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Molly Olfield It was on visit to one of
the Natural History Museum’s storage
areas that QI researcher Molly Oldfield
‘caught the bug for backstage’.
Comprised entirely of treasures from
behind closed doors, this book tells the
stories of finding her 60 chosen objects
in the store rooms of museums around
the world – objects too precious to
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Ark curtain made from Moses
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Derek Smith
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‘The Pronouns’, a page from
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The Former Prophets:
Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
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Robert Alter This volume in Alter’s
award-winning new translation of the
Hebrew Bible comprises the four books
of narrative history known traditionally
as the ‘Former Prophets’. They cover the
stories of Joshua and the fall of Jericho,
Saul and David (‘one of the greatest pieces
of narrative in all of Western literature’),
and the cycle of tales about the ‘Herculean
folk-hero’ Samson. At the foot of each
page is running commentary on the
cultural background and difficulties
in interpreting the Hebrew text.
EVOLVING ENGLISH
One Language, Many Voices
An Illustrated History
of the English Language
David Crystal, one of the foremost
experts on the English language, has
compiled more than 150 texts which
illustrate its development from the
earliest Old English runic inscriptions
to the many international Englishes of
the 21st century. Discussing reproductions of selected pages from significant
texts, he analyses changing linguistic
features, highlights archaic and dialect
words, charts the gradual emergence
of a standard variety of English and
considers the playful and literary uses
to which the language has been put.
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Julian Mitchell In the 1740s, a wealthy clergyman began
to provide his guests with a picturesque river trip from his
home up the River Wye. Gaining a reputation, the route
inspired a commercial tour taking passengers from Ross
to Chepstow, pausing at Monmouth and Tintern Abbey.
This exhibition catalogue tells the story of how the tour
evolved and displays over 100 examples of the work of 18th
century artists who took the trip and recorded the views.
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Dr Syntax tumbling into the water fromThomas Rowlandson’s
The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, 1809
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blue locomotive, the Manual is full of
information about how steam engines
work. It has big, cutaway drawings
of Thomas and friends and simple
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and tenders; and there are illustrated
guides to other parts of the railway, such
as tracks and cranes; a diesel engine
(Mavis); a map of Sodor’s railways; and
Thomas’s really useful words. Age 3-8.
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THE WYE TOUR AND ITS ARTISTS
THOMAS THE TANK
ENGINE MANUAL
1945 Onwards (All Aboard)
Owners’ Workshop Manual
Catherine Britton Featuring
reproductions from rare editions in the
British Library, this book surveys dogs
in literature and how artists have
interpreted them, from Cerberus
guarding the gates of Hades in Homer’s
Iliad to Spot the Dog. Catherine Britton
discusses the role of each dog and the
authors and artists who created such
memorable canine characters as
Dogmatix from Asterix, the Hound of
the Baskervilles and Lassie.
Reza Aslan Why did the early Church
promulgate an image of Jesus as peaceful
spiritual teacher rather than political
revolutionary? In the context of the first
century, how did Jesus understand himself?
Aslan’s bestseller examines the Jesus
presented by the Gospels within the context
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DOGS IN BOOKS
A Celebration of Dog Illustration
Through the Ages
Philip Davies London is an ancient city, yet one
in constant flux. Featuring more than 500 mostly
unpublished photographs from the London County
Council archive, this richly evocative book opens a
window on a vanished past. Spanning 75 years, from 1870
to 1945, it charts the transition from a Dickensian world
of coaching inns to the devastation of the Blitz, revealing
the architectural beauty that London has lost, explaining
why some buildings have survived while others have
perished, and sounding a clarion call to save what
remains. TRANSATLANTIC 2015 HB 368pp Illus 290x245mm
LOST LONDON 1870-1945
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A Reader’s Edition
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Alfred Wainwright’s seven guides to the Lakeland Fells
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Fells. Their original handwritten and hand-drawn pages
have been enlarged by approximately ten per cent, but
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well have changed since the first editions were published.
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On a Sailing Boat by
Caspar David Fredrich
from Lovers in Art
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John Vaughan Emblematic of Cornwall’s
mining heritage, the romantic abandoned
engine houses that litter the landscape are
now an attraction of its principal industry:
tourism. This illustrated history examines
the origins and development of tin and
copper mining, quarrying, china clay
extraction and fishing in Cornwall
as well as the diverse transport network
that developed to serve these industries
and later bring tourists to the area. The
book includes map references and can
be used as a practical guidebook.
Paul Moorhouse From great
palaces, estates and cathedrals to
the spot in the New Forest where
William II was killed by a stray
arrow, there are hundreds of
locations around Britain that
have played a part in the lives
of our kings and queens. This
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gazetteer provides information on
400 sites with royal associations
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the qualities of leaders and heroes
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this catalogue of an exhibition
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Michael Fitzgerald For centuries before
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NEW BAND OF ANGELS
The Forgotten World of
Early Christian Women
Kate Cooper Among the defining figures
of early Christianity were many remarkable
women – from the villagers of Galilee to
the empresses Helena and Eudoxia – whose
influence helped to spread the word of
the new religion, one household at a time.
This book offers a fresh assessment of
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Ed. Ed. Franziska Stegmann With an essay, The Kaleidoscope
of Love by Bettina Schumann by way of introduction, this
volume brings together the most famous and the most alluring
depictions of lovers in painting and sculpture. There are
reproductions of around 70 works by artists as diverse as Jan
van Eyck, Rodin and Jeff Koons, and including such famous
images as Klimt’s The Kiss and Millais’ The Black Brunswicker,
accompanied by poems and extracts in celebration of the many
faces of love. PRESTEL 2013 HB 128pp Illus 277x220mm
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Two Lovers, Arles by
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Edward Weatherby
Country house party:
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Water, Surrey in the
late 19th century
Christopher Simon Sykes The country house can claim to be the
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STACEY INTERNATIONAL 2013 HB 214pp Illus 313x228mm
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NEW ELEVEN DAYS IN AUGUST
The Liberation of Paris in 1944
Matthew Cobb The liberation of Paris in August 1944 was a turning point
of the Second World War and, contrary to myth, was far from bloodless.
Drawing on unpublished diaries, eyewitness accounts, coded messages
and secret conversations, Matthew Cobb provides an hour-by-hour account
of the street fighting, the barricades, the burning tanks and the reprisals,
as the Germans, realizing defeat was imminent, played a nerve-racking
game of bluff with both the advancing Allies and their own High Command.
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2013 HB 544pp Illus
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NEW A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation
Simon Jenkins In his concise, but comprehensive single volume,
and with over 100 illustrations, Simon Jenkins covers all the key
individuals and events in English history and identifies recurring
themes such as relations with France and the role of Parliament. From
the fifth century ‘Saxon Dawn’ to the recent coalition government he
provides – ‘as simply as possible’ – a lucid narrative of how the England
we know today came to be. PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2011 HB 384pp Illus 240x165mm
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GIFT IDEAS
NEW SEWING SOLUTIONS
Tips and Advice for
the Savvy Sewist
Nicole Vasbinder With this welldesigned guide, expert sewing teacher
Nicole Vasbinder aims to answer the
most common questions that learners
ask and to provide ‘the essential
reference book for the new generation of
sewists and sewists of all abilities’. It
begins with a detailed explanation of the
basic sewing machine and marking,
measuring and cutting tools, then goes
on to deal with fabrics, patterns, sewing
techniques, embellishments and trims,
fitting and finishing. INTERWEAVE
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THE COMPLETE
SMOKING DIARIES
NEW A VISUAL HISTORY
OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE
The Tumultuous Tale of
the World’s Bestselling Book
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Simon Gray The playwright Simon
Gray began to keep a diary at 65, and
continued until shortly before his death
in 2008. Published to enormous acclaim,
its four volumes are gathered here for
the first time. Like Pepys, he writes
without self-censorship, the messy
business of life spilling from the page.
Breathtakingly funny, painfully honest
and sparkling with wit, he charts
triumphs, disasters, love, friendship,
alcohol, adultery – and the diagnosis
of the cancer that will kill him.
Donald L Brake, a keen collector of English
translations of the Bible, scatters tales of his
quest for antiquarian tomes throughout this
illustrated history. The book focuses on the risk
of heresy charges that surrounded the printed
vernacular versions by men such as Wycliffe,
Tyndale and Coverdale and, from the earliest
known English Psalter in the eighth century
to the plethora of Bibles available today, it
celebrates the scholars whose work made the
Christian scriptures accessible to the people.
BAKER 2008 HB 352pp Illus
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NEW THE LOVE OF
AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Love Letters Found in a Trench
Its authorship shrouded in mystery since it was
first published in 1918, this series of 19 letters
from a junior officer on the Western Front to an
American nurse he had met and fallen in love
with while on leave in Paris, was discovered
in an abandoned dug-out by another officer.
Whatever their provenance, the letters tell
a poignant love story and at the same time
express the courage of the author and his
fellow soldiers in their desperate situation.
UNIFORM 2015 HB 127pp 177x125pp
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FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS
CAROLS
Aled Jones Much-loved favourites
such as ‘Once in Royal David’s City’
and ‘Silent Night’ and lesser-known
songs such as ‘Jesus Christ the Apple
Tree’ are among this selection of 32
carols. In each chapter the words (and
in some cases the music) of one carol
are accompanied by commentary
in which Aled Jones delves into the
history of its writer and composer
and discusses its significance for him.
PREFACE 2010 HB 178pp
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THE BURGLAR CAUGHT
BY A SKELETON
And Other Singular Tales
from the Victorian Press
Jeremy Clay The British Library’s newspaper
collection preserves a hidden history of the farcical
and tragic misfortunes of ordinary people which
enthralled and appalled Victorian readers. For this
compendium, Clay has unearthed hundreds of bizarre
tales, including the pallbearer killed by a coffin, the
Father Christmas whose beard caught fire, an elephant
called into the witness box and a 19-ton consignment
of embalmed cats, (Previously in Postscript as a
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Ed. Simon Braund From the 1920s
and Charlie Chaplin’s unrealized project of a
Napoleon biopic (with himself as Bonaparte)
to Gladiator II in the 2000s and Potsdamer
Platz, abandoned after the suicide of director
Tony Scott in 2012, this engrossing volume
offers a detailed history of cinema explored
through the films that failed to get off the
ground. Whether over-ambitious or totally
misguided, these are the movies that had the
potential to be great and could have changed
the course of careers. AURUM 2013 HB 256pp Illus
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Giraffes on Horseback Salads, the great
unmade collaboration between director
Salvador Dali and the Marx Brothers
NEW PHILIP’S ATLAS
OF THE WORLD
Cover illustration by Maira Kalman
for the 1 February 1999 edition
Published in association with the
Royal Geographical Society and the
Institute of British Geographers, this
superb atlas uses nearly 200 pages
of Philip’s excellent cartography to
give accurate, detailed and balanced
coverage of the countries of the
Earth. The atlas has been revised
and updated to 2014, with information
and statistics for over 220 countries;
urban area and city centre maps for
70 cities; thematic maps, charts and
diagrams and satellite images of
Earth. Plus an 86,000-name index
and a geographical glossary.
THE BIG NEW YORKER
BOOK OF DOGS
In sections on Good Dogs, Bad Dogs,
Top Dogs and Underdogs, this wonderful
anthology gathers articles, short stories,
poems and cartoons about dogs from the
archives of The New Yorker magazine,
along with reproductions of vintage dogrelated covers. The authors include
regular New Yorker contributors and wellknown writers from both sides of the
Atlantic, among them Roald Dahl, Mark
Strand, Arthur Miller, John Updike and
‘the first man of the dog’, James Thurber.
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CHARLIE AND LOLA
Alan Bennett This moving, affectionate, witty
and often very funny memoir by one of Britain’s
best-loved writers tells of his parents’ marriage
and his own childhood in 1940s Leeds. It is
filled with wry and poignant vignettes of
Christmases with Grandma Peel and the lives
and loves of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen
and Myra. Tragically, it also recounts his
mother’s slow descent into depression and
dementia as a long-buried family secret is finally
brought to light. (Taken from Untold Stories.)
A LIFE LIKE OTHER PEOPLE’S
FABER/PROFILE 2009 PB 256pp Illus 168x126mm
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(Four volumes)
Lauren Child Charlie is
a very kind and patient
brother to his little sister
Lola, even when she
borrows his things and
unwraps his birthday
presents. These four books
are based on the original
characters created by
Lauren Child, with
illustrations from the
animated series on TV.
The stories are: My Best,
Best Friend, Look after
Your Planet, This is
Actually My Party and
Please May I Have Some
of Yours? Ages 3-7
PUFFIN 2014 PB
124pp Illus 273x248mm
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POSTSCRIPT FAVOURITES
ARCHAEOLOGY
SPILLING THE BEANS
The Autobiography
of One of Television’s
Two Fat Ladies
A HISTORY
OF THE WORLD
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Good-humoured, forthright
and forging ahead at a rate
of knots, Clarissa Dickson
Wright (1947-2014) tells
an extraordinary story –
of formidable grandmothers
and a beloved mother, legal
distinction (as the youngest
woman ever called to the
Bar) and alcohol addiction,
sobering up with AA – all
that and more before Two
Fat Ladies ‘changed my life’.
First published in 2009, this ‘feast of a memoir’ (The
Independent) brings the story up to her campaigns for the
countryside. HODDER 2008 PB 336pp Illus
Andrew Marr ‘The more
one knows about our early
history as hunter-gatherers
and our long history as
farmers, and then about the
dizzying acceleration of
world trade and industry that
has taken us into modern
times, the less mysterious
today’s world seems’.
Andrew Marr’s popular
history of the world starts
around 70,000 years ago
and surveys cultures that
have failed and vanished
as well as the origins of
modern superpowers, and
finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast
distances and epochs. MACMILLAN 2012 HB 635pp Illus
£7.99 18211 now £3.99
£25.00 98305 now £9.99
THE GREAT
BRITISH YEAR
Wildlife Through
the Seasons
IAN FLEMING’S
COMMANDOS
The Story of 30
Assault Unit in WWII
Stephen Moss
Instead of the usual
four seasons, this
magnificent survey
of British wildlife
looks at four threemonth periods of
transition between
them. With stunning
photography and
engaging, informative
text, it studies the
ways in which animals
and plants respond to
The dormouse hibernates for up
subtle changes in day
to seven months of the year
length, temperature and
the weather as the seasons progress. There is also a behindthe-scenes look at the work of the BBC Natural History Unit,
and lists of places to watch wildlife. Accompanied the BBC
TV series. Off-mint. QUERCUS 2013 HB 320pp Illus 280x248mm
£25.00 20412 now £9.99
MRS ROBINSON’S
DISGRACE
The Private Diary
of a Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale
In June 1858, soon after
the new Court of Divorce
began sitting, Henry
Oliver Robinson brought
a divorce suit on the
grounds of his wife’s
adultery, submitting her
diary as evidence. Read
aloud in court, the diary
was more sensational than
anything in contemporary
fiction. Kate Summerscale
tells the story of romance,
scandal, the boundaries of
privacy, and a diary in which Isabella Robinson
‘seemed to have invited, and lovingly recorded,
her own disgrace’. BLOOMSBURY 2012 HB 320pp
£16.99 93475 now £5.99
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Nicholas Rankin Ian Fleming
gained much of the inspiration
for his James Bond novels
from his experiences as
assistant to the Director of
Naval Intelligence during the
Second World War. During
this period he founded a
special commando spy unit –
30AU – whose task was to
seize enemy intelligence from
the front line. This book tells
the story of this innovative
force, which in the last months
of the war managed to obtain
the entire archive of the German Navy. FABER 2011 HB 311pp Illus
£20.00 11767 now £7.99
LONDON
UNFURLED
Matteo Pericoli
United and
divided by a
river, London
is one of the
few world
cities to find
its essence in
two profoundly
contrasting yet
nearly touching
urban environments. The Italian artist Matteo Pericoli travelled
the 20-mile stretch of the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge
to the Millennium Dome to draw both banks of the river. His
pin-sharp, 37-foot-long folding panorama is accompanied by
essays by two of the city’s foremost contemporary chroniclers,
North Londoner Iain Sinclair and southside resident Will Self.
PICADOR 2011 HB 66pp Illus 278x171mm
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ANCIENT
FAVOURITES
HISTORY
THE SUGAR GIRLS
Tales of Hardship,
Love and Happiness in
Tate & Lyle’s East End
THE DIAMOND QUEEN
Elizabeth II
and Her People
Andrew Marr In telling the
life story of Elizabeth II,
Andrew Marr is concerned
with the influences on her and
‘why she does what she does’.
The result is a study of the
monarchy that chronicles the
Queen’s pivotal role at the
centre of state, which is largely
hidden from the public gaze,
and makes a strong case for the
institution itself. Marr presents
a vivid account not only of
Elizabeth II, but also of the
country she has reigned over
for six decades. Off-mint.
Duncan Barrett; Nuala
Calvi The most sought after
employer for young East
End women in the immediate
aftermath of the Second
World War was the famous
sugar refiner Tate and Lyle.
The company offered the
best pay and provided an
unrivalled social life.
Highlighting the camaraderie
as well as the hard work,
this book recounts the
adventures of some of the
young women who worked
there in the 1940s and 1950s. HARPER 2013 PB 352pp
MACMILLAN 2011 HB 432pp Illus
£7.99 16648 now £3.99
£25.00 97391 now £9.99
A COOK’S YEAR
IN A WELSH
FARMHOUSE
Elisabeth Luard
Cookery writer
Elisabeth Luard has
gathered a collection
of recipes inspired by
the Welsh landscape
where she lives.
Recipes such as Nettle
and Spinach Ravioli,
Lamb with Rosemary
and Lemon, Pigeon,
Parsley and Potato Pie,
Carrot and Chestnut
Cake, and Blackberry
Jam are interspersed
with month-by-month
observations on the natural world around her, and
stories of locals, family and friends. Also featuring
beautiful photography, this book will inspire your
cooking all year round. BLOOMSBURY 2011 HB 288pp Illus
£25.00 16379 now £8.99
THE LIFE AND FATE
OF VASILY GROSSMAN
John Garrard; Carol
Garrard When this
biography first appeared in
1996, Vasily Grossman (190564) was little known in the
West; now that his novel Life
and Fate is recognized as a
masterpiece of Second World
War literature, and now that
Soviet archives have become
accessible, this new edition
presents a magisterial account
of Grossman’s life as a Jew in
an anti-Semitic authoritarian
state, his experiences as a war
correspondent with the Red
Army, and his bitter struggles
with the Soviet authorities. PEN & SWORD 2012 HB 484pp Illus
£25.00 16906 now £9.99
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TALKING ABOUT
DETECTIVE FICTION
PD James Detective fiction
has held a vast swath of the
reading public in its thrall
for more than a century,
and has had few greater
practitioners than PD James.
In this succinct and elegant
investigation, the doyenne of
British crime writers traces
its origins in the work of
Dickens and Wilkie Collins,
casts an expert eye over the
creations of her predecessors
and examines the challenges,
achievements and potential
of the genre. BODLEIAN
LIBRARY 2009 HB 160pp
£12.99 96716 now £5.99
BRITAIN’S
LOST MINES
The Vanished
Kingdom of
the Men who
Carved out the
Nation's Wealth
Chris Arnot Coal
was by far the
biggest and most
important mining
industry in Britain
before its recent
decline, but for
centuries all kinds
of other minerals
and ores, including
copper, salt, tin, iron
and slate, were also
Sinking the shaft at Pensford pit
mined. With a fine
in north Somerset in 1910
selection of archive
and modern photographs, this illustrated celebration of
British mining and the communities that built up around
it visits 30 sites, from the famous coal town of Ashington
in Northumberland to the last metal mine in Devon.
AURUM 2013 HB 192pp Illus 284x216mm
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ARCHAEOLOGY/ANCIENT HISTORY
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THE PAST FROM ABOVE
Aerial Photographs of
Archaeological Sites
Georg Gerster; Ed. Charlotte
Trumpler A pioneer of aerial
photography, Georg Gerster
travelled the world for 50 years,
photographing archaeological
sites from the air. In this book,
which accompanied a major
exhibition of Gerster’s work
in 2005, the archaeologist
Charlotte Trumpler introduces
250 photographs of sites, among
them the Acropolis, Karnak,
the Great Wall of China and the
The Pont du Gard, mid first century CE
Aztec palaces. The photographs
are arranged by the type of site and accompanied by expert captions and notes on
memorable flights by Gerster himself. FRANCES LINCOLN 2005 PB 415pp Illus 290x235mm
NEW DIG WW2
Rediscovering the
Great Wartime Battles
Jean Hood In the Dig WW2 TV series,
Dan Snow undertook a number of archaeological investigations on Second World
War battle sites, including diving the wreck
of a cargo ship laden with Sherman tanks
and unearthing a downed Spitfire. With
photographs from the excavations, as well
as archive images, this accompanying
book delves further into the digs, and the
human stories they reveal, and places the
finds in the context of the war as a whole.
CONWAY 2012 HB 272pp Illus 255x197mm
£25.00 19580 now £7.99
THE CODE-BREAKER’S
SECRET DIARIES
Jean-François Champollion (17901832) devoted his short life to solving the
mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but he
made only one visit to Egypt, during a
lull in the Mediterranean war against the
Ottoman Sultan. This book brings together
the letters and diary entries from May
1828 to March 1830 in which Champollion vividly and amusingly documents
both the dangers of the expedition and his
exhilaration at archaeological discoveries.
GIBSON SQUARE 2009 PB 288pp
£8.99 17859 now £3.99
$39.95 16411 now £14.99
Patricia Southern Stonehenge is one of the most
famous monuments in the world, but the instantly
recognizable monument we know now is only its last
phase before it was abandoned around 1500 BCE. In
this concise account, Patricia Southern considers the
conflicting theories about how Stonehenge was built
with such precision and why, and traces the various
transformations on the site from c.8000 BCE to ‘Ever
After’ – from c.700 BCE to modern times.
THE STORY OF STONEHENGE
AMBERLEY 2014 PB 160pp Illus
£9.99 19863 now £3.99
THE BIRTH OF A BOROUGH
An Archaeological Study of
Anglo-Saxon Stafford
Martin Carver While much archaeological research on the Anglo-Saxon era has
focused on famous centres such as London
and York, Stafford offered an opportunity
for a large scale examination of an ordinary
county town in the ninth and tenth centuries. This volume reports on the ten-year
project during which archaeologists discovered that ‘dark age’ Stafford had acted
as a centre for the delivery of grain tribute
and was commandeered by Aethelflaeda,
Lady of the Mercians, for the construction
of her burh. No jacket.
BOYDELL 2010 HB 194pp Illus 280x215mm
£60.00 17930 now £19.99
ANCIENT HISTORY
Paul Chrystal In this intriguing history
we encounter ‘admirable, exciting, evil,
slatternly and dangerous women fighting
to be heard and seen against insurmountable odds in a world run by men, for men’.
Chrystal’s account, written for the general
reader as well as students of ancient history, covers aspects of Roman women’s
lives ranging from betrothal and marriage
to education, religion and the dark arts.
WOMEN IN ANCIENT ROME
AMBERLEY 2013 HB 225pp Illus
£20.00 16963 now £7.99
ARCHAEOLOGY
Theories, Methods and Practice
Colin Renfrew; Paul Bahn A muchrespected text, designed for undergraduates
and widely used on archaeology courses,
this is a comprehensive, well-illustrated
introduction to all aspects of the discipline.
Beginning with the history of archaeology,
the book covers how the archaeological
record is formed and how it can be
recovered; the organization of societies,
the environments of early communities
and explanation in archaeology; and ends
with a survey of the discipline today and
five recent case studies. Fourth edition.
THAMES & HUDSON
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ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Ralph D Sawyer In this highly-acclaimed book,
Ralph Sawyer, widely acknowledged as the preeminent expert on Chinese military history, uses
oracular inscriptions, archaeological findings and
traditional accounts to chart the technologies,
strategies and logistics of ancient Chinese
militarism. From the earliest arrowheads to the
adoption of fortified walls and chariot warfare,
Sawyer provides a definitive study of the tools
and methods that won wars and shaped Chinese
history. BASIC BOOKS 2011 HB 568pp
NEW
ANCIENT CHINESE WARFARE
£25.00 93627 now £7.99
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
ALEXANDER II
King of Scots 1214-1249
Richard Oram The 35 years of Alexander II’s rule were a period of decisive
change, as the king contributed to the
making of Scotland by bringing together
petty principalities into a unified state with
a common Scots identity. Oram offers a
reappraisal of this under-studied period
of Scottish history, examining Alexander’s
achievements in the fields of domestic
politics and international diplomacy as
well as his relationships with his mother,
his first wife, magnates, officials and senior clergy.
JOHN DONALD 2012 PB 304pp Illus
GREEK ARCHITECTURE
AND ITS SCULPTURE
Ian Jenkins Drawing on the collections of
the British Museum, curator Ian Jenkins
discusses some of the greatest monuments
of classical antiquity, such as the temple of
Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at
Halikarnassos, two of the seven wonders
of the ancient world. As well as examining
in detail these buildings’ construction and
sculptural decoration, he also considers
how they reflect their historical background
and what they reveal about the people
who funded, designed and built them.
The Nereid Monument, a sculptured
tomb from Lycia, c.390-380 BCE
HARVARD UP 2006 HB 271pp Illus 245x180mm
11779 now £7.99
THE THAMES & HUDSON
DICTIONARY OF
ANCIENT EGYPT
£60.00 17948 now £30.00
The temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
2002 HB 192pp Illus 284x222mm
JOHN DONALD 2010 PB 206pp
Ed. Janet S Loengard What was the social, economic, legal and religious background to Magna Carta? How was King
John perceived by those who knew him,
and what was England like during his
reign? The studies in this collection
analyse such issues as the legacy of earlier
Angevin rulers, the burgeoning economy
of the early 13th century and Magna
Carta’s effects on widows and property.
The volume ends with the first critical
edition of an open letter of 1210 from the
king himself. BOYDELL 2010 HB 200pp
£9.95 17611 now £4.99
17085 now £9.99
John Marsden tells the story of the Cenel
Loairn, one of the principal dynastic kindreds of Dalriada, who first came to notice
in the seventh century, displacing the
Cenel nGabrain, but moving from Argyll
to Moray after the Pictish onslaught in
the 730s. The Cenel Loairn’s ascendancy
reached its pinnacle in 1040, when Macbeth seized the high kingship of the Scots,
but went into decline after the death of
Macbeth and his successor Lulach at the
hands of Malcolm Canmore.
MAGNA CARTA AND THE
ENGLAND OF KING JOHN
THAMES & HUDSON 2008 PB 272pp Illus
Colin Amery; Brian Curran Jr On 24
August 79 CE, the prosperous Roman
city of Pompeii was the victim of one of
the worst natural disasters in recorded
history. The eruption of Vesuvius which
killed 20,000 inhabitants and buried the
city that day also preserved it. This
lavishly illustrated study tells the story
of the rediscovery and excavation of
Pompeii since 1748. The authors
describe what the site revealed about
Roman life and discuss the impact of
those discoveries on archaeology, art and
architecture. J PAUL GETTY MUSEUM
KINGS, MORMAERS, REBELS
Early Scotland’s
Other Royal Family
£20.00 11477 now £7.99
Toby Wilkinson Part of the famous
World of Art series, this concise,
authoritative A-Z covers every aspect of
the ancient civilization of the Nile valley
and its study by Egyptologists, with
illustrated entries on all the Egyptian
rulers, including little-known kings as
well as famous pharaohs; the major
archaeological sites in Egypt and Sudan;
and on cultural topics such as creation
myths, hieroglyphs and clothing.
THE LOST WORLD
OF POMPEII
£25.00 19112 now £9.99
TOWARDS ONE WORLD
Ancient Persia and the West
Warwick Ball The attempt by Persia
to extend its borders into Europe in
the sixth century BCE is usually
considered to mark the beginning of
the relationship between East and
West. Warwick Ball argues against the
common perception of this relationship
as a short-lived ‘Manichean struggle’,
emphasizing instead the profound
influence of the Persian religious
idea of a single universal creator and
the complexity of relations between
the Persian Empire and the GrecoRoman world.
EAST & WEST 2010 PB 240pp Illus
£14.95 18180 now £6.99
ENGLAND AND
THE AVIGNON POPES
The Practice of Diplomacy
in Late Medieval Europe
Karsten Ploger This study of Anglo-papal relations during the 14th century focuses on the forms and structures of diplomatic communication, rather than its
content and ‘end-products’ such as alliances and treaties. The author applies
theories of international relations and
draws on a range of unpublished sources
to examine the complex dialogue between
Westminster and the popes Clement VI
and Innocent VI concerning two ‘grand
themes’: ecclesiastical administration and
the preservation of peace.
LEGENDA 2005 PB 318pp
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THE LADY QUEEN
The Notorious Reign of Joanna I,
Queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily
Nancy Goldstone Accused by her in-laws
of murdering her husband, Joanna, Queen of
Naples, stood trial in Avignon in 1348. She
was 22 years old, yet spoke (in Latin) in her
own defence. In this compelling account of
how, despite her youth and sex, Joanna
triumphed over her enemies, raised an army
and took back her realm, Nancy Goldstone
paints a richly detailed portrait of a medieval
queen notorious throughout history
for a crime she did not commit.
WALKER 2009 HB 380pp Illus
$27.00 97106 now £7.99
BANNOCKBURN
Scotland’s Greatest Battle
for Independence
NEW
Peter Reese Cutting through the myths
that surround the battle, this is a landmark
study of the victory of Robert the Bruce
over Edward II’s army at Bannockburn
in June 1314. It shows how the battle
was a turning point in history for the
English as well as the Scots: a medieval
clash of arms that helped define the political landscape of Britain and became,
for many Scots, a patriotic talisman.
CANONGATE 2014 PB 256pp
£9.99 19875 now £3.99
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
AND THE SUNDAY LETTER
IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Ed. Dorothy Haines Since the early Middle Ages Christians have marked a weekly
holy day in a tradition associated with the
so-called Sunday Letter, a communication
alleged to have fallen from heaven, which
was widely copied and translated.
Haines’s edition presents the six Old English versions of the text, with facing translations, commentary and glossary. She
also discusses the Latin versions, the texts’
historical, legal and theological contexts
and the development of Sunday observance. DS BREWER 2010 HB 268pp
£60.00 17959 now £19.99
THE BOOK AND
THE TRANSFORMATION
OF BRITAIN, c.550-1050
A Study in Written and
Visual Literacy and Orality
NEW
Michelle P Brown What was the significance of the book as both an instrument
of social change and preserver of tradition
in Britain between late Roman antiquity
and the time of the Norman Conquest?
What does ‘literacy’ mean in this period?
Brown examines contemporary books,
runic inscriptions and legal documents to
analyse social perceptions of relationships
between words and images, the generation
and reception of books within ‘communities of reading’ and the establishment
of great Anglo-Saxon libraries.
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE VIKINGS
The Last Pagans or the
First Modern Europeans?
Jonathan Clements Travelling hundreds
of miles to trade and fight, the Vikings
were undoubtedly great seafarers. But
were they noble heathens or oafish pirates? How much do archaeological discoveries agree with what we read in the
sagas? What happened to the Vikings as
Christianity spread? This concise study
addresses these questions by focusing on
the lives of some of the most famous
Vikings. ROBINSON 2015 PB 272pp Illus
£8.99 69172 now £3.99
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE NORMANS
The Conquests that
Changed the Face of Europe
François Neveux The history of the Normans began a long time before William
the Conqueror arrived in England in 1066.
In this absorbing and accessible introduction, Professor Neveux describes the ‘extraordinary Norman adventure’ that
changed the landscape and culture of Europe, from the first Viking raids of the
eighth century to the defeat of the Normans in Sicily in the mid 13th century.
Translated by Howard Curtis.
ROBINSON 2008 PB 280pp Illus
£8.99 63292 now £3.99
BRITISH LIBRARY 2011 HB 184pp Illus
£45.00 19811 now £16.99
HISTORY OF WILLIAM
THE CONQUEROR
Back by
popular
Jacob Abbott Born in Normandy and
demand
promised the throne of England by King
Edward, William, Duke of Normandy decided
to invade the country after another contender for
the crown took the throne. Chronicling the years
from his illegitimate birth to his calamitous burial,
Jacob Abbott’s engaging narrative describes the
young conqueror’s struggles, ambitions and
aspirations during his time in power in both
Normandy and England. First published in 1899.
SKYHORSE 2012 PB 144pp Illus
BASIC 2011 HB 413pp Illus
£9.99 98214 now £5.99
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ARMIES OF HEAVEN
The First Crusade and
the Quest for Apocalypse
Jay Rubenstein The First Crusade represented a new kind of unrestrained holy
warfare, with Christian warriors hoping
to bring about the cataclysmic upheaval
of the End Times by seizing Jerusalem
from its Muslim rulers. Rubenstein uses
contemporary chronicles and autobiographical works as he combines military
history with a psychological exploration
of churchmen and warriors to emphasize
the role played by apocalyptic thought in
motivating 100,000 European crusaders.
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THE PLANTAGENETS
The Kings that Made Britain
Derek Wilson At the accession of Henry
II in 1154, the Plantagenets ruled over a
realm that stretched from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees. When Richard III
died in 1485, only Calais was left on the
European mainland, but the Plantagenets
had consolidated and secured royal control within Britain. In this lucid account
of their 300 year reign, Wilson chronicles
the turbulent and often blood-soaked
world of kings such as Richard the Lionheart, King John and Henry V, the hero
of Agincourt. QUERCUS 2014 PB 296pp Illus
£9.99 16645 now £4.99
MELISENDE OF JERUSALEM
The World of a Forgotten
Crusader Queen
Margaret Tranovich Although she ruled
the Kingdom of Jerusalem for more than
20 years during the 12th century, Queen
Melisende is a shadowy figure whose
name is unfamiliar to most people today.
Margaret Tranovich pieces together the
sketchy sources to set Melisende in the
political context of her tumultuous times
and uses the art of the period to explore
the full breadth of the queen’s contacts
with the rich Byzantine, Islamic and European traditions.
MEDIEVAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
NEW AN ILLUSTRATED
HISTORY OF
THE KNIGHTS
HOSPITALLER
Stephen Dafoe tells the story
of the Knights Hospitaller
from their beginnings in the
era of the Crusades more
than 900 years ago to their
present-day manifestation (in
120 countries) that continues
their original duty of running
hospices. With illustrations
depicting key figures in
Hospitaller history and the citadels constructed by the Order,
the book focuses on their major battles and conquests, notably
the island of Malta, and their defence and eventual loss of the
beseiged Rhodes. IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 160pp Illus
The refectory
of the Knights
Hospitaller below
the citadel at Acre
£19.99 19882 now £7.99
EAST & WEST 2011 PB 191pp Illus
NEW CHIVALRY
The Origins and History of
the Orders of Knighthood
Kevin L Gest Recent years have seen growing
interest in the activities and cultural legacy of
chivalric orders such as the Knights of St John,
the Knights Templar and the Most Noble Order
of the Garter. Tracing the history of these and
other orders with British connections, Kevin
Gest assembles evidence from primary sources,
some of which contradicts popular myth; and he
also examines Masonic connections and the
symbolism of chivalric designs and architecture.
£14.95 18178 now £6.99
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 320pp Illus
£19.99 19880 now £7.99
AGINCOURT
The Story of a Battle
Rosemary Hawley Jarman A decisive
victory for Henry V looked like a remote
prospect when he decided to march his
depleted army across Normandy to the
English stronghold of Calais in October
1415. The campaigning season was almost over and the capture of Harfleur, after a long siege, was all he had to show
for it. This very readable history profiles
the young king and his army and follows
the action from their arrival on French
soil to the great battle and its aftermath.
PUIR LABOURERS AND
BUSY HUSBANDMEN
The Countryside of Lowland
Scotland in the Middle Ages
Piers Dixon Part of The Making of Scotland series of lively and accessible introductions to important themes in Scottish
archaeology and history, this volume focuses on the countryside of Lowland Scotland in the Middle Ages.
AMBERLEY 2012 HB 192pp Illus 240x160mm
BIRLINN 2002 PB 64pp Illus 260x190mm
£18.99 19315 now £7.99
£6.99 11499 now £3.99
COMPOSTELA AND EUROPE
The Story of Diego Gelmírez
Manuel Castineiras Santiago de Compostela is perhaps the most celebrated pilgrimage site in Europe, but few know that
its fame is largely due to the energy and
genius of one man, Diego Gelmírez. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition and beautifully illustrated with
many colour photographs of medieval architecture, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts, this handsome volume chronicles
the life and travels of the visionary 12thcentury cleric, and charts his tireless campaign to put Santiago on the map.
SKIRA 2010 HB 340pp Illus 277x237mm
Ed. Paul Williamson; Peta Motture From the Symmachi Panel, made in Rome
around 400 CE, to a standing cup in the form of a nautilus shell from late 16th
century Regensburg, this volume tells the stories of 37 priceless masterpieces
in the V&A collections. The objects are divided into chapters on those made for
status and display, religious artefacts and secular works, and include such treasures
as the enamelled reliquary casket of St Thomas Becket, the St Nicholas Crozier
and the Leonardo notebooks. V&A 2010 HB 104pp Illus 207x184mm
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TREASURES
£34.00 18995 now £16.99
HERALDIC BADGES IN
ENGLAND AND WALES
THAMES & HUDSON 2001 HB 334pp Illus 280x220mm
(Four volumes)
Michael Powell Siddons The first general
study of heraldic badges, Michael Siddons’s monumental work offers an
overview of the subject from the first use
of badges in the 14th century to their decline in the early 17th century. Volume I
discusses the nature and use of heraldic
badges and sources of information on
them. Volume II is in two parts containing
dictionaries of royal and non-royal
badges; while Volume III contains ordinaries of heraldic badges and livery
colours, the bibliography, list of manuscripts and index. BOYDELL 2009 HB 1320pp
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£14.99 17066 now £5.99
Ed. Robert Bartlett This remarkable book combines more than 800 superb
illustrations from manuscripts, paintings and sculpture with a lively, informed
commentary to illuminate every aspect of medieval Europe from the fall of Rome
to the dawn of the Renaissance. Organized thematically, it examines religious faith,
civil power, domestic life, work, sex and death, the arts, architecture, the life of the
mind, and relations with non-Christian faiths. The book also includes biographies
of key personalities, timelines, maps, a glossary and a gazetteer.
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MODERN HISTORY
NEW FISHGUARD FIASCO
An Account of the Last Invasion of Britain
John S Kinross With revolutionary fervour and
help from Irish republicans, the French mounted
an invasion of Britain in February 1797. The
troops landing at Fishguard in Pembrokeshire
were designed to divert attention from a larger force
attacking Ireland but this contingent failed to arrive
leaving the intended assault on Bristol, via Wales,
an isolated and forlorn effort. This history explains
the circumstances of the invasion and how it was
put down by a handful of local militia.
LOGASTON 2007 PB 128pp Illus
£9.95 19908 now £4.99
NEW WHO KILLED
SIR WALTER RALEGH?
David Loades explores the twisting path
whereby Princess Mary, daughter of a rejected wife and capricious father, endured
disfavour, personal crisis, house arrest,
political scheming and potential exile, to
emerge as a queen with huge popular
support. But her reign was to end in personal and public tragedies. Loades’s probing yet sympathetic account reveals an intriguing personality, impelled by deep-set
beliefs, but uncertain how to behave in a
‘man’s’ role. AMBERLEY 2012 PB 320pp Illus
MARY TUDOR
£12.99 19205 now £5.99
Richard Dale For 400 years, the truth
behind Sir Walter Ralegh’s execution
for high treason has been shrouded in
mystery. How could the hero of Cadiz
be accused of plotting with his old enemy, Spain? Why did his friend Lord
Cobham denounce him at his trial?
And what part did the spymaster Robert
Cecil play in his downfall? Richard
Dale’s work of historical detection
looks at the evidence afresh, to unravel
the shadowy power struggles that followed the death of Queen Elizabeth.
THE DAY PARLIAMENT
BURNED DOWN
Caroline Shenton When the old Palace of
Westminster burned down on 16 October
1834, it was seen as a national catastrophe.
