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LOST VICTORIAN BRITAIN
How the 20th Century
Destroyed the 19th Century’s
Architectural Masterpieces
NEW
Gavin Stamp Nowadays it seems obvious
that a magnificent building such as St
Pancras Station should be restored to its
original glory. But for much of the 20th
century, ‘Victorian’ was a term of derision,
and architects and planners were
determined to sweep away the built legacy
of the era. This poignant, chastening book
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catalogues the churches, railway stations,
public buildings and private homes it
destroyed, from Chatsworth’s glasshouses
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NEW THE HEDGEROWS HEAPED WITH MAY
The Telegraph Book of the Countryside
Stephen Moss To most people in Britain the countryside is hugely important and
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rarity of the spoonbill to the rise of the wind turbine. The book features Telegraph
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Jeremy Cooper Beginning with an
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AWN Pugin and the Gothic Revival to
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NEW BRITAIN’S LOST MINES
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of the Men who Carved
Out the Nation’s Wealth
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for centuries all kinds of other minerals
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NEW SIX MONTHS IN 1945
From World War to Cold War
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February 1945 and the dropping of
the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on
6 August saw the transition from old
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to the Postscript catalogue and a particularly
exciting selection of books for August, with
pride of place going to Alex Bernasconi’s
Wild Africa (right) and its magnificent
portrayal of landscape and wildlife: it was
the Independent Publishers’ Book Award
best photography book of 2011.
Alex Bernasconi’s photographs
depict some of nature’s finest
and most endangered animals –
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gorillas – portrayed here in
surprising and contemplative
moments. The 100 full-page
plates, in both colour and
black-and-white, also include
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as the Okavango Delta, acacia
skeletons in the Dead Vlei
and the red dunes of the Namib
Desert. With an essay by Hugh
Cumming, and thumbnails
of all the plates with captions,
this collection reveals scenes
of Africa rarely seen by
human eyes. PAPADAKIS
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Another book of striking photographs, but of
another era and very different subject matter,
Nicholas Cooper’s study of the architectural
photography firm Bedford Lemere & Co (p37)
is one of several great books on architecture
this month. Twentieth Century Castles (p3),
Gavin Stamp’s Lost Victorian Britain (p68)
and Peter Ashley’s Preposterous Erections,
an entertaining collection of English towers
(p67), are all among our featured titles,
while on the Architecture page proper
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For adults looking for fresh air or solace,
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(pp22-24); but child-minding or hill-walking,
we hope all our customers enjoy a sunny
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1954 Onwards (All Marks)
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Andrew Morgan Originally intended for an active service career
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ONE HUNDRED
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FOLKSONGS
For Medium Voice
MAKING MISCHIEF
A Maurice Sendak
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DOVER 2014 PB 288pp Illus 303x228mm
MORROW 2009 HB 208pp Illus 254x200mm
Ed. Cecil J Sharp
Renowned for his work
collecting folksongs from
singers all across Britain,
Cecil Sharp published
this selection of
arrangements for voice
and piano in 1916.
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familiar songs and
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Scarborough Fair,
O Waly, Waly and The
Golden Vanity with a
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PANORAMA OF THE
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THE WOMEN OF
THE COUSINS’ WAR
The Duchess, the Queen
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Dorinda Outram Between
the late 17th century and the
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Grand Tourist: The Russian Count
Encylopédie to science
Razumovsky in the Vatican, 1766
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J PAUL GETTY MUSEUM 2006 HB 320pp Illus 277x217mm
$60.00 16776 now £8.99
Andy Garnett; Polly
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traditional hay meadow –
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The fragrant orchid
As well as a describing the
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album of pressed and photographed flowers and plants.
£20.00 99708 now £9.99
Phillippa Gregory; David
Baldwin; Michael Jones
In the murderous medieval
power struggle known as the
Wars of the Roses, three
formidable women were key
players: Jacquetta, Duchess of
Bedford, Elizabeth Woodville,
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A YEAR IN THE
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Sendak was indisputably
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Max Tetau; Charlotte
Tourmente Joint pain
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John Farndon Water covers
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Arthur Ransome
from tranquil squares and gardens. ACC 2010 HB 192pp Illus 274x215mm
Roland Chambers
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Arthur Ransome (18841967) is best-known
DANGEROUS WORK
today as the author of
Diary of an Adventure
Swallows and Amazons,
Arthur Conan Doyle In
his name conjuring the
1880 a young medical
books’ setting in an
student named Arthur
idyllic 1930s Lake
Conan Doyle embarked on
District. Yet as a
his first adventure as ship’s
journalist he lived
surgeon aboard the Arctic
in Russia between 1913
whaler the Hope. The
and 1924, supported the
illustrated diary in which
Bolshevik revolution
he recorded the actionand had a Russian lover
packed voyage is published
as well as an English
here for the first time in a
wife. Documents declassified in 2005 revealed that
beautiful facsimile edition.
he had worked for MI6. Here, Chambers explores
The volume also contains
Ransome’s double life and ‘the ease with which he
an annotated transcript,
adopted all the competing ideals of his generation’.
photographs of the ship
GODINE 2009 HB 397pp Illus 235x160mm
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on deck with its officers, two non-fiction pieces about his
experiences, and two tales inspired by them.
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THE BAFFLE BOOK
Fifteen Fiendishly
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Lassiter Wren; Randle McKay
If you revel in armchair criminal
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Answers at the back – if you must. GODINE 2006 PB 160pp Illus 204x140mm
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MAN IN ENGLAND’
A Life of Joseph
Paxton: Gardener,
Architect and
Victorian Visionary
Kate Colquhoun A selftaught polymath, Joseph
Paxton (1803-65) first
made his mark at the age
of 23 as head gardener and
architect at Chatsworth,
but really became a
household name with his
‘overgrown greenhouse’
design for the Great
Exhibition. He was in
such demand that Charles
Dickens, himself no slouch, dubbed him ‘the busiest man
in England’. This perceptive biography takes account of
both the personal and professional lives of this man who
neatly personifies the Victorian ideals of self-improvement
and progress. GODINE 2006 HB 319pp Illus 235x160mm
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ARCHAEOLOGY
NEW THE STATUES THAT WALKED
Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
Terry Hunt; Carl Lipo In 2001, archaeologists
Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo set out to penetrate the
mystery of Easter Island: how so few people on
a remote, treeless and impoverished island could
have made and transported hundreds of the eerie,
gargantuan statues called moai, and what happened
to the culture that created such monumental
statuary? In this book the authors describe their
fascinating archaeological discoveries and present
a definitive account of what really happened
on the island. FREE PRESS 2011 HB 250pp Illus
$26.00 95473 now £6.99
TIME’S ANVIL
England, Archaeology
and the Imagination
Richard Morris Archaeology is a scientific discipline, but it has potent links
to the imagination, to biography, and to
poetry. This extraordinary, genre-defying
book offers both a history of archaeology and the author’s personal history in
archaeology. Its subjects range from the
last Ice Age to the destruction of the
wildwood, from the first farmers to the
Industrial Revolution, as Morris unearths the psycho-geography of humanity in England and offers a heartfelt meditation on the history beneath our feet.
WEIDENFELD 2012 HB 480pp Illus
£25.00 17006 now £7.99
GARDEN ARCHAEOLOGY
A Handbook
Chris Currie One of the Council for
British Archaeology’s series of Practical
Handbooks (no.17), Chris Currie’s book
looks at the methods used in the sub-discipline of garden archaeology and traces
its development with particular reference
to the advances made since 1987. Chapters on methods, including aerial photography, historic building analysis and geophysics, are followed by eight case and
regional studies, with contributions by
Martin Locock and Iain Soden.
COUNCIL FOR BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY
2005 PB 188pp Illus 210x147mm
17665 now £3.99
Michael Dames The mysterious conical
hill at Silbury in Wiltshire has puzzled
antiquaries and archaeologists for centuries, and attempts to probe its interior
have only deepened the enigma. Bold, lucid and scholarly, this book interprets the
latest scientific findings in the light of ancient religious beliefs. With more than
150 illustrations, including 16 pages of
colour plates, it paints a compelling picture of Silbury as a centre for the worship
of the Earth goddess at the time of the
Neolithic agricultural revolution.
SILBURY: Resolving the Enigma
HISTORY PRESS 2010 PB 192pp Illus
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CELTIC ORNAMENT
IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Down to AD 700
ET Leeds In tracing the history and evolution of pre-Christian Celtic ornamentation in the British Isles, this well-documented study describes and discusses
examples dating from the earliest ornament to 700 CE and ranging from fragments of a bronze hanging bowl decorated with finely detailed palm leaves to
a bronze bucket with embossed yin-yang
scrolls. Originally published in 1933, the
study is reprinted here with its original
drawings and monochrome plates.
THE CODE-BREAKER’S
SECRET DIARIES
Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832)
devoted his short life to solving the mystery
of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but he made only
one visit to Egypt, during a lull in the
Mediterranean war against the Ottoman Sultan. This book brings together the letters and
diary entries from May 1828 to March 1830
in which Champollion vividly and amusingly
documents both the dangers of the expedition
and his exhilaration at archaeological discoveries. GIBSON SQUARE 2009 PB 288pp
DOVER 2002 PB 185pp Illus 215x137mm
£9.99 84374 now £3.99
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THE PAST FROM ABOVE
Aerial Photographs
of Archaeological Sites
Georg Gerster; Ed. Charlotte Trumpler
A pioneer of aerial photography, Georg Gerster
travelled the world for 50 years, photographing
archaeological sites from the air. In this book,
which accompanied a major exhibition of
Gerster’s work in 2005, the archaeologist
Charlotte Trumpler introduces 250 photographs
of sites, among them the Acropolis, Karnak,
the Great Wall of China and the Aztec palaces.
The photographs are arranged by the type of
site and accompanied by expert captions and
notes on memorable flights by Gerster himself.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2005 PB 415pp Illus 290x235mm
$39.95 16411 now £14.99
The Crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers in Syria
THE BIRTH OF A BOROUGH
An Archaeological Study
of Anglo-Saxon Stafford
Martin Carver While much archaeological
research on the Anglo-Saxon era has focused
on famous centres such as London and York,
Stafford offered an opportunity for a large
scale examination of an ordinary county town
in the ninth and tenth centuries. This volume
reports on the ten-year project during which
archaeologists discovered that ‘dark age’
Stafford had acted as a centre for the delivery
of grain tribute and was commandeered by
Aethelflaeda, Lady of the Mercians, for the
construction of her burh. No jacket.
BOYDELL 2010 HB 194pp Illus 280x215mm
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THE LOST KINGDOMS
OF AFRICA
Discovering Africa’s
Hidden Treasures
Gus Casely-Hayford For many of us, the
pre-colonial history of Africa is at best
vague. Drawing on the latest research, this
journey through the continent’s past redresses the balance, surveying ancient civilizations such as Nubia, Ethiopia, Benin
and Great Zimbabwe, and uncovering archaeological sites that rival the Great Wall
of China, kingdoms of extraordinary
wealth, universities older than Oxford or
Cambridge, and creative traditions that
continue to inspire artists today.
BANTAM 2012 PB 348pp Illus
£14.99 16534 now £5.99
DECIPHERING
ANCIENT MINDS
The Mystery of San
Bushman Rock Art
David Lewis-Williams; Sam Challis
Using the rock art of the pre-agricultural,
hunter-gatherer San people of South
Africa as ‘an avenue into ancient minds’,
this study shows labels such as ‘primitive’
and ‘superstitious’ to be inaccurate survivals from early anthropology. Analysing
the detailed pictures of San art, the 19th
century transliterations of a now-extinct
San language, and the English translation
of those texts, this much-acclaimed study
demonstrates how the ‘prehistoric’ mind
was in fact as complex and sophisticated
as our own.
THAMES & HUDSON 2011 HB 224pp Illus
£18.95 17600 now £7.99
ANCIENT HISTORY
NEW TOWARDS ONE WORLD
Ancient Persia and the West
Warwick Ball The attempt by Persia to extend its
borders into Europe in the sixth century BCE is usually
considered to mark the beginning of the relationship
between East and West. Warwick Ball argues against
the common perception of this relationship as a shortlived ‘Manichean struggle’, emphasizing instead the
profound influence of the Persian religious idea of a
single universal creator and the complexity of relations
between the Persian Empire and the Greco-Roman
world. EAST & WEST 2010 PB 240pp Illus
£14.95 18180 now £6.99
NEW OUT OF ARABIA
Phoenicians, Arabs and
the Discovery of Europe
Warwick Ball Arab history stretches back long before
Islamic times; indeed, the Arabs’ Phoenician forebears
were exploring as far as the coasts of England and West Africa in the early first
millennium BCE. Out of Arabia offers a survey of Arab influence on European history
and identity, arguing that the arrival of the Arabs in Spain in 711 and the establishment
of Mediterranean Emirates should be understood as part of a process going back
thousands of years. EAST & WEST 2009 PB 224pp Illus
£14.95 18179 now £5.99
NEW ABYDOS
Egypt’s First Pharaohs
and the Cult of Osiris
David O’Connor Famous in ancient times
for its temple of the god Osiris, Abydos is
one of Egypt’s most important archaeological sites. O’Connor brings four decades’
experience of excavation at Abydos to his
account of the myth and cult of Osiris, the
history of the site’s archaeological investigation and the ways in which this vast complex of tombs, temples and towns can help
to explain patterns of ritual, urban and economic activity across ancient Egypt.
THAMES & HUDSON 2011 PB 216pp Illus
£18.95 18183 now £7.99
ANCIENT EGYPT AS IT WAS
Exploring the City
of Thebes in 1200 BC
Charlotte Booth What to do in the
Thebes of Ramses II (you won’t be allowed into the Valley of the Kings); where
to stay and how to travel around: written
in the style of a contemporary guide for
the inquisitive tourist, this entertaining
book evokes the sights and sounds of ancient Egypt with a combination of historical background and practical advice for
visitors. LYONS 2008 PB 160pp Illus
$16.95 98192 now £3.99
NEW TRAVELLER’S GUIDE
TO THE ANCIENT WORLD
Greece in the Year 415 BCE
Eric Chaline With the features that a
tourist would find in a modern travel
guide, this overview of ancient Athenian
life offers guidance on what sights to see
and who to meet, where to get a room for
the night, when to take part in festivals
and how to buy a slave. The book ends
with some useful words and phrases as
well as a brief outline of later Athenian
history. D&C 2008 HB 160pp Illus 190x115mm
£9.99 18228 now £4.99
Paul Chrystal In this intriguing history we
encounter ‘admirable, exciting, evil, slatternly and
dangerous women fighting to be heard and seen
against insurmountable odds in a world run by
men, for men’. Chrystal’s account, written for the
general reader as well as students of ancient history,
covers aspects of Roman women’s lives ranging
from betrothal and marriage to education, religion
and the dark arts. AMBERLEY 2013 HB 225pp Illus
WOMEN IN ANCIENT ROME
David Collins The Star of Bethlehem,
described in the Gospel of Matthew, has
remained a great astronomical mystery: a
puzzle for theologians, historians and astronomers. This study examines the three
schools of thought about the Star: that it
was invented to support Jesus’ divinity;
that it was a miracle; or that it was an
astronomical event, exploited by the author of Matthew. In detail, Collins focuses
first on Matthew’s narrative, then on
astronomical events around the time of
Jesus’ birth. AMBERLEY 2012 PB 191pp Illus
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
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Philip Matyszak; Joanne Berry This survey of
100 historical characters from antiquity sets the
generals and rulers known from Roman annals
alongside more humble figures, such as the slaves,
gladiators, actors and courtesans whose careers are
recorded in inscriptions, or a teenage girl whose
poetry has survived. Complemented by more than 200 illustrations, their stories
give a glimpse of the people behind the rise and fall of Rome and illuminate what
it meant to be a Roman citizen. THAMES & HUDSON 2008 HB 305pp Illus 256x200mm
LIVES OF THE ROMANS
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MEDIEVAL HISTORY
NEW MELISENDE OF JERUSALEM
The World of a Forgotten
Crusader Queen
Margaret Tranovich Although she ruled the
Kingdom of Jerusalem for more than 20 years
during the 12th century, Queen Melisende is a
shadowy figure whose name is unfamiliar to most
people today. Margaret Tranovich pieces together
the sketchy sources to set Melisende in the political
context of her tumultuous times and uses the art of
the period to explore the full breadth of the queen’s
contacts with the rich Byzantine, Islamic and
European traditions. EAST & WEST 2011 PB 191pp Illus
£14.95 18178 now £6.99
ANCHORITIC
TRADITIONS OF
MEDIEVAL EUROPE
NEW
Ed. Liz Herbert McAvoy Originating in
the desert withdrawal of the earliest Christians, anchoritism was widespread in Europe during the Middle Ages and was especially associated with pious laywomen
who embraced it as an alternative to marriage or remarriage. The nine studies in
this volume bring together much important
European scholarship on the subject and
present case-studies illustrating the variety
of roles performed by anchorites, such as
teaching, prophecy, counselling and care
of the sick. BOYDELL 2010 HB 256pp
£60.00 17926 now £25.00
EARLY ENGLISH
ARBITRATION
Derek Roebuck How were disputes managed in England before the Common Law?
This interdisciplinary study, using the
work of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and geneticists, begins
with the prehistoric evidence, which shows
that people were regularly assembling to
deal with disputes. Then, using original
sources, presented here in new translations,
it covers Roman, Anglo-Saxon and postConquest times to demonstrate that sophisticated techniques of mediation and
arbitration were in use well before Henry
II’s new legal system. HOLO 2008 HB 330pp
£40.00 17555 now £14.99
THE PLANTAGENETS
The Kings that Made Britain
Derek Wilson At the accession of
Henry II in 1154, the Plantagenets ruled
over a realm that stretched from the
Scottish borders to the Pyrenees. When
Richard III died in 1485, only Calais
was left on the European mainland, but
the Plantagenets had consolidated and
secured royal control within Britain. In
this lucid account of their 300 year
reign, Wilson chronicles the turbulent
and often blood-soaked world of kings
such as Richard the Lionheart, King
John and Henry V, the hero of
Agincourt. QUERCUS 2014 PB 296pp Illus
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NEW
ENGLAND AND
THE AVIGNON POPES
The Practice of Diplomacy
in Late Medieval Europe
Karsten Plöger This study of Anglo-papal relations
during the 14th century focuses on the forms and
structures of diplomatic communication, rather than
its content and ‘end-products’ such as alliances and
treaties. The author applies theories of international
relations and draws on a range of unpublished sources
to examine the complex dialogue between Westminster
and the popes Clement VI and Innocent VI concerning
two ‘grand themes’: ecclesiastical administration and
the preservation of peace. LEGENDA 2005 PB 318pp
£55.00 18218 now £12.99
THE SAINTS’ LIVES OF JOCELIN OF FURNESS
Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics
Helen Birkett Although Jocelin of Furness (fl. 1175-1214) is known as the author of
four substantial hagiographical texts, he is otherwise a shadowy figure and has been
dismissed by modern scholars for his ‘uneven’ and ‘prolix’ work. But in this first fulllength study, Birkett reassesses Jocelin, analysing the composition of the Lives and investigating the patronage and ecclesiastical politics which can help us to understand
the different agendas behind each one. YORK MEDIEVAL 2010 HB 342pp
£60.00 17957 now £19.99
AGAINST ALL ENGLAND
Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656
Robert W Barrett Examining late medieval and early modern English identity from
the vantage point of an explicitly regional literature, this study of pageants, poems and
prose works created in Cheshire between 1195 and 1656 challenges the dominant
view of the Renaissance as a break with England’s medieval past. In discussing texts
such as Lucian’s De laude Cestrie, the Chester Whitsun plays and the Stanley family
romances, Barrett demonstrates both regional continuity and the ‘complex intertwining
of regional and national identities’. NOTRE DAME UP 2009 PB 324pp
$35.00 10649 now £14.99
EDWARD III AND THE
TRIUMPH OF ENGLAND
The Battle of Crécy and
the Company of the Garter
Richard Barber Edward III’s victory at Crécy
in 1346 marked a watershed in European
history, making England a major force and
leaving the young king poised to claim the
French throne. In this highly original history,
Barber evaluates the often incomplete or
biased sources to get as close as possible
to this violent, heroic world; and, focusing
on the Company of the Garter that Edward
created, he traces the lives of its members and
the ethos of Arthurian chivalry they cultivated.
ALLEN LANE 2013 HB 672pp Illus
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MODERN HISTORY
NEW THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS
1640-1660
Blair Worden presents a concise account of the
political upheaval that saw the English monarchy
and the House of Lords abolished and replaced by
a republic and military rule. He explores the origins
and course of the conflict – the war between King
and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, the rule
of Oliver Cromwell and the Restoration – assessing
the motives of the opposing sides and the legacy
of the struggle for future generations.
PHOENIX 2009 PB 202pp
£8.99 18953 now £3.99
CAVALIER AND ROUNDHEAD SPIES
Intelligence in the Civil War
and Commonwealth
HERETIC QUEEN
Queen Elizabeth I and
the Wars of Religion
Susan Ronald In this critically-acclaimed
study of Elizabeth I, Susan Ronald focuses
on the queen’s role in the Wars of Religion
– the battle between Protestantism and
Catholicism that tore apart Europe in the
16th century. Ronald shows how, in the
Tudor era, religion was high politics, how
domestic policy was governed by the religious imperatives of the Reformation
and how Elizabeth ruled so successfully
in a period that saw a ‘monumental struggle of ideology and survival’.
Julian Whitehead The crucial part played by
intelligence and espionage in Britain during the Civil
Wars has rarely been studied, yet it is a key to understanding the dangerous politics
and the open warfare of the period. In a vivid narrative, Julian Whitehead traces the
rapid development of spying techniques during the civil conflict; demonstrates
how leaders on all sides set up increasingly effective systems for gathering and
interpreting intelligence; and he describes the decisive impact that intelligence
had on events. PEN & SWORD 2009 HB 255pp
£19.99 97852 now £9.99
CROMWELL HATH
THE HONOUR BUT...
Major-General Lambert’s
Campaigns in the North, 1648
PR Hill; JM Watkinson Oliver Cromwell’s
reputation tends to overshadow his ‘lesser’
generals, yet they each had an important role to
play. Once such man was John Lambert. Tasked
with commanding forces in the North in 1648-9,
he proved to be a popular and effective general
who undertook the sieges at Pontefract and
Scarborough and united his troops in resisting
Royalist rebels and Scots invaders. This carefully
researched account offers a detailed and balanced
reappraisal of Lambert’s achievements.
ST MARTIN’S 2012 HB 368pp Illus
$27.99 16787 now £6.99
AMERICAN TEMPEST
How the Boston Tea Party
Sparked a Revolution
Harlow Giles Unger In an action-packed
drama of colonial America, Unger reveals
how the Tea Party had less to do with tea
than the political ambitions of James Otis
Jr, a certifiably mad lawyer, and a bankrupt
brewer named Sam Adams. These two took
over the Boston merchants’ protest movement against British import duties, seized
political power in Massachusetts, and set
off a social, political and economic storm
that ended with the Declaration of Independence. DA CAPO 2011 HB 300pp Illus
£18.99 17092 now £6.99
MORE FRUITFUL
THAN THE SOIL
Army, Empire and the
Scottish Highlands, 1715-1815
Andrew MacKillop This book analyses
the origins, development and impact of
British Army recruiting in the Scottish
Highlands from 1715 to 1815 – an issue
once described as ‘perhaps the most explosive single element in the entire history
of the Highland clearances’. The emphasis
here is on tenant reactions to recruiting,
and the study concludes that this was a vital factor in bringing about change in the
tenurial system in the region. Both the decline of the tacksman and the emergence
of crofting are linked to the process of regiment raising. TUCKWELL 2000 PB 290pp
£16.99 34113 now £5.99
FRONTLINE 2012 HB 254pp Illus
£25.00 16901 now £9.99
Sir Walter Ralegh; Ed. VT Harlow In this volume, Harlow introduces Ralegh’s
account of his 1595 voyage and ‘discovery’ of Guiana with an engrossing account
of Ralegh himself and his quest for El Dorado, and also provides a wealth of
additional material from Spanish documents. ISRAEL/DACAPO 1971 HB 292pp
THE DISCOVERIE OF GUIANA
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THE WORLD AT
THEIR FINGERTIPS
18th Century British
Two-Sheet DoubleHemisphere World Maps
Geoff Armitage Between 1680
and 1807, British publishers
produced a sequence of double
hemisphere world maps, each
printed on two conjoined sheets,
with an eye to the growing market
among the upwardly mobile.
Drawing on the collection of the
British Library, this handsome,
informative book reproduces 24
maps in full colour, in addition to many details and smaller illustrations.
A valuable guide to identification, it also sets the maps in their historical
context and provides biographies of leading figures in the trade.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2012 HB 262pp Illus 238x310mm
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MODERN HISTORY
NEW THE PERILOUS CROWN
France Between Revolutions,
1814-1848
Munro Price The period that followed
the restoration of the French monarchy in
1815 is as dramatic and turbulent as the
events that preceded it. The reigns of the
last three kings of France were punctuated
by intrigue, assassination attempts, street
fighting and two further revolutions.
Drawing on previously unpublished letters,
this absorbing history charts the rise and
fall of the ‘citizen king’ Louis-Philippe,
giving due prominence for the first
time to the role of his remarkable sister
Adelaide. MACMILLAN 2007 HB 462pp Illus
IMPRISON’D WRANGLERS
The Rhetorical Culture of the
House of Commons, 1760-1800
Christopher Reid Although the later 18th century
has been regarded as parliamentary oratory’s golden
age, its speaking history remains to a large extent
unexplored. Drawing on contemporary sources
ranging from newspaper reports to memoirs, this
study looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical
culture inside and outside the House of Commons
during a period when Parliament consolidated its
authority as a national institution and gained a new
kind of prominence in the public eye.
OXFORD UP 2012 HB 284pp Illus
£63.00 17318 now £19.99
£20.00 77391 now £7.99
THE MAKING OF
VICTORIAN VALUES
Decency and Dissent
in Britain: 1789-1837
Ben Wilson explores ‘the way the British
went about moral rearmament’ in the early
19th century. His focus is on the generation born in the aftermath of the American
and French revolutions, and he begins
with the libertine spirit inspired by Byron,
Shelley and the Romantics. He then examines how ‘an alliance of evangelical
reformers and secular utilitarians’ fought
against forms of debauchery and vice to
shape the moral, political and social character of 19th century Britain. Slightly offmint. PENGUIN 2007 HB 463pp Illus
$27.95 61938 now £7.99
BRITISH NAVY’S
VICTUALLING BOARD,
1793-1815
Janet Macdonald The Victualling Board
was a subsidiary of the Admiralty which
fed the British Royal Navy from 1683 to
1832. The Board manufactured, purchased
and distributed foodstuffs and drinks from
its bases in England and abroad. In general, it performed these tasks well, but
other aspects of its work led to public
scandals and reorganizations. This study
looks at how the Board did its job and the
reasons for its failures, tracing these back
to the Admiralty and political patronage.
No jacket. BOYDELL 2010 HB 282pp
£75.00 17931 now £19.99
DUBLIN CASTLE AND THE
FIRST HOME RULE CRISIS
The Political Journal of Sir
George Fottrell, 1884-1887
Ed. Stephen Ball Presenting information
supplied to politicians by administrators
in Dublin Castle – men with a ‘worm’seye-view’ of Irish affairs – this collection
of documents, with an extensive introduction, examines why, in 1885, Gladstone
‘embraced the idea of Irish home rule
without securing the support of his party
for this radical departure’. As well as the
journal of George Fottrell, the book includes letters by Earls Spencer and Carnarvon, EG Jenkinson, Sir Robert Hamilton
and Gladstone. Camden Fifth Series. Volume 33. CAMBRIDGE UP 2008 HB 354pp
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THE DAY PARLIAMENT
BURNED DOWN
Caroline Shenton When the old Palace of
Westminster burned down on 16 October 1834, it
was seen as a national catastrophe. Rumours about
the cause of the fire were rife: was it arson, terrorism,
foreign operatives, a kitchen accident or even divine
judgement on politicians? In this riveting study, the
Director of the Parliamentary Archives Caroline
Shenton unfolds the story of the fire over the course
of that day, and paints a skilful portrait of the social
and political context of Westminster at the time.
£18.99 17258 now £6.99
AG Macdonell Within six years of rising to
prominence, Napoleon had seized control of
France, appointing himself First Consul in 1799.
During his leadership, over the next 16 years, he
appointed 26 men to be Marshals of the Empire,
mostly from the ranks of the military. This
classic account, written in 1934 by the satirist and
connoisseur of military history AG Macdonnell,
examines the relationships between these men
and their Emperor to tell the story of the
Napoleonic Wars. FONTHILL 2012 PB 222pp Illus
NAPOLEON AND HIS MARSHALS
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THE APOCALYPSE OF
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
His Last Years, from Waterloo
to St Helena: A Medical Biography
Robert Richardson Since Napoleon died a
prisoner on St Helena in 1821, there has been much speculation about the cause of
his demise. This groundbreaking study sidesteps rumour and speculation, focusing
solely on the reports of the doctors who attended him. Its conclusion is startling.
While the immediate cause of death was a gastric ulcer, Napoleon’s underlying poor
health was due to the hostility of the island’s governor, Hudson Lowe, and a scandal
involving the mistress of Admiral Plampin, commander of its naval station.
QUILLER 2009 HB 292pp Illus
£20.00 16651 now £6.99
THE KILLER TRAIL
A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa
Bertrand Taithe Led by two French army captains, the Voulet-Chanoine mission left
Dakar on the coast of French West Africa in 1898, headed for the central African region
of Lake Chad. The objective was to establish borders between the French and British
empires and to ‘pacify’ belligerent natives. After descending into extraordinary violence,
the mission provoked outrage in Paris. Taithe describes this atrocity and its reception in
Europe and considers whether Voulet and Chanoine simply took colonial violence to a
logical extreme. OXFORD UP 2009 HB 336pp Illus 195x127mm
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20th CENTURY HISTORY
NEW JFK’S CAMELOT
The Unfolding Story
of a President
Adam Powley The identification of
John F Kennedy’s presidency with
the Arthurian ideal of Camelot came
in the emotional aftermath of his death,
as the result of a chance remark by his
wife. This book offers a contemporary
perspective on JFK’s developing career
through Daily Mirror articles and
photographs reporting on his election
campaign, his eventful administration,
including the Bay of Pigs Invasion and
Cuban Missile Crisis, and his shocking
assassination. HAYNES 2013 HB 208pp Illus
Hans Safrian; Trans. Ute Stargardt
The name Adolf Eichmann is a byword
for detached, bureaucratic evil, but he
could not have perpetrated his crimes
without a legion of accomplices. This
groundbreaking study profiles a core
group of Nazis who expelled German,
Austrian, Polish, Russian, French, Greek,
Italian and Czech Jews from their homelands to the ghettos and concentration
camps of Eastern Europe. Its chronological organization also charts the systematic escalation from expulsion and confinement to mass murder. No jacket.
NEW
EICHMANN’S MEN
CAMBRIDGE UP 2010 HB 326pp
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£54.99 17750 now £14.99
THE PURSUIT OF
THE NAZI MIND
Hitler, Hess and the Analysts
Daniel Pick, historian and psychoanalyst,
tells how, during the Second World War,
the Allies used the ‘psy’ professions to
delve into the motivations of the Nazi
leadership and the mentality of the
‘masses’ they led. Focused on the psychiatric examination of Rudolf Hess after his
capture, the book explores the role of psychiatry and Freudian analysis in wartime
and at the Nuremberg trials, and the
shadow it cast on post-war recovery policy and political thinking in the longer
term. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 368pp
£18.99 11380 now £8.99
GIANTS: THE DWARFS
OF AUSCHWITZ
The Extraordinary Story
of the Lilliput Troupe
BERLIN 1961
Kennedy, Krushchev and the
Most Dangerous Place on Earth
Frederick Kempe Much has been written
about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, but
in the eyes of many participants, the standoff over Berlin the previous year brought
the world closer to the brink of disaster,
with US and Soviet tanks just yards apart.
Based on a wealth of new documents and
interviews, this gripping, insightful account charts the crisis as it developed,
profiles the characters of Kennedy and
Khrushchev, and outlines the domestic
and foreign pressures they faced.
GIBSON SQUARE 2014 HB 494pp Illus
GP PUTNAM’S SONS 2011 HB 605pp Illus
£25.00 17861 now £7.99
$29.95 99948 now £6.99
THE SHOCK OF AMERICA
Europe and the Challenge
of the Century
NEW
Yehuda Koren; Eilat Negev In the
1930s, the Ovitz family – seven of whom
were dwarfs – enjoyed massive success
as the Lilliput Troupe of singers and actors. But as the Nazi regime tightened its
grip, they were plunged into the horrors
of Auschwitz. Based on interviews with
Perla Ovitz, the last living member of the
troupe, and many other concentration
camp survivors, this powerful book tells
the inspirational story of this remarkable
family and their indomitable will to survive. ROBSON 2013 HB 300pp Illus
£16.99 16454 now £6.99
NEW EISENHOWER’S BLUFF
The World’s Secret Battle
against Nuclear Annihilation
Evan Thomas As Supreme Allied Commander at the end of the Second World
War, Dwight Eisenhower wielded one of
the most formidable conventional military
forces in history. During his presidency
of the United States between 1953 and
1961, his focus was on avoiding the use
of nuclear weapons against his former
ally, the Soviet Union. This detailed analysis of his foreign policy, while President,
explains how his subtle and diplomatic
methods helped to keep the uneasy peace.
David W Ellwood Europeans tend to regard the United States as either a beacon
of hope or a threat to established values.
This magisterial survey examines such attitudes in the wake of the 20th century’s
three great conflicts: the First and Second
World Wars, and the Cold War. Drawing
on a dazzling array of sources, from government papers to popular journalism, it
examines the impact of America’s military, political, economic and cultural
power, and the tensions, policies and popular stereotypes it has inspired.
SIX MOMENTS
OF CRISIS
Inside British Foreign Policy
NEW
Gill Bennett Former Chief Historian of the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Bennett gives an insider’s perspective on British
foreign policy as she explores six crucial
challenges: Korea 1950; the Suez Crisis
1956; applying to join the EEC in 1961;
the decision to withdraw from east of Suez,
January 1968; the expulsion of 105 Soviet
spies in Operation Foot 1971; and the
decision to send a task force to the Falklands in 1982. OXFORD UP 2013 HB 239pp
£20.00 17436 now £7.99
£37.99 17434 now £12.99
GOLDEN HARVEST
Events at the Periphery
of the Holocaust
THE FRENCH CENTURY
An Illustrated History
of Modern France
Jan Tomasz Gross A grainy photograph that
appeared in a Polish newspaper in 2008 caused
national soul searching. It showed a group of
peasants atop a mountain of ashes at Treblinka,
searching for gold that had escaped the Nazis’
attention – after the war had ended. In lucid
prose, this moving book unsparingly recounts
how the Holocaust was accompanied by the
systematic theft of Jewish property, not only
by their persecutors but also by their former
neighbours and friends.
Brian Moynahan Authoritative and entertaining, this richly illustrated chronological survey traces the achievements of
20th-century France in politics, science,
sport and the arts. Nor does it flinch from
the darker aspects of the nation’s history:
defeat and occupation in the Second
World War, colonial wars in Algeria and
Indochina and, more recently, riots in the
banlieues and the rise of the far right.
From Peugot to Piaf, from Barthes to
Barthez, it brilliantly encapsulates what
makes the French so distinctively French.
OXFORD UP 2012 HB 153pp
FLAMMARION 2007 HB 480pp Illus 222x182mm
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20th CENTURY/CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
NEW STREETLIFE
The Untold History of
Europe’s Twentieth Century
Leif Jerram History is usually described
through the actions of leaders, the rise and fall
of ideologies, and the outcome of wars. Yet
momentous change is often set in motion where
public and private meet: on the city streets. This
brilliant, provocative history ranges from St
Petersburg in 1905 to the fall of the Berlin Wall
to show how ordinary men and women, through
riot, revolution, popular culture and sexual
adventure, have shaped the Europe of today.
OXFORD UP 2013 PB 481pp Illus
£12.99 17445 now £5.99
THE MINISTRY OF DEFEAT
The British War in Iraq 2003-2009
THE REPUBLIC
The Fight for Irish
Independence, 1918-1923
Charles Townshend The fight for
independence pitted the Irish not only
against the British, but against one
another in a physical conflict of
shocking violence and an intellectual
battle for a new sort of country. This
magisterial history charts both the
struggle against Britain and the bitter
civil war between supporters and
opponents of the Treaty. Nuanced and
sceptical, it unflinchingly seeks out
the truth behind the myths, while
never losing sight of the heroism of
ordinary Irish men and women.
NEW
£25.00 17849 now £9.99
Lawrence James writes that Churchill’s
‘ardent and unswerving faith in the British
Empire’ has been ‘overlooked or discreetly sidelined in Churchillian literature’. From his experience as a young
army officer, serving in conflicts in India,
South Africa and the Sudan, to his resignation as Prime Minister in 1955, this portrait of Churchill offers a new perspective
on the imperial preoccupations that came
to be seen as outmoded but make him
such a compellingly contradictory figure.
CHURCHILL AND EMPIRE
WEIDENFELD 2013 HB 463pp Illus
£25.00 16828 now £7.99
THE WOMAN WHO
CENSORED CHURCHILL
Ruth Ive During the Second World War,
to prevent German interception, all
transatlantic telephone lines were disconnected except one: the hotline between
Churchill and Roosevelt. Even this was
censored. It was the job of a young stenographer, Ruth Ive, to listen in and cut
the line should either leader let slip information that might compromise security.
Now, after decades of silence under the
Official Secrets Act, she can finally tell
the fascinating story of her top secret and
vitally important wartime service.
