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Taut Thus ended the First Anglo-Afghan war and so began never going to be the equal “The Great Game” between Britain and Russia for Officer with 29 Commando to Chief and wondrous, he grabs the moment and in these very of the German heavies, the Tiger and Panther in a direct of the Defence Staff, the short pieces we are there with him in the moment with dominance of Central Asia which would continue for tank-on-tank confrontation. The Sherman’s strength lay another 60 years. Diana Preston skilfully interweaves professional Head of the British these most creative of minds. All copies kindly signed elsewhere - in its reliability, manoeuvrability, and the Armed Forces. He served in the by the author, the 390 page paperback ends with ‘Curse the events leading up to invasion, the complex interplay sheer weight of numbers produced. 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Two employed - ultimately too late - in 1918, where special Received wisdom presents him as an idiot who sent men fighter pilot, a bi-sexual Peruvian party girl, a deeply ripped their collapsible canoes as they were manhandling heavily armed assault divisions would attack the weaker to their slaughter in scarcely credible numbers both at the eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming, them out of the submarine. Two drowned when their points in the Allied lines, their superior firepower at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and Passchendale a year and a volatile French woman whose obsessive love for canoes capsized. A further six were captured by the point of contact allowing them to break through and then later. This book re-examines Haig’s record in these her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire plan. Their Germans and later executed. Nevertheless, the damage encircle the enemy. Country after country fell to these battles and views his predicament with a fresh eye. enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy they had caused represented a significant blow to the tactics, which cost Hitler very little in terms of time and More importantly, it re-evaluates Haig himself, exploring sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is uncovered here for the German war effort, one that Churchill himself claimed troops. The Panzerkampfwagen (literally “armoured his character and convictions and his unstinting work on first time. 400 pages, illus, map. shortened the conflict by six months. By complete combat vehicle” and usually abbreviated to Panzer) had behalf of ex-servicemen’s organisations after 1918. 509 £16.99 NOW £7 chance, the two canoeists who managed to escape, arrived and the Nazis swept unchecked across Europe paperback pages, maps, archive photos. Major ‘Blondie’ Hasler and marine Bill Sparks, stumbled and North Africa in less than two years, until the £14.99 NOW £3.50 77104 TIME: THE CIVIL WAR: An Illustrated Operation Barbarossa attack on Russia exposed the History edited by Kelly Knauer into the arms of the French Resistance. Across France 78435 EDGEHILL: The Battle and Spain, they made a risky and arduous journey, strategy’s limitations. This exceptionally detailed volume The magnificent images captured by Mathew Brady, crossing the Pyrenees in the company of a Gestapo organises all the Panzer types that saw action in WWII Reinterpreted by Christopher Timothy O’Sullivan, Alexander Gardner and others and agent intent on betraying them all. The author has used by division, then year-by-year through the course of the L. Scott, Alan Turton et al the large-scale maps by veteran Time cartographer German records which were captured by the British in war and all the different campaigns, from the invasion of The authors start with a clean slate Jackson Dykeman make even the most complicated 1944 and which remain censored until 1976. With Poland to the death throes of the Third Reich, defending analysing original military and civil campaigns easy to follow. It shows the combat at sea photos, 346pp. Berlin from the Allies. The book is separated into two documents, walking the ground to with the new ironclad ships and the difficulties that beset £18.99 NOW £8 sections, Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions. As the explore topographical features and both black and white Americans after the emancipation war continued, SS Panzer divisions were much better examining rare archaeological finds. of the slaves. Here are the great generals: Robert E. 78980 SUB-MACHINE GUN equipped than those of the Wehrmacht. With over 600 They present a new study of a key Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson and William T. by Maxim Popenker and colour artworks and b/w photos and exhaustive technical battle in the Civil Wars, re- Sherman and, of course - President Abraham Lincoln Anthony G. Williams specs, division organisation and full history of each examining one of the most himself. There are not only the battles familiar from A comprehensive, full-colour look at division and vehicle. 384pp, 7¾”×9¾”. mysterious battlefields at Edgehill. history such as Vicksburg and Gettysburg, but also those the advances in construction and £29.99 NOW £12 Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, that time has obscured like the Northern victory at design of the SMG, or Sub-machine 78322 SECRET WARRIORS military equipment and organisation, and battle Chattanooga, the needless Union blood-bath at gun, from its development during casualties and care. They debunk myths and all have Fredericksburg, and the brilliant Confederate triumph at the First World War to today’s by Taylor Downing first-hand experience of the formations, drills and Chancellorsville. Analysed year by year from 1861 to sophisticated weapon. The close- Key scientists, code-breakers and weapons of the period from military re-enactments they 1865 inclusive. 202 pages 31cm x 28.5cm, colour and quarter trench combat experienced propagandists of the Great War are are involved in. 224 very well illustrated pages with archive photos, maps and contemporary documents. during the 1914-18 campaign the subject of this historian’s maps, line art, details of combatants, deployment, $29.95 NOW £11 needed something with more fire-power than a handgun revelatory account. It was a attack, counter attack and concluding implications plus or rifle, but smaller and more lightweight than a machine modern, industrial and technological Edgehill today. gun. 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Over 500 clumsy gentlemen scientists, the boffins and many published only one book in his lifetime, this account of CHILDREN’S 29 photographs depict the weapons, components, cartridges interesting characters, electronic eavesdropping and the administration of the Navy from 1679 until his etc. while clear diagrams show the workings and various large-scale chemical weapons in their infancy. 438pp in dismissal from office with the regime change in 1688. COLLECTABLES / ANTIQUES 23 parts of the guns. 320pp. Colour illus and diagrams. paperback, photos. Pepys is able to provide a fascinating insider’s view of CRIME 26 £29.95 NOW £10 £9.99 NOW £4 the working of the Admiralty, replete with technical CRIME FICTION 3 78840 WHERE THE IRON 78446 LIVERPOOL VCs by James Murphy detail on shipbuilding and the operations of the dockyards. 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Pepys served as Clerk of the Act from FOOD & DRINK / COOKERY 26 Dicky Sams, native-born Liverpudlians, and five made a conflict on the Eastern Front though 1660-1679 and then Secretary of the Admiralty from home in the city - labourers, clerks, tradesmen, GREAT BRITAIN & MAPS 22 differed in the fact that naval forces 1684-1688. He lost office when the Glorious Revolution servicemen, volunteers and professional soldiers, rich HANDICRAFTS / CRAFT 9 played a vitally important role due placed William and Mary on the throne. Facsimile reprint and poor, rascals and angels, literate and illiterate. The to Crimea, planted firmly in the of the 1906 Clarendon Press edition. 136pp. Illus. HEALTH & BEAUTY 32 author recalls other actions in which they were involved North Sea, was ideal for naval in the anecdotal entries and clears up myths and errors £19.99 NOW £6.50 HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 33 supply and amphibious landings. Informatively written, of facts that have grown up around them. 243pp, illus. it also contains a few eye-witness accounts, such as a 78488 CIVIL WAR: Fort Sumter to HISTORY 5 £19.99 NOW £8 German officer writing ‘The attackers poured out of the Appomattox HOBBIES 31 depression. There were at least one hundred Russians 78432 COMPLETE GEORGE CROSS by Gary Gallagher, Stephen Engle et al HOME ENTERTAINMENT / CDs / DVDs 32 streaming with a loud “Urrah!” toward our seven-man by Kevin Brazier The American Civil War spanned four bloody years of Pak crew and one machine gun position. Rifle shots The George Cross is for ‘Acts of the greatest heroism or fighting in which over 620,000 American soldiers and HOW TO... 32 sailors lost their lives. From its outbreak at Fort Sumter, slammed into the side of the vehicle and ricocheted off the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of HUMOUR 7 the gun shield of our Pak gun... An unteroffizier lying extreme danger’. Here is a complete chronological record South Carolina in April 1861 until its conclusion at the next to me near the wheel of the carriage was firing of the lives, careers and exploits of all of the George Appomattox Court House, more than 10,000 battles, LITERATURE 10 short, sustained bursts from his machine pistol when he Cross holders in this unique book. Read about 14 year engagements and skirmishes were recorded. Instead of MISCELLANY / STATIONERY 30 suddenly rolled backward, screaming with pain. We had conserving the old America, it steadily and profoundly old Geoffrey Riley in Yorkshire who, in a violent MODERN HISTORY / CURRENT AFFAIRS 27 no time to assist the wounded, only to fire, fire and fire thunderstorm in 1944, went to the rescue of 76 year old reshaped the political, economic and social contours of to save our lives.’ This significant, knowledgeable Maude Wimpenny. Heroic first aid at the Standard the nation. 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More than 78307 LENINGRAD: Siege and Symphony Wilson has now written a short, 100,000 people were killed instantly by the atomic by Brian Moynahan readable and interesting life one bombs, mostly women, children and the elderly. Ham Leningrad - martyred by Stalin, starved by Hitler, of history’s most difficult demonstrates convincingly that misunderstandings and immortalised by Shostakovich. Brian Moynahan’s subjects: Adolf Hitler. Many nationalistic fury on both sides led to the use of the unsparing, heartrending account of the Siege of biographers have tried to bombs and gives powerful witness to its destruction Leningrad lays bare the story of the relentless, mindless penetrate the psyche of this through the eyes of 80 survivors, from 12 year olds depredations heaped by both Hitler and Stalin upon one monstrous figure and Wilson forced to work in factories to wives and children who of the most cultured and vibrant cities in the world. And places responsibility squarely on faced the holocaust alone. Covers the Manhattan yet, in its description of Shostakovich’s composition of Project, Potsdam, an epilogue entitled Dead Heat, Hitler’s shoulders both for the Holocaust and for the point as the Allies set out to build a humane, democratic his Seventh Symphony, and its defiant, triumphant appendices including the surrender speeches of Emperor military blunders that led to Germany’s defeat in nation on the ruins of the vanquished Nazi state. Oxford première in July 1942 amongst the burnt-out ruins of the Hirohito, an index and Japanese terms. Photos, small World War II. In 1940 Himmler expressed an historian Frederick Taylor describes the bitter endgame city he loved so much, the books becomes a grand aspiration to expel all Jews from the country by remainder mark, 629pp. testament to the strength of the human will and the of war, the murderous Nazi resistance, the vast $35 NOW £6 enforced emigration, but three years later he displacement of people in Central and Eastern Europe enduring power of great art. 542pp illus paperback. addressed a gathering of SS officers “in a toneless and the nascent Cold War struggle between Soviet and 77653 GORDON: Victorian Hero £9.99 NOW £4.50 voice” saying that anyone who shrank from the task Western occupiers. The occupation was a tale of by C. Brad Faught of extermination on home ground was “lily-livered”. 77845 RANK AND RATE: Volume II: Insignia rivalries, cynical realpolitik and blunders, but also of During 1884 and early 1885 no one was more famous Under the cover of war and with Hitler as “demonic heroism, ingenuity and determination, not least that the than General Charles Gordon. Trapped in the middle of a of Royal Naval Ratings by E. C. Coleman maestro” a mass slaughter took place. “No-one will ! German people rebuilt their battered country. There are million square miles of unforgiving Sudanese desert, The Royal Navy was slow to introduce distinguishing ever plumb the murky depths of this terrible story.” astonishing revelations from the commandant of Belsen supplies and morale running low in Khartoum and in the rate badges for those serving on the “lower deck”, and Meanwhile Germans had no dentists or other Concentration Camp, Eisenhower in a letter to his wife face of thousands of so-called ‘Dervishes’ intent on even when they did, in 1853, a uniform was still four professions where Jewish practitioners had led the ‘God, I hate the Germans’, guidance to GIs in Germany Islamic Jihad, Gordon held out for ten months before years away. The introduction of reserves, the field. As the war turned against him, Hitler himself and beliefs and instructions from speeches by Goering: finally being put to the sword in January 1885, two days recruitment of nurses and the creation of the WRNS was pumped with at least 28 different drug cocktails, ‘And if the German people loses here, then the next ruler before his 52nd birthday. Traces his life from his created the need for recognition of a new officer not including the sedatives that were needed to calm will be a Jew! And what a Jew is, this must be known childhood in England, training as an engineer at the structure and rank and rating, which had to be clearly him down. Resistance to the Nazis was useless, as to you. And if anyone doesn’t know about the revenge Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, Corfu, the related to the Navy, then came the Royal Fleet the secret police were everywhere, and the July plot of Juda, let him read about it. This is not the Second Crimea, parts of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Auxiliary, the Merchant Navy and the volunteer and failed because the bomb was planted under a marble World War, this war is the great racial war.’ With very 115pp, paperback, maps and photos. youth organisations. The stripes, badges and buttons are table. Wilson analyses Hitler’s failures, his delusions moving photographs. 438pp. £11 NOW £4 catalogued separately in order of rank, rate and date of and crude Enlightenment beliefs in science and £25 NOW £9 introduction WRNS, Royal Marines, QARNNS and progress, and discusses his legacy in terms of our 77678 TRENCH KNIVES & MUSTARD GAS Auxiliaries for wherever possible and actual examples are own society’s hang-ups. 215pp. 78500 HITLER’S FORTRESSES by Chris McNab With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France photographed. There are also a great many original $24.99 NOW £7 One of the greatest engineering projects of the 1930s by Hugh S. Thompson photos of personnel wearing the insignia over the past 78074 HITLER’S SAVAGE was Hitler’s West Wall, which encompassed 14,000 One of the most celebrated American units sent to 150 years. 96 8¾”×12" pages, colour and b/w illus. pillboxes and stretched for over 390 miles. Germany had France following the 1917 US declaration of war was £19.95 NOW £11 CANARY: A History of the already taken steps to defend its western frontier with the 42nd Division, known as the Rainbow Division. Danish Resistance in World plans to construct the so-called Neckar-Enz and Hugh Thompson sought service as soon as war was War II by David Lampe Wetterau-Main-Tauber lines as there were no constraints declared, secured a commission and after completing On 9 April 1940 the Luftwaffe on their construction, being outside the demilitarised Officer Training was sent to France with the first sprinkled the four million people zones. However, the plans were abandoned following contingent of unassigned officers of the Rainbow. After a CRIME FICTION of Denmark with leaflets Hitler’s decision to occupy the Rhineland, and so work on stint in the trenches of Lorraine, where he was wounded explaining how they were about the West Wall began. Another edifice, the Atlantic Wall, and gassed, he was on the receiving end of one of to be invaded and to go about was ordered in rather a kneejerk action as a barrier to an Ludendorff’s last desperate offensive “hammer blows” at Having gathered these facts, Watson, I their business as usual - the same anticipated Allied invasion and in response to British Champagne-Marne and took part in the September 1918 smoked several pipes over them, trying to bombers that dropped the leaflets raiding along the English Channel. Later, Runstedt, who assault on the St. Mihiel salient, where he received the separate those which were crucial from were also carrying a payload of was the commander of the German forces in the west in leg wounds that would end his war and dominate the others which were merely incidental. high explosive to rain down on Copenhagen in case 1944, said scathingly, ‘The Atlantic Wall was an rest of his life. Newly edited edition. 205pp, photos. King Christian rejected Hitler’s surrender ultimatum. enormous bluff, less for the enemy than the German £26.95 NOW £5 - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Crooked Man people, rooted in Hitler’s romantic fervour for The next day the Wehrmacht rumbled largely 77769 BATTLEFIELD DETECTIVES: unopposed across Denmark, Hitler turning her into a architectural grandeur. Hitler never saw the Atlantic “model protectorate” - Churchill said that Denmark Wall, not even one part of it.’ It took millions of tonnes Unearthing New Evidence on the World’s Most 78678 PHANTOM was to become “a sadistic murderer’s canary”. of concrete, yet failed to deter the Allied amphibious Famous Battlefields by David Wason by Jo Nesbo Totally isolated from the Allies and at the mercy of invasion of France. Other topics include Hitler’s Re-examines seven of the most important battles in Harry Hole, the troubled, the occupying enemy, the Danes managed to create headquarters, defensive lines in Italy, field fortifications history. We see how dramatically the coastline near incorrigible Oslo police officer has an extraordinary resistance movement fuelled only and specialist fortifications. An in-depth study, Pevensey (where William landed) and Hastings has led us through Jo Nesbo’s by national pride and a sense of human decency, one attractively produced and with dozens of illustrations, changed since 1066 and how two very different styles international bestsellers The of which began within four hours of the invasion with plans, and cutaways. 396pp. Colour and b/w illus. of fighting and leaders fought each other to a standstill. Snowman and The Leopard. He the “Ten Commandments”, a list of ten ways in £30 NOW £12 Was Agincourt really a victory for the English longbow returns in a reckless, full-tilt which people could make the Germans’ life difficult. 78635 HITLER’S ELITE: THE SS 1939-45 and the source of the two-fingered salute, or was it a investigation on which his own By 1945 they had published over 26 million illegal edited by Chris McNab crowd disaster just waiting to happen? Oceanography tenuous future will come to depend. forces a rethink of the events surrounding the defeat of newspapers, set up radio guides for Allied aircraft and Perhaps the evil of the SS can be summed up by these When Harry left Oslo for Hong the Spanish Armada, and, 200 years old this year, sabotaged ports, railways and airports so effectively words in a 1943 speech by Himmler, ‘What other nations Kong, desperately fleeing the military psychologists examine whether Marshal Ney, that German supply ships and aircraft in Denmark can offer in the way of good blood of our type, we will traumas of life as a cop, the unthinkable happened. The who directed the French at Waterloo was unfit for were effectively stuck there. Most amazing of all take, if necessary, by kidnapping their children and son of the woman he loved, lost and still loves, has command. The Battle of Balaklava is remembered for was the safe evacuation of 7,200 Danish Jews by raising them here with us. Whether nations live in been arrested for murder. Oleg, the boy Harry helped the pointless annihilation of the Light Brigade, but the train to Sweden from right under the Nazis’ noses, prosperity or starve to death interests me only so far as raise but couldn’t help deserting could never be a killer team point out that the real heroes where the 600 Turks the only occupied country to have achieved such a we need them as slaves for our culture: otherwise, it is and he has come back to prove it. Barred from rejoining whose gallant defence held off the Russians. The myth feat - this canary had the talons of an eagle. Here is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females the police force, Harry sets out on a solitary, increasingly of Custer’s Last Stand at Little Bighorn is demolished. the inspiring story of how untrained civilians refused fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank dangerous investigation that takes him deep into the 255pp, colour and b/w photos. to stand idly by. First published in 1957, this is the ditch interests me only insofar as the anti-tank ditch for world of the most virulent drug ever to hit the streets 237pp US paperback edition of 2010. Foreword by Germany is finished.’ This comprehensive study of the £12.99 NOW £5 and into the maze of his own past. Electrifying crime the Danish Ambassador to London. SS, the most infamous military formation of all time, 77848 VOICES FROM BRITAIN: Broadcasts fiction from the master Norwegian noir. 378pp with $14.95 NOW £5 deckle pages in this US first edition glamorous hardback consisting of hundreds of thousands of men, traces the from the BBC 1939-45 by Henning Krabbe 78619 EXORCISING organisation’s growth and explores its political origins. with quality dust jacket. Here are justly famed pieces of oratory such as $25.95 NOW £7 HITLER by Frederick Taylor Chapters examine the Waffen-SS soldier, the Churchill’s “We shall fight them on the beaches”, “The Sub-titled ‘The Occupation and Allgemaine-SS and Nazi Police State, the days of Few” and “The end of the beginning” and the 78831 STRANGE CASE OF Denazification of Germany’, victory and the diversification and destruction. ‘The magisterial “Survey of the War” from 13 May 1945, but DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE: following the destruction of the period 1934-1939 saw the expanding SS take over also a wide range of less well known radio speeches. As Leather Bound Edition Third Reich in 1945, this was an responsibility for political police work, and it extended its well as Churchill here are transcripts of broadcasts by tentacles into many other areas of Party and by Robert Louis Stevenson event nearly unprecedented in Chamberlain, Atlee, Bevin, Charles de Gaulle (an With satin pagemarker, silver gilded history. The country’s cities lay in government function. By the outbreak of war it would especially good one, damning the collaborators of Vichy have been impossible to define exactly the role within page edges, cross-hatch pen and rubble, its economic base France), George VI, Queen Wilhemina of Holland, King ink and silhouette drawings, here devastated. The German people the German state of this huge organisation.’ Many colour Haakon of Norway, Roosevelt, E.M. Forster and plates depict the various uniforms as well as over 200 are The Story of the Door, Search stood at the brink of starvation, broadcasts by BBC announcers on the World, Home or for Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll Was Quite millions still in POW camps. This was the starting photographs. 384pp. Colour plates, b/w illus. European services describing events such as Dunkirk, £30 NOW £15 At Ease, The Carew Murder Case, the Blitz, the invasion of Russia, the fall of Stalingrad, Incident of the Letter, Remarkable the fall of Singapore, the D-Day landings, the Liberation Incident of Dr Lanyon, Incident at 77186 SECRET HISTORY OF AL-QA’IDA of Paris, the German surrender and the Atomic the Window, The Last Night, Dr Lanyon’s Narrative and 77417 DIG WW2: Rediscovering the Great Bombings of Japan which really make the hairs on your Wartime Battles by Jean Hood Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case in this by Abdel Bari Atwan neck stand up. 2013 softback reprint, 50 b/w photos. unabridged edition of this classic. 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It eerily echoes the murders of two other by Ian Rankin $16 NOW £5 of identifying the bones. She is drawn deeper into a women, both stabbed to death months before on the The Flood was Ian Rankin’s first 78680 POPPET: A Jack dark world. Meanwhile, someone is taking the law into same day. DI. Tom Thorne sees the link and comes to published novel, not a crime novel Caffery Thriller their own hands in the name of justice and revenge, but the horrifying conclusion that it is not one serial killer the although it contains secrets and when present resentment collides with secrets of the police are up against, it is two. To stop them both, revelations and nor is it a thriller. by Mo Hayder past, the truth is more shocking than anyone could have Thorne must catch a man whose need to manipulate is Mary Miller has always been an Set in a high security mental health imagined. A spine-chilling thriller which wrong-foots the as great as his need to kill. 369 page paperback. outcast. As a child, she fell into ward, something is not right at the reader. 456pp in paperback. ONLY £2.50 the hot burn, a torrent of warm Beechway Psychiatric Unit. First £7.99 NOW £4 78277 ACT OF VIOLENCE by Margaret Yorke chemical run-off from the local coal one resident turns violently to self- mine, and her hair turned white. 76981 THE BAT by Jo Nesbo Peaceful Mickleburgh is the ideal English market town, harm, then another to suicide, both Initially she was treated with The first Harry Hole thriller by the musician, songwriter or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed of them recalcitrant patients with no sympathy, but all that changed a and economist and prize-winning author Jo Nesbo. façade, having hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for prior history of self-directed few days later when the young Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A generations. But the casual murder of a man trying to violence. Whispers between the man who pushed her in, died in an young Norwegian girl on her gap year in Sydney has prevent an act of vandalism shatters its genteel inmates have travelled to the staff accident. Now many years later, been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to appearance. Parents are forced to consider whether that the place is being terrorised by a creature called The Mary is a single mother caught up assist in any way he can. When the team unearth a their children could be involved, friends avoid each Maude. The superstition is dismissed, but the surviving in a faltering affair. Her son string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing other’s eyes, and partners word their conversations victims certainly saw something and what of the Sandy has fallen in love with a will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for carefully. Someone in the town is close to the murderer, drawing the dead woman left behind showing the strange homeless girl, and both the serial killer is on, but the murderer will only talk to someone with a past that threatens to resurface, creature wearing the sweater of a recently released mother and son are forced to come Harry. But he might just be the next victim... 425pp, damaging the whole community. 282pp, paperback. patient? Detective Jack Caffery is called in to to terms with a dark secret from paperback. investigate. By the award-winning English crime writer. £9.99 NOW £4 Mary’s past. One dark paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50 379pp. 78175 PIETR THE LATVIAN: The First 252pp. $25 NOW £5 78282 AGATHA RAISIN: Maigret Novel by Georges Simenon £7.99 NOW £3.50 78876 A BURNABLE BOOK Something Borrowed The iconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury 78994 BEGGARS BANQUET by Ian Rankin by Bruce Holsinger Someone Dead hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian. Rankin started off life as a short story writer and here A work of love and lives by a by M. C. Beaton ‘His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light are 22 mini masterpieces with titles such as Someone medieval academic. This is a Incomer Gloria French is at first worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his Got To Eddie, The Only True Comedian, Video, burnable book, a work of high welcomed into the Cotswold village hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, Nasty, The Hanged Man and Death Is Not The End. treason certain to destroy any man of Piddlebury. She raises funds for bony man. Iron muscles shaped his jacket and sleeves From Suburban murders to the sinister workings of a who holds it. London, 1385, a city the church and cares for the elderly, and quickly wore through new trousers.’ 162 page serial killer’s mind, from a bent cop with a terminal of shadows and fear, a kingdom but has a bad habit of borrowing paperback, remainder mark. approach to his work to a hit man who gets more than haunted by the spectre of revolt things and not giving them back, so £6.99 NOW £4.50 he bargained for in a crowded fairground, here is a and ruled by the headstrong young when she is discovered dead, 78160 CARTER OF LA PROVIDENCE: super collection from the modern-day master of crime. King Richard II. It is a place of poisoned by a bottle of elderberry Inspector Maigret by Georges Simenon The streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town has seen more poetry and prophecy, where power than their fair share of blood. 376pp in paperback. wine, folk in the village don’t mourn her passing too A companion to code 78175 Pietr the Latvian written by is bought by blood. For John intently. Parish councillor Jerry Tarrant hires Agatha £7.99 NOW £3.50 Gower, part-time poet and full time trader in information, the most addictive of writers. A well dressed woman Raisin to track down the murderer, but the residents has been found strangled in a stable near a canal. Why 79005 THE COMPLAINTS by Ian Rankin secrets are his currency. When close confidant, fellow don’t seem to want to find who the murderer is. Her did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal The Complaints are the cops who investigate other poet Geoffrey Chaucer, calls in an old debt, Gower investigations are further hampered by the emotional end here? Surely her aristocratic, taciturn husband cops. Malcolm Fox works in the Complaints and cannot refuse. The request is simply to track down a upset of finding her ex, James Lacey, has fallen in love knows, or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the Conduct Department, so he is not a popular man. He missing book, easy for a man of Gower’s talents who with the young detective Toni Gilmour. And now the barge La Providence? Penguin paperback, 150pp. has just had a result, and should be feeling good about knows the back alleys of Southwark as intimately as the murderer is targeting Agatha… 198pp. £6.99 NOW £4.50 himself, but he has got problems of his own. Now he courts and palaces of Westminster. But what Gower £14.99 NOW £5 does not know is that this book has already caused one 78130 TWO FOR SORROW by Nicola Upson is given a new task. There is a cop called Jamie Breck 78279 AGATHA RAISIN AND THE POTTED and he’s ‘dirty’. The problem is no one can prove it. murder and that its contents could destroy his life, Mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a Fox takes on the job and learns that there is more to because its words are behind the highest treason - a GARDENER by M. C. Beaton novel based on Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the the Breck case than anyone thinks. This knowledge conspiracy to kill the king and reduce his reign to ashes. Agatha is taken aback when she finds a new woman notorious ‘Finchley baby farmers’, unaware that her will prove dangerous, especially when a vicious 473pp with cast of characters including English royals, ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor research will entangle her in a desperate hunt for a murder intervenes far too close to home for Fox’s officers of the City of London, common women, neighbour, James Lacey. The beautiful Mary Fortune is modern day killer. A young seamstress, an ex-convict liking. This impressive novel exposes the underbelly tradesmen and freeman and keepers of books in Oxford superior in every way, especially when it comes to determined to reform, has been found brutally murdered and Florence. Map. gardening, and with Carsely Garden Open Day looming, of a city scarred by violence. 381pp in paperback. in the studio of Tey’s friends, the Motley sisters, amid £8.99 NOW £3.50 £14.99 NOW £5 Agatha feels this deficiency acutely. So when Mary is preparations for a star-studded charity gala. Inspector 78613 DYING ON THE VINE discovered murdered, buried upside down in a pot, Archie Penrose is not convinced this murder is the result 79014 EXIT MUSIC: His Last Case May Be A Agatha seizes the moment and immediately starts of a long standing domestic feud, and a horrific accident Killer by Ian Rankin by Aaron Elkins yanking up village secrets by their roots and digging the involving a second young woman supports his It’s late autumn in Edinburgh and The celebrated Skeleton Detective dirt on the hapless victim. 