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Glowing full
colour images
covers her various theatre, film and television roles as
well as revealing something of her life when out of the
spotlight. As might be expected, Maggie’s humour still
bubbles even when not acting; after the birth of her son,
born by a caesarean operation, she remarked that it
made her feel as though she had just popped out to
Harrods for a baby. Later she observed that babies
were fascinating once ‘they stop being the wobbly
turnips they are for so long.’ An enjoyable, informationpacked biography by one of our most respected writers
on theatre. 352pp. Colour and b/w illus.
£20 NOW £6.50
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BIOGRAPHY /
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
There are some people you like immediately,
some whom you think you might learn to like
in the fullness of time, and some that you
simply want to push away from you with a
sharp stick.
80226 MY LUNCHES WITH
ORSON
edited by Peter Biskind
12" square
and ready for
hanging
2017 Wall Calendars
are already in! See page 5
“
I live on my own on the cliff here in
Luccombe, and my wild animals and birds
are a joy always throughout the
seasons, but that parcel that arrives
almost every month is such a pleasure.
I never stop learning from the books and
exploring the art.
- writes Mrs Miselback of Isle of Wight
”
In Nature this month, we have audio
recordings of bird and animal calls in Sounds
of the Wild (code 80321) and a three DVD
box set (80026) Bird Watcher’s Paradise
for all our nature lovers.
Well-known for our fine Art books at deep
discount (see page 12), Military, Transport
and of course everyone’s favourite, History,
are of note this month.
In Miscellany, there are beautiful party
garlands, coloured sticky notes and more fun
in the Children’s and Early Learning sections
with dinosaurs, ballet, 3D and pop-up books,
activity and interactive books.
Always on the look out for the quirky, we
have found plenty of note in addition to your
demand for heavyweight reading.
Happy bargain reading.
& the Team
(plus cats and
whippet and Tiger
the new kitten!)
ENTERTAINMENT
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state
of appearing to be.
- Noel Coward
80366 MAGGIE SMITH
by Michael Coveney
One of our best loved actors,
Maggie Smith began her career in
the early 1950s, even as a teen
demonstrating her flair for comedy
timing. She has appeared in many
theatrical productions, including
various Shakespearian plays and in
those such as Hedda Gabler, The
Country Wife and Private Lives.
Her film roles are legendary, from
her first major success as the title character in The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie, through to her later roles such as in
A Room With a View, Ladies in Lavender, The Lady in
the Van, Harry Potter, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
and its sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
However, perhaps more than anything else that Maggie
has tackled she is irrevocably linked with the television
series Downton Abbey in which she played the part of
the aristocratic, acerbic Lady Violet, Dowager Countess
of Grantham. This enjoyable look at Maggie’s career
Riveting and revealing
conversations with America’s
greatest cultural provocateur, based
on long-lost recordings. There had
long been rumours of a lost cache of
tapes containing private
conversations between Orson
Welles and his friend the director
Henry Jaglom, recorded over
regular lunches in the years before Welles died. Here is
Welles talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets,
reflecting on the highs and lows of his
career and the people he knew FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie
Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich,
Laurence Olivier, David
Selznick, Rita Hayworth and
others, and the many
disappointments of his last
years. Sexist, homophobic,
racist, irreverent and worse,
Welles was nothing if not a
fabulator and provocateur.
Ranging from politics to literature
to the shortcomings of his friends and
the many films he was still eager to launch, he is at once
cynical and romantic, sentimental and raunchy, never
boring and always wickedly funny. Scurrilous gossip,
whether you are a luvvy or not, the rabble-rouser
performs. 306pp, photos.
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80213 GAME OF THRONES: A Pop Up Guide to
Westeros by Matthew Reinhart
and Michael Komarck
A deluxe pop-up, the dimensions of the full map to
unfold are 46" x 30". Detach the magnetic strip at the
back of the book to lay the pages flat and make sure
you have enough room! By opening the first pages we
arrive at King’s Landing, the capital of the Seven
Kingdoms with its contrasting grandeur of its royal castle,
the Red Keep and the fetid slums known as Flea
Bottom. Pull
the tab to
learn about
the members
of House
Baratheon,
known for
their quick
tempers.
Another on
the House
Lannister. If
you don’t
know what we are on about you must have been
asleep! Inspired by the hit HBO series and books Game
of Thrones, this groundbreaking pop-up takes readers on
a thrilling journey into recreations of key locations
including Winterfell and The Wall made from stone and
ice, magnificently paper engineered in this spectacular
publication. The Continent of Essos is the fifth dramatic
pop-up. And best of all must be the fact that the book
can be turned literally inside out to show the entire huge
map. Over 30 amazing pop-ups. For collectors young
and old.
$65 NOW £17.50
80293 ABBA OFFICIAL
PHOTO BOOK
by Jan Gradvall and Petter
Karlsson
A huge and heavy tribute to
one of the world’s most
favourite groups. ABBA took its
name from the group’s initials,
Agnetha, Benny, Björn and
Anni-Frid. Their career was a
brief ten years, but in that time they became legendary
with songs such as Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Mamma
Mia, Fernando, SOS and Knowing Me, Knowing You
filling the lives of fans - and non-fans - the world over.
Regarding that magical day of the Eurovision Song
Contest in 1974 the text reads ‘Agnetha and Frida - in
wondrously weird costumes - came running onto the
stage, singing in magically entwined voices ‘My my! At
Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender.’ Benny attacks his
piano like a concert pianist thumping out chords and
triggering cascades of notes the world will shortly
recognise as the ABBA sound. When the song is over,
the BBC commentator is very alert, leaning into the
microphone. ‘Sweden! They’ve never won it but they
certainly have a chance with that one!’’ Hundreds of
photographs fill this superb book, depicting the four group
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- Douglas Adams
80214 GELLHORN: A
Twentieth Century Life
by Caroline Moorehead
From her birth in St Louis in 1908 to
her death in London in 1998, the tall,
glamorous blonde passed through
Africa, Cuba, Panama and most of
the great cities of Europe. Martha
Gellhorn’s heroic career as a reporter
brought her to the front lines of
virtually every significant
international conflict between
Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War and her
wartime despatches rank among the best ever written.
She made friends easily, among them Eleanor
Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein and H. G. Wells, but
happiness often eluded her despite her professional
successes. Both of her marriages ended badly, the first
to Ernest Hemingway, dramatically and publically so.
Moorehead has written this biography as if it were a
Greek tragedy, pitiless in its truth telling and beautifully
written to do real justice to the heroically flawed
protagonist. Here is the superb writer’s talent and
courage on and off the battle field. 465pp in paperback.
Cloth bound and
gold tooled with
40 colour plates
by Edmund Dulac.
$40 now £22
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$20 NOW £6.50
79945 JOHN LE CARRÉ: The
Biography by Adam Sisman
“I am a liar. Born to lying, bred to
it, trained by an industry that lies for
a living, practised in it as a
novelist”, says David Cornwell, the
man behind the pseudonym John Le
Carré. Sisman ekes out the enigma
behind the bestselling author, a man
who has quarried his own life for his
writing, intertwining fact and fiction
and occasionally offering tantalising
glimpses of himself, but never before has a biographer
had such unrestricted access to the man himself, friends,
family, enemies, intelligence ex-colleagues and ex-lovers.
In Cornwell’s lonely childhood Sisman discovers the
roots of Le Carré’s novels’ themes - love, abandonment
and betrayal. His mother left when he was five, which
led to “16 hugless years” in the dubious care of his serialseducer father, “a man who could put a hand on your
shoulder and the other in your pocket, both gestures
equally sincere.” In his recruitment to MI5 and MI6 to
marriage and family life, Sisman explores the world of
espionage and its significance in human terms - balancing
of morality and pragmatism, loyalty and responsibility,
love and betrayal and the ceaseless need for
forgiveness. Including 32 pages of b/w photos culled
from Cornwell’s personal collection, including several of
him in the cameo roles he loves in TV and film
adaptations of his work - did any of you spot him in the
BBC’s outstanding The Night Manager as the outraged
diner expertly calmed down by Tom Hiddleston? A
magisterial 652pp. Apologies for remainder mark.
$34 NOW £7.50
80382 BACKSTAIRS BILLY:
The Life of William Tallon
by Tom Quinn
When he was around eight years
old, Billy began collecting news and
pictures of the Royal Family, and
soon it was to become an obsession
as he would even remove old
magazines from dustbins in case he
had missed a story. He wanted to
be part of the Royal’s world, and it
wasn’t long before he began writing
to the Palace, asking for a job, however menial. Polite
rejections mounted up, all carefully saved by Billy as
extra memorabilia, but then one wonderful day he was
invited for an interview, and at the age of 15, began
work as a junior footman at Buckingham Palace - a
grocer’s son from Birtley with high ambitions. From the
start he stood out with his smartness, attention to detail,
subservient manner and good looks. Gradually, Billy rose
through the ranks, and after the death of King George VI
went with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to her
new abode at Clarence House. He soon became her
favourite servant, eventually reaching the stage where
he was trusted enough to become, if not her friend, a
welcome companion. However, Billy was not universally
popular; many of the staff disliked him, possibly jealous
of his friendship with the Queen Mother, and also
disliking his manner, which could on occasion be spiteful.
This fascinating, often scandalous account of the rise and
subsequent fall of the high camp Billy, whose intense
adoration of the Queen Mother completely governed his
life, is both poignant and humorous. It is an enjoyable
read for anyone intrigued by the world of the backstairs
staff in royal palaces. 260pp.
£20 NOW £6
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80402 LITTLEJOHN’S LOST
WORLD by Richard Littlejohn
Broadcaster and writer Richard
Littlejohn poses the rather poignant
question that we may all have
pondered at some time or another;
‘What became of the people we
used to be?’ Born in Ilford, Essex, in
1954, this enjoyable romp is a
nostalgic look back to the days
when we didn’t have elf ‘n’ safety,
when babies could be left in prams
without the police descending, when no-one complained
if we smashed each other round the knuckles with
conkers and when kids’ tv consisted mainly of puppets.
He remarks, ‘Bill and Ben spoke a strange language
called Flob-a-dob. At the time, some educationists
expressed concern that this incoherent dialogue might
influence impressionable young children and restrict their
development. All I can say is that it didn’t inhibit my
speaking skills, although in later in life I have been
known on occasions to lapse into fluent Flob-a-dob after
a few sherberts.’ When Richard was small, his mum and
aunt amused themselves by taking him into C&A and
posing him in a selection of women’s headgear. For
years he believed that C&A stood for Coats and ‘Ats.
Going to the library, trips to the seaside, Radio
Luxembourg, bri-nylon shirts, doctors who came to your
house when you were ill, and being allowed to play
outside, this will stir the memory banks. It ends when
Richard leaves school, and enters the world of
journalism.276pp. Illus.
£18.99 NOW £5
80364 LONG WALK TO
FREEDOM: The
Autobiography of Nelson
Mandela by Nelson Mandela
The life of Nelson Mandela is one of
the most enthralling political tales of
the 20th century, as well as a vivid
testimony to a unique mixture of
courage, persistence, tolerance and
forgiveness. As André Brink writes,
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members at work and at play, including photos taken
after the group dispersed, and photos taken since the
smash-hit musical Mama Mia! Here are covers from their
albums, publicity shots, family pics, holiday snaps and,
of course, dozens of photos of the group performing on
stage. Many of the photos are double page spreads,
making it easy to imagine you are there at a concert,
watching the group in action - especially if you play their
music while perusing! This wonderful book also includes
a timeline and a lively, informative text. It is a musthave for all ABBA fans. Large square format 11.5",
400pp. Colour and b/w photos.
£35 NOW £12
80322 ULTIMATE BOOK
OF GANGSTER MOVIES
by George Anastasia and
Glen Macnow
Once it was Westerns, but now
the Gangster movie genre has
taken their place. It’s the same
theme; good guy versus bad
guy. The authors say, ‘The bad
guy is always mesmerising. We
all want to believe we’re rebels
underneath our law-abiding skins.
And so when we sit in a dark theatre rooting for the
gangster, we get the vicarious thrill of striking out at
authority without, well, actually breaking the rules
ourselves.’ Arranged in numerical order, each entry
consists of a review, in-depth details about the making
of the film and the cast, as well as pivotal scenes,
violence levels, body counts, best lines, goofs and
repeated watching quotients. So, what is the top
Gangster movie? Well, it’s The Godfather, closely
followed by The Godfather Part II in second place.
Other classics in the list include On the Waterfront (4),
Pulp Fiction (5), Reservoir Dogs (15), Bonnie and Clyde
(19), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (39), and the
book continues to work through the films ending with
The Freshman placed at 100. A comprehensive index
allows you to look up your favourite actors. Large
format softback 10"x8", 351pp, b/w illus.
£13.99 NOW £5
80339 SPOCK’S LOGIC
PUZZLES by Tim Dedopulos
Star Trek’s Mr Spock amazes us
with his logical mind; his brain
processes information concisely,
discarding the chaff, getting straight
to the nitty-gritty. Now you too can
try to be just like Mr Spock in this
set of riddles, conundrums and
observations, all Star Trek themed.
Whether it’s the breeding of
Tribbles, Romulan infidelity, parallel
universes, Captain Kirk’s socks or stolen spaceships, Mr
Spock has the answer - but can you solve the problem
too? As might be expected, some are very difficult, and
need a laterally-thinking mind with plenty of logic. Don’t
worry if you can’t solve them, though, because the
answers are at the back. Mr Spock has obviously
forgotten that, unlike Vulcans, most humans are not
paragons of virtue and may cheat! Lots of vintage Star
Trek photos illustrate the problems, while the cover,
being slightly padded, feels good too. This is a musthave for every Trekkie who wants to live long and
prosper! 224pp. Colour illus.
£14.99 NOW £3.50
79215 VANESSA
by Dan Callahan
Arguably Britain’s greatest actress,
the author analyses Vanessa
Redgrave’s films and plays. Over
the years she has triumphed in
London and on Broadway, she has
covered most of Chekhov and
appeared in Greek tragedy, Wilde,
Brecht, Shaw and of course
Shakespeare, defining Rosalind. She
is one of those mercurial women
who can change moods and appearances to order. ‘She
could seem so fragile and spacey that the gentlest
breeze might blow her away. She could be boyish but
never manly. There is something about Redgrave that
has always seemed eternally adolescent, no matter her
age.’ Also examines her controversial extreme-left
political views. 344pp, illus. Remainder mark.
£17.99 NOW £6
78783 BIG SCREEN: The
Story of the Movies
by David Thomson
Beginning with Eadweard
Muybridge and tracing careers
ranging from Korda to Renoir,
Hawkes to Mizoguchi, David Lynch
and Tarantino, then swerving over
to television shows such as I Love
Lucy and The Sopranos, Thomson
has created a marvellous plot for
the history of film, with insights and revelations on
every page. He takes us around the globe, through
time and across many media from John Wayne to
George Clooney, TV commercials to streaming videos.
Includes chapters on 1930s Hollywood, Howard
Hawkes, The ‘Slim’ Years and Brief Encounter. 608pp,
16 pages of archive film stills, 16 x 23cm.
$35 NOW £5
78901 TALES OF A TILLER GIRL
by Irene Holland
Rene Gibbons was born into a musical family. When the
War started her mum joined ENSA and was posted to
Egypt, providing a regular income that sent Rene to the
Italia Conti performing arts school. In spite of her
stammer she got in on the strength of her dancing. Rene
went to an audition for the Tiller Girls at the London
Palladium, a top west end troupe. Miss Barbara and Miss
Doris wanted nice, wholesome girls who would maintain
the troupe’s reputation. Soon they were working with
Danny Kaye and an even greater star, Frank Sinatra.
259pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2
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79920 TELLING TALES OUT
OF SCHOOL A Miscellany of
Celebrity School Days
by Jonathan Sale
“All the school’s a stage” is the title
of one of the chapters in this pageturning book of celebrity school
memories, and the school play has
launched many a thespian career.
Sir Richard Eyre started training to
become director of the National
Theatre when one of his prep
school masters, wrote a play specially to showcase the
seven-year-old Eyre’s talents. Roger Lloyd Pack had a
glove puppet theatre where the only language spoken
was Shakespearean verse. Michael Boyd, creator of
Paddington Bear, also had a puppet theatre. David
Harewood never looked back after doing Martin Luther
King’s “I have a dream” speech in a school show. After
failing his A-levels Monty Don eventually got a place at
Cambridge and Clare Balding, also at Cambridge, had to
ask for time off in the first week to ride in the Lady
Riders’ Championship. Home schooling, “colouring in”,
the religion of rugby, the agony of entrance exams all
come under the cold scrutiny of the childhood eye.
304pp.
£18.99 NOW £4
79392 MARILYN MONROE: The Personal
Archives
by Cindy de la Hoz
A glamorous, slipcased publication, this official book
contains removable mementoes from Marilyn Monroe’s
estate. Reveals her early struggles to break into the film
industry, her marriages to DiMaggio and Arthur Miller to
her iconic status. We love the now legendary Tobey
Beach series of early photographs of Marilyn in her long
swimsuit and her first scene in ‘Something’s Got to
Give’, a haunting and daring shot for 1960, naked under
a bed sheet, in sheer black stocking leotard with
choreographer Jack Cole rehearsing ‘My Heart Belongs
To Daddy’, meeting the Queen, photographed with costar Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot, publicity shots, in
a bubble bath, posing for LIFE magazine, looking over
film scripts and more. Legendary images by
photographers George Barris and André de Dienes. 8¾”
x 11½”. 64 large pages, facsimile documents, slipcased.
£19.99 NOW £7.50
79579 LITTLE BOOK OF
BATMAN by Paul Levitz
Through Robin, Catwoman, the
Joker, The Golden Age 1939-56,
Silver Age 56-70, Bronze Age 7084, The Dark Age 1984-88 and the
Modern Age 1998-2010 and
beyond, this volume looks at the
complicated personality and the
dynamic relationships that defined
Batman. Here are hundreds of the
greatest Batman images in colour in a definitive guide to
the tragedy and triumph of the Dark Knight. Cartoon
strips, colour film stills, comic books reproduced, pin-ups
and posters and more. Softback, 4.7" x 6.5", 192 pages.
ONLY £7
77439 BEHIND THE SCENES AT DOWNTON
ABBEY by Emma Rowley
!
The Official Backstage Pass to the Set, the Actors and
the Drama. Step inside the hair and make-up truck,
enjoy a rare glimpse of filming at Highclere Castle, share
the perspective from the director’s chair, delve into the
wardrobe, discover the music and meet the people.
With in-depth interviews and amazing images, here are
the wonderful period cars, the strange hats, the
constantly changing hairstyles, the thousands of props.
288 pages 24cm x 19.5cm, colour photos, with cast list
and crew list from series four. Remainder mark.
£29.99 NOW £7
78346 DAVID LEAN: An Intimate Portrait
by Sandra Lean and Barry Chattington
Directing such diverse classics as Brief Encounter, Great
Expectations, Bridge on the River Kwai, Laurence of
Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India, David
Lean’s films earned an incredible 57 Academy Award
nominations, winning 28, and launched many
distinguished cinematic careers among them those of
Alec Guinness, Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. From
lowly beginnings in the film industry as a tea boy at
Gaumont-British Studios, Lean quickly became the most
sought-after editor in the business before moving behind
the camera. There are candid shots such as on the front
of Time magazine, filming The Passionate Friends in the
Alps and on the technical side. Colour and b/w photos.
240pp, 9½” square softback.
£20 NOW £4
78398 A VERY BRITISH MURDER: The Story
of a National Obsession by Lucy Worsley
Murder: the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of
the greedy. Lucy revisits notorious crimes such as the
Ratcliffe Highway Murders, which caused nationwide
panic in Regency England. Then there was Maria
Manning, “the murderess in black satin” who buried her
lover under the kitchen floor and not to mention Jack the
Ripper and many others. These grisly deeds would
spawn a whole new genre of entertainment in
journalism, novels, plays and puppet shows, along with
Holmes, Marple, Poirot. 312pp, colour and b/w plates.
£20 NOW £5
78930 SHAKESPEARE AND ME: 38 Great
Writers, Actors and Directors on What the
Bard Means to Them
edited by Susannah Carson
In this original collection, Susannah Carson invites 38
actors, scholars, writers and directors to share their own
personal connection with Shakespeare and thus to
explore how he came to shape our world as much as he
has. A Puckish Germaine Greer laments the attacks on
Will’s role as family man and redresses this sleight.
Includes Ralph Fiennes, Brian Cox, Sir Ben Kingsley,
Margaret Drabble, Antony Cher and we take a walk
through the creative process of the ultimate Bard
revisionist, Jess Winfield, cofounder of the Reduced
Shakespeare Company. 528pp, photos.
£20 NOW £6.50
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80243 ELIZABETH
TAYLOR: Her Life
In Style by Susan Kelly
Idolised as a screen goddess and
seen by her adoring public as
someone who was
approachable, relatable and fun,
here is a life in pictures of the
Hollywood legend whose image
will endure forever as a symbol
of glamour and beauty. In a
glorious collection of photographs
and commentary, the book celebrates Elizabeth Taylor’s
timeless sense of style both on screen and off, the
gowns and jewellery which added to her extraordinary
earthy beauty and transcended every embellishment of
fashion. See the 1970s
glamour with her
matching crocheted
cream trouser and
poncho set and gold
carry case as she walks
alongside husband
Richard Burton, in furs,
turbans, goddess
dresses, as Cleopatra,
wearing her 29 and ?
carat diamond
(friendship) ring from
Mike Todd, in satin and
lace, off-the-shoulder
numbers, in capes,
even gingham and
gypsy tops in early
publicity shots. A
superb gallery, the dozens of images are in both colour
and black and white. Very large sized softback, 128pp.
£19.99 NOW £9.50
80468 RICHARD BURTON
DIARIES
edited by Chris Williams
“How would you like to die on a
boat on the Thames - a privilege
not granted to many. I am
stupefied with nostalgia. I am
madly in love with the idea of
remaining alive. I am agog with
desire to see Elizabeth and Joe
and that infinitely removed and
eclectic Patricia. It’s rough in this
world to find anybody that loves
you, or anybody that you love.
I think I better go back to bed,
don’t you?” The Richard Burton that we “know” as
acclaimed actor, international film star and multi-married
jet-set superstar is a man very different from the one
that emerges from his private diaries. This person is a
family man, a father, husband and a man often troubled
but always with a keen eye for the unusual and
mundane. Born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 in the
Afan valley, Glamorgan, the twelfth child and sixth son
of Richard Snr and Edith. Tragically Edith died in 1927
and in 1943 Richard became legal ward of Philip Burton,
his English and Drama teacher, whose surname he
would adopt. It was at the age of 14 that he began
writing a diary, which he continued to do until 1983, a
year before he died. He is watching his weight and
drinking, then doing exactly the opposite and jealously
guarding Elizabeth from other men’s eyes. As you would
expect, those people who crop up read like the Who’s
Who of movie and theatre. 26 b/w photos, many from
personal collections, a whopping 693 pages.
£25 NOW £8
75737 ELIZABETH
TAYLOR
by Kathryn Dixon
Breathtakingly beautiful
from a very young age,
Elizabeth Taylor most
successfully made the rare
transition for child star to
adult star, pocketing two
Best Actress Oscars and
numerous other honours
for her acting. She battled
an over-bearing stage mother, a strong-handed studio,
unhappy marriages, media attention, alcohol and
prescription drug addiction and lifelong health problems.
Well known for her seven husbands and eight marriages,
two of which were to the tempestuous Welsh actor
Richard Burton, and for her magnificent jewellery
collection. Photos, 96pp.
ONLY £3.50
79035 MAMMOTH BOOK OF SLASHER
MOVIES
by Peter Normanton
An A-Z guide of over 60 years of blood and guts. Here
are over 250 slasher and splatter movies spanning 60
gloriously gory years and 23 countries from Lucio Fulci’s
Zombie Flesh Eaters to Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later.
The encyclopaedic book is prefaced by an overview of
the peaks and troughs of blood and guts in school
dormitories, college campuses, shopping malls, and deep,
dark woods and concludes with a look at key directors
from Argento to Romero, and a chronology of over 500
movies. Plus a list of video nasties, Hammer films, to
the Texas chainsaw Massacre of 1974, Grindhouse and
exploitation. 511pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
‘It burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible
nature of human hope and dignity’. After his release
from prison in February 1990, Mandela emerged as the
world’s most significant moral leader since Mahatma
Gandhi. As president of the African National Congress
and spiritual figurehead of the anti-apartheid movement,
he was instrumental in moving South Africa towards
black-majority rule, and throughout the world he became
revered as a vital force in the fight for human rights and
racial equality. In this compelling book, he vividly
recreates the drama of the experiences that shaped his
destiny. He played a pivotal role in the formation of the
ANC Youth League and the ‘defiance campaign’ of the
early 1950s. For many dangerous years he and his
party operated under cover, being effectively classed by
the state as terrorists. He then spent a surprisingly
eventful quarter-century behind bars, when his
dedication to the cause elevated him to the status of
martyr, icon and inspiration. He could not, in his wildest
dreams have foreseen the astonishing moves towards
the ANC’s near-landslide victory in the breakthrough
multi-racial elections of April 1994, when he became
South Africa’s first ever black president. A huge
inspiring 628 pages with maps and b/w archive photos.
£25 NOW £6.50
80231 REVOLUTION
by Deb Olin Unferth
Sub-titled ‘The Year I Fell in Love
and Went to Join the Sandinistas’
this is a very funny, honest
memoir of being young, semiidealistic, stupid and in love. It is
an utterly captivating memoir of
the story of one year when a
college student ran away with her
idealistic boyfriend and followed
him to Nicaragua to join the
Sandinistas in 1987. They had
wanted to go to Cuba but as
Americans that was illegal. There were other
revolutions in El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala and
Honduras. The passed through Guatemala and had to
fight their way through tourists just to see a little scrap
of the land, unaware of the scorched earth policy, death
squads and tens of thousands fleeing the country and
that tens of thousands more were already dead. As the
months wear on, they find themselves unwanted,
sacked, unhelpful, unprepared, and cracks begin to form
in their relationship. They get sick, run out of money
and grow disillusioned with the revolution and each
other. But years later the trip remains fixed in Deb’s
mind and she finally returns to Nicaragua to find out
about the country and its people after the revolution was
over. A wry and self-deprecating delightful style and a
chronological structure that hiccups with flashbacks and
flash forwards. 208pp in paperback.
$14.99 NOW £6
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79540 NANCY: The Story of
Lady Astor by Adrian Fort
In 1919 Nancy Astor became the
first female Member of Parliament
elected to the House of Commons.
She would use her position of
privilege and influence to blow a
bracing American wind into British
politics. This account charts Lady
Astor’s incredible story from relative
penury in the American South to a
world of enormous countryside
estates and townhouses, lavish entertainments people
by great figures of the day - Churchill, Chamberlain,
F.D.R., Charlie Chaplin, J. M. Barrie and Laurence of
Arabia. Features her sharp-tongued wit as a society
hostess. 378pp, paperback, photos. Remainder mark.
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79987 PLEASE NURSE!
by Joan Lock
First published as ‘Reluctant
Nightingale’ in 1970, here is this life
of a student nurse in the 1950s.
When Joan Lock began her formal
training as a nurse, she was
unprepared for the strict discipline
and long hours which were to
follow. Her honest and humorous
account of the next three years
reveals her most intimate
experiences. Labelled as troublemakers, Joan and her
friends tested their strict Sisters’ patience as they climbed
through windows, fell asleep at lectures and broke every
thermometer that passed through their hands. 145pp,
paperback.
$15.99 NOW £4.50
79564 TIBETAN PEACH PIE: A True Account
of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
£5.99 NOW £3
79937 TELLING TALES: Growing Up on a
Highland Farm by Jane Yeadon
£17.99 NOW £4.75
79698 NEWCOMERS’ LIVES: The Story of
Immigrants edited by Peter Unwin
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79974 HARRY’S LAST
STAND by Harry Leslie Smith
Tom Robbins’ novels have incorporated a turkey-shaped
motorhome, Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils,
a hitch-hiking cowgirl with enormous thumbs, aliens in
Central Africa, exiled royalty, problematic perfumiers
and a tequila-crazed anarchist. Born in the Appalachians,
the grandchild of Baptist preachers, over the course of 50
years Robbins would become a frustrated poet, a soldier,
a meteorologist, a radio DJ, an art critic turned
psychedelic journeyman, a world-famous novelist and
counter-culture hero leading a life of globe-trotting
adventure every bit as unlikely and bizarre as those of
his quixotic characters. Here is the warm-hearted
comedy and mesmerising use of language for which his
is lionised applied to a life lived to the full. 380pp.
Jane’s earliest memories are of watching Dod, the farm
grieve, shovelling pitchforks of hay for the cows in a
frozen barn, while their breath rises in clouds of vapour
and the ducks quack around. The decade is the fifties,
the place an upland Moray farm where electricity will
not arrive for a good few years more. Jane’s mother,
widowed by a motor cycle accident soon after Jane’s
birth, struggles to make a living as a crofter and
supplements her income by doing a bit of journalism.
School days are a new challenge, with the teacher, Miss
Milne, vainly struggling to teach Elsie, a girl with
enviably fat plaits and red ribbons, to conquer her lisp,
while Alec takes careful aim with a series of pellets
propelled by a ruler. 261pp, paperback.
Prince Albert, Karl Marx, James Abbot McNeil Whistler,
Lady Randolph Churchill, Joseph Conrad, John Singer
Sargent, Lord Sinha, Sir Henry Wellcome, Lord
Rutherford, Walter Richard Sickert, Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Melanie Klein, Lady Nancy Astor, Marina Duchess of
Kent, Nikolaus Pevsner, Professor Peter Medawar,
Freddie Mercury, Isaiah Berlin, Yehudi Menuhin, Bernie
Grant, W. G. Sebald, Charles Forte, Clement Freud and
Lucien Freud, and Squadron Leader Mahinder Singh Pujji
are just some of the remarkable figures who in the past
150 years have come to Britain in search of safety,
freedom and opportunity. This collection of obituaries
from The Times provides fascinating insights into their
many contributions to our national culture and way of
life. Celebrates 55 lives in all. 228pp, photos.
At the age of 91, the author’s
Guardian articles on topics as
diverse as the NHS, Remembrance
Day, Poppies, Immigration and
Internet Privacy have been shared
online hundreds and thousands of
times. From the Deprivation of
1930s Bradford and the terror of war
to the creation of the welfare state,
Harry Smith has experienced how a
great civilisation can fall and rise again. 202pp,
paperback.
£16.99 NOW £5.50
79929 FORTY-SEVEN ROSES
by Peter Sheridan
When Peter’s father died suddenly, it became painfully
evident that an awkward situation needed to be
resolved. Since the 1940s, Peter’s father had
maintained a relationship with another woman, Doris.
Their correspondence spanned five decades and Doris
had long harboured the secret hope that Peter’s father
would one day be hers. Someone would have to tell
her about the death of her old friend. By turns
humorous and heartbreaking, here is the account of a
marriage dogged by a shadowy third partner, a fierce
family pride, and how sometimes the pain of grief can
reignite the vital spark of love. 208pp, paperback.
£5.99 NOW £3
79930 LOST VOICES: Memories of a Vanished
Way of Life by Gilda O’Neill
This superb oral history was inspired by the author’s
memories of the annual hop-picking expedition made by
women and their children to the hop-fields of Kent in the
forties. Pole pullers would release the strings that
supported the growing plants, and the pickers below
would strip the hop cones from the stems into hessian
containers supported on trestles. During the day the
children would be in the hoppers’ huts, and the women
would return to their families in the evening to light the
fires on which they cooked their meals, and to do their
laundry. At the weekends there would be market stalls
down from London and the women would relax and buy
treats, sometimes taking a jug to buy ale at the pub.
The author describes her own memories and interviews
ten other eye-witnesses. She considers the value of
memories even where there are conflicts of detail.
164pp, paperback, photos.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
78771 A PASSION FOR EGYPT: Arthur
Weigall, Tutankhamun and the ‘Curse of the
Pharaohs’ by Julie Hankey
Egyptologist Arthur Weigall crossed swords with Howard
Carter early in his career and their enmity came to a
spectacular climax when in 1922 Carter tried to prevent
him from reporting on the opening of Tutankhamun’s
tomb for the ‘Daily Mail’. Appointed Chief Inspector of
Antiquities for Upper Egypt in 1904, Weigall’s discovery
of Akhnaten’s tomb led to feuding over who had the
right to publish the finds. He had achieved literary fame
with his biographies of Akhnaten and Cleopatra and his
breakdown in 1911 led to a full-time career as a writer.
He poured some of his thoughts about men and women
into romantic novels, including ‘Madeline of the Desert’
and the semi-autobiographical The Not Impossible She.
When Weigall died prematurely in 1934 the curse of
Tutankhamun was once more invoked. 380 page
paperback. Photos.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
78558 A FORT OF NINE TOWERS
by Qais Akbar Omar
!
Qais Akbar Omar was 11 when a brutal civil war
engulfed Kabul. For him it was an abrupt end to a
childhood filled with kites and cousins in his grandfather’s
garden. Ahead lay the rise of the Taliban and, in 2001,
the arrival of international forces. Drawing strength from
one another, their culture and faith, they sought refuge
for a time in the Buddha caves of Bamyan and later
with a caravan of Kuchi nomads. When they eventually
returned to Kabul it became clear that their trials were
just beginning. 396pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2.75
£8.99 NOW £3.75
79938 VALLEY: A Hundred Years in the Life
of a Yorkshire Family by Richard Benson
The Dearne Valley lies at the heart of the South
Yorkshire coal field. Its close-knit villagers with their
dance halls and clubs, collieries and rugged countryside
were home to four generations of the Hollingworth
family. Here is the love and laughter, hurt and loss,
lock-outs and pit disasters. Richard Benson’s grandfather
Walter, a miner, returned home from the First World War
damaged in body and mind. His spiritualist wife led
front-room séances and frequented betting shops. In the
backings behind the proud terraces, they and their
neighbours gossiped. 517pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
78337 ANIMAL MAGIC: A Brother’s Story
by Andrew Barrow
At the age of 22, Jonathan Barrow, the youngest of five
brothers, was killed with his fiancée in a head-on car
crash on 5 April 1970, just a few days before their
wedding. Only a few days before, he had completed a
novel in which road accidents, particularly head-on
collisions, featured often. It fell to his brother Andrew to
clear out his desk, which is when he found the
manuscript for The Queue. It is the story of a boy and
his dachshund, populated by a kaleidoscopic menagerie
of people and animals and an array of anthropomorphic
in-betweens, a vivid and irreverent portrayal of their
peripatetic childhood in Lancashire, the Lake District and
Wiltshire and years on the lower rungs of the showbiz
ladder and in advertising. 324pp, photos and cartoons.
£18.99 NOW £1.25
78515 WILKIE COLLINS, A LIFE OF
SENSATION by Andrew Lycett
In the spring of 1868, Wilkie Collins was desperately
dictating the last chapter of his book, The Moonstone, his
new detective novel. Weighed down by his own
sickness, the death of his mother and the announcement
by his live-in mistress that she intended to marry
someone else, and tired of his relationship with another
woman, his solution was to increase his industrial intake
of opium. Collins took pains to keep secret any detail of
his ménage. He is here given his rightful place at the
centre of the literary, artistic and historical movements of
his age in what is part history and part intimate family
saga. 525pp, colour and other photos, family tree and
map.
£20 NOW £5
79300 TASTE FOR INTRIGUE: Multiple Lives
of François Mitterrand
by Philip Short
In 1981, François Mitterrand became France’s first
Socialist president. By the time he completed his
mandate, he had led his country for 14 years.
Passionate and withdrawn, by turns reckless and
prudent, he mirrored France in all its imperfections and
glories. It was his moderation that defined his leadership
and pushed Europe towards a political union, a common
currency, and the acceptance of a unified Germany.
During the Nazi occupation, Mitterrand had hedged his
bets by joining Pétain’s Vichy government. In 1943
under the Nom de Guerre of Morland (and 30 other
aliases), he quit Vichy for an activist paramilitary role in
the Resistance. Mitterrand would employ a more
ambiguous technique to enlarge France’s influence in a
post colonial world. His controlling needs got him into
difficulties, nothing equalling that of the Observatory
Affair, where he was complicit in his own assassination
attempt. 620pp, US first edition. Contents identical to
79691 Mitterrand: A Study In Ambiguity.
$40 NOW £6
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79302 THE WOMAN
IN
BEFORE WALLIS BACK C K
O
ST
by Andrew Rose
Marguerite Alibert was a Parisian
courtesan; even at the age of
sixteen she was known as a ‘une
cinq à sept’ - a five to seven which was a reference to a popular
time for sexual assignations. She
was beautiful, petite and tough,
and often found her clients at the
music halls, especially the Folies
Bergère where the management actively encouraged
attractive, well-dressed and elegant women as
expensive front of house temptations to greet and lure in
the regular procession of rich young men. Her notoriety
eventually brought her to the attention of the Prince of
Wales, the future Edward VIII, who, as a gauche young
man, became infatuated with her for a while, bedding
her and penning many indiscreet missives. The affair
didn’t last, and he had liaisons with several other women
but when he told her it was over, she wrote reminding
him that she ‘still had his love letters, with all those
foolish, indiscreet comments about the conduct of the
war, insulting abuse about his father,...’ After hearing no
more for a while, he began to relax but little did he know
that a few years later he was to be linked to her in a
dramatic court trial. In 1923 Marguerite murdered her
husband by shooting him in the back at London’s Savoy
hotel, and Edward knew that the trial could well expose
his affair as well as wartime indiscretions. In a farcical
trial, she was found not guilty; much of the evidence
was suppressed or ignored and so Edward was able to
breathe freely. This intriguing account, many details of
which were obtained from previously unpublished
documents in the royal archives, shows how the British
establishment managed to cover up for a reckless prince.
336pp, b/w illus.
$28 NOW £7
79934 PHILOMENA by Martin Sixsmith
Made into a blockbusting film starring Judi Dench and
Steve Coogan, this book tells the true story of
Philomena, a young woman who went to the convent
of Sean Ross Abbey to give birth to an illegitimate son,
whom she called Anthony. Philomena worked in the
laundry for three years while her son became a loving
and charming toddler, but when a rich American woman
arrives to adopt a baby daughter, she fixes on Mary,
Anthony’s inseparable friend, and eventually the
Americans decide to adopt both children. Philomena is
heartbroken and never stops trying to hear news of her
lost son. In 2004, more than 50 years later, she makes
contact with investigative journalist Martin Sixsmith and
the search for Anthony begins. Philomena is told that her
son is now dead, but by an extraordinary twist of fate,
he had never stopped thinking about his birth mother
and had asked to be buried in the grounds of Sean Ross.
This enables Sixsmith to identify him as Martin Hess, a
high-level US diplomat who became a victim of AIDS.
452pp, paperback, photos.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79126 MR KEY’S SHORTER POTTED BRIEF,
BRIEF LIVES by Frank Key
This helpful little book is an A-Z of well-known people.
Did you know that the poet Rupert Brooke was killed by
a gnat which bit his lip when he was sailing to Gallipoli.
Art Garfunkel maintains an on-line list of every book he
has read since 1968, Lord Byron had no earlobes and
actress Sarah Bernhardt shot her pet boa constrictor dead
after it swallowed one of her cushions. 222pp, line illus.
£12.99 NOW £4
79147 TRAVELLING TO WORK: Diaries 198898 by Michael Palin
Published 2014, these latest Diaries show Michael Palin
grasping every opportunity that came his way to speak
on ecology, go to the BAFTAs, dine with friends at the
Reform Club, attend the Edinburgh Film Festival with
Terry Gilliam, all of the Monty Pythons meeting Steve
Martin, photo shoots, holidays with Helen and the
family, with Tracey Ullman on location for ‘A Class Act’,
Pole to Pole book signings, with Robert Lindsay and
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Fierce Creatures’, comedy festivals,
National Television Awards, with Spike Milligan, John
Cleese, Terry Jones and restaurants and places on
every page for each diary entry. A rollercoaster read.
Colour photos, 563pp.
£25 NOW £6
79157 DREAMS OF THE GOOD LIFE: The Life
of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark
Rise to Candleford
by Richard Mabey
This highly original book does much more than simply
retrace Flora’s life and her transformation from a post
office clerk who left school at 14 to a sophisticated
professional writer. Mabey skilfully interweaves her
semi-fictionalised stories with an account of her real life
and the traditional English village way of life that was
about to undergo radical change. Mabey shows how she
painstakingly learnt her craft, her absorption into literary
bohemia in Surrey, finding her true voice in the
Hampshire hills, the landscape of her heroes Gilbert
White and Jane Austen and, most pointedly, how her
legacy emerged. 208pp.
£16.99 NOW £6
79206 MARTIN AMIS: The Biography
by Richard Bradford
Martin Amis has forged a groundbreaking manner of
writing that owes nothing to the style of his father,
Kingsley, nor indeed to anyone else. His reputation as a
novelist has been matched by his outspoken, challenging
writing on contemporary global politics. His most striking
creation must be John Self, the narrator of ‘Money’
(1984), the very English stereotype, the loud, vulgar,
working-class self-made man with an appetite for
pornography, economically purchased sex, the arteryclogging consumption of food and alcohol. In ‘London
Fields’ (1989), Self is reincarnated as Keith Talent. The
two writers Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry in ‘The
Information’ (1995) epitomised the most repulsive
aspects of literary culture - narcissism and envy. 449pp.
Remainder mark.
$29.95 NOW £6.50
80236 TIME: 1968: Book and
Collector’s CD
1968 was the year that changed the world and through
the eyes of TIME magazine, we have the very best
images portrayed in black and white; the Fab Four Bite
the Big Apple, the US elections, Goldie Hawn’s body is
painted as television strains to keep up with the culture,
the rise of Muhammad Ali and the year of turmoil for
Arthur Ashe. There is a show of hands at the Olympic
Games on the rostrum from the three black athletes,
Sadam Hussein the Iraqi General, The Graduate film,
rebellion in France from students, the Che Guevara
poster, the musical Hair and its nudity, Hugh Hefner’s
Playboy, badges and bongs and gongs and psychedelic
posters, groovy fashion, the Vietnam War, space trips,
long hair - these are the images of 1968. And then we
get to the music - moody Jim Morrison of The Doors,
Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling
Stones and many others. The book comes
accompanied by a collector’s CD featuring nine tracks
including I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin
Gaye, Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash, Green
Tambourine by The Lemon Pipers, Hurdy Gurdy Man
by Donovan, Light My Fire by José Feliciano and
Dance to the Music by Sly and the Family Stone
among them. 138 large quality pages, colour illus.
$29.95 NOW £7
80234 TIME: THE 100
MOST INFLUENTIAL
PEOPLE OF ALL TIME
foreword by Douglas
Brinkley
Each year the editors of TIME
magazine assemble the TIME 100,
a much anticipated listing of the
world’s most influential people
from politics, science, religion to
the arts. Some of the beacons of
the spirit including Christ and Muhammad, Abraham and
Buddha, some are explorers like Columbus and
Magellan others visionaries who changed our
understanding or created
new inventions. There
are conquerors and
tyrants from Alexander
the Great to Genghis
Khan, rebels and
liberators from Joan of
Arc, Lenin, Ghandi and
Mandela, and those who
have deeply enriched
culture including Homer,
Michelangelo,
Shakespeare and The
Beatles. A visual feast
as expected from such a graphic magazine featuring
paintings and sculptures from every age and culture.
The essays include ones by noted critic Robert Hughes,
Bill Gates and David Remnick among others. 124 large
pages.
$29.95 NOW £7
80237 TIME: PAUL
MCCARTNEY: The Legend
Rocks On by James Kaplan
Chosen because it is produced by
TIME magazine, inevitably the
quality of illustration is superb.
Paul McCartney is the most
successful musician on earth and
when he was 70 produced a new
album, a new concert tour and a
new marriage. The former Beatle
entered his seventh decade with
the momentum of a rock star half
his age. His global 2012 tour,
aptly called On the Run renews
the question, what gives Paul such
drive? Our celebration charts his
career that changed pop music
forever and dives into the out-ofnowhere mystique of it all. We
see the hard-scrabble childhood
brightened by music, the brotherly
bond with John Lennon, the
Mozart-like genius with a melody,
the love of performing on stage
and the inexhaustible ambition. Here too is his yearning
for love and family which inspires so much of the music
which has made the world sing along. There are telltale interviews with ex-band mate Ringo Starr and pal
Billy Joel, and photos captured by relatives including his
younger brother Mike and his late wife Linda. 112pp.
£14.99 NOW £7
78993 A RECIPE FOR LIFE
by Antonio Carluccio
This fascinating memoir describes how as a wartime
child Antonio Carluccio, one of seven children of the
stationmaster in an Italian coastal town, foraged for
mushrooms and mulberries and witnessed the killing of
the family pig by local partisans. After a period as a
naval cadet, seducing all the girls he could persuade, he
joined the print firm Olivetti. The death of his brother in
an open-air swim was a traumatic event that changed
his life, and Carluccio packed his bags to seek his fortune
in Vienna. He discovered German food, worked as a
wine salesman and financial consultant and finally
married. Seventies London beckoned. Carluccio’s love
affairs continued to entangle him in emotional crises.
275pp, photos, recipes.
£20 NOW £5
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79484 ANNE FRANK: The
Biography
by Melissa Müller
Revised and expanded 2014
paperback edition which acts as a
supplement to the diary, filling in
Anne’s fragmentary view of her
own life. Detailed are new theories
surrounding the family’s betrayal,
revelations about the pressure put
on their helpers by the Nazi Party,
and the startling discovery that the
Franks had applied for a Visa to the US. It is a
captivating and heartbreaking portrait of a world steadily
sliding into war, of a Jewish community paralysed by
fear, and of a young teenage girl trying to grow up
while everything she knew crumbled around her.
458pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
79286 JAMES JOYCE: A New Biography
by Gordon Bowker
Bowker goes further than his predecessors Herbert
Gorman’s authorised biography of 1939 and Richard
Ellmann’s magisterial tome of 1957 in exploring James
Joyce’s inner depths. Here are his ambivalent
relationships to England, to his native Ireland and to
Judaism, with revealing evidence uncovered. His
biographer draws convincing correspondences between
the iconic fictional characters Joyce created and their
real-life models and inspirations. We are transported and
privileged to be led through the doors and mirrors with
this tortured, self-created genius. Speckled with humour.
608pp in softback, photos.
£16.99 NOW £5
79517 THE FAMILY by David Laskin
David Laskin’s New York Jewish family is descended
from Shimon Dov, a priestly scribe in the Minsk area of
Belarus in the late 19th century. Following the antiJewish riots in Warsaw in 1903, Itel joined the
revolutionary socialist workers’ party, where she met
Wolf Rosenthal. Itel became Ida Rosenthal, the founder
of the Maidenform bra company in the USA. Chaim
and Sonia had emigrated there in the 1920s, fired with
idealism for the new Zionist state, farming the parched
land above the sea of Galilee. The book’s most gripping
sections tell the story of those who were left in Belarus
and who died in the Holocaust. Beyle, Etl, Doba and
others all died in the early forties. Nothing is known of
Doba’s fate. 383pp, paperback, photos.
$17 NOW £4
FOOD AND DRINK
The proprietor of the grocery store on the
corner was bidding a silent farewell to a
tomato which even he, though a dauntless
optimist, had been compelled to recognise
as having outlived its utility.
- P.G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress
80094 100 BEST STIR-FRIES
by Parragon Books
Quick and easy to prepare and
cook, it is no wonder that stir-frying
has become so popular. It saves on
washing up lots of pots and pans
too, as all the cooking takes place in
your wok. Each recipe is described
complete with method and with a
full page colour photo of the finished
result. Recipes include such dishes as Lemon Turkey With
Spinach, Steamed Salmon With Asparagus, Mixed
Vegetables With Basil, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Beef
Chop Suey and Scallop Stir-Fry. The great thing about
most of the stir-fry recipes is that the technique enables
you to create a meal from scratch within a few minutes;
particularly useful if you are short on time or have
unexpected guests. With a hundred tasty recipes to
choose from, this is an essential book for anyone
wanting to cook quick but nutritious meals. Softback.
223pp. Colour photos.
£8 NOW £4
80093 100 BEST CLASSIC
TAPAS by Parragon Books
If you want to recreate the flavours
that you enjoyed on your Spanish
holiday, then this is the book for
you. Packed with recipes that are
perfect for entertaining or for quick
snacks, instructions include dishes
suitable for vegetarians as well as
tapas containing meat or fish.
Delights include Orange and Fennel Salad, Mixed
Seafood Kebabs, Chicken Livers in Sherry Sauce, Lamb
Skewers With Lemon, and Simmered Summer
Vegetables. Bring the taste of Spain into your home,
and just hope the sunshine comes with it! Each recipe is
clearly described and illustrated. Softback. 224pp, colour
photos.
£8 NOW £4
80184 SENSATIONAL
SALADS: 101 Recipes for
Super Salads
by Beverly Le Blanc
Salads are one of summer’s great
pleasures and can be enjoyed
whatever the weather. Starting
with some classics such as Caesar
Salad, Three-Colour Salad, Greek
Salad and Mozzarella with Sun-dried
Tomatoes, the dishes gradually
become more adventurous. Achieving a good salad is
often a matter of combining perfectly matched
ingredients, and there are some surprises here. Among
the non-meat dishes we find Green Bean and Walnut
Salad, Warm Red Lentil Salad with Goat’s Cheese and a
Raspberry and Feta Salad with Couscous. Fish-based
dishes include a classic Salad Niçoise, Cantaloupe Melon
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and Crab, Prawn and Mango, and a Tuna and TwoBean Salad. For a really substantial feast, try Roast
Chicken with Pesto Cream, Crispy Spinach and Bacon,
Grilled Lamb with Yoghurt and Herb Dressing, Rare
Roast Beef Pasta Salad or Celeriac Remoulade with
Crab. Fruit salads are also included. A hardy, kitchenfriendly book with padded cover and lovely illustrations.
224pp.
£8 NOW £4
80395 GREAT BRITISH
PEPPER COOKBOOK
edited by Liz O’Keefe
This fascinating book, peppered with
information (sorry) is filled not just
with recipes but with information on
the history, cultivation, nutrition,
types and preparation of peppers,
too. Did you know that peppers are
actually a fruit, not a vegetable and
are thought to have originated in Bolivia? South
American countries have used peppers since 7500 BC,
whereas Europeans have only been eating them for the
last 500 years. The recipes are divided into three
sections; Easy Pepper Recipes, Recipes With a Little
Extra Effort and Posh Pepper Recipes, all clearly
described step-by-step. Many of the dishes are illustrated
with mouth-watering colour photographs to really entice
you and tantalise the taste-buds, and surprisingly some
of them are for sweet pudding recipes. Recipes include
Pepper, Aubergine and Goat’s Cheese Tart; Sweet
Pepper Salmon; Gazpacho; Orange Pepper Cheesecake;
Beef Stroganoff; Puppy Breath Chilli; Beef and Pepper
Wellington; Red Pepper Damper Bread, and Chilli and
Red Pepper Chocolate Mousse. Recipes a -plenty here,
perfect for any pepperholic. Softback, 112pp, colour
illus.
£9.99 NOW £3
80102 BLAZING BARBECUE:
101 Recipes for Brilliant
Barbecues by Love Food
There are a great many types of
barbeque available, from the little
disposables from the petrol station
and oil-drum charcoal types to
impressive multi-burner gas
leviathans capable of grilling a cow
and the book’s first words of advice
are on choice and uses of each, fuel
types, lighting, essential equipment, fire and food safety
and tips for the perfect al fresco party. But then come
the recipes. These are nothing short of revelatory. It is
not only that many of these recipes would not look out
of place in a Mayfair eatery, but how they have been
rendered so wonderfully straightforward so as to be
prepared and eaten in your back garden. Even the good
old steaks, chops, ribs and burgers have been
impressively reworked, but how about Spicy Butterflied
Poussin, Tarragon Turkey, Fruity Duck, Orange and
Lemon Peppered Monkfish, Indonesian Baked Red
Mullet and Stuffed Sardines? Burgers and kebabs get
their own glamorous chapters and there are also
separate chapter for sides and sauces and desserts and
drinks. Full ingredients and procedures including splendid
BBQ hints, all photographed in glorious summer colour.
224pp squidgy cover.
£8 NOW £4
80132 FOOD ON A BUDGET:
Family Meals
by Simoney Girard
This is a book with a big message:
break the connection between health
and wealth by cooking your own
meals from scratch rather than
reaching for a pizza or burger. You
will be far healthier and so will the
rest of the family, and many of
these recipes can be made quickly and easily. Cooking
on a budget is not about denying yourself good quality
ingredients but about using your resources carefully,
finding tasty ways to recycle leftovers and above all
thinking ahead. People who cater for allergies, diabetes,
heart or age-related problems will find plenty of practical
advice in the book’s first section, together with ideas for
making the best of online offers and even growing your
own veg in a garden or allotment. The recipes in the
second section are tailored to the lifestyle advice in the
first. Potato skins with Pancetta and Gorgonzola is a
combination where small quantities can impart masses of
flavour, while Cream of Spinach Soup can become a
sophisticated dish with the addition of garlic, nutmeg and
sour cream. Lemon Chicken made in a wok is a big
family favourite, while fish can be made to go a long
way when combined with vegetables under a crisp
crumble topping. 256pp, black and white photos,
softback.
£8.99 NOW £4
80158 GOOD EATING: OnePot Meals
by Sumi Glass and Lincoln
Jefferson
The one pot method is a relaxed and
flexible way of cooking, easily
adjusted to whatever ingredients
you have in your fridge or store
cupboard. If one ingredient is
missing, it’s usually possible to
substitute another and if you are short of space or
equipment, you only need one pot and a single burner.
You can use a casserole, high-sided frying pan, wok,
roasting tin, baking or gratin dishes. The book starts
with basic stocks and goes on to delicious soups like
Minestrone or Thai Chicken Coconut, mains like Clam
and Corn Chowder and Lamb with Pears, Balti Chicken
and Mediterranean Fish Stew, Roasted Seafood and
Risotto with Artichoke Hearts, Potato and Lemon
Casserole or a Spring Stew. In Desserts try delicious
Rhubarb Crumble or Chocolate Fudge Brownies, there
are even recipes for Ice Cream. 140 step-by-step
recipes with colour photos. Handy small square
softback, 320pp.
£6 NOW £3
Food and Drink
80303 GOOD DRINKS
by Ambrose Heath
This facsimile, first published in
1939, is a veritable treasure of drink
recipes, both hard and soft. ‘Lamb’s
Wool - mash eight roasted Apples,
moisten with a quart of old Ale,
press and strain. Season with
powdered Ginger and grated
Nutmeg, sweeten to taste; warm
up and drink while warm’. It sounds
perfect for a winter’s day, while in
summer a Cherry Drink would be delectable. ‘Pound up
a pound of Cherries in a mortar, and put them into a
large jug with four ounces of Castor Sugar and a small
stick of Cinnamon. Pour over them a quart of boiling
water, and strain when cold. Serve iced.’ Dozens of
recipes for cocktails, punches, liqueurs, milk drinks, fruit
drinks and homemade wines are included in this book by
renowned gourmet Ambrose Heath. 239pp.
£12.99 NOW £5
80304 GOOD FOOD
by Ambrose Heath
First published in 1932, this
collection of recipes is arranged
month-by-month. Written in a
delightfully chatty style, the author
states, ‘The calendar year opens,
gastronomically speaking, in a piano
mood, and sweeps in a gradual
crescendo through the magnificent
promise of the Spring to the
fortissimo of early Summer, and so
through the quiet rallentando of the
gamy Autumn (a sudden sforzando for September
oysters), when many fine flavours linger on our palate,
to the almost solemn andante sostenuto of Christmastide
and those Winter days when eating is not only a
pleasure, but a necessary exercise.’ Nowadays we are
spoilt with cooking ingredients, we are accustomed to
having all kinds of fruit and vegetables the whole year
round, forgetting that just a few decades ago recipes
were ruled by the seasons. French Peasant Soup looks
warming and tempting for February, while in June a dish
called Strawberries with Orange would be delicious.
Grilled Red Mullet in September is tempting, and at
Christmas a Ragout of Turkey is a tasty way of using
up the remains of the all-important dinner. 280pp,
sketches.
£12.99 NOW £5
79931 GLORIOUSLY
GLUTEN-FREE
by Susanna Booth
All recipes have to be adjusted to
make the wheat-free experience a
gourmet delight. A new technique
for yeast cookery gives us
Susanna’s special Cinnamon Spiral
Buns, Thin Crust Pizza and Seeded
Buckwheat Rolls. Sweet delights
include Choc Chip and Hazelnut
Cookies, Rich Fruit Cake, Passion Fruit Mousse Cake
and a sumptuous Banoffee Pie. Main courses feature
Coconut and Lime Chicken Curry, Asparagus, Spinach
and Hollandaise Tart, Swedish Meat Balls and Sweet
and Sour Pork, while starters could be Onion Bhajis,
Minestrone, Sushi, Prawns in Spicy Tempura or
Chestnut and Pecan Loaf. Covers basics such as bread,
different kinds of pastry, Bechamel, Cheese, and
Horseradish sauces, and a simple gravy. Colour photos,
step-by step instructions. 192pp.
£20 NOW £5
79932 KIDS’ BIRTHDAY
CAKES by Pamela Clark
From the renowned Australian
Women’s Weekly recipe series,
where every recipe is triple-tested
in a dedicated kitchen, this collection
of 53 foolproof recipes with
spectacular designs is a must for
every household with a young
family. A Plain Sponge recipe with
a gluten-free variation, and a Rich Chocolate Cake mix,
offering something for everyone. Fairy-tale subjects
include a breathtaking Ghostly Galleon cake, featured on
the front cover, and a Fairy Godmother with a wide net
skirt that hides the sponge cake. A simple but effective
design is a Ghost in a white sheet made of icing, while
Sam the Tool Man features a peaked-cap cake
decorated with plastic implements. Creepy Crawly
Spider has startling red teeth, Funny Faces is just what
it says and allows scope for improvisation, while Picture
Perfect is a riot of sweets surrounding a photo of the
birthday boy or girl. Simple to make with full
instructions. 118pp, softback, colour photos.
£5.99 NOW £2.50
77854 HOW TO BREW YOUR OWN BEER
by Mark Murphy and Jordan St. John
Let’s have another one! Starting with an Easy Brew
beer made with malt extracts for beginners, before long
you can move on to four all-grain recipes - a light and
refreshing Belgian Wit, California Common, Porter and
an India Pale Ale. Porter is at the moment hugely
popular, and so will you be if you can make it by the
gallon and have a few friends around. 200 colour illus,
charts, tables and step-by-step instructions. Landscape
softback.
£9.99 NOW £1.75
78453 GOOD PUB GUIDE: London and the
South East
edited by Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley
Includes the very best pubs of every county in the
Southeast - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Isle
of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surry, Sussex and London.
Gives address, detailed little history, typical meals
available, prices, real ales, opening hours, phone
numbers, whether children or dogs are welcome and
recommendations. Useful maps and even a list of pubs
near motorway junctions. 272pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £1.50
79912 SAUCES, DIPS
AND TIPS by Foo-Sun Lau
Aioli, Mint Sauce, Leek Purée,
Tamarind Purée, Sorrel Sauce
for rolls of sole, Sherry Sauce
for veal, Onion Sauce for
gammon, sauce for coulibiac
made with sour cream and
grated horseradish and chives,
Guacamole, sauce for sea bass, Anchovy Dip, Oxford
Dip, Lobster Sauce with Brandy, Lemon Beurre Blanc,
and the curiously named Mole Sauce to serve with
chicken or pasta are just some of the 350 recipes.
Includes basic stocks, ever-versatile Tomato Sauce,
Barbecue Sauce, Sambal Belacan and Satay, dips and
condiments. Colour photos. 418pp in paperback,
glossary.
£10.99 NOW £3
79955 COUNTRY COOK’S KITCHEN
by Alison Walker
This brings back memories of granny’s bread-making and
jam making skills. Cake recipes include a classic Victoria
Sandwich, a Dundee Cake and a Vanilla and Raspberry
Swiss Roll, while meal recipes, such as Baked Chicken
with Preserved Lemons or Sausages with Beans and
Rosemary sound good. You can learn here how to make
your own sausages (no need to keep a pig, you can use
meat from the Butcher’s!), how to cold-smoke fish or
pork, how to preserve meat, fish and vegetables in salt,
how to bottle fruit, how to make pickles, chutneys and
marmalades - this book is a veritable goldmine of
country skills brought up to date. It is also beautifully
presented with masses of illustrations and contains
plenty of recipes. And, oh, that raspberry ripple parfait
looks scrummy! 11" x 8.5", 192pp, colour photos.
£25 NOW £8
80011 MANGE TOUT: Bistro Cooking with a
Modern Twist by Bruno Loubet
Born in Bordeaux, the author joined Raymond Blanc as
Head Chef at Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons in 1993.
This super-chef has reinvented French bistro food using
fresh ingredients, simple flavours and bold combinations.
Salads and vegetables satisfy. Meaty French classics
enjoy a contemporary twist - Confit Duck lifts a
Shredded Cabbage Salad and Beef Cheeks in Soy are
matched with a Spiced Mango Salad. Try too his
Strawberries on Elderflower Jelly and Champagne or his
Strawberry and Balsamic Jam. Easy-to-follow recipes
from start to finish plus dressings like Moroccan Sweet
and Sour and Vietnamese and Bruno’s tips all along the
way. Colour mouth-watering photos, 254 large pages.
£25 NOW £6
79957 GREAT BRITISH VEGETABLE
COOKBOOK by Sybil Kapoor
For a wild March day, a warming Potato, Bacon and
Greens Cheesy Bake will fill you up and keep out the
cold. In summer we are spoilt for choice, with peas,
beans, spinach, tomatoes and lettuce, so how about
Fresh Tomato Tagliatelle, Seared Salmon Salad, or
maybe Mrs Marshall’s Cucumber Ice Cream? Autumn is
probably the richest time for British vegetables, with
cauliflower, chard, pumpkin, shallots, parsnips and much
more all clamouring to be used in a tasty dish. There’s a
twist here on the favourite Cauliflower Cheese, using
bacon and cherry tomatoes, while Wild Mushroom and
Barley Risotto or Onion Tart sounds delicious. Finally,
winter, with comforting dishes using leeks, potatoes,
cabbage and root vegetables, such a warming,
nourishing Chunky Vegetable Soup, which you can
adapt to whatever vegetables you have at hand. A
section at the end has basic recipes for home-made
stock, pastry, pizza dough and other staples, as well as a
handy conversion chart. Colour illus. 320pp.
£25 NOW £8
78794 DELUXE FOOD LOVER’S COMPANION
by Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst
Really glamorous heavyweight hardback with gilt edged
pages and A-Z thumb index down the side with more
than 6,700 entries covering cooking tools and techniques,
fruits and vegetables, meat cuts, fish and shellfish,
breads and pastas, herbs and spices, and hundreds of
illustrations. It is an enlarged and enhanced new
reference volume with a new feature of 40 glossaries.
For example the Apple glossary has 27 different
varieties of apple and the Citrus glossary 24 different
types of citrus fruit. With super facts about freezing,
meringue basics, old proverbs, how to send cookies in
the post, a cereal grains glossary, yeast bread basics,
even a wine and spice glossary, stocks and sauces, here
are all the well known and exotic varieties. 794 big
glamorous pages with pagemarker.
$29.99 NOW £6.50
79002 CLARISSA’S COMFORT FOOD
by Clarissa Dickson Wright
We all need comfort food from time to time but the
redoubtable Clarissa envisages something rather more
sophisticated than heading off to the chippy on a Friday
night. Irish Stew, Shepherd’s Pie, Steak and Kidney
Pudding, Kedgeree and Cornish Pasties are all classic
dishes, but there are also more unusual options: Coconut
Mackerel, Partridge with Truffled Sausages, Venison
Schnitzel, Pease Pudding, Duck Fritters and Beef
Carpaccio. Sweet dishes include Bread and Butter
Pudding which Clarissa likes to make with Panettone,
Caramelised Pineapple Crumble, Steamed Syrup
Pudding, Jam Roly Poly, Treacle Tart and a gloriouslooking Chocolate Bakewell Pudding. 100 recipes, colour
photos. 160pp, conversion chart. Paperback.
£15.99 NOW £5
79167 1000 SAUCES, DIPS AND
DRESSINGS by Nadia Arumugam
!
1000, yes 1000 dips and variations with handy tips. Make a
Coriander and Coconut Chutney, Roasted Garlic Asiago
Cream Sauce, Tahini, Romesco with all the flavour of the
Mediterranean, Hollandaise with Herbs, Champagne
Vinegar and Strawberry, Wholegrain Mustard and Tarragon,
Easy Lemon Sauce, creamy dressings, Caramelised Onion
and Goat’s Cheese Dip, Indian Lentil Dip, Spicy Peanut
Satay Sauce, Pear and Raisin Relish, Mango Cream Sauce
and in the sweet section, Peach, White Chocolate and
Cream Dip, Apple Pie Dip or Carrot and Ginger Dressing.
288 lovely colourful pages.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
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79260 101 THINGS TO DO
WITH A BLENDER
by Toni Patrick
Sweet and Sour Sauce, Apple,
Cranberry, Roasted Red Pepper,
Marinara, Hollandaise, Blue Cheese
Dressing, Balsamic Vinegar, Creamy
Cilantro Dressing, Ginger Dressing,
Potato Casserole, Vegetable
Fritters, Beefy Vegetable Soup or
Gazpacho. Almond Feta Cheese,
Warm Garlic Spread, Artichoke Dip, Guacamole in Dips
and Sauces and in Breakfast, Banana Nut Bread,
German Pancakes, Baked French Toast, Cornmeal
Waffles and a Sunrise Booster. Just whirl, chop or mix it
in a blender! Spiral bound softback, spatter proof cover,
128pp.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
79174 COOKING WITH KALE by Rena Patten
Super food, super yummy, versatile, you can make
crisps with them, salads, soups, smoothies, muffins,
pancakes and more. Kale has its own distinct flavour
and its intensity can vary from one variety to another.
Curly kale has strong, thick, tight leaves and Tuscan
kale a slightly stronger taste. Baby kale is small,
delicate and a fresh leaf. Remove the tough stalks, chop
the leaves finely and add to casseroles, pies, omelettes,
stir fries, stuffing or even home made pasta dough. We
love the Mexican Beef, Spice Chicken and Almonds with
Rice, Tomato, Mushroom and Chickpea Curry. Big
glossy pages, colour photos. 156pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
79192 SIMPLY SWEET
by Lucy Wallrock
The author, who appeared on
Masterchef in 2013, has devised a
delicious collection of recipes for
cakes, sweets and puddings. How
about individual Sticky Toffee
Puddings, each one standing in a
dish of butterscotch sauce and
topped with a brandy snap? Or a
Carrot Cake made extra-special by the addition of a lime
frosting? Millionaire’s Shortbread, Toblerone Mousse,
Mars Bar Sauce, White Chocolate and Cranberry
Scones, Strawberry Ice Cream, Ginger and Orange
Brûlée or Apple Strudel - there are dozens of recipes
here. 176pp, colour illus.
79519 FRENCH COOKING: Classic Recipes and
Techniques: Book and DVD
by Vincent Boue and Hubert Delorme
French cooking leads the world of gastronomy and this
huge book tells you all you need to know to make the
grade in your own kitchen. The first half of the book
concentrates on 200 essential skills, backed up by
demonstrations on the DVD. Barding and larding meat,
encrusting poultry, jointing rabbit and tying up a roast
are skills that make all the difference to the finished
product, and where desserts are concerned, we need to
learn how to prepare basic sweet fillings such as mousse
or Bavarian Cream. The second half of the book consists
of 125 beautifully photographed recipes. Classic meat
dishes include Pot-au-Feu, Fillet of Beef in a Brioche
Crust, Boeuf Bourgignon with Fresh Pasta, and Kidneys
in Mustard Sauce. Puddings feature local specialities from
Brittany and Bordeaux, Sabayon, Mille-Feuille and that
quintessential French gateau, the Opera. 512pp, 700
photos, DVD to accompany.
$49.95 NOW £11
79486 ARTISAN PRESERVING
by Emma Macdonald
If you wish to store food for a long time it needs to be
preserved in some way, maybe by salting, curing or
drying, or cooking using sugar, alcohol or vinegar.
There’s a selection of marmalades and plenty of jams
including ‘the best strawberry jam’. There are many
unusual preserves here too, such as goat’s cheese in
olive oil, banana and date chutney, pears in mulled
wine, dried chilli wreath, boozy cherry and walnut
mincemeat, tangerine curd, potted trout, Thai curry
paste and dried apple rings. Billy banana jam is easy to
make and makes a delicious ice cream topping. Step-bystep recipes. 224pp, colour illus.
$29.95 NOW £6
PETS
The Aberdeen terrier gave me an
unpleasant look and said something under
his breath in Gaelic.
- P.G. Wodehouse
£16.99 NOW £4.50
79179 FOR THE LOVE OF VEG
by Bryn Williams
The author is chef owner of Odette’s Restaurant in
London. The numerous recipes shown here incorporate
vegetables - and fruit. Honey-Roasted Parsnips and
Duck Breast, Chilled Cucumber Soup, Sprouts and
Chestnuts with Roasted Partridge, Braised Onions and
Shoulder of Lamb, Gazpacho, Tomato Tart and Sardines,
Herb Crust, Bay Leaf Ice Cream, Lemon Tart, Pear and
Almond Tart. The heart of the book is formed using
recipes from Bryn’s tremendously popular supper clubs in
which he takes one vegetable and creates an entire fourcourse meal featuring it. 224pp, colour illus.
£25 NOW £5.50
79490 BEST COOKIES: 50
Classic Recipes by The
Editors of Saveur Magazine
We are tempted also to Swiss
Raspberry Sandwich Cookies,
sophisticated Almond-Cream
Tartlets, Plum Strudel Bars, Pecan
Squares, Orange Meringue Kisses,
Mexican Butter Cookies with
Chocolate Sprinkles, German Spice
Cookies, French Butter Cookies, Blueberry Poppy Seed
Squares from Eastern Europe and more. You’ll find
Ginger Cookies from the Netherlands and nut-filled
Wafers from Norway. All call for common ingredients
and straightforward techniques. With table of
equivalents for measurements, lengths and oven
temperatures. 112pp, large softback, colour photos.
$16.95 NOW £3.75
79193 SKINNY JUICES by Danielle Omar
Altogether there are six categories of recipes, including
juices for cancer-fighting, anti-aging, digestive health,
super immunity, weight loss and detoxifying. Masses of
information here to help you live healthily, and, as the
author explains, juicing is a lifestyle, an infusion of
nutrients and phytochemicals that will help heal and
nourish your body. Softback, 234pp. Colour plates.
£10.99 NOW £2.50
79434 OVER THE TOP TREAT TOPPER: Cat’s
Meow by Studio Oh!
In Victorian scrapbook style design, three kitty cat
dancing girls in frilly frocks each hold above their heads a
huge bottle of champagne. The design is imprinted on a
large cut-out card, shaped like a scalloped frame with a
point in the bottom to insert into a cake. Instant
decoration! On the reverse of the card are the words
‘Eat Drink and Be Merry’. Great for celebrations.
ONLY £1.25
79481 100 BEST GLUTEN-FREE RECIPES
by Carol Fenster
Celiac disease is an inherited autoimmune disorder that
affects the digestive process of the small intestine, and
there is no cure. The only treatment is a life long glutenfree diet. The book of 100 recipes is divided into five
chapters - Breakfasts, Breads and Muffins; Soups, Salads
and Snacks; Grains, Beans and Pastas; Main Dishes; and
Desserts. Here are gluten-free versions of family
favourites like Pepperoni Pizza, Spaghetti Marinara and
Chicken Marsala with Mushrooms, Chocolate Brownies,
Cherry Pie and more. 192pp, colour photos.
£11.99 NOW £4.50
79754 OLIVE OIL BOTTLE
by Reader’s Digest
Cool-to-the-touch white ceramic 8" tall pot with image of
two olives and olive leaves and the word ‘Oil’, a cork
stopper with silver metal pourer attached and plastic
resealing lid. Buy extra virgin for extra health and taste.
ONLY £3
80310 KITTY LOVE: How
Cute Kittens Play
by Sterling Publishing Co.
Aaah! This is one for cat lovers who
enjoy seeing kittens at play - and
who doesn’t? Over 60 feel-good
photos of adorable fluff balls, each
with an amusing caption and the
kittens’ names. ‘Scarlet and Simba are a passionate
pair... passion means every once in a while you break
something’ we read, admiring two ginger and white
tussling kitties amongst some pieces of broken china.
Two kittens in a wicker basket are captioned ‘Without
Kate, Leo would be a basket case’, Inky and Hazel are
‘fifty shades of grey’, while mischievous Tiger and Daisy
‘know that love is sharing a ball of yarn.’ Kittens
cuddling, sleeping, snuggling and tumbling - this book is
definitely the cat’s pyjamas. Square format 6.25", colour
photos.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
80317 PUPPY LOVE: How
Cute Puppies Meet
by Sterling Publishing Co.
Companion to Kitty Love (code
80310), this is a delightful collection
of photographs featuring cheeky
pups, with captions such as ‘Sadie
and Selby know that true love
means sharing your favourite stick’, ‘Napoleon treats
Josephine from next door like a queen’ and - as the
puppy kisses a teddy bear -’Since he arrived on
Valentine’s Day...whatever else anyone says.. Lucy
loves Ted.’ Puppies snuggling, nuzzling, playing and
dozing fill the pages, and you really want to scoop them
up into your arms. This blurber’s absolute favourite is the
shaggy little yawning Ling-Ling, with whom she’s
definitely fallen in love! Square format 6.25", colour
photos.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
80136 DOGS: 30 Greetings
Cards and Envelopes
Produced by the wonderful art
publisher Scala are 30 completely
different, artistic images, mostly in
colour, of dogs taken from details of
famous paintings by Velázquez,
Three Setters by John Gifford, the
dog caught in quicksand by Goya
with his little nose desperately
peeking out, detail
from Child with A
Dog by Manet, Brizo
a shepherd dog by
Bonheur looking
shaggy and faithful,
dogs being petted by
beautiful ladies and
puppies playing with
children and babies
captured in early
mono photos. 30 quality blank greetings cards for all
occasions and white envelopes. Presented in a sturdy
box inside an illustrated slipcase.
£9.99 NOW £5
80328 I LOVE CATS
by Adams Media
Cute, fluffy, curious and cuddly, a
group of kittens is surely called a
‘kindle’ because they are good at
warming your heart. Cats take it
easy by sleeping on average 13
hours a day. Now that’s a laid back
lifestyle. Kitties can slink into small
crannies, act like a fussy princess during dinner, use their
whiskers to let you know how they feel, clean
themselves one third of the time and dream of milk,
mice and your cuddles. With short, one-sentence
thoughts per page, here are big colour photos of
absolutely gorgeous cats of all makes and models,
Siamese, a white cat with one blue and one green eye à
la David Bowie, tabbies, gingers and occasionally posed
with a puppy. There is even a Maine Coon pictured in
the snow and of course the inevitable basket of kittens
with ball of wool. 112 pages of cat-tastic photos and
100 fascinating facts.
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79571 UNDER THE SEA
2017 CALENDAR
Find Nemo, a Medusa jellyfish,
bottlenose dolphin, manta ray,
octopus, a diving turtle amongst
colourful fishes, coral and star
fish in this magnificent
underwater collection of
photographs. Brighten your
day every time you look at this
calendar and reflect on the
glories of Earth and the
magnificence of nature. With all
bank holidays etc. marked, it is
a 12" square wall hanging
calendar. Softback.
£9.99 NOW £3
80307 JET THE RESCUE DOG
AND OTHER
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
OF ANIMALS IN WARTIME
by David Long
The heartwarming story of Jet
comes from the Blitz in 1944, and
many of these 33 tales of animal
heroism date to World War II. Jet
was an Alsatian from Liverpool and
one of the first dogs to be trained for
rescue duties. Although the rescuers working on a
collapsed hotel were sure everyone had been found, Jet
tried to climb up a ladder, and when one of the men took
the hint they found an old lady trapped on a ledge at the
top. In North Africa, Rifleman Thomas Walker adopted a
stray called Tich, and as the army moved up into Italy
they both braved heavy rifle fire to rescue some
stranded men. Tich was wounded in the attempt and her
story made it into the English newspapers. A mountain
bear called Voytek was the mascot of the Polish no. II
Army Corps and was seen at Monte Cassino carrying
shells down to the front line. In Afghanistan’s Helmand
Province in 2011 the search dog Theo died of a heart
attack following the killing of his handler, Liam, and at
Ground Zero in 2001 the work of trained dogs was
essential to the rescue operation. 232pp, line drawings.
£9.99 NOW £4
77483 JESSI-CAT: The Cat That Unlocked a
Boy’s Heart
by Jayne Dillon with Alison Maloney
Lorcan Dillon suffers from autism and selective mutism.
When Lorcan was seven, and his mum first heard him
say ‘I love you’, her heart leapt into her mouth. He
was talking to his Birman kitten. Now, Lorcan rushes to
find Jessi-Cat when he comes home from school, plays
with her, cuddles her, reads to her, talks to her and,
strangely, Jessi-Cat trots through the house by his side,
runs to him at the sound of his laughter and has been so
instrumental in getting him to be able to communicate
and express his emotions that she was named National
Cat of the Year 2012. 224 pages, colour photos.
£14.99 NOW £4.50
78749 ONCE UPON A FLOCK
by Lauren Scheur
When Lauren decided to keep chickens she was totally
unprepared for the fun and happiness that the tiny chicks
would bring into her life as they matured. Hatsy was
compassionate and adventurous, Lil’White was beautiful
and borderline psychotic, while Lucy grew extra-large
with glorious barred feathers. Broody hens, digging
hens, compassionate hens. Who would have thought
that just three hens could provide so much pleasure?
Colour drawings. Softback, 241pp, colour photos.
£12 NOW £4
78886 GREAT GRISBY: Two Thousand Years
of Exceptional Dogs by Mikita Brottman
The names of Picasso, Wagner, Alexander the Great are
giants in the history of civilisation, but what do we know
about their dogs? Inspired by love for her own canine,
Grisby, the author tells the story of 26 dogs who may
not have been famous themselves but who had
illustrious owners. Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s
devoted spaniel, is probably one of the few dogs to
achieve fame in their own right. Picasso’s dachshund
Lump actually belonged to a friend. 273pp.
£9.99 NOW £5
80422 ART OF BIG O
WALL CALENDAR 2017
by Flame Tree Publishing
Roger Dean’s swirling,
otherworldly artwork from the
Yes rock group’s album Tales
from Topographic Oceans, one
of Rodney Matthews’s Fantasy
Knights on a Tree, Michael
Fishel’s Meditating Jesus in a
fantasyland under a rainbow
and an all seeing eye, Graham
Purcy’s Humanoid Elephant
surrounded by toys and the
fantasy worlds of Robert
Venosa, H. R. Giger, Vali
Myers, Jim Burns, Terry Pastor
(depicting a Bowie-like figure in
a street scene straight from an
Edward Hopper artwork), David Vaughan’s John
Lennon with psychedelic background, equally
psychedelic colours from John Hurford and the more
muted tones and surreal psychedelia of Wayne
Anderson are the gifted, solitary and sublime genius
artworks, chosen for this calendar. With calendar grid
including holiday dates and a four month grid for
September to December 2016. Nearly 12" square
softback format ready for hanging. Exclusively
discounted price.