Rumours about the cause of the fire were rife:
was it arson, terrorism, foreign operatives, a
kitchen accident or even divine judgement on
politicians? In this riveting study, the Director
of the Parliamentary Archives Caroline Shenton unfolds the story of the fire over the course
of that day, and paints a skilful portrait of the
social and political context of Westminster at
the time. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 355pp Illus
HISTORY PRESS 2011 HB 190pp Illus
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£18.99 17258 now £6.99
THE RULE OF WOMEN
IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Ed. Anne J Cruz; Mihoko Suzuki This
volume of 11 essays seeks to bring a transnational and trans-cultural perspective to
the study of women rulers in early modern
Europe. A number of essays deal with
lesser-known sovereigns – Isabeau of
Bavaria, Catherine of Brandenburg, Juana
of Austria, Isabel I of Castile and Jeanne
d’Albret; while other studies examine the
representation of foreign rulers – Catherine de’Medici in England and Elizabeth I
in France. ILLINOIS UP 2009 PB 238pp Illus
PANORAMA OF THE
ENLIGHTENMENT
SISTER QUEENS
The Noble, Tragic Lives
of Katherine of Aragon
and Juana, Queen of Castile
$60.00 16776 now £8.99
Dorinda Outram Between the late 17th
century and the French Revolution, the age
of the Enlightenment was one of rationalism
and intellectual curiosity, the rejection of
superstition and a growing reliance on
observation and experiment to arrive at the
truth. Outram places Enlightenment ideas in
their widest context and explores their impact
across social, cultural and political life,
using some 400 illustrations as an integral
part of a discussion that ranges from Diderot’s
Encylopédie to science and medicine. J PAUL
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Julia Fox The daughters of Spain’s Ferdinand and Isabella were women of character
and conviction, but Katherine is mostly remembered for her abandonment in favour
of Henry VIII’s seductive mistress, while
Juana is portrayed as ‘the Mad’, a queen
who kept her husband’s coffin beside her
for years. Described by The Spectator as a
‘vivid and sympathetic book’, Sister
Queens examines how their dreams of love
and power quickly dissolved in the face of
duplicity and betrayal. Felt-tip mark on
lower edge. BALLANTINE 2011 HB 474pp
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THE WORLD AT
THEIR FINGERTIPS
18th Century
British Two-Sheet
Double-Hemisphere
World Maps
Geoff Armitage Between
1680 and 1807, British
publishers produced a
sequence of double
hemisphere world maps,
each printed on two
conjoined sheets, with an
eye to the growing market
William Berry’s A Mapp of All the World
among the upwardly mobile.
in Two Hemispheres, London, 1680
Drawing on the collection of
the British Library, this handsome, informative book reproduces 24 maps in full
colour, in addition to many details and smaller illustrations. A valuable guide to
identification, it also sets the maps in their historical context and provides biographies
of leading figures in the trade. BRITISH LIBRARY 2012 HB 262pp Illus 238x310mm
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HISTORY
JFK’S CAMELOT
The Unfolding
Story of a President
SIX MONTHS IN 1945
From World War to Cold War
Michael Dobbs The six months between
the meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin and
Churchill at Yalta in February 1945 and
the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August saw the transition
from old empires to new superpowers and
the world divided ideologically. Michael
Dobbs describes the dramatic events and
the participants in this historical turning
point, the geo-political background to the
descent of the ‘iron curtain’, and the confrontation of the USA and Soviet Russia.
American cut pages; felt-tip mark on
lower edge. KNOPF 2012 HB 436pp Illus
$28.95 17577 now £7.99
AMERICAN EMPIRE
The Rise of a Global Power, the
Democratic Revolution at Home
Joshua B Freeman The Second World War
transformed the USA from an isolationist
regional player to a global superpower; but
since the 1970s it has experienced a long,
slow and – for many – bewildering decline
in its economic, political and military reach.
This wide-ranging history charts American
post-war achievements and challenges, including the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam and the Cold War, and examines the
political, cultural and economic factors that
have pulled the nation in often conflicting
directions. VIKING 2012 HB 544pp
£23.00 17547 now £7.99
THE PURSUIT OF
THE NAZI MIND
Hitler, Hess and the Analysts
Daniel Pick, historian and psychoanalyst,
tells how, during the Second World War,
the Allies used the ‘psy’ professions to
delve into the motivations of the Nazi
leadership and the mentality of the
‘masses’ they led. Focused on the psychiatric examination of Rudolf Hess after his
capture, the book explores the role of psychiatry and Freudian analysis in wartime
and at the Nuremberg trials, and the
shadow it cast on post-war recovery policy and political thinking in the longer
term. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 368pp
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Adam Powley
The identification of
John F Kennedy’s
presidency with the
Arthurian ideal of
Camelot came in the
emotional aftermath of
his death, as the result
of a chance remark by
his wife. This book
offers a contemporary
perspective on JFK’s
developing career through The Queen and Prince Philip host America’s ‘royal family’ in 1961
Daily Mirror articles and
photographs reporting on his election campaign, his eventful administration,
including the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis, and his shocking
assassination. HAYNES 2013 HB 208pp Illus
£25.00 18025 now £9.99
HITLER’S CHARISMA
Leading Millions into the Abyss
Laurence Rees Awkward, shabby, incapable of normal human relationships,
Adolf Hitler seems an unlikely figure to
have won the hearts and minds of an
advanced European nation. But when
asked why they followed him so blindly,
Germans invariably used the word
‘charisma’. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished interviews recorded over many
years as a documentary filmmaker, Laurence Rees probes the enigma of how a
little Austrian corporal whom his army
comrades thought ‘odd’ bewitched a
nation and plunged the world into cataclysm. Felt-tip mark on lower edge.
PANTHEON 2012 HB 354pp Illus 242x162mm
$30.00 19267 now £7.99
LANDSCAPES OF THE
METROPOLIS OF DEATH
Reflections on Memory
and Imagination
Otto Dov Kulka After a lifetime of meticulously researched historical writing on
the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, Otto
Dov Kulka finally confronts his personal
experience of Auschwitz, where he was
incarcerated as a child. In ten transcribed
tape recordings, he reconstructs its topography, its routines and – in vivid flashes –
scenes whose absurdity and strangeness
say more than any objective description
could. This profoundly important testimony comes as close as is perhaps possible to describing the indescribable.
ALLEN LANE 2013 HB 139pp Illus
£14.99 10900 now £5.99
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Reappraisals, Revisions,
Refutations
Avi Shlaim With characteristic rigour, balance and readability, one of the world’s
foremost experts on the Israel-Palestine
conflict charts its development from the
1917 Balfour Declaration to the 2008 invasion of Gaza. Shlaim assesses the impact
of key figures such as Yasser Arafat, Ariel
Sharon, Edward Said and Benny Morris,
re-examines the role of the US, explores
the many missed opportunities for peace,
and considers the troubled region’s future
prospects. VERSO 2009 HB 416pp
£16.99 10627 now £7.99
THE ROYAL STORY
The History of the House of
Windsor in Words and Music
Narrated by Dame Judi Dench Including historic speeches, radio broadcasts,
music and evocative sounds such as the
bell of St Paul’s tolling for the King’s funeral, this CD traces the history of the
House of Windsor over three generations.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2002 Audio CD
£9.95 58723 now £3.99
A WORLD TO BUILD
Austerity Britain 1945-48
David Kynaston Beginning with VE Day and
describing the first months of peace and the first
years of Attlee’s government, up to the launch of
National Insurance and the NHS on 5 July 1948, this
first book of Kynaston’s much acclaimed Tales of a
New Jerusalem, records the reactions of the British
people to the austerity of the early post-war years and
to wider events such as Hiroshima, the Communist
coup in Czechoslovakia and the arrival of the Empire
Windrush. BLOOMSBURY 2008 PB 336pp Illus
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NEW MATTHEW BOULTON
Industry’s Great Innovator
Jennifer Tann; Anthony Burton Matthew Boulton,
of the famous Boulton & Watt steam engine
partnership, was a successful industrialist,
manufacturing silver-plated goods which he exported
throughout Europe, before he became James Watt’s
partner. Drawing on his commercial skills and
business contacts, he promoted Watt’s engines
and started the process that would revolutionize
industry and transport. Written by two historians
of technology, this is a detailed study of Boulton’s
life and enterprises and his role in the Industrial
Revolution. HISTORY PRESS 2013 PB 192pp Illus
£14.99 19736 now £5.99
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONARIES
The Making of the Modern World
1776-1914
WALSALL’S ENGINE SHED
Railwaymen’s Memories
1877-1968
Jack Haddock The Ryecroft engine shed
was the service and repair depot for
Walsall station and goods yards and thus
at the hub of railway activity in the area
during the steam era. Weaving local
history with the memories of the men
who worked there, this book chronicles
railway operations at the site and the life
of the employees, from the shed’s opening in 1877 to its closure to steam traction
in 1957. TEMPUS 2007 PB 160pp Illus
NEW
£14.99 19749 now £5.99
NEW THE OLDHAM
COALFIELD
Jack Nadin Coal had already been mined
in the Oldham region for over two centuries
when commercial mining began in the
1730s and the industry grew into a major
employer of local people. Written by a
former supply lad in East Lancashire’s last
deep coal mine, this history of the coalfield
which stretched from Royton to Bardsley
combines archive photographs and maps
with information on more than 150 pits and
newspaper reports of accidents and mining
disasters. TEMPUS 2006 HB 192pp Illus
£17.99 19740 now £6.99
NEW CIVIL ENGINEERING
HERITAGE: EAST ANGLIA
Peter Cross-Rudkin A feature of the
development of East Anglia has been the
challenge of draining low-lying land and
protecting it from the sea; and the building
of bridges, harbours, railways and public
utilities has also helped transform the
environment. This book surveys landmarks in the civil engineering history of
Essex, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire,
Norfolk and Suffolk and includes a
gazetteer of interesting sites, from college
bridges in Cambridge to a medieval crane
in Peterborough Cathedral.
PHILLIMORE 2010 PB 176pp Illus
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Gavin Weightman presents an engrossing account of the creation and spread
of industrial societies, c.1776 to 1914, giving equal prominence to enterprise,
entrepreneurs and the transmission of technologies between countries. From
‘Iron Mad’ Wilkinson, who supplied Paris with water pipes in 1781, to the British
khaki dye crisis on the eve of the First World War, the book offers stories of
individuals, both famous and half-forgotten, technologies, industries and espionage
in countries as far flung as Russia, America and Japan. GROVE 2007 HB 432pp Illus
$27.50 69745 now £7.99
A BRIEF HISTORY OF
THE AGE OF STEAM
The Power that Drove
the Industrial Revolution
Thomas Crump For over two centuries from its
first development in 1710, steam technology was
behind a revolution which swept the world.
Exploring the contribution of such figures as
Stephenson and Brunel, this book traces the
development of steam locomotion from the first
Mississippi steamboats to the Titanic, and from the
first London terminus at Euston to the TransSiberian Railway. ROBINSON 2007 PB 370pp
£8.99 84576 now £3.99
SOCIAL HISTORY
PENNY LOAVES
AND BUTTER CHEAP
Britain in 1846
NEW
Stephen Bates By 1846, Britain was industrializing rapidly and the railways
were spreading along the routes they still follow today. Yet alongside vast wealth,
millions still lived in destitution, often on the verge of starvation. Robert Peel’s
repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws that year split his Tory party but ushered
in an age of free trade that would form the basis for Britain’s future wealth.
By focusing on that pivotal moment, Bates’s panoramic history provides an
insight into the birth of modern Britain. HEAD OF ZEUS 2014 HB 352pp Illus
£25.00 19420 now £7.99
NEW TALES OF TWO CITIES
Paris, London and the
Birth of the Modern City
Jonathan Conlin Paris and London have long
held a mutual fascination, never more so than
in the 18th and 19th centuries when they vied
to be the world’s metropolis. Full of unexpected
facts and larger-than-life personalities, this
entertaining, informative history charts the
love-hate relationship between the two capitals,
from their gilded elites to their criminal
underworlds, and shows how their rivalry
fuelled the invention of the apartment block,
the coming of the railways, the rise of
consumer culture and the celebrity chef.
ATLANTIC 2013 PB 320pp Illus
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NEW A GRIM ALMANAC
OF GEORGIAN LONDON
Graham Jackson; Cate Ludlow In February
1715, a skull was found on a dung-heap. Ten
years later, a partially eaten baby was spotted
hanging from the mouth of a pig. As this
gleefully gruesome compendium makes clear,
Georgian London was a dangerous place.
Arranged calendar-wise and illustrated with more
than 100 contemporary prints, it offers offers
grisly goings-on for every day of the year:
murders, hangings, dismemberments, burnings –
and a Fleet Street resident who fell into a
sausage grinder. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 190pp Illus
£14.99 19725 now £4.99
MEMORIES OF BRITAIN PAST
The Illustrated Story of How
We Lived, Worked and Played
Juliet Gardiner Drawing on the wonderful
Getty photographic archive, this book is
full of memorable images of a bygone era.
It focuses on times within living memory,
from the early 1930s to the end of the
1970s, during which the country underwent
profound changes. Covering key aspects
of the way we used to live, from home life,
childhood and schooling through to the
working world and popular entertainments,
social historian Juliet Gardiner looks back
on a largely vanished Britain. READER’S
DIGEST 2012 HB 256pp Illus 275x215mm
£19.99 95477 now £7.99
THE DARK BOX
A Secret History of Confession
John Cornwell It was not until the 13th
century that adult Catholics were required
to confess their sins in private once a year;
in recent decades the custom has been virtually abandoned. The Dark Box is a history
of the rise and fall of this often controversial
practice, drawing on Cornwell’s own experience and focusing on reforms which
sought to protect the Catholic faithful but
actually increased opportunities for psychological oppression and sexual abuse.
Slightly off-mint. PROFILE 2014 HB 316pp
£16.99 18349 now £5.99
FEEDING LONDON
A Taste of History
Richard Tames The Stock Exchange began in a London coffee house, as did
Lloyds; fish and chips was invented in Victorian London; and Fortnum and Mason
supplied Florence Nightingale in the Crimea and Parry’s expedition to find the
North-West Passage as well as innumerable aristocratic picnics. This history of
London’s food is full of such milestones and outstanding personalities, described
in chapters on how London has been provisioned, its markets, shops and restaurants,
foreign imports and the eating habits of Londoners. HISTORICAL 2003 HB 208pp Illus
£16.95 63249 now £6.99
CRIME
GANGS
A Journey into the Heart
of the British Underworld
Tony Thompson ‘In the course of writing this
book’, Thompson writes, ‘I have socialized with
robbers, thugs, killers and thieves... bought guns,
been threatened with knives and sampled two of the
most dangerous drugs known to man’. His exposé
of organized crime in Britain is divided into chapters
dealing with the various criminal activities of gangs,
from armed robbery and drug smuggling to money
laundering and kidnap. HODDER 2005 PB 416pp
£8.99 17625 now £3.99
IF I DID IT...
I DON’T REMEMBER
Salisbury’s Edwardian
Murder Mystery or
Who Killed Teddy Haskell
Jeremy B Moody; Bruce S Purvis On
31 October 1908, 12-year-old Teddy
Haskell was brutally murdered in his own
home in Fisherton, a suburb of Salisbury.
WHEN SCHOOLDAYS WERE FUN
A Lighthearted Look at
‘the Best Days of Our Lives’
Stephen Browning In spite of the hard benches,
stodgy food and iron discipline that feature
prominently in people’s memories of education
in Britain before about 1970, schooldays from
this period are nevertheless often fondly
remembered. Covering a period from about 1900
up to the 1970s, this nostalgic miscellany of
archive photographs, literary references, poems
and first-hand accounts recalls the eccentric
teachers, interminable lessons, withering school
reports and punishing sporting trials that were
once the daily lot of British schoolchildren.
HALSGROVE 2010 HB 160pp Illus 296x210mm
£19.99 99464 now £7.99
The case attracted international media attention for months, but remains unsolved
more than a century later. This meticulously documented account of the investigation brings together inquest and trial
transcripts, the personal thoughts of the
detective in charge, new evidence and previously unidentified photographs of the
crime scene. HOBNOB 2008 PB 264pp Illus
£12.95 94698 now £4.99
MURDER AND CRIME:
WHITECHAPEL
AND DISTRICT
MW Oldridge The notorious Jack the
Ripper murders of 1888 were not the only
violent crimes that took place in the streets
of Victorian and Edwardian Whitechapel.
This true crime collection features seven
sensational murders in the district, including the cases of Henry Wainwright, who
shot and later dismembered his mistress,
Harriet Lane, and Harold Hall, who
stabbed a prostitute to death in Spitalfields, within sight of the last Ripper murder. HISTORY PRESS 2011 PB 96pp Illus
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BRITISH/GENERAL HISTORY
NEW THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
From the Dawn of Humanity
to the Modern Age
Frank Welsh Beginning with the emergence of
Homo erectus nearly 1.5 million years ago, this
narrative history surveys human growth, survival
and achievement across the planet. As well as
covering great political and military events and
cultural upheavals, from the earliest civilizations
to the Industrial Revolution and the War on Terror,
it provides insight into the changes in ordinary
people’s lives brought about by evolving social
attitudes and new technologies such as printing
and radio. QUERCUS 2011 PB 479pp Illus
£9.99 19296 now £4.99
IRAN AT WAR
1500-1988
GREAT TALES FROM
BRITISH HISTORY
Robert Gambles Colourful tales abound
in British history: Drake playing bowls
on Plymouth Hoe as the Armada approached, Alfred the Great burning the
cakes, the apple falling on Newton’s head
and triggering his epiphany about gravity.
This amusing collection of historical investigations examines the evidence for
such legendary events and assesses why
the stories arose and how they survived
to become part of our national heritage.
Kaveh Farrokh From the Safavid dynasty, which saw the revival of ancient
Persian traditions in the 16th and 17th
centuries, to the 1979 revolution and the
Iran-Iraq War, this military history of Iran
encompasses early successes followed by
centuries of defeat as nations such as Russia and Britain began to shape the country’s internal history; and it unravels the
very complex history of Iran during the
20th century. OSPREY 2011 HB 480pp Illus
£18.99 17630 now £7.99
IN AFGHANISTAN
Two Hundred Years
of British, Russian and
American Occupation
David Loyn In more than 30 years as a
BBC correspondent David Loyn has witnessed at first hand the Afghan conflicts
of recent decades as well as gaining a deep
knowledge of the country’s troubled past.
With his unique insight he presents an examination of the region’s history and the
personalities that have shaped it, from the
THE POCKET GUIDE
TO ROYAL SCANDALS
THE MISSISSIPPI
AND THE MAKING
OF A NATION
From the Louisiana
Purchase to Today
REMEMBER WHEN 2011 PB 158pp
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2002 HB 273pp Illus 239x283mm
£9.99 18247 now £3.99
Andy K Hughes The eighth century Emperor Ming Huang’s 40,000 concubines,
Vlad the Impaler’s appalling cruelties,
Henry VIII’s wives, a naked paraglider
landing on the roof of Buckingham
Palace... Putting the widest possible interpretation on ‘scandal’, the Pocket Guide
is a concise chronicle of royal and imperial
bad behaviour. The chronological listing
of murder, mayhem, adultery and cheating
at cards is followed by a miscellany of
royal facts, including misdemeanours immortalized in nursery rhymes.
£9.99 10995 now £4.99
Stephen E Ambrose Thomas
Jefferson’s purchase of the vast
swathe of territory to the west of the
Mississippi in 1803 was a turning
point in the shaping of the United
States, doubling its size at a stroke
and stimulating trade and transport
along the great river. Illustrated
with contemporary photographs,
archive illustrations, documents
Black sharecroppers work a Tennessee cotton field
and maps, this celebration of the
Mississippi follows its course through ten states from Minnesota to Louisiana
exploring its significance to the history, culture and landscape of America.
£25.00 19276 now £9.99
BRITANNIA
100 Documents that
Shaped a Nation
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
THE INDIAN DIASPORA
Graham Stewart Taking a
stylish and original approach
to chronicling the nation’s
history, Graham Stewart presents
the documents which have
left their mark on the life of
Britain, from its days as a
Roman province to the
modern European nation-state.
Constitutional and legal
Map of the British Empire produced by
documents – among them,
the Empire Marketing Board in 1927
Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights
and the Declaration of Arbroath, sit alongside the most influential of Britain’s
cultural products, such as the film script of Brief Encounter and James Bond’s
very first martini order. ATLANTIC BOOKS 2010 HB 448pp Illus
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Ed. Brij V Lal There are now more
than 20 million people of Indian origin
living outside the subcontinent. From
South Africa to North America, from
Britain to Australia, these communities
have made their mark in areas as
diverse as literature, politics, business,
popular culture, sport and cuisine.
Written by more than 60 scholars from
around the globe and lavishly
illustrated with maps, charts and
photographs, this unique work of
reference charts their origins, their
experiences, and their distinctive
contribution to host cultures.
HAWAII UP 2007 HB 416pp Illus 287x237mm
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HISTORY
RED FORTRESS
The Secret Heart of Russia’s History
LOCAL & FAMILY HISTORY
Catherine Merridale For centuries, the
Kremlin has been the seat of Russian autocracy,
its vast red walls built to cow invaders and
subjects alike. This brilliantly original account
demonstrates how this fortified complex
embodies the nation’s turbulent history, explains
its religious and governmental functions, and
charts the architectural changes made by
successive rulers. Sidelined when Peter the Great
made St Petersburg the capital, the red citadel
re-assumed its dominance with the Bolsheviks –
a role that continues today under the steely grip
of Vladimir Putin. ALLEN LANE 2013 HB 520pp Illus
£30.00 17848 now £11.99
British and Russian ‘Great Game’ in the
19th century to the rise of the Taliban and
the recent Anglo-American occupation.
PALGRAVE MACMILLIAN 2009 HB 288pp
$27.95 19026 now £6.99
Ed. Jim Masselos For much of the past
millennium, Asia’s large and diverse empires dominated the world’s political geography, challenging the states of Europe. The contributors to this book
examine seven of the greatest, from the
Khmer Empire, which arose in the early
ninth century, to Japan’s Meiji Restoration, which ended in 1945. They discuss
such charismatic leaders as Chinggis
Khan and Suleiman the Magnificent, the
legendary wealth of these empires and
the artistic and technological advances
which they helped to bring about.
THE GREAT EMPIRES OF ASIA
TO THE LETTER
A Journey Through
a Vanishing World
Simon Garfield In his ‘celebration of
what has gone before, and the value we
place on literacy, good thinking and thinking ahead’, Simon Garfield explores how
we have written to each other over the
centuries. Covering correspondents from
Cicero and Marcus Aurelius to Ted
Hughes and the Queen Mother, the book
delves into the stories of famous letterwriters and considers all the things we
have lost – ‘the post, the envelope, a pen,
a slower cerebral whirring’ – by replacing
letters with email.
NICK BARRATT’S
BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO
YOUR ANCESTORS’ LIVES
Nick Barratt As well as giving advice
on the practicalities of researching and
constructing your family tree, this guide
explains how to use a range of sources to
look more deeply into the social history
of each generation – their houses, streets,
communities and ways of life. Barratt
also offers helpful suggestions for organizing and shaping your findings and, with
the help of the latest technology, creating
an archive of your personal heritage.
WORSE THAN WAR
Genocide, Eliminationism
and the Ongoing Assault
on Humanity
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DEVON EPITAPHS
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CANONGATE 2013 HB 464pp Illus
£24.95 17603 now £9.99
ABACUS 2010 PB 670pp Illus
NEW
£16.99 18358 now £6.99
THAMES & HUDSON 2010 HB 240pp Illus
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen The crimes
of the Nazis led to the establishment of
international conventions to ensure that
such horrors would not happen again;
yet they have – in Rwanda, Kosovo, Darfur and countless other places. This lucid,
sobering study by the acclaimed author
of Hitler’s Willing Executioners undertakes an unflinching examination of the
continuing global problem of genocide.
It asks crucial questions such as how and
why mass murders begin and how they
are implemented, and proposes radical
new preventive measures.
Michael Weller ‘Under this stone by
fatall doome, five sisters lie cropt in their
tender bloome’. The fate of these girls
and the grief of their parents is transmitted
to us across the centuries through the verse
on their memorial, laid in 1632. This collection of epitaphs, drawn from tombs in
Devon, ranges from the humorous to
the heartrending and from the approved
phrases of Victorian poets to more personal and poignant messages from the
bereaved. RYELANDS 2010 HB 96pp Illus
PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 282pp
£19.99 10985 now £7.99
MASTERS OF THE WORD
How Media Shaped History from
the Alphabet to the Internet
William J Bernstein surveys the history
of communication technology from the invention of writing in Mesopotamia to the
role of digital media in the Arab Spring.
He analyses the profound and revolutionary
effects of access to each new technology,
whether as a tool used by despotic rulers
to expand their empires and increase their
power over individuals, or as a means for
ordinary people to connect with each other
and help to make the world more free.
GROVE 2013 HB 428pp Illus
PRINTED MAPS OF
WILTSHIRE 1787-1844
A Selection of Topographical,
Road and Canal Maps
in Facsimile
Ed. John Chandler This selection of
maps of Wiltshire, which includes work
by Christopher Greenwood, John Rennie,
John Cary, Philip Crocker and others,
offers an unrivalled glimpse of the county
during the decades before the coming
of the railways and the profound changes
of the Victorian era. The book includes a
brief introduction describing the maps and
their makers and a detailed index of placenames included in the maps. Wiltshire
Record Society. Volume 52. WILTSHIRE
RECORD SOCIETY 1998 HB 292pp Illus
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MILITARY HISTORY
Larry McMurtry Despite graduating from
West Point last in his class, George Custer
gained a reputation as a highly effective
cavalry officer during the American Civil
War. His famous ‘last stand’ came in 1876
when he was annihilated by a combined
force of Indians at Little Bighorn. This
colourfully illustrated introduction
reviews Custer’s career and examines how
a humiliating defeat became one of the
iconic moments in American history, not least
because of its re-enactment in ‘Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West’ shows. SIMON & SCHUSTER
CUSTER
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TO WAR WITH WELLINGTON
From the Peninsula to Waterloo
Peter Snow Using first-hand accounts written by generals, cavalrymen and foot- soldiers of the Duke of Wellington’s army, Peter Snow conjures up the horror of the early
19th century battlefield as he tells the story
of how Wellington led ‘one of the most
successful military enterprises in British
history’ through seven years of struggle to
victory and the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. JOHN MURRAY 2011 PB 396pp Illus
£12.99 20338 now £4.99
THE REAL JIM HAWKINS
Ships’ Boys in the Georgian Navy
Roland Pietsch In the 18th century poor
boys in their thousands went to sea like
Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island, often
leaving behind bleak and miserable lives
to go in search of adventure. Focusing on
the Royal Navy during the period of the
Seven Years War, Pietsch investigates the
boys’ social backgrounds and recruitment,
their distinctive subculture and the challenges they faced growing up amid the
perils of naval battle.
SEAFORTH 2010 HB 256pp Illus
£25.00 16908 now £9.99
DEAR RAYMOND
The Story of Spirituality and the First World War
NEW
Sophie Jackson With traditional religious faith shattered after the First World War,
Britons began to seek new expressions of spirituality, while the Church was forced
to reassess how it served the country. In her investigation of these upheavals,
Jackson focuses on scientist and inventor Sir Oliver Lodge, who responded to
his son’s death in the war by exploring belief in the afterlife and taking part in
seances, so that he came into contact with such leading proponents of spiritualism
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. FONTHILL 2014 HB 208pp Illus
INSIDE ROOM 40
The Codebreakers
of World War 1
Paul Gannon Room 40 of the Admiralty
in central London was the office of the
Naval Intelligence officers charged with
breaking German naval and diplomatic
codes. This book tells the story of British
codebreaking activities in Room 40 and
of MI1(b) during the First World War, reveals the astonishing geographical spread
and range of topics covered in the messages decoded, and describes the people,
who included brilliant academics and eccentrics, much like their successors in
Bletchley Park 20 years later.
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 287pp Illus
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VERDUN
The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I
John Mosier The Battle of Verdun, the attritional struggle between the French and
German infantries on the River Meuse, is traditionally held to have taken place
between February and December 1916. John Mosier contends that the conflict
in fact extended over the entire period of the war, across eight distinct battles.
His new assessment of the strategy and execution of the engagements near Verdun
is based on numerous military analyses, eyewitness accounts and newly translated
French sources. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. NAL CALIBER 2014 PB 396pp Illus
$16.00 20351 now £4.99
MAPPING THE
FIRST WORLD WAR
Peter Chasseaud Maps played a crucial
part in the conduct of the First World
War, whether national or topographical
maps, political maps charting disputed
territories, military maps (showing troop
positions, trenches, artillery etc), naval
and air charts, propaganda maps or
popular newspaper maps for the general
public. Drawing on the Imperial War
Museum collection, this volume uses
over 150 contemporary maps and over
90 photographs to trace the course of
the war, from its causes to the peace
treaties and their aftermath.
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HUNDRED DAYS
The End of the Great War
Nick Lloyd Beginning at the turning point
of the war on the Western Front, the
Marne in July 1918, Nick Lloyd tells the
story of the last four months of the First
World War, following the fighting in
France and Belgium that included some
of the bloodiest battles of the war, up to
the Armistice. The book draws a vivid
picture of the devastation, exhaustion and
fear in those final months and looks
closely at how the German Army was finally defeated. VIKING 2013 HB 384pp Illus
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NEW WORLD WAR II
IN PHOTOGRAPHS
Richard Holmes Although this
photographic history of the war
includes iconic shots such as
MacArthur wading ashore in the
Philippines and the Russian flag
being raised over the Reichstag,
much of the material is less familiar,
and some published for the first
time. Painstakingly selected – and
avoiding staged pictures – the
photographs cover as many theatres
of war as possible and, with
Holmes’s accompanying text and
captions, narrate the war, year by
The Sicilian campaign,1943: Men
year, from its origins to the Japanese surrender in
August 1945. CARLTON 2009 HB 400pp Illus 277x227mm of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
house-clearing in Centuripe
$39.95 20030 now £14.99
THETIS
Submarine Disaster
NEW
David Paul In June 1939, before the
outbreak of war, the newly built submarine Thetis was accidentally sunk during
its final sea trials. In addition to the 53
officers and men on board were staff
from the shipbuilders, Cammell Lairds,
Royal Navy officials and other observers
and guests. A delayed rescue bid was
unsuccessful and 99 people died in the
disaster. This book reviews the circumstances of the accident and the recriminations, denials and litigation that followed.
FONTHILL 2014 HB 224pp Illus
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WORLD WAR II DATA BOOKS
These Data Books cover various aspects
of German military strategy and armed
forces in the Second World War, providing the historical background as well
as detailed facts and figures. Every volume is packed with tables, graphs,
charts and maps, illustrated with artworks and photographs, and contains
profiles of military and political leaders.
AMBER 2009-11 HB 192pp Illus 240x190mm
£19.99 each now £9.99 each
Michael E Haskew The Wehrmacht (‘defensive might’) encompassed the entire
German armed forces during the Second
World War, with over 18 million men
passing through its ranks over the ten
years of its existence. This Data Book focuses on the German land forces, with
chapters on the history of the German
Army, pre-war development, command
structures, infantry, armoured formations,
artillery and support services. 98434
THE WEHRMACHT: 1935-1945
S Mike Pavelec The German air force
played a crucial role in the Wehrmacht’s
blitzkrieg tactics, providing both air cover
and air artillery for Germany’s ground
troops. Every aspect of the Luftwaffe’s
command structure, resources and aircraft
is covered in this volume, as well as its
major campaigns, from the invasion of
Poland to the final, desperate offensive
of January 1945.
98429
THE LUFTWAFFE: 1933-1945
Chris McNab examines the history and
development of the Schutzstaffel from its
origins as Hitler’s personal bodyguard to
its growth into a millions-strong organization by the end of the war. Chapters
deal with the constituent parts of the SS:
the early, general Allgemeine-SS; the
armed Waffen-SS; foreign elements; the
death squads and concentration camp
guards; and police and intelligence units,
including the Gestapo.
98435
THE SS: 1923-1945
ISAAC’S ARMY
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
NEW THE RED LINE
The Gripping Story of
the RAF’s Bloodiest Raid
on Hitler’s Germany
John Nichol The Nuremberg Raid on 30
March 1944 was the costliest of the war
for Bomber Command: 96 bombers were
shot down and more RAF men died on the
operation than during the four months of
the Battle of Britain. Drawing on interviews
with veterans, memoirs and archives, former RAF flight lieutenant John Nichol tells
the complete story of the fateful mission
from the point of view of the airmen.
WILLIAM COLLINS
£8.99 19582 now £3.99
Matthew Brzezinski By the beginning of October 1939, when cosmopolitan
Warsaw fell to German occupation, a young Zionist leader, Isaac Zuckerman, had
already been mobilizing the youngsters in the youth group that he led. Isaac’s Army
tells how the Jewish Resistance Force held out until the war’s end and compellingly
recreates a desperate time in Polish history, marked by the perseverance and
heroism of those who battled to drive the Nazis
from their city. HEAD OF ZEUS 2013 HB 426pp
£25.00 16989 now £7.99
NEW THE JUNGLE JOURNAL
Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-45
Frank Williams Prisoners held by the Japanese
during the Second World War suffered a terrible
ordeal – most of those who survived were left
mentally or physically scarred for life. Told
through the journals and memories of Royal
Artillery officer Ronald Williams, as well as
diaries, cartoons, poems and even a newspaper
produced by his fellow prisoners in Java, this
book bears witness to the unspeakable sufferings as
well as the humour and spirit that kept hope alive.
SPELLMOUNT 2013 PB 240pp Illus
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AT CLOSE QUARTERS
SOE Close Combat Pistol
Instructor Colonel
Hector Grant-Taylor
David Armstrong Many of the tales
about Hector Grant-Taylor, the legendary
Second World War SOE instructor, who
had an enormous influence on techniques
and training in close quarters combat,
are revealed to be apocryphal in this
biography. Nevertheless the real story is
no less colourful as the aristocratic-sounding army officer turns out to have been
born plain Leonard Taylor in a working
class area of Manchester and to have spent
time in Wormwood Scrubs for bigamy.
NEW
NEW D-DAY
Illustrated Edition
Stephen E Ambrose Gaining
a vital foothold in Hitler’s
Fortress Europe, D-Day has
been called the most
important day of the 20th
century. This large format
illustrated edition of Stephen
Ambrose’s classic account
explains how the momentous
operation was conceived and
planned, the intense training
and preparation that was
undertaken and how the day
itself unfolded, from the first
paratrooper assaults shortly after midnight to
the position at the end of a long and bloody day’s
fighting. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2014 HB 768pp Illus 274x225mm
$40.00 19758 now £11.99
NEW D-DAY TO VICTORY
The Diaries of a British
Tank Commander
Ed. Trevor Greenwood From D-Day on the
Normandy beaches until April 1945, Tank
Commander Trevor Greenwoood of C Squadron,
9th Royal Tank Regiment, kept a diary of his
experiences on the final push through France
and into Germany. Under fire, outgunned and
facing a bitter winter, he never loses his moral
compass or sense of humour and always finds
time for a ‘brew-up’. His diaries are edited here
by SV Partington and published in association
with the Imperial War Museum.
FONTHILL 2013 PB 160pp Illus
£8.99 19637 now £3.99
£18.99 19584 now £7.99
NEW DEATH ON THE DON
The Destruction of
Germany’s Allies on
the Eastern Front, 1941-44
Jonathan Trigg When Nazi Germany
turned its attention to the Soviet Union in
1941, more than half a million of the 3.5
million men confronting the Red Army
on Germany’s behalf were made up of
Hitler’s Axis allies – Romanians, Hungarians, Italians, Slovaks and Croatians.
This book draws on first-hand accounts
from veterans and civilians to tell the story
of how the poorly equipped and unprepared troops were annihilated on the
banks of the River Don near Stalingrad.
Osmar White was a celebrated Australian
reporter who, in 1944, was attached to
Patton’s Third Army Group as it advanced
across Europe. One of the few journalists
to attend the official German surrender,
he was one of the first into Berlin and
also present when the horror of Buchenwald was revealed to the world. This insightful report, written but not published
in 1945, is a unique eyewitness account
of a critical period in modern history.
CONQUERORS ROAD
CAMBRIDGE UP 2003 HB 239pp
£60.00 11945 now £9.99
CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORMS
International Combat Dress
1940-2010
Martin J Brayley Although the British
had adopted khaki uniforms by 1914,
French troops still sported blue coats and
red trousers at the outbreak of the First
World War. By the time of the Second
World War, all combatant nations issued
battledress featuring camouflage patterning
of some sort. This review of combat uniform design illustrates garments used across
the world since 1940 and explains how the
colours, patterns and other design features
have been adapted to different climates, environments and operational requirements.
CROWOOD 2009 HB 96pp Illus 295x210mm
SPELLMOUNT 2013 HB 255pp Illus
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£20.00 19720 now £9.99
MARCHING TO THE DRUMS
A History of Military
Drums and Drummers
NEW
John Norris charts the rise and fall of drums in
military use, covering thousands of years from
ancient Egypt and China, through their
reintroduction to Europe with the Crusaders, to
the coming of radio communications which have
rendered them obsolete apart from their use at
ceremonial occasions. Norris also celebrates the
heroic battlefield contributions of drummers, who
were deliberately targeted by opposing armies but
also served as stretcher bearers rescuing the
wounded. SPELLMOUNT 2012 PB 159pp Illus
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GIs listen to music from
a portable Victrola as
they cross the Channel
on their landing craft
FRONTIER FIGHTERS
On Active Service in Waziristan
Walter James Cumming This memoir,
recently edited from a long-unpublished
manuscript, records the experiences of a
young officer in the Indian Army on the
frontier between Afghanistan and British
India in the 20 years leading up to the
Second World War. He describes the hardships and dangers of the notoriously lawless region, the ruthlessness and skill of
the Pathan tribesmen, and lighter moments
of polo, hunting and shooting – the entertainments available to British officers of
the Raj. PEN & SWORD 2010 HB 202pp
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A HISTORY OF WAR
IN 100 BATTLES
Richard Overy From the earliest
recorded battles in the ancient Near East
to Desert Storm in 1991, Richard Overy
has selected 100 battles, all of them
significant in some way, although the
victors, like Sitting Bull at Little Big
Horn, did not always win the war.
Arranged chronologically within
chapters on factors that can influence
the outcome of armed combat –
leadership, overwhelming odds, technical
innovation, deception, raw courage,
and good fortune – the battles serve to
illustrate the history of warfare itself.
WILLIAM COLLINS
THE GREAT GERMAN ESCAPE
Uprising of Hitler’s Nazis
in Britain’s PoW Camps
Charles Whiting By December 1944
there were almost a quarter of a million
German PoWs in cities across Britain,
many of them fanatical young National
Socialists, guarded by old and infirm soldiers. What would those young men do if
they were armed and given a plan that
transcended mere escaping? This book reveals the full story of that potential Trojan
horse inside Britain, the German plan for
a mass escape, the covert operations on
the Continent that went with it, and its aftermath. PEN & SWORD 2010 PB 189pp Illus
£25.00 17591 now £12.99
SCOTLAND
A NEW RACE OF MEN
Scotland 1815-1914
Michael Fry In this study of Scotland in the
19th century – from Waterloo to the outbreak
of the First World War – Michael Fry focuses
on politics, culture and the survival of distinct
forms of Scottishness that both derived from
an independent past and laid the foundations
for the reassertion of nationality. Drawing on
the experiences of individual Scottish men and
women rather than theories and statistics, he
discusses the characteristics that have assured
Scotland’s remarkable survival through three
centuries of Union with another nation.
£12.99 91871 now £5.99
BIRLINN 2013 HB 268pp Illus
£25.00 19211 now £9.99
RETURN TO ONE
MAN’S ISLAND
Paintings and Sketches
from the Isle of May
Back by
popular
demand
DOUBLE CROSS
The True Story of
the D-Day Spies
Ben Macintyre An important factor in
the ultimate success of D-Day was the
grand deception that the Allies would attack the Pas-de-Calais and not Normandy.
A small group of foreign spies that had
been turned to the Allied cause were a
critical part of this hoax, feeding misinformation to the German High Command.
The exploits of this colourful cadre of
spies remained classified and unknown
until the 1950s and are told here in this
readable history.
BLOOMSBURY 2012 HB 422pp Illus
£16.99 20410 now £6.99
Keith Brockie Over 30 years ago Keith
Brockie’s One Man’s Island established
him as a leading wildlife artist. In 2009
he returned to the Isle of May to produce
this new portfolio of artwork. The island
is a paradise for the nature artist, and with
nearly 150 drawings and paintings,
Brockie celebrates its enormous variety
of flora and fauna, including breeding and
migrating birds, sea creatures and grey
seals. BIRLINN 2012 HB 175pp Illus 297x239mm
£25.00 19237 now £9.99
THE BOOK OF ST ANDREWS
An Anthology
Ed. Robert Crawford This anthology of
imaginative writing inspired by or connected with St Andrews reflects the
charmingly kaleidoscopic juxtapositions
of the small but famous town’s buildings
and people. Ranging across millennia, the
poems, stories and memoirs are the work
of more than 60 authors, from Homer
to Ian Rankin, and illustrate the town’s
significance as a place of the literary
imagination.
NEW LOST BANFF
AND BUCHAN
Daniel MacCannell Neither highland nor
lowland Scotland, the area of Banff and
Buchan, to the east of Moray and to the
north of Aberdeen, is something of an
overlooked corner of the country. This illustrated history celebrates the region, recalling lost ways of life, buildings, industries and people, including the stories of
the long-defunct University of Fraserburgh, the local men who achieved military fame with foreign armies and the author of arguably the first British novel.
BIRLINN 2012 PB 240pp Illus
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LOCH LOMOND
AND THE TROSSACHS
Including the Rob Roy Country
Rennie McOwan Encompassing an area
of outstanding natural beauty where the
Highlands meet the forests and moors of
lowland Scotland, Loch Lomond and the
Trossachs was created a national park in
2002. This celebration of the area includes attractive photography of its landscapes and explores its flora and fauna
as well as its historical associations with
figures including Rob Roy, Robert the
Bruce and Walter Scott.
POLYGON 2007 PB 240pp 127x196mm
PEVENSEY GUIDES
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NEW THE BOOK OF
SOUTH BRENT
Greg Wall The earliest
reference to the small
town of South Brent on
the southern edge of
Dartmoor records that it
was granted to the abbots
of nearby Buckfast by
King Canute in 1018.
Tracing the story of the
village from the earliest
settlers, this local history
focuses on the period from
Edwardian Brent: Fore
the late 19th century to the present day with many archive
Street, around 1910
photographs of community activities such as plays, sports
teams, school groups, fetes and fairs. HALSGROVE 2005 HB 160pp Illus 305x216mm
£19.99 19533 now £7.99
THE QUEEN’S LONDON
The Metropolis in the
Diamond Jubilee Years
of Victoria and Elizabeth II
NEW
Jon Curry; Hugo Simms In 1897, a collection of photographs of London landmarks, from St Paul’s Cathedral to Horseguards’ Parade, was published to mark
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. This
captivating book brings the project into
the 21st century, matching the originals
to modern colour pictures taken from the
same viewpoints. Arranged geographically, the paired images range along the
Thames through Westminster and the City
and out to Camden and Lambeth. While
some scenes remain almost unaltered, others have changed beyond recognition.
