£14.99 NOW £6
77389 TOWARDS THE TRUE KINSHIP OF
FAITHS by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Through his five decades of experience, His Holiness the
Dalai Lama has advocated the view that every religion
in the world has similar ideas of love, the same goal of
benefitting humanity through spiritual practice. This
book is a spiritual classic by a great sage of our times
and he looks at how the world’s religions can come
together. He shows how in our globalised world, nations,
cultures and individuals of all faiths can turn to
compassion as a guiding principle for living a good life.
188pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
77465 CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE: The
Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster
This timeless classic has been praised by many as the
most important contemporary book on Christian
spirituality. It explores the ‘classic disciplines’ of the
Christian faith - the inward disciplines of meditation,
prayer, fasting and study. The outward disciplines of
simplicity, solitude, submission and service are described
alongside the corporate disciplines of confession, worship,
guidance and celebration. Reprint of the 1980 original,
paperback, 282pp.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
77714 BHAGAVAD GITA AS A LIVING
EXPERIENCE by Wilfried Huchzermeyer and
Jutta Zimmermann
Bhagavad Gita or ‘Song of the Lord’ is considered the
most important work of ancient Sanskrit literature. Part
of the great epic poem the Mahabharata, it tells the
story of Arjuna, a great warrior and prince, who on the
eve of battle experiences doubt and fear at the fighting
to come. His charioteer however is none other than Lord
Krishna, who not only strengthens his heart for battle but
explains to him the many paths of yoga, before
revealing himself in all his glory as God incarnate.
Includes a transliteration of the Sanskrit text, a mini
anthology of Western responses to it. 120pp, paperback,
Indian line art.
£10.99 NOW £3.50
$24.95 NOW £6
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