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Also contains a CD with 13 pdf ideas’ and literati painters who mention piracy on the high seas. patterns. frequently inscribed their Saladin, the 12th century Muslim £19.99 NOW £9 paintings with poems or personal CONTENTS - page 2 CONTINUED OVER PAGE CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 BIBLIOPHILE 31 RIVERSIDE, 55 TRINITY BUOY WHARF, LONDON E14 0FP TEL: 020 74 74 24 74 www.bibliophilebooks.com 2 ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 History 84668 Medieval People cont... brandishing a sword who exhibited considerable military 74713 A MAGNIFICENT 84103 SHORT HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE prowess to marshal the townsfolk into an effective leader, was a Kurd from Iraq who became a diplomat, OBSESSION: Victoria, Albert, EAST: From Ancient Empires by Gordon Kerr fighting force against the overwhelming Algonquin The Middle East describes a huge arc that encompasses rose to be a sultan in Egypt and unified the Arab Middle warriors when they faced certain annihilation. 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Covers censuses, the William Rainborowes was a wolf”, through the records tell a different story. Other Classical World and the early Byzantine Empire AD480- regularisation of marriage through registration, prisons powerful figure in English naval great women rulers celebrated here are Eleanor of 629, Mexico and South America 2000 BC to AD700, the and police forces. One of the full page engravings circles in the 1630s, and advisor to Aquitaine and Emma of Normandy, while churchmen Medieval World including the Mongol Empire, Japan and included is the Hawkhurst Gang recovering their Charles I and the leader of a include Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Becket, and more Korea, the rise of European capitalism, Mughal India and contraband from the Poole Customs House, 1749. 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There’s even a fun glossary Caesar and Augustus to the golden period of peace and From the Persian Wars onward, Atlantic weaving together the lives of the Rainborowes prosperity under emperors such as Marcus Aurelius, a year-by-year chronology is clan as colonists, entrepreneurs and idealists, visionaries which describes the various items of clothing and historical slang. Alighting on the Golden Age of offering a balanced and nuanced reappraisal of life in the constructed from ancient sources and pioneers, both the sons and daughters. Building Roman Empire. 15 maps including Judaea in AD66, and where possible a day-by- new societies, encountering pirates, witches, prophets, Hollywood, we follow the figure of the Dandy into the 21st century, exploring the Sapeurs of the Congo and the Egypt and the Red Sea port, and Pliny’s province of day narrative given. The princes, Muslims, militants and Mohican Indians. 407pp, Bithynia and Pontus and Roman North Africa. 513pp, geographical scope expands as illus and family tree. nostalgic Chap Olympics. A great marriage of cultural history and fashion. 256 pp, colour illus and photos. paperback, colour and b/w photos. the horizons of the Greek work £25 NOW £6 £9.99 NOW £5 and colonisation expanded. Here are developments in £25 NOW £7.50 84541 CIVILISATION by Kenneth Clark the Middle East and later Italian states that came into 83828 HEART BEGUILING ARABY: The 84055 CHINESE LIVES contact with Greek culture, the region under Alexander, The classic work first published in 1969 by the BBC here by Victor Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood the development of all the relevant Greek/Macedonian in paperback 2017. Kenneth Clark (1903-83) was English Romance with Arabia 3000 years through the lives of 96 men and women in a states all covered. Sections include the Peloponnesian Director of the National Gallery, Slade Professor of Fine by Kathryn Tidrick brief and intensely informative little book. Each life is Wars 431-404, the Hegemonies of Sparta and Thebes Art at Oxford, and Chairman of the Arts Council. His Looking at the lives of the four most influential Victorian outlined in compact, factual writing, tying historical 403-360 and Philip and Alexander 359-June 323. The legendary TV series and this seminal book made the writers on Arabia - Richard Burton, Gifford Palgrave, events and cultural movements together deftly around book is divided into events per geographical area and history of Western culture widely accessible for the first Wilfred Blunt and Charles Doughty - as well as exploring personal experiences. Emperors, prime ministers and cross referenced where needed, with accounts for battles time and remains an essential cultural classic. From the the legend of T. E. Lawrence, Kathryn Tidrick reveals court officials rub shoulders with writers of ghost stories, and political crises where the sources or historians allow. collapse of the Roman Empire to the bridges of Brunel, how these lonely figures merged into a collective image, concubines and rebels. Arranged in four historical sections What happens when, it is a brilliant overview of through art and architecture, philosophy and history, pushing themselves to the limits of physical and mental with a brief introduction to each, the biographies are Mycenaean, ‘Dark Age’ and Archaic periods and a look engineering and science, Clark’s unique personal guide to endurance and surviving because they understood the deftly contextualised against the wider history around at where modern scholars disagree on dates or sequence civilisation proves that in the last 2,000 years we have natives better than they understood themselves. This them. 232pp, colour illus and photos. of events. 311pp. much to learn about the consequences of history. See was an image that formed the basis of Western £18.95 NOW £6.50 £25 NOW £9.50 the hero as artist, protest and communication, grandeur understanding of Arabia for generations to come. 244pp, and obedience, the pursuit of happiness, the worship of paperback, 13 illus, maps. 84794 DECLINE AND FALL nature, fallacies of hope, heroic materialism and more. £11.99 NOW £4 Contents OF NAPOLEON’S EMPIRE 302pp, paperback. 83830 LAND OF LOST GODS: The Search for by Digby Smith £9.99 NOW £6 ART & ARCHITECTURE 1 Classical Greece by Richard Stoneman One of the superb Napoleonic 81718 DIARY OF BENJAMIN WOODCOCK, AUDIO - BOOKS ON CD 32 Library series, the book is sub- A popular prehistory of archaeology in Greece and Asia titled ‘How the Emperor Self- MASTER OF THE BARNET UNION Minor told in this 2010 revised edition of the 1987 classic. BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY 28 Destructed’. The wide-ranging WORKHOUSE 1836-1838 BACK IN ‘Land of Lost Gods’ places Lord Elgin firmly in context BUSINESS & COMPUTERS 14 study of the Napoleonic regime edited by Gillian Gear STOCK amidst a host of scholars, souvenir hunters, thieves and dilettanti. From 1420 on, here are the riveting stories of CHILDREN’S 14 by Digby Smith tracks Benjamin Woodcock was Master of the Barnet Cyriac of Ancona’s quest to record the appearance of the Napoleon’s rise to power, his Workhouse who commenced this diary on 1st September CRIME 32 Parthenon; Jacques Spon’s quarrel with Guillet de St- stewardship of France from 1836, just over a year after his appointment. The diary Georges about the topography of Athens; the CRIME FICTION 10 1804-15 and his exile. It ends on 10th May 1838 and covers the completion of painstaking expeditions of the Society of Dilettanti and 30 highlights military mistakes, an the new workhouse in the late spring of 1837. Many ENTERTAINMENT / SHOWBIZ the deluded forgeries of Abbé Fourmont. Also the work unwillingness to appoint an inmates are ill, have been caught thieving, have died EROTICA / SEX 8 of Charles Newton and Cnidus at Halicarnassus, J. T. overall supremo in the Iberian and need burying, or are ‘sinking every day’. Decisions Wood at Ephesus, Charles Fellows in Lycia, Carl FOOD & DRINK / COOKERY 25 Peninsula, and the decision to invade Russia while the about punishments, who was satisfied, who gave Humann at Pergamon and Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. Spanish situation was spiralling out of control. Digby thanks, who was given permission to go out for the day, GARDENING 31 346pp, paperback, maps. Smith scrutinises Napoleon’s inability to understand the children sent to school, clothing and every level of detail GIFT GUIDE PULL OUT PAGES 17-20 0 intricacies of naval operations, his impatience with is here. The appendix gives rules for the guidance of the £11.99 NOW £4 27 admirals and his failure to invest in ships and men. He labour master and a second appendix all of the 84132 MASTER OF EMPIRE: Great Lakes GREAT BRITAIN & MAPS also tracks diplomatic and political errors and an inability workhouse accounts. 450 entries are in the Admission Indians and the Making of America HANDICRAFTS / CRAFT 1 to conclude lasting peace and to compromise. Finally and Discharge Register. They include paupers admitted by Michael McDonnell HEALTH & BEAUTY 26 addressed is the domestic and economic blunders such as up to mid 1837, plus a list of officials and staff. This historical narrative looks beyond the Euro-American the establishment of the Continental System across HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 26 Hertfordshire Record Publications first edition, 277pp. settling at the Great Lakes, to the importance of Native Europe, the imposition of a ban on direct trade with £22 NOW £7 American families such as Anishinaabeg Odawa of HISTORICAL FICTION 12 Russia which led to France paying higher prices, and the Michilimackinac who played as great a part in the region cost of creating various kingdoms and principality’s and 83163 KEEPING THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN: HISTORY 1 as the newcommers. Odawa here means Ottawa by deposing incumbent rulers to place his relatives on their British Betrayal of India by Walter Reid the way. McDonnell casts a light on the Anishinaabeg, HOBBIES 32 thrones. 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HANDICRAFTS CONTINUED first project is a scarf, in a plain weave or in twill. The reversible cocoon jacket which is made from a soft yarn, such as mohair or silk, is particularly impressive. It 84798 DONNA KOOLER’S drapes like a shawl, and is perfect for a cover-up on a It’s Clobberin’ Time! ENCYCLOPEDIA OF chilly evening. Plenty of hints and tips are included. KNITTING Softback. 196pp. Colour illus, charts and diagrams. by Kooler Design Studio £19.99 NOW £7.50 MARVEL SUPERHEROES Updated and revised, this is a 84820 QUILT LOVER’S 84886 MARVEL ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ACTIVITY TIN SET complete, authoritative guide to the by Parragon Books history and variety of patterns GIFTS: Best of Fons & Porter Measuring approximately 7" x 9", this sturdy metallic tin has an embossed 3D effect every knitting enthusiast will Spider-Man design whose fingers lunge forward in his colourful red and blue costume, treasure. Materials, basic edited by Jean Nolte a dramatic background behind on the tin lid of this gift set. Inside is one hardback techniques, symbols and 25 quick gifts include a woollen Origin storybook, a Heroic colouring book and web-tasks Action Activity book. abbreviations are clearly written and sewing wallet, a sofa throw Perhaps best of all are the 100 action-packed colour stickers for any number illustrated, step-by-step, to make learning knitting for cold nights made with of craft uses and for all Marvel comic book fans. Save £10. simple. This revised edition brings the latest information leftovers, warm fuzzy slippers £16.99 NOW £7 on the Knook, knitting looms and eco-yarns. Catch the or socks or a spectacular sock and prayer-shawl trends. 22 unique and beautiful partridge in a pear tree wall projects are stunningly photographed and for those hanging. There are hanging whose skills go beyond the basics, advanced techniques caddies to organise your tools and projects will challenge and inspire. The Pattern and rulers and equipment, an Gallery features 150 charts for traditional and new Easy Quilt Rack to hang under a handy shelf, a Dove knitting patterns. With cross-referenced index, 240 big Pin Cushion, a Woollen Neck Purse an Itty Bitty Penny glossy pages, colour photos and diagrams throughout. Rug to make a picture to frame, and quilts of spring We love the puffy blanket for babies, the fun striped flowers or fish. There are machine embellishing and toddler cap and the trendy, slouchy urban woollen quilting ideas, all about yarn binding and fantastic beanie hat for cool dudes, the gorgeous felted Mary designs for quilts especially for cat lovers on page 64. A Janes for babies and the Baltic pillow sampler using groovy backpack is made from pre-quilted fabric and leftover yarn among them. 9" x 12". Softback. great for shopping, the fleece baby blanket is made from £16.99 NOW £8 faux chenille, quilted gifts include shopping bags and 84771 LITTLE BOOK OF AVENGERS on the mantle of Spider-Man and rid New York City of make-up purses, cushions in designs by Mary Fons to by Roy Thomas the bad guys, and we’ve been rooting for him ever 84828 WARM WEATHER make easy, trendy and chic accents, Mr and Mrs Iron Man! Thor! The Hulk! Wasp! Ant-Man! These five since. For more than 50 years he’s been a star of KNITS by Deborah Newton Snowman tree decorations and gorgeous English basket iconic characters made their debut as the first incarnation comic books, television, movies, and Broadway, and Nowadays sweaters are knitted ornaments, or a very sweet 3D basket to make from of the most exciting super-team ever assembled in now, with 192 pages of images with text by Roy with lighter yarns and fibres and paper for the Christmas tree. Very practical, 176 big September 1963, in The Avengers No. 1. From Captain Thomas, here is your authoritative guide to the shapes and designs are different too, glossy pages, gorgeous designs of which we counted 50 America to Black Panther to Beast and Mockingbird and everyman super hero! Flexicover, 4¾” x 6¾”, 192 so these lighter sweaters are perfect for all skill levels. Diagrams and colour photos. She-Hulk, they gained and lost members, added former pages. for cover ups even on a steamy £17.99 NOW £6.50 super villains to the team, and fought every threat 84773 LITTLE BOOK OF FANTASTIC FOUR August evening. Here are cool imaginable - each one bigger than the last. From the shades of green and blue, sand and 84822 SIMPLE by Roy Thomas West Coast to the Secret teams (not to mention the They debuted in Fantastic Four No. 1 in November water in this mixture of vintage and BEGINNER QUILTS Dark and Young and Mighty and All-New), here is your 1961, and have gone on to be iconic not only as a old sewing patterns with ideas from edited by Beth Hayes definitive guide to the greatest super hero team the team, but as individuals. Reed “Mister Fantastic” foreign vacations from the famous Rhode Island Master the basics of machine world has ever seen! Hundreds of colour images. Richards, Sue “Invisible American designer Deborah Newton who sold her first template piecing and make a Flexicover, 4¾” x 6¾”, 192 pages. Girl” Storm, Johnny sold her sweater design to McCall’s magazine in 1982. cool, contemporary lap quilt. “Human Torch” Storm, There is a beautiful ribbed cardigan in a soft blend of Drift off to peaceful slumbers 84772 LITTLE BOOK OF CAPTAIN AMERICA and Ben “The Thing” cotton, bamboo and silk with a little glint of metallic gold under a light-as-a-cloud cotton by Roy Thomas Grimm are all iconic where the waistline is drawn in with a velvet or silk lawn quilt. Delight your darling He made his debut in late 1940 in Captain America heroes, who love and ribbon. For detail she added some orange tinted mother girl with a pretty little quilt or Comics No. 1, fighting Nazis at every turn. 20 years fight with each other as of pearl buttons etched make a bed sized quilt with after World War II, he was found frozen in ice. Now a only families can... and with flowers and picked big, beautiful blocks. Use ice man living in they take down out a luscious silk ribbon cream colours and strip piecing the wrong otherworldly bad guys to weave through the to create a yummy twin sized quilt or a scrappy, time, he like Dr. Doom and eyelets. The elbow- traditional bed quilt bringing a classic look to any room became the Galactus in the process. length sleeves can be with the design Carolina Courthouse. A fast, easy leader of the More than 50 years, folded up for a sportier technique combines appliqué and quilting, and colourful Avengers, thousands of comics, look or could be prints bring sunshine to your home. Ribbon-loop edging and fought four animated series and shortened and a variation gives an easy quilt a cool finishing touch in the design some of the three feature films later, would be perhaps stripes called Aqua Frost, and piece boats and pinwheels are Marvel they remain one of the and a yarn tie to make a propelled by the sea breeze in a cute wall hanging. Universe’s most enduring and more casual, even There is a Batik illusion, gifts for mum like a snuggly greatest exciting super-teams in pop culture. With 192 pages of nautical look. The shawl and a big impactful Amish quilt. Gives basic villains: Red colour images, and text by Roy Thomas, here is your following pages print in instructions, 64 glossy pages, big colour diagrams and Skull, Baron comprehensive guide to this famous foursome! bold the exact instructions photos. Softback. Zemo, Batroc the Leaper, MODOK - and even Cap’s Flexicover, 4¾” x 6¾”, 192 pages. together with close up step-by-step photographs and the $17.99 NOW £6 former sidekick, now known as the Winter Soldier. With 192 pages of colour images, and text by Roy Thomas, 84775 LITTLE BOOK OF IRON MAN template designs which could be photocopied and 84261 WOODWORKER’S enlarged to work from. The next project is a cap here is your ultimate guide to comics’ greatest super by Roy Thomas sleeved cardi with little wooden toggles inspired from a KITCHEN: 24 Projects patriot! Flexicover, 4¾” x 6¾”, 192 pages. He made his debut in 1963, in Tales of Suspense No. 1930s movie starring Claudette Colbert. It is beautifully You Can Make 84774 LITTLE BOOK OF HULK by Roy Thomas 39, wearing a cumbersome gray exoskeleton that shaped at the back to fit snuggly on the waist. There is by A. J. Hamler In 1962, he was created by exposure to gamma looked more like a robot than a man. After a re- a lovely natural summer bag with knitted handles, a lace Intended for those with a radiation in Incredible Hulk No. 1. Though it took a few design, he became an integral member of the pullover with scalloped edges, a Fuji summer kimono in reasonable proficiency in years for him to develop his now-famous personality, he Avengers, and he fought evil at every turn ...as well colourful soft cotton brightly coloured yarns, a woodworking, the author was nonetheless a weapon of destruction from that first as intense personal demons. More than 50 years and honeycomb and leaf shawl made with silk or rayon or suggests that as most guests appearance. Not only did the Hulk fight anyone who countless comics adventures later, Iron Man became a perhaps one of the softer new fibres like soy or bamboo tend to gravitate to the kitchen got in his way, but his alter ego, Bruce Banner, fought box-office smash, and one of the most popular super which have a pretty sheen and also drape nicely. There eventually, why not use the the multiple personality disorder that transformed him, heroes in the world. With 192 pages of colour images, is a peridot dress, a vest, various shawls and shorter area to showcase your skills in spawning many other versions of the Hulk, each of and text by Roy Thomas, this will be your favorite cardigans, a two-way tunic and in total 23 breezy, the craft? It would be like whom were aspects of Bruce’s personality. Despite guide to comics’ greatest armored hero! Flexicover, fashionable knits including a man’s tank top. 128pp, 9" x having a shop or showroom. that, the Hulk took down the Leader, the Abomination, 4¾” x 6¾”, 192 pages. 11" in softback, dozens of colour photos and diagrams. From an elegant and practical kitchen island with a and Wolverine, among hundreds of other great villains. 84777 LITTLE BOOK OF X-MEN $23.95 NOW £7 worktop, built in wine rack and storage space to a smart The star of a smash-hit TV show, two blockbuster by Roy Thomas spice rack, and from a useful grill cart to place beside the movies, and hundreds of great comics, he’s one of the They debuted in 1963, but weren’t the instant 84811 LACE KNITTING PALETTE barbecue to an easily-made but attractive rolling pin, this most instantly recognizable characters in the world. With sensations that the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man had by Catherine Thomson is bursting with ideas. There is a particularly attractive 192 pages of colour images, and text by Roy Thomas, been. 20 years later, they were the most exciting (or x- Pick up your needles and new yarns to enter a world of kitchen stool made from oak with darker wood inserts in this will be an indispensable guide to comics? most citing!) property in comics. Fans couldn’t get enough of new possibilities and opportunities. The author has the seat, and a beautiful set of hardwood utensils, a savage hero! Flexicover, 4¾” x 6¾”, 192 pages. Wolverine! Storm! Cyclops! Beast! Nightcrawler! Jean combined stitches from Shetland lace spice rack, spatulas and spreaders, a customised knife 84776 LITTLE BOOK OF THE AMAZING Grey! Not to mention Professor X, and his nemesis, knitting and motifs and techniques of her block, a coffee cup organiser, invaluable for any cook. SPIDER-MAN by Roy Thomas Magneto! The X-Men brought a level of nuance and own to produce eye-catching design. The author points out tools such as these can be made Includes dozens of colour cartoon strips, pencil sketches storytelling sophistication that hadn’t been seen in There are 22 lacy garments and from the smallest offcuts in a variety of useful shapes of original ideas, poster art, comic book covers and mainstream comics, and now, with thousands of accessories in this and sizes. Full of ideas and all the designs are easily articles, king-size specials, movies and more. Since his comics, and ten feature films to date, the X-Men have luxury collection for adaptable to suit your own kitchen. With measured debut in Amazing Fantasy No. 15 in August 1962, cemented their place as one of the greatest super hero women and heirloom drawings, clear instructions and step-by-step colour Spider-Man has been a hero to millions. Peter Parker teams in history. With 192 pages of colour images, and designs for babies plus photos. Perfect as gifts. Softback. 144pp. text by Roy Thomas, this will be your favourite guide helpful tips, special was an ordinary teen who received powers from a £19.99 NOW £8 radioactive spider and failed to stop the man who would to comics’ greatest mutant team! Flexicover, 4¾” x techniques and 6¾”, 192 pages. optional trims. Our 83568 ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS murder his uncle. This led him on a singular quest to take favourites include the by Barrington Barber beautiful butterfly The complete guide to drawing the human body by the BRAND NEW RELEASES FROM TASCHEN PUBLISHERS ALL AT £8.50 shawl made from 10 bestselling author and artist provides clear annotated balls of Patons Silk diagrams of every part of the human body useful to the Bamboo yarn, the artist, showing bone structure, musculature and surface 83678 STITCH STYLE: Country Collection 84591 WOODTURNING: Forms and Materials legwarmers, the cable views. Look at the muscles of the foot and how they by Margaret Rowan by John Hunnex hat, the new born baby shoes and the ‘celebration’ baby work, of the thigh from the front, with the leg flexed, the From material collections, to detailed stencils that allow Each beautiful wooden object is photographed in colour robe and for leftover yarns lacy leaves and a loops and range of hand movements, a skeleton of the hand with you to create table cloths, large floor cushion, quilts and in the centre of these white glossy pages with ladder necklace. Begins with beginner samplers and lace a palm-up view, muscles and bones of the torso, trunk food covers, table cloths, seat pads, draught excluder, dimensions, influences of Chinese art etc, objective and cloths to get you started. 