ONLY £8
80423 ARTHUR
RACKHAM WALL
CALENDAR 2017
by Flame Tree Publishing
The ethereal quality of these
vinyl album cover-sized images
is unmistakeably Rackham.
There is a poster that our Annie
had on her wall as a youngster,
the Caterpillar smoking the
hookah, sat on the toadstool
with Alice looking up. There
are gnarled trees with faces,
monsters and ogres, Ratty and
Toad from Wind in the Willows,
scenes from fairy tales like The
Princess and the Pea and The
Owl and the Pussy Cat, the
Queen of Hearts, the Elephant
and the Lion, goblins and a medieval princess on
horseback, plucking blossom. With calendar grid
including holiday dates and a four month grid for
September to December 2016. Nearly 12" square
softback format ready for hanging. Exclusively
discounted price.
ONLY £8
80424 RODNEY
MATTHEWS WALL
CALENDAR 2017
by Flame Tree Publishing
£16.99 NOW £2
79927 CATS IN HATS
by Sara Thomas
This one is for all you cat-loving
knitters - a selection of 30 hat
patterns to knit or crochet for your
favourite feline. Whether puss
fancies being a dinosaur, a bear, a
bunny, a lion, a turkey, a reindeer,
a shark, or even a dog, then there
is a hat to suit its mood. All the hats
are modelled by cats, such as the cute fluffy Spring
Chick shown being worn by the inscrutable Gracie, a
Maine Coon, or the pink Punk Mohawk being modelled
with aplomb by fluffy Jasper, a chocolate domestic
longhair. Other designs include a traffic cone, unicorn,
bobble hat, extra-terrestrial, banana, strawberry or elf,
and others. 188pp, colour illus, diagrams and charts.
£9.99 NOW £4
79558 SUPER CATS by Flavia Capra
This absolutely enormous book must surely the be the
cat’s whiskers for any feline lover. The sheer size,
coupled with the high-definition photographs, mean that
you can see every ripple of fur, every delicate whisker,
every tiny claw and every inscrutable eye of these
elegant creatures. Purr-fect for learning how to
differentiate between the different breeds of cat, here
are Burmese, Russian Blue, Maine Coon, Ragdoll,
Cornish Rex, Siamese, Persian, Scottish Fold and many
others. With details of the cat’s disposition, care,
hereditary traits and what to look for in a perfect
specimen. 12.5" x 10.5", 208pp, colour photos.
£24.99 NOW £7.50
79939 THE VET: My Wild and Wonderful
Friends by Luke Gamble
The modern day Dr Dolittle joined a mixed practice in
the West Country and was thrust into the real world of
veterinary medicine - truculent farmers, endless out of
hours work, nasty biting squirrels, frogs’ eyeballs and the
horror of Foot and Mouth outbreak. Luke Gamble
always wanted to be a vet, but now he finds out just
what it means. Opens with the line ‘My cat has acute
glaucoma!’ 340pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
For more than 40 years the
unique sci-fi and fantasy
creations of master illustrator
Rodney Matthews have been
published on record album
covers, books, posters,
calendars, video games and
more recently the TV series
Lavender Castle. Here is a
stunning collection of 12
amazing dragon artworks
featuring his most popular
fantasy creatures. A long ship
seemingly made of steel skating
on ice, a fantasy castle high on
pointed cliffs, guarded by elves, a dragon’s nest with
eggs splitting open, a fierce wizard, light sabre in hand
tackling a ferocious fiery dragon, a long blonde-haired
warrior sits astride the neck of a green fantasy dragon
beast as we are transported to faraway fantasy lands.
Nearly 12" square softback format ready for hanging.
With grid with usual dates for bank holidays etc. and a
four month grid for September to December 2016.
Bargain price.
ONLY £8
79570 DA VINCI 2017
CALENDAR
The Girl with Ermine, a drawing
of a horse, the Madonna and
child,
the
Mona
Lisa,
sketches
for his inventions, anatomy,
portraits and the famous
Vitruvian Man in the circle are
among the 12 colour images
chosen for this 12" square wall
hanging calendar. Softback.
£9.99 NOW £5
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CRAFTS
All my scattering moments are taken up with
my needle.
- Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851
80238 WOVEN TO WEAR: 17
Thoughtful Designs
With Simple Shapes
by Marilyn Murphy
Wrap over jackets with a simple
toggle or large decorative pin
fastener, ponchos and pashminas,
colourful and textured jackets are all
the rage and these classic designs
made for you will become a
wardrobe staple. A tasselled
poncho, textured jackets inspired from Mexico and
Guatemala by weaver Elizabeth Jenkins, exclusive
scarves and wraps with hand-dyed silk yarn from Liz
Spear, together with her full length tapestry style coat, a
Japanese style asymmetric woven jacket with weft
stripes and fringed vest front, all advice is given on
braided or twisted side fringes, weft-pile loops, neck line
openings and edgings, working a Philippine edge,
together with patterns and diagrams, equipment and
materials needed, layout options, accurate measuring,
cutting the cloth and making these designs colourful and
vibrant with the textures you desire. 144 large pages in
softback.
£17.99 NOW £6
80327 HAPPINESS HALTER
PLAYSUIT by Lisa Lamb
Never before on Bibliophile have
we discovered an actual dress
pattern included free with a
workbook. The Happiness Halter
Playsuit, top and dress are the
three designs for little girls aged 26, quick and easy to make. Have
fun mixing and matching your trim
and feature fabric to get a multitude
of looks. Go all out pretty with frothy floral or graphic
with bright solids. Follow the photo instructions on
dressmaking techniques to get professional trimmed hip
pockets, elasticated waists, bound neck lines and straps.
20 page softback plus wallet containing the pattern.
Colour photos and diagrams. A David & Charles
publication.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
80326 50 THRIFTY
LAMPSHADES
by Adeline Lobut
An unusual lampshade can be an
eye-catcher, and amongst the 50
projects shown here are some
extremely ingenious ideas, as, for
instance, a shade created using
men’s ties and another that has
been crafted from an old road map
- either of these would make quirky gifts for the man in
your life. Amongst the paper shades are some decorated
with dozens of butterflies, which give them a delightfully
airy feel, while another uses pages of sheet music. We
love the bohemian style shade that utilises beads,
ribbons, crystals, necklace chains and sparkly stones
around a turquoise spray-painted chandelier frame.
Other ideas include patchwork, scoobie knots, stencils,
plastic moulds, knitting, fabrics and fringes. Particularly
impressive is the leafy chandelier which has been
constructed from packing card but cleverly made to
resemble branches and leaves. An interesting or unusual
lampshade will be a focal point in any room. There is a
useful list of suppliers included in the book, too.
Softback, 130pp. Colour illus, templates.
£14.99 NOW £4
80219 KNITTING NEW
MITTENS AND GLOVES
by Robin Melanson
Keep warm and beautiful in winter
with these stylish, commentattracting 28 innovative patterns for
snugly gloves, hand and wrist
warmers, great for achy and
arthritic fingers, hands and joints.
The sequined Gothic hand warmers
evoke the angular structure of
Gothic architecture with their flared cuffs accentuated by
twisted ribbing at the wrist and the back of the hand
tapers gently to a point, thumb is formed in I-cord
making a loop to circle the middle finger. There are
fingerless gloves worked in an old English lace pattern
and embellished with a picot bind-off. The driver gloves
have an adjustable wristband and knuckle and back cutouts using a buckle. The opera-length gloves are
inspired by a beautiful German style of knitting. There
are some elfin shaped gloves with a rustic yarn and
super easy hand warmers worked in a luscious silkmohair blend yarn, wide enough to pull over your
sleeves. Colourful, different textures and yarn, mittens
and gloves for all levels of knitters. With full instructions
and diagrams. Colour photos. 144 large pages in
softback.
£10.99 NOW £6
80298 BOYCRAFT: Loads of
Things To Make by Sara
Duchars and Sarah Marks
Subtitled “Loads of things to make
for and with boys and girls”, this
attractive book features 50 projects
that adults will enjoy making with
pre-teen kids, though some of the
craft work requires the use of a
sewing machine or saw, so
supervision is essential. In fact this would be an ideal
book for introducing young people to the responsible use
of machines and tools. The authors are the mothers of
three boys and a tomboy, and they wanted to avoid
craft work projects that focus on “handbags, fairy wings
and princess tiaras”. The book starts with papier mâché
heads which can be as Gothic as you like with snaggle
teeth and beards; papier mâché can also be used in
landscapes for toy soldiers, Warhammer figures and
other small toys. Decorative medals for bravery will
appeal to the action man or girl, and paper water bombs
made out of old comics or maps can be deployed in a
fight but might also decorate a Christmas tree or other
festive scene. The section on sewing introduces stitching
and techniques such as seams, hems and appliqué, and
the projects include a denim duffel bag made from old
jeans and fleecy hats with bat wings or horns. Working
with wood features stilts and a bird box, while modelmaking in the final section uses materials rescued from
the recycling box to make Egyptian mummies and an
elastic band car. 128pp, softback, templates, bright
diagrams and photos.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
80329 SIMPLE AND STYLISH
BACKYARD PROJECTS
by Anna and Anders Jeppsson
Anyone can go down to the garden
centre and buy benches, trellis, bird
feeders and sunbeds, but if you
really want to add personality to
your garden, why not build your
own? You need a few basic
woodworking skills, but, as the
authors explain, the finish need not
be as perfect as for indoor items. In fact, a rustic look is
perfect for the outdoors. There are 30 projects here,
some of which are really ingenious, such as a small
bench with a slot at the side to park a bicycle; ideal for a
small garden. How about a herb-filled hanging box for
your garden table so that you can just snip off a few
sprigs to garnish an outdoor meal? Filled with ice, it
makes a great beer cooler too. A planting table with
shelves for flowerpots doubles up as an outdoor kitchen
when you’re on barbecue duty, while a sturdy tray with
a carrying handle can be used for ferrying the crockery,
or for displaying a few special potted plants. Larger
projects include a woodshed, growing cabinet, fencing
and gates. Every project is fully explained with plenty of
clear diagrams and step-by-step instructions, and there
are dozens of beautiful photographs to inspire you.
Softback, 136pp. Colour illus. and diagrams.
£17.99 NOW £4
80389 COMPLETE BOOK OF
DRAWING FANTASY ART
by Steve Beaumont
The author, a professional illustrator
who produces work for video games
and storyboards for film, animation
and advertising, here lets us in on
the secret of drawing amazing
fantasy figures and scenes. He
explains that the genre covers many
forms including horror, science fiction, swashbuckling and
sorcery, and because it is an imaginary world there are
no barriers and anything is possible. He takes us through
the various techniques, explains the materials that we
could try from pencils through to marker pens and also
the use of digital colour. An excellent section on the
basics of figure drawing demonstrates how to break
down the image into shapes before gradually forming
them into a finished human form. He explains the correct
way to draw and position heads and limbs, taking into
account muscle structure (remembering that women
have curved hips and thinner and less muscular arms
than men) and explains the best way to draw hands and
feet. There are nine in-depth projects, amongst them a
Winged Warrior, a Dragon’s Lair, an Enchantress, The
Kraken, an Elf Princess, a Werewolf and a Dark Angel,
all with instructions on how to create the finished work.
This is a must for those interested in Fantasy Art, and is
packed with advice applicable to anyone who enjoys
figure drawing. Softback, 256pp, colour illus and pencil
sketches.
£12.99 NOW £6
80390 CRAFT WORKBOOKS:
SOFT TOYS by Sara Gerlings
A cat, a pig, a Russian doll, a snake,
a chicken, an elephant, a mole and
a mouse are among the 13 original
toys with pattern pieces and
instructions for making them up by
hand or machine. Our favourite
must be the tiny teddy! With a
description of basic equipment and
materials, patterns for all levels of skill, all patterns
drawn on a grid to enable easy scaling and a signature
choice of fabrics to suit each toy. Plus ideas for safety
eyes and joints, filling the toys, hairstyles and trimmings
like tassels or beads. Very large softback, 48pp.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
80403 MAISON SAJOU
SEWING BOOK
by Lucinda Ganderton
Originally Maison Sajou was a
brand that had been famous in
France in the 19th century,
renowned for its embroidery
albums. Now the author has
relaunched and developed the brand
which features haberdashery from
the historical regions of manufacture
in France. Beginning with information on accumulating a
basic sewing kit and notes on needle types, trims and
embroidery threads, it then explains the various
techniques such as inserting a zip and hemming. It also
clearly demonstrates many types of stitches. Amongst
the 20 projects are a Sampler Cushion, a Silk Slipper
Bag, a Twenties Clutch Bag and a Dandelion Cot Sheet.
There is a beautiful Running Rabbit Cushion that depicts
a lively bounding bunny embroidered in various shades
using a straight stitch which represents the fur
excellently, while the colourful nautically-inspired
Summer Tote Bag with its red and white lighthouse,
beach huts and stripy-sailed yacht is too beautiful to
waste on the beach! The photos are stunning, and at the
back are templates and charts to enable you to stitch
any of the projects. 192pp, colour illus. Charts.
£19.99 NOW £6
80418 TWAS THE KNITS
BEFORE CHRISTMAS
by Fiona Goble
This one will have you in stitches
- it’s the classic poem by
Clement Clarke Moore,
illustrated with a host of knitted
characters, with fully-detailed
instructions so that you too can
knit the characters in the poem.
From ‘Mamma in her kerchief
and I in my cap’ to the children
dreaming of sugar plums, each pattern is worked in DK,
and quick and easy to make as long as you know how
to knit and purl. If you don’t, it doesn’t matter because
the basic techniques are explained, as well as the best
stitches to use when sewing up the pieces. You can knit
a super St Nicholas together with plenty of toys, gifts
and Christmas stockings, but my favourite has to be the
eight reindeer, each with their own expressions, from
beaming to shy to thoughtful to slightly soppy! A knitted
moon wearing a scarf lights the way, while at the end of
the book is a beautiful knitted Christmas wreath which
would make a quirky talking-point to hang on your door.
Worked in various shades of green, it is decorated with
knitted flowers and a bird. A superb Christmas project
book, and, let’s face it, knitted candy canes are a lot less
fattening than the real thing! 64pp. Colour illus.
£9.99 NOW £5
80341 YOUTUTORIAL
KNITTING by Tessa Evelegh
Here are over 100 of the best
YouTube clips which you can grab
instantly via the QR codes
provided. Gives you the
information you are looking for with
wasting countless hours on Internet
searches looking for tutorials online. Finger knit a
necklace following a cool tutorial from a London Central
St. Martin’s School art student making a beautiful
Nefertiti necklace fit for an Egyptian queen. Learn about
knitting with beads if you are deft with a crochet hook,
the easiest beanie hat for beginners, an easy baby hat,
a cool summer beach bag, a chunky cabled cowl, a
country cottage pillow cover, a striped herringbone scarf,
a tassel hat for children, an infinity scarf, fingerless
gloves, how to knit an I-cord, make pompoms, tassels,
invisible seams, Fair Isle knitting holding one yarn in
each hand and more. From the basics of knitting, styles
and stitches, correcting errors, shaping, cabling, lace
knitting, colour work with stripes and intarsia, Fair Isle,
finishing and care, decorative details in 100 projects.
128pp, colour photos, softback.
£7.99 NOW £3
80342 YOUTUTORIAL SEWING
by Tessa Evelegh
Your guide to over 100 of the best YouTube instructional
videos for beginners or advanced stitchers. Includes
basic techniques for dressmaking, hand and machine
stitches, fastenings,
embellishments and alterations
and for each entry there is a
brief summary and review of
the video and QR code to scan
on your iPhone, Smartphone or
tablet to go directly to the online
tutorial video. Some of the fun
projects include upcycling an old
shirt, a make-it-in-an-hour skirt,
a simple-sew skater skirt, a
simple striped summer dress, an easy kimono, a
fabulous raglan-sleeved top from vintage scarves, a
fully-lined cosmetics bag, a retro bikini, and five inspired
looks from one blazer. 100 projects. 128pp, colour
photos, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
79684 MAKING FLOWERS FROM WOOL
by Nan Loncharich
Transform scrap pieces, old clothes, charity shop finds
and hand-me-downs into colourful unique flowers and
corsages. The books teaches you how to use simple
hand sewing, cutting and gluing to create flowers,
leaves, buds and other accents from wool fabric and felt
which can be used as brooches, hat bands, party gifts,
decorations and lettering on any number of projects.
Use up those old buttons too! Colour photos and
diagrams, 76pp in paperback.
£10.99 NOW £3
79385 SARAH BEENY’S 100 DIY JOBS: The
Essentials Made Simple
by Sarah Beeny and Angela Robinson
There is little that you cannot take on around the house,
saving yourself money and basking in that glow of “I
did that” satisfaction. The first thing we do is get
together a tool kit, (nails, screws, fixings, tapes, sealants
etc). Sarah explains the basic techniques for drilling,
nailing, painting, cleaning, cutting, pipe, cable and stud
finding, and simple carpentry and plumbing jobs.
Preparation is the key. Starting with regrouting tiles,
fitting door and window locks, here are 100 jobs.
Diagrams and photos. 220pp, illus.
£20 NOW £6.25
79402 CREATIVE KNITTING: A New Art Form
by Mary Walker Phillips
This is the first book to introduce knitting as an art form,
a classic guide now extended to offer even more
suggestions and inspiration. Enjoy the textures of natural
linen, mohair, hand spun wool and walnut-dyed hand
spun mohair, lace and stockinette stitches on synthetic
straw and gold metallic yarn, bobble, ladder and plaited
basket stitches, all making a delicate web and filigree,
shown in interesting detail. Easy-to-follow diagrams and
colour photos. 126pp, outsize softback.
£15.99 NOW £4
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79559 SUPER STITCHES
SEWING
by Nicole Vasbinder
Takes you through the basic
stitches, shows various techniques making a hem, creating a button
hole, inserting a zipper - and
explains how to apply elastic or
mend tears. Here are the different
types of needles for both hand
sewing and machine sewing, and
an explanation of which to use when, the different types
of thread and the various presser feet and their intended
purposes. Colour, with plenty of how to and step-bystep pictures. Softback, 174pp, colour illus.
$19.99 NOW £3.50
79821 HOLLYWOOD CROCHET: Create Your
Own Stars Of the Silver Screen
by Paragon Books
Elvis is in the box! With a 48 page book containing
complete instructions and colour photos to make all six
characters, the box set includes yarn, thread, stuffing and
a crochet hook to make a miniature King, Leo and Kate
in Titanic, (her arms outstretched wearing the blue dress,
him behind), Audrey Hepburn in her LBD, Marilyn
Monroe in her sexy white halter-neck dress and James
Bond in bow tie. White 15,600mm, skin 9,600, black
4,800 and yellow 2,000 of yarn included to get you
started. 22 x 17cm.
ONLY £4
79874 PRACTICAL WOODWORKER: Volume
One by Bernard E. Jones
Sub-titled ‘Mastering Tools and Materials’, this includes
shop appliances such as a saw bench, as well as tools
and foundation techniques of the trade - measuring and
marking tools, saws and sawing, hammer and mallets,
chisels and gouges, planes and planning, gluing, nailing,
screwing and more. Plus you will find techniques for
making mouldings, cutting rabbets, making houses and
lap joints, edge and angle joints, dovetails and more.
Includes some simple projects like steps and ladders,
domestic racks, a beehive and fittings and rabbit hutches.
Facsimile reprint, 416pp in paperback, original illus.
£16.99 NOW £5.50
78736 GREAT GRAPHIC DESIGN ON A
BUDGET: How To Do More With Less
by Scott Witham
Here are loads of ideas, often utilising recycled materials
and free software or shareware. The book covers such
topics as design processes, including one spot colour, two
spot colour and full colour printing, screen-printing and
CMYK digital. A further chapter explains sourcing,
clarifying the law, creating fonts, hand-drawn type,
traditional illustration, digital illustration and studio
photography. Also included is information on materials
and finishing, pre-production and printing, planning and
resources. Paperback, colour illus.
$30 NOW £3.50
78871 SHADES OF WINTER: Knitting With
Natural Wool
by Ewa Andinsson and Ingalill Johansson
Living up to its title, this inspired collection of knitting
designs is in winter colours of natural white, beige and
grey, using undyed, ecological wool. Jumpers, dresses,
hats, shawls, gloves, leg-warmers and cardigans fill this
book, all exquisitely photographed by Ewa K. Andinsson
at Sweden’s Icehotel, making it a delight to browse
through even if you can’t knit! The muted shades of the
natural wool emphasise the beauty of the stitch work.
From elaborate cables through to simple stocking stitch,
all the garment patterns are fully detailed, with
measurements and needle sizes. Paperback,160pp,
colour photos.
£16.99 NOW £6.50
79011 DRAWING THE NUDE: Life Drawing
by Thomas Wienc
This wonderful handbook is specifically on anatomy and
live models. It gives handy tips on observation and
sketching and how to draw the body in sections - the
main curve, torso from the front, back torso, tendons
with geometric shapes, the lower limbs and pelvis,
curves and folds when bending, the upper limbs, face
on, from the back, in profile and finally the skull, hands
and feet. Detailed in the anatomical drawing, all clearly
labelled or colour coded. 128pp, softback, 10" x 8½”.
£12.99 NOW £5.50
79162 PURLS OF WISDOM
by India Knight
Not only does this book include
gifts for you to make - hats, socks,
baby shoes, cushion covers, Ipod
socks, scarves and even bracelets but it explains the basics. Here you
can learn to cast on and off, make
a knit and a purl stitch, increase and
decrease, knit in the round, cable
stitch, buttonholes, and, most
importantly, how to fix any mistakes. Each pattern is
rated on its level of difficulty. Softback, 202pp. Colour
plates.
£16.99 NOW £3
79369 POP-UP BOOK: Step-By-Step
Instructions for Creating Over 100 Original
Paper Projects by Paul Jackson
From home hobbyists to professional graphic designers
and architects, here are step-by-step instructions for
creating over 100 original paper projects. Asymmetric
angle variations, one slit or two, angles of creases and
versions of the asymmetric slit technique makes
sophisticated use of simple techniques. The simple white
dove on page 27 supported by a vertical cloud should
get you started. The clown will delight youngsters, the
multi-slit variations create beautiful rhythmic abstracts,
almost Escher-like, a Victorian man, floating layers,
scenes like two neighbours talking over a garden fence,
a chess set, a kiosk in a garden, single and double hearts
could all be used for keepsakes, cards and gifts. 160pp,
large softback, colour illus.
$25 NOW £6
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79544 PATTERNS OF THE EARTH
by Bernhard Edmaier
NATURE
There is a fog sir. If you will recollect, we
are now in Autumn - season of mists and
mellow fruitfulness.
- P.G. Wodehouse
80253 COMPLETE SAS
SURVIVAL MANUAL
by Barry Davies
There are few books on the subject
of Escape, Evasion and Survival,
Navigation, Shelter and SelfDefense and none that contain all
the up-to-date techniques and
equipment described here. Under
the chapter Capture - treatment by
the enemy, an early escape and
psychological effects of capture, boredom and isolation
and fear are covered alongside specially commissioned
colour artworks. Under the chapter Fire - the essentials,
types of fires and stoves and cooking leading on to a
survival diet of birds, fish, small mammals and how to
cook them, all explained in diagrams. One of the best
sections is Plants from the Wild including fruits, roots,
tubers, nuts, seaweeds and funghi, all with beautiful
artwork to help you pick the right edible food. With
meat from the wild, how to bait and hook and snare and
a multitude of survival tips on signalling, using a dinghy
and more. You will feel like you have been privately
trained by the élite British Special Air Service (SAS).
350 colour illus, heavyweight large softback with glossy
pages. 276pp.
$14.95 NOW £7
80321 SOUNDS OF THE
WILD 100 Fantastic Species
and Their Amazing Sounds
by Jan Pedersen
This wonderful book showcases 100
of the world’s wild species,
beautifully photographed and
described, with an exciting audio unit
on an extension to the book’s back
cover where you can press a button
to hear a recording of their calls. Some have just one
recording, for example the raucous contact call of the red
fox, but for others there are several, and you can listen
to the chimpanzee’s calls of localization, movement,
aggression, fear and distance. For each animal, bird or
sea creature an introductory paragraph evokes a scene
in the wild where the species is active; for instance, a
vivid description evokes the Budongo forest in Uganda,
where a chimp can be heard warning of a concealed rock
python. The largest of the big cat family, the Tiger, has
six distinct subspecies including the Siberian and
Sumatran tigers, which all share physical characteristics
such as being able to see six times better than the
human eye in darkness. The Tiger is an example of a
threatened species, partly through habitat destruction but
mainly through poaching. Moving on to birds, the
Australian Magpie’s sound, ranging over four octaves, is
familiar to many of us from Antipodean films, and
although similar in appearance it is unrelated to its Old
World counterpart. Sounds from sea creatures include the
Humpback Whale’s combination of a rattle and a squeal,
the Bottlenose Dolphin with its scratchy whistle and the
New Zealand Sea Lion’s snorting bark. Beautifully
produced and surely one of the best wildlife books ever.
263pp, audio unit, references, gorgeous colour
photography.
£30 NOW £11
80040 TO THE ISLAND OF
THE AYE-AYE DVD
by Gerald Durrell
Bridges that nearly collapsed as they
were crossed and ancient ferries
which ran a ‘sometime-this-week’
schedule were just a couple of the
problems which Gerald and Lee
Durrell faced on their expedition in
Madagascar. They were looking for
one of the world’s rarest creatures,
the Aye-Aye. The plan was to set up a captivebreeding programme in a bid to save this strange species
of Lemur from following the Dodo into obscurity and
extinction. After weeks of trekking through the
rainforests without seeing any Aye-Aye, the local witchdoctor was called in to help, but first he had to talk to his
ancestors. This film won a Gold Award at the New
York International Film and TV Festival. Colour DVD,
51 minutes.
£11.99 NOW £6
80212 FIELD GUIDE TO
OCEAN ANIMALS
by Phyllis Perry
An interactive spectacular, with
embossed cover and multiple
pockets throughout containing replica
Gray Reef Shark, Red Lionfish,
Leafy Sea Dragon, Blue-Ringed
Octopus, Hawksbill Turtle, saltwater
crocodile and a Dugong, all to
assemble into seven ocean animals from the 59 pieces
enclosed. There is also a removable diorama to lift out
of the book and slot into place using the ready-made
grooves and scores with caves and ledges, schools of
fish, coral and even little Nemo peeping from the deep
blue sea on which to
display your animals
any way you like. Suit
ages eight and up with
text explaining the
lifestyle of the Great
Barrier Reef and these
mysterious and
colourful creatures,
from the toxic blue-ringed
octopus to the breathtaking sea
dragon. 32 large pages.
£12.99 NOW £6
Photographer and Geologist Bernhard Edmaier has
photographed the earth’s surface throughout the world
from above to massive acclaim. The colour photos in this
beautiful book are
interspersed with Angelika
Jung-Huttl’s commentary on
the minerals and vegetation
that cause the swirls, ribbons,
curves, spots, grids and
webs. A beautiful blue and
green glacier stream network
in Iceland echoes the
patterns of the sandbanks in
the Chitina river, Alaska, and
also the sand dunes near
Ayers Rock in Australia. Swirling patterns are seen in
the horizontal layers of the Huns Mountains in Namibia.
Everywhere the earth is a picture of abstract beauty.
240pp, 200 colour photos.
£12.95 NOW £4.75
79678 IVORY, APES AND PEACOCKS:
Animals, Adventure and Discovery in the Wild
Places of Africa by Alan Root
Alan Root has to be the most battle-scarred naturalist in
Africa. Over the years he has been mauled by a
leopard, nearly torn apart by a gorilla, trampled by a
hippo and almost lost his life to a puff adder bite, but
ended up losing a finger instead. His unmatched
experience of East African wildlife and his appetite for
risk have made him a world-class wildlife film-maker,
one of the great pioneers - as David Attenborough said
“Alan, almost single-handedly in my opinion, made
wildlife films grow up.” In this memoir he tells the story
of his life’s work and arrival in Kenya where he was to
create those game-changing films. His “firsts” included
tracking the wildebeest migration by balloon, filming
inside a termite mound and a hornbill’s nest and
subaquatic frolicking with hippos and crocodiles. Here we
meet George and Joy Adamson and watch as Dian
Fossey sees her first mountain gorilla, and we also
spend much time with Joan Root, Alan’s wife and
collaborator for over 30 years, who was machinegunned down in her own home in retaliation for her
environmental campaigning. Plus a house-proud chimp, a
hippo who is convinced she is a house pet and an entire
menagerie. 307pp, colour and b/w photos, pencil
drawings.
£20 NOW £6
79560 TEN MILLION ALIENS: A Journey
Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
by Simon Barnes
How would you classify a human being? Simon Barnes
has the answer: a member of the animal kingdom,
mammal, primate, family of hominids, genus and species
homo sapiens. This mind-boggling book is an
investigation of both vertebrates and invertebrates. An
introduction on classification includes an encounter with
an orang-utan in which Barnes is convinced that
recognition of kinship takes place on both sides. The rat,
platypus, kestrel, jellyfish, whales, Nematomorphs,
Xenoturbellids and countless others get the Barnes
treatment. 480pp, line drawings.
$28 NOW £4
79616 CLASSIC AFRICA
by Michael Poliza
!
Bound in a faux dark brown suede and ribbed like an
animal skin, printed on quality matte art paper, the sepia
images from the Masai Mara in Kenya and Africa
demonstrate the love and affection this photographer has
for wildlife. See the athletic leopard, staring into his
lens, the cooperative families of the mongoose and
meerkat, the little bee-eater, the majestic elephants, the
mating lions, the dazzling stripes of the zebra, the
hooked lip of the black rhino, the curved shape of the
warthog, the young malachite kingfisher stretching its
wings, the lion sinking its teeth into a fit and healthy
buffalo, the first rain after a long dry season, a pied
kingfisher hovering above water, the pelican, elegant in
flight, a close-up of an elephant’s eye and another of a
silverback gorilla, a hippo yawning and three elegant
young male giraffes, almost posing for the camera. The
sepia/black and white images are astounding in their
quality and how they capture life in the trees and plains
as the photographer travelled through the African bush
to Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania,
Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. 14" x 10" landscape. A
teNeues exquisite first edition, 2010, tipped-in leopard
illus on cover.
ONLY £35
79416 FASCINATION OF BIRDS
by William Young
From Albatross (birds and superstition), Avocet (birds
and sexual attachment), chicken, cormorant, cuckoo,
duck, eagle, emu, finch, gull, heron, honeycreeper,
mockingbird, oriole (confusing bird names), owl, snipe,
stork, thick-knee (birds in obscure literary references),
turkey (birds and holidays) to woodpecker (head banger
birds) and yellowthroat (the poetry of birds), birds have
been much loved throughout human history and have
been prominent in culture, folklore and literature. Here
are connections between birds and biology, ecology,
literature, music, history, politics, religion, physics,
linguistics, the performing arts, sports and comedy in
brilliant references. 340pp. Illus by John James
Audubon.
£15.99 NOW £4.50
79066 100 ALIEN INVADERS
by Gill Williams
This guide to 100 plants and animals that have the
power to destroy our environment is a timely warning
that the planet needs to be well-managed. Starting with
the iguana wars in South America and including other
cold-blooded killers such as turtles, snakes and
chameleons, the author goes on to mammals such as
weasels and stoats, often introduced into new habitats
as a pest control and ending up creating new examples
of endangered species. In the sea, the American Signal
Crayfish is now in danger of seeing off Britain’s native
white-clawed variety. 160pp, superb colour photos,
factfiles.
£16.99 NOW £4
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79459 1,001 WAYS TO SAVE THE EARTH
by Joanna Yarrow
1,001 ways that you can make a real difference. From
fixing that leaky tap, keeping your car well-maintained,
using vinegar for household cleaning to cutting down on
washing and ironing and making your own popcorn, this
book helps you to question your consumption decisions
with choices. A wealth of great ideas. 384pp chunky
4¼”×5" softback, charming colour artworks.
£4.99 NOW £2
79880 COLLINS B.T.O. GUIDE TO RARE
BRITISH BIRDS
by Paul Sterry and Paul Stancliffe
This superbly produced guidebook is the definitive
anorak pocket sized guide to the rare and scarce
breeding and wintering birds to be found in Britain and
Ireland. Recognising these species is difficult enough for
an experienced birder and the first part of the book is
given over to advanced recognition techniques. Then
come our delightful feathered rarities, categorised into
waterbirds, gamebirds, divers, herons and allied species,
raptors, waders, seabirds, swifts and passerines, some
300 in all. For each there are colour photos showing
sexual and age-related differences when present, plus
voice, habits, status and habitat. Finally, there is a
special section “The Rarest of the Rare”. 304pp, index of
scientific and common names.
£30 NOW £10
79883 COLLINS FUNGI GUIDE: The Most
Complete Field Guide to the Mushrooms and
Toadstools of Britain and Ireland
by Stephan Buczacki and Denys Ovenden
With over 2,400 species described - the most ever
included in a single-volume field guide - this book is the
only field guide you will ever need when perusing the
fungi of our islands. Fungi are fascinating organisms.
That which we see as a mushroom or toadstool is
merely a tiny part, the fruiting body, of a vast
underground mycelium that can stretch for hundreds of
square metres. Mushrooms and toadstools all have the
same basic structure, and then there are the other
morphologies - truffles, brackets, puffball, stinkhorns,
clubs, tooth fungi, oysters, resupinates, jelly and flask
and cup types. Detailed colour illus. Common and
scientific names, where and when it is most often found,
size, shape and colour of above ground parts, taste and
smell (including when not to do so!), texture and nature
of spores. Softback, 640pp, colour.
£19.99 NOW £8
79872 ORCHID: The Fatal
Attraction
by Dr Anne Ronse
Orchids are born seducers, designed
to entice insects so that they take
pollen from one flower to another,
thereby ensuring sexual
reproduction. Human beings are
also seduced by the beauty of these
striking flowers and their diverse
shapes, scents and colours. Our
book is divided into two parts, the first telling the story
of the discovery of orchids throughout history. The
second part of the book describes orchids more
‘neutrally’, their design and structure, the purpose of their
amazingly intricate shapes and reason for their
marvellous colours. Why is there an awful smell for
some and a heavenly scent for others? With a black
background, each specimen has been photographed by
professionals in amazing close up, so much so we almost
feel we can touch the fur petals, and climb inside the
sensual world of the orchid. These tiny jewels include
slipper orchids, competition and rivalry over history in
this dangerous profession, the great discoveries and
more. 2008 first edition. 10" x 13", 144pp.
£42.50 NOW £11
48311 ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING:
A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast
by Charlie Connelly
From North Utsire to FitzRoy, South-east Iceland to
German Bight, the author brings to life the places behind
the mysterious names, and unearths the history and
culture behind one of Britain’s best-loved broadcasting
institutions. It’s an odyssey that takes in German
nudists, Marilyn Monroe’s dad, the world’s most boring
town and the crown prince of a disused military platform
in the North Sea. 373 paperback pages, maps.
£9.99 NOW £5
78591 BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST
by Monte Reel
The adventures of the Victorian explorer Paul du Chaillu
inspired luminaries such as Charles Dickens and Sir
Richard Burton while his gorillas found their way into
popular culture in the form of cartoons, songs and plays.
Woefully underequipped, he marched into the equatorial
wilderness in 1856, miasmal swamps and deadly
serpents, fierce cannibals and ritual sacrifices, through du
Chaillu being honoured as a ‘holy spirit’ by a tribal king,
but none of this could rival his encounters with the gorilla
he had lived to tell about. Back in London his gorillas
immediately captured the public’s imagination. The
young explorer was driven back to Africa. 331 deckle
pages, remainder mark.
$26.95 NOW £3
79071 CONCISE HISTORY
OF ORNITHOLOGY
by Michael Walters
Beginning with Aristotle, who was
the first person to attempt to
classify birds, dividing them into
five groups, Charles Darwin’s
observations on evolution caused
great controversy, though many
ornithologists agreed with him. By
the eighteenth century explorations
to other continents enabled people
to discover more about ornithology as specimens and
drawings were brought home to be pored over and
analysed. In more modern times DNA and other
scientific techniques are helping to discover new species
and new classifications. 30 appendices show how
various ornithologists have attempted to classify the
different types of birds. 256pp, b/w illus.
£20 NOW £4
80276
ROBOTIC
GORILLA:
Book and Toy
by Paul Beck
A first-of-a-kind
for Bibliophile,
this is a real
robot kit which
includes one motor,
14 plastic pieces and requires two AAA batteries (not
included). Attach the arms and legs, press his back and
watch it go! Truly jaw dropping, this gorilla actually
lights up and has moving parts. The 32 page softback
book inserted into the large card folder provides
information and colour photos on these big, hairy
relatives of ours who sleep at night in nests made of
grass, branches and leaves but who sadly are
endangered. With light up eyes, truly fearsome! Suit
ages 8 to adult. Have fun.
$24.95 NOW £12.50
80277 ROBOTIC
SCORPION: Book and Toy
by Melissa Stewart
Imagine a creature that can
withstand extreme
temperatures from
below freezing
to a brutal
120°
Fahrenheit.
Scorpions are
among the best
adapted animals in the world and following a fact file,
the book explains all about robots, controllers, sensors,
actuators, the muscles of the robot, the wonders of
walking robots and how to make your true-to-life
Scorpion Robot included in this box set. There are some
scorpion experiments and an ingenious set of question
and answer cards which are on perforated pages to tear
out and use, with answers on the back. 32 page
softback book, 24 fact cards, 15" x 20" poster, plastic
case with motor, 18 plastic pieces, five screws,
screwdriver and eight rubber tips to make a moving
stinger, internal motor, illuminated eyes and moving legs
on your scary shiny scorpion! Requires two AAA
batteries (not included). For ages eight to adult.
$24.95 NOW £12.50
We are unable to quality control and hope that all parts
are moving when you insert two AAA batteries.
79489 BEAUTIFUL DUCKS
by Liz Wright and Andrew Perris
Collective nouns for ducks include a paddling or plump, a
flock, flight or flush. Meet Bali, the white drake and
learn about his features, use, related breeds, size, origin
and distribution. Meet Campbell, the dark duck
developed in 1901 by Mrs Campbell at her
Gloucestershire orchard. Call the apricot drake, Indian
Runner the black drake, Muscovy the black duck with
his mottled red face, the beautiful plumage of Welsh
Harlequin the light drake, and the colourful miniaturecrested duck, in peacock blues and greens, there is even
a chocolate duck to admire in this big picture book.
112pp featuring 40 breeds and background info. Colour.
£12.99 NOW £6
79894 BIRD POPULATIONS
by Ian Newton
The aim of the New Naturalist Library is to interest the
general reader in the wildlife of the British Isles by
recapturing the enquiring spirit of the old naturalists and
to invoke the natural pride that we feel for our native
flora and fauna. In this seminal new work he sets out to
explain why different bird species are distributed in the
numbers that they are and have changed over the years
in the way they have. A combination of burgeoning
human population, a utilitarian attitude to land use,
government policy and increased mechanisation have
combined to cause huge changes in land use - and hence
bird habitat - at a rate never before witnessed. This in
turn has brought dramatic changes in bird populations, as
species dependant on the old landscape have declined,
whereas some species better suited to the new
conditions have thrived. At the same time, protective
legislation and more nature reserves have allowed
threatened species to recover and climate change and
pollution has led to yet more changes. A magisterial
study. 210 colour photos, diagrams and graphs, over
1,000 references, 608pp.
£55 NOW £18
79898 TERNS
by David Cabot and Ian Nisbet
The first book on the natural history of British and Irish
terns since 1934, this beautifully produced solid volume
from the New Naturalist Library is an essential resource
for the natural historian and bird-lover. Flying and
feeding close to the shore on a summer day at the
seaside, terns are among the most beautiful birds on the
British coastline. Their flight patterns make them easy
to identify for novices. With a global distribution, five
species breed in British and Irish waters each summer
and this superb book focuses on their habits, habitat and
migration. Breeding success varies with the vagaries of
weather and incidence of predation. The Little Terns are
among the scarcest, breeding in small colonies, and the
Seabird 2000 survey found 12 colonies with 100-250
nests, with largest colonies in Norfolk and Essex. Other
species discussed are the Arctic Tern, with the greatest
concentrations in Shetland and Orkney, the Common
Tern, which is widely distributed and can be seen around
gravel pits and inland lakes, and the Sandwich Tern, the
largest of the species with patchy coastal distribution.
Each section on a variety is accompanied by distribution
maps and detailed statistics on breeding and trends since
1970. A chapter on conservation identifies predators and
examines the effects of diseases, parasites and biological
toxins, and outlines the work of the Save the Seashore
Birds Project. 461pp, bibliography, species index, superb
colour photography, numerous tables and diagrams.
£55 NOW £18
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79524 GUIDE TO SEASHELLS OF THE WORLD
by A.P.H. Oliver
The jewel-like colours of Cypraea errones on page 119,
the tooth-like Cymbiola on page 245, the colourful clamlike Aequipecten or razor-like
green of the Perna viridis on
page 303 are just a few of the
1,000 species illustrated. It is a
practical identification guide
combining comprehensive
details of shell size, distribution,
location, colour, texture and
defining characteristics with
stunning colour illustrations. It is
an easy-to-use identification
guide with key and colour illustration. Includes
classification, terminology, collection and identification, as
well as conservation issues. Colour illus, 320pp,
softback.
$19.95 NOW £4.75
WAR AND MILITARIA
May God have mercy upon my enemies,
because I won’t.
- General George Patton Jr.
79902 BRAZIL: The Fortunes
of War: World War II and the
Making of Modern Brazil
by Neill Lochery
For Brazil, war has generated
enormous wealth and
fundamentally transformed its
economy and infrastructure.
Lochery reveals a little known and
rarely studied aspect of WWII which
still has huge implications for today.
When war erupted in 1939 Brazil
and its then capital Rio de Janeiro seemed a world away
and many flocked there to escape the hostilities.
However this bucolic scene of palm trees and beaches
masked a much more complex reality that the country’s
leaders were busily exploiting. Its natural resources and
proximity to the US made Brazil strategically invaluable
to both the Allies and the Axis, a fact keenly appreciated
by the country’s dictator, Getulio Dornelles Vargas. He
and his close advisors skilfully played both sides against
each other to the country’s immense benefit, but when
eventually forced to choose sides in August 1942 he
declared war upon the Axis. An expeditionary force of
25,300 US-trained men was despatched to Italy at
around the same time as the Normandy Landings in June
1944 and was to take part in several key battles during
the taking of Italy. The Brazilians earned the respect of
their US commanders, but Vargas then made a costly
error by recalling them in July 1945 against US wishes,
thus effectively cutting the country off from the spoils of
war and the political rewards that the US had lined up
for their allies. Vargas had made his mark, making Brazil
a modern nation. 360pp, photos.
£20 NOW £6
80246 KOREAN ATROCITY!
by Philip Chinnery
Sub-titled Forgotten War Crimes
1950-1953, the book shockingly and
controversially lifts the lid on the
extent of the murder and physical
and mental brutality inflicted on
troops under the United Nations
Command during the Korean War.
As there was no clear victor; those
North Koreans and Chinese
responsible went unpunished for
their shameful deeds. There is hard
evidence that at least 1,600 atrocities and war crimes
were inflicted, the majority of the victims being
Americans, but many British servicemen were also
tortured, killed or simply went missing. The author
examines the three phases of the war from the POWs’
perspective and their mistreatment in camps when
starvation, torture and forced indoctrination were
commonplace. There is also evidence of medical
‘experiments’. Perhaps most shocking is the post-conflict
repatriation phase which revealed some 8,000
Americans and 100 British servicemen unaccounted for.
286pp, many photos and maps. Pen and Sword
publication.
£19.99 NOW £7
80302 FROM CORUNNA TO
WATERLOO WITH THE
HUSSARS 1808-1815
by John Mollo
Hussars were originally Hungarian
horsemen whose colourful dress of
furs and scimitars was similar to the
Cossack costume. By the mideighteenth century there were eight
Prussian Hussar regiments, some of
whom appeared in the British Isles
in the service of Bonnie Prince
Charlie. They were the commandos of their time,
making light of rivers and ditches and carrying no
camping equipment. The Prince Regent, the future
George IV, was fascinated by the dashing Hussar
image, and in the late 18th century the 10th Prince of
Wales Light Dragoons changed their uniform to a Hussar
style, followed by several others. This all-encompassing
history follows the fortunes of the Dragoon regiments in
battle, at the gaming table, and in the company of
women. When the French army invaded Portugal in
1807 Sir John Moore led the combined British and
Portuguese forces into Spain to fight Napoleon, with a
Hussar force added almost as an afterthought. The 7th,
10th and 15th were dispatched to form a brigade near
Corunna, although the disembarkation of their horses
was a complicated business in which many were lost.
Following the battle of Sahagun, where the flamboyant
10th were at first taken for French troops, then the
defeat at Corunna and a return to England, the 10th
finally again saw action at Waterloo. Meanwhile the
efforts of his family to disentangle the Marquess of
Worcester from the clutches of his mistress Harriette
could be a book in itself. A fascinating military, social
and sartorial history. 244pp, paperback, photos.
£14.99 NOW £6
80325 WELLINGTON’S
WORST SCRAPE: The Burgos
Campaign 1812
by Carole Divall
1812 promised to be a magnificent
year for the Duke of Wellington
following his victory at Salamanca
in the Peninsular War against
Napoleon. The retreating French
abandoned the strategically vital
fortress of Burgos, leaving a garrison
of 2,000 men under General
Dubreton. Wellington’s reconnoitring group, however,
prophetically realised that to take the castle of Burgos
would be a “tough job”, placed as it was on a height
above the river, commanding all roads and bridges into
the town, and protected by three defensive lines.
Among many eyewitness accounts, the diary of the
Royal Engineer John Jones gives valuable information
about the details of Wellington’s first assault, describing
how the Highlanders ascended by scaling ladders while
the garrison was distracted by a firing party. Even so,
the Anglo-Portuguese detachment could not progress
beyond the escalade, while elsewhere a demi-bastion
was taken but could not be held. When supplies of
ammunition failed to arrive, Wellington turned the siege
into a blockade and meanwhile the Spanish general
Ballesteros had mutinied in resentment at Wellington’s
appointment as supreme commander in Spain. Finally
realising that he was heavily outnumbered by French
cavalry and also by the infantry, Wellington began a
stealthy retreat to Salamanca, gaining 24 hours by the
element of surprise but still suffering heavy losses en
route. Wellington’s “worst scrape” would probably have
been even more disastrous if Napoleon had not been
distracted by the 1812 retreat from Moscow, with which
Burgos is compared. 247pp, photos.
£25 NOW £7.50
80296 BATTLE OF THE
BULGE: The First Eight Days
edited by Bob Carruthers
Recorded from the US perspective,
this is a fascinating and exciting
account of the first eight days of the
Battle of the Bulge, which
eventually was to involve 600,000
American troops. The order had
been given to Combat Command B,
‘Hold the Bastogne line at all costs.’
The fighting was intense and bitter,
and the men were weary, but there was no chance of
rest. ‘A few Germans jumped out of their tanks and
started to flee. Machine gunners and riflemen in the
outposts cut loose on them. But they could not be sure
whether their fire found the targets because the fog
swallowed the running men within 30 or 40
yards...About 0930 the enemy began to press against
the west sector with a series of small probing actions
which lasted until 1030. The officer in charge of this
ground, Second Lieutenant Eugene E. Todd, was new to
action and began to feel that he was sustaining the
weight of a major attack by the whole German army.
When he asked Captain Geiger for permission to
withdraw, Geiger replied, ‘Hell, hold your ground and
fight.’ He did.’ This account was first published in the
Infantry Journal in 1946, and has been rescued by the
US Army’s Centre of Military History. It is a dramatic
account of the largest battle involving the Americans in
the Second World War. Softback. 262pp. B/w illus.
£12.99 NOW £5
80308 KILLING PATTON
by Bill O’Reilly and Martin
Dugard
The latest in a bestselling series
examining mysterious deaths among
famous people, Killing Patton
describes the flamboyant American
general’s leadership of the Third
Army in the last year of the War in
Europe and his death in a road
accident in December 1945. Patton
had a highly controversial role in the
De-Nazification of Bavaria where he was constantly
accused of being too lenient towards former Nazis. An
Olympic pentathlete, Patton’s moment of glory was the
superb feat of military organisation when he relieved the
Belgian town of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. This
book recounts the famous scene where Eisenhower
gave his “pit bull” Patton command of the counterattack
and asked how soon he could be ready. When Patton
replied that he could do it in 48 hours, Eisenhower
retorted “Don’t be fatuous, George”, but Patton already
had the whole operation planned and only had to give
the codeword to HQ. The authors describe in detail the
progress of the battle, including reactions by Hitler to the
defeat of the elite First Panzer Division and Stalin’s
pretence that he was not fluent in English when
negotiating with Eisenhower. After the war, Patton was
relieved of the command of the Third Army following
injudicious remarks to the press, and the authors argue
that he was considered a loose cannon and was
assassinated on the instigation of OSS chief Wild Bill
Donovan. A gripping read, impossible to put down.
352pp, photos, battle plans.
$30 NOW £7
80313 NAVAL AVIATION IN
THE KOREAN WAR
by Warren Thompson
The author, a military historian, turn
his sights here on the role played by
the US Navy aircraft in the Korean
War, which spanned 1950-53.
‘Within forty-eight hours of the North
Korean military crossing the 38th
Parallel, it was doubtful if the
American military would have
enough strength in the Far East to prevent the Southern
Peninsula from falling into communist hands. The
momentum was definitely on the side of the North and
the meagre American occupation forces based in Japan
were not in shape (physically and equipment-wise) to
halt a well-trained force of approximately 180,000 North
Korean troops that had a sizeable force of Soviet-built T34 tanks. It was a grim situation at 5th Air Force HQ in
Japan.’ The US aircraft carriers needed to stop the
communist push into the South. By 1953, the number of
MiG-15s had expanded so much that there were many
more than the available UN aircraft, and missions were
extremely dangerous. ‘The Skyraider settled quickly and
the water was up to the windscreen as Burgess
struggled to get out of the cockpit. Once free, he started
swimming as hard as he could still wearing all his gear
and his shoes. He had heard that when an aircraft sinks
it could suck the pilot down with it, so he had to distance
himself.’ This in-depth look at the war includes firstperson accounts, as well as appendixes listing all the US
Navy aircraft lost. 175pp. Colour and b/w illus.
£25 NOW £8
80315 NORMANDY
CAMPAIGN 1944
by Bob Carruthers
Operation Overlord is one of the
most exciting stories in military
history, and this addition to the
series “World War II from Original
Sources” tells the story in a clear
and straightforward way with
numerous archive photos and
extracts from contemporary
documents, among them German
military handbooks and records. The book starts with the
disastrous Dieppe raid by mainly Canadian troops in
August 1942, stressing that the object was to learn
lessons that would make all the difference to D-Day.
When No. 3 Commando on the left flank ran into a small
German convoy, there were serious consequences for
the whole operation, though No. 4 Commando under
Captain Porteous managed to capture a battery.
Meanwhile the central deployment of the new British
Churchill tanks was hampered by concrete anti-tank
barricades and there was little the Spitfires could do to
influence events on the ground. When D-Day came,
lessons had been learnt and the floating ports known as
Mulberries were used to minimise landing problems.
Montgomery insisted on spreading the assault over five
divisions, securing a bridgehead while the German forces
were repelling a holding attack around Caen. Spare parts
and assemblies were key to keeping the operation on
track, with extra canal lock gates and twenty thousand
feet of railway bridging being brought over the Channel,
not to mention three million self-heating tins of soup and
cocoa. The book includes subsequent developments
including the July plot against Hitler. 291pp, numerous
archive photos, battle plans. Paperback.
£12.99 NOW £5
80324 US NAVY AND THE
WAR IN EUROPE
by Robert Stern
When Churchill heard of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in
1941, instead of being shocked and
outraged like the rest of the world,
it is said that he danced round the
table, knowing that this would
finally bring the United States
officially into World War II and that
an Allied victory was now
overwhelmingly likely. Previously Roosevelt was keen
to give Churchill whatever aid he could but was
hampered by the reluctance of Congress to commit men
and material, and this book examines the covert ways in
which the US supported the Allied war effort although
officially neutral. The main support was the lend-lease
arrangement, whereby the US supplied mothballed
destroyers to the Allies in return for the use of military
and naval bases held by the UK. The situation on the
high seas was muddled, with problems such as the
German cruise liner Columbus stranded in the Caribbean,
while the US refugee ship Washington was seized by the
Germans and almost scuttled. Late in 1940 Churchill
persuaded FDR to move from neutrality to nonbelligerence, allowing the US to provide hardware but
not fighting men. A vital policy decision by the US
Navy was that if war finally came, their first
commitment would be to the defeat of Germany rather
than the defence of the Pacific. This meticulously
researched book provides insights into a lesser-known
aspect of the war and takes the story of US Navy
involvement to up 1945. 306pp, photos.
£35 NOW £8
80359 THE EDGE
by Mark Urban
Sub-titled ‘Is The Military
Dominance of the West Coming to
An End?’ Here one of the best
commentators on defence and
diplomacy writes a book we should
be listening very carefully to. Beset
by economic woes, Western
countries are continuing the postCold War process of disarmament at
the very moment that many
believe a new Cold War is starting. Some NATO
members have compared Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy
to Germany’s in the 1930s; newly empowered groups
such as ISIS, not to mention some governments, are
tearing up the rule book of acceptable international
behaviour, and the military advantage that the Western
world once regarded as its prerogative is being
undermined by countries like India and China. Tightly
argued by Newsnight’s Diplomatic and Defence Editor
Mark Urban, this short, sharp book breaks new ground in
examining the workings and consequences of these
geopolitical tectonics and just how rapidly the balance of
power has been upended. 167 in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78340 BATTLEFIELD WALKS: The South
by David Clark
The book includes Simon De Montford’s victory at the
Battle of Lewes in 1264, Sedgemoor in 1685 and Judge
Jeffreys’ ‘Bloody Assizes’. Five battles of the Civil War
War and Militaria
provide attractive and interesting walks from the site of
the Siege of Gloucester to those at Lansdown, Cherryton
and Langport. In all, 12 walks are covered varying in
length suitable for the everyday walker from quite short
to more demanding for the seasoned rambler. Sketch
maps, transport connections, myths mysteries and
legends. 145pp, softback.
£9.99 NOW £1
78979 MIDGET NINJA AND TACTICAL
LAXATIVES: Bizarre Warfare Through the
Ages by Philip Sidnell
Sidnell ensures that the greatest cock-ups and unlikely
stratagems in the annals of human warfare get their
proper airing. Elephants were the tanks of warfare for
some 3,000 years, but what to do if you cannot get hold
of your quota of military-grade pachyderms? Easy! If
you are Sammuramat, Queen of Babylon, you disguise
your camels as elephants, which what she did in 810BC.
It worked well until her bluff was called. Approx. 100
memorable military shenanigans related with humour.
165pp paperback.
£8.99 NOW £1.50
79121 LOST LEGIONS OF
FROMELLES
by Peter Barton
Expected to be a diversion from the
Somme, Fromelles was one of the
bloodiest battlefields of the Great
War, a horrific and futile battle. In
one night, British and Australian
soldiers suffered casualties
equivalent to the total toll of the
Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam
War combined. It was an
unmitigated military disaster. Peter
Barton describes Fromelles’ long and surprising Genesis
and investigates the interrogation of Anglo-Australian
prisoners and the results of shrewd German propaganda
techniques. He explores the circumstances surrounding
the ‘missing’ Pheasant Wood graves. Showing the
theatres of war in Western Europe and the Middle East,
a colour map section, 20 in total. 242pp, paperback,
illus.
£16.99 NOW £6
79009 DICTIONARY OF BRITISH MILITARY
HISTORY: 2nd Edition by George Usher
From Ralph Abercrombie who led the successful AngloTurkish operation in the Battle of Alexandria in which he
was mortally wounded, bullets, clothing, CVO, Charles
George Gordon, the Loyal Lincolnshire Volunteers, the
Royal Leicestershire Regiment. It includes 2,000
encyclopaedic entries on land battles and campaigns and
famous army commanders, highlighting key battles and
military figures with entries on British Army ranks,
regiments, uniforms and weapons. Chronology of
battles and key military figures. 276pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
79526 HOLY WARS: 3000 Years of Battles in
the Holy Land by Gary Rashba
The Holy Land, an area stretching between the
Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, has been
disputed territory throughout history. The author of this
fascinating book describes 17 notable battles in the
region, from the Israelite conquest of the Promised Land
around 1400 BCE to the Bekaa Valley conflict in the
1982 Lebanon War. In the first century BCE Judaea
became a vassal state of Rome and from the 7th
century CE the land was part of the Muslim empire. In
the Middle Ages there were battles not only between
crusading Christians and Muslims but also between the
Ottoman and Mamluk empires. Among Napoelon’s
notable defeats was his Holy Land Campaign of 1799,
while in World War I the Allied forces in Palestine, fought
a mobile and strategic campaign. Concludes with the Six
Day War, the Yom Kippur War and the Lebanon War.
280pp, paperback, photos.
£11.99 NOW £5
79749 BATTLEFIELD WALKS NORTH
by David Clark
We are taken through Northumberland and Yorkshire,
the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses and the
English Civil War as well as the Battle of Stamford
Bridge in 1066 shortly before the Battle of Hastings, the
Battle of the Standard in 1138 and others. In all, twelve
walks are presented, each including helpful sketch maps,
notes on transport connections. Photos. 162 pages,
paperback.
£9.99 NOW £1.50
79993 WRATH OF COCHISE
by Terry Mort
Sub-titled ‘The Blood Feud That
Sparked the Apache Wars’ the book
explores the collision of two
radically different cultures. In
February 1861, the young son of
an Arizona rancher was kidnapped
by the Apaches. His father
followed their trail and reported the
incident, blaming a band of
Chiricahuas led by the infamous
warrior Cochise. Though there was
no proof, the young and inexperienced Lt. George
Bascom met with the Apache leader who brought along
his wife, his brother and two sons. Despite Cochise’s
denial of any involvement, Bascom took Cochise’s
family hostage and demanded the return of the boy. An
enraged Cochise escaped the meeting tent amidst flying
bullets and vowed revenge. What followed that
precipitous encounter would ignite a frontier war
between the Chiricahua and the US Army that would
last 25 years. 331pp, paperback, photos and map.
£9.99 NOW £5
78139 WORLD AT WAR: The Landmark Oral
History by Richard Holmes
The World at War, first broadcast in 1973, remains the
definitive TV history of the Second World War 40 years
on. The programme’s producers committed many
hundreds of interview-hours of tape to its creation, but
only a fraction of these made it to the programme’s final
cut. In 2007 Richard Holmes was given access. With
interviewees including Albert Speer, Arthur “Bomber”
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Harris, Antony Eden, Karl Wolff, Louis Mountbatten,
Admiral Karl Dönitz, J.B. Priestley, Rab Butler, Michael
Foot, Lawrence Durrell, Lord Boothby, Vera Lynn, a host
of British, Japanese and US military top brass and ranks,
civilians and holocaust survivors. Colour and b/w
photos. 661pp paperback.
$26.95 NOW £4
78991 BOURLON WOOD:
Cambrai
by Jack Horsfall and Nigel
Cave
In August 1914 the German First
Army stormed through Belgium and
into northern France, capturing the
strategically vital town of Cambrai
and thence established a huge
salient in the region of the Somme.
This was to remain the front line for
German, British and French soldiers
for the next three years. The attack on Cambrai had to
wait until 20 November 1917 and did not go according to
plan. Both sides fought each other to a virtual standstill
and by 7 December the battle ended, with the British
losing 43,000 men and the Germans 53,000. Cambrai
would remain in German hands until September 1918.
Photos, maps and battleplans. 176pp softback.
£9.95 NOW £2.50
78438 HITLER TRIUMPHANT: Alternate
Histories of World War Two
edited by Peter Tsouras
Here is a superb collection of What If? questions posed
by leading military historians. Scenarios range from the
possibility of a British Prime Minister making peace with
Hitler in 1940, through to the fall of Malta in 1942 and its
likely consequences, to the heavy defeat of
Eisenhower’s landings in Northern France in 1943.
There are memories of life at Führer headquarters by
Charles Vasey, the Spanish gambit and Operation Felix
by John Prados, Mussolini, Italy, the drive to the Indus,
the fall of Moscow, the Stalingrad breakout and more.
Illus and cartoons, 288pp, large softback.
£13.99 NOW £4.50
79390 FIRST WORLD WAR
IN 100 OBJECTS:
The Story of the Great War
Told Through the Objects
That Shaped It
by Gary Sheffield
In Sarajevo on 28 June 1914,
Gavrilo Princip of the Serbian
nationalist Black Hand group, by dint
of a chauffeur taking a wrong turn,
found himself in the unexpected position of being able to
carry out his intended task. With “the shot that rang
around the world” he shot dead Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro-Hungary, and his
wife Sophie as they sat in their open-topped 1911 Graf
& Sift limousine, which would see all Europe at war
within a month. It is this car which is object number one
in this impressive volume which tells the story of the
Great War in an unusual, highly engaging and very
visual manner. Here are the quintessential Great War
icons such as the German Picklehaube helmet, Alfred
Leete’s “Lord Kitchener” poster, the tomb of the
unknown warrior, the Mk V tank, the Zeppelin and
Manfred von Richthofen’s bright red Fokker triplane
alongside less well-known but similarly fascinating and
thought-provoking objects, such as a soldier’s Bible,
prosthetic limbs, Siegfried Sassoon’s letter of protest,
Lawrence of Arabia’s Arab headdress and Hermann
Göring’s Fokker D.VII. Colour and b/w. 256pp.
£25 NOW £8
78944 BRONZE AGE MILITARY EQUIPMENT
by Dan Howard
Based on the descriptions in the Iliad, we get a fairly
clear picture of the armour worn by Homer’s heroes.
Armour was predominantly made of bronze and
consisted of a thorax, a bronze Mitra and padded Zoma
covering the stomach and groin, and greaves for the
shins. A tunic was worn underneath and there appears
to be no neck or forearm armour. Most helmets were
made of bronze but some were made of hide. They
covered much of the face having wide cheek guards and
were decorated with crests of horsehair on top. Drawing
on up-to-date archaeological research and insights, the
author covers the Aegean and the Near and Middle
Eastern civilisations from the Sumerians to the fall of the
chariot cultures, c.12th century BC. He gives detailed
descriptions of armour and chariots and explains how
technology and tactics influenced one another. Plus
some reference to India and China. 169pp, 16 colour
plates and 13 illus.
£19.99 NOW £7
78950 ENGLISH CIVIL WARS 1642-1649
by Bob Carruthers
This marvellous overview in the ‘Military History from
Primary Sources’ series looks at Anglicanism,
Presbyterianism, Catholicism, the armies of musketeers,
pike men, cavalry and artillery, the road to Edgehill,
Essex’s army, the Oxford army, the Eastern and
Western association, the Royalist armies, and in the
north the Covenantors and Irish reinforcements, the
New Model Army, naval affairs in the second civil war
and the trial of the king. 128pp, illus. Paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3
78952 GERMAN ANTI-PARTISAN COMBAT
by Bob Carruthers
The purpose of this study is to describe briefly the
German campaign against the guerrillas in the Balkans
during the period of the European Axis occupation, from
the end of the hostilities against Greece and Yugoslavia
in April 1941 to the capture of Belgrade by the Soviet
forces and the Partisans in October 1944. The activities
of Germany’s Italian, Bulgarian, Croatian and British,
Soviet and US forces in the area are treated. Occupied
for centuries by Romans, Turks, Austrians and
Hungarians, the Balkan peoples were forced to adopt the
methods of irregular warfare in the struggle against their
oppressors. Photos and combat reports. 208pp,
paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4.75
79951 BATTLEFIELD
PANORAMAS: From
the Siege of Troy to
D-Day
by Victor Ambrus
It seems strange to
connect battle with beauty,
something of an oxymoron,
but in this case it’s a fitting
description. The paintings
shown here, from Time Team artist Victor Ambrus, are
lively, colourful - yet not too intense. From the Siege of
Troy to D-Day, this is a stirring history lesson, backed up
by a concise text explaining the background to each
illustration. Here are Agincourt, Hastings, Waterloo, the
Normandy Landings, Trafalgar, the Battle of Sedgemoor,
the Siege of Athlone and many others. Additionally,
there are other scenes, such as paintings of prisoners at a
prisoner-of war camp in Peterborough during the
Napoleonic Wars, where we learn that some of the
inmates produced beautiful bone carvings of toys and
trinkets which they could sell at market days by the
camp gates. 10" x 9", colour illus, sketches.
£20 NOW £8
78961 MEN WHO BREACHED THE DAMS: 617
Squadron “The Dambusters”
by Alan W. Cooper
This reprint of the 1982 classic story of Guy Gibson and
his intrepid company will introduce new readers to the
spine-tingling, edge-of-seat excitement of the legendary
617 Squadron. The plan was to attack and breach as
many of the main German dams as possible, particularly
the 130-foot Mohne Dam and the hydro-electric station
at Gunne near Dortmund. The purpose-built weapon
known as the “bouncing bomb” was developed by the
brilliant engineer Barnes Wallis and looked like the front
wheels of a steamroller. Although “Bomber” Harris
thought the scheme was hare-brained, Churchill
overruled him and soon Wing Commander Gibson was
assembling his squadron. Gibson took part in the early
operation trials, oversaw the low-level training of the
crews, personally led the attacks on two major dams,
saw each attack go in and reported from the spot.
223pp, softback, photos, maps.
£12.99 NOW £5
79961 617: GOING TO WAR
WITH TODAY’S
DAMBUSTERS
by Tim Bouquet
In April 2011, a new generation of
élite flyers was deployed to
Afghanistan, their mission to provide
close air support to troops on the
ground. The author was given
unprecedented access to 617’s predeployment training and blistering
tour in Afghanistan. From dramatic
airstrikes to the life-and-death search for IEDs and lowflying shows of force, he tracked every mission and the
skill, resilience, banter and exceptional airmanship of 617.
16 pages of colour photos, 338pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
78962 MILITARY IN BRITISH INDIA
by T. A. Heathcote
This is the second edition of a classic work on the British
Indian Army. It outlines the events of the campaigns
fought by the British for the succession to the Mughal
Empire, explaining how many disputes broke out
amongst the British themselves. The clashes were
between British governments in England and India, civil
governors and various London institutions that governed
the Indian territories. A new constitution followed the
Revolt of 1857, as well as a new army, and though the
wars in British India ceased, controversies still arose
regarding the army’s organisation and control. By the
20th century, with disputes still raging, a new man was
sent in - Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. Only troops raised
in South Asia and directly in the service of the
Government of India. 232pp, illus.
£25 NOW £9
78969 THE SPITFIRE by Bob Carruthers
The Supermarine Spitfire was a British single-seat fighter
aircraft used by the RAF and many other Allied
countries throughout WW2. Designed as a short-range,
high-performance interceptor aircraft designed by R. J.
Mitchell, its elliptical wing had a thin cross-section,
allowing a higher top speed than several contemporary
fighters including the Hawker Hurricane. It became the
backbone of the RAF Fighter Command. It also carried
out photo-reconnaissance, fighter bomber, carrier-based
fighting and training and was built in many variants.
Illus, 140pp in paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
78966 POSTERS OF THE GREAT WAR
by Frederick Hadley and Martin Pegler
The most iconic poster is surely the moustachioed face of
Lord Kitchener, pointing his finger at the viewer to
indicate that ‘he wants you to join your country’s army.’
Designed by Alfred Leete, it first appeared in September
1914 and was hugely successful. Despite the growing
influence of newspapers, posters were the major
medium for mass communication of news at the time.
Bright, colourful, concise, they put across their messages
instantly. Around 200 posters are reproduced here from
countries including Britain, America, France, Austria,
Germany, Russian and Italy, all fully described. Sheds
light on the conditions and changes in lifestyle. 160pp,
colour illus.
£19.99 NOW £7.50
78996 BRIEF GUIDE TO BRITISH
BATTLEFIELDS by David Clark
New 2015 publication divided into six historical periods,
each prefaced by an outline of the nature of
contemporary warfare. Begins with the Dark Ages and
the Battle at Maldon in 991, women at war, Stamford
Bridge and Hastings in 1066, the Wars of Scottish
Independence including Bannockburn in 1314, the Wars
of the Roses, campaigns of Montrose, the Jacobite
Rebellions and beyond. Timeline. 346pp, paperback,
maps and illus.
£10.99 NOW £2.25
War and Militaria
78770 MEYRICK’S
MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS AND
ARMOUR
by Samuel Rush Meyrick
Brimming over with full colour
illuminated engravings from his
original 1842 survey of weaponry
from the Middle Ages, this volume
is a stunning historical showcase of
European armour spanning the 9th
to the 15th centuries. From Richard the Lionheart in full
battle regalia to the equipage of numerous anonymous
knights, he presents a splendid panorama of medieval
paladins and their weapons and chronicles the military
regalia of the Middle Ages in all its forms. Highlights its
connection with mythology, religion, the arts, civil polity
and entertainment. 71 full page plates in colour and b/
w. 8½” x 11" softback. 144pp.
$19.95 NOW £4
78963 NAPOLEONIC LIVES: Researching the
British Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars
by Carole Divall
Two centuries ago the Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Wars convulsed the whole of Europe. The British Army
kept extremely detailed records of all aspects of running
an army and navy. Reconstructs the lives of a marine
in the Mediterranean fleet, a Gordon Highlander taken
prisoner, a rifleman who served at Walcheren, the
Peninsula and Waterloo, various artillerymen, two
remarkable women and two of the most recidivist
soldiers ever, who despite accumulating some 4,000
lashes between them miraculously avoiding execution.
198pp softback, illus. plus maps.
£12.99 NOW £4
78943 BRITISH NAVAL SWORDS AND
SWORDSMANSHIP
by John McGrath and Mark Barton
79393 SPITFIRE SUMMER
by Malcolm Brown
Sub-titled ‘The Story of The Battle
of Britain’. Summer 1940 saw Nazi
Germany swiftly tightening its grip
on Europe. Hitler’s forces appeared
to be invincible having swept
through Poland, Belgium, the
Netherlands and France. Invasion
seemed inevitable as the Führer’s
eyes turned to Britain. It was the
‘few’ against the many, but the
cost was high and a new word ‘Blitz’ entered the
language. Britain interned thousands of aliens.
Countless children were evacuated safely, though some
fell victim to German U-boats. Posters, paintings and
photos from the archives of the Imperial War Museums.
240pp.
£18.99 NOW £5
79105 CHURCHILL’S SECRET WARRIORS
by Damien Lewis
Lewis follows a group of quintessential British war heroes
from their sign-up through a series of knife-edge
missions, to their final desperate battle on Italy’s
treacherous Lake Comacchio. The Special Operations
Executives embarked on breathtaking operations.
Dressed in Nazi uniforms, driving their vehicles and
yelling orders in German; raiding the enemy’s stores for
weapons and ammo; abducting or assassinating officers
to spread terror in the ranks; robbing banks to fund
further havoc - these men were a law unto themselves
forming what amounted to a private army. They were
led by a cast of the utterly extraordinary, from Gus
March-Phillipps, a wild British eccentric, to Anders
Lassen, an aristocrat and Porter Jarrell, an American
medic-turned-gunman. 402pp, photos.
£20 NOW £7
A comprehensive, well-researched book covering all
aspects of British naval swords and cutlasses.
Encompassing the various types including presentation
swords, dirks, officer’s swords and those of the reserves
and the merchant navy, it also examines the training in
swordsmanship and the transition to a sport. Some of
the swords depicted are intricately decorated and
embellished, with white leather grips, gold tassels and
various engravings. A chapter on Nelson’s swords
includes comparisons of the swords depicted in various
statues and paintings of the great Admiral. Covers as it
does the history of the earliest naval swords right up
until modern times. 144pp, colour and b/w illus.
£25 NOW £8
78973 TRIBE THAT WASHED ITS SPEARS:
The Zulus At War
by Adrian Greaves and Xolani Mkhize
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The shock defeat of the British by the Zulu victory at
Isandlwana in 1879 shook the foundations of the British
Empire, although later the War ended with the crushing
of the Zulu nation. This excellent, very readable account
of the rise of King Shaka and his successors examines
the tactics, weapons and customs of the Zulus. The
washing of the spears refers to the Zulu post-battle
cleansing tradition of disembowelling the fallen enemies.
‘Although the soldiers were fast becoming fully aware of
their vulnerability, the Zulus still had to deal with men
who obeyed their orders to remain in extended line right
up to the final bugle call to retreat. Just as the
desperately awaited call sounded, the Zulus broke
through the British line stabbing and slashing the
retreating soldiers. Dramatic account of the Anglo-Zulu
Wars. 222pp, b/w illus.
£19.99 NOW £8
78974 WAR GAMER’S GUIDE TO DARK AGE
BRITAIN by Martin Hackett
Hackett takes us on a tour of the sites and brings life to
these barbaric and brutal times where hand to hand
battles raged in an almost unchanged format for over
600 years. Looking at the UK, he covers the Arthurian
period, the battles of Dyrham, Heavenfield, Maserfield,
Ashdown, Ethandun, Buttington, Maldon and the battles
with the Normans and Vikings between 1066 and 1069.
He looks at the political situations, kings of England and
provides dozens of illustrations of the imposing Roman
Empire buildings which remain, coastlines where Vikings
may have landed. Appendices include an Army list and
useful addresses, recreations, index of troops and more.
Illus and maps. 288pp, large softback.
£19.99 NOW £5.50
78998 BRIEF HISTORY OF FIGHTING SHIPS
by David Davies
First published in 1996 as ‘Fighting Ships’, here is the
paperback reprint with seven plates including one of
Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, the Victory 1765, a
cutaway hull drawing of HMS Victory and its slung
hammocks, maps including theatre of operations winter
1796-7 and the world strategic map, nine figures
including an outline sketch of a 74-gun ship, a bilge
pump, compass headings and sailing terms and 12
diagrams including one of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent
14th February 1797, the Battle of the Nile 1st-2nd
August 1798 and the Battle of Trafalgar 21st October
1805. From Napoleonic sea battles to ship’s biscuits.
201pp, paperback, illus.
£6.99 NOW £3
79063 WORLD WAR TWO FROM ABOVE:
An Aerial View of the Global Conflict
by Jeremy Harwood
Beginning with the Blitzkreig of Poland and then the Low
Countries and France, Harwood describes events
succinctly, letting the photos do the talking. Operation
Sealion, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and the War in the
Mediterranean come next, then the attack on Pearl
Harbor and the fall of Malaya and Singapore. We see in
amazing detail the work of the reconnaissance and
bomber pilots of Bomber Command and the first USAAF
B-17 and B-25 raids. The invasion of the “soft
underbelly”, the Dam Busters raids, the D-day landings,
the scourge of Hitler’s V1 and V2 attacks and the fall of
Berlin ensue in graphic detail. And finally the actual
impacts of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” over Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Over 100 photos, plus maps. 208pp,
10"×9".
£14.99 NOW £7
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79494 CATASTROPHE:
Europe Goes to War 1914
by Max Hastings
We hear from a multitude of
statesmen and generals, peasants,
housewives and private soldiers of
seven nations. Hastings finds the
evidence overwhelming that Austria
and Germany must accept principal
blame for the outbreak of war. He
argues passionately against the
‘poets’ view that the war was not
worth winning. It was vital to the
freedom of Europe, he says, that the Kaiser’s Germany
should be defeated. Hastings describes how the French
army marched into action amid virgin rural landscapes, in
uniforms of red and blue, led by mounted officers, with
flags flying and bands playing. The bloodiest day of the
entire Western war fell on 22nd August 1914, when the
French lost 27,000 men. Four days later at Le Cateau,
the British fought an extraordinary action against the
oncoming Germans, one of the last of its kind in history.
In October, at terrible cost, they held the Allied line
against massive German assaults in the first Battle of
Ypres. Hastings also describes the brutal struggles in
Serbia, East Prussia and Galicia. With decorated
endpapers, plates and maps, 628 formidable pages.
£30 NOW £10
79499 D-DAY: The Lost Evidence
by Chris Going and Alun Jones
An amazing look at D-Day as it actually happened - the
aerial photographs here were vital to the judging of the
success or failure of Operation Overlord. On June 6th
1944 Spitfires, Mosquitoes, Mustangs and Lightnings
made over 50 sorties above the beaches to record the
amazing images shown here and never before published.
The images consisted of both vertical photographs
looking down to the ground, and oblique photos looking
over the nose or out of the side of the aircraft. Some
have been created using modern computer techniques.
D-Day was the turning point of a War that had been ongoing for nearly five years; its goal was the liberation of
Occupied Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany. The
Allied generals and leaders must have held their breath.
144pp, b/w, some colour.
£14.95 NOW £8.50
79850 DECEIVERS: Allied
Military Deception in the
Second World War
by Thaddeus Holt
Rich with details of the many
hundreds of deception operations,
double agents and phantom armies
that duped German, Italian and
Japanese Intelligence, this is a
meticulous, encyclopedic history of
wartime deception. Once the
Americans joined the war in 1941,
they had much to learn from their British counterparts
who had been honing their deception skills for years. As
the war progressed, the British took charge of
misinformation efforts in the European theatre, while the
Americans focussed on the Pacific. Holt brings to life the
little known men who ran the Allied deceptions and
tracks the development of techniques and hitherto
unknown stories of double-agent management and other
deceptions through the American FBI and Joint Security
Control with operations like BODYGUARD and
QUICKSILVER. A massive 1148 page monumental
study in softback with b/w illus. Remainder mark.
$22.95 NOW £7.50
79018 GREAT FIRST WORLD WAR STORIES
by Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway et al
First published in 1930, here published to mark the 100th
anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War in
August 1914 is a reprint of over 40 stories by world class
authors who lived through the conflict. Sapper, Joseph
Conrad, Edith Wharton, C. E. Montague, John
Goldsworthy, Frank Harris, Algernon Blackwood in and
behind the Front Line, strange stories like The Alien Skull
by Liam O’Flaherty and The Death of a Cat by Axel
Eggebrecht, in the air, at sea, satires of circumstance, in
hospital and after the war such as Armistice by H. M.
Tomlinson or The Blind Lieutenant by Georg
Grabenhorst. 703pp.
£14.99 NOW £5.50
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EROTICA
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in
her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved
one, it means something. One may indicate a
merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.
- P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Morning
80331 BADLY TIMED
BONERS
by Jolyon White
If you like the macabre
humour of the Suicide
Bunnies, these unpredictable
boners (hard-ons, erections)
will have you laughing out
loud. Tell all fans and friends
of Viz comic humour about this very naughty stand up
comedy book. Every page is in a bright colour with a
black and white cartoon, one to a page. To give an
example, the unexpected stiffy experienced by the deep
sea diver in a cage. The happy snappy shark
approaches as the man looks on, terrified. Santa tries to
slip down the chimney, but something’s in the way.
The slightly ruined wedding photo, the pole-vaulter who
may not make it over the bar, the customer at the
hairdresser seeing it at eyelevel. Erection obsessive,
puerile and fantastic fun. We love the yoga at the end
too!
