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73371 THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: 77601 CHRISTMAS IS 78812 LET’S GO TO THE Book and CD by Clement C. Moore HERE by the King 78827 SECRETS OF DRACULA’S CASTLE BEACH: Bag and Book The Night Before Christmas was published in 1823 and James Bible, illustrated BOX SET by Janine Amos Brightly coloured like Nemo in is a heart warming poem, here magnificently illustrated by Lauren Castillo In a big book shaped box, lift the flap and be orange and white stripes with welcomed as a guest of Count Dracula at his castle. by the painter Eric Puybarat. Stockings hung by the A book for every family as cheeky black eye, pull open chimney with care, visions of sugar plums dancing, a Inside the covers you will find a diary and inside the the drawstring, flip the fish a reminder of the true diary, a survival kit - black rubber bat, Dracula cape, miniature sleigh with eight tiny reindeer and Santa with meaning of the Christmas inside out and a fabulous his twinkly eyes and merry dimples - Christmas just fake teeth, fake blood capsules, red lipstick, white face beach or shopping bag is season and what it has paint and a press-out castle to assemble. The diary wouldn’t be Christmas without this classic tale. The meant to families since the revealed, hey presto! It is an adorable bag in which to legendary trio Peter, Paul and Mary provide a musical will reveal tips you will need to avoid the clutches of carry wet swimming cossies, seashells, toys, birth of Jesus. As each Christmas comes we look Dracula and his and narrative CD with their classic favourite ‘A’ Soalin’ forward to gifts and decorations, but perhaps we should sunglasses, sun cream, books, flip flops and more. The and an enchanting reading by Mary Travers over a brides, and escape booklet tells you all about the beach from waves to take a moment to consider where Christmas began and from his castle - special score. Huge colourful pages. what it truly means to be with family and friends, seashells to ocean animals and 20 activity cards have $19.95 NOW £5 but beware of beach themed games and activities to play while on celebrate firsts, embrace old customs and start new vampires! 32 holiday. Ages six and up. Box set. 78380 PERFECT traditions. For little tots aged three and up, this big page softback, $14.99 NOW £6 CHRISTMAS picture storybook has only a few lines from the King colour illus plus by Rose Henniker Heaton James Bible on some of the big double page colour accessories 78813 LET’S GO TO THE In a nostalgic look at Christmas in artworks. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon described. Ages FARMERS’ MARKET: Bag those easy days before the Second them… Merry Christmas everyone. 26cm square. five and up. and Book World War, the author describes $12.99 NOW £5 $19.99 3" across, red with white food, games, guests, house-parties, 77866 GREAT NOW £7 spotted linen and green top decorations and family reunions. CHRISTMAS CRISIS shaped just like a strawberry, First published more than half a by Kim Norman 78511 TIMES COMPREHENSIVE ATLAS OF this lightweight folding bag has century ago, it is as practical, useful Big, shiny embossed raised a drawstring and when popped inside out makes a and instructive - not to mention figures make this big THE WORLD: 13th Edition sturdy shopping bag in green with fruity white design entertaining - now as it was then. colourful story book extra by Times Books to carry your fruits, veggies, shopping lists, books and The perfect gift for anyone who special and the characters This 13th edition is the latest publication of what has more. The box set includes a booklet all longs for a proper old-fashioned Christmas. 152 pages come alive. Santa and his evolved since The Times first published a world atlas in about farms, farmers, food and market, with charming line drawings illustrated by Daphne Elfin crew are exhausted 1895. Commissioned from John Bartholomew & Son, 20 activity cards with games and a Jarrold, recipes and menus. from working too fast to the renowned Edinburgh cartographers, production took shopping list pad, naturally all £4.95 NOW £3 wrap Christmas presents. That night over tea Santa 15 years and had 112 map plates. With many revisions decorated with pretty strawberries 75509 5 MINUTE CHRISTMAS STORIES told Mrs Claus ‘The North Pole’s in trouble, I must find between 1955 and 1960, this present 2011 edition has and other fruit and veg. A very from Little Tiger Press the cause.’ Meet the new trainee elf who fixed race cars 123 plates, all redesigned to give a less Euro-centric healthy box set, glamorous gift, now with wheels out of whack, but rushing to test them, he view and a more balanced view of the world, and we all have to pay 5p for a carrier 10 enchanting short stories. Children will love joining Little Rabbit as he builds a magic snowman, and urging melted the track. Rickety bicycles, sinking toy boats, revised to reflect the latest geopolitical changes. The bag, here is an ideal gift. Ages 6+. games systems ready but missing remotes... One big introductory section combines unique continental satellite $14.99 NOW £6 on Little Mouse as he tries to decorate the best Christmas tree ever. But poor Little Mouse goes from double page scene has an elf carrying a Chimney images, dramatic views of the universe, thematic maps, one disaster to another. First, he cannot find any holly, Enlarger, Mrs Claus anxiously holding up the calendar, photographs, graphics and contributions from experts in 77559 SHORTER ENGLISH DICTIONARY: Two then he is terrified because he thinks the Mouse Ness Santa looking pretty confident with his reindeer, elves, many fields to illustrate a range of important mice and teeny snowmen alongside him. Finally the Volume Slipcased by Oxford University Press Monster is following him. 288 pages 22.5cm x 22.5cm, geographical topics. 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With extensive index in which is included together with a Brief History of English 78034 A CHRISTMAS CAROL Many recipes are prepared with busy lifestyles in mind, small but extremely clear print, plus a very useful A-Z by David Crystal and a guide to the use of the by Charles Dickens, illustrated by P. J. Lynch and we begin with ‘must-haves’ such as Mince Pies and glossary, the maps themselves are simply stunning. In dictionary, abbreviations and symbols, pronunciation Almost in the style of Arthur Rackham, these spooky Rum Sauce. The Jewelled Christmas Cake deserves colour with varying scales, island insets, city plans, guide and transliteration guide. It is a historical and sometimes gleeful artworks by Kate Greenway centre stage on the tea table; Brandy Butter takes less abbreviations explained, administrative divisions dictionary of modern English, setting out the main medal winner P. J. Lynch will be much enjoyed by than five minutes to whip up and for each recipe there numbered for Libya and Egypt for example, Swiss meanings and semantic developments of words current children aged 6-96. First published in 1843, A Christmas are serving numbers, using up leftovers, cooking Cantons and Italian provinces numbered, there is a huge at any time between 1700 and the present day. In methods and a lovely clear layout for the recipe and Carol resonates with the spirit of Christmas. It tells the addition a wide range of scientific and technical words story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean old skinflint who page marker to use. We discover the Earth of today, alternative ideas. We could start with Smoked Salmon stars and planets and the atlas is arranged by continents and words which have fallen into disuse are included. Mousse with Cucumber Dressing, make some Chestnut hates everyone. 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Who can ever forget Bob Cratchit and adventure or expedition… By far and away the greatest 192pp in large paperback, colour photos. book on earth’ according to Ranulph Fiennes. A truly and Shakespeare. £12.99 NOW £6 his family as we feast on this on Christmas Day and £250 NOW £80 beyond. Gorgeous colour illus, 160pp in large softback. stunning publication. Save £100. 76170 RICHARD SCARRY’S CHRISTMAS £9.99 NOW £6.50 £150 NOW £50 72193 LADIES’ GOLD WATCH TALES: Box Set by Richard Scarry AND BRACELET 78133 VIRAGO BOOK OF CHRISTMAS Mr. Gronkle is a grouch and doesn’t believe in having fun. edited by Michelle Lovric by Pier Carlos D’Alessio One day, just before Christmas, Lowly Worm suggests Contents A stunningly beautiful gold coloured “But what funny things to give a baby - gold and myrrh everyone ice skate on Mr. Gronkle’s pond. Mr. Gronkle is and frankincense. That’s men all over! It wouldn’t cross metal chain link design with nine ART & ARCHITECTURE 10 furious... 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On each double spread there is a Presented in a silver gift box with HANDICRAFTS / CRAFT 27 recipes, letters and verse decorate the pages. 160pp in manuscript illustration reproduced in black and white silver foil bow and with Certificate paperback. accompanied by a full and informative commentary. The HEALTH & BEAUTY 34 of Warranty and Authenticity, this unique item of story starts with the Old Testament prophets, with £12.99 NOW £3.50 HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 4 jewellery is anti-allergenic and 24 carat gold-plated. Isaiah’s prophetic sacrifice appearing beneath a charming With six curves in a flower shape setting is a good 78828 SECTRETS OF THE Nativity scene in the 14th century De La Twyere Psalter HISTORY 6 quality magnifying glass (1" diameter) to wear around from Yorkshire. A 16th century “Tales of the Prophets” HOBBIES 31 your neck with four amber Swarovski crystals linking it FAIRY RING BOX SET from Persia shows Moses struggling with a startlingly to a gold plated rope chain. 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The cards themselves are 5" x 7" and are good crowding round the child with their gifts, while the same NEW AGE & OCCULT 35 quality, blank inside for your own message, four white is even an Elfabet of scene in a French vernacular Book of Hours shows the envelopes, four pieces of red string and matching gift goblins, ogres, banshees, Kings keeping a reverent and courtly distance. No page PETS 33 tags one of each design to match the cards. Dagda and more. There numbers, softback, 55 illustrations with facing-page RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY 28 ONLY £2.50 are a few stories like the commentary. 19 Woodsman’s Dark Story of ONLY £7 SCIENCE 78389 CHRISTMAS CAROLS: Solo Stars Dagda and The Brownies’ SCOTTISH BOOKS 34 Descant Recorder: Book and CD Bread, Two More Runes 23969 A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Jane Sebba and David Moses and a Riddle and more. by Charles Dickens SPORT 26 Ten favourite Christmas carols are arranged for descant Beautiful colour illustrated Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates TRANSPORT 29 everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three recorder with practice tracks and backing tracks on the book and figurine box set all TRAVEL & PLACES 20 accompanying audio CD enclosed with the book. Good about Fairy Wood and ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his King Wenceslas, Huron Indian Carol, I Saw Three Ships, Queen Mab. Join the ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, WAR & MILITARIA 8 Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant, In Dulci Jubilo, In the Bleak fairies on their quest for Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own WAR MEMOIRS 21 Midwinter, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Patapan, We Mab’s fairy dust and learn reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully 22 Three Kings and We Wish You A Merry Christmas are magical secrets along the illustrated with Arthur Rackham’s superb line drawings. WORD BOOKS clearly laid out with musical scores, words and melody. way. 160pp. Paperback. 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77602 CHRISTMAS POP-UP detailed floor plans of The British Museum, The National CARDS: Eight Christmas Cards Gallery, The V&A and Tate Modern plus a coloured 78731 BRITAIN’S HISTORIC HOUSES - THE illustrated by Louise Gardner GREAT BRITAIN & THE detailed inset map of Kensington if you wish to see the SOUTHEAST by Simon Jenkins Ho, ho, ho! The big jolly red Santa Court Dress Collection or the Museum of Instruments. Built to provide a defensive wall against cross-channel says Merry Christmas, his golden ENVIRONMENT With travel tips for getting around London, tours, useful invaders, the castles of Kent and Sussex have fortress- buckle shining, his big happy face websites, major collections and other recommended like exteriors, for instance Leeds Castle, Hurstmonceux inviting us to join him and his elves museums and galleries outside town. Tube map on and Bodiam which all rise majestically up out of their and little white mouse and reindeer The British nation is unique in this respect: reverse. Large folding sheet, colour. Softback. moats, and Dover Castle which spreads out along the at the window in a big pop-up scene as you open this they are the only people who like to be told ONLY £3 cliff top. As the need for keeps and dungeons receded, rather special large Christmas card. A second design is a how bad things are, who like to be told the 78624 FROZEN THAMES castles were often furnished with lavish interiors, as Christmas tree on the front joined by two pop-up friends worst. by Helen Humphreys we see here in beautiful photos of Hever Castle, home in a double page spread with little white mice and happy of Anne Boleyn and more recently William Waldorf - Winston Churchill The River Thames has frozen solid bunny collecting presents beneath and more birds and 40 times and here are 40 vignettes Astor, or Penshurst Place, where the Duke of animals in the sparkly trees. It is a woodland night based on actual events that took Buckingham entertained Henry VIII so lavishly that scene. The third design has a happy Rudolph on the the monarch grew suspicious and executed him. Knole 78700 WALES: An Illustrated place each time the historic river front complete with shiny red collar and inside four froze solid between 1142 and 1895. has been the home of the Sackville family since reindeers pull Santa and one elf on a sled across snowy History by Henry Weisser Illustrated with stunning period art, Elizabethan times and was the birthplace of Vita rooftops where a stripy cat is smiling and a little bird All of Wales comprises only 8019 whether we are viewing the Sackville West, looks a bit shocked. The fourth design is of a jolly square miles of blue hills, dark magnificent spectacle of Henry VIII who later snowman with metallic red stripes on his scarf and a mountains, gem-like small towns riding across the ice highway or Queen Matilda trying to created the carrot nose. Inside the big pop up and golden or mudflat beaches with escape her besieged castle in a snow storm, joining garden at card he leaps forward, hands some of the scars from massive lovers meeting on the frozen river during the plague Sissinghurst spread and is joined by two little industrialisation. Five major rivers years or a simple farmer persuading his oxen that the ice which is one of birdies and some bunny friends in run southward and two flow is safe, these remarkable moments transport us back the county’s a big snowy forest scene. Eight northward and two westward. through time. 1684: ‘An entire village has been built most-visited fun, beautifully made pop-up Over 500 lakes are scattered upon the ice. Boots have been made from blankets and attractions. The cards with strong white throughout the principality. Written for American visitors the oars of the watermen...there are coffee houses and Bloomsbury envelopes, 5¾ x 7½”, boxed. by an American professor of history, we were charmed taverns, booths that sell slabs of roast beef...and a group is also associated with Monk’s Cottage, Rodmell, £14.95 NOW £7.50 by this timeline of Welsh history, geographic, ethnic and printing press has been set up so that one can have home of the Woolfs, and Charleston, with walls political background, Wales before the Celts 600BC to one’s name printed in this place where men so oft were decorated by the ménage a trois of Vanessa and Clive 78228 DEVONSHIRE CHRISTMAS 73AD, Celtic legacy, Roman Wales, the Dark Ages, the Bell with Duncan Grant. In total contrast is the urban by Mike Holgate drowned. The Frost Fair is visited by a royal party that Norman and Edwardian conquests, Owen Glendower includes King Charles II (in what will be the last week of splendour of Brighton Pavilion, with its exuberant mix The Spirit of Christmas Past includes Dickens in Devon, and the Last Rising 1400-1408, the Welsh hero Henry of Indian, Persian and European Baroque styles, while Christmas morning in Exeter Cathedral, ‘God sends meat his life).’ 186pp, colour illus. VII, Henry VIII and the unification with England, the £12.99 NOW £5 on a domestic scale there is the clergy house at but the devil sends cooks’, The Adventure of the Reformation, 1750-1850 the Industrial Revolution, Alfriston, the National Trust’s first acquisition in 1896. Christmas Pudding, The Prize Turkey and The Holy emigrants and immigrants, wars and devolution to Welsh 78918 VICTORIAN Each of these gorgeous dwellings comes with a photo Ghost of Lapford. Yuletide Tipples and Spirits include A culture in the new millennium. Many maps and archive ENGLAND AND WALES 1897 and a description that reflects Jenkins’s personal but Ghost Story and Wassailing, Devonshire Cider and the photos, 228pp in paperback. well-informed taste, and each is given a star rating. Drunken Maidens. Mystery and Crime at Christmas OS MAP by Old House Books £10.99 NOW £4.50 A wonderful folding huge sheet 192pp, glossary, contact details and opening times. Time includes ‘Time’ on Dartmoor, Jack the Ripper in ONLY £6.50 Devon and The Great Western Railway Robbery. 78739 GLOUCESTER AND map, hand coloured, it was first Winter Tales include a New Year’s Morning Hymn, The TEWKESBURY LEISURE MAP published by the Royal Atlas of 78732 BRITAIN’S HISTORIC HOUSES - Madness of Kisses, The Devil’s Frying Pan and The England and Wales in 1897 and is WEST COUNTRY by Simon Jenkins by the Automobile Association reduced from the Ordnance Survey Robin. Alongside extracts from the works of writers At a scale of 2cms to one kilometre This volume in Simon Jenkins’s magnificent series has including Charles Kingsley, Sabine Baring-Gould, Anna nine sheets to a scale of four miles a wider chronological range than some of the others, or 1¼” to one mile here is the to one inch, covering East Wales Eliza Bray, Robert Herrick and Henry Francis Lyte are a second in the series, a companion to from Hut Six in the Chysauster Iron Age village to collection of seasonal stories and experiences from and the West Midlands. It is map Dartington High Cross House, a leading 1930s The Cotswolds Leisure Map code number four. We go from the River Dee and Mersey in famous personalities like Agatha Christie to Isambard 78728. The area covered includes monument to modernist architecture, and the Art Deco Kingdom Brunel. Woodcut illus, 192pp in paperback. the north, Denbigh, Montgomery, Brecknock and the pleasure palace Burgh Island which hosted Noël Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud, Brecon Beacons and south to Glamorgan, the River £9.99 NOW £4 Cirencester and as far north as Coward, Agatha Christie and the Prince of Wales Severn, Bristol and Bath in the south, Hungerford, accompanied by Mrs Simpson. Castle Drogo, Lutyens’s 78249 A CHRISTMAS CAROL Upton-upon-Severn and Northleach Gloucester, Cirencester, and as far east as Coventry and in the west. All the valleys, hills masterpiece on Dartmoor, is a mixture of modernism & DICKENS’ LONDON Warwickshire, Stratford, Shropshire, Derby, the High and Art Nouveau in concrete. Typical of the area is the and farms, manor houses, woods Peaks to Penistone and Sheffield, Manchester and by Charles Dickens and commons, public houses and schools, museums and gracious Elizabethan splendour of Montacute House or A Christmas Carol is surely our Liverpool in the north. Packed with superb detail of Prideaux Place, dwellings are etched on the countryside in this very towns and villages, canals and parkland from the historic most-loved Christmas tale, and this beautiful area of Britain. For all armchair travellers. presenting an is a must-have version, with its period, 1897. The atlas was first published to impressive face Large folding colour sheet map. Softback. commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty beautiful illustrations by artists such ONLY £3.50 to the world but as Arthur Rackham and John Leech. Queen Victoria. Colour. Softback. also being Charles Dickens wrote the story in 78910 ABC GUIDE TO £9.99 NOW £4.50 houses where just six weeks, discovering that the LONDON: Complete Edition 78742 OXFORD REVISITED you can imagine words just flowed from him and he 1905 by Justin Cartwright people might ‘wept and laughed and wept again’ as he brought by Charles Hooper & Co. South African by birth, Justin actually live. Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Crachit, Old Fezziwig and, of Cartwright was seduced by Oxford The Abbot’s course, the Christmas Spirits, to life. There is also a short Fabulous facsimile with original woodcut illustrations such as one of from the moment he arrived there Kitchen at biography of Charles Dickens and some superb old as a student in the sixties. The Glastonbury photos depicting scenes he must have been familiar the beautiful Windsor Castle from the Thames, the choir of Oxford he describes in this absorbing with its striking with, such as a workhouse, Victorian children, Euston book is partly the real town with its octagonal upper storey testifies to the wealth of the Arch, a grocer’s shop, London slums and an old coaching Westminster Abbey and a crowded Cheapside, the Victoria august Bodleian library, the monks before the Dissolution, while Buckland Abbey inn, together with details of how they pertain to the life Victorian respectability of Norham was a Cistercian foundation that became the home of of the author. There’s certainly no ‘Bah, Humbug!’ about Embankment with old sailboats plus monochrome photographs of principal buildings appearing Gardens and the cosiness of Sir Francis Drake. St Michael’s Mount is a perennial this delightful book. Paperback. 11½ x 8", 64pp. George’s cafe in Oxford market. visitor attraction dominating Mount’s Bay, and further £4.99 NOW £2.50 throughout the book such as the Tower of London, Rotten Row Hyde Park and neighbourhood illustrations The second Oxford is the romantic east there is the Georgian folly A La Ronde, a sixteen- 78260 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY: 18 such as South Kensington with all the museums and city of countless writers who have been inspired by the sided display house for the souvenirs the Parminter Christmas No.1 Hits gardens. Here are all the facets of Edwardian London grace of the architecture, the cyclists in the misty sisters brought back from their grand tour. Knightshayes Court is a magnificent riot of Victorian by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh and its inhabitants’ daily routine - schools, taverns, University Parks and the shades of Betjeman and his circulating libraries, omnibus routes, steamboat piers, old tutor C. S. Lewis. Fellow students in Cartwright’s time Gothic designed by the fanatical medievalist William The 18 number one hits selected begins with Here in My Burges, and Hartland Abbey’s remodelled interior Heart by Al Martino from 1952, Dickie Valentine’s railway stations, roads and docks. The sectional maps included Jeffrey Archer, who masqueraded as a member divide London into 15 parts and include contemporary of Brasenose College in order to become Captain of belongs to the same school, described by Jenkins as Christmas Alphabet 1955, Moon River 1961, I Want To ‘bursting with colour and pride in lineage’. 