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This month’s features ASSASSINATION Page 13 Playing with words Pages 26–27

Wave power: Tudor & Stuart Seafarers is a featured title on page 3

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NEW BIG HISTORY David Christian Spanning 13.8 billion years, Big History brings together science and humanities to trace the progress of the universe across eight thresholds: the Big Bang, the birth of stars, forging of elements, planet formation, the emergence of life, human evolution, the development of civilizations and, finally, the rise of industry. Each topic within this vast sweep is explained in over 150 concise, well illustrated double-page spreads, and the book ends with timelines of world history. DK 2016 HB 440pp Illus 297x250mm $50.00 513685 now £14.99

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NEW SIR JOHN TIPTOFT: ‘THE BUTCHER OF ENGLAND’ The Earl of Worcester 1427–1470 Peter Spring As holder of the highest offices of state, Sir John Tiptoft was a powerful figure during the reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV, but became known for the scale and brutality of the executions he ordered. In this reappraisal the author argues that contemporary denigration of Tiptoft’s character reflected the deep antipathy of the English towards a cosmopolitan intellectual who refashioned the royal court according to continental models. PEN & SWORD 2018 HB 400pp Illus £25.00 515831 now £9.99 COVER TITLE NEW TUDOR & STUART SEAFARERS The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485–1707 Ed. James Davey Between the first English ‘Merchant Adventurers’ who voyaged to the New World opened up by European mariners such as Columbus and Vespucci, and the early 1700s, when British sea power was seen as the bastion of national liberty, stability and prosperity, this richly illustrated volume explores a formative period in our maritime history. Published to mark the opening of the Tudor and Stuart Seafarers gallery at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, the book draws on the Museum’s unparalleled collections and comprises essays by 13 eminent historians. ADLARD COLES 2018 HB 272pp Illus 255x198mm £25.00 516739 now £9.99 Back by popular demand DIARY OF A RURAL GP This month’s features Hilarious True Stories from a Country Practice Michael Sparrow For almost 30 years ASSASSINATION on the Devon/Cornwall border, Dr Mike Political murder from the Sparrow attended to his patients in his Princes in the Tower to JFK village surgery or in their farms and hamlets scattered across the countryside. Page 13 Now retired from general practice, he looks back on his most memorable cases: Playing sewing fingers back on, delivering babies vet-style, burying beagles... but Sparrow with words was never a man for Standard Operating Pages 26–27 Procedure. DUCKWORTH 2020 PB 222pp £9.99 514326 now £4.99 3 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

SENTINELS OF THE SEA A Miscellany of Lighthouses Past RG Grant The extraordinary saga of the Eddystone lighthouse serves as prologue to this engrossing and authoritative study of the history and construction of lighthouses, the development of their lights and lenses and the ‘splendours and miseries’ of the lighthouse keepers’ work. Among the period drawings, architectural plans and photographs evoking the bygone era of manned lighthouses are visual surveys and details of 100 of the most famous; and the book ends with their demise in the era of automation, radar and GPS. THAMES & HUDSON 2018 HB 160pp Illus 304x197mm £19.95 514649 now £7.99 The 1823 design for Wolf Rock lighthouse between Land’s End and the Scilly Isles, by Robert Stevenson, the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson WHO KILLED KITCHENER? The Life and Death of Britain’s Most Famous War Minister THE SPITFIRE MANUAL David Laws The death of Lord Ed. Dilip Sarkar Before being let loose in a Kitchener when the battleship carrying Supermarine Spitfire, fighter pilots would have him on a secret mission to Russia struck to familiarize themselves with the ‘Pilot’s Notes’ a German mine stunned a nation at war, which comprehensively detailed the aircraft’s and gave rise to various conspiracy equipment, controls and operation. These theories. Suspicion fell on the IRA, the instructions are reproduced in this book together Boers and even the British government, with examples of log books, combat reports and who disliked him intensely. Drawing on other contemporary training booklets advising recently declassified documents, this on such skills as identifying enemy aircraft, history separates truth from fiction to estimating range and combat flying. reveal what really happened that day in AMBERLEY 2010 PB 286pp Illus June 1916. BITEBACK 2019 HB 320pp Illus £9.99 225681 now £3.99 £20.00 513837 now £7.99 Turn to page 13 for our special feature ASSASSINATION TORNADO on political murder and other f New Peppercorn Class A1 deadly historical conspiracies Geoff Smith The Peppercorn Class A1 Pacific Tornado was completed in 2008 and is the first steam locomotive built in Britain since 1960. This illustrated celebration of the achievement reveals how it was designed and constructed and is now run and maintained. Including a technical breakdown of the engine, the book was originally published in a larger format as the Tornado Owners’ Workshop Manual. HAYNES 2018 HB 160pp Illus 226x176mm £12.99 512967 now £4.99 Back on the rails: Steam Today: Britain’s Heritage Railways in Photographs is in Transport on page 43 f

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NEW FROM CRIME TO CRIME Richard Henriques As a lawyer, Richard Henriques prosecuted Harold Shipman and the killers of James Bulger. After becoming a judge, he oversaw the cases of the Morecambe Bay cockle pickers and Jean Charles de Menezes, as well as many high-profile appeals. In this book he recalls his most notorious cases, and gives his views on the state of the British judicial system. HODDER 2020 HB 336pp £25.00 515537 now £7.99

THE LADY IN THE CELLAR Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury Sinclair McKay On 9 May 1879 an upmarket lodging house at 4 Euston Square was being NEW 18 TINY DEATHS prepared for the arrival of a new tenant when the The Untold Story of Frances body of a well-dressed, middle-aged lady was discovered in the coal cellar. Glessner Lee and the It was obviously a case of murder, and the ensuing police investigation exposed, Invention of Modern Forensics behind the respectable façade of Euston Square, a sinister web of sexual intrigue Bruce Goldfarb Frances Glessner Lee, a involving the housemaid, Hannah Dobbs, and the landlord, Severin Bastendorff. 2018 HB 320pp Illus leading pioneer of forensic science, estab- Slightly off-mint. WHITE LION £20.00 509867 now £6.99 lished Harvard’s department of legal medicine in 1936. This biography ex- THE SCOUNDREL HARRY LARKYNS plores her fascination with the intricate And his Pitiless Killing by the details of murder investigations, and how she crafted the Nutshell Studies of Unex- Photographer Eadweard Muybridge Rebecca Gowers plained Death, a collection of dollhouse- In 1871 the pioneer sized murder scenes containing macabre cinematographer Eadweard Muybridge killed clues to train scientists and detectives. Harry Larkyns in cold blood for having an affair ENDEAVOUR 2020 HB 320pp Illus 215x134mm with his wife, but was sensationally acquitted of murder. After Rebecca Gowers discovered the £16.99 514960 now £6.99 victim was her distant cousin, she used personal and newspaper accounts, plus military and legal records to research and reconstruct Larkyns’ fascinating life, which took him from the Indian Mutiny through debauchery in Paris to a bohemian Californian existence. WEIDENFELD 2019 HB 382pp Illus £20.00 513179 now £7.99 THE RIPPER OF WATERLOO ROAD The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838 Jan Bondeson Fifty years before Jack the Ripper, a prostitute was brutally murdered in a house near Waterloo Bridge. The killer was never identified but in this new analysis of the case, the author draws on the investigating policeman’s notes and contemporary newspaper reports to link the crime to a series of other murders and identify a possible serial killer. HISTORY 2017 HB 288pp Illus £20.00 508480 now £7.99 DARK VALLEYS: Foul Deeds Among the South Wales Valleys 1845–2016 Gary Dobbs is better known as a writer of crime fiction, but in this survey of murder in the Welsh Valleys he is ‘telling of the way it was’, describing the victims, crimes and perpetrators in the true stories of 13 notorious killings. NEW INDECENT ADVANCES PEN & SWORD 2016 PB 142pp Illus 234x156mm A Hidden History of True Crime £12.99 509497 now £4.99 and Prejudice Before Stonewall James Polchin This history of homosex- uality in America in the 20th century MY LIFE WITH MURDERERS shows how, as well as being criminalized, Behind Bars with the gay people were discriminated against in World’s Most Violent Men the law and in their treatment as the vic- David Wilson As a prison governor and later tims of crime. It also explores the momen- an academic criminologist, David Wilson has tum gathered by the gay rights movement interviewed many killers. Recalling these often in 1969 following protests against the tense encounters, he explores the psychopathology brutality of the police raid at Stonewall of these men, some anonymized, others, including Inn. ICON 2019 HB 256pp Illus 214x135mm Dennis Nilsen, notorious. SPHERE 2019 PB 288pp £16.99 514898 now £6.99 £14.99 513662 now £4.99

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NEW A 1970s CHILDHOOD From Glam Rock to Happy Days Derek Tait Organized in categories including School, Holidays, Fashion and Television, this nostalgic compendium takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of the 1970s. Reminiscing about everything from Chopper bikes, Kojak and kipper ties to power cuts, Green Shield Stamps and the long hot summer of 1976, Derek Tait perfectly captures the zeitgeist of the era. ALLSORTED 2014 HB 192pp Illus 195x128mm £11.99 514690 now £3.99

Op art: Mini car and mini dress, March 1966 THE SWINGING SIXTIES HOLDING THE HOME FRONT An Iconic Decade in Pictures The Women’s Land Army Ed. Ian Penberthy; Caroline Watson in the First World War In this photographic portrait of the Caroline Scott Within days of the start of 1960s, drawn from the Mirrorpix archive, the First World War there were calls for musicians, models, fashion designers, actors women to come to the fields, but it would and artists dominate the ‘swinging’ scene; be almost three years before the Women’s but amid the hair-dos, festivals and flower Land Army was formally established. power, there’s also Bobby Moore kissing Using previously unpublished accounts the World Cup and the new Concorde being and photographs, this social history looks wheeled out to meet its adoring fans. at how the movement impacted agricul- AMMONITE 2012 PB 298pp Illus ture at a time of national crisis and exam- £7.99 509304 now £3.99 ines the rhetoric surrounding it, the political purpose that shaped it and the ex- periences of those who worked for it. IT’S ALIVE! PEN & SWORD 2017 HB 224pp Illus A Visual History of Frankenstein £19.99 509507 now £7.99 Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger Mary Shelley’s horror story has inspired numerous adaptations since its publication in 1818. Designed to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, this book provides a rich visual record of the ways her creation has been represented over the past two centuries. After exploring the novel’s background in the Gothic tradition, it examines the early stage adaptations, book illustrations, the classic film starring Boris Karloff, and more recent cinematic versions. D GILES 2018 HB 336pp Illus 276x203mm £39.95 512754 now £16.99 A poster for the melodrama Le Monstre et le magicien by Jean-François Vilain, Paris, 1826

NEW THE FRIGHTENERS NEW CHRISTMAS AT WAR Why We Love Monsters, Heartwarming True Stories Ghosts, Death and Gore of How Britain Came Together Peter Laws, a Baptist minister, has a fascination with on the Home Front horror culture. In this personal odyssey he attempts to Caroline Taggart Gleaned from first- understand why people like to be scared or disgusted, person interviews, diaries and letters, this journeying to Transylvania and hunting werewolves collection of festive wartime recollections in Hull. He also discusses whether embracing the evokes a less materialistic, more stoic gothic and gruesome is actually the healthiest way world. From memories of resourceful for us to confront our fear of death. Slightly off-mint. makeshift dinners, handmade presents and ICON 2018 HB 320pp 195x129mm carol singing during the black-out to an £12.99 514896 now £4.99 account of Christmas day in Colditz, the ‘The horror, the horror!’: stories range in tone from humorous to heartbreaking. Limited quantity. f Confront monsters and JOHN BLAKE 2017 PB 304pp Illus nightmares in HP Lovecraft, £8.99 515568 now £3.99 Edgar Allan Poe – and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – ORDERING BY PHONE? in this month’s selection of Our order line is open from 8am–8pm, seven days a week fiction titles on pages 20–21 9 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk ARCHAEOLOGY/ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL HISTORY

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NEW KNOSSOS NEW THE KOMNENE R Rossi By the fifth DYNASTY century BCE the Byzantium’s Struggle Palace of Knossos for Survival 1057–1185 on Crete had already John Carr During the passed into myth as the 128-year rule of the Komnenes, home of the Minotaur Byzantium faced attacks from and his labyrinth. Its Turks in the East and from rediscovery in 1900 Western Christian forces brought history and fighting the early Crusades. legend together. This Carr tells the story of this vital illustrated study looks period for Eastern Christendom, at who the people were when the emperors introduced who built it, its new military techniques and purpose and the relied on mercenaries including place of Crete English soldiers who fled in Greek myth, and describes the excavated the Norman Conquest to join Minoan remains, including the statues, frescoes Byzantium’s renowned Varangian Guard. and enigmatic inscriptions. The Great Mysteries PEN & SWORD 2018 HB 240pp Illus of Archaeology series. Slightly off-mint. £25.00 515789 now £9.99

D&C 2007 PB 192pp Illus RICHARD III £9.99 515487 now £3.99 Brother • Protector • King Above: Storerooms with ‘pithoi’ Chris Skidmore The loyal brother of Edward IV, Richard was storage jars, 16th–15th centuries BCE entrusted as Protector of Edward’s son and heir, but in 1483 he Left: Black-figure vase depicting Theseus killing the Minotaur took the crown himself while his nephews, Edward V and Prince Richard, disappeared. It was widely rumoured that the king had murdered his brother’s sons. Avoiding the bias of Richard’s evil reputation, this narrative history of his life and reign returns to original sources and looks in depth at contemporary politics, Richard’s earlier years and northern affinity, and how he constructed his own power base. WEIDENFELD 2019 PB 456pp Illus £10.99 513176 now £4.99

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THE TEMPLARS The Legend and Legacy of the Warriors of God Geordie Torr Both a religious order and a private army, the Templars were answerable only to the pope and dominated the STONEHENGE: A History in Photographs politics of the Middle East during the tumultuous age of the Julian Richards Stonehenge is among the world’s most Crusades. This book traces the history and changing fortunes of famous prehistoric monuments and, since the mid-19th the order, from its foundation in 1119 to its suppression amid century, probably the most photographed. Using images accusations of heresy less than two centuries later. from English Heritage’s photographic archive, this book ARCTURUS 2020 PB 256pp Illus 234x152mm covers the last 150 years in the history of the site. From £9.99 514041 now £4.99 the first known photograph (taken by William Russell

Sedgewick in 1853) to recent pictures of the stones NEW FLAYING IN THE at the Solstice, the book shows Stonehenge visited by PRE-MODERN WORLD archaeologists, tourists and Druids and surviving wartime troop movements, restoration projects and vandalism. Practice and Representation Ed. Larissa Tracy HISTORIC ENGLAND 2017 PB 118pp Illus 213x273mm ‘Skin is the £20.00 512534 now £7.99 parchment upon which identity is written’: in this volume, the ANCIENT HISTORY contributors explore the responses PAX ROMANA to the removal of that skin in art, history, literature, manuscript War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World studies and law. The 14 essays Adrian Goldsworthy Looking afresh at the Pax Romana, deal with both flaying in practice, and whether or not the Romans did preside over a peaceful, and its representation in religious prosperous and stable empire, Adrian Goldsworthy sets his art and iconography and in discussion within the context of Roman conquest and an literature, including the Arthurian understanding of how the empire functioned. From the stories and Robin Hood. violent conquests of the Republic to the fall of empire, DS BREWER 2017 HB 422pp Illus Goldsworthy examines how subject populations £60.00 515931 experienced life in the Roman provinces under rulers who were ‘good at waging war and skilled in the politics now £19.99 of dominating others’. WEIDENFELD 2017 PB 528pp Illus Turn to our main Academic section on pages 32–33 for £10.99 511536 now £4.99 f more History titles – and there are more on our website 10 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 MODERN/20th MODERNCENTURY HISTORY

NEW CAPTAIN ELLIOT AND THE FOUNDING OF HONG KONG Pearl of the Orient Jon Bursey After retiring from the Royal Navy, Charles Elliot (1801–75) took up diplomatic assignments in British Guiana, China and Texas. Using previously unpublished documents, this biography highlights his controversial actions in the First Opium War and the ceding of Hong Kong to Britain. It also discusses Elliot’s role in the abolition of slavery and his liberal beliefs on racial equality. PEN & SWORD 2018 HB 292pp Illus £25.00 515731 now £7.99

THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape Mark Braude tells the story of Napoleon’s first THE WHITE KING exile, from his downfall and failed suicide attempt to his return to power in France. Charles I: Traitor, Murderer, Martyr He focuses on the emperor’s irrepressible character, revealed through extensive Leanda de Lisle Reviled as a tyrant and reforms of his tiny realm, establishing courts, a theatre, drainage systems and new canonized as a martyr, Charles I remains crops, and the build-up to his return to power and one of the most controversial of English the Battle of Waterloo. PENGUIN 2018 HB 380pp monarchs. Basing her research on previ- $28.00 512585 now £7.99 ously unseen royal correspondence, Leanda de Lisle follows the tragic career SHORT HISTORY OF of a flawed king, sets the Civil War in the THE VICTORIAN ERA context of the wider European conflict of Gordon Kerr The most significant people, events the Thirty Years’ War, and highlights the and works of literature from the Victoria era are crucial and often underestimated role of introduced chronologically in this concise account Charles’s wife Henrietta Maria. of the social and economic changes that shaped PUBLICAFFAIRS 2017 HB 436pp Illus $30.00 508145 now £9.99 the nation. Pocket Essentials series. OLDCASTLE 2019 PB 256pp £9.99 510914 now £3.99 More Pocket Essentials guides, on a wide f range of subjects, are available on our website

20th CENTURY HISTORY CHURCHILL AND SMUTS From Enemies to Lifelong Friends Richard Steyn This dual biography explores the relationship between the aristocrat Winston Churchill and the ascetic South African farm boy Jan Smuts. It tells how the two men, antagonists during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902, became friends after Smuts risked unpopularity at home by supporting Britain in the First World War, and assesses their role during the establishment of apartheid. ROBINSON 2017 PB 342pp Illus £10.99 513156 now £4.99