HISTORY PRESS 2008 HB 160pp Illus
Richard North In this hard-hitting account of Britain’s military occupation of
southern Iraq, from the aftermath of the 2003 invasion to 2009, when the last
British troops were ordered to leave by the Iraqi government, Richard North
argues that the occupation was an abject failure and the blame lies with the
Blair government’s failure to provide the Army with the forces and equipment
to meet a challenge that it and the military establishment had hopelessly
misread from the start. CONTINUUM 2009 HB 277pp Illus
£19.99 80377 now £7.99
SOCIAL HISTORY
NEW VILLAGE SCHOOLING
IN SOMERSET
Learn ’em Hard
Sarah Villiers Little schooling had been
available in England’s rural areas until the
1870 Education Act, although significant
efforts had been made in Somerset prior
to this by philanthropists such as Hannah
More and the Rev. John Poole. This study
considers the development of village
schools in the county in the 19th and 20th
centuries, examining the experience of the
pupils, the curricula and the school management, from staffing and funding to the
layout of the buildings.
Marilyn Yurdan With tales from the days
of indoor sandals and navy knickers, Latin
verbs and transistor radios, semolina pudding and O Levels, this light-hearted social history is based on the experiences
of pupils from 18 schools around the
country and describes how things were
for grammar school girls – at school and
at home – between about 1955 and 1965.
HISTORY PRESS 2012 PB 192pp 172x110mm
£9.99 97713 now £3.99
RYELANDS 2012 HB 224pp Illus 295x210mm
£24.99 18241 now £9.99
David Kynaston’s study of postwar Britain
has quickly become a classic in the five years
since its 2007 publication. The history of six
tumultuous years, it describes the resurrection
of an exhausted country and how Clement
Attlee’s Labour Government shaped the
political, economic and social landscape
for the remainder of the 20th century. The
book includes an astonishing variety of
contemporary voices, from the Chingford
housewife coping with rationing to the pipe
dreams of an optimistic pit worker.
AUSTERITY BRITAIN 1945-51
BLOOMSBURY 2007 PB 673pp Illus
£14.99 99212 now £6.99
David Kynaston Books 3 and 4 (The Certainties of Place and A Thicker Cut),
here bound in a single volume, continue Kynaston’s extraordinarily evocative
narrative, from an ailing King George VI opening the Festival of Britain and the
Conservative victory that made Churchill once more Prime Minister, to the Suez
crisis, Soviet action in Hungary and bus fares raised in Lowestoft to offset petrol
rises. WALKER 2010 HB 785pp Illus
FAMILY BRITAIN 1951-1957
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NEW GREASEPAINT AND CORDITE
The Story of ENSA and
Concert Party Entertainment
During the Second World War
Andy Merriman During the course of the Second
World War, the Entertainments National Services
Association put on countless productions for
the troops across the world, offering everything
from music hall turns to Laurence Olivier.
The enormous number of shows meant that the
talent was spread thinly and performances were
often delivered in difficult circumstances and
inhospitable climes. Drawing on interviews with
surviving ENSA performers, this book tells the
colourful story of this most unusual and complex
theatrical enterprise. AURUM 2013 HB 320pp Illus
£20.00 18292 now £6.99
THESE WONDERFUL
RUMOURS!
A Young Schoolteacher’s
Wartime Diaries 1939-1945
NEW
May Smith was a 24-year-old schoolteacher, living with her parents in Swadlincote, Derbyshire when war broke out in
1939. The previous year she had started
keeping the diary in which she recorded
both the mundane details of life and the
extraordinary impact of war up to and beyond VE Day. Introduced by Juliet Gardiner, this is May’s ‘snapshot of life as it
was really lived’. VIRAGO 2014 PB 414pp
£8.99 18333 now £3.99
NEW BREAKING WITH
TRADITION: 1960s
Rose Shepherd Part of the Looking Back
at Britain series that uses reportage photographs and a richly informative text to
survey the social history and the newsworthy stories of Britain decade by
decade, this volume focuses on the 1960s,
from Harold Macmillan’s ‘wind of
change’ speech and the CND’s 10,000strong rally in 1960 to the 1969 Battle of
the Bogside, one the first major conflicts
of ‘The Troubles’ in the Northern Ireland.
READER’S DIGEST 2010 HB 160pp Illus
285x227mm
NEW THE DARK BOX
A Secret History of Confession
John Cornwell It was not until the 13th
century that adult Catholics were required
to confess their sins in private once a year;
in recent decades the custom has been virtually abandoned. The Dark Box is a history of the rise and fall of this often controversial practice, drawing on Cornwell’s
own experience and focusing on reforms
which sought to protect the Catholic faithful but actually increased opportunities
for psychological oppression and sexual
abuse. Slightly off-mint.
PROFILE 2014 HB 316pp
£17.99 18302 now £5.99
£16.99 18349 now £5.99
TO THE LETTER
A Journey Through
a Vanishing World
HOME TRUTHS
An Alternative History
of Every House
NEW
Simon Garfield In his ‘celebration of
what has gone before, and the value we
place on literacy, good thinking and thinking ahead’, Simon Garfield explores how
we have written to each other over the
centuries. Covering correspondents from
Cicero and Marcus Aurelius to Ted
Hughes and the Queen Mother, the book
delves into the stories of famous letterwriters and considers all the things we
have lost – ‘the post, the envelope, a pen,
a slower cerebral whirring’ – by replacing
letters with email.
Bill Laws Why does your house look the
way it does? What is the point of a dado
rail? And what’s that thingumajig for?
From noggins and newel posts to power
showers and fitted kitchens, every household fixture has a story to tell. Illustrated
with photographs, antique prints and vintage advertisements, this light-hearted history of the domestic environment uncovers the often bizarre stories behind the
inventions that have shaped our homes.
£9.99 92149 now £4.99
CANONGATE 2013 HB 464pp Illus
£16.99 18358 now £6.99
MEMORIES OF BRITAIN PAST
The Illustrated Story of How
We Lived, Worked and Played
Juliet Gardiner Drawing on the wonderful Getty photographic archive, this book
is full of memorable images of a bygone
era. It focuses on times within living memory, from the early 1930s to the end of the
1970s, during which the country underwent
profound changes. Covering key aspects
of the way we used to live, from home
life, childhood and schooling through to
the working world and popular entertainments, social historian Juliet Gardiner
looks back on a largely vanished Britain.
READER’S DIGEST 2012 HB
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ON THE RUN
Deserters Through the Ages
Graeme Kent In his review of military
absconsion throughout history, Graeme Kent
reports that when the Second World War ended,
it was estimated that there were over 20,000
deserters of various nationalities on the run in
Britain. His survey of the ignoble art of running
away includes stories of disgruntled Roman
legionnaires, Civil War turncoats, Naval mutineers
and even famous personalities, such as General
Custer and Herman Melville, who couldn’t resist
the urge to go AWOL. ROBSON 2013 HB 348pp
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SOCIAL HISTORY
TRADITIONAL CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES IN EAST ANGLIA
The Photographic Legacy of Hallam Ashley
Ed. Andrew Sargent This collection of 140 photographs, taken mostly during the
1940s and 1950s by Hallam Ashley (1900-87), depicts traditional working practices in
East Anglian agriculture, crafts and
industry. Working for the National
Reeds, Horsey
Buildings Record and the Society
Staithe, Norfolk,
for the Protection of Ancient
April 1963
Buildings, Ashley made an important
pictorial survey of architectural
heritage but, as these images show,
his interest in social documentary
is perhaps more significant, depicting
a centuries-old way of life at a time
of rapid social change.
ENGLISH HERITAGE 2010 PB
£16.99 94694 now £6.99
Boy holding a kolf club and a ball, 1603
THE TUDOR CHILD
Clothing and Culture
1485 to 1625
Ninya Mikhaila; Jane Huggett This
illustrated, in-depth study of children’s
costume in the Tudor period draws on
original academic research to provide a
social history of babies and children
(up to the age of 12) between 1485 and
1625. As well as putting the clothes
and the conventions of children’s dress
into social context, the authors have
devised practical patterns, with detailed
instructions for making up the garments
and photographs of reconstructed
examples, including babies’ linen,
underwear, head wear and knitted items.
YALE UP 2011 PB 367pp Illus
£11.99 18353 now £4.99
MEAT, COMMERCE
AND THE CITY
The London Food Market
1800-1855
ONEWORLD 2011 PB 144pp
Robyn S Metcalfe In 1800 Smithfield
Market was the largest cattle market in
the world; but new concerns over sanitation, as well as changing views about the
purpose of public space, meant that the
market became an issue of contention,
culminating in the Smithfield Removal
Act of 1851. Metcalfe examines the struggle between the market’s supporters and
detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban
landscape came to be used. No jacket.
£7.99 17922 now £3.99
£60.00 17159 now £9.99
FAT GOOSE 2013 PB 160pp Illus 280x230mm
£30.00 16384 now £9.99
NEW DIRECTIONS
TO SERVANTS
Jonathan Swift Described by Colm
Toibin as ‘a central document in the long,
comic and sly history of Irish disrespect’,
this is Swift’s manual on how servants
should cope with the demands of their indolent and greedy masters. With a biographial note. Oneworld Classics.
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popular
demand
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NEW MILK
A Local and Global History
Deborah Valenze How and why have
people in Western Europe and North
America become so attached to cow’s
milk? That is the question with which
Deborah Valenze begins her history of
milk. Spanning over 3,000 years of human
history, from Isis worship in ancient Middle Eastern societies to industrial dairy
farming in 21st century America, the book
tells the story of milk through centuries
of ‘mystery, myth and impassioned debate’ to its status as a commodity today.
PICKERING & CHATTO 2012 HB 260pp
ARISTOCRATS:
POWER, GRACE AND DECADENCE
Britain’s Great Ruling Classes
from 1066 to the Present
Lawrence James For almost a millennium,
Britain was governed by a small coterie of
aristocrats whose power could make or break
kings, forged an empire and created the world’s
first industrial nation. This colourful narrative
history traces this network of interlinked families,
examining its code of honour and public duty, its
acquisitiveness and greed. It also demonstrates
how, despite having relinquished much of its
power, the aristocracy has shaped the nation, and
continues to fascinate and appal in equal measure.
(Previously sold in Postscript in hardback edition.)
NEW
THE EAST
INDIA COMPANY’S
LONDON WORKERS
Management and Warehouse
Labourers, 1800-1858
Margaret Makepeace’s groundbreaking
study re-locates the English East India
Company in its rightful place at the centre
of the early 19th century London economy. It explores the Company’s direction
of commercial operations in London, the
management structure in its warehouses,
and the strategies adopted to control and
regulate the thousands of labourers in its
workforce. This ‘history from below’
approach provides new insights into both
the functioning of the Company and the
lives of the London working classes.
£65.00 17936 now £14.99
From treadmills to nuclear reactors; ships
from SS Great Eastern in 1855 to SS
United States in 1952; Fox Talbot demonstrating his camera in 1868 to the radio
telescope at Jodrell Bank... This large and
engrossing collection of photographs surveys human achievement in eight fields
between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries: industry, boats, power, railways, vision, wheels, communication and aviation.
Over 500 photographs, including many famous images, are reproduced, with captions giving their subject, place and date.
MAN AND MACHINE
ENDEAVOUR 2010 HB 634pp Illus 288x288mm
£40.00 16649 now £19.99
FISHING AND FOLK
Life and Dialect on
the North Sea Coast
Comp. Bill Griffiths Fishing and Folk
brings together the evidence of dialect
words, songs, shanties and literary texts
to offer an insight into the history, life
and social development of the North Sea
coast. The book’s four main sections cover
terminology describing aspects of the
coast, the boats, fishing and communities,
while appendices complement Griffith’s
text with lists of vocabulary collected by
other researchers. NORTHUMBRIA UP
ABACUS 2010 PB 446pp Illus 197x126mm
£12.99 11066 now £3.99
£11.99 17123 now £4.99
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SOCIAL HISTORY/CRIME
Michael Paterson In Charles Dickens,
London had a chronicler second to none. From
Oliver Twist to Bleak House, no other writer
has captured the city’s splendour and squalor,
its energy and its desperation with such
humour, compassion and moral outrage. This
book juxtaposes select extracts from Dickens’s
works with contemporary letters, diaries and
newspaper reports to take the reader on a tour
of the teeming Victorian metropolis, its
people, its entertainments, its shops and
transport, and its crime and punishment.
INSIDE DICKENS’ LONDON
DAVID & CHARLES 2011 HB 351pp
£9.99 93901 now £3.99
Peter Higginbotham Including the
full text of an original prison cookbook compiled in 1902, with recipes
for prison ‘classics’ such as Gruel,
Beef Tea and, of course, Porridge, this
book examines the history of prison
catering from the Middle Ages, when
prisoners were expected to pay for
their own board and lodging, through
the Victorian age and on to the present
day. With sections on prison life and
punishments, the book describes exactly what ‘doing porridge’ entailed.
THE PRISON COOKBOOK
DARK CITY
Crime in Wartime London
Simon Read At a time when most Londoners were pulling together in the face of terrible adversity, a criminal minority was taking advantage of blitz and blackout to rob
and murder. Here, the renowned crime
writer Simon Read paints a vivid picture of
what life was like in 1940s London as he
describes the crimes of the most notorious
killers, among them the ‘Blackout Ripper’,
the Elephant Boys, John ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh
and the infamous Rillington Place murderer,
John Christie. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 192pp Illus
£19.99 10871 now £6.99
NEW MURDER BY POISON
A Casebook of Historic British Murders
Nicola Sly Dr Crippen is perhaps the most famous
poisoner in British legal history but the crime is
often associated with women, usually dispatching
unwanted husbands or children. This collection
contains 32 of the most notorious cases on record,
from Frances Clarke, who administered sulphuric
acid to her baby in 1817, to Graham Young, who
poisoned more than 70 people, killing three, in the
1960s and 1970s. HISTORY PRESS 2009 PB 288pp Illus
£14.99 18341 now £5.99
Peter Moore In 1806, in the village of Oddingley
in Worcestershire, the brutal murder of the local
rector set in train an extraordinary 24-year
mystery. Weaving together contemporary
evidence and first-hand testimony, Peter Moore
tells the gripping tale of intrigue and conspiracy
that led to the killing, the years of inquiries and
investigations that followed and, when a second
gruesome murder was discovered and the truth
finally emerged, the sensational trial that
enthralled the nation. VINTAGE 2013 PB 376pp
NEW
£12.99 16887 now £5.99
DAMN HIS BLOOD
£8.99 18338 now £3.99
WHITE SHOTGUN
The Sicilian Mafia in their Own Words
THE SUSPICIONS
OF MR WHICHER
or, The Murder at
Road Hill House
Kate Summerscale re-opens the case of
the gruesome Road Hill murder of 1860,
but models her meticulously researched
account on the country-house murder
mystery – the genre inspired by the real
murder and its investigation by Jonathan
Whicher, one of Scotland Yard’s very first
detectives. ‘The best whodunnit of the
year – and it’s all true’ (Tatler). Off-mint.
£7.99 12002 now £3.99
Attilio Bolzoni This journey into Sicily’s criminal underworld presents the
testimony of a number of Mafia bosses, informants and foot soldiers in a
collection of interviews and transcripts of court proceedings and phone taps.
From the traditional Cosa Nostra culture of the early
20th century to the sensational show trials of the
1980s, it tells the history of Sicilian crime and
reveals its complex codes and twisted logic.
MACMILLAN 2012 PB 479pp
£12.99 16824 now £5.99
Bryan Burrough Legendary depression-era
outlaws John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly,
Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde and others were
all at large at the same time, and it was J Edgar
Hoover’s ‘G-Men’ whose job it was to put an
end to their daring crime spree. With access to
de-classified FBI files and unpublished manuscripts
and statements by the gangsters, award-winning
journalist Bryan Burrough is able to tell the exciting
story as never before. PENGUIN 2005 PB 619pp
PUBLIC ENEMIES
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ARCHAEOLOGY HISTORY
RESTLESS REVOLUTIONARIES
A History of Britain’s
Fight for a Republic
Clive Bloom This is the first account of the
conspiracies, acts of terrorism and warfare by
which, since the French Revolution, thousands
have fought to establish a British Republic.
Demonstrating that the anti-terror state existed
long before our own century, it covers civil wars
in Ireland, unrest in Scotland and Wales and
uprisings in Derbyshire and Kent, as well as the
attempted Irish invasion of Canada and plots to
assassinate the royal family and the cabinet.
First published as Terror Within (2007).
HISTORY PRESS 2010 PB 312pp
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A HISTORY OF BRITAIN
New edition
EH Carter; RAF Mears; David
Evans First published in 1937 and
used in schools for decades, this series
tells the story of the British Isles as a
straightforward chronological narrative. In fast-paced prose, it provides a
coherent sequence of events, while incorporating major social changes and
developments in the arts and religion.
Revived in response to calls for a return to the connected, fact-based teaching of history, the series has been expertly revised by David Evans, former
Head of History at Eton. No jackets.
STACEY INTERNATIONAL
2010 HB 169-265pp
£10.00 each now £4.99 each
NEW 150 YEARS OF
BRITAIN IN PICTURES
Ed. Ian Penberthy Drawn
from the Press Association’s
photographic archive of over
15 million images dating
back to the early days of
photography, this fascinating
collection presents over 600
pages of photographs that
give the British perspective
on national and international
events between 1860 and 2010. Royal Naval Volunteer Reservists return to active service
after the outbreak of war with Germany, August 1914
Among these remarkable
pictures are portraits of politicians and great sporting personalities and coverage of
war, from the soldiers who made the heroic last stand at Rorke’s Drift in 1879 to
Prince Harry in Afghanistan in 2008. AMMONITE 2010 HB 608pp Illus 245x245mm
Book III: THE TUDORS
11828
1485-1603
Book IV: THE STUARTS,
CROMWELL AND
THE GLORIOUS
11829
REVOLUTION
Book VII: LIBERAL
ENGLAND, WORLD WAR
AND SLUMP 1901-1939 11832
Book VIII: THE SECOND
WORLD WAR AND ITS
AFTERMATH, 1939-1951 11833
£30.00 18231 now £9.99
IRAN AT WAR
1500-1988
Kaveh Farrokh From the Safavid dynasty, which saw the revival of ancient
Persian traditions in the 16th and 17th
centuries, to the 1979 revolution and the
Iran-Iraq War, this military history of Iran
encompasses early successes followed by
centuries of defeat as nations such as Russia and Britain began to shape the country’s internal history; and it unravels the
very complex history of Iran during the
20th century. OSPREY 2011 HB 480pp Illus
£18.99 17630 now £7.99
THE AFGHAN WAY OF WAR
How and Why They Fight
Rob Johnson From the British in the 19th
century to the Soviets in the 20th and the
Americans in the 21st, the Afghans have
posed a fearsome challenge to invading
forces. Focusing on key episodes in the
country’s long history of conflict, this lucid military history demonstrates how
Afghanistan’s highly skilled guerrilla
fighters have continuously developed new
tactics to combat new threats, shedding
light on the Afghan ‘way of war’ and reshaping our understanding of the current
conflict. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 397pp
$29.95 10648 now £7.99
PHOENIX 2000 PB 194pp
HISTORIES OF NATIONS
How their Identities Were Forged
Ed. Peter Furtado History involves the
actions and experiences of many nations,
but history books are mostly written from
the perspective of one. But how do different countries view their pasts? This is the
first book to gather historians from 28
states – including the USA, China, Russia
India, Turkey and Iran – to relate their
own national stories. With 202 illustrations, this original and thought-provoking
volume provides a rare insight into the
cultural and political differences that both
endanger and enliven our world. THAMES
£8.99 18318 now £3.99
& HUDSON 2012 HB 320pp Illus 245x190mm
NEW THE BALKANS
From the End of Byzantium
to the Present Day
Mark Mazower ‘The Balkans’ has always
been a term loaded with negative connotations of
violence, vengeance and political instability, not
least during the wars in the former Yugoslavia
at the end of the 20th century. Delving back
as far as the fall of Constantinople (1453),
Mark Mazower’s history presents a richer and
more nuanced picture of daily life among the
region’s diverse inhabitants down the centuries.
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BRITISH/GENERAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
BRINGING THEM UP ROYAL
How the Royals Raised Their
Children from 1066 to the Present
ROYAL BABIES
A History 1066-2013
David Cohen ‘With some exceptions’, writes
David Cohen, ‘the royals have not distinguished
themselves as parents over the last 1,000 years’.
From William the Conqueror’s daughter Adela
and her favoured son, Stephen, through the
young Victoria’s strictly controlled childhood
under the ‘Kensington System’, and ending
with how Princess Diana filled the role of royal
mother, Cohen intertwines history with child
psychology as he tells a story of violence,
betrayal and cruelty – with the occasional gem of
kindness and wisdom. ROBSON 2012 HB 319pp Illus
£20.00 16451 now £7.99
CAMBRIDGE ORATIONS
1993-2007: A Selection
Anthony Bowen As orator of the University of Cambridge, Antony Bowen delivered 121 Latin speeches in the Senate
House in praise of a variety of distinguished people on the occasion of their
receiving honorary degrees. Of these
speeches, 52 are presented here, with facing translations. In orations on such diverse figures as Margaret Attwood,
Quentin Blake, Noam Chomsky and Nelson Mandela, Bowen rises to the challenge
of speaking of modern phenomena in the
language and cadences of antiquity.
CAMBRIDGE UP 2008 PB 113pp 262x195mm
£19.99 16711 now £7.99
VENICE
A New History
NEW
Thomas F Madden’s portrait of Venice
uses long-buried archival material to trace
the history of this unique city from its
humble origins as a lagoon refuge to its
zenith as a vast maritime empire and Renaissance epicentre, and its rebirth as a
modern tourist hub. Featuring the personal
stories of doges, merchants and famous
figures such as Marco Polo, Casanova and
Lord Byron, Madden’s Venice is the rich
popular history that this city deserves.
VIKING 2012 HB 464pp Illus 159x235mm
$35.00 17113 now £8.99
Amy Licence Babies are born every
day, but rarely does a child arrive who
will inherit the throne. This book tells
the story of 25 royal babies, some born
in times of peace, others delivered
during episodes of civil warfare. From
the birth of Matilda, granddaughter of
William the Conqueror, in 1102 to
Prince George Windsor, these stories
describe the births of some of the
greatest British monarchs in history,
as well as many long-forgotten babies.
AMBERLEY 2013 HB 188pp Illus
£16.99 16737 now £6.99
SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS
People and Places
Asa Briggs In a memoir as unconventional as his career, Asa Briggs seeks ‘to
trace those personal relationships which
have most shaped my work as an historian
and, indeed, my whole life’. Acknowledging the influence of friends as various
as PD James, Jim Callaghan and John Reith, he documents five decades of his pioneering work in universities at home and
abroad, reminisces about his early life in
Yorkshire and explains his special interest
in the Victorians.
FRONTLINE 2012 HB 256pp Illus
£19.99 16910 now £8.99
NORTHERN LANDSCAPES
Representations and Realities of North-East England
Ed. Thomas Faulkner; Helen Berry; Jermey Gregory How distinctive is the
landscape of the North East, and what does it contribute to the region’s identity?
Approaching these questions from the perspectives of archaeology, art history,
geography, history and literature, these 18 essays cover such diverse spaces as
agricultural estates, parks and gardens, industrial and urban landscapes. The
volume also features analyses of artistic perceptions and representations of the
area during the 18th and 19th centuries. BOYDELL 2010 HB 348pp Illus
£70.00 17952 now £19.99
FAMILY & LOCAL HISTORY
PAUPER ANCESTORS
A Guide to the Records
Created by the Poor Laws
in England and Wales
ON THE MAP
A Mind-Expanding Exploration
of the Way the World Looks
Simon Garfield Maps are a perennial
source of interest and wonder, and Simon
Garfield’s witty, wide-ranging narrative
history explores their pleasures and pitfalls
from the earliest times to the digital age.
It includes chapters on guidebooks, Harry
Beck’s famous London tube map, and the
story of Phyllis Pearsall’s A-Z, while pithy
sections called ‘pocket maps’ deal with
entertaining curiosities such as the persistent myth that California was an island, a
Victorian murder map, and Churchill’s
map room. GOTHAM 2013 HB 464pp Illus
$27.50 17571 now £7.99
David T Hawkings Between the founding of the Poor Law Commission in 1834
and the creation of the NHS in 1948, the
system of social security in England and
Wales consisted of workhouses provided
and supervised by the Unions of Parishes.
The extensive records of workhouse administration and pauper inmates, now in
the National Archives, provide a wealth
of information for genealogists and family
historians. This book outlines the mass
of records available for research and explains how they can be used.
HISTORY PRESS 2011 HB 526pp
£30.00 99425 now £9.99
NICK BARRATT’S
BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO
YOUR ANCESTORS’ LIVES
Nick Barratt As well as giving advice
on the practicalities of researching and
constructing your family tree, this guide
explains how to use a range of sources to
look more deeply into the social history
of each generation – their houses, streets,
communities and ways of life. Barratt also
offers helpful suggestions for organizing
and shaping your findings and, with the
help of the latest technology, creating an
archive of your personal heritage.
PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 282pp
£19.99 10985 now £7.99
THE COMPANION
TO LOCAL HISTORY
Stephen Friar shares his expertise in local
history research in an A-Z of over 2,000
entries, providing a useful tool for both
novices and experienced historians. The
Companion explains the meaning of terms
likely to be found in old documents and in
archaeological and architectural reports; it
also covers the origins of place-name elements, important institutions such as poorhouses and corn exchanges, and events
such as the Crusades and the Glorious Revolution. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 506pp Illus
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MILITARY HISTORY
THE GREAT WAR
Unseen Archives
Robert Hamilton Using over 1,000 rare
and unseen photographs, facsimile reports
and contemporary newspaper articles,
Hamilton presents an extraordinarily vivid
chronicle of the First World War. From
the situation in the ‘European tinder-box’
prior to the outbreak of war, to the signing
of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the
book provides a comprehensive narrative,
a day-by-day chronology and a graphic
guide to the progress of the conflict, its
major battles and campaigns and the
prominent military and political leaders.
ATLANTIC 2014 HB 465pp Illus 288x248mm
£40.00 16520 now £19.99
JULY 1914: Countdown to War
Sean McMeekin In this critically acclaimed history of the July Crisis, Sean
McMeekin tells the story of Europe’s countdown to war – from the opening act in
Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 to Britain’s final plunge on 4 August, which turned a
European conflict into a world war – as seen through the eyes of the European
leaders and statesmen who brought about the catastrophe. ICON 2013 HB 478pp
£25.00 96595 now £9.99
THE LAST VETERAN
Harry Patch and the Legacy of War
Peter Parker Harry Patch was one of the millions of ordinary men caught up in
the horror of the First World War – the only difference was that he became the
last survivor. With his death in 2009 we lost our final living link to the Great War.
This account of what that means to us, and of how we have chosen to remember
those who fought, is a fitting tribute to Patch and to his remarkable generation.
FOURTH ESTATE 2010 PB 234pp
£8.99 10723 now £3.99
THE WORDS OF WAR
British Forces’ Personal
Letters and Diaries During
the Second World War
Marcus Cowper Despite the government discouraging the keeping of diaries
for security reasons, nearly half of the
16,000 letters, journals and memoirs held
at the Imperial War Museum relate to the
Second World War. This edited selection
presents the day-to-day experiences of
British service personnel and civilians in
all theatres of the conflict, from soldiers
and PoWs in Europe, Africa and the Far
East to Londoners braving the Blitz.
NEW
MAINSTREAM 2010 PB 442pp Illus
Peter Barton After a lucid summary of the progress of the war and the political
situation from August 1914 to April 1917, this book presents an extraordinarily
detailed study of the Battle of Arras (incorporating the Battles of Scarpe, Vimy Ridge,
Bullecourt, Lagnicourt and Arlaux). The account is illustrated with maps, plans and,
as well as archive photographs, over 50 rediscovered British and German panoramas
of the battlegrounds: photographs that offer a view not seen for over 90 years – the
prospect beyond the trench parapet. CONSTABLE 2010 HB 312pp Illus 210x260mm
ARRAS: The Spring 1917 Offensive in Panoramas
£8.99 16921 now £3.99
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SPIES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Under Cover for King and Kaiser
James Morton Prior to the First World War, even official government agents had a
reputation for being misfits and rum characters and the whole spying profession was
deeply distrusted. However, a growing fear of Germany encouraged an escalation in
international espionage and when war broke out, spies of every nationality were at
work all over Europe. This book examines the secret side of the Great War from the
founding of MI5 and MI6 to the stories of celebrated agents such as Mata Hari.
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2010 HB 240pp Illus
£20.00 17000 now £7.99
THE SECRET LISTENERS
The Men and Women Posted
Across the World to Intercept the
German Codes for Bletchley Park
NEW
Sinclair McKay The celebrated code breakers
of Bletchley Park would have had no messages
to decipher without the efforts of the ‘Y’
(‘Wireless’) Service, which sent men and women
across the globe to listening stations where
German messages were intercepted. Sinclair
McKay uses interviews with surviving veterans
of the Service to tell both the history of this
shadowy organization and the personal stories
of young interceptors’ life-changing experiences
far from home. AURUM 2012 PB 364pp Illus
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THE WEST END FRONT
The Wartime Secrets of
London’s Grand Hotels
Matthew Sweet Partly thanks to their
potentially bomb-resistant solidity, The
Ritz, the Savoy, Claridges and the Dorchester became central to the cultural and
political life of the country during the
Second World War. This colourful history
explores a remarkable period when cabinet ministers, military officials, exiled
foreign dignitaries, journalists, spies,
artists and chancers all used the hotels
as meeting places, makeshift offices,
temporary embassies and social centres.
FABER 2011 PB 372pp Illus
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MILITARY HISTORY
NEW ABSOLUTE WAR
Soviet Russia in the Second World War:
A Modern History
Chris Bellamy Despite the importance of AngloAmerican efforts in the Second World War,
the majority of the land and air forces of Nazi
Germany were ultimately destroyed by the Soviet
Union. This extensive analysis examines the
brutal and merciless conflict on the Eastern front,
from both the German and Soviet points of view,
and assesses the wider impact of the struggle
on Soviet Russia. PAN 2009 PB 854pp Illus
£12.99 17639 now £4.99
THE SECRET WAR IN ITALY
Operation Herring
and No 1 Italian SAS
William Fowler Over nearly two years
of fighting, from September 1943, Italy
proved to be the German Reich’s ‘tough
old gut’ rather than Churchill’s promised
‘soft underbelly’. This book tells the story
of the Italian campaign from the point of
view of the secret services, partisans and
special forces culminating in Operation
Herring, in which the Italian SAS made
the last active parachute drop of the war.
IAN ALLAN 2010 PB 288pp Illus
£8.99 10879 now £3.99
HELL IN THE PACIFIC
The Battle for Iwo Jima
THE BATTLE OF THE TANKS
Kursk, 1943
Lloyd Clark Sandhurst historian Lloyd Clark
draws on the latest available archival material,
including the testimonies of veterans, to present
a thrilling narrative history of the Battle of Kursk,
where Russian and German armoured divisions
clashed on the western border of the USSR in
July 1943: “the greatest land battle the world
has ever seen on a fighting front that epitomized
‘total war’”. ATLANTIC 2011 HB 496pp Illus
$30.00 92355 now £7.99
Gordon L Rottman; Derrick Wright
Although only five miles long, the strategic importance of the Pacific island of
Iwo Jima led to one of the most savage
conflicts of the Second World War. During
36 days of fighting, 20,000 Japanese soldiers and 7,000 US Marines lost their
lives. This assessment of the battle gives
a detailed account of the combat,
analysing the high-level strategic decision-making as well as the experiences
of the rank and file Japanese infantrymen
and US Marine riflemen.
OSPREY 2008 HB 224pp Illus 243x190mm
£20.00 98369 now £8.99
NEW D-DAY: FALAISE POCKET
Defeating the German Army in Normandy
Paul Latawski The Allied generals’ decision to encircle counter-attacking German
forces in Normandy in August 1944 created a conflict zone known as the ‘Falaise
Pocket’; the eventual closing of the ring was the decisive action in the Battle of
Normandy. This history provides a military analysis of the events with archive
photographs and maps and, for anyone wishing
to visit the site today, it includes four guided
battlefield walks with detailed descriptions
and visitor information.
£9.99 17026 now £4.99
DOUBLE CROSS
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
CROSSING THE RHINE
Breaking into Nazi Germany
1944 and 1945 – the Greatest
Airborne Battles in History
Lloyd Clark In the autumn of 1944 it
was clear to the Allies that the river
Rhine was an obstacle that had to be
overcome if they were to gain access to
Germany’s capital city. Lloyd Clark examines Eisenhower’s arbitration between the rival strategies of Montgomery and Patton, describes how the
ambitious Market Garden operation
broke down and considers the lessons
Montgomery had learned when he organized a second airborne assault –
Plunder Varsity – a few months later.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY
$25.00 79407 now £6.99
f See also our series of DVDs on
Operation Market Garden overleaf
Ben Macintyre An important factor in the ultimate
success of D-Day was the grand deception that the
Allies would attack the Pas-de-Calais and not
Normandy. A small group of foreign spies that had
been turned to the Allied cause were a critical part
of this hoax, feeding misinformation to the German
High Command. The exploits of this colourful
cadre of spies remained classified and unknown
until the 1950s and are told here in this readable
history. CROWN 2012 HB 416pp Illus
$26.00 11880 now £6.99
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
A Memoir of the Third Reich and the Dönitz Administration
Walter Ludde-Neurath Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz became leader of Germany in
May 1945 following Hitler’s suicide. This memoir, written by Dönitz’s adjutant
during the eventful weeks that followed, provides a unique insight into this final
period of the war, describing the infighting among the Nazi leaders, the formation
and dissolution of the short-lived Flensburg government and the final defeat of the
Third Reich. The memoir was first published in 1950; this is the first English
translation of Ludde-Neurath’s historically important work.
FRONTLINE 2010 HB 204pp
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WORLD WAR II
TRUCKS AND TANKS
popular
John Norris As well as the
demand
trucks and tanks of the title,
this book explores many
other types of military vehicle
used during the Second
World War, such as halftracks, motorcycles, bulldozers
and armoured cars. The
restoration of such machines
by enthusiasts has become
increasingly popular and this
introduction to the subject
examines the equipment used
German Kettenkrad half-track motorcycle
by British, American, Russian,
Italian and German forces, with a history of each vehicle’s development and use,
and a wealth of technical information. SPELLMOUNT 2012 HB 368pp Illus
Back by
£25.00 99435 now £7.99
NEW
BRITISH PRISONERS
OF THE KOREAN WAR
DEATH FROM
THE HEAVENS
A History of Strategic Bombing
NEW
SP MacKenzie Around 1,000 British servicemen were held as PoWs by the Chinese and North Koreans during the Korean War. In prison camps along the Yalu
River they faced what Mackenzie describes as ‘a unique and prolonged test of
mind, character and body; grappling with
an intensive and sustained effort by the
enemy to change their allegiance’. Drawing on recently released materials, this
study explores in detail the experience of
the PoWs, their treatment by their captors
and their reaction to indoctrination.
Kenneth P Werrell Dropping bombs
from aircraft had little impact on the prosecution of the First World War, despite
the rapidly developing technology, but
by the outbreak of war in 1939 it had become a key component of military strategy. Former US Air Force pilot Kenneth
Werrell analyses the history of strategic
bombing and assesses the tactical and
technical developments, major deployments and aircraft, from the first German
zeppelin attacks on Britain in 1915 to
the long-range missiles of the modern age.
£59.00 17226 now £14.99
NAVAL INSTITUTE
$49.95 17552 now £12.99
MORAL COMBAT
A History of World War II
Michael Burleigh The Second World War
stands out as an incontrovertibly just war
against an indisputably evil enemy. Yet
how did it appear to its participants and
how did the moral dimension shape their
judgements? The acclaimed author of The
Third Reich shines a light not only on the
certainties, but also on the grey areas: the
alliance with Stalin (a dictator every bit
as ruthless as Hitler); the ethics of saturation bombing; and the effect of savage
conflict on the ordinary soldier.
THE ROYAL SCOTS
A Concise History
NEW
Trevor Royle First raised to serve the
French King Louis XIII, the Royal Scots
are the oldest regiment in the British
Army and, until merged to form the Royal
Regiment of Scotland in 2006, were numbered first in the Army’s order of precedence. This history traces their activities
from the Thirty Years War in the 17th
century to recent conflicts in the Middle
East, and draws on the first-hand accounts
of Royal Scots through the generations.
MAINSTREAM 2006 HB 240pp Illus
£12.99 16918 now £5.99
HARPER 2010 HB 649pp
Roger Howard From 1951 to 1967,
Egypt’s President Nasser pursued a secret
project to build long-range missiles that
could strike deep into Israel. To achieve
this, he hired West German scientists,
many of them veterans of the Nazi rocket
programme. Half a century later, this tale
of espionage and intrigue tells the dramatic story of how Mossad, the Israeli secret service, responded to the threat, using
covert operations, intimidation and even
assassination squads to prevent the project
from coming to fruition. Felt-tip mark on
lower trimmed edge. Off-mint.
PEGASUS 2013 HB 268pp
£30.00 84673 now £9.99
Bernard O’Connor Over 60 women
were sent into occupied Europe during
the course of the Second World War as
part of Churchill’s plan to ‘set Europe
ablaze’ with his newly organized Special
Operations Executive. This history draws
on some of the women’s own accounts of
their wartime service, as wireless operators, couriers and organizers of local resistance, to relate the stories of rigorous
training, thrilling sabotage missions and,
in a number of cases, capture, torture and
execution by the Gestapo.
OPERATION DAMOCLES
Israel’s Secret War Against
Hitler’s Scientists, 1951-1967
$27.95 99981 now £7.99
CHURCHILL’S ANGELS
AMBERLEY 2012 HB 320pp
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VOICES AGAINST WAR
A Century of Protest
Lyn Smith Using nearly 200 personal testimonies
preserved in the vast archive of the Imperial War
Museum, this book tells the story of the modern
anti-war movement and examines the motivations
of protestors, traversing the last hundred years
from conscientious objectors at the time of the
First World War to Brian Haw’s long-running
campaign in Parliament Square and the two
million Britons who marched in opposition
to the Iraq war in 2003. With a foreword by
Robert Fisk. MAINSTREAM 2009 HB 336pp Illus
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MILITARY HISTORY DVDs
THE DARK AGES
Exploring a period where reliable documentary evidence
is scant, historians Tim Saunders and Andrew Duff apply
the lens of sound military strategy to key battles of the Dark
Ages in this series of films. PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2011 DVD
THE VIKING INVASION
OF WESSEX 878 AD
NEW
By the 870s, Alfred the Great’s Kingdom of Wessex was the last
remaining Anglo-Saxon territory not under the control of Viking
invaders. Forced into hiding and on the brink of defeat, Alfred
achieved a remarkable reversal that changed the course of
English history.