£15.99 19742 now £5.99
Jason Hawkes If you think there is nothing new to be seen of London and its most
iconic landmarks, Jason Hawkes may yet
surprise you. This collection of over 120
shots from above by Britain’s leading aerial photographer reveals a London that
completely differs from the view on the
ground. From Harrods appearing factorylike to a positively tranquil Tottenham
Hotspur FC and the beauty of housing
built around a traffic circle, this is certainly the capital’s quirkier aspect.
HAWKES’ EYE VIEW: LONDON
NEW THE BOOK OF IVYBRIDGE
River, Mills and Moorland
Ivor Martin Taking its name from the 13th century bridge across the Erme,
Ivybridge in Devon began to grow from the 16th century as mills were built to
harness the river’s turbulent waters. This local history is a celebration of the town
and the neighbouring parishes of Cornwood, Harford, Ermington and Ugborough
and includes the memories and stories of local families and characters, particularly
over the last century, with archive photographs of the town and community events.
£19.99 19531 now £7.99
NEW BONEHILL
Evolution of a
Dartmoor Hamlet within
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
EHT Whitten Less than a mile
from the church, within the parish
bounds of the famous Dartmoor
village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor,
lies the tiny hamlet of Bonehill.
This account of its history
investigates field boundaries, ancient
granite longhouses and extensive
unpublished documents to reveal
a story that sheds light on the
evolution of many similar remote
settlements on Dartmoor over the
last 1,000 years. The book is illustrated with archive
maps, prints and contemporary photographs.
RYELANDS 2009 HB 128pp Illus 221x236mm
Widecombe’s St Pancras
Church seen from
Bonehill Lane
£19.99 19530 now £7.99
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December will be delivered in time for Christmas
AA 2009 HB 192pp Illus 260x260mm
£25.00 88700 now £8.99
900 YEARS OF
CHICHESTER’S MARKETS
Cattle, Corn and Crawfish
A LONDON YEAR
365 Days of City Life in
Diaries, Journals and Letters
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Travis Elborough; Nick Rennison An anthology
of ‘intimate snatches of London life’, with one
or more entries for each day of the year, this
handsome volume begins with a hungover
Robert Hooke on 1 January 1672; in June we
find Noël Coward detesting the 1951 Festival
of Britain funfair (‘really the last word in squalor
and completely ungay’) and, finally, there is a
millennial disappointment – MP Oona King on
New Year’s Eve 1999, stuck at Stratford Tube
station en route to the Millennium Dome festivities.
Alan HJ Green A market town since
Roman times, Chichester has had several different markets: as well as the
famous Market Cross, erected in 1501,
there were the Beast Market, the Butter
Market, the Corn Exchange and Corn
Market and the New Cattle Market,
created in 1871 and closed and bulldozed to make way for a car park in
1990. With over 100 illustrations, local
historian Alan Green traces the histories
of all Chichester’s markets in this first
book on the subject.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2013 HB 608pp Illus
PHILLIMORE 2011 HB 176pp Illus
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Marilyn Yurdan Brasenose College, Deadman’s Walk, Folly
Bridge, Harpsichord Place, Parson’s Pleasure... Oxford’s unique
history has endowed it with more quirky place names than any other
British city. How, for example, did St Aldate’s come to be named
after a saint who never existed? Illustrated with vintage and modern
photographs, this intriguing book ranges from ancient colleges to
industrial suburbs and out into the surrounding villages to unravel
the meaning and origins of this curious nomenclature.
NEW
THE STREET NAMES OF OXFORD
£12.99 19748 now £4.99
Derry Brabbs Britain’s smallest county can boast one of Europe’s
largest man-made lakes, Rutland Water, and its attractive towns and
villages, built largely of the locally quarried limestone, rival those of
the Cotswolds for picturesque charm. This photographic celebration
documents the attractive rolling countryside and farmland as it
changes throughout the year and features views and details of the
county’s most interesting buildings, from medieval stone churches
to its two famous public schools: Uppingham and Oakham.
NEW
A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF RUTLAND
FRANCES LINCOLN 2013 HB 112pp Illus 267x250mm
£16.99 17544 now £7.99
Jason Friend Planned by the Ramblers’ Association
to take walkers through the most spectacular landscapes
in the county, the Cumbria Way meanders some 70 miles
from Ulverston to Carlisle in the north. Jason Friend,
an award-winning photographer, has walked the route
several times and in different seasons. This book of 83
photographs, with accompanying commentary and maps,
The River
follows the trail northward, passing though Coniston,
Welland near Dungeon Ghyll, Keswick and Caldbeck to Carlisle
Caldecott
Castle. The book concludes with photographers’ notes
on the
on each image. ZYMURGY 2006 HB 128pp Illus 230x270mm
south-west
tip of Rutland
THE WILTSHIRE COTSWOLDS
Exploring Historic Wiltshire 3
Ken Watts With their undulating landscape sheltering old churches
and cottages of honey-coloured stone, the Cotswolds are one of the
best-loved corners of England. Few, however, are aware that they
extend beyond Gloucestershire into northwest Wiltshire. Combining
history, archaeology, biography, landscape and architecture, this
illustrated guide unlocks some of the region’s best-kept secrets,
from Cricklade in the north to Bradford-on-Avon in the south.
HOBNOB 2007 PB 300pp Illus
£12.95 94701 now £4.99
ISLAND FEVER
A Journey Around the Coastal
Islands of England and Wales
The view from Lower Lonscale over the fields near Keswick
Robin Jones Britain is an island nation in more senses than one: an
island itself, it has hundreds of smaller islets and archipelagos off its
shores. This exhilarating book takes the reader on an illustrated tour
of the English and Welsh coasts, describing the geography, history
and unique character of each island as it travels south from the
Bristol Channel, via Cornwall’s magical St Michael’s Mount, then
northeast to Lindisfarne, returning via the spectacular coast of Wales.
NEW
THE CUMBRIA WAY
£12.99 11060 now £5.99
Roly Smith; Photo. John Morrison Running 256 miles
from the Peak District to the Cheviots, the Pennine Way
was the first of Britain’s National Park Trails, and many
consider it the toughest. In this lyrical celebration of its
beauty and rigours, award-winning travel writer Roly
Smith charts its course, while John Morrison’s subtle,
perceptive photographs capture the rich variety of its
scenery, from the rugged Wainstones to the lush valley of
the Tees, from Haworth’s cobbled main street to Hadrian’s
Wall. FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB 112pp Illus 265x250mm
THE PENNINE WAY
£16.99 97672 now £7.99
A PEAK DISTRICT ANTHOLOGY
A Literary Companion to
Britain’s First National Park
Comp. Roly Smith Literary visitors have long been
inspired by the wonders of the Peak District; Ruskin and
Byron extolled its beauties, while Charlotte Brontë and
George Eliot used peakland settings for some of their
most vivid narratives. The flowering of guidebook
writing in the 20th century added to the Peak’s outdoor
literature, including writers such as Brian Redhead and
Guardian Country Diarist Roger Redfern. This wellillustrated anthology brings together the finest writing
about the Peak. FRANCES LINCOLN 2012 HB 208pp Illus
£16.99 16839 now £5.99
IAN ALLAN 2010 HB 160pp Illus 215x292mm
£19.99 10875 now £7.99
John Bailey The historic island of Anglesey and the Lleyn Peninsula,
jutting out into the Irish sea to the south, boast some of the most remote
and picturesque landscapes in Britain. This exploration of the region is
led by the author’s photographs, taking in all points of interest from
ancient standing stones and historic castles to spectacular coastal
scenes and studies of the flora and fauna. Also included are
eight guided walks, with maps. DB 2012 HB 192pp Illus
Cnicht and the
DISCOVERING THE LLEYN PENINSULA AND ANGLESEY
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BRITISH ISLES
EXPLORING BRITAIN’S
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Inspirational Journeys of Discovery
Back by
popular
demand
Visiting churches and chapels is not just
about admiring superb buildings of
architectural, artistic and historical
importance; the visitor is walking into
places that have been at the heart of people’s
lives for centuries. This illustrated AA guide
includes over 870 of the most inspiring of
these buildings in England, Scotland and
Wales. The churches are presented in eight
regional sections, but grouped around key
churches in smaller areas, so that visits
can be planned for one- or two-day tours.
AA 2011 HB 256pp Illus 278x215mm
£25.00 18182 now £8.99
WE’LL MEET AGAIN
Britain at War
Maureen Hill With advances in camera
technology, photojournalists were able
to record everyday life during the Second
World War with much more flexibility
than ever before and the Home Front
provided them with unforgettable visual
material. From bomb destruction and ration queues to evacuees and women
working in heavy industry, this collection of 350 photographs from the Daily
Mail archive contains many arresting
images and portrays a remarkable sense
of cheerfulness in the face of adversity.
ATLANTIC 2014 PB 160pp Illus 295x208mm
£9.99 20340 now £4.99
A SHELL EYE ON ENGLAND
The Shell County Guides 1934-84
David Heathcote From the 1930s to the
1980s, the Shell Guides offered motorists
an accessible, well-informed gazetteer to
England’s countryside, churches, manor
houses and market towns. Founded by John
Betjeman and John Piper, they were distinguished by their iconic artwork, typography and design. Arranged, like the guides
themselves, on a regional basis, this evocative, richly illustrated book not only chronicles the development of the series, but
demonstrates how it reflected our changing
attitudes to landscape and heritage over half
a century. LIBRI 2011 PB 224pp Illus 225x245mm
£24.95 87684 now £9.99
WORLD HERITAGE SITES OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
An Illustrated Guide to
All 27 World Heritage Sites
Victoria Huxley; Geoffrey Smith The 27
sites in the UK that have achieved UNESCO’s world heritage status range from
natural wonders such as the Giant’s Causeway and Devon’s Jurassic coast to important constructions marking milestones in
British and world history such as Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall and the industrial
landscapes of the Ironbridge Gorge and
Derwent Valley. This illustrated guide provides historical notes, maps and visitor information for each of these locations.
CHASTLETON 2009 PB 272pp Illus 227x125mm
£12.99 18214 now £3.99
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Jacqueline Fearn This little book provides a gentle introduction to heraldry and
its sometimes daunting terminology, explaining each term with illustrations and
text, and expounding the basic principles of coats of arms and the rules governing
their arrangement. With a foreword by the late JP Brooke-Little, formerly
Clarenceux King of Arms. SHIRE 2006 PB 96pp Illus 177x113mm
DISCOVERING HERALDRY
£5.99 97756 now £2.99
THE VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDES
Reprinted from late 19th and early 20th-century originals, these vintage guidebooks transport us back to the genteel tourism of a bygone era. Complete with
maps, old photographs, and a selection of period advertisements, they vividly
recreate a world of echoing cathedral cloisters, county cricket matches, teashops
and country railway stations. AMBERLEY 2014 PB 160pp Illus 199x124mm
£9.99 each
now £4.99 each
Edwin English First published in 1901, this guidebook charts the history of the
ancient university town since Anglo-Saxon times. It provides detailed descriptions
of all the colleges and other university buildings, churches, libraries, museums,
galleries and parks, and also of attractions in the surrounding area such as
Blenheim Palace.
19330
THE VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO OXFORD
Gordon Home; JW Clark Dating from the early 1900s, this guidebook surveys
the medieval town as it stood poised on the verge of the modern era. It provides
detailed descriptions of Cambridge’s ancient colleges, churches and libraries,
before concluding with a lively survey of the city’s social life.
19328
THE VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE
John Shetlock Dominated by its magnificent cathedral and just 60 miles from
London, Canterbury was as popular a tourist destination in the early 1900s as
it is today. This vintage guide provides descriptions of its rich architectural and
ecclesiastical heritage and covers the nearby attractions of the Isle of Thanet
and Herne Bay, then in its heyday as a seaside resort.
19329
THE VICTORIAN TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO CANTERBURY
NEW SHAKESPEARE
COUNTRY:
WARWICKSHIRE
Robin Jones Millions of visitors
flock to Stratford-upon-Avon
in search of Shakespeare, but it
was in the great medieval forest
to the north, in Warwickshire,
that the playwright’s family
originated. With Robin Jones’s
informative text and more than
200 colour photographs, this
book looks at the heart of
Shakespeare’s Warwickshire –
its towns and villages, rivers
and woodland, Warwick and Kenilworth castles – and the places
where the Shakespeare family lived for 300 years. Halsgrove
Discover Series. HALSGROVE 2010 HB 144pp Illus 213x227mm
£14.99 18238 now £6.99
Stratford’s halftimbered King
Edward VI school
and Guildhall
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
Feng Jicai A colourful and very accessible
introduction to Chinese culture, this book
comprises concise, well-illustrated and
richly informative articles on aspects of the
country ranging from natural wonders such
as the magical Stone Forest to chopsticks.
Beginning with cultural icons, including
calligraphy, fengshui and the four auspicious
creatures, the book has chapters covering
architecture, festivals, daily life, arts and
crafts, legends, famous historical figures
and the performing arts.
NEW
SYMBOLS OF CHINA
COMPENDIUM 2009 HB 256pp Illus 288x220mm
£24.99 19764 now £9.99
Figurine of Cai Shen, the god
of wealth and good fortune
NEW IRRESISTIBLE NORTH
From Venice to Greenland on
the Trail of the Zen Brothers
Andrea di Robilant In 1558, a Venetian
statesman published an account of a voyage
by his ancestors Nicolo and Antonio Zen
in which they claimed to have discovered
America a century before Columbus. Their
account was later dismissed as one of the
greatest frauds in the history of navigation
– but was it? Combining history and
travelogue, the author follows their route
from the Faroes to Iceland and Greenland,
bringing to life a medieval world of traders
and fishermen, Viking earls and powerhungry bishops. American-cut pages.
KNOPF 2011 HB 228pp Illus 242x152mm
$25.95 19523 now £6.99
Federico Fellini described Rome as ‘a
carousel of memories, real events and
dreams,’ and its long history and rich heritage give the city a unique appeal for visitors. Lavishly illustrated with thrilling
colour photographs, this volume captures
all Rome’s glamour and grandeur, from
the forum to the Vatican, from street life
to high fashion. Special features explore
its art, culture, shopping and transport,
and the book includes maps and a timeline. Fascinating Cities series.
ROME
MONACO 2009 HB 160pp Illus
£12.99 18116 now £4.99
VIEWS OF JERUSALEM
AND THE HOLY LAND
Steven Brooke Featuring soaring landscapes and sites sacred to Jews, Christians
and Muslims, such as the Monastery of
the Cross, the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem has drawn religious
and artistic pilgrims for millennia. Inspired by Italian and Dutch view painters
of the 17th and 18th centuries, Stephen
Brooke’s carefully composed photographs
document the architectural drama and the
environs of this most fascinating city.
RIZZOLI 2002 PB 112pp Illus 170x240mm
£20.00 19010 now £7.99
of the voyage of the Paramore in 1609 to
selections from Richard Byrd’s Alone
(1938) and Fuchs and Hilary’s description
of their surface crossing in 1955-8, these
readings, together with Brandt’s commentary, offer a composite history of Antarctica. Among the narratives of heroic voyages and treks undertaken against
impossible odds are the ill-fated attempts
of Shackleton and Scott and the triumph
of Amundsen’s Norwegian Antarctic
Expedition in 1910-12. NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC 2004 PB 464pp 230x152mm
$15.00 68356 now £4.99
ODD MAN OUT
IN THE ALPS
Sir Ron Norman is celebrated as an engineer and entrepreneur; less well known
are his love of walking and his narrative
gifts. In this delightful book he describes
how, eschewing high-tech hiking gear in
favour of sandals and shorts, he strode
out to follow the Grand Randonée Cinq
from Lake Geneva to Nice. Ornithologist,
gourmet and eccentric Englishman
abroad, he makes the perfect travelling
companion, an ever-amusing and engaging observer of landscape and people.
STACEY 2008 HB 320pp Illus
£16.95 18166 now £5.99
THE SOUTH POLE
A Historical Reader
Ed. Anthony Brandt Arranged chronologically from Edmond Halley’s account
As lavishly illustrated as a coffee-table book
and as informative as a travel guide, the Photo
Guide to Tuscany is the perfect companion for
the visitor interested in exploring the region’s
history and culture. The ‘Highlights’ chapters
cover the greatest of Tuscany’s cities –
Florence, Pisa, Arezzo, Siena and Grosseto –
and their surrounding towns; an ‘Explorer’
section includes hotels and road trips; and the
guide ends with a comprehensive atlas and
place index. MONACO 2010 PB 288pp Illus
TUSCANY PHOTO GUIDE
£12.99 16679 now £4.99
NEW THE GREAT RACE
The Race Between the English
and the French to Complete
the Map of Australia
David Hill In April 1802, in the Southern
Ocean, two explorers met by chance: the
Englishman Matthew Flinders and his
French counterpart Nicolas Baudin. Each
had been sent by his government to explore the coast of Australia. Drawing on
diaries and other first-hand accounts, this
compelling book recounts the deadly race
to claim ownership of the continent, in
which both men endured terrible hardships, Flinders shipwrecked and imprisoned by the French for six years, and
Baudin dying on his return journey.
The facade of the Duomo San Donato in
Arezzo begun in 1277 but never fully completed
LITTLE, BROWN 2012 HB 400pp Illus
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BIOGRAPHY
SHAKESPEARE AND
HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Charles Nicholl argues that, far from being a
lone genius, Shakespeare belonged to a talented
and influential group of writers, among them
Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne
and Sir Walter Ralegh. Using portraits from
the archives of the National Portrait Gallery,
Nicholl examines the lives of over 20 subjects –
playwrights, poets, pamphleteers and patrons,
actors and lovers – and investigates what
motivated them to write, who paid them and
who provided their inspiration. One of the
NPG’s Insights series. NATIONAL PORTRAIT
GALLERY 2005 HB 112pp Illus 210x140mm
£9.99 18294 now £3.99
THE PRINCE
OF MEDICINE
Galen in the Roman Empire
NEW
Susan P Mattern Galen of Pergamum,
court physician to the family of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most
influential figure in western medicine
until the 20th century. In the first biography of Galen in English, Mattern examines his prodigious corpus of philosophical and medical treatises to paint
a portrait of a shameless self-publicist
who could be arrogant and fiercely competitive but was also relentless in his
pursuit of cures and an advocate of rigorous observation and experimentation.
OXFORD UP 2013 HB 358pp Illus
JANET ASHBEE
Love, Marriage and the
Arts & Crafts Movement
Felicity Ashbee Though chiefly remembered as the wife of the celebrated Arts
and Crafts designer CR Ashbee, Janet
Ashbee was an influential writer and
thinker in her own right. In this intimate,
informative biography, her daughter charts
the private and public life of this pioneering feminist and socialist for the first time.
Setting Ashbee’s achievements in the context of a period when established norms
were increasingly challenged, it also examines how she came to terms with her
husband’s well-known homosexuality.
SYRACUSE UP 2002 HB 277pp Illus
$39.95 19027 now £9.99
£20.00 18887 now £8.99
Ed. Lawrence Goldman This is the first
printed supplement to the Oxford DNB
(2004) and includes entries on 819 men
and women who shaped recent British
history and who died between 2001 and
2004. The earliest person by birth date is
the dancer and choreographer Dame
Ninette de Valois (1898-2001), but the
majority of subjects grew up in the interwar years. Among the notable figures in
this supplement are Barbara Castle, John
Peel, Alicia Markova, Francis Crick and
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. No jacket.
OXFORD UP
2009 HB 1,278pp Illus 253x196mm
£9.99 16643 now £4.99
£12.95 62907 now £4.99
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
2001-2004
Paul Stephenson In 312 CE, Constantine
– one of four emperors ruling a divided
empire – marched on Rome to establish
control of the western empire. On the eve
of the decisive battle he saw a vision
which led him to convert to Christianity.
Stephenson’s biography uses literary,
artistic, numismatic and archaeological
evidence to examine the religious background of Constantine’s conversion and
the life and legacy of a seminal figure in
the political and cultural history of the
West. QUERCUS 2011 PB 384pp Illus
Brian Lavery Horatio Nelson was undoubtedly Britain’s greatest naval commander. Although his complex character
often made him enemies and led to mistakes in both his public and private life,
he was an unrivalled seaman, an original
and brave tactician and a charismatic
leader. In this volume, Brian Lavery describes a legend in naval history, from
his first naval posting at the age of twelve
to his heroic death at Trafalgar. Published
in association with the National Maritime
Museum.
Ed. Lawrence Goldman This second
printed supplement to the 60-volume print
edition of the Oxford DNB contains biographies of 865 people who died between
2005 and 2008. The earliest of them by
birth is Alfred Anderson, the last surviving
soldier who served in the First World War
and who died in 2005, aged 109. Among
the other biography subjects are Ronnie
Barker, Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, Harold
Pinter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Robin
Cook, and Arthur C Clarke. No jacket.
£100.00 17381 now £40.00
CONSTANTINE
Unconquered Emperor,
Christian Victor
HORATIO LORD NELSON
OXFORD DICTIONARY
OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
2005-2008
THE TEMPTRESS
The Scandalous Life of
Alice Countess De Janze
Paul Spicer American heiress Alice de
Janze was immortalized in the film
White Mischief, the story of Kenya’s
decadent colonial set during the 1940s
and the murder of her lover, the Earl of
Erroll. Identifying Alice as the killer,
this biography pieces the mystery together and tells the tale of the volatile
socialite’s life in America, Europe and
Africa, including the shooting of another
lover at a Paris railway station in 1927.
NEW
SIMON & SCHUSTER 2011 PB 320pp Illus
£7.99 19647 now £3.99
£100.00 17380 now £40.00
OXFORD DICTIONARY OF
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Index of Contributors
Ed. HCG Matthew; Brian Harrison Covering biographies from the earliest time to
the year 2000, the Index of Contributors
lists the authors of entries published in the
Oxford DNB in September 2004, and shows
which articles each wrote or revised.
In earlier editions of the DNB (published
between 1885 and 1900) articles were
signed with initials; in the Index, these have
been converted to full names. No jacket.
OXFORD UP 2004 HB 479pp 244x186mm
£63.00 17382 now £14.99
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BIOGRAPHY
NEW COURAGE
Eight Portraits
Gordon Brown Published during Brown’s prime
ministership, this study of courage traces the lives
of eight inspirational figures: Robert Kennedy,
Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Edith Cavell,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Raoul Wallenberg, Cecily
Saunders and Aung San Suu Kyi. With insight and
clarity, it examines the qualities that enable some
men and women to make difficult decisions, putting
the good of their fellow beings above their personal
comfort, safety, and even their lives.
WEINSTEIN 2008 PB 304pp Illus 225x143mm
$15.95 19520 now £3.99
ROMMEL: THE END
OF A LEGEND
A BOOK OF SECRETS
Illegitimate Daughters,
Absent Fathers
Michael Holroyd Alice Keppel was mistress to both the Prince of Wales and Lord
Grimthorpe; Grimthorpe’s abandoned fiancée Eve Fairfax was sometime muse to
Rodin; while his daughter Violet Trefusis
became the lover of Vita Sackville-West.
Transporting the reader from Yorkshire to
Rapallo, this biographical tour de force
follows an intimate web of connections
though the undercurrents of Victorian and
Edwardian society to bring to light this
brilliant company of neglected women.
NEW
VINTAGE 2011 PB 272pp Illus
£8.99 19771 now £3.99
AN Wilson Adolf Hitler maintained that
his life was characterized by ‘struggle’
from its very beginning but, as AN Wilson
explains, the future dictator grew up in
middle-class comfort, feckless, romantic
and unmotivated. In a masterful biography, Wilson portrays the perplexing figure
of Hitler with verve and acuity, and shows
that it was his frightening normality – not
some otherworldy evil – that makes him
truly terrifying. BASIC 2012 HB 223pp
HITLER
£16.99 95453 now £6.99
Ralf Georg Reuth; Trans. Debra S
Marmor; Herbert A Danner German
historian Ralf Reuth’s study of the great
military commander Erwin Rommel
eschews the traditional biographical
approach in favour of focusing on five
controversial themes: Rommel’s relationship to National Socialism, the true
value of his North African successes, the
wartime propaganda that made his
name, his participation in resistance to
Hitler and the post war myth-making
that created his legend.
HAUS 2009 PB 249pp
£10.99 98027 now £4.99
MASKERADO
Dancing Around Death
in Nazi Hungary
Tivadar Soros escaped from a Russian
PoW camp during the First World War,
an adventure that prepared him well for
the unique demands of evading capture
in German-occupied Hungary in 1944 –
the subject of this memoir. Describing
how he faced the daily threat of discovery
while helping many of his fellow Jews to
obtain false papers and escape, it is a remarkable account of day-to-day life in
Nazi-controlled Budapest.
Mainland UK orders
received by
Monday 21 December
will be delivered
Harry Leslie Smith Born in Yorkshire in
1923 and brought up in poverty, Harry
Leslie Smith is a survivor of the Great
Depression, an RAF veteran of the Second
World War and now an activist for the
preservation of social democracy and author of Guardian articles online. Part autobiography, part commentary on contemporary society, this is his passionate
account of ‘how the world my generation
built is falling down, and what we can do
to save it’. ICON 2014 PB 224pp
HARRY’S LAST STAND
£8.99 19831 now £3.99
£8.99 17808 now £3.99
COUNTING ONE’S BLESSINGS
The Selected Letters of
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Ed. William Shawcross Drawing on the Royal
Archives and the archives at Glamis Castle, the Queen
Mother’s official biographer presents a selection of
letters written by Elizabeth to her family, friends and a
circle of acquaintance that included Churchill, Benjamin
Britten and Ted Hughes. Covering all phases of her life
– as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, Queen
Consort and Queen Mother – the letters illuminate a
personality described by her grandson Prince Charles
as ‘wise, loving, with an utterly irresistible
mischievousness of spirit’. PAN 2013 PB 688pp Illus
£9.99 19620 now £4.99
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN
The Life of a Modern Monarch
Sally Bedell Smith In a meticulously researched account, the American biographer
Sally Bedell Smith offers a fresh perspective on the public and private lives of
Queen Elizabeth 11. American-cut pages. RANDOM HOUSE 2012 HB 686pp
Ashley Jackson Uniquely endowed with
talent, energy and determination, Winston
Churchill was, in the words of Professor
Jackson, ‘a formidably powerful human
being, a man whose achievements and
greatness have become so interwoven
with 20th century world history that it is
easy to take them for granted’. In this
much-acclaimed account, Jackson describes the contours and contradictions of
a remarkable life and career and ‘Winston
Churchill’s appointment with destiny’.
$30.00 11802 now £9.99
CHURCHILL
QUERCUS 2012 PB 432pp
£9.99 16642 now £4.99
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NEW HERMAN HESSE
The Classic Biography
Bernhard Zeller The Nobel Prizewinning author
Herman Hesse (1877-1962) is one of the most
influential writers of the 20th century. This
biography, first published in German soon after
his death, draws on the recollections of family and
friends, including literary contemporaries Thomas
Mann and André Gide. It reveals how formative
experiences such as his journey to India, his Jungian
analysis and his emigration to Switzerland in protest
against German militarism found expression in
his novels Steppenwolf, Siddartha and The Glass
Bead Game. PETER OWEN 2014 PB 220pp Illus
£14.99 19602 now £6.99
THE LETTERS OF TS ELIOT
NEW
THE VAMPYRE FAMILY
Passion, Envy and
the Curse of Byron
Andrew McConnell Stott In the spring
of 1816, a ‘knot of scribblers, male and
female, with weak nerves and disordered
brain’ gathered in Geneva. This account
of the three months that Byron, Shelley,
Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John
Polidori spent together tells how their
stormy menage, charged with artistic and
sexual tensions, fuelled an outburst of creativity that produced Byron’s Childe
Harold, Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’, Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein and the first great
vampire novel, Polidori’s The Vampyre.
CANONGATE 2013 HB 464pp Illus
£25.00 19878 now £8.99
THE ODE LESS TRAVELLED
Unlocking the Poet Within
Stephen Fry believes that if you can write
English, you can write poetry. But it’s no
fun if you’ve been led to believe that anything goes. His typically amusing and
lighthearted book unlocks the delights of
rhyme, metre and form, explaining how
to compose a sonnet, a villanelle or an
epithalamion. Its enjoyable exercises,
witty insights and step-by-step instructions will guide any would-be poet towards a mastery of verse.
ARROW 2007 PB 383pp
£8.99 18209 now £3.99
NEW VOLUME I: 1898-1922 (Revised edition)
Ed. Valerie Eliot; Hugh Haughton First published in 1988 and republished in a
revised edition, with approximately 200 new items, this first volume of the Letters
covers the years from the poet’s childhood in St Louis, Missouri to 1922, by which
time he had settled in England and published The Waste Land. FABER 2009 HB 911pp Illus
£35.00 19574 now £9.99
Ed. Valerie Eliot; Hugh Haughton The prolific and varied correspondence in this
second volume reflects Eliot’s profoundly influential work as editor of the Criterion
and cultural commentator. It demonstrates not only the emerging continuities
between his thinking as poet and essayist, but also their relation to his friendships
and personal circumstances. FABER 2009 HB 912pp Illus
NEW
VOLUME II: 1923-1925
£35.00 19575 now £9.99
Ed. Valerie Eliot; John Haffenden During the crucial years covered by this third
volume of correspondence, Eliot set a new course for his life and work: he was
received into the Church of England and naturalized as a British citizen; and there
was a new manner and vision in his poetry, with the first of the Ariel poems,
‘Journey of the Magi’, published in 1927. FABER 2012 HB 992pp Illus
NEW
VOLUME III: 1926-1927
£40.00 19573 now £9.99
Norman Watson ‘Oh, Heaven! ’tis a
dreadful calamity to narrate,/ Because the
victims have met with a cruel fate.’ William
Topaz McGonagall is remembered as the
worst poet of all time. With their inept scansion and comic bathos, his lurid verse accounts of death and disaster have endeared
themselves to generations. But who was
he? This revealing biography explores the
extraordinary life of the former Dundee
weaver turned self-styled ‘tragedian and
poet’ to ask whether, perhaps, the joke was
on us all along. BIRLINN 2010 HB 316pp Illus
POET McGONAGALL
£20.00 88461 now £6.99
WEST’S WORLD
The Extraordinary Life
of Dame Rebecca West
Lorna Gibb Born in 1892, the young actress
Cicely Fairfield changed her name to that of
the heroine of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm — Rebecca
West. This definitive biography charts the life
and work of this major writer, best remembered
for her classic travelogue Black Lamb, Grey
Falcon, set in pre-war Yugoslavia. It explores
her commitment to feminism and socialism, her
notorious affair with HG Wells, and her troubled
relationship with their son Anthony, creating a
subtle and sympathetic portrait of this fiercely
intelligent woman. MACMILLAN 2013 HB 329pp Illus
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THE LITERARY HERITAGE
OF THE ARABS: An Anthology
NEW
Ed. Suheil Bushrui; James M Malarkey
This anthology comprises more than 180
selections from the finest poetry and prose
by Arab writers of the last 1,500 years, in
English translations illustrating the spectrum
of approaches used since the 17th century.
In addition to the Qu’ran and such classic
authors as al-Mutanabbi, it features works
which were composed by Christian and
Jewish writers from the Arab world or which
illustrate Arabic literature’s connections with
other literary traditions of South Asia and
Western Europe. SAQI 2012 HB 489pp
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Andrew Parker When Andrew Parker
published research into the evolution of the
earliest eye he received letters pointing out
parallels with the description of the creation
of light in the book of Genesis. So in this
book he undertakes a detailed comparison
between modern scientific discoveries and
the curiously illogical ordering of the biblical account, which reveals remarkable
connections and prompts him to reflect on
the place of God in a scientific world. DOUNEW
THE GENESIS ENIGMA
BLEDAY 2009 PB 335pp
£13.99 18980 now £5.99
THE MYTH
OF PERSECUTION
How Early Christians Invented
a Story of Martyrdom
NEW
RELIGION
NEW THE HISTORICAL DAVID
The Real Life of an Invented Hero
Joel Baden Described by Diarmuid MacCulloch
as ‘an invigoratingly grown-up reading of the
Bible’, this book is a revisionist analysis of King
David’s presentation in the Hebrew scriptures.
Baden shows that the historical figure, who did not
write Psalms or kill Goliath, was reinvented as a
glorious king through layers of fact and fiction –
the spin of Samuel and Chronicles followed by
the messianic connections presented in the
New Testament – which have contributed
to our idealized cultural memory of David.
HARPER ONE 2013 HB 352pp
$26.99 19903 now £6.99
Candida Moss Central to the traditions
of Christianity is the example of the early
martyrs, crucified, burned and thrown to
wild beasts because they refused to renounce their faith. Yet as this controversial
study makes clear, the myth of persecution
was greatly exaggerated. Drawing on both
Christian and pagan sources, it shows that
only during brief, widely separated intervals did believers suffer violence, and that
for much of Roman history they prospered
and even achieved high public office.
NEW LIVING WITH A WILD GOD
A Non-Believer’s Search for
the Truth About Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich In middle age, the
acclaimed social commentator Barbara Ehrenreich
rediscovered a journal she had kept as a teenager.
It recorded an event so strange that she had never
spoken or written about it: a mystical experience
that rocked her steadfast rationalist convictions.
In this profound reflection on science, religion
and the human condition, she attempts to
reconcile that cataclysmic moment with her
secular understanding, challenging us to reassess
our perceptions of life. GRANTA 2014 HB 253pp
HARPER ONE 2013 HB 320pp
$25.99 19906 now £6.99
FONT OF LIFE
Ambrose, Augustine and
the Mystery of Baptism
Garry Wills No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose,
Bishop of Milan, and Augustine of Hippo,
the North African philosopher and author
of the Confessions. They met in 387 when
Augustine went to Milan to be baptised.
Combining groundbreaking research with
narrative verve, Wills describes the troubled
relationship between the two churchmen
and the theological differences that would
have a profound impact on the future of
Christianity. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 208pp Illus
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FAVOURITE HYMNS
2,000 Years of Magnificat
Marjorie Reeves; Jenyth Worsley This
anthology brings together more than 80
poems which have become our best-loved
hymns, ranging from the liturgies of
Christianity’s early centuries, through the
plainsong hymns of the Middle Ages to
the most successful songs of recent
decades. Each text is prefaced by a summary of the personal experience and cultural context which lie behind its composition. CONTINUUM 2004 PB 223pp
£13.99 66103 now £3.99
NEW UNDERSTANDING
THE QUR’AN TODAY
Mahmoud Hussein is the pseudonym of two
French political writers of Egyptian origin, whose
bestselling work engaging with the debate on Islam
and modernity is now available in English. In 20
short chapters they examine three propositions:
that God’s Word maintains a living link with the
historical context of its revelation; that it takes
the form of an exchange between Heaven and
Earth; and that the Qur’an enunciates different
orders of truth. SAQI 2013 PB 176pp
£10.00 19949 now £4.99
Michael Cook gives an incisive account of
the man who inspired the Islamic faith, drawing
on the traditional Muslim sources to describe
Muhammad’s life and teaching. He also attempts
to stand back from this traditional picture to question how far it is historically
justified. From the Past Masters series of introductions to the thought of leading
intellectual figures. OXFORD UP 1996 PB 112pp 195x127mm
MUHAMMAD
HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL
The Secret History of Jesus,
The Shocking Legacy of the Grail
Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry
Lincoln This is a special illustrated edition
of the controversial work which, its authors
claimed in a 2005 court case, formed the
basis of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
Greeted with outrage on its first appearance, the book presents startling evidence
that Christ did not die on the Cross,
that he married Mary Magdalene, and their
descendants form a secret order that still
influences world affairs. It is a work of
painstaking historical research, but with
the makings of a thriller.
DELACORTE 2005 HB 511pp Illus 255x198mm
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POLITICS/CULTURAL STUDIES
NEW MERCHANT, SOLDIER, SAGE
A History of the World in Three Castes
David Priestland Human history, this remarkable
new analysis argues, has been a struggle for
supremacy between three castes. At times, one
of these has predominated: the soldier in the
run-up to the First World War, the merchant
before the crash of 1929, the sage or expert
during the founding of the Welfare State. When
any one assumes too much influence, a crisis
ensues. Since 2008, Priestland argues, a discredited
merchant class has clung to power – but a new
order will soon emerge. Felt-tip mark on lower
trimmed edge. PENGUIN 2013 HB 352pp 242x160mm
$27.95 19524 now £7.99
JUST BORIS
The Irresistible Rise of
a Political Celebrity
Sonia Purnell ‘We may feel we know the
public Boris, but so much about this multilayered character is not quite as it seems.’
From the vantage point of a once close
colleague, investigative journalist Sonia
Purnell charts the remarkable rise of
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – just
‘Boris’ to most of us – and offers the first
forensic account of just how he did it.
AURUM 2012 HB 459pp Illus
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NEW A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE SMILE
Angus Trumble From the Mona Lisa
and Laughing Cavalier to toothpaste
advertisements, smiles are culturally
pervasive, but their meanings change
over time and around the world. Trumble explores these nuances and the implications of the leer, the snarl, the
smirk and the lewd grin; he also probes
behavioural and psychological aspects
of this often impulsive act, asking how
smiling fosters interpersonal attachments and at what age infants’ smiles
become an act of communication.
HARMONY
A New Way of
Looking at Our World
BASIC 2004 HB 266pp
HARPER PERENNIAL 2010 PB 336pp Illus
$26.00 96807 now £5.99
COMING UP TRUMPS
A Memoir
$18.99 11881 now £4.99
NEW
Jean Trumpington The daughter of an
officer and an American heiress, Jean
Trumpington was born into a world of
considerable privilege, but the Wall Street
Crash wiped out her mother’s fortune. In
this forthright memoir Trumpington looks
back on her long and remarkable life during which she worked for Lloyd George
and then at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, married and had a muchloved son, and later embarked on a political career, becoming a life peer in 1980.
NEW
£16.99 19249 now £6.99
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$65.00 19379 now £11.99
LAST MAN STANDING
Memoirs of a Political Survivor
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FROM LUCY TO LANGUAGE
Revised, updated and expanded
Donald Johanson; Blake Edgar Covering the
period between our ape ancestors’ adoption of
bipedalism and the beginnings of modern human
culture and language, this readable, informative
and well illustrated volume assembles
photographic documentation of more than 200
remains of early hominids, including the famous
‘Lucy’ discovered by Johanson in 1974. This is
preceded by an overview of the key issues in
modern paleoanthropology, such as the dating of
fossils, the definition of different human species
and the analysis of the earliest art and stone tools.
MACMILLAN 2014 HB 250pp Illus
Jack Straw As a child in a council flat in
Epping, Jack Straw never imagined he
would one day hold three great offices of
state. In this candid, self-deprecating and
very readable memoir, he charts his
progress from student politics to the international stage. Without rancour or selfjustification, he reveals the toll that public
office takes on private life, discusses the
fateful decision to go to war in Iraq, and
offers first-hand insights into the both the
Blair government and the Bush administration. PAN 2012 PB 590pp Illus
HRH The Prince of Wales For decades the
Prince of Wales has studied a wide range of
disciplines in his quest to understand how
modern industrialization has led us to a state
of disharmony with our world. In this book,
with its holistic and well-argued approach,
he takes the discussion of sustainability and
climate change in a new direction, incorporating the traditional wisdom of the past with
modern science to create a new, more balanced vision of our world.
Skull of a male mountain gorilla from Rwanda
THE ALASTAIR CAMPBELL DIARIES
As the controversial spin-doctor at the heart of New Labour, Alastair
Campbell was uniquely placed to observe the party’s rise to power and the
inner workings of Tony Blair’s government. Frank, often funny and always
compelling, Campbell offers a unique insight into the key personalities and
the at times explosive relations between them. HUTCHINSON 2010/11 PB 792/747pp
Volume One: PRELUDE
In the first of four volumes of diaries, Campbell records in meticulous detail every
day from the sudden death of John Smith and Tony Blair’s subsequent election as
Labour leader in 1994 to his triumphant entry into Downing Street three years later.
£18.00 96546 now £6.99
Volume Three: POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY 1999-2001
Volume three of the diaries begins amid the complexities of the conflict in Kosovo,
and at home covers some of the worst domestic crises of Labour’s second term –
foot and mouth disease, protests over fuel prices and the agonies of the Millennium
Dome. It ends, dramatically, on 11 September 2001 and Tony Blair’s immediate
response to the attack on the Twin Towers.
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CULTURAL STUDIES
NEW THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY
What Can We Learn
from Traditional Societies?
Jared Diamond A professor of geography at
UCLA, Jared Diamond looks back to humans’
former lifestyle through his own fieldwork in
traditional societies that still exist or were recently
in existence, such as the highland peoples of New
Guinea, Andaman Islanders, African Hadza and
North American Inuit. Diamond highlights the
many crucial lessons to be gleaned from ‘primitive’
societies, pointing to life decisions that may help us
live longer, healthier lives, enjoy old age, and raise
self-confident children. VIKING 2013 HB 512pp Illus
$36.00 19907 now £6.99
THE ANCIENT PATHS
Discovering the Lost
Map of Celtic Europe
Graham Robb describes his minutelyresearched cycle ride across Europe along
the route of the legendary Heraklean Way
which stretches from the south-western
tip of the Iberian peninsula, across the
Pyrenees to the Alps. Along the way he
delves into Julius Caesar’s descriptions
of Gaul and its inhabitants, analyses different versions of the myth of Hercules
and explores the physical and intellectual
world of the ancient Celts – their gods,
art and sophisticated scientific knowledge.
PICADOR 2013 HB 409pp Illus
£20.00 18242 now £8.99
NEW
ROUGH AND TUMBLE
Aggression, Hunting and Human Evolution
Travis Rayne Pickering Anthropologists have
traditionally viewed a coupling of aggression and predation as the evolutionary
milestone that brought about ambush hunting approximately two million years ago.