218pp in paperback. convictions. 485pp, paperback, remainder mark. late autumn in the career of DI is visiting friends at a vineyard in £7.99 NOW £4 $14.99 NOW £4 Tuscany when murder leaves a Rebus. As he tries to tie up some bitter aftertaste. A hiker in the 78280 AGATHA RAISIN AND THE VICIOUS 78110 PORTOBELLO by Ruth Rendell loose ends before retirement, a Apennines stumbles upon the VET by M. C. Beaton An intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives murder case intrudes. A dissident skeletal remains of a couple. The Best let sleeping vets lie... Retired PR supremo Agatha of several people in London’s Notting Hill. Walking to Russian poet has been found dead carabinieri investigate and release Raisin is enjoying life in her pretty Cotswold village and the shops one day, 50 year old Eugene Wren discovers in what looks like a mugging gone their findings - they are dealing with it even seems likely that the attractive new vet, Paul an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man wrong. By apparent coincidence, a a murder-suicide. The evidence Bladen, has taken a shine to her. But before romance plagued by shameful addiction, and his own good high-level delegation of Russian makes it clear that Pietro Cubbiddu, can blossom, Paul is killed in an accident with Lord intentions, he hatches a plan to find the money’s rightful businessmen are in town, and the owner of the local wine empire, Pendlebury’s horse. Only the circumstances are rather owner. He prints a notice and posts it around Portobello everyone is determined that the shot and killed his wife and then himself the likely suspicious. Agatha decides that once she must play Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events case should be closed quickly and motive being his discovery that Nola had been having amateur sleuth. This cloud has a silver lining as she that links Wren to other Londoners, afflicted with their clinically. Meanwhile a brutal and an affair. Skeleton Detective Gideon Oliver and his persuades her usually standoffish neighbour James Lacey own obsessions and despairs. As each volatile character premeditated assault on a local wife Julie find themselves in a morass of family to become her partner in the quest. 234pp in paperback. comes into his life, and that of his trusting fiancée, the gangster sees Rebus in the frame. antipathies, conflicts and mistrust to say nothing of the £7.99 NOW £4 consequences will change them all. 290 pages. Has the inspector taken one step local carabinieri’s resentment. When yet another $26 NOW £5.75 too far in tying up those loose Cubbiddu relation meets an unlikely end, it becomes 78281 AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WALKERS ends? Only a few days shy of the bone-chillingly clear that the killer is far from finished. OF DEMBLEY by M. C. Beaton 78101 MURDER SHORT AND SWEET end to his long, inglorious career, Stylish mystery full of amazing information about the art Trespassers will get their heads staved in. 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77072 OUR KIND OF TRAITOR 77686 LAMENTATION by C. J. Sansom 77105 TOOTH TATTOO: A by John Le Carré THE RAILWAY DETECTIVE Inspector Colbeck From the popular Shardlake series, here the glamorous Peter Diamond Investigation In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with hardback with colour maps on the endpapers of old by Peter Lovesey Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English London 1546. As King Henry VIII is slowly and Peter Diamond, head of the couple takes a tennis vacation in painfully dying, his Protestant and Catholic councillors Criminal Investigation Division in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles engage in a final and decisive power struggle. Whoever Bath, is investigating the murder of himself the world’s number one money launderer. Dima wins will control the government of Henry’s successor, a young woman whose body has wants among other things a game of tennis. Back in eight year old Prince Edward. 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78626 GHOSTS OF EMPIRE 78929 MAN MOST DRIVEN: 77034 HISTORY OF THE WORLD: Sixth by Kwasi Kwarteng Captain John Smith, 78293 ENGLAND ARISE by Juliet Barker Edition by J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad What caused a group of men and women from all parts Sub-titled ‘Britain’s Legacies in the Published by Oxford University Press, this monumental Pocahontas of England to unite in armed rebellion against both the Modern World’ this brilliant book volume runs to 1260 pages and includes no less than 86 And the Founding of America Church and the State, demanding a radical political helps us understand the political supporting maps. The scope begins before history with by Peter Firstbrook agenda? 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His mentor, Edward Coke, the the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the Golden Fleece, Ten, was also notoriously inward-looking and isolationist rotunda, the Sun Fire Office with its Italianate façade, greatest jurist in English history, inculcated in Williams Roman Eagle and so on, and summarises other when it wanted to be, prized stability over risk-taking and, after a huge fight, the buildings that were swept the concepts of individual rights, and limits to state significant orders of chivalry. The author looks at the and was extremely suspicious of any “cult of away to create the new Mansion House Square. power, and was sent to the Tower for his views. cultural legacy of each one, and the buildings and personality”. Paul Strathern has taken a different Columbia Market in Bethnal Green was surely one of Williams developed an ‘altogether revolutionary’ and artefacts that remain, as well as its connections with approach toward Venice’s fascinatingly complex history the capital’s finest Gothic buildings. Glasgow, Leeds and dangerous point of view. The first man in the world to Masonry and its place in present day life. 247 slightly by shining a light upon the most celebrated personalities Bradford are among the northern cities whose insist that government should receive its power from and of the Republic, emblemic people who by their very architectural heritage has been diminished by chaotic pages, diagrams, photos in colour. be controlled by its citizens, he proposed that there £19.99 NOW £6 success and fame found themselves frequently at odds indiscriminate development. 192pp, softback, photos. should be a hypothetical wall separating the church and with the authorities. 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They are also the most entertaining. Why did the Saxon King Edgar in Bath Abbey in the year 973 to assumed that he would be able to live in Britain. In the show plus a conclusion questioning whether it is craving Pheidippides run the 26 mile and 385 yards from the memorable occasion nearly ten centuries later with event, however, he was exiled to St. Helena, where he blood or a blood sport are covered in this very well Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got the televised coronation of Elizabeth II on 2nd June spent his last years in captivity. This fascinating account illustrated large paperback. Some champions survived there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between 1953. Read the strange-but-true stories of astrologers, is of Napoleon’s later years as seen through the eyes of up to 150 combats. In return for long-term contracts, sausage sellers? 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Here are striped Pterodactyl and a yellow circles, rug designs, the 150 reusable proprietor Karen Snyder has one images of little girls in smocks picking lupins, beautiful and black striped Quetzalcoatlus! colour stickers come in all shapes message - Be Bold and Go Big! roses, cherubs and garlands, forget-me-nots, beautiful This gorgeous book contains 15 and sizes. 50 different designs and read about the Usually the big print fabrics that are butterflies and buzzy bees, snowdrops, Mackintosh-style knitting patterns to allow you to architect Frank Lloyd Wright inside. For kids ages 3 to sold in quilt shops tend to be used Art Deco floral borders and beautiful sunflowers designed create your own stomp of 103. Large softback. for borders and backs, but here for decorating boxes, journals, making tags for gifts, dinosaurs. 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She categorises them, then shows itself, but the way it is made, HOME SEWING author states, ‘Even though scientists can tell us each how they are best employed, before moving on to her whether it is precisely defined with by Richard Merritt dinosaur’s shape, size or how many spines it had by general instructions section which incorporates the four pen and ink or blurred with thickly and Lucinda Ganderton looking at fossils, no one can definitively tell us what golden rules of big print quilting - accurate cutting, a ¼” spread impasto. The five sections of When Arthur Lasendy Liberty colour they were.’ So pink, purple, emerald, scarlet, seam allowance, good pressing technique and this book cover line in landscape, opened his shop in Regent’s Street, cornflower, raspberry and orange are the order of the “measuring through the middle” when measuring up for living nature, still life, the human selling imported textiles, the day. You can make the beasts as cuddly or as scary as your borders, which ensures your quilt lies flat. The 15 figure and finally abstraction, and in each section Aesthetic Movement was at its you wish, and if you start now you’ll soon have an projects include quilt and table runners and include the different approaches are demonstrated through a wide height and its followers soon turned impressive selection of dinosaurs, from Triceratops to Grand Prix for the petrolhead in your life, the visually range of examples and step-by-step experimentation. out to be Liberty’s most important Diplodocus, Tyrannosaurus Rex to Plesiosaur and stunning Picture Window, Big Thunder, Grand Daddy The Landscape chapter explores the creation of a lunar customers. 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Create a creation of a cartoon-like monocyclist in crayon, and vegetable dyes, to create new dyes for imported silks to handmade object of beauty for your home. 112pp 78987 MASTER DISASTER: goes on to a painted nude in Expressionist style and flat become known as ‘Liberty Art Colours.’ Nowadays we softback, 8¼”×10¾”, colour. Five Ways to Rescue collages of people crossing a road. Still Life starts with tend to associate Liberty’s with quality, pretty, small $22.99 NOW £5 the power of weak and broken pencil lines, followed by floral prints, but they have a range of patterns, both old Desperate Watercolours favourites and new designs. Using beautiful fabrics, the 77425 SEWING BIBLE: Slipcovers: The by Susan Webb Tregay a strongly outlined study of a chair and finally the smoky sfumato effect made famous by Leonardo. 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78603 COMMONPLACE search for truth. Where is God? Taking the maxim ‘seek Cosy & Warm by Christina Rossetti and ye shall find’ literally, a recently converted African LITERATURE AND ‘The three central characters, the girl embarks upon her own quest to find God. With only 78985 INSPIRED CABLE sisters Catherine, Lucy and Jane her bible as a guide, she plunges into the jungle where alongside snakes and lions she meets a dazzling array of KNITS by Fiona Ellis Charlmont are a means of exploring CLASSICS the plight on mid-19th century religious and philosophical figures, from the God of Noah Chunky, warm, nubbly; cable-knit middle class women as they swirl to Jesus, the Prophet to Voltaire, each seeking to jumpers are a comfort when winter Every author, however modest, keeps a most down the marriage-stream towards convince her of their claim to be truth. First published strikes, but, as the author explains, outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the rapids of lonely old age.’ - 1932, here is 80 page paperback with fabulous woodcut the patterns don’t have to be the padded cell of his breast. Andrew Motion. When William illus. strictly vertical as tradition decrees. Charlmont is lost at sea, his £7.99 NOW £4 They can morph and wander, - Logan Pearsall Smith devoted wife lies dying in childbirth appearing to find their own path 78866 MY FAVOURITE and charges Catherine, their eldest through the pattern. Taking daughter, to await his return. Years later and now in her STORIES OF WALES inspiration from tree bark, sand 78673 ON TREMENDOUS 30s, Catherine remains faithful to her promise, resigning edited by Jan Morris ripples on a beach, jagged lightning, TRIFLES by G. K. Chesterton herself to a life of spinsterhood. A charming and witty From three medieval tales from the leaves and even a butterfly’s wing, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) made tale accompanied by more of Christina Rossetti’s long- Mabinogion, through three folk she has produced a selection of his name in journalism, working neglected short fiction this is a delightful novella of love, stories, two narrative poems, two garments such as sweaters for with Hilaire Belloc at The Speaker matrimony and sisterhood. 116pp in paperback. romantics and three women, men and children, hats, and was a prolific writer of literary £6.99 NOW £4 contemporaries, this is a super scarves, tops and cardigans, all criticism, poetry and detective compilation of Welsh story-telling at knitted in cable stitch but as fiction, best known for his Father 78582 AFTER THE its very best. Dylan Thomas’s variations on a theme. In addition, Brown stories. Taking as inspiration FIREWORKS mystic tale, The Followers, tells of each pattern has thought-provoking subjects as diverse as the by Aldous Huxley how he and his friend get a fright. comments from the author to spur importance of fairy tales, the great As an acclaimed novelist, Miles As usual, Dylan’s observations are you on as you knit. I particularly art of lying in bed and the Fanning has grown accustomed to spot on as he notes that the barmaid had two gold front like her suggestion of photographing advantages of having one leg, Chesterton embarks on a the attentions of fawning admirers, teeth, ‘like a well off rabbit’s’! Welsh folk-lore invariably each section as it’s knitted, to tour of seemingly slight topics demonstrating that they yet little prepares him for the includes fairies, treasure, time confusions, wizards and remind yourself of all your hard work. Definitely cable afford as much pleasure as the grander things in life, if determination of the gauche Pamela unseen worlds, some of which are captured in The knitting with a twist! Paperback, 144pp, colour photos, not more. It is an uplifting celebration and insight into Tarn who resolves not only his Changeling, which tells how a woman retrieves her son charts. his preoccupations and sees him setting out a philosophy world, but also his bed. Initially from the Others after tricking the boy who has taken his £16.99 NOW £6.50 valuable to all those in danger of taking life too repelled by the enormity of the age place. Robert Grave’s poem Welsh Incident amusingly 78871 SHADES OF WINTER: seriously. He writes of trains and taxis, shopping and gap between them, he vows never captures the long-windedness of a Welsh narrator, determined to spin out his story as much as he can. A Knitting With Natural Wool pottering, trips to the country, games of croquet, and the to acquiesce and resorts to his most contents of pockets. 98 page paperback. boorish behaviour to break his hold on her. Yet as they lovely read to while away chilly winter evenings. by Ewa Andinsson and Ingalill £7.99 NOW £4 127pp. Last sold at. Johansson are drawn inexorably together, they embark upon a tempestuous and ultimately destructive love affair. This £16.50 NOW £7 Living up to its title, this inspired 78476 INFERNO satirical novella sees the author of ‘Brave New World’ collection of knitting designs is in by Dante Alighieri 78590 BETRAYAL turning his characteristic humour and keen observation to winter colours of natural white, Illustrated by Gustav Doré and with by Marquis de Sade the dual notions of obsession and control. An exciting beige and grey, using undyed, introduction and notes by Stefano The Baron de Téroze has already 140pp in paperback. successfully married off his older ecological wool. Jumpers, dresses, Albertini, this lovely cloth bound £7.99 NOW £4 hats, shawls, gloves, leg-warmers edition has gold tooling on the black daughter to a colonel of the and cardigans fill this book, all and red striking cover. In 1855 Paul 78612 THE DUEL Dragoons. Now it is time for him exquisitely photographed by Ewa Gustav Doré decided to illustrate by Giacomo Casanova to arrange his younger daughter’s K. Andinsson at Sweden’s Icehotel, Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’, but in Translated for the first time into nuptials. A corrupt magistrate from making it a delight to browse 1861 when the plates for the English, this autobiographical novel Aix seems to him the ideal through even if you can’t knit! The Inferno were ready he was unable is an important example of candidate, much to the disgust of muted shades of the natural wool to find a publisher willing to invest Casanova’s inimitable writing style the young daughter who is in love emphasise the beauty of the stitch on the project. Undeterred he published the plates and and is presented here with the with another man. Vowing to rid work: I especially like the delicate text himself and the book proved a great success. corresponding extract from his the beautiful marchioness of her vintage 1950s-style lacy ruffled Manuscript editions of the ‘Divine Comedy’ became memoirs, written some 15 years odious old husband, her lover, sister and brother-in-law beige cardigan knitted in baby- available between 1308 and 1322 and the first printed later. Casanova, the Prince of conspire in a series of hilarious manipulations that weight wool, perfect over a toning edition published in Italy in 1472. This edition has been Italian adventurers, is remembered ultimately results in complete humiliation and defeat for dress. Using a variety of textures, from elaborate prepared and designed for a modern audience and as a libertine and rogue, yet few their hapless guest. As a companion piece, Emilie de cables through to simple stocking stitch, all the garment explains the topographical structure of Dante’s Hell and know the true story of his Tourville tells the chilling story of another unfortunate patterns are fully detailed, together with measurements the astronomical, geographical and theological doctrines remarkable life, and of the duel he once fought with a younger sister whose elder, lawyer brothers exact and needle sizes. Paperback,160pp., colour photos. of the Middle Ages. The realm of Hell occupies the Polish Count. On the run from the Venetian authorities, revenge of her for compromising their family’s honour. £16.99 NOW £6.50 immense cone-shaped chasm formed at the moment of Casanova was forced to become an exile. His Two elegant tales of love and deception and a scandalous glimpse into the Marquis de Sade’s society 77285 KNITTED LETTERS: Knit Your Own Lucifer’s fall. The damned souls populate this chasm and reputation afforded him shelter throughout Europe, yet Dante’s classification of sins follows closely Aristotle’s he soon found himself implicated, insulted and forced to and its hidden proclivities. 116pp in paperback. Letters and Words into Clothes, Cushions and Nichomachean Ethics. All of the cantos in their entirety enter into a duel over a ballerina. Describing the £6.99 NOW £4 More by Catherine Hirst and Erssie Major and with excellent footnotes and beautiful Doré woodcut dramatic encounter and its surprising outcome with 78641 HYDE PARK GATE Incorporate any combination of letters into jumpers, illus. 256pp. sardonic and even blasé humour, Casanova creates a cushions, blankets and more. Choose from nine £9.99 NOW £5 work of thrilling adventure and proves his literary NEWS: The Stephen Family Newspaper different alphabets, each in a stylish and distinctive 78688 SOMEBODY’S prowess. 112pp in paperback. typeface. Each has space and instructions for you to £6.99 NOW £4 by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa incorporate your own chosen letters, including numbers LUGGAGE by Charles Dickens Bell, Toby Stephen and punctuation. Our favourite is the baby blanket. Stumbling upon some luggage that 78623 FOXES COME AT As children, Virginia Woolf, her 144 paperback pages 24.5cm x 19cm, colour photos and has been left behind in the hotel he NIGHT by Cees Nooteboom sister and brother collaborated on work charts. works in, a waiter searches through The Dutch writer is a superb stylist their own newspaper, recording the £9.99 NOW £3.50 it to try to identify its owner. who observes the world with a day-to-events of their family home ‘Somebody’ remains anonymous, combination of melancholy and at 22 Hyde Park Gate. but secreted away in different parts astonishment and has been Ingeniously mimicking the style of point. Cheer someone up with a zingy arrangement of of the luggage are a number of described by A. S. Byatt as ‘One of the leading newspapers of the day, sky blue delphiniums combined with orange stories. Impressed by their quality, the greatest modern novelists.’ Set the children present a charming snapdragons, or make a Christmas wreath using blue the waiter succeeds in getting them in the cities and islands of the portrayal of their lives in London and at their holiday thistles and lilac freesias mixed in with the more published. The identity of their Mediterranean and linked home in St. Ives. Aristocrats, academics, politicians and traditional ivy and snowberries. If you feel really author remains a mystery until a thematically, the eight stories in this artists, singing lessons, annual regattas, advertising for a creative, why not experiment combining flowers with visitor comes calling. The book is a wonderful composite collection read more like a novel, a meditation on wife, plus the children’s fictional and poetic creations, fruits or vegetables? At the end of the book are practical of tales reprinted in its entirety for the first time since its memory, life and death. The protagonists collect and photographs and facsimiles make up a chronicle of joyful tips and a selection of floristry suppliers. Paperback, original publication in 1862. ‘All The Year Round’ is a reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely and now and rollicking late Victorian family life. 240pp in 224pp. Colour photos. rediscovered gem from Dickens’ later life. With lost, crystallised in memory or in the detail of a paperback. £6.99 NOW £3 contributions by four eminent Victorian writers in this photograph. In ‘Paula’, the narrator evokes the £9.99 NOW £4 marvellous collection of short stories. 135pp in 77717 CERAMICS: A World mysterious, brief life of a woman he once loved. In 78679 PILGRIMS Guide to Traditional paperback. ‘Paula II’, the same woman is aware of the man £6.99 NOW £4 thinking of her, and the time they spent together, his by Mary Shelley Techniques A knight living alone in his isolated 78595 BOY AT THE fear of the black night when the foxes appear. Death it by Bryan Sentance seems is nothing to be afraid of in these stories. mountain fortress shows hospitality There is something truly primal HOGARTH PRESS Apologies for sticker. 144pp. to a pair of pilgrims seeking shelter. about the making of pottery. What by Richard Kennedy £12 NOW £4 Entreating him to tell them of his is truly amazing is the difference In 1928 after a rather unsuccessful sorrow, the knight unburdens between the traditional materials, education at Marlborough College, 78636 HOLLY TREE INN himself of his loss and tragedy, methods and decoration of ceramics 16 year old Richard Kennedy was by Charles Dickens unaware of the true nature of the around the world, from Delft tiles to put firmly under the wing of Leonard A journeying gentleman finds two young people’s pilgrimage, Yemeni water pipes and Nepalese Woolf as his protégé at his publishing himself snowed in at the Holly Tree until a revelation transforms his lamps to German hunting-scene jugs and Roman roof house. Some 40 years later, and Inn and resolves to entertain understanding of the past and tiles. Lecturer, author and exhibitor Bryan Sentance by then a professional illustrator, himself by recording the stories he reveals the possibility of a new organises his enormous subject into eight main headings Richard wrote his recollections of his hears from his fellow tenants. future. A poignant tale of betrayal, - Raw Material, Forming, Pre-fired Decoration, Firing, time with Virginia and Leonard Trapped for a week, he is regaled heartbreak, revenge and redemption, it is an exquisite Glazes, Alternative Finishes, Use and Function and Woolf in candid and often hilarious with tales from the barmaid and the work of Gothic storytelling. Accompanied here by four finally Quality of Life - and within these he addresses detail. It tells of the success that Virginia enjoyed, their landlord and these fictional delights other short stories, The Dream, The False Rhyme, The over 75 topics of astounding diversity. 848 illus (753 chaotic office with its collapsing shelves, his own often include an intriguing mystery by a Invisible Girl and The Mourner, the stories echo tragic colour). Thames & Hudson, 216pp, 10"×11". hapless attempts to keep pace with the literary giants master innovator of the genre, aspects of Mary Shelley’s own life. She is best $45 NOW £8 around him. A unique peep into the Bloomsbury set. Wilkie Collins, as well as classically remembered for Frankenstein. 100 page paperback. ‘The truth was that I had really only read Orlando, Mrs Dickensian sparks of humour and romance. The book £6.99 NOW £4 78029 LETTERING: From Dalloway and The Common Reader...’ Delightful line presents the complete 1855 Christmas number of Formal to Informal Dickens’ periodical ‘Household Words’ which was 78696 UNDER THE NET art, captions and doodles, 88pp in paperback. by Iris Murdoch by Rosemary Sassoon £7.99 NOW £4 adapted for the stage, published 1855. 130 page Letter form and design is fascinating paperback. Her brilliant début novel which was whether looking back at ancient 78583 ALEXANDER £7.99 NOW £4 first published in 1954 entranced the calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, by Klaus Mann nation to Iris Murdoch’s writing - a other archival material or modern Published with a foreword by Jean 78581 ADVENTURES OF THE flawless fusion of the mundane and day design and typefaces. The Cocteau, here is a captivating early BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH the marvellous, laughter and author’s journey from her very work of historical fiction, by a FOR GOD by Bernard Shaw lyricism, farce and philosophy. In a early formal training to the lively troubled and unjustly neglected ‘Life is greater than death, and hope nutshell, the novel is Jake and imaginative work she does with writer. This historical fantasy, than despair, I will do the work that Donaghue’s account of how he her students today fills these pages together with written by the son of the well- comes to me only if I know that it became the writer, portrait of the Edward Johnston’s notes and Mary’s own work. The known German novelist Thomas is good work; and to know that, I artist as a restless, feckless, book particularly features work done by her Italian and Mann, takes Alexander the Great for must know the past and the future penniless young man, on a quest. Australian students and is a whistle stop tour of the its subject, charting his life and and must know God.’ So He scrapes a living as a hack translator of French fiction development of lettering from the early 20th century to career and examining his obsession controversial was this book when it and sponges off his girlfriend and others. When he is the present day. Artworks in themselves, the examples with conquest and supremacy, first appeared in 1932 that it kicked out of his latest lodgings he embarks on a series fill nearly every page in black and red lettering and regardless of its effects on his friends and lovers. It is a provoked a public outcry with of fantastic and hilarious adventures around London alphabets and examples for every designer and hobbyist fascinating study of power and highly political George Bernard Shaw decried as a involving movie stars, majestic philosophers, bookies, to copy. An A&C Black publication, 112 very large connotations. 214pp in paperback. blasphemer. This brilliantly sardonic allegory showcases singers and a celebrity hound. 286pp in paperback. pages in softback. £8.99 NOW £4 some of his more unorthodox thoughts on race, religion £8.99 NOW £5 £15.99 NOW £6 and God and remains a fascinating tale of the universal Literature continued www.bibliophilebooks.com 11

78692 TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO by Arthur Conan Doyle 78456 EARLY POEMS AND A group of Western tourists collect aboard the Nile steamer Korosko JUVENILIA by Philip Larkin ! anticipating a trip filled with sightseeing and civilised colonial pleasures. Born in 1922 and brought up in Coventry, GIFTS FOR BOOK LOVERS But one morning during an excursion in the desert they are kidnapped by Philip Larkin became Librarian at the 78857 BRAVE NEW WORLD: Book a group of Dervish camel-men, their relationships, their beliefs and their University of Hull, a post he held until his very survival placed in jeopardy. Conan Doyle evokes the uncertainty death in 1985. His Collected Poems has Lover’s Mug by Aldous Huxley and of the late-Victorian era, cultural hegemony, but also a time when the become essential reading on any bookshelf, buyenlarge.com moral authority of Western imperialist powers was starting to be called covering his four published volumes and late Microwave and dishwasher safe, one of the into question. Each of his carefully drawn characters takes their part in work. But Larkin was a prolific writer in his original stylish book jacket designs in medium the cultural and spiritual debate that underlies the story. Written in 1898 youth, and wrote over 250 poems in the and light blue with white writing is the striking and permeated with sharp humour this is high melodrama, and still very years leading up to his first collection. And transfer design on this white heavy porcelain pertinent today. 122pp in paperback. here it is now in glamorous Faber hardback. mug. Very capacious, sturdy with handle £6.99 NOW £4 Draws on the pamphlets, manuscripts and (yes, handy!) and in presentation box it holds 16floz or 473ml of 78644 JEEVES AND THE WEDDING BELLS workbooks from 1938-1946. 382pp. liquid. Lovely to keep your tea warm! Special import. by Sebastian Faulks £25 NOW £8 ONLY £10 In an homage to P. G. Wodehouse and authorised by his Estate, here is 78461 TABLES OF THE LAW 78867 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: Book Lover’s Mug by a delightfully witty story of mistaken identity, a midsummer village by Thomas Mann Charles Darwin and buyenlarge.com festival, a cricket match and love triumphant. Bertie Wooster, recently Mann’s ironic and incisive style is brought to Microwave and dishwasher safe, one very large leaping frog and returned from a very pleasurable soujourn in Cannes, finds himself at the this, the most dramatic and significant story one smaller one, both in blue on a bright green background with The stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. Bertie is more than of the Hebrew Bible. The Tables of the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin as the bold transfer on this familiar with the country house set-up - a veteran of the cocktail hour, Law recounts the early life of Moses, his heavyweight white porcelain mug. Holds 16floz or 473ml of liquid and thanks to Jeeves his gentleman’s personal gentleman, is never less preparations for leading his people out of to keep your huge mug of tea or coffee warm. Based on one of the than immaculately dressed. However on this occasion it is Jeeves who is Egypt, the Exodus itself and the incidents at original book jacket designs and specially imported. to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs. the oasis Kadesh, as well as the engraving ONLY £10 Bertie you see has met Georgiana and though she is clever and he has a of the stone tablets of the Law at Sinai. reputation for foolish engagements, it looks like it could be the real thing. 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Frank Kermode tells his 78854 ALFRED’S BASIC a Dylan badge outside the flat in Montagu Place loaned the tyrant’s righteous son, who struggles against all odds wartime stories. There are reports from poker tables and GUITAR METHOD 1: Book, to Hendrix’s manager by Ringo Starr. His style, sense of to uphold fairness and justice; and Yoshitsune, the daring coal mines, stories of double agents, online romance and design, jewellery, dark eyes and talent held everyone commander who defeats the enemy in battle after CD and DVD by Morty Manus mesmerised. On tour in spring 1967 Hendrix made stigmata. A study in the art of the self-portrait. 394pp. and Ron Manus battle, only to be condemned by his jealous, powerful £25 NOW £6 headlines by setting fire to his guitar. Hendrix’s final UK brother. Rich in scenes of battle and warfare. Landmark Updated and expanded third edition performance was at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 translation with genealogies and maps. 734pp. 78015 LITERARY THEORY: A Very Short of a book recognised for over 50 before his shocking and untimely death. A superb photo £30 NOW £7 Introduction years as the best-paced and most album. 160pp, 25 x 29.6cm. 77989 ZASTROZZI by Percy Bysshe Shelley by Jonathan Culler comprehensive guitar method £14.99 NOW £6.50 An Oxford University Press handbook about the available. This edition features a Shelley’s particular genius lay with poetry. Here his new layout making it easier to read 78483 ART OF TAP DANCING: Mega Mini Kit vivid love story dramatises the misplaced passion controversial subject of Literary Theory. Said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past and learn. Included are blues, by Running Press between Matilda, Contessa di Laurentini, Verezzi, the country, folk, jazz and rock styles plus pop songs. A The metal heel and toe taps provided with the kit screw object of her crazed desire, and Matilda’s murderous two decades, it is accused of undermining respect for tradition and truth, encouraging suspicion about the DVD with iPod compatible video has been added for the into your shoes, a bit like the old blakeys but better! accomplice, the mysterious Zastrozzi. When Matilda visual learner. Learn how to hold your guitar, tune it, Become a Fred Astaire or Ginger Rodgers and join the discovers that her love is unrequited, she traps Verezzi in political and psychological implications of cultural products rather than admiration for great literature. The the basics of reading music, notes on all six strings, ranks of rat-tat-tatters everywhere. The 32 page book her castle and orders Zastrozzi to kill Julia, her rival. But chords, scales and songs, bass-chord accompaniments gives a history and how-to of this lively, low impact Zastrozzi has his own agenda. First published when handbook sketches key ‘moves’ and speaks directly about literature in the future, for human identity and the and duets. With photos and diagrams, the book is for work-out and great dance form. In handy presentation Shelley was only 18. 116pp, paperback. use with acoustic or electric guitars. Songs include box, pick up you cane and tap! £6.99 NOW £2.50 power of language. 149pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.75 Singin’ in the Rain, Take me Home Country Roads, £5.99 NOW £3 www.bibliophilebooks.com Science 13