192pp, Hold Your Hand by The Beatles 1963, Lily the Pink by advertising for gentlemen’s suits and button boots from Athletics. Cartwright’s college is Trinity with its age-old the supplier Chas baker & Co. For the sightseer, it feud against next-door Balliol, and when he arrived in glossary, contact details and visitor information. The Scaffold 1968 and our Annie’s favourite, Slade’s ONLY £6.50 Merry Christmas Everybody from 1973. Lonely This locates and describes the celebrated royal palaces, Oxford the influence of the Brideshead generation was Christmas by Mud, When A Child Is Born, Don’t You historic monuments, theatres and museums. The being kept alive by Neville Coghill and David Cecil, 78733 BRITAIN’S HISTORIC HOUSES - Want Me (1981), Always On My Mind Pet Shop Boys, spontaneous may procure a marriage licence in Dean’s while the Inklings were still remembered by many. The YORKSHIRE by Simon Jenkins Mistletoe and Wine Cliff Richard, I Will Always Love You Court or a pet tiger in the notoriously iniquitous Ratcliffe Bowra era of aesthetes and mordant witticisms was just ending and Cartwright researches the personalities of Yorkshire is a county of two halves, built on Whitney Houston, Stay Another Day East 17, 2 Become Highway. Contains fascinating nuggets of historical manufacturing in the west and farming in the east, and 1 The Spice Girls, Somethin’ Stupid Robbie Williams and information and is a wonderful pre-war glimpse and A-Z that period, including Bowra’s famous confrontation with the German Adam von Trott. Trott had suggested that its historic houses reflect that division. In the county’s Nicole Kidman to Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke are directory. 108pp in paperback. industrial heartland there is the spectacular Doncaster among the favourites included in this book of full musical £7.99 NOW £4 the British should just let Hitler take the lands he wanted, and Cartwright muses on the tragedy of the Mansion House, rivalled only by the mansion houses in scores, words and music. Sheet music is very expensive 78919 VINTAGE 80s York and London, and the little-known Bolling Hall set and we are delighted to have grabbed this bargain young man ostracised in England and finally shot by the by Johnny Stiletto Nazis. A good read and a convincing portrait of an among mineral workings, its 18th century state rooms earlier in the year for the festive season. A truly classic By using black-and-white jostling with a medieval pele tower and heraldic glass collection 120pp in very large softback which should fold intellectual tradition. 223pp. photography, Johnny has $18 NOW £6 of the Bolling and Tempest families. The arable plains flat at the music stand. captured 1980s London in all of York are full of grand country houses, including the £14.95 NOW £5 its edgy, dramatic quality. At 77947 FORGOTTEN LONDON: A Picture of classical Beningborough Hall, glimpsed in the latest 78366 JUST THE RIGHT CHRISTMAS WORDS the beginning of the decade Life in the 1920s series of Downton Abbey, or Newby Hall with its by Judith Wibberley he bought a 35mm camera by Elizabeth Drury and Philippa Lewis noble 17th century exterior, sumptuous Angelica ‘A little red robin is coming to say he hopes you have fun on and spent the next ten years London between the wars was a city of contrasts, and in Kauffman panels and riotous Victorian staircase. The Christmas Day.’ ‘Sending you sincere wishes for a fabulous wandering around, taking this collection of photos, many of them taken by leading jewel in the crown is Castle Howard, designed by the Christmas full of fun and laughter.’ The best Christmas photos of whatever happened. It might be Mick Jagger photographers such as Hoppé and McLeish, we see the playwright John Vanbrugh and displaying the sort of present is love and these loving words will bring just the out with his agent, a group of Sloane Rangers, kissing city in its contradictory glory. A bowler-hatted man Rococo convolutions we find in the plots of his right seasonal cheer and festive fun to family and friends at punks, New Romantics, Frances Bacon entwined with leaves the Haymarket premises of the snuff-shop comedies. Jenkins marginally favours Rievaulx over Christmastime. From poetic verses to heart warming his boyfriend or a clamped DeLorean in Kensington Fribourg & Treyer, and in the Charing Cross Road, gas Fountains Abbey, but both Cistercian monasteries sentiments here are over 450 messages and motifs to Street; it is all grist to the mill here. A lively, gritty text lights illuminate the pavement stands of book dealers have substantial ruins against a backdrop of superb celebrate the Christmas season. The 100 fun, copyright-free accompanies the photographs. ‘The reality is that people Winter and Jackson. A coffee stall at Hyde Park Corner scenery that fascinate the visitor. Settle Folly with its motifs may be scanned from the book for paper craft really don’t change very much. Despite the clothes and was famous for catering for all classes of patron hint of Moorish design is a puzzle in the deep Pennines, projects and personalised cards. 192pp in illustrated softback. what they wear, they’re no brighter, cleverer or prettier throughout the night, and on a Sunday morning this was while Skipton Castle is a grim pile, tamed with a £9.99 NOW £4 than they were in Hogarth’s day but just as strange, the area where celebrities congregated to be seen by pretty Oriel window added by Lady Anne Clifford. engaging, charming, preening and self -serving. In their public, whether aristocrats, politicians or actors. Each house or castle is photographed in colour and 78509 SYLVESTER AND THE NEW YEAR London’s real zoo there really is only one species. The Hyde Park was also the scene of many political rallies, described in Jenkins’s stylish prose, with a star rating. by Eduard Mörike Londoner. And everybody who comes to London or lives and a photo here shows the Stepney Branch of the 192pp, glossary, contact details and visitor information. On the last evening of December, millions of twinkling stars in London becomes a Londoner for just as long as they Young Communist League marching past Marble Arch. ONLY £6.50 filled the sky as Clara and her father walked joyfully stay.’ Paperback, b/w illus. Before the advent of television, many Londoners bought through the snow. Crunch, crunch, crunch, went their boots. £14.99 NOW £6 two newspapers a Father tells the tale of far far away where there is a little 78737 LONDON INSIGHT MUSEUM day at the stands cottage, past all the stars in the Milky Way with silver gates dotted throughout leading to a magical garden. Angels stand watch over MAP by FlexiMap the city, and glittering sky lambs. The gleaming angel boy Sylvester Neat, lightweight laminated full colour map Croydon hitches the moon horses to a magnificent gold and silver of Central London from Regent’s Park and aerodrome had sleigh they head into a shower of moon dust spray to the Knightsbridge to Kennington, Bermondsey, scheduled flights to gates of the magical garden and to the River of Life. A Spitalfields and The British Library in the Paris, Amsterdam, beautiful fairytale originally written c1860 in German, now North, this super informative and easy to Rotterdam and 78940 BRITAIN’S HISTORIC HOUSES: Set translated to wish you all a very happy new year filled with use map includes all major museums and Berlin. 240pp, of Three by Simon Jenkins magic and dreams. Big colourful illustrations in large galleries with descriptions. Scale 1: 12,500 archive photos. hardback storybook. For ages 3 and up. and laminated to keep off those rain drops. 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77328 HOWGILLS AND 78699 VOICES OF 78701 WAYWARD GENIUS 78264 BRADFORD: 1843 - Present Day Four LIMESTONE TRAIL: VICTORIAN LONDON OF HENRY MAYHEW OS Maps by Cassini Publishing A New Walk in the Footsteps by Henry Mayhew edited by Karl Sabbagh From the Ordnance Survey Old Series, the sheets used of Alfred Wainwright The disabled coalwhipper, Sub-titled ‘Pioneering Reportage to create this map were first published in 1843, from the by David and Heather Pitt, chimneysweeps, a writer without from Victorian London’, Henry revised new series in colour 1903, the Popular Edition maps by Ron Scholes hands who used his stumps to write, Mayhew wrote over a million 1925 and finally the fourth map with present day Based on an original work by Alfred several crossing-sweepers, a words about the lives of poor mapping data all at a scale of 1: 50,000. Includes Wainwright, famous author of the crippled seller of nutmeg-graters, an working people in London and Baildon, Bingley, Guiseley, Horsforth, Menston, Pudsey, 1938 Pennine Journey, this pictorial orphaned street girl, a flusherman, inspired some of Dickens’s Queensbury, Shipley and Yeadon and many other guide follows a route through the an anxious dog-collar seller, a characters. Phrases worthy of towns and hamlets beside, farms and hilltops, woods picturesque area of Cumbria and shoemaker’s Dickens include: ‘The woman with a and rivers and of course the famous the famous village North Yorkshire, with a short widow, a shellfish ‘little button of a nose’ with the of Saltaire. Colour folding maps in softback. diversion into Lancashire. Keen walkers can also utilise seller (try saying that!), and a poorly nostrils entering her face like bullet £7.99 NOW £3.50 the Pennine Journey route in reverse from Settle to poet (pictured page 13), were all holes; the man who stood with his hands hanging down create a superb circular walk of around 134 miles. For interviewed by the pioneering like the paws of a dog begging while Old Norah stood 78266 CARDIFF AND CAERPHILLY: 1833- the long-distance footpath walker who has an interest in journalist Henry Mayhew who by, groaning like bagpipes’. In many respects, Mayhew Present Day Four OS Maps railways, the Howgills and Limestone Trail is a must. tramped the streets of London was his own worst enemy. He was disorganised, one by Cassini Publishing Very close to Kirkby Stephen are some wonderful interviewing working people. This of his books ended in mid sentence, he was Surveyed 1842-1883 and revised 1893-98, this coloured viaducts and the route passes over the finest of them: superb selection from his work cantankerous and perhaps as a result his funeral was edition was published in 1897-1904 and is here presented Smardalegill. 117 pocket-sized pages, vignettes and line ‘London Labour and the London sparsely attended. But embedded in his fine reportage, alongside the original version. In all there are four maps drawings, with route maps. Index to place names. Poor’ shows how they coped, which included long and moving interviews with covering four periods and at a scale of 1:50,000 £13.99 NOW £5 showed a remarkable Londoners, are very moving passages of descriptions of Ordnance Survey 1" maps 1833,1899-1900,1919 and resilience and a surprising London, of people’s appearances, and of their shabby Present Day. Includes Bedwas, Llandaff, St Fagans, 77143 VANISHING sense of humour about homes. ‘As truly as the West-End rejoices in the title of Tomgwynlais and Wenveo. Cardiff and surrounding CAMBRIDGESHIRE: Revised their lot in life. The Belgravia, might the southern shores of the Thames be villages showing green spaces and mottes, the Ely and Expanded Edition glamour contrasts with the christened Pestilentia… the plague-spots of London.’ We River, Cardiff Bay, potteries, schools, the castle, by Mike Petty drudgery, sickness and journey on to Jacob’s Island (well known to us as our cemeteries and reservoirs, inns and farms. Four In 1925, a group of Cambridge desperation in the capital previous home of Bibliophile), scams and frauds, contrasting overviews. Folding maps in softback. antiquarians - including a printer, a city. Introduction by alleyways and pawnbrokers mixing with all the £7.99 NOW £3.50 doctor, an anatomist and a Jonathan Miller. 124pp in nationalities in the melting pot of London. 172pp in 78268 TORBAY AND SOUTH DARTMOOR: pathologist - loaded their car with paperback. paperback. 1919 Popular Edition Historical OS Map cameras, tripods and glass-plate £8.99 NOW £4.50 £8.99 NOW £4.50 negatives. Their mission was to by Cassini Publishing produce a photographic survey of Including Paignton, Salcombe, Torquay, Buckfastleigh, Cambridgeshire. Many of the pictures have been copied 77544 LONDON FROM THE AIR 78216 MEGALITHOMANIA: Artists and Dartmouth, Ivybridge and Kingsbridge, discover from glass lantern slides that have never been seen by Jason Hawkes Antiquarians at the Old Stone Monuments landscapes of the past with this historical map which was since they were taken over 60 years ago. The selection London seen from the air is a revelation. The M25 and by John Michell first surveyed in 1912-23 and first published in 1919-26. includes photos of churches that are now no longer there, M11 interchange photographed at night is a vast The author states that the germ of the idea for this It is reproduced at a scale of 1:50,000, in colour. The forgotten country mansions, crumbling cottages, meandering sci-fi glow, while daytime commuters intriguing book was planted about 20 years ago during a Great Western Railway cuts across Totnes and north to dilapidated windmills and scenes of everyday life that no walking across London Bridge look like tiny robots. casual visit to a small, unimpressive stone circle standing Ashburton. Newton Abbot and Torquay are growing longer exist. The photos are supplemented by Wimbledon’s centre court is a sinister cauldron, and who on a featureless stretch of moorland in Derbyshire. While into larger conurbations and the coves and heads and contemporary reminiscences and newspaper stories. 208 knew that the fountains in Trafalgar Square were he lingered he was surprised at the number of people bridges and sands, points and rocks, mudstones and pages 28cm x 20cm. shaped like that? The top of the National Gallery is a who, for no obvious reasons, had also been impelled to hotels are shown alongside the newly raised beach. £16.99 NOW £6 phantasmagoria of domes in different shapes and sizes visit it, as if something about the old stones or the site Colour folding map into softback. scattered among every conceivable type of pitched, flat, appealed instinctively to the imagination, and drew £6.99 NOW £3 78248 VILLAGE WALKS IN DEVON and vaulted roof types. Marble Arch from above looks people towards it. In the 1700s a Lincolnshire doctor 78269 DERBY AND BURTON-UPON-TRENT: by Michael Bennie rather isolated, while the Globe Theatre, a replica of turned clergyman, William Stukely, rode through most of We are invited to take a four mile walk in the vicinity to Shakespeare’s playhouse, is incongruous among its 1921 Popular Edition OS Map the English counties making notes of everything that by Cassini Publishing enjoy the coastline and beautiful woodlands, superb modern surroundings. A panorama of the Houses of interested him, and later published a folio of his Including Litchfield, Rugely, Ashbourne, Ashby-de-la- views across the estuary and Wembury Bay and you Parliament, Westminster Abbey and the Cabinet War engravings. It is the finest record of ancient monuments Zouch, Belper, Burntwood, Swandlicote and Uttoxeter. may hear the guns firing from HMS Cambridge across Rooms shows how intricately linked are all the ever recorded, and because so many have disappeared, Map 128 in the OS series was surveyed 1912-23 and the bay. Complete with line drawing, photos, parking, paraphernalia of government. 192pp, colour photos. been decimated for their stone or vandalised, it is the first published 1919-26. Very clear are the popular directions, map references, this is walk 27 of 30 between £25 NOW £6.50 only record of many of our ancient megaliths. In this villages of Cheadle, Bradley Moors, the North Barnstable in the north and Plymouth and Torquay in fascinating read, John Mitchell looks at Stukeley’s work 76380 OXFORDSHIRE THROUGH TIME Staffordshire Road, Osmaston Park and Manor, Alton the south ranging from three miles to 7½ miles in length as well as examining the way that artists and laymen by Stanley Jenkins Park, Sudbury Deer Park, the growing town of Derby, around Kenton. The carefully chosen picturesque have depicted standing stones and other monuments Then and now sepia and colour photographs contrasted Dunstall Hall and churches and farmhouses, inns and villages include Clovelly, Dunkeswell, Trusham, over the centuries. He examines stones with holes, such on every page. From Adderbury St. Mary’s Parish collieries, all representing a way of life now past. Colour Otterton and Tuckenhay. 128 page illus paperback. as Cornwall’s Men an Tol, circles such as Stonehenge £6.95 NOW £3 Church, the interior of the Abbey Church at Dorchester- folding map in softback. on-Thames, the Pond at Ducklington, classic views of and Avebury, standing stones at Carnac, strange £6.99 NOW £3 76411 UPPER AND MIDDLE THAMES: From the city centre and the colleges, to church choirs and earthen animals in Wisconsin and dolmens in Wales. In Source to Reading A Pictorial History Chaucer’s House at Woodstock. Unashamedly nostalgic. the early 1800s people began drilling into barrows and 78270 PRESTEIGNE AND HAY-ON-WYE: by Josephine Jeremiah 96pp, paperback. tumuli, searching for treasure but without making 1900-1903 OS Historical Map archaeological notes, thus many ancient sites were lost Rising in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, the Thames £14.99 NOW £2.75 by Cassini Publishing forever. Paperback, 166pp, drawings and photos. From the new revised series in colour and at a scale of meanders its way in an overall easterly direction for 215 77698 PENNINE WAY by Terry Marsh miles to the sea. From Oxford the river, now in its ! £12.99 NOW £5 1:50,000, this enormous fold out map also includes the middle course, passes Abingdon and Wallingford, bisects A Dalesman first edition 1997 publication covering the 78259 LONDON 1945-1948: Ordnance villages of Kington, Knighton and Leominster and dozens 250 mile National Trail, a long distance walk along the the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns at the Goring Survey 1" Map by Cassini Publishing of other tiny hamlets across the county of Hereford. backbone of Britain from the Peak District to the Scottish Railway lines, the River Wye and the river through Gap, past Pangbourne and Caversham to Reading and Surveyed 1914-1948 and published 1945-48, at a scale Borders. There are detailed colour maps showing the Eardisland, the River Teme, crossing with Watling its junction with the Kennet and Avon Canal. Begins of 1:50,000, this map recorded wartime bomb damage route and main landscape features through forests, past Street, Downton Castle and Willey Hall, the Central with an historical journey in words, full of recollections of and then capital city of London still shaken by its Roman Forts such as Aesica near Greenhead in the Wales Branch Railway, for lovers of antique maps. Thames locals, boaters and walkers since the 18th wartime experiences. Our map begins at Watford in the Cheviot Hills, along tracks and up ascents to the Colour folding map in softback. century. Over 150 b/w photos, engravings, paintings, west to Romford and Dagenham in the east, Theydon drawings and postcards. 120pp. summits like Cross Fell. Softback, 192pp. £6.99 NOW £3 £7.99 NOW £3.25 Bois in the north to Purley in the south and Walton Upon £15.99 NOW £3.50 Thames in the southwest. With old golf courses, 76472 PENRYN THROUGH TIME 77704 WALKING HOME: My Family and Other reservoirs, parks and urban areas marked, re-projected by Ernie Warmington Rambles by Claire Balding and re-scaled to match National Grid in Ordnance The Cornish port of Penryn is an attractive town with a For 15 years Claire has hiked across the countryside for Survey historical map, new popular edition. Colour. HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY lot of history and lies in a sheltered position at the head BBC Radio Four’s Ramblings, discovering highways and £9.99 NOW £4 of the Penryn River, which flows into Falmouth byways and meeting people with a tale to tell. Some 78261 EXETER AND SIDMOUTH: 1809 Old 1500 miles of footpaths later, she has discovered the Harbour. Warmington shows us plenty of “then and Series OS Historical Map by Cassini Publishing Just living is not enough... one must have now” shots. Here too are the docks, wharfs, shipping true glories of Britain and now wants to get her whole sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Extending to Teignmouth in the south and Upottery in and the river, schools, old town dignitaries, sports teams, family hooked by taking them on the 70-mile footpath the north and including Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, trains and the railway, roads, cars, buses and lorries, that runs past their home on the Hampshire Downs. - Hans Christian Andersen Honiton, Ottery St Mary and Seaton, this antique map weddings, churches, adverts, bill posters and newspaper Maps, line drawings and colour photos, 292pp, has been reproduced to the best possible standard. Very cuttings. 96pp softback, colour. paperback. £14.99 NOW £2 £14.99 NOW £5 clear are the rivers Otter and Exe, woods and farms, 78071 GREAT CHARLES long lost villages and striking ranges of hills, particularly DICKENS SCANDAL 77950 LONDON BRIDGE IN 76828 RIVER DERWENT: From Sea to Source Little and Great Haldon just south of the race course. by Michael Slater by H. C. Ivison AMERICA And the mouth of the River Ex with all the sands and When Charles Dickens A fine and famous salmon river, the Derwent was by Travis Elborough spits, rocks and points. Plus in the sea, the line of 10 celebrated his 45th birthday on 7 sometimes called ‘The River of Saints and Sinners’, as it In 1968 the old 19th century London and 15 fathoms. Folded map in softback. February 1857 his fame was at was used by smugglers as well as clerics. 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78659 LIVES OF EMINENT 78451 LAST DAYS OF JESUS: MEN by John Aubrey 78417 ULTIMATE His Life and Times A companion to Scientific Lives code The Toy Box CHILDREN’S CLASSIC by Bill O’Reilly 78685, antiquary and biographer COLLECTION This informative, easy-to-digest text John Aubrey (1626-97), was 78734 BULLDOG SOFT TOY by Wordsworth Editions brings the story of Jesus vividly to acquainted with the most by Webkinz The Little Prince is a classic life, setting him into the context of distinguished writers, politicians and Super soft furry pet puppy English tale of equal appeal to everyday life in the Holy Land, and aristocrats of his time. The Bulldog who won’t growl, slobber, bark or children and adults and here describing the major events in his gentleman scholar spent his life bite. 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Always contending with the deeply Endowed with English royal blood Trolls of Grrym, the Blood Trolls making fresh brews of read the story book, lift the flaps, turn the spinning ingrained realities of Russian life, including serfdom, she on her mother’s side, she was brain-scramblingly hot lava beer, troll cuisine, learn about wheels to make the pages interactive, learn facts about persevered, and for 34 years the government foreign betrothed in infancy to Arthur, crime and punishment, night trolls and dangerous trolls, feline fashion, have a giggle at Puss’s antics, lift the policy, cultural development and welfare of the Russian Prince of Wales, an elder son of troll threats from goblins and the Klamon legend in the flap of his satchel to find bunnies hiding inside, read the people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic Henry VII of England. But Arthur died weeks after Dark Caverns, the subject of the final jigsaw. 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76876 MOLL: The Life and 77928 LADY BETTE AND Times of Moll Flanders THE MURDER OF MR THYNN 78779 ATLAS OF INDIAN by Sian Rees by N.A. Pickford HISTORY NATIONS “Moll Flanders” was the fictional ‘It had been a specific requirement by Anton Treuer creation of Daniel Defoe. She lived on Bette’s part that the marriage Southwest tribes include pre- in Jacobean times, was caught up would not be consummated until the History with its flickering lamp stumbles Columbian regalia and beliefs in the Civil War, and emigrated to year of mourning for her first along the trail of the past, trying to such as those of the Hopi Snake Jamestown, Virginia, living among husband, Henry Ogle, had been reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, Clan Priest on page 166, as well the settlers and the Powhatan completed. 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IV’s Last Scandalous Affair by Tom Ambrose Benjamin Robert Haydon by Paul O’Keeffe receiving houses, seven sorting Combining more than 100 maps with In 1819, aged 58, the future George IV swapped one Artist Benjamin Robert Haydon died on his third attempt offices and frequent deliveries. more than 300 illustrations, National plump mistress for an even plumper one; Elizabeth, at suicide, his throat cut, before the bespattered Alfred Other pioneers include Bath’s Ralph Allen whose Geographic’s Atlas of Indian Nations was Marchioness of Conyngham. Aged 49, she had risen and the first British Jury, his final bid ‘To improve the Byeway and Crossroads Post operated throughout written by an Ojibwe scholar combining from the middle-classes and married an obscure Irish taste of the English people’ through the High Art of England and Wales by 1720, Peter Williamson who set exquisite colour maps, rich history and peer, with whom she had had four now adult children. historical painting. 