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The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express Jim DeFelice As their nation stood on the WHEN EUROPE WAS A PRISON CAMP brink of Civil War, Americans were cap- Father and Son Memoirs 1940–1941 tivated by a new postal service that, for Otto and Peter Schrag Otto Schrag and his son just 18 months, carried mail almost 2,000 Peter fled Nazi-occupied Belgium in 1940, yet miles across the continent using a relay of both have very different stories to tell. Otto fled daring young horseback riders. In this to the South of France where, as a Jew, he was book the coauthor of American Sniper interned in a French concentration camp at explores the origins and development of Saint-Cyprien; ten-year-old Peter, meanwhile, the Pony Express, debunks myths that escaped to Boulogne with his mother and quickly grew up around it and considers grandmother, sheltering in a cellar while the its lasting relevance as a symbol of Amer- city was bombed. This book combines Otto’s ican enterprise. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip novel-like recollections, written in 1941, with mark on upper edge. American-cut pages. Peter’s thoughtful memoir compiled 40 years later. HARPER COLLINS 2018 HB 368pp Illus INDIANA UP 2015 HB 326pp Illus £20.00 511315 now £8.99 $30.00 508079 now £9.99 11 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

NEW RUIN AND RENEWAL Civilising Europe After the Second World War Paul Betts In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Drawing on archival material and the personal testimonies of refugees, politicians, writers and church leaders, this history charts its physical and moral reconstruction. It examines the political systems erected on either side of the Iron Curtain, the establishment of new norms of behaviour in civic and private life, decolonization, the creation of the European Union, and today’s issues of race and multiculturalism. PROFILE 2020 HB 542pp Illus £25.00 514957 now £7.99

NEW THE FUTURE IS HISTORY THE SPY IN MOSCOW STATION How Totalitarianism A Counterspy’s Hunt for Reclaimed Russia a Deadly Cold War Threat Masha Gessen This book explores the Eric Haseltine During the late 1970s a series transformations Russia has undergone of security breaches within the US Embassy in over the past three decades through the Moscow led not only to several CIA agents being lives of four people born in the 1980s: expelled from Russia, but to the execution of their Masha, brought up by her scientist Russian-born ‘assets’. This story of how the embassy grandparents; Seryozha, grandson of was compromised follows several CIA and National one of the architects of perestroika; Security Agency officers in their investigations into Lyosha, son of an unmarried teacher innovative Soviet tradecraft, uncovering advanced from the Urals; and Zhanna, daughter surveillance technology, moles, ‘walk-ins’ and of the liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, microwave attacks. ICON 2019 PB 284pp who was gunned down beneath the £12.99 507058 now £5.99

walls of the Kremlin in 2015. GRANTA 2017 HB 528pp

£20.00 510465 now £7.99 1989: THE YEAR IN PICTURES A momentous year in world events, the dramatic images of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia are emblematic of a turning point in history. Also included in this photographic summary are the protests in Tiananmen Square, the Hillsborough disaster, the fall of Ceaușescu in Romania and the opening of the Louvre pyramid. CONTRASTO 2009 HB 192pp Illus 198x150mm £12.95 511820 now £5.99

FALLOUT A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, from the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste Young Basij soldier, 1981: child soldiers Fred Pearce From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, were commonplace in the Iran-Iraq war and Windscale to Bikini Atoll, humanity’s NEW THE ENGLISH JOB management of the power of atomic energy has been riven with danger, secrecy, deceit, Understanding Iran – human error and short-sighted politics. And Why it Distrusts Britain Jack Straw Environmental journalist Fred Pearce travels With tensions high through former test sites, closed Soviet cities between Iran and the West, former and toxic wastelands where radioactive wolves Foreign Secretary Jack Straw examines roam the streets, to explore the growing legacy the history of Anglo-Iranian relations of our nuclear past and the dilemmas facing us since Anthony Jenkinson’s visit in the over decommissioning and future safety. 16th century. Iran’s hostility, he argues, Off-mint. PORTOBELLO 2018 PB 264pp 234x152mm is rooted in Britain’s former dominance £14.99 510464 now £5.99 of its oil, tobacco and banking industries,

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12 *excl. Highlands and Islands Postscript order line: 01626 897100 ASSASSINATION The Princes in the Tower, the Romanovs in the Ipatiev House cellar, JFK on Dealey Plaza... Our theme this month is political murder, whether by kings or communists, unproven, failed or perpetrated in broad daylight.

THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE ‘PRINCES IN THE TOWER’ John Ashdown-Hill Were the sons of Edward IV – the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York – genuinely held against their will in the Tower of London; and were they murdered there? Bones found in the Tower were interred in Westminster Abbey in 1674, and their burial urn was opened in 1933. Now, drawing The last known photograph on genetic science, John Ashdown-Hill re-examines the of Gavrilo Princip, c.1915 case of the two princes, questioning the orthodox view THE TRIGGER and stripping away the myths that surround their fate. Hunting the Assassin Who AMBERLEY 2018 HB 320pp Illus 233x155mm £20.00 505846 now £9.99 Brought the World to War Tim Butcher Travelling through Part of the mythology: the Balkans and drawing on his Millais’ portrait of the own experiences there as a war princes with the wrong correspondent in the 1990s, Tim hair colour and style Butcher retraces the journey of Gavrilo Princip, from a village in NEW THE KING’S ASSASSIN the mountains to Sarajevo, where The Secret Plot to Murder King James I he shot and killed Archduke Franz Benjamin Woolley George Villiers, Duke of Ferdinand – the event that triggered Buckingham, rose to the highest echelons of court the First World War. society as the favourite of James I. Although they CHATTO & WINDUS 2014 HB 348pp Illus were thought to be lovers, when James died in £18.99 222354 now £4.99 1625, Villiers was accused of poisoning him. Those rumours had been dismissed; now Benjamin A CRUEL AND Woolley presents new evidence to suggest that the SHOCKING ACT ambitious Villiers, frustrated with the king’s cautious The Secret History of the policies, may indeed have killed his benefactor. Kennedy Assassination Slightly off-mint. ST MARTIN’S 2017 HB 366pp Illus Philip Shenon Drawing on $29.99 515085 now £7.99 unprecedented access to surviving Commission staff and other key witnesses, Philip Shenon pieces KILLING NAPOLEON together the compelling story The Plot to Blow Up Bonaparte of the most important, and Jonathan North On Christmas Eve 1800 a bomb most misunderstood, homicide exploded on a crowded Paris street, killing several investigation in 20th-century people and injuring many more. Its intended America: the Warren Commission victim, Napoleon, escaped unharmed. Using enquiry that concluded that Lee first-hand accounts, trial transcripts and archival Harvey Oswald acted alone to material, this book explains the background assassinate the President. to the assassination attempt, profiles its royalist Off-mint. HENRY HOLT perpetrators, recreates the event, and follows 2013 HB 638pp Illus 232x154mm $32.00 225138 now £7.99 the criminal investigation into this early terrorist attack. AMBERLEY 2019 HB 288pp Illus PUTIN’S KILLERS £20.00 512901 now £6.99 Cadoudal, the Breton royalist and The Kremlin and the Art leading conspirator against Bonaparte of Political Assassination Amy Knight Describing today’s THE ROMANOVS Russia as ‘a truly criminal regime’, The Final Chapter Amy Knight traces the long Kremlin Robert K Massie When nine skeletons tradition of covert violence and the were exhumed near Ekaterinburg, Siberia development of the country’s post- in July 1991, the discovery prompted an war security services. She then investigation into whether they were the investigates the background to recent remains of Nicholas II and his family, who killings, including the Litvinenko were executed by Bolsheviks 73 years poisoning and the 2015 shooting of earlier. This investigative history, framed outspoken Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, by a narrative of the Romanov’s last days, and the evidence for Russian describes the scientific methods that involvement in the 2013 Boston were used to establish the identities of the Marathon bombings. (Previously remains by experts from Russia, America and The cellar room of the Ipatiev House in sold in Postscript as Orders to Kill.) Britain. HEAD OF ZEUS 2016 PB 346pp Illus 226x143mm Ekaterinburg, where the Tsar’s family BITEBACK 2019 PB 394pp Illus £12.99 512912 now £5.99 were executed by a fusillade of bullets £9.99 513594 now £3.99 13 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk BRITISH ISLES

WRITING THE THAMES Christina Hardyment Surveying writings as diverse as Caesar’s account of his legions crossing the Thames, John Tradescant describing his botanical garden at Lambeth, and The Wind in the Willows, this is an illustrated look at how the Thames has inspired people to write about it. Focusing on the Victorian and Edwardian periods, Hardyment describes the responses of early chroniclers and historians, topographers and tourists, naturalists and poets, novelists who set their stories along its banks and those who go messing about in boats. BODLEIAN LIBRARY 2016 HB 280pp Illus £25.00 514950 now £7.99

LONDON! Marc Hoberman; John Andrew From tourist destinations and historic monuments to markets, streets and suburbs, this photographic celebration sets out to capture the essence of London in the bustle and chaos of everyday life as IRREPLACEABLE: A HISTORY well as the majesty of some of its famous sites. Over 230 large format colour images OF ENGLAND IN 100 PLACES include aerial views and architectural studies as well as reportage of London life. Philip Wilkinson Bletchley Park and HOBERMAN COLLECTION UK 2012 HB 254pp Illus 335x250mm Blenheim Palace, Lindisfarne Priory, the £30.00 512658 now £12.99 Martyrs’ tree in Tolpuddle and a water BURY ST EDMUNDS pump in Broadwick Street, Soho, are a Alan Childs Photographer Alan Childs few of the historically meaningful places captures the beauty of the former capital that were nominated by the public and se- of East Anglia, Bury St Edmunds, lected by Historic England’s experts for through images that convey the sweep the Irreplaceable project. Arranged by ten of the town and more focused portraits themes, from science and discovery to of its characterful buildings, both on and protest, the book offers a richly illus- off the beaten track. For those wishing trated, multifaceted history of the country, to explore the area on foot, there are explored through the landscapes and built details of five town walks, accompanied environments around us today. HISTORIC by maps recreated from the Victorian ENGLAND 2018 HB 224pp Illus 250x195mm £20.00 506059 now £9.99 originals. Halsgrove Discover series. HALSGROVE 2014 HB 144pp Illus 221x235mm £16.99 509877 now £6.99

THE ATLAS OF SCOTLAND Containing Maps of Each County John Thomson In 1832, John Thomson (1777–c.1840) advertised his new county Atlas of Scotland as ‘one of the completest systems of Topography published’ and it is indeed a landmark, described in the introduction to this facsimile as ‘the culmination of the engraved, hand-coloured map-printing tradition in Scotland’. The 58 folio maps and accompanying views, gazetteers, geographical texts and consulting index are presented here with introductory essays placing Thomson’s work in the wider context of atlas production. Limited edition of 800. Slipcased. BIRLINN 2008 HB 176pp Illus 486x350mm £150.00 224858 now £75.00

THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL School Hill, ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND DORSET AND THE SEA Aberdeen Gordon Le Pard The sea has played a (Two volumes) leading role in the history of Dorset and Robert William Billings Originally published in the county’s shores boast not only the four volumes between 1845 and 1852, this work Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site but describes a selection (‘as should combine the spirit also historic towns such as Poole and of the whole’) of Scotland’s historic architecture, Lyme Regis. Gordon Le Pard’s book looks each building illustrated with engravings by the at the Dorset people’s relationship with the architect Robert William Billings (1813–74). sea, whether making a living from its Known simply as ‘Billings’, this book, with its bounty, travelling and trading from Dorset focus on distinctive Scottish style, is credited ports, defending the coastline from the with having inspired the ‘Scotch Baronial revival’. threat of erosion or against foreign raiders, Introduction is by Ian Gow, Chief Curator of the or simply enjoying the seaside. National Trust for Scotland. Limited edition of 600. DORSET BOOKS 2010 HB 160pp Illus 304x215mm Slipcased. BIRLINN 2008 HB 796pp Illus 313x238mm £19.99 220268 now £9.99 £125.00 224854 now £60.00 14 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 NATURE/GARDENS/PETS

NEW CHINESE MEDICINAL PLANTS, HERBAL DRUGS AND SUBSTITUTES An Identification Guide Christine Leon; Lin Yu-Lin A joint project of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, this comprehensive illustrated reference work is laid out to allow quick and easy cross-referencing of official and substitute species. Accessible to those without botanical training, it covers a wide range of herbal drugs, with a focus on varieties common in international trade and those recognized by Western medical associations. KEW 2017 HB 818pp Illus 285x235mm £110.00 514541 now £40.00 NEW INDOOR EDIBLE GARDEN THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DR WARD Zia Allaway This illustrated book shows And Other Amazing Gardening Innovations how to grow a variety of crops indoors, Abigail Willis Many fundamentals of the from planting cress and microgreens in gardening lexicon – from topiary and water muffin cases on a sunny windowsill to cre- features to the lawnmower and Dr Ward’s ating pots for shade-tolerant herbs and groundbreaking prototype terrarium – were building a shelving unit with grow lights once novelties, the result of aesthetic or for darker areas. Step-by-step instructions technological innovation. This miscellany, are given for each project, with cook’s tips illustrated with black-and-white line offering suggestions for using and preserv- drawings by Dave Hopkins, celebrates ing the produce. DK 2017 HB 224pp Illus fifty horticultural inventions and trends and £14.99 514644 now £9.99 considers how they have shaped the way CATCHING MOLES in which we engage with our gardens today. Jeff Nicholls Providing practical advice LAURENCE KING 2018 HB 112pp Illus 205x147mm The lawnmower was the brainchild £12.99 510535 now £4.99 of Edwin Beard Budding, 1830 and information, this illustrated handbook includes a history of the trade, descrip- RSPB SPOTLIGHT SERIES tions of trap types, useful tips, answers to frequently asked questions, and guidance NEW OSPREYS on the most humane modern methods of Tim Mackrill Illustrated in colour capture. CROWOOD 2017 HB 176pp Illus throughout, this guide to the biology £25.00 509022 now £11.99 and ecology of this large, aquatic raptor draws on satellite data to chart its migration routes. It explains the adaptations that make it such an effective hunter of fish – a skill that has resulted in its persecution to the verge of extinction – and the efforts of conservationists to restore its numbers. BLOOMSBURY 2019 PB 128pp Illus £12.99 514495 now £4.99 An osprey enjoys the bounty at a fish farm NEW FROGS AND TOADS Jules Howard This handbook covers Britain’s four tailless amphibians: the common frog, pool frog, common toad and the scarce natterjack toad. Illustrated in colour throughout, it describes their habitats, life cycle and diet, assessing the threats to their survival and efforts made to conserve them. It also examines their role in folklore and culture, from witches’ brews to Kermit the Frog. BLOOMSBURY 2019 PB 128pp Illus NEW TEACH YOUR PUPPY £12.99 514493 now £4.99 To Be the Dog You Want Clarice Rutherford; David Neil Written NEW SPARROWS by a dog breeder/trainer and a vet, this guide Amy-Jane Beer Once a familiar sight in cities, to the first year of a dog’s life explains how sparrows have suffered a severe decline in to manage each developmental stage, un- recent years. Illustrated with colour photographs derscoring the importance of structured throughout, this handbook explains the biology, training. The chapters, on topics including life cycle and behaviour of the two British choosing a puppy, socialization, domestica- species, the house and tree sparrow. It examines tion and basic commands, are illustrated the reasons for their dwindling numbers and also with line drawings and photographs. notes the bird’s symbolic role in human culture. FOULSHAM 2008 PB 160pp Illus 232x152mm BLOOMSBURY 2019 PB 128pp Illus £8.99 514757 now £3.99 £12.99 514496 now £4.99 15 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIRS

NEW THE SHEPHERD AND THE MORNING STAR: Two Lives Apart Willie Orr tells of his struggle to emerge from the shadow of his domineering father, an Ulster Unionist politician, philanderer and would-be bigamist whose career ended in disgrace. Rootless and troubled, Willie labours in the Belfast shipyards before becoming an actor. After suffering a severe breakdown, he works as a shepherd before retraining as a teacher and eventually finding reconciliation with his father. BIRLINN 2019 PB 208pp Illus

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THE OTHER EXILE NEW JANE HAINING The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes,

A Life of Love and Courage the Island of Saint Helena and a Paradise Lost AR Azzam Napoleon Bonaparte was not the first Mary Miller Jane Haining left Scotland exile to end his days on St Helena. In the 16th century, in 1932 to work at a mission school in the Portuguese conquistador Fernão Lopes set out Budapest. Based on church records and to invade India, only to defect to the Muslim side personal testimonies, this biography and fight his own countrymen. This biography tells describes her work with orphans and the story of how he was captured and tortured before tells how, after the outbreak of war, she jumping ship en route to his homeland to live as a stayed on to rescue Jewish children with hermit on the uninhabited island for 30 years. the aid of the Swedish legation. In April 2017 HB 352pp Illus 214x134mm 1944 she was betrayed and arrested and ICON £14.99 508084 now £5.99 two months later, aged 47, died in

Auschwitz. BIRLINN 2019 HB 256pp Illus NICHOLAS II: £14.99 516189 now £6.99 The Last Tsar Michael Paterson The fate of Nicholas II and his family has long occupied the public imagination. The autocratic ruler was responsible for mass imprisonment, pogroms and the shooting of demonstra- tors, yet photographs show him as a shy, gentle family man. This history outlines the personal and political background that shaped his reign. ROBINSON 2017 PB 256pp £9.99 505501 now £4.99 LADY M The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne Colin Brown Elizabeth Lamb – ‘Lady M’ to her friend Lord Byron – was one of the brightest and most influential po- MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS litical hostesses of late Georgian Lon- Gerald Durrell Escaping the British weather don. Drawing on diaries, archives and to Corfu, the Durrell family find themselves letters, including her extensive corre- sharing a ramshackle villa with young Gerald’s spondence with Byron, this biography menagerie of scorpions, geckoes, bats and but- BOHEMIAN LIVES reveals how she used her looks, terflies in this captivating account of human and charisma and wealth to climb socially, animal eccentricities. PENGUIN 2011 PB 320pp Three Extraordinary Women: forging friendships with figures includ- £8.99 516796 now £3.99 Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska ing Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Fernande Olivier the Whig leader Charles James Fox, the Amy Licence This book explores the playwright Sheridan and the future lives and achievements of three uncon- George IV, who became her lover. ventional, creative women, and the sac- Editorial error: Family tree not rifices they made for the artists they included. Slightly off-mint. loved. Fernande Olivier (1881–1966) AMBERLEY 2018 HB 288pp Illus was Pablo Picasso’s first love and £20.00 509534 now £6.99 muse; Sophie Brzeska (1873–1925) lived with the sculptor Henri Gaudier- NEW UP FROM SLAVERY Brzeska, 19 years her junior, until he Booker T Washington First published in 1901, the

was killed in the First World War; and autobiography of the civil rights activist and educator Ida Nettleship (1877–1907) bore five recounts his childhood in slavery in Virginia, his children to Augustus John while living efforts to gain an education after the American Civil in a ménage à trois with him and his War, and his tireless campaigning for racial equality. mistress. AMBERLEY 2017 HB 256pp Illus ARCTURUS 2018 PB 208pp £18.99 506688 now £7.99 £6.99 513978 now £2.99 16 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 MEMOIRS/LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