£9.99 NOW £3
80099 ARMY CAMP!: 30
Postcards That Do Ask and
Do Tell! by the Ilex Press
Bathing and frolicking naked in
crocodile-infested waters, manning
the guns and staring lovingly at
each other, being whipped with wet
towels in the dormitory, Mounties,
cadets, sailors and soldiers are
smiling, laughing, naked and
generally camping it up across the
globe from Alaska to the South Pacific. These are
genuine recruiting posters and adverts dating between
1914 and 1946, covering both world wars, crying out for
fit, toned men to join up, bond together and make the
world a better place. Regardless of whether these
images are intentionally camp or not, they are a
reminder of more innocent times. To today’s eyes, they
are outrageously kitsch and hilariously and overtly gay,
in every way. Colour, camp kitsch, 30 postcards,
perforated and ready to send and enclosed in a softback
with glittery cutaway embossed cover.
£7.99 NOW £4
80242 SEX: An Erotic Journal
for Sexual Inspiration
by Margaret Hurst and
Jordon Larousse
Think back to your favourite lovers.
Using a pen or pencil, create a
symbol of what you shared
together - a footprint in the sand
perhaps. Draw yourself as an allpowerful sex goddess, as abstract or
realistic as you like. Draw an erotic image that
corresponds to a steamy poem to write opposite on the
blank page. A Zen proverb says ‘The master of mind
rather than mastered by mind’. Even if you are in the
middle of great sex, poof, out of nowhere a totally
random thought comes to mind. Use these pages to
explore those intruder thoughts. Drawn an image of a
threesome sexual encounter. Morning sex can be a
better time for intimacy when you are relaxed and
rested, and a great way to start off the day. Take a
sexy video or series of photos, try six simple steps for
successful flirting, think about porn, unapologetic, gritty,
sleazy, exciting, romantic, arousing, and many more
things. Make a collage of people, famous or not, that
you find attractive and notice if there is anything in
common between them. Amy Winehouse said ‘I am not
a lesbian - not before a sambuca anyways.’ Crushes
and fantasies, drawing your own clitoris with its 8,000
nerve endings, describing your orgasms, how you like to
be touched, this is a notebook for girls like no other.
Keep it locked up! It could be your only place for erotic
expression. Beautifully decorated large pages, softback
with plenty of lined and blank space for you around
quotes and other info.
£12.99 NOW £7
80297 BIG BAD ASS BOOK
OF SEX by Nancy Armstrong
‘Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a
joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a
loss, a hope.’ Read about just
about every conceivable sex act
possible whether through the short
stories about Denise the librarian, a
special rub in a morning shower
before work, the explanation of
terms like BDSM which is a ‘catch all term to describe
nonvanilla sexual acts including bondage, domination,
submission, role playing, discipline and punishment.’
Such sexual arousal must come with extreme trust of
your sexual partner. Not going anywhere that the law
or morals are compromised, the book’s philosophy on
sexuality is for consenting adults to let themselves go,
swing, think of or enjoy threesomes, research, ask
careful questions, give honest answers and get the best
out of your relationships. Very frank about anal sex, sex
toys, and very adult language in this US special import.
344pp in paperback.
$9.95 NOW £3
78686 SECRET IDENTITY by Craig Yoe
Sub-titled ‘The Fetish Art of Superman’s Creator Joe
Shuster’, this adults-only publication contains full page
cartoon depictions of S&M, leather-clad, stockinged,
semi-naked women, high heels, spanking, painful sexual
acts. Evil mobsters, panting sadomasochists, pervy
pornographers, blue-nosed censors, a rabid shrink, a
79834 UNIFORM DOLLS
by Aishling Morgan
80247 PEEP SHOW
PINUPS: The
Golden Era
by Jo and
Paul Richardson
Out of doors and from
foreign parts, girls with
girls leaning on vintage
cars or across tandems,
hand coloured postcards of bathing beauties, Victorian
ladies, bare breasted and artily draped in frills and veils,
often still wearing their laced-up boots and stockings,
young lovers in naughty postures, women posed in
classical settings and harem backdrops, stockings,
suspenders, bare bottoms, smoking, corseted, some
hirsute and all very proud of their beautiful curves. The
best known models were actresses, opera stars and
music hall artistes who appeared in many seductive yet
entirely descent shots. Academy models were often
more erotic and
pornographic. In 1839
Louis-Jacques-Mandé
unveiled the
daguerreotype and it
became possible to make
erotic images of real
women taken in real time.
Our glamorous book charts
the early years of sexually
driven photography of
women and offers sketches
of the studios, the
photographers and the
models and the changing
technical experimentation.
158 very large pages,
colour and black and white,
glossy coloured paper.
ONLY £11
slimy publisher, good and bad cops, sexy showgirls,
book-burning Supreme Court judges, a poetry-spouting
song writing defence lawyer, horse-whipped girls and
juvenile delinquents known as the Brooklyn Thrill Killers
were created by the artist who also created Superman.
160pp. US first edition $27.50.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
79962 AFTERNOONS OF A
WOMAN OF LEISURE
by Elizabeth Bennett
Joanna has everything in life; she is
the young, beautiful wife of a
wealthy financier. Her older
husband sleeps alone and Joanna
increasingly seeks some traces of
danger to satisfy her. Several
chance encounters shock Joanna into
action. She becomes involved with
the mysterious ‘O’, a woman whose
clients experiment with pleasure,
pain and ‘issues of control’. Joanna’s experiences with
‘O’ are exciting and set her on a path of discovery. High
octane sex scenes and dirty words. 295pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
44717 HAND-REARED BOY
by Brian W. Aldiss
Rejected by 13 publishers, the award winning writer of
science fiction Brian Aldiss eventually had his very
naughty erotic novel first published in 1970. It is an
original, delightfully funny description of the young
Horatio Stubbs’s burgeoning sexuality. Circumcised
rather crudely, here is a young boy who is awakened
gently by the family’s 19 year old maid, shares beds
with boys at his school, talks about class, the
downtrodden, art, sex and socialism: ‘Stubbs, old man,
the upper classes and the aristocracy absolutely hate the
bloody guts of the middle classes!’ Crude, rude, funny
and of its time. 189pp, paperback reprint.
£9.99 NOW £3
79815 BLUE GUIDE
by Carrie Williams
Cocktails, room service, spa
treatments - Alicia Shaw is a girl
who just can’t say no to the little
perks of being a private tour guide in
London. Whether it’s the Hollywood
producer with whom she romps in
the private screening room of a
hotel, or the Australian pilot whose
exhibitionist fantasies reach a new
height on the London Eye, Alicia
finds that flirtation and more is part
of the territory. But when an internationally renowned
flamenco dancer and his lovely young wife take her on
as their guide, Alicia begins to wonder if she has bitten
off more than she can chew. Paperback, 222pp.
£7.99 NOW £2.50
79823 LOVE ON THE DARK SIDE
by Olivia Knight, Portia da Costa et al
Enjoy this collection of paranormal erotica and romance
from Black Lace. You will encounter sorcery, vampirism,
shape shifters and spirit lovers. Discover the most
distant shores and the furthest reaches of female sexual
and romantic fantasy; the 15 stories include titles like All
I Want for Christmas, The End of the Pier, Sweet
Dreams, Sun Seeking, Power Play and An Earthquake
in Leamington Spa. 269pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
78764 GREAT NUDES: 24 Art Cards
by Jeff Menges
Represented here from Botticelli and Titian in the Italian
Renaissance to Modigliani and Shiele in the early 20th
century are 24 paintings of the female nude. Here is the
beautiful Esther preparing to be presented to King
Ahasuerus by Chassériau alongside Goya’s Nude Maja,
Ingres’s The Turkish Baths (detail) opposite the sensual
Alma-Tadema’s In the Tepidarium. Perforated for very
easy removal, quality colour postcards, 4¼ x 6". 12 x
9" softback.
$5.95 NOW £2
Kinky tales of women in uniform.
Whether it is the smartness of
authority of military dress, the
sassy temptation of a naughty
schoolgirl or the possibilities offered
by an air hostess, police woman or
even a traffic warden, it is all
described here in sumptuous
arousing detail with unabashed
accounts of kinky sexual encounters.
For adults only. 217pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
79034 MAMMOTH BOOK OF QUICK AND
DIRTY EROTICA
edited by Maxim Jakubowski
From bondage to uniforms, threesomes and sex in outer
space, hot holiday romances or kinkiness on the
Presidential plane, to submission, domination and
voyeurism, this is brief, brilliant erotica, offering both
quantity and quality. They are 102 very short and very
dirty erotic stories. Touching, shocking, exciting, the
titles include Annual Encounter, Hot Tomato, America’s
Next Top Bottom, Tess Needs a Spanking, Cleft and
Wedge and Car Flashing among them. 554pp in
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
79182 KAMA SUTRA BATH BOOK
by Nicole Demeneses
Supported Congress perched on the wash basin (her),
Kissing the Yoni Blossom in a sudsy bath tub, Lotus,
Tigress, Camel’s Hump, Yawning, Climbing the Tree (in
a large shower cubical) and the very athletic and
dangerous looking Hanging Bow are the positions
suggested in this waterproof, floating bath book for you
and your lover. Proves bath books are not just for
babies!
$14.95 NOW £1.25
69630 THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG PENIS
by Dian Hanson
Features over 150 massively endowed models from the
1940s through the 90s, including photos by Bob Mizer of
AMG, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Rip Colt of Colt
Studio, Craig Calvin Anderson of Sierra Domino, Hal
Roth of Filmco, Jim Jaeger of Third World Studios,
Falcon Studios, Mike Arlen, Fred Bisonnes, Carlos
Quiroz, and Charles Hovland in a compact and
inexpensive softcover format. 30% of the content is
unique to this edition. 192 pages.
ONLY £7.50
77244 ARAKI TOKYO LUCKY HOLE
by Nobuyoshi Araki
No-panties coffee shops with private cubicles and peep
rooms were very much a part of Tokyo’s Shinjuku area.
They catered for commuter-train fetishists to role-playing
young virgins to clients lying naked in coffins. One
establishment was called the Lucky Hole. It was a
series of cubicles separated by plywood partitions. The
customer entered a cubicle, removed his trousers, and
inserted the most precious part of his body into the lucky
hole. Sex magazines began to expose the other side of
the plywood partition and when they did, a star by the
name of Chikage was born. She was a beautiful
woman who had the greatest affection for the male
organ. She set up her own business, Happy Hole, one
room which accommodated one customer at a time.
With some 800 mono graphic scenes of S & M and
bondage, here are very private lives and private parts,
tawdry street scenes, bath tubs, bedrooms, orgies all
captured in black and white stills. Explicit and hirsute
adults only photos. 5½” x 7½”, 704 pages.
ONLY £13
78187 EIGHTY DAYS BLUE by Vina Jackson
Recently settled in New York, fiery, flame-haired
musician Summer Zahova is enjoying life as a violinist
with a major orchestra. Under the watchful eye of
Simón, her attractive Venezuelan conductor, Summer
and her career flourish. Meanwhile wealthy university
professor Dominik, frustrated by his life in London
without Summer, is drawn to New York to be with the
woman he knows he cannot live without. But while
Dominik believes he can protect Summer from her own
dark side. 326pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £1.25
72416 DIAN HANSON’S
HISTORY OF PIN UP
MAGAZINES: VOLS 1-3
by Dian Hanson
You’re about to learn everything
about the world history of men’s
magazines, those titillating
periodicals embracing the subject
dearest to all heterosexual men’s
hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form.
Editor Dian Hanson traces the fascinating development
of the genre from 1900 to 1969 in three compact,
informative volumes. Volume 1
uncovers the first magazines that
appeared around 1900 in France,
Germany and the U.S., and
follows the development of the
genre through the First and
Second World Wars. Covered are
men’s magazines masquerading
as movie magazines, humour
magazines, art magazines, nudist
magazines, and “spicy” fiction.
Volume 2 documents the
proliferation of pin-up magazines
following World War II, most notably a little item called
Playboy that débuted in December 1953. This volume
also charts the emergence of English men’s magazines,
fetish magazines and the top five covergirls of the
1950s. Volume 3 begins with an explosion of new
American pin-up magazines following the loosening of
U.S. obscenity laws, and continues with French titles in
decline, England going pervy; nudists going hippy and
Germany going pervy, hippy and political. Three
volumes in slipcase, 6.6 x 8.5", 816 pages. Taschen,
colourful slipcase.
ONLY £16
78716 LITTLE BOOK OF PINUP: Peter Driben
by Dian Hanson
Teeny weeny basques, fur stoles,
beaded bikinis, striped bathing
costumes, frilly lingerie, sheer
negligées, tight dresses wide open,
teetering heels, here is the master
Peter Driben’s cover paintings for
such bare-faced cheeky magazines as
Whisper, Wink, Titter, Flirt, Eyeful, Beauty Parade,
Movie Fun, Movie Humor, Silk Stocking, Flirt and more.
All date from around 1938 to 1955 and are in the
brightly coloured pulp poster style reminiscent of Vargas
girls. The heels are whorishly high and their thighs and
breasts far too voluptuous. 192pp, colour. Taschen
paperback.
ONLY £7
78718 LITTLE BOOK OF PINUP: Alberto Vargas
by Dian Hanson
Vargas Girls adorned aircraft, ships
and even uniform jackets of the US
servicemen during the World War
Two era. Even today they are on
the nose cone of Virgin Atlantic
aircraft. From the war years 19401946 here is a rather special colour
collection of pin up girls in swimwear, tight frocks, skirts
hitched up, wearing bikinis, housecoats, transparent
negligées, tight satin nightdresses, here are months
worth of Vargas calendar girls from Esquire and his
many other commissions. 192pp in paperback from
Taschen, colour illus.
ONLY £7
78717 LITTLE BOOK OF PINUP: Gil Elvgren
by Dian Hanson
In 1944 Brown & Bigelow calendar
company offered Gil Elvgren an
exclusive contract to paint 24 pin-ups
a year for $24,000. Scantily clad in
lingerie, nearly always wearing
suspenders and showing the tops of
their thighs peeking out from under
dresses, negligées, bulging blouses and draping skirts,
Elvgren normally worked from photographs. Cheeky
and full of fun, healthy hair, white teeth, super sexy and
saucy, here is a bruised skater, the frightened high diver
and many nudes and stocking tops. 192pp, colour pinups. Taschen paperback.
ONLY £7
78908 WET MEN by Françoise Rousseau
Mud wrestling, washing together, on the beach, naked
kung fu fighting, covered in droplets, here is a gallery of
beautiful young men with rippling muscles, firm torsos
and handsome faces, many naked, all wet or greased as
posed by the photographer of ‘Locker Room Nudes’.
Here is a celebration of the real beauty of the male
form. There are summer fantasies, swimmers,
lifeguards, athletes and bathers seen on beaches and
poolside, bonding with each other and us. Monochrome
full page photos. 11" x 13".
£35 NOW £11
78909 DANISH PORN by Nordstroms
!
Here imported from Germany is a very special
publication on 100 years of ‘sin’. In 13 hand picked
stories it is a look into the history of porn in Denmark
with sinful images accompanied by short texts, beautiful
graphics, cartoons, reproductions of letters and handbills
dealing with ‘sexual acts of an obscene character’. By
today’s standards, many are pretty tame, others very
Scandinavian to the British reader, all a voyeur’s delight.
Sexually explicit content, dual text in Danish and English,
every variation imaginable, close ups and not for the
easily shocked please. 330pp 8" x 10".
£49.90 NOW £19
78535 THE EAST, THE WEST, AND SEX: A
History of Erotic Encounters
by Richard Bernstein
A modern historian has provocatively commented that in
the days of the British empire, colonialism “turned the
whole world into the white man’s brothel”. The Victorian
explorer Richard Burton promoted the myth of eastern
sexual connoisseurship, and the Ottoman empire also
exerted its fascination, with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
feminist wife to the ambassador in Constantinople in the
early 19th century, writing an account of Turkish sexual
practices which presented the inmates of harems as
enjoying a freedom unheard-of in the west. The author
has interviewed present-day sex workers. 325pp, illus.
Roughcut pages. Small remainder mark.
$27.95 NOW £2.50
78917 SHEER by Viva Van Story
Sheer stockings, sheer lingerie, sheer fishnet,
sheer nipple cups, sheer cheek! Leading pin-up
photographer Viva Van Story can command the services
of top-class models with silky skin tones and lissom
bodies. A superb pair of buttocks are constrained by a
delicate leather band and the leather is stylishly repeated
in the girl’s blindfold and stocking tops. A parody of
Marilyn descends a staircase with a naked upper half
and formidable suspenders, then a few pages on she
struggles out of knickers with a leopard skin crotch to
reveal a tiny Brazilian. Pearls, masks, gloves, corsets,
basques and all the vintage panoply of old-fashioned
allure are deployed in this sumptuous top-end pin-up
book. 176pp, colour photos, large glossy pages.
ONLY £11
79813 TALENT FOR SURRENDER
by Madeline Bastinado
Jo Lennox is a woman with a secret. By day she is a
headmistress of an exclusive private school; by night, a
sexual adventurer who loves to dominate and humiliate
men. Dan Elliot is a documentary filmmaker who uses
his looks and charm to persuade his subjects to expose
their secrets. When their paths cross, Dan realises how
much he has to learn about his own nature and his
hidden desires. He becomes her willing pupil, taking
punishment, pleasure, and the perverse. 254pp,
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.75
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79422 HEAVENLY BODIES: The Art of Bruce
Colero by Bruce Colero
Erotic fantasy art, these huge breasted vixens
often have almost fluorescent eyes, long fingernails,
windswept hair, thigh-high boots, tight clothing (if any),
tattoos and are often wet like the Mermaid or the
Corsair on the high seas. Enter a futuristic world where
these artificially enhanced beauties lure the viewer into
an exciting fantasy erotic realm. Very large softback,
full page and smaller artworks throughout, these
paintings are visually very accomplished, breathtaking
and creative.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
79432 ART OF JACK HENSLEE:
Pretty Ladies by Jack Henslee
The fine art nude originals are displayed one to a page,
inviting, luscious ladies like Miss Curiousa peering over
her glasses, her black bra beneath her breasts, the sheer
black stockings and ample bottom of Stocking Feet, Dita
von Teese unmistakeably on page 42, these line
drawings are not only accomplished, they are erotic
fantasies - huge breasts, impossibly high heels, and all
oozing sensuality. A distinct marriage of pin-up and fine
art nude. 48 glossy pages in softback, colour.
£9.99 NOW £4
79584 LA PETITE MORT
IN
by Will Santillo
CK
BA O C K
and Dian Hanson
ST
The title means “the little death,” a
euphemism for orgasm, but the
women who exuberantly masturbate
for Toronto photographer Will
Santillo in this book are large, young
to old, slim to thick, perfect beauties
to those not considered beautiful
until seen through his lens. The one constant would be
that each would decide and direct how she masturbated
to climax while he captured the moment. Santillo had
come to believe that masturbation is a far more personal
act than most sex play because it is conducted almost
exclusively in private. It’s the faces that best show the
intensity of response in these artfully explicit photos.
Dian Hanson interviewed 37 of the women, and their
candid insights on overcoming inhibition, giving in to
exhibitionism, and achieving orgasm in front of a stranger
with a camera provide a framework for the lush, sepiatoned photos. 8" x 11½”, 208 pages. Softback. For
adults only. Taschen.
ONLY £18
79596 LITTLE BOOK OF TOM OF FINLAND:
BLUE COLLAR edited by Dian Hanson
It was a young logger on the spring 1957 cover of
Physique Pictorial who introduced Tom to a new world.
In the decades to follow Tom added leather-clad and
greasy truckers, repairmen, construction workers, circus
roustabouts and the American cowboy to his roster of
working-class heroes. Though just sexual fantasies for
him, his portrayal of blue-collar lovers helped working
class gays accept their true selves. Beware - the
appendages are huge! A brawny lineup of multi-panel
comics and single-panel drawings and paintings is set
alongside archival and contextual material, including
historic film stills and posters, personal photos of Tom.
Softback, 4.7" x 6.5", 192 pages.
ONLY £7
79597 LITTLE BOOK OF TOM OF FINLAND:
COPS & ROBBERS edited by Dian Hanson
Tom’s taste for police officers and felons, and for sexual
tension between the two, developed late in his career.
The uniforms of the California Highway Patrol
motorcyclists were his favourite: tan and tight, with high
boots and soft black leather gauntlet gloves. He created
his own uniform variants as well, a cross between
military and civilian police gear, and invented suitably
butch criminals for his cops to apprehend. His cops were
as likely to end up happily speared by “criminal cock” as
delivering corrective coitus. Everything was consensual,
even in prison. A mixture of multi-panel comics and
single-panel drawings and paintings, historic film stills and
posters. Softback, 4.7" x 6.5", 192 pages. NB - The
appendages are fantasy- sized!
ONLY £7
79598 LITTLE BOOK OF TOM OF FINLAND:
MILITARY MEN edited by Dian Hanson
When we think Tom of Finland we first picture muscular,
macho young men in military gear. Tom’s vision of
masculine perfection was formed during his service as an
officer during World War II. Tom began putting his
military fantasies on paper in 1945 to memorialise his
thrilling homosexual night time encounters when the war
ended. As the years and then decades passed he
included American naval uniforms as well, and then his
own hybridised designs of black leather, jodhpurs, boots,
and peaked caps, with military insignia replaced by
Tom’s Men patches. He created, with pencil, pen and
gouache, an army of free, proud, masculine fantasy men
committed to pleasure. Massive fantasy appendages!
Softback, 4.7" x 6.5", 192 pages. Some colour.
ONLY £7
79799 BI-CURIOUS GEORGE
by Andrew Simonian
For mature audiences only here is a decidedly adult
parody of the children’s tale by Margret and H. A. Rey
to tickle your funny bone. One day George saw a man.
He had on a sassy purple beret and George got excited,
despite himself. Thinking he is always in the mood for
some hot monkey love, trying on the purple sexy beret
he felt gayer already. Together they go sailing, he
takes a ride in a man bag, gets horny, goes sailing with
sexy sailors and able-bodied seaman. He ends up in
prison! With swear words. Big picture book, colour. US
first edition.
$14.95 NOW £5
79805 MAURICE VELLEKOOP’S PIN-UPS
introduced by Gordon Bowness
Like the great girlie artists Gil Elvgren and Alberto
Vargas, Maurice Vellekoop brings the cheekiness and wit
of colourful poster art to the world of gay erotica.
Vellekoop borrows from the masters - an obscene
makeover to Gainsborough’s Blue Boy and
Michelangelo’s David, a lifeguard, construction worker,
Robin Hood, Erik the Ready, Barberfella, Mr Spock as
you’ve never seen him before, camp gods and warriors,
fantasy characters, a rock star, an old black guy, all with
enormous erections, depicted cartoon style. A
delightfully sexy celebration of male beauty in seductive
scenarios for adults only. 124 very large pages, colour
artworks.
$22 NOW £6.50
79923 SHUNGA: Stages of Desire
edited by Sati Chock, Giulia Di Filippo
When Honolulu Museum of Art acquired the superb Lane
collection of Japanese Shunga, a celebrated genre of
erotic art. “The Audience” introduces the context in
which Shunga was produced, and asks the question
whether the 17th century peak in Shunga production
was a response to a huge gender imbalance in Edo
(modern Tokyo), thus increasing the need for both
prostitution and self-gratification. It challenges the view
that women are the passive recipients of sexual activity,
with examples such as Utamaro’s “Laughing Drinker”
who wants “five or six cute men to do me day and
night”. Geishas are frequently given dialogue
accompanying the picture, for instance in the exquisitely
explicit series “The Safflower Princess” by Hokusu.
Yoshiwara, Tokyo’s licensed prostitution district, was
enveloped in a highly idealised mystique, with brothels
imitating westernised stage sets. The subjects of
Shunga, or “The Cast”, include the whole range of
society from unlicensed prostitutes to high-born
aristocrats. The sexual culture of mainland China was a
frequent subject, demonstrating the Daoist belief in the
spiritual benefits of sexual activity, and 19th century
Shunga also featured political, supernatural and historical
incidents. Classed as pornography until the 1990s,
Shunga offers the beauty of superb artwork and the
detailed eroticism of its subjects. 312pp, softback, colour
reproductions.
£45 NOW £29
HUMOUR
The whole strength of the company gazed at
me like a family group out of one of Edgar
Allan Poe’s less cheery yarns, and I felt
my joie de vivre dying at the roots.
- P. G. Wodehouse, Carry On Jeeves
80404 MRS WEBER’S
OMNIBUS
by Posy Simmonds
In May 1997, an unknown
young illustrator named Posy
Simmonds started drawing a
weekly column strip for The
Guardian. It began as a silly
parody of girls’ adventure stories, making satirical
comments about contemporary life. The strip soon
focussed on three 1950s school friends in their later
middle class and nearly middle-aged lives - Wendy
Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology
lecturer George and a large brood of children; Jo Heep,
married to whisky
salesman Edmund
with two
rebellious
teenagers; and
Trish Wright,
married to
philandering advertising
executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip
which was latterly untitled and usually just known as
‘Posy’ ran until the late 1980s. Here collected for the
first time are all of the complete strips in their entirety,
celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian
readers in the 1980s trying to remain true to the ideals of
the 1960s. It shows one of Britain’s favourite cartoonists
maturing into genius. All strips reproduced in large
pages, black and white and some a little red and portions
of this work have also appeared in Spectator, Sunday
Times and Harper’s magazine. Super heavyweight
omnibus “graphic novel”.
£20 NOW £6
80340 MOST AMAZING
YOUTUBE CAT VIDEOS EVER
by Prion Books
George Lucas said ‘I would never
guess people would watch cats do
stupid things all day long.’ But they
do, and no more so than on
YouTube. Cute, cool, heroic and
mind boggling, for each entry there
is a QR code to scan or a short URL
address to type on your computer,
tablet or phone. That’s how to
view the cats like the original
Grumpy Cat, the very first YouTube cat video Pyjamas
and Nick Drake, Charlie Schmidt’s keyboard cat,
surprised kitty, cat stealing dogs’ beds, Maru the box cat,
talking cats, a kitten in hamster ball stuck in the middle,
cat meets baby first time, Jedi kitten strikes back, the
diary of a sad cat, kitty with a watermelon addiction,
mama cat nurses baby squirrel, and tons of kittens
dancing, wiggling and of course our favourite, cat versus
printer, as can be seen on our own website! 128pp in
paperback.
£4.99 NOW £2
80314 NONSENSE
LIMERICKS by Edward Lear
Edward Lear’s nonsense limericks
are in the same spirit as his most
famous poem, “The Owl and the
Pussycat”, gentle imaginative
creations that are best enjoyed
while enjoying a cup of tea and a
slice of cake. In this beautiful edition
of over 200 limericks each poem is
illustrated with a line drawing by
cartoonist Arthur Robins. Join the
Humour
Old Lady of Winchelsea who has stern advice for
anyone who “a pin shall see”, or the Old Person of
Putney who - obviously - fed on spiders and chutney.
When the Old Man of Dee has a flea and decides to
scratch it with a hatchet the outcome is not agreeable,
but the people of Ayr are dazzled when the lady whose
head was remarkably square takes the opportunity of
fine weather to adorn it with a gold feather. 218pp,
gorgeous drawings on every page.
£9.99 NOW £5
80256 DO YOU THINK
YOU’RE CLEVER?
by John Farndon
Featuring actual Oxford and
Cambridge University questions
such as Why can’t you light a candle
in a spaceship? How does honesty
fit into the law? Is nature natural?
How would you reduce crime
through architecture? Are there too
many people in the world? And
How would you travel through
time? Every year interviewees for
Oxford and Cambridge colleges are posed such curious
conundrums, aimed at separating the merely bright from
the truly clever. Providing dazzling responses to 60 of
these infamously perplexing problems, the book explores
the twisting paths your mind can take when you are
really made to think. Try out on yourself or put your
smug relatives to the test. 220pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £6
IN
68993 VIZ: The Five Knuckle Shuffle BACK C K
O
T
by Viz Comic
S
The Five Knuckle Shuffle (if you need to ask, you really
don’t want to know) pulls out the cream of Viz issues
172-181 from 2010, so if it’s puerile letters, irreverent
mickey-taking, top tips and a climactic compendium of
the funniest comic strips to be found in these islands,
then look no further. Viz aficionados and newcomers to
the scatological, sweary and certifiably silly world of Viz
can luxuriate in the shenanigans of Viz staples like Roger
Mellie, the Fat Slags, Nobby’s Piles, Sid the Sexist,
Gilbert Ratchet, Raffles the Gentleman Thug, Big Vern,
Terry F**kwitt, Eight Ace, Biffa Bacon and Jack Black,
and there are also some classic one-offs here too. 160pp
of 9¼”×11" colour and b/w comic strip mayhem for
adults only.
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
80413 STORY OF
AMERICA IN
CARTOONS
edited by Tony
Husband
The editor is our dear friend Tony
Husband, he of Private Eye, Punch and
Spectator fame, and he has co-ordinated
these 230 cartoons from the likes of
Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, W. A.
Rodgers, D. R.
Fitzpatrick, Bill
Mauldin and a host of
others. Covering the years
since the first settlement in
Jamestown right up to the present
day, taking in the Revolution, the
Civil War, the First and Second
World Wars and the Depression
along the way, as well as
characters as diverse as Abraham
Lincoln, Phineas T. Barnum, Mark
Twain, Teddy Roosevelt and Carry Nation, the
hatchet-wielding temperance campaigner, here is
history brought to life. Political cartoons are the cross
our leaders have to bear, and don’t we love it! The
pompous are pricked, and the power-mad skewered
by the sharpest wits in the land. The images here not
only reveal the great giant sweep of US history but
also the many ideas that have dominated American
life. See the design for the Empire State Building,
presidential races, the New York City Police
Department, slavery, Pearl Harbor and much more.
All copies SIGNED by Tony Husband. 192 large
pages, illus.
£9.99 NOW £5
£10.99 NOW £5
77943 ADRIAN MOLE DIARIES
by Sue Townsend
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ and The
Growing Pains of Adrian Mole are here united in one
glorious volume. The story of Mole’s adoration for the
sometimes glacial, sometimes not-so-glacial Pandora, his
teenage anxieties on the subject of sex, his
uncomprehending observation of his mother’s affair with
the next door neighbour and the sheer awfulness of his
attempts to write poetry are the stuff of legend. 293pp,
paperback. Remainder mark.
£12.99 NOW £2
78555 TEMPLES OF CONVENIENCE: And
Chambers of Delight by Lucinda Lambton
!
A delightfully potty and passionate look at the loo,
lavatory, WC or whatever you call it. In typically
enthusiastic style, Lucinda Lambton presents this updated
and revised third edition of her classic book on this most
indispensable of everyday objects showing us what
architectural gems hide in the smallest room, tucked
away in pubs, hidden underground, in offices, shops and
on our street corners. Over 150 specimens of sanitation
are described, with colour photos. 168 page large
softback, illus.
£17.99 NOW £5
79881 THE BEANO: A Collection of Eight
Posters by Seven Oaks
The Bash Street Kids, Dandy-Beano Summer Special at
1/6, Dennis the Menace with his striped jersey and pot
of paint looking for trouble, Beware of the Dog and
Beano book and comic covers are the eight chosen
posters covering the art from 1940 to the 50th Birthday
edition (July 1988) and front covers from the 1000th and
2000th issues. Ready to frame and hang in your home,
each quality colour poster measures 12" x 16",
305x407mm. In large resealable card wallet. Eight
varnished ready-to-frame art prints.
£14.99 NOW £4.50
78754 BEANO COMIC 100 POST CARDS
by D.C. Thomson
In a sturdy treasure chest decorated with The Beano
comic designs since 1938 are 100 totally unique quality
card colour postcards featuring Dennis the Menace cover
art by David Law from 1956, Minnie the Minx panels by
Leo Baxendale 1955 and the best of the Beano from 75
years. See Gnasher, the Bash Street Kids, Biffo the
Bear, Roger the Dodger and the others. 100 different
postcards to keep, frame or send.
£14.99 NOW £6.50
78835 ULTIMATE SIGN SPOTTING
by Doug Lansky
Author Doug started collecting funny signs and it has
turned into a disturbingly addictive habit. Large wedgie
$5.99, Steps may be slippery, Molde Bakeri, Drunken
people crossing, the Pee Pee Hotel, Porn Laundry, road
sign Turn on headlights in Clouds, Silly Mountain road,
antique tables made daily, chocolate covered crocodile in
a restaurant. We think you get the picture! Silly,
strange, real public notices, spotted and snapped ‘in the
wild’. Colour photos, 160pp, softback.
£4.99 NOW £2.75
78956 LITTLE BOOK OF FRED
by Rupert Fawcett
!
With his little black cat, woollen slippers, black trousers
with braces, white shirt, bald head and wife named
Penelope, Fred is everybody’s neighbour. His life is full
of the unexpected, DIY, eating the sofa, curling up with
a good book on the sofa with black cat, torturing the
neighbours, admiring his cornflake collection (and finding
a rice crispie!) or after dinner showing everyone an
unexploded bomb! 120 classic cartoons. 128pp.
£7.99 NOW £3
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80420 VERY NAUGHTY
JOKE BOOK
by Tony Husband and
Johnny Sharpe
Bursting with a barrage of the
rudest and most politically
incorrect jokes you are ever likely
to hear - some old, some new,
some borrowed and all blue.
There’s nothing funnier than
bodily functions, stale marriages
and bad sex, love, loss, the
meaning of existence, death, cricket, old age sex,
shops, office politics, skid row, animals, brief
encounters, neighbours and more. All illustrated by
the Private Eye cartoonist and our friend Tony
Husband and every single copy has been SIGNED
by him. Hundreds of jokes including Doctor Doctor,
one-liners to longer tales. 304pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
79069 BURGLAR CAUGHT BY A SKELETON:
And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian
Press by Jeremy Clay
Here we have an often hilarious, sometimes sad, romp
through Victorian newspapers in the company of
journalist Jeremy Clay, who has unearthed a quantity of
the strange stories that appeared in the press at the
time. A boy in Kirkaldy, in 1849, was given a large egg
by a sailor just returned from Alexandria, and he put it
under a chicken. He was amazed when a crocodile
hatched out when he was just expecting a large hen.
Stories here to make you laugh and gasp. 304pp,
sketches.
£12.99 NOW £2
79870 MORE WOMEN’S WICKED WIT
by Michelle Lovric
‘Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in
Hollywood than growing old gracefully.’ - Julie Burchill.
‘You may have to fight a battle more than once to win
it.’ - Margaret Thatcher. ‘I’ve got enough crows’ feet to
start a bird sanctuary.’ - Kathy Lette. From Kathy Burke
to Mary Wollstonecraft and from Julie Burchill to Susan
Sarandon, here are over 2,000 quotations by women
containing some true classic one liners. ‘If you obey all
the rules, you miss all the fun.’ - Katherine Hepburn.
320pp in paperback, index.
£6.99 NOW £3
79804 LOOK IT’S JESUS! Amazing Holy
Visions In Everyday Life
by Harry and Sandra Choron
From grilled cheese sandwiches to a beehive, frying
pans, tree roots, a chicken breast, several rocks,
firewood, an oyster shell, a Washburn guitar, a nacho
chip, an ashtray, a towel and a handbag - many of the
examples that have the face of Jesus very clearly visible
on these holier-than-though photographs. Features
testimony from the people who discovered these
astonishing and miraculous images. Colour photos,
paperback.
£8.95 NOW £2.75
80012 MOUSTACHE GROWER’S GUIDE
by Lucien Edwards
30 classic and modern moustaches plus fashion tips for
how to rock each look. Moustache styles include the
Toothbrush, the Chevron, the Horseshoe, the Walrus,
the Fu Manchu, the Dalí, the Hungarian, the Mario and
moustache combos include the Lumberjack, Buffalo Bill,
Shakespeare and Lenin. With championship styles, this
is a full lowdown with fabulous line art and woodcut
illus, historical trivia and detailed instructions. 144pp.
£5.99 NOW £2
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ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Creativity takes courage.
- Henri Matisse
80259 KENNETH CLARK
LOOKING FOR
CIVILISATION
edited by Chris Stephens
and John-Paul Stonard
These wonderful pages illustrate
a selection of some of the major
works that at one time belonged
to Kenneth Clark alongside
equally fascinating objects from
his collection. A towering figure
in 20th century Britain, Clark was
possibly the most influential figure in the British art
world. Author, collector, patron, museum director,
impresario and broadcaster, he was a passionate
believer in the promotion and protection of culture at a
time when it seemed genuinely under threat. As
Director of London’s National Gallery, Clark threw open
its doors to as wide an audience as possible. During
WW2 he chaired the War Artist’s Advisory Committee,
stimulating such iconic images as Henry Moore’s Shelter
drawings. In the 1950s as Chairman of the Independent
Broadcasting Authority he oversaw the creation of ITV
and pioneered broadcasting on TV with Civilisation, his
landmark history of Western culture. The series won
many awards. Our book presents the story of his life
and work through many items from his collection
including works by Leonardo da Vinci, JMW Turner, Paul
Cézanne (Bathers), Georges Seurat and Lucian Freud.
There are also bronze sculptures, an enamel casket,
African wood carvings by Henry Moore, Eve a bronze
by Rodin and some of John Piper’s images of Windsor
Castle. 160pp in very large softback published by the
Tate Gallery.
£24.99 NOW £8.50
80416 THROUGH THE
EYES OF LEONARDO DA
VINCI
by Barrington Barber
Instantly recognisable, Leonardo
Da Vinci’s work is without
parallel. He had the ability to see
beyond the norm, to notice every
nuance, every expression, every
movement and the skill to
capture these observations with
his brushes, chalks, pens and
pencils. He constantly strove for realism and often his
drawings resemble those of a draughtsman rather than
an artist. This collection of some of Leonard’s finest
drawings brings home the incredible genius of this man
who had the talent to perfectly capture the charisma of a
cat, the tender glance of a young woman, the toned
body of a young man and amazing caricature-type
portraits of people he saw around him. His observations
of the natural world are impressive, and the book
includes a remarkable drawing in red chalk of a copse of
birches, one of the finest groups of trees ever drawn.
Distinguished Leonardo scholar, Kenneth Clark, remarked
that, technically, the drawing was a miracle, and
wondered how the artist could sharpen a piece of red
chalk so finely that he could show the boughs and
leaves of the trees with such luminous clarity. This is a
stunning collection of Leonardo Da Vinci’s exciting and
beautiful drawings. Softback 11" x 9", 128pp. Colour and
mono sketches.
£7.99 NOW £4
80265 LURE OF GOLD:
An Artistic and
Cultural History
by Hans-Gert Bachmann
Gold is a rare valuable metal,
immortal in that it resists
corrosion. For the god-kings of
Egypt, gold was the flesh of
the immortals. El Dorado the
Gilded One, was the
Columbian name for a ruler considered the equal of the
Sun. Every Bible concordance has a reference to the
gold-covered columns of the temple that Solomon built.
The metal has always had a place in language as the
epitome of the beautiful, the noble, the unique. This
spectacular heavyweight tome, a US first edition, is a
glittering accolade. The author is a noted
archaeometallurgist who devotes each chapter to one
historical epoch finding out how people mined, refined
and worked gold, and how it affected them socially and
economically. He devotes special attention to gold’s
place in art history discussing the funerary mask of
Tutankhamun, Roman coins bearing imperial portraits,
amazingly intricate Etruscan and Celtic jewellery,
bejewelled medieval book covers, reliquaries and
crucifixes. A chapter about gold in modern society, by
an art historian, illustrates the contemporary goldsmith’s
work and even
Gustav Klimt’s golddrenched canvas The
Kiss. All these
glittering objets d’art
are depicted in 285
stunning full colour
photos and eight
specially commissioned
maps. With gold foil
blocking on the front
cover (naturally), a
huge tome 10" x 12",
280 heavyweight
glossy pages.
£42 NOW £14
80417 THROUGH THE EYES
OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
by Barrington Barber
Perhaps mainly celebrated for his
paintings of sunflowers, this is a look
at the works of Vincent Van Gogh,
the most disturbed of artists. By
utilising the letters exchanged
between Vincent and his brother,
Theo, the author brings life to the
works depicted here as we look at them afresh through
Vincent’s troubled eyes. Born in 1853, the young
Vincent was ‘intensely serious and uncommunicative,
and walked around clumsily, in a daze with his head
hung low.’ His first employment was as a junior clerk at
an art dealers, and at the age of 20, when living in
England, took up drawing. In his late twenties he was
introduced to watercolour paints by a cousin, later
experimenting with oils. His first major work, The Potato
Eaters, used, like many of his early works, a very
limited palette of browns, and many paintings didn’t sell
on account of being ‘too sombre for current Parisian
taste’. He attempted various styles, being influenced by
artists such as Seurat and Picasso, and began to use
more colours, and as Impressionism took hold found his
own niche in paintings such as the evocative Café
Terrace at Night at Arles and the vivid Wheat Stacks In
Provence (both paintings 1888). By now his mental
health was deteriorating, but he was still able to reflect
the colours he saw around him in Provence. All his
much-loved works are here, including Starry Night,
Chair, Self- portrait With a Bandaged Ear, Sunflowers
and the disturbing Wheatfield With Crows. Softback 11"
x 9", 128pp, colour illus.
£7.99 NOW £4
79996 LEADING ‘THE SIMPLE LIFE’
by Wendy Kaplan
Sub-titled ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain
1880-1910’, Bibliophile has imported this rare WolfsonianFlorida International University publication. It is a
museum and research centre of art and design and the
collection houses more than 70,000 objects designed for
unity, fitness of purpose, individual creativity and the
use of appropriate materials. We begin with a beautiful
Pugin garden seat in bright folkloric colour, a William
Morris book cover “The Roots of the Mountain” and a
Walter Crane book illustration. Cabinetry and furniture,
book design, coloured panels, a fireplace surround, silver
presentation bowl, rocking chair, a girl weighing love
against riches enamel designed by Edith Brearey
Dawson and Nelson Dawson, photographs of students
from the Arts and Crafts period, a hearth rug, heavy
wooden furniture, before we begin the M. H. Baillie
Scott and the Arts and Crafts Interiors section. Beautiful
illus, softback, 56pp.
ONLY £6.50
78670 NUBIAN PHARAOHS: Black
Kings on the Nile
by Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle
Discover a cache of splendid stautues, recently
unearthed in Sudan that are already ranked as
masterpieces of art history. Archaeologist Charles
Bonnet and his team discovered a ditch within a temple
from the ancient city of Pnoubs which contained seven
monumental black granite statues. Magnificently
sculpted, and in an excellent state of preservation, they
portrayed five pharaonic rulers including Taharqa and
Tanutamun, the last two pharaohs of the ‘Nubian’
dynasty, when Egypt was ruled by kings from the lands
of modern-day Sudan. The Nubian pharaohs governed
Egypt and Nubia with an empire stretching from the
Delta to the upper reaches of the Nile. The colossal
statue of Taharqa, the head of King Anlamani, an aerial
view of the temple at Tabo and the statue of a Meroitic
king during restoration with the gold leaf. 10" x 14", 216
pages, colour photos and map.
£39.95 NOW £16
74881 HIERONYMUS BOSCH COMPLETE
WORKS
by Stefan Fischer
In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the
Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter
Hieronymus Bosch’s (c.1450-1516) paintings were
populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures
succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy and
angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the
figural and scenic representations known as drolleries,
which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate
sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of
illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings.
Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as
centaurs and mythological creatures such as unicorns,
devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless
mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. Bosch,
whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken, was
widely copied and imitated. Today only 20 paintings
and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Bosch’s
oeuvre. Featuring new photography of recently
restored paintings, a huge fold-out spread, over 110cm
(43") long, of The Garden of Earthly Delights. 11.4" x
15.6", 300 pages, decorated carry-handled slipcase.
ONLY £100
78647 JOSEPH URBAN
by John Loring
Joseph Urban began his career as an architect and artist
of the Hagenbund, an offshoot of the Vienna Secession
movement. He moved to America in 1911 and became
the Art Director of the Boston Opera and to design stage
sets for the Ziegfeld Follies. Two years later he was
signed on as Principle Set Director of the Metropolitan
Opera in NY. He also designed theatres, department
stores, hotel ball rooms, nightclubs, furniture and even
Hollywood film sets. In 1922 he opened a Wiener
Werkstätte showroom on Fifth Avenue where he
introduced such great Viennese artists as Gustav Klimt
and Egon Schiele to America for the first time. His
versatility as an artist is evident in his broad range of
styles - Symbolist, Art Nouveau, Secessionist, Art Deco
and Modernist. 200 colour illus culled from the archives
of a rare book collection from glamorous apartments,
drawings for department stores, book illustrations,
contemporary photos and more. 224 very large pages.
£29.99 NOW £13
Paper Engineering
Masterpieces
80306 INTERACTIVE ART
BOOK by Ron Van Der Meer
and Frank Whitford
Paper engineering expert Van Der
Meer has produced 12 interactive
detailed 3D models with insets
and facts, a colour-mixing disc, a
mobile which can be hung then
replaced in the book, an abstract
composition which can be pressed
out and kept in a transparent frame. There’s a pop-up
of Theo Van Doesburg’s The Cow 1917 complete with
easel and the artist himself, and transparencies to lift as
we study Edgar Degas’s The Dancing Class, a 3D of
Velázquez’s Las
Meninas. Plus dozens
of lift-the-flaps of
famous artworks
throughout the
centuries with
preparatory
drawings and
explanations. Inserted in
the back cover is an interactive
art activity book where artists of all
ages can study composition, illusion, rubbed
textures such as one by Max Ernst, scratch pictures,
collage, printmaking, potato prints and advanced prints,
sculpture, movement by making your own flicker book
and detective work in studying the psychology and
meanings of landscape and objects within an artwork.
There are 3D glasses in a special pocket to use as we
look at perspective from the work of Hogarth to
Magritte. In all seven gatefolds, 60 art masterpieces,
25 with lift-the-flaps, 12 three dimensional models and
an 18 page paperback.
£20 NOW £8
80161 MARVEL 3D COMIC
STICKER BOOK
by Parragon
Put on your 3D glasses enclosed
in the front cover and use your
stickers to read the comic book,
finish the drawing scene and use
your own colouring pencils to bring
comic adventure to life. Don’t
forget to add speech bubbles and
sound effects to make your comics super cool. Iron
Man has joined forces with the Avengers. This is the
story of how the superheroes work together to protect
Earth from villains who want to destroy it. The second
awesome story is Captain America who gets his new
Super-Soldier body and became very angry. With 75
colour stickers we read about the mysterious beginnings
of two of the world’s most famous Marvel comic
heroes. Colour paperback.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
80311 LONDON THROUGH
TIME: Cities Unfolded
by Nick Maland and Angela
McAllister
Unfolded in two meters length is 2,000
years of history. The book is a
concertina. All in colour and actually
designed for children, this is one of our
pet loves, a beautifully paperengineered book. Meet Maisie and
Max and join them on a journey back
78342 BEHIND THE COLONNADE: 37 Years
at the British Museum by Norman Jacobs
Norman Jacobs worked for 37 years later as Manager of
Human Resources to the British Museum’s 1100
employees. He was intimately involved in a number of
key decisions and projects such as the separation of the
British Library, the building of the Great Court and the
controversy over free admission. Here is an affectionate
and light-hearted peek behind the scenes at some of the
great characters and amusing incidents. 216pp,
paperback, photos.
£9.99 NOW £2.50
78358 GOTHIC GLORIES: Pitkin Guide Book
and CD by Alexandrina Buchanan
Gothic architecture, adapted for military and domestic
requirements, was a powerful symbol of wealth and
prestige. Pictured is the traceries and gabbled windows
of Stokesay Castle in Shropshire, an elaborate silver-gilt
container for salt, the medieval Round Table now
hanging in the Great Hall of Winchester Castle, probably
used for a pageant based on the stories of King Arthur.
Glossy large paperback of 20 pages with accompanying
CD of 19 tracks of gothic music to set the mood.
£7 NOW £1.75
79593 GOYA by Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen
From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific
scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya
y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s
most revered and controversial artists. A master of form
and light, his influence reverberates down the centuries.
Born in Fuendetodos, Spain, in 1746, Goya was
apprenticed to the Spanish royal family in 1774, where
he produced etchings and tapestry cartoons for grand
palaces and royal residences across the country. Later,
after a bout of illness, the artist moved towards darker
etchings and drawings, introducing a nightmarish realm
of witches, ghosts and fantastical creatures. Executed
between 1810 and 1820, The Disasters of War was
inspired by atrocities committed during the Spanish
struggle for independence from the French and
penetrated the very heart of human cruelty and sadism.
We encounter such famed portraits as Don Manuel
Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga, the dazzling Naked Maja,
and The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, one of the most
heart-stopping images of war in the history of art.
Chronological summary, a concise biography and 100
illus. 8.3" x 10.2", 96 pages.
ONLY £9
in time through the streets of London imagining the
sounds and smells and discovering who lived there and
what they did. The Romans are the first to live beside
the River Thames and they have built a port, a
market, temples and bath houses. Rats from medieval
ships have brought plague to London. The first English
books are printed in these Tudor workshops on Fleet
Street. Then turn over the concertina to read through
Edwardian times to the 21st century. Beautifully
illustrated rather special collectable book. Comes in
cardboard sleeve.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
80295 ARMOUR: A
Three Dimensional
Exploration
by Bob Moulder
Collectors of 3D pop-up
books, whatever your age,
will appreciate the paper
engineering and skill that has
gone into producing this liftthe-flap book of battle scenes and armour. Armour
must protect the warrior from his enemies but also be a
symbol of pride for the person wearing it. So it is
beautiful as well as practical. Our book features big
pictures of warriors
and knights with
their armour, from
leather armour
worn by Greek
warriors around
450BC, steel-plated
armour of 14th
century English knights,
decorative patterned armour of 13th
to 15th century Japanese knights,
the Samurai warrior, to warfare in
late Middle Ages, depicted with popups and lift-the-flaps. With text
beneath the flaps naming the piece
and a description of how it was used
and text along the way. Big colour
illus, suit ages eight to adult.
£14.99 NOW £6
79907 KNIGHTS: A 3Dimensional Exploration
by John Howe
Open the pages of this
spectacular pop-up to see a
medieval battlefield with
knights on horseback, foot
soldiers and weapons. Pop
out the three-dimensional
dragon and read about the myths and legends of
medieval times. Lift the flaps to reveal the components
of the suit of
armour and find
out how they
have been
passed on from
generation to
generation. But
who were the
knights, where
did they come
from and how
did they live?
With enchanting
and atmospheric
illustrations and a lively text, map and fine paper
engineering bringing us to learn about famous knights
and the crusades. Ages five to adult. Colour.
£14.99 NOW £6
78424 MUCHA by Patrick Bade
The Czech artist Mucha is often regarded as the
standard-bearer of Art Nouveau with his sinuous lines
and symbolist imagery, and his work has always been
popular because he excelled at poster design. Together
with the composer Janacek, Mucha aimed to create a
national Czech artistic style, and this chunky book has
reproductions of his work on every double spread,
accompanied by information about his life and style on
the facing page. This was the era of King Ludwig of
Bavaria and his Gothic fantasies, with Klee and
Kandinsky leading the avant garde. Mucha’s poster of
Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda convinced Paris that
posters could be great art. His decorative panels “The
Moon and the Stars” have more subtlety than the
better-known posters, and Mucha also designed
jewellery for Georges Fouquet. 256pp, colour
reproductions. New publication.
ONLY £9
78517 WYNDHAM LEWIS
by Richard Humphreys
In 1909 Wyndham Lewis exhibited The Theatre
Manager, which earned him immediate notoriety as well
as critical abuse due to its bizarre mix of styles, following
it up with The Celibate, which, with its geometrical lines,
demonstrated the impact of Cubist art on his work. His
1926 Abstract Composition in pen and ink, watercolour
and wash pencil, were complex and often stunning,
while a swirly abstract of gouache and wash painted in
1949, What the Sea is Like at Night, demonstrates how
he was desperately trying to find a way to cope with
the onset of blindness. Explores Lewis’ career as both a
painter and a writer. Paperback. 80pp, colour.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
79436 TYPOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
by Roxane Jubert
From posters and notices to logos, font sets, page design,
sign posting, postage stamps, monograms, typographic
images, pictograms such as used at airports, Olympic
games, trade fairs and exhibitions, advertising and graphic
design in detail, used in the Soviet Union for propaganda,
avant-garde exile and survival, classic logos such as Yves
Saint-Laurent which are instantly recognisable and
unusual cross fertilisations. 850 images, plus erotic
ornamental lettering from Aubrey Beardsley, posters by
Charles Rennie Macintosh to Victorian posters in the
Japanese style. Rizzoli publication, 432pp. 9½” x 11".
£47.50 NOW £10
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79087 REMBRANDT ON PAPER
by Hilary Williams
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) has come to symbolise
the Golden Age of Dutch Art. A gifted landscape and
portrait painter, he was also an inspired graphic artist.
The drawings and etchings on display are from the rich
collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA and the
British Museum. The Angel preventing Abraham from
sacrificing his son Isaac, a portrait of Maria Trip, of his
contemporaries like a Jewish physician in a very fine
etching, dry point and burin, 1647, the Rat Catcher, the
Elephant, Christ Healing the Sick, Biblical subjects,
landscapes and portraits, the book explores the techniques
of his drawing and printmaking. 54 colour illus. 96pp.
£9.99 NOW £4
78549 RICHARD CATON WOODVILLE:
American Painter, Artful Dodger
by Justin Wolff
When Richard Woodville died at the age of 30 in 1855,
he left behind him a small body of exquisite painting
depicting American life with a penetrating and often
satirical eye. Born into a wealthy Baltimore family, he
became a painter in spite of parental disapproval. His
pencil studies of ordinary people, for instance inmates of
almshouses, are exquisite in their detail and the depth of
what they suggest about personality. “The card players”
brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of smoke and
deception in a seedy back room, and a similar subject in
“Waiting for the Stage” shows three card players in a
tavern while the mirror on the wall indicates that one of
them is cheating. “Politics in an Oyster House” brings to
life two vividly argumentative characters, and “The
Cavalier’s Return” is a romantic historical painting
depicting a scene from 17th century England. 208pp,
colour and black and white reproductions.
£46.95 NOW £6.50
79531 LONDON’S BRIDGES
by Peter Matthews
A big, glamorous Shire book studying London’s history
which is inseparable from that of its bridges. This
beautiful, fully illustrated history of the Thames between
Hampton Court and Tower Bridge is the story of the
evolution of bridge design, architecture, the engineers
who designed them, and historical events with which
they are associated. Paintings range from Whistler and
Canaletto, to Monet and beautiful engravings by W.
Wallis from 1817 and from The Illustrated London News.
With fact boxes about Isambard Kingdom Brunel,
contemporary colour photos, postcards, sculptures such
as Thornycroft’s dramatic statue of Boadicea. 176
pages, large softback.
$25.95 NOW £8
78862 FITZ HENRY LANE AND MARY BLOOD
MELLEN: Old Mysteries and New
Discoveries by John Wilmerding
Fitz Henry Lane (1804-65) and his extremely gifted
acolyte Mary Blood Mellen (1819-86) were two of the
most well-known and talented of the Hudson River
School of artists based in New England in the 19th
century. Their views (almost invariably oils on canvas)
of the Massachusetts coast are among the best-loved
and most desirable painting in American art. The book
shows not just the many aspects of this beautiful
coastline but also the development of maritime history
before and during the Civil War. Here are schooners
fighting to stay upright in heavy seas, calm harbours at
sunset, fishermen casting their nets from open boats in
the moonlight and idyllic coves captured in a light that is
utterly bewitching. 50 works reproduced full page, 50
other photos. 112pp, 12"×9¾”.
ONLY £7.50
79090 DIEGO RIVERA: The Cubist Portraits
1913-1917
by Sylvia Navarrete et al
A rare, 2009 Philip Wilson Publication produced to
accompany an exhibition in Dallas of the same year.
Covering the years 1913-1917, the volume focuses on a
crucial stage in the Mexican artist’s career while living in
Paris and travelling in Europe with other avant-garde
intellectuals and artists. Enjoy the bold colours and
shapes of the portrait of Madam Marguerite Lhote,
Seated Woman, Angelina and Baby Diego, Maternity,
Portrait of Maximilian Voloshin with periodicals, revolver
and woman’s face behind the portrait of Ramón Gómez
de la Serna. How does Rivera manage to transmit the
wide ranging imagination of his model? The dense
composition intermingles the Cubist technique of
depicting fractured views of people and objects as if
‘rotated’ in space, together with realistically rendered
biographical elements, evoking his model’s taste for
Surrealist accretion in his novels in this instance. 168
very large glossy pages. 24.7 x 31cm. First edition.
£31 NOW £8.50
79464 WHAT ARE YOU
LOOKING AT? The
Surprising, Shocking and
Sometimes Strange Story of
150 Years of Modern Art
by Will Gompertz
What is modern art? There is
plenty here on the history of the
biggest artists, patrons, museums
and collectors plus the stories
behind the masterpieces, from
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to Damien Hirst’s pickled
shark, Picasso, Pollock, Monet’s Water Lilies to Warhol’s
soup cans, Lichtenstein’s Whaam! to Carl Andre’s
Equivalent VIII
(aka “that pile of
bricks in the
Tate”).
Gompertz takes
a machete to
the thicket of
pretentious
artspeak. 455pp,
29 colour plates,
39 in b/w.
£17.99 NOW
£4.50
80397 HISTORY OF
ARCHITECTURE
by Gaynor Aaltonen
Whether you seek out castles,
skyscrapers, cathedrals, towers,
domes, palaces or timber-framed
cottages, you can read about
them here. From the earliest
pyramids and ziggurats to the
latest elegant glass edifices and
eco-friendly buildings, this superb
book, containing over 420
photographs, covers them all. Immensely readable, the
book covers the stories behind the constructions, such as
that of the beautiful Red House, commissioned by
William Morris in 1859 to encapsulate ‘all that he loved
about the simple, solid domestic architecture of the
Middle Ages.’ By contrast, 60 years early, James Wyatt,
who was ‘ a pretty awful architect, in practical terms’,
paired up with sugar trade heir William Beckford to
design a fantasy
building, Fonthill
Abbey, near Bath,
liberally dotted with
towers and spires.
Having bankrupted the
fabulously wealthy
Beckford, Fonthill
promptly fell down.
Large format softback,
11" x 9", 256pp. Colour
illus.
£12.99 NOW £6
78681 PYRAMIDS PORTFOLIO: 10 Fine
Lithographs by David Roberts RA
The images are taken from David Roberts’ travels to
Egypt and the Holy Land and his engravings ‘Egypt and
Nubia’ (1846-1849). The Pyramids of Giza seen from
the Nile with a man smoking in the foreground, a family
scene with a child being embraced by his be-slippered
father, the mother veiled, four great pyramids clearly
seen in the background, the felucca and boats on the
calm water this is just one of the hand-painted images,
now in a 18½” wide by 13" deep frameable print, from
a collection of ten. The arrival of Simùn in Giza has an
amazing red sky contrasting with the outline of the
Sphinx. The Giza ferry in the port of Cairo, the
Pyramids of Cheops and Chephren and the ruins of a
minaret near the citadel are among the ten colour
images. Large softback wallet.
£29.95 NOW £6
79092 EDVARD MUNCH:
Complete Graphic
Works by Gerd Woll
Munch’s striking and emotive
graphic works have fascinated
people worldwide for over a
century. Mostly in colour, the
photographs of all the 748 registered
prints are provided in a splendid art
book and this beautifully illustrated
volume remains the standard work
for years to come. The Girls on the Bridge, self
portraits, Young Woman on the Beach, Evening
Melancholy, Desire, Farewell After the Party, Woman
Bathing, Boys Bathing, Jacob E. Goldstein portrait,
Burlesque Dance Scene, caricatures and studies,
monkeys and birds, seated nudes, three old ladies,
bartenders, engineers and more, plus of course The
Scream. When he died in 1944 he bequeathed his own
vast collection of some 17,000 print impressions from a
total output between 20,000 and 25,000, to the City of
Oslo. This catalogue raisonné gives complete details
about technique, editions, states, versions, reprints and
where to find the many surviving lithographic stones,
woodblocks and metal plates in the Munch Museum.
First edition 2012. Includes pen drawings, hectographs,
post-humorous re-strikes, facsimiles and fakes and
important exhibitions 1895-1944 and 1946-2011.
Heavyweight tome, 257pp, 7½” x 12½”.
£120 NOW £36
78055 EDVARD MUNCH THE MODERN EYE
edited by Angela Lampe
and Clement Cheroux
!
On the Operating Table, Workers on Their Way Home,
Red Virginia Creeper and Street in Asgardstrand, Death
Struggle, Sacrament and more masterpieces are all
reproduced faithfully in this beautiful Tate publication. A
biography Edvard Munch, his life as an amateur
filmmaker as shown in his photography, cinematography
and a renewal of the theatrical mise-en-scène, all of
these media left their mark on his paintings. But perhaps
the notoriety of The Scream and other works from his
intensely productive early period have overshadowed
the talent of this precursor of the modern artists who
succeeded him. Hundreds of examples plus self portraits
and studio shots and previously un-translated writings.
Softback, 320pp, 9¼” x 12".
£29.99 NOW £8
79607 EL GRECO
by Michael Scholz-Hänsel
To his contemporaries in late 16th century Venice, El
Greco (1541-1614) was a contrary fellow. Throughout
his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice, to
Rome and ultimately Toledo, Spain, “The Greek” stood
apart from his peers, merging different Western art
traditions to create a unique pictorial language. El
Greco’s single-minded style rejected naturalism and
rejected accessibility. Works such as The Disrobing of
Christ (1577-79), The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
(1586-88), and The Vision of St John (1608-14) reveal
elongated, twisted figures, unreal colours and an
experimental rendering of space. Explores the influences
and the ingredients of El Greco’s radical and singular
vision, from the symbolic world of Byzantine icons and
the humanistic values of the Renaissance to the nascent
beginnings of conceptual practice. Chronological
summary, a concise biography and 100 illus. 8.3" x
10.2", 96 pages.
ONLY £9
Art and Architecture 13
78760 ENGLISH GRAPHIC by Tom Lubbock
Lubbock focuses on drawings, prints and watercolours,
examining each work with care for what the artist does
and does not say. Patrick Caulfield is a contemporary
artist who uses line with the utmost economy, and his
picture “The Hermit” grips Lubbock because the hermit is
staring out into complete blankness. The visionary printmaker Blake is a source of endless fascination, and
Lubbock also focuses on Blake’s near-contemporary
Samuel Palmer, whose luminous ink and gum painting
“Early Morning” is one of the great visionary
masterpieces. Other pictures include the nightmare
imaginings of Fuseli and the almost abstract landscapes
of Francis Towne, while the London Underground Map
and a gouty foot by Gillray with an accompanying devil
bring us down to earth. 208pp, illus, colour.
£20 NOW £7
79274 FACE OF JESUS by Edward Lucie-Smith
Caravaggio’s Jesus can be contrasted with Rembrandt’s
version of the same scene, with Jesus in commanding
silhouette. This fascinating book takes the viewer
through Jesus’ life as recorded in the Gospels, started
with conventional depictions of the Nativity such as
Guido Reni’s “Adoration of the Shepherds”, often seen
on Christmas cards, and the modern semi-abstract
“Flight into Egypt” by Georges Rouault, contrasted with
a strongly outlined Coptic version from the 18th century.
Images of the child Jesus are strikingly different when
painted by Leonardo, Giotto or Zurbaran. Events in
Jesus’s life include Raphael’s dramatic “Miraculous
draught of fishes”, with the muscular disciples almost
overturning their boat and Veronese’s lively and
colourful “Wedding at Cana”. The story of the Passion
occupies the second half of the book. 320pp, colour
reproductions.
£12.99 NOW £6
79382 MAKING MISCHIEF: A Maurice Sendak
Appreciation
by Gregory Maguire
Maguire is an acclaimed and somewhat idiosyncratic
author whose Wicked trilogy forms the basis for the
eponymous hit stage musical and who is a longstanding
friend of Maurice Sendak (1928-2012). He examines
Sendak’s influences; aesthetic from William Blake to Walt
Disney, and literary from Lewis Carroll to Beatrix Potter.
He explores the recurring motifs in Sendak’s work from
monsters to flying to mayhem and his profound
understanding of children, their creativity and the breadth
of emotions with which they encounter the world. Here
are not only Sendak’s artworks and preliminary sketches
but also many from those who inspired him from the
gothic and macabre. 200pp, 8½”×10¼”.
£16.99 NOW £5.75
79483 AN ARTIST ABROAD: The Prints of
James McNeill Whistler by Jane Kinsman
In July 1855, 21 year old James McNeill Whistler set off
from his native America for Europe and became a
significant cultural figure in the art worlds of France and
England. Among his greatest achievements were his
series of etchings of cities and their people that became
known as the French Set, the Thames Set, the First
Venice Set and the Second Venice Set. He became an
early devotee of Japanese woodblock prints which can
be seen in his adoption of asymmetrical compositions,
genre subject matter, flatter space, unusual viewpoints,
linear qualities, silhouetting and the cropping of subject
matter. These beautiful etchings are picturesque visions
of the everyday, noted for their beauty, painterly and
poetic qualities. Rare exhibition catalogue. Softback,
88pp.
£9.95 NOW £4.50
79588 ART NOUVEAU: Utopia, Reconciling the
Irreconcilable
by Klaus-Jürgen Sembach
For a fruitful period between the 1880s and the First
World War, European and North American culture
deferred to nature. With a symphony of flowing lines
and organic shapes, Art Nouveau (“New Art”) inflected
architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts
and illustration. Highlights include beautiful Tiffany and
Gallé vases, the Paris Metro, the plaster designs of
Franz Metzner, department stores, door handles,
furniture, dining rooms, cartoons, posters, chairs,
porcelainware, Macintosh’s Art-Lovers House design, the
work of Frank Lloyd Wright, competition award-winning
designs from Wilhelm Schmid, Austrian glassware and
more. It is a complex picture of architecture, furniture
design and craftsmanship with their corresponding
approaches to artistic revitalisation. This fresh Taschen
edition considers the style’s wider artistic, economic, and
political circumstances, as well as its particular flavour in
such hubs as Vienna, Glasgow, Munich, Weimar,
Brussels, Nancy, Barcelona, Darmstadt, Helsink and
Chicago. The Vienna chapter covers the arrival of the
Modern Style. Outstanding proponents such as Victor
Horta, Antoni Gaudí and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are
featured. 9.4" x 12.4", 240 pages. From Taschen.
ONLY £18
79591 PAUL CEZANNE: Pioneer of Modernism
by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant
countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes
that would become anchors of modern art. With
compact, intense dabs of paint and bold new approaches
to light and space, he mediated the way from
Impressionism to the defining movements of the early
20th century and became, in the words of both Matisse
and Picasso, “father of us all.” This fresh artist
introduction selects key works from Cézanne’s oeuvre to
understand his development, innovation and crucial
influence on modern art. From compositions of fruits and
pears to scenes of outdoor bathers, we trace his
experimentation with colour, perspective and texture to
evoke “a harmony parallel to Nature,” as well as the
very process of seeing and recording. Along the way,
we discover Cézanne’s celebrated Card Players, his
layering of warm and cool hues to build up form and
surface, and the geometric rigor of his landscapes from
the vicinity of Aix-en-Provence such as The Cutting.
Chronological summary, 100 illus. 8.3" x 10.2", 96
pages.
ONLY £9
79424 JAPANESE
WOODBLOCKS:
Masterpieces of Art
by Michael Robinson
A beautiful book full of the
iconic characteristic woodblock
prints so distinctive of
Japanese art. ‘Woodblock
printing in Japan, known as
moku hanga, is most
effectively demonstrated in the ukiyo-e prints of the
Edo period.’ The prints depicted the lifestyles of the
middle-classes during the Edo period (1603-1868), and
the styles vary from dramatic and vibrant to delicate
beauty. Thematically arranged, with full page prints, it
covers Beautiful Women, Landscapes, Kabuki Theatre
and Flora and Fauna, with prints from pioneers such as
Okumura Masanobu and Suzuki Haranobu to the
modern movement, including Hashiguchi Goyo, whose
stunning Woman After a Bath uses a fine-line
technique which bears similarities to the work of Henri
Matisse. The atmospheric ‘Mon Hon Temple at
Ikegami Under
the Snow’ by
Hasui Kawase is
a beautiful,
modern
woodblock print
from 1931.
128pp, colour
illus.
£12.99 NOW
£7.50
79599 PIRANESI THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS
by Luigi Ficacci
The most famous 18th century copper
engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made
his name with etchings of ancient Rome. This catalogue
of the complete etchings discovers his masterpieces and
perspective on architecture, views of villas and other
sites of Tuscany, various views of ancient and modern
Rome, a new plan of Rome, some views of triumphal
arches and monuments, grotesques, fantasy of
architecture with the Fall of Phaeton, the antiquities of
Rome, ruins, Capitoline inscriptions, the Campus Martius
of Ancient Rome, antiquities of Albano, Cori, Blackfriars
Bridge, ways of ornamenting chimney pieces, vases,
candelabra, gravestones and sarcophagi and ornamental
letters in the Graphic Ornament section. Exquisite
etchings, heavyweight, 5.5" x 7.7", 856 pages.
Taschen.
ONLY £13
79294 PUBLIC TOILET
DESIGN: From Hotels,
Bars, Restaurants, Civic
Buildings and Businesses
Worldwide edited by
Francesc Zamora Mola
In four chapters - Leisure and
Culture, Hospitality, Working
Environments and Community
Spaces - the book takes a global survey of public toilets.
The 60 designs selected use contrasting modern,
industrial materials, stonework with sustainable methods
of water conservation, elegance and privacy. See the
sea creature design of the Kumutoto toilets with
cantilevered tails of the shrimp providing natural
ventilation in Wellington, New Zealand. The bright red,
colourful modern toilets at the Siemens headquarters and
warm Iroko wood floorings used in an Italian distillery.
288pp, large softback, 250 colour photos.
£25 NOW £5
79601 RAPHAEL by Christof Thoenes
From 1500 to 1508, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) worked
throughout central Italy, particularly Florence where he
secured his reputation as a painter of portraits and
beautifully rendered Madonnas, archetypical icons within
the Catholic faith. We learn of his apprenticeship, the
large altarpieces and about his patron, Agostino Chigi,
portraits and a biography. In 1508 he was summoned
to Rome by Pope Julius II and later embarked on an
ambitious mural scheme for the Stanza della Segnatura
in the Vatican. With highlights from his prolific output,
including St. Cecilia, The Release of Peter, The Mass at
Bolsena, St. Catherine of Alexandria, The Three Graces,
The Knight’s Dream, The Marriage and Coronation of
the Virgin and more including self portraits. 8.3" x 10.2",
96 pages.
ONLY £9
79299 TALK ABOUT
TRIBAL ART by Berenice
Geoffroy-Schneiter
What can a ‘totem’ from British
Columbia, an Aborigine bark
painting, and Amazonian feather
headdress, a Maori meeting house,
a Dogon mask, and Inca feather
poncho, an Inuit sculpture, or a
nails and button sculpture have in
common? Perhaps the impulse to create beauty that is
subordinated to the sacred. Learn, understand and
compare ideas about the origins, styles and forms,
functions, myths, key dates and far-reaching influence of
tribal art. The book covers 46 key terms, 30 significant
tribal artworks beautifully photographed in colour, 17
prominent advocates. 256pp, large softback.
£18.95 NOW £5.50
79953 SACRED ART by Jenni Davis
This beautiful book looks at devotional art, both
traditional and modern. The full colour images on every
page range from those by Raphael and Botticelli to
Holman Hunt and Burne-Jones. It also depicts sculptures,
stained glass, manuscripts, carvings and embroideries. A
carving on a capital in Wells Cathedral depicts the agonies
of toothache, while one in St Davids Cathedral shows
the misery of seasickness. Humour is everywhere - in
the stone carvings, in the roof bosses, in the misericords;
these craftsman took delight in their work and wanted to
be remembered for it.’ 80pp. Colour illus.
£7 NOW £4
14 Art and Architecture cont.
79535 MATISSE: Tate
Introductions
by Juliette Rizzi
Henri Matisse is considered one of
the leaders of the Fauvist
movement and developed his
interest in the decorative and
experimented with flatness of
colour. He created a large and
diverse body of work encompassing
drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramics. After 1948 he
was prevented from painting by ill health, but although
confined to bed, he produced one of his most powerful
bodies of work, the ‘Cut-Outs’, made by cutting or
tearing shapes from painted paper. 80 page paperback,
full page colour plates and excellent text from the Tate
Gallery.
£6.99 NOW £4
79094 MAXFIELD PARRISH: Master of MakeBelieve
by Alma Gilbert
American artist Maxfield Parrish was a master of fantasy
painting, creating ethereal other-worlds and using just
the right shades of colour to make his subjects vital. In
his mid-twenties Maxfield began designing covers for
‘Harper’s Magazine’ which led to other commissions for
posters, magazines, and more importantly, for three
books including ‘Mother Goose in Prose’, and various
fairy tale publications. This book was produced to
accompany a travelling exhibition. As well as well as
containing dozens of his works, including some that open
out into a three page spread, it has a chapter on the
conservation and restoration of three seven-foot by fourfoot mural panels painted by Maxfield Parrish in a home
in Delaware. 11" x 9.5", 136pp. Colour illus.
£37 NOW £8
79847 ALFRED STIEGLITZ: A Legacy of Light
by Katherine Hoffman
Photography in the 21st century has become
a significant art form and photographer Alfred Stieglitz
(1864-1946) was revered and idolised by a community
of loyal followers. This magnificent volume offers a
compelling portrait of his life and art from 1915-46,
focussing on his American works, issues of identity and
rise of modernism in America. The author explores his
roles as photographer, editor, writer and gallery director
and how they intersected with his personal life including
his marriage to the artist
Georgia O’Keeffe and his
place in the cultural milieu of
the 20th century. She has
included a substantial number
of excerpts from letters, many
published for the first time
from those which had been
sealed for 50 years following
his death in 1946 which were
opened in 2006. They reveal
the fervour and complexity of
his relationship with O’Keeffe,
his passion for photography
and modern art and his
continual struggle to have
photography recognised as an established artistic
medium. Along with his work as an editor and writer of
short stories, they illuminate his literary side. Hoffman
also discovers some of his lesser known photographs
giving a new perspective on his whole oeuvre.
Facsimile of his letters, 300 photos, the subjects range
from people, trees, lakes, hands, buildings, babies to
abstracts and paintings by O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove and
others. Yale University Press 2011, 483pp in
heavyweight hardback. 9" x 11".
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collection superbly depicts the story of the emancipation
of the drawing from its subservient role as the painter’s
tool to highly esteemed work of art in itself. 234 colour
and mono illus. by 66 artists, each of the five main
sections is introduced with an essay contributed by
experts in their field. Full details of artist, medium, year,
size, literature and provenance and there is also an
accompanying detailed analysis that points out the most
deliciously fascinating details. 336pp, 9¾”×12".
£35 NOW £16.50
79924 VELAZQUEZ: The Complete Paintings
by Fernando Checa
One of the greatest painters of all time,
Velázquez produced subtle portraits which seem to
penetrate the sitter’s soul. Among his most famous
portraits is a realistic study of Pope Innocent X, the hardfeatured ambitious politician of the Pamphilj dynasty.
Born in Seville, he became the favoured court painter of
the Spanish King Philip IV, and his numerous studies of
Philip include a heroic portrait of the king on horseback,
masterfully controlling his mount, and a few years later
a more thoughtful study of “Philip IV in Brown and
Silver”, a meditative pose of the king in ceremonial
costume, with the glittering robes. Velazquez’s many
portraits of European royalty include Mary of Austria,
Queen of Hungary, depicted with dignity and character
rather than conventional beauty. His striking classical
studies include a vivid imagining of Mars, the war god,
resting after battle, his muscled torso slumped in
weariness. Among Velázquez’s controversial paintings is
the “Fable of Arachne”, in which Arachne has woven a
tapestry casting doubt on Jupiter’s morals and is
condemned to be transformed into a spider. The work is
often seen as an allusion to the theoretical and practical
aspects of artistic creation. A superb catalogue
raissonné. 223pp, bibliography, colour reproductions of
all Velázquez’s works.
$150 NOW £40
79990 UNSEEN VOGUE: The Secret History of
Fashion Photography
by Robin Derrick and Robin Muir
In an average issue of Vogue there are over 400
images; fashion shoots, still lifes, portraits or paparazzi
shots which the staff have selected as the best
photographs to grace the issue. Leafing through the
pages of this hefty book reveals an amazing fashion
cornucopia of photographs from pre-war to the early
2000s. Many of the images are stunning, often featuring
famous models such as Twiggy or Claudia Schiffer,
although there are others which are rather ‘off the wall’
and it is easy to see why they were rejected. Cecil
Beaton had a rocky relationship with Vogue, and in 1954
was told that they could not use a whole photoshoot
that he had produced as it did not put over the message
of ‘what to wear’ because he had not used the chosen
accessories. As well as photos, there are letters, such as
one with an agreement to pay photographer David
Bailey £600 for a year and correspondence with Cecil
Beaton. Beautifully produced. Softback. 352pp, colour
and b/w photos.
£25 NOW £8
LITERATURE AND
CLASSICS
He was in the frame of mind when a weaker
man would have started writing poetry.
- P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Moonshine
£35 NOW £22.50
79882 BUILDING OF ENGLAND: How the
History of England has Shaped Our
Buildings by Simon Thurley
Architectural history tends to cluster round labels for
periods and styles, but in this glorious must-have book of
beautiful pictures and readable text, Simon Thurley sets
out to examine the buildings of England from a different
perspective, one of function. Property transfer on a large
scale took place four times: the Norman plunder of
Anglo-Saxon estates, the Dissolution of the Monasteries
by Henry VIII, the Civil War and finally World War I,
which finally saw the dispersion of the great estates of
the aristocracy. Royal households were still often on the
move the middle ages, and the castles of Dover, Orford
and Scarborough were renewed by Henry II to establish
cultural and military supremacy. In the sixth century,
Pope Gregory founded England’s first cathedral at
Canterbury, where the round-ended cathedral apse
became a throughway to allow pilgrims from all over the
world to inspect Becket’s relics. With the industrial
revolution came a new style of public architecture such
as Arkwright’s Mill at Cromford, and the 19th century
saw railway architecture booming alongside civic
buildings such as Birmingham Town Hall. Tube stations,
schools, prisons, hospitals and insurance offices are
among some of the era-defining modern buildings. 544
pages, lavishly illustrated in colour.