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Not just for philatelists, the social historian territory, language 568pp, colour photos. will have a field day with the development of national groups, events, rituals, by John Fraser and Andrew Roberts £25 NOW £5 communication. 60 b/w illus. 219pp. famous individuals, art, From the Balkans to the Iberian peninsula, from Ethiopia 77834 BOYHOOD AND YOUTH OF $39.50 NOW £7 war and history. 320 to Korea, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, the very large pages, colour. 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He was arguably the leading general of all tied up till the Cardinal’s death in 1839. It was spectrum of pre-Classical Greek life rubber and explosives to trying to hide their frowned- time at Waterloo. He helped expel the French from discovered that Napoleon had collected papers relating to and culture - the myths, epic and upon kitchen experimentations from their houseproud Spain and Portugal during the Peninsular War which led his boyhood and youth which were vital to lyric poetry, religious festivals, wives. Blu-Tack was discovered by accident when to Napoleon’s downfall in 1814. After Napoleon understanding him. These form the basis of this political and philosophical thought, Bostic chemists made a sealant that did not quite seal, returned from exile in 1815, Wellington was a principal remarkable book. 157 paperback pages with b/w plates, social life, military traditions and but was great for sticking up memos. It was originally leader of the coalition forces at Waterloo. 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Michaelis Using original documents, archaeology and histories of from which the Greeks otherwise borrowed a great deal. $19.95 NOW £6.50 Originally designed on a grand scale in nine volumes and myth and witchcraft, Philippa Gregory writes the first Building a society based upon the concept of freedom over 1,000,000 words, Scott’s monumental work is here ever biography of Jaquetta, the young Duchess of 77015 CONQUEST: How Societies Overwhelm and the ideas and social attitudes this encouraged is annotated and abbreviated into one concise volume and Bedford, who survived two reigns and two wars to Others what moulded Europe into the place we live in today. become first lady at two rival courts. David Baldwin, an retains Scott’s first-hand insights, elegant construction by David Day The fifth century BC saw Athenian culture achieve its and page-turning writing. Napoleon died on Elba in established authority on the Wars of the Roses, tells the greatest heights and then collapse due to its blinkered Today the Iroquois of North America, the Chechens of 1821. Five years later, his contemporary Sir Walter story of Elizabeth Woodville, the first commoner to arrogance. First English edition of the German original, Russia, the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Kurds Scott wrote a brilliant debunking biography that stirred marry a king of England for love. Michael Jones 336pp, illus and maps. of Iraq are all living in territory that has been colonised. international controversy for its thundering assault on the describes Margaret Beaufort, the almost-unknown Fortifying the borders and renaming the places are key £18.99 NOW £7 Napoleon legend. In fact, it so inflamed the French that matriarch of the House of Tudor, and mother of Henry stages in conquest. Colonisers will claim that they are 78702 WHAT? ARE THESE Napoleon’s most trusted general challenged Scott to a VII. How much fiction and how much fact should there bringing benefits in terms of civilisation or religion, as the duel. Scott’s research took advantage of privileged be in a historical novel? How are female historians TWENTY MOST IMPORTANT Spanish did in the Americas, the British in Australia and access to government papers, as well as those of the changing our view of women in history? 342 roughcut QUESTIONS: In Human the Chinese in Tibet. Draws examples from ancient main players, including the Duke of Wellington. 448 pages, rare illustrations in colour and b/w, family tree, times, Europe and the New World. 288pp, paperback, History by Mark Kurlansky pages with commentary. timeline and map. 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Supplying government career in social scandal and ended his days wealthy East India Company merchant, chronicled by Simon Jenkins endless fodder for thoughtful conversation, and the as Dean of St. Paul’s. Follows Donne through calm and every step of his son’s dissent into depravity and crime. In this lively, informative account of opportunity to ponder and be challenged and storm, from London’s plague-ridden streets to the palaces This remarkable source provides compelling insight into the story of England from the entertained, here are 20 of the most important questions of the English Renaissance, from Bankside taverns to the their relationship and reveals the murky underworld of Angles and Saxons through to the in human history - Why are we here? 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The book contains over 100 in the USA, apologies for the small admirers, including the painter Benjamin Haydon, who Charlotte Cibber was destined for greatness and duly illustrations. Not only is it a superb read but it’s a useful remainder mark on this magnificent was a friend of the poet Keats, and Norton became achieved it - but not in quite the way one would have one to have ready for chuck of history. Full of giant-sized jealous. Caroline’s friendship with the Prime Minister, predicted. When Charlotte, now in her 20s, left her answering those characters and rich in political Lord Melbourne, following the death of his wife Lady father’s Drury Lane company to join that of Henry tricky quiz questions skulduggery, McCullough unravels Caroline Lamb who had been Byron’s mistress, started Fielding it was not received well. When, at the same or sudden queries - the complicated and sometimes when Norton asked Melbourne to find him a position as time, she began dressing as a man, her father when did the Titanic deliberately obscured story that lies a lawyer. Initially Caroline cultivated the rising politician unsurprisingly disowned her. Here she is in all her guises, sink? Who was Henry behind the Panama Canal. He tells the story of the men for her husband’s sake, attending the theatre and other as a leading light with her father’s company and then as VII’s sixth wife? Why and women who fought against all odds to fulfil the 400 entertainments with him, and later Melbourne intervened a strolling player and puppeteer, her comeback as an did the Jacobites raise year old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway to try to keep the Norton marriage together. Norton author and writer of one of the first ever autobiographies their glasses to ‘the between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The epic story brought a lawsuit against his wife and Melbourne for by a woman, a not entirely successful businesswoman, little gentleman in a of the Canal’s conception and creation contains political “criminal conversation”, meaning adultery. The a valet to Lord Anglesey, piemaker and other callings. black velvet intrigues, mysterious financial manoeuvres, important witnesses were shown to be unreliable and Caroline was See the dangerous world of 18th century London, with waistcoat?’ One you medical discoveries, personal failings and triumphs and in cleared. She lost access to her sons, however, and spent its opulence rubbing shoulders with poverty, plus its will read again and the event is the history of science and engineering. It the rest of her life campaigning for the rights of wives savage political and social battles. 433pp paperback, again. 384pp. Colour marked a score of advances in government planning and and mothers. 486pp, paperback, photos. illus. illus. 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The centuries among the stars and during the dying days of Queen Elizabeth I, revealing February 1685 he was succeeded by his brother, James Pyramids of Giza enjoying the company of gods was startling evidence that links the ‘Gowrie Conspiracy’ of II. His reign was compromised by the fact that seen from the Nile the destiny, the metamorphosis that 1600 to an assassination that changed the course of Protestant William of Orange and his wife Mary, his with a man the Ancient Egypt theologians European history. This provocative volume considers daughter, had a strong claim to the throne and James’s smoking in the proclaimed for the pharaoh. the possibility that the bloodline of Mary Queen of Catholic propensities did not endear him to his subjects - foreground, a However before this could be Scots, might have no legitimate right to the throne! 304 he fled for France on 22 December 1688, never to family scene with a attained, the monarch’s mortal remains had to be treated pages, colour and b/w plates, family trees. return. Here also is the cultural and social life of the time child being and cured. Embalming, the art that people had learned £19.99 NOW £5 - Shakespeare’s late masterpieces, Donne and Milton’s embraced by his be-slippered father, the mother veiled, from the god Anubis, was the practical intervention that poetry, Hobbes’ Leviathan and Jacobean tragedy. 76672 GREAT MORTALITY by John Kelly four great pyramids clearly seen in the background, the stopped the decomposition of the body since the cosmic 502pp, 36 colour plates. The Black Death, or the Great Mortality as it was felucca and boats on the calm water this is just one of order itself depended on its successful outcome. The known in medieval times, originated in Asia and was the hand-painted images, now in a 18½” wide by 13" second anthropoid sarcophagus of Tutankhamun is made £20 NOW £6.50 spread by the Mongols, and to victims it seemed like a deep frameable print, from a collection of ten. The of wood and covered in gold leaf and inlay. His inner 78081 IRELAND: An Illustrated History judgment from God. It provoked murderous reprisals on arrival of Simùn in Giza has an amazing red sky coffin is made of solid gold and weighs 110.4kg. Gold by Henry Weisser people thought to be carriers, including outbreaks of anti- contrasting with the outline of the Sphinx , the weary and lapis lazuli, golden Spanning prehistoric and Celtic Ireland to modern times, Semitism in Marseilles among other cities, and also camels and men being beaten by the storm. Then the mummy masks for the many our concise illustrated volume examines the people, breathtaking self-sacrifice by people who tended the Sphinx is seen from the front, a view of Cairo looking kings and a silver sarcophagus religion, social changes and politics that have evolved sick. Avignon’s population was halved. Pope Clement westward and in glamorous of Shoshenq II, Udjat eyes, a into the traditional modern Ireland. There is a fled to the country but his surgeon de Chauliac stayed aerial view, the Giza ferry dagger with the pommel on photograph of a checkpoint in Belfast in 1984, the Abbey and narrowly escaped with his life. Seen as described in in the port of Cairo, peopled the handle consisting of Theatre in the early 1900s, the Custom House in Dublin the letters and chronicles reminiscences of eyewitnesses. with characters about their delicate rock crystal, wide completed in 1791, the Rock of Cashel, to a Celtic 364pp, paperback. daily life, the Pyramids of inlaid gold collars and other brooch and historical figures. Apologies if pages are $14.95 NOW £4 Cheops and Chephren and necklaces with magical slightly stuck. 166pp. properties intended to protect 77009 CHINA: Empire and Civilization the ruins of a minaret near £9.99 NOW £3.50 the citadel are among the the head, serpents with by Edward L. Shaughnessy ten images produced to the outspread wings to protect the 77754 TIME: HISTORY’S GREATEST EVENTS: China is a major world political player, but how much do highest possible quality in lower chest are reproduced in 100 Turning Points that Changed the we know about this vast country, its geography, colour card in one glowing colour photographs. religions and culture? This beautifully illustrated book World edited by Kelly Knauer et al impressive portfolio. Large See the mummy of Nefer presents an encyclopedic understanding of Chinese This beautifully produced volume is from the editors of softback wallet. which has been entirely Time magazine. How can we compare the history and culture. Divided into three parts, The £29.95 NOW £8 dressed in stucco which has Chinese World, Belief and Ritual, and Creation and achievements of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and been lying in his tomb at Romans with those of Newton, Edison or Bell, even Discovery, it incorporates essays on Justice, The 78670 NUBIAN PHARAOHS: Saqqara since the fifth Military, Women and Trading all help to establish the though the work of the latter three has arguably affected Black Kings on the Nile dynasty. We learn the the lives of many, many more than the former? The texture of Chinese life. A short history of Confucianism is by Charles Bonnet and physical procedures and followed by sections on its mythology and ideology. The book is in four sections: The Ancient World, The Dominique Valbelle religious rites, wrapping the Renaissance, The Age of Enlightenment and Modern throne room in the Forbidden City, Beijing, illustrates Discover a cache of splendid body in linen bandages to the The Harmony of Heaven and Earth. Other important Times, and just to start the argument, here are a few of stautues, recently unearthed in latest x-rays and CT scans Time’s selections: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, aspects of culture include painting, pottery, and the Sudan that are already ranked as which explain after thousands Beijing Opera, dance and clowning. 256pp, softback, Abraham, Mayan Civilisation, Akhenaten, Jesus, masterpieces of art history. In of years how the pharaohs Mohammed, Buddha, Genghis Khan, the Black Death, table of dynasties. 2003, a Swiss archaeological team died and what ailments they $24.99 NOW £6 Joan of Arc, the invention of printing, Columbus, the uncovered one of the most had suffered in life, and in come cases what the living British in India, US Independence, Napoleon, slavery 77017 DEATH: Antiquity and Its Legacy remarkable Egyptological finds in person actually looked like. From Seqenenre Tao II and its abolition, Darwin, Mendel, Marx, Einstein, the by Mario Erasmo recent years at the site known as Kerma, near the third with his horrific battle wounds, Ahmose, Hatshepsut Suez Canal, photography, the Wright brothers, the Ford Different societies address death and the act of dying in cataract of the Nile. Archaeologist Charles Bonnet and who styled herself King to Tutankhamun the golden boy Model T, radio, TV, Communism, Hitler, the Moon culturally diverse ways. Ad hoc roadside shrines, his team discovered a ditch within a temple from the pharaoh, their souls may be wandering in the Field of Landings, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 Attacks. ‘virtual’ burials, online guest books and even jazz ancient city of Pnoubs which contained seven Reeds, but their bodies now have begun to reveal their Colour and b/w photos. 154pp, 11"×12". memorial processions and firework displays have come monumental black granite statues. Magnificently secrets. Weighty, lavish publication we are thrilled to $29.95 NOW £9.50 sculpted, and in an excellent state of preservation, they offer. 366pp, 10" x 14" from the American University in to the fore as new models of marking, even celebrating, 77784 MIDDLE AGES: The Illustrated History bereavement. What is causing this change? The classics portrayed five pharaonic rulers including Taharqa and Cairo Press. professor creatively explores theme funerals in St. Louis Tanutamun, the last two pharaohs of the ‘Nubian’ $65.95 NOW £25 of the Medieval World to Etruscan sarcophagi, and from the Mexican Day of the dynasty, when Egypt was ruled by kings from the lands by Anita Baker of modern-day Sudan. The 77324 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE PHARAOHS: Dead to Fellini’s Satyricon. 188pp in paperback, illus. Volume 1 Predynastic to the Twentieth This slipcased set contains facsimiles from the Gutenberg ONLY £2.50 Nubian pharaohs governed Bible, the Hereford Mappa Mundi, Joan of Arc’s final Egypt and Nubia with an empire Dynasty (3300-1069 BC) by Darrell D. Baker letter, extracts from the Domesday Book and Magna 77102 GLORIOUS ART OF PEACE: From the stretching from the Delta to the This superb book brings down the curtain 1,000 years Carta, Charlemagne’s letter, the Catalan Atlas, the Tres Iliad to Iraq by John Gittings upper reaches of the Nile. The before what most historians consider the end of the Riches Heures, the Koran, the Song of Roland, the Beginning with an analysis of the treatment of peace in seven statues with their exquisite Pharaonic Civilisation, the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 Canterbury Tales and the Canticle of St. Eulalie in Homer’s Iliad, the author explores the powerful workmanship transform our BC. This riveting volume brings together the basic facts colour, illuminated manuscripts where possible. Here are arguments against war made by classical Chinese and understanding of the art of this concerning Egypt’s pharaohs from a diverse number of panoramic descriptions of dynasties and vast empires, Greek thinkers, and by the early Christians, urging us to period. The colossal statue of sources. Each entry provides illustrated (and spelt) analysis of how, particularly through the Crusades, pay more attention to Erasmus on the Art of Peace and Taharqa is a masterpiece of variations on each king’s different names, the length of religion permeated the whole of the lives of every single less to Machiavelli on the Art of War. The significant stone artwork, here his or her reign, the burial place, the survival of the body person from peasant to king. Music had developed from shift in Shakespeare’s later plays towards a more peace- photographed from many angles and information about consorts. It also records their its simple monophonic sounds to the vibrant polyphonic oriented view is also explored, the Enlightenment to the and in close up for us to inspect appearance in king lists and provides details about their harmonies sung by troubadours such as William IX, Duke present day, and the inspirational role of Tolstoy and in detail and at leisure together reigns. 587 pages with map of key sites in Ancient of Aquitaine. Literature flourished, exemplified by an Gandhi in advocating non-violence. Shows how the with dimensions and full Egypt, extensive chronology, dynastic king list, extract from The Canterbury Tales. The population was League of Nations led to high hopes for a stronger United explanations and diagrams of the alphabetical king list, apocryphal kings of the Fourteenth enchanted by tales of courtly love, chivalry and valour. Nations. 304 pages, illus. inscriptions and how the torso Dynasty, and The Royal Titulary. 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From Christians versus Pagans during the colour photos, directions, locations, significantly transformed England. date built and castle style for The Norman Conquest was in fact by Anne Armitage and Laura Beresford later Roman Empire to the white supremacists versus In 1988 Dr Dallas Pratt gave the American Museum in anti-Apartheid campaigners until 1994, there is no reason England, Scotland and Wales and the accession of William, Duke of highlights the top ten from Normandy to the English throne. Britain over 200 Renaissance maps of the New World, to suppose that the 21st century will be free of such one of the finest holdings of rare pre-1600 printed world confrontations. Us verses Them. But the real world is Caernarfon Castle, Windsor Castle, Born in Normandy and promised the Arundel to the Tower of London in throne of England by King Edward, maps in existence. Over the 50 of the Museum’s not binary. 340pp deckle edges, remainder mark. greatest cartographical treasures are showcased in detail $26.95 NOW £5 England, Scotland and Wales, William decided to invade the covering 50 castles in total. With a country after another contender for in this lavishly illustrated book. European cartographers 77119 ANTI-SEMITISM by Dan Cohn-Sherbok history from attacks and surrenders the crown took the throne. Chronicling the years from changed the shape of the New World as they mapped Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces the origins of anti-Semitism to royal inhabitants, the power of siege weapons and his illegitimate birth to his calamitous burial, Jacob the Americas from the 15th to the 17th centuries with and its manifestations, from Greek times, political special features on dungeons, deep moats and secret Abbott’s enthralling narrative captures the young exquisitely detailed maps. Medieval maps had illustrated opposition to racial persecution and religious and tunnels. Colour. conqueror’s struggle, ambition and aspirations during his theology rather than geography; the Renaissance philosophical justification for some of history’s most £5.99 NOW £2.50 time in power. With a brief history of the Saxon and revived the classical discipline of scientifically mapping outrageous acts. He describes Jewish emancipation from Danish kings of England and the Dukes of Normandy. land mass. 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Hadrian’s Wall, the great towns of Gloucester and America man on page 78, and there are celestial charts of both £16.99 NOW £6 Cirencester, Carlisle and Caerwent, Colchester and by Sir Winston Churchill northern and southern hemispheres, an allegory of Canterbury, London and Bath. Invasions and conquests, astronomy, monsters of land and sea decorating borders, 77377 ISRAEL: A History by Anita Shapira Sir Winston’s mother, Jennie Jerome, was American, and architecture, roads, language. 96 page paperback, colour. all his life, he had an affection for the country he called a world map from the Nuremburg Chronicle, two Explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe, against £5.99 NOW £2.75 ‘The Great Republic’. The book offers a magnificent Ptolemaic maps, the Borgia World Map and beautiful the backdrop of relations among Jews, Arabs and Turks, panorama of America’s history, including some of the depictions of fleets and armadas, conquistadors, giant and the earliest pioneer settlements in Palestine. Here 78086 KINGS AND QUEENS: Heritage Series best accounts ever of the Revolutionary War and the blue whales, hearts and stars and other decorations. are the Yishuv state in the making, and the Yishuv by Vicky Wood Civil War. Part I ‘From Colonial Beginnings to World Glossary, 128 very large pages, softback. society, culture and ethos. Here, too is the age of Complete family trees trace the line of succession Power’ has, until now, been found only within Sir £19.95 NOW £9 euphoria, the Yom Kippur War and Israeli society after including the Tudors, Stuarts, Plantagenets and Winston’s four-volume A History of the English-Speaking the war, followed by the stalemate years when a Windsors. 