NEW MARK TWAIN’S NOTEBOOKS Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles Carlo Devito In addition to his 26 novels including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain was a prolific writer of newspaper articles, travelogues, letters and notebooks. Organized by topics such as writers and writing, family and friends, business and politics, this selection offers a glimpse into his busy life and wide-ranging interests, illustrated with photographs, engravings and his own humorous sketches. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower edge. BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL 2015 PB 334pp Illus £13.95 513729 now £5.99 Twain on morality: ‘Be good and you will be lonesome’

NEW UNREASONABLE BEHAVIOR NEW THE MUSE An Autobiography Nell Dunn Novelist and playwright Nell Dunn Don McCullin has photographed every celebrates her friendship with the vivacious Josie, major conflict and human tragedy since whom she met in 1962 and who inspired characters the 1960s. In this memoir, he explains in Poor Cow and Steaming. She recalls nights how he began his career as an RAF behind the bar on the Putney riverboats, petty photographer’s assistant in the Suez criminals, the sexual and literary experimentation Crisis before his photos of London of the Sixties, and above all, Josie’s gift for finding gangsters got his work into print. He the sweetness of life even amid hardship. describes the realities of war in Biafra, CORONET 2020 HB 158pp Illus 215x135mm £14.99 515539 now £6.99 Congo, Vietnam and Cambodia, and re- flects frankly on the personal cost in terms of trauma and neglect of family. GROVE 2017 PB 398pp 226x150mm £14.99 513355 now £6.99

NEW AN EXILE ON PLANET EARTH Articles and Reflections Brian Aldiss In this collection of essays Brian Aldiss (1925–2017) reflects on the events of his life and how they were transmuted into the ‘metaphysical realism’ of his science-fiction stories. He describes his travels in 1960s Yugoslavia, examines his preoccupation with exile in an introduction to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, and imagines a meeting with Thomas Hardy. BODLEIAN LIBRARY 2012 HB 192pp £19.99 515494 now £6.99

THE FEUD Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson and the End of a Beautiful Friendship Alex Beam When Nabokov arrived in America as a penniless exile in 1940, Wilson was an acclaimed writer and critic who became his mentor. This account examines their close friendship and describes how it soured after the success of Lolita in 1955 brought Nabokov worldwide fame. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower edge. PANTHEON 2016 HB 222pp 208x136mm BREAKING NEWS $26.95 508800 now £6.99 An Autobiography Jeremy Thompson In a long career THIS LONG PURSUIT working for the BBC, ITN and Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Sky News, award-winning journalist Richard Holmes In this ‘inside account of a biographer Jeremy Thompson travelled the world at work’, the renowned biographer of Coleridge and to report on events including the Shelley, Richard Holmes, reflects upon the principles Tiananmen Square massacre and the that have guided his work, his life and his ‘strange, release of Nelson Mandela. His auto- unappeased sense of some continuous, intense and biography offers a glimpse behind the inescapable pursuit’. He goes on exploring the art of scenes in the newsroom and shares biography through essays on five women, Margaret both poignant and amusing moments Cavendish, Zélide, Madame de Staël, Mary Somerville during assignments, from the Miners’ and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the ‘afterlives’ of Keats, Strike to the election of Donald Shelley, Coleridge, Blake and the painter Thomas Trump. BITEBACK 2018 PB 394pp Illus Lawrence. WILLIAM COLLINS 2017 PB 368pp Illus £9.99 511634 now £4.99 £9.99 505897 now £4.99 17 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk LITERATURE/POETRY

THE VONNEGUT ENCYCLOPEDIA Revised and Updated Edition Marc Leeds Best known for his satirical novel Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) created a large body of work over five decades. This alphabetical guide explains his complex web of interconnected characters, concepts and settings, and includes an introduction by Vonnegut himself. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. RANDOM HOUSE 2016 HB 782pp

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THE PROFESSOR Back by Charlotte Brontë Based on her popular experiences as a teacher in Belgium, demand Charlotte Brontë’s first novel is narrated by William Crimsworth, an English teacher at an all-girls school in Brussels who falls in love with one of his pupils. NEW THE INFERNAL First published posthumously in 1857. Off-mint. ARCTURUS 2010 PB 128pp LIBRARY 218366 now £2.99 On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other POETRY Catastrophes of Literacy Daniel Kalder Many 20th-century PEACE TALKS despots, including Stalin, Hitler Andrew Motion The first half of this collection, ‘My Own and Mao, wrote extensively before Blue Eye’, reflects on dreams, visions, identity, character or during their reigns, producing and the passing of time. The second, ‘Laurels and Donkeys’, theoretical works, poetry, memoirs, responds to the poets of the First World War and the ravages and even the occasional romance. of today’s conflicts. FABER 2015 HB 128pp 214x135mm Kalder’s sardonic survey of their £14.99 511601 now £5.99 often execrable literary works makes THE WORLD’S MOST broader points about the dictatorial TREASURED LOVE POEMS mindset and the battle between Ed. Suheil Bushrui Selected by the late poet and scholar self-image and reality, arguing that Suheil Bushrui, the 200 poems in this anthology include the urge to control or deny empirical Arabic masterpieces by Rumi and Omar Khayyam, and facts using words and ideas is a Western classics from Sappho and Homer to Shakespeare fundamental attribute of tyranny. and Donne. Ancient Chinese verses also feature, and examples HENRY HOLT 2018 HB 400pp Illus from the indigenous peoples of Africa, Australasia and the Americas. Grouped $32.00 513718 now £7.99 by theme, they explore the many facets of love – desire and longing, joy and sorrow, and sensual and spiritual love. ONEWORLD 2018 HB 192pp 180x130mm £9.99 513269 now £3.99

DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY: Inferno Dante Alighieri Dante’s great poem, the first book written in Italian, begins with his descent through nine circles of Hell to the lake of ice where Lucifer is trapped for all eternity. In this edition of Longfellow’s verse translation, the Inferno’s 34 cantos are each preceded by a brief introduction and illustrated with a selection of artists’ representations of the Last Judgement, the landscape of Hell and scenes from Dante’s infernal voyage of self-discovery. ARCTURUS 2013 PB 128pp Illus 254x210pp

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SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS William Shakespeare Since 1609, when they were first published, Shakespeare’s sonnets have fascinated readers, both with the depth of the poet’s insight into the variety of love and the passage of time and with the mysteries of the beautiful Young Man, the Rival Poet and the Dark Lady. NEW This volume presents all 154 sonnets, with a brief MORE THAN TRUE ARCTURUS 2018 PB 160pp The Wisdom of Fairy Tales introduction. £6.99 514323 now £2.99 Robert Bly retells six classic fairy tales, including The Six Swans LANDSCAPES OF THE PASSING STRANGE and The Frog Prince. Drawing Reflections from Shakespeare on the work of a range of thinkers, Rosamund Purcell; Michael Witmore This collaboration including Kierkegaard, Freud and pairs lines by Shakespeare with 70 photographs of Jung, he offers analysis from a landscapes reflected in antique bottles. Michael Witmore, male perspective of how each story who chose the texts, discusses the playwright’s visual captures the essence of human nature. imagination, while artist Rosamund Purcell tells how the HENRY HOLT 2018 HB distressed glass transforms sky, trees and human forms 180pp Illus 188x125mm into something rich and strange. NORTON 2008 PB 128pp Illus 238x238mm

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NEW THE WAY IT WAS My Life with Frank Sinatra Eliot Weisman; Jennifer Valoppi Eliot Weisman became Frank Sinatra’s manager in the 1970s and helped him stay at the peak of his profession until his death in 1998. Describing the recordings and tours of the 1980s and 1990s, this memoir also provides an insight into the singer’s private life, which included complicated family relationships and friendships with celebrities, politicians and mobsters. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower edge. HACHETTE 2017 HB 320pp Illus £20.99 513750 now £7.99

MY LIFE WITH WAGNER PAUL McCARTNEY: The Life Christian Thielemann; Christine Philip Norman’s history of the Beatles, Shout!, Lemke-Matwey The conductor and his biography of John Lennon seemed to Christian Thielemann chronicles take a largely anti-McCartney stance so it was a his ardent personal and professional surprise when Paul gave tacit approval to Norman engagement with Richard Wagner’s to write this biography, enabling access to family music, describes his own journey members and close friends. The result redresses from Berlin Orchestral Academy the balance, describing the importance of to Bayreuth, and appraises each McCartney’s creative leadership in the Beatles of Wagner’s operas in turn. and exploring his later career and personal life Translated by Anthea Bell. from the early death of his mother to his highly WEIDENFELD 2015 PB publicized marriages. 282pp Illus 234x153mm LITTLE, BROWN 2016 HB 864pp Illus £16.99 516754 now £6.99 $32.00 504989 now £9.99

NEW FIRST TIME EVER A Memoir Peggy Seeger Folk legend Peggy Seeger is the half-sister of American protest singer Pete Seeger but it is her marriage and collaborations with British activist and songwriter Ewan MacColl for which she is best known. In this memoir she reflects on her bohemian New York upbringing, left-wing politics and activism and the British folk scene of the 1950s and 1960s that she did much to nurture. FABER 2018 PB 464pp The Ramblers in 1956, with Peggy Seeger on banjo, £9.99 515633 now £4.99 Ewan MacColl and Shirley Collins in front row BLACK SHEEP The Authorised Biography DARCEY BUSSELL of Nicol Williamson Evolved Gabriel Hershman John Osborne Darcey Bussell Principal at hailed him as ‘the greatest actor the Royal Ballet for 20 years, since Brando’; the New York Times Darcey Bussell collaborated called him ‘the terrible tiger of the with the leading figures of English stage’. Nicol Williamson the ballet world as well as (1936–2011) was as renowned for his moving beyond her sphere hellraising as for his Shakespearian into other forms of dance, heroes. This biography is based on fashion and advertising. the recollections of his family and Including the work of leading fellow actors and follows his brilliant photographers such as but chequered career, tracing the Anthony Snowdon, Mario origins of his uncompromising and Testino and Annie Leibowitz, Swan Lake ultimately self-destructive genius this portfolio traces her career from the young soloist in takes to the air: in his tough Clydeside upbringing. rehearsal to the international star of fashion shoots and Darcey Bussell as Odette HISTORY PRESS 2018 HB 288pp Illus television. HARDIE GRANT 2018 HB 192pp Illus 310x270mm on the London Eye in £20.00 511692 now £7.99 £30.00 510877 now £9.99 February 2000 19 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk FICTION

ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH HISTORICAL FICTION THE GOOD PILOT NEW HOME IS THE HUNTER PETER WOODHOUSE Helen MacInnes After years of war and Valerie, a wartime Land Girl, meets and falls travel, Ulysses returns to Ithaca penniless in love with an American pilot; meanwhile, and alone. In this spirited retelling of the her cousin has rescued a mistreated border concluding scenes of Homer’s Odyssey, his collie named Peter Woodhouse. Together, Val, wife Penelope, less than overjoyed, wonders Mike and Peter Woodhouse do their bit for what took him so long. TITAN 2014 PB 256pp love, the war and international relations. £7.99 514614 now £3.99 POLYGON 2017 HB 254pp 215x135mm

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A TIME OF LOVE AND TARTAN Sharon Penman Eleanor of Aquitaine rules A 44 Scotland Street Novel England while one son, Richard the Lionheart, is imprisoned and the other, John, stands The world’s longest-running serial novel continues apace: starting accused of a plot to murder his brother. Justin de Quincy is tasked with Pat Macgregor’s meeting with her ex-boyfriend and the colossal with proving John’s innocence. HEAD OF ZEUS 2005 HB 364pp embarrassment that followed, here are further adventures of Stuart and £18.99 507968 now £4.99 Irene, young Bertie, the Duke of Johannesburg and resident anthropologist Domenica Lordie (née MacDonald). POLYGON 2017 HB 254pp 215x135mm ANNE BOLEYN £16.99 509660 now £4.99 A King’s Obsession Alison Weir Born into a noble family, young

NEW THE BARRACKS Anne Boleyn yearns to grow and discover herself. At first, she spurns King Henry’s

John McGahern Following two years spent attempts to make her his mistress, but her nursing Blitz casualties in London, Elizabeth ambitious family has other ideas. Off-mint. returns to rural Ireland to marry Reegan, Felt-tip mark on upper edge. a disgruntled police sergeant. As she struggles BALLANTINE 2017 HB 556pp to adjust to the drudgery of her new life, $28.00 510294 now £7.99 she is diagnosed with a serious illness. FABER 2009 PB 232pp £8.00 514599 now £3.99

NEW LOVE NEW THE WISDOM OF BONES AND FAME Kitty Aldridge In an attempt to improve Susie Boyt Traumatized the fortunes of his troupe of ‘Remarkables’, by her famous father’s death, highly strung Victorian showman Percy Unusual George actress Eve, already struggling to adapt to acquires the skeleton of an infamous 18th- life with her anxiety-specialist husband, finds century French court dwarf. Entwining the herself in the orbit of sisters Beatrice, a grief two men’s stories, this epistolary novel counsellor, and Rebecca, a troubled tabloid explores themes of love, ambition and what 2017 PB 268pp journalist. VIRAGO it means to be different. CORSAIR 2020 PB 266pp £13.99 514352 now £3.99 £8.99 514720 now £3.99

NEW HURRY FICTION IN TRANSLATION UP AND WAIT Isabel Ashdown As Sarah Ribbons prepares to NEW THE HUNGRY attend her school reunion, she is haunted by AND THE FAT memories of her final year there. The narrative, Timur Vermes This German satire envisages moving between 1985 and the present day, a future with closed borders, where a TV explores the treachery of adolescent star visits a vast African refugee camp to friendships and traces the repercussions of a film her new series. Enabled by a sycophantic toxic relationship. MYRIAD 2011 PB 288pp journalist, she accidentally triggers a huge £8.99 514465 march northward, with chaotic consequences. now £3.99 Translated by Jamie Bulloch. MACLEHOSE 2020 HB 572pp £16.99 514152 now £4.99

NEW THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN NEW FROZEN DREAMS Sue Eckstein When fledgling diplomat Based on a True Story Daniel Maddison arrives in Bakinabe, West Wahei Tatematsu In 1965, six climbers died while attempting to climb Africa, nothing is quite what he imagined it Mount Poroshiri in Japan’s northern island. One climber, Odagiri, is would be. Searching for something beyond known to have survived four days longer than his companions. This the shallow glitz of ex-pat life, he finds stream-of-consciousness novel imagines his thoughts as the cold himself drawn to Rachel, a troubled cloth and sleepiness start to overwhelm him and his death approaches. seller. MYRIAD 2014 PB 256pp Slightly off-mint. PETER OWEN 2012 PB 192pp

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ARCTURUS CLASSICS NEW THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW and Other Stories NEW HEART OF DARKNESS Washington Irving Spurned by his love Katrina, schoolmaster Ichabod Crane TALES OF UNREST rides through the autumn night to encounter a headless horseman. Irving’s 1820 and classic is accompanied by 14 other tales, including ‘Roscoe’, ‘Kidd the Pirate’ Joseph Conrad’s dark and profoundly and the famous ‘Rip Van Winkle’. ARCTURUS 2020 PB 288pp influential novel is narrated by Marlow, £6.99 513925 now £2.99 a mariner who recalls his journey up-river into the densely forested NEW THE RANDOLPH CARTER TALES depths of Africa on a mission to find HP Lovecraft The recurring character Carter, presumed to be Lovecraft’s the enigmatic trading company agent, alter ego, is an obscure author with magical ancestry Kurtz. In this edition, it is accompanied who faces unnameable monsters and nightmares. by the Tales of Unrest (1898), including This collection of stories describes his encounters Conrad’s ‘best story’, An Outpost of with and philosophical musings about the dreamworld, Progress. ARCTURUS 2021 PB 240pp mummies and aliens. ARCTURUS 2020 PB 192pp £6.99 514376 now £2.99 £6.99 513952 now £2.99 20 PostscriptBooks FICTION

CRIME/THRILLERS NEW THE KENNEDY MOMENT Peter Adamson When American academic NEW LIGHTNING MEN Michael Lowell accepts an invitation to a Thomas Mullen This crime drama is set in university reunion in Oxford, he finds himself 1950s Atlanta as racial tensions are inflamed inextricably drawn into a global conspiracy by black families moving into all-white that could force the hand of governments neighbourhoods. Two of the city’s first black and affect the lives of millions. policemen face Klan activity, drug trafficking MYRIAD EDITIONS 2019 PB 384pp £8.99 514466 now £3.99 and discrimination as they try to keep the peace. Slightly off-mint. ABACUS 2018 PB 384pp

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NEW THE SUSSEX MURDER The County Guides THE ACCIDENT Ian Sansom This fifth adventure for county guidebook writer Swanton Chris Pavone With the publication of the Morley finds him investigating the death of a woman in a Lewes lido. explosive biography of a media business Set in the 1930s, the novel nostalgically recreates the atmosphere of tycoon at stake, this thriller follows literary a bygone England and the golden age of detective fiction. FOURTH ESTATE 2020 PB 314pp Illus agent Isabel Reed, CIA station chief Hayden Gray and book editor Jeffrey Fielder through £8.99 514183 now £3.99 24 crucial hours as the politically connected NEW BLOODLAND magnate tries to suppress its release.