128 very large pages, colour and neck from front and back views, features of the face adorning your home was never more personal or desired textures in what is effectively a showcase art diagrams and photos and step-by-step instructions. in detail, facial expressions, muscles of the head, and exciting. You can merge your favourite patterns, gallery of 100 pieces. Wood turner and photographer Needle size chart included. Softback. proportions. Line art, 128pp, 9" x 11". particularly with Amy Butler’s Harpi and Joel John Hunnex provides a storehouse of images. His £21.99 NOW £7 £7.99 NOW £3.75 Dewberry’s Botanique collections showcased throughout. emphasis is on graceful, well-proportioned forms using a 84879 LEARN TO WEAVE 84092 PAINTING THE NUDE IN OILS Cutting, sewing to finishing touches. Paperback, 21cm x wide range of materials, many usually overlooked. He by Adele Wagstaff 27.5cm, colour photos, 96pp. combines different woods, surface texture, incorporates WITH ANNE FIELD  other materials, exotic timbers, turning plywood, Beginning with an historical perspective the author £12.99 NOW £4 by Anne Field laminated work, off-centre turning, plus simple shape explores the earliest figurative art, including sculptures Everything you need to know 84495 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TEXTILES: With and form. Here are off-centre bowls in Ash or jarrah, a from the end of the last ice age, through to Modigliani about the ancient craft of Coils, Loops, Knots and Nets by Ruth Lee wonderfully mottled spalted hornbeam off-centre bud whose 1917 exhibition was closed down following weaving, from the different types An innovative look at creative textile art formed by vase, the horizontally lined plywood flask shown from criticisms when he dared portray pubic hair. Chapters of loom available and how to twisting, coiling and knotting various tactile materials. its base to the uppermost piece, all numbered 1 to 20 in include The Studio and Materials, Understanding Colour, warp the loom through to the Corded paper string twined with electrical cable can preparation and glued with PVA glue and lots of clamps Lighting and the Nude, The Sustained Pose and The various kinds of shuttle and the create basket shapes or even an octopus, while rope, during construction. There are toy-like figures, people in Naked Portrait. Excellent advice on colour mixing and final weaving process. Amongst ruched cordage, leather suede and coloured wool can be a variety of woods and colours, goblet-shaped tops characteristics is given, while there is plenty of practical the projects are scarves, cushion woven and stitched to create many beautiful decorative tapering to a fine stem and two of the most beautiful rich help and tips with regard to making the model covers, table mats, table runners, items. Attractive beads can be created from small dark red woods brought together in a cocobolo and comfortable and relaxed. The techniques, such as colour a mohair wrap, a wall hanging and a reversible cocoon lengths of plastic tubes wrapped with assorted yarns and ebony rim closed form. 144pp, large softback, 8" x 11", relationships and correct lighting for the subject are jacket, all with plenty of instructions. With each project, glitter threads. 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84588 MAKING GREAT FURNITURE: 25 ART CONT. FROM PAGE 1 INSPIRING PROJECTS The Royal Academy of Arts exhibition the common boyhood ambition of becoming an by Furniture & Cabinet Making Magazine engine driver, even though his father, grandfather, 84847 CHINESE ART BOOK cont. uncle and sister all worked on the railways. Schiele Achievable for beginners to more experienced furniture Klimt / Schiele Drawings from the was determined to be an artist, and from a young enthusiasts, here are 25 original projects from Furniture commentaries. Four in particular were Wu Zhen (page age showed talent. His mother claimed he had begun & Cabinet Making Magazine. Classical, Arts & Crafts, 293), Huang Gongwan (page 258), Ni Zan (page 199) Albertina Museum, Vienna to draw before he was two, and spent most of his Traditional and Contemporary style are all represented and Wang Meng (page 168) with his views of streams th rd 4 Nov 2018 – 3 Feb 2019. childhood with a pencil and paper in his hand. He was in this wonderful resource and reference. Projects and mountains on hand scrolled ink and colour on silk distraught when his father died and became include an exquisite Breakfront cabinet (for all your hangings. A gilded bronze of the Buddha from the 3rd Here’s your chance to gen up first! increasingly distant with his mother. However he was books), a blanket chest, Japanese cupboard, rocking century AD from Western Jin sits opposite an oil painting very close to his younger sister Gerti and when he chair, and exotic Victorian pivot table which folds upright from 1976 where a group of Tibetans gather in a 84770 KLIMT was 16 and she was 12, he took her by train to a using gloriously rich colours and figures for the Brazilian cornfield listening to the radio that is broadcasting the by Gilles Néret hotel in Trieste where they shared a double room. As Rosewood table top, a Regency sofa table, a writing news of Chairman Mao’s death. On the far right a man The unfading popularity of an adolescent she would often pose naked for him. In desk and a Shaker-style desk where the base and top stands with his clenched fist a short distance from his Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) 1906 he was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts carcass are made separately, an oak dining chair and dagger, suggesting suppressed violence towards the attests not only to the particular where Gustave Klimt had studied, later coming under brush up on your laminating skills to make a beautifully regime. A large red harvester serves as a reminder of appeal of his luxuriant painting his influence, which can be seen in many of his earlier curved modern coffee table with glass top. Colour step- the Communist Party’s presence and political control. but also to the universal themes works. We can perceive in Schiele’s drawings and by-step photos, labelled diagrams, clear instructions. 180 There is a superb infusion of humanism into this realist oil with which he worked: love, paintings included here some evidence of psychic page 10" square softback. Colour. painting. Every form of Chinese visual art is featured - feminine beauty, aging, and turbulence, especially in his many self-portraits. He £19.99 NOW £6 painting, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, figurines, jades, bronzes, gold and silver, photography, video, death. The son of a goldsmith, seemed drawn to eroticism, particularly in the many 84231 STICKYSCAPES PARIS: 100 Reusable installation and performance art produced in China, Klimt created surfaces of ornate sketches of young girls. Much of his work was Stickers by Magma for Laurence King Taiwan, Hong Kong and the West. The Introduction and jewel-like luminosity which disturbing and shows a bewildering loneliness and For children great and small, this concertina-style offers a learned summary of Chinese political and show the influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. obsession with sex, death and decay, but just as he panoramic scene contrasts present-day Paris with an cultural history and a comprehensive glossary defines Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is was finding fame having taken Klimt’s place as the defined by radiant colour, fluid lines, floral elements and imaginary and historical Paris, the tennis court at Roland technical terms. An illustrated timeline places each of leading contemporary artist in Vienna, tragedy struck. mosaic-like patterning. Garros with the Château de Versailles, the Eiffel Tower the 300 works in its chronological sequence in a book full Schiele died from Spanish Influenza, the same With subjects ranging from disease that had killed his idol, Klimt. He was 28 or Tour Eiffel today and as it was under construction, the of surprises with this unique arrangement by pairing sensuality and desire to years old. 216pp, 20 colour and 131 b/w illus. Musée D’Orsay, the Parc du Luxemburg and the works that speak to one another in unexpected historical, anxiety and despair, all this Panthéon and Hôpital de la Pitié remain unchanged but stylistic and cultural ways. A visually exciting Phaidon $19.95 NOW £9.50 iridescence is also suffused added are the Pompidou Centre and the Sorbonne. art publication of the highest quality, first time 84782 SCHIELE with feeling. Klimt’s Illustrated by Malika Savre in bold colours and lovely discounted. 350 very large glossy pages. 10" x 11½”. numerous images of by Reinhard Steiner clear outline design, you can decorate your city with 100 £39.95 NOW £20 large colourful stickers of people from Romans to women women, characterised by With his graphic style, figural in miniskirts, Dior women to Jean Valjean and Inspector 84873 JACKSON POLLOCK’S MURAL: Energy curvaceous forms, tender distortion, and defiance of Javert. The stickers could also be used for any number Made Visible flesh, red lips, and flushed conventional standards of of craft projects. Softback, ages six to adult. 8½” x by David Anfam cheeks, were particularly beauty, Egon Schiele (1890– 11½”. Created early in his career in 1943, Jackson Pollock’s charged with passion, at a 1918) was a pioneer of $14.95 NOW £6.50 Mural is a vast panorama spanning a six metre long time when such frank Austrian Expressionism and canvas - the largest painting he ever made. It marked a eroticism was still taboo in one of the most startling watershed and a presentiment of the epic scale, Viennese upper-middle- portrait painters of the 20th GREAT GIFT IDEAS complexity, energy and ambition of his work ahead. class society. This book century. Mentored by presents a selection of 82981 MEDIEVAL SIEGE TOWER WITH Author David Anfam considers the many influences on Gustav Klimt, Schiele Pollock that led to this landmark achievement including Klimt’s work, introducing his dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before pictorial world of decoration CATAPULT: Create & Build the context of the American West, his little-known developing his own much more gritty and and desire, as well as his influence on artists to come. 21 by Pathfinders Design and Technology relationship with Clyfford Still, and the importance of confrontational aesthetic of sharp lines, lurid shades, x 26cm, 96 pages. Brand new from Taschen. This fantastic ‘toy’ for ages 12 to adult is of a quality wartime action photography. He also traces the and mannered, elongated figures. His prolific portraits design and materials and when explosive ONLY £10 and self-portraits stunned finished is capable of hurling a ball of magnetism Mural 84174 GUSTAV KLIMT the Viennese soft modelling clay (included) over 15 exerted over the establishment with an feet! The scale model kit is easy to DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS emergent unprecedented make in 1-2 hours and all the wood by Tobias G. Natter Abstract psychological and sexual pieces are pre-cut and drilled so you A century after his death, Viennese Expressionist, intensity, favouring require only scissors and tape. With artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still and its legacy for erotic, exposing, or accurate historic details such as startles with his unabashed painters and unsettling poses in which pegged joints and twisted string eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and sculptors as he or his sitters cower on (provided), which provides power to artistic experimentation. Gives an diverse as Mark the floor, languish with the catapult, the master drawings authoritative art historical legs akimbo, glower at show step-by-step how to attach the Rothko, Robert commentary and privileged archival Motherwell, the viewer, and thrust top cross piece, draw bridge, floors, material from Klimt’s own archive to their genitalia into the winding arms, adding the wheels and David Smith, trace the evolution of his astonishing oeuvre from salon Richard Serra foreground. His models ladders. When finished, 38cm tall x painter, painter of women and landscapes. With top- are at times skeletal and 23cm across and there are blank flags, a torsion-powered and Brice quality illustration, including new photography of the Marden. The sickly, at other times catapult, removable ladders, and a drawbridge that celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through strong and sensual. book sheds new light on Mural’s place in the artist’s raises and lowers. his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of Many contemporaries meteoric career and the evolution of modern American ONLY £21 1897, his candid rendering of the female body, and his found Schiele’s work to art, its impact and legacy. See page 101 (not Room lustrous “golden phase” when gold leaf brought a be not only ugly but 81726 LEONARDO DA VINCI CATAPULT: 101!) and figure number 83 entitled ‘Before the shimmering tone and texture to such beloved works as morally objectionable; in Create & Build Wooden Kit BACK IN STOCK Parachute Opens’ 1939 by Tullio Crali, clearly influenced The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also 1912, the artist was by Pollock, photographs of paintings and installations, by Pathfinders Design and Technology known as The Woman in Gold. Gatefolds and hundreds briefly imprisoned for close-up details, dozens of examples of his influence on Standing 42cms tall by 42cms across, precisely made of colour illus and photos and close ups of mosaics etc. obscenity. Today, his other artists, often shown side by side against a Pollock and easy to assemble, even Leonardo would be pleased 14 x 19.5cm, 672 quality pages, gold foil glamourous oeuvre is celebrated for sketch like Andrew Bordwin’s Tsunami swirling chains in with your finished result. Based on his book jacket and golden pages inside too. its revolutionary approach a brilliant 1993 artwork or the swirling colours on the drawings from the Codex Atlanticus ONLY £15 to the human figure and of 1485, Da Vinci’s globe of Pollock’s Tondo of 1948, a haunting self-portrait for its direct and Catapult used the from 1931 and the influence on him of J.M.W. Turner’s 84661 EGON SCHIELE: World of Art particularly fervent, power stored in the Snowstorm. 106 illustrations, 67 in colour. 146pp, 9½” almost furious brand of tension of bent wood - a spring- x 10½” in Thames & Hudson quality publication. by Frank Whitford draftsmanship. This brand The Royal Academy of Arts like propulsion system. Here is £24.95 NOW £11 new book presents key exhibition begins 4th Nov 2018 - a fantastic working model that Schiele works to 84846 MASTERS OF 3rd Feb 2019. Here’s your chance will fling a small clay ball over introduce his short but urgent career and his profound ITALIAN ART: to gen up first! Egon Schiele was four metres. The pack contains contribution to the development of modern art, which born in 1890 at the railway station pieces of pre-cut natural untreated Caravaggio reaches right through to such contemporary talents as where his father worked, in Tulln wood, pegged for extra strength and all the string and by Eberhard Konig Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville. 21 x 26cm, 96 on the River Danube, not far from ball required to set up the contraption and its cog wheel Michelangelo Merisi da pages, Taschen. to go flying sky high. Easy to make in about one hour Caravaggio, born around 1571 Vienna. Surprisingly, he never had ONLY £10 and based on Leonardo da Vinci’s original 1485 design. (no documentary records exist), Box set. Ages 12 to adult. probably in Milan, was ONLY £16 apprenticed in 1584 for four 84437 AUCTIONEER: 84240 ALBRECHT DURER: Masters of German 81727 DA VINCI HELICOPTER: Create & years to Simone Peterzano, ADVENTURES IN THE ART Art by Anja Eichler who called himself a ‘pupil of Build Wooden Kit Born in Nuremberg, in May 1471, Albrecht Dürer was Titian.’ Caravaggio soon built TRADE by Simon de Pury and one of 19 children, but only four survived. Both of his by Pathfinders Design and Technology up a circle of wealthy admirers by carrying out private William Stadiem grandfathers, as well as his father, were goldsmiths and The Aerial Screw is one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most commissions, but it wasn’t long before public Flamboyant television auctioneer as soon as ‘he had learned to write and read’ he was iconic drawings and it defines an artist and inventor well commissions came along - the first being two side-wall Simon de Pury, nicknamed “the removed from school to work as an apprentice in his ahead of his time. With all pieces pre-cut and ready to paintings for the Chapel of Cardinal Matteo Contarelli in man with the golden gavel”, tells father’s workshop. Although a bright student, it was go, this working model uses a bevel gear, also from his the church of San Luigi del Francesi, in Rome. His life his own diamond-encrusted story. painting that really interested Albrecht, and certainly, a drawings, to spin the canopy and support structure, was turbulent; he was briefly imprisoned after a libel Realising he will never make a self-portrait drawn at the age illustrating the way in which he thought flight might be accusation, and he was involved in brawls, badly creative artist himself, he finds of 13 shows how possible. They are removable so you can experiment injuring one man and then later killing another. He fled employment with Sotheby’s and accomplished the boy with your own helicopter or wing-type systems. Easy to Naples, then to Malta, where it seemed he had eventually becomes their European already was. According to a to make in about an hour from natural, untreated wood settled down to live a respectable life, but returning to chairman, focusing on contemporary art because “there family chronical, his father from sustainable forests, the parts are pegged for extra Naples three aren’t any more Old Masters for dealers and auction ‘regretted the lost time’ that strength. Eco-friendly, ages nine to adult, measures years later houses to sell”. In 2001 de Pury sold Damien Hirst’s his son ‘had spent learning 38cm x 23cm when assembled. Brand new, boxed, add was badly ashtray of cigarette ends for $600,000 dollars, a sum gold work.’ In 1486 Albrecht your own LEGO people for a finishing touch! attacked, that has been far surpassed since. At Sotheby’s his was sent to become an ONLY £16 especially mentor was Peter Wilson, a man who “understood the apprentice to Nuremberg around the nexus between art and money”. In the fifties Wilson 81733 HYDRAULIC ROBOTIC ARM: Create & painter Michael Wolgemut, face. ‘Marked was battling to undercut the rival auctioneer Christie’s Build Wooden Kit BACK IN STOCK where amongst other things, by the knife’ and managed to grab the handling of a major charity by Pathfinders Design and Technology he learnt the techniques of as it was auction, turning it into a huge event by hiring the best Budding engineers of all ages (eight to adult) will love producing woodcuts. After described in Mad Men in the business and attracting the patronage of this three-dimensional model kit to his apprenticeship was up, he an old Her Majesty the Queen herself, who attended a private build a working hydraulic arm - fluid left the workshop, going on document. He view with Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and a vast power! It actually pincers and to study the craft of copper died aged retinue. De Pury learnt from this technique and grabs objects and swivels to engraving. This beautiful about 39 from assiduously played on the public fascination with auction 90 degrees, can be used in a book contains many of a fever. His powerful paintings tend to reflect their records throughout his high-flying career. As art adviser group, or individually with Durer’s paintings and creator’s dark side and violent tendencies. Included here to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, de Pury moved in the syringe holder. The pack engravings including his most famed works such as the are works such as David and Goliath, St. John the fabulously rich circles such as the Onassis family and includes all parts and glue, Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand, Praying Hands, Christ Baptist, Entombment of Christ, Calling of St. Matthew, became embroiled in their personal relationships. At the model is easy to make in Among the Doctors, Feast of the Rose Garlands, Young Judith and Holofernes, Crucifixion of St Peter and others. Phillips de Pury, an auction house that briefly bore his about one hour, is of die-cut Hare and Adoration of the Trinity. Informative text The informative text examines such topics as Essential name, he transformed the once-stuffy enterprise into a plywood with an MDF base, all from covers such topics as From Goldsmith to Painter, Features of Caravaggio’s Art, The Altarpieces for Rome, cutting-edge beacon of contemporary art, but when it sustainable sources. Includes the dowels, Encounter with Proportion and Perspective, Revolution Arrangements of Objects and Figures and On the Run in was bought out by Mercury in 2012 the de Pury name gripping pads, arms, discs, connectors, 15 O rings, in Printed Graphics and Painting and The Results of Free Malta and Sicily. 140pp. Colour illus. disappeared, to his chagrin. 228pp, colour photos. tubings, elastics, sandpaper and more. 16 x 13". Vision. 140pp, colour and b/w illus. ONLY £6 Remainder mark. 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84252 JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY: Bath and Beyond by Amina Wright Langford Press rare natural The aim of these books is to encourage people to see more when Derby portrait painter Joseph Wright (1734-1797) moved “they watch birds. Humour and beauty are best when unexpected! to Bath in 1775 after hearing that Thomas Gainsborough history art books ” had vacated the city the year before, reasoning there 84830 WILD IN EUROPE: Art by 84826 TRUE TO FORM voles and mice in their gardens. Barn owls rarely nest was now a good opening for a portrait painter. At the by David Bennett in towns and cities in Britain mainly due to deaths on time Bath was second only to London in the richness of Renso Tamse ‘Experiencing wildlife in its element provides me with an the roads but do so especially in the Middle East, its cultural life and this book is foreword by Alan Lee insight which further drives my inquisitiveness and where the houses often have flat roofs. Migration, the first to examine the city Beautifully summarised by our friend Alan Lee in his stimulates my need to paint.’ David Bennett’s work has nest boxes, an owl in a rock art cave painting dating at the height of its unique foreword, ‘Today we have more means of accessing earned him many prestigious awards and placements on back 30,000 years, this is a little picture book with a cultural significance. images of wildlife. We can view them in real time or conservation projects in Alaska, Extremadura in Spain, difference. For ages eight to adult collectors, 32 pages Wright had been in Italy through high-definition photography but seeing through Ireland, Scotland and the New Forest. Cover to cover, with beautiful watercolour artwork, a Langford Press for two years with his the eyes of someone who has studied his subject as this book illustrates his creative passion and knowledge first edition August 2017. wife before they hurried intently and with such understanding as Renso confers for wildlife and the £7 NOW £4 back home to Derby, another privilege - that of witnessing the rapport environment and many of then on to Bath. They between the observer and the observed, between the 84813 LOOKING AT BIRDS: An Antidote to these paintings have been only stayed in the city purity of vision of the landscape-scanning bird of prey exhibited at The Wildlife Field Guides by John Busby for 18 months before and that of the artist, counting its feathers while Art Gallery. Unusually, Living birds present a far more fascinating range of returning home, but in searching through them for the bone structure many are reproduced shape and posture, colour and shading. Often their that time Wright produced underneath. Renso knows sideways on and there is anatomy is hidden by leaves, their plumage colours are some important works, with that the best way to just a little ‘handwritten’ changed by light or their feet are out of sight or under crowds queuing to see his represent the natural world is text and captions to water. We can count numbers, chart migration, record spectacular views of Vesuvius and to be part of it, to absorb it explain. For example ‘The songs, learn the language of postures, chase hundreds Rome at his studio at Brook Street. Using rarely-seen through the skin and through River Derwent winds its of miles to see the latest rarity, or simply sit still and illustrations, the book looks at the saturated portrait patient, searching eyes. way through the Vale of observe. Taking photos can add a new dimension to market, with images of local celebrities, and his use of Then the hand, with its brush York...these wet meadows watching, as well as making copious notes and domestic homes for exhibitions. Published to accompany or pencil, and through long are magnets for wildfowl drawings. “A short time ago, by the side of a Scottish an exhibition to celebrate his work, this book contains practice, will also achieve a and waders. Large flocks loch, I many of his wonderful, dramatic landscapes as well as state of grace.’ With a of Whooper Swan, watched portraits and an excellent, informative text. Softback, combination of technical Pochard, Mallard, tufted Black-headed 112pp, beautiful colour illus. achievements, curiosity, gulls flying imagination and purpose, duck, teal, Cadwall, £15.99 NOW £9 wigeon, Shovelor and Pintail meld into the ochre over the beauty of foxes, deer, hawthorn 84885 MAKING SENSE OF BUDDHIST ART soaring eagles, a wolf in grasses. Short Eared Owl too move from their moorland breeding sites. They add tension to the watery land as trees full of AND ARCHITECTURE shadow, a white swan losing red berries. by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky its feathers, an African elephant they hunt, inciting panic amongst the grazing fowl.’ Such close-up full page depictions, we can see every They were Explains the author, ‘To understand Buddhism it is bathed in dust, a lonely duckling picking the important to know that it is not a monolith of beliefs, and on a pond, a confrontation with a daub and mark of the watercolour or pencil or sketch of kingfishers, roe deer, otters, dragonflies, moulting red- fruit from the that in the 2,500 years wolf, a fox pup, a stoat wearing his summer coat and a tree in flight!” since the birth of the white and wild beautiful horse, owls, the curly-horned breasted Mergansers displaying, hares, grebe, badgers, frogs and newts and seals, all in natural settings. Big Born in Bradford in 1928, John Busby was President of Buddha it has mouflon wild sheep, ibex fighting on a rocky ledge, a the Society of Scottish Artists from 1976-79 and a undergone continuous beautiful curious blue tit, a big brown bear on a yellow- loose very attractive artworks and sketches. 