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Elizabeth’s the time only in whispers. In 1942- fresh investigation into the projects private life was of public and political concern. Her began with British and US troops 3, rumours began to circulate in landing in Tunisia on 8 November and strategies and the last year of bedfellows were witnesses to the face and body Britain about a ‘giant rocket’ that the the war. This meticulously beneath the make-up and elaborate clothes, as well as 1942 was tragically confusing to the Germans were devising to destroy part of the French army that was researched history reveals the to rumoured elicit dalliances with such figures as Robert London. Most experts declared such existence of the real-life Luftwaffe Dudley. Their presence was for security as well as stationed there. They had pledged a contraption to be a scientific loyalty to Marshal Henri Pétain, kamikaze squadron. The eclipse of propriety, as the kingdom was haunted by fears of impossibility, but between 1944-45 the piston-engine and the assassination plots and other Catholic subterfuge. The who was now head of the more than a thousand of these rockets touched down on collaborationist Vichy government, but had no stomach introduction of electronic detection equipment, rockets Queen’s body represented the very kingdom itself. This British soil, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring and airborne weapons in previously unknown quantities revealing history of the politics of intimacy uncovers the for the fight, so when Eisenhower’s deputy captured another 6,000. Here is the story of this technically Admiral Darlan (Pétain’s own deputy) and got him to changed the face of the air war and aviation technology. feminised world of the Elizabethan court. Between the brilliant but morally detestable weapon, the forerunner to Many details of this crucial phase of the war remained scandal and intrigue the women who attended the countermand Pétain’s orders. Rommel was incandescent the ballistic missile. Longmate reveals the devious with rage and the French found themselves unwilling hidden for many years in top secret files but are made Queen were the guardians of the truth about her health, power play within the German forces and the skilful use of by the author accessing recently declassified chastity and fertility. Offers intriguing insight into the combatants against both sides. The terrain that was key work of the British Intelligence Officers who pieced were two mountainous ranges in the Atlas mountains, sources alongside his own vast collection of photographs. daily life of the Elizabethans, the fragility of royal favour together often contradictory evidence as they sought to He covers the new models of Bf109 and Fw190, the and all told in a pacey dialogue. Nicely designed large the territory of the Goum fighters, tribal warriors of establish the true nature of the threat. He recalls in untamed ferocity who wore traditional garb, carried long Me262 jet plane, the establishment of He162 squadrons, hardback, 462pp with notes and colour photos. detail the fears of the time, even though for two whole Stukas and Fw190 fighter-bomber operations on the £12.99 NOW £6 knives and were relentless and merciless in their assaults months after the first attack, rigid wartime censorship on their home turf. 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This important first volume is a many distinguished contributors Official History of SOE Operations facsimile of the whole text, with every page reproduced TRIUMPHANT: Alternate concur) that from the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 to Histories of World War Two in Fascist Italy’, here is the to a high quality, including the manuscript’s coloured the official reunification of Germany in 1990 Europe has unknown story of the cloak-and-dagger war fought by illustrations such as the gorgeous signs of the zodiac. been engaged in one 120-year civil war which has twice edited by Peter Tsouras British secret agents against Mussolini’s Italy during There are six additional documents including the wills of dragged in the rest of the world! Perhaps the reason ‘You will never know war until you WWII. Commissioned by the Cabinet Office, it is the Michael and his second wife Cataruccia. Over 500 why the series remains so important is because it used fight Germans.’ Here is a superb first full account of SOE’s clandestine efforts to strike at colour facsimiles, 519pp. Volumes One and Three testimony from key participants from civilians to soldiers collection of What If? questions Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, available. and from statesmen to generals, irreplaceable records, posed by leading military historians. uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to £44.95 NOW £18 **REDUCED** especially because many of the eyewitnesses featured This compelling new alternate assassinate Benito Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia. did not have long to live. The programme’s producers history reconstructs the moments Drawing on long-classified documents it exposes SOE’s 78143 BOOK OF MICHAEL OF RHODES VOL. during the Second World War which 3: Studies edited by Pamela O. 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78245 ROYAL AIR FORCE: 77026 ENGINEERS OF VICTORY: The Problem 77844 OPERATION NEPTUNE: The Normandy An Encyclopedia of the Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second Landings, 1944 by Kenneth Edwards Inter-War Years Volume One World War by Paul Kennedy ‘Operation Neptune’ was the codename for the naval HOME ENTERTAINMENT by Wing Commander Ian M. At Casablanca in 1943 five strategic objectives were component of ‘Operation Overlord’, the Allied invasion Philpott identified. Convoying merchant ships across the Atlantic of France in June 1944. The task - to land safely Sub-titled ‘The Trenchard Years was the first objective, a challenge with a long history. 160,000 troops and ancillary equipment along a 50-mile DVDs and CDs 1918-1929’. 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Published in 1898, his first book and the one force projection in the littoral, this book charts the story working for American Intelligence. Returning to Cairo in ‘Dear John’ letter from his fiancée Denise. Fletcher tries which made his reputation as a writer and a soldier. of a ship that has defined the capability of the Royal 1914, Lawrence found the city in chaos as to help him, but Fletcher’s daughter Ingrid proves more Here is the story of that campaign. Photos, maps, Navy in the latter half of the 20th century. In 1997, she commonwealth troops headed for the western front and crossed the Atlantic at an average speed of nearly 30 of a consolation. 320pp paperback. 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He had several advantages Firearms by David E. Petzal Suez would keep Allied troops unprofitably occupied, but In Paris, The Buzzard Song, Summertime, My Man’s over the Khalifa Abdullahi who commanded the and Phil Bourjaily trouble was brewing in Gallipoli and Sheikh Faisal was in Gone Now, Concerto in F - third movement and some Sudanese forces, chief of which was a huge The Webley revolver is town deftly making friends for the Arab revolt. 578pp, song medleys with chorus and orchestra. Gershwin was technological advantage with the firepower of the Maxim “an utterly glamourless gun” but photos. one of the very few composers to bridge successfully machine gun. The British wanted to avenge the death of its record of military service £25 NOW £8 the gap between jazz and classical music and ‘popular General Gordon at Khartoum, and this book covers the secures its admission, while the music’. On these two CDs we have all of his historical background of the British presence in Egypt and 1875 Westley Richards Droplock 78200 ROMMEL AND CAPORETTO commercially issued piano solos and piano/orchestra Gordon’s resistance to the Mahdi’s jihad. The set the pattern for all by John Wilks and Eileen Wilks recordings, plus recordings with Fred and Adèle Astaire. commanders of the forces at Omdurman each get a hammerless, breakaction shotguns to follow and is still in Although we tend to remember Rommel as a prominent production. Every gun on the list is photographed in military figure during the Second World War, it was in With booklet. biography including the redoubtable Scottish Colonels ONLY £8 Wauchope, MacDonald and Maxwell. The Mahdist handsome landscape double spread, with an inset giving 1917 at Caporetto that the then young officer commanders included not only the Khalifa but also the history of the model, while specifications are listed in established himself ‘as extraordinary an example of skill 76207 ENGLISH CHORAL MUSIC CD Osman Digna, a lawyer and theologian who was an appendix. The Spanish Matchlock Musket of 1530 and daring as can be found in the annals of modern by Cambridge University Chamber Choir arguably the greatest tactical genius of irregular desert was the gun that terrorized the Americas, while the warfare.’ The Battle of Caporetto was a brilliant Austro- Gramophone Magazine said of the opening track 'A warfare the British ever faced. The best Sudanese small-bore Kentucky Long Rifle of the 1700s was aimed German success, winning Rommel a great reputation. Garland for the Queen' that 'the Cambridge Choir are a military strategist was the 24-year-old Ibrahim Al Khalil. very successfully at British officers during the Subsequently, in the Second World War it gave him the highly assured, well-practised body of singers, and make The British army at Omdurman had 8,200 troops plus Revolution. The Remington Model 1100 of 1963 was the authority to request an active command of a Panzer light work of the difficult pieces.' With Tippett's Dance, ten gunboats against the Sudanese 17,600, and this first truly modern shotgun, a gas-operated autoloader division, which Hitler granted. By referring to official Clarion Air, Vaughan Williams' Silence and Music, and book recounts the story of the battle in full detail, made popular by having no kick and designed with the histories, diaries and first-hand accounts, the authors Britten's A.M.D.G. and Sacred and Profane, the running including the charge of the 21st Lancers in which Winston aid of computers. Numerous Winchesters and Brownings have produced a comprehensive study of the Battle, and time is 67.29 minutes on CD. Conducted by Timothy Churchill took part. 159pp, order of battle, maps, illus. make the list, but the most famous gun of all is the the important part played by the ambitious young Erwin Brown. £9.99 NOW £6 Kalashnikov AK47. 228pp, specifications, photos. Rommel. Paperback, 262pp. Maps. £10 NOW £3.50 $40 NOW £14 £12.99 NOW £6 10 ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 78504 MOVEMENTS IN 78517 WYNDHAM LEWIS MODERN ART - Roaring by Richard Humphreys ART AND ARCHITECTURE EXPRESSIONISM A pioneer of modernism in Britain, by Shulamith Behr Wyndham Lewis was both an artist Expressionism seeks to explore inner Jackets and a writer, one of the most The world today doesn’t make sense, so controversial figures in British 20th realities rather than outward forms, The finest German publishing 1919–1933 why should I paint pictures that do? starting in the early 20th century century art. Born in 1882 in Nova Scotia, he was educated at Rugby - Pablo Picasso and flourishing between the wars. 78711 BOOK COVER IN THE WEIMAR Its origins are sometimes ascribed to before being sent to the Slade REPUBLIC edited by Jürgen Holstein School of Art at the age of 16, Matisse, but the term became an The years between the First and Second World Wars in accepted label for the work of artists where he became influenced by 78632 THE HEIGHTS: Germany are famed for their cultural boom. With Berlin Augustus John, his unorthodox life drawing teacher, but such as Kokoschka, Kirchner and Nolde and the school of as its epicentre, the Weimar Republic was replete with Anatomy of a Sky Der Blaue Reiter. Max Beckmann and Franz Marc had a his lifestyle and disregard for the rules led to his Scraper by Kate Ascher ground-breaking literature, philosophy, and art. At the expulsion three years later. In 1909 he exhibited The highly publicised row over the return to primitive styles heart of this intellectual and creative hub were some of No not M. C. Escher but Ascher, Theatre Manager, which earned him immediate by artists such as Gauguin, and in Kirchner’s “Four the most outstanding and forward-thinking book designs although you would be forgiven notoriety as well as critical abuse due to its bizarre mix of Bathers” of 1910 the figures are bathed in a strong in history. Here are assembled 1,000 of the most given that some of the buildings styles, following it up with The Celibate, which, with its orange light and almost primitivised, making a highly striking examples from this golden age of publishing that scrape our skies can appear to geometrical lines, demonstrated the impact of Cubist art atmospheric impact. Kandinsky’s “Murnau” landscapes activity and innovation. Based on the remarkable be optical illusions. Building on his work. For the next few years he produced many also use colour to create emotional force, while the collection of Jürgen Holstein and his rare collectible technology has grown and grown exciting creations, notably the intricate Archimedes canvases of his partner Gabriele Munter often replicate Blickfang, it combines an unparalleled catalogue of dust (groan - Ed) from tall to super tall, Reconnoitring the Fleet, but by 1923 art was taking a the same subjects with equal intensity but with a jackets and bindings with Holstein’s introduction to the often rising to over 1000 feet of new technology. Some back seat as he concentrated on writing. However, different palette. Kirchner’s street scenes with their leading figures and particular energy of the Weimar have aerodynamic holds like the Shanghai World many of the works that he did produce later, such as his jagged figures began to be influenced by Futurism, and publishing age. Expert essays discuss the aesthetic and Financial Centre which is shown here in detail, with 1926 Abstract Composition in pen and ink, watercolour Oskar Kokoschka, originally a playwright, burst onto the cultural context of these precious 14 years, in which a technological drawings, two gently sweeping arcs rising and wash pencil, were complex and often stunning, art scene with his tormented forms just before World War freewheeling spirit would flourish, only to be trampled, in prism-like fashion from the ground to converge near while a swirly abstract of gouache and wash painted in I. The war and its aftermath made modernity burned, or driven out of the country with the rise of the top of the tower. Sustainability, water conversion, 1949, What the Sea is Like at Night, demonstrates how imperative and Paul Klee’s jewel-like landscapes forged National Socialism. From children’s books by Eric the elements, waste and recycling, people, fire he was desperately trying to find a way to cope with a new abstraction that was to prove influential. Between Kästner to novels in translation, bold designs for political prevention, evacuation, here are broadcast towers the onset of blindness. He died ten years later. This is the wars social comment was not optional, and George literature to minimalist artist monographs, this is a holding antennas, all about ventilation, elevators, power the first introduction to explore Lewis’ career as both a Grosz’s “Suicide”, dominated by the nightclub singer who dazzling line-up of typography, illustration, posters, failure, concrete, cranes, and hoists, steel, curtain wall painter and a writer. Paperback. 80pp, colour illus. ignores the dead man, is a comment on a whole society. propaganda and graphic design at its most energetic and systems, making glass, gravity loads, surviving £8.99 NOW £4 80pp, softback, bibliography, numerous colour daring. Part earthquakes, right down to the piles and caissons at their reproductions. reference 77440 BUILDING THE BOOK core. Also chronicles the individuals who build and £8.95 NOW £4 compendium, maintain these towering structures and the architects CATHEDRAL by David Macaulay part vintage who calculate how weight and weather will affect their 78505 MOVEMENTS ON 26 years ago, a book came out that catapulted its author visual feast of designs, the radiomen who guide the cranes to the crews MODERN ART - REALISM to success. Now, its author casts a critical eye over his the book. who clean windows hundreds of feet above the street. original work. He traces the creative process in ‘building’ by James Malpas 9.8" x 12.5", A most unusual and unforgettable architecture book, his first book (let alone building the cathedral!), explains Realism fell out of favour in the 452 pages. worldwide in scope and by a British author. 207 big how perspective, scale and placement on the page are early 20th century when it became Text in English lavish pages, colour diagrams and images throughout. associated with Communist vital, and admits to awful mistakes. The great wheel and German. that heaved stones to the roof was ‘hamster-cage scale! $35 NOW £7.50 propaganda, and many artists New from moved towards abstraction in order It would never have been big enough for two men to 78428 UTAMARO Taschen. stand inside it. Even leprechauns would have found it a to deflect any suspicion that their art ONLY £45 by Edmond de Goncourt had a political message. In spite of tight fit’. And ‘the rope was mistakenly wrapped around The Ukiyo-e print, despised by the this, the realistic depiction of people the wheel instead of the axle’. Such endearing honesty haughty Japanese aristocracy, and nature maintained a tenacious 78776 30,000 YEARS OF ART by Phaidon had us charmed, and we are still marvelling at the made use of the wooden block for hold, taking on new forms with the dreamlike naturalism In an all new way of looking at art, Phaidon publishers painstaking pen-and-ink drawings and their scale and colour printing and depicted geishas, of the Surrealists Dali and Di Chirico, or the unflattering created what must be the weightiest and most extensive perspective. 112 pages, 14" x 11". US first edition. daily life, eroticism and tradition. depiction of human flesh by portraitists like Lucian Freud. art book of 106pp we have ever seen, featuring 1000 $29.95 NOW £5 Impassioned by their delicate The author starts with the 19th century realism of the masterpieces from the earliest times to the present. It 77479 IMPRESSIONISM beauty, Edmond de Goncourt pre-Raphaelite movement and the meticulous attention truly is an incomparable reference and indispensible by Angela Sanna became, through his monographs on to detail found in paintings such as Millais’s “Ophelia”. resource, the story of human creativity across time and A super heavyweight luxurious tome, 11¾” square, Utamaro and Hokusai, one of the first to reveal the The artists of World War I adopted a realistic style in space. It embraces all regions and cultures in a single showcasing the very best of the Impressionism art magnificence of this art to the Western world and his order to convey the full horror of the trenches, for unfolding chronology: only here can you easily find what movement. Degas, a painter of everyday life with friends Zola, Flaubert and Daudet. Delicately underlining instance John Singer Sargent’s famous painting “Gassed” was being created in Japan, Iraq, Peru or Nigeria when cafés and concerts in Paris or his bronze of the little 14 the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, the with a queue of blind soldiers, or the desolation of Paul the Venus de Milo was being carved in Greece. Only year old dancer, The Tub, nudes or his superbly artist Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan- Nash’s “Menin Road”. The European scene between the here will you discover that while Diego Velázquez was rendered horses in The Parade and The Race Track, like necks of the women and the mysterious looks, wars was dominated by abstraction but there was also a painting the monumental royal family portrait Las ordinary women in The Millinery Shop, Renoir’s evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasures of the trend towards savage satirical realism found in the work Meninas, an unnamed artist in India was creating a depiction of feminine beauty and the countryside, Dance Orient. If some scenes discretely betray lovers’ games, of George Grosz and Otto Dix. In America the delicate jade wine cup for the Shah Jahan who built the at the Moulin de la Galette, Bazille’s Family Gathering, a great number of his shungas photorealism of Grant Wood’s stern American couple in Taj Mahal. From the first accomplished cave paintings Sisley’s and Pissarro’s impressionistic countrysides, recall that love in Japan is first “American Gothic” has become world-famous, Edward made 30,000 years ago, a mammoth ivory carving of a cityscapes and Gustav Caillebotte’s almost photographic and foremost erotic. He Hopper’s haunting urban scenes are equally iconic. The lion man from Germany, a drawing in colour of dappled depictions of street scenes and people are all faithfully explores the sobriety of nature realism of Stanley Spencer’s canvases has a visionary horses at Pech-Merle Cave in Southern France, reproduced. Among the more colourful and exotic with beautiful lakes and birds, quality, and after World War II the brashness of Pop Art Palaeolithic cave art is one of the most complex and examples are Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s portraits of a evening snows and the moon relied on a representational treatment of consumables. spectacular examples known, to conceptual art of the Hussar or A Couple in Old Fashioned Valencian and in a few strokes 80pp, softback, bibliography, numerous colour 20th century, the book includes acknowledged Costume and the realistic portraiture of the talented demonstrates the refinement of reproductions. masterpieces and many surprises. Each of the 1000 Valentin Serov. Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and the Kano school. A magnificent £8.95 NOW £4 entries is presented one to a page on glossy white paper the Pointillism of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac and selection of prints are here with simple accompanying text beneath, superb quality others are also explored. 3kg Scala publication, reproduced in 256 huge pages 76754 THAMES & HUDSON DICTIONARY OF photography. We have been permitted these non-mint glamorous colour. on glossy paper, all in colour and DESIGN SINCE 1900 copies to sell on the bargain ONLY £20 with an excellent text on the by Guy Julier market. There may be a tiny pictorial works and books. Stylishly streamlining over 500 entries into a slim page fold and a 77522 ARCHITECTURAL VOICES: Listening to 10½” x 12½”. New publication. volume which includes graphics, products, interiors, remainder mark Old Buildings ONLY £26 furniture and industrial as well as architectural design. and some scuffing by David Littlefield and Saskia Lewis The author examines not only the work of important to the jacket for The authors consider 15 projects in which the voices of 78501 JOHN EVERETT designers worldwide, from Jean Carlu to Charles Eames, which we old buildings speak through their new guises. The MILLAIS by Christine Riding but also the development of ergonomics, political and apologise. Victorian Pro-cathedral in Bristol became a school before Millais, one of our best-loved artists ideological concepts such as feminism and green design $59.95 NOW being abandoned. The development of London’s St. was, according to the author, are defined and explained, as are technological £28 Martin in the Fields was in progress when this book was ‘ambitious, self-assured, even advances, new materials and techniques. 224 published in 2008 and the author discusses the voice of arrogant, as well as candid and paperback pages, 245 b/w illus, chronological chart. 78507 SAMUEL PALMER Gibbs’s Baroque church in dialogue with the iconic sincere.’ In his work he displayed a £8.95 NOW £4 by Timothy Wilcox cityscape of Trafalgar Square and the cultural and remarkable technical facility, such as Samuel Palmer’s love of the spiritual messages delivered across 400 years. Battersea that shown in what must be one of pastoral was imbued in him by his Power Station, once a navigation aid for German planes, his most famous works, ‘Ophelia’, Masters and nurse when he was a young child. is heard and remembered in all its different lives by which depicts the death of the Many years later he wrote ‘when photographer John Collingwood, who started work there Shakespearian heroine as she drowned in the ‘glassy less than four years old, as I was as an electrician in 1969. The Young Vic Theatre is also stream’. In 1851 Millais spent up to 11 hours a day over monographs standing with her, watching captured by Collingwood prior to its redevelopment. The a period of several months painting at the Hogsmill River shadows on the wall from the Round Foundry in Leeds and Hugh Fearnley- in Surrey, closely observing the reeds, plants and water An encyclopedia of 20th branches of an elm behind which Whittingstall’s River Cottage near Axminster are out-of- condition to ensure that the resulting vegetation century photographers the moon had risen, she transferred town voices also heard here. 240pp, softback 22 x 24cm, surrounding Ophelia, modelled by Lizzie Siddal, was and their finest and fixed the fleeting image in my superb colour photos. accurate. A founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite memory by repeating the couplet: Vain man, the vision £29.99 NOW £7 Brotherhood, in later years Millais slipped away from publications of a moment made, Dream of a dream and shadow of a their ideals, turning to portraiture and subjects that would shade. I never forgot those shadows, and am often 78339 BASICS TYPOGRAPHY O2: Using Type find mass appeal. This book contains favourite works 78721 PHOTOGRAPHERS A-Z trying to paint them.’ Born in London 1805, his formal by Michael Harkins including Christ in the House of His Parents, The Blind by Hans-Michael Koetzle schooling was abandoned thirteen years later after the Packed with examples from students and professionals Girl, Isabella, Bubbles, The Order of Release, The Hailed as the ultimate work on the photography of the death of his mother, and a drawing tutor was found for and fully illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiring Boyhood of Raleigh and many others, together with an last 100 years. Arranged alphabetically, this biographical him. At the age of 14 he was exhibiting in oils at the imagery, Using Type will provide you with a practical, enthralling text which examines the paintings and their encyclopedia features every major photographer of the British Institution. However, despite this early success, working guide to typography. Looks at design reception by both critics and the wider public. 20th century alongside her or his most significant Palmer struggled for recognition, his ‘visions’, as he considerations, book layout and construction and every Paperback. 80pp, colour illus. monographs. From the earliest representatives of referred to his pastoral landscapes, being not properly element involved in a book’s design, famous fonts from £8.99 NOW £4 classical Modernism right up to the present day, it appreciated until after his death. Critics disparaged his Baskerville to New Times Roman, grid systems, inks, celebrates those works and Ruskin ignored him, so he often felt himself planning your work, appropriateness, the language of 78743 PARGETING: A Shire photographers, the entries swimming against the tide. In 1824 he met William typography through to print finishing and binding. Looks Album by Tim Buxbaum include photographers from Blake, which led to experimentation with dark and light, at posters, magazines and newspapers, exhibition, Today pargeting is mainly North America and Europe echoing those childhood memories when he stood information design, the Internet, colour and kerning, associated with East Anglia but as well as from Japan, Latin watching shadows with his nurse. Paperback, 80pp. mixing fonts and the appropriate software. Colourful many good examples have been America, Africa and China. Colour illus. pages, 184pp, paperback. lost through neglect, Richly illustrated with £8.99 NOW £4 £23.50 NOW £6 redevelopment, changing taste facsimiles from books and 78358 GOTHIC GLORIES: Pitkin Guide Book and fire. Pargeting is the magazines, the collection 76528 STORY OF RENAISSANCE decoration of plastered and also features photographers ARCHITECTURE by Sonia Servida and CD by Alexandrina Buchanan rendered finishes on the outside of working in ‘applied’ areas, Exquisite Florentine classical façades, palaces, copolas Gothic architecture, adapted for military and domestic the building, an art and craft that whose work is regarded as and domes, the work of Filippo Brunelleschi, Andrea requirements, was a powerful symbol of wealth and dates back many centuries. It photographic art. Star turns Palladio, Michele Sanmicheli’s Palazzo Grimani in Venice prestige. Pictured is the traceries and gabbled windows ranges from simple geometric include Julius Shulman, reflected in water, Michelangelo and masterpieces like of Stokesay Castle in Shropshire, an elaborate silver-gilt patterns scratched into the wet plaster of rural cottages Terry Richardson, Cindy the Villa de Madama in Rome adorn the pages of this big container for salt, the medieval Round Table now to elaborate architectural ornamentation constructed on Sherman and David colourful handbook. Features important architects, hanging in the Great Hall of Winchester Castle, probably street frontages, presenting iconography and a LaChapelle. 5.5" x 7.7", buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, used for a pageant based on the stories of King Arthur. completely different appearance of a building. Many 640 pages, bookmarker. detailed images, drawings and plans. 144 large pages in Glossy large paperback of 20 pages with accompanying examples in b/w and line art. 32 page paperback. New from Taschen. softback, colour. CD of 19 tracks of gothic music to set the mood. £3.99 NOW £2.50 ONLY £13 £12.99 NOW £2.50 £7 NOW £3 www.YouTube.comwww - Type.bib in bibliophilebooksliophilebook to sees our.com video book reviews Art and Architecture 11

77715 BLAKE, PALMER, 77502 SISTINE CHAPEL 78067 GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA: 78083 JAMES TISSOT: LINNELL & CO. BACK IN by Caterina Cirri and Simona Ricci Treasures of Venetian Painting by David Linnell STOCK This glamorous Scala publication measures 11" across by by Giovanna Scire Nepi THE LIFE OF CHRIST: Sub-titled ‘The Life of John Linnell’ 15½” tall and comes in its own carry handled mailing The large sized reproductions of 176 masterpieces from Complete Set of 350 we learn that on his death on 20th box. During the construction of the Sistine Chapel the 14th to the 18th centuries is a gallery of Venetian Watercolours January 1882 in Surrey, Linnell was between 1475 and 1481, a large rectangular hall covered paintings and incomparable colour. Michele Giambono, by Judith Dolkart regarded as one of the leading by a low-lying vault, Sixtus IV would never have Giovanni Bellini, Alvise Vivarini, Vittorie Carpaccio with imagined that it would house some of the most Largely hidden from view since landscape painters of the day. He 11 paintings including Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at 1900, the present catalogue exhibited regularly at the Royal impressive expressions of Renaissance art. Having Rialto Bridge and The Dream of St Ursula, Andrea commissioned an elegant marble transenna which provides the first substantial Academy for 60 years, painted such Mantegma, Johann Liss, Hans Memling, Lorenzo Lotto, critical examination of James men as Thomas Carlyle, Thomas divides the room into two parts and the choir’s Piero Della Francesca, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, balustrade, he was already beginning to show himself as Tissot’s New Testament Malthus and Sir Robert Peel, and his paintings regularly Pietro Longhi, Canaletto, Guradi and Tiepolo and many endeavour since its début in Paris in 1894. The commanded prices higher than those achieved by being particularly sensitive to art. This sensitivity drove other artists known and loved all around the world him to call upon the likes of some of the most famous presentation of all 350 watercolours within this volume Turner. In his late 20s, when no one else showed any express the whole force of their art in these pages. The marks the first complete publication of the series in interest, he saw the genius of William Blake and artists of his time such as Sandro Botticelli, Luca Gallerie Dell’Accademia is Venice’s premier museum and Signorelli, Piero di Cosimo, Perugino, Domenico nearly a century. Tissot renewed his ties to religion encouraged him. If it had not been for Linnell’s help and this book lavishly showcases the finest of its collection. and began what was eventually a ten year project, sponsorship, the world would never have had the Ghirlandaio and Pinturicchio, who between 1841 and Some double pages and many with close up details 1843 painted the frescoes on the lateral walls and in ‘The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ’, more commonly engravings of the Book of Job and Dante’s Inferno and beside drawing our attention to the allegories, myths and known as ‘The Life of Christ’, a series of 350 provided the catalyst which turned Samuel Palmer into front of the altar. In 1506, Julius II took over the history behind each masterpiece. 288 very large pages. project to decorate the chapel, and put his trust in watercolours illustrating the New Testament from the romantic artist he became. We see nature as he saw With plan of the museum. Colour illus and photos. Jesus’ birth to the Resurrections. For this epic it. The book is about the whole man and his place in Michelangelo who between 1508 and 1512 painted the £60 NOW £20 vault with frescos, and during the papacy of Paul III he undertaking, Tissot travelled to Egypt, Syria and British art. One of the last great English Romantic school 70946 JAPANESE PRINTS by Catherine David Palestine in 1886-89 to capture a Holy Land that he of painters, his style was overtaken by Impressionism. also frescoed the wall at the end of the hall. A huge pictorial circle covers the entire surface of the vault with Ukiyo-e (literally ‘Pictures of the Floating World’), is a imagined unchanged since the birth of Christ, but soon Only now can we rediscover his true worth as a painter reference to the licensed brothel and theatre districts in to disappear. the Return of the Prodigal Son, the of the English countryside. 413 very large glossy pages, paintings of nine Genesis stories in its centre. This is where Michelangelo in 1536-41 painted his fresco of the Japan’s major cities during the Edo period (1615-1868). Dead Appear in the colour plates depicting watercolours, oils, book plates and Beautiful women, actors, warriors, birds, flowers, and Temple, A Street In sketches in mono. Family tree, 8¼” x 12". Apologies if magnificent but terrifying ‘The Last Judgement’, exceeding the iconographic ideals and perspective folk tales were favourite themes; scenes of everyday Jaffa, to the pain and first few pages may be uncut in this rare 1994 book. life became increasingly popular as did landscapes, fish, anguish and violence of £29.50 NOW £11 relationships of Renaissance art. On close-up inspection we find even more to admire and marvel at in this mountains and stormy seas. The year 1765 marked a Jesus Falls Beneath the 77718 CITIES, THE TOWNS, THE CROWDS: masterpiece. Colour photos, 288 grand-sized pages. watershed in Japanese printing history when the number Cross from Luke 23:27 The Paintings of Robert Spencer ONLY £44 of colour blocks was increased allowing for further and the Message of development of full-colour prints or nishiki-e (literally Pilate’s wife from by Brian Peterson 78391 ST PETER’S by Keith Miller ‘Brocade Pictures’). In 448 giant pages measuring 11½” Matthew 27:19 in full In 1906 a young painter named Robert Spencer left the Quite simply, St Peter’s is the most famous church there x 16½” tall, reproduced on high quality stock paper and and also close detail, hustle of New York City for the bucolic Bucks County is, an immense baroque basilica with a dome by in glorious colour, are the finest examples by all the Jesus appears to Mary region of Pennsylvania, apparently in pursuit of “an Michelangelo and standing on the border between New famous artists and lesser known including Hiroshige, Magdalene, and a unknown red-headed model in an on-again, off again Europe and a Ruritanian statelet called the Vatican. Its Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi, Kunisada, Hokuei, Utamaro, thoughtful St Thomas, romance”. Over the next 25 years he became one of the story begins in the 1st century AD, at the Hippodrome Koryusai in the late 1700s, Hokusai with his beautiful the Second Miraculous most prominent artists in the Pennsylvania impressionist of Nero, one of two places where St Peter could have bamboo shoots, pinks, lotus, giant trees and small birds Draught of Fishes to group. Although it took eight years for his first major been crucified. 250 years later, the first Christian and of course the classic series by Hokusai the 36 views the Holy Virgin in old success, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art emperor, Constantine, decided that this was of Mount Fuji. Glowing colour, 5kg. age on page 285, this purchased his 30" x 36 oil on canvas Repairing the Bridge undoubtedly the site of St Peter’s martyrdom and ONLY £45 is a beautiful volume to in 1914, the sales, awards and accolades swiftly accrued marked the spot with a great church. In 1506 it was treasure. 304 pages, from then on. Stylistically Spencer prefered large decided to rebuild it, a process which took 150 years. 77864 BAROQUE AND ROCOCO softback, 9½” x 11". canvases skilfully rendering evocative scenes from Covers who built it, who designed it, what it looks like by Marco Bussagli and Mattia Reiche $39.95 NOW £10 everyday life, typically the mills, tenements and and why, what lies beneath it and, most importantly, The authors’ discussion extends beyond painting, factories of the New Hope area in which he lived. Later what it feels like to walk around it and how it inspires. sculpture, and architecture to include fashion, porcelain, he employed a looser, more spontaneous style, painting An irresistible combination of history, biography and the the influence of chinoiserie and furniture making. 77240 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY fanciful European scenes, often from his imagination. study of great art and architecture. 231pp, b/w photos Biographies cover the apprenticeships, travels, influences FROM 1839 TO THE PRESENT Spencer battled depression all his life and committed and drawings. and landmark works of the artists of the era bring each by The George Eastman House Collection suicide in 1931, something to which he alluded in his last £15.99 NOW £6 person vividly to life. Artists featured include From a delivery boy to one of the most important work, Crucifixion, the normal three-victim scene being Rembrandt, Velázquez, Fragonard, Hogarth, 78372 MEMOIRS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS industrialists in American history, George Eastman’s played out in front of a tenement. 110 colour illus, dates, Caravaggio, Gainsborough, Ceruti, Canaletto, Boucher, career developed in a particularly American way. The media, sizes, chronology, plus list of exhibitions and by Joseph Farington Zurbarán and Sir Christopher Wren’s architecture founder of Kodak died in 1932 and left his house to the awards. The definitive study of this important American In 1918 the artist Joseph Farington published his own including Gianlorenzo Bernini’s renowned altarpiece The University of Rochester. 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Steichen, Ansel Adams and others, as well as 23,000 The French painter Fernand Léger was an artist central Garrick, Fox, Goldsmith and Sheridan, gave painting an Includes furniture, porcelain and Chinoiserie, etchings, cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most to the aesthetic of the Machine Age and Cubism. In the importance it had never had previously. It was talked fashion and Arcadia. 192 paperback pages 26.5cm x important silent film collections, technical equipment and 1920s, mechanics became the principal theme of his art. about and occasionally controversial. Reynolds was also 21.5cm, 100 photos in dazzling colour. a library with 40,000 books on photography and film. Men and women seemed to be transformed into the the author of the Discourses, the most important work of £9.99 NOW £4.50 This volume shows in chronological order the most gear wheels and crankshafts of industrial equipment. art theory hitherto published, combined with his crucial impressive images and the most important Léger reimagined the figure in a metallic form to show role as the first President of the Royal Academy which 77435 JOHAN ZOFFANY: Artist and Adventurer by Penelope Treadwell developments in the art of light that is photography. just how intimately and fruitfully involved with modern transformed the way art was made, appreciated and Pagemarker, 768 pages. life, in its role as the servant of human desires, the enjoyed in Britain. 67 pages of illus. 240pp, small The first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Johan ONLY £12 machine actually was. Bold, black outlines, primary paperback, colour. Zoffany (b. 1733). 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A long-haired male nude, bejewelled, semi- public is only dimly aware, many of which lie behind the upbringing in Bavaria, apprenticeship in Rome and his clad beauties, Jagger and Richards laughing, Calvin Klein THE MODERN EYE closed doors of offices, embassies, institutions, clubs and arrival in London in 1760 with its subsequent success and underwear models on set, Brazilian Carnivals, muscle edited by Angela private houses. This 8½”×11½” softback from English fame, due in part to his royal connections and also those men, advertising shoots to glamorous harbours, opulent Lampe and Clement Cheroux Heritage chooses over 60 extraordinary examples, of his patron David Garrick in the theatre, then his interiors and chic models in couture costume to ‘A good picture never disappears. selected to portray the full richness and diversity of adventures working in India. He is ripe for Hollywood parties and tattooed bodies. This unorthodox A great idea never dies’ the author London’s architectural heritage. Where else can the reassessment, not just as a painter but also as a collection of various images chosen by Testino from the said in 1928. Frequently the astounding opulence and splendour of the Old Bailey, commentator on 18th century politics. Over 200 colour span of his 30-year career reflects the diversity of his dislocated motifs demonstrate the Bank of England and Lincoln’s Inn New Hall and reproductions of his works, including many previously work, ranging from fashion and advertising shots to Munch’s tendency towards Library rubs shoulders with, and be of arguably equal unpublished. Quality softback, 478pp. sexually-charged images and autobiographical photos. repetition. For example The important as Stockwell Bus Garage, Battersea Power £30 NOW £10 Full of colour, life, and humour. Softcover with jacket, Vampire, a red headed woman Station, the Gala Bingo Club in Mitcham and Manze’s 11.1" x 14.7", 224 pages. Text in English, French, Eel Pie and Mash shop in Walthamstow? 144pp, 400 75158 MICHELANGELO, COMPLETE embracing her male lover tenderly, she naked, him WORKS by Frank Zöllner German, Portuguese and Spanish. clothed, her teeth presumably sinking into his flesh. colour photos. ONLY £25 £9.99 NOW £5 Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Munch painted this oil four times between 1893 and Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted David and 77242 LEONARDO DA VINCI THE GRAPHIC 1918 and once again she appears in Vampire in the 78080 IMPRESSED BY LIGHT: British Pietà, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire Forest 1924, this time her victim another nude. A WORK by Johannes Nathan and Frank Zöllner Photographs From Paper Negatives history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and One of the most accomplished human beings who ever partly dressed red head beauty appears in Ashes both architect, the achievements of this Italian master are 1895 and 1925, the male lover bereft. The Sick Child 1840-1860 by Roger Taylor lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New unique. This comprehensive book explores Renaissance genius. Creator of the world’s most famous is painted in 1907 and on the contrasting opposite page Michelangelo’s life and work with a richly illustrated again in 1925, demonstrate how Munch’s style York, this spectacular landscape large publication includes paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, a gatefold of the Taj Mahal and Red Fort, the Chowk, biographical essay, and a complete four-part inventory builder and mechanic epitomised the great flowering of changed, the later version having an angelic beauty to of his paintings, sculptures, buildings and drawings. Full- the child’s face, yet the water glass on the floor a Auringzebe’s Mosque, all photographed by John Murray human consciousness that marks his era. As part of in 1856-64, a pagoda in Rangoon and colossal statues of page reproductions and enlarged details and the book’s Taschen’s Bibliotheca Universalis series, Leonardo da more impressionistic rendering. On the Operating biographical insights consider a previously unseen extent Table, Workers on Their Way Home, Red Virginia the Buddha photographed by Linnaeus Tripe in 1855, Vinci - The Graphic Work features top-quality abbeys and cathedrals, ships and trains, an embroidered to Michelangelo’s more personal traits and circumstances, reproductions of 663 of Leonardo’s drawings, more than Creeper and Street in Asgardstrand, Death Struggle, such as his solitary nature, thirst for money and Sacrament and more masterpieces are all reproduced saddle, Crystal Palace, Edinburgh streets, soldiers, half of which reside in the Royal Collection of Windsor market traders and gentlefolk are among the astonishing commissions and his skill as a property investor. The Castle. From anatomical studies to architectural plans, faithfully in this beautiful Tate publication. A slipcase neatly converts into a book stand. 9.6" x 14.6", biography of the artist, his life as an amateur plates reproduced in full page to the best possible from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant quality. Photography emerged in 1839 in two forms 736 pages. portraits, delve in and delight in the delicate finesse of filmmaker as shown in his photography, ONLY £40 cinematography and a renewal of the theatrical mise- simultaneously. In France, Louis Daguerre produced one of the most talented minds, and hands, in history. en-scène, all of these mediums left their mark on his photographs on silvered sheets of copper, while in Britain 76989 AT HOME: A Short History of Private Hardcover, 5.5" x 7.7", 768 pages. paintings. But perhaps the notoriety of The Scream William Henry Fox Talbot put forward a method of Life by Bill Bryson ONLY £12 and other works from his intensely productive early capturing an image on ordinary writing paper treated with chemicals. 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Glass-negative his brilliant, creative and often eccentric mind reveals sketched out the major elements of his composition with him. Hundreds of that whatever happens in the world ends up in our examples plus self photography which appeared in 1851 quickly gained a black or red pencil before painting. The copyist left the enormous popularity yet has been little recognised until houses. With plenty on the Great Exhibition, early page blank, and then the artist would bring the special portraits and archaeology, early dwellings where animals and people studio shots and the publication of this landmark study by the sheet on which he had painted and laminated it. It was distinguished scholar of Victorian photography, Roger lived together, fortified medieval manor houses, the on the primer that the artist drew and painted and it was previously un- Great Jacobean Staircase at Knole, royal banquets, translated Taylor. Paper was much easier to carry and process a very difficult art to master. 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78342 BEHIND THE 77433 COMPANY OF ARTISTS: The Origins of 78661 LUMINARIES COLONNADE: 37 Years at the Royal Academy of Arts in London by Eleanor Catton ANNE O’BRIEN the British Museum by by Charles Saumarez Smith The winner of the Man Booker Prize Norman Jacobs A lively look at creative temperaments. In 1767 the 2013, this novel is brilliant in design Historical fiction at its best respected Society of Artists wanted to turn itself into an and intensely pleasurable to inhabit. Surprisingly few memoirs or It is 1866 and Walter Moody has biographies have been written by academy, with an annual exhibition and facilities for teaching. The directors set up arrangements under the come to make his fortune upon the those who have spent their New Zealand goldfields. On the working lives in museums and art patronage of the King without consulting the rank and file, and the younger members revolted against what night of his arrival he stumbles galleries. Norman Jacobs worked across a tense gathering of 12 local for 37 years later as Manager of they saw as the older artists giving themselves preferential treatment. The upshot was that older men who have met in secret to Human Resources to the British discuss a series of unsolved crimes. Museum’s 1100 employees. He members set up a new organisation which is the Royal Academy that we know today. The rebel group had A wealthy man has vanished, a was intimately involved in a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous sum of number of key decisions and projects such as the selected Sir Joshua Reynolds as their Director at a meeting from which he was absent. A constitution was money has been discovered in the home of a luckless separation of the British Library, the building of the Great drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery, a Court and the controversy over free admission. He was drawn up and four professors were elected, of Anatomy, Architecture, Painting, and Perspective and Geometry, network of fates and fortunes as complex and exquisitely also involved in a number of scandals that made patterned as the night sky. ‘There was this large world headlines in the newspapers such as the ‘Hypocrisy at while an annual exhibition obliged all academicians under 78564 DEVIL’S CONSORT by Anne O’Brien the age of 60 to submit at least one exhibit. A former of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled the Top’ story in the early 1980s. Here is an world of horror and unease...’ With astrological line art, ‘I’ll not be a vessel merely to carry my blood to my affectionate and light-hearted peek behind the scenes at director of the National Gallery describes the Royal children. I am no brood mare to slave at the behest of Academy’s presidential election of 2011. 192pp, 19 x a big glamorous paperback of 834pp. some of the great characters of the past 40 years and £12.99 NOW £5 a husband. I’ll rule my own lands.’ It is July 1137 and the amusing incidents that make up the day-to-day life 26cm approx., delicate colour reproductions, woodcuts in the baking sunshine of Bordeaux, Eleanor, Duchess of one of Britain’s best known and best-loved and lithographs. 78898 SCENES FROM AN of Aquitaine, eagerly awaits her first meeting with the institutions. 216pp, paperback, photos. £25 NOW £9 EARLY LIFE Prince who will become her husband. Poor Louis £9.99 NOW £4 77434 G. F. WATTS: Victorian Visionary by Philip Hensher Capet is not a fit match for educated, independent by Mark Bills and Barbra Bryant Described by the FT as ‘a literary Eleanor. When he inherits the throne of France, it 77396 EMILE GALLÉ becomes clear that his monastic ways and indecisive by Emile Gallé George Frederick Watts was the most famous painter in god of small things,’ the novel does England at the start of the 20th century. One of his for Bangladesh what Salman rule could cost him his country - and his marriage. In 1895, Art Nouveau exploded in France. Siegfried most famous canvases is “Hope” in which a blindfold girl Rushdie did for India with Midnight’s Determined to rule her own lands, Eleanor leads the Bing, an art dealer with German ancestry but French plays a one-stringed instrument. Watts’ group of works Children. Beautifully packed with men of Aquitaine on Crusade. The march to Outremer nationality, opened a gallery entirely devoted to this featuring Satan, inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost, is detail, Hensher’s novel is another will make her the most scandalous woman in all of innovative new art form. The aim of one of its icons, represented here by the torso of a physically beautiful chapter in British fiction’s deep Christendom, and one chance meeting between Emile Gallé, was to portray the loveliness and simplicity Satan emerging from the clouds with his head turned engagement with the subcontinent Eleanor and Henry Plantagenet will change forever the of nature in the art of glass making, where his works away from the viewer, a pose also seen in his study of in one of the most delightful and fate of England. With family trees, 357pp in were referred to as ‘poetry in glass’. His designs also “Eve Repentant”, in which Eve engulfs her beautiful engaging descriptions of family life to have been paperback. ranged from fine pottery and jewellery to furniture. body in Nature, with her head obscured by leaves. published for many years. 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See picture of a society in turmoil in a book suffused with presents herself for a role in the household of merciless mysterious and refined melding of literature and here the semi-abstract angry sky of “After the Deluge” tenderness. 310pp in paperback, illus. philosophy. At the 1889 World Exposition, he won three royal prince John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, hoping and the beautiful elegiac sunset of “The End of the £8.99 NOW £4 to end her destitution. But the Duke’s scandalous awards for his entries. In 1901 he was a co-founder of Day”. 310 page paperback, over 100 superb colour Alliance Provinciale des Industries d’Art, also known as 78124 SIGNATURE OF ALL proposition leaves her life of pious integrity reeling. reproductions. Seduced by the glare of royal adoration, Katherine the Ecole de Nancy. Gallé’s designs tragically £20 NOW £10 THINGS by Elizabeth Gilbert disappeared from the world of art as Art Deco took From the moment Alma Whittaker becomes John’s mistress and plays second fiddle to his over. 199 pages 29cm x 24.5cm, glowing colour steps into the world, everything young wife and ruthless ambition. But soon the court breathtaking images. about life intrigues her. Instilled whispers - whore, harlot, vile temptress - which reach ONLY £10.50 with an unquenchable sense of the ears not just of John’s bride but his most dangerous FICTION AND ROMANCE political enemies. As the Plantagenet prince is accused 77400 VIENNESE SECESSION wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the richest man in the of bringing England to its knees, who better to blame by Victoria Charles and Klaus H. Carl than shameless she-devil Katherine Swynford? Our The ultra-conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus exerted an Fiction is the lie through which we tell the New World, Alma is raised in a house of luxury and curiosity. It is heroine must pay the price. 535pp in paperback. oppressive influence over the city, the epoch and the truth. £8.99 NOW £3.50 whole Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it was against this not long before she becomes a that, as a symbol of modernity, 20 artists rebelled. This - Albert Camus gifted botanist in her own right, but 78574 THE KING’S CONCUBINE artistic movement, created in 1897 by such artists as as she flourishes and her research takes her deeper into by Anne O’Brien Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll and Josef Hoffmann, became the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love 1362 and Philippa of Hainault selects a young orphan known as the Viennese Secession. Influenced by Art 78627 GIRL NEXT DOOR draws her in the opposite direction - into the realm of the from a convent, Alice Perrers, a girl born with nothing Nouveau, represented the ideological turmoil that by Ruth Rendell spiritual, the divine and the magical. The novel soars but ambition for the Queen who has a role waiting for affected the craftsmen, architects, graphic artists and In a psychologically explosive story, across the globe of 19th century London and Peru to her at court. Led down the corridors of the royal designers of the time. They immersed themselves in the discovery of bones buried in a Philadelphia, Tahiti and beyond. By the author of Eat, palace, the young virgin is secretly delivered to King organic, voluptuous and decorative shapes, an tin box sends shock waves through Pay, Love. 582pp in paperback. Edward III to perform wifely duties of which ailing evocative, erotic aesthetic which went out of its way to a group of long time friends. In the £8.99 NOW £3 Philippa is no longer capable. Power has a price and offend the bourgeoisie, and soon found its way into all waning months of WW2, a group of 78694 UMBRELLA Alice will pay for it. Mistress to the King, confidante of aspects of painting, sculpture, crafts and architecture. children discover earth and tunnels by Will Self the Queen, whore to the court - her fate is double Here is an extensive background, followed by the birth in their neighbourhood outside Radical and unabashedly literary, edged. Alice must balance her future with care as her of the Secession and a history of the important figures. London. Throughout the summer of this is a tour de force by the Booker star begins to rise - the despised concubine is not 180 illus. in colour (many double page spreads) and b/w 1944 until one father forbids it, the Prize winner. It is a modernist untouchable and politics and pillow talk are dangerous photos. 9¾”×11¼”, 200pp. subterranean spaces become their novel in an age of post-modernism bedfellows. The fading great King wants her in his ONLY £11 ‘secret gardens’. Six decades later that unravels new and unsettling bed. Her enemies want her banished. One mistake and beneath a house on the same land, construction workers Alice will face a threat worse than any malicious 77431 ART OF THE PRINTMAKER 1500- truths about our world and how it uncover a tin box containing two severed now skeletal came to be, a heartbreaking mosaic whispers of the past. 536pp in paperback. 1860 by Roger Baynton-Williams hands, one male and one female. The discovery makes and a sardonic critique of the £8.99 NOW £3.50 Antique prints are an affordable way of collecting art and national news and the friends come together once again woefully misdirected treatment of 78938 ANNE O’BRIEN: Set of Three a valuable record of topography, paintings and buildings. to recall their days in the tunnels for the detective the mentally ill and the futility of by Anne O’Brien It is often difficult for the non-specialist collector or investigating the case. Long-simmering feelings bubble war. Moving between Edwardian London and a historian to spot the differences between etchings, to the surface. 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Britain’s most famous mapmaker was John considers contacting his estranged father and Lewis begun working, maverick psychiatrist Zackary Busner LADY by Ann Harries Speed and prints were made from his plates over a begins remembering details about his uncle James, an notes that many of the patients exhibit a strange The Boer War is razing South Africa period of 160 years, with the early editions, such as the army private who once accompanied the children into physical tic. One of these patients is Audrey Death, an to the ground. Amidst these 1611 map of Suffolk pictured here. In the 18th century the tunnels and who later disappeared. The choices we elderly woman born in the slums of West London in horrors three women are fighting engravings of fashionable portraits became popular, and make remain as potent in late life as they were in 1890. Her memories of a bygone Edwardian London, for love, survival and justice - a famous engraving of the period is the one by youth. 272pp. her former lovers, her involvement with early feminist Sarah, an angelically beautiful Benjamin Smith of Hogarth with his dog Trump. A well- $26 NOW £6 and socialist movements, and her time working at an nurse from England, Louise her known Victorian print of 1844 was entitled “Arundel 78892 MOON FIELD umbrella manufacturer alternate with Busner’s attempts madcap friend, and the dynamic Church”, drawn by Samuel Prout, lithographed by J. D. by Judith Allnatt to treat her condition and bring light into her clouded campaigner Emily Hobhouse. As Harding. With sections on 13 different types of print, world. Could the condition be anything to do with her their dramas unfold, so too does the explaining technicalities and placing them in the historical No man’s land is a place in the heart - pitted, cratered and empty as the two brothers? 397 deckle pages. history of the war - the events that context of the book trade. 192pp, glossary, b/w and £18.99 NOW £5 turned what was intended to be a colour illus. moon. Hidden in a soldier’s tin box are a painting, a pocket watch and a quick annexation of the Boers into a protracted, savage £30 NOW £12.50 78891 MISS CARTER’S WAR conflict. The novel vividly brings to life South Africa’s dance card - keepsakes of three by Sheila Hancock 77813 INFLUENCE OF JAPANESE ART ON lives. It is 1914. George Farrell colonial past in a tale full of period detail drawing The great actress Sheila Hancock together the two faces of our human condition - sadness DESIGN by Hannah Sigur cycles through the tranquil has created in Marguerite an Cumberland fells to deliver a letter, and joy. 374pp in paperback. During the vibrant, energetic and flamboyant era of appealing heroine in her historical £7.99 NOW £3.50 radical transformation dubbed by Mark Twain as the unaware that it will change his life. novel. It is 1948 and the young ‘Gilded Age’, a phenomenon popularly called the ‘Japan George has fallen for the rich and and beautiful Marguerite Carter has 76689 LIBRARY OF UNREQUITED LOVE Craze’ swept the West and touched every aspect of life beautiful daughter at the Manor House, Miss Violet, but lost her parents and survived a by Sophie Divry from patent medicines to wallpaper. Here, glass, silver when she lets slip the contents of the letter, George is terrifying war, working for the SOE One morning, a librarian finds a reader who has been and metal arts, ceramics, textiles, furniture, jewellery, heartbroken to find that she is already promised to behind enemy lines. She returns to locked inside overnight. She begins to talk to him, a advertising and packaging are juxtaposed to show the another man. He joins the patriotic rush to war and his England to be one of the first one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet ways in which Japanese arts and ideas changed the rite of passage into manhood leaves him believing that women to receive a degree from outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, world. During this time, both traditional arts and modern no woman will be able to love the man he has become. the University of Cambridge. Now an ungrateful and ignorant public, the strictures of the manufacturers from Japan became the focus of an A story of the loss of innocence and the bonds of human she pins back her unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil Dewey Decimal System and the sinister expansionist international coterie of artists, dealers, and thinkers who heart. 385pp with map. seam up her legs, ties the laces on her sensible black conspiracies of the books themselves, two things shine proselytized Japanese aesthetics as a model. In elegant £12.99 NOW £5 shoes and sets out towards her future as an English through - her unrequited passion for a researcher named prose, the author examines motifs, materials and 78614 EAST IS EAST teacher in a girls’ grammar school. For Miss Carter has a Martin, and an ardent and absolute love for the arts. 96 methods and follows the transformation from by T. C. Boyle mission - to fight social injustice, to prevent war and to page paperback. traditionalism into modernism that marked the ‘A hilarious black farce about racial educate girls. 422pp with bonus content. Paperback. £6.99 NOW £1.50 developments from stereotypes, selfish dreams and £7.99 NOW £3.50 76764 ATTACK ON THE REDAN the Aesthetic ambitions run hopelessly amok.’ movement into Arts 75855 THE SHEPHERD by Frederick Forsyth by Garry Douglas Kilworth Young Japanese seaman Hiro It is Christmas Eve, 1957. Flying home on leave from and Crafts, and Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the The Port of Sebastopol in the Crimea is under siege in looks at how the Germany, a pilot is on a solo flight in the cockpit of a De the year 1855 by the Allies, with the Russians putting up City of Brotherley Love and trained Havilland Vampire. 66 minutes of flying time, with a Japanese model in the way of the Samurai, jumps a vigorous defence. Russian sharpshooters mysteriously completely destination in England. No problem, all routine disappear as Crossman and his men chip away at the ship off the coast of Georgia and procedures. But suddenly out over the ocean, fog transformed design. swims into a net of rabid rednecks, enemy’s morale. Two months after this hard-hitting 222 pages 26cm x begins to close in, radio contact ceases and the compass failure, French and Sardinian forces foil a massive genteel ladies, descendants of goes haywire. When all hope is lost, out of the mist 24cm with over 200 slaves and the denizens of an artist’s Russian counter attack and Sebastopol is left to the illus, colour and b/ appears a World War II bomber, flying just below the Allies. Crossman continues his life of espionage in India. colony. 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78188 EMMA ELIZA 76801 PURSUIT by Peter Smalley by June Barraclough Spring 1792 and HMS Expedient and her crew have Sunday Times & New York Times Little Emma Eliza Saunders, the survived their most perilous commission yet. The dead eldest child of a poor cottage family had been buried and the battle scars repaired. Captain in rural south-west Norfolk, grows James Rennie is anxious to be active again after a year BESTSELLERS up in the 1860s with the memory of on the beach. Once more the summons comes for a 78561 AN OFFICER 78570 THE MINIATURIST by Jessie Burton a boy who befriended her as a secret voyage, in pursuit of a heavily armed neutral AND A SPY by Robert BESTSELLER at a bargain price, this novel is toddler but who then vanished from vessel. Aboard the ship lies a secret that could change ‘haunting, magical and full of surprises.’ On an autumn her life. Her village childhood the course of the coming war for Britain and tip the Harris Paris, January 1895, and day in 1686, 18 year old Nella Oortman arrives at a follows the traditional pattern, balance irrevocably in favour of Revolutionary France. grand house in the Amsterdam to begin her new life as disrupted by her mother’s death From a fog-bound Thames Estuary to the limped waters army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a the wife of wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt. when she is 13. She then goes as a of the Norweigan fjords and finally to Boston, Rennie Though curiously distant, he presents her with an servant to Breckles Hall. Four years later she meets a and Hayter must play a deadly game involving sea convicted spy Alfred Dreyfus as he is publicly humiliated in extraordinary wedding gift - a cabinet-sized replica of young man called Jabez Smith who she believes is the battles, mutiny and breathtaking deception. 324pp. their home. 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The women form a bond, but Air Force and an expert in nuclear weaponry and cyber Drake’s fleet and return a hero, dragging Bruno with but they have little to do with the when Hesley’s actions force them to fight for their security has escaped from the Army’s most secure him to the New World. But when a murder occurs three women who live there - freedom, will they survive in a world that has rejected prison. Convicted of treason, Robert may have had aboard Drake’s own ship, fear and suspicion grip the grandmother, mother and daughter. them and defy the man who seeks to hold them help in his breakout and now he is on the run, the fleet and threaten to abort the expedition before it Old Mrs Covington dreams of India captive? Set in 19th century Yorkshire. 374pp. number one target of the military. John Puller has a begins. Tracing the killer through Plymouth’s menacing and the days of the Raj. Her £19.99 NOW £1.50 dilemma - to his country or to his brother? 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78194 JUSTIFICATION OF Given a chance, women could excel. Marriage itself was JOHANN GUTTENBERG a form of slavery. 124pp in paperback, the entire text of A History of Conspiracy and Political the original is reproduced. by Blake Morrison MODERN HISTORY AND Violence 1865-1981 Morrison conjures up the colourful, £6.99 NOW £1.25 plague-ridden world of 15th century CURRENT AFFAIRS 75327 PROPAGANDA: Truth and Lies in 76499 AGE OF ASSASSINS: Europe, the rich burghers, Times of Conflict A History of Conspiracy and concupiscent daughters, wily Political Violence 1865- apprentices, careless scribes, and Study history, study history. In history lies edited by Tony Husband 1981 by Michael Newton the craftsmen who pioneered the art all the secrets of statecraft. Tony Husband has been fascinated by the power of of print. 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77437 A DIFFICULT 77780 ELIZABETH: A Celebration in 78337 ANIMAL MAGIC: A 77952 MAGNIFICENT WOMAN Photographs of the Queen’s Life Brother’s Story SPILSBURY AND THE by Alice Kessler-Harris and Reign by Jennie Bond by Andrew Barrow CASE OF THE BRIDES IN Sub-titled ‘The Challenging Life Now the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II At the age of 22, Jonathan Barrow, THE BATH and Times of Lillian Hellman’. will celebrate her 90th birthday next year. Capturing the youngest of five brothers, was by Jane Robins A major work of literary and every detail of her astonishing reign from the 1950s killed with his fiancée in a head-on intellectual history that car crash on 5 April 1970 at Olney The story opens in Bristol in when young and pretty she was seen around the world 1910 when Bessie Mundy, past illuminates the turbulent as a fairytale queen, through the 1960s as a young in Buckinghamshire, just a few days intersection of culture and before their wedding. 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77246 EXPANDING UNIVERSE: And the moon Photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope by Owen Edwards, Zoltan Levay, Charles F. MYTHOLOGY SCIENCE AND MATHS Bolden, Jr., John Mace Grunsfeld came nearer Investigating everything from black holes to exoplanets, Those people who think they know Journey back to July 20, 1969 the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It everything are a great annoyance to those of 78720 MOONFIRE: The Epic Journey astronomy, but also our very sense of being in the is as true as sunbeams. us who do. universe. Now, the precision of the telescope is matched of Apollo 11 by Norman Mailer with the precision of Taschen reproduction standards, - Douglas Jerrold - Isaac Asimov “A Moby-Dick of space...the gift of a genius.” It has allowing the images to mesmerise in their iridescent been called the single most historic event of the 20th colours and vast, fragile forms. The collection is century. 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We see water treatment plants, power including electricity grids, Elephantiasis, gruesomely deformed scrotum and penis, legs Iroquois, Sioux, North-Western Indians and myths and how Janos’s relationship with his father waxed and power stations, oil and gas extractions and renewable and a hand, the bearded lady of Geneva, the monkey legends of the Pawnees, their gods and heroes, trees waned as others, notably the German Karl Gauss, energies, transport including railways, roads, canals and woman, Lionel the lion faced man and other such physical and waters, the charmed stone, the boy magician, claimed authorship of Janos’s worK. through Farkas’s aviation, communication, and waste. 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The contributors examine the meaning of time; while others fall off during the treatise required nearly two decades of dedication; plus water supply, land drainage and reclamation. Many they discuss whether past and future movements exist. flight, and when at last the 30 remaining birds reach the Bourgery lived just long enough to finish his labour of canals such as the Canal du Midi are used for commercial Personality changes, appearance changes and attitude mountain of the king, they realise that they have been love, but the last of the treatise’s eight volumes was and leisure activities. From the Byzantine period we see changes, and sometimes we might take on extra purified and unified by their quest and that they not published in its entirety until five years after his a picture of the Theodosian walls protecting Istanbul for responsibility which alters our outlook on life. These themselves have become the king with all the answers. death. The eight volumes of Bourgery’s treatise cover a thousand years until they were breeched by Ottoman essays will really set you thinking. Paperback, 330pp. This retelling by filmmaker and illustrator Peter Sis is descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques cannon in 1453. 256 illus pages, maps, diagrams and £24.95 NOW £7 quite simply incredibly beautiful. Each page has a small (exploring in detail nearly all the major operations that photos. 78220 THE SCIENTIST: A Metaphysical amount of text within a meticulously detailed semi- were performed during the first half of the 19th £18.99 NOW £3.50 century), general anatomy and embryology, and Autobiography abstract background of subtly graded colours and microscopic anatomy. Jacob’s spectacular hand- 77023 DIRTY MINDS: How Our Brains by John Lilly and Timothy Leary powerful symbolism. 