£35 NOW £11
79922 BOSCH, BRUEGHEL, RUBENS,
REMBRANDT Masterpieces of the
Albertina by Annemarie Stefes et al
The (full) names of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel
the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt Harmensz
van Rijn are familiar to almost everyone. It is impossible
not to admire and be fascinated by their artistic
achievements, which span the end of the Middle Ages to
the flowering of the Baroque era. This opulent catalogue
of the Albertina Exhibition, published in 2013, has at its
heart the monstrosities of Bosch, Brueghel’s peasant
scenes, Rubens’ family portraits and Rembrandt’s
landscapes but offers so much more besides. Here is the
work of renowned draftsmen and artists over a period of
200 years. Initially restricted to religious motifs, soon
landscapes and seascapes, topographical views,
portraits, genre scenes, still lifes and finally worldly
allegories were committed to paper. The Albertina’s
80411 SHERLOCK HOLMES:
A Gripping Casebook of
Stories: Boxed Set
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is surely one of the
most popular of all fictional
characters and the stories in this
compendium reveal many aspects
of his unique personality. From the
moment of his first appearance in
the opening chapter of A Study In Scarlet he is not just
‘A walking calendar of crime’ as their mutual friend
Stamford describes him to Dr Watson, but much else
besides. The follow up is The Sign of Four and this
compendium also includes his first appearance in the
short form, A Scandal in Bohemia, where Holmes says
to his friend ‘You share my love of all that is bizarre and
outside the conventions and humdrum routine of
everyday life.’ Sherlock’s brother Mycroft, who
belatedly made his bow in ‘The Greek Interpreter’,
features a little more extensively in The Canon than
Irene Adler who possesses ‘an extraordinary faculty for
figures.’ Other selected short stories include The
Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Engineer’s Son
and The Beryl Coronet. From Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes, enjoy The Yellow Face, The Stockbroker’s
Clerk, The Glorious Scot, The Crooked Man, The
Resident Patient and The Naval Treaty. The Study in
Scarlet in its entirety takes up pages 11-129. 15 Stories
in total and all with the wonderful contemporary
woodcut illustrations of George Hutchinson, which are
powerful and atmospheric. 384 large pages, clothbound
and silver tooled and in illustrated slipcase.
£14.99 NOW £7
78449 ADVENTURES OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES: Classic
Leather Bound Edition
by Arthur Conan Doyle
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is
my business to know what other
people don’t know. In a glamorous,
blood red bonded leather binding
with silver tooling and ropes on the
spine, dedication page and silver
gilted 416 pages, here is a classic combination including
A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red Headed League, The
Five Orange Pips, The Blue Carbuncle, The Speckled
Band, The Beryl Coronet, and The Hound of the
Baskervilles. Classic illus in macabre monochrome by
Sidney Paget. Satin bookmark.
ONLY £6
80281 SHAKESPEARE’S
COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST
by William Shakespeare and
Edmund Dulac
One of his most outstanding
achievements in book illustration,
Edmund Dulac’s The Tempest
remains the most spectacular edition
ever produced of Shakespeare’s
strange and ever-compelling drama.
It dates from 1908 and has 40
pages of colour in Dulac’s inimitable
style - dreamy, fairy like, inviting, highly imaginative,
beautifully observed natural surroundings, fairies, owls,
mushrooms, kings, Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Alonso,
Caliban and the scenes and characters exquisitely
depicted. Printed on 150gsm premium paper, large print,
144 large pages, cloth bound and gold tooled, 40 colour
plates. Plus chapter decorations.
$40 NOW £22
79395 A CHRISTMAS
IN
CAROL: Illustrated
CK
BA O C K
by Arthur Rackham S T
by Charles Dickens
Complementing the wise and witty
tales are the timeless illustrations of
Arthur Rackham who finds humour
in Scrooge’s miserly ways and
depicts him as a cranky humbug
who eventually relents and joins in
the merrymaking. See smog-bound and smoky London
on page 51, as Londoners bustle about, hither and dither
in restless haste, moaning as they went. Pen and ink
drawings, watercolours, silhouette drawings on each
page. 100pp in outsize softback reprint of the 1915
edition of this classic tale.
£9.99 NOW £3
79415 SONGS AND SONNETS OF WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
illustrated by Charles Robinson
Charles Robinson was born in London in 1870 into a
family of artists. Two brothers, Thomas and William
Heath Robinson also became prominent ‘Golden Age’
illustrators. This elegant edition of the songs and sonnets
of William Shakespeare, first published in 1915 by
Duckworth & Company, is illustrated with five full page
colour plates as well as text illustrations and decorated
initials and endpapers in green. Clothbound in red with
gold tooling and printed on 157gsm matte art paper,
each song and sonnet is beautifully typeset over one
large page in fairly large print, with decorations. With
very useful index of first lines - ‘Devouring Time, Blunt
thou the lion’s paws; Not from the stars do I my
judgement pluck.’ 242 large pages.
£18.99 NOW £7
78537 GREAT AGE OF THE ENGLISH ESSAY:
An Anthology edited by Denise Gigante
Richard Steele’s Tatler gossips about current events and
scandal, Joseph Addison’s Spectator observes real-life
rogues and politicians, Samuel Johnson’s Rambler
perambulates London, storing up thought for mental
meanderings, and the romantic recluse Thomas de
Quincey’s Opium Eater haunts the dark underworld of
psychological obsession and physical addiction. They
addressed a wide variety of topics, from the oddities of
virtuosos to the private lives of parrots and the fantastic
horrors of opium dreams. 427 paperback pages with
map of 18th century London. Chronology, glossary.
ONLY £4
78610 DICKENS’ WOMEN
by Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser
From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, Aunt Betsey
Trotwood, Mrs Chirrup from ‘Sketches for Young
Couples’, Miss Mowcher from David Copperfield, Flora
Finching from Little Dorrit (diffuse and silly, spoilt and
artless) to the celebrated Mrs Pipchin, ‘a marvellous ill
favoured, ill conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure,
with a mottled face’, Dickens observed women from the
innocent, the ridiculous to the grotesque. Also presented
here is ‘The Women in Boxes’. 96 page paperback, pen
and ink and other illus.
£8.99 NOW £2.25
78763 FAVOURITE TALES FROM THE
ARABIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS
translated by Richard F. Burton
Arabic in origin, they are also known as A Thousand and
One Nights, a collection of fairy tales, romances, legends
and exotic adventures told by Scheherazade to entertain
her husband, the king, who customarily executed his
wives after a single night. Includes six of the most
famous tales: Sinbad and the Seaman and Sinbad the
Landsman, Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba
and the Forty Thieves and also The Fisherman and the
Jinni, Judar and His Brethren, and Khalifah The
Fisherman of Baghdad. Teeming with giants,
magnificent palaces and beautiful princesses. 218pp,
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.50
79296 SHAKESPEARE: The Essential Guide to
the Plays by Professor A. D. Cousins
Written by an international team of academics, historians
and Shakespearean experts, this superb book includes
detailed relationship diagrams, family trees, plot
summaries, character lists and quotes for each play, as
well as a wealth of photos and artworks. The Bard’s
rich language, multi-dimensional characters and sparkling
poetry have had a profound influence on dramatists,
philosophers and historians. Subsequent parts analyse
each of his 38 plays, revealing their themes, contexts
and literary and cultural significance. 256 pages 24cm x
19.5 cm colour and b/w illus, timeline, charts, tables and
glossary. Softback.
$24.95 NOW £6
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79282 I USED TO KNOW THAT
SHAKESPEARE by Liz Evers
Individual synopses for each play explain all the major
players, plot lines and gossip, there is a glossary of
major characters so finally you can keep straight the
long-lost twins Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of
Syracuse. An index of famous one-liners provides a
handy reference; chapters on common quotations and
words Shakespeare ‘invented’, discover all the scandals,
from a shotgun wedding to questions of adultery,
homosexuality, ‘stolen’ poems, property shenanigans.
176pp with dedication page.
$14.95 NOW £2.75
78773 TALE OF THE CID by Andrew Lang
!
19 classic romances, folk tales sprinkled with history
featuring brave and steadfast knights, beautiful women
and the trials they share. Accompanied by 23
illustrations by H. J. Ford in beautiful intricate pen and
ink, the stories include Una and the Lion, How the Red
Cross Knight Slew the Dragon, How Don Quixote was
Enchanted, How Bradamante Conquered the Wizard,
Amys and Amyle, Guy of Warwick and the Tale of the
Cid and the medieval world of Castile and Aragon in the
year 1025. 194pp, paperback.
£10.99 NOW £3
78846 WALDEN & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
by Henry David Thoreau
No 19th century American writer can claim to be as
modern as Henry David Thoreau. Walden is his
autobiographical record of his life of relative isolation at
Walden Pond, some 20 miles west of the city of Boston,
but it is also a work of detailed natural history and the
expression of a philosophy of life by a deeply poetic
sensibility. Walden and ‘Civil Disobedience’ are reprinted
here in a new edition alongside three of Thoreau’s
seminal essays, ‘Slavery in Massachusetts’, ‘A Plea for
Captain John Brown’, and ‘Life Without Principle’. We
see the American sub-continent in the first half of the
19th century. Explanatory notes. 370 pages,
Wordsworth paperback.
ONLY £4
78849 ON LIBERTY & UTILITARIANISM
by John Stuart Mill
With an Introduction by Dr Mark G. Spencer of Brock
University, Ontario, Canada. John Stuart Mill (18061873) is the most important of Britain’s 19th century
philosophers. On Liberty (1859), Considerations on
Representative Government (1861), Utilitarianism
(1863), and The Subjection of Women (1869) are four of
his most famous works. Also included are two of his
lesser-known works - ‘The Contest in America’ (1862),
written in the context of the American Civil War; and his
Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St
Andrews (1867). Mill contributed to several
contemporary debates, including ones about where to
draw the proper boundaries between the ‘liberty of the
individual’ on one hand and the ‘security of the state’ on
the other. 616 page paperback.
ONLY £4
78884 FLASHMAN
by George MacDonald Fraser
Harry Flashman was the caddish bully of ‘Tom Brown’s
Schooldays’ but what happened after he was expelled in
drunken disgrace from Rugby School in the late 1830s?
This first instalment of the Flashman Papers describes his
early career as a soldier, duellist, lover, imposter,
coward and hero. From his adventures as a reluctant
secret agent in Afghanistan, his scandalous behaviour in
bed and battle and the Retreat from Kabul are told by
the foul-mouthed swaggerer. Studded with such great
figures as Wellington, Queen Victoria, Dr Arnold,
Cardigan and Akbar Khan. 256pp with glossary,
facsimile reprint of the 1969 original Flashman Papers
1839-1842.
£14.99 NOW £3
79086 BRIEF GUIDE TO THE MODERN
LIBRARY by Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
For surrealists, there is Henry Green and Ivy ComptonBurnett, for romantics Rosamunde Lehmann, Louis de
Bernières and Sybille Bedford, for wits Muriel Spark, G.
J. Farrell, for murder fiends Agatha Christie and Elmore
Leonard, Carl Hiaasen and Donna Tartt, Roy Heath and
P. D. James, not to speak of Bret Easton Ellis; for Cold
War fanatics there is Graham Greene and Don DeLillo;
for lovers of Dickens and Eliot there is Mistry, Byatt,
Smiley, Storey. Plus short stories by V. S. Pritchett,
Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Mary Lavin and Raymond
Carver. All entries are alphabetical. 293pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
79216 THE WIVES by Alexandra Popoff
Sub-titled ‘The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants’
here are the muses and editors, saviours and publishers.
In Russian literary marriages, the wives of the most
celebrated authors became profoundly absorbed with
their husbands’ art. From Sofia Tolstoy to Vera
Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Anna Dostoevsky and Natalya Solzhenitsyn, these
women ranged from stenographers, translators to
indispensible intellectual companions. Living under
restricted regimes, many battled censorship and
preserved their husbands’ illicit archives, often risking
their own lives to do so. And in widowhood they
carried on, translating and promoting their husbands’
works. We owe the survival of ‘The Master and
Margarita’ to Elena. We are taken back to the social and
domestic detail of the days of the Crimea, the First
World War, Stalin and the Moscow of War and Peace.
332pp, photos. US first edition.
£18.99 NOW £6
79281 I USED TO KNOW THAT LITERATURE
by C. Alan Joyce and Sarah Janssen
Unearthed are little known facts about the Brothers
Grimm to J. K. Rowling, author scandals, curious facts
from under the covers, rejection letters for now-classic
works, the original vampire craze and a concise guide to
the greatest chain-smoking, pistol-packing, private dicks
in crime fiction, to the most offensive books you have
ever loved. Covers children’s, non-fiction, mystery and
romance. 174pp. Dedication page.
$14.99 NOW £2.75
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27111 COUNT OF MONTE
CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas
The story of Edmond Dantès, selfstyled Count of Monte Cristo, is told
with consummate skill. The victim of
a miscarriage of justice, Dantès is
fired by a desire for retribution and
empowered by a stroke of
providence. In his campaign of
vengeance, he becomes an
anonymous agent of fate. The
sensational narrative of intrigue,
betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a
cracking pace. Dumas’ novel presents a powerful conflict
between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich
diversity that is complicated by the hero’s ultimate
discomfort with the hubristic implications of his own
actions. 928pp in paperback.
ONLY £2
79394 TREASURES OF WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE: Book and CD
by Catherine Alexander and the Royal
Shakespeare Company
King James I gave a patent to Shakespeare and his
fellow actors and the right to perform plays throughout
the country. This is one of 20 removable facsimile
documents from this treasure trove along with
Shakespeare’s Will, and an extract from the First Folio of
1623, an extract from the prompt book for a production of
Twelfth Night in 1965, directed by Sir John Gielgud.
Produced in association with the Royal Shakespeare
Company, this impressive selection features
contemporary pictures from Shakespeare’s time and
photographs from RSC performances. The slipcased box
set includes a 53 minute CD of classic excerpts taken
from ‘The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare’ with famous
actors producing scenes from Much Ado About Nothing,
Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Romeo
and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, Tempest and more.
Covering Shakespearean Stratford, London, advertising
posters and historic documents. Colour photos. Slipcased.
£30 NOW £14
79509 ECKSTEIN SHAHNAMA: An Ottoman
Book of Kings by Will Kwiatkowski
Firdausi’s epic poem The Shahnama is a celebration of
Iran’s ancient tradition of kingship. The Eckstein
Shahnama is a lavishly illuminated and illustrated
Ottoman copy of the work, completed in the last quarter
of the 16th century. Its 32 beautifully illuminated and
colourful illustrations, decorated with Persian borders and
revealing the action of the text draw on the Persian
tradition of manuscript illustration. This beautiful large
softback study of the manuscript elucidates how the
Ottomans succeeded in imbuing Iranian cultural models
with their own distinct flavour and comparisons are
made with paintings from the Baghdad school of the
1590s and influence of Qazvin painting. A superb
interpretation and a beautiful art book. 62 page outsize
softback.
£15 NOW £6
79867 LOVE STORIES:
Everyman’s Pocket Classic
edited by Diana Secker
Tesdell
From the wickedly cynical comedy
of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl to
the raw, erotic passion of D. H.
Lawrence and Colette, objects of
passion include a glamorous silentmovie starlet in Elizabeth Bowen’s
haunting ‘Dead Mabelle’ and a
faithful ghost in Yasunari Kawabata’s
‘Immortality’. Jhumpa Lahiri plumbs
the depths of a couple sundered by tragedy while Lorrie
Moore movingly portrays a husband and wife brought
together by it. Margaret Atwood, Katherine Mansfield,
Tobias Wolff, William Trevor, Guy de Maupassant, Italo
Calvino and T. C. Boyle explore the elemental force of
love in fascinatingly different ways. 19 stories for lovers
at any stage of life. Everyman Pocket Classic, 394pp
with bookmarker.
$15 NOW £5
79982 LOVE LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS
by Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas’s love letters to the many women in his
life are among the most beautiful and lyrical ever to
have been written, full of longing and painful separation.
This collection includes letters to Pamela, his first love, to
Caitlin, his flamboyant wife, and to later loves such as
Elizabeth Reiter, the woman who was with him on the
night of his death. He used his letters to beg
forgiveness, to cajole, to amuse and to give the
impression of confidence and ease. 84pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
78416 ULTIMATE CLASSIC COLLECTION
by Wordsworth Editions
!
Complete unabridged texts of eight perennial bestselling
classic tales with new black paperback covers and
designs on the spine to look very attractive in the
illustrated slipcase. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Dracula by
Bram Stoker, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson, The Picture of
Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Boxed set of eight.
ONLY £13
79971 DON’T LOOK NOW: Short Stories
by Daphne Du Maurier
The daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald
Du Maurier, Daphne (1907-89) was educated at home
with her sisters and later in Paris and began writing short
stories and articles in 1928. In 1931 her first novel The
Loving Spirit was published but it was her novel Rebecca
that made her one of the most popular authors of her
day. She published short stories, plays and biographies,
many of which were made into films including Jamaica
Inn, My Cousin Rachel, Don’t Look Now and The Birds.
This hardback Virago edition contains Don’t Look Now,
Not After Midnight, A Border-Line Case, The Way of the
Cross and The Breakthrough. 276pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
24277 BEST SHORT STORIES
OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT
by Guy de Maupassant
The master of the short story has
themes ranging from the brutality of
war and the hypocrisy it spawns,
the petty limitations, dissimulations
and vanities inherent at different
levels of society and all the stories
are linked by a trenchant irony and
preoccupation with the frailty of
human nature and futility of so
many lives. From tragedy and satire to comedy and
farce. 237 page Wordsworth paperback.
ONLY £2
22577 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
by Charles Dickens
A full cast of delectable characters
that range from the iniquitous
Wackford Squeers and his family, to
the delightful Mrs Nickelby, taking in
the eccentric Crummles and his
travelling players, the Mantalinis,
the Kenwigs and many more. So
great was its impact as it left
Dickens’ pen that many pirated
versions appeared in print and on
stage before the original was even
finished. Nicholas Nickleby has never ceased to delight
readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest
comic masterpieces of 19th century literature. 752pp.
Paperback.
ONLY £2
23765 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
by Jane Austen
‘Young women who have no economic or political power
must attend to the serious business of contriving material
security’. Jane Austen’s sardonic humour lays bare the
stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in
the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve
respectability. ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is a delightful
comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and
Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor’s character
is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a
fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her
passionate nature in the interests of survival. 272pp.
Paperback.
ONLY £2
23791 PICKWICK PAPERS
by Charles Dickens
Published when Charles Dickens
was just 25, it established him at a
single stroke as a major creative
artist. The book reveals the depths
of his human sympathy, the breadth
of his knowledge and the
extraordinary scope of his linguistic
virtuosity. A loosely connected
series of stories, originally written to
accompany illustrations, gradually
turns into a remarkable comic novel. Mr. Pickwick is a
worthy successor to Don Quixote and Tom Jones, a
bespectacled knight-errant dispensing sympathy and
justice to all who cross his path. 720pp. Paperback.
ONLY £2
23865 WAR AND PEACE
by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Louise & Aylmer
Maude. With an Introduction by
Henry and Olga Claridge,
University of Kent at Canterbury.
War and Peace is a vast epic
centred on Napoleon’s war with
Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy’s
view that history is an inexorable
process which man cannot influence,
he peoples his great novel with a
cast of over five hundred characters.
Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha
Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and
the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy’s
philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery.
1024pp, paperback.
ONLY £2
79956 EMILE by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When Emile was first published in 1762, it was banned in
both Paris and Geneva and publicly burned, due to
anger at one of the sections. Part treatise, part novel,
this tells of the life of Emile, a fictional boy and is mainly
concerned with the nature of education. Later, during
the French Revolution, the book served as inspiration for
a new national educational system. It is divided into five
parts, corresponding to five developmental stages of life,
with the first three sections dealing with Emile’s early
education. The next section focuses on natural religion
whilst the fifth contains a profile of Sophie, Emile’s
intended bride, which, while emphasising the importance
of the woman’s role in their children’s education, also
states that women should be submissive to their
husbands. Reprint of 1911 edition originally published in
London by J.M. Dent & Sons. Softback, 534pp.
£12.99 NOW £3.50
24266 LIFE’S LITTLE
IRONIES: SELECTED SHORT
STORIES OF THOMAS
HARDY
by Thomas Hardy
The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little
ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his
third volume of short stories. These
tales and sketches possess all the
power of his novels: the wealth of
description, the realistic portrayal of
the quaint lore of Wessex, the
‘Chaucerian’ humour and characterisation, the shrewd
and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human
nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential
mystery of life. Ranging widely in length and
complexity, they are unified by Hardy’s quintessential
irony. 192pp, paperback.
ONLY £2
52777 COLLECTED STORIES
OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD
by Katherine Mansfield
Brings together all of the stories that
Mansfield had written up until her
death in January of 1923. With an
introduction and head-notes, this
volume allows the reader to
become familiar with the complete
range of Mansfield’s work from the
early, satirical stories set in Bavaria,
through the luminous recollections of
her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature,
deeply felt stories of her last years. 663 page
paperback.
ONLY £2
76210 THE LADY VANISHES & THE SPIRAL
STAIRCASE by Ethel Lina White
The first of these two successful novels by Ethel Lina
White was originally published in 1936 as The Wheel
Spins but became famous as The Lady Vanishes when it
was made into a film in 1938. The novel tells of a
beautiful English tourist travelling by train in Europe who
discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to
have disappeared from the train. After her fellow
passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the
young woman is helped by a young musicologist, and
the two proceed to search the train for clues to the old
woman’s disappearance. The other novel presented here
was published as Some Must Watch in 1933 changed
when it was made into a film in 1946. Paperback,
335pp.
ONLY £2
78112 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Illustrated
Edition by Jane Austen
With five unmarried daughters on her hands, Mrs Bennet
has but one preoccupation - marriage. More specifically,
finding suitably well-heeled husbands for her daughters.
So when news arrives that rich and single Charles
Bingley has taken up residence at nearby Netherfield
Park, Mrs Bennet entertains high hopes of seeing at least
one her girls’ futures settled. Illus by Hugh Thomson
reproduced here from the 1894 classic edition. Complete
and unabridged, 152 very large pages. Coloured line
drawings and short biographical introduction.
£16.99 NOW £3.50
78252 GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925 when the
pleasure-seeking consumerism of the Jazz Age was at its
zenith - if you could afford it. This is embodied in the
book by Jay Gatsby, the man with everything money
can buy, whose Long Island mansion is the setting for a
constant stream of lavish parties. Nobody knows where
he came from, or how he acquired his vast wealth. Past
and present collide in the shape of Daisy Buchanan;
Gatsby’s lost love who married another when they
became separated by war. Colour and b/w photos,
background information. 80pp, 8½”×12¼”.
£12.99 NOW £2.50
FICTION AND ROMANCE
I never want to see anyone, and I never
want to go anywhere or do anything. I just
want to write.
- P.G. Wodehouse
80373 SNOWFALL IN
BURRACOMBE
by Lilian Harry
It’s been a long winter and in the
village of Burracombe, scandals are
uncovered, a newcomer sets
tongues wagging, and a happy
occasion gives cause for celebration.
For Stella, recovering from a car
crash, the winter wedding that she
and her sweetheart had planned
seems impossible. Elsewhere,
Jackie is dreaming of America, and Hilary, who thought
the war had robbed her of her chances of happiness,
wonders if she could leave her life at the big house for
the sake of love and adventure. There is always a
surprise around the corner. Beautifully drawn characters
and a map of the village, this is one of the popular
wartime novels from the author of Goodbye
Sweetheart. 305pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
80188 SHOT ROLLING SHIP
by David Donachie
The Scottish author has always had
an abiding interest in naval history
as well as the Roman republic and
has also published under the pen
name of Jack Ludlow. Pressed into
King George’s Navy for the second
time in a month, John Pearce and
his comrades, the Pelicans, find
themselves working aboard HMS
Griffin, a slow and overcrowded
ship, sailing the Channel in search of
numerous French privateers that prey on English
merchant shipping. Her task is to stop them and if
possible capture or destroy them. But Pearce must
rescue his ailing father from the dangers of
Revolutionary Paris, and to do that he must somehow
leave the ship. With the help of Benjamin Colbourne,
the Captain aboard Griffin, a man with a subtle mind
who finds a way to both meet the needs and make it
appear to the Pelicans that their leader has deserted
them. Arriving too late to save his father from the
guillotine, Pearce is left with no choice but to put right
the appearance of betrayal with which he left and to
learn his sea-going trade in order to exact his revenge.
379pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
Fiction 15
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
80372 QUEEN OF FOUR
KINGDOMS
by Her Royal Highness
Princess Michael of Kent
Yolande of Aragon was just 19
years old when she was sent
away from home to marry the
Duke of Anjou, who was the first
cousin of Charles VI. This was a
politically arranged union to form
an alliance between two
kingdoms, the constantly warring
Aragon and Anjou, both claiming inheritance to the
kingdoms of Naples and Sicily. Against all the odds,
the marriage between the young couple is a love
match, with Louis confessing that he had been in the
crowds to see her arrive. ‘I mingled with the crowd,
listening to their comments about you and your
entourage, Every voice lauded your beauty; the
people were in a state of wonder and awe...I noticed
your horse - what a mettlesome little Arabian - and
how you controlled her with such ease and confidence.
I thought to myself, if she can handle that horse, she
can handle anything. And then suddenly you were
bathed in sunlight...At that moment I bent one knee to
the ground and crossed myself, thanking the Lord - and
the wisdom of my mother - for having sent me this
paragon...’ As the years pass, Louis is obliged to spend
his time fighting in Italy, and Yolande is left at home
with five children, as well as the couple’s lands to
govern. She is a strong woman and is able to put her
intelligence and charm to great use, becoming saviour
not just of her lands, but of France itself. Although
written in novel form, this is a true account of a
virtually forgotten queen, and Her Royal Highness
Princess Michael of Kent has meticulously researched
the facts to bring an absorbing, highly readable
interpretation of the events in 15th century France.
372pp. SIGNED COPIES.
£18.99 NOW £7
80374 SPEAKER’S WIFE
by Quentin Letts
The Reverend Tom Ross’s quietly
liquid life as Chaplain to the
Speaker of the House of Commons
is about to be shattered. A central
London church gives sanctuary to a
young man wanted by the police
for making an anti-Islamic protest.
Parliamentarians attack the Church
of England for sheltering a
dangerous criminal. An Islamist
mob gathers, furious at the boy’s
insult. With secularists demanding that the church sell
hundreds of its under-used buildings, Ross finds himself
caught in a world of bribery, violence and political spin.
When the old Speaker of the Commons dies and is
replaced by a corrupt schemer with a shapely young
Russian escort, Ross, at great personal cost, must
confront his demons and the charismatic, white-maned
Ayatollah of Atheism, Augustus Dymock. This muchacclaimed novel mixes Westminster intrigue with quirky
paranormalism. 295pp in elegant 2015 hardback.
£16.99 NOW £6
80355 CHOCOLATE
LOVERS’ WEDDING
by Carole Matthews
The ladies of the Chocolate Lovers’
Club should be gearing up for the
wedding of the year but life keeps
getting in the way. Lucy is worried
about her financial situation and if
she should accept an offer of help
from an untrustworthy source.
Nadia may have a real chance of
finding love but something needs to
change. Autumn can’t wait to
meet someone she hasn’t seen in a very long time and
is full of hope for the future but things don’t go to plan.
Chantal has been through so much and is finally starting
to feel settled. The last thing she needs is the kind of
bad news that could change her life all over again.
Chick lit from the super-popular bestselling author.
376pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
80371 QUALITY OF
SILENCE
by Rosamund Lupton
A stunning evocation of the stark,
beautiful Alaskan wilds, this is an
elegant and icily unique thriller,
narrated in part by Ruby, whose
deafness is treated with great
sensitivity. On 24th November,
Yasmin and her ten year old
daughter Ruby set off on a journey
across northern Alaska, searching
for Ruby’s father, missing in the Arctic wilderness. More
isolated with each frozen mile they cover, they travel
deeper into an endless night. Ruby, deaf since birth,
must brave the darkness where sight cannot guide her.
She won’t abandon her father, but winter has tightened
its grip and there is somebody out there who wants to
stop them, tracking them through the dark. A
relentlessly tense thriller. 406pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
80400 THE LIE
by Helen Dunmore
By the author of The Siege, The
Great Coat and The Betrayal, here
is a heart wrenching novel of love,
memory and devastating loss. Set
in Cornwall 1920, a young man
stands looking out to sea. Behind
him are the horrors of the trenches
and the most intense relationship of
his life. Ahead of him the terrible
unforeseen consequences of a lie.
Glamorous hardback, 294pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
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80370 POMFRET TOWERS by Angela Thirkell
The author who died in 1961 was related to the pre-Raphaelite artist
Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin and her
godfather was J. M. Barrie. Her comic novel High Rising of 1933 was
met with great success and she went on to write nearly 30 Barsetshire
novels. Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was
constructed with great pomp and want of concern for comfort in the
once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott’s St. Pancras station. It
makes for a grand setting for a house party at which gamine Alice
Barton and her brother Guy are honoured guests mixing with the
headstrong Rivers family, the tally-ho Wicklows and most congenial of
all, Giles Foster, nephew and heir of the present Lord Pomfret. But of
all the bright young things, whose hand will Mr Foster seek in marriage,
and who will win Alice’s tender heart? A perfectly balanced novel of satirical observation and
chocolate-box charm. 298pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
72243 ANDERBY WOLD by Winifred Holtby **BACK IN STOCK**
First published in 1923. Mary Robson is a young Yorkshirewoman, married to her solid,
unromantic cousin John. Together they battle to preserve Mary’s neglected inheritance, their
farm, Anderby Wold. Then she meets David Rossitur. Young, charming and eloquent, how
can she help but be attracted to him? But David is from a different England - radical and
committed to social change. 278pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79039 MISS TONKS TURNS TO CRIME by M. C. Beaton
One cannot live off dignity alone! The poor relations banded together
some time ago to run The Poor Relation Hotel in the hope their
embarrassed relatives would buy them out, but as the hotel prospered, so
they began to enjoy the fruit of their labour. Again they need money to
go on and so poor, faded Miss Tonks is dispatched to her rich sister to steal
something valuable. The shy spinster has more than a few surprises up her
sleeve. Regency romance. 184pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
79056 WICKED GODMOTHER by M. C. Beaton
Lovely but penniless Harriet Metcalf is horrified when she is named in a
nobleman’s will as guardian of his ghastly and snobbish twin daughters. Is
she wily enough to cope with the intricacies of the London Season, and two
of its most eligible bachelors, the Marquis of Huntington and Lord Vere?
Harriet views them only as suitors for the twins, while the gentlemen see
only Harriet’s charms. Soon she is falling for one of them, but a cruel
betrayal will be her ruin unless the Clarges Street servants can save her
honour. A Regency romance. 200 page paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
79060 YVONNE GOES TO YORK by M. C. Beaton
No coach journey is ever dull with Miss Hannah Pym on board. She
meets the young and beautiful Miss Yvonne Grenier who is fleeing the
Terror in France. Yvonne becomes quite frightened when a dangerous enemy also boards the
stage to York, but luckily Miss Pym is on hand to propose a plan that will save Yvonne and
throw her into the arms of the wealthy and unattached Marquis of Ware. A gently humorous
Regency romance. 182pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
77894 THE SILKWORM by Robert Galbraith
A pseudonym for J. K. Rowling, this is an ingenious whodunit. When novelist Owen Quine
goes missing, his wife calls in Private Detective Cormoran Strike. The novelist has just
completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If
the novel were published it would ruin lives, so there are a lot of people who might want to
silence him. When Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a
race against time to understand the motivation of the killer. 580pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
78570 THE MINIATURIST by Jessie Burton
On an autumn day in 1686, 18 year old Nella Oortman arrives at a grand house in the
Amsterdam to begin her new life as the wife of wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt. Though
curiously distant, he presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift - a cabinet-sized replica
of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist whose tiny creations ring eerily
true. The miniaturist seems to hold their fate in her hands, but does she plan to save or
destroy them? A mesmerising, claustrophobic world and an atmospheric literary thriller.
432pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79926 AN AUCTIONEER’S LOT **BACK IN STOCK**
by Philip Serrell
A companion to follow up Sold To The Man With The Tin Leg (code
79936). From priceless 18th century dining tables hidden away in decaying
farm sheds to tattooed travellers with a penchant for Worcester china,
professional auctioneer Philip has seen it all. For over 20 years he has
uncovered a huge range of priceless (and occasionally worthless) antiques,
and has met, done business with, and befriended people from some odd
corners of English life. We all wonder if we have cash in the attic.
Delightful. 310pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
78614 EAST IS EAST by T. C. Boyle
‘A hilarious black farce about racial stereotypes, selfish dreams and ambitions run hopelessly
amok.’ Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherley
Love and trained in the way of the Samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims
into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves and the denizens of an
artist’s colony. It is an hilarious tragic-comedy of thwarted expectations and mistaken
identity, love, jealousy and betrayal. Remainder mark, 364pp in paperback.
$16 NOW £2.25
78661 LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton
It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields.
On the night of his arrival he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have
met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore
has tried to end her life, and an enormous sum of money has been discovered in the home of
a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery, a network of fates and fortunes as
complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Paperback, 834pp.
£12.99 NOW £3
78694 UMBRELLA by Will Self
Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971. Maverick
psychiatrist Zackary Busner notes that many of the patients exhibit a strange physical tic. One
of these patients is Audrey Death, an elderly woman born in the slums of West London in
1890. Her memories of a bygone Edwardian London, her former lovers, her involvement with
early feminist and socialist movements, and her time working at an umbrella manufacturer
alternate with Busner’s attempts to treat her condition and bring light into her clouded world.
Could the condition be anything to do with her two brothers? 397 deckle pages.
£18.99 NOW £3
78892 MOON FIELD by Judith Allnatt
No man’s land is a place in the heart. Hidden in a soldier’s tin box are a painting, a pocket
watch and a dance card - keepsakes of three lives. It is 1914. George Farrell cycles through
the tranquil Cumberland fells to deliver a letter, unaware that it will change his life. George
has fallen for the rich and beautiful daughter at the Manor House, Miss Violet, but when she
lets slip the contents of the letter, George is heartbroken to find that she is already promised
to another man. He joins the patriotic rush to war believing that no woman will be able to
love the man he has become. 385pp, map.
£12.99 NOW £2
78898 SCENES FROM AN EARLY LIFE by Philip Hensher
Beautifully packed with detail, Hensher’s novel is another chapter in British fiction’s deep
engagement with the subcontinent. Here are legends, calcified old anecdotes, necessary
falsifications and a record of childhood and war told throughout all the political tumults in a soft
and calm and lilting prose. It is a compelling picture of Bangladeshi society in turmoil. 310pp,
paperback, illus.
£8.99 NOW £1.50
78903 THE KEY by Simon Toyne
In the ancient Turkish city of Ruin,
American journalist Liv Adamsen lies in an
isolation ward staring at walls as blank as
her memory. Something strange is
whispering that she is ‘the key’, but to
what? For the Ghost, a mercenary
operating in the Syrian Desert, Liv could
unlock one of mankind’s most potent
secrets. For the brotherhood in the Citadel,
now cursed by a terrible plague, her return
is the only way to ensure their survival.
For a powerful faction in Rome, she
threatens the very future of the Catholic
Church. Hunted across continents, Liv turns
to the only person she trusts, a charity
worker named Gabriel Mann. 440pp.
£12.99 NOW £2.75
79006 A CONFEDERACY OF
DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole
‘This city is famous for its gamblers,
prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs,
alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists,
onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades,
litterbugs and lesbians - don’t make the
mistake of bothering me.’ Ignatius J. Reilly
- fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost
unemployable. By the standards of ordinary
folk he is pretty much unhinged too. But is
he bothered by this? No. For this
misanthropic crusader against an America
fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission to rescue a naked female philosopher in
distress, and he has a pirate costume and a
hot-dog cart to do it with. 397 page
paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
79019 GREAT SECOND WORLD
WAR STORIES
by Evelyn Waugh, Jospeh Heller,
John Steinbeck et al
30 great stories of heroism and brutality,
starvation and survival, defeats and
triumphs including gripping highlights from
the finest war novels including Neville
Shute’s A Town Like Alice, Nicholas
Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea, J. G. Ballard’s
Lunghua Camp from Empire of the Sun,
James Jones’s The Big Day from From Here
to Eternity, Norman Mailer’s Anopopei from
The Naked and the Dead, from Nella Last’s
Diary May 1941 among them. Reprint,
697pp.
£14.99 NOW £4
79021 HAND OF FATIMA
by Ildefonso Falcones
In the Kingdom of Granada in 1564, after
years of Christian oppression, the Moors
take arms and daub the white houses of
Sierra Nevada with the blood of their
victims. Amidst the conflict is the young
Hernando, the son of an Arab woman and
the Christian priest who raped her. He is
despised and regularly beaten by his own
stepfather for his ‘tainted’ heritage. Fuelled
with the love of the beautiful Fatima,
Hernando hatches a plan to unite the two
warring faiths, and the two halves of his
identity. 972pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
79029 FORM LINE OF BATTLE
by Alexander Kent
June 1793 and in Gibraltar, the gathering
might of revolutionary France prepares to
engulf Europe in another bloody war.
Britain will stand or fall by the fighting
power of her fleet. For Richard Bolitho, the
renewal of hostilities means a fresh
command and the chance of action after
long months of inactivity. However his
mission to support Lord Hood in the
monarchist-inspired occupation of Toulon has
gone awry. Bolitho and the crew of the
Hyperion are trapped by the French near a
dry Mediterranean island. 358pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
79041 MULLIGAN’S YARD
by Ruth Hamilton
In 1920, the Burton-Masseys lost their
home, Pendleton Grange, their lands and
several businesses in the heart of Bolton,
including Massey’s Yort. Reduced to a life
of hardship, Alex Burton-Massey’s widow
and daughters took refuge in Caldwell
Farm, all that was left of their former
wealth. James Mulligan was the man who
now owned their lands, and Massey’s Yort
quickly became known as Mulligan’s Yard.
He was a silent, brooding character whose
manners teetered on the brink of rudeness,
but in spite of this, many women found him
attractive. Who was he and did he hide a
dark secret in the cellars of Pendleton
Grange? 438pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
79076 EATING AIR: A Novel
by Pauline Melville
Ella, a beautiful dancer with the Royal
Ballet, in the 1970s, falls in love with
Donny, a rebel and free spirit. They move
into a household of political radicals and
become casually drawn into extremism.
When the infiltration of Special Branch leads
to a violent crime, Ella is forced into selfimposed exile in Brazil. At the time of her
return over 30 years later, the economy is
in free fall. She is re-united with a former
housemate who is torn over whether to join
Islamic extremists who plan to attack a
bank. Then Donny reappears. 477 pages.
Paperback.
£7.99 NOW £1.50
79783 WINTER CROWN: Eleanor of Aquitaine
History’s Most Powerful Woman
by Elizabeth Chadwick
In 1154, Eleanor of Aquitaine is crowned Queen of England beside her
young husband Henry II. While Henry battles their enemies and lays his
plans, Eleanor is an adept acting ruler and mother to their growing brood of
children, but she yearns for more than this. Henry pushes Eleanor to the
sidelines, involving himself with a young mistress and denying Eleanor her
rightful authority. Eleanor becomes caught up in a family rebellion and
even a queen must face the consequences of treason. 511pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79143 TARZAN AT THE EARTH’S CORE AND OTHER TALES
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
!
The title story dates from 1929 and the last of the six in this omnibus SF Gateway collection
dates from 1935. Tarzan at the Earth’s Core brings an urgent message from Pellucidar, the
world of primitive men and primeval jungles that lies inside the crust of the Earth. Tarzan the
Invincible sees Tarzan, the mighty hunter, embroiled in a thrilling communist plot for the
domination of savage Africa. Tarzan Triumphant sees a lost aviatrix, a professor, a gangster
and a golden-haired goddess brought together in the heart of the Dark Continent to create an
explosive situation. 927pp.
£25 NOW £5.50
79807 PAYCHECK: And Other Classic Stories
by Philip K. Dick
By the author of the now-classic film Blade Runner made from his novel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick’s short story The
Minority Report inspired Steven Spielberg’s movie of the same title.
Draws on early short and medium-length fiction including several
previously unpublished stories written during the years 1952-55. It
features Paycheck (adapted into a film starring Ben Affleck and Uma
Thurman), Beyond Lies the Wub, The Short Happy Life of Brown Oxford,
The Variable Man, The Preserving Machine, The Indefatigable Frog, The
Crystal Crypt, The King of the Elves, Prize Ship among the 25 pieces.
With a preface by the author. 404pp, softback.
$14.95 NOW £5.50
79212 SECRET GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE by Michele Roberts
This moving and thought-provoking novel depicts Mary Magdalene as one of the disciples of
Jesus. Driven into prostitution after she ran away from home and was raped, she then sold
her body to ensure safe passage on a ship bound for Alexandria, encountering a woman
called Sibylla, who took her in and cared for her. She meets Jesus, Simon Peter and John.
When Lazarus falls ill, Mary attends to him, binds him, sings healing chants to him. Later,
Mary becomes the lover of Jesus, sees his death upon the cross, finds the empty tomb with
the stone rolled away and finds him later in the garden. Cleverly links to the Dead Sea
Scrolls. Softback, 198pp.
$13.95 NOW £4
79134 PURPOSES OF LOVE by Mary Renault
Vivian, a student nurse, chose her profession as a challenge, both to her
spirit and to her permanently exhausted body. Mic immerses himself in his
work at the hospital to ward off the emotional wounds of an unhappy
childhood. Through Jan, Viv’s older brother, they meet, and their
friendship turns into a secret romance. Despite the discipline and rigid
hierarchy imposed by the hospital, their passion takes root. First published
in 1939. 385pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
79136 RETURN TO NIGHT by Mary Renault
Losing out on a promotion to her ex-lover, Dr Hilary
Mansell moves to a rural hospital. She is unchallenged, but the routine and
long hours dull her disappointment and sooth her hurt pride. When Julian
Fleming is admitted with a head injury, Hilary’s quick skill and thinking save
his life, and after his recovery he seeks her out. Julian is handsome,
intelligent and a decade younger than Hilary. Despite her best efforts, she
falls in love with him. Although a gifted actor, Julian denies himself the
career he longs for. Hypnotic writing. 417pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2
79272 DOWN THERE ON A VISIT by Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was Manchester born. This novel is set in Bremen, 1928,
the Greek Islands 1932, London 1938, California 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four
narrators, all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual
tourist looking for a new mode of life. The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha are
his guides? Published in 1962. 318pp, paperback. Remainder mark.
$17 NOW £5
79284 INDIA FAN by Victoria Holt
An adventurous and
its peacock feathers
legacy of death and
curse, but the fan’s
404pp, paperback.
colourful story of blackmail, arson, murder and obsession. Beautiful as
may be, the priceless fan hidden deep within the Framling mansion has a
destruction. Druscilla Delaney has no idea she’s been marked by its
dark past may prove less of a danger than Fabian Framling himself.
£7.99 NOW £3
79295 THE QUARRY by Iain Banks
18 year old Kit is weird - big, strange, odd, socially disabled. He and his father live together
in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry in the Pennines. His
father is dying and old friends are gathering for one last time. ‘Uncle’ Paul’s a media lawyer;
Rob and Ali are upwardly mobile corporate bunnies; pretty, hopeful Pris is a single mother;
Haze is still living up to his drug-inspired name 20 years on, and fierce protective Hol is a
gifted if acerbic critic. As young film students they lived with Guy. Before his father dies he
wants to know who his mother is and what is on the mysterious tape they are all looking for.
326pp. Paperback.
$15 NOW £4.75
79492 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF LIES by Jacqueline Winspear
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood,
have become strained, by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage and by the
imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother Tom who runs the family farm. The couple
marry just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany. When Tom enlists
to fight for his country and Thea is reluctantly drawn onto the battlefield herself, the farm
becomes Kezia’s responsibility. They hide their despair in letters. Will these well-intended lies
be of use when they come face to face with the enemy? 320pp. Tiny remainder mark.
$26.99 NOW £4
79301 TIDES OF WAR by Stella Tillyard
The recently married, charmingly unconventional Harriet preparing to say goodbye to her
husband James as he leaves to join the Duke of Wellington’s troops in Spain. London is on
the cusp of modernity - a city in love with science, the machine and money, contrasting with
the shocking violence of the war in Spain. ‘Lord Wellington may not understand that Felipe
fights a new kind of war.’ A powerful rendering of the Napoleonic era. 353pp, paperback.
$17 NOW £3.50
79542 NORTH SEA REQUIEM by A. D. Scott
When a Scottish woman discovers a severed leg in the boot of one of the local hockey
player’s uniforms, it’s a big scoop for the Highland Gazette. But reporter Joanne Ross wants
a front-page story of her own, and she hopes to find it in Mae Bell, an American jazz singer
whose husband disappeared in an aircraft accident five years ago. Things take a very
sinister turn when Nurse Urquhart, who discovered the limb, suffers a hideous and brutal
attack. 1950s Scottish countryside. 328pp, paperback.
$16 NOW £3
79822 LITTLE HOUSE by Philippa Gregory
A brilliant psychological chiller with an explosive climax. It was easy for Elizabeth, married to
the man she loved, with two children and a home which made her the envy of their friends.
It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that somehow she could
never quite measure up. Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two
individual women. Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity. The novel lays bare
the truth behind the comfortable conventions of rural England. 361pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.75
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79812 A POSSIBLE LIFE: A Novel in Five
Parts by Sebastian Faulks
The author of ‘Birdsong’ blends a literary style with
deeply moving and unsettling questions about who we
are and where we are in the world. Here are five
transporting stories and five unforgettable characters,
linked across the centuries in stories of love and war,
lore and music, missed opportunities and timeless bonds.
In Victorian London, Billy is sent to the workhouse. Too
small to be considered a friend by the bigger boys, he
instead becomes lifelong companion with Alice and
another girl. Across 21st century Europe, governments
have collapsed. Elena Duranti, once a wild natured child
and now a brilliant scientist, collaborates on a startling
discovery about human consciousness. 294 page
paperback.
£12.99 NOW £6
79828 ROSA’S ISLAND by Val Wood
Rosa grew up an orphan in the wild remote East coast of
Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by Mrs Drew, she
grew up in a large, seemingly close farming family
which however contained many troubled souls. Mr
Drew, whose religious fervour held dark secrets; Jim,
the eldest son, who was terrified of something from his
past; Delia, longing to escape from the island and the
tall, handsome, confident Matthew who wanted only
one thing - Rosa herself. Her mother before she
drowned in the sea near their home had always
promised one day Rosa’s father would return to her - a
handsome Spaniard, with jewels and silks in treasure
chests, sailing in on a ship with golden sails. Mr Drew
knew the secret of Rosa’s past, and so did the two
mysterious Irishmen who threatened everything which
Rosa held most dear. 444pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
79831 HARBOUR GIRL by Val Wood
In Scarborough in the year 1880, Jeannie spends her
days watching the harbour girls mending nets, gutting
herring and waiting for Ethan Wharton to come in on his
father’s fishing smack. Jeannie had always expected to
marry the loyal and dependable Ethan, but then she
meets Harry, a stranger who has come to visit from Hull
for the day, and she falls for him. When Jeannie
becomes pregnant and Harry breaks his promise to come
back for her, she finds herself isolated. Will Ethan ever
forgive her? 445pp in paperback.
£5.99 NOW £3
79888 PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
by Muriel Spark
Miss Jean Brodie is the school mistress who is proud,
cultured and romantic. When she decides to transform a
group of ‘special girls’ into the crème de la crème at
Marcia Blaine School, they are soon known, perhaps
suspiciously, as the Brodie Set. Introduced to an
unsettling world of adult games and curious intrigues, the
Brodie Set know that they are honoured and privileged,
yet there is a price to pay - they must give Miss Jean
their undivided loyalty. 128pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79871 MR BONES: 20 Stories by Paul Theroux
The 30th work of fiction by the renowned author and
travel writer, this is a new collection of short stories set
in locations ranging from Uganda and Quebec to London
and New York. Theroux explores the tenuous leadership
of the élite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked.
A renowned art collector relishes in publically destroying
his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly
as their father stages an all-consuming war on the
racoons living in the woods around their house. A
young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious
gossip. Deliciously dark. 359pp.
£18.99 NOW £5
79887 POTTER’S HOUSE by Rosie Thomas
Olivia Giordiadis has left her English roots behind. She
lives on a tiny Greek island, married to a local man,
mother to two small sons. Year on year, island life has
followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm, until now. An
earthquake ravages the coast, its force devastating the
island and in the aftermath comes a stranger - an English
woman, destitute but for the clothes she wears. Olivia
welcomes the stranger into her home but begins to sense
that her mysterious visitor could threaten all she holds
dear. 420pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79889 SAINT ODD by Dean Koontz
The future is haunting Odd Thomas. The carnival has
returned to Pico Mundo, the same one that came the
night Odd lost his one true love. In an arcade tent he
finds the fortune-telling machine that told him that he
and Stormy Llewellyn were destined to be together
forever, but when Odd asks it to tell his own fortune, all
it gives him is a blank card. He dreams of a ghostly
town where evil has triumphed over good, with a
satanic cult at large bent on destruction. Can one small
fry-cook save the town? 418pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
79890 THE GENERAL by C. S. Forester
After Herbert Curzon fumbles a fortuitous early step on
the path to glory in the Boer War, 1914 finds him an
honourable, decent, brave and wholly unimaginative
colonel. Survival through the early slaughters in which
so many fellow officers perished brings him rapid
promotion, and by 1916 he commands 100,000 British
solders. Unyielding and diligent, he leads some of them
through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele.
288pp, paperback with new introduction by Max
Hastings.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79925 ANNIE’S LEGACY by Ken McCoy
When Annie Jackson’s father doesn’t return from war,
her mother remarries, but while the outside world thinks
Leonard Spode is a loving husband and father, behind
closed doors he reveals his true colours. Annie is forced
to grow up very quickly. In her brave attempts to
expose Spode for the monster he is, Annie finds herself
branded a troublemaker and is sent to a children’s home
where she discovers she is pregnant. One thought
keeps Annie going - that Spode will one day be brought
to justice, if not in her lifetime then in her daughter’s and
she plans to tell her the full story on her 18th birthday.
376pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
79979 LADY OF MISRULE
by Suzannah Dunn
A queen for nine days - Lady Jane
Grey’s story echoes through history.
Elizabeth Tilney surprised even
herself by volunteering for the job
of companion to Lady Jane Grey,
imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Everyone knows Jane Grey will go
free as soon as the victorious new
queen is crowned. The two 16
years olds couldn’t be less
compatible - Protestant Jane is an
icily self-composed idealist and Catholic Elizabeth is
anything but. They are only united for their disdain for
Jane’s 17 year old husband, Guldford Dudley, kept
prisoner in a neighbouring tower. But Elizabeth finds her
new-found loyalties are put to the test. Historical fiction.
374pp, paperback.
80235 TIME TRAVEL
MAGNETIC FIGURES
by Mud Puppy
In a portable, colourful storage tin,
these fun magnets depict
Tutankhamun the Egyptian King, a
cowboy, an armoured knight, Robin
Hood, a Tudor courtier and a
spaceman. There are four
background scenes - space, a
Western cowboy town, Sphinx and
pyramids and camel in a desert and a medieval castle
and tent on to which to place the magnetic characters.
For each there is the bare body in underclothes, and
approximately 12-17 items to press out from the sheets
and dress the two magnetic figures. Ages six and up.
£19.75 NOW £6
80282 STICKER DRESSING
KINGS AND QUEENS And
Costumes Around the World
by Nellie Ryan and Ruth
Brocklehurst
£7.99 NOW £3.75
79928 CHANGE FOR A FARTHING
by Ken McCoy
Ten year old Amy Farthing miraculously survives the
sinking of the Lusitania, but loses both her parents in the
disaster. On her arrival in England, her rich paternal
grandfather Godfrey Farthing disowns the little girl for
reasons he will not divulge. Although she is confused
and hurt by his behaviour, Amy is thankfully welcomed
by her maternal grandmother Beth, and quickly
exchanged her life of privilege in New York for the harsh
realities of a mill town in Yorkshire. Amy is the one true
heir to the Farthing fortune, and Godfrey is prepared to
take whatever measures necessary to ensure she never
finds out. 375pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
79980 LITTLE SHOP OF
HAPPY EVER AFTER
by Jenny Colgan
Part chick-lit part food porn, this is
like listening to your best friend
spilling the latest gossip. Nina is a
bookworm who dreams of running
her own little bookshop. But real life
is a bit trickier than the stories Nina
loves, as she discovers when she
moves to the beautiful wild
Highlands of Scotland to turn her
dreams into reality. 358pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
79964 APPETITE by Philip Kazan
What ‘Perfume’ did for scents, and ‘Chocolat’ did for
addicts, this sensuous love story does for flavour.
Florence 1466 and in a city of 60,000 people, Nino Latini
knows that if you want to survive without losing
yourself completely you must have a passion. Nino can
taste things that other people can not, every flavour,
every ingredient coming alive for him as vividly as a
painting. But his unique talent leads him into danger; his
desire for a beautiful girl and his longing to create the
perfect feast could prove deadly. With reading group
notes. 517pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
79989 SPIES OF THE BALKANS by Alan Furst
Salonika 1940. This ancient port with its dark allies,
brothels and Turkish mansions is now the backdrop to a
secret war. Envelopes change hands and at fortifications
on the Bulgarian border a German secret agent is at
work. As Nazi pressure intensifies, the city holds its
breath. Costa Zannis is a man in demand. Once a
detective, he now handles Salonika’s ‘political’ cases,
exploiting his contacts high and low in the Balkans and
beyond. He becomes embroiled in the Resistance, yet
caught in a reckless love affair, he could send everything
tumbling into jeopardy. 308pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
EARLY LEARNING
It is the supreme art of the teacher to
awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
80270 NEW OLD
FASHIONED MATCHING
GAME
A classic concentration game
of matching pairs, lay the tiles
out on a flat surface in a grid
pattern, face side down. The
first player turns over two tiles
trying to make a match. If
the tiles match, the player collects the pair and they turn
over two more. If not they are returned face down and
the next player takes his turn until the player with the
most pairs wins. May also be played solo. The
illustrations are adapted from 19th century engravings
for balloon, bear, beehive, cherub, crown, elephant - 28
cards, updated for the modern eye with fabulous
fluorescent backgrounds. Each tile measures just over
2" square, suitable for ages five and up, made from
90% recycled board and soy ink. Box, 9" square.
Special import.
ONLY £8.50
80336 MY FIRST
CREATIVITY BOOK: Pirates
by Anna Brett
With dedication page, a fold out
sticker scene, a split-page puzzle and
lots and lots of stickers, pick up your
pens and get ready for lots of pirate
fun. With amazing puzzles and
games about rascally seadogs,
simple dot-to-dots, mazes, counting
exercises, matching games and cut-out activities for
youngsters aged five and up. 200 colour stickers for all
me little hearties. Spiral bound softback, colour.
£6.99 NOW £3
Anne of Bohemia’s crown,
Catherine the Great’s bejewelled
crown, Nefertiti’s headdress and
Shah Jahan’s turban are the
crowning glories for the figurines to
dress in using all the hundreds of
stickers provided in this glorious, colourful collection. The
Byzantine Emperor with his and his wife’s luxurious
clothes, the Court of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn,
Charles I, Louis XVI to Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II,
for links to websites where you can find more about the
kings and queens, go to the publisher’s website as
instructed. The second section of the book is Costumes
Around the World like a Gaucho festival, the Rio
Carnival in splendiferous fluorescent colours, Les Falles,
a South African wedding, an Indian holy festival and a
folk festival, the Venice Carnevale and Chinese New
Year among them. A Wonderful dress up sticker book,
large softback 9" x 12", over 440 colour stickers.
£9.99 NOW £6
80332 BALLERINA STICKER
ACTIVITY BOOK
by Maria Taylor
Ballerinas wear special clothes when
they are dancing. Help the dancers
throughout the book finish their
outfits using the stickers provided.
Learn the arm positions and finish
off each row with your stickers,
insert the characters in Swan Lake,
put the stickers of the feet positions
in the correct order and learn the amazing moves of jeté,
arabesque, plié, battement, passé and pirouette. Add a
beautiful tiara to turn one ballerina into a princess, give
this dancer a sparkly tattoo, learn about the music to the
Sugar Plum Fairy, make up and costume and bring the
magical fairytales of ballet to life. 150 charming reusable
colour stickers, puzzles and colouring activities. 40 page
large softback.
£5.99 NOW £3
80333 BALLET
SPECTACULAR
by Lisa Miles
Ballet is a highly skilled form of
dance that is both beautiful to
watch and wonderful to take
part in. Dancers are artists
who use their bodies rather
than words or music to tell
stories. Watching a live ballet performance is spectacular
- from the dancers’ skills, to the live music, amazing sets
and stunning costumes. In Frederick Ashton’s ballet
Cinderella, there is a wonderful moment in Act 2 where
Cinderella enters the ball wearing a beautiful flowing
cloak, pictured here from the Royal Ballet performance in
2010. Beginning with the history of ballet, tutus and
pointe shoes, the Russian classical ballets, techniques,
we go on to study in a little more detail La Bayadère to
brand new ballets, former stars like Margot Fonteyn and
Rudolph Nureyev, Antoinette Sibley and Anthony
Dowell, all about choreography, conducting, making
costumes, shoes, hair and make up, people behind the
scenes, a typical day for a dancer, learning ballet from
four or five years old to more on the famous ballets
Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, the Nutcracker,
the Firebird, Romeo and Juliet, Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, to Raven Girl. Big pages, beautifully
illustrated in colour. Suit ages ten and up. Produced in
conjunction with the Royal Ballet.
£14.99 NOW £4.50
79612 DIE CAST METAL
CARS: Pack of Ten
by Professor Warbles
Brum, brum! Everybody loved
their little dinky toys, and here
is a nostalgic trip back to the
good old days when we would
lie belly down on the carpet and zoom our little race cars
around the living room floor. Lightweight, with
blackened windows, and suitable for ages three and up,
the pack of ten die cast contains two blue Police cars,
two hotrod yellow go faster racing cars, two green
Army cars, two red Rescue cars and two purple Army
cars. Identical shapes. Team up, line ‘em up, ready,
set, go!
ONLY £5
78797 THE BIG BAKING BOOK: 100 Healthier
Recipes: The Yellow One
by Ella’s Kitchen
A very on-trend big yellow cookbook with fun stickers
inside to decorate your pages like - Looks lovely!,
Munch!, I cooked this! In big colourful pages here are
Oodles of Pear Strudel, Squashy Potato Dippers,
Tropical Twirl Rolls, Tangy Apple Turnovers, Snappy
Pesto Breadsticks, Tasty Lentil Triangles, Piggies in
Blankets, Strawberry Roll Cake, Comforting Plum
Cobbler, Perfect Pumpkin Pie and more. They are 100
healthy savoury and sweet recipes. Colour photos. 192
pages, 20x27cm.
$19.99 NOW £2.75
Early Learning 17
DINOSAURS!
80301 DINOMAZES: The
Colossal Fossil Book
by Elizabeth Carpenter
31 poster-size prehistoric fossil
mazes featuring T-Rex,
Pteranodon, Stegosaurus,
Velociraptor, Woolly Mammoth,
Anatotitan and more. With fast
facts, navigate your way with
care around their razor-sharp
claws and jaws and learn about
what they ate and how over time
scales became feathers, their claws shrank, they lost
their teeth and
their bones
became hollow
and light for easy
flying. That’s
right, dinosaurs
turned into
today’s birds!
Colour in the 31 mazes in total going around the
intricate lines and curves of an anatomically accurate
skeleton, solve the mazes and hang them up. US
import, ages eight to adult. Large softback.
£8.99 NOW £4
80122 DINOGAMI:
Make Ten Paper
Dinos
by Parragon Books
With ferocious eyes and
huge teeth, scales and
markings and claws, fold,
bend and crease the 20 scaly papers enclosed in the
box set to create a terrifying T-Rex, vicious
Velociraptor and a tri-horned Triceratops. A small
paperback instruction booklet shows you exactly stepby-step how to fold each
mini monster. We love the
Stegosaurus and the
Diplodocus, but best of all
with his big daft eyes, the
Pteranodon. Origami basics
are explained then folding
techniques for each of the
ten dinosaurs featured.
Keeps fingers nimble
whatever age.
£8 NOW £3
79816 BUILD IT!
DINOSAUR
by David Hitch
In the museum, Tom stared up at
the dinosaur called Tyrannosaurus
Rex. Back at home he decided to
make one with Stella, complete
with scales and shiny green foil
and slowly it began to creak and
crack and crunch and grind and
begin to grow until it was as tall
as the house! Read the story and ask an adult to help
follow the instructions to push all 21 coloured parts
together from the roaring jaw with white teeth to the
tip of his long tail. Sturdy card and foil all included, no
glue needed, simply slot together. Suit ages five to
eight. Colour.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
79817 BUILD IT! JET PLANE by David Hitch
No glue needed, just press out and build a real jet plane,
complete with silver decoration, colourful panels, from
nose to tail with overhanging edges, slots and finally
using items numbered 4 and 5 for places to put Tom and
Stella into the cockpit. Sturdy card and silver foil make
up this amazing model plane and read the story from
Scholastic Publishers to help you get airborne and climb
into the pilot’s seat. Soar, swoop and loop the loop as
easily as a bird! Suit ages four to eight. Colour.
£8.99 NOW £4.25
44604 PAINT WITH WATER
There are six colours (green, red, yellow, aubergine, blue
and orange) on a pallet across the top of each page. All
youngsters need do is wet the brush, choose a colour
and begin to paint the black and white outline large
drawing beneath. There are traditional scenes with
children, food, flowers and animals, eight per book,
beautifully designed so each is detachable and could be
framed. Large softback. Ages 3+.
ONLY £1
78649 JUNGLE PARTY: With 65+ Stickers
by Jenne Simon
Morning in the jungle is peaceful and quiet. ‘Let’s have a
party,’ suggests Bird. ‘A big one with lots and lots of
animals,’ adds Monkey. This is going to be a very loud
party with all the animals from the farm, the ocean and
the Arctic. When the story is over, the fun doesn’t stop
because you too can have a wild craft party with 65+
colourful jungle stickers, make your own party hat and
four, 3-D animal puzzles are slotted in to the back of the
book. For ages three and up to help with language and
fine motor skills.
$10.99 NOW £3
78813 LET’S GO TO
THE FARMERS’
MARKET:
Bag and Book
3" across, red with white
spotted fabric and green top
shaped just like a
strawberry, this lightweight
folding bag has a drawstring and when popped inside out
makes a sturdy shopping bag to carry your fruits,
veggies, shopping lists, books and more. The box set
includes a booklet all about farms, farmers, food and
market, 20 activity cards with games and a shopping list
pad, naturally all decorated with fruit and veg. Now we
all have to pay 5p for a carrier bag, here is an idea!
Ages six to adult.
$14.99 NOW £3
18 Early Learning cont.
79901 BIG MATCH! A Pop-Up Book with Blow
Football Game to Play
by John O’Leary
Your ticket to the Cup Final of Rover City vs. Claws
United is on the inside cover and it is 45 minutes to kick
off, time to stop at the Dog’s Dinner and get your paws
on some souvenirs. The rule book can actually be
opened and read,
the red and
yellow cards also
lifted, the entire
team stands up;
turn the wheels,
lift the flaps, open
the doors to see
the trophy in its
cabinet, meet the
VIPs and the
teams as the
excitement builds up. Best of all is the blow football
game sunken on the final page, players at the ready
with instructions. Pull the tab to get the straws and ball
from inside the box. If you run out of balls, a small
scrunched up piece of paper will do just as well! Ages
4+.
£15.99 NOW £5
78812 LET’S GO TO THE BEACH:
Bag and Book
Brightly coloured like Nemo in orange and white stripes
with cheeky black eye, pull open the drawstring, flip the
fish inside out and a fabulous beach or shopping bag is
revealed, in which to carry wet swimming cossies,
seashells, toys, sunglasses, sun cream, books, flip flops
and more. The booklet tells you all about the beach
from waves to seashells to ocean animals and 20
activity cards have beach themed games and activities.
Ages six and up. See also Farmers’ Market strawberry
bag code 78813. Box set.
ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74
MISCELLANY
Quality Staionery & Gift Ideas
80228 NIGHT SONG MINI
STICKY NOTES: 300 Decorated
Stickies by Xenia Taler
Put away those boring old bright
yellow post-it notes and treat yourself
or a friend to these jolly, chirpy
decorated sticky notes in different sizes,
300 in total. The little pack is
resealable to look after them. The
largest is 2½” square, has a dark blue
star border, a little house and a peacock
sitting on top. The centre section is white for you to
write. Of equal size but divided into four are yellow,
green, pink and pale blue patterns with decorated sticky
ends, in a pack that peels off for your smaller notes,
indexing and labelling. A very handy craft item or a
lovely gift idea and for 101 uses around the home.
Bargain price.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
80232 SKETCHBOOK FRAME
GALLERY by Samantha Hahn
Wider than A4 measuring 10" x
nearly 9" so ideal for framing, this
quality, heavy stock art paper
extends to approximately 30 leaves
on spiral binding and a lovely picture
frame design in yellows, blues and
reds on the laminated cover. 100lb
wood free paper. Special import.
£10 NOW £3.50
80208 BONJOUR PARIS
DELUXE JOURNAL
by Aurelie Blanz
$14.99 NOW £3.75
79995 DEAR TOOTH
FAIRY by Kath Mellentin
and Tim Wood
A lovely colourful story book
with a glittery cover and a real
blue satin tooth pouch
included, here is the true story
of how the Tooth Fairy came
to be. ‘Just last week I lost my tooth. It jiggled,
wobbled, wriggled loose. It didn’t hurt. I didn’t cry. But
it made me wonder why my teeth fall out and don’t
stay in. It’s left me with a toothless grin!’ Meet the
Fairy Queen, the Treat Fairy, Rules Fairy and the other
pretty characters, fill out your own Tooth Diary and
place a photo showing your toothless grin. Ages 3+.
ONLY £4
78829 SPANISH-ENGLISH PICTURE
DICTIONARY
by Catherine Bruzzone and Louise Millar
In the house - en la casa, the kitchen - la cocina, other
rooms of the house, vehicles, the park, sports, weather,
air travel, at sea, luggage, opposites, the classroom,
baby animals, the supermarket and the hospital are
among the themes in this simple, colourful picture
dictionary. Here are over 350 useful words, clearly
illustrated in colour for easy learning and simple
pronunciation guide. Ages 3 and up. 48 page softback.
$6.99 NOW £1.25
78907 TROLLS JIGSAW BOOK: Four 96 Piece
Jigsaws by Five Mile Press
15" across by 10½” tall, containing four 96 piece jigsaws
of the Terrifying Trolls of Grrym, the Blood Trolls
making fresh brews of brain-scramblingly hot lava beer,
troll cuisine, dangerous trolls, threats from goblins and
the Klamon legend in the Dark Caverns, the subject of
the final jigsaw. Plus spotter’s guide. The pieces are
cleverly reinserted into the book for safe keeping.
Textured front cover, with silver foil title.
£14.99 NOW £3
79032 MAKE YOUR OWN RUBBER BAND
WRISTBANDS by Rosie Colosi
Your kit includes 300 rubber bands in white, black,
yellow, orange, green, red, light blue, dark blue,
turquoise and purple; 12 plastic S-shaped clasps and a
hook. Stretch out those fingers, pick out your favourite
colours and get started. And for older fingers, is a great
craft to keep hands and fingers supple. Your biggest and
best wristband will be the Triple Single wristband.
Colours, cheerful and fun and no loom needed.
Softback.
Spiral bound, 100 lined pages with a
delightful Parisian street scene with
a young lady at the balcony
catching a white dove decorating
the front cover and a café and florist
(or should we say fleurist) and
houseboat decorating the back
cover. This special journal includes
a lime green pocket with string fastener and perhaps
best of all a full size, rubber tipped sharp pencil in its own
elastic secure place at the back of your journal. Quality,
bargain price.
£10.99 NOW £3.50
80210 LOOK ON THE
BRIGHT SIDE: Four Designs
Embellished Cards
by Alyssa Nassner
Uplifting and optimistic, the four
designs, two of each, have gold foil
lettering with chirpy headlines like
Always Believe: Something
Wonderful is About to Happen, Do
More of What Makes You Happy,
Gratitude is the Memory of the
Heart, Live & Let Live. Each has a black background,
colourful flower images, coloured inside on which to
write your message and very lovely coloured envelopes
with tiny dots and gummed on the long edge. Boxed
and imported.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
80215 HEARTS
DECORATIVE GARLAND
by Samantha Hahn
Three designs are repeated on these
circular flags (13cm or 5"), one a
candy-striped white and pink and
darker pink, one a cutaway heart
shape through which the wind can
flutter and the third a decorative
hearts pattern, repeated along 15
flags in one long garland 10 feet
long or three metres. Not a toy, it is ready to hand
already strung on pink string. Super bargain price.
$14.99 NOW £3
80217 IN THE GARDEN
DECORATIVE GARLAND
by Jen Skelley
15 circular flags 5 x 5½” (12 x 13cm)
featuring a cutaway butterfly, jolly
pink and colourful flowers, and a
repeating green stripe design, the
garland measures 10 feet long or
three metres and is ready to hang,
already strung on sturdy green
string. Bargain price.
£4.99 NOW £1.50
79114 GOOD IDEAS How To Be Your Child’s
(and Your Own) Best Teacher
by Michael Rosen
Good ideas start in the home, and in the bathroom you
can talk about bodies and medication, with, underneath
it all, an awareness of change and the unpredictability of
life’s journey. Above is the sky, so what are clouds,
what is wind, and how do birds fly and navigate?
Quizzes and number games are ideal for a car journey,
and registration plates can be an endless source of wordmaking and number-spotting. 354pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3
79549 ROLY POLY SPACE by Kees Moerbeek
What’s happening in space? Unroll this Roly Poly cube
book to find out and meet along the way the astronaut,
see his walk on the Moon with the Earth and stars
behind, on his space buggy, his moon craft in orbit and
learn about the spaceship. All in colour with simple text
for ages 3+.
£6.99 NOW £3
79550 THREE LITTLE PIGS: Roly Poly
by Kees Moerbeek
Roll out your Roly Poly book and unroll this classic fairy
tale! Pull the big blue tab and the book literally unfurls
from the cube shape in which the three little piggys and
the not-so-nasty looking wolf appear in beautiful new
illustrations for today’s toddlers with the story on the
facing block. A Child’s Play quality product, colour.
Age 3+.
£6.99 NOW £3.75
$14.99 NOW £3
80218 IN THE JUNGLE
DECORATIVE GARLAND
by Barn Eyes
Ready-to-hang and 10 feet or three
metres in length, already strung on
brown cord, the jungle designs
include a very cheeky monkey with
big ears, a big grey elephant, a
chirpy toucan, a stripy tiger and a
big lion with mane and tail. All are
on a jungle design background, and
the 15 flags are spread along 10 feet in length in this
wonderful decorative garland - not a toy. Bargain price.
$14.99 NOW £3
79187 LONDON JOURNAL: Small Ruled
Notebook
Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster, ornate Victorian
gas lamps, River Thames, a tree lined avenue and the
word Notes adorn the cover in sepia on this chunky lined
notebook. With elastic strap fastener, pocket sized and
great value and quality.
£7 NOW £2.50
80233 CUPCAKE SWEET
TREATS LAYERED JOURNAL
by Samantha Hahn
A5 sized spiral bound with a
wonderful cut out bright pink and
colourful decorated cupcake page
edge design, the first half of the
book are blank pages, then the
second square section of the book is
a lined note book, with tiny sweetie
decorations, lollipops and stars in the page corners. Feint
pink lines to guide you as you make notes or jot down
recipes. A jolly gift idea.
£8.99 NOW £3
80244 MY THOUGHTS:
Taupe Leather Notebook
by Studio Oh!
Collect your thoughts or begin your
first novel or memoirs, write poetry,
jot down a bon mot or favourite
quote in this elegant piece of social
stationery. With gilt edged pages,
flexicover, in pale tan, with the
words My Thoughts and an arrow
embossed on the cover in gold. 192
A5 sized lined pages, gold endpapers. Recyclable paper,
‘leatheresque’ cover.
ONLY £7
80401 LITTLE BOOK OF
LOVE by Helen Exley
‘In love. She remembered the
excitement of those days. The
sudden ecstasy of an unexpected
telephone call. The brilliance and
beauty of the mundane objects.
Laughter over nothing, shared
across small candlelit tables; walking together on sunlit
pavements; smelling lilac on a city street; driving in his
car down to the country, with the sun roof open to the
sky and a whole weekend ahead, and the sensation that
there was nobody in the world but the two of them.’ Rosamunde Pilcher, b.1924. Measuring approximately
2½” square, this tiny book of love is a beautiful
collection, celebrating love in all forms. This was one of
the longest quotations. Others are a line or two, a
thought to let your mind wander back and smile.
Katherine Hepburn, b.1907 ‘Love has nothing to do with
what you are expecting to get - only what you are
expecting to give - which is everything.’ Taking good
with bad, looking forward together, love makes all hard
hearts gentle. A book of endless love and tenderness,
exquisitely decorated in colour with borders and
illustrations of love letters, hearts and candles by Juliette
Clarke. With dedication page.
£4 NOW £2
70236 VENEZIA / FLORENCE STATIONERY
BOX SET by Red Clover
No Venice design here but rather a lovely pale blue and
brown and cream attractive floral Red Clover leaf
design. Measuring 7½” square, open the magnetic lid to
find neatly presented beneath plastic an 80 sheet lined
notepad, 16 notecards with envelopes, 16 decorative
envelope seals and 100 sheets of stickable notes.
Perhaps best of all is the nearly 4" long silver coloured
biro enclosed in this elegant box set. Apologies if there is
a sticker on reverse of box which is removable.
ONLY £6
77994 FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
by The Jasmine Factory
Sunflowers, pink roses and an array of fresh garden
flowers in full bloom decorate the slightly padded cover
of this book-sized square hardback photo album
containing 100 acetate sleeves in which to insert 100 6"
x 4" (15 x 10cm) photographs. Even with the popularity
of digital photography today, there is nothing like
printing out a hard copy photo and mounting it in an
album.
ONLY £4.50
78045 BLUE Q HOT ROCKS
IN
MESSENGER BAG
CK
by Rex Ray
BA O C K
Artist and poster designer S T
Rex Ray decorates this otherwise
low-key bag with a blaze of warm
oranges and reds in abstract stone
shapes. Surprisingly roomy-it
swallows up manila file folders-yet
slim and easy to shoulder, Blue Q’s tough but beautiful
messenger bag is practical enough to use every day and
has a wide shoulder strap which extends to 53", while
the inner pocket is big enough for a full-sized iPad or
other tablet or even laptop. Made from durable woven
polypropylene (recycled from 95% post-consumer
sources), it features a reinforced bottom and a large top
flap that snaps closed with magnet catches to keep
everything secure. The overall dimensions are 11 x 12 x
3".
$19.99 NOW £6
78740 NOTEBOOKS: Assorted Pack of Four
by Anker International
3¾” wide by 6¼” tall each little notebook has a
laminated coloured cover simply with the words
Notebook. Wide ruled pages and on recycled paper.
Great for all your shopping lists and To Do lists and a
handy size to keep in your pocket. Great for all home,
office or school use and fantastic value for money. Pack
of four.
ONLY £2
78755 BERTHE MORISOT PAINTINGS: 24 Art
Cards
by Dover Publications
Born in France in 1841, Berthe Morisot was the
granddaughter of the Rococo painter Fragonard. She
created warm, atmospheric scenes of mothers with
children, family meals and all of the 24 4¼” x 6"
postcards are produced on high-quality laminated stock.
Includes The Coiffure, The Cradle and Julie Playing the
Violin. Ideal as greeting cards or a keepsake gallery,
they are perforated and easily removed from this huge
softback import.
£7.99 NOW £2.75
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!
80117 5-4-3-2-1
THUNDERBIRDS: 100 F.A.B.
Postcards
by Gerry Anderson
Thunderbirds blasted onto British
TV on 30th September 1965 and
the exciting adventures of
International Rescue immediately
became a huge success. This
unique
collection
contains
100 quality postcards, each one
featuring a different image from
Tracy Island and the
Thunderbirds Are Go favourite
vehicles and machines to the
Hood and Lady Penelope. Close
ups of the opening sequence are
captured in coloured stills on
quality postcards, all the
favourite characters and agents,
still scenes, portraits and close
ups of Brains and the evil
characters from episodes like
Trapped in the Sky. Wonderfully
nostalgic, 100 colour postcards in
sturdy box with lid.
£14.99 NOW £6
80115 THUNDERBIRDS
BRAINS RULED NOTEBOOK
by Gerry Anderson
Production
Plan your own International Rescue
as you jot your faraway thoughts
on these elegant lined pages with a
tiny Thunderbird in the top right
corner. With soft-to-the-touch black
cloth cover with an Andy Warholstyle repetition of the image of the Thunderbirds
character of Brains, red endpapers, yellow elastic
fastener and yellow satin bookmark. With six colour
images inside from the TV series of Brains in his supersmooth blue specs along with Scott and Virgil Tracy.
Bargain price.
£9.99 NOW £3
80116 THUNDERBIRDS
LADY PENELOPE RULED
NOTEBOOK by Gerry
Anderson Production
With a tiny Thunderbird in the top
right corner. With soft-to-the-touch
cream cloth cover with an Andy
Warhol-style repetition of the image
of Lady Penelope in pink,
fluorescent pink endpapers, pink
elastic fastener and pink satin bookmark. There are six
colour images inside from the TV series of Lady
Penelope with Parker driving the Pink Rolls Royce FAB
1, Brains and Scott Tracy. Sheer class! Bargain price.
£9.99 NOW £3
78469 ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY
BOOKMARK: English UK Edition
by That Company Called If
!
Winner of the Gift of the Year 2011 (Stationery
Category) and a Top 5 Christmas Stocking Filler on The
Gadget Show! No-one wants to lose the plot right in the
middle of a book when they bump into a word they
don’t understand! Here is a slim, neat idea that means
you don’t even have to scuttle off to the bookshelf to
find out. We have taken a well-known Collins English
Dictionary with 38,000 definitions, shrunk it down to size
to fit like a bookmark, popped on some helpful buttons
and well, made it sleek and really rather gorgeous.
Type in and read on all from the comfort of your own
book! Just press the power button to begin, type in your
word on the keypad and press OK to find out what it
means. Simples!
ONLY £20
78724 A4 TWIN SPIRAL RULED PAD
by Grafix
Big bold design with candy stripes in either reds and
pinks or shades of blue (no choice available) with
laminate cover, here are 200 A4 perforated ruled pages
of quality 80gsm writing paper. Easy to tear out from
the sturdy spiral, there are already four evenly spaced
puncture holes made ready for filing. Exceptional quality
and value.
ONLY £3.50
78725 A5 TWIN SPIRAL RULED PAD
by Grafix
Big bold design with candy stripes in either reds and
pinks or shades of blue (no choice available) with
laminate cover, here are 200 A5 perforated ruled pages.
ONLY £2.75
78767 THE HOLY LAND IN CLASSIC
LITHOGRAPHS: 24 Cards by David Roberts
The Damascus Gate, the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem
from the Mount of Olives, views of Cairo, Sinai,
temples and citadels, these works were the basis of the
lithographs of the Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia,
Egypt and Nubia, published by David Roberts from his
drawings and watercolours of major holy sites in 1839.
Ideal for framing or sending brief messages, the 24
colour postcards are perforated for easy removal in this
9" x 12" large softback.
£6.99 NOW £2.50
79186 LITTLE BOOKS: Wish List
by Spank Publishing
48 page lined notebook, 5" x 6" with quality paper and
silver blocking on the attractive matt black cover with a
magic wand and sparkling stars. The sparkling stars
design is repeated on the pages of this lined notebook for
your wish lists, to do lists, bons mots and more. Great
value.
£5.99 NOW £2
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78254 OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens
This sumptuous edition of Dickens’ enduringly popular
novel features original George Cruikshank aquatints and
others by James Mahoney, etchings of 19th century
London - real-life Fagins, Sikeses and Artful Dodgers.
184pp, 8½”×12".
£16.99 WAS £3 NOW £1.50
78475 ENGLISH SPELLING-BOOK
by William Mavor LL.D.