156pp. £38 NOW £14 member of the RSA and RSW. His lifelong interest is changes.’ Filled with orange glowing riverside, a newborn roe deer fawn, the in wildlife and he has illustrated over 35 books mostly photographs, this funny bobbing tail of the Mister Dipper in an icy river, a 84821 RURAL PORTRAITS: Scottish Native about behaviour, ranging from seabirds to tigers, enlightening book helps swooping kingfisher and beautiful drawings of owls and Farm Animals, Characters and garden birds to otters, and birds in Majorca among us to discover the birds in pencil sketches are among these masterpieces. them. This rare book was a first of a new series of artistic side of Buddhist Numbering approximately 100 in colour and black and Landscapes by Polly Pullar Aberdeen-angus bulls, black face ewes, farmer Jim books Wildlife Art Techniques by internationally and art and architecture, as white drawings, 156 pages to pore over and thoroughly highly respected artist, showing the many techniques well as the beliefs and enjoy as we did. 11" x 12½”. Aitken with his Clydesdales horses pulling his plough, and Dodd Orcheston the stick maker are among the used by current masters. John Busby shows how the the history of £38 NOW £12 bird moves and behaves in order to get the real ‘jizz’ of Buddhism. The lovely colour illustrations by Keith Brockie just on the 84817 NEW FOREST PAINTERS jacket of this very special art book. Here is a journey a living bird on paper. See his Redstart, Lapwing, symbolism is explained by Georgina Babey Osprey and Sea Eagle snatch their prey from just clearly, from the around Scotland encompassing every breed of Scottish A stunningly beautiful Lanford Press first edition in which below the surface, crows driving off a buzzard, house Buddha’s birth to his native farm animal. six founding members of the ‘New Forest Painters martins and sparrow hawk and a golden eagle seen off death, aged 80. Here are paintings, buildings, statues, Chapters evolved through Group’ (founded 1997) exhibit their paintings of the by peregrines - much twisting, tumbling and wing stupas and pagodas, all illustrated in stunning colour. meetings with characters highest quality in a fresh and lively publication. They actions to remember. Every page has one to three line 226pp. old and young and it is capture Brent geese on the Solent shore, horses crossing art or colourful drawings to enjoy. 96pp, 9" x 10". £9.95 NOW £4 their anecdotes, humour a river at Latchmore Brook, roe deer, saddleback pigs at and nostalgia which shape Langford Press 2013 first edition. 84838 ANTOINE Fritham Church, cattle in the heather and on pages 70- this super book. Here for £20 NOW £8.50 WATTEAU: Masters of 71 a whole gallery of Forest reptiles, amphibians and example are the infamous 84797 DRAWN TO THE EDGE French Art lizards like the great crested and palmat newts. There Lairg Sheep Sales, the by John Threlfall by Helmut Börsch-Supan are beautiful birds like wheatears and nightjars, horses Perth Bull Sale, and the and cattle grazing beneath hawthorns at Stoney Cross Britain’s coastline provides some of the finest examples The 17th century was an age Royal Highland Show. and pigs at Pannage, as the practice is called during of the rich diversity of wildlife with its sea cliffs, of great painters - of Rubens, Time is spent with the which pigs are turned maritime heath, rocky shores, sandy beaches, estuaries van Dyck, Velázquez, unique seaweed-eating out to forage for green and salt marsh. A member of the Society of Wildlife Poussin, Rembrandt, and sheep of North Ronaldsay, acorns which prove a Artists, John Threlfall lives in southwest Scotland and Vermeer. In 1684, Antoine Belted Galloways, fatal meal for ponies, here journeys far south to find Cornwall’s returning Watteau was born in Highland cattle and cattle and deer whose choughs and way north for Orkney’s fading skuas, Valenciennes, the son of a Shetland ponies. There digestions are unable to west to the pristine beaches of the Outer Hebrides, and roofer who was a violent man, are amusing childhood cope. A magnificent to the east coast islands of Bass Rock and the Farnes. a quality that must have reminiscences and an account of Ayrshire milking autumnal display of These are spectacular and exhilarating places and the greatly distressed his sensitive son. Watteau was a parlours at daybreak, a visit to a bothy workshop of an colour is presented on drawings, paintings and writings within this book reserved and thoughtful man, the painter of cheerful elderly stick maker and the story of the birth of our page 37 in Magnificent encourage and inspire us to seek them out or revisit social gatherings although not himself a sociable man. newest breed of cattle, the Luing. From up-and-coming Beeches by Richard them, with open eyes, He knew a great deal about music and read voraciously young farmers using embryo transplant techniques for Tratt; in the old woods minds and hearts. These and was therefore an educated artist. He died of prime Aberdeen Angus beef production in Orkney, to the main species of truly are the sights and consumption in 1757. Watteau’s first Parisian teacher crofters in far-flung locations, Polly Pullar’s writing is beech, oak, holly and sounds of our natural was Claude Gillot who developed the young artist’s witty and charming, graphically depicting livestock, yew and in the riverine heritage, beautifully gifts. It is impossible to imagine Watteau drawing people and landscapes and also rich flora and fauna. setting willow, alder, depicted in full page colour subjects from the life of With glossary, 180 very large pages, colour and b/w illus hazel and ash. On the paintings in this large lavish the inner city, or even throughout. 10" x 12½”. fringes of the wood will be found silver birch, rowan, first edition from our friends at the environs of £28 NOW £12 whitebean, crab apple, wild service and Scots Pine along Langford Press. In a few Versailles, to which the with many thorns. Stag beetle, sweet chestnut, a wood 84789 BELLE THE BARN simple lines, an Arctic Tern, a king had moved his mouse, a magpie finding a tasty snack on a cow’s back, OWL: Friend of the Farmer poem on page 12 ‘Too Close court in 1682. He pearl bordered fritillary and a speckled wood butterfly, by John Miles and Dan For Comfort’ sees ‘the noticed only those and any number of goshawk and small woodland birds, Powell fulmar reside on the wind, areas where the city fallow buck in winter coat and beautiful trees and As her name suggests, Belle the teasing lift from the waves, merged with the waterscapes like the Beaulieu River and Dockens Water Barn Owl is beautiful. Mum has hitching long distances in countryside, or rustic are captured in these captivating artworks. The artists to stay on the nest at the start search of trawler discards?gape beaked threats.’ Three settings. The book are Barry Peckham, Barry Miles, Janet Langford, Richard as the owlets need to be young ravens huddle together, seals take a long begins with some of his Tratt, Hilary Tratt and Peter Frost whose skills convey brooded to keep them warm. snooze, stretched out black guillemots are paired up, best known work like the diversity of wildlife and habitat within the New Dad needs lots of hedgerows, their bright orange feet contrasting with their black Gersaint’s Shop Sign, a Forest boundaries. 132 pages with approximately 200 rough fields and woodland edges coats and white sides, a raging torrent wind blows the detail of the Porter gorgeous colour artworks grouped by Woodland, to hunt for the prey to feed his ravens across the Jurassic Coast and a confiding pair of along with Embarkation Heathland and New Forest Lawns, The Working Forest, growing family. For hunting in snow bunting tolerated John’s close and prolonged for Cythera in which Mires, Rivers and Ponds, Coastline and Estuaries and the dark, his eyes make up over proximity, hopping in and out of the marin grass at the the shape of the seated short biographies on the artists themselves. 132pp, 11" 70% of his skull. Belle is lucky that this community has top of the dunes to feed. Watercolours, colour woman’s skirt relates to x 12½”. loved the owls for so long. They do everything to help drawings in their hundreds. 190pp, 10" x 12½”. the arched shape of the upper edge of the sign. It £38 NOW £14 them and even feeding garden birds can increase the £38 NOW £12 appears in a splendid double page reproduction in colour. Further close up details follow like the Woman in the Pink Gown gathering the folds of her skirt, the light different context or interpretation of the exhibition, world was accompanied by an equally intense personal 82993 FILM POSTERS OF THE RUSSIAN playing on the shifting folds of the silk. Watteau liked to providing fascinating insights and historical detail to our biography, scored by gambling, debts, drunken brawls, AVANT GARDE include such back views of his figures in his understanding of the works. With beautiful full-page and even a murder charge. With more than 50 of BACK IN compositions. Also in close-up detail are the Syrinx and recreations of Van Gogh’s art; The Potato Eaters in Caravaggio’s most famous and revolutionary works. by Susan Pack STOCK Pan, and Women Bathing in a Landscape with the Fool chiaroscuro, the sunny sunflower colours of Still Life with Detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of At the intersection of the visual, graphic and cinematic as part of a group and the saleswoman sitting behind the a Plate of Onions, the autumnal colours of Girl in a Wood the artist, cultural and historical importance. 100 colour arts, film posters are a unique and thrilling record of a counter, a mirror and an open lacquer box standing on to the dappled Impressionism of Tree Trunks with Ivy illus. 21 x 26cm, 96 pages, Taschen. particular cultural Zeitgeist. This book brings together 250 the shop counter in front of her. The dog fleaing itself and realistic Peat Boat. With satisfyingly tactile rough- ONLY £10 posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union of the 1920s also appears in ‘The Pleasures of Life’. The colouring of edged cover, dozens of other artworks besides from and 1930s to explore the energy and invention of this the French Players from c1720 is exquisitely delicate Hiroshige to Rembrandt, and rare sketches and drawings 83004 EDWARD WESTON period, before Soviet Realism became the official art with salmon pink in the clothing and the scene of fisherwomen, birds’ nests, peonies and the famous edited by Manfred Heiting  doctrine. Drawn from the private collection of overloaded with action and dramatic effects. There are portraits and self portraits. Letters to his brother Few photographers have created such a legacy as connoisseur Susan Pack, the selection includes the work scenes of military life, theatrical life in Paris, art and reproduced in facsimile. 208pp. Edward Weston (1886-1958). He became the driving of 27 different artists. The Stenberg brothers, among the fashion, nature, landscapes, children and dogs, Watteau £29 NOW £13 figure behind a group of West Coast artists dubbed Group most prolific of these artists, began their careers as as draughtsman plus a chronology, glossary and f/64, which pioneered “Straight Photography.” With Constructivist sculptors and worked as set designers. bibliography. 140 glorious pages, colour images on 83767 CARAVAGGIO by Gilles Lambert nudes, nature studies, and myriad perspectives on the Mikhail Dlugach was trained as an architect and nearly every page with an excellent text. 9" x 10". Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was dramatic Californian landscape, Weston’s photographs are Alexander Rodchenko practiced photography, ONLY £6 always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy monuments of sensual realism. Whatever the subject, be architecture and industrial design as well as graphic 84110 VAN GOGH: The Man & of the Italian Baroque, famed for his dramatic use of it a vegetable, landscape, shell, or naked body, Weston’s design. Many give a sense of movement and of colour, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio’s lens captures the essence of its life force, the vertigo, and the use of repetition. Many depicted The Earth by Kathleen Adler  boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched his name fundamentals of its form. We love the Mexican women frightened female faces. Superb typography, this is Huge, hard covered 11" x 12" catalogue of the Palazzo into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of portraits, nudes, the Scene Shifter, Moonstone Beach and poster art at its finest. Glossy black paper, 14 x 19.5 Reale exhibition in Madrid. From Kathleen Adler’s titular feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist Sante Fe locomotive. Mono quality images. Softback, cm, 520 pages, bookmarker. essay to Cornelia Homburg’s ‘Between Japan and allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a 21 x 27½cm, 252 pages, Taschen. ONLY £15 Rembrant: Van Gogh in Arles’, each writer focuses on a startling, often visceral humanity. This vivid pictorial ONLY £22 6 Art and Architecture ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 Transport below

84112 RODIN: WORLD OF ART 84035 BAYEUX Turn of the Last Century Photography and Culture by Bernard Champigneulle This glamorous publication features no less than 132 TAPESTRY 84768 ITALY 84908 VIENNA illustrations, 16 in colour, from Thames & Hudson EMBROIDERERS’ AROUND 1900: A 1900 WIEN publishers. Auguste Rodin is the most famous and STORY Portrait In Colour by Janina Nentwig influential sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th by Jan Messent by Giovanni Fanelli, The capital of the Austro- centuries. Judge for yourself what the reaction at the We have all heard of the Hungarian Empire, in 1900 time must have been to ‘The Man with the Broken intriguing tapestry kept Marc Walter and Vienna consisted of some 15 Sabine Arqué Nose’ of 1872 compared with the classical ‘Young at Bayeux, France, nations and drew in many Woman in a Flowered Hat’ of 1865-70. Biography along which was created by English embroiderers in the This collection is artists and intellectuals in a the way in the text guides us through the beautifully years following the Norman Conquest of 1066. It a fascinating visual creative melting pot. In rapid produced colour and mono images of his finest creations recounts the story of the background events to the document of Italy at the succession Historicism, Art like Eve 1881, The Burghers of Calais, and the eroticism conflicts, beginning in 1064 and ending in 1066, with turn of the century, Nouveau and Expressionism of The Toilet of Venus 1886, many in close up detail. the Battle of Hastings, illustrated by an exquisite, gathering photochromes developed as the dominant Large softback, 288pp. continuous set of embroidered scenes measuring 232ft and vintage coloured art styles and these emerged £8.95 NOW £4 (70 metres). The author is an embroiderer with a great prints. Venice and the from typical Viennese interest in history and design, and using a calligraphic- Veneto, the Alps, Turin, 81861 BERLIN IN THE 1920s themes. One of the first like font in places, she explains that the tapestry was Milan and the Lakes, Trieste and the Dolomites, Genoa images in this sumptuous volume is of Gustav Klimt’s by Rainer Metzger created by several groups of women, probably from and the Riveras, Emilia, Tuscany and Umbria, Rome, Auditorium of the Opera House and Theatre followed by This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of nunneries in Wessex. This is the story of the making of Naples and Sicily, from the turn of the last century colour photographs of modern Viennese architecture, Berlin’s Weimar age. Through exemplary works in the tapestry, as well as an analysis of the differences caught in contemporary photographs, many hand sepia postcards before this painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic design, in stitch colour tinted evoking a slower pace of life gone by in magnificent gallery of photography, and film, we uncover the innovations, work this idyllic landscape. Photographs of fishermen, a portraits by artists like Hans ideas, and precious dreams that characterized this unique between tourist on a gondola, crowded ports welcoming huge Makart of a beautiful cultural window. We take in the jazz bars and dance panels, the vessels, the Doge’s Palace and views of the Piazzetta female pianist and singer, a halls; the flapper fashion; the radio towers and rumbling characters in daylight and moonlight, Caught Ball, idyllic family trams; the soaring buildings; the cinematic masterworks and history, and the Staircase of the scenes with children, and the newly independent women. Featured works in places like Giants with three Leopold Carl Müller’s Camel this vivid cultural portrait include Hannah Höch’s The Rouen and Victorian dressed ladies Market in Cairo, the Journalists; Lotte Jacobi’s Hands on Typewriter; Otto Canterbury, descending them. sensuous Woman in Yellow Dix’s Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden; Peter designers Traditionally a lively by Max Kurzweil and his Behrens’s project of the Alexanderplatz; and Josef von and place, here are street romantic A Walk in the Sternberg’s The Blue Angel, starring Dietrich as cabaret embroiderers, vendors, acrobats, puppet Garden, the stunning gold performer Lola Lola. Escapist, idealistic, reactionary materials, shows and cafés and on iconography of Klimt, his masterworks. 8.3" x 10.2", 96 pages. Colour illus, technique, borders and reconstruction. This account the Riva, there ‘twinkles Yearning for Happiness, Taschen. offers an intriguing insight to the work created by and glitters the long row poster art, Garden with ONLY £10 talented - and a few not so talented - women, some of the happy palaces Sunflowers, A Church in of whom ‘didn’t quite understand, didn’t listen or didn’t which are mainly 71763 MYTH AND MAGIC: The Art of John Cassone, his graphic Sitting care to listen’ as they attempted to follow the expensive hotels...in the Howe Designer for the Hobbit Films Male nude and Two instructions as best they could. Softback. Landscape bright Venetian air.’ And Girlfriends, self-portraits and by John Howe format 11½” wide x 8". Full page colour illus, sketches the poverty is not nudes by Egon Schiele, Pre-eminent among those few who have succeeded in and decorative borders and calligraphic style text. overlooked with a nude male studies by capturing the essence of Tolkien’s Middle-earth is the 112pp. seafood seller and children Koloman Moser and much artist John Howe. From the beloved painting of Smaug £15 NOW £8.50 BACK IN STOCK in little wooden shoes or more architectural legacies that decorates The Hobbit, and the world-famous barefoot in ragged clothes. photographed in colour, plus Gandalf picture synonymous with the one-volume There are hundreds upon interiors and design, edition of The Lord of the Rings, to the spectacular 84594 GRAVEN IMAGES: The Art of the hundreds of colour images greetings cards, fashion and images which adorn bestselling novels around the world, Woodcut where we can walk an more. The turn of the 20th this sumptuous gallery will delight all fans of Tolkien and by Jon Crabb empty and dusklit St. century was a fascinating fantasy. From Hobbiton to Mordor, we are drawn into Medieval woodcuts collectively give comment on the Mark’s Square, stroll the period in Vienna, as the fantasy world with this beautifully detailed rendition fervour, horror and obsessions of the Dark Ages. A shady Uffizi courtyard Austria-Hungary’s capital on of The Dark Tower, the Treebeard and the beautiful feast of fantastic and horrifying dragons and demons, alone, and find just a few the Danube became a leading centre of modernism, medieval looking lady Galadriel. In Science Fiction, drunkards and Death, a Parliament of Women, jousting horse carts pulled up in defined by styles of Art Nouveau, historicism and mutant insects, space stations and adventurers. Here gentlemen, Mary Frith who smoked, drank, stole and front of the Pantheon in Expressionism, all with a touch of typical Viennese are heroes with more sinew than steroids, carrying scars wore trousers, swaggering men and Kentish maidens, Rome. We find ordinary morbidity. Artists like Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and inside and out against backdrops of melancholy and the fumbling ale-draper, the beheading of his late traders and laborers, quiet Josef Hoffmann dreamed of forging a Gesamtkunstwerk, emptiness and futuristic cities. For the first time ever, a Majesty Charles I 1649, a Dog’s Elegy, English Civil street scenes, and humble or total artistic expression, in which not just design, portfolio of more than 250 of his paintings and sketches War printed pamphlets, a unicorn and a turkey-like settlements where sunlit architecture and crafts were combined, but also art and has been collected and featuring a number of previously monster, bizarre beasts of land and sea collected by charms and historic reality life itself. In this sumptuously illustrated album, art unseen pictures and set designs for the films. Ranging Ambroise Paré and his version of Dürer’s Rhinoceros. combine, from coast to historian Janina Nentwig explores such major movements from books on dragons and myth and legend to a wealth There are spectacular examples of black-letter coast, through classical in Vienna as the Vienna Secession, themes of sex and of cover paintings for some of the biggest names in typography and extraordinary woodcuts, many printed sites and Renaissance wonders, down beguiling Eros and death in painting, the construction of the Ring fantasy. Contributions from Tolkien expert Brian Sibley on black or bright orange pages for even more dramatic Venetian waterways and along the dappled shores of Road, ornamentation and architecture, and objects of and top fantasy authors such as Robin Hobb and Robert effect. The typography of the text is quite beautiful. the Amalfi coast. 11¾” x 15½” (29 x 39.5cm), 580 everyday beauty from the Wiener Werkstätte. Text in Holdstock. Afterword by Alan Lee. 142 pages 23cm x The broadsides pasted on walls and market posts, pages. Text in English, French and German. Boxed six languages. 358 heavyweight, quality pages, 27.6 x 29cm in brilliant colour. together with the ballads hawked at street corners, with carry handle and sturdy pagemarker. New from 31.7 cm. “With the Klimt exhibition coming to London £19.99 NOW £10 expressed the flow of popular culture in early modern Taschen. soon, everyone will want some excellent background.” Europe. British Library. 166pp, full price. ONLY £150 ONLY £20 84218 MANUAL OF HISTORIC ORNAMENT ONLY £12.99 by Richard Glazier 84221 NELL BLAINE: Her Art and 83350 WEST COUNTRY TO WORLD’S END: Originally published in 1899, this Life by Martica Sawin The South West in the Tudor Age compendium of over 700 of the Born in Richmond, Virginia, USA, Nell Blaine (1922- by Sam Smiles author’s own drawings is a delight TRANSPORT 1996) was severely short-sighted. Her paintings are The people of the South West of England are justly for the eye. The early chapters wonderfully vibrant and free-stroked, often semi-abstract proud of their Tudor heritage, notably ‘sea dogs’ Sir cover Egyptian and Assyrian in style. She learned from Mondrian and Hans Hofmann. Francis Drake, Sir Walter Ralegh and Sir John Hawkins, ornament, while the classical 84808 IMAGES OF FRED Nell enjoyed working with both oils and watercolours, world of Greece and Rome who sailed to ‘World’s End’ in search of treasures and DIBNAH by Keith Langston especially depicting gardens of flowers and landscapes new lands. Thomas Bodley founded Oxford University’s supplies elegant acanthus-leaf and flower-filled still lifes. At the age of 37 she ornament and the Parthenon The Bolton-born steeplejack library, renamed the Bodleian. The five essays here became nationally known and contracted polio which nearly killed her, and from then cover topics including Sixteenth Century Decorative Art, friezes depicting horses in on was confined to a wheelchair. This celebration of her vigorous action. Celtic and loved following a series of TV Art in Britain between 1530 and 1620, Nicholas Hilliard, programmes. Although an admirer work contains dozens of her paintings, many depicted Maritime Activity and Exploration, and Education and Scandinavian, Islamic, Persian, Indian, Chinese and full-page. Particularly bright is ‘Asters in the Fall Garden’, Japanese ornament each have their own chapters before of all things Victorian, Fred Dibnah Learning. Local craftsmen included plasterers, masons, was not phased by TV cameras a medley of reds, oranges, greens and mauves, Harbor carpenters, lacemakers and goldsmiths. With artefacts, the author concludes with a series of studies of and Clouds, Jestina’s Best Bouquet, Monument, while architectural features or materials. Ceramics include the and used his larger-than-life paintings and documents. Softback, 114pp, colour illus. personality and communication ‘Rooftops Rain’ shows the colourful reflections in the £20 NOW £4.50 intertwined chrysanthemums of a Chinese Ming vase, puddles of chimneys and air vents on the roof. The the heraldic English slipware of the mid-17th century and skills to attract a wider public to loose, rhythmic style is most appealing. 11" square. 