18095
THE 1066 HASTINGS CAMPAIGN
The English campaign of 1066 involved three critical battles – the Viking victory at
Fulford, near York, and defeat five days later at Stamford Bridge, and William of
Normandy’s decisive victory at Hastings – with the defending King Harold Godwinson
force-marching his men up and down the country to repel the invaders.
18070
NEW
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
BRUNEVAL RAID
Operation Biting
The first in a series of Special Operations programmes, this DVD
uses archive film and revisits the exact locations to tell the story
of the 1941 joint operation to seize the German Würzburg radar
system sited on the cliffs of Northern France at Bruneval.
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2012 1 DVD approx 105min
£16.99 18077 now £5.99
U-BOATS AT WAR
The Inside Story of the U-Boat Campaign
NEW
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2013 DVD
£9.99 18094 now £4.99
FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
AND PANZERS ATTACK
Blitzkrieg and the
Fall of France 1940
Success in the Battle of France in 1940 was a
high point for the Wehrmacht and its blitzkrieg
tactics, as it conquered the country in little more
than a month and drove the British back across
the Channel. This documentary tells the story
of the campaign using original footage of
German infantry units, tank groups and
paratroopers. PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2013 DVD
£23.99 18079 now £7.99
NEW WHAT HITLER’S
BUTLER SAID 1934-43
As Adolf Hitler’s valet and adjutant from
1934 to 1943, Karl Wilhelm Krause was one
of the most important witnesses to Hitler’s
close circle during the Third Reich. Fifty years
on, Krause tells his story, with archive film
of the people and events he describes.
German soundtrack with English voice-over
translation. PEN & SWORD DIGITAL
2014 2 DVDs approx 88 mins
£30.99 18096 now £11.99
OPERATION MARKET GARDEN
The Allies’ bold plan to strike deep into occupied Holland
in September 1944 was intended to open up a route into
Germany and bring the war to a swift end. This series of films
examines in detail key aspects of the operation, visiting the
battlefields and assessing the factors that led to the plan’s
ultimate failure. PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2012/13 DVD
£16.99 each
now £5.99 each
ARNHEM: The Battle for the Bridges
British paratroopers attempting to take the bridge at Arnhem
encountered much stronger resistance than expected. Their heroic
defence of the bridge with a much-depleted force was ultimately
in vain as the planned reinforcements never arrived.
18075
NEW
ARNHEM: Battle for Oosterbeek Perimeter
With the British 1st Airborne Division thwarted and isolated at Arnhem, the paratroopers
fell back to Oosterbeek and a grim battle ensued against the German forces, which included
the flame-throwing tanks of the 2nd SS Panzer Corps.
18074
NEW
HELL’S HIGHWAY: Operation Market Garden
While the airborne troops secured the route, the advance along it was to be made by the
British XXX Corps. In the event, progress was slow and fierce fighting along the road
earned it the nickname, ‘Hell’s Highway’.
18084
NEW
NIJMEGEN
At Nijmegen, the US 82nd Airborne might have achieved a swift victory but for poor
planning and mis-communication. The vital bridge was eventually taken following a river
crossing in small boats and a daring assault on the north side of the bridge.
18087
NEW
PEN & SWORD DIGITAL 2012/13 DVD
NEW THE KEYS OF SPAIN
Siege Warfare 1812
Andrew Duff; Tim Saunders Wellington had
to overcome the two Spanish border fortresses
of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz before he
could advance into Spain in 1812. This film
explores how he did so and examines the
theory and practice of siege warfare at the
time.
18090
SALAMANCA
Andrew Duff; Julia Page et al Masterminded
by Wellington, the Anglo-Portuguese victory
at Salamanca in 1812 was a pivotal moment in
the war, forcing the French to withdraw their
troops from Andalusia and allowing
Wellington to take Madrid.
18089
NEW
NEW
An estimated 75 per cent of U-Boat crewmen
lost their lives during the Second World War,
as the hunters increasingly became the hunted.
This DVD draws on the testimony of the last
remaining survivors and uses rare archive
photographs and contemporary newsreel
film to tell their story.
THE PENINSULAR WAR
General Arthur Wellesley earned his
reputation and his title of Duke of
Wellington in Iberia during the Peninsular
War. This series of films explores in detail
the battles, tactics and men of the conflict
that pitted Napoleon’s French forces against
those of Britain, Spain and Portugal.
NEW 95th RIFLES
1800 to Corunna
Andrew Duff; Tim Saunders Formed in
1800, the 95th Rifles were a new kind of
regiment, specializing in sharpshooting and
unconventional commando-style fighting.
Distinguished by their green uniforms, the
crack corps played a significant role in the
outcome of the war.
18073
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
SOMME: 1st JULY 1916
An Interactive Tour of the
Northern Somme Battlefield
NEW
Michael Stedman Analysing one of the most
significant battles of the First World War, this
DVD includes interactive maps, panoramas,
films and comparative ‘then and now’ views
exploring the Somme battlefield, as well
as an assessment of the conflict by leading
academics and a collection of printable
maps and photographs.
£19.99 18092 now £7.99
NEW THE RED BARON
The True Story of
Manfred von Richthofen
Manfred von Richthofen was the leading ace
of the First World War and helped to develop
effective new aerial combat tactics while
leading his Jagdgeschwader 1 fighter unit.
This documentary includes original wartime
footage, a revealing assessment of the
controversial circumstances of his death
and bonus galleries of archive photographs.
£24.99 18091 now £7.99
NEW TRACING
GREAT WAR ANCESTORS
Finding Uncle Bill
Tim Saunders; Richard Hone This film
demonstrates how to research the First World
War service of your ancestors, using the
presenter’s great uncle as a case study and
tracing his involvement across the Western
Front. The final section examines the
campaign medals that were awarded to
soldiers of the Great War.
£19.99 18093 now £5.99
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BRITISH ISLES
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES
A Guide to Britain’s Areas of
Outstanding Natural Beauty
Lindisfarne Castle,
Northumberland
Roly Smith The granite archipelago
of Scilly, the high moors of the North
Pennines, the Cotswolds: these are all
‘Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty’
(AONBs), a designation that protects
some of the finest landscapes in
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern
Ireland. This book is a guide – and a lure
– to 49 AONBs, beautifully illustrated
with photographs of everything from
pub signs to mountainsides, and full of
information about how the landscapes
were formed and the flora, fauna and
human activities they support.
AA 2011 HB 224pp Illus 310x265mm
The ruined Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire
NEW WORLD HERITAGE
SITES OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND
An Illustrated Guide to
All 27 World Heritage Sites
Victoria Huxley; Geoffrey Smith
The 27 sites in the UK that have achieved
UNESCO’s world heritage status range
from natural wonders such as the Giant’s
Causeway and Devon’s Jurassic Coast
to important constructions marking
milestones in British and world history
such as Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall
and the industrial landscapes of the
Ironbridge Gorge and Derwent Valley.
This illustrated guide provides historical
notes, maps and visitor information
for each of these unmissable locations.
CHASTLETON 2009 PB 272pp Illus 227x125mm
£12.99 18214 now £3.99
Richard Gurnham Tracing Nottingham’s
history from the seventh century to 2010,
Gurnham shows how, long before the Norman Conquest, this strategically important
settlement already had wide influence. He
discusses the construction of the city’s
most important and impressive buildings,
its role in the Civil War and its expansion
into a manufacturing centre.
A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM
PHILLIMORE 2010 HB 208pp Illus
£19.99 92148 now £6.99
£25.00 88701 now £9.99
NEW YORKSHIRE WOLDS WAY
Official National Trail Guide
Roger Ratcliffe The Yorkshire Wolds Way is
a 79-mile route winding through wonderfully
unspoilt, gently rolling countryside, from the
Humber Bridge to Filey on the east coast. A
complete companion for walkers, this illustrated, practical guide begins with an introduction to the historical background to the
area, then details the route, with Ordnance
Survey mapping and information on points
of interest along everything along the way.
AURUM 2011 PB 144pp Illus
£12.99 17515 now £5.99
WALKING THE COUNTY
HIGH POINTS OF ENGLAND
David Bathurst These 47 walks explore the
highest point in every county in England –
from Beacon Hill in Norfolk (346 ft – ‘you
needn’t blow the dust off your crampons’) to
the 3,210 ft Scafell Pike in Cumbria, ‘the top
of the tops’. SUMMERSDALE 2012 PB 288pp Illus
NEW PENNINE WAY
COMPANION
Second edition
Alfred Wainwright’s classic guide to
Britain’s first long-distance path for
walkers was originally published in
1968. This thoroughly updated, pocketsized edition contains everything the
modern rambler needs to follow the
route from Derbyshire to Northumbria,
through some of Britain’s wildest and
most beautiful landscapes: detailed
maps, a running commentary, 300
drawings, a skeleton log, suggestions
for those who prefer to tackle shorter
sections... and a little mild leg-pulling.
£13.99 17518 now £6.99
£8.99 93618 now £3.99
NEW BATTLEFIELD WALKS
Kent and Sussex
Rupert Matthews Kent and Sussex have witnessed
both invasions by Romans and Normans and homegrown conflicts dating from the ‘dark ages’ to the
English Civil War. In 15 walks, this book visits the
sites of important battles and sieges, giving details
of the action, weaponry and outcome as well as
practical information for visiting the sites of battles
such as Bigbury, Aylesford, Hastings and Maidstone.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2008 PB 216pp Illus
£8.99 17484 now £3.99
Martin Symington As well as locations associated
with the mainstream religions, such as the medieval
pilgrimage destinations of Canterbury and
Walsingham and the Regent’s Park Mosque,
Martin Symington’s gazetteer of spiritually revered
sites around Britain includes mysterious ancient
standing stones, chalk hill figures and places that
are the focus of more modern pilgrimages, among
them the site of Marc Bolan’s fatal car crash in
Barnes and Karl Marx’s tomb in Highgate Cemetery.
Richard Jones Britain’s fascination with
the deceased and their spirits dates back
to ancient times and shows no sign of dying out just yet. Divided into seven regions and with over 200 colour images,
this eerie travel guide visits almost 100
haunted sites, from Bodmin Jail, with its
infamous infanticide, to Stanton Drew,
where it is said the devil played the fiddle.
Each entry includes a potted history,
‘Haunted Rating’ and information on recent paranormal activity up to 2010.
BRADT 2011 HB 232pp Illus
£16.99 18355 now £5.99
£25.00 10898 now £8.99
HAUNTED BRITAIN
SACRED BRITAIN
A Guide to Places that Stir the Soul
NEW
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NEW THE ARCHAEOLOGY
OF SOMERSET
VISIONS OF ENGLAND
Or Why We Still Dream
of a Place in the Country
Ed. Chris Webster; Tom
Mayberry Beginning with a
chapter on the history of the
discipline in Somerset, this
scholarly, yet very accessible book
gives an up-to- date, illustrated
overview of archaeology in the
county, arranged chronologically
from the Palaeolithic and
Mesolithic ages to the Second
World War and the Cold War in
the recent past. The book concludes
with brief descriptions of places
Iron Age oak log boat found in peat at
to visit, information on museums
Shapwick on the Somerset Levels in 1906
and archives and recommendations
for further reading. SOMERSET BOOKS 2007 PB 108pp Illus 210x210mm
Roy Strong What does it mean to be English? In a post-imperial age of devolution
and multiculturalism, the question has
taken on a new urgency. Art historian Roy
Strong argues that the national psyche has
been shaped by the rural arcadia celebrated
by poets and painters such as Wordsworth
and Constable. Drawing on both high art
and popular culture, he identifies an enduring national identity that is inclusive
and free of chauvinism or political partisanship. VINTAGE 2012 PB 237pp Illus
£9.99 10726 now £4.99
HERITAGE OF LAKELAND
A Centenary Collection
A Harry Griffin wrote an unbroken series
of Country Diary entries for The Guardian
for 53 years; he documented the landscape, history and people of the Lake District both in these pieces and in personal
notes of his walking and rock climbing
experiences. This anthology of his writing
also features articles from Cumbria, the
Lancashire Evening Post and the journal
of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club.
£12.99 18236 now £5.99
COUNTIES FROM THE AIR SERIES
Photo. Jason Hawkes
The rugged cliffs facing the
Atlantic on the North Devon
and North Cornwall coasts
are in marked contrast to
the southern coasts along
the English Channel, with
Devon’s red cliffs, sheltered
harbours and long sandy
beaches, and Cornwall’s
hidden coves and fishing
villages. In each of these
books, around 110 aerial
photographs give a gull’seye view, zooming in on
clifftop walks and landmarks
Hartland Point in North Devon
such as Start Point lighthouse,
St Michael’s Mount and the Minack Theatre. HALSGROVE 2008 HB 132/144pp Illus
£14.99 16834 now £5.99
Stephen Morris An unpromising spring
in a field half a mile from the parish church
was the catalyst for Cheltenham’s rapid
growth in the 18th century. The alleged
medical benefits of the water brought visitors; accommodation and entertainments
were swiftly erected; and when George III
took the waters, the town became the most
fashionable resort in the country. This photographic exploration tells the story of
Cheltenham and celebrates the fine buildings and elegant vistas of England’s most
complete Regency town. FRANCES LIN-
CHELTENHAM
SOUTH CORNWALL COAST FROM THE AIR
NORTH CORNWALL COAST FROM THE AIR
SOUTH DEVON COAST FROM THE AIR
NORTH DEVON COAST FROM THE AIR
£14.99 each
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THE SHORES OF
PENRHYN LLYN
The Llyn Peninsula
John van der Kiste presents an engrossing, day
by day compendium of Plymouth trivia – and
not-so-trivial historical fact – from 1 January
1824, when Robert Peel granted Plymouth Dock
leave to change its name (it became Davenport
eight days later), to 31 December 1999 and preMillennium traffic chaos around Sainsbury’s superstore: ‘it seems as though people think the end
of the world is coming’ quoth the manager. No
jacket. HISTORY PRESS 2011 HB 368pp 168x125mm
THE PLYMOUTH BOOK OF DAYS
Maurice Hope The Llyn Peninsula is
a lively, interesting and beautiful part
of Wales, with a wonderful coastline
stretching from Porthmadog to Caernarfon.
In this book, part local and social history,
part guide to the towns, villages and life
of the peninsula, Maurice Hope explores
the treasures of the region, uncovers
some fascinating stories of the past
and describes local characters, notably
Lloyd George, whose home was in the
village of Llanystumdwy.
BREEDON 2007 HB 184pp Illus 266x200mm
£14.99 76234 now £5.99
The brigantine Edward Windus, one of
Porthmadog’s famous phosphate carriers
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Mike Hall For every day of the year, Mike Hall
has unearthed some historical fact or snippet of
information about Cardiff, including battles (of St
Fagans, 8 May 1648), sporting events (first ever
rugby match at the Millennium Stadium 26 June
1999), famous natives (‘Two Ton’ Tessie O’Shea
born in Riverside 13 March 1913) and Cardiff
quirks (the skeleton of Billy the Seal goes on display in the National Museum, 10 July 2010). No
jacket. HISTORY PRESS 2011 HB 368pp 168x123mm
THE CARDIFF BOOK OF DAYS
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NEW THE SQUARE MILE
A Photographic Portrait of the City
Beata Moore The City of London is commonly
associated with crowds of office workers and
modern architecture such as the Gherkin and the
Lloyd’s Building, but it is also the capital’s ancient
heart with a history stretching back before the
Romans. This photographic portfolio captures the
bustling atmosphere of the modern city as well as
seeking out points of interest, quiet courtyards and
historic buildings, often to be found within a few
yards of each other.
£16.99 18295 now £6.99
The south-west bell tower of St Paul’s Cathedral
Jason Hawkes An unusual and compelling
perspective on London, this book contains around
150 aerial photographs including views of great landmarks, old and new, that
are denied the rubber-necking pedestrian. It follows the Thames from mudflats
in the estuary to Kew; reveals some interesting roof tops, among hem the British
Museum’s stunning glass canopy and what looks like a small industrial estate on
top of Harrods; and visits London’s many open spaces, from Hyde Park to the
London Wetland Centre at Barnes. AA 2010 HB 192pp Illus 259x259mm
LONDON FROM THE AIR
GHOST MILK
Calling Time on the Grand Project
NEW
Iain Sinclair In the run-up to the 2012
Olympics, London’s most indefatigable
psychogeographer embarked on a series of
expeditions to uncover the meaning and
legacy of the grands projets beloved of
politicians and planners. Starting in his own
neighbourhood of Hackney – then about to
be invaded by developers – he walked
along the Thames to Oxford, crossed Morecambe Bay in the footsteps of drowned
Chinese cockle-pickers, visited the deserted
Olympic stadia of Athens – and exposed an
Orwellian dystopia scarred by vanity and
greed. HAMISH HAMILTON 2011 HB 426pp
£20.00 18196 now £7.99
David Pepin There are 48 Anglican cathedrals in England and Wales. Some are ancient places of worship, rich in history and
of grand proportions; others are more recent, built in the tradition of the finest
craftsmanship. Beginning with general
chapters on their architectural history and
features, this illustrated guide aims to introduce the rich legacy of our cathedrals,
from Bangor to York. A final chapter discusses Roman Catholic cathedrals and the
cathedrals of Scotland.
DISCOVERING CATHEDRALS
SHIRE 2004 PB 168pp Illus 210x127mm
£8.99 95021 now £3.99
£25.00 17632 now £6.99
Joanna Jackson Starting in wintertime, Joanna Jackson’s book encompasses
ancient traditions including Swan Upping and Eton College’s celebration of
George III’s birthday; a royal association with Windsor that extends from the
ancient castle to the present day polo field; and such treasured landscapes as
Windsor Great Park, Virginia Water and Runnymede.
A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WINDSOR AND ETON
£16.99 98933 now £7.99
Clifford Musgrave For almost 30 years,
Clifford Musgrave was the director of
the Royal Pavilion. His history of the
town in five parts – Fishermen and Farmers, Princes and Palaces, Late Georgian,
Victorian Marvels and Mysteries, Battle
Scene and Transformation – was first
published in 1970. Among the appreciative voices was Graham Greene: ‘I have
so much enjoyed your book Life in
Brighton and it has opened so many
points of interest for me in a city I
thought I knew well’. New edition.
LIFE IN BRIGHTON
SCOTLAND
£18.99 92153 now £6.99
CAMBRIDGE
AND AROUND
East Anglia
from the Air
NEW
Martin W Bowman
Renowned for its fine
Gothic buildings,
Cambridge is one of the
world’s most beautiful
cities and this collection
of photographs presents
fine aerial views of its
university colleges and
the surrounding area,
including Ely Cathedral and Duxford airfield. Bowman’s photographs also reflect
the character of Cambridge: the architecture of famous colleges such as King’s
(above), Trinity and Clare, boating on the Cam, bridges, freshers enjoying a drink,
and the ubiquitous bicycle. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 160pp Illus 166x245mm
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Red Lion Close, a typical Elgin close, c.1930
Bruce B Bishop Local historian and genealogist Bruce Bishop traces what has
been ‘lost’, both architecturally and socially, from the old counties of Moray and
Nairn. With the help of archive photographs and prints, he goes in search of
‘what has vanished and what still remains
in this proud province’, discussing the
prehistoric landscape, the role of the
church and landowners, agriculture and
industry, the royal burghs of Nairn, Forres
and Elgin and the coastal villages of the
Moray Firth. BIRLINN 2010 PB 234pp Illus
LOST MORAY AND NAIRN
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SCOTLAND
NEW ROOTS OF STONE
The Story of Those
Who Came Before
Hugh Allison ‘An exploration of how
real people and real history are one
and the same’, Allison’s book tells
the story of his own forebears, woven
into 2,000 years of Scotland’s past.
Accompanying this evocative fusion
of history and memoir from the Kyle
of Tongue on Scotland’s north coast,
are a poem by the Gaelic bard Rob
Dunn (with a translation) and two
compositions for bagpipes.
NEW LOCH LOMOND
AND THE TROSSACHS
Including the Rob Roy Country
MAINSTREAM 2006 PB 240pp Illus
£8.99 18227 now £3.99
£7.99 18170 now £3.99
Rennie McOwan Encompassing an area
of outstanding natural beauty where the
Highlands meet the forests and moors of
lowland Scotland, Loch Lomond and the
Trossachs was created a national park in 2002.
This celebration of the area includes attractive
photography of its landscapes and explores
its flora and fauna as well as its historical
associations with figures including Rob
Roy, Robert the Bruce and Walter Scott.
PEVENSEY GUIDES 2000 PB 112pp Illus 250x190mm
Ben Lomond overlooking Loch Ard near Aberfoyle
THE LAND
WHERE I BELONG
Fifty Years in Focus
in the Highlands
and Islands
Mary Carmichael
During half a century
Duncan Macpherson
(1882-1966) created
a vast photographic
record of Highland life.
Born in Aberdeenshire,
Macpherson graduated
Waiting for the Aird ferry to Dornie at Ardelve
from Edinburgh University
as a pharmacist, then established his own pharmacy near the ferry terminal at Kyle
of Lochalsh in 1911. This book reproduces about 100 images from his collections,
together with quotations from his three books, Gateway to Skye (1946), Lure of the
West (1950) and Where I Belong (1964), and Mary Carmichael’s account of his life
and work. BIRLINN 2010 PB 128pp Illus 230x290mm
£20.00 88442 now £7.99
CLAP HANDS FOR THE
SINGING MOLECATCHER
Scenes from a
Scottish Childhood
Roderick Grant’s memoirs of his
adventurous boyhood in Morayshire in
the late 1940s and 1950s paint a vivid
picture of life in a remote country
community, from his first day at school,
accompanied by his pet jackdaw, to
skinny dipping with his first love; and
he portrays local characters including
his grandfather, known to all as The
Red Terror, and top of the bill at local
concerts, ‘The Singing Molecatcher’.
BIRLINN 2009 PB 176pp 127x197mm
£7.99 11109 now £3.99
Jason Friend During the day, the city
of Edinburgh holds a charm that will
delight any visitor or resident; but to
fully appreciate the splendour of this
city’s architecture and monuments,
one has to experience it at night.
The powerful visual impact of this
spectacle is captured by photographer
Jason Friend, who presents 140 images
of illuminated Edinburgh, providing
a fascinating nocturnal perspective on
the city. HALSGROVE 2009 HB 144pp Illus
EDINBURGH ILLUMINATED
£14.99 17673 now £6.99
PILGRIMS OF THE MIST
The Stories of Scotland’s
Travelling People
Sheila Stewart Singer, storyteller
and author Sheila Stewart is one of the
last in the line of Scotland’s travelling
people and these tales, gathered from
her friends and family, are a tribute
to a way of life that has now all but
died out. There are stories of myth
and magic, hauntings and sudden
deaths, lovers and childbirths, and the
hardships of a people often spurned as
social outcasts. BIRLINN 2010 PB 206pp
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UNKNOWN
HEBRIDES
John MacPherson This
photographic celebration of
some of the most beautiful
yet overlooked parts of
Scotland – the islands
of the Firth of Lorne,
the islands of Skye, and
Ullapool – is introduced
by Hamish Haswell-Smith.
BIRLINN 2005 PB
The reputed grave of Eithne, Princess of Leinster and mother
of St Columba, on Eileach An Naoimh in the Firth of Lorne
Allan Wright From holiday
towns on the Clyde to the
stark grandeur of
Ardnamurchan, the range
of scenery in Argyll is
truly astonishing. In this
photographic study of
the county, landscape
photographer Allan Wright
captures the history, romance
and mystery of the region,
its seascapes and its dramatic
skies. Michael Russell has
written the introduction and Wright provides
brief captions to each of the 116 photographs.
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BIRLINN 2005 PB 126pp Illus 190x250mm
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The old military bridge in Glen Croe
near Rest and Be Thankful, part of the
Hanoverian road network built during
the military occupation of the Highlands
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
NEW WALLS
Travels Along the Barricades
Marcello di Cintio When Reagan told Gorbachev to
tear down the Berlin Wall, it was not only a political
act. In the course of this beautifully written travelogue,
Marcello di Cintio discovers that razor wire, concrete
and steel divide more than nations. From Belfast to
Cyprus, from the West Bank to the US-Mexico border,
they divide people and cultures. This haunting and
inspiring book records the personal stories of those
who live in their shadow. UNION 2013 PB 288pp
£14.99 17538 now £6.99
Fabio Muzzi Tuscany is both the cradle of
the Renaissance and a region of breathtakingly beautiful and richly varied landscapes,
from the mountains of the north to the bare
clay hills of the Crete Senese to the south.
The 150 captivating colour photographs in
this book show its many facets: the architectural wonders of Florence, Siena and
Pisa, the vineyards of Chianti, the long, cypress-lined roads, the rocky coast, and the
peaceful farms nestling amid rolling hills.
NEW
SEASPRAY AND WHISKY
Tale of a Turbulent Voyage
Norman Freeman Described by the Marconi company staff clerk as ‘Not a Cunarder’, the Allenwell turned out to be a
dirty, down-at-heel cargo ship with crew
to match, and Norman Freeman had signed
up as radio officer for a three-month trip
from Liverpool to the USA. Some of the
cargo – Scotch whisky – didn’t make it that
far. Freeman’s memoir of this 1961/62 trip
is an entertaining and sometimes poignant
account of ‘a very odd ship and an unusual
voyage’. IAN ALLAN 2010 PB 236pp
£9.99 17134 now £3.99
NEW ODD MAN OUT
IN THE ALPS
Sir Ron Norman is celebrated as an engineer and entrepreneur; less well known
are his love of walking and his narrative
gifts. In this delightful book he describes
how, eschewing high-tech hiking gear in
favour of sandals and shorts, he strode
out to follow the Grand Randonée Cinq
from Lake Geneva to Nice. Ornithologist,
gourmet and eccentric Englishman
abroad, he makes the perfect travelling
companion, an ever-amusing and engaging observer of landscape and people.
STACEY 2008 HB 320pp Illus
£16.95 18166 now £5.99
ROUGH GUIDE DIRECTIONS
The Directions series offers tourists
on short breaks the sort of accurate,
informative and streetwise guides we
have come to expect from Rough
Guides, but in pocket-sized books
on individual cities that will help you
cram as much as possible into every
24 hours. The major part of each
guide is devoted to places to go, with
shorter sections on accommodation, travel essentials and language.
ROUGH GUIDES 2005 PB 208/224pp Illus
Jules Brown
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PERFECT TUSCANY
HALSGROVE 2008 HB 144pp Illus 212x230mm
£14.99 18237 now £5.99
ROMAN PROVENCE
A History and Guide
Edwin Mullins The region of France
which Caesar named ‘the Province of
Rome’ is still dominated by colossal feats
of Roman engineering – bridges, aqueducts, amphitheatres, baths, temples and
stretches of road. Mullins combines a history of the six centuries of Roman occupation with description of the surviving
structures, many of which are still in use
today. He also discusses the aftermath of
Roman rule and the restoration of ancient
ruins. SIGNAL 2011 PB 192pp Illus
£12.99 99874 now £6.99
30 DAYS IN SYDNEY
A Wildly Distorted Account
Peter Carey After living abroad for years,
novelist Peter Carey returns home to his
native Sydney and attempts to capture its
character. With the help of an assortment
of friends, he embarks on a picaresque
voyage of rediscovery that veers from the
harrowing to the insanely funny, laced
with a humour as bracing as the southerly
winds that sometimes batter the city’s
shores. BLOOMSBURY 2008 PB 250pp
RUBICON 2010 HB 144pp Illus
£18.95 18174 now £7.99
THE CHICAGO OF EUROPE
and Other Tales of Foreign Travel
Mark Twain; Ed. Peter Kaminsky Before
he achieved fame with The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain honed his talent
writing about new places, people and experiences. In the 68 letters, articles and lectures here, he takes us from the Mississippi
to the Holy Land, India and Berlin, which
he mischievously dubbed ‘the Chicago of
Europe’. These dispatches, some published
here for the first time, confirm that Twain’s
wit and insight still hit the mark more than
a century later. American-cut pages.
UNION SQUARE 2009 HB 449pp
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Ed. Anthony Brandt Arranged chronologically
from Edmond Halley’s account of the voyage of
the Paramore in 1609 to selections from Richard
Byrd’s Alone (1938) and Fuchs and Hilary’s
description of their surface crossing in 1955-8,
these readings, together with Brandt’s commentary,
offer a composite history of Antarctica. Among the
narratives of heroic voyages and treks undertaken
against impossible odds are the ill-fated attempts of
Shackleton and Scott and the triumph of Amundsen’s
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in 1910-12.
THE SOUTH POLE: A Historical Reader
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2004 PB 464pp 230x152mm
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NEW WOMEN ON THE NILE
Writings of Harriet Martineau,
Florence Nightingale
and Amelia Edwards
Joan Rees The opening of Egypt following Napoleon’s invasion attracted European travellers in search of adventure,
imaginative encounters with ancient civilization and evidence for Biblical events.
Women on the Nile features extracts from
accounts of Nile journeys written by three
remarkable and independent English
women who visited Egypt in the mid-19th
century. Joan Rees’s wide-ranging essays
offer analysis of the social, religious and
personal history that shaped these visitors’
reactions to their Egyptian experiences.
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CULTURAL STUDIES/PPE
NEW THE WEIMAR YEARS
A Culture Cut Short
John Willett Until it was tragically
curtailed by the rise of Hitler, Germany’s
Weimar Republic embodied a vibrant,
distinctively Modernist culture. This
lavishly illustrated book documents the
achievements of its artists, architects,
photographers, designers, writers and
musicians. It captures the restless spirit of
the age not only though its content but in
its form, presenting a remarkable cinematic
montage of images, accompanied by a pithy
commentary linking this artistic ferment to
the dangerous political currents of the time.
NEW THE ECONOMICS
OF SUCCESS
Twelve Things Politicians
Don’t Want You to Know
THAMES & HUDSON
GIBSON SQUARE 2014 PB 256pp
Eamonn Butlerr is Director of the Adam
Smith Institute and a leading voice on
free market economics. In this book he
warns against the rising tide of debt and
argues that government regulation and intervention created the world financial crisis and that the path to recovery lies in
less, not more, regulation. He sets out his
thesis by identifying 12 fundamental principles on which he believes the success
of our economic system depends.
£12.99 17860 now £5.99
£16.95 17613 now £6.99
NEW KEEPING UP
WITH THE GERMANS
A History of AngloGerman Encounters
Philip Oltermann When Philip Oltermann
was 16 his parents decided to move from
Germany to England. In this light-hearted
analysis of the relationship between the two
countries, he combines his own teenage
impressions of cultural differences with
eight examples of Anglo-German encounters
from the last 200 years – including Heine’s
reaction to William Cobbett’s angry swearing
and modern Germans’ obsession with an
old music-hall sketch.
FABER 2012 PB 294pp
£12.99 17666 now £3.99
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Law and Letters in the
Eighteenth Century
Wilfrid Prest The 18th century lawyer,
writer and politician William Blackstone
was one of the most important and influential figures of his age, and the impact
of his ideas on English law is still felt today. Yet his name is little known outside
legal circles. Drawing on Blackstone’s
scattered archives, this absorbing and
meticulously researched biography explores his upbringing, private life and public career to paint a vivid picture of a brilliant man of letters, Enlightenment activist
and early champion of human rights.
£42.00 84111 now £9.99
POLITICS
THE POLITICAL LIFE
OF JOSIAH C WEDGWOOD
Land, Liberty and Empire,
1872-1943
NEW
Paul Mulvey Throwing new light on
some of the defining ideological issues
during a turbulent period of modern
British history, Paul Mulvey presents a
study of the life and political career of
‘Josh’ Wedgwood. One of Britain’s most
outspoken radical politicians during the
period 1906 to 1943, Wedgwood fought
– in both the Liberal and Labour parties –
to uphold individual freedom and limit
the power of the state.
BOYDELL 2010 HB 242pp
£50.00 17955 now £19.99
John Sergeant brings his mordant wit and
keen understanding to bear on Margaret
Thatcher’s enduring – and, as he persuasively argues, baleful – legacy. Based on
Sergeant’s insights into the Westminster
scene and his unique access to her closest
colleagues, Maggie charts the course from
her glory days to her downfall and beyond,
showing how ‘Mrs Thatcher’s power to
influence events did not end with her resignation’. PAN 2005 PB 400pp Illus
MAGGIE: Her Fatal Legacy
£9.99 16819 now £4.99
THE OXFORD
HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN
POLITICAL PARTIES
AND INTEREST GROUPS
Jack Straw As a child in a council flat in
Epping, Jack Straw never imagined he
would one day hold three great offices of
state. In this candid memoir he charts his
progress from student politics to Lord
Chancellor. Without rancour or self-justification, he reveals the toll that public office takes on private life, discusses the
fateful decision to go to war in Iraq, and
offers first-hand insight into both the Blair
government and the Bush administration.
Ed. L Sandy Maisel; Jeffrey M Berry
One of a series of Oxford Handbooks of
American Politics, this volume brings together 35 scholars to provide an authoritative overview and commentary, and to
suggest new lines of inquiry in the study
of American political parties. The book is
in eight parts: the editors’ introduction,
theoretical and methodological perspectives, party history, the electoral process,
party organization, party in government,
interest groups’ bias and representation
and their roles and forms of advocacy.
MACMILLAN 2012 HB 592pp Illus
OXFORD UP 2012 PB 720pp
£20.00 19077 now £6.99
£30.00 11332 now £9.99
LAST MAN STANDING
Memoirs of a Political Survivor
NEW PROTEST VOTE
How Politicians Lost the Plot
Tim Newark Something is changing
in Britain. Restless voters, convinced
that the two main parties no longer
listen to them, are turning to fringe
groups such as UKIP and the Greens,
and colourful ‘mavericks’ such as
Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
This brilliant and witty book pinpoints the moments when the arrogance of mainstream politicians
lost them votes, charts the rise of
protest movements, and asks whether
the two-party system is doomed.
GIBSON SQUARE 2014 PB 256pp
£14.99 17864 now £4.99
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MIND, BODY & SPIRIT
Shao Zhao-Ming From the chaos of martial
conflict, a gentle system of exercise was
born. Graceful and serene, Tai Chi is
sometimes described as ‘moving meditation’
and has far-reaching benefits for body, mind
and spirit. This boxed set features a book
with detailed, illustrated instructions, while
the DVD features Master Shao Zhao-Ming
demonstrating Tai Chi as a whole body
exercise system that is low impact, suitable
for all ages and can be practised almost
anywhere. HINKLER 2009 Box 64pp Illus
NEW
THE POWER OF TAI CHI
£12.99 16586 now £5.99
Jennifer Pohlman Rather than overstraining
the body with arduous and repetitive training,
Pilates employs simple low-intensity exercises designed to promote greater physical
strength and flexibility as well as improve energy levels and the ability to cope
with stress. The DVD contained in this boxed set demonstrates a complete workout
routine which can easily be performed at home, and the accompanying book
demonstrates 27 different beginner-level exercises with step-by-step photographs.
SIMPLY PILATES
NEW TIME WARPED
Unlocking the Mysteries
of Time Perception
Claudia Hammond Why does life speed
up as we get older? Why does time seem
to slow down when we fear we are about
to die? Using research from psychology,
neuroscience and biology, the presenter
of BBC Radio 4’s All In The Mind examines the idea that the experience of time
is created by our minds. She also presents
her own research into people’s visualizations of time and suggests how we can
use our brain’s warping of it to our advantage. CANONGATE 2012 PB 352pp
£14.99 17814 now £5.99
CONNECTOME
How the Brain’s Wiring
Makes Us Who We Are
Sebastian Seung and his group of researchers have been mapping the connections between brain cells – the ‘wiring’
which he believes will help us to uncover
the basis of identity, personality, intelligence, memory and mental disorders. In
this groundbreaking book he introduces
the concept of an individual’s ‘connectomes’, explains how new technologies
can help to answer the basic question
‘Why are people different?’ and asks
whether it might eventually be possible
to upload our brains into a computer.
£20.00 10795 now £6.99
HINKLER 2007 PB + DVD 64pp Illus
£12.99 16588 now £5.99
NEW STAY SHARP
Keep Your Brain Active
and Banish Forgetfulness
Reader’s Digest Breakthrough research proves
you can not only grow new brain cells at any
age, but also ‘rewire’ your brain to increase its
capacity. Based on that research and the
expertise of cognitive neuroscientists, Stay Sharp
explains basic brain functions such as learning
and memory, and offers a practical plan for
keeping your brain active with over 100 puzzles,
exercises and tips to enhance your mental
powers. READER’S DIGEST 2012 PB 144pp Illus
£12.99 17870 now £3.99
NEW MUSICOPHILIA
Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks brings his expertise in neurological conditions to this exploration of
the power of music to torment, calm, organize and heal us. Recounting the experiences of musicians, patients and people
with exceptional talents, he analyses case
studies involving musical hallucinations,
amnesia, synesthesia and even seizures
caused by Neapolitan songs, but also considers more familiar everyday phenomena
such as ‘absolute pitch’, tone deafness
and infuriatingly catchy ‘earworms’.
PICADOR 2008 PB 433pp
THE GREEN ROADS
OF ENGLAND
R Hippisley Cox Starting at the ‘central
gathering ground’ at Avebury, Cox’s guide
covers all the ancient roads of England,
following the Stone Age ridge roads of
southern England, describing, with the
help of maps, plans and illustrations, the
hill forts and other earthworks found along
them and discussing other aspects of neolithic civilization. First published 1914.
LOST LIBRARY 2010 PB 217pp Illus
£7.99 79672 now £3.99
£9.99 18208 now £4.99
TREVOR BEER’S COUNTRY
FOLKLORE AND LEGEND
NEW
Trevor Beer Author and naturalist Trevor Beer
is well known for his Nature Watch column in
the Western Morning News. Drawing on his
lifetime passion for wildlife and country lore
and legend, this book features stories about the
British countryside, from ancient Celtic beliefs
and old recipes and curatives to animal behaviour.
Illustrated by the author’s own drawings, the book
provides a charming source of reference for all
those who love wildlife and the countryside.