This charming facsimile of Mavor’s spelling book, first
published in 1801, illus by Kate Greenaway. The lessons
start with the alphabet and move on to groups of letters
and short phrases, followed by an extended list of words
of four syllables. 108pp, line drawings.
£6.99 WAS £1.75 NOW 85p
78124 SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Alma Whittaker is instilled with an unquenchable sense of
wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the richest
man in the New World. It is not long before love draws
her into the realm of the spiritual, the divine and the
magical. 19th century London and Peru to Philadelphia,
Tahiti and beyond. 582pp, paperback.
£8.99 WAS £2 NOW £1
78036 ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES:
Illustrated Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League are
here presented in full with the addition of ten more short
stories from a collection first published in a single volume
in 1892. 128 page large illus edition.
£16.99 WAS £4 NOW £2
78204 BIRDS: A Spiritual Field Guide
by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Each bird is colourfully depicted using James Audubon’s
illus with interesting facts, mythology and alternative
names. The majority of birds depicted here are from
North America. Paperback, 226pp, colour illus.
£16.99 WAS £3.50 NOW £1.75
78116 RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER’S POCKET
RHYMING DICTIONARY by Random House
List of 30,000 words, the rhyming words encompass
common vocabulary, foreign expressions and proper
names, and place names from literature and mythology,
a glossary of poetic terms. 248pp in small paperback.
$5.95 WAS £1.25 NOW 60p
77901 DIGESTED 21ST CENTURY
by John Crace
Tongue-in-cheek 800 word summaries, from Alan
Bennett to Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Clarkson to Stephen
Hawking, or Jamie Oliver to Bear Grylls, their books are
compressed, chewed and then spat out into a parody that
encompasses the vital elements of the book. 330pp.
£12.99 WAS £2 NOW £1
77934 NUTRITIONAL HEALTH HANDBOOK
FOR WOMEN: Essential Guide to Women’s
Health by Marliyn Glenville
Covers pregnancy, miscarriage, hysterectomy, ovarian
cysts, difficult periods, vaginal infections, endometriosis
and much more. Case histories. Paperback, 518pp.
£25 WAS £3 NOW £1.50
78140 WORLDWIDE HISTORY OF WARFARE
edited by Tim Newark
Combining beautiful 19th century engravings, artworks
and diagrams. Covers the ancient way of war, Rome
and her enemies, medieval warfare, the firearms
revolution, the flintlock at war, the modern battlefield and
the war at sea and includes the French Revolutionary
Wars, India, Africa, the Americas and China, the
Crusades, the Etruscans, Persia, Assyria and Ancient
Egypt at war. 320 large pages in softback.
£19.95 WAS £6 NOW £3
77509 TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT
AFFAIR by Joel Dicker
August 30th 1975. Struggling author Harry Quebert fell in
love with 15 year old Nola Kellergan. 33 years later, her
body is dug up from the grounds of his seaside home
along with a manuscript copy of the novel that secured
his lasting fame. Quebert is the only suspect. 615pp.
£20 WAS £3 NOW £1.50
77547 MR. CHURCHILL’S PROFESSION:
Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke
Winston Churchill won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature.
In his lifetime he published a stream of books and
articles, and here in his magisterial four-volume History of
the English-Speaking Peoples is what Peter Clarke pays
special attention to. 347pp, b/w plates.
£20 WAS £3 NOW £1.50
78156 UNNECESSARY WOMAN
by Rabih Alameddine
An enchanting story of a book-loving obsessive. 72 year
old Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment,
surrounded by stockpiles of books. Every year she
translates a favourite book into Arabic, then stows it
away. Her work has never been read, by anyone. We
follow her colourful musings on literature, philosophy and
art. 291pp, roughcut pages.
$25 WAS £4.50 NOW £2.25
78522 HEIR APPARENT: A Life of Edward VII,
the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
Edward VII, “Bertie” to his doting mother Queen
Victoria, started making afternoon calls to ladies at an
early age. When he was manoeuvred into a union with
the beautiful Princess Alix of Denmark he saw no reason
to discontinue his philandering. The greatest love of his
life was Daisy, Countess of Warwick, and in his last
illness his discreet, worldly mistress Alice Keppel was in
constant attendance. 726pp, photos.
$35 WAS £6.50 NOW £3.25
78153 MARRIAGE PLOT
by Jeffrey Eugenides
In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are
inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But
Madeleine Hanna is writing her senior thesis on Jane
Austen and George Eliot. Leonard Bankhead, charismatic
loner, college Darwinist turns up in a seminar. Soon
Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and
intellectual relationship with him. 406pp.
$28 WAS £4.50 NOW £2.25
78444 KITCHENER’S MEN: The King’s Own
Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 19151918 by John Hutton
The typical member of “Kitchener’s Army” was a
millworker or miner from Millom or Barrow, with minimal
qualifications. These men were accustomed to a hard life
before they signed up for war service. The volume
covers the battalions that served on the western front,
the 7th, 8th and 11th, and also includes the 4th battalion
of territorials from the Furness area, volunteers whose
support was essential to the holding of the front line in
1915. Covers strategy, setbacks and the state of both
Allied and German defences. 239pp, photos, maps.
£19.99 WAS £6 NOW £3
76205 MEERKATS: The Wildlife Collection:
With Six Free Prints by Lisa Hughes
Looks at the history of the mammal and its natural
habitat, its anatomy, populations, groups and long-term
survival. 64 page large softback. Six free ready-toframe 8" x 10" wonderful colour prints.
£9.99 WAS £2.50 NOW £1.25
77495 EROTICA: The Nude in Contemporary
Photography by Andrej Kulakowski
Artfully and artistically posed, more than half in
atmospheric monochrome compositions, the perfectly
formed female body, mostly completely naked, exposing
their curves and sensuality, exoticism, naivety, flexibility,
humour, beauty and grace. We counted 58 artists. A
heavyweight glossy volume, full page photos, 10¾” x
12", 500 pages.
WAS £23 NOW £11.50
78144 CIVIL WAR: The First Year Told by
Those Who Lived Through It
edited by Brooks Simpson et al
What was it like to live in America 150 years ago when
the country was being torn apart by Civil War? The first
year of America’s Civil War, told through the eyes of
over 60 people, through letters, diaries, speeches and
articles. 680pp. endpaper maps, silk ribbon bookmark.
$37.50 WAS £10 NOW £5
78441 HITLER’S STORM TROOPERS: A History
of the SA by Wilfred von Oven
Wilfred von Oven’s memoirs are an phenomenon in the
galaxy of WWII publications: an early member of the
tough Berlin SA storm troopers, von Oven was
Goebbels’ press officer during the War, going on the run
when it ended and finally escaping to Argentina where
he died an unrepentant Nazi in 2008. This book describes
Nazi activism from inside. 176pp, photos.
£19.99 WAS £7 NOW £3.50
78434 DR GOEBBELS: His Life and Death
by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel
‘A measured, scholarly account of a real monster’ - News
Week. It begins with his idyllic childhood in Germany
and ends with his dramatic death by suicide. The authors
use first-hand accounts from the Nuremberg Trials,
Goebbels’ sister Maria and from the fiancée Else. Well
illus paperback, 329pp.
£15.99 WAS £5 NOW £2.50
27097 DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS AND
ANTONYMS by E.B. Ordway
Designed in particular for students, those writing reports,
letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but
everyone who enjoys the richness and diversity of the
English language will find a great deal to reward them
within its covers. 256pp. Paperback.
WAS £2.50 NOW £1.25
78440 HITLER’S ROCKETS: The Story of the
V2s by Norman Longmate
For the first time here is an account of the V2’s carnage.
Between 1944-45 more than a thousand of these rockets
touched down on British soil, killing nearly 3,000 people
and injuring another 6,000. Here is the story of this
technically brilliant but morally detestable weapon.
Harrowing photos, 423pp, paperback.
£14.99 WAS £4.75 NOW £2.35
78147 CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
by Peter Sis
The conference of the birds is a folk tale told by the 12th
century Persian poet Attar. Led by the hoopoe, the birds
go on a journey to see the legendary Simorgh, a king
who has all the answers to the world’s troubles. Some
birds are reluctant to undertake the journey while others
fall off during the flight, and when at last the 30
remaining birds reach the mountain of the king, they
realise that they have been purified and unified by their
quest. Powerful symbolism. 80 unnumbered pages.
$27.50 WAS £4 NOW £2
78142 BOOK OF MICHAEL OF RHODES VOL.
1: Facsimile edited by David McGee, Long, Stahl
Michael of Rhodes was a Venetian sailor of the early
15th century who sailed on more than 40 voyages with
commercial and military fleets, working his way up from
humble oarsman to the rank of officer. In the mid 1430s
he wrote a manuscript detailing his knowledge of the
stars, shipbuilding, time reckoning and commercial
mathematics. He also included some of the earliest
known portolan texts for navigation. This important first
volume is a facsimile of the whole text reproduced to a
high quality. 500 colour facsimiles, 519pp.
£44.95 WAS £11 NOW £5.50
78143 BOOK OF MICHAEL OF RHODES VOL.
3: Studies edited by Pamela O. Long
Volume three of facsimile, transcription and translation.
Chapters cover Michael’s mathematical analysis, his
chapter on navigational directions or portolans, the
manuscript’s illustrations, his interest in astrology. 370pp,
illus.
£31.95 WAS £11 NOW £5.50
78201 WAR-TORN SKIES OF GREAT BRITAIN:
Cambridgeshire by Julian Evan-Hart
Cambridgeshire is a county deeply associated with the
history of aviation. Here are compelling eyewitness
accounts and detailed local research. Chapters include
The Oakington Monoplane, The Luftwaffe Landing at
Oakington, Abwehr Secret Agents, The Messerschmitt
That Crashed Twice. Map, colour artworks, photos,
crash site investigations, diagrams. 128pp in softback.
£14.95 WAS £8 NOW £4
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77438 A WORLD ON FIRE: Britain’s Crucial
Role in the American Civil War
by Amanda Foreman
There were hundreds of “progressive”, influential Britons
who inexplicably supported the South - why? Britain was
totally dependent on the South for cotton, which
employed over a million British workers, and in turn the
Confederacy relied almost entirely on Britain for arms
and ships. From the drawing rooms of London to the
offices in Washington. 140 b/w photos, engravings and
drawings. 1006 roughcut pages. Remainder mark.
$35 WAS £6 NOW £3
78439 HITLER’S HEADQUARTERS 19391945: Rare Photographs from Wartime
Archives by Ian Baxter
Hitler spent the first weeks of the war in his personal
train with sophisticated transmitting equipment. From the
train Hitler directed operations in Poland, and when news
came that Warsaw had capitulated, the search was on to
find permanent field headquarters. The first site was
known as the Eagle’s Nest. Another site was found in the
Black Forest, and meanwhile Hitler lived at the Reich
Chancellery in Berlin. Ends with Hitler’s last days in the
bunker. 198pp, photos, large paperback.
£14.99 WAS £6 NOW £3
77433 COMPANY OF ARTISTS: The Origins of
the Royal Academy of Arts in London
by Charles Saumarez Smith
A lively look at creative temperaments. In 1767 the
respected Society of Artists wanted to turn itself into an
academy, with an annual exhibition and facilities for
teaching. The upshot was that older members set up a
new organisation which is the Royal Academy that we
know today. The rebel group had selected Sir Joshua
Reynolds as their Director. A constitution was drawn up
and four professors were elected, of Anatomy,
Architecture, Painting, and Perspective and Geometry.
192pp, 19 x 26cm, delicate colour reproductions,
woodcuts and lithographs.
£25 WAS £6 NOW £3
78458 BIRTHDAY PARTY, NO MAN’S LAND:
Four Plays Box Set by Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party 171pp, No Man’s Land 88pp are two
of the three cloth bound volumes in this set. The third
Mountain Language and Celebration 100pp. It is a
celebratory collection of four plays by Harold Pinter.
Three volume box set from Faber.
£30 WAS £9 NOW £4.50
77946 FACES OF GOD: 1000 Images in Art
by Rebecca Hind
The images of God in this superb book represent at least
20 different belief systems, including Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Shintoism,
Roman mythology, Voodoo and Zoroastrianism. 320pp,
softback, 1000 colour reproductions.
£16.99 WAS £4 NOW £2
77803 1001 GARDENS YOU MUST SEE BEFORE
YOU DIE: Updated Edition
edited by Raw Spencer-Jones
From the contemplative, tranquil spaces that characterize
Japanese temple gardens to scientific imagery and visual
trickery. Lush tropical gardens of Bali; Arabic and Persian
gardens, while Zen gardens replicate the perfection of the
natural world in miniature. 960 pages, colour photos,
garden names index, useful addresses.
$35 WAS £7.50 NOW £3.75
78245 ROYAL AIR FORCE: An Encyclopedia of
the Inter-War Years Volume One
by Wing Commander Ian M. Philpott
Sub-titled ‘The Trenchard Years 1918-1929’. The newly
created RAF fought for its existence politically in the interwar years. RAF Squadrons were despatched to the
remotest corners of the British Empire. Yet this important
period in RAF history and its effects on political and
military rationale during the period has never been
completely documented. The author gives full
information on the changing structure of the Force during
the period, squadron operations, political machinations
and their effects, the airplanes and the equipment.
Location maps, diagrams, archive photos. 492pp.
£35 WAS £13 NOW £6.50
78524 SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND: The
Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation
by Simon Jenkins
A lively, informative account of the story of England
from the Angles and Saxons through to the coalition of
David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Here are the Birth of
England, the Magna Carta, the Peasant’s Revolt, the
Wars of the Roses, the Reformation, Civil War, Waterloo,
the World Wars. Over 100 illus. 384pp. Colour illus.
£25 WAS £7 NOW £3.50
77813 INFLUENCE OF JAPANESE ART ON
DESIGN by Hannah Sigur
During the ‘Gilded Age’, the ‘Japan Craze’ swept the
West and touched every aspect of life from patent
medicines to wallpaper. Here, glass, silver and metal
arts, ceramics, textiles, furniture, jewellery, advertising
and packaging are juxtaposed. 222 pages 26cm x 24cm,
200 illus, colour and b/w.
£25 WAS £6 NOW £3
77502 SISTINE CHAPEL
by Caterina Cirri and Simona Ricci
!
This glamorous Scala publication measures 11" across by
15½” tall and comes in its own carry handled mailing
box. During the construction of the Sistine Chapel
between 1475 and 1481, a large rectangular hall covered
by a low-lying vault, Sixtus IV would never have
imagined that it would house some of the most
impressive expressions of Renaissance art. A huge
pictorial circle covers the entire surface of the vault with
paintings of nine Genesis stories in its centre. This is
where Michelangelo in 1536-41 painted his fresco of the
magnificent but terrifying ‘The Last Judgement’. On
close-up inspection we find even more to admire. Colour
photos, 288 grand-sized pages.
WAS £34 NOW £17
78428 UTAMARO by Edmond de Goncourt
!
The Ukiyo-e print, despised by the haughty Japanese
aristocracy, made use of the wooden block for colour
printing and depicted geishas, daily life, eroticism and
tradition. Impassioned by their delicate beauty, Edmond
de Goncourt became, through his monographs on
Utamaro and Hokusai, one of the first to reveal the
magnificence of this art to the Western world. 256 huge
pages on glossy paper, all in colour. 10½” x 12½”.
WAS £24 NOW £12
Browse easily on smartphones and tablets with this 2-in1 pen/stylus. With black ink, smart silver clip which
activates the retractable biro when pressed, this very
clever pen (when not showing its biro) has a rubbery
silicone nib
on the nose
with which
to tap out
and type
your texts, emails, swipe your screens on any of your
electronic devices and order away online at
www.bibliophilebooks.com. Lovely matt, soft-to-thetouch barrel. Bibliophile details engraved on the blue
barrel. Usually retail around £7.
ONLY £3.50
79175 DRESS SHOPPE: 12 Paper Doll Note
Cards by Brigette Barrager
Every girl loves dressing up and here you can add a
dash of high fashion to your letters and note cards using
the sheet of colourful stickers with bows, handbags,
glasses and other accessories. 12 notecards (four designs)
and pretty pink envelopes, the four models are of a
blonde, a black lady, a brunette and a red head, all with
tiny waists and sashaying like a 1950s American model.
Very kitsch, very glam and fun. Colour.
$12.95 NOW £2.50
79547 PRINTEMPS: 12
Notecards and Envelopes
by The Victoria and Albert
Museum
Three each of four designs in the
series Les Choses de Poiret by
Georges Lepape (1887-1971). The
four ladies in these iconic fashion
images are each wearing very
stylish Andy Pandy jumpsuits - one
in bright white playing tennis,
another in blue pinstripe gardening,
one in horizontal two-tone pink and blue, blonde cropped
hair smelling a red rose and the last in very 20s style
with fur trimmings, riding crop and cloche hat in a red
outfit. Textured front, blank for any message, the
notecards measure approximately 3" x 4". White
envelopes. Boxed.
ONLY £3
79180 GIRL WITH APPLE SPIRAL
NOTEBOOK by Spangle Publishing
In a very jolly yellow and orange and looking rather
Asian, the girl on the yellow notebook has her hair piled
in a bun and her pretty face looks out from the cover of
this modern lined notebook. Spiral bound to lie flat
easily, the lines are quite widely spaced, there is a black
elastic fastener, and our Annie has been using it to note
new Spanish vocabulary she is learning, and folding the
pages lengthways. Pretty, feminine notebook for the
handbag.
£4 NOW £1.75
79185 LITTLE BOOKS: Brilliant Ideas
by Spank Publishing
48 page lined notebook, 5" x 6" with quality paper and
silver blocking on the attractive matt black cover of a
bright light bulb for your Brilliant Ideas. The light bulb
motif repeats on the bottom right hand corner of each
lined page and the word IDEA: at the top. For all your
to do lists, wacky inventions, bons mots and more.
Great value.
£5.99 NOW £2.50
79197 TYPEWRITER iPAD SLEEVE
by Julia Rothman
Designed to fit all iPads and larger tablet computers,
with a padded fleece lining and zipper closure, this
protective fabric guard will protect the delicate LED
screen of our Kindles and gadgets and make a neat and
very stylish protective wallet for when we are on the
go, shoving things into our bags. This soft fabric cover
makes a unique statement while protecting your device
stylishly. It gives a wink to the past featuring vintage
typewriters, all hand drawn in lovely pastel colours of
orange, green, rose pink, red and blue on a pale yellow
background by the graphic artist Julia Rothman.
£14.99 NOW £4
79482 À TABLE KITCHEN TIMER
designed by Annie and Kikkerland
With four rubbery non-slip feet, this all metal 60 minute
kitchen timer is easy to set; turn the dial to the 59 minute
mark then turn to the desired time. With a lovely ringing
tinkle old-fashioned bicycle bell sound, it is useful not just
for your three minute egg, but also your tumble dryer,
soufflé, maybe even timing your hair dye! For 101
home or craft uses. White metal dome with À TABLE
and plate setting design on top and bold black markings.
ONLY £4
79521 GLASGOW TO THE WORLD: 20 Blank
Notecards by Ronnie Madrid
The Glasgow-based Anchor Line steamship passenger
service published lavishly coloured posters depicting the
romance and adventure of maritime travel and its many
exotic destinations. Four of those posters have been
selected for this notecard collection - Visit Scotland, 1921
with a beautiful stag, lake and mountain view, Ireland,
Come Back to Erin, 1923 with a pastel lakeside scene,
Come Back to Erin! 1922 with an Irish lady in the
foreground of a country scene, and Scotland, the Land of
Romance 1923, with a proud stag in silhouette against a
Scottish Highland scene. Large blank notecards with
white quality envelopes. Boxed.
$15.95 NOW £5
79433 SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS: 20
Notecards by Manchester Art Gallery
Autumn Leaves depicting four beautiful girls in a forest
gathering leaves into a basket is a pre-Raphaelite work
by the British artist Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896).
A Flood (1870) depicts a tiny baby in its wooden crib
with a black kitten, floating on a flooded river. Winter
Fuel (1873) depicts a little girl and her pet dog seated on
a wood cart. Four colour artworks, five copies of each
on bright white blank notecards and 20 white envelopes,
boxed.
ONLY £4
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20 Miscellany cont.
These various strength diopter reading
glasses offer plenty of magnification for
most reading situations, in a low-profile
horn-rim design for men and women.
79515 EDITOR READING GLASSES (GREEN)
STRENGTH +3.50 & VINYL CASE
The transparent green frames darken to black at the
nose, with flexible hinges, colour-coordinated earpieces,
and a matching vinyl soft case. Keep your “reading
eyes” handy with these stylish, sturdily built glasses.
Editor’s magnifying reading glasses don’t come much
more stylish than this. If you
pop yours down, lose them,
leave them in the car, sit on
them, or need umpteen pairs
around the
house, at this
NEW
price these
are
COLOUR IN
irresistible.
STOCK!
For ladies or
gents in stylish black PVC slipcase with a tree bark
design to match the frames, these slim line reading
glasses are green and black, have spring hinges, are
from the Solo makers and come in a variety of popular
strengths. Specially imported. Strength +3.50.
ONLY £6
79510 EDITOR READING GLASSES (BLUE)
STRENGTH +1.50 WITH VINYL CASE
The transparent blue frames darken to black at the nose,
with flexible hinges, colour-coordinated earpieces, and a
matching vinyl soft case. Strength +1.50.
ONLY £5
79511 EDITOR READING
GLASSES (BLUE)
STRENGTH +1.75 WITH
VINYL CASE
The transparent blue frames
darken to black at the nose,
with flexible hinges, colourcoordinated earpieces, and a matching vinyl soft case.
For ladies or gents in stylish black PVC slipcase with a
tree bark design to match the frames. Strength +1.75.
ONLY £5
79512 EDITOR READING GLASSES (BLUE)
STRENGTH +2.00 WITH VINYL CASE
The transparent blue frames darken to black at the nose,
with flexible hinges, colour-coordinated earpieces, and a
matching vinyl soft case. Stylish black PVC slipcase
with a tree bark design to match the frames. Strength
+2.00.
ONLY £5
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later John Maynard Keynes honed his economic theories
in the debating chamber and became President, while in
1920 Lord Mountbatten, supported by Churchill, opposed
the motion that the time was now ripe for a Labour
government. They carried the motion triumphantly. The
Oxford Union’s resolution in the thirties against fighting
for king and country achieved notoriety, while similar
motions at Cambridge passed unnoticed. During World
War II, the Union building was used covertly to plan the
D-Day landings, using large-scale models of the
Normandy beaches. Following the War, the Union was
again a staging post for aspiring Conservative politicians,
dubbed the ‘Cambridge mafia’, although in 1964 Simon
Schama, sporting an apricot bow tie, proposed that the
House would support violent revolution in South Africa.
During the sixties there was also a wealth of dramatic
talent in the Footlights theatre club: David Frost, Peter
Cook, several Monty Pythons, Derek Jacobi and Ian
McKellen, to name a few. Interspersed with the history
of the Society are recollections of activists including
Michael Howard, Lord Lamont, Arianna Huffington and
Peter Bazalgette. 418pp. B/w photos.
£25 NOW £6
79534 MAN BEHIND THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
by Trevor Rowley
Lively account of the life of Odo de Conteville, halfbrother of William the Conqueror. While still in his teens
he became the Bishop of Bayeux, and he helped plan
the invasion, participated in the Battle of Hastings and
the subsequent Conquest of England. He is best known,
however, as the man who almost certainly
commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry. The author explains
that Odo appears at least four times in the tapestry; the
only other people who appear so much are Harold and
William. It is likely that the tapestry was embroidered
by English seamstresses in Canterbury, probably for the
consecration of Odo’s new cathedral in Bayeux in 1077.
Odo was disgraced after allegedly defrauding the Crown
and the Church, and was imprisoned after making plans
to raise an unauthorised army in Italy. Yet he
understood the value of education. Softback, 192pp,
colour and b/w illus.
£16.99 NOW £7
79565 TIPI: Heritage of the Great Plains
by Nancy Rosoff and Susan Kennedy Zeller
Far from being a quaint architectural form of the past,
the Tipi is a living tradition for Native Americans in the
great Plains. Constructed of timber and hides, the tipi
was a masterpiece of structural design, with the inner
lining absorbing draughts and condensation. Plains life
revolved round the buffalo which provided not only food
but also the hides that were used for tipis and as
containers, cordage, blankets and clothing. The
reintroduction of the horse in the 16th century allowed
intertribal exchange networks to develop among Apache,
Ute, Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne traders. Typical
merchandise would be the pair of buffalo hide moccasins
illustrated here, decorated with beads, porcupine quills
and pigment. The six scholarly essays and interviews
with Native people. 239pp, colour.
$59.95 NOW £13.50
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod
Napoleon might have given if somebody had
met him in 1812 and said, “So, you’re back
from Moscow, eh?”
- P.G. Wodehouse, Mike and Psmith
80406 OUR MAN IN ROME:
Henry VIII and His Italian
Ambassador
by Catherine Fletcher
Gregorio Casali played an
important part in one of the most
famous episodes of British history,
yet his name is scarcely
remembered. He was the resident
diplomat in Rome who looked after
‘the king’s great matter’ at the
papal court - attempting to have
the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
annulled in order that Henry might marry Anne Boleyn.
The king’s reasoning was that God had punished him for
marrying his brother’s widow by not bestowing sons
upon the couple. Casali’s task was not easy; it took six
years of wrangling, disputing and threats as he
negotiated with various ambassadors, all of whom had
reason to press their interests in the breakup of the
Tudor marriage. Henry was so angry with the Church
and the Pope’s constant refusal, that he secretly married
Anne in January 1533. He was concerned that Anne
might become pregnant, and it was vital that an heir to
the throne was born in wedlock. The couple finally
married officially in May, when she was five months
pregnant. Less than a week later the trial that would
determine the validity of the king’s marriage began.
Thomas Cranmer presided, and on 23rd May 1933, the
new archbishop dutifully declared Henry’s marriage to
Catherine null and void, the event effectively leading to
the breakaway from the Roman Catholic Church, based
in Rome. After discovering an archive of documents still
held by the Casani family, the author was permitted to
consult them in order to discover the, almost forgotten till
then, elusive Gregorio, discovering him to be a
manipulative man who played one person against
another. Was he really fighting Henry’s cause, or just
trying to preserve his own interests? 266pp. B/w illus.
£20 NOW £5.50
80294 ARENA OF
AMBITION: A History of the
Cambridge Union
by Stephen Parkinson
Founded in 1815, the Cambridge
Union immediately became the
subject of controversy when an
attempt was made to shut it down
on the grounds that it was
interfering with students’ studies.
The real fear was that
revolutionary ideas were being
disseminated, but although
frequently flamboyant, the Union’s speakers were on
the whole members of the establishment. A century
79854 EDWARD S.
CURTIS: Visions of
the First Americans
by Don Gulbrandsen
Shot in the Hand, Two
Moon, Bear’s Belly,
Raven Blanket - as you
gaze at the faces filled
with dignity but also
sadness and loss, these Native American Indians are
representative of a world that has all but disappeared
from our planet. They are part of a body of work
encompassing 40,000 photographs all recorded by one
single man, Edward Sheriff Curtis, a true visionary who
wished to record Native American cultures before they
disappeared. His work was rediscovered in the 1970s
and his iconic work ‘The North American Indians’ had
taken him 30 years to complete and cost him his
marriage and his health. He left behind the most
complete visual record of Native Americans from the
Inuit of the far north to the Hopi people of the south
west, the Apache, Navaho, Mohave, Yuma, the Teton
Sioux, the Haida, Yakuts, Keres, Zuñi, the Western
Woods Cree, the Comanche, the Peyote Cult, to the
Alaskan Eskimo; just a few of those represented over
the 20 chapters in this magisterial photographic tome.
300 images reproduced in sepia with text explaining the
subjects, the rich and colourful culture, ceremonies,
beautiful totem poles and the background to how the
photograph was taken. 256 landscape pages 14" x 10".
£60 NOW £24
79965 BEATING NAPOLEON
by David Andress
The defeat of Napoleon is one of the great landmarks in
British history. From the conditions faced by the British
soldier and the great battles in which they fought to the
literary and artistic culture of the time inhabited by the
likes of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, and on to the night-raids and tragic fate of the
Luddites, the book is at once a searing narrative of
dramatic events, not least at Waterloo and Trafalgar,
and an important reassessment of one of the most
significant turning points in our history. 428pp,
paperback, illus.
£10.99 NOW £4.75
78532 ARTS OF INTIMACY: Christians, Jews
and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture
by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Maria Rosa Menocal,
Abigail Krasner Balbale
In 1085 the Christians of León and Castile had won
Toledo, capital of the Visigothic empire before the
advent of the Umayyad emirate. The dhimma contract
under Muslim rule had allowed Christians and Jews to
maintain a presence in the city by paying a tax, and the
new Christian rulers maintained co-existence. This book
is the story of Castilian art in the medieval period.
Illustrations include the Alhambra in Granada, the
synagogue of Samuel Halevy in Toledo, Muslim,
Hebrew and Latin astrolabes, and the great mosques of
Córdoba and Seville. 395pp, chronology, colour illus.
£25 NOW £6
78533 BOOK OF THE PHARAOHS
by Pascal Vernus and Jean Yoyotte
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
80358 DYNASTY: The Rise
and Fall of the House of
Caesar by Tom Holland
The portrait of a family that
transformed Rome, the first
imperial family and the astonishing
tale of its control of the world.
Ranging from the great capital
rebuilt in marble by Augustus to
the dank and barbarian-haunted
forests of Germany, the novel is
populated by a spectacular cast of
murderers and metrosexuals, adulterers and druids,
scheming grandmothers and reluctant gladiators. So
terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people
finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who
could give them peace. ‘Augustus’, their new master
called himself, ‘The Divinely Favoured One’. The lurid
glamour of the dynasty founded by Augustus has
never faded. The gallery of leading characters include
Tiberius, the great general who ended up a bitter
recluse, notorious for his
perversions; Caligula, the
master of cruelty and
humiliation who rode
his chariot across the
sea; Agrippina, the
mother of Nero,
manoeuvring to
bring to power the
son who would
have ended up
having her murdered;
Nero himself, racing in
the Olympics, marrying a
eunuch and building a pleasure
palace over the fire-gutted centre
of his capital. With family trees such as the Julians and
Claudians under Tiberius, colour plates and 11 maps
ranging from 44BC to AD69, this is a glamorous 2015
hardback.
£25 NOW £7.50
25247 HISTORIES
by Herodotus, introduced by Tom Griffiths
Herodotus (c480 - c425 B.C.) is the Father of History
and his Histories are the first piece of western historical
writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did
Pheidippides run the 26 mile and 385 yards from
Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got
there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between
sausage sellers? Which is the oldest language in the
world? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile?
Answers as well as many fascinating insights into the
Ancient World. 734pp in paperback.
ONLY £4
47915 JEWISH ANTIQUITIES
by Flavius Josephus
The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus
represent one of the most important records of Judaism
and the Jews that survives from the ancient world. It is
an account in 20 books of Jewish history from the
creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against
Rome in AD66. Here is all the drama of the Old
Testament transformed into an historical narrative of
Greco-Roman character. More importantly, it is our only
continuous account of Middle Eastern affairs that led up
to the revolt. Translation by Cambridge professor
William Whiston. 902 page paperback.
ONLY £4
78035 A CULTURE OF FREEDOM: Ancient
Greece and the Origins of Europe
by Christian Meier
Meier considers the rich spectrum of pre-Classical Greek
life and culture - the myths, epic and lyric poetry,
religious festivals, political and philosophical thought,
social life, military traditions and sport - and follows its
development to the early stages of Greek democracy.
It is freedom he contends, which is the distinctive key to
Greek culture and the birth of Europe. The fifth century
BC saw Athenian culture achieve its greatest heights
and then collapse due to its blinkered arrogance. 336pp,
illus and maps.
£18.99 NOW £4
78075 HITLER’S SECRET JEWISH PSYCHIC:
And Other Strange and Obscure History
by Phil Mason
!
Charles Goodyear and Christian Schonbein owed their
respective successes in rubber and explosives to trying to
hide their frowned-upon kitchen experimentations from
their houseproud wives. Here too is the truth behind
Winston Churchill’s escape from a Boer PoW camp in
1897 and the shocking goings-on behind the scenes in
the White House towards the end of the Reagan years.
Over 1,000 outrageous secrets that history has tried
(and failed) to keep. 412 riveting paperback pages.
$19.95 NOW £6.50
78097 MAPPING THE NEW WORLD:
Renaissance Maps From the American Museum
in Britain
by Anne Armitage and Laura Beresford
!
In 1988 Dr Dallas Pratt gave the American Museum in
Britain over 200 Renaissance maps of the New World,
one of the finest holdings of rare pre-1600 printed world
maps in existence. Over the 50 of the Museum’s
greatest cartographical treasures are showcased in detail
in this lavishly illustrated book. European cartographers
changed the shape of the New World as they mapped
the Americas from the 15th to the 17th centuries with
exquisitely detailed maps. Medieval maps had illustrated
theology rather than geography. There are celestial
charts of both northern and southern hemispheres, an
allegory of astronomy, monsters of land and sea
decorating borders, a world map from the Nuremburg
Chronicle, two Ptolemaic maps, the Borgia World Map
and beautiful depictions of fleets. Glossary, 128 very
large pages, softback.
£19.95 NOW £7
An informative A-Z guide, not only of Egypt’s Pharaoh
Rulers but also including places, dynasties, subjects and
themes relating to them, beginning with Adoratrice and
ending with Zero. The entry for Collosi explains that the
making of royal effigies 40 feet tall (some are higher
than 65 feet) were carved in granite or in
metamorphosed sandstone, and reached the apogee
under Amenophis III and Ramesses II. Pepy II came to
the throne as a child and had an exceptionally long reign
of 94 years, while Tutankhamun died in the tenth year
of his reign when just 18 years old. Maps and
chronological table. 233pp. b/w illus. maps.
£24.95 NOW £6.25
78536 GHOSTS OF EMPIRE
by Kwasi Kwarteng
In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong
Kong, new difficulties resulting from British Imperialism
have arisen and continue to baffle politicians and
diplomats. This powerful book skewers fantasies of its
glory and cataloguing both the inadequacies of its ideals
and the short-termism of its actions. The book comes
alive with wild and wonderful characters - Kitchener the
Imperial Hero, The World of Sir Hari Singh, Saddam
Hussein and Beyond, Hierarchies and Democracy
Postponed are Among The Chapters. 466pp, colour and
other photos and map.
$29.99 NOW £4.50
78683 ROYAL MUMMIES: Immortality in
Ancient Egypt
by Francis Janot and Zahi Hawass
Embalming, the art that people had learned from the god
Anubis, was the practical intervention that stopped the
decomposition of the body since the cosmic order itself
depended on its successful outcome. The second
anthropoid sarcophagus of Tutankhamun is made of
wood and covered in gold leaf and inlay. His inner
coffin is made of solid gold and weighs 110.4kg. Gold
and lapis lazuli, golden mummy masks, a silver
sarcophagus of Shoshenq II, Udjat eyes, wide inlaid
gold collars and other necklaces with magical properties
intended to protect the head. We learn the physical
procedures and religious rites, wrapping the body in linen
bandages to the latest x-rays and CT scans which
explain after thousands of years how the pharaohs died
and what ailments they had suffered. From Seqenenre
Tao II with his horrific battle wounds, Ahmose,
Hatshepsut who styled herself King to Tutankhamun the
golden boy pharaoh, their souls may be wandering in
the Field of Reeds, but the bodies of the Pharoahs now
have begun to reveal their secrets. 366pp, 10" x 14".
$65.95 NOW £16
78756 BIRTH OF CLASSICAL EUROPE: A
History from Troy to Augustine
by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann
At every level from languages to calendars to political
systems, we are the descendants of a ‘Classical Europe’.
At the centre stand the ancient peoples of the northern
Mediterranean basin, the Greeks and the Romans. The
principal long-term developments in this period were
driven by the people of the Aegean Sea, the southern
Balkans and the Italian peninsula. The nine chapters of
the book are structured chronologically. With 34 maps,
31 illus such as one of the Athenian Acropolis, a colour
plate showing a reconstruction of miniature fresco from
Knossos circa 1600BC. Illus. 398 marvellous pages.
Penguin paperback. Remainder mark.
$20 NOW £3.50
78759 EMPIRE AND THE ENGLISH
CHARACTER by Kathryn Tidrick
From the Lawrence Brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James
Brooke of Sarawak and Mountbatten, to Frederick
Courtenay Selous, Elspeth Huxley and Cecil Rhodes,
historian Kathryn Tidrick illuminates some of the
extraordinary lives and actions of the people that formed
and governed the British Empire. Characters include
General Gordon, pioneering in Rhodesia, early years in
Malaya, Trinidad, Ceylon, the Gold Coast and Nigeria
by Hugh Clifford, Lord Delamere and ‘Government by
Agreement’ in Kenya, Karen Blixen and her circle, the
role of public schools, Gandhi and the British, psychology
and the politics of appeasement, Hitler and Lord Halifax
and more. 338pp, paperback reprint.
£11.99 NOW £5
78824 PORTRAITS AND
CAFTANS OF THE OTTOMAN
SULTANS
by Nurhan Atasoy
As the Ottoman state expanded
from emirate to empire, the capital
moved from Sögüt to the cities of
Iznik, Bursa, Edirne and finally
Istanbul. Mehmed II who ruled
1444-45 and 1451-81 built the
Topkapi Palace there. The custom
of preserving clothing worn by sultans dates from this
time. Their wardrobes were wrapped in fabric after their
deaths and lists of the contents were pinned or sewn to
each bundle. Sultan Süleyman I the Magnificent (who
ruled 1520-1566), introduced a new taller, conical-style
kavuk. Sources mention the capanice, which was a
magnificent fur-lined robe made of gold or silver brocade,
lined with luxurious furs such as sable, ermine or black
fox, often with frogs down the front and a broad shawl
collar. The fastenings could have as many as 230
diamonds with gold brocade, emeralds, latticed enamel
and mohair. The order book lists fabrics’ colours
shedding light on Ottoman tastes for orange, yellow,
cinnamon, erguvani (purplish pink), olive, terracotta,
hyacinth, hazelnut, white, camel, green, purple, silver
gray, chickpea (sandy yellow), blue, straw, verdigris,
rose and many others. Our outsize book features
exquisite portraits and lavishly decorated caftans of the
Ottoman Empire and its legendary sultans. 36 sultans
featured, dazzling colour illus. 12" x 15¾”, 128pp.
$125 NOW £24
78607 DAWN OF GENIUS by Alan Butler
Sub-titled ‘The Minoan Super-Civilisation and the Truth
About Atlantis’ Butler discovers the real origins of
Western society. The modern world looks back to
Ancient Greece for the birth of philosophy, for the origins
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of science and even the foundations of democracy. But
long before Greece flirted with geometry, astronomy
and inclusive politics, there was a far more innovative
and pioneering culture, the Minoans. From the enigma
of the Phaistos Disc to accounts of the destruction of
Atlantis around 1600BC, the book celebrates the culture
that was shattered in an instant. 234pp, paperback.
£10.99 NOW £4
78948 ROMAN CONQUESTS:
Egypt and Judea
by John Grainger
Egypt was the last of the
Macedonian Successor states to be
incorporated into the Roman Empire.
General Ptolemy of Lagos, while
penniless, was shrewd, stealing his
leader’s body en route to Macedonia
and creating a shrine and the new
city of Alexandria and a largely selfsufficient kingdom on the Nile. He
lacked the military wherewithal to hold off Rome, so he
and his successors allied themselves to the Empire. But
Cleopatra’s infamous love affair with Mark Antony put
her on the wrong side of the civil war between her lover
and Octavian and, following their defeat at Actium,
Octavian swiftly brought Egypt under direct Roman rule.
The wars that were fought in Egypt and Judea were
typically Roman - brief and brutal. This worked with
Octavian in Egypt, but showed its limitations in Judea,
as repeated Jewish uprisings demonstrated. Grainger
shows how eventually the Roman Empire reached its
eastward limit. Maps, photos and colour paintings.
224pp.
£19.99 NOW £7
78953 HANDBOOK TO ROMAN LEGIONARY
FORTRESSES
by M. C. Bishop
This invaluable book includes a gazetteer of the 85
fortresses that have been discovered throughout the
Roman Empire. Each fort has details of the location, size,
region, orientation, phases and dating, literary
references, epigraphic evidence, modern references and
a ground plan, while a map shows their distribution along
the borders of Empire, from Inchtuthill in Scotland to
Cairo in Egypt, and including major British sites such as
Chester, York and Colchester. Those with significant
remains such as York, Chester and Regensburg have
been excavated, but many smaller ones have not.
Fortresses buried beneath major cities such as Mainz or
Strasbourg have only received limited exploration.
Towers and gateways are described and also the
internal buildings including the commanding officer’s
house (praetorium) and the barracks. 209pp, hundreds of
line drawings, maps, colour photos, website links.
£19.99 NOW £9
79096 1789: The Revolutions
That Shook the World
by David Andress
1789 was a culmination of multiple
crises and the point in time when
contingent threads of economic,
social and political development
were bound together into new
patterns. Andress reveals how
events and the men who led them
such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Paine, the Marquis de Lafayette and
George Washington stood at the threshold of the modern
world. We get material on India, the Botany Bay
colonists, the Barbary pirates, and the North American
Indian tribes. The heart of the book must be the
dramatic events in France. 438pp, paperback, colour
images.
£12.99 NOW £3
79177 EMPIRE’S CROSSROADS: A History of
the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present
Day by Carrie Gibson
Unfolds the story of the Caribbean from Columbus’s first
landing on the island he named San Salvador to today’s
largely independent islands. From the early years of
settlement to the age of sugar and slavery, African
slaves, the great slave rebellions of the 18th and 19th
centuries. From Cuba to Haiti, from Dominica to
Martinique, from Jamaica to Trinidad, this is the story of
fortune seekers and pirates, scientists and servants,
travellers and tourists. 447pp, maps.
£25 NOW £4.50
79283 I USED TO KNOW THAT WORLD
HISTORY by Emma Marriott
Early civilisations, the Dark Age in Europe, Golden Ages
in the East and West including the Byzantine Empire and
the Holy Roman Empire, the Middle Ages and the
Crusades, Renaissance, Religion and Reformation, The
Age Of Discovery, Reason and Revolution, Empire,
World War One and Revolution, World War Two and the
New Globalism are the broad headers. Find out more
about the slave trade and the American Civil War,
Versailles and other treaties. 176pp, cartoons.
Dedication page. Ages 12 to adult.
$14.95 NOW £3
79502 DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN
EMPIRE
by Edward Gibbon
The greatest historical work in the English language is
here illustrated with works by the 18th century Italian
engraver and printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
The present book is an abridgement of Low’s
abridgment. Sections include The Golden Age of the
Antonines, The Challenge to the Old Regime, The
Growth of Military Autocracy and The Influx of
Orientalism, The Disruption of the Empire, The Turn of
the Tide, The New Imperial System, The Rise of
Christianity, The Movement Towards the East, The
Recognition of Christianity, The Beginnings of Heresy,
The Pagan Counter-Reformation, The Return of
Christianity to Favour, The Great Invasions, The End of
the Empire in the West, The State of Italy, The Age of
Justinian, Theological Influences, The Coming of Islam,
The Decline of the Empire in the East, The Crusades
and The End of the Roman Empire. 370pp, engravings.
$24.95 NOW £7.50
78999 BRIEF HISTORY OF FRANCE
by Cecil Jenkins
Sub-titled ‘People, History and Culture’. Cecil Jenkins
tells the story of the formation of a nation through its
people, great events and culture from its prehistoric
origins to President Sarkozy. We learn why Leonardo’s
Mona Lisa is in the Louvre, the origins of the French
Revolution and how the great Eiffel Tower was built,
Cold War and colonial crisis, De Gaulle’s golden decade
ending in tragi-comedy, the Pompidou Centre to Chirac.
With map of modern France, 330pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
79532 LOST TREASURES: The World’s
Greatest Riches Rediscovered
by Dr Jane McIntosh
Perhaps the most famous treasure hoard in the world is
that of Tutankhamun’s tomb. In 1939 amateur
archaeologist Basil Brown began to excavate some
enigmatic mounds at Sutton Hoo. He discovered ship
rivets, eventually unearthing the outline of a 90 feet
long Anglo-Saxon warship. Professional archaeologists
discovered gold plaques, jewellery, coins, buckles,
spears and a magnificent gold helmet. Other treasures
in this stunning book include Terracotta warriors from
China, gold figurines from South America, Spanish gold,
the Nanking Cargo, Viking silver and jewellery from
India. When Sir Leonard Wooley began excavations in
Ur, Mesopotamia, he found the tomb of Queen Puabi.
This visually stunning book also tells of hoards still to be
found and investigates the history of the treasures and
the people who owned them. 12" x 10", 256pp, colour
photos, maps.
£25 NOW £9
TRANSPORT
People’s backyards are much more
interesting than their front gardens, and
houses that back on to railways are public
benefactors.
- John Betjeman
80269 NELSON’S
SHIPS: A Trafalgar
Tribute
by Derek Gardner
The name Horatio Nelson
remains a by-word for
heroism and devotion to
duty in face of awful
physical frailty. This unique
tribute to the Battle of Trafalgar in which Nelson secured
British supremacy of the seas at the cost of his own life
is a salute from one naval veteran to another.
Acclaimed artist Derek Gardner charts Nelson’s career,
step-by-step and ship-by-ship, in words and pictures.
The saga ranges from the moment Nelson enlisted as a
midshipman on his uncle’s ship at the age of 12 to his
death against Napoleon 35 years later. Born 1914,
Derek Gardner saw distinguished service during WW2 in
the Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean
and was honoured and injured at the 1942 storming of
Algiers aboard the Gallant Broke, which sank after the
action. A resulting loss of hearing spurred him into
developing an almost sixth sense as a painter and his
passion became his profession. Here he is at the peak of
his artistic powers. In glorious full sail at sea is the
California clipper Southern Cross, the French 74-gun
Redoubtable depicted in the Battle of Trafalgar, 21st
October 1805, the Victory, the Elephant launched 1786,
the three-masted 80-gun ship Foudroyant, flagship of
Vice Admiral Lord Keith August 1800, Vanguard,
Theseus leaving Portsmouth, Agamemnon and the 28gun frigate Boreas among the many full page colour
examples. 124pp in very large softback, half of which
are these glorious naval paintings.
$30 NOW £8.50
80051 ROB WALKER DVD
by Fastforward Music
In 1958, Rob Walker became the
first private entrant to win a World
Championship Grand Prix when his
car took the chequered flag with
Stirling Moss behind the wheel. In
this fascinating hour long film, he
tells his own story, from a childhood
passion for motor cars right through
to his success as a team manager.
With extensive race footage and stills from the era,
Walker describes life as a driver in the early years of
motorsport and tells of a promise to his new wife that he
had stopped driving in races and his resultant move was
to running a successful post war racing team.
ONLY £5
80412 SHOW ME A HERO:
The Sin of Richard Byrd Jnr
by Jeremy Scott
Richard Byrd retired from the active
duty list in his late twenties due to a
severe ankle injury, knowing that
he would not pass physically his
annual medicals in the US Navy.
Just a few years before, the Wright
brothers had made the first flight
lasting less than a minute, but
already great progress was being
made in the development of flying. Richard decided that
he would train as a naval aviation cadet; a limp would
not prevent him from handling a plane. He quickly
mastered the art of flying, using a wooden seaplane
with canvas wings, and became an instructor, designing
three new flying instruments to help navigators. When
the war ended, he was recalled from his posting - and
then to his chagrin an Atlantic crossing was made from
where he had been stationed, using the instruments he
had designed. Richard had hoped to be the first to cross
the Atlantic, he wanted the fame and the kudos. He
decided he would attempt to fly to the North Pole
instead, and after several years of preparation, in 1926
set off with his co-pilot. Eight hours later they were
circling the North Pole, or so they claimed. Feted,
rewarded, Byrd achieved worldwide fame. But did he
cheat? Gripping account of a mystery that still rages
today. 278pp. B/w illus.
Transport
DISCOVER BRITAIN DVDs
80043 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE:
Highlights and Hidden
Treasures DVD
by Discover Britain
£17.99 NOW £6
80050 JIM CLARK DVD
by Fastforward Music
In Formula 1, James Clark Jr won
33 pole positions and 25 races,
excelling when driving genius was
still more important than contracts
and driver aids. Born in Scotland in
1936, Clark is still regarded as one
of the best race car drivers of all
time. High-speed action highlights
from his career are packed into this
adrenalin pumping 60 minute DVD.
It began with Lotus, bringing major success in 1963
when Clark won seven out of the ten races worldwide,
bringing Lotus its first World Championship. He won it
again in 1965, also winning the Indianapolis 500. On
April 7th 1968 during a race at Hockenheim, Clark died
when his car veered off course. He was inducted into
the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1990.
ONLY £5
79846 A DICTIONARY OF
PASSENGER SHIP
DISASTERS
by David L. Williams
A comprehensive illustrated
dictionary that records the losses of
over 1,000 passenger-carrying
vessels of all types, not just
passenger liners but also ferries,
hospital ships and excursion vessels.
The entries contain details of the
tonnage, beam, passenger capacity, makers and engine
type. Additionally there is a description of the distress
incident, together with casualty details if any. Naturally
the Titanic is listed, with a comprehensive account of the
1912 tragedy when 1,503 people were lost. Another
entry is the Norseman, built in 1900 by Harland & Wolff,
Belfast, was taken over by the Admiralty for war
service and torpedoed in 1919 by a German submarine.
Although all her human occupants were safely rescued,
around 400 mules and horses were trapped in the hold
and perished. Their rotting carcasses became a major
health hazard, giving off an overpowering stench in the
heat of the Mediterranean summer. In his introduction
the author, rather chillingly, states, ‘It may seem a
cynical observation, but one cannot help wondering
however whether there will need to be another wake-up
call like the Titanic disaster before international safety
authorities, governmental agencies and ship operators
alike take necessary action.’ 11½ x 8½”, 288pp. B/w
photos.
£29.99 NOW £10
79849 CONQUEST OF THE
OCEAN: An Illustrated
History of Seafaring
by Brian Lavery
In January 1778, during his third
voyage across the Pacific, Captain
Cook wrote in his journal, “How
shall we account for this Nation
spreading itself so far over this Vast
ocean?” He was speaking of the
Polynesians, a people he had found
scattered across thousands of Pacific
islands in a vast triangle of ocean between Hawaii, New
Zealand and Easter Island. This immense area had been
colonised in simple boats without charts, compasses or
even written instructions. The Egyptians, Greeks and
Romans built the first large warships and merchant
vessels, but stayed mainly in the Mediterranean. The
first European trans-oceanic voyagers were the Vikings
who also reached Iceland, Greenland and finally North
America in 985. Between 600 and 1100 the Arabs
established trade routes across the Indian Ocean as far
away as China, and by the 14th and 15th centuries
Chinese explorers were coming the other way, right
across to the east coast of Africa and down to Cape of
Good Hope. However, it is the voyages of the
European Age of Exploration that have had the most
profound effect on world history. Within 30 years of
Columbus establishing the first permanent link with the
Americas in 1492, European sailors had blazed a trail to
India via the
Cape of Good
Hope and thence
circumnavigated
the globe. The
secret of
European
success was
threefold: the
evolution of
three- and four-masted vessels that combined the best of
Mediterranean and Northern European boatbuilding
traditions, the adoption of navigational devices such as
the magnetic compass, the astrolabe and the sextant,
and finally a level of ambition and drive (no doubt
fuelled by the promises of limitless riches) that inspired
seafarers to endure intense hardship and risk their lives
venturing beyond the limits of the known world. Soon
the major seafaring nations realised the importance of
controlling the seas and heavy artillery found its way
onto ships and the era of maritime warfare was born.
Migration, exploration, provision of livelihood or
sustenance, trade, transportation and warfare - here is
the whole amazing history of man’s relationship with the
sea. 400pp, colour and b/w illus.
$30 NOW £9
79454 GREAT CLASSIC SAILING SHIPS
by Kenneth Giggal
Return to the days of sail with this beautifully presented
work featuring 40 specially commissioned paintings of
classic ships by the celebrated Dutch artist Cornelis de
Vries, reproduced in full colour. His detailed portrayals
are the result of his working from archive collections of
original shipbuilder’s designs and sail plans. Most of the
40 ships pictured were built between the 16th and 19th
21
Exploring Robin Hood country with
its undulating landscape and pretty
unspoilt villages, Nottinghamshire
has a charm of its own. It has links
to Charles I and the Civil War
which cannot be forgotten but there
is much more to discover as you
will discover on this colour DVD,
running time 75 minutes. We search our highlights and
hidden treasures in each district of Nottinghamshire with
its own individual character, packed with interesting
places to visit.
ONLY £4
80045 INLAND SUFFOLK: A
Moving Postcard DVD
by Discover Britain
An intriguing, informative and
entertaining journey through pretty
villages, historical towns, stately
homes and tourist attractions that
have been loved for generations in
Suffolk, a county where you
receive a warm welcome and the
skies are never-ending. Visit Bury
St Edmunds, West Stow, Lark
Valley, Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Hopton Church,
Thelnetham Mill, Earsham Otter Trust, Bressingham
Steam Museum and Gardens, Eye, Debenham, Cotton
Music Museum, Stowmarket, Gipping Valley, Ipswich
and Museum, Dedham, Stoke by Nayland, Newmarket,
Sudbury, Kentwell Hall, Lavenham and many more. 90
minute colour DVD.
ONLY £4
80061 SCOTLAND: The
Grand Tour DVD
by Discover Britain
A keepsake of the historic country
of Scotland includes The Highland
Games, Iona, Pitlochry, Edinburgh,
Loch Lomond, The Borders, Glamis
Castle, The Kingdom of Fife,
Earlshall Castle, Loch Ness, Oban,
Glencoe, Glasgow, Culloden, The
Trossachs, Blair Castle, Killiecrankie
and the Distilleries. Nowhere will
you find a country as rich and varied in history or people
as proud, warm and welcoming. 45 minute colour DVD
to enjoy from the comfort of our armchairs if we cannot
travel to this beautiful countryside.
ONLY £4
80042 DERBYSHIRE:
Highlights and Hidden
Treasures DVD
by Discover Britain
Even from your armchair you can
now visit buildings of historical
interest and magnificent gardens,
wonderful places which are difficult
to find in this essential guide to the
very best of Derbyshire and its
most popular attractions. If you
can travel, there is also a selection
of wonderful places to eat and drink. Discover Bentley
Brook, Brook Farm, Speedwell, Peaklander,
Renaissance, Eyam, Treak Cliff Cavern, Chatsworth
House, Ashford in the Water and Bakewell, nestled in
green countryside with beautiful rivers flowing and a
warm welcome. 50 minute colour DVD.
ONLY £4
centuries, when ships such as these played a vital role in
the fortunes of nations. Includes Great Harry, Revenge,
Golden Hind, HMS Victory, HMS Bounty, Cutty Sark,
USS Constitution, Chesapeake and Shannon, Young
America, Santa Maria, Geertruida Gerarda and Europa
(better known as The Flying Dutchman). Also included
is a general history of sail and a useful glossary of terms.
128 pages, colour. 10¾” x 11½”.
£16.99 NOW £7
79420 COAST AND THE SEA
by Linda Ferber
Over 60 of the best American marine paintings and
artefacts from the New York Historical Society’s
maritime art collection are depicted here in this colourful
book. Spanning the years 1728-1904, it includes several
dramatic paintings by Carlton T. Chapman including an
atmospheric rendition of an engagement between the
US Frigate and the HMS Java. Particularly tragic is ‘The
Sailor’s Grave’ by Richard Morrell Staigg. Paintings here
depict the sea in all its moods, from the raging, dramatic
‘Wreck on the Isle of Jersey’ by Mauritz Frederik
Hendrik De Haas to the tranquil ‘Marine View’ by
Thomas Birch. Investigates also the careers of their
creators. 104pp, colour illus.
£19.95 NOW £7
79452 A CELEBRATION OF MARINE ART:
Sixty Years of the Royal Society of Marine
Artists
by Geoff Hunt
This glorious, landscape elegant volume begins with an
oil painting by Borlase Smart entitled ‘Plymouth Pier at
Night’. Hugh Ridge, Charles Simpson, John Warsley,
Bibliophile’s favourite, Keith Shackleton with the
marvellous ‘South From New Zealand’ and Burt Wright’s
‘Golden Horn, Istanbul’ are the first glowing works of art
presented here. Then, best of all, are the one-to-a-page
large sized paintings for nearly all of the 200 pages in
this volume. Favourites include Alan Cook’s ‘The
Propeller’, Robert Naylor’s ‘La Rochelle’, Robert King’s
‘Sunday Afternoon, Cromer’ and Leslie Wilcox’s ‘Start of
the Tall Ships Race, 11th August 1962.’ Gorgeous colour
reproductions, 192pp in softback. 11" x 8½”.
£20 NOW £7
22 Transport cont.
80229 A NIGHT TO
REMEMBER
by Walter Lord
The classic account of the final
hours of the Titanic, first published
in 1955, remains the definitive tale
of the sinking of the great ship.
Walter Lord interviewed more than
60 survivors before committing
their searingly vivid recollections to
his minute-by-minute account of the
Titanic’s fatal collision and the swift,
plummet into icy waters of the ship
that promised never to sink. Chapter headings include
There’s Talk of an Iceberg, Ma’am, It Reminds Me of a
Bloomin’ Picnic, We’re Going North Like Hell and Go
Away - We Have Just Seen Our Husbands Drown.
With Passenger List, 182pp in paperback.
$14.99 NOW £6
78972 TITANIC AND HER
SISTERS: A Postcard
History by Janette and
Campbell McCutcheon
These archive postcards take the
viewer straight back to the
different world of 1912. Titanic and her sister ship
Olympic were built by Harland and Wolff in 1908,
followed by Britannic, originally to be called Gigantic,
after Titanic’s sinking. The ship was salvaged by
underwater archaeologist Jacques Cousteau in the
1970s. Olympic and Titanic both had Turkish baths, and
postcards of the cabins show elegant damask wallpaper
and marble bathtubs. The first class smoking room was
the height of luxury with paintings on the walls and
Turkish rugs on the floor. Inventories show the dining
rooms were equipped with 45,000 table napkins, 1000
oyster forks, and 1500 grape scissors. In 1911 HMS
Hawke rammed Olympic, breaching two watertight
compartments, but extensive analysis of the damage did
nothing to save the Titanic. Or was it her? 128pp,
softback, archive photos, some in colour.
£19.99 NOW £6
78976 WHITE STAR LINE:
A Photographic History
by Janette McCutcheon
The White Star Line is probably
the most famous shipping line
ever, being the owner of the
Titanic. Set up in 1875 when the
Ismay family bought up a bankrupt enterprise, in the
early days White Star boasted the fastest service in the
North Atlantic against fierce competition from Cunard
with which it finally merged in 1934. In its heyday
White Star ran around 70 of the most luxurious ships on
the ocean. Britannic was the replacement ship for the
Titanic and is pictured here being coaled at Southampton
in 1916; she became a hospital ship following the
Dardanelles disaster and did not survive the war.
Olympic was Titanic’s sister ship and is seen here in
1918 with dazzle stripe paint. A dramatic photo shows
lifeboats from the Olympic going to the rescue as the
Dreadnought Audacious goes down. During World War I
other White Star ships saw service as dummy
battleships. 128pp, softback, archive photos. Colour.
£19.99 NOW £6
79537 MILITARY AIRCRAFT INSIGNIA OF
THE WORLD
by John Cochrane and Stuart Elliott
The first known use of markings to identify the
nationality of aircraft was at the 1910 Bombing
Competition in Vienna, where each machine carried its
national colours as wing-tip stripes. By an order dated
26th July 1912, France became the first country to
specify the precise shape, size and colour of military
markings for aircraft with a roundel form of the French
flag. This beautifully illustrated softback provides over
500 insignia in colour combined with contemporary
photographs. It begins with the breakaway region of
Georgia called Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Albania and
Algeria, the small African country Djibouti, Honduras,
Paraguay, Turkmenistan to Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Colour, 144pp, large softback.
£14.99 NOW £5
79543 ON WHEELS by Michael Holroyd
An acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw,
Lytton Strachey and other post-Victorian rebels, Michael
Holroyd has now written an unforgettable book about his
own relationship with the Motor Car. As driving instructor
to his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble, Holroyd
adopted a relaxed technique by stretching out on the back
seat, and when the examiner told Drabble she had
passed the test she objected that she definitely had not.
Holroyd’s Lytton Strachey biography features the car
given by Lytton to Dora Carrington, who was in love
with him, so that she could drive around with Ralph
Partridge who was in love with her, and was also the
object of Lytton’s desire. Another biographical subject is
Augustus John, whose first drive, from London to Dorset,
took place entirely in first gear. 104pp, line drawings.
$18 NOW £3.25
78949 ELEPHANT NEVER FORGOT: London’s
Trams in Retrospect by Paul Collins
2012 was 60 years since the closure of London’s first
generation of electric trams. It was George Francis
Train, who introduced street tramways to Britain in
Birkenhead in 1860. Later that year he approached the
Parish of St Marylebone for permission to lay down
tracks. By the next year he was running three
demonstration lines that in a year carried two million
people and earned £20,000! Horse-drawn trams were
soon all over London and by the late 1890s plans for
electrification were under way. In the early 1900s the
first electric trams (using electricity generated by London
United Tramways at their impressive powerhouse in
Chiswick) were transporting Londoners all across the
capital. LUT advertising, engineering reports, plans,
diagrams, tech drawings and more. 128pp, over 200
colour and b/w illus.
£16.99 NOW £8.50
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79552 SHIPS OF THE CIVIL WAR 1816-1865
by Kevin Dougherty
An illustrated guide to the fighting vessels of the Union
and the Confederacy, the American Civil War may be
mainly remembered for its infamous land battles such as
Gettysburg, Manassas and Shiloh, but its naval
engagements announced a new kind of naval warfare
with the first use of ironclads, submarines and torpedoes.
The conflict saw the use of paddle-driven riverboat,
steam warships, ram ships, sloops, cruisers and the
development of the new ironclad ships such as low-lying
monitors. Arranged by type of ship, here is coverage of
some of the most famous warships of the era - the CSS
Virginia, the USS Monitor, the Confederate raider
Alabama and her demise off the coast of France under
the guns of USS Kearsarge, CSS Hunley, AD Vance
and Hope, CSS Sumter and USS Quaker City and
cruisers like the CSS Tallahassee. Colourful artworks
and useful specifications of more than 120 fighting ships.
Contemporary photos and illus.
£24.60 NOW £11
77870 RAILWAY POCKET BIBLE: Everything
You Want to Know About Railways
by Andrew Fowler
From railway history, George and Robert Stephenson
and the first steam trains to Eurostar, platforms, valve
gears and well tanks, the book encompasses profiles of
famous locomotives from the Flying Scotsman and The
Duchess of Hamilton to the Tornado, compound and
articulated locomotives, the grand architecture and
design behind historic stations, the Underground and
Metro, the best trains in film, books and TV and details
of fabulous routes. 172 pages, line drawings.
£9.99 NOW £3.75
78545 LOST LIVERIES OF PRIVATISATION:
In Colour by David Cable
Designed for the modeller and historian, the author
considers the situation in the last days of British Rail
before looking in detail at the 200 or so livery variations
that have appeared on Britain’s rail network since 1996.
Privatisation and the associated franchising of operations,
together with developments in vinyl technology, has
resulted in a plethora of ‘standard’ colour schemes and of
advertising liveries promoting various routes, features
and events. Franchises have been awarded to new
operators and on each occasion a different colour scheme
has been adopted. 220 superb colour photos. 104pp,
large softback from Ian Allan publications.
£16.99 NOW £5
78552 SHIPS AND SHIPPING IN MEDIEVAL
MANUSCRIPTS
by Joe Flatman
The colourful history of medieval ships from the 11th to
16th centuries is described and illustrated in this gorgeous
book based on over 150 manuscripts in the British
Library. A French 15th century depiction of the monster
Leviathan symbolises all that is dangerous about the sea,
while the mermaids that are often found in the margins of
manuscripts represent female vanity. The cartography of
Matthew Paris is celebrated in several examples,
including his route from St Albans to Jerusalem. William
the Conqueror is depicted setting foot on English soil from
a state-of-the-art 15th century carrack, while the
fishermen apostles James and John are shown hauling in
their nets from what is clearly a Viking vessel. A Noah’s
Ark illumination depicts a robust wooden structure more
like a medieval house, while another Ark is a
cosmopolitan mix of eastern and western shipbuilding
styles. The White Ship in which the son of Henry I
perished, causing the ‘anarchy’ in which Stephen and
Matilda battled for the throne of England, was often used
as a symbol of the perils of travel by sea. 160pp, illus.
£30 NOW £10
78941 BORN OF ADVERSITY: Britain’s
Airlines 1919-1963 by Guy Halford-MacLeod
In 1921 a series of policy changes gave airlines
subsidies, cash for operations, grants towards new
equipment and sole rights on their respective routes. By
WWII, Imperials’ and British Airways’ aircraft were
moved to Whitchurch, near Bristol, the flying boats
transferred to Poole. But internal cross-water services in
Scotland, to the Channel Isles, the Isle of Man and the
Scillies were soon resumed, as were European flights
from neutral states, Belgium, Denmark and Holland, and
the Paris flights of Air France. This is a detailed, highly
informative examination of Britain’s airlines, the
challenges they faced, the exasperating policies, the
fresh opportunities and, of course, the political muddle.
Softback. 208pp, illus.
£17.99 NOW £6
78955 LITTLE BOOK OF BRUNEL
by Robin Jones
Born on 9th April 1808, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
became a great engineer, a visionary who knew that
transport technology had the power to change the world.
Begins with Marc Brunel, the Thames Tunnel known as
the eighth Wonder of the World, Bristol and its
suspension bridge, steam railways, Paddington to
Swindon, Temple Meads and the first great terminus at
Bristol, locomotives and the great steam behemoths of
the broad gauge, the second Paddington, the first
transatlantic liners, the bridge at Saltash and beyond.
Colour photos, 126pp.
£7.99 NOW £3
79256 RIDING ALONG IN MY AUTOMOBILE
by Storm Thorgerson and Rupert Truman
Sub-titled ‘The American Cars of Cuba’, here is a book
of flamboyant excess, capturing the style, colour, flavour
of not just the old automobiles Pontiacs, Dodges, Fords,
Chevrolets, Buicks and Cadillacs beautifully
photographed in colour, but also the fast-disappearing
cities of Cuba and their well-faded glamour. From
roadsters to saloons, from convertibles to station
wagons, from wing fantasy to gaping grilles like sharks,
the book also features delightful two-tone liveries and
outrageous pinks, menacing black and white and vivid
blues. With sporadic text written in direct response to
seeing the cars or to the Cuban environment. 144pp,
colour. 13" x 10", landscape.
£35 NOW £5.50
78942 BRITISH
CRUISE SHIPS
by Ian Collard
This illustrated history of
pleasure voyages covers
the period 1844-1939. The
delightful illustrations depict
ships, posters and plenty of
ephemera such as itineraries and menus. In 1936 P&O
were offering 14 day cruises to North Caper, Murmansk
and Norway from 21gns. while in 1939 you could cruise
on Anchor Line’s Caledonia for 17 days, taking in Lisbon,
Madeira, Casablanca and Gibraltar, for 19gns. On Blue
Star’s Andora Star the breakfast menus included such
goodies as Quaker Oats, Shredded Wheat, Boar’s Head,
Radishes, Sally Lunns, Minute Steaks, Calves’ Liver,
Buckwheat Cakes and Ryvita! Landscape softback,
126pp, colour and b/w illus.
£19.99 NOW £6
78958 STORY OF THE RED ARROWS
by Colin Higgs
The Red Arrows are the world’s greatest aerobatic
display team. Packed with fabulous colour photos,
many never seen before, our book explores the history
behind the team, its pilots and crew and its instantly
recognisable red aircraft, first Gnats and now Hawks.
Read about the team’s greatest moments, triumphant
tours to the USA, the Middle East and the Far East,
topping the bill at the Farnborough Air Show and their
superstar status after 50 years at the top. Stunning
shots. 126pp, colour.
£7.99 NOW £3
78959 LOCOMOTIVES OF THE LONDON,
BRIGHTON AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY:
1839-1903
edited by John Christopher
Also known as the Brighton Line, the London, Brighton
and South Coast Railway was an important pre-grouping
railway covering a triangular territory with London at its
apex and the Sussex and Surrey Coast at its base.
Under a trio of chief mechanical engineers including John
Craven, William Stroudley, Robert and Lawson
Billington, father and son, and Douglas Earle Marsh, the
company built or purchased well over 1,000 steam
locomotives. Many were handed over to the Southern
Railway in the 1923 grouping of independent railway
companies. To this day, the former LBSCR lines form
the backbone of this region’s network. Covers the years
1839-1903, when this account was originally published.
140 line illus and photos. 160pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £5
78964 PIONEERS OF AERIAL COMBAT
by Michael Foley
Amazingly, just ten years after the Wright Brothers
made the first powered flight in 1903, of 57 seconds,
aircraft design had progressed enough to allow them to
take part in aerial combat and to drop bombs. The
achievement and development of flight had caught the
imagination of both the aviation engineers and the
general populace, and the race was on to build better,
speedier planes. Flying was a hazardous affair in those
early days, with pilots risking their lives each time they
flew. The bravery and courage of those who took to the
air to protect their country was immense. Landing with
the bombs still on board could be dangerous, as when
Lieutenant Lan-Davies came into land he dropped his
bombs and the resulting explosion blew off the tail of his
aircraft. The pilot was knocked unconscious and the
observer, P. Hendry, fell out. Hendry then managed to
save the unconscious pilot.’ A vivid account of the
general scramble to develop aircraft in response to the
threat of war, and of the aerial combat entered into by
brave pilots. 183pp, illus.
£19.99 NOW £8
78967 THE ROUTEMASTER
by Michael H. C. Baker
The Routemaster is the big, red, double-decker London
bus which proved itself extraordinarily long-lived. Here
is the concept, prototypes, trolley bus replacement, the
RT family, forward-entrance Routemasters, Green Line,
rear-engined rivals, production ending, scrapping the
Routemaster, deregulation, resisting the rivals, the new
owner and when the end was in sight. In 2010,
heritage routes were retained. With full chronology and
dozens of glossy colour photos and archive photos and
illus. 128pp.
£9.99 NOW £5
78975 WESTERN BRANCHES, WESTERN
BYWAYS
by Kevin McCormack
This attractive book is based on 150 colour photos of the
former Great Western Railway branch lines in the 1950s
and 1960s. The line’s reputation for old-fashioned
quaintness derived from the 0-4-2 tank engines which
plied up and down. An older tank is captured here at
Colyton station on the Seaton branch line, while the
Quay line at Weymouth is pictured with an outsidecylindered dock shunter, now preserved on the South
Devon Railway. Spectacular scenes include the Walnut
Tree Viaduct over the Taff Valley in South Wales, the
Crumlin Viaduct over the Ebbw Valley. Fishguard
Harbour station, owned by the Stena line, is the
gateway to Ireland, and pannier tank 9602 is
photographed standing at the platform. 96pp, colour
photos.
£20 NOW £9.50
79062 DEATH, DYNAMITE AND DISASTER:
A Grisly British Railway History
by Rosa Matheson
No-one thinks about the dangers faced by those who
built the railways, the necessity of removing bodies from
graveyards where the ground was now required for
stations, the early railway disasters which saw trains
ploughing into each other or even falling from bridges. In
this lively and informative account the author delves into
the archives to find accounts of grim railway events,
such as the death of a man killed by the famous engine,
Rocket, on the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway. 224pp, illus.
£9.99 NOW £4
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79380 HARLEY DAVIDSON
by Pascal Szymezak
Harley Davidson is a brand like no other. The product
itself, the motorcycles manufactured in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin are not just a means of transport, they are the
basis of an entire lifestyle. During the winter of 1902-3
childhood friends William Harley and Arthur Davidson
decided to make a motorised bicycle in the Davidson’s
shed. The one-cylinder “power-cycle” was on the road
that summer and by 1904 they had built eight. By 1920
they were making over 22,000 machines a year, with
the US Army a major customer. Includes the traditional
cruisers and the Sportster, but also the drag-inspired VRod. That narrow angle, iconic V-twin engine is the
perfect starting point and the book showcases many of
the most incredible HD customs yet created. Also
featured is Harleys in the movies, HOG (Harley Owners
Group) rallies around the world, the most amazing
paintjobs you have ever seen, all the models, the
people. Over 350 colour photos, 498pp.
£30 NOW £8
HOBBIES
As no man is born an artist, so no man is
born an angler.
- Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
80393 FLOWERS
COLOURING BOOK
by Arcturus Publishing
Psychologists have found that the
repetitive action of colouring helps
banish negative thoughts and
focuses the brain on the here and
now. Discover the benefits for
yourself with this gorgeous
collection of floral artworks, images
for you to colour in and keep. Coloured pencils, crayons
or felt tip pens are all you need. Big softback pages,
bargain price.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
80421 VINTAGE
COLOURING BOOK
by Arcturus Publishing
Very therapeutic, concentrate on
your colouring with pencils, felt tips
or crayons as you fill in the
gloriously decorated designs from
yesteryear, be they Art Deco,
paisley, Roman, geometric
repetitions, antique vases of
flowers, a goddess or a wallpaper style design. Calm
your mind and give your motor skills a workout with this
gorgeous selection of vintage designs to colour in, keep,
frame or give away. Large softback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
80098 ARE WE GETTING
CLOSE YET? Entertain All
the Family on Long and
Winding Journeys
by Jenny Austin
Remember Summer holidays in the
60s and 70s, driving to Cornwall in
the family Cortina with no M25 or
M3, a journey that easily take ten
hours with the “Are we nearly
there yet?” queries from holidaythrilled children? Now help is at hand. Packed with
approx. 100 games, quizzes and other journey-related
activities and a selection of singalongs, even the most
over-exited passengers of all ages will be amused,
entertained, distracted or otherwise engaged. Here are
all the old favourites like I-Spy, the Pub Signs game,
the Numberplate game and the Yes/No game and
variations on these, plus a vast collection of new ones
that we wish had been around when we were kids, like
I-Pod Name That Tune. Each activity has a rating of
approx. suitable ages, number of players and difficulty,
although most can be adapted to suit everyone from
toddlers to nanny and grandad. 160pp softback.
£8 NOW £4
80034 DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY MADE EASY
DVD by James Fletcher
East Anglian photographer James
Fletcher provides easy-to-follow
advice starting with straightforward
explanations about choosing a
camera and pixel size and concludes
with a simple step-by-step guide to
downloading your pictures to a PC
and printing them out. Along the
way you will learn about
composition, clarity, foreground, middle distance and
background, and using natural light. It is the very best
practical guide to getting the best from your compact
digital camera, here on 27 minute colour DVD. It is
fantastic what buttons and knobs and switches we can
learn about, basic to our modern technology cameras
which we have not been using. You’ll be very surprised
at your own results. Bargain price.
ONLY £4
79412 PEN & INK DRAWING
by Frank Lohan
For all skill levels, providing a wide variety of subjects
and ideas for sketching, such as a brook, trees with and
without foliage, a sunny clearing, fish, a harbour, a
mountain, the Canada goose, water cascading down a
stepped dam on a mill pond, old buildings and other
favourite nostalgic scenes. The half-dozen categories
include old engravings, atmospheric effects, the use of
photographs to copy and life itself. Each of Lohan’s
drawings includes partially finished details. 110pp,
softback. Illus.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
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79615 TRADITIONS 3D
WOODEN PUZZLE
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K I
DOUBLE DECKER BAC O C K
ST
LONDON BUS
by Professor Warbles
79844 MODEL TOWNS
AND VILLAGES
by Brian Salter
Everyone loves a model
village, and this collection
features Britain’s best, including
some that are as historic as their
originals. Several of the earliest
examples developed from
model railway layouts, for
instance Beckonscot, which in 1929 was the first to go
fully public, though the inspiration could have been an
earlier private village in Hampstead around 1908.
Probably Bourton-on-the-Water has the most famous
model village, awarded a grade II listing by English
Heritage in 2012. It was the first to be based on
identifiable real buildings, and was also the first to be
developed from the start as a public attraction, being
opened in 1937 as part of the Coronation celebrations for
George VI.
Other notable
models in this
fascinating book
include the one
at Corfe Castle
which
reconstructs the
famous ruin in
all its pre-Civil
War splendour.
Combined with the local tea rooms, it has been a major
tourist attraction since the sixties. Legoland Windsor’s
Miniland must be the best-loved model in the country,
with replicas of many of Britain’s architectural
masterpieces including the Gherkin, the Angel of the
North, Jedburgh Abbey, and Tower Bridge, plus sections
from European capitals as well. From Bridlington to
Brockwell this is a superb survey of model villages,
crammed with colour photos. SIGNED BY THE
AUTHOR. 132pp.
£12.50 NOW £6.50
79419 BEATLES SGT. PEPPERS LONELY
HEARTS CLUB BAND: Jigsaw Puzzle
1000 Piece by Aquarius
You think you know the picture from The Beatles’ 1967
album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band which
depicts several dozen celebrities and other images.
Created by artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, the
award-winning cover is here reproduced in a 1000 piece
jigsaw puzzle measuring 20" x 27" or 51cm x 69cm. Pick
out such famous figures as Marlon Brando, Oscar Wilde,
Laurel and Hardy, Bob Dylan, W. C. Fields, a Vargas
girl, H. G. Wells, David Livingstone, Lewis Carroll,
Shirley Temple. There is even Paul McCartney’s 9"
Sony TV set. Masses of detail to explore piece by
piece.
ONLY £8.50
79427 MANDALAS AND
MORE: Art Therapy Colouring
Book
by Pooja Desai and Aimee
Zumis
Indian-inspired mandalas in bold
geometric black and white, the
designs draw you into the pages,
sometimes there are recognisable
owls and mythical creatures, mostly
flowers, lotus, paisley style design, a skull, toys, turtles
or maidens. Just 30 seconds of colouring can help you
de-stress. Take a moment to escape from your busy
world and clear your mind with this beautiful colouring
book. 63 designs, one to a page in 64 page softback.
Line art, superb detail and tear out pages blank on the
back.
ONLY £4
79428 MENAGERIE AND
MORE: Art Therapy Colouring
Book by Pooja Desai and
Aimee Zumis
Just 30 seconds of colouring can help
you de-stress. Find your own calm
and colour your own way our
fabulous menagerie of mythical
butterflies, ox, owl, turtle, eagle,
ram, lion, flowers and birds and a
beautiful seahorse on the second page that we love.
Take a moment to escape from your busy world and
clear your mind with this beautiful colouring book. 63
designs, one to a page in 64 page softback. Line art,
superb detail and tear out pages.
ONLY £4
79261 30 ESSENTIAL YOGA POSES
by Judith Lasater
Although the practice of yoga is a lifetime study, you
can begin it simply and directly, a little at a time.
Designed for beginners and teachers, each of the 30
essential yoga poses are described in sequence with
variations making a total of 96 poses plus helpful
suggestions for your personal practice. In four ways we
are shown how to practice for busy days, themed
sequences for lower back pain, hip and hamstring
flexibility, shoulder and upper back flexibility, balance,
strength, energy, fatigue and relaxation. 248pp in very
large softback, colour photos.