Alan Glynn When a young journalist FABER 2015 PB 532pp £7.99 511565 now £3.99 investigates the death of a tabloid star in a helicopter crash, he is caught in an international web of political and NEW SOMEONE LIKE ME corporate corruption reaching from MR Carey Part taut psychological thriller, part terrifying ghost story, Ireland to Congo, Paris and New York. this novel weaves together the stories of Liz Kendall, a devoted FABER 2011 PB 420pp 233x152mm mother-of-two who is in the thrall of a malicious alter-ego named £12.99 514602 now £4.99 Beth, and Fran, a teenaged survivor of childhood trauma who is

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NEW PRETTY GUILTY WOMEN NEW PENANCE Gina LaManna Investigating the murder Kate O’Riordan A grieving mother and of a man during a wedding celebration at daughter are both captivated by their a Californian resort, Detective Ramone charming young counsellor but Jed is too is perplexed when four guests – harassed good to be true. Breaking the triangle mother Ginger, serial divorcee Lulu, of obsession and manipulation, Rosalie borderline alcoholic Emily and wealthy uncovers the truth about him and about her lawyer Kate – confess their guilt, each son’s death. CONSTABLE 2016 PB 368pp

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NEW A CHILD’S GAME John Connor In a luxury penthouse, NEW BETRAYAL masked intruders douse a terrified man Karin Alvtegen In this Scandinavian with petrol and set him alight. Unable thriller Eva takes revenge on her to locate the victim’s girlfriend, cheating husband and then meets a man DS Pete Bains’s investigation stalls, who has been keeping patient vigil by his his frustration exacerbated by another comatose girlfriend’s bedside. In contrast to missing person case – that of his her husband he appears constant, but behind colleague, DC Karen Sharpe. his devotion are more secrets and betrayals. ORION 2019 PB 400pp Slightly off-mint. CANONGATE 2011 PB 304pp £8.99 514345 now £3.99 £7.99 514600 now £3.99

NEW ALL DAY AND A NIGHT GOTHIC/ HORROR Alafair Burke When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered, her ex-husband is the prime suspect. Details of the crime mirror one MELMOTH committed 20 years earlier by a serial killer serving a life sentence, and NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher is brought in to investigate. Sarah Perry One night in Prague, Helen FABER 2014 PB 362pp 232x152mm Franklin is given an old manuscript by a friend. The personal testimonies within its £10.00 514596 now £3.99 pages range from 17th century England to JD ROBB’S EVE DALLAS THRILLERS wartime Czechoslovakia, and tell of a mysterious woman in black bearing an NEW CONNECTIONS IN DEATH unforgettable message.in to investigate. A drug addict’s death from an overdose appears SERPENT’S TAIL 2018 HB 282pp 214x135mm to be an accident, but detective Eve Dallas £16.99 514677 suspects his old gang. As she and her husband now £5.99

Roarke track the killer through New York’s dives and strip joints, the body count starts to rise. PIATKUS 2019 PB 378pp 230x152mm NEW CLASSIC TALES OF HORROR £12.99 514700 now £3.99 Edgar Allan Poe Among the 20 stories in this NEW GOLDEN IN DEATH collection are some of Poe’s most celebrated When a lethal golden egg is delivered to tales of gothic mystery and horror, including Kent Abner, a happily married New York ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Masque paediatrician, Eve Dallas is puzzled why anyone of the Red Death’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and should want him dead. Then a second, similar ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’. murder sends her in pursuit of a serial killer. PIATKUS 2020 PB 396pp ARCTURUS 2018 PB 238pp

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NEW VERMEER AND MUSIC The Art of Love and Leisure Marjorie E Wieseman Accompanying a National Gallery exhibition in 2013, this study of the significance of music in Dutch painting looks in particular at five paintings by Vermeer, including The Music Lesson (c.1662–3) on loan from the Royal Collection, and another 20 works by his contemporaries. These works by Vermeer and artists such as Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu and Pieter de Hooch illustrate the important role of music in 17th-century Dutch art and culture. NATIONAL GALLERY 2013 PB 80pp Illus 269x208mm £9.99 515135 now £4.99 Katatora divination tool from Luba, DR Congo A SHORT BOOK ABOUT PAINTING NEW INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS Andrew Marr Writing ‘for people who enjoy looking at paintings and for African Miniatures people who paint’, Andrew Marr aims to help readers understand what they Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter Introducing see when they are looking at art – particularly contemporary art – and how one group of these tiny African sculptures to improve as painters. Using his own paintings as examples of failures, from the collection of John and Nicole and the works of artists including Patrick Heron, Robert Rauschenberg and Dintenfass, art historian Bérénice Geoffroy- Sarah Lucas, Marr addresses fundamental questions about taste, colour, motif Schnieter writes of the ‘challenge of the and the appreciation of modern art. QUADRILLE 2017 HB 144pp Illus 217x166mm minute, the intimate, the secret’. Beautifully £15.00 506830 now £5.99 photographed and accompanied by essays THE GLORY OF on African art forms and the psychology SAINT GEORGE of collecting, the 130 works presented here include effigies, miniature masks, weaving Man, Dragon and Death tools, and statuettes whose purpose was Ed. Laurent Busine; Manfred

to cure and restore the world’s balance. Sellink Saint George and the Dragon have captured the FIVE CONTINENTS 2017 HB 336pp Illus 299x257mm £55.00 515102 now £19.99 popular imagination for centuries, not least for their capacity to represent human power over adversity. This catalogue to a 2015–17 exhibition on the myth of Saint George, held in the Musée des Arts Contemporains in Hornu, Belgium, surveys drawings, icons, illuminations, paintings and sculpture of the saint, including those by Dürer, Lewis St George and the Dragon by Grégoire Guérard, c.1520 Carroll and Andy Warhol, and features seven essays on his cultural legacy. MERCATORFONDS 2015 HB 288pp Illus 279x227mm £35.00 508960 now £14.99 NEW ESSENTIAL MODERNISM Philip Brookman; Paul Greenhalgh; Sarah Column krater by the ‘Naples Painter’, c.440 BCE Newman Focused on THE ART OF ANCIENT GREECE the inter-war years, this The Walters Art Museum is a concise account of Ed. Sabine Albersmeier Bequeathed to how artists and designers the city of Baltimore ‘for the benefit of the responded to technology, people’, the major collection of Greek art modernization and the assembled by Henry Walters (1848–1931) violence of war by is rich in small-scale works. This volume committing themselves presents the collection’s highlights from to creating a better world a Cycladic female idol (c.2500 BCE) to through art. Originally jewellery and cast bronze statuettes of the accompanying the V&A Hellenistic age. Each period is introduced exhibition Modernism: by an essay tracing the development of Designing a New World Cover for 14 Bauhaus Books by László Moholy-Nagy 1929 artistic themes and techniques; an appendix 1914–1939 and illustrated with photographs of almost 100 exhibits, the book provides an overview of Greek pottery. covers Modernist movements such as Bauhaus and International style and their PHILIP WILSON 2008 HB 208pp Illus 268x200mm work in art, design and architecture. CORCORAN 2007 HB 96pp Illus 205x180mm £31.00 510005 now £14.99 513700 now £6.99 22 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 ART

MASTERPIECES OF ART SERIES WILLIAM BLAKE Michael Kerrigan Described as having a ‘wilful secrecy and eloquent grace’, the paintings of William Blake (1757–1827) seem at first straightforward and accessible, yet in works such as The Ancient of Days (1793), Nebuchadnezzar (1795) and Newton (1795), there is something unfathomable beyond their obvious subjects. Kerrigan provides a background to Blake’s art, discussing his life and poetry, before presenting over 80 reproductions of his gothic, mythological, biblical and visionary paintings. FLAME TREE 2018 HB 128pp Illus 240x215mm

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The Tyger from Blake’s NEW SAVING MONA LISA Songs of Experience, c.1789 The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures From the Nazis EDVARD MUNCH Gerri Chanel On 25 August 1939, nine Candice Russell Edvard Munch days before France declared war on (1863–1944), the Norwegian Germany, the staff of the Louvre began artist who created the famous history’s greatest museum evacuation. Expressionist painting The The artworks went first to the châteaux Scream, was absorbed by themes of the Loire valley, then moved on to of love, death and anguish and escape the advancing Nazis – Mona Lisa combined colour and emotion made six nail-biting journeys to new in ‘an art that arrests and hide-outs. Here, Gerri Chanel tells the engages, an art created of one’s story of the curators’ battles to save the innermost heart’. In this volume Louvre collections, from the first exodus Candice Russell gives a succinct to the homecoming in the summer of 1945. account of Munch’s life and ICON 2018 HB 400pp Illus art, followed by around 90 £20.00 514906 now £6.99 reproductions of his paintings, arranged chronologically from early Naturalist works to his final self-portrait. FLAME TREE 2015 HB 128pp Illus 240x215mm

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RENAISSANCE Julia Biggs’s illustrated, introductory account of the origins and development of Renaissance art accompanies 80 reproductions of paintings, altarpieces and frescos, arranged chronologically from late 13th- and 14th-century works by Duccio and Giotto to Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi (1573), and including masterpieces by Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. FLAME TREE 2019 HB 128pp Illus 230x204mm

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PAUL NASH Michael Kerrigan’s concise, illustrated biography introduces the life of Paul Nash (1889–1946) and traces his artistic development VAN GOGH’S EAR through the earlier artists who The True Story inspired him and the landscapes Bernadette Murphy The best-known and experiences that informed incident in Van Gogh’s life is also the his art, particularly the devastation least understood. Interweaving the story of the Western Front, which he of her detective work with that of the witnessed as both soldier and war artist’s final crisis, Bernadette Murphy artist during the First World War. reconstructs Van Gogh’s Arles, with The essay accompanies around its cafés and brothels. She explores 90 full-page reproductions of his relationships with his brother Nash’s paintings, lithographs Theo and fellow painter Gauguin, and engravings, in sections on and identifies many locals he knew, war, landscape and abstracts including policemen, prostitutes, and still life. FLAME TREE 2018 shepherds, artists, and the mysterious HB 128pp Illus 240x215mm Rachel, recipient of his severed ear. £12.99 504967 now £6.99 FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 2016 HB 336pp Illus Berkshire Downs by Nash, 1922 $27.00 511469 now £8.99 23 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk PHOTOGRAPHY/FASHION

NEW THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S VISION Understanding and Appreciating Great Photography Michael Freeman A professional photographer himself, Michael Freeman goes beyond the technical aspects of taking good images to consider the art and meaning of photography. Aimed at aspiring practitioners as well as lovers of photography the book uses example images by many of the greats to discuss approaches to different types of subject and what constitutes a good picture. Slightly off-mint. Low light and mist compete for ILEX 2019 PB 192pp Illus 253x234mm attention with the Galápagos giant £19.99 513736 now £7.99 Merthyr Vale Colliery, 1966 tortoises in this shot by Frans Lantin by Bernd and Hilla Becher FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY SECRET MOMENTS OF MAIKOS The Fotografis Bank Austria Collection The Grace, Beauty and Mystery of Apprentice Geishas Ed. Toni Stooss; Margit Zuckriegl Photo. Philippe Marinig Apprentice Japanese geishas are known as maikos The company that became Bank Austria and undergo a rigorous training in the traditional arts of music and dance and began acquiring the work of great the wearing of strictly codified costume and make-up. This photo-essay allows photographers in 1975 and has amassed a rare glimpse into the closeted world of the trainees in their traditional house a collection that represents the most in the Gion quarter of Kyoto. GATEHOUSE 2017 HB 146pp Illus 288x202mm important milestones and leading artists £60.00 508403 now £19.99 of the medium. Alongside a series of essays discussing the development of FASHION photography as an art form, 75 works are reproduced in this book from pioneers NEW GROUNDBREAKING FASHION Fox Talbot and Nadar to influential Jane Rocca; Illus. Juliet Sulejmani post-war artists including Henri From Chanel’s iconic Little Black Dress Cartier-Bresson and Diane Arbus. to Kylie Minogue’s gold hot pants, fashion HIRMER 2013 HB 240pp Illus 278x232mm history is full of influential turning points. £39.95 515884 now £14.99 This volume, illustrated with watercolour art, looks at the cultural impact of 100 such ‘moments’, detailing key facts about each garment and its designer and explaining why it was groundbreaking. Slightly off-mint. SMITH STREET 2017 HB 216pp Illus 213x153mm £12.99 514779 now £6.99

FASHION IN PICTURES Pop stars and actors as well as models and society figures feature in this pictorial survey of fashion since 1900 through photographs taken for the Daily Mirror newspaper. From reportage images of Royal Ascot to studio fashion shots and tabloid-style photographs, the images reflect the changing times as well as changing attire. AMMONITE 2012 PB 300pp Illus 164x164mm £7.99 508989 now £3.99

NEW CONRAN QUANT Swinging London: A Lifestyle Revolution Geoffrey Rayner; Richard Chamberlain In Bonn, the West German capital, 24 June This design history celebrates the NEW KENNEDY IN BERLIN influential Chelsea Set who challenged The German Trip in 1963 the stuffiness and conformity of post-war Ed. Hans-Michael Koetzle; Photo. Ulrich Britain and encouraged people to embrace Mack Kennedy’s visit to West Germany in a more colourful and easy-going attitude 1963 and his climactic ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ to how they dressed and furnished their speech were key moments in the Cold War homes in the 1960s and early 1970s. and the President’s career, assuring the Berlin The highly illustrated book presents people that their freedom would be protected. examples of notable Quant fashions This record of the trip selects the best images and Conran interiors as well as related taken by Hamburg photographer Ulrich Mack, ephemera characterizing the times. who was with the Kennedy entourage ACC 2019 HB 240pp Illus 264x212mm throughout the tour. £40.00 514471 now £19.99 HIRMER 2013 HB 144pp Illus 269x237mm Swinging in the rain: Quant’s Wet Weather £29.95 515886 now £9.99 collection using PVC, 1963 24 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN

Optical allusions: TOLL-HOUSES SERIES Escher’s Thinker Observed by Magritte’s Therapist Designed to house the pike-men who collected the tolls by Jos de May, 1997 that paid for road maintenance, toll-houses were often made from local materials in a distinctive octagonal ILLUSION shape. With black-and-white photographs throughout, CONFUSION these guides to surviving examples all begin with The Wonderful World Patrick Taylor’s history of the turnpike system of Optical Deception before offering a gazetteer of the county’s toll-houses Paul M Baars and notes on their construction and features. From the illusionistic POLYSTAR 2009–11 PB 124pp Illus 232x153mm architectural spaces £8.95 each now £3.99 each created by Renaissance mural painters to 20th Dutch Cottage, century op art, this Canvey Island, compendium of optical Essex tricks presents a range of images including depth inversions, vibration effects, impossible perspectives, camouflage and anamorphic art. Examples are drawn from the world of psychology, popular illustration and street art as well as the work of celebrated artists such as Escher, Picasso, Magritte and Bridget Riley. THAMES & HUDSON 2014 PB 320pp Illus 219x219mm £18.95 508175 now £7.99 JOHNSTON AND GILL Very British Types Mark Ovenden British designers Eric Gill NEW THE TOLL-HOUSES OF ESSEX and Edward Johnston were contemporaries Patrick Taylor The presence of clay rather than stone and friends and each was responsible for one made Essex one of the first areas to popularize building of the most recognizable typefaces of the 20th Johnston’s with brick. One example is the Grade II listed Shenfield century: Johnston, still adorning the signage of Blue Plaque, toll-house, the only surviving toll-house on the London the London Underground, and Gill Sans, perhaps in Johnston to Harwich road. 513513 most notably used by the BBC. This study explores NEW ...OF SOUTH DEVON the relationship between the two men, details how their creations were developed and refined, and assesses their influence on Tim Jenkinson; Patrick Taylor Established on routes British visual culture. LUND HUMPHRIES 2016 HB 200pp Illus 247x195mm into Exeter in the 1750s, turnpikes soon extended across £25.00 511346 now £9.99 the county. While most toll-houses were rendered, the local shale stone can be seen at Yealmbridge, DESIGN SERIES with red sandstone examples at Cheriton Cross and Venn Bridge. 513518 FHK HENRION Ruth Artmonsky; Brian Webb FHK Henrion was one of NEW ...OF NORTH DEVON a distinguished group of graphic designers – refugees from Tim Jenkinson The county’s oldest toll-house is a Europe during the 1930s – who brought cutting edge design thatched building in Newton Poppleford that has been to England. As well as poster and exhibition designs, this book dated to about 1758. The area’s shale stone can be covers his work in corporate identity, creating iconic logos seen unrendered at Yeo Vale, with Goodleigh Road for companies such as Tate and Lyle, Blue Circle Cement a good example of the gothick windows of the 19th century. 513519 and the National Theatre. ACC 2011 HB 96pp Illus 214x140mm £12.50 219157 now £3.99 NEW ...OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE

CLAUD LOVAT Patrick Taylor Many of Cambridgeshire’s roads were FRASER turnpiked in the early 1700s and most of the county’s Brian Webb; Peyton toll-houses were rectangular. Typical designs are those Skipwith Although at Littleport, Witcham and Chatteris, with four known today mainly octagonal examples, for his poster, costume such as Trumpington, and the stage sets for dating to the Victorian era. 513512 Nigel Playfair’s 1920 production of The NEW ...OF SUFFOLK Beggar’s Opera, Claud Patrick Taylor Some Lovat Fraser worked in of Britain’s earliest a great variety of media toll-houses were built including watercolours, in Suffolk, in 1711 on caricature, fabric design, the Ipswich to Scole road, book illustration and the but one of the county’s Patterns for papers and textiles, c.1921 design of pattern-papers, best-known examples particularly for the Curwen Press and Poetry Bookshop. is at Sicklesmere – an ACC 2011 HB 96pp Illus 214x140mm octagonal toll-house built £12.50 219154 now £5.99 from white brick with FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN a slate roof and gothick Also available: windows. 513517 507252 now £5.99 25 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk NEW TALK ON THE WILD SIDE Why Language Won’t Do As It’s Told Playing Lane Greene Beginning with the ‘Case of the Missing Whom’, Lane Greene focuses on the nature of language and how it changes – not, as some The King’s English, Fowler’s rules would have it, through human laziness or fuzzy Prefer the familiar word thinking, but because it is a robust and evolving to the far-fetched phenomenon. Against the sticklers for grammar and logic, Greene argues that language is a human Prefer the concrete word behaviour, ‘fantastically useful – and inherently to the abstract flawed’. ECONOMIST BOOKS 2019 PB 240pp £8.99 516218 now £3.99 Prefer the single word to the circumlocution Prefer the short word to the long Prefer the Saxon to the Romance MY GRAMMAR AND I (Or Should That Be ‘Me’) Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English Caroline Taggart; JA Wines Bearing in mind always that ‘one person’s unbreakable rule is another person’s insufferable pedantry’, Caroline Taggart and JA Wines’s bestselling guide renders grammar painless, even entertaining. Here, the bitter pills of restrictive and non-defining clauses are sugared with amusing examples, quotations from great writers, grammatical jokes and choice morsels of information in ‘Smart Alec’ and ‘Swot’ boxes. MICHAEL O’MARA 2020 PB 192pp £7.99 512955 now £2.99