77728 GEORGE 77416 DARIA KLIMENTOVA: Agony and 78642 INVENTORS AND 78328 SPY WHO CHANGED HARRISON: Living in the Ecstasy: My Life in Dance INVENTIONS THE WORLD Klaus Fuchs and Material World by Daria Klimentova with Graham Watts by Louis Hill et al the Secrets of the Nuclear BACK IN Prima Ballerina with the English National Ballet until her If you remove the back of your by Olivia Harrison STOCK Bomb by Mike Rossiter George Harrison, aka “the quiet retirement in 2014, Czech-born Klimentova experienced mobile phone you will find an Klaus Fuchs was a refugee from Beatle” was a perfectly normal a resurgence in her late career when she was partnered unassuming block that is hardly Nazi Germany, where his post-war Liverpool lad (albeit by the young Vadim Muntagirov. Her long partnership exciting to the eye. It is this, the Communist Party activism made with a huge guitar talent!) who with Dmitri Gruzdyev had been more turbulent. When Lithium-ion battery, which has him a target for organised violence. ended up at the age of 21 with she was invited as a guest artist to Cape Town and took driven the incredible advances in Arriving in England he collaborated the world at his feet. Unlike full advantage of numerous appearances on TV. She electronics in the past decade and is closely with the émigré German many however, his saturation in what the material was next invited as a principal by Scottish Ballet, now powering more and more road vehicles and other physicists Frisch and Meitner, who world could offer at such a young age caused him to followed by a move to ENB. Klimentova’s most- crucial applications. The Li-ion battery is a classic tale of were working on nuclear research seek the spiritual side of life. Olivia Harrison married performed ballet is The Nutcracker, mainly as the Sugar invention and the man who invented it, Michael at Birmingham University. In 1941 Fuchs travelled to George in 1978 and they remained together until Plum Fairy, with Odette/Odile in Swan Lake coming a Whittingham. This exceptional book picks some of the London ostensibly to meet an old friend but probably to George’s death in 2001. In 2010 she worked with Martin close second. Strictly Gershwin and Alice in Wonderland, world’s most important inventions and those involved in make his first contact with Soviet intelligence, and later Scorsese (who provides the book’s foreword) to make a both choreographed by Derek Deane, are among her their invention - be it a single person in a single in the war he was transferred to Camp Y in Los Alamos, documentary about her husband’s life entitled “Living in modern successes. 288pp, colour photos, appendices of brainwave or a number of people over a period of time where the project was to develop nuclear diffusion to the Material World” and this magnificent volume was ballets, partners, roles. during which other make a weapon. It was probably in 1944 that he made produced to accompany the film’s release in 2011. With £19.99 NOW £5 factors have a major contact with his Soviet handler, Harry Gold, and gave unequalled access to Harrison’s entire personal archive, 77518 50 YEARS OF BRITISH POP: 20th effect on that him details of the problems they were experiencing with she traces the arc of her late husband’s life, from the invention, maybe the Manhattan Project. At Los Alamos Fuchs had Century in Pictures by Huw Pryce even its overall earliest photos from bombed out Liverpool (we see two- British groups and artists have blazed a trail of glory worked on modifications to the Nagasaki bomb for the year-old George at a VE Day party), through his guitar- viability. Divided into Bikini tests and was in close contact with William through the world of pop music. Their achievements are eight chapters: Early obsessed boyhood, the astonishing success of the celebrated here in 300 stunning images from the unique Penney, head of the British bomb programme. This Beatles from 1958-70, his discovery of Indian culture Inventions, Domestic, enabled him to claim that he passed on information to archives of the Press Association. Now, back in the Entertainment, and music in the late 1960s to his days as independent lime-light where they belong, here are the Arctic the British as well as the Soviets, who by that time musician, film producer and bohemian squire. It is also Engineering and were Britain’s Allies. It’s a story in which many Monkeys, Boyzone, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, the Transport, Medicine, crammed with touching memorabilia - ticket stubs, Spice Girls and literally hundreds more golden oldies and questions still remain. 344pp, photos. postcards, letters, telegrams, handwritten chord Warfare, Exploration £20 NOW £5 memories of stars of the stage and your favourites for and Agriculture and diagrams, music, lyrics and mantras (including his original you to admire for ever. 299 pages, action photos in draft for My Sweet Lord). Plus shots on the sets of films Food, we look at 150 innovative ideas which have had 76941 CIRCULATION: William Harvey’s colour and b/w. a lasting effect on human society. From numbering Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright that Handmade produced, including the one that started £14.99 NOW £3 it all off, The Life of Brian. Alongside the amazing photos systems, money and alphabets, through the light bulb, Diminutive, brilliant and choleric, William Harvey had a sit hundreds of pieces of related commentary from 77521 AIR GUITAR: A User’s Guide refrigeration, soap, the zip, photography, TV, the electric huge impact on anatomy and modern biology. His George, Olivia and all those associated with his life and by Bruno McDonald ! guitar, pencil, typewriter, paper, the Internet, GPS, ball obsessive quest was to understand the movement of work, which are particularly resonant and intriguing. Chuck down the hairbrush when you stand in front of bearings, bicycles, roads, aeroplane, cement, blood which overturned beliefs held by physicians since 10"×11", 400pp, 300 colour and b/w images, many full the mirror, pick up a big cardboard guitar, wear your vaccination, false teeth, machine guns, atom bombs, Roman times. Francis Bacon, England’s Lord Chancellor and double-page. devil horns and play like a rock god. You will learn not maps and telescopes to combine harvesters and animal and a recalcitrant patient of Harvey’s; John Donne, a £26.99 NOW £10 only about our fret-fondling favourites but also air husbandry, even Viagra, perfume and the Swiss army poet and preacher fascinated by anatomy and the knife, this is an endlessly fascinating and surprising read. human heart; and King Charles I, Harvey’s beloved 77752 TEMPERAMENT by Stuart Isacoff punching for the anthem songs, scissor kicks, pointing, strumming, jumping, moves like the Hendrix, the duck Colour and b/w photos, diagrams, 240pp, 9¼”×11¼”. patron and witness to many of his experiments. His The piano can growl and sing and beat time and if you walk popularised by Chuck Berry and Angus Young, £24.95 NOW £10 theory altered the culture and language of its time. The keep it in tune, it will be an obedient servant. Through mounting the monitor, kneeling and a’ rockin’, the Jimmy biography charts the remarkable rise of a Yeoman’s son it, a Chopin prelude can gently weep across the keys; 78655 LIFE OF DISCOVERY: Page, the Joey Ramone, and how to win an air guitar Michael Faraday to the position of King’s Physician. 246pp, illus. Debussy’s perfumed phrases can swirl in gentle clouds. competition. 50 favourites for Axemen of all ages. £16.99 NOW £4 From the elements that shaped the temperament, or by James Hamilton Colour, 80pp. Sub-titled ‘Giant of the Scientific 77195 NUMBERLAND: The World in Numbers character, of pivotal thinkers to endless efforts to temper $14 NOW £2 or transform the material world into something more Revolution’, Michael Faraday lit up by Mitchell Symons desirable, altering the purist and most beautiful the world of science and here is a Pythagoras thought that numbers rule the universe ! harmonies into something grotesque. Musical art, superb biography of this amazing, - and how right he was. This book views the world from religion, politics and science and great thinkers from reclusive and deeply contradictory a different perspective, taking in the flora and fauna of Leonardo to Newton are tangled into this complex and SCIENCE AND MATHS man. Born in 1791, he was a the natural world, the human body, creepy-crawlies, clever little book. 260pp, paperback. blacksmith’s son, gifted with rare music, art, literature, love and marriage, TV, celebrities, £8.99 NOW £4 intelligence and intuition. A devout religion, history, science - we could go on and on. Did You never fail until you stop trying. member of a small Christian sect you know, for instance, that during your lifetime you are 77965 BLUE MOMENT - Albert Einstein that believed in the literal truth of the Bible, he was likely to shed 57 litres of tears? 256 mind-stretching by Richard Williams nevertheless open to all that mankind could glean from pages. Line drawings. Sub-titled ‘Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue’ and the Remaking earthly knowledge. As apprentice to the esteemed £12.99 NOW £5 of Modern Music’, here is a groundbreaking exploration of Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution, he helped how this album influenced the whole course of late 20th 78691 TIME: ALBERT develop the miner’s safety lamp and went on to make a 77672 RED COSMOS century music. Recorded miraculously in a few hours in EINSTEIN: The Enduring landmark study of induction, the connection between by James T. Andrews a converted Manhattan church and first released in 1959, Legacy of a Modern Genius electricity and magnetism, and the idea of the Sub-titled ‘K.E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry’. Davis’s album was a meditative, melancholy by Time Magazine electromagnetic field. From electric motors to precision- masterpiece. It profoundly influenced his band mate made eyeglass lenses, steel razors to liquid chlorine, his Tsiolkovskii first conceived multi- Sixty years after his death in stage rockets that would later be John Coltrane, and artists as diverse as John Cale and 1955 Albert Einstein is still the inventions, often designed with self-created instruments, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Soft Machine, Brian have become staples of modern life. He steered clear of adapted as the basis of both the US famous scientist ever. In 1999 and Soviet rocket programmes. Eno and early Roxy Music, Talking Heads and U2. All Time Magazine chose him as its politics, remained devoted to his wife, yet found a music lovers can gain much from this unsurpassed insight confidante in the bright, liberated and flirtatious daughter This provincial scientist was Person of the Century, and since sanctioned by Stalin to give a in which Williams is very strong on the note-by-note its founding in 1923 the magazine of Lord Byron. Trying to reconcile his severe religion mechanics of the music. 310 page paperback. with his demanding work, he eventually suffered a speech in Red Square on May Day has amassed a rather impressive 1935, lauding the Soviet £9.99 NOW £3.75 archive of Einstein photos and mental breakdown. 465pp by this outstanding Oxford biographer. With woodcut illus, a diagram of a safety technological future while also 76304 JOHANNES BRAHMS: The Complete articles which form the basis of this richly illustrated dreaming and expounding on his own visions of concise biography. We follow young Albert from his birth lamp (1814) and other experimental apparatus, and a Sonatas for Violin and Piano map of Faraday’s London. conquering the cosmos. Later the Khrushchev regime by Johannes Brahms in Ulm in Germany in 1879 to his solid but unremarkable used him as a ‘poster boy’ for Soviet excellence during student days and on to his first job in the technical $35 NOW £7.50 Brahms composed just three sonatas for violin and its Cold War competition with the US. A cultural, department of the Swiss patent office. Once he had the piano. Musicians will be delighted to own all three 78660 LIVES OF THE technological and political biography. 147pp, illus financial stability that the job offered and the family works in this single volume compilation, reprinted from PLANETS by Richard Corfield paperback. stability that his wife Maric and their daughter provided, authoritative editions. Both Sonata No.1 in G Major, A sweeping tour of our solar system £20.50 NOW £5 Albert finally had time to devote time to his own unique Op78 and Sonata No.2 in A Major, Op100 are intensely from the Sun to the recently ideas on the nature of light, mass, gravity and energy. 77660 KEEPER OF THE NUCLEAR lyrical in nature containing some of Brahms’ most demoted Pluto, from the Kuiper Belt 1905 was his annus mirabilis - in five papers published beautiful and expressive melodies. Sonata No.3 in D to beyond the edge of the CONSCIENCE by Andrew Brown that year he proposed ideas that would literally change Minor, Op108 is a tempestuous work full of fire and interstellar void. Ranging Jósef Rotblat (1908-2005) came to England as a research the world, tying the whole lot up with the most passion. Softback, 88pp plus removable violin score. historically from Galileo’s Telescope scientist in 1939. His wife was trapped in Warsaw. He important equation in physics, E=mc². As well as £14.95 NOW £3 to Kepler’s latest search for life on became a key physicist in the embryonic British atom insights that gave the world, for better and worse, the other planets, Corfield deftly bomb project. Early 1944 he transferred to Los Alamos atomic age, a new understanding of gravity, the concept 77666 NOISE: A Human describes the colourful history of to work on the Manhattan Project but left under of black holes and the weird things that happen near the History of Sound and Listening humanity’s unfolding discovery of controversial circumstances by the end of the year. The speed of light, his warm, funny and lovable personality by David Hendy our solar system’s secrets. He balances politics and subsequent bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki endeared him to the world. However, this was not To tell the story of sound - music science in a history of captivating ‘hold-your-breath’ intensified his ethical concerns over the involvement of enough to overcome the fact that he was Jewish as far and speech, but also echoes, attempts at planetary exploration and his subject is scientists developing weapons of mass destruction. It as the Nazis were concerned, and in 1931 the forward- chanting, drumbeats, bells, thunder, wondrous to behold. From an Oxford Research Fellow drove Rotblat to become deeply involved in the anti-war thinking Einstein family fled Germany for the USA. gunfire, the noise of crowds, the we have this 268 page US paperback edition, illus. movement and was one of the 11 illustrious signatories Even today scientists continue to pore over the full rumbles of the human body, $16.99 NOW £6 to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955. He helped implications of what Einstein saw. 96pp, colour and b/w laughter, silence, conversations, establish the international Pugwash Conferences on photos and diagrams. mechanical sounds, noisy 77939 TEACH YOURSELF MATHEMATICS: A Science and World Affairs and remained their driving £16.99 NOW £6.50 force during six decades. He and Pugwash shared the neighbours, musical recordings and Complete Introduction radio - is to explain how we learned to overcome our 78707 WORKING STIFF 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. 347pp, photos. by Trevor Johnson and Hugh Neill £18.99 NOW £4.50 fears about the natural world and how we learn to by Judy Melinek and T. J. The scales of a pinecone and the spiral of a snail’s shell communicate with, understand, and live alongside our Mitchell all follow the same sequence of numbers called the 77716 BRAIN SUPREMACY: fellow human beings. Oratory in Ancient Rome was Sub-titled ‘Two Years, 262 Bodies Fibonacci sequence. In today’s technological age, Notes From the Frontiers of important not just for the words spoken but also the and the Making of A Medical mathematics underpins all of our technology from civil tone, cadence, pitch of the voice and how the audience Neuroscience Examiner’ far from the magic we engineering to pharmacy. The book covers all key areas might have responded to it. Breaking up the history of by Kathleen Taylor see on TV, the book describes including mathematics, fractions and percentages, sound into prehistoric noise, the age of oratory, the Progress in neuroscience is forensic pathology in the real geometry including trigonometry, statistics, probability sounds of religion, the sounds of power and revolt, the accelerating, particularly as world and is full of compelling and algebra. Use this easy-to-navigate and easy-to- rise of machines and what he calls our ‘amplified age’, scanning technologies such as fMRI detail. It is the fearless memoir of remember system. 390pp, paperback. Hendy teases out continuities and breaches in our long and PET, which can observe a young pathologist’s ‘rookie £11.99 NOW £6 relationship with sound. 382pp. changes in the living brain as it $27.99 NOW £6 season’ as an NYC medical 78120 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: From the undertakes certain tasks or receives examiner and the cases, hair- Brilliant to the Bizarre certain stimuli, have improved 77182 LIVING YEARS: The First Genesis raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex, that by Len Fisher enormously and become much shaped her. Just two months before the September more accessible. Few would question the benefits to be Memoir The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel prizes, 11th terrorist attacks, Dr Judy Melinek began her gained and its practical application to combatting disease by Mike Rutherford awarded each October for ten unusual or trivial training, with her husband T. J. and their toddler Daniel, and helping conditions such as autism, but what about The author is a founding member of the talented prog examples of scientific research. In 1901 Duncan holding down the home front. She performed in the other potential uses for this knowledge, such as rock group Genesis. In 2010, he was inducted into the MacDougall was convinced that the human soul had a autopsies, investigated death scenes and counselled manipulation of the healthy brain for commercial or Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Against a background of weight (conveniently neglecting mass) and his grieving relatives. Here she takes readers behind the military gain? In this richly informative (and with much drink, drugs and line-up changes, Mike’s father, a World experiment with a near-death volunteer showed that the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the dry wit, we might add) account Dr Taylor explains the War II naval officer, was always there. He would departed soul did indeed weigh ¾oz. This led to a Big Apple, including a first hand account of the events of ingenious experiments that give us clues as to how watch Genesis grow, supporting them from the very wealth of extremely useful work in the fields of heat and September 11th, the subsequent anthrax bioterrorism learning, memory and other brain functions work, and beginning when they toured the country in the back of a energy transfer, not to mention post-mortems. Even attack, and the disastrous crash of American Airlines how painstakingly such knowledge is acquired. 380pp, Hovis bread van. Captain Rutherford remained loyal, scientists as eminent as Newton, Galileo, Franklin, Volta flight 587. Murders, accidents and suicides land on her colour and b/w illus and diagrams. earplugs at the ready. However, when his father and Schrodinger had some pretty bonkers theories that table, poison, bones and misadventures in medicine all suddenly died, Mike was forced to re-examine their nevertheless paved the way for useful discovery. 248pp £18.99 NOW £6.50 part of her tale. 256pp. relationship. 243 pages, colour and archive photos. paperback. £20 NOW £4 £16.99 NOW £7 $14.95 NOW £4.50 See also Nature on page 33 14 ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74

77986 TRANSPORT 77269 GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY MAP 78295 FIGHTING SHIPS 1850-1950 DESIGN: A Travel History 1924 (Paddington to Penzance) ! TRANSPORT by Sam Willis by Gregory Votolato by Geoffrey Kichenside Published in conjunction with the National Maritime Organised by air, land and Land’s End, Mounts Bay, St. Michael’s Mount, Newlyn Museum and with a foreword by N. A. M. Rodger this water, from canoes to space and Penzance are the destinations on this fabulous If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. remarkable book measures 12" across by 14" high. It is craft, limousines to Zeppelins, historical map. The Cornish Riviera Limited, one of the a stunning collection of 150 large scale paintings, here is the evolution of many most famous British express trains, was THE holiday - Dean Martin drawings, photographs and ship plans that tell the story types of transportation including train from Paddington to the historic city of Plymouth, of naval warfare from the first iron and steam ships to the relationship between mass and the mysterious land of legend beyond the Tamar to the deadly U-boats and aircraft carriers of WWII. transit and the travel experience, Newquay, Falmouth, St. Ives and Penzance. From the 78984 MEN OF POWER: Rolls Depicted in striking details are the bombardments of design styles, economics, Paddington area we see Wormwood Scrubs and Kensal Royce Chief Test Pilots Sveaborg during the Crimean war, the battles of entertainment and customised Green Cemetery. With places of interest marked, the Harvey and Jim Heyworth Tsushima and Jutland, the evacuation of Dunkirk, the comfort. See the vibrant modern décor of the QE2 return route is presented on a beautiful, coloured scroll by Robert Jackson attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the D- resulting from a successful collaboration of a group of map of appro eight feet long and seven inches width, Tough combatants with split-second Day landings as well as the Japanese surrender. young British artists, architects and designers who gave printed on one side. In a glamorous cardboard tube. reflexes, Harvey and Jim Heyworth Arranged chronologically, the ships illustrated include form to the upbeat mood of Swinging London in the £14.99 NOW £6 HMS Warrior, the first iron-hulled heavily armoured both brought a distinguished war 1960s. 143 illus, 240pp in large softback. 77423 O. S. NOCK POCKET ENCYCLOPEDIA record to their appointments as test warship, the mighty HMS Dreadnought, the cruiser £17.95 NOW £4 pilots at Rolls Royce. Harvey Aurora which ignited the Russian revolution, the OF BRITISH STEAM RAILWAYS AND formidable German battleship Bismarck and British 78157 ADVANCED AIRCRAFT MODELLING LOCOMOTIVES by O. S. Nock started his flying career with the illustrated by Richard Caruana RAF, taking part in the Hendon aircraft carriers HMS Argus and Illustrious and the The classic handbook which was first published in 1967, The Junkers Ju 88A-4, Spitfire, Hawker Tempest, P-47D aerobatic display of 1934 before Japanese giant Akagi among many others. Artists reprinted 1970, 1975 and 2009, improved on the original Thunderbolt Razorback and Bubbletop, Dauntless SBD-3, accepting a post with Rolls Royce. He remained a include the official British war artist Richard Eurich, and 192 coloured illustrations with the second volume seeing Supermarine 352 Spitfire, Fokker D.XXI (camouflage and Squadron Leader with the reserves and in 1939 was great naval artists like Gustave Bourgain and William a further selection of historical steam locomotives markings), Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9, Messerschmitt Bf recalled to the RAF. Throughout the Battle of Britain Lionel Wyllie plus powerful photographs often taken by illustrated in colour. This standard reference was written 109 and single seat fighter Ki-61 Hien are among the 14 Harvey flew a Hurricane and then was posted north to the sailors themselves. by O. S. Nock who has been as well-loved as his aircraft chosen with text, fact boxes, colours to use, take part in the “Newcastle Blitz” in which “Heyworth’s With an expert text on Blandford Pocket Encyclopedias covering British Steam excellent photography, history and background in this Hurricanes” pounded the enemy aircraft while they were the key naval conflicts Locos and British Steam Railways. Combines the text and essential reference for the aircraft modeller. Includes still over the sea. Harvey’s squadron suffered no and the complexity of illustrations from both of these two pocket encyclopedias. 120 colour profiles, history of camouflage and markings casualties and this was the last time the Germans each warship, we can 386 colour illus of carriages, rolling stock, signals, railway and 12 award winning models. Aimed at all levels of ventured over northern England in daylight. The enter the fire room of coats of arms and classic locomotives. Softback. modeller with tips for colour mixing, paint brush and air following year Harvey returned to Rolls Royce, but the US battleship £9.99 NOW £4 brush techniques and more. Rendered artworks and meanwhile his 19-year-old brother Jim was awarded his Mississippi, see a burn colour and archive photos. Large 178 page softback. 77642 BOEING 747 1970 ONWARDS (ALL wings and joined No. 12 Bomber Squadron as one of victim in a Wandsworth their first volunteers. His first mission was the disastrous hospital 1914 and £35 NOW £6.50 MARKS): Haynes by Chris Wood raid against German battlecruisers in Brest harbour marvel at the depiction 78229 AIR FRANCE by Geoff Jones A Haynes Owners’ Workshop Manual which describes where Jim’s Wellington was attacked by a of the sea by Claus Air France was formed in 1933, an amalgamation of the anatomy of this huge aircraft, how it is flown and Messerschmitt, but the plane withstood the onslaught as Bergen in his painting several small French airlines. By now, air travel was operated, and how the engineers keep Boeing’s Jim directed the gunners to shoot it down. Jim alternated The Commander on becoming more reliable and popular, and by 1938 Air bestselling version of its 747 airworthy. From 22nd periods as an instructor with flying missions and in 1944 page 131. A spectacular France carried 104,000 passengers, with a fleet of 47 January 1970 the wide-body 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ enabled was rewarded with a bar to add to his DFC. A month heavyweight huge land planes and 12 seaplanes. After World War II Air airlines worldwide to slash ticket costs. In 2005 a major later he was transferred to Rolls Royce, joining his volume, 224pp. France became state owned and the state still has a redesign of the 747 (747-8) was launched that draws in brother in the process of developing the jet engine. £25 NOW £12.50 stake in the combined Air France/KLM business. The technology from Boeing’s 787 model. Pilot and author 192pp. 1970s were dominated by Concorde, and, in a triumph Chris Wood sets his gaze on the 747-400 version and lifts the inspection panels on this most numerous of all 747 £19.99 NOW £8 77832 BELFAST BUILT SHIPS by John Lynch of organisation, not least years or political wrangling and delicate negotiations, cumulated in a simultaneous arrival models. Refuelling, water servicing, automatic landing, 78983 FLYING FROM MY Belfast has a long and proud shipbuilding heritage, the of An Air France Concorde and a British Airways climbing, cruising, handling, stalling, descent and industry playing a great part in the shaping of the city’s MIND by David G. Cook Concorde at New York’s JFK international airport in approach, all the controls are described, cutaways and identity and culture. It was all begun by Robert Hickson, When former RAF pilot David Cook 1977. Other planes flown by Air France include the De charts, masses of colour photos, diagrams, cutaway a Liverpool engineer who arrived in Belfast in 1853 to saw an advert for the foot-launched Havilland Comet, the Vickers Viscount and the Sud illustration of the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 to first class run the recently established Belfast Ironworks. He glider VJ-23 he knew it was for Aviation Caravelle. 160pp. Colour and b/w photos. luxury is all graphically described. 168pp, large and launched just eight vessels between then and 1858, but him. Earning only £25 per week in £19.99 NOW £5 colourful pages. 1972, Cook was living in a it was his 1854 appointment of a 23-year-old £21.99 NOW £6 Yorkshireman as manager which was historic. That man 78437 IMAGES OF WAR: converted railway carriage but his 77669 PROFILES OF FLIGHT: Panavia aim was to win the annual Selsey was Edward Harland, and by 1858 he had taken over Flying Legends of World War Tornado by Dave Windle and Martin Bowman Birdman contest, in which £3000 the yard, having engaged one Gustav Wolff as engineer Two by Philip Handleman and draughtsman and the firm of Harland and Wolff was Strike, antique-ship, air superiority, air defence, was offered to anyone who could Allied Force’s WWII bomber, born. This company, together with Workman Clark and reconnaissance and electronic warfare fighter-bomber, launch themselves off Selsey pier fighter, trainer and transport aircraft McIlwaine & Co, had fascinating and turbulent histories. the Tornado has been the backbone of the RAF within and stay in the air for 50 yards. The first attempt saw together with vital data on Amazingly little is known about the 1500 plus vessels its many different theatres of operation. The aircraft the glider flying within a few feet of the finish line, and if development history, combat they produced up until the beginning of the 21st century, started as a European venture between Germany, Italy the tide had been lower, Cook could probably have record, famous pilots and significant with one notable exception - the 46,238 ton Titanic. and the UK, based on the original swing-wing secured the glittering prize. For the next attempt he air battles are presented from a Reveals the fascinating stories and stats of all the ships technology invented by Barnes-Wallis. It has also been enlisted support, and at the 1975 rally the glider was close up vantage point. built and launched in Belfast from 1858-2003. With full successfully exported to two Middle-Eastern air forces launched by himself and three able men at a run. This Performance, range and weapon loads are also included alphabetical ship index and building lists with ship type, and is likely to remain in service for several years to method required the launchers to launch themselves off and the unique colour photographs are from the collection propulsion, construction, displacement, dimensions, come. Our book contains the world famous colour the pier as well as the craft, and one of them was a non- of the late William B. Slate, an aviation photographer dates, owners and many photos and other illus. 304pp profiles created by Dave Windle of the type in different swimmer, but in spite of exceeding the 50-yard limit, the who captured the thrilling perspective from close-up, in- attempt was disqualified. Still in need of money, Cook softback. operational modes, configurations and colour schemes. £19.99 NOW £8 flight vantage points from an aircraft flying in formation Includes archive and worldwide quality monotone took up hang-gliding and at last achieved success as the with its subject. Dozens of colour and mono photos. VJ23 won every class in which it was entered. He soon photographs. Colour profiles. 88 landscape pages. 78230 STEAM JOURNEY 108pp, large softback. £19.99 NOW £8 decided to add a small engine and propeller, and in spite £12.99 NOW £5 of being arrested on the beach path near Aldeburgh by Roger Siviter during the trial period, Cook was soon piloting the first Remember standing on the bridge as 76452 LONDON’S CLASSIC BUSES IN BLACK hang-glider to cross the Channel, at 9hp, achieving the the steam train passed beneath, and AND WHITE by John A. Gray being engulfed in thick black smoke lowest-powered flight crossing in the history of aviation. The London Transport “Routemaster” rear entry/exit bus that made your eyes water. TRAVEL AND PLACES Before long he was receiving awards from royalty, first hit the streets of the capital in 1954. This superb Throughout Britain steam is still run making films and setting up in business. 