£15.99 NOW £7
79435 TROPICAL FISH
COLOURING BOOK
by Susan Koop
The Spotted Sea Horse, Clown
Trigger Fish, Picasso Fish, Mandarin
Dragonet, Harlequin Filefish, Red
Lionfish, Seven-Stripe Frontosa and
Zebra Turkeyfish are among the 22
tropical fish to colour in. The
originals are shown on the inside
covers of this large softback and all
the colouring pages are blank on the back so you can cut
out and frame your creations.
$8.95 NOW £3.50
Great value plywood
modelling set with
approximately 12 die-cut pieces
ready to press out from the wooden panels and glue
together to make a traditional Routemaster doubledecker bus with open ended back and driver’s
compartment. Suit ages six to adult, for modellers of all
levels, it will look lovely when painted bright red. See
also 79796 3D Wooden Puzzle London Taxi.
ONLY £5
79840 POCKET BOOK OF POCKET
BILLIARDS by Mike Vago
Measuring approximately 4" x 8", this teeny weeny real
green baize billiard table has six holes, one cue, one rack,
one white ball and 15 coloured balls inside a triangle plus
a rule book written by the professionals. It is a
complete working pool table with a 48 page softback
explaining more than 30 great games plus variations Nine Ball, Chicago, Cut Throat, Russian Pyramid, Six
Stroke, Cowboy Pool, Sharks and Minnows and more.
Rack ‘em up!
$15.95 NOW £5
79852 DESIGNS FOR COLOURING: Ancient
Egypt by Ruth Heller
Magical and exotic, here are pharaohs, hieroglyphs,
Nefertiti, outstretched eagles to paint in your own lapis
lazuli, magic eyes, Sphinx, amulets and lotus flowers.
You can work in a realistic, graphic or decorative style,
combining colours in all sorts of ingenious ways. The
high quality paper is suitable for use with crayons, felttipped pens, water paints, pencils or pastels. You may
also like to transfer a pattern to a piece of embroidery or
other handicraft project. Large 32 page softback.
ONLY £3.50
79862 KEW GARDENS: Exotic Plants Colouring
Book
From the succulent to the prickly, 44 line artworks for
you to colour in each accompanied by the artist’s original
watercolour plate. Drawn from life, these images show
gardenia, begonia, portlandia, fuchsia, caladium bicolour,
haemanthus insignis, hibiscus radiatus, nepenthes villosa,
dendrobrium farmeri, habranthus fulgens and cattleya
dowiana among them. For hours of stimulation and
pleasure, colour in the right-hand pages. 44pp, outsize
softback. Produced in association with the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew.
ONLY £5.75
79863 KEW GARDENS: Flowering Plants
Colouring Book
44 line artworks for you to colour in each accompanied
by the artist’s original watercolour plate. Drawn from
life, these images show the detail, colour and tone and
remarkable variety of botanical plant life - lilies,
sunflowers, buttercups, primrose, iris, orchids, passiflora,
tulips, hibiscus and more. For hours of stimulation and
pleasure, colour in the right-hand pages. 44pp, outsize
softback. Produced in association with the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew.
ONLY £5.75
79891 ULTIMATE SELFIE KIT
by Paragon Books
Set the timer on your Smartphone, screwing it safely into
the sprung Selfie Stick, testing the angle, extending the
blue-handled pole and grin away. Express your selfie
better by using one of the reversible props like stripes or
spotted 50s-style glasses, fancy moustaches, bow ties or
big kissy lips. Simply attach to a straw or pen for extra
fun. 32 page paperback book helping you create the best
Selfie and Ussie ever with fun facts, quizzes, tips and
more. Colour photos, box set, 17 x 22cm.
£10 NOW £4
79984 MAMMOTH BOOK OF LOGICAL BRAIN
GAMES by Dr Gareth Moore
With everything from twists on the classic maze through
to variants such as the popular app Flow Free also
known as Number Link and a range of Japaneseinfluenced puzzles such as Slitherlink, Hanjie and
Futoshiki. Fun and addictive, these labyrinthine puzzles
offer a fantastic mental workout. From beginner,
improver, to expert and master, there are 64 different
types of game divided into seven difficulty levels. Each
puzzle is assigned one of four types - Shade, Line,
Divide or Symbol and the puzzles are based on square
grids. With solutions. Paperback, 528pp.
£8.99 NOW £3.75
75319 COLOURING BIRDS: Over 40
Delightful Pictures by Arcturus Publishing
Learn from the artists of the past who have captured the
essence of the birds they painted like H. E. Dresser,
John T. Bowen and John James Audubon. You may find
it easiest to start with coloured pencils and blend them to
achieve the rich colours of the plates in our special book.
Among the 40 gorgeous plates accompanied with
colouring guides are depictions of the pretty Firecrest,
rose-coloured Starling, black-headed Bunting, Dalmatian
Pelican, Northern Cardinal, Townsend’s Warbler, whitethroated Kingfisher and scarlet Tanager. Outline and
beautiful original colour example. 44 very large pages,
softback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
75320 COLOURING FLOWERS: Over 40
Delightful Pictures by Arcturus Publishing
From favourites such as the iris, the rose and the tulip,
to the draped blue plantain lily, the perky sulphur rose in
yellow, the gloriously scented sweetpea, poppy
anemone, morning glory, fern-leaf peony, Spanish iris,
harlequin flower, amaryllis and Japanese camellia and
the beautifully striped tulip, here are a selection of 40
reference images from the 1827 botanical classic ‘Choice
of the Most Beautiful Flowers’ by Pierre-Joseph
Redouté.
The book concludes with a beautiful bouquet
of camellias, narcissus and pansies. Huge full size
drawings accompanied with the finished colour example
for you to follow. 44 page very large softback.
£12.95 NOW £3.50
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75535 TRADITIONAL DOODLES COASTAL
SCENES by W. F. Graham
Includes rocks and swimmers, tranquil bays with docks at
harbour, sunset, coves, the White Cliffs of Dover, a
harbour scene, lighthouses and other waterscapes to test
the artist’s palette with his blues, hues, greens, clouds
and natural seascapes. 24 black and white outline
designs on each right hand page of this very large
softback, ready for colouring. Use watercolours, crayons,
pencils, felt tip pens to create your own masterworks.
With the outline and perspective all ready. 24 ready-tocolour artworks. Softback, 8" x 11½”.
ONLY £2
75538 TRADITIONAL DOODLES TRANSPORT
by W. F. Graham
A VW camper van, a Beetle, hot air balloons, sailing
ship, pick-up truck, train, sail boat, tractor, vintage car,
airplanes, are among the 24 black and white outline
designs on each right hand page of this very large
softback, ready for colouring. Use watercolours,
crayons, pencils, felt tip pens to create your own
masterworks. 24 ready-to-colour artworks. Softback,
8" x 11½”.
ONLY £1.25
77958 YE OLDE DOODLES by Andrew Pinder
Design your own flying machine, complete the Eifel
Tower, finish the statues on Easter Island, design your
own African Mossi tribal mask, finish the Aztec carvings
of skulls, or the long line of camels, donkeys and men.
Draw your own ziggurat from around 3000BC, the
Egyptian period, medieval times, the Renaissance, the
Taj Mahal, Native Americans right through to dreams of
the future. Doodle away and make your own mark on
history. Over 100 pictures for ages 10 to adult. Large
softback.
£9.99 NOW £1.50
78671 NUMBER PUZZLES: Over 200 Excellent
Puzzles by House of Puzzles
The oldest number puzzles date back to Ancient Egypt
and even before, and mankind it seems has a deepseated need for tests of numeracy. In this broad range
of puzzle types you will discover magic squares, number
sequences, tests of geometric and logical thinking and
even a few observational challenges. Some puzzles will
be old friends, others entirely unfamiliar but you will be
assured of plenty of fun with these 200 excellent puzzles.
224 page paperback.
£5.99 NOW £2
78672 OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS
DICTIONARY: Fourth Edition
by Merriam Webster
We are thrilled to have discounted the enormously
popular official Scrabble players dictionary with some
4,000 words not included in the previous edition. There
are main entries, parts of speech, inflected forms, run-on
entries, cross references, definitions and lists of undefined
words in this new, fully revised U.S. edition. Features
more than 100,000 two-eight letter words with spelling
variants such as colour and centre for UK players. N.B.
It is an American edition. A-Z format, 674pp in
paperback. Remainder mark.
$7.50 NOW £1.95
78757 CLASSIC ARABIAN NIGHTS: Stained
Glass Colouring Book by Peter Donahue
A companion to Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
colouring book code 78765, with perforated pages which
are easy to detach here are 16 images drawn from
ancient folk tales, stories of flying carpets, genies and
magic lamps. The 16 stained glass drawings in bold line
art ready for you to colour are based on artwork by
golden-age masters like Edmund Dulac, Charles
Robinson, Maxfield Parrish and others. Fairies, princes,
Sinbad, pirates and Arabian Nights galore.
£6.99 NOW £3
78758 DANGER IN CHESS by Amatzia Avni
Sub-titled ‘How to Avoid Making Blunders’, this volume
offers players at every level guidance on how to develop
an early warning system. It is structured around three
main sources - outside (the opponent), inside (the player’s
own thought process) and the stimulus itself (the board
position). The author is an Israeli psychologist and he
shows players how to identify actual and potential
hazards to use not only to bolster defence but also as an
attack strategy. 121pp in paperback.
£10.99 NOW £3.50
78765 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN FAIRY
TALES: Stained Glass Colouring Book
by Pat Stewart
Fairy tale fans of all ages can enter a magical world of
lovely princesses, beguiling mermaids and creatures of
the sea with 16 fairytale scenes from The Emperor’s
New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea, The Snow
Queen, The Red Shoes, Thumbelina and more. Printed
on translucent paper, the full page drawings produce
glowing stained glass effects when coloured in and
placed against a bright light. 8¼” x 10½” softback,
perforated pages.
£6.99 NOW £2.75
78775 WIN AT BACKGAMMON
by Millard Hopper
An unabridged republication of the original 1941 edition
with 43 diagrams. With remarkably clear explanations
and a sample game with play-by-play analysis of
moves and strategy, the author makes the game simple
enough for anyone to play. For the more advanced, he
gives the best opening and ending moves as well as
three basic strategies of middle game play - the running
game, the blocking game, and the back game. There
are even backgammon problems. 112 page paperback.
£5.99 NOW £1.50
78826 SCRATCH AND SOLVE HANGMAN FOR
YOUR BRIEFCASE by Mike Ward
Just like a scratch card, little silver dots on each page are
set alongside the hangman on his noose and nine spaces
along the bottom. Your goal is to fill in the missing
letters at the bottom of each puzzle before the body in
the gallows is completed. There are six parts to the
body - two arms, two legs, the torso and the head. 96
page pocket paperback.
$6.95 NOW £1
78839 WHAT’S YOUR IQ?
by Pierre Berloquin
softback.
Rate and raise your intelligence
with 300 self-scoring exercises thankfully with solutions at the end!
Warm up with 60 problems then get
started on four intelligence tests,
each with 40 questions from verbal
skills to pattern recognition and
spatial awareness, followed by a
longer 80 question test. Big
Illus, 48pp.
$4.95 NOW 90p
79026 IMPOSSIBLE COLOURING BOOK
by Gianni Sarcone and Mary-Jo Waeber
Vase, stairs, frames, the well known impossible figures
such as the Penrose Tribar and Penrose Stairs contain a
head/behind and top/bottom depth contradictions
respectively. All manner of twisting snakes, slinkies,
flower and vase, stairs and optical illusions await in this
very special colouring book. Promotes mindfulness and
meditation. 128pp, large softback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
24416 NATURE
COLOURING BOOKS:
Set of Four
This set of four outsize
(11½”× 9") softbacks
includes animals to colour,
birds to colour, flowers to
colour and countryside to
colour. Each depicts a beautiful colour drawing on the left
hand side and the black and white equivalent on the
right for you to colour yourself, including two beautiful
butterflies on lilac flowers, a harbour with boats and an
owl in woodland. Per set of four
ONLY £3.50
59849 COUNTRYSIDE
COLOURING BOOKS:
Set of Four Mountains
and Moors
by Henrike Petzl
The four titles are ‘Mountains
and Moors’, ‘Forests and
Fields’, ‘Rivers and Reeds’
and ‘Sea and Sand to Colour’. In ‘Forests and Fields’,
for example, there is a poppy field in Northamptonshire,
Buttermere, Lake District, Ribblehead in snow with a
steam train pulling into the station and Clun Castle,
Shropshire. Each of these four large colouring books has
a rather excellent watercolour painting in colour on the
left hand side of each double page spread. On the right,
an outline only copy of the same artwork is ready for
you to work on. Each picture is 11½” x 9". Softbacks.
ONLY £3.50
28148 BRITAIN TO
COLOUR
Two Colouring Books
11½ x 9 on the left side is
the beautiful hand-coloured
original drawing and on the
right side the outline drawing
for you to colour. The places
of interest include the Houses of Parliament, Urqhuart
Castle, Little Moreton Hall, Caernarvon Castle and
Kinloch Sperve. In book two, Edinburgh Castle, Scotney
Old Castle, Kent, Ribblehead viaduct in Yorkshire, Stone
Henge and the Cenarth Falls, Dyfed. Set of two.
ONLY £1.25
79265 BUILD YOUR OWN PINHOLE CAMERA:
With DVD
by Justin Quinnell and Josh Buczynski
This book tells you how to make seven different pinhole
cameras with step-by-step instructions using materials
such as card and aluminium cans, ranging from the basic
“Like-A” to “Chompy” or the steampunk creation known
as the “Thrillium Fox Holebot”. A disk is included, which
will guide you through all the stages of manufacture and
performance. With information about exposure, shooting
in black and white, portraits, landscapes and even using
flash for your experimental image-making. 96pp,
softback, diagrams, DVD.
£8.99 NOW £4
79150 WALKS IN LIMESTONE COUNTRY
by Alfred Wainwright
Revised by Chris Jesty, this is the second edition of a
guide previously published in 1970. Intrepid walker
Arthur Wainwright explores such places as the caves and
potholes of Leck Fell, White Scars and Meregill Hole,
Giggleswick Scar, the caves of Ribblehead and the
environs of Feizor. Each walk is described in Alfred’s
chatty style, pointing out things of interest to look out
for; gushing waterfalls, strange rocks, certain flowers.
Uses a handwriting font. Softback, maps, sketches, 176
pages.
£13.99 NOW £4
79151 WALKS ON THE HOWGILL FELLS
by Alfred Wainwright
First published in 1972, this edition has been revised by
Chris Jesty. The text resembles neat, easy-to-read
hand-printing while the maps and illustrations are
beautifully drawn. The place names alone, such as Wild
Boar Fell, Great Dummocks, Randygill Top, Hare Shaw
and Black Force are enough to tempt you to follow in
the great man’s footsteps. Every footpath has been rewalked. Softback, maps, sketches, 152 pages.
£13.99 NOW £4
79291 PLAY AND WIN MAH-JONG
by David Pritchard
It is addictive to play and quickly growing in popularity
and our handbook looks at understanding the mah-jong
set, the basics of building the walls and breaking the
deal, playing the game, how the scoring works, the
merits of special hands and strategy from basic to
advanced. Plus the different rules - Chinese, American
and Japanese and playing mah-jong online. Diagrams
and instructions, 207pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
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CRIME FICTION
I don’t know if you know it, J.B., but you’re
the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to
fall under suspicion when he’s found
stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of
Oriental design.
- P.G. Wodehouse
80361 GIRL IN THE
SPIDER’S WEB
by David Lagercrantz
Continuing Stieg Larsson’s
Millennium series which began with
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
she is now back. Lisbeth Salander
and Mikael Blomkvist have not
been in touch for some time.
Blomkvist is contacted by
renowned scientist Professor
Balder. Fearing for his life, but
more concerned for his son’s well-being, Balder wants to
publish his story. But more interesting to Blomkvist is
Balder’s connection with a certain female super hacker.
It seems that Lisbeth Salander, like Balder, is the target
of a gang of ruthless cyber criminals which soon brings
terror to the streets of Stockholm. Intricate plotting,
sexy, chilling atmosphere and reasonably true to the
original style. 475pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
80376 TIME OF DEATH
by Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne is one of the
bestselling author’s favourite
characters, and this novel became a
major BBC drama. Two schoolgirls
are abducted in the small, dying
Warwickshire town of Polesford,
driving a knife into the heart of the
community where police officer
Helen Weeks grew up. When
family man Stephen Bates is
arrested, Helen and her partner
Tom Thorne head to the flooded town to support Bates’
wife, an old school friend of Helen’s, who is living under
siege and convinced of her husband’s innocence. As
residents and media bay for Bates’ blood, a decomposing
body is found. The police believe they have the
murderer, but one man believes otherwise. With a girl
still missing, Thorne sets himself on a collision course
with local police, townsfolk and a merciless killer. 538pp
in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
80360 FALSE PRETENCES
by Margaret Yorke
When Isabel’s goddaughter Emily
turns up after years of no contact
and in need of help, she feels dutybound to take her under her wing.
Emily finds a job as a nanny to the
illegitimate child of a naïve,
wealthy local girl and a ne’er-dowell conman who disappeared
before the baby was born. But
now he is back, intent on exploiting
his parental rights in return for cash. Emily is caught up
in his botched attempts at blackmail while also shielding
Isabel from becoming entangled in the drama. When
events beyond her control force her to act instinctively
with horrendous effect, all their lives are put terribly at
risk. Margaret Yorke knows all about human
weaknesses, follies and vanities, ambitions and
unadulterated evil. 310pp in paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4
80369 ONE LONELY NIGHT
by Mickey Spillane
PI Mike Hammer is out for a late
night walk in the rain when he sees
a woman being pursued across the
bridge. He deals with the man, but
terrified, the woman jumps to her
death. Pat Chambers, Hammer’s
Police Department friend, identifies
the pair as Communists. Hammer
visits a meeting at the local party
and is mistaken for a Soviet spy.
Into the mix comes Oscar, the insane brother of a
political candidate, but is Oscar what they really say he
is? Meanwhile, Velda, Hammer’s adored secretary,
goes missing and Hammer soon finds out that the two
incidents are linked by a deadly thread. 215pp in
paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
80377 VENGEANCE IS MINE
by Mickey Spillane
Out-of-town salesman Chester
Wheeler is an old war buddy of PI
Mike Hammer’s. Now he is dead,
supposedly having shot himself
after an all-night drinking session as Hammer’s guest. Hammer
wakes up to the sound of the police
questioning him, but he suspects
murder. While the DA takes his PI
and Gun licences, Hammer gets out
on the trail. Pushing his way through a swirl of gay
bars and gaming clubs, high-price fashion models and
not just a little blackmail, he realises someone is
working hard to frame him. Everywhere he turns he
comes up against a blonde beauty named Juno who
holds the key to the crime. 184pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
80452 PI MIKE HAMMER: Set of Two
by Mickey Spillane
Buy both paperbacks and save even more.
£17.98 NOW £6
80284 STRANGE BIRD
by Anna Jansson
When a bird flu pandemic reaches
the picturesque island of Gotland,
panic spreads among the inhabitants
and the hunt for scapegoats begins.
Extremist and anti-immigrant groups
gain ground while a hospital nurse
makes a gruesome discovery that
will cost her her life. The
complicated but strong-minded
Detective Inspector Maria Wern is
perfectly suited to solve the case. Very scary, very
credible writing. 344pp in paperback.
100543 CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ALEXANDER WILSON
Golden Age thrillers & forgotten classics
ONLY £2
79991 WHISPERING CITY
by Sara Moliner
$14.95 NOW £5
80261 KILLER’S ISLAND
by Anna Jansson
A killer is playing god. One
midsummer morning, a young nurse
is found murdered, dressed up as a
bride. The discovery awakens an
old Nordic myth, forcing Detective
Maria Wern to come face-to-face
with an intricate web of tangled
relationships and evil schemes. Set
on the beautiful island of Gotland,
the Swedish equivalent of Martha’s
Vineyard, this is an unusually bloody and brutally
intrusive story and an international bestseller. 364pp in
paperback.
$14.95 NOW £5
80380 WORLD GONE BY
by Dennis Lehane
Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once
one of America’s most feared and
prominent gangsters, he now moves
effortlessly between the social élite,
politicians, police and the mob. He
has everything - money, power, a
beautiful mistress and anonymity.
But in a town that runs on
corruption, vengeance and greed,
success can’t protect Joe from the
dark truth of his past and ultimately
the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full.
Chilling, heartbreaking and gripping from one of the
writers of The Wire. 388pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79220 CONISTON CASE by Rebecca Tope
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and Persimmon
‘Simmy’ Brown is busy in her flower shop near Lake
Windermere. She receives a string of anonymous orders
and when one of the recipients disappears, Simmy
suspects foul play. Are the flowers masking a darker
message? And if that isn’t enough, Simmy’s friend
Kathy turns up, on the trail of her wayward daughter
Joanna, who she fears has grown unhealthily close to
one of her university tutors. Simmy and her friend find
themselves caught up in a web of deception, blackmail
and murder. 381pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
25387 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED STRAND
SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
‘Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories’. It is more
than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic
detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in
A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and
pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur
Conan Doyle’s matchless tales of detection, featuring the
incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his lovably
pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. Illus by the
remarkable Sydney Paget. 1408 page well-bound
softback.
ONLY £6.50
78902 THE ESCAPE
by David Baldacci
Military CID investigator John Puller has returned from
his latest case to learn that his brother Robert, once a
Major in the US Air Force and an expert in nuclear
weaponry and cyber security has escaped from the
Army’s most secure prison. Convicted of treason,
Robert may have had help in his breakout and now he is
on the run, the number one target of the military. John
Puller has a dilemma - to his country or to his brother?
But Robert has state secrets which certain people will kill
for. With the help of US intelligence officer Veronica
Knox, both brothers move closer to the truth from their
opposing directions. 472pp.
£18.99 NOW £3
78053 DEATH AND THE CORNISH FIDDLER
by Deryn Lake
It is spring 1767 which brings a welcome sense of
recovery to the recently widowed John Rawlings and his
young daughter, Rose. Deciding on one last adventure
before they return back to their home in London,
accompanied by John’s old flame the delectable
Elizabeth di Lorenzi, they travel to Cornwall to see the
famous Helstone Floral Dance. A child disappears in
strange circumstances and then a beautiful courtesan is
found murdered. A blind musician is never far away
from the festivities and John tries to find out more about
this shadowy figure. 297pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
78609 DEAD WITNESS: A Connoisseur’s
Collection Of Victorian Detective Stories
edited by Michael Sims
An insightful overview of Victorian detective fiction from
luminaries Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Bret Harte,
Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Pioneer
writers Anna Katherine Green and C. L. Pirkis take you
from high society New York to bustling London
introducing colourful detectives Violet Strange and
Loveday Brooke. In another forgotten classic,
November Joe, the Canadian half-Native backwoods
detective who stars in Hesketh Prichard’s ‘The Crime at
Big Tree Portage’ demonstrates that Sherlockian
attention to detail works as well in the woods as in the
city. 576pp, paperback.
$20 NOW £5.50
This volume completes the canon of the illustrated
Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted from The Strand
Magazine. It contains the short story series
Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15 - His Last
Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes and the last
12 stories The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. 400pp.
Paperback.
80378 WALLACE AT BAY
by Alexander Wilson
Having received intelligence regarding a dangerous band
of anarchists planning to assassinate King Peter of
Yugoslavia on his royal visit to England, the British
Secret Service are hot on the trail of one of the key
suspects. At the centre of the investigation is Sir
Leonard Wallace, the famous Chief of the Secret
Service. His team soon discover that the group is a
small part of a much larger conspiracy with international
ambitions of exterminating all royalty. Can they disband
the fanatics before their evil designs take hold? A
Golden Age thriller and forgotten classic from the 1930s,
here in classy new paperback. 316pp.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
80379 WALLACE INTERVENES
by Alexander Wilson
Sir Leonard Wallace, Chief of the Secret Service, sends
one of his agents to Germany to obtain vital information
from the Baroness von Reudath. Foster is told to feign
infatuation with her, but the lines between reality and
pretence soon blur as a result of his growing affection for
the Baroness. Soon Foster becomes prey to the insane
jealousy of the tyrannical Marshal von Strom. Foster
suddenly disappears and the Baroness is charged with
treason, the punishment for which is death. An
unexpected treat for fans of classic British mystery, this
classic Golden Age thriller has been rediscovered and has
been unavailable since the 1930s. Smart paperback
reprint, 319pp.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
80357 CHRONICLES OF THE SECRET SERVICE
by Alexander Wilson
Frustrated with the sheer ennui of London life and
looking for fresh excitement, Antony Anstruther and his
girlfriend leave a nightclub to find a drunken Russian
tramp playing noughts and crosses in chalk on Antony’s
car. This seemingly innocent enterprise spurs on a chain
of events involving the British Secret Service and an
assassination that would shake the Empire to its
foundations. In this thrilling trio of adventures, Sir
Leonard Wallace and his Secret Service agents will
thwart criminal endeavours from Hong Kong to
Afghanistan and they’ll stop at nothing to save the day.
Wilson’s Golden Age thrillers are long overdue for
rediscovery, lost since the 1930s. Smart new paperback
reprint, 255pp.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
78695 UNCOMMON APPEAL OF CLOUDS: An
Isabel Dalhousie Novel
by Alexander McCall Smith
!
The Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth answers
an unexpected appeal from a wealthy Scottish collector
who has been robbed of a valuable painting. One
afternoon over coffee at Cat’s delicatessen, a friend of
Isabel’s shares a call for help. Crafty thieves have stolen
a prized painting, a work by the celebrated artist Nicolas
Poussin. The owner has been approached by the
thieves. Isabel and Jamie have begun to suspect that
their three year old son Charlie might be a budding
mathematical genius. 259pp in US first edition.
£17.99 NOW £5.50
78697 UP IN HONEY’S ROOM
by Elmore Leonard
Sweet Honey Deal’s not sure what compelled her to
marry Walter Schoen, possibly the most boring man on
earth. US Marshal Carl Webster wants to come up to
Honey’s room for an official ‘chat’, and for something
more intimate if Honey has anything to say about it.
The Fed’s legendary ‘Hot Kid’, Carl’s hunting two
German POWs. They are all about to get tangled up,
along with a sultry Ukrainian spy and her transvestite
manservant, in a nutty assassination plot. Remainder
mark, 318pp, paperback.
$14.99 NOW £2.50
78888 THE KEEPER by Luke Delaney
Thomas Keller knows exactly who he is looking for.
They tried to keep them apart, but he will find her and
he will keep her, just like he knows she wants him to.
DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. His dark
past has given him the ability to step into a crime scene
and see it through the offender’s eyes. When women
start disappearing from their homes in broad daylight,
Corrigan’s Murder Investigation Team is reluctant to
take on a missing persons case, but then the first body
turns up. 458pp.
£12.99 NOW £2.50
79083 LILY OF THE FIELD
by John Lawton
Vienna 1934. Ten year old cello prodigy Meret Boytek
becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in
exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An
interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the
Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, building the atom
bomb for the Americans. Auschwitz, 1944. Meret is
imprisoned but is saved from certain death to play the
cello in the camp orchestra. She is playing for her life.
London 1948. Viktor Rosen wants to relinquish his
Communist Party membership after 30 years. The
seemingly unconnected strands all collide forcefully with
a brazen murder on a London Underground platform with
deadly consequences that ultimately threaten the
balance of power in Europe. 380pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.75
Set in 1952, a glamorous socialite is found dead in a
wealthy district of fascist Barcelona. The police scramble
to seize control of the investigation, while Ana Martí
Noguer, an eager young journalist, is surprised to be
assigned the important story. She is to shadow the
formidable Inspector Isidro Castro. Ana discovers a
bundle of letters from the scene, the key to unlocking a
sinister conspiracy. Together with her cousin who is a
scholar, Ana hunts for the truth as the city’s corrupt and
murderous élite closes in. 405pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79493 CASE OF DOUBTFUL DEATH
by Linda Stratmann
The year is 1880. In West London, a dedicated doctor
has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal
Green cemetery, where corpses are left to decompose
before burial to reassure clients that no one can be buried
alive. When he collapses and dies on the same night
that one of his most reliable employees disappears,
Frances Doughty, a young sleuth with a reputation for
solving knotty cases is engaged to find the missing man.
Frances must rely on her wits as well as some loyal
friends to solve the mystery. She must take a terrifying
trip deep into the catacombs, with shocking results.
284pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79498 DARK ANATOMY by Robin Blake
The year is 1740, George II is on the throne, but
England’s remoter provinces are a law unto themselves.
A grim discovery has been made in Lancashire - the
Squire’s wife lies in the woods near her home, her throat
brutally slashed. Embarking on their first gripping
investigation, coroner Titus Cragg and doctor Luke
Fidelis are faced with the superstition of witnesses,
obstruction by local officials, and denunciations from the
Squire himself. Cragg is an elegant, urbane narrator.
372pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.50
79566 VENGEANCE
by Benjamin Black
Black is the pseudonym for John Banville Why would
suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland,
Victor Delahaye, one of the country’s most prominent
citizens, takes his business partner’s son out sailing. Once
at sea, Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye
take out a gun and shoot himself. This strange event
captures the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett
and his friend pathologist Doctor Quirke. Replete with
1950s period detail. 327pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.25
79826 POP GOES THE WEASEL
by James Patterson
The bestselling author brings back his Washington DC
detective, a crazed villain and a page-turning plot.
Geoffrey Shafer is a man who never loses and is
prepared to play the game of games for the highest
stakes of all. Alex Cross - Senior Washington DC
Homicide Detective is determined whatever the
consequences to unmask the man he has nicknamed The
Weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings that he
has been forbidden to investigate.
491pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
79344 HOUSE AT SEA’S END
by Elly Griffiths
When bones are unearthed at the
foot of a Norfolk cliff, forensics
expert Ruth Galloway and DCI
Nelson are put on the case. The
skeletons have lain there for
decades, possibly since the war,
and for all that time a hideous crime
had been concealed. When a body
washes up on the beach, it
becomes clear that someone wants
the truth of the past to stay buried,
and will go to any lengths to keep it that way. Can
Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to stop
another murder? 390 gripping pages.
£7.99 NOW £4
79345 JANUS STONE by Elly Griffiths
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to
advise when builders, demolishing a Victorian house in
Norwich, uncover the skeleton of a child, minus the
skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain murder? The
house was once a children’s home. DCI Harry Nelson
meets the priest who used to run it who tells him two
children did go missing 40 years earlier, a boy and a girl
who were never found. But someone is trying hard to
put both Ruth and Nelson off the scent. 327pp,
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
79832 TRIPTYCH
by Karin Slaughter
When Atlanta Police Detective Michael Ormewood is
called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady
Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the most
brutal killings of his career - a woman found in the stair
well in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly
mutilated. As a one-off killing it’s shocking, but when it
becomes clear that it is just the latest in a series of
similar attacks, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is
called in. Michael is forced into working with Special
Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team, a
man he instinctively dislikes. 24 hours later, the
violence explodes in his own back yard. 514pp,
paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
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78994 BEGGARS BANQUET
by Ian Rankin
Rankin started off life as a short
story writer and here are 22 mini
masterpieces with titles such as
Someone Got To Eddie, The Only
True Comedian, Video, Nasty, The
Hanged Man and Death Is Not The
End. From Suburban murders to the
sinister workings of a serial killer’s
mind, from a bent cop with a
terminal approach to his work to a
hit man who gets more than he
bargained for in a crowded fairground, here is a super
collection from the modern-day master of crime. The
streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town has seen more than
their fair share of blood. 376pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79005 THE COMPLAINTS by Ian Rankin
The Complaints are the cops who investigate other cops.
Malcolm Fox works in the Complaints and Conduct
Department, so he is not a popular man. He has just
had a result, and should be feeling good about himself,
but he has got problems of his own. Now he is given a
new task. There is a cop called Jamie Breck and he’s
‘dirty’. The problem is no one can prove it. Fox takes
on the job and learns that there is more to the Breck
case than anyone thinks. This knowledge will prove
dangerous, especially when a vicious murder intervenes
far too close to home for Fox’s liking. 381pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79015 THE FLOOD by Ian Rankin
Mary Miller has always been an outcast. As a child, she
fell into the hot burn, a torrent of warm chemical run-off
from the local coal mine, and her hair turned white.
Initially she was treated with sympathy, but all that
changed a few days later when the young man who
pushed her in, died in an accident. Now many years
later, Mary is a single mother caught up in a faltering
affair. Her son Sandy has fallen in love with a strange
homeless girl, and both mother and son are forced to
come to terms with a dark secret from Mary’s past.
Paperback, 252pp.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79014 EXIT MUSIC: His Last Case May Be A
Killer by Ian Rankin
It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the
career of DI Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose
ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A
dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks
like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence, a
high-level delegation of Russian businessmen are in town.
Meanwhile a brutal and premeditated assault on a local
gangster sees Rebus in the frame. Only a few days shy
of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus even
make it that far? 380pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3.50
79064 IAN RANKIN: Set of Four
by Ian Rankin
Buy all four paperbacks and save even more.
£33.96 NOW £9
79335 CAVALIER CASE by Antonia Fraser
An untimely death and the reappearance of a ghost lead
television reporter Jemima Shore into a mysterious case
of sex, violence and the supernatural. When the butler
plummets from the battlements of Lackland Court, it
becomes clear that the ghost of the legendary Civil War
poet and soldier Decimus Meredith is not the only
suspect. Jemima must look into history and delve deep
into the ancient hall’s past to solve yet another baffling
mystery. 246pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
79049 PROMISE ME by Harlan Coben
At 2.17am, Myron Bolitar’s mobile phone rings. It’s
Aimee Biel, a frightened teenager who has called the one
adult who had promised to help her if ever she got into
trouble. Myron collects Aimee from a cold street corner
but she persuades him not to take her home but to drop
her off at an unknown address in the suburbs and with a
final wave from a darkened porch, Aimee disappears into
the night. Myron is determined to find her whatever the
cost but doesn’t realise just how far people will go to
protect the ones they love. 370pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79028 JUST ONE LOOK by Harlan Coben
Grace Lawson is living a happy life in the suburbs with
her husband Jack and two young children, but that
security is about to come to a brutal end. When Grace
picks up a set of holiday snaps, among them is one shot
that doesn’t fit - a faded image that she doesn’t
recognise of her husband. Within 12 hours, Jack has
disappeared and a brutal hit man is stalking the family.
We are kept intrigued and guessing until the last line.
386pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79057 THE WOODS by Harlan Coben
20 years ago, four teenagers disappeared in the woods
at a summer camp. Two decades later, everything
changes. Paul Copeland’s sister was one of the missing
teenagers. Now raising a daughter alone after the death
of his wife, he balances family life a career as a
prosecutor. But when a body is found, the well-buried
secrets of the past threaten everything. Could the victim
be one of the missing teenagers? Could his sister be
alive? 442pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79203 HARLAN COBEN: Set of Three
by Harlan Coben
Buy all three paperbacks above and save even more.
£23.97 NOW £8
79825 ONE FALSE MOVE by Harlan Coben
Myron Bolitar is doing just fine, running his own sports
agency. Admittedly, he is not overly upset when he
gets conned into looking after the hottest female sports
star around. After all, Brenda Slaughter is intoxicatingly
gorgeous, funny, successful and single - and she seems
to have mislaid her agent, but then Brenda’s father
disappears and the mob starts leaning on her. The more
Myron tries to help, the closer he gets to losing his heart
and his life. 337pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79884 HOMELAND: Carrie’s
Run by Andrew Kaplan
Beirut 2006 and CIA Operations
Officer Carrie Mathison barely
escapes an ambush while
attempting a clandestine meeting
with a new contact, code-name
Nightingale. Suspicious that security
has been compromised, she
challenges the Station Chief in a
heated confrontation that gets her
booted back to Langley. She risks a
shocking act of insubordination that helps her uncover
secret evidence connecting Nightingale with Abu Nazir,
the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Determined to stop the
terrorist mastermind, she embarks on a obsessive quest
that will nearly destroy her. 358pp.
£7.99 NOW £3
79527 HOUR OF THE RED GOD
by Richard Crompton
The Maasai believe in two gods. Enkai Narok, the black
god, is benign. Enkai Nanyokie, the red god, is the god
of anger, vengeance and death. Nairobi 2007. In
Africa’s sprawling megacity a small élite holds power
over an impoverished, restless majority. Amid claims of
vote rigging and fraud, the Presidential elections could be
the spark that sets this city ablaze. Among this chaos,
few care about one dead prostitute, but Detective Mollel
does. He ventures from slums to skyscrapers, forced to
confront his own turbulent past. 292pp.
$26 NOW £4
79244 TROUBLE IN THE COTSWOLDS
by Rebecca Tope
Thea Osborne hopes to spend a quiet Christmas housesitting for the Shepherds in the picturesque Cotswold
village of Stanton. But her arrival coincides with the
funeral of local businessman Douglas Callendar, found
electrocuted in his bath, and amateur sleuth Thea finds
her curiosity piqued. When another villager is discovered
brutally murdered the following afternoon, Thea is thrust
into the middle of yet another police investigation.
Jealousy, closures of footpaths and secret animal
research are all possible motives for the murders.
381pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4
79968 CAREER OF EVIL
by Robert Galbraith
A sequel to J. K. Rowling’s The
Cuckoo’s Calling. When a
mysterious package is delivered to
Robin Ellacott she is horrified to
discover that it contains a woman’s
severed leg. Her boss, Private
Detective Cormoran Strike is less
surprised but no less alarmed. With
the police focussing on one suspect,
he and Robin take matters into their
own hands and delve into the dark
and twisted worlds of the other three suspects. But as
more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the
two of them. 494 large pages.
Business and Computer 25
be dead. The disturbed Holmes has faked his own
death and now, as he meets James, is questioning what
is real and what is not. 659pp.
£7.99 NOW £3
79500 DEAD BORN
by Joan Lock
When the bodies of a number of
babies are found scattered around
Islington, Detective Sergeant Best
is sent undercover to lodge next
door to a suspected baby farm. He
shadows an alleged ‘child dropper’
onto a Thames pleasure steamer
and finds himself caught up in
Britain’s worst civilian tragedy - the
1878 sinking of the Princess Alice, a
horrific experience that will haunt
him forever. Meanwhile, his
determination to avenge the death of a young girl he
had befriended and save the life of another becomes a
crusade. 192pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.25
79501 DEAD IMAGE by Joan Lock
The novel moves easily between rough-and-ready canal
folk and the fashionable London artistic community. The
explosion was heard 20 miles away. It killed boatmen
and wrecked the exotic villa of Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
the fashionable St John’s Wood artist. But what caused
the 1874 Regent’s Park explosion? Fenian bombs?
Sabotage by rival railways or other firms? Or was it
something personal? And whose was the other body
found in the canal? An artist’s model? The missing
King’s Cross barmaid? Or another victim of the so-called
Thames murderer? Scotland Yard’s Sergeant Ernest
Best straddles the conflicting worlds. 192pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.25
79988 MAMMOTH BOOK OF SHERLOCK
HOLMES ABROAD edited by Simon Clark
£9.99 NOW £4
79969 AGATHA RAISIN DISHING THE DIRT
by M. C. Beaton
£20 NOW £6.50
79885 MEDITATION OF MURDER
by Robert Thorogood
In Agatha’s newest adventure she must prove her own
innocence when a love rival turns up dead! When Jill
Davent moves into the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin
is not a fan. Not only is the therapist romancing her exhusband James, but she digs up details of Agatha’s
rather unsavoury origins. Furthermore, Jill is counselling
a woman Agatha is convinced is a murderess, although
she has no actual proof. Agatha tells anyone who cares
to listen that Jill is a charlatan who is better off dead.
Then Jill is found strangled to death in her office two
days later and Agatha is the prime suspect! 294pp.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79557 SUMMER OF DEAD TOYS
by Antonio Hill
Flavia Alvia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius
Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother she learned
how to blend in at all levels of society and from her
father she learned the tricks of their mutual professional
trade. Now, working as a private informer in Rome
during the reign of Domitian, Flavia has taken over her
father’s old ramshackle digs in the Surbura district. She
finds herself stuck with a truly awful person for a client
and facing a well-heeled, well-connected opponent.
That is until her client unexpectedly dies under suspicious
circumstances. 342pp.
£14.99 NOW £6
77733 IDES OF APRIL by Lindsey Davis
With an almost silky back cover with gold and silver foil
title, the novel features Inspector Hector Salgado, the
transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona. While working
on a human trafficking case, Salgado’s violent temper
got the better of him and he beat a suspect within an
inch of his life. Ordered on probation, he fled to
Argentina to cool off. Now he’s back in sultry Barcelona
but his boss has other plans. He assigns Salgado to a
routine accidental death. The trail leads him deep into
the underbelly of Barcelona’s high society, dangerous
criminals and of course his own past. 352pp.
$25.99 NOW £3.50
Clara Morrow’s husband is missing. When he fails to
come home on the first anniversary of their separation
as promised, she asks the only person she trusts to find
him, former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand
Gamache. As Gamache journeys further into the case
he is drawn into the tortured mind of Peter Morrow, a
man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist that
he would sell his soul. Gamache uncovers a deadly trail
of jealousy and deceit. Can he bring Peter and himself
home safely or in searching for answers has he placed
himself in terrible danger? 440pp, paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
79985 NATURE OF THE BEAST
by Louise Penny
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent
Lepage doesn’t cry wolf. His boundless sense of
adventure and vivid imagination mean he has a
tendency to concoct stories so extraordinary and farfetched that no one can possibly believe him. But when
he disappears, former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
is faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales
might have been true. So begins a frantic search for the
boy and the truth. 376pp.
£19.99 NOW £6
79972 FIFTH HEART by Dan Simmons
In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to
America together to investigate the suicide of Clover
Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams.
Quickly they deduce that there’s more to Clover’s death
than meets the eye. Holmes is currently on his Great
Hiatus, his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls
during which time the people of London believe him to
!
BUSINESS & COMPUTERS
We are stuck with technology when what
we really want is just stuff that works.
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
$26 NOW £5.75
79981 LONG WAY HOME by Louise Penny
80241 MICROSOFT
WINDOWS 8 MADE EASY
by James Stables
Straight talking, step-by-step guide
to account set up, integration and
use of images and videos for
beginners and intermediate. With
hot tips and expert advice,
troubleshooting, navigation, all
about folders and files, common
fixes and useful links so you can take control of your
computer. Goes on to advanced sharing, music, Xbox,
photos and more. All PC jargon explained, supports
touch and non-touch devices, launching apps, using
Skype, connecting to social networks, create a
HomeGroup to network your devices and more. 256pp
in large softback, colour photos and screen shots.
£9.99 NOW £7
79030 SUCCESSFUL NETWORKING IN 7
SIMPLE STEPS by Clare Dignall
Successful networking is grabbing every opportunity,
approaching people with confidence and leaving them
with a positive, lasting impression of yourself. The
seven steps are to create networking opportunities,
network effectively online, secure an invitation, be the
best conversationalist, survive difficult moments, work
the room and follow up on leads. Read template letters
such as the letter of apology, what to do if you forget
your business card or vital piece of equipment, all about
voice and vocabulary, active listening using FACE,
body language and positive attitude. Great psychology
for any event! Cartoon illus, 144pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2
With the wealth of invaluable tips, practical suggestions,
real-life case-studies and inspirational examples contained
within these pages, the authors show what can be
achieved, often starting with little or no money. An
American-style ice cream parlour where tourists flock,
loose cushion and sofa covers, home selling, one-person
training, gift and dog business and many more great real
examples. Easy to read, jargon-free, practical, whatever
age you are! 246pp paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
77898 WORK FROM HOME
by Judy Heminsley
Longing to re-balance your life? The author explains how
to work for an employer from home, how to build up a
profitable business from B&Bs to building firms, how to
get motivated for the day, personality types and how to
work around your family. Full of no-nonsense advice
this practical book is packed with tips, ideas and input
from other home workers. Paperback, 174pp, 17 x
24.7cm.
£12.99 NOW £3
77539 INSOLVENCY AND FINANCIAL
DISTRESS
by Brian Finch
Sub-titled ‘How to Avoid It and Survive It’, the book
tackles crucial issues such as spotting warning signs,
bankruptcy and its alternatives, bailiffs, retention of title,
credit rating, winding-up petitions, alternatives to
insolvency such as refinancing, remortgaging, deferred
payments, administration, understanding the implications
for directors and practical steps to mitigate the loss.
Useful examples.
15 new adventures and intrigues in a wonderful
anthology of ‘hitherto lost’ tales. Sherlock Holmes is at
his most ingenious in these exotic new mysteries where
the Great Detective travels to the far ends of the earth
in pursuit of truth and justice. There are stories from
Simon Clark, Andrew Darlington, Paul Finch, Carole
Johnstone, Alison Littlewood, Denis O’Smith, Sam
Stone, Paul Kane, David Moody, Mark Morris, Stephen
Volk and more. Holmes and Watson run across the
moor, fog swirls, the eerie howl of a gigantic hound...
More mystery and excitement for all fans. 484pp in
paperback.
A ‘Death in Paradise’ novel for fans of the BBC drama.
One murder victim, five suspects and a classic locked
room mystery. Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life leader of a spiritual retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on
the unspoilt island of Saint-Marie. Until he is murdered
that is. But Aslan was killed inside a locked room. DI
Richard Poole is hot, bothered and fed up with talking to
witnesses who’d rather discuss his ‘aura’ than their
whereabouts at the time of the murder. 356pp in
paperback.
78927 HOW TO START A BUSINESS WHEN
YOU’RE YOUNG
by Barrie Hawkins and Luke Wing
222pp, softback.
£18.99 NOW £1.50
79263 ANDROID TABLETS
IN EASY STEPS
by Nick Vandome
The operating system Android is
your alternate choice if you don’t
fancy the Apple and iPhone and
Apple Mac route into digital
technology. Fully illustrated.
Learn to find and download key
apps, keep your tablet organised,
get more out of your eBooks,
synchronise and manage your email and contacts, your
browser settings, share your tablet without forgoing your
privacy and get the latest flight, train or bus information,
weather reports and more, all safely and securely.
192pp in large softback, colour.
£10.99 NOW £5
79267 COMPUTING FOR SENIORS IN EASY
STEPS by Sue Price
Presents easy-to-understand tutorials on dozens of
computer topics - catalogue your CDs, digital
photography tips, saving photos from the Internet,
printing, online tax returns, tracking your stock portfolio,
the household budget, adding a picture to your emails,
creating a letterhead, moving and copying documents,
working with text, buying and selling on eBay, antivirus
software, searching for web pages, creating a list of
contacts, email addresses, desktop themes and more.
Covers Windows 7 and Office 2010. 240pp in large
softback, colour.
£10.99 NOW £5
79298 TABLET PCS FOR
SENIORS IN EASY STEPS
by Michael Price
The Tablet PC is a mobile
computer that incorporates a flat
touch-screen, is operated by
touching the screen with your
fingers and by using an on-screen
keyboard. Learn the basics like
how to browse the Internet,
keeping in touch while on the
move by email and messaging, downloading useful apps
from your Windows Store, synchronising your Tablet
with your PC and phone and more. Check your file
history, libraries, manage your data, view devices,
install the Kindle app and more. 192pp, large softback,
colour.
£10.99 NOW £5
79287 LAPTOPS FOR SENIORS IN EASY
STEPS by Nick Vandome
Laptops are an excellent option for senior users - their
mobility means that they are lightweight, can be used
anywhere and with the advent of wireless technology,
can be used in public places to surf the Web, watch a
movie and to keep in touch with family and friends using
Skype for free. Includes choosing and setting up your
laptop, types of battery, tips for finding people,
shortcuts, importing photos, pinning a web page, buying
apps, switching users, adding devices and more. 216pp,
softback, colour.
£10.99 NOW £5.50
79285 iPHONE IN EASY STEPS: Fourth Edition
by Drew Provan
The iPhone is a sophisticated smartphone to make phone
calls, send texts and multimedia messages, browse the
web, store video images and still photos, play games
and keep you organised professionally and personally.
This fourth edition is updated for iPhone 5s and 5c, is
written in plain English, has big easy-to-follow
instructions, and is fully illustrated in colour. Save time
and keying by using the new Control Centre and the
voice command system Siri, use iCloud to store and
back up data, buy and store apps and keep your Mac
devices in sync; find, download and enjoy key iPhone
apps for music, movies, photo editing, social networks,
games and for your travel and make the most of your
investment. Large softback, 240pp.
£10.99 NOW £5
79756 IN EASY STEPS: Set of Five
Buy all five matching, bright softbacks and save even
more.
£54.95 NOW £23
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Miller’s Guides
ANTIQUES AND
COLLECTABLES
You can’t be a successful Dictator and
design women’s underclothing.
- P.G. Wodehouse
80252 COLLECTOR’S
GUIDES: Rifles and Muskets
by Michael Haskew
80220 ARTS & CRAFTS: Living with the Arts
and Crafts Style
by Judith Miller
From William Morris’s distinctive textiles and wallpapers
to the unadorned, angular lines of simple oak furniture
made by the Stickley brothers and the luminous
beauty of William De Morgan’s lustreware ceramics,
the Arts and Crafts movement transformed design.
Extensively illustrated chapters explore the most
desirable ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, metalwork,
jewellery and books and graphics of the period with
key pieces placed in an historical context. The book
designs of Edward Burne-Jones are of particular
interest to us, the Kelmscott Press, stained glass
panels, and from the US gorgeous jewellery from the
Kalo Shop. Costume jewellery from Britain makes a
star-studded appearance on page 181 and
manufacturers like Sheffield-born Omar Ramsden
(1873-1939) and Carr. Take a really close look with
these gorgeous detailed colour photos, many with
diagrams explaining the looped tendrils, fashionable
Celtic motifs or shapes like the shield reminiscent of
Jugendstil designs from Germany. Not forgetting the
Tiffany Studios, Scottish School, Birmingham Guild of
Handicraft, Redlands Art Pottery, Van Briggle vases,
Saturday Evening Girls Club from Boston, Limbert
furniture from America and more. 240 very large
pages in very glamorous hardback, colour photos.
£30 NOW £12
80222 MILLER’S FIELD
GUIDE SILVER
edited by Judith Miller
Teapots, Sheffield plate, Vesta
cases, pin cushions, wine labels
and funnels, tea caddies, jugs, tea
and coffee services, mugs and
tankards, beakers and bowls,
punch bowls and baskets and
designs like the pierced and boatshaped centrepieces by Epergnes
and decorative tableware, pepper casters, cruet
frames, salvers, soup tureens, sauce boats, plates and
candelabra and candlesticks to lighting. There are price
codes throughout and identifying marks and factors
affecting the value of each piece in this invaluable
question-and-answer checklist to key silver items. 240
pages in small paperback, colour photos.
£7.99 NOW £3
80221 MILLER’S FIELD
GUIDE GLASS
edited by Judith Miller
A 1929 figure of a bird by Ercole
Barovier, Biedermeier glass,
Lalique, stained glass, Stevens &
Williams, the preserve of an élite
pressed glass from several
manufacturers, Sowerby, glass
lighting, cut glass bowls,
Victorian, Irish, Art Deco
decanters, facet-stemmed glass, blown glass to
Chinese snuff bottles, every page is decorated with up
to three colour examples with a text by one of the
leading experts. It is a simple question-and-answer
checklist covering a wide range of key antique glass
items teaching you what to look for, how to date as
well as spot a fake or copy. With price codes,
identifying marks and factors that could affect the
value be it coloured, cut, pressed, etched, blown or
decorated glass. 240pp in small paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
80223 MILLER’S FIELD
GUIDE ART DECO
edited by Judith Miller
Would you know your Leslie
Ragan poster from one by
Adolphe Jean-Marie Cassandre?
Stylised Art Deco advertising
posters are collectable and iconic.
Whether you are buying at
auction, flea market, antique shop
or online, here is a superb low
down on what to look for, how to date as well as to
spot a fake or copy. With price codes and info on
makers, factories, identifying marks and factors that
affect the piece of furniture, glass, ceramic, sculpture,
metalwork, jewellery, print or textile. Colour photos
throughout. 240pp in small paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
80224 MILLER’S FIELD
GUIDE PORCELAIN
edited by Judith Miller
Whether you are buying at an
auction, flea market, antique shop
or online, here is expert guidance
to help you identify, date and
value European and North
American porcelain. With price
codes throughout, and concise
information on makers, factories,
identifying marks and factors that affect the value of
the piece be it Meissen, Derby, Worcester, Fèvres or
Bonnin & Morris, here is Spode, Bow figures, Doccia,
Closter-Veilsdorf, Ludwigsburg figurines, Rockingham
figures and much more. All beautifully illustrated.
Glossary, 240pp in small softback.
£7.99 NOW £3
Spanning 1450 to the present day,
and illustrated with 60 colour and
black and white photos, here is an
expertly written account of the
history of sporting and military long
arms. Here are the Enfield series,
post-War automatic rifles, EasternBolt action rifles, jungle fighting, Type 38 and its
replacement, and going back to guns that won the West,
the Brunswick rifle, French muskets, black powder rifles
and the early muskets. With glossary and superb colour
photos, contemporary advertisements, in all 200 colour
artworks of long arms with full technical specifications.
The book ranges from smoothbores to assault rifles, from
bolt-action to repeating rifles, from the Winchester Model
1873 to the AK-47. Covers it uses over 600 years as a
means of survival, on the battlefield, urban warfare, law
enforcement, hunting and sport. 224 large pages.
£19.99 NOW £10
80251 COLLECTOR’S
GUIDES: Pistols and
Revolvers
by Martin Dougherty
A companion to code 80252 on rifles
and muskets is another glossy
volume featuring 180 colour
artworks and 70 black and white
photos covering pistols and
revolvers from 1400 to the present.
It includes the first handguns and the latest automatics
with full technical specifications including calibre, weight,
length, speed and range. From a Hungarian medieval
handgun, with a range of seven metres, the German
Matchlock, Italian Wheel-lock and English Doglock, the
Queen Anne Pistol, improved Flintlock, and duelling
pistols, we take a look in detailed diagrams at
percussion-cap pistols like the Adams self-cocking
revolver and the Le Mat from France, the Colts,
CHRISTMAS BOOKS
80205 HOLIDAY LABEL SET:
80 Decorated Labels
by Fiona Howard
Fantastic value assortment of 80
sticky labels to apply to gifts and
give them a seasonal flourish.
Decorated with stars, Christmas
trees, a robin, holly, two kissing birds
in front of their decorated bird house, with TO...
FROM... on some of the designs or with decorative
border for you to write in the name of the recipient.
Each label measures just over 3" across by 1" deep
when peeled off the little pads or much smaller ones for
wee gifts measuring approximately 1½” square. One
yellow label simply says CHEERS! Perfect for popping
on a bottle as you buzz round to a friends for a
Christmas drink - or two! A quality import.
ONLY £3
80216 HOLIDAY
SHAPED NOTE CARDS
by Galison New York
In a large envelope wallet
with transparent front and
string fastener, you will
find ten cards with foil
embellishment and 11 blue
spotted or green striped envelopes measuring 9" x 6".
The note cards are decorated either with a red bird on
top of a Christmas gift or a Christmas stocking,
decorated in colour with a little white bird sitting on the
stocking. So they are Christmas cards with a difference,
and of such good quality that you could easily slip in
money, gift tokens or a Bibliophile book token! Great
value and specially imported.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
80356 CHRISTMAS AROUND
THE VILLAGE GREEN
by Dot May Dunn
Right from page one you are invited
inside the house, across the peg rug,
and the wireless, the black-leaded
polished wrought iron fireplace and
the china cabinet, past the pantry
and into the kitchen where the
mangle, the fireplace and the copper
(clothes boiler) lived. Then outside
into the concrete yard with the coal
house to the right and next door’s
yard to the left. Out the other end of the house was the
garden and outdoor WC! Christmas is different for little
Dot May Dunn and her fellow Derbyshire villagers now
that the war is on. The paper garlands are red, white
and blue this year, but Father Christmas still comes,
carols are sung, and the family are relieved to be
together. As the war rages on, Dot must adjust to
holidays, village fêtes and village life under its shadow.
She understands very little but as the villagers comes
face-to-face with the effects, the impact bears heavily
on this close-knit mining community. By the bestselling
author of ‘Twelve Babies on a Bike’. 192pp in
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
Webleys and the modern looking Astra Falcon from
Spain, 1956, early cartridge pistols, the Great War and
Second World War eras, through to the Cold War and
modern era with the futuristic looking FN Five-Seven
and the tiny Cop Derringer from the USA, 1978. 224
big glossy pages.
£19.99 NOW £10
78995 BREAKFAST AT SOTHEBY’S: An A-Z of
the Art World by Phillip Hook
Fact-filled witty look at the art world and art market that
explains why certain works are so expensive, and why
some people will pay vast sums for ‘Conceptual Art’.
Phillip also explains why certain ‘middlebrow artists’,
such as Beryl Cook, Edward Seago and Thomas
Kinkade are looked down on and how art acquires its
financial value. He looks at “wall-power”, provenance
and market weather, -isms, Gericault and suicide.
Insider-trading at its best, this is a hugely enjoyable and
cultured tutorial. 347pp, b/w illus.
£20 NOW £5
78710 COMPLETE COLLECTION OF
ANTIQUITIES: D’HANCARVILLE
From the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton
by Madeleine Huwiler and Sebastian Schütze
Antiquarian, archaeologist and envoy to the British
Embassy in Naples, Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803)
was a leading European figure of his time. Though the
romance between his wife Lady Emma Hamilton and
Horatio Nelson tends to eclipse Sir William’s own
activities, his work as a scientist and a classicist made
major contributions to the study of Pompeii,
Herculaneum and Mt Vesuvius. As an expert in ancient
art, Hamilton also built up an invaluable collection of
ancient Greek vases, subsequently sold to the British
Museum in London in 1772. Before the pieces were
shipped off to England, Hamilton commissioned PierreFrançois Hugues d’Hancarville, an adventurous
connoisseur and art dealer, to document the vases in
words and images. The resulting catalogue represents a
neoclassical masterpiece. 5.5" x 7.7", 576 pages,
bookmarker, illus.
ONLY £10
77786 ORIENTAL RUGS: An Introduction
by Gordon Redford Walker
Following a section on materials, colour and production
methods, there is a superb gazetteer of different rug
types. City pieces include the Persian Tabriz, Ispahan
and Nain patterns, all designed with central medallions.
Tribal rugs include the brightly coloured Kazak Lambalo,
with its striking three medallions in reds, greens and
ivories. Plus buying, care and maintenance. 224pp,
colour photos.
£16.99 NOW £2.50
80385 CHRISTMAS 1914:
The First World War at Home
and Abroad by John Hudson
‘A stranger and duller sort of
Christmas could hardly be
imagined...The awful anxieties and
grief of war touched the whole
country very closely, and in our
district there was little of the usual
festivities and jollity. There were no
attractions beyond the local variety
theatres, and whatever Christmas
parties there were were quiet...While the customary list
of football matches dwindled down to one or two
games. By December 1914 it had become clear even to
the most optimistic observer that the war would not be
over by Christmas.’ That month brought the first
enemy-inflicted deaths on the Home Front when
German warships bombarded three north-east coastal
towns. Meanwhile the recently invented aeroplane was
being put to fearsome use in raids over the southeast. In
Europe, Mons, the Marne and Ypres had given a taste of
the devastating power of modern warfare, a reality to
which troops in the trenches on both sides tried to turn a
blind eye in the famous Christmas truce. The book uses
contemporary newspapers, magazines, diaries and other
records such as the Penny War Weekly from the Royal
Engineers, officers and others who were there and
soldiers on both sides. With many photos, 256pp in
paperback.
79275 FIFTY FASHION
LOOKS THAT CHANGED THE
1950s by Paula Reed
Fashion really took off in the
1950s. ‘Wash and wear’ items
appeared, as the latest miracle
fabrics such as Acrilan, drip-dry
nylon, Dacron and polyester all
presented new design possibilities.
In addition, teenagers became a
lucrative market for fashion
producers, snapping up flared skirts, leather jackets,
denims, pedal pushers and ankle socks. On the other
hand, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe
oozed glamour and sophistication. Amazing photographs
and an informative text make this a must have for
anyone who loves vintage fashion. 112pp, colour and b/
w illus.
£12.99 NOW £4
79276 FIFTY FASHION
LOOKS THAT CHANGED THE
1980s
by Paula Read
What does the 1980s mean to you?
Perhaps the biggest trends were
the wide shoulders, big hair and
plenty of accessories look which we
lapped up in programmes such as
Dynasty and Dallas. Here, in this
beautifully produced book
explaining the various looks that influenced the 1980s’
fashion trends, you can relive the 1980s as you browse
the lively text and wealth of wonderful photographs.
112pp, colour and b/w illus.
£12.99 NOW £4
79279 HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN THIRTY-SIX
POSTAGE STAMPS
by Chris West
Here’s a really novel approach - the author has carefully
chosen 36 postage stamps and used their designs to
comment on British events at their time of issue. Often
tongue-in-cheek, there is plenty of information here,
beginning with that most classic of stamps, the Penny
Black. The George V Penny Red was often the bringer
of terrible news when it was affixed to an envelope
containing a form telling the recipient that their son or
husband had been killed in the war. The 1966 World Cup
Winners stamp reflected a supreme moment when we
were all, even non-footie fans - proud to be British. An
appendix contains some interesting additional philatelic
information, including prices. 276pp, colour illus.
$28 NOW £6
minutes 26 seconds, ten songs for the festive season on
the CD and accompanying book with the lyrics on
sturdy heavy card with padded cover and Disney colour
illus. Ages 2-10.
£5.99 NOW £3
80338 POCKET ACTIVITY
FUN AND GAMES
CHRISTMAS
by Andrea Pinnington
Fold out the back cover to find a
big blank card on which to play and
pop all your stickers of a lovely
lounge decorated for Christmas
complete with tree, presents
beneath, angel on the top, garland,
holly, ginger kitten looking out the
window at Santa on his sledge. By
Special Delivery from the North
Pole is this fun-sized activity book for all Santa’s little
helpers. There’s a Christmas cake-decorating
competition which is very competitive complete with
decoration ideas, spot-the-difference puzzles; help
Belinda the bauble-decorating fairy, fun colouring in, an
advent calendar to draw in and complete, tops and
bottoms of a Christmas scene with a rather lazy looking
camel, puzzles to solve, stories to write, make and do
activities and dozens of super Christmas stickers to
decorate your fabulous fold-out picture. Softback, 96pp.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
80135 CHRISTMAS: 30
Greetings Cards and
Envelopes Slipcased
£9.99 NOW £4
80110 CHRISTMAS
STORIES
by Michael Morpurgo
Exquisitely illustrated by Quentin
Blake, Michael Foreman, Emma
Chichester Clarke and Sophie
Allsopp, this is a book for all
children’s book collectors and
lovers of fine illustration and
literature. Of course it is
designed for youngsters and all
192 large pages have coloured backgrounds on the
glossy pages for each story - The Goose is Getting Fat,
The Best of Times, The Best Christmas Present In the
World and On Angel Wings. Four very special
Christmas stories, artfully illustrated in one beautiful
book. Large softback.
£9.99 NOW £5
80126 DISNEY
CHRISTMAS SING-ALONG:
Book and CD
by Parragon
As performed by Mickey, Minnie
and Goofy, here is Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Saint
Nick, Santa Claus is Coming to
Town, Here Comes Santa
Clause, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas,
Up On the House Top, In The
Back of Santa’s Sleigh, Pulling
Santa’s Sleigh, accompanied by Rudolph, Dasher,
Dancer and Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Vixen and
Blitzen. Performed by Jiminy Cricket and with
illustrations from the Disney cartoons, here is Winnie-thePooh and Tigger wrapping presents as we sing-along to
Kris Kringle and the Santa Wrap. Running time 23
In a very sturdy colour illustrated
slipcase sleeve, and a box with
lid inside, carefully stored are
your vintage-style Victorian
Christmas card collection. Each
of the 30 cards is entirely
different,
featuring
for
example a family scene with a
bright ball dangled in front of
the baby, a little girl reading
and with simple messages
across the top like A Very
Merry Christmas! and A Bright
and Merry Christmas. Inside,
the cards are completely blank
for your own message. There
are skaters, Victorian golfers, a
découpage decorated design, a
heavily festooned and beautiful
Christmas tree, Victorian
children in costume pulling a
cracker, angelic looking children
singing Peace On Earth, a
beautiful angel as found at the
Victoria & Albert Museum from
a 19th century Christmas card,
Santa Claus visiting the night
before Christmas from Aunt
Louise’s Big Picture Series by
Thomas Nast and other
delights. Lovely quality, 30
white envelopes included.
£9.99 NOW £5
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MUSIC AND DANCE
There are some things a chappie’s mind
absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia
singing ‘Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay’ is one of
them.
- P. G. Wodehouse
79946 RESPECT: The Life of
Aretha Franklin
by David Ritz
A US first edition, this is the
revealing biography of the Queen of
Soul. Aretha Franklin began life as
the golden daughter of a
progressive, brilliant and also
promiscuous Baptist preacher.
Reared without her mother, she was
a gospel prodigy who by her middle
teens had already given birth to two
sons and left them and her native Detroit for New York
where she struggled to find her true voice. She found
fame, fortune and that remarkable voice in 1967 with
‘Respect’ and a rapid-fire string of hits. She turned the
music industry on its head by refuelling pop with heavy
soul. Just as she was re-establishing her divadom in the
1980s with hits like ‘Freeway of Love’ the deaths of her
father, sisters and brother threw her into isolation. In
1998 when Pavarotti could not appear at the Grammy
Awards, she came out of the shadows and stunned the
world with a version of ‘Nessun Dorma’ that was pure
pop soul. From the moving elegy she performed at the
funerals of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, to her
dramatic performance at President Obama’s First
Inauguration, Aretha has become the voice of the USA.
She has also been the confidante to an entire generation
of soul stars - Ray, Smokey, BB, Etta, Marvin etc.
Here is all the blind ambition, genius and dysfunction.
520pp, 16 pages of photos, much in colour. Tiny
Remainder mark.
£22.50 NOW £7
79848 BEETHOVEN: The Man
Revealed by John Suchet
Those of you who enjoy a spot of
Classic FM of a morning will be
very familiar with the dulcet tones
of John Suchet and probably will
also be aware of his lifelong ardent
love of Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827) and his music. In this
vivid portrait of the legendary
prodigy he draws upon a vast range
of new research and rare source
material (much of which has never been published in
English) with a thoroughness that only the dedicated fan
can. Suchet reveals not the godlike immortal portrayed
by statues and paintings, but a complex, conflicted man
living among fellow mortals, who began his professional
life at the age of seven and struggled against familial
discord and deafness as well as other health issues to
continue his groundbreaking work. His grandfather (also
Ludwig) was court Kapellmeister (effectively the king’s
chief of music), but following his death, Ludwig’s father
Johann became increasingly alcoholic, so it was fortunate
that the ten-year-old found a mentor and teacher in
Christian Neefe, who spotted and nurtured his precocious
talent. When he was 18 his father was banished so
Ludwig became head of the household. Suchet
investigates his meeting with Mozart at 16, his
contentious relationship with Hayden, his influential
patrons, his inability to maintain friendships and
romances and the circumstances surrounding the creation
of well-known compositions as Fur Elise and the
Moonlight Sonata. 405pp, colour and b/w plates.
$30 NOW £8
80204 BENJAMIN BRITTEN:
A Life for Music
by Neil Powell
The rolling Suffolk countryside
influenced much of the musician and
composer Benjamin Britten’s life and
work. Music came from his mother’s
side of the family who introduced
him to the glories of the piano at age
2. The other enduring influence was
Peter Pears, the tenor who was his
partner for life and with whom he
founded the Aldeburgh Festival. Britten’s last opera,
Death in Venice, has echoes of his own life. A practicing
gay man when homosexuality was a ‘jailable’ offence,
he seemed evasive despite his fame. His social circle
was vast and varied and he was close to several
extroverted literary gay men including W. H. Auden and
Christopher Isherwood as well as the more conservative
E. M. Forster. On the eve of World War Two in 1939,
he and Pears followed Auden to America where they
shared a house in Brooklyn with the stripper Gypsy
Rose Lee, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Carson McCullers.
But Britten had little taste for bohemia and returned to
England in 1942, preferring the rural life of Suffolk with
tea parties and the Queen. His musical legacy is well
known and here are the intimate stories behind his
creations especially Peter Grimes, Billy Budd and Death
in Venice. Learn about what he was reading, whom he
met and how he heard and performed music together
with his artistic and personal collaboration with Peter
Pears. 508pp, many photos, US first edition 2013.
$37 NOW £7
79879 VERDI’S OPERAS: An
Illustrated Survey of Plots,
Characters, Sources and
Criticism
edited by Giorgio Bagnoli
The operas of Giuseppe Verdi (18131901) have a special place in the
hearts of audiences and in the
history of music. Venerated as a
national treasure for his civic,
historical and musical influence, Verdi enjoyed almost
uninterrupted success with his public and continues with
a posthumous glory that never seems to wane. How did
Verdi get it so right? His works are grand in scale yet
intensely human in the way that they are able to
convey the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. Rather
cleverly he based his works on plays or books that were
already either well known or written by those who were
and due to his fame and the quality of his works he
could attract the foremost librettists and orchestras to
perform them. In this book we study each of Verdi’s 26
operas in fine detail, from Oberto (1839) to Falstaff
(1893). The plots are described act by act and the works
are analysed and placed in the context of history and the
composer’s creative career. In addition we learn about
the sources that inspired the maestro’s work and there
are profiles of the great librettists who worked with him.
For each opera there is a feature on the first
performance and performers, cast list and historical
setting and later renowned performances the world over.
Striking artworks, photos and drawings of scenes from
Verdi productions, posters, performers past and present
and much more on every page. Whether you are a new
acolyte of opera or longstanding devotee, this superb
book with inform, entertain and delight. 215pp softback,
colour and b/w illus.
£24.99 NOW £7.50
80239 ILLUSTRATED
CATALOG OF
GUITARS by Nick Freeth
The art of guitar design has evolved
rapidly over the last 80 years from
the acoustic, arch-topped Gibson L-5
in the early 1920s through the solidbodied Fender models of the 1950s
and 60s to the exoskeletal
construction, comprising carbon and
glass fibre of the 90s. Advances in
electronics did away with the absolute necessity of a
sound-projecting hollow body and rock ‘n’ roll stars
wanted a really hot-looking instrument dangling from
their hip. The guitar can be traced back to El Quitarra in
Spain and is thought to have been influenced by the
Oud, an instrument brought to Spain by the invading
Moors. Originally four strings, it gained an extra two in
the 17th century. Nylon strung, steel string acoustic and
the arch top guitar, in each case the sound is produced
by the vibration of the strings being amplified by the
body of the guitar acting as a resonating chamber. This
amazing one-of-a-kind book introduces 250 guitars of all
types together with 500 clear colour photos and a
fantastic text explaining each major feature. Arranged
A-Z from the Alembic Entwistle Bass as played by John
Entwistle of The Who and Mark King of Level 42 through
all the Gibsons and Ibanez, Peavey and Yamaha to the
Zenith Super Cutaway. Two big colour images per
page, quick reference text. 256pp.
ONLY £7
80471 UNIVERSAL TONE:
Bringing My Story to Light
by Carlos Santana
The intimate and long-awaited
autobiography of a guitar legend.
In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few
weeks after the Summer of Love, a
young Mexican guitarist played a
blistering solo that announced the
arrival of a prodigious musical talent.
Two years later he played a historic
set at Woodstock and the world
came to know Carlos Santana, his instantly recognisable
guitar sound, and the band that blended electric blues,
psychedelic rock, Latin and modern jazz. His is a tale of
musical self-determination and inner self-discovery, filled
with colourful detail and life-affirming stories. He traces
his journey from his earliest days playing the strip bars
in Tijuana, his indebtedness to musical and spiritual
leaders from John Coltrane and John Lee Hooker to
Miles Davis and Harry Belafonte, his deep, lifelong path
from his Catholic upbringing, Eastern philosophies and
other mystical sources. ‘I salute the light that you are
and that is inside your heart.’ ‘Mexican moms take their
dreams seriously - I guess that’s where I get that.’ See
the electric snake in action. Many colour and black and
white photos. US first edition, 536pp. Tiny remainder
mark and apologies where a sticker has been removed.
$30 NOW £8.50
79132 PLAY ON: Now, Then and Fleetwood
Mac
by Mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza
Michael John Kells Fleetwood has been playing drums
professionally since his teens and from his seat behind
the drum kit has watched the Sixties unfold. The band
that he co-founded with John McVie and Peter Green,
and that became iconic when fronted by Lindsey
Buckingham, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks, is one of
the most successful, long-lasting and beloved acts of the
past half century. Mick recalls his upbringing in Cornwall
and sheds light on Fleetwood Mac’s raucous history.
344pp, colour and b/w photos.
£20 NOW £4.50
78722 ALEX STEINWEISS: The Inventor of
the Modern Album Cover
by Kevin Reagan and Steven Heller
Alex Steinweiss (1917-2011) invented the album cover
as we know it. In 1940, as Columbia Records’ young
new art director, he pitched an idea: why not replace the
standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching
illustration? The company took a chance, and within
months its record sales increased by over 800 per cent.
Over the next three decades, Steinweiss made
thousands of original artworks for classical, jazz, and
popular record covers, Cole Porter to Fats Domino, for
Columbia, Decca, London, and Everest; as well as logos,
labels, advertising material, even his own typeface, the
Steinweiss Scrawl. Bold typography with modern,
elegant illustration, he revolutionised the way music was
sold. Includes his personal recollections and ephemera
from an epic career, as well as insightful essays by
graphic designers. 5.5" x 7.7", 552 pages, bookmarker.
Text in English, French and German. Colour. From
Taschen.
ONLY £11
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78389 CHRISTMAS CAROLS:
Solo Stars Descant Recorder:
Book and CD
by Jane Sebba and David
Moses
Ten favourite Christmas carols are
arranged for descant recorder with
practice tracks and backing tracks on
the accompanying audio CD
enclosed with the book. Good King
Wenceslas, Huron Indian Carol, I
Saw Three Ships, Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant, In Dulci
Jubilo, In the Bleak Midwinter, O Little Town of
Bethlehem, Patapan, We Three Kings and We Wish You
A Merry Christmas are clearly laid out with musical
scores, words and melody. Large softback.
£7.99 NOW £3
79118 JOHNNY CASH: The Life
by Robert Hilburn
As a music critic for the Los Angeles times, Hilburn knew
Cash well throughout his life and was the only music
journalist at the legendary Folsom Prison concert in
1968. He interviewed Johnny Cash and his wife June
Carter for the final time just months before their deaths
in 2003. Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a
musical icon. The musicality and lyricism, the drugs and
Carnegie Hall, Newport, Bob Dylan, the El Paso drug
bust, marrying June, to the Betty Ford Clinic and being
dropped by Columbia Records, heart surgery, Branson,
the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, to becoming a hero
again. With a guide to recordings and DVDs. 679pp,
photos.
DVD BOX SETS
HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT
80048 A LIFE IN MUSIC:
Three DVD Box Set
by Harry Chapin, Patsy
Cline and Chet Atkins
The brilliant careers of these solo
performers are captured on each
of the three DVDs, total running
time approximately 124 minutes.
The brilliant career of platinum
best-selling singer songwriter and
humanitarian Harry Chapin is
chronicled from the success of his début album. The
DVD features tracks including Mr Tanner, Story of a
Life, Circle, Taxi, I Wanna Learn A Love Song, WOLD,
Cats in the Cradle and Remember When the Music.
The second DVD entitled Sweet Dreams Still tells the
story of one of country music’s greatest ever recording
stars. This sensitive portrait follows Patsy Cline’s
career from her first ever television performance,
through numerous hits and to later TV appearances.
Chet Atkins: A Life In Music is a fascinating portrait of
the legendary guitar player from his penniless childhood
in Tennessee to success and admiration. With
interviews with Chet himself and stars including Dolly
Parton, Willie Nelson and Mark Knopfler paying credit
to the great man. Three DVD box set.
£14.99 NOW £9
80053 NASA SPACE TREK:
Three DVD Box Set
by The Space Series
£20 NOW £5.50
79998 POPULAR CLASSICS
OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS:
Book and CD
by Jason Waldron
Including Ave Maria, the 1812
Overture, Ride of the Valkyries,
Washington Post March, Polovtsian
Dance, Autumn from The Four
Seasons, the Unfinished Symphony
by Schubert and Chopin’s Funeral
March, here are 35 of the world’s
most popular melodies for guitarists of all standards to
enjoy. Volume three in this Progressive series, the CD
inside contains examples from within the book. 60 very
large pages in softback with full musical scores. Sheet
music is rarely discounted.
$19.95 NOW £5
79207 MUSIC QUICKENS TIME
by Daniel Barenboim
!
Maestro Daniel Barenboim draws on his uniquely
influential engagement with music to argue for its central
importance in our everyday lives. Turning to his intense
involvement with Palestine, he examines the
transformative power of music in the world from his own
performances of Wagner in Israel and his foundation with
Edward Said of the internationally acclaimed WestEastern Divan Orchestra. Illuminating meditations on
the power of music. 184pp, paperback. Remainder
mark.
$14.95 NOW £5
79994 10 EASY LESSONS
LEARN TO PLAY CLASSICAL
GUITAR: Book, CD and DVD
by Brett Duncan
The opening section deals with
reading music, rhythm, playing
position and right and left hand
techniques. The first two lessons
teach us notes on the first three
strings and your first basic single
note melodies. The lessons
progress to combine the use of both the right hand
thumb and fingers and learning your first scale, eighth
notes, the sharp sign, the natural sign and key
signatures. Duets are also featured, free stroke and
picking several notes at once before the first complete
guitar pieces written by famous composers. Plus how to
tune your guitar, major and minor scales, and glossary
of musical terms. Tunes include Yankee Doodle, Good
King Wenceslas, Skip to my Lou, the 1812 Overture, the
William Tell Overture, waltzes and allegros. 60 very
large pages in softback, musical notation and
accompanying CD and DVD with which to play along.
$19.95 NOW £5
79801 IRISH DANCE by Arthur Flynn
River Dance and Lord of the Dance have made this
traditional country custom with its nationalistic pride and
beautiful costumes popular worldwide. Ireland has a
strong tradition of dance and from the late 17th century,
dance and music were the main forms of entertainment
in rural Ireland. The first Célí was organised by the
Gaelic League in 1897 and the Public Dance Halls Act of
1935 introduced more commercial dance halls with
modern dance bands. From pagan beginnings and May
Day rituals, today there is roughly 6,000 dance tunes
including jigs, hornpipes and hundreds of tunes for sets
and half sets and polkas. The steps themselves are
given in diagrammatic form. Line art in colour, 76pp.
$14.95 NOW £4.25
79960 MOZART: A Life by Paul Johnson
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - actually baptised Joannes
Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart - was a
musical prodigy who composed dozens of much-loved
works, and who died when he was only thirty-six years
old. His father, Leopold, had been appointed court
composer when his son was just two. In 1762 he took
the boy, aged six, to Munich to play before the elector,
where he was feted at fashionable gatherings. By the
time that they reached England, Wolfgang, now aged
eight, was already something of a celebrity and within
five days of his arrival was playing before the royal
family at Buckingham House. His travels continued until
he was back in Salzburg, by now a competent composer
and accomplished musician, writing cantatas, operas and
symphonies. Apart from music, he adored billiards and
was a skilled participant, awaiting his turn with a stack
of music paper, composing, sometimes holding up the
game in the process. 164pp.