84166 PRISSE D’AVENNES: EGYPTIAN ART the festoons of Roman Samian ware. Enamels and heritage transportation and industrial archaeology. His 154pp. 67 colour illus. and 56 mono. by Salima Ikram metalwork in gold, silver, iron and bronze, textile fabrics, official recognition was highlighted with the award of an $50 NOW £15 A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental  embroidery and lace, glasswork and Majolica all MBE in 2004. The terraced streets, canals and industrial landscapes of the north of England were to Fred places 84194 ART UNDER ATTACK: culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille- included. 184pp, paperback, drawings and plates on every page. of high adventure. Tall smoking chimneys, steam trains, Histories of British Iconoclasm Constant-Théodore-Émile Prisse d’Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most influential Egyptologists, £13.99 NOW £4 churches, town halls, towers, it was his good friend and edited by Tabitha Barber and Stacey Boldrick ex-BBC TV reported Alistair MacDonald who is the man long before the discipline was even properly established. 84490 BULLFIGHT: The Pas de Deux Wars of religion are notoriously subject to iconoclasm, Prisse first embarked on his explorations in 1836, first credited with bringing Fred Dibnah to our TV and the book starts with an upside-down portrait of by Ricardo Sanchez screens. Together they would go climbing without documenting sites throughout the Nile Valley, often Ricardo Sanchez uses tradition, culture, art and nature to Oliver Cromwell, comparing it with video grabs of the under his Egyptian pseudonym, Edris Effendi. His first safety ropes and there is an image on page 7 which will 21st century toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue. The explore this age-old sport in his photography. Every set your stomach churning as one of them smokes a fag publication of notes and drawings came in the form of piece of arresting art presented in this collection shows Protestant Reformation and the 16th century dissolution Les Monuments Égyptiens, a modest collection of 51 atop a weathervane with not a safety net in sight! Here of the the elegant and dynamic snapshots of what a bullfight is chimney demolition Fred style, his last TV project plates, which met with considerable acclaim in popular really is, matadors clothed in jewel green, gold and monasteries and intellectual circles. He returned to Egypt in the late covering concept, crew and cast, restoration projects, resulted in a turquoise, munching on fish and chips, on many a railway station 1850s to expand his work into the collection L’Histoire de accompanied by widespread l’art égyptien - together with his first volume, these two platform and Fred examining the mineshaft in his back destruction of a red cape. garden before setting off on his round-Britain tour. On tomes make up a truly complete survey of Egyptian art. Great matadors, buildings, such His albums cover architecture, drawing, sculpture, the final page, 120, there are some notable Fred as Rievaulx such as Enrique sayings: ‘Did yer like that?’, ‘The modern world stinks’ painting, and industrial or minor arts, with sections, Ponce, Joselito, Abbey in plans, architectural details, and surface decoration. It and ‘I’m just a bum who climbs chimneys.’ Large Yorkshire, and Barrera, Victor softback, 100 b/w photos. remains the largest, single-handed illustrated record of Puerto and associated Egyptian art in existence. 14 x 19.5 cm, 600 pages, £12.99 NOW £6.50 sculptures. Javier Vázquez, Taschen. are all featured. 84823 SINKING OF THE RMS Window glass ONLY £15 was a regular The Tafallera, TAYLEUR by Gill Hoffs target, and fragments from Rievaulx, Furness and 83144 FRANCIS BACON right-handed Sub-titled ‘The Lost Story of the Fountains abbeys give a hint of the artistry of the by Hugh Davies and Sally Yard pass, Kneeling Victorian Titanic’, the wrecking of originals. Shrines and pilgrimage centres also suffered, The vigour of his paintings paralleled that of the Abstract Veronica and the RMS Tayleur made headlines and a beautiful book of hours shown here is defaced at Expressionism of the late 1940s and early 50s. During more. Rosa almost 60 years before the Titanic. the page showing the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. his 60-odd years as a painter, Francis Bacon has Olivares’ Both were run by the White Star More recently, politics has been the driving force behind fearlessly tackled the unruly imagery of life. Colour, foreword celebrates what the eye cannot see and how Line, both were heralded as the iconoclasm, with Dublin’s William of Orange by Grinling particularly orange, is at times heightened by the photography transforms our reality as Sanchez’s most splendid ships of their time - Gibbons being frequently defaced, and works such as addition of pastel. Here are his works like Jet of Water, photographic images full of movement create an intimate and both sank in tragic the Rokeby Venus attracting the destructive energies of Sand Dune, studies of the human body, three studies for relationship with the artwork and the events circumstances on their maiden the Suffragettes. In our own day, artworks such as Carl a Crucifixion and more. With chronology, list of themselves. 26.2 x 31.5cm, almost-blurred-in-action voyages. On 19th January 1854 Andre’s famous “pile of bricks” at the Tate have been exhibitions. 116 illus, 46 in colour, 130 large pages, colour photos, 176pp. the Tayleur, a large merchant attacked as a comment on art itself. 192pp, softback, softback. £40 NOW £5 vessel, left Liverpool for Australia, packed with hopeful numerous colour reproductions. £18.99 NOW £4 emigrants, her hold stuffed with cargo. On the 160th $39.95 NOW £9.50 anniversary of the disaster, this book reveals new Transport www.bibliophilebooks.com 7 theories behind the disaster and tells the stories of the 84435 STEAM TITANS: 84827 VOYAGES FROM 83259 HAWKER HURRICANE by Marek Rys passengers and crew including Captain John Noble, Cunard, Collins and the Epic THE PAST: A History of The Hurricane was the RAF’s first mono plane fighter and record-breaking hero of the Gold Rush era, ship surgeon Battle for Commerce on the Passengers at Sea was the most numerous aircraft during the Battle of Robert Hannay Cunningham and his young family on Britain. In 1940, more than half the German planes shot their way to a new life among the prospectors of Tent North Atlantic by Simon Wills Man has been journeying from down were destroyed by Hurricanes. This book tells the City, and Samuel Carby, ex-convict, returning to the by William M. Fowler Jr. story of its development and technical evolution, plus gold fields with his new wife, and a fortune sewn into Between 1845 and the American continent to continent via the sea before any other form of extracts from official manuals and 1/72nd or 1/48th scale her corsets. But the ship’s revolutionary iron hull Civil War came a transport plans of all versions, from the Mk.I of 1936 to the Mk.IV prevented her compasses from working. Lost in the Irish revolution delightfully described at transport, and in this book Simon Wills provides a new of 1943. The work includes superb colour artworks Sea, a storm swept the ship and the 650 people aboard the time as “Vulcan now rides in illustrating the many camouflage schemes and markings towards a cliff, studded with rocks ‘black as death’. Neptune’s Barge”. Steam power, perspective on this way of travel, including both sailing and found on operational Hurricanes and walk-around colour What happened next shocked the world. From a the greatest invention - and prime photos and rare black and white archive photos and newspaper report of the time, ‘The moment they fell driver - of the Industrial Revolution steam liners, by celebrating the passenger point of view. Using documents. 40 plus colour profiles. 160 large pages. into the water the waves caught them and dashed them transformed the Atlantic into a highway upon which £25 NOW £9 violently against the rocks, and the survivors on shore steamships carried people, products and information with personal accounts, some of could perceive the unfortunate creatures...struggling hitherto unimaginable speed, regularity, punctuality and which are previously 82769 GLORY OF STEAM ON G.W.R. LINES amidst the waves, and one by one sinking under them.’ reliability between Britain and the USA. This in turn unpublished, this is a unique selection of memoirs ranging DVD by Ferndale Films Noble, still just 31 years old, had been gaining a fuelled development across the globe and also gave rise from honeymooners during the Great Depression, to Long after the G.W.R. ceased to exist, enthusiasts reputation for kindness to passengers of every class in to intensely fierce competition and nowhere was it Christian missionaries in Africa, and traders in South ensured that much of the system continues to work - the stark contrast to the less diligent captains of the time. fiercer than between Samuel Cunard, representing Great America. Whether fascinated by the passenger meals on magnificent Brunswick Green locomotives, from Pannier 164 pages telling the tragically little known story. Eight Britain, and Edward Knight Collins, representing the P&O steamships to Australia being introduced by bugles, tanks to Kings. Locomotives featured in this 45 minute pages of woodcuts and images. USA. This heady mixture of new technology, high or someone emigrating to the US on the sailing ship DVD are the Burton Agnes Hall, City of Truro, Defiant, £12.99 NOW £6.50 finance and Machiavellian politics came face to face with India who suffered from ship fever during their lengthy Drysllywn Castle, Earl of Berkeley, Fox Coat Manor, the random, all-conquering power of the Atlantic as journey, this is a porthole into the history of maritime Hagley Hall, King Edward I, King George V, Nunney 84812 LANCASTER these opposing forces fought to capture control of the travel from those who had the time to observe it. Black Castle, Sir Haydn, 18 locomotives in total featured. by Gordon Wilson and commercial lifeline that spanned the ocean. In 1819 the and white illustrations fill in the blanks with drawings of £14.99 NOW £5 Martin Keen first “Steam Coffin” to cross the Atlantic, the Savannah, ships, such as the HMS Doris and SS London, as well as Heavy with colour took 29 days to get from Georgia to Liverpool (slower sea beasts including a depiction of a whale from the 82852 GLORY OF STEAM ON L.M.S. LINES photographs and sepia than many sail journeys) and used up all her coal in 3½ early 1600s. Not only are readers treated to illustrations, DVD by Ferndale Films  reproductions, the days and had to return under sail! Things rapidly but data that furthers the knowledge of the journeys, The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (The L.M.S.) professional photography by improved though and in this thrilling spectacle of the high including a table referencing the number of nautical miles was the largest of the four railway companies formed in Martin Keen here runs to seas meets new engineering meets unrestrained travelled each day during the Great Western’s journey in 1923 and stretched from Wick to Bournemouth, operating over 250 photographs in full colour plus several wartime commerce William Fowler traces the paths of individual August 1844, and diary entries on the nature of trips, through the industrial Midlands. Lovingly restored, images. The book is the history of the four most ships, the goods, people and information carried and the such as the events of Captain Graham’s death in 1822. featured in this programme are 37 locomotives including complete surviving airframes - the only two flying money and those who wielded it in a generation-long A refreshing history of the sea and man’s attempts at the Duchess of Hamilton, Princess Elizabeth and Lancasters in the world (PA474 and FM213) and the two struggle for supremacy, which saw New York rise to crossing it. 15.4 x 23.6cm, colour, 176pp. Margaret Rose, Bahamas, Mars, Amethyst, George ground-running aircraft (NX611 and FM159). Lancaster take her place as one of the greatest ports in the world £19.99 NOW £8.50 Stephenson, Sovereign, Black 5’s, Ivatt 2-6-0’s and NX611 has been extensively photographed inside and and witnessed some of the greatest triumphs and terrible 84793 CLASSIC JAGUAR more. 45 minute DVD. out by Martin Keen, to give a real sense of what it was disasters in maritime history. 358pp with 16 pages of £14.99 NOW £4.50 like to fly in this superb colour and b/w plates, first US edition of 2017. XK: 6-Cylinder Cars, 1948- aircraft. The Avro £20 NOW £9 1970 83918 MALLOCH’S SPITFIRE: The Story and Lancaster took the by Brian Laban Restoration of PK350 by Nick Meikle RAF’s bombing 84825 SURVIVING Buckle your seatbelt and settle Spitfire SF350 came off the production line at Castle campaign right to FIGHTER AIRCRAFT into a journey through the Bromwich in July 1945, an F Mk 22 designation, making the heart of Nazi OF WORLD WAR TWO stunning six-cylinder classic Jaguar her one of the finest incarnations of the legend. In 1977 Germany, night by Don Berliner generation that will be sure to John McVicar “Jack” Malloch was tasked by the after night, despite A global guide to location excite any petrol head. Brian hierarchy of the Rhodesian Air Force to restore SF350 (or suffering appalling and types of existing WWII Laban has been writing about SF64, as she was then known) back to full working losses. The unique aircraft in aviation museums cars, the motor industry and glory. She first flew as a restored aircraft on 29 March airframe, with one throughout the world, each motor sport for more than 40 years and, having been 1980 and tragically, on what was to have been her last continuous bomb double page spread contains a colour photo as viewed in former chairman of the Fleet Street Group of Motoring flight on 26 March 1982, crashed at high speed, killing bay and four an aviation museum, examples of different marques and Writers, he is a gold mine on the subject of classic cars, Malloch instantly and rendering SF350 a heap of mangled powerful Rolls- wartime shots in black and white, and a textual resumé and in particular here, Jaguars. In this celebration of metal. Fascinating insights from an account written by Royce Merlin engines, allowed the Lancaster to carry a of the type with statistics. Chapters include US Army these stunning motors, Laban channels all of his the test pilot who flew her first on 25 July 1945 as well variety of bomb loads. The speed, agility and capacity and US Navy, Great Britain, Australia, France, knowledge into an eloquent exploration of these as vivid accounts from the project’s lead engineer. 64 allowed it to destroy targets ranging from hardened- Czechoslovakia, USSR, Poland, the Netherlands, ‘Spartan’ vehicles. During the second world war, Jaguar pages of colour and b/w photos, 308pp, softback. concrete submarine pens and reservoir dams to railway Finland, Germany, Italy and Japan, Sweden and Spain. founder William Lyons and his team evolved the £11.99 NOW £5 marshalling yards and factories producing vital military A ‘basic type’ is technically sophisticated six-cylinder twin overhead 83240 CENTURY OF AIR POWER: The hardware. The book is both the story of the Lancaster exemplified by camshaft engine which, combined with their two-seater, and its seven-man crews - pilot, bomb aimer/nose the P-51 minimal material and tooling structure, created what Changing Face of Air Warfare 1912-2012 gunner, wireless operator, flight engineer, navigator and Mustang while would then be called ‘The Fastest Sports Car in the by Dr Dave Sloggett mid-upper and rear gunners. Chunky softback, the P-51A and World’. This is the complete story behind the Jaguar XK Air power means range, speed, agility and adaptability. landscape format, 250 colour photos. 286pp. P-51B are generation, from the context and people surrounding the The RAF led the way in both WWI and the Battle of £19.99 NOW £10 considered ‘sub- car, to the events that forged the iconic motor that we Britain, but now the United States Air Forces are the greatest in the world, with China rapidly catching up. 84824 STEAM, SOOT types’. Of more know and love. With colour photographs showing both than 500 basic recreations of the cars, photos of celebrities with the cars The author groups his historical analysis thematically. A AND RUST: The Last types built as production designs or unsuccessful including The Beatles’ George Harrison, who was one of discussion of airframe development includes the much- Days of British Steam prototypes, 60% still exist in at least one example and the many famous E-Type owners, and posters from debated question of whether the Spitfire or by Colin Garratt most have been restored to near new condition. There across the years, this past generation of Jaguar is Messerschmitt was a superior aircraft in the Battle of The popular train spotter and are over 4,000 surviving WWII aircraft and the book will brought back to life. Hidden gems include fact boxes Britain. Air strategy is illustrated by examples such as historian Colin Garratt during show you where to find them worldwide. celebrating the many monumental moments for the XK the Dam Busters raid. Air-to-air case studies include the mid-1950s spent a year Approximately 200 photos in colour and b/w, 160pp and generation, from exploring the presence of Briggs Baron von Richthofen and the Yom Kippur War and the working at Leicester Midland apologies if the last pages are slightly stuck together. Cunningham, the American sporting hero, as a fine air battles over Iraq in 1991. A section on tactical and Motive Power Depot and by £19.99 NOW £6.50 ambassador for Jaguar in the US, to explaining ‘The strategic heavy lifting addresses issues of humanitarian the time he was 18 had Race of Two Worlds’ at the superfast Monza circuit in relief, both in wartime and in the face of natural travelled extensively throughout Britain in his quest to 84809 IMPERIAL RUSSIAN Italy in 1957 and 1958, where European and American disasters. 198pp, photos. see the rich diversity of Britain’s steam railways. He AIR FORCE 1898-1917 racing styles came head-to-head when the Indianapolis £19.99 NOW £4.50 turned to photography to document as much as he could by Gennady Petrov 500 establishment challenged the quickest cars in 83997 FLOATING PALACES: The Great and turned professional in In the middle of the 18th Europe. Sit back and admire a generation of cars from 1969. The disappearance century, Mikhail Vasilievich the 1940s to mid-70s, from XK120 to the E-Type that Atlantic Liners by William H. Miller of the steam locomotive Lomonosov tried to build models of would change motor history for the better. 22.2 x It was the Germans who had the first Atlantic has touched the hearts of flying machines while he 26.7cm, colour photos, 208pp. superliners, beginning with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse millions. In 1955 the experimented with aerial £25 NOW £15 launched in 1897, and subsequently going on to create a government announced phenomena. The scientists knew whole new generation of liners, with pride of place being the Modernisation Plan for and described the characteristics of 84790 BUILDING A awarded to the 919 foot long Imperator, able to carry Britain’s railways under hot air rising and in February 1754 FOLDING MODEL 4,594 passengers. They soon had competition, though, which steam was to be at the Academy of Sciences made a presentation about RAILWAY LAYOUT as other nations strove to outdo each other with regard phased out in favour of the special ‘Aerodynamic Machine’ he had created that by Graham Goodchild to size, design and interior decoration. The First World diesel and electric traction. could rise into the atmosphere - a self-registering wind With large clear colourful War halted the race for a while, as well as resulting in By 1968 steam traction gauge and aerial thermometer. In fact, Lomonosov was diagrams with measurements, the sinking of Cunard’s giant Lusitania, but by the 1930s had disappeared from on his way to making a small sized helicopter, but he colour photographs of tracks and sophisticated passengers and movie stars thronged the Britain’s mainline trains and couldn’t reach the desired results. The first flight in models, here is a decks of luxury liners. This was the era of ships such as this book chronicles those Russia of a hot air balloon took place during the reign of comprehensive guide covering the Queen Mary, commissioned in 1936, Queen last few years as Alexander I. In 1869, the first Russian agency for tools and adhesives, materials Elizabeth, 1938, and the 1931 Empress of Britain, and scrapyards all over Britain military aeronautics was created and headed by a hero and techniques, trackwork and the iconic QE II. Softback. 128pp, colour and b/w illus. went into overtime cutting up thousands of locomotives. of Sevastopol. The first specialised journal for aeronauts wiring, building and landscaping, £19.99 NOW £7.50 The engines which remained in service were a shadow also stoked interest in the problem of mastering air space scenes, additional features, 84001 LONDON’S PLEASURE STEAMERS of their former selves - filthy, wheezing and clanking and was published from 1880-83. At the beginning of photographing scenes and dioramas, lighting effects and by Andrew Gladwell their way to an ignominious end. They survived in the 20th century, the military began to be interested in useful websites. Covers gauge sizes and design The pleasure-steaming craze took the capital by storm in collieries, ironstone mines, power stations, shipyards, dirigibles as well as those heavier air flying devices, the considerations, how to build a folding case for the layout, 1824 when the General Steam Navigation company sugar factories, paper mills and docks and in such aeroplane. 1910 was an install a working cable car, moving road vehicles, a was inaugurated. By the mid-century larger steamers environments steam engines eked out a further decade. important year when the revolving children’s roundabout and a helicopter with were offering day trips to resorts such as Margate and Printed on glossy black paper, these colour photographs decision was made to motorised rotor blades. The author has designed an Gravesend. London’s Tower Bridge was a great tourist by the expert Garratt have been hand picked and have create a Russian Air ingenious folding wooden case that accommodates his attraction when it was opened in 1894. The Eagle and brief captions taking us from those scrapyards, across Force fleet and the same truly remarkable N-gauge multi-track layout, and which Belle companies were soon offering greater luxury and glorious countryside, to see crew members, level year the first Russian plane is also suitable for an oval track layout in OO gauge. larger boats, for instance The Queen of the Channel crossings and detailed close up shots of a tapestry of designers appeared 300 excellent colour step-by-step diagrams and photos, carrying 1363 passengers. Most pleasure steamers were rods which provide both movement and fascination. - AS 192pp in softback, 7¾” x 10". requisitioned as troop carriers and minesweepers. Approximately 250 colour photos, 174pp. Kudashev, £18.99 NOW £8.50 Pictured in this nostalgic collection of archive photos are £25 NOW £12.50 II the Woolwich Belle heading for Clacton and the majestic 83258 HAWKER HUNTER: A Comprehensive 83266 SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE V Sikorskyo La Marguerite, which offered trips to France. 96pp, and YM Guide softback, colour and archive photos. by Robert Grudzien Gakkel. by Paul Bradley 44 extra large sized profiles in colour of the famous £14.99 NOW £6 In 1913, Russian occupied the second place in the world 14 scale drawings in 1/72 scale are folded into the back Supermarine Spitfire V fighter plane. Many versions after France for developing an air force. Chapters cover of this splendid compendium. The Hawker Hunter 84004 STROUDWATER CANAL: A History and users are shown including camouflage patterns from include Balloon Aircraft and Dirigibles, Russian Aviation was a British jet fighter aircraft of the 1950s and 1960s by Michael Handford different theatres of WWI including one huge 30" long Festivals, Aviation Schools, Russian Aviation Industry, and this chronology of its development and operational The Stroudwater Canal was constructed from the River profile in a four page colour foldout. Here are the The Albatross of the Russian Fleet, Airship Squadrons use includes variants, squadrons and operators and has Severn at Framilode to Wallbridge near Stroud between Spitfire VB from early 1942, dark green and ocean grey and the Aces of the Russian Skies (WWI). This superb photographic coverage of preserved examples. It covers 1775 and 1779. It was built as a branch canal from the upper surfaces, medium sea grey undersides. Small collection of photographs reproduces many images never development, the Hunter in British service, export nearest navigable waterway to bring coal to the fuselage roundels were used by night-service squadrons. before seen as well as charting the combat activity of customers, action, camouflage and markings, plus colour prosperous Stroud woollen trade at a crucial point in the Many are from the Polish Air Forces, some showing that unique Squadron of ‘Iliya Muromets’ Airships, which side views and a 3D walkaround tour of the cockpit, history of the industry.’ Various landowners included worn and patched Standard Desert Camouflage was the prototype for future aviation strategy. An ejector seat, engines, cutaways, pilot, fuselage, wings, John and William Purnell who paid no tolls, but knew schemes. Each has its title, missions, who flown by extraordinary period of Russian aviation captured in 400 undercarriage, stores and F.58 specific, scrap views, that they would need to pay tonnages on their goods including by aces and description. Colour profiles, 21 x black and white images reproduced to the best quality decals, kits, specifications and accessories. 128 large using the new canal. Contains entries from the early 30cm approx, 48pp. possible given their age. 264pp. 9" x 11½”. softback. ledgers and account books. Softback. 255pp, illus. £19 NOW £6 £24.99 NOW £10 £19.99 NOW £6 £16.99 NOW £6 8 Transport ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74