HALSGROVE 2006 HB 104pp
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NEW LOCH NESS MONSTER
and Other Unexplained Mysteries
J F Derry Modern interest in a Loch Ness
Monster was sparked by a 1933 sighting
reported by an English tourist. The event
was duly recorded by the Daily Mirror – as
all the intriguing developments in the story
have been ever since, from credible witness
accounts to blatant hoaxes. Collecting over
a century of reports from the pages of the
newspaper, this book examines the unfolding
tale of Nessie as well as other ongoing
mysteries such as UFOs, ghost sightings
and crop circles. HAYNES 2013 HB 208pp Illus
£25.00 18026 now £7.99
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RELIGION
COMPLETE PSALMS
The Book of Prayer Songs
in a New Translation
Pamela Greenberg ‘From the fathomless deep
I have called to you, God.’ The Psalms are quite
unlike any of the other books of the Bible; instead
of narrative or doctrine, they offer a rapturous
poetic expression of religious emotion, from wild
elation to wrenching despair. Utterly modern yet
richly poetic, this complete new translation from
the original Hebrew brings one of the world’s
greatest books of poetry alive for the contemporary
reader. BLOOMSBURY 2010 HB 347pp 149x217mm
£18.99 97359 now £3.99
Jane Williams The face of Christ is the
measure of our own humanity, and across
the centuries artists have sought to portray
it. This beautiful book recounts the story
of His birth, baptism, ministry, crucifixion
and resurrection: illustrated with depictions of these events in frescoes, manuscript illuminations and sculpture, and by
artists from Leonardo to William Blake,
El Greco to Chagall, it asks what these
images tell us about Christ.
FACES OF CHRIST
PALMISTRY AT
YOUR FINGERTIPS
The Complete Oracle for
Reading Your Character
and Destiny in Your Hands
NEW
Johnny Fincham Created by leading
palmist Johnny Fincham, this authoritative
guide provides the tools you need to reveal
the secrets of personality, love life and
destiny for yourself, your family and your
friends. The boxed set comprises a pack
of 40 palm-sized cards showing key hand
lines and features, a detailed guide, and a
checklist for what to look out for during
a palmistry session.
WATKINS 2013 Box 80pp Illus 173x123mm
£14.99 18253 now £5.99
GOD’S DOODLE
The Life and Times of the Penis
NEW
Tom Hickman To possess a penis, Sophocles said, is to be ‘chained to a madman’.
This lighthearted but impressively researched book ranges across history,
world cultures, literature, art, medicine
and myth to examine man’s relation to
his characteristic member. It investigates
the reasons why this unruly appendage
all too often appears to have a mind of its
own – and the joint relationship of man
and his madman to the opposite sex.
SQUARE PEG 2012 HB 240pp
£12.99 18307 now £3.99
LION 2011 HB 127pp Illus 190x150mm
£9.99 11777 now £4.99
THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY
IN NORTHERN EUROPE
300-1000
Carole Cusack In this study of the process
of Christian conversion among the Germanic peoples from the third to the
eleventh centuries, Cusack’s intention is
twofold: first, to examine previous scholarship on conversion and to develop a
model of conversion appropriate to the
Germanic peoples; and second, to provide
a comparative study of six Germanic conversions – among the Goths, Franks,
Anglo-Saxons, continental Saxons, Scandinavians and Icelanders.
CASSELL 1999 PB 224pp
24275 now £7.99
THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
Landmark in Learning
James Thorpe When Johann Gutenberg
first used movable type to print his Bible
in the mid-15th century, he initiated a revolution which resulted in the printing of
more than ten million books across Europe by 1501. Focusing on the copy held
by the Huntingdon Library in San Marino,
James Thorpe’s short history of ‘this noble
book’ explains the processes used in its
production and describes aspects of its
design and appearance. No jacket.
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY 1999 HB 48pp Illus
£8.95 11780 now £3.99
THE JESUS DYNASTY
The Hidden History of Jesus,
His Royal Family and
the Birth of Christianity
James D Tabor’s provocative argument
claims that Jesus was the firstborn son of
a royal family who really was acclaimed
‘King of the Jews’ and established a dynasty that he left in the hands of his brother
James. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed
edge. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2006 HB 365pp
$27.00 42149 now £7.99
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF JUDAISM
Volume IV: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period
Ed. Steven T Katz Comprising over 40 essays, arranged chronologically, this volume
covers the period from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE to
the rise of Islam around 640 CE. It deals with the major historical, political and cultural
developments in Jewish history and the history of Judaism in this crucial era during
which the faith took on its classical shape. With the editor’s introduction and index.
£173.00 16710 now £50.00
DISPUTED TRUTH
Memoirs
Hans Küng In this second autobiographical volume, theologian Hans Küng describes his career
during the years following the Second Vatican
Council, when he published several bestselling
books despite finding himself faced with both
the revolutionary student unrest of 1968 and the
removal of his accreditation as a Catholic
teacher. Running through these memoirs is
the parallel career of Küng’s fellow Tübingen
professor Joseph Ratzinger, who rose through
the Catholic hierarchy as Küng gained a worldwide reputation. CONTINUUM 2007 HB 572pp
£35.00 99509 now £9.99
TRACING THE WAY
Spiritual Dimensions
of the World Religions
Hans Küng ‘Even in the new millennium the diversity of religions can
lead to mutual enrichment.’ Küng
surveys the major religions of the
world, tracing the history which lies
behind them; analysing major paradigms and highlighting common elements and differences; and showing
how their potential for peace could
become a shared ethic for humankind. CONTINUUM 2002 PB 294pp
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BIOGRAPHY
RAGLAN
From the Peninsula to the Crimea
CONSTANTINE
Unconquered Emperor,
Christian Victor
John Sweetman The reputation of Lord Raglan
was destroyed in the final months of his life by
events in the Crimea; the plight of front line troops
and the wounded and the disastrous charge of the
Light Brigade brought condemnation of the
commander’s personal integrity and professional
competence. In this biography, Sweetman reviews
Raglan’s long and distinguished career before and
during Crimea, to make a balanced assessment of
his achievements and reveal a brave, thoughtful and
very capable man. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 384pp
Paul Stephenson In 312 CE, Constantine
– one of four emperors ruling a divided
empire – marched on Rome to establish
control of the western empire. On the eve
of the decisive battle he saw a vision which
led him to convert to Christianity. Stephenson uses literary, artistic, numismatic and
archaeological evidence to examine the religious background of Constantine’s conversion and the life and legacy of a seminal
figure in the political and cultural history
of the West. QUERCUS 2011 PB 384pp Illus
£25.00 10998 now £9.99
£9.99 16643 now £4.99
OXFORD DICTIONARY OF
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
2001-2004
Ed. Lawrence Goldman This is the
first printed supplement to the Oxford
DNB (2004) and includes entries on
819 men and women who shaped recent
British history and who died between
2001 and 2004. The earliest person by
birth date is the dancer and choreographer Dame Ninette de Valois (18982001), but the majority of subjects grew
up in the interwar years. Among the
notable figures in this supplement are
Barbara Castle, John Peel, Alicia Markova, Francis Crick and Elizabeth, the
Queen Mother. No jacket. OXFORD UP
2009 HB 1,278pp Illus 253x196mm
£100.00 17380 now £40.00
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
2005-2008
Ed. Lawrence Goldman This second
printed supplement to the 60-volume
print edition of the Oxford DNB contains biographies of 865 people who
died between 2005 and 2008. The earliest by birth is Alfred Anderson, the
last surviving soldier who served in the
First World War and who died in 2005,
aged 109. Among the other subjects are
Ronnie Barker, Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, Harold Pinter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Robin Cook and Arthur C Clarke.
No jacket. OXFORD UP
2013 HB 1,252pp Illus 252x195mm
£100.00 17381 now £40.00
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Index of Contributors
Ed. HCG Matthew; Brian Harrison
Covering biographies from the earliest
time to the year 2000, the Index of Contributors lists the authors of entries published in the Oxford DNB in September
2004, and shows which articles each
wrote or revised. In earlier editions of
the DNB (published between 1885 and
1900) articles were signed with initials;
in the Index, these have been converted
to full names. No jacket.
OXFORD UP 2004 HB 479pp 244x186mm
£63.00 17382 now £14.99
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Fr José Maria Roman CM St Vincent de
Paul (1581-1660) is revered by Catholics
and Anglicans alike for his pioneering
charitable work. Translated from the
Spanish, this is the most important biography of the saint to be published in English in recent years. Piecing together the
fragments of the historical record, it recounts his dramatic abduction by Barbary
pirates and subsequent slavery, his escape,
and his founding of the Congregation of
the Mission, and sets his life in the context
of his times. Translated by Sr Joyce
Howard. MELISENDE 2002 PB 729pp
ST VINCENT DE PAUL
André Clot Suleiman I, called ‘the Magnificent’ by Europeans, ruled as Ottoman
sultan from 1520 to 1566, controlling his
state firmly, capturing Constantinople and
extending his empire as the Christian
world struggled to unite against him. In
an informed and intelligent study, Clot
describes the military and economic successes of a reign which marked the apogee
of Ottoman power, setting them in the
context of Europe’s recent troubled centuries and examining Suleiman’s reputation as a lawgiver. SAQI 2012 PB 409pp
SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
£20.00 11097 now £6.99
£14.99 16873 now £5.99
Robert K Massie The Pulitzer Prizewinning
author of Peter the Great returns with a
biography of Russia’s greatest and most
controversial empress. Blending scholarship and
narrative verve, Massie tells how an obscure
German princess travelled to Russia at the age
of 14, and overcame the machinations of the
feudal aristocracy, her scheming mother and her
bullying husband to become the most powerful
woman in the world. American-cut pages. Felttip mark on lower trimmed edge.
CATHERINE THE GREAT
RANDOM HOUSE 2011 HB 682pp Illus 241x166mm
$35.00 10655 now £9.99
NEW THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN
Anniversary Set, 1821-1860
(Eight volumes)
Frederick Burkhardt This award-winning edition provides definitive transcripts
of all the known letters written both by and to Charles Darwin, from his school
days up to 1860, the year in which the second edition of Origin of Species was
published. Each volume includes an introduction, editors’ footnotes, appendixes,
a bibliography, a register giving brief biographical details of persons referred
to in the letters, and an index. CAMBERIDGE UP 2009 PB 5,750pp
£349.99 18157 now £100.00
Ed. Frederick Burkhardt At the beginning of October 1831 the young Charles Darwin
left Shrewsbury to begin a five-year journey which would turn his mind towards
evolutionary theory. This volume brings together the letters which he wrote and
received during his voyage on the Beagle, recounting both scientific observations and
adventures ranging from an earthquake and political revolution to his efforts at ostrichcatching. Watercolours by the ship’s artist Conrad Martens complement the text,
depicting the landscapes and animals seen by Darwin. CAMBRIDGE UP 2008 HB 500pp Illus
CHARLES DARWIN: THE BEAGLE LETTERS
£32.99 93907 now £12.99
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BIOGRAPHY
GILBERT OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN
His Life and Character
Andrew Crowther William Schwenck Gilbert
is remembered as the librettist who, with Arthur
Sullivan, created the comic operas that still
delight audiences more than a century later.
But who was he, and what drove this difficult,
quarrelsome man? This sympathetic and
illuminating biography charts Gilbert’s
multifaceted career as a journalist, dramatist
and stage director, and uncovers the unhappy
childhood that left him discontented with
himself and the age in which he lived – a
discontent that his prodigious gifts transmuted
into satiric gold. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 272pp
£12.99 94606 now £5.99
DOCTOR BARNARDO
Champion of Victorian Children
Martin Levy Born in Dublin in 1845,
Thomas Barnardo was a workaholic Irishman whose non-stop efforts in the cause
of children changed Britain forever and
initiated much of modern child welfare. In
the writing of this book the author had access to the Barnardo family archives in order to research the story of this most fascinating and influential man. He uncovers
details of Barnardo’s childhood as one of
ten siblings and reveals his relentless quest
to improve the lives of Victorian children.
AMBERLEY 2013 HB 252pp Illus
£25.00 17117 now £7.99
THE BOLEYN WOMEN
The Tudor Femmes Fatales
Who Changed English History
Elizabeth Norton traces the rise of the
Boleyn family, from its inauspicious origins as tenant farmers in 14th century
Norfolk to the throne of England in the
16th century. The remarkable Boleyn
women, ‘who rivalled and, sometimes surpassed, the men of the Boleyn family in
their political ambition’, are the focus of
the book; in particular Elizabeth, her
daughters Anne and Mary and ‘the last
Boleyn woman’, Anne’s daughter Elizabeth I. AMBERLEY 2013 HB 320pp Illus
£20.00 16729 now £7.99
QUEEN ANNE
The Politics of Passion
Anne Somerset In 1702, 14 years after
helping to oust her father James II, Queen
Anne became Britain’s last Stuart
monarch. Plagued by ill-health and obesity and beset by intrigue, she is often regarded as a transitional ruler. This sympathetic biography unravels the complex
politics of her court and her fraught relations with the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough to reveal a woman of good sense
and good intentions who overcame personal tragedy to set her kingdom on the
path to greatness.
HARPER 2012 HB 677pp Illus
the army’s human resources, providing
the man-power for the great battlefield
generals such as Montgomery and Slim.
Adam revolutionized recruitment practices and introduced scientific selection
procedures, but he was also in charge of
army education and promoted discussion
among the troops – an enlightened policy
that led him into controversy. Roger
Broad’s biography examines Adam’s military career and in particular his achievement as AG.
SPELLMOUNT 2013 HB 238pp Illus
£18.99 17034 now £6.99
£25.00 99681 now £8.99
ROBERT OWEN
Social Visionary
Ian Donnachie Welshman Robert Owen
(1771-1858) devoted the second half of
his life to the application of radical ideas
in cotton mill management, gaining fame
and notoriety as a social reformer and becoming ‘one of the most controversial figures of his generation’. In this biography
Donnachie shows how Owen’s reforms
grew out of his earlier experience of managing mills and analyses how he applied
his beliefs to the experimental community
of New Harmony, Indiana.
Back by
popular
demand
JOHN DONALD 2011 PB 304pp Illus
£16.99 11501 now £6.99
RADICAL GENERAL
Sir Ronald Adam and Britain’s
New Model Army 1941-46
Roger Broad As Adjutant-General, 194146, Sir Ronald Adam was responsible for
BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER
Madame Rachel of Bond Street
Helen Rappaport tells the thrilling story of a
Victorian woman who began life as a fish-fryer
and ended up with a shop on New Bond Street
where wealthy clients flocked to buy her creams
and potions, on the promise of eternal beauty.
Fraught with tales of love affairs, blackmail,
high-profile court cases and suicide, Madame
Rachel’s extraordinary story provides a portrait
of the seamier side of 19th century London.
THE LIFE OF IRENE
NEMIROVSKY 1903-1942
Olivier Philipponnat; Patrick Lienhardt
The discovery and publication of Suite
Française in 2004 created a sensation, and
revived interest in its author, a celebrated
novelist of the 1930s whose work had
fallen into neglect since her death in
Auschwitz. Drawing on interviews, untapped archives, and Nemirovsky’s diaries,
this authoritative biography tells a story
as gripping and tragic as any of her novels,
from her childhood in Kiev and emigration
to France after the Revolution, to the
heights of literary fame and her deportation
by the Nazis. VINTAGE 2011 PB 480pp Illus
VINTAGE 2012 PB 320pp Illus
£8.99 16641 now £3.99
£9.99 99889 now £3.99
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BIOGRAPHY
NEW TREVOR BEER’S
DOWN MEMORY LANE
Rural Reminiscences
of a Devon Countryman
Trevor Beer Naturalist, nature writer, wildlife
conservationist and artist Trevor Beer was
introduced to the countryside at the age of five,
during walks with his family in the lanes, woods
and fields around his hometown of Barnstaple.
Here he explores both the humorous and serious
side of his country years as boy and man, with
reminiscences from the 1940s through to the
present day about his passion for wildlife and
conservation, and the colourful characters he
meets along the way. HALSGROVE 2007 HB 223pp
£12.99 18240 now £4.99
THE SECRET MINISTRY
OF AG AND FISH
My Life in Churchill’s
School for Spies
Noreen Riols When Noreen Riols applied
for the Wrens in 1943, it was noted that
she was a fluent French speaker and she
soon found herself working for Maurice
Buckmaster, the head of SOE’s F Section
(although she told everyone she was working for the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries). This memoir recalls her time
at the hub of the French section’s spying
operations, helping to train and brief
agents and delivering coded messages
via the BBC. MACMILLAN 2013 HB 318pp
£20.00 16803 now £6.99
NEW DAYS FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD
A Memoir of Childhood
John Simpson is well known as the BBC’s leading foreign correspondent, reporting
from the front line of conflicts such as the Iraq war. In this engaging memoir, he
turns his attention to matters closer to home: his own childhood in 1950s Croydon.
His honest and clear-sighted account of the unravelling of his parents’ marriage amid
the austerity of postwar Britain vividly evokes a vanished era and shows how lives
can be irrevocably changed by war. PAN 2005 PB 416pp
£9.99 18243 now £4.99
HOW TO SURVIVE
THE TITANIC
The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay
Frances Wilson As the Titanic slid beneath the waves, its owner, J Bruce Ismay,
jumped into a lifeboat and was rowed to
safety. But if Ismay survived, his reputation did not. Condemned by an inquiry
and vilified in the press, he became a
guilt-ridden recluse. Drawing on his unpublished letters to Marion Thayer, with
whom he had fallen in love on the voyage,
this insightful, perceptive account unravels the reasons behind his jump and his
struggle to live with its aftermath. Felttip mark on lower trimmed edge.
HARPER PERENNIAL 2011 PB 348pp Illus
$15.99 16788 now £6.99
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE PRIVATE LIFE
OF ELIZABETH II
Michael Paterson Elizabeth II is close to
being the longest-reigning British
monarch. Her life has been exhaustively
documented, but what of the woman beneath the crown? Who are her friends?
How does she feel about the demands of
THE SUGAR GIRLS
Tales of Hardship,
Love and Happiness in
Tate & Lyle’s East End
Duncan Barrett; Nuala Calvi The most
sought after employer for young East End
women in the immediate aftermath of the
Second World War was the famous sugar
refiner Tate and Lyle. The company offered the best pay and provided an unrivalled social life. Highlighting the camaraderie as well as the hard work, this book
recounts the adventures of some of the
young women who worked there in the
1940s and 1950s. COLLINS 2012 PB 352pp
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duty? What are her hobbies? Examining
her early life, the training she received,
and her attitudes to national life, historian
Michael Paterson offers a refreshing portrayal of Britain’s figurehead.
RUNNING PRESS 2011 PB 254pp
$13.95 16783 now £3.99
SPILLING THE BEANS
The Autobiography
of One of Television’s
Two Fat Ladies
Clarissa Dickson Wright Good-humoured, forthright and forging ahead at a
rate of knots, Clarissa Dickson Wright
tells an extraordinary story – of formidable grandmothers and a beloved mother,
legal distinction (as the youngest woman
ever called to the Bar) and alcohol addiction, sobering up with AA – all that and
more before Two Fat Ladies ‘changed my
life’. First published in 2009, this ‘feast
of a memoir’ (the Independent) brings the
story up to her campaigns for the countryside. HODDER 2008 PB 336pp Illus
£7.99 18211 now £3.99
A LONG LUNCH
My Stories and I’m Sticking to Them
Simon Hoggart Despite a 40-year career as one
of our wittiest commentators on modern life –
and modern parliamentarians in particular –
Simon Hoggart (1946-2014) claimed that
‘even I would find a book about my life pretty
dull’. But this wonderfully entertaining memoir
finds him in dangerous places (Ian Smith’s
Rhodesia and Belfast in 1989) as well as hosting
BBC Radio’s News Quiz; and, from the thick
of British political life, recounting anecdotes
of MPs and PMs from Macmillan to Cameron.
JOHN MURRAY 2011 PB 320pp
£9.99 17852 now £3.99
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LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
NEW NEVERLAND
JM Barrie, the du Mauriers
and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
Piers Dudgeon When Piers Dudgeon, who knew
Daphne du Maurier in the final years of her life,
began to delve into the history of her family, he
made the discoveries which he sets out in this book.
He reveals that, after George du Maurier’s early
death, JM Barrie used his Svengali-like powers
of persuasion to act out his compulsive desires
by captivating du Maurier’s children and the
grandchildren who inspired Peter Pan, eventually
bringing them to nervous breakdown, early death
and suicide. PEGASUS 2011 PB 333pp
$15.95 91777 now £4.99
NEW DAPHNE DU MAURIER
AND HER SISTERS
The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
SHAKESPEARE
The Illustrated Edition
Bill Bryson’s biography of William
Shakespeare pairs the most celebrated
playwright in history with one of today’s
most popular writers. Bryson, with buoyant humour and an eye for the most telling
detail, goes in search of the man behind
the masterpieces, exploring the age of
thriving theatres, bar-room brawls and bad
spelling in which Shakespeare lived, and
examining the myths, half-truths and
downright lies that surround him.
HARPER 2012 PB 256pp Illus
£18.99 12008 now £6.99
JOHN KEATS
A New Life
Nicholas Roe This fresh and observant
biography explodes the conventional view
of the great Romantic poet as a delicate,
sensitive figure. Meticulously researched,
it tracks his childhood in the City of London, the locations that inspired his poems,
his raffish circle of friends – Leigh Hunt,
Hazlitt, Lamb, Severn – and his doomed
love for Fanny Brawne. It magically conveys Keats’s shifting moods and burning
ambitions to reveal a passionate, fleshand-blood young man in thrall to alcohol,
opium, and sexual desire.
YALE UP 2012 HB 446pp
£25.00 16401 now £7.99
POET McGONAGALL
The Biography of
William McGonagall
Norman Watson ‘Oh, Heaven! ‘tis a
dreadful calamity to narrate,/ Because the
victims have met with a cruel fate.’
William Topaz McGonagall is remembered as the worst poet of all time. With
their inept scansion and comic bathos, his
lurid verse accounts of death and disaster
have endeared themselves to generations.
But who was he? This revealing biography explores the extraordinary life of the
former Dundee weaver turned self-styled
‘tragedian and poet’ to ask whether, perhaps, the joke was on us all along.
Jane Dunn Daphne du Maurier’s fame as the phenomenally successful author
of novels and short stories such as Rebecca and Don’t Look Now eclipsed her
sisters, Angela and Jeanne and their creative achievements as writer and painter
respectively. For the much-acclaimed biographer Jane Dunn, ‘it is sisters who weave
the most complex webs of love and loyalty, resentment and hurt’, and here she tells
the story the du Maurier girls’ unique childhood and their unconventional adult lives.
HARPER 2013 HB 443pp Illus
£25.00 18257 now £9.99
Michael Slater Driven by childhood
demons, Dickens maintained a furious
workload throughout his life. In addition
to novels, he produced letters, journalism,
essays and travel books, and his famous
after-dinner speeches. Written with
warmth, clarity and economy, this masterly biography explores the connections
between Dickens’tumultuous emotional
life, his outrage at the social conditions
of his day, and his prodigious output. Illustrated with many unfamiliar images, it
offers a rich and rounded portrait of the
writer and the man. YALE UP 2009 HB 711pp
CHARLES DICKENS
NEW
Michael Holroyd In these two volumes of memoirs – published together
for the first time – Britain’s foremost
biographer turns his attention to the
extraordinary lives of his own family.
Comic and moving by turns, Basil
Street Blues is part detective story,
part autobiography and part oblique
voyage of self-discovery. Witty, touching and wry, Mosaic delves deeper
into his family history to reflect on
the strange interconnectedness of
our lives. VINTAGE 2010 PB 576pp Illus
£28.00 98202 now £9.99
Edna O’Brien While Edna O’Brien’s
brilliant debut novel The Country Girls
(1960) scandalized Ireland and was
promptly banned, she has come to be regarded as one of that country’s finest writers. In this frank memoir, she looks back
with warmth and humour on a passionate
life lived to the full. In the sparkling,
evocative prose that characterizes her fiction, she recalls her rural childhood and
family life, her writing, her travels, and
her encounters with pop stars, Hollywood
legends and literary lions.
COUNTRY GIRL
FABER 2012 HB 339pp Illus 242x160mm
£20.00 94679 now £6.99
KAFKA’S OTHER TRIAL
The Letters to Felice
Elias Canetti In July 1914, Franz Kafka’s
fiancée Felice broke off their engagement
in a humiliating public tribunal. In this
short book, Elias Canetti explores each
letter that Kafka wrote to Felice and offers
insights into the torment he suffered as a
man, a lover and a writer.
BIRLINN 2010 HB 316pp Illus
PENGUIN 2012 PB 143pp
£20.00 88461 now £6.99
£9.99 98107 now £3.99
BASIL STREET BLUES
and MOSAIC
Family Stories
£9.99 18160 now £3.99
EDITH SITWELL
Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius
Richard Greene One of a trio of aristocratic, eccentric and artistically inclined
siblings, Edith Sitwell is largely remembered for her severe and striking profile
and for her exotic and extravagant costumes. This sympathetic and impressively
researched biography uncovers her troubled upbringing, her religious beliefs, her
passionate love affairs, and the deep pain
she felt at two World Wars. Above all,
however, it establishes the author of ‘Still
Falls the Rain’ as a pioneering Modernist
and a major English poet.
VIRAGO 2012 PB 544pp Illus
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
LA BELLA PRINCIPESSA
The Profile Portrait
of a Milanese Woman
Martin Kemp; Pascal Cotte This book
tells the story of the astonishing
authentication of a portrait by Leonardo
da Vinci, formerly selling for a few
thousand pounds but now worth around
£150 million. The authors, who worked
on this project, recount the progress of
their investigation, outlining the
methods they used to piece together the
evidence needed to authenticate the
painting. They also discuss the life
of the most likely candidate for its
melancholy sitter – the tragically
short-lived illegitimate daughter of
Duke Ludovico Sforza.
ROWLANDSON’S
HUMAN COMEDY
A Biography of the
Regency Artist
Stephen Wade Thomas Rowlandson’s
scabrous cartoons define the excesses
of Regency England, and still inspire
cartoonists today. But who was the
man behind these dark and vehement
satires? This elegant, entertaining
biography charts Rowlandson’s
upbringing in London, where his
family were Huguenot merchants, his
success as an artist, his relations with
friends and collaborators, and his
prosecution for obscenity, probing the
impulses and experiences that drove an
artistic vision as savage as its creator
was genial and well-liked.
HODDER 2010 HB 208pp Illus 260x175mm
AMBERLEY 2011 PB 128pp
£18.99 84682 now £7.99
£12.99 90425 now £5.99
NEW MONET’S WATER LILIES
The Inspiration of the Floating World
Vivian Russell ‘It took me a long time to understan
them without thinking of painting them... And then
of the enchantment of the pond’. Illustrated with re
photographs by Vivian Russell, this short study loo
garden and the paintings it inspired, culminating in
Orangerie in Paris. FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 PB 96p
£9.99 17902 now £4.99
‘LIGHT FOR ART’ SERIES
ENEL, Italy’s largest power company, has created systems of illumination for
many of the country’s priceless works of art, allowing both scholars and visitors
to appreciate paintings, frescos and mosaics. Sponsored by the company, these
magnificent volumes present masterpieces of Italian art in – quite literally –
a new light. The books have expert art historical essays and are superbly
illustrated, including large-scale tipped-in reproductions and gate- folds. They
are bound in dark grey linen and slipcased. ENEL 1991-6 HB 220-472pp Illus 300x335mm
SAINT FRANCIS
Artistic Testimony •
Evangelical Message
Ed. Roberto Caravaggi Consecrated
in 1253, the Patriarchal Basilica of
St Francis in Assisi is one of the most
sacred sites in Italy and houses some of
its greatest treasures. In this homage to
the Basilica, essays on the architecture,
St Francis’s sepulchre, the frescos and
the choir of the Upper Church are
accompanied by superb photographs
and reproductions of its works of art,
including Giotto’s frescos, photographed
before the earthquake of 1997.
97741 now £50.00
Detail of The Arrest of Christ mural in
the Basilica of St Francis, c.1290-1300
Ed. Francesco Lucarelli; Gerardo Marotta Marking the city’s inclusion in
UNESCO’s World Heritage List, this volume looks away from the hackneyed images
of street urchins and alleyways that have been associated with Naples to explore its
cultural origins and artistic heritage, and to present examples of its architecture and
visual arts that include paintings, reliefs, sculpture and mosaics.
NAPLES: The Inside Lights
97736 now £40.00
Ed. Roberto Caravaggi With essays covering Italian art from the 11th to the 17th
centuries and topics including icons and the Bernini models, this volume presents
the great Old Masters in the Vatican’s collection; among them Giotto’s Stefaneschi
Triptych, Leonardo’s St Jerome, many works by Raphael, including the Foligno
Madonna and Caravaggio’s Deposition of Christ in the Sepulchre.
PINACOTECA VATICANA
97739 now £60.00
Ed. Roberto Caravaggi Covering the history and arrangement of the rooms
themselves as well as Raphael’s decoration of them – his ‘Stanze’ – this volume
looks in great detail at each fresco, including one of the most celebrated works of
the Italian Renaissance, the School of Athens. There is also a chapter devoted to
the so-called ‘secret rooms’ and their frescos by Fra Angelico and his workshop.
RAPHAEL: In the Apartments of Julius II and Leo X
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Self-Portrait with Sunflower
by Sir Anthony van Dyck, c.1633
Clemens Schmidlin; Caroline Eva
Gerner This richly illustrated volume
from the Art Pocket series offers a
concise introduction to the Gothic
period and its defining characteristics,
with chapters on architecture, sculpture
and painting in the various regions of
medieval Europe and features on
master masons and craftsmen, the
medieval monastery, Dante’s Divine
Comedy, urban culture and courtly
love. Indexed.
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CONCUBINES
AND COURTESANS
Women in Chinese Erotic Art
Sunset, one of Monet’s Grandes Decorations
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derstand my water lilies’, wrote Monet, ‘I grew
d then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation
with reproductions of Monet’s paintings and
dy looks at the genesis of Monet’s water
ing in the Grandes Decorations in the
Ferry M Bertholet Spanning the period
from around 1600 to the 1920s, Bertholet
offers a richly documented view of
Chinese erotic art, with the emphasis on
the role of the woman. Drawing on his
own collection of art and artefacts,
including porcelain figures, lotus shoes,
fans and photographs of brothels, he
discusses Chinese philosophies, the
culture of bound feet and the lives of
courtesans, before examining Chinese
erotic art and imagery, from paintings
and ivory carvings to calender posters
of the 1920s. Sexually explicit.
PRESTEL 2011 HB 207pp Illus 304x255mm
£40.00 16747 now £16.99
PB 96pp Illus 221x221mm
Reverse glass painting of an expensivelydressed lady, late 18th century
STORIA NATURALE
DEGLI UCCELLI
A FACE TO THE WORLD
On Self-Portraits
Buffon; François-Nicolas Martinet
In a superb Italian edition, this is the
celebrated Histoire Naturelle des
Oiseaux, written by Georges-Louis
Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-88),
with hand-coloured engravings by
Nicholas Martinet (1725-1804), and
published in Paris between 1770 and
1786. It was the most comprehensive
ornithological work in France at that
time. For this edition, the text (in Italian)
has been selected by Stephane Schmitt,
and all 1,008 of Martinet’s finely
detailed engravings have been carefully
reproduced. Slipcased.
Laura Cumming Encountered in a
gallery, self-portraits produce a shock
of recognition like no other pictures.
They are about more than physical
appearance: they tell us how the artists
saw themselves, and hoped to be seen
by the world. Illustrated with 100
powerful colour reproductions, this
brilliant and perceptive study uncovers
the intimate and sometimes
uncomfortable truths of self-portraiture
– from Dürer and Rembrandt to Picasso
and Warhol – and what it tells us about
ourselves and our self-awareness.
HARPER 2010 PB 316pp Illus 245x190mm
£18.99 99692 now £9.99
Linda Nochlin Gustave Courbet was one
of the most radical painters of the 19th
century – in both the artistic and the
political sense – and Linda Nochlin is one
of his most perceptive and sympathetic
commentators. This remarkable volume
brings together her complete writings on
the artist. Spanning four decades, they look
at every aspect of Courbet’s work, from
his realist depictions of rural life to the
controversial Origin of the World. With
109 illustrations, 14 in colour. THAMES
NEW
Amazonian parrot
COURBET
& HUDSON 2007 PB 224pp Illus 225x150mm
FRUITMARKET GALLERY
£17.95 17818 now £6.99
Emily Howe; Henrietta McBurney et al The two
wall painting schemes in Eton are rare survivals of
late medieval art, dating from two early phases of
building work under the patronage of William
Waynflete and Roger Lupton. The Miracles of the
Virgin (c.1477-87) decorated the chapel of Our Lady
of Eton; the other painting, in the Head Master’s
Chambers, is a secular scene of school life. Here,
the context, iconography and technical aspects of
both schemes are discussed in eight essays
accompanying the detailed catalogues, with
specially commissioned photographs.
SCALA 2012 HB 192pp Illus 240x280mm
£35.00 11057 now £12.99
The Miracle of the Wounded Image in the Chapel
11043 now £100.00
NEW
NARCISSUS REFLECTED
The Myth of Narcissus in Surrealist and Contemporary Art
David Lomas The figure of Narcissus occupies a unique place in Western culture.
David Lomas’s remarkable study examines the enduring potency of the myth in
painting, drawing and photography. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition
at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, and lavishly illustrated with works by
artists ranging from Caravaggio to Dalí, Gilbert and George and the
Chapman brothers, the book explores the myth’s homoerotic undercurrents,
psychoanalytic interpretations, and its relation to our notions of self.
£18.95 17597 now £5.99
WALL PAINTINGS OF ETON
MAGNUS 2010 HB 670pp Illus 380x295mm
NEOCLASSICISM AND
ROMANTICISM 1770-1840
Silvestra Bietoletti While Neoclassicism,
inspired by the principles of the
Enlightenment, was an aesthetic
expression of rationality, simplicity
and grandeur; Romanticism was
characterized by emotion, expressed in
imaginative and often mystical subjects.
In this volume, an overview of each
movement precedes illustrated
biographies of the major artists:
the Neoclassicists from Piranesi to
Goya; and Romantics from Ingres to
the architects Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc.
STERLING 2009 PB 192pp Illus 265x217mm
£9.99 11118 now £4.99
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ROSSETTI
Painter and Poet
JB Bullen Dante Gabriel Rossetti achieved
fame as both a poet and a painter, profoundly
influencing both the Pre-Raphaelite movement
and wider Victorian culture. This sumptuously
illustrated book charts his life and work
through both media. It explores the tension
between the sensual and the spiritual that
gives his work its haunting intensity, his
struggle with drug dependency and, above
all, his relations with the three women who
shaped his art and his emotional life: Elizabeth
Siddal, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris.
£35.00 11850 now £14.99
Bocca Baciata, the first Rossetti painting of a
single female figure (Fanny Cornforth), 1859
Maria-Christina Boerner Despite his early death at the age of 36, Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec left a body of work that, perhaps more than any other artist’s,
evokes the mood of Paris during the belle époque. This volume reproduces over
150 drawings, lithographs and posters demonstrating Lautrec’s mastery of line and
his invention of a compelling new graphic style; while documentary photographs
of some of the people and places of Lautrec’s world further bring to life fin-de-siècle
Paris. Texts in English, Spanish, French and German.
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND HIS WORLD
VIVAYS 2012 HB 176pp Illus 340x255mm
£19.95 94762 now £8.99
SCOTTIE WILSON
Peddler Turned Painter
Anthony J Petullo; Katherine M Murrell Scottie Wilson (1891-1972) was a
self-taught artist who achieved recognition from both the art world and the popular
media. Born in Glasgow, he left school aged nine and fought in the First World War
before taking up drawing in the 1930s and developing his distinctive hatching
technique in imaginative drawings and paintings of flora and fauna. This illustrated
monograph tells the story of the colourful career of this ‘outsider artist’ and traces
the evolution of his art. PETULLO 2004 PB 80pp Illus 230x190mm
$25.00 98433 now £7.99
JAMES CHAMBURY:
COLOUR, LIGHT
AND SHADE
Painting in East Anglia
and Beyond
Louise and Nicola
Chambury James Chambury
devoted the second part of
his life to painting the Essex,
Suffolk and Norfolk scenery,
and his pictures show a
concern with the effects of
light on the landscape. Those
familiar with East Anglia
will recognize fishing boats
on the beach at Aldeburgh
and scenes from the villages Remainder at close quarter, Pin Mill Barge Race by Chambury
of Blakeney and Wells-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk coast. With over 70 colour
plates and a fully illustrated introduction, this book is a wonderful celebration of a
prolific English artist. HALSTAR 2011 HB 144pp Illus 237x257mm
£24.99 16660 now £11.99
Jenny Pery From the biography of a living artist ‘what emerges are the
psychological motivations and deciding factors that turn a human being into an
artist’. In this richly illustrated volume Jenny Pery presents the life and work of the
British landscape artist Alan Cotton (b.1938). Tracing his career from an early
interest in painting as a child in Redditch, the book looks in particular at the travels
in France, Italy, Cyprus, Ireland and Morocco that have inspired Cotton’s art.
NEW
ALAN COTTON: ON A KNIFE EDGE
HALSGROVE 2003 HB 144pp Illus 263x268mm
£29.95 16658 now £14.99
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Susie Hodge A hugely influential
artist, Paul Klee (1879-1940) eludes
classification. During a prolific career
he produced astonishing artworks full
of colour, inspired by his many travels
and by time spent at the revolutionary
Bauhaus. Beginning with Susie Hodge’s
introductory essay, this fresh look at
Klee’s art presents some 90 reproductions
aranged in three sections: early mystical
and abstract subjects; works from his
years at the Bauhaus and in Düsseldorf;
and the late works. Masterpieces of
Art series.
PAUL KLEE
FLAME TREE 2014 HB 128pp Illus 232x205mm
£12.99 11059 now £6.99
Dr Lakra The 85 works that make up
this book originated in a bundle of
vintage Health and Efficiency nudist
magazines bought for five pounds in
Brick Lane, London. In each picture, the
photograph of the nude woman has been
tattooed and assaulted by demons, death
or dirty old men in embellishments by
the renowned Mexican artist and tattooist,
Dr Lakra (Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez).