A CERTAIN JE NE SAIS QUOI Words We Pinched from Other Languages Chloe Rhodes presides over this entertaining FOR WHO(M) THE BELL TOLLS exploration among the legions of words, from aficionado to zeitgeist, that English-speakers have One Man’s Quest for pilfered from across the globe. She delves into their Grammatical Perfection derivations and gives witty examples of their use David Marsh Some language rules are as well as telling the worth knowing – but which ‘rules’ just stories of how and why make clear communication harder? The No, you’re kitsch, editor of the Guardian’s style guide cites we absorbed such I’m ironic. exotic imports. authorities including Shakespeare, Bart MICHAEL O’MARA Simpson and Kirsty MacColl as he 2020 PB 176pp Illus explains the grammatical principles (not £7.99 principals) that will help to perfect your 514107 writing. He also advises on the correct now £2.99 choice of words and urges us to resist jargon, euphemisms and the journalistic mistreatment of ironic and iconic. OPENING PANDORA’S BOX GUARDIAN FABER 2013 HB 304pp 197x127mm £12.99 509183 now £4.99 Phrases Borrowed from the Classics and the Stories Behind Them Ferdie Addis We might know what it means to be under the aegis, but what was the aegis? In this A–Z of classical allusion, Ferdie Addis has gathered together words and phrases, such as chimera, Croesus, hoi polloi and lotus eaters, that so enrich modern English, and he tells of their weird and wonderful origins in ancient history and Greek and Roman mythology. READER’S DIGEST 2012 HB 178pp Illus 195x125mm $14.95 211033 now £3.99 BABEL: Around the World in Twenty Languages Gaston Dorren More than 75 per cent of the world’s population can communicate in one of the 20 most- spoken languages, from Vietnamese and Korean (85 million speakers each) to Mandarin and English (1.3 and 1.5 billion respectively). As he profiles these successful lingua francas, Dorren discusses key features including their origins, scripts and pronunciation. He also analyses how linguistic oddities, such as the different ‘genderlects’ spoken by Japanese men and women, reflect aspects of Douglas Adams’s Babel Fish, cultural and political history. the universal translator from PROFILE 2019 PB 364pp Illus The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy £9.99 512395 now £3.99 Word-Cross Puzzle (1913): 26 NEW THE ETYMOLOGICON A Circular Stroll Through the with words Hidden Connections of the English Language Mark Forsyth ‘There’s always an NEW WORD WATCHING extra connection, another link that Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist joins two words that most of mankind Julian Burnside Intended as ‘harmless play in the quite blithely believe to be separate’. richness of our language’ Julian Burnside’s 56 essays Erudite, discursive and highly delve into the nooks and crannies of English – among entertaining, Forsyth’s book pursues them the lexicography of animals, the appropriation (or the etymological pathways from misappropriation) of scientific terms such as quantum ancient languages and through the leap and cyber-, and words ending in -ful – and the twists and (often ribald) turns of sometimes devious use of the language’s richness English, demonstrating how testicles and ambiguities. SCRIBE 2013 PB 352pp are linked to testaments and £12.99 516510 now £4.99 parentheses to codpieces; how the Vikings’ Sedge-Stream relates to Starbuck’s; and how the Zodiac’s Gemini becomes both equal sign and oily beaver. ICON 2019 PB 272pp I have a spell cheque function £9.99 514135 now £3.99

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Mistakes I cannot sea. Words of the English Language Mark Forsyth presents ‘a day’s jaunt through the lost words of the NEW WORDS FAIL ME English Language’: from Uhtceare, Teresa Monachino Regularly featured in Private Eye, the Old English word for ‘lying Teresa Monachino’s playful graphic designs present awake before dawn and worrying’, English words in ways that expose the language’s oddities. and break of day; through washing Her imaginative use of typography (Gill Sans and Joanna and dressing in front of a tooting- for font watchers) expresses – without commentary – glass (the mirror); working or how English can mislead us with quirks of spelling and quomodocunquizing (making money pronunciation, contradictory proverbs and tautological in any way that you can); then on to supper (or is it dinner?) and so to redundancies. POLYGON 2019 HB 160pp 175x110mm £9.99 516208 now £3.99 bed, or dreamery. ICON 2019 PB 272pp £9.99 516500 now £3.99 GRAMMAR RULES NEW ‘BETRUMPED’ Writing with Military Precision The Surprising History of Craig Shrives During his 3,000 Long-Lost, Exotic many years as an intelligence and Endangered Words officer, Craig Shrives learned Edward Allhusen In 1755 Samuel how to write clearly for Johnson’s dictionary defined 43,773 the eyes of British and words in English; now there are American generals. In this more than 600,000. Explaining guide he shares his practical where some of them came from, experience: he identifies the first part of this book is an A–Z common mistakes and of adopted words, from abacus ambiguities and offers (Hebrew) to Zulu (Amazulu). Part suggestions for correcting two lists words and meanings that and clarifying what you have gone for good, such as the want to say, and a final unlamented picaroon, and part three section gives useful advice is an A–Z of those on their way out. on easily confused words. (Previously sold in Postscript Slightly off-mint. AMBERLEY 2018 HB 352pp 2011 HB 255pp 192x128mm as Grammar for Grown-ups.) KYLE £14.99 515894 now £5.99 £10.99 507005 now £4.99

NEW THINKING INSIDE THE BOX THE TELEGRAPH BOOK Adventures with Crosswords and the OF POLYWORDS Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them 150 Fast and Entertaining Adrienne Raphel’s hymn to the crossword begins with Polyword Puzzles the first puzzle in New York World in 1913 and follows its These tests of vocabulary require progress from newspaper to The Cross Word Puzzle solving a nine-letter anagram Book ($1.35, with pencil attached), into tournaments, to and making as many smaller England and cryptic clues, through two world wars and onto words from it as possible. In the internet. Along the way we meet crossword setters and this collection of 150 puzzles, solvers, famously challenging puzzles and even British scores are rated from ‘average’ military intelligence head-hunting among the Telegraph’s to ‘excellent’ and answers are cruciverbalists. ROBINSON 2020 HB 304pp Illus included. HAMLYN 2020 PB 240pp £18.99 517325 now £4.99 £7.99 514986 the ur-crossword in the FUN, the comic section of the New York World now £3.99 27 STATIONERY/HUMOUR/REFERENCE

NEW ULTIMATE SIGNSPOTTING Doug Lansky Absurd or inadvertently hilarious, all the signs in this collection are genuine public notices spotted around the world. Highlights include the road sign advising drivers to ‘keep your eyes open’ and the tourist sign labelling a ‘Bottomless Pit – 65 feet deep’. LONELY PLANET 2014 PB 160pp Illus 120x175mm £6.99 514174 now £3.99

A POKE IN THE EYE (With a Sharp Stick) Ed. Graham McCann The original Secret Policeman’s Ball in 1976 revolutionized thinking about charity fundraising. Published to celebrate Amnesty International’s AN ILLUMINATED ALPHABET 50th anniversary, this illustrated collection includes scripts of the funniest moments 26 Postcards from the 12 major shows, which have featured comedians including Python Reproduced as a book of postcards, this members, Peter Cook and Rowan Atkinson as well as stars such as Eddie Izzard, is an A–Z of decorated initials, each one Dylan Moran and Victoria Wood. CANONGATE 2012 HB 464pp Illus 233x152mm set within foliate or abstract ornaments, £20.00 513292 now £5.99 often with miniatures of animals or peo- ple within the letters. The initials are from EDGAR ALLEN POE’S PUZZLES medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE Library’s collection and are introduced by Cryptic Conundrums from the World Professor Michelle Brown of the Univer- and Works of the Gothic Genius sity of London. BODLEIAN 2014 165x121mm Jason Ward Taking abridged versions of ‘The £9.99 512713 now £4.99 Raven’ and six of Poe’s stories as their starting point, this is a collection of 89 ingenious enigmas, riddles, ciphers and logic problems. Some are from CYCLEPEDIA the mind of the master himself – such as the cryptic 100 Postcards of Iconic Bicycles question ‘What must you do to a tea table to make Michael Embacher Touring, mountain, it fit to consume?’ – while others are inspired by road and recumbent bicycles, BMX situations found in his stories of detection and bikes, tandems and folding bikes... Gothic horror. Solutions are provided in case Each of 100 modern-era bicycles is human ingenuity fails. CARLTON 2018 HB 224pp Illus photographed against an immaculate £14.99 508434 now £6.99 white background for these semi-matt postcards. There are technical details REFERENCE on the reverse sides and the whole set is contained in a smart red and white card NEW EPITAPHS: A Dying Art box. THAMES & HUDSON 2015 160x120mm Ed. Samuel Fanous This collection of memorial £14.95 510113 now £6.99 inscriptions includes more than 300 examples, I LIKE BIRDS: which range from the poignant to the light-hearted. RIVER, ESTUARY AND SHORE Commemorating both famous figures and those This set comprises three A6 journals, known only for an unusual gravestone, they one lined, one plain and one graph, include epitaphs on Dick Whittington, the Duke printed on FSC-approved paper and of Wellington’s horse and a man killed ‘by means presented in a slipcase. Celebrating the of a Rockett’ on Guy Fawkes night in 1696. UK’s water birds, the cover designs BODLEIAN LIBRARY 2016 HB 160pp 184x118mm £9.99 514939 now £4.99 feature graphic-style illustrations of an avocet, a kingfisher and an oystercatcher. QUADRILLE 2019 154x108mm £12.00 512350 now £5.99

I LIKE BIRDS FAMILY PLANNER This spiral-bound planner comprises four NEW MAPPING tabbed inserts – 52 non-dated weekly SHAKESPEARE’S WORLD planner pages, easy-tear-off shopping Peter Whitfield The diverse settings lists, monthly budget pages and notes of Shakespeare’s plays are all for holidays/special occasions, plus an remote, in space or time, from his elastic strap closure. The cover design own Elizabethan London, and their features a parliament of different species resonance for the original audience of owls. QUADRILLE 2018 210x148mm is explored in this volume. Whitfield £15.00 512348 now £5.99 uses contemporary maps, art and written descriptions to establish how You can find more familiar Shakespeare’s locations were and what events, Heinrich Bünting’s I Like Birds stationery historical figures and cultural stereotypes were most associated map of Europe with on our website f with them. BODLEIAN LIBRARY 2015 PB 208pp Illus 250x207mm Bohemia as the £25.00 514943 now £9.99 heart or stomach 28 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 REFERENCE/GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

30-SECOND SERIES NEW THE 1,000 WISEST THINGS EVER SAID Wisdom of the Nobel Prize Winners David Pratt Since they were first awarded in 1901, Nobel Prizes have honoured hundreds of people who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind’. This collection of quotations, from laureates including Winston Churchill, Toni Morrison and Max Planck, shares their astute, witty and poignant observations on such topics as truth and falsehood, marriage, democracy and technology. BITEBACK 2012 HB 286pp 196x128mm £9.99 515865 now £3.99

HOW THE WORLD WORKS SERIES Each volume in this series forms an ‘A woman’s place is in the home’: In her illustrated introduction to one branch of 1963 pioneering feminist book Feminine knowledge, with an outline of the most important Mystique, Betty Friedan said otherwise concepts and principles as well as information on Each of the key ideas in these volumes key figures and historical developments. is summarized in a paragraph of just ARCTURUS 2019 PB 208pp each Illus 225x160mm 300 words (with a picture) contributed £9.99 each now £4.99 each by an expert in the field. The concise essays are accompanied by ‘three- NEW RELIGION second biographies’ of significant The Rich History of the World’s Major Faiths figures and an extra ‘three-minute’ John Hawkins This book examines the evolution section that provides further context of the world’s six major faiths and their practice and insight. IVY 2017–19 HB 160pp each Illus in the modern world. Topics include the lives of the Buddha and Guru Nanak, each of the £14.99 each now £6.99 each religions’ geographical spread and conflicts NEW 30-SECOND FEMINISM such as the Crusades. 514030 The 50 Most Fundamental NEW PSYCHOLOGY Concepts in Feminism From Spirits to Psychotherapy: Ed. Jess McCabe 515992 Tracing the Mind Through the Ages NEW 30-SECOND Anne Rooney From ancient Greek concepts of AI AND ROBOTICS the soul to the insights of modern neurology and 50 Key Notions, Characters, psychoanalysis, Rooney explains how we have tried Fields and Events in the to answer questions about the mind’s workings, Rise of Intelligent Machines individuals’ sense of identity and the best ways Ed. Luis de Miranda 515987 to treat mental illness. 514029

NEW 30-SECOND CINEMA The classic example of multistability, the Rubin vase

The 50 Most Important NEW CHEMISTRY Ideas, Genres and People From the Periodic Table to Nanotechnology in the History of Movies Anne Rooney Emerging from the experiments of alchemists, the discoveries of Ed. Pamela Hutchinson 515990 chemists have driven civilization forward through the manipulation of raw materials

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From the Ancient Greeks to DNA sequencing determines the precise Great Thinkers of Modern Times order of nucleotides A,T,G and C Anne Rooney This survey of the NEW 30-SECOND GENETICS development and various strands of The 50 Most Fundamental Western thought offers a guide to starting Discoveries in Genetics that philosophical examination of life, Ed. Jonathan Weitzman; tackling the big questions, including Matthew Weitzman 515993 Is there a God? What can we know? and How should we live? 514027 The School of Athens by Raphael, 1509 –11 29 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk TRAVEL GUIDES

ROUGH GUIDES INSIGHT GUIDES With in-depth features on each region’s history and culture, and hundreds of photographs, the Insight Guides offer inspiration and practical advice for travellers. Key attractions, experiences and sights are discussed and mapped, and information is given about public transport, eating out and accommodation. INSIGHT GUIDES 2017/18 PB 328/480pp Illus 220x145mm £16.99/£18.99 now £5.99 each

NEW MOROCCO Morocco’s many highlights include the markets and squares of Marrakesh, blue-washed Chefchaouen in the Rif mountains and camel safaris in the Sahara. This guide provides recommendations for each region, Each of these illustrated guides contains essential stretching from the Mediterranean information on transport, accommodation, food and to the Atlantic. 514270

drink, as well as a geographically ordered survey of the sights, a cultural and historical overview and a APA 2018 PB 736/648pp Illus selection of maps. £17.99/£15.99 now £6.99 each

NEW THE ROUGH GUIDE TO ENGLAND Rob Andrews; Samantha Cook; Matthew Hancock et al The diversity of England’s landscapes, history and culture is explored in this volume, which features moorland locations and coastal highlights such as NEW WESTERN EUROPE Durdle Door, examples of architecture from Ely Highlighting the cultural and Cathedral to the Shard, and extensive information geographic diversity of Western on visiting London. Eleventh edition. 517074 Europe, from the cosmopolitan NEW THE ROUGH GUIDE TO IRELAND centre of Lisbon to Austria’s alpine attractions and the ancient Paul Clements; Darragh Geraghty; Norm Longley monuments of Greece, this et al From the rock formations of the Giant’s guide focuses on the main Causeway to the lakes and mountains of Killarney attractions of each country National Park, this guide to the Emerald Isle covers and introduces its heritage, popular locations and lesser known landmarks as well art and architecture. 514291 as the cultural heritage of cities including Dublin and Belfast, home of the long-running International Arts INSIGHT CITY GUIDES Festival. Twelfth edition. 517076 The Insight City Guides offer advice to travellers on getting the INSIGHT GUIDES FLEXI MAPS most from their visit. Well-illustrated throughout, they introduce the local history and culture and include detailed maps, travel tips and overviews of different districts and attractions. INSIGHT GUIDES 2016/18 PB 314pp Illus 190x125mm £13.99/£14.99 now £5.99 each NEW PARIS CITY GUIDE Beyond the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, Paris is full of cultural and historical attractions. Whether your focus is walking, cuisine, shopping or sightseeing, this guide suggests destinations including the Catacombes, Musée d’Orsay, Moulin Rouge and the Jardin de Luxembourg. 514233

Weatherproof and easy to fold, these compact street maps show the locations of major tourist sights and points of interest. Key facts about top attractions ROME CITY GUIDE such as museums, churches and markets are given, as well as practical information including notes on When in Rome, this guide by local public transport. INSIGHT MAPS 2017 215x97mm experts can help with everything from exploring Piazza Navona to NEW ST PETERSBURG 514263 discovering Villa Borghese. The

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NEW THE BURIED Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt Peter Hessler Foreign correspondent Peter Hessler lived in Cairo through the tumultuous years following the Arab Spring of 2011. Here, he draws parallels between the rise and fall of Mohammed Morsi and the coup that brought Sisi to power and the long timeline of Egypt’s history. The people he encounters – archaeologists, politicians, a teacher and a gay translator – all struggle with the chaos, corruption and repression that ensued. PROFILE 2019 HB 480pp £25.00 514674 now £8.99

NEW THE ICE AT THE END OF THE WORLD NEW WHY THE DUTCH ARE DIFFERENT An Epic Journey into A Journey into the Hidden Greenland’s Buried Past Heart of the Netherlands and Our Perilous Future Ben Coates Married to a Dutch woman and living Jon Gertner The icy expanses of in Rotterdam, Ben Coates sets out to understand his Greenland have long drawn explorers adopted homeland, exploring the history that created and scientists. The first part of this a prosperous, peaceful state and how its citizens are book follows the footsteps of Nansen beginning to question the future of its liberal culture. and other early visitors; the second NICHOLAS BREALEY 2015 PB 304pp records the exploitation of the £10.99 514652 now £4.99 country’s resources since 1949, assessing the effect of global GREAT AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNEYS warming on its ice sheets and what Michael Portillo In his popular TV travel series, Michael Portillo followed that means for the planet as a whole. 19th-century railway guides, tracing the history and development of each destination ICON 2019 HB 444pp Illus 214x135mm since their original publication. This historical companion to the BBC series focuses £18.99 514897 now £6.99 on the railways of America, telling the story of the first pioneers, engineering mavericks and tycoons and how the railroad helped to shape the country before and after the Civil War, and into the 20th century. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2017 HB 256pp Illus £20.00 508826 now £7.99