£17.99 NOW £6.50
Running time approximately 185
minutes, we proudly take our first
steps into interplanetary colour
entertainment. Volume one
features Freedom Seven,
introduced by astronaut Alan
Shepard about America’s first
manned space flight. Friendship
Seven introduced by astronaut Wally Schirra sees John
Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth in just 88
minutes. Volume two is a film called Skylab the First
Forty Days introduced by astronaut Pete Conrad. On
the unmanned launch of Skylab 1, mission-threatening
problems arose. Before a single biomedical or scientific
experiment would be undertaken, Skylab had to be
fixed. Volume three is a film entitled Gemini 8 - The
First Space Docking, introduced by astronaut Walter
Cunningham. It was the first mission to broadcast live
the on-board activities of the astronauts creating an
even more exhilarating experience for viewers of this
incredible space mission. Box set.
£13.99 NOW £9
80026 BIRDWATCHER’S
PARADISE: Three DVD Box
Set
by Fastforward Music
Birdwatcher’s Paradise volume
one DVD is a captivating
exploration of the place off the
southwest Gulf Coast of Florida
called Sanibel Island. It is home
to an extraordinary array of
migrating and native birds thanks
to its variety of bird, insect and mammal species. See
them in flight, preening, mating and flying high in all
their colourful glory in these beautiful settings. Journey
to Brazoria is a unique film taking us on a gentle
journey of discovery to the Laguna Acosta. Featuring
flycatchers, black-necked stilts and six species of rail,
this DVD captures these beautiful birds in their native
environment along with their mesmerising neighbours
the turtles, snakes and reptiles of the Gulf Coast. The
third film, The Treasure of Madera Canyon, is set
amongst the Santa Rica Mountains of south eastern
Arizona, home to an array of spectacular birdlife. The
film contains portraits of woodpeckers and of course
breath-taking gravity-defying iridescent hummingbirds
for which the region is renowned. Three DVD box set
in this special profile of nature. Running time
approximately 150 minutes.
£14.99 NOW £9
79278 GET STARTED IN JAZZ: Book and
Audio CD by Rodney Dale
In the excellent Teach Yourself series, understand
different styles of music or play straight from the book in
this comprehensive introduction to jazz for beginners or
established players. It looks at the origins and
development of jazz and gives an insight into its musical
structures and the way in which it is played, as well as
important and individual players and bands. Learn the
Calypso sequence as dubbed by trumpeter Owen
Bryce, 'High Society', an old New Orleans marching
tune, and further chords like the augmented, diminished,
sixth chords and intervals. Learn the importance of
practice, how Europe discovered jazz and how many
retired players rebuilt their jazz careers. 136pp, large
softback and CD
£14.99 NOW £6.50
78618 ETERNAL CD
by Thomas Tallis
Tallis (1505-1585) began his
career as organist at the
Benedictine Priory at Dover then
at Waltham Abbey until the
dissolution of the monasteries in
1540. He was then organist at
Canterbury Cathedral and in
1543 became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, a
position he retained until his death. He wrote a quantity
of Latin church music and contributed to the reformed
English liturgy and one of his most remarkable
achievements is the 40-voiced Spem in alium. 14 tracks
begins with ‘With All Our Heart’, ‘Mass for Four Voices ‘Sanctus’, ‘Lamentations’, ‘In Nomine’, ‘Spem in alium’
and a solfing song among them.
£12.99 NOW £6
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SCIENCE AND MATHS
I’d take the awe of understanding over the
awe of ignorance any day.
- Douglas Adams
80285 VITAL QUESTION
by Nick Lane
Sub-titled ‘Energy, Evolution and
the Origins of Complex Life’, here is
a groundbreaking explanation of
life’s mysterious origins. Biochemist
Nick Lane radically reframes
evolutionary history, putting
forward a solution to conundrums
that have puzzled generations of
scientists. From the very origins of
life, for 2½ billion years, singlecelled organisms such as bacteria evolved without
changing their basic form. Then, on just one occasion in
four billion years, they made the jump to complexity.
All complex life from mushrooms to man shares puzzling
features such as sex, which are unknown in bacteria.
How and why did this radical transformation happen?
The answer he argues lies in energy. Building on the
pillars of evolutionary theory, Lane’s hypothesis draws
on cutting-edge research into the link between energy
and cell biology while offering deep insights into our own
lives and deaths. Indeed, why are we here at all?
Illus, 360pp.
$27.95 NOW £10
80056 PLANET MARS DVD
by The Space Series
See the surface of Mars as you’ve
never seen it before and learn
about how Mars has evolved,
valuable in measuring Earth’s
evolution. Get closer than ever
with this exciting colour DVD and
bonus programme Astro Smiles, a
laugh-in-space introduction by Wally
Schirra. Watch and enjoy this lighthearted look at weightlessness
filmed aboard the Space Shuttle. NASA sent Viking out
to photograph the Red Planet in 1975 and these pictures
revealed volcanoes and frozen polar regions not unlike
those on our own planet. But here you see so much
more. 55 minute colour DVD.
ONLY £4
80398 I USED TO KNOW
THAT MATHS
by Chris Waring
From the bestselling series, here is
stuff that you might have forgotten
from school. If you are still
confused by quadratic equations,
flummoxed by fractions and
perplexed by percentages, whether
you enjoyed them at school or not,
maths play a part in our daily lives.
This light-hearted guide is a fun
way to relearn all those useful tips that might help you
put up shelves at the correct angle or just remind your
kids or grandkids how clever you are. With rounding (to
the nearest), SI units, Venn diagrams, Pythagoras’s
Theorem, probability, E=MC², Pi, algebra, bar charts,
mental arithmetic to data, Sin, Cos and Tan. 192pp in
paperback, diagrams.
£5.99 NOW £3
80292 THE STORY OF
MATHEMATICS: From
Creating the Pyramids to
Exploring Infinity
by Anne Rooney
Galileo (1564-1642) said, ‘In order
to understand the universe you
must know the language in which it
is written. And that language is
mathematics.’ For thousands of
years we have sought order in the
apparent chaos of the Universe. Mathematics has been
our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the
patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond.
Our handbook traces humankind’s greatest mathematical
achievements in the last 4,000 years to where we stand
today. Topics include counting and measuring, the
Ancient Egyptians and geometry, working out the
movements of the planets, algebra, solid geometry and
the trigonometric tables, the first computers, how
statistics came to rule our finances, impossible shapes
and extra dimensions, measuring and mapping the world,
chaos theory and fuzzy logic, set theory and the death
of numbers. Fascinating personalities are profiled
including Euclid, Apollonius, Pythagoras, Napier,
Newton, Pascal, Riemann, Russell and many more.
With colour photos, diagrams, illus and b/w pictures
throughout. 208pp.
£7.99 NOW £4
80305 I, SUPERORGANISM:
Learning to Love Your Inner
Ecosystem by Jon Turney
As we go about our daily life, we
probably give little thought to the
most important thing that allows us
to do just that - our body. Our
body is a world in miniature, a
world consisting of an amazing
population of micro-organisms that
live there, everywhere you can
think of. These vital organisms help
us to function, they break down
toxins, enable us to digest our food and create the
vitamins that are essential to our health. Here, the
science writer investigates this ‘human microbiome’,
exploring how it works, what it does and the impact on
the system that may be triggered by our obsessions
with antibiotics and disinfectants. In 1676 Dutch Antonie
van Leeuwenhoek perfected a way of making simple
hand-held microscopes, and to his amazement
discovered minute ‘animalcules’ in pond water. He later
took a scraping from his mouth and to his amazement
they were there, too. Microbiology had been discovered.
This intriguing book looks at the micro-organisms on our
skin, in our gut, our mouths and everywhere else - we
are walking ecosystems, filled with thousands of species.
Softback. 314pp.
£12.99 NOW £3.50
80309 KING OF INFINITE
SPACE by David Berlinski
Euclid is universally acclaimed great,
and the author of the Elements, by
far and away the most successful
mathematics text book which has
survived for more than 2,000 years.
Euclid found a way to impose his
own powerful personality on the
scattered propositions of geometry
and created an immense structure, a
logical space, a world in which there
is growth and form and intimate dependencies among
parts. If this is not an artistic achievement, then nothing
is. The details of Euclid’s life have long since vanished
but through his masterpiece and the mathematical
tradition established, he has achieved immortality. The
book is an exploration of the power of ideas. 172pp in
paperback.
£9.99 NOW £3
80316 POPULAR
MECHANICS: 101 Things
That Fly
In the early 20th century, Popular
Mechanics magazine was crammed
with craft projects for young people
to do at home, and this selection
reprints 101 airborne projects exactly
as they appeared 100 years ago. If
the modern kid is too busy with
online games, those of us who remember the days
before the internet will love this opportunity to go back
to the days of building and making things. “Gliding
Gizmos” includes 10 different kinds of kite, and the final
one, the Aeroplane Kite, is followed by instructions of
how to make a kite reel from two old pulleys and some
pipe fittings. If you like a high-flying kite, this is the best
way to handle it, and you might decide to send up a
parachute which will be released when it hits a cross
stick in the kite line. Instructions are even given for
creating a lightweight camera, controlled by a fuse, that
will fly up with the kite and take pictures. A range of
games uses airborne components, for instance Indoor
Baseball or Parlour Cue Alley, while a section on
“Gravity-Defying Rides” includes a Flying Horse Swing
with novel dual controls, a simple circular swing
suspended from a tree branch, and “a safe, quick change
from swing to trapeze”. A water sports section features
a practical non-slip Diving Board and a possibly less
practical springboard made by bolting three planks
together (“the clamps should be as unyielding a
possible”). 175pp, colour facsimiles.
£17.99 NOW £5
80319 SCIENCE MAGPIE
by Simon Flynn
This accumulation of facts, stories
and information with a scientific bent
is perfect for dipping into. It’s full of
surprises, such as a poem based on
the life of Caroline Herschel (sister
of William, the renowned
astronomer) which begins, ‘William is
away and I am minding the
heavens. I have discovered eight
new comets and three nebulae
never before seen by man, and I am preparing an index
to Flamsteed’s observations, together with a catalogue
of 560 stars omitted from the British Catalogue...’! Do
you wish to understand the Torino Impact Hazard Scale?
(It might be as well to know about it, just in case a
meteor is on course to hit us.) The scale runs from 1 (No
hazard) to 10 (Certain collision), and the author assures
us that at the time of writing there were just two on the
scale, both level 1! Lots more here, from why you can’t
get a decent cup of tea on a plane and notes on the
periodic table to the most expensive science books
bought at auction and the ratio of figures occurring in the
Fibonacci theory of the breeding of rabbits. Fascinating.
278pp, diagrams.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
78220 THE SCIENTIST: A Metaphysical
Autobiography
by John Lilly and Timothy Leary
John’s autobiography is told from the point of view of
the Being that inhabits John’s body. John’s brilliant
scientific career began after he was shocked to discover
that all mammals went through similar developmental
stages. He went on to detect astonishing things, from
communication with dolphins to the workings of the
brains of monkeys. He worked with consciousness
expanding drugs, isolation tanks, and, perhaps most
exciting of all, communication with extra-terrestrials using
dolphin/human dialogue. Paperback, illus, 232pp.
£12.99 NOW £2.75
79101 APOLLO 13
by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
‘Houston, we have a problem.’ Here is the classic story of
heroism, endurance and survival, co-authored by the
Commander of the Apollo 13 mission. April 13th 1970.
Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert are
hurtling towards the Moon in the Apollo 13 spacecraft when
an explosion rocks the ship. The cockpit grows dim, the air
grows thin, and the instrument lights wink out. Moments
later, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for
the tiny lunar module, designed to keep two men alive for
just two days. They are four days from home. The action
shifts to the frantic engineers at Mission Control and Lovell’s
anxious family. 394pp in paperback.
£9.99 NOW £4.50
79262 300 ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS
by Jamie Wilkins and Robert Dunn
Greek philosopher Eratosthenes (c276-c194BC)
determined the Earth’s surface must be curved.
Covering Chinese and Arabic astrology, Copernicus and
the sun-centred universe, elliptical orbits of the planets,
Galileo, Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley, we move
through 300 astronomical objects. The stunning gallery
includes the latest photographs of stars, galaxies, nebulae,
planets, moons, comets, plus profiles of space probes,
telescopes and observatories, interesting facts and
background information. 528pp, glossy colour imagery.
$29.95 NOW £4.50
79264 ASTRONOMY BIBLE: The Definitive
Guide to The Night Sky and the Universe
by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest
Astronomers launch probes to the planets, and one of
them may have found primitive life on Mars. They
have discovered supernovae (exploding stars), white
dwarfs, quasars, pulsars (ultra-dense stars whirling
around faster than you can blink) and black holes. They
have even pinned down the origin of the Universe itself
to a Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago. Our book
discovers the history of astronomy, asteroids, comets
and meteors, constellations and star maps, solar and
lunar eclipses 2015-20, how to observe the sky, planets
and stars, the cosmos and a planet-spotting calendar
2015-20. Colour photos. 400 page softback.
$19.95 NOW £5.50
79289 MARS UP CLOSE: Inside the
Curiosity Mission by Marc Kaufman
The next big step is for humans to live on Mars and
people may yet be travelling to Mars in our lifetime.
NASA’s Curiosity rover made a precision landing in Gale
Crater during the summer of 2012, starting a
breakthrough journey into once watery lowlands and
then on to Mount Sharp. NASA’s High Resolution
Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera orbiting
Mars captured the landing site (in blue) and surrounding
scour marks created by retro-rockets fired for the final
descent. This is just one of hundreds of images in this
heavyweight glamorous tome. Here are the most
advanced maps of Mars ever with layered views of
remains of ancient bodies of water and unprecedented,
behind-closed-door interviews with key mission
scientists. Download the free Spacecraft 3D app and
use the QI codes. 304 outsize heavyweight pages,
published by National Geographic. Colour.
£25 NOW £11
78308 MARS: A NEW VIEW OF THE
RED PLANET by Giles Sparrow
This giant volume, filled with the latest and most
magnificent images to be sent back from Curiosity, will
walk you in the footsteps of the NASA probes and
rovers that have been surveying the planet from 1964
until the present day. Witness the soaring heights of
Olympus Mons - the tallest volcano in the Solar System
- watch a giant dust storm tear through the canyons of
the Valles Marineris, and explore the broad valleys of
Chryse Planitia, scarred from catastrophic floods.
Detailed and accessible essays explain how Mars was
formed, shedding light on its internal and external
structure, weather systems and unique geographical
features, as well as on the compelling evidence of water
and microscopic life. Over 200 spectacular colour photos
and informative colour diagrams, an atlas of the surface.
Bonus interactive smartphone and tablet video footage
with free app (p.4). 2014 edition. 224 giant-sized
magnificent pages, 14" x 17".
£35 NOW £13
78642 INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
by Louis Hill et al
The ubiquitous Li-ion battery is a classic tale of invention and
the man who invented it, Michael Whittingham. This
exceptional book picks some of the world’s most important
inventions and those involved in their invention. Early
Inventions, Domestic, Entertainment, Engineering and
Transport, Medicine, Warfare, Exploration and Agriculture
and Food, we look at 150 innovative ideas from numbering
systems, money and alphabets, through the light bulb,
refrigeration, soap, the zip, photography, TV, the electric
guitar, pencil, typewriter, paper, the Internet, GPS, ball
bearings, bicycles, roads, aeroplane, cement, vaccination,
false teeth, machine guns, atom bombs, maps and
telescopes to Viagra. Colour and b/w photos, diagrams,
240pp, 9¼”×11¼”.
£24.95 NOW £10
79003 COLLINS DICTIONARY OF
ASTRONOMY
by John Daintith and William Gould
First published as The MacMillan Dictionary of
Astronomy in 1979, this is a 2012 revised edition now
containing over 3,500 entries. Contains definitions of all
major astronomical objects along with major telescopes
and observational techniques and covers the theories
and principals of astronomy - bipolar groups, Planck’s
Law, planetary probes, visual binary, x-ray astronomy
and more. Diagrams, 517pp, paperback.
£11.99 NOW £3.75
79053 SILENT WITNESSES: A History of
Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery
The author is the creator of the TV series Silent Witness.
All the major areas of forensics including ballistics, fibre
analysis and genetic fingerprinting are explained with
reference to the landmark cases. Whether looking at the
identification of a severed head preserved in gin, the first
murder solved because of a finger print, or the first time
DNA evidence was used to bring a sadistic killer to
justice, the book provides compelling insights into the
fact that a person still has a story to tell long after they
are dead. 264pp, photos in colour and b/w.
£18.99 NOW £6
79541 NEUTRINO HUNTERS
by Ray Jayawardhana
!
Neutrinos may hold the secret to why anti-matter is so
rare, how mighty stars explode as supernovae, what the
Universe was like just seconds after the Big Bang, and
even the inner workings of our own planet. Here the
renowned astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana demystifies
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particle science and interweaves tales of the sharpwitted theorist Wolfgang Pauli, the troubled genius Ettore
Majorana, the harbinger of the atomic age Enrico Fermi,
the notorious Cold War defector Bruno Pontecorvo, and
the dynamic dream team of Marie and Pierre Curie.
Meet those who have caught the neutrino bug, from a
nuclear waste site in New Mexico to a bay on the South
China Sea. Colour. 244pp, illus.
$27 NOW £6.50
79269 COSMOS
by Giles Sparrow and Dava Sobel
Measuring 19½” x 16¼” in its carry-handle slipcase, this
deluxe edition contains over 450 of the most spectacular
and up-to-date space images. It features the Curiosity
Rover on Mars and the Huygens Probe that has reached
Saturn’s moons, as well as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Telescope showing the furthest reaches of our galaxy.
Printed on high-quality archival paper, the slipcase has a
silver glitter effect on black, just like a night sky, the title
COSMOS in silver foil, a satin bookmark and the book
itself bound in black satin. Unlock moving video footage
from images in this book by opening the free app. The
moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the
further reaches of Pluto, Eris, Quaoar, Sedna, comets,
star life and supernovae, extreme remnants, the Milky
Way and galactic core, large and small Magellanic clouds,
Barnard’s galaxy, spiral and elliptical galaxies, irregular
and active galaxies, clusters, dark matters, the Big Bang
and further dark matter. 224 giant black and colour
pages.
$99 NOW £22.50
79491 CANON: A Whirligig Tour of the
Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
What do our long-suffering liver cells do when we eat a
caramel? And how can ants march right through a
noxious trap en route to the cat food dish? In a joyride
through the major scientific disciplines, physics,
chemistry, biology, geology and astronomy - a Pulitzer
Prize winner takes us through what is happening when
our ice cream melts, our coffee gets cold and how we
are all made of stardust. From stem cells to bird flu and
from evolution to global warming. 293 pages.
$27 NOW £7
79523 GREENHOUSE OF THE DINOSAURS:
Evolution, Extinction and the Future of Our
Planet by Donald Prothero
Looks at the major climate changes of the past 200
million years, contrasting the extinction of the Cretaceous
period which saw the end of the dinosaurs and the rise
of mammals with those of the later Eocene and
Oligocene epochs. Tghe book examines all the
possibilities put forward for their abrupt extinction around
65 million years ago, suggesting that the asteroid impact
at Chicxulub was merely the coup de grace and that
extreme volcanic activity in the Deccan Trap region of
the Indian subcontinent had already set an unavoidable
extinction process in motion. Prothero concludes with
present day observations of the Nisqually Glacier on Mt
Rainier in the US state of Washington, the Muir Glacier in
Alaska and other locations worldwide. Photos,
drawings, diagrams, graphs. 274pp.
£23.50 NOW £7
79529 INTRODUCING CHAOS
by Ziauddin Sardar and Iwona Abrams
Chaos is a dynamic phenomenon, whereas in classical
physics the universe itself was considered to be a
deterministic system in which everything could be
predicted, now scientists look for an understanding of the
way things work from unstable aperiodic behaviour, in
which patterns do not repeat themselves exactly. The
power of computing has shown that Chaos Theory can
be applied to irregular phenomena such as random
changes in weather, the spread of epidemics, the
metabolism of cells and even the rising and falling of
civilisations, and in predictions about the body,
economics and the state. 176pp, paperback, drawings.
£9.99 NOW £4.75
79977 IS THERE LIFE ON MARS? The 20 Big
Universe Questions by Stuart Clark
There are discussions on quasars and pulsars, on nearby
planets such as Mars and Jupiter, renowned celestial ‘super
stars’ and black holes. Of the 20 big questions discussed,
many are tantalisingly close to a solution and some still
remain utterly without resolution, more captivating because
they set the agenda for modern astronomy and cosmology.
Are we made from stardust, what is dark energy, what
were the first celestial objects and why do the planets stay
in orbit? 298pp, paperback, illus.
£9.99 NOW £3
79978 JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE
EARTH by David Whitehouse
Have you ever wondered what lies buried deep beneath
your feet? We are finding out so much about other
planets - but what about our own? As part of his
research, the author descends to a working deep mine,
over a thousand metres underground in Cleveland, one
of the deepest mines in Europe. Whitehouse takes us
on an exciting voyage of scientific discovery, highlighting
the latest technical findings as supercomputers produce 3dimensional scans, scientists travel deep into volcanoes,
and, amazingly, discover a planet buried within a planet.
He concludes ‘Things are not always what they seem,
like the Earth itself.’ 270pp, colour and b/w illus.
£20 NOW £5.50
79983 LUCKY PLANET: Why Earth is
Exceptional by David Waltham
Recent geological, biological and astronomical discoveries are
bringing us closer to understanding whether we might be
alone in the Universe. The book questions conventional
wisdom and suggests that the Earth may have had ‘four
billion years of good weather’ purely by chance. Waltham
shows that Earth’s friendliness to life does not just apply to
the here-and-now - life’s survival and prospering to the point
where intelligent life could emerge was a product of
extraordinary and exceptional luck. Chapters include Air
Conditioning, Snowballs and Greenhouses, Staggering
Through Time, Music of the Spheres, Pond Weeds and
Daisies and Life’s Big Bang plus the beautifully titled The
Dark Side of the Moon. 225pp.
£14.99 NOW £5
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not intent on arriving.
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79583 BLAEU ATLAS MAIOR
by Joan Blaeu, edited by Dr.
Peter Van der Krogt
Superlatives tend to fail in the face of
Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, one of the
most extravagant feats in the history of
mapmaking. The original Latin edition,
completed in 1665, was the largest and
most expensive book to be published
during the 17th century. Its 594 maps across
11 volumes in Latin spanned Arctica, Africa, Asia,
Europe, and America. Taschen’s meticulous reprint
brings this luxurious Baroque wonder into the hands of
modern readers. In an age of digitised cartography and
global connectivity, it celebrates the steadfast beauty of
quality print and
restores the
wonder of an
exploratory age, in
which Blaeu’s
native Amsterdam
was a centre of
international trade
and discovery.
The edition derives
from the Austrian
National Library’s
complete coloured and gold-heightened copy of Atlas
Maior, assuring the finest detail and quality. University
of Amsterdam’s Peter van der Krogt introduces the
historical and cultural significance of the atlas while
providing detailed descriptions for individual maps,
revealing the full scale and ambition of Blaeu’s
masterwork. As much an artwork as a cartographical
adventure, the book comes with a slipcase that converts
neatly into a display bookstand. Slipcased, 9.9" x 15",
512 pages. Text in English, French, German. A lavish
new sized Taschen publication.
ONLY £45
80384 BIRDIE BOWERS:
Captain Scott’s Marvel
by Anne Srathie
‘Dear Eskimo’, wrote seven-year-old
Henry Bowers, ‘Please write and tell
me about your land. I want to go
there someday. Your friend, Henry.’
He had loved snow and ice since he
was a toddler in Scotland, but sadly,
his letter went unanswered.
However, later, Henry, now
nicknamed ‘Birdie’ on account of his rather large nose,
was able to make his dream come true, though with
tragic consequences. In June 1910, he joined Captain
Scott’s expedition to Antarctica en route for the South
Pole, aboard the ‘Terra Nova’, arriving in January 1911.
This engrossing account contains a considerable amount
of previously unpublished material, including much from
Birdie’s letters and journals. His optimistic outlook and
general joie de vivre shines through his writing. ‘We had
the greatest fun in our lives…It was just like the scenic
railway’ - the men had found a high ridge and after
poising a sledge at the top, after a shove ‘down you
would fly, often faster than any switchback.’ On the 3rd
January 1912 Scott announced the five names who
would be members of the South Pole party, and to his
joy, Birdie was included. Triumphantly they arrived
there on the 17th of the month, though they were
disappointed to find that a Norwegian team, led by
Amundsen, had arrived a month earlier. Now they had
to begin the long trek back. With weather deteriorating,
food scarce, various injuries to cope with, the five men
struggled through the snow, aiming for the safety of
One Ton Depot. One man died on the glacier, and later,
the sick Oates crawled from the tent to his death
believing he was too much of a burden. The weather
conditions grew even more severe and the three
remaining men had to pitch their tent just 11 miles from
safety. As we now know, Scott, Wilson and Birdie died,
trapped by the blizzard. ‘By the end of March 1912
pristine white snow shrouded the small green canvas
tent. The longest silence had begun.’ Softback, colour
and b/w illus.
£12.99 NOW £6
78169 GRAND TOUR: Around the World with
the Queen of Mystery
by Agatha Christie, ed. Mathew Prichard
Agatha Christie is the world’s best-selling novelist, but
few people know that in 1922 she spent 10 months
travelling the world with her first husband Archie, who
had joined an expedition to prepare for the 1924 British
Empire Exhibition. Christie wrote letters almost daily to
her mother, who was keeping an eye on their two-yearold daughter Rosalind. Christie was a keen photographer
and the letters are accompanied by her snaps of
breathtaking views such as Hawks Crag and Otiria
Gorge in New Zealand, while in Australia there is a herd
of merino rams at Yanga station. The trip ended in
Honolulu, where Christie describes her ill-fated attempts
at surfboarding. 376pp, softback, photos.
$19.99 NOW £6.50
79078 FAKIRS, FELUCCAS AND FEMMES
FATALES by E. T. Laing
‘Everyone in Karachi seemed to know about it, and the
atmosphere was combustible. It was rumoured that
there were 600 mutilated bodies on board…’ E. T.
Laing’s career has thrown him into some of the world’s
most colourful corners and during the long course of his
travels to work in 70 countries he is witness to a
Communist Party boss lose a chilli-eating contest in
China and confronted a gaggle of drunken soldiers who
threw his passport into a ditch in Nigeria. His tales touch
the extremes of poverty and wealth, beauty and
brutality. 310pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £2.50
78774 TRAVELS THROUGH
FRANCE AND ITALY
by Tobias Smollett
In 1763 Tobias Smollett set sail from
Folkestone to Boulogne. He would
not return to England for two years,
during which time he travelled
extensively. Travels Through
France and Italy became notorious
and was ridiculed by Lawrence
Sterne as ‘the learned Smelfungus’.
Whether describing the culture of silkworms, the French tax system, or the marvels of
Florence, Smollett provides many an insight into 18th
century taste and at the same time into his cantankerous,
perceptive and intelligent personality. 336pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £3
78745 SHORT WALKS FROM BOGOTA:
Journeys In The New Columbia by Tom Feiling
Tom lived in Columbia for a year in 2001 and this
combination of travel writing and history results in a
book that is shocking and humorous. The first mention of
the Nukak, an indigenous tribe, was in 1963, but it was
over ten years later that they first spoke to an outsider,
a priest, letting him know some of the details of their
life. They didn’t actually make contact with the outside
world till 1984. Not understanding the concept of theft,
they would just walk off with the missionaries’
possessions, but matters came to a head when they
took one of the missionaries’ babies. Now, the Numak
charge $10 for a photo. 266pp.
£20 NOW £3
78752 ACROSS THE HELLESPONT
by Richard Stoneman
Sub-titled ‘A Literary Guide to Turkey’, here is a lively
guide to the remarkable literature which has inspired for
2,000 years. For millennia, Anatolia has been crossed
and re-crossed by waves of conquering civilisations Hittites, Persians, Romans and Ottomans. The author
looks in detail at Istanbul, Ionia and Lydia, Lycia and the
Turkish Rivera, Armenia, Pontus and Trebizond and the
Syrian marches. 248pp, paperback, maps.
£11.99 NOW £3.50
78761 ENGLISH TRAITS
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a young and unpublished writer, Ralph Emerson
visited England twice, in 1933 and again in 1947. He
travelled to meet the giants of 19th century English
literature. With Coleridge, ‘old and preoccupied’ in the
year before his death, Emerson discussed religion and
the merits of Sicily and Malta; in a desolate house in the
Scottish hills he met Thomas Carlyle, the ‘lonely
scholar’, with whom he discussed Rousseau and
Robinson Crusoe. With Wordsworth in London, they
talked of America. On his second trip, having published
his celebrated ‘Nature’ and ‘Essays’, he had himself
become famous and was fêted by politicians, artists and
aristocrats. He would later encourage American writers
to forge a style all of their own. 234pp, paperback.
£11.99 NOW £3
78768 ITALIAN JOURNEYS:
From Venice to Naples and
Beyond
by William Dean Howells
When Abraham Lincoln appointed
William Dean Howells Consul to
Venice, the young writer embarked
on a journey that would leave an
indelible impression on his life and
work. He lived in Italy for four
years from 1891, during the pivotal
and tumultuous period of Italian
reunification. From Genoa, a hotbed of nationalistic
fervour and the city from which Garibaldi had led the
Expedition of the Thousand only a year before, to the
cultural and political powerhouse of Naples to Rome,
Howells was inspired as much by the fevered events of
the time as by the cultural and historical wealth of the
country. 259pp, paperback.
£11.99 NOW £4
78769 JOURNEY OF THE MAGI
by Paul William Roberts
Sub-titled ‘Travels in Search of the Birth of Jesus’. Who
were the Magi and why did they travel hundreds of
miles to worship a newborn child? Nativity accounts and
descriptions of the Magi vary dramatically, from the
Bible itself to the Arabic Nativity Gospel. Intrigued by
Marco Polo’s claim to have visited the tomb of the Magi
in a ‘castle of fire worshippers’, Paul William Roberts
travels to Iran to trace their legendary journey over land
to Bethlehem. We meet a diverse cast of characters
from fearless smugglers to serene Zoroastrian priests and
clues from Marco Polo’s Travels and the Dead Sea
Scrolls to the legends of King Solomon and the Crusader
Knights. Funny travel narrative. 398pp, paperback.
£11.99 NOW £4
79081 HOLIDAYS IN HECK by P. J. O’Rourke
The former war correspondent experiences frightening
vacation fun on his globe-trotting journey to China,
Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands.
The collection begins after the Iraq War, when P. J.
retired because he was ‘too old to keep being scared stiff
and too stiff to keep sleeping on the ground.’ With his
family often in tow, here is a moving portrait of life in
the fast lane, this time as a husband and father of three.
265pp, paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
79545 PHOTOGRAPHER’S GUIDE TO NEW
YORK CITY by Steven Howell
Sub-titled ‘Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to
Take Them’. The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the
Empire State Building, Times Square, Grand Central
Terminal, but also cloisters and churches in Harlem,
Columbia University, Whitney Museum of American Art,
the Roosevelt Island Tramway, modern skyscrapers of
note, storefront art and architecture in SoHo, Greenwich
Village and China Town and the muscular ships down at
South Street Seaport. With tips on techniques and times
of day to capture them at their best. Beautifully
photographed handbook. 96 pages, softback.
$14.95 NOW £3
79556 SULTAN’S ISTANBUL
ON FIVE KURUSH A DAY
by Charles FitzRoy
This unusual travelogue puts the
reader the place of a Grand Tourist
heading out to the Sultan’s Istanbul
in 1750. If you are prudent and
well-connected, you will be armed
with a letter of introduction to the
Turkish ambassador. Hiring a good
dragoman (interpreter) is essential.
He will show you how to eat with
your fingers, cross-legged on the floor, or how to avoid
the janissaries. Turkey is a Muslim country and there are
many superb mosques to visit, among them the Blue
Mosque with its twenty thousand Iznik tiles, and the
Suleymaniye. Nearby is the Hippodrome, where the
Emperor Constantine celebrated the victory that made
the Roman Empire Christian in 330 AD. Opinions differ
as to the power exerted by the women of the harem.
144pp, maps, 92 illus, 18 in colour.
£12.95 NOW £4
79431 THE NILE by Toby Wilkinson
Sub-titled ‘Downriver Through Egypt’s Past And
Present’ here is a book about the steady flow of the
River Nile, Egypt’s heartbeat. The country is the key to
the Middle East peace, the voice of the Arab world and
a crossroads between Europe and Africa. The Nile has
conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships,
Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers and today
carries modern-day tourists. Wilkinson takes us on a
journey down river from the First Nile Cataract to the
Delta, and from Egypt’s earliest art to the recent Arab
Spring. See the city of wonders at Luxor, western
Thebes, Qift and Qena, Abydos, the Fayum, a lake in
the desert and Cairo, Egypt’s capital. Maps, drawings
and artworks, colour photos.
£12.99 NOW £4
79567 WOMEN ON THE NILE
by Joan Rees
Harriet Martineau was a doughty
and influential campaigner for
multiple causes. Florence
Nightingale became a universally
acclaimed reformer of nursing and
hospital practices. Amelia Edwards,
formerly a novelist and prolific
professional writer, returned to
England to found the Egypt
Exploration Society and endow the
first Chair of Egyptology at
University College, London. From Cairo to Aswan, and
through Nubia too till the building of the High Dam, the
Nile carries on its banks the evidence of an advanced
and confident civilisation. Harriet Martineau, Florence
Nightingale and Amelia Edwards’ reactions ranged from
goodwill to the revulsion at the debased conditions of
many of the poor. Protected as they were by
dragomans, boat crews and other escorts, their relative
immunity to harassment had the advantage of enabling
them to observe individuals. Combines extracts of their
accounts of their Nile journeys with Joan Rees’
perceptive essays. 188pp, illus.
£18.95 NOW £4
79485 THE ART GUIDE: New York
by Morgan Falconer
Instead of being arranged by location, the book is
arranged by country, style or artist, so will take you to,
for instance, the Metropolitan Museum for starters with
their collections by Poussin and Courbert, then on to the
Frick Collection to see their Rococo works by Boucher
and Fragonard and then the Dahesh Museum of Art to
view pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries - not
forgetting the Statue of Liberty. You can do the same
with Italian, Spanish, English, US, German and Low
Countries and Hispanic, Ancient Egyptian and Middle
Eastern, Ancient Greek and Roman, Asian, European
Medieval, African and more including Picasso, Matisse,
Hopper, Pollock and Warhol. Over 60 locations with
maps. 140 colour reproductions. 240pp softback.
£12.95 NOW £4
79865 LOST IRELAND 18601960
by William Derham
The holdings of the Irish
Architectural Archive are full of
architectural drawings, topographical
views, models, engravings and
perhaps most evocative of all,
photographs. Images are held on
Collodion prints or glass-plate
negatives or even in computer memory banks. High
Streets, a moated grange, a tragic palace, Powerscourt
House in Enniskerry burnt to the ground in a tragic
accidental fire, the everyday city of Cork, the barracks
at Tralee, Lartigue Railway Ballybunion, clocháns - the
small dry-stone huts with corbelled roofs - the city of
Limerick, municipal delights, grand estates to quiet
domesticity with interesting interiors photographed.
Arranged by region under Leinster, Munster, Connaught
and Ulster, it is often the snapshot of life and the
characters, costume, horses and pastimes. 9¾” x 11¾”,
400pp. First time discounted.
£39.95 NOW £29
80007 EXPLORERS by Andrea Deporti
With innovative foldout pages, this is an amazing visual
reference to the major expeditions of discovery from the
past 150 years. Richard Francis Burton and John
Hanning Speke, Ernest Doudart de Lagrée and Francis
Garnier, David Livingstone, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs,
Henry Morton Stanley, Timothy O’Sullivan, Challenger,
Isabella Bird Bishop, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Francis
Younghusband, Sven Hedin, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude
Bell, Ernest Shackleton, Howard Carter, Ahmed
Hassanein Bey, André Citroën, Charles Lindbergh,
Umberto Nobile, Freya Stark, Hans Hass, Edmund
Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, Gagarin, Neil Armstrong and
the Apollo missions are just some of the list of intrepid
explorers and adventurers celebrated in this visual
exploration. Includes a fold out picture gallery of each of
the 53 explorers and topics as they search for the source
of the Nile, discover the ruins of Angkor Wat. Colour
and mono photos, index of names and places.
£19.95 NOW £8
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HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
Life is really simple, but we insist on making
it complicated.
- Confucius
80367 MISTRESS OF PARIS
by Catherine Hewitt
She was painted by Edouard
Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who
immortalised her in his scandalous
novel Nana. The Comtesse
Valtesse de la Bigne was a
celebrated 19th century Parisian
courtesan. Her rumoured affairs
with Napoleon III and the future
Edward VII kept gossip columns
full. But despite her wealth and
glamour, her mansions and carriages, and an art
collection the envy of connoisseurs across Europe, all
was not as it seemed. Who was this Valtesse? Where
had she come from? And was she really a Comtesse?
Here is the enthralling story of the courtesan who built
an empire on a secret, and a journey from obscurity to
the creation of a cultural icon. Full of acute observation.
358pp in paperback, illus.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
77897 ELIZABETH: RENAISSANCE PRINCE
by Lisa Hilton
Elizabeth I is perhaps the Queen who fascinates and
enthrals us the most. This fresh interpretation of the
woman who was destined to become a great ruler
follows her journey from a young, timid queen to an
enormously powerful monarch who saw herself primarily
as a Renaissance prince who crafted her own speeches
and used her sexuality to get what she wanted. Three
years after her death, King James held a series of
entertainments at her old home in Hatfield. A
remarkable and animated biography. Paperback, 370pp
colour illus.
£13.99 NOW £3
79992 WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE: His Life and
Work by Anthony Holden
Who was William Shakespeare?
How did the ‘rude groom’ from
Stratford, the son of a glover, grow
up to be the greatest writer the
world has known? Sifting fact from
legend to create a fresh portrait,
Holden recounts how the teenage
Shakespeare was sent to a
recusant Catholic household in
Lancashire; his shotgun wedding to
Anne Hathaway; his time moonlighting as horse-minder
and prompter before acting and co-writing plays and
how he fell in love and endured the pangs of sexual
jealousy and was haunted by the loss of his son. The
biographer brilliantly interleaves the poet’s own words
with known acts in his life. 365pp in paperback, illus.
£12.99 NOW £4.75
77948 HISTORY OF WILLIAM THE
CONQUEROR by Jacob Abbott
William the Conqueror’s reign significantly transformed
England. Born in Normandy and promised the throne of
England by King Edward, William decided to invade the
country after another contender for the crown took the
throne. Chronicling the years from his illegitimate birth
to his calamitous burial, Jacob Abbott’s captures the
young conqueror’s struggle, ambition and aspirations.
With a brief history of the Saxon and Danish kings of
England and the Dukes of Normandy. Engravings,
reprint of an 1899 book, 144pp, paperback.
$12.95 NOW £2
78538 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: His
Fairy Tale Life
by Hjordis Varmer and Lilian Brogger
This life-story of a master-storyteller incorporates the fairy
tales Andersen loved to tell into his own life story. Hans
suffered from convulsions which interrupted his schooling,
and his father died when he was young as a result of being
paid to take someone else’s place in the army. Hans was
often unhappy, working in a textile factory, then as a
carpenter’s apprentice, and finally getting his break when he
joined the Royal Theatre Copenhagen as a singer. He finally
got a scholarship to study and was on the road to fame,
though success with women continued to elude him. 112pp,
softback, beautifully illus.
$12.95 NOW £3
78659 LIVES OF EMINENT MEN
by John Aubrey
Antiquary and biographer John Aubrey (1626-97), was
acquainted with the most distinguished writers, politicians
and aristocrats of his time and these biographical
sketches are the result. It is a colourful evocation of
poets and philosophers including Francis Bacon, George
Herbert, Thomas Hobbes, Philip Sidney, William
Shakespeare, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, Sir Henry
Savile, Katherine Philips, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser
and more. 124pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £2
79205 CHARLES DICKENS IN LOVE
by Robert Garnett
When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the
preeminent Victorian celebrity. As a young man he had
fallen deeply in love with Maria Beadnell. A few years
later he was stunned by the sudden death aged 17 of his
younger sister-in-law Mary Scott Hogarth, and
worshipped her memory for the rest of his life. Peppered
throughout are references to not only Dickens’s novels,
but also the Begger’s Opera, the ‘Monthly Magazine’,
Ellen Ternan’s family, acquaintances and friends, letters
to the likes of Wilkie Collins, his travels and escapes,
hostesses and gossips and the English community in
Florence, and his own revealing pocket diary. 440pp,
paperback, colour photos. Remainder mark.
$17.95 NOW £5.50
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79553 SONG WITHOUT WORDS: The
Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia
Tolstoy edited by Leah Bendavid-Val
Countess Sophia Tolstoy, Sonya to her family, had a
famously troubled marriage with the genius of War and
Peace and Anna Karenina. This fascinating book aims to
redress the balance with extracts from Sonya’s diaries
and reproductions of 180 of her photographs. Over their
48 years together they disagreed with increasing
frequency. She bore Tolstoy 13 children while assisting
his work by transcribing manuscripts. Sonya could not
accept Tolstoy’s friendships with the peasants on his
estate who had been emancipated from serfdom.
Shocked by Tolstoy’s repudiation of the Orthodox
Church, Sonya had periods of deep depression. Each
year, however, on their wedding anniversary, Sonya
dressed up in her best clothes and created a double
portrait photograph of herself and her husband, forming a
record of their changing appearance over the years. The
last one is in September 1910. 240pp, 180 archive
photos.
$35 NOW £7.50
79548 QUEEN BEE OF TUSCANY: The
Redoubtable Janet Ross by Ben Downing
Janet Duff Gordon, who became one of the most
famous hostesses of the English colony in Florence, was
born into a literary family. Dickens, Carlyle, Thackeray
and the painter G.F. Watts were friends of her parents,
but Janet was more keen on fox-hunting than books.
She married the middle-eastern banker and archaeologist
Henry Ross, who organised supplies of horses for the
Allied forces in the Crimean war. When Janet and Henry
moved to Alexandria she became the Egypt
correspondent for The Times newspaper under her
husband’s name. Already well established as a haven
for literary figures such as the Trollopes and the
Brownings, Florence soon absorbed Janet into its social
life, and a scandal developed. Janet’s later literary
friends included the writer John Addington Symonds and
Kenneth Clark. 338pp, photos.
£18.99 NOW £6
WAR MEMOIRS
Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I
could not refuse this moment to die for you,
if that would save you.
- Walt Whitman, Drum Taps
80165 NIGHT by Elie Wiesel
‘We stared at the flames in the
darkness. A wretched stench
floated in the air. Abruptly, our
doors opened. Strange-looking
creatures, dressed in striped jackets
and black pants, jumped into the
wagon. Holding flashlights and
sticks, they began to strike at us
left and right shouting: ‘Everybody
out! Leave everything inside. Hurry
up!’’ Marion Wiesel’s translation of
her husband’s masterpiece presents
the most personal and poignant of all accounts of the
Holocaust by a survivor. Born into a Jewish family in
Romania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his
family were rounded up by the Nazis, corralled into
trains, and transported first to the Nazi death camp of
Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. This is his
terrifying, observant, detailed, moving and immensely
intimate account of the increasing horrors he endured,
the death of his parents and eight year old sister, and
the loss of his innocence in barbaric hands. He describes
with immense power the murder of the Jews from a
survivor’s perspective and a rare insight into the darkest
side of human nature. It is also a beacon for the
enduring power of hope. He was the winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize. 120pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
80227 MY QUEER WAR
by James Lord
A beautifully old fashioned memoir
in which James Lord tells the story
of a young man’s exposure to the
terrors, dislocations and horrors of
armed conflict. In 1942, a timid
and inexperienced 21 year old
reports to Atlantic City New Jersey
to enlist in the US Army. His
career takes him to Nevada and
California, Boston and England and
eventually to France and Germany
where he witnesses first hand the ravages of total war.
Along the way he comes to terms with his own
sexuality, experiences the thrill of first love and the chill
of disillusionment with his fellow man. In a moment of
great rashness he makes the acquaintance of the world’s
most renowned artist who will show him the way to a
new life. Involving Giacometti and Picasso. 344pp in
paperback.
£11.99 NOW £4
80312 WITH NAPOLEON’S
GUARD IN RUSSIA: The
Memoirs of Major Vionnet
1812
by Louis Joseph Vionnet
The Vicomte de Maringone joined
the artillery in 1793 and was
promoted to captain a year later.
His memoirs are fascinating and
highly readable, with plenty of
anecdotes and they provide a vivid
insight into the life of a nineteenthcentury soldier. Much of his account concentrates on the
retreat from Moscow, but he took part in all the major
campaigns, retiring in the 1830s. ‘I saw a French soldier
who had his leg largely carried off by a roundshot,
though it remained attached to him by a thin piece of
skin. I saw him cut it away with his sabre so that he
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could drag himself along a little better and I suppose,
look for a peaceful corner in which to die. He came over
to a fire which my soldiers had lit for me and I had him
made as comfortable as possible. Some other wounded
saw this and began to drag themselves over too.’ Soon
though, the camp was overflowing with wounded men,
and Vionnet and his servants had to seek out another
spot, taking the firewood that they had collected,
leaving the wounded to their fate. There are many other
accounts of dreadful injuries to his men, who were
usually just left to die where they fell. ‘The men were
now greatly weakened by hunger and by the cold, to
the extent that they no longer resembled human beings.
Rather, they seemed to be phantoms of the kind which
terrify the imaginations of children in their
nightmares…Their hair and beards were covered with
icicles which hung like beads of shiny crystals.’ A stirring
read which strongly brings to life the horrors and
hardships suffered by the soldiers in Russia. 209pp, b/w
illus.
£19.99 NOW £7
80323 US EIGHTH AIR
FORCE IN EUROPE: Eagle
Eagles by Martin W. Bowman
A superb informative account of the
US bomber crews that became
stationed in East Anglia in 1942.
One diarist wrote that a group of
GIs were on a troop train from the
Firth of Clyde to East Anglia. The
train stopped at a station. ‘Where
are we?’ someone asked. A soldier
looked out of the window and saw a square blue sign.
‘We’re at Bovril’. Further along the line another stop
revealed a station called Bovril. ‘What a popular name
for towns over here!’ It was some time before they
discovered that the signs advertised a bouillon beverage.
The food was a bit of a shock; they endured months of
shredded corn beef, powdered eggs, Brussel sprouts and
marmalade. They liked the bread, though. The pilots
had to quickly adapt to cope with the unpredictable
weather that affected the planes, and they soon had
their first encounters with the Luftwaffe. ‘We had
disposed of six of our bombs when the ship shivered and
we knew we had been heavily hit. The bombardier sent
away his four remaining bombs on the docks of
Wilhelmshaven before turning to see if the explosion of a
20mm shell in the nose had killed the navigator. The
navigator was alive and uninjured although the shell had
exploded only 3 inches away from his head and dented
the steel helmet he was wearing...the right waist gunner
phoned: ‘Sir, No.3 engine has been hit and is throwing
quite a bit of oil.’ The oil had spread over the wing. A
tongue of flame appeared...’ This exciting, vivid read
recounts the valiant sorties made by the brave young
men who were based in East Anglia, and who made
such an impact on the lives of the civilians in the area.
208pp, b/w illus.
£19.99 NOW £7
80368 NOTHING FOR TEARS
by Lali Horstmann
‘The next day a group of friends
came out from Berlin to help us
salvage our possessions from under
crumbled walls. Their sympathy
momentarily eased our horror at the
ugliness of the smoking ruins and
the sight of crushed furniture and
pictures.’ Towards the end of the
Second World War, Lali Horstmann
and her husband Freddy, a retired
diplomat and art collector, were living at Kerzendorf, an
elegant 18th century house with a small park, avenues,
statues and a garden, 15 miles east of Berlin. The house
was destroyed one night by Allied bombers and the
Horstmanns moved with a few treasured tapestries and
other possessions into the agent’s little house in the park.
It was to this small house that the Russian Secret Police
came one spring night in 1946 and took Freddy away.
It was 2½ years later that Lali learned almost by chance
that Freddy had died of starvation in a Russian
concentration camp only a few miles from their home.
Her account of the last months of the war under the
desperate and demoralised Nazis and the terrifying
arrival of the Russians is eloquent and heartbreaking.
207pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4
80207 BOMBER COUNTY:
The Poetry of a Lost Pilot’s
War by Daniel Swift
In early June 1943, James Eric
Swift, a pilot with the 83rd
Squadron of the RAF, boarded his
Lancaster Bomber for a night raid on
Münster and disappeared.
Widespread aerial bombardment
was a new form of warfare,
wretched and unexpected, and
carried out at a terrible scale of loss.
In researching the life of his
grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed by the
connections between air warfare and poetry. Ostensibly
a narrative of the author’s search through military and
civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the
Netherlands, Germany and England, his book is an
examination of the experience of bombing and being
bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and
literature of a vanished moment. Part literary readings,
part history and part personal memoir, he throws a fresh
light on history. Packed full of technical detail. 269pp in
paperback, illus. Tiny remainder mark.
$16 NOW £4
79108 DOROTHEA’S WAR: A First World War
Nurse Tells Her Story by Dorothea Crewdson
In April 1915 as a newly trained Red Cross nurse, she
received her instructions to depart for Northern France
and left behind her comfortable middle class life and
loving family with her best friend Christie for the chaos
of the World War One’s Western Front. Even after
witnessing the Battle of Passchendaele and its
aftermath, Dorothea somehow maintained her optimism,
curiosity and high spirits. 352pp of her diary entries with
her own pretty line art.
£6.99 NOW £3
80245 FULL OF HOPE AND
FEAR by Margaret Bonfiglioli
and James Munson
The Slaters, the family at the heart
of these letters, live in Oxford.
Gilbert, the father of the family, had
been the head of Ruskin College in
Oxford and during the war found
work as the first Professor of Indian
Economics in Madras. His wife
Violet grew to detest the war and
became an increasingly vocal
pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, the eldest
son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by the
war’s end. He had quietly kept letters written during
military service as well as letters from him to his parents
and brothers. In addition there were 50 other letters
from Oxford written by school friends and others from
training at Chatham. Letters from his friend Basil DonneSmith, who used coloured paper and described his
adventures with girls, were written in a more intimate
and literary way than his other school friends. It tells
the effect of war on young people and children, the
deaths of friends, the plight of conscientious objectors,
the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless
discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to
keep their son out of the trenches, about the war’s
justification, and about the world’s future after its end.
The letters had lain untouched for almost 90 years and
through them we come as near as we can to
understanding what people thought, feared and hoped
for at the time. 20 illus. An Oxford University Press
publication, 392pp, 2014 first edition.
£25 NOW £8.50
79975 IF THIS IS A
WOMAN: Inside Ravensbrück
by Sarah Helm
This profoundly moving chronicle is
about the inside of Ravensbrück,
Hitler’s concentration camp for
women. Helm talked to survivors
and the results are devastating.
The book gives a momentous sense
of the power of human nature for
both good and evil. The Polish
‘rabbit’ Maria Kusmierczuk shows
her deformed leg which was injected with gas gangrene
and there is a photo of the doctor who was the
mastermind of the appalling medical experiments which
took place at Ravensbrück. Secret letters written in
urine, the women working at the Siemens factory, the
former lover of Franz Kafka, Czech Communists and
women’s rights campaigners, the women guards,
Himmler inspecting the camp, the Hamburg trial, women
hospitalised and more among the photographs included.
823pp, paperback.
£10.99 NOW £5.50
78982 BACK BEARINGS: A Navigator’s Tale
1942 to 1974
by Gp. Capt. Eric Cropper
Eric Cropper’s military career began in 1940 at the age
of 17 with the Home Guard in Leeds. He joined the RAF
in 1942 and his first posting was as a Lancaster navigator
with 103 Squadron. On 7 July 1944, during a raid on
Caen his plane was hit from behind, losing the tail
gunner and most of the tailplane. They limped back and
crashlanded at Tangmere, only to find out that they had
been hit by another Lancaster! He got through the rest of
the war safely and in 1948 passed his Staff Navigator
exam which saw him posted across the globe with the
RAF and the USAF as a Specialist Navigator, from
Alaska to the Maldives. During his career he saw aircraft
navigation to develop from astro, dead reckoning and
drift bearings (all plotted by pencil on charts), to radio,
radar and on to satellite systems. Many eye-opening
minutiae on how the RAF functioned in the post-war
period. 60 photos, 346pp.
£30 NOW £6
79361 FIGHTING WITH THE DESERT RATS:
An Infantry Officer’s War with the Eighth
Army by Major H.P. Samwell MC
Hugh Peter de Lancy Samwell was commissioned as a
Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion The Argyle and
Sutherland Highlanders in January 1938, was shipped to
Egypt in June 1942 as part of the 51st Highland Division
in preparation for the Second Battle of El Alamein. Then,
promoted to Major, he then fought with the Eighth
Army across Libya and on to Sicily. Wounded in Italy,
he was awarded the Military Cross and returned home
to recuperate in November 1943. He wrote daily during
his time in North Africa and Italy. In April 1944 his
battalion transferred to East Anglia in preparation for DDay and by the end of the year the 51st was on the
Dutch/Belgian border. Major Hugh Samwell, was killed.
210pp, photos.
£19.99 NOW £5.50
79919 SIX WEEKS OF BLENHEIM SUMMER:
An RAF Officer’s Memoir of the Battle of
France 1940
by Alastair Panton and Victoria Panton Bacon
When Air Commodore Alastair Panton DFC, OBE died in
2002, boxes of his effects ended up, uninvestigated, in his
son Stephen’s garage. Panton’s combat war lasted a
mere six weeks in May and June of 1940 in the skies
over France. He was an RAF reconnaissance pilot flying
a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV. Between 11 May and the
completion of the evacuation of Dunkirk on 4 June he
was shot down three times, miraculously surviving each
time. Then following a two week rest he was back up in
his Blenheim again, in the skies over Belgium, tangling
with the Luftwaffe’s superior Messerschmitts. He had just
shot one down when his Blenheim was set ablaze by the
explosion of the enemy plane. This time his luck was out.
Badly burned, he was captured by the Germans upon
crash-landing and spent the rest of the war as a PoW. Sgt
Stride, his wireless operator, who burned to death,
screaming, in his turret as the plane came down. Five
years in Stalag Luft III, we end with three short stories
he wrote in which he looked at the PoW experience capture, prison routine, escape plans, relationships with
guards, escape and recapture. 261pp, photos.
£16.99 NOW £5.75
War Memoirs
79516 THE FACES OF
WORLD WAR I: The Great
War in Words and Picture
by Max Arthur OBE
Max Arthur is not only a
great longstanding friend
of Bibliophile but also one of
Britain’s greatest military historians.
Max delved into the vast
photographic archive of the IWM
and other important collections to bring together a unique
pictorial testimony, and uses extracts from recorded
eyewitness accounts. We begin in carefree pre-war
Edwardian Britain and Germany, see Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his assassin Gavrilo Princip, then the men
of both sides, mostly smiling, enlisting and setting off to
France. The first Battle of Ypres and Messines brought
home the horror with a jolt. Even then the “all over by
Christmas” idea still remained a hope in the hearts of the
men. Max has unearthed a few rare photos of the
famous Christmas 1914 truce, with British and German
soldiers fraternising in flagrant disregard of their officers’
orders. We then progress month by bloody month
through over four years of carnage and some of the
most atrocious battles ever fought, names that have
become bywords for military slaughter - Gallipoli, Mons,
Arras, the Somme, Cambrai, Verdun. These photos do
not pull any punches as they depict the reality of what
our “lost generation” endured. 288pp, over 250 photos.
Softback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
£10 NOW £7
79389 D-DAY REMEMBERED: Book and DVD
Box Set
by Richard Holmes and Imperial War Museums
The ‘Day of Days’, D-Day, the largest amphibious
invasion in history, took place on 6th June 1944. 70th
anniversary special edition, this commemorative box set
contains rare, removable facsimile documents plus a
DVD featuring the film ‘D-Day: Assault on Fortress
Europe’ plus a collection of veterans’ first-hand accounts.
There are 26 tracks on the CD beginning with the
Assault on Pegasus Bridge, Hell on Omaha, and ending
with The Liberation of Paris, each with a reference to the
page in the book for further information. Beautifully
presented in the box under tissue paper and with a satin
pull ribbon, even the interior of the box reproduces a
map of wartime Europe. The book itself has a padded
cover and measures 10½” x 12". It begins with a map
index, planning, leaders, German forces and defences,
deception and intelligence, the Resistance and SOE,
before looking at each beach in detail, Operation Epsom,
medics, Operation Cobra, tactical air support, the Falaise
Pocket and more. With images of dead soldiers, Allied
commanders, wartime posters in colour, chains of
command in diagram form, photographs of weapons and
rare documents, many Top Secret, reproduced in
facsimile in booklet form, minutes of meetings and
looking exactly as they would in the mid 1940s. In all
there are 28 items, which have been hand inserted into
these special wallets from pilots’ logbooks and Nazi
Party membership books to diary entries, letters, first aid
instruction leaflets to a German D-Day report,
deciphered at Bletchley Park. A stunning box set.
£50 NOW £17.50
79478 REIGN OF TERROR
by Valdemar Langlet
Sub-titled ‘The Budapest Memoirs of Valdemar Langlet
1944-1945’ here is a firsthand account of the Nazi terror
in Budapest revealing how thousands of Jews were
saved from the Holocaust. Although not well known as
Raoul Wallenberg, Valdemar Langlet was the saviour of
thousands of Jews. Entirely without the permission or
the financial support of the Swedish Red Cross, he
issued so-called ‘Letters of Protection’, passport-like
documents with official-looking stamps that frequently
saved Hungarian Jews from deportation to the death
camps. A gifted linguist, Langlet was able to deal
directly with Hungarian officials. A unique memoir of a
humble hero. 187pp, 13 photos.
£19.99 NOW £4.50
79479 SHAN HACKETT: The Pursuit of
Exactitude by Roy Fullick
General Sir John Hackett GCB CBE DSO MC MA BLitt
(universally known as Shan) died in 1997. A superb
fighting soldier, he first saw action with the Trans-Jordan
Frontier Force in the 1941 Syrian campaign and then
fought with his own regiment, the 8th Hussars in the
Western Desert. He went on to raise 4th Parachute
Brigade which he commanded at Arnhem in 1944 until
being seriously wounded in the closing days of the
battle. Rescued from capture and hidden by the Dutch
Resistance, he eventually escaped back to British lines.
Latterly he became Principal of King’s College, London
and a published writer. A long overdue biography.
231pp, softback, photos.
£14.99 NOW £4.25
79480 STAY THE DISTANCE by Peter Jacobs
Sub-titled ‘The Life and Times of Marshal of the Royal
Air Force Sir Michael Beetham’ who enjoyed a long and
distinguished career in the RAF which he joined as a
pilot in 1941. He was awarded the DSC while serving
with Bomber Command during 1943-44 and remained in
the RAF after the war. Notably he drafted the first
specification for the ill-fated TSR 2 and later joined VForce as Commanding Officer of 214 Sqn at Marham.
He then served at the heart of Bomber Command’s
affairs in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In 1964 he
was given command of Khormaksar in Aden. In 1982
came the invasion of the Falkland Islands and acting as
Chief of the Defence Staff, he was involved in the
decision to send the Task Force to battle. 284pp, 16
colour plates, 32 b/w plates and 15 other illus.
£25 NOW £5
79522 GREAT WAR BRITAIN: The First World
War At Home by Lucinda Gosling
This glorious book is filled with contemporary
photographs and advertisements to demonstrate the
new slant that society adopted during the war with
reference to women. It wasn’t all doom and gloom theatre thrived, musical revues and comedy were
needed by soldiers on leave. Food prices rose; bread
almost trebled in price by June 1917, and, as we relied
War Memoirs cont.
on foreign imports for 60% of our food. Covering such
topics as Women and Work, Charity and Fundraising,
Entertainment, Nursing, Hospitals and Convalescence,
and Royalty. Read how British women coped during the
1914-18 war. 240pp, colour and b/w illus.
£25 NOW £6
79814 BACKWASH OF WAR The Classic
Account of a First World War Field Hospital
by Ellen N. La Motte
Ellen La Motte was born into a relatively privileged
Louisville family in 1873 and by 1914 was the leading
expert in tuberculosis nursing in the US. In 1915 she
arrived in France, an independent-thinking, highly
literate woman. First published in 1916, her book “The
Backwash of War” was highly controversial in its
criticism of the conflict and the “human wreckage”, the
injuries that modern weapons of war inflict upon the
human body. Recently lauded as the inspiration for the
BBC Drama “The Crimson Field”. The US Government
banned the book in 1918. Pocket sized linen bound
edition with new publisher’s introduction, the author’s
introduction to the 1934 edition and the original 1916
introduction, 200pp.
£8.99 NOW £4
79525 HITLER’S SLAVES: Life Stories of
Forced Labourers In Nazi-Occupied Europe
edited by Alexander von Plato, Almut Leh and
Christoph Thonfeld
At least 13.5 million people were employed as forced
labourers during World War Two in Germany and across
the occupied territories. Most came from Russia, Ukraine,
Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland
and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working
for private companies and public agencies in industry,
administration and agriculture. In addition, there were
4.6 million prisoners of war and 1.7 million concentration
camp prisoners who were either subjected to forced
labour in concentration or similar camps, or were ‘rented
out’ or sold by the SS and the German Reich. The book
combines an historical account of events with the
biographies and memories of former labourers from 27
countries, the Jewish Holocaust experience, the
deportation of Italians 1943-45, to views with Polish
Roma, the French AND Hungarians experience. 552pp.
£55 NOW £10
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minute DVD.
£11.99 NOW £4.50
80146 HOW TO BE PRETTY
THOUGH PLAIN
by Mrs Humphry
An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the
doctor away.
- P.G. Wodehouse
80203 BACK BIBLE:
Banish Back Pain Naturally
by Dr Jenny Sutcliffe and
Reader’s Digest
Your back is a complex structure
of interlinked elements, prone to
misalignment and degeneration,
inflammation and infection, and
pressure on the spinal cord.
Problems like scoliosis are caused
by poor posture, hyperlordosis giving pronounced curves
in the cervical and lumber vertebrae. Osteoporosis,
shoulder damage, breaks and bruises, sciatica, pressure
on the nerve roots, rib problems, neck and shoulder and
rotator cuff problems and many more are explained in
diagrams and short text, charts and photographs. There
are photographic sequences in colour to test the tightness
of your hip flexors, simple exercises to help with various
problems and dozens of self help measures and ways to
improve sleeping posture, use of heat, hydrotherapy and
extensive advice on managing back pain including the
latest pain killers. Conventional medical care, diagnosis,
drug treatment, surgery, physical therapy, plus a
directory of complimentary therapies and specialist
treatments all provided. 224pp in large softback.
$19.99 NOW £5
80209 DAVIS’S POCKET
GUIDE TO HERBS AND
SUPPLEMENTS
by Catherine Ulbricht
Seaweed, scotch broom,
marshmallow, maral root, grapefruit,
goat’s rue, goji, golden rod,
cinnamon, turmeric, valerian and
vanilla, with more than 600 entries
organised alphabetically by most
common name (variations in the
index) we can rely on this handy,
portable resource to know about the
risks and benefits of herbals, supplements, vitamins and
nutraceuticals. Authoritative information on each entry
includes the drug name and variations, indications,
contraindications, adverse drug reactions, interactions,
dosing, monitoring, patient education and more. Based
on expert research and life-threatening side effects are
highlighted in a second colour - thankfully! 261pp in
paperback. US, 2011.
£18.95 NOW £6
80059 REFLEXOLOGY: A
Practical Guide DVD
by Carol Gilbey
Reflexology is an ancient art of
accessing imbalances within the
body through pressure points on the
feet and hands and involves using
various massage techniques to
sedate or stimulate specific target
areas. This colour DVD takes you
through many aspects of the
pressure points used during a treatment and indicates
aspects to be considered when giving or receiving this
therapy. Whether you intend to set up your own
private practice or simply want to know more about
reflexology, with the help of diagrams and a complete
reflexology guide, we can find our way around the back
of the neck, the heart, chest and lungs, shoulders and
£8.99 NOW £3
79297 SLEEPING BETTER TOGETHER
by Gerhard Klösch
‘If the eyes are tired and burn, rest
them, and bathe them in the
following simple yet excellent wash:
To a quart of soft boiled water add
a tablespoonful of the best brandy
and a teaspoonful of salt. Have the
bedroom perfectly dark and do not
place the bed in such a position that
the early morning sunlight will shine
in the eyes’. Or, how about, ‘I am
really afraid that English girls do not wash their heads as
often as they ought...a fashionable hairdresser told me
so. ‘Ladies neglect their hair’, he said, ‘especially in the
winter time.’...Once in every six weeks the hair should
be washed...’ First published in 1899, this collection of
hints and tips makes for a fascinating read, and amongst
the now-dated concepts, there is plenty of advice that is
still helpful and extremely relevant regarding posture,
beauty, jewellery and fashion. This is truly a delight to
read, and one which provides an intriguing insight into
great grand-mama’s beauty routine. 126pp.
Is your partner an early bird while you’re a night owl?
Have you been arguing about his snoring or her restless
legs, opening a window or allowing a pet into the bed?
Maybe it’s the covers, the pillow, the TV, the laptop or
the mobile phone? Don’t despair. Tackling everything
from getting ready for bed rituals, emotional and sexual
aspects, keeping your bedroom free of too many
activities, buying a mattress that works for both of you,
and making small adjustments. 158pp, paperback.
78530 ALBION DREAMING: A Popular History
of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts
£9.99 NOW £3.50
£7.99 NOW £3
LSD - three letters that rocked the world and changed
forever the way we perceive reality. Doctors believed
this mysterious drug was a panacea for disorders of the
mind. The Secret Intelligence Service and Ministry of
Defence were confident that they could harness its
powers for interrogation or as a battlefield incapacitant.
Hippies and members of the counterculture welcomed
the drug as a hotline to spiritual experience and a
visionary pastime. They were all to some degree
correct. This unusual book unearths its hidden past as
one of the most powerful drugs on the planet. 30 illus.
324pp, paperback.
£13.99 NOW £4.50
79505 LITTLE BOOK OF POISONS, POTIONS
AND APHRODISIACS
by the Duchess of Northumberland
A fascinating little book which contains a selection of
medicinal recipes combining the 1576 archive of the first
Duchess of Northumberland with the knowledge of the
present Duchess, creator of the Poison Garden at
Alnwick Castle. Do you want to cure love, get ink
stains out of linen, get rid of pimples (speedily), make a
‘sirupe for the pleurisye’,soothe a ‘sore legge that hath
bene longe sore’ or make some ‘oyle of frogges?’ You
do? 128pp.
TRUE CRIME
I mean, if you’re asking a fellow to come out
of a room so that you can dismember him
with a carving knife, it’s absurd to tack a
‘sir’ on to every sentence. The two things
don’t go together.
- P.G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves
£9.99 NOW £4
79497 COMPLETE IDIOT’S
GUIDE TO MASSAGE: Book
and DVD by Victoria Jordan
Stone and Bob Shell
HEALTH
looking better, allergy and panic, stress and being honest
with yourself, health, food, blockage and treating
yourself. The book is packed with positive energy in a
self-help guide. 173pp in illustrated paperback.
On the DVD professional massage
experts teach the basics of Swedish
massage and complete routines for
full body massage. The handbook
provides over 225 step-by-step
photos, expert tips on creating a
warm environment, techniques to take the kinks outs of
the shoulders, neck, back and other parts of the body,
equipment and lubricants and how to help headaches
and carpal tunnel syndrome. Plus ways to incorporate
acupressure into your massages. 210pp, large softback.
$19.95 NOW £4
78547 OBESITY: The Biography
by Sander Gilman
Sander Gilman traces the long and fascinating history of
our relationship with body weight and the complex
connections with diet, social welfare, income and
attitudes towards our bodies. He traces the history of
obesity from the ancient Greeks to the present and
explains the wider implications that obesity raises. He
shows how it has been dealt with diet or surgery,
psychotherapy or economic improvement, by healthier
food choices or social relocation. We enter the battle
between science and morality for the cure of obesity.
214pp, illus.
£12.99 NOW £3
78616 EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A
Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
A magnificent, profoundly humane ‘biography’ of cancer.
From its first documented appearances thousands of
years ago, Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries,
setbacks, victories and deaths told through the eyes of
his predecessors and peers, in his fascinating glimpse into
the future of cancer treatments. With photos including
mutated genes found in colon cancer and several
disturbing mastectomy engraving images. This is a
miracle of insight which demystifies cancer. 580pp,
paperback. Sticker and remainder mark.
$18 NOW £2.50
79007 CUT YOUR STRESS
by Dr Sarah Brewer
A certain amount of pressure is beneficial. Covering
such topics as causes of stress, personality types, why
stress is harmful, medical approaches, exercising control,
living healthily and anti-stress supplements, it introduces
a programme to lower your stress in 12 weeks,
complete with charts and planners for you to fill in. 64pp,
illus, cartoons.
£4.99 NOW £2
79271 DISEASE FREE by Reader’s Digest
Sub-titled ‘Proven Ways to Prevent More than 90
Common Health Conditions Both Major and Minor’.
Numbness and tingling, painful urination, fever and
headache, excessive thirst, fatigue, confusion and
memory loss, constipation, chronic cough, chest pain,
unintentional weight loss, wounds that won’t heal are
among the symptoms you should never ignore.
Disease-preventing recipes, cutting saturated fat,
knowing your blood pressure numbers, eating your fruit
and veg, stopping smoking, and explanations. Discover
the weekly meal that could lower your risk of
Alzheimer’s up to 60% and how to cut your odds of
developing colon cancer in half. 416 large pages, colour
illus and charts.
$28.99 NOW £7.50
79743 YES, NO by Ewe Albrecht
The arm length test is based on the muscular system’s
reaction to stress. If you are not comfortable with
something, your body says ‘no’ and the length of your
arms appears different. Yes, our bodies can talk and
give us instant answers to our wellbeing. Restful sleep,
finding a competent tradesman, premonition at the
airport, communicating with your cat, seeing better and
80299 BRITAIN’S MOST
NOTORIOUS PRISONERS:
Victorian to Present-Day
Cases by Stephen Wade
Familiar with life “inside” from his
time as a prison writer-in-residence,
the author has not only met a few
notorious inmates but has also
researched the prison lives of many
others. He starts with Florence
Maybrick, the Victorian poisoner
who insisted she used the arsenic
for cosmetic purposes and wrote a book about her prison
life following her release in 1904. Other historic cases
include Oscar Wilde, Sir Roger Casement, with a
discussion of whether his execution as a traitor was
justified, and Lord Haw Haw, whose unpatriotic
broadcasts included the phrase “The Iron Curtain” as
early as 1945. Following the abolition of the death
penalty, murderers like Denis Nilsen, who dismembered
his victims and hid them under the floorboards, have
been subject to intensive psychiatric assessment. The
Moors Murderer Ian Brady is another lifer whose mental
health has caused controversy. The Grantham killer
nurse Beverley Allitt is easier to diagnose as suffering
Munchausen’s Syndrome by proxy, giving her the
feeling that a nurse’s duty to save life also confers the
right to end it. Other interesting cases are Peter Sutcliffe,
Jeremy Bamber, Charles Bronson and a fascinating
chapter on the Kray twins and Nipper Read, the
detective who brought them down. 176pp, paperback,
photos.
£12.99 NOW £5
80405 ODD PEOPLE: Hunting
Spies In the First World War
by Basil Thomson
As Head of Scotland Yard’s Criminal
Investigation Department, it was
Basil Thomson’s responsibility to
hunt, arrest and interrogate the
potential German spies identified by
the nascent British Intelligence
Services. First World War
espionage was a fascinating and
dangerous affair, spawning
widespread paranoia in its clandestine wake. The
hysteria of the age, stoked by those within the British
Establishment who sought to manipulate popular panic,
meant there were no shortage of suspects. Some
80,000 Germans were supposedly hidden all over Britain
waiting for an impending and imagined invasion. No
one could be trusted. Against this backdrop, Thomson’s
story is an extraordinary compendium of sleuthing and
secrets, following the trials of the many specimens he
tracked including the famous dancer, courtesan and spy,
Mata Hari. Yet his activities gained him enemies as did
his criticism of British Intelligence, his ambition to control
MI5, and his efforts to root out left-wing revolutionaries,
which would ultimately prove to be the undoing of his
career. 311pp in paperback.
£10.99 NOW £5
79967 BLOOD WILL OUT
by Walter Kirn
An innocent man is duped by a reallife Mr Ripley, taking us on a bizarre
and haunting journey from the
private club rooms of Manhattan to
the court rooms and prisons of Los
Angeles. In the summer of 1998,
Walter Kirn, then a young novelist
struggling with fatherhood and a
dissolving marriage, set out on a
peculiar and fateful errand - to
personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal
shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one
Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art
collector. Thus began a 15 year relationship that drew
Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish,
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eccentric son of privilege who one day would be
shockingly unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child
kidnapper and brutal murderer. 227pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £3
79914 ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH MASTER
SPY by Sidney Reilly
Sidney Reilly was the original 20th century super-spy,
and his exploits were the inspiration for Fleming’s books.
Alleged to have spied for at least four nations and
executed on the direct orders of Stalin in 1925, Reilly left
a trail of false identities across Europe and this elusive
nature was exactly what MI6 needed. In 1925 he
journeyed across the Russian border in an attempt to
foment an overthrow of the Bolshevik regime and
reinstate the Czar, but shortly afterwards he vanished
without trace, his masters in London denying all. The
first half is autobiographical, filled with extracts from
Reilly’s own notebooks and letters, and the second half
is provided by Reilly’s wife Pepita. Included here are
letters to and from Winston Churchill plus telegram
conversations with high-ranking MI6 and government
officials and their Russian counterparts. Originally
published in 1932. 318pp paperback reprint, photos.
£9.99 NOW £4.75
79845 A BRIEF HISTORY OF
THE SPY by Paul Simpson
Sub-titled ‘Modern Spying from the
Cold War to the War on Terror’,
here is the inside story of modern
spying drawing on recently
released files. The world since the
Second World War has changed
immeasurably and so has the art of
spying as spies have reacted to
changing threats. Modern day
operatives may be able to transmit
information to their superiors using high tech equipment,
but the core demands of the espionage world has hardly
changed in thousands of years. The threat from
terrorism is today perceived as much stronger than the
fear of the Russians or the Chinese but will events
unfolding in the Middle East continue to keep that the
case? Honey traps, trickery, gadgets and assassinations,
the book is interspersed with the history of the
development of the major espionage agencies and
plenty of anecdotes. A closing section examines the
developing New Cold War. 288pp, paperback.
$13.95 NOW £3.75
78546 MURDER ON THE HOME FRONT
by Molly Lefebure
One ordinary day in an ordinary court room, forensic
pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks a keen young
journalist to be his secretary. Accompanying Simpson
from sombre morgues to London’s most gruesome crime
scenes, Molly observes and assists as he uncovers the
dark secrets that all murder victims keep. It is 1941.
The ‘war of chaos’ rages in the skies above London, an
unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal
underworld continues on the streets below. 273pp,
paperback, photos.
$14 NOW £3.50
78480 AGE OF ASSASSINS by Michael Newton
In this history of assassination in Europe and America,
Michael Newton explores the human complexity that
compelled thought into murderous action. Few would
dispute the justice of plotting to kill Hitler, yet for the
assassins in this book all their intended victims, from
Malcolm X to Queen Victoria, Henry Clay Frick to Andy
Warhol were Hitlers. The author finds links between the
hapless victims and the hapless perpetrators.
614pp,
paperback, photos.
£12.99 NOW £2
77945 CRIMINAL
CONVERSATION OF MRS
NORTON by Diane Atkinson
‘Norty Mrs Norton’, as the popular
press dubbed her when she became
the centre of a scandalous divorce
trial, was born Caroline Sheridan,
granddaughter of the famous
playwright Richard Brinsley
Sheridan. Caroline’s friendship with
the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne,
following the death of his wife Lady
Caroline Lamb who had been Byron’s mistress, started
when Norton asked Melbourne to find him a position as
a lawyer. Norton brought a lawsuit against his wife and
Melbourne for “criminal conversation”, meaning adultery.
Caroline was cleared but lost access to her sons and
campaigned for the rights of wives and mothers. 486pp,
paperback, photos.
£8.99 NOW £3
80010 LITTLE BOOK OF MURDERS
by Neil Storey
Murderous Britain is explored by region with Florence
‘Florie’ Maybrick in North and Midlands, together with
the strange death of Sidney Marston, Nurse
Waddingham and the Green Bicycle Case. The
Richmond Poisoning, Sweet Fanny Adams and Murder
at the Metropole come under the South and the blazing
car murder and two murders on the golf course in the
East. It is a chilling compendium of intriguing, obscure
and strange facts and trivia about murders and
murderers from around the world. With list of major
serial killers, a look at the Black Museum, unsolved
murders. Fabulous woodcut illus from newspapers of
the time. 192pp, illus.
£9.99 NOW £4
78448 MURDEROUS TOMMIES
by Julian Putkowski and Mark Dunning
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This account of soldiers executed for murder, mainly of
their comrades or superior officers, contains 12 full
accounts, including the cross-questioning of both accused
and witnesses. If the accused had been tried in a civil
court they would have had legal representation, but
these men were subjected to court martial. It seems that
officers staffing the courts martial sentencing soldiers to
death for murder ignored deranged mental state,
drunkenness or extreme stress. The reports help us to
understand why the men behaved as they did. 226pp.
Illus.
£19.99 NOW £7.50
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden
acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle
and deteriorate the character.
- P. G. Wodehouse
80114 ROY OF THE ROVERS:
100 Football Postcards
by ITC Magazine
Join the squad of Melchester and
the football players and papers at
the top of the league! The cartoon
strips in both colour and black and
white appear on each quality
postcard, all 100 completely unique.
Roy and the Italian skipper
exchange club banners before a
match. Roy’s son goes missing,
there is the Bobby Moore lookalike, Roy holding aloft
the trophy on
his
teammates’
shoulders from
the front cover
image of the
1968 annual
among the
several annual
covers. Most
are glorious comic strip illustrations from the 60s and 70s
and comic book covers. Quality postcards stacked in a
sturdy box celebrating 60 years with 100 iconic images.
£14.99 NOW £6
80230 PLAYING IT MY
WAY: My Autobiography
by Sachin Tendulkar and
Boria Majumdar
The most celebrated Indian
cricketer of all time achieved India’s
highest civilian honour and was the
greatest run-scorer in the history of
cricket, retiring in 2013 after an
astonishing 24 years at the top.
Now Sachin Tendulkar tells his own
remarkable story from his first Test
cap at the age of 16 to his 100th
international century and emotional final farewell. When
a boisterous Mumbai youngster’s excess energies were
channelled into cricket, a long career was launched.
Scoring more runs and making more centuries than any
other player in both Tests and one-day games, his many
achievements include winning the World Cup and
topping the world Test rankings. Yet he has also known
his fair share of frustration and failure, from injuries and
early World Cup exits to stinging criticism from the press,
especially during his unhappy tenure as captain. Never
sitting still, changing schools, a taste for food,
engagement and marriage, under the knife, the book
concludes with his career statistics and includes dozens of
colour photos. 486 pages in glamorous hardback.