228pp, photos. selection of fully captioned b/w photos taken between on preserved lines, and sometimes £19.99 NOW £8 1948 and 2001 celebrates London’s great buses and the Travel and change of place impart new even on mainlines. This is a look at routes they plied. Gray’s spots the smallest details 78990 THE LIFE OF A the later days of steam, starting vigour to the mind. pertaining to bus, driver, conductor, passengers, roads, with the 1950s when steam engines SAILOR: SEAFARERS’ other vehicles and even street furniture like pillar boxes - Seneca were beginning to be phased out, finally disappearing in VOICES and signage which turns this into far more than just a 1968 from the mainline routes. Also covers industrial by Frederick Chamier collection of photos. And the adverts - “Wool, the steam and investigates South African steam. Superb 78643 ITALY: An Illustrated This eyewitness account of Wealth of the Commonwealth”, Capstan Non-Filters and seafaring in the early 19th century colour and b/w photos. 80pp, 28 x 22cm. History by Joseph Privitera £17.99 NOW £4 Eno’s Fruit Salt - wonderful stuff! 96pp, 9"×10", over was for a long time assumed to be 130 photos, many full page. Italy, the cradle of civilisation. fiction, but recent research has 77859 LIFEBOAT: Courage on Our Coasts £14.95 NOW £4 Without Dante, Petrarch, confirmed its autobiographical by Nigel Millard Michelangelo, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, 76620 MY GOLDEN FLYING YEARS Puccini, Quasimodo and Pirandello, status. Chamier’s experiences at sea Since its founding in 1824, the Royal National Lifeboat by Air Commodore D’Arcy Greig Italy’s history is incomplete. This started in 1809 when at the age of Institution has saved some 140,000 lives at sea, at a The story begins in France in late 1918 when Greig was history is written in the Renaissance 13 he was appointed to the Salsette following a process cost of over 600 lives of servicemen. In 2013 it rescued flying FE2b night bombers, then through the early 1920s mode, covering the full variety of of networking by seafaring relatives. A theme of the an average of 23 people a day around the coast of as he served in Iraq, piloting Bristol fighters for three Italy’s achievements and its cultural book is the way the Navy was riddled with nepotism, Great Britain and Ireland. Its 235 stations house boats years against rebel insurgents and dissident tribesmen. contribution to the modern world. and when Chamier is appointed lieutenant he encounters that are ready to put to sea at a moment’s notice. This Back in England, Greig became an instructor at the A map of the Boot explains its the resentment of the other Midshipmen, older and more magnificently produced book honours the dedication of Central Flying School and finally he recalls his geography and two islands, Sicily and Sardinia, then we experienced but with no hope of promotion. The Salsette those crews who freely give their time and occasionally, experiences commanding RAF’s High Speed Flight and begin at the beginning, 478AD, enter the Barbarians and sees action almost immediately at Flushing and then tragically, their lives in the face of danger, and their participating in the 1929 Schneider Trophy Race. Greig the Middle Ages. Here are city-states, the Medicis, proceeds to the Mediterranean. At Gibraltar one of the families who wait for news when the lifeboats are out. is the master of practical joking, having fun with Venice, invasions, monarchs, the Napoleonic period, seamen is flogged and Chamier’s account is a rare A stunning visual tribute to British coastal waters and explosives and enjoying daredevil high flying adventures Garibaldi, the Knight Errant and Count di Cavour, the example of an eyewitness description of this brutal those who inhabit them, it is a selection of over 300 with other airmen. 276pp, 16 pages of photos. most accomplished statesman, the golden age of Italian punishment. At Smyrna Lord Byron hitches a lift to photos taken by professional photographer and RNLI Constantinople, and Chamier describes Byron’s abortive £20 NOW £6.50 opera and more. Many illus, 144pp. crewman Nigel Millard. With a clockwise £12.50 NOW £5 attempt to swim the Hellespont, followed by a second circumnavigation of the British and Irish coasts, meeting 77262 MAP OF EDINBURGH 1893 more successful bid the next day. In Constantinople crewmen and fundraisers. 240pp, colour, 10¾”×9". by W. & A. K. Johnston 78730 PARIS AND some Turks come aboard and when Chamier tells them £25 NOW £7.50 Map making skills acquired over two generations SURROUNDINGS MAP that smoking is not allowed, they attempt to buy him as ensured that Johnston’s were considered to be the a slave, with the other Midshipmen playing along. When 77148 BRITISH TOY BOATS 1920 by Berlitz Motoring Map foremost mapmakers in the world. The city of Drive in France with confidence the Salsette is ordered for blockading duties Chamier ONWARDS: A Pictorial Tribute Edinburgh annexed neighbouring districts and viewed leaves, joining the Arethusa on a voyage to Africa to ! whether you are a seasoned motorist by Roger Gillham overall, the 1893 map shows a number of elements or first time driver abroad. With a hunt slave traders. Lively and readable. 228pp. Here a concise yet comprehensive record of products of uniquely associated with the city. The grid-like £13.99 NOW £5 quick reference to driving rules and the major manufacturers of British waterborne toy boats regularity of the New Town streets, begun in the east regulations, road signs and common 77562 STEAM TRAILS: Manchester to Leeds from 1920 onwards, plus a listing and description of all around St. James and St. Andrew’s Squares in 1767 is symbols with their English models made, also includes a gripping look at many of striking. The majority of the New Town houses were translations, French words and by Bob Pixton and Eric Bentley the smaller, lesser-known manufacturers. The most actually built in the 19th century. Immediately to the Eric’s love of steam trains is reflected in these superbly phrases and distance indicators to plan prolific toy-boat-producing companies were originally south and bounded by the Castle, gardens and Calton nostalgic photos. They cover everything to do with your journey, our large scale fold out family concerns: the three Lines brothers (Tri-ang), Frank Hill, the density and complexity of Old Town streets is railways from tracks to tunnels, signal-boxes to sidings, colour map extends from Rouen, Hornby (Meccano/Hornby) Frank Denye (Star), immediately apparent. Here too are the newly created water troughs to workings, and a host of oddities. There Chartres, Fontainebleau, Troyes and Geoffrey Jenkins (Bowman) and John Sutcliffe exclusive villa suburbs of the Grange, Blackford and are complicated shots of trains performing shunting Reims in the northwest and the entire (Sutcliffe). A thumbnail account of the history of the Morningside. Topography defines the main features of operations, puffing painfully up hills and crossing rivers city of Paris, its Péripherique and the wonderful areas of various companies is included in each chapter and the the map with the volcanic plugs Arthur’s Seat, Calton, on precarious looking viaducts, not to mention junctions, Montparnasse, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Fully final section documents the Lines family. 141 softback Blackford and Craiglockhart and the Braid Hills. Folded and even shots of sheds. 96 pages 25cm x 19cm, colour indexed, scale 1:200,000. Also one for all Francophiles pages 25cm x 25.5cm, 550 colour illus, glossary. map. or armchair travellers. 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78924 EVEREST 1953 77633 WHEN IN ROME: entranced by a strange and sensual way of life. But a 77110 VENICE: A New History by Mick Conefrey 2,000 Years of Roman harsh and puritanical Islamism, fed by modern by Thomas Madden Sub-titled ‘The Epic Story of the Sightseeing uncertainties, was driving young women to wear the This perfect guide to the magical city of Venice is not First Ascent’ this is a wonderful veil and young men to renounce the old rituals. The only encyclopaedic, encompassing everything from addition to Everest literature. On by Matthew Sturgis mosque loudspeakers grew strident, cultural boundaries Attila the Hun to Katherine Hepburn’s tribulations while the morning of Queen Elizabeth II’s In every age - Classical, Christian, sharpened and as a wave of witch-killings shook the filming Summertime, but also readable and amusing. coronation, the first news ebbed Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, countryside, Beatty and his family began to feel like Peopling his tale with doges, popes, knights, merchants through to the British public that Neoclassical, Romantic or Modern - vulnerable outsiders. Set among the rice fields and and famous figures from Charlemagne to Marco Polo, Everest had finally been conquered. people have flocked to Rome to see volcanoes of Java. 318pp, paperback. and Casanova to Lord Byron, the author explores all Actually beset by crisis and its wonders. The buildings, the £12.99 NOW £4 aspects of Venice’s breathtaking achievements. Here statues, the paintings, the artefacts controversy, both on and off the 78287 BERLIN are the stories of its unparalleled navy, its role as an mountain, from funding panics to that have impressed each generation of travellers from economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its Sherpa rebellions, hostile press to menacing weather, the time of the Roman Republic in the 2nd century BC to by Rory Maclean popularisation of opera, the stunning architecture of its John Hunt and his team had to draw on unimaginable the present age of mass tourism. What did the wealthy Here is an utterly beguiling and watery environs, and more. These are set in the skill and determination to succeed. An intimate insight milords making the Grand Tour in the 18th century original portrait of the city of Berlin, context of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, the into the forgotten personalities behind the ascent, consider the greatest painting of all? And how did this devastated by Allied bombs, crusades to the Holy Land and the power of Turkish including Eric Shipton, the enigmatic ‘Mr Everest’, and differ from the choice of the Romantic poets only a few divided by a Wall, then reunited and sultans. 446 pages, colour plates and maps. Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans who came within 100 decades later? The most unusual questions which are reborn. No other city has $35 NOW £7 metres of being the first to the summit, the book asked and answered in this one-of-a-kind book. 280 repeatedly been so powerful and recounts a bygone age of self-sacrifice and heroism. It pages, colour plates and maps. fallen so low, and few other cities 77134 PANTHER SOUP: A European Journey uses letters and personal diaries to reveal the immense £20 NOW £5 have been so shaped by individual in War and Peace by John Gimlette stress of the climbers which they often heard from their 78040 ANTARCTICA: A Biography imaginations. We encounter an A very special piece of travel writing journeying to past fellow team members. Did Tenzing or Hillary reach the ambitious prostitute refashioning familiar European landmarks with someone who knew by David Day herself as a princess, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her top first? Ralph Izzard of the Daily Mail even hiked up The first ever major international history of the world’s them in the post-war chaos of the 1940s. By the end of to base camp alone to discover the answer, only to be sexuality, and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city World War Two, in the hinterlands of France and across most forbidding and mysterious continent. For centuries Germania. Other names worth mentioning include met with stony silence and a cup of tea. The book it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered the German plains, what happened to the battlefields? charts how the ascent affected the original team in Frederick the Great, Christopher Isherwood, Bertolt Who lived on them? Is there any trace of the 2.7 million continent in the southern hemisphere, but explorers failed Brecht, Leni Riefenstahl, Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels, subsequent years and its immense cultural impact today. to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific, Americans who smashed their way into the Reich or the 322pp, eight pages of mainly colour photos. Bill Harvey and The Tunnel, David Bowie and ‘Heroes’ 12 million who followed? With telling testimony from the Captain Cook sailed further south than any of his rivals, and more volatile and creative characters. 421pp, illus. £20 NOW £7.50 but he had to be content with claiming sub-Antarctic survivors linking old and new worlds, ideals and £9.99 NOW £5 ideologies. 402pp, paperback, photos. 78611 DREAMING OF islands for King George. It was not until 1820 that the 76311 LONELY PLANET NEW YORK CITY: £8.99 NOW £3 TUSCANY: Where to Find the continent’s frozen coast was finally sighted. Territorial rivalry intensified in the 1840s when British, American Special Collector’s Edition 77141 A TRAVELLER’S HISTORY OF GREECE Best There Is and French expeditions sailed south to chart portions of by Brandon Presser et al by Timothy Boatswain and Colin Nicolson by Barbara Milo Ohrbach the continent. Here is the story from 18th century Get the best out of a trip to New York City, the Big This history will help readers to make sense of modern Private gardens, the finest cooking voyages to the explorers of the early 20th century and Apple, with this tried and tested handbook. The top 16 Greece. The gazetteer, cross-referenced to the main schools, the best craftsmen and rivalries of today as governments, scientists and suggestions include Central Park, classic New York eats, text, highlights the importance of sites, towns and workshops, the most elegant environmentalists and oil companies compete for control. the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, battlefields as well as details of ancient battles. 338 antiques markets, food markets 614 heavy pages, 16 pages of photos and a 1703 map the Museum Mile, the inverted ziggurat designed by paperback pages with line drawings, maps, a note on overflowing with cornucopia of local of the world on the endpapers. Frank Lloyd Wright, MoMA, the High Line which is the transliteration, spelling and pronunciation, chronology of produce, tiny museums that open £25 NOW £7.50 disused railway track offering fantastic views during a major events, heads of state since independence and once in a blue moon, astounding art and, naturally, 78106 PALAZZI AND VILLAS OF ROME quiet stroll, Williamsburg, jazz in the West Village, and historical gazetteer. outstanding hotels and restaurants that you will not find good old Times Square. Plus an understanding of the £9.99 NOW £1.75 on TripAdvisor! Between the book’s covers, related in by Caroline Vincenti Montanaro and Andrea Fasolo history, arts, architecture, NYC on screen and painting spectacular colour photography and with the author’s the town pink. Removable New York City map. 77520 ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK: infectious enthusiasm, is the essence of Tuscany. 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How do you survive piquant salami and creamy gelato. Tiny trattorias, amongst its art collection was a Madonna by Raphael, as The Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysées and Grande a charging elephant? What is the best way to serve artisan crafts, vineyards that date from Roman times well as works by Andrea Del Sarto and Pontormo. The Boulevards, the Louvre and Les Halles, Montmartre and polar bear meat? Where do you find water in a desert? and those endless azure skies, this book evokes its 17th century Palazzo Barberini contains what is probably Northern Paris, Le Marais and Ménilmontant, Bastille and Includes David Livingstone, Ernest Shackleton and John subject like no other. Add to that a wealth of practical the most brilliant baroque decoration in a Roman palazzo, Eastern Paris, the Islands, the Latin Quarter, St-Germain Hunt. Discover which famous explorer was cooked by insider info on where to stay, how to rent locally and Pietro de Cortona’s ‘The Triumph of Divine Providence’ and Les Invalides, Montparnasse and Southern Paris, Hawaiian natives, and who was left on an ice floe in the how to get the absolute best from your visit from local with its stunning perspective and glorious colouring. plus day trips, top itineraries, the top 16, museums and Arctic by his drunken captain. 242 pages, line drawings people. 224pp, colour, 9½”×11". Paperback, 192pp. colour photos, 19 x 13cm, rare 2001 galleries, what to see for free, nightlife and drinking, and maps. £12.95 NOW £6 publication. shopping and entertainment, sports and activities. Plus a £10.99 NOW £3.50 ONLY £4 78889 KON-TIKI little bit of history, fashion, architecture, literary Paris, 77571 100 CITIES OF THE WORLD: Book and EXPEDITION 78107 PARIS: An painting and the visual arts and music and cinema. Directory A-Z, transport and language and a Paris city DVD by Falko Brenner by Thor Heyerdahl Architectural Guide Beautifully packaged in a card folder with elasticated by Heinfried Wischermann map. 432pp, colour photos. Paperback. The spirit-lifting adventure is now ONLY £3 fastener is a spectacular large paperback plus 60 minute reissued and updated with a new The 228 buildings featured here are accompanying DVD. We begin in Africa in Algiers and epilogue. It is the classic tale of described in both historical and 76621 A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE EAST Tunis and Casablanca, travel across to Asia, throughout survival against almost architectural detail, while the most INDIES by Alexander Hamilton ! Europe, Central and South America, North America to insurmountable odds when, in 1947, important buildings have in-depth Published in 1970 by Nico Israel of Amsterdam, volumes Oceania landing finally in Auckland and Wellington. For Thor Heyerdahl and five technical descriptions and plans. In one to two are bound in one glorious leather gold blocked each entry there is a geographical location map, facts companions crossed the Pacific 1869, during the construction of a binding and has been edited by Sir William Foster in a about population, places of interest, famous citizens, Ocean on a balsa-wood raft. It was new road, an oval Roman-style facsimile of the 1930 Argonaut Press original. The famous views in large and small colour photographs, an extraordinary bid to prove theatre was unearthed dating from importance of Alexander Hamilton’s account of his sights not to miss whether geographical or historical, the Heyerdahl’s theory that the 100 B.C. This Lutetian Arena could experiences in the East (1688-1723) was written after his beautiful architecture of Lisbon and Vienna, the colourful Polynesians undertook the same feat on similar craft have catered for an audience of great voyages through Europe, to Barbary and to houses of Warsaw, to squares, harbours, churches and over a thousand years ago. From building the model 15,000. The Pont Neuf, the oldest intact bridge in Paris, Jamaica before finally going in 1688 to the East Indies in dramatic skylines. 240 page paperback, colour photos, raft, we are taken deep into the Andes, see Indian was built between 1578-1607, and stretches 233 metres his early 20s. After his return from China, Hamilton in 60 minute colour DVD. women spinning wool as they walk, the explorers across the Seine. In 1993, after the Louvre’s complete 1694 took his first independent venture and appears to £19.99 NOW £8.50 lashing nine big logs together with hemp ropes, ready to renovation, which now includes the outstanding glass have called at Malacca in 1696. He found the survivors start in Callao Harbour and under full sail in the open pyramid, the sculpture collections and several other of the Scottish East India Company’s vessel Speedwell sea. Cooking, the bamboo cabin, beards, catching fish important departments of the museum were finally which, like the Harwich, had been wrecked after to eat, a shark once on deck, tropical heat, coconuts and moved to their new quarters. Paperback, 148pp, photos, careening. In 1702 he hired the Albemarle for a trading reefs and more. 271pp in facsimile reprinted paperback plans. voyage from Surat to the Malabar Coast and back PETS with sadly rather dark original photos. £12.50 NOW £5.50 (volume one page 165) but whether this was before or £9.99 NOW £4 78111 PRAGUE: An Architectural Guide after the Achin venture cannot be determined. The It often happens that a man is more 79065 VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND WALES by Radomira Sedlakova following year he made his fourth voyage to China in a humanely related to a cat or dog than to any 1897: West Wales OS Map The first published guide to the architecture of Prague, ship of 40 guns manned by a crew of over 150 (volume two page 119). An old friend, now a Sultan, offered him human being. by Old House Books ! covering everything important from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. 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78777 67 REASONS WHY CATS ARE BETTER THAN DOGS by Jack Shepherd Walkies! BIOGRAPHY / Beastmaster and Buzz Feed OK, we love cats at Bibliophile as you all know, but websites editorial director Jack Lottie our whippet has chosen this selection! AUTOBIOGRAPHY Shepherd purr-fectly pairs witty text with hilarious photographs 78810 LABRADOR and facts that only National RETRIEVERS A life spent making mistakes is not only Geographic can provide in an by Katharina Schlegl-Kofler more honourable, but more useful than a life age-old battle, cat vs dog. Love reason 64 - cats are ‘Alert, friendly, good-natured, and spent doing nothing. fiercely protective parents. Mother cats love their always eager to please - these are - George Bernard Shaw kittens almost as much as they love giving penetrating the qualities that Labradors use to death stares to anyone with the temerity to mess with sneak into our hearts.’ As far as we them. On the opposite page a little Chihuahua sits at a know, the St John’s Dog, from 78620 FIRST WELL: A party - ‘This mother dog is enjoying a delicious Margarita Newfoundland, was the ancestor of Bethlehem Boyhood while her puppies talk to strangers.’ Cats and dogs dress the Labrador, but because of import laws which took causes, first aid, walking and grooming. With checklists for Halloween, in birthday party hats, caught hiding, effect in 1895 it became difficult to import the dogs and and side bars and colour photos of the most handsome by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra ‘As we began descending the hill wearing a box entitled ‘Poop Factory’, black cat with his so it was necessary to create hybrids from other breeds greys, whites, blacks and our favourite, the brindle. 96 towards the Sultan’s pool, the fangs in a flip-flop, table manners and lap etiquette, with similar characteristics. Thus our much loved page paperback. ramparts of the old city and the snuggling with babies, as students, having conversations Labradors today possibly include water spaniels and $9.99 NOW £2.75 minaret of David the Prophet with their humans, the cat chasing and the dog paddling pointers in their blood. Dog-devotees, particularly Lab- 78845 YORKSHIRE TERRIERS: A Complete became visible to us, bathed as with a baby fox, the contrasting pictures are really lovers, will drool over the glorious photos in this large- Pet Owner’s Manual by Sharon Vanderlip they were in the violet twilight of funny, have captions and nuggets of wisdom. format book. Here are Labradors posing, playing, eating The diminutive but spirited Yorkshire Terrier has always the setting sun...’ Jabra’s love of Ultimately, it advocates the supremacy of cats. and resting, as well as plenty of adorable tumbling been a favourite and is now one of the most popular the Arabic language comes through, Softback, colour photos. puppies. A double-page spread shows all the salient small breed dogs in the world. Who can resist those big even in translation: ‘Words glowed £9.99 NOW £4 points of a Labrador from the shape of its muzzle to the black pleading eyes, long silky coat, blue and tan colours in my mind’ he writes. ‘I imagine otter tail ‘with no feathering.’ Everything you need to 78844 MINI and diminutive size? With a little bow in their hair, shiny myself walking on coloured silk carpets spread over the know about caring for your dog is here; choosing, care, white teeth and an adoring nature, here are all of the waves of a wondrous sea of dreams.’ As a child in ENCYCLOPEDIA: The World house-training, activity, nutrition, disease, breeding, typical Yorkie origins, behaviour, physical traits, British Mandate Palestine, the author recalls daily life in of Koi by Keith Holmes and development and preventive health care. 11"x 9.5", temperament and more. With expert advice on choosing Bethlehem and Jerusalem with pin-sharp observation. Tony Pitham 144pp, colour illus. Illustrated top right. and training your dog, feeding, healthcare, exercise and His writing is funny, moving and tender. His Christian The colourful varieties of koi fish £16.99 NOW £6.50 grooming, health, personality and their meaning, step- family, his school friends and the eccentric characters of make them one of the most 78796 DOGGY PROBLEMS by-step directions for everyday care, checklists and the surrounding streets all come to light. Camels, eating, charming and relatively easy-to- sidebars. Delightful doggie colour photos throughout, 96 drinking, barefoot through the dusty streets and rubbish keep pets. Good filtration and SOLVED by Amanda O’Neill page softback. dumps ‘The heat and sweat were causing my buttocks water quality in your pond are vital In eight sections, Stinky Situations, $9.99 NOW £2.75 to become even more inflamed’, pigs and chickens, if koi are to remain healthy all year Messy Matters, Food Foul-Ups, slave girls, shiny oranges and the school and teachers he round. Our mini encyclopedia is packed with sensible Sexual Stirrings, Problems with 78781 BASSET HOUNDS: A Complete Pet loved, the book ends when he is 13 years old. ‘The advice and practical guidance looking at equipment and People, Wilful on Walks, Horrible at Owner’s Manual by Joe Stahlkuppe beautiful city of Jerusalem was there for me to discover, systems, how to build a pond, and plans and step-by- Home and Doggy Damage, each Everything about purchase, feeding and healthcare in neighbourhood by neighbourhood, stone by stone, the step sequences for both a liner and a brick-built rendered featured problem is lucidly explained one classy Barron’s handbook from this excellent series old part and the new, its past and present. There were pond. Then the best bit - fish and prized exhibits, their and its causes analysed. Does your we have acquired packed with information and advice to also the Egyptian magazines which every week brought anatomy, nutritional needs, healthcare, breeding and dog chase your cat? How do you help you take good care of your Basset Hound. Looks us knowledge, humour and news of Cairo’s political showing in this richly illustrated guide to all colour introduce a new kitten and does at the origins, anatomy, physical traits, temperament, your dog view your pet rabbit as prey? Chasing conflicts and literary battles.’ 216pp in paperback. varieties like the spectacular Hikarimoyo, Koromo, feeding, healthcare, training, grooming, exercise and play £8 NOW £4 Showa and Hikariutsuri with their metallic lustre and joggers, obsessed with following scents, stealing activities for this calm dog, an ideal companion for dark finnage. 208pp in well illus softback, colour photos. children’s toys, going crazy when visitors ring the children. Understand his voice, body language and their 78793 DARLING MONSTER $14.95 NOW £4 doorbell, vomiting, digging up the garden, and more, this meanings, exercising your Basset, grooming, adoption edited by John Julius Norwich superbly presented handbook gives clear guidance on 78586 ANIMAL WISE: The and selection, safety, training, pack behaviour, the five An enticing collection of letters from how to prevent or get rid of misbehaviour. Many basic commands, hunting with your Basset, field trialling the author’s mother that cover the Thoughts & Emotions of Our humorous cartoons on the lighter side of the human- with your Basset, dietary concerns, preventing health period 1939-1952. How could they Fellow Creatures canine relationship. Colour photo, 160pp in large problems, emergency care and more. With dozens of be dull when his mother was the by Virginia Morell paperback. gorgeous puppies and fully grown elongated dogs in aristocratic socialite Lady Diana Virginia Morell is well-known in the $14.99 NOW £3.50 colour photos. 96pp in paperback. Cooper? According to her son, her field of animal behaviour, being a 78834 TRICK IS IN THE $8.99 NOW £2.75 bed was her office, and she would prolific contributor to Science and TRAINING by Stephanie sit there for hours, cross-legged, National Geographic. She explores 78782 BEAGLES: A Complete Pet Owner’s writing in pencil so as not to get ink the frontiers of research on animal Taunton and Cheryl Smith Manual on the sheets. The letters are cognition and emotion and offers Meet Apple, the Australian cattle by Lucia Roesel-Parent and Debbie Bruce vivacious, gossipy, filled with her some amazing insights into the dog demonstrating grapevine, the A Beagle is not an easy pet to keep and requires a lot hearts and minds of wild and figure of eight through the owner’s from you. You have to remain devoted for 12-15 years CONTINUED OVER PAGE domesticated animals, suggesting that there are many legs which looks so impressive. See and provide good, constant and ever more expensive parallels between their behaviour and our own. Did you Gypsy the Border Collie health care. From selecting a breeder and puppy, there guide you can explore the short and sweet, the mid- know that ants can teach, earthworms make rational demonstrating the hoop jump, are tips and fact boxes on kennel conditions, puppy length for mutts, and the long-haired hounds, or model decisions, rats love to be tickled and higher primates Ketchup the Northern Terrier aptitude test on social attraction, following, restraint, your style on Jennifer Aniston, Pocahontas or Russell grieve? Some dogs have 1,000 word vocabularies, demonstrating jumping through your arms and Trouble, social dominance, retrieving, touch, sight, sound Brand. There are even some hilarious doggy disasters. songbirds practise songs in their sleep, crows improvise the Mixed Breed demonstrating the Alley-oop for a hug sensitivity and structure before looking at basic training, 96 pages, photos in colour. tools, jays can plan ahead and even moths can with his owner seated on a low chair. For each trick travelling, good and bad toys, Beagles and children, £7.99 NOW £2.25 there are prerequisites of sitting or standing, the uses of remember when they were caterpillars - incredible stuff! grooming and healthcare, the proper diet, feeding your 76713 KENNEL CLUB: MY DOG & ME: A Animal Wise takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the each performance, the actions to take, timing, command, senior or overweight Beagle, what to do if your Beagle lives of animals from ants to elephants and wolves to signal and problems. Get him to roll over, take a bow, gets sick, body language vs. words, clicker training, Record Book by The Kennel Club sharp-shooting archer fish and rival pods of dolphins play dead, high five or just stay. We have fallen in love jackpotting rewards, all manner of training, besides the Comes in user-friendly stiff ring-bound cardboard with engaged in turf wars like something out of West Side with Matilda, the Basset Hound on page 5! Have fun, history of Beagles for work in the field and Beagle sections for you to enter all the important information Story. Morell takes us to field sites and labs around the learn new things and at the very least have something shows. Filled with attractive doggie colour photos, 96pp about your dog. Starting with your dog’s name, sex, world and introduces us to pioneering researchers and to show off on your walks in the park, or indeed on in paperback. colour, breed and date of birth, there are spaces to their surprisingly intelligent subjects. She probes the YouTube or Facebook! Canine ‘tricks’ are showy $8.99 NOW £2.75 record likes, favourites foods, toys and a paw-print. extensions of your dog’s natural behaviour. Also tips on Pages for details of your vet, kennel, dog walker, pet moral and ethical dilemmas of recognising that even 78825 PUG HANDBOOK by Brenda Belmonte “lesser animals” exhibit memory, feelings and self- putting your dog’s training into use for fun, in store, insurance claims and other important information. Outgoing and fun loving, the personality of the Pug awareness. 292 roughcut pages. competitive shows or even film roles. Instructive and Space to note down health checks, worming and flea $26 NOW £6 fun colour photos. 104pp in large softback. attracts young and old alike and life with one is never treatments with space to enter your dog’s favourite $14.99 NOW £4 dull. Called a Mopsi in Finnish, all of the European places. Ends with a pocket storage to use as a gallery 78803 GUINEA PIGS: A names for the Pug are given and we learn that Prince 78801 GREYHOUNDS: A Complete Pet for photos. 140pp, ringbound folder, colour photos, elastic Complete Pet Owner’s William of Orange in 1688 brought with him a large fastener for when it bulges! Manual by Barron’s Owner’s Manual by D. Caroline Coile number of Pugs to Britain. Covering their origins, kennel £14.99 NOW £3.50 Known since ancient times for its hunting and racing club breeding standards, colour and variations, Guinea pigs are among the oldest prowess, the greyhound is increasingly popular and purchasing your Pug puppy, house training and 77503 SOLOMON’S TALE by Sheila Jeffries domestic animals in South America much loved as a pet, particularly Saving Greys on which destructive chewing, cat chasing, aggression, adoption, Solomon is an old cat waiting to be reincarnated, a tiny ball with a reputation for being a bit there is a whole special chapter in this informative book. breed rescue, retired pugs, we look carefully at food and of fur found on a doorstep in the middle of a thunderstorm. boring and even a little stupid. But Describes the origins, anatomy, physical traits, the finicky eater, coat types and making your Pug He is born the runt of a litter and with the help of his Angel they are also extremely curious and temperament, feeding, healthcare, training, grooming, pretty with pedicures and wrinkle care, the importance learns how to use his Psi-sense, or Satnav as humans call it, adept at learning, provided they exercise and play activities. Understand your of training and the tools and equipment to help you and to locate Ellen, who is now married to Joe. Joe, too, grows are given the proper greyhound’s voice, body language and their meanings your Pug, plus health, disease, performing Pugs with to love him, but Joe has problems. He drinks, is violent and encouragement. They are herd animals and should like the smile, the pleading eyes, eye care and teeth, agility and tracking and showmanship, and the life of the is unable to afford mortgage repayments. There is already a never be kept singly. Learn all about their teeth, ear mites, weight reduction diets, watering the lawn and senior Pug. Colour photos, 168pp in paperback. cat in place by the fire, a flirtatious black and white called tongue, feet, coat, eyes, nose and ears, a day in the life not the floors and other little accidents and their possible £10.99 NOW £4 Jessica. 