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77472 DISNEY FAIRIES 3D 77775 COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF CURIOUS Geographica. Their only hope lies with the small group STICKER SCENE GEORGE questing for the broken sword Caliburn - the Grail child, CHILDREN’S Super-sized fold out colour scenes by Margret and H. A. Rey Rose Dyson, her mechanical companion the owl Archie, magically come to life when you Hooray for Curious George! All his exciting adventures a dead professor of ancient literature, and the mythical pop on your 3D glasses supplied can be found in one bumper volume to be treasured by knight Don Quixote. Myth, legend, adventure story and Sweet childish days, that were as long as with this Disney creation. There are fans young and old. 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He down sixty women, and their main is evident in his broad chance encounter with Norman Wisdom that things get delivers delightful and intellectually engaging story of the interviewees are Sylvia, Rae, Margaret and range of styles - really strange. In Albania with their new band The city from the building of its first canals in the 1300s Gwendolyn. Sylvia started work sewing trouser hems at Symbolist, Art Pitkins, success was inevitable! 324pp, paperback. through the brutal struggle for Dutch independence and the age of 15 and soon got herself a job in Piccadilly Nouveau, Secessionist, Photos. its golden age as the capital of a vast empire, to its where the GI soldiers had their club. She and a friend Art Deco and £7.99 NOW £1.25 Modernist - in which he complex present in which its cherished ideals are being volunteered for the Red Cross at the club and were was extraordinarily 77053 LOOKING AT ANSEL ADAMS: The questioned anew. 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When Margaret met the gorgeous Taylor they images and places them in the context of his journeys A family decides to sell everything off and go to Italy in This beautifully became lovers but he dropped her when she suggested into the wild, his relationships with friends and assistants, search of art and its meanings, for freedom from routine illustrated and very getting married. Taking up with Lawrence to make and the photographic process. Adams’s best-known and for a different path into the future. Their three lavish heavyweight tome is a tribute, packed with Taylor jealous, she became pregnant. Gwendolyn fell in photos are probably those of the Half-Dome and El month journey takes them among Raphaels and rented more than 200 colour illus culled from the archives of a love with a married man but finally got together with Capitan in Yosemite. The Half Dome with snow blowing villas, the Piero della Francesca trail and the tourist rare book collection. Interiors from glamorous Ben through their indignation at disfigured servicemen across it is particularly atmospheric, and juxtaposed with furnaces of Amalfi, the simple glories of pasta and apartments with huge mirrors and sofas, set models for being asked to leave a restaurant. Fascinating real life grainy photos taken by Adams’s 14-year old self we get gelato. Rachel Cusk reconsiders our impulses towards ‘Flying High’, drawings for department stores, the stories. 360pp, paperback. a sense of what inspired this gigantic personality. A indulgence and escape, inspiration, creativity and lobby at the St. Regis Hotel New York, drawings for £7.99 NOW £3.50 chapter on “trailer-camp children” demonstrates his talent domestic life through the lens of Italian culture, murals for a rooftop restaurant in Brooklyn or for a ball for portraiture. Drink and a difficult marriage took their landscape and cuisine. 240pp in illus paperback. room and with images of Urban’s pet macaws, book 77936 SECOND WORLD toll, but with friends like Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz $15 NOW £4 WAR by Antony Beevor illustrations, contemporary photos and more. A and Georgia O’Keeffe, Adams was a talkative, generous glamorous Abrams art book, 224 very large pages. and admiring companion. 254pp, chronology, hundreds 77987 WALKING HOME: This thick, weighty definite £29.99 NOW £15 of stunning monochrome photos. Remainder mark. Travels With a Troubadour on narrative history of the Second £30 NOW £13 World War by our foremost historian 78648 JOURNEY the Pennine Way is an amazing global account. INTO DOROTHY 77060 MEDIEVAL MAPS OF THE HOLY LAND by Simon Armitage Exciting accounts of the battles PARKER’S NEW YORK by P. D. A. Harvey The Pennine Way is about 256 bring the hostilities to life. A young by Kevin Fitzpatrick This historic volume reproduces, for the first time, the miles long - no one knows for Korean, Yang Kyoungjong, was The Algonquin Hotel was a surviving copies and fragments of the eight medieval certain - and is normally walked forcibly conscripted by the haven for writers, editors regional maps of the Holy Land that are known to have south to north. However, poet Japanese, but a year later he was and was their de facto existed and that originated between the 12th century Simon decided to walk it the other captured by the Red Army and clubhouse, the lunch and the 14th. There are also three large maps that are way, with a vague theory it might sent to a labour camp. Forcibly destination for a group of among medieval Europe’s finest cartographic be downhill. He also decided that he drafted by the Soviet military authorities in 1942, he rascals for a decade who monuments. 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78255 A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD: 77506 TALES FROM THE SPECIAL FORCES 78239 CUMBRIA AT WAR 1939-1945 conjugates in French, you can look up the Verb Index. The Illustrated Poetry of the First CLUB by Sean Rayment by Ron Freethy With solutions to all 152 tests, here are hundreds of World War by Fiona Waters There are but a handful of men and women alive today Behind the scenes, the people who lived in what is now examples to show you the right way to use French Some of the most heart-aching poems ever penned who served with the Special Forces in WWII. Noreen modern Cumbria played a very important part in the verbs. 130 page large softback. came from the horror of the trenches during the First trained Resistance agents and also acted as “honey trap” defeat of Hitler. The Vickers shipyards and docks at $18.99 NOW £5 World War. What is often overlooked is that there are to ensure that foreign agents were reliable. Jimmy Patch Barrow built warships as fast as they could to feed 78584 ALPHABETS: A also a great many written by the countless mothers, served in the Long Range Desert Group, performing through to the Navy as replacements for vessels sunk. wives, sweethearts, sisters and daughters left behind, Meanwhile the docks at Workington, Maryport and Miscellany of Letters reconnaissance, sabotage and raids against Rommel’s introduced whose lives were full of the war and its privations yet Afrikakorps well behind enemy lines. Corran Purdon Millom were used to transport locally-mined iron, empty of their menfolk, with the ever-present dread of limestone and coal. Aircraft were made across the by David Sacks was part of 12 Commando, who conducted “The An A-Z of the amazing story of our the telegram from Greatest Raid of All”, the destruction of St Naizaire dock, county including Sunderland Flying Boats at Whitecross the War Office. This Bay on the banks of Lake Windermere and Patterson alphabet beginning with A for the only place capable of accommodating the Bismarck Alphabet, B for bestiary, selection of 96 poems class battleships that ruled the North Atlantic. A unique Gliders which were used to deliver secret agents into includes all of these German-occupied Europe, especially Norway. The commercial, deconstructive, group of heroic veterans. 307pp paperback, photos. illuminated, kinetic, moral, physical, types, some of them £12.99 NOW £4.50 geography of the county also made it suitable for among the most munitions factories and the training of men and women question mark, revolutionary, famous lines ever 77840 FROM DARTMOUTH TO WAR for all three services. Civilians played a vital part in the technology, urban, vanity, wit, x-rated, youth, zero and written and many by Adrian Holloway defence of the area from Southern Ireland. We recall all letters in-between. The ancient symbol for an ox’s others rarely heard Sub-titled ‘A Midshipman in the Mediterranean 1940- the days of ration books, low-flying trainer aircraft and head Aleph has developed into our letter A. How can but no less poignant. 1941’. Adrian Holloway was only 17 when he left the shortages. 159pp, illus paperback. one language’s alphabet adapt easily to a new tongue? Counterpointed by Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1940, to join the £11.99 NOW £4.50 The answer lies in the letters. Letters operate at a painstakingly HMS Valiant. He shared a gunroom with Midshipmen fundamental level of human language and astoundingly, restored b/w photos. Terry Lewen and HRH Prince Philip. They arrived in 78383 A PRAYER FOR GALLIPOLI almost all major modern alphabets are related. Here is a 192pp, 9½” square. time to witness the darkest days of the Mediterranean by Kenneth Best family tree, the ancient Indo-European tongues of Latin, £16.99 NOW £6 Fleet, providing cover for the Fleet Air Arm’s raid on During the First World War, many chaplains were not Greek and Sanskrit in the short history before we are Taranto, fighting at the Battle of Matapan and taking permitted near the Front, but Padre Kenneth Best presented with page after page of colourful graphic 77010 CITIZEN SOLDIERS: The U.S. Army part in the evacuation of Crete, during which time the insisted on accompanying his troops during the Allied design and lettering. It is a playful tale on the alphabet’s From the Normandy Beaches: to the Bulge to Royal Navy’s ships were decimated. He also witnessed invasion of Turkey. Thrust into the maelstrom of relationship with art, design, typography, children’s the Surrender of Germany June 7 1944 to May the sinking of the HMS Barham and was on board Gallipoli, he built up morale, tended the wounded and books, learning aides, commercial signage, contemporary Valiant when Italian frogmen mined her in Alexandria buried the dead. As the toll of casualties rose very culture and everything in between. With examples from 7 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose higher, Best became increasingly critical of the British Peter Blake, Tim Fishlock to Alphabetti Spaghetti, ABC Ambrose focuses on the American civilians who enlisted Harbour in 1941. Personal photos. 224pp, softback. £14.99 NOW £5.50 Higher Command, few of whom shared his insights into blocks, and Braille. A cornucopia of imagery in big in the US army to fight their way across occupied the horrors of trench warfare. The gallantry and glamorous hardback, 240pp. Europe, following these men from the D-day landings 77955 SOUTHAMPTON’S CHILDREN OF THE indomitable spirit of the men shines through the pages of £24.95 NOW £7.50 through to the German surrender. The day after landing BLITZ by Andrew Bissell this notoriously flawed and tragic campaign. 293pp, on Omaha Beach, General Cota asked why a Southampton was blitzed heavily between September paperback, illus. 78798 ESSENTIAL ITALIAN detachment of men was not moving and on being told 1940 and May 1941, and this lively and well-written £7.99 NOW £3.50 VOCABULARY: Teach that they were pinned down by some Germans hiding in book records eyewitness descriptions of the experience Yourself by Mike Zollo a farmhouse, he singlehandedly took a couple of based on 80 interviews. Jean, Ivy and James Thorn With Italian, once you have learned grenades from his belt, kicked the farm door down, were evacuated to a family in Christchurch where they a relatively small basic set of rules, yelling like wild man, scattered the grenades and had were treated as servants, but Pat Malone had a much you can master the pronunciation of the satisfaction of seeing the Germans running for cover. happier experience with his aunt in Sturminster Newton. WORDS AND virtually every word that you The story became legend, but the lack of training took Flight Lieutenant James Nicolson was shot down over encounter. The scenery, the its toll. Full of vivid anecdotes. 528pp, paperback, illus. Southampton, very badly burnt, and his Hurricane was DICTIONARIES culture, the history, the weather, Remainder mark. in pieces. He won the VC but was later killed in Burma. the elegant buildings and people, $18 NOW £5.50 10-year-old Brenda Pritchett auditioned to sing to the I can speak Esperanto like a native. Italy has in many ways been the 77115 WILLIAM ORPEN: An Onlooker in troops and was soon performing every weekend, and cradle of European civilisation. Plus France: A Critical Edition of the Artist’s War when she managed to smile at a badly disfigured airman - Spike Milligan beaches, food, cars and Italian she was sent to perform to men with severe wounds. design, the people are amongst the most friendly and Memoirs by Robert Upstone On 23 November there was a direct hit on a school outgoing in Europe and we have in this book an and Angela Weight shelter which killed almost all the occupants, and a week 78588 BEGINNER’S GREEK: irresistible combination for either the beginner or the Upstone assesses William Orpen’s career as a war artist later there was an even more devastating two-night With Two Audio CDs experienced linguist. Even if you have only five or ten and the pivotal impact the war had upon him. blitz. Archive photos of wartime Southampton, most minutes to get started, here are the links to Latin, how to Investigates the major controversies that marked this unseen before. 160pp, softback. by Elizabeth Uhlig stress a word, spelling quirks and tips to build confidence. period of his life and is set against the wider British war £12.95 NOW £5 The Greek alphabet lessons one to Buona Fortuna. 252pp in nicely laid out paperback in effort, while at home in 1916 the Irish Republican eight are on disc one and lessons this expert Teach Yourself series, 5000 everyday Brotherhood proclaimed an independent Ireland. The 78144 CIVIL WAR: The First nine to twelve with appendices on vocabulary logically organised to make it easy to learn memoir itself is a perceptive and moving account by an Year Told by Those Who disc two cleverly inserted into the and remember. Look out for the free downloadable artist who consorted with all levels of the military from Lived Through It edited by covers of this softback import. To audio online. generals to Tommies, and was a close friend of many Brooks Simpson et al learn Greek is to navigate intricate $12.95 NOW £3.50 journalists and influential civilians. Despite his high-level layers of culture which reveals itself What was it like to live in America through the sound of the words and 78116 RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER’S POCKET connections though, Orpen’s emotional sympathies were 150 years ago when the country with the common soldier. He witnessed the greed and the elision between the words. The RHYMING DICTIONARY was being torn apart by Civil War? bygone days of Classical Greek self-interest of the national delegates at the Peace A Corporal wrote to his mother ‘As by Random House Conference in Versailles in 1919 and knew how their blend seamlessly with the latter centuries in a pleasant You need not be a cockney to want to find a rhyming I emerged from the woods I saw a jumble of white marble, cobblestones, glossy blue paint post-war neglect of the ordinary man caused bitterness bomb shell strike a man in the word! Brilliantly arranged by sounds like - “aber”, here amongst those who should have been treated as heroes. and wild flowers. Friendly, affectionate countrymen are dozens of suggestions - hemiquaver, and engraver. breast and literally tear him to invite you to share their food, wine, lush vegetation and 232 pages 26cm x 20cm, archive photos, documents of pieces. I passed the farm house It’s a perfect compact and easy to use list of 30,000 the period, drawings and colour plates. seemingly endless Aegean. Once you learn a words. Perfect for writers of songs and poetry, the which had been appropriated for a hospital and the grammatical structure you can apply its principals to £30 NOW £8 groans of the wounded and dying were horrible.’ The rhyming words encompass common vocabulary, foreign more and more sophisticated concepts which give you a expressions and proper names, and place names from 77325 GIRL FROM STATION X: My Mother’s first year of America’s Civil War, told through the eyes sense of mastery over the language. In this book, each of over 60 people, through letters, diaries, speeches and literature and mythology plus a glossary of poetic terms Unknown Life chapter is designed to build upon the knowledge you that serves as a handy guide to rhyming patterns. by Elisa Segrave articles. 680pp. endpaper maps, silk ribbon bookmark. have gained in the previous one to give you the $37.50 NOW £13.50 Pocket sized, 248pp in paperback. Elisa Segrave was sorting through her mother’s satisfaction and confidence to speak and read the $5.95 NOW £2.50 belongings when she came upon a cache of wartime 78236 BLITZKRIEG IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Modern Greek language. 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With a start with the alphabet and move by John Germon Berlin first saw the face of war, and ending on 22nd foreword written by one of the leading architects of on to groups of letters and short A celebration of Devon dialect written by the Chairman June 1945, the anonymous author described life within Blitzkrieg armoured warfare tactics. 256pp, illus. phrases, followed by an extended list of words. The of the Ashburton Devon Dialect Club who is still being the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian army. It £19.99 NOW £9 primer is graded, moving from simple words of one edificated in the Deb’m Mouthspaich. It is a treasure is a heartrending account and one of the most 78253 LETTERS AND NEWS syllable to words of two syllables broken up to aid trove of folk history and vivid English expression, a remarkable war diaries ever kept. The story would be FROM THE TRENCHES AND recognition. By the time the reader has worked through Devon dialect which should not be forgotten. 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As beautifully crafted and visually colour and production methods, romance between his wife Lady Emma Hamilton and Fantagraphics’ ‘Race to Death Valley’ is remastered impressive as the hundreds of there is a superb gazetteer of Horatio Nelson tends to eclipse Sir William’s own straight from the Disney proof sheets and prized private examples on these glamorous pages, different rug types, all with high activities, his work as a scientist and a classicist made collections. 50 pages of supplementary features. 286pp, this trilingual (English, German, quality photos. City pieces include major contributions to the study of Pompeii, 10½” x 8¾”. French) luxury tome is discounted the Persian Tabriz, Ispahan and Herculaneum and Mt Vesuvius. As an expert in $29.99 NOW £8 for the first time. More than 2,000 Nain patterns, all designed with ancient art, Hamilton also built up an invaluable 78135 WALT DISNEY’S MICKEY MOUSE: illustrations take the reader through central medallions. The Nain has collection of ancient Greek vases, subsequently sold to a fascinating ‘century of the lavish scrolls and arabesques, and unlike the rose shades the British Museum in London in 1772. Before the Trapped On Treasure Island wristwatch’. No other object unites technical prowess, of Ispahan is often made in cool blues. Tribal rugs pieces were shipped off to England, Hamilton by Floyd Gottfredson artistry and plain usefulness as nicely as a watch, a include the brightly coloured Kazak Lambalo, with its commissioned Pierre-François Hugues d’Hancarville, an Courtesy of the Walt Disney Archives, here are mirror of fashion and obsession, of countless inventors striking three medallions in reds, greens and ivories. The adventurous connoisseur and art dealer, to document reproductions of the 1933 comic strip stories featuring and entrepreneurs. Here is the full story from Alpina, beautiful Baku is a Caucasian Shirvan rug, with an the vases in words and images. 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Plus envelopes for packaging CDs, prehistory and antiquity projects. illus and diagrams. photographs, gift cards and more. 128 paperback pages including Ancient Egypt, £14.99 NOW £3.50 £8.99 NOW £2.50 25.5cm x 21.5cm, attractive colour, with 36 templates. major sections of Judaism, £12.99 NOW £3.50 Christianity, Islam, 77473 DRAW LIKE THE 77329 NEEDLECRAFT STITCH DIRECTORY: A Buddhism and Hindu, also MASTERS: Be Inspired by Visual Reference of Over 50 Needlecraft Shinto, Confucianism and Great Artists of the Past Styles and the Stitches That Go With Them Taoism, throughout both by Barrington Barber by Sarah Whittle parts of the book superb full Over 100 drawings after world- RELIGION AND colour photographs are famous artists are presented so that The first section will introduce you to freestyle interspersed with carefully readers can learn how to embroidery, cross-stitch, canvas work and appliqué, as PHILOSOPHY designed ‘decoder’ special understand the elements of well as sashiko quilting and huck embroidery. 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Tom The tools and materials required are clearly explained language and arrangement into short chapters and a visit to Phoenix Park in Dublin they returned to find Tierney’s colourful paper doll collection reproduces the including templates and diagrams as well as lovely close- verses, acclaimed philosopher Anthony Grayling has that their house had collapsed. Lorna’s guardian angel two figures of the King and Queen plus brocaded gowns, up colour photos. You will soon be thoroughly enjoying been inspired by the thinking of Herodotus and Cicero, Hosus sometimes sat on the teacher’s desk and helped robes, ermine and jewel-trimmed capes, a satin doublet, making the jolly Pigs in Clover Cot Quilt, the Confucius and Mencius, Montaigne and Bacon and so Lorna in knowing what to do. She explains that you suits of armour, ceremonial robes, crowns, map and scrumptious Cherry Cushion or the tasteful Butterfly many others. He has distilled the work of hundreds of have to empower your angel and that he will not trouble scroll. Ages seven to adult. 16 costumes on eight Napkins - and many more. 144 pages 28.5cm x 21.5cm authors and more than 1000 texts using the same you if you are reluctant to acknowledge his presence. plates. Softback, 9¼ x 12¼”. in colour. techniques of editing and adaptation that produced the One day the angels took her to meet Elijah, who told £5.99 NOW £2.75 £19.99 NOW £6 holy books of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. her that she would marry and be happy with her Their wit and advice, human stories, tragedies and husband but that he would be taken from her at a young 76318 CATS AND KITTENS IN ACRYLICS: 77800 MY SEWN HOME: 50 Simple Sewing yearnings, love and consolations are shaped into 14 age. Meanwhile the family was fighting to be allocated a Ready to Paint Projects by Lexie Barnes parts. Includes meditations on the origin and progress of house by Dublin Council. 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Each of the five easy-to-follow zips, seams and hems, staple guns and short cuts. by Patience Strong CHRIST: The Missing Years projects is presented with step-by-step photos. 48 page Practical storage items, cute accessories and colourful The Bedside Book was first by Levi Dowling published in 1953, the Birthday large softback, colour. decorations. 160pp, softback. What happened to Jesus between the ages of 12 and Book 1955 and the Friendship Book £8.99 NOW £3 £15.99 NOW £3 30? Where did he go, whom did he meet and how did 1962. Here is the long-awaited re- he increase ‘in wisdom and stature, and in favour with 76766 AWARE KNITS: Knit and Crochet 77805 ACRYLIC PAINTING: Expert Answers issue of all three in a treasury and God and man’? The synoptic gospels tell us nothing by Jennifer King enduring anthology of daily readings Projects about these missing years. 