£25 NOW £7
didn’t.’ Tennis has altered quite a bit over the years - at
one time, rackets were wood and quite heavy, while
playing surfaces and even the balls have been
modernised too, so it must have been difficult to pick
just 20 top male players, but those described here are
certainly top of their class. This excellent book bounces
along just like a tennis ball and will start many a debate,
albeit not in the House of Commons! 322pp. Colour and
b/w illus.
shows them in use on screens, posters, packaging,
signage and more. Here is the power of Gotham, which
was used for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign
and originally designed for GQ magazine, the elegance
of Baskerville, used for Bibles in the 18th century and
still much in demand today and the unruffled, diamond
pointed (on the i and j) Johnston Sans, designed in 1918
for the London Underground and still going strong. A
book of visual treats. 112pp, colour.
Chris Gorringe, the former chief executive of the All
England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, and the
Wimbledon Championships has, tennis-wise, seen it all.
In his time in charge he has dealt with and seen
everything tennis has thrown up, beginning with the
1973 players’ boycott, then John McEnroe at his brilliant
best and petulant worst, Borg, Federer, the Williams
sisters, Virginia Wade winning for the Queen in her
Silver Jubilee year, electronic line calling technology and
serve speed radar guns, Martina Navratilova, Boris
Becker, Jimmy Connors and everyone’s favourite
pantomime villain Ilie Nastase - the period over which
he presided has to be the greatest tennis era ever. Here
is his utterly captivating memoir of those years. 264pp,
colour photos.
Fonts are all around us, in books, public signs and of
course on the computer. When
designing a font for legibility
every size needs to be
considered, together with letterspacing or ‘kerning’. Layout is
important in establishing a
hierarchy of information, and
the Penguin Crime paperback
layout known as the Marber
Grid, after its Polish inventor,
was a notable success. Finally
there is a long interview with
Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus
Leis Allion about the process of
creating the font Priori. Design
Museum. 112pp, colour and b/
w illus.
£20 NOW £6
79671 HOLDING COURT: Inside the Gates of
the Wimbledon Championships
by Chris Gorringe
£18.99 NOW £6
79740 WHO’S THE DADDY: The Life and
Times of Shirley Crabtree by Ryan Danes
Mick McManus, Kendo Nagasaki, Rollerball Rocco, John
Quinn, Giant Haystacks and, nemesis of them all, the
one and only (pause for dramatic effect) “Biiiiig Daddy!”
His father, Shirley Crabtree Snr, a useful Halifax rugby
league player and sometime wrestler, abandoned his
family in 1932 when Shirley Jnr was just two. pretty
soon the desire and physical attributes to defend himself
meant that the bullies’ days were numbered - Shirley hit
back twice as hard. Following a stint in both a woollen
mill and the Coldstream Guards, Shirley entered the ring
in the 50s as “The Blond Adonis” then as “Mr Universe”,
but retired to become a Blackpool lifeguard in the 60s.
Tempted back into the ring by his wrestling promotor
brother Max, Shirley’s wife Eunice made his first XXXXXL
leotard out of their old chintz sofa, decorated it with a
huge capital D and the legend was born. Was it all fixed?
Of course it was, and it was stipulated in his contracts
that Big Daddy never lost. He accidentally killed 52year-old Mal “King Kong” Kirk in a bout in 1987. He
was still fighting after a mild stroke in 1992, his last bout
being in December 1993. Part sport, part pantomime,
always entertaining. 224pp, colour and b/w photos.
£17.99 NOW £5
WORDS AND
DICTIONARIES
Eventually I found speech. Not much of it,
but some. ‘Eh?’ I said.
- P. G. Wodehouse, Aunts Aren’t Gentleman
80300 CAN ANYONE HEAR
ME? by Peter Baxter
Cricket-lovers will enjoy this
account of Peter’s travels as he
toured around the globe for the
BBC, producing and commentating
on the various test-matches.
Luckily, he kept a diary as a
memory jogger, and this
entertaining account isn’t so much
about the matches as about the
players, the hitches and glitches
along the way and the difficulties of
filing his reports so that they
reached the BBC on time. It tells of setbacks with local
authorities who sometimes refused to hand over travel
papers, extreme weather - once he had to interview
David Gower in a bathroom as it was the only dry place
in an otherwise flooded dressing room (afterwards,
whenever Peter interviewed him the mischievous David
would seek out a bathroom as a studio), - and the
struggle to commentate when the telecommunications
were practically non-existent. In a small town in India he
found the local radio station was situated in a bungalow,
and when he arrived the entire staff were drawn up for
his inspection. Peter notes he had to ‘pass down the line
like visiting royalty inspecting a guard of honour.’ A
light-hearted look at what goes on behind the scenes in
the world of cricket. 350pp. Colour illus.
£16.99 NOW £5
80415 TENNIS MAESTROS
by John Bercow
House of Commons speaker John
Bercow was also a competitive
junior tennis player and is a
qualified coach, and uses his skills
and judgement here to choose the
20 greatest male players of all
time. Beginning with Bill Tilden, an
American player whose heyday
was in the 1920s and who
dominated the world’s tennis scene
for seven years, to Novak
Djokovic, ‘the Serbian tennis supremo’, taking in such
players as Fred Perry, Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors,
Bjorn Borg, Ken Rosewall, André Agassi and many
other famous names, this book is a fascinating read for
tennis fans. ‘John McEnroe is one of the most
outstanding, talked-about and controversial players of all
time...Yet he will also be remembered by friends, foes
and dispassionate observers for his explosive temper, oncourt tantrums and furious rows with umpires,
linespersons and tennis authorities.’ ‘Boris Becker won
big prizes. He was a great champion. He left an indelible
impression on his sport as one of the bravest, most
exciting, most audacious players ever to bestride a tennis
court. He could have won more, perhaps a lot more, and
80419 ULTIMATE POCKET
ARROWORDS: Over 200
Puzzles
by Arcturus Publishing
A little bit like an ‘easy’ to ‘medium’
crossword, fill the grid in the
direction marked by answering the
clues such as ‘force used in pushing’
- answer ‘thrust’. ‘Plausible but
false’ - ‘specious’. There are 204 fun
puzzles, with letters from clues crossing over to form the
grid as you give your brain an enjoyable workout. For
all word puzzle fans, this is a pocketful of fun.
Paperback.
£3.99 NOW £2.25
80414 SUPER
WORDSEARCH: Over 250
Puzzles
by Arcturus Publishing
With themes like customer service,
chickens or shades of pink, there are
24 words or phrases to discover in
what looks at first glance like a
complex grid full of letters of the
alphabet. Your aim is to draw an
ellipse as you find each word in the list within the grid
whether horizontally, diagonally, vertically and reading
backwards or forwards. Test your observational skills to
the limit for all word lovers, puzzle enthusiasts and super
sleuths. 176 large pages in softback with solutions.
£7.99 NOW £4
77908 JEDBURGH JUSTICE
AND KENTISH FIRE: The
Story of English in Ten
Phrases and Expressions
by Paul Anthony Jones
Proving the richness and quirkiness
of the English language, here we
have 50 lists of 10 expressions,
some familiar, some less so. Each
entry is fully explained. Did you
know that a Westminster Wedding
was when a whore and a rogue married together?
Someone dejected and miserable might be a Dying
Duck in a Thunderstorm while a person with freckles
could be Christened by a Baker. Latin and Literary
expressions from Shakespearian quotes to phrases from
songs like the Birds and the Bees. One to enrich your
vocabulary in a most satisfying way. 290pp.
£12.99 NOW £2.50
79277 FIFTY TYPEFACES THAT CHANGED
THE WORLD by John L. Walters
Walters here explores 50 of the world’s most influential
typefaces, examining their history and creators and
NEW AGE AND OCCULT
She’s a sort of human vampire-bat.
- P.G. Wodehouse, The World of Jeeves
£12.99 NOW £5
79280 HOW TO DESIGN A TYPEFACE
by Elizabeth Wilhide
£12.99 NOW £3.50
79200 YOU SAY POTATO: A Book About
Accents by Ben Crystal and David Crystal
We all speak differently, we pronounce words using long
or short vowels, we put emphasis on certain syllables. In
Shakespeare’s time the vowels were pronounced further
back in the mouth, but interestingly, as far as we know
there was no ‘upper class’ accent. Today, accents are
changing rapidly; many children are brought up bilingually
that their voices are mixtures of accents. 248pp.
£12.99 NOW £4.75
78584 ALPHABETS: A Miscellany of
Letters introduced by David Sacks
An A-Z of the amazing story of our alphabet beginning
with A for Alphabet, B for bestiary, commercial,
deconstructive, illuminated, kinetic, moral, physical,
question mark, revolutionary, technology, urban, vanity,
wit, x-rated, youth, zero and all letters in-between. Here
is a family tree, the ancient Indo-European tongues of
Latin, Greek and Sanskrit in the short history before we
are presented with page after page of colourful graphic
design and lettering. It is a playful tale on the alphabet’s
relationship with art, design, typography, children’s
books, learning aides, commercial signage, contemporary
culture and everything in between. With examples from
Peter Blake, Tim Fishlock to Alphabetti Spaghetti, ABC
blocks, and Braille. A cornucopia of imagery, 240pp.
£24.95 NOW £4
80334 I CHING PACK
by Chris Marshall
China’s most popular form of
fortune telling, the I Ching, has for
3,000 years offered a new
perspective on the question or
decision at hand. Containing a set
of authentic Chinese coins (the Key
to the divining system), two packs
of trigram cards and a
comprehensive and easy-to-use
book for reading the I-Ching, this pack is a practical,
modern interpretation. The replica coins alone are worth
this bargain price! Box set.
£16.99 NOW £6
80206 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT
MISCELLANY
by Jane Alexander
Ghosts in the Viking sagas, yogic
energy and its channels, how to
practise Caodai, the universal faith
founded in Vietnam in 1926,
aspects of the medicine wheel, Jain
cosmology, the symbolism of the
Menorah, the language of flowers,
make your own crop circle, the
hierarchy of angels, Taoism’s eight
immortals, the ghost hunter’s tool
kit, six principles of Pilates, health-giving herbal teas, the
five pillars of Islam, and famously bad Feng Shui all
make appearances, many with diagrams and illus in this
ultimate collection of fascinations, facts, truths and
insights. Wonderfully browseworthy, 160pp with
bookmarker.
$14.95 NOW £5
27398 COMPLETE GHOST STORIES
by Charles Dickens
Dickens always loved a good ghost story himself,
particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded,
willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the
existence of spirits. In the 12 stories presented here,
which include his celebrated ‘A Christmas Carol’, the full
range of his gothic talents can be seen. Dickens has
managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as
he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream
visions. 329pp. Paperback.
ONLY £2
65626 IS THERE LIFE
AFTER DEATH? The
Extraordinary Science of
What Happens When We Die
by Anthony Peake
79012 COLLINS EASY
LEARNING SPANISH
PRONUNCIATION: Book and
CD by Caroline Smart
From the bestselling bilingual
dictionary series, the book is
accompanied by an audio CD
containing points about Spanish,
consonants, vowels, syllables and
stress, the alphabet and spelling,
saying hello, practicing words and
saying goodbye. Fortunately, pronouncing Spanish is
very straightforward once you know a few basic rules.
Use the CD to practice each of the different letters and
sounds and soon you will be able to read out loud with
accurate Spanish pronunciation with real examples from
native speakers on the audio CD. An easy to use stepby-step guide. 56 pages.
£9.99 NOW £3
79059 GERMAN PHRASE BOOK: Yes No
Phrase Book by Françoise Rene Charles
Communicate Without Knowing the Language! A series of
phrase book cards bound together with a plastic tube
which holds an erasable pen. Use the pages on the book
as a pocket white board to exchange written messages,
drawings, maps, numbers or place names and simply
erase with your finger. Easily find the right section for
going to the doctor or hospital, restaurant, shopping,
bargaining and trading, café, disco, toilets, telephone,
post office, police, then numbers and the alphabet.
£3.99 NOW £1.25
79539 MY GRAMMAR AND I: How to Speak
and Write It Right
by Caroline Taggart and J.A. Wines
Sub-titled ‘Or Should That Be Me?’ this entertaining guide
will help you avoid grammatical minefields. Are you
confused when to use ‘its’ or ‘it’s’ or about the correct
spelling of principal and principle? Here is a refresher
course for those stumped by spelling confusions, dangling
modifiers or split infinitives, a clever, informative and fun
handbook. Let’s ponder the subject or object: is it ‘I’ or
‘me’? Is it ‘whose’ or ‘who’s’, ‘which’ or ‘that’, ‘while’ or
‘although’. About whom are we talking? Oral/Aural/
Verbal. For all verbophiles. 175pp in paperback.
$7.99 NOW £2.50
79976 INSIDER’S SPANISH: Intermediate
Conversation Course by Michel Thomas
For Spanish speakers with overall fluency, here is
advanced listening using authentic, lively conversations
around engaging topics. The course focuses on the
colloquial language and conversation strategies used by
native Spanish speakers so you can fit in and
communicate more naturally. The box set features ten
authentic conversations, listening and speaking practice
to help learners progress to the next level and cultural
insights into the unspoken rules of the language. Pack
contains 128 page book, one MP3 CD-Rom and one
interactive CD-Rom. The audio files can be downloaded
from your computer to your MP3 player or played on
and MP3 compatible CD player or of course all through
your PC. This revolutionary method is very rarely
discounted.
£39.99 NOW £9
Do you occasionally have that
strange feeling known as déjà vu?
Do you sometimes feel that you
know what is going to happen
next? Do you ever have a strong
feeling that actions you are about
to take are the right, or wrong,
things to do? These perceptions may be everyday clues
to your immortality. Using the latest findings of
neurology, quantum physics and consciousness studies,
Anthony Peake suggests that we never die. His is an
innovative and provocative argument. After reading his
book you will understand the reasons for your life and
how you can make it better next time. 416pp,
paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
79054 TAI CHI BIBLE by Dan Docherty
The most common Tai Chi techniques are explained with
reference to the Ming Dynasty book ‘The Classic of
Boxing’ and to Chinese myth and legend. Discover Tai
Chi’s development as a Chinese martial art, major hand
and weapon form, inner form techniques and expert
practice tips. The Jian is the double-edged sword; the
Dao a sabre or broadsword; the Three Treasures of
Chinese Internal Alchemy are Qi or vital force/energy
including the breath and circulation, Jing or vital essence
(saliva, sweat, semen and other bodily secretions) and
the Shen or spiritual energy. 400 page softback, colour
photos.
£14.99 NOW £4
79488 AWAKENING THE
KIND HEART
by Kathleen McDonald
Sub-titled ‘How to Meditate on
Compassion’, the book is written
by a woman who was ordained as
a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1974 and
who co-authored a book with Lama
Zopa Rinpoche (Wholesome Fear).
It offers powerful meditation
techniques to activate the heart of
kindness within us all and is a
modern and motivating interpretation of traditional and
powerful practices. Explains how to navigate the path to
love and open our hearts into the deepest solidarity with
others. 154pp, paperback.
£11.99 NOW £5
78206 CELESTIAL DRAGON I CHING
by Neyma Jahan
From Ancient China comes the discipline of I Ching, an
enjoyable aid for self-discovery, based on 64 Hexagrams,
each with its own unique meaning. For 5,000 years this
system of divination has been a means of discovery and
decision making. Each symbol is fully described, together
with methods of understanding and adapting it to everyday
life. The basic procedure of the I Ching is to throw three
coins six times, converting the throws into a line, building up
a hexagram, the head of the coin being known as yang, the
reverse as yin. 288pp. Diagrams.
£10.99 NOW £2.50
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PSYCHOLOGY AND
SOCIOLOGY
He felt that his whole life was some kind of
dream and he sometimes wondered whose it
was and whether they were enjoying it.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy
80318 RIP IT UP
by Richard Wiseman
Boasting over 2 million copies sold
worldwide and by the bestselling
author of ’59 Seconds’, the strap line
says ‘Forget positive thinking it’s
time for positive action.’ Find out
why the body rules the brain and
how small movements can help you
lose weight, beat procrastination,
stop smoking and feel instantly
younger. According to eastern
wisdom, even the smallest of action influences the mind.
Move more slowly and you relax. Smile and you
become happier. Clench your fists and you feel more
powerful. Scientists have discovered that this simple
idea can be used to boost your willpower, mood,
relationships and creativity. Test yourself and fill in the
gaps for your ratings - for during stressful situations if
your face blushes, your stomach starts to rumble or your
face and ears feel hotter. Then use the scoring chart to
monitor your progress. Chapters include How to be
Happy, Attraction and Relationships, Mental Health,
Willpower, Persuasion and Creating A New You.
Photos, 372pp in paperback.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
80147 HOW TO GET YOUR
OWN WAY: Who’s
Manipulating You..?
by Craig Shrives and Paul
Easter
Everyone from ad-men to politicians
to market-stall holders is deliberately
employing tried and tested mind
games to get you to act in a manner
that favours them. The aim of this
unputdownable little manual is to
show you how to read your
surroundings, expose the main
techniques of influence and give you the power to
protect what is yours and start to take something back.
The authors are two former British Army Intelligence
Corps officers and using simple, real-life examples
explained in layman’s terms show you how to defend
yourself from manipulation, influence others and
challenge their claims. Learn how to write for maximum
effect, why the biases that we acquire through our
experiences can adversely affect our reasoning, how
understanding body language allows you to spot a liar,
how to develop a critical eye for statistics and their
rigging and much more. Being the nice gullible sorts we
are we found this a real eye-opener. 304pp.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
80320 SKELETON
CUPBOARD
by Tanya Byron
After completing her BSc in
psychology at the University of
York, the author moved to London
to begin her clinical training. This is
an account of the first three years,
1989-92, when she underwent
various placements that brought her
into contact with many types of
patient. Here are some of her cases,
drawn from clinical practice but not modelled on real
individuals - they are constructs to preserve
confidentiality. In this intriguing, unforgettable book you
meet Ray, Tanya’s first case. He suffered intense panic
attacks but Tanya hadn’t realised how dangerous he
was until he produced the flick knife and held it just
below her eye. Young Imogen, twelve years old, lived
in a world of her own, carrying her dead sister’s rag doll.
As she had tried to hang herself her skipping rope had
been removed, and when Tanya tried to talk to her, the
girl’s wrists were turning constantly as she counted nonexistent skips. Finally, the shocking truth of her sister’s
death emerged, and the child began to speak again. And
then there was Edith, a tiny lady who wandered around
the unit with a pillowcase on her head, believing she
was Mother Superior, singing songs from the Sound of
Music. An appendix at the end of the book lists Mental
Health resources. 312pp.
£18.99 NOW £5
80375 STARING AT THE SUN: Overcoming the
Dread of Death by Irvin Yalom
Author of the bestselling ‘The Gift of Therapy’, unlike
many psychotherapists, Yalom writes like an angel
about the devils that besiege us. Death anxiety is the
price we pay for our self-awareness. We cannot live
frozen in fear, so we turn to our children, to wealth, or to
the belief in a higher power to soften death’s terror. But
in spite of the staunchest of our defences, death anxiety
is never completely subdued - it is always there, lurking
in the hidden ravines of our minds. At the age of 70 and
facing his own fear of death, Dr Yalom finds death to be
the root cause of patients’ fears, stresses and depression
and his is a book about confronting and coping with our
fear of death. Based on dozens of patients’ actual
experiences and case studies and references to Socrates
and philosophy, the role of gratitude, reunions, estate
planning, the awakening experience and more. 306pp in
paperback.
£9.99 NOW £5
77387 MINDFULNESS WORKBOOK: Teach
Yourself by Martha Langley
Do you want to find a moment of calm in a busy world?
The exercises will help you to increase self-knowledge
and gain new-found insight into your problems.
Understand the core concepts of mindfulness, apply
those skills to cope with everyday problems, learn how
to use formal daily meditation, let go of worries, live
fully in the moment, and improve relationships with
family, friends and work colleagues. 212 pages 24.5cm
x 19cm with appendix: Body Scan, Task Sheet, Quick
Help and list of websites.
£12.99 NOW £4
78751 BEYOND GRIEF: A Guide for
Recovering from the Death of a Loved One
by Carol Staudacher
No two circumstances of bereavement are the same and
similarly no two people deal with grief in the same way
and the symptoms of grief are not always recognised for
what they are. Beginning in general terms with the grief
experience and how those left behind may feel and how
they may best cope, then she examines death from a
child’s perspective. The next three chapters discuss the
“premature” deaths - accidental, suicide and murder.
250pp 1998 paperback reprint.
£9.99 NOW £2.50
79536 ME, MYSELF, AND WHY
by Jennifer Ouellette
Sub-titled ‘Searching for the Science of Self’. All of our
genes and brains are nearly identical, and here the
author dives into the miniscule ranges of variation to
understand just what sets us apart. She draws on
research in genetics, neuroscience and psychology,
enlivened with her signature sense of humour, and we
follow her having her genome sequenced, her brain
mapped, her personality typed and even sampling of a
popular hallucinogen. 348pp, paperback.
$16 NOW £3
79986 OVERCOMING WORRY
by Kevin Meares and Mark Freeston
Sub-titled ‘And Generalised Anxiety Disorder: A SelfHelp Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques.’ It
explains how to stop excessive worrying and start
enjoying life. Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as it
is known affects more than 4% of the population and
causes huge distress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
has been found to be a highly effective treatment that
will help you break the worry cycle, experience relief
and maintain improved strategies for dealing with
anxiety in the future. The book offers clear explanations
of the negative cycles, step-by-step exercises and
strategies and practical worksheets to monitor progress.
444pp, paperback, diagrams.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
MODERN HISTORY AND
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Let the past hold on to itself and let the
present move forward into the future.
- Douglas Adams
79563 THE 1970s: Britain
in Pictures by PA Photos
The 300 photos shown here
have been chosen from the
archives of the Press
Association, which has a
collection of over 15 million
photographs. The Queen
celebrated both her Silver
Jubilee and Silver Wedding,
Princess Anne married Mark Phillips, Donny Osmond
had the teeny-boppers screaming, punk rock and glam
rock changed the face of music and Virginia Wade won
the Ladies finals at Wimbledon. In addition Mrs Thatcher
became the first-ever woman Prime Minister. The
memories flood back. Softback, 300pp, illus., some
colour.
£14.99 NOW £4.50
78531 ART OF CONTROVERSY: Political
Cartoons by Victor Navasky
An entertaining look at the world of political cartoons and
the power to amuse, irritate or provoke outrage.
Napoleon is reported to have said that the English
caricaturist James Gillray ‘did more than all the armies of
Europe to bring me down’. The author presents a
gallery of cartoonists with examples of their works and a
career summary, including such names as William
Hogarth, Phillip Zec, Al Hirschfeld, Pablo Picasso, Ralph
Steadman, Robert Grossman, David Levine and others.
With clear summaries too. 232pp, b/w illus, colour
plates. Rough cut pages, remainder mark.
$27.95 NOW £4
79966 BEYOND THE CALL
by Lee Trimble with Jeremy
Dronfield
Sub-titled ‘The True Story of One
World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission
to Rescue POWs on The Eastern
Front’. When Robert, the author’s
elderly father, after speaking
reluctantly of his wartime
experiences as a pilot, suddenly
mentioned Russia, Lee was
mystified. It turned out to be an
incredible story of a secret mission in
Soviet territory involving the rescue of Allied prisoners
of war who had been set loose by the Soviets. Robert’s
cover was almost blown on several occasions, notably
when a French woman approached him in a Russian
hotel asking if he was the American who would help her
escape. Secreting a slip of paper with details of his room
number between her hands as he shook them, while
firmly denying he was the person she wanted, she later
met up with him to ask him to help no less than 400
women escape. With the aid of a trusty ticket seller at
the station a train was organised to Odessa, but Robert
had been followed and the hand-over of the ticket
money had been spotted. This was just one of Robert’s
many brave adventures. 332pp, illus.
£20 NOW £6.50
GARDENING
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya
80337 PASSION FOR
GARDENING
by Twigs Way
Now, here’s a gardening book
that is a bit out of the ordinary.
It’s subtitled How the British
Became a Nation of Gardeners
and is a fascinating look at our
gardening trends through the
years, covering topics such as
digging for victory, the allotment
craze, women and gardening,
suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s and gardening for
children. Particularly delightful are the evocative
illustrations which consist of such things as old postcards,
seed packets, booklets, adverts, photos, paintings and
seedsmen’s invoices. The Peace rose, a yellow hybrid
tea-rose, had its origins in France and was supposedly
sent to the United States on the last plane leaving
before the German invasion. Once there, it was
cultivated by Conard-Pyle Co, and after the war was
imported into England by the flamboyant Harry
Wheatcroft, to become the most famous rose ever.
During the 1950s and ’60s, ‘the more general availability
of DDT held out a vision for a pest-free world in an era
when the word ‘biodiversity’ would have had most
gardeners reaching for their sprayer.’! Children have long
been set to work watering and weeding, and Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert set the fashion in children’s
gardens by providing each of their nine children with
their own plot at their residence Osborne House on the
Isle of Wight. In 1909 Sutton’s spotted a gap in the
market and produced a range of flower seeds for
children’s gardens, such as nasturtium, clarkia and
nigella. A fascinating, highly readable look at Britain’s
favourite pastime. 192pp, mainly colour illus.
£14.99 NOW £5
78554 TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing
Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the
World by Jane Brown
Triffid or treasure? Rhododendron-fanciers will travel the
world to see examples of rare species, but beleaguered
gardeners sometimes curse the rhododendron’s
indestructibility. Littleworth became a centre for
rhododendron hybrids and its literary connections (the
Tennysons were regular visitors in the 1870s). Millais
founded the Rhododendron Society in 1915, though after
the death of its chief supporter, Lionel Rothschild, it was
taken over by the Royal Horticultural Society, to the
indignation of its members. In the 20th century the
discovery of numerous varieties of the vireya species
opened a new era in rhododendron cultivation. 308pp,
beautiful colour photos and b/w illus.
$35 NOW £4
Modern History below 33
78766 HIDDEN GARDENS OF SPAIN
by Eduardo Mencos
Spain’s position between the Mediterranean and the
Atlantic gives the country a richly varied climate, and
this is reflected in the country’s gardens. Organised
according to region, the book starts with the Palacio de
Galiana in Toledo, where narrow filigreed arches,
elegant cypresses and formal walks show the influence
of the Arab Mudejar style. La Romera in Don Quixote’s
region of La Mancha, creatively uses channels of water
in a modern design that includes water features and a
carpet of ground-cover roses. The misty climate of the
north lends itself to bright flowers, and El Abeo, a house
covered with bougainvillea, features displays of
rhododendron and azaleas. Lovely photos and the
philosophy behind it. 160pp, softback.
£16.99 NOW £8.50
79477 GARDEN ON TOP: Unique Ideas for
Roof Gardens edited by Barbara Meister
Landscape architects and garden designers from four
continents showcase projects from Toronto, Cannes,
Berlin, Sydney, Singapore and London from expansive
roof terraces to small roof gardens with plants to suit the
mood, weather and location. 160 big pages, colour
photos.
£29.99 NOW £3
79683 MAKING A GARDEN
by Matthew Wilson
The author is MD of Clifton Nurseries, London’s oldest
and most beautiful garden centre is a regular on Radio 4s
Gardeners’ Question Time. Divided into three parts, he
shows how design principals can enhance the sense of
space and add interest through an informed choice of hard
materials and plants. The final part is a combination of
annotated photographs and detailed hand drawn plans.
With beautiful examples such as a garden in Devon
developed by Keith and Ros Wyley, outdoor entertaining,
a family garden with a twist, gardening by the seaside,
low-maintenance indulgence, rooftop container gardens,
Mediterranean style, elegant classic, even making sound
with ornamental grasses and wind chimes, fragrance,
core plant shapes, combining textures, colour, ponds and
more. 192pp large softback, colour photos.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
79958 ITALIAN KITCHEN GARDEN
by Sarah Fraser
When the author arrived in Italy a neighbour invited her
to dinner, so she enquired what the meal would be and
was told that it would be whatever was ripe in the
garden that day. It’s perfectly possible to create an
Italian garden in Britain as long as you take a few things
into consideration, such as choosing the correct, hardier,
varieties, preparing the soil properly, and ensuring that
you create suntraps and windshields. This attractive
book not only explains how to grow the various herbs,
fruit and vegetables, but contains plenty of delicious
recipes in which to use your produce, too. The author
practises Eco gardening, ridding the garden of slugs by
using coffee grounds. The best ingredients make the
best food - and yes, it is perfectly possible to grow
‘super tomatoes and awesome-tasting aubergines’
outside the Mediterranean region - all you need is a
vegetable plot. 176pp, colour illus.
£16.99 NOW £7
79363 PASSAGE TO THE WORLD: The
Emigrant Experience 1807-1940
by Kevin Brown
From the early 19th century millions of European men,
women and children left for the New World, driven by
stories of a better life to be had in North America and
Australasia. Using a multitude of first-hand accounts
across all social classes we see the entire experience.
Overcrowding could lead to on-board epidemics, fire was
a constant problem and shipwrecks were all-to-common
disasters, often heartbreakingly within sight of the
destination. Brown also examines the nature of
deportation. Following the abolition of slavery in 1807,
there were the “indentured labourers” or coolies who
were transported from India and China to work on the
West Indies plantations. This unprecedented diaspora left
few European families from all social strata unaffected.
243pp, plates.
£25 NOW £5
79001 BURYING THE
TYPEWRITER: Childhood
Under the Eye of the Secret
Police by Carmen Bugan
Ion Bugan, the author’s father, was
imprisoned on the flimsiest of
grounds from 1961 to 1968 - not
that Ceausescu needed any. Upon
his release he was kept under
constant surveillance and following
his marriage and the birth of
Carmen in 1969 was given the
codename “Andronic”. On 10 March 1983 he put on his
best suit and drove to Bucharest with a handful of
pamphlets to stage a one-man protest against the
dictator and his regime. He was arrested and sentenced
to 10 years. Ion returned, under house arrest with
microphones everywhere. The following year, as oneby-one the Eastern Bloc states crumbled, the Bugans
grabbed their chance and emigrated to America. 257pp,
photos.
£16.99 NOW £3
79487 AVOIDING ARMAGEDDON: From the
Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40
by Jeremy Black
In the 1920s and 30s the task for Britain was to maintain
imperial control and influence in wars outside Europe, dealing
with rebellions in the British colonies of Iraq, India and
Palestine, and to tackle the problems of defending them
against outside incursions. At the same time a Japanese
threat to British positions in the Far East was arising. The
Japanese advance into China and the Italian occupation of
Abyssinia did nothing to undermine resistance on the ground.
The result was that Britain concentrated on naval defences
and on reinforcing local garrisons. The British military had not
foreseen the need for tanks and ground-support planes to
counter the German blitzkrieg. 304pp.
£19.95 NOW £6.50
79561 1900s: Britain in Pictures
by Paul Richardson
Photographs have always been central to its work, and
the Press Association’s unrivalled collection of over
15,000,000 pictures now forms a visual history of the
nation. Here are families enjoying a rare outing to the
cliffs in Folkestone, shiny-shoed, bowler-hatted men
accompanying women with long sleeves and anklelength skirts on Yarmouth sands, a jolly crowd revelling
in the excitement of the Epsom Derby and ‘ladies’ hard
at work on a farm. 300 softback pages, archive,
nostalgic quality photos.
£14.99 NOW £4.75
79562 1910s: Britain in Pictures
edited by Paul Richardson
The archives of the Press Association yield a unique
insight into Britain’s recent past. Women were prepared
to die in their struggle to gain the vote. In Ireland, an
armed uprising took place. In Russia, the Royal Family
were executed. Meanwhile, working people such as the
Scottish lasses, who travelled to ports around Britain,
were stoically carrying on with their task of cleaning and
packing seasonal fish catches, and miners were racing
their pet whippets. 300 softback pages, archive photos.
£14.99 NOW £4.75
79551 SCHIAPARELLI &
PRADA: Impossible
Conversations by Andrew
Bolton and Harold Koda
A work of art in itself, this stunning
book accompanied an exhibition in
New York’s Metropolitan Museum
of Art in which Elsa Schiaparelli,
the fashion designer who worked in
Paris and collaborated with the
Surrealist painters, is brought into
imaginary conversation with Miuccia Prada, who took
over her family’s Milan fashion business in 1978. Fashion
stills and designs from The Costume Collection and the
Prada Archive are used to explore the ways both
women have used unconventional materials, unexpected
colours and fanciful details to transform conventional
ideas of beauty, glamour and taste. Prada’s 2000
collection, which included prints of lips and hearts, was
thought to reference Schiaparelli’s collaboration with Dali,
but Prada claims it was a mixture of Yves St. Laurent
and the film-maker Buñuel. With collections they
described as “pagan”, Schiaparelli used the inspiration of
Botticelli, with clinging, classical gowns, and Prada
combining flower and leaf prints with zippers and techno
fabrics. Gorgeous photos. 216pp.
£27 NOW £7.50
79918 KLOP: Britain’s Most Ingenious Secret
Agent by Peter Day
Klop Ustinov, professional charmer and equally
professional secret agent, was the father of the 20th
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century entertainer Peter Ustinov. The Ustinov family
had emigrated to London from Palestine, but they saw
themselves as German and their loyalties were with the
Kaiser. After a period fighting in the trenches, Klop
decided that an aviator’s life would be more glamorous
and joined his brother Peter in flying section A250. In
1917 Peter set off on a mercy mission to drop bags of
letters from British POWs behind British lines, but the
anti-aircraft gunners failed to see the white streamers
and the plane crashed. Klop was in the rescue party to
recover his brother’s body and was awarded the Iron
Cross, First Class. At the end of the war Klop became a
diplomat and since he wished to trace Russian members
of his family he was sent to St Petersburg as a spy,
meeting his wife Nadia Benois who was desperate to
escape from her family and country. Even before the
wedding, Klop had been warned that the Cheka, the
Communist secret police, was investigating his
credentials, and he and Nadia had to be smuggled out.
He found himself working for MI5 to entrap the
Cambridge spy ring. 340pp, photos.
£20 NOW £6
79933 MEMOIRS OF A TORY RADICAL
by Nigel Lawson
Nigel Lawson was a key minister in the Thatcher
government for ten years, six of them (1983-89) as
Chancellor of the Exchequer. This book is a half-length
abridged 2010 paperback version of Lord Lawson’s
memoirs, originally published as “The View from No.11”
in 1992. It cuts straight to the heart of high government
office, international politics and economic policy making
at a time of crisis and a rapidly changing Britain. The
passage where he describes how Thatcher blamed him
for excess inflation is particularly interesting. Includes a
new final chapter which reflects to 2010 and the banking
crisis of 2008. 664pp.
£14.99 NOW £4.50
79935 SMOKE IN THE VALLEY: Austerity
Britain 1948-51 by David Kynaston
The second volume in a groundbreaking series about
post-war Britain. Drawing on the everyday experiences
of people from all walks of life, Kynaston covered the
length and breadth of the country in this appealing slice
of social history. His giant book summons up in vivid
brushstrokes both the actuality of life in staple-starved
post-war Britain and the state of the nation’s morals and
attitudes.’ - Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times. One of
the fun parts is spotting fledgling politicians and
entertainers as they take their first steps. This is a
classic portrayal of the un-heroic, slightly shabby era that
was Attlee’s Britain. Full of miscellaneous information.
382pp in paperback. Photos.
£7.99 NOW £3
GREAT BRITAIN & THE
ENVIRONMENT
I’ve been walking about London for the last
thirty years, and I find something fresh in it
every day.
- Walter Besant
79554 SORRY!: The English
and their Manners
by Henry Hitchings
Hitchings is a keen observer of and
expert on English manners. We all
know bad manners when we see
them, but where did this bizarre
and often nonsensical group of
behaviours come from and
develop? How do they change?
Why do they matter? From the
manners of the dining table to those
of the bedroom via hospitality, chivalry, faux pas,
embarrassment, politeness (in both true and false
varieties) and even online etiquette, this is a highly
amusing, illuminating and quirky blend of history,
anthropology and personal experience. 400pp.
$28 NOW £5
79642 DEAL: All in the
Downs
by Gregory Holyoake
The Great Downs is that area of
the English Channel that lies
between the Kent coast and the
Goodwin Sands. Our book explores
the many facets of Deal’s history,
which is in effect a microcosm of
2,000 years of shipping history.
Here are convicts and cannibals,
duellists and deserters, preachers
and pirates, spies and smugglers, monarchs and
mutineers, great wealth and terrifying natural disasters,
such as the Great Storm of November 1703. Deal’s
Navy Yard was effectively the hub of the Royal Navy,
repairing and refitting warships and victualling the fleet
and was originally based at Deal Castle. There are also
chapters on marine artist William Turner and Georgian
bluestocking Elizabeth Carter. Engravings, b/w photos.
332pp, softback.
£15.95 NOW £5
78732 BRITAIN’S HISTORIC HOUSES
WEST COUNTRY by Simon Jenkins
From Hut Six in the Chysauster Iron Age village to
Dartington High Cross House, a leading 1930s
monument to modernist architecture, and the Art Deco
pleasure palace Burgh Island. Castle Drogo, Lutyens’s
masterpiece on Dartmoor, is a mixture of modernism and
Art Nouveau in concrete. The Abbot’s Kitchen at
Glastonbury with its striking octagonal upper storey
testifies to the wealth of the monks before the
Dissolution, while Buckland Abbey was a Cistercian
foundation that became the home of Sir Francis Drake.
192pp, visitor information.
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64385 LOST LONDON 1870-1945
by Philip Davies
The photographic archive of the former London County
Council has been in the possession of English Heritage
for over 25 years. Here has been selected over 500 of
the best images from that vast archive. The 75 years it
covers were a period of great transition, from the early
railways, coaching inns and horse-drawn travel of the
late Victorian age through the arrival of the car, the
Underground and buses to the devastation of WWII, and
images range from Little Dorrit’s lodgings in Marshalsea
Prison to the Baldwin’s bedroom at 10 Downing Street,
the opulence of St James’s to the squalor of the East
End slums and the mansions of Whitehall and their
offices of state to Mary Smith of Limehouse, paid
sixpence a week to shoot dried peas at the windows of
market workers. Here too is the maze of medieval
streets west of Lincoln’s Inn, the transformation of
Regent Street into a grand imperial boulevard and the
lost churches, docks, wharves and other buildings of the
City, Wapping and Bermondsey. 368pp, 10"×11¾”.
£39.95 NOW £16
79546 PORTOBELLO ROAD:
Lives of A Neighbourhood
by Julian Mash
Portobello’s Bohemian, anarchic,
creative spirit still survives. Julian
Mash, a former bookseller at the
famous Travel Bookshop, meets the
traders and shopkeepers, filmmakers
and fashionistas, punks, promoters
and poets who make Portobello,
Notting Hill and Holland Park the
area that it is. Health food, vintage
fashion, the property boom and the life and death of
record and book shops, with many album covers and
posters and contemporary photos. 308pp.
£16.99 NOW £4.75
77950 LONDON BRIDGE IN AMERICA
by Travis Elborough
Did the fabulously wealthy Robert P. McCulloch think he
was buying for a million-pounds Tower Bridge? In 1968
the old 19th century London Bridge was transported to
Arizona stone by stone and was welcomed in a highprofile ceremony by people in colourful folk costume,
including Apache Indians and the Lord Mayor of London.
The bridge that was transported was built in 1831, but
the history of bridges on that spot goes back to the
Roman conquest. The 1831 bridge that eventually
replaced the dilapidated structure was built by the
engineer John Rennie. Describes the negotiations that
led to the purchase. 277pp, illus.
£14.99 NOW £1.50
78174 MEGALITHOMANIA: Artists and
Antiquarians at the Old Stone Monuments
by John Michell
In the 1700s a Lincolnshire doctor turned clergyman,
William Stukely, rode through most of the English
counties making notes of everything that interested him,
and later published a folio of his engravings. It is the
finest record of ancient monuments and the only record
of many of our ancient megaliths. John Mitchell looks at
Stukeley’s work as well as examining the way that
artists and laymen have depicted standing stones and
other monuments over the centuries. He examines
stones such as Stonehenge and Avebury, standing
stones at Carnac, strange earthen animals in Wisconsin
and dolmens in Wales. Paperback, 166pp, drawings and
photos.
£12.99 NOW £3.50
78503 A LONDON YEAR: 365 Days of City
Life In Diaries, Journals and Letters
by Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison
An anthology of short diary entries, one or more for
each day of the year portraying life in London from
Tudor times to the 21st century. Samuel Pepys rubs
shoulders with Alan Bennett, Chris Mullin and Michael
Palin, Thomas Hardy with James Agate writing about a
write-off at Sotheby’s and Horace Walpole writing about
the opening of Ranelagh Gardens in 1742, gay Soho
pubs, hot theatre shows, moving to ‘unfashionable’
Chelsea (Thomas Carlyle 1834), cricket in Islington,
sailing, Charles II crowned in Westminster Abbey, the
London blackouts, an exploding barge and shopping at
Wedgwood’s. Fabulous snapshots of money, sex,
entertainment and power. 607 heavyweight pages, illus.
£25 NOW £6.50
78739 GLOUCESTER AND TEWKESBURY
LEISURE MAP by the Automobile Association
At a scale of 2cms to one kilometre or 1¼” to one mile.
The area covered includes Gloucester, Cheltenham,
Stroud, Cirencester and as far north as Upton-uponSevern and Northleach in the west. All the valleys, hills
and farms, manor houses, woods and commons, public
houses and schools, museums and dwellings are etched
on the countryside in this very beautiful area of Britain.
Folding colour sheet map. Softback.
ONLY £2.25
78919 VINTAGE 80s by Johnny Stiletto
By using black-and-white photography, Johnny has
captured 1980s London in all its edgy, dramatic quality.
He bought a 35mm camera and spent the next ten years
taking photos of Mick Jagger out with his agent, a group
of Sloane Rangers, kissing punks, New Romantics,
Frances Bacon entwined with his boyfriend or a clamped
DeLorean in Kensington Street. A lively, gritty text
accompanies the photographs. Paperback, b/w illus.
£14.99 NOW £3
78965 POSTCARD FROM THE CONWY
by Jan Dobrzynski and Keith Turner
‘The smallest house in Wales’ is pictured on page 101 of
the 200 odd postcards from the authors’ extensive
collections. It is a pictorial record of soaring mountains
and tranquil lakes, majestic bridges and castles, sailing
boats and steamers, the Lewis Carroll ‘Memorial’ at
Llandudno, fishing boats on the estuary, entrance to the
Tubular Bridge and LNWR official issue postcards among
them. 128pp, large softback, b/w images.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
79952 EXPLORING
HISTORICAL
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
by Robert Leader
Contains dozens of photographs and
follows the county’s waterways
from Huntingdon to the Fens,
travels the Nene Valley to Wisbech
and visits the Cam and the glories
of Cambridge. With its cities, towns,
villages, as well as the fenland area
with huge skies and reed-fringed
water, Cambridgeshire is a very special place. There are
stately homes to visit such as Wimpole Hall, while the
fenland reserve at Wicken Fen is host to butterflies and
dragonflies on sunny summer days, windmills and
cathedrals, earthworks and ancient landscapes and
steam trains in the Nene Valley. Softback, 128pp, colour
and b/w illus.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
79211 THE QUEEN’S HOUSE: A Social History
of Buckingham Palace by Edna Healey
In a uniquely chatty style, here is a biography of the
world’s most famous house and its vital role in the
history of our nation. Queen Victoria encores
Mendelssohn in the Music Room, the young princesses
laugh giddily, Queen Mary and the abdication crisis are
all alive with detail. George III was the first monarch to
take up residence in Buckingham House, but the site had
had royal connections since the Tudors. Here are the
entertainments, ceremonies, architecture, amenities and
succeeding changes in monarchs in this delightful
chronicle of the House of Windsor. 434pp, colour photos.
Remainder mark. Paperback.
$17.95 NOW £5.50
79667 HENLEY-ON-THAMES: Town, Trade
and River by Simon Townley
Perhaps most famed for its annual Regatta, first
established in 1939, Henley-on-Thames has long been
established as an elegant, fashionable place to live, set as
it is in a picturesque part of the Chilterns. Its classic,
graceful arched bridge, completed in 1786, spans the
river, and its impressive church is testament to the town’s
prosperity in late medieval times. This is the history of
Henley, from its early market beginnings through to its
18th century importance as a coaching centre. This
fascinating book also contains interesting ‘panels’ such as
one depicting the Old White Hart, a medieval inn,
showing the construction and the chambers where guests
could stay, while another panel shows the design and
construction of a medieval barge, the medieval bridge,
ornamental brickwork, flashlocks and the chantry house.
Softback, 198pp. Colour illus., plans.
£14.99 NOW £4
79697 NEAT AND NIPPY GUIDE TO
CANTERBURY by Alan Major
With the aid of eight not-to-scale sketch maps here is the
best way to explore the beautiful city of Canterbury
within the city walls. Find out everything important
about the Cathedral precincts, the leaning door of the
King’s Gallery, Palace Street, Sun Street, bridges and
fountains and mounds. Photos, maps or line art. 72
page paperback.
£4.99 NOW £2.25
79702 OVER WALES by Vivien Brett
From Powis Castle to Tenby, there is much to fascinate
the visitor at the popular seaside resort with remarkably
well preserved 13th century town walls. Inland we
travel across Snowdonia National Park, the
extraordinary private village of Portmeirion, Penrhyn
Castle, Offa’s Dyke, Menai Bridge, Conwy with its
distinctly medieval atmosphere and fortress town
punctuated by 21 towers with three gateways, Chirk
viaduct and aqueduct, more splendid historic castles,
Tintern Abbey, cathedrals and churches. Spectacular
colour aerial photos. Large softback, 32pp.
£6 NOW £2.50
79735 VINTAGE VIEWS OF DEAL AND
WALMER by Gregory Holyoake
Perhaps the most desirable picture postcards from the
Edwardian era were reproduced from originals by artist
Alfred Robert Quinton who produced over 2,000
paintings that were turned into popular postcards. His
colourful views of the seafront of Deal perfectly recreate
the charm and beauty. Here is a golden age collection
of aerial views, churches, boatmen, the High Street,
churches and villages, 40ft waves, Sandown Castle, one
of the smaller Tudor fortifications now virtually crumbled
into the sea, happy day trippers, deck chairs, the Green,
Walmer Strand, Royal Marines, Dover Road, Walmer
Castle, sport and more. With extended captions. 120
page paperback, illus.
£10.99 NOW £4
79895 BRECON BEACONS
by Jonathan Mullard
Another impressive volume in the New Naturalists
Series from HarperCollins, here we learn all there is to
know about the Brecon Beacons which, along with
Snowdonia, is the most impressive region of upland
Wales. The natural history of the Beacons is intrinsically
linked to human activity and Mullard takes the everevolving landscape and its associated changes to species
and habitat as his starting point. There is a detailed
examination of its geology and scenery and the
integration of this with the archaeological and historical
environment. Covering the impressive diversity of
mountains, moorlands, rivers, waterfalls, caves,
woodlands, lakes, wetlands and farmland, he provides
an impressive overview of how wildlife has altered over
the centuries and highlights ongoing conservation issues.
Here too are the legends and other cultural heritage, as
well as landmarks of historic interest such as churches
and chapels, farms, pubs and manor houses. The
culmination of years of personal experience and research,
this is extremely well illus. with over 230 colour photos
and appendices listing the 100-odd SSSIs in the area,
nature reserves, nature organisations specific to the
region. 416pp.
£55 NOW £18
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79959 LONDON OVERGROUND: A Day’s Walk
Around the Ginger Line by Iain Sinclair
The completion of the circle of the London Overground
‘Ginger Line’ in 2012 provided an opportunity for the
writer to tramp the 35 stations and 35 miles, complete
with detours and false steps. Here he discovers the
shops, garages and lock-ups that enclose inner London as
well as uncovering anecdotes and memories of its
citizens. In 1998, at the time of the conception of The
Angel of the North, its sculptor Antony Gormley had a
studio at Peckham Rye.’ Stories punctuate Iain’s walk,
who also came across a sight: ‘And then, out of
nowhere, a mirage, a solar bounce of fool’s gold: Boris
Johnson in the flesh at Old Street, barking like a seal,
shaking the straw of his signature fringe from cold eyes.
He is in full cry, stuttering with mangled emphasis,
saluting the economic boosterism of Silicon Roundabout.’
An entertaining, quirky look at London. 258pp, b/w illus.
£16.99 NOW £5
79685 MEMORY LANE: LEEDS Volume 1
by Yorkshire Evening Post
If you want to find the nitty gritty of a city, then the
local paper is the place to look. The book is divided into
such chapters as Famous Thoroughfares, Transport in
Leeds, Royal Occasions, Incidents and Accidents and
many others. Winston Churchill gives his famous V-for
Victory salute as he leaves Leeds Civic Hall, police keep
guard over the remains of a shot-down Luftwaffe
Messerschmitt, and toddlers splash around in a pool at
Roundhay Park in 1955, wearing those typical shirred
elastic costumes of the day. Nostalgia abounds.
Softback. 192pp, illus.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
RELIGION AND
PHILOSOPHY
The mind is its own place, and in itself can
make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
78848 CONFESSIONS OF
SAINT AUGUSTINE
edited by Tom Griffith
St Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ was
written between AD 397-400. An
autobiographical work, it was
written in 13 parts, each a complete
text intended to be read aloud.
Written in his early 40s, it
documents the development of
Augustine’s thought from childhood
into his adult life. He was in his
early 30s before he converted to
Christianity, but was soon ordained as a priest and
became a bishop not long after. ‘Confessions’ not only
documented his conversion but sought to offer guidance
to others taking the same path. Augustine’s work
(including the subsequent ‘City of God’) became a major
influence on Christian writers for the next 1,000 years.
This edition uses the classic translation from Latin by
E.B. Pusey (1838) with a partial modernisation of the
text. 270 page paperback.
ONLY £4
30323 HOLY QUR’AN by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The Holy Qu’ran (also known as The Koran) is the
sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth
was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the
angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. The first full
compilation was by Abu Bakar, the first Caliph, and it
was then recompiled in the original dialect by the third
Caliph Uthman, after the best reciters had fallen in
battle. This translation, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, is
considered to be the most faithful rendering available in
English. 562pp. Paperback.
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79288 MAJESTIE: The King
Behind the King James Bible
by David Teems
1603. Orphaned, bullied, lonely
and unloved as a boy, in time the
young King of Scots overcame his
troubled beginnings to ascend the
English throne at the height of
England’s Golden Age. In an effort
to pacify rising tensions in the
Anglican Church and to reflect the
majesty of his new reign, King
James spearheaded the most
important literary undertaking in Western history - the
translation of the Bible into a beautiful, lyrical and
accessible English. It’s a grand tale of conspiracy,
kidnapping, witchcraft, murder, love, despair and loss.
301pp, paperback and apologies for the sticker.
£9.99 NOW £4
79575 THE BOOK OF BIBLES
by Stephan Füssel, Christian Gastgeber and
Andreas Fingernagel
This heavyweight glamorous edition brings together 50 of
the finest illustrated medieval bible manuscripts from the
Austrian National Library, with examples from every epoch
of the Middle Ages, the collection explores visualisations of
the bible in various theological and historical contexts. With
fragments from the Tours, Parisian Pocket, Admont Giant,
Upper Italian, Utrecht Luxury and History Bibles, highly
decorated Capitals, biblical scenes and figures, saints and
clergy, kings and warrior knights are depicted in medieval
marvels of art. Latin texts clearly visible and page
decorations shown in close up. In impeccable reproduction
quality, a team of 18 scientific authors describe each
manuscript in detail, exploring both the evolution of the Bible
and the medieval understanding of history. Glossary. 5.5" x
7.7", 464 pages dripping with gold and illuminated colour,
bookmarker. Taschen.
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78451 LAST DAYS OF JESUS:
His Life and Times
by Bill O’Reilly
This informative, easy-to-digest text
brings the story of Jesus vividly to
life, setting him into the context of
everyday life in the Holy Land, and
describing the major events in his
life. ‘Pilate had told these men to
lash Jesus and now they do so until
he is physically broken but not yet dead.’ Here are
details of the foods Jesus would have eaten, how his
home would have appeared and his general everyday
life. A colour section depicts the Temple Mount Complex
in Jerusalem. 298pp. Colour and b/w illus, plans.
Remainder mark.
$19.99 NOW £6
77673 RELIGION BOOK: Places, Prophets,
Saints and Seers by Jim Willis
An alphabetically arranged broad overview of religion
through the millennia, with almost 300 entries from
Aaron to Zoroastrianism. Also looks at holy places
including Amesbury, Mecca and Jerusalem, and at
prophets, founders, saints from the Bible and various
scriptures. 490pp, illus.
$52 NOW £2.50
78154 SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCK: A
Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
by Harold Bloom
The author points out that two central English literature
masterworks emerged at the beginning of the 1600s.
One was the Authorised version of The Bible, the other
was Shakespeare’s major plays. By comparing the King
James Bible with the Geneva Bible and Tyndale’s Bible,
as well as the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the
author demonstrates how the texts have been improved
upon - or, sometimes diminished - with relation to earlier
versions. We are invited to hear the baroque
inventiveness in The Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes and
Job and to recognise the echoes in Romantic poetry.
The Bible can be enjoyed by all as a literary form with
aesthetic value. 312pp.
£20 NOW £5
78687 SECRET LANGUAGE OF SACRED
SPACES by Jon Cannon
The sub-title is ‘Decoding Churches, Temples, Mosques
and Other Places of Worship Around the World’. Karnak
to the Sagrada Familia, from the Dome of the Rock to
Angkor Wat our book helps you understand structural
features that work most dramatically on the human
senses and mind. Key universal themes recurring within
architecture, great sites of prehistory and antiquity
including Ancient Egypt, major sections of Judaism,
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hindu, also Shinto,
Confucianism and Taoism. Colour photos and ‘decoder’
special features. 224 very large pages, colour.
£25 NOW £7.50
79878 THREE WAYS OF LOVING GOD
by St. Augustine, St. Teresa of Avila and St.
Francis de Sales
A collection of three distinct but united voices on the
subject of what it means to love God, and to know that
you are loved by God. In these pages you will meet
three of the most interesting Christians in the history of
our faith - St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Teresa of Avila
and St. Francis de Sales. Their viewpoints are presented
chronologically and short biographies of each can be
found at the end of the book. 162pp in paperback.
$13.99 NOW £5.75
MYTHOLOGY
The thought of being engaged to a girl who
talked openly about fairies being born
because stars blew their noses, or whatever
it was, frankly appalled me.
- P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
78772 ARTHUR RACKHAM’S
SLEEPING BEAUTY
by C. S. Evans
Arthur Rackham’s illustrations to The
Sleeping Beauty must be among the
most beautiful ever published, and
this modern edition of the story
features Rackham’s original black
and white cut out silhouettes,
enlivened with splashes of red. A
cross-section of the fairy-tale castle shows a lively scene
in every room, with below-stairs domestics rushing
about their duties, the
royal family elegantly
doing nothing, and the
soldiers with bristling
halberds keeping guard
over the fortress. Cutouts of the forest are
particularly expressive
with their gnarled
branches and delicate
filigree patterns of twigs,
while a cat pouncing for a
mouse is a wonderful
vignette. Meanwhile the
wicked witch in her high tower is plotting to curse the
baby. 100pp, beautiful illus.
$22.95 NOW £7.50
79398 ALICE ILLUSTRATED: 120 Images
From the Classic Tales of Lewis Carroll
edited by Jeff Menges
The original edition of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 masterpiece
featured 42 woodblock
engravings by John
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79406 FAIRY TALES OF
CHARLES PERRAULT
illustrated by Harry Clarke
Little Red Riding-Hood, The
Fairy, Blue Beard, The Sleeping
Beauty in the Wood, The Master
Cat; or, Puss In Boots,
Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass
Slipper, Riquet with the Tuft,
Little Thumb, The Ridiculous
Wishes and Donkey-Skin are the
cherished favourites of French
author Charles Perrault’s graceful
versions which helped define the fairytale genre. To all
these, Irish illustrator Harry Clarke injects his lush
eccentricities - his work in colour, pen and ink and
silhouette abounds. 24 full page illustrations and
numerous vignettes. Printed on 150gsm Chinese
Premium paper and bound in Wibalin hardcover binding,
Calla facsimile reprint edition of the 1922 Harrap original.
160 large pages.
£22.99 NOW £8.50
79401 CINDERELLA retold by C. S. Evans and
illustrated
by Arthur Rackham
Unabridged replica of the numbered and signed limited
edition published in 1919 by William Heineman, this
glamorous hardback is printed on 150gsm Chinese
Premium paper 1.3 and bound in Wibalin with silhouette
illustrations on the cover. Arthur Rackham, one of the
best know illustrators of the Golden Age of book
illustration, in 1919 worked with editor Charles Seddon
Evans to bring both Cinderella and later Sleeping Beauty
to life in new editions with rich silhouetted images.
Evans proved to be deft with the written word, imbuing
the classic folktale with charm. Over 50 lively
silhouettes and the lush full colour frontispiece animate
this retelling perfectly and the ornate cover design has
been retained for this edition which contains the rare
additional plate. 112 large pages.
£15.99 NOW £7
79797 ADONIS TO ZORRO
by Andrew Delahunty and
Sheila Dignen
Georges Barbier’s romantic
illustration (with pet whippet)
graces the cover of this Oxford
Dictionary of Reference and
Allusion. It is a brilliantly
organised handbook of names,
places and phrases in this third
edition of a title that has been
comprehensively revised and
updated. Particular attention has
been paid to the inclusion of
entries from modern culture like Action Man, Mr Bean,
the Full Monty, as well as entries derived from nonEnglish sources like Nelson Mandela, Nul points, Sturm
und Drang, broadening its scope considerably. Bugs
Bunny, Catch-22, Doubting Thomas, Judge Jeffreys,
Magna Carta, Red Riding Hood, Teletubbies, Wandering
Jew, The Sound of Music, Minotaur, Jehovah, Goody
Two-Shoes, Tarzan to Zorro. With thematic index.
406pp.
£20 NOW £7.50
79973 GREEK MYTHS
by Robin Waterfield and Kathryn Waterfield
Odysseus, Icarus, Heracles, Aphrodite, Achilles, Helen,
Zeus and all the other characters from Greek legends,
brought once more to life. This book is beautifully
illustrated, with classic artworks; paintings, sculptures,
pottery, and with some of the images as double-page
spreads. From the opening of the first chapter which
begins, ‘The gods were bored, becalmed in the ocean of
time. It’s all very well being immortal, but time does
start to weigh heavily after a few dozen millennia,’ you
become enmeshed in these classic stories, here retold in
everyday language making them enjoyable. 320pp,
colour illus.
£20 NOW £8
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trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity
of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
80291 PRACTICAL KNOTS:
A STEP BY STEP GUIDE
by Barry Mault
Being able to tie a good knot is
useful for more than just boating or
scouting, as anyone who has ever
tried to get a washing line into
position will know. Over 50 knots
are described step by step, with a
colour photo at every stage and
very clear instructions. Knowing
your rope is important, and some
seamen’s knots have become less
secure with the introduction of synthetic materials into
rope manufacture. Care should also be taken when
heating the end of a synthetic rope to prevent fraying.
Basic knots such as whipping, or a stopper knot, are
followed by bends, hitches, loop knots and nooses, and
finally binding knots. The largest section is hitches, used
for attaching rope or cord to something else, and here
we have the clove hitch, used for linking canes or
fencing, and the pile hitch which can be used for mooring
a boat. The final section on miscellaneous knots includes
some complex examples such as the Versatackle. 128pp,
softback, glossary, colour photos on every page.
£6.99 NOW £3.50
77899 FUNDRAISING
IDEAS: Plan and Run Events
to Raise Money for Good
Causes
by Molly Russell
Whether you want to run a
barbecue or garden party, hold an
auction, plan a celebrity concert or
organise a fashion show, here’s
how to do it. Here too is how to
form a committee, how to get
professional support and how to use
the internet to publicise your event. Legal aspects are
included - do you need a music licence, permission for
events on public roads and the knowhow on the ruling
for raffle tickets? Paperback. 150pp, illus.
£7.99 NOW £1.50
78529 WHERE THERE’S A
WILL
by Michael Kerrigan
Apart from the mechanics of writing
a will and the process of probate,
the book discusses how to make
sure that what happens after your
death is what you want. Decisions
that need to be made as health fails
include power of attorney and the
choice between staying at home or
going into residential care. The
Dignitas option is covered as well
as moral issues to do with the ending of life and the
withdrawal of treatment. Preparations for burial and the
formalities of the funeral service are described, epitaphs
and memorials are discussed. Ends with some moving
personal stories. 260pp, paperback, resources.
£9.99 NOW £3
78744 READER’S DIGEST HOME SAFETY AND
SECURITY DIY MANUAL: Expert Guidance on
Safety and Security in the Home
by Reader’s Digest
Electrical, gas, water safety, fire, poisons, safety
outdoors, a room by room safety check takes us through
our houses and helps us keep our property more secure
and in good condition. With a detailed look at door and
window locks and catches, choosing a burglar alarm and
CCTV systems, security lights, and keeping your
property safe from bogus callers, car crime, identity theft
and online threats. Spiral bound, 128 large pages with
colour photos and diagrams throughout.
£9.99 NOW £3
79098 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE IN FOUR
WEEKS by Roger Mason
Four great tried and tested bestselling business books in
one four week course. Week one: quickly build the
confidence you need to understand profit statements,
balance sheets and everyday finance. Week two:
discover the basic principals of bookkeeping and
accounting of what you need to know to keep control of
the books. Week three: get up to speed with the
contents of published accounts, interpret the figures and
know how to use them. Week four: understand the
purpose of different budgets and forecasts and learn how
to prepare them quickly and effectively. All about bad
debts, capital expenditure, sales and revenue budgets.
Illus. 489pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £3
79102 BASIC ACCOUNTING
by J. Randall Stott and Mike
Truman
Accounting for stock, dealing with
checking bank statements, managing
credit accounts and operating cash
books before looking at tax issues like
VAT and PAYE. We start with the
balance sheet, source documents, the
ledger system, balancing the cash
book, double entry theory and
practice, money withdrawn for private use, the trial
balance, gross profit and loss accounts, petty cash,
returns, bad debts, year-end adjustments, partnership
accounts, accounting for share capital, computerised
accounting and more. 330pp, paperback, examples.
£12.99 NOW £3.50
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80386 CLASSIC FAIRY
TALES: Slipcased
by Arcturus Publishing
CHILDREN’S
Some day you will be old enough to start
reading fairy tales again.
- C. S. Lewis
80278 THE SCHOOL
by Dick Bruna
The iconic imagery of Dick Bruna
with coloured bold backgrounds,
big round faces of the children
with colourful clothing and an
appealing cartoonist style for
ages two an up, this is a Tate
Gallery publication. Betty, Anne
and Charlie, Sal and Tim O’Toole walk along together
on their way to school which was very charming,
yellow, red and blue, they had a fun time playing and
learned a lot there too. With dedication page, slim
storybook, colour.
£4.99 NOW £3.75
80145 HORSE AND PONY
STORIES: 40 Classic Tales to
Share by Vic Parker
Jump into the saddle with this
exciting big storybook with pink foil
title embossed on the flexi-cover of
this quality large softback,
decorated with beautiful intricate
coloured borders and original colour
artwork. Meet some of the bravest
and most beautiful horses in fiction
in this wonderful treasury with authors including Anna
Sewell, E. Nesbit and Lewis Carroll. My Breaking In
from Black Beauty, Alice and the White Knight from
Through the Looking Glass, The Ponies of the Plains
from Long Lance by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance,
Taken for a Ride from Talking Horse by F. Anstey, The
Good Luck Horse an ancient Chinese folk tale, SoldierBoy from A Horse’s Tale by Mark Twain, Pegasus the
Winged Horse by James Baldwin and horses from The
Arabian Nights and mythology by Andrew Lang.
Friendship and adventure throughout. 512 large pages.
£14.99 NOW £5
80125 DISNEY PRINCESS:
Pink Embossed Tin Box Set
by Parragon Books
Cinderella, Snow White and Disney
movie The Princess and the Frog
from the book by E. D. Baker have
inspired this colouring book, activity
and story book box set. There are
50 sweet colourful stickers, three
books, four felt tip pens, a pretty
double-sided poster which you can
flip over to colour in and hours of fun with the activity
book. Suit ages 3-10. All the activities and pens can be
neatly put back into the A4 real tin box in pretty pink
with three princesses embossed on the cover with
hearts, birds and flowers.
£16.99 NOW £5
79819 DISNEY PRINCESS: Design and Draw
Set by Disney Enterprises
Three felt tip pens in fluorescent pink, purple and yellow,
colourful stickers, stencils for scrolls, bows and ribbons,
stars and a butterfly are included with this spiral bound
drawing book. Colour in beautiful Belle whose image is
repeated on each page who can be decorated with all
your stickers and in the different colours you select to
dress her and adorn her with roses and diamonds, tiaras
and fans and different arm movements. Ages 3+.
ONLY £3.50
80388 CLEO THE CAT
by Stella Blackstone and
Caroline Mockford
A companion to Cleo and Caspar
code 80387, join a small,
inquisitive cat as she sets out to
find a home and a friend.
Painted in big bold colours, Cleo
is a ginger tabby and the big colourful softback pages are
filled with flowers, butterflies, teddies and inside the
home where she gets her cuddles. A beautiful Barefoot
storybook for ages 3+.
£5.99 NOW £2.50
80387 CLEO AND CASPAR
by Stella Blackstone and
Caroline Mockford
Cleo is surprised when she finds
there is someone new in the
house. Does she really have to
make friends with this stranger?
Kittens and puppies are always
adored by children and this ginger striped kitty and white
and brown eye-patch puppy get along by the end of this
simple story. Bold colourful paintings and a companion
to Cleo the Cat code 80388. A Barefoot large softback
for young readers aged around three.
£5.99 NOW £2.50
80263 LITTLE RED RIDING
HOOD
by Charles Perrault and
Margrete Lamond
A lively retelling of one of the best
loved fairy tales of all time retold
and beautifully illustrated by Anna
Pignataro in delicate, colour
artworks on every facing page.
The text is bold and clear for ages
four and up. Little Red Riding Hood
is a good as she can be, except when she isn’t. One
day she meets a wolf in the woods. When he suggests
she wander off the path to pick flowers, that’s exactly
what she does. 22 page picture book.
ONLY £6
Published by Bibliophile Ltd.,
Fly to Never Never Land with Peter
Pan, meet a magical Genie with
Aladdin, and discover how Beauty
fell in love with the Beast. Follow
the Pied Piper of Hamlin or Hansel
and Gretel into the woods, go
underwater with the Little Mermaid,
admire the beauty of Cinderella and the adventure of
Goldilocks and the Three Bears. On heavy glossy paper
and with charming new colour illustrations throughout the
coloured pages, these classic tales continue with Sleeping
Beauty, The Three Little Pigs, Snow White, The Frog
Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, The Emperor’s New
Clothes and a little about the tales themselves. A
marvellous large treasury, 256pp with cloth binding,
silver embossed title and silhouette cover design and
illustrated slipcase.
£12.99 NOW £6
79836 PIPSQUIGZ GREEN
SUCKER TOY
by Fat Brain Toy Company
In lime green attractive colour, it is a
bath toy, rattle and teether all in one
made from BPA-free 100% silicone. Great
for travel and dishwasher safe. Probably not suitable for
pets.
ONLY £3
79841 SAILING BOAT PENGUIN
BABY BATH TOY by Plan Toys
Suitable for 12 months plus, this
traditional wooden toy should float
your boat. It comes with a little
canvas flag on a small piece of
wooden doweling which pops inside the
orange container into which you can stand the cheeky
faced simple peg like penguin toy in his own little circular
zone. Could be used as a soap dish, but do not soak for
over 24 hours and store in a dry place. Simple brown
paper packaging, ISO9001 certified for safety, this is a
‘sustainable’ play toy. Import.
£10.88 NOW £5
79839 LITTLE FRIEND RATTLE
by Happy Baby
Great quality, unique wooden toy. Suitable
for ages 6-12 months, this very traditional
wooden rattle. Develops fine motor skills,
physical skills, problem solving, self
discovery, social skills, imagination and
creativity. The happy little wooden boy
wears a sky blue hat, and five different
wooden rings in shades of blue make up his body on a
slightly bendy red elastic cord. CE Safety approved.
175x127x40mm.
ONLY £4
79838 PINK PIG
SPOTTED COW AND
BROWN HORSE: Three
Toy Pack by Melissa
and Doug K’s Kids
Meeting all US toy testing
standards, these wipe-clean
toys are great for playing with little ones aged 1+ as
they learn about animals and enjoy squeaking, mooing,
neighing and making noises with parents and
grandparents. Made of sturdy, slightly squidgy rubber.
Mix and match with different heads and back ends for
lots of giggles and childish fun. Set of three toys.
ONLY £4.50
79837 TODDLER
TAMBOURINE: Lime Green
by Hohner Kids
With four tinkling silver bells
protected by sturdy plastic, this
circular lime green plastic tambourine
is approximately 6" in diameter. For
ages 12 months and up, babies will love making sounds
and learning rhythms and it is proven that this has
lifelong positive impact on intellectual and social
development. US safety approved and BPA free
plastic. 20.8x16.8x4.3cm, 181 gram weight.
ONLY £5
78827 SECRETS OF DRACULA’S CASTLE BOX
SET
by Janine Amos
In a big book shaped box, lift the flap and be welcomed
as a guest of Count Dracula at his castle. Inside the
covers you will find a diary and inside the diary, a
survival kit - black rubber bat, Dracula cape, fake teeth,
fake blood capsules, red lipstick, white face paint and a
press-out castle to assemble. The diary will reveal tips
you will need to avoid the clutches of Dracula and his
brides, and escape from his castle - but beware of
vampires! 32 page softback, colour illus plus accessories
described. Ages five and up.
$19.99 NOW £4
78847 LASSIE COME HOME
by Eric Knight
Sam’s son Joe and Lassie are a devoted pair but a time
comes when they have to be parted. The Carracloughs
are not well off and when they fall on hard times Sam is
forced to sell his champion dog to the Duke of Rudling,
whose great estate borders their Yorkshire village. But
Lassie escapes and makes her way home to the
Carracloughs. Against all the odds, Lassie the collie
comes home! 160 page new paperback.
ONLY £2
78193 CAT WITHOUT A MEOW
by Enid Blyton
There once was a toy cat who had a beautiful meow.
It sounded like a squeak. But one day a dreadful thing
happened. Bobby, the little boy who owned all the
toys, trod on the cat - and broke her beautiful squeak!
Small square colourful board book with CE mark. Ages
2-3.
£4.99 NOW £1
23965 ALICE IN
WONDERLAND and
THROUGH THE LOOKING
GLASS by Lewis Carroll
This edition contains Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland and its
sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
It is illustrated throughout by Sir
John Tenniel, whose drawings for
the books add so much to the
enjoyment of them. Tweedledum
and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter,
the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit
all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures
in writing, conversation and idiom. Paperback.
ONLY £2
23995 KIDNAPPED
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped
remains one of the most exciting
adventure stories ever written. It
tells of how young David Balfour,
orphaned, and betrayed by his
uncle Ebenezer who should have
been his guardian, falls in with Alan
Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic
champion of the Jacobite Cause.
Shipwreck, murder and escape
through the Highlands are only a
few of the ingredients of this wonderful book. 240pp.
Paperback.
ONLY £2
79886 MISTER CLEGHORN’S SEAL
by Judith Kerr
A glamorous hardback with gold foil on the jacket and
beautiful line art throughout, this is a classic in the
making by the author of ‘Mog the Forgetful Cat’. Here
is an exquisite new story to delight readers young and
old. What do you do if you find an abandoned seal pup
on a rock in the middle of the sea? Well, take it home
with you to your flat of course. At least that’s what Mr
Albert Cleghorn thought, though perhaps he hadn’t
considered all the complications. Read all about Mr
Cleghorn and Charlie the Seal, the family zoo and how
they all lived happily ever after.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
79827 QUEENIE
by Jacqueline Wilson
Elsie lives with her Nan in a cosy
basement flat until Nan’s chesty
cough doesn’t get better. Mum is a
showgirl and lives in theatrical digs,
an infrequent visitor. Nan and Elsie
share a special bond and dream of
going to see the Queen in June in
her beautiful glittering carriage for
her Coronation and standing as near
as they can to Westminster Abbey.
Queenie had a litter of four kittens, one snow white just
like her. Read about Nurse Gabriel, kind teachers, and
details of 1950s life. Ages 8+. Illus by Nick Sharratt.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
79611 GRAND ADVENTURES AND GLORIOUS
INVENTIONS
by Wallace & Gromit
Red 4-ply knitting yarn, Cheeseweek magazine, worldclass marrows, we enter the chaotic world of an amateur
inventor and his dog. Among the ramblings you will find
a Wanted poster, a mood-o-meter showing Gromit’s
range of wonky expressions, a pull-the-tab operational
invention blueprint, and a booklet on Giant Vegetable
Competition disasters. A Matter of Loaf And Death, The
Top Bun Mill, The Tender Trap, Team Anti-Pesto, A
Close Shave, The Wrong Trousers and more in this
grand day out. Featuring teeny booklets inserted,
blueprints, pull tabs, illustrations from the family
favourite films and a picture of Piella. Packed with
pictures and cartoon strips. Suit ages five to adult.
£17.99 NOW £5
79425 LEGEND OF KING
ARTHUR COLOURING BOOK
And His Knights of the Round
Table by Pomegranate Kids
22 beautiful line drawings inspired
by the legend of King Arthur and his
Knights of the Round Table
involving Queen Guinevere, the
Wizard Merlin, Sir Lancelot, Sir
Galahad, dragons and other
animals, the sword Excalibur and
the mysterious Lady of the Lake.
These drawings were inspired by
paintings made famous by three artists about a hundred
years ago, shown as small coloured pictures on the
inside front and back covers of the book. Frame and
mount them. Large softback, ages ten to adult.
$7.95 NOW £3
78417 ULTIMATE CHILDREN’S CLASSIC
COLLECTION
by Wordsworth Editions
The Little Prince is a classic tale and here the 1943
publication is newly translated and contains Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry’s delightful illustrations. 109pp. The Wind
in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is 192pp. Black
Beauty by Anna Sewell has 201pp. The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgeson Burnett is 211pp. Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson contains mutiny, murder and
mayhem. 218pp. Alice In Wonderland and Through the
Looking Glass its sequel by Lewis Carroll are both
illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. 264pp. Peter Pan and
Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie are the
two magical tales delightfully illus by Arthur Rackham.
269pp. The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling contain all of the thrilling Mowgli
stories and his unlikely alliance with the python Kaa.
397pp in paperback. All eight paperbacks are boxed in a
sturdy slipcase.
44607 MY FIRST BIG
COLOURING BOOK: Super
Value Fun Pack
And big means big! 12" x 17" is the
outsize size of My First Big
Colouring Book which is
accompanied by an 8" x 12" My
First Learning to Colour: Easy to
Colour for the Very Young book
plus an 8" x 12" 123 to Colour book. All three books are
softback plus there are in the pack six fibre-tipped pens in
a rainbow spectrum, washable and non-toxic. The bigeyed octopus, pig, frog, letters of the alphabet,
paintbrush and pram will have youngsters learning as
well as having the best possible fun. Plus a set of six
coloured crayons. Resealable carry bag.
ONLY £2.75
79409 LITTLE WIZARD STORIES OF OZ
by L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum returned to the Land of Oz in 1914 with
these six short stories, featuring Dorothy, Toto and the
other beloved characters. These hard-to-find tales offer
a fine introduction to his enchanted world. Stories
include The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Tik
Tok and the Nome King, Ozma and the Little Wizard,
Jack Pumpkin Head and the Sawhorse, and The
Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. Blue large print, 40
full colour gorgeous illus, unabridged republication.
144pp, softback.
£9.99 NOW £2.50
79322 SARAH AND SIMON AND NO RED
PAINT by Edward Ardizzone
Born in Vietnam in 1900 and moving to England at the
age of five, Edward Ardizzone discovered the power of
art and was awarded the first Kate Greenaway medal in
1956. Here’s a story of two children Sarah and Simon
whose father (who bears a distinct resemblance to
Ardizzone himself) is a painter, and who live with their
parents and baby brother in a big room called a Studio.
The children are good little helpers who do chores and
are especially infatuated with the old second hand
bookshop and its kindly owner. To their surprise they
end up reconciling their family with an estranged uncle
and restoring the family fortune. Charming ink and
wash illus. Classic 1965 reprinted publication. Ages 6+.
$17.95 NOW £4.75
78897 PUSS IN BOOTS: Pop Up
retold by Stella Gurney
Our hero is dashing, smashing and awfully clever, has
bright green beautiful eyes, soft ginger and white fur and
very long leather boots. Peter is the miller’s youngest
son, a lazy but pleasant fellow. See if you can find one
boot hidden in every scene. Read the story book, lift
the flaps, turn the spinning wheels to make the pages
interactive, read the small booklet of the Legend of the
Ogre of Montoya, pull the flap and a final surprise, a
beautiful colour pop-up of the wedding.
£12.99 NOW £4
79876 SCRAPPY CAT HEART OF MINE
PLUSH TOY by Under the Nile
£60.32 NOW £10
79997 MOUSTACHE UP!
by Kimberley Ainsworth
Peep inside the fluorescent orange folder on the inside
cover of this little book to find sheets of press-out
moustaches. Match the ‘staches to the faces in the book
or use them to play dressing up. They can be stored
once again in the envelope when you are finished. Turn
one upside down to cover up a frown! Decorate the
faces of a pirate, a mayor, a wrestler with short, tall,
thin, wide, smooth, rough, straight or curly moustaches.
Board book.
£5.99 NOW £2
78079 I SAW ESAU: The School Child’s Pocket
Book edited by Iona and Peter Opie
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, here is a book for adult
collectors and children to enjoy. “I saw Esau kissing
Kate, the fact is we all three saw: for I saw him, and he
saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.” This exuberant
pocket book teams with the zest and humour of the
playground and contains over 170 rhymes of insult and
retaliation, teasing and repartee, skipping and counting,
riddles, tongue twisters, narratives and nonsense. 160pp.
£15 NOW £5.50
78351 DRAT THAT CAT! by Tony Ross
Master illustrator and children’s book writer Tony Ross
presents a zany tale about Suzy Cat who lived with the
Baggots. Mostly Suzy was well behaved, but
sometimes when she felt like, it she could be very, very
naughty. Hopping onto granddad’s lap, piddling in dad’s
golf bag, sharpening her claws on mum’s new sofa and
leaving her warm cat poo in the garden where the twins
could find it buried. A mucky fun tale about family life,
pets, love and relationships. Ages six and up. 9" x 11"
softback.
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78374 MONSTER MACHINE DOODLES
by Ben Measdowcroft
Over 100 monster machines to invent and customise, no
drawing skills are required. Make a terrible traffic jam,
add components to the robot’s arms, draw a vehicle
mounted on the huge tracks, a space craft landing on the
Moon, finish the jets of milk coming off the tanker and
design the inside of the cruise ship, fill the box with tools,
complete the gigantic drill, fill the sky with super stunt
planes and finish the fantastic race track and fill it with
cars. Suit ages 4-94. Line art on big softback pages for
you to complete.
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