227pp. of a guinea pig, guidelines for happiness, determining £8.99 NOW £3.50 their sex, photography and guinea pig portraits, making them a welcome home, courtship rituals and parenting, 78278 AFTER CLEO CAME JONAH chubbiness and weight, exciting indoor and outdoor by Helen Brown exercise areas, sickness and health. With informative The bestselling author of ‘Cleo’, like many of us, Helen and attractive checklists and side bars and handsome Brown swore she would never get another kitten. colour photos. 64 page paperback. Some say your previous cat chooses their successor. If £7.99 NOW £3 so, what in cat heaven’s name was Helen’s beloved Cleo thinking when she sent a crazy kitten like Jonah? 78833 TRAINING YOUR PET But while she was recovering from surgery, an FERRET by Gerry Bucsis and unscheduled visit to a pet shop resulted in the explosive Barbara Somerville arrival of the Siamese kitten. Helen was struggling with Not quite as cute as a meerkat, but her eldest daughter Lydia whose craving to become a Buddhist nun in war torn Sri Lanka was matched by increasingly popular as family pets, 78275 A GIFT FROM BOB 78528 CAT WIT by Kate May ferrets are furry, cuddly and Jonah’s yearning to be an outdoor cat in a decidedly by James Bowen Quips and quotes for the feline-obsessed and those who bursting with energy - and very indoor cat neighbourhood. Heart warming reading. Bob is quite a famous cat now; he has featured in think their magnificent moggy really is the cat’s loveable. If you are thinking about 324pp, paperback. several books like A Street Cat Named Bob, as well as pyjamas, here are quotes on fantastic felines to dip your buying one or already have one, £8.99 NOW £3 on YouTube and other media sites. James, at one time a paw into. ‘I don’t know he’s there until I yawn and my here is the only book currently on homeless drug addict, rescued Bob a few years ago and mouth closes on a whisker.’ ‘Anything not nailed down 78274 CAT IN THE WINDOW the market that speaks directly to the issue of training. nursed him back to health. James busks and sells Big is a cat toy.’ ‘A meow massages the heart.’ 191 pages by Derek Tangye The good news is that you can begin ferret training at Issue while Bob sits on his shoulder. This wonderful, of cat wisdom, glamour pusses and cat worship since the any time, though the sooner the better for a happier ‘I first met Monty in room 205 of the Savoy Hotel. He was warm account tells how James desperately needed to days of Ancient Egypt, P. G. Wodehouse to today’s ferret and owner. Some ferrets don’t like the smell of six weeks old, and when I came in the room he was earn money a few Christmases ago. It was snowy, YouTube videos. Bitter Apple spray. Tape down a plastic rubber to tumbling, chasing, biting an old typewriter ribbon dragged bitterly cold, and he had to pay his gas and electric bills £9.99 NOW £4 protect your carpet. Learn about hazardous houseplants. temptingly across the carpet. He was the size and colour of as well as buy some food. It didn’t help when he tripped Get your ferret to perch comfortably on your shoulder or a handful of crushed autumn bracken.’ The Minack on ice and smashed his guitar. Yet people rallied round, 76659 DOG HAIR: The Best Doggy Hair-Dos hitch a ride in your hoodie. Lots of tricks, safety in the Chronicles tell the story of how Derek Tangye and his wife and suddenly James realised how lucky he was to have for Fashion-Conscious Hounds! car, special toys and bedding, winter warmth, walking edited by Clare Churly Jean left behind their cosmopolitan lifestyle in London to so many friends. And Bob was happy too, just so long relocate to a cliff top daffodil farm in Cornwall, where they on a leash, coming when called, poop safety, it is a no- Just as with humans, a new haircut can transform a as no one tried to rearrange his beloved Christmas tree lived in a simple cottage surrounded by their beloved nonsense Barron’s publication. Colour photos puppy, whether you give it an image of carefully coiffed which had to be ‘just so’. 178pp, sketches. animals. The second in the series and tells of their beloved throughout, 80 page paperback. class, sporty sass or a blast from the past. From the £12.99 NOW £5 ginger cat Monty. 106pp, paperback. ONLY £3 Mohawk to the mullet, the bob to the beehive, with this £6.99 NOW £3.50 Biography / Autobiography continued www.bibliophilebooks.com 17 observations on the world in general. Her husband, Duff 78514 WEST’S WORLD 78299 HOW DID I GET HERE 77130 IT WASN’T ME, SIR! Cooper, ran the Ministry of Information for Winston by Lorna Gibb FROM THERE? The Childhood and Churchill. Diana writes to her son, ‘Papa came home all Born at the end of the Victorian era, by Claire Rayner Schooldays of Bernard Carter right about nine, as Winston dines at seven in a little blue Rebecca West spent her life in For 40 years Claire Rayner listened by Bernard Carter sort of workman’s overall suit. He looks exactly like the rebellion and was a pioneering to the nation’s stories. It is no In a style best described as verbal good pig who built his house of bricks.’ Speaking of a tea feminist in matters of sex. Her most secret that happiness was spread a slapstick, this book recounts the party she held in 1949, with Princess Margaret as a famous affair was with H.G. Wells, bit thinly in her far-from-easy young life of a boy, set in and guest, she wrote ‘She might have been one of our own who fathered her son Anthony early childhood. Born in Stepney, East around a new post-war estate in daughters - gay and talkative, funny and as attractive in their 10-year relationship and London, with a father always on the Derby. Children spent their school as a mother could wish. We made her talk and tell us caused Rebecca endless heartache. run and often with his family in tow days dodging flying chalk, airborne journey stories and good she was about the Pope. “O She met him after she had written meant the family constantly blackboard rubbers and other he was ever so sweet. I was told I must curtsey to him an unfavourable review of one of changed addresses and sometimes missiles. There was no escaping three times. I imagined I should have room but when Wells’s books and their relationship was turbulent, full of even their names. Then when she the trauma and misery of Sports the door opened he was right there and I went - donk - intense passion and intellectual cut and thrust. Wells was was 14, pretending she was 17, Claire enrolled as a Day, the mortifying experience of the Christmas nativity donk - donk into his lap.” I expect donk is the family unfaithful to both Rebecca and his wife, and by 1953 nursing cadet at the Epsom Cottage Hospital in Surrey, play or the ghastliness of a recorder concert. As boys word for curtsey, don’t you?’ Anecdotes abound, from Rebecca was looking for some stability in her life. She and found her vocation, caring for and helping others. matured, more agony was piled on with sweethearts, her aged godmother suddenly shuffling off into a corner was one of the generation who found it difficult to marry She eventually became the advice columnist girlfriends, lost loves. 190 paperback pages. and wriggling to remove her drawers as the elastic had because of the scarcity of young men, and she issued extraordinaire, at one point receiving 1000 letters a £9.99 NOW £4 broken to a true story told to her by David Niven of the Wells with an ultimatum. He told her to disregard the week. 434pp, paperback, photos. 65266 STIRRED BUT NOT SHAKEN: The way a Commando tricked the Germans on the Channel scandal that followed her everywhere, and in despair £8.99 NOW £4 Islands into revealing the number of officers and men in she started an affair with Max Beaverbrook. Wells Autobiography the garrison. Amusing, gossipy, indiscreet; these letters meanwhile was being pursued by an infatuated admirer 78181 THERE WAS A COUNTRY: A Memoir by Keith Floyd and James Steen are a joy. 520pp, b/w illus. Remainder mark. called Hedwig Gattenrigg who slashed her wrists in an by Chinua Achebe Keith was one of the first celebrity chefs, the $40 NOW £10 effort to gain his undivided attention. In 1930 Rebecca Born in Nigeria to Igbo parents who had converted to swashbuckling cook who crossed the high seas on a BBC married a wealthy man but their marriage soon became Christianity, Achebe distinguished himself academically budget and communicated his love of food to millions of 78923 E. M. FORSTER: A New viewers. He has made and lost fortunes, been married Life by Wendy Moffat sexless and she looked elsewhere. In 1946 she renewed at a very early age. Achebe went on to the acquaintance with a lawyer, Francis Biddle, who was Government College in Umuahia, where English was four times, and dealt with a level of fame that has Based on extensive research to spoken and many of the teachers had degrees from bemused him. In this honest and revealing memoir, he Forster’s previously-restricted diaries the primary American judge at the Nuremberg trials, and Rebecca accompanied him, writing articles for the London Cambridge. He won a major scholarship to university in whooshes the reader through his adventures, from the at King’s College, Cambridge, this Ibadan and felt pressured into studying medicine, though hilarious to the downright lunatic. 349 pages with colour sensitively written biography is the press which were avidly read by the public. When Rebecca died, Bernard Levin described her reporting as he later changed to the Arts, losing his funding. Achebe’s and b/w photos. first to show how deeply his ideas first job was with Nigerian broadcasting and here he met £18.99 NOW £6 on freedom, tolerance, sexuality and “unrivalled”. 320pp, photos. £8.99 NOW £4 his wife Christie. In 1966 an even greater disaster befell 76485 SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS: People and love permeated every aspect and the country with the massacre of Igbo Nigerians by the act of his life and work. One of the 77176 HER BRILLIANT dominant northerners. The Biafran war followed in which Places by Asa Briggs great mysteries in the life of E. M. CAREER: Ten Extraordinary Achebe supported the Biafrans who had seceded. He Asa Briggs visits Leeds, Birmingham, Chicago and Forster (1879-1970) is why, after Women of the Fifties narrowly escaped being killed when his house was Melbourne among places that figure in his own ‘map of the publication of A Passage to India in 1924, he never bombed, and his friend Christopher Okigbo was killed learning’, a term that he was the first to use. He also published another novel although he lived to be 90 years by Rachel Cooke speculates on time travel, the history of wine and sport. Sheila van Damm became not only fighting. Achebe progresses during the book from being a old. At the end of his last novel his readers were left highly educated product of the colonial system to a His career has been as unconventional as this book and with the melancholy sight of Aziz and Fielding, friends of a theatre owner but a successful outside academic life he focuses on his wide range of rally car driver in a sport peopled passionate critic of its legacy. 333pp, paperback. different races and cultures, riding out of the novel down $17 NOW £5 friends including John Reith, Dennis Foreman, Harold separate paths. It would not be until after his death that only by testosterone-fuelled males. MacMillan, Jim Callaghan, Denis and Edna Healey, Maurice, his novel of a homosexual affair, would be Patience Gray became a successful 78304 LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL Richard Crossman, Penelope Lively, P. D. James and published. E. M. Forster led a full and energetic life, as cookery book writer. Alison John Sainsbury among them. 242pp, colour photos. Smithson succeeded as a female DOWNTON ABBEY a successful broadcaster, leading figure in Europe’s by The Countess of Carnarvon £19.99 NOW £3.50 intellectual life and brilliant essayist. Apparently casually architect. Rose Heilbron dominated the court as a Queen’s Counsel. Trouser-wearing rebels Almina Carnarvon was an enormously wealthy heiress, 77048 LAST LION: Winston Spencer Churchill assembled, Abinger Harvest and Two Cheers for the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild. She Democracy are two of the most influential 20th century Nancy Spain and Joan Werner Laurie became by William Manchester and Paul Reid respectively a journalist and an editor. Margery Fish was contracted in marriage to the fifth Earl of Carnarvon ! essay collections. He helped create the more tolerant who most famously discovered the tomb of The much-heralded third and final volume of William world we know today with the support of colleagues was a famous plantswoman, and Jacquetta Hawkes an Manchester’s biography of Winston Spencer Churchill archaeologist. All showed what women could be Tutankhamun with Howard Carter. The book is about from Lowes Dickenson and Constantine Cavafy to this extraordinary woman, the family into which she ‘Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965’. Beginning shortly Christopher Isherwood and Benjamin Britten. 408pp. capable of. 324 pages. Archive photos. after Churchill became Prime Minister when Great Britain £18.99 NOW £2.50 married, Highclere Castle that became her home, the 16 pages of photos. people who worked there, and the transformation of the stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi £25 NOW £7 77926 A GULL ON THE ROOF Castle when it became a hospital for wounded soldiers Germany, Churchill organised his nation’s military by Derek Tangye during WW1. Almina expected a life of sumptuous response and defense, compelled FDR to support 78703 WHY BE HAPPY America’s beleaguered cousins and personified the ‘never By the author of the much-loved books collectively banquets and expensive dresses when she married at WHEN YOU COULD BE surrender’ ethos that helped to win the war. We see known as ‘The Minack Chronicles’ here are his tales from 19. But life at Highclere changed forever and Almina Churchill driven from office, rising to warn the world of NORMAL? a Cornish flower farm. His books told of how he and his and her staff were forced to draw on their deepest the coming Soviet menace and hear him speak in by Jeanette Winterson wife Jean left behind their cosmopolitan lifestyle in reserves of courage. 310pp, paperback, colour illus. opposition to the socialist policies of the Labour The providence of this book’s title is London to relocate to a cliff top daffodil farm in Cornwall, £9.99 NOW £5 government. After his triumphant return to 10 Downing possibly one of the most telling and where they lived in a simple cottage surrounded by their 78305 LADY CATHERINE AND THE REAL Street, we follow Churchill as he pursues his final foreign heart-wrenching parts of this beloved animals. This title is the first in the series, policy goal - a ‘summit at the top’ with President Dwight poignant memoir regarding the telling of their departure from the city and how they DOWNTON ABBEY Eisenhower and the Soviet chiefs. Hobbled by ill health author’s lesbianism. Born in came to Minack which would be home to the Tangyes by the Countess of Carnarvon and age, he faces the end. Completed by Paul Reid Manchester in 1959 and adopted into and their menagerie including Monty the ginger cat. In 1922 the young Lord Porchester, known as Porchey after William Manchester’s series of strokes. A a family of Pentecostal evangelists, 216pp, paperback. to his friends, married the beautiful American Catherine monumental 1182 pages. Remainder mark. Jeanette Winterson is best known for her prizewinning £6.99 NOW £3 Wendell. Porchey’s father was Lord Carnarvon, the semi-autobiographical debut novel Oranges Are Not the discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamen, and shortly $40 NOW £14 Only Fruit. This soul-baring memoir is the story of her 77966 CITY LIGHTS & STREETS AHEAD after their marriage Carnarvon died suddenly, leaving 77177 HOUSE IN SOUTH ROAD life’s work to find happiness. Growing up with “a by Keith Waterhouse Porchey as the heir to Highclere Castle, now known to by Joyce Storey religious zealot disguised as a mother” with two sets of It is 1952 and Keith has arrived in Fleet Street, in the millions as the setting of Downton Abbey. The Born near Bristol in 1917, Joyce began her teeth (matt for everyday and pearlised “for best”) plus a days of long liquid lunches, of eccentric and inspired Porchesters’ marriage began to suffer because of autobiography at the age of 66. It follows her pre-war revolver in the top drawer in a northern industrial town newspapermen and of foreign assignments. In 1959 Porchey’s affairs, and in the mid-thirties he developed a life in Bristol, an era of corset and chocolate factories, of in the 60s and 70s, frequently locked out of the house Waterhouse teamed up with Willis Hall to write the stage more serious relationship with Tanis Montagu, a member ‘service’ and glamorous silent movies. During the war, and spending the night on the doorstep, it is a painful play of his novel Billy Liar. It was the start of a prolific of the wealthy Guinness family. Meanwhile Catherine, like countless other women with an RAF husband rarely past. Winterson thought she had bested her demons, but partnership that produced dozens of scripts for TV, stage who was a close friend of Prince George, had on leave, she fights on the home front - air raids, in- they rose again, sending her on a journey to madness and screen. Waterhouse tells of Hollywood days with opportunities to observe the struggles of his brother laws, machine work and poverty. Then after the war, and back in search of her biological mother, who she Hitchcock and Disney, and Hollywood nights with the David, the heir to the throne, to gain acceptance for his Joyce begins to enjoy the luxury of a prefab house, first eventually tracked down a few years ago - named Ann, Rolling Stones and Cap’n Bob Maxwell, the decline of divorced mistress Wallis Simpson. Catherine finally had holidays, the growing independence of her four children, still living in Manchester and a follower of her lost Fleet Street and his own successful adventures as a solo to agree to a divorce from Porchey, who set off to meet but suffers a breakdown in her marriage and her daughter’s career. She also reveals that Jeanette’s (or playwright with director Ned Sherrin. A lyrical and very Tanis in New York, only to find that she had a new husband’s final illness. 436pp, paperback, family photos. Janet as she named her) father was a rather handsome funny memoir. 469pp in omnibus paperback. lover and was no longer interested. Catherine herself £8.99 NOW £3.50 teddy boy, then touchingly texts her after their first £12.99 NOW £5 later found happiness with Geoffrey Grenfell until his meeting “I hope you weren’t disappointed”. US edition death in combat. See the convoluted relationships of this 77480 IN PLAIN SIGHT: The Life and Lies of of 230 roughcut pages. 77985 TIMEBENDS: A Life aristocratic family. 350pp, photos. Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies £14.99 NOW £6 by Arthur Miller £20 NOW £6 This fascinating book tells the story of Savile’s life based Arthur Miller dared to enter the fire that surrounded the 78669 MORTALITY 78320 THE PRINCE, THE PRINCESS AND THE on the author’s interviews with Savile himself, with his most potent sexual myth of the century. His plays have friends and with people who saw what was going on. by Christopher Hitchens and Graydon Carter been performed for over half a century, among them All PERFECT MURDER by Andrew Rose Christopher Hitchens was one of the most widely read Interspersed with the life is the story of how the BBC My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. This The strikingly attractive Marguerite Alibert, better axed the Newsnight programme and then found and controversial writers of the late 20th and early 21st autobiography recalls his childhood in Harlem and known in Paris as Maggie Meller, had a ‘crazy physical century. The articles he wrote for the world’s best themselves under investigation for a cover-up. 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Here are events, including Britain’s worst civilian wartime disaster Nathan in London, but the rest of the family had alcoholism, gambling and womanising. Family trees, the rigours of a school, working life in a sweet factory, at Bethnal Green tube station in 1943. 240 pages, perished. 304pp. photos. 575pp, paperback. Remainder mark. the ups and downs of married life and the perils of archive photos, map and plans. £20 NOW £8.50 $16.99 NOW £4 rationing. 128 paperback pages, photos. £20 NOW £8 £12.99 NOW £4.50 CONT. ON PAGE 35 20 Biography cont. from page 17 OverORDER 700 HOTLINE: book reviews 020 www.YouTube.com 74 74 24 74 - Type in bibliophilebooks 77295 BRUCIE: The 77720 CORONATION OF NAPOLEON 77661 LANGUAGE OF Biography of Sir Bruce 78645 JERUSALEM STONE PAINTED BY DAVID ORNAMENT Forsyth by Jules Stenson AND SPIRIT: 3000 Years of by David Chanteranne and Sylvain Laveissiere by James Trilling Sir Bruce Forsyth is perhaps best History and Art David’s huge painting of Napoleon’s coronation Whether in the monumental remembered for hosting The by Dan Bahat and dominates a wall of the Louvre and is admired by architecture of Mycenaean Greece Generation Game and much more Shalom Sabar thousands every year. Around 180 of the faces were or the inlaid vessels of the Zhou recently Strictly Come Dancing. The spiritual home of the world’s portraits and a useful table indicates the names of those Dynasty China, in the bronze He got his big break in 1958 when three monotheistic religions, who have been identified. Close-ups give the viewer a mirrors of early Celtic Britain or the he was asked to host the TV series Jerusalem is a crossroads of art, ringside seat at the event, including subtle nuances of carved and woven ornament of Sunday Night at the London architecture and history on a unique expression on the part of key players. Dignitaries such as Native Americans, the erotic Palladium. The original two-week scale. Since 1004BC, when King Talleyrand look on approvingly, while the expressions of temple at Khajuraho, India, six silk stint ended up lasting five years David declared it to be the capital of the clergy are more enigmatic. 64pp, softback, over 30 textiles from France, modern-day tattoos, American and he went on to present game his kingdom of Israel, until it was proclaimed the new full-page colour reproductions. knotted rugs, embroidered riding coats from early 19th shows like The Price is Right and You Bet! and capital of the State of Israel in 1948, the city has been •15 NOW £3.75 century India, bronze and iron helmets with coral inlays developed catchphrases that were to last a lifetime - the arena of countless events that reflect the history of late 4th century BC found in Italy, ceramic plates, a 77727 WAR PHOTOGRAPHY: From The ceremonial lance-head from 17th century Java, here is ‘Nice to see you, to see you, nice.’ Insight into his life Western and Middle Eastern culture. 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In addition to the Old Testament young Russian boys in military uniform, Ismail Pacha before gaining qualifications from the Cordon Bleu School prophets, Jesus preached and disseminated His gospel in woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial in Paris. As editor for Housewife and Ideal Home and his attendants, 1855, Lord Burgheish in a group at Museum of Art in Tokyo. Hiroshige (1797-1858) was Jerusalem, and also made His final mortal appearance Head Quarters, inside the hospitals and infirmaries, on magazine, Mary published her first cookbook ‘The there, and 600 years later Mohammed ascended to one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. His Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook’ in 1970 and hasn’t looked the canals, an explosion, armaments and bombs, ruins greatest talent was in creating landscapes of his native heaven from the site of the Dome of the Rock. This and the deserted city of Atlanta, portraits and prisons. back since. But her personal life has been touched by magnificent book does full justice to the holy places, Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and his final masterpiece was tragedy, as her son William was killed in a car accident 62 sepia and duotone illus, paperback. a series known as “One Hundred Famous Views of world-altering personalities and breathtaking landscapes £6.95 NOW £3 at the age of just 19. 244pp, colour photos. of a city that have Edo” (1856-1858). This resplendent complete collection £17.99 NOW £3.50 captivated artists and 76946 VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN pairs each of the 120 illustrations with a description, clerics of the Abrahamic allowing readers to plunge themselves into Hiroshige’s 77572 A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR FURNITURE AND INTERIORS beautifully vibrant landscapes. 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After the war she worked in advertising and Eilean Donan, which encapsulate the romance of the Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel, A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once in New York’s Madison Avenue, where she met her Highlands. The moated ‘medieval’ castle of Braylsham whereupon he returned to an astonishingly successful unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era. husband, the historian Alan Barker. She became a was in fact completed only in 1998. All the castles are career as a painter and teacher at the Pennsylvania Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic Cambridge City Councillor, then Mayor of Cambridge, redolent of the past, and a potent symbol of status and Academy of Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins and Thomas environment, as well as for their use of steel and glass before moving to Whitehall. They just don’t make them achievement. 200 pages 30cm x 26cm in glorious colour Anschutz. 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See also Chapel of was renowned for his often Modern Life’ considers modern painters particularly by Nigel Strudwick the Rosary (1947-51) and The Piano Lesson (1916). The puzzling, disturbing art works, William Powell Frith and the influence Dickens had upon Author Nigel Strudwick is book concludes with Matisse’s stained glass designs and especially during the 1930s. He them. ‘Dickens and the Social Realists’ sees Pat Hardy Assistant Keeper of Egyptian wall decorations for the chapel at Vence. 192pp, 98 created 1,200 oil paintings and looking at a later group of artists, Frank Holl, Hubert Antiquities at the British Museum superb full page colour reproductions of the 129 included, countless illustrations and writings. Herkomer and Luke Fildes. Included such moving art as and has produced several major authoritative text, chronology. 26 x 31.8cm. Refreshingly, this book focuses on George Frederic Watts’ ‘Found Drowned’ and travelling exhibitions. He and his $60 NOW £17.50 his later works, from the 1940s onwards, encompassing Cruikshank’s ‘The Drunkard’s Children’ wood engraving. wife have worked on the excavation of the Theban such themes as his classism and his ‘nuclear mysticism’. Colour reproductions, engravings, watercolours and Necropolis since 1984. He guides us through the 77738 LASTING ELEGANCE: English Country Amongst the many art works depicted are The Maximus etchings. 188 large pages, softback. Museum’s magnificent ancient Egyptian and Sudanese Houses 1830-1900 Speed of Raphael’s Madonna, Christ of Saint John of the £23.80 NOW £6 collection, arguably the world’s most comprehensive and by Michael Hall Cross, Madonna of Port Lligat, The Medusa and the 77725 FIGURES AND PORTRAITS impressive. We begin with an introduction to and The eclecticism of the architect Charles Barry was absolutely amazing (and long-winded) Fifty Abstract chronology of Ancient Egypt, a history of the Museum’s typical of the period. Barry made his name with Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into by Françoise Heilbrun Egyptian collection and a map of the chief archaeological Florentine Renaissance styles but when he was Here are not only Lewis Carroll’s portraits of young girls, Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen sites. Then, arranged chronologically, we get right up commissioned to design the Houses of Parliament he but also Emile Zola, Alfred Stieglitz’s Portrait of Man from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal close to over 200 of the most important and visually was equally able to turn his hand to the new fashion for Ray, Paul Strand’s 1917 photograph of dirty faced New Tiger. Dali developed a fascination for optical effects and impressive objects from the collection. Examples include Gothic. Shortly afterwards he was employed to remodel Yorkers, theatrical portraits, and an Edgar Degas auto illusions, incorporating them into many of his works, and a wall painting of the martyrdom of the saints (Coptic/ Highclere Castle and produced the magnificent Victorian portrait with two female friends c1895; beautiful later, with the help of photographer Philippe Halsman, Byzantine period, 6th century AD), bronze figure of a pile in Elizabethan style which we know nowadays as actresses, daring countesses one showing her legs, he translated his ideas into photographic form. The seated cat, sarcophagus lid of Sasobek, stela, reliefs, the façade of Downton Abbey. Cardiff Castle is a riot of several series of photographs, groups of women, Julia astonishing art work In Volupate Mors, 1951, depicted papyri, statues, lintels, masks, heads, paintings, an unrestrained Gothic fantasy as Burges indulged his Margaret Cameron’s portrait of William Holman Hunt, naked figures forming a skull and it was recreated ‘in the oracular shabti decree, a letter from Thebes on papyrus knowledge of 13th century French design and coupled it 1864, and of Carlyle three years later, of Virgina Woolf’s flesh’ by the photographer. Another photographic work, and burial assemblage including chests, jars and coffins. with a taste for oriental plasterwork. The Arts and Crafts mother and the beautiful Maud. A small collection of Dali Atomicus used high-speed equipment to depict Dali Each is photographed in eye-popping, full-page colour movement found inspiration in Tudor vernacular building internationally photography, 1850-1918. Sepia and jumping in mid-air with three cats and a bucket of water, and on the adjacent page Strudwick provides an expert and Old Place, Lindfield, was the stained glass designer duotone, paperback. and was achieved by staging the action 26 times. A description, history and detailed analysis from a C.E. Kempe’s design for his own living space. See also stunning collection of images from the man whose £6.95 NOW £3.50 professional’s viewpoint. As Philip Webb’s Art and Crafts interiors at Standen. moustache became an icon in its own right. 11x8", 77492 MANET: Portraying Life well as the Museum’s world Lavishly illustrated with 150 reproductions from Country 176pp. Colour and b/w illus. by Brian Kennedy and Christopher Le Brun famous artefacts such as the Life. Colour. 192pp. £25 NOW £15 Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was the quintessential Rosetta Stone and the Great $65 NOW £12 painter of modernity. By depicting the Paris of his day, Harris Papyrus, the book 68629 PAINTINGS OF ALICE DALTON 77713 ARTIST’S STUDIO features a wealth of less BACK IN by Dominique de Font-Reaulx and transforming his sitters into actors in his scenes of STOCK everyday French life, he captured the 19th century well-known but equally BROWN by April Kingsley These gorgeously furnished studios, outdoor studios urban experience, legitimising ‘modern life’ as an artistic significant and beautiful Virtually unknown in Britain and very reminiscent of packed with organised clutter, easels and works in subject. Here, leading authorities analyse the influence pieces. Ranges from the Edward Hopper, we love the paintings of the American progress, give us a glimpse of talent and mastery at on the artist of 17th century Dutch painters, identify earliest pre-Dynastic pots artist Alice Dalton Brown. Combining a clapperboard work. In picture no.20 (of 62) see Pierre Bonnard’s several parallels with the work of Renoir, and find links and figurines, right through white, New England style architecture, porches and portrait of Rodin sculpting a bust, 1897 and Camille with early photography. Two key portraits owned by the 3,000 year reign of the verandas, a beautiful mosaic swimming pool in what Corot working en plein air, 1871. Paul Delaroche and the Toledo Museum of Art - Portrait of M. Antonin pharaohs with their golden seems to be the Florida Keys with lush palm trees Honoré Daumier, models including nudes, flowers in the Proust and Mme Edouard Manet - are here joined by a funerary items and on to hanging over, finely draped windows looking onto huge studio of Emile Gallé, Henri Matisse and Rembrandt profusion of other masterpieces by a remarkable artist to Roman Egypt and the Coptic seascapes, this artist’s paintings genuinely look like Bugatti at the zoo are some of the fascinating subjects. present a cornucopia of delights. 213 pages 28cm by Christian period. 352pp, 8¾” photographs. These are timeless distillations of a near Sepia and duotone still life capsules from a bygone era. 24.5cm in colour with photographs of models and sitters. square. perfect world, sanctuaries for the spirit and deep-seated Paperback. £35 NOW £12.50 $39.95 NOW £14 memories. 77 colour plates, 75 b/w. 132 large pages. £6.95 NOW £3 £35 NOW £6 Hugewww savings.bibliophile on finebook arts .combooks 21