ESCAPE TO IKARIA: All at Sea in the Aegean Nick Perry In the late 1970s Nick and Ros sold their Welsh farm and took their three children to the Greek island of Ikaria, with just a few hundred drachmas and no knowledge of the language. Soon their lives were entwined with those of the islanders. Looking back after 40 years, Nick recalls night fishing, work on building sites, a kindly nun, and an enigmatic visitor called Artemis. Slightly off-mint. POLYGON 2017 PB 252pp Illus £9.99 511806 now £4.99 A TOKYO ROMANCE: A Memoir Ian Buruma Writer, historian and journalist Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a film student in 1975, aged 23. There he discovered a surreal mix of traditional and modern culture: temples and shrines alongside neon signs, Japanese pop, murky old bars and cabarets. He recalls his exploits in the world of avant-garde theatre, encounters with carnival acts and fashion photographers, and moments on set with Akira Kurosawa. ATLANTIC 2018 HB 256pp Illus STROLLING THROUGH £16.99 510478 now £6.99 FLORENCE THE LIQUID CONTINENT The Definitive Walking Guide Travels Through Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul to the Renaissance City Nicholas Woodsworth First published as a trilogy, this Mario Erasmo Beginning with travelogue explores the three great maritime cities of the ‘Florence in a Day’, this guide to the eastern Mediterranean. Delving into their cosmopolitan great Renaissance city is arranged in histories and culture, shaped by Greeks, Romans, Arabs, ten walking tours, each with options Turks, Jews and many others, it reveals these ancient to visit additional sites if energy ports to be rooted in – and linked by – not the permits. Mario Erasmo provides an landmasses of Europe, Asia and Africa on which they introduction to the history of the city, stand, but a ‘continent’ of their own: the sea itself. and his commentary for each itinerary ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER AT THE BOOKHAUS 2010 PB 354pp gives details of the significant works £12.00 510789 now £5.99 of art to be seen in the museums and galleries, as well as the sculptures, Click & You can collect your order monuments and buildings along from your local ParcelShop when the route. TAURIS 2018 PB 222pp Illus Collect you order by phone or online £12.99 503916 now £6.99 31 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk ACADEMIC TITLES

ART/CRAFTS BIOGRAPHY NEW COMING AWAY STRANGER IN Winslow Homer and England A STRANGE LAND Elizabeth Athens; Brandon Searching for Gershom Scholem Ruud; Martha Tedeschi The 19 and Jerusalem months he spent in England in George Prochnik Gershom (born Gerhard) 1881–82 marked a turning point Scholem was one of the leading intellectuals in the career of the American artist of pre-war Germany, and a close friend of Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Walter Benjamin. In 1923 he emigrated to After visiting London, he stayed Palestine and became the world’s foremost in the Northumbrian coastal scholar of the Kabbalah. This study traces village of Cullercoats, and the the evolution of his ideas from his paintings he did there, particularly disillusionment with European materialism of working women and the sea, and his discovery of Jewish mysticism, to his anticipate the muscular style of unease at the politics of Israel, where he found himself his maturity. This catalogue comprises five essays along with ‘a stranger in a strange land’. Off-mint. GRANTA 2017 HB 534pp Illus reproductions of 79 works, including examples of English paintings £25.00 510469 now £7.99 and photography which influenced Homer during his time in England. CURSED LEGACY YALE UP 2017 HB 168pp Illus 277x240mm £30.00 513375 now £12.99 The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann Frederic Spotts Novelist, playwright, NEW APHRODITE AND THE GODS OF LOVE essayist and journalist, Klaus Mann Ed. Christine Kondoleon; Phoebe C Segal In five scholarly essays, explored the sinister appeal of Nazism in his illustrated by more than 150 photographs of sculptures, mosaics, painted chilling 1936 novel Mephisto, and was the vases, statuettes and coins, this volume traces the worship of the deity of first person to link racism and fascism with love, from her Eastern Mediterranean ancestors to the Greek cults of homophobia. This first English-language Aphrodite, and discusses the paradox of the ‘philandering goddess of biography provides a powerful account of marriage’, Eros her child, and the female nude in classical art. his tormented life, dealing frankly with his MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON 2012 HB 224pp Illus 233x227mm drug addiction and his troubled relationship £42.95 513360 now £9.99 with the overpowering figure of his father, SILLA: Korea’s Golden Kingdom the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Thomas Soyoung Lee; Denise Patry Leidy Published to accompany an Mann, while shedding new light on his exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this highly illustrated mysterious death. YALE UP 2016 HB 344pp Illus volume explores the visual culture of the Silla Kingdom of Korea £30.00 507989 now £9.99

between the fourth and eighth centuries. More than 100 objects – LITERATURE including gold regalia and jewellery, precious metal and clay vessels,

and Buddhist icons and shrines – are presented, alongside essays HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI examining topics such as the history of the ancient city of Gyeongju The Strife of Love in a Dream and the realm’s links with the nomadic-pastoralist traditions of the Francesco Colonna; Trans. Joscelyn Godwin Describing Poliphilo’s Eurasian Steppe. YALE UP 2013 HB 238pp Illus 254x203mm quest for his beloved Polia, Colonna’s arcane allegorical romance of £50.00 511306 now £25.00 1499 is unapologetically pagan, suffused with eroticism and composed PAST TIME in highly stylized Italian. This translation, featuring the 174 original Geology in European woodcuts, is the first complete rendering of the work into English. and American Art It allows the modern reader access to a text that provides valuable Patricia Phagan During the late insights into Renaissance ideas about gardens and architecture – 18th and 19th centuries, art and and recently inspired the bestselling novel The Rule of Four. Off-mint. American-cut pages. THAMES & HUDSON 2005 PB 496pp Illus 227x153mm scientific observation converged £16.95 506344 now £6.99 as geologists and artists shared a fascination with the Earth’s THE WORKS OF WALTER QUIN topography. Accompanying an An Irishman at the Stuart Courts American exhibition, this catalogue Ed. John Flood Born in Dublin, Walter Quin (d.1640) was poet to the explores that interdisciplinary Stuart court and his poetry and prose (in English, Latin, French and engagement through commentary Italian) includes works in support of James VI, along with historical and reproductions of 52 paintings and philosophical writing. This first edition of Quin’s work includes and drawings, including Joseph a biographical introduction and translations of his non-English texts. Wright of Derby’s Entrance to the FOUR COURTS 2014 HB 292pp Illus Dove Holes, Derbyshire (1773), £50.00 509565 now £12.99 Henry Moore’s Mer de Glace (1856), and Legendary England: Tintagel (1882) by William Trost Richards. D GILES 2018 HB 144pp Illus 276x238mm TRUE FRIENDSHIP £34.95 512756 now £12.99 Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound THE DELLA ROBBIA Christopher Ricks presents a study of the poets Geoffrey Hill, Anthony POTTERY: From Hecht and Robert Lowell, exploring the relationship of each poet’s Renaissance to Regent Street work to that of their great predecessors, TS Eliot and Ezra Pound. Ed. Julie Sheldon The Della YALE UP 2010 PB 270pp Robbia Pottery in Birkenhead £17.00 505814 now £6.99 was founded in 1894 by Harold Rathbone. A junior member of a CLASSICS wealthy family, Harold was free to pursue an artistic career and NEW VIRGIL’S BOOK OF his pottery was inspired by his BUCOLICS, THE TEN ECLOGUES studies of Renaissance art in Italy Translated into English Verse and the ideals of the Arts and John Van Sickle This translation of Virgil’s Crafts Movement. In six essays, pastoral poetry is ‘framed by cues for reading this slim volume explores the aloud’, inspired by the work’s popularity on pottery, its inspiration and the the bawdy Roman stage. Van Sickle also distinctive output of ceramics investigates the collection’s interweaving created there before its closure in 1906. Pair of jugs with threads through detailed analyses of its structure LIVERPOOL UP 2015 PB 118pp Illus 234x154mm moulded lizard and themes. JOHNS HOPKINS UP 2011 HB 288pp £14.99 509256 now £6.99 decorations, 1903 £64.50 513393 now £12.99

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THEOLOGY/RELIGION MODERN HISTORY THE DANGERS OF NEW CENSORSHIP CHRISTIAN PRACTICE AND CONFLICT IN On Wayward Gifts, 17th-CENTURY ENGLAND Characteristic Damage, and Sin The Subtle Art of Division Lauren F Winner The Eucharist, prayer Randy Robertson’s study of censorship and baptism all promote healing and holiness during the 1600s examines how the but they can also perpetuate damage. Winner unremitting struggle for sovereignty proposes that, by thinking of these treasured during the century entailed a battle for practices as ‘damaged gifts’, Christians can control of language and representation. be more alert to their potential to cause harm. He gives a detailed picture of how the YALE UP 2018 HB 240pp 208x140mm resulting suppression influenced 17th-

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NEW THE HAPPINESS BIBLE NEW CRYSTAL ALCHEMY A Definitive Guide A Practical Guide to Crystal Therapy to Sustainable Wellbeing Shirley O’Donoghue Devised as a resource Cheryl Rickman explains where happi- both for the layman and the crystal therapist, ness comes from and how it can be nur- Shirley O’Donoghue presents the history tured and maintained by following the of the art and the basics of the subtle energy principles of positive psychology. In ad- system, meridians and auras. She explains dition, she outlines simple activities and how to select and use crystals for different techniques designed to break down the purposes and offers an overview on barriers to wellbeing and help navigate subjects including animal healing, the negative. astrology, and combining crystals GODSFIELD 2019 PB 400pp Illus 166x140mm with a range of alternative treatments. £14.99 514973 now £4.99 LOTUS 2020 PB 168pp Illus 245x188mm £14.99 514517 now £5.99

NEW SAY WHY TO DRUGS Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High Suzi Gage Dr Suzi Gage investigates the science behind recreational drugs, from coffee and alcohol to cocaine and LSD. She debunks common urban myths and offers clear explanations of how each substance impacts the brain and body, both short and long term. HODDER 2020 HB 350pp Illus 215x134mm £16.99 514156 now £6.99

NEW THE LIGHT OF SEX Initiation, Magic, and Sacrament Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936) sets out her treatise on the spiritually transformative power of sex. She offers insights into the mystic rituals followed by occultists in 1930s Paris, explaining how NEW PAUSE it is possible to achieve enlightenment through the adoration How to Press Pause of the female spirit. INNER TRADITIONS 2011 PB 144pp Illus 227x150mm Before Life Does it for You £14.99 513384 now £5.99 Danielle North draws on her own expe- rience of burn-out to explain how best to NEW ART AND SPIRITUAL carve out time, to relax and reset, even on TRANSFORMATION busy days. She also presents exercises and meditations based on eastern and western The Seven Stages of traditions and offers tips on nutrition and Death and Rebirth sleep. ASTER 2020 PB 192pp Finlay Eversole presents a seven-step meditation journey designed to help the £8.99 514977 now £3.99 reader experience the spiritual energy COPING WITH SHYNESS embedded within art. To illustrate the AND SOCIAL PHOBIA stages, he examines works by, among W Ray Crozier; Lynn E Alden Research others, the abstract expressionists Jackson shows that shyness and social phobia will Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark impact the lives of one in every 20 people. Rothko and the modern visionary artists Supported by case studies and the latest Alex Grey and Ernst Fuchs, revealing research and practice in psychology, this how art contributes to the transformation guide explains the treatment options avail- and evolution of human consciousness. able and outlines a range of effective cop- INNER TRADITIONS 2009 PB ing strategies. ONEWORLD 2009 PB 256pp 384pp Illus 252x203mm £9.99 513216 now £4.99 £22.00 502653 now £7.99 37 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk SCIENCE/MATHS

NEW NIKOLA TESLA AND THE ELECTRICAL FUTURE Iwan Rhys Morus Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was both acclaimed as a scientist and denounced as a charlatan. This biography follows the Serbian-born inventor’s emigration to the USA, his work with Edison, and their subsequent rivalry. It assesses his achievements, including the development of the AC electrical system, and his visionary ideas such as wireless electricity that continue to inspire today’s Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. ICON 2019 HB 256pp Illus 195x129mm £12.99 514901 now £5.99

HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE Part I Brian Cox; Robin Ince The numerous archival images, cartoons, quotes and programme excerpts in this companion book to the NEW STALIN AND BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage pay homage to the 1970s Look THE SCIENTISTS and Learn annuals, which thrilled children with their miscellany of science. Here, A History of Triumph Cox and Ince inspire adult scientific wonder through jokes, jibes and nostalgic and Tragedy 1905–1953 digressions, anchored by serious explorations of thermodynamics, particle physics, Big Bang theory, space travel, extra-terrestrial life and, of course, infinity. Simon Ings With a firm belief that sci- ence was the key to Russia’s future Stalin WILLIAM COLLINS 2017 PB 290pp Illus 234x153mm £16.99 505972 now £6.99 invested heavily in many disciplines. This survey of Soviet research from the Revo- DESTINATION MARS lution onwards explores the conse- The Story of Our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet quences of political interference in Andrew May From theories of red vegetation and canal systems to Elon Musk’s technology and research, including the ambitions in the race to Mars, Andrew May looks at our fascination with the devastating failures to improve crop red planet and the practicalities of getting there, covering topics including the yields as well as breakthroughs in more development of rocket science and 50 years of robots and rovers on Mars. independent sectors such as nuclear ICON 2017 PB 176pp physics. ATLANTIC 2017 HB 528pp Illus £7.99 514893 now £3.99 £19.99 513351 now £6.99 ASK AN ASTRONAUT Tim Peake What does it feel like to sit on top of a 300-tonne rocket? ELECTRIFIED SHEEP Does food taste different in space? How can I become an astronaut? And Other Bizarre Experiments When he returned from his 186-day mission on the International Space Alex Boese In this sequel to Elephants on Station, Tim Peake was bombarded with Acid Alex Boese delves once more into questions. This book presents some of the world of mad scientists and weird those questions and Tim’s careful, candid experimentation, whether a 1950s project and detailed answers about astronaut training, to nuke the moon or self-experimenters the launch, life and work in space, space getting stung by 78 species of walking and returning to earth. Slightly Hymenoptera for the sake of science. off-mint. Felt-tip mark on upper edge. PAN 2017 PB 352pp LITTLE, BROWN 2017 HB 270pp Illus £8.99 512639 now £3.99 $26.00 508796 now £6.99

EGGHEAD’S GUIDE TO GEOMETRY Cara Cantarella The ‘Egghead’ cartoon character sets about the problems of angles and shapes in this guide for school and college level students. The course includes a revision of foundational geometry and chapters covering triangles, polygons, circles, cubes and cylinders. Each section offers examples, exercises and study tips and concludes with a review NEW PYTHAGORAS of the topic that shows how the concepts can be applied in the real world. American spelling. His Lives and the Legacy Age 14+ PETERSON’S 2013 PB 432pp Illus 254x203mm of a Rational Universe $14.95 511439 now £5.99 Kitty Ferguson The eponymous theorem was just one of many mathematical inter- EGGHEAD’S GUIDE TO CALCULUS ests of the sixth-century BCE thinker Cara Cantarella A component of any higher-level The radius of TM of circle T Pythagoras of Samos, who believed that maths course, calculus is notoriously difficult to measures 9. What is the numbers were the key to understanding the comprehend and this manual uses verbal, mathematical, length of diameter MN? cosmos. Piecing together the scant evi- graphical and illustrative explanations to help students grasp the fundamental dence left by his obsessively secretive fol- concepts of the subject. The opening chapters review the algebra and trigonometry lowers, Ferguson reconstructs Pythagoras’ required for an understanding of calculus and Egghead then moves on to deal life and doctrines, then traces his profound with limits, differentiation, integration and integrals. American spelling. Age 14+ influence on Western thought, from Plato PETERSON’S 2015 PB 288pp Illus 253x203mm to Russell. ICON 2011 PB 380pp Illus $14.95 511386 now £5.99 £11.99 514903 now £4.99

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NEW THE PEOPLE’S FLAG AND THE UNION JACK An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party Gerry Hassan; Eric Shaw The Labour Party has always found notions of nationalism problematic in a political landscape where traditional values and patriotism have typically been associated with conservatism. This study reviews Labour’s relationship with Britishness, from the early pre-war party to the Corbyn era and beyond, in the light of contemporary attitudes to the United Kingdom, Brexit and increasing support for Scottish independence. BITEBACK 2019 HB 334pp

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NEW POWER NEW JIMMY REID AND PRAGMATISM A Scottish Political Journey The Memoirs of Kenny MacAskill Jimmy Reid was a hugely Malcolm Rifkind influential figure in Scottish politics – his funeral Malcolm Rifkind was one of Britain’s in 2010 was attended by Gordon Brown and longest serving ministers, having held Alex Salmond – yet this is the first biography of cabinet positions including Foreign him. It follows his tough Clydeside upbringing, Secretary for 18 years. He recalls his his work as a shipbuilders’ union leader, and Jewish upbringing in Edinburgh, and his political journey from communism through a formative overland journey to India the Labour Party (which he left in protest at when he was 19, before describing the Iraq War) to support for the SNP and Scottish a political career that involved independence. BITEBACK 2017 HB 332pp Illus negotiations with Mikhael Gorbachev, £20.00 513825 now £7.99 Britain’s intervention in the Bosnian war, and conflict with Margaret Thatcher over Scottish devolution. BITEBACK 2016 HB 480pp Illus DOWN WITH THE ROYALS £25.00 513832 now £7.99 Joan Smith Royal watching is something of a national sport in Britain, but in this short polemic Joan Smith argues that media bias distracts us from getting a true sense of their cost to the public purse and the extent of their political influence. BITEBACK 2015 HB 128pp 185x118mm £10.00 508775 now £3.99

THE FRENCH EXCEPTION Emmanuel Macron: The Extraordinary Rise and Risk Adam Plowright How did France’s youngest-ever president assemble the network, team and finances to sweep to electoral victory in just twelve months? Based on previously unpublished interviews with Emmanuel Macron’s friends, mentors, opponents, and key members of his team, this first biography in English charts his meteoric rise. It outlines his political vision, examines his support-base, analyses his strengths and weaknesses, and asks what his presidency means for Britain and the EU. ICON 2018 PB 430pp NEW LEO £8.99 514895 now £3.99 Leo Varadkar – A Very Modern Taoiseach Philip Ryan; Niall O’Connor NEW BEHIND DIPLOMATIC LINES In this first full-length biography, Relations With Ministers family, friends and colleagues offer Patrick Wright As Permanent Under-Secretary behind-the-scenes insights into how at the Foreign Office from 1986 to 1991, Patrick the doctor son of Indian immigrants, Wright was well positioned to observe the inner having come out as gay, survived workings of the British government during a party infighting to become leader of tumultuous period in world affairs. His diaries Fine Gael and prime minister of Ireland. offer a day-to-day account of the aftermath of It explores the role of Frances Fitzgerald the Falklands War, the collapse of the Soviet in shaping his career, and the police Union, strained relations with the EU, the first whistleblower scandal that almost Gulf War and the fall of Margaret Thatcher. derailed it. BITEBACK 2018 PB 368pp BITEBACK 2018 HB 348pp

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NEW WELLINGTON’S VOICE The Candid Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, 1808–1837 Ed. Gareth Glover These recently discovered letters from one of Wellington’s closest aides provide a refreshing contrast to the Duke’s own sanitized account of events, bringing many little-known incidents to light. Covering the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign, they offer a first-hand record of the military engagements, as well as a behind- the-scenes glimpse of the power struggles within Wellington’s inner circle. FRONTLINE 2012 HB 352pp Illus £25.00 513528 now £7.99