But Rough and Tumble challenges this view, since aggressive attack was a hopeless
tactic for humans who were smaller and slower-footed than their prey. The author
uses fossils, archaeological evidence and studies of humans and other primates to
argue that it was the advent of new hunting technologies that allowed humans to
stalk and kill large game. CALIFORNIA UP 2013 HB 222pp Illus
£19.95 19103 now £7.99
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POCKET GUIDES SERIES
THE POCKET GUIDE TO
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Diane Canwell; Jon Sutherland Reviewing Iolanthe
in November 1882, the Morning Advertiser’s critic
opined, ‘Neither Mr Gilbert as an author, nor Mr
Sullivan as a musician, write for immortality’; but
well over a century later enthusiasm for works such
as The Mikado continues unabated. The Pocket Guide
gives a concise, yet detailed account of Gilbert and
Sullivan’s collaboration, exploring the themes around
each operetta, setting them in historical context,
and surveying some of their greatest performers.
REMEMBER WHEN 2011 PB 192pp Illus
£12.99 10991 now £4.99
THE POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN
ARTISTS AND THEIR MODELS
BEACON FOR CHANGE
How the 1951 Festival of Britain
Helped to Shape a New Age
Barry Turner The 1951 Festival of
Britain brought a breath of excitement and
optimism to the drab post-war years of rationing and austerity. This absorbing book
explores the intentions of its creators,
charts the effect of its satellite
festivals all over Britain, and records how
it transformed London’s South Bank with
buildings such as the Royal Festival Hall
and the futuristic Skylon, spawned the
Miss World contest, introduced Britons to
Scandinavian design... and offered them
their first experience of soft lavatory paper.
AURUM 2012 HB 288pp Illus
£16.99 17884 now £6.99
Russell James Arranged by genre, the Pocket Guide covers some 400 artists, from
the famous to the long-forgotten, looking at their lives rather than their art. It also
devotes a chapter to the artists’ models, identifying the sitters in paintings and telling
the stories of particularly ‘close relationships’, including Holman Hunt’s on-off
engagement to Annie Miller, and Rossetti’s affair with the famous Pre-Raphaelite
beauty, Jane Morris. REMEMBER WHEN 2011 PB 223pp Illus
£12.99 10996 now £4.99
Andrew Taylor After introductory chapters reflecting on what poetry is, tracing
its history and describing the different types of metre and verse forms, the Pocket
Guide gives brief biographies and details of the principal works of more than 250
individual poets, arranged chronologically from Homer to Simon Armitage.
There is also a glossary and an index of poets. REMEMBER WHEN 2011 PB 160pp Illus
THE POCKET GUIDE TO POETS AND POETRY
£12.99 10993 now £4.99
Anna Selby Beginning with a time chart from 1600 to 1970, this handy guide
manages to be full of anecdote and little-known facts as well as offering a broad
introduction to opera. After synopses of 50 operas, arranged chronologically from
Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten, Anna
Selby profiles opera’s greatest composers, its finest singers and legendary figures
among conductors, librettists and directors. REMEMBER WHEN 2011 PB 160pp
THE POCKET GUIDE TO OPERA
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REFERENCE/LANGUAGE
WHO, OR WHY, OR WHICH, OR WHAT?
A Global Gazetteer of the
Instructive and Strange
John Oldale ‘A collection of some of the more
unusual facts concerning every nation on earth’,
Oldale’s illustrated gazetteer provides a wondrous
miscellany of information, from the origins of the
carrot (Afghanistan) and the only confirmed gender
cheat in Olympic history (Germany) to Zimbabwe’s
inflation nightmare. There are also Global Significance
Ratings for each country (UK comes third), a list of
their World Heritage sites and how to say ‘hello’ and
‘goodbye’. PARTICULAR 2011 HB 309pp Illus
£16.99 98092 now £6.99
NEW OXFORD A-Z
OF GRAMMAR AND
PUNCTUATION
NO MORE BRAIN DRAIN
Proven Ways to Maintain
Your Mind and Memories
NEW
Breakthrough research proves you can not
only grow new brain cells at any age, but
also ‘rewire’ your brain to increase its
capacity. Based on more than 100 scientific studies, this practical guide explains
basic brain functions, the ‘brain drains’ –
such as stress, depression and medical
issues – and the way to counter them.
It then sets out a brain fitness programme,
with puzzles, exercises and recipes to
nourish your mental powers. Off-mint.
READER’S DIGEST 2009 HB 320pp Illus
$9.96 19761 now £7.99
John Seely After a brief introduction to
grammar, this handy guide comprises an
A-Z of over 300 headwords – from abbreviation to zero relative – each defining
and/or explaining a grammatical term,
along with explanatory diagrams, hundreds
of real examples and advice for improving
your written English. Second edition.
OXFORD UP 2009 PB 192pp 170x110mm
£5.99 18865 now £2.99
NEW
A-Z OF
ARABIC-ENGLISH-ARABIC
TRANSLATION
Ronak Husni; Daniel L Newman This
guide to common grammatical, lexical and
semantic issues in Arabic translation is suitable for classroom use by university students and as a reference work for professional translators. The authors highlight
common pitfalls in working from English
to Arabic and from Arabic to English, suggesting strategies for effective translation,
offering guidance on correct usage and discussing idiomatic expressions in both languages. Each problem is illustrated with
examples drawn from contemporary literature and media texts. SAQI 2013 PB 314pp
£16.99 19941 now £6.99
COLLINS LATIN LANGUAGE
AND ROMAN CULTURE
HOBSON-JOBSON
The Anglo-Indian Dictionary
Henry Yule; AC Burnell Bungalow,
pyjamas, veranda, curry, chintz, gingham,
junk... Just a few of the words that have
crept into the English language from the
colonial era in the Indian subcontinent
and the Malay peninsula. This immensely
detailed glossary, tracing origins and
giving quotations to illustrate usage, was
compiled in the late 19th century. Never
superseded in its field, it is a must for
students of etymology and for anyone interested in the attitudes and activities of
the British imperialists in their heyday.
Reprint. WORDSWORTH 2008 PB 472pp
20417 now £3.99
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Ben Harris Useful both as a guide for beginners and as a reference work for more
experienced students, this introduction to
the fundamentals of the Latin language offers clear explanations, combining helpful
tips and traditional grammatical tables with
practice exercises and excerpts from Roman authors. Special sections list principal
parts of verbs, common uses of the cases
and more than 300 Latin phrases found in
current English. COLLINS 2012 PB 320pp
£7.99 16753 now £3.99
NEW
DUTCH
Biography of a Language
Roland Willemyns Dutch is a ‘pluricentric’ language, with 23 million speakers
in the Antilles, Belgium, the Netherlands
and Suriname. This book traces the history
of the language from the ancestors of Old
Dutch to modern standardization and possible future developments. It puts special
emphasis on the sociolinguistics of colonial Dutch (especially Afrikaans, pidgins
and creoles), the role of Dutch in Belgian
language conflicts and its long history of
intense contact with other languages such
as French, Frisian and German.
OXFORD UP 2013 HB 307pp Illus 242x165mm
£22.50 19261 now £9.99
POISONED PENS: Literary
Invective from Amis to Zola
Ed. Gary Dexter ‘Every time I read Pride
and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit
her over the head with her own shin bone’
– such was Mark Twain’s regard for Jane
Austen’s writing prowess. Similarly acrimonious sentiments fill this entertaining
compendium of literary backbiting, from
Thomas de Quincey’s low opinion of
Homer to the cut and thrust of modern reviewing with Bevis Hillier v. AN Wilson.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2009 HB 240pp
£9.99 99680 now £3.99
EXCUSE MY FRENCH!
Fluent Francais Without the Faux Pas
Rachel Best; Jean-Christophe van Waes
How do you say ‘a bunch of muppets’ in French?
Is faire la bombe’ as explosive as it sounds?
With over 700 everyday expressions and their
idiomatic English equivalents, this book offers an
entertaining way to improve your language skills
while discovering the origins of both languages’
most curious phrases. You’ll also learn when to
beware of literal translation – and which phrases
might land you in trouble. KYLE 2013 HB 256pp
£9.99 94668 now £4.99
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REFERENCE/AUDIOBOOKS
THE WORLD’S HERITAGE
A Guide to All 981 UNESCO
World Heritage Sites
UNESCO’s ‘bestselling guide to the
most extraordinary places’ presents
all 981 sites on the World Heritage List,
first mapped by continent, then arranged
chronologically by the year in which they
were inscribed on the List, from the
Galapagos Islands in 1978 to the Namib
Sand Sea in 2013. The guide covers a
remarkable diversity of monuments
and landscape, with cultural, natural and
mixed sites, each described individually
and the majority shown in photographs.
COLLINS 2014 PB 896pp Illus 210x162mm
£25.00 19840 now £11.99
Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, one of the most
important sites of medieval Christian civilisation
NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS
DH Lawrence’s reflection on mankind’s relation
to nature, expressed through the story of Lady
Chatterley’s sexual involvement with her
gamekeeper, is read by Maxine Peake.
11 CDs; running time 13hrs 21 minutes.
LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2011
£38.50 19187 now £9.99
Sheikh Nefzaoui Written between
1410 and 1434, The Perfumed Garden
is a manual of sexual instruction that
mixes commentary and advice with
entertaining and stimulating stories.
It was first translated into English in
1886 by the bold linguist and explorer
Richard Burton: that classic translation,
unabridged, is read here by Jonathan
Keeble. 5 CDs; running time 6hrs 35min.
THE PERFUMED GARDEN
£19.99 19189 now £6.99
Laurence Sterne Narrated by the
(apparently) innocent Parson Yorick,
this is Sterne’s lightly fictionalised
account of his own European travels –
and therefore full of digressions,
misunderstandings and risqué jokes.
Read by Anton Lesser.
4 CDs; running time approx 4 hrs.
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
£16.99 19193 now £5.99
Alan Garner Following the much-loved
children’s novels, The Weirdstone of
Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath,
Boneland takes the story of Colin and
BONELAND
Susan into adulthood. Read, at the
request of Garner himself, by Robert
Powell. Unabridged. 4 CDs; running
time approx 5 hours.
ADONIS TO ZORRO
Oxford Dictionary of
Reference and Allusion
Ed. Andrew Delahunty; Sheila Dignen
This dictionary is ideal for those moments
when you need to avoid mixing up Eris
and Eros, to decide whether an allusion
to Shangri-La or Xanadu is more appropriate, or to check where ‘the horror, the
horror’ originated. The 1,900 entries include people, places, quotations and
events that have given rise to everyday
expressions and give examples of their
recent use in journalism and fiction. This
revised and updated third edition includes
many new entries from modern popular
culture and from non-English sources.
OXFORD UP 2010 HB 416pp
£20.00 88041 now £8.99
NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2012 Audio CDs
£16.99 19164 now £5.99
James Joyce Molly Bloom’s famous
soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses
is a languorous internal monologue in
which the passionate wife of Leopold
Bloom meditates on love and life.
The reader here is the Irish actress
Marcella Riordan. 2 CDs; running
time 2hrs 24 min.
MOLLY BLOOM’S SOLILOQUY
£10.99 19186 now £4.99
Thomas Paine Written in 1791 in
defence of the Revolution in France,
Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is a
seminal work on human freedom and
equality, arguing that government must
respect the welfare rights of all its
citizens. It is read here by David
Rintoul. 4 CDs; running time 4hrs
37min. NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2008
RIGHTS OF MAN
£16.99 19190 now £5.99
HEAVEN’S COMMAND
An Imperial Progress
Jonathan Gregson This guide from
the In a Nutshell series traces the
development of the cathedral from its
origins as a bishop’s house, through the
Romanesque and Gothic periods and up
to the most extravagant contemporary
designs around the world. The text is
read by Roy McMillan, and is
accompanied by Early English Organ
Music performed by Joseph Payne.
1 CD; running time 1hr 17min.
CATHEDRALS
£8.99 19182 now £3.99
Jan Morris This first volume covers Victoria’s
reign from her coronation in 1837 to the Diamond
Jubilee in 1897, and ranges far and wide, from
India to the Canadian prairies, and from Zululand
to Tasmania. 16 CDs; running time 20hrs 10min.
£55.00 19184 now £9.99
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received by
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ART
NEW A CAPITAL
VIEW: The Art
of Edinburgh
Alyssa Jean Popiel
Since the mid-18th
century, Edinburgh’s
City Council has
amassed over 4,500
artworks in a variety
of media – including
drawings, paintings,
prints, sculpture,
photography and
tapestry – and the
collection, which
focuses on Scottish
art, continues to grow. View of the Mound, Edinburgh by William Gawin Herdman, 1854
In this handsome volume, Popiel presents reproductions and detailed commentaries
on a selection of 100 works which depict Edinburgh and its inhabitants, from a
‘prospect’ of the city by John Abraham Slezer (c.1650-1717) to David Annard’s
statue of Robert Fergusson (2004). BIRLINN 2014 HB 224pp Illus 245x287mm
NEW THE COMPANY OF ARTISTS
The Origins of the Royal
Academy of Arts in London
Charles Saumarez Smith In 1768, a row
erupted in the Society of Artists and nothing
could persuade them to ‘lay aside their
Bickerings, and drown their Heartburnings
in bumpers of wine’. The quarrel was about
how to teach art, the importance of drawing,
and the supremacy of inspiration or hard
work. In this day-by-day account, illustrated
with 52 paintings and drawings, the former
National Gallery director explains the art,
the egos and the intrigue that led to the
foundation of the Royal Academy.
MODERN ART 2012 HB 192pp Illus 248x189mm
£25.00 19438 now £8.99
Agostin
£25.00 19117 now £9.99
Ed. Francesco Porzio The massive influence of Leonardo in his own lifetime is
attested by the flourishing school of painters working in his style in Lombardy
around the beginning of the 16th century. With some 400 illustrations, many in
colour, this first significant study in 60 years surveys the work of Marco
d’Oggiono, Andrea Solario, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Bernardino de’Conti
and other ‘Leonardeschi’. The essays that open the volume deal with the
environment, organization and working practices of Leonardo’s studio.
THE LEGACY OF LEONARDO: Painters in Lombardy 1490-1530
SKIRA 1998 HB 415pp Illus 278x237mm
£65.00 17563 now £30.00
CONCUBINES
AND COURTESANS
Women in
Chinese Erotic Art
The Cottage Door by Frederick Walker, 1860
Ferry M Bertholet Spanning
the period from around 1600
to the 1920s, Bertholet offers
a richly documented view of
Chinese erotic art, with the
emphasis on the role of the
woman. Drawing on his own
collection of art and artefacts,
including porcelain figures,
lotus shoes, fans and
photographs of brothels, he
discusses Chinese philosophies, the culture of bound feet and
A Gentleman Takes
the lives of courtesans, before examining Chinese erotic art and
his Courtesan to the
imagery, from paintings and ivory carvings to calendar posters
Bedroom, early
of the 1920s. Sexually explicit. PRESTEL 2011 HB 207pp Illus 304x255mm
19th century
WILLIAM ORPEN: AN ONLOOKER IN FRA
A Critical Edition of the Artist’s War Mem
Robert Upstone; Angela Weight William Orpen was
only official war artist to publish an extensive memoir
his experience in the First World War. He was a talent
and shrewd writer and his compelling narrative, which
first appeared in 1921, described both the trenches and
battlefields and the more comfortable life at Haig and
headquarters. An Onlooker in France is presented her
with an introductory essay by Robert Upstone, comm
and reproductions of 75 drawings and paintings by Or
PAUL HOLBERTON 2008 HB 232pp Illus 255x190mm
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Wa
by
Orpe
Flavio Febbraro; Alexandra Wetzel
Since prehistoric times, across cultures and
millennia, artists have been inspired by the
human body as an object of desire. This
authoritative, insightful and lavishly illustrated
volume examines its depiction through the
ages, in ancient Greece and Rome, India,
China and Japan, and in works by masters
such as Titian, Caravaggio, Goya, Ingres,
Rodin and Warhol. Close-ups reveal telling
clues to the meaning of these sometimes
explicit images, and the often conflicted
attitudes of the societies that created them.
Sexually explicit.
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Madame G
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Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith Written
with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh
Museum in Amsterdam and extensively
illustrated, this magisterial biography by the
Pulitzer Prizewinning authors of Jackson
Pollock: An American Saga draws on Van
Gogh’s own eloquent letters and unpublished
family correspondence to shed new light on his
inner world and deep immersion in literature
and art, his artistic development, his
tumultuous love life and bouts of depression,
and the mysterious circumstances of his death.
NEW
VAN GOGH: THE LIFE
RANDOM HOUSE 2011 HB 953pp Illus 238x165mm
$40.00 19363 now £9.99
Agostini Carlini, Francesco Bartolezzi and Giovanni Battista
Cipriani by John Francis Rigaud, 1777
STORIA NATURALE
DEGLI UCCELLI
LIFE, LEGEND, LANDSCAPE
Victorian Drawings and Watercolours
Buffon; François-Nicolas Martinet
In a superb Italian edition, this is the
celebrated Histoire Naturelle des
Oiseaux, written by Georges-Louis
Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-88),
with hand-coloured engravings by
François-Nicolas Martinet (1725-1804),
and published in Paris between 1770 and
1786. It was the most comprehensive
ornithological work in France at that
time. For this edition, the text (in Italian)
has been selected by Stephane Schmitt,
and all 1,008 of Martinet’s finely
detailed engravings have been carefully
reproduced. Slipcased.
Ed. Joanna Selborne This catalogue presents
a rich selection of Victorian drawings and
watercolours from the important collection of
the Courtauld Institute Gallery. Accompanied
by an introduction and six essays, the 37
exhibits include both preparatory drawings
and finished paintings of landscapes, genre
scenes, portraits, life studies and subjects
from literature. Among the works reproduced
and discussed are Landseer’s drawing of
a lion’s head, nude studies by William
Etty and Frederic Leighton, and Millais’
The Parting of Ulysses.
PAUL HOLBERTON 2011 PB 136pp Illus 259x214mm
860
£25.00 19300 now £8.99
MAGNUS 2010 HB 670pp Illus 380x295mm
Amazonian parrot by Martinet
R IN FRANCE
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JOHN FLAXMAN
The Illustrations
for Dante’s
Divine Comedy
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The Thinker
on the
Butte de
Warlencourt
by William
Orpen, 1918
Debra N Mancoff The Paris of the Impressionists was the
fashion capital of the world. How was this reflected in their
work? Featuring paintings by Degas, Manet, Monet and
Morisot, this captivating book follows in the footsteps of
stylish Parisians – at home, in cafes, in the park and on
holiday; and it uses vintage photographs and prints to
explore the worlds of dressmaking, millinery and the
department store, providing fresh insight into some of the
most popular paintings of the 19th century.
FASHION IN IMPRESSIONIST PARIS
MERRELL 2012 HB 160pp Illus 265x220mm
£24.95 94592 now £9.99
Madame Gaudibert by Claude Monet, 1868
11043 now £100.00
Ed. Francesca
Salvadori The great
English neoclassical
sculptor, John Flaxman
(1755-1826) was among
the many artists inspired
by Dante’s masterpiece.
His drawings for the
Divine Comedy,
illustrating all 100
cantos of the poem, are
published for the first time in this handsome volume. The book includes the
complete series of drawings, together with preparatory studies and
Flaxman’s annotations. As well as a critical commentary on each drawing,
the volume includes essays by Carlo Ossola, David Bindman and the editor,
Francesca Salvadori. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS 2005 HB 280pp Illus 290x285mm
£95.00 10883 now £30.00
HOGARTH, FRANCE AND BRITISH ART
The Rise of the Arts in 18th Century Britain
Robin Simon Like many of his British contemporaries, William Hogarth
was fiercely anti-French, yet like them, he lived in a world in which
French culture was widely admired. Drawing on fresh material and many
unfamiliar images, this highly original study explores Hogarth’s profound
practical and theoretical knowledge of French art, and the way he shaped
his own work in reaction to it. Extensively illustrated, it sheds new light
on a major British artist, and the development of a distinctly British art.
HOGARTH ARTS 2007 HB 319pp Illus 295x210mm
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CHILD
Portraits by
40 Great Artists
Juliet Heslewood
After an illustrated
introduction in
which she reflects
on the artist’s own
children as a
subject in painting,
Juliet Heslewood
presents a
collection of 40
portraits, arranged
chronologically
from Fralippo
Lippi’s Madonna
Jaraslava and Jiri – the Artist’s Children
and Child with Two
by Alphonse Mucha, 1919
Angels (c.1465) – it
may be that the smiling angel is Lippi’s son – to Sam and the
Perfect World (2005) by the American artist David Lenz. Each
picture is reproduced along with a commentary and the story
behind the portrait. FRANCES LINCOLN 2013 HB 96pp Illus
EDVARD MUNCH
The Modern Eye
Ed. Angela Lampe; Clement Cheroux
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known for The
Scream, which was painted in 1893, and perhaps
because of that painting’s fame, he is often
considered a 19th century painter. In contrast, this
important survey shows him to have been fully
engaged with modernity and its key methods of
representation – photography, cinematography and
theatrical mise-en-scène. The book contains more
than 20 essays on many aspects of Munch’s work,
along with 140 reproductions and over 100 other
illustrations. TATE 2012 PB 320pp Illus 298x235mm
£29.99 17692 now £11.99
Street in Åsgårdstrand by Munch, 1901
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Juliet Heslewood Why should an artist portray his or her mother?
Simply because she’s there, an available and willing model, our
out of filial affection? This charming book features 40 portraits of
mothers, by artists including Rembrandt, Rossetti, Van Gogh,
Chagall, Whistler, Picasso, Kahlo and Hockney. Combining art
history and biographical anecdote, this delightful collection
celebrates the powerful relationship between sons and daughters
and their mothers. FRANCES LINCOLN 2009 HB 96pp Illus 210x167mm
MOTHER
£12.99 17904 now £5.99
DAVID WESTON
An Artist at Home and Abroad
NEW
David Weston (1935-2011) is best known as a railway artist,
but in this book he follows the success of his English landscapes
(David Weston’s England) with paintings from his travels around
Britain – where he does encounter a few locomotives – through
Europe to Greece, and home again to Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire.
The 130 paintings reproduced illustrate the versatility of an artist
equally fascinated by snow-clad mountains or cottage interiors,
the Forth Bridge or Venetian backwaters.
Roger Baynton-Williams A renowned expert in antiquarian
prints, Roger Baynton-Williams has drawn on his own diverse
collection of prints to illustrate the story of the print as an art form
and enhance the reader’s understanding and appreciation of prints
by explaining the way they are made. After a general introduction
he explains each of 13 printing processes from wood engraving,
through line engraving and etching to lithography and multi-block HALSGROVE 2007 HB 168pp Illus 247x270mm
£34.99 19084 now £14.99
colour printing – using reproductions of 140 carefully chosen
examples. A&C BLACK 2009 HB 192pp Illus 274x217mm
PATRICK PROCKTOR: Art and Life
THE ART OF THE PRINTMAKER 1500-1860
£30.00 18301 now £7.99
Ian Massey Though Procktor’s paintings define the Sixties as much as
those of his friend David Hockney, his work has not been well documented.
This comprehensive study draws on original interviews to explore his life
and art. Illustrated with more than 100 reproductions, it charts Proctor’s
friendships with figures such as Cecil Beaton, Joe Orton and Princess
Margaret, frankly addresses his conflicted sexuality and his alcoholism,
and restores this brilliant, self-destructive artist to his rightful place
among his contemporaries. UNICORN 2010 HB 224pp Illus 295x255mm
£25.00 94717 now £16.99
Francesca
da Rimini
by William
Dyce, 1837
Anenomes
in a Cornish
Window
by the St
Ives artist
Christopher
Wood, 1930
Julian Halsby; Paul Harris Now in a fully revised edition, this is an essential
reference work for everyone interested in Scottish art. The alphabetically
arranged entries outline the careers of over 2,000 painters who have worked
in Scotland and cover artistic institutions and groupings ranging from the
National Galleries of Scotland to the Glasgow Boys. The book is illustrated
throughout with colour reproductions, including works by some of the most
exciting contemporary artists. BIRLINN 2010 PB 256pp Illus 295x215mm
THE DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH PAINTERS: 1600 to the Present
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ART NOUVEAU
Posters, Illustrations and Fine Art
from the Glamorous Fin de Siècle
Rosalind Ormistone; Michael Robinson
Lavishly illustrated with around 170 reproductions, this
celebration of Art Nouveau is in three parts, looking first
at the movement as a whole – a design ethos that swept
across Europe and America between the late 19th
century and the First World War. Part two deals with the
graphic arts, including the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec
and Alphonse Mucha, while the final section explores
the impact of Art Nouveau in the fine arts, discussing
artists from Paul Gauguin to Gustav Klimt.
FLAME TREE 2013 HB 192pp Illus 280x290mm
£20.00 99818 now £9.99
Diana Souhami First published in 1988,
this first biography by Diana Souhami
explores the singular life of Hannah
Gluckstein (1885-1978), an artist who chose
to be known as simply Gluck. An openly
gay woman, who wore men’s clothes (but
only the best) and had affairs with a
succession of society women, Gluck was
famous as a painter whose ‘one man shows’
of flower pictures, portraits and landscapes
were much acclaimed in the 1920s and
1930s. QUERCUS 2013 HB 336pp Illus
NEW
GLUCK: Her Biography
Poster for the
arts review
magazine
L’Hermitage by
Paul Berthon,
1897
PHYSIQUE
Classic Photographs of Naked Athletes
Peter Kuhnst’s selection of over 150 images traces
the history of the nude athlete in photography from
the mid 19th century to the present. From Eadweard
Muybridge’s motion studies of runners and javelin
throwers, through European Naturalism and Leni
Riefenstahl’s work under the Third Reich, to
contemporary photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe,
Bruce Weber and Annie Liebovitz, the photographers’
styles range from traditional to rebellious, humorous
and provocative.
£12.99 19631 now £5.99
THAMES & HUDSON 2004 PB 176pp Illus 283x245mm
£24.95 68080 now £8.99
The Clock
Tower at
St George’s
Circus,
London SE1,
1907
re.
Danish Athletics Team – Sky #18 by Anderson & Low
Ed. Maxim Jakubowski These female nudes and erotic portraits and self-portraits
represent some of the best recent work from outstanding photographers. Each of the
74 photographers has worked with his or her favourite model and contributes a brief
statement about their work and their muse. ROBINSON 2013 PB 448pp Illus 193x138mm
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY Volume Four
£10.99 16994 now £4.99
Nicholas Cooper A selection from the English Heritage archive of some 25,000
photographs taken by professional architectural photographers Bedford Lemere
between the 1870s and the late 1920s, this volume focuses on the period after 1890
and offers a view of Britain at the height of its wealth and power. Accompanied by
Cooper’s introduction, the photographs are arranged by themes, including public
buildings, commerce and industry, transport and technology, leisure and entertainment
and life at home during the Great War. ENGLISH HERITAGE 2011 HB 292pp Illus 275x215mm
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BEDFORD LEMERE & CO.
ed.
£25.00 17686 now £11.99
NEW HOLLYWOOD IN
KODACHROME 1940-1949
PAINTING THE
WARMTH OF THE SUN
St Ives Artists 1939-1975
Tom Cross This is the second of Cross’s two
books that are now standard works on the
history of the Newlyn and St Ives Schools.
First published in 1984, it was based on
interviews and discussions with those artists
who were still working in and around St Ives
in the 1970s and ’80s. The book begins with
the war years, when several artists sought
refuge in Cornwall from the bombing in
London. Among those discussed are Ben
Nicholson, Barabara Hepworth, Naum Gabo,
Roger Hilton and the potter Bernard Leach.
£34.99
58873
now £14.99
David Wills; Stephen Schmidt When
Kodak’s new colour film was introduced
in 1935, Hollywood had to adapt to the
vivid colour and sharpness of the new
medium: special make-ups were
developed to hide imperfections from the
unforgiving camera and photographers
(and actors such as Marlene Dietrich)
became experts in the more exacting
lighting techniques that were required.
This spectacular large format edition
selects some of the best Kodachrome
photography of the 1940s featuring stars
including Rita Hayworth, Jane Russell
and Humphrey Bogart. HARPER
$40.00 19398 now £16.99
Lauren Bacall by John Engstead, 1945
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
of his Life and Times
Ed. Richard Stengel This richly illustrated volume traces the phases of Abraham Lincoln’s
life and political development, from backwoods
boy to the brilliant orator who guided the Union
through its greatest crisis.
TIME 2009 HB 144pp Illus 275x205mm
£14.99 76984 now £5.99
THE BRONTËS AT HAWORTH
Ann Dinsdale With photographs by Simon
Warner as well as reproductions and archive
photographs, this book presents a detailed picture of the Brontës’ lives at Haworth and the
moorland settings for their novels. FRANCES
£18.49 98190 now £7.99
ALBUERA
LINCOLN 2006 PB 160pp Illus 250x250mm
Wellington’s Fourth Peninsular
Campaign, 1811
Hugh Matthews Illustrated with historic images
and maps, this local history charts the Sussex
town’s development from the thriving settlement
of Tudor times to the 21st century.
Peter Edwards In this account of Albuera –
one of the three major battles in the campaign
to secure Cuidad Rodrigo and Badajoz – Edwards draws on eye-witness accounts to evoke
the excitement and horror of the Napoleonic
battlefield. CROWOOD 2008 PB 252pp Illus
£14.99 20231 now £6.99
ANCIENT GREECE AS IT WAS
Eric Chaline What to see and where to stay in
fifth century Athens? Written like a contemporary guidebook, this is an entertaining combination of historical background information and
practical advice for visitors. Felt-tip mark on
lower trimmed edge. LYONS 2008 PB 160pp Illus
Exploring the City of Athens in 415 BC
$16.95 98193 now £3.99
ARTHUR: The King in the West
RW Dunning Bringing together archaeology,
early written sources and myth, this study traces
the links between Arthurian legend and the West
Country, focusing particularly on Glastonbury
Abbey and the South Cadbury hillfort.
£14.99 85073 now £5.99
ATLANTIC
Simon Winchester Charting the Atlantic’s key
role in human development, this tour de force
of narrative history tells the story of the great
ocean, from its birth far back in geological time
to its extinction in the distant future.
A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
HARPER PRESS 2010 HB 512pp Illus
£25.00 98001 now £7.99
BACK AND NECK PAIN
Bill H McCarberg; Steven Stanos; Yvonne
D’Arcy Written by two physicians and a pain
management nurse, this handbook focuses on
essential clinical information for physicians and
health care professionals who see patients with
debilitating back and neck pain.
OXFORD UP 2012 PB 156pp 202x124mm
£22.99 17213 now £5.99
BAROQUE KEYBOARD
MASTERPIECES
Ed. Paul Negri These 39 pieces for intermediate and advanced pianists include only the greatest keyboard works of the era. Among the composers represented are Bach, Buxtehude,
Couperin, Handel, Purcell and Scarlatti.
DOVER 2004 PB 150pp Illus 304x229mm
$14.95 19337 now £5.99
THE BATTLE FOR LONDON
Stephen Porter; Simon Marsh This is the story
of the royalist advance on London in November
1642 and the thousands of volunteers who
joined the parliamentarians at the battle of Turnham Green – and turned the tide of the Civil
War. AMBERLEY 2011 PB 160pp Illus
£12.99 93370 now £4.99
BATS SING MICE GIGGLE
Karen Shanor; Jagmeet Kanwal In this book
two neuroscientists show how animals as
well as humans have inner lives, and how they
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communicate, problem-solve, express emotions
– and giggle. ICON 2009 HB 263pp
£14.99 19338 now £7.99
BURGESS HILL
PHILLIMORE 2006 PB 208pp Illus
£14.99 97687 now £5.99
CHRISTIAN ART
Rowena Loverance Sumptuously illustrated
from the unequalled collections of the British
Museum, this study examines what distinguishes Christian art, what it really means, how
it functions and whom it serves.
$35.00 10656 now £7.99
THE CHURCH ON THE HILL
Helen Harris Local historian Helen Harris tells
the story of Holy Trinity Church at Buckfastleigh and the part it has played in the history
of the town, its people and the parish until 1992,
when it was destroyed by fire.
DEVON BOOKS 1996 PB 96pp Illus 205x205mm
£9.95 19534 now £3.99
THE CONTINUUM
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Ed. Bernice E Cullinan; Diane G Person International in scope, this encyclopedia contains
1,200 biographical-critical entries and nearly
100 topical articles, covering 150 years of children’s literature and its illustration.
CONTINUUM 2003 HB 864pp
£60.00 70317 now £19.99
THE COURTIERS
Lucy Worsley’s absorbing portrait of life at
Kensington Palace under the quarrelsome
Hanoverians charts the skulduggery, politicking,
rivalries and affairs of a gallery of politicians,
wives, mistresses and royal servants.
$30.00 99956 now £6.99
CREAM TEAS, TRAFFIC JAMS
AND SUNBURN
Brian Viner In this funny, acutely observed
and engaging social history, Viner celebrates
the British holiday and holidaymaker at home
The Great British Holiday
CHRISTMAS TITLES
TOM SMITH’S CHRISTMAS
CRACKERS
Peter Kimpton This book tells the story of
Tom Smith and his amazing invention of the
1840s, the Christmas cracker, and delves into
topics such as how the love motto was ousted
by the corny joke, pyrotechnic crackers and
crackers in wartime. TEMPUS 2004 PB 127pp Illus
£14.99 33976 now £3.99
A RIGHT ROYAL CHRISTMAS
Hugh Douglas This anthology of historical
writing, letters, diaries, poetry and royal
Christmas messages reveals how our kings and
queens have celebrated the festive season.
SUTTON 2001 HB 150pp Illus
£9.99 87911 now £3.99
and abroad, from the hen night to the long-haul
gap year. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2012 PB 318pp
£7.99 16630 now £3.99
DAVID LIVINGSTONE
Paul Bayly As well as the life of the David
Livingstone (1813-73), this biography examines
his relationship with his wife and children – the
main casualties of his endless treks across Africa
– and looks at his legacy up to the present day.
Africa’s Greatest Explorer
FONTHILL 2014 PB 320pp Illus
£18.99 19587 now £5.99
EUROPE SINCE THE SEVENTIES
Jeremy Black This concise, readable and timely
book offers an in-depth treatment of environmental, social and demographic issues, discussing topics such as energy supplies, crossborder crime and immigration.
REAKTION 2009 PB 256pp
£15.95 99393 now £4.99
FINER THAN GOLD
James Robinson Focusing on the British Museum’s outstanding collection of reliquaries, this
is an illustrated introduction to the medieval devotion to saints and the finely crafted containers
of their relics. BRITISH MUSEUM 2011 PB 112pp
Saints and Relics in the Middle Ages
Illus 190x192mm
£9.99 11088 now £4.99
FLIGHT INTO HISTORY
Final Missions Retold by
Research and Archaeology
Ian McLachlan Aviation archaeologist Ian
McLachlan uses used buried wreckage, eyewitness accounts and official documents to reconstruct the dramatic last flights of Second
World War airmen over Britain and Europe.
SPELLMOUNT 2010 PB 215pp Illus
£12.99 98639 now £5.99
FOUL DEEDS AND
SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Geoffrey Howse explores the darker side of
South Yorkshire’s past, from the ‘swell mob’ at
the Doncaster races in 1834 to suicides in the
1950s, then goes on to examine eight celebrated
cases. WHARNCLIFFE 2010 PB 169pp Illus
£12.99 10973 now £4.99
FOUL DEEDS AND
SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
Vivien Teasdale Beginning with the Yorkshire
Chartists, Teasdale describes more than 30
heinous crimes committed in the ancient West
Riding during the 19th century and one earlier
– Rotherham’s great Mail Robbery in 1791.
WHARNCLIFFE 2009 PB 202pp Illus
£12.99 10974 now £4.99
FREQUENTLY-ASKED
QUESTIONS IN
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
William H Harrison In a clear, question-andanswer format, this accessible book provides
answers for people who live in today’s busy society and wish to explore the rich world of
Christian theology. MOWBRAY 2008 PB 181pp
£16.99 99511 now £4.99
THE GOOD SAMARITAN
BITES THE DUST
The Amazing Way the Bible
Influences Our Everyday Language
Ferdie Addis After an introduction reflecting
on the extraoridinary influence of the King James
Bible, Addis explains the biblical sources of familiar idioms from ‘Adam’s apple’ to ‘Ye of
little faith’. MICHAEL O’MARA 2011 HB 192pp
£9.99 95052 now £3.99
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GREAT ANIMAL DRAWINGS
AND PRINTS
Ed. Carol Belanger Grafton This artist’s
sourcebook of 100 drawings, including 17 colour
prints, covers a variety of animals by artists ranging from Dürer and Van Dyck to Picasso and
Steinlen. DOVER 2006 PB 112pp Illus 280x2102mm
$12.95 19350 now £4.99
HEBRIDES
Peter May; Photo. David Wilson From the restored Iron Age settlement at Bosta to the pink
car owned by actress Alyxis Daly, David Wilson’s
camera explores every facet of life and landscape
in the Hebrides, with text by Peter May. Off-mint.
QUERCUS 2013 HB 240pp Illus 223x222mm
£20.00 19295 now £9.99
HI-DE-HO
Alyn Shipton’s biography of Cab Calloway,
one of the most beloved African American bandleaders of the 1930s and 1940s, shows how Calloway was able to traverse both racial and social
boundaries. OXFORD UP 2010 HB 295pp Illus
The Life of Cab Calloway
£19.99 91838 now £9.99
A HISTORY OF MISTRESSES
Elizabeth Abbott’s compelling study examines
the role of the mistress throughout history,
from Chinese concubines to European royal
favourites, in life and literature.
DUCKWORTH 2010 HB 522pp
£20.00 11028 now £7.99
THE HUMAN STORY
Where We Come from
and How We Evolved
Charles Lockwood From the first hominins to
our own species (Homo sapiens), Lockwood outlines the key archaeological finds and explains
the basic facts about each species in this accessible Natural History Museum guide. NATURAL
HISTORY MUSEUM 2010 PB 111pp Illus
£9.99 94715 now £4.99
ILYUSHIN IL-2/IL-10
SHTURMOVIK
Yefim Gordon; Sergey Komissarov Published
in the Famous Russian Aircraft series and
packed with photographs, this is a comprehensive account the Il-2, the rugged ground attack
aircraft that was the Soviet forces’ mainstay
during the Second World War.
MIDLAND 2010 HB 431pp Illus 280x215mm
£50.00 17148 now £14.99
THE IMPORTANCE
OF BEING AWKWARD
Tam Dalyell The long-serving MP for West
Lothian and Linlithgow looks back over a parliamentary career that spanned 43 years and controversy on issues from the sinking of the Belgrano to devolution. BIRLINN 2011 HB 320pp Illus
The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell
£25.00 94730 now £7.99
INDIA: A Portrait
Patrick French Based on interviews with a
vast number of individuals – peasants, politicians, intellectuals and entrepreneurs – this
study assesses the resilience and dynamism of
the world’s largest democracy.
KNOPF 2011 HB 410pp
$30.00 98216 now £7.99
JUST SEND ME WORD
A True Story of Love and
Survival in the Gulag
Orlando Figes tells the story of two Muscovites,
Lev and Svetlana, whose love survived the war
of 1941 to 1945 and, afterwards, Lev’s decade
of incarceration in one of Stalin’s notorious
labour camps. ALLEN LANE 2012 HB 339pp
£20.00 98106 now £7.99
KINGMAKERS
The Invention of the
Modern Middle East
Karl E Meyer; Shareen Blair Brysac From
Britain’s invasion of Egypt in 1882 to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, this is the story
of how the modern Middle East came to be,
told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. NORTON 2009 PB 518pp
$18.95 98518 now £5.99
LENINGRAD
The Epic Siege of
World War II, 1941-1944
Anna Reid’s authoritative narrative history of
Leningrad’s 900-day ordeal, from 1941 to 1944,
is interwoven with vivid, first-hand accounts of
life inside the besieged city.
$30.00 99973 now £7.99
LEND ME YOUR EARS
Oxford Dictionary of
Political Quotations
Antony Jay brings together the greatest wisdom, wittiest insults and most disastrous blunders of politicians from Julius Caesar to Barack
Obama. Fourth edition, with a new introduction
by Matthew Parris. OXFORD UP 2010 HB 446pp
£15.99 94380 now £5.99
THE LIQUID CONTINENT:
A MEDITERRANEAN TRILOGY
Nicholas Woodsworth As Woodsworth roams
Alexandria’s Corniche, cafes and souks, he encounters both the ghosts of the cosmopolitan
city celebrated by Cavafy, Forster and Durrell,
and the vibrant Egyptian metropolis of today.
Volume I: Alexandria
HAUS 2008 HB 206pp 160x120mm
£12.99 98020 now £3.99
LONDON: CITY OF THE DEAD
David Brandon; Alan Brooke From Roman
London to the ‘glorious dead’ of the First World
War, this is the first systematic look at London’s
culture of death, including an analysis of its superstitions, rituals and representations.
£18.99 19733 now £5.99
THE LORD LIEUTENANTS AND
HIGH SHERIFFS OF YORKSHIRE
1066-2000
Ed. W Mark Ormrod After historical introductions to the two offices, this biographical
summary of all known High Sheriffs and Lord
Lieutenants of Yorkshire offers a remarkable
record of their lives, careers and achievements.
WHARNCLIFFE 2000 HB 284pp Illus
£30.00 20116 now £11.99
THE MILLIONTH CHANCE
James Leasor The R101 was said to be ‘as safe
as houses... except for the millionth chance’.
Leasor reconstructs the conception, journey and
crash of the huge airship, which met its millionth
chance on 4 October 1930.