77974 INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS 78089 ART MYSTERIES: Leonardo, Mona Lisa 75128 EDWIN LUTYENS by Karen Livingstone by Marco Carminati 78056 EDWARD JERMAN: COUNTRY HOUSES: From the and Linda Parry The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world 1605-1668 The Archive of Country Life A magisterial study with 320 colour plates and 40 black but who was La Gioconda and where, when and for Metamorphosis of a Master and white illustrations presenting a compelling whom was it painted? Why did Leonardo never finish or by Gavin Stamp sell it? From Fontainebleau to The Louvre we are Craftsman by Helen Collins The match between Edwin Lutyens reassessment of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and an Following the Great Fire of London invaluable visual record of an ever-popular era of design. invited to interpret the Mona Lisa, the Femme Fatale or (1869-1944) and Country Life was Smiling Face. Covering the 1911 theft, here are the in 1666, Edward Jerman, one made in architectural heaven. Its pioneers included William Morris, C. R. Ashbee and considered ‘The City’s most able Walter Crane. Their idealistic principles were first taken secrets of the illustrious and misunderstood masterpiece, Lutyens’ celebrated collaborator revealed in close-up detail in this fabulously illustrated known artist’ was invited by a Gertrude Jekyll introduced him to up in America and Europe and adapted to each country’s committee composed of the cultural climate. In America, Arts and Crafts became guide. Every crack, nook and cranny is displayed and the magazine’s then editor, Edward investigated forensically - the hands that speak, the Corporation of the City and the Hudson, in 1889. Hudson commissioned him to design the first home-grown artistic movement and swept Mercer’s Company to make designs for the new Royal figures of the calibre of Frank Lloyd Wright and Gustav bosom, the smile, with or without eyebrows. With a the new Country Life offices in Covent Garden in 1904 short life and times of Leonardo da Vinci and a superb Exchange. Born into a dynasty of seven master- and a further three country houses. An extensive and Stickley into its orbit. Its last great sphere of influence craftsmen who worked in the City of London from 1520 was Japan, from 1926 to 1945, where it flourished as gatefold colour double page, 80 pages. masterly introductory essay by the esteemed £16.95 NOW £5.75 until 1678 and spanning six reigns, Edward designed architectural historian Gavin Stamp, plus his commentary the Mingei (Folk Crafts) Movement. The urban modern pageants to celebrate several Lord Mayor’s days, as well on the 22 featured buildings, each representative of aesthetic counted among its leaders the potters Hamada 78284 ARCHITECTURE OF as the Coronation of Charles II. Born in 1605, Edward phases of Lutyens’ career, is a grand pictorial odyssey. Shoji and the Englishman Bernard Leach and their LONDON died just 63 years later, two years after the Great Fire, There are superb examples of his Surrey-vernacular influence abroad. Published to coincide with a major but in that time managed to plan and oversee many exhibition at the V&A in London, this is a glamorous huge by Edward Jones and Christopher style with its gables, timber and sweeping planes of tiled Woodward prestigious buildings including eight Livery Company roof, such as Fulbrook House, early Arts and Crafts hardback, 368pp, packed with colour including a dining halls and St. Paul’s School. This in-depth investigation houses such as Goddards and Little Thakeham, his room designed by Gustav Klimt, earthenware, clothing, From John Nash’s elegant crescents to into the man and his creations contains information on his carefully composed Classical houses like Heathcote and a dressing table, stained-glass doors and lamps, Lubetkin’s uncompromising high-rise career as he rises from city worker to pageant maker his grandest photogravure ‘Spring Showers - the Street Cleaner’ by blocks, from Wren’s churches to the and through to his work at the Royal Exchange, together country house Alfred Stieglitz and the warm-toned silver prints of Victorian Byzantine of Westminster with that done for other City companies. It also has a of all, Middleton Edward S. Curtis, church interiors and hand-woven linen Cathedral, from the Roman City Hall to chapter on the Park in hangings like Godfrey Blount’s ‘The Spies’, plus beautiful St. Pancras International, this guide Jerman family, Oxfordshire. watercolours and paintings. offers a critical appraisal of London’s gleaned from the 200 b/w £40 NOW £11 architecture. Updated in 2009, it has records of the photos, many over 1000 entries illustrated with beautifully detailed Carpenters’ 78032 MEMORIES OF A LOST WORLD colour photographs. Entries are arranged chronologically double-page. by Charlotte Fiell and James Ryan Company. 192pp, within geographical sections and are clearly pinpointed 208pp, illus, 19 x 10"×12", The story of the ‘Magic Lantern’ projector stretches back on the corresponding colour maps. We start in gorgeous 25cm. softback. 200 years, before the advent of photography. It is part Georgian Hampstead with such houses as Fenton House of a wonderful tradition of optical projection alongside built in 1693 and a beautiful white stuccoed house called £42.25 £20 NOW £8 the Camera Obscura, Shadow Shows and the Magic Admiral’s House from the mid 18th century to the Vale NOW £9 Mirror. Charlotte Fiell has painstakingly trawled through of Health. A superb chronological time chart shows the thousands of images to collect 900 of the very best such development of major trends and influences and there is 77740 LIFE: THE CLASSIC COLLECTION: as the Kurb Minar, Delhi 1870, Eskimo Belles from a series of plans showing the development of the London 77757 V&A PATTERN: Book and 25 Removable Prints Greenland, 1900, the ships on icy waters at the Peary squares from 1650 to 1900. A very heavyweight BOX SET OF 4: by LIFE Magazine Expedition, 1901, Norwegian and Lapp families in definitive guide, tall hardback of 496pp. Spitalfields Silks, Pop Includes 25 ready-to-frame colour and black and white traditional coloured costumes, castles, country life, Dublin £30 NOW £9.50 Patterns images, each with a tissue overlay accompanying 144 in a series of Irish postcards, the Old Curiosity Shop 78385 RICHARD COSWAY pages of iconic photography. Here is Noel Coward, 1880s London, dozens of London attractions, Yeomen by Esmé Whittaker, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, the skating waiter at Warders at the Tower of London 1870 relaxing, beautiful by Stephen Lloyd Moira Thunder et al St. Moritz, the Eiffel Tower in snow, the daredevil Venice, temples in Egypt, Mursi tribesman 1880s, tombs This absolutely beautiful small book is a tribute to the The four delightful hardbacks photographer Margaret Bourke-White photographed atop of emperors, Mount Fiji, Japanese maidens, wool sorting work of the Regency portrait miniaturist artist, Richard in the box set are Walter the 61st floor gargoyle on the Chrysler Building New and sheep shearing in Australia, giant redwood trees Cosway. Born in 1742, at the age of 12 he was sent to Crane by Esmé Whittaker, York where she had her studio, D-Day Omaha Beach photographed in the 1890s, waterfalls and cityscapes. London to study under the drawing master William Spitalfields Silks by Moira by Robert Capa, the America’s Cup 1962 with a placid, Some are beautiful hand coloured images of a now-lost Shipley, and went on to win many awards. Later, he Thunder, Pop Patterns by beautiful sea in colour, a champion whippet called Ricky world. Well bound softback, 17 x 22cm, 704pp. was closely associated with the Prince of Wales, later Oriole Cullen and Chinese 1964, spacemen, soldiers, Black Power Salute 1968 to £25 NOW £10 George IV, producing miniatures of his friends, family Textiles by Yueh-Siang and lovers. Amongst them was a miniature portrait of Chang. The names of the files correspond to the V&A the famous image of the sailor kissing the girl in the 78422 LEONARDO DA VINCI white mini dress. These photographs are on display in a Maria Fitzherbert, the Prince’s secret wife. The exquisite inventory numbers of the images. Peacocks, cherubs, clean, over-sized format of 100 classics. All of the most by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria miniatures shown here depict the cream of society at the doves, cockatoo and pomegranate are among the famous photographers from LIFE magazine are Charles time, but perhaps the most appealing of all is that of images in the colour collection in the Walter Crane represented. 10" x 13½”, each frameable image In one handy-sized pocket book Richard’s toddler daughter, Lady Paolina Angelica pattern designs. Lengths of painted silk, embroidery, measures 10" x 8". packed with colour examples of Cosway, in a frilled bonnet and white dress. 104pp. 6.5" robes for a temple statue in silk brocade, trellises and $29.95 NOW £10 Madonnas, inventions, portraits square, colour illus. scrolls, fruit and flowers appear on the Chinese Textiles. including his Mona Lisa and the girl £19.95 NOW £5 Lunar rocket, furnishing fabrics, matchbox designs, 77751 SURREAL PEOPLE: Surrealism and with ermine, a delightful collection 78423 MEDIEVAL ART: Romanesque Art- Martini, and dress fabrics from the likes of Zandra Collaboration by Alexander Klar with no text. Not only was Rhodes are among the pop-inspired patterns from the Sets out to explore the many collaborations between 15 Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) an Gothic Art (987-1489) 2 Volumes collections at Sanderson & Heal’s, furnishings, textiles of the Surrealists, telling the intriguing stories behind astonishing painter, but also a scientist, anatomist, by Victoria Charles and Klaus Carl and wallpaper items with designers of abstract motifs. some of the 20th century’s most celebrated works of art. sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor and A double volume box set in a glamorous decorated Finally, Spitalfields Silks reproduces samples from Its 47 colour and 32 b/w illustrations include the work more. During the Italian Renaissance, he mastered the slipcase, ‘Gothic Art’ is defined by a powerful pattern books of woven silk in different colourways, and in depth analysis of the characters of Dali, Magritte, most beautiful works of art for the Medicis in Italy and architecture of cathedrals of Northern France. pencil, watercolour and body colour on paper, pen and Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Man Ray, Jean Arp, Alberto for the King of France. We are all hoping to decipher the Abandoning curved Roman forms, the architect started ink designs. The CD-Rom containing the 71 jpegs of Giacometti, Edward James and André Breton among numerous secrets of this visionary artist. Softback, 4" x using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open featured beautiful colour patterns. Four volumes, satin many others. 96p, softback. 5½”. 144 pages, 100 illus. cathedrals to daylight, the era incorporated new bookmark, decorated slipcase. £12.99 NOW £4.50 ONLY £3.50 iconography celebrating the Holy Mary, a dramatic £30 NOW £11 contrast to the dismal scenes of Roman times. 78418 1000 DRAWINGS OF GENIUS 77756 UNKNOWN HIERONYMUS BOSCH Architecture, sculpture, painting, here is the decoration of 76009 75 YEARS OF MARVEL: From the by Victoria Charles and Klaus H. Carl by Kurt Falk the Stag Room at the Palace of the Popes, Avignon, Golden Age to the Silver Screen Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a visionary painter 1343, beautifully illuminated parchments, scenes from by Roy Thomas and Josh Baker ! the art of Drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place whose canvases reach heights of spiritual intensity and the life of the Virgin or of St Sylvester, altarpieces made With the likes of the fiery android Human Torch, in the sun. With major museums around the world, from depths of demonic loathing. Bosch’s huge panoramic of tempera on panel, oils on panel with gilding such as vengeful sea prince Sub-Mariner, and pip-squeak-turned- the Met to the Uffizi, mounting exhibitions focussed on paintings The Last Judgment and The Garden of Earthly Hans Memling’s The Shrine of St Ursula 1489 and St paragon Captain America, in the 40s Marvel created a the art of draughtsmanship, drawing is receiving more Delights are famous for their grotesque figures, impaled, Mary’s Cathedral, Palma de Mallorca begun 1229, all mythological universe grounded in a world that readers critical and academic attention than ever before. This damaged, or half animal, and the meaning of these among the many hundreds of full page photographs and recognised as close to their own, brimming with humour captivating text gives readers a sweeping analysis of the enigmatic images is far from obvious. This collection of examples and diagrams in this glamorous publication. and heartache. In the early 1960s came Spider Man, history of drawing, from the 13th - 14th century with Bosch’s work starts in the early period with paintings The second volume is ‘Romanesque Art’. In art history, The Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Renaissance greats like Leonardo da Vinci and such as The Conjurer, a beautifully designed study in Romanesque refers to the period between the beginning Avengers, Thor, the X-Men - the list goes on. In Michelangelo, Lucas Cranach, Grünewald, Dürer, charlatanism, or Christ Among the Doctors. The of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This most celebration of Marvel’s 75th anniversary, Taschen Veronese and Tintoretto, Rubens, Velázquez, Poussin, altarpiece of St Julia is unusual in showing the crucifixion handsome volume gives hundreds of full page examples presents a magnum opus with an inside look not only at Tiepolo, Degas, Rodin, to Modernist masters like M.C. of a woman, while John the Evangelist on Patmos in colour of mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, enamel and its celebrated characters, but also at the “bullpen” of Escher, Chagall, Hopper, Ernst, Pablo Picasso covering depicts an ethereal saint with a devil in the shape of a copper panels, sculpted wood, pulpits and bishop’s architects - Stan “the Man” Lee, Jack “King” Kirby, along every century in detail and with masses of examples in scorpion at his heels wearing pince-nez spectacles. thrones, door panels, priories and monasteries and with a roster of greats like Steve Ditko, John Romita, fine quality. 6.5" x 8", 544 glossy pages, 1000 illus, Exhibits themes that the author traces throughout his convent churches, a horizontal plan of the Cathedral of John Buscema, Marie Severin and countless others. colour. 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It has been given different name-tags: Morris 77682 WORLD OF J. G. 74022 THE BOOK OF MIRACLES ONLY £135 Style, Glasgow Style, Métro Style and many more. by Till-Holger Borchert BROWN 78386 SARAH RAPHAEL Artists, designers like Bonnard, Munch, Mackintosh, and Joshua Waterman Privat-Livemont, Berthon, Grasset, de Feure, Vallotton, by Martha Hoppin by William Packer The Book of Miracles that first surfaced a few years ago Serusier and Gauguin and architects did not set out John George Brown (born 1831) Sarah Raphael was just 40 years old when she died, and is one of the most spectacular new discoveries in the purposefully to identify their work as ‘new art’ yet they was, and still is, most associated falling victim to pneumonia, yet in that short period she field of Renaissance art. The nearly complete surviving adopted common traits associated with the movement, with the image of the accomplished portraits, sombre narratives and vibrant illustrated manuscript which was created in the Swabian and the notion of a new art for a new and progressive entrepreneurial young bootblack, abstracts with ease. A childhood trip to South America, Imperial Free City of Augsburg around 1550, is age. The masterful Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige American children from immigrant Mexico and Jamaica that lasted several months left a composed of 169 pages with large-format illustrations in inspired European artists to include many elements of families. He had himself deep, lasting impression, and the influence of the gouache and watercolour depicting wondrous and often Japanese design in their work. They symbolized the emigrated from England in 1853. decorative, colourful folk art resurfaced regularly eerie celestial phenomena, constellations, conflagrations style in their curvilinear ‘whiplash’ lines and the His street urchins make music, throughout her life, notably in her amazing Strip and floods as well as other catastrophes and occurrences. references to exotic birds and foliage. A cornucopia of play card games, imitate politicians by giving speeches paintings, as well a series of bric-a-brac boxes she It deals with events ranging from the creation of the artistic delights. 192 pages 29.5cm x 28.5cm, bright and art collectors by admiring objects pulled from the decorated for her family. Some of her darker paintings world and incidents drawn from the Old Testament, colour. rubbish bins. Brown have a disturbing, virtually surreal quality. Perhaps her ancient tradition and medieval chronicles to those that £20 NOW £8 also painted portraits most stunning works are in the Strip series, consisting of took place in the immediate present of the book’s author. and landscapes, Grand hundreds of tiny With the illustrations of the visionary Book of Revelation, 78429 VINCENT VAN GOGH Manan Island squares, each it even includes the future end of the world. The by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria Charles fishermen, and elderly painstakingly coloured surprisingly modern looking, sometimes hallucinatory A handy-sized, quality softback packed with famous farmers and their and decorated, and illustrations and the cursory descriptions of the Book of colour artworks, self-portraits, famous scenes and no wives. But here it is also her beautiful Miracles strikingly convey a unique view of the concerns sunflowers! Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a legend the little dogs and little Time Travel for and anxieties of the 16th century, of apocalyptic thinking who became a reference for modern art. In Holland, he children who take Beginners set, with and eschatological expectation. The present facsimile partook in the Dutch realist painting movement by centre stage in these twisting perspectives, volume reproduces the Book of Miracles in its entirety studying peasant characters. Anxious and depressed, he 260 pages with over flowing forms and for the first time as well as a complete transcript of the produced more than 2000 artworks, yet sold only one in 200 illustrations, 140 in vibrant colour. Her text, accompany the facsimile. Clamshell box, 12.6" x his lifetime. A self-made artist, his work is known for its colour. Large size and father was Frederic 8.5", 560 pages. Text in English, French and German. rough and emotional beauty and is amongst the most published in association Raphael. 11 x 9", From Taschen. popular in the art market today. Softback, 4" x 5½”, with Antique Collectors’ 160pp. colour illus, 144 pages, 100 illus, colour. Club. ONLY £95 drawings. ONLY £3.50 $50 NOW £8 £30 NOW £7 22 ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74

78729 AA STREET BY 78354 FIELD GUIDE TO THE BRITISH STREET KENT by Sarah Lyall Windsor and Eton GREAT BRITAIN & THE by the Automobile Association In her 13 years married to an Englishman and living in Quality heavyweight large softback London, the New York Times correspondent has learned On April 6th, our Annie will become President of ENVIRONMENT in the familiar yellow and black many valuable lessons about being British. Here are the Windsor & Eton Royal Warrant Holders’ livery, this is practical, clear and Anglo-Saxon attitudes toward class, sex, alcohol, animals Association. The area is a perfect backdrop to the easy to use mapping. 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Enjoy the formal gardens at Harewood truly important events, personalities topics include bee boles, dialects, warehouses, smells, of Windsor is home to libraries, fingerposts, pigeon lofts, dry stone walls, House, Spofforth Castle, Knaresborough, Markenfield both Windsor Castle, and developments in a concise, Hall, Ripon Cathedral and the deserted medieval village comprehensive manner.’ History is gargoyles, quicksand, sheep, windmills, topiary, accents the oldest and largest to wrestling, dawn chorus, badgers and dew ponds. of Wharram Percy. 25 walks in total including of course inhabited castle in the present in customs, institutions, York Minster, the castles, museums and gardens and names, costumes, entertainment, Oaks are amongst our longest-lived trees, the first world and Her Majesty’s favourite weekend home, seaside promenade was developed in the 1770s at National Railway Museum. 180pp, paperback. and Eton College, perhaps the most famous school in cathedrals, castles, stately houses, £8.95 NOW £3.75 inns, walls, parks, villages, graves, statues, paintings Weymouth, people have ice-skated across the Fens’ the world, founded in 1440 and the alma mater of 19 and memorials. 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The sketches, woodcuts and drawings are Lake District during Edwardian times, this remarkable Royal War, through to politics in the Georgian era, society, the charming. 512pp, b/w illus, 19 x 24cm, first edition 2006. collection of almost 200 photographs, taken mainly Tattoo, Industrial Revolution, Victorian achievements, world £35 NOW £15 between 1900 and 1908, ranges from genteel ladies state wars, empire, the Thatcher era to the next millennium. pouring afternoon tea to the joyful return of soldiers from visits and 78302 JOURNEYS THROUGH the Pretty awful black and white illustrations, designed for ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR: the Boer War. The photographer, Margaret Shaw spent Americans needing a potted history, but somehow really the mornings nursing her aged mother, but afternoons Windsor rather charming. 166pp. Coasting by Sue Clifford and were a round of tennis, golf and tea parties. She visited Horse £9.99 NOW £4 Angela King Lakeland beauty spots and seaside resorts, and attended Show. From Albion (an elusive old name Every 78631 A GUIDE TO local weddings and chapel social events. Everything for Britain) to Zawns (rock clefts in was photographed. 152 paperback pages, archive June DICKENS’ LONDON Cornwall) this lovely book photos, family tree. Ascot by Daniel Tyler celebrates the richness of our £12.99 NOW £3.50 Racecourse is the setting for a spectacular pageant of From Newgate Prison (which he everyday surroundings, opening our horses and race goers. From the Order of the Garter visited in 1836) to Covent Garden eyes to things we might have 76455 TOUR OF THE ENGLISH LAKES to spectacular hats at Ascot, from swan upping to the and from his childhood home in walked past dozens of times without really seeing. This With Thomas Gray and Joseph Faringdon RA Changing of the Guard, nearby Virginia Water and the Camden to his grave in charmingly illustrated volume explores the coastline, by John R. Murray Magna Carta at Runnymede are all captured together Westminster Abbey, this delightful encompassing such diverse topics as beach huts, In 1769 Thomas Gray made a tour of the Lake District with glamorous riverside shots, statues, meadows in tome traces the influence of the quicksand, shingle, funicular railways, ammonites, and recorded it in his journal, thus creating the first spring flower, autumnal colours, bluebells and places and people of London on the kippers and Blackpool rock. Did you know that the example of modern travel writing. Eight years later the snowscapes in this beautiful photobook. 112 very life and work of Charles Dickens. British devoured around three hundred million portions of renowned watercolourist Joseph Faringdon, a fervent large pages. Colour. Arranged in eight chapters covering fish and chips in 1999? A captivating cornucopia of admirer of Gray’s Lakeland journal, followed in his £15.99 NOW £5 the slums, the affluent areas, coach houses and hotels, coastal comprehension . 6¾” x 5½”, 138pp, sketches. footsteps, painting the sites Gray described, these being 78913 HISTORICAL MAP OF WINDSOR & Dickens’ residences, legal London, the Thames and its £12.99 NOW £4.50 published together in one volume in 1789. Here is a series of fascinating “then and now” juxtapositions. The ETON ABOUT 1860 by David Lewis bridges, London prisons and finally London’s churches, it 78303 JOURNEYS THROUGH ENGLAND IN A huge coloured fold out map showing Eton College, features over 40 sites, locating and illustrating them as lakes and places featured here include Penrith, PARTICULAR: On Foot Ullswater, Keswick, Borrowdale, Derwentwater, the quadrangle, St. Mary’s Chapel and the Hall to the they appear in his works and demonstrating how the north, South Meadow and the Brocas to the west, the city’s architecture and landscape influenced Dickens’ by Sue Clifford and Angela King Castlerigg, Bassenthwaite, Kendal, Grasmere, Skiddaw, From Alleys to Zig-Zags, the entries cover a veritable Thirlmere, Rydal Water, Windermere and Ambleside. Worth and cricket ground, Riverside Station, Windsor work throughout his life. Dickens did not only feature Bridge (toll), the Cobbler, the gas works, Windsor these places in his books; he also described the places, mixture of topics including beachcombing, Cornish Colour photos, watercolours, engravings, old maps and pasties, stepping-stones, bluebells, cottages, manhole manuscripts, 160pp, 8½”×11". Town Centre including the Infantry Barracks, south to the people and events in his correspondence, journals the Cavalry Barracks and Spital and of course the and diaries, and here each site is described with covers and terriers. At Land’s End, hedge banks that £25 NOW £5 carry hardly any shrubs have been dated to the Bronze entire aerial plan of Windsor Castle, the Statue substantial quotations from his writings alongside photos 76476 STORY OF THE THAMES Garden, the Royal Mews and even the dwellings and pen and ink sketches, both modern and Age, ranking them amongst the world’s oldest artefacts still in use. Terriers are unique to Britain and all the by Andrew Sargent demolished in 1690 at contemporary. 152pp. Focuses on both the social and economic changes the end of Park Street. £12 NOW £6 breeds originate here, while the earliest sheep were shepherded in Neolithic times. 6¾” x 5½”, 154pp, exemplified in the life of the river, as well as touching on On the reverse of the 78596 BRONTË sketches. fascinating episodes of national and political history. map is a fabulous PARSONAGE MUSEUM £12.99 NOW £4.50 Here are the ritual deposit of metalwork in the river in gazetteer of historic the Bronze Age, the working river of the Middle Ages by Professor Ann Sumner buildings and sites like 78327 SOMERSET COAST PATH and post-medieval period, the development of leisure - the Christopher Inn, in The Brontë Parsonage Museum by Damian Hall epitomised in Three Men in a Boat - the river in wartime Eton before it was is one of the great British Starting at Bristol’s Temple Meads station, you will pass and modern environmental conservation. 192 pages, relocated in 1846, views literary shrines, the home of landmarks such as the Cabot Tower and the SS Great colour and b/w illus. of Windsor Castle, the famous family. The Brontë Britain before heading out underneath the Clifton £16.99 NOW £2.75 Windsor Bridge after its siblings moved to the Georgian Suspension Bridge and joining the coast path at rebuilding in 1822 in parsonage with their father 76538 A PEAK DISTRICT ANTHOLOGY: A Portishead with a fine view of Wales. Clevedon Pier and woodcut illustrations and who was curate in the village Literary Companion to Britain’s First National Burnham on Sea’s lighthouse on stilts are two fascinating short history of the of Haworth from 1820. sights at these small resorts, and Weston-super-Mare Park by Roly Smith historical features Surrounded by high moorland, the three sisters offers magnificent views of Steep Holm Island and Iron Ruskin extolled its beauties, while novelists Charlotte referred to. Presented Charlotte, Emily and Anne and their brother Branwell Age Worlebury Hill. Turning the corner past the Brontë and George Eliot used closely observed Peakland in a cardboard folder grew up together, reading widely and showing great Quantocks you make your way along the foot of settings for some of their most vivid narratives. with introduction by promise even in their juvenile writing. Here they wrote Exmoor to Minehead and Porlock, where Coleridge Topographical writers including Edward Bradbury, David Lewis. Softback. their remarkable novels including Jane Eyre, Wuthering composed “Kubla Khan” following an the opium-induced Thomas Tudor and James Croston enthusiastically £7.99 NOW £3.50 Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and here they dream. Each section comes with an OS map and full described the delights of the Derbyshire scenery to the died tragically young. Visitors began to arrive in route directions, together with interesting things to see. ever-increasing stream of Victorian visitors. This Haworth even during Charlotte’s lifetime to see the 142pp, softback, colour photos. charming anthology brings together the finest writing 76750 WHITEHALL: The Street that Shaped a landscape which inspired the novels. From 1895 Brontë £12.99 NOW £5 about the Peak District through the ages. 208 pages illus Nation by Colin Brown memorabilia was on display in rented rooms. In 1927 in colour and b/w. Whitehall, the hideaway of all those bowler-hatted the Church of England offered the Parsonage for sale 78335 YORKSHIRE WOLDS WAY £16.99 NOW £3 mandarins who really run Britain, is built on top of a and it was present to the Brontë Society for conversion by Tony Gowers and Roger Ratcliffe 66042 GREEN ROADS OF ENGLAND Tudor palace whose ruins were uncovered during the into a museum and library. Today we can experience The Yorkshire Wolds Way meanders north from the building of the present Ministry of Defence in 1939. It period recreations of the rooms where the sisters wrote, Humber Bridge through places with wonderful names by R. Hippisley Cox was here that Henry VIII had his wine cellar and kept cooked and slept and examine the world famous like Fridaythorpe, Nunburnholme and Thixendale, until First published by Methuen in 1914, this facsimile edition fit on the tennis court. He would sometimes take the collection of manuscripts, books and art. Here we have eventually it takes the walker down the cliffs and into has been carefully reprinted with all 24 original secret passage which survives as a route from the the official handbook covering Mr Brontë’s study, the the old Yorkshire town of Filey. This walker’s guide illustrations, eight colour maps and 87 plans. This Cabinet Office to Downing Street. Elizabeth I’s tough dining room, kitchen, Mr Nicholls’ study, the servant’s includes reproductions of paintings by Hockney as well seminal book covers all the ancient roads of England. It resistance to foreign invaders and domestic plotters was room, Charlotte’s room, children’s study, Mr Brontë’s as a section-by-section Route Description with maps and reveals not only the Stone Age ridge roads of southern played out in Whitehall and Charles I was executed at bedroom and Branwell’s studio. A Scala publication, 48 detailed walking instructions. “Things to look out for” England, but also details of the hill forts and other Inigo Jones’s newly built Banqueting House, an event glossy page paperback, colour illus. includes the grass sculpture “Time and Flow” by Chris earthworks found along them. ‘...the Stone Circles at witnessed by Samuel Pepys who played truant from £6.95 NOW £3.25 Drury, the spectacular deserted medieval village of Avebury, Stonehenge, Knowlton and Rollright are proof school. In 1914 Asquith summoned Kitchener from his 78728 COTSWOLDS LEISURE Wharram Percy, and a feature on “The Sykes Churches that astronomy had advanced beyond the limits of command of the Egyptian Army to become War savage outlook and the Sun worship of Neolithic man MAP Trail”, all of them built by the Sykes family of Sledmere Secretary. The network of tunnels under Whitehall were and several being favourites of that arbiter of appears to have been a higher form of religion than by the Automobile later developed into a nuclear bunker. 388pp, colour and architectural excellence, Nikolaus Pevsner. The city of demoniac Druidism. 220pp, paperback. b/w photos. Association Hull is associated with Philip Larkin and William ONLY £5 A superbly detailed Ordnance £17.99 NOW £5 Wilberforce, while Beverley Minster is one of England’s Survey map at a scale of 2cms to 77261 GEAR GUIDE 1967: Hip-Pocket Guide Gothic masterpieces. 140pp, softback, maps, colour 78066 FROZEN THAMES one kilometre or 1¼” to one mile, to Britain’s Swinging Fashion Scene photos, contacts. by Helen Humphreys all of the Tumuli, Long Barrows, £14.99 NOW £6 by Old House Books and Maps The author has created 40 vignettes based on historical farms and hotels, the Tump, wells The hip-pocket guide to Britain’s swinging, with-it hip events that took place each time the River Thames froze and manors are clearly marked. 77772 BRITAIN YESTERDAY AND TODAY fashion world, first published in 1967, this pocket guide solid, between 1142 and 1892, intended as a meditation The River Dikler flows north to by Janice Anderson and describes the lively boutiques which were springing up on the nature of ice. ‘It is the coldest winter there has south with Lower Swell and Stow- Edmund Swinglehurst on Carnaby Street and King’s Road. For each shop the ever been and the ice freezes hard and fast and smooth. on-the-Wold in the north, Upper A nostalgic and informative look at “then and now”. full address, opening hours and a full description of The watermen trade their boats for sledges and pull Slaughter and Lower Slaughter, Some quintessentially British things have changed little - whether the range was ‘ready to wear’ clothes, a people across the river for the same price as when they Cirencester, Tetbury and Cricklade all covered. The compare the pictures of Victoria and Elizabeth II’s tailored suit, books of samples, how much a suit would had rowed them over. A whirly sledge twirls passengers Fosse Way, Gloucestershire Way, Monarch’s Way, Diamond Jubilees (115 years apart) and the 100 years cost, classical or unassertive, or as crazy as you like. around a stake set into the ice. Coaches are pulled by Macmillan Way and Heart of England Way cross this between the church fete pictures. 