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These three are words memorised by Mohammad in his encounter with Economics, being a science that explains the behaviour economy of running, reliability and interchangeable. One leads to the other, and it matters Gabriel, and the author discusses the interpretation of of individuals in organisations, is an ideal medium with that it would run for days without attention. Covering not in which order they appear. All lead to Me. All are key passages. Chapters devoted to the Qur’an here which to understand the development of organised small-power engines, major manufacturers like Bentall, Me. And so the author ends his dialogue as it began. include some beautiful 15th century manuscripts from religion due to the fact that religion is a set of organised Blackstone, Crossley and Lister plus lesser known The question is not to whom I talk, but who listens. Iran written in Naskh and Rayhan scripts, while other beliefs while a church is an organised body of manufacturers like Nayler & Co. of Hereford founded There is wisdom of the ages in these three books written chapters cover calligraphy and calligraphers, the Five worshippers. In this study of the evolution of around 1880. For laymen, this is a super Shire history as letters to God, venting the author’s frustrations. What Pillars of Islam and Mystical Islam. Among the book’s Christianity the authors argue that as the Catholic of the engine for all purposes plus badge engineering, he did not expect was a response. As he finished his gorgeous reproductions are a page from The Minto Church dominated the religious market for centuries, pre-1960 diesel engines, large engines, common and rare letter, he was moved to continue writing and out came Album showing depictions of Paradise and an impressive when Protestantism emerged in the 16th century it can enginesm, with a large collection of both colour photos these extraordinary answers to his questions. 392pp, study of the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul. The be interpreted in modern terms as the successful and line art diagrams. 56 page paperback. paperback. Great Mosques of Mecca and Medina. 256pp, softback, penetration of a monopoly market. Paperback, 356pp. £5.99 NOW £3 £9.99 NOW £4.75 colour reproductions. Remainder mark. 76034 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD: Set of $60 NOW £12.50 £10.95 NOW £4.50 77000 BRASSEY’S AIR Three by Neale Donald Walsch 77673 RELIGION BOOK: 78154 SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCK: A COMBAT READER: Historic Buy volumes one to three and save even more. Places, Prophets, Saints and Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible Feats by Walter J. Boyne and £29.97 NOW £11 Seers by Jim Willis by Harold Bloom Philip Handleman 28 pieces beginning with The 76154 CHURCH VISIBLE: Revised Edition An alphabetically arranged broad The author points out that two central English literature overview of religion through the masterworks emerged at the beginning of the 1600s. Machine Gun Takes Wings by Arch by James-Charles Noonan Jr. One was the Authorised version of The Bible, the other Whitehouse 1915, Downing My Sub-titled ‘The Ceremonial Life and Protocol of the millennia, with almost 300 entries from Aaron to Zoroastrianism. was Shakespeare’s major plays. By comparing the King First Hun by Edward Lee Catholic Church’, this is the benchmark reference on the James Bible with the Geneva Bible and Tyndale’s Bible, Rickenbacker, Man does Not Die external life of the Roman Catholic Chruch. It includes Here are the world’s major religions, as well as various as well as the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the from Flight to Arras by Antoine de insight into developments within the church including author demonstrates how the texts have been improved Saint-Exupéry, the Ace by William information on the Papacy of Benedict XVI. The result of spiritual practices. Today, some of the ancient religions such as upon - or, sometimes diminished - with relation to earlier R. Dunn, English Channel Collision seven years’ intense research, it covers the currently versions. We are invited to hear the baroque by Walter J. Boyne and that is just mandated practices and ritual prescribed by the Holy Druidism and Celtic beliefs are becoming the basics of the New Age religions. The book also looks at holy inventiveness in The Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes and from the two World War sections. Also covers the See in matters of vesture, insignia, protocol and Job and to recognise the echoes in Romantic poetry. He Korean War, the Vietnam War, Middle East Conflicts, the ceremony including the Papal Household and the Papal places including Amesbury, Mecca and Jerusalem, and at prophets, founders, saints from the Bible and various demonstrates that whatever your beliefs, the Bible can Persian Gulf War and lastly the art and science of air Family, diplomacy, honours, heraldry, forms of address still be enjoyed as a literary form with aesthetic value. warfare including the future of air combat technology and sacred vestments. Includes a chronology of popes scriptures. 490pp b/w illustrations. $52 NOW £5 312pp. and computers. First-person memoirs by aviation and Ecumenical Councils, the cross, mitre, the pastoral £20 NOW £8 legends. 340pp, paperback. staff, the signing of the treatise, awards and medals, 77069 THE NOVICE by Thich Nhat Hanh $8.95 NOW £3 even seating charts and stationery, ecclesiastical Zen Master and bestselling author of ‘Peace is Every 78209 HOLY PLACE: Sauniere and the symbols, the death and burial of a Grand Master, the Step’, Thich Nhat Hanh transforms an ancient folk tale Decoding: of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau 77853 FLYING SCOTSMAN Order of Merit of Malta and much more. 90 colour into a timeless parable of a young woman who dares to by Henry Lincoln POCKET BOOK photos and other illus, 504 large pages 8½” x 10". risk her life for her faith. By connecting with the One of the authors of the original book The Holy Blood by R. H. N. Hardy £24.99 NOW £6 boundless heart of the Buddha, we can discover a mind and the Holy Grail, Henry Lincoln has continued his Described by the Railway 76690 LIVES OF THE GREAT SPIRITUAL and heart that are peaceful, happy and free. His ideas researches into the possibility that the town of Rennes- Magazine as ‘Britain’s greatest living railwayman’, the author was LEADERS: 20 Inspirational Tales for peace, if applied, would build a monument to le-Chateau in the foothills of the Pyrenees might unlock ! ecumenism and world brotherhood. This influential a secret that for 2000 years has empowered its born in 1923 - the same year as the by Henry Whitbread Buddhist leader ranks second only to the Dalai Lama. guardians with wealth, influence and spiritual force. A Flying Scotsman was built. He Brings together the wisdom of spiritual leaders from He is a Vietnamese poet, scholar and peace activist. mixture of research and speculation has traced the secret worked on Britain’s railways for around the globe from Confucius and Buddha via 144pp, paperback. back through the Cathars, Templars and Merovingian over 40 years, from his Muhammad and Mother Teresa to Martin Luther King $14.99 NOW £3 kings to Jesus himself and the possibility that he had a apprenticeship at Doncaster to his and the Dalai Lama. This volume looks at each of the child with Mary Magdalen. Lincoln concentrates on the tenure as Divisional Manager at 20 great teachers through one particular event in their 77073 PEOPLE’S BIBLE The Remarkable topography of the area round Rennes and the possibility Liverpool. This impressive selection of contemporary life, exploring both their human feelings and their special History of the King James Version that there are coded messages in the landscape. Starting reports and reviews, ephemera and guides, posters and spiritual insight. In the first chapter, we find the by Derek Wilson with the ancient parchments discovered by Sauniere, photographs portray not only every little detail of its shepherd Moses trying to overcome his terror when he Here is the tale of the new vernacular version of the which may or may not be forgeries but which certainly construction, but also what it was like to ride in the cab hears God speaking to him through a mysterious burning Holy Book in a language that modern English-speakers contain ciphers, Lincoln uses Poussin’s painting Shepherds and operate L.N.E.R. Class A3 Pacific No. 4472. How bush. Six out of the 20 were killed. 96 pages 28cm x might just understand, created by the admirers of John in Arcadia as a key to the meaning of the landscape. did it feel to fire the engine on the record-breaking speed 22cm, 178 illus in colour and b/w. Wycliffe in the late 14th century, and then on into the Lines linking the symbols on the parchment trace the runs? 128 pages, colour and archive photos, graphs. £12.95 NOW £4.50 16th century Reformation, which reversed the prohibition shape of a pentacle. 176pp, paperback, diagrams, £8.99 NOW £3.50 on such translations. Then William Tyndale, an Oxford- 77043 IRELAND’S SAINT: The Essential photos, bibliography. 76756 WORLD OF DISCOVERY: trained priest, took up the task anew. His work made £8.99 NOW £4.25 Biography of St. Patrick by J. B. Bury him a rebel and he lived in exile in Germany where he Titanic The Irish historian and Cambridge professor J. B. Bury paid for translating the Bible into an English now 78210 HYMNS OF HERMES: Ecstatic Songs of A document wallet contains a fact-filled poster and 64 (1861-1927) first published this book as The Life of St. transformed. This strenuous decade of translation Gnosis by R. G. S. Mead coloured stickers for all kinds of crafting projects. They Patrick and His Place in History in 1905. This fabulous created the text which the ‘cheerfully bisexual’ King The Introduction describes the role and influence of include a sepia cameo of the Captain, the ship herself, reprint has been edited and with a new introduction. James’s translators then rendered into something suited Hermetic thought on the early church and Gnostics, its passengers, furniture, posters of her voyage. Designed The one man who changed Ireland forever was Patrick. to formal public worship. Since then, its majestic prose position in the history of Western thought, and its for ages nine and up, the spiral bound book gives a As a youth, he was captured by Irish pirates and has sustained Christians all over the world. 222 pages, renaissance today. The book examines Hermetic history of the White Star Line, elegant First Class travel enslaved by them. 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77317 RAILWAY 78355 FLYING YEARS 78196 GRAND PRIX CARS 77384 SHIPWRECK: A History of Disasters At MODELLING THE REALISTIC by Richard Boult 1945-65 Sea by Sam Willis WAY by Iain Rice Born in 1931, Richard “Bill” Boult by Mike Lawrence From the Kyrenia ship of 300BC to the Mary Rose in Exciting origination, manufacturing was too young to fight in WWII or Arranged alphabetically, each entry 1588, through to the Kursk submarine tragedy of 2000, and finishing techniques have made the Korean War, but his RAF career describes in detail the manufacturer, here is a thrilling work of narrative history. Many were possible railway models of a new spanned the tensest periods of the its cars, their triumphs and freak accidents, and their circumstances so extraordinary quality and authenticity. Sections in Cold War. He describes life in the downfalls. Mike Lawrence, editor of that they inspired literature - the ramming of the Essex this fantastic and specialist book air and on the ground, tracing the Motor Sport for several years, casts (1820) by a sperm whale was immortalised in Herman cover historical development, scales course of RAF trans- and supersonic a critical eye at the histories. He Melville’s Moby Dick. Some shipwrecks symbolise and standards, layout planning, site fighter jet training and including a remarks that ‘Ferrari is an Italian colossal human tragedy including the legendary Titanic. preparation, baseboards, track, splendid “tyro’s guide” to the basic maker of racing cars who enjoyed a 346pp in paperback, photos, colour. wiring, signalling and control, techniques of flight and flying. His great deal of success in F1 in 1951-3 and in the 1970s, £9.99 NOW £3.50 landscape and structure modelling, locomotives and “second career” in the RAF began in February 1964 at but has been hobbled by the fact that never in its history the RAF Staff College in Bracknell, before moving on to 77843 LOST RAILWAY: The Midlands rolling stock, operation and couplings. The Hornby Dublo has it originated a new idea.’ Superbly illustrated by by Robert Day 00 gauge range offers a choice of top-flight power - his dream posting as Deputy Station Commander on scores of contemporary photos depicting the cars being RAF Gan, on Addu Atoll in the Maldives, thence to There is still a cross country line that currently has no streamlined LNER A4 or ‘LMS’ ‘Duchess’ and ‘City’ driven by legendary drivers such as Mike Hawthorn, passenger service, so rarely appears in writings about Pacifics. Also covers specialised locomotive types and Singapore before returning to the somewhat less tropical Jack Brabham, Graham Hill and Stirling Moss. 264pp, b/ climes of Dunfermline in 1970 and finally ending his RAF Midlands railways, and that is the line from Burton-on- heavy freight engines, water-based paints and plastic w illus, colour plates. Trent to Leicester. Part of the route included the original pencils, self-build materials and methods, mechanical career at Uxbridge in 1977. From a Tiger Moth and an £19.95 NOW £9.50 F16 Spitfire to Vampires, Hunters, Meteors, Lightnings Leicester & Swannington Railway, but the Midland took point-actuation systems, colour-light signals, digital it over in 1845 and expanded the line to serve the command controls, wiring techniques and a superb and Canberras, he has flown over 50 piston and jet- 77163 SPITFIRE HUNTERS: The Inside Stories engined fighters and spins a great yarn about all of them Behind the Best Aviation Archaeology TV collieries in the area. Privatisation and modernisation completed colour layout plan on page 63. Colour and b/ have since altered our railway network. This nostalgic w photos and diagrams, 350 large pages. and those with whom he served. 418pp, photos. Documentaries by Simon Parry £21.95 NOW £6.50 photographic record from the 1970s and 1980s records £19.99 NOW £7.50 Using first-hand accounts from the men and women who railway infrastructure including stations, signal boxes, 76021 JOHN DEERE YESTERDAY AND TODAY 76478 CHARABANC: The Early Days of made the programmes happen - the Spitfire Hunters - level crossings, mechanical signals and more. Describes this book details these historic excavations to tell their a lost way of life and of a railway community. 128 by Robert N. Pripps et al Motorised Coach Travel by Alf Townsend gripping inside story. Details the finding of a Zeppelin, In 1837, a young Illinois blacksmith named John Deere The advent of the charabanc to the working classes, glossy large pages in softback, archive photos. the excavation of a Dunkirk Spitfire, a tragic mid-air B-17 £18 NOW £6 made a revolutionary steel-tipped plough that literally especially those slaving in the cotton mills in the North, collision, and the exposure of Britain’s most intact aircraft broke the Great Plains. Today, John Deere and seemed to evoke a special kind of freedom. In our wreck. It will hold aircraft buffs spellbound. 128 77870 RAILWAY POCKET BIBLE: Company is a manufacturing colossus that straddles the illustrated guide, London cabbie and author Alf paperback pages, colour and b/w photos and map. Everything You Want to Know About Railways globe. It is noted for its wide-ranging line of tractors, Townsend has collected a wonderful collection of £19.95 NOW £4.75 by Andrew Fowler heavy equipment and farming implements. With lively photographs and a detailed text on the early Charas, 77314 MOTORCYCLE BOOK: Second Edition From railway history, George and Robert Stephenson expert text, and hundreds of full-colour images, this book grey-green coaches, his days as a Chara driver, Leyland and the first steam trains to Eurostar, platforms, valve relates the whole Deere saga, from the beginnings to the Motors, legends from the past, National Express and the by Alan Seeley gears and well tanks, the book encompasses profiles of present day. Tractors old and new, vintage end of individualism. 96pp, colour photos and more. Superbly illus with some 500 photos, diagrams and famous locomotives from the Flying Scotsman and The advertisements, personalities, stunning memorabilia - the Softback. drawings. Section one looks at all the different types of Duchess of Hamilton to the Tornado, compound and story of a company that effectively revolutionized the £14.99 NOW £4 motorcycle - 14 classes. Section two looks at tests, articulated locomotives, the grand architecture and world of farming. 192 pages 28.5cm x 25cm jam-packed licences, legal requirements, training and the joy that is design behind historic stations, the Underground and with modern and archive photos in colour and b/w. 76769 CARS AT SPEED: Classic Stories from Grand Prix’s Golden Age by Robert Daley protective and weatherproof clothing - vital stuff. Section Metro, the best trains in film, books and TV and details £24.95 NOW £6 three, Know Your Motorcycle, from tyres to carburettors, Grand Prix and Sports Car Racing in the 1950s and of fabulous routes with spectacular views through the 78241 GREAT WESTERN brakes to transmissions and finally, maintenance, heart of the countryside. 172 pages, line drawings and 1960s were fast, exciting and dangerous. It was a time servicing, troubleshooting, MoT essentials and winter RAILWAY TRACK TOPICS of front-engined behemoths running at 175 mph on tyres glossary. storage. From 49cc step-through moped to 1800cc Gold £9.99 NOW £4 edited by John Christopher as narrow as those of passenger cars. Winning machines Wing, all two-wheeled life and knowledge is here! Originally published in 1935, the came from small factories like Ferrari and Maserati. 160pp, 8¼”×10¾”. 78244 NORTH WEST CANALS: Manchester, year of the GWR’s Centenary, Drivers were killed with distressing regularity. £17.99 NOW £6.50 Irwell and the Peaks Through Time Track Topics is the ultimate railway Spectators were too. When it was originally published in 77318 ROYAL YACHT by Ray Shill book for ‘Boys of All Ages’. It looks 1961, this book was a sensation, and, with a new Canal historian Ray Shill explores the construction and right up to the latest mechanised introduction, it is a very human story, peopled by some BRITANNIA: Inside the technical developments of the canals and their social and track laying system, TRS4 at work of racing’s top drivers, such as Stirling Moss, Phil Hill, Queen’s Floating Palace economic contributions to the towns and cities they pass on the West Coast Main Line, 2012 Juan Manuel Fangio, Rudolf Caracciola and many other by Brian Hoey through, as well as the architecture they spawned. The track refurbishments on the Royal greats. 304 pages, line drawings, maps. history of the canals and waterways of North West £18.99 NOW £4.75 The Royal Yacht Britannia is one of Albert Bridge, concrete facings and the best-known vessels in the world England including the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, walling for extensions at 76774 CONCEPT CARS: From the 1930s to and provided her majesty with a Rochdale Canal, Huddersfield Canals, Manchester, Paddington, bridges at Chepstow, Royal residence afloat for 43 years, Bolton and Bury Canals and the River Ribble is traced the Severn Tunnel, keeping the track level and relaying, the Present by Larry Edsall sailing 1,087,623 nautical miles, through old and modern colour photos, archive maps and diagrams and cross sections showing Cross Sleeper, visiting 135 countries and calling at drawings. See the Salford Docks in 1905, the railways Closed Valve and Open Valve, Box tunnel on GWR’s Drool over the Lamborghini Zagato Raptor, the LaCrosse, Earl’s 1938 Buick Y-Job concept with the first power over 600 ports. Today she is a alongside the Manchester Ship Canal, Hyde Turnover London to Bristol route, Sonning cutting, Wharncliffe popular tourist attraction at Leith Docks in Edinburgh. Bridge, pumping stations, barges and locks and more. viaduct and even a cartoon from Punch depicting the convertible top. This huge volume discusses over 100 prototypes produced by the American, European and Here is the updated 4th edition. Britannia is in effect two 96 page paperback. ‘Shave of Brunel’ on page 39. First published in 1935 by ships in one. Forward of the funnel she is HMS £14.99 NOW £6 the GWR, and here in special facsimile edition, 200 photos Japanese automobile industries, all illustrated with splendid and detailed photographs, technical details, and Britannia, a functional vessel of the Royal Navy, as and diagrams and a new introduction. 286pp, paperback. austere as any of the “grey” warships of the fleet; aft of £12.99 NOW £6 on the highly original concepts and styling that guided the designers. Get an eyeful of the impressive Ferrari the “chimney” (as the crew referred to it) and through 78240 GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY Sergio, designed by Pininfarina, or the Mazda Furai the solid steel dividing doors she is Her Majesty’s Yacht EARLY LEARNING CHELTENHAM FLYER Concept car. Speed and power. 272 pages 32cm x Britannia, a sumptuous royal residence with Royal living edited by John Christopher 27.5cm, colour and b/w illus. quarters, State Rooms and Apartments, an oasis of calm Sub-titled ‘A New Railway Book for Boys of All Ages’, $40 NOW £7 and dignity. 200 colour and b/w photos of Royal You can learn many things from children. honeymoons, rules, quirks, crew, the countries and How much patience you have, for instance. this fully illustrated nostalgic railway book contains over 77146 ASTON MARTIN: A Racing History 200 photographs and diagrams from a wheel balancing people visited. 200pp, 8½”×11". by Anthony Pritchard £25 NOW £9 - Franklin P. Jones machine, a 3,000 gallon glass lined milk tank truck, a Aston Martin stretches back nearly 90 years. 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Bertelli was running the company light bombers named after the Duke of Wellington, the years to when our planet was run at a blistering average speed of 81.6mph. Originally and in 1928 Aston Martin entered the Le Mans 24 Hours other being the single-engined Wellesley. Its geodesic a very different place and published in 1934, the book also explores the workings of Race for the first time. It was not until 1947 that the aluminium airframe, designed by Barnes Wallis, was dinosaurs ruled the land. a steam locomotive and the day-to-day practicalities of company could afford a sustained competition remarkably durable, so much so that it coped with a Using 3D illustrations, the running the railway. Facsimile edition, softback. programme. 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Gero RAILWAY JOURNEYS Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA 72pp. This revised, updated and fully illustrated second edition by Paul Atterbury £14.99 NOW £6.50 are all depicted capturing each ship in its element in the now includes the second Gulf War and the conflict in golden age of shipping the decades immediately after The routes selected are particular favourites of his, with Afghanistan, and the author has aimed to include every a special combination of landscape history and visual 78797 THE BIG BAKING WW2. 112 large pages. individual incident that caused at least 20 fatalities. Each BOOK: 100 Healthier £24 NOW £7 pleasure. 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The magazine was pure magic and here a Cornwall are equally diverse and a considerable amount Cake, Comforting Plum Cobbler, Perfect Pumpkin Pie noted maritime author has edited thousands of pages for steam locomotives on turntables, trundling along branch and more. They are 100 healthy savoury and sweet of period infrastructure survives, especially old GWR lines, pausing in sleepy stations, waiting to be watered this book in which he had selected 41 vessels from such signal boxes and associated lower quadrant semaphore recipes for big and little bakers for morning snacks, famous ships as the Rotterdam, France, Cameronia, or coaled, and finally on the scrap lines. His closeness to lunches, afternoon snacks, fabulous family dinners, party signals. From the days of diesel hydraulic locomotives his subjects including staff members is breathtaking at Adriatic, Laurentic, Empress of Russia and Empress of and diesel mechanical units to today’s powerful diesel time and fun outdoors. 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