84514 MAN WITH HIS 84265 DEFENDER: Land Rover’s Legendary astride airplanes, their curves, damp skin and bikinis, 83345 QUEEN OF THE HEAD IN THE CLOUDS: Off-Roader by Mike Gould costumes falling away or riding up, these girls really COURTESANS: Fanny Murray James Sadler A book as broad and meaty as the mighty vehicle itself, know how to play with the camera. The awful chore by Barbara White with glossy colour photographs on every page, we see for the five photographers was to go on location with Fanny was a beautiful Georgian Despite taking off in Force 8 these beauties and photograph them having fun. 18 gales, crashing into hills and spectacular night driving ability, the 2012 Defender, prostitute of the 1750s, especially concept cars like the Challenger, DC100 and DC100 bathing beauties of various skin tones, frolicking in admired for her bosoms. She was plopping into the Irish Sea, James water, cupping their firm breasts, eyeing the camera Sadler became a rare pioneering Sport and Sporting Defenders as used by the Red Cross adored by aristocrats and and the Bowler Motorsport Defender Challenge, the saucily and showing their stunning, strong, powerful commoners alike, she was painted aeronaut to survive such perilous bodies and curves. 11" x 12", 192pp, 230 on location, ascents. Sadler advanced the Wildcat in desert terrain, and on the front line in British by artists, a muse for poets, and military history. The workhorse of the world, in farming colour shots. was fêted by princes whom she scientific evolution of lighter-than- $39.95 NOW £9 air flight and took part in both of and in snow, James Bond Defenders are seen in dazzled with her fashionable the famous races that so Spectre, antique and vintage vehicles lovingly 82143 MAMMOTH BOOK dresses. Almost certainly she was captivated the public in late 18th maintained. 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Stunning b/w and gained access to captured enemy photography, hundreds of images including tattooed girls colour photos. Softback, 11.9 x 16.6 cm, 192 pages. aircraft. One of the revelations and girls with girls, stilettos, pink satin, lingerie, toe ONLY £8 that emerges from this research is the number of 84727 PENTHOUSE sucking (feet appear often!), in ropes, with two men and 84454 THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: Sex, Scandal Luftwaffe fighters and bombers flown by British pilots in slitheringly wet! The book comes with a 60-minute 2019 WALL CALENDAR and the Secret Life of the Country House major film productions such as The First of the Few and by teNeues Calendars original DVD. This edition’s special ‘Panic Cover’ is In Which We Serve, both 1942. 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Ballard Battle of Britain Veterans writer herself because she likes support from the Fremen, his own people. 292pp, depicted this end-of-time scenario in their fiction, while by Norman Franks them very much, the 18 stories paperback. other writers were more interested in the human A stirring celebration of Winston in this first of a two-volume £9.99 NOW £3 implications explored by J.B. Priestley in his mid-century Churchill’s ‘Few’, this collection of series include Texts, “Time” plays, or Kurt Vonnegut Jnr’s perception in accounts from 25 veterans gives Sleepwalkers, Hand Cut Shell all 84606 H. P. Slaughterhouse Five that a person who dies is still very you a gripping insight into the lives from the collection Sea Road LOVECRAFT THE much alive in the past. 336pp. of British heroes at the Battle of which take place in present-day COMPLETE £16.99 NOW £4 Britain. With only a handful of Oregon. 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The Folio Society-style and Cooper’s works tended to depict unconventional heroes down enemy planes despite numerous injuries, and Wing stories span the spectrum of fiction from realism through quality, bound in black facing unfamiliar and remote environments - often in Commander H M Stephen who had made 600 hits on magical realism, satire, science fiction, surrealism and leather and an post-apocalyptic settings with bleak depictions and the enemy by 1940 including hitting the 600th target at fantasy. Le Guin’s interest is shown in these satirical, embossed design cover inset threats from androids. This omnibus contains three titles 34,000 ft. 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What is happening to Hong Kong and to the more interesting years in this 84945 ABATTOIR BLUES Manila? And her final entry on the week of 14th April Oral History Experience of the Thirties and the Second World by Peter Robinson 1943 describes how Jews who had been forced to wear When DCI Banks and his team are the yellow Star of David by the Germans, were told to War. Peter Liddle was the founder and Director of a new called to investigate the theft of a take them off by British soldiers entering the Tunisian tractor from a North Yorkshire city of Kairouan. ‘I saw dozens of the yellow stars being archive in 1999 specifically dedicated to the rescue of village, they’re far from enthusiastic trampled in the streets as the Jews replaced them with about what seems to be a simple V for Victory signs, which they were improvising from evidence from more than 9,000 people who endured the War. case of rural crime. Then a anything they could find.’ Remarkable testimony, bloodstain is found in an abandoned thankfully carefully recorded. 364pp in illustrated Poverty is movingly exemplified in recall of orphanage upbringing, labour in an East Lancashire mill and a hangar, two main suspects vanish paperback. without a trace, and events take a £7.99 NOW £4 Glasgow childhood. Privileged public school and university education is here too with political convictions darkly sinister turn. Two missing 84932 HARBOUR STREET by Ann Cleeves 84722 JULIAN GRENFELL, expressed by Barbara Castle and quite exceptionally by boys, a stolen bolt gun, one fatal In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his SOLDIER AND POET: Oswald Mosley. There are graphic details of battles, shot - three ingredients for murder. Banks feels like the daughter Jessie travel home on the busy Metro when case is coming to a dead end until a dead end until a the train is stopped unexpectedly. A woman has been Letters and Diaries lifeboat command, the St. Nazaire Raid and of Pearl Harbor. For the Air, a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, road accident reveals some alarming evidence. fatally stabbed yet no one on the packed train saw it 1910-1915 Britain’s most successful night-fighter pilot, a Bomber Someone is trying to cover their tracks, someone with happen. Searching for a lead, DI Vera Stanhope edited by Kate Thompson Command VC, a rare story from an American and then very deadly intent. 367pp in paperback. heads to the quiet Northumberland town of Mardle and A poet who expressed the a German dive-bomber pilot provide a wide range of £8.99 NOW £4 there she can feel in her bones that he local residents poignancy of World War I while experience. For the Land, Dunkirk, North Africa, Italy, 84957 WHEN THE MUSIC’S know more than they are letting on - a killer is among being committed to its ideals, Singapore, D-Day, Arnhem, the Rhine Crossing are all them. Days later a second woman is murdered. Vera Julian Henry Francis Grenfell OVER by Peter Robinson wants answers. Made into a popular TV drama. there, and so too are Commando raids, SOE operations, Newly promoted Detective was a professional soldier from capture, escapes, severe wounding and a VC earned in 383pp in paperback. an aristocratic family who joined Superintendent Alan Banks is faced £7.99 NOW £4 Somaliland. A German describes hand to hand fighting with a case that is as cold as they the First Royal Dragoons in at Cassino and Joachim Ronneberg his part in the 84934 THE CROW TRAP by Ann Cleeves 1910 and went out to India. come. Two young girls, two Telemark raid in Norway. In the Home Front section, At an isolated cottage in the North Pennines three very From then until his death in unspeakable crimes, 50 years women feature prominently with WAAF, Wrens, ATS, different women come together to complete an 1915 he wrote regularly to his separate them, yet their pain Bletchley Park, the Land Army, war work in factories, environmental study. Each know the meaning of mother Ettie in Taplow, sometimes trying to persuade connects them. When the body of a dance-band singing, the Blitz experience in several betrayal. For team leader Rachael the project is a her that the world she inhabited was full of social 15 year old is found in a remote towns, war widowhood and overseas evacuation. perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a pretension. He had been educated at Eton and Balliol, countryside lane, beaten and There is an account of bomb disposal, the stance of a double betrayal by Peter Kemp, her lover and boss. Oxford. His diaries chart a journey from preoccupation broken, DI Annie Cabbot is brought conscientious objector, two testimonies from Poland, a Anne on the other hand sees it as a chance to indulge with polo ponies to acute awareness of the futile loss of in to investigate. Now in her 60s, Jewess who survived against all odds and a woman in a little deception of her own and then there is Grace, life surrounding him. Grenfell was a young man who Linda Palmer was attacked aged 14 by celebrity who became involved in the Warsaw Uprising. Others a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty threw himself into everything with enthusiasm, writing entertainer Danny Caxton, yet the crime has never been are Sir Basil Blackwell working on Admiralty weapon of secrets to hide. When Rachael arrives at the cottage from India of his enjoyment of pig-sticking and delight investigated, until now. As each steps closer to development and finally Sir Bernard Lovell on radar. she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella that “my three horses have stood it out wonderfully”, uncovering the truth, Banks and Cabbot will unearth 395pp, 24 pages of rare photos and documents. who appears to have committed suicide but this and later that “my ponies are like Greek sculptures”. To secrets much darker than they could ever have guessed. £25 NOW £8 Rachael finds impossible to accept. It is only after the his mother in 1912 he writes “I like people who take it ‘Labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation.’ - next death that a fourth woman enters the picture - the as it comes, and are busy about impractical and ideal 84148 DON’T HURRY ME Observer. 482pp in paperback. unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. things in their heart of hearts all the time”, which could DOWN TO HADES: £7.99 NOW £4 With intricate plotting by one of the best natural writers be a description of himself. Fighting on the Menin Road The Civil War in the Words 83124 BAKLAVA CLUB by Jason Goodwin of detective fiction. Made into the Vera TV series. he showed legendary courage, gaining the DSO of Those Who Lived It A dark adventure which whirls us through the majesty 552pp in paperback. posthumously, and he was fatally wounded at Ypres in by Susannah Ural and corruption of Istanbul in 1842. For three amateur £7.99 NOW £4 May 1915 by a shell splinter, carrying messages during Italian revolutionaries kicking their heels overseas, La heavy bombardment. His poem “Into Battle”, printed The American Civil War directly 84933 SILENT VOICES by Ann Cleeves affected a far higher proportion of Piuma offers what sounds like the perfect job. Their with his Times obituary, refers to the “joy of battle” but When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the American population than any shadowy controller wants a simple hit. So when the concludes that “night shall fold him in soft wings”. At the the steam room of her local pool she wonders briefly if other conflict. Quite apart from assassination turns into a kidnapping, the young Italians front Grenfell is honest about the German troops’ initial for once it’s a natural death. But closer inspection the 3 million men who enrolled in have a heap of trouble on their hands, but when trouble superiority and says “I wish we didn’t lie so much in all reveals ligature marks around the victim’s throat. Vera both armies, there were turns to bloody murder, Yashim is on their trail. Yashim our reports; it is difficult to see the point of it”. 362pp, 8 and her team interview staff and those connected to thousands who participated in has no idea who La Piuma is and he is in no mood to put black and white reproductions and sketches. the victim while she and Sergeant Joe Ashworth work brutal guerrilla campaigns. For up a fight as he has fallen in love! 272pp. £22 NOW £7 to find a motive. While Joe struggles to reconcile his four brutal years families either $26 NOW £2.50 home life with the demands of the job, Vera revels in 84803 FRENCH side of the Mason-Dixon line were forced to endure 83199 TIME OF TORMENT: A Charlie Parker being back in charge and death has never made her unimaginable violence and hardship and this book is the SOLDIER’S WAR DIARY feel so alive. When they discover that the victim had story of those families, crafted from their own words. Thriller by John Connolly 1914-1918 worked in social services and was involved in a From the Lincolns in Washington, struggling to come to Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to shocking case involving a young child, it seems the by Henri Desagneaux terms with the murder of their son, the President, in the prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. two are somehow connected. An absorbingly cunning This translation was first final act of the War to the unknown Loughridges of His life was torn apart, he was imprisoned and published in the UK in 1975 and brutalised, but in his final days, with the hunters circling mystery. 383pp in paperback. Texas, separated for months at a time by the wildly £7.99 NOW £4 we have the 2014 Pen & Sword fluctuating nature of war to the slave families stuck in him, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Military Press facsimile reprint of the middle, poor and powerless. Colour photos, Parker. He speaks of a girl who was marked for death a powerfully written personal paintings and drawings, 244pp. but was saved, of the ones who tormented him, and an 83744 PAPERS OF TONY account by a French Officer of £20 NOW £6 entity that hides in a ruined stockade. Parker will VEITCH the Great War on the Western descent upon a strange, isolated community called the by William McIlvanney Front. There are graphic 83858 CONAN DOYLE’S WAR Cut and face down a force of men who rule by terror, Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, descriptions of front-line fighting by Arthur Conan Doyle intimidation and murder. All in the name of the Dead summons Jack Laidlaw to his in Lorraine, the Vosges, the The Battle of Mons, of Le Cateau, of the Aisme, of King. 464pp. Remainder mark. deathbed. Probably the only Somme, Chemin des Dames and Verdun. It is a French Ypres up to the action of Gheluvelt to the Winter Lull of $26.99 NOW £3.75 policeman in Glasgow who would soldier’s view of his German enemies and British allies 1914. Conan Doyle examines the movements of troops bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in and a classic of French Great War literature. To Henri 84307 MITFORD MURDERS throughout many of the major battles, charting both by Jessica Fellowes Eck’s cryptic last message a clue to Desagneaux and thousands of others there was no victories and desperate retreats along with individual Murder on a train. It’s 1919 and Louisa Cannon dreams the murder of a gangland thug and pattern to be seen from the trenches where he executed accounts of heroism and action. Vividly insightful of escaping her life of poverty in London and most of all the disappearance of a student. orders which ensured that dozens of men had to die descriptions written in impeccable style. “Day had her dangerous uncle. Her salvation is a position within With stubborn integrity he tracks a attempting to achieve impossible objectives worked out dawned, and though the British and Indians were in the the Mitford household at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire seam of corruption that runs from at a headquarters in the rear. His diary gives a vivid enemy trenches, it was absolutely impossible to send where she will become nursery maid, chaperone and the top to the bottom of society. Reaches into the insight into life in the trenches with increasingly them up reinforcements across the bullet-swept plain.” confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially 16 year old bloody heart of the city of Glasgow. 298pp, paperback. demoralised, unruly and mutinous men. In terse and 160pp illus paperback. Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with £8.99 NOW £4.50 unflinching prose, he records their experiences as they £7.99 NOW £5.50 confronted the acute dangers on the front line. The stories. But then a nurse, Florence Nightingale Shore, 83739 LAIDLAW by William McIlvanney appalling conditions in which they fought and the sheer 83859 KIPLING’S WAR by Rudyard Kipling goddaughter of her famous namesake, is killed on a train ‘A bloody good read’ says our friend Val McDermid. intensity of the shell fire and close-quarter combat have A series of articles and pamphlets written by Rudyard in broad daylight. Louis and Nancy find themselves Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. rarely been conveyed with such immediacy. Here too is Kipling during WWII following visits to various fronts as entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do When a young woman is found brutally murdered in the near chaos of mobilisation and the disorganisation of well as a chapter from his history of the Irish Guards anything to hide their secret. Based on real life crimes. Kelingrov Park, only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding the French Army in defence and attack. The author describing fighting in France and Belgium in 1914. He 421pp. her murderer among the hard men, gangland villains and read law and was head of the legal department of a chose them particularly because his beloved son John £12.99 NOW £5 self-made money men who lurk in the city’s shadows. railway company when in 1914 he was mobilised as a had died serving with them at the Battle of Loos in 83500 IMPOSSIBLE DEAD The author lays bare the soul of Glasgow, capturing its September 1915 at the age of 18. The book takes the reserve lieutenant but soon left for command at the by Ian Rankin every nuance of its many voices and his Laidlaw is a front, rising to captain in 1916 and later to major. He reader alongside Kipling to the training camps of fascinating, infuriating and memorable character. 280pp, Malcom Fox and his team are was mentioned five times in despatches and won the Kitchener’s Army in southern England, to the lines of the paperback. investigating whether fellow cops Croix de Guerre with Palm Leaves, a rare achievement French Army to sea with submarines, minesweepers covered up for detective Paul £8.99 NOW £4.50 for a reservist who had not lost a limb. Diary entries, and the big ships of Jutland, to the Alpine Front between Carter. Carter has been found easy to dip into, hard to read the ferocity of the Italy and Austria-Hungary, and alongside the Irish 83754 STRANGE LOYALTIES guilty of misconduct, with his own experience and the loss of life. 112pp. Guards in the summer of 1914. 319pp, paperback. by William McIlvanney £19.99 NOW £8 £8.99 NOW £6.50 uncle, also in the Force, proving to When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, be his nemesis. But what should be Detective Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what 84411 TINFISH RUN 84149 MEMOIRS OF A a simple job is soon complicated by really happened. With corrosive wit, he relates an by Ronald Bassett RIFLEMAN SCOUT a brutal murder and a weapon that emotional quest through Glasgow’s underworld and into Ronald Bassett joined the Navy as a boy and served as by Major F. M. Crum should not even exist. A trail of his own past. The character created by McIlvanney of a radio operator on the heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk Major Crum was a skilled revelations leads Fox back to 1985, Laidlaw has become even more heroically convincing, during the Bismarck action, the North African landings marksman who developed an a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and making other literary detectives seem two dimensional. and the invasion of Normandy. 1942. A convoy of expertise in “sniping” during WWI, poisonous spores were sent to government offices, and 377pp paperback. merchant men with its naval escort ploughs through the going on to lecture cadets in this kidnappings and murders were plotted. Fox is in mortal £8.99 NOW £4.50 danger. 373pp, paperback. Arctic seas towards northern Russia. Aboard V&W class deadly art after the war ended. 82403 FRIENDS OF THE DUSK: A Merrily destroyer Virtue, Ordinary Seaman ‘Lobby Ludd’ is First published in 1950, these £8.99 NOW £4 making his first trip in the service of His Majesty. While memoirs start with the Second Watkins Mystery by Phil Rickman 83510 NAMING OF THE DEAD by Ian Rankin On a night of power cuts and storms, human bones are fighting against U-boat Tinfish, Artic gales and bone- Boer War. After Eton and A murder has been committed, but as the victim was a weariness, he learns the skills to survive from his saltier Sandhurst, Crum joined the found amongst the roots of a tree blown down on rapist, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is Hereford’s Castle Green. Then during the blackout, the shipmates. But as the enemy mounts its attack, will the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and until DI John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clerk uncover men’s camaraderie be enough to see them through, or sailed to South Africa in 1896 and grave is raided. At a nearby cathedral, another storm is evidence that a serial killer is on the loose. When Rebus building around a new, modernising bishop who believes will the Tinfish Run be their final voyage? It was all mentioned in dispatches for his bravery. On the Ypres also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he about the new weapons - radar, asdic, radio location, Salient in 1915, realising that the deadly accuracy of the that if the church is to survive it must phase out is abruptly warned off the case, not least because the irrelevant and archaic practices. Not good news for acoustic mines, long-range aircraft and the submarine German riflemen was taking a heavy toll on the British G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland and Rebus’s wolf-pack which had made sea warfare infinitely more troops, he determined to learn the technique and beat Merrily Watkins, consultant on the paranormal or bosses want him well out of the way. When Siobhan diocesan exorcist. In Wales, a rambling 12th century complex and more diabolically scientific. Here is the them at their own game. In 1916 Crum established the has a very personal reason for hunting down a riot cop, men from the lower deck, with all their backgrounds. sniper school at Acq, where he taught the students using house is thought to be haunted. Merrily discovers the it looks as though both of them may be up against their house’s links with a medieval legend and insidious Glossary of naval expressions, 286pp, paperback. revolutionary methods. 350pp, maps, drawings, photos. own side. 420pp paperback. £7.99 NOW £4 £25 NOW £7.50 abuse. 460pp. £8.99 NOW £4 £18.99 NOW £4.50 BIBLIOPHILE 31 RIVERSIDE, 55 TRINITY BUOY WHARF, LONDON E14 0FP TEL: 020 74 74 24 74 www.bibliophilebooks.com Crime Fiction FOR OUR FULL RANGEwww.bibliophilebooks.com OF 3400 TITLES www.bibliophilebooks.com 11