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78267 EXETER AND SIDMOUTH: 1919 71455 GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION 78816 MILLER’S Popular Edition OS Map PRICES: Eight Edition BACK IN by Cassini Publishing COLLECTIBLES by R. B. Russell STOCK FICTION AND ROMANCE Including Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Honiton, Ottery HANDBOOK AND PRICE Worth its weight in gold at 786 large pages, this is the St Mary, Seaton and Teignmouth, this map was first GUIDE by Judith Miller completely revised and updated eight edition (2010). surveyed in 1912-23 and first published 1919-26, and and Mark Hill The volume provides a guide to the value of over The Possible’s slow fuse is lit, By the here has been rescaled to the traditional 1:50,000. This is the must-have book for 50,000 sought-after titles. Includes Jane Austen to Imagination. Discover such villages as Luppitt, the bull farm near anyone who has ‘things’, and Oscar Wilde, Eric Ambler to Minette Walters, illustrators Cotleigh, Little Silver Smithy near Clyst Hydon, a weir - Emily Dickinson don’t we all? We might not from Aubrey Beardsley to Florence Upton and poets and a mill on the River Exe, lodges and manor houses have a fantastic 1920s toy from Richard Alvington to Walt Whitman. Authors and and the growing city of Exeter with the steep hillsides to Marlin tinplate clockwork artists are represented in British and American first the south where we find the village of Shillingford, the 78598 CANADA zeppelin with celluloid rear editions, limited editions and important, collectable Exeter Canal alongside the Great Western Railway and by Richard Ford propellers, valued at $25,000- reprints. As featured on Radio Four’s ‘Front Row’. way south to the River Teign, the Tolgate and the ‘First I’ll tell about the robbery our 30,000 or a vividly striped Murano Venini ‘Arado’ vase, Lovely clear layout. Salty. Colour, folded into softback. parents committed. Then about the $10,000-$15,000, but it’s still good too read about them. £19.95 NOW £6 £6.99 NOW £3 murders, which happened later.’ It However, there must still be hundreds of other things 77462 BIOGRAPHY OF A BUILDING was more bad instincts and bad luck 76944 REMOTE BRITAIN: Landscape, People depicted in this volume that many of us do have, such How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster that led to Dell Parsons’ parents and Books by David St John Thomas as 1950s wire magazine racks with atomic ball shaped Built a Great Museum robbing a bank. They weren’t David organises his book by themes such as the holistic feet, royal commemorative mugs, old cameras, belt by Witold Rybczynski and Norman Foster reckless people, but in an instant, life, wine and cheese, the Old Testament and Tess, buckles, children’s books, ceramics, glass ware, whistles, Tells the remarkable inside story of the Sainsbury their actions alter 15 year old Dell’s localism, before taking us on his rather special tours to rock and pop memorabilia, dinky and corgi cars, Star Centre For The Visual Arts at the University of East sense of normal life forever. In the dip into time and again to the Isles of Scilly, Yorkshire, Wars figures, toy trains and posters. Did you know that Anglia. The centre was created for the Sainsburys’ days that follow he is saved before the Gower Peninsular, Tenbury Wells in Herefordshire, 1960s Pyrex glass kitchenware is becoming private collections of paintings, drawings and sculptures. the authorities think to arrive. Bodmin Moor, hilly and flat Lincolnshire, the Wye Valley, collectable now? Or that the beautiful The project was Norman Foster’s first public commission Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the the Lake District, remoter Essex with the Tolleshurst textured Whitefriars vases of the 1960s now as an architect. Here is the selection of Foster, the unknown - a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and Knights to remoteness in London and beyond. With sell for large sums? Even 1950s Formica- identification of the site, the design of the building and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada, but as books mentioned and quoted. 536pp, colour photos. topped coffee tables are sought after. the installation of the collection are traced in fascinating Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, £18.99 NOW £5.50 All you need to make your detail, enlivened with quotations from the main players he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side fortune is this book together in the drama. 240 pages with 50 illus, 34 in colour, line of the border. A novel that delineates the essential with a bit of luck when you drawings, plans. fragility and loneliness of life, the vicissitudes of fate, a root around a boot sale - and £19.95 NOW £5 masterful and profound novel. 515pp in paperback. who knows what treasures £8.99 NOW £5 ANTIQUES AND you might have up in your 77284 ORIENTAL RUGS: An Introduction loft. Note that prices are by Gordon Redford Walker 78608 DAYLIGHT GATE COLLECTABLES shown in dollars, but easy to Here is a superb gazetteer of different rug types, all with by Jeanette Winterson convert. Up-to-date 2014- high quality photos. City rugs include the Persian Can a severed hand speak? Good 2015 edition, 4000 objects Tabriz, Ispahan and Nain patterns, all designed with Friday 1612, Pendle Hill, We take issue even with perfection. featured in colour. 432pp, central medallions. Tribal rugs include the brightly Lancashire. A mysterious gathering colour illus. coloured Kazak Lambalo, with its striking three of 13 people is interrupted by a local - Pascal $27.99 NOW £8 medallions in reds, greens and ivories. The beautiful magistrate Roger Nowell. Is this a Baku is a Caucasian Shirvan rug, with an overall witches’ Sabbat? Two notorious repeated pattern in blues and turquoises, often made Lancashire witches are already in 78789 COLLECTOR’S 77724 ENGLISH STYLE AND DECORATION: A with goat’s hair. Advice about nuying and care. 224pp, Lancaster Castle awaiting trial. LOGBOOK by Linda and Source Book of Original Ideas colour photos, colour chart. Why is the beautiful and wealthy Michael Lambert by Stafford Cliff £16.99 NOW £4 Alice Nutter defending them and Beautifully designed spiral-bound Alongside the work of famous and familiar taste-makers, 78359 GUIDE TO COLLECTING STUDIO why is she among the group of 13 on Pendle Hill? hardback book with antique maps this sumptuous resource contains over 600 designs, Elsewhere a starved, abused child lurks. A Jesuit priest and clocks sepia design on the patterns and settings in colour and black and white POTTERY by Alistair Hawtin and a former Gunpowder plotter recently returned from cover and dedication page, the developed in workshops and factories throughout How do you recognise the good pieces, the pieces that France is widely rumoured to be heading for Lancashire, book is designed to enable England. There are page after page of original sketches will gain or hold their value, the quality from the tat? It but who will offer him sanctuary and how quickly can he collectors to keep detailed records and printed patterns for furniture, textiles, flooring, was not until the late 1800s that a few potters began to be caught? This is the reign of James I, a Protestant king of all their acquisitions. Each item wallpaper, glass, ceramics and household utensils, move away from industrialised mass-produced ceramics, with an obsession - to rid his realm of twin evils, has been allocated a two-page doorknobs to tableware and light fittings. Susie Cooper such as Emile Decoeur and Ernest Chaplet in France, witchcraft and Catholicism at any price. 194pp. spread on which there is space for an image, a detailed pattern books from the Wedgwood Museum, a folding and the three Martin brothers in Britain. However, the £9.99 NOW £4.50 name invariably linked with the rise of the studio potter description, price, contact details for the artist and the screen from the Omega Workshops by Percy Wyndham 78676 PEGASUS gallery involved as well as notes for provenance etc. Lewis, a theatre set by Paul Nash and designs for is Bernard Leech, arguably the most influential potter of about the piece. 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This Detective Dave Robicheaux senses cards etc. If no photograph is available, you may insert $29.95 NOW £5.50 colourfully illustrated, informative book provides short a storm bearing down on his new your own sketch and be as detailed as you like in the biographies of many classic studio potters, as well as life of contentment. 25 years ago, description of your object, materials, construction and 77722 DISH: 813 Colourful, Wonderful advice on the types of ceramics to collect, how to start lost in a drunken haze in Florida, he size and where the image filename may be found on Dinner Plates collecting, whose work to collect, collecting to a theme, was too far gone to save his friend your computer, date of manufacture, gallery auction or by Shax Riegler and developing an eye for a good pot. Paperback, and fellow Nam veteran who was stock, shop from which purchased, date, price, maker’s Buying a dinner service is a lifestyle choice, and the 128pp, colour photos. murdered in cold blood for gambling mark, contact details etc. A unique item of stationery world’s great artists, including Picasso and Monet, have £16.99 NOW £5 debts. Now the arrival of his we are proud to present. tried their hand at creating designs. This book is 78100 MURANO: A History of Glass friend’s daughter opens a door locked long ago and the suicide of a £9.99 NOW £3.75 organised thematically, with sections on topics such as by Gianfranco Toso Flora and Fauna or People and Places. The first section local ‘good girl’ pulled into a vortex of power, sex and 77238 1000 CHAIRS The book is fabulously illustrated in colour with even the death. 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A chapter on Colour and bottles with the swirling colours we know and love, by Joseph Kanon chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as Form covers innovations from 18th century tortoiseshell vases decorated with flowers and their incredible From the bestselling author of ‘The comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all ware to Town and Country line from New York. The submerged vases and metallic glass bottles. 192pp, Good German’ comes a riveting here: Thonet’s bentwood chairs and Hoffmann’s sitting- Art and Craft chapter starts with 16th century majolica paperback. new novel of conflicted loyalties machines, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair and Ron Arad’s ware and other tin glazes such as faience and Delftware, £5.95 NOW £4 and dangerous deceptions in post- avant-garde armchairs or our favourite (pictured) and also includes Royal Winton’s popular chintz designs war East Berlin. 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78276 ABDUCTING A 77676 THE SOMME GENERAL INCLUDING ALSO THE WAR MEMOIRS by Patrick Leigh Fermor COWARD by A. D. Gristwood MODERN HISTORY AND Amazingly, the author and his First published in London in 1927. accomplice, Billy Moss, both Heavily autobiographical and much CURRENT AFFAIRS Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred attached to Britain’s Special influenced by H. G. Wells, the tales without a head. Operations Executive (SOE) and of World War I combat of a reluctant dressed as German military police, infantryman in the London Rifle Political necessities sometimes turn out to be - Euripides succeeded in smuggling the Brigade are rife with acts of un- political mistakes. kidnapped General Kreipe though heroic self-preservation, fear, twenty-two German checkpoints, - Bernard Shaw 78594 BOXER’S STORY: bitterness and hopelessness. The pulling him below the window level, Somme centres on a futile attack in Fighting for my Life in the with a dagger at his throat and hands clamped over his 1916 on the Western Front. The uncourageous 78841 WHITE HOUSE Nazi Camps by Nathan Shapow mouth whenever Germans were nearby. This audacious behaviour of wounded protagonist Tom Everitt both in DIARY by Jimmy Carter real life adventure took place in Crete in 1944, in the Nathan Shapow was a member of and out of combat reflects Gristwood’s assessment of the Each day during his presidency of hope that the moral damage inflicted on the Germans by the Zionist youth movement Beitar weak mettle of British forces. In The Coward, a soldier the United States of America, the loss of their General would be traumatic. The last in the thirties, and boxed for the commits an act of self-mutilation to escape combat duty, Jimmy Carter made several entries checkpoint had been the worst as there were a large sporting organisation Maccabi. When an offence punishable by death. With discovered in a private diary. He wrote number of German soldiers as well as the sentries, but the Nazis occupied his home town of information about Gristwood. 189pp, paperback. unvarnished assessments of cabinet then they were waved through. This exciting read, in Riga, the Jews were corralled into a £18.95 NOW £5 members, congressmen and foreign addition to the kidnap account, contains nine War Reports Ghetto. Nathan’s fitness kept him leaders and narrated the progress of submitted at the time by the author together with a 77683 ZERO HOUR alive when the Ghetto police secret negotiations such as those guide to the abduction route, enabling the modern visitor by George Grabenhorst selected the able-bodied men for that led to the Camp David slave labour, but his mother and brother were deported to Crete to relive the experience. 206pp, b/w illus. An autobiographical novel of World War One experiences £20 NOW £8 in the German ranks, the novel equates duty with Accords. He records his thoughts, and he never saw them again. He was later reunited impressions, delights and frustrations. When his four with his father who got away to Israel. Seeing an old camaraderie, and is experienced here through the keen 76470 LIVING ON THE HOME FRONT eyes of Hans Volkenborn. Grabenhorst recalls specifics year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary girlfriend being deported with her young brother, he by Megan Westley amounted to more than 5000 pages. This extraordinary impulsively claimed the brother as his own and kept of battlefield action on the Western Front with a visceral Megan Westley decided to spend a year “living on the language that still resonates today. Of particular document has never been made public, until now. Osha with him throughout the war, saving his life. Home Front”, throwing herself into wartime cooking and Bibliophile has acquired the US first edition in glamorous Nathan became an accomplished food-thief who historical importance are accounts of combat in the Ypres rationing levels and espousing the mottos of “Dig for campaign in 1917 and the futile clashes in the woods of hardback, 2010. By selecting the most illuminating and narrowly escaped death for pilfering on several Victory” and “Make Do and Mend”, sacrificing TV and relevant entries, Jimmy Carter provides an astonishingly occasions. His good looks incurred the hatred of Avelui in Northern France the following summer as modern electrical appliances, even recreating an air raid! German hopes for victory faded. The novel’s greatest intimate view of his presidency, day by day. We see Obersturmfu?hrer Hoffman, who one day ordered She divides the book into six chapters to cover the war’s his forceful advocacy for sustainable energy, nuclear Nathan to return to his cell. Nathan knew he was going distinction lies with the vivid description of shellshock, in six year span and divides up her 12 month Home Front this case the result of being briefly buried alive by a containment, human rights and peace in the Middle East to be killed but overpowered the SS man, grabbing his experience into the six chapters to compare and contrast and witness his interactions with Ted Kennedy, Henry gun and battering him to death with a stool. Two mortar explosion. The condition ultimately engulfs her experiences with what was actually happening Volkenborn’s ailing psyche and leaves him tormented, Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat and Menachem innocent Jews were hanged for the murder the next day during the war itself. Authentic wartime recipes and Begin. We get inside the story of his so-called ‘malaise and Shapow reveals that he has never told anyone isolated and blinded at the war’s end. First published in mending and making. 100 b/w photos. 224pp. 1928. Apologies for printing error on page 216. speech’, his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic about the incident until now. He also tells the story of £20 NOW £3.50 nomination and his relentless efforts to resolve the his friendship with the Ghetto Guard Rudi Harr who Facsimile reprint, paperback, 306pp. £18.95 NOW £5 Iranian Hostage Crisis. Remarkably we also get his saved him on several occasions and was casually killed 77156 MEMOIRS OF A BRITISH AGENT retrospective comments more than 30 years after the when the whole Ghetto was deported to the Kaiserwald by R.H. Bruce Lockhart ! 78068 GERMANS WE TRUSTED fact with the annotations and candid reflections added for concentration camp. A gripping read. 246pp, photos. An immediate classic on publication in 1934, this book is by Pamela Howe Taylor this edition. 572pp, many photos. £16.99 NOW £5 both a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Introduced by Douglas Hurd, this inspiring story of 36 $30 NOW £8 Russia. Bruce Lockhart was Acting Consul General in 78431 BICKERSTETH friendships between British citizens and German prisoners Moscow when the first revolution broke out in 1917. of war focuses on one of the lesser known aspects of 78928 LAST EMPIRE: The DIARIES 1914-1918 Sent home because of an affair with a married woman, wartime life. A year after VE Day there were still Final Days of the Soviet edited by John Bickersteth he returned to Russia the following year as Head of the 400,000 German POWs in Britain, and friendship and Union by Serhii Plokhy An imaginatively-edited version of British Mission to the Bolsheviks. His graphic first-hand trust often grew up across the barrier of official enmity. On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail 11 volumes of more than 3,000 description of the Moscow of 1918, frequent encounters The story starts in Skipton in north Yorkshire, where Gorbachev resigned as President of pages of diaries of the original work. with Lenin, Trotsky and the other architects of the Earle Walls decided to take a job in Germany overseeing the Soviet Union. By the next Ella Bickersteth began to put it Revolution, his experiences as a prisoner in the famous the clearing of waterways. Picking up a hitchhiker day, the USSR was officially no together for her six sons because one Loubianka Prison all combine as a fascinating picture of against regulations on a German road, he found to his more and the USA had emerged as of them was in Australia at the one man present at history in the making. 355pp, astonishment that the man had a son in a POW camp the world’s sole superpower. Here outbreak of WWI. By the spring of paperback, photos. near his home town. The young man went to visit is a page-turning account of the 1915, four of her boys were on £14.99 NOW £3.75 Earle’s family on Sunday afternoons and the friendship preceding five months drama filled active service. We are presented lasted 40 years. Johannes Baumann, an accomplished with failed coups d’états and with a vivid mixture of English social, military and family 77193 HOW BRITAIN KEPT CALM AND CARRIED ON: Real-Life Stories from the Home church musician, was in the same camp and was political intrigue. Plokhy shattered the established myths history with graphic accounts of firing squads, trench allowed to play in the Skipton churches. One member of of 1991 and argues that contrary to the triumphalist warfare, narrow escapes, a sensitive chaplain ministers Front edited by Anton Rippon the congregation said, “Ba gum, lad, thou’s played Western narrative, George W. Bush desperately wanted to dying men, long periods of inactivity, sadness at a There are tales from men, women and children from all afore!” 208pp, paperback, photos in b/w and colour. to preserve the Soviet Union and keep Gorbachev in brother’s death bringing a family more united, and the walks of life, from the Blitz to the Home Guard, from £13.50 NOW £5 power, and that it was Ukraine and not the US that way an imaginative padre sets about his priestly work blackouts to unexploded bombs and from Bermondsey to 78231 UNDER THE played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. at the Front. Interwoven are reflections on church and Burma. Our favourite is the description of the author’s The consequences are still being felt in Crimea, Russia, state politics, theological musings, matter-of-fact detail Gran when the Luftwaffe bombed Spalding Liberal Club, QUEEN’S COLOURS: Voices the US and Europe today and will help anyone seeking about a busy vicar’s wife. Third edition, also rare, a a few yards from where she lived. No-one had built an From the Forces 1952- to make sense of current international politics. 489pp, 1998 publication of 332 pages with maps. air-raid shelter so, when the bombing started, the whole 2012 eight pages of photos plus map of the Cold War rivalry £25 NOW £8 family crammed themselves under the grand piano by Penny Legg c.1980. 78443 KAISER’S RELUCTANT CONSCRIPT which took up most of the dining-room. All except old Talking to anyone who has £25 NOW £8 Gran. She refused to indulge in such an indignity and by Dominik Richert served in the Armed Forces will sat in her usual chair, defying Hitler to do his worst. 223 77640 BELARUS: The Last European As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realised bring forth a series of anecdotes pages, line drawings. and recollections, some Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson from the outset of WWI that his family would be at or £14.99 NOW £4 near the front line. He was a reluctant soldier and his thoughtful, others hilarious. This The first book in English to explore Belarus’s complicated thoughtful memoir gives a lively picture of major events 77463 BLITZ KIDS: The Children’s War collection of reminiscences from road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics from the rare perspective of an ordinary German soldier. Against Hitler by Sean Longden the 1950s onwards contains a and economics since 1991. Wilson focuses particular attention on Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s surprising longevity In 1914 he was involved in fighting on the French Thousands of children in World War II made key cornucopia of delights, including as President despite human rights abuses and border and then moved to Northern France where he contributions to the war effort. In an act of extraordinary those from a soldier in the Australian Army serving in involvement in yet another rigged election in December was in combat with Indian troops. In 1915 he was sent heroism 16-year old canteen assistant Tommy Brown Malaya who, together with his mate, was dumped near 2010. He looks at Belarusian history as a series of false to the East and took part in the Battle for Mount Zwinin rescued code books from a sinking submarine that helped an airstrip to await a helicopter. Then came the starts in the medieval and pre-modern periods, and at in the Carpathians and the subsequent invasions of the to break the Enigma code. On the Home Front, 16-year helicopter ride, and when one noticed a poisonous snake the many rival versions of Belarusian identity, western parts of the Ukraine and of Eastern Poland. In old Peter Richards delivered the telegrams that brought had sneaked aboard they quickly sobered up. Another culminating in the Soviet Belarusian Project and the 1917 he took part in the capture of Riga before returning news of a death, and the grief and courage of parents anecdote, from a man recalling his National Service, tells establishment of the current borders of Belarus during to the Western Front in 1918 where he saw German receiving the terrible piece of paper is vividly described. how he managed to wangle his way into the navy. ‘All WWII. He looks at the on-off relationship with Russia, tanks in action at the Battle of Villers-Brettoneux. No Anne Paton’s father was chief engineer on the the nice girls love a sailor’. Took me months to realise it its simultaneous attempts to play a game of balance in longer believing in the war, he subsequently crossed No construction of the Mulberry Harbours used for the wasn’t the nice girls we wanted.’ Candid stories from the no-man’s-and between Russia and the West, and Man’s Land and surrendered to the French, becoming a invasion, and when Anne noticed that the au pair was male and female service personnel demonstrate just how, paradoxically, Belarus is at last becoming a true ‘deserteur alsacienne’. The books ends with his return eavesdropping on every phone conversation, she took how much we owe our soldiers, sailors and airmen. nation under the rule of Europe’s ‘last dictator’. 304pp, home early in 1919. He and his wife were deported to action. 541pp, photos. 272pp, colour and b/w illus. do forced labour in Germany in 1943. He survived. £20 NOW £6 £18.99 NOW £6 illus and maps. 272pp, photos and map. £20 NOW £5 77645 CAPTAIN CONAN 76833 WOMAN AT THE FRONT: Memoirs of £19.99 NOW £9 78162 COAL: A HUMAN HISTORY by Roger Vercel an ATS Girl by Sylvia Wild 76469 LAND GIRLS: Women’s Voices from the by Barbara Freese Facsimile reprint of the 1935 original translation of the Here is the story of a young South Londoner working for In the 21st century coal is regarded as a threat to the Wartime Farm by Joan Mant novel. The book follows the exploits of a French the Senior Royal Engineer Officers who were initially developing the D-day plans concerning ports, docks, environment, but this superb history shows how it Drawing on the reminiscences of over 300 ‘Land Girls’, Commando unit attacking Bulgarian outposts along the harbours and railways as part of Operation Overlord, changed the world in the 19th century and laid the basis as well as her own experiences, the author brings to life Romanian border. The unit is led by the 23 year old followed by the reinstatement of these services for the civilized comforts we now take for granted. As the story of farms during the Second World War. Wages Captain Conan, a haberdasher’s son, who finds his throughout Northern France into Belgium and finally into one writer put it: “With Coal, we have light, strength, were at subsistence levels and, in most cases, living calling as a fearless killer ready to crawl through barbed Germany. It was a predominantly male environment power, wealth and civilization; without Coal we have conditions were Spartan. Those who had volunteered wire and slit the throats of his enemies on midnight raids. and this memoir offers a fascinating insight into Sylvia's darkness, weakness, poverty and barbarism.” This book expecting a bucolic life of jolly hay-making were quickly Conan is loyal only to his men, as all notions of world. 126pp, paperback, illus. starts in Britain which for centuries led the world in coal pitch-forked into reality. Eating raw potatoes, keeping patriotism are lost in the place of the fraternity and £12.99 NOW £3 production and during the Industrial Revolution became clean by bathing in milk sterilisers, and starting work at 4 brutality needed for survival and success. News of the the most powerful force on the planet. It then moves to a.m. were common conditions. Accidents, sometimes Armistice is slow to reach the Bulgarian front, and when 78296 FORCE BENEDICT by Eric Carter the United States, where coal was central to the taming fatal, added to the hazards endured. Yet throughout it comes it changes little. Conan’s soldiers have become If Murmansk fell it could have altered the whole of the wilderness and cities like Pittsburgh, described by these moving accounts of their lives runs a common murderers, thieves and rapists, and Conan himself is outcome of the war. It was the only USSR post not Antony Trollope as the blackest place he had ever seen, thread of humour, camaraderie and pride. 183 pages, charged with injuring his lover’s husband, a Romanian under Nazi occupation, and so in 1941 Winston Churchill were permanently shrouded in dense smoke. The book photos in colour and sepia. major. Conan leaves Bucharest when the French are sanctioned a secret mission, code-named Force Benedict. ends in China, where coal was described by Marco Polo £16.99 NOW £4 called to combat Lenin and Trotsky’s guerrilla forces One of the surviving members is Eric Carter. The first in the 14th century as “a sort of black stone”. The author along the Ukrainian border. Maps, 296pp, paperback. part of the journey to Murmansk was more like a cruise; 77677 THIS MAN’S ARMY: A War in Fifty-Odd describes the impact of climate change legislation on the Sonnets Remainder mark. a steward brought the team morning tea, the food was £18.95 NOW £5 industry and on politics. 304pp, paperback. by John Allan Wyeth plentiful and there were even improvised concerts. The £9.99 NOW £4.75 Russians were impressed at the speed the British We herald the reappearance of this long lost, valuable 77991 BOMB GIRLS engineering party worked to assemble the planes; in just 58089 BRITISH SHIPBUILDING AND THE piece of American historical literature. First published in by Jacky Hyams nine days 15 crated Hurricanes were erected and ready 1928, it represents the beginning of a promising literary Rarely spoken about before, here are the intimate and STATE SINCE 1918 for flying by Eric and the team. The team’s mission was career of John Allan Wyeth (1894-1981), a Princeton- personal stories of an unforgettable group of women. by Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy to protect Murmansk, to pit their Hurricanes against the educated French interpreter in the American They worked round the clock often exposed to toxic, This book is the first to provide an industry analysis of Messerschmitts. As Eric watched, the tracer and Expeditionary Force’s Thirty-Third Division. It is an lethal chemicals. A factory accident could mean the period, blending the records of central government incendiary hit the plane, and white glycol poured from autobiographical account of his service in France and blindness, loss of limbs or worse. Frequently their male with those of the Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation the aircraft, followed by black smoke. The pilot dropped Belgium from 1917 to 1919, detailing his duties as bosses were coarse and unsympathetic. Cheerfully and the Shipbuilding Conference, as well as records from from the plane, canopy billowing. If the German did interpreter, messenger and occasionally sentry while ignoring the dangers and the exhaustion, bombing, individual yards, technical societies and the trade press. make it alive it was likely he would be taken as a travelling town by town towards the German rationing and separation, these women clocked in daily All abbreviations are explained at the outset such as prisoner of war by the Russians. Details the secret Hindenburg line. He never doubts the eventual to work in the vast munitions factories, helping to make RMSP for Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited. With list of mission in Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic American victory yet is keenly aware of the brutality of the explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines templates and 40 tables. 306pp in large softback. Circle. Previously unseen photos and documents. combat. 60 page paperback reprint. Glossary. that would ensure victory. 214pp, paperback, photos. $27.95 NOW £1.75 £18.95 NOW £5 306pp. £7.99 NOW £4 £20 NOW £6 28 Modern History continued ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 78368 LEISURE IN POST- 76824 LIFE IN 1940s 76908 FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS: An 78250 A FUNNY WAY TO WAR BRITAIN LONDON by Mike Hutton Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris MAKE A LIVING! by Stuart Hylton The war gave birth to a heady The Pax Britannica trilogy by acclaimed historian Jan by Bill Pertwee Are we having fun yet? This is the brew of bravery, fear, stoicism, Morris published between 1968 and 1978 remains to this Bill Pertwee’s remarkably varied question that the author asks in cowardice and a vast increase in day the definitive examination of the British Empire from career has included over a thousand each chapter as he looks at some of crime - all set to a background of Queen Victoria’s accession in 1837 to 1965. In 1897 the radio broadcasts including cult the ways in which post-war Britain popular music from the likes of Vera Empire and Britain’s position in the world order appeared classics Beyond Our Ken and spends its leisure time, and also the Lynn and Glenn Miller. Thousands unassailable, with many recent gains in Africa, the last Round the Horne, TV appearances ways in which the powers-that-be of lower income Londoners sheltered unconquered continent. Germany was also busy in and theatre appearances in the try to thwart it. Comics, for from the bombs each night on the Africa, and it had not escaped Britain’s notice that the West End including the record- instance. American comics first platforms of the underground, and arms it was stockpiling seemed a little excessive for breaking Run For Your Wife. Born appeared in Britain in 1947 and came out in the morning to find their adventures up the Nile. India and other overseas in Amsterdam in 1926, Bill has were completely different to our more innocent ones. homes gone, while the privileged few enjoyed the “possessions” took back their independence, leaving the farmed, helped build Spitfire planes, With looks at leisure topics such as Holidays (which are relative comfort of the capital’s poshest hotels. After the Commonwealth as a reminder of what had been. Jan acted as a baggage boy on the 1946 Indian cricket tour not for fun, ‘The useful purpose they serve is to reconcile war, servicemen returned home Morris chronicles the end of empire in incredible detail. of England, and worked as a window cleaner. In 1954 you to the fact that the rest of your life is not really as as strangers, often to resentful Paperback, 572pp. he offered Beryl Reid some comedy material and ended bad as you imagine it to be’), Food, Motoring, Television wives. A royal wedding and £12.99 NOW £3.50 up on stage in her revue. He rubbed shoulders with and Bad Fun, this is a nostalgic, wry account of the the 1948 Olympics cheered up great names like Kenneth Williams, Spike Milligan, Ken British character and our success, or lack of it, at having the public, but they still had to 76903 DICTATOR’S HANDBOOK Why Bad Horne, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Derek Nimmo, fun. Paperback. 