Bound in black velour. Sexually explicit.
HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY
EDITORIAL RM 2009 HB 89pp Illus 235x180mm
£30.00 11781 now £7.99
Mel Gooding While abstract painting can
sometimes seem cerebral and aloof, John
Hoyland’s big, bold canvases are vibrant,
tender and richly atmospheric. Now
in his 70s, Britain’s leading Abstract
Expressionist is still painting with
undimmed vigour, splashing brilliant
explosions of colour over shimmering,
mysterious backgrounds. With 182
illustrations, 170 in colour, this handsome
large format book follows his career from
his debut at the Whitechapel Gallery in
the 1960s to the present, and displays his
inimitable work in all its life-affirming
energy. THAMES & HUDSON 2006
JOHN HOYLAND
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Juliet Heslewood Why should an
artist portray his or her mother?
Simply because she’s there, an
available and willing model, or out of
filial affection? This charming book
features 40 portraits of mothers, by
artists including Rembrandt, Rossetti,
Van Gogh, Chagall, Whistler, Picasso,
Kahlo and Hockney. Combining art
history and biographical anecdote,
this delightful collection celebrates
the powerful relationship between
sons and daughters and their mothers.
ART DECO: The Golden Age
of Graphic Art and Illustration
NEW
Michael Robinson; Rosalind Ormiston
Beginning with an exploration of the ideas and
influences that contributed to the exuberant new
style of the 1920s, this illustrated survey covers
the two areas in which Art Deco triumphed:
fashion and advertising. It looks at the work
of artists such as Tamara de Lempica, Erté, René
Lalique and Georges Barbier in fashion, and AM
Cassandre and Paul Colin in advertising, but also
describes the media in which they worked and
the social context of their extraordinary graphics.
£20.00 99817 now £9.99
MOTHER
FRANCES LINCOLN 2009
Detail from New Bridges for the Seven Seas, a
Harper’s Bazaar cover illustration by Erté, 1919
£12.99 17904 now £5.99
The Artist and his Family
by Antoine Raspal, 1760
Joseph D Ketner II Andy Warhol (1928-87) created more art during the last
decade of his life than at any other time in his 40-year career, developing a
vocabulary of images and techniques that reveal a mature artist in full command
of his repertoire. With reproductions of over 150 paintings and screen prints,
including works from the Oxidation Paintings and Shadows series and the
‘fright wig’ self portraits, along with accompanying essays, this the first book
to focus on Warhol’s final years.PRESTEL 2009 HB 223pp Illus 279x240mm
ANDY WARHOL: The Last Decade
£45.00 16745 now £19.99
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ed. Suzanne Lloyd Silent movie star Harold Lloyd called three-dimensional
photography his ‘padded cell’ – a pleasant obsession which saw him shooting
some 300,000 pictures including, in various states of undress, many young
Hollywood starlets. Presented here are some of his best shots: stunning women
from before the age of plastic surgery and designer diets, from Marilyn Monroe
sunbathing (clothed) poolside to Bettie Page draped across the Nevada rocks –
all vintage 1950s Hollywood glamour. 3-D glasses included.
HAROLD LLOYD’S HOLLYWOOD NUDES IN 3-D!
THE REDSTONE
BOOK OF THE EYE
A Compendium of Visual Surprise
NEW
BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL 2011 PB 160pp Illus 252x252mm
£13.95 16773 now £7.99
NEW THE PHOTOGRAPHY
OF BEDFORD LEMERE & Co
SQUARE PEG 2011 PB 288pp Illus 266x188mm
£20.00 17916 now £9.99
Nicholas Cooper A selection from the
English Heritage archive of some 25,000
photographs taken by professional
architectural photographers Bedford
Lemere between the 1870s and the late
1920s, this volume focuses on the period
after 1890 and offers a view of Britain
at the height of its wealth and power.
Accompanied by Cooper’s introduction,
the photographs are arranged by themes,
including public buildings, commerce
and industry, transport and technology,
leisure and entertainment and life at home
during the Great War. ENGLISH HERITAGE
£25.00 17686 now £11.99
The Clock Tower, St George’s
A STAGGERING REVOLUTION
Circus, London SE1, 1907
A Cultural History of
Thirties Photography
John Raeburn In this scholarly study, Raeburn surveys the extraordinary ferment
and energy in American photography in the 1930s, revealing the aesthetic and
cultural achievements of its leading figures, and mapping the paths their pictures
blazed into the public imagination. The book includes chapters on Edward Steichen’s
celebrity portraiture, Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York project, Edward
Weston’s western landscapes, the fashion specialists and Margaret Bourke-White’s
industrial and documentary pictures. ILLINOIS UP 2006 PB 392pp Illus 253x177mm
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THE ACADEMY AWARDS
Gail Kin; Jim Piazza This comprehensive encyclopedia of the Oscars presents anecdotes,
film stills and photographs from the awards ceremonies and complete listings of all the nominations in every category from 1927/8 to 2010.
The Complete Unofficial History
BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL 2011 PB 371pp
Illus 255x214mm
£14.95 98958 now £6.99
ART OF MODERN ROCK
Dennis King A spin-off from the original Art
of Modern Rock, this volume contains nearly
200 reproductions of sexy, often psychedelic
posters from the independent rock scene of the
1990s and 2000s.
Mini #2: Poster Girls
CHRONICLE 2008 PB 191pp Illus 202x153mm
£11.99 91618 now £4.99
AT THE EDGE/AIG AN OIR
Robert Burton A collaboration between the
Society of Wildlife Arts and Forest Enterprise
Scotland, this a portrait of the rare and beautiful
woodlands of Kinloch on Skye, Morven and
Sunart and Knapdale in Argyll.
Scotland’s Atlantic Oakwoods
LANGFORD 2005 HB 167pp Illus 305x270mm
£35.00 88233 now £14.99
BACKBONE OF ENGLAND
Life and Landscape on
the Pennine Watershed
Andrew Bibby examines the history, geology,
ecology and the wider cultural significance of
the Pennine route along the watershed running
from Kinder Scout in Derbyshire to Hadrian’s
Wall. FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 PB 239pp
£8.99 98916 now £3.99
A BOY’S OWN DALE
A 1950s Childhood in
the Yorkshire Dales
Terry Wilson grew up in rural Yorkshire in the
1950s. In this autobiography he recalls a way
of life in the Dales which has since passed into
history. EBURY 2011 PB 221pp
£6.99 92535 now £3.99
BRIDPORT PAST
Gerald Gosling traces Bridport’s history, from
its medieval origins to the mid-20th century,
with chapters on its harbour, churches and
chapels, industry and the town’s experience of
the two World Wars.
PHILLIMORE 1999 HB 134pp Illus 246x182mm
£14.99 58436 now £6.99
A CAMERA IN THE HILLS
Roly Smith Illustrated with Walter Poucher’s
own photographs, this biography describes the
many-talented pharmacist, perfumer, prolific
mountain photographer and author of The Lakeland Peaks. FRANCES LINCOLN 2008 HB 192pp
The Life and Work of WA Poucher
Illus 260x195mm
£20.00 93300 now £6.99
CARICATURES
Tim Clayton Published on the 300th anniversary of the Acts of Union, this selection of 18th
and early 19th century satirical prints explores
caricatures and stereotypes of Scotland, Wales,
Ireland and England.
Of the Peoples of the British Isles
BRITISH MUSEUM 2007 HB 96pp Illus
£9.99 85438 now £3.99
CAVALIER
A Tale of Chivalry,
Passion and Great Houses
Lucy Worsley gives a vivid portrayal of Sir
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle (15931676), head of the king’s army in the north dur-
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the great cavaliers’.
BLOOMSBURY 2007 HB 332pp Illus
$29.95 91949 now £5.99
CHILLING TALES
FROM DERBYSHIRE
Present-Day Experiences
of the Paranormal
Netty Covering all sorts of paranormal events,
this is a collection of real-life experiences as
told to celebrity psychic medium Netty (Lynnette Leek) by ordinary members of the public
in Derbyshire. BREEDON 2009 PB 186pp
£12.99 85573 now £4.99
CIRENCESTER
Jean Welsford’s illustrated study begins with
Roman Cirencester and traces the town’s eventful history up to the present day, ending with a
guided walk for visitors.
A History and Guide
AMBERLEY 2010 PB 160pp Illus
£12.99 88339 now £4.99
CLASSIC QUILTS
Ed. Rosemary Wilkinson After an introduction to the basics of quilting, this book presents
full instructions for 13 designs, including classic patchwork patterns, appliqué patterns and
five contemporary designs for quilts and wall
hangings.
Tradition with a Twist
GOOD BOOKS 2008 PB 112pp Illus 280x215mm
$24.95 93859 now £5.99
COCKLESHELL HEROES
Quentin Rees tells the complete story of the
famous assault on Bordeaux in 1942, ‘Operation
Frankton’, and its aftermath, profiling the leading figures and revealing previously unnamed
players in the drama.
The Final Witness
AMBERLEY 2011 PB 320pp Illus
£16.99 16487 now £6.99
COMMONPLACE
Christina Rossetti A tale of the tortuous path a
woman must take to secure a suitable match,
the novella of the title is accompanied by four
more pieces of Rosetti’s much-neglected short
fiction: The Lost Titian, Vanna’s Twins, Pros
and Cons and The Waves of this Troublesome
World. Foreword by Andrew Motion.
HESPERUS 2005 PB 126pp
£6.99 99587 now £2.99
DISCOVERING BRITAIN’S
LITTLE TRAINS
THE FABER POCKET
GUIDE TO HANDEL
Edward Blakeman This guide to Handel’s life
and work includes a year-by-year outline biography, synopses of operas and oratorios, recommended recordings, and the words of the
composer’s friends and fellow-musicians.
FABER 2009 PB 336pp
£8.99 89974 now £3.99
A FABULOUS KINGDOM
Charles Officer; Jake Page From the early
journeys of Viking Otta to Will Steger in the
1980s, the authors describe attempts to reach
the North Pole, but also discuss current scientific
and environmental issues that threaten the Arctic
region. OXFORD UP 2012 PB 232pp Illus
The Exploration of the Arctic
£12.99 18771 now £5.99
FARM FAMILIES
Alison Jay With Alison Jay’s charming crackle
glaze-style illustrations, this picture book is a tour
of the farmyard, meeting the animals and their
young – with hidden animals to find on every
page. Age 3+
TEMPLAR 2012 HB 32pp Illus 255x255mm
£10.99 96726 now £3.99
FATE AND FORTUNE
Shirley McKay Completing his legal training
in Edinburgh in 1581, young Hew Cullan finds
the city full of distractions; but fashionable living and beautiful women prove less diverting –
and less dangerous – than a brutal murder and a
long-hidden mystery. POLYGON 2010 PB 314pp
A Hew Cullan Mystery
£12.99 77329 now £5.99
THE FORGOTTEN
PALESTINIANS
Ilan Pappe traces the roots of the latent
apartheid that characterizes the attitude of the
Israeli state towards Palestinians living within
Israel, and describes how the indigenous ‘1948
Palestinians’ have fared under Israeli rule.
A History of the Palestinians in Israel
YALE UP 2011 HB 344pp
£18.99 19099 now £7.99
FORTY YEARS OF THE
FORD TRANSIT 1965-2005
Robert Berry From a Mk1 pick-up to the 2005
Hallmark models that celebrated Transit’s 40th
anniversary, this Nostalgia Road book tells the
story of the light commercial superstar, with
photos from Ford’s archives. NOSTALGIA
Classic Marques Volume Ten
Julian Holland has chosen ten of the more idiosyncratic narrow gauge railways to explore, with
photographs past and present, and detailed descriptions of what there is to see and do today.
ROAD 2006 PB 52pp Illus 200x210mm
Brian Fagan Herodotus to Paul Theroux, this
anthology gives an engaging account of our enduring fascination with ancient architecture –
what William Camden described as a ‘backward-looking curiosity’.
£17.99 88693 now £7.99
DR SEUSS 123
BUILDING BLOCKS
This sturdy, colourful box contains ten nesting
blocks covered in cavorting characters from the
madcap world of Dr Seuss, that will delight
children while helping them learn to count. Age
2+ SILVER DOLPHIN 2011 Building blocks
145x145mm
$17.95 16344 now £9.99
ELIZABETH I
Margaret George’s novel tells the story of two
women of fierce intellect and desire: Elizabeth
I, trying to protect her country and her crown;
and her cousin and bitter rival, Lettice Knollys,
whose son, the Earl of Essex, was one of the
mercurial noblemen who challenged Elizabeth’s
throne. PAN 2012 PB 682pp
£7.99 99452 now £3.99
£8.95 98179 now £3.99
FROM STONEHENGE
TO SAMARKAND
An Anthology of Archaeological
Travel Writing
£21.99 95451 now £6.99
THE GREAT WAR
AND MODERN MEMORY
Paul Fussell First published in 1975, this is
Fussell’s landmark study of the British experience of the First World War and, in the words
of the author, the ‘literary means by which it
has been remembered, conventionalized and
mytholgized’. OXFORD UP 2000 PB 382pp Illus
£12.99 18793 now £5.99
GUIDE TO THE LAKES
William Wordsworth’s guide to the Lake District was the model for many that followed, and
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the poet’s unsurpassed love of the region informs
every page. This new edition follows the definitive 1835 text.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2004 PB 192pp
£8.99 99675 now £3.99
THE HINGED SQUARE
AND OTHER PUZZLES
Ivan Moscovich This volume begins with
Henry Dudeney’s square-to-triangle transformation, a real gem of recreational mathematics,
and includes another classic, the pen-and-paper
Racetrack game.
STERLING 2004 PB 128pp Illus 254x203mm
£5.99 76840 now £2.99
A HISTORY OF LIBYA
John Wright’s introductory history traces the
invasions of Libya by conquerors from Phoenicians to Ottoman Turks and, in the modern era,
the Italian occupation and the post-colonial unrest that brought Gadafi to power.
COLUMBIA UP 2010 HB 254pp
$37.50 93897 now £9.99
A HISTORY OF NAMIBIA
Marion Wallace This general history of Namibia
provides an absorbing account of pre-colonial
Namibia, the period of German colonialism,
South African rule, the war between 1946 and
1990, and the country’s development since independence. COLUMBIA UP 2011 HB 451pp
From the Beginning to 1990
$40.00 93896 now £12.99
HISTORY’S WORST
PREDICTIONS
Eric Chaline explains the background to 50 of
the most far-fetched predictions in history and
explains why they were so wrong.
and the People Who Made Them
£12.99 99414 now £4.99
HUNTER DAVIES’ LISTS
KISS ME, CHUDLEIGH
MARVELLOUS TO BEHOLD
The World According
to Auberon Waugh
Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts
£9.99 94682 now £4.99
LAROUSSE PICTURE
DICTIONARY
Ed. William Cook This is a collection of the
best and funniest writing by Auberon Waugh
(1939-2001), interwoven with a biography of
the man himself. CORONET 2011 PB 380pp
The Enlightenment Expedition
that Reshaped Our World
300x220mm
£15.99 10949 now £6.99
MEDITATIONS ON
LIVING, DYING AND LOSS
Natacha Diaz; Illus. Peter Brophy This first
French dictionary uses colourful illustrations to
introduce 250 basic words in themes from ‘my
room’ to the weather; it covers concepts such
as colours, numbers and times; and includes
play activities and a ‘singalong’ audio CD. Ages
5-7 LAROUSSE 2002 HB + audio CD 50pp Illus
$13.95 97304 now £4.99
LET’S HAVE A BITE!
The Essential Tibetan
Book of the Dead
WORTH 2010 HB 79pp Illus 255x203mm
VIKING 2008 HB 218pp
£12.99 93476 now £5.99
THE LITERATURE OF
RENAISSANCE ENGLAND
$23.95 93843 now £4.99
THE MERCHANT NAVY: SHIPS
AND TRAINS IN WORLD WAR II
John Hollander; Frank Kermode The major
selections in this volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature include Spenser’s
Faerie Queen, Shakespeare’s sonnets and The
Tempest, Milton’s Samson Agonistes and important works by Marlowe, Donne, Marvell and
many other great writers.
OXFORD UP 1973 PB 1,114pp
£6.99 85002 now £3.99
AN ILLUSTRATED
TREASURY OF SONGS
£17.50 98612 now £4.99
LONDON LIGHTS
Here are the words and music of more than 50
of America’s favourite songs, along with some
traditional English songs, each illustrated with
a painting or artefact from the National Gallery
of Art, Washington.
RIZZOLI 1991 HB 128pp Illus 305x228mm
£12.99 24731 now £7.99
JUNKERS Ju 287
Germany’s Forward
Swept Wing Bomber
Stephen Ransom; Peter Korrell This is a detailed, illustrated account of the extraordinary
Junkers Ju 287 which, with its forward-angled
wings and four Jumo 004 jet engines, was revolutionary when flight tests began in August
1944. CLASSIC 2008 HB 160pp Illus 300x225mm
£30.00 16670 now £12.99
KENSINGTON TO
ST VALERY EN CAUX
Princess Louise’s Regiment,
France and England, Summer 1940
Robert Gardner tells the story of an almost
forgotten British military disaster in which the
Kensington Regiment, after a fighting withdrawal along the Channel coast, were cornered
in St Valery en Caux and forced to surrender on
13 June 1940. SPELLMOUNT 2012 PB 192pp Illus
£14.99 10817 now £6.99
Larrie D Ferreiro tells the dramatic story of
the European scientists and naval officers who,
in 1735, set off on the first international, cooperative scientific expedition: the Geodesic Mission to the Equator to determine the shape of
the Earth. BASIC 2011 HB 370pp
Robert L Forbes; Illus. Ronald Searle Ronald
Searle obviously relished the challenge of illustrating the culinary adventures of a strange
menagerie that includes Hugh the blue emu,
Iggy the guinea piggy, and the zoo VIP (Very
Idle Panda). Age 5+ OVERLOOK DUCK-
A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes
£55.00 18829 now £14.99
THE LITERARY 100
National Gallery of Art, Washington
£25.00 76313 now £7.99
MEASURE OF THE EARTH
English-French • Français-Anglais
An Intriguing Collection
of Facts and Figures
Hunter Davies’s irresistible collection of lists
is roughly organized around themes such as
celebrities, football, people’s funny ways and
pets. CASSELL 2006 PB 192pp
Deirdre Jackson In this lavishly illustrated survey of miracles as depicted in medieval manuscripts, Jackson analyses over 120 miniatures,
selected from a wide range of Jewish, Christian
and Islamic sources. BRITISH LIBRARY 2007
Daniel S Burt profiles the 125 (there are 25
new entries in this revised edition) most influential novelists, playwrights and poets of all
times and cultures. CHECKMARK 2009 PB 554pp
The Minds that Moved the City
and Shook the World, 1805-51
James Hamilton’s engrossing account charts
the lives and achievements of men and women
who, in the 50 years between the death of Nelson and the Great Exhibition, made London a
crucible of innovation.
£10.99 98942 now £4.99
LOOKING FOR ENID
The Mysterious and Inventive
Life of Enid Blyton
Duncan McLaren Described by The Times as
‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with lashings
of ginger beer instead of hallucinogenics’,
McLaren’s book sets out to discover how Enid
Blyton created the characters that transfixed so
many children.PORTOBELLO 2008 PB 319pp
£8.99 84308 now £3.99
MAN-MADE EDEN
Ed. Graham Coleman; Thupten Jinpa With
an introductory commentary by the Dalai Lama,
this is a compilation of excerpts from the translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, selected
for their relevance to modern experience.
Ben Carver Inspired by Carver’s researches
into the history of ‘Merchant Navy’ class steam
locomotives, this book gives brief, illustrated
outlines of the war service of 11 British, Empire
and Allied shipping lines.
FINIAL 2008 PB 112pp Illus
£11.95 10714 now £5.99
THE MOST AMAZING PLACES
TO VISIT IN BRITAIN
Reader’s Digest Steam railways, standing
stones, architectural wonders, even an umbrella
shop... This is a practical, illustrated guide to
1,000 remarkable locations throughout England,
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
READER’S DIGEST 2011 PB 320pp Illus
254x180mm
£14.99 97433 now £5.99
NETS, PUZZLES AND POSTMEN
An Exploration of
Mathematical Connections
Peter M Higgins From railway systems and
ancient mazes to Circular Sudoku and the internet, this book discusses a range of engaging
conundrums as it explores the hidden mathematical networks that pervade our world.
£15.99 84040 now £6.99
THE NILE AND ITS PEOPLE
Charlotte Booth Egyptologist Charlotte Booth
discusses the Nile’s significance from 5000
BCE, bringing the story up to the present day
with the construction of the Aswan High Dam
and modern luxury cruises.
7,000 Years of Egyptian History
Historic Orchards in
Somerset and Gloucestershire
£16.99 93844 now £5.99
THE OXFORD DICTIONARY
OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR
REDCLIFFE 2007 PB 156pp Illus 241x200mm
£15.00 98561 now £5.99
£11.99 18866 now £4.99
James Russell Investigating the history of apple
growing and cider making in the West Country,
this book explores the changing fortunes of the
industry, its traditions and folklore, and recent
efforts to save and celebrate its historic orchards.
Sylvia Chalker; Edmund Weiner Authoritative, accessible and up-to-date, this dictionary
provides definitions of 1,000 grammatical terms
with examples of language in use and frequent
quotations from existing grammar texts.
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PLACE NAMES
In his A-Z listings of towns and villages,
Anthony Poulton-Smith traces the origins of
their names – including the names of streets,
rivers and pubs – and explains their meanings. AMBERLEY 2009/10 PB 158pp Illus
DORSET PLACE NAMES
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HAMPSHIRE
PLACE NAMES
84804
REPORTING THE BLITZ
News from the Home
Front Communities
Stuart Hylton Drawn from the pages of more
than 20 local newspapers, this social history of
England during the Second World War reveals
contemporary attitudes to the war as well as the
practicalities of life in wartime.
£14.99 99427 now £5.99
SEA OF DANGERS
Captain Cook and his
Rivals in the South Pacific
Geoffrey Blainey This is the story of Captain
Cook’s 1769 voyage in Endeavour, the rival
Dutch, Spanish, French and Portuguese ships
he encountered in the South Pacific and the men
who sailed in them, all searching for a fabled
missing continent. IVAN R DEE 2009 HB 331pp
£16.95 98238 now £6.99
SEXUAL SYMBOLISM
Richard Payne Knight; Thomas Wright This
volume brings together two pioneering anthropological works on phallic symbolism in ancient
and medieval times: Knight’s A Discourse on
the Worship of Priapus (1786) and Wright’s The
Worship of the Generative Powers (1865).
A History of Phallic Worship
DOVER 2006 PB 237pp
$12.95 91930 now £5.99
A SLAP IN THE FACE
Why Insults Hurt –
and Why They Shouldn’t
William B Irvine, a professor of philosophy,
investigates insults, their history, the role they
play in social relationships, and the science behind them; concluding that the best way to deal
with them is to become ‘insult pacifists’.
£14.99 18914 now £6.99
STARS AND ANGELS
Michael Stancliffe This is a selection of articles
Meditations for the Christian Year
SCREEN DECADES
The Screen Decades series presents anthologies of original essays – one for each year in
the decade – exploring the impact of cultural
issues on film and the impact of film on
American society. BERG 2006/7 PB 285pp Illus
American Culture/American Cinema
£15.99/£17.99 each now £5.99 each
AMERICAN CINEMA
OF THE 1940s
The decade dominated by the Second World War
and post-war recovery also saw several major
films, among them Gone with the Wind, Citizen
Kane, Casablanca and White Heat.
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AMERICAN CINEMA
OF THE 1970s
The 1970s marked the beginning of ‘summer
blockbusters’ such as Jaws, Grease and Star
Wars, but movie makers also addressed serious
issues, notably in Chinatown, The Deer Hunter
and Apocalypse Now.
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and sermons by Michael Stancliffe (1916-87),
who produced a weekly meditation for the Daily
Telegraph and, as Dean of Winchester, was
much admired for his preaching.
CANTERBURY 1997 PB 176pp
£8.99 91671 now £3.99
A TIME OF GIFTS
On Foot to Constantinople:
From the Hook of Holland
to the Middle Danube
Patrick Leigh Fermor This first volume of
one of the great masterpieces of English travel
writing takes the young Fermor from Rotterdam
to Hungary – the first leg of his journey to Constantinople. JOHN MURRAY 2005 PB 384pp
£9.99 99839 now £3.99
THE TOWER OF LONDON
Geoffrey Parnell Illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this absorbing
study describes how, for much of its existence,
the Tower of London was more than a royal
residence, and contained the Royal Mint, the
Record Office and even a menagerie.
Past and Present
£12.99 10614 now £5.99
VANISHING WORLD
Fredrik Granath; Photo. Mireille de la Lez
Published to coincide with International Polar
Year (2007), this visual record of life in the Arctic celebrates the wildlife that inhabits this harsh
and unforgiving world, but is also a cautionary
tale of global warming.
The Endangered Arctic
ABRAMS 2007 HB 270pp Illus 322x265mm
£19.95 85293 now £9.99
WB YEATS AND GEORGE YEATS
Ed. Ann Saddlemyer This is the first annotated
edition of the letters of WB Yeats and his wife
George, who throughout their 22-year marriage
corresponded when apart, discussing family,
friends, his writing, and the social and political
scene in Ireland. OXFORD UP 2011 HB 621pp Illus
The Letters
£33.99 97657 now £9.99
ACADEMIC TITLES
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Ed. Roger Nichols This annotated selection of
four poems and 26 essays (several in their first
English translation) illustrates the range, elegance, wit and sometimes sheer malice of SaintSaëns’ writings on music.
On Music and Musicians
£19.99 80847 now £5.99
CASUALTY FIGURES
How Five Men Survived
the First World War
Michele Barrett Telling the stories of three soldiers and two military doctors who served in
the First World War and survived, Barrett sheds
new light on the psychological damage of war
and the long-term effects of shell-shock.
VERSO 2007 HB 183pp
£14.99 97319 now £7.99
THE COMRADE FROM MILAN
Rossana Rossanda In this acclaimed memoir,
the former communist militant and founder of
the radical il manifesto offers a lucid account
of life in the eye of the storm of Italian politics
from Mussolini to Berlusconi.
VERSO 2010 HB 379pp Illus
£29.99 10664 now £7.99
COPPER SCROLL STUDIES
Ed. George J Brooke; Philip R Davies These
22 essays on the Copper Scroll, possibly the
least understood of the Dead Sea Scrolls, deal
with the opening, restoration and reading of the
Scroll; archaeological and linguistic studies;
and the interpretation of the Scroll and its enigmatic list of treasure. T&T CLARK 2004 PB 360pp
£39.99 66149 now £9.99
THE CORRESPONDENCE
OF JOHN WALLIS
Ed. Philip Beeley; Christoph J Scriba John
Wallis (1616-1703) was Savilian Professor of
Geometry at Oxford and a central figure in English scientific and intellectual history. This third
volume of his complete correspondence documents an important period in the history of the
Royal Society and the University of Oxford.
Volume III (October 1168-1671)
£210.00 17251 now £19.99
DAYS LINKED BY SONG
Gerard O’Daly looks at the lyric poems of
Prudentius, the Cathemerinon, published in the
early fifth century CE, providing Latin texts,
English translations and critical essays on each
of the 12 poems. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 422pp
Prudentius’ Cathemerinon
£89.00 17259 now £29.99
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN BOOK
Ed. William E Klingshirn; Linda Safran
These 12 essays approach the early Christian
book from the perspectives of religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies and classics,
and focus on the practices of writing, reading
and book production, 100-600 CE. CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA 2008 PB 328pp Illus
£25.95 10661 now £7.99
FIRMLY I BELIEVE AND TRULY
The Spiritual Tradition
of Catholic England 1483-1999
Ed. John Saward; John Morrill; Michael
Tomko This volume celebrates the spiritual, literary and intellectual heritage of the Post-Reformation English Roman Catholic tradition in
an anthology of writings that spans the 500
years between William Caxton and Cardinal
Hume. OXFORD UP 2013 PB 754pp
£25.00 18775 now £9.99
GEORGE III
Peter DG Thomas ‘Primarily a study of high
politics, for the power structure was centred on
the Crown and parliament’, this book gives a detailed account of George III’s political behaviour.
No jacket. MANCHESTER UP 2002 HB 269pp
King and Politicians 1760-1770
98347 now £7.99
GEORGE LOCKHART OF
CARNWATH, 1689-1727
Daniel Szechi’s study of George Lockhart, MP
for Midlothian and a member of the Commission
negotiating the treaty of Union in 1707, sheds
light on Jacobitism in Scotland in the years before
and after the Union. TUCKWELL 2002 PB 240pp
A Study in Jacobitism
£20.00 34091 now £4.99
HAPPINESS
Classical and Contemporary
Readings in Philosophy
Ed. Steven M Cahn; Christine Vitrano In two
parts, this volume presents writings by 16
philosophers from Plato to Jean-Paul Sartre, followed by essays in various contemporary theories of happiness. OXFORD UP 2008 PB 284pp
£19.99 18796 now £7.99
HAROLD WILSON’S COLD WAR
The Labour Government and
East/West Relations 1964-1970
Geraint Hughes Challenging the caricature of
Harold Wilson’s rigid subservience to America,
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Hughes analyses the Labour government’s efforts to promote East-West détente and to improve Anglo-Soviet relations between 1964 and
1970.
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2009 HB 220pp
£50.00 98566 now £9.99
THE HERALD IN LATE
MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Ed. Katie Stevenson In this volume ten scholars from across Europe discuss heralds’ diverse
roles and experiences in the late Middle Ages,
a significant period in the development of
the office of arms.
£50.00 98817 now £19.99
THE IPSWICH RECOGNIZANCE
ROLLS 1294-1327
A Calendar
Ed. GH Martin The recognizance rolls of Ipswich are a register of titles of property in the
borough. Presenting the first 21 rolls in English
paraphrase, this volume enables historians to
follow individual and family fortunes and the
work of the court.
SUFFOLK RECORDS SOCIETY 1973 HB 151pp
£25.00 98823 now £9.99
JUAN ESQUIVEL
A Master of Sacred Music
During the Spanish Golden Age
Clive Walkley In this full-length study of the
life and music of Juan Esquivel, a cathedral
choirmaster and composer active in Spain
c.1580-c.1623, the author sets Esquivel within
the social and religious context of the CounterReformation. No jacket.
£60.00 17945 now £19.99
THE MEANING OF DISGUST
Colin McGinn Approaching the meaning of
disgust by surveying the class of disgusting
things, McGinn argues that we are consciously
divided beings, repressing the disgust we feel
at our biological reality, yet also deeming ourselves god-like. OXFORD UP 2011 HB 256pp
£22.99 19101 now £9.99
MEDIEVAL LITURGICAL CHANT
AND PATRISTIC EXEGESIS
Words and Music in
the Second-Mode Tracts
Emma Hornby In a case study of the secondmode tracts (lengthy and complex solo chants
for Lent), Emma Hornby explores how text and
melody relate in western liturgical chant, and
how the music articulates textual structure and
meaning. BOYDELL 2009 HB 342pp
£60.00 98830 now £12.99
MEDIEVAL WALL PAINTINGS
Roger Rosewell The religious buildings of England and Wales were once full of vibrant wall
paintings. This illustrated study explains how
and why the images were created, who made
them and the scenes they depicted. With a
gazetteer of 500 sites with surviving paintings.
in English and Welsh Churches
BOYDELL 2011 PB 380pp Illus 244x173mm
£19.99 17949 now £9.99
MONSTERS AND THEIR
MEANINGS IN EARLY
MODERN CULTURE
Wes Williams In close readings of works by
early modern, mainly French writers – including
Montaigne, Rabelais, Ronsard, Pascal and
Racine – this interdisciplinary study focuses on
the ways in which monsters give particular
force, colour and shape to the imagination.
Mighty Magic
NATIONAL RELIGION AND THE
PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY,
1927-1928
John G Maiden In this study of the 1927 controversy over liturgical revisions to the Book of
Common Prayer, Maiden discusses the importance of national religion and Protestant national
identity during the interwar years.
£50.00 98574 now £9.99
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
AMERICAN ELECTIONS AND
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Ed. Jan E Leighley In 38 essays in sections
including research design, participation, vote
choice, self- and other interests, non-presidential
elections, and elites and institutions, the Handbook offers both theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of American elections and
political behaviour.
£117.50 17384 now £50.00
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK
OF THE ELEGY
Ed. Karen Weisman This Handbook provides
both an historical survey and a thematic engagement with relevant issues, including
women’s elegies, elegy in English drama 15901640, mourning, the elegiac in film and the war
memorial as elegy.OXFORD UP 2010 HB 736pp
£100.00 18868 now £19.99
PALMERSTON AND THE
POLITICS OF FOREIGN POLICY
1846-55
David Brown focuses on Palmerston’s political
activity and achievements in the period immediately before his premiership, looking in particular
at his involvement in the politics of foreign policy.
No jacket. MANCHESTER UP 2002 HB 246pp
98351 now £6.99
POLITICS, RELIGION AND
SOCIETY IN ENGLAND 1679-1742
Geoffrey Holmes These 12 essays, written between 1962 and 1982, deal with the political
life of England during the ‘the first age of Party’,
from the 1679-81 Exclusion Crisis to the end
of Walpole’s administration. Slightly off-mint.
HAMBLEDON 1986 PB 392pp
£21.99 35579 now £9.99
THE PRIOR OF THE KNIGHTS
HOSPITALLER IN LATE
MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Simon Phillips Drawing extensively on archival
material, Phillips investigates the Prior’s role
within the order of the Knights Hospitaller and
in English and European politics between 1272
and 1540. BOYDELL 2009 HB 221pp
£50.00 98575 now £16.99
REFORMING THE NORTH
Kingdoms and Churches
of Scandinavia, 1520-1545
James L Larson’s study offers a broad perspective on the turbulent period in Scandinavian
history that saw the end of the medieval Union
of Kalmar, the Catholic Church toppled and the
beginning of new, centralized states.
£71.00 92389 now £25.00
SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE
OF CHILDREN 1893-1935
Alice Boardman Smuts explores how female
reformers, along with scientists and philanthropists, launched the rapid development of child
science and child guidance in America in the
decades following the First World War.
YALE UP 2006 PB 394pp
£74.00 18845 now £14.99
£20.00 11792 now £7.99
A SMALL TOWN
NEAR AUSCHWITZ
Mary Fulbrook As the principal civilian administrator of the Silesian town of Bedzin, near
Auschwitz, Udo Klausa was responsible for implementing Nazi anti-Semitic policy. This volume
recreates Klausa’s story and the fates of the Jews
under his authority.
Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
£20.00 18915 now £7.99
THE STRUGGLE FOR EGYPT
Steven A Cook A leading expert on Arab politics,
Cook offers a sweeping account of Egypt in the
modern era, chronicling decisive episodes from
the rise of Nasser to the emergence of the Muslim
Brotherhood and the 2011 demonstrations in
Tahrir Square. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 424pp Illus
From Nasser to Tahrir Square
£18.99 17448 now £6.99
SYON ABBEY AND ITS BOOKS
Reading, Writing and Religion
c.1400-1700
Ed. EA Jones; Alexandra Walsham Syon
Abbey was founded in 1415 by the order of St
Bridget of Sweden. This volume of eight essays
traces the fortunes of the Bridgettine order, examining the ways in which reading and writing
shaped its identity and defined its experience.
£60.00 18299 now £19.99
THOMAS HUXLEY
Paul White This biography of the biologist, educational reformer and champion of evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley (1825-95), explores
his contribution to the shaping of the identity
of the scientific practitioner. No jacket.
Making the Man of Science
£64.99 17799 now £9.99
UNDER THE VOLCANO
Lucy Riall During the unification of Italy in
1860, there was a riot in the town of Bronte on
the slopes of Mount Etna. Riall uses a close
study of this uprising to explore wider themes,
including the meaning of the British presence
and colonial rule in the 19th century.
Revolution in a Sicilian Town
£37.99 18935 now £9.99
THE VISUAL OBJECT OF DESIRE
IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Sarah Stanbury Little remains of the visual
culture of late medieval English piety, much of
it having fallen victim to the Reformation. Stanbury explores that lost traffic in visual images
and its impact on contemporary authors and
artists. PENNSYLVANIA UP 2008 HB 298pp Illus
$65.00 10643 now £14.99
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Duncan Wu presents a meticulously researched
biography of William Hazlitt (1778-1830), who
wrote passionately on literature, art and politics
in essays of startlingly modern intimacy and directness. OXFORD UP 2008 HB 585pp Illus
The First Modern Man
£25.00 94538 now £9.99
WOMEN AND WRITING
c.1340-c.1650
Ed. Anne Lawrence-Mathers; Phillipa Hardman In 12 essays, this volume explores women’s
involvement in the transition from medieval
manuscript to early printed book, including topics such as ‘Household Miscellanies’, calendars
and Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance.
No jacket. YORK MEDIEVAL 2010 HB 252pp
The Domestication of Print Culture
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FICTION/POETRY
NEW BIGGLES
Adventure Double
Captain WE Johns (1893-1968) flew with
the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War
and made a daring escape from a German
prison camp in 1918. It wasn’t until 1932 that
his first Biggles story was published. Here are
two cracking stories selected from Johns’s
total of 102: the very first adventure, Biggles:
The Camels are Coming and Biggles Learns to
Fly. Age 9+ DOUBLEDAY 2012 HB 410pp
£6.99 18185 now £2.99
FIELD OF HONOUR
Max Aub A country lad on the streets of
Barcelona in the months leading up to the
Spanish Civil War, Rafael Lopez Serrador
encounters the conflicts and ideals of
revolutionaries and rogues that inform and
echo his own troubled coming-of-age. First
published in 1943, this is the first, selfcontained novel in Max Aub’s celebrated
six-part epic of the Spanish Civil War, The
Magic Labyrinth. Translated by Gerald
Martin, with an introduction by Ronald Fraser.