83522 SPEAKING IN BONES 84547 HIDDEN ROOM 84941 REMORSEFUL DAY: Inspector Morse by Kathy Reichs by Stella Duffy INSPECTOR MORSE by Colin Dexter by Colin Dexter An amateur detective is convinced Filled with crazed cults, strange The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames she has identified remains in occurrences and creepiness as 84936 MORSE’S GREATEST MYSTERY AND Valley CID baffled. A year after the crime they are Tempe’s lab. A tape recording of a corrosive secrets kept hidden crawl still no nearer to making an arrest but one man has yet woman tortured, crying ‘Please don’t into the light and threaten the happy OTHER STORIES: Inspector Morse by Colin Dexter to tackle the case - Chief Inspector Morse. Why is he kill me. Please don’t kill me. Please present. Life is good for Laurie and adamant that he will not lead the re-investigation How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful kill me.’ A case more complicated Martha. They have three great despite the entreaties of Chief Superintendent Strange Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse to her and horrifying than Tempe could kids, a much loved home in the and dark hints of some new evidence? Why if he murderer? What awaits Morse and Lewis in Room 231 ever imagine. Kathy Reichs gives countryside, and after years of refuses to take on the case officially does he seem to of the Randolph Hotel? Why does a theft at Christmas real-life expertise to her forensic struggle, Laurie’s career as an be carrying out his own private enquiries? For lead the detective to look upon the festive season with thrillers, being a real life forensic architect is at last taking off. Sergeant Lewis this is yet another example of the uncharacteristic goodwill, and what happens when Morse anthropologist in the province of Everything’s perfect - except it isn’t. unsettling behaviour his Chief has been displaying of himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime? A Quebec. 416pp, paperback. Someone is about to walk into their happy family and late. 448pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4 tear it apart. Laurie has been hiding from him for years dazzling collection of six ingenious cases plus five other £8.99 NOW £4 and the question is now that he has found her, can she original short stories of the world’s most popular fictional 68846 COMPLETE FOUR JUST MEN keep her family safe? Just how far will she go to protect detective. 282pp in paperback. 84940 DAUGHTERS OF CAIN: Inspector by Edgar Wallace them? £8.99 NOW £4 Only This fascinating bumper collection contains all six Morse by Colin Dexter £16.99 NOW £6 £4 Lewis could not have known what unprecedented volumes of the Just Men saga: The Four Just Men, The 84937 RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE: each Council of Justice, The Just Men of Cordova, The Law 82582 FALLING IN LOVE by Donna Leon Inspector Morse by Colin Dexter anguish the present case would cause Morse’s soul. Chief Superintendent Strange’s opinion was that too of The Four Just Men, The Three Just Men and Again The beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would little progress had been made since the discovery of a the Three. In these thrilling yarns of daring do, mystery introduced readers to the dazzling world of Venetian be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery corpse in a north Oxford flat. The victim had been and international intrigue, the Just Men tackle criminal opera and Italy’s finest living female soprano, Flavia old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about, no killed by a single stab wound to the stomach yet there masterminds and desperate anarchists to cunning Petrelli, then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned landladies to whine about unpaid rent. By the 16th July was no weapon, no suspect and no motive. Chief murderers and obsessive madmen. Where Scotland Yard German conductor. Brunetti kept her out of prison, and the Master of Lonsdale was concerned but not yet Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis uncover startling fails - they succeed. Suspense, humour and action. 936 here Flavia returns to Venice and Teatro La Fenice to worried. Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the new information about the life and death of Dr Felix page paperback. sing the lead in Tosca, and Brunetti must come to her porter’s lodge at approximately 8.15am on the morning McClure. Another body is discovered and a letter ONLY £3 rescue once again. An anonymous fan has been of Friday 11th July and nobody had heard from him showering her with beautiful gifts in London, St containing a declaration of love. 387pp in paperback. 82477 LONELY MAGDALEN: An Inspector since. Plenty of time to disappear thought Morse and £8.99 NOW £4 Petersburg, Amsterdam and now Venice. When a plenty of time to for someone to commit murder. A Poole Mystery by Henry Wade talented young Venetian singer who has caught Flavia’s brain-racking mystery. 276pp in paperback. 84942 WAY THROUGH THE WOODS: The body of a woman is found in a corner of Hampstead attention is savagely attacked, Brunetti starts to worry. £8.99 NOW £4 Heath. She has been strangled and it is clear from her £23 Inspector Morse by Colin Dexter 264pp, map. They called her the Swedish Maiden, the beautiful appearance that she was a prostitute. The police soon £18.99 NOW £6 84938 SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD: for have a suspect and several contradictory witnesses, but Inspector Morse by Colin Dexter all 7 young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer’s day somewhere in north Oxford. Twelve months later the no proof and little information. With ingenuity and 84327 MADNESS: Tales of Fear and Unreason ‘The sweet countenance of reason greeted Morse case remained unsolved, pending further patience, Inspector Poole pieces together the story selected by Roald Dahl serenely when he woke, and told him that it would developments. On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief behind the lonely Magdalen and why she came to grief. Among the stories you’ll meet the husband with a be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalising article Written by one of the founding members of The jealous fixation on the family cat, the landlady who before galloping off to a solution.’ Chief Inspector Morse in The Times about the missing woman, an article that Detection Club in 1930. 352pp, map, paperback reprint. wants her guests to stay forever, the man whose taste was alone among the congregation in suspecting lures him back to Wytham Woods near Oxford and £6.99 NOW £2.50 for pork leads him astray, and the wife with a continued unrest in the quiet parish of St. Frideswide’s. straight into the most extraordinary murder pathological fear of being late. Our greatest fear is of Most people could still remember the church warden’s 82679 DIE OF SHAME by Mark Billingham investigation of his career. 412pp in paperback. losing control, above all of ourselves and in these ten murder and a few could still recall the murder’s suicide. Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart £8.99 NOW £4 unsettling tales of unexpected madness, Roald Dahl Now even the police had closed the case until a chance North London house to talk about addiction. They share explores what happens when we let go of our sanity. meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new their deepest secrets - stories of lies, regret and above all 85113 INSPECTOR MORSE: Set of Seven Some stories were published in the New Yorker evidence of a conspiracy to deceive. ‘Wily, convoluted shame. Then one of them is killed and it’s clear one of by Colin Dexter magazine originally. 237pp, paperback. and elegant’ - Observer. 324pp in paperback. Buy all seven paperbacks and save another £5. the circle was responsible. Detective Inspector Nicola £8.99 NOW £3 Tanner quickly finds her investigation hampered by the £8.99 NOW £4 £62.93 NOW £23 strict confidentiality that binds these people and their 84322 FEAR: Tales of Terror and Suspense 84939 SECRET OF ANNEXE 3: Inspector therapist together. So what could be so shameful introduced by Roald Dahl Morse by Colin Dexter The great children’s writer Roald Dahl has since 1958 enough to cost someone their life? 482 page paperback. Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people collected and read thousands of ghost stories. Harry by £7.99 NOW £2.25 in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing Rosemary Timperley, The Open Door by Mrs Oliphant, some sort of disguise - a change of dress, make-up, partner, 81420 SHADOW OF THE HANGMAN The Telephone by Mary Treadgold, Afterward by Edith attitude and the man who had died had been the most by Edward Marston Wharton, Spinsters’ Rest by Clemence Dane and The consummate artist of them all. Chief Inspector Morse 1815 and Peter and Paul Skillen, identical twins and Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards. Every seldom allowed himself to be caught up in New Year fearless thief-takers, catch a notorious burglar they claim single one of these stories was written by a woman! His celebrations, so the murder enquiry in the festive hotel had a a handsome reward and infuriate the Bow Street collection grew and the gentlemen caught up. WS by L. certain appeal. It was a crime worthy of the season - the Runners who believe that they have a monopoly on P. Hartley, In the Tube by E. S. Benson, Elias and the corpse still in fancy dress, and hardly a single guest had policing in the capital. The Home Secretary Viscount Draug by Jonas Lie, Playmates by A. M. Burrage and registered under a genuine name. ‘A plot of classical cunning Sidmouth, faces a crisis. During a massacre of American Ringing the Changes by Robert Aikman among them. and intricacy’ - TLS. 301pp in paperback. prisoners of war at Dartmoor, two escape and come to 14 classic spine-chilling stories. Paperback, 308pp. London in search of retribution. If their demands are not £8.99 NOW £4 £8.99 NOW £4 met, Sidmouth will be killed. 383pp, paperback. 84560 TWENTY THREE by Linwood Barclay £7.99 NOW £2.50 84332 INNOCENT MAN by John Grisham 84561 TWO KINDS OF TRUTH In Promise Falls revenge is as simple as one, two, 82450 CHALICE by Phil Rickman three. The day begins like any other Saturday with a Based on a true story. As a young man, star sportsman by Michael Connelly Harry Bosch works on cold cases, helping out the under- The Isle of Avalon or Glastonbury is the legendary shower, coffee and breakfast but suddenly, all hell Ron Williamson seemed destined for glory, but years funded San Fernando police department. When a double resting place of the Holy Grail and a mysterious and breaks loose in the town. People are dying in the street were unkind to him and an untimely return to his home murder at a local pharmacy is called in, Harry is the haunting town. When plump, dizzy Diane Ffitch returns and the hospital and emergency services are town of Ada, Oklahoma, saw him tangled up in a most seasoned detective on the scene. A death row home, it’s with a sense of deep unease, not only about overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Is it mass food murder charge that would destroy the rest of his life. her aristocratic family’s reaction to her broken Despite no physical evidence, Williamson was convicted inmate claims Harry framed him, and that new DNA poisoning, a virus or something more sinister? Has evidence proves it. The LAPD investigators say the engagement, but to her New Age companions. Plans someone rather than something caused this? Detective of the rape and murder of a local cocktail waitress and for a new motorway have intensified the old bitterness sent to Death Row to rot. Left to await his fate, he was case is watertight, leaving Harry out in the wilderness to Barry Duckworth is already investigating two murders clear his name and keep a sadistic killer behind bars. between the local people and the ‘pilgrims’. As the town the only person who knew the truth - he was innocent. and an explosion at the town’s drive-in. He starts to There’s only one person he can trust to help prove his becomes increasingly split by violence and death, Diane, 501pp, paperback. wonder if these crimes and the new attacks are innocence - Micky Haller. As both cases tangle around local bookseller Juanita Carey and the writer Joe Powys £9.99 NOW £4.50 connected to the mysterious incidents involving the him, Harry learns there are two kinds of truth - the kind must now face up to the existence of an anti-Grail, the number 23. But who is sending these deadly messages? 83645 THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY: Dr Basil that won’t die and the kind that kills. 402pp. dark chalice. 517pp, paperback. 503pp, paperback. Willing Investigates by Helen McCloy £19.99 NOW £6 £12.99 NOW £4 £7.99 NOW £4 Gisela von Hohenems joins the teaching staff of an 84303 MARY RUSSELL’S WAR: And Other exclusive girls’ school in upstate New York where she befriends fellow newcomer Faustina Coyle. But a Stories of Suspense by Laurie R. King 84867 HIGH WINDOW by Raymond Chandler climate of fear surrounds Faustina and after several Sherlock Holmes first began a relationship with 15 year RAYMOND CHANDLER Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is on a case. His client, a strange incidents which defy rational explanation, she is old Mary Russell, whose mind was as brilliant and dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare forced to resign. Gisela asks her fiancé, detective- encyclopedic as that of Holmes himself, with a soul as A library of Penguin paperbacks, the first gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her psychologist Dr Basil Willing to investigate. Helen large, courageous and generous as his. In her wartime late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part. 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84816 MILITARY 84788 BATTLE OF THE 84829 WELLINGTON’S RED WAR AND MILITARIA PISTOLS ATLANTIC JACKETS by Steve Brown by Gordon Bruce by Donald MacIntyre The Duke of Wellington’s Peninsular Sub-titled ‘Hand Guns of the ‘The only thing that ever really Army was filled with many 84806 GREAT BATTLES OF Two World Wars’, this comes frightened me during the war was illustrious regiments such as the THE CLASSICAL GREEK from the Europa Militaria series, the U-boat peril’ Winston Churchill 95th Rifles, the British Guards, the (number 39) and is a convenient once wrote. If Germany had Buffs, and the Die-Hards. A WORLD by Owen Rees reference to the history and prevented merchant ships from regiment remembered by few is A colossus of the classical era, the characteristics of the self-loading carrying men and material, the UK the 45th Foot which stands above Greeks entered into a multitude of pistol adopted by military forces would have starved and it would the rest in that it was one of four conflicts and Owen Rees casts light of all nations involved in both have been impossible to land British regiments to fight in the Peninsular on a selection of 18 of these land World Wars. It presents a and American forces ashore in the War from the very beginning until battles and sieges that span the selection of 19 models and the Mediterranean theatres or on D-Day. The Battle of the the very end. The regiment landed Classical Greek period in this brilliant firms engaged in their manufacture, together with a Atlantic, a name coined by Churchill, was the in Mondego Bay, Portugal on 1st August 1808, and only collection. Rees takes apart each technical appraisal of each. There is a colour photo, unremitting assault that went on throughout the war on returned to its barracks in Ireland in July 1814, after the conflict, from context, to the cutaway views of the pistol and its breech operation, Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great first abdication of Napoleon. During the six years they battlefields and opposing forces, cartridges and technical information such as the operation Britain, and, from 1941, Russia, by aircraft, surface ships served in the Peninsular, the 45th Foot would gain fame including in depth chapters on the ‘Spartan Hegemony’ of the semi-automatic pistol. See in great detail in big but, above all, by the U-boat. Captain MacIntyre who among its fellow soldiers fighting in almost every battle and the ‘Greco-Persian Conflicts’. Maps provide a visual close-up photographs the Walther 1938, the Tokareb was a distinguished participant in the battle tells the and siege Wellington commanded at except the sieges of aid that allow the reader to not only imagine but truly 1930, the Mauser 1896, from Finland the Lahti 1935 and story with precision and clarity, describing the measures Burgos in 1812 and that of San Sebastian in 1813. It comprehend the battlefields, including plans showing the from the USA the Colt model 1911 among them. 64pp employed to defeat the amazingly successful ‘Wolf-Pack’ would receive an incredible 14 battle honours for its formation of forces at the Battles of Cunaxa and in large softback, 8" x 10". tactics of the U-boats. He describes the convoy system colours and there were over 650 officers and men Lechaeum. From giant shield walls, to the combination of £12.95 NOW £6.50 and individual convoys, the contribution of the Royal present with the colours and over the next six years, archers with soldiers using axe, sword and spear, not Canadian Navy, the technological advances in radar and 1,800 men would serve with the 45th in the Peninsular. only are the struggles treated to technicolour detail, but 84819 THE NORWAY Asdic, depth charges and aerial support, and does not The harsh campaigning, battles, sickness and disease Rees uses a main source for each battle from the time CAMPAIGN AND THE shirk from describing how desperately close at times was took its toll and over 540 men were killed or died of itself, relying on classical sources who have been RISE OF CHURCHILL the outcome. He analyses strategic issues, above all the sickness and many sent home broken in body from translated for the reader’s benefit. Herodotus, 1940 importance of the convoy system and of continuous air- wounds and disease. The regiment stands out not only Thucydides and Xenophon are the voices from which we cover and describes the battle from the viewpoint of the because of the quantity of medals received, but the can see these battles first hand, including Xenophon’s by Anthony Dix In the autumn of 1939, the participants themselves. The long drawn-out duel number of clasps awarded and one of the recipients was analysis of Agesilaus’ gloating through burning down between escort and U-boat is made vivid by quotations Private James Talbot. It is something of a mystery every tree at Corinth after the Battle of Lechaeum (390 Germans scored two spectacular successes. The aircraft carrier from the log-books of some of the ablest escort- why this distinguished regiment is not better known - BC) or Thucydides comments on the Siege of Syracuse commanders such as Captain Walker and Lieutenant- perhaps because only one private soldier had his (415-413 BC) where the fleet was apparently so Courageous was sunk in the Bristol Channel by a U-boat and Commander Gretton and from the combat-reports of the memoirs published. The sub-title of the book is ‘The magnificent in its completion that throngs of citizens went German U-boat ‘aces’ Prien, Kretschmer and Schepke. 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment on Campaign in South to the Piraeus to wave off friends and family. The great even more spectacular, a U- boat penetrated the Home Complementing these eyewitness accounts are nearly America and the Peninsular, 1805-14’. A marvellous battles of the Classical Greek world are explored in their 50 unfamiliar photos from German and British sources. work of history, 290pp with many maps and illus. enormity with exceptional detail and clarity. 16.5 x Fleet’s main anchorage in Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and The jacket design may look like dirt across the top, but it £25 NOW £10 23.5cm, images, 284pp. is a reproduction from one of the archive photos. 184pp £19.99 NOW £10 sank the battleship Royal Oak. 84795 DESTRUCTIVE & Within months the Germans had launched the first of in paperback facsimile reprint of the 1961 original 84800 FATAL CHARGE AT their secret weapons, the magnetic mine, laid at night by publication. FORMIDABLE: British GALLIPOLI destroyers in British waters. This seriously disrupted £12.99 NOW £6.50 Infantry Fire Power by John Hamilton coastal traffic until an antidote known as degaussing was 84801 FIGHTER 1642-1765 Lest we forget, the book is dedicated developed. It was therefore with relief that the public by David Blackmore were treated to a taste of success when two light COMMAND to the men who lived and died in STATION AT WAR Dr Blackmore is a former curator at the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. cruisers and one heavy cruiser attacked the German the Royal Armouries and his book Armed with only rifles, bayonets pocket battleship Gras Spee. While the campaign in by Mark Hillier begins by considering the and raw courage, the men of the 3rd Norway from April to June 1940 was a depressing Sub-titled ‘A procedures and practices of soldiers Light Horse Brigade left the shelter opening to active hostilities between Britain and Nazi Photographic Record of in a given period. In the 17th and of their rocky trenches to storm The Germany, it led directly to Churchill’s war leadership and RAF Westhampnett 18th centuries the British Army’s Nek, a narrow stretch of ridge held The Coalition and both were to prove decisive in the From the Battle of victories over the French at battles by the Ottoman Turks. The first long term. This well researched book opens with Britain to D-Day and such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759 wave of attackers was cut down almost as soon as the summaries of the issues and personalities in British Beyond’, situated near Chichester, the site is now and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746 were largely men stood up. Those who followed knew they were politics in the 1930s. The consequences of appeasement Goodwood Aerodrome. It was at the forefront of the credited to its infantry’s particularly effective and deadly going to die, yet they too charged without question, and failure to re-arm quickly became apparent in April hectic combats of the Battle of Britain and became the firepower. For the first time the author has gone back to stumbling over the bodies of their fallen comrades before 1940. The Royal Navy, which had been the defence base of Wing Commander Douglas Bader until he was original drill manuals and other contemporary sources to they also fell. The Commander of the 10th Light Horse priority, found itself seriously threatened by the shot down over France. Fighter Command took the discover the reasons behind this. Dr Blackmore analyses regiment attempted to have the third wave cancelled, Luftwaffe’s control of the skies. The economies inflicted war to the enemy with sweeps over occupied Europe exactly how things were done and, in turn, why events claiming that ‘The whole thing was nothing but bloody on the Army were all too obvious when faced by the and these operations included the Channel Dash, the unfolded as they did. What is revealed is a specifically murder’, but he could not convince the Brigade Major. Wehrmacht and losses of men and equipment were Dieppe Raid and, in due course, the D-Day Landings. British set of tactics which explain how that superiority Using letters and diaries of those who fought and died in serious. Fought in three phases, the landings in support The last military flying unit based at the aerodrome was was achieved and then maintained over such a long this famously futile action, the award-winning journalist of the Norwegians, the evacuation from Central Norway 787 Naval Air Fighting Development Unit which period. The findings may correct many of the John Hamilton takes the reader on a journey from the which led to Chamberlain’s resignation, and finally the operated Barracudas, Avengers and Wild Cats before misconceptions about British infantry firepower in the rush to recruit in August 1914 when War was declared, campaign in the North which remained credible until the handing the airfield back to the Goodwood Estate in age of the musket and linear warfare and this is a major through the training camps to the unforgiving terrain of fall of France. The book also covers the political 1946. Many Fleet Air Arm pilots served with the RAF contribution to our understanding of this section of British Gallipoli and the unbending Turkish defenders, and background and activity in London and cabinet in- including Colin ‘Hoppy’ Hodgkinson and sub-lieutenant military history. Chapters include The Age of the finally to that fateful morning and that fatal charge. fighting. Dix then looks at the immediate and wider Francis Alan Smith RN, later killed during the Battle of Matchlock, William III and the Nine Years’ War, The There is a map of Anzac positions and chapters including consequences of the Campaign. 244pp with appendices Britain. Packed with more than 250 wartime photos, it Age of Marlborough 1702-14 and Humphrey Bland and Sand and Pharaohs, Blood and Trumpets and A of losses, maps including approaches to Narvik and is a detailed history of the fighting as seen through the the Duke of Cumberland 1714-49 and The French and Sharpening of Bayonets. 280pp, eight pages of rare action at Kvam and the first naval battle of Narvik eyes of the many surviving pilots and ground crew. Indian War among them. 