HOUSE OF STRATUS 2001 PB 204pp
£6.99 93661 now £3.99
THE MODERNIST HOUSE
Justine Sambrook This illustrated guide to
Modernist-designed private houses covers 100
key projects, from Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Fallingwater (1934) to Fearon Hay’s minimalist
Shark Alley House in New Zealand (2003).
PHAIDON 2009 HB 112pp Illus 291x251mm
£17.95 98297 now £9.99
MY FIRST HELLO KITTY
DICTIONARY
Ed. Sandra Anderson; Gerry Breslin; Elspeth Summers Collins dictionaries have enlisted the help of a superstar, Hello Kitty, to
make an enticing first dictionary for young readers, with simple definitions of over 2,000 words.
Ages 5-7 HARPER COLLINS 2012 HB 156pp Illus
272x210mm
£10.99 98978 now £4.99
THE NECESSARY APTITUDE
Pam Ayres recounts her early life, including
travelling the world with the WRAF, up to television appearances after her big break – reciting her witty and cheeky poems on Opportunity
Knocks in 1975. EBURY 2011 HB 412pp Illus
£20.00 97738 now £6.99
OBSCENE, INDECENT,
IMMORAL AND OFFENSIVE
100+ Years of Censored,
Banned and Controversial Films
Stephen Tropiano presents a short history of
film censorship in the USA and uses case studies
to discuss the six major sources of contention:
profanity, violence, sex, nudity, politics and religion. LIMELIGHT 2009 PB 376pp Illus
$19.95 10596 now £5.99
OVERCOMING HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE
The Complete Complementary
Health Program
Dr Sarah Brewer This guide offers natural
strategies for combatting high blood pressure
including complementary treatments, nutritional
and lifestyle advice, and daily health programmes of diet and exercise.
DUNCAN BAIRD 2008 PB 180pp
$14.95 19766 now £4.99
THE PARTHENON SCULPTURES
Ian Jenkins; Ivor Kerslake; Dudley Hubbard
With dramatic photographs and Jenkins’s account of the history of the Parthenon and its
sculptures, this is a superb introduction to the
most famous of the surviving sculptures from
ancient Greece.
$35.00 99982 now £9.99
THE POWER OF DARKNESS
E Nesbit Although best known for The Railway
Children, Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) also wrote
tales of ghoulish horror. Here are 20 stories of
reanimated corpses, vampiric vines, vengeful
ghosts and other dark delights.
WORDSWORTH 2006 PB 253pp
37767 now £2.99
THE PLAINS OF MARS
European War Prints, 1500-1825
James Clifton; Leslie M Scattone This first
survey of war as a theme in early modern graphic
prints includes four scholarly essays and an illustrated, descriptive catalogue of 70 prints, including works by Dürer, Goya and Géricault.
YALE UP 2009 HB 263pp Illus 300x240mm
£35.00 97342 now £16.99
QUEEN ELIZABETH,
THE QUEEN MOTHER
William Shawcross From her birth in 1900 to
her later years as Britain’s much-loved Queen
Mother, Shawcross traces Queen Elizabeth’s
life against the backdrop of 20th century history
and reveals the qualities that endeared her to
the nation. PAN 2009 PB 1120pp Illus
The Official Biography
£9.99 11848 now £4.99
SEEDS OF FICTION
Bernard Diedrich The story of Graham
Greene’s adventures in Haiti and Central America, from 1954 to 1983, told by his fellow exile
and traveller, reveals how a series of extraordinary and often hair-raising journeys gave the
novelist new inspiration.
PETER OWEN 2012 HB 316pp
£20.00 16362 now £6.99
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SEPOY GENERALS
GW Forest First published in 1901, Forest’s
military biographies of nine ‘Sepoy’ generals –
from Wellington to Field-Marshal Lord Roberts
– was aimed at ‘reminding Englishmen by what
thoughts and actions our empire is made and
held together’. Slightly off-mint.
Wellington to Roberts
LANCER 2008 HB 480pp
£17.99 99493 now £6.99
REAGAN AND THATCHER
Richard Aldous’s dual biography of Reagan
and Thatcher dispels the myth of their ‘special
relationship’, reveals the depth of their disagreement and shows how, confronted by the USSR,
they struggled to overcome their differences.
The Difficult Relationship
HUTCHINSON 2012 HB 344pp Illus
£25.00 11861 now £6.99
RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
Brent Elliott From the first Chelsea Flower
Show in 1913 to its centenary year in 2013, this
richly illustrated volume traces the history of
the world’s most prestigious horticultural event.
Off-mint. FRANCES LINCOLN 2013 HB 200pp
A Centenary Celebration
Illus 281x203mm
£25.00 19357 now £9.99
RIGHT WHALES
Phil Clapham With rare photographs of right
whales, this book is an informative account of
the plankton-feeding giants that were once the
main target of the whalers and are now among
the most endangered of all mammals.
COLIN BAXTER 2004 PB 72pp Illus 223x250mm
£9.00 18968 now £3.99
ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC
Gloria Fossi In this richly illustrated book, art
historian Gloria Fossi surveys the two major
styles of the High Middle Ages, highlighting
the diversity of artistic expression in both movements and tracing their cultural influences.
STERLING 2008 PB 192pp Illus 265x217mm
£9.99 11122 now £4.99
SILVER
Philippa Merriman In chapters illustrated primarily with examples from the British Museum,
Merriman explores the history of silver, its various
uses and its symbolic value in different cultures.
$22.95 99993 now £4.99
SOUNDS OF THE DEEP
British Library Sound Archive The courtship
call of the male haddock, echo-location clicks
and whistles of Fraser’s dolphins and the
melodic song of a lone male humpback whale
are among the 15 recorded sounds of ocean life
on this remarkable CD. Running time: 65 minutes. BRITISH LIBRARY 2007 Audio CD
£10.00 94988 now £3.99
THE SPELL
Charlotte Brontë This ingenious and highly
imaginative early novella is a tale of love and
jealousy, rivalry and thwarted ambition, set amid
a crisis in the heir-less kingdoms of Wellingtonsland and Angria. Foreword by Nicola
Barker. HESPERUS 2005 PB 147pp
An Extravaganza
£6.99 99637 now £2.99
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SUPERSTITIONS
Deborah Murrell presents 1,013 superstitions,
myths, fables and old wives’ tales, explaining
their meanings and delving into their origins
wherever possible.
READER’S DIGEST 2008 HB 256pp Illus
98242 now £6.99
THE TAMER TAMED
John Fletcher In Fletcher’s free-wheeling comedy, written nearly 20 years after Shakespeare’s
The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio – now remarried – finds out what it’s like to be on the
receiving end of a taming campaign. Edited by
Lucy Munro. New Mermaids series.
METHUEN 2010 PB 220pp
£9.99 11720 now £3.99
THOMAS HARDY
JB Bullen In illustrated chapters, Bullen explores the relationship between Wessex, the
‘partly real, partly dream-country’, and the real
West Country in each of Hardy’s novels and in
the poems. FRANCES LINCOLN 2013 HB 256pp
The World of His Novels
Illus 218x155mm
£20.00 19362 now £7.99
TOWARDS THE TRUE
KINSHIP OF FAITHS
How the World’s Religions
Can Come Together
The Dalai Lama explains humanity’s essential
task in the 21st century: to cultivate peaceful
coexistence and recognize the value of other
faiths. ABACUS 2010 PB 187pp
£12.99 94688 now £3.99
THE TRACTION ENGINE
IN SCOTLAND
Alexander Hayward Inspired by the centenary
of the National Museum’s 1907 Marshall traction
engine, this is an illustrated history of traction
engine manufacture and use in Scotland since
around 1850. NMSE 2011 PB 144pp Illus 187x245mm
£16.99 98854 now £6.99
TREFOREST, GLYNTAFF
AND RHYDYFELIN
Rhodri John Powell This collection of over
200 old photographs records local landmarks
and personalities and traces the changes that
have taken place in Treforest, Glyntaff and Rhydyfelin since the 19th century. Images of Wales
series. HISTORY PRESS 2009 PB 128pp Illus
£12.99 97721 now £4.99
THE VERY THING
The Memoirs of Drummer Richard
Bentinck, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Jonathan Crook weaves the memoirs of his
ancestor, Drummer Richard Bentinck of the
23rd Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers), into an exciting narrative of an ordinary soldier’s life in
the Napoleonic Wars.
FRONTLINE 2011 HB 208pp Illus
£19.99 97874 now £9.99
VICTOR VICTORIANS
David Chapman In the late 19th century, art
and athleticism met in an extraordinary flourishing of male nude photography. Whether posing as living statues or working out in the gym,
these muscular, mustachioed gents dispel usual
notions of Victorian prudishness.
JANSSEN 2004 HB 96pp Illus 200x200mm
£29.95 97379 now £9.99
THE VOYAGE OUT
Virginia Woolf’s first novel describes the
events of young Rachel Vinrace’s voyage to
South America; a voyage of self-discovery as
she travels from Edwardian suburban society
to the freedom of Woolf’s imagined South
America. DOVER 2006 PB 287pp
£7.99 97350 now £3.99
WEBSTER’S EASY LEARNING
FRENCH IDIOMS
This guide from Webster’s Easy Learning range
for speakers of American English provides key
phrases, arranged by topic, with illustrations
and examples to show how the language works.
HARPERCOLLINS 2011 PB 248pp Illus
£6.99 95150 now £3.99
WORDS AND PICTURES
Writers, Artists and a
Peculiarly British Tradition
Jenny Uglow Award-winning literary biographer Jenny Uglow examines the rich English
tradition of book illustration that runs from Milton and Bunyan to Blake, Dickens and Lewis
Carroll. FABER 2008 HB 162pp Illus
£12.99 69225 now £3.99
WORLD WAR I FACT BOOK
The Great War in
Graphs and Numbers
William van der Kloot From the Army’s minimum weight for an enlisted man to the final
casualty figures, the Fact Book presents the
most revealing statistics, as well as information
on military commanders and the war’s impact
on civilians. AMBERLEY 2010 PB 128pp Illus
£12.99 86329 now £4.99
YORKSHIRE WOLDS WAY
Tony Gowers; Roger Ratcliffe This illustrated,
practical guide begins with the historical background to the area, then details the 79-mile
route, from Humber Bridge to Filey on the east
coast. With OS mapping.
Official National Trail Guide
AURUM 2013 PB 144pp Illus 209x129mm
£14.99 20086 now £4.99
ACADEMIC TITLES
ADVERTISING AND
SATIRICAL CULTURE IN
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
John Strachan Exploring the cultural resonance
and literary influences of advertising copy in
the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Strachan
looks at how Georgian parodists and satirists
responded to the commercial culture around
them. CAMBRIDGE UP 2009 HB 348pp Illus
£69.99 17709 now £19.99
THE ASIAN MILITARY
REVOLUTION
Peter A Lorge This ambitious study traces the
history of the Chinese invention of gunpowder
and its impact on the surrounding Asian world
– Korea, Japan, South-East Asia and South Asia
– from the 9th to the 20th century.
From Gunpowder to the Bomb
£59.99 17716 now £14.99
THE BOOK OF
MICHAEL OF RHODES
A Fifteenth-Century
Maritime Manuscript Volume 1
Ed. Pamela O Long; David McGee; Alan M
Stahl This text by a 15th century mariner describes his experiences in the Venetian merchant
and military fleets, and includes writings on
commercial mathematics, shipbuilding, navigation, calendrical systems and astrology. Presented in photographic facsimile. Felt-tip mark
on lower edge. MIT 2009 HB 533pp Illus 253x205mm
£44.95 20152 now £19.99
CLASSES, CULTURES
AND POLITICS
Essays on British History
for Ross McKibbin
Ed. Clare VJ Griffiths; James J Nott; William
Whyte Beginning with essays on Ross McKibbin’s life and thought, this volume of 21 essays
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investigates aspects of 20th century British history and reflects McKibbin’s great achievement
– the breaking down of the artificial barrier between ‘social’ and ‘political’ history.
Kurt Eggers – Baird demonstrates how poets
and writers responded to Hitler’s summons to
create a cultural revolution commensurate with
the political radicalism of the Nazi state.
£71.00 97323 now £30.00
THE CONTINUUM
POLITICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF THE MIDDLE EAST
£64.99 17759 now £14.99
INFINITY
Ed. Avraham Sela Comprising an A to Z of
some 600 entries, ranging from concise articles
to short essays, this is an analytical and factual
guide to the political present and recent past of
the Middle East, covering the region from Morocco to Afghanistan, and from Turkey to Sudan.
Revised and updated edition
CONTINUUM 2002 HB 944pp 242x169mm
£150.00 32182 now £19.99
THE CORRESPONDENCE
OF JOHN WALLIS
Ed. Philip Beeley; Christoph J Scriba John
Wallis (1616-1703) was Savilian Professor of
Geometry at Oxford and a central figure in English scientific and intellectual history. This third
volume of his complete correspondence documents an important period in the history of the
Royal Society and the University of Oxford.
Volume III (October 1168-1671)
£210.00 17251 now £19.99
DATED AND DATABLE
ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT BOOKS
c. 1395-1499
Kathleen L Scott Changing fashions in decorated borders of medieval manuscripts can offer
a clue to their date; this handbook reproduces
34 dated examples, thus allowing scholars to
compare the borders of undated manuscripts to
examples whose date is known.
£18.00 94963 now £7.99
ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH MUSIC
Sources, Style, Performance,
Historiography
Ed. Emma Hornby; David Maw This volume
of 15 essays in honour of John Caldwell covers
topics ranging from the carol in Anglo-Saxon
Canterbury to music at Oxford University, 194560, and concludes with a short profile and bibliography of John Caldwell.
BOYDELL 2010 HB 364pp
£60.00 17937 now £19.99
GERMAN SCHOLARS AND
ETHNIC CLEANSING, 1919-1945
Ed. Ingo Haar; Michael Fahlbusch This collection of essays explores the contribution of
academics to the development of nationalism
and how academic disciplines were used to justify Nazi theories of racial superiority and territorial expansion. BERGHAHN 2006 HB 318pp
£53.00 55740 now £9.99
HAYDN’S JEWS
Representation and Reception
on the Operatic Stage
Caryl Clark This study of ethnic theatrical representation at a time when the portrayal of Jews
was changing significantly provides new perspectives on the cultural milieu, compositional
strategies and operatic legacy of Joseph Haydn.
£69.99 17757 now £14.99
HITLER’S WAR POETS
Literature and Politics
in the Third Reich
Jay W Baird Focusing on six writers – Rudolf
Binding, Josef Magnus Wehner, Hans Zöberlein,
Edwin Erich Dwinger, Eberhard Möller and
Ed. Michael Heller; W Hugh Woodin This
interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the
concept through the prism of mathematics and
then offers more expansive investigations beyond mathematics to reflect the broader, deeper
implications of infinity for human intellectual
thought. CAMBRIDGE UP 2011 HB 322pp
New Research Frontiers
£74.00 11797 now £25
INSPIRED SPEECH
Ed. John Kaltner; Louis Stulman In 31 essays, this volume in tribute to the Old Testament
scholar Herbert B Huffmon explores aspects of
prophecy in ancient Israel and its neighbouring
cultures. T&T CLARK 2008 PB 447pp
Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
£34.99 99516 now £7.99
JA HOBSON
Jules Townshend examines the life and ideas
of JA Hobson (1858-1940), a key figure in the
British social democratic tradition, who helped
lay the intellectual foundations of the Welfare
State. Lives of the Left series.
MANCHESTER UP 1990 HB 200pp
11659 now £5.99
JESUS AND THE OSSUARIES
Criag A Evans puts the controversial James
ossuary and its inscription (‘James, the son of
Joseph, brother of Jesus’) into the wider context
of Jewish burial practices and inscriptions and
shows how much these can tell us about the beginnings of Christianity.
BAYLOR UP 2003 PB 175pp
£20.99 95472 now £7.99
JOHN RUSKIN’S
CORRESPONDENCE
WITH JOAN SEVERN
Ed. Rachel Dickinson Despite their baby-talk
and apparent nonsense, Ruskin’s letters to his
cousin Joan Severn in his later years are revealing of the man and his thoughts on subjects
ranging from geology to fashion. Dickinson
presents an annotated selection of the letters.
Sense and Nonsense Letters
LEGENDA 2009 HB 312pp
£55.00 18221 now £9.99
JUAN ESQUIVEL
A Master of Sacred Music
During the Spanish Golden Age
Clive Walkley In this full-length study of the
life and music of Juan Esquivel, a cathedral
choirmaster and composer active in Spain
c.1580-c.1623, the author sets Esquivel within
the social and religious context of the CounterReformation. No jacket.
BOYDELL 2010 HB 286pp
£60.00 17945 now £9.99
LANGUAGE AND STATECRAFT
IN EARLY MODERN VENICE
Elizabeth Horodowich In her study of how the
Venetian state constructed a normative language,
Horodovich demonstrates that a crucial but unrecognized component of early modern statebuilding was the management of public speech.
£64.00 97336 now £19.99
LATIN PANEGYRIC
Ed. Roger Rees These 16 essays, spanning a
century of scholarship on political praise in the
Roman Empire, focus on Pliny’s Panegyricus
and the other eleven speeches in the collection
of Panegyrici Latini. Four essays appear in English for the first time. OXFORD UP 2012 PB 446pp
£32.99 11292 now £14.99
MASS MIGRATION UNDER SAIL
European Immigration to the
Antebellum United States
Raymond L Cohn presents an in-depth analysis
of the economic history of European immigration to the antebellum United States, focusing
on the three most important source countries:
Ireland, Germany and Britain.
£50.00 88204 now £19.99
MATTER MATTERS
Metaphysics and Methodology
in the Early Modern Period
Kurt Smith Why is there a material world?
Why is it fundamentally mathematical? Kurt
Smith examines a 17th century answer to those
questions as it emerged from the works of
Descartes and Leibniz.
£50.00 86733 now £9.99
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
AMERICAN ELECTIONS AND
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Ed. Jan E Leighley In 38 essays in sections
including research design, participation, vote
choice, self- and other interests, non-presidential
elections, and elites and institutions, the Handbook offers both theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of American elections and
political behaviour.
OXFORD UP 2010 HB 794pp 253x179mm
£117.50 17384 now £50.00
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK
OF THE ELEGY
Ed. Karen Weisman This Handbook provides
both an historical survey and a thematic engagement with relevant issues, including
women’s elegies, elegy in English drama 15901640, mourning, the elegiac in film and the war
memorial as elegy. OXFORD UP 2010 HB 736pp
£100.00 18868 now £19.99
PROJECTION AND REALISM
IN HUME’S PHILOSOPHY
PJE Kail considers what it is about Hume’s
writing that occasions the use of the metaphor
of ‘projection’ by commentators and how it can
be reconciled with what is ‘realist’ in Hume’s
work. OXFORD UP 2010 PB 296pp
£24.00 86838 now £7.99
SEEING JUSTICE DONE
The Age of Spectacular
Capital Punishment in France
Paul Friedland Part history of penal theory,
part study of the penal ritual, this book traces
the historical roots of modern capital punishment and sheds light on the fundamental disconnect between the theory and practice of public execution. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 344pp Illus
£37.99 17426 now £12.99
THE TRINITY GUIDE TO
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
William J La Due provides an introduction to
the history of the Church, from New Testament
models and the early theologians to the recent
emergence of Free Churches and Pentecostalism. CONTINUUM 2006 PB 183pp
£14.99 94830 now £5.99
THE VICTORIANS AND SPORT
Mike Huggins In this scholarly account, Huggins tells the stories of individual sportsmen,
examines the amateur/professional divide and
discusses the role of sport in building the characters of young men in the age of Empire.
HAMBLEDON 2004 HB 327pp
£50.00 92775 now £9.99
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CALENDARS
2016 WALL CALENDARS
The prints include depictions of
Mount Fuji, bridges and the sea
by artists such as Hokusai and
Hiroshige.
19684
JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS
FLAME TREE 2015 PB 24pp Illus 300x300mm
£10.00 each
now £4.99 each
Whether advertising ink or promoting
night clubs, the posters include work
by great artists such as ToulouseLautrec and Steinlen.
19671
ART NOUVEAU POSTERS
PIET MONDRIAN
Five of the famous grid paintings are
among a selection that shows the
variety of Mondrian's work. 19687
SONGS OF SHAKESPEARE
Twelve songs from the plays are
presented in ornate, illuminated
manuscript style.
19699
GUSTAV KLIMT
MACKINTOSH
These examples of Mackintosh’s
profoundly influential work include
interior designs and stained glass
motifs.
19685
WILLIAM MORRIS
Featuring Morris’s patterns for
fabrics and wall-coverings, this
is a fine selection of Arts and
Crafts design.
19705
SCOTTISH COLOURISTS
The Mad Hatter’s tea party and Solomon
Caw are among these 12 illustrations
by the great Arthur Rackham. 19672
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
These miniatures depict biblical scenes
including the Annuciation and the
Tower of Babel. British Library. 19683
ERTÉ
ARTHUR RACKHAM
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Drawing on some of the finest British
collections, including those of National
Museums Scotland and the Imperial
War Museum, these calendars feature
large reproductions of works by great
painters, illustrators and designers
and, in this selection, an unusual,
illuminated presentation of songs
by Shakespeare. The calendars
are 30x60 cm when open and show
one month per page, with holidays
marked and notes on the pictures.
As well as the paintings of Klimt’s
‘golden period’, the calendar includes
landscapes and portraits.
19681
Vibrant paintings by Samuel Peploe,
Francis Cadell, Leslie Hunter
and John Duncan Ferguson from
National Galleries Scotland. 19698
Evoking the glamour and Art Deco style
of the 1920s, this calendar features
Erté’s iconic fashion illustrations. 19678
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CALENDARS
JOURNALS
FLAME TREE JOURNALS
With famous works of art magnificently reproduced in colour on
their embossed foil covers, these are luxurious notebooks. Each one has
176 ruled pages of cream paper, silk page markers, scarlet endpapers and
a pocket for loose papers. The books close with solid magnetic side flaps.
FLAME TREE 2013/14 HB 176pp 209x147mm
These distinctive portrayals of
the industrial North West are
from The Lowry’s collection
in Manchester.
19689
LS LOWRY
Left:
Mucha’s
Cowslip and
Documents
Right:
Fulfilment
by Klimt
Luxuriant images of women from the
Arts, Flowers and Seasons series by this
popular Art Nouveau painter. 19690
ALPHONSE MUCHA
Left: Winter
Flowers II
by Erté
Right:
Erté’s
Symphony
in Black
Including Egley’s famous Omnibus
Life in London, these Victorian
‘modern life’ paintings are from
the Tate collections.
19702
VICTORIAN LIFE AND ART
Left:
Peacock
by Tiffany
Right: The
Marriage
Feast
at Cana
Images of Spitfires in paintings,
photographs and posters from the
Imperial War Museum.
19700
SPITFIRES
MUCHA: COWSLIP AND DOCUMENTS DECORATIFS
KLIMT: FULFILMENT
ERTÉ: WINTER FLOWERS II
ERTÉ: SYMPHONY IN BLACK
TIFFANY: PEACOCK
THE MARRIAGE FEAST AT CANA
17019
17871
99822
95190
95200
11442
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FICTION
THE MEDIEVAL MURDERERS
The ‘Medieval Murderers’ are a small
group of crime writers – Karen Maitland,
Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight,
Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden and Ian
Morson – who combine forces to create
intriguing, interlinked historical mysteries.
NEW THE CASTLE OF
OTRANTO • VATHEK •
NIGHTMARE ABBEY
Horace Walpole; William Beckford;
Thomas Love Peacock The Gothic novel,
with its dark tales of tragedy, romance and
ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the
supernatural, became the vogue in the late
18th and early 19th centuries. Three of the
finest examples are collected here, including
The Castle of Otranto by Walpole, widely
considered the first true Gothic romance.
19559 now £2.99
VAMPIRES: Classic Tales
Ed. Mike Ashley This collection features a
combination of vintage vampire tales by
writers including Alexandre Dumas and Lord
Byron (his version of Polidori’s Vampyre), and
modern tales such as Tanith Lee’s Blood
Chess and Brian Stapleford’s Emptiness.
DOVER 2011 PB 256pp
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TALES OF MYSTERY
AND THE MACABRE
HILL OF BONES
Bath Abbey, 1199. The monks’ peaceful existence is turned upside down when the Abbey’s
unpopular prior is found dead on Solsbury Hill.
Sir Symon Cole and his wife Gwenllian arrive
to investigate – and so do archaeologists, centuries later. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2012 PB 416pp
NEW
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KING ARTHUR’S BONES
At Glastonbury Abbey in 1191, an ancient cross
is dug up with skeletal remains beneath it and a
Latin inscription that translates as ‘here lies buried
the renowned King Arthur’; but as the monks reflect on their discovery, the bones mysteriously
disappear. POCKET BOOKS 2010 PB 400pp
£6.99 19642 now £2.99
THE SACRED STONE
In Greenland in 1067, a band of hunters find a
strange stone which had fallen from the sky. At
first the Sky-Stone seems to bring good fortune,
but over the next 600 years, treachery, discord
and violent death follow for all who seek to
possess it. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2011 PB 448pp
NEW
£6.99 19646 now £2.99
Elizabeth Gaskell Better known today
for pioneering social novels such as Mary
Barton (1848), Elizabeth Gaskell also wrote
some fascinating tales of the supernatural.
This anthology contains nine of her stories,
including The Old Nurse’s Tale, with its
Brontë connections, The Poor Clare and
The Grey Woman.
THE COMPLETE FOUR JUST MEN
Edgar Wallace Here are the thrilling adventures
of Edgar Wallace’s daring and ingenious
vigilantes as they tackle wrongdoers of all kinds,
from criminal masterminds and anarchists to
madmen. Where Scotland Yard fails – they
succeed. This omnibus edition contains all six
novels published between 1905 and 1928:
The Four Just Men, The Council of Justice, The
Just Men of Cordova, The Law of the Four Just
Men, The Three Just Men and Again the Three.
87426 now £2.99
58634 now £2.99
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
BULLDOG DRUMMOND
The Carl Peterson Quartet
55772 now £2.99
ORIENTAL GHOST STORIES
Wilkie Collins On a moonlit night in north
London, Walter Hartright encounters a
solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed
in white and feels impelled to solve the
mystery of her distress. A sensation when it
first appeared in 1860, this famous thriller
skilfully exploits Victorian psychology as well
as accurately portraying the Victorian social
scene. WORDSWORTH 2008 PB 530pp
Lafcadio Hearn Born on a Greek island in
1850, Lafcadio Hearn (aka Yakumo Koizumi)
moved to Japan in 1890 and lived there until
his death in 1904. Filled with weird beauty,
his strange tales are reinterpretations of
Chinese and Japanese legends. Selected and
introduced by David Stuart Davies.
Sapper ‘Demobilised officer, finding peace
incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion.
Legitimate if possible’... By means of a small
ad. Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond
launched his career as the original daredevil
adventurer. The villain of the first four books
is Carl Peterson, criminal genius and master
of disguise: Bulldog Drummond (1920);
The Black Gang (1922); The Third Round
(1926) and The Final Count (1925).
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STRANGE TALES
Rudyard Kipling Set in locations ranging
from English suburbs to Simla, these 20 tales
represent the best of Kipling’s chilling
narratives, among them: ‘They’, By Word of
Mouth and The Strange Ride of Morrowbie
Jukes. WORDSWORTH 2006 PB 300pp
37768 now £3.99
THE MYSTERY OF
THE YELLOW ROOM
THE CASEFILES
OF MR JG REEDER
Edgar Wallace This collection presents the first
two novels and an assortment of short stories
featuring JG Reeder. With trademark umbrella
and flat-topped bowler, Reeder is an unsung hero
of mystery fiction whose timid manner belies a
fiercely high-powered, crime-solving intellect.
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Gaston Leroux This locked-room mystery is
the first and most baffling case of Joseph
Rouletabille, a young super-sleuth whose
sharpness and mental agility outshines the
likes of Hercule Poirot in what has been called
one of the greatest detective stories ever
written. WORDSWORTH 2010 PB 225pp
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MAX CARRADOS
NEW
Ernest Bramah Rich, urbane and witty, the fictional detective Max Carrados is also blind, but
having developed his other senses to the point
where he can shoot a villain by aiming at the
sound of his beating heart, Carrados rises to the
challenge of Bramah’s cleverly plotted mysteries. This volume presents all three collections
of the stories, originally published between
1914 and 1927. WORDSWORTH 2013 PB 685pp
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FICTION/POETRY
POETRY
Ed. Paul Keegan From his remarkable debut The Hawk
in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was
a colossal presence in the English literary landscape.
Arranged chronologically, this edition collects his poetry
of five decades, including such outstanding achievements
as Crow, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. It also
includes private-press publications ranging from broadsides
and pamphlets to poetry collections that were previously
available only to a limited circle of readers, and it
reprints the many uncollected poems that first appeared
in periodicals. FABER 2003 HB 1,736pp
TED HUGHES: COLLECTED POEMS
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ROUNDABOUT WAY
NEW THE PENGUIN BOOK
OF IRISH POETRY
Louis MacNeice This only surviving novel by
Louis MacNeice (writing as Louis Malone)
follows Devlin Urquhart as he abandons a
philosophy course at Oxford, goes to Yorkshire
and, to avoid ‘SEX and LIFE’, assumes a new
identity as gardener – but his cover is blown by
Mary, his neurologist’s daughter. First published
in 1932. New foreword by Jon Stallworthy.
NEW
Ed. Patrick Crotty Ireland can boast an astonishing
1,500-year legacy of lyrics, ballads and song, not only
in English and Irish but also in Latin, Scots, Old Norse
and Old French. This definitive anthology ranges from
Columbanus to Christy Moore, and from Jonathan Swift
through WB Yeats to Seamus Heaney, who provided the
introduction. Reflecting the country’s complex history, its
unrivalled literary culture, and the importance of the land,
the anthology also represents the role of women, from
Mary Tighe to Kathleen Jamie. PENGUIN 2010 HB 1.120pp
CAPUCHIN CLASSICS 2012 PB 276pp
£10.99 19577 now £2.99
NEW
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THE DROWNING POOL
Syd Moore Relocated to a coastal town,
widowed teacher Sarah Grey seems to become
the target of a terrifying haunting by her
namesake, a 19th century witch; but when a
series of old letters surfaces, she discovers that
nothing and no-one are as they seem – not even
the ghost of Sarah Grey. AVON 2011 PB 375pp
£6.99 19454 now £2.99
A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
John Buchan Young and dissolute, Francis
Birkenshaw carouses around Edinburgh caring
nothing for the Jacobite Rebellion; but lust for
riches and adventure draws him in to Bonnie
Prince Charlie’s ill-fated campaign. This new
edition has an introduction by Buchan
enthusiast James Robertson.
POLYGON 2011 PB 232pp
£7.99 94733 now £2.99
THE POISONOUS SEED
Linda Stratmann When a customer dies of
strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine
dispensed by William Doughty from his
Bayswater chemist shop, the family faces
ruin. William’s daughter Frances becomes
convinced the customer was murdered and
turns detective to clear her father’s name.
HISTORY PRESS 2013 PB 304pp
NEW WH AUDEN:
COLLECTED LONGER POEMS
WH Auden First published in 1968, this companion
volume to Collected Shorter Poems was compiled by
Auden and brings together six of his longer poetic
works, published originally between 1930 and 1947:
Paid on Both Sides, Letter to Lord Byron, New Year
Letter, For the Time Being, The Sea and the Mirror
and The Age of Anxiety. FABER 2012 PB 356pp
£20.00 19565 now £5.99
NEW THE DARK HEART
OF FLORENCE
Michele Giuttari After living in fear of an serial
killer for years, the people of Florence are
relieved at news of his death – until a senator
and his butler are found murdered. Investigating
the case, Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara
becomes trapped in a spiral of vendettas and
corruption in this masterpiece of detective
fiction by former Florentine police chief Michele
Giuttari. LITTLE, BROWN 2013 PB 384pp
£12.99 19426 now £2.99
A SEAMAN’S ANTHOLOGY
OF SEA STORIES
Desmond Fforde This selection of nine stories –
some fiction, some true – is arranged
chronologically by their setting, from 1800, with
CS Forester’s ‘Hornblower and the Widow
Cool’ to ‘Aircraft Carrier’, John Winton’s
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A FOREIGN COUNTRY
Charles Cumming Six weeks before she was to become the
first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene disappears without
trace. Ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold, with
orders to find her, but tracking Amelia through France and
North Africa, he finds the rules of the game have changed.
CWA’s Best Thriller of the Year, 2012. HARPER 2013 PB 415pp
NEW
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evocation of a Fleet Air Arm pilot’s experience
in the Pacific in 1945. ACCENT 2009 PB 354pp
£7.99 93294 now £2.99
JONATHAN STRANGE
AND MR NORRELL
Susanna Clarke In London in 1806, a
battle begins between two rival magicians – the
scholarly Gilbert Norrell, intent on reviving a
centuries old tradition of magic, and the young
and reckless Jonathan Strange – and their dark
arts are unleashed into the politics of the
Napoleonic wars. Time magazine’s Book of the
Year, 2004. BLOOMSBURY 2005 PB 1026pp Illus
£9.99 55726 now £2.99
ANTIC HAY
Aldous Huxley Published in 1923, Huxley’s
novel is a portrait of London life just after
the First World War: a world of fake artists and
bewildered romantics, conmen and critics,
devoid of values and moving headlong into
chaos. DALKEY 2006 HB 226pp 203x140mm
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HEALTH/FOLKLORE
NEW BAD PHARMA
How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Ben Goldacre How can we trust the medicines that are supposed to heal us when
the $600-billion global pharmaceutical business is rife with corruption and greed?
Ben Goldacre’s meticulously researched and profoundly shocking exposé shows
how ‘independent’ doctor and patient groups are secretly funded by drug companies,
clinical trials are biased, unfavourable results suppressed, and government regulators
co-opted, with the result that millions of patients suffer serious and sometimes
lasting harm. FOURTH ESTATE 2012 PB 448pp
£13.99 18360 now £5.99
TIME WARPED
Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
Anita Bean Losing weight needn’t be
about drastic calorie restriction and deprivation. Indeed, recent studies have found
such diets to be counter-productive. What
does work is making small changes to
your overall lifestyle and maintaining
them. With meal planners, clever swaps
for eating out, realistic portion descriptions, exercises, store cupboard guides
and recipes, this book will help you lose
enough weight to drop a dress size. GOOD
NEW
DROP A DRESS SIZE
Claudia Hammond Why does life speed up as we
get older? Why does time seem to slow down when
we fear we are about to die? Using research from
psychology, neuroscience and biology, the presenter
of BBC Radio 4’s All In The Mind examines the idea
that the experience of time is created by our minds.
She also presents her own research into people’s
visualizations of time and suggests how we can use
our brain’s warping of it to our advantage.
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FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY
NEW UNDERSTAND
CHINESE MYTHOLOGY
Teresa Moorey This Teach Yourself guide
is the ideal introduction to Chinese myth,
covering little-known symbolic stories as
well as the familiar dragons and astrology
that are well embedded in popular culture.
The author begins by explaining the
background to Chinese culture and
mythology, then goes on to explore the
myths, retelling them in modern English
and teasing out their meanings and cultural
significance. TEACH YOURSELF 2012 PB 175pp
HOUSEKEEPING 2013 PB 144pp 218x180mm
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NEW THE QUACK DOCTOR
Historical Remedies for All Your Ills
Caroline Rance Delving into the colourful history of quackery, this book investigates the inventive ways in which quack remedies were promoted and shows how practitioners such as Dr
Gardner, whose museum of bogus intestinal parasites frightened people into buying his worm
medicine, or the cancer-curers whose methods
could be as painful as the cancers, sometimes
offered what the medical profession could not –
hope. HISTORY PRESS 2013 HB 224pp Illus
£12.99 19741 now £3.99
Jordi Vigue This book explains the ageing
process, looking at aspects of ageing, factors that
affect it and the changes it causes. It also offers
practical advice on how to stay healthy and happy
for as long as possible. Highlighting conditions
and illnesses which affect older people, it suggests
what can be done to mitigate the effects of ageing
by way of diet, exercise and psychologically helpful activities. REBO 2006 HB 270pp Illus
OLD AGE
93347 now £4.99
Roslyn Law Depression can be crippling but
this practical guide, using techniques based on
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), can help sufferers gain a fuller understanding of their condition, identify the relationships that can have a
positive impact on their recovery and improve
communication skills. With practical exercises,
case studies and worksheets to monitor progress,
this book can help those suffering depression to
take charge of their condition and improve their
prospects for recovery. ROBINSON 2013 PB 544pp
DEFEATING DEPRESSION
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PALMISTRY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
The Complete Oracle for Reading Your
Character and Destiny in Your Hands
Johnny Fincham Created by leading palmist Johnny Fincham, this
authoritative guide provides the tools you need to reveal the secrets of
personality, love life and destiny for yourself, your family and your friends.
The boxed set comprises a pack of 40 palm-sized cards showing key hand
lines and features, a detailed guide, and a checklist for what to look out for
during a palmistry session. WATKINS 2013 Box 80pp Illus 173x123mm
£14.99 18253 now £5.99
LOCH NESS MONSTER
and Other
Unexplained Mysteries
J F Derry Modern interest in a
Loch Ness Monster was sparked
by a 1933 sighting reported by an
English tourist. The event was duly
recorded by the Daily Mirror – as
all the intriguing developments in
the story have been ever since, from
credible witness accounts to blatant
hoaxes. Collecting over a century
of reports from the pages of the
newspaper, this book examines the
unfolding tale of Nessie as well as
other ongoing mysteries such as
UFOs, ghost sightings and crop circles. HAYNES 2013 HB 208pp Illus
£25.00 18026 now £7.99
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SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS
NEW EDISON
AND THE RISE
OF INNOVATION
Leonard DeGraaf
Drawing on documents
and photographs in the vast
collections of the Thomas
Edison National Historical
Park, this book offers a
richly illustrated study of
the life and achievements
of Thomas Edison (18471931), describing the
groundbreaking innovations A 1910 Bailey electric car powered by an Edison battery
and inventions – particularly the phonograph and commercial electric light and
power systems – that changed the world, but also focusing on his laboratories,
his approach to business and how he revolutionized the way we develop new
technologies. Foreword by Bill Gates. STERLING SIGNATURE 2013 HB 272pp Illus
$29.95 19881 now £9.99
WHAT A
WONDERFUL WORLD
One Man’s Attempt
to Explain the Big Stuff
NEW
Marcus Chown Why do we have sex?
What is money? Does time exist? In this
lucid, witty and hugely entertaining book,
the bestselling author of We Need to Talk
about Kelvin and Quantum Theory
Cannot Hurt You applies his deep understanding of complex systems to the mysteries of life, the universe and everything
– from evolution to electricity, from the
human brain to the cosmos. In an age of
information overload, it offers a painless
crash course in 21st-century existence.
FABER 2013 HB 448pp
£17.99 19885 now £6.99
THE DICTIONARY OF
19th-CENTURY BRITISH
SCIENTISTS
(Four volumes)
Ed. Bernard Lightman With more than
1,200 entries on both prominent and lesserknown figures, this major reference work
offers a detailed summary of the development of British science in the 19th century.
With equal attention paid to amateur and
professional scientists, the dictionary covers
areas such as phrenology, mesmerism, scientific journalism and instrument making,
as well as the more traditional sciences.
No jackets. THOEMMES 2004 HB 2,296pp
£850.00 56875 now £60.00
FIREBALLS, SKYQUAKES AND HUMS
Probing the Mysteries of Light and Sound
Antony Milne Weird and mysterious phenomena
can often be observed in skies around the world,
ranging from unusual sunsets, comets and St Elmo’s
fire to less easily explicable voices and humming
sounds, phantom planes and UFOs. In this book
Antony Milne analyses reports of such sightings,
delves into defence files on UFOs and surveys
some of the explanations that have been suggested
by physicists, biologists, meteorologists and
astronomers. ROBERT HALE 2011 HB 288pp Illus
£18.99 19142 now £5.99
NEW THE ABACUS
AND THE CROSS
The Story of the Pope
Who Brought the Light of
Science to the Dark Ages
Nancy Marie Brown As the year 1000
loomed, the ‘Scientist-Pope’ Sylvester II
was concerning himself less with millennial
fears of the Antichrist than with solving
geometrical conundrums. The leading
mathematician and astronomer of the day,
he introduced Christians to Arabic numerals
and zero, invented new scientific instruments and wrote treatises on logic and
acoustics. This biography challenges the
popular image of the ‘Dark Ages’, showing
how intellectuals pursued their belief in the
profound connection between the rational
and the divine. BASIC 2010 HB 320pp Illus
£16.99 16779 now £7.99
THE DANCE OF AIR AND SEA
How Oceans, Weather
and Life Link Together
Arnold H Taylor Our oceans and atmosphere are locked in a long, slow dance,
interacting in ways that shape our lives.