THE SECOND ANGLO-SIKH WAR NEW THE CRÉCY WAR Amarpal Singh This follow-up to The First A Military History of the Anglo-Sikh War chronicles the fall of the Sikh Hundred Years War from 1337 Empire and the annexation of the Punjab by the to the Peace of Brétigny in 1360 British East India Company, a victory that would Alfred H Burne The first of a two-part provide the British Army with a reliable source history of the Hundred Years War looks at of soldiers for a century. Singh’s compelling the period covering the two major victories narrative, supported by transcripts of significant at Crécy and Poitiers and the subsequent treaties and proclamations, places the many Treaty of Brétigny that established the sieges and battles, from Multan and Chillianwala British right to territory in France without to the decisive Gujrat, in the context of a tribute. Burne argues that while these vic- fast-changing political and military landscape. tories are routinely credited to the Black AMBERLEY 2017 PB 544pp Illus 234x156mm Prince, Edward III is yet to receive full £20.00 505760 now £8.99 recognition of his strategic skill and vision. 2016 PB 366pp Illus 232x156mm FRONTLINE NEW WELSH YEOMANRY AT WAR £12.99 514203 now £6.99 A History of the 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Also available: CRÉCY 1346 Battalion, the Welsh Regiment Steven John The Welsh Yeomanry battalions, A Tourist’s Guide officered by the landed gentry, had been asked to Peter Hoskins; volunteer a transfer for overseas service in 1916. Richard Barber This history tells how they came to fight in Egypt PEN & SWORD 2016 PB 208pp Illus and Palestine – campaigns that are not widely £14.99 remembered today but which led to Jerusalem’s liberation from 400 years of Ottoman rule – before 509443 participating in the final offensive in France. now £5.99 PEN & SWORD 2016 PB 200pp Illus 233x155mm £19.99 515076 now £7.99 NEW INSTRUMENTS OF BATTLE The Fighting Drummers and Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to the Present Day James Tanner While they have mostly ceremonial uses THE COURAGE today, musicians in the British Army traditionally participated OF COWARDS in battles, including acting as heralds and enforcers of The Untold Stories of discipline. James Tanner, a retired brigadier, details the First World War role of fighting drummers, buglers and fifers, looking at Conscientious Objectors their deployment, tactics and practical roles; dispelling Karyn Burnham There had never some common myths; and describing the lives of some been conscription in Britain until the of the individual soldiers. CASEMATE 2017 HB 384pp Illus Military Service Act of January 1916, £25.00 514209 now £9.99 which stipulated that all men between 18th century British Army drummer by Charles C Stadden the ages of 18 and 40 were ‘deemed to have enlisted for the period of the THE LAST POST war’. Using memoirs, letters and Music, Remembrance and the Great War official documents this book explores Alwyn W Turner Ever since the annual two-minute silence the experiences of conscientious was first observed in 1919, the Last Post has been a powerful objectors during the First World War, symbol of remembrance. In his exploration of this simple bugle call’s history, Turner from their conflicts with the system tracks down its earliest known use (as ‘Setting the Watch’) in the 18th century, examines and ostracization by society to service the role of buglers in the First World War and shows how the Last Post has kept its in the Friends Ambulance Unit and significance despite early controversy over the nature of the Cenotaph ceremony and the Non-Combatant Corps. the changing meaning of Remembrance today. AURUM 2014 HB 240pp Illus PEN & SWORD 2014 HB 146pp Illus £14.99 504081 now £5.99 £16.99 225095 now £6.99 40 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 MILITARY HISTORY

NEW MILITARY TECHNOLOGY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Development, Use and Consequences Wolfgang Fleischer In wartime, the weaponry and defences of the period often inspire new inventions, such as the armoured combat vehicles, tanks and submarines built during the First World War. This extensively illustrated study by a German historian documents the technology used by the Allies and the Central Powers, including machine guns, artillery guns and gas weapons. German PEN & SWORD 2017 HB 222pp Illus 280x215mm 7.58 cm £25.00 515066 now £11.99 light mortar n.A (neuer Art) on its firing turntable

NEW CAPTURED GERMANS THE LAST ESCAPER British PoW Camps in The Untold First-Hand Story the First World War of the Legendary Bomber Pilot, Norman Nicol Thousands of ‘Cooler King’ and Arch Escape Artist German prisoners of war were kept Peter Tunstall Seven escape attempts earned Peter in over 500 internment camps across Tunstall 415 days of solitary confinement during his the British Isles, but the story of captivity in prison camps (including Colditz) during these camps is less well known than the Second World War. Written shortly before his other aspects of the period. This death in 2013, this memoir is a mature reflection of book, based on decades of research, his experiences as a bomber pilot and PoW, balancing lists their locations alphabetically the excitement and adventure of his exploits with and offers historical details and the pain, hunger, fear and boredom that came with it. anecdotes that give an insight DUCKWORTH OVERLOOK 2015 PB 328pp Illus into everyday life for the prisoners £9.99 509669 now £4.99 and guards. OPERATION LENA AND HITLER’S PLOTS TO BLOW UP BRITAIN PEN & SWORD 2017 HB 390pp Illus Bernard O’Connor During the Second World War, there were numerous German £30.00 513371 now £12.99 plots to sabotage British infrastructure, many of them using saboteurs and agents provocateurs enlisted from the ranks of the IRA, Welsh and Scottish extremists and foreign nationals. Starting with the IRA’s ‘S-Plan’, Bernard O’Connor gives detailed accounts of the successes and failures of the Nazis’ collaborative operations on the British mainland and describes how MI5 used code-breakers and double agents, notably ZIGZAG, in a widespread counter-sabotage programme. AMBERLEY 2017 HB 320pp Illus £20.00 508343 now £7.99 AT THE HEART OF THE REICH The Secret Diary of Hitler’s Army Adjutant Gerhard Engel As Hitler’s Army Adjutant from 1938 to 1943, Gerhard Engel was a member of Hitler’s inner circle and privy to the Führer’s thoughts and preoccupations. His diary provides valuable insights into the personalities of Hitler and others at the centre of the Nazi state. Translated by Geoffrey Brooks. FRONTLINE 2017 PB 208pp Illus 234x156mm £12.99 509432 now £5.99

NEW HUNGER How Food Shaped the Course of the First World War Rick Blom Dutch historian Rick Blom uses first-hand accounts and contemporary documents to explore CHURCHILL’S FOLLY the key role that the production, The Battles for Kos and Leros, 1943 distribution and preparation of Anthony Rogers Intending to capitalize on the Italian food for the trenches played in surrender in 1943, Churchill ordered the seizure of key the war’s progress. He also recounts islands in the Dodecanese, in spite of the fact that his his own attempts to prepare meals plan was not supported by the Americans. This account in a recreated field kitchen, of the campaign explains how a lack of air support including historical recipes and contributed to the successful recapture of the islands giving additional insight into from the defending British and Italian troops in one the combat experience. of the last significant German victories of the war. UNICORN 2019 PB 248pp Illus HISTORY PRESS 2017 PB 288pp Illus 230x156mm £17.99 514785 now £5.99 £18.99 508464 now £7.99 41 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk MILITARY HISTORY

NEW THE ROYAL NAVY LYNX An Operational History Larry Jeram-Croft This history of the Lynx helicopter, with first-hand accounts from the people who flew and operated it, presents detailed descriptions of its technical development and insights into its versatility. While designed for anti-submarine warfare it has been used in military operations in the Falklands War and the Gulf but also played a role in Arctic deployments, hurricane relief and drugbusting. PEN & SWORD 2017 HB 304pp Illus 245x170mm £25.00 514212 now £9.99

NEW NINE WINGCOS NEW THE BRITISH AND THE LANCASTER AEROSPACE HAWK The Second World War A Photographic Tribute Experiences of a Bomber Michael Leek The dedicated RAF Command Flight Engineer and RN trainer since 1976, the BAE Peter Baxter As a four-engine heavy Hawk is well known from its use by bomber, the Avro Lancaster flew with a the Red Arrows display team. This designated crew member, the flight engi- photographic tribute presents over neer, to oversee the hydraulic, electrical 250 colour images of the T1 and T1A and fuel systems. Peter Baxter completed versions mostly in low-level flight hundreds of hours flying in this role, often over hills and mountains in Britain, at night, and also became the Engineer with extended captions and a detailed Leader for No. 153 Squadron. In this vol- description of the aircraft. PEN & ume, which includes previously unpub- A Hawk TI from 208 Squadron, SWORD 2014 HB 248pp Illus 274x215mm lished photos and detailed technical RAF Valley, in 2007 £30.00 513369 now £12.99 descriptions, he describes his RAF career, from the everyday camaraderie to opera- NEW NIMROD BOYS tional details. True Tales from the Operators of the RAF’s Cold War Trailblazer FIGHTING HIGH 2018 HB 240pp Illus Tony Blackman; Joe Kennedy This compilation of first-hand accounts of flying £19.95 514443 now £7.99 RAF Nimrods from the Cold War onwards includes stories from the Falklands, the First Gulf War and anti-drug-smuggling operations in the Caribbean. Pilots, observers and electronics operators recall how the first jet-powered maritime aircraft was deployed, often in rescue missions and anti-submarine warfare, for which its state-of-the-art navigation and electronics systems were essential, and describe the cancelled Nimrod MR4 project. GRUB STREET 2019 HB 256pp Illus

£25.00 514325 now £9.99 MiG-23 FLOGGER IN THE MIDDLE EAST Mikoyan I Gurevich MiG-23 in Service in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya and Syria, 1973–2018 Tom Cooper Since the MiG-23 was introduced by the Soviets in the 1970s, it has been exported to five major Arab countries. Illustrated with rare images, this history shows the pivotal role it has played in subsequent conflicts in the region. HELION 2018 PB 72pp Illus 295x210mm £16.95 512066 now £6.99

BOOTS ON THE GROUND THE VIETNAM WAR Britain and Her Army Since 1945 An Intimate History Richard Dannatt The British Army Geoffrey C Ward; Ken Burns; Lynn NEW THE HISTORY OF THE SAS has been continuously employed, Novick This photographic history of the Chris Ryan Drawing on his experiences somewhere in the world, since 1945, Vietnam War, which contains over 500 as an SAS corporal, Chris Ryan tells the despite diminishing significantly in images, is based on the PBS documentary story of his regiment from its formation numbers. In this history of post-war series The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken during the Second World War. He de- Britain, former Chief of the General Burns and Lynn Novick and captures the scribes its post-war revival in 1950 to Staff Richard Dannatt examines pain, bewilderment and political frustrations combat communist insurgents in Malaya, affairs of state through the prism of soldiers, civilians and officials on both the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege, its oper- of the army’s involvement, from sides of the conflict. The narrative refers to ations in Northern Ireland and the Falk- managing the end of empire and the both the military and political battlefields, lands, and its response to today’s threats troubles in Northern Ireland to the revealing the intimate stories and often from international terrorism and an in- Cold War, the Middle East and the tragic circumstances of those portrayed. creasingly assertive Russia. emerging threats of the 21st century. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower CORONET 2019 HB 376pp PROFILE 2016 HB 432pp Illus edge. KNOPF 2017 HB 636pp Illus 274x235mm £20.00 514149 now £7.99 £25.00 508579 now £9.99 £45.00 508058 now £16.99 42 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 TRANSPORT

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Tall ships off the Toulon NEW STEAM TODAY coast, 2013 Britain’s Heritage Railways in Photographs NEW THE LEGEND OF THE SEA Geoff Swaine As Britain’s railways switched to The Spectacular Marine Photography of Gilles Martin-Raget electric and diesel engines in the 1960s, a growing Gilles Martin-Raget Award-winning photographer Martin-Raget band of enthusiasts became determined to preserve presents a wide selection of his images, arranged thematically in steam locomotion for posterity. This collection of sections on dinghy sailing, inshore racing, yachts, cruisers and the photographs, from the Bodmin and Wenford Railway America’s cup. Many of the pictures show the crews and vessels in to Llangollen and the North York Moors, depicts the action around the world and reveal the drama and eye-catching surviving lines and the special events they often hold angles for which he is known. to celebrate Britain’s history and culture. ADLARD COLES NAUTICAL 2014 HB 240pp Illus 258x335mm HISTORY PRESS 2016 PB 120pp Illus 225x247mm £60.00 514116 now £14.99 £20.00 515072 now £7.99

GRADIENTS OF THE BRITISH MAIN LINE RAILWAYS This reference work reproduces diagrams showing the gradient profiles of British railway routes, originally published in 1966. Organized into the ‘Big Four’ railway companies, this new edition represents the network as it was in 1947 and contains details not in the original, such as the location of water troughs, as well as a complete index of features marked on the profiles, including stations, tunnels, junctions and sidings. IAN ALLAN 2016 HB 96pp Illus 287x217mm £15.00 511133 now £9.99

HMS Whaddon NEW TO SAIL NO and Wigtown Bay MORE: IN COLOUR at Faslane, 1959 Part One Ian Buxton Very few of the 1,200 Royal Navy warships built during the Second World War were needed after 1945 and most were scrapped over the following decades. These photographs were taken between 1949 and 1962, mostly in Scottish breaking yards, and record 45 vessels including aircraft carriers, battleships and cruisers as they were gradually being dismantled. NAVY BOOKS 2017 HB 160pp Illus 200x268mm £25.00 515073 now £9.99 VW KÜBELWAGEN/ DRIVE! SCHWIMMWAGEN Henry Ford, George Enthusiasts’ Manual Selden and the Race Chris McNab to Invent the Auto Age The Kübelwagen Lawrence Goldstone When and the amphibious George Seldon was granted the Schwimmwagen, the American patent for an ‘improved standard military utility road engine’ in 1895 his royalties vehicles used by the hampered the fledgling Wehrmacht and the automobile industry, but Henry Waffen SS in the Second Ford’s 1911 legal challenge saw World War, were based the copyright lifted and the on the Volkswagen, and invention went on to define an originally designed by era. This account debunks the Ferdinand Porsche. myths surrounding the industry’s This illustrated guide origins, and profiles the tycoons, to their design, history, inventors and racers who played construction and operation includes detailed technical diagrams a part in establishing it. Slightly and contemporary photos. HAYNES 2015 HB 156pp Illus 268x208mm off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower edge. BALLANTINE 2016 HB 384pp Illus £22.99 509981 now £9.99 £22.50 509573 now £7.99 43 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk FOOD & DRINK

NEW CHATEAU, JARDIN, CUISINE Secret Recipes from the Ardèche Regina von Planta Having moved from London to a farmhouse in the Ardèche, in southeast France, Regina von Planta began to create a kitchen garden, learning first-hand how the area’s challenging terrain influences its cuisine. In this volume, she presents 60 recipes that showcase the local ingredients for which the region is famed, such as goats cheese, chestnuts, figs and quince, interspersed with location and food photography. Slightly off-mint. UNICORN 2019 HB 184pp Illus 208x208mm Goats Cheese Soufflé £20.00 514768 now £7.99

Berber Frittata Also available: NEW ORANGE BLOSSOM PROVENCE TO PONDICHERRY AND HONEY Recipes from France and Faraway Tessa Kiros QUADRILLE 2016 HB 288pp Illus Magical Moroccan Recipes £25.00 504798 now £9.99 from the Souks to the Sahara John Gregory-Smith embarks upon a culinary odyssey around Morocco, NEW FISH exploring off the beaten track and The Complete Fish discovering that the nation’s modern and Seafood Companion food has Berber, Arabic, Moorish and Mitch Tonks presents a comprehensive guide Mediterranean influences. Inspired by to buying, preparing, and cooking fish and his travels, he presents a collection of seafood. A species-by-species breakdown, recipes for street food, tagines, meat divided into white fish, oily fish and shellfish, and seafood dishes, and desserts, comprises tasting notes and information accompanied by location photography. on territory, seasonality, nutrition and KYLE 2017 HB 192pp Illus 255x204mm £19.99 514645 now £9.99 sustainability. More than 100 recipes are accompanied by photographs documenting his daily life on Brixham Harbour and anecdotes from fishing communities. PAVILION 2009 HB 320pp Illus £25.00 514776 now £8.99 THE ESSENTIAL COOK’S KITCHEN Traditional Culinary Skills, The jam funnel, a from Breadmaking and Dairy preserving essential to Preserving and Curing Alison Walker, the Food & Drink Editor at Country Living magazine, explains everything the aspiring country cook needs to know about artisanal food preparation and production in the home kitchen. Each of the chapters, which cover baking, cheese making, preserving, bottling, curing and potting, begins with an introduction to the traditional methods, equipment and ingredients required, followed by a selection of recipes that test the processes The Rialto Market in Venice learnt. Step-by-step colour photographs illustrate some of the trickier tasks. VENETIAN REPUBLIC JACQUI SMALL 2018 HB 192pp Illus 248x188mm Recipes from the Veneto, Adriatic £20.00 511997 now £7.99 Croatia and the Greek Islands Nino Zoccali From the days when it LIFE’S TOO SHORT TO DRINK BAD WINE controlled the silk, saffron and spice trading routes from East to West, the Over 100 Wines for the Discerning Drinker culinary output of the Venetian Republic Simon Hoggart The political columnist Simon Hoggart has reaped the benefits of its neighbouring was also wine correspondent for The Spectator: his eclectic cultures. Here, the food writer Nino choice of 100 best wines at affordable prices is organized Zoccali selects 80 dishes, such as Roast here into red, white, rosé and champagne sections. These Lamb Croatian-style, Cretan Sweet and are supplemented by features on how to read a wine label, Sour Red Mullet and Ricotta and Rose guides to grapes and regions, and anecdotes including Crepes from Dubrovnik, that demonstrate the story of California’s victory over France in a famous the region’s rich heritage. Slightly off-mint. blind tasting. QUADRILLE 2016 HB 176pp Illus 219x148mm MURDOCH 2019 HB 256pp Illus 257x204mm £14.99 512765 now £5.99 £20.00 511054 now £7.99 Pesquera Crianza, a Tempranillo from Northern Spain 44 PostscriptBooks FOOD