VERSO 2009 HB 271pp
£12.99 16973 now £4.99
THE BACHELOR
Stella Gibbons Set in Hertfordshire during the Second World War, in the peaceful
home of brother and sister Constance and
Kenneth Fielding, this novel by the author
of Cold Comfort Farm finds unexpected
guests – including a Balkan exile and an
old flame – disrupting the quiet suburb.
NEW
VINTAGE 2011 PB 432pp
£8.99 18159 now £2.99
NEW THE MATCHMAKER
Stella Gibbons Uprooted from war-torn
London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three
daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage
in rural Sussex; but the quiet life doesn’t
suit Alda and she turns to meddling in her
neighbours love affairs – with unforeseen
consequences. VINTAGE 2011 PB 432pp
£8.99 18165 now £2.99
NEW THE NICE
AND THE GOOD
Iris Murdoch A revolver shot rings through a
Whitehall office on a hot summer afternoon. A
government official has apparently shot
himself, but the circumstances are
questionable – and on investigation, nothing is
quite as it seems. First published in 1968.
VINTAGE 2000 PB 362pp
£8.99 18354 now £2.99
THE COMPLETE
FOUR JUST MEN
Edgar Wallace Here are the thrilling
adventures of Edgar Wallace’s daring and
ingenious vigilantes as they tackle wrongdoers
of all kinds, from criminal masterminds and
anarchists to madmen. Where Scotland Yard
fails – they succeed. This omnibus edition
contains all six novels published between
1905 and 1928: The Four Just Men, The
Council of Justice, The Just Men of Cordova,
The Law of the Four Just Men, The Three Just
Men and Again the Three.
WORDSWORTH 2012 PB 952pp
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF
GHOST STORIES BY WOMEN
Ed. Marie O’Regan Benevolent visitations by
departed loved ones or malevolent spirits in lost
rooms, these 20 chilling tales are drawn from
the long tradition of women’s supernatural fiction: from Amelia B Edwards’s The Phantom
Coach (1864), and stories by writers such as
Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Gaskell, to
women writing today, including Alex Bell and
Muriel Gray. RUNNING PRESS 2012 PB 511pp
$13.95 16791 now £3.99
IN GHOSTLY COMPANY
Amyas Northcote Garnering comparisons
with masters of horror including MR James,
Amyas Northcote’s stories exhibit a brooding,
measured insidiousness which tends to set
the nerves firmly on edge. This collection of
shorts is a rare treasure from horror fiction’s
golden age. WORDSWORTH 2010 PB 144pp
72453 now £2.99
IN A GLASS DARKLY
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu This classic of occult fiction is an unsettling collection of five
stories, each comprising case histories from the
papers of Dr Martin Heselius, who investigates
supernatural experience through his patients’
hallucinations and drug-induced ‘living death’.
First published in 1872.
41152 now £2.99
87426 now £2.99
CRIMESPOTTING
From hard-boiled police procedural to
historical mystery, from the comic to the
supernatural, Crimespotting brings together
ten best-selling writers in a collection of
specially-commissioned crime stories inspired
by the city of Edinburgh. The book includes
stories by Ian Rankin, Margaret Atwood and
James Robertson, and an introduction by
Irvine Welsh. POLYGON 2010 PB 223pp
An Edinburgh Crime Collection
£6.99 63407 now £2.99
THE COWARDS
Josef Skvorecky In 1945, Danny is playing
saxophone with the best band in
Czechoslovakia. The band has problems, the
love of Danny’s life is in love with someone
else – but the real threat to the next gig is the
approaching Red Army. Skvorecky’s blackly
comic tale of post-war politics was
immediately banned on publication in 1958.
Translated by Jeanne Nemcova.
PENGUIN 2010 PB 416pp
£9.99 98067 now £3.99
A SEAMAN’S ANTHOLOGY
OF SEA STORIES
Desmond Fforde This selection of nine
stories – some fiction, some true – is arranged
chronologically by their setting, from 1800,
with CS Forester’s ‘Hornblower and the
Widow Cool’ to ‘Aircraft Carrier’, John
Winton’s evocation of a Fleet Air Arm pilot’s
experience in the Pacific in 1945.
ACCENT 2009 PB 354pp
£7.99 93294 now £2.99
£6.99 16957 now £3.99
HUE AND CRY
Shirley McKay In 1579, returning to St
Andrews from Paris, a young lawyer named
Hew Cullan finds his friend accused of
murder. Investigating the crime amid a world
of religious piety and academic austerity, Hew
opens a Pandora’s box of lies and corruption.
This is the first Hew Cullan historical thriller.
A Hew Cullan Mystery
POLYGON 2009 PB 330pp
£8.99 94729 now £2.99
WESTWARD HO!
Charles Kingsley Set in the golden age of
conquest and exploration under Elizabeth I,
Westward Ho! follows the fortunes of Amyas
Leigh as he takes to the high seas battling
pirates, hunting treasure and joining Sir
Francis Drake to confront the fearsome
Spanish Armada. BIRLINN 2009 PB 682pp
£9.99 77335 now £3.99
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THE LOST QUEEN
Norah Lofts One of the best-loved
historical novelists of the last century, Norah
Lofts tells the story of Caroline Matilda,
youngest sister of George III, and of her life
as Queen of Denmark, married to an insane
king, Christian VII. TORC 2008 PB 288pp
ANTIC HAY
Aldous Huxley Published in 1923, Huxley’s
novel is a portrait of London life just after
the First World War: a world of fake artists
and bewildered romantics, conmen and
critics, devoid of values and moving headlong
into chaos. DALKEY 2006 HB 226pp 203x140mm
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FICTION/POETRY
GERTRUDE
Hermann Hesse In Hesse’s exploration of the
destructive power of human love, the narrator,
a sensitive, disabled young composer, is
drawn to a singer named Gertrude and
gradually becomes engulfed in an enduring
and hopeless passion for her.
NEW
POETRY
PETER OWEN 2002 PB 208pp
£9.99 18132 now £2.99
KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
Vladimir Nabokov ‘Of all my novels’, wrote
Nabokov, ‘this bright brute is the gayest’. It
tells the story of Franz, who is sent from a
small town in Germany to work in a relative’s
department store in Berlin and promptly falls
for the relative’s wife. Written in 1928, and
revised by Nabokov himself in 1967.
Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. PENGUIN
2010 PB 287pp
NEW
THE CRIMSON PETAL
AND THE WHITE
Michel Faber ‘Watch your step. Keep your
wits about you; you will need them’ Faber
warns his readers as they embark on a journey
into the dark side of Victorian London to meet
Sugar – a prostitute with ambition. ‘It is, in
the wittiest, most irreverent way possible,
teeming with the ghosts of literature past’ –
The Observer. CANONGATE 2011 PB 845pp
£9.99 18348 now £2.99
HEROES IN THE WIND
From Kull to Conan
Robert E Howard John Clute introduces this selection of 13 stories by one of the greatest writers
of action and adventure stories, Robert Ervin
Howard, who wrote some 160 stories for magazines between around 1929 and his suicide, at
the age of 30, in 1936. The stories arranged
chronologically, culminating in Howard’s greatest
creation, the tales of the unstoppable barbarian,
Conan of Cimmeria. PENGUIN 2009 PB 557pp
£10.99 98094 now £3.99
£12.00 98108 now £3.99
THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS
AND CONFESSIONS
OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER
James Hogg’s masterpiece is set in 18th
century Scotland and recounts the corruption
of Robert, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing,
by the mysterious Gil-Martin. First published
in 1824. CANONGATE 2005 PB 240pp
£6.99 11498 now £2.99
LAND OF THE SEAL PEOPLE
Duncan Williamson Preserving a valuable
part of Scotland’s oral heritage, Williamson
retells 24 silkie tales which he heard over the
years from other Travellers, crofters and
fishermen. Thirteen of the tales are published
for the first time. BIRLINN 2010 PB 221pp
£8.99 11478 now £2.99
STRANGE TALES
Rudyard Kipling Set in locations ranging
from English suburbs to Simla, these 20 tales
represent the best of Kipling’s chilling
narratives, among them: ‘They’, By Word of
Mouth and The Strange Ride of Morrowbie
Jukes. WORDSWORTH 2006 PB 300pp
37768 now £3.99
THE MYSTERY OF
THE YELLOW ROOM
Gaston Leroux This locked-room mystery is
the first and most baffling case of Joseph
Rouletabille, a young super-sleuth whose
sharpness and mental agility outshines the
likes of Hercule Poirot in what has been called
one of the greatest detective stories ever
written. WORDSWORTH 2010 PB 225pp
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ANTHEM FOR
DOOMED YOUTH
NEW
Twelve Soldier Poets
of the First World War
Jon Stallworthy The 1914-18 war began with
flag-waving, parades and patriotic poetry.
Through the lives and work of 12 soldier poets,
including Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred
Owen, Edmund Blunden and Isaac Rosenberg,
this book explores the growing realization of the
full horror of modern mass warfare and the brutal
reality of life and death in the trenches. It includes
a selection of the poets’ finest verses and is illustrated with historic photographs and documents.
CONSTABLE 2013 PB 192pp Illus 244x188mm
£12.99 18252 now £5.99
NEW SONNETS
Cecco Angiolieri Born in Siena around 1260,
Cecco Angiolieri wrote poetry that is remarkable
for its combination of comic realism and the
high style of 13th century love poetry, and for
its wonderfully rich depiction of social life. The
sonnets are presented here in the original Italian
with a new revision of CH Scott’s 1925 translation by Anthony Mortimer en face.
ONEWORLD 2008 PB 270pp
£9.99 18171 now £3.99
JUBILEE LINES
Ed. Carol Ann Duffy To mark the Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee in 2004, Poet Laureate Carol
Ann Duffy invited 60 contemporary poets to
write about each of the 60 years of Elizabeth’s
reign. The poets – among them, Andrew Motion,
Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill and Simon Armitage
– address a moment or event from their chosen
year, such as Kit Wright’s lines on ‘The Year
Nijinsky Won the Triple Crown’ or Michael
Symmons Roberts marking ‘The Party Wall
Act 1996’. FABER 2012 HB 146pp 179x135mm
60 Poets for 60 Years
£12.99 11846 now £3.99
ROBERT E HOWARD’S
COMPLETE CONAN
OF CIMMERIA
Robert E Howard; Illus. Gregory Manchess
This volume completes the Wandering Star
collection of Howard’s tales of Conan, with
five stories – The Servants of Bit-Yakin, Beyond
the Black River, The Black Stranger, The ManEaters of Zamboula and Red Nails – and all the
writer ’s drafts, fragments and ephemera,
including a map of the Hyborian Age. The
stories are illustrated with paintings and drawings by Gregory Manchess, who has signed
these limited edition (1,000) copies. Slipcased.
Volume Three
(1935)
TREADING THE DANCE
Trans. David Broadbridge In his introduction
David Broadbridge describes Danish medieval
ballads as a ‘national inheritance of the first rank’.
His new translation of the ballads is the first in
over 40 years and the first ever to be published
in a bilingual edition. The poems are beautifully
laid out and accompanied by Sonia Brandes’
paper-cut illustrations to create ‘a book of poems
and pictures in dialogue’. Broadbridge also
provides a short account of the ballads’ history
and tradition. STACEY INTERNATIONAL
Danish Medieval Ballads
WANDERING STAR 2005 HB 406pp Illus
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LITERATURE
1,000 YEARS OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Back by
popular
demand
Chris Fletcher Beginning with the Beowulf manuscript, this volume presents
reproductions of manuscript pages written
by 95 British authors of the last millennium. These drafts, diary entries, proofs
and fair copies, handwritten or annotated
by some of our greatest poets, novelists
and playwrights, offer fascinating insights
into the process of composition and revision. In the accompanying text, Chris
Fletcher outlines the life and work of each
writer and describes the content and context of the manuscript page. Revised and
expanded edition. BRITISH LIBRARY 2012
£12.95 98375 now £5.99
WHO IS OZYMANDIAS?
And Other Puzzles in Poetry
John Fuller Part of the pleasure of poetry
is unravelling its mysteries. Who is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is Crazy
Jane? In this playful, perceptive book, the
acclaimed poet John Fuller teases out the
conundrums, double-entendres, red herrings and misleading titles of some of our
best-loved poetry, from Shelley and
Browning to Eliot and Bishop, to help us
reach the rewards and revelations at its
heart. VINTAGE 2013 PB 256pp 198x128mm
£9.99 18110 now £4.99
PIERS PLOWMAN
CONCORDANCE
Will’s Visions of Piers Plowman,
Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best
Joseph S Wittig This is a complete concordance to the A, B and C texts of Piers
Plowman in the Athlone editions. Each
word in the vocabulary of the three versions (approximately 5,400) is listed alphabetically in its order of occurrence
within the particular version. Except for a
few frequently used words such as the definite and indefinite articles and common
conjunctions, each occurrence of each
word is listed within its line of context.
With Latin and French concordances. No
jacket. ATHLONE 2001 HB 290pp 274x210mm
£250.00 99444 now £25.00
COLERIDGE’S RESPONSES
Selected Writings on Literary
Criticism, the Bible and Nature
(Three volumes)
Ed. Seamus Perry; Anthony J Harding;
Samantha Harvey In addition to being a
major poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was
one of the most insightful critics of his
day. The full range of his interests has
only come to light with the appearance
over the past century of much unpublished
material. The first of these anthologies
presents his views on writing and writers,
arranged alphabetically from Aristophanes
to Wordsworth; the second his often unorthodox views on the Bible; and the third
his thoughts on nature, in prose and verse.
No jackets. CONTINUUM 2008 HB 1240pp
£300.00 99729 now £50.00
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WRITING BRITAIN
Wastelands to Wonderlands
Christina Hardyment From Chaucer’s
pilgrims to Ballard’s suburban dystopias,
British authors have been fascinated by
our relationship to the land in which we
live. Evocatively illustrated with manuscripts, drawings, historic images and
striking modern photographs, this handsome and engrossing book explores the
way that landscape – be it Emily Brontë’s
windswept moors, Dickens’s fog-bound
metropolis or Betjeman’s Metroland – permeates the literature, and how writers
have conditioned our responses to it.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2012 HB 192pp Illus
240x220mm
THE MISSING INK
The Lost Art of Handwriting
(and Why It Still Matters)
Philip Hensher ‘Handwriting is good for
us’, argues Philip Hensher, ‘It involves
us in a relationship with the written word
which is sensuous, immediate and individual’. In his witty and highly entertaining defence of handwriting, Hensher discusses teachers of handwriting, theorists
and graphologists, goose quills, nibs and
the Cristal Bic, and he makes a passionate
case for continuing to scribble notes, write
letters, chew Biros, and ‘enhance the
quality of our lives by going for the slow
option’. MACMILLAN 2012 HB 284pp
£14.99 10925 now £5.99
£25.00 98389 now £9.99
Robert Kanigel Situated off the west
coast of Ireland, the Blasket Islands have
been uninhabited since 1953. Once they
were home to a resilient, Irish-speaking
community of fisher-folk, who survived
on these lonely outcrops with few modern
conveniences. Kanigel tells how, during
the Gaelic renaissance, Great Blasket attracted scholars and writers – including
JM Synge and the Classicist George
Thomson – and experienced a clash of
cultures between modern life and an older
world slipping away. KNOPF 2012 HB 331pp
ON AN IRISH ISLAND
$26.95 11032 now £6.99
ITALIAN LITERATURE
A Very Short Introduction
Peter Hainsworth; David Robey One of
Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions that offer ‘stimulating ways
in to new subjects’, this slim volume examines Italian literature from the Middle
Ages to the present. In chapters on themes
such as tradition, politics, secularism and
women, the authors discuss the major figures from Dante to Calvino and a wide
range of other writers.
OXFORD UP 2012 PB 144pp Illus 172x108mm
£7.99 10628 now £3.99
Christopher Frayling One day in 1747,
Horace Walpole’s cat Selima fell into a tub
of goldfishes and drowned, inspiring Thomas
Gray to write his much-loved Ode on the
Death of a Favourite Cat. This delightful,
handsomely produced book takes the poem
as a starting point for an exploration of 18th
century matters feline, drawing in Rousseau,
Johnson and Christopher Smart. It features
three sets of illustrations for the poem:
engravings by Richard Bentley (1753),
watercolours by Blake (1797) and
previously unpublished drawings by
Kathleen Hale (1944). THAMES & HUDSON
HORACE WALPOLE’S CAT
£14.95 98406 now £7.99
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NEW THE GENIUS
OF DICKENS
The Ideas and Inspiration of
Britain’s Greatest Novelist
Michael Slater No writer aside from
Shakespeare is closer to the heart of
Britain’s national identity than Charles
Dickens. This absorbing little book ranges
widely over his fiction, journalism, letters
and speeches to capture the many facets
of his genius: his flights of fancy, his idealisation of innocence, his rage at social
injustice, his faith in progress, and the energy and ambition that drove his prodigious output. DUCKWORTH 2011 HB 184pp
£10.99 18306 now £3.99
John Betjeman was probably the most
popular poet of last century and his subtle
blend of humour and melancholia, affection
and criticism continues to attract readers
today. From beneath his sparkling wit and
deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman
emerges as an authority on a broad range
of subjects, including conservation, church
architecture, tradition and Englishness. This
selection, made by John Guest and first
published in 1978, presents all his greatest
poetry, prose and the filmscript, Metroland.
THE BEST OF BETJEMAN
£9.99 89854 now £3.99
Ann Wroe Half-man, half-god, Orpheus
was both magician and poet, musician and
theologian; his mythical story has inspired
philosophers and composers, scandalized
Church Fathers and fascinated Jung and
Cocteau. Ann Wroe explores Orpheus’
cultural influence and the many versions
of his story, from his birth ‘a generation
before Homer’ and his early musical talent, through the quest for the Golden
Fleece and his love for Eurydice to his
terrible death at the hands of frenzied
Maenads. American-cut pages.
ORPHEUS: The Song of Life
OVERLOOK 2011 HB 270pp
$26.95 11034 now £6.99
Roberto Calasso The mid-19th century
metropolis was a new and, for many, a
terrifying phenomenon. Like no poet before him, Charles Baudelaire captured its
ephemeral, fleeting essence. In this extraordinary, genre-defying book, Roberto
Calasso ranges through the poet’s life and
work, focusing on two painters – Ingres
and Delacroix – about whom he wrote
acutely. In a dazzling mosaic of stories,
insights, dreams and analysis, Calasso explores Baudelaire’s phantasmagorical vision of Paris – and the nature of modernity. ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 338pp
LA FOLIE BAUDELAIRE
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AUDIO CDs
Charles Darwin The two most famous works
of Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species, a
masterpiece of modern science, and his account
of his travels and revolutionary research, The Voyage
of the Beagle – are edited and read here by Professor
Richard Dawkins. This special edition includes a
bonus CD on which Dawkins reads his own essay
examining Darwin’s unique contribution to science,
Darwin’s Five Bridges: the Way to Natural Selection.
THE DARWIN SELECTION
CSA WORD 2010 11 CDs (13 hours)
£28.99 17804 now £6.99
SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION
The Journals of Robert Scott
Robert Scott Captain Scott’s final journey
to the South Pole is one of the greatest tales
of adventure and his journals are among
the most dramatic and moving documents
in the English language. This new audio
adaptation starts as Scott’s ship, Terra Nova
sets sail from New Zealand and ends with
the last, tragic diary entry as Scott, Wilson
and Bowers calmly await certain death. The
Journals are read by David Horovitch.
CSA WORD 2011 6 audio CDs (61⁄2 hours)
£21.99 17812 now £6.99
Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon First published in 1932, the Farjeon’s book of poems tells the story of 41 English monarchs,
from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth
II – with a poem devoted to each king or
queen. This children’s classic, along with
a selection of the Farjeons’ Heroes and
KINGS AND QUEENS
Heroines (from Alexander the Great to Emmeline Pankhurst), is read by actors Isla
Blair and Julian Glover. BRITISH LIBRARY
2011 1 audio CD (73 minutes)
£10.00 16940 now £3.99
VOICES OF HISTORY 2
Arts, Science and Exploration
British Library Alfred Tennyson reading
from Maud, Howard Carter describing his
discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, Albert
Einstein discussing the responsibility of
the scientists who helped develop the
atomic bomb: this set of two audio CDs
features 38 such historic recordings drawn
from the British Library Sound Archive.
The tracks include extracts from radio
broadcasts, speeches and commercial
recordings, with notes on the speakers in
the accompanying booklet. BRITISH
LIBRARY 2005 2 audio CDs (139 minutes)
£18.99 98388 now £6.99
THE SPOKEN WORD SERIES FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY
Drawing on the British Library Sound Archive and the BBC Sound Archives,
The Spoken Word series presents the voices of some of the 20th century’s
greatest literary figures in recordings taken from the original radio broadcasts.
Each CD contains excerpts from talks, readings and interviews, with notes in
the accompanying booklet.
This set of three CDs contains recordings of
30 novelists or playwrights from the earliest
generations whose voices survive, beginning
with Arthur Conan Doyle speaking in 1930
and including excerpts from BBC talks and
interviews by Kipling, GK Chesterton, Tolkien,
Graham Greene, Doris Lessing and Joe Orton.
Announcements are read by Juliet Stevenson.
BRITISH WRITERS
BRITISH LIBRARY 2008 3 CDs (21⁄2 hours)
£20.00 10731 now £7.99
SCIENCE FICTION
WRITERS
Douglas Adams on Desert Island
Discs, Ursula K LeGuin interviewed
on Woman’s Hour, Kurt Vonnegut
talking on Third Ear in 1990...
Originally broadcast on BBC radio,
these interviews feature ten of the
really great science fiction writers
talking about their art. The other
seven writers are Isaac Asimov,
Brian Aldiss, Doris Lessing, Michael
Moorcock, JG Ballard, Arthur C
Clarke (another Desert Islander) and
Ray Bradbury. BRITISH LIBRARY
The 17 tracks on this CD include Durrell in
conversation with Malcolm Muggeridge in 1965,
and reading and commenting on several of his
poems, including ‘Alexandria’ and ‘Cavafy’.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
BRITISH LIBRARY 2012 1 audio CD (1 hour)
£10.00 16941 now £3.99
The most famous author of his day, HG Wells
was frequently asked to contribute to radio
series. Among these recordings are excerpts
from his talks for ‘Whither Britain’ (1934) and
‘I Knew a Man’, in which his chosen
outstanding personality was TH Huxley.
HG WELLS
2011 1 audio CD (73 mins)
BRITISH LIBRARY 2006 1 audio CD (1 hour)
£9.99 98385 now £3.99
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REFERENCE/LANGUAGE
PUZZLES
WHO, OR WHY, OR
WHICH, OR WHAT?
A Global Gazetteer of
the Instructive and Strange
John Oldale ‘A collection of some of the more
unusual facts concerning every nation on earth’,
John Oldale’s illustrated gazetteer provides a
wondrous miscellany of information, from the
origins of the carrot (Afghanistan) and the only
confirmed gender cheat in Olympic history
(Germany) to Zimbabwe’s inflation nightmare.
There are also Global Significance Ratings
for each country (UK comes third), a list of
their World Heritage sites and how to say ‘hello’
and ‘goodbye’. PARTICULAR 2011 HB 309pp Illus
£16.99 98092 now £6.99
WORD ROUTES
Journeys through Etymology
THE JUMBO CRYPTIC
CROSSWORD GIFT SET
(Three books)
Ed. Edmund and David Akenhead
It’s the world’s most challenging
cryptic crossword – times three. Book
1 is the very first collection of 50 of
The Times Jumbo Cryptic crosswords,
including the original puzzle, published
at Christmas 1970. Book 2 has 30
crosswords including the gigantic
Diamond Jubilee Puzzle that marked
the 60th anniversary of The Times
crossword in 1990. When you’ve
ripped through those, there are 30 more
in Book 3. TIMES 2002 PB 319pp
Alexander Tulloch A unique kind of etymological dictionary, Word Routes follows
the surprising twists and turns of more than 500 everyday words on their way to
modern English. Alexander Tulloch’s short essays cover the origins of such words
as ‘school’ (Greek for ‘leisure’), ‘violin’ (related, oddly enough, to ‘veal’) and
‘bridegroom’ (which should really be spelt without the ‘r’ and has distant links
to ‘chameleon’). PETER OWEN 2005 PB 208pp
£12.95 39953 now £4.99
NAME DROPPING?
A No-Nonsense Guide to the Use of Names
Philip Gooden What exactly are expressions such
as Kafkaesque or Orwellian or Miranda-like trying
to pin down? Philip Gooden’s engrossing A-Z goes
where dictionaries usually fear to tread and offers
full explanations of terms derived from proper
names. As well as describing the original owner of
the name – real or fictional – and what it has come
to mean, the book provides examples of its use in the
press and other media and a pretentiousness rating,
lest you get carried away.A&C BLACK 2006 HB 218pp
£23.97 99862 now £7.99
KenKen is a mathematical puzzle
invented by the Japanese teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto as a brain training exercise. The problems require a grid to
be completed with numbers, like
sudoku, but with the additional challenge that internal blocks within the
grid must adhere to a prescribed arithmetical formula. This collection contains over 100 puzzles with notes on
how to solve them. TIMES 2008 PB 176pp
NEW
£5.99 18371 now £2.99
NEW HOW TO MASTER
THE TIMES CROSSWORD
The Times Cryptic
Crossword Demystified
Tim Moorey, veteran solver and setter
of crosswords, guides the beginner
through the different types of cryptic
clue, focusing especially on the
conventions of the Times puzzle. His
concise explanations employ clear
diagrams to indicate how the parts
of each clue point to the solution, while
the book ends with 12 Times crosswords for practice, accompanied by
solutions with annotations that explain
even the most intricate wordplay.
TIMES 2008 HB 224pp
£12.99 18365 now £4.99
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£10.99 11714 now £4.99
THE TIMES KENKEN
Peking University This practical introductory
course in basic Mandarin, for home or school study,
was designed by the Chinese Language Special
Course for Foreign Students at Peking University.
Its 30 lessons are a self-contained grammar,
progressing from pronunciation to quite complex
conversational constructions. With translated
examples. First published in 1971 (hence ‘Peking’).
MODERN CHINESE: A Basic Course
DOVER 2002 PB 270pp 216x136mm
£9.99 10633 now £3.99
MRS BEETON’S
HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
Isabella Beeton The first bound edition (it was originally issued in 24 monthly
parts) of Mrs Beeton’s classic from 1861 is reprinted here, newly typeset but
otherwise as Mrs Beeton intended. WORDSWORTH 2006 PB 1110pp Illus
37766 now £3.99
Isabella Beeton is best known for her cookery book, but she also produced this
volume on horticulture. Packed with advice on sowing, planting, tools and
equipment, it contains chapters on trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables, and
one for each month of the gardener’s year. Much of her advice is as valid today
as when it was written in the 1860s – for a burgeoning middle class for whom
gardening was a novelty. WORDSWORTH 2008 PB 985pp
MRS BEETON’S GARDEN MANAGEMENT
11897 now £3.99
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COMPACT OXFORD
ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Third edition, revised
Ed. Catherine Soanes; Sara Hawker
Fully revised, updated and redesigned,
this new edition of the Compact Dictionary aims to provide up-to-date and accessible information on the vocabulary of
contemporary English, together with
practical advice on writing good English
in everyday situations. The dictionary also
has thousands of new example sentences,
more help with pronunciation, grammar
and usage, and a wide selection of technical terms from specialist areas such as
medicine and computing. No jacket.
11837 now £6.99
REFERENCE/HUMOUR
ARCHAEOLOGY
WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE
1939-1945
A Selection of Outstanding
Facts and Figures
Intro. Richard Overy Published by the Ministry
of Information a few months after the end of the
war in Europe, What Britain Has Done presented
a long catalogue of military, economic and social
achievements. Covering everything from the
volume of shipping across the Atlantic and weight
of bombs dropped on Berlin to the amount of
vegetables produced on British allotments, this
unique document presents a panoramic portrait of
a country engaged in total war. It is reprinted here
with a new introduction by Richard Overy.
No jacket. ATLANTIC 2007 HB 126pp Illus 235x130mm
£9.99 83659 now £3.99
HOBSON-JOBSON
The Anglo-Indian Dictionary
Henry Yule; AC Burnell Bungalow,
pyjamas, veranda, curry, chintz, gingham,
junk... Just a few of the words that have
crept into the English language from the
colonial era in the Indian sub-continent
and the Malay peninsula. This immensely
detailed glossary, tracing origins and giving
quotations to illustrate usage, was compiled
in the late 19th century. Never superseded
in its field, it is a must for students of
etymology and for anyone interested in
the attitudes and activities of the British
imperialists in their heyday. Reprint.
COLLINS FRENCH
DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR
French-English . English-French
This modern, user-friendly dictionary gives priority
to contemporary, everyday vocabulary and the
language of current affairs, business, computing
and tourism. The French-English, English-French
listings are clearly laid out with headwords in
blue, in-depth treatment of difficult words and,
throughout the dictionary, cultural notes. The
Dictionary also includes a 250-page grammar
guide, making this an ideal reference for novice
to intermediate learners. COLLINS 2010 PB 275pp
£12.99 11902 now £4.99
20417 now £3.99
HUMOUR
100 MUST-READ
BOOKS FOR MEN
Stephen E Andrews; Duncan Bowis
Avoiding the most famous classics and
thrillers, this edition of Bloomsbury’s
Must-Read series features books that
appeal to the male sensibility ranging
from rollicking adventures such as
George Macdonald Fraser’s Flashman
to compelling non-fiction such as jazz
trumpeter Miles Davis’s revelatory
autobiography, Miles. The book
recommends a further 500 titles
and there are also themed lists
for more specific subject areas.
A&C BLACK 2008 PB 248pp 149x105mm
£6.99 17182 now £2.99
PEDLAR’S GUIDE TO
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Charlie and Caroline Gladstone; Kate
Burt A childhood spent outdoors led the
authors of this inspiring book to offer their
six children a similarly free upbringing in
the Highlands of Scotland. Charmingly
illustrated, this miscellany of all things
outdoors includes sections on bird and
tree identification, cloud spotting,
treehouse building, survival tips, foraging,
outdoor games and camping. For any
family wishing to spend more time in
nature and less time in front of a screen,
this book is the perfect companion.
SQUARE PEG 2012 HB 272pp Illus
£16.99 16998 now £5.99
DREADFUL FATES
What a Shocking Way to Go!
Tracey Turner George IV’s coffin was apparently
such a snug fit that it began to expand from the
gases produced by his decomposing body and
holes had to be drilled to relieve the pressure.
Such macabre anecdotes form the basis of this
humorous exploration of death, which ranges from
stories of unusual and bizarre ends to famous last
words and epitaphs. A&C BLACK 2010 PB 112pp Illus
NEW
£5.99 17892 now £2.99
Christopher Matthew Inspired by AA Milne,
Matthew’s little volume of verses celebrates the
age when men and women ‘feel ready to grasp
life by the scruff of the neck, give it a good shake
and move serenely onwards’... or possibly when
‘The unlikeliest types get a taste for cocaine, /
And yachts and Ferraris and villas in Spain’.
WHEN WE WERE FIFTY
JOHN MURRAY 2007 HB 112pp Illus
£9.99 16844 now £3.99
THUNDER, FLUSH
AND THOMAS CRAPPER
An Encycloopedia
Adam Hart-Davis Are you sitting comfortably?
This alphabetical compendium of all things
lavatorial is the perfect reading matter for the
smallest room. Flushed with curious facts, it
ranges from the Abbot of St Albans (the first
Englishman to own a WC), to the zero-gravity
toilet in 2001: A Space Odyssey, via the
eponymous hero of Victorian sanitary engineering,
Mr Crapper himself. NONSUCH 2008 PB 192pp
£9.99 81583 now £3.99
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STATIONERY
NEW SAMUEL PALMER
A Folio of Notecards
Two watercolour landscapes by Samuel Palmer (1805-81), both
fine examples of the English pastoral tradition, are reproduced on
these notecards. There are five cards each of The Sheepshearers
and Sunset over the Gleaming Fields, well-presented in a card
wallet with The Sheepshearers on the cover. With envelopes.
POMEGRANATE 2010 108x243mm
$10.95 19007 now £3.99
ENGLISH COUNTY ARTISTS ADDRESS BOOKS
The diverse and dramatic landscapes
and coasts of Devon have been an
inspiration to artists for centuries, but
the works reproduced in this welldesigned and well-produced address
book are all by contemporary Devon
artists. The 44 images are in various
media and on subjects that include
harbours and sheep markets as well
as moorland and woodlands, offering
a striking view of the county through
artists’ eyes. HALSWOOD 2010 HB
DEVON ARTISTS
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY FRUIT AND VEG
NOTEBOOK
Fitting easily into a pocket or handbag,
this is a handy aide-mémoire for gardeners.
Beautiful botanical drawings from the
RHS’s Lindley Library divide the notebook
into sections for different types of fruits and
vegetables, each with pages for recording
names of varieties, dates of sowing and
harvesting, and your own cultivation notes.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2007 HB
£7.99 98925 now £3.99
£12.99 99472 now £5.99
The 50 or so images reproduced in
this address book have been selected
to portray something of the range of
contemporary work being created in
Norfolk today. Eighteen artists are
represented, working in many
different media and with subjects
ranging from delicate flower studies
to expansive land- and seascapes.
The result is a very attractive and
practical address book and an
evocative, many faceted portrait of
the county. HALSWOOD 2010 HB
NORFOLK ARTISTS
£12.99 99476 now £5.99
LABYRINTH
JOURNAL
Covered in an Emma Bridgewater design of pink and red hearts
on a cream background, this little box is made of rigid card and
holds 15 blank notecards – five each of three designs on the
hearts theme, one of them with ‘Love’ across its centre – and
envelopes. BLUEPRINT 2012 155x105mm
EMMA BRIDGEWATER NOTECARDS
£11.99
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11907 now £4.99
Decorated with several
different designs in pale
pink or lemon by the
textile designers Dwell
Studio, this notebook
includes ruled and
squared paper and
has a red and white
labyrinthine design
on its covers.
CHRONICLE 2011
PB 188pp 180x125mm
$9.95 17174
now £3.99
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STATIONERY
FLAME TREE GIFT BOOKS
Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of paintings
and manuscript illuminations inside and works of art
reproduced on embossed metallic covers outside, these
anthologies of poetry or prayers and the book of days
are luxury gift books that you might not want to give
away. All the books have scarlet endpapers and
matching silk markers. FLAME TREE 2014 HB 160pp Illus
FLAME TREE JOURNALS
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK
OF ROMANTIC VERSE
Ed. EA Chapman In chapters on Lost Love and
Remembrance, Uplifting Love, Unfulfilled Love and
the Romance of Nature, this anthology brings together
works by many of the greatest poets in English,
including Shakespeare, Donne and Yeats and, of course,
the Romantic poets. They are illustrated with 19th
and early 20th century paintings by artists such as
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Frederick Leighton,
Millais and Rossetti.
99821
Ed. L Bulbeck Every
page embellished with
medieval ornament and
miniatures from
manuscripts in the British
Library collections, this
Book of Days can be
used to record birthdays,
anniversaries and annual
events. It is arranged
with one week to one
page, always with a
facing painting. The
cover shows the
Annunciation, set in
a field of flowers, from
the 15th century Book of Hours, Use of Sarum.
A BOOK OF DAYS
With famous works of art, magnificently reproduced in colour
on their embossed foil covers, silk page markers and scarlet
endpapers, these journals could lend splendour to the most
humble jottings. Each book has 144 ruled pages and a pocket
for loose papers, and closes with a solid magnetic side flap.
FLAME TREE 2011-13 HB 144pp 215x155mm
£9.99 each
now £6.99 each
11446
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK
OF CHILDREN’S VERSE
Ed. EI Chafer; EA Chapman This anthology is in four
parts – fable poems, animal poems, bedtime poems and
poems of the natural world – and includes such famous
works as Lear’s Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The Tyger
by Blake and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Land of
Counterpane, illustrated by 19th century paintings
of children and animals. The cover shows the girl
and peacocks from A Moorish Garden by Frederick
Leighton. Age 10+
11445
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF PRAYER
Poems, Prayers
and Thoughts
for Every Day
Ed. EI Chafer
Arranged by theme –
Thanks and Praise,
Love and Forgiveness,
Children’s Prayers and
Strength and Healing –
this anthology includes
prayers by churchmen
and poets, hymns,
psalms, and words
from the Bible,
including Daniel’s
Blessing and the
Magnificat. The book is
illustrated with a wonderfully varied collection of
paintings on religious themes, with Botticelli’s
The Virgin and Child on the cover.
99820
17014
17017
ERTÉ: THE BALCONY
17015
TIFFANY: ANGEL STAINED GLASS WINDOW 17020
THE MARRIAGE FEAST AT CANA
11442
MUCHA: REVERIE
95195
BARBIER: THE BACKLESS DRESS
HIROSHIGE: THE SEA AT SATTA
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NATURE/PETS
MAKING ANIMALS HAPPY
How to Create the Best Life
for Pets and Other Animals
Temple Grandin; Catherine Johnson A horse’s
instinctive urge to flee makes it more skittish than
a herd animal, whereas a pig’s urge to forage means
it needs room to explore. Based on her own
research, animal scientist Temple Grandin’s study
discusses animal behaviours and motivations and
delivers practical insights into how to interact with
dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs and chickens, wildlife
and zoo animals. BLOOMSBURY 2010 PB 346pp
£8.99 11893 now £3.99
Back by
popular
demand
WAR DOG
The No-Man’s-Land Puppy
Who Took to the Skies
Damien Lewis In 1939, Czech airman
Robert Bozdech was shot down in France
and, while evading capture, found a puppy
cowering in a barn. Taking the abandoned
dog with him he found his way to England
and joined the RAF; the dog, Antis,
subsequently accompanied him on bombing missions. This book recounts the story
of the remarkable partnership and the
countless acts of bravery that earned
Antis the Dickin Medal – the ‘animal VC’.
SPHERE 2014 PB 304pp Illus 197x126mm
£7.99 19435 now £3.99
TOP TO TAIL
The 360° Guide to
Picking Your Perfect Pet
David Alderton; Photo. Marc Henrie
It may be useful to know, when choosing
a pet dog, that the Afghan Hound’s beautiful coat needs daily grooming or that the
friendly and loyal Labrador needs plenty
of exercise and has a prodigious appetite.