Events on the other side of the Pacific can
trigger droughts in India, and shifts in the
Gulf Stream can affect wayside flowers
in Britain. This important book charts the
stages by which scientists came to understand these complex interrelations, and offers an urgent warning that failure to respect them could threaten the very survival
of life on Earth. OXFORD UP 2011 HB 302pp
SEDUCED BY LOGIC
Émilie du Châtelet,
Mary Somerville and
the Newtonian Revolution
THE ANNOTATED FLATLAND
A Romance of Many Dimensions
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£21.99 96779 now £9.99
Robyn Arianrhod celebrates the key contribution of two women to the acceptance
of Newton’s theory of gravitation. In the
late 1740s ‘the wonderfully outrageous milie du Châtelet’ translated his Principia into
French. Almost a century later ‘the charmingly subversive Mary Somerville’ became
a world authority on Newtonian physics,
despite being denied entry to university because of her gender. This book tells the
story of these women and the radical ideas
that inspired them to pioneer popular science writing. OXFORD UP 2012 HB 344pp
£16.99 18736 now £6.99
Edwin A Abbott In 1884 the celebrated
English clergyman and teacher Edwin
A Abbott published Flatland, a delightful
satirical tale which introduced Victorian
readers to the radical idea of a fourth
dimension. Ian Stewart’s extensively annotated
edition of the book makes the text accessible
to the modern reader, not only explaining the
mathematics needed to understand A Square’s
sojourn in The Land of Three Dimensions
but also giving information about references
to Victorian culture and Abbott’s intellectual
circle. PERSEUS 2002 HB 267pp 235x190mm
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NATURE
NEW LOST FISH
Anthologies of the Work
of the Comte de Lacépède
Intro. Elizabeth Kolbert Protégé of the
naturalist Leclerc de Buffon, the Comte de
Lacépède was hired to be the ‘keeper’ of the
French royal natural history collection in the
1780s. Forced out of Paris by the Revolution,
Lacépède devoted himself to studying fish
and published his five-volume Histoire
naturelle des poissons between 1798
and 1803. This book presents extracts
from that text and nearly 200 reproductions
of its illustrations, depicting many fish that
are now lost to us, along with quotations
from thinkers, naturalists and poets.
ASSOULINE 2008 HB 232pp Illus 297x230mm
£40.00 19393 now £12.99
ISLAND
How Islands Transform the World
NEW
J Edward Chamberlin Since the dawn
of history, islands have been at the heart
of our desires – and our fears. Humans
have always been drawn to them, whether
as sailors or settlers, explorers or scientists,
artists or pirates. This intriguing book tells
the story of that fascination. It describes
their origins as coral reefs or volcanic
outcrops, their flora and fauna, and their
human settlement, before exploring their
role in art and science, from Stevenson’s
Treasure Island to Darwin’s Galapagos.
THE GREAT
DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES
Darren Naish Since the first fossils of large
prehistoric reptiles were identified in the
early 18th century, theories about the nature
of dinosaurs have been continually updated
and debated as new discoveries have been
made. Illustrated with archive and modern
photographs, artworks and maps, this book
describes the key finds that have shaped
our changing ideas, from the fragmentary
evidence of the 1820s to the amazing
feathered dinosaur remains recently
discovered in China.
ELLIOTT & THOMPSON 2013 HB 224pp
£14.99 19463 now £5.99
A&C BLACK 2009 HB 192pp Illus 277x215mm
£19.99 18308 now £8.99
NEW DEADLY ANIMALS
Savage Encounters
Between Man and Beast
Gordon Grice From big cats that will
tear you to pieces and snakes with
venom that will kill you in 15 minutes
to the tiny ticks, lice and parasitic worms
that can make you very ill, Gordon Grice
reveals the dark side of the animal kingdom as he describes – in gory detail –
the most dangerous and sometimes fatal
encounters between ourselves and our
‘fellow earthlings’.
PENGUIN 2010 PB 410pp Illus
A&C BLACK 2011 HB 256pp Illus 285x225mm
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Gordon Higgins Hurricanes and thunderstorms are truly awesome and impressive
events but the most benign of weather can
also produce beautiful and surprising results.
From the gently rippling waves of ‘Kelvin
Helmholtz’ clouds to double rainbows and
the heavenly shafts of light known as crepuscular rays, this photographic selection
displays clouds and weather events of all
types photographed from the ground and,
by means of satellite imagery, from above.
D&C 2011 PB 256pp Illus 148x180mm
£8.99 19568 now £3.99
ATLAS OF OCEANS
Exploring this Hidden World
John Farndon Water covers 70 percent
of the Earth’s surface, yet we know less
about parts of the ocean than we do about
outer space. This beautifully designed
book explores this environment from
coastal habitats to ocean depths, from
the Arctic to the tropics. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, maps
and diagrams, it details the wealth of
species that inhabit the seas, while
special features profile threats, such as
pollution and overfishing, to this complex
ecosystem on which all life depends.
WEATHER WONDERS
Incredible Clouds and Weather
Events from Above and Below
£12.99 18229 now £4.99
FAUNA SCOTICA
Animals and People in Scotland
Polly Pullar; Mary Low This celebration of
Scotland’s enormously diverse range of fauna
is arranged by habitats – from mountains, moors
and bogs to the sea, but also devotes chapters
to the habitats in which animals and humans
interact closely, the farm, urban areas and the
realm of myth. Imaginatively written and
lavishly illustrated, the book offers a detailed
yet informal natural and cultural history of
creatures from common newts to AberdeenAngus cattle, and the role that animals have
played in Scottish life since prehistory.
BIRLINN 2012 HB 304pp Illus 250x254mm
£30.00 19122 now £14.99
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NATURE/GARDENING
NEW RAFFLES’
ARK REDRAWN
Natural History Drawings
from the Collection of Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles
H J Noltie During Thomas
Stamford Raffles’s time as a colonial
administrator in Southeast Asia, he
assembled several thousand drawings
of the local flora and fauna, Malay
manuscripts and even live animals
to take to Britain. The collection was
tragically lost in transit in 1824 and
Raffles immediately commissioned
Green magpie (the plumage turns blue after death)
artists to set about replacing the
illustrations. These new drawings are at the heart of the collection that was acquired
by the British Library in 2007 and is explored in this beautifully illustrated book.
BRITISH LIBRARY 2012 PB 180pp Illus 217x243mm
BADGERLANDS
The Twilight World of Britain’s
Most Enigmatic Animal
NEW
Patrick Barkham Hoping ‘to trace the
strange history of our relationship with
badgers and find out why it was so vexed’,
Patrick Barkham explores the Badgerlands: the mysterious world in which these
distinctively striped creatures snuffle, dig
and live out their complex social lives.
He delves into the story of badgers since
their prehistoric arrival in Britain, he
meets present day farmers, badger feeders
and scientists, and he weighs the evidence
on both sides of the debate on culling.
GRANTA 2013 HB 397pp 200x152mm
£18.99 19805 now £5.99
WILD FLOWERS OF
BRITAIN AND IRELAND
NEW
Second edition
Marjorie Blamey; Richard and Alastair
Fitter First published in 2003 and revised
and updated in 2013, this was the first fully
illustrated and mapped guide to British and
Irish wild flora. It covers more than 1,900
species, with over 5,000 detailed paintings
by the renowned botanical artist Marjorie
Blamey and over 1,600 distribution maps.
As well as flowering plants, the guide has
chapters on grasses, rushes and ferns,
aquatic plants and local specialities of West
Cornwall, the Scilly Isles and Ireland.
BLOOMSBURY 2013 PB 482pp Illus
£18.99 19305 now £6.99
BUTTERFLIES OF
BRITAIN AND IRELAND
A Field and Site Guide
Michael Easterbrook Written by an expert on British butterflies and drawing on
data collected by Butterfly Conservation,
this excellent field guide covers all 58 resident species. Each entry provides detailed
information on identification, variation,
habitat, flight period, history and conservation, distribution and behaviour, and is
illustrated with colour photographs of the
adult butterflies and caterpillars. In addition, a site guide gives details and OS grid
references for over 240 good locations for
butterfly watching.
A&C BLACK 2010 PB 352pp Illus 232x155mm
£29.99 19037 now £9.99
£20.00 19823 now £9.99
Paul Sterry Described by Bird Watching magazine as ‘by far the best photographic
field guide available’, this book is very clearly laid out with text and photographs
for each species on facing pages. After the general introduction, which includes a
birdwatcher’s calendar, each species description gives the bird’s common and scientific
names, its length or wingspan, a distribution map and
details of adult and juvenile plumage, voice and
habitat, plus tips on when and where best to observe
that species. COLLINS 2004 PB 288pp Illus 208x132mm
NEW
COLLINS COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITISH BIRDS
£16.99 19290 now £6.99
GARDENING
NEW THE TEN-MINUTE GARDENER’S
FRUIT-GROWING DIARY
Val Bourne Pithy, practical and purposeful, this
handy diary is for anyone who loves their plot
but is forced to garden in snatched moments. Full
of tried-and-tested tips – and interesting asides –
from a seasoned old hand, it describes four, five
or six main tasks for each month of the year.
Now, at the beginning of December, you should be
winter-pruning the grapes. BANTAM 2011 HB 192pp
£9.99 19374 now £3.99
SUCCESS IN THE GARDEN SERIES
Written by expert gardeners with
decades of experience, and extensively
illustrated with colour photographs,
this series tackles specific garden conditions or types of plant and offers a
guide to designing your garden and
choosing and cultivating appropriate
plants. The second part of each book is
a detailed A-Z directory of plants
GUILD OF MASTER CRAFTSMAN
2004-08 PB 160pp Illus
Eric Sawford offers practical advice on
choosing, buying, planting and growing
bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. The
A-Z directory is the major part of the
book, with detailed notes on plants
including alliums, anemones, dahlias,
lilies, daffodils, tulips and irises. 17650
SUCCESS WITH BULBS
SUCCESS WITH
SUN-LOVING PLANTS
Graham Clarke There is an enormous
variety of sun-loving plants, with
endless potential for stunning planting
schemes. Graham Clarke shows how
to select sun-loving varieties and plant
with confidence, whatever your
experience and abilities.
17651
SUCCESS WITH
ALKALINE-LOVING PLANTS
Graham Clarke After explaining what
alkaline soil is and how to cope with
it, Clarke shows how to turn it to your
advantage with trees and shrubs such as
flowering cherry and weigela, fruits and
vegetables including blackcurrants and
asparagus and a colourful range of
annuals, perennials and bulbs. 17649
SUCCESS WITH
ACID-LOVING PLANTS
Graham Clarke Covering annuals,
perennials, bulbs, alpines and fruit
and vegetables as well as the familiar
heathers, rhododendrons, azaleas and
hydrangeas, this guide identifies
plants that are most suited to acid
soils and explains how to create a high
quality garden when you have a
low pH soil.
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GARDENS: THEIR HIDDEN LIFE
Unnoticed Plants
and Unseen Animals
Colin Spedding ‘Intended for gardeners
who enjoy wildlife and wildlife watchers
who love their gardens’, this book explores
the garden’s hidden world of creatures living amid the grass and flowers, behind the
bushes, in the trees and under stones. It
explores interactions between plants and
animals; the different kinds of animals,
from ants to badgers and deer; and covers
a miscellany of topics including ponds
and bog gardens, cats and dogs and what
to look for each month. BLOOMSBURY
£25.00 19039 now £8.99
TALL PERENNIALS
Larger-than-Life Plants
for Gardens of All Sizes
£25.00 18356 now £7.99
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Illustrated with paintings and
prints as well as Vivian Russell’s
outstanding photographs, this is a
visually impressive introduction
to the finest Baroque parks and
gardens in Britain. Covering 2,000
acres and designed over the last
600 years, Hampton Court’s Grade
I listed grounds include miles of
tree-lined avenues, a canal and
even a ‘Wilderness’. The book
looks at each of the gardens in
turn, exploring their history and the patrons, designers and gardeners involved in
their creation and maintenance. FRANCES LINCOLN 2005 HB 208pp Illus 270x225mm
FOOD & DRINK
ORCHARDS IN THE OASIS
Recipes, Travels and Memories
Josceline Dimbleby Acclaimed food
writer Josceline Dimbleby’s extensive
travels kindled her passion for food. Her
stepfather’s work in the diplomatic service
took her to Damascus and Peru; later, she
visited America, Morocco, Vietnam and
Burma. In these richly illustrated memoirs, Dimbleby recreates her lifelong affair
with travel and food, with stories and 70
tantalizing recipes, including Lamb and
Bulghur Flan, Fish with Avocado, Lime
and Chilli, Oxtail with Cider and Prunes,
and Devil’s Food Cake.
Kingsley Amis ‘We have no excuse for
self-satisfaction’, wrote Kingsley Amis,
‘while we allow the atrocity of the Pina
Colada to flourish in our midst’. The late
novelist was famously partial to a drink,
and his views on the subject were as trenchantly funny as his views on everything
else. Introduced by his friend Christopher
Hitchens, this collection of writings on the
art of imbibing mixes a heady cocktail of
wry humour, erudition and outspoken opinion. BLOOMSBURY 2008 HB 318pp
$19.99 11804 now £5.99
£25.00 17911 now £7.99
JAM WITH LAMB
Seasonal West Country Cooking
Richard Guest, Head Chef at Taunton’s
Michelin-starred Castle Hotel Restaurant,
offers an impressive range of recipes
based on the best of locally farmed produce and ingredients which can be found
wild throughout the West Country. Divided by season – Easter Sunday Stew
for spring, June Salad for summer, Quince
Jelly for autumn, and an array of Christmas dishes for winter – the recipes are
interspersed with shopping tips, preparation advice, and the culinary secrets of
one of Britain’s top chefs.
BIRLINN 2007 HB 241pp Illus
£20.00 62614 now £5.99
Brewing room of the Trappist Abbaye de
Notre Dame de Saint-Rémy, Rochfort, France
Mark Douglas Hill has spent many years in
pursuit of foods that encourage friskiness,
culminating in this compendium of aphrodisiac
delights. Alongside recipes using desire-inducing
or performance-enhancing foodstuffs such as
figs, foie gras, lobster, nutmeg and asparagus,
he provides fascinating historical, literary,
biological and psychological information
and appraises the efficacy of each ingredient.
Tim Webb; Stephen Beaumont The
establishment of artisan breweries producing craft beers is a growing trend, not
just in Britain, but in many parts of the
world. Beyond the famous labels of international brands there are thousands of
varieties of beer, from barrel-aged Californian brews to Bavarian wheat beers,
each with its own subtle character. This
illustrated guide is a complete reference
to the development of beer and brewing
techniques around the world and includes
tasting notes for 500 beers and maps
locating important breweries. MITCHELL
SQUARE PEG 2011 HB 256pp
BEAZLEY 2012 HB 256pp Illus 290x227mm
THE APHRODISIAC
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
A Gourmet Guide to
Culinary Come-Ons
£8.99 16979 now £3.99
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EVERYDAY DRINKING
The Distilled Kingsley Amis
QUADRILLE 2010 HB 223pp Illus
Stephen Moss To most people in Britain
the countryside is hugely important and
the Telegraph has always chronicled the
ever-changing fortunes of rural Britain;
from its pages, this anthology collects the
best articles on subjects ranging from the
rarity of the spoonbill to the rise of the
wind turbine. The book features Telegraph
countryside columnists JHB Peel and
Robin Page, the distinguished naturalist
Richard Mabey, and writers and public
figures such as Joanna Trollope, Boris
Johnson, John Humphrys and Clive
James. AURUM 2012 HB 320pp
£20.00 17499 now £7.99
The East Front from
the Diagonal Walk
£25.00 91687 now £9.99
Roger Turner Tall perennials are some of
the most stunning and attention-grabbing
plants, and they can provide drama and interest in gardens of any size. Roger Turner
describes the range of tall perennials and
advises on different types, including flowering plants, eye-catching foliage and ornamental grasses. He also offers practical
guidance in the design of the border, how
to group plants to create interesting and
effective combinations and successful cultivation. TIMBER 2009 HB 260pp Illus
THE HEDGEROWS
HEAPED WITH MAY
The Telegraph Book
of the Countryside
THE GARDENS AND
PARKS AT HAMPTON
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FOOD
NEW WINTER WARMERS
Every Dish, Three Ways – You Choose!
Jo McAuley The Quick Cook series provides
flexible recipes with 10, 20 and 30 minute
versions for each set of ingredients, with
additions for the longer options. With this
book of recipes for chilly days and nights,
you can make Creamy Fish with Mashed
Potatoes in 10 minutes, Cheat’s Fish Gratin
in 20 minutes or, if you have half-hour to
spare, a Comforting Fish Pie.
HAMLYN 2014 PB 288pp Illus 198x158mm
£7.99 19458 now £3.99
Peperonata-style Pork and Chorizo Casserole
Alison Uttley Loved by generations for
children’s books such as her Little Grey
Rabbit series, Alison Utley grew up in a
farmhouse in rural Derbyshire. First published in 1966 and newly illustrated with
100 colour photographs, this beautifully
written book includes classic English
recipes for cakes and puddings, savoury
dishes, pickles, beverages, sweets and
even natural remedies. Far more than a
cookbook, it is also a treasury of reminiscences of a vanished way of life.
OLD FARMHOUSE RECIPES
REMEMBER WHEN 2010 HB 159pp Illus
£19.99 10987 now £6.99
LET’S EAT
Recipes from My
Kitchen Notebook
Tom Parker Bowles Food writer Tom
Parker Bowles’s battered old notebook
contains recipes gathered on his travels,
as well as family favourites he grew up
with. His range includes comfort food,
quick salads, exotic food, puddings, children’s food and cocktails. Here he shares
his home cooking, including Shepherd’s
Pie, Boeuf Bourgignon, Smoked Eel and
Bacon Salad, Ceviche, Sichuan Gong Bao
Chicken and Treacle Tart. What they all
have in common is their combination of
flavour and simplicity.
PAVILION 2012 PB 272pp Illus 244x187mm
£14.99 16527 now £6.99
NEW CLAIRE MACDONALD’S
SIMPLY SEASONAL
Delicious Recipes for Year-Round
Informal Entertaining
Claire Macdonald Whether you are cooking her Sweet Potato, Lime and Ginger
Soup as a warming winter meal, or Pepper-Crusted Salmon Fillets with Tomato and
Basil Salsa for a summer gathering, you will find that all Claire Macdonald’s meals
are simple to produce, delicious to eat and utilize the best of seasonal ingredients. This
collection of 150 recipes includes starters, main courses and deserts, designed for the
contemporary trend for informal entertaining. BIRLINN 2012 PB 287pp Illus 189x232mm
£14.99 19118 now £5.99
Sara Paston-Williams Doyenne of British cooking Sara Paston-Williams shares her
wealth of experience with fresh ingredients and homemade recipes, demonstrating
how to make chutneys and relishes, pickles, jams and jellies, marmalades and
mincemeats. The recipes include both traditional favourites such as Piccalilli and
Seville Orange Marmalade and more unusual preserves such as Spiced Blackberries
and Fruit Leathers – many of them originating in National Trust kitchens.
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED JAMS, PRESERVES AND CHUTNEYS
NATIONAL TRUST 2008 HB
£16.99 11826 now £6.99
BRITISH REGIONAL FOOD
A Cook’s Tour of
Britain and Ireland
Mark Hix British cuisine is as rich and
varied as any in the world, and few have
done more to restore its reputation than
Mark Hix. His delightfully enthusiastic
book takes the reader on a culinary voyage
from London, home of Eel, Pie and Mash,
via the Southwest (Stargazy Pie) and the
North (Lancashire Hot Pot) to Scotland,
Wales and Ireland. Beautifully illustrated
with colour photographs, the book includes 130 recipes and advice on sources
of ingredients.
QUADRILLE 2006 PB 240pp Illus 265x210mm
NEW GREAT
HOMEMADE SOUPS
A Cook’s Collection
£14.99 10678 now £5.99
Phil Vickery This bestselling book has
revolutionized gluten-free diets with a
selection of delicious recipes that will
inspire coeliacs. With dishes such as
Japanese Salmon with Mint Chutney,
Sauteed Chicken Livers with Tarragon
Muffins, Chicken and Prawn Jambalaya,
Chickpea and Cashew Pilaf and Chocolate
Brownies with Caramel, as well as a
section on vegetarian food, a gluten-free
diet need never feel restrictive again.
Paul Gayler; Photo. Lisa Linder In this
comprehensive collection of more than
100 soup recipes, Paul Gayler, chef of
The Lanesborough in London, provides
ideas and inspiration, tips and techniques
for creating the perfect homemade soup,
whether as a main meal or a starter, as a
wholesome one-pot lunch or as a sophisticated entrée for a dinner party. A stepby-step masterclass in basic techniques
accompanies the recipes and there are
contributions from guest chefs including
Antonio Carluccio and Tom Kerridge.
KYLE 2009 HB 192pp Illus 255x205mm
JACQUI SMALL 2013 HB 232pp Illus 267x205mm
£19.99 12048 now £7.99
£25.00 19294 now £7.99
SERIOUSLY GOOD!
GLUTEN-FREE COOKING
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ARCHAEOLOGY
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
NEW ULTIMATE PAPERCRAFT BIBLE
A Complete Reference with
Step-by-Step Techniques
Ed. Marie Clayton ‘Papercraft’, writes Marie
Clayton, ‘is an exciting and absorbing pastime
that offers a simple and effective way to
express your creativity, without having to learn
complicated skills or buy lots of expensive tools’.
This colourful, step-by-step guide shows how
to get started in papercraft and how to progress
from simple colouring, through card-making,
gift wrapping and scrapbooks to origami; and
a final chapter gives a taste of crafts such as
papier mâché, paper flowers and quilling.
COLLINS & BROWN 2012 HB 304pp Illus 272x213mm
£25.00 20020 now £9.99
Applying decorative style with gold foil embellishments
NEW NORDIC KNITTING
TRADITIONS
Knit 25 Scandinavian, Icelandic
and Fair Isle Accessories
Susan Anderson-Freed Traditional
Scandinavian and Icelandic designs
are given new life in these 25 projects,
with new floral, star, feather and
geometric motifs, all knit in fresh
and modern colours. The patterns –
for hats and tams, mittens and gloves,
and socks, knee-highs and leg warmers
– are all clearly presented with fullcolour charts, variations on the main
pattern to allow you to customize,
and tips and tricks for sizing,
construction and stress-free knitting.
Rebecca Yue, a popular Chinese painter and tutor, shows how to develop the
techniques required to create the loosely drawn, expressive paintings that capture
the essence of animal subjects. After explaining basic techniques and materials,
Yue describes more specialized methods for various animals, such as the big,
bold brushstrokes required for a panda’s black patches, wet and dry methods for
depicting animals with patterns, or broken brushstrokes to convey the coarse hair
of a badger or a lion’s mane. WATSON-GUPTILL 2009 PB 176pp Illus
CHINESE ANIMAL PAINTING MADE EASY
$24.95 19757 now £7.99
Maryanne Grebenstein From the
meticulous skills of the medieval illuminator
to the creative freedom of the modern
graphic artist, decorative writing can be
a powerful tool for communicating the
written word and a rewarding art form for
the practitioner. Including an exploration
of each of the basic calligraphic alphabets
as well as step-by-step instructions, exercise
pages and inspirational examples, this
workbook explains how to get started
with calligraphy and contains 16 creative
projects to put your skills to the test.
THE COMPLETE CALLIGRAPHER
KRAUSE 2012 PB 144pp Illus 253x200mm
£15.99 20008 now £5.99
NEW FIRST KNITS
Simple Projects for Knitters
Luise Roberts; Kate Haxell With
‘workshops’ on casting on and off and
basic knitting, purl and simple cable
patterns, and colour knitting (stripes,
intarsia and Fair Isle) as well as
17 achievable projects for bags,
cushions and garments such as hats,
scarves, bootees and mittens, this is an
excellent introduction for newcomers
to the world of knitting. COLLINS &
BROWN 2011 PB 128pp Illus 244x188mm
£8.99 19993 now £3.99
A&C BLACK 2011 PB 256pp Illus 220x218mm
£16.99 19038 now £7.99
Caroline Crabtree; Christine Shaw Covering a vast range of textiles, this is a
worldwide survey of the ancient and very varied traditions of quilting, patchwork
and appliqué. A source of inspiration for anyone working in these crafts today, the
book is full of fascinating examples such as the appliqued uniforms of the Mahdi’s
followers, pojagi wrapping cloths from Korea and English 19th century quilted
bonnets. The guide is in three parts – Materials, Uses, Construction – and covers over
50 topics, with some 500 illustrations. THAMES & HUDSON 2007 HB 192pp Illus 280x240mm
QUILTING, PATCHWORK AND APPLIQUÉ: A World Guide
£24.95 98411 now £11.99
Cyril J Freezer; Nick Freezer Cyril Freezer, the doyen of railway modellers, did much to
popularize the hobby through his books, articles and track plans. In this basic introduction
he explains to the novice how to construct a first model railway from planning the layout
and making the baseboard to running a realistic timetable. This edition has been updated
to take account of recent developments in the hobby such as Digital Command Control
and a greater interest in weathering effects. IAN ALLAN 2013 PB 96pp Illus 295x208mm
NEW
FIRST STEPS IN RAILWAY MODELLING: The Bachmann Way
£17.50 19918 now £6.99
Iain Rice The steam locomotive is at the heart of most modellers’ interest in railways and
this book provides a comprehensive guide to creating accurately detailed and appropriate
engines for any layout. Concentrating on the 4mm scale, Iain Rice discusses how to select
locos – explaining their mechanics and how different designs are appropriate to different
terrains – offers tips on modifying commercially available models, and demonstrates
advanced techniques for detailing, painting and weathering.
REALISTIC RAILWAY MODELLING: STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
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CRAFTS &ARCHAEOLOGY
COLLECTABLES
Stacey Pierson Chinese ceramics are among the most admired and
collected in the world due to their long history of continuous
production and their exceptionally high quality. Drawing on
the V&A’s world famous collection, this accessible volume
provides a design history of these globally significant
objects and their influence on taste and trade, and illustrates
over 200 examples ranging from elegant Song celadons
to decorative Ming vases and the 19th century Qing
famille rose style. V&A 2009 HB 144pp Illus 268x215mm
CHINESE CERAMICS
£30.00 17046 now £12.99
Jingdezhen ware porcelain vessel in fahua style, Ming dynasty
MASTERPIECES OF WORLD CERAMICS
In the Victoria and Albert Museum
Diana in bronze and ivory by Ferdinand Preiss
FERDINAND PREISS:
ART DECO SCULPTOR
The Fire and the Flame
Alberto Shayo Based in Berlin, Johann
Philipp Ferdinand Preiss (1892-1943) was
the finest ivory carver and the most prolific sculptor of the Art Deco period in
Germany. As well as illustrating over 110
examples of the ivory, bronze, onyx and
marble figures that so vividly reflect their
era, this volume offers a study of Preiss’s
life and work, set against the difficulties
and constraints of German politics between the wars and the rise of Nazism.
ANTIQUE COLLECTORS’ CLUB
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Ed. Reino Liefkes; Hilary Young The ceramics collections at
the V&A are unrivalled in their range, diversity and global
reach. Featuring 120 masterpieces, this beautiful book traces
developments in world ceramics from ancient times to the
present, and shows how worldwide trade and cultural interchange have shaped
their histories. Outstanding new photographs reveal an array of stunning pieces,
from dramatic Chinese funerary sculpture to exquisitely painted Italian Renaissance
pottery and boldly modernist wares.V&A 2008 HB 144pp Illus 266x214mm
£30.00 17064 now £9.99
ART NOUVEAU
DOMESTIC METALWORK
The English Catalogue 1906
Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik
At the turn of the century the Würtemberg
Electro Plate Company was the world’s
largest manufacturer of domestic
metalware. Distinguished by the WMF
mark, pieces in the Art Nouveau style are
highly sought after by collectors today.
This handsome volume reproduces the
original 1906 catalogue, with hand drawn
and colour illustrations of more than
3,000 items, and information about the
company, the designers it employed
and the identifying marks on its products.
ACC 2012 HB 448pp Illus 286x237mm
£50.00 19153 now £19.99
THE STORY OF ROVEX
These two volumes are part of The
Story of Rovex trilogy: the history
of Britain’s most successful model
railway system. Tri-ang Railways
began as a cheap train set produced
for Marks and Spencer in 1950 and
developed into the largest range of
locomotives, rolling stock, buildings
and track available in Britain. Pat
Hammond, editor of Model Railway
Enthusiast magazine, traces the
history of the Lines Bros dynasty
of model railway companies and
presents a detailed, illustrated directory of models, operating equipment,
track and buildings. NEW CAVENDISH 2005 HB 520pp Illus 210x280mm
Richard Walter Essex bookplate, c.1897
THE BOOKPLATES AND
BADGES OF CFA VOYSEY
Karen Livingstone Carefully designed
and produced, as befits a study of the
great Arts and Crafts architect and designer CA Voysey (1857-1941), this
book presents his own collection of his
designs for bookplates and badges.
Beautiful to look at and full of interesting symbolism, each design encapsulates the spirit and underlying principles
of Voysey’s work. They are presented
here in over 120 plates, with facing
commentaries and an illustrated introduction to the artist and to the history
of the bookplate. ACC 2011 HB 305pp Illus
£25.00 94759 now £12.99
TRI-ANG HORNBY
The Story of Rovex: Volume 2 1965-1971
Volume 2 takes up the story in 1965 after Tri-ang Railways had changed its name
to Tri-ang Hornby to placate the public following Lines Bros decision to cease
production of Hornby-Dublo.
52310
HORNBY RAILWAYS
The Story of Rovex: Volume 3 1972-1996
This volume covers the period following the collapse of the Tri-ang Group and
the new Hornby Railways’ response to challenges from companies such as Airfix,
Palitoy and Bachmann.
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MUSIC
ULTIMATE INTERACTIVE MUSIC SETS
Presented in specially-designed
folders containing two books,
a CD and a DVD, these interactive
collections by Nick Freeth offer
step-by-step instruction in the basics
of playing each instrument. Budding
performers can then move on to
practise a variety of pieces, presented
in order of difficulty and recorded
on the accompanying audio CD.
PARRAGON 2010 HB + CD-Rom
+ DVD 192pp Illus 300x260mm
£20.00 each
HAIL! HAIL!
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
NEW
John Harris The complete listing of
Glastonbury line-ups tells us that the first
headliners were T Rex in 1970, when entry was £1; a year later you could see
David Bowie and Traffic for free! This
amusing miscellany delves into hundreds
of interesting corners of rock and pop
history from how Keith Moon set up his
drum kit to the most iconic rock spectacles and the relative quality of ex-Beatles’
solo albums. SPHERE 2011 HB 208pp Illus
£13.99 19633 now £6.99
now £7.99 each
Nick Freeth This set features more
than 25 pieces for pianists to learn;
they range from the 16th century,
through Mozart, Beethoven and
Chopin, to Scott Joplin.
19299
NEW
ULTIMATE PIANO
Alongside traditional tunes such as Greensleeves and the Coventry Carol,
the collection of pieces includes Renaissance dance music and a study by
Fernando Sor, all presented in both tabulature and standard notation.
19298
NEW
ULTIMATE GUITAR
THE FOLK HANDBOOK
Working with Songs from the English Tradition
Ed. John Morrish Created in conjunction with the English Folk Dance and Song
Society, this sturdy handbook charts the history and meaning of traditional English
balladry, and profiles key figures in its revival. Words and music for almost 90 songs
are provided, while folk legend Martin Carthy offers guidance on performance.
Complete with discography, bibliography, a guide to web resources and a 14-track
CD of authentic field recordings, it is a valuable resource for anyone interested in
exploring the world of folk. BACKBEAT 2007 HB + Audio CD 288pp Illus 270x205mm
£19.95 88186 now £6.99
Self-portrait by Tony Bennett
TONY BENNETT
IN THE STUDIO
A Life of Art and Music
NEW
Tony Bennett; Robert Sullivan Singer
Tony Bennett is also an accomplished
painter whose work is held in the permanent collections of several American
museums. He takes as his subjects the
people he works with and the places and
landscapes that he encounters as he tours
the world. This handsome book includes
views of Central Park, Italian landscapes
and portraits of well-known jazz musicians and is accompanied by Bennett’s
thoughts about his life and career and
the inspirational people he has known.
STERLING 2007 HB 224pp Illus 293x272mm
$29.95 19375 now £7.99
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THE GESUALDO HEX
Music, Myth and Memory
Glenn Watkins The melancholic
Renaissance composer, visionary
and murderer Carlo Gesualdo
(1566-1613) is famous as much for
the scandal of his personal life as for
his eccentric music, which was once
deemed unperformable and ‘sadly
amateurish’. Watkins reassesses the
evidence for his life of adultery,
intrigue and witchcraft, but also
presents a fascinating analysis of
Gesualdo’s surprising influence on
avant-garde composers such as
Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Boulez
during the 20th century.
SCHUMANN
A Chorus of Voices
John C Tibbetts During more than 30 years
of travel and research, Professor Tibbetts has
interviewed a host of distinguished performers,
biographers, critics and commentators who
share his interest in the music of Schumann.
In this book he brings together their insights
concerning the composer’s works, his circle of
friends and his place in the history of romantic
music. The accompanying CD features a discussion of Carnaval and performances by pianist Ronald Brautigam of the eight Noveletten.
AMADEUS 2010 HB + Audio CD 512pp Illus
£27.95 10708 now £12.99
NORTON 2010 HB 400pp Illus
£28.00 17082 now £9.99
Terry Teachout Both of Edward Kennedy
Ellington’s parents were pianists but it was not until
the teenage ‘Duke’ heard a ragtime piece in 1913
that he took the instrument seriously. By the 1920s
he was in Harlem, New York, leading his own
orchestra and on the path to worldwide fame. This
biography assesses the life and artistic legacy of the
most prolific and influential jazz composer of all
time, drawing on private papers, scrapbooks,
musical manuscripts and interviews.
NEW
DUKE: A Life of Duke Ellington
GOTHAM 2013 HB 483pp Illus 235x165mm
$30.00 19521 now £7.99
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MUSIC/PERFORMING ARTS
Stafford Hildred; Tim Ewbank As well as tracing
John Thaw’s life, from his humble roots in the back
streets of Manchester, through a desperately unhappy
childhood to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and
on to award-winning roles in series such as The
Sweeney and Inspector Morse, this biography explores
the personality that made Thaw such a hugely popular
and versatile actor. ANDRE DEUTSCH 2012 PB 255pp Illus
NEW
JOHN THAW: The Biography
£9.99 19956 now £3.99
BRITTEN’S CENTURY
Celebrating 100 Years
of Benjamin Britten
IN MY FATHER’S
SHADOW
A Daughter Remembers
Orson Welles
NEW
Chris Welles Feder Few Hollywood stars
have achieved the stature or notoriety of
Orson Welles, creator of arguably the
greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane.
Much has been written about his artistic
triumphs and human failings, but as the
author makes clear, this is not another
such book. Owing nothing to research and
everything to first-hand experience, it is
the beautifully realized, intensely personal
tale of a daughter’s search for her lovable,
larger-than-life yet strangely elusive
father. MAINSTREAM 2010 HB 302pp Illus
£14.99 19572 now £5.99
Ed. Mark Bostridge The 19 contributions to Britten’s Century are by a range
of performers, critics, biographers and
colleagues of Britten. Analysing both his
life and music, these stimulating essays
and interviews cover subjects such as the
work of the present-day Britten-Pears
foundation, Dame Janet Baker’s experiences performing under the composer’s
direction, pianist Roger Vignoles’ insights
into the five Canticles and Alan Bennett’s
reflections on his play about Britten and
Auden. BLOOMSBURY 2013 HB 201pp
£16.99 18259 now £6.99
Susan Orlean Found abandoned on a First
World War battlefield, Rin Tin Tin went on
to become an international film star. Described by John Banville in the Guardian
as ‘a wonderfully entertaining account of
one of the strangest partnerships in a very
strange milieu’, this is the improbable story
of the dog who came to represent an ideal
of bravery and canine companionship and
of how his master strove to keep his legend
alive. ATLANTIC BOOKS 2011 HB 336pp Illus
RIN TIN TIN
£16.99 19884 now £5.99
MAX BYGRAVES
in His Own Words
Max Bygraves was an all-round entertainer, filling theatres and featuring in the
music charts with his famous Singalonga
albums. Here, Bygraves tells the story of
his rise to fame, from his childhood in
Rotherhithe, living in a two-bedroom flat
with his five siblings and extended family,
to his sell-out shows at the London Palladium, world tours and showbusiness
friends such as Frankie Howerd and Judy
Garland. BREEDON 1997 HB 250pp
NEW IMMORAL MEMORIES
An Autobiography
Sergei Eisenstein’s films, Battleship
Potemkin (1925) and October (1928) were
acclaimed worldwide, but his experimental techniques came in for criticism from
Soviet authorities and his output was severely curtailed by political difficulties.
This translation of his autobiography, written two years before his death in 1948,
recounts his life in the Soviet Union and
his travels in the West, and includes his
wide-ranging thoughts about film, art and
culture, some of his idiosyncratic
sketches, and photographs from his life
and career.
PETER OWEN 2014 PB 282pp Illus
£25.00 19603 now £7.99
IMPERIAL DEATH STAR DS-1
ORBITAL BATTLE STATION
Owner’s Workshop Manual
Ryder Windham; Chris Reiff; Chris
Trevas The evil Empire of the Star Wars
universe conceived the Death Star – a
120km-diameter battle station capable of
destroying a planet – to be the ultimate
power in the galaxy. This technical manual explains in detail its design, construction, systems and controls, and is illustrated with a range of computer-generated
artworks, floor plans and cutaways. The
book is fully authorized by Lucasfilm and
also contains information about the second Death Star, which featured in Return
of the Jedi. HAYNES 2013 HB 128pp Illus
£16.99 18024 now £6.99
£15.99 17900 now £5.99
COMEDY RULES
From the Cambridge Footlights
to Yes Prime Minister
Jonathan Lynn Theatre director, film
director, producer, actor and award-winning co-writer of Yes Minister and Yes
Prime Minister, Jonathan Lynn has been
making people laugh since his ‘funny turn
with Eric’ (Idle) while they were both
students at Cambridge. His 150 rules of
comedy are both memoir and masterclass,
full of hilarious anecdotes and a mustread for any aspiring comedy writer.
FABER 2012 PB 205pp
£8.99 99883 now £3.99
BARRY CRYER
COMEDY SCRAPBOOK
Barry Cryer; Philip Porter Barry Cryer
has been a stalwart of British comedy since
the 1950s. Cutting his teeth at the famous
Windmill Theatre in Soho, he has since
written for, worked with and often become
friends with most of the greats of the postwar era, among them Tommy Cooper and
Eric Morecambe. This memoir is presented
as a scrapbook of his personal photographs,
illuminated by Cryer’s observations about
his life and the stars he has worked with,
and by their comments about him. PORTER PRESS 2009 PB 176pp Illus 248x300mm
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TRANSPORT
NEW SMOKE,
STEAM AND LIGHT
The Railway Art
of John Austin
John Austin has won the
Guild of Railway Artists
Picture of the Year Award
more often than any other
painter, helping to establish
his reputation as one of the
finest railway artists at
work today. This handsome
volume is a retrospective
portfolio of over 100 of his
finest canvasses; the majestic
locomotives in spectacular scenery and evocative station
and city scenes demonstrating his mastery of light and
colour as well as his eye for technical and historical detail.
MILE BY MILE
LONDON TO PARIS
NEW
Reginald Piggott; Matt Thompson Using
the same cartographic method as SN Pike
in his legendary Mile by Mile on Britain’s
Railways, this book logs every mile on
the historic Golden Arrow (Flèche d’Or)
and modern Eurostar lines: gradients,
stations, the sights to be seen from the
train, the history along the route, and how
both railways were built. The old and new
lines are mapped on facing pages, interspersed with illustrated articles on topics
such as the terminals, ferries and the
Channel Tunnel. AURUM 2012 HB 112pp Illus
£12.99 20070 now £4.99
£40.00 19615 now £14.99
THE BRIGHTON LINE
A Traction History
Simon Jeffs Electrification came early to
the Brighton line, with an overhead system fitted between London Bridge and
Victoria in 1909. The third rail electric
system for which the Southern Railway
is famous was adopted in 1923 and today
most services on, and connected to, the
line rely on electric traction. This collection of over 150 archive and modern photographs charts the changing traffic, from
early steam engines to electric locomotives and diesel and electric multiple units.
Worle Junction:
Shrewsbury-bound
No 5095 Barbury Castle
heads east from
Weston-super-Mare
Colin J Marsden The Ian Allan ABC Rail
Guide has been published since the 1940s
and is the essential reference for enthusiasts, listing all the locomotives, multiple
units, coaches and track machines operating in the UK. This 2014 edition reflects
a significant number of changes made on
the network during 2013 including new
locomotives and multiple units ordered
and entering service and new details of
the Intercity Express Programme to replace the old HST stock on mainline
routes. IAN ALLEN 2014 HB 312pp Illus
NEW
ABC RAIL GUIDE 2014
£20.00 19873 now £7.99
£14.99 17990 now £6.99
NEW BRISTOL
& BATH RAILWAYS
The Age of Steam
Colin Maggs With the advent of steam
power, railways quickly proliferated in
the Bristol and Bath area, helping the
cities to expand and becoming a major
employer in the region – Bristol even having its own locomotive works from 18641881. With archive illustrations and photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s,
Colin Maggs’s accessible history celebrates the region’s railway heritage and
tells the stories of the people who worked
on or used the trains during the steam era.
COUNTRYSIDE 2011 PB 128pp Illus
£9.95 19648 now £4.99
THE TIMES
MAPPING THE RAILWAYS
David Spaven; Julian Holland The 121
maps reproduced in this volume tell the
story of the railways in Britain in a unique
and visual way, from proposals and plans
produced by the early pioneers to specially
commissioned maps showing recent reopenings and newly-built lines. Including
passenger route planners from the height
of the steam age and Beeching’s controversial network revisions of the 1960s,
the book charts two centuries of profound
change and provides insights into both
railway and cartographic history.
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NEW THE LONDON &
BLACKWALL RAILWAY
Docklands’ First Railway
John Christopher Linking the City with
the recently opened East and West India
Docks, the London and Blackwall Railway was originally powered by stationary
engines at each end pulling the trains on
hefty ropes. This succinct history is illustrated with contemporary and archive photographs, engravings and maps, and tells
the history of the railway from its conception to the modern Docklands Light
Railway, which has brought much of the
line back into use.