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84807 GREAT WAR AT 83463 CHURCHILL AND 84538 BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FIRST WORLD 83268 WINGED CRUSADERS SEA: The Opening Salvos SEAPOWER WAR: BOOK and DVD by Peter Barton by Michael Napier by Bob Carruthers by Christopher M. Bell and the Imperial War Museums The author joined the RAF in 1978 and served with 14 Paul Nash, William Orpen, Winston Churchill had a longer and A tremendously heavyweight slipcase box set containing Squadron as a Tornado pilot and is now an airline Richard Caton-Woodville Jr. closer relationship with the Royal a DVD of 35 interactive battlefield panoramas. Marked captain. Formed in 1915 and still operational today, 14 and William Barnes Wollen can Navy than any British statesman in TOP-SECRET and Destined for the Eyes of Officers Squadron is one of the RAF’s longest serving, spending stand comparison with the modern times, but his record as Only, these photographs were taken by the Royal the first 30 years of its operational life in the Middle great artists of any age. The naval Commander in Chief and Engineers and their German counterparts for intelligence East, its history is rich, and until now, has largely gone work of the contemporary strategist has been mired in or artillery purposes. Many offer a field of view of unrecorded. Napier effectively provides a collective combat illustrators of the Great controversy since the ill-fated almost 160 degrees. A soldier picking lice from his shirt, history of this unit from 1915 to 1945. It covers Egypt War is today almost entirely Dardanelles Campaign of 1915. As a sniper lying in wait, the Passchendaele village, Wilde and Sinai, the advance into Palestine, beyond overlooked in the favour of the First Lord of the Admiralty when Wood, Ypres-Roulers Railway, the British Front Line, the Jerusalem, the interwar years, the Wellesley years, the work of the photographers. Britain was drawn into WWI on 4 August 1914 he found farms and woods in between, the Hooge chateau and desert war, the Marauder years and the Wellington. They were amazingly talented, and their work is of himself in charge of an impressive naval force that was stables and the Menin Road. Here are sites of the first Colour illus, photos and maps. superb quality. They also had the eye for detail in inadequately prepared for war. Churchill shouldered cavalry £25 NOW £6 terms of uniform, equipment and weapons and conjured much of the blame, and it undoubtedly exposed his then skirmishes, 83275 THE BOYS: Triumph Over Adversity an impression of the genuine stresses and strains of shortcomings. Christopher Bell sets the record straight through the by Martin Gilbert combat from the soldier’s point of view. There are and debunks many well-entrenched myths surrounding horrors of the Sub-titled ‘The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp masterpieces like Barnes Wollen’s Landrecies 25th August controversial episodes in both World Wars such as the Somme and Survivors’. Fewer than 100,000 Jews survived the 1914, the Defeat of the Prussian Guard, Ypres 1914, the Dardanelles, the Norwegian Campaign, the Battle of the Passchendaele death camps, slave labour camps and death marches of Canadians at Ypres and the London Territorials at Atlantic and the loss of HMS Repulse and Prince of to the final Hitler’s Reich. This book is about 732 of those survivors, Poziers. Richard Caton-Woodville Jr’s works include the Wales in 1941. We see Churchill’s evolution as a weeks of the most of them boys, about 80 of them girls, in their mid Piper of Loos, the Battle of the Somme, the 2nd Batt. maritime strategist over the course of his career and how conflict as 60s at the time this book was first written. Here is Manchester Regiment Taking Six Guns at Dawn Near his genuine affection for the Royal Navy was tempered never seen Auschwitz and Buchenwald, surviving as slaves, on St. Quentin, the Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons, the by his pragmatic and unsentimental views of the before death marches, liberation then life in England, the Charge of the 9th Lancers at Moncel and the Magnificent effectiveness of sea power. Illus, 445pp. Remainder covering the Primrose Club and the ’45 Aid Society. 511pp, Halloween 1914, and not forgetting Eric Kennington’s mark. British sectors paperback, maps and 55 illus. The Kensingtons at Laventie where he depicts himself in £25 NOW £10 of the £10.99 NOW £4.50 the painting, resting after four sleepless nights with his 84186 BRITISH CONCENTRATION CAMPS: A Western Front end to end. This expanded new edition platoon in the snow-covered trenches. Paul Nash includes a recently discovered trove of 60 German 84278 BLITZKRIEG: Myth, Reality and Hitler’s objected to censorship and recorded his views in a letter Brief History from 1900-1975 panoramas not seen for almost 90 years reproduced in Lightning War by Lloyd Clark home to his wife. Like William Orpen, he witnessed by Simon Webb BACK IN extraordinary detail in the book. The full complement of Clark proves that the Fall Gelb (the Germans’ Plan STOCK events in France and reluctantly enlisted in the Artist’s Astonishingly, it seems that Britain, rather than 350 German and British panoramas is available on the Yellow) was a highly risky infantry-based plan. The Rifles, was sent to the Western Front in February 1917 Germany, was responsible for the widespread use of accompanying DVD-Rom in interactive, zoomable form. German forces provided the Führer with a swift, efficient where he fell in a trench, broke a rib and was invalided concentration camps during the 20th century. The book The south-central part of the Salient saw repeated and decisive military victory over the Allied forces and home. His work such as the celebrated paintings Over describes in detail the camps run in Scotland which held sightings for Hill 60, the Bluff and the Mound at St Eloi. achieved in 1940 in just six weeks what their fathers had The Top, The Menin Road and The Ypres Salient at Jews, Communists and homosexuals and explained how Between La Bassée canal and Vimy Ridge was an failed to accomplish during four years of WWI. Many Night embodies the influence of the Vorticist Movement. the British Army reopened Belsen concentration camp industrial area strewn with pit heads, slag-heaps and altered the balance of power in Europe at a stroke. His work was featured in Blast magazine. These artists after the end of WWII and used it to keep Jews prisoner. miners’ cottages. Truly an extraordinary view of the Lloyd Clark highlights the key technologies, decisions were called upon to produce a highly accurate visual The book reveals Britain’s reliance upon slave labour in hostilities, camp life, the sheer numbers of soldiers in and events that led to German success, and details the record of hand to hand fighting, trench raids, aerial the late 1940s and tells the story of the labour camps. extraordinary photographs, section plans showing typical mistakes, good fortune and chronic weaknesses. There are compelling portraits of Heinz Guderian, Ewin dogfights, sea battles, desperate last stands, individual During the Boer War, the operation of British Army breastworks, digging in the field, designs for wire Rommel, Kurt Student, Charles de Gaulle and Bernard acts of heroism, night actions and cavalry charges. concentration camps led to the deaths of tens of entanglements, special apparatus plus colour maps Montgomery. 9 maps, 40 illus. 458 pages. They were there to record events on the battlefield for thousands of children from starvation and disease. In throughout and hundreds and hundreds of supporting commercial purposes and their work usually found a 1947, a quarter of the country’s agricultural workforce photographs, some showing the panorama in modern £25 NOW £7.50 home in popular magazines such as The War Illustrated. were prisoners in labour camps. During and after WWII, present day colour photos alongside. Timeline and 84375 I.W.M. FIRST WORLD WAR ON THE the Polish government-in-exile maintained a number of The result of their efforts was a huge body of work DVD. 392pp, 10" slipcased. Save £40. HOME FRONT by Terry Charman spanning a full gamut of styles from simple sketches to camps in Scotland where Jews, Communists and £60 NOW £20 Here are absorbing first-hand accounts taken from diaries, highly finished oil paintings on a grand scale. This homosexuals were imprisoned and sometimes killed. The letters and newspaper reports to reveal in vivid and powerful collection showcases dozens, reproduced in last political prisoners being held behind barbed wire were 83267 TRUE FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY: released in 1975. From England to Cyprus, Scotland to The Second Spartan Regiment in the American immensely personal detail how life changed from when the black and white in a stunning and vivid graphic record of lights went out in August 1914 to victory at last in 1918. life and death. 128pp in softback, 8" x 10". Malaya, Kenya to Northern Ireland. 192pp, 20 illus. Revolution £19.99 NOW £9 Chapters include Stoking the Home Fires, Sex, Drugs, Drink £12.99 NOW £6 by Oscar Gilbert and Catherine Gilbert and Ragtime, Digging for Victory and Keeping Britain’s 84130 HOLOCAUST: A History of the Jews of 83661 LIBERTY OR DEATH! The Life & In 1777 the British were defeated at Saratoga. Pitched Spirits Up. Eight pages of photos, 308pp, paperback. battles pitted untrained Patriot militia against British £9.99 NOW £4.50 Europe During the Second World War Campaigns of Richard L. Vowell by Maria Paez Victor troops as well as their Cherokee allies and Tory militia by Martin Gilbert When Richard Vowell bought his commission in the First fighters. Gradually the British were defeated. This book Sir Martin Gilbert weaves the cold facts of the Venezuelan Lancers in 1817, he was joining the shows heroes like Thomas Brandon, Francis Marion, nightmarish oral histories which question our humanity, legendary revolutionary army of Simon Bolivar which Daniel Morgan and others. In October 1780, the MYTHOLOGY values and capacity for suffering. The systematic would gain independence for Venezuela, Colombia, Loyalist’s militia was virtually destroyed at King’s attempt to destroy all European Jewry, now known as Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. The patriots’ cause was Mountain. Even as ‘Bloody Ban Tarleton’ and his green- the Holocaust, began in the last week of June 1941 supported by prominent figures such as William clad dragoons wreaked havoc over the Carolina back- within hours of the German invasion of the Soviet Wilberforce. Richard Vowell had been sent down from country, the Patriates were able to stand up to him, first 84423 MISCELLANY OF MAGICAL Union. 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Christian Europe has regarded the Jew as forces emanate as we enjoy the Orinoco, across the Venezuelan savannahs. He was 83717 BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ‘Christ-killer’ and in 1543, Martin Luther set out his recruited by the Chilean Navy before returning to legends of supernatural beings, honest advice as to how Jews should be treated: ‘Their Britain, and after he sought further adventures in 20TH CENTURY: Royal Navy Volume 1 Book exotic beasts like the terrifying synagogues should be set on fire’. This was typical of Australia. 189pp, paperback, colour photos, maps. and Audio CD by Alastair Wilson basilisk, part-serpent, and part- the anti-Jewish venom of his time. A major work in £14.99 NOW £4 A monumental and unique naval historical resource, cockerel, the noble griffin, part-lion, Jewish Studies and of course history. 959 pages, large volume one book and audio CD covers Admirals of the part-eagle, and the mighty softback. 83262 MISSING BELIEVED KILLED Fleet and Admirals Sir Dudley Pound, Sir John Jellicoe, centaur, half-man, half-horse. $32 NOW £9.50 by Stuart Hadaway Earl Mountbatten, Earl David Beatty, Admiral Andrew Mischievous werewolves shift Sub-titled ‘Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Brown Cunningham and every major player in the their shape from human to 83034 IRAN AT WAR 1500-1988 Enquiry Service 1939-1952.’ The MRS of the Air by Dr Kaveh Farrokh Royal Navy’s history. 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84408 RAFFLES: The 84862 SEVEN 84120 BRIAN FROUD’S GOBLINS 84652 ARCADIA BRITANNICA: A Modern Complete Innings CONTINENTS OF by Brian Froud and Ari Berk British Folklore Portrait by Richard Foreman THE WORLD Included is an anti-goblin device in a wallet by Henry Bourne The entire collection of Raffles envelope in the last page of the book. Cheez Britain is blessed with its remarkable profusion of folklore FLOOR PUZZLE Mongrel leaps out, in one of the fantastic stories by Richard Foreman are by Five Mile events and happenings which still take place today. In brought together in this one volume 3D-like drawings in big zany 10½ Year his introduction Simon Costine writes ‘If you were to ask Press Anniversary edition. Scribbled all over of wit, crime and romance. 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These diaries are an unmissable His Own Words English, each language is a link to a scores of adversaries and allies we see Trump in action - record of how a citizen at the close of the second edited by Barry Day different piece of her rich family as arrogant as he can be brilliant, equally reliant upon Elizabethan Age observed and chronicled his own world. The master of “hardboiled fiction” mosaic. At the age of 47 and threat and charm, failing as often as he succeeds. Never He turned his hand to what came his way, first as a grew up in London and was during a busy bustling family meal before has a POTUS divided opinion as much as Donald consultant to the Canary Wharf development, then as a educated at Dulwich College before with her husband and three children Trump - totally unpredictable with a brass neck like none TV and radio presenter, and finally as a full-time writer transforming the crime genre with in 2002, Lena received an other and seemingly determined to shake up the political of books on the nation’s history and civilisation, as well his stories of the mean streets of unexpected phone call naming her biological father as elite whatever it takes - maybe he will prove to be just as on design and history. With waspish tongue. Colour California’s urban scene. The Joseph Schneider, his real family name Minster, what the world needs. In the meanwhile, this cautionary photos, 549 pages. editor of these quotations and Americans living in Moscow and that her grandfather tale of what really is “The Greatest Show on Earth” £25 NOW £5 extracts has skilfully woven had once been an undercover agent for the Soviet demands our close attention. 476pp paperback. 83817 CENTURY OF WISDOM Chandler’s own words with an account of his life and Union. The entire family had emigrated as Jews in 1973 £14.99 NOW £7 writings. He learnt his craft by imitating others and soon to New York. Lena knew it to be true and something by Caroline Stoessinger Alice Herz-Sommer at 108 years old was the world’s had a distinctive voice with his iconic private investigator clicked. Thus began a quest to understand the multi- 84386 TRUMP ON TRUMP BACK IN oldest living Holocaust survivor. She was a pianist who Philip Marlowe, “the shop-soiled Galahad” immortalised layered history of her family’s wanderings through STOCK by George Beahm had survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep. He would Russia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Israel, Canada, The President of the USA for over a year, we are open attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. As a always have a .38 gun in the glove compartment of America and Britain. Lappin examines her life in these mouthed with incredulity at some of the things which child in Prague she spent weekends and holidays in the whatever car he was driving, first a Chrysler and then countries and their languages and is finally able to find come out of President Trump’s mouth, meetings he has company of Franz Kafka and Gustav Mahler, Sigmund an Oldsmobile, and his speech is characterised by self- her home in exile. Sparkling with vitality, humour and held and ideas professed. Some of his more contentious Freud and Rainer Maria Rilke who were friendly with her debunking wisecracks. The cops in the books are often genuine charm that English readers will love, it is an comments have outraged the immigrant community, mother. Alice moved to Israel after the war. Golda Meir racists and bigots.” Chandler had a strained relationship uplifting story of our past and present selves, rival feminist groups and even the Pope. Covering the time attended her house concerts, as did Arthur Rubinstein, with Hollywood, cynically dismissing producers as identities and loyalties and those who find their lives since Trump announced that he was running for Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern. Despite her “wizards of the slobbery kiss and the pornographic suspended between nations, cultures and languages Republican candidacy, this book looks at excerpts and imprisonment and the murders of her mother, husband dissolve.” 250pp, photos. Remainder mark. particularly in the post-war political upheaval. 310pp. speeches and puts them into context as well as covering and friends by the Nazis, and much later the premature $27.95 NOW £6.50 Remainder mark. topics of his views on business, America, other countries, death of her son, Alice credits music as the key to her $32.99 NOW £7 women and himself and those who stand or have stood survival. Deckle edged pages, remainder mark. 83838 TIME OUT OF JOINT by Roland Hill 84436 STRANGE GLORY: against him. 192pp, paperback. $23 NOW £5 Sub-titled ‘A Journey from Nazi Germany to Post-War £7.99 NOW £4 Britain’, Roland Hill’s autobiography is an evocative A Life of Dietrich 84302 LONG WALK TO FREEDOM picture of London in early WWII. Born in Hamburg in Bonhoeffer by Nelson Mandela 83761 VISITORS’ BOOK: In Francis Bacon’s 1920 to prosperity and culture, his father a sugar trader by Charles Marsh After his release from prison in February 1990, Mandela and his mother an opera singer, Hill’s parents were of This compelling biography Shadow by Jon Lys Turner emerged as the world’s most significant moral leader Jewish descent but had converted to Christianity. All combines a lucid understanding By 1963 Bacon was involved with George Dyer, a  since Mahatma Gandhi. As president of the African changed dramatically with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. of theology with knowledge of minor gangland associate of the Kray twins. Lively, National Congress and spiritual figurehead of the anti- The family moved to Prague, Vienna and Milan. the horrors of Nazi persecution. gossipy and indiscreet, the book brings 1950s artistic apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving Austria became Hill’s spiritual home where he was Bonhoeffer grew up in an bohemia from the fringes to life. Artists Richard South Africa towards black-majority rule, and throughout received into the Roman Catholic church, a move which intellectual family, his mother Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller died in their 90s. Theirs the world he became revered as a vital force in the fight decisively shaped his life, and where he started his being influenced by the is a tale of transgression, hedonism and innovative for human rights and racial equality. He could not in his journalistic career. Here are details of internment as an progressive educational theories talent. A kaleidoscope of artists and writers including wildest dreams have foreseen the astonishing moves Enemy Alien and of service in the British Army - the of Rudolf Steiner. A degree in Bacon, Colquhoun and MacBryde, John Minton, W. S. towards the ANC’s near-landslide victory in the Pioneer Corps and the Highland Light Infantry - from D- breakthrough multi-racial elections of April 1994, when theology was followed by a Graham and Stephen Spender who would travel from day to Victory in Europe. 325pp, illus. he became South Africa’s first ever black president. spell at New York’s Union Seminary, where he came London to their Wivenhoe home for infamous week-long £29 NOW £6 parties. The Wivenhoe couple, the Roberts, the 768pp, softback, photos. under the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr, who believed 84388 WILSON by A. Scott Berg that responding to contemporary needs and conflicts Moynihans, Lucian Freud, Philip Toynbee and the young £14.99 NOW £5 mattered more than the details of sacred doctrine. artist Michael Wishart were all regulars at the Gargoyle, 83826 FOOTFALLS ECHO IN THE MEMORY “The government of the United States should be more Bonhoeffer also experienced the “overwhelming and as were Angus Wilson and Cyril Connelly. Other by Verner Bickley interested in human rights than property rights” was the firm belief of the Democrat Woodrow Wilson, president personal” effect of worshipping in the black churches of regulars were Ronald Searle and socialite Lady Diana Educated in Wales and London, Verner Bickley has lived of the US between 1913 and 1921. Wilson was a Harlem. Another strong presence in his life was Bishop Cooper. 392pp, paperback. Colour artworks. in Asian and Pacific countries for over 50 years and in formidable intellectual who went into politics straight George Bell of Chichester, with whom Bonhoeffer £12.99 NOW £4 his engrossing memoirs he retraces his steps as a 19 from the presidency of Princeton University. A devout shared an aspiration to unite the branches of the year old naval officer in pre-independent Sri Lanka and 84370 CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER: Christian, he came from a comparatively liberal family in Christian faith. Back in Germany when Hitler took India, completing his university education in Cardiff, and Jack Kyle by Justine Kyle McGrath the heavily segregated south. His landslide victory in the control of the German church in 1933, Bonhoeffer was then serving in the Colonial Education Service in Jack Kyle was one of the greatest rugby players of all presidential election of 1913, beating William Taft and one of the founders of the Confessing Church, set up to Singapore and later, as a British Council Officer in post- resist Hitler, and founded the secret Finkenwalde time, a hero of Irish rugby and part of the Irish Grand independent Burma, Indonesia and Japan. He saw Theodore Roosevelt, was quickly followed by the seminary to train Confessing pastors. As war Slam-winning side in 1948. He toured with the British Singapore during the tumultuous 1950s at the time of the outbreak of war in Europe. Wilson tried to maintain approached, Bonhoeffer spent another session lecturing and Irish Lions in 1950 while also fulfilling his dream of Malayan ‘Emergency’ and in the lead up to peaceful relations with Germany but the torpedoing of at Union Seminary, but was persuaded by the Swiss studying medicine at Queen’s University Belfast. When independence in 1957, which he announced on Radio American ships turned public opinion, and America finally theologian Karl Barth that his duty lay in Germany. In he retired from international rugby in 1958 as the world’s Malaya. He was posted to Burma during the entered the war in order “to make the world safe for January 1942 Heydrich’s Wannsee conference most capped player, his sense of adventure and medical premiership of U Nu who was struggling with ethnic democracy”. Afterwards Wilson fought unsuccessfully to accelerated the programme of extermination of the Jews ambition led him to Chingola Zambia, where he spent problems and later ousted by military coup. During his persuade the US to join the League of Nations and at and Bonhoeffer became involved in the plot to kill Hitler the next 34 years of his life. For many years Kyle was time in Indonesia, the new British Embassy was burnt to the Treaty of Versailles, it was Wilson who tried to within the Abwehr, renouncing his commitment to non- the only medically trained surgeon in the town, and the ground by a mob. He has met Jazz musicians, protect Jewish interests. Throughout his presidency violence, for which he was eventually arrested and faced many challenges not least the appearance and impresarios, publishers, authors, linguists and Wilson was strongly supported by his first wife, the artist executed in April 1945. His engagement to the young devastation caused by AIDS. The story of this educationists and tells us of strikes and insurgents, Ellen Axson, who died in 1914, and then by Edith Bolling Maria von Wedemeyer adds to the anguish of his story. dedicated surgeon and gentle family man is told by his demagogues and prime ministers, princes and emperors, Galt, whom he married in 1915. The end of his life was 515pp, photos. daughter Justine. 304pp, paperback. Illus. businessmen, watermen, and geisha girls. 314pp, illus. troubled by the emotional difficulty of relinquishing $35 NOW £9 £8.99 NOW £3 £29 NOW £5 office. 818pp, photos. £30 NOW £5.50 BIBLIOPHILE 31 RIVERSIDE, 55 TRINITY BUOY WHARF, LONDON E14 0FP TEL: 020 74 74 24 74 www.bibliophilebooks.com Travel & Places CHRISTMASwww.bibliophilebooks.com GIFT BUYING IDEAS ON PAGES 17-20 29 84107 A TRAVELLER’S 84597 LINES IN THE ICE: Exploring the Root and culture and his theories of working with nature. YEAR: 365 Days of Travel of the World Photos, paintings, pen and ink drawings, diagrams and Writing In Diaries, Journals by Philip Hatfield maps. 397pp. NATURE £25 NOW £5.50 and Letters From the rich collection of archival material from the by Travis Elborough and British Library here are topographical views, paintings, 84489 AURELIAN LEGACY: British Butterflies Nick Rennison woodcuts, maps, explorers’ diaries, letters, newspaper 83979 RAPTOR: A and Their Collectors A beautifully designed and accounts, early photographs, relics, politics and Journey Through Birds by Michael Salmon produced hardback with antique indigenous knowledge, human marks on the landscape, by James Macdonald Tragically, changes in land management and the map endpaper, there are Inuit print culture right through to digital maps. Arctic Lockhart environment have contributed to the seemingly tourists included contributions from more than 200 A stunning book, covering the irreversible decline of butterfly species in Britain. This artists like the featured writers including Mungo habitat and lifestyle of 15 informative volume furnishes accounts of selected American painter Park, Charles Darwin, Isabella breeding birds of prey within the species of historical interest and appraises the effects of William Bradford and Bird, Lewis Carrol, Gertrude Bell, British Isles, with an invested current conservation policies. female travellers like Graham Greene, Simone de Beauvoir, Jack Kerouac and and emotional perspective. It also gives a history of Geraldine Moodie Alan Bennett. It is a marvellous anthology of extracts, From the hen harrier swimming butterfly collecting, the who came to the two or three for each day of the year on the subject of over land in the dregs of a May equipment that was used and Arctic because of travel, tourism and exploration, with an emphasis on the gale on Orkney to the ghostly the depredations caused by family connections period 1750 to 1950. The authors of the pieces include sparrowhawk in Warwickshire, ardent botanists. There are and others like Agnes famous explorers, botanists and ethnographers, painters displaying in his fields, the book’s fascinating brief biographies of Deans Cameron who and novelists, sightseers and holidaymakers and their for those who loved Helen journeyed there out 101 deceased lepidopterists, sojourns to Florence, Rome, Egypt or the Holy Land, MacDonald and Robert of a more general generously laced with from some of the finest novelists and writers like Robert Macfarlane. Written both as a study portrait and a impulse to travel. anecdotes, quotations and Byron, Peter Fleming, Dervla Murphy, Patrick Leigh- homage to the marvels of such majestic birds, the author Her 1909 publication many contemporary Fermor, Wilfred Thesiger and Bruce Chatwin who has unlocked the secret world of these often invisible is a story of the monochrome portraits. The breathes new life into the form. 528 well illus pages, birds. The book provides brilliant examples of Canadian state’s Butterfly Collectors are from maps and satin bookmarker. conservation efforts in this country. There is a poignant northerly expansion. 