This guide to over 150 of the most popular
breeds includes photographs of exemplary
dogs, shot from all angles, and a useful
key comparing them for size, friendliness,
feeding, exercise and grooming requirements. DAVID & CHARLES 2006 PB 256pp
Illus 200x250mm
£12.99 10909 now £4.99
A PACK OF DOGS
An Anthology
Lucy Smith; Illus. Christopher Brown
‘Dogs belong to that elite group of con
artists at the very pinnacle of their profession’, wrote the historian Stephen Budiansky. This anthology of canine literature
is packed with witty observations from authors including Peter Ackroyd, Charles
Dickens and Mark Twain. From PG Wodehouse’s Pekingese ‘of hard-boiled aspect’
to Virginia Woolf’s sagacious spaniel
Flush, the collection covers the full spectrum of moods and characters that anyone
who has ever known a dog – or a dog
owner – will doubtless recognize.
MERRELL 2010 HB 160pp Illus 230x167mm
£17.95 88362 now £6.99
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Janet Menzies Published in association with
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and Cruft’s ‘Friends
for Life’, this book presents the stories and pictures
of police dogs, search and rescue dogs, sniffer dogs and, of course, the hearing
dogs who have changed the lives of deaf children, adults and their families.
There are also chapters on the ‘Friends for Life’ award winners and army dogs,
a round-up of famous Hearing Dogs supporters and a foreword by Ben Fogle.
HERO DOGS
QUILLER 2012 PB 128pp Illus 245x190mm
£10.99 10757 now £4.99
SHETLAND BREEDS
Ancient, Endangered
and Adaptable
Ed. Nancy Kohlberg; Philip Kopper
The Shetland Islands are home to a number of unique native beasts: breeds
adapted to the unusually harsh environment and honed by centuries of selective
breeding. They are all typically small,
hardy, frugal and good-natured. In expert
essays and ‘Island Views’, this book investigates topics such as the animals’ genetic heredity; considers how geography
and history have shaped the islands’ livestock; and celebrates the particular qualities of Shetland ponies, sheep, cattle,
geese and other animals.
POSTERITY 2003 HB 198pp Illus 140x215mm
£16.00 11040 now £4.99
Featuring the work of excellent
wildlife photographers, these books
from the World Life Library profile
three fascinating animals that are
now endangered by shrinking habitats or, in the case of the albatross,
fishery operations. Each book gives
a lucid and informative account of
the animal’s life cycle, habitats and
behaviours, the various species and
efforts being made to save them
from extinction. COLIN BAXTER
WORLD LIFE LIBRARY
2007-11 PB 72pp Illus 225x250mm
£7.95/£9.95 each
now £3.99 each
Steve Toon; Ann Toon
18967
Tony Martin
18962
Robert Shumaker
18966
NEW
NEW
NEW
RHINOS
ALBATROSSES
ORANGUTANS
NEW WILD FLOWERS
AND WHERE TO FIND
THEM IN THE CHILTERNS
Laurie Fallows; David Beattie; Gay Fallows The beautiful Greater Chilterns are
threaded with deep valleys and streams,
nature reserves and delightful villages. This
guide provides details of the identification,
habitat and uses of the common wild flowers of the area. The flowering charts show
which month plants are at their best, and
the book also features an illustrated plant
directory and 18 guided walks with maps
to help you locate even the rarest of flowers.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2007 PB 160pp Illus
£7.99 17541 now £3.99
Reader’s Digest Each of the 70 or more
species profiled in this guide is represented by a series of fine illustrations
showing the animals in different situations
and postures. Covering mammals, amphibians and reptiles of Britain and Ireland, the entries explore each creature’s
behaviour and habitat, and special features
provide further information to help identify wildlife and distinguish between similar species. READER’S DIGEST 2008 PB
ANIMALS: Wild Britain
£7.99 17868 now £3.99
THE WAVEWATCHER’S
COMPANION
Gavin Pretor-Pinney Watching breakers
roll onto a Cornish beach, the author of
the best-selling Cloudspotter’s Guide decided to find out where they came from.
The result was this erudite and entertaining book. After describing the types of
ocean wave and the forces that drive them,
he explains the invisible waves that shape
our universe – light waves, sound waves,
shock waves – and those, such as radio
and X-rays, that we harness in our technology. BLOOMSBURY 2010 HB 336pp Illus
£14.99 91944 now £5.99
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NATURE
CLOUDS THAT
LOOK LIKE THINGS
Ed. Gavin Pretor-Pinney;
Ian Loxley Seeing shapes in
the clouds is a time-honoured
pastime and Gavin Pretor-Pinney,
founder of the Cloud Appreciation
Society, has encouraged people all
over the world to keep an eye out
for unusual formations. Exhibiting
such intriguing semblances
as ‘a ghost carrying home
the shopping’ and ‘a topless
sunbather’, this is an entertaining
collection of photographs. It also includes an explanation
of cloud formation and the official classification system.
SCEPTRE 2012 HB 112pp Illus 166x200mm
A cockerel on the roof
and in the sky over
Bishop, California
£12.99 96755 now £4.99
WHAT ON EARTH
EVOLVED?
100 Species That
Changed the World
NEW
Christopher Lloyd Of the billions of
plants and animals that have emerged
since the dawn of time, some have had a
greater impact than others, either in shaping the planet’s environment or because
evolutionary innovations allowed them to
thrive and dominate. This accessible study
divides its content between 50 of the most
important species ever to have evolved,
such as trilobites, mosquitos, algae and
earthworms, and 50 species that have
prospered thanks to man’s intervention,
including horses, wheat, roses and silkworms. BLOOMSBURY 2009 HB 416pp Illus
£25.00 17825 now £6.99
Adrian Pitches; Tim Cleeves Between
1980 and 2004, more than 70 bird species
– vagrants from Central Asia, Siberia and
North America – have been added to the
British list. This book is a compilation of
all those records, with accounts of finding
a ‘First for Britain’ interspersed with 25
annual summaries of the birding years
1980-2004 and 25 essays by prominent
birders about their special years during
this period. The book is illustrated with
colour photographs and black and white
artworks. Foreword by Eric Meek.
NEW
BIRDS NEW TO BRITAIN
T&A D POYSER 2005 HB 344pp Illus
£50.00 18281 now £14.99
Male bullfinch
NEW WEATHER WONDERS
Incredible Clouds and Weather Events from Above and Below
Gordon Higgins Hurricanes and thunderstorms are truly awesome and impressive
events but the most benign of weather can also produce beautiful and surprising results.
From the gently rippling waves of ‘Kelvin Helmholtz’ clouds to double rainbows and
the heavenly shafts of light known as crepuscular rays, this photographic selection
displays clouds and weather events of all types photographed from the ground and,
by means of satellite imagery, from above. D&C 2011 PB 256pp Illus 148x180mm
£12.99 18229 now £4.99
Ed. Andy Stansfield From shot-putting in the rain at the 1908 London Olympics to
sunbathing at Wimbledon 2008, every whim of Britain’s volatile weather is captured
in these 300 photographs drawn from the Press Association archives. Cooling off in
the Trafalgar Square fountains during the 1975 heatwave, playing football in the fog
at White Hart Lane in 1963, or windsurfing on floodwaters in Yorkshire, 1995 – the
pictures are an entertaining look at the weather and how the British deal with it.
NEW
100 YEARS OF WEATHER: Twentieth Century in Pictures
AMMONITE 2009 PB 300pp Illus 208x210mm
£14.99 18230 now £5.99
NEW SEABIRD POPULATIONS
OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
P Ian Mitchell; Stephen F Newton et al
Each year Britain and Ireland play host
to over eight million breeding seabirds,
including internationally important populations of certain species and the majority
of the world’s Manx Shearwaters, Northern Gannets and Great Skuas. Summarizing the findings of a major initiative to
census breeding seabirds, and presenting
detailed accounts of each species, this volume provides an essential reference for
birdwatchers, professional ornithologists
and anyone involved in the conservation
of the marine environment.
T&AD POYSER 2004 HB 511pp Illus 250x185mm
£50.00 18290 now £19.99
Corncrakes by John G Kuelemans, 1897-1905
Darren Woodhead In watercolour paintings
that pulse with life and light, Darren Woodhead
has captured the outstanding natural beauty of
the countryside around Carlops and the valley
of the North Esk river, which lies just south
of Edinburgh on the edge of the Pentland Hills.
This beautifully produced volume contains
reproductions of 125 watercolours, following
local flora and fauna through the seasons
during Woodhead’s year as Artist in
Residence at the Orcome Trust, along with
the artist’s own commentary on his work.
Anita Albus Weaving together natural
history, investigative reporting and a rich
fund of literary and artistic knowledge,
this remarkable book tells the story of ten
rare or extinct bird species, from the Carolina parakeet to the great auk. Illustrated
with the author’s own superb artwork and
historic images by Audubon, Edward Lear
and others, it explains, in graceful, precise
prose, why their decline is a devastating
loss not only to the natural world but also
to our arts, culture and mythology.
UP RIVER: The Song of the Esk
BIRLINN 2009 HB 160pp Illus 305x270mm
£30.00 11517 now £11.99
ON RARE BIRDS
LYONS 2011 HB 276pp Illus
$24.95 16407 now £7.99
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GARDENING/FOOD
SUCCESS IN THE GARDEN SERIES
OF RHUBARB AND ROSES
The Telegraph Book of the Garden
Tim Richardson The Daily Telegraph has long
been popular reading among gardeners, and its
pages have featured some of the nation’s finest
horticultural writers. Compiled by the newspaper’s
gardening columnist, this lively and varied
anthology includes articles by Fred Whitsey,
Rosemary Verey and Bunny Guinness, along with
the more esoteric musings of Bill Deedes, Germaine
Greer and Roy Strong. The subjects range from
Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst
to how to grow prize-winning pumpkins.
Book club edition. AURUM 2013 HB 464pp Illus
£25.00 17514 now £7.99
Written by expert gardeners with
decades of experience, and extensively
illustrated with colour photographs,
this series tackles specific garden conditions or types of plant and offers a
guide to designing your garden and
choosing and cultivating appropriate
plants. The second part of each book is
a detailed A-Z directory of plants
GUILD OF MASTER CRAFTSMAN
2004-08 PB 160pp Illus
SUCCESS WITH
SUN-LOVING PLANTS
Graham Clarke There is an enormous
variety of sun-loving plants, with endless
potential for stunning planting schemes.
Graham Clarke shows how to select
sun-loving varieties and plant with confidence, whatever your experience and abilities.
17651
SUCCESS WITH
ALKALINE-LOVING PLANTS
Graham Clarke After explaining what
alkaline soil is and how to cope with it,
Graham Clarke shows how to turn it to
your advantage with trees and shrubs such
as flowering cherry and weigela, fruits
and vegetables including blackcurrants
and asparagus and a colourful range of
annuals, perennials and bulbs. 17649
SUCCESS WITH
ACID-LOVING PLANTS
Graham Clarke Covering annuals,
perennials, bulbs, alpines and fruit and
vegetables as well as the familiar heathers,
rhododendrons, azaleas and hydrangeas,
this guide identifies plants that are most
suited to acid soils and explains how to
create a high quality garden when you
have a low pH soil.
17648
Eric Sawford offers practical advice on
choosing, buying, planting and growing
bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. The
A-Z directory is the major part of the
book, with detailed notes on plants including alliums, anemones, dahlias, lilies,
daffodils, tulips and irises.
17650
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NEW THE PAPER GARDEN
Mrs Delany Begins
Her Life’s Work at 72
Molly Peacock Mary Delany (17001788) had already led a full and fascinating life when, at the age of 72, she began
to create paper collage flowers. With her
eye for botanical detail, she completed
nearly 1,000 plant depictions so accurate
that botanists still refer to them. Illustrated
with 35 reproductions of her flower ‘mosaicks’, this book traces Mary’s extraordinary life – her marriages, her family and
her friendships with Handel, Swift, Hogarth and Queen Charlotte and George III.
£12.99 18263 now £5.99
GARDENERS’ QUESTION
TIME: PLANT CHOOSER
Matthew Biggs; John Cushnie et al Radio
4’s Gardeners’ Question Time has informed
and entertained horticulturalists since 1947.
Written by four of its regular panellists,
this handsomely illustrated guide is packed
with recommendations for flowers, shrubs
and trees for each month of the year, and
for every situation and soil type. Complete
with practical tips and an index of plant
names, it is clear, helpful, authoritative and
– as listeners to the programme will know
– opinionated, irreverent and never dull.
KYLE CATHIE 2003 PB 416pp Illus 240x210mm
Alan Mansfield The skill of growing fruit
is to manage the shape and size of the
tree or plant so that it can produce the
best quality yield without becoming exhausted. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this gardener’s guide
provides tips on choosing the most appropriate fruits for your garden, instruction on how to train, support, prune and
protect them, and detailed advice on individual fruits, from container-grown
raspberries to apple, pear and plum trees.
Anna Pavord The best-selling author of
The Tulip shows how to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs, combining them with
flowers in a kitchen garden that is beautiful
as well as productive. Growing Food has
plans for different garden styles such as the
cottage garden, the city larder and the orchard, and shows how to achieve the ordered profusion that is the hallmark of the
best kitchen gardens.
CROWOOD 2012 PB 208pp Illus 245x190mm
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 PB 288pp
£16.99 11444 now £5.99
£7.99 16878 now £3.99
GROWING FRUIT
£16.99 88768 now £6.99
NEW
GROWING FOOD
FOOD
Ken Albala The humble bean has always attracted
attention – from Pythagoras’ notion (according to
Varro) that the bean hosted a human soul to current
research into the deadly toxins contained in the
most commonly eaten beans. Ken Albala tells the
story of the bean, from ancient times to the
present, arranging his book as a series of bean
biographies, from lentils to soy, and including
55 historic bean recipes such as Pease Pudding,
Hoppin’ John, Fagioli Antipasto, Succotash and
Miso Soup. BERG 2007 HB 262pp
BEANS: A History
£14.99 77579 now £3.99
Mike Smylie Herring has been fished in the seas around Britain for over two millennia;
at one point, tens of thousands of people were involved in catching, processing and
selling the ‘silver darlings’. Fishing historian Mike Smylie tells the story of herring
fishing and consumption since Roman times, describing the way of life of the fishermen
and the communities whose existence revolved round herring, and he also provides a
number of recipes for herrings, kippers and bloaters. HISTORY PRESS 2011 HB 256pp Illus
NEW
HERRING: A History of the Silver Darlings
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NEW SPICES, SALT
AND AROMATICS IN
THE ENGLISH KITCHEN
Elizabeth David Legendary cook Elizabeth David describes how English food
has for centuries been influenced by oriental trade, and explains the origins and
uses of spices and aromatics such as nutmeg, cardamom and juniper. With delicious recipes – among them, Mussels in
Saffron Sauce, Lamb and Aubergine Stew
and Cinnamon Ice Cream – the book captures what David described as ‘the English
love affair with Eastern food and Arabian
Nights ingredients’. First published in
1970. GRUB STREET 2011 HB 279pp
£12.99 17142 now £5.99
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
FAVOURITE PUDDINGS,
DESSERTS AND CAKES
Barbara Dixon Bakes and steamed
puddings, pies, tarts and hot fruit puddings, creams, mousses and jellies, ice
creams and sorbets, cheesecakes, gateaux,
meringues and trifles, chocolate everything... All 250 delicious recipes in this
Good Housekeeping cookbook are tried
and tested – and photographed. The
recipes are given with imperial and
metric measurements, and with nutritional
information. COLLINS & BROWN 2011 HB
£14.99 85387 now £6.99
FOOD & DRINK
NEW HEALTHY EATING
FOR DIABETES
Antony Worrall Thompson Chef
Antony Worrall Thompson, who
suffered from the pre-diabetes
Syndrome X, teamed up with a
dietician to create the 100 recipes
presented here alongside scientific
information from a leading diabetes
research charity. With exciting dishes
for every meal of the day, including
Salmon Timbales, Thai Fish Soup,
Tuscan-Style Lamb and Poached Figs
in Red Wine, you can enjoy your food
while benefiting your overall health
and improving your diabetes outlook.
KYLE 2009 PB 144pp Illus 220x210mm
$16.95 16972 now £4.99
Daniel Green; Catherine Collins The 100 delicious recipes presented in this book
have been created by a chef and dietician, working together to help people with high
cholesterol. With chapters on breakfasts, salads, snacks, main courses and deserts,
and recipes such as Buckwheat Pancakes, Mexican Breakfast Burritos, Oriental
Chicken Wraps, Salmon Fishcakes and Light Chocolate Tart, you need never feel
deprived while looking after your health. KYLE 2008 PB 144pp Illus 220x210mm
NEW
HEALTHY EATING FOR LOWER CHOLESTEROL
$16.95 16971 now £4.99
5 INGREDIENTS, 10 MINUTES
COOKING WITH
THE MASTER CHEF
PENGUIN 2013 PB 305pp Illus 230x190mm
PHOENIX 2012 PB 224pp Illus 245x185mm
£14.99 97730 now £7.99
£16.99 16398 now £7.99
Levi Roots is well known for his Reggae
Reggae brand of sauces. Here he collects
over 100 delicious recipes that use his
trademark Caribbean spices and herbs. In
vibrant dishes he adds oranges and allspice
to mackerel, mustard and nutmeg to macaroni cheese, mixes mussels and sweet potato in a coconut curry, and transforms orange ice cream with thyme and Curaçao.
A TASTE OF SOMERSET
Jules Clancy At the end of a hard day’s
work, few of us have the energy for cooking, or the inclination to wait long for the
results. This friendly cookbook provides
an appetising solution: almost 150 delicious, healthy recipes that contain no more
than five ingredients and will be ready in
ten minutes or less. With a choice of
starters, mains and desserts including
Smoked Tomato Soup, Beef with Buttery
Courgettes and Mixed Berry Sorbet, you
will never need the microwave again.
SPICE IT UP!
Brewing room of the Trappist Abbaye de
Notre Dame de Saint-Rémy, Rochfort, France
THE WORLD
ATLAS OF BEER
Tim Webb; Stephen Beaumont The establishment of artisan breweries producing
craft beers is a growing trend, not just in
Britain, but in many parts of the world.
Beyond the famous labels of international
brands there are thousands of varieties
of beer, from barrel-aged Californian
brews to Bavarian wheat beers, each with
its own subtle character. This illustrated
guide is a complete reference to the
development of beer and brewing
techniques around the world and includes
tasting notes for 500 beers and maps
locating important breweries. MITCHELL
BEAZLEY 2012 HB 256pp Illus 290x227mm
£25.00 16533 now £11.99
Michel Roux Jr Famous as chef de cuisine at Le Gavroche and as a judge on
Masterchef, Michel Roux Jr is a renowned
chef of classic French food. In this compendium of his best recipes he shares signature dishes reworked for the home, including a Salade Lyonnaise of Dandelion,
Bacon and Eggs, Wild Boar Paté with Juniper Berries, Creamy Crab Gratin, Salted
Caramel and Walnut Tart and Olive Oil
Cake with Lavender and Roasted Figs.
Andrea Leeman This celebration of the
food and drink of Somerset mixes profiles
dedicated local producers with recipes designed to make the most of fresh local,
seasonal ingredients. The regional specialities include cheeses, poultry, apples,
smoked fish, ciders, beers and English
wines. REDCLIFFE 2004 PB 112pp Illus
£12.50 36746 now £3.99
MITCHELL BEAZLEY 2011 HB 208pp Illus
£18.99 16531 now £6.99
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED JAMS,
PRESERVES AND CHUTNEYS
Sara Paston-Williams Doyenne of British
cooking Sara Paston-Williams shares her
wealth of experience with fresh ingredients
and homemade recipes, demonstrating how to
make chutneys and relishes, pickles, jams and
jellies, marmalades and mincemeats. The
recipes include both traditional favourites such
as Piccalilli and Seville Orange Marmalade
and more unusual preserves such as Spiced
Blackberries and Fruit Leathers – many of
them originating in National Trust kitchens.
NATIONAL TRUST 2008 HB 176pp Illus 245x190mm
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MUSIC
David Wyn Jones In his final years
Haydn was one of the greatest celebrities
of the age, a recipient of awards from
across Europe; today he is celebrated as
a pioneer of the symphony and quartet.
This biography challenges simplistic
pigeonholing of the composer as
‘genial’ and ‘Viennese’, focusing on the
importance of his London visits, probing
the contradictions of this unquestioningly
religious Enlightenment figure and
exposing the darker side of his
commercial double dealing and troubled
marriage. CAMBRIDGE UP 2010 HB 264pp
NEW THE STORY OF THE RING
Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Michael Birkett Wagner’s Ring cycle
is often regarded as a masterpiece of
impenetrable complexity, but here, in lucid
prose, Michael Birkett retells the four music
dramas – The Rhinegold, The Valkyries,
Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods – to reveal
the primal simplicity of this epic story of
power, love, heroism and conflict. Stage
designer Elizabeth Bury’s accompanying
illustrations evoke the dark magic of this
tragic drama as it moves inexorably to its
apocalyptic finale. OBERON 2009 HB 112pp Illus
THE LIFE OF HAYDN
£25.00 17584 now £7.99
£64.99 17770 now £14.99
The Ride of the Valkyries
MESSIAH
The Composer’s Autograph
Manuscript in Facsimile
Robert L Doerschuk ‘Every step forward in jazz piano
has been taken within a context of what came before’:
Robert Doerschuk surveys the careers of 88 jazz pianists –
one for each key on the piano – beginning with the age
of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller and taking the story
down to the present day with modern legends such as
Harry Connick Jr and Benny Green. Each of the essays
includes analysis of the player’s style and innovations,
with discussion of key recordings.
88: The Giants of Jazz Piano
George Frideric Handel After Handel’s death his autograph
manuscripts were presented to the Royal Music Library and
have now become some of the British Library’s greatest
musical treasures. This sumptuous volume presents a complete
colour facsimile of the composition score of Messiah, which
was finished in September 1741, along with preliminary
sketches and later additions. Donald Burrows’ introduction
outlines the history of the work, identifies evidence of Handel’s
revisions and assesses the condition of the manuscript after
250 years. BRITISH LIBRARY 2008 HB 332pp Illus 280x335mm
BACKBEAT 2001 HB 351pp Illus 242x200mm
$29.95 69690 now £6.99
£345.00 92947 now £100.00
JOURNEYING BOY
The Diaries of the Young
Benjamin Britten 1928-1938
Ed. John Evans The diaries which Britten
kept between the ages of 14 and 24 offer an
intimate record of the young composer’s daily
life and musical development, from Gresham’s
School to the Royal College of Music and
his first experiences working as a professional
musician. Set against the backdrop of the
turbulent 1930s, they also reveal the influence
of new (and more worldly-wise) friends such
as Auden, Isherwood, Louis MacNeice and
Peter Pears on Britten’s political views and
emotional life. FABER 2010 PB 600pp Illus
£14.99 95131 now £5.99
UNLOCKING THE MASTERS SERIES
Each of these guides to key classical repertoire by John Bell Young begins with
a chapter introducing the composer’s life and times, then provides analyses of a
selection of works, complemented by illustrative excerpts on the accompanying
audio CD. AMADEUS 2008/9 PB + audio CD 164-225pp
£16.95-£18.95 each
now £5.99 each
Hailed as Beethoven’s true successor but
disdainful of Liszt and Wagner, Brahms
was one of the 19th century’s most
polarizing figures. This survey covers his
piano music, the piano quintet, all four
symphonies, the violin concerto and
A German Requiem, setting them in the
musical context of Brahms’ time. 99949
BRAHMS: A Listener’s Guide
With their sweeping drama and such
melodies as ‘Nessun dorma’, Puccini’s
works are operatic mainstays. This guide
combines description of the operas’ plots
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with analysis of musical detail and
character development. As well as tracks
from the operas, the CD features the
string quartet Crisantemi, source of two
themes in Manon Lescaut.
99984
LISZT: A Listener’s Guide
to his Piano Works
Liszt was a virtuosic pianist and left
an enormous body of piano music in
which he pushed the boundaries of
form and harmony. John Bell Young
discusses a representative sample, from
a transcription of a Schubert song to the
magniloquent B Minor Sonata. 99975
THE GREAT FOLK
DISCOGRAPHY
Volume 1: Pioneers
and Early Legends
Martin C Strong The first volume of
Martin Strong’s groundbreaking trilogy
of folk encyclopedias includes over 500
biographies of individuals and groups,
along with album reviews, discographies and commentaries on styles and
influences. Focusing on pioneers and
early legends, it takes us from the
‘unique musical talent’ of Leadbelly
via the still ‘utterly relevant’ Woody
Guthrie to the US folk revival and
British artists of the 1960s and ’70s,
including Fairport Convention, Nick
Drake and the Incredible String Band.
POLYGON 2010 PB 643pp 270x210mm
£20.00 88425 now £6.99
THE GREAT FOLK
DISCOGRAPHY
Volume 2: The Next
Generation
Martin C Strong The second volume
of Strong’s trilogy takes us from the
late 1970s, where ‘folk music had the
stuffing kicked out of it by the advent
of punk and new wave’, through the
genre’s swift revival via emerging
1980s acts such as Billy Bragg and the
Waterboys, up to the present day. The
Next Generation features over 500 biographies of individuals and groups,
plus album reviews, discographies and
commentaries on styles and influences.
POLYGON 2011 PB 359pp 270x210mm
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MUSIC/PERFORMING ARTS
NEW HALFWAY TO PARADISE
The Birth of British Rock
Alwyn W Turner From Alma Cogan in
ostrich feathers, and Bessie Smith at the
Royal Albert Hall in the 1950s, to the Beatles,
in matching suits and hair-dos in 1963, this
history of British pop and rock music draws
on the V&A’s archive of photographs by
Harry Hammond. For nearly two decades,
Hammond was Britain’s leading showbiz
photographer, capturing definitive images
of virtually every leading British musician –
and visiting Americans – during a period
that saw a radical transformation of popular
music. V&A 2008 HB 240pp Illus 285x244mm
LONNIE DONEGAN
and the Birth of Rock and Roll
Patrick Humphries Lonnie
Donegan’s energetic skiffle made
a seismic impact on the post-war
greyness of the 1950s, kick-starting
the British pop and rock scene. This
biography, which draws on exclusive
interviews with figures such as
Paul McCartney, Brian May,
George Melly and John Peel, traces
Donegan’s career from listening to
the American Forces Network as a
teenager, through experience with
traditional jazz bands, to the blues
and folk songs he made famous.
£20.00 17057 now £7.99
ROBSON 2012 HB 396pp Illus
The charismatic Billy Fury on stage
£25.00 16455 now £7.99
GLAM ROCK
Dandies in the Underworld
NEW
Alwyn W Turner Glam rock is associated
with flamboyant and theatrical costume
but there was a new sensibility in the music too, rejecting self-indulgent blues and
progressive rock in favour of a return to
the values of early rock ‘n’ roll. Drawing
on the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, this thoughtful celebration
of the phenomenon traces its various origins and includes a selection of photographs and ephemera featuring artists such
as David Bowie and Roxy Music.
V&A 2013 HB 160pp Illus 270x215mm
£25.00 17056 now £11.99
NEW HAYNES BRASS
INSTRUMENT MANUAL
How to Buy, Maintain and
Set up Your Trumpet, Trombone,
Tuba, Horn and Cornet
Simon Croft; Andy Taylor From the
trombones and French horns of the symphony orchestra to double bell euphoniums, Wagner tubas and jazzaphon trumpets, there is a wide array of sizes, shapes
and designs in the brass family. This practical manual sets out to explain why the
different instruments are designed the way
they are, how they work and how they
should be maintained and repaired. The
technical maintenance and repair section
includes detailed easy-to-follow instructions with step-by-step photographs.
HAYNES 2013 HB 208pp Illus
£21.99 18022 now £9.99
ELECTRIC GUITARS
AND BASSES
A Photographic History
George Gruhn; Walter Carter Famous
models of electric guitar such as the Fender
Stratocaster or Gibson Les Paul are not
only icons of 20th century design but, for
millions of musicians and music fans, powerful objects of desire. Focusing on the
American manufacturers that have led the
development of the instrument, this highly
illustrated volume traces its evolution from
the early Hawaiian prototypes of the 1930s
to the classic models developed and refined
from the 1950s to the 1970s.
BACKBEAT 2010 PB 270pp Illus 275x212mm
£16.99 10569 now £6.99
IMPERIAL DEATH STAR
DS-1 ORBITAL BATTLE
STATION
Owner’s Workshop Manual
NEW
Ryder Windham; Chris Reiff; Chris
Trevas The evil Empire of the Star
Wars universe conceived the Death
Star – a 120km-diameter battle station
capable of destroying a planet – to be
the ultimate power in the galaxy. This
technical manual explains in detail its
design, construction, systems and controls, and is illustrated with a range of
computer-generated artworks, floor
plans and cutaways. The book is fully
authorized by Lucasfilm and also contains information about the second
Death Star, which featured in Return
of the Jedi. HAYNES 2013 HB 128pp Illus
£16.99 18024 now £6.99
NEW
THE SHAKESPEARE
COMPANY, 1594-1642
Andrew Gurr In 1594, a group of London
players, including William Shakespeare,
Richard Burbage and Will Kemp, banded
together to form the theatre company that,
in 1603, became the King’s Men. This first
history of the troupe examines its origins,
development, finances, and uniquely democratic structure whereby its members
were all part-owners. It lists its entire
repertoire – including all Shakespeare’s
plays – and profiles the 99 actors who
served in its ranks until the theatres closed
in 1642. CAMBRIDGE UP 2006 HB 356pp
HAVE YOU SEEN...?
A Personal Introduction
to 1,000 Films
David Thomson What was the greatest
movie ever made – Citizen Kane or Vertigo? To this and other cinematic posers,
Thomson brings a lifetime’s experience
as film critic and movie lover. From Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein to
Zabriskie Point, and covering movie-making from 1895 to 2007, serious arthouse
to wacky comedy, Thompson’s short,
sharp essays rescue dozens of great films
from obscurity and puncture several undeserved reputations. American-cut pages.
KNOPF 2009 HB 1,024pp
$39.95 88827 now £9.99
HARRY H CORBETT
The Front Legs of the Cow
Susannah Corbett Before landing the
role of ’Arold Steptoe in 1962, Harry H
Corbett had been gaining a reputation as
one of Britain’s most promising serious
actors. Appearing in Shakespeare, TV
drama and Joan Littlewood’s Theatre
Workshop, his intense performances provoked comparisons to Marlon Brando.
This biography, written by his daughter,
recounts how he rose from a Manchester
slum and how the enormous success of
Steptoe and Son restricted his later career.
£9.99 16880 now £3.99
£109.99 17792 now £19.99
Donald Spoto For more than a century, the
Redgraves have defined theatre and film.
Drawing on personal knowledge and many
interviews, this biography charts the private
and professional lives of the dynasty, from the
brilliant, troubled Michael Redgrave and his
wife Rachel Kempson, through their offspring
Lynn, Vanessa and Corin, to the triumphs and
tragedies of the latest generation. The result is an
epic study of a talented, volatile, passionate and
controversial family. ROBSON 2012 HB 381pp Illus
THE REDGRAVES: A Family Epic
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES
NEW THE KNITTER’S
HANDBOOK
Over 90 Stitches and
Techniques Explained
Eleanor van Zandt For new knitters
who want to learn the basics, or
experienced knitters wanting to try
more complex patterns, this practical
book provides clear instructions and
step-by-step illustrations for more
than 90 stitches and techniques.
Beginning with an introduction to
yarns, equipment and casting on and
off, the guide has chapters on following
a pattern, special textures, knitting in
the round, colourwork, embellishments
and advanced techniques.
HAMLYN 2012 PB 256pp Illus 198x188mm
CREATIVE LETTERING
Experimental Ideas for
Contemporary Lettering
Margaret Morgan Hand-drawn lettering
is very much in vogue in modern graphic
design. This practical guide shows how
to produce colourful and contemporary
effects with creative letterforms. There are
clear explanations of the basic techniques
of letter construction, spacing and relative
proportion but the book takes a looser,
more intuitive approach than traditional
calligraphy, the projects and exercises that
use everyday writing tools and materials
rather than specialist precision equipment.
A&C BLACK 2009 PB 96pp Illus 277x220mm
£15.99 11930 now £5.99
Nightflight: low-relief
barn owl sculpture
£9.99 18205 now £3.99
Claire Crompton In this clearly illustrated guide, Claire Crompton, author of the
bestselling The Knitter’s Bible, provides a comprehensive sourcebook of 200 knitting
stitches covering everything from simple plain and purl to embossed fabrics, complex
cable stitches and slip stitch colour patterns. There are also instructions for nine
projects, including a patchwork cushion, a cable poncho, a lacy bag knitted in cotton
yearn and a romantic rose bed throw. DAVID & CHARLES 2010 PB 144pp Illus 278x215mm
NEW
THE KNITTER’S BIBLE STITCH LIBRARY
£14.99 18172 now £5.99
MODELLING
ASPECTS OF MODELLING:
LINESIDE BUILDINGS
Nigel Digby In this well-illustrated,
practical guide Nigel Digby gives the
background history to railway buildings
and their various functions and the
typical civil engineering structures to
be found on British railways. He also
discusses the development of a model,
including research, measurement and
scale drawing, and provides some case
studies, with examples of model
construction mostly from his own
speciality, the Midland & Great
Northern Joint Railway.
IAN ALLAN 2012 PB 96pp Illus 280x210mm
£14.99 17125 now £5.99
Billingham signal box and level
crossing on a Middlesbrough
Model Railway Club 00 layout
f See also Signalboxes for the Modeller on page 60
HORNBY MAGAZINE
YEARBOOK No. 3
NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF ORIGAMI AND
PAPERCRAFT TECHNIQUES
Ayako Brodek; Ed. Claire Waite Brown
From intricate paper sculptures to simple
collages, this creative craft book teaches
a wide variety of papercraft techniques
including origami, pop-ups, quilling,
papier maché, bookbinding, weaving,
collage and papermaking. Each of the
sections includes comprehensive instructions, with diagrams, step-by-step photographs and equipment lists, and there
are projects to try as well as inspirational
examples of accomplished work in the
various disciplines. Slightly off-mint.
RUNNING 2011 PB 160pp Illus 223x223mm
£11.99 11745 now £5.99
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Ed. Mike Wild Inspiration for perfecting your
model railway is provided in this annual round-up
of the best of Hornby Magazine with a number
of accomplished layouts including a recreation
of a South London scene in the late 1960s and
a 1950s Yorkshire seaside railway in ‘N’ gauge.
The book also gives technical advice, with
tutorials on locomotive detailing, building a
micro layout and constructing a country bus
station, and there are articles on railway history.
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 128pp Illus 297x208mm
£16.99 10754 now £6.99
Mat Irvine Early British model kits for cars
chose the scale of 1:32 but the influence of more
detailed American sets in the 1960s established a common size of 1:24 or 1:25 for
the hobby. Focusing on this scale, Mat Irvine explains the tools and materials
required and demonstrates how to build from kits, methods for modifying and
customizing models, and specialist painting and decorative techniques.
SCALE CAR MODELLING
CROWOOD 2011 PB 160pp Illus
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CRAFTS & COLLECTABLES
Kathy Martin The company of Farnell & Co is of
unparalleled importance in British toy history. Founded
in the early 19th century, it created Britain’s first teddy
bear, as well as the bear that inspired Winnie the Pooh.
Kathy Martin tells the story of Farnell here for the first
time: it is a tale not only of highly prized teddy bears,
many illustrated here, but also of business triumphs
and setbacks, family rift, devastating fire and untimely
death. REMEMBER WHEN 2010 HB 192pp Illus
NEW
FARNELL TEDDY BEARS
£19.99 18305 now £7.99
15-inch golden mohair Farnell teddy from the 1920s
CERAMICS
Tools and Techniques for
the Contemporary Maker
Louisa Taylor Ceramics is one of the
most ancient of art forms, and one of
the most dynamic. A perfect handbook
for the 21st century ceramicist, this visual
encyclopaedia combines clear, in-depth instructions, stepby-step photographs and troubleshooting tips on the full range of techniques, including
hand-building, coiling, throwing, glazing, lustres, resists and firing. Artist profiles
highlight the range of methods and styles employed today, and an extensive resource
section includes details of trade shows, courses, galleries and suppliers.
NEW
Head of the Patriarch Semel, stained and
painted glass in Canterbury Cathedral, c.1180
Joanna Norman This book traces the
history of making in Britain across some
of the key disciplines in the decorative or
applied arts – stained glass, metalwork,
ceramics, fabrics and woodwork, each
section ending with an interview in which
a present-day maker discusses their craft.
The book, itself beautifully designed
and bound, accompanied a series of BBC
television programmes made in partnership with the V&A and is illustrated with
pieces from the Museum’s collections.
HANDMADE IN BRITAIN
V&A 2012 HB 204pp Illus 266x215mm
£25.00 17058 now £9.99
Native American
stuffed cloth doll
of girl with
papoose
£30.00 17490 now £12.99
Robin Hildyard A reference work for
student and collector alike, this book
presents photographs of items from the
Victoria and Albert Museum’s extensive
collection of European ceramics, illustrating
the development of techniques and styles.
Examining pieces from the Middle Ages
to the present day, Hildyard discusses
the influence of industrialization, the
conflict between mass production and good
design, and the complicated 20th century
relationship between designer, manufacturer
and artist. V&A 2009 PB 144pp Illus 268x215mm
EUROPEAN CERAMICS
£19.99 17054 now £7.99
Heron Service by Pietro Krohn, Denmark, 1889
INTAGLIO
The Complete Safety-First System for Creative Printmaking
Robert Adam; Carol Robertson The term ‘intaglio’ applies to any method
of printing where the inked area has been dug out or incised into the plate
material, either directly with a sharp instrument (engraving) or
by a chemical process (etching). Many of the traditional
methods involve the use of harmful chemicals and this
comprehensive and inspiringly illustrated book advises
on the safest working methods as well as exploring
the many technical and creative possibilities.
NEW
Ruth E Funk; Photo. Dominic Agostini
American doll collector Ruth E Funk
has been assembling her unique collection
for over 60 years, inspired by a fascination
with the ethnic dolls and national costume
figures that she has found on her extensive
travels. Several hundred of her most treasured items have been carefully photographed for this book, demonstrating an
eclectic range of interests from antique
china figurines to modern baby dolls, exquisite miniature doll’s house furniture
and whimsical animal characters.