TIMES 2014 HB 304pp Illus 285x220mm
AMBERLEY 2013 PB 96pp Illus 230x165mm
£30.00 94872 now £12.99
£14.99 19322 now £4.99
ON THE SLOW
TRAIN AGAIN
NEW
Michael Williams Few love affairs are
more passionate than that of the British
with their railways. Michael Williams
spent a year travelling the highways and
byways of Britain’s network, from the
historic Orient Express to the driverless
Docklands Light Railway. His glorious
celebration of the romance of rail includes the ‘lobster and crab’ line through
Norfolk; the little branch line to Looe
in Cornwall; and the ‘train to the end
of the world’, running through loch
and moorland from Inverness to Wick.
PREFACE 2011 PB 224pp Illus
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ENGINES OF WAR
How Wars Were Won
and Lost on the Railways
Christian Wolmar, Britain’s foremost
transport historian, turns his attention to
railways and war, exploring ‘how the creation of the railways led to a tremendous
escalation of the scale of warfare and how
increasingly they were used in a strategic
way to conduct military operations’. Beginning with the Grand Crimean Central
Railway, built to supply troops at Sevastopol in 1855, Wolmar traces railway
involvement through two world wars, up
to the demise of industrial-scale warfare
and the need for ‘engines of war’.
PUBLICAFFAIRS 2010 HB 368pp Illus
$28.95 17836 now £6.99
NEW THREE GREENWICH
BUILT SHIPS
David C Ramzan In addition to the Royal
Naval Hospital and later College, the shipyards established at Deptford and Woolwich in the 16th century made the area of
Greenwich the most important nautical
centre in the world. This book tells the
story of maritime Greenwich and the age
of sail through the careers of three ships
built there: an East Indiaman of the 1730s,
a Royal Navy vessel of the 1750s and an
iron clipper of the 1870s.
£17.99 19788 now £5.99
TRANSPORT
NEW THE BRITISH
CRUISE SHIP
An Illustrated
History 1844-1939
Ian Collard It was a
novelty in 1844 when
P&O began to offer
passages on their
regular steamer routes,
travelling as far as the
Mediterranean to visit
places such as Athens
or Constantinople before
returning to England.
The Cunard liner Franconia, depicted by Kenneth D Shoesmith
Leisure cruising grew in
popularity and by the 1880s ships were being built specifically for the purpose. This
book tells the story of British cruising through archive photographs and illustrations
of the ships and their passengers as well as posters, advertisements and other
contemporary ephemera. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 128pp Illus 167x246mm
£19.99 19854 now £7.99
Andrew Gladwell The buff-coloured funnels of Cosens paddle steamers were
once a common sight along the Dorset coast, vessels such as Embassy, Consul
and Monarch taking passengers from the piers at Weymouth and Bournemouth
to the Isle of Wight, Swanage and Portland and landing by ramp onto the beach
at Lulworth Cove. This illustrated history recalls the heyday of the Weymouth
company between the late 19th century and the 1960s through postcards, archive
photographs and advertising materials. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 128pp Illus
NEW
COSENS PLEASURE STEAMERS
£14.99 19549 now £5.99
RMS TITANIC
1909-1912 (Olympic Class)
David F Hutchings; Richard de
Kerbrech The archive photographs in this
book show the truly gargantuan scale of
the Titanic: the boilers, propellers and
crankshafts absolutely dwarfing shipyard
workers. Here, deck plans and crosssections reveal every corner of the ill-fated
liner; the construction and operation of
every part of the ship, including the
lifeboats, is analysed; and there is a short
history of Titanic’s career, concluding with
the discovery of the wreck in the 1980s.
£21.99 95512 now £7.99
Gloster Meteor T.Mk 7s in aerobatic practice
above RAF Little Rissington in 1957
EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS
When Britain’s Aircraft
Ruled the World
James Hamilton-Paterson In 1945 Britain
was the world’s leading builder of jet aircraft and in the decade that followed, produced planes such as the Comet, Vulcan,
Hawker Hunter and Lightning; but by the
early 1960s aviation companies such as
Avro and Vickers were either gone or struggling. This book fuses the author’s memories of British aviation’s heyday with tales
of the legendary aircraft and test pilots and
a rueful history of Britain’s loss of selfconfidence and power. Special illustrated
edition. FABER 2011 HB 288pp Illus 278x225mm
£25.00 11840 now £8.99
NEW CITROEN DS
The World’s Most Beautiful Car
Daniel Denis; Thibaut Amant Despite being in production for 20 years, when
the Citroen DS was withdrawn in 1975 it was still the most advanced car available
with its radical hydropneumatic suspension and a host of inventive design features.
This photographic celebration includes all the principal variants from early
examples of the DS and sister model ID to the beautiful convertible, capacious
estate and a number of specials such as an ambulance conversion and General
de Gaulle’s presidential limousine. HAYNES 2012 HB 288pp Illus 287x235mm
£40.00 19609 now £12.99
PORSCHE 911
A Celebration of the World’s Most Revered Sports Car
Michael Scarlett The legendary status of the 911 has been well earned by
Porsche’s success in continually adapting and refining the model so that it has
remained the benchmark for high-performance supercars for over 50 years.
Beautifully illustrated from the Porsche Photographic Archive, this celebration
of the instantly recognizable car tells the complete story of how and why it was
originally built, the many refinements and evolutions that it has undergone and
its racing history. Haynes Great Cars series.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN
NEW COLOSSAL
The Eiffel Tower under construction in June 1888
Engineering the
Suez Canal, Statue of
Liberty, Eiffel Tower
and Panama Canal
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Written by an art historian,
this volume traces a
history that leads from
Napoleon’s encounter with
the gigantic monuments
of ancient Egypt to the
building of the wonders
of the industrial world: the
Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Suez and Panama Canals. Grigsby shows how
all four modern colossi owe their existence to French engineers and the fantasies
of wealth, progress and colonial expansion they and the French financiers and
politicians took as a call to destiny. With over 200 illustrations.
PERISCOPE 2012 HB 224pp Illus 290x257mm
THE SECRET LANGUAGE
OF CHURCHES
AND CATHEDRALS
Decoding the Sacred Symbolism
of Christianity’s Holy Buildings
Richard Stemp Every element of a
church or cathedral has a purpose,
whether structural or symbolic. This
illustrated guide to the language of
Christian buildings identifies the key
features found in the fabric, furniture
and decoration of churches from different
periods and different branches of the
faith. Including such famous buildings
as Notre Dame in Paris and St Paul’s
in London, it traces the development of
church architecture and explains how
the builders intended their work to be
‘read’ symbolically. DUNCAN BAIRD
$35.00 10905 now £9.99
MASTERPIECES OF MEDIEVAL
OPEN TIMBER ROOFS
Raphael Brandon; J Arthur Brandon
Originally published in 1849, and
reprinted here in facsimile, The Open
Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages
includes perspective drawings and
construction details of the major
medieval roof styles (tie-beam, trussed
rafter, hammer-beam and collar-braced).
£14.99 79555 now £6.99
£45.00 19791 now £19.99
LASTING ELEGANCE
English Country
Houses 1830-1900
Michael Hall The English
stately home reached its
apotheosis in the 19th
century as the most eminent
architects of the era blended
tradition and innovation to
create larger, more elaborate
and more luxurious houses
than ever before. This
magnificent volume draws
on the archive of Country
Life magazine to present
The garden front of Brodsworth Hall in Yorkshire,
150 colour and black-andphotographed in 1963
white photographs – the
fullest visual record yet – of the greatest houses of the age, including Pugin’s
Scarisbrick Hall and Barry’s Highclere Castle, the setting for Downton Abbey.
MONACELLI 2009 HB 192pp Illus 314x260mm
$65.00 19271 now £11.99
Lawrence Lyle; Marjorie Lyle Canterbury Cathedral is both the mother church
of the Anglican communion and the pinnacle of English Gothic, yet the iconoclastic
ravages of the Reformation were followed by a century of neglect in the Georgian
era. With more than 50 illustrations, including a striking colour section, this
absorbing study charts the efforts of the Victorian architect William Butterfield,
along with the artists and clergy who shared his vision, to restore the cathedral
to its former glory. HISTORY PRESS 2013 PB 128pp Illus 230x154mm
NEW
CANTERBURY AND THE GOTHIC REVIVAL
£14.99 19714 now £6.99
DESIGNS AND ORNAMENTS
FROM THE CHAPELS OF NOTRE DAME
NEW
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc; Maurice Ouradou The architect and theorist Viollet-leDuc (1814-79) was a leading figure in the French Gothic revival and active in the restoration of
medieval buildings. In 1845 he undertook the restoration of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
– a task that was to take 23 years. This volume of 60 colour plates, reprinted from the original
published in Paris in 1870shows the restored murals, including abstract and representational
motifs, floral and geometric patterns and architectural features. DOVER 2011 PB 80pp Illus 279x213mm
$16.95 19346 now £4.99
Saint Ferdinand
Chapel, Notre Dame
WF Pocock The publication of Pocock’s Designs for Churches and Chapels in 1819 was
timely. The previous year’s Church Building Act provided funds for many new churches,
but there were few architects capable of producing the necessary designs. Pocock’s lucid
text and clear illustrations of both Gothic and Neoclassical buildings – reprinted here with
an informative introduction – provided the blueprint for a new wave of churches on both sides
of the Atlantic, and remain an unparalleled resource for architectural historians.
DESIGNS FOR CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
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DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION
ARCHAEOLOGY
NEW HOLLYWOOD SKETCHBOOK
A Century of Costume Illustration
Deborah Nadoolman Landis With reproductions
of work by more than 60 artists, arranged
alphabetically from Eleanor Abbey to Susan
Zarate, this volume is a celebration of costume
designers’ and costume illustrators’ contributions
to cinematic storytelling over the last 100 years.
Professor Landis, herself an Academy Award
nominated costume designer, provides a
substantial introduction to the history and art
of costume in film, and the book concludes
with a filmography detailing the career
highlights of each of the featured artists.
HARPER DESIGN 2012 HB 600pp Illus 311x237mm
$75.00 19905 now £19.99
Carmen Jones design by Mary Anne Nyberg, 1954
John Martin’s Book cover by Carlson, 1913
Tom Lubbock In this book of 40 essays on
illustration, the renowned art critic and illustrator
Tom Lubbock (1957-2011) focuses on English
artists using graphic media, the latter broadly
interpreted to include not only drawings and
prints, but works such as the Uffington White
Horse and Harry Beck’s Tube map. Lubbock’s
subjects range chronologically from the Bronze
Age to the 1970s, but with the emphasis on the
great artists of the late 18th and early 19th
century: Palmer, Blake, Fuseli and Bewick.
ENGLISH GRAPHIC
NEW PERFECT NONSENSE
The Chaotic Comics and Goofy
Games of George Carlson
George Carlson; Ed. Daniel F Yezbick
Bringing together Uncle Wiggily, Jingle
Jangle tales and The Pie-Faced Prince of
Pretzleburg along with a huge collection
of children’s illustrations, visual illusions,
riddles, cartoons, and railroad and naval
pictures, this is a profusely illustrated
compendium of works by the prolific and
much-loved American cartoonist and
illustrator George Carlson (1887-1962).
It includes a substantial essay on his
life and work by Daniel Yezbick.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2012 HB 208pp Illus 217x163mm
£20.00 17496 now £7.99
Ambleside by Francis Towne, 1786
FANTAGRAPHICS 2013 HB
£35.99 20011 now £19.99
Philip Davies’s selection of 180 London interiors,
all beautifully photographed by Derek Kendall,
reveals the architectural riches – and eccentricities –
hidden behind inscrutable London facades or tucked
away in sidestreets: houses such as 11 Bedford Row,
with its magnificent Georgian painted staircase;
hidden gems such as the Petrie Museum of
Egyptian Archaeology in Malet Street; and the
complete 18th century dining room by Robert
Adam, removed from Bowood House in Wiltshire
and reconstructed on the ninth floor of the Lloyd’s
Building. ATLANTIC 2014 HB 448pp Illus 287x242mm
LONDON HIDDEN INTERIORS
£40.00 16743 now £19.99
The Court Room in the Bank of England
HOUSE
British Domestic Architecture
Three-gabled tollhouse in
Bruton, Somerset, c.1831
Philippa Lewis begins this very accessible,
illustrated survey of domestic architecture
with a concise history of vernacular building
from the earliest surviving medieval houses
to low environmental impact housing of
the early 2000s. Using around 600 of her
own photographs of properties throughout
Britain, she goes on to discuss types of
housing, including bungalows, cottages,
manor houses, terraces and conversions,
and their architectural and decorative
features, in sections arranged alphabetically
from Apartments to Windows.
NEW CELTIC ART
The Methods of Construction
George Bain The influence of ancient
Celtic art can be seen today in the interlaced knotwork and spiral patterns used
in fantasy art, jewellery design and
tattoos. An important step in the revival
of skills in the art form, this classic book
deconstructs the decorative schemes
found on Celtic masterpieces such as
the Book of Kells and the Hunterston
Brooch and reveals how to create the
complex patterning, distinctive lettering
and zoomorphic designs.
PRESTEL 2011 HB 192pp Illus 240x191mm
CONSTABLE 1996 PB 164pp Illus 285x225mm
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£12.99 19421 now £4.99
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HUMOUR
NEW THE PRIME MINISTER’S IRONING
BOARD AND OTHER STATE SECRETS
True Stories from the Government Archives
Adam Macqueen A former Daily Telegraph Book of
the Year, Macqueen’s survey of ‘the things they didn’t
want you to know’ exposes the completely harmless,
if somewhat ridiculous, foibles of politicians and
royalty that have been locked away in state archives
(eg. Mrs Thatcher’s thoughts on the cost of ironing
boards), but also uncovers hair-raising documents
about topics such as fall-out shelters for city-dwellers
(‘beyond our resources’). ABACUS 2013 PB 304pp Illus
£7.99 19432 now £3.99
Riding backwards seated on the handlebar
The Broons’ annual for 2014 is simply 96
pages packed with the goings-on at number
10 Glebe Street, home to Scotland’s
happy family – Paw, Maw and Granpaw
Broon and eight offspring ranging from
30-something Henry to Ae Twin, the
Ither Twin and the Bairn. Written in Scots,
with only the occasional ‘posh’ Englishspeaker, The Broons comic strip has been
a favourite in The Sunday Post since 1936.
NEW
FANCY CYCLING
Trick Riding for Amateurs
Isabel Marks With the aid of a
collection of instructional photographs
of soberly dressed Edwardian gentleman
and lady cyclists, this book demonstrates
a series of stunts of varying difficulty,
from a stationary balance to riding
backwards seated on the handlebars.
An amusing curiosity for today’s army
of cycling enthusiasts, the book is a
facsimile edition of a volume first
published in 1901. OLD HOUSE
THE BROONS
DC THOMSON 2013 PB 96pp Illus
£6.99 19708 now £2.99
£7.99 19222 now £3.99
NEW IN THE GARDEN
WITH THE TOTTERINGS
Annie Tempest Dicky and Daffy
Tottering do battle with the weeds, the
moles and assorted insects – or rather
Daffy attacks them with a battery of
strimmers, killer sprays and ride-on
mowers, while Dicky does a spot of
fishing. This collection of Annie
Tempest’s award-winning Totteringby-Gently cartoon strips from Country
Life is introduced by Sir Roy Strong.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2011 HB
£12.99 20069 now £4.99
NEW OFF THE LEASH:
I LOVE MY DOG
Postcard book
Rupert Fawcett Well-known for his
Fred and Daddy cartoon strips and
The Secret Life of Dogs, Rupert
Fawcett presents another selection
from his latest creation, the Off the
Leash canine cartoons. The postcard
book contains 20 different designs on
pull-out (not perforated) glossy cards.
YOU HAVE
BEEN WARNED
A Complete Guide to the Road
NEW
Fougasse & McCullough In the 1930s
cars were a novel feature of British life
as motorists and pedestrians came to
terms with the increasing traffic and the
application of the new Highway Code.
In this classic book, first published in
1935, Punch cartoonist Fougasse and
broadcaster and humourist Donald
McCullough poke fun at all aspects
of pre-war motoring, from the state of
the roads to taking the driving test.
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CHILDREN’S
Beatrix Potter Leaving Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail
eating blackberries, Peter Rabbit is off stealing carrots
again – 111 years after he first squeezed under
Mr McGregor’s gate. Peter is joined in this boxed
set by the tales of Tom Kitten, the Flopsy Bunnies,
Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr Jeremy Fisher, Mrs TiggyWinkle, Two Bad Mice, Benjamin Bunny, the Tailor of
Gloucester and Squirrel Nutkin. The books are based on
the original, authorized editions, with colourful
covers and new reproductions of Beatrix
Potter’s illustrations. Slipcased set. Age 4+
THE PETER RABBIT LIBRARY (Ten volume set)
WARNE 2013 HB 310pp Illus
£35.00 95032 now £19.99
NEW ONE GORILLA
A Counting Book
Anthony Browne With Anthony
Browne’s wonderful illustrations, this
book counts primates from one gorilla,
two orang-utans, three chimpanzees, four
mandrills... and on to ten lemurs, ending
with you and your human family. Age 3+
THOMAS & FRIENDS:
FOLLOW THAT FLOUR!
NEW
When James asks Thomas to help him
shunt a truck of flour for the harvest
festival cakes, Thomas is cross that his
job isn’t so interesting and decides to
play a trick on James – a game of hideand-seek that causes so much trouble,
he eventually has to ask for James’s
help. The book includes a DVD with
an episode from the TV series. Age 4+
WALKER 2012 HB 26pp Illus 298x258mm
£11.99 18286 now £4.99
5 baboons are
part of the
simian sequence
DEAN 2010 HB 32pp Illus 290x223mm
£12.99 19754 now £3.99
EGMONT TRIO (Three volume set)
There’s a huge surprise – and clean socks – for Sir Charlie Stinky
Socks (right) at the end of The Tale of the Wizard’s Whisper, but
all three stories in our special bundle have good surprises. Is That
a Coconut? Yuck! (by Tony Bradman and Katharine McEwen)
could have ended very badly, but Mama monkey gets to
the ‘coconut’ just in time; and in Jane Fearnley’s Harry
and the Jaggedy Daggers, Harry gets
a hero’s reward after paddling to the
rescue in his teacup. Age 3+
EGMONT 2012/13 PB 96pp Illus 245x275mm
£20.97 10930 now £8.99
Amy Martin’s prize-winning children’s
book tells the story of a young girl lost
in the city who follows the music in the
streets and finds her way home. The story
is told with few words and unusual pictures
whose colours and perspectives evoke the
experience of both music and the city.
There are also 19 cats in the book and a
jacket that unfolds to form a poster. Age 5+
NEW
NEW BOB AND
THE BANDSTAND
SYMPHONY CITY
Bob the Builder and the gang are building McSWEENEY’S 2011 HB 48pp Illus 312x253mm
$17.95 19361 now £5.99
a bandstand in time for a concert in the
park, but it looks as though their work
is in vain – Spud has used all the sheet
HOW MANY?
music to make paper aeroplanes.
It’s a problem – but Bob will
Spectacular Paper Sculptures
find a way to fix it. The book
Ron van der Meer In this outstanding pop-up book
includes a DVD with an
by master paper engineer Ron van der Meer, each
episode from the Bob the
of five double-page spreads opens up to reveal a
Builder TV series. Age 4+
vibrantly coloured paper sculpture, along with
DEAN 2010 HB 32pp
questions that invite young readers to exercise
Illus 290x223mm
simple mathematical skills, look for different
shapes and colours and count what they find.
£12.99 19707
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CHILDREN’S
NEW SLOVENLY KATE
And Other Stories from
the Struwwelpeter Library
Heinrich Hoffmann This extraordinary book
of cautionary tales (in verse) by the author of
Struwwelpeter describes the terrible fates that
await bad children. Slovenly Kate is a messy
eater and she is made to eat with the pigs;
but her punishment is as nothing compared
to that of Screaming Annie, who is taken by
a stork and fed on frogs, or cowardly Fred
who is simply thrown away by the maid.
This book is a republication of the 1875
edition, illustrated by Theodor Hosemann.
$12.99 19358 now £4.99
This is the cock that crowed in the
morn’ from The House that Jack Built
Karin Littlewood Immi is a young Inuit
girl who one day catches a brightly
coloured wooden bird instead of a fish
and ties it to her necklace with her little
white bear. After catching many more
colourful things that brighten up her
ice-white winter, Immi must move on –
but before she goes, she drops her snow
white bear into the sea for someone
else to find and wonder at. Age 4+
NEW
THE DENSLOW PICTURE
BOOK TREASURY
WW Denslow Although remembered
mainly for illustrating the original
Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, William
Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) was
America’s pre-eminent children’s book
illustrator at that time. He knew how
to entertain children and his series of
Denslow’s Picture Books for Children
(1903-4), retelling stories such as
Humpty Dumpty, The Three Bears and
Old Mother Hubbard, were a runaway
success. This Dover edition reprints
the first nine Picture Books, with an
introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn.
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IMMI
GULLANE 2010 HB 32pp Illus 280x250mm
£10.99 19755 now £3.99
THE OXFORD TREASURY
OF FAIRY TALES
Geraldine McCaughrean; Sophy Williams
Escape into a world of knights and princesses,
wicked witches and talking frogs in this
beautifully illustrated treasury of fairy tales.
All the favourite stories are here, such as
Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and
Cinderella, as well as lesser-known but no
less charming tales. It is the perfect collection
for sharing with young children and for them
to treasure and read alone as they get older.
Age 4+ OXFORD UP 2012 PB 240pp Illus
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A TREASURY OF POEMS
FOR CHILDREN
THE WONDERFUL WORLD
OF DR SEUSS
(20 volume set)
Dr Seuss ‘Kids can see a moral coming
a mile off,’ said Dr Seuss, so here we have
20 miniature editions of untainted madcap
rhyme, tongue twisters and chaos, including
all the best-loved stories such as The Cat
in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the
Grinch Stole Christmas and One Fish Two
Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. Dr Seuss went
on to say, ‘but there’s an inherent moral
in any story’: his genius was for hiding it
in the mayhem. Age 4+ HARPERCOLLINS
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MG Edgar; Illus. Willy Pogany First
published around 1912 and reprinted here
with its original pictures by the Hungarian
illustrator Willy Pogany, this anthology
includes some of the best-loved verses for
children: among them The Owl and the
Pussy-Cat, All Things Bright and Beautiful,
The Spider and the Fly and many others
by great poets such as Blake, Tennyson
and Robert Louis Stevenson. Age 6+
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Michael Morpurgo; Illus. Laura
Carlin When Max, a reporter
making a film about the wall
dividing Palestinians and Israeli
settlers, meets a shepherd boy
in the West Bank who flies kites
across the wall, the film becomes
the story of a triumph of children’s
hopes and dreams. With an
afterword by the BBC’s Middle
East editor, Jeremy Bowen.
Age 9+ WALKER 2009 HB
THE KITES ARE FLYING!
The village festival is celebrated with huge fruit tarts
£7.99 84301 now £3.99
Hansi A year after writing and illustrating his
history of Alsace, Hansi produced this vivid,
meticulously detailed depiction of his village
and its traditional ways of life – despite being
under occupation by Germany. He uses his
skill as an illustrator to poke fun at the
authorities while celebrating the people
and places he loved. Age 10+
MY VILLAGE
Charles Dickens Featuring some
of the most memorable characters
in English literature – the brutal
Bill Sikes, the wily Artful Dodger,
beautiful, doomed Nancy and
the criminal mastermind Fagin –
Oliver Twist is one of Dickens’s most
enduringly popular novels.
Generously illustrated with haunting
pencil and ink drawings by Iassen
Ghiuselev, this abridged edition
will draw a new generation of
young readers into the richly
imagined world of this classic tale.
NEW
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£12.99 98432 now £4.99
OLIVER TWIST
£14.99 18285 now £6.99
NEW THE TREASURES OF THE SEVEN SEAS
Cleopatra and the Mystery of the San Diego
Ed. Franck Goddio; Marianne Meyer Bianchi This book describes the work
of Franck Gobbio and his team of underwater archaeologists, showing how their
discoveries are combined with other sources to piece together pictures of past
societies. The book covers two underwater projects: ancient Egyptian treasures
lost from Alexandria around 30 BCE; and the wreck of the Spanish galleon
San Diego, sunk in a bay outside Manila in 1600, after a battle with a Dutch ship.
Age 11+ PRESTEL 2010 HB 45pp Illus 275x216mm
£9.99 19799 now £4.99
Jackie Morris ‘In the beginning
of time people and animals lived
together on the earth and there
was no difference between them.
Bear, human, raven, fox, even
snow and ice, all had spirit, all
had soul.’ Set in the Arctic, Jackie
Morris’s magical tale, with its
remarkable paintings, begins
with a polar bear cub taken by
a raven – but the bundle the
bird drops is no longer a bear.
Age 5+ FRANCES LINCOLN
NEW
NEW ALICE’S ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND
Lewis Carroll; Illus. Willy Pogany Generations of
children have followed Alice down the rabbit hole,
and most will recognize Lewis Carroll’s heroine
by her long blonde
hair and pinafore.
This edition of the
story was first
published in New
York in 1929, with
drawings by the Art
Nouveau illustrator
Willy Pogany. It’s
the same wonderful
adventure, with
a short-haired,
shorter-skirted
1920s Alice.
Age 8+ DOVER
2009 PB 192pp Illus
203x136mm
$6.99 19331
now £2.99
THE ICE BEAR
£11.99 20175 now £4.99
Caroline Pitcher; Illus. Jackie
Morris When snow covers the hills near their home, Laurie and Leo
decide to make a snow whale. As they shovel and rake to bring the
snow whale out of the hill, it gradually takes on a life of its own.
Caroline Pitcher’s inspiring story of the brother and sister and the
dreams their whale inspires is illustrated by Jackie Morris. Age 5+
NEW
THE SNOW WHALE
FRANCES LINCOLN 2008 PB 30pp Illus 268x215mm
£6.99 20078 now £2.99
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STOCKING FILLERS
NEW NAPOLEON’S
HAEMORRHOIDS
And Other Small
Events that
Changed History
ENID BLYTON
NEW THE SECRET
OF CLIFF CASTLE
Enid Blyton Lonely castles
and secret passageways,
smugglers’ coves and
thieves in the night...
These three stories have
all the ingredients of proper
adventures: The Secret
of Cliff Castle (1947),
Smuggler Ben (1943) and
The Boy Who Wanted a
Dog (1963). Age 7+
BOUNTY 2014 HB 288pp Illus
£12.99 20046
now £4.99
NEW THE
ADVENTURES
OF THE SIX COUSINS
Enid Blyton When three farm
children, Jane, Jack and Susan,
are joined by Cyril, Melisande
and Roderick after a fire
destroyed their home in town
there are difficult adjustments,
but their adventures soon help
bridge the town-country
divide. This volume is two
stories in one: Six Cousins at
Mistletoe Farm (1948) and Six
Cousins Again (1950). Age 7+
Phil Mason shows how
small turns of chance
have had bigger impacts
on history than might
have been expected.
A compilation of bad
timings, misunderstandings,
missed opportunities and
sometimes serendipitous
good fortune, the book
has chapters covering
politics, war, science, the
arts, sport and crime, and
poses intriguing questions such as did tea drinking
kick-start the Industrial Revolution in Britain?
JR BOOKS 2009 PB 253pp
£8.99 20071 now £3.99
BOUNTY 2014 HB 335pp Illus
£12.99 20036
now £4.99
QE2 x 2: By Dorothy Wilding/Beatrice Johnson and Andy Warhol
Issued by the National Portrait Gallery in celebration of
the Diamond Jubilee, this book of postcards (snap-out,
without perforations) comprises reproductions of 20 portraits
of Queen Elizabeth II, including works Pietro Annigoni,
Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol, Anthony Armstrong-Jones
and Eve Arnold.
THE QUEEN: ART AND IMAGE
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 2011 HB 20pp Illus 157x113mm
£6.50 98972 now £2.99
NEW A SOCIAL
HISTORY OF
ENGLISH CRICKET
The textured covers of these notebooks feature combinations
of woodblock prints from the catalogue of a 19th century
Japanese nursery which specialized in irises. The original
prints are in the RHS Lindley Library in London. In sets of
three, each notebook has a different iris, 48 ruled pages and
exposed stitching on the spine.
Derek Birley Although
references to cricket are
scant before the 17th century,
it is clear that the game had
long been played when a
report of a ‘great match’
in Sussex was published in
1697. Tracing the game
from its humble origins to
the modern professional
sport, this thoughtful and
well-researched history is
also the story of English
culture: the manners,
hierarchies and politics of
a society mirrored in an
idiosyncratic game and its players.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2014 PB 144pp 209x147mm
AURUM 1999 PB 400pp Illus 198x131mm
£9.99 20074 now £3.99
£12.00 19359 now £5.99
NEW THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
JAPANESE IRIS NOTEBOOK SET
64
EM Grace, who
foreshadowed his
brother WG as a leading
amateur cricketer
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NEW MARY BERRY
Queen of British Baking
AS Dagnell With over 70 cookery books to her
name, there is no doubt that Mary Berry is one
of Britain’s most successful cookery writers, and
now famous for her part in TV’s Great British
Bake Off, although her gentle personality and
classic ‘family’ cooking style are in marked
contrast to other television chefs. This biography
traces her progress from domestic science classes
at Bath High school to popular acclaim as the
queen of British bakers. METRO 2013 PB 255pp Illus
£7.99 20054 now £3.99
NEW INSIDE THE
CHRISTMAS STORY
Reflections for Advent
NEW THE USBORNE CHRISTMAS
CAROLS STICKER BOOK
Jane Chisholm Eleven carols are presented
in this book, with words and music, but
also a selection of famous paintings that
illustrate the story of the carol or the
tradition it celebrates. The pictures appear
‘greyed out’, but with notes on the artist
and the subject. The reader’s job is to
locate the appropriate sticker of each
painting from the back of the book and
complete the pages. Published in association
with the National Gallery. Age 5+
Anthony and Melanie Bash For those
troubled by the loss of ‘Christ’ in
‘Christmas’, and by the secular Advent
with its emphasis on material and
commercial rather than spiritual
preparation for Christmas, this book
aims to help restore balance. Written
by a New Testament scholar and a
psychologist, these daily reflections
explore the familiar biblical narratives
with freshness and vigour and consider
their implications for day-to-day living.
USBORNE 2012 PB 39pp Illus 303x237mm
£6.99 20038 now £2.99
BLOOMSBURY 2012 PB 188pp
£10.99 20225 now £3.99
NEW WHERE’S RINGO?
The Story of the Beatles
in 20 Visual Puzzles
Andrew Grant Jackson In 20 chapters,
this book tells the story of the Beatles,
from their Liverpudlian origins to their
final rooftop concert in 1969, with a
timeline at the end bringing the story
up to 2014. As well as album covers
and photos of the band, each chapter
has a double page picture puzzle with a
list of things to find, always starting with
Ringo. Visual solutions and explanations
(why were we looking for a ‘pair of
apple bonkers’?) follow each puzzle.
AURUM 2014 HB 96pp Illus 253x253mm
£9.99 20085 now £4.99
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WAR DOG
The No-Man’s-Land Puppy
Who Took to the Skies
Damien Lewis In 1939, Czech airman
Robert Bozdech was shot down in
France and, while evading capture,
found a puppy cowering in a barn.
Taking the abandoned dog with him
he found his way to England and
joined the RAF; the dog, Antis,
subsequently accompanied him on
bombing missions. This book recounts
the story of the remarkable partnership
and the countless acts of bravery that
earned Antis the Dickin Medal – the
‘animal VC’. SPHERE 2014 PB 304pp Illus
£7.99 19435 now £3.99
BALL OF CONFUSION
Puzzles, Problems and Perplexing Posers
Johnny Ball With a career spanning 45 years, writing
iconic shows such as Think of a Number, Johnny Ball
is TV’s best-loved mathematician. Here he presents a
mind-bending collection of cunning puzzles and teasers
that will not only entertain but – without you even
noticing it – improve your maths. ICON 2011 PB 237pp
£8.99 98458 now £3.99
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NEW THE WRITERS’ WAR
World War I in the
Words of the Great Writers
Who Experienced It
Ed. Felicity Trotman The First World
War involved more writers and prompted
more writing than perhaps any other.
This anthology of prose and verse,
chronologically ordered, tells the story
of the war in the words of both soldiers
and civilians, including Wilfred Owen,
Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton
and Rudyard Kipling. With the urgency
of the moment, these extracts capture
the carnage and camaraderie, patriotism
and disillusionment, the anxiety of those
on the home front and the grief of the
bereaved. AMBERLEY 2014 HB 352pp
£20.00 19867 now £7.99
NEW DOUBLE AGENT SNOW
The True Story of Arthur Owens,
Hitler’s Chief Spy in England
James Hayward Arthur Owens’s
propensity for invention and
exaggeration made it difficult for MI5
to discount the possibility that their
double agent was not in fact a triple
agent. This biography of the unreliable
Owens describes how he nevertheless
managed to expose dozens of German
agents and how the misinformation that
was fed to the Nazis as a result of his
activities played a crucial role in the
grand deception that kept the real
location of the D-Day invasion a secret.
NEW BRITANNIA’S REALM
In Support of the State: 1763-1815
Richard Woodman Dominated by
two wars, the American War of
Independence and the Napoleonic
Wars, and the difficulties that faced the
merchant marine during both conflicts,
this study also examines trade in the
Far East and the Pacific, the dangers of
navigation to such remote destinations,
and the activities of the notorious pressgangs. This is Volume Two of A History
of the British Merchant Navy, Woodman’s
major study of the mercantile marine’s
immense importance as ‘an historical
instrument of empowerment and
imperial expansion’.
£16.99 19638 now £6.99
£30.00 19713 now £9.99
NEW FLAPPERS
The Real Lives of British Women
in the Era of The Great Gatsby
Pamela Horn For many women the 1920s
was a time of change after the pressures –
and opportunities – of the First World War.
Social historian Pamela Horn examines how
women responded to the new challenges,
whether in the upper-class revival of the
social round, new middle-class professional
lives or the traditional factory and domestic
service of working-class women; and she
explores topics such as rural life, political
activities, leisure time and attitudes to
family planning. AMBERLEY 2013 PB 256pp Illus
£9.99 19783 now £4.99
NEW NOBLE ENDEAVOURS
The Life of Two Countries: England and Germany in Many Stories
Miranda Seymour Until their ties were brutally severed by two world wars, Britain
and Germany were the closest of friends, natural allies whose mutual admiration
and cultural and linguistic kinship were reinforced by many family connections.
This magnificent panorama of 19th- and early 20th-century society traces the stories
of kings and queens, writers and artists, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and working
people whose lives spanned two nations, and demonstrates how the crisis, when
it came, was felt at a deeply personal level. SIMON & SCHUSTER 2013 HB 512pp Illus
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Welcome...
to the December issue of Postscript and our
second Christmas supplement, with more
new titles and a rather marvellous cat on
the cover. The painting is just one of Jackie
Morris’s wonderful illustrations for The Cat
and the Fiddle (p2 of the supplement), and
there are more of her animal pictures in
The Ice Bear and The Snow Whale in the
main catalogue (pp62-63).
But what of the couple on our cover, gazing
into an idyllic future from the prow of
a sailing boat? Caspar David Friedrich’s
painting – and Shakespeare’s sonnet
‘Let me not to the marriage of true
minds/Admit impediments’ which
accompanies it – are from Lovers in Art
(opposite), a romantic gift par excellence.
For the more down to earth we have
transport histories of trains and boats and
planes (pp56-57); for those who would
rather walk, there is the 50th anniversary
set of A Wainwright’s Pictorial Guides (p67);
and for other outdoor types, our natural
history selection has guides to birds, wild
flowers and butterflies, and an exploration
of Badgerlands (pp 48-49).
Postscript’s Christmas present to itself would
have to be The Secret Museum (p68), a truly
eclectic compendium of museum storage
room treasures that encompasses a Great
Auk egg, the Diamond Sutra and a space suit.
We wish all our customers a very happy
Christmas and New Year and thank you for
your interest and support throughout 2015.
SIMON LANG
December 2015
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Featured Titles
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Gift Ideas/Stocking Fillers
4-5/64-65
Postscript Favourites
6-7
Archaeology
8
Architecture/Design
58-59
Art/Photography
34-37
Audiobooks
33
Biography
26-27
British Isles
22-24
Calendars/Journals
42-43
Children’s
61-63
Crafts/Hobbies/Collectables
52-53
Cultural Studies/Politics
30-31
Fiction/Poetry
44-45
Food & Drink
50-51
Humour
60
History:
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13
Ancient
8-9
Medieval
9-11 Social/Industrial 14-15
Modern
12 General/British 16-17
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38-41
Literary Biography/Literature
28
Military History
18-21
Health/Folklore
46
Music/Performing Arts
54-55
Nature/Gardens
48-50
Reference/Language
32-33
Religion
29
Science/Mathematics
47
Scotland
21
Transport
56-57
Travel & Exploration
25
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CORNWALL: TRANSPORT
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NEW THE MOST
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John Vaughan Emblematic of Cornwall’s
mining heritage, the romantic abandoned
engine houses that litter the landscape are
now an attraction of its principal industry:
tourism. This illustrated history examines
the origins and development of tin and
copper mining, quarrying, china clay
extraction and fishing in Cornwall
as well as the diverse transport network
that developed to serve these industries
and later bring tourists to the area. The
book includes map references and can
be used as a practical guidebook.
Paul Moorhouse From great
palaces, estates and cathedrals to
the spot in the New Forest where
William II was killed by a stray
arrow, there are hundreds of
locations around Britain that
have played a part in the lives
of our kings and queens. This
well-researched, illustrated
gazetteer provides information on
400 sites with royal associations
in England, Wales and Scotland,
with directions to each and
additional feature articles.
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Paul Moorhouse Emphasizing
the tension between promoting
the qualities of leaders and heroes
and reflecting the true horrors of
the ordinary soldier’s experience,
this catalogue of an exhibition
held at the National Portrait
Gallery assesses the First World
War through portraiture. It brings
together the work of artists,
photographers, filmmakers and
sculptors, with images ranging
from official war artist William
Orpen’s portrait of Field Marshal
Haig to Gilbert Rogers’s painting
of a dead stretcher-bearer and
Max Beckman’s nightmarish
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veteran. NATIONAL PORTRAIT
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Michael Fitzgerald For centuries before
the birth of the Welfare State, London’s
poor lived crammed, often 40 to a room,
in ramshackle and insanitary ‘rookeries’
such as Saffron Hill and Ratcliff Highway,
largely invisible to the better-off. Based
on primary sources, this revelatory
book rescues their story from obscurity.
Extensively illustrated with contemporary
prints, it records their home life,
employment, entertainment, food and
drink, crime and punishment, and honours
the humour and resilience with which
they faced challenging conditions.
NEW BAND OF ANGELS
The Forgotten World of
Early Christian Women
Kate Cooper Among the defining figures
of early Christianity were many remarkable
women – from the villagers of Galilee to
the empresses Helena and Eudoxia – whose
influence helped to spread the word of
the new religion, one household at a time.
This book offers a fresh assessment of
familiar texts about the women of Christian
history and legend, prompting the reader
to re-examine assumptions about the
role of women in Christian ministry.
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‘Hey diddle diddle’
from The Cat and the
Fiddle: A Treasury
of Nursery Rhymes
inside this special
supplement
Last Christmas date for UK orders – Monday 21st December
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CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS
RUSSELL’S
CHRISTMAS MAGIC
Rob Scotton ‘’Twas the night before
Christmas in Frogsbottom Field...’
but as Russell is hanging the last
lantern in the tree, something crashes
into the nearby wood. It’s Santa’s
sleigh and it seems Christmas must
be cancelled – until Russell
gets to work with his
toolbox and becomes
the sheep that saved
Christmas. Age 3+
HARPER COLLINS
2007 PB 32pp 264x258mm
£6.99 17982
now £3.99
Russell trudges off to find out what has crashed into the wood...
NEW THE CAT
AND THE FIDDLE
A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
THE HELEN OXENBURY
NURSERY COLLECTION
Helen Oxenbury’s style of writing and
illustrating has been described as ‘extraordinarily
comfortable’ for young listeners and readers.
Here, she presents a selection from her earlier
books, with verses by writers such as Michael
Rosen and Ffrida Wolfe from her Tiny Tim
(1981) collection; traditional nursery rhymes;
and seven favourite nursery stories, including
Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Billy Goats
Gruff and Goldilocks. Age 3+
Jackie Morris This collection of 40
nursery rhymes includes such wellknown favourites as Lavender’s Blue
and Sing a Song of Sixpence, but also
once popular and now unfamiliar
rhymes such as Baby’s Bed’s a Silver
Moon (above) and Pudding String.
All the rhymes – and the magical
stories within them – are illustrated
with watercolour paintings that
blend fantasy and realism and include
marvellous depictions of birds and
animals. Age 3+ FRANCES LINCOLN
HERITAGE 2013 HB 96pp Illus 217x180mm
£14.99 18955 now £5.99
The Troll gets his come-uppance
from Big Billy Goat Gruff
£8.99 20059 now £3.99
I SAW ESAU
The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book
Ed. Iona and Peter Opie First published in 1947
as I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth, this
was Peter and Iona Opie’s first collection of
children’s rhymes – the nonsense, riddles, insults,
repartee and games that have the ‘oomph and
zoom’ peculiar to school playgrounds. In 1992 Iona
Opie revised the collection and Maurice Sendak
illustrated it in his inimitable style to produce this
exuberant and, for many, nostalgic book of rhymes.