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One of the exquisite full page earlier vernacular names summary of the specific adaptation or feature of each her 1000 mile journey from the west of Ireland on woodcut illustrations is by Gustave Doré from the including The Small Skipper, The Essex Skipper, The species, singles this book out as a tremendous addition to horseback in 1984. After the sad death of Mollie in the Ancient Mariner entitled The Shooting of the Albatross Apollo, The Wood White, The Pale Clouded Yellow, The any committed or casual ornithologist’s library. Kerry mountains, Hilary returns to Dingle to find a and there are illustrations of Arctic culture, boats, sledges Brimstone, The Cleopatra, The Purple Hairstreak, The Illustrations, 376pp. Peacock, The Small Mountain Ringlet. With a replacement pony, determined to complete the ride. and kettles made from a journey in 1795. 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Here are 850 outdoor clues 83128 CAPTAIN’S WIFE by Ranulph Fiennes More than 180 popular species with their distinctive for weather forecasting, tracking, by Abby Jane Morrell Famed for his Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and holder features, habitats, sounds and with detailed maps city walks, coast walks, night Sub-titled ‘Narrative of a Voyage in the Schooner of numerous records, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has looked showing distributions throughout the year. Nicely walks, bird spotting and animal Antarctic 1829, 1830 and 1831’. Abby Jane Morrell’s death in the face many times. This book starts with his designed in layout with fact boxes and common and tracking, the moon, sun and stars, account was of her voyage between 1829 and 1830 three-year Transglobe expedition to complete the first Latin names for our winged friends like the house the sky, a walk with rocks and wild which took her from New England to the South Pacific. vertical surface navigation of the earth, followed by the sparrow, housemartin, cuckoo, moorhen, buzzard plus flowers, plants and trees and what Her husband Benjamin was in the sealing trade and also 1985 expedition to break the existing world record for the great horseshoe bat, badger, wildcat, pygmy shrew, to spot on the ground beneath our feet. Line illus, a keen explorer. Here’s the old world of the sailor Arctic unsupported travel. Fiennes was joined by Dr Hawthorne shield bug, red underwing moth, green lace through the eyes of a thoughtful and well-educated 438pp, paperback. 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Yet he spent many years across Europe and on to Istanbul, Tehran, Afghanistan behind the scuffed edition in which Nelson Mandela and a clear code, from behind the camera producing and Pakistan, before Cangalute in Goa. There he met fellow Robben Island prisoners inscribed their names. game-birds, owls wildlife documentaries before and loved Vanessa, and together they explored much of From the 16th-century Baltic to the American and songbirds, to appearing in front of it. From the the sub-continent. Fury at the 2008 terrorist attack on Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of waders, doves, and frozen wastes of the Southern the Taj Hotel Mumbai goads 70 odd year old Gandolfi modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare appears at the most divers, you can now explore this exciting world. Habit, Ocean, the tropical rainforests of back to India and a fresh exploration of the sub- fascinating times and in the most unexpected of places. voice, and key facts, distribution maps. Paperback, 19.5 South America, the scorching continent, this time on a Honda 125. 202pp, paperback. But he never once set foot outside England. 483pp. x 11.8cm, 256pp. Paintings and colour images. £20 NOW £7 grasslands of Africa, the dizzying £9.99 NOW £4.50 £9.99 NOW £2 heights of the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas, 83758 TRIP TO ECHO SPRING: On Writers 84219 MARKETS OF Martin has been to every continent on earth filming 84379 PHEASANTS, PARTRIDGES AND and Drinking by Olivia Laing  PARIS: Food, Antiques, natural history programmes. We meet African wild GROUSE: Including Buttonquails, Sandgrouse Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining Crafts, Books and More dogs, learn mysteries and legends of the Amazon, run and Allies - Helm Identification Guides the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping by Dixon Long and with reindeer, swim with elephants, go to polar bear by Steve Madge and Phil McGowan country, on a hunt for ‘Jaws’ and literally on to the Roof work of six extraordinary writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Williams The first one-volume comprehensive review of all the of the World. 262pp, paperback, colour photos. Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John This second edition visits more world’s pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse and other than 100 including the historic £10.99 NOW £5 Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. 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Discover antique books, botanical £10.99 NOW £4 Taming the Flood was the first work to address the Some of the birds such as the buff-breasted buttonquail prints, regional crafts and the gourmet delights of the conflicts between flood alleviation and nature are very rare. Opposite the illustrations are condensed 83799 IN TASMANIA French countryside. Organised by arrondissement for conservation. The environmentalist and water descriptions and coloured distribution maps, augmenting by Nicholas Shakespeare easy planning, with descriptions, opening times, Metro industrialist author updated the book and added a further the main entries for each species. Some of the birds are Tasmania is a rarely visited place. “More English than is stops. Maps. 304pp, softback. Remainder mark. chapter to cover events since 1989. He has a gift for England herself.” Nicholas Shakespeare first went there £11.99 NOW £5.50 truly beautiful - iridescent monals, white-spotted red having heard of the island’s exceptional beauty and combining practical wisdom of working with nature and tragopans with flaming orange collars, metallic blue- decided that this was where he wanted to live. Only 84504 GERMANY BEYOND THE ENCHANTED the land with an appreciation of their place in our history green crested partridges, multi-hued Lady Amherst’s later did he discover a cache of letters written by an FOREST: A Literary Anthology pheasants with trailing striped tails, and of course, ancestor as corrupt as he was colourful - Anthony Fenn edited by Brian Melican glorious glossy peacocks. 488pp. 72 colour plates, maps. Kemp, the so-called ‘Father of Tasmania’. On his This highly original anthology shows how over 80 Quay, Westward Ho!, Porlock Weir and Minehead. 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On the other side of the country, the Alastair Sawday is a pioneer in the environmental world pieces from the year 2000. 240pp, illus softback. looks of her loyal friends as she recounts her tales of Northumbrian Farne Islands are home to guillemots, and has published many much-loved guides. Here is a £12.99 NOW £5 typhoons and tarantulas, and pretends not to care when razorbills and puffins, and moving south down the coast sun-drenched memoir bringing together half a century of they assume her West African voodoo fetish earrings into East Anglia, the Minsmere nature reserve with its travellers’ tales from Wales to Greece via France, Italy 84526 WALKING AWAY: Further Travels with come from Accessorize.’ High-spirited, fond of a good views of Sizewell, and the surreal Orford Ness with its and his home town of Bristol. 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84212 JERRY LEE LEWIS: 84225 OVER THE TOP His Own Story AND BACK: The MUSIC AND DANCE by Rick Bragg ENTERTAINMENT Autobiography Jerry Lee Lewis has had several by Tom Jones careers and even more wives. A How did Thomas John self taught pianist, Lewis Woodward, born in 1940 into a 84249 HOW TO SING: abandoned school to perform 84750 ONCE A SAINT: An The Complete Guide to Actor’s Memoir coalmining family in Pontypridd round the clubs of Memphis, and become one of the world’s best- Singing Book and CD by 1955 he was raising a family by Ian Ogilvy loved entertainers, one who is Performing and Recording on his tiny earnings. When he A veteran actor who has starred still plying his trade at the highest by Carrie and David Grant heard Elvis’s “Blue Moon of with Helen Mirren, Penelope levels as he approaches the end ‘If you can speak you can sing’ Kentucky” and listened to New Keith, James Mason and Trevor of his eighth decade? 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Noir film stills and technicolor advertising film said that he had and that it had come out ok. ‘It’s called durable career. He has had collaborations with Phil wit. Rejected as a potential posters. Includes top 50 pick of noir classics 1940-1960. Light My Fire’, which soon became one of the greatest Spector, Jennifer Warnes and Herbie Hancock; excursions presenter by Newsnight, he is 648pp, hundreds of images. 14 x 19½ cm, bookmarker. rock anthems. From that point in 1963 life for Jim into jazz, Oriental and electronic music; five years as a told that “your on-screen manner ONLY £15 became manic. Drugs, sex and wild music filled his life. 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Arranged in a plovercrest 1836 and a mango humming Blitz alone, one in six gazetteer-style order within regions and buildings was damaged bird by William Swainson of 1834. then by county and town, the reader Sumptuously illustrated, our volume or destroyed London- experiences a geographical tour of England traces the role of natural history wide, and in the City around 1900. In housing, employment, illustration since the 15th century. Here one in three was transport and everyday life, we see how are stunning images such as the birds of levelled. Despite national people lived, worked and played with John James Audubon, the insects of Maria austerity, bold decisions these images frozen in time. The quality is Sybilla Merian, the engravings of F. Specht were taken to reinstate exceptional. Many of the buildings have now like the merino sheep, John Gould’s birds, many historic buildings long since disappeared or have been destroyed, Philip Henry Gosse’s the Ancient Wraffe, George and their priceless as have the libraries or medical theatres or the Natural Shaw’s serrated lobster from 1794 and George Edward’s 84763 FRANCOISE GILOT: Three Travel interiors with the highest History Museum at Mason College in Birmingham or the ring-tailed lemur from 1743. Birds, butterflies, insects, levels of skill and Sketchbooks Venice, India, Senegal barges at Brigg in Lincolnshire, the fishermen at Grimsby, mammals edited by Thérèse Crémieux and craftsmanship as a the crowds of men outside the bootmakers in and reptiles, statement of national Sunderland. Carriages and horses and carts and stray beautiful Hans Werner Holzwarth resurgence. dogs contrasting with the machinery in factories, the coloured French artist Françoise Gilot, born in 1921, can look Consequently there are grandiose Sheffield Town Hall interior and the pier at cobra, back on a long history. This beautiful fold-out box set exists today a wealth of Skegness, railway stations, markets, shops, Windsor crocodiles, presents a hardback facsimile edition of three treasures hidden behind Castle, a largely unchanged Deal with its pier, the whales, sketchbooks made on Gilot’s travels between 1974 and London’s inscrutable construction of Tower Bridge, dozens of churches and crab, toucan 1981. Collecting direct impressions and abstract façades about which the cathedrals, at Cirencester and Yeovil and some of the and an reflections. Gilot travels to Venice in the summer of general public is only wonderful 17th century timber framed octagonal market ultramarine 1974. Her sketchbook drawings (a book measuring dimly aware, many of halls such as the one in Dunster, Somerset. Nearly 1300 lorikeet, 6¾” x 10") are made with a subtle palette, centered on which lie behind the quality images. 560 pages, 10" x 12" x 2" thick. displays of different shades of a watery blue. Views of the city closed doors of offices, £50 NOW £30 butterflies, are mixed with reimaginations of the canals and embassies, institutions, cityscape, yet it is above all the spirit, history, and 84170 LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE COMPLETE horses and clubs and private houses. stallions, myth of Venice that animates her work. Her English Heritage chooses 1700 colour photos of 180 of PAINTINGS by Frank Zöllner even unicorns, a manticore and a five-legged chicken, handwritten commentary uses shape and colour and London’s best conserved and least known quirky or “You’ll never get to see Leonardo’s art like this. So close flying fish and an axolotl, and a domesticated female graphics. She also pays tribute to its art with various eccentric interiors to portray the full richness and up, in such detail. Every brush stroke is visible. Down to orang-utang from 1795. Grouped by Exotic, Native, pages characterising her forebears: the Bellinis, diversity of London’s architectural heritage. Where else the last line.” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Inventor, Domestic and Paradoxical, here is the natural world Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto. can the astounding opulence and splendour of the Old painter, sculptor, scientist, architect and engineer, was immortalised in print. Charlotte Sleigh shows how the Gilot mixes writing with the illustrations, her beautifully Bailey, the Bank of England and Lincoln’s Inn New Hall nothing short of a quintessential Renaissance genius. styles and purposes of natural history illustration evolved organic lettering becoming part of the drawings in and Library rubs shoulders with, and be of arguably This collection covers the latest scientific insights, as well from animal alphabets to the extraordinary productions which she depicts the canals, the cafés, the lovers at equal important as Stockwell Bus Garage, Battersea as an updated foreword that illuminates one of the most recording and classifying the living world. Fine art prints the water’s edge. The second smaller sketchbook Power Station, the Gala Bingo Club in Mitcham and sensational art reproduced to the highest quality. Colour. 256pp, 9" x (3¼” x 4½”) is from Gilot’s trip to India in late 1979. Manzes Eel Pie and Mash shop in Walthamstow? With historical 11¼”. New full price. She fills it with drawings while out on the streets and jaw-dropping photos of amazing interiors by Derek discoveries of ONLY £25 sitting on bumpy plane rides between cities. The Kendall. Crisp and informative text by the author of our time: the sketches, mostly in black and white, capture people on Panoramas of Lost London. Big glamorous hardback, 10" record-breaking the road, market stalls, cows and other animals, and x 11¾”, 448pp. Salvator 84767 HELMUT NEWTON WORK wall advertisements for the coming election. Central £50 NOW £25 Mundi. Looks by Françoise Marquet, edited by to the sketchbook are the figures of women, working at the young Manfred Heiting or carrying a load, always clad in impeccable saris artist, his Helmut Newton (1920-2004) is remembered as one of whose folds especially attract the artist. In 1981 Gilot professional the most influential photographers of the 20th century, visits Senegal, where she is impressed by the people 1001 breakthrough, channeling sensuality and eroticism into his work. she encounters, their movements and meetings, life in his fresh start Controversial scenarios, bold lighting, black and white the circle huts and on marketplaces. Her sketchbook is Nights in Milan 1483- nude women were his signature. Stunning portraits, almost jewel-like in its colourful intensity, juxtaposed 1484, Court Artist, ‘Science’, ‘The Last Supper’ to the many in colour, bizarre scenes, iconic imaginary with deep-inked line drawings and bold geometric Visions Fall of Ludovico Sforza, from Mantua to Venice and back scenarios abound in this big book. Hundreds of photos forms. Women in flowing garments, plants and to Florence 1500-1503, Battle paintings and ‘Muscular include Faye Dunaway for Vanity Fair, Jean-Marie Le landscapes, sometimes clear and sometimes as form, Rhetoric’ through to the final years of his life. Bronze Pen with his two dogs in Paris, models smoking a cigar moving in and out of abstraction. The three glossy paper used for the Contents page. 24 x 32.7 cm, sketchbooks are accompanied by an additional large A fine art portfolio of Kay Nielsen’s sumptuous or holding a gun in their mouth could be quite disturbing, 272 quality glossy pages. Taschen, colour. a woman softback booklet (10" x 14" with tipped-in colour illus.) illustrations ONLY £30 undressing in containing an introduction by Hans Werner Holzwarth, 83000 NIELSEN 1001 NIGHTS 84235 VISUAL ARTS: A History Revised front of three a conversation between Gilot and Thérèse Crémieux edited by Noel Daniel clothed voyeurs, on the artist’s work and travels, and translations of the 7th Edition by Hugh Honour handwritten text within the drawings. Limited and In the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, the memorable and John Fleming numbered edition of 5,000 copies. Three hardcover Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touches cross-dressing An extraordinary heavyweight, 2009 reprinted classic books plus supplementary booklet in a clothbound box, on his illustrations of A Thousand and One Nights. The besuited beautiful from 1984, which bears a golden sticker saying that it 26 x 36cm (10½” x 14") with another tipped-in colour results are considered masterpieces of early 20th woman with has sold ‘MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES’. illus on cover, 364 pages. Text in English, French and century illustration: bursting with sumptuous colours of slicked back hair, Covering painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, German. New from Taschen. deep blues, reds, and gold leaf, and evoking all the her female sculpture, architecture and photography, textiles, coins, ONLY £135 magic of this legendary collection of Indo-Persian and pottery, enamels, gold and silver, encompassing the arts partner Arabic folktales, compiled between the 8th and 13th of Asia, Africa and Oceania as well as Europe and the completely centuries. In the financially strapped postwar climate, Americas. The revised 7th edition expands the original naked in a however, publishers retreated from Nielsen’s project coverage by embracing new Parisian and the publication never happened. A rising star, developments in archaeology and art backstreet apart Nielsen moved on to other work, and the spectacular historical research. Mesolithic and cave from her high pen, ink, and watercolour images of this world heritage art, Stonehenge, Ancient Egypt and heels, make up classic remained under lock Babylon, the Ziggurats, Minoan Crete, and veiled hat; a and key for 40 years. China, the Hittites, Ancient Mesoamerica, beautiful woman with a black bobbed hairstyle, red lips, Published just once in the Classical Greece, Iberia and Sardinia, smoking, grasps the ankle of a high heeled woman 1970s, the illustrations Hellenistic and Roman art, painting and whose knee and legs are visible only in the frame, and were rescued from oblivion mosaics, the Colosseum and the invention famous names galore like Ralph Fiennes, Anthony after Nielsen’s death in of concrete, Buddhism, Hinduism and the Hopkins, HRH Princess Caroline of Monaco and Leni 1957 and are now held by arts of Southeast Asia, Riefenstahl among them, all very willing to be the UCLA Grunwald Japanese, early Christian photographed by Helmut Newton. There is a huge Center for the Graphic Arts and Byzantine, the Italian gatefold page of fashion shots, dozens of dressmaker at the Hammer Museum in Renaissance, Africa, models, nudes and close ups, hirsute, often in outdoor Los Angeles, the Art Ottoman architecture and locations or seedy settings, bondage and latex, leather and lace, in seedy hotels, launderettes, but always Institute of Chicago, and in the Islamic world, the 84604 FAIRY TALES FROM two private collections. striking a pose that is simply unforgettable. 8½” x 11", Japanese Edo, Baroque art, AROUND THE WORLD: Published for the first time ever in five colours including the Enlightenment and 280 pages. Text in English, French and German. New gold, this unique presentation of fine art prints revives Rococo, Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites, from Taschen. Leatherbound Edition all 21 strikingly beautiful illustrations reproduced directly Impressionism, Cubism, through to Pollock and Rothko, ONLY £30 by Andrew Lang from Nielsen’s original watercolours - the only complete conceptual art installations and photo realism. Very 62890 HELMUT NEWTON: SUMO In dark pink leatherbound edition set of his beloved illustrations to have survived. Each useful timelines, plans and elevations, glorious with gold tooling and decoration to illustration is presented individually in an extra-large revised by June Newton the front cover of fairies and photographs, the development of factories and public Stunning portraits, many in colour, bizarre format and on fine art paper, allowing Nielsen’s graphic parks, indigenous art and a long and very useful beautiful towers. In a Folio mastery and rich array of influences, from Art scenes, iconic imaginary abound on these huge pages. Society-style quality binding and glossary with line art. 984 pages, 9" x 12", 1459 illus. Published in an edition of 10,000 signed and numbered Nouveau to Japanese woodcuts to Indian painting, to $75 NOW £36 production, the book has gold foil dazzle. There are three generously illustrated essays copies, the original ‘Sumo’ sold out soon after publication. edges, a wide navy satin page on the making of this series, the origin of Nielsen’s 84613 STAR TREK THE A decade on from its first publication, is here now in a marker and exquisite woodcut illustrations unique imagery, and a history of the tales, many CLASSIC EPISODES: format that will reach the throughout. The selection are from the 12 fairy books unpublished or rarely seen artworks by Nielsen, as well widest possible audience. compiled by Scottish Leatherbound Edition It comes with a unique as all 23 of the incredibly intricate black and white by Paramount Pictures writer Andrew Lang drawings. With 21 fine art prints, 42 x 42cm, 186 heavyweight, clear Phillipe between 1889 and 1910 Corporation Starck-style folding acrylic pages. Superheavyweight, exquisite hardback. Text Between 1966 and 1969, Star Trek and represent more than in English, French and German. New from Taschen. bookstand. Heavy duty 30 countries and six of the boldly journeyed through outer mailing box with handle and UK delivery only. This is a rare chance to own space and into the human condition. seven continents. Several exceptional reproductions of this highly influential artist’s ‘Making Of’ booklet. Some are from Japan and all This special black leather edition has explicit adult content. 100s of only surviving complete set of watercolours. Limited gold blocking of the trademarked have been collected from photos including Elizabeth Taylor, and numbered edition of 5,000 copies. Hardcover with name and design on the front cover, the fairy tale anthologies - bejewelled and beautiful in her pool, Hugh Heffner and a 21 fine art prints, 42 x 42 cm, 186 pages. the USS Enterprise design on the back cover, the Blue, Red, Green, bevy of beauties, mafia types, clothed and unclothed ONLY £250 silver tooling, silver edged pages, the embossed logo on Yellow, Pink, Grey, women in those iconic 1980s shots, often monochrome, the front. It collects 45 episodes that aired in the Violet, Crimson, Brown, and many famous names to spot from Hollywood stars. programme’s first three Seasons, adapted by James Orange, Olive and Lilac Colour. 10½” x 14½”, 464 pages. 7.3kg. Illus below. Blish and J. A. Lawrence from scripts by Robert Bloch, Fairy Book. They include Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, David Gerrold and ONLY £100 East of the Sun and West other leading science fiction writers. 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