HEALTHY EATING TO REDUCE THE RISK OF DEMENTIA 100 Fantastic Recipes Based on Extensive, In-depth Research Margaret Rayman and a team of nutritional experts give clear guidelines on diet and lifestyle adaptations that may help to protect against the risk of developing dementia. They explain which foods and nutrients can help to protect the brain and keep it functioning at its best, and offer a collection of easy-to-prepare recipes. KYLE 2019 PB 176pp Illus 218x210mm £14.99 514974 now £6.99 Baked Salmon with Roasted Vegetables NEW REINVENTING THE WHEEL Milk, Microbes and the NEW THE CACAO COOKBOOK Fight for Real Cheese Discover the Health Benefits and Bronwen and Francis Percival This Uses of Cacao, with 50 Delicious Recipes insight into contemporary artisan cheese- Raw cacao, once considered by ancient civilizations making explains what has been lost as a food of the gods, is both a natural ‘mood through homogenized factory production booster’ and an excellent source of vitamins and and how small local producers are redis- minerals. Moreover, because it is unsweetened, covering the methods of their forbears. it works equally well in savoury and sweet dishes, The importance of microbes for flavour a fact reflected in this collection of recipes from and health benefit is investigated as well around the world. ASTER 2018 HB 128pp Illus 208x146mm as the influence of cattle breeds and farm- £10.00 514964 now £4.99 ing methods on the production of cheese. BLOOMSBURY 2019 PB 384pp Illus Also available: £9.99 514492 now £4.99 AMAZING EDIBLE SEEDS Health-Boosting and Delicious Recipes Using Nature’s Nutritional Powerhouse Vicki Edgson; Heather Thomas JACQUI SMALL 2017 HB 176pp Illus 230x205mm £20.00 509176 now £7.99

SUPERFOODS SUPERFAST Julie Montagu In this sequel to her bestselling Superfoods, the health coach and food writer Julie Montagu offers further advice on incorporating essential nutrients into the diet. She offers 100 nourishing vegetarian recipes, including portable lunches, energizing and guilt-free snacks, and wholesome suppers, all of which have a preparation time of 20 minutes or less, plus a two-week meal planner and healthy eating tips. QUADRILLE 2016 HB 176pp Illus 229x183mm £18.99 510276 now £7.99

NEW THE FOOD EFFECT DIET: Vegan Michelle Braude Following the success of her Food Effect Diet, which was serialized in The Times, doctor Knights of the Round Table and nutritionist Michelle Braude offers a similar weight-loss programme for vegans. With an emphasis SIMPLY PERFECT PARTY on long-term health, she dispels dietary myths and CAKES FOR KIDS offers information on getting adequate amounts of fat, Easy Step-by-Step Novelty carbohydrate and protein, before concluding with a Cakes for Children’s Parties selection of simple recipes and a 28-day menu planner. Zoe Clark From a teddy bears’ picnic, PIATKUS 2020 PB 318pp 232x150mm ideal for a first birthday, through ideas for £14.99 514704 now £4.99 budding superheroes and little princesses, to disco and paintballing themes suitable for teenagers, this well-illustrated book YE OLDE SWEET SHOP offers step-by-step instructions to make Down Memory Lane twelve novelty cakes for children. It con- With over 40 recipes for sweet treats tains recipes for the cakes, fillings and from yesteryear, this cookbook toppings; shows how to sculpt them; and incorporates a shopping list of basic ingredients, advice on includes time-saving alternatives such as thermometers and ideas for storing and gift packaging the cupcakes and cookies. DAVID & CHARLES sweets. The recipes include Jelly Beans, Sugared Almonds 2014 PB 128pp Illus 273x210mm and Rhubarb Custards. IGLOO 2015 HB 112pp Illus 224x189mm £15.99 513149 now £5.99 £9.99 508332 now £4.99 45 @PostscriptBooks CRAFTS/HOBBIES

NEW A KNITTER’S SKETCHBOOK Design Inspiration for Twists and Cables Emma Vining Offering a comprehensive stitch library based on her photographs and sketches, creative designer Emma Vining demonstrates how the natural world and built environment can inspire cabled knitting. From straight lines to curved shapes, openwork and short rows, each technique is fully explained and patterns are given for ten accessories, including wristwarmers with a simple diagonal cable, and a more complex colourwork scarf. NEW STITCH-OPEDIA CROWOOD 2019 HB 192pp Illus The Only Embroidery Reference £25.00 513845 now £7.99 You’ll Ever Need SEW JAPANESE Helen Winthorpe Kendrick The first part of this spiral-bound volume offers an 20 Charming Patterns for Children introduction to stumpwork, blackwork, Mariko Nakamura Grouped by season, hardanger; crewel, pulled and canvas the Japanese-inspired designs in this work; and freestyle embroidery; comprising collection include dresses, tunics, background information plus an illustrated trousers, shirts and accessories. guide to forming the stitches and motifs. Step-by-step illustrated instructions Part two provides instructions to complete are followed by an envelope of paper 30 projects that use the techniques, with patterns in four sizes, printed at actual size. PAVILION 2015 PB 144pp Illus 248x190mm photographs of examples from different £20.00 512771 now £6.99 eras. ST MARTIN’S 2009 HB 224pp Illus $24.99 513454 now £6.99

NEW CALLIGRAPHY IN 24 HOURS Veiko Kespersaks In a series of lessons organized around historical alphabets, this stroke-by-stroke beginner’s course teaches simple scripts such as Roman Capitals before progressing to the elegantly decorated Cursive italic script Copperplate and Spencerian hands. It also features warm-up exercises, advice on spacing and colour and instructions for several calligraphic craft projects, including a bookmark and an embossed certificate. Slightly off-mint. BARRON’S 2011 PB 160pp Illus 245x190mm £15.99 510230 now £5.99 LEARN TO DRAW... SERIES These step-by-step guides provide an introduction NEW BANNERS, BUNTINGS, to the techniques of professional illustration for GARLANDS AND PENNANTS cartoons, fantasy and animated film. In addition 40 Creative Ideas Using to basic drawing skills, they demonstrate how to Paper, Fabric and More capture character and expression, show figures in action, and create storyboards and scripts. Kathy Sheldon; Amanda Carestio 2001–06 PB 64pp Illus 275x210mm The 40 projects detailed in this book COLLINS £7.99/£8.99 each now £3.99 each can be made using fabric, paper, yarn or other basic craft supplies and Learn to Draw Animated Cartoons include designs to celebrate particular Janet Nunn 512304 seasons, such as a classic winter pinecone garland, as well as ideas ...Fantasy Art for general decoration. Many are Mike Jefferies 512307

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NEW LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY Poinsettia floor Susie Hodge A key figure in the Art lamp, c.1910 Nouveau movement, Tiffany (1848– 1933) is best known today for his glasswork but also worked with ceramics, metal and enamel. Following an introduction to his career, this title from the Masterpieces of Art series focuses on his windows, lampshades and the decorative pieces that exemplify his bold use of colour, illustrating them with over 90 full- page reproductions. FLAME TREE 2014 HB 128pp Illus 230x203mm £12.99 514118 now £6.99

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NEW BERLITZ FLASH CARDS NEW MY VERY ENGLISH FIRST BIBLE Created by experts in language and education, Illus. Diana Mayo This the 50 cards in this pack are designed to help children learn to read the names of the animals, collection of 22 simplified foods and everyday objects that are pictured. bible stories from the Old There are questions on the back of each card and New Testaments is to prompt discussion and interaction. Age 3+ supported by full-page BERLITZ LANGUAGE 2017 147x103mm illustrations and selected £5.99 514224 now £2.99 scripture references. Panels encourage little readers to interact with the tales by, for example, counting the NEW ALFIE TAKES ACTION pairs of animals on Noah’s Karen Wallace; Illus. Ellie O’Shea Ark. Age 7+ DORLING Alfie the meerkat is prone to daydreaming KINDERSLEY 2019 HB 80pp Illus 254x195mm and forgets about the jobs his mother sets £9.99 515659 now £4.99 him, but when a film crew arrives in the

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Paul Bright; Brian Sibley; Jeanne Willis et al To celebrate Winnie THE GADGET INVENTOR HANDBOOK the Pooh’s 90th birthday, four new stories were commissioned (based Mike Warren Opening with an introduction that explains core on Milne’s original tales and illustrated in the style of EH Shepard). electronics skills such as stripping wires, soldering and building a They tell of mythical creatures, mysterious new friends and, simple circuit board, plus a list of essential components, Mike Warren to Eeyore’s discomfit, Another Donkey. Age 7+ Slightly off-mint. goes on to present fourteen step-by-step projects for aspiring inventors. Felt-tip mark on lower edge. Graded easy, intermediate or advanced, the designs include a mini DUTTON 2016 HB 116pp vibrating robot, potato clock, LED bookmark and pocket torch. Age 7+ Illus 206x140mm QED 2017 HB 64pp Illus 220x170mm $21.99 513314

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NEW TWENTY BATTLES THAT SHAPED MEDIEVAL EUROPE Georgios Theotokis uses 20 decisive battles to tell the story of Europe from the defeat of the Western Roman armies near the river Frigidus in 394 CE to the confrontation between Ottoman and Christian forces at Varna (1444), which sealed the fate of the Byzantine Empire. He sets out each engagement’s historical background and describes the composition and equipment The siege of Orléans, 1427–29, of the opposing sides before the watershed of the Hundred Years War analysing their strategy and battle-tactics. ROBERT HALE 2019 HB 242pp Illus £25.00 516252 now £9.99 NEW THE LIFE AND LOVES OF E NESBIT NEW THE FROZEN RIVER Eleanor Fitzsimons The award-winning Seeking Solace in the Himalaya biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons uncovers James Crowden In 1976 James Crowden left the lesser-known details of the life of Edith his career in the British Army to live among the Nesbit (1858–1924), exploring how her Zangskari people of the northern Himalaya for experiences influenced the vivid characters much of a year. He recounts how he immersed she created. Using letter extracts and a himself in a community almost untouched by variety of primary sources, she reveals the outside world, with monasteries, meditation her to be a woman of contradictions, and week-long mountain festivals set amid a whose avant-garde literary output and frozen landscape where silence and solitude fervent social activism contrasted with are part of the fabric of existence. her tolerance of her husband’s philandering WILLIAM COLLINS 2020 HB 352pp Illus and misogyny and her own avowed £16.99 516408 now £7.99 opposition to female suffrage. DUCKWORTH 2019 HB 352pp Illus £20.00 515004 now £7.99

NEW PROTEST! A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics Liz McQuiston This highly illustrated study examines the part played by persuasive and subversive graphic art in protest movements. Tracing the genre’s roots in the satirical sketches of previous centuries, example posters, cartoons and logos demonstrate notable designs, from the political agitation of the 1920s to the counter culture movements of the 1960s and more recent climate protests and social activism. WHITE LION 2019 HB Umbrella Revolution poster 288pp Illus 297x241mm by Yuko Shimizu in solidarity with £30.00 516055 now £9.99 Hong Kong protesters in 2014

Mary Beale self-portrait, c.1680 NEW THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS

NEW MY DEAREST HEART In 24 Equations Dana Mackenzie Mathematicians for millennia The Artist Mary Beale (1633–1699) had relied on the assumption that 1+1=2 Penelope Hunting Active from the 1670s even though the equation could not be written to the 1690s, Mary Beale was one of the until the ‘equals’ sign was invented in the first professional women artists in Britain. 16th century. Beginning with this simplest Specializing in portraiture, she painted a expression, the most important discoveries and number of prominent clergymen, politicians greatest figures in mathematics are introduced. and aristocrats. This biography assesses her Among the groundbreaking equations and pioneering career but also her interesting concepts discussed are the discovery of zero, life and writings which included one of Einstein’s E=mc2 and Fermat’s ‘last theorem’. the earliest technical manuals on painting MODERN 2018 PB 224pp Illus 244x174mm and Discourse on Friendship, which argued £16.99 516387 now £7.99 for equality in marriage. Slightly off-mint. UNICORN 2019 HB 208pp Illus 247x205mm Allegory of Arithmetic: Pythagoras (right) £25.00 516442 now £12.99 and Boëthius, Gregor Reisch, 1504 50 Postscript order line: 01626 897100 FEATURED TITLES

NEW NELSON’S ARCTIC VOYAGE The Royal Navy’s First Polar Expedition Peter Goodwin Among the crew of a 1773 expedition commanded by Constantine Phipps to find the North Pole was a 14-year-old Horatio Nelson. This account tells how HMS Racehorse and Carcass were fitted out for the voyage, how they became locked in ice north of Spitsbergen before returning safely home, and how the young Nelson fought a polar bear and saved his crew from a herd of angry walruses. ADLARD COLES 2019 HB 416pp Illus £25.00 516360 now £7.99

NEW FIGHTER BOYS The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain NEW THE POSTSCRIPT Patrick Bishop This bestselling account MURDERS of the Battle of Britain weaves together the Elly Griffiths This literary murder personal experiences of the young pilots of mystery sees the seemingly innocent Fighter Command, from the Phoney War of death of nonagenarian Peggy Smith 1939 to the massed German raids of autumn becoming a perilous affair when it 1940. The stories reveal fear, bravery and transpires Peggy was something of lighter moments, including the pilot who an expert on murder, and may was shot down over Dartford and went have had a mysterious stalker. dancing in London before returning to his QUERCUS 2020 HB 352pp squadron, giving an insight into the spirit £18.99 516830 and character of the celebrated ‘few’. now £5.99 WILLIAM COLLINS 2020 PB 458pp Illus £9.99 516404 now £4.99

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NEW ROALD DAHL'S BEASTLY BRUTES AND HEROIC HUMAN BEANS Stella Caldwell; Illus. Quentin Blake Showcasing the characters, both valiant and dastardly, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and The Twits, NEW MY FIRST this innovatively designed volume – with doors to open, XYLOPHONE BOOK gaps to peep through, page silhouettes to embellish, Sam Taplin; Illus. Giussi Capizzi press-out protagonists to play with and text by Dahl This sturdy spiral-bound set comprises aficionado Stella Caldwell – encourages young readers a book of nine simple nursery rhyme to immerse themselves fully in Dahl’s madcap universe. melodies – including Row, Row, Row Age 6+. Slightly off-mint. CARLTON 2019 HB 61pp Illus 244x192mm Your Boat, Hey Diddle Diddle and £14.99 516670 now £6.99 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – and an integrated eight-note xylophone NEW WHAT THE on which to play them. Age 3+ ANIMALS SAW 2017 26pp Illus 156x234mm USBORNE Louise Greig; Illus. Nicola £16.99 515119 now £7.99 O’Byrne A penguin chick sees a huddle, a rhinoceros spies a rival and a rabbit spots a wolf. Exploring landscapes from the frozen expanses of Antarctica to the heat of an African desert through the eyes of the creatures that live there, this lyrical picture book also includes a glossary of more detailed information on each animal featured. Age 3+ RED SHED 2020 PB 32pp Illus 273x245mm £6.99 516523 now £3.99 THE MAZE RUNNER COLLECTION NEW James Dashner The earth is in crisis following a series of sun flares that destroyed its natural NEW WICKED WORLD TOUR resources. Drastic measures Horrible Geography were taken to safeguard the Anita Ganeri; Illus. Mike Phillips future of humanity, but in a world During a fact-finding mission taking of disease and high-level conspiracy, in the world’s continents, landscapes, some must pay the ultimate price. James geographical features and natural Dasher’s novels combine fast-paced action disasters, curious minds will discover with intrigue, secrecy and betrayals, making the answers to questions such as ‘what the series a hit with adults and teenagers happens when a volcano turns nasty?’ and inspiring a film series. Titles included and ‘can humans survive at the frozen are The Maze Runner, The Scorch poles?’ Illustrated with cartoon-like Trials, The Death Cure and the Save artwork, the text incorporates fictional prequel, The Kill Order. £12 off first-person accounts, spoof adverts Young adult. CHICKEN HOUSE and quick quizzes designed to reinforce 2013 PB 1, 454pp RRP £31.96 RRP the learning. Age 8+ SCHOLASTIC 2015 PB 96pp Illus 260x211mm Four book set for £16.99 Use code 517334 £9.99 516370 now £4.99 52 Visit our website: www.psbooks.co.uk www.psbooks.co.uk FEATURED TITLES

NEW THE BORDERS A History of the Borders From Earliest Times Alistair Moffat Covering a vast geographical area at first – the whole of the Tweed valley and beyond to Dunglass on the Berwickshire coast, east to the Moorfoot Hills and south as far as Newcastle – and narrowing in focus as the political border between Scotland and England hardened in the Middle Ages, Moffat tells the ‘long and complicated’ history of the Borders, from earliest times to the uncertainly of the 21st century, with frequent historical, biographical and cultural asides. BIRLINN 2018 PB 618pp Illus £14.99 516677 now £7.99

NEW THE CURRY GUY NEW THE ZOO Recreate Over 100 of The Wild and Wonderful Tale the Best British Indian of the Founding of London Zoo Restaurant Recipes at Home Isobel Charman Sir Stamford Raffles’ Dan Toombs; Photo. Kris Kirkham vision of a ‘collection of living animals In this bestselling book, based on the such as never yet existed in ancient or secrets he learned from British Indian modern times’ came to fruition in 1928 restaurants chefs across the UK, Dan with the founding of London Zoo. Toombs presents over 100 recipes that Isobel Charman’s novelistic retelling ‘taste like the ones at your local curry of the institution’s first 25 years focuses house – only better.’ In addition to on key figures, including Veterinary starters, sides and classic British Surgeon Charles Spooner and Head dishes including Chicken Dhansak Keeper Devereux Fuller – and notable and Lamb Rogan Josh, it features residents such as Tommy the homesick chimpanzee and Obaysch the hippo. a selection of chutneys, and chef’s specials such as Kacchi Lamb Biryani. VIKING 2016 HB 368pp QUADRILLE 2017 HB 162pp Illus £16.99 516493 now £5.99 £15.00 517183 now £7.99 Back by popular REMEMBER, REMEMBER demand (The Fifth of November) The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks Coming soon... Judy Parkinson ‘All the key facts without the Our 2022 calendars flab’, this book covers almost 2,000 years of Make a date with British history in around 150 articles, each no longer than 250 words. The result is a concise and our next catalogue accurate introduction to and overview of our history. As well as the articles – from ‘The Roman Invasion’ (43 CE) to ‘The Founding of the United Nations’ (1945) – there is a timeline, a list of Back by popular monarchs, suggestions for further reading and an demand index. MICHAEL O'MARA 2020 PB 192pp Illus £7.99 508747 now £2.99

FIELD GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH CLERGY A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising Fergus Butler-Gallie Celebrating England’s long tradition of tolerance towards unconventional men of the cloth, these short biographies describe how clergy have displayed their own unique forms of holiness by treading ‘the thin line between prophet and clown’. The peculiar parsons include a mermaid-impersonator, a collector of French pornography and the incumbent who surrounded his vicarage with barbed wire – not to mention the infamous Vicar of Stiffkey, whose performance as Daniel in a den of real lions brought predictably fatal results. ONEWORLD 2018 HB 190pp Illus 205x135mm £12.99 513270 now £5.99

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