£15.00 18283 now £6.99
‘I saw Esau kissing Kate/The fact is we all three saw/
For I saw him/And he saw me/And she saw I saw Esau’
CLASSIC TALES
OF RUPERT
Alfred Bestall Although Rupert Bear
was created by Mary Tourtel in 1920,
it was the artist and storyteller Arthur
Bestall who took over Rupert’s Daily
Express comic strip in 1935, gave him
yellow trousers and made him famous.
This beautifully produced edition
contains two of Bestall’s finest Rupert
stories – Rupert and the Mare’s Nest
and Rupert and the Lost Cuckoo –
both starting in the natural, unspoilt
countryside around Nutwood before
taking off into fantastical worlds.
THE COMPLETE
FAIRY TALES OF THE
BROTHERS GRIMM
NEW
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Illus. Arthur
Rackham The strange, dark tales from German folklore collected by the Brothers
Grimm and first published in 1812 have become some of our best-loved fairy stories.
This volume is a reprint of an early 20th
century edition containing the original 200
tales and 10 legends, illustrated in black and
white by one the leading children’s illustrators of the day – Arthur Rackham. This
reprint edition is bound in gold-embossed
red linen. WORDSWORTH 2009 HB 845pp Illus
HERITAGE 2012 HB 95pp Illus 217x180mm
£12.99 18952 now £5.99
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CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS
THE FABER BOOK
OF NURSERY STORIES
Ed. Barbara Ireson This classic
collection of 45 stories for reading
by and to young children was first
published in 1966 and is reissued
here with the original line drawings
by Shirley Hughes. Chosen because
they are ‘well-told, simply told,
and, nearly always, briefly told’,
the stories include folk tales,
adventures, and tales of things
such as helicopters and building
sites as well as traditional nursery
favourites such as Thumbelina
and The Three Billy-Goats Gruff.
FABER 2013 HB 208pp Illus
£20.00 17623 now £6.99
MAGIC BEANS
A Handful of Fairy Tales
from the Storybag
Adèle Geras; Anne Fine et al
Retold by popular contemporary
children’s authors, including Jacqueline
Wilson, Malorie Blackman and Philip
Pullman, the 14 fairy tales in this
collection are ideal for reading aloud
to young children. The selection ranges
from old favourites such as Hansel and
Gretel to less well-known stories such
as Michael Morpurgo’s re-imagining
of a Romanian folk tale, Cockadoodledoo, Mr Sultana!
The Red Fox
is shot dead
(Two volumes)
Robert Louis Stevenson; Cam Kennedy;
Alan Grant Robert Louis Stevenson’s spellbinding
tale of adventure, murder and revenge has all the
elements of a great graphic novel, so it is no
surprise that Edinburgh’s Unesco City of Literature
Trust turned to the creators of the legendary
Judge Dredd to effect this translation. Tight,
dramatic, atmospherically coloured frames and
terse dialogue bring the action vividly to life. The
handsome, slipcased two-volume set includes both
the graphic novel and a fascinating account of its
creation, including original scripts and storyboards.
KIDNAPPED
WAVERLEY 2009 HB 200pp Illus 270x180mm
£50.00 19842 now £19.99
A ROYAL
CHRISTMAS
DAVID FICKLING 2011 HB 446pp
£9.99 19410 now £3.99
CHRISTMAS
ON THE HOME FRONT
Mike Brown When war broke out in
1939, fireworks were vetoed and Easter
eggs unobtainable, making Christmas an
even more important celebration. Mike
Brown’s study describes each British
wartime Christmas from 1939 to 1944,
providing fascinating snapshots of life
on the Home Front during this period.
The account details the increasingly
imaginative ‘make do and mend’
solutions that were devised as shortages
took hold, including innovative recipe
adaptations and patched-up party
clothes. HISTORY PRESS 2013 PB 202pp Illus
£9.99 19717 now £3.99
Jeremy Archer
With privileged
access to the
Royal Archives,
Jeremy Archer
has uncovered
personal accounts
of the royal family
at Christmastime.
His anthology
reveals how
monarchs have
celebrated the
festival – from
1066, when
William I was
The Prince of Wales’s
crowned on
Christmas card, 1992
Christmas Day, to
the Queen’s Christmas broadcast 2011. In themed
chapters, Archer quotes at length from his royal
sources as he explores Christmases at home and
abroad, in times of crisis and conflict, and family
rituals of feasts, pastimes and the exchange of gifts.
ELLIOTT & THOMPSON 2012 HB 288pp Illus
£20.00 19600 now £6.99
NEW THE ROUND ROBIN LETTERS
The Ultimate Collection of Christmas Letters
Simon Hoggart For years, readers of Simon Hoggart’s
Guardian column sent him examples of the dreaded
Christmas round robin. Edited (with names changed to
protect the perpetrators) by Hoggart, these catalogues of
domestic triumphs (Tamsin’s Grade V piano) and tragedies
(locked out of the camper van) are robbed of their power to
infuriate – they are simply hilarious. This book comprises
the two previous collections: The Cat that Could Open
the Fridge and The Hamster that Loved Puccini.
ATLANTIC 2014 HB 304pp
£9.99 19972 now £4.99
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STATIONERY/GIFT SET
NEW THE BEANO COMIC
100 Postcards Celebrating the Best of British Comic Art
Since the first issue on 30 July 1938, The Beano has delighted generations of
children with its anarchic mix of mischief and mayhem. This boxed set of 100 semiglossy postcards features all the comic’s stars including the Bash Street Kids, Dennis
the Menace, Gnasher and Desperate Dan, and a Beano alphabet, from the original
A in Beano, 1938 to Z (Dennis had to ‘borrow’ this from The Beezer Book, 1967).
FRANCES LINCOLN 2014 169x115mm
£14.99 20173 now £5.99
THE RADIO TIMES
101 CLASSIC COVERS
Box of 101 postcards
First published in 1923, the Radio
Times sold 11 million copies a week
at its peak. Over the years it has
commissioned the finest illustrators
and photographers to create its covers,
which together can serve as a visual
history of national culture. This set of
postcards includes designs from the
radio age to covers featuring Daleks,
royal weddings and other popular
events, programmes and personalities
up to the present day. RADIO TIMES
2013 Box of 101 postcards 166x113mm
£14.99 18254 now £7.99
In this beautifully boxed set the notecards are illustrated with paintings
by August Wilhelm Sievert (d.1751). The originals, now in the Royal
Horticultural Society Lindley Libraries, are watercolours on paper from
an album entitled Hortus florum imaginum, dating from 1750. There are
16 notecards (with envelopes), four each of four different tulip designs.
NEW
RHS TULIPS NOTECARDS
FRANCES LINCOLN 2014 Box of 16 notecards 169x115mm
£14.99 20176 now £5.99
BOOK AND HIPFLASK GIFT SET
Robert Burns rose from poverty thanks
to the publication of his volume of Poems,
Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786. When
he died, barely ten years later, he had
secured a reputation that has since
made him a symbol of national
identity. The pocket edition of
his work in this gift set also
includes a succinct biography,
and the accompanying 5fl oz
steelhipflask is engraved with
Burns’s line: ‘freedom and
whisky gang thegither’.
ROBERT BURNS IN YOUR POCKET
WAVERLEY BOOKS 2012 HB 288pp
£19.58 17856 now £9.99
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ANIMAL MARCHING BAND
NOTECARD SET
Junzo Terada A hedgeghog on triangle, a pig on
accordion and a drummer bear are among this
eight-piece ensemble – each one a cut-out
notecard that would make a great party invitation
or thank-you note. The set comprises 16 cards
(two each of eight designs), with colourful
matching envelopes and a sheet of stickers.
Age 3+ CHRONICLE 2012 PB 33pp Illus 258x325mm
£10.99 19385 now £4.99
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NOTECARDS
GARDEN BY
ERIC RAVILIOUS
In the 1930s, Eric
Ravilious created
several designs
for ceramics for
Wedgwood, including
Garden. Even a simple
Garden tea plate is
now a rare collector’s
item, but the original
designs are held in the
Wedgwood Museum: this set of eight notecards and envelopes features two of
them, ‘Deckchair’ and ‘Gardener’. MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2011 135x135mm
19018 now £4.99
RAVILIOUS
LANDSCAPES
NEW MACKINTOSH
FLOWER STUDIES NOTECARDS
In the later part of his career, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh left architecture and design in favour
of watercolour painting, and particularly flower
studies. This set of large notecards features
four of his paintings: White Roses, Anemones,
Gilardia Walberswick and Wild Pansy and
Wood Violet. There are eight cards, two of
each design, with white envelopes.
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2009 187x137mm
19980 now £5.99
In Eric Ravilious’s
The Westbury Horse,
1939, a train is
visible steaming
through the valley
below Westbury
Hill; in Train
Landscape we are
inside the carriage
and the white horse
can be seen through a window. These notecards feature reproductions
of both watercolours – four of each picture, with plain envelopes.
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2013 135x135mm
19017 now £4.99
HIGH STREET
BY ERIC
RAVILIOUS
These larger size
notecards (5"x7")
are reproductions of
‘Letter Makers’ and
‘Cheesemonger’, two
shops from High Street,
a book of lithographs
by Eric Ravilious, with
text by architectural
historian JM Richards,
originally published
by Country Life Books
in 1938. The set comprises four notecards of each design,
with envelopes. MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2013 187x135mm
19019 now £5.99
Larkspur, Willow Herb, Japanese Witch Hazel and Fritillaria are exquisite
pencil and watercolour illustrations by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, now
held in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow. They are beautifully
reproduced for this set of notecards and envelopes, with two cards each of
the four flowers. MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2009 188x135mm
MACKINTOSH FLOWERS
19014 now £5.99
Adapted from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s designs for The Hill
House, Helensburgh and ‘The Rose Boudoir’, the designs on
these notecards feature the art nouveau rose motifs so familiar
from Mackintosh’s interior designs and stained glass. There are
eight cards, four of each design, with envelopes, presented in a
card wallet. MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2009 134x134mm
NEW
MACKINTOSH ROSES
19979 now £4.99
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JOURNALS/STATIONERY
FLAME TREE JOURNALS
With famous works of art, magnificently reproduced in colour
on their embossed foil covers, silk page markers and scarlet
endpapers, these journals could lend splendour to the most
humble jottings. Each book has 144 ruled pages and a pocket
for loose papers, and closes with a solid magnetic side flap.
FLAME TREE 2013/14 HB 176pp 209x147mm
GOBLE: PRETTY SET OF WINGS
HIROSHIGE: FUJI
VAN GOGH: STARRY NIGHT
OVER THE RHÔNE
MACKINTOSH: ROSE MOTIF
STEINLEN: TOURNÉE DU CHAT NOIR
BAL DU MOULIN ROUGE POSTER
19161
19162
95203
98279
95186
17873
A simple way to make your gift wrapping a work of
art is to use paper designed by an artist. These books
contain wrapping papers that are well-printed, semigloss reproductions of William Morris’s sinuous
flowers and foliage, or the organic forms of flowers,
animals and birds of Art Nouveau designers. With
introductions in English, German and French, and
10 folded sheets (50x70cm), each of a different design.
GIFTWRAP BY ARTISTS
ULLMANN 2011 PB 22pp Illus 257x185mm
now £4.99 each
WILLIAM MORRIS GIFTWRAP
ART NOUVEAU GIFTWRAP
18197
18198
Designs based on William Morris’s Bower and John
Henry Dearle’s Garden, now in the V&A collections,
form the front and back covers of this writing set, with
details from the designs on one edge of the writing
paper and lining the envelopes. The set comprises 20
sheets of writing paper, 20 envelopes and 20 floral
stickers. MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2012 168x235mm
MORRIS & Co WRITING SET
19015 now £6.99
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LITERATURE/GIFT BOOKS
FLAME TREE GIFT BOOKS
Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of paintings and
manuscript illuminations inside and works of art reproduced
on embossed metallic covers outside, these anthologies of poetry
are luxury gift books that you might not want to give away.
The books have scarlet endpapers and matching silk markers.
FLAME TREE 2014 HB 160pp Illus
THE ILLUSTRATED
BOOK OF
SHAKESPEARE’S VERSE
Ed. L Bulbeck This collection
of Shakespeare’s poetry on the
theme of love includes sonnets
and extracts from the plays and
long poems and is divided into
four chapters: on first love;
expressions of adoration and
commitment; on sorrow and
yearning; and reflections on the
nature of love. The poems are
accompanied by art works that
echo their sentiment or mood,
including paintings by artists
such as Alma-Tadema, Frederick
Leighton and John William
Waterhouse.
19952
£9.99 98368 now £3.99
THE
COMPLETE
WORKS OF
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
THE ILLUSTRATED
BOOK OF
ROMANTIC VERSE
Ed. EA Chapman
In chapters on Lost Love
and Remembrance, Uplifting
Love, Unfulfilled Love and
the Romance of Nature, this
anthology brings together
works by many of the greatest
poets in English, including
Shakespeare, Donne and
Yeats and the Romantic poets.
The poems are illustrated
with 19th and early 20th
century paintings by artists
including Frederick Leighton,
Millais and Rossetti. 99821
You Cannot Barre Love Oute by Arthur Hughes illustrates Coleridge’s Genevieve
Ed. Lucy Gray Children,
childhood and being a
parent are celebrated in
this collection of poetry
ranging from Bunyan to
Betjeman. The poems are
arranged by ages, from
infancy and the particular
joys of babies and very
small children, through
holidays and play to
schooldays – not forgetting
childhood ailments in Robert
Louis Stevenson’s ‘Land of
Counterpane’. BATSFORD 2014 HB 96pp Illus
£9.99 20194 now £3.99
Ed. Michael Brunstrom
This attractive little
anthology presents 31
poems by 19th century
French poets including
Victor Hugo, Baudelaire,
Mallarmé, de Banville
and Verlaine, each one
given in English
translation and in the
original French, and
illustrated with an
Impressionist painting.
FRANCES LINCOLN 2008 HB 77pp Illus
The Kiss by Francesco Hayez, 1859, illustrating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 38
NEW ODE TO
CHILDHOOD
Poetry to Celebrate
the Child
A GARDEN OF
IMPRESSIONIST
VERSE
19th-Century
French Poetry
This handsome
collected edition of
Shakespeare’s poetry
and plays is a reprint
of the Shakespeare
Head Press edition.
It presents the plays
in chronological
order, ‘revealing the
evolution of the
poet’s personality
and genius’. The
plays are followed
by the poetic works
and a glossary.
Bound in gold embossed dark green linen.
WORDSWORTH 2007 HB 1277pp
£11.99 19932 now £7.99
NEW ODE TO LOVE
100 Poems of
Love and Lust
Dannie Abse’s personal
and erudite selection of
100 love poems includes
both famous and obscure
works, ranging from
‘The Song of Solomon’
and Ovid’s elegies to
Corinna to works by great
modern poets including
Andrew Motion, Carol
Ann Duffy and Simon
Armitage. Dannie Apse
provides an introduction
and notes on each poet.
No jacket.
PORTICO 2011 HB 175pp
£9.99 20196 now £3.99
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GIFTS FOR CHILDREN
WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT
Dad and the kids are going on a bear hunt. They’re going to catch a big one –
even if it means splashing through rivers, squelching through mud, stumbling
and tripping through a forest and even braving a snowstorm. Did they catch a
bear? Or did the bear catch them? Age 3+
Michael Rosen; Illus. Helen Oxenbury With its swishing and squelching and tiptoeing in
the dark, children will love the suspense of this adventure. It was first published in 1989,
when the Smarties Book Prize judges gave it top marks. WALKER 1993 PB 39pp Illus 240x270mm
£6.99 10890 now £2.99
4-in-1 Jigsaw Puzzles
Young jigsaw puzzlers can continue the adventure in four scenes
from the book reproduced as 12-, 16-, 20- and 24-piece jigsaws.
With large, sturdy pieces, the puzzles (made-up sizes 14x19cm and
28x14cm) will suit ages 3+. WALKER 2012 198x235mm
19846 now £8.99
The Board Game
In this game, with its board and pieces and robust box
all using Helen Oxenbury’s original illustrations, two
to four young players can swish-swash, squelch and
run for the bedcovers as the bear chases them home.
Age 3+ WALKER 2013 257x272mm
19847 now £12.99
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
Tintin’s comic strip escapades have been loved by cildren since the 1930s
and interest in the character has been rekindled for a new generation
by the recent animated film The Adventures of Tintin. These gift items,
featuring artwork from the blockbusting movie, are perfect for fans
of the intrepid young reporter. Age 8+
No self-respecting journalist would be without their trusty notebook. This
hardback reporter’s pad is adorned with images of our hero in action, features
an elastic fastener and comes complete with a pencil and pencil holder.
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
WILD & WOLF 2011 HB 162pp Illus 144x95mm
19245 now £3.99
This robust metal pencil tin is large enough for a full complement of
reporter’s pens and pencils (as well as rubbers, felt tips and other essential
items) and features the heroic boy adventurer and his faithful dog, Snowy,
in action in the Moroccan desert. WILD & WOLF 2011 190x90mm
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN PENCIL TIN
19246 now £3.99
This practical canvas wallet features a zip change pocket, a transparent pass holder and enough
slots for all your credit cards and notes. There is a strap for clipping it to a belt or bag and the
rugged construction, Velcro fastening and Tintin branding makes it fit for globe-trotting adventures.
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN WALLET
WILD & WOLF 2011 123x95mm
19247 now £4.99
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BUILD-IT 3D MODEL PUZZLES
GIFTS FOR CHILDREN
These Build-It puzzles provide
everything you need to build
scale models of two famous steam
locomotives: the record-breaking
Mallard, one of the super-fast
A4 Pacifics, and the legendary
Flying Scotsman, the first steam
locomotive to travel non-stop
from London to Edinburgh.
The models are constructed
from around 160 push-out and
fit card pieces (instructions
included), require no glue or
special tools and take an
estimated four hours to build.
Finished dimensions: 61x12x13cm.
Age 8+ (with adult assistance).
MALLARD
19960
FLYING SCOTSMAN 19959
Originally created to mark the 100th
anniversary of Titanic’s maiden – and final –
voyage, this is a scale model of the ship
that you can construct with 113 push-out
and fit together pieces. It requires no
special tools or glue – just patience – and
takes around four hours to build. The result
is a giant 3D model (80 x 10.5 x 20cm) of
Titanic on a special plinth. Age 8+ (with
adult assistance). CHEATWELL GAMES
now £19.99 each
19958 now £19.99
CHEATWELL GAMES 2014/15
155/165 pieces 224x334mm
RMS TITANIC
2012 113 pieces 227x327mm
MEDIEVAL MASTERY
BOARD GAME
With evocatively designed game cards
and an innovative modular board built
up from hexagonal component tiles,
this strategy game casts each player in
the role of a feudal Lord competing
for territory in medieval France. The
aim of the game is to dominate the
region by sending your knights out to
battle over neighbouring lands, and the
special cards determine the powers at
your disposal and the outcome of each
conflict. Age 10+ CHAOS 2012 275x190mm
PREMIER BRAIN MASTER
Classic Crafted Wooden Set
19001 now £9.99
Your order form
is inside the
main catalogue
This deduction game, often known as
Mastermind, was a phenomenon when
first launched in the 1970s and has since
become a classic. The game challenges
competitors to work out a hidden
combination of coloured pegs in as few
attempts as possible, their opponent marking
any correct pegs after each try. The board
and pegs in this attractive premium edition
are all constructed from solid wood and the
set includes a cloth bag for storing the pieces.
Age 8+ PAUL LAMOND GAMES 2006 137x290mm
19850 now £14.99
HORRIBLE HISTORIES
Ten Beastly Books
Richard Walker What does it mean to be
human? What does it mean to be me? Or you? In
a colourful text which draws on the resources of
the Science Museum in London, Richard Walker
explains how your brain, genes and body work
together to make you you. In four sections, it
deals with how the brain works; DNA, family
and our identity; how we interact with others;
and how a body grows, develops and ages.
Age 11+ KINGFISHER 2012 HB 96pp Illus 274x228mm
NEW
WHO AM I?
£12.99 20099 now £5.99
Terry Deary From Awful Egyptians
and Groovy Greeks to the Woeful
Second World War, by way of Measly
Middle Ages, Terrifying Tudors and
Gorgeous Georgians, here is Terry
Deary’s ‘history with the nasty bits
left in’. Awash in blood and guts,
shameless alliteration, and drawings
by Martin Brown, the Horrible
Histories celebrated their 20 horrible
years with this set of ten volumes.
The books I haven’t mentioned so
far: Ruthless Romans, Slimy Stuarts,
Vile Victorians and the Frightful
First World War. Age 7+
SCHOLASTIC 2006 PB 1430pp Illus
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MODELS & KITS
VINTAGE MODEL AIRCRAFT KITS
These kits from the Magnificent Flying Machines series of scale
models provide all the materials required to build flying replicas
of iconic Second World War planes. The models have real
airframes built up from laser-cut balsa struts, wingspans of about
18 inches and are covered with model aircraft tissue for optimum
flying performance. Each kit contains the accurately cut parts, a
rubber motor, a meticulously drawn plan and instruction booklet.
Advanced models, not suitable for children. Basic tools required.
VINTAGE MODEL Co 2015 Box size 522x122x50mm
Postscript price: £25.00 each
This all-black, Spitfire Mk VB (above) is an authentic
representation of the planes that served in 111 Squadron,
flying from RAF Debden in 1941 and 1942. The unusual
livery was adopted as a camouflage measure when the
squadron was assigned night-fighting duties.
19110
SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE NIGHT FIGHTER
Known to Allied pilots as the Me109, the Bf 109 was
the mainstay of the Luftwaffe’s fighter force in the early
part of the Second World War. This model is based on
the ‘E’ variant, the principal German aircraft that
fought in the Battle of Britain.
19108
MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109
Backbone of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain,
the versatile Hawker Hurricane was adapted for various
duties during the war. This red-coloured model is based
on the aircraft of 527 Squadron that flew radar calibration
operations in 1943.
19107
HAWKER HURRICANE
During the Spitfire’s 10-year production run, more
Mk Vs were built than any other variant. This model
is supplied with RAF decals and a neutral-coloured
skin, providing a blank canvas for the modeller
to complete the livery and markings to their own
specifications.
19109
SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE MK VB
PRESS OUT AND BUILD CARD MODELS
An awesome creature, 87 cm long (over 34") with a fiery, scaly body and
gold and purple wings, the Dragon of Legend is created from press-out card
pieces that fold and slot together. There are easy-to-follow instructions,
but this is an advanced model and adult help is required. While the adult
is folding and slotting, children can read about dragons – real and mythical
– in the excellent accompanying book, Dragon Lore. Age 7+
DRAGON OF LEGENDS
TOP THAT!
2012 PB 24pp Illus
£14.99 18156
now £6.99
With this prehistoric press-out and build kit you can slot together your
own full colour, 90cm tyrannosaurus rex and learn about the terrible lizards
in an illustrated 24-page book full of facts about these amazing creatures.
The boxed set contains 20 sheets of card with the press-out, slot-together
model, assembly instructions and Dinosaur Fact Bites. Adult assistance,
but no glue required. Age 4+ TOP THAT! 2012 24pp Illus 280x220mm
TYRANNOSAURUS REX
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HUMOUR/POSTERS
NEW I REST MY CASE...
Unpublished Letters
to The Daily Telegraph
Ed. Iain Hollingshead A royal wedding
(Sir – Yes, it was lovely, but what was all
that vegetation doing in Westminster
Abbey?), Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ (Sir –
Will the Government be communicating
with us through the Big Issue?) and uprisings
in the Middle East (Sir – is Twitter more
powerful than the sword?): there was
plenty to inspire Telegraph readers to write
or email the editor in 2010-11. This is Iain
Hollingshead’s third compilation of their
witty, irreverent and frequently hilarious
comments. AURUM 2011 HB 223pp 177x114mm
POSTER PACKS
£9.99 20068 now £3.99
MY GONADS ROAR
The Twisted World of Anagrams
Richard Napier The infinite flexibility of
the English language can twist the meaning
of words with a change of letter order or
produce hilarious related phrases from the
same collection of letters. Richard Napier
fully explores anagrams in this amusing
book, re-christening celebrities, films,
sports people and other well-known
names and phrases from Buffy the
Vampire Slayer (fit female, pushy bravery)
to Gordon Ramsey (my gonads roar).
FABER 2008 HB 240pp Illus 204x130mm
£9.99 19278 now £3.99
These evocative posters were originally
created during the heyday of British rail travel
by companies such as the Great Western
Railway and the London, Midland and
Scottish Railway seeking to promote their
services by enticing day trippers and holiday
makers to resorts along their routes. The eight
posters – for Devon, Falmouth, Cromer, the
Cambrian Coast, Edinburgh, Felixstowe, the
Norfolk Broads and Colwyn Bay – are
reproduced as semi-gloss, ready to frame art
prints (12"x16" including border).
GREAT BRITISH HOLIDAYS
CARLTON 2013 445x315mm
THE PRINCE CHARLES LETTERS
A Future Monarch’s Correspondence
On Matters Of The Utmost Concern
£9.99 19955 now £4.99
David Stubbs ‘Leaked’ to the press in
2011, this is the extraordinary cache of
correspondence from Prince Charles, dating
from his youth to recent years and addressed
to persons ranging from Jean-Paul Sartre to
John Prescott and from the Queen to Lady
Gaga. Whether mulling over politics and
society (‘The UK Monarchy is the most ecoefficient means of presiding over the country’)
or advising ‘celebrity folk’, the letters show
a Prince ready and willing to think outside
the royal box. AURUM 2011 HB 256pp
£10.99 17520 now £3.99
MEIN RANT
A Summary in Light
Verse of Mein Kampf
RF Patterson ‘A master-race must
come to birth / To lord it over all the
earth/ And such a race can only be/
The race which generated me.’
Published in February 1940, five
months after the outbreak of war,
this verse satire of Mein Kampf
was characteristic of the British
response to Nazi aggression:
ridicule. In his own defence
‘I knelt and prayed to mighty Thor’: Hitler
Patterson wrote that Hitler’s
greets the onset of the First World War
‘book... has neither rhyme nor
reason, while my abridgement undoubtedly has rhyme’. With drawings
by the inimitable W Heath Robinson. WAVERLEY 2009 HB 86pp Illus 195x130mm
£7.99 16856 now £2.99
With strong images and memorable slogans,
Second World War posters encouraged those
on the home front to ‘do their bit’, whether
that was working in the factories, growing
food or saving money. This set of semi-gloss,
ready-to-frame art prints reproduces eight
wartime posters including appeals to women
to ‘Come into the Factories’ and ‘Serve in the
WAAF’, posters from the famous ‘Dig for
Victory’ and ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’
campaigns, and a portait of Churchill. (Poster
size 12"x16"). CARLTON 2013 445x315mm
THE HOME FRONT
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REFERENCE/AUDIOBOOKS
LOOPY LOGIC PROBLEMS
and Other Puzzles
Ivan Moscovich’s ‘Thinkthings’, as he calls
his puzzles, are designed to combine fun
with stimulating intellectual challenges
that can illuminate concepts common
to art, science and everyday life.
This Mastermind Collection contains
visually exciting puzzles for all ages
and includes some classic conundrums
based on the work of mathematicians
such as Galileo, Fibonacci and
Foucault. For the hopelessly
perplexed, solutions are at the end.
$19.95 19353 now £5.99
My Class: In a group of 20 boys, 14 of them have blue eyes, 12 have black hair,
11 are overweight and 10 are tall. How many boys share all of these features?
NEW WHATEVER HAPPENED
TO TANGANYIKA?
The Place Names that
History Left Behind
A DICTIONARY OF
FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES
Tad Tuleja For this short dictionary, Tuleja
has selected foreign tems that are neither
completely Anglicized nor merely pedantic.
From Abendland (German: ‘the West’)
to zolotaya seredina (Russian: ‘the
golden middle’), he a gives a translation,
pronunciation and information on meaning
and history; and there is much more –
among the ‘Special Categories’ are
classical phobias, a Sanskrit sampler,
Italian musical terms and fearless leaders
(caliph, czar, kaiser etc). Finally, there
are indexes of words and phrases and
subjects. ROBERT HALE 2009 PB 219pp
Harry Campbell Described by Alexander
McCall Smith in his foreword as the
pioneering work of a new discipline,
‘nostalgic geography’, this intriguing book
tells the stories of 46 old names, their
origins and their demise. Beginning with
the bizarre history of Pleasant Island (now
the Republic of Nauru), his tales of places
that are no more include such evocative
names as Hispaniola, Rangoon, Fernando
Po and Skye (now officially Eilean
a’ Cheo). PORTICO 2007 HB 176pp Illus
£9.99 20197 now £3.99
£9.99 19141 now £3.99
AUDIOBOOKS
Covering all aspects of erotic love –
from the bawdy to the sensuous and
tender – this collection of 69 erotic
poems includes works by Marlowe,
Aphra Benn and John Wilmot, Byron
and Keats, Rimbaud and Betjeman.
The poems are read by Edward de
Souza, Matthew Marsh, Stella Gonet,
David Timson and Benjamin Soames.
2 CDs; running time 2hrs 38min.
CLASSIC EROTIC VERSE
NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS
2009 2 audio CDs
£10.99 19169 now £4.99
David Mitchell Introduced by David
Mitchell as ‘repentance’ for Radio 4’s
Unbelievable Truth panel game and its
‘dozens of episodes consisting of likelysounding rubbish interspersed with
accurate information rendered implausible’,
this book presents the true, if often
rather bizarre, facts about subjects from
Admiral Lord Nelson to Wool. Among
all this bona fide information are Graham
Garden’s less than reliable lectures on
a number of topics including Armadillos,
Isaac Newton and Mrs Beeton.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH
PREFACE 2013 HB 320pp Illus 255x195mm
£16.99 19626 now £6.99
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THE RAGGED TROUSERED
PHILANTHROPISTS
Robert Tressell Written in 1906
by Robert Tressell (1870-1911), an
impoverished house painter, but
published posthumously in 1914, this
novel has since become a classic of
working class literature. It tells of the
appalling working conditions of a
group of painters and decorators and
their struggle to survive, while
interweaving a manifesto for socialism.
The book is read, unabridged, by David Timson.
18 CDs; running time 23hrs 31 min. NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS 2010 18 audio CDs
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REFERENCE/HISTORY
Pehr Thermaenius Among various accounts
of football played on the Western Front on
Christmas Day 1914, are reports of a game
between the Argyll and Southern Highlanders
and German Infantry Regiment 133. This book
examines the first months of the war leading up
to the truce through the stories of two possible
participants: Jimmy Coyle, a former professional
footballer from Edinburgh and Albert Schmidt,
a keen member of his local club in Saxony.
NEW
THE CHRISTMAS MATCH
UNIFORM 2014 PB 223pp Illus 189x139mm
£12.99 19976 now £4.99
THE NOT TERRIBLY
GOOD BOOK OF
HEROIC FAILURES
An Intrepid Selection
from the Original Volumes
A HORRID HISTORY
OF CHRISTMAS
Horrible Happenings and
Frightening Festivities
Nicola Sly Freak weather conditions, fatal
Stephen Pile, who has spent much of
fires and violent crimes... not to mention the
his life ‘collecting stories of comic
Tay Bridge disaster, this collection of true
catastrophe’, presents the best of the
stories from Christmases past – mostly from
worst from his three books of Heroic
the mid-19th to early-20th centuries – shows
Failures. Among the topics featured are
that even the festive season has a dark side.
‘New World Records’, including the fastest
knock-out in a boxing debut (the fighter
£9.99 10816 now £3.99
knocked himself out after 47 seconds)
and ‘Law and Order’ (here we meet the
bank robbers who got stuck in the bank’s
revolving doors). FABER 2012 HB 288pp
JACKIE: 50 Years
Intro. Irene Duncan Founded in 1964 by
£12.99 17828 now £3.99
Gordon Small – an ex-RAF aero engine
fitter rather than a fashion guru or pop
music aficionado – Jackie quickly became
the bestselling magazine for teenage girls
and their authority on pop stars and style.
This anthology, published on the 50th
anniversary of the magazine’s launch,
is a selection of its fashion and beauty tips,
pop gossip and pin-ups, quizzes, advice
and love stories drawn from the whole
run of Jackie, from 1964 to 1993.
PRION 2013 HB 144pp Illus 335x252mm
£19.99 19954 now £7.99
FROM KITCHEN
TO GARRET
Hints for Young Householders
JE Panton First published in 1887, this
domestic handbook was intended for
couples setting up their first home and
offers advice on everything from
choosing a house to managing servants
and resting after the first baby (‘nine
days in bed... without putting one’s feet
to the ground’). The present book is a
facsimile of the 1893 revised edition and
it offers a glimpse into a bygone era
when, for Mrs Panton, the use of feather
beds was a ‘luxurious’ wrongdoing.
OLD HOUSE 2011 HB 298pp Illus
£12.95 19223 now £4.99
ONE BLOODY THING
AFTER ANOTHER
The World’s Gruesome History
Jacob F Field A testament to human kind’s
historical predilection toward creative and
horrific modes of terror, torture and torment,
this is a blood- stained history of the world,
from the Greek tyrant Phalaris’ great brass
bull in which criminals were roasted alive,
to the Taiping Rebellion, the bloodiest civil
war in history, that claimed over 20 million lives.
MICHAEL O’MARA 2012 HB 192pp Illus
£9.99 99920 now £3.99
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CHILDREN’S
NEW HOW SANTA
REALLY WORKS
Alan Snow Where does he
live? How does he know
what you want? And how
does he know you’ve been
good? Alan Snow has done
his researches in Lapland
and the North Pole and
knows all there is to know
about Santa’s toy factories,
transport facilities,
communications centres
and helpers. Here are
answers to all Santa-related
questions, illustrated in
meticulous detail by Mr Snow.
Age 4+ SIMON & SCHUSTER 2004 PB 46pp Illus 266x265mm
£5.99 20041 now £2.99
NEW HOW
DINOSAURS
REALLY WORK!
£10.99 19641 now £4.99
Tony Kushner;
Illus. Maurice Sendak
The story of Aninku
and Pepichek who go to
town to buy fresh milk
for their sick mother is
based on a Czech opera
by Adolf Hoffmeister
and Hans Krása, which
was performed by the
children in the Terezin
concentration camp. The
story of the brother and sister and the three talking animals and 300
schoolchildren who help them defeat Brundibár the bully and raise
money for the milk is retold by Tony Kushner, with illustrations by
Maurice Sendak. Age 5+ WALKER 2003 HB 56pp Illus 210x270mm
£14.99 18282 now £5.99
Emma Calder The decorated
paper angels stay in a box all
year and when they come out
for Christmas their first concern
is which of them should be on
the top of the tree. What
will they do when a
plain white, scruffy
angel suddenly appears?
This unusual Christmas
storybook includes six
paper angels to cut out and make.
PAPER ANGELS
14
Laurent de Brunhoff
Babar’s children
discover a Wully-Wully
and bring him home
to Celesteville. The
lovable creature has a
wonderful time playing
with the little elephants;
but there’s trouble
when Rataxes the rhino
decides he wants the
Wully-Wully. Will
Rataxes steal WullyWully, or will he learn
to share? This anniversary edition, by the son of the
original creator of Babar, is sure to charm a new generation
of readers. ABRAMS 2012 HB 32pp Illus 292x210mm
£9.99 17549 now £5.99
Alan Snow How did a
Tyrannosaurus Rex think?
What did dinosaurs look
like? And where on Earth
did they go? As well as
answers to those questions,
proper information about the
five most familiar dinosaurs
and rather imaginative
anatomical diagrams, this
book is packed with ‘dino
jokes’ and cartoon dinosaurs
cavorting around every
page. Age 5+ SIMON & SCHUSTER 2012 HB 32pp Illus 273x272mm
BRUNDIBÁR
NEW BABAR
AND THE
WULLY-WULLY
MISTER
MAGNOLIA/
ANGELICA
SPROCKET’S
POCKETS
Quentin Blake
Mister Magnolia can
play the trumpet and
juggle with fruit, but
has only one boot!
So when a parcel
arrives with a new
boot, he doesn’t mind
one bit that it doesn’t
match his old one!
Angelica Sprocket’s
multi-coloured coat
is covered in pockets
containing mice and cheese, swimming costumes and
towels, ice creams, saucepans, an alligator – and even
an elephant! This fabulous two-in-one book contains
two Quentin Blake favourites.
RED FOX 2012 PB 64pp Illus 285x218mm
£7.99 17659 now £3.99
Thumbelina
is given
winter
shelter by
a kind old
fieldmouse
HANS CHRISTIAN
ANDERSEN FAIRY TALES
BLOOMSBURY 2010 HB 30pp Illus
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales have
been favourites of children since they first
appeared between 1835 and 1872. In this 2005
edition, a selection of the tales are retold and
illustrated in colourful paintings by children’s
author Val Biro. There are eight stories, including
The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes,
Thumbelina and The Wild Swans, in words and
pictures for young readers. Age 4+
£7.99 17822 now £3.99
£14.99 17657 now £7.99
AWARD 2005 HB 198pp Illus 258x195mm
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THE GREAT
HOUSE HUNT
CHILDREN’S
Davide Cali;
Marc Boutavant
Mr Weevil, the
famous estate
agent, is helping
a pair of ladybirds,
the Polka-Dots,
look for their
dream house. On
a colourful tour
through the insect
realms, he shows
them all sorts
of possible
homes, including
a puffball mushroom, a flat share
with slugs (‘Life
with slugs’, says Weevil, ‘can be truly enriching’), a
bird’s nesting box and a rubbish tip (‘vibrant urban life’
says Weevil). Age 4+ TATE 2012 HB 29pp Illus 370x255mm
INVENTIONS
A History of Key
Inventions that
Changed the World
Adam Hart-Davis From
the humble pencil to the
revolutionary steam engine
and the modern-day smart
phone, Adam Hart-Davis
reveals how great inventions
work in this engaging
interactive book. The clever
flaps and tabs show how a
plane takes off, how a toilet
flushes and how easy it is to
fall off a penny-farthing
bicycle. The book is a perfect
introduction to inventions for
inquisitive young minds.
Age 9+ WALKER 2012 HB 12pp Illus 288x228mm
£12.99 16882 now £4.99
£12.99 17694 now £5.99
THE LAND OF
NEVERBELIEVE
Norman Messenger was
‘quietly pottering about
at sea in my boat, when
I suddenly became aware
of a spectacular-looking
island’. Luckily, he had
his notebook and painting
equipment with him and
proceeded to record the
island’s amazing flora
and fauna – such peculiar
things as the jelly-moulded
jelly fish and a cabbage
moth tree – and the bizarre
terrain where a book
mountain tells the islanders
stories at bedtime. Age 7+
£14.99 18284 now £6.99
John Yeoman; Quentin Blake Whether it’s washerwomen on the rampage
or a bear trying to get a good winter’s sleep, John Yeoman’s stories and
Quentin Blake’s wonderful pictures never fail to enchant young – and not
so young – children. This ‘bumper bundle’ of ten books includes favourites
such as The Fabulous Foskett Family Circus, The Bear’s Winter House and
The Wild Washerwomen. Age 3+ ANDERSEN 2015 PB 320pp Illus 270x230mm
TEN STORY BOOKS
£69.90 17981 now £25.00
FLUFFY FRIENDS STACKING BOXES
Animal Book with Five Stackable Playtime Boxes
Maurice Pledger With colourful,
naturalistic pictures of young
animals in their natural
surroundings, this is a fine little
board book – but it is only part of
the fun. It comes with a set of five
stacking boxes, each one decorated
with five more bird or animal
pictures. Boxes and book fit snugly
into a sturdy box to make an
interesting toy that teaches the
names and noises of small animals.
Age 2+ SILVER DOLPHIN 2011
Building blocks 160x160mm
$17.95 16347 now £9.99
DRAGONS
Fearsome Monsters
from Myth and Fiction
Gerrie McCall Dragons of the world are as
varied as the cultures to which they belong.
The 20 dragons featured in this book are
beautifully illustrated, and maps and information
boxes describe the fiery creatures and their
origins. From St George’s dragon to Norbert,
Hagrid’s pet in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone, this book reveals the facts and fictions
of these magical creatures. Age 9+ Slightly
off-mint. TANGERINE 2007 PB 48pp Illus 211x290mm
£4.99 16550 now £2.99
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NEW THE SHERLOCK
HOLMES COLLECTION
Arthur Conan Doyle This is our
very own set of Sherlock Holmes
mysteries. It comprises the first
and last of the novels, A Study
in Scarlet (1887) and The Valley
of Fear (1915); two celebrated
cases, The Sign of Four and
The Hound of the Baskervilles;
and three volumes of short stories
(The Adventures of the Engineer’s
Thumb, The Five Orange Pips and
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,
each with at least 12 ‘Other Cases’).
● This seven-volume, slipcased
set is exclusive to Postscript.
PENGUIN 2014 PB 1,870pp Illus 198x130mm
Published price £30.00
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NEW THE VICTORIAN
HOUSE MANUAL
Care and Repair
for All House Types
Ian Alistair Rock Victorian properties
comprise about one in six of all houses
in the UK and most of them, thanks to
the building methods of the period and
the passage of time, require regular and
sympathetic maintenance. This manual
provides expert advice on the care and
repair of Victorian properties with clear
step-by-step photographs on how to
fix and renovate common problems
such as worn sash windows, damp
walls and rotten floorboards.
£21.99 19709 now £9.99
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POSTSCRIPT
NEW A GREEN AND
PLEASANT LAND
How England’s Gardeners
Fought the Second World War
Ursula Buchan As the Second World
War began, the government urged the
British public to ‘Dig for Victory’ by
growing their own vegetables. This
absorbing book charts the ingenuity,
thrift, humour and fortitude with
which ordinary Britons dug in to keep
the nation nourished, as public parks –
even Kensington Gardens – were
turned over to allotments. Above all, it
shows how wartime gardening made a
vital contribution to both the diet and
the morale of the nation during the
fight for freedom. HUTCHINSON
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