DOLLS ETCETERA
PANACHE 2012 HB 264pp Illus 270x270mm
$45.00 16428 now £9.99
£19.95 17604 now £7.99
LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
Masterworks
Camilla de la Bédoyère The key player in
the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements
in America, with considerable influence in
Europe, Louis Comfort Tiffany was an artist, designer,
craftsman and businessman who wanted to bring art to the
people. With a study of his life and career and over 170
photographs, this volume presents fine examples of the glass
windows and lamps for which he is most famous, but
also reveals works in other media including blown
glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork.
Drophead
Dragonfly
table lamp in
leaded glass
and bronze
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SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS
NEW
CHARLES DARWIN’S
SHORTER PUBLICATIONS,
1829-1883
John van Wyhe Charles Darwin’s words
first appeared in print when he was a student at Cambridge in 1829, and in almost
every subsequent year of his life he published essays, articles, letters to editors
and other brief works. This book brings
together all the known shorter publications
and printed items Darwin wrote during
his lifetime, revealing the very wide variety of his scientific interests and abilities.
No jacket. CAMBRIDGE UP 2009 HB 556pp
£109.99 17742 now £25.00
Roger Watson; Helen Rappaport In the
1830s two men – English gentleman-amateur scientist Henry Fox Talbot and
French scenery-painter and showman
Louis Daguerre – worked independently
to develop methods of photography. Outlining each man’s life and work, the authors focus on the protracted experimentation by which they overcame the
difficulties that had long beset efforts to
fix images on paper. The final chapters
cover the early impact of the new technology on art, daily life and the documentation of the American Civil War.
CAPTURING THE LIGHT
MACMILLAN 2013 PB 320pp Illus
£12.99 16812 now £5.99
NEW
ALAN TURING’S
ELECTRONIC BRAIN
The Struggle to Build the ACE,
the World’s Fastest Computer
B Jack Copeland Although best-known
for cracking Germany’s Enigma code during the Second World War, Alan Turing
was also the father of the modern computer, whose brilliant innovation – the
stored-program universal computer –
changed the world. In 23 essays, including
writings by Turing himself, this volume
describes his fundamental contributions
to modern computing, focusing on the
ACE ‘electronic brain’, but also discussing his groundbreaking research in
artificial intelligence. (First published in
2005 as Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine.)
THE REASON WHY
The Miracle of Life on Earth
John Gribbin There are several hundred billion
stars in our Milky Way galaxy, yet out of all these,
Earth is the only planet with intelligent life on it.
Why? John Gribbin argues that life on Earth is the
result of an extraordinary set of cosmic events have
not, as yet, occurred anywhere else in our galaxy;
he explains why Earth is the only intelligent planet
and why it is so special. PENGUIN 2012 PB 238pp
£9.99 98145 now £4.99
NEW
PLANETARY SYSTEMS
AND THE ORIGINS OF LIFE
Ed. Ralph E Pudritz; Paul Higgs; Jonathan
Stone Breakthroughs in the field of astrobiology
have ranged from the study of micro-organisms
adapted to living in extreme environments on Earth,
to the discovery of over 200 planets orbiting around
other stars and the ambitious programmes for the robotic exploration of Mars
and other bodies in the Solar System. Focusing on these developments, this book
explores some of the most exciting and important problems in this field. No jacket.
£94.99 17782 now £19.99
CHASING VENUS
The Race to Measure
the Heavens
Andrea Wulf On two days in 1761 and
1769, hundreds of astronomers pointed
their telescopes at the sky to observe a
rare phenomenon: the transit of Venus
across the sun. This elegantly written,
thrillingly paced book charts the adventures, rivalries, triumphs and misfortunes
of the scientists who set off around the
globe in search of an answer to the big
question: how can the universe be measured? WINDMILL 2013 PB 336pp Illus
£8.99 16540 now £3.99
OXFORD UP 2011 PB 732pp 244x185mm
£39.99 17348 now £9.99
BALL OF CONFUSION
Puzzles, Problems and
Perplexing Posers
Johnny Ball With a career spanning 45
years, writing iconic shows such as Think
of a Number, Johnny Ball is TV’s bestloved mathematician. Here he presents a
mind-bending collection of cunning puzzles and teasers that will not only entertain
but – without you even noticing it – improve your maths. ICON 2011 HB 240pp
£16.99 11130 now £6.99
£12.99 18184 now £3.99
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
TO ASTRONOMY IN
THE MIDDLE EAST
John M Steele Astronomy, one of the
world’s oldest sciences, was born in ancient Mesopotamia; many centuries later
it was the work of medieval Islamic astronomers that built on ancient Greek advances and, through the production of astronomical instruments, led to the
breakthroughs of Copernicus and Kepler.
Steele tells the story of Middle Eastern
study of the heavens, from the earliest
surviving cuneiform documents to the
legacy of ancient observations, models
and theories in modern science.
SAQI 2008 PB 154pp Illus
£7.99 16862 now £3.99
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THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
A Modern Introduction to
Classical and Quantum Optics
IR Kenyon This book presents a thorough
and self-contained introduction to modern
optics, covering in full the three components – ray, wave and quantum optics. It
also presents, from first principles, modern applications in pure research (telescopes, lasers etc) and in industry (eg.
LCD screens, the CCDs in digital cameras
and optical fibre-based internet). The text
covers all that would be needed over a
comprehensive course at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.
THE DICTIONARY OF
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
BRITISH SCIENTISTS
Russell Stannard The last few centuries
have seen a huge expansion in our understanding of the world around us but are
we approaching the limits of what it is
possible to discover? In this summary of
the challenges facing modern science,
Russell Stannard argues that there are
questions that it may be beyond us to fully
explain, such as the nature of time, the
size of the universe or what constitutes
consciousness. OXFORD UP 2010 HB 236pp
THE END OF DISCOVERY
£14.99 17282 now £5.99
(Four volumes)
Ed. Bernard Lightman With more than
1200 entries on both prominent and lesserknown figures, this major reference work
offers a detailed summary of the development of British science in the 19th century. With equal attention paid to amateur
and professional scientists, the dictionary
covers areas such as phrenology, mesmerism, scientific journalism and instrument making, as well as the more traditional sciences. No jackets.
THOEMMES 2004 HB 2296pp
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TRANSPORT
EMOTIONS OF
RAILWAY ART
RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN SERIES
The Guild of Railway Artists supports
and promotes artists depicting any aspect
of the railways, past and present, through
exhibitions and assistance with historical
research. This collection of 101 works by
35 of its members ranges from Malcolm
Root’s nostalgic depiction of a Gresley
V2 in the setting sun to Ray Gale’s silk
screen print of trams in Vienna. Each reproduction is accompanied by a caption
describing the railway scene and providing details of the artist’s inspiration, technique and medium. Slightly off-mint.
Each volume in this series of invaluable
reference works by Colin and David
McCarthy includes a succinct illustrated history of the railways in the region and detailed large-scale mapping
which displays every railway built in
the counties covered, identifying passenger, freight, closed and preserved
lines, and dates for the opening and (if
relevant) closure of every line and station. IAN ALLAN 2007-9 HB 128-144pp Illus
£40.00 16606 now £14.99
The railways of London developed as a
myriad inter-city and local lines were incorporated into a network. This study of
the area north of the Thames presents a series of colour-coded maps which show the
railway infrastructure and the major roads.
Accompanying these is a history of the
original overground, underground and industrial lines (arranged alphabetically), the
great London termini, locomotive sheds
and other facilities. Finally, there is a
gazetteer of the stations featured. 99391
LONDON NORTH
OF THE THAMES
THE WEST THE
RAILROADS MADE
NEW
Carlos A Schwantes; James P Ronda
The construction of railways across the
open plains of North America transformed
the nation, setting up rivalries between
gateway cities such as St Louis and
Chicago, rapidly growing the settlements
of the west coast such as Los Angeles and
Seattle and transforming much of the territory in between. This analysis of how
railways shaped the American West draws
on the archives of the University of Missouri’s Barriger Railroad Library and is
illustrated with contemporary maps,
archive photographs and period ephemera.
WASHINGTON UP 2008 HB 231pp Illus
250x214mm
£27.99 17115 now £8.99
THE TIMES
MAPPING THE RAILWAYS
David Spaven; Julian Holland The 121
maps reproduced in this volume tell the
story of the railways in Britain in a unique
and visual way, from proposals and plans
produced by the early pioneers to specially
commissioned maps showing recent reopenings and newly-built lines. Including
passenger route planners from the height
of the steam age and Beeching’s controversial network revisions of the 1960s,
the book charts two centuries of profound
change and provides insights into
both railway and cartographic history.
TIMES 2014 HB 304pp Illus 285x220mm
£30.00 94872 now £12.99
NEW RAILWAYS
RESTORED 2013
The Best-Selling Guide
to Heritage Railways
NEW
THE LOST RAILWAY
The Midlands
Robert Day photographed as much as he
could of railway operations in the Midlands during the 1970s and 1980s, aware
that the scene was changing beyond
recognition. Rather than locomotive portraits and platform scenes, he focused on
the disappearing infrastructure: station
buildings, signal boxes and trackside signage. This collection of 200 images is accompanied by recollections of the network
from Derby up through the Peak District,
across to Shrewsbury and south to
Gloucester. IAN ALLAN 2013 PB 128pp Illus
£18.00 17131 now £5.99
Ed. Alan C Butcher In recent decades,
the railway preservation movement has
successfully rescued countless old locomotives and carriages, renovated lines and
provided thriving tourist attractions serving both committed railway enthusiasts
and family day trippers. This comprehensive guide provides visitor information for
well over 200 railway heritage and preservation centres in Britain and Ireland and
provides full listings of the locomotives
and rolling stock housed at each site as
well as details of the routes, fares and
timetables. IAN ALLAN 2012 PB 256pp Illus
The main lines into Devon and Cornwall
were routed to avoid the significant obstacles of a rugged coastline and high
moorland but the earliest railways were
local ones, built to transport stone, tin and
china clay, particularly in Cornwall.
Thanks to the decline in mining and the
withdrawal of rural passenger services,
the region is peppered with closed lines,
some now operating as preserved railways.
16471
DEVON AND CORNWALL
The early development of railways in Kent
and Sussex was dominated by competition
between the London, Brighton and South
Coast, the London, Chatham and Dover
and the South Eastern railways. Being a
largely agricultural area there have been
few industrial railways but access to seaside resorts, historic ports and the Channel
Tunnel has profoundly influenced railway
development in the region.
16472
KENT AND SUSSEX
£18.00 17132 now £4.99
David Hucknall For diesel enthusiasts, this
is a superb collection of around 180 black and
white photographs portraying the important
locomotive classes, supported by David
Hucknall’s meticulously researched and
well-written captions. From the Deltics,
the ‘Warships’ and the ‘Westerns’ to the Class
50s and 47s, and even including the humble
but essential multiple units, the book records
a fascinating evolutionary period for Britain’s
railways. HISTORY PRESS 2012 PB 160pp Illus
BRITISH DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES
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TRANSPORT
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
OF THE TRAVELLING
POST OFFICE
Peter Johnson The Travelling Post Office
– the transport of mail by train, with sorting carried out on the move – was a part
of Britain’s railway operations for over
160 years. In a history illustrated with
some 250 photographs, Peter Johnson
charts the development of the TPO since
1838; he describes the routes, services
and rolling stock it used, the consequences
of the 1963 Great Train Robbery, and the
deteriorating relationship with the privatized railways, up to the abandonment of
TPO services in 2004.
OPC 2009 HB 144pp Illus 290x215mm
£19.99 97207 now £7.99
BR PASSENGER
SECTORS IN COLOUR
For the Modeller and Historian
NEW
David Cable From 1983 until privatization
in 1996, British Rail was organized into
separate sectors rather than all operations
falling under a single corporate umbrella.
For passenger services this meant new
brands such as InterCity and Scotrail, each
with its own colour scheme to replace the
old blue livery. This book examines the
various classes of locomotives and multiple
units used in these sectors in over 200
colour photographs and associated captions.
£18.99 17127 now £6.99
LONDON’S VICTORIA
EMBANKMENT
Robert J Harley Victoria Embankment,
known to Londoners as simply ‘The Embankment’, was opened in 1870, when,
according to The Times, the inauguration
ceremony was marred by ‘a great mob of
roughs’ invading the carriageway. Robert
Harley’s richly illustrated book is packed
with such anecdote. It traces the history
of Vulliamy and Bazalgette’s combined
embankment and sewage conduit, along
with the Westminster, Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges, focusing on the changing
modes of transport – from steamboats to
motor cars – that have plied the once elegant thoroughfare. CAPITAL HISTORY
£16.95 45503 now £9.99
LONDON UNDERGROUND
1863 Onwards
(All Lines and Extensions)
Owners’ Workshop Manual
Paul Moss The first underground trains ran
in London in 1863 between Paddington
(then called Bishop’s Road) and Farringdon
stations. It is remarkable to note that at that
early date steam locomotives were used,
filling the tunnels with smoke and soot; the
first electric trains were introduced in 1890.
Presented in Haynes’s famous Owners’
Workshop Manual livery, this book provides an accessible and well illustrated introduction to the history and workings of
the world’s oldest underground railway.
£21.99 17012 now £11.99
Michael HC Baker Designed to
replace the ‘RT’ buses, which had
been in production since 1938,
the Routemaster was introduced
in 1956 as the long-standing
programme to replace London’s
electric trolleybuses continued.
This pocket history describes
how the bus become a London
icon, despite far fewer being built
than the RT, and illustrates the
Routemaster in the many colours
of its long career from original service duty to privatized operations
and heritage assignments. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 128pp Illus 130x188mm
NEW
THE ROUTEMASTER
£9.99 17133 now £4.99
Kirkton Lime Sidings signalbox
in North Lincolnshire
SIGNALBOXES
FOR THE MODELLER
NEW
Michael A Vanns The majority of railway
modellers are interested in reproducing a
period scene somewhere between 1923
and 1968 and must therefore include a
signalbox in their layout. This comprehensive analysis of these buildings on the
British railway network considers the
various styles constructed at different
periods and in different regions, the equipment associated with them, inside and out,
and where they should be located on a
model layout for maximum authenticity.
£14.99 17135 now £5.99
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US AIRCRAFT IN
THE SOVIET UNION
AND RUSSIA
An Aeroflot Boeing 737 takes off
from Moscow-Sheremet’yevo airport
Yefim Gordon Even
before the revolution of
1917, American aircraft
were being imported into
Russia, beginning an
association between the
two nations’ aviation
industries, which was
particularly important to design development during the 1930s and the prosecution
of the Second World War. This review of the relationship examines collaborations
from the early years of flight to the post-Cold War period, and is illustrated with over
600 photographs, design drawings and colour illustrations.
MIDLAND 2008 HB 336pp Illus 280x214mm
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TRANSPORT/SPORT
NEW COASTAL SHIPS
AND FERRIES
Second edition
David Hornsby Listing fleet information
about all the major ferry and coastal shipping operators based in northern European
waters, this comprehensive volume gives
details of every ship in service with a deadweight tonnage of up to 10,000, recording
their specifications, year of manufacture
and country of origin, as well as freight or
passenger capacity. There are also brief
details about each operating company, and
almost 200 colour photographs complete
this up-to-date survey of coastal shipping.
Back by
popular
demand
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 224pp Illus
£24.99 17128 now £7.99
NEW LONDON
UNDERGROUND STATIONS
IN COLOUR
For the Modeller and Historian
John Glover From the oxblood tiled
exteriors of the 1900s and the striking Art
Deco buildings of the 1930s to the spacious
designs of the 21st century, the London
Underground has significantly contributed
to the capital’s architectural heritage. This
photographic survey illustrates the wide
variety of designs and provides, in detailed
captions, an account of the development
of station architecture across the network
from the 1860s to the present day.
£16.99 17130 now £5.99
COMMUTER CITY
How the Railways Shaped London
David Wragg The 19th century expansion
of London would have been impossible
without one crucial innovation: the railway.
Suddenly, far-flung hamlets were within an
hour of the centre and ripe for development.
This study charts the railways’ effect on
the growth of the city, its layout, its governance and its society. It profiles the companies and individuals that drove the
process, the decisions that shaped it, the
massive upheaval it caused – and its legacy
today. WHARNCLIFFE 2010 HB 301pp
£19.99 11958 now £6.99
THE WORLD’S
MERCHANT SHIPS
Images and Impressions
Robert Lloyd; Roy Fenton The paintings
of maritime artist Robert Lloyd are noted
for capturing ships in their element, whether
berthing at Liverpool or out at sea in full
cry. This volume reproduces over 60 of his
works, depicting the merchant craft of
many countries during the golden age of
shipping – the decades following the Second World War. The accompanying text
gives details of each ship’s history and career, drawing on the recollections of people
who knew the vessel. SHIPS IN FOCUS
£24.00 96721 now £9.99
GLAMOUR IN THE SKIES
The Golden Age of
the Air Stewardess
Libbie Escolme-Schmidt Starting in the
1930s in 12-passenger, tri-motor Boeing
80s, air stewardesses progressed to serving hundreds on Jumbo jets, while flying
evolved from a dangerous adventure to a
safe and comfortable way to travel. Written by a former BOAC stewardess and
drawing on the testimony of flight-deck
and cabin crew, this book celebrates the
stewardesses of British Airways and their
predecessors, from 1936 to 1980, and
evokes the excitement and optimism of
the early years of passenger airliners. Offmint. HISTORY PRESS 2009 HB 122pp Illus
£20.00 92553 now £7.99
Ed. Marshall Everett The sinking of the
Titanic on its maiden voyage was an event
that captured the public imagination from
the moment the tragic news reached the
shore. Marshall Everett’s ‘graphic and
thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built’, with firsthand accounts of heroism by the survivors,
was published in 1912, soon after the
tragedy. This deluxe memorial edition reproduces that text, with new artwork and
an evocative cover design. Gilt-edged
pages. HARPER 2011 HB 288pp Illus 216x160mm
£16.99 99999 now £6.99
RMS AQUITANIA
The Ship Beautiful
Mark Chirnside Launched in 1913,
Cunard’s magnificent four-funnel liner
Aquitania had a long and varied career.
Converted to an armed merchant cruiser
in the First World War, it returned to
commercial service as a transatlantic
passenger ship, its lavish interiors the last
word in luxury. Drawing on much unpublished material, including rare photographs and memorabilia, this absorbing
history tells the ship’s epic story in words
and pictures, giving technical specifications, chronicling voyages, and listing all
Aquitania’s captains. HISTORY PRESS 2009
FORMULA ONE YEARS
The Ultimate Season-by-Season
Celebration of Grand Prix Racing
£19.99 87012 now £6.99
Timothy Collings; Sarah Edworthy
The Formula 1 World Championship has been
a continuing story of exhilarating races,
intense driver rivalries, frightening accidents
and engineering innovations. This illustrated
history of the sport chronicles each year of the
championship from the dominance of Fangio
in the 1950s to 2007 when Lewis Hamilton
narrowly missed out on the title in his maiden
season. The book provides details of race
winners, pole sitters and final championship
standings and includes profiles of the leading
drivers and over 300 photographs. Slightly offmint. CARLTON 2008 HB 336pp Illus 280x215mm
James Hunt: F1 world champion in 1976
$39.95 16348 now £7.99
WRECK AND SINKING
OF THE TITANIC
The Ocean’s Greatest Disaster
and personification of racing charisma
HMS VICTORY 1765-1812
(First Rate Ship of the Line)
Owner’s Workshop Manual
Peter Goodwin Nelson’s flagship was the
most formidable craft afloat when it was
launched in 1765, boasting 104 guns and
an 800-man crew. This detailed, illustrated
analysis covers every aspect of the ship’s
operation, from sails and rigging to guns
and ammunition and even the men’s rations; and as well as describing Victory’s
design and construction, the manual tells
the story of its active service and its recent
conservation.
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ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN
NEW THE ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE
Sharon Magrelli; Giovanni Uzzani
A magnificent pictorial survey of
Renaissance art in Italy, this volume
comprises over 500 pages of
reproductions and photographs showing
the progress of architecture, sculpture
and painting in chapters on Florence
and Tuscany, on northern Italy and on
central and southern Italy, including
Rome. It presents works by all the great
Renaissance artists, from Piero della
Francesca to Michelangelo and Raphael,
with captions to the reproductions and
brief introductions to each period in
English, German and Russian.
SLOVART 2009 HB 600pp Illus 288x287mm
The 15th century Poultry Cross in Salisbury
THE BUILDING OF ENGLAND
How the History of England
Has Shaped our Buildings
Simon Thurley Throughout England’s
history, its buildings have reflected not
only changing tastes but social and economic conditions. This handsome volume
presents a chronological survey of the nation’s architecture from Saxon times,
through the cathedrals and castles of the
Middle Ages to the burgeoning suburbs of
Metroland. Lavishly illustrated with more
than 500 colour photographs, archival images, drawings, maps and plans, it shows
how buildings, whether grand public projects or modest domestic structures, reflect
and embody our rich and complex history.
WILLIAM COLLINS 2013 HB 544pp Illus
£35.00 16805 now £11.99
18203 now £30.00
LETAROUILLY ON
RENAISSANCE ROME
Basilica of San Bernardino in L’Aquila
by Cola dell’Amatrice, 1524-40
John Barrington Bayley; Ed. Henry Hope Reed The French architect Paul
Letarouilly devoted more than 30 years to drawing the churches, palaces and
monuments of Renaissance Rome. This student’s edition contains almost 200 plates
from the five volumes originally published between 1825 and 1882. Accompanied
by an informative text by John Barrington Bayley, Letarouilly’s lucid plans and
elevations provide a systematic overview of the design principles of Michelangelo,
Bramante, Bernini and other great architects of the Italian Renaissance. The book
includes a useful guide for visitors to Rome. DOVER 2012 PB 224pp Illus 275x210mm
£20.99 16740 now £7.99
THE ARCHITECTURE
OF SHARPE, PALEY
AND AUSTIN
Geoff Brandwood Founded in the
1830s by the multi-talented Edmund
Sharpe, the Lancaster firm of Sharpe,
Paley and Austin went on to become the
greatest provincial architectural practice
in Victorian and Edwardian England.
This book charts the firm’s history for
the first time, explaining how it secured
commissions through a web of personal
and family connections; and, with a
wealth of photographs, it illustrates the
urban and rural churches, country
houses, schools and infirmaries built by
the company. ENGLISH HERITAGE 2012
PALACES FOR PIGS
Animal Architecture and
Other Beastly Buildings
Lucinda Lambton For hundreds of years,
people have built elaborate, extravagant and
downright eccentric homes for their animals. Wearing her scholarship with deceptive charm, Lucinda Lambton surveys
hundreds of these flights of fancy throughout Britain and Ireland: elegant stables, a
pyramid for poultry, a half-timbered dovecote, Sir John Soane’s classical ‘canine
residences’, a medieval palace for pigs, and
a touching selection of pet cemeteries. In
this engaging, informative and lavishly
illustrated book, the British passions for
architecture and animals meet. ENGLISH
HERITAGE 2011 HB 226pp Illus 244x187mm
£50.00 17677 now £17.99
£25.00 94692 now £6.99
Edward Norman’s chronological survey of church buildings begins with
the basilicas of Constantine’s reign and traces developments in architectural
style and decoration up to churches and cathedrals built in the 1960s (Toyko
Cathedral and St Josef at Neuss-Weckhofen). Accompanied by an outstanding
collection of illustrations and photographs, the text explores how changes
in church style came to be adopted, mindful always that to study a church
structure is ‘to contemplate the material evidence of a reality which is
invisibly present’. THAMES & HUDSON 2005 PB 312pp Illus 290x245mm
THE HOUSE OF GOD: Church Architecture Style and History
Burse for carrying wafers in Mass, London, c.1850
THE CHRONOLOGY OF PATTERN
Pattern in Art from Lotus
Flower to Flower Power
Diana Newall; Christina Unwin An invaluable
sourcebook for designers and art students, this
chronological journey through 3,000 years of pattern styles reveals geographical and cultural contrasts and connections through the centuries, from
late Bronze Age metalwork patterns to 21st century textile designs. Every chapter is richly illustrated with examples drawn from a great range of
media as well as textiles, and there are summaries
of the design elements for each period. The book
concludes with a timeline, from 3050 BCE to
2011. A&C BLACK 2011 PB 288pp Illus 260x207mm
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John Peacock Tracing the history of children’s fashions from ancient times
to the present day, this sourcebook comprises over 1,000 specially drawn
examples of the clothes children of various ages wore at different periods,
with accompanying text detailing every aspect of their apparel, including
accessories. Concluding with a simplified time chart and a bibliography, this
is a colourful, authoritative, but also very accessible reference for designers,
historians and collectors. THAMES & HUDSON 2009 HB 160pp Illus 270x250mm
CHILDREN’S COSTUME: The Complete Historical Sourcebook
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NEW CHINESE POSTERS
The IISH-Landsberger Collections
Stefan R Landsberger; Marien van
der Heijden; Kuiyi Shen Since China’s
Communist revolution in 1949, thousands
of propaganda posters have been produced,
instructing, hectoring and cajoling the
population into following patterns of
behaviour in line with government policies.
Providing a fascinating insight into the
modern history of China as well as a
survey of an evolving graphic style, this
spectacular collection ranges from antiJapanese messages of the 1930s and posters
promoting the Great Leap Forward and the
Cultural Revolution to those trumpeting
more recent economic successes.
PRESTEL 2009 PB 285pp Illus 238x190mm
Poster for the 1912 Stockholm
Olympics by Olle Hjortzberg
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THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL
FASHION DESIGNERS
Hidden Connections and Lasting
Legacies of Fashion’s Iconic Creators
OLYMPIC VISIONS
Images of the Games
Through History
Mike O’Mahony The Olympic Games have
provided many powerful visual stories thanks
to unforgettable sporting moments but also to
evocative design and presentation, exemplified
by Leni Riefenstahl’s groundbreaking film of
the 1936 Berlin Games. This thoughtful analysis considers the design of posters, medals and
stadia over the years as well as the resonance
of images such as the terrorist in the athletes’
village at the Munich Games and the American
sprinters’ Black Power salute in Mexico City.
NEW
Noël Palomo-Lovinski In this illustrated survey
of 50 of the world’s most influential designers,
Palomo-Lovinski explores the hidden connections
and lasting legacies of these iconic fashion
creators. The book is in six themed chapters:
designers as celebrities, such as Lagerfeld and
Tom Ford; those, like Coco Chanel, who defined
women for a new generation; artisans such as
Fortuny and Issey Miyake; the futurists, led by
Pierre Cardin; modernists and postmodernists;
and conceptualists such as Schiaparelli and
McQueen. A&C BLACK 2010 PB 192pp Illus 264x220mm
REAKTION 2012 HB 224pp Illus
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£16.99 11867 now £7.99
DESIGNING
MODERN GERMANY
1952 ensemble by American designer Claire
McCardell, who popularised casual chic for women
NEW
Jeremy Aynsley German design – in graphics, furniture, fashion and architecture – is
celebrated the world over for its innovation,
elegance and efficiency. This in-depth study
shows how its development since 1870 reflects the country’s fraught political history
and affected citizens’ personal lives. Elegantly designed and lavishly illustrated, it
proceeds from the first Arts and Crafts
schools to the role of the Bauhaus and Peter
Behrens, examines Nazi design and the separate cultures of East and West Germany, before concluding with developments since reunification. REAKTION 2009 PB 256pp Illus
NEW AFTER A FASHION
What We Wore: 1947 to the Present
Ed. Elizabeth Roberts Over 200 photographs drawn from the Press Association
archive make up this unique historical fashion record, which features fashion
icons such as Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy, Princess Diana and Kate Moss, as well
as fans at a Beatles concert and women on Greenham Common. With sections
on post-war film stars, 1960s fashion, everyday people, and scenes from London
Fashion Week, the book looks at fashion on the catwalk and in the streets, from
glamour to grunge.AMMONITE 2009 HB 300pp Illus 310x240mm
£30.00 18232 now £11.99
DESIGN AND THE
DECORATIVE ARTS
Tudor and Stuart Britain
1500-1714
James Taylor Among the most popular cartoonists of the early 20th century, Fougasse
made his name through his association with
Punch magazine and with the London Underground, but it was his ‘Careless Talk Costs
Lives’ series of Second World War propaganda posters that secured his reputation as
one of the great British illustrators. Filled
with classic examples of his work, this is a
guide to Fougasse’s distinct style and his design philosophy. No jacket.
Michael Snodin; John Styles
Between the end of the Middle Ages
and the reign of Queen Anne, Britain
developed from a peripheral European
nation to a world power whose exports
were traded across the globe. Written
to complement the V&A’s Tudor and
Stuart galleries, and illustrated with
more than 300 colour photographs,
this magnificent book shows how this
transformation was reflected in the
applied arts, from architecture to
clothing, furniture and utensils, and
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, attributed to
explains who and what shaped fashion
William Scrots, c,1546: the frame is inspired
and taste over this period.
CONWAY 2010 HB 96pp Illus 216x172mm
V&A 2004 PB 168pp Illus 285x248mm
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CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES
Fougasse and the
Art of Public Information
by a French Fontainebleau-school print
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ICE AGE GAMES AND PUZZLES
This Pelmanism-style memory game features 24 pairs of picture cards from the
popular film Ice Age 4: Continental Drift in which Scrat, the sabre-toothed squirrel,
sets off a cataclysmic storm that casts the characters out to sea. The colourful cards
feature the loveable gang from the movie, including Manny, Diego and Sid, as well
as the pirates Captain Gutt, Flynn and Squint. Age 4+ DINO 2012 48 pieces 180x114mm
NEW
MADE IN THE ICE AGE MEMO-GAME
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Continental Drift, the fourth film in the hilarious Ice Age series pits the regular
gang against a band of pirates. This jigsaw set contains two 48-piece puzzles,
one featuring Captain Gutt and his cut-throat gang and the other featuring the
whole cast, as Manny, Sid and Diego face off against their pirate foe. Age 4+
NEW
MADE IN THE ICE AGE JIGSAW PUZZLE
DINO 2012 48 pieces 274x190mm
£5.99 17877 now £2.99
101 THINGS TO DO
ON THE HOLIDAYS
NEW
Anna O’Donnell; Tessa Wilson We all
love school holidays, but sometimes
it’s hard to fill the long weeks. The 101
ideas in this book, written by friends
Anna (12) and Tessa (13) during one
of their vacations, include inventions,
missions, games and creations – build a
volcano, invent a secret language, make
a music video, act like a spy and solve
a family mystery. You’ll never be bored
again! HARDIE GRANT 2010 PB 112pp Illus
£7.99 17881 now £3.99
NEW ICE AGE 3
JIGSAW PUZZLE
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs sees
Sid, the ground sloth, running scared
of Momma Dino, a Tyrannosaurus
Rex who inhabits a tropical lost
world beneath the ice. This 280piece jigsaw features the menacing
dinosaur threatening to devour the
regular Ice Age gang of Scrat, Manny,
Diego and Sid, who has provoked
her wrath by inadvertently stealing
her eggs. Age 4+
EFKO 2009 280 pieces 480x340mm
£7.99 17876 now £3.99
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE
FACTORY POP-UP BOOK
Roald Dahl; Illus. Quentin Blake
All the famous scenes in Roald Dahl’s
classic story are brought leaping off
the page in this inventive pop-up edition.
Quentin Blake’s celebrated illustrations
have been cleverly engineered so an
entire chocolate factory or great glass
elevator rises up on the turn of a page.
Folding flaps and pull-tabs animate
the demise of Charlie’s rivals as
well as recreating the experience
of unwrapping a bar of Wonka
chocolate to find the last golden
ticket. PENGUIN 2011 HB
$29.99 16397 now £9.99
AROUND THE WORLD
IN EIGHTY DAYS
Jules Verne; Illus. Robert Ingpen
To fulfil a wager made at the Reform
Club in London, Phileas Fogg
and his long-suffering manservant,
Passepartout, embark on the race of
a lifetime – to circumnavigate the
globe in exactly 80 days. Travelling
by steamboat, train and elephant (no
aeroplanes in 1872), with adventures
at every turn and Inspector Fix of
Scotland Yard in hot pursuit – will
they make it back in time? Jules
Verne’s wonderful story is presented
here in a handsome edition, with
over 70 illustrations by Robert Ingpen.
Age 9+ TEMPLAR 2011 HB 224pp Illus
£14.99 93768 now £5.99
Published in association with the Royal Geographical Society, this is an ideal atlas for
home use. There are 48 pages of Philip’s excellent cartography, showing the countries
of the world picked out in bright, distinctive colours, and with details of major
roads, railways and airports, as well as physical features. The atlas also
includes whole world maps with geographical data, 21 city centre
maps, and an index. PHILIP’S 2012 HB 66pp Illus 310x230mm
NEW
PHILIP’S FAMILY WORLD ATLAS
£7.99 17978 now £3.99
NEW A CURIOUS GEORGE SET
(Seven books)
Margret Rey ‘A good little monkey and always very curious’,
George gets into all sorts of trouble, but it’s easy for a monkey to get
out of trouble and somehow he always redeems himself. This series
of stories by Margret Rey, with illustrations in the style of George’s
creator, HA Rey, finds the little monkey in a museum, a toy shop,
the library, a fire station, the train station, a chocolate factory and at
his own birthday party. Age 4+ WALKER 2008 PB 174pp Illus 202x202mm
£27.93 17968 now £12.99
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NEW QUENTIN BLAKE/
JOHN YEOMAN SET
NEW MRS PEPPERPOT
AND THE BLUEBERRIES
Alf Proysen; Hilda Offen Mrs
Pepperpot’s habit of shrinking at a
moment’s notice gets her into all sorts
of scrapes, but with some quick thinking
she always manages to bounce back.
When she shrinks while picking
blueberries, Mrs Pepperpot has to outwit
a hungry fox, then a hungry wolf and
then a hungry bear. Will her husband
ever get his blueberry jam? Age 3+
RED FOX 2013 PB 32pp Illus 240x238mm
£5.99 17976 now £2.99
NEW THE COLOUR
OF THE NIGHT
(Ten volumes)
John Yeoman; Quentin Blake
Whether it’s washerwomen on the
rampage or a bear trying to get a
good winter’s sleep, John Yeoman’s
stories and Quentin Blake’s
wonderful pictures never
fail to enchant young –
and not so young – children.
This ‘bumper bundle’ of
ten books includes favourites
such as The Fabulous Foskett
Family Circus, The Bear’s
Winter House and The Wild
Washerwomen. Age 3+
ANDERSEN 2015 PB
£69.90 17981 now £25.00
Nat Lambert For younger aviation enthusiasts, this
book offers a great introduction to the aircraft and
the history of the Battle of Britain. As well as the
Spitfire, Hurricane and their chief adversary, the
Messerschmitt Bf 109, the book describes another
nine planes that took part in the aerial battles over
southern England in 1940 – among them the Bristol
Beaufighter, Gloster
Gladiator and Junkers Ju 87
‘Stuka’ – and there are die-cut
card pieces to make models of
all 12 planes. Ringbound. Age 8+
NEW
BATTLE OF BRITAIN MICRO FLIERS
Helene Kerillis Illus. Vanessa Hie
TOP THAT 2015 HB 32pp Illus 250x230mm
Inspired by Gauguin’s Tahitian
£9.99 19131 now £4.99
painting, Arearea (1892), this
story is set in an exotic Pacific
island where the Kokolors tribe
EDGAR DEGAS:
WHITAKER’S WORLD OF WEIRD
have brightly coloured shadows
DANCE LIKE A BUTTERFLY
Tracey Turner From toxic sea creatures
and are always cheerful. They
The Adventures in Art series introduces
to accidental cannibalism, this is a
shun sad Tevai and his dog Anani young readers to the world of art in a relaxed,
colourful compendium of the strangest
because they have grey shadows lighthearted way. This volume goes behind the
facts and phenomena, with weird things
– but the Night Goddess has a
scenes of the Opera House in Paris, where
to do (make your own ectoplasm, bring
solution to make everyone happy. Edgar Degas spent hours watching and
a dead plant back to life) and websites
A reproduction of Arearea and
sketching the ballet dancers as they practised.
to explore each topic further. There are
information about Gauguin are
The story of the dancers and the ballet school
chapters on strange weather (raining
at the back of the book. Age 5+
is illustrated with Degas’ drawings and paintings, fish and frogs etc), ghostly encounters
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and the book ends with a brief account of his
and UFOs, unexplained mysteries such
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life. Age 8+ PRESTEL 2007 HB 22pp Illus 280x240mm as spontaneous human combustion,
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weird minds and bizarre bodies.
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A LITTLE PRINCESS SET
(Ten books)
Tony Ross Written and
illustrated by Tony Ross,
this much-acclaimed series
follows the Little Princess
as she overcomes the trials
and tribulations of being a
toddler with the help of the
King and Queen and the
palace staff, the Prime
Minister and her faithful
teddy, Gilbert. This set of
ten stories includes I Want
My Potty!, I Want My Light
On!, I Don’t Want to Go
to Hospital! and I Want a
Sister! Age 3+ ANDERSEN
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3D PRESS-OUT AND BUILD KITS
No glue, no scissors, everything you
need is in the box, and just 200-220
minutes (so they say) later, you will have
a rather fine model of a great London
landmark. Both ‘puzzles’ comprise
around 130 pieces, cleverly cut so they
push easily from light, yet very sturdy
paper and expandable polystyrene
board. The pieces are numbered,
there are clear visual instructions and
there is a booklet about the building.
Text in Chinese and English. Age 10+
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and interviews to explore the complex
relationship between artist and muse. The
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John Drury George
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Wild Africa (right) and its magnificent
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the Independent Publishers’ Book Award
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Alex Bernasconi’s photographs
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Another book of striking photographs, but of
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Nicholas Cooper’s study of the architectural
photography firm Bedford Lemere & Co (p37)
is one of several great books on architecture
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and Peter Ashley’s Preposterous Erections,
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Holidays and Battle of Britain Micro Fliers,
with 12 planes to make, and there are sets
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Little Princess and a whole bundle of Quentin
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Surman Sir John Betjeman’s
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Britain’s historic church
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