158pp, photos, cope with the continuing grinding Behaviour is Almost Always Good Politics by Donald Sinden and has played cricket with Colin £16.99 NOW £5 austerity of post-war rationing Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith Cowdrey and Bill Edrich. He played the excitable Chief and food shortages. Then, too, Whether that coalition is a cabal of five generals, a group Air Raid Warden Hodges for the full nine year run of 78177 RETURN FROM THE NATIVES: How the first influx of West Indian of 50 tribal chiefs or 50 million voters, the techniques of Dad’s Army. Humorous and entertaining, 240pp, Margaret Mead Won the Second World War immigrants caused anger. persuasion and coercion are the same. Why do leaders softback, photos. and Lost the Cold War by Peter Mandler Difficult times realistically who destroy their countries hold power for so long? Why £10.99 NOW £3.50 Margaret Mead is one of the biggest names in 20th described. 220 pages, archive do autocracies have such disastrous economic policies? century cultural anthropology, a pioneer whose fieldwork photos. Why are resource-rich nations often home to deprived 78251 STARS IN in Samoa was hugely influential, though her emphasis £20 NOW £3.50 populations? Why do “natural disasters” hit poorer BATTLEDRESS: The Story of Service Entertainers in World on nurture rather than nature has been challenged. From 78484 BANG! A HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN nations harder? Why do terrible leaders collect so much in the 1930s to the 1950s Mead worked on problems of foreign aid? A profoundly necessary portrait of politics War II by Bill Pertwee international relations, in the first place trying to prevent THE 1980s by Graham Stewart and power. 319pp. This entertaining book contains the outbreak of World War II and then studying how to The paradox of the 80s is simply put. Some Britons £18.99 NOW £2.50 memories of dozens of household rioted and went on protest marches while others hung defeat the Germans and Japanese. After the war the 77121 COUTURE OR TRADE: An Early names who began or furthered their task was to come to terms with the Russians and the patriotic bunting and bought shares in British Telecom. entertainment careers during the Chinese as the Cold War began. At the beginning of this Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street tenure (1979-1990) Pictorial Record of the London College war, complete with anecdotes from period conflicts were assumed to be between nations, almost perfectly framed the 1980s as if it were her own. of Fashion by Helen Reynolds Bill Pertwee. Amongst the many but by the time of Mead’s death in 1978 the dividing The book encompasses politics, economics, the arts and Until the end of the 19th century, London’s fashion artists featured are Harry Secombe, lines were drawn differently, focusing on equality of the society. Here is the Falklands War, the miners’ strike, a industry had produced luxurious hand-made clothing for Kenneth Connor, Spike Milligan, sexes and between majority and minority ethnic groups. re-escalation of troubles in Northern Ireland, the Brighton women of the leisured classes. At that time, however, Charlie Chester, Frankie Howerd, Janet Brown, Jon This study of Mead’s role in World War II and the Cold bombing of the entire Cabinet, also mass privatisation of the West End was suffering from a shortage of skilled Pertwee and Reg Varney. Bryan Forbes was recovering War has implications for the involvement of social state-owned industries and the deregulation of financial employees, and trade was being lost to Paris. The from pneumonia in Anglesey when he received a scientists with the U.S. Government and its policy, markets, a cultural ferment, the emergence of house response to this challenge was the founding in 1906 of telegram telling him to report immediately to a War particularly in Vietnam. Mead’s relations with her three music and the growth of alternative comedy. An women’s trade schools, with a needle-trade curriculum Office department. He had been selected to join the husbands and with her lover Ruth Benedict also illuminating reminder of a decade that sowed the seeds devised in close co-operation with leading dressmakers Army Theatre Unit, where informality was the order of impacted on her thinking. 366pp, photos. of modern Britain. 544 paperback pages, colour and b/w and the exclusive London stores. The London School of the day. Paperback. 232pp. Photos. £30 NOW £6 photos. Fashion had its origin in three of those schools, in Barrett £7.99 NOW £3.50 £12.99 NOW £4.75 Street, Shoreditch and Clapham respectively. A vivid 78180 STREET FIGHTING insight into the training of the girls, life in the workrooms, 76610 FULL SERVICE YEARS: An Autobiography of 77365 CHINESE WHISPERS by Ben Chu by Scotty Bowers and Lionel Friedberg Chinese people don’t care about political freedom, so the fashion industry’s evolution and, of course, its social the 60s by Tariq Ali history. 124 pages, archive photos. ‘His startling memoir includes great figures like Spencer why is the country’s Internet exploding with anti-regime Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Scotty doesn’t lie - the Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker dissent? China will one day rule the world, so why do £14.99 NOW £4 who revisits his formative years as stars sometimes do - and he knows everybody.’ - Gore the country’s political leaders feel so insecure? Perhaps it 77638 ARAFAT AND THE DREAM OF Vidal. An unknown Hollywood legend, at a time when a young radical in this new edition is time to stop engaging in a centuries-old game of of his 60s memoirs. His story PALESTINE by Bassam Abu Sharif sex outside marriage was taboo, Scotty Bowers built up Chinese Whispers in which the facts have become more Bassam Abu Sharif was one of the world’s most a reputation as the guy who would discretely fix you up moves between London, Paris and distorted in the telling. Ben Chu examines the myths Berlin, Vietnam and Bolivia, notorious and dangerous terrorists of the 1960s and 70s, with the person of your dreams. He developed a long and forces us to question everything we thought about acting as ‘Minister of Propaganda’ for the Popular Front term friendship with Katherine Hepburn and set her up encountering along the way China in his surprising and provocative insight into China Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter with young women that she wanted to sleep with. He today. 280pp, paperback. for terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. Then in 1972, a bedded Vivienne Leigh while her husband Laurence Brando, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Henry Kissinger and £8.99 NOW £3 Mick Jagger. A new introduction has been added as bomb was placed in a book sent to him, leaving him half Olivier was out of town, and when Edith Piaf played well as an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 76224 MAFIA STATE: How One Reporter blind, deaf in one ear, and almost fingerless. He aligned the Mocambo Club in LA, Scotty had sex with her ‘In the sense that this book is a critique of the efforts of Became an Enemy of The Brutal New Russia himself with Yasser Arafat, eventually becoming one of almost every night. Vincent Price, the Duke and the Western political system it is uncomplimentary to by Luke Harding his closest advisors. In his book he takes us behind the Duchess of Windsor, Cary Grant, Cole Porter, Rock many who held the reins of power in this period...The Soon after the start of Luke Harding’s posting as The scenes of all the major events in the Middle East during Hudson, Charles Laughton are among the list he ‘fixed’. assertion that Kim Il Sung liquidated political refugees is Guardian’s man in Moscow, an article criticising Putin the last 30 years, from the secret caves in the West 286 pages packed with salacious detail, studio gossip, defamatory of Sung if he is still living... The critique of appeared in the paper under Harding’s name. Harding Bank where Arafat hid on his way to Jerusalem in 1967, the vice squad, royal affairs and more. Cuba prior to the Revolution is defamatory of Batista... , was summoned for interrogation by the F.S.B. His four to the Peace Negotiations in Oslo in 1993. 260pp. $25 NOW £5.50 Peter Carter-Ruck. Read on at your peril! Tariq Ali’s years of being treated as an enemy of Russia had £17.99 NOW £3 76776 DORIS DAY: All-American Girl: Book passion and vim made him the symbol of the spirit of begun. When Harding attends the funeral of the 76558 FRACTURED TIMES: Culture and and Six Prints by Helen Akitt ’68. 403pp, paperback, 24 pages of photos. murdered dissident lawyer Markelov he meets Natasha £12.99 NOW £5 Society in the Twentieth Century More than half Day’s films achieved a Top 10 box office Estemirova, head of the human rights group in Grozny. by Eric Hobsbawm ranking, but Day’s career suffered when she rejected the 78290 BORDERLAND: A Journey Through the Harding keeps up the mockery of Moscow in The The last book from one of our foremost modern-day Mrs Robinson role in The Graduate. She suddenly found History of Ukraine by Anna Reid Guardian. Harding trawls the documents for material, thinkers. 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The sons’ names are Mackie Antonia Edwards During a six week stay she focused on the monumental east and decorates the padded cover of this square block and Jackie who are twins. Emil A handsome folio of 12 different wooden totem poles the natives had carved, many of stationery item. The pages are decorated with the same and the detectives are on holiday quality gift wrapping papers, them erected after 1860. About 250 Haida people were map very faintly on the otherwise blank pages for all by the seaside when they meet the perforated for easy removal that then living in Skidegate on Graham Island, where a your notes, scribbles, To Do lists, poetry, notes for your three Byrons. When they discover that Byron Senior is unfolds to 19½ x 27½” (50x70cm). Christian mission had been established. The four oil novel or simply to leave by the telephone. A planning to abandon poor Jackie, they are determined to Use them for gift wrapping, craft paintings reproduced for these notecards are testament companion to code 77996. come to the rescue, but not before they have been cast projects, decorative items or to her artistic skill. Subtle use of colour, Native ONLY £3 artworks. The imaginative textile away on a desert island. A vintage classic in illustrated American mythology, two of the totem poles have 78062 FRANK LLOYD paperback with quiz, the original unabridged text. patterns of the 1950s, liberated from stunning eagles atop. Elegant tall blank notecards with £5.99 NOW £3.25 wartime restrictions, influenced by 16 white envelopes, four each of four designs. Boxed. WRIGHT ADDRESS BOOK abstract art movements are the $15.95 NOW £6 by Pomegranate 77742 MAISY’S SNUGGLE BOOK inspiration for this colourful set of 12 78621 BOOKMARK FLEXIBLE Sturdy spiral bound hardback with by Lucy Cousins distinct abstract patterns in various colours, geometric lovely clear A-Z tabs and space for For little babies aged one to three, bedtime snuggles, shapes, cracked effects, all very appealing and multi- MAGNIFIER: 2x six entries per page, name, address, cuddles and stories will be extra fun with this bright red purpose. Softback 13.6" x 9.8". by Thinking Gifts email, home and work phone soft felt story book. Maisy is a little white mouse with £9.99 NOW £5 A thin, flexible and very lightweight numbers, fax and mobile numbers. pink ears and nose, stripy green pyjamas and a little pet 78585 ANIMAL PRINT GIFT bookmark engraved with fine ridges like a Opposite is a full page glorious panda teddy. Watch Eddy the big grey elephant read Fresnel lens, simply lift it away from hard- colour photograph of a Frank Lloyd her a story as she closes her eyes to sleep. Wipe clean WRAP: 12 Large Sheets to-read text to see the words getting larger Wright design, for example his art-glass such as the fabric story book with special stitching. by Pepin van Roojen and and more visible. 2½” x 7¼” (64x190mm), Sumac Window 1902 or a whole house like the Susan £9.99 NOW £5 Fenke van Eijk it’s a bookmarker that tucks away almost Lawrence Dana House of the same year or a glamorous Get a little wild with this folio 77961 A PATCH OF anywhere. The vinyl storage sleeve interior with folding Frank Lloyd Wright designed containing 12 distinct sheets that provided keeps the magnifier in pristine colourful windows inside the Avery Coonley House of BLACK unfolds to 19½ x 27½” (50x70cm) condition without scratches. Ideal for 1907. A glamorous design which would make an ideal by Rachel Rooney and perforated for easy removal from directories, newspapers, craftwork etc. A gift. Deborah Allwright the large softback, 13.6" x 9.8". companion to code 77726 the Page Style $19.95 NOW £4.50 Snake skins, leopard skins, big cats, This charming tale with a Flexible Magnifier. 78064 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT MOUSEPAD: lullaby feel has magical full a green one based on the turtle, £8.42 NOW £4 panther, even aardvark, they are SAGUARO FORMS by Pomegranate page colour illustrations with 78656 LIFE OF THE BUDDHA: a friendly tiger, dragon, scaly but all very beautiful in their Your computer mouse will love to skid across this cuddly toys, teeny-weeny natural patterning, based on the 16 Notecards by Gina Bostian brightly coloured, wipe cleanable, slightly padded vinyl ants on the ends of branches, petals, monkeys and even beautifully camouflaged leopards, and the British Library mouse mat which measures 7¾ x 9¼”. The rainbow animated spoons striding towards a feast of jellies and desert snakes, zebras and other The images in this notecard set are colours chosen for the design is the Saguaro Forms and cakes! From a magical wish-granting cloak to a animals. Use them for gift wrapping of course or craft from one of two magnificent Burmese Cactus Flowers from a lighted glass mural designed by hammock rocked by jungle animal friends, there’s projects, décor or artworks. With an introduction concertina-fold manuscripts collected Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) who was inspired by the nothing that a patch of night-time sky can’t become, and describing the sources of the designs. by Orientalist Henry Burney. In the Arizona Desert. 28 x 16cm. certainly no need to be afraid of the dark. A beautiful £9.99 NOW £5 first image, the Bodhisattva accepts ONLY £3 bedtime storybook. 78727 200 PAGE A5 SPIRAL the offering of a bowl of rice-milk. 78063 WATERLILIES FRANK £11.99 NOW £3 NOTEBOOK by Grafix Deep blue sky contrasts with the burnt-orange terrain, and unicorns float LLOYD WRIGHT MAGNETIC Black laminate cover with three 77723 DREAM DAYS by Kenneth Grahame in the stream. The second image is NOTEPAD by Pomegranate dividers in pink, blue and yellow and By the perennially popular author of ‘The Wind in the the Buddha preaching his first sermon, The art glass screen of 1895 was the 200 pages of quality writing paper, Willows’, here are eight short stories published under the in another Prince Siddhattha Gotama vision of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867- 70gsm, the paper is lined and there title ‘Dream Days’ in 1898. For Charlotte, Edward, displays his skills in archery with the 1959). With its three water lilies in are cutaways in the front cover with Harold, Selina and the unnamed narrator, days pass in a court in a pagoda palace beneath, and another the Prince bright white, the geometric design is in a plain sheet beneath to organise whirl of adventures, travelling through hidden lands, crosses a river with one leap of his horse and dismounts greys, pinks and predominantly purple your work into headers. Exceptional building bonfires, sailing raging torrents in homemade on a bank of silvery sand. The onlookers can’t look, but and adorns the front cover and the right value for money. A5 size. barks and mediating with dragons. The hero of ‘The the fish and crabs in the river can. Beautifully detailed hand column of each lined page of these Reluctant Dragon’ comes to rely on the Boy to mediate ONLY £3 and colourful, very tall elegant blank notecards with 20 70 lined sheets on a rather smart his cause and avoid humiliation of apparent cowardice. 78726 200 PAGE A4 SPIRAL NOTEBOOK white envelopes. Four each of four designs, boxed. shopping list or jotter pad. It has a self Ages 7+. 130pp, paperback. by Grafix $15.95 NOW £6 adhesive magnet to easily stick on your £8.99 NOW £3 fridge and tear-off perforated pages. Black laminate cover with three dividers in pink, blue 78784 BINTH LITTLE NOTES: 18 Assorted 77594 THREE LITTLE PIGS and yellow and 200 pages of quality lined writing paper. 10cm wide x 22cm tall. Softback. Greetings Cards by Binth retold by Nina Filipek A4 size. ONLY £3 ONLY £5 Attractive box set of six each of three jolly, modern Huff, puff and try to blow the houses down with this designs with red, black, pale blue and olive green 78065 BILTMORE PANELS FRANK LLOYD beautiful short retelling in 25 pages of the ever-popular 78587 AT PLAY: 20 flowers, abstract designs with the words HAPPY!, WRIGHT: Playing Cards Two Decks story, newly illustrated in colour. At the end there is a Animal Blank Notecards HELLO! and HOORAY! The assorted greetings cards by Pomegranate Can You Remember? and Did You Spot?, True or False by Sierra Club come with white envelopes and are suitable for dropping The pattern on these cards began as a 1934 sketch the and Search the Puzzle set of questions. 34 colour Three giant pandas tumble a note to friends architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) labelled stickers. Ages 2-4. Dedication page. and loved ones ‘Machine Age Screen’. In 1973, architects used that £4.99 NOW £1.25 together, all black and white fur balls, two baby orang- along these image to design wall panels at a hotel in Phoenix, 77585 MY BABY SISTER utans, legs outspread lie on themes, just saying Arizona. Bold, geometric and colourful with lime green, their backs, staring straight up hello or orange, blue and purple, here is a set of two full decks of by Emma Chichester Clark 52 playing cards with the two designs on the reverse. An adorable big glossy picture book in the Humber and at the camera with their human-like faces, two little fox congratulating cubs tumble in the grass and a cheetah is smothered by someone. Boxed. Plum series. Humber finds it quite a shock when $13.95 NOW £4 Mummy comes home with a new baby sister. ‘She’s her young fluffy cub in the last of the four adorable £10.99 NOW £4 not staying,’ she tells all the relatives, but before she colour designs. Five each of these four designs, quality 78526 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COLLECTION: sends her back, he thinks he just might try to get to blank notecards 20 with white envelopes. Boxed. 75533 SCRAP BOOK: Coloured Pages Set of Four know her a little better. Engaging, funny, poignant, full $15.95 NOW £6 by W. F. Graham Buy this beautiful collection and save even more. of joy and tantrums. Large softback, colour. Ages 2-5. 78817 MUSICAL NOTES: 18 Assorted Alongside our bestseller which we have stocked for over ONLY £13 25 years code 27592, we are proud to present a 24 page £5.99 NOW £1.50 Greetings Cards by Susie Ghahnemani colour version of the same scrap book measuring 8½” x 72193 LADIES’ GOLD WATCH AND 77414 CLASSIC STORIES FOR GIRLS The Owl and the Pussycat sing you a birthday song, a 12". The better paper quality pages are turquoise blue, by Miles Kelly and Fiona Waters ! long beaked little birdie is ‘playing our song’ on the vinyl BRACELET yellow and pink. Ideal for all scrapbooking, preserving by Pier Carlos D’Alessio In a timeless collection of some of the most beloved record deck, and a pair of squirrels tinkle the ivories on postcards, photographs, letters etc. A stunningly beautiful gold coloured metal chain link classics such as Dorothy, Heidi, Lorna Doone and Black an old stand up piano. There are three charming ONLY £1.50 design with nine Swarovski crystals inset into the bar Beauty here reinterpreted with charming new images, six of each design with white envelopes in these links and a very clever removable link to shorten the illustrations. With authors ranging from Lewis Carroll and stylised, modern, fun small blank note cards for many 77726 FLEXIBLE MAGNIFIER PAGE SIZE watch strap. With a simple clock face and PCA, the Charles Kingsley to Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, occasions; drop a thank you note, congratulations, send by Thinking Gifts designer’s logo, on the face, it comes with a matching even the youngest child will love to hear the stories read Happy Birthday wishes etc. All decorated with musical In a handy protective wallet this nearly A4 sized 7½” x bracelet with 12 Swarovski crystals inset. Please wind aloud, while older children will enjoy reading the tales notes and quality 10¼” flexible sheet weighs nothing. It is ideal for laying up using the crown button when wearing for the first for themselves. Most of the stories here are extracts, colour, they will over your needle crafts and handy work, scrapbooking, time. Batteries included. In black presentation box, this which will encourage readers to seek out the books for make you sing out newspapers, home computing, map reading, books - was manufactured for Reader’s Digest (sadly now themselves. With an introduction to the book and its loud. With anything you need to bring a little closer to avoid eye defunct). Would make a very stylish gift or treat for characters, as well as a short biography of the author. matching white strain. It would also make a thoughtful gift for those yourself. Bracelet and watch set, each approx. 8" in 512 softback pages in glowing colour. envelopes. who are a little short sighted. Wipe clean and non- £14.99 NOW £5.75 $14.95 NOW £4 breakable. length. ONLY £4 ONLY £15 www.bibliophilebooks.com Early Learning 31

72195 MAGNIFYING GOLD children will enjoy giving to friends and relations, and 77598 REALLY WOOLLY 77529 DOGGY WHYS NECKLACE SWAROVSKI made extra-special by the fact that they can proudly say BEDTIME TREASURY by Lila Prap CRYSTAL that they made each present themselves. Every project by Bonnie Rickner Jensen Dogs guard grazing animals, pull has a suggested age range; even two-year-olds are by Art de France Here are the stories of David and sleds, help the police catch catered for, while some are more suited to ten-year-olds Goliath, The Ten Commandments, criminals, rescue injured people, Presented in a silver gift box with (but, of course, great for adults to make as well). This silver foil bow and with Certificate Joseph, Abraham, Creation, Daniel, and help the blind, disabled and ill. colourful book will provide loads of inspiration, and is Jonah, Jesus is born, Jesus And what do they expect from us of Warranty and Authenticity, this perfect for keeping children. 256pp, colour illus and unique item of jewellery is anti- welcomes the children, The Good from all this loyalty and templates. Samaritan, The Cross and The unselfishness? Nothing special. allergenic and 24 carat gold-plated. With six curves in a $14.99 NOW £3.50 flower shape setting is a good quality magnifying glass Tomb plus verses, prayers and Several of the most popular breeds are described by (1" diameter) to wear around your neck with four amber 78117 ROALD DAHL’S promises. With rhyming text and their characteristics like strong hunting instincts, gentle Swarovski crystals linking it to a gold plated rope chain. SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS take away thoughts, and Really Woolly art with cuddly and clever, beloved pets for centuries. Fun ideas and Ideal to use in those awkward moments when you need lambs, bunnies, tortoise, ducks and birds, we can grab a fab facts. Ages 7+. STICKER BOOK cosy blanket and snuggle up close. Colour illus, padded £10.99 NOW £2 to see the small print or would make a stylish gift. illustrated by Quentin Blake Chain length 26" or 66cms. Depending on where you cover. Welcome to Mr Willy Wonka’s 77584 MUSIC AND SOUNDS: Book, Game and place the glass, we reckon approx 3 times magnification. £10.99 NOW £4 £79.95 NOW £6 Chocolate Factory and recall the Wooden Maraca by Globe Publishing fantastic moments when Charlie 78512 TREASURE ISLAND From the minute we are born we love the sound of our 78465 HANDS STAND: Duck Egg Blue meets Mr Wonka. Can you find the by Robert Louis Stevenson own voice and teeny tots aged 36 months to 6 years by That Company Called If stickers to match the pictures of Mr An Easy Reader classic with dedication page ‘this book will love shaking their own maraca provided in this fun The Hands Stand is designed to hug all books, kindles Wonka and the lucky Golden Ticket belongs to’ featuring stories chosen from beloved activity kit. The lovely 64 page book is full of colourful and tablets. Its gentle, spring-loaded mitts will hold on winners? With short stories including Mr Fox and the children’s novels, retold in a simple style and beautifully pictures about all manner of noises from the buzz of the tightly, freeing up your hands for all kinds of other useful Three Farmers, James and the Giant Peach Mystery, illustrated. Children can develop their reading skills bee and the wail of the ambulance, to the moo of the things like holding your coffee mug! In duck egg blue, it use the stickers of Silkworm and Glow Worm, James while enjoying Stevenson’s classic take of villainous cow. The bright red wooden maraca enclosed with the folds away neatly after use, making it ideal for use at Henry Trotter, Lady Bug and draw one of your friends in buccaneers and a young boy who had the adventure of kit is decorated with musical notes. The game is a home, on the train, a plane or in the office. 21cm high, the portrait boxes provided. Enjoy the famous excerpts a lifetime. Jim Hawkins, off on an expedition to search matching game with 24 cards to remember their location lightweight 3.5oz, stylish. once again and use your dozens of colourful stickers. for treasure, overhears pirate Long John Silver’s evil and turn over to find a matching pair. CE safety mark. ONLY £12 Large softback. Small remainder mark. plan. Jim is in more danger than he had bargained for. £9.99 NOW £4 $6.99 NOW £3 Four to six lines of text per page. Colour, sturdy 184 27592 SCRAP BOOK pages. 77586 MY HOME: Book and Puzzle and 5 Shiny red laminate cover; 16 pages of recycled grey 78390 SPOOKY STREET $12.95 NOW £3.50 Wooden Figures by Globe Publishing paper. 8½” x 12", great value. Ideal for photographs, by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins Traditional meets modern presentation with mummy, cuttings, pressed flowers, artistic doodles etc. Follow the werewolf as he leads the way down Spooky 78054 DINOSAUR TATTOO daddy, son and daughter and little doggie being ONLY £1 Street, calling in to see Old Mother Hubble the witch BOOK represented in five high quality wooden family figures to (looking up a recipe for toad in the hole), or see the by Caroline Rowlands 61516 BIBLIOPHILE SQUIGGLE PEN use on the box as your own doll’s house. The puzzle has Blods in Gory Grange with a mummy in the bath and a Packed with mighty, prehistoric 16 chunky pieces to create a neighbourhood representing by A. Squigley snake in the loo. Visit the creepy corner shop, or maybe monsters, find out fearsome facts In Bibliophile blue, this is the latest in our own collectable home and the vicinity. There is a great 64 page book all the skeleton family where bony hands will grasp and and test your dino knowledge with about the houses and uses of each room in the house. company designs with a quick reminder for our book clasp and hold you tight forever. Then you reach the cool quizzes and fun puzzles. The hotline printed on. It has a super squeezy black rubber Ages 3-5. 420 x 438mm when finished. Box set. Werewolf’s house. Finally you turn the last page - and fantastic colour artwork show you ONLY £4 grip, ideal for older hands, and an attractive metal aaargh! 12" x 8.50", colour, flaps and pop-ups. the whopping wings of the high ‘squiggle’ clip. Black ink. One happy customer said £9.99 NOW £4 flying Quetzalcoatlus which is 77608 JESUS AND ME: Bible Storybook “Bought some of these pens last year & they keep going by Stephen Elkins 77327 A HISTORY OF BRITAIN: Book III The actually a prehistoric lizard and walkies. I think my visitors like them too. I love the soft about the same size as a small plane or the oddest The angels said Jesus was the son of God. John the grip. I have arthritis & the soft grip makes these pens a Tudors 1485-1603 New Edition looking dinosaur ever with a strange crest on the top of Baptist said Jesus was the lamb of God. Where was joy to hold. I have bought other types, but keep coming by E. H. Carter and R. A. F. Mears its head, the Parasaurolophus. There are 24 fearsome Jesus baptised? How does Jesus want us to live? back to these. Worth every penny,a great buy.” First released in 1937, this widely admired and dinosaur tattoos to wear with attitude. Ages 5 to adult. Where is Jesus now? 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Join the friends on their activities in fishing is as bad as someone looking over ONLY £2.25 for the Golden Fleece is one of the most enduringly page after page of creative and entertaining matching, your shoulder while you write a letter to popular of all the Ancient Greek heroic myths. counting, colouring and drawing activities. Plus 50 teeny your girl. Accepting the quest in order to regain his kingdom, Jason colour stickers. Softback. - Ernest Hemingway assembled a crew of legendary heroes including $4.99 NOW £2 EARLY LEARNING Heracles, Orpheus, Atlanta and the twins Castor and Polydeuces. 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Experiment Lies Over the Ocean, Michael Finnegan, Home on the about sailing the boat, steering it, them out, Mum?’ ‘No’, said Mum, ‘we bought them for with different painting tools from sponges and twigs, Range, Cockles and Mussels and The Big Ship Sailed on returning to harbour, using a dinghy, John.’ Putting on a party frock and a blue ribbon in her different paper and different techniques to create a work the Illy Ally-o with music specially arranged for young tying knots and learning to recognise hair, the little girl eats cake, John shouts, he left her of art you will be proud to hang on a wall. Subjects children’s voices. All the songs have easy the flags that boats fly in this super present on the floor, games, balloons, running about and range from landscapes, waterscapes, portraits, animals, accompaniments for piano or keyboard and indications cool big picture book. Learn about the weather, tides, jumping, this is a tender story for ages 2 and up. 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This lively upon the ‘Book of Memory’, by at 21,000 a spectacular a superb popular science book. Los Angeles and Tokyo, and insightful biography of the artist Fanny Robinson (1802-1872). array of red dots, white Istanbul and Beijing, Lima and Cairo are among the literary giant details the crucial These delicate watercolours of circles, a green ocean with more than 60 large cities at definite risk from an years that formed Dickens the flowers symbolise heartache and some sort of purple algae on earthquake. Devastating earthquakes have also hit writer and Dickens the man and heartease. Pansies, snowdrops, top. Controlling the heart Athens, Bucharest, Lisbon, Madrid, Rome and Naples how he transferred the smallest primrose and wild strawberry, are the Purkinje fibres, over the past three centuries. Even London experienced fragments of his experience into his flowering quince, apple blossom and daffodil, modified muscle tissue that a shock in 1884. 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While in Rome he was captured the Richmond Horse Show 1910, Margaret and David To make your fly, fold back the like Linnaeus, Buffon and his successor, the Comte de by the army of Charles V, but managed to find favour Lloyd George camping on a Welsh mountain, 1913, covers of the book until they meet Lacépède struggled to catalogue the world around them. with the Emperor, which was ended promptly when the bathing at Margate, the London Opera House, London and thread the elastic string through Nearly 200 antique illustrations in glowing colour record Pope called for a crusade against Henry VIII and set the buses in the fog, poor children, a lone policeman in a the loop and hang up. All flies have the wonders of the deep, paired with Lacépède’s Inquisition against Wyatt. 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76822 ENGLAND’S QUEENS: 75539 GIANT CHRISTMAS COLOURING 78509 SYLVESTER AND THE NEW YEAR The Biography BOOK by W. F. Graham by Eduard Mörike by Elizabeth Norton CHRISTMAS REDUCTIONS A festive book of line art which could be traced and used Millions of twinkling stars filled the sky as Clara and her From the early queens of England, for craft purposes or simply coloured in by little ones. father walked joyfully through the snow. Crunch, both real and mythical, such as Christmas trees and baubles, St. Nicklaus, children crunch, crunch, went their boots. Angels stand watch Boudicca, Etheldreda, Guinevere 78788 LITTLE HANDS CREATIVE STICKER sleighing, a duck skating, a jack-in-